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Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14

WafFles-How did you happen to
swallow your false teeth
sorgum-My wife. who drives our
auto. found that she could shut the
door BY ius leaving II open and then
giving the ear a sudden start The
are buying 50 many things on Christ
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14
PARCEL POST BOXES
New Model For Rural Dweliers AP-
proved by Postmaster General

Patrons on rural postal routes and
on star routes ia the vicinity Of Put
nam who wish 10 erect new mail boxes
Of sufficient capacity To contain parcel
post viii be interested IN the announce
ment that Postmaster General Harry
s. New has Just approved a new model
Of the large size. No. 2 mail box for
use on rural and star routes and has
directed that after July lst the sale OF
No. box be discontinued.
The new No ? box will also super
sedo. so far a. manufacture and sale
are concerned, the old No. box now
IN use Assistant Postmaster General
II H. Billany states,
An approved mail boxes now IN use
on rural and star routes may be con-
tinued in use so long as they remain
weatherproof and serviceable. but pa
irons on new routes, new patrons on
existing routes. or persons desiring TO
provide boxes of sufficient capacity 70
accommodate parcel post mail viii be
required to furnish boxes Of the new
No. 2 design after July first, Mr.. Bill
lany announces.
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14

Dorothy taifeetionatelyD Daddy
you wouldn't like me to leave you
would you?
Daddy tfondly) Indeed, ! would
not dear
Dorothy Well, then III marry
MIR. Raybolt He's willing to I've
here with us.-The Pathfinder
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14
TlIo..- TX ". CT. U.

The regular rs shiy meeting ~ the
Thompson W. &. T. u. viii be held
at the home 81 Mrs. Grace Amidon
Thompson on THURSDAY, February u
at 2 p. N. The togic, Frances VII
lard" The hosteue are Mrs. .Iilia
Rabbit and Mr. Amiden A cor
d.af welcome Il extended 10 all
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14
FOR HIGHWAYS
Connecticut Gets S477.l10 For Fed
eral Aid Roads

The Secretary Of Agriculture. VIII
liam Jardine. has apportioned S477,-
40 to Connecticut 10 be expended on
the construction Of federal-aid roads in
the state during the fiscal year begin
ming next July list. This apportion-
ment has been authorized by Congress
for continuing the federal-aid high
way program during the coming fiscal
year.
The apportionment for Connecticut
for the coming fiscal year is somewhat
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14

which comes TO the Bradley Thcater
next Tuesday and Wednesday
Iannings. in statement made 20
newspapermen recently. had the fol-
lowing 20 say about his newest role:
Il believed that In The Patriot
| had reached my peak as far as
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14
WAS MEMBER O. CID
PJ'iN4EI FAMILY
Miss Alice Bailey Died In New
Bcdfcrd.-A4ried Ia Grove
Street Cemetery, Monday.-
Lived Here Until Is Years
Old.

Following a lanera. serg.ca IN = w
Bedlold. ats naay. the body 81 miss
Alice Bai4cy, daughter % me iate
James h Bailey and 9rs. ida r. Baii-
ey. former res4dents 81 Putnam was
brought 10 thls city for burial N the
Grove Street cemetery. snort ser,
vice was conducted mt the Memorial
Chapel at the cemetery previous . the
bufia, ~ Gses 4-sase4 80
First Universalist church, New Bed
ford. who accompanied members Of the
immediate family 70 Putnam Miss
Bailey's death occurred at 3.50 o'clock
Saturday morning.
Miss Bailey was born in Putnam Au-
gust 25th. 1878. She lived here until
She was sixteen years old. Her father
was asso born in Putnam. Her moth
or was born In Woodstock Valley. Both
Mr. Bailey, who died few years ago,
and Mrs. Bailey, came from old Con
nccticut stock. Mr.. Bailey was IN the
DRY goods business IN Putnam under
the firm name Of j. +. Bailey & Com
pany. IN what is now the Putnam Inn.
Miss Bailey received her early edu-
cation in the schools of Putnam. The
family removed 70 New Bedford over
forty years ago, but they will be well
remembered Dy older citizens Of Put
nam.
u Fra1 fies't'.
After going to New Bedford Miss
Bailey attended the Parker street
cn00 ~ on account % rrail reaitn
was obliged to leave For short time
she lived in Mattapoisett and also IN
Fairhaven. Mass, tat most Of her lie,
after leaving Putnam, was spent tn
New Bedford.
Miss Bailey was active in the affairs
Of the Uuiversalist church, which was
her chief interest outside Of the home.
She was also active in the Sunday
school. About five years ago she was
made church librarian. The last three
years Of her life she was secretary Of f
the Sunday school She was also a
member Of the Young Peoples Chris
tian Union. During its early period
she was secretary and she retained her
membership until it was reorganized
several years ago.
Miss Bailey leaves her mother, a sis
ter. Mrs. Mabel Rowland, and one
nephew. James A. Rowland, all OF
New Bedford. and few distant reia-
lives in Putnam.
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14

Crabnake's wife had been reading
animal stories. you know" she said.
II think sheep are the stupidest crea-
lures living
'sYes. my lamb" Crabhake replied
absent. mindcdly The Pathfinder.
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14

Pertraying the role of German
American. his exact status, Emil Jan
nings gives another Of his remarkable
character.zations in his latest Para
mount picture. "Sins OF the Fathers,
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14

Codpieee-Don't waste none of
your gas doc. Just yank it out, even
If II does hurt like the dickens.
Or. Pullem-You are plucky. Let
me see the tooth.
Codpiece-0h faint me that's got
the toothaehe; it's my wife. She'll
be here directly.-The Pathfinder.
Doctor Skinem--I can say positive
~ that you have not got appendicitis
as you feared.
Willing Patient-Well. I'm very
sorry to have bothered you about it.
Perhaps you would like to try to find
something else the matter with me.
The Pathfinder.
Putnam patriot., 1929-02-14
JIlAla 1 BACK U00AOr
MAIN SIA4EI GIOAtE
Burglar Gets Nothing For His
Trouble at Bianchette e.
Brodeur's. - Rear Entrance
at +. w. Muilan's Tempered
With.

A burglar iimmied his way into the
store Of Rlnnchette q Bfod ur carry
Friday morning, but got nothing for
the trouble and the risk he took. Sew
eral small scratches on the Office safe
bore evidence that hal Aearted at
tempt had been made q pry the heavy
door open. The cash register was
empty. As far as A. A. Br0dear, the
proprietor. could determine, there was
nothing missing.
There was also evidence that rear
door in the Nullan store had been tam
pered with A board was found PRED
of, but entrance was not made.
The break at the Blanchette Bro
deur store was discovered when a
clerk opened the Main street door, Fri
day morning. Az soon as he stepped
inside the store he felt decided draft
from the rear. and upon investigation
found the back door partly open.
The door was locked and heavily
b0lted, Thursday night. For eight
years Mr. Brodeur has made It Gus
tom 10 20 into the cellar aud all over
the store before leaving AT night 20 see
II there are signs Of fire; also to try
all of the store doors, the safe door.
and close his desk The drawer Of the
cash register he leaves empty and
open.
Cdice Entered
In the store office il was found that
the register drawer mad been elos ed,
while the cover oi the roll top desk had
been pushed up. The safe had been
tempered with. Nothing was disturb
ed nothing was disarranged This
leads u the conclusion that the burglar
was only after money.
A woman who occupies tenement
near the rear of the store says she
heard dog barking about i.3O o'clock
Friday morning. No attention was
paid to the dog and she did not look out
of the window.
That the burglar must have worked
quite some time IN forcing the door
was evident. The bar must lave been
put in between the door and the door
lamb time and again. as the side was
clipped off 70 considerable extent
AT last the side of the lock gave way
and the bolt snapped This allowed
the burglar to open the door which he
failed TO close when he left the build
ing. No clues Of any kind, so far as
known, were discovered
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
Interesting Groom

BRITISH newspaper publishes this picture and says that
~ this extremely charming lady, "a beautiful assistant in
Mrs Buckmasters flower shop will marry Lord Tennyson
You are told that Lord Tennyson is the welkno crick
eter and captain Of the Hampshire team All OF that does
not interest you much >~...
But you learned by heart the Charge OF the Light
Brigade" "Locksley Hail. rected Come Into the Gar
den Maude you interested to hear that this
cricketer" is the grandson Of Tennyson the poet
This marriage announcement reminds you that unlike race
horses men do NOT inherit qualities of their fathers and
grandfathers .....-
In the world Of racing would expect the grandson OF
Tennyson to be writing poems steadily. ;.
Instead of that he plays cricket and probably coudn
think Of any rhyme for that except bat
That we do not inherit the special powers Of fathers
q good thing for the human race. 49,
The UNUSUAL MAN marres the COMMONPLACE
WOMAN. The unusual woman much more numerous tnan
che unusual man. nearly always selects commonplace
man It is her instinct Of motherhood telling her to take
care Of something. ...;
Thus we keep average about and do not breed
race of supermen that would boss all the others
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
Drive Carefully
Live Longer.

xoToR traffic is growing dangerous than flying.
M You think twice before you step into plane You think
not at all when you step into car.
To be killed airpane accident is still something of
novelty whereas to be killed in auto merely habit
That is about the only difference.
Safe driving of those things that regulations cannot
accomplish even when enforced.
! It Is up to drivers.
The careless driver be punished after the smash but
that does not help his victim
Once it said that eternal vigilance the price Of
liberty
That saving should be amended read eternal vigilance
is the price Of LIFE"
Driving ear you can be eternay vgilant and still
to grief.
But your chances of coming to grief just oNEHAL
what they are when you careless
Drive carefully.
You wife and children would rather have than your
life insurance.
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
THE BEAR-HUNTING SEASON
.Ru Herbert Kaufman

HE bearhunting in full swing Out in the Vel
lowstone Park authorities have mounted choiceybaed
sections of big iron pipe automobile trucks and Turing
troublesome bruins into the traps @
Too many grizzly plaboys have been breaking into camps
and ang hotel panries thereby invoking Federal attention
and Punishment from the baconrnd pastures
Uncle Sam is also collecting big guns in Washington to halt
sentiment which for the past month has upset prosper
tys ucest apple CARTS and tended to devastae general
confidence
President Hoovers campaign against perncious pessmsm
opens up with billion dollar railroad development boom the
echoes of which ringing round the world begin to dpats
market gloom and bring frightened ticker quotations. grain
prices and bond bids out of cyclone cellars where they have
shvered and covered and over-nursed their wounds.
Traffic experts scanning balance sheets and horizons de-
eide proceed with budgeed improvements and steel
plants and equipment of contracts which will keep
blast furnaces mills shops
on full time schedules.
Transportation intends to make hay while cheap money
shines. So do housing programs and public works
1880 will find highway extension flood control and reclama
projects painting ranbows the contnenabsorb
ing employment ack and encouraging private enterprise
also to its onward march.
The prodgous lately bootleggng in the call money
market scurryng back to their old jobs at the bank
sadder and wiser for recent joy rides.
Fabrcators and retailers may requisite
modaons at customary interest rates. instead Of competing
Usurys mad fling is over And Americas reserves are
again ready mansay customers for reasonable hire
The outlook for bumper crops of freight and
passenger and concrete roads faire
automobile sales have slightly declined and the demand for
emne paamas and emerald garter buckles has suddenly
abated.
Diamond cutters aren't busy, but cutters chipping
away usual.
million of cards have collapsed towers
Manhattan and Chicago and Detroit keep rising.
Governor Smiths Astoria Company decides
top Chryse Building by hundred feet thereby rousing
cheer from the tombs of John W. Gates and sundy other
punger who made Saith Street and Fifth Avenue world
famous for high play
w Gates sold short nor entered
any game without sufficient chips back his opinion of
card a condition
the Armour fortune already by-word when Gates
peddling barb wire, can't manage to pay its debts.
Rumor which bohers learn of the case
delights credit his winnings bull luck investigation
traces bull wisdom He understood when to cash in
He wasn't profit hog-and he died on velvet
| Mirror man).
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
By Elsie Robinson

In a little while now I must
90 away from this place and
work in cities. I will travel IN
cars and eat in hotels. Eat at
white tables under glittering
lights. Tables without flea
powder or ASS. But always I'll
feel homesick for this simple
friendly room.
And, looking at the people
around me. all the busy
bored, bustling, brilliant people
III know they're homeSick
too. For I've never yet met q
human who didn't have a
homesick dream of a place like
this tucked away somewhere in
his or her heart.
I never met successful man
who didn't think back to the
days when he ate In the
kitchen and fried his own trout
with a strip of bacon. or who
didn't wonder how his smart,
Partisan wife would look in one
of those old-fashioned gingham
dresses, like Ma used to wear.
And I never yet met a
worldly woman who didn't, AT
some time, wish she was back
in Centerville, making her first
party dress again out Of pink
dotted swiss. and waiting,
with pounding heart. for Jim,
the grocery boy, to come up
the walk.
The oldest. sweetest dream
there is just a dream OF llV.
ing natural. being plain.
laughing and working and Low
ing. then lying down to sleep
in some simple place. near
70 God.
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
JERSEY CITY JOURNAL

Instead of going after the propretors of the speak
easies the grand jury went after the newspaper men,
[The reporters are the victims of palpable case OF
bad faith on the part of the grand jury
GREEN BAY wis., PRESS-GAZETTE
reporters are to be sent to Jail under circum
stances of this kind such action will be serious de-
terrent to newspapers from fulfilling the sometimes
crusading roles that they should fill
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
They 1.-THE reporters were treated as criminals
though the object of their enterprise plainly was to
serve the public veal Here is merciless, mean'
unjust and indecent of judicial tyranny, as
wretched as any that modern newspaper history
records Just another instance of blind and stagger-
ing Justice exacting penalties of blood and torture
from those who dare serve spiritual causes! Editor
and Publisher protests this hardbOiled proceeding
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
EIeCtrOCutiOn in District Is
Inhuman, Says Justice

TN sentencing cOored boy to the electric
chair the chief Justice Of the District Supreme Court is
gallows is inhuman.
Electrocuton gruesome enough Hanging any
form of killing murderer is beyond the pale advanced
civilization
What good accomplished by taking the life of mentally
deranged person. has taken the life another human
being? Where society benefited? One great wrong
not justify another
Punishment of murderers there must be- but mankind will
find some other way than killing them Besides society
will day go deeply into the mentalities and
ponsiblities murderers Instead of killing of
them by legal the law will provide for their physical
and mental rebuilding
Better still the law will provide for mental reiuvenation
and rebuilding BEFORE murders have been committed
The Washington times., 1929-11-23

"a jar of golden rod and red
oak leaves. :. some purple grapes
"a heap Of darning some
figs and grated cheese. "a pic
ture of a boy.
The room is Still and glow
ing with that golden dusk.
Through the shadows there
come bright glints from pots
and kettles-the smell of rose
mary and thyme. the little
clicking noises that seem to
live within any friendly room.
The things on the table have
lost their shape. They are only
a dim, warm tumble Of blue
and scarlet, purple, orange and
green. Outside, across the bowl
I see the first white star.
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
LISTEN WORLD!

fix my tools, dry my fruit.
Already the boards, nailed to-
gether last spring, are nicked
and smoOthed and glowing with
the work they've carried.
AS I write, there are various
things on my table. Il suspect
they're the sort of things
YOU'D put on a table like
that.) A big. yellow bowl, piled
with the last peppers and to-
matoes and lettuce. "a blue
and white pitcher, filled with
milk. /. "a box Of flea powder. >.
a basket Of apples. . "a ragged
pile Of books . a tray Of dry
ing herbs. :. a pick head, to be
sharpened at the forge. a As
The Washington times., 1929-11-23

DACK at the old job again
~ :. whanging away at the
same old tread mill. with the
small Of the campfire dying out
of your nostrils and the sound
Of the waves fading from your
ears DID,. yes? Sore that vaca-
tons over? Sorry for your
self, a little? Then perhaps
you'll like to hear about my
room.
It's a long. low room. the
whole interior of a log cabin.
three thousand feet up in the
California Sierras. The cabin
is set deep in pines. The
ridge that looks down and out
over small clearing which
rises into the forest again. It's
late. as write, nearly evening.
The pines have become very
dark peacock blue AN d
the sky is a delicate, bright
glaze, almost without color. All
the color seems to be flowing
down, gathering in the clearing.
The clearing is lined with
sunburnt grass and russell ferns.
Now they are drowned beneath
an amber flood. "a glowing.
heavy light ;. sweet and
heavy as desert honey. The
light rises spreads. passes
between the trunks OF the
trees. The ground seems tiled
with little plaques Of beaten
copper and bright gold. And
presently, my table stands IN
a deep rudy pool.
It is a heavy table. ten feet
long, roughly made Of two thick
planks Of sugar pine. I do
everything On Il >. work, eat
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
1iIino of Times Reporters Universally COndemne
THE AMERICAN PRESS

The AMEKlCAN PKEOO
By choosing to go to Jail rather than betray conf
dences, the three reporters have shown
they respect themselves, of the fundamentals of
the newspaper mans CODE
BURLINGTON (Vt) NEWS
They the repOrtersl are right in the stand they
have taken.
READING (Pa.) TINES
How can a court that demands free American
commit despcable act be held in anything but con-
tempt by all decent and honorable men? 1t is not the
duty of newspapers to enforce the law 1t is its duty
to point out it's nOn-enfOrcemen and to insist that
the proper officers do their work.
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
Refusal to betray confidential sources is the only
way such sources be perpetuated and the public
given the real though often hidden, facts on public
conduct.
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
ONCE-OVERS

came and you cannot avoid it
now or in the past.
Ten to one this it not true.
Your hopefulnesS was not
backed by watchfulness. Your
enthusiasm wearied you so that
you worked less instead Of more.
You did not take details into
consideration and provide Tor
disappointment in different de-
partments before it came.
Aren't you quitting because
it's your easiest course?
You don't want to put forth
the necessary, effort to win.
THOUGHTFUL plans, a keen eye
for opportunities. work in sea-
son and out ot season. and you
win.
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
why You Missed Success

Why You Missed Success
One thing after another
blocks attainment and accom-
plishment for you. No matter
how hard you strive you can
not advance. You seem to have
reached your limit.
A year ago you thought by
now you would be nearer your
goal and it is still in the dis
lance. One year ago you were
full Of hope and enthusiasm
and plans. One after another
your hopes came to naught-
your plans blasted. Disheart-
ened. you do not take any
blame for your failures, how
ever. No, you feel bad luck
The Washington times., 1929-11-23
BOSTON TRAVELLER

Corrupt or inefficient law enforcement bodies al
ways take that attitude referring to falling of report
ersl. Newspapers are not police spies They pub
lie servants public protectors They not shoppers
for police incapable of doing the job they paid
to do
BOSTON GLOBE
They 1.-THE repOrters] will have the sympathy of
newspaper men generally.
MIAMI (FLG.) HERALD
The law must have known that the speakeasies
listed but did nothing. But when the press turns
the light it is imprisoned instead of rewarded Why?
MONROE (La.) MORNING WORLD
A newspaper reporter is neither policeman
prosecuting witness * If the grand juries to
compel reporters to reveal sources of secret nfOrma
ton, there will be very little worth while information
about crime printed.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
Two Teams Better
5000 in A, 3, G., Meet

CHICAGO, March 27,--Two new.
comers were among the select 10 in
the main event of the American
Bowling Congress standings today.
They are the EdeIweis team. of
Chicago and the Moneys Cafe
five. OF Milwaukee.
The Edelweis boys crashed into
second place with their score of
1890 while the restauraIteurs
landed in fifth position by upsetting
3.001 pins. To the Mooney five
goes the honors of rolling ,094 in
one game, the highest of the tour
ney to date.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
Turner Expecting Keen
Mat Match With Nelson

Joe Turner, the crucible of the
wrestling industry. figures he will
have stout opposition from Rough
House" Nelson. the Rochester. n. y,
firebrand in their match tomorrow
night at the Strand Theater. The
Washington veteran full we'll knows
the vicious methods employed by
Nelson, hut Turner Is no novice.
having been in the game for more
than 25 years.
Tomorrow nights meeting at the
Strand is the initial between Nelson
and Turner. although they tackled
often here last winter. The match
will get underway as soon as the
regular theater performance has
ended.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
FIGHT
.ASHES

At Dayton-Walter Pedlar Palmer,
e II m b US, negro lightweight.
knocked out Roleaux SeguarO, of
Cuba, three rounds. Johnny Cur
tain. Dayton lightweight. knocked
out Lon LoveIace, Nincennes, Ind,
five rounds.
At Clevela nd-Billy Wallace, Cleve.
land lightweight, knocked out Joey
Medill of Chicago, four rounds.
At Los Angeles Wilson Yarho.
Cleveland negro middleweight, won
decision over Bert Colima, 10 rounds.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
Detroit Backers
To Vie With
Dempsey

DETROIT. March 27.-Signing
of lease OF Eavin Field by
Olympia. Detroit's Madison
Square Garden" for exclusive
rights to promote boxing bouts
during the coming outdoor season,
was today believed to he move
against the plans of Jack Demp-
sey.
Dempsey, expected to arrive.
some time this week. on a recent
visit here insisted he will build
an outdoor arena in Detroit.
The Washington times., 1929-03-27
KOjac Leads Rutgers
NatatOrS to st. Louis

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March
27.-The crack swimmers of Rutgers
University were to leave here this
afternoon for st. Louis. where they
will compete in the national inter
collegiate championships on Friday
and Saturday. The team Is headed
by George Kojac, Olympic star. who
was undefeated in 20 individual races
this season.