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Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
What the Wild Waves Say.

John Rodemeyer said the other day
that he strolled along the beach to hear
what the wild waves were saying, and
what they said did not appeal to him
at all. They said plain as could be:
"Siss-siss-siss," and that was too
near like what he heard when he sang
white Wings" in public.
The day they talked to me they were
vociferous enough and demanded in
plain English Cash" Every time a
wave hit rock it said right out loud
Cash. " And everybody along the
beach who had anything to sell from a
cottage room TO sandwich repeated
the same words. Only the hard Of
hearing or the flush can enjoy staying
at the shore. 1t detracts from the fun
of the thing to have to dig down in
your pocket every few minutes for
something with an inflated price ticket
attached. Bristol Press.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
THURSDAY. AUGUST 5. 1915.
We can finish nothing in this life,
but we may make beginning and
bequeath a noble example.-Smiles.
COST OF THE WAR.

The beginning of the second year of
the war finds no decisive result achieved
and the end nowhere in sight, although
according to estimates of expert war
statisticians the total casualties in
killed, wounded and missing, are from
5000, 900 to S.00O,0O0.
Estimates vary according to the ma
tionality Of the statistician, one Ger
man authority stating that the Allies
have lost 100000 and an English
writer claiming that the records show
a loss of 4,OO0,0 900 German soldiers.
The stupendous money cost of the
contest is beyond the ordinary lay COM
prehension. The war ministries of
= the various contending nations, declar-
ing their own respective expenses, may
be accepted as somewhat near accurate.
From these it appears that Great
Britain is now spending $15, 000,O 900 a
day on the war; France, $4,000 a
minute, or $14, 100000 a day." Ger
many, $3.50, 900 a day, or as much
in forty days of the present war as she
spent in the whole Franco Prussian
war of 1901.
According to the secretary of the
German Treasury the war is costing all
belligerents 1915, 900, 900 week. The
cost of the war during the first year is
estimated by recognized authorities at
from $11, 500, 900, 600 to $15, 600, 900,
900, which does not include Italy's ex-
penditures. This stupendous sum, it
is declared, is more than so per cent.
greater than the total gold production
of the world during the last 500 years.
There are other estimates, by statisti-
clans said to be trustworthy, running
as high as $50, 900, 100000.
The number of men under arms
though variously estimated is generally
placed in the neighborhood Of 10000,
900, one German authority stating in s
Berlin magazine that the number is APP
proximately 1,770, 900, of which thu
allies have 12,820,0 and Germany
Austria Hungary and Turkey 8, $50, 900
These figures, in money and men
which may be expected to double il
another year of the confiict-stagge
the Imagination; and the crime of it al
is, that so far as the most plausibl
apologist has been able to demonstrate
behind all the slaughter, devastation
Atrocities, wreck and ruin to whlcl
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
Wins
WInsteo.
I've often wished to see the town

I've often wished to see the town
OF Winsted,
So many things have brought renown
To Winsted.
The papers tell, each day or two,
Of things that Winsted creatures do;
All nature seems to be askew
In Winsted.
The snakes hunt down the golfers ball
In Winsted,
And fish get out on land and crawl
Through Winsted;
The COWS eat apples by the sack
And give milk punch and apple jack,
While hens learn how to swim and
quack
In Winsted.
The horses have their drinks and smokes
In Winsted
And, bull-frogs harmonize their croaks
In Winsted,
The wild cats ride on colts at will,
And rats herd sheep with care and
skill;
All, life must be one grand, sweet thrill
In Winsted.
There must be something in the air
OF Winsted
Which makes the beasts act funny there
In Winsted;
And if you ever see tale
Of'how minnow ate whale,
I'll bet you ten that it will hail
From Winsted
Boston Post.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
WAITE y 3 u RY.

Waterbury is widely known as 1.-THE
Brass City" because of its modesty.
If any cynical sneerer is disposed to
turn up his nose at this observation,
we would respectfully refer him to Mr..
Charles A. Colley, president of the
Waterbury Chamber of Commerce, after
dinner orator, editor of the Chamber
of Commerce Bulletin, and author of
innumerable tracts full Of statistical
and fantastical facts about Waterbury
and Waterbury's achievements. At
the State Chamber of Commerce, outing
at the Momauguin. New. Haven, last
Thursday, the Waterbury delegation,
headed by Mr.. Colley, distributed
tracts that were calculated to proclaim
the brazen modesty of Waterbury in IA
series of coy and shrinking admissions
that were manifestly extorted from the
modest and retiring president only by
the sheer force of the exigencies and
opportunities of the festive occasion.
Among other admissions the tract owns
up that
Waterbury is the principal city
in the United States, but aside
from this we make no claim.
1.-THE brass farthing that you
read about. the sounding brass and
the tinkling cymbal, and the gates
of brass, were all made in Water
bury; likewise the gates ajar. All
hohioc ca lOxyo1 RI WofoT
bury that they refuse to cut their
teeth except On brass ring, and
| Waterbury dog without brass
collar would die of modification.
Our watch dogs all carry Ingersoll
watches, made in Waterbury.
1--WE make so many things out
of brass that are useful and orna-
mental in a personal way that we
have adopted for a slogan, Water
bury has something on everybody
In the dark of the moon on a hot
summer night one might be prop
| erly dressed in articles made in
Waterbury.
"On your way to the Panama
Exposition in San Francisco stop
| in Waterbury. Write to the
| Chamber of Commerce and we will
engage rooms for you at the best
hotel in New England.
"Going or coming, Waterbury is
the gateway to America.
In view of these frank and candid
confessions, what's the use of sight
seers going any farther than the gate
way?
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Old Bill Jones and His Nonstop Ford.
Here is the latest Ford" song. 1t
is sung to the tune of Casey jones'"
Old Bill Jones sold his wheat the other
day,
The gosh darn fool threw his money
right away.
He rode into town sitting on board,
And he came riding home in darned
little Ford.
When he came to the house and got to
the gate,
He shut OFF the throttle and pulled on
the brake
He grabbed for the reins got the trottle
instead
But the gol darn Ford kept chugging
right ahead.
Chorus:
Old Bill Jones bought an automobile,
Old Bill Jones' whiskers they were red,
Old Bill jones lost the combination
And the darn little Ford kept chugging
right ahead.
Bill jerked the levers and he turned off
the gas,
He kicked out the pedals and he broke
out the glass.
He cut all the wires and he pulled off
the top
But the darn little Ford, it just
wouldn't stop.
He pulled ont his knife and he smiled
so serene
Cut hole in the tank DRAINED oct the
pasoliue
He pulled out his gun, shot the tires
full Of lead.
But the gol darned Ford kept chugging
right ahead.
He went through the fence and out
through the lane,
Mirandy saw him coming and like to
went insane.
She ran out ahead, then she stopped for
to see
And the Ford struck her squarely
where the hustle ought to be.
She threw up her arm as she went up
in the air.
Just as Bill went by she grabbed him
by the hair.
She bounced in the seat and landed in
the bed
And the gol darn Ford kept chugging
right ahead.
He steered il for the shed but just
missed the hole.
Struck an old pig aud you ought to see
it roll.
Out in the yard they landed in heap
In big mud puddle bout six feet deep.
Bill grabbed Mirandy aud he waded for
the shore.
He was glad the thing had stopped and
wouldn't, run no more.
Then he pricked mp his ears as he looked
back and said.
why that gol darn Ford is chugging
right ahead. "
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
"It isn't your town it's YOUR

whats that? Mosquitoes in
Waterbury? Well they're just i'm
migrants and they will probably
not live long enough to get &C
climated. Waterbury Republican.
We have no criticism to make, of the
esteemed Republican, theory of immi-
gration--Waterbury owes much to that
same institution, and it should not
decry the mosquito influx, inasmuch as
it will serve to emphasize the Brass
City's boast and enable Waterbury to
literally have something on everybody
who goes there. But we do, emphatic
ally, protest against the Republicans
inconsistency in handling its simplified
spelling fad. Consistency would seem
to dictate the designation in the Repub.
lican columnss of the new arrivals, as
"muskeetoze. Be consistent.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

A population If ain, Census of 1907
Two railroads.
National and Savings Banks.
Trolley railroad extending through the
Berkshires to Pittsfield and beyond.
Up-to-date High School and first.class
school system.
Five churches.
First-class hotel. st
Fire department. including chemical en-
CINE.
Ten miles of State Roads
Electric light and power plant,
Complete Sewer System.
Never-failing water supply and the best
water in the state.
Wide-awake Business Mems Association.
Extensive lime and iron industries
Fraternal and benefit societies.
Brass band.
Up-to-date department stores.
Pure air and wholesome climate.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
POLITICS AND FISH.

A huge man i'll a light suit bent
over the clerks desk at the Allyn
house this noon and signed his
name:
81. H. 'Roraback. -
Meaning j. Henry Roraback,
chairman of the republican state
central committee? Your first
guess is correct. 1t was J. Henry
himself, and as he strobe away to
join a friend be was .buttonholed
and asked to give brief history of
the last session of the state legisla-
ture.
Il can't" he smiled. '"I'm 60
ing fishing"
And J. Henry Disappeared
Hartford Times.
The reporter was exceptionally skill.
ful in keeping this political interview
down to five words and a smile. The
quacious J. Henry is prone to ''string
it out" when interviewed along politi.
cal lines that can be readily tangled VI
with fish-lines. When the political
approaches j. Henry
and unlimbers his kit of interviewing
tools, J. Henry generally has other fish
IT, fry. That's because he knows more
about fish than about politics. Every
interviewer who has quizzed him, es-
pecially when a campaign is sizzling
in the political pot, and politics is a
subject of universal discussion, has
with a sense of disappoint-
ment, that J. Henry doesn't know half
as much about politics as the barber
who cuts his hair; but while he hardly
Knows who the leading candidates are,
Ill the respective tickets, he can tell
and where the fish are biting,
md what kind of bait will catch what
Kind of fish,
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Uncle Horace Johnson promises one
of his justly celebrated atmospheric
disturbances, to materialize from the
18th to the 9th, and gives special warn
ing to tobacco growers, to get their
crops under cover, as one of the special
features of the meteorological program
will be a Maidstone bombardment. Bat
why should Uncle Horace be especially
solicitous for tobacco, when there are
other and more necessary crops equally
vulnerable?
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Jack Rose, who was employed by
Becker to hire the gunner 10 kill
Rosenthal, and who saved his own
precious hide by turning states evil
dence and "squealing, thus sending
Becker to the electric chair, is now
making money by producing "hu-
manology" moving pictures and lectur-
ing on morality. On the day before
Becker was executed, being asked what
he would be doing while Becker was
being shocked to death, Rose replied:
Il will be suffering the fortunes of the
damned - Which is calculated to be
swallowed as a declaration that Bose
thinks he has conscience.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
termination

If those floral wreaths at the Becker
funeral, labeled, ITO the Martyr, with
Sincere Sympathy" and Sacrificed to
Politics. were the offerings of the
police, as reported, there is ground for
the suspicion that the ''foorce" needs
to be further de- Beckerized. In the
minds of all unprecedented citizens
Becker was MARTYR to Becker's un-
scrupulous and murderous greed.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

these millions of lives and billions of
dollars are sacrificed, there is nothing
approaching the aspect of a great moral
principle or human cause, the triumph
of which would in the slightest degree
justify the outlay or benefit the world.
1t is a war of ambition and greed at the
expense of humanity.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

The death warrant of Connecticut
deer went into effect Monday, and all
the deer in the state may now be killed
by the persons owning or leasing the
land on which the animals are found.
At least it will be easy to put such an
Interpretation upon the law, and there
is bound to be a campaign of deer ex-
termination.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

One Thousand drummeTs and filters
are expected to take part in the fife and
drum convention and tournament i'll
Torrington tomorrow and Saturday.
These will INCLUDE fife AMI drum corps
from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
York and \ ew Jersey. The Torring-
tonite may forget all his woes, for lie
shall have music wherever he goes.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
Poor Thing.

There was ii girl in our town,
And she was awful slack;
She never owned pair of shoes
That buttoned i'm the back.
There was a girl in our town
Extremely hard to please;
She couldn't find stylish skirt
That came below her knees.
There was girl in our town,
Who in the sun did scorch.
She couldn't find stylish hat
That had a shady porch.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM

The News should appeal with special force to the
sagacious business man.
IL has an extensive circulation in Western
Connecticut, and especially throughout Litch-
field county and Southern Berkshire.
1t has competent staff Of wide-awake cor
respondents in tue various towns to report the
ocal dongs each week, and goes into the homes
and is perused by the entire families of the
the long headed ad vert most desires to reach.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Brooklyn has the best-trsined police
men in the world. A belt of lightning
hit Brooklyn police station the other
night and didn't wake a copper
Buffalo Express.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Bathtubs are going to cost more, the
plumbers say. because of the European
war. Can you figure out just why p
Boston Globe.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
GOD Is LOVE.
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WAIT.

Every flower in the dell.
Every blade of grass,
Sings a little song to me
Every time pass.
Every bird up in the tree,
Every wind that bows,
Every cloud up in the sky
This same story knows,
Sparklers in the sky at night,
Babbling brooks as we'll,
Sun and moon and all the earth
The sweet story tell.
And | think when life is DER,
Angels up above
Will be singing the same song,
IT'S "Our God is Love"
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
MAILS CLOSE. GOING

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North East South West
9:41 am Sill am 8:13 am 1917 I'm
6:40p.m 1855 pm 2:30 pm 6:3S pm
MAILS OPEN, FROM
North East South West
9;15 am 900 am 1o:13 am 9:15a m
3:1op,m $50 am 7:2o pm 1925 pm
7:15p.m
Mail closes on Route No. / r. F. D.
at 1o:3o a. IN. For Southfield and
Mill River at pm.
E. l.. ROBERTS, P. M.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Get Together. Pull Together.
When the Boosters get together and
pull together as faithfully and con-
slstently as the Knockers do the other
thing, progress is forward instead of
hindward
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Subscribers are requested TO notify the pub
lisher promptly of any failure to receive papers
reg ularly, changes of residence etc.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

1.-THE Marseillaise, the national
anthem of the French republic was
written and composed in 1792.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
THE NEWS AGENTS

THE NEWS AGENTS
Extra copies of The News are on sale at the
Office of publication and at
Dempsey's Drug Store, Canaan,
Post Office. East Canaan.
Post Office, Falls Village,
George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk
H. L. Rood, Ashley Falls.
A. L. Dickinson Salisbury.
J. w. Morgan, Great harrington, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Rejecting on the death and destruc-
tion thus far wrought in the war, the
Kaiser piously proclaims, God is still
with usn'
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

Communications on subjects of general nte-
est to The News readers are invited but nc
attention will be paid to anonymous letters
Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
Cent-a-Word Advertisements
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ONE TOP WAGON, one sweater. one street
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Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05
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Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

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Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

FOR SALE-Pair OF horses aud years old
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Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

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Connecticut western news., 1915-08-05

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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-22
BABY HEALTH CONTEST.

One of the newer though none the
less popular features inaugurpted by
the Iowa State Fair and Exposition oil
recent years is the Baby Health con-
test department. These contests will
be held in the splendid new Women
and Children's building, completed
only last year. The value OF these
contests lies in the educative rather
than the financial side. as the idea is
to demonstrate principles OF h~siene
sanitation and right living az per
tanning to the proper development and
growth OF children. For that reason
the premiums distracted are always
in the form OF medals, ribbons and
trophies. rather than money. These
contests, and especially the method
OF reward ng the winners, have the
approval of the American Medical as
ISOLATION, the Baby Health Contes
association and various other organ
izations interested in child welfare
and better methods OF living.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-22
EENTON ON The MAP.

Fenton, Iowa-Fenton has been put
on the map out at the Panama-Pacific
International exposition by the Iowa
commission. In looking around the
state for photographs that would pre-
sent the development in Iowa along
various lines, the commission came to
renton and secured large photo,
graph OF the Fenton creamery, the
creamery which won the second prizes
in the identifying contest for the past
two years.
The picture has been nicely framed
and hangs in the main LOBBY Of the
Iowa house at the exposition.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-22
BUY LOT in LAWS NEW ADDIIONTO THE CITY OF AUDUBON

Plows, Walter, Charlton. sheaf bar
ley;
Flows, Walter, Charlton. sheaf al
sike clover;
Plows, Walter. Charlton. sheaf
sweet clover;
Flows, Water. Charlton. sheaf red
clover;
Plows, Walter. Charlton. sheaf red
top;
Plows. Walter. Charlton, sheat
wheat;
Shetterly, s. A., Hartford. sheat
oats;
shetterly. s. A., Hartford, native
grasses;
Shetterly, s. A, Hartford. sheaf
alsike clover;
shetterly, s. A., Hartford, shear
speltz black;
Shetterly. s. A.. Hartford. sheaf
sweet clover;
Shetterly, S. A., Hartford, sheaf
Med. red clover;
Shetterly, s. A.. Hartford, sheaf
Nam. red clover;
Shetterly, S. A., Hartford, sheaf
barley:
Shoten, Sanchu, Hartford, buck.
wheat;
Snater, Reicho, Ackley. oats;
Trobridge, s. A., Des Moines, corn;
Utterback, Will, Sigourney. oats;
Zeller, Earl. Cooper corn;
Zeller, Ivan c.. Cooper, corn;
Zeller, Willard. Cooper, corn;
State Of Iowa, corn;
State Of Iowa, potatoes;
State of Iowa, potatoes;
State Of Iowa, wheat. Turkey red
winter;
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-22
COMBINE BUSINESS AND PLEAS
URE.

The Iowa farmer, at this particular
season OF the year, is the busiest mar
on earth. Crops are insistent an
selfish in their demands during the
growing and ripening season. and the
live stock dare not be neglected IL
those tale telling figures in red ink
are to show up in the column mos
desired at the end OF the year Under
the circumstances one has neither the
heart nor the inclination to criticise
Y he begrudges the time necessariy
.bsorbed in visiting. However, in the
case OF the state fair II is time turned
to good account and money well in
vested. and will bring sure returns in
the way OF renewed store of prac-
tical knowledge and inspiration. Prob
ably in no other way would 1t be pos.
sible for him to effect such happy
combination OF business and pleasure,
OF work and play, which latter the till
err of the soil needs IN proper proper
ton the same as anybody else.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-22
SPLENDID FACILITIES FOR SHEEP
EXHIBITS AT THE IOWA STATE
FAIR AND EXPOSITION.

Exhibitors in the sheep department
of the Iowa State Fair had ample
grounds for complaint for several
years. Those ancient wooden sheds
erected something less than hundrea
years ago. had certainly outlived their
day OF usefulness. and for purposes
OF ornamentation they never did cut
much OF swath. They were both
unsafe and unsanitary. Happily they
are thing OF the past. condemned to
the scrap heap, and the mutton and
wool contingent will this year be
housed in the new sheep pavilion. II
Is a handsome structure of brick and
steel, Are proof. commodious and up
to date, in harmony with modern
ideas OF convenience and sanitation.
Certainly II fills long felt want, and
sheep exhibitors and fanciers will ap-
preciats its coming all the more for
the long delay.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-22

Will De One OF the Many Musical Fea-
lures OF the Iowa State Fair and Elk
position, Aug. 25-Sept. 3.
A fair, great or small, would be
dismal AFFAIR without music. A fea-
ture that appeals with force to the
visitor to the Iowa State Fair from
rural districts and smaller towns is
the abundance OF excellent music to
be heard at all times and in all parts
of the grounds. from the earliest fore
noon concerts to the closing Of the
last OF the nisht shows and various
evening entertainments. Four bands,
three orchestras and q hfe and drum
corps OF twenty-five pieces will con
tribute to the pleasure Of the occa
sion and to the love OF music and
harmony that 10 q part of the ave-"
age persons makeup.
In the way Of bands this year the
management has been fortunate in
booking three Of the best obtainable
The Ballmann Symphony band o.
Chicago, an organization Of forty
pieces, under the management and
leadership Of Martin Ballmann. will
be feature Of the week. The Henri
band Of Des Moines, forty pieces
and the Fischer band Of Burlington
twenty-five pieces, have also been
secured. Graham's orchestra, the
same which for several years has de
lighted annual visitors to the live
stock pavilion, Quist's orchestra frct'
Fort Dodge and the Myers orchestr"
of Waterloo will also contr butte to thu
occasion. In addition to all these the
sWasld at Home band, twenty-fiy"
.-..ss OF the very best roa'
Nlnds in the country, will play on tbs
midway. II will be a feast for must
lovers.