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The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
KIMBALL FAMILY REUNION

The seventh annual reunion of the
Kimball family on the Pacific coast
will be held in Golden Gate Com
mandery hall Thursday, October %.
The Kimball family in America is
descended from a common ancestor,
Richard Kimbal1, who emigrated from
England in 1884 and settled in Massa-
chusetts. Plans have been made to
hold a national reunion OF the family
in San Francisco in 1915.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
MOTHERS GUIDE FREE

Much useful information on the Feed
ing and Rearing Of Infants will be found
in Savory & Moore's booklet, The
Baby" copy of which will be mailed,
Free, to all applicants by Savory & Moore,
Ltd, Chemists to The King, New Bond
Street, London, England.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
WILL HOLD MOCK TRIAL

The Young Peoples society of
Bethany Congregational church has
arranged an interesting evening for
next Friday, when the members will
ystage a mock trial. 1t will include
as features a woman attorney, dicto-
graph and phonograph records of tes-
timony, as well as a mixed jury
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
ASTREDo TO SPEAK

why Children oG Wrong and How
to Prevent IT, viii be the subject of
an address tomorrow night by Pro-
baton officer J. s. Asrredo before the
fgorth Beach Promotion association.
other speakers will be Miss Mary c.
Bell. Juvenile Protective association.
and Father B. c. Radalian of SITS. Peter
and Paul Italian church.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
COLONEL SMITH. IS, MISSING

Daniel Wagner, 500 Beale street,
called at police headquarters today
and asked the authorities to aid In
search for Colonel Smith, rs years
old. Wagner says the man disap-
peared yesterday. He is described as
6 feet inches tall, slim build, gray
hair and mustache.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
Youth Disappears,
Has Starving Mania

The police are searching for Arvine
Bowdish. 10 years old. who disap-
peared Saturday from the home of
Mrs. j. b. Brooks, 1923 Russell street,
Berkeley. Bowdish is said to possess
mania for attempting to starve to
death. The boy arrived here two
weeks ago from San Diego. His
father is John r. Bowdish of that
city.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
HOLDUPS GET s87

Harry Moore, 223 Third street, re-
ported to the police that he was held
up early this morning at Mission and
Third streets by two men who took
his wallet containing $S7.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
ARRESTED FOR GAMBLING

Harry A. Ferguson, former mana
ger of the Waldorf gambling club,
and Ray Davidson were arrested last
night on complaint of Ben c. Staube,
who alleges they swindled him of
$3.50 and jewelry valued at $3.50 in
a poker game at the Windsor hotel
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
Madman at Large,
Police Make Search

An escaped insane man is at large in
San Francisco, and the police have
been asked to look for him. He is Jo-
senh Baratini, who broke away from
the Stockton asylum yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-14
REDoNDA CLUB BREAKFAsr

La Mesa Redonda club has sent out
cards for the annual breakfast OF the
organization, which will take place on
Friday at the Hotel Bellevue.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-20
BOTH THE GOATS

Reimbursement = Pardon me;
your necktie has been sticking out
for some time. l refrained from tell
ing you sooner because those young
ladies seemed so much amused.
Farmer-Thankee; an the oil from
that lamp has been droppin' on that
light overcoat of yourn for the last
ten minutes, but everyone seemed so
tickled that l hated to spoil the fun.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-20
THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
EROS AT THE STEERING WHEEL

EENllNN WHEEL
| love you more than did before we
were married"
ooh, don't know, l guess just
like to hear you say it, l flbbed, for
l did not know that the sight of ''the
other girl'' made all the primal in
stincts of my being awake. wanted
to be to my husband the one woman
who could satisfy all that his mind
and soul crayed-Who could be a
close comrade as well as lover-who
could shut out all thought of any
other girl. 49,.
After looking at Eleanor Fairlow
with her clear-visioned eyes and her
voluptuous mouth it seemed to me
that she was nearer the woman who
could be all in all to the man she
loved than l. -.
Dick did not mention her name,
although l am sure that he surmised
what caused my unrest, but wanted
to forget her for this little while at
least and have only Dick and our
love, in the whole wide world.
AS the taxi moved down the drive
over the boulevards to the park we
said little. was so close to Dick that
l wondered if he could feel my heart
beats. Soon every restless and ques-
tioning thought. passed from mel
seemed to know that I filed Dicks
heart as he did mine.
Love was at the steering wheel and
we were not riding through a prosaic
city street, but threading our way
through the purple and gold Of hap
piness unspeakable.
Ito Be Continued Monday.)
-O-O-
BOIL TILE GnArS
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-20
CHAPTER Xxx.

way IN which DICK always gets the
things he wants and does the thing
he wants to do. Being a woman
have thoroughly learned woman's
law of compromise and am just be-
coming acquainted with mans law
of usurpatioh.
After the dinner last night Dick
said: "Margie, I've got to go away
= over on the South Side. Get on your
things and we'll take little motor
ride"
Dick, have invited some people |
to play bridge" said his mother.
Nov look here, mother, if you
think that man who is only little |
over a month married is going. to sit
around and look at his wife making
up table of bridge you are greatly
mistaken" Then he went over and
put his arm about his mother and /
continued: BE good, mater, and re-
member how you and dad used to slip
away from the maddening crowd
before your honeymoon got around
to its last quarter"
11C gu yOu, h4OIhCAs DPOAC NP |
Mr.. Waverly. you remember the
time we stole away from the dance
and went sleigh riding!"
Dicks mothers rather too firm |
mouth widened in a smile of recol- |
lection as we hurried to the waiting
taxi.
''Now, what is it, sweetheart"
said Dick as he drew me to him.
Nothing, dear, onIy-onIy-weII,
you see get so mixed up thinking of |
this marriage game that sometimes
Just want to play it without thought !
that's ALL, And then just wanted |
to ask you again if in your Utmost
heart you were glad you married
me?"
Dick did not answer for moment. |
He Just crushed me closer to him and |
thon caid. EEWhU did Won ask mo /
The Press., 1913-07-30
UNION,

Harry Palmer of Hartford spent Sunday with friends in town.
 R. B. Horton and son, Nelson, visited friends in Monson recently.
 MT. and Mrs. B. Sellew were guests of friends in Southbridge on Satur- day.
 Miss Florence Marcy attended a funeral of a friend in Hartford Mon day. ....: ... j.
 Mrs. Francis Dodge of Eastford was the guest of Mrs. Charles Scranton re- gently.
 Melven Booth of Brimfield and his nephew, Ransom Tifft, of Westford called on friends in town last week.
 W. Richards and family will spend few days at the Advent camp ground, Springfield, the last of the week. Miss Martha Richards of Westford visited friends in town.
 Mrs. Charles Scranton, Mrs. Theo- dore Borand and their sister, Mrs. Frank Rogue of Hartford, attended the funeral of their father, George Dodge, at Eastford Wednesday.
 Rock Meadow. ...* .
 Rev. MT. Curtis was at Mrs. Elvira Snow s last week Friday.
 Herbert Heck of Monson was with his parents over Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. H. R. Gillingham are entertaining visitors from New York.
 Miss Rose Gillingham has been staying few days with Mrs. Edith Mathews.
 Miss Ida Kinney of Worcester was the guest last week of her cousin. Mrs. Charles Webster.
 Winifred Dumas of Sturbridge was with his grandmother, Mrs. David Matthews, last Sunday.
 Mrs. David Mathews is in critical condition, with not much chance for recovery. Mrs. Eyaline Mathews of Sturbridge is with her for the pres- ent.
The Press., 1913-07-30
ASHFORD. Westford Hill,

Mike Sveda recently purchased a horse and buggy.
 H. N Amidon has been spending 8 few days with his brother at Quono- chontaug, R. I. -...
 DeLoss Oonant of Willimantic was the guest of friends here the first of the week.
 B. w. Whitehouse and family and Mrs. McGorty of Abingdon were guests of friends here one day last week.
 Several from here attended the vesper service at Mt. Ochepetuck Sun day. '....
 H. P. Amidon, who has moved over about one hundred acres of grass land, finished Saturday. He did the machine moving on seven different farms.
 MT. and Mrs. Hutchinson of Bristol have been the guests of MT. E. l.. White and family. -
 Miss Abbie Amidon has returned home after few days spent at the seashore.
 Miss E. l.. Whiton was in Stafford last Friday, making the trip in E. L. Whites auto.
The Press., 1913-07-30
AT SEA IN AN OPEN BOAT.
An Anxious Experience of the RocI
 Rouad cnae% o$ knraa

An Anxious Experience Of the RocL,
 Bound Coast of Korea.
 The perils of the small boat at sea are told by Jack London im an article on "SmalI Boat Sailing in the Yacht ing Monthly:
 About the liveliest eight days of my life were spent in a small boat on the west coast of Korea" he writes. ''I was In an open bout. sAmpan. on q rocky coast where there were no light houses and where the tides ran from thirty to sixty feet. My crew were Japanese fishermen. We did not speak each others language. Yet there was nothing mOnotOnous about that trip. Never shall forget one particular cold. bitter dawn. when in the thick of driv- ing snow we took in sail and dropped our small anchor. . .e-E
 'The Japanese crawled under a com munal rice mat and went to sleep. joined them. and for several hours we dozed f1tfully. Then a sea deluged us with icy water and we found several inches of snow on top of the mat
 ''It soon became a case of swamping at our anchor. Seas were splashing on board in growing volume. and we baiIed constantly. And still my fisherman crew eyed the surf battered shore and did nothing
 At last. after many narrow escapes from complete swamping. the fisher men got into action. All hands tailed on to the anchor and hove 1t up For'ard. as the boats head paid of, we set a patch of sail about the size of a -four sack. And we headed straight for the rocky shore. unlaced my shoes unbuttoned my greatcoat and coat and was ready to make quick partial strip a minute or so before we struck. But we didn't strike. and as we rushed Tn saw the beauty of the situation. Be fore us opened a narrow channel frilled at it's mouth with breaking seas Yet long before. when l had scanned the shore closely. there had been no such channel. l had forgotten the thir ty foot tide. And 1t was for this time that the Japanese had so precariOusly waited"
The Press., 1913-07-30
"SCRATCHED ROCKS"
They Mark the Course of Glaciers
 AdoWn Our Continent. .s@.

They Mark the Course 0f Glaciers Adown Our Continent. -....
 Throughout the northern United States, from the Atlantic M'ean to the far northwest and as far south as Ken lucky. huge powders are found seat tered at haphazard. The rocks and Iedges are smoothed and marked witt scratches varying from faint lines tC broad grooves two feet deep, Some oi these powders. weighing many tons are so balanced on ledge that slight touch will rock them. The Indians used them as alarm bells"
 The grooves or scratches on these rocks are as a rule parallel and extend north and south. South of the above mentioned area neither powders nor scratched rocks can be found.
 How came the howlders in their DO sition? What scratched the rM'ksf
 Agassiz. familiar with the glaciers of the Alps. probably gave the true an swer He showed that similar state of things is produced today by the gIa ciers of Switzerland These streams Ot ice creep slowly down from the lofty summits of the Alps through the val leys to the plains. They bear on their surface huge rocks fallen from sur rounding cliffs. The stones frozen in tine bottom of the glacier. pressed down by the enormous weight of ice above them. scratch and groove the rocks be heath. as the tool of q carpenter gOuges out a piece Of wood.
 What was the condition of America when similar effects were produced: !: Instead of local glaciers scattered in the valleys, the whole surface now GOV cred with powders must have been hidden by an immense sheet of ice Judging from the marks on the rocks, the sheet moved from the north toward the south. carrying with 1t masses of rock. -HarTers Weekly.
The Press., 1913-07-30
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Howard Needham is visiting hi brother in Boston
 Miss Mollie Barton of Palmer ii a guest at the Mclaughlin home. | Miss Florence Whitaker is spending a few days at Savin Rock and Bridge port.
 MT. and Mrs. H. 0. Wheeler re. turned Sunday by auto from visit in Southbridge. ....e
 Attorney M D. O'Connell is spend. ing two.weeks' vacation at his old home in Colchester and other places.
 L. D. Gary will serve a clambake for so at Crystal Lake next Sunday for the trolley road officials and their guests.
 Miss Helen G. Lyons of Springfield is spending the months of July and August with her aunt, Miss Jennie Mccarthy, on Benton street.
 W. E. Hanley, James Warren and Michael O'Halloran are planning to attend the national convention of the Knights of Columbus in Boston Aug. 4th.
 Mrs. G. H. Flanagan, cashier at the R. I. worsted mills, is spending her annual vacation at Newport and Boston. MT. Flanagan goes to-day to spend the week -end at Boston.
 Plans are about completed for the annual farmers picnic to be held at Crystal Lake next Saturday afternoon. There will be a shore dinner, a prize waltz and various other attractions.
 The annual "old home'' day cele- bration will be held at Wales next Saturday and Sunday. The celebra- tiOn will include a ball game and picnic in Shaw's grove Saturday, a reception at the pavilion in the even ing and special church services in the old Baptist church Sunday. A num- her will go from here.
 Rev. A. J. Mcleod, 69, died July 22d from peritonitis at Waldsboro, Me. MT. Mcleod was pastor of the local Congregational church from 1892 to 1898 and was we'll known locally. His last charge was at An dover, and Waldsboro, where he died, was his first parish. His widow and three sons survive him: The sons are Raymond and Dr. Edward of New York and Dr. Robert of Brooklyn. The burial was at Groton.
 Miss Gertrude M. Lathrop, 2G, died at the home of her sister. Mrs. H. M. Grundy, last Sunday afternoon. The deceased came from Brooklyn several weeks ago in hopes of recover i9g her health. Her father, lnotheE and three sisters survive her. The sisters are Mrs. Charles Nelson and Miss Ethel Lathrop of Brooklyn and Mrs. H. M. Grundy of this town. The body was taken to her home in Brooklyn, N. Y., Monday evening, where the funeral was held yesterday.
 The Country club defeated the Quaboag team of Monson at golf last Saturday afternoon, to 6, at the local links. The ladies' committee served lunch after the match. The following is the score :-
The Press., 1913-07-30

The above picture shows Dans Gary, whose obituary was given 1ast week, in characteristic pose neal the Whiton grocery. The Whito1 grocery has always been social cen ter for the men about town, and Dans was one of the regular habitues. The picture was snapped by Edward Tobir and is good likeness. It is in fact the only picture known of MT. Gary taken since he was a young man.
 Bernard Hanley is at Howe's Neck, Mass. for g, vacation.
 Mrs. Eugene Mellor returned to he1 home in Brsitol, R. l., Monday after few days visit with Miss Mary Howard.
 John Morris, 58, died at the John. son hospital Saturday morning. He was operated on Tuesday for serious stomach trouble, and while he passed through the operation he did not have vitality enough to gather strength. MT. Morris was a quiet, home loving citizen. He leaves a widow. The funeral was held from his late home Monday afternoon, Rev. P. V. Nor wood of Grace church officiating. The burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 James M. Sullivan, who was re- gently appointed minister to San Do- mingo, was employed here during his earlier years and is a brother in law of James Hampton. MT. Sullivan came here from Thorndike. He studied law and is graduate of the Yale law school. He practiced in several Connecticut cities and then went to New York. He was before the public prominently in connection with the Roseberg trial ln New York, as he acted as counsel for Jack Rose, the first one of the gang to weaken.
The Press., 1913-07-30

This Is EneIish-Do You Get It3
 Little Johnny came running in to his father and Said: ars. ...... ...s..
 ''Oh. father. l have just gained sOv- ereign and threepence."
 Flows that?'' said his father
 Well" sald Johnny. ''l hAve just fought guinea pig for ninepence."
 Samuel Warron's Vanity.
 The vanity of Samuel Warren. the author of "Ten Thousand a Year, in his early years of authorship at least, was remarkable, and there is a story told of him to the effect that on one occasion at friends house he had to take down to dinner a lady whom he had not met before and as soon as they were seated at table asked her if she had ever heard of Samuel War ren. "Oh, certainly" was the reply. My husband prefers Warren's black ing to any other. We always use tt"- Westminster Gazette.
The Press., 1913-07-30
Expectancy of Life.

All insurance is calculated upon the probable length of time il person has tO live This is called the average ex pc,ctancy. Many elaborate tables have been made up by the insurance com uanipS. some based upon one set of Iatn. some upon another. and conse IuentIy they vary slightly The Brit ish life annuity tables. fair calcnla ton. show that a man of fifty has a natural expectancy of living PIP years, woman of the same age 23.5 years; at sixty his expectancy iS 14.8 years, hers Is l7 years; at seventy his is 9.6 years. hers 1O.9 years.
The Press., 1913-07-30

The Staffords defeated the East Glastonbury team last Saturday at Hdye Park, 6 to 5. It was one of the best and most exciting games played by the local team so far this season. It was the visitors first de- feat in 13 games. They brought quite a crowd with them who did their part in roofing. At the end of the eighth inning the score was to 5, but the Staffords secured the winning run in the last half of the ninth. The score i:
The Press., 1913-07-30
She Saw.

''Why Is Mrs. Wombat wearing such dowdy clothes lately? She spends half her husbands income on dress. But why is she wearing such mean looking rlothes just now"
 Her husbands mother iS visiting her just now. See?''
 The other woman saw.-Pittsburgh Post
The Press., 1913-07-30

Runs, Potter, Mathewson, Dupre 2, Webber 2, F. Zurcher 3, Buck hardt 2, Sommers. Total bases, Staf- ford 12, East Glastonbury 8. Sacri- flee hit, Chapman. Sacrifice fly, Guilman. Stolen base, Webber. Hits off Webber 2, off Buck hardt 8. Two base hits, Mathewson, Potter, Rem inert, Webber, Sugrue. First base on balls, off Buckhardt 1. Left on bases, Stafford 5. East Glastonbury 8. Struck out, by Webber 9, by Buck ardt 2. Time, 2h 5m. Umpire, Clark.
The Press., 1913-07-30

The Helpful Circle met with Mrs. Agard last Thursday afternoon and had an enjoyable time as we'll as doing considerable work. Refresh ments were served.
The Press., 1913-07-30

It is a good thing to De rich and a good thing to be strong. but 1t is bet Ger thing to be belovedof many frieudn. -Euripides.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-05-23

She ended. her brown eyes flashing
His own darkened; but he only re-
marked coldly: my Lady, at any rate.
dares much!"
"Oh. I've no doubt you don't care
to hear"
From you!" He looked at her odd.
ly, from the golden hair to the small,
dainty foot. From your Ladyship!"
he repeated, as IL amused. An instant
he regarded her silently, intently; but
his voice when at length he again
spoke was cool and slightly mocking:
MY Lady speaks. Of course. from the
standpoint OF her own worlds very
pretty world! A park OF plaisance,
wherein. cen vouch for 1t. my Lady
dances very prettily."
She started; flush OF resentment
glowed and faded on her cheek: .
question his words suggested trembled
on her lips.
why did you come to the beach
that night OF the dance! How dared
you, knowing that if"
Why" His eyes lost their ironical
light. "WhyY" he repeated; then
laughed with sudden recklessness. Il
wished to see your Ladyship."
"Me?" She shrank back.
you! he repeated. his gaze fss.
tened on the startled. proud face.
Though | looked not forward to q
dance-with your Ladyshipi" The
black eyes glowed. "Pardi! 1t was
worth the risk" A moment he wait
| ed; then his manner changed. II will
leave your Ladyship now he said
quietly. You will have opportunity
to considerable did not answer
whether you will give me your prom
ise. or not" he added. and. wheeling
| abruptly, walked away.
| Some time later, in the fast-gather-
| ing darkness, from the cove a small
boat put out, with Sanchez. gloomy
and sullen. In the stern: at the bow,
the Governors daughter As the isle
receded and the point Of land loom ed
| bigger before them, the girl gazed
straight ahead; but the man looked
back; TO the sands OF the little cove, q
pale simitar in the dragon-like mouth
| Of the rock; toward the tower, near
which he fancied he could see a fig
ure. turned from them-seaward-
where, far out, ship might just be
disoerned, a dim outline on the hori
ron.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-05-23
A Delicate Point.

"They are happy Sewickley couple.
They haven't been married very long.
In fact, the honeymoon has barely
waned. An elderly friend met the
bridegroom down town yesterday and
slapped him on the back.
We'll, happy as a lark. supposer'
"Oh, yes"
"How's the cooking?"
81 have one trouble there. It's Just
this, my wife has been preparing angel
food every day for dinner"
"You must be getting tired OF it
II am. Yet feel hesitancy about
saying anything. How soon after the
honeymoon would 1t be proper to ash
for beefsteak and onions?"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-05-23
Rash SPREAD TO ARMS

759 Roach Ave-, Indianapolis. Ind
AT first I noticed small eruptions on
my face. The trouble began 40 rash.
II looked like red pimples., In few
days they spread to my arms and back.
They itched and burned 30 badly that
I scratched them and of course the re-
suit was blood and matter. The erup-
lions festered, broke. opened and dried
up, leaving the skin dry and scaly. I
spent many sleepless nights, my back.
arms and face burning and itching:
sleep was purely and simply out Of
the question. The trouble also caused
Disagreement. My clothing irritated
the breaking out
by this time I had used several
well-known remedies without success.
The trouble continued. Then began
to use the sample Of tChticura Soap
and Ointment. Within seven or eight
days I noticed gratifying results. I
purchased a full-sized cake OF Cuti.
cura Soap and box of Cuticura ONT
nent and In about eighteen or twenty
days my cure was complete" (Signed)
Miss Katherine McCallister, APR. IL.
1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free. with 32-p Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept L. Boston"
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