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New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
WEEKS BROWN LEADER.
Popular Athlete to Captain Football
 Eleven in 1918.
By Briggs

Providence R. L. Nov. 27.--Joshua Herbert Weeks of New Bedford of the mate. Magin and Hanley originally next years Brown football team by the fourteen "B" men yesterday after noon. Weeks received three years training on the New Bedford High school team and a year at Worcester Academy, where he was a valuable end. He has had three years training on the Brown varsity. Weeks is an all around athlete playing on the second baseball team and class basketball five. He is president of his class and is 20 years old.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
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ANNEX CR0WDING
 LIVE OAKS QUINTET
Champions Continue to Set Pace,.
 With Little Room to Spare

Tho lead of the 1.-Two Oaks in tho City Bowling league today stands iu jeopardy Tho sailing of the i9le champions of the circuit Is not Af' clear as several weeks ago. when thay appeared to be on a galtop toward rs- beating last years achievement. margin of 33 points is all that separ- ntes tho Annex and tho l.. O.'s from the top of tho ladder, and, with the form that the Annex arc displaying. tho race threatens to reach the botl- ing point within 0 short time. The race for third place Is also very inter esing, with the Colonials, Mohawka and Harpoons battling for the place
 The complete standing of the lengue, with other statistics, follows:
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
HOLIDAY FOOTBALL

RctlwOods and All-Stars to Battle
 Thursday Morning at St. Mary's
 Playgrounds-Collcg in StaI
 Lineup.
 The Redwoods football eleven and the An-Stars will furnish the prin- cipal attraction in local sporting cir cles Thanksgiving Day, when, at 10 o'clock in the morning, they will clash on the St. Marys playErounds grid iron. Teh RcdWoods have a fine roc ord this season and should prove formidable foe for the Stars.
 The All-Stars will have in their line- up the following players: Blanchard, Seigrist, Ginsburg, Dixon, Fresen, Parker of Middlebury college. Hib- bard, Connolly and Machristy of High school fame.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
WESLEYAN SCHEDULE.
Basketball Five Opens Season Against
 ARgies Dec. 15.

Middletown, Nov. 7.-Wesleyan will start it's basketball schedule on December 15 with the Connecticut AEgies. The schedule follows:
 December 15, Connecticut Agricul- tural College at Middletown; 19, Con- necticut Agricultural College at Storrs; January l2, New Hampshire State. Middlctown; IT, Colgate, Mid dletown. 1q Amherst. Middlctown; February 8, Stevens, Hoboken '' open: IA, Dartmouth, Middletown; IS, R. P. l.. Troy; 16. Unlon' semen ec+adv. % Uilian ms. Middletown: 23, Amherst March 2, W1ll1amS' "h- ljamstown. a Union. MiddletOWn.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27

Fight Promoter to Onicintc At Six Day
 Race.

Fight Promoter to Onicintc At Six Day
 Race.
 New York, Nov. 27.-Tex Rickard last night was chosen referee for the six day bike race, which starts in Madison Square Gardcn next Sunday night.
 Oscar Egg, winner of the 1916 race. and Paul Suter, the European motor pace champion, arrived from France yesterday. They will compete in next weeks grind, Egg being teamed with Frank Kramer and Suter having Bob by Walthour as partner.
 Changes were made in the personnel of two teams last night. Alfred Goul ct will ride with Jake Magin. instead of with Fred Hill, while the latter will have Willie Hanley as a riding mate. Magi and Hanley originally were paired.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
F0RDHAM NOT ROUGH
Referee of Maroon CoEneu Game De- fends Bronx Eleven Against CdlArg00 of Unfair TNoftc8.

fendS Bronx Eleven A8Osdn0C NuSAfBu0
 of Unfair Tactics.
 New York, Nov. 27.-several day}' ago word came from Ithaca, unoffi- cially, that after the way the Ford ham football team acted against the Cornell eleven in the recent Eordham victory by 27 to 6, no Maroon team ever again would be asked to play the Cornell combination. Co:re]l men have complained that TordhAm roughed the Ithacar0 beyond all nQ- cesslty.
 Inquiry from C. J. McCarty. dr., of Philadelphia, who refereed the game. brought the information that as far as he could see Fordham played . perfectly clean game and besides played far better football than ho thought 1t could put up. Here's what McCarty has to say on the subject: j.
 Talk about the rough game played by Eordham against Cornell h news to me. I did not think FordhAm played anything but good, clean foot ball. The tackling was excellent and when the Cornell man was put out it was on a legitimate play. Frank ly, I was surprised at the game played by the New Workers. They were not guilty of any 'muckeriarn' and played no harder than other teams have seen this year. In one article I read that a Cornell player protested to one of the officials and the only satisfac ction he received was five yard penalty against his own side. A Cornell man emerged from scrimmage with a bloody nose. He rushed up to the umpire and said:
 |" Did you see that guy slug me?'
 :" Mo- replied the umpire, did not
 Where are your eyes?' demanded the player. Get on the job and usc them That's what you arc here for
 'Hc continued to uphraid tho um- pire until n i've yard penalty silenced him.
 But you can take 1t from me, there was no dirty football played by-s Fordham against Cornell Tn justice to Fordham wish to make that point dear"
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
Skinner Chuck League.

Tho pencil pushers'' of the Skinner Chuck company league are still in possession of first place in that league, but by a scant margin. The remain ing teams are deAdlocked. for tho other three positions with 10 Nce' tories and II defeats each. Bowers. who fell from the leading average last week, Is back again in tho lead. tied with Lingren. The Tool Room trio manages to retain the honors for high team single and high total scores. I,S
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27

1 and just when 1t looked as though his trainer would be forced to return to his old stamping ground in Kansas, Governor Stanford invited him to 1 take charge of the trotters nt Palo Alto. Marvin also proved the man l for the place. for when his thorough l knowledge of the horse was grafted on the new ideas advanced by Sena- tor Stanford, the Palo Alto stable sent out champions as regularly as the years were checked from the cal endar.
 Attention was first called to the outfit by Fred Crocker trotting in 2:25 1-2 as a wo-year-old. He was followed by linda Rose, who made a yearling record of 2:36 1-2 and three-year-old mark of 2:19 1-2, both of which were worlds records. The two-year-old Ally, wildflower. 2:21, was also trained under his direction. while he also gave Manzanita a four year-old record of 2:16 in race. Their successes were followed by Sun ol. 2:08 IA, Palo Alto, 2:0S IA, both l worlds records to high-wheel sulkies in 1891. That year Marvin also brought out the wonder horse of the century. His name was Arion. Very few had ever heard of him until one morning the world was startled by : reading that a two-year-old had trot- ted a mile in 2:10 3-4 over the kite track at Stockton, and in few months this colt was sold for $125,- 0o0
 | AriOn His Masterpiece.
 Arion was Marvins masterpiece. In him he united all the knowledge i~1, olr;,, speed and all the skill which he pos sessed in balancing a colt that. like Hamburg Belle. 2:01 IA, showed a disposition to brush his knees. Being weight in the shoe just as John E.
 Madden did with the great daughter of Axworthy 2:15 1-2 and both of them succeeded beyond expectations
 All of the Palo Alto champions were
 broken and developed by Marvin or under his orders. In their fastest per formances his mounts did what he taught them, many of. them making their greatest trials on practically a loose line. Ills driving had none of the dash of McHenry or rustic of Jack
 Curry. With the brush system he made speed and taught his pupils to carry it through a series of heats in all kinds Of company. This was his gift from Senator Stanford. while from Robert Bonner he acquired a
 knowledge of the norse's foot and
 shoeing which gave him the key to
 the unparalleled performances of
 Sunol, Palo Alto, and Arion.
 With all of his skill Marvin had one quality that cndeared him to every
 body connected with racing. He was
 honest, and amid all of the tempta-
 tions that beset a driver. no one
 could ever cast reflection on him.
 One day, during a race at Chicago.
 when matters were getting desperate
 in the betting ring, man came to
 Marvin with an offer to lose a heat.
 AS an inducement he laid down sev-
 oral bills of large denominations on
 the lid of trunk in the stall where the conversation took place and told
 him what was wanted. The httle
 man in gray brushed him aside and } when the other, remonstrating, said that if he had been working for Stanford as long as Marvin he would : be acting as his banker. Marvin re- ) piled II have known you long } time and I have never known you to ever need a banker" That ended the , Interview and the man who called on
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27

John (Hans) Lobert. who recently received his unconditional release bv the New York National league club has been appointed baseball coach at the West Point Military academy. Lobert succeeds Sam Strans, also a former Giant player, who now Is a captain in the army.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27

Marvin and those who sent him re- ceived their answer in the next heat for Marvin won.
New Britain herald., 1917-11-27

For the first time in several years the Sunny South has a candidate for Al-American football honors who Is the experts start making their awards.
 His name is Everett Strupper, and he is halfback on tho Georgia Tech.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28

tain foods. Preserved sweets, for in stance. would be sealed with one de vice and some sharp appetizer with another So the course of time brot the Egyptian woman goodly number Of seals. the special mark of her wife hood
 Then it became a custom for the bridegroom on his wedding day to present the future homemaker with little string of seals. In the beginning they usually were suspended from an ornamental chain about her neck. but afterward it became the custom to carry the keys on an ornamental cord around the wrist And finally the keys were attached to 8 woman's finger by means Of a cord or gold wire. This naturally meant reduction in the num- her of seals. and some genius of the days of old hit upon the idea of com bining the seal and the wire together. from which we get the signet ring. Such ring was regularly presented to the bride on her wedding day.
 Things had reached this state of progress when keys seem to have been first used in Egypt to any great extent. The coming of locks did away with the wifely seals and her peculiar mark Of sovereignty in the home. By degrees he signet ring went out of fashion as the special prerogative of the bride and was succeeded by a plain band ring such as every young lady of today expects to wear Numbers of these plain and signet rings have been found in the old tombs Of northern Africa mute evidence Of loves long since dead and gone.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28
ALASKA LEGISLATURE
 MEMORIAL BEARS FRUIT

Beginning this month. the |. :. Blu reau of Fisheries has inaugurated a new Government fishery intelligence service that will be on incalculahle assistance 10 the fsermen operating at a distance from the larger markets, and especially to those who wish to diBose Of their catch at the smaller towns along the Alaska coast. Ward v. Bower. chief agent Of the Alaska service at Washington was in Seattle .-cm June 30 10 July to arrange for 5he new service. by which fish price quotations il the principal markets will ae cabled daily to all places where fish are ordinarily landed.
 The new service is the result of a memorial sent 10 Washington by the last Alaska legislature. requesting that the Bureau of Fisheries in conjunction with rhe Alaska telegraph cable serv- ice make arrangements whereby the fresh fish prices at Seattle and Ketchi-
 an bs bulletined daily ar the cable office in each town on the Alaska coast where fishing vessels call, and that eace 9 week prices be bulletined on tae leading varieties Of salt fish. The 1.-=aa Of Fisheries took the matter p and upon issuance Of the necessary orders by the Secretary Of War. who controls the caole service, proceeded Q arrange for the work. which was finally started July $.
 Edwin James Brown. local agent Of The Fisheries Bureau. will have charge q tse dispatching Of quotations from Seattle The prices will be those pre- Fai!ias on the Fish exchange at noon. covering three varieties: halibut. sable 5sh and red rockcod. or red snappers as they are known locally. They will be wired every day excep. Sundays and holidays and will be posted at Juneau. Petersburg. KeJchikan. Sitka. Valdez. Seward. CordoFa and Skagway. On Monday the dispatch will also include prices CT pickled sableash. herring and salmon. As soon as possible a similar intelligence service will be inaugural, ed rom Ketchikan.
 The new service will enable the fish. erman at any of the market points in Alaska 10 keep well informed as to conditions il the larger markets so -Ea- he can dispose of his catch to the best advantage. and is expected 10 stimulate fishing operations on the more distant banks IL will also en. courage the fishermen to market their catches at points near the banks. and will no doubt aid in the growth Of Fisherman.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28
ADVERTISED LETTERS

When asking for any of the follow. ing. say ADVERTISED" A fee of 1 cent will be collected on each letter delivered.
 Bergh. Elmer; Brown. Louisa; Bur ton. Selina J.; Christionson, Henry; Donohue, Jim: Flynn, P. J.; Gilman, Miss Mable; Hanson. G. w; Howe, j. P; Iversen. Mrs. J. NJ. Johanson. Trans; Johnson. Myrn; Lanos, Joe; Larsen, Sivert; Milliken. J. w; Reid 4 H: Reiter, E. D.; Rice Dick; Smith Geo. Wesly, Lucy; Wiley, James; Wood, Miss Daisy.
 Any of the foregoing remaining un- delivered on August f, will be forward cd 10 Division Of Dead Letters, San Francisco, Calif
 JAMES F. WARDER, Postmaster
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28
It's Too Elaborate Now,

Thank fortune there is no official who has authority to elaborate the Congressional Record.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28
BraVinu the Censor

We don't like to criticise our allies, bur We can't help thinking that if Eng land took as much pains in trying to make things happen as in finding out how they happened she'd get out of her troubles considerably faster.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28
WEDDING RINGS
Their Descent From the Ancient sio.
 net Rings Of Egypt.

1T Was under the shadow of the pyr- am-ds that brides first wore rings as symbols Of wedlUck.
 l" he early Egyptian home it was the custom Of the wife to keep all Of her jars. closets and storerooms sealed. \ different seal ordinarily was uset for every door or jars containing cer
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-28
Give the Housewives a Little Peace

The Food bill ought to be so framed as 70 prevent the spectators from making any annexations or leyying any indemnities.
The Parker post., 1917-09-29
Welding Compounds.

Welding liquids are not considered
so good as the preparations In the
powder form. with the possible excep-
ton Of the solution Of zinc in hydro
chloric acid which is used by timers.
A very good compound may be made
as follows:
To 20 parts of iron filings add 10
parts borax, 1.5 parts sal ammoniac
and one part Of resinous oil (bal-
sam of copaiba may be used).
The surfaces to be united are to be
powdered with this mixture, then
placed in the fire and heated to cher
ry red. When the composition melts,
remove the pieces from the fire and
weld them quickly. There are numer-
Gus preparations but most Of them
contain ammonium, chloride, borax
and sodium carbonate.-Dr. Charles
K. Francis, Chemist, Experiment Sta
ton, Oklahoma A. and, NJ. College
saltwater.
The Parker post., 1917-09-29
Welcome the Birds.

Are all the beautiful birdhOuses that
we're made last winter now in place
and oCcupied2 Let us give glad
welcome to all the birds that can be
induced to live near us. Not everyone
realizes the benefit these little crea-
lures confer. The work they do in
preserving our crops and fruit from
the ravages Of insects needs to be
told again and again. Besides this
great use, the happiness they give us
with their songs and their beauty Is
not to be told or measured. Many a
heavy heart has been cheered and COM
forted by the robins friendly cheer
up dearie, cheer up" as he fits about
Il home Robins love to be friendly.
and there are other birds which love
human society. Have you in your
gard a dish Of water for them to drink
and bathe in? If not, put one there,
and observe how gladly it Is made use
of.~-Exchange
The Parker post., 1917-09-29
Literary Battallons.

In q library we are surrounded by
many hundreds of dear friends, but
they are imprisoned in these paper
and leather boxes, and as they are
dressed, like battalions Of infantry, in
coat and jacket of one cut, by the
thousands, your chance of hitting on
the right one Is to be computed by
the arithmetical rule Of Formulation
and cOmbinatiOn-not choice out Of
three caskets, but out of half Il mil
lion caskets all alike. Would that
some charitable soul, after losing a
great deal Of time among the false
books and alighting upon a few true
ones, which made him happy and
wise, would name those which have
been bridges or ships to carry him
safely over dark recesses and barren
oceans into the heart Of sacred cities,
into palaces and temples.-Emerson.
The Parker post., 1917-09-29
Women in the Field of Labor.

If by chance a woman does not be-
come a homemaker, but enters a busi-
ness pursuit she meets unusual diff
Guilty. The man has been In business
for generations; the woman Is new
conner. Some emplOyments are closed
to her either because they require the
great physical strength or endurance,
or because conventional considerations
forbid Americans look with disap'
proval upon women working In the
fields, as they do in foreign countries ;
and vet there is much field work that
is more interesting, more wholesome
and much more suitable than some
Of the work that American women are
allowed to do-such, for example, as
they do in laundries and In factories.
Not only are WOIlen considered as
invaders in mems fields, but also they
suffer because men, invading fields
once considered strictly feminine, are
becoming dressmakers, cooks, laundry
managers and clerks. Moreover, for
the same work women received lower
pay than men, Do not those difficult
ties constitute a compelling appeal to
give women in their schooling every
possible equipment for success?-
Youths Companion.
The Parker post., 1917-09-29
DRAFT BOARD HAD NO PICNIC.

Incident to the departure of the
Yuma liberty boys for Fort Riley, few
people realized the enormous amount
OF labor that was performed gratis
by the local draft board and their
helpers to accomplish the work ne
cessary to furnish Uncle Sam with
124 boys, sound, good and true, for
service in the war. This board was
composed Of Sheriff Mel Greenleaf
and Recorder r. |. Winn, with DR..
c. &. Rooney as examining physician.
All these men, aided by other local
physicians and some civilians, the
latter at the examination OF the men,
did an enormous amount of work.
Especially was this true OF Secretary
Wtnn, upon whose shoulders fell the
burden Of all the clerical effort.
Himself and his efficient deputies in
the. recorders Office sweat great
drops Of blood, as 1t were. wading
through miles of red tape In prepar-
ing the papers, cards, etc, and TAX
ing care of the business Of the draft
as It relates to detail and record.
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Baker also had
a prominent and irksome task to
perform, helping the sheriff. And
In It all. Gays the Yuma Sun, 1t is
safe In sayiRg that no better service
The Parker post., 1917-09-29
WHERE TARLETON IS BURIED
American Tourist Discovers Tomb Of
Dashing Officer Who Won Fame
In Revolution.

What became Of Major TarletOn aft
er the Battle of Yorktown? Except
for a very few people, says A. 6.
Bradley in the Nation, everyone In
England has forgotten the very name
of the young cavalry leader But many
persons in America must have Won
dered what became Of the dashing SOL
der and how it happened that in the
long years Of war that shook England
and Europe his name never once ap-
peared.
When Mr.. Bradley, in leisure hour,
entered the fine old fourteenth century
village church at LeintWardine, in
HerefOrdshire, he did snt think that
the bare, unseated chapel promised
much Of interest; indeed, he was just
turning away when in far corner and
partly concealed by ladders, buckets,
plankS and other articles necessary to
the cleaning Of the church, he caught
sight of lofty mural monument. The
lettering on it ran as follows:
"Near this place are deposited the
mortal remains Of Sir Banastre Tarle-
tOn-BarOnet General in the Army
the Bath, Governor Of Berwick-on-
Tweed, Colonel of the Gallant 9th
Hussars-He represented his native
town Of Liverpool for seven Sessions
and closed his distinguished career in
this place Jan. %, 1888"
In 1898 TarletOn was sent to Portu.
gal, but was very soon recalled at his
own request, and with that exception
he never saw q shot fired after York
town or served anywhere abroad, al
though England was constantly fight
ing until Waterloo. He got promoted
regularly, however, for he stood we'll
ut court and was q member of the
prince Of Wales circle
TarletOn belonged neither to the no.
bility nor TO the landed gentry. He
was the son of a Liverpool merchant,
an unusual origin at that time for
dashing cavalry officer and the best
hOrsemAn, according to good authority,
in the British army. He had entered
Oxford and had studied to become q
barrister, but gave up classics and the
law for soldering and a commission
ut twenty-One years of age. He had
genius for the training Of men and
officers and for rapid and successful
strokes.
On returning from America, how
ever, he turned from soldering to poll
tics; he lost no time in entering the
house Of commons, and sat for his
native city of Liverpool for 20 years.
He became Il major general in 1894, a
lieutenant general in 1901, full gen.
eral in 1872, a barOnet in 1915 and
G. G.. B. in 1920. He also held the
full colonelcy Of several cavalry regi-
ments in succession and was for some
years governor of Berwick. He ap-
parently retired with his wife to
LeintwardOne for the last years of
his life, lived there quietly and did not
mix with the neighbOring county fam
lilies.
The seclusion of his gorgeous tomb,
behind the cObwebs of a disused aisle,
gives q final touch Of mystery to the
romance that early associations with
Virginia have connected with Tarle-
toms name.-Youth's Companion.
The Parker post., 1917-09-29

could have been rendered by any
board In the country. Every one Of
them was careful, painstaking, ac-
commodating and practical in every
move made, and every decision they
rendered was sustained by the dis
trict board. Their task is not COM
plete, either. They have to look
over SO more boys on October 3, see
ing that they get started safely to
Fort Riley. And after this they will
be called on to keep on going through
the same laborious and perplexing
ordeal until the full 1,241 men who
registered in this county are in the
lines, unless the war ends in the
meantime.
But one man has been arrested as
a Stacker in Yuma county. There
are others, however, who will prob
ably be arrested later. The local
board has been very lenient and ac-
commodating and did everything in
their power to please and at the
same time do their duty strictly to
the letter. And they have succeeded
remarkably we'll.