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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

bad Men" of Gotham Have Va
rious Ways of Gaining Ends.
Artistic Methods of the Camorra and
Malta In Sharp Contrast With Crude
Customs Of the Docks.

Here's how the different bad men"
of Manhattan engage in the pleasant
pastime of dumping 'em off.
Along the water fronts, where many
n man is sent to the happy hunting
| ground each year, the thugs are not
! artistic. In this section of town live
| the rOugh-and-tumble fighters of the
| docks. A blow from an iron INST,
| knife in the back or a Delaying pin
over the COCO" serves its purpose,
| generally followed by the hasty de-
! scent of the victim into the river.
In the Mulberry Bend district, how
ever, where the CamOrra and the
| Malta strike terror into the hearts OF
! the Italian-bOrn citizens, there is an
| artistic element that enters into the
! execution of a crime. The busy streets
thrOnged with people will be JaInmen
to capacity when the news of shoot
| ing or the swift keen message OF the
| Camorra is discovered. Upon the ar
rival of the police, no matter now
many people may have witnessed the
actual performance of the crime, there
can never be found anyone who knows
the least about it.
The vengeance of the secret society
is swift and cruel. Its very mystery
| is more mysterious because you can
never get an Italian to admit any such
organization exists, and if one man Is
secured who was seen to commit the
| ho a dozen
to swear that the culprit was miles
away at the time of the shooting.
In Chinatown death also comes
swiftly and silently, but the native
population sneaks for home the min
ute crime is committed. Streets
that a minute before We're jammed
with CelestiaS will empty in an in
Stnnt, and except for slant eyes peep
ing through closed blinds no Chinese
can be seen GO seconds after the news
of Il murder is flashed by some mysti-
cal method, through the quarter.
Murder in Chinatown is generally
the vengeance of IL tong against Il
member of some rival tong. Chinese,
as n rule, take little personal vengeance
without the backing of their own par
ticular fraternal order. .eif weapons
are the AK, "45" or native knife.
In some of the other Oriental sec
tons of the city poison is the means
of removing an obstacle from the
path Little information is ever gained
of the activities of the Balkan black
legs which frequent certain portions of
the city. Since the start of the Euro
pean war there are more crimes of Bal
kan origin than ever before, for it is
from this class of cutthrOat that the
third section or underground secret
spy system of several European coun-
tries Is recruited.
Uptown, between One Hundred and
Sixteenth and One Hundred and FOrti-
eth streets, where the negroes congre-
gate, the favOrite weapon is the razor.
Throughout Harlem the "gun-fighter"
turks, while over in the gas tank re-
gion a man comes to his end by the
medium of the blackjack or a short
piece of lead pipe.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

plants suffering from a check by cold
after being placed in the open The
pot-grown plants should be set at least
ten inches apart and seedlings from
seeds Sown in the open had best De
thinned to stand at least eight inches
apart.
The Scotch Pink, or Grass Pink
The Scotch pink, dianthus plumarius'
is hardy dianthus, which, when treat
ed as an annual in like manner as the
sweet william. gives very satisfactory
results. The delicately fringed, vari-
ously coIored, fragrant flowers give
the plants an odd YET attractive ap-
pearance.
The flowers of all the plants OF this
group are most satisfactory for bou-
uuets and table decorations because or
the length of time they will keep In
fresh and attractive condition after De-
ing cut and placed in water.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Back Yard Agriculture.

A movement for backyard agricul-
ture," inaugurated in Ontario, should
be extended to this country, says the
Providence Bulletin. 1t is not neces-
sary to have n large tract of land for
gardening. Much can be done at small
expense on city yard of ordinary
size. An area of 40 by so feet is worth
cultivating. Tomatoes, lettuce, rad
ishes, beans and onions all valuable
food products, can be grown within
the limits of Il house lot. Backyard
agriculture" will not support the peO-
pie, but it will add' materially to the
food supplies of the country, and thus
will have effect upon prices.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
YES! MAGICALLY!
CORNS LIFT OUT
WITH FINGERS

You say to the drug store man,
"Give me small bottle of freezone."
This will cost very little but will
positively remove every hard or soft
corn or callus from ones feet.
A few drops of this new ether COM
pound applied directly upon a tender.
aching corn relieves the soreness in
stantly, and soon the entire corn or
callus, root and all, dries up and can
be lifted off with the fingers.
This new way to rid ones feet OF
corns was introduced by a Cincinnati
man, who says that freezone dries in
a moment, and simply shrivels up the
corn or callus without irritating the
surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to order small bottle from
his wholesale drug house for you.-adv.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
These Are War Times.

A Princeton gardener, when asked
by the "war" committee to plant beans,
replied: "Why, there's going to be SO
many beans and people will be so sick
of them this winter that you'll have to
run a man down, tie him and feed 'em
to him like pills to get the beans
disposed of"
LET me tell you, old man. said o
bystander, "you and lot of other peo
pie in the next year are going to learn
to love great many things-beans
included-that you may not thinR
much of now."-Indianapo News.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Annual FlOWering
Plants
2!
ByL. C.. CORBETT
Horticulturist. Bureau of Plant Industry
Us. Department of Agriculture
PINKS
lDianthusl

The large and varied genus of dian
thus contains some of our most beau
tiful and most profitable flowers. The
most Of them are hardy perennials
that bloom freely the first season, the
plants remaining green all winter and
blossOming the next year also if lightly
protected by mulch of straw. cut fOd-
der, or leaves. Old plants flower the
earliest, but as young ones give the
largest. finest flowers. sOwings are
made every year. Seed can be SOwn
under glass or in an open sheltered
bed in March. The seedlings are cas-
fly transplanted and should stand
eight to twelve inches apart; dwarf
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Locates Well Trouble.

When 1,400-foot well in west
ern town was yielding impure water,
the superintendent of the water works
wondered how he could locate the trou-
BILE. Finally he decided to lower a
cluster of electric lights into the well.
and to follow them by the aid of a
fieldglass. The trouble was located
at depth of no feet, where loose
packing permitted surface water to
enter.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

A correspondent sends me another
story of the difficulties attending the
translation of Biblical metaphors into
the Eskimo language. "a missionary
talking to his converts-to-be had occa-
sion to refer to the everlasting crown
of glory The language did not per-
NIT of the precise rendering, so the
phrase was turned by the interpreter
into the beautiful old hat which will
never wear out."-London Observer.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Granddaughter of George III.

A woman who had lived through mo-
mentous periods of European history,
the Dowager Grand Duchess Of Meek
lenburg- Strelitz, died the other day at
the advanced age of ninety-seven. She
was granddaughter Of George III of
England. Born in 1919. she was mar
ried at twenty-four, and outlived both
her husband and her son, who were
successfully grand dukes of Mecklen-
g-StrelitZ.-OutlOOk.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

duced. from seeds sown in a hotbed
not later than the 10th of March in
the latitude of New York, the young
plants being pricked out into flats, or,
preferably, into thumb pots, and later
shifted to three-inch pots before plant
ing In the towering border. The out
side planting Of hotbed-grown plants
should be delayed until the season has
advanced sufficiently TO prevent the
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

The next time we get bill from
our dentist, whom we esteem fully
as highly as we possibly could esteem
any dentist, we are going to send it
back with a request that he itemiZe
it, showing how much of the time we
are charged with was devoted to work
and how much to conversation.-Co-
iumbus (O) journal
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
F RECKLES
Now IL the Time to Get Rid of These
Ugly Spots.

Ugly spots.
There's no longer the slightest need o.
feeling ashamed of your freckles. as thu
prescription othine double strength -
guaranteed to remove these homely spots.
Simply get an sounce of othine-doublt
strength-from your druggist. and apply
little of 1t night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst frecklei
have begun to disappear. while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. 1t 10 seldom
that more than one ounce 10 needed to com.
pIetely clear the skin and gain a beautiful
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
othine as this 10 sold under guarantee oil
money back II 1t fails to remove freckles.-
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Ionu on Conversation,

"Some men," said Uncle Eben, "loves
DER country same as dey loves DER
families. Dey tries to entertain 'em
wifi conversation, Std O. wOrkin' fur
EN-"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Pot and Kettle.

Wife-You don't realize how miser
ably weak you are. Why, you cant
pass saloon without going In.
Hub-And you can't pass millin
cry shop.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

Polish mirrors with cloth soaked
in alcohol, followed by a soft, dry cloth,
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

II your eyes smart or feel scalded. ho-
man Eye Balsam applied upon going to bed
IL Just the thing to relieve them. Adv.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30

The race is not always to the swift
and it Is never to the lOafer.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
BaIsam.

sary with these plants. Care should
be exercised to prevent them from be-
coming drawn, as stocky, symmetrical
plants produce the best flowers.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
The Chicken Only.

Homely Aunt-Do you suppose thos
young men are following us?
Pretty Niece-One Of us. auntie.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Culinary Dialogue.

"How do you cook pork and beansT
"That isn't the question. How do
you get 'em?"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
Mol Pressed.

Mol Pressed.
Victim--He done me out of ten dol
ars, judge.
Judge-Release the prisoner. The
vet charged against him Is grammati-
ally impossible. Call the next case.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11

William J. Clark of S1 Wells avenue, Jamaica, N. Y., turret cap tain of the dreadnaught Arizona, was in command of the armed guard on the American oil steamship Silver Shell, which sank a German subma- rine. He may be promoted, Secretary Daniels said.
 Clark and his crew sank the sub marine after a running fight in which more than sixty shots were fired.
 II only wish I could go and fight by Wills side," said Mrs. Clark when told of her husbands feat. Both of us come of fighting stock, and guess they can't say we are not doing our bit for our country.
 twill has been in the navy since he was seventeen, and he is thirty now. Two of my brothers, Charles and John True, joined the navy two months ago. Walter, Wills brother, is in the United States marine corps, and Frank, another brother, is . member of the Massachusetts Ma ttonal Guard. My father was in the navy twelve years.
 When Will comes home we'll try to get up a family reunion and have an our soldiers and sailors who are not on duty My husbands term of enlistment expires next November, but do you suppose he would retire now? We'll guess not! And if he tried it wouldn't let him.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11


 throughout that he and others were innocent.
 The coroner's inquiry into the Rect case will be held Wednesday morning. Authorities said that additional rev. citations would be made then and that undoubtedly a recommendation would be made for the arrest of sew eraf persons.
 County and federal authorities have given no indication of intending to alter the warrants under which the six prisoners were being held. The formal charge Is that of attempting to commit 8 felony by planning abduc- tions. the cases referred to being all legged plans to kidnap c. A. Clement, wealthy jeweler here; baby and a St. Louis munitions maker. The Rect case has not come within the scope of the warrants.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
ST. MATTHEWS GRADUATION.

The graduating exercises of the class of 1917 of St. Matthew's German school will be held Wednesday eve- ming, June 27, in the parish hall on Franklin square. Theres are twelve members in the class, three of them being boys. Although the program has not been fully completed 1t will include recitations by the members of the class. singing by the whole school and an address by Rev. A. O.. Steege, pastor of the church. Those who will graduate are William ,Neu- mann, Gustave Preisser, Theodore Raducha, Emma E. > Baker, Ruth Czervinski Julian Eggert, Adeline Hausrath. Lucy H. Hoffmann. Martha H. Jost, Adele l.. Linn, Florence M. Linn and Helen w. Mech.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
INVESTS $500 IN BONDS.

Acting according to plans made at a recent meeting of the St. Jean de Baptist society, the organization has subscribed to $500 in Liberty Bonds. Individual members of the society have also generously subscribed. At the meeting a. vote was taken that all members who go to the front in defense of. their country will be kept in good standing and their dues while they are away will be paid by the society.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11

will be held at Lake Compounce on Saturday, The committees have been at work on arrangements and good time Is promised to all. It is hoped that every member of the church school will be able to attend the all- nual get-together and good time.
 Children's Day services will be held on Sunday, June 24.
 Dr. T. F. Reeks will give the fol- lowing talks on public health at the series of union meetings of the Phil- athea and Baraca classes during the Sundays of June and the first Sunday of July: s
 June 10th-The Makeup of the New Britain Board of Health.
 June 17th-The Work of the Lab- ratory. June 24th-A Talk on Germ Life.
 July 1st-Municipal Control of Dis ease.
 The program committee of the Young Peoples society submits the following list of topics fund leaders for the month of June:
 June 10-Vacation reading. Lead CTS: Doris Waters and Harry Brad bury.
 June 17-Making two weeks va cation count. Leaders: Olive Oden- waldt and Harry Gooby.
 June 24-The opportunities for liv- ing a Christian life during vacation. Leaders: Elma Hart and Raymond Bradbury.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
First Baptist Church.

The Crusaders will hold 8 meeting in the church tonight at 8 o'clock.
 On Wednesday evening the weekly meeting of the Frreestone club will be held at 7:45 o'clock.
 The pastor will call this week Tues day on Trinity and Roberts street and the Erwin home; Wednesday on Ma pie street from 10 1oe and Friday on Maple street from 100 to ITO. < Children's Day will be observed on Sunday, June 24.
 On, Saturday. June 30, the Bible school will hold the annual picnic at Lake Compounce.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
CHURCH NEWS
South Congregational UhurcA.

South Congregational Uhrch
 There will be meeting of the Boy Scouts tonight at 7yo'clock.
 The annual meeting of the Maternal association, which is also the last meeting of the season, will be held in. the parish chapel on Wednesday at 3 o'clock. Mrs. George W. Traut will have charge of the meeting. A large attendance is desired as the nature of the work for the next winter will be fully discussed.
 The Tourists club will meet Thurs day at 4:30 D. m
 The Thursday evening meetings are growing in interest and numbers. It Is . splendid opportunity for all not otherwise engaged in war relief work to do something positive. Wor- ship-a few minutes of devotion; Work-an hour of sewing and other work for the Red Cross; and 1nstruc- tion-an hour lecture and practice in first aid work; this is the program, with . bit of entertainment put in.
 session of the Wide World club will be held on Friday at 4:3o. o'clock.
 Dr. Hill will call this week, Thurs day on Greenwood street, Friday on Black Rock avenue.
 The Sunday school picnic-really a church festival-will be held Satur- day at Compounce. The cars will leave the church at 9:30, returning at 1 o'clock. All members and friends of the church are invited. Members of the school will be given trans portattons: others may obtain tickets for 30 cents, at the church office. Tickets should be secured in advance
 Following are the members of the training class that received their diplomas yesterday: The Misses Olga V. Axelson, Orrilyn c. Landgren. Dorothy M. MacArthur. Esther M. MacArthur. Alice Cathryn Perks, Myrtle M. Porter, B. Marjorie Rice, Ethel Rollins, Elsie L.. Schwaderer. Florence B. Winger, Louise P. Zeh- Ter.
 Copies of the new Testament were presented to the following children who observed the seventh anniversary of their baptism yesterday: Dorothy May Caldwell. Constance Virginia Car Tier, Frances Marion Churchill, Vic- tor John Fletcher, Jeannette Hart, Jeannette Dorothy Heinzeman, Irene Lillian Herre, Margaret Ernestine Herting, Ellis Burnett Jump, Evelyn Alma Kieffer, Joseph Louis Manz. Emily Sedgwfck Mott, Harriet Eu- netia Parker. Elizabeth May Patience. Irwin Huntington Patience, Wesley Frederick Patience, Howard Ray mond Renshaw, Henry Alden Rock well. Vera Dorothy Scharmann, Doug las Mather Sheldon, Clarence Driver Springer, William Charles Swain, Theodora Talcott, Harry U. Thonp- son, Jr., Anna Columbia Traut, Fred ertck Albert Wetherill. Harold Joseph Wetherill, Eleanor Beatrice Zimmer- man, Lillian Margaret Springer. The Summer term of the Sunday school opens next Sunday. The school, will be divided into three- sections: the primary, in charge of Mrs. Stan lay; the main school, comprising the boys, junior and senior-Intermediate departments, in charge of J. B. Com stock: and an adult class led by MT. Thompson.
 The adult class to which all are in- vited. will study Some Big Words of the Bible" The class will begin with Faith" The aim is to secure anew. as much as we may be able. that vital and compelling sense of dtscfpleship which moved the great men of the New Testament.
 Trinity Methodist Church. .
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
First Church of Christ.


 The Philathea class will take up special work on surgical dressing. at tonight's meeting.
 The Girl Scouts will meet Wednes- day at 5 o'clock.
 Troop 4 of the Boy Scouts will hold their weekly meeting on Wednesday at 7:15 o'clock.
 The Bible class for Armenian wom- en will meet Thursday at 2:30 o'clock. At the .mid-wee!< services on Thurs day evening work will be done in the interest of the Red Cross and surgical dressings.
 The all-day sewing meeting of the Red Cross vii! be held in the church Friday The meeting will open at g o'clock.
 Chlldren's Day will be observed on June IT.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
Universalist Church.

Rev. William Wallace Rose of New Haven preached last night at the Uni versaist church and made dec.aed impression on one of the largest Ss- semblies in the history of the church. Rev. MT. Rose will preach again .cxt Sunday night. Excellent music was rendered by the organist. v :
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11

A green and white striped voile Is here attractively put up by using the stripes horizontally on the waist Plain white voile borders the apron front and gives the collar and vestee. White pearl buttons close the front on the left side.
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
Trinity Methodist Church.

Glass meeting will be held Tues day evening at 7:45 o'clock. @
 The annual district Sunday School Institute conducted by the Hartford County Sunday school association will meet Thursday at 3 o'clock. The evening session will be held at 7:30 o'clock,
 Mid-week services will be held Thursday at 7:45 p. m. The subject for discussion will be Prayer and the Goodness of God"
 On Friday at 6:30 o'clock the Wom- ems Home Missionary Society Mite Box supper will be held in the church
 The Boy Scouts will meet Friday at D. m.
 The annual church school picnic
New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
TO HELP
 YOUNG GIRLS
A Mother Wants Her Letter
 Published.

Eaton, Il.-tT wish you would pub- iish this letter for the benefit of young girls. My daughter suffered greatly from female trouble with cramps, and headache, and backache most of the time. She never felt like working and it seemed as though she was sick all the time. decided to try Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound and it has helped her in every way, in fact it has really cured her, for she no longer has periodic pains, and no more headaches or backache, and want all young girls who suffer as she did to know about it. .' Mrs. ALMA MILLS, Eaton, ILL
 Another Crl's Experienoe.
 ], New Castle, Ind. ssFrom the time Twas eleven years old until I was seven- teen l suffered each month 60 had to be in bed. I had headache. baclache and such pains l would cramp double every month. I did not know what it was to be easy minute. My health was all run down and the doctors did not do me any good. A neighbor told my mother about Lydia E. Pinkham's 's Vegetable Compound and took it. and now I feel like new person. don't suffer any moro and am regular every month. ."-Mrs HAzK1. HANn,- TON, 622 South 18th St, Newcastle. ina
 Girls who are troubled as these vne1n0 women were, should immediately seef restoration to health by taking Lvdia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-14

Miss Clara V. Bradley, who had
been engaged to teach the class in
school, room cooking during the
fourth quarter of the year asked to
be released from her contract. She
was offered another position carry
ing a very much larger salary. Of
course, she was released Miss Beth
Palmer, OF Brodhead, has been en-
gagged to fill the place.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-14

If you want to sell your farm or
city property, see Kilgore & Ander-
son. 43-tf
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
! TRAINING SCHOOL NOTES {

An agent for a cyclopedia is tray
cling through the county. He is
taking school time for interviewing
the teachers. He also claims that
the principal of the training school
sent him to the teacher. This
statement is false. The training
school never has, and never will
send an agent to teacher, no mat
ter how good the book may be.
Further, neither teacher nor agent
have any right to use school time
for the transaction of any business,
except school business.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-14

Four teachers took advantage of
the offer made in last weeks notes
and sent for the copy Of one or
more Of the patriotic songs men
toned. The state song especially
was called for. We have more
copies for teachers who may want
them.