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New Britain herald., 1929-01-18

London, Jan. IS R}-Frederic Ed rupt, who once was office boy for Charles Dickens and who long haz been familiar figure in the grounds of the Temple, where he was gateman for many years, is Sl years old.
 Dickens called him "Chummy. and he has been "Chummy" ever since. Here is his story in his owl words:
 My father" he said, had q friend who was employed by the firm of bookbinders that worked for Dickens.
 "One day in 1883 it came to his knowledge that an errand boy wal wanted at the offices of All the Year Round.' the paper Dicken, founded. Later it changed 1t. name to Household Words
 "I was taken to the corner ol Wellington-street, where the office! stood, and soon started on my du. ties.
 From '63 to '65 worked fol Dickens. I didn't have much to dt with him. I used to fetch his bran. dy and take letters to his publisher, or proofs to his secretary. MT Wills. who lived in Regents Pars terrace The Temple is the famous enclo sure where the Crusaders gathered m the Middle Ages.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
Girl Scout News

At the meeting of the New Brit ain Girl Scout council which was held Wednesday of this week 1t was voted to adjourn tho meeting until Wednesday. January 30. at 10 o'clock.
 George H. Dyson spoke to the scouts who are working on rock finder merit badge about Precious and Semi- Precious Stones" The girls must know something about the formations and value of these before they can complete their work on this badge.
 Drum corps lessons will begin Wednesday. January 30. in the Girl scout office with the following chedule:
 Fife-Miss Ruth Gibney. instruc- or, 4:50-5:30.
 Drum-Mr. Charles Spring, in- trsctor. 6:30 to 7:So.
 Bugle-Mr. Charles Abell, in- structor, 7:s0 to S:3O.
 If possible it is planned to alter  nate lessons with drill having each one every other week.
 Examinations in merit badges are as follows: Needlewoman and dressmaker- Saturday. January 19, at the home of Miss Nettie Cooley, s6s Park street, between 10 and II o'clock. Laundress merit badge-Wedna' day, January 23, at the Union Laundry. 4:3O; examiner MT. John Bjorklund.
 Citizen merit badge-Monday, February 4, with Mrs. Amy c. Guil- ford, after school at the senior high school.
 Journalist-To be announced later.
 The schedule Is not yet complete as some edaminers have not yet been secured.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
Military Honors for
 Spanish War Veteran

The funeral of Peter T. Higgins of Hartford will be held at the home of his brother. Thomas J. Higgins of 30 Wilson street, Saturday morn. ing at S:3O o'clock and at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at g o'clock when a requiem mass will be sung. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery.
 Members of A. c. Hammond camp, |. s. w. ". will pay their last re- spects to Comrade Higgins in an assembly which will be held Satur- day morning at S:s0 o'clock at the home on Wilson street. The casket will be draped with the American flag and military hon. ors will be accorded him. Pail bear
 CTS will be members of A. G. Ham.
 mond camp.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
KILLED BY TROLLEY
 WAITING IN AUTO
Man Dies and Three Companions Hurt in Brockton, Mass.
 Crash

Brockton, Mass, Jan. Is (uP)- While sitting in their disabled auto mobile, awaiting the arrival of a wrecking crew. one young man was killed and three companions seri- ously injured when the machine was demolished by a trolley car near the Easton line early today.
 Nathan Caplin, 26, is dead. Frank Stone, 27, received fracture Of the left leg and other injuries; Miss Marion Albanys, 21, several broken ribs and severe cuts. and Miss Alice Callahan, 21, fractured pelvis and severe cuts on the head and arms.
 The three who were injured were reported in a serious condition at Brockton hospital. All victims Of the accident were well known here, having participated in amateur the atrical productions.
 The two couples were driving to Soutl, Easton when their car skid ded on the icy road and swerved on- to the car tracks. It was found that a wheel had been damaged and Stone went to a house and telephon- ed to a garage for a wrecking crew.
 It was after he had returned to the car, while the four were await ing the arrival of the garagemen, that the trolley car. operated by Frank Costello of Rockland and en route from Brockton to Taunton crashed into the automobile.
 The trolley car was travelling at high speed and the automobile was hurled 200 feet. The motorman told police that a dense fog prevented him from seeing the car in time to void the accident.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
SHORTEST RAILWAY
 OBSERVES SABBATH
Badrs Six Cils Of Due West Equipment Swpsnds for Day

Due West, g. C., Jan. 1S R-This town, of about 800 population situ- ated in the Piedmont section of South Carolina. has two boasts. It is the seat of one of the oldest col- leges in the south and headquarters of . four mile railway. one of the shortest in the world.
 Not but once in its c1 years of existence has train been run over the railway on Sunday. That once was a life and death matter. One Sunday in 1915 a young woman's life hung in the balance from an acute illness. It was necessary to rush her to hospital in Charlotte, N. C.
 The only way to do it was to take her over the Due West railway to Donalds, the railways terminus and there make connections with another railway line. F.. s. Galloway. presi- dent of the railway, was attending church when the urgent summons came and after being assured that it was a case of dire necessity he gave permission for the train to run for it's first and last time on Sunday.
 It is not written in the charter of the railway that no trains are to be run on the Sabbath. MT. Galloway explains, but it is in our minds and hearts,"
 Our" refers to the people of Due West. the majority of whom are members of the Associated Reform ed Presbyterian church.
 The entire equipment of this brief but official railroad consists of one fiat car, one passenger coach, one combination passenger and freight coach and two engines.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
BERLIN NEWS
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joyed skating. It was a common sight last night to zee the boys skat- ing up and down Main street. Trees and wires were ice coated. No acci- dents were reported.
 The Fife and Drum Corps re- hearsel scheduled for last evening was called off at the last minutes due to the illness of Peter McCrann, the instructor.
 The Boys Club will meet this eve ming at the usual hour at Community hall.
 The library vii be open this eve- ming for 8 short while for the ex- change of books.
 The ladies of St. Gabriel's Epis- copal church will entertain with . whist in the church social rooms this eevning at o'clock.
 On Monday evening whist social will be held in Sacred Heart church at o'clock. The ladies of the church will be hostesses for the oc- casion. Refreshments will be served. The Parent-Teacher association meeting will be held on Thursday evening at o'clock at the Hubbard school. L. V. Clark. assistant man. ager of the New Britain division of the Connecticut Light & Power Co.,, will be the speaker of the evening. Many facts concerning electricity lit- tie understood by the average lay man will be explained by Mir. Clark. This is the first meeting of the or ganization this semester.
 The Stanley Chemical bowling league will roll again this evening on the home alleys. The boys are practicing every evening.
 Several of the women associated in the work of the 4-H club will be the guests of the Kiwanis club at the Hotel Bond in Hartford next Thurs day. Among those to make the trip from the East Berlin area will be Mrs. George Dalbey. Mrs. Arthur Lawrence and Mrs. Archer Walsh. Next Sunday evening . set of slides on Our Southern States" will
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
LECTURE ON INDIA
Professor from College in Bombay to Speak at Annual Meeting Of First Congregational Church Mems Club

Professor Joseph Chelladurai Cor nelius. r. s. A. A., formerly of Da- vars College of Commerce in Bom- bay and at present engaged in grad uate study in economies at Colum- bia university, will give stereopti- con address entitled, Some Price, less Gems of 1ndia," illustrated with 100 slides at the annual meeting of the First Congregational church mems association which will be ob. served at ladies' night in the chapel of the church on Tuesday evening January c..
 His pictures and address tell 0. changing conditions in the Orent and particularly in India. He will answer questions relating to orien. tai civilization, Ghandi, the place of women in his native country, and Miss Mayo's book Mother IndA.."
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
AUCTION SALE of Unclaimed Freight

Pursuant to the Terms of Contract
 contained in the Uniform Bill Of
 Lading. described by the Interstate
 Commerce Commission effective
 March 18th. 1922. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. will sell at Public Auction on their premises at Freight Station. New ington. Conn, at 1 ?. m., Tuesday
 (January 22d, 1o29) for freight and other lawful charges the following: One carload of Hammer Handles consigned to American Hammer
 Corp.
 A deposit of 25cs ((cash or certi- fled check) required at time of sale balance os purchase price to be paid and goods removed on or be- fore 5 D. m., Friday, January 25th, 1929. per order
 VIM. KING. Freight Claim Agent. New York. New Haven & Hartford
 Railroad Boston Mass.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
New England Clam
 Man Dies in Maine

Portland, Me, Jan. IS R@John S. Morris, S1. who introduced New England clans to the west. died at his home here yesterday. Morris
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18

A free municipal school of bee .,eeping has been established in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18

Music has a prominent place in student activities at Girard college, Philadelphia.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
KNOCKED DOWN BY TRUCK

While Arthur c. Kramer of Lin- wood avenue, Newington, was giving directions to an autoist en route to New Haven Tuesday night at 6 o'clock, a light delivery truck, own- ed by Joseph Crowley and driven by Edward Woods, 19 years old. of l221 Brook street, struck Kramer and knocked him down. His only in- juries were bruises about the body.
 According to information filed at the motor vehicle department, Kra- mer had just left a trolley car when the autoist asked directions.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18

was known as the originator of the New England Clam Bake building at tho Chicago World Fair in 1ss2. A carload of clans and hundreds of barrels of Holsters were shipped daily to the building and dispensed. He was born in Bangor in 1S4S His widow and two sons survive.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
AUCTION SALE of Household Goods

Consisting of beds. bureaus. chairs. tables, stoves, kitchenware and crockery. the property of one Mrs. w. E. Thorngren, will be sold at Public Auction at my warehouse, "A Greenwood street, New Britain, Conn.,, on the 26th day of January, 1929, at 2:30 o'clock p. m., to satisfy lien thereon for storage and other charges. Sale subject to payment of said charges previous to day of sale.
 A. r. MARSH.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-18
APPROVE BILL

Rome, Jan. IS R1At the sug. gestion of Premier Mussoltni the council of ministers at its session yesterday approved bill favoring increased rewards and further ad- vantages for heads of large families and tending to prevent concentra- ton of population in large cities.
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06
ONE WONDERS

There was, once upon time, man
who didn't believe in advertising and
yet:
He took a shower bath in q Stand
ard Sanitary" tub.
He used Ivory 90 4-100 per cent"
pure soap.
He used "Mennens" shaving cream.
He shaved with a Gillette" razor.
He used "Colgates" toilet water.
He wore "BvD" undergarments.
He wore Hart, Schaffner & Marx"
clothes.
He wore Arrow collars
He signed his checks with "Schaef-
fer" pen.
He wrote letters on a Royal type
writer.
He ordered Cream of Wheat" for
breakfast.
He asked for "Heinz" catsup at din
ner.
He drank "Coco-Cola" to quench his
thirst.
He went to see Paramount" pictures
He smoked Camel" cigarette after
the show.
He rode home in yellow Cab"
He made an advance appointment on
the BELL" phone.
He took a "Bayer" aspirin for his
headache.
He went to sleep on Simmons"
bed.
And still; he said that Advertising
doesn't pay"
Wonder how he got that way?
Credit Lost.
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06
COMMERCIAL HUMBUCS
Mail Order House Systems
In Front Rank.
By THOMAS ]. SULLIVAN.
Especial to The Miner by American Press League.

TENS that their business is based on
deceptive statements, dishonest adver-
tising, and Misrepresentation in their
periodical catalogues. For many years
the mail order house systems pro-
claimed that their methods of distri
button were the real economic system
of merchandising. They held that the
local merchant, owing to the many de-
mands made upon him in the way of
taxes, local charities, and the usual
community expenses, made it impos-
sible for him to meet mail order house
competition.
The picture seems to be changing.
mail order houses So-called economic
system is slipping, or has been slip
ping, for some time, and after all the
years in which they have shouted their
economic blah-blah in favor of mail
order house methods, they have chang
ed their policy, and are now establish
ing local town stores in every part of
the country. Their attempt to kill off
the local merchant through direct
merchandising to the people failed,
and now hundreds of stores have been
opened to carry on direct competition
on the ground with the small town
merchants. Such institution managed
from large CITY centers cannot be, and
never will be, of any benefit to the
smaller cities of the country. The same
greed Is found no matter where they
go, and the same lack of interest in
the welfare of the smaller city will
always prevail. The local town con-
sumner is warned that if he doesn't look
out the goblins will get him.
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06

to Minnesota. Maybe Winnebago Is
not on the tourist travelled highway
and this occasions the sore spot.
Commissioner Babcock has made 1t
plain that the most travelled roads are
being improved as rapidly as possible
and if the south state roads showed
more traffic than did those in the
north they would be the first to receive
attention. 1t is also our opinion that
this squawk is nothing more than the
regulation squawks emanating from
all sections of the state regarding its
particular section. Up here the state
ment Is made that all the money Is
being spent on the roads in the south
ern end of the state and down there
they say the same about this end. Let
Babcock alone and he will work out
his system for the benefit Of all sec
tions as fast as humanely possible.
Not as fast as we may wish, but as
fast as possible.
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06

The only way to kill snake, we
are told, is to chop its head of. The
only way to kill humbug is to kill
off his industry.
There are various kinds of humbugS,
but reduced to the last analysis, strip
ped of the sugar coating by which
they impose upon the public, they are,
one and all, simply high professors of
falsehood.
Investigation has disclosed the fact
that among the biggest humbugs are
the great mail order house systems.
They find that the American people
love to be cheated and buncoed, so
their field of operation is unlimited.
Sometimes one is inclined to the view
that humbuggery is disease that
some doctor will yet discover culture
for, and demonstrate that the habit
is due to microbes that get into a
mans mind and make trouble trying
to turn around, or form of bacilli
that bores holes in his moral character
and lets his honesty leak out. Science
has not yet succeeded in mastering the
disease, but just give it time and 1t
will save the world and find medical
name for every human frailty, and
ultimately be able to tell by just look
ing at a mans tongue whether he is
coming down with mail order house
malaria, or with chain store hysteria,
and do something for him before it
is everlastingly too late.
Humbuggery is frequently practiced
by certain people to attain business
standing and social position to which
they are not entitled either by birth
or brains, to acquire wealth for which
they give no equivalent, and to pro-
cure power which they are unable to
exercise wisely. History is full of hum
buggery. There cannot be truth where
trickery usurps the throne Of honesty,
and honesty and truth are not en-
ployed in the mail order traffic.
1t Is the history of mail order sys-
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06

The Junior College opened with
registration of Sc so far and several
more are contemplating entry before
the end of next week. Our twenty
different subjects are being offered to
pupils of the College this year. A
course in German, Advanced Chemis-
try and Surveying has been added.
This is the first year of these studies
in the Ely College and have been made
a regular course here as well as else
where. Those in charge of the College
and the subjects taught are as follows:
Miss. Kraft, Rhetoric, French and
German.
Miss Cummins, History, Economics,
Political Science and Sociology.
Mr. Olson, Animal Biology.
Mr. Edwards, Inorganic Chemistry,
Qualitative and Cumulative Analysis.
Miss Forbes, Public Speaking.
Mr.. Sternberg, Physics and Psychol-
ogy.
Mr.. Fleming, Shop.
MIR. Santo, Mathematics, 1st year,
Algebra, Trigonometry and Analytics.
End year, Calculus and Mechanics, :,
Engineering, Drawing, Drafting and
Surveying.
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06
A Buyers Greed.

have written a creed which the
people of the North, South, East and
West can all unite on for their own
good.
A good creed is a gate to the city
which has golden foundation; a mis-
leading creed may be road to des-
truction, or, if both misleading and
alluring, it may become what Shake
speare calls primrose path to the
eternal bonfire
Perhaps my creed is nothing more
than set of principles which it would
be well for every consumer to practice.
Read them and adopt them as your
very own.
1st: do not patronize the
mail order system because they are
selfish and greedy, and for the reason
that buy at home where my interests
are.
End: If this community is good
enough for my family and me to live
in, it ought to be good enough for my
family and me to buy our necessaries
in.
3rd: I will not take the word of
the mail order house for their goods,
as I want to see what am buying,
and want to get what I pay for.
4th: I do not patronize the mail
order houses because they demand
cash in advance, and when I am
broke" Or sick and need supplies my
home dealer is willing to carry" me.
5th: 1 patronize the home dealer
because he stands back of his goods,
and in case of error is willing to
rectify.
9Th: I patronize the home merchant
because I believe a man ought to
spend his money in the community in
which he earns it.
7th: patronize the home merchant
because I believe the man who sells
what he produces and buys what he
needs at home cannot be injured by
deceptive catalogue pictures of alleged
bargains.
9Th: I do not patronize the mail
order house because they frequently
sell damaged and inferior goods which
it avails man nothing to attempt to
exchange. But the man I patronize-
the home merchant who helps to pay
the town, county and state tax-will
exchange any article I buy from him
which is unsatisfactory.
9th: spend my money with my
home merchant in preference to some
mail order house in a distant city be-
cause the home merchant helps to
support the public schools where I
send my children, the churches and
the dependent poor in the vicinity.
10th: I patronize the local mer-
chant because he does not try to trick
me into buying cheap" goods; which
because of their effectiveness prove
to be expensive; and, further, because
should i'll luck or bereavement, come
my way, my local dealer would not
only prove that he was neighbor
and friend, but man, with a mans
heart, and mans inclination to do
good; not soulless corporation, like
the mail order system-whose instinct
is Greed with an Unsuitable desire for
gain.
Let all citizens follow this motto,
and they will be blessed with happy
homes and happy lives. They will
prosper f1nanially, and, at the same
time, improve their moral standards,
do for your neighbor what you would
like him to do for you Then you are
doing your full duty to yourself and
to all mankind.
Moral:-Buy and sell at home.
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06
DIO YOU EVER STOP
TO THINK?
Edison r. Waite, Shawnee, Okla)

william G. Conley, Governor of
West Virginia, says: "That I do not
believe the present generation is "go-
ing to the dogs" that it is worse than
the last generation, that we stand on
the brink of moral decadence and dis
aster I do not believe that Christian
religion has passed into disuse as have
artificial, foundationless cults that for
a time were the fad of the frivolous.
I believe that our boys and girls and
our men and women are as true and
staunch and outstanding and full of
strength and character today as were
the boys and girls and men and wo-
men of generation ago or of a CEN
tury ago.
We are living not only under
changed conditions, but in a time
when conditions still change SO rapid
ly that some of us have difficulty in
adjusting ourselves to the new order.
Conventions that were binding half
century ago have been tossed into the
discard, but others just as well-based
and just as binding constrain us to-
day.
"Our boys and girls, our young men
and women, with greater facilities for
learning than were available twenty
five years ago, can secure an educa-
ton at an age earlier than could their
parents. Because they know more
than ultra conservatives think they
should know "for their age" they are
condemned as precocious and harden
ed. knowledge that used to charact-
erize the forties, today is the charac-
teriStic of the twenties; but the, boy
and girl of twenty, sophisticated,
schooled, prepared for life, no more
deserve condemnation for having
knowledge than did the older man
and woman of forty generation back.
That knowledge is natural to the age
in which we live.
Materially, at least, we are living
today at a more rapid rate than was
dreamed of half century ago, but
the ideals for which we strive in 1929
are as high and noble and splendid
as those for which paladins fought
when knighthood was in flower. The
holocaust called the World War show
ed that patriotism, loyalty, love of
home and country, willingness and
desire to serve humanity, were as
firmly entrenched in the heart of
American youth as when the cannon
of Old Hickory repulsed the British
at New Orleans or when Washington
led his tattered and bleeding army at
Valley Forge. Storm wrecked Florida
and the flood-ruined M.cs.ss:ppi Val
ley proved that ours is a C2lerous
people with hearts suscepti1-e TO pity.
We are touched by the suEe-ing1 Of
humanity everywhere. Love for home
and hearth, of Mother, of State nd
Nation, is every whit as strong as it
was hundred years ago. Our billet
in God is as firm today as it was in
the hearts of the Pilgrim Fathers. TIE
fires of our faith burn with steady in
tensity. We must have deep faith
in ourselves, and we have the things
to which we may anchor that faith.
THIS GENERATION IS THE
PEER OF ANY THAT HAS GONE
BEFORE"
The Ely miner., 1929-09-06
NEW ROAD PATROL
HAD BUSY MONTH

The extent and variety Of the work
of the new traffic patrol under the
State Highway department, is shown
by the report of Earle Brown, chief
of the patrol, for the month OF July,
made public by C. M. Babcock, COM
missioner of highways.
The patrolmen began active duty
July 10 and in the three weeks up to
Aug. l, the nine men travelled total
of 20,418 mills In this period they
recovered II stolen cars, gave assis-
tance to 263 motorists, issued warnings
to 2,711 violators of the traffic laws
and gave red tags for II violations OF
the motor vehicle license law.
Only sixteen arrests were made. Ten
of these were for drunken driving. A
total of $3.50 in fines was collected.
The summary of warnings given
violators of the traffic laws gives a
good cross-section of the habits CT
motorists. In three weeks the motor
lists who were warned were as follows