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Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13
DRIVE AGAINST MOUNTING LOSS
 BY FIRE DUE TO CARELESSNESS
HALF BILLION IN PROPERTY, 15 900 LIVES SACRIFICED AND 17.0o0 CRIPPLED EACH YEAR UNNECESSARY HY-FIRE PREVENTION CAMPAIGN Fire Drills In SchoolChef Thurston Addresses Rotary Club
 and School Pupils.

Fire drills were held in all schools and Fire Chief Ralph E. Thurston. in anticipation of Fire Prevention Week. October 10th 10 15th, address cd the pupils of the Israel Putnam and High schools last Friday.
 In the party accompanying the Fire Chief were Charles L. Torrey. secre. tary of the town school committee, Captain William Jarvis of the Putnam p5liee force Ralph C Jenkins. super intcndent af schools and Edward Benoit, representing the fire depart. mem. The results at the different schools were as follows.
 israel Putnam school children Wefe out of the building in one minute aud trn seconds after the fire signal was rung. The high school pupils were ont of the building in thirty-two sec onds. Smith Street school. thirty sec onds. Trade school. one minute four teen seconds Kew st. Mary 5 school. one minute twenty seconds old building, forty seconds.
 Chief Thurstop addressed the mem bers of the Putnam Rotary club last week Wednesday and gave the same address before tho school pupils. The observance was held before the week set apart had actually arrived be- cause Chief Thurston had to be m Chicago this week to attend conven.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13

public fire protection Tae dfT of New York pays S6.000.000 lsae Considerably sums are appropriated by hundreds of cities year afser yea
 Fight The Red Energy
 Our fire departments constitute our standing army If protection against the t.Red Enemyf There k no publk dis5urpment mora pitauy neeessarH and ! am as faf as uossi- ble from urging retreaehnent from these expenditures Footing up the ultimate cost Qf our colossal art joss this item of protection mts; b. reck- ohed.
 So lar We have taken no notice Of the saddest. the most Wanton and d.. together the least eXeusable waste the loss of life. Last year not less fhan l5.0Q0 Americans lost their liy. es through fire-an average of one every hour. Seventeen thousand more in the same period were crippled or permanently disfigured Hundreds of these Bnfortuaates were deprived of their ability to make living and may become public charges
 Apart from the horror of it and the humanitarian standpoint is that of frigid economy All contributed something to society We spend mil lions to sueeer destitute people in
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13
BOOK REVIEW

Death Comes For Tho Archbishop" by Villa Gather. knopf and Company
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13


 by Villa Gather. knopf and Compa n y
 There,i is a public wherever English is spokeu that eagerly awaits for any thing that comes from Miss Gathers pen. One of the many reasons why this public has grown in numbers is that Miss Gather is probably the most varying writer in America today. She has mo set formula of production. She writes directly. sincerely, honestly, al. most sparsely, but with beauty of expression that makes her stand apart from the regular run of best-selleF producers.
 There WIS that splendid Pulitzer prize winner of hers, One of Ours in it's rstihalf easily one of the best productions uf any American authdl who has written in the course of the last half century Then there was C us thai afeft of all ther works, "MS Autuuia, contrast in structure, puf pose and expression t0 the sbettet knQRn moved Even more contrasting was "A lost Lady but few findr bdoks can be remembered in this eener Mion Those who found "The Profes sor's House" unsatisfyiug. could ndt but admit the power and beauty of its pages. Only Villa Gather c0ubi have written My Mortal Enemys' 'md strange document that it was, It remains as one of her most memorable accomplishments
 Back Co tteiloeaId of the inset story of the western experiences of the dead hera ef "The Professors House" has Miss Gather gone m her latest and, in some ways, her most impressive book. Death Comes for the Archbishop This. s a0 novel huilt upon dramatic Structure Es thas nb love story. Ii is not an analysis 0f passions or tor menis '8'r scnnubieXes. l. Is the south west from the fifties to the eighties set down in . magnificent picture through the simple lives and accomplishments of a French Catholic bishop of Santa Fe and q brother priest.
 IL is no more than a record very light and atmosphere of the simple and courageeus men from the time of their arrival in New Mexico until their deaths But with them Miss Gather has made 0 dwell the very Tight ard atmosphere of the mesas and the flains,tthe Indians and the Mexicans. the remnants of Spanish civilization. the legends and the faith of q strangely variegated population Ii is ali so simply told that 1t becomes absorbihgiy Interesting There is no fine writing. and yet it is writing of the fnestI ln the chapter entitled '.The Great Diocese. . fone will find a passage of. .sach exquisite beauty as the language seldom reveals.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13

most vital. let us make t our imme diate business to sec that our children are brought up in the knowledge of the dangers of fire and how they may be overcome. h every school in the United States such lessons shonld Dc taught. More than once thrs teaching has been credited for saving lite ard property.
 Ii IS high time the citizens whu earnestly desire the welfare and prog ress of their country look with dis trust and strong disapproval on the careless person. Never. until posi- tive hostility towards carelesSness is shown hy all good citizens, can we hope to lessen this fire waste this mad sacrifice to Moloeh, King oi Flames.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13

tion. In his three addresses Chiei Thurston said in part:
 Loss $500, GOO 900
 Into the fiery oven of Moleeh tht Garthaginians rolled their most pre- cinus sseSsions-their own children The people danced to music to droa1 the shrieks of their burning victims.
 With no nope or expectation oi good resuiting America today wor ships Moloch the pagan god, to [ scale undreamed of centuries ago Into q lap of the fire god Americans by their own carelessness. are tosslnn over $500. 000 ,000 worth af churches schools. stores, homes. and factories every year. never to be replaced foi the progress of Che country. Nc longer is the oldest son alone in dan ger but men. women and ehiidrey lose their lives through the Hatlen negligence.
 aWhat is everyhody's business ls nobodv's business" said the speaker and then asked if there Is any way to bring this enormous loss home 10 the individual American.
 l. was pointed ou, that when pro- pertv IS burned there i5 loss m raw materials. changed in form though | may be. ihai can never he feiiaeeN' When human lives are snuifed oui be cause someone did not stop to thlnk' it should be more than. newspaper item We claim an adva0cHE clVl lizatiou and yet the vaine ot human life is no mora important than n the days of Babylon and Tyre
 Can Not Escape
 Every dollars worth of property destroyed represents a loss. not only 10 the immediate sufferer, but to the United States In national wealth. AS individuals Ie chn not escape the calarnities that befall our country.
 fundamental loss through ire + the raw material loss The expense of insurance is figured m the oyer head of every business and the hlga CT the rate the more IS added TT is indirectly borne by the consumer it is an added item to the price fei which the commodity as sold. II F plainly seen that .the burden CT hf, loss therefore rests squareiy on tat shoulders of all of us. W hen lp dustrial plants barn sometimes tholF ands are suddenly thrown out Of eIp plovnfent. This affects the whole community in number Of unpiesf ant. often desperate ways osi' dom does a day pass without oelne hlackened by one such fire ne ] again destroyed buildings pay h0 tax, es. The decrease in revenue E added to the remaining property owners. lo this burden is added the expense oi
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13
BOAT TRAIN OVER TWO
 HOURS LATE SATURDAY

The mixed train, known as the Boat train. did not arrive in Putnam from New London. Saturday morn ing until after ten o'clock. Il was three hours late and New York mail and newspapers were delayed two hours and a half Business men were discommoded by the late arrival of the mail.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13
Begin With The Child

Finally and n the long run the
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13
FILES CLAIM AGAINST
 CITY OF WiLLIMANTI(

Alphonse. D. Beausoleil of this cisv has filed q claim against fhe city of sWillimantic for damage 70 his auto mobile which he alleges was due to driving Into q flooded area in one of the city streets on August ist The matter was referred Co the claims .committee at meeting of the Wilt mantle common council, Monday eve ming.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13

Rural and star route mail carriers operating iu any part of America are instructed to report all forest fires tu the nearest warden.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13

The ordinary numerals. 1, 2, 2, 4, and so forth. were derived from Hind ustan hy the Arahs and introduced by them into Europe.
Putnam patriot., 1927-10-13

remote corners of the globe. l. is fitting chat We do this but let us not blink the need of spending mouey at nome To cheek this worse than sense less payment of human life. which. as q nation, We make To fire.
 Inflated values, congestion and growth of population have raised the toll tn recent years. Stll we are forced to tdnaluds that there Is no- thing Whifever abbdt tht major part of this waste of fife, health and wealth that iS inevitabie. By The exercise Qf reasondble care and fore thought no fewer than 75S, and 1aite probably 90et of our outbreaks of fire could be aVerted and the losses avoided.
 Csrefulness With Fire II will require individual and cul- leciive effort. We can start by de- velopine fire consciousness we can make carefulness with fire and in- grained instinct. or sometimes term ed second nature" First. though, we should learn to identify and then remove or correct those conditions on our own premises which breed fire the rubbish heap; the thoughtlessly disposed match or cigarette; the elee- tFic pressing iron needlessly left turned on;'' the defective or soot- filled chimney or flue; the premiseous disposal of oily rags; the open fire left unattended and unscreened. !. All these common hazards. with many more. are included under one or another of the twenty-two main fire cause headings of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Twelve Of these are held to be strictly pre- vcntable. The rest partly so. Only common sense is necessary to detect thase hazards These concern the in- dividual. Let him take care of his own property
 Collectively we should support suit able building codes Such codes take cognizance of infinite possibih. ties of fire occurances and, without oppressng the owners ,oE builders ere4 {lfesasis, 4q rnicsItss thing for a cAv' to posstsg W
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26
TREE FOSSIL
 FOUND IN GOAL MINE

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26. P)-A tree branch fossil established to be 1OO,- COG. .OOO years old, is prized posses sion of the Carnegie Institute of Tee hnology here.
 The fossil, found in a coal mine at Harmarsburg, Pa, is described by geologists as 'lepidodendron lan- ceolatum'', a plant which contributed greatly to the forming of coal depos- it's in the carboniferous era.
 The woody part of the tree be- came carbonized with other branch es that became coal and the fossil is almost as thin as paper. It is a tree top four feet high with branches spreading three feet. Bark, limbs, twigs and leaves are very clearly marked.
 Miners in the Harmar mine of the Consumer Mining Company found the fossil in the slate roof of an en- try, and the company gave it to the Institute.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 SERIAL NO, O63S6

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 SERIAL NO. O6386
 IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF- FIcE FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT A ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. In the Matter of the Application of the PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHER IFS, a Corporation, to purchase pub lie lands as Soldiers Additional Homestead.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHER IFS, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, has filed application Serial No. 06306 1n the U. s. Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, for patent for tract of land embraced in U. s. Official Survey No. 1574, situated on the south shore Of Ikatan Bay, approximately 3-4 nau- tical miles from Ikatan Point, Unl- mak Island, Alaska, in Latitude 54 degrees 45 minutes % seconds N. and Longitude 163 degrees Is min utes and 40 seconds w. as soldiers additional homestead and more par ticularly described as follows, to-Wlt: Beginning at corner No. 1 whence U. s. L. M. No. 1874 bears N. 73 degrees 14 minutes 56 seconds w. 6.35 chs. distant, thence north along the east boundary 1913 chs. to true point for corner No. 2 M. c. on the shore of Ikatan Bay from whence wit ness corner to corner No. 2 M. C. bears s. 76 ks. distant; thence from true point for corner No. M. c. by meanders along south shore of lka- tan Bay along line of mean high tide as follows:
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES
 COMMISSIONER AND Ex-OFFl-
 IcO PROBATE JUDGE AT DILL
 INGHAM, ALASKA. ,.
 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
 OF OLE NELSON, Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned, N. B. Henderson, as administrator of the Estate of Ole Nelson, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said decedent, to present them, with the necessary vouchers, within sax months from the date of the first
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26

publication of this notice, to the said Executor at his reside ence in Dilling- ham, Alaska, which said. place the undersigned selects as his place of business in all matters connected with said estate. fr
 Dated this 26th day of January, 1927.
 N. B. HENDERSON, Administrator of Estate of Ole Nell , son, Deceased. Published Jan. 26, Feb. ?, 9, 16 and 2S, 1927.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26
s7.e7e- '''1 r ' ''e7@.'7.97 7 77'' T
 tEGAl N01IGES
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR TIE KODIAK PRECINCT, THIRD DIVISION, TERRITORY OF AL ASkA, AT KODIAK, ALASKA.
 In the matter of the estate ot GUST HOLMBERG, deceased.

Notice of time and place for hear Ina settlement of final account, determination of heirship and peti- tion for final distribution.
 NOTICE is hereby given that E.. Petellin, administrator of the estate of Gust Holmberg, deceased, has rend- cred and filed in the above entitled court. and presented for settlement his final account of his admlnlstra- tion. together with his report and netition for final distribution, and that Tuesday the fifth day of April 1927 at the hour of two O'CLOCK Ill the afternoon of said day, at the office of the Judge of the above en- titled court in the village of Kodiak, Alaska, has been fixed and appointed as the time and the place for the settlement of said account and the hearing of said report and petition and the determination of heirship, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said estate may appear and file their objections, ii any they have, to said account and report. petition and determination. AND NOTICE is hereby further glv- en that said account is for final set clement, and that the said estate IS ready for distribution and on settle ment, of said account, final dlstrlDu- ton of said estate will be immediate 1y had.
 Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this first day of February, A. D. 1927.
 A. F. STOWE,
 U. s. Commissioner and Ex-offico
 Probate Judge.
 JOHN F. COFFEY,
 Attorney for Administrator.
 Kodiak, Alaska.
 First Publication, February, 2, 1927 Last Publication, March, 15, 1927
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26

to true point for corner No. M. C.. from which witness corner to corner No. M. c. bears B. 4.10 chs. distant; thence east along southern boundary 14.O9 chs. to corner No. l, the place of beginning, containing an area of 9.S4 acres ard including all the land embraced in U. s. Survey No. 1574." Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above described land should file their adverse claims with the Register of the J. s. Land office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or 30 days thereafter or they will be barred by the provisions of the statute.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register.
 First publication December 27, 1926. Last Publication March 5, 1927.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26

On Monday evening at o'clock the handball teams of Swetmann- Dyer are scheduled to take on Blue Painter.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26
NORTHERN NOTES

5 5O or above is considered high in their grade point system, and that the average grade points are 4.9O, or c plus, for freshmen students, Cor doya freshmen students averaged ell, or B minus.
 An airplane landing field at Me- Carthy, is suggested by people who are interested in aviation for Alaska. And another one at Chisanna. This brings Cordova, Mccarthy, Chisanna, and Dawson on almost a direct line. The trip could be made along this route from Cordova to Dawson in three to four hours.
 The General Petroleum Corpora tion drillers are down 1,O4O feet on the Sullivan property at Yakataga according to word received by M. J Sullivan, who is interested in the Yakataga oil fields and a townsite there. The drill was in sandstone when the telegram to MT. Sullivan was filed.
 Captain J. V. Davis, announces having sold the motorship Estebeth to the Neill Transportation Co.,, of Ketchikan The Estebeth will be used by the transportation company in addition to the motorship Prince of Wales for the mail route to the West Coast and to points north on Chatham Straits.
 To Dorman H. Baker Post No. II, of Fairbanks, goes the honor for the largest increase in percentage of membership for 1926, of any post of the American Legion in the depart ment of Alaska. John w. Jones Post No. s, of Cordova, was very close second, as will be seen by the 1926 percentage barometer.
 J. c. Sauers, who was apprehe1d- ed two months ago in cna States or warrant charging him with com. plicity in the fish-piracy case O last year, entered a plea of guilty before Judge Thomas Reed in tht district court at Ketchikan. Sauer; was a member of the Walter Mccall Val Klemm gang which was arrested on charge of fish-piracy last year Klemm and Mccall were convicted and sentenced to three years in tht penitentiary. Mccall is at presen serving his sentence and Klemm i appealing his case.
 Articles of incorporation have beer filed in the office of the Clerk o Court in Fairbanks by the Nordal. Hotel corporation. The incorporation are Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Nordale, Al ton G.; Arnold, M and A. H. Nordale The company is incorporated fo $125,000, all of it's stock being com mon stock. The object of the COT poration, as set forth in the articles as a going business, the Nordal Hotel and to operate it and mak' Improvements and additions thereto The bonding of the property for thu purpose of the business of the cor poration is permitted. It is proposed to add wing to the present Nordal' Hotel building, and to increase th' space at the front by addition o one story. The total accommoda tions of the complete hotel will b' no rooms, over one-third of whicl
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26

The finest Safety Razor in the worli at s15. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26

Next Tuesdays regular business meeting and luncheon of the Seward Chamber of Commerce will be held at noon at Fishers Cafe Members are requested to make it a point to be at this meeting.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-26

Raw furs bought at Brown 6 Hawkins
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-28
BRITISH dash
U. S. HOPESOF
NAVY ACCORD
Washington Officials See
New and Costly Ship
Building Race.
BLAME PUT ON LONDON
Fate of Geneva Conference
Expected to Be Known
by Weekend.
BLAME PUT ON LONDON
BY LUDWELL DENNY


WASHINGTON, July 28.-Ofi-
cials here expect the Geneva naval
conference to fail.
They blame Great Britain.
They anticipate big naval appro-
priations by the next Congress.
The American proposal to limit
naval strength by total tonnages of
ship classes-which Britain accept
ed at the Washington conference
and now rejects-is the only prac-
ticable limitation method, accord
ing to the Administration here.
The reported policy of Sir Aus
ten Chamberlain. British foreign
minister, rejecting that method for
limiting small cruisers, will break
the Geneva conference if insisted
upon by the British delegation, Of
f1cials told the United Press today.
If the British give the American
plan a fair hearing, the conference
still can be saved, they said.-
They explained that Great Bri-
tain and the United States, because
of geographical conditions, have diff
fering cruiser needs, which can be
met only by fixing an equal total
cruiser tonnage for both navies and
allowing each to apportion its ton
mage in large or small cruisers, ac-
cording to its own needs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-28
London Sees Solution
BY CLIFFORD L, DAY
d. CLIT II OKND ID DAI
United Press staff Correspondent

IICbs otah OOhAOSpohuShs
LONDON, July 28.-A possible
ending of the impasse at the naval
limitations conference at Geneva
was seen by London papers today
in the suggestion of Sir Austen
Chamberlain, British foreign secre-
tary, that a temporary agreement on
cruisers be reached at the confer
ence.
Concluding his speech before the
House of Commons yesterday on the
British cruiser policy, Chamberlain
said there need be no difficulty in
arriving at "a temporary agreement
regarding the immediate future of
cruiser building"
And then he added: But the
British empire cannot be asked to
give such a temporary arrangement
the appearance of an inmutable
principle which might be treated as
a precedent"
Taking the temporary arrange
ment" idea as their text, the editor
ial writer's of most of the morning
newspapers today elaborated on the
suggestion and generally approved
it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-28
Fate to Be Known Soon
BY HENRY WOOD

OnIteu IIcss StaH NOETesDOhueut
GENEVA, July 28.-Outcome OF
the naval limitations conference is
expected to be known before the
end of the week.
With the chief British delegates,
w. c. Bridgeman and Lord Cecil,
due back today after an absence of
twelve days, the American and jap
anese delegates were ready to hear
the latest British proposal for solv-
ing the cruiser problem.
The Americans and Japanese pro-
fessed ignorance of Bridgeman's
plans and were disinclined to believe
press reports of a cruiser compro-
mise proposal by the British which
would place cruisers into large and
small categories.
American delegates indicated that
they believe the conference would
end by passing an innocuous resolu-
ton under which Great Britain, the
United States and Japan would an
nounce publicly nonaggressive pol
icy in naval construction between
now and the expiration Of the
Washington treaty in 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-28
CALL MANAGER
RULING PARLEY
Appeal May Be Taken From
Judges Decision.

Whether an appeal on Superior
Judge William Dunlavy's city man
ager ruling will be taken to the Su-
preme Court will be decided at a
meeting today at the Columbia Club.
The city manager policy commit
tee, headed by Henry L. Dithmer,
the election board and attorneys
met to decide whether the fight
will be carried to higher court, ac-
cording to Claude H. Anderson,
manager executive secretary.
Dunlavy ruled in a friendly suit
Wednesday, holding the manager
board could not hold an election of
commissioners before the fall OF
1929. He issued a temporary order
restraining the election board from
holding the election as planned
Nov. 8.
Anderson called a meeting of ward
organizers Friday at manager head
quarters at $40 Illinois Bldg, to re-
ceive membership drive reports.
Several new precinct workers have
been added to the force conducting
,the 100000 membership drive.