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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
w. M. Harris At
 Conference In Hartford

William M. Harris. secretary of the Lincoln House Association and chairman of the Mayors unemploy- ment committee outlined the work of the committee in Waterbury be- fore members of the New England conference of community chest eX- ecutives at the Hotel Bond in Hart ford yesterday.
 The plan as adopted in Water bury received favorable comment and it was the consensus that some thing similar will be followed in other cities of the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
Connecticut Botanist
 To Address Canadians

New Haven, Feb 7-Dr George P. Clinton, botanist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment station, will deliver the annual address before the Quebec society for the Protec- ton of Plants, April at St Anne's, Canada. He will discuss three flung ous diseases of trees in North Amer ica that have inflicted the most damage. They are the chestnut blight, the willow scab fungus, and the white pine blister rust.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
LAW SUIT SETTLED
 OUT OF COURT

Settlement out of court has been reached in the $500 civil action of the Globe Indemnity Co against the LaRiviere Contractors Corp accord ing to papers filed in superior court to-day. The plaintiff sought to re- cover for compensation and other insurance issued by the plaintiff at the defendants request, for the pro- lection of the defendants corpora tion, the complaint alleges. The pa rers stated the defendant owed the amount of $1,160.07 from August 31, 1929.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

ed ith this, are said to have pro4 tested and then Sanford told them tui keep the bills for few days until
 he 'came back. -A
 When he was arrested, he had three pennies and Southington fire
 department badge on his personsi When grilled by detectives, he said he needed the money he expected tui get to support himself and hisl family which had been hit hard by sickness l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
MISS ELLA DYE AT 5. FIRST CHURCH GUILD

At a meeting of the Junior Guild of the First Congregational church yesterday afternoon, Miss Ella Dye. member of the staff of the Water; bury Day Nursery addressed the gathering on work being done bt her organization. Miss Elizabeth. Mallette, president, was in charge of the session. while Miss Betty Win ters and Miss Jean Pattman were hostesses for the social which fol- lowed the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
COLLEGE PLANS OBSERVATORY

Berea, Ohio.-A $100,0OO observ- atory will be erected at Baldwin Wallace college this spring. accord ing to Dr c. l.. Dustheimer, profes- sor of astronomy. The project was started when the late B. c. Wood donated $33.OO and asked that the structure be named in Hemory of his mother. Lavinia Mastick Wood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
COLLEGE RENAMES HALL

Manhattan, Kas.-The Horticul- tural hall at the Kansas State Agri- culture college has been renamed the Albert Dickens hall in honor of the late head of the Aggie depart ment of horticulture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
TORRINGTON MAN
 JOINS THE NAVY.

Robert G. Nevin. U. S. N., of 2G Lorenzo street, Torrington, has suc-
 cessfully passed the entrance exam iration to the Navy Artif1cers school
 and was among the new members for the February class.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
HOSPITAL AID MEETING AT
 HOME, OF MRS C. P. GOSS

. Mrs Chauncey P. Goss Jr, of 1S4 Hillside avenue IS to hold hospi- tai aid meeting at her home Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Miss Nina M. Brown, social worker at the Wa terbury hospital, is to be the speak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
PHOTOGRAPHED WILLS
 WORRY BRITISH LAWYERS

London.-Legal circles are con- cerned, for financial reasons, at the recent innovation by the government in photographing all wills.
 A super-camera and dark room were provided for the experiment, which is said to have had consider able success in the United States. The photographs of the wills will be placed on the most durable paper, and authorities maintain will outlive the present copies provided by law yers.
 Mrs Elizabeth Hasler, of Chelms- ford. England, who recently cele- brated her 105th birthday. has more than 100 living descendants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

Many miners in Peru are turning to farming.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Bayberry Candle Boon
to New England Women

Candles in days gone by were an
item of expense TO be reckoned
with in the gay courts Of Europe,
as many as 5000 being used on
grand occasions when the vast
halls were to be filed with guests.
From the demand the making of
candles developed into quite an i'm
portant industry and laws were
passed regulating the size and
adulteration of the materials to be
nsed.
When the Pilgrims found them
selves on the bleak shores of New
England with few facilities for ar
tificial illumination, says the New
York Sun, other methods of light
ing their homes had to be devised.
At first, like the Indians, they
used knots of pitch pine to light
their cabins, but it was not long
until the thrifty New England
woman learned that by boiling the
little gray bayberries that grew on
the low, windswept shores along
the coast she could procure a wax
which rose to the top of the ket-
tie. From this she make the first
bayberry candles.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Spiders Ingenious Web
Woven Afresh Each Night

Master of ge0metrical precision
and skillful artisan, the fastidious
orange-tan orb spider presents
mystery in her arrival at certain
identical moment every evening
when with amazing ingenuity she
constructs or weaves a new web
over the framework of her perma-
nent dwelling. states an article in
Better Homes and Gardens.
Although the framework of the
simple structure, which consists of
three spokes radiating from a
single point, is constantly under
repair, the finished web is never
repaired no matter how damaged
it may be. Guy wires are anchored
to leaves, blades of grass, with a
crows foot fastening. Then fol-
low the radial lines which retrace
the original spokes of the perma-
nent frame. The dainty tatting
wheel in the center serves as a
feast hall. The last stroke is Bit
ing out the floss constituting the
hub, which leaves an aperture for
the unwary insect to crawl through
and be enmeshed- Then follows
the fastidiously chosen feast, con-
t;nues Better Homes and Gardens,
after which the web is carefully re-
moved and, If no longer of service,
devoured to make more silk and be
reSpun later.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15

business house to J. E. Beck. $40
for the best decorated residence to
c. w. Boyer. $40 for the best
decorated show window to H. c.
Helm. Following the parade the
visiting companies attended the
carnival which is being held by the
Robbins oHse Company.
Business Session Held Wednesday
With more than 100 volunteer
firemen present from all sections
of the state, the annual conven-
ton of the State Firemen's Asso-
citation, held it's business meeting
on Wednesday at the Temple The
atre. Mayor ]. Wallace Woodford
welcomed the visitors to Dover and
Elbert c. Bailey, of Laurel, presi-
dent of the State association, re-
sponded. In his annual report
President Bailey cited as achieve
ments on the organizations part
during the past year the organiza-
llOn Ol d lISlllCa lCllOA oOSiCly /,
the passage by the Legislature of
the forestry bill and the securing
of a standard emblem for the auto
mobiles of volunteer firemen. Re-
ports of last years convention in
Georgetown were given. The cleo
ton of officers and an address by
William H. Christy, assistant chief
of the Bureau of Fire, of Philadel-
phia, were features of the afternoon
session. The election of officers
was effected shortly before the
close of the afternoon session and
resulted as follows: President, John
N. Jordin, of Richardson Park;
yice-president, j. E. Haddaway, of
Wyoming; secretary, S. H. Carson
of Dover; treasurer, j. G. Guyer,
Richardson Park; member of the
executive committee from New
Castle County for three years, G.
J. Morgan; member executive COM
mittee from Kent County to sue
ceed ]. e. Haddaway, who was
elected vice-president, L. E. Walk
er, of Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
R.DPOYNTER REFLECTED AS
MAYOR BY REHOBOTH VOTERS
MRS. MYRTLE WINGATE WINS
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
Three Commissioners and Three
Assessors Also Elected at Town
Election Held on Saturday

Ralph D. Poynter was reelected
mayor of Rehoboth at the town
election held on Saturday. There
was no opposition and he received
476 out of SIG votes. The liveliest
contest was for town tax collector
in which Mrs. Myrtle Wingate,
widow of former Mayor Ralph M.
Wingate, won with 208 votes.
Frank L. Chase received 200 and
Robert w. Yarnall 1O2. Mr.. Chase
has been tax collector for three
years and Mr.. Yarnall has been a
candidate several times while this
was the first attempt ofaMrs. Win
gate to win the office. The posi-
tion formerly paid 5 per cent of
the taxes collected which amount
ed to $1,000 but the town council
recently reduced the percentage to
which is expected to make the
salary about $1,000 for the year.
The commissioners elected were
William H. Virden, 398 votes; T.
Clarence Marshall, 304 votes; Fred
S. Ross, 290 votes. Other defeat
ed contestants for the three posi-
tions as commissioners were Fred
Kunsman, who received 211 votes,
and Eugene T. Yates, who received
282 votes. The three assessors
elected were Charles H. Phillips,
3O8 votes; John R. Tyndall, 280
votes; DR.. Walter P. Robinson,
262 votes. Other candidates for
the position as assessors who were
defeated follow: John A. Kunsman,
244 votes; Herbert P. Joseph, 1877
votes; Stephen P. Hudson, 155
votes. Mayor Poynter, comment
ing on the previous factional rows
which have disturbed local Reho-
both municipal politics during the
past two or three years, said that
there was no evidence of factional
differences at this time. He said
that the contests were contests of
political differences or municipal
policies as they had been in the not
long distant past.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Christian Science Churches

Sacrament" was the subject of
the Lesson-Sermon on Sunday,
July IL, 1881, in all Churches of
Christ, Scientist. Golden Text:
Jesus saith unto them, My meat
is to do the will of him that sent
me, and to finish his work" John
4:34). Among the citations which
comprised the Lesson-Sermon was
the following from the Bible: "And
as they were eating, Jesus took
bread, and blessed it, and brake it,
and gave it to the disciples, and
said, Take, eat; this is my body
And he took the cup, and gave
thanks, and gave it to them say
ing, Drink ye all of it," Matthew
26:26,27). The Lesson-Sermon also
included the following passages
from the Christian Science text
book, Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" by Mary
Baker Eddy: 1.-THE world must
grow to the spiritual understand
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
First Sunday Schools

A century and half has elapsed
since Robert Raikes began his or
ganization of Sunday schools. The
credit for the founding Of the ear
liest of Sunday schools, as distinct
from the Sunday school movement,
however, is claimed for the little
spinster Methodist, Hannah Ball,
friend of John Wesley. whose first
Sunday school was established in
High Wycombe 161 years ago, IL
years before Raikes' historic move
ment, and is still active. An au-
thority on the subject has stated: !:
1T seems almost certain that John
Wesley, who rode on horseback
from place to place, and who Wis
tied Gloucester, spoke of the work
of Hannah Ball to Robert Raikes,
a man of great ability. who there
upon not only commenced a school,
but set himself to organize others. !"
Montreal Family Herald.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Art Treasures Beyond
All Price in Vatican

1t would take volumes to enumer-
ate the treasures of the Vatican.
The chapels of San Lorenzo, the
Sistine and the Pauline are deco
rated with frescoes by Fra Angel
leo, Michelangelo, Perugino and
others. Four chambers were deco
rated by Raphael.
The picture gallery is not large,
but the paintings are among the
most valuable in the world. Raph-
ael's TRANSPORTATION" his "Ma-
donna di Foligno" and his Corona
ton of the Virgin" besides some
smaller pictures, are here. So are
works of Murillo. Titan, Perugino
Correggio, Paul Veronese ant
others of the greatest of painters
The museum contains not Onl.
many of the most beautiful sculr
lures in the world, ancient Gree
statues among which are the La"
coon and the Apollo Belvidere, bur
also great numbers of antiquities.
relics of ancient Italy. Greece and
Egypt.
The library at the Vatican was
founded in 1878. and now contains
valuable collection of 10000
manuscripts and 250.000 volumes
Of rare books. A recent addition
to this collection is the Rospigliosi
library and archives presented by
Louis Mendelssohn of Detroit,
Mich. This library includes many
valuable books gathered by Pope
Clement TX of Rospigliosi during
his pontifcate from 1867 to 1869 !;
also a portrait of Pope Clement by
Carlo Maratta.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15

Trophv. to be won three times in
succession for permanent owner
ship for the company making the
hest appearance with apparatus
and at least % uniformed men, to
the Brandywine Hundred Fire
Company. $40 in gold to the COM
pany making the second best ap-
nearance under same condition, to
the Robbins Hose Company of Do
yer. $40 in gold given by Mayor
T Wallace Woodforo for the COM
pany having the most uniformed
men in line, to the Elsmere Fire
Company. First Aid Kit and
Stretcher given by Harry A. Scha-
grin to the company having the
most men in line, to the Elsmere
Fire Company. $40 in gold given
bv the Rotary Club for the best
equipped company with at least %
men in uniform, to the Citizens
Hose Company, of Smyrna. $40 in
gold for the company making the
best appearance but with only ten
or more uniformed men, to the
Delaware City Fire Company.
500 in gold for the company hav-
ing the best band in line playing
while passing the judges stand, to
the Brandywine Hundred Fire
Company. The company was head
ed by the band of the Cranston
Heights Fire Company. $50 in gold
for the second best band, to the
Carlisle Fire Company, of Milford.
$50 in gold given by the Robbins
Hose Company for the best drum
and bugle corps in the parade, to
the Colwyn, Pa, Fire Company.
Kent County Firemen's prize of
S25 in gold for the Women's Aux
iliary making the best appearance,
to the Five Points Fire Company
Auxiliary. Out-of-State company
prizes: $50 in gold for the out-of-
State company having the best ap-
pearance with 25 or more uniform
ed men in line, to the Colwyn, Pa,
Fire Company. $40 in gold for the
company making the second best
appearance, to Upper Darby. Pa,
Fire Company. $100 in gold for
the company from outside the
State having the best band, to the
fredericksburg, Md, Fire Company.
$50 in gold to the company com
ing the longest distance, to the
Lansdale Fire Company of Lans-
dale, Pa. Three special prizes were
offered by the Robbins Hose Com
pany and were awarded as fol
lows: $40 for the best decorated
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Standard Time

According to the United States
naval observatory at Washington,
standard time had not come into
general use in 1885; no uniform
standards existed then. At pres
ent, the time zone in which Eng
land is located uses the local time
of Greenwich. and the time used
in London in 1885 was practically
the same as the Greenwich time
today. Sweden adopted standard
time in 1892. Since that date it
has used time one hour more ad-
yanced than that of Greenwich.
Stockholm, no doubt, used its own
local time before 1892, which would
have been a few minutes more ad-
vanced than the time used today.
Owing to Greenland's spare popu-
lation, that country has not yet
adopted standard time.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
"Ra;lroad" and Railway"

The reason that one transporta-
tion company is called a railroad
and another a railway is simply
that railroad and railway are cor
norated names. Often when a rail-
road goes bankrupt it must reor-
ganize under a different name. For
example, the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul railroad went into the
hands of receivers and when 1t
emerged it was the Chicago, Mil
waukee, st. Paul & Pacific railway,
the adding Of the words Pacific
railway" making a new corporate
name. Likewise the changing from
railroad to railway changes the
name of the corporation.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15

clopedia gives details of the chakra
or steel disk, formerly carried by
Sikh soldiers These were 6 to 9
inches in diameter and about an
inch in breadth of rim, and had
sharply ground edges. They were
rotated on the forefnger, then pro-
jected with considerable force $50
feet or more. They are called ex-
pensive and almost useless weap-
ons. Another form of boomerang
used in India is made of wood and
iron at Gujerat and of wood and
ivory at Trichinopoly.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Freezing Fails to Kill

Fish and many Insects can be
frozen without destroying life. Cat
ernillars. according to entomolo-
gists, regularly live after being
frozen during the winter. One in
vestigator froze the grubs Of the
sneeies known as daddy-longlegs
until they would readily break
and those not broken survived. Fish
rave been frozen in solid Ice with
out killing them.-Pathfinder Mag
azine.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
Boomerang Long in Use
as Weapon of Warfare

An article in the Encyclopedia
Britannica on the boomerang of the
Australian aborigines mentions va
rious peoples who have used SIM
liar instruments. Both the return
and nonreturn boomerang are found
in most parts of Australia. The
return form was, according to Cen
eral Pitt-Rivers, used in ancient
Egypt. A weapon closely resem-
bling the boomerang survives to the
present day In northeast Africa,
with allied forms made of metal,
or throwing knives. In south
India is found a boomerang-shaped
instrument which can be made to
return. The Hopis of Arizona use
a nonreturn form. The Indian Cy-
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
rauv Prizes Awarded

=, ,,,;nners were: State
i william H. Todd
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15

signs following" Christian Science
reveals a necessity for overcoming
the world, the flesh, and evil, and
thus destroying all error. Seeking
is not sufficient. 1t is striving that
enables us to enter. Spiritual at
tainments open the door to high
er understanding of the divine
Life" (p. 10).
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15

ing of prayer. If good enough to
profit by Jesus cup of earthly sor-
rows, God will sustain us under
these sorrows. Until we are thus
divinely qualified and are willing
to drink his cup, millions of vain
repetitions will never pour into
prayer the JUNCTION of Spirit in
demonstration of power and with
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
More RATS

after you use RAT-sNAP
E,,re rodent killer. Try a
n prove it. Rats killed with
NAP leave no smell. Cats or
I'M touch it. Guaranteed.
kize / cake enough for
| Kitchen or Cellar.
lie : 2 cakes for Chicken
[coops, or small buildings.
| size 5 cakes enough for
and out-buildings, storage
Is or factory buildings.
and guaranteed by
kkett's Hardware
SMYRNA DEL.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-15
/ STATE F|R[M!n's I!I''i
f1|lI MEETS At DOVER
,,N RICHARDSON
'onD %OTrp PRESIDENT
,.orded Firemen;
pIlaes naesiyes $50 in Gold
p equipped Company

,.,d its greatest paraae a
nsit afternoon when fifty nre
from various places, !
es,r,en's e auxiliaries, -
- and two drum ana
nus with at least 1OoO
Pr, s,Dnaartus or marching
o. slsrenth annual conven-
r.. ns eta State volunteer Fire
asociation 'no which opened e
tTsdnesday. The parade
| miles long and 5000 VS.
/ addition to the residents
h. saw the procession, !,
(si' ,rizes were offered and
y tesn rivalry. The judg-
.de the awards Of prizes
NC Chief William J. Lutz'
Evilmington Fire Depart
C'mss H.Cresson, Of Norris
Fsnmas 4 c. Berry, Chester,
Eseenv. of Carney's Point
EH' y ! McInerny, of Coates
r. :, 80 Dennis j. Fahy,
Grove, N. J.
rorv Prizes Awarded
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direction, the moment the pilot leaves the
other side Of the station.
This reversal Of vibration makes 1t necessary
for the reed box to be removed and turned up
side down and reinserted
TT was the vibrating reed that Capt Arthur
Page of the Marine Corps, who lost his life
at the Chicago air races last Fall, used in his
epochal blind flight from Omaha to wash
ington a short time before his Inflated crash
Capt. Page new 1000 miles across country
hooded in the cockpit Of plane from which he
could not see out His line of flight was de-
termined by the radio beacons between Omaha,
Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Washing
ton When interviewed by the writer few
days after he arrived in Washington he stated
that he made the whole croSS-country flight
without the slightest mishap and without get
ting on his course-a splendid tribute to the
efficiency of the visual radio finder.
Since the day of Capt. Pages great achieve
ment further improvement and development has
taken place in radio direction flying. 1t is now
possible through an invention by Herbert Hoover,
jr for a flyer to come into port on the tuneful
waves Of a radio program. This has been
made possible by a special antenna arrange
ment on a plane connected with reading dial
on the instrument board of plane. The
station program coming in on the antenna is
transmitted to the dial, where she point of
needle tells the pilot the name of the station
broadcasting.
Fog is one of the greatest menaces of the
flyer. To conquer it great sums Of money
have been spent experimentally by the Gov
eminent and private corporations. Much of
the work of the Guggenheim Fund for the
Promotion of Aeronautics has revolved around
the conquering Of fog The experimental flying
work was done by Lieut.. James H. Doolittle.
DoolIttle proved conclusivey in the latter
part of 1929 that it was possible for a pilot
to take off from field and land back there
by instruments alone. His first flight shrouded
in the cockpit of plane, was for 20 miles He
landed in almost exactly the same spot that
he took of from.
Since that day many of the things realized
by Lieut. Doolittle and others as necessary
before blind flying could be INDUCED In with
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thought comes that while Egypt is q very old
land in terms Of human history this space,
this delta, is relatively a new land, for it was
made by the Nile. perhaps after man began to
make history in the valley. Yet the records
do not run back very clearly to pre-delta times.
Perhaps the first of the fellaheen found the
river thus split into arms and the soil thus
subdivided into long triangles based upon
Mediterranean.
And that brings up the thought: Why do
we regard Egypt as "old" when other lands
are in point of geological time quite as ancient?
The answer is immediate. Historical and
archaeological research has established for us
of today a perspective of time that stretches
farther back into the centuries than in any
other area in the world. And it is to see the
evidences of that perspective, the boundaries
of 1t, so to speak, that the traveller goes to
Egypt. Farther South they lie, to be seen on
the morrow, or later. They are in many forms,
pyramids, temples, sphinxes. Man Is still at
work digging them out, tracing the facts of
the mileniumS of Egyptian life. Even now
some new discovery may be setting up q cor
receive standard of computation. Perhaps this
is happening right at this moment. while we
spin southwark toward Cairo, and the sky glows
in glorious sunset just as it used to glow for
Cleopatra, for the numerous members of the
Ramses family, for King Tut, for the earliest
known Egyptians.
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Echo Conquers Fog

safety have come to pass. One Of the greatest
needs felt at that time was an altimeter that
would indicate to pilot his height above the
earth in fog. Today that Is a reality. The
sonic altimeter does that very thing.
How universally valuable it win prove to be
remains yet to be seen. Valuable enough it is
at present, however, for the Army to set its
seal on it after q number Of exacting tests at
Boiling Field in washington. It has solved
the one problem so long bugbear to the aviator
lost in a fog. namely Where Is the earth?
How far above it am ~"
Fright here" says the sonic altimeter.