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Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Rev. BodIey's Anniversary.

Said the New Britain correspondent
of the Hartford Courant, Monday:
REV. Harry !. Bodley, rector of st.
Marks Episcopal Church, preached a
special sermon at the morning services
yesterday, in observance of his sixteenth
anniversary as rector here. The SER
vices were largely attended. Rector
Bodley touched on the many accom-
plishments during his term as rector
and held out the brightest hopes for the
future. He thanked his congregation
for the splendid manner in which they
have seconded his attempt to better
their interests and noted with satisfac
tion the increase in church membership
during the past sixteen years. Rector
Bodley is the oldest local pastor i'll
point of residence, with the exception
of Rev. DR.. S. G. Gilman of the Swedish
Lutheran Church.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
SUFFRAGE-PR0 AND CON



1t is curious how much better the
Anti-Suffragists know the workings of
woman suffrage from long distance
than do the people of the states where
the women actually vote. In recent
letters to the newspapers of Connecti-
cut from IAN ,Anti-Sutfragist" the
charge is made that the desirable
women's vote" stays at home on cleo
ton days and that only the "undesira-
BILE females" go to the polls. In the
suffrage states both men and women
have frequently declared over their own
names that undesirable women are
negligible in comparison with the
women who vote as inspired by good
relationship. They also have declared
again and again that he women do vote
in about the same proportion, or some
times in much larger proportion than
the men, aud that the largest vote in
cast in the states where women enjoy
full citizenship as compared with the
states where only restricted voting
rights are granted 10 the women.
II evidence from the spot is of greater
value than evidence of people any
where from 500 to 5000 miles away
the resolution passed by the Kansas
legislature ought to be final as regards
the working of votes for women i'm that
state. Similar resolutions have from
time TO time been passed in every state
where the women vote, so that the
evidence in favor is universal and over.
whelming. The resolution readsss
Whereas the women of our state OK.
ercised the right of universal suffrage
at the last election for the first time in
the history of Kansas, and Whereas the
right to vote was exercised by them
generally aud with manifest interest
in the questions at issue, and Whereas
the right was exercised by them on the
basis of informed intelligence and their
vote was the expression of individual
views Of party principles, neither be-
ing one sided not prejudiced, but hav-
ing been given for such political meas.
ures as appealed to their Judgment to
be right; Therefore be il Resolved by
the Senate of Kansas, the House con.
curing therein; That il is the judg.
ment of this Legislature that the grant.
ing of the right of suffrage to the
women of the state, so long withheld
from them, was not only an act of
justice to a DISTINGUISHED class, but
that il also has proven TO be of the
greatest good to the state and to the
women themselves.
Considering how few are the really
undesirable women in proportion to the
women who are good and honest men,
bers of society, the cry of the undesir-
able women voters is seen to be abso-
lutely worthless and hollow.
Hartford, Conn. Press Sec
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
KIng-LIght Libel Suit.

When the libel suit of John L. King,
of Bridgeport, against Judge John H.
Light, of Norwalk, and former Repre-.
sentative Bennett n. Beard, of Hunt
ington, was called in the superior court
in Bridgeport. Judgment i'll favor of
tie defendants was granted by Judge
Williams. The costs of the proceed
ings will be paid by the plaintiff &C.
cording to the ruling of the court.
Judge Light was present represents
ing himself and Mr.. Beard and moved
for Judgment at which Judge Williams
handed down his decision in favor of
Mr.. Light.
The suit which was for $50, 900 in
each case, was the outcome of a state
ment made by Mr.. Light following his
candidacy for attorney general on the
Progressive ticket in 1914, when he de-
clared that Mr.. Beard had requested
Mr.. Kings assistance in collecting a
claim against the state highway de-
partment and had been greeted by the
defendant with the request for a COM
mission should be enlist his services for
Mr.. Beard. A large amount of property
owned by Mr.. Light was attached in
the suit. The defendants filed a de-
murrer to the complaint several weeks
ago, which was argued before Judge
Williams, who sustained the action.
Mr.. King was on a vacation at the
time in Maine. 1t was thought an APP
peal would be taken but this did not
materialize. 1t was in order to free
his property from attachment that
Judge Light asked for a Judgment
which was granted Wednesday.
Judge Light when interviewed at
is home in Norwalk stated to a reporter
that he had nothing to say at this time.
but would probably have something foI
say on the decision in the near future.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
The Peddler Nui sanoe.

The peddler nuisance is becoming a
matter of comment among the people,
those living in the outskirts of the vii
lage seeming to have the most trouble.
One lady says that between the grocer,
baker, butter woman, egg woman, two
or three fruit peddlers and like num-
Der of pack peddlers it is wonder that
she gets the mornings work done at
all. Tile conversation and remark was
drawn because of the persistence of a
pack peddler. and the fact that this
class are the hinderers as they are so
persistent. it often being necessary to
shut the door and end the plea. Two
peddlers, foreigners and strangers,
were in court the other day and one
fined $40 and the other discharged.
Two days later two more were brought
in and one fined $40 and the other had
his case continued. Added to tilis is
the college student" selling books to
pay his way through school and the
young woman selling soap; the young
man who rings the door bell and hands
you circular when the boss is looking
and stuffs wad back of the door bell
when he is not; the fellow who makes
you present of a washing compound,
and many more. Buy bull dog
Lee Cleaner
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Sues for Injuries

Samuel W. Taylor, editor of The
Rider and Driver, New York periodi-
cal, and who resides on Sunaim Farm,
near Mianus, has brought suit against
Herbert Kinner, of Danbury, for $1O,-
900, attaching property of Mr.. Kinner
in Danbury to the amount of $3.50
to cover the suit. This suit grows out
of a collision between an automobile
owned by Mr.. Kinner, and driven by
him ON Sept. 2, 1914. Mr.. Taylor
claims that he is permanently injured
in his arms from an impaired circum-
fex nerve, from which a condition of
neuritis has resulted.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Reeves Gift to Editors.

The Bristol Press Note Book man,
dilaGing on the enterprise of the Mil
ford Business Mems Association, in en-
pertaining the Connecticut Editorial
Association, mentions particularly 1.-THE
liberal spirit actuating that body, as
shown by the action of the Reeves
Vacuum Cleaner Go. 1t makes a SUBJ
stantial, useful and practical article
that retails for five dollars. Each lady
of the Editorial Association was pre-
scented with one of these articles, sent
this week to her home" But it was
just like the manufacturer, Mr.. E. A.
Reeves, who is d director in the State
Chamber of Commerce, TO do this
thing, and then make light of it after
ward. At the banquet Mr.. Reeves,
who acted as POSTMASTER, stated, as
quoted in the Milford Citizen, "that
he had sounded out Editor John Rode
meyer as to the value of a vacuum
cleaner to an editor, and Mr.. Rode
meyer had replied that if any class of
people needed vacuum cleaners more
than editors, he was as yet ignorant
of it, Subsequently Mr.. Reeves adj
imitted that he had decided to give the
machines to the editors "in order to get
rid of them," presumably meaning the
cleaners.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
ARRESTED BY RH0ADES
Young Man Charged With Striking
Wife, Taken In.

Domestic troubles were the cause of
the arrest Of Harry Cole, a resident of
the east side of Bloomfield. Wednesday,
on the charge of assault and breach of
the peace. Cole. who is a brakeman on
the Central New England railroad, got
into a heated argument with his wife,
which finally came TO blows and, ac-
cording TO her story. she got bad beat
ing. Cole, after the trouble, came TO
Canaan, where Constable William p.
Francis arrested him, he having been
held by Constable Rhoades here at the
request of Constable Francis, of Bloom
field. The complaint was signed by
Grand Juror Frank J. Spence and the
case was tried before Justice John
Hutchinson in the Bloomfield town
hall. Cole pleaded guilty to the
charges and a sentence of thirty days
in Jail on each count was imposed,
The costs, amounting TO S42, were also
taxed. The execution of the Judgment
was suspended, however and Cole was
allowed to go in charge of Constable
Francis.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
LISTEN!
I he Shrieking Siren Fire Alarm Will
be Tested Tonight.

If the people within radius of five
mules from Canaan village this (Thurs-
day. evening hear sound that seems
like an unearthly scream of monster i'll
torture, rising TO shrek that pierces
the ears and sends the cold chills
scampering up and down the spinal
column and makes the blood run cold.
they need not be frightened. 1t will
be only the first official test of the new
electric siren fire alarm. to ascertain if
it will fill the bill. The machinery of
the siren system has been installed in
it's improvised "tower" on the roof of
the Fuller building, equipped with a
four horse power motor which is con:
sidered sufficient for all practical pur-
poses, and Monday evening. at about
8 80, Foreman Frank Whiting turned
ON the current just little, to see if it
was working properly. 1t was. The
thing gave yell that threw nervous
women into spasms and was distinctly
heard by the jewellers at Twin Lakes,
who Immediately called up central
office 20 find out what bad broken loose.
1t was an effective scream, but not a
circumstance to what the thing can do
when it cuts loose-and this evening it
will be given an opportunity to show its
full capacity for noise making.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
CLINT R0RABACK'S SMASH
His Auto, Turning Out for Another,
Hits Stone Wall,

Old "14314," Clint Roraback' S Buick
auto, is temporarily ont of commission
as result OF an Involuntary attempt to
solve the old problem Of what would
happen if an irres. stible object We're to
come into contact with an immovable
object. TIE experiment materialized
in the rock ribbed cut on the highway
on the western border OF Winsted, just
this side of the knife factory. and the
solution of the problem is that the ir-
resistible object itself becomes an i'm
movable object without foreign initia-
tive.
The story of the contact seems to run
thuswise: Monday afternoon Clint
was travelling in his car, to Winsted.
On applos aching the borough, and enter
ing the curved cut just the other side
of the over head railroad crossing, the
chauffeur, bert Rhoades, turned out to
lass a Pennsylvania touring car just
ahead. The other car kept to the mid
die of the road instead of giving al
inch, and made 1t necessary Tor tine
Roraback car to sheer out farther than
the driver had calculated. and as there
was not sufficient space on the left side
to make the pass, tile inevitable result
was that the Roraback car crashed into
the stone wall ON the curve and came
10 dead stop. The force OF the stop
caused Clint to lurch forward and 1t
thrust his hand through the wind shield.
SCATTERING the glass, and severely cut
ting his fingers. Rhoades was not hurt.
The auto had both axles badly bent
and the mudguard and running board
were smashed.
Word was telephoned to the Brewer
Brothers garage and Fred Brewer went
out with another auto and towed the
wrecked machine home for repairs.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Drinks whiskey and Match Heads.

Mrs. John Rivers, Jr., about 20 years
Of age, attempted to commit suicide at
her home in Torrington, Wednesday
night by drinking solution of whiskey
and sulphur. She made the solution
by soaking match heads in the whiskey.
Her husband had published a notice
that he would not be responsible for
any bills contracted by her in the fu-
ture and he had made arrangements to
have the furniture moved from the
house. Mrs. Rivers drank the solution
in the presence of her husband, after
bidding him goodby. The husband
summoned DR.. H. T. Partree and
prompt action on the part of the physi-
clan probably saved the woman's life.
The couple have one child three and
one half months old.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Burns-Gibson.

A quite wedding took place Saturday
noon, at the reside ce of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. r. Atwood, on West Main street,
when Miss Edna NJ. Gibson of West
Hartford, became the bride of Mr..
James M. Burns, Of Plainxille. Rev.
L. L. Travis was the officiating clergy.
man.
The bride is sister of Mns. Atwood,
and had spent few weeks here before
the wedding.
The ceremony was witnessed only by
a few intimate friends and relatives.
including Mr.. Albert n. Gibson and
Mrs. Houghmaster and daughter, of
Hartford.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
ROSS HOME AGAIN
Had Fine Outing and Visited George
M. Bullock.


DR.. Ross returned Saturday after
noon, from his months outing at Lake
Chatiemac i'll the Adirondacks. Mrs.
Ross, who had spent week at Cohoes
and couple of days at. Chatiemac, nc.
companied him home in his automo.
bile.
On the way they went around
through the Elizabethtown section and
had pleasant visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
George M. Bullock, who are waxing
fat and prosperous OH the privations of
millionaires' club domain in the
bowling wilderness, where they have
nothing to eat but what they would
have to put up with at Delmonico's.
DR.. Ross reports "a royal time in
camp during his outing, with fine fish.
ing and good company.
On arriving at his office he was some
what surprised to find pinned over his
dentist sign placard banner with this
strange device, in an unfamiliar hand
and of unknown authorship:
"P. S. These Place is move For
ever. God Sake. IL Some Body want
some Teeth Pull, lie shall get on Trolley
Car and go Great Darlington Where is
six Dentist. Six Good Dentist, by
Golly."
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
"DIck" Howell Marries.

Richard Howell, editor of the Bridge.
port and Waterbury Heralds, and Miss
Billy Eggleston, of New York, were
married Wednesday afternoon in STRAIT
ford. The ceremony was performed
by Justice Charles H. Peck, justice Of
the peace, at o'clock in the presence
of Andrew V. Barber and Miss Grace
Baldwin, of the Herald staff. Miss
Eggleston, who is an orphan, % years
old, was the daughter of William and
Catherine Blair, of Charleston, S. Q.
She was a singer on the vaudeville
stage and Mr.. Howell met her last fall
when she appeared in Bridgeport at the
Plaza.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Bullets After Autoists.

A near tragedy occurred in the
Phelps Croft section of the town of
Simsbury, Thursday night when Lucius
Goddard and son, Alvin, both of
CRANKY, with three friends We're pass
ingt through the town in touring car
and a bullet whizzed past Mr.. God
dard and his son, who were in the front
seat, smashing the windshield. The
incident occurred in front of the club
house. A hurry call was sent for Con-
stable Thomas McCollum, who made a
thorough search in the vicinity, but
was unable to find any traces of the
person who fired the shot. The only
information that could be secured was
from some children of the neighborhood
who said that they saw a short time
before the affair happened, a strange
youth in the vicinity. The bullet was
from a 22-caliber revolver.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
NEW ENGLAND'S CROPS
Some Important Ones Showed Large
Increase Last Year.


Increase Last Year.
Some of the crops figures contained
in the Department of Agriculture's
year book for 1914, issued recently,
show that OH the whole last year was
an exceedingly good year for New Eng.
land farmers. Not only was there in
the case of some of the important food
crops decided increase in the total
production and the value to the far.
mers, but there was also an increase in
the average yield per acre, which is
the measure of good farming.
Although there were 1000 less acres
planted to coin in 1914 than in 1918,
the New England Suites 81 owed a total
production of this great cereal crop of
g.341 900 bushels. This compared
with 7,7S1, 900 in 1918 and 8,23s, 394
i'll 1909, the year covered by the last
census. The New England States show
an average yield per acre. of 46. .
bushels against 1873 in 1918. The
corn raised last year i'll New England
had total value to the farmers of more
than So, 900, 600.
Last year 10, 302, 600 bushels of oats
were raised on New England farms
compared with 9.776. 900 in 1918, and
1850, 900 in 1909. There We're 900
more acres planted to oats than in
1913, but ii was TO the greater amount
raised per acre that the increase in the
crops was due. the returns showing an
average of 40.56 bushels of oats per
acre ms against 3S.2 in 1918. This
crop Of oats was worth to the farmers
80, f99, 900.
There were 2, 600 more acres of land
used for growing potatoes in 1914 than
the previous year. That the production
rose from 80, 102, 900 bushels to 40, 073,.
900 bushels TO 1903, 900 bushels is
chiefly accounted for, however, by the
fact that the average for New England
as "a whole shows 2l5 bushels grown to
the acre as compared with 173 BUSHES
in 1918.
New England's potato crop was
worth to the farmers last year $40, 49,
900, which was less by over $3, 900, 900
what the crop of the pervious year was
worth, due to lower prices.
Strangely enough, there was an
actual decrease of over 5000 acres in
the amount of ground used for growing
potatoes last year as compared with
1909, most of this shrinkage being
found in Maine, the potato state. But
in the total production and value the
potato crop of 1914 greatly exceeded
that of the census year.
New England's banner crop is hay
and this increased from 4, 044, 900 tons
to 4,371, 900 tons and in the amount
raised per acre from 1.12 tons to 1.l9.
In value the hay crop last year reached
the large figure of $40, lisa, 900. This
compares with 500, 92S, 600 in 1913 and
$50, 112, 700 in 1909.
Another New England crop in which |
increases are shown was the tobacco
crop. Last year 2, 300 more acres of
land were cultivated for tobacco than |
in the previous year, the average yield !
per acre for the tobacco district as a
whole was increased from 1850 pounds /
to 1,713 pounds, and the total crop rose
from 80, 295, 900 pounds to 47,651, 900
pounds. AS further rejecting the pros
porous condition of this industry, the
value of the crop last year amounted to
IS, 721, 900, compared with So, 033, 900
in 1918 and $3.50, 900 in 1909.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
BEES MOVE "
Swarm Take Possession of D.. Ross's
Squirrel House.

A tramp swarm of bees came along
Sunday morning, looking for vacant
rent" and stopped at "Thode'
Adam s. on Church street, where they
hung themselves up OH the hickory limb
of a sour apple-tree while the queen
went about the neiRhborhood, house
hunting. She failed TO find any apart
ments that suited her until she applied
at one of the squirrel houses fastened
to tree beside the brook, at DR.. Ross s.
She inspected this tenement thoroughly,
inside and out, and finding it TO her
liking, decided to move in. As the
two squirrels, which had long before
abandoned the place for rent and moved
into the box on the other side of the
tree. were absent at the time, fOraging
for their Sunday dinner, the bee queen
concluded to dispense with any negotia
ton as to rental, repair and so forth,
and starting her propeller, awaited
rapidly back TO Adams to summon her
family. In a few moments over they
came and proceeded to take possession.
DR.. Ross, who was in his Office, pre-
pairing to stay home from church, he ard
an intense and intensifying buzziDg
which he at first mistook for the drone
of an automobile. Mrs. Ross hearing
the same sound and getting a line Oh
the direction from which it issued.
looked from her window and beheld
the air thick with bees, lowering
around the vacant squirrel house and
gradually drifting into it. People
passing stopped to watch the interest
ing sight. and in due course of time
the entire swarm disappeared within
and made themselves at home.
The squirrels re-appeared at their
own house later in the day and al
though there were bees in the air in
close proximity and bee headquarters
only two feet distant from their owl.
home on tine same tree, the squirrels ap
parently took no offense at the impu-
dence of the buzzirg horde, and so far
as can be observed are living at peace
with their new neighbors, though yet
there has been no interchange of neigh
borly visits between the inmates of the
two houses. and Dr. Ross is looking
forward, into the sweet by and by.
when he can garner a washtubful OF
honey.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
The Auto Directory.

Some people who are unable to get
unlimited numbers of the Connecticut
Motor Vehicle Register are disposed to
cry about it, and i'll some manner at
tempt to hold the state to blame. The
fact is, the Register is issued by a pri-
vate concern, the State Publishing Co.,
of Hartford, and the state has nothing
to do with its publication or distribu-
ton. Nevertheless, the book is far
more complete and in every way more
than the former issues,
which were published by the state.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Claims Against Green Estate.

Claims amounting to $125,000 were
filed Thursday against the insolvent
estate of the late Seymour S. Green at
hearing in New Milford by commits
sioners appointed by the probate court.
Mr.. Green was president of the First
National Bank of New Milford and
treasurer of the New Milford Hat Com
pany. Most of the claims were to pro-
tect the note of the hat company which
Green Endorsed. The larger claims
were one for SIC, 900 by Benjamin
Seeley, of Washington and one by the
first National Bank O.; Boston for $780,
900. There will be another hearing
on the case December 21. -
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1915-08-05
Con.

Secretary of the State Langtry, who,
by the way, is a suffragist, authorizes
the statement that woman suffrage
would add at least 80 per cent to the
expense of elections and primaries in
the state of Massachusetts. There is
no reason to suppose that il would be
cheaper in Connecticut.
Or, let us look at the question from
another angle. A careful investigation
estimates the cost of getting out the
vote in New York State last year as
s2.S3 per voter. Does Connecticut
wish TO pay. s2.s3 for each of the
women who would be entitled to vote
if suffrage were forced on the women
of this state +? There are 34s, $50
women of voting age in Connecticut.
Naturally it means higher taxes. Are
the taxpayers willing to bear this
burden. when less than per cent. %
the women of Connecticut wish to vote!
Hartford, Conn. Press Chairman.