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The Arvada enterprise., 1916-11-02

We apologize for curtailing
some of the news that has come
to US this week. We are presum-
ingthat most all are particularly
interested in the comming cleo
ton and we want to display our
candidates and to speak Of the
important issues.
Mrs. J. E. Lercher left Tues
day for Seattle where she will
join her husband, who has gone
on there from Great Falls, Mont
There will be an important
meeting of the Mothers Circle
at the High school on November
8. An interesting program has
been arranged. The business for
the year will be planned and all
mothers of the district are re-
quested to be present.
Tho Democrats Of Va-qucth pre-
cinct had u good meeting at Fruit.
dale school house Tuesday evening
and were served with oysters Mt tn.
close by the Ladies Aid OF the Fruit.
dale church. All OF the candidates
except Gus johnson, Chns. Pike
and J. &. Stevens were present and
made very crcditablc talks. Hon.
Henry Babb. cx.asst. Atty. General
was the main speaker OF the even
ing Hs was followed by Atty.
Chn-. r.. Friend A musical pro.
gram consisting OF II piano solo by
Miss Ncttic Briggs, and vocal solos
by Mrs. u. w. Steward and Miss
Hazel Wiscman were beautifully
rendered and greatly enjoyed.
A similar meeting was held at
No. o school house on Wednesday
evening, which was well attended.
and much enthusiasm was mani
fest II II expected that u good
crowd will greet Hon. Edw. a.
kenting tonight IN Bank hail. Arva,
1n
The Arvada enterprise., 1916-11-02

The ME-. Ladies Aid of School
District No 6. will serve dinner
at Fremont Grange hall on elec-
ton day, for convenience of cleo
ton board and all voters who
wish TO come.
The Arvada enterprise., 1916-11-02

out about the size of a bedquilt.
Go to Democratic headquarters
or to the Enterprise Office and
look them over before going to
the polls. 1t will aid you in vote
ing correctly and save time.
Democratic headquarters are
in rear of First National Bank.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

We have cinch! A number of our contemporaries have informed us, either directly or through insinuations, that The News will never amount to any, thing again. It is comforting and en- couraging to know these things, but we are wondering how they found it out so soon. It must be nice to be able to judge an article before seeing it, and we regret exceedingly that we are not bl essed with that faculty.
 We stated last week that we did not expect to make as good paper as you have been getting, and now that we are assured by the press that they too do not expect it. it will be easier for us to give them their moneys worth.
 AS matter of fact, The News IS published for the people who pay for 1.-the subscribers, the people of north. western Connecticut and southern Berkshire county, and we are going to try to give them something for their money. If it does not suit others, we are sorry, but
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
LICENSE. NO YES.

Once more the citizens of the town of North Canaan, in common with other communities about us, are called on to express their opinion on the above question, at the polls, Monday, October 9, and to register by the ballot whether the town will remain for an. other year in the list of no.license towns.
 That there are two sides to the question is evident by stir that it always makes when the question is bought to the notice of the electors. So many, times those on both sides tail to recognize that their opponents have a right to an opinion opposite to their own, and needless bad feeling results.
 A year ago with the return of our town to the no.license side after five years of license, dire prophecies were made as to the effect on the community life. It. was said business would be hurt and some went so far as to pre- dict & financial loss to all the mer- chants, and the hotel would have to close for lack of patronage. But care. ful observation shows that business has maintained its usual standard, there is plenty of work for everybody; when an extra man is wanted it is difficult to find one, for all are holding paying jobs The hotel has been kept open; under new management it has had a good patronage both regular and tran sient. The deposits in the savings bank have shown healthy increase during the year, an evidence that the wages are being taken care of. Not for several years has the town been SC free from drunks hanging about the streets or found lying in the gutters along the highways.
 No open place of sale mas attracted the youth and those who already have
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The dairy ymen's league, in it's efforts to raise the price of milk one cent a quart, is doing only what is right, as it is universally admitted that, at the present high prices of grain, labor, and everything the farmer has to buy, it is impossible for him to make a living from the returns of his product.
 That it is not the farmer who is re. sponsible for the wide difference be- tween the price he gets and the retail price in the cities, is very evident. This is a matter which tke middlemen and the handlers of the milk after it leaves the farmer, can explain, if they will. AS an illustration of how they do business, we quote the last para. graph of an article in the New York World on the proposed raise in price:
 The one-cent advance demanded
 by the farmers means, according
 to the big tributers, that New
 Workers may have to pay-3 to ?
 cents quart more than at present
 if the dairymen win.
 While no claim is made that there is to be an increase in the cost of hand. ling this milk, the advance of one cent d quart, asked by the farmers, is in a fair way to be doubled by the time it gets to the consumer. Will, the "big distributors tell us why this is so?
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
Where the Laugh Comes In

"All men are alike. They're deceit. full and selfishr'
 "How do you know ?"
 "A married friend of mine told me so, and warned me against all of them. '"
 "But you're going to marry Jim !"
 "Of course I am. He's differentn Stray Stories.
 They are a suspicious lot of people in New Haven. Just because trolley transfers were stolen and used the authorities arrested three tailors. Why not three plumbers !? Why this dis. crimination against an honored trade -MeIiden Journal.
 "Pop, what do we mean by econo. my"
 Spending money in such way as not to get any fun out of it, my son Y" Judge.
 The Recruiting Official-"On gram father living? Is he on your fathers or mothers side ?"
 The Recruit-"Oh, e varies, sir, e sticks up for both O 'em-a sort O nootral. '-London Sketch.
 The bonehead never collects the bonus.-Boston Transcript.
 "Just think! So many of the old nautical terms on sailing vessels have all gone out.
 'Yes, but think of all the new names of cocktails I"-Life.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The International Good Roads asso- citation is developing a project for system of roads extending almost di- rect from Arizona to the Canada bor- der, crossing at right angles the east and west national trails and highways. The existing north and south highways are laid through old and thickly set tied districts, and the one now pro- posed will run through states which have had small advantages in popula- tion and commercial development. For a time stretches of the new road will be of the "back road" type, but popu- lation moves along the line of least re- sistance, and in a few years all of 1t will run through populous and thriv- ing communities.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The mass of our untraveled popula- tion need no longer remain ignorant of the natural beauties spread out all most at their doors-that is, relatively speaking The notion has taken deep hold here that the only spots of earth which are really worth jOurneying to see are beyond the ocean and some times. again, as far beyond as the ocean is wide. An effort to dispel this notion has been made by the depart ment of the interior at Washington in the publication "The National Parks Portfolio" The title suggests a work devoted mainly to pictures, but the needed information about the scenery depicted is supplied in convenient form. The reader learns that there are now available as playgrounds of the people and for first hand studies of some of natures masterpieces 7,29O square miles of the national domain, distributed in fourteen national parks. The aim of the government is to facili- tate more and more the access of the people to these wonders of nature.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Australia has invested in a go"ern- ment owned fleet of merchantmen. The ships were bought at war prices, which in this instance were five times the market price for the class before the war. The aim of the government is to guarantee reasonable freight rates in the carrying of Australia's s products to the worlds markets. Un- der war conditions the investment should prove a good one, but the test will come when it becomes necessary to earn a profit on a war investment at the cheap freight rates of peace times
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

For generation past readers in the western world have been told by Euro pean publicists versed in the politics of the near east that the Balkan re- zion is q seething pot of trouble. It had two local wars iu forty years. Neither led to an adjustment of the matter ill dispute which promised per manent peace. It was always said that d Balkan cOnta grafton would set all Europe ablaze. One little Balkan power alone threw spark into the right train of powder, and the predict ed catastrophe resulted. Montenegro quickly took up the cause of her Bal kan neighbor, Servia, ill 1911, but Bull garia. Roumania and Greece held alOof. apparently from an honest desire to maintain a neutral status toward wide circle of beAigerents. From ev- cry viewpoint appealing to the outsid- CT it seemed as polite for those three Balkan nations to keep aloof as for the United States and far more heroic, because of their nearness to the war zone. Racial affinities also had force in controlling their sympathies. The fact that the three powers are at last involved confirms the seething pot mo- ton. There are old and biting scores to be settled. Loyalty to neighbors, to old friends and alliances was thrown to the winds long ago. Peace with commercial profit is cast aside because blood, imagination and ambition are on fire.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

chapel at West Cornwall with an 500. pound bell.
 A sewing society at Mrs. Willis Bartholomew's, Sheffield, was attended by so people.
 The attendance at the Falls Village fair was the smallest ever known.
 G. w. Hall was digging we'll on his premises on Prospect street, Falls Village.
 Miss l.. s. Merwin was running select school in Falls Village.
 James l.. Bragg was conducting e real estate agency in Canaan.
 Thirty-eight Years Ago This week-ts7S
 M. A. Dean severed his connection with the Falls Village savings bank.
 M. W. Prescott offered his farm sit. uated about mile from Canaan, for sale.
 George Dodge, Lakeville, had his arm broken and one leg severely in. jured by being dragged between the station platform aud cars at Canaan station.
 The interest in the Falls Village fair seemed to be falling off.
 Thieving was reported as the only prosperous business in Cornwall.
 MT. and Mrs F H. Barnes and Mir. and Mrs. H. w. Barnes celebrated their 25th wedding anniversaries, at Canaan. Thirty seven Years Ago This Week-f879
 Adams & New, Canaan, were de. livering coal at $5. 20 per ton.
 A. T. Roraback, Canaan, was in Maryland on legal business.
 The battle flags were moved from the Arsenal to the new capitol, Hartford.
 Johnnie and Dennis Maloney, sons of Richard Maloney, Canaan, died; making four children W ho died in his family with diphtheria within month.
 Milton Roraback's horse ran away with lumber wagon, in Canaan. Francis Whittlesey was substituting for Sherwood Cummings, in Camps drug store, Canaan. l.. B. Stillson was appointed super. intendent of the Housatonic road. MT. and Mrs. Isaac Fl. Beebe, East Canaan, celebrated their twenty.tifth anniversary.
 Thiry-six Years Ago This Wssk-fS80
 Misses Mary Cummings and Grace Landon were teaching school in South Canaan. and Miss Nellie Andrus in Sodom (Rood street).
 Fred S. Spaulding was ticket agent at Canaan.
 Bradbury & Son were manufacturing book and news paper at Mill River. i Nelson Gardner, Ashley Falls, was i turnkey III Pittsfeld jail. Eighteen persons were admitted in full membership to the Methodist church. Canaan. 1 The Tobacco Growers Mutual Insur. ance O., Canaan, was organized and ready for business. Lyman Dunning was president; Frederick Bronson, vice president; J. 3. Hardenbergh, treasurer; o. II. Briggs. secretary; Edward $. Roberts, general agent.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
Letters From the People
Editors of The News:

Editors of The News:
 To the men who would vote for li- cense. Let the men who want li- censed town and do not care what any one says against it, have little honest talk with themselves, ask themselves a few honest questions.
 The town has made me a voter, have l a right to vote against it's best inter- ests? Would 1 want to do it? What are its best interests?
 Canaan's new slogan is "The Grow ing End of the Nutmeg." Would li- cense help on its growth or would it be like a worm, eating into and de. stroying it?
 Do care what becomes of my town, or my family. or myself? Why don't care? Could I use the money spent for liquor in any better way for all concerned? Gould get work or hold job better, by using drink? If a per. son knocked me down 1 would try to 1 fight him. Liquor might lay me flat in the gutter, where I would stay for hours with no power to fight it, and no one to interfere. Would have the respect of passers by? Do I want tc be respected? Liquor might lay me out on the railroad track. Would like to go "Home" that way? Would I ever reach home by that route?' It has been said by authority that would not. Why not? A life burned up by liquor-what would De left of it to gC anywhere
 Perhaps you think nobody cares. Everybody cares, but you must do you part and do it for the good of all.
 Canaan, Sept. 19. X.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Less than 1 per cent of the 14,O00,- GOO workers at mechanical and manu- featuring trades in the United States had opportunity to receive technical training which might be helpful in their trades. It is proposed to correct this state of things by national grants of money to the several states for the training of boys and girls over four teen years of age for various trades and industries. While the technical value of such training may not be high, the method is likely to impress upon the young the idea that the true aim ill life is industry and usefulness.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

How well the eight hour law is to meet the situation is only matter of speculation now, but it seems to be morally certain that it opens up new phase in federal activities. The law will have a tryout. If it works well in the limited field assigned for its operation the idea will doubtless be extended to other branches of indus try Should it fail to meet expecta- tions a new law or amendment to this law may be looked for, and the prac- ticaI federal control which the act in sures will be continued, perhaps in strengthened form. The people are thoroughly aroused to the evil of peri odical clashes between employers and employed which disturb the important activities of life, and, the ice having been broken by the action of congress, which has the initiative, the move ment cannot well stop for any cause whatever short of a complete and sat isfactory adjustment.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
DO YOU

Maintain polluted we'll and then Complain about the undertaker's bill :? Think screening is too expensive and
 then Blame your malaria on the climate? Insist on sanitary cigar factories and
 then Use public cigar cutter Garry a fine handkerchief and then Forget to cover your mouth when you
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Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The president seems to have left the colonel all divisioned up and no place to go.-New York Evening Sun.
 He-"I saw a splendid diamond to. 6ay!"
 she-"Oh, George-did-did you buy it ?"
 He-"Buy itl Why no, I'm speak. ing of the new ball diamond. "-Ex. change.
 The Village Grocer (peevishly)- Look here, Aaron! What makes you put the big apples on the top of the bar'l?
 The Honest Farmer tcheerily) )-what makes you comb that long scalp.lock over your bald spot ?-Puck.
 Doctor-Now suppose man is sud- denly brought to you suffering from trench feet, how would you treat him ?
 British Medical Corps Recruit twho knows the rigor of the new liquor Ii. censing laws)-No, sir, you don't catch me that way, sir! I shouldn't treat him at all.-Passing Show.
 Flatbush-This paper says women members of the Chippewayan Indian tribe can carry or haul as much as two men.
 Bensonhurst-I'll bet in house clean- ing time they carry and haul twice as much as dozen men. n.-Yonkers States. man.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

An enraptured statistician says that on Jan. l, 1916, there was an automo- bile in this country for every forty four persons and that next New Years the ratio will stand one to every twenty-five. At that rate there should be a car to every six persons in 1918, and we stand to get all the rides that are good for us by just sitting still and keeping our cash in pocket.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The vigor of surviving war veterans in comparison with men of the same generation who didn't go to war is not remarkable. in view of the fact that these men in their youth were phys ically the pick of the land. They had to be sound to pass muster. Many of the stay at homes were such solely be- cause they couldn't pass muster.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The city of Dublin has awarded prize for the best plan of municipal improvement there, which shows that somebody in Europe is not waiting for the end of the war to start something rational
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

CarranZa probably stopped the Amer jeans from going deep into Mexico be- cause he feared that they would get into the snow capped mountains and stay all summer.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
A YOUNG MANS FRIENDS

If l could choose a young mans companions, wrote Phillips Brooks, some should De weaker than him. self, that he might learn patience and charity; many should be as nearly as possible his equals, that he might have the full freedom of friendship but most should be stronger than he, that he might for- ever be thinking humbly of himself and be tempted to higher things.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Other foes of human happiness be- sides microbes of i'll health will evacu- ate their favOrite hangouts and not wait for battle the moment Jack Frost's coming is heralded by a nip ping air.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Much of the restlessness of small nations in Europe is due to past SUD- pression by the great powers of the spirit of nationality among natives of conquered territory.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Diet of onions is said to contribute to longevity. It certainly contributes to splendid isolation from the wear and tear of close company.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Indifference to polar exploration as a general proposition doesn't prevent general rejoicing that Lieutenant Shackleton brought his men back to civilization, anyway.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

When Europe's peace treaties are ratified it will be interesting to com pare them with the national aspira- tions" of 191416.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The husband being the head of the family, the husband of major gen. eral is the major and his wife the general. Thus is etiquette preserved all around.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Probably the reason that the clam doesn't strike against the oysters re- turn to first place is that clam must be clam.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

The oyster surely had an easy alibi against the charge of spreading infan- tile paralysis.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Portuguese militarists must wish their country could change sites with some Balkan state before the world scrap is over.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

In Canada labor disputes must be arbitrated before there can be either lockout or strike.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Now all the Balkan vultureS hover about while the war eagles spread the feast.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
Madder'n Tunket, Yourn, The Fat Member.

Sanderson Macintosh wrote in to say that he "never flashed himself with sic daff sayins" as John put in the paper but was not ashamed to own up to having "snickered behin' ma han v understan' occasionally and that he would admit that John was ma sa bad.
 Patrick Humility, his mark, wrote to say or at least Mary Ellen, his daughter wrote for him, that he could n't see how a man with the Dutch name of Rodemeyer had any connec- tion with a club with the good old Irish rame of Wurra Wurra Club. He ends by saying, Well what has the good old Irish words Wurra Wurra t do wid a Dootchman? Divil bit
 MT. Stone read the letters i'll the several dialects ipimitably.
 The name of John Rodemeyer was then proposed for membership in the club and referred to the committee on moral character. He said that John had heretofore failed of election be- cause he had made fun of the members of the club and had boomed the rival Bald. Head Club; but because of all he had done in putting Canaan on the map, the committee heartily recom- mended that he be elected to full mem- bership. The motion was wittily seconded by MT. Crichton and "Toby" Freeman. The club then proceeded to elect and initiate Johp.
 Mir. and Mrs. Stone then brought forth great quantities of crullers, cook ies, etc, which MT. Stone claimed the "Cornpop and Sas'frilly club" had furnished. Everyone heartily voted Mr. and Mrs. Stone royal entertainers and no one seemed to enjoy the eve. ming more than those in whose honor it was given. It was the common re. mark heard afterward, "Why not make the Wurra Wurra Club u real thing and IL eet again."
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

Deans Rheumatic pills for rheuma. tism and Neuralgia. Entirely vege. table. Safe.-Adv.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21

It is not for us to gibe any Balkan state for inability to remain neutral.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1916.

"When you talk of maintaining principle, be sure it is not predu' dice. "-Selected.
Connecticut western news., 1916-09-21
THE WURRA WURRA CLUB MEETS
Initiates John Rodemeyer at the Home
 of Mir. Stone.

Initiates John Rodemeyer at the Home
 of Mir. Stone.
 The last (and after all the only real) meeting of the Wurra Wurra Club was held at the home of Walter King Stone on Friday night. The word had been passed informally around that MT. Stone would be glad to welcome the men of the village as a surprise for MT. and Mrs. John Rodemeyer and forty went down in automobiles in spite of the rain and the bad weather. It was a complete surprise to the victims and guests of honor, who as MT. Stone said, 'wotted not what was in store for them for the wotting wasn't any good that night" John was at last run to earth and was to be forced to become member of the club that he had made famous. He had always claimed that he was the only man in town not a member. The meeting organized as the Wurra Wurra Club with E. A. Creevey in the chair. The ''opening ode" was sung by R. D. Peirce and the secretary, MT. Stone, instead of reading the minutes of the last meeting, read several letters from different (fictitious) personages con- cerning the Wurra Wurra Club. The first one was from the "Fat Member" Sec Wurry Wurry Club:
 I ain't bin invited t attend your meetin' at MT. Stone's hause on Beldin' street so's ain't comin'; but l want t say that whilst the club was runnin' dun bettern most. I kem t. all the meetin's. Which fact makes my kick all the more forceful. Pm dumbed if kin see why ev'ry member is called by his Christian an fambly name an I'm alwuz referred to as the fiat mem- ber." " Law knows they's enough fat men in Canaan without pickin' on me. don't have t. mention 'em.
 amt goin' t have my name read out in meetin' to be held up t scorn so sign myself,