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Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09

Of Orders Drawn by the Selectmen on
May 4th.

Frank Miller, men and team
opening road 8 1900
Mrs. Geo. Wilcox. sharpening
tools 40
J. o. Stevens, work Oh sluice,
400; materials 5.18 9.1S
Louis J. Selling, loads Gin
ders, 1900; team } day,
800; man } day, 1.50 l6.
Fl. O. Stevens, road work for
1916 ARA
W. J. Rec, 30 days team work
on road 14o. 90
Frank Roster, breaking road $40
@. III. Trieschman, whiffletrees
and evener for road machine 600
State of Conn. Board of in
sane patients at Conn. Hos.
pital for Insane 104. 90
II. R. Whitfold, rent for P.
Carey for April, 1918 1000
Stratton Bros Edith Delatino,
mdse. 10. Is: rent 5. 90; wood
800: Domonic Delioni, gro
ceries and shoes. 1900 32.15
Allyn Fuller, vital statistics,
1st quarter 1918 31.14
Church ST. Garage, livery for
selectmen 800
f. H. Lee, NJ. D. Services as
Health officer, Jan. LIST to
Mar. 80, 1918 39.45
Canaan Printing Co. 100 dog
posters $50
Canaan Cemetery Assn. Int.
on Church, Bennett, Peet
and Kellogg Funds Sssy4sSs SO. 80
Whittlesey g. Adam, insurance 3,
on town hall - 80 ,',.,-. &. 37.00
Antonio PSssini, board of Mil ..
ton Decker April, 21.43;
board of Mrs. Hannah Glenn
mons, 1000 's.g 37.43
Peter Funk, 213 days work on
road $500.
Conn. Power Co. lighting -
BILLY Cop III
Treas. State of Conn. repairs on
Clayton road ,-..,. ..,..e &C.,. 4.37
EstGs5S,1'5lss . .ssa... rs -
- &c. $685. So
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
JOHN ARMSTRONG TELLS
OF ACTIVITIES In FRANCE
Former Canaan Boy, On Active Duty
in France, Writes Interest,"
ing Letters.
Somewhere in France.
April 8, 1918.

Somewhere in France.
April 8, 1918.
Ny dear Mother:
You are probably wondering and
worrying because You have not heard
from me lately so will try and write a
little news. Your last letter was No.
80 dated Feb. IL but Steve had one the
other day and we were very glad.
We have not received the cake yet
but it is not to be wondered at as we
have been on the move for the past two
weeks and our mail hasn't had a
chance to catch up with us. We hope
that Philip will not have any NOR
trouble. 1t seems he has had about all
there is coming to him, but he could
not be in better care. Stephen and l
are both feeling fine. guess he has
written you that he has been acting as
company clerk for the past few weeks
and expects to be transferred from the
orderly section and work in the Office.
You have probably read that we have
been at the front. Twas in the trenches
for seven days. The rest of the time
was back at the supply depot which
trenches. While there we lived in a
big dug-out in the side of hill which
was said to have been built by the
Germans. Nearly every clear day we
could watch air battles and near us
there was an observation balloon sta
ton. We spent quite few, hours at
this station and it was very interest
ing. One of the Frenchmen there
could talk English and was very nice
to us.
One day we saw an aeroplane attack
and burn one of the balloons few
miles from us. The men in the basket
escaped by jumping out in parachute.
While at the trenches we saw plane
brought down snd some of the boys
got parts of it for souveniers. III we
would have picked up all we wanted
to keep we would have to hire a car of
our own to carry it. There were all
kinds of shells, helmets, etc. lying
around but we couldn't carry them.
During my seven days at the front
line we went thru a twenty. four hour
gas attack. Scotty was with me and
we certainly had some experiences
We were stationed at the first aid sta
ton ana were acting as stretcher
bearers Carrying wounded back from
the line. We were not very busy how
ever. At night we had to go out for
water bat even that was pretty tame
after we got used to it.
There is not much going on there
during the day but sometimes they
celebrate little during the night.
don't think I'll ever spend any money
for 4th of July after this. They fed us
several different kinds of gas (Hell's
Fumes) during the attack but / fooled
'em. We have two gas masks, ar
English and French one, and art
pretty safe if you keep your eyes open
We lived in big caves, which were
originally chalk mines, some Of then
Continued on Page d
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE
Will Be Held at Norfolk Next Thurs
day at the Congregational
Church.

The annual institute OF the Litch.
field County Sunday School Associa-
ton of district No. will be held at
Norfolk, Thursday, May 16 at the
Congregational church. The towns in
this district are Ca1aan, Lakeville,
Salisbury, Falls Village, the Corn.
walls, Lime Rock and Norfolk. Fol
lowing is the program:
MORNING PROGRAM.
1000 Worship, Rev. John Barstow.
1910 Birdseye View of County
Finances and Reports, G. W. Parsons,
Miss Margaret Kane. Mrs. Arthur
Everts.
1890 Demonstration of Temperance
instruction, Mrs. Maize B. Clarke,
Hartford.
1850 Teaching the Life of Christ to
Little Children, Mrs. Herbert G. Wad
hams, Harrington.
11:20 The Surerintendents' Forum,
Mrs. CORA Downs Stevens, Canaan.
Lunch Hour.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
1870 A Demonstration Of Sunday
School Session, Wallace I. Woodin,
superintendent.
$3.50 From County Officers Stand
point. Ell. l.. Bartlett, Lakevil Q.
300 The Sunday school Measuring
Stick, Wallace L. Woodin, Hartford.
$3.50 Making the Wheels Go Bound,
Mrs. Maize B. Clarke, Hartford.
400 How to Get the Boy, Rev.
Ralph M. Timberlake. Canaan.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
FALLS VILLAGE BURGLARY
Thieves Break Window and Enter Store
of G. E. Frink.

For the second time within few
months, thieves have been operating
in Falls Village and apparently have
left no clue as to their identity. On
Monday evening burglars broke through
the window on the south side of the
drug store Of G. E. Frink at Falls
Village, taking several dollars in
change from the cash drawer and help.
ing themselves to cigars and other arti-
cles which attracted their fancy.
Only shors time ago burglars en-.
tered the dry goods store of E. j.
Hornbeck in the same village and
made their escape with wearing ap.
parel and other merchandise in such
quantities as would indicate they had
a conveyance of some kind.
Sheriff Hornbeck has made a thor
ough investigation of the drug store
burglary and it is expected arrests
will be made at once. From the kind
of goods taken, it is apparently the
work of young men or boys.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
" MEN INDICTED


The war department has ordered all
local exemption boards to furnish i'm.
mediately information as TO the mum.
Der OF men in class accepted for
general service upon which will be
based future quotas. A summary of
local exemption board, No. 10 follows:
Total number Of registrants classi-
fed in class 1, 500; total number
colored registants included In above.
90; total number of class men ao-
cepted for general military service
white 271, colored 8, total $50; total
classified as delinquents white 30.
colored s, total Al; emergency feet
list, white Q, coloed o, total Q; physi-
cally qualified for limited military SER
vice, white 115, colored 4, total i19.
physically qualified as remedial or
group B, ~. men inducted into service
since Dec. 10, 1917, ~; number not
yet examined white 10, colored 1. total
10; total, 500. g~A,
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
LAKEVILLE BOYS ENLIST.

Reports coming in daily to the
Junior Food Army of the Committee
of Food Supply, Connecticut State
Council of Defense, continue to be
favorable and the committee expects
at the present time to more than attain
the quota set. The boys of the Riggs
School at Eakeville, have joined the
Junior Food Army in body, every
student signing up for the required
work, in addition to running the'175
acre farm which the school maintains.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
TRAINING WOMEN.

The Connecticut Agricultural Col
lege, in cooperation with the Woman
Land Army of the State, is hol ling a
weeks course for the purpose of train.
ing women to work on dairy farms.
Twenty women expect to come to the
college for training in this work. The
MEMBERS Of this movement have been
enlisted under the leadership of Mrs.
E. q. Fl. Schenck of Wilton.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09

At the parish meeting of Christ
church Monday evening, the following
officers were elected: Senior warden,
Or. O. W. Camp; junior warden, E. s.
Pease; treasurer, E. D. Norton; mis-.
sionary treasurer, Mrs. j. G. Root
clerk, V. M. Coe; vestry, George H.
Trieschman, v. M. Coe, Edward L.
Roberts, N. W. Hardenbergh, D. d.
Walters.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
LYMAN MICHAELS Is RE-
PORTED SLIGHTLY WOUNDED
Former East Canaan Boy Enlisted in
Bristol Went to France
Sept. 9Th.

Lyman Michaels, formerly of East
Canaan, who enlisted from Bristol In
Go. D, is reported wounded somewhere
in France Previous to going to France
he was located at Yale field, New
Haven, where he received preliminary
training. The following telegram was
-eceiv ed by his sister, Mrs. ]. Crowley
of Bristol from the Adjutant General
Mccain:
Mrs. J Crowley, Bristol, Conn.
Deeply regret to inform you that it
is officially reported that private Ly-
man Michaels infantry was slightly
wounded in action April twentieth.
Mccain, The Adjutant General.
The ne rest relatives of Private
Michaels are two sisters, Mrs. Harry
Taylor of Canaan and Mrs. J. Crowley
of Bristol. The last letter received
from him is reprinted in part as fol-
lows:
April 10. 1918.
Dear Sister,
1 received a letter from you last
night dated March and two from
Jenny Feb. 25 and one March so you
see get them in punches, I got nine
altogether last night. It seems as if
tell you too often that received two
packages from you in very good con-
dition, sometime ago.
Have not received any in about a
month aud this is the first letter
have written in about six weeks or
nearly that time as have not been
where could write any time wanted
to and when could didn't want to.
I am we'll and feeling fine, but the
weather here is very wet and cold.
I suppose you read in the papers
about the work we have teen doing. ]
received Lonrant which had lot OF
news IN aboaG as and lad one of oul
leading officers pictnyes 0n the first
page.
[ had much sooner ha in the u. s.
than over here and tie Tesr of the boys
say the same, and il wv ever get bach
you will hear gone interesting stories
from each one. You get more news il
general about the war than we do
We get lot of rnmos here but it's ,
hard thing to bnow what not to be
lieve, we hear so much. see you hav,
| a flag with aSsrar TOR each relative il
it. It's too bad You have not four more
stars In it but suppose you worr,
enough now but you need not worry
Let me do all the worrying there is tt
be done between you and me and you
know how I worry.
| I received nine letters last night 81
Ihad some reading for while. You
said it when you said my friends thinl
more of me over here, by the way ge
letters I guess you were right, bu
perhaps its the cause am over here TO
makes them feel so good toward me
Anyway I have good courage afte
what l have been through in the las
two months and when the she'll will
my name on it comes, there is NJ
doubt will be ready to stop it, bu
the Kaiser can't have a shell for eacl
one of us and when he realizes what h,
is really up against he will regret tn,
past and then there had ought to be N,
let up till they had him and his lea
ders so far under the ground that h,
could never be found. 1 am going t,
write to jenny in a day or two so
can't write too much now, but wishin,
you the best of luck I must close witt
lots of love to all, hoping you won
think I have forgotten you entirely
and write often, whether you hea
from me or not. AS ever your brother
Lyman.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
SELECTIVES TO BE CALLED
FROM LIST OF FIFTY-FIVE
Forty-Seven Men From This District
Will Be Called for Service on
May 18th.

The quota for this district which ID
forty.seven will be drawn from the fol.
lowing list of fifty-five names on MAY
25th or five days later. 1t is possible
that some of the men listed below will
be exempted for the present on agricul.
tural grounds.
A, Edwin George Odell, 500.
1868, Edmund Brown Jr., 8, Trans.
ferred.
494, Charles Edwin Hart, 2s4,
Litchfield.
496, Earl Proper, 807.
sol, Mitchell Keslow, 265, Corn
wall Bridge
SOB, Earle Leon Rolcomb, 1918. 80
Hubbard St., Winsted.
504, Oscar William Simmons, 1909,
1913 Church St., Torrington.
sos, Claude Elmer Garter, 1119, 33
Wheeler st. Winsted.
512, William Nelson Dayton, 1163,
ne Main St., Torrington.
.518, John L. Mott, Jr., 1908, Med.
Dept 462 Louisiana Av. Washington
523, John James Doherty, 1889, 80
Oak St., Winsted.
$50, Luigi veronesi. 1867, Holland,
Mass.
565, Vincent Sumner Border, 635,
Newton, N. J.
SCI, John M. Wilkinson, SCI. Falls
Village.
572, John James Phillips, 500,
Lakeville.
578. Irving Quarnal Levi, 4a2, Je-
welt, N. Y.
583, Angelo Broggi, 442, East o.
naan.
SGT, Frank Peter Willard, a6s,
Cornwall.
$50. Irving Louis Drinkwater, 1893,
GO Norton Hotel, Waterbury.
500, Francis Robert Cole, 262, West
Cornwall.
60S, Archibald Homer Dayton, 1161,
West Goshen.
$40, W. L. Behn. 81, Cornwall
Bridge.
623, Frank John Hildredth, 400,
Box %, r. T. D. Pittsfield.
$50, Foster John Richards, 326,
South Kent.
638, Leonardo Sperruzzo, 1899, 15t
Oak St., Winsted. ...,--...
= $50, Howard Curtis, GIG, Taconic,
GAL, John Khapponi, $40, Wingdale
n. Y.
647 Richard Beach, 104S, lat Wet
more Av., Winsted.
6E4, Joseph P. Dunn, 15S, New
Milford.
656, Vernali Antonio, 1, Box, 2s7
Norfolk.
$50, Forest s. Cole, 105, Thomaston
Tony Mazzarella, 1920, oil MAR
St., Winsted.
665, Joseph Lomberto, 1887, 81
College St., Winsted.
GA, Leroy Slocum, 416, City Ham
lete No. IL. Danbury.
678, Luigi Adamo, 613 Dover Plains
n. Y.
es7, Charles Clayton Mcbride, 766
Lime Rock.
6S8, Rufno Fernandez Here's, 1874
Lakeville.
500, Gabrielle Scaliss, 1916, A.
Lewis St., Winsted.
696, John j. ERan, 934, Sharon.
702. Benjamin John Poole, 1897. 81
WetmoIe Av., Winsted.
7OS, Joseph Blaise White, 1899, A:
Center St., Winsted.
704, Achille Segralla, 572 NORTH
Canaan.
$780, Atillo Portonari, 533, SO Bird
sail St., Winsted.
t-727, Myron Marsh Johnson 1885
343 Y. M. O. A. Hartford (Winsted).
1877, Julius F. Adams, 900, Riverton
744, Robert f. Nicholson, 954, Ca
naan. - - - ,a,-s1ssiIIY&Has
$50 Roy II. Hotaling, 994, Sharon.
756, Ben Skrochi, 371, z Michelmar
Av.. Northampton, Mass.
761, Newton Frederick Soule, 3S2,
Kent.
1854, George Howard Pritchard, 1884
713 Main St., Winsted
769, John M. Casey, 449, East Ca
naan.
773, George A. Green, 38, Norfolk.
1888, Leslie B. Barrett, 1898 Winsted.
1876, Burnham Q. Hart, $50 Beacon.
field Garage. Brookline, Mass.
500, Ellis Sylvernale, SO, Norfolk.
LAKEVILLE BOYS ENLIST.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09
TREASURER'S REPORT


Following is the report of the treas.
urer for April 1918.
Receipts.
Cash on hand s47s.os
Memberships q. oo
Magazine Renewals LOO
The Hawthorne Club $500
Sale of bag miss Taylor 4.8b
Junior Red Cross $3.50
Liberty Day 72.Bo
Moving Pictures and Dance Sc. 90
sale hed Gross Tape 100
Contribution w. -'- I 40
Esy 49,; -
$734.8s
Disbursements. -. -
100 lbs. yarn S22b. 90
American Red Cross rsr@ ECO
Junior Red Gross, member W r-L s,sar'ETR
ship enrolment 10 Mrs. TT
w. ]. Dykes e2s,F .., SIS. 80
@. l., Parsons 81 Son 49, %. be
Rent and Caretaker ies.se ~ -. 800
Canaan Printing Co. ssa.ssl,. s.. 70
Postage etc. t.bq
~ 80 80 S.Se'5.:s,
1858. s5
Total Receipts s7g4. ar
Total Disbursements 8bs.s AK
Cash on hand $3.50. 9s
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09

S. Z. Kimsall of Millerton took a
party of ten Masons to Woodbury. last
Friday evening, where they witnessed
the working of the third degree.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09

Following is the report of the treas.
urer for April 1918.
REGENTS.
Connecticut western news., 1918-05-09

DR.. and Mrs. Irving Barnes who
spent the past week at Henry Barnes,
returned to their home IN Oyster Bay,
L. l. on Monday.
William St. Laurence of Lebanon
Springs, N. Y, is the new proprietor
of The Garfield. He took possession on
Monday. .~
Arizona republican., 1918-04-01
PLANE WITH ROOM
 MAY RIGHT ITSELF
(Scribner's Magazine

Most airplanes are more or less stable, and can be righted from any position provided they are not damaged by gun fire or other cause, provided also the pilot is not woun.1- abd pro vided there is sufficient vertical space in which to maneuver. If the pilot is wounded a machine will often right itself even from a nose dive and It may happen that the pilot meanwhile recoyers consciousness.
 This was exactly what occurred to a friend of my own who was doubly wounded at ten thousand feet, and swooned away. with helpless obserV- CT on board. During the resultant dive the pilot came to himself and landed without a crash. Not infrequently moreover, a courageous observer may save the situation, and one such was awarded the military cross not very long ago for a particularly daring feat. The pilot was badly wounded and lay over his controls. but while the air plane was actually diving, under full engine power the observer scrambled out of his seat, hung on right outside the bottom plane, lifted the pilot up, and pulled the machine out of its head long dive. And all tais was effected while the airplane was descending at probably hundred miles an hour.
 In another case the pilot was killed outright, but the observer contrived lcv sit over his dead body and assume con trol of the machine.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-01
What a Heavy Vote Will Mean

heavy vote at the election tomorrow will sig nify to the mayor and the commissioners who may be elected that the people of Phoenix want good gov ernment and that those whom they elect on trial A heavy vote will indicate weariness of the lax methods of dealing with bootleggers, gamblers and prostitutes. It will that the town is to be cleaned up that the people believe it needs clean ing.
 special drive against the bootleggers last week resulted in some thrty-five arrests, About twenty persons against whom evidence submitted, caped within the three long hours that elapsed be- tween the time when it first advertised that the net was to be dSawn and the time when the drawing of it begun
 The gathering of the evidence which sub mitted was the work of about month and it is in bootegging were found. But fifty-fve per so engaged may be accepted as evidence of very robust illicit industry in Phoenix.
 Those charged with enforcing the laws of the county and the city are wholly blame for the state of affairs which the drive disclosed. At the bottom of it all was the failure of voters in the past to take interest in the affairs of the city When a field is neglected weeds will grow. Vicious ele- ments which harried in well-regulated commuri- ties naturally seek those which are not well reg4 lated. They turn to the communities where citizens and complaisant
 We think that now the people of Phoeinx are awake; that they will turn at the polls tomorrow in such numbers that it will be understood that tine time has come for renovation.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-01
A Candidate for the Commission

The Republican throughout the city campaign, both primary and general has advocated the election of J. A. R Irvine to the city commission, only account of his record citizen but also because he is business It is with difficulty that men whp have eminently succeeded in their own affairs be induced to enter the swirl of politics.
 Mir Irvine has announced platform and in his platform is a pledge. Mr. Irvine Eavors the following:
 The full and complete publicity of all receipts and expenditures of public funds.
 The appointment of advisory counc:i Of rep resentative citizens to consult with and advise the commission all matters of public business and public policy.
 The immediate improvement of East Lake park with free bathing pools
 The reduction of the city water rate to as low figure as possible after providing for a sinking fund to take of the depreciation of the plant and to provide for the redemption of the water works bonds
 Submitting the matter of the establishment of a municipal slaughter house to a vote of the people
 The re-estabishment of a city marle: place were the products of the Country can be sold fresh every morning to the housewives of the city
 The reduction of taxes the lowest possible rate rn;instraton
 On another matter which has caused some agi- taton at the city hall Mir, Irvine says: have made no combination madeI any promise to anyone regarding appointments or jobs if elected and city employe need have any fear Of losing his job if he is capable honest and efficient But cap ability honesty and efficiency will be demanded of all appontees and employees
Arizona republican., 1918-04-01

preservation and are to turn them in to the quartermaster for renovation at the end of the season or when no long CT required, to be reisSued when needed
 This action on the part of the war department will assure the thousands of American women who have knitted sweaters and other articles for the sol- diers for winter use that the articles which they have made are to receive the same careful attention as clothing or any other article furnished by the government.
 Why have bright colors been speci- fled in the standardization of layettes for French infants, by the American Red Cross? This is the purport of many inquiries reaching national head quarters from women workers who seem to feel that the selection of pale pink or blue material for these layettes is impractical. and that the Red Cross should have specified gray or tan. ! Miss Elizabeth S. Hoyt, assistant to 1 the general manager of the Red Cross, who made visit to France for the ex- press purpose of determining essential | facts pertaining to the standardization 1 of garments designed for Red Cross | lNllcls SlNtS dn Ol tilC oit uation that ought to satisfy all who are interested in the work. As explained by Miss Hoyt the idea of doing the most practical thing has been the real determining factor.
 The standardization of the layette was decided after consultation with a large number of persons who are work ing among the women and children of
 France. It was developed that the
 layette offered almost the only oppor tunity for the use of colore6 materials
 Neither the women nor the childrer
 of France will wear bright coloreG
 clothes, but all of the refugee womer
 take great pride in dressing their ba bies as gaily and daintily as possible.
 There is, moreover. psychological factor. It was felt that the womeI , would take more pride in keeping thei babies clothes clean and fresh if they
 were not made of dingy, dreary colors
 Many of the women to whom the lay cites are given have undergone grea
 sufftinS and privation, and the mer' . sight of pretty cheerful clothes fo ; their babies often has a very marke,
 effect on their mental recuperation. a 1nasmuch as the layettes afford tn. sole opportunity to make colored gar
 ments for the refugees. it appears tha the only reasonable thing to do is l.
 accede to the wishes of those for whom
 relief is being administered.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-01
Vote Early Tomorrow

As we have said, believe that not less than coco votes will be the city election tomorrow There ought to be more than that out of the 1000 voters registered.
 There are only six polling places that there will be congestion of voters those who neglect to to the polls until late in the afternoon will probably not have an opportunity to vote Vote carly therefore.
 In every block there will perhaps be one or more voters who will that his or her vote will not change the result and unless specially urged will re- main away from the polls But also in every block there must be other and women who understand that single vote may be a deciding vote and will see that their neghbors come out.
 The important thing is to vote. We feel sure that if 5000 or more voters register their preferences to- morrow, whoever may be elected. Phoenix will have better government than it has had in the past