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Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
BORDEN'S MONTHLY BILL
 FOR MILK IS 9,5O0
More Interesting Figures Relating to
 the Business at the Busy Borden Plant in Canaan.

A News subscriber in Falls Village writes: "We enjoyed the article about the Bordens in a recent issue. We should enjoy seeing the payroll to patrons for October milk, if they are willing to give it to you to get an idea how much money they disseminate through this section each month"
 Agreeable to the above suggestion The News interviewed Manager Wilcox, of the Borden milk plant in Canaan and obtained those interesting figures: , For milk delivered at the plant in October the company paid to the farmers of this region $9,5oo. This is for about the average quantity of milk per month, the year round.
 About 200 cans. of milk per day are delivered here, the producers averaging from one to ten and eleven cans each or from 40 to 400 or 440 quarts each. a total of 5000 cans per month, or about 240, 900 quarts.
 The total payments for the present month will be somewhat higher than last month as the price is raised from $1 .95 per 100 pounds in October to $2. 05 in November. or from fraction less than cents quart to Az cent this month. si.
 A 40-quart can contains an average of 85 pounds of milk, so that the approximate quantity of milk shipped from the Borden Company's plant, during the month amounts to- 510, 1000 pounds.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
Made Him Feel Queer

Harry Lyles. according to Horace Humphrey, witnessed an amusing incident on trolley car in Hartford during @ recent visit there. A man rushed in from the car behind, evidently in great agitation, and said:
 'Has any body in the car any whisky A woman in the car behind has faint ed."
 Dozens of flask were produced. The man picked out thelargest one. drew the cork, and put the bottle to his lips With long, satisfied sigh he handed it back and remaaked:
 "That did me lot of good. needed it, for it always makes me feel queer to see woman faint
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
Choral Society Election

The annual business meeting of the Canaan Choral Society was held Tues day evening, when the following officers were elected: President, Rev. E. O.. Gillette; vice-president and chairman of the business committee, Robert D. Peirce {; business committee, Joseph l.. Parsons and Mrs. Wm. G. Bullock ; directors, Mrs. Camp, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Felten, George Mather; secretary and treasurer, N. Watson Harden bergh
 It was voted to abolish the assistant memberships.
 Not the least enjoyable features of the meeting were the banquet and the musical program. There was singing by Mrs. Felten, Mrs. Camp, Mrs. Watson Hardenbergh. Mrs. Freeman, Gladys DeHart, Robert D. Peirce and Paul Guerney, and piano selections by Gladys DeHart and May Kegler.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
SOUTH CANAAN MANS DAUGHTER
Widow of Prince Francis of HatzfeIdt
 Granddaughter of Local Preacher.

Widow of Prince Francis of HatzfeIdt
 Granddaughtenof Local Preacher.
 The recent death of Prince Francis of Hatzfedt- Wildenburg, in London, has peculiar interest for the people of this region. from the fact&hat the deceased Princes wife was the daughter of a South Canaan boy-Edward Prentice. son of the Rev. Charles Prentice, who was the Congregational minister in the old church in South Canaan, about 1880.
 Edward Prentice went west about the middle of the last century, and became 8 grocer in Sacramento. Cal. He was drowned in the great flood in the Sacra- mento Valley in 1862, and his daughter, Clara Elizabeth Prentice, was born two months later. Her mother was a sister in. law of Collis F. Huntington, the great railroad king. who soon afterward adopted the girl Upon his death she received a legacy of $2.Ooo,Oo0. ...
 It was while Miss Prentice Hunting ton was being entertained at the Ameri- can legation in Paris, by Minister and Mrs. McLane, in the winter of 1889, that she met Prince Francis Edward Joseph Gabriel Wit of Hatzfeldr, who followed her to other places in Europe, and they were married i'll London Oct, 28, 1889.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
VoeeI Elected Preside mt

At the biennial convention of the national chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity recently held in Boston, at which two hundred and fifty graduates representing nearly thirty of the lead ing American colleges and universities were assembled. George s. Vogel, Cor nell, '01, superint endent of schools in Canaan, was elected president for the ensuing two years, and officiated as toastmaster at the banquet which fol- lowed the convention. Among the after dinner speakers were some of the most distinguished men of many states,
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01

MORE NEW STATE ROAD
 ON FALLS VILLAGE PIKE
Nearly Two Miles to be Built, and Im- provements Made at Point of Rocks
 Contract has Been Awarded.

-SontraCt has Seen Awarded.
 When the town of North Canaan builds it's next stretch of state road southward, and makes the Sandtown turnpike navigable. it will probably be able to connect with tlne piece of state road about to be laid in Falls Village, from the falls to and around the "point of rocks" this side of the Spaulding place in length of something short of two miles.
 Commissioner Mcdonald has just awarded the contract for this road to a Boston Construction Company, the total cost to be something like $10,o00, of which the state will pay three-quarters and the town one-quarter.
 This is one of the road jobs on which the town, in special town meeting, re. fused to bid for the work of construction. The road itself was decided upon by the town two or three years ago.
 One good feature of this new road will be the improvement of conditions at this double crossing at Point of Rocks. It is proposed to cut the rocks back for a considerable distance, thus making it possible for people approaching the tracks from the west side on either road to get long view of the railroad, both ways and thus lessen the danger of ao- oident there. The roads on each side of the point" will be brought together on the crossing, thus doing away with one Of the crossings
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
ADIRONDACK JUSTICE
Judge Ellsworth Ross Visits His Bro-
 ther, the Canaan Dentist.

0d0E@ Ei@WOIlt no&S NtSlLA DTO-
 ther. the Canaan Dentist.
 Judge Ellsworth H. Ross, of Johns burgh, in the Adirondaoks, has been spending few days with his brother, pr. H. E.. Ross. in Canaan. He is man. ager of the Chatiemao sportsmen's club, owning large club house and nearly 1000 acres of Adirondack forest, on which are couple of large lakes, abund- autly stocked with trout and other gamey fish. t"e"
 The owners and members of this club. of which Dr, Ross is one, spend DOT. tiou of each year there hunting and fishing and entertaining friends. Dur. ing the last season guests were there from all parts of the world, from South Africa to Honolulu, and from practically every state in the Union. s...
 Deer are abundant on the clubs pre- serves, and occasionally black bear is killed there. The big bears heads that decorate the hall in Dr. Ross's residence adorned the burly bodies of Bruins that roamed through that locality until they fell before the deadly aim of the Canaan dentists rife.
 Judge Ross is a justice of the peace in his township, and 8 few weeks ago gave an impressive example of swift justice, in the sentencing of a thief to one year in the penitentiary and having him be- hInd the bars of that institution and al- ready serving his time, within twenty. four hours after he had committed the crime. This is record which, for neat ness and despatch, might serve as a pattern for some communities that put on more frills than are assumed in the rough and ready hamlets of the noun tain towns.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
A.Oueer BIunder

The installation of the machinery in the new auxiliary power plant at the electric light station was practically completed last week. when it was dis covered that through some unaccount- able misoalculation, the wheels were made to revolve the wrong way. This necessitates virtually the dismantllng of the engine, the removal of the great shaft and the transfer of it with the big wheels attached, back to the factory in Providence for the purpose of remedy ing the trouble, which will set back the work about two weekc.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
No Doctor Needed

A valuable horse belonging to Anson Lawrence, died of collie on Thanksgiving eve. Heroic efforts were made to save the animal but they availed nothing. Burton Pierce, who was called on to give advice in the case arrived on the scene at the last. and after a glance at the prostrate beast, remarked:
 You don't need horse doctor-what you want is an equine undertaken"
 The horse was already dead.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
BAD BOYS GET THEIRS.
YOUTHS WHO TOOK
 CANOE, BIKES AND WATCH

Off on Pr0bati0n--Story of a Bucca-
 neering Expedition That Didn't Go
 Through.
 The cases of the boys implicated in the theft of Sam Camps canoe and a number of bicycles, with other offenses more or less heinous, came up before Judge Milton A. Shumway. in the SUI perior court in New Milford. Tuesday, and were disposed of as follows:
 Clifford B. Allen, of Canaan. charged with theft of the canoe, and bicycles be- longing to Mrs. Bertine Benedict, Ed ward Parmelee and George Lef1ngwell, and being implicated with George Bene- dict and Roy Leonard in the theft of a watch and chain from the person of one John Smith. was remanded into the custody of L. J. Nickerson of West Cornwall, as probation officer. He was the ringleader, and narrowly escaped heavier sentence.
 Roy Leonard, of Ashley Falls, charged with compliofty in the foregoing crimes, and George Benedict implicated in the theft of John Smiths watch, were given into the custody of J. Clinton Rorabaok as probation officer. for the term of six months the boys are to report to MT. Roraback monthly as to their behavior.
 Allen has been in jail since he was bound over, Got. ', having been unable to secure bondsman.
 The theft of the watch and chain was alleged and admitted to have been per petrated while the owner was sleeping off an overpowering attack of weariness and presenting temptation which the boys couldn't resist.
 The theft of the canoe, by the youth full hrigands was more picturesque and heroic achievement. According to their confession, their plan of campaign, when they started wish it. up the .Housatonic river, was to navigate that stream to some point where they could make con- nections with the Hudson, and proceed up the American Rhine" on sort of voyage of exploration and discovery, with view to establishing an all-w route over land to the Pacific coast and the Hawaiian Islands. "a
 Like all their famous predecessors in the realm of discovery and scientific adventure, however, things began to go wrong, almost from the start. Dissen- sion among the discoverers, over one thing and another, broke out before the good ship got any nearer to the Pacific coast than Great Harrington, and at the latter port the. buccaneers decided to ground their ship, go ashore and abandon the expedition: This they did, and sold the vessel for 50 cents to thrifty native who immediately repainted it, changing it's color from green to bright red.
 The discoverers then came home. Young Leonardo mother, ,suspecting that all was not quite as it should be, quizzed the boy, and promptly despatched him to Great Burlington, to recover the canoe. Hs succeeded in buying it back, and started with it down the river, but for some reason abandoned it near Shef- geld, where it was subsequently, found by George VanDeusen, who restored it to MT. Camp. The arrest of the adven- turous youths followed, as has been mar rated before in these columns.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01

Mrs. Mary Geike Adam will leave today for Indianapolis, where she, will speud the winter with her daughter, Mrs J. R. H. Moore.
Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01

George L. Parsons has a fine display of buff rock poultry at the West Haven Poultry show.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
PUBLIC ORATOR
QUITS His JOB
Incumbent of Peculiar Oxford
Office Established in Ellz-
abeth's Time Resigns

oxford will lose an accomplished
spokesman and a humorist who has al
ways lived up to his cheerful patro-
nynic by the resignation of Doctor
Merry. who has been public orator
longer than most residents can remem-
her. says the Westminster Gazette Doc
tor Merry is A singularly versatile dl-
vine. who has been the devoted parish
priest of All Saints church, brilliant
tutor and an efficient head Of Lincoln
college in succession to Mark Pattison.
Amid nluItifarious duties he has found
time 10 make his mark both IN Latin
and Greek scholarship. Doctor Merry
Two volumes on the odyssey, - which
have run through countless editions
are a boon and a blessing 10 under
graduates The Office Of public orator.
which Doctor Merry Vacates. was not
defnitely established at oxford oetore
-be snacfous times of Elizabeth. pre-
yious 10 which the position appears 10
have been bestowed upon the Darwinian
principle of the survival Of the httest
There is a stipend of $3.50 attached 10
the post. which seems rather made
quate remuneration, considering that
the orator has TO recite a large guam
rftv Of Latin prose Of his own COMPOSE
ZION before A critical and occasionally
boisterous audience, and also adJudl-
Gates for several university prizes.
Archbishop I.aud. always a warm trleno
10 oxford. persuaded Charles / TO en-
dow the public orator with a canonry
os Christ church. but the Puritan par
lament refused to pass the necessary
act confirming this arrangement
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
NATIVES FRIGHTENED BY
PHOSPHORESCENT TREES
Remarkable Exhibition Seen in
BorneO Forests

The phosphorescence of certain aga
ries of Borneo has more than once de-
moraliZed the superstitious natives
and astonished whites, says the Lon
don Globe. Some years ago a party or
English engineers found it necessary
to survey a tract of low lying country
which was almost impenetra BILE, and to
blaze the trail natives were employed
to work at night, others during the
day. The former came into camp one
night stating that they could not go
through a portion OF the bush or for
est, strange spirits" on the trees tell
ing them that evil would befall them
If they continued. The spirits" proved
to be a magnificent display of phos-
phorescence emanating from agaries
growing upon the, dead limbs of the
trees. These vegetable fire bodies were
traced for a considerable distance, pro-
ducing a most remarkable exhibition,
the light in some places being so bril-
liant that it was difficult to believe
that the forest was not afire. To test
the brilliancy the men held papers near
the most brilliant portions and read
by the light.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
THIEVES LOOT ROOMS OF
LODGERS DURING FIRE
Woman Loses Watch and $50
and Man Misses $500

During the fire early Saturday morn
ing. which destroyed several houses
at Hayes and Octavia streets, thieves
operated at will and secured guam
tity of money and jewelry while the
owners fed from their burning apart
ments
MRS. Morento Lorenzo, who was one
of the fire victims and who resided at
5l4A Hayes street says that she lost
gold watch valued at S25 and $50,
which was in a small bank belonging
TO her son and which she had in her
room. Pieces of the broken bank were
round after the fire scattered through
the house
James Voskey, lodger of the Russ
mouse, which was one of the build
lngs burned, says that robbers entered
MS room during his absence and Sc
cured $500 and a certified check for
$1,000
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
LANGUAGE OF AVIATION
ENRICHED BY CONTESTS
An Aero Oath Is Suggested by
English Writer

Compflers Of aviation dictionaries
have not. as yet. added any new swear
words. says the Bystander- ! can not
help thinking a few must have been
Invented at Juvisy. for instance, ana
elsewhere. Few things can contribute
more to enrich the language than I'M
pstience. q day in the train Tor
20 mile journey, being trodden
underfoot by a raging crowd. and
stiff neck. Add bad weather. hotel
charges. and the aviator's refusal TO
hv because he has lost his pocket
handkerchief. or his oil can. or nut,
or what not-and you have all the
perouisites for the composition of an
aero oath.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
Gossip Of Railwaymen

succeeds Little, and w. w. Johnson. So
Letting freight agent at Kansas City.
succeeds Nance.
raised its pa assenger rates in Oklahoma
from cents a mile to 8 cents, Feb
ruary %. This followed the issuance
of an Injunction by Judge Hook of the
federal court. restraining the officers
of the state from enforcing the cent
fare provision of the state constitu-
ton. 1t is understood that the Santa
Fe is now revising its tariffs and will
advance its fares as soon as the re-
vision is done.
A. H Westfall has been appointed
general superintendent of the Alton
Glover Leaf line effective today. This
change follows the resignation of P. H
Houlahan general manager of the
system The Office of general manager
is abolished.
a meeting of the official classifica
tion committee to consider pending ap-
plications for changes in classification
will be held March % at the commit
tees rooms, 143 Liberty street, New
York. A preliminary hearing for the
benefit of the western shippers Will be
held in Chicago, at the rooms of the
Central freight association, The Rock
IQSSud9, MdICIl IL, d. 1V ~ tIOSh
a. m, at which time applicants for
changes in classifications will be given
an opportunity to present oral argu-
ments in support of their applications.
A Gates Little, for the last nine
years with the Union Pacific in Kansas
City, and for several years the com
panys travelling freight and passenger
agent in the Kansas City territory, has
been promoted to the position of
division freight and passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific, with head
quarters at Lake Charles, La. Little
will have charge of the freight and
passenger interests of his company in
the state of Louisiana. The appoint
ment took effect March l.
j. r. Holcombs, general agent of the
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient, has
returned from Los Angeles, where he
has been for several days.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS"
OFFERED FOR PRIZE

The University Correspondent re-
Gently offered a prize for the best set
Of i schoolbOy hOwlers. Here are
specimens. Nelson was killed by
midget man and buried in the cockpit
Of st PauTs cathedral" Henry
died Of eating palfreys." George Eliot
left a wife and three children to mourn
his senii." The higher grade howler
performs critical function. The classic
example is the statement that An
archaeological society is a collection Of
old fossils" 'Algebraical symbols are
used when you don't know what you
a re talking about.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14

TOHN WINIFRED CHAPMAN, traf-
fc manager for the Pacific hard
- ware and steel company. contem-
try. Besides being booster for the
interstate commerce commission and
attending to his arduous duties as
traffic manager he has been studying
the manufacture of percolators and has
perfected several new ideas
In introducing the percolators to the
public he decided to present several
of them TO his women friends. feeling
that if they were found satisfactory
they would be recommended TO others
and the demand stimulated.
The scheme was a success until one
of his young friends sent a percola-
tor to her mother. An interesting
note must have accompanied the per-
colator, for about week later the
young woman received a letter from
her mother telling her that the per-
colator was waiting for her al the ex-
press office, and that she shouldn
think Of marrying a man who catered
to such contrivances, as the percolator
burned up more coffee in one day than
coffee pot did in week.
General Agent Zac T. George of the
Wabash is around boasting about
remarkable run by train of 20 cars
of Sun-kist oranges from Cotton TO
Buffalo. the trip being made in nine
days The train left Cotton February
10 and arrived at Buffalo on the 18th.
The wabash took the shipment at
al
February 1s and reached Buffalo with
it at midnight, February 19. Consld-
ering the snow and rough weather
usually encountered in the east at TINS
time of the year this is considered
marvellous performance.
Hale Holden, for several years gen.
eral attorney for the Burlington, has
been promoted to the position of as
sistant to the president
The Erie company has spent much
money the last year on both engines
and cars and is receiving from the
Baldwin locomotive works frelghI
engine nearly every day on an order
Of so placed last fall to be delivered
in January and February. Despite the
unfaVorable weather in January the
Erie handled 579.344 loaded and empty
cars. an increase of 72,224, of which
increase 70,S79 were loaded cars.
J. a. Brereton, who has filed the po-
sition of tariff and rate clerk in the
general freight and passenger office
of the Western Pacific at Salt Lake
City since the eastern division opened
for traffic, has resigned TO accept the
chief clerkship I'm the Denver and RIO
Grande freight office at Salt Lake City.
An honest taxicab driver found three
coupon books of the Transportation
club in his machine the other morning
about O'Clock. Although this column
is not generally given to advertising
lost and found articles, the owner can
secure the return of the books by prop
erly Identifying them. Apply to vic
Smith
p. Sorenson has been appointed as
sistant superintendent of the Montana
division of the Oregon Short Line. with
headquarters at Pocatello, vice T. w
Jackman, assigned to other duties.
A. c. Little, travelling freight and
passenger agent of the Union Pacific
at Kansas City, has been appointed
division freight and passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific, with oflces at
Lake Charles. La. Julian Nance, trav-
cling freight agent at Kansas City.