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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30
EPISCOPAL GUILD PICNIC.

Tuesday afternoon large crowd OF
Guild members and Sunday school
Students gathered at Tetrault lake for
their annual picnic. After very pleas
mt afternoon, they were joined by the
husbands and fathers and enjoyed a
regular old fashioned picnic supper
Ne counted IA different cakes and five
freezers Of cream and the tables were
loaded with things to be eaten first
AZ usual, there was much food left
which was taken care of and distrib-
uted among the less fortunate families
There was the usual large crowd and
good time. Rev. and Mrs Richard Price
q Whitefish were guests.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30
NOTICE

DR.. F. H. Keller of Kalispell, spe-
cialist in fitting glasses and treating
cross eyes, may be consulted on Satur-
day, August 9Th Make appointments
at Montana Hotel One day only. SO
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30
PURDY CAR STOLEN.

Alex Purdy had his delivery car
stolen from in front of his store Tues
day evening at some time between the
hours of II p. m. and 3 a. m. No further
information has been given to the pub
lie.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30
Think 1t Over

The first thing kindness deserves
Is acceptance. the second-transmiA-
sion.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30

THE great American inclination is to
look things over. Nothing is either
good or bad to the open-minded, until
it has received that quick, interested
appraisal which we deity named the
s'Once over"
We are continually looking over new
political leaders and ideas, new ac-
quaintances, new faces, new actors and
writer's. And by the same token we
are constantly called upon to pass
Judgment on great variety of mer
chandise-from soap to sedans-which
is presented to us through the adver-
tisements in the newspapers.
People who follow the advertise
ments know that through them they
can find out more about articles, values
and the wise spending of their money
than they could discover in any other
way. New products, new improve
ments in merchandise, new uses for
established articles, are constantly be-
ing brought before them
Advertising makes it possible for
you to get exactly what you want, to
get full value for every penny, and to
be sure Of receiving the greatest pos
sible satisfaction from everything you
buy.
Read the advertisements regularly
and get the important news they bring
you in every issue.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-30
EUREKA METHODIST CHURCH.

Henry c. Mecklenburg, Pastor.
Service will be held in the Methodist
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-03-15

AC4 WILL CllC Ud1d1lCc Ol C1lC COIL ditions under which the logger must operate. They deal with sanitation brush disposal fire control, height of stumps, etc., but under the head of other conditions, the vicious cycle to which l referred to above is completed. Here it is: Timber cut under this contract shall not be exported from the Territory of Alaska in the form of logs, cordWood, bolts or other raw products fer primary marufac- ture elsewhere without the con- sent of the District Forester"
 You have a right to ask: Can- not you get his consent? I leave it to others to answer that que5- ton. It seems that some can and some cannot I recognize the tutility of trying to build up or get financial backing for busi- ness which can be swept away at the Whim of one man, who poor Cevil, is merely the moutl,piece, the puppet who jumps, runs and speaks when the strings are pulled.
 So you see how the vicious cycle works If you try to operate a saWmill in Southeastern Alas ka, you are compelled to saw timber, cut after the most ap- rrove1 timber hog methods from a forest which has never had the benefit of a cleansing fire. You have to use timber, which, in it's entirety is not attractive even to pulp mills at present. If you will notice how the two pulp sales at present laid out are strung out to include young growth, green timber with the least percentage of cull stuff, even if they do have to make a tow of a hundred miles, you have the proof of this. To discourage local operators from putting in 70 oDeration 2 much discussed plan Of working uD and shipping
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-03-15

l am merely q logger who has seen hard service in the pine, redwood and fir forests of the Pacific Coast states, with seven- teen years at the game here in Southeastern Alaska I have had the pleasure Of looking at a vast lot of country end timber in the twenty-tWo years of my resi- dence here in Alaska. This is my verdict: If the forests of South eastern Alaska are pulp forests and nothing else, then so also are the forests of California. Oregon and Washington.
 We have just as nice timber, and in many places heavier stands than many countries en- toying the benefits of prosper ous mill business. The only diff ference I can see, ether than a difference in species, is the a. mount of rotten or cull timber; caused by the lack of cleansing fires This inferior grade of tim Der, which is mixed with the better timber in greater or less CT proportions, is what I have always considered pulp timber. It is a timber which, with our precent market demands, cannot be handled at a profit as a saw mill timber. It is a timber which is not very desireable even as pulp timber, altho it is possible to utilize some of it. It is this timber which is being used as a club to hold our sawmills from expansion a. ! to thereby pre- vent the development of a lum- her industry in Alaska.
 If you owned a store and were cCmDelled to buy goods from Whole~a'er who would not fill your order for h11tter and sugar, which sold fairly we'll, unless vcu tOCk a like amount of dry beans which your costumers didn't want regardless of how 1nanv beonc you already had in
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-03-15
markets.

ted for available markets. It speaks well of the Alaska forests that they have been able to operate even to the extent they have.
 The cutting regulations of the Forest Department take no heed of this fact, nor do they take any heed of modern forest prac- tice which has come to recog- nize the added waste of hand ling unprofitable material. They introduced several years ago and gre still enforcing the cutting technique of the timber hog, without the saving grace of al- lowing the market demands to determine, what is and what is not, merchantable They tell us we must sell beans to world market already overstocked with beans and to do without milk end sugar.
 No one can afford to pay the freight on a rotten log when the freight on a sound one is no more. No saWmill can survive saving rotten timber. Even pulp mill will turn up it's nose at a ten inch log which is two- thirds rotten, yet here is the de- flnition of merchantable timber 2s defined in the cutting rcgula- tions of the Forest Department in the Tongass National Forests: "All spruce saw logs are mer- chantable which are not less than 16 feet long, at least ten inches in diameter inside bark at the small end and sealing 50 per cent of their gross scale; Provided, that sound knots shall not be regarded as defects
 The trees which must be cut are defined as follows: "Anv tree which in the judgement of the Forest officer contains one or more logs, merchantable as hereinafter defined and having pet total scale If 25 per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
Even Adam Made a
Mn, and in This
Story Are Traced
ShangeLastTesta-
ments Through the
Ages, Noting the
Fantastic Ways
in Which These
Documents ofDeah
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BY ERIC LINDGREN-BARK.

, uERE are two examples Of the curious
manner in which some people try to
regulate, after death, the distribu-
ton of their earthly possessions: In
the will of Henry FurStone of Alton,
NJ II ba leaves his entire and &C.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
STRONG BACKING
 FOR ARMSTRONG
Twenty-three Posts in the First District Endorse
 His Reelection
BRESLlN FOR SKIPPER

Twenty-three of the 25 posts in the first district of the American Legion voted unanimously to in- dorse Captain Edward P. Arm strong of Waterbury for reelection as state treasurer of the legion at the state gathering to be held in New Britain the goth. 21st and 22d. The same posts went on record as indorsing James E. Breslin of Hartford as state commander.
 Other officers indorsed include: Mrs. Betty Hallgren of Windsor. for state historian: Kenneth F. Cramer of Wethersfeld. national executive committeeman: Claire M. Pfennig of Bristol, district commander: Frank E. Anderson of Wethersfield, [, district treasurer; delegate to the national convention. Charles b. Perry of Windsor; delegates at large to the national convention, Bray of Manchester and Col. Harry L. Perkins of West Hartford.
 Choice for district vice command CT was divided among Commander Michael J. Godfrey of Rau-Locke post. No. 8. Hartford: Harry Schuey of New Britain and Clifford w.. Rossing of Unionville. Elmer Dick enson of Glastonbury and pr. Her. bert F. Tiesing of West Hartford were both evenly favored for de- partment executive committeeman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

ciated with summer schools in which very large registrations tax resources to the very limit. The truth of this statement is clearly demonstrated both by the number of applications for admission to the Yale Summer conference and by the very superior type of person who applied.
 "In planning the conference for next summer the department of education expects to make gencr- ous use of suggestions which have come from members of the 1881 group. Frequent personal inter- views have been held with students and faculty members. These in- terviews have been supplemented by a questionnaire designed prim. arily to locate the least satisfactory features of the conference. Many very helpful suggestions have bene received, but the striking thing about the replies Is the universal and very enthusiastic approval of the work as 1t has been conducted this year. The sincerity of these appraisals is attested by the fact that more than 80 per cent of the students who replied to the ques. tiOnnaire have applied for admis. sion of the 1892 conference.
 "If the next two sessions of the conference are as enthusiastically received as the session this sum mer has been. there is no doubt in my mind that it will become a permanent feature of the work in education at Yale University"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
Engineer Dies
 at Maybrook Y
Sudden Demise of James Roberts, Mourned By
 Friends

James Leslie Roberts. ~, of 102 Laval street, this city, an engi- neer for the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad com pany for the past 29 years, was found dead in his room at the Y. M. c. A. In Maybrook, N. Y.. yes- terday afternoon. MT Roberts sudden and unexpected death caus- ed much surprise and regret in Waterbury and among the em- ployes of the New Haven road.
 Thursday MT Roberts completed a run to Maybrook junction and then put up at the Y. M. c. A. for the night. He was apparently in good health when he retired. The medical examiner found that death was due to natural causes.
 MT Roberts is survived by his wife, Frances N. Roberts; two sons, James and Leon; one daughter. Florence; one brother, Kenneth, of Des Moines; and one sister, Mrs William White of Bridgeport. The body was brought to the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, to-day. The funeral will take place Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the funeral home with burial in Colebrook.
 The deceased was member of the South Waterbury Federated church and was secretary of the local division, No. 867, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
State Cooperatives
 Report Big Business
Connecticut Farmers Now Operating at $l9,0OO,00
 Yearly, According to Farm Economist

has been successful in Connecticut, according to Mir Middaugh. Two associations have been selling eggs ft' approximately eight years. A third association stated in 1929. The two marketing groups sold 100000 dozen eggs for $668.000 for 312 active members in 1929. The average price received by the association was 47.5 cents per dozen. The cost of operating the organizations averaged 3.4 cents. leaving the net average return 10 members All cents per dozen for 1929.
 Cooperative purchases of farm supplies amounted to $4,000,0 000. Half of this amount was through local associations operated and owned by small groups of farm CTS. Approximately $1,000.0O0 worth of farm supplies were handled by associations that do only a car-door business. Another $1,000,OOO worth of supplies were
 handled by cooperatives that operate warehouses. About 5000 patrons were served by these two groups. The average cost of opar- ative was 2 per cent for car-door and per cent for warehouse CO., operatives. The average invest ment was $500 for cardoor cooper atives and $20,000 for warehouse cooperatives.
 The Eastern States Farmers ex- change sold approximately $2.000.- 900 worth of farm supplies to far mers in Connecticut through it's own agents. This business was done directly from the car and at low cost, according to MT Mid daugh. Another $500,000 worth of farm supplies were sold by the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
COOL WEEK END
 IS PROMISED
Mercury Recedes After Reaching 97 Late in
 Afternoon
SLIGHT RAIN LAST NIGHT

Promise of cooler weather over the weekend came from the weather man this morning. Need- less to say, the news of a more comfortable temperature is quite welcome after the torrid day ex- perienced by Waterburian yestcr- day. The mercury went as high at 97 in the thermometer yesterday and forced thousands to seek re- lief from the suns rays in parks and swimming pools.
 Late yesterday afternoon, how ever, a few slight showers occurred and soon afterward the mercury showed a tendency to drop. This morning was cooler than yesterday morning was. Strange to say. the showers that hit the city yesterday were so scattered that reports were received to the effect that while 1t rained in some sections of Wa terbury other sections received no rain at all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

Storrs, Aug 7-Cooperative sell ing and buying activities for Con- necticut farmers are operating to the tune of $19,000,000 a year, ac- cording to figures released today by Vessels s. Middaugh, assistant extension economist in farm man. agement of the Connecticut Aricul- tural college. This was revealed in q survey of 1929 business handled by farmer-owned and controlled associations just completed by MT Middaugh for the Federal Farm Board.
 Forty-two cooperatives in this state did 8 $15,000,000 business. Out-of-state organizations did $4,- 000,00 business in Connecticut. The most important selling organi- zations in Connecticut include milk and egg marketing bodies.
 Milk heads the lists of commo- dities handled by cooperatives here, according to MT Middaugh. The Connecticut Milk Producers asso- citation with main offices at Hart ford sold approximately $12,0O0,- 900 worth of milk for its 3,66G members in 1929. The New Eng land Milk Producers association handled about $2.0O0,000 worth of milk for 848 Connecticut members. The Dairymen's League Coopera- tive association sold $495.000 worth of milk for 276 Connecticut mem- bers. Besides these three large groups there were two locals that handled around $100,000 worth of milk each.
 The cooperatiye marketing of eggs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
SAVE 100000
 YOUNG SHRUBS
Landscape Division of the Highway Dept Rolls Up
 Enviable Record
SzO,OOO VALUE GIVEN

Inventories of the Connecticut division at the close of the fiscal year indicate that the division within two years time has &C., cumulated in its five stock yards more than 100000 young trees and shrubs which in time will be used for the Identification of Connecticut roadsides, Commis- sioner John A. Macdonald an- nounced to-day.
 The trees and shrubs, valued even in wholesale lots at close to $2O.O00, have been collected from the highway rights of way under the direction of Luther M. Keith, department tree warden, and have been transplanted to the stock yards for future use. This activ- ity has been conducted in line with the landscape divisions slogan of Conservation" which dictates that no worthwhile shrub or tree shall be destroyed in the course of construction or reconstruction when it can possibly be saved by transplanting and cultivation.
 Landscape crews in charge of forestry experts have been dis patched along the highways in ad- vance of every new road building project. Equipped with maps and blueprints showing the path of the new paving operations, they have carefully removed the sub stantial seedlings and shrubs which were in that path. These were wrapped with care for the protection of the roots, carried to the stock yards and there replant- ed and cultivated.
 The stockyards, which were ob- tained about two years ago, are located in Wethersfield, Wilton. Ellington, Putnam and Essex. The sites were selected both because of the fertility of their soil and because of their advantageous To- cations with respect to the collec- .tions with respect to the collection of plants. The trees and shrubs. after transplanting are cultivated for a period of at least two years in order to make certain that they are sufficiently rugged to thrive along the roadsides after g. sec- ond transplanting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
Campfire Tonight
 at Birchnnere

A special campfire will be held tonight at 7:3O o'clock at Camp Birchmere, the local Girl Scouts summer camp in Waterville. Friends and parents of the camp CTS are invited to attend the event as the guests of the one hundred girls registered there.
 The program to be enacted fol- lows: Group songs. Hello. Hello. Hello" and "Lavendar Blues"; 1; sketch. "Eyeore Loses His Tail, ." Happy Hollow unit; group songs. "Whence Friday Morn; play, Theories and Thumbs" by Rachel Field, Tails End unit: songs. "Kiliy Kiily," "The Far North land; two melodramatic sketches by the Sky High unit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
PINE EPIDEMIC
 NOT PREVALENT
State Watersheds We'll Protected From Blister
 Rust Ravaging State
TREES WELL GUARDED

Although the current outbreak of blister rust has attacked many of Connecticut's woodlands this summer and has affected as many as twenty-four per cent of the pines under twenty feet in height in some sections of the state, the watershed forests of the water sup ply public utilities have not as yet been seriously infected with he spore of the ravaging pine tree dis case. Meanwhile, the watershed trees are being well guarded to prevent 8 possible future outbreak of blister dust from spores carried by the wind from the affected wooded tracts.
 There are several reasons why the watershed timber is free from the devastating rust. In the first place, the disease originates as a spore on black currant plants from which the spore is later blown among the trees. 1t first at- tacks the upper branches and then pursues its destructive path down the trunk until the entire tree is killed. In years past, the water utilities have painstakingly elimi- mated all black currant plants from their property, thus making the chance of outbreak practically negligible
 Secondly, the chance of infec- tion from neighboring property is slim, since most of the large water shed woodlands are located in the central and lower areas of the state where the disease harboring black currant does not generally grow. It prefers the higher and cooler sections and those are the areas where the present outbreak of blister rust is at its height. An other reason Is that years of ex- perience have taught utility for csters that the red pine is less sus- ceptible to the disease than he white pine. so that an increasing number of the former has been and is being planted. A state stat ute makes 1t misdemeanor to cul- tivate or permit to exist on ones property any growth of black cur rent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
FAIRGROUNDS REGISTER GREATEST WEEK
Heat Holds Up Athletic Games;
 Water Crowded
Supervisors Report Busiest Six-Day Period of Sum- mer Season Another Record Period Looked for Next Week If Hot Wave Continues

City playgrounds experienced their best week of the current summer during the past six days. the eleven recreational centers be- ing crowded daily with frequent habitues who made good use of the favorable weather and their leisure time. Respective supervis- ors are looking forward to another busy week providing old Jupe Pluvius is as kind as he has been the past few days.
 The majority of strenuous ath- 1etic contests scheduled for last week were postponed by the super visors until a more appropriate time, for the terrific heat might have had injurious results on the weaker youngsters. None of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
STREET CARS FOR
 CONCESTED AREAS
Conn Co Officials Say Busses to Be Substitute
 ed Except in Cities
NOT ENTIRELY DOOMED

Connecticut's street railway serv- ice in the not distant future will be confined almost entirely to op- eration within the larger cities of the state In the opinion of officials of the Connecticut company, who at the present time are making sev- eral of the most important moves lin the substitution of bus for trolley service that have taken place in the
 history of the company. Their opin- ion Is that the bus will probably never replace the street car as the
 major means of transportation along the more congested streets.
 but that 1t is a more efficient and
 more economical vehicle fV inter- urban lines.
 Should bus service be substituted
 for street car lines in congested areas, the fact that three or more
 motor coaches would be required to
 care for the passengers carried by one trolley car would produce a practically unsolvable traffic prob-
 lem. Replacving each street car with three buses during the rush
 hour periods and operating them in the midst of already seriously con-
 gested motor traffic in the same amount of street space is viewed as an impractical plan.
 On the other hand. the larger ltype of vehicle is no longer re- quired in interurban transportation
 or on streets where rush hour con-
 gestion does not prevail. The growt of the private automobile
 has made deep inroads into this type of traffic and has made 1t pos
 sible for the bus to meet adequately
 the minimized demand for service.
 Moreover. it has become essential
 to substitute the more economic
 ally operated motor coach on lines
 where revenues have made main-
 tenance of rail service impossible
 except at financial loss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08
Tin Badge Costs
 Youth $5, Costs
CoIored Stone Thrower Ridicues Authority of Super.
 numerary Cop

Harry Wyckoff. 36. negro. Of 223 Abbott avenue has learned since last night that the badge exhibited by Supernumerary Po- liceman Michael Karpleman was not a tin badge purchased in the five and ten as he so supposed just previous to his arrest last night. His doubt concerning the authenticity of the badge cost him a little matter of $5 and costs in city court this morning.
 According to the officer, Ed ward Thomas, 31, and his wife, Middle. 2S, of IS Spark street were engaging in little stone throw ing contest in the yard of their home last evening. The officer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-08

playgrounds however reported any cases of fainting or the like.
 The interplayground vo1ley ball leagues. girls and boys, continued their schedule without any post ponements due to the torrid wealth CT, for both circuits play in the evening when the rays of old man Sol are much weaker than morn- ings and afternoons.
 The majority of children in all the different playspoty are looking forward to the annual track meet for boys scheduled at Hamilton Park Wednesday, August 19, the playground pageant booked for the following day and the annyal girls midget, junior and senior swim ming meet at Chase Park pool Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.