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Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24
Memorial Day

Memorial Day observances will be
held in the town of Woodstock on Sun
day, May 81. Ali preliminary plans
have been completed with the schedule
of march as follows, all times Eastern
standard:
East Woodstock, 9 a. M; Wood
stock Hill, 10 a. M; Quassett, IL a.
m; North Woodstock, ~ noon; lunch,
l-2; Center, 2.30 p. m; Marcy, 3.1b
p. M; Barlow, 4 p. m
A special detail will be dispatched
TO Bungy cemetery. The Raymond
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24
WOODSTOCK VALLEY

Mr.. Gracer from New Jersey spent
the weekend at Ansel StahPs.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heck visited
Mrs. Frances Dodge last Saturday.
A business meeting of the Civic
Association was held at the chapel
last Thursday evening. A constitution
and bylaws were adopted and board
Of directors chosen.
The young people Of Eastford hung
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24
SOUTH WOODSTOCK

The Ladies' Aid met last week
Thursday with Mrs. F. McWilliam at
Roseland Park.
Messrs. A. B. and w. A. Burleson,
with Carl Pickwell of Willimantic,
called on relatives in the village one
day this week.
w. F. Sheldon and wife, with Mrs.
Grace Craig and two sons of Moosup,
visited at II. l.. Sanger's one day last
week. They also entertained Mr.. and
Mrs. Pratt Of Pomfret.
The Swedish Ladies' Society are
meeting at Mrs. Gustaf Bjornberg's
this afternoon.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

a Maybasket TO Miss Hazel Booth Iass
Friday night A very pleasant eve
ming was spent and many good wishes
were left for Miss Booth.
On account of the rain last Sum
day the service was postponed until
next Sunday. The delegation from
the Dudley Bible school expect to take
charge Of the service. Everyone well
come.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

A surveyor in Arizona reports hav-
ing seen drove of forty horses froz-
en- TO death, but standing erect in a
snowdrift just as they had huddled to-
gether before the storm.
The totla consumption Of candy IN
the United States averages one good
bite a day per person.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Trade In rubber at high prices has
brought great wealth to the natives Of
the Malay Islands. Necklaces OF
American gold eagles are worn by the
Malay women and girls.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Unsanitary conditions in and around
the homes Of Persian peasants, and the
ignorance and indifference Of the
mothers are responsible for Perslas
infant mortality rate Of seventy-five
per cent.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

More than half the tobacco smoked
in Canada is grown in that country.
Farms totaling twenty-eight thousand
acres, principally in Ontario, produce
annually more than thirty million
pounds Of high-grade tobacco worth
$7,0O0,000.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Dickens Christmas Carol met with
such success that the first edition was
sold out the day Of publication.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Experiments with fish show that,
unlike humans, the warmer the tenn
perature the greater their food con-
sumption.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Great Britain's latest submarine Is
said 10 be capable Of remaining sub
merged for two and one-hah days.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Airplanes must be tagged and num-
bered like automobiles, according TO a
Department Of Commerce ruling.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Everett May is serving on the jury
in Willimantic this week.
The choir gave as an anthem last
Sunday, 20 Come Let Us Sing" Lew
is.
Mrs. A. II. Hubbard spent Tuesday
with her mother. Mrs. Charles Cox, in
the Center district.
Ray Eddy has moved what was a
grain store at Valley Farm 70 his
newly acquired property on Main
street, formerly Gifford's store.
A son. Donald Haven, was born
May 18th i'm Worcester, Mass, 70 Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Jordan, former resi-
dents. Weight nine and one-half
pounds.
Miss Edith Harris. who is training
for a nurse at the Home Memorial
Hospital. New London, is spending
two weeks vacation with her mother
Mrs. Mabel Gee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Hunt of Somer-
vile, Mass. spent the weekend with
G. l.. Upham and family. Miss Fanny
Upham accompanied them here and
remained for visit with her brother
and family.
An entertainment will be given at
Academy Hall. May goth, at 7.30 o.
clock, standard time, by the children
in the elementary schools in the south
part of the town as benefit for dem
tai clinics held in the schools during
the winter.
Memorial exercises will be held at
the cemetery Sunday morning at Q o.
clock, standard time. Graves will be
decorated by Sons of Veterans and
members of Raymond Benson Post,
American Legion. Services at the Con-
gregational church will be held at the
usual hour Of $50 o'clock, standard
time.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

Listen, good people, and you shall
hAar,
Not of p. RS ride. No, do not fear,
But of May twenty-fifth Of this very
year.
On May twenty-fifth If II doesn't rain
or it does, come Saturday, just the
same)
Therell be held at East Woodstock or
Lindeman's lawn
Such fete as you've never seen since
you were born.
The eats will begin at six DIST.
Wen serve sandwiches, doggies, and
good hot coffee.
Cake, doughnuts. and ice cream will
be on the list
And, best of all, wafiles, which you
won't want to miss.
After dark to serve waffies we do not
choose.
For fear that we might chance to
blow out a fuse.
So come early to eat, and stay to enjoy
A program to suit adult, small girl
and boy.
There1l be games for all ages from
eighty 70 four,
And when they're all played you car
think up some more.
For other attractions, Maypole
you'll see,
And the band will furnish fine har-
mony.
And listen, you youngsters, our ia
nous side show
win be given as oft as to see it you'll
go.
Now a last invitation I'll give you,
guess:
Do come to the party of the L. B. S.
ADV.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-05-24

A Worcester man, Rene II. Lange-
win of 26 Cutler street, signed an affi-
davit for the Connecticut police in
which he stated he saw Raymond and
Lalone in lunch car in Webster on
the night that Trooper Nelson was
murdered. Langevin's affidavit placed
Lalone and Raymond at $50 o'clock
that night. The WHY'S knight car
was found several hours after that in
Dudley, near Webster.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Slur on Marchers in
Farm Protest Parade

The representatives of the farm
ers who went to Kansas City last
June, and there had the door of
the Republican national convention
slammed in their faces, now are be-
ing represented as underworld char
acters, according to Frank w. Muir
ply, chairman of the legislative COM
mittee of the Corn Belt Federation of
Farm Organizations, and for many
years a leader in the. fight for the
McNary-Haugen BILL
He shows a clipping from the Long
Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram, in
which Mrs. Charles +. Van de Water,
a member of the California deiega-
tion, is quoted as saying:
ut is an undoubted fact that the so
farmers in the farm protest parade at
the convention were men from the
Kansas City stock yards, many of
whom were known to have former po-
lice records"
A. w. Kicker, secretary of the Corn
Belt federation, calls Mrs. Van de
Waters attention to the fact that
there we're 5000 farmers, including
himself instead of so, and that it
was Senator Nye WHO started them
marching through the streets chant
ing, 1--WE won't vote for Hoover"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
New Method to Aid
Deaf Is Being Taught

Los Angeles, Calif.-Extraordinary
results of a method whereby children
born deaf are taught to speak and
to shear" by lip reading were dis
closed at the demonstration school
of the University of California at
Los Angeles.
The new method, according to Miss
Rachel Dawes, a demonstration school
teacher, presages the Abandonment
Of the sign language.
The course of study includes lip
reading, spelling, writing, reading,
number and Language work in addi-
ton to tongue gymnastics, the last of
which forms the most important part
of the work.
"Music, too, is an important factor
in arousing the child's consciousness
of vibration" Miss Dawes said.
Being unable to hear, the children
must be taught how to take the cor
rect positions for language sounds,
which we call tongue gymnastic
work They must know where to put
the tongue and how to give voice and
breath for sound. Ten sound and syl-
liable combinations have been learned
by the children to date"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
WOMAN STUDIES
r R
Finds Peephole in Ancient
Seraglio Palace.

ConStantfnople.-An American wom-
an, the first foreigner whom the OF
toman government permitted to enter
the harem Of Seraglio palace, has just
completed an exhaustive study Of that
mysterious labyrinth.
She is DR.. Barnette Miller, head Of
the history department Of Wellesley
college, who returned to STEAMBOAT
this year to complete the ~investiga-
tons she began in 1907. Aided by a
young Turkish girl, Mebrouke Hanem,
a member of the staff Of Constantine
pie College for Women, Doctor Miller
Is the first American to delve deeply
into the shadowy history Of the vast
5OO-year-old palace where Turkish
padishahs and sultans and their hun
dreds and thousands of slaves lived
hidden lives.
The American Investigator discov-
cred in her prowlings through the
palace that there existed one peep
hole by which the women Of the
harem could look upon men other
than their sultanic master and their
guardian eunuchs. High in the wall
of the palace mosque where the sultan
and his masculine followers wor-
SHIPPED, Doctor Miller found a tiny
window covered with a golden lattice
and discovered that this window con-
nected with the room in the harem
where the women gathered to pray.
During her final Investigations this
year Doctor Miller was given permits
sion by the new republican Turkish
authorities to enter every one of the
hundreds of palace rooms save one
No human except the sultans, not
eve the sultan-smiting, ~religion-defy-
ing Mustapha Renal, has yer en-
tered thai sanctum sanctorum where
the beard of the Prophet reposes.
Outside the heavily barred window of
that room 40 turbaned priests, in
groups of four, chant prayers from
the Koran day and night, year after
year, century after century.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Wife Sues Poker Club
for Husbands Losses

Washington.-The Supreme court
was asked to decide whether clubs
are liable for damages to wives for
depriving them of the companionship
of their husbands income.
The case came from McGill, White
pine county, New, and was brought
by Mrs. Gladys Anderson against the
McGill club where she asserted her
husband played poker.
She declared in her suit that her
husband spent much Of his time at
the club and lost a large portion of
his salary, causing her IVORY, hu-
initiation, sickness and grievous
mental pain" She insisted in her
complaint that the club, as a pub
lie nuisance, was liable to her for
damages.
The state courts dismissed the
suit, however, holding that there was
no provision in law w%arranting &C.
ton against a club on such grounds.
Mrs. Anderson would have the Su.
preme court reverse this decision.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
SMITH WELL FITTED
FOR HIGH POSITION
Campaign Has Shown Can.
didate's Qualities.

No man In America is better fitted
to be President than Gov. Alfred q.
Smith. according to the Baltimore
Sun. Contrasting the characters of
the Democratic and Republican can
didates, the Sun declares it will sup
port Smith, and gives the following
reasons for doing SO:
1.-THE campaign has gone on long
enough to make the issues clear. 1t
has revealed the mettle of the candi-
dates and the ideas for which they
stand. The Sun believes that, in the
face Of the facts now plain to every
one, Governor Smith is the better
man, and should be elected.
MI. HoOver's virtues, both al q
private citizen and as a public Off
cial, are not to be gainsaid. But all
Of the good qualities that he shows
are in Governor Smith, too, and In
addition Governor Smith has many
that he lacks.
zone of them Is frankness. Smith
is the frankest man heard of in
American public life since Grover
Cleveland. He seems to be incapable
of evasion, Of assembling, of begging
questions. When he comes to q con-
clusion he states it in plain words and
welcomes candid criticism of it.
"He meets opponents openly and
fairly and wins their respect. With
this frankness goes courage. When
he thinks he is right he sticks bravely
to his guns and no lure of political
advantage can move him.
"Mr. Hoover, since he took to party
politics, has shown no such candor
and resolution. No one knew what he
thought about any major issue until
the nomination was safely in his
hands. His campaign was a campaign
of policy, of compromise, of tricks
and evasions. He had nothing to say
about prohibition, though the country
talked of little else. He was silent
about the gross corruption that sur
rounded him. For even long years
in Washington he served. supinely as
an unprotesting associate of scoun-
drels in high places, and when he be-
gan his struggle for nomination he
turned for aid to even worse scoun-
drels. Today, it appears, he is on
both sides of all the principal ques-
lions before the people,"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
TRAVELLERS CREW In
FIGHT WITH SHARKS
Captain of Vessel Reports
He Saw 1000.

Fleetwood, Eng.-While fishing for
herring at grounds known as Klon-
dyke, which lie between the north
coast OF Ireland and Barra Head, in
the South Hebridean islands, a steam
trawler had a thrilling fight with a
shoal of sharks. The trawler n
cerned, the Castelnau Of Boulogne.
carries a crew of %, in addition to a
Fleetwood trawlerman, Skipper John
Wright, who is sailing in the vessel
as fishing pilot.
During our VOYAGE" Skipper
Wright explained when the Castelnau
returned to Fleetwood, 1--WE came
upon shoals Of vicious sharks. There
must have been 5000 or 1000 lashing
the sea into foam for miles around.
They completely surrounded our boat
and bit huge holes in Jul net, and it
was only with the utmost difficulty
that we could haul it in. AS night
time approached we hove to and
started sorting u catch and throw
ing smaller fish back into the sea.
Hooked 1s Sharks.
1.-THE hungry sharks were on us i'm
mediately and we decided to clear
the infested water as much as posi-
BILE. We laid hooks on long poles
which we suspended from the side Of
the ship, but the Irvine was not strong
enough, and as the sharks grabbed
the hooks with bait on they gave a
violent lurch and carried the hooks
and Irvine away with them.
sour mascot kitten was unfortu-
nately knocked overheard and, al
though it was only in the water a few
seconds, a shark had bitten one Of its
legs off and we had to drown 1t on
board to put an end to its misery. In
the end we got 18 sharks on board,
and we had to stand clear. They
were flashing about the deck so fierce
ly that it would have been fatal to
have approached them.
Drowned One by. One.
"Finally we lassoed each one and
suspended them from the ship, head
downwards in the sea-, and thus
drowned them one by one. During
our homeward voyage the Frenchmen
reveled in shark steaks and the
French skipper invited me to have
some. but I told him I did not want
any.
"The skipper then told me to have
beefsteak and chips, but the beefsteak
turned out to be shark steak, and /
could not discern any difference in
taste. In France shark steak is worth
four or five francs a pound, but in
England they find their way to fish
meal works."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Deserve No Praise

It disgusts me to hear after-dinner
and radio speakers praising ourselves.
Praise u country but, in the name Of
all that is decent, don't praise our-
selves. We have about ruined the ap-
pearance of this beautiful continent,
for we have been the most inartistic
people on earth, next to the Tibetans.
C. Fl. Corsan, in Forest and Stream
Magazine.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Cats Varied Diet

On a farm in Hinsdale, Mass, says
the Boston Globe, lives a cat that is
positively omnivorous. Like most
other felines she eats meat, fish and
milk, but her diet does not stop there,
however. When the lady of the house
was surprised to find bits of cucum-
Der on the ground lei the kitchen
door, she watched the cat for q while.
Finally she say kitty go to the garden,
break off a good-sized cucumber and
carry 1t to the house, where she broke
it open and ate it. Since that time
the cats appetite has been tested with
various other vegetables and 1t re-
spends heartily.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Hinlenburg Dam Makes
Ocean Build New Land

Westerland-on-Sylt, g a "
Through the building of the linden.
burg dam to the Island Of Sylt, two
years ago, the swift current sweeping
between the island and the mainland
was checked, with the result that Silt
began to accumulate in the so-called
Watten sea.
The dam, which carried a railway
track, was built only two years ago,
but soundings have nov disclosed
that the accumulation in places has
reached a full yard, so that it will
be only a few years before what had
been the sea will be land. This will
add thousands of acres of tillable
soil to Germany.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Scientists Hunt Poison
to Kill Coddling Moth

Yakima, Wash.-Field laboratories
have been opened here and at We
natchee by the Department of Ag:i-
culture in an effort to develop a poi
son that will be superior to the lead.
arsenate spray which at present is
the only effective method of combat.
ing the coddling moth, an insect that
causes huge losses to apple and pear
growers.
Local orchardists are cooperating.
They desire a poison that while dead
ly to the moth will be harmless to
humans and which will not require a
wash or other treatment that will
shorten the life Of the apple when in
storage.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Workers Are for Smith

Maj. George L. Berry Of Tennessee,
president of the Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union Of North Amer
lea and chairman of the labor bureau
of the Democratic national committee,
predicts that Smith and Robinson will
poll the largest industrial vote ever
received by a Presidential ticket.
"There is a very general appreciation
of the fact that the Democratic nom.
inees have proven their interest in the
workers cause" he said. "And at the
same time are in harmony with Amer
lca's business ethics, which means
peace, prosperity and good will"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Record Gain in
Butter Profits
Dairyrnen Who Use "Dandelion
Butter Color" Say It's the
= Best Investment of All.

The biggest creamer-
les in the country, who
are most careful to cater
to the whims of the
public, are earning rec
ord profits by keeping
their butter that p p
tizing June color every
one likes. Ninety per
cent of them are doing
it with "Dandelion But
ter Color" IT'S the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Last African Slave on
Nassau, Bahamas, Dies

Nassau, Bahamas.-Martin Sawyer,
the last of the African slaves on this
island, died at the age of one hundred
and five. When a small boy, Sawyer
was captured in Africa by the
Spaniards.
The slave ship was captured by a
British vessels and the human cargo
brought to Nassau. The boy was
sold to the late r. II. Sawyer. who
later gave him his freedom. Late in
life Sawyer continued to yearn for
the Africa which he remembered only
family.
He remembered his tribal Ian
guage and sang African songs.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Leader the Nation Needs

The Democratic party under Gov.
ernor Smiths guidance leads the way
to a constructive solution of a problem
that has Slapped the vitality Of our
government. His representation of the
economic aspects of the various. gov.
eminent problems treated In his mes
sage evidences extraordinary grasp of
the underlying principles of govern
ment. He is ideally equipped to as
sumo the leadership of the nation at
a time when a change of leadership
Is imperative.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Hottest Part of Day

Is the hottest part Of the day the
time when the sun is vertically over
head? The strongest rays Of the sun
occur when the sun is vertically over
head or most nearly so, which is at
noon, but the hottest part Of the day
occurs about 2 p. M. because of the
accumulation Of heat due to solar ra-
diatlon throughout the morning hours.
New York telegram
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Smiths Qualifications

A young lady, who is private secre.
tary TO the senior partner of an ex.
tensive law firm, in a personal letter
to a friend, writes. from New. York
city: II wish you could see Smith as
his friends do. He's Just folks and
under that brown derby there's good
craftsmanship and common sense
about government and a friendly In
terest in the good in the greatest
number of people" And that's a pref
ty strong commentator. - Atlanta
Constitution.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Reversible Coat Used
as Part of Ensemble

Jane Regny shows, in her collection,
q distinct preference for the reversible
coat. 1t is featured, usually, as part
of an ensemble-the more important
part. For If Nine. Regny sees ut,
she'll ignore the frock and devote all
her attention to the reversible coat of
her choice.
In the vogue for the fur Jacket.
kasha in gray and gray kid and nat
ural kasla with beige caracul use the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12

reversible theme very effectively. In
the long coat, lapin or pony combined
with Rodier fabrics are favored. n
Nine. Regny, however, favors cloth
in her interpretations of the reversible
coat. One outstanding ensemble in
her collection showed a dress of gray
cloth Of youth lines, which had q gay
Windsor tie in blue crepe. The belt
was blue kid in a shade matching the
tie. The coat showed both colors, at
different times Ct course, and had a
lovely full collar of gray fox. -
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
English Clerics' Wives
Forced to Take Jobs

London.-Penury and even starva.
ton among British clergy are ad-
vanced as reasons for a sharp decline
in applicants for ordination in this
country.
Four London clergymen's wives are
working as mattresses in cafes, 9th
ers as housekeepers and "lady helps"
in order to make ends meet. In Bir-
mingham, the wife of a curate was
found working as a charwoman. "A
certain London minister with six chill
dren to support, has learned to repair
boots so that he can make extra
money in his spare time.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
Self-Aiming Plane Gun
Invented by Esthonian

Tallinn, Esthonfa.-The Esth-
onia inventor, Karl Papello, has
perfected q mechanism for air.
planes which he claims will be
able to locate the direction and
position of other planes by their
sound and fire a machine gun
automatically.
This invention has attracted
the notice of the British air
min stry, 1t is reported here,
and Papello is expecting an or.
der from the British govern
ment. Papello spent eight
months in British military
schools and was invited to go
on a lecture tour there last
year.