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Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
Caught on the
 News AerOpIaRe' Some of the Happenings of this Little City by the Falls that Its Proud
 Denizens Are
 Talking Of.

Farmers have commenced harvesting their grain and report some fine stands of wheat and oats. ...
 Having is about over new, save here and their a belated farmer has a little grass down.
 Our boys trounced West Cornwall IA to 1 in the rain last Saturday on the West Cornwall baseball grounds.
 After two months visit here with her sister. Mrs B. O. Heinz, Miss Carrie Simpson has returned home to Bridge port.
 Miss Edith Ward is entertaining Mrs Rose and her two daughters and Miss Bullard of Bridgeport. .+... .
 George Ayers and family are spend ing the week at Twin Lakes with party of friends they are entertaining at their cottage their.
 The lawn services of the COngrega. tional church last Sunday proved quite an innovation and an advantage over the hot weather.
 Miss Carl Dudley, New Haven, was an over Sunday guest of Miss Lucy Randall.
 Mrs P. B, Burnett and daughter Ger truds, returned home to Bridgeport. Tuesday.
 [ The young ladies of the town enjoyed party picnic all by their Lonesome, 1" Tuesday, down in "The Pines." Not a man or boy was allowed in the party.
 The Falls Village baseball team will play the Borden team at Lime Rock Saturday. The grounds have been fitted up in great shape for the scalp dance that is to follow this game, when the village boys bring home the scalp of the Bordens to dry in their wigwam.
 The annual meeting of the D. M. Hunt Library association was held last We'd nesday morning and the old board of officers was reelected, and the old trustees were re-chosen.
 Miss Sophia Perry, Bridgeport, Is vis- iting friends in town.
 M. L. Blodgett has brought of O. H. Ripley of Winsted, monument which he is having erected in Grassy Hill ceme- tery to the memory of his mother.
 Theodore Watson is visiting Edward Ward.
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
WAS A ROBBERY
 INTENDED HERE2
Station Agent F. D. Wallace
 Has an Evening of EXcit- <# ing Adventure.

The train had pulled out and Station Agent F. D. Wallace sat alone in the East Canaan office, busy in closing up the final details of the week. It was Saturday night. The old clock on the depot wall onotonously ticked off the seconds. Hark
 What was that? ..--
 The agent paused from his work and listened.
 There was a rattling of coal from the bin near by and the sound of stealthy footsteps.
 Not long before Frank Daley had been into the office and paid the agent $70 on 8 coal bill. This with the receipts for the closing day of the week were in the agent s possession.
 He remembered at the time of this
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
SOUTH CANAAN AND HUNTSVILLE

Mrs Wilcox and daughter Alice re- turned to their home in Plainville lalst Saturday, after spending few days with relatives under the noun ain.
 William Steuerwald, Norfolk, spent Sunday here with his father.
 Mrs Woodin and Mrs Roger, Chapin- vile, spent Saturday night with their father here.
 There has been quite a movement of late in the sale of real estate here. MT Steurwald has sold his place to Mir West of New York who takes imme- diate possession. Mir Corfrew has also sold his place to New Yorker and MT Phil lips has sold his place to a New York doctor.
 Mrs Fay, who is in the Danbury hos pital, has little daughter. Mother and child were doing we'll at last report.
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
MINOR ITEMS OF
 NEWSY INTEREST
Giving a Few Lines of Information Regarding the Movements of
 Friends and Town People.

MT and Mrs Arthur Marsh and son, Glastonbury, called on friends here last week.
 MT Sirlin, Canaan Valley, has moved into the Morris house in No. 5. MT Baptist, Bridgeport, visited friends here last week.
 The rain of Saturday night was wei come, as gardens are suffering and grass and fruit are drying up.
 Mrs Dewey Garfield, who has been ill is improving Miss Willard, Falls Vil- lage is caring for her.
 MT and Mrs Bert Barnard and child ren spent few days in Winsted this week. .
 Frank Belden. Canton, visited friends here Friday. Miss Edna Hayes returned with him for few days visit.
 MT and Mrs Angell and son, Torring ton, have been guests at MT. Bennett's for a week.
 The East Canaan baseball team will play the Great Harrington team in East Canaan, Saturday, at S:30 pm.
 The welcome light is again shining from the Barnum Richardson Co. s No furnace.
 Thomas and Bessie O'Neal, Water bury, visited friends here for few days last week. The Barnum Richardson Company are putting in new set of railroad scales.
 Miss Fuller, daughter of MT and Mrs Ava Fuller. who has been visiting her parent here, returned to Worcester Sun day. -
 . Mir Fuller ConvaIescing James Fuller, who was injured in the automobile accident at West Springfield some weeks ago is getting along nicely at the Springfield hospital. MT Fuller's work at the Barnum 6, Richardson fur naces here is looked after by'G. H. Mer- riam of Lime Rock, who comes over oc- casionally to see that everything moves serenely. ..
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
Real Estate is
 on the Boom

There has been a decided movement of real estate in this section the past week. The James Flakes estate has been sold to New York lady and the papers are to be passed within few days. It comprises upwards of l50 acres of fine land and good house and out:buildings.
 It is understood that the purchasing
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
Picnic Next Wednesday.

The Congregational Sunday School picnic will be held on the church lawn on Wednesday next. It was decided at 8 meeting held Sunday and a general invitation has been extended to all the church people and their families. It is intended to make this gala day for East Canaan. Everybody will be sure of good time and the attendance is go- ing to be large. Refreshment in abun- dance will be served and should it chance to rain the church is close at hand to shelter as many as attend.
 It Was Teachers Birthday.
 Sunday was the birthday of Mrs. Hanna, teacher of the primary depart ment of the Congregational Sunday school, and the Little Gypsies, remind ful of the delightful time they had on their recent outing, thanks to their teachers thoughtful preparations and kindness, and being desirous of making this birthday anniversary memorable to her, they presented Mrs Hanna with a very handsome gold fountain pen:
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
TWO PLUCKY GIRLS
 GET A RATHER
Deadly Snake Struck One of Them on the Dress Skirt But Failed to Wound Her--A Sister Secured Help and the Rattlesnake's Life Paid the Forfeit.

East Canaan, July 2Q-Whiz-z.zsz-z-z whiz- z-z-z-z.z
 From 8 chump of berry bushes near the old Tone place, sharp, clear, reson- antly threatening came the unmistakable warning of rattlesnake.
 May Foley set her pail of berries down upon a stump and wondered what it was making that strange whirring, whizzing sound.
 Something struck against her skirt and fell to the ground. A stick, thought May, as she looked down beside the berry bush from which she had been been picking.
 Then she jumped back Her eyes dilatedl Her cheeks flushed, then turned pale, but the brAye girl did not run
 She realized that almost at her feet. coiled, ready for another strike, lay one of the most venemous snakes to be found in all New England. the (crotalus hor- ridus), the deadly timber rattlesnake, of of which East Canaan's s mountainous section now and then discloses speci, mems,
 She knew that the snake had struck at her had hit her dress but she felt no wound and realized she had escaped 8 deadly peril. -g
 Many a girl would have run shrieking from the spot or tainted. from fright. Not so this brave East Canaan lassie. Stepping backward out of reach of 8 second stroke from those yenomous fangs but still watching the snake that it might not escape, May Foley called to her sister:
 "Julia Come here There's big snake here, and he has tried to bite me p
 Julia Foley hurried to the side of her sister. She saw the rattler coiled beside the berry bush and heard that ominous
 "Whiz-z-z-z-z !'
 As the vibrating tail of the crotalus swung two and fro with a movement so swift as to be distinguished only as a blur by the human eye.
 "You watch him, May, and I'll run down to the Italian shanties wonder and SOs SOLA0 Oh0 VI COuS up h0Ao oAu hllA him. said Julia.
 May consented. and Julia hurried away for assistance.
 In short tim, she came back with a stalwart Italian to whom she pointed out the snake and asked him to kill it.
 The Italian saw the snake and his eyes dilated with terror. "Me no can kill Me afraid P said the swarthy son of Italy.
 You're coward P said the girl and back she started and presently returned with another Italian
 This fellow was armed with shovel. He advanced upon the snake and struck at him and missed.
 The rattler jumped and struck the shovel and it's teeth rang upon the steel scoop like bullet upon the metal bull s eye of a target.
 Again the shovel descended This time the blow was true. It hit the snake across the neck, half severing it's head from the body.
 The brave girls tied string to the rattler's tail and dragged it home to East Canaan. When their father, John Foley, saw it and realizing that it meas ursd four feet long and had seven or eight rattles, he made bee line for a mammoth elm that shades the yard, and. after shinnlng the tree and seating himself on branch 20 feet from the earth. megaphonsd down:
 "Bury him deep, girls Bury him deep !" .@.
 s.
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
HERE ARE SOME
 PAST HAPPENINGS.
And an InkIing of Other Matters That Are Yet to Come That You'll be
 Interested In.

They told the NEWS man that East Canaan was dull this week and that there was nothing going on in the town that would make an item for the paper. Odd, isn't it how much news there really is stirring around little place like this, if you use your eyes and ears and go in- telligently to work on the hunt for it Besides the rattlesnake story, which of itself is quite lively experience, the NEWS records afew 4ore incidents for its East Canaan friends and readers to ponder over Here they are :
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
{" We Got Beat"

Yes, we did Think of it ! Downed by the score of 15 to 8, Saturday, and by Millerton at that Shades of Canaan mountain Rain We'll you'd have thought SO if you had been there You needed a gondola to run bases. It was one of those miserable, soaking rains so disastrous to successful ball playing, but such blessing to the thirsty earth and the parchlng crops. We harvested big crop of errors on both sides. To glance at the score one would infer that the game was played with cricket bats and football. But it wasn't quite SO bad. We have feeble consolation that Lakeville did almost as bad, both of her teams being beaten, at the game played there and the one at Amenia, so this consolation sort of takes the curse off.
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
Photographed Quilting Party.

Thursday last was a memorable day for the ladies of the Congregational church society's quilting party-mem- orable Tn several ways first because 1t was an all day gathering second, be- cause of the amount of work that was done; also because everybody contri- buted a luncheon, and the combination resulted i'll most hospitable spread, to which all sat with enjoyment. During the afternoon the party was photographed by MT Marsh, Glastonbury. A second picture was taken of the society grouped upon the church lawn.
Connecticut western news., 1910-07-21
Mrs Cowdrey Will Entertain.

Mrs George W. Cowdrey has invited the members of the Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational church to meet at her home this (Thursday) afternoon. The ladies have pleasant memories of other days when they have met at Mrs Cowdrey's and are always sure of a pleasant time there, for Mrs Cowdrey is 8 most charming hostess. It seems needless to say that the meeting of the ladies to-day will be largely attended. nor is it anticipating matters to predict that the coming meeting will be one of the most interesting that has been held in long time.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
Commended for Bravery,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-For hero
ism that saved three lives, Earl L.
Stout, an ordinary seaman in the navy
has been commended by Rear Admir-.
al Mason, acting secretary of the navy.
Stout, who Is attached to the train.
ing ship Franklin, stationed at Nor.
folk, while making a trip from thieves.
sci to the navy yard landing, in a
barge, heard calls for help and dis
covered that a woman, a child about
six years old and an infant, were
laundering in the water. The skiff in
which they were rowing had o~verturn.
ed.
Stout went to the rescue. He sup.
ported the child and infant and drag.
ged them toward an approaching skiff,
and when they were safe, swan back
and rescued the mother and two men.
According to the officers Stout made
no report of the heroic rescue and
seemed modest and reticent about 1t
when questioned. Stout, who has
been in the service six months, is q
native of Illinois.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
Grant In the Saddle,

Grant was at his best in the saddle.
The one real record that he made for
himself at the academy. the one time
that he excelled all his fellows, was
at the final mounted exercises of his
graduating class, when, riding a IA
NOUS horse named York, he was called
upon to clear the leaping bar that the
gruf old riding master had placed
higher than a mans head. He dashed
out from his place in the ranks, q
smooth faced, slender young fellow
on a powerful chestnut sorrel, and
galloped down the opposite side of the
hall. turned and went directly at the
bar. the great horse increasing his
pace as he neared it, and then, as If
he and his rider were one, rising and
clearing it with a magnificent bound.
The leap is still recorded at the acade-
nay as "Grant's upon York."-St. Mich
Olas.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
A BYRON STATUE.
Made For Westminster Abbey, bu,
Dean Lincoln Refused IT,.

Dean Lincoln Refused t..
Many years ago some admirers Of
Lord Byron raised a subscription for a
monument to the poet to be placed in
Westminster abbey. Chantrey was re-
quested to execute it, but on account
Of the smallness Of the sum subscribed
he declined, and Thorwaldsen was
then applied to and cheerfully under
took the work.
In about 1888 the finished statue ar
rived at the customs house in London,
but to the establishment Of the SUBJ
scribers the dean Of Westminster, DR..
Ireland, declined to give permission to
have it set up in the abbey, and owing
to this difficulty, which proved insur-
m%ountable, for DR.. Ireland's successor
was Of the same opinion, it remained
for upward Of twelve years in the Gus
toms house, when 1S46) it was re-
moved to the library of Trinity COL
lege, Cambridge.
The poet is represented in the statue
of the size Of life, seated on a ruin,
with his left foot resting on the frag-
ment Of a column. In his right hand
he holds a style up to his mouth, in his
left a book, inscribed "Childe Harold"
He is dressed in a frock coat and
cloak. Beside him on the left is a
skull, above which is the Athenian
owl. The likeness is, Of course, post
humous. Thorwaldsen was born Nov.
10, ITO, and died on March 81, 1874
Exchange.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
~PortSmouth's Last Trip.

NEW YORK, Aug. s.-The frig ate
Portsmouth,, one of the last old square
rugged participants in the Civil war
still aloat, weighed anchor today on
the first leg of her last journey. She
will shortly sail for Seattle, where she
is to be transformed into q naval mu-
scum
The Portsmouth was built at Ports.
mouth, N. g., but she was largely
manned BY the state of Washington
and the claim OF the descendants was
given fret call by the federal govern
ment, although San Francisco also
put in q bid for her, because she took
possession OF California in the name
of the United States. Her journey to.
day was brief.
Until last year the Portsmouth was
kept in commission a. q training ship
for the New Jersey naval reserve.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
A LAD Of MYSTERY.
"That Awful Boy JONES'" Who Tor.
mented Queen Victoria,

su~S VWINl 0Vy SOUSSD VINO or.
mented Queen Victoria.
For a little while about the middle
of the nineteenth century "that awful
boy jones' was the torment Of Queen
Victoria's life, and his short career in
public contains a mystery which
would try the mettle Of Sherlock
Holmes.
He was a BARRIERS apprentice who in
some unexplained way discovered a
passage into Buckingham palace, with
which he alone was acquainted. When
he was first found trespassing he was
gently admonished and sent home.
Soon after he was encountered again
in the palace. He would not tell how
he obtained access. Again he was sent
home, and again he r%eappeared.
Once he calmly admitted that he had
been lodging in the palace for a fort
night. He had laid snug during the
day, sleeping in the royal apartments,
and at night had wandered from room
to room, helping himself to the food
left over from royal repasts. He had
e the queen repeatedly and indeed
had never been far from her.
The matter "a considered so seri-
Gus that the boy was summoned be-
fore a special meeting Of the privy
council. He refused to give any &C.
count Of his secret. Soon after he dis.
appeared. and it is supposed that he
was removed under state protection
London Globe.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
TAFT AS TRUST BUSTER.

In the light of the record made by
the department Of justice since March
4, 1908, President Taft would, had he
enjoyed the services of q compe-
tent press agent, be regarded as the
greatest "trust buster" of the age.
There has been no blare of trumpets
about the Taft ADMINISTERS alton and es.
pecially has there been no effort to
make political capital out of the en-
forcement of the Sherman antitrust
law. The enforcement of the law has
seemed to the president and his chief
legal adviser 90 plain a duty that it
has not occurred to them to seek to
impress upon the public the energy
with which that duty has been per.
formed or the success which has at.
tended the prosecutions, and only q
search Of the records reveals the mea.
sure OF both which has characterized
this important phase of the admins.
tration's work.
OF thirty five indictments of individ.
uals or corporations for violation Of
the Sherman law returned since the
beginning of President Roosevelt's
fret administration thirteen were sc.
cured during the first fifteen months
of the Taft regime. The two best
known causes now pending before the
supreme court, the Standard Oil and
Tobacco cases, we're instituted during
the last administr alton, but among
the notable cases instituted by At.
torney General Wickersham are the
prosecution of the Sugar Trust, the
Window Glass Trust, the American
Paper Board company and the Ar.
mour Packing company. All the cases
now pending are being pushed with
equal energy and determination, al
though those against the STANDARD Oil
company and the Tobacco Trust ma
turally attract most attention in the
public prints, both because of the pro.
minence of the defendants and because
of the advanced stage of the litigation.
1t is a matter of interest, in view of
the demagogic efforts of certain demo.
Gratis to load the special ]appropria.
ton made for the enforcement Of the
Sherman law with a provision pro-
hibiting the use Of any portion there.
OF for prosecution Of labor organic.
atoms, that during the twenty years
that the Sherman law has been on the
statutes no labor organic alton has
ever been prosecuted for its violation.
New York Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
Where They Got Their Titles.

William Jennings Bry an once joked
about our American fondness for
titles.
"You all know of the colonel" be
said, who got his title by inheritance,
having married Colonel Browns
widow" But 1 once met a general
who got his title neither by inherit.
ance, nor by service, mol by anything
you could mention.
"'General,' I said to him, how do
you com by this title of yours, any.
way?'
"'Why SIR said he, 4 passed my
youth in the flour trade and for p
years was q general miller"
81 knew another titled man, Judge
Greene
"'Are you, SIR l once asked him,
"a United States Judge or a circuit
court iudge?'
"'I amt NEITHER he replied. I'm
a judge of boss racin.'"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
Oklahoma Investigation.

MCALEsTER, OKLA, Aug. 1O.-Six
hundred Indians assembled at a .swar
council" at Sulphur, Okla, and US.
ing up almost an entire bottle OF ink,
wrote their signatures individ tally to
the McMurray land contracts. Al.
though informed that J.. F. McMur.
ray, holder Of the contracts, would
net q profit Of from 81, 1000, 900 to 3d.
DOC, 900 in "attorney's fees," the In.
dians were advised that the contr acts
afforded the quickest way to realize
on their land. estimated to be $50, 900
acres In extent and in value at from
$50, 900, 900 to $40, 600, 900. In addition
to the land contracts McMurray's
agents had the Indians sign contra acts
for tax cases against the government
at q fee of 90 q head. The land fee
OF 10 per cent was contingent upon the
sale of the land.
James II. Godfrey, q Chickasaw In.
dian, by Intern arrisge, gave his tes-
timony before the congressional in
vestigating committee today.
Godfrey said he induced the Indians
to assemble at Sulphur to persuade
them to sign the contracts. McMur.
ray, be said, had been successful in
previous litigation for the Indians
and the Indians believed that II they
paid him 10 per cent attorneys fees
be would be able to urge the author.
tiles at Washington to expedite the
sale.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-17
Test Of New 8attleshjp.

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 9.-The new
battleship Delaware returned from her
trial trip along the coast to Bradford
coaling station last night with one OF
the happiest crews in the service over
the showing made by the big ship. In
addition to the records reported from
Washington, 1t was said the Dread.
nsught had made . satisfactory tes,
for twenty.four hours. All her tur.
ret guns were discharged simultane.
ously and then the whole battery oil
ten and twelve inch guns were fred a
once. This supreme test Of . battle.
ships "offense power" the "Dread.
nsught" met exceellently, wireless re.
ports say.