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The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
THE GOOD
NEW YEAR
EMORY J. HAYNES
IN the Boston Globe

TT WAS foretold forty years ago.
The New Year shall be a good one
This is the story Of the prophecy
1t depends upon you to believe is-
Forty years ago q lone skater upon
the CLASSY surface Of a lake in north
ern New England celebrated his soil
tary holiday. At the far end Of his
ten-mile dash he rested in the room
day sun, sitting at the base of tow
ering cliff.
He was a stonemason's apprentice
mere boy workman. He habitua1F
carried his steel chisel in his pocket.
Climbing high, and with mucA hazard,
up the face Of the towering rocks, he
cut this legend in the face of the
mountain:
THE New Year VIII Be Good"
The bold lettering is visible for
miles. The lake in summer IS a ia
yorite resort of pleasure parties. Each
year thousands of eyes have spelled
out the CHEEKY monograph, while boats
passed, and many hearty laugh has
rung with a heartier Joy as old and.
young have approved the sculp: Uredt
promise.
It will long endure, for the stec, cut
deep, and the mountain will MOI re-
move, nor the pretty lake pass away
The boy did not date it Forum
ately so, for that makes ii fit every
year and every reader. Why nat for
a century tO Gomez
A thousand times the question haS
been asked: WHO wrote HT' Anes
no one knew. So it seemed some
eternal truth Of nature that the very
rocks had miraculously inscribed upons
themselves.
1t was true to anyone who E~sula
take the trouble to lift his eyes anE
read 1t. In storms the snow silyessas
thelettering. In sun the words gleesns6s
with lines Of living light A ssrtsnRfs
by no means elegant, but erp,:e a1g
boyish rather. Yet what ThsfeE5E
could add to the abrupt and single
prophecy from a hopeful, healthy
spirit7
The New Year was to be Just plains
good" Was that enoughl Is IN
not enough for us allf One COOS to-
you, another good to me. still another
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

companies have lent their cooperation,
and signals are now sent covering both
North and South America, all our colo
NAL possessions, Australia, japan and
the principal nations of Europe. Some
idea of the speed with which these
New Years greetings are flashed from
Washington to distant points can
be gathered from the fact that it takes
less than GA of a second to reach the
Manila observatory; 0.5 Of a second
to reach Lick observatory, California |;
2.25 seconds to cover the distance be-
tween Washington and the coast sur
vey station in Alaska-this includes
relaying-and four seconds to let the
Wellington observatory in New Zea-
land know that the new year has
reached US after the celebration has
been hours old.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
BIRTH of the
NEW YEAR
People Of New Zealand First
to Give It Greeting

"HE birth Of the new year, as
we are well aware, is variOusly
celebrated, but. how many
people know of the manner in which
the momentous date is set? Do you
realize that the new year is really
hours old before the great bulk of the
civilized world is able to celebrate its
arrival?
Priority in rejoicing over the event
is actually given to the untutored In
habitants of the islands of the South
Pacific. The first of the civilized world
to greet 1921 was the people of the far
away New Zealand. Sweeping west
ward, the change Of date crossed Asia
and then the old world of Europe and
Africa before starting over the Attain
tic to America. Onward it sped at the
rate of thousand miles an hour until
the first day of the new year died away
In the middle Of the Pacific.
In the United States the idea of an
nouncing broadcast over the land the
birth Of the new year originated with
the officers in charge Of the naval OBJ
servatory In Washington. About 10
years ago twas suggested that the
telegraph companies dispatch at mid
night from Washington series Of sig
nails proclaiming the exact moment Of
the new years beginning. The idea
wss taken up and signals we're sent
out at midnight and at one, two and
three O'Clock in the morning follow
ing in order that each great time d.
vision of the United States should re-
ceive its own appropriate midnight
signals from the capital
The practice has now become fixed.
The signals used are akin to those sent
out each midday. These begin five
minutes before the midnight hour by
way Of warning, and cover each second
Of the clock except the twenty-ninth,
the last Eve Of each Of the first four
minutes, and the last ten Of the final
minute. After this last long break
there is a single prolonged contact, the
beginning Of which announces the ex-
act instant Of arrival of the pew year.
Since the beginning Of this service
other telegraph and most Of the cable
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
sLEleHRELLs JINGLE

Hear the moaning and the groan2aG-
of the winter breeze; Old Years dy-
ing-hear him signing, listen to hinz'
wheezel Weary Willie is quite ehE1S
In his threadbare coat; this coli
weather altogether gets his RIzefAGs
goat. Old Br'er Rabbits wary baA1ts;
now avail him not; hounds are telling:
by their yelling that the tran IS hSts
See the fuel fight a duel With your
next weeks pay; watch your metEsF
and the heater steal your heart swayE
You remember last September Aos
gust and July7 Sun was shining yBW
were whining. vowing you voul9 d5eE
You were praying for some sleigAhE:
crying for some Ice; now It's freezinE
quit your sneezing; yell, and sag Ma
nicai
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

day and all day long we have trans
crossed the law of kindness-it may
seem a paradox, but in the bitterness
of these discoveries a certain consola-
ton resides. Life is not designed to
minister to a mans vanity. He goes
upon his long business most of the
time with a hanging head and all the
time like a blind child. Full of re-
wards and pleasures as 1t $50 that
to see the day break or the moon rise.
or TO meet a friend, or to hear the
dinner call when heis hungry, fills him
with surprising joy-this world is
yet for him no abiding city. Friends
fall through, health fails, weari-
ness assails him; year after year he
must thumb the hardly varying records
Of his own weakness and folly. 1t is
a friendly process of detachment.
When the time comes that he should
go. there need be few illusions about
himself. There lies one who meant
well, tried little, failed much; surely
this may be his epitaph of which he
need not be ashamed. Nor will he
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

same; there is a change Of views, and
no less Of the lights in which we re-
gard them; a change of motives as
well as of action.-Scott.
-
If you would climb to the high
places, carry off the richest prizes, get
the most enjoyment out Of life, and
have the sublimest old age, you must
conquer the base elements of nature /;
you must have every atom of the dross
of dishonesty squeezed, hammered,
burned out, if necessary; you must be-
come as sound as 24-carat gold, as true
as best steel.-George K. Morris.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
BEGINNING A NEW YEAR

: Though we are apt to think that
New Years has been observed since
the year one, such is not the case.
In fact, there is no mention Of the
day as a Christian festival until the
fifth century, and even now the He
brews celebrate their New Years In
September, for their calendar is ar
ranged according to the new moon,
which makes New Years q movable
holiday. Today, however, there IS
scarcely nation but observes this
season of the year in some manner
or other. though customs differ in
most localities.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
QUEER NEW YEARS CUSTOMS.

Volumes might be written upon the
queer customs and curious supersti-
tons connected with New Years day.
Literature is full Of them, grave his
torians have preserved them for us,
and versatile poets decked them with
fairest flowers of fancy. From Chau-
Ger, Sweet Spring OF English Song,
from Spencer and Herrick, Milton and
Shakespeare, down to the humblest
magazine rhymes Of today-one and
aIl-they have paid tribute. A wise
essayist describes the day as "a
peak on Darien, from which two
oceans. may be seen. Into one we
look with sadness and regret. into the
other, with hope and faith"
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

that are wrought upon US In thought
and deed with the force and power Of
eternity, years whose marks we shall
carry forever, were dissolved like the
dew and their work is finished
Beecher.
The time which passes over our
heads so imperceptibly makes the same
gradual change in habits, manners and
character as in personal appearance.
At the revolution Of every five years
we find ourselves another and yet the
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

Tim day after prohibition
agents raided Hurley. Wis, the
water rates were advanced SO
per cent. The water company
evidently thought the old topers
had to drink something and
would take their spite out on
water.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
onions ForeteII WEI Months.

Take IL onions, cut them into
halves, hollow them out and I'LL with
salt. Those In which the salt COM
pletely dissolves indicate the wet
months Of the coming year.
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
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The Adair County news., 1921-01-05
A NEW YEAR is NEAR.

TITS coming. boys,
It's almost here
It's coming, girls,
The grand New YearI
A year to be glad in.
Not to be bad In;
A year to live in,
To gain and give in; (
A year for trying,
And not for signing;
A year for striving,
And hearty thriving;
A bright New Year.
Oh! hold it. dear;
For God, Who sendeth,
He only lendeth."
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

The years-hOw they have passed
They are gone as clouds go on a sum-
mer day; they came, they grew, they
rolled full-orbed; they waned, they
died and their story is told. Years
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

} LOOK back and appraise
the past year and see how
little we have striven and
to what small purpose; and
how. often we have been
cowardly and hung back, or
temerarious and rushed I'M
uicoIu In. oD1 HON ox-oy.x,
The Adair County news., 1921-01-05

TT WAS foretold forty years ago.,
The New Year shall be a good one
This is the story Of the pFopheey.
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
AMERICAN TRAVELLERS
RETURNING TO PARIS
Many Ending Motor Trips
Through Europe.

Special Cdbia 10 THE NEW YORK HrnArp.
Copyright, 1921, by THB New YoRK HEaALp.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Sept. 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence " Benet re-
turned from motor trip from Aix-ies-
Beins and taken Paris apartment Mr..
L. Parker Miller OF New York arrived
at the Regina Palast Hotel. Munich. He
is motoring from Berlin by way OF
Dresden and Nuremberg en- route 10
Vienna.
Mr.. and Mrs. waldo GUNNER and
family OF Jacksonville, Fla. arrived at
the Hotel Lutetia from a motor trip
through the Pyrenees and Southern
France.
Mrs. Florence Duryea and Miss Mar
garet Case of New York arc in Paris.
Mrs william Scott Pyles OF New
York has returned 10 the Plaza after a
motor trip through the chateau country.
Mr.. Robert crawshay. after taking
the cure at Vichy, arrived at the Grand
Hotel. Bellagio. Lake Como. where the
Duke OF Bronte will Join him.
Miss Belle w. Baruch has returned
to Paris after visiting friends near Biar-
ritz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton r. Jacksoa Of
Philadelphia arrived at Buceri- after
passing a month In Italy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Philip Easton
OF New York arrived here from Geneva
and expect to sail aboard the Adriatic
about the middle OF September.
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
RA AYMOND S. BALDWIN,
ENGINEER, IS DEAD
Resident of Buffalo Passes
AWay at Country Home.

At India Point, his summer home on
the Pawkatuck River. near Westerly,
X. l.. Raymond Soaring Baldwin OF
Buffalo, formerly OF Newark, y. J., died
from heart disease on Saturday after an
illness or several months. lis body was
brought last night TO New York and
there will be funeral services for the
FAMILIES only this morning in the chapel
OF saint Bartholonew's Church.
MI Baldwin was a son OF the late
Mr.. and Mrs. William Henry Baldwin OF
Newark. He was graduated from
stevens Institute and Joined the Carbon
steel Company OF Pittsburgh as an en-
einecr. Later ne was connected with
the New York Office of the company.
Several years ago he left that corpora
ton 70 go with the u. Fl. Williams Drop
Forging Works OF Buffalo. He had the
supervision OF some OF the most irnpor-
tant operations carried on by that com
rany In recent years. and was promoted
70 be vice-president. One OF his biggest
works was the building Of the great
rlant OF the Williams company In Buff
iaio Owing to i'll health he resigned
ms position last spring and went TO
westerly. His home was at 424 Lin
@aod avenue Buffalo.
Sif' id4uWin married Miss Edith Slay-
Lack. daughter of Mr.. John ID. Slayback
q New york, who survives him. also
their only child, son, John Slayback
Baidwin, IL years old. Mr.. Baldwin
also has two sisters and one brother
living. Mrs. +. Walter Lawrence Of
summit. N. j., Mrs. +. r. Guild of New
ARK, and Oscar III. Baldwin. electrical
engineer with the Metropolitan yicaers
Company of London
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
Miss Helen Rice
Defeats Mother
In Tennis Finals
Wins Berkshire Championship
/. Third Successive Year
Notes of the Hills.

gseciGz Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD
LENox, Mass, Sept 4.-Miss Helen
Rice Of New York defeated her mother.
Mrs. Edwin T. Rice. 6--l, 6-2, in thf
final match OF the women's singles ~
the Berkshire county championship I'm
mis- tournament at the Pittsfield Country
Club yesterday. This Is the thir3 sue
eessive year she has qualified as eham-
pion.
Mrs. Frederic Crowninshield gave a
luncheon at her villa in stockbridge to-
day for Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Johansen,
artists. Mrs. Joseph II. Choate had a
dinner party at Naumkeag In Stock
bridge.
arrivals at the Maplewood Hotel In
P4ttsAeld include F'rof. Eric Erickson.
electrical engineer of Sweden; Mr. ana
Mrs. Clifford Hemphill. Mrs. Grenviile
B. Winthrop of New York. Mrs. Charles
Counseinan and Mr.. and Mrs William
s. jerks Of Chicago. III.
Miss Laura Beers of New York is tn.
guest or her aunt, Mrs. Edwin H. Beers.
at the Aspinwail Hotel Mr.. and Mrs
Horace II. Furness Of Philadelphia also
are there.
Mrs. Edward Curtis and Miss Con-
stance Curtis of New York are occupy
ing Miss Lydia Field Emmet's villa at
Stockbridge until her return from Ore
gon on September 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Garrett and
Mr.. Philip Kobbe Sd are guests for three
weeks OF the Misses Marie O. and Helen
J. Kobbe in Stockbridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Jones Colford,
Jr.. and her daughter. Miss Cathleen
Vanderbilt. are spending a few days
with Mrs. Raymond r. Baker at her
Raquette Lake camp in the Adirondacks.
Mrs. william b. Osgood Field. who was
with Mrs. Baker. returned to High Lawn
to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peyton ]. Van Rensse-
laer Of Newport are at the Red Lion
Inn, Stockbridge, for a few weeks of
golf. Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis w. Leaven-
worth of Rye. N. Y. also are there
Mr.. and Mrs. Denison d. Dana have
as guests at Brookside In Great Bar
fington Mr.. Richard Fl. Dana of New
York and Mrs. Charles Vickery Of
Fitchburg. Mass
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
REAR ADMIRAL TWINING
CUES" OF MR.. HARVEY
Naval Ittache in London En-
terfCined by Ambassador.

Special Gable to THE NEW YoRK HrsALp.
Copyright, 1891. bu THE NEW York HERALD.
- New York Herald Bureau,
London. Sept. 4.
Arnba ssador and Mrs. George Harvey
have been entertaining at Weybridge
Rear Admiral N. c. Twining and Mrs.
Twining. Rear Admiral. Twinlng is the
new Naval Attache. Mr.. Frederick A.
Pearson. formerly Third Secretary Of
the American Embassy here, has been
appointed Second Secretary. Mr.. L.
Lanier Winsiow, First Secretary of the
American Embassy, left yesterday for
his new post in Mexico.
Major-Gen. George Q. Squier sailed on
the Aqultania after attending the inter
national radio conference.
w. p. Whitlock former senior secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. A. with the Greek
army, with his wife and her sister Miss
Olive Raus, has gone TO Athens after
two weeks tour of England and Scot
land.
Among Americans from the Continent
who have arrived here are Mr. and Mrs.
Charles II. Warren. Mrs. William Scott
Pyle. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Norlnent.
Judge and Mrs. d. c. Richardson and
Harry b. Duncan.
j. q. Gould is at the Ritz. having re-
Gently come from Scotland A. IL.
Within has left the Ritz for a pro-
longed stay in Italy.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne. Bel
gian Ambassador to Washington, is Wis
iting here en- route to Brussels.
At the Hyde Park Hotel are Mr.. md
Mrs. Charles Corliss, Mrs. J. d. Thor, o.
son. Darwin r. Kingsley and Mr.. and
Mrs. 5. II. Frank, all OF New York.
At the Hotel Carlton are @. /.
Fanchold. @. w. Raleigh, John Gates
Williams. Julius Adler. Charles Armour.
r. w. Bowling and Mrs Edith Horton.
Hugh r. Wilson, former Counsellor 10
the American Embassy at Berlin, has
been appointed 10 the same post at
Toxic.
Commanders Harry l.. Pence and
Emory >. Land. Naval Attache and his
assistant are leaving shortly for Wash
ington.
Thomas +. Millard. writer and ptb-
Usher. a Far-Easterr authority. has me
to Geneva. He VIII attend the Dis
armament Conference.
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
ELOPlNC COUPLE ON
WAY TO LAKE PLACID
Heiress Bride Of James Sin
clair Is Only Is.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YonK HrxAr.p
NEW I.oNDoN, Conn, Sept 4.-Mr.
James Sinclair OF New York and his
bride. who was Miss Bertha Samuels.
heiress. daughter OF Col and Mrs. Jo-
seph e. Samuels Of Providence, and who
were married yesterday at Mystic.
Conn, after an elopement. arrived here
to-day on their way to Lake Placid to
pass their honeymoon.
The bride, who passes the summer at
Narragansett Pier with her parents, IL
one OF tho most attractive girls In the
villa colony and only Is years old. She
has won laurels as the best swimmer at
the beach and drove her own car In
which she left the Pier the day OF her
marriage. 1t is understood among the
friends OF the Samuels family that there
was no opposition TO the marriage OF
Miss Samuels and Mr.. Sinclair except
the extreme youth of the bride.
The bridegroom has been a frequent
guest at the Samuels villa on Boston
Neck road at Narrngansett Pier
throughout the summer He Is "a years
old and the son OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.
Sinclair Of New York. He was gradu-
ated from Brown University. Providence.
and during his college career was one
Of the most popular students being
prominent at athletics at the university.
notably In baseball and football.
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
WALSH ACROBATIC
IN 'SERENADE'
First National Attraction at
the Strand.
STRAND--"Serenade." First National
attraction. produced by r. A. Walsh.

STRgAND--' Serenaue, FlrSt national
attraction. produced by r. A. Walsh.
George walsh makes a new screen rec
ord. for nc eclipses other stars who have
swung through a room on the chan
deliers-nctably Mack Sennott come
dians-by swinging from three OF them,
one after the other. In a manner not to
be surpassed in the circus. This in
"serenade" Is Spanish Love" put on the
screen after the grand Fairbanks model
The photoplay. announced as having
been more directly adapted from Felin v
Cordina's original, Maria del Carmen"
than the acknowledgement spoken
piece. deals colorfuily and at times en-
chantingly with the struggle of the two
young men. one the son OF the usurping
Spanish Governor Of Magdalena, the
other a young rebel who is constantly
Bolsheviking against the established gov
ernment. II makes up for the color and
music possessed D. the stage version
through plenty OF Wild riding. pursuing
and fghting. and there is vigorous at-
mosphere and fire always on tap. But
the agile young Mr.. Walsh. who bounds
from balconies jumps 20 n roof via q
horse and swings on a rope clear across
n street and into window In time TO
rescue his beloved from a swarthy VII
lain. would seem 10 be paying the elegant
dons an overwhelming compliment by
so much energy. One can hardly imagine
young Rrandee being really so athletic
not in such tight trousers, anyway.
But In a story Of murderous hate over
love AFFAIR that Is difficult for Anglo
saxons 70 understand, and therefore
twice as fascinating. Walsh clenches his
jaw and docs some good. intense acting
M well as ryrnnastics. His final scene.
with the suddenly forglvlng enemy he
has stabbed IN a manner quite moving.
has been garnished with too much con-
sciously heroic language.
Miss Miriam Cooper as Marta looks
charming and acts effectively despite
tendency 70 express emotion by swift
Jerks Of the head. Josef Swickard.
Bertram Grassby and Noble johnson
also are capable, though none OF the
principals appear to desire 70 put on
dusisy makeup FOR fear OF being mis-
taken fsr natives.
The New York herald., 1921-09-05
SPANISH ENVOY GUEST
AT DINNER IN NEWPORT
Entertained at Villa Of Mrs.
Woodbury. Blair.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD
NEWPORT, r. T., Sept 4.-Senor Riano,
the Spanish Ambassador, was the chief
guest at dinner tonight given by Mrs.
Woodbury. Blair at her villa. Beach
holm. Mrs. John J. Wysong also gave
dinner party, and Mrs. Hugh d. Auchin-
Gloss and Ogden Fl. Hammond gave
iuncheons.
Thtbathing at Bailey's Beach attracted
a thfong to-day. Almost everyone was
I'm the surf. The bathers included Mrs.
William Woodward, Mr.. and Mrs. George
d. widener. Mr.. and Mrs. Pauding
Fosdick. Miss Marguerite Caperton, Miss
Carlotta Havemeyer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Moran. Miss Helen Moran. Senor
Riano, one time Gov. r. Livingston
Beecknan, Misses Alexandra I3. Dolan,
Sylvia r.. HiIlhouse, Marion and Fanny
Wickes and Sara Moreland, Mines w.
Fitz Hugh Whitehouse, Herbert Ship
man and Roland Rickson and Miss Kate
Darlington.
jamestown was the scene of pretty
party this afternoon, when Mrs. J.
Bertram Lippincott gave tea and re-
ception for her son, Mr. Bertram Lip
p'ncott, and his Aancee. Miss Elise
Dlpuy Graham Hirst, whose engage
nsat was announced recently. There
were zoo guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beverley Boeert viii
give a luncheon tomorrow. and In the
evening Bishop and Mrs. James Henry
Darlington will give dinner. Members
of the younger set who are friends of
Miss Kate Darlington will be among the
guests. Mrs. Ogden Hammond will give
a luncheon tomorrow.
Registered at the Casino were Mr..
Ogden l.. Mills, who Is with Mr.. Joseph
Hartmann; Miss Barbara Sands. Mr..
Winthrop Sands, Mrs. A. Perry Osborn
and Mr.. Charles NJ. Bull, Jr.
Mrs. Philip Rhinelander I'd gave a
dinner 1T the Casino grill during the
orchestral concert.
Mrs. j. Arden Hartman is visiting
Mrs. Elisha Dyer at Wayside.
Commander Calvert Carey. u. s. n,
and Mr.. Gibson Carey are the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon at
the Laforge cottage.
Col. lebanon Cuyler of New York is
at the New Cliffs Hotel. At the Hill
Top Inn are Mr.. and Mrs. william II.
Ellis OF New York, Messrs. Henry +.
Pierson, James ID. Chapman and Clark
Adams Of Boston.