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Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

was added to the equipment of Canaan high school.
 A new clock and chine of bells were placed in the tower of the Norfolk church by Hon. Robbins Battell.
 The elaborate "Scoville" monument was erected in the Salisbury cemetery.
 A swindler oashed forged check for S53 at George l.. Parsons store, Ca naan, and one for $6S at Barnes & Van Deusen's store in Ashley Falls.
 The B. R. Go. dam at East Canaan, in process of construction, was washed out by high water.
 Thirty -sevsn Years Ago This Keek-f67S
 A donation at Southfield for the benefit of Rev. A. N. Benedict realized about $6o in money and $2o in eata. bles. A donation for Rev. Hunt in Sheffield realized $60.
 Prof. Lee started class in penman- ship in East Canaan.
 Sidney Ensign of Huntsville was building a saw mill on the site where his flannel mill burned down.
 George Brown of Falls Village began clerking in J. H. Barnum's store in Lime Rock.
 k. R. Lorrain began work on a new barn for Lyman Cunning in East Ga. naan.
 B. j. Bradley, West Cornwall, was selling his stock of goods preparatory to moving to Great Darlington.
 Emma A. Mitchell, sharon, died Dec. 9, aged IS.
 Thiry-six Years Ago This week-fSS0
 A lamp exploded in Lawyer Rora. backs office, Canaan, and narrowly escaped 6 confiagration.
 A colt belonging to William Dean, West Cornwall, hung itself in the stable.
 Everybody seemed to be filling ice houses.
 John VanValkenbergh, Salisbury, dropped dead in his house.
 Walter Landon substituted at the Salisbury station while Agent Barton attended legislature.
 A donation party gave Rev. A. N. Benedict of Southfeld about $l60.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
PRUNES AND PEANUTS.

Who cares about the high prices of such luxuries as coal, eggs, flour or Christmas turkeys, so long as the bumper crops of prunes and peanuts are coming our way? One five.acre orchard in Oregon yielded 36, 900 pounds of prunes for which a nearby packing plant paid $2, $40. 19, and other orchards have done still better. Thresh- CTS are running day and night on the Texas peanut farms, and in one vicinity the crop from $500 acres, yielded from 90 to 35 bushels per acre, is being harvested.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
BIRD PROTECTION EXPANDS

The exchange of notifications by Ambassador Spring Rice and Secretary Lansing of the treaty between Great Britain and the United States for the protection of insectivorous birds on both sides of the Canadian boundary was made at the State Department in Washington last Thursday. This was the first agreement of the kind, but, as the birds which destroy insect life are far more worthy of international action than many other subjects of treaties it is hoped that it may not be the last.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Money is so dirt cheap in San Fran that the railroad commission has held that a five dollar gold piece dropped into telephone slot by mistake for nickel shall be treated as cents and the remaining $4,9o divided between the store and the telephone company. the former receiving $1-9S and the lat ter S2.97."
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
GIRLS, G EFT BUSYI

Astronomers tell us there will be seven eclipses in 1917, but, as only two or three of them will be visible here there IS little encouragement for the girls who fail to make good use of the present leap year that is drawing to a close. Only three Sunday evenings left, girls.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
WOULD WE BE WILLING TO GO
 BACk2

In letter to the New York Times on the present inflated prices of the necessarieS of life" Warner Miller tells of simple living conditions on q farm I ;+e Has cro,,, seventy-five years
 Az. ago. In interest
 ing detail he writes
 of the production
 VI on the farm of vir- Se"en'y-hVe tually everything
 Years Ago. the family consum- ed-food and clothing. including the hides from which boots were made by a neighboring shoemaker. The boots were usually too small and gave much trouble and pain," says the letter. For food we had everything needed" And there follows a comprehensive and appetizing list of food products which needed no certification from state or federal pure foo3Slaws.
 The picture of simple conditions is well drawn and interesting, but it is doubted that the great majority of Americans would be willing to go back to the conditions described. Life was narrower in those da"s, and there was less room for the great diversity of in terests which nowadays makes the re motest farmer own brother ill inter ests to the dweller ill the city. Folks, who made their own clothing and grew all their own food had little leisure. and to most Americans summer was a time of unremitting hard work and winter a season of enforced hiberna- tion. Little was heard of the world at large" says the letter. Nowadays the news of the world is discussed at every crossroads within twentyfour hours of its occurrence. We could not go back to primitive conditions even if we would. Life has grown too wide and too complex.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
EAT ECONOMY.

At the present rate of increase in the jack.rabbit population we will soon be able to cut down our big meat bills by the use of jack. rabbit sausage, as they are now doing in Texas. Like hash, sausage doesn't seem to be at all particular about what goes into it.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
Our Possession In Frozen
 North
 a Veritable Treasure House.

the Washington Post.
 The total imports from Alaska, ac- cording to the department of com merce, are more than double in value the annual average since 1912. The receipts of copper. in ore, matte and regulus from Alaska aggregated Ill.,, 100000 pounds in 1915-16, and this was four times the average for the preced- ing years. It also exceeds the con- bined imports of that class from Chile, Cuba, Canada and Mexico, the leading foreign sources of this form of copper.
 If Alaska can do so well under policy of slightly increased liberality, what would she not do if private capi- tai were encouraged there, as it was in connection with the development of the western part of the United States? It is doubtful whether many persons realize the extent of the resources of Alaska. It is one of the richest sec tions of the United States, and every effort should be made to encourage its development.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Those bits of advice about fighting the high cost of food by refraining from the use of various foodstuffs re- mind one of the humorous lists of ''donts'' attached to certain articles of diet The lists wound up with Don't oat 'r
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

In listing your children's gifts this year don't forget the poor youngsters of Europe who need not toys, but food and clothing. In future years Uncle Sam and Santa Claus should be synon- ymous to them.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

The republic of Brazil, one of the newest democracies on earth and a successful one so far, has a new code which gives wife sole right in money she earns herself and the right to buy 3n credit articles required in the home.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Recently whale stove hole in the bottom of ship and sank it without using torpedo. Probably the king of the fishes wants to get a rating in international law for it's class of com merce destrOyerS.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
ST ETCH E Q.

The fact that modern methods have superseded "the good old ways" is vrrven by the fact that when the Conn. Western railroad was built in 1871 the ofa cial measurements made Canaan nftv-three miles from Hartford; now it is nearly ffty.six.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Footballs gone, and the players in the stove baseball league have not yet decided on next years prospects. It's a dull time in sports. Only the checker champions are getting busy. Get out the boards.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

England is somewhat vehemently de manding to be told why General Town shend surrendered Kut-el-Amara to the Turks last winter and upset the allies prospects in the near east It's the same old story-he surrendered be- cause he was whipped-and it's a good general who knows when that happens.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
Redemption
 of Swamp Lands Would Add to N ation's Wealth.

than 75,OO0,OOO acres. Once dried out. these lands would need no more ex- pensive cultivation, as q rule, than other farms, and their average produc- tiveness would doubtless be excellent. Swampy lands in many cases are ex- ceedingly rich and lack nothing but relief from excessive water.
 To value rightly the importance of such drainage work it is only neces- sary to know that the swamps which can be made ft for crops contain twice as many acres as are now de- voted to cotton, and if used for corn they would add 72 per cent to the acreage now required for that fore most of American cereals. It is be- yond dispute that really adequate and comprehensive improvement of lands subject to inundation or excessive moisture might add at least 10 per cent to the volume of six or seven of the most important crops grown in the United States.
 Here is work worthy of the best powers of the national government and the states. It will pay richly in the long run, and it is needed more and more as the population of the country increases and its open spaces are filled up.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Some Japanese are building a new royal yacht for the king of Siam, and China has just imported an airship for government use, built in the United States and to be piloted by China man who learned the art here. Now, then, who is who in catering to the wants of the far east?
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

In the financial shuttle due to the war the United States has increased its gold money by $1,0oO,OOOOOO and bought back from European holders $1,oOO,OOOOOO of American securities. Evidently we have something tangible to show for our neutrality besides war brides"
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
AMONG THE CANAAN CHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH.


 The Epworth League business meet ing was held Tuesday evening with Miss O. H. Roraback. Because of the Brotherhood supper tonight the Bible Study class met last night.
 Tonight at 7:80 the union Brother hood supper will be served in the din- ing room. After supper Dr. Wallace H. Finch of Stamford will deliver an address to the men in the main audi ence room of the church.
 The members of the Sunday school will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 to rehearse tho Christmas music.
 PILGRIM CHURCH. The topic for the Brotherhood class next Sunday will be "What do you think of the Prodigal Son P" Leader, Frank Whiting.
 There will be social for the young people of the church on Friday evening at o'clock.
 The topic for the young peoples meeting next Sunday will be Big Jobs Awaiting Us." Leader, Roy Laffargue. There was received in the Sunday school and young peoples meeting last Sunday the sum of $9. 50 for the fund for Christmas gifts for the war orphans. Treat the telephone operator with the same consideration you would show were you talking face to face.
 BORN NIGRE-At Canaan, Dec. II, & son to MT. and Mrs. Louis Nigre.
 MARRIED OSTROM - CLARK - At Millerton, William E. Ostrom and Mrs. Phebe Clark, both of sharon.
 DIED PARSONS-At Thomaston, Dec. II, Mrs. Eva Corbit Parsons, wife of Dr. r. s. Parsons, age 43.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
GARD OF THANKS.

We wish to express our sincere thanks to our friends and neighbors for the kindness and sympathy shown us in our recent sad bereavement.
 Martin, James, Mary and Katherine
 Mcclure.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Some folks say that we'll all have to eat snOwballs this winter if the cost of living keeps on going up. You can't "cOrner' snowballs anyway.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

That Christmas ship filled with food for the starving Syrians is bound on a more practical mission than the peace ship" which sailed from Ameri- can shores last year.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Chicago has been experimenting with a diet squad. All the worlds on a re- stricted diet nowadays.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Do your shopping early" is an old story; but, like. many another old story it's worth rereading
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Don't the European nations wish that Santa Claus would leave peace in their stockings Christmas morning?
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

There's the high cost of giving to be considered this year as well as the high cost of living
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

Recognition of the rights of others on your telephone line will help to- wards Good Telephone Service. Adv.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

The people to whom you talk over the telephone soon know you by tele- phone manners. Adv.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

As in 1914 and 1915, Santa's pack contains only war toys this year for Europe,
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
AN uNREcLAIMEp EMPIRE.

Tn these days of short crops and
 high prices for farm products, says the Cleveland Leader, it is interesting to read that very high authorities cal
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
COPPER ALASkAS LATEST STA
 PILE PRODUCT.

No longer do salmon and gold occupy the first places among Alaska's export staples. They have given way to the export of copper, which in the present
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

culate the area of swamp lands in
 the United States w h c h can be drained and made available for agri- culture at not less
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

fiscal year had a total value of more t an $26,OOO,OOO compared with $5,- 100000 in 1915 and
 less than $4,OOO,- GOO, in 1914, says
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14
PILGRIM CHURCH.

Treat the telephone operator with the same consideration you would show were you talking face to face. Adv.
Connecticut western news., 1916-12-14

LOST Black Lynx Neck Piece, between Cannan and Twin Lakes. Reward. Return to News Oflice.
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22
FINANCE COMMITTEE
WILL MEET TONIGHT
i'urrhnHc at \cwStcnd I'roprrt, ns
cts Farm One Of Matter.
Z" he discussed

liaNinc much routine business be-
tore IL, 'he Finance Committee Mil
hoid an executive session Tonight at
0'ciock. Hearings 10 petitioners VIII
ho} be gwen as the committee already
mas Il large volume Of papers 10 lie
forwarded To the City Council
Among the matters Immediately 70
hc considered is the purchase Of tho
NcWstcad property in Ilcnrico County
as c'ty.farm. The purchase Of "a city
farm has been commended by indi-
Vtduals and organizations. and the
Committee on Public buildings, Prop
critics and Utilities, acting on a re-
port from q subcommittee recon-
n"ndrd inc purchase of the Newstcad
farm az being Immediately available,
admirably located NJ 10 water and
other facilities, within convenient dis
tan"c of Richmond aud well equipped
The cost viii amount To about $4,000
The committee also will considcr the
resolution Of Councilman English for
an appropriation ia fruc. in the City
Dock = meter which has been All
tat"d 70" years. W. l.. Carncai esd
mated that the cost would 10 approx
natelN $1,000. w l.. pizzini has be :.
Tor" tn" committee anolhcr PROPOSE
ton To widen Fourteenth street. say
ing tina, IL Viii save the city 500 600
Attorney John L. Welsh has asked
Tor an appropriation Of $500 for The
opening of street near Oakwood
Cemetery. Contractor J. T Nuckols
wants immediate action on his bid TO
construct accessory buildings to the
iiowitzcrs' .Armory, so that ne may sub
Let minor contracts before the prico
81 construction materials goes higher
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22

facic evidence, seems to Indicate that
an individual may not possess the va
rous kinds OF liquor up to the pre-
scribed limits. but must exercise his
option. No hint is given however.
as To the urithmctical methods which
the courts must use. Suppose an indi-
vtdual had three quarts or distilled
liquors and two gallons of beer. Would
this be priina facie evidence? Perhaps
1t may be worked out on the assuup-
,ion that one gallon Of beer equals one
third OF gallon OF distilled liquor,
ratio which the section appears to cs-
tan!ish. This Question. however, Illus
trAtc" the antiquities from which the
statute is by no means free"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22

continued from HrSt paSc)
Of the injured man and NJ once saw
that Immediate hospital treatment, wn.
needed. lie lifted Bivcns into his ma
chine and rushed him to Virginia Hos
pital, where he died at II O'clock last
night, without having reclaimed con
seriousness. Onc leg was broken I'm
tw" places, the large bone Of the other
VA" fractured. one arm Was broken and
several ribs fractured, in addition Ia
numerous cOntusiouS and decorations
all over his body.
Neither Mr.. Goddard nor his mother
was injured as result of tie acct
dent. but Mss Matte HIunn:c,,ti Mrs
icddardS nurse. was cu,' about IA.
head and shoulders by dying glass
from the windshield iiiv.us's motor
cycle was 81 complete wrecx. White
Mr. Goddard's automobile WAS 40 badI.
damaged as To prevent him driving IL
INTO the city.
Bircns. who WAS inachinist. is s.fG
/" have been riding u ncw machine
recently purchased by his employer
II is said that the cycle was Il racint:
machine and capable OF making ninety
miles an hour
The rider ia said to have been warned,
'i''E' "7''E 'h' cH:i:. - ttS employ
- ''|"nitn" entering ii IN :, race in
thc near future
MIR Goddard is discount clerk in the
Federal reserve bank, ana lives with
his mother at ini North Meadow stree,
hi'"ns IS survived bS Ills father. NJ
I. h'vens. "f Mecklenburg County: four
sisters. Mrs. Florence Freeman. Mrs.
Minnie ASsaih. Of Roanoke. Mrs paiqv
inSc, OF Winstou-S Salem. y G.. and Mrs
ihu!H Jones. Of Green horo Nr. three
brothers, l. NJ, Theodore and Hcuia-
min - Hivcns. his VIC. corfnoriv
MISS Daisy Armcntrout. and two ch:!
dreu' Ruth and Clifford Rivony
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22
GERMAN LINES ADVANCED
NEAR DEAD ,IAN.S Hill

BERLIN. May 81 fvia Sayville}. OF;
Hcsnl; ON the south and west stones
OF Mort Homme, the Germans. after
sk''iiui artillery preparation. advanced
Nhtir lines and took prisoner thirty
one ofticers and l.315 men. together
Win sixteen machine guns and eight
cannon Feeble hostile Commentaries
were without success
On the right bank Of the Mousse or,
the preceding night taIay 1920 in rho
ohiiiette wood French hand-Srenad de
attack was repulsed Yesterday tbaro
was no Infantry activity. but Tho ar
uilery fire on both sides wac for :, tina
violent
West Of Reunion, and south OF Gan
ore@Son small German cutcrn-,e.,
were successful
Near ostend hostile aeroriaoo rc;,
INTO the sea und'-s. fire If Tn. ,;.r,,,.,'
guns -Four mort .,aropIancs w,t. ,hat
down In IN air fight. two falling viii
IN me German lines near Eoriness uort,
OF La Rasscc and south Of rhotn,,,,s
hnes. Both OF Tho others r,,I n.,,i,,,,
the cnemy's front near tho ponr,.,d
foreEt. 10
In the Balkan thea,cr the situation
generally is unchanged t,le,,.,o.
created by an extensive in,ind,,in, ~
the Nardar VALLEY were oycrco,r.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22
STRIKE OF LONGSHOREMEN
Walk Out Rt Norfolk tn Enforce Uc-
mnnd for Adequate Police
PrOtectiun.

NORFOLK. Va, May &i.--Ay a re.
suit Of Fridays riot at the l.amhcrts
tolni piers, in which AN officer was
Killed and another Wounded 200
lohSShurcSmcn this afternoon Quit
work 10 enforce a demand made on
the Norfolk and Western Railroad and
export companies for adequate protec-
ton by the Nortoik policc department
The walk-out caused the suspension
OF work on seven foreign steamers
ioading export cargucs The policing.
now is done by special officers in tie
employ of the railroad.
ihe wa!k-out was prcciritatcd early
III the afternoon when Il report reached
the piers that white men were organic
lnE a squad to av.nEe the death ot
Speciai officer Sandcrin, who was
kiiicd IN the rint. Practically ever.
negro lonEshoresman uui; worl Tn.
demands followed. An Investigation
showed that the report WAS uufoun.icd,
although feeling in the section is tense.
owing I" the nutilat:cn OF the officers
body.
NJ a conference hell, Tonight be-
, tween Major i<i@cr. police chief. rail
road officials and lonrshurcsmcn lead
crs. tho railroad agreed to turn tho
policing OF the piers over 20 the city,
police department. The mcr Will re-
/ TURN I" work tomorrow.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22
COMPROMISES on QUESTION
OF NATIONAL. PRI;PAUEDNI.Ss

MINNEAPOLIS. MINI. May aI.--Rev.
Cornelius Woelfkn, H. D.. of New
York. delivered the annual convention
sermon to-day before the Northern
Baptist Convention, in session here
preaching on doctrinal matters.
The delegates Tomorrow will elect
the general convention officers am,
me officers 90 the various societies, to
whom will fall the task Of working out
"cnominaiional problems which have
come up at the present meeting.
II became known tonight that II sub
committee Of the resolutions commit
tee agreed on a compromise resolution
on the question OF national prepared.
ness. G. y. Cook. Helena Mont. chair.
man of the subcommittee, said that
the program which will go before the
convention viii include q resolution
favoring national prohibition hy iegis-
native amendment. Delegates were
also asked TO support q peace rro-
gram at tn" conclusion OF the Europcan
war
Another resolution would place the
convention on record as criticizine the
weak divorce laws, especially in the
Western States.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-22
PLAN FOR "MAURY DAY"
Is HEARTILY ENDORSED
NtrEinInns Living In Other Sthtcs nc.,
iiefS tribute Should lie Paid
PnthtinLcr Of the ScuN.

The proposal to set aside one day
each year in the state of Virginia ia
be known as "Mlaury Day" TO be OH
served with appropriate exercises in
honor of the memory Of the pathfinder
or tn" seas. has been indorscd BIS prom
inent Nirginians now living I'm other
States
CASTOR Iichtenstcin. rorr.spondin,,
secretary of the Matthew I'untah,n
AlaurE Association, made public vcl
,eruaN an Enforcement that was rivcn
nm IN person by President C'harl,s
w, Dabncy. Of the University of en-.
cinnati. native OF the Old Dominion
As Virginian." said prryidort
Dabhey. u am deeply Interested in
me movement for Il Marry Day IN
TN" schools. Matthew Fontainc Nnurv
not was only Que of the greatest gcicn.
tihc discovcrcrs OF tho last century
hut he was great patriot :ud great
teacher. honurcd by All scientific men
IN foreign countries. He has not had
the recognition he deserves from mis-
own state. I sincerely hope. therefore
that virginia Will take PROMPT stems
to commemorate the services OF one of
he! great sons"