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The daily progressive-miner., 1919-03-01

Dr. J. w. BuIkley. jr., of Peters
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-03-01

westward by the steamship 5rutus.
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AT THE CHURCHES
ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL cAURci

ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH if A.. M. Morning Prayer and Ser mon. Subject: Religion is of God" Sunday School at 12 o'clock. Native Sunday sehoo, at p. m. 7:so p. m. evening prayer and sermon. Subject. "cIingins Close to Christ" Everybody cordially invited ts all the services of our Church.
 Rev. R. c. Jenklns, Q. Q. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH Sunday Service at Il a. m. Subject for Sunday March ?. HcHRisT JESUS"
 Wednesday evening ready and song service at 7.8o, Everybody cordially invited.
 METHODIST. CHURCH <, At ii A M Subject, How can. Christ Pc God and Man2 &s'e.4 ....t. Subject for 7:so, The Philosophy of the Atonement> .4t r..--. c. M; Van Marter, Minister. SCANDINAVIAN M E.. CHURCH Meetings at A. B. Hall <: Sunday School ii A M
 Subject: "The Key to Gods Ptans'
 Preaching In the evening 7i3o. The Ladies Aid Society meets on Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Hanson at "Bon Marche:'
 AM Scandinavians are cordially invited. | 2.
 A. eieepnss, Pastor.
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According to the Pacific Fisherman, A. eenolkin, head of the Ketchikan Packing Company, on February G. com pleted negotiations for the purchase of tho interest in the: plant claimed by the stockholders of the Belle Island Canning company. and is now sole owner of the establishment. He Is ar
 ranging to. build new warehouse and put in new Troyer-Fox 4-car retort and a Nicholson sliming maehinesy and expects to put up about 10000 cases. His sor-in-iaw. George Washburn, will have charge of of@operations at tho can nery, it is reported. @ ...s.
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Remember big DANCE at Moose Hall Tonight
CANNERY NEWS

Key Bentley who went Co the Prihi- loft Islands last summer 10 put up a seal, reduction works for the govern. ment, returned to Seattle h January on the steamer Roosevelt, and left im- mediately for California. The install. iation of the plant was completed dur. ing the fall and it is expected that a large quantity of oil and fertilizer will be produced this year.
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-03-01

Expert grinding and saw-ftttns a Sul1y 5 Carpenter ehop-G6v u.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING SEPT. 6 1O,274
HOW LARGE AN ARMY?

Testifying before the senate mili- rary affairs subcommittee, Major General Wood can certainly be con- sidered thorough expert and his ad- vice should certainly carry much weight.
 But in one important point he dis agrees with the war departments plan when he says that he considers the departments estimate Of an army Of 576,0oo men IS too large by about half
 Until we know on what basis the peace that ends the late war is to rest it is hard to see how anyone can be a sure prophet as to just how large an army we should need. Should the League of Nations fail Of approval the president has repeatedly pointed ou- that large standing armies will be imposed upon the world. If it is ap- proved we should still face a period of uncertainty with certain known ob- iigations and still larger number of <%certainties
 Al this time safety first would seem 70 be a good motto with which to face tho future. The war department has asked for an army of 576,000 men for this period. which in view of chaotic conditions on every Esnd does not appear to be too large. II this number of men should prove 100 large. 1t could be reduced
 General Wood strongly urged a pol icy Of universal military training and gives il as his experience as an army man that a three-n1onth period is all too short At the least it ought to be four months he says. and six months would be better.
 Ar any rate we should make no E7is-ake on the side of unprepared- ness. Our war experience has given us 4.-Ga-ueu trained or partly trained men and half that number Of vigorous young veterans. There is assurance of security in this fact, but the inn mediate future calls for something more than a nominal military estab- dshment to make it unnecessary again 10 impress these trained men into ser vice
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13

dent of the American Federation of Labor. For a time he lectured on the aims and purposes of organized labor and also was a prolific writer about labor problems During recent years he had been serving in various public capacities in New York. having been member of the .workingmen's com- pensation commission and chairman of the state industrial commission. Mir Mitchell was trusted alike by the laborinS men from whose ranks he came and by the industrial interests. He was known to be honest, courage ous and farsighted. To him there came many opportunities to better his own position in life by forgetting for the time being that in his youth he too had toiled underground and had known all the bardships of manual labor. He stood firm in the faith, eyer remembering his beginnings and ever true to the great throng of working
 men who loved and trusted him.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13

is known that in some towns, the question will make one of the hot test fights in years, because if the towns go wet the saloons may open until January 16,, 1920, anyway, and reap cleanup harvest and, even though they do pay their s750 license fee. part of that money will be re- funded to them, in the event of their closing in January. The prohibition ists in many of the towns want a vote the voting will show that the major ty of the people favor prohibition, and will show it at the polls.
 The wet" advocates, on the other hand, also want a test vote. as their contention Is that the ma jority favor the opening of the saloons and will so voice their feelings at the polls Un- doubted1y there will be several towns where a vote will be taken on this important question at this time The vets, on one hand, have everything to win, and but little to lose as they have lost practically everything now If they win. it means that they will have chance to make a cleanup" for a couple of months. anyway from present indications.
 The majority Of the towns hold town elections every year. on the first Monday in October. Of the 16S towns in the state. 143 hold annual town elections on that date. and this year tliS p1eilildI SlecLlOnS VIII De heI0 on the same date in Bethel. Cromwell Danbury, Meriden, Milford. Norwalk Norwich Orange, Noluntown. Water bury, Wilmington and Winchester Some of these towns, however rarely vote on the license question. but as this year is such an important year, peti- tions may be circulated to have a test vote.
 Both the ''wets" and the "drys' say that Connecticut will go their way IT case the matter ever comes up at the polls throughout the state
 This year may be the last for a showdown, and the vets and the "drys' are both anxious for a test vote. The drYs haven't much to win for the federal law reads now that the nation shall be dry in January. 1920. On the other hand if the vets win. the small towns will have the right to sell liquor in case the war time prohibition ban is lifted, from Novemh her to January. anyway
 The license year, in the ma fority of the towns expires in November Upon being issued license, they pay their
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
STUBBORN RUMANIA.

Tor a country that is to benefit so largely by the adjustments of pea ce Rumania stands in a particularly bad light for the trouble she is causing the peace council. In proportion to size and effort it may be said that she has assurance of benefits larger than those of any other nation. The final settlement is bound to give Ru- mania a larger share in the legitimate spells than any other belligerent and she will emerge from the conflict with her boundaries extended in all direc- lions. taking in millions in popula- rion and land that is as rich as any in Europe Her gains in Bessara bia, in Pennsylvania. in Dobrudja and in the Banat of Temesvar will almost double her area. And unlike the gains from other Balkan wars. Rumania may hold her newly acquired territory without fear from her neighbors.
 Defiance of the peace council such as Rumania has shown in the invasion Of Hungary. the occupa ton of Buda- pest and the behavior of Rumanian troops in Hungary cannot be toIer- ated. It is just as important that me allies should show good faith as that the enemy should be compelled to do so, and this condition puts to the rest the authority of the supreme council to control a member of the entente. This would justify drastic action f Ruma mia should persist in her attitude That such action will be taken if the necessity arises is in dica ted by the orders to Rumauia to sign the treaty as it is or not at all.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
cURelNe FRENCH BROTHERS.

France is having it's troubles with profteers which the government aims 70 control by an appeal to moral constraint." The French government finds that dealers have been carried away in their efforts to obtain "ex- cessive profits; that under all sorts of "cover" the middleman has fol- loved suit, and that the consumer being unfamiliar with the exact eIe- nents of the situation, finds himself disarmed.
 In looking to moral constraint to exercise control of this condition, the government explains that it does not intend to interfere with freedom of trade which is ordained by the funda- mental law of the land and is "sa- cred
 Confidence is exressed that moral restraint will be a cure until the re- turn Of the operation of normal econ onic conditions.
 From what we have seen here of the operation of moral restraint it is no surprise that the French remedy should be looked upon with sceptieism. We have seen little evidence that mo- raI restraint would operate to curb prohteering.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
Sunday Morning Talk ACROSS THE TRACK.

Railway engineers do not like the shadows which are cast across the rails ahead of them by trees and other objects along the way Sometimes these weird specters of the night look like men Now they take the form of horses and cattle. And well these men of the throttle know that if these shadowy visitants are what they look as if they might be. danger lies close ahead But soon they see that it Is only moonlight playing them tricks.
 A good share of the trouble Chris tians have in this world comes from shadows.
 Life's way does not always run through meadow land and prairie. Winding along the side of high hills; dipping deep into leafy dells, follow : ing the course of noonlit streams, and often seeming to plunge straight into the heart of some mountain of trouble, grim objects appear to lie op every hand to frighten us and make us think that there never will be peace again. Then suddenly the thing we feared has melted away and we have seen only shadows.
 Does it seem to us we are walking alone? Shadows. Close by our side is the dear One who never forgets His own. Are we fearful that we are not living up to our best, but at last we ows. Trusting Him. we are ever com ing a little nearer to the ideal we have set before Do we fancy our prayers are never to be answered? !? our fears. Some day we will know that the faintest cry we sent up was heard and never forgotten.
 Why should we weary ourselves with more? As the moonlight brings the shadows on life's way, so ft is Gods love that sends the sunshine and the rain. and all is for our good
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
PRESIDENTS "ANGEL.v

Senator Sherman of Illinois srasped one of the opportunities that the H. linois sena tor so richly enjoys when he had read into the Congressional Record the other day a brief charac- terization of Henry Ford which was inspired by the senator's discovery that the automobile maker was if nancing a news bureau which was of fering to furnish to newspapers, free of charge a complete daily account of the presidents trip through the west
 This news matter. said the senator, 6 S reported in the New York Sun, deals with the second hegira of the president from the seat of govern ment. The first hegira took place last December. and like all good Mo hammedans we begin now to date all time from the first or second hegira of the prophet and the flight of the faithful with him.
 Senator Sherman continued as fol- lows:
 The president is fortunate in such a promoter. Henry is intensely prac- ticaL possesses the income and cares not a whit for history. phrase mak- ing or book learning of any kind. It has been intimated that MT. Ford is short in supplies of this character
 
 on every kind of intellectual forage. Henry has the money and our be- loved president has the ideas. When the two combine the public educa ton cannot suffer. .-.-
 Henry himself had a most illumi- ating course in free advertising not long ago. The Chicago Tribune called him an anarchist and an ignoramus. There were some ornamental frills in addition to the foregoing undesira ble epithets, but the backbone of the Tribune's misbehavior was the two names. MT Ford. on mature refiec- tion. thought he could not stand the gaf. He had been very liberal in de- nouncing everybody else in paid ad- vertisements, especially if they be- Iieved in preparing the country to defend itself.
 "But like most liberal distributors of invective, he squeals louder than any body else when he is given a stall wart dose of his own medicine The more the Detroit jitney builder med itated the higher the damages to his character mounted.
 The verdict of cents allowed by the jury of the Tribune's peers-it would be difficult to find twelve men in the United States Ford's peers will not go far on furnishing plate the 'contemptible quitters' on whom he 1avishes his ornate voca bulary; but Henrys income from outside sources makes the venture reasonably safe. Any newspap per may confident ly promise it's readers a full set of the boilerplate of the presidents latest trip.'
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
DAYS OF TRIAL

Tor floor today Tuesday said. think ing she had forgotten, Alma. don't neglect to wipe up that sun parfor floor today. please.' Wednesday came had happened So. trailing Alma to her lair. I went to the carpet with her on the subject.
 Mrs. Jerkwater' said Alma coldly and hsaShti.y, -eai1 havE you know that I spend 75 cents each week to have my nails manicured and I simply cannot ruin them by putting them in a pail of scrub water Inasmuch as I have or occasion. wiped the floor my self. I begged Alma to hasten away to more Elysian fields. Then I ad- vertised."
 "Oh, my -goodness," moaned the caller
 Eleven dozen girls responded" pro- ceeded the hostess drearily. "Adver- tsing certainly is all it's cracked up to be. But they were such a strain on me. A young woman in a perfectly chic blue suit, small hat with an air and snowy white kid gloves-I am wearing silk these days of high prices called on me. She said she wanted SIS. room and board and no laundry. I rema ined in comatose condition the rest of that day. To add to my confu- sion it was just at this time that my laundress explained. when I inquired the reason for her non -appearance for two weeks. that she never bothered to telephone her ladies If she wanted a vacation.
 'After I recovered from the swarm of exquisite damsels who condescend- ed to answer my ad, I decided to do my work myself and keen my temper and disDcsition. if I did ruin my hands
 Every body's doing it'' said the call CT. You'd enjoy meeting my friend in Boston who took two maids to Fal- mouth for the summer After two weeks she discharged them: she got tired of doing their work. They said that they were awfully disapDointed at not spending the summer with her as they had so enjoyed her cooking."
 Well maybe some dav" said the hostess. these Household Assista nts will turn sensible. Anyway pretty soon we'll all he 90 smart we won't need 'em II all,'-Exchange
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13
Africa to be "Boom Continent

The war is over but the necessity Tor learning strange sounding names of new lands and peoples is far from over says bulletin from the Ma tional Geographic Society, in Wash ington, which predicts that "The spot light which has brought to view such little known peoples as the Czechs, the Greats, and the Ukranians in Eu- rope. now will be turned, in part on Africa.
 Through the redistribution of CO., lonial possessions. and the removal of the blight of German domination, Africa bids fair to be the boom continent of the twentieth century,
 With this introduction The Society announces series of bulletins deal ing with colonies of the erstwhile Mozambique which. 1t is explained. is a Portuguese colony to the south Of what was German East Africa. now released from the imperial designs of German African expansion. and there fore extremely apt to play q more con spicuous part in African develop ment.
 A description of Mozambique based on a communication from o. W. Bar rett, follows
 "A country as big as the Atlantic states from Florida to New York. with the capital near the southern boun- dary and half a dozen smaller towns scattered along the coast: more than
 
 a bout one per cent. are white; one of the oldest of all European possessions and one of the richest in agricultural possibilities. at least, but one of the least known countries in the world. Such is Moza bique.
 -Four or five good ports and as many bad ones; five towns and a small but up-to -date capital city. and a generous number of military posts and outposts a few of which are in the real raw interior; millions of acres of the finest alluvial soil fairly ach- ing to show the farmer what big crops may be grown; waterways like the Zambesie. the Limpopo. and plen- ty of smaller ones to allow cheap handling of products; no deserts, no salt sinks, no large swamps, no noun tainouS waists, no tmpenetra ble jungles: out of some twenty only one or two tribes that object seriously to paying taxes to the government, now that they realize that the tax collector is a vital organ of the white tribe, which objects to any one tribe exterm- mating another in the good old way; for. wicked as a bush policeman tries to be, he must needs fall far short of the unrestrained chiefs induna.'
 The early history of this strange section of East Africa should not be,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13

fee to the county commissioners and this year, those towns that vote on license, and secure the right, to sell intoxicating liquors, will have to pay the years fee. However, chapter Ie4 of the public acts of 1919, makes pro- vision for a refund of money due to saloonkeepers, providing the sale of liquor is stopped, in the following words:
 Within so days from the date when it shall become unla wfuI to en- gage in the sale of s;;:r:tucus and in toxicating liquors, the county com missioners in each county shall certi- fy to the comptroller the amount of money due to the licencees and to holders of club certificates in their respective counties, from the date when it shall become unlawful to en- gage in the sale of such liquors to the end of the license year, and the amount so to be certified shall bear such proportion to the total amount paid by such commissioners in each county to the comptroller as the un- expired portion of the license year bears to the entire license period A like certification shall be made by the commissioners to the treasurer of each town where any license shall have been granted during the current license year and the comptroller and each such treasurer shall pav to the commissioners the amount so shown to be due.
 Upon the surrender of his license by any licensee or by the holder of club certificate upon determination by the attorney general that the sale or dispensing of liquor by authority of such license or club certificate has become unlawful, the commissioners shall reimburse such licensee or hold CT, in an amount bearing such pro- portion of the total license fee paid as the unexpired portion of the license year bears to the total period for which such license or certificate was granted. The county commissioners of any county may borrow such amount of money may be necessary to reimburse such licensees or certi- fcate holders, in the amount due to them respectively under the provisions of this act"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-13

"You'll have to excuse my being in a work apron said the lady who was being called upon. and I must say l never thought to see the day when, at be all dressed up and doins fancy work ready for company-but this topsy- turvy world"
 Say no more quoth her caller. The only reason l had te climb o.-- of a garb just like yours and get into these things was that in our set we haven't quite come to touring the streets in S1.9S double front aprons, warra ed to look like the dickens ten minutes after one gets them on. What irritates me to fury these days is the magazine ad of lovely ladies in inn maculate starchy pink and white work aprons. washing windows or securing the floor without a speck or wrinkle on them.'
 Fairy tales" said the hostess with scornful gloom "Every time I see one of those pictures I retire into a dark corner and sob my heart out. We'll had to let my last maid go. We had a difference of opinion I'm terribly bothered over the things I read nowa- days and the things that actually hap pen to me.
 Dozens of women are writing won derful articles about the revolution Tn household affairs and the disappear ance of the old time cook and maid and the dawn of the Household As sistant It seems that the Household Assistant is going to come to work just as an office employe and after saving your life by doing up the work put her hat on at the end of the day and depart to her own life This sounded sensible and good to me. I'd get a better, more clever girl. All Of these brainY women pointed out that if you did have to pay them SIP week it was cheaDer than ones former maid at SS. board and lodging
 Then I got my wonderful Alma at 10. She cooked dinners that sent John into hvsterical transports. She was death on dust, she retired to her room neatly and promptly at 10 o'clock Be cause she was such paragon I thought I must be dreaming when I noted the dust on the tiled floor of the sun na arlor Alma said I casually on Monday, please wipe up that sun par