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Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
FOUND HOME PAPER IN HEART OF THE ROCKIES
And Through 1t PeddIer Learned That Family He Had Known for Eff
 teen Years Were His Relatives.

Publishing country newspaper re- minds me of tossing a pebble into the ocean. We never know how far the circles which it sets in motion will reach" said Willitson Manley, publish CT of The Plaindealer of Canton, N. T., the other day, in speaking of Sub scribe for Your Home Town Paper Week." which Is to be observed the country over the week of November 7-12. T had a good reminder of this not long ago." he went on.
 "One day there appeared in the Plaindealer office a short, stubby, TO- bust man of probably sixty. I knew the minute I saw him that he had come in from the big outdoors in some section. He told me that he had taken the paper for many years, probably forty, ever since he had left Canton, where he was born. He told me where I would find the paper going, and I found it. His post office was in a little town way out in the Rockies. He said he had come back to the old town to live. He paid what he owed and year over for good measure, and then he sat down and I knew Something was coming.
 Forty Years in the Mountains.
 "'Say,' said he, newspapers are great things. You can never tell what they are going to do for you. have been a peddler out in the mountains for forty years, making my trips, me and the little burro, about once In six months. There were lot of long jumps between houses. For fifteen years I had been going out of my trail, about five miles to one side, to sell to a family that had moved in You get rather we'll acquainted with people If you see them once in six months for that long, so when I got there one afternoon and didn't find anyone hOme-just the door unlocked as all doors were there-I went in and made myself comfortable, and when supper time came I didn't hesitate about hunting around for grub. And while was doing it I found a copy of the Plaindealer on the kitchen shelf, and one or two more around the IhOuse-the Plaindealer, mind you, the paper I was taking right from the old home town! And I wondered who these f1fteen-year-old friends of mine were. I suddenly realized we had never talked over our pedigrees any.
 "'When the family got home that evening I asked questions, and what do you think?-that wife was a sort of grandniece of mine. She hadn't heard of her old uncle off stubbing around in the rocks of the Rockies, and I hadn't ever heard that any | one related to me had ever mar ried and was out there living under another name. Your paper introduced us to each other just thought you might like to know about it
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
The New Santa Barbara Lloht.

Many persons are still fond of the oil lamp to read by at home. In the house 1t still gives the amount of brilliancy desired. But lighting engI- neers claim superiority for the eiec- tric light in a fog.
 An electric light of 100000 candle power is to be installed in the Santa Barbara lighthouse. The light itself Is not 100000 candle-power, but the light Is intensified by the use of re- tractors ingeniously cut and placed. In clear weather the light will not be visible any further than the old oil lamp, which shines 20 miles. The light Is IFS feet above sea level rnd 20 miles Is the horizon limit. But in foggy weather the new light will be visible two or three miles in place of one mile, the limit of the oil lamps beams.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01

At a Court of Probate holden st Sharon, within and for the District of Sharon, on the 23rd day of Nov ember 1921.
 Present Willard Baker, Judge.
 Estate of John Curtin, an incom- potent and incapable person resid- ing in said district.
 Upon the application of said John Curtin, praying that this Court find that said John Curtin is capable and that his capacity for managing his affairs has been restored to him, and to order that his estate be res tored to him and that the Conserva- tor render his final account all of which more fully appears from said application on file it is;
 ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in said Sharon on the 9th day of December 1921, at two o'clock ?. M. and that notice of the pendency of said application be given to all persons interested therein by publishing a copy of this order ln the Connecticut Western News, a news paper having a circulation in said district, and by posting a copy of said order on the public sign-post in said Town of Sharon, and by sending by mail postage prepaid copy of this oredr addressed to John H. Cur tin, 67 Ivy Street, New Haven, Conn ecticut, and John Curtin, Sharon, Connecticut, all at least one week before said day of hearing.
 Attest, Willard Baker, Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
Repair Damage Done by Mice
 and Rabbits to Fruit IT.

Mice and rabbits often do serious damage by girdling the bark of young fruit trees during the fall and winter. Where the tree is entirely girdled, practically the only remedy is bridge grating, and this can he done to advantage only in the spring when the sap flows. The United States Department of Agriculture ad- vises the cut edges of the bark and the exposed wood can be prevented from dryi nogut and dying by pack ing with earth, if near the ground ; by wrapping with paper or burlap, CT by painting with coal-tar creoscte tree paint. This material should never be used near grating time, as it will kill the cut edges of the gratis. 1t shoud be used previously, so that it can weather and become stale.
 When the buds burst and the bark slips easily or may be peeled, in the spring, the bridge gratis may be in serted. Healthy shoots from last years growth should be used for the purpose. Make the scions a little longer than the injured places, with a long slanting cut at each end. Fit them closely against the side of the tree, under the bark, and spring them into position. If scions are long, fasten the ends to the tree with half-inch brads.
 Cover the edges of the wound around the grating wax and tie with strins of cloth. Smear the entire re- zion, covering all the injured and grafted parts with the following mixture: Clay and frehs COW dung, equal parts, softened with water to make a paste. Bank with sods and earth. If the injury goes too high for this, wrap with old carpet, bur lap, or cloth, and bank as high as possible with earth. The air must be kept away from the wound.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
Fill Up That Hungry Boy
 With EnergY-Giving Foods

The average boy between 12 and 20 is apt suddenly to develop extra ordinary predatory habits toward the pantry and ice box, even when his mother fondly believes she has rro- vided him with good filling meals, a i properly balanced diet, and a few luxuries besides. It becomes difficult to keep box of crackers or raisins | or any easily pocketed fruits on hand 1 bread. Rare is the home where the boy in his early teens does not come in from school clamoring for food, no matter how many sandwiches and cookies weer tucked in his lunch box. Almost any leftover in the ice box, from cold beans to pie, is liable to disappear at this hour.
 Give Him An After-School Lunch The wise mother is not unduly alarmed by these manifestations. h. stead of worrying for fear her boy is becoming a hopeless thief, she sets out for him an extra after-school lunch of milk and perhaps buns, cookies, doughnuts, pie, or fruit She will then expend her mental energy in a careful examination of the calorie-content of the food he actu- ally eats to see that it is adequate to his needs at this important growing period.
 It has been found by studying the foods served to boys in a school where considerable stress is laid On physical development that a boy be- tween 12 and 20 may ea5 even more than his father, if the latte. does only moderately active work, The boy uses a tremendous amount of energy, and at the same time is often grow ing faster each year than at any other period since bao. hood. Three and half inches an1!,al increase in height is not unusual at this ayc
 Cereal Foods Satisfy
 The United States Department of Agriculture has worked out simple tables showing how maaY pounds of ordinary foods give the necessary calories per week, and how many hundred-calorie portions are, con- tained in pound 3r other measure by which foods are broug:;; Caloyies are the units by which energy, or the power to do work, is measured.
 Teh average person over 12 yeals of age requires 27 hundred-calorie portions of food a day, or about 190 a week. This is true of man or a boy using little muscular energy in work or play, or of a woman CT girl who uses a good deal. A very active man or boy may need as much as 40 hundred-calorie portions day, LOT 28O in week. These nuts be s-
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
Water Cows Often in Winter

During the winter, when COWS are stabled the greater part of the time, they should be watered two or three times a day unless arrangements have been made to keep water before them at all times, says the United States Department of Agriculture, in Farmers Bulletin 743, "The Feeding of Dairy Cows" The water should if possible be 15 or 20 degrees above freezing, and should be supplied at practically the same temperature every day. When water well above freezing temperature is stored in tanks and piped directly to the COW, there is probably little occasion to warm it. When it stands in 9 tank on which ice often forms, it usually pays to warm il slightly. This can be done by tank heater. by live steam, or by hot water from boiler. If a boiler is used for running a separator or for heating water 10 wash and sterilize utensils, steam from it can readily and cheaply be rsed to warm the drinking water
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
Back to Town Cr.er

How many residents of any small community have ever considered what might happen if there were no news papers? Just previous to Sub scribe for Your Home Town Paper Week." which is to be observed the country over November TIP, is good time to recall the plight of Macon, Mo-, not long ago, when fire put the Chronicle-Herald out of business for two weeks.
 According to The Publishers Aux Hilary, the old town crier, relic of many years back, was yanked from his hiding place, dusted off, and put back on his job with a dangling bell, a megaphone, and fog-horn voice only a little worse for long disuse.
 It may have been a novelty for two weeks. But think of a community without printers ink, compelled to get it's announcements of auctions, sales, court sessions, births, marriages, deaths, epidemics of sickness, dog or dinances, board meetings, commence ments, tax notices, advertisements of help and situations wanted, acci- dents, and the rest, through a shouted word like that of the ordinary train announcer in a city depot. The town crier was a romantic figure in his day, but few towns would like to return to his ministrations now.
 When one thinks of the temporary plight of Macon, and that it might become the permanent handicap of many towns, it is well to think of SUD- porting the local paper.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01

tributed among the five food groups, so that fruits and vegetables furnish about one-fifth, protein-rich food an- other fifth; fats and fat foods fifth; cereal foods, such as bread, and foods made of flour, rice, corn meal and other cereals, three-tenths; sweets, one-tenth.
 The cereal group furnishes the largest amount and also one of the cheapest and easiest sources from which to provide food that satisfies the antural boys unsuitable hunger; !; but the mother should take unusual pains to include a sufficiently high proportion from the fruit and vege- table group and also plenty of milk.
 Tn the family of moderate means the problem often is to provide a quantity of good inexpensive satisfy ing material from each group, rather than articles calling for high-priced ingredients or delicate cookery. Most boys prefer doughnuts to pound coke i; dumplings and lots of gravy please better than small portions of expen- sive meat cuts. Milk in large quanti- ties helps body building and growth by the protein, lime, and vitamines that it supplies; while succulent vege- tables, salads, tomatoes, oranges, and other fruits furnish the indispensable vitamines as we'll as bulk. Active boys crave and require plenty of butter, bacon or other sources of fat. They are also notoriously greedy with sweet things, like jam, honey, candy, and sweet desserts, and here is no harm in these sugar foods if they are served at the right time and providing all of them together do not furnish more than 10 per cent of the energy of the total food used, as indicated above.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
OUR FARMERS CORNER

acres) along with 22 breeding cows and 12 brood sows. Arakle land of the best class, when used exclusively for sheep, can be made to support from to ewes (with their lambs until marketeD per acre On pas lures suitable for either ..'.:11Ie pr sheep five ewes may be crnSldtred the equivalent of one COW or s:"C: and the winter feed required :"r enc breeding COW not in milk would he equivalent to that needed fer about 8 ewes. A
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
Never Waste.

Caution against wastefulness as pIucriced by many persons is apt to show itself regardless of time or place. Pedestrians attempting to round one of the busiest downtown street corners in Indianapolis recently found their path blocked by a little shawl-clad woman whose very dress and manner bespoke thrift. She was picking up a pin.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
How Many Sheep to d Farm?

tio" Many Snesp to a rsEn!
 For 160-acre farms of all-arable land a plan of livestock production has been recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture which includes 80 ewes q eve to ?
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01
Life as 1 See It.

Ill talk, as in other things, we nigh well let quality prevail over quantity Louisville Courier-Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1921-12-01

Sand Shoes Are inverted.
 Shoes with wide wooden soles hay ing projecting points are an English invention for persons who walk on sand that would engulf ordinary shoes.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
KILLS STEP FATHER
.!N-LAW OVER POTATOES

Danville, Ky. July 1S-Isaac
Honaker, 90 years old, was shot
six times by his stcpson-in-law
Walter Gilbert, 40. late Friday af-
tcrnoon at his farm about four
miles from this city and died two
hours later at the hospital here
The trouble started over the
division of potato crop which
Gilbert had put in on Honoaker' 5
farm. Gilbert. who was arrested
and lodged in jal here. charges
that Honaker called his wife to
bring his shot gun and that as she
approached he drew his revolver
and fired. He has wife and II
children. Honaker is survived by
his wife and stepdaughter.
The families moved here from
Lee county, Virginia, about a year
ago.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
REAL BAD man IS
ARRESTED AT RAVENNA

Chief of Police Jack King and
L. & n. detective Worrcll arrest
ed sure'nufI bad man last week
in the person of Ernest Crawford
colored, says The Ravenna Her
aid. Crawford was wanted i'll
Beattyv1lle On seven different
charges. 1t seems he has d ma
mia for using a gun. lie shot
into the posto:ficc 1t Bcattyvillc,
resisted arrest by Il deputy sher-
itf Of Lee county by knocking
him down and taking his pistol
away from him, shot three times
at Herman Masters, an L. & N,
brakeman, residing in Kavenna.
while Mr.. Masters was on the
job between here and Beattyville,
and shot another man who is in
d hospital now in a serious CON
dition. After his arrest he was
hurried back to Hcattyvillc by
detective Worrell to stand trial
on the seven charges.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
LIQUOR SMUGGLERS
TAKEN FOR PIRATES

Atlantic City. n. J.. July l8-
Pirate yarns and reports OF d
mysterious ship lurking along the
North atlantic trade lanes may
be explained by the discovery Of
liquor blockade runners which arc
landing Contraband cargues on
the Jersey Coast. Maritime cir
clcS have been agog with stories
OF vessels approaching merchant
men and daShing off i'll the dark
neS,. Revenue agents said to-
day these actions are explained
by the liquor laden ships looking
for a friendly vessel to transfer
their liquor cargoes and not find
ing such Il ship. scuttlcd away
without answering. Whisky
valued al $4,000 recently seized
near Wildwood. y. =. gave a clue
10 the situation. Previously a
steamer was seen manipulating
Just outside the three mile limit
Prohibition officers said today
there is no doubt that smuggling
intoXicants on this coast IS con-
Quoted on d tremendous scale.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
MISS JANE BRECK IN
DR.. CRABBE'S SCHOOL

Jane T. Breck is one of d quin-
tet Of pretty Kentucky school
marms ably reprcs enting the
state among the great army oI
public school teachers, principals
and superintendent attending
the summer school at Colorado
State Teachers College in Gree
ley. Colorado.
a former i<entuckian is the
head of the college i'll Greeley,
namely DR.. J. G.. Crabbe, former
ly president of Eastern Normal
Ihlrty-tWo stltes are reprcSctcd
in the 800 students enrolled al
Colorado State Teachers College
for the summer school. The 9th
cr four kentucky teachers en-
rolled as students being Addic
b. Adkins. OF Mayiicld, Mabel {.
Mitchell. OF Paducah. X. G. Good
man. of Coston. and Rosalic
Nudge, of Covington.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
Woman Tarred And Feathered

Shreveport La. July 18-Mrs.
Beulah Johnson was taken from
the porch of hotel at Tenaha
Texas, stripped, tarred and fcath-
cred according to advices reach
ing here today.
The attack on Mrs. Johnson.
which took place last night, was
said to have been made by mask
ed men wearing white uniforms
They are said to have driven III
to the hotel in three automobiles
and filed out displaying firearms.
and to have taken the young wo-
man into one Of the cars
The automobile proceeded to d
point several miles in the country
where Mrs. Johnson's clothing
was removed aud coat Of tar
and feathers was given to her.
She then was placed in the auto
mobile and returned to town.
Mrs. Johnson says she did not
know any Of the men in the party
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
TELLS ABOUT SEVERE
DROUTH IN NORTH KY,

New York, July lS-Thc long
continued drought has played
havoc with the crops in Northern
kentucky, according to Isaiah H..
Cobb. OF Louisville. There was a
water famine. he said, in kcnton,
Campbell, Boone and Pcndleton
counties and as a result the stocks
of many farmers have gone dry,
making life miserable for the pco
pie of the afflicted counties.
Fear is expressed that the loss
of cattle will he enormous" said
MIR. Cobb, who recently complet-
ed all automobile tour through
the northern section of his native
state. 1T has been the most SER
ious drought in d long time. Some
of the farmers tod me they
could not remember when they
went through such d seige. I'm
less rain falls soon many of them
will despair of ever recupcratinS
from the setback they now are
suffering.
"On Campbell county farmer
told me he had lost 60 per cent of
all his young fowls Matched this
spring because of the extreme
heat. Thousands of young chick
ems throughout the county are
dying for lack Of water Creeks
and springs there, never known to
fail, have dried up. All in all, it
is sorry state of affairs, and if
1t continues longer it may even
have its effect upon persons liv-
ing i'll nearby cities, who will be
forced to go without many farm
products and pay higher prices
for those they are able to obtain .
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
WACO GETS REVENGE
ON RICHMOND Nine:

The Waco club won a ball game
from team representing Rich
mond on the Waco grounds Sat
urday by a score Of 10 to 2. The
team that went out from town
was not of as high a standard as
the two previous teams that were
victorious over Waco. The Wa
Coites solved the delivery Of John
Parks and swatted his offerings
to the distant parts OF the lots.
He was relieved by Russell Tur-
pin. who. after one inning. set
tied down and proved invinciblc
for the last three rounds.
The Waco team used Robinson
at second and this Young player
proved to be Il real star at the
keystone position. He handled
himself more like ball PLAYER
than any other member OF the
team with the possible exception
Of George Gintcr. who is an old
timer at the game. With lit
the class of Covington. who is
tie more experience he will be III
now one of WaCo's young bright
li"hts. Robinson is natural
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
WILSON'S LETTER TO
LLOYD GEORGE PRINTED
(By Associated Prcss)

Washington, July 18-A letter
from former President Wilson to
British Premier Lloyd George
declaring the United States did
not consider a proposal to cancel
or exchange Britiain's indebted
ness to this nation was placed III
the Congressional Record today
by Senator Todd. republican. The
letter was dated October 1920
said that suggestions looking to
cancellation or exchange were
made to Wilson in Paris. The
communication was apparently in
reply TO the British premicr's
letter made public last week in
the Senate finance comnittcc's :
hcraings.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
Grand Jury Exonerates
Mrs. Faulconer In Fayette

Lexington, Ky, July 1S-De
claring that no shortage exists in
the funds of the Fayette county
school board. and suggesting that
DIR. Gilbert Baily, chairman Of the
recently elected school board, re-
sign, the report of the Fayette
county grand jury, in dealing with
the affairs of the old board were
handled intelligntly.
That the old board and Mrs.
Faulconer, the county school su-
peritnendent, in particular, had
been suspected of shortage i'll
the school funds of more than
$4,000 is "riduculous state
ment on the face of it," is the de-
claration of the jury.
The grand jury severely crit
cizes" the superintendent for fail
ure to preserve all checks and the
manner in which the books and
records have been kept.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
RAILR0ADER KILLS
ANOTHER AT RAVENNA

Ravcnna, Ky. July lS-Jamcs
Lucas was shot and instantly
killed by Johnny Clay at the
home of the latter here Sunday
y quarrel is said to have ensucd
between the Two ncn when Clay
returned at noon from work at
the L. & n. roundhouse where he
is employed and found Lucas in
his home. Clay claims that nc
shot Lucas in self defense when
the latter made d movement to-
ward his hip pocket Lucas is
also an emplOyc al the round
house. Clay surrendered to Chief
OF Police Jack King Immediately
after the shooting and was placed
i'll the Irvine iail.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-18
THREE GAMES IN
LEAGUE THIS WEEK

There are to be three games to
be played i'll the Church League
this week They are to be played
NJ onday, Wednesday and Friday
The game Monday is between
the Catholics and Second Chris
tianS
The Baptist+ and First Chris
tians play "Wednesday, This is go
ing to be great game between
the first and second placcrs The
Baptists hope TO shorten the
"Campbellites" lead while the
First Christians think they can
practically cinch the flag by win
ming this game This is going to
be one Of the hardest struggles
of the year and large crowd is
expected TO be at the game The
Presbyterians, who walloped the
First Christians SO easily meet
the Second Christians in the last
game Of the week which is played
on Friday.