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Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11
WESTERLY

The Westerly Sanitary corps, one of ef the most useful organizations of the town is planning a carnival to raise funds to aid in support of maintenance nf the excellent service being rendered The corps is on the best of terms with all other organizations, including the Westerly band The corps dislikes to make any move that would tend to offend .hs veteran musical organization, or any class or section of the community by going outside of the town to hire music ir connection with the carnival, even [ this outside music be for one night only It is she custom in Whsterly zEfnE a carnival or fair to designate Kpecial nights to the several organiza- Eons and among the more prominent of !hsse Is Firvmen's Night. which includes scch Hines the firemen endeavor make their night, the most successful fin s6cizi night of the carnival
 The dremen while willing to aid in the financial success of the carnival persist h their stand that they will not parade Eith the Westerly band. The invitation te parade has been accepted by the ire men with the proviso that the Westerly band Is not to furnish the music This action places the sanitary corps in a eIszEreeabIe position. as they desire the zid Of the local firenlen and are inclined t8 aid the Westerly band.
 The sanitary corps has taken no action er the conditional acceptance of the fire men to parade Unless an amicable agreement can be reached between the ha11snsn and the firemen. it is probable hat the Cheshro Fife and Drum corps ot Stsnington will furnish the music for the street parade, Firemens Night
 sSRethInk is going to happen some day shat nay result in the loss of life, unless soneth.ng is done to improve traffic conditions while fire apparatus is respond inr 10 the call for service The ringing et the fire alarm. the souding of fire
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gongs, and sirens does not serve as a warning to operators of other vehicles to clear the way for the fire machines. The regular traffic continues on as us- ual, even under these conditions. There is hardly a respotise to day alarm that is. not attended with danger, due to the ,itter disregard ef the coming of the fire apparatus.
 In the ruf to the fire in Pierce street Monday afternoon, the Alert Hook and Ladder truck, averted two collisions, due to the exceptional careful driving of Eddie Farrell. The close call with the Milo Clark delivery truck, at Union and Broad streets, would have been avoided. if ordinance provided that traffic in Broad street be suspended during the sounding of the fire alarm. At Canal and High streets the hook and ladder truck had a near collision with a moving troll ley car In the event of fire alarm, trolley cars ought to be required to come to a .standstill upon the approach of fire apparatus.
 Then again the rule against parking automobiles for prescribed distance in Broad street, on both sides of Union ought to be strictly enforced, When the alarm was sounded Monday afternoon an automobile was parked close to the corn CT of Union street and another in front of the Library and Memorial building. both in the prohibited section. There is need for an ordinance in Westerly to guard public safety while the fire appa- ratus Is responding to service calls.
 The state boafa of public roads makes announcement that owing to the difficulty in obtaining cement work on two con crete roads in the state may be held up and some other eonstructien material substituted, Hardly enough cement is being received to take care of construc- tion work on bridges. culverts mad other construction work where cerieflt is nee essary For the Tower hill road 5000 barrels of cement is needed, and 15ooo
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11

bafrals iA rsauifed for the Moose Neck road.
 There are federal aid projects and the state road 5department has already started the grading and foundation work. These two roads would require about 125 earIoads of cement There is ai abdnd- ance of cement but there is inadequate ] transportaunn facilities At the aanaai meeting of tho Rhode Island Electrical Contractors associa tion { Monday night in Providence. these of fcers were elected: W. c. Halstead president; E. P. Baker. vice president F. M. Godfry, secretary; F. W. Smith treasurer; H. T. Ayers, c. H. Jones l John Seannerin, w T. WhithalL A. H Drabble, executive committee Local Laconics.
 1 westerly is noted for dandy dahlias Plans are progressing for the. erection of a building on the Paweatuck side oi | the Broad street bridge.
 It Is up to the town of westerly to l remove that fallen tree from the rivel near the Pawcatuek bridge. It is evi- dent1y so lodged that it will not De moved by the running water. It is an eyesore and may be the cause of dam age.
 In anticipation of the new nuzzlins ordinance, muzzled dogs are already on l the streets.
 Mir. and Mrs. O. E. Vars of Afidover N J.. accompanied by Miss Ruth Mun-
 gers, are at the Vars cottage, Bright mans pond.
 Letter Carrier James A. Keafe was bitten by a dog Tuesday morning while delivering mail at the sutnner hoifle Of H. C. Field, at Watch Hill: The army recruiting station in West efly, with First Class Private George Steiner in charge for the past two months has been closed, and the recruiting of-
 ficer ordered t6 Providence.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11
amp meeting week, which begins Aug

camp meeting week, which begins Aug. IS.
 George Foster has been selling out
 during the past two weeks and Tuesday moved his family to Thompson, where they will carry on the Gladden. estate
 boarding house. Many friends regret their going.
 The annual Perrin reunion was held at
 the Kings Daughters hall Wednesday,
 Aug. 4th. There were 56 present, coming from Putnam, Grosvenordale, Dudley.
 Sturbridge and Webster. Dinner was
 served at noon. The afternoon was very pleasantly spent in playing games, in singing and renewing friendships. A vote
 was taken to meet again next years the
 first Wednesday in August at the hall Mrs. Elizabeth Norcross, formerly of Putnam, is with Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Miller for the present, her address being East Thompson, Conn.
 Blueberries have been abundant here
 and the children have found ready mar ket at the station for all they could pick,
 many orders being taken by the trainnen.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11
EAST IHOMPsO

Mrs. Eva Huntington has been engaged to teach the village school, which opens Sept '.
 The Sunday school picnic will be held at Bates grove, Webster lake, today "Wednesday, Aug. II.
 Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Miller were at Willimantic camp ground last Tuesday. Mir. Miller made arrangements to have the stafford Springs house put in order for the meetings to be held there during
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grandmother. Mrs. c. A. Kennedx

grandmother, Mrs. G. A. Kennedy.
 Mir. and Mrs. Orsemus Vaughan and two children, Beatrice and Clayton, of Providence are at George G. Bromley 2 for a few weeks.
 Among those from this town who were at Storrs Thursday were ]. B. Palmer Mrs J. B. Palmer, Jr., H. J. Kendall Charles Johnson, Victor Adams and AL bert Bfadlow
 Miss Ruth Kennedy and Miss Sadie Crashaw of Baltic are spending a week at Atlantic Beach.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11
NORTH STERLING

F. o. Hummer and family spent the past week in Worcester, Mass.
 MT, McNulty of New York, who puf- chased the Charles Holleek place, raeved here Friday last.
 fine shower Saturday was a greAt help to all growing crops, which needed rain badly
 George c. Spooner and sNp William spent Sunday in North Oxford, Mass.
 Mrs. Lillian St. John has moved to tie c. w. Arnold place
 Frank o. Hummer and family arc yfs- iting friends in New Bedford, Mass.
 Miss Evelyn St. John spent the past week with her sister in Goodyear
 Stephen Douglas of South Killingiy called or friends here Sunday.
 WindsOr.-A baseball game between Miriam Rebekah lodge of Odd Fellows. composed of women, and Hartford lodge. No. S2 (mere men). will be on the pro gram at the annual picnic of Hartford lodge at the Winpoq Fish and Game club grounds at Windsor next Sunday
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11

Middietown.-on of the finest boats that ever belonged to a member of the Middletown Yacht club is the new cruiser Minn S. Cornell She is one of the largest and undoubtedly the fastest cruising boat belonging to the club She has 156 h. p. engines and maintains a speed of 26 knots per hour.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11

Every motor highWdy and bysVdy throughout picturesque NeW Eng land and NeW York is q pGrt of the long "Socony TFaiI".
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
HOME -
TOWN % q 9
!
LIFE IN SMALL TOWN BEST
Has Many Advantages Compared 70
the Hurry and BustIe Inflicted
on City DweIier.

do not think that where a man
lives has anything to do with his pro-
gression, as progression Is hereditary
anu 1t Is not caused by environment,
writes correspondent of the Pitts
burgh Dispatch. The idea that boy
must go to the city to acquire fame
Is becoming thing Of the past, for
people of this world are beginning to
realize that progression may mean
many things-amOng them progression
In tiiing the soil as we'll as progress
sion in politics.
The most progressive men in the
world are the men who go to make
up the little towns, for they are gen.
orally the steady, reliable, sensible fell
lows, who do not pine for the excite
ment and the glare Of a life In a big
city. Small town men are the rock
upon which this great country Is most
securely built. They are the whole
some, true-blue scouts, who are big
enough to live the simple, little town
life. and their quiet nerves hold our
country balanced. The city man is q
bunch of nerves compared with the
man from the village. His days are
spent in dOdging automobiles in the
streets, hurrying from place to place,
trying to beat the other fellow at max
Ing money, and after day of being
ION the jump" he goes to the theater
and does not get home until morning.
Then he sleeps five hours and is ready
to go through the same performance
again. Little Town Man goes to bed
ut 10 after an evening at the movie
end ut Is ready to get up and begin
his day. The Country Jake" is no
longer person to b': laughed at, but
II person to be envied, and many Of
our greatest so-called progressives are
going back to the 'simple-life."
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16

peaks, and alkali wastes between tho
Missouri. river and the Pacific coast.
1t was inaugurated early In 1860 in
order that the West might be kept
more closely In touch with the North
In view of the trouble brewing from
the slavery question. and. though 1t
had an existence of only sixteen
mhnths,' II made the East and West
only ten days apart ut a time of crisis
he date of starting was to be
March 26, 1860, ans Forts Kearney,
Laramie. Bridger, Great Salt Lake
City, Camp Floyd, Carson City, the
Washoe Silver mines,, Placerville and
Sacramento were to be the points of
delivery Of mail. In st. Joseph Mo-,
eager and excited crowds gathered
In the streets to see the first courier,
the wiry. twenty-year-old Johnnie Frey,
as he dashed away on his jet black
steed for the first lap of the race Of
flesh, blood and determination against
the desolate spaces of an unpeOpled
country.
These riders were clad in buckskin
shirts, ordinary trousers. high boots
and soft SlOuch hats. and were armed
with sheath knives, Colts revolvers
and Spencer carbineS. The hest time
they made across the trackless waste
was In carrying President Lincoln's
inaugural speech to San Francisco-
seven days and seventeen hours.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
REASONS FOR OWNING HOME
Advantages Are Many, Quite Apart
From the Economic One Declares
an Eastern Writer.

There are many upsetting circum-
stances in the world, against which
house ownership is sort of insurance
If had not owned my home last fall,
and had by any chance been thrown
out by the old landlord, it would have
been very serious job to find what I
wanted in the present market. I have
known men and women to put in weeks
In the search. Houses are often sold
over ones head. Estates have to be
settled. All kinds of things happen.
Perhaps your small boy disturbs the
landlord, who in turn makes 1t dis
agreeable for you. Such possibilities
are put to rest by actual ownership.
II one Aifus-,a-s scr4esss> -sllness -ina4 the
family, what an assurance 1t is to
know that You cannot be disturbed;
that this is your castle.
For such reasons as these, quite
apart from the economic ones, believe
every man of settled habits should
own his own house. and that this Is
as good time MS any to proceed to
that happy realiZation.--RObert Lin
coin O'Brien in Boston Herald
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
THE MAIL MAN: COURIER
OF CIVILIZATION

Did 1t ever occur to YOU that YOUR
city letter carrier, your village post
master or your rural route carrier has
Il past?
EIe is the agent by which the long
arm Of Uncle Sam taps your shoulder
one, two, maybe three times day. yet
he is so unObtrusive that you probably
do not know him half so we'll as most
other agents of your government, the
school teacher or the policeman, for
example.
But he not only is an essential. hut
n historic figure. The history Of the
postal service and its employees ex-
tends to the days of the Romans when
the earliest known means Of transmit
ting message was by c%Irier. These
admirable organizers, the Romans.
marked by post" the place in the
road where the relay OF one runner by
another was effected; thus they named
our system long before 1t was born.
The first letter post seems to have
existed in the HanSe towns in the
thirteenth century in order to facili-
tate relations between the merchants
Of the various members of the Han
seattle League.
The British post office had it's be-
ginning in the sixteenth century, and
our own colonial methods Of handling
mail were inherited from our British
forefathers. Long before the people
had any means Of exchanging either
personal or official letters. the king had
established system of conveying his
personal messages and official dOciI-
ments by royal me- gers. In the
reign of King John that petulant mon
arch paid out large sum for postal
service and charged 1t to the house
hold and wardrobe accounts. Messen-
gers who were thus entrusted with
matters of state had to be above sus-
piciOn. They went the whole dis
tance and were paid according to the
length and danger of their journeys
In 1G3S New England proposed to
the British sovereign that a postoffice
system be established i'm the colonies,
as it was $50 useful and absolutely
necessary" His majesty paid no at
tentiOn to the plea, but Richard Fair
banks, I'm the same year. set up an
office in Boston to receive letters from
ships. He undertook to deliver the
letters received and charged a penny
for each letter. He also received mail
for outgoing ships. but no one was
forced to send mail through his office.
A thrilling story of the devotion of
mail men to their duties Is that of the
pony express. the first rapid transit
mail line, across the 1906 miles of
prairie, desert, snow-capped mountain
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
STEEL AFFECTED BY FIRE
Figures Gathered by the United States
Bureau Of Standards Reveal Sta
biiity Of Structure.

Some interesting figures relating to
the behavior Of structural steel at the
high temperature of ordinary fires
have been given by the United States
bureau Of standards. Naturally, the
strength of steel at high temperatures
has very important bearing upon
the stability of n structure which may
he subjected to fire. Without any pro-
tective covering. steel columns fail
after only 10 or II minutes of expos
ure to temperatures such as are
reached in ordinary fires. Resistance
can be greatly increased by the use OF
coverings Of brick, concrete, plaster,
tile, ETC., to such an extent. that col
umns so protected are unaffected after
several hours exposure to intense
heat. says the New York Evening
Post
Tests have been made to determine
the compression strength of specimens
Of structural steel when heated i'm an
electric furnace to temperatures cor
responding to dull red heat G,1OO de-
grees FahrcnheiD and loaded up to
10000 pounds per square inch. 1t was
found that structural steel loaded to
10000 pounds per square inch fails at
about 1.075 degrees Fahrenheit, and
under load Of 10000 pounds per
square inch failure occurs .at 925 de-
grees Fahrenheit. For practical con.
sideratiOns, however the limit of util-
ity may be regarded as reached at
temperatures of about 13O degrees
Fahrenheit below those given above
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
ADRIANOPLE: A WEATHER
,VANE OF EMPIRES

| Entry of Greek troops into AdrianO-
pie Is an event I'm secular history fairly
| comparable to the investiture of
Jerusalem by Allenby's army, for this
| Turkish city has for nearly 1000 years
been weathervnne of world poll
| tics
The rebuilding of the ancient Thra-
clan town of Hadrian. who gave 1t
his name, signaliZed Il high point in
| the power of the Roman empire The
| decline of Rome was fOreShadOwed
some two centuries later when the
Goths defeated NalenS there and made
their first break through the Roman
frontier.
Next AdrianOple was the setting for
the Turks advent into Europe There
Murud i. established himself, planned
the capture of COnStantinOple, =, ,und
sent out expeditions to subdue various
Christian peoples. For time the
European capital of the Sultans. Adri-
anople was reegated to be the chief
bulwnrk of .COnstnntinople. There
Turk first met Sluv. and there the
Russians finally forced their way to
/ the Black sea by IL treaty which also
loOsened the Turkish hold on the
Caucasus and compelled recognition of
the independence of Greece.
AdrianOple Is on the MaritZa-
Hebrus of Grecian legend, where Or
pheus was diSmembered by the Thra-
clan women; also celebrated, under its
later name, in. Bulgarian song and
OF II tS.
west Of COnstnntinople.
Today the city wears its past glory
with sort Of shabby gentility, with
no pretensiOn of prosperity but less
squalor than the usual Turkish city.
1t possesses the grave Of the first
Murad, or Amurath, who was assassi-
mated In his tent after he had van
quished an army of Christian allies ON
the field or, Kossbvo. - -
A mosque bearing the name of Sui
tan Baiezid recalls that monarch,
whose. first official act was to order the
execution of his brother, who was first
Ottoman ruler to call himself sultan
and whose conqueStS finally were
checked when he was taken prisoner
by Tamerlune.
But the architectural masterpiece of
AdranOple is the Selimieh. product
of "A Greek tribute-boy's genius. and
relic of the reign of Selim ii. the Louis
XIV of Turkey.
Yearly the Turks would seize GER
tain number of sons Of their Christian
subjects. and I'm Sinan they found
they had acquired skilled bridge
builder. They allowed him to follow
his bent, and the Shahzadeh at Con-
stantinOph. the Suleiman at STEAMBOAT
and the third famed mosque at Adri-
anOple were given to pOsterity. The
Selimieh stands upon the highest hill
in Adrianople and four lofty minarets
tower far above massive dome.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
Many City Managers.

United States now has about 1SO
city managers. The number is grow
Ing steadily, and city managership has
now established itself as profession.
One of these managers has ad-
vapced step by step from the job Of
directing a small city in Michigan to
taking charge Of city matters in
Dubuque Ia, at salary Of $4,000 a
year. This Is the only instance Of
three promotions thus far recorded,
but three city managers have been ad-
vanced at least once.
The highest salary the profession as
yet commands is $4,000. paid by Nor
folk, Va. Dayton and Akron, O.,
Grand Rapids. Mich, and Wheeling,
w. Va, are among the larger cities
now operating under city manager
charters.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16

nest and foraging for food and be-
come converted into fiagons by dis
tending the crop to such enormous d.
mensiOns that the abdomen looks like
transparent bead. In this condition
they hang by their claws from the roof
OF the nest chamber and thencefOrth
spend all their lives receiving liquid
food from the tongues of the fOraging
ants. storing 1t In their crops and re-
gurgttating 1t to hungry individuals
when the liquid food supply outside
the nest becomes inadequate.
"This is, Of course, apt to be the
case periodically in dry regions, so
that we find the true honey ants only
in deserts like those of the southwest
ern states, northern Mexico, South AT
rica and central Australia"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1920-09-16
TACNA AND ARICA:, STA.
MESE TWINS OF
GEOGRAPHY

Tacna and Arica! The words are
fast becoming as inseparable as the
I. Gold Dust Twins the Dolly Sisters. or
The regions form territorial bone
or contention among Chile. Peru and
Bolivia. The province of Tacna. COIN.
posed of the department of Tacna and
africa, Is shown on maps made in Chile
as the nOrthernmOst province of that
country, and on. maps made In Peru
as the southernmOst province of Peru,
Dordered on the north by the Rio
Sauna and on the east by Bolivia
Its broad uplands are rich in nitrate,
and on the Bay of AFRICA, at the ter
minus of one railroad leading to La
Paz and the interior Of Bolivia. and
of another running to ports to the
south. the delightful city of africa IS
situated. giving the possessor Of the
territory great advantage in South
American affairs from both political
anQ commercial StnndpOints., Here is
ample reason why these two South
American republics want 1t. and why
Bolivia hopes that, in the adjustment,
she will have an outlet to the sea ac-
corded her.
The trouble over this region arose
originally from the fact that. in the
days of the early Spanish settlers. the
country was so vast that Il few hun
dred square miles more or less made
no difference in the affairs of the col
ony, and when the colonies organized
themselves into republics they still
were too busy with their internal prob
lens to bother about where their
boundaries began and where they end
ed. This condition was true not only
of Peru. Chile and Bolivia, but OF most
of the other South American republics.
as indicated by tire numerous bound
airy questions which have been In dis
pute during the last decade.
So matters drifted until the middle
of the nineteenth century, when guano
and nitrate were discovered in this
formerly ignored region. The guano
alone was then hastily estimated as
worth $2O,O0OOO0, not to mention the
nitrate. What friends could be ey-
pected to remain friendly with such
n mountain Of dollars between them?
Since that time the Peru Chile Bolivia
story has been one of controversies,
treaties, codnter-charges and plebi-
scit never taken. .AA