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The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
ARRIVALS AZ THE NEW ENG
 LAND HOUSE.

tiNiNi Aiso hA itiE NEW EENIT
 LAND HOUSE. Gideon NJ. Weloh, Torrington. Charles Roberts, New Haven. w. Y. Dowd, Winsted.
 Keith Joyce, Myron Joyce, New Fairfield.
 James Lester, John Bates. New York.
 F. J. Kllborn, Frank E. Main, John M. Eekman, Fred Eekman, A. c. Titus, s. D. Logan. ,. F. seeiey, W. B. Hiekoy, Washington
 F. II. Turkington, Litehfield. l.. w. Cogswell, New Haven. Miss A. NJ. Hayden, New Haven. c. Augustus Pierson Warner, New Haven.
 c. w. Wheeler, Bridgeport. D. c. kilborn, Litchfield. James h. Ellls, Southport. J. P. Hornpeek, Falls Village. II. l.. Johnson, New Haven. J. c. Chamberlain, Bridgeport. James P. Woodruff, Litchfield. A. s. B. Lathrop, Worcester, Mass. II. H. Benedict. Bridgeport. MT and Mrs w. l.. Hopkins, New Preston.
 George w. Yates, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
 r. V. Libby, Boston, Mass. Charles R. Billings, Jr., New Hay en.
 o. D. Tuthill, Greenwich. A. r. Murdaugh, Holyoke, Mass. Thomas H. Booth, Boston, Mass. John M. Brewer, Waterbury. E. M. Brush, Boston. Charles Schnabel, H. E. Haskell, S. A. Darrack, J. P. Curran, New York.
 F. P. Lewis, New Haven. J. c. Beers, Danbury. L. A. Broas, Washington.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
CHRISTMAS AT ALL SAINTS.

l
 The Christmas festival of All Saints church will be held on Christ mas eve, at 7.3O o'clock. There will be tree with gifts, the singing of carols, and an address by the rector, Rev F. B. Draper.
 The dramatization of Justin Adams of the best New England, story ever written" and one Of the most popu- lar and best selling books of the day, entitled "Quincy Adams Sawyer" which will be given at the New Mil ford Opera house, Monday evening, January 10, is presented by care fully selected company of well known artists and is given in four acts and five scenes, all especially built and painted for this reproduction. The first act is the interior of Benoni Hills grocery store and the village postoffice at Masons Corner; the first scene of the second act is the cross roads between Eastborough and the Putnam. farm, the second scene of the second act is Mrs Putnam's "settin' room; the third act is the Pettengill farm yard, showing an old fashioned husking bee in the great barn, and the fourth act is the interior and ex- terior of the Pettengill homestead, showing a good New England snow storm. It is given under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
 Russell Noble, student at Trinity college, Clifford Noble, student at the New York College of Pharmacy, and Clement Noble of New York are guests over the holidays of their fla ther, w. N. Noble.
 Among those from out of town who attended the funeral of Miss Mildred Emmons, Sunday afternoon, were MT and Mrs Walker Tomlin- son of Bridgeport, Joseph Platt and family of Danbury, Mrs c. c. Bar low of New Haven, A. M. Leach and family of Pawling, N. Y., George Durgy and family, David Barlow and Miss Ella Barlow of Sherman.
 Frank Evitts, the we'll liked local harness man, was at his store, Mon day, for the first time, after being laid up for 10 days with an attack of the grip.
 MT and Mrs Daniel Garfield and Sherman Garfield will be guests, Christmas day, of MT and Mrs Bur ton Garfield in Bridgewater.
 Daniel Garfield has purchased a handsome pair of bay horses from up country.
 Mrs George Brown of Bloomfield is the guest of her son, Dr R. S. Todd.
 Miss Alice Mckinney of Danbury has taken a position in the store of w. G. Barton.
 Dr R. s. Todd was called to Ca naan, one day, last week, to prescribe for a very valuable mare owned by A. L. Hartman.
 A very valuable Holstein bull, be- longing to Mrs s. c. Goodhue, broke a leg, Sunday, and by order of Dr R. s. Todd the animal was killed.
 The enterprising managers of the up-to-date Arcade Machine Works are giving out business calendar that is dandy. The body is printed in red and t-e figures in white. He who runs may read it." Even at this quiet time of the year the Arcade machinists have plenty to do.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
Monroe.
AFFAIRS ABOUT TOWN.

Miss Agnes Beardsley is visiting her sister, Mrs Elliott Beardsley, of Long Hill
 MT and Mrs L. B. Beardsley attended the funeral of Mir Beardsley's sister-in- law, Mrs Samuel Beards1ey, who at one time was resident of Monroe, which was held at her late residence in Shel- ton on Friday evening at 7.3O o'clock, after which she was taken 10 Fresh Pond, l.. l., for cremation The sym pathy of Monroe's people goes out to the family in their hour of sorrow.
 Miss Olive Sears has been the guest Beardsley.
 Mrs Albert Wheeler, who has been spending few days in New Preston, has returned to her home.
 MT and Mrs Marshall Beach spent a few days, last week, in New Haven, the guests of MT and Mrs H. J. Lord. Mrs Edna c. Marsh of Milford was the guest, last week, of friends i'm Cut ler's Farms.
 G: c. Briggs and family, who purchas- ca George A. Sherwoods farm at East Village. moved in last week and took possession.
 Miss Nellie Osborn spent a few days. last week in Stepney, the guest of her sister Mrs L. c. Gilbert, Jr.
 MT and Mrs Arthur S. Wales will be at home to their many friends at their new home on Elm street on New Years day.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
The Ncwtown Bee Newtown, Friday, December 2i, 1909.
New Milford.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
 NOTES.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
 NOTES.
 X Christmas tree service will be held in the auditorium under the auspices of the Sunday school, Fri day eyening at 7.30 o'clock, to which all the people of the parish, both young and old, are cordially invited Christmas trees. with gifts, will be provided together with music by the choir and a Christmas talk to the children by the pastor.
 The collection taken at church last Sunday for the Christmas eve exercises amounted to about SAG. The committee plans on spending con siderable more and would be glad to receive further contributions.
 The decorations of laurel spoke for themselves, Sunday morning. It took but a glance to show that a great amount of work had been done by those having the work in charge.
 The heartfelt sympathy of this church and congregation goes out to MT and Mrs E. J. Emmons and family in the untimely death of their daugh- ter, Mildred WanzeT Emmons. This is the first break in the class of Is young ladies who joined this church on profession of faith, July 5, 1908.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
MERRYALL.

The Grange vii give the drama Down in Maine" some time after the holidays. ''-~-. ... @r0 & !
 Mrs Calvin Benedict has been on the sick list for a few days, but is better now.
 Mrs c. J. Hurd has been suffering with an ulcerated tooth. When that grew better she was taken with lum- bago.
 H. B. Healey will spend Christmas with his relatives here.
 MT Richardson has moved into the house with Calvin Benedict
 MT and Mrs G. M. Abbott attended the Pomona meeting in South Canaan on the 18th.
 School closed Tuesday for the holi- day vacation.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
A GREAT RURAL PLAY.

Any play that can attract an audi ence of intelligent people of a size | to tax the capacity of the big New York Academy of music, that can play upon the heart strings of hu- manity without a discordant note, that can compel the tribute of tears and again of the heartiest and healthiest laughter, certainly must possess merits in abundance, and when it is clean, surely is deserving of praise and words of cOmmendation put into type where those who run may read as well as those who read and takes more time to think. "Quin- cy Adams Sawyer" succeeds upon the stage because it is full of heart touches, because it possesses the pow CT to grip, as with hooks of steel, upon the affections and when the play does there is small use in hunt jug for technical flaws. Quincy Adams Sawyer fills it's mission con- pletely. That work seems to be the entertaining Of big audiences, judg- ing by it's record of last season and by indications at the Academy. The houses have been crowded in every city and that those present are michtily pleased is clearly evident from the enthusiasm frequently shown, amounting in every instance to severel curtain calls. The specta- tors pleasure is manifested in other ways than by enthusiasm in the form of handclapping and after all by the strongest kind of approval-that quiet, intense satisfaction that finds solace, contentment and appreciation in simply keeping still and permit ting the act or speech to sink deeply into ones very nature-an effect not so often reached in the theater as to be very familiar. The piece is hand somely produced. The scenery is new and bright, the properties abun- dant and appropriate, and the com pany as large and competent as could be wished. At the New Milford Opera house, Monday evening, Janu- ary 10, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
 Peabody, optometrist and scientific optician, at M. w. Hills jewelry store, New Milford, January 3 to g.
 Practical and useful gifts are al- ways appreciated. Dress shoes, storm shoes, arctics, rubber boots, felt boots, slippers, rubbers, leggings, gaiters, soft soles and hosiery at Robertsons Shoe Store.
 R. M. Brienig, wno is employed by the Standard Varnish Co. of Staten Island, N. Y., passed Sunday with his family in New Milford.
 George 5. Calhoun paid a visit to Washington, Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
JOHN M. HINE.

John M. Hine, one of the aged citi- zens of the town, died on Friday, aged S3 years. He was born Febru- ary 2S, 1926, the son Of Isaac Hine and Alta Riggs Hine, the latter of Sherman. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon, Rev George H. Johnson officiating. The pallbearers were Judge J. Butler Merwin, Select man w. H. Adams, Sherman Morgan and Henry Garvey. Funeral Director or Thomas had the arrangements in charge.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
COMMON PLEAS COURT.

The case of F. R. Green vs Keith Joyce and Feeney occupied the at- tention of Judge Gideon Welch in the Court of Common Pleas, Monday. It was suit over a feed bill. Attor- ney J. F. Addis appeared for Greene and Attorney Howard Taylor of Danbury, for Joyce. Decision was re- served.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
SON OF REPRESENTATIVE KYLE
 INJURED.

While playing hockey on the ice, Saturday, the son of Representative Kyle received a serious gash over an eye. He was taken in an automobile to the office of Dr J. c. Barker, where a wound three inches long was sewed up.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
SECRET SOCIETY NOTES.

A regular meeting of New Milford lodge, No. 292, N. E. o. P, will be held Tuesday evening, the 18th. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected. %
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
Air Navigation.

Most Americans dissent when they
hear that this country is far behind
Europe in airship ideas and practice.
Are there not the Wright brothers,
ahead OF them all and honored of the
whole earth? So they are, but most
of the honors and encouragement have
come from France n Germany. Even
in the crude days of simple ballooning
1t was nearly always Frenchmen who
bore off the glory OF making records
and reporting discoveries. Farnam
and Santos-Dumont attained fame with
dirigibles ahead of the Dayton men
and their aerOplane. In Germany the
people have an excited interest in air
navigation. In every walk of life the
fascination Of the subject is felt. 1t is
2 sport, a social amusement, an object
OF practical experiment and a hope of
wide utility. The government, always
military in Germany, takes supervision
of aero clubs and proposes to keep at
its command this force OF practical
n~avigators.
Representatives of five nations will
compete for the aviation cup at
Rheims. Forty-five machines have
been entered.
A balloon, with two Italians, reached
a few days 6 a height OF 1875 feet,
or three and one-half miles. An
other surpassed the feat. but the use
of oxygen to sustain breathing detracts
from the human interest of the per-
Torrance.
Dispatches tell us Of the weekly
meeting of the Aero club OF Paris at
st. Cloud, the most interesting feature
OF which is the ascensions OF the club
Of women. The leading woman bal
%loonist is Nine. Surcouf, who has made
AZ ascents. II was in this park at
St. Cloud that the record flight OF
Miss Moulton in 1904 started. The
women's club has eighty-three mem
bers, The ascents are frequent. Nine
or ten balloons may be inflated at nee
on the club lawn.
In America there are several aero
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
Dry Farming.

October % is the date of the Dry
Farming congress at Billings, Mont.
The discussion will be devoted to that
system of cultivation which trusts in
deep and frequent working, whereby
the roots penetrate to a damp under
stratum of soil. attract moisture and
create a~condition independent of sur
face moisture. 1t would appear to be
a visionary project II it had not been
thoroughly tried by reliable men and
pronounced practicable. 1t resembles
several new ideas In the manner Of
treating land in that It m from
China, that immense area where every
thing in agricultural experiment has
been tried and where large sections
have first been allowed to become
worthless from aridity and then re-
stored by fine working. 1t is a sub
ject of keen interest because there is
regions of America If it can be awak-
ened from its parched lethargy.
In the east land owners are reclaim
ing soil with the supplying of new
nitrogen. Improved varieties of clover
have given value to exhausted farms.
Cropping and seeding are a science.
Swamp lands and river bottoms have
been transformed into fertile fields.
But Of all the modern efforts for the
extension Of fruitfulness nothing
promises so much as the two methods
which are being applied to the dry
sections of the west, irrigation SAd
dry farming. Millions of acres, now
not only useless, but injurious and in
the way, will be restored to fertility
and the manifold uses Of mankind.
Nearly all OF this land is of a high
degree of natural fertility, reckoned
by the constituent substances Of the
soil. All it needs js more water or a
higher utilization of water. That gift
these new methods promise, and their
promise has been borne out by many
tests. The Dry Farming congress at
Billings is a gathering equal In inn
portance and fresh interest to any
meeting Of the yes The reports will
be part of genuinely national lftera-
ture.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
PERSONAL NOTES.

That attacking force should pause again
to reflect that If IT takes Boston 1t has
to take Tom Lawson, too.
The slickest job pulled Off by the Georgia
legislature in special session was to hold
up near-beer saloons for the amount Of its
payroll. With a treasury otherwise empty,
the pile was as sweet as money from home.
William T. Johnson, long a resident Of
Chicago, who had been treasurer Of Cook
county, a member of the state Railway
commission and Indian commissioner un-
der President Garfield, died recently at
the age Of "a.
Cong essman Helm Of Alabama, seems
to be a warlike person, but nobody will cen
sure him for his latest encounter. lie un-
dertook to thrash the homicidal tendency
out of a chauffeur, and, but for untoward
interference, might have. succeeded.
Chicago girls have been obliged to give
up dancing in their bare feet in a Greek
drama which they win give in the open
air, because the grass tickles their feet.
This obstacle will be thoroughly appre-
ciated when one thinks how much there
is to tickle.
The unseemly haste Of greedy creditors
threatens to spoil the wcll-laid plans of
Prince Miguel of Braganza for annexing a
large bunch of American money with an
American girl attachment. Creditors
haven't seen the color of the princes coin
for years, and imagined they could file a
lien on the marriage settlement before 1t
was completed. As the game stands, both
lose. The girl wins. II she is wise enough
to fly for home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
The County Ticket.

The result OF the primary in Doug
las county must be highly gratifying
to all republicans who we're interested
chiefly in securing the nomination Of
a strong ticket made up Of competent
n Trustworthy candidates, prac-
tically lnsuring success at the polls in
November.
To be sure, the county ticket was,
in a large part, made up in advance
by the conceded denomination Of the
present incumbents. who had good
records OF service to commend them
for continuance in office. A ticket
going before the people asking for an
other term for Sheriff Bradley, County
Judge Leslie, County Clerk Haverly,
County Treasurer Furay, Register OF
Deeds Bandle and County Superin.
tendent Yoder ought to be a winner
by itself, and with the addition of
strengthening material for the other
places to be filled It should be irwin
chile.
The ticket has been completed prac-
tically along the lines suggested by
The Bee as best calculated to make it
a good fighting column. The selection
Of John A. Scott and John Grant for
the long and short term commission
erships is recognition Of the candi-
dates with the best claims. The nomi-
nation of George Mcbride for surveyor
gives South Omaha republicans a rep
resentative in the list. For coroner
The Bee was OF the opinion hat Mr..
Riepen had laid the foundation for the
best claim by his party service in other
campaigns, but If it should turn out
that this contest, which is close, favors
Mr.. Crosby, there is no reason why the
latter should not be a vote-getter in
the election as we'll as in the primary.
The ticket nominated is representa-
tive of the community n Of the party
and is a %harbinger of success.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19

The Omaha Bee says that If the people
will only wait until the new tariff law gets
to working they will find that the tendency
is downward instead of upward. This Is
the same old cry OF the stop thief to dts
tract the attention of the people while they
plumber on. There is scarcely an article
in the tariff schedule that is not raised that
is generally used by the middle or produc-
ing classes. Two big ships laden with cot
ton and wooden goods raced against time
last Friday to reach the New York harbor
In order TO get in before the tariff went
into effect, but lost and did not get in under
the old tariff schedule and owners of these
cargoes will have to pay over 100000 more
tariff under the new schedule. Does any
one doubt that the consumer must pay
this extra amount? Dc we need to walt
longer than the time that we will buy these
goods to find out that the tariff has been
raised? You may go into any general store
within the next few weeks and ask prices
on any line Of goods and then compare
them with what you have been paying and
you will not have TO wait long to find out
that the tariff has been raised instead of
lowered.-O'Neil Independent.
In this case the hoe is on the
other foot. The importers who were
trying to get in under the wire with
goods on which the duty was raised
were not pretending to be benefactors
of the consumers, but were trying to
beat Uncle Sans tax collector out of
the money they would thus save and
keep it in their own pockets. Whether
those ships had arrived in time or not,
the sale price of the imported goods
they carried would have been the
same.
While talking about stop thief"
why not stick somewhere near the
truth? None of the ships racing
against time" were laden with cotton
and wooden goods. The wool duties
are not raised and the cotton schedule
is but lit, e changed from the Dingley
act. The one vessel figuring in a
spectacular role is described In the
New York World, a paper not friendly
to the new tariff, as follows:
The Pennsylvania had left Hamburg on
July "a, laden with a rich cargo of vim
tages. champagnes and Rheims. Its arrival
on the day before the new bill went into
force would mean a saving of between
$50, 900 to $50, 900 to the consignees of the still
and sparkling beverages.
lis there any doubt that the con-
sumner must pay this extra amount?"
We think not. DO we need to wait
longer thar the time we will buy these
goods to find out that the tariff has
been raised?" Again we think not.
But we also think hat 1t will be hard
to work up much complaint among the
customers of the general store at
O'Neill because the importers of a
cargo of costly wines lost out on a
gamble of from 100000 to $4,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
THE FOSSIL HUNTER.

Arthur Chapman in Denver RepubiicaI
His name, or so he told us, was Percy
Harold Jones;
His business was diggin' fer ancient
critters bones;
A milder hammered pilgrim n'er sidestepped
every fuss,
And nobody suspected a hero blinked
at us.
one day a cloudburst took out the dam at
Orn'ry Draw;
=. Harold had discovered a dinosaurs
jaw,
But he quit his work a-diggin' and he
rode, like wind of wrath,
To warn the ranChin' people who might
he in the path.
The flood came on, a-roarin'. a mile or
two behind;
lie could hear the big trees splinter and
the giant boulders grind,
But he beat the wall Of water, and all
souls was saved at last;
Jest sixty miles he raced, sir, with that
demon comm fast,
And moasurin' up the race-course he had
run 50 true and straight,
We found he d made that sixty In ten
minutes, forty-eight,
There couldn't no boss do it?-well, 10
one said II did.
What did he r~lde?-well, stranger, he
was the Fossil Kid,
And he rode that dinosaurs he had just
dug up that day;
The drinks on you?-well rather; hey,
cowboys, trot this way!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19

clubs. Many women have made accents
and some have remained in the air all
night. But the interest in this coun-
try is small compared with that in
Europe. Besides the Wrights, there
are few men who have given the sub
ject much consideration, though It
would seem attractive to scores Of
wealthy young men who have ex-
hausted the commonplace means Of
entertainment and do not car for
sports which have no mental side. The
best performers seem TO be army Of
ficers and, unfortunately, they seldom
have the private means for cultivating
the art.
America would not be known in the
world-fashion of aeroplaning IL it were
not for the Wrights and would be only
in the hindmost rank of b~slloonists.
II aeronautics is to be an American
sport or study, there are few signs as
yet of the advance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19

An ordinance has been introduced
into the city council to require the
street railway company to provide
slip rails to enable it's cars to pass
over hose lines laid during fires. One
would suppose that 1t would be more
to the interest OF the street railway
company than to any one else to pro-
vide against interruption of trafhc
which means loss of revenue. 1t
should not require an ordinance to
bring about this improvement.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19

Some Facts Bearing on the Fundn-
mental Cause.


mental Cause.
Washington Post.
One or two facts in connection with the
fundamental causes of the increased cost
of living seem to have been established.
Obviously, there are not enough people
producing the Fundamental necessities Of
life. People have been leaving the farms
because the farms are not sufficiently at
tractive to hold them. 1t is entirely possible
to make those farms attractive, and to do
this should be the aim of a nation big
enough to see the need. The consolidated
rural school which teaches farm children
how TO live well on the farms is one lonely
beacon light OF hope. The man who has
lived in the city and moves TO the farm,
carrying the grade of living of the city
to the country, is another. The movement
to relieve the farmer Of the unjust tolls
another.
The most urgent need today Is an in
quiry into the fundamental causes Of the
soaring prices and a concerted effort to
bring about conditions that will change
that tendency. 1t is a governmental duty
to investigate this vital problem, and the
sooner it is undertaken the better for the
country.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-19
Suppose We Butted In.
Boston Herald.

Alfred Mosely. the distinguished English
educator, wants President Taft to appeal
to Germany to stop the present competi-
ton in European armament. He says Eng
land is willing to stop if Germany only
will. BY successful ]interposition Mr.. Taft
would build himself an everlasting monu
ment." 1t is a delicate business. but Mr.
Taft has come through the tariff fight un.
scathed, and may be on the lookout Tor
new houors. But suppose William should
say: why don't you restrict your W
nsvy?" Wouldn't that be awkward?