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The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1922-06-22
signed, and many 81 you were at the
station to bid him farewell.

signed, ana many OF you were al tno
station to bid him farewell.
But enthusiasm may be too con-
tagious; even a great and Inspiring
motive may work for harm, and the
university must not become a desert.
In the twenty-fOur hours since that
young man went to join the army last
night one hundred and eleven Of our
young men students have left our
walls; eighty-fOur Of them went of to-
gether at three O'Clock to catch an
eaSt>hound train at the Junction ana
enlist for the navy at Newport. We
are, l say, in danger of stamp"de.'
He spoke on, but Dora was not lis
tening; she had become Obsessed by
an idea which seemed to be carrying
her to the border Of tragedy. When
the crowd poured forth from the build
Ing she went with It mechanically,
and paused In the dark outside. She
spoke to a cir! whom she did not
know.
Il beg your pardon"
"YeS?"
II wanted to ask: DO you know
who was the student Doctor Crows
spoke Of? l mean the one that was
the first to enlist, and that they were
cheering last night when he went away
to be a private in the United States
army. Did you happen to hear Ms
namef"
Yes, he was a Junior"
"Who was it,"
Ramsey Milholland."
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aU6, 6ol' ihv sdi1o:; -.
Yes, I always thought So"
II think you were mistaken" she
said, decidedly. 1T WAS q special rea'
sou-to make him act so cruelty
"'Cruelly'" Fred cried.
1T vast"
"Cruel to whom?'
"Oh, to his mother-to MS FANNY.
To have him go of that way without
a word"
ION, no; he'd been home" Fred cor
rected her. HE went home the satur'
day before he enlisted, and settled II
with them. They're all broken up, OF
course: but when they saw he'd made
I'D his mind, they quit opposing him.
and think they're proud Of him about
II. maybe, In spite Of feeling anxious
You see, his father was an artillery
man In the war with Spain, and h''
grandfather was a colonel at the end
Of the Civil war, though he went into
It as q private, like Ramsey. He dleo
when Ramsey was about twelve; but
Ramsey remembers him; he was talk
Ing Of him a little the night before hf
enlisted"
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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SHERIFF SALE

Giddens Petroleum. TO. Vys H..
Johnson. No. $3.50, Third 1ud'aa
District Court. State Of Louisiss
Parish Of HieNYiilp.
Under and By virtue Of q w,n /
Seizure and Sale issued from tho sh.v
named Honorahie Court and to M v N
rected, have seized and will off, :. y
sale to the last aNd highest bjad n
for cash, with the benefit Of ann,s aSsi
ment, at the principal front 1Ioo s's !
the Courthouse at Arcadia, Bipn,,srl
Parish. La" within legal sale hours I '
Saturday, July 9Th, 1872.
the following described property :,
wit: >" "
W II Of Sc il, Section "A, N ,
N, r. 10 W., containing so acres ~ >.
cept the gas well on said land And :. :.
cepted the oil, gas and other mips,,I
in and under said land. ~
The above described property sa,.
as belonging to the defendant Hss '
Johnson, and vii! he sold to s,S4
said Writ Of Execution and all co.s
This the 29th day of May, 1922
]. Z. CURRIE, Sheriff
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once TIN sorry, but l don't know JUST
how to explain him to you.'
UyYhv9O

once. TIN sorry, but l don't know JUST
how to explain him to you.'
"Why"
He laughed, apologetically. "Well'
you see, as l understand 1t, you Don't
think it's possible for person to have
something within him that makes him
care so much about his country that
he"
"Waitw she cried. "Don't you think
I'm willing to suffer little rather
than to see my country in the wrong!
Don't you think I'm doing it?'
swell, l don't want to be rude; but
of course, 1t seems to me that you're
suffering because you think you know
more about what's right and wrong
than anybody else does"
ooh, no. But l."
I'VE wouldn't get anywhere, prob
ably, by arguing It," Fred sald' You
asked me-"
Il asked you to tell me why he en-
listed"
"The trouble is, I don't think / can
tell that to anybody who needs an an
swer. He just went, of course. There
isn't any question about 1t. always
thought he'd be the first to co."
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s...:1T1I1lIuss'nn-- 1
Ramsey hiI'elland


Ry Booth Harrington

He was right. The portentous DAYS
came on apace, and each one brought
q new and greater portent' the races
Of men lost a driven look besettlhg
them in the days Of badgered waiting
and instead of that heavy appreheh'
sion one saw the look mems faces must
have worn in l776 and 1891, and the
history of the old days grew clearer
IN the new. The President went TO
the congress, and the true indictment
he made there reached soothing Pots
dam with an unspoken prophecy some
what chilling even to Potsdam' one
g1esses-and then through an April
night went almost quietly the steady
word: we were at war with Germany
The bugles sounded across the cont.
nent; drums and flies played up ana
down the city streets and In town ana
village squares and through the coun'
trysldes. Family in all ears there was
q multitudlnous noise like dlstaht,
hoarse cheering ana q Seuhd
like that was what Dora Yocum heard,
one night, as she sat lonely In her
room. The bugles and flies and drums
had been heard about the streets Of
the college town, that day, and she
thought she must die Of them, they
hurt her 50, and now to be haunted by
this imaginary cheering
She started. Was 1t imaglnary9
She went downstairs and stood upon
the steps of the dormitory In the open
air. No; the cheering was real and
loud. 1t came from the direction OF
the railway station, and the night all
J surged and beat with 1t.
Below her stood the aged janltor Of
the building, listening. "What's tht
cheering fOr?" she asked, remember
lng grlmly that the tapitor was one Of
her acquaintance who had not ye
stopped speaking" to her. whats
the matter?'
TITS a good matter" the old mai
answered. II guess there must be
biz crowd Of 'em down there. One Of
our students enlisted today, and
they're glvln' him a send-ohf. Lister
to 'em, how they do cheer. He's tn
first one to co."
She went back to her room, shlver
Ing, and spent the next day In be'
with an aching head. She rose in tn
evening, however, handbill had beef
, slid under her door at five o'clock, call
ing a MASS Meeting" Of the uniyer
sIty at eight, and she felt 1t her dut'
to 20: but when she got to the grea
hall she found a seat in the dlmmes
corner, farthest from the rostrum.
The president Of the university az
dressed the tumultuous many hundred
before him, for tumultuous they wer
, until he quieted them. He talked t
them soberly of patriotism, and GALE
upon them for "dellberation and a III
tle natience." There was danger of
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stampede, he said, and he and the fest
Of the faculty were In a measure re.
sponslble to their fathers and mothers
for them.
You must keep your heads" he
said. "God knows, I % not seek to
Judge your duty In this gravest mo-
ment Of Your live nor assume to tell
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CHAPTER XIV.

Fred Mitchell, crossing the campus
one morning, ten days later, saw Dora
standing near the entrance of her DOR
mitory, where he would pass her un'
less he altered his course; and as ne
drew nearer her and the details Of her
face grew into distinctness, he was in.
dignant with himself for feeling less
and less indignation toward her In pro-
portion to the cloSeness of his ap'
proach. The pity that came over him
was mingled with an unruly admira'
ton, causing him to wonder what un.
patriotic stuff she could be made Of.
She was marked, but not whipped; she
still held herself straight under all the
hammerlng and cutting which, to his
knowledge, she had been getting,
She stopped him, "for only a mo-
ment," she said, adding with wan
proudness: "That is, If you're not one
of those who feel that I shouldn't be
spoken tO'?'
no." said Fred, stiftly. II may
share their point Of view, perhaps, but
| don't feel called upon to obtrude 1t
on you In that manner"
Il see," she said, nodding. 1--WE
wanted to speak with you about Ram
sey,"
"All right"
She bit her lip, then asked, abrupt.
ly: what made him do it2'
Enlist as private with the regu'
lars?"
mo. What made him enlist at all!'
"Only because he's that sort" Fred
returned briskly. He may be mex.
plicable to people who believe that his
| going out to fight for his country Is
the same thing as going out to com.
init a mur-"
She lifted her hand. couldn't
you-"
Il beg your pardon" Fred said at
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"p,oosont Of her!" Fred muttere -
"Especlally as we know wp .1aa bis his
thinks enlistlng means" He raised st.,a n1s
, voics cheerfully. "wel, th't's se t a.
md thank God, old Mr.. Bernstor'l s, oa
h hls vav to his sweet little vlne, ',.na
al. .otta "p' home. They're getting guns guns
e co ths shps ' and the BIZ: shows liable so,e
on Commence cnp 1p any day. We can h0 10
NJ our heads now, and we're gong sor TO
s sp s some great times, old Ramsey boy
J ~ hard on the home folks-oosn!
A. do0,t IKE to think Of that Ana !
onpss It's going to be hard on Io' ~
S Sovs that hal haven't understood what It's
all about and hard on some tna' .ie n
family affairs, and business anu 50 c, o w.
have aot EN- tied up SO ltg hard TO 70
and Of course there's plenty that just
cont and some that aren't husky
enougil-but the rest Of US are gong
10 have the big time In our lives we
got An awful lot to learn It scares 'ne
70 think of what don't know about
being any sort Of a rear'rank pr
vata Why, it's a regular profession
like practlclng law, or sell'ns 'o'
drug house on the road
"Golly! Do you remember how we
talked about that, way back in fresh
man wear. what we were going to 90
when we got out Of college7 You were
going to be practicing law, for IN
stance, and well, f'r instance re-
member Colburn; he was going TO De
a doctor, and he did 60 to some medl'
cal school for one year, Now he's in
the Red Cross, somewhere In Persia
Golly!"
He paused, then chartered briskly
on. "Well, there's one good ola Dos
was with our class for while, back
10 freshman year; bet we won't SCI
him IN any good old army! Old rough
neck Linski that you put the knob OF
his nose for. Tommle Hopper says III
saw him last summer In Chicago soap
bo1in', yellln' bis head of cussln' ever!
government under the sun, but mostl'
ours and the allies. you bet. and golnI
to run the earth by revolution and reg
resentatives Of unskllled labor imm
grants, nobody that can read or writ
allowed to vote, except Linski. Ton
ME Hopper says he knows all abou
Linski: he never did a days work !
his llfe-too busy trying to get tn
workingmen stirred up against the pei
pie that exploit EN-! Tommie says h
had a big crowd to hear him, thougl
and took up quite q little money &c
q cause or something. Well, let hi
hollerl / guess we can attend to hi
when we get back from over yonde
BY George, old Ram, I'm gettin' kin
Of Aoppy in the gillsl" He admin!
tered resounding slap to his con
rade's shoulder. 1T certainly looks q
II our big days were walking towar
usw
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you what you must or must not do'
But by hurrying into service now, With
out careful thought or consideration,
you may impair the extent Of your
possible usefulness to the very cause
YOU are So anxious to serve. Hundreds
of you are taking technical courses
which should be completed-at least
to the end Of the term in June. In
structors from the United States army
are already on the way here, and mill
tary training will be begun at once
for all who are physically eligible and
of acceptable age. A special course
will be given in preparation for flying
md those who wish to become aviators
may enroll themselves for the course
at once,
~ sneak to you in a crisis Of the
universlty's life, as well as that Of the
natlcn, and the warning I utter has
been made necessary by what tooh
place yesterday and today. Yesterday
morning, a student in the Junior class
enlisted as a private in the United
States regular army. Far be 1t from
me to deplore his course in SO doing
he spoke to me about 1t, and In such 6
way that | felt had no right to dis
suade him. | told him that 1t would
be preferable for college men to wal
until they could go as officers, and
aside from the fact of greater pres
tige, / urged that men Of education
could perhaps be more useful In thai
capacity. He replied that if he were
useful enough as a private a commits
sion might in time come his way, and
as I say, I did not feel at liberty to at
tempt discussion. He left to join {
regiment to which he had been as
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
TIME TABLE CHANGES
 IN EFFECT ON JUNE II
New Train Will Leave This Station for
 Waterbury

A new timetable will go into effect on the N. Y, N. H., and H. road on Sunday, June 11th. A new train will leave this station on the Berkshire division at 7:20, making connections at Brookfeld Junction for New Ha- ven, then follows the New York ex- press to Danbury and then runs to Waterbury. Returning it will leave Waterbury at 1 :00 p. m. and arrive here at 6:35 p. m.
 The New York express which now leaves here at 7:32 a. m. will leave one-half hour later. It will make the same stops between Pittsfeld and Canaan as before, but after leaving Canaan only four stops will be made between here and New York city. This provides better service to New York than we have had in some time.
 Returning the New York express which arrives here at 6:33 will arrive half-hour earlier, at 600 P. rn., and make stops north of here as be- fore.
 On the Central New England road there is only one change of irnpor- tance. On Saturdays Conductor Ahearn's train will leave Hartford at 12:45, arriving here about 3:00 D. m. and Millerton at 3:22. There is practically an hours difference in the arrival and departure of this train at all stations.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
PLEA OF FATHER UPHELD
Supreme Court Finds Error and
 Dismisses. the Case

Tn the Litchfe1d county case of Ella Blair Dunham against Miles DInham, the supreme court has found erorr and ordered the case dis missed for want of jurisdiction. The case involved petition that the sole custody, care and education of a minor should be given to the plain tiff. Judgment for the plaintiff was rendered in the superior court, and the defendant appealed.
 The plaintiff and the defendant were married in 1908, and have one child now 10 years old. A divorce was granted by the Massachusetts superior court to Mrs. Dnnham on the ground of cruel and abusive treatment, and each parent was given the right to see the child at conven- tent opportunities while in the GUS tody of the other. The wife claim ed the exclusive custody of the child and an injunction restraining the husband from interfering herewith.
 In Dunham's answer he denied the right of the superior court of Litch- field county to interfere with the de- cree of the Massachusetts superior court, also denying his own unfitness to take care of the child, as his for mer wife had alleged.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
LUMBER co. CHANGES
w. J. Hafmaker Purchases Interests
 of N. W. Hardenburgh

The New England Body Co.,, for merly the Canaan Lumber Company, under the. supervision of w. J. Hat maker, is making a strenuous effort to invite the business of this section, MT. Hatmaker recently purchased the interests of N. W. Hardenburgh and is in charge of the plant.
 MT. Hatmaker stated that the company is placing orders for new stocks of lumber, shingle, roofing materials, cement and coal, that they may supply the demand for these materials. A careful inventory has been taken and all material priced with view to. creating new business. The aim of the company is to satisfy it's patrons and we feel sure the conscientious application of this rule will bring new life to the concern.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
Pilgrim Church Notes

Thursday, 7:15 P. M. ..
 There will be a brief meeting of the parents of boys of the Roosevelt Sunday School Class at the Parsonage at 7:15. Sunday
 Regular Morning Service of Wor- ship at 10:30.
 Sunday School at 11:45. Monday
 Regular meetings of the Young Woman's Guild have been discontin- ued for the year. Sunday, June Is
 Exercises appropriate to Children's Day will bS the order of the day at the morning service. @ Wednesday, June 21 a Combined Picnic of Pilgrim Church and Clayton Chapel at Lake Buel. ... IT, The women of the church will hold sale of Fancy Articles and Ice Cream at place to be announced on Friday, July 28th.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
HoNoRED AT ITHACA
West Cornwall Boy Attended High
 School Here

Graduating in the 1922 class of the Williams School of Expression and Dramatic Art, of the Ithaca Con- servatorys of Music, is Gould Leroy Hart of West Cornwall. He made a notable record of scholastic prof. ciency in the school. MT, Hart was graduated from the Canaan High School in 1917 and attended the Ithaca School of Physical Education, Dr. Albert H. Sharpe's new school, last year.
 His record of school activities contains the following: attended Cornell Summer. School: member for four years of the Awards, the dra- matic organization of the Williams School of Expression and Dramatic Art; member of the Ithaca Conser- vatory of Music Glee Club for three years; member of the Student Coun- cil; president of the Student Council in 1921 and 1922; business manager of the Key Note, the official student publication; associate editor of the Conservatorian in 1921 and 1922 ; and a member of the Phi Mu Alpha, or Sinfonia, the only national musi- cal organization for men in existence.
 While at the Conservatory he stud jed with the following teachers: |: George c. Williams, dean of the Williams School; the Misses Helen Harriscn and Elsie Hugger; Dr. Al Sharpe, Mrs. R. c. Rodgers, voice He has accepted a position for next year as director of physical educa- tion and elocution at Sherburne, N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
Death Takes Henry W. Roraback

Henry W. Roraback, we'll known Winsted citizen and for many years a faithful employe of the Strong Mfg. Co.,, died at the home of Mrs. K. B.. Smith, a nurse, at Winsted, about 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon after a long illness. He was stricken with paralysis five years ago. Mir. Rora- back was born in Sheffield, Mass, in November, 1845, son of William T.. Roraback and Alvina Niver. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. A. A. Thomas, who lives in ths west; two sisters, Mrs. Mary D. Woodruff and Mrs. Perry Carter of Winsted, and a brother, Duane L. Roraback, also of Winsted. Also cousin, Judge A. T. Roraback of this place. MT. Rora- back was a Mason.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
COMMENCEMENT OF .t
 CANAAN HIGH SCHOOL
Exercises at Town Hall
 Next Thursday Evening

On Thursday evening, June 18th, the Commencement Exercises of the graduating class will be held at the Town Hall at eight o'clock. Every one is cordially invited to attend these exercises. -a
 On the following evening, the Juniors of the c. H. s. will give a reception for the graduating class, from eight to nine. The public is cordially invited and it is hoped that all who are interested in the school will accept this invitation. Refresh ments will also be served. Don't forget the Dance following the re- ception. :.
 The School Paper which is pub lished annually by the High School will be on sale both evenings. Price 35c. This is we'll worth having on your library table! ls
 The Alumni Association
 For long time graduates of Ca naan High School have felt that they had severed all relations with the school when they received their oi- plomas. They have also felt, and justly so, that this should not be true. There should be no abrupt finish and loss of all connection with the insti- tuition where many pleasant and profitable days were spent with the classmates who were. the comrades of those days.
 As remedy for this defect, it has been thought advisable to organize an Alumni Association commencing with the graduates of the class of 1922 and going back over a period of many years and including all who have ever received a diploma from the c. H. S. The first step to form this association will be taken on Fri day evening, June 16th, when all graduates of this school who are present will be consulted about the matter Meanwhile the Seniors will try to get in touch with as many former graduates as possible and to receive their opinion.
Connecticut western news., 1922-06-08
GOVERNOR DENOTES FLAG DAY
Would Have People Dedicate Them
 selves Anew to Nations Ideals

Governor Lake Tuesday issued a proclamation designating June IA as Flag Day and calling upon the citi- zens of the state to dedicate them selves anew to the ideals for which the flag stands. .e
 The proclamation follows:
 Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly I hereby designate We'd nesday, the 14th day of June, next, as Flag Day, that upon this day the pupils in the public schools, the citi- zens and the prospective citizens of this state may consecrate and dedi- cate themselves anew to the great principles and ideals for which the flag stands.
 Let us quicken and refresh our minds with the great truths of lib- erty and justice, that our citizenship may not only be more active, but more intelligent and inspired.
 With the flag as symbol of their devotion; men have fought, suffered, and died for their homes, their coun- try, and their faith. e Every fold is consecrated with the blood of pa triots and with the tears of women, that we may live in peace, security, and contentment. ~/r.
 The flag is symbol of service; it calls for service. Wherever men and women Work, worship, or rest, may our flag be displayed on the day herein designated as the sign of our undying loyalty and allegiance.
 Everett J. Lake