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Middletown transcript., 1918-10-12
PRESERVING Conventions

Preserving Conventions.
II hear that Jones is a gentleman
tarmer now"
Eyes, and he's the real thing in that
line. Puts evening dress on all his
scare crows at dusk"
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Conference.-The local draft board
has received a call for five white men
to be sent to the Bliss Electrical
school. Washington, on Of about Octo-
bor Is.
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Her Status.
'She is a mere butterfly of society,
isn't she?" "Well. not exactly. I
should rather call her butter-in."
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1nexorAble Law.

The law Of reaping as we SOW runs
through the universe. The man who
sows pennies will reap q penny crop.
The man who sows dollars will reap
dollars.
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GERMANS LEAVE BULGARIA.
Troops That Fought IN That secto,
Marching Back.

Berlin.-German troops which have
been fighting in the ranks of the Bull.
garian Army have been withdrawn and
are now marching back towards their
headquarters, says the official state.
ment issued by the German general
army headquarters, which adds:
"They have completely met the high
demands made upon them and have
accomplished excellent work"
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Its Sort.

"Would you call meters state
fight reading?
certainly; doesn't 1t come In vol
umes of gas?'
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Your Own Way.

Your Own way.
Many have an idea that 1t would be
pleasant always to have their own
way. 1t is sometimes pleasant, but
the results are not gratifying. It is
he road that leads to temptation and
>Dndage of sir
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eo0etlmes alarming symptoms Wright'0
Indian Vegetable Pins stimulate The digoo.
tive proce0oeo 70 function naturally. AlV.
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Rumor has caused many good
nerve to stick in the mud.
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Health may be wealth for some
but 1t is poverty for the doctor.
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II your eyes smart Or feel Ocalded Ro.
man Eye Balsam applied upon goiNg to bed
10 just the thing to relieve them. Adv.
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WOMAN works
15'H0uRS A DAY
Marvellous Story of Woman's
Change from Weakness
to Strength BY Taking
Druggists Advice.

Peru, Ind" suffered from o did.
placement with backache and dragging
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Sugar Beet Experiment.,

Sugar Beet Experiments.
BY experiment with sugar beets II
has been proved that plants growing
close to the ground thrive better when
planted in rows running from east to
west rather than from north to south
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Lying too much in bed is almost as
bad as lying too much out of It.
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A l1rst-class policy and one that is
calculated to make man happy is to
keen out of debt.
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Don't JUDGE Harshly

Nine times out of ten there is an ex-
planation for what seems unreasonable
upon first notice. Wait q while before
passing judgment.
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Groves Taeteleso chill Tonic
restores vitality and energy BY purifying ana e.
Fching the blood. You can soon feel it, etTonG5Se
oning, Invig0rating 00oct. Price &c.
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It sometimes happens that when Q
man offers to stake his reputation ON
a thing he would win by losing.
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When Baby % Teething
GROVES BABY BOWL MEDICINE will correct
HE Stomach and Bowel troubles. Perfectly harm
less. See directions ON the bottle.
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Male gossips are the worst of the
breed.
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Seemed SO.

'sThere are good many ups and
downs in this war;" Are you refer
ring to airplanes and submarines?"
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LESSON TEXT-Gcnesis 13:1-11; H:14-16.
GOLDEN TEXT-A friend loveth at all
times. and q brother il born for adveE.
sity.-Proverbs 17:l7
DEVOTIONAL READING-Romans >:
IN.
TEACHERS Genesis n:10-14; "a: lS:16-33;
1922
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.ssssC Sss0SO wv VI ~ Is10V -
Just where the trouble starts.
Now q sour, acid stomach, or Sup
eracidity", Of course. simply means
too much acid In the stomach. You
can now quickly rid your stomach Of
its excess acids A wonderful modern
remedy called EATONIC literally
wipes it out. Itdoes the work easily,
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
IMPORTS UNAFFECTED
BY U-BOAT WARFARE
Figures for Ten-Month Period
Show Only Slight
Falling Off.

How little the submarine warfare
has curtailed the exports from London
to the United States since America de-
clared war on Germany is seen in the
official figures of the United States i'm
ports from the British capital. The
figures for ten months ending with Oc-
tober show a decrease of only $1S,000,-
900, with a total of $115,390,471. Last
year the figures for the similar period
were $133, ,740,7S3.
The principal articles imported from
London and their value were: Rubber,
$31,61O,629; precious stones, $15,609,-
466; tin, $8,852, ,856.
The principal articles imported from
London for the ten months this year
we're: Rubber, $39, ,77O,603; precious
stones, SIS, 5,435, ,592; tin, $9,396,001; art,
$4,464, $50; hides, $2,934,372; furs, $5,-
434,S7O; tea, $747O58; indigo $1,197,-
,101; wool, $929,047.
There is a slight increase in the
imports of tin as compared with last
years figures, a decrease of about
$3O00,OO0 in art imports the figure for
hides is about half what it was, and
less wool was sent here from London
by Approximately $5OO,0OO. Indigo also
shows a decrease amounting to more
than $1,OO0OO0. Tea shows the most
notable falling off, the figures being $4,-
436,508 for the 1916 period and $747,-
O5S for 1917. There was no tea or
wool imported from London last
month.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

Whether the Germans are better fed
than they should be is a matter of
viewpoint. A guest of a fine hotel
would be dissatisfied with the food
the United States furnishes and expert
chefs from the big liners prepare. On
the other hand, there are many people
who would be pleased to get high quail
ity western meat twice a day, as the
Germans frequently do, with an abun-
dance of vegetables, coffee, rye bread,
butter, tea and stewed fruit. Steak is
not unknown, although stews and
roasts are more common.
Local sentiment is somewhat stirred
by the fact that the United States Off
cials do not enforce the meatless and
wheatlesS days which Mr.. Hoover
urges on Americans. And criticism Is
directed because all purchases Of food
and selection of the daily menus are
made by one Of the Germans them
selves. People ask what motive Ger
man would have to conserve food for
his country's enemies. This agent is
D. Peinert, former purchasing agent in
New York for the Hamburg-American
line.
Officials in charge Of the camp de-
fend Peinert's selection on the ground
that he is highly capable. They say
that for months the per capita cost
of raw food has been only 45 cents a
day, and insist that the hogs fed on
the garbage are squealing complaints
of short rations. They have no orders
from Washington to enforce the Hoo
yer regulations, they add.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
AUTO AFTER JACK RABBIT
Wheel Came off, There Was Wreck
and No Joke.

Wheel Came off, There Was a Wreck
and No Joke.
A curiosity to time a jack rabbit
with a tested speedometer resulted in
the wreclzing Of an automobile near
Topeka, Kan, one night recently.
w. f. Haafe, an automobile agent at
Natoma, was on his way to Kansas
City, and as the road was good, was
keeping up about all the law permits In
the way of speed, when jack rabbit
chose the same route. Haafe thought
it would be a joke to make the rabbit
take a siding, ard ran his speedometer
up to within so per cent of its adver-
tised ability. But having chosen east
as his general direction and that par
ticular road as his route, the rabbit
continued to plOd along at little bet
ter than 80 miles an hour.
The rabbit did not turn out, but
portion Of the pursuing car did. After
he had crawled out Of a ditch and
twisted himself into shape, Haafe
caught a car into Topeka, where he
waited until daylight to hunt a wheel,
which had left the general wreekage
and taken refuge in a corn field.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

should eat two-thirds of a busheI OF
potatoes during the month of Decem
Der. II they were used in the great
variety Of ways they can be cooked
the consumption would be a bushel
per person during the month Of De-
cember.
There Is no place to store the po-
tatoes now coming into the market
save in the homes of the people. The
railroads need the cars to haul other
products. The logical distribution is
quick handling from the car to the
retailer and from the retailer to the
consumer and from the basket straight
to the table.
On December 6 potato growers of
Pennsylvania met at Public Safety
Committee headquarters in Philadel-
phia to organize a state branch of
the Potato Association Of America.
The object is to plan to raise more
potatoes and better potatoes next
year. The greatest encouragement,
however, that can be given will come
through the consumption of potatoes
during the coming weeks. 1t is almost
unpatriotic to eat canned goods dur
ing December when potatoes and
other vegetables can be had in large
quantities. The more potatoes we eat
the more bread and meat our boys at
the front will get.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

Lieut.. Patrick O'Brien, an American
member of the British flying corps.
who was brought down In a one-sided
battle by the Germans, and who had
been taken into Germany on his way TO
a prison camp, jumped from q train
which was going 80 miles an hour, and
by many heroic and clever moves man.
aged TO get into Holland, and then back
to England.
O'Brien was reported missing last
August IL, and his temperance was
a great surprise to his friends. On
the morning of August II enemy gun
ners forced him to land, but fortunate
ly he got back to his own lines. Later
in the day he was again flying over the
enemy lines and he, with five other
machines, was engaged by 20 German
airplanes. O'Brien alone engaged four
of them. He accounted for one of the
machines before he was shot in the lip.
He fell with his damaged plane 5000
feet. He cannot explain why he was
not killed.
When he regained consciousness
O'Brien was in q German war hospital.
Later, when he was being taken into
Germany, he jumped from the moving
train, and by walking at night, swim
ming rivers and subsisting only on
food that he could get from the fields,
he managed to reach Holland.
He was, fugitive for 72 days. He
had a narrow escape when he was In
sight of his goal. To circumvene
charged wires O'Brien built a bridge
with nearby wood and threw IL across
the wires. It broke under his weight,
and O'Brien says that he can still feel
the shock. He dug a tunnel with his
hands under the wires and he was
free.
A brief telegram was received by
his mother, Mrs. Margaret OBrien,
saying that he had escaped from the
Germans, and that he soon would be
home. O'Brien will try to change to
the American aviation corps. The
photo shows him standing In front of
his machine.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

The reading class was in session
and the word "furlough" occurred.
Miss Jones, the teacher asked if any
little girl or boy knew the meaning
of the word.
One small hand was raised.
''FurIough means Il mule" said the
child.
"Oh, no, it doesn't" said the teach
ier.
eyes, ma'am," insisted the little
girl. ''I have the book at home that
says So"
Miss Jones told the child to bring
the book to school. The next morning
the child came armed with book and
showed a picture of soldier riding 9
mule. under which was the caption
"Going home on his furlough.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
Hard on tbH cuide

One of the guides in Glacier National
Park, says Outing, is, or was, named
Mike Shannon. He was born with the
usual Irish sense of humor, but there
are some tourist vagaries that are be-
yond the range of even his generous
comprehension.
Once upon a time he guided a nature
loving lady of more than generous
physical proportions. Mounting her
horse and dismounting was task that
taxed all her powers and incidentally
most of Mikes as well.
At a particularly bad place in the
trail a majestic pine lowered from the
steep slope. As they rounded the turn
the lady tourist called to Mike:
''Mr. Guide, help me down! !"
With some difficulty the feat was &C
complished. She painted up to the foot
of the tree. There she stood gazing
upward for a moment, and then in a
loud, clear voice called out:
"Oh tree, I salute thee! I"
Then she went back to the horse.
"Mr. Guide, help me upl"
They accomplished the mounting
with a hundred per cent increase in
effort, and moved forward.
What did you say, Mike?" another
guide inquired when Mike told the
story later.
"Me?" said Mike. Nothing; but
just thought I'd hate to be the fellel
to guide her through the California
redwoods. ds."-Youth's Companion.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
Courtesy a Shock.

In the hurry and hustle of metro
politan life people don't seem to have
any time to be polite and when any
courtesy is shown it usually takes ones
breath away. "The other day. salc
"a New York visitor, 81 was leaving one
of the big buildings on lower Broad
way. and young man stepped in
front of me just before l reached the
swinging doors. l expected, of course,
he would let the door fly back at me,
and instinctively braced myself to
meet it. I was so habbergasted win
surprise when he stopped and held
the door open for me to pass, that
came near forgetting to thank him. !
did clean forget to ask him where he
came from and how long he had been
here"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
Pickira AppIes on Shares.

Picking apples on shares is the way
one Kansas university fraternity is
fighting the hisa cost of living and at
the same time storing up a winter sup
ply of fruit. One farmer bargained
with the Acacia Chapter to pick his
apples. The fraternity men picked 200
bushels one morning on shares, storing
twenty bushels in their fraternity
house as payment This same chapter
last year needed quilts, so they held a
quilting bee and made thirty quilts.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
FISH SWALLOWED RING
II Had a Diamond in II and Had Been
Lost.

1t Had a Diamond in II and Had Been
Lost.
That truth is stranger than fiction
was demonstrated at HoopestOn, H.,
the other day when Ray Tilton,
young farmeg, received a letter from
Peoria saying a diamond ring, valued
at $3.50, had been found in the stom-
ach Of a fish which had been caught
in the Illinois river.
In July Tilton was at Peoria, and
while rowing on the river the ring
dropped off his finger. He never ex-
pected to see it again, and was much
surprised to receive the letter.
The writer said he caught the fish
and, while dressing 1t, saw something
bright fall out Of the stomach. lie.
also said he would be glad to send tle
ring to Hoopeston if Tilton would send
the reward offered in a Peoria news
paper. The owner sent check for
$50 to the Peoria man.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
Fine Workmanship.

There Is in a museum at Salem,
Mass, a cherry stone which contains
one dozen silver spoons. The stone
itself is of ordinary size, but the
spoons are so small that their shape
and finish can only be detected by the
microscope. On another cherry stone,
the present whereabouts of which is
not given, are said to have been carved
124 heads, so distinct that the naked
eye could distinguish those belonging
to popes and kings by their mitres and
crowns.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

In California are several sorts OF
Movers that would bear no seeds ex-
lcept for the visits and activities Of In
lsects. One of these is the yucca. A
tiny moth lives in the flower and per-
forms a peculiar work. intricate, but
without which the yucca could not per
Ipetuate itself through seeds.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

Little Ellen Wilson McAdoo, daugh-
ter of Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo and
granddaughter of President Wilson,
hanging a Red Cross service flag in a
window of the White House. The flag
indicates that three members of the
executives household have joined the
Red Cross.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

Throat Operation to Unfit Men for War
Authorities in Seattle believe they
have unearthed a plot Of German ORR
gin in the arrest of Doctor Gordon and
a Russian woman. The pair are
charged with plotting to perform
throat operations to make men u9ft
for service under the conscription law.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
MGassinnW MoIes.

A Western farmer is "gassing'
moles by using the gases from the ex-
haust of his motor, conveying it to the
moles' burrows by hose. 1t kills the
pests.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
PRETTY SOFT FOR
INTERNED BOCHES
Plenty of Food and Comforts in
North Carolina Camps.
SURE GERMANY IS WINNING

Detained Officers and Seamen Of Ger
man Merchant Ships often Have
Meat Twice Day-No Alien Has TO
Work Unless He PIeases, and Then
He Is Pald-Find Variety of Ways of
Entertaining Themselves.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

The city of Lyon has opened pro-
fessional training school for the high
er technical and scientific develop
ment Of French women.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12

When seas are rough and wave after
wave breaks over their ship the sail
Ors on Uncle Sans destrOyers find
these life lines mighty handy in get
ting about on the sea-swept decks. De
strOyers' decks are low and the boats
cut through the waters with great
speed, so that often the entire ship is
awash. Though the sea was not es-
pecially rough when this photo was
made, the life lines were rigged up
and the Jackie was clothed in readi-
ness for rough weather.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
WHAT UNCLE SAM
PAYS SOLDIERS
Subject That Most People Know
Very Little About.
WHOLE SYSTEM IS CHANGED

Private Gets $3s q Month as Long as
He Is in the United States and 20
Per Cent Additional When He Goes
Abroad-AIIowance Made for Wife
and chiIdren-Dependent Parents
Provided For.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
smeItinq Art Ancient One.

I'm the old world the art Of smelling
ores was discovered about 1900 B. O.
it has sometimes been suggested that
iron tools and weapons may have been
made at an earlier period from mete-
'Orites. Recently considerable amount
OF evidence in behalf Of this hypoth-
lesis has been presented by O. r. Zim-
mer. He has compiled list Of the
known iron-containing meteOrites,
nearly all accumulated within the last
century, and he shows from these alone
about $50 tons of iron might be OBJ
tained. OF this amount more than 80
per cent is malleable, consisting Of a
nlckel-iron alloy.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-01-12
DECEMBER SHOULD Be potato MONTH";;
EAT MORE AND ENCOURAGE GROWERS
Public Safety Food Department Urges Plentiful Use of
PennsyIVania-GrOWl Tubers in Tasty Dishes TO
Reduce Cost of Living

December should be termed Potato
Month declares the Food Department
OF the Pennsylvania Committee oi
Public Safety. Why? Because pota
toes should be used largely in substi
tuition now for other staples, particu
larly canned vegetables. The big
mealy Pennsylvania baked potato
creamed potatoes, French fried, pota
toes au gratin, potato croquets, mash
ed potatoes, hash-brown potatoes al
appeal to the hungry man and they
are but few ways of preparing this
wonderful vegetable. You can have
potatoes for every meal and still have
variety
Eat more potatoes-Pennsylvanis
potatoes, the finest on earth. En-,
courage Pennsylvania potato growers
There are other potatoes to be sure
but they are not quite so good as
Pennsylvania potatoes which naturally
bring a higher price. Do you know
that the present market prices Of po-
tatoes are, on an average, below the
cost of production? That is not right.
Thousands of bushels Of these are
now being shipped to the market In
prime condition to help out the cost
of living.
Our average consumption Of pota-
toes is four bushels per person year
ly. Each member Of your household
Connecticut western news., 1918-08-01
LAKEVILLE

The Rev. c. E. Montrose, Mrs. Montrose and Mrs. Odell of Goldens Bridge, N. Y, have been spending the week visiting and renewing ac- quaintance with their many friends left behind when they departed from here nearly five years ago, and their friends are glad to greet them once more, and pleased to see them look ing so hale and hearty.
 Dr. H. E. Bartle and Phillip Everts made a trip to Springfield, Mass. on Sunday last.
 The showers on Tuesday were a blessing, and came in time to revive the crops and gardens, and saved them from destruction by drought, as great many vegetables were begin ming to wither and dfy up.
 George Miller has entered the em- ploy of c. Benjamin, as clerk in the place of Paul Andrews, who resigned last week, with the expectation of go- ing into camp on Monday this week, as he had been called for that date, but later was released until further notice.
 Leslie Dufour, who has been the R. F. D. carrier, since Charles Garrity went to camp, has given up that posi- tion and will enter the employ of R. N. Barnum in Lime Rock on Thurs day. Wm. Heffernan will be the new R. F. D. man in place of Leslie.
 Mrs. Nellie Phillips of Newburgh has been visiting friends in town the past week.
 Miss Gladys H. Osborn has beer taking her vacation from the post office the past week and spending il visiting her uncle, John A. Osborn in Springfield, Mass.
 Mrs. Edward Winckworth went tc Hartford on Monday to consult g specialist, returning home Tuesday evening.
 A. H. Heaton and family, Mrs. c Benjamin and Mrs. H. M. Thrall tool motor trip to Pittsfield, Mass. or Tuesday.
 Mrs. Florence VanDyke of North port, L. l. is home for the summer al Mrs. Wm. Peabody's.
 Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Doty of New Britain were visiting at Mrs. W. F Andrews and David Doty's over Sun day.
Connecticut western news., 1918-08-01

At a Court of Probate holden at Sharon within and for the District of Sharon on the 29th day of July A. D. 1918.
 Present Frank W. Dakin, Judge.
 Estate of John P. Goodwin, late of Toledo, Ohio, deceased, having estate in said district.
 The administrative made applica- tion for an order authorizing and em- towering her to sell certain real se- tate belonging to said estate, des- cribed as follows and as by said appli- cation on file and record more fully appears. viz: and undivided one third interest in that certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon, Connecticut, in said district bounded northerly by highway, leading from Sharon to Lakeville School House Lot, and land of John Leach; East by School House Lot and land of John Leach; South by land of Charles Gilmore Kerlev and land of Arthur M. Waitt and West by highwav; containing thirteen acres more or less, with buildings thereon, subject to life lease of Nel-