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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-06-22
David Laws action in killing
the Mexican has a more signifl-
cant effect on. the rangers career
and on that of Mrs. Austin than
either of them can possibly fore
see. Read the next instailment,
GRO BE CONTINUEDl
The Bishops Rinu.

Bishop Russell Wakefield of Fir
mingham, has a ring with a curious
history. It is reminder of the war,
and Of the wanton destruction of the
beautiful cathedral of Reims. Some
months ago he was allowed to visit
the cathedral shortly after lombard
ment. Colored glass from the famous
windows and broken fragments of the
richly-ornate stonework lay among the
debris. The bishop picked up some
scraps Of stained glass, of pure ruby
and sapphire color, and he has had
small portions mounted in new epis-
copal finger ring. He regards it as one
OF his most interesting souvenirs
London Tit-Bits.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-06-22
DON'T FEED DAMAGED GRAIN
Poultry and Products Are Worth Alto
uether Too Much to Take Chances
With Inferior Feed.

Poultrymen should be very careful
in selecting grain with which to feed
poultry. Especially is this necessary
at this time of high prices, owing to
the common belief that any old grain
is good enough for poultry feed. Be
sure to see that it Is dry and sweet.
One cannot afford. under any condi-
lions, to feed damaged grain to poul-
try. Poultry and poultry products are
worth altogether too much at this tima
TO take any chances OF running them
with inferior feed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-06-22
THE RANGER SHOWS WHAT A DESPERATE MAN He IS
WHEN PROVOKED TO VIOLENT ACTION

handsome lost in the
aday into the little
officer, hunting Mexican murderer
there overnight She finds the
an interesting character
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-06-22
His Fatal Oversight.

He proposed to her by mail, and oy
letter she replied; he read her brief
refusal, then committed suicide. Alas
he'd be alive today, and che happy
bride. had he but read the postscript
penned oD the other side,
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
MISSIONERS BACK FROM EAST AFRICA
Rev. and Mrs. Knapp Home Third
 Time in 26 Years

Rev. William P. and Mrs. Knapp and their daughter, Miss Alta Knapp. of this city. have reached Connecticut after Journey from . mission post in Africa and they will be New Britain during the last part of the week. The missionaries left British East Africa last August for the United states. The route across tho Atlantic being 70 dangerous, they sailed from Bombay, India, and thence across the Paoific Ocean to San Francisco. Leav- ing Bombay, stops were naadO 6t Cey- lon Colombo and Honolulu before the vessel. the Vera Cruz, finally reached San Francisco. On this voyage tho passa ngers slept with life preservers on and every precaution was taken to guard against a surprise attack.
 Mr. and Mrs. Knapp left Now Brit ain to become missionaries about 25 years ago. During that period thay have been home three times. Tho last time that they were at homo was six years ago. Mir. and Mra. Knapp went as missionaries of the Gospel Misston- ary society. The work undertaken by them has been a success. From 8 pioneer mission it has grown to q large central station with q church school and hospital. There arc also some out-statons where the Christian natives are teaching the people.
 Rev. MT. Knapp will speak next sunday, morning and evening. At the Peoples church. On Monday even- ing. December 31, Q reception will be given to Mfr. Knapp and his wife al the Peoples church from !7:46 to o'clock, after which a watch might service will be held. Mir. and Mrs. Knapp are interesting speakers and the public is cordially ivited to hear them.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
FEDERAL AGENTS
 FIND CONSPIRACY
Plot Was to Poison Red Cross Band ages to Kill Sick and Wound
 cd Soldiers

Cleveland, Dec. 26-A plot to poison Red Cross bandages and dressings and thus cause wholesale deaths among troops of the United States and ito allies has been exposed and frus- trated here. Revelations of the con- spiracy were made today when it be- came known that department of jus tee agents were hunting the perpetra- tors.
 Three thousand four hundred red surgical dressings, rolled by patriotic women in Toledo, were infected with a mysterious greenish poison while in transit between Toledo and Cleveland. Immediately everyone of the band ages was burned.
 The poisoned bandages were part of the periodical shipments received at the local headquarters of the lake division from Red Cross headquar- ters in other cities in the division, which comprises Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
 The box of bandages arrived here from the Toledo chapter last week and were taken to the warehouse. While women were examining the surgical dressings as to specifications. a dark greenish substance was noticed on one of them. Investigation showed that all had been treated with poison.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
Peace Farley in Stockholm.

London. Dec. 26.-The social revo- lutionary majority in the constituent assembly has decided to convoke that body on January ?. according to a Petrograd dispatch to the Times al- though the Bolsheviki government has said that 1t was determined to pre- vent the meeting of tn assembly fnde- pendent of it's sanction.
 M. Borovsky. the Bolshevik repre- sentative in Stockholm, a dispatch l.. tho Morning Post from the Swedish capital says. confirms reports that Stockholm will be tho scene of the continuation of the Russo-German peace negotiation. He said that the Dessions in stockholm will begin early in January when all the delegates now at Brest- Litovslx are expected in the Swedish capital.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
TREASURER'S REPORT
Income of School Fund Less This Year by 4S,54O.23, tho Report Will Show.

Will Show.
 Hartford, Dec. 26.-The report of the state treasurer on the administra- ton of the school fund will show, when the treasurer makes his report for the past fiscal year that the tn- come of the fund for the year amount ed to $111,74S.20, or $3,540.23 less than the income for 1916. The falling off Is due to the operation of the law of 1915 which requires the treasurer to cal in all te western loans by 1928. These loans are all placed in one real estate in Ohio. The law confines loans on real estate in the future to this state. The western loans, when the law went into operation in June, 1915, amounted to $Sb4,375. At the end of the fiscal year of 1917 they amounted to $682,475. All the loans in Ohio bear interest at the rate of per cent, but 1t has been found impossible to reinvest the money derived from. the payment of the principal for more than 1-2 per cent.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
70 MUTOH IS Q MUTCH."
What On Earth Could Man Do With
 il Evening DEens V00tO?

(New York Tribune).
 We never had much opinion as child of that Biblical land r0puted to be flowing with milk and honey. It always appealed to our youthful imaE- ination as 8 very sticky and mussy prospect. Honey in due scale was admirable and 50 was milk when prop bier. But to Slop about in such things was another matter.
 The same attitude recurs as wc contemplates Diamond Jim's clothes rack. It may be all right to havc Al evening dress vests-what con- muter who has packed his own suit case would not give his Kingdom Tor just one, upon occasion! And B overcoats! Or Fl pairs of shoes! Of course, >Mr. Brady did not wear all his overcoats At once. Yet that is somehow the picture that comes to mind-of bent figure toiling wearily through . careful schedule of pleas ure buried beneath g small mountain of clothes. About his person clanked chains of diamonds, if you will
 There was the same point in . subtler vein, for rarif1ed atmos- phere, in . little story called Things" written several years ago by Mrs. Alice Duer Miller. A proper enough wife and mother. with the noblest aims and finest outlook. wreStlod her. self into a nervous decline by devot- ing her mind to the wealth of de- tails which her large, comfortable and elaborate life entailed. Her pursuit was high living rather than pleasure. Yet tho result was identical. She could not see tho high living for the immediate mass of things. She was swamped in the scenery, quite as the Shakespere play disappears in Beer bohm Tree production.
 Is the necessary moral a reversion to the simplest life, one overcoat. a Greenwich village garret and M. Jacques Copeau in the managers chair? For most folk, as for most plays. yes There comes along, from time to time, a great master of pleas ure of much money, a Be1asco of de- tail, who can somehow keep the play going through an appalling clutter of things. But he Is the rare exception, let us make no mistake. For most humans there Is nothing so devastat- ing and death dealing as too much of anything. It is far easier to become Q great man with no overcoat than with 33-whfch may sound cold phil osophy for a snowy, warful winter, but is sad truth none the less.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
INTERESTING SESSION
 OF FEDERAL COURT
Unique Cnse Before Judge Thomas Over Forged Postal Money
 Order i'm Bridgeport.

Hartford, Dec. 2e.-Citizens of Connecticut who have heretofore borne good regulations were the cen- ter of interest in the United States dis trict court here this afternoon, where Judge Thomas imposed sentence on Herbert Armstrong of New London, and where Dennis O'Neil. who has been, bookkeeper at the Bridgeport jail, faced a charge of conspiracy to forge a money order. Armstrong was found guilty Monday of conducting a disorderly house within five miles of a military station. . <,'
 O'Neirs case is 8 unique one, ac- cording to the governments version of the fact. He Is charged jointly with William Banti, who was a trusty at the jail, with conspiracy to forge the name of payee to a United States postal money order and with ,uttering the forged order knowing the same to be forged
 A prisoner at the jail last summer John Barylski, was the payee named in tho $10 money order which came from Greenwich. It Is alleged by the government postal inspectors that un- der the control and instruction of O'Neil, who had access to all the mail coming into the jail, Banti forged Barylskrs endorsement, and that Banti and O'Neil received the pro- ceeds of the forged order.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
CTTYTIEMS

l Frank Jacobson, of Il Arch street. 8 NsAA removed to tho New Britain Gen. ADFml hospital this afternoon in the po- \ 1iceS am bulance. He Is suffering with #pneumonia.
 Thomas A. Elcock, of West Main E stfeet returned today to Storrs Agri- s4aSY training.
 "A son was born, this morning to ! MI. and Mrs. Frank .. Humphrey. of J0 South High street.
 lCommissioner Allen c Church. of S SB0ston, Mass. was present at the ses- uion of the naturalization court this x 'gAftNrnoon. Thirty-flve candidates
 were slated for hearings before tho s sotnmissioner.
 sJehn F. Rourke returned to Hanil- y1d1N N. F., today to resume hiss duties n trainer of Colgate University track
 and athletic team. Andrew Robb, son of MT. and Mrs. < bttphen Robb of Maple street. Is
 hGxne the Colorado School of Mines
 Rof the holidays. $ He will return West ! A1ut January 5. srs; ' sSehe Christmas entertainment for s tli4 children of Stella Rebekah lodge IsSsail be given Friday afternoon at AD'eleck.
 gMr. and Mrs. P. A. Kelly and
 Anarhter, Margaret, of Astoria, l.. l.. Nj1iting Mrs. Kelly's father, James sssBtani6n, Of Olive street. t'-rs \ MT. and Mrs. Benjamin Thompson %Df 65 Trinity street announce the en- Ss sKagemeht of their daughter, Dorothy klo Albert Petow of 600 East Main ]. ytreet. l.. Chester Willys, who is stationed It the Brooklyn Navy Yard. spent the Christmas holidays with his family at t6 Trinity street.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
POWER
 BEGINS TO WAIVE
(Continued from First Page)

the Russo-Asiatic bank in couse- Quence of the mention of their names In an intercepted letter wherein Gen. Alexien. former commander-in-ch chief. begged Professor Paul Miliukoff, 1hs constltutional democratic leader, to interest himself in obtaining 300, ,00v rubles to assist starving families of imprisoned officers.
 Referring to tho arrest of Colonel kolpAShnikoff, attached to the Amer 1can Red Cross mission to Russia, the Petro4rad correspondent of the Post says 1t has been suggested that the letter alleged to have been ent to the colonel by Colonel Anderson, head of the mission. stating that the American ambassador, David R. Francis, was ready to advance 100000 rubles to the account of the Red Cross was 8 forgery. Such things are not uncom. mon now. he adds.
 The same correspondent telegraphs that the British ambassador, Sir George Buchanan, published on Sun day a statement refutng tho charge of interference in the internal affairs or Russia, and adding that as there are now three independent republics In Russia 1t is difficult to avoid tho appearance of having relations with more than one
 Films Appeal to Berlin.
 It 1s reported from Brest-Litovsk, by way of Petrograd, that Finland has appealed to Germany to recognize it's independence and that the Germans express their willingness to do so. Leon Trotzyk is said to have shown his irritation because the Films ap- pealed directly to the Germans in- stead of through the Bolsheviki com- missaries. A Stockholm despatch to the Post records the arrival there of a Finnish delegation to ask Sweden recognition of the independence Of the Films. According to the same cor respondent, anarchistic conditions prevail in parts of Finland. The Swedish consul at Helsingfors has sent nn urgent appeal to his government to protect Swedes at Apo, where there is reign of terror. Bandits are said te be running wild in Uleaborg and in various other districts. The Stock holm Tillinigen reports an agreement between the Finnish senate and the Baltic fleet committee under which Finland virtually will buy it's inde- pendence for 50,0o0.oO0 rubles.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
To Send Peace Agents.

Petrograd, Dec. 25.-The Bolsheviki government has decided to send spe- cial representatives to all countries belligerent as we'll as neutral to fur ther the propaganda of international ism. Two million rubles have been appropriated for this purpose.
 An American Red Cross train left here today for Rumania with the ap- proval of tho Bolsheviki. It carried all it's original supplies, except auto mobiles.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
Financial
SEVERAL CHANGES IN
 EARLY OPERATIONS
Market, However, Develops a . Heavier Trend at End of Hour

Wall Street-Fractfonal changes at- tended the early operations on tho stock exchange today. but the list de- veloped a heavier trend before the end of the first talf-hour. U. s. Steel re- acted 1-2 points with 1 to point recessions in other equipments and metals and shippings yielded large fractions. American Tobacco lost l 3-4 points, Baldwin Locomotive as much, General Electric 1 1-2, and the motor division also receded moderate ly. Rails Were firmer at the outset, but fell back with leaders as trading became more active. Liberty As re- peated their recent minimum of 96.98 but the 1-2's were steady.
 Irregular rallies set in on the tenta- tive support accorded war issues, but increased offerings of rails immedi- ately effected more extensive declines. St. Paul preferred and Baltimore and Ohio common and preferred made new mlntmums, Paciflcs were to 2 points down. steels reacted to 2 1-c and other equipents as we'll as special ties lost ? to 4 points. Foreign bonds were inactive at slight recessions. Liberty 4s fell to a new low at 97 to So.Sz, the 1-2's selling at 98.7O to 98.22.
 Utilities featured the further de- cline of the mid-session. Public serv- ice of New Jersey dropped 12 points and Brooklyn Transit, American Tel ephone. Peoples Gas and Consoli- dated Gas 1 to points. Rails con- tinued heavy. but steels became steadier.
 Wall Street Close.-Leaders made partial recoveries in the last hour. The closing was heavy. Liberty 4's sold at 97 to a new minimum of 96.76 and the 1-2's at 9S.50 to 98.22.
 Sales approximated 400, 1000 shares.
 New York Stock Exchange quota tions furniGhed by Richter 6 Co.,. members of the New York Stock Ex- change.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
COMPLAINS ABOUT NOTARY.

Additional complaints against local notary public who, it is alleged, charges excessive rates for witnessing the signatures on questionnaires were made today to Stephen Robb. secre- tary of the second exemption board. Already a number of such complaints have been made and are being inves- fiuated
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
CABLE FROM FRANCE.

Mrs. Margaret O'Keefe of Clark street received a brief but most pleasant cablegram yesterday from her two sons with the American Ex- peditionary Forces in France. ITO Margaret M O'Keefc, Merry Christi mas from Daniel and James," was the text of the message. Mrs. O'Keefe's two sons. Lawyer Daniel E. O'Keefe and James O'keefe. are both with the 1O2nd U. s. Infantry.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
CLOTHES SHORTAGE.
Committee to Find Out If Soldiers
 Have Sufficient Supply.

Washington, Dec. 26.-Aroused by reports of shortages of winter cloth ing in National Army camps, the sen- ate military affairs committee today in resuming its investigation into army conditions, adopted a resolution requiring tho secretary of war to i'm mediately ascertain conditions by wire. supply deficient troops and sus- pend departmental routine if neces- sary. by direct purchases from sources near the camps.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
RABIES IN CAT.

Was Sent to State BActer10aOgist From
 Pennington for Examination.
 Hartford, Dec 26.-Dr. Charles I. Cotton, deputy commissioner on dis eeses of domestic animals received letter today from pr. c. J.. Bart lett. state bacteriologfst, stating that an examination of the head of 0 cat sent to him from Pennington for examination showed that the cat had rabies. On Dec. 1 5 1t bit the child of Dl. Stuart E. Phelps health officer of Pennington. Previous to attacking the child the cat had been acting strangely This is the first case in the state since the outbreak of rabies of an infected can biting a person.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
NO FOUNDATION.
Count Won Luxburg Made Misetate
 ments in His Bcrlin Dispatches.

Santiago, Chile, Dec. 26.-The pres ident said there was no foundation for statements by Count von Luxburg dis missed German charge at Argentina in his despatches to Berlin that Chile was to be drawn into an alliance with Argentina and Bolivia for the purposo of forming a South American politi. cal party opposed to the war policy of the United States.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
SPECIAL MUSIC FEArURE

Christmas services at the church of It, John the Evangelist, were featured by tho excellent musical program rendered by the choir under the di- ection of Organist John J. Crean. Tor the first time, modern music was lsed and it created a very favorable impression. The soloists were, MT. md Mrs. Hart, Miss Margaret D'Leary. Miss Mary Crowley, John Jackson and John J. Crean.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
STRIKES CAUSE DELAYS.

Washington, Dec. 2e.-More than a Qf million working days-the equiv nt of the labor of 10000 workmen Dolid month-have been lost to &e0Vernpent's shipbuilding pro-
 through strikes and lockouts, R.
 vsA1 of the shipping board to-
 ald the senate Investigating com
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
RECRUITS FOR NAVY.
Men Not Needed to FIJI Present Draft
 Quota May Enlist.

Chief Boatswain's Mate G, J. Gar figan. U. s. N., arrived in New Brit lin today to prepare for the advent sDf . recruiting party ich will seek nen for the regular navy. MT. Gar iisan says men of draft age who have not been summoned to fill the cur Pent conscript quota are eligible for enlistment. He will be at the post DfIlce evenings to explain the require nents for enlistment. N.
 Permanent offices will be open from January 6 to January 12 at the post pff1ce, when a recruiting party will be m charge. Men between the ages of IS and 35 in all trade are wanted.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26

A novel white collar is made points for . widows black 3reo '..s Pockets continue to g4Vo . tary air to the latest sr'or0 co1 sSss The colored bridal gown A1S made fashionable ny the war bf4dc s ' Tho latest manner of wearing watch is to dangle it from . fob t4t.s3 bon. u
 Utility coats remind ono ef an G flccr's top coat--full and belted> h t1ee back. / Fur coats are uncommonly inter esting this year on account of tlsts belts. Beaver ii used oddly enough 1ngI trim nutria fur.
 Yelled evening froclzs have . do.7 cided preference. Fashionabie coats are made of tuu,.|| kinds of fur 9 OVorSklrtS are cut on the uueD OkA the straight skirt. ss Novelty effects in coats and capN give slender lines. Umbrellas are shSFt and t1tsS1 with wooden sticks.
 The tunic blouse makes the eel suit more attractive.
 Fne cloth 1atts are apt to be cpssl with tucking.
 Black velvet h the mos prominAn for evening gowns. Coats, wraps and dresses 0roa CHI very high collArs. MI A bow is frequently tAA only eIais ming on the hat with sweeping Mn61.%
 sS I Almost every style i6, sn fashion. but : models arc most fAvprod. \ The mourning dres0 of black tAE- N feta can be faStone6 with duM sllvorIs buttons. A| Collar and buttons of gray sQotr1 make . child's broadcloth coat aAaAc tive. &a.S s-
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
EDDY CALLED FOR SERVICE

Stanley Eddy of West Main street, who was employed in the local office of Richter & Co.,. has been called into the naval service. He enlisted several months ago in the hospital unit of the Naval Reserve. He left today, having been ordered to report at the Brook lyn navy yard.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
RAILROAD SITUATION.

Washington, Dec. 26.-Investiga- ton of the railroad situation under the Cummins resolution will begin before the senate interstate commerce court Saturday. with Chairman Hall and Commissioners McChord, Clark and Atchison of the Interstate Commerce Commission as witnesses.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
DEATHS. AND FUNERALS
Mrs. Matilda S. Okenquist

Mrs. Matilda s. OkenQuist, a former resident, died Monday evening at the home of her son, David Okenquist, in Bridgeport The remains will be brought to this Friday and services will be conducted at the Swedish Bethany church at o'clock. Burial vii be in Tairview Cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
NINE. BOMBS.

aid to Have Been Placed in Cali- foa7nln Capital and Mansion.
 Sacramento. Calf. Dec. 26:-A let
 declaring nine bombs had been
 ced in the executive mansion, capi-
 building, police station and resi- nces Of two head officers of the
 te" has been received by Governor pphens and turned over to the po- ce. It became known today. The let Ter demanded that $5O,0O0 be placed Fin rock pile'' presumably near Oakland, Calf, December 31, at 3 ,1clock.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
EXPLORER SAFE.

Ottawa, Dec. 26.-vilhjalmar Stef- anssen, the Arctic explorer, last heard from in a letter received in March. 1916, has arrived withashis party at Fort yukon, according to word re- ceived by tho naval department.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
WILLIAMS MENTIONED.

Washington, Dec. 26.-John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the cur rency, was being discussed today in official circles as the most probable selection for federal railroad admins trator, should President Wilson de- eide to appoint ono.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
Paris StAteu1oalt

Paris Dec. 26.-"On the right bank of the Mouse. tho energetic reply of our batteries put an end to a vigorous bonn ardment of our lines near Beson- vaux, says today's official statement
 Near St. Quentin and upper AL sace, French patrols penetrated Ger man trenches and brought back pris- oners.
 "Everywhere else the night was calIn.''