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The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
IS Kerensky AssassinaLed?

London. Sept. IT, The Swedish Aftonbaldt, says the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Tel egraph Company this afternoon publishes a rumor from petrograd that kerensky has been killed by a member of the BoIshiviki. The ru- mor lacks confirmation.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
Joe Garland Holds Championship.

]. C. Garland of the Water Valley farm was in Tuesday with the finest melons that have thus far been marketed in Mena this year. The melons averaged about 10 pounds each. He many of that kind last year. and until today if had be- gun to look like he was going to lose his place as the champion grow CT of big watermelons, but he is again safe.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
WAR TAX BILL IS
 PASSED BY SENATE
The Measure Proposes tO Raise A. most $2,400,O0O.0O0 by Taxation Only Four Votes Were Cast
 Against the Measure.

Washington, Sept. il--The war tax bill--the largest single taxation measures in American history was passed last night by the Senate. It provides for a levy slightly un- der s2, i0O,O0O,000, as compared with st,s67 S70,000 proposed in the bill as it passed the House May 23
 The vote was 69 to i, Senators Borah, Gronna, LaFollette and Nor ris being recorded in opposition
 The great bill. nearly four months in the making, will be returned to the House today and then go to con- ference with enactment within 10 days or two weeks probable. Sena- tors Simmons, Stone and Williams, Democrats, and penrose and Lodge. Republicans of the Finance Com mittee were appointed the Senates ronferees.
 Credits Bill Is Next.
 Awaiting the Senate in the final struggle over war fiscal policies is the sii .500,000,000 credits bill which passed the House unanimously. and upon which work will he begun to- day by the Senate Finance Commit tee
 Of the S2, 2,40o,la0,000 new taxes provided in the tax biIl for the du- ration of the war. SS42. 100000 is to be taken from incomes. corporate and individual, and Si,060000,000 from war profits. Most of the re- mainder is levied on liquor, tobacco and public utilities.
 Amendments Defeated.
 In the clean up the principal ac- lions of the Senate were elimination of all the provisions for taxing pub- fishers and increasing second class periodical postage rates and all con- sumption taxes on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa, the latter reducing the bill SS6,000000. The Senate also struck out the clause proposing re- peal of the draw back or re-export allowance given sugar reflners and defeated proposals to add inheri- tance taxes.
 In last effort of the high tax group to increase taxes the Senate rejected. @ to t5, the LaFollette substitute bill to raise S3,500,0 100000 more taxes. Those supporting t were Borah. Brady. Gore, Granna, Hardwick, Hollis, Husting, Johnson of California, Jones of Washington, Kenyon, LaFollette, McNary, Norris, Reed and Vardaman.
 Al o'clock, under the agreement which ended the rloture fight q fortnight ago, debate was shut or and tedious series of a dozen roll calls brought the bill to the passage.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
uneoastitutional to Aid Sufferers.

Austin, Sept. iiA-Attofnes Geaer- |al Looney this afternoon heId that the senate bill to appropriate S2,- GOO GOO for the relief of the West Texas drouth sufferers is unconsti- tutional.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
Casualties Were Light Last Week,

London, Sept 1.-The British casualties for the week ending to- day was but 526 men. ans<a
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13

Heartburn after hearty meal means weakness in the digestive or gans. Prickly Ash Bitters gives them strength. tones up the stomach and purifies the bowels. Jackson Drug & Furniture Co., and Gunnels Drug Store, special agents-Adys sst
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
Pleased With Cattle Dipping.

Tho following letter to Dr. H. K. Getz is evidence of how Polk coun- ty folks take hold of tick eradica- tion. It comes from J. A. Bean of the Hickory Flat Vat Association, located miles southeast of Gran his:
 Would like to have you at our next dipping. September i5, for we want to fill the vat 6 inches. Would like your instructions. Everybody is highly pleased with the work. If you can't come. please instruct me by mail on filling the vat"
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13

When you have an achey, stretchy feeling and you are dull, tired and discouraged it is a sign Of approach ing malaria or chills. You should acf guicklv to ward off an attack. HERBINE offers you the help you need. It destroys the malaria germ, drives out all impurities and makes you feel bright, vigorous and cheer ful. Price soc. Sold by Jackson Drug K Furniture Co.--Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
DENTAL NOTICE FOR WICKEs.

. I will be at Wickes. prepared t0 serve my patrons, on Friday and Saturday, September i4 and t5.
 l.. 0. Dickson. D. s,
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
DALLAS, TEX, WILL BE "DRY"
 AS RESULT OF ELECTION
Pr0hibitionists Won by a Majority of 1852 Votes Monday-Saloons
 Close October 20.

Dallas, Sept. 1.-The final figures in yesterdays local option election show the following:
 'Drys,7 i0,5l6; ~Wets, s,56i.
 The saloons are to close October 20.
 In the city of Dallas the only part of the county that has been wet for twenty-five years total of 220 saloons, one brewery and twelve wholesale houses will be forced out of business as the result of tho election.
 These are said to represent total capilal of S2,500000.
 Dallas is said to be the largest city in the United States to go dry by the local option route.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13
Duluth Joins Dallas.

Duluth, Minn.. St. Louis county yesterday swung into the dry col umn by a majority of more than 5000 votes in the option election. As a result the county will become dry March 9. 1918.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-09-13

s1.OO A YEAR STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
JOIN THE HOME GUARD
Odd Fellows Take Initial Steps Look
 ing T oward OrganIzation.

At the regular meeting of the Ga naan Independent Order of Odd Eel lows, Monday evening, vote was pas sed, as an expression of opinion of the lodge, that the time has arrived when some steps should be taken toward the forming of Home Guard in this town i; each member present pledged to enlist as soon as the opportunity is offered.
 Past Grand J. O. Roraback told the members that he had been informed that he was formally appointed recruit ing officer for the Home Guard within the Town of North Canaan, but had not as yet received his commission or the blanks for enlistment; as soon as these blanks were received he would notify the members of the order and others who desired to enlist in the Home Guard.
 The enlistment in the Home Guards is for a period of two years, for those between the ages of IT and 60 years who cannot be held for service in the Connecticut National Guard in time of peace. The members of the Home Guard must be physically capable of performing constabulary duty within the state. Applicants for enlistment will be examined by surgeons ap- pointed for that purpose.
 Unmarried men between the ages of IS and 45, who are physically fit and eligible for service in the National Guard or the Naval Militia will not be enlisted in the Home Guard.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
DWIGHT l.. WEST.

After long illness Dwight l.. West died at Superior, Mich., Friday. He married Olive Root, a sister of Eugene s. Root, and lived for several years on the farm that MT. Root now occupies. During their residence in Canaan they were both very active in the social life of the community. Mrs. West died about two years ago and was buried at East Canaan. /.E ...s
 It is nearly forty years since Mr. and Mrs. West moved to Michigan but MT. West always retained his memberhsip in Housatonic Lodge. F. and A. M., having been admitted 70 the lodge in 1877. .a
 The remains of MT. West are ex pected to arrive in Canaan this morn ing. A delegation of Masons will re ceive the body and have charge of the interment at East Canaan, though there will be no Masonic ceremonies at the grave. Rev. D. c. Gillette has charge of the committal service.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
Complaint of the Stupid.

It is only stupid people who complain that they are misunderstood. If they were not stupid they would know that there is absolutely no such thing as be- ing misunderstood, and therefore that there is nothing whatsoever to be gain ed by complaining about it.
 Wise people who want to be under stood do not spend their time com plaining,. but ill perfecting some means of expressing themselves by which they may reveal to the world about them some slight remnant, at least, of their souls or their minds or their ideas or their discoveries or their eccentrici- ties or whatever it is they want to make known.
 When you complain about not being understood the only thing you make clear is that you are a complainer.- Puck.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
ONCE NO BERKSHRIES.

New England was once a level plain. Time was when there were no Berk- shires; no White Mountains. Anyone doubting this statement is respectfully requested to read the following an. nouncement just made by the United States Geological Survey:
 Standing on hilltop almost any, where in New England on a clear day, and looking around at the horizon, one notices that the high-level surfaces of one bill after another approach the plane of the circular sky line. It re- quires but little imagination to recog- nize in the successive hilltops the re. mains of the even and continuous sur. face of what was once a great plain, from which the valleys of today have been carved by the erosive action of flowing water. This is most easily recognized from a considerable eleva. tion, especially in the broad upland high.lev areas of western Massachu. setts at Whitcomb Hills on the Mohawk trail. This is termed a dissected plateau
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
EVANGELISTIC SERVICES
Increasing Interest Tn the Union Revival
 Meetings.

Under the direction of Miss May B. Lord, the union evangelistic services at the Methodist church continue with increasing interest and with an added attendance each night, calumating in church full on Sunday night.
 , Sunday afternoon at the mems meet. ing, there was a good attendance and a most interested audience. Miss Lord gave an earnest talk founded in the words from Matt. 27: "And sitting down they watched him there" Three groups were watching, one of soldiers, so hardened that they cared nothing for the awful scene being enacted, com- pletely given up to the things of this world, another of scoffers who jeered at the Son of God, today they scoff at the church, the Bible and the good that comes from the efforts of christian workers. The third group were the friends of Christ. She urged that every man present place himself among those of this last group.
 In the evening the church was even fuller than or the previous Sunday, several more chairs being added to those already in the lecture room.
 Miss Lord read and commented on Isa. 55, but took for her text, "Go in this thy might and serve my people from the hand of the enemy" She held the closest attention of all who heard her as with forceful illustrations she brought home the truths of the pas- sage.
 Tuesday nights storm kept many away from the church but the meeting was of special interest. The services continue tonight and Friday night, with another meeting for men and boys Sum- day afternoon at 3:30 and the final ser. vice at 7:30 Sunday evening.
 The free will offering at the last ser. vice all goes to Miss Lord, who has gen. erously agreed to accept for her two weeks work whatever was given at that meeting.
 Tomorrow night the children's choir will sing aGd at 3:45 children's ser- vice will be held at the church.
 Miss Lord has made many friends during the past week. Her calls at the homes in the village have resulted in much good; she has been cordially vel comed and she has been enabled to rend. CT help to those who have accepted her ninistrations.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
HE'LL GATE ROUTE OPEN APRIL ]

On April the Federal Express will be reinaugurated, running via the new four track He'll Gate Bridge which forms apart of the New York Connec- ting railroad. The opening of this route completes the direct rail connec- tion, via New York city, between the Pennsylvania and New Haven systems, and links New England with the states lying west and south of the Hudson and East Rivers.
 Additional trains over this new route are to be operated as soon as schedules can be adjusted. The Adams Express Company will operate two trains each way over this route. The Colonial Express will be reinaugurated within very short time, and a through summer train, which. is likely to be known as the Washington Bar Harbor Express will be operated to provide facilities for those patrons of the Penn. sylvania and New Haven who live in the south and west and who summer in New England resorts. This makes a total of five trains each way daily to begin with. A conference has been arranged to take place in Boston the latter part of this month to consider operating and traffic problems in con. nection with the running of additonial trains over the He'll Gate Bridge route.
 The schedule of the Federal Express, running between Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, will be as follows: Leave Washington daily at 7:00 p. m. and arrive at Boston about 7:10 a. m., leave Boston daily at [ zoo p. m. and arrive at Washington about 7:10 a. m.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
COMING ENTERTAINMENTS
Outline of Course Arranged for Next
 Season.

The committee of laides who have so successfully conducted an entertain lnent course for the past two seasons, have arranged another for the coming fall and winter; the first program to be given some time in October. the others will follow one month.
 As last seasons course was an i'm. provement over the first season, the committee have endeavored to offer a still more attractive course for the coming year. Instead of four programs offered. the course this year includes five evenings, lecture having been added to the attractions.
 The first entertainment on the list is "The Sunbeams," two young ladies who offer an unusual program, one of them is a Massachusetts, girl, Miss Bertha McDonough, who is said to be a born mimic, a reader of excellence and an artist at the piano. Her special part of the program is the introduc- tion of Irish monologues and piano logues. The other sunbeam is Miss Hannah Beard of Kentucky, a splendid reader, a banjoist who can interpret the negro jubilee songs as only one can who has lived iii the Southland.
 Those who enjoyed the readers in the last two seasons, will welcome Miss Althea Clark, who will probably render Henry Arthur Jones' society comedy "The Liars,'' said to be a most bril- liant piece of work, full of color with never a dull moment.
 The Beverly Entertainers promise a most delightful program; four ladies who sing, read; play mandolins and guitars, give musical sketches in at. tractive costume; their musical mum bers in Dutch costume proving a most unique and attractive feature.
 The lecture by Fred A. Boardman promises to be just as entertaining as any of the other numbers. MT. Board man is newspaper man who has visit ed all parts of the world. Keeping his eyes open he has seen the unusual in his travels and his lecture on "Seeing the World by Working Your Way, " promises to he of great interest.
 Miss Luvia Ellen Mann completes the number offered. An entertainer of ability, her repertoire include cut tings from the classics, character sketches and short stories, from the use of wigs and makeup which enables her to present an enjoyable program of character delineations.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
Woric of a Microscope.

One of the newest of astronomical instruments is the blink microscope. The principle involved is similar to that of the moving picture machine. In the latter the film used consists of a series of pictures, each a little differ ent from its predecessor. If these are presented in rapid succession the se- ries is fused into one picture ill which the succeeding differences appear as motion. The blink microscope enables one to compare photograph of a DOT tion of the heavens with another of the same region taken several years later. An ingenious contrivance brings first one then the other plate into view in rapid succession. If in the interval between two exposures a star in the region has changed it's position appre- ciably it will appear to move and can be detected at once Formerly it was necessary to measure carefully the po- sitions of all the stars on both plates in order to detect those with large proper motions. Such stars are some times called runaway" stars.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
A CLOSE CALL.

Cornish Hitchcock alighted rather unceremoniously from his new motor cycle, last Sunday afternoon, while taking a spin on the upper road to East Canaan, and has since been at home nursing his injuries. Just how and why the machine cut up such caper is not definitely known. but, as the roads are full of ruts and mud holes, for which the melting frost in the ground is responsible, it is supposed that the unexpected happened from some treach- erous spot in the wheel track. What ever may have been the cause, the effect as very striking" as the force with which old Mother Earth came up and struck him convinced Con. that he was getting his bumps in earnest. and that had he not been tough nut" it would doubtless have killed him. Although somewhat disfgured, he de- termined to "stay in the ring" and ride the brute home, which he did, and they are both there yet.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
GRADE CROSSING PROTECTION
Business Mems Association Petition
 Utilities Commission.

At a special meeting of the directors of the Canaan Business Mems Associa. tion held Thursday night, Secretary B. A. Creevey read letter from the Public Utilities Commission, in reply to request from the Association, look. ing to securing more adequate protec. tion on certain grade crossings in the town.
 The three selectmen were invited to be present; MT. Smith and MT. Hub bard responded, but MT. Stratton was unable to meet with them, later he affixed his signature to the document transmitted to the comm ission.
 The communication from the Public Utilities Commission provided a regu. lar form of petition to be used in such case, as required by law, to- be signed by the selectmen. This was duly ex ecuted and forwarded by the secretary to the office of the commission in Hart ford.
 It is expected that the commission will now. set date for hearing at which the citizens as we'll as the rail road officials will be present to discuss bl0 u60u OL uOIo duc4uuo0 pAoCCOeAOA at our grade crossings.
 The Business Mems Association have been agitating the matter for some time, now they are confident that there is good prospect of having at least some of the dangerous crossings prop erly guarded.
 Not only the members of the associa tion but the citizens in general should be awake to the needs of proper protec tion for lives at our grade crossings.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
Eskimo Carvinq,

All of the Eskimo carving today is done with steel tools, but there is work in existence that dates back to the stone age. The older Eskimos say that their ancestors used tools of flint, and it is known that they have been cary ing ivory for many generations. Some of the very poorest of them and those that live in the most out of the way places are noted for their work of this kind. They seem to do it for pastime and make many toys and dolls for their children. They have a way of softening the bone, horn or ivory be- fore they work it, and to make the carvings more distinct they etch lines on the surface with black paint made of a mixture of gunpowder and blood. This, when put on the freshly cut bone. makes permane"1 stain.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
CosGRIFF's PROMOTION.

James H. Cosgriff, formerly ot Glen. dale, Stockbridge, and now of Bridge. port, Conn, who has been freight sta. tion agent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at different stations along the road for the past 20 years, has been appointed in charge of all freight terminals of the New York, New Haven 6 Hartford railroad in New York and Brooklyn. This also includes all railroad freight piers of the New Haven in these cities. MT. Cosgriff was station agent at Glendale about IS years ago. He is brother of Thomas F. Cosgriff, who is station agent of the New York, New Haven &
 Hartford railroad freight depot in Pittsfeld. Before being given this promotion, Mir. Cosgriff was freight station agent of the New Haven at Bridgeport, position he has held for the past several years. Mr. Cosgriff is member of the we'll known Sheffield family of Cosgriffs, which has several members who are we'll known in ra1- road circles. One of the brothers, M. D. Cosgriff was agent at Canaan few years ago; he is now located in Water bury.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
WOULD STOP PoLIoMYELITIs.

Announcement that Dr. Edward Taylor, professor of tropical medicine at the University of Vermont, had made an important discovery as to the manner in which infantile paralysis is spread, was made today by Dr. Charles S. Caverly, president of the state board of health.
 'Dr. Taylor has apparently shown, Dr. Caverly said, "that diseased noses and throats allow the passage of the virus into the central nervous system, while normal noses and throats seem to neutralize this poison. The simple processs of cleansing the nose and throat with warm water, in which table salt has been dissolved, is perhaps as good preventive as we have"
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
CHRIST CHURCH NOTES.

Next Sunday the church will be np. propriately decorated with palms which have arrived from the south.
 Next week, Holy week, there will be services on Wednesday, Thurs lay and Friday. On Wednesday the service will be evening prayer and sermon at 3:45. On Thursday there will be a service of Preparation at p. m. and on Good Friday, Morning Prayer and sermon at 10:45. The public is COT. dially invited to all of these services.
 On account of the union meeting next Sunday there will be no evening service.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
SHEFFIELD WOMAN DEAD.

Mrs. Bertha Gleason, 52, wife of Franklin Gleason, died at her home in Sheffield, Tuesday evening. She was born in Salisbury, Oct. 16, 1866, and was daughter of Marvin and Maria Thorpe Sackett. She had been a resi- dent of Sheffield for the past several years Besides her husband, she is survived by daughter, Mrs. Maud A. Ottis of Sheffield. The funeral was held in the home at 80 o'clock Fri day afternoon and at the Congrega- tional church at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Stanley Cummings officiated. Burial was in Sheffield.
 MT. and Mrs. Gleason at one time resided in Canaan, MT. Gleason belng employed at the lime quarries.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
HIS FIT.

A young lady whose mother the editor of the Elizabethtown, (N. r., ) Post knew more than thirty years ago spent a portion of last summer with her father, mother and sister at an Elizabethtown hotel. While there she learned to knit pair of socks which she sent abroad for use of an English soldier. It being her first pair. one sock was longer than the other. How. ever, she pinned her card to the socks and after several months received the following:
 Socks received, lady;
 Some ft
 wear one for helmet
 And one for a mitt.
 I hope to meet you when
 I've done my bit;
 But where in he'll did you
 Learn to knit?
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-29
NATURALLY.

Senator Lerkin says that great many people are pleased with House Bill No. 664, which provides for com- pulsory vaccination but exempts those who have conscientious scruples, and their families, provided they go before competent official and make oath that they have conscientious scruples against being vaccinated. Almost any reasonable ti.vaccinatioDist would be pleased with that kind of conn pulsory vaccination bill. ll.-Waterbury Republican.