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Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03

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 The end of last summer saw Cador- mas army on tho point of making the long hoped for break in the Teutonic lines. But Italy ran short of wheat. In September the all-important bread ration of the Italian soldier had to be cut from 75O grams a day to 500 grams. The next month the Germans. attacked, and the Italian line crum- pied.
 The United States Food Admins tration had not been created by Con- gross until August 10. There is no particular reason why it should not have been created two months earlier. It's work is to prevent just such con- tingencies as the cutting of the Ital- ian ration.
 The work of the Food Administra- tion is two jobs rather than one. The first task is to see that food in the more concentrated forms Is saved from unnecessary consumption here fn order that 1t may be shipped to Europe.
 AS part of this task Mir. Hoover asks every American to eat each day one ounce less of sugar than he usual ly eats. Is he trying to infiict hard ship when he asks that: Americans who do as he requests will still eat three-fourths of their normal consump- tion of sugar. But the English are getting only a little over one-fourth as much sugar as they used to eat. American confectioners have been putting 100000 tons of sugar year into candy. That amount of sugar would all but supply the entire Eng fish demand at the present rate of consumption. Recently be administra- tion has cut the candy makers down l to 100000 tons a year. The money value of the sugar so saved is enough to feed all of Belgium for one year.
 In restricting the candy makers the administration was performing the second part of It's task-that of con trolling the distribution of food sup plies. In its conservation work the administration deals directly with producer and consumer. On the side of control it deals with the manufac- turer and the wholesaler.
 Food control is saving money for the American household week by week. In May, wheat was at $3.50 a bushel and flour at $17.10. Congress brought wheat down to $2.20 for this years crop, and Hoover's organiza- ton had reduced the price of flour to s10.25. On every barrel of flour bought the purchaser has been en- abled to save at least $6.85. AS Amer ica consumes ten million barrels of flour in a month, the tctal monthly saving effected by the administration at this one point is $68,50O,00O.
 But keeping down the cost of living Is not the primary object of the admin lstration. It opposes hoarding, not so much because hoarding raises prices as because it keeps food out of the market at the very times when il is most seriously needed. The admins tration's licensing system has practi- cally eliminated hoarding. Jobbers, wholesalers and big retailers can do business only if they have a license. If they are caught hoardinC, forfei. ture of their license puts them out of business forthwith. Public opinion keeps the small retailers in line where patriotism doesn't do it.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
1IRMEN STUDY BIRD LIFE
Declare Wild Ducks Execute Move ments With a SiTnultaneousnes Net
 Found in Military Bodies.

French military aviators, in addition to fighting the German machines, di- recting the artillery fire and making photographs of the enemy's lines, trenches and Notifications, have found a new field of usefulness in the scien- tific pursuit of ornithology, says Ike Rock Island Union.
 The degree of perfection of observa- ton obtained by the French aviators has enabled them to make a minute and scientific observation of the habits of birds in flight
 The aviators have definitely estab- lished that swallows iu flying always maintain an average altitude of 700 yards. Wild ducks prefer an altitude of 1,S00 yards, or little over mile. Lapwings or tirwits maintain at all times an even greater altitude. French aviators have met them at a height of 2,1J0 yards.
 While nearly everyone knows that wild ducks always fly in a single file behind their leaders, it has remained for the aviatorS to discover that the wild ducks execute every movement with q simultaneousness and degree of precision not to be found in the most perfectly trained military body in the world.
 If, for example, the lead duck changes the position of a wing in or der to fly either higher or lower, all of the others make the same move ment with a degree of precision that gives the impression that the tips of the wings are all attached to a wire and that the movement is made by the lead duck merely pulling a lever that controls the rest.
 The aviators have further estab- lished that the average speed of wild ducks in flight is 651a miles an hour when they are flying upward and 68 miles m hour when flying horizon tally.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
To Preserve Tlmberinu.

The use of poison sprays has not cnly been found effective in preventing t4.e destruction of plants and erultS but 1t Is now being tested as Il l:eans of preserving buildings. The timber ing of Westminster hall. the famous old structure adjoining the British houses of parliament, has suffered greatly from the ravages of wood worm, Xestobium tesselatum. Archi. tect Frank Baines, who states that the grub lives only in the oak, finds that holes large enough to bury 6 man waist deep have been made in the oak trusses of the magnificent roof with it's shingled span of 68 feet and he believes the work of destruction has been going on 400 years. Some oi the patching done 100 years ago has shared the attacks made on older DOT tions. AS last measure of protec. tion, spraying mixture has been pre- pared by Prof. H. M. Lefroy from cedar wood oil, soft soap, parafIin wnx and certain powerful chemicals, and the several applications of this that have been made are expected to give relief. Gas masks have had to be worn in applying this powerful insec' ticide
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
No Wonder They Sneeze.

The cause of hay fever is no longer a dark mystery. Here 1t is: Hay fever is caused by partial paralysis of the vasomotor function or the nerves of the nose, which causes membranes suFre,in6iii,s ,i.3 5oaes = become fllat with blood. This congestion and ir' ritaticn, aggravated by pollen Of rag. weed and goldenrod produces pa. roxysms of sneeziag. This explaEa' ton was made before the American Osteopath association, in convention by Dr. John ". Bailey, Philadelphia
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
Amazed at FrivoIity.

A Paris dispatch says the French mission to the United States was amazed at New York city's frivolity, compared with restricted Paris, where restaurants and cafes, as we'll as pub. lie places and amusements of all sorts are subject to regulation. Evening clothes and decollete frccks are barred Telephoning, telegraphing, photograph ing, travel, dancing, stock exchange dealings are all regulated by the gov ernment; also food, staples, gas, etc, eff you go into this thing as we did in 1914" one French officer remarked to his American host, "all this will be a dream a year from now"
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
A Heroine of War.

Mime. Maitre, wife of the deputy for Saone ct Loire, Is one of the most he roic figures in France today, says LII lustration.
 From the beginning of the present war Mime. Maitre has lived the life of a soldier with the Alpine Chasseurs. She has been foremost in every battle with the regiment to which she has attached herself. Many a time she has been wounded when on her CT rands of mercy. Like soldier at the front, she was in the thick and thin of 1t, not needing the hail of bullets or bursting shells.
 Fortunately her wounds were slight, and not to hamper the surgeons at the hospitals she retired to her own hoElc to nurse her injuries. For her heroic sservices she was we'll rewarded, hav- ing received many decorations, among them the Croix de Guerre, with silver clasps.
 The chasseurs were transferred to the Flanders front, and one day while busy on the battlefield shell splinter injured her on the forehead just ever the eye, which made 1t necessary for 2 her to, be brought 10 hospital, where she could be under constant obscrva- tlon. Here she was frequently visited by civil and military officials. and as a reward for her heroic decd she was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
TO HELP FARMERS.

Connecticut Food Supply Committee
 Names Sub-committees.
 Tn order to increase the efficiency sf Its work and to insure the handling of yarinns problems in more detail than would be possible under other circumstances. the Committee of Food Supply If the Connecticut State C0un- sI U1 Defense recently appointed sev- eral sub-committees to work upon spe-iaI projects These cover the field of liVe stock, poultry, home gardening, vegetable growing. small grains and the cooperative buying cf grain
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03

< < This is the fifth article of , x series on America's war prepara- } x tions, secured from federal off , + ciaIs by the Publicity Committee } < of the Connecticut State Council , x of Defense for publication in x Connecticut newsr apers. They , x Will deal with all phases of the , x nations organization for war, } x and Will be as complete and in- x formative as the exigencies of , x military strategy will permit.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03

Mir. and Mrs A. W. Herbst have been entertaining MT and Mrs. John 6. Strain of New York city
 Miss Annie Conn of Jarien has been visiting at E B. Stones.
 Miss Fibre ace Goggin who has been spending the vacation with her aunt Mrs Fl GOgRin in Fast Canaan re- rurned home Monday accompanied by her hrothe:, who spent the day with his consiOs.
 Frederick Goggin If East Canaan is spending bls vacation with MT. anl Mrs Thoina- o tIaga at Twin Lakes.
 Frank BIass has returnat. t0 Torring- ton.
 Mrs Oliver Carer has been enter tainino Mrs, Craig of Kingston. N !
 The 50th ann. versaTy of the ded ca ton of the Meth0dist Episcopal church wil' he fttingly observed on Jal l6 Fiffv years ago. Jan 16 1868 the church was dedcaied Ly Bishop Janrs More will be said later in re-ard TO this observance
 Robert H Smith of New York city was guest of Miss WhittIesey over the holidays.
 Miss Louise Richards of Winsted was the guest of Miss Amy Lansing Tuesday, both leaving for POtsda N Y, where thev attend Crane Con servatorg of Music.
 Miss Marion Hugins was home from ,h,,r al for hclidox Miss Gertrude Hugins is home from Lakev.ile.
 John Fuller was home from Astoria, L l., for New Years.
 Miss Sarah Holiey entertained as her New Years guests Myron Fo'ley Misses Cassie Robertson and NettIe Barnett
 At the regular meeting of Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge No. 49 held on last Friday evening officers for the en- suing year were elected as follows:- N. G., Mrs. Mary Doe; V G, Mrs Caroline Gam; Rec Sec'y, Mrs Sophronia Schmidt, Fin. Sec'y.. Mrs sarah Caldwell; Treas Miss Louise Trleschmann. These officers will be installed on the evening of Jan. II.
 ..pgust Boiney of Winsted who was overcome by gas at his h6me last week and removed to the hospital has so far recovered as to return to his home.
 MT. and Mrs. John v. Adam spent the weekend with relatives in Wln sted.
 Grant Garter is home and confined to the house by illness.
 MT. and Mrs. Ralph Dewey arrived on Thursday and are visiting MT Dewey's parents, MT. aud Mrs. Fred Dewey.
 Mrs. J H Lansing and daughter, Amy spent Saturday in Pittsfield. Mass.
 There was a very small attendance at the Hose Go. whist on Friday even ing. It was the last of the series. Prizes were awarded First prizes were awarded Miss Ruth hatmaker and Dr. H. L.. Ross, the consolation prizes were awarded Judge and Mrs. G W. Ford
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
WUUD CROPPING brt
Town of old Lyme VIII Meet Fuel
 Ci+uafion

Town of old Lyme VIII Meet Fuel
 Situation.
 The town of Old Lyme has set an example to the rest of the state by setting aside next Thursday as the first community wood ehopping day in Connecticut. Instead of complaining about the lack of coal because of war conditions the citizens of this com munity have decided to hustle for themselves, and a special committee has invited all the ablebodied men of tLs town to adjourn on the day set to a we'll stocked wood lot and chop as much wood as they can. The wood will be sold to Old Lyme residents V ho need it at cost.
 Gov. Marcus H. Holcomb. Richard Nj. B: sell, chairman of the Connecti- cut State Council of Defense, and Thomas W. Russell, United States fuel administrator for Connecticut, have been invited to attend the wood -H-
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
HOOVER ASKS YOU
 TO SAVE FOOp 80 FIGHTERS GAR EAT
His Work Is to Prevent Disasters Cutting Down Rati0ns
 Would Produce.
WILL KEEP DOWN COST
 AND PREVEN' H0AR1iAG

Conservation end Control Are Twin Tasks of Administrator Who Is Saw ing American People $63,0oo,0oo Monthly on Their Wheat Flour Bill. Sugar Enough to Feed Belgium Kept From Candy Makers.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
GARD OF THANKS.

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to our neighbors and friel.d for their many kiud deeds and words of sympathy during the illness and following the death Of husband and father.
 Mrs. Frances Blass
 and family.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
CONNECTICUT TOWNS
 FORM WAR BUREAUS.
Several Places Take Important Ste
 Toward Efficient Local Organization.

Several Places Take Important Step Toward Efficient Local Organization.
 The work of organizing war bu- reaus in all cities and towns of Con- necticut with 8 population of 5000 or over, one of the most important sters yet authorized by the Connecticut State Council of Defense, has pro- gressed to the point where at least ten such bureaus are already organized, and many others are in process of or ganization. Those so far organized, headquarters of the council in Hart ford, are in the following cities and towns:
 Bristol, East Hartford, Killingly, Manchester, Meriden. New Britain, Portland, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor.
 War bureaus that are partly formed, but have yet to complete their formal organization, are located in the fol lowing places:
 Hartford, Middletown, New Haven, New London, Putnam, Rockville, Sims bury and Torrington.
 As soon as they are definitely or ganized the war bureaus receive mo- tices that they are thereafter consid- cred the official, authorized represent atives in their districts of the state of Connecticut for all war work The bureaus are designed and empowered to supervise and direct all war activi ties in their towns or cities except of such organizations as the Red Cross which are national in scope and with which the bureaus will make every eff fort to cooperate. The bureaus will also be closely allied to the local gov ernments of the places in which they are located.
Connecticut western news., 1918-01-03
conserving Leather.

Leather is one of the materials which must be used economically in or der that the army may have shoes, har- ness, saddles and puttees. The depart ment of agriculture explains that the civilian can conserve leather by ITak- ing his shoes last as long as possible. Greasing them wiref, the itsttt;;.2zz sets hard and dry; wearing heel plates or otherwise preventing turnover heels, which rGin the shape of a shoe. and having them haIf-soIed when practica- ble, will cut the family shoe bill, and help the government keep the soldiers sprnnnrlv cho5
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-22
SOLDIER BOYS

1t was only few months ago that
+. j. Hubbard Of Beverly. Mass, who
came mere last April to be Il telcg-
rapher for the L. :. naval reserve
force, first as a civilian operator and
within q short time as an enrolled
electrician of the first class, took unto
hlinseH as wife one Of the Young
ladies of the town. Miss Charlotte Nc
CURE. daughter OF Mrs. Charles Nc
Cure. and the couple has since been
housekeeping in the upper apartments
Of the G. II. Foster house on North
street.-Machias letter, Bangor News.
Private George Goldberg is now with
the 30Sd Regiment at Camp Devens.
Aver. Mass. Before existing he was
violinist with tho Night Hawk orchcs-
trt Of Woodland and Calais. He and
lrlNate Halior Claridce of Calais. who
by the way is some clever with the
banjo. make very entertaining coup,e
FOR the soldier boys in their COMPANY.
Calais News.
Inc Senior class Of Bangor High
School IS The proud possessor Of 4 H.
star service flag, which wa. purchased
by the class president, John Quinn.
Each star stands for some student.
who at some time or other has been
IN the class of 1918. and is now in the
service. The flag was presented to
INC school and the class this morning
at the chapel exercises by Prin. Eaton.
IL VIII probably be hung over one of
the doors of the Assembly hall in the
near future. Other classes have
slshlf1ed their desire to have a similar
nag TO represent the members of their
classes who have gone to help Uncle
sam in time of trouble.
Letters were received last week at
SANFORD from Frank w. Mccain. now
somewhere in France" A few DAYS
ago report reached here that he was
missing and there was Joy among his
relatives and friends when he was
heard from.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-22
Decision Affirmed
FRUIT GROWERS AND
MARKET GARDENERS

The convention of the Western
Maine Fruit Growers Association anG
the Market Gardeners meeting will be
held at Auburn hall. Feb. 1920. Men
oc experience in orcharding from New
York and Massachusetts Will be pres
cnt and address the meeting. Prom :
nent Maine orchardists will also be
heard
Some of the topics which will be
discussed arc Modern Methods of
Growing Apples. Orchard Renovation.
Transplauting Trees by the Use of
n'namite Dust Spraying Gllustrated)
= unmary of the Fertilizer Situation.
running. Insect Pests and Fungous
diseases. Bees and Their Usefulness
~ the Orchard. Cooperative Market
.ng of Fruit. Cold Storage There will
also be an illustrated lecture on the
gypsy moth.
The afternoon of the second day will
he devoted to topics concerning market
gardening. such as Neglected Oppor-
tvnities small Fruits. Wayside Mar
keting. etc.
The state department of agriculture
is backing this convention and look
ing forward to more than the usual
amount Of enthusiasm at this time.
All interested are invited TO attend
and bring their friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-22
JACKMAN

II. 7. Mooers of SkowheSan spoke to an
appreciative audience OF about 30 per-
sons Friday evening in Town hall. The
affair was given as a benefit for the Red
Cross and AIR. Mooers related incidents
os his experience as an ambulance driver
lin France in the present war service.
During the recent membership drive here
the membership was raised from 80 to
more than 300 and in a little over eight
weeks the following articles were packed
to be forwarded to Red Cross headquar-
ters Two hundred forty qX9 gauze com
presses; five muslin bandages; 70 abdom
nal ban0ases; "a surgical shirts; - pairs
service socks; IL pairs of wristlets; se
mufflers; Is sweaters. The branch has
also supplied the last FIVE town boys to
enlist with the knitted articles of wearing
apparel and al Christmas time filled q
Christmas gift bags.
Judge Heman Holden has been passing
a few days down river during the pas,
week. having business before the county
commissioners at Skowhegan
G. II. Colby. agent for winter roads a,
Moose river, has been making some i'm
provements on the roads in this section
which will be greatly appreciated
! Inc Jackman Lumber Co. has con.
tracted with Charles Pinckney TO cut logs
Interior renovations are to be made in
the sprin at the Strand Theater building
when an 1Sx2o foot stage Will be placed
in the auditorium with dressing rooms
hx9 feet, water and toilets. wings and
back drop.
f! the body Of Arnold Murtha who passed
away at the home Of his brother. John
Murtha. in Moose river was inferred in
the Catholic cemetery here. The services
were held in St Anthonys church. Be
side the brother previously mentioned. Mr.
Murtha is survived by an aged mother
and one sister, Mrs James White Of Jack
man.
The following officers have been IN.
stalled in the Independent Order of Odd
feliows; \. Gr John Sterling; V. G.. G
- Holden See, G. w. Jackson. Tre,s
Taylor; r s. y. G.. E. A. VIII
iiamsi Il IS, y. G., Frank Doughty. r !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-22
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