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participate in a firemen's parade
but a second pumper was pressed
into service. Fearing the spread
of the flames and realizing the
danger to the entire town if the
fire got beyond their control, the
Harrington firemen sent a call to
Milford for assistance and the Car
Isle Fire Company Of that town
responded 1t was sometime later
before they succeeded in getting
the flames under control but they
managed to confine them to the
building in which they originated.
Mr. Wheeler said most of the stock
in his store was moved into the
street and escaped the fire but the
interior was badly damaged by the
smoke and water and a quantity
of material in the store room on
the second floor was ruined. Welch,
with the assistance of the firemen
and residents, moved most of his
barber shop furniture into the
street and also his furniture from
his living quarters on the second
floor. The coffins in the Boyer
funeral parlors also were moved
out, together with the body of the
dead man which was there await
ing burial. All these places were
damaged by smoke and water. The
loss in the hardware store on the
second floor of which is a store
room filled with goods, is estimat-
ed at 81 900. The loss on the build
ing is estimated by the owners at
$4,000 and the loss in the radio
store and barber shop was estimat-
ed at $500 each. Mrs. Boyer could
not estimate the damage to her
place of business. In the hardware
store was quantity of shot gun
shells purchased preparatory to
the cunning reason, together with
ammunition for rifles. As the
flames reached the boxes in which
these supplies were stored the heat
exploded them and for awhile there
was regular fusilade Of shots. As
far as could be learned no one was
struck by the shot or the bullets,
but the discharge prevented the
fremen from getting into the store
while the firing continued. Oil
tanks in the place were ignited and
caused dense clouds of smoke to
spread through the whole structure
and this also handicapped the fire
men in their work.
Smyrna times., 1934-08-30
S11,OOO FIRE AT
HARRINGTON
Hanley & Warren's Hardware
Store and Other Stores
Badly Damaged
SAVE CORPSE IN PARLOR

Handicapped by dense clouds of
smoke and fusilade of lead from
shot gun shells and rife ammuni-
tion set off by the flames, at Har-
rington, firemen Wednesday night,
fought a serious blaze that broke
out in the hardware store of Han
ley and Warren on Commerce st.
opposite the Harrington postoffice
IN the heart of the business dis
trict. Before it. had been extin-
guished the flames, smoke and wat
er had caused a loss that will to-
tai about $1,000, several firemen
had been injured, the hardware
store had been gutted, radio store
a barber shop and a funeral parlor
had been damaged. To add to
their difficulties the firemen had to
carry the body of a dead man from
the funeral home where it had been
prepared for burial. The building
housing all the places burned is a
long two-story frame structure
owned by Solomon L. Sapp and
John D. Brown, both residents of
Harrington. They estimated their
loss at $4,000. In addition to the
hardware store, the radio store of
w. H. Wheeler adjoining and the
barber shop of Milton Welch next
to Wheeler's place of business were
damaged. On the other side of the
hardware store is the undertaking
parlorS of Mrs. Katie Boyer
Wheeler was in his store when he
saw smoke coming through the
wall separating his store from the
hardware store The fire had or
iginated in the rear of the hard
ware store but the cause had not
been determined Wednesday night
last. Wheeler gave the alarm and
the Harrington Fire Company was
on the scene within a few minutes.
This company's main fire engine
had been taken to Easton, Md, to
Smyrna times., 1934-08-30
SUN OIL COMPANY PRODUCTS
Sunoco Motor Oil Never Comes in
Contact With Mercury

Recently some friends of mine
who had heard of the Sun Oil Com
pany's exclusive mercury process
for making motor oil, but had not
obtained any details, asked me if
mercury was mixed with the finish
ed OIL" says Mr. Robert Weir, Jr.,
the Sun Oil Company's local
branch manager. I was some
what amused by this question" he
continued, land pproceeded to ex-
plain to them that Sunoco Motor
Oil never even comes in contact
with mercury. There's an inter
esting story behind this. You see,
many oils are refined by conven-
tional methods which expose the
crude oil to the intense, hard to
control heat of direct flames
against the steel still. The inabil-
ity to control these refining heats
with any degree of accuracy some
times results in scorched or burn
ed oil. Starting from this point,
the Sun Oil Company engineers
sought ways and means of refining
a motor oil by controlled heat. In
stead of trying to control the heat
direct from oil, coal or gas flames,
we sought a new method; one that
might convey heat to the stills in
the same way many houses are
heated by steam. But steam would
not get hot enough to distill mo-
tor oil and we had to seek some
other heat conveying agent Fin
ally we found that quicksilver, or
mercury, when turned to vapor or
steam, would convey the high heats
we needed to distill off the motor
oil and like water would return to
liquid. This mercury is sealed in
a separate, air-tight system and
not drop is ever lost. so tons of
mercury are heated in a giant,
specially designed boiler until it
turns into mercury steam, or va
por. Then special valves release
just so much OF this mercury vapor
under series of hot plates, each
plate heated to a different degree
and producing different viscosity
of motor oil. AS the mercury
gives off heat to these hot plates,
it condenses like water and runs
back into the giant central boiler
to be revaporized and heated. In
this way, the quicksilver never
touches the oil, but instead extracts
it from the crude petroleum at ex-
actly the right temperatures nee
essary to manufacture motor OIL
As a result, Sunoco Motor Oil is
never overheated or scorched; |
therefore it is an absolutely pure
pproduct. tough, durable, and per-
mits no hard carbon formation"
Smyrna times., 1934-08-30

Co., Wilmington, (low bidder, S9,-
O13.5O; Wilson Contracting Com
pany, New Castle, S10,8S9.0O.
Contract No. CN35, Faulk Road
Grubbs Road-Naamans, 0.64 Mi
Vincent Schaivi, Townsend, S34,-
3O2.5O; D. E. O'Connell & Sons,
Wilmington, Qow bidder), S23, ,841 /;
Oliyere Paving & Construction Co.,
Wilmington, S25, 1877.
Contract No. CN36, Faulk Road
Naamans Road-Pa. State Line, 0.5S
Mo.-Vincent Schiavi, Townsend,
S24, ,653; D. E. O'Connell & Sons,
Wilmington, Qow bidder, S21, 1874;
Olivere Paving & Construction Co.,
Wilmington, S22,9S0.
Contract No. CN37, Thorough
fare Neck Road, 21 Mi.-Olivere
Paving & Construction Co., Will
mington, S21,710; George & Lynch,
Dover, S21, ,522; Short & Walls
Lumber Co., Middletown, dow bid
der), S17,997; Wilson Contracting
Co.. New Castle, S24,010.
Contract No. CN38, Oak Hill
Road, 2.S5 Mi.-George & Lynch,
Dover, S27, PSI; Olivere Paving &
Contracting Co., Wilmington, dow
bidder, S25,231; Wilson Contract
ing Co., New Castle, S31, ,140.5O.
Contract No. CN39, Chestnut
Hill Road, O.95 Miles-Olivere Paw
ing & Construction Co, Whining
ton, S21, ,912; Fox, Reynolds Co.,
New York City, S22,476; Wilson
Contracting Co., New Castle, dow
bidder SIS, ,46O.50
Contract No. CN40, West End
Ave- Holloway Terrace, 300 Ft.-
Olivere Paving & Construction Co.,
Wilmington, S12,247.5O.
Contract No. CN41, Green st.
and Lawson Ave, Claymont, Conc.
Pavt. & Sdwlk., 1918 George
& Lynch, Dover, S20,756.5O; D. E.
O'Connell & Sons, Wilmington,
dow bidder, S18,478; A. Vantresca
& Sons, Wilmington, S1S,736; Vim
cent Schiavi, Townsend, S22. 2.376;
Ernest Desabitini & Sons, Will
mington, S21 ,372.5O; Julian T.Jones
Wilmington, 9,537.5O; ]. A. Bad
er & Co.. Wilmington, $4,000.
Smyrna times., 1934-08-30
I5gas
|IsooAp WORK
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and OTHERS

's q week Ts at power '..ten Del q t !
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u ~ lI..ioners Hazel, Gruon
=. 's amounted to s251' ~ 'Ust !
l'ssray n projects, Elgn' sssa'
sl's' s.,s ! part Of the agree
~ y New Castle County
tor work relief bene-
.n.,,sl event in prop pos-
,'lai5g roads occurred i
], : ! pavement from Mes' H13
'',s',. d wilmington % ~.
.r-,ce on which only ons
lsiy ,.rsivsd, the olivere PAY,
'r-rstracting Company O
I'm being the lone bidder, 7,
- Of the contracts will
! ! short time and work
once to provide rene
/ ! tsose who are on the un-
E.-,st list. The following
sid5srs with the low pro-
No. l57, Hastings COR
IT,. Corner, 1891 Mi. Stag
n, constructing Co., ches-
4 Nd, sss,23O.5O; Fox Rey-
Er,npany, New York City
h. WV Truitt, Lincoln City
[Eierl, s44 ,49l.
Lntt No. 1861, Edgemoor Un-
4 and Roadways. Vincent
4 townsend, 1854; Koylr
[~rtiop Co., Trenton, n. J..
n Svssr Jones Co., Dover
klg, ]. A. Bader & Company
[.tn. llow bidder), S34,345.-
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I'll 1900 Fl, Bituminous
has. R. Roberts, st
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BE on clearing and grubb-
Paving & Construction
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British Fire Protection

So completely is a British pas
senger steamship protected against
fire that each cabin contains a ther-
mostat to signal a warning to the
bridge when the temperature rises
danGernCr'v
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washington Intelligent State

Intelligence In Washington state
Is supposed to be the highest in the
nation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-10-26
PERSONALITIES
BY Nellie DOdsOn

Well, girls, Auntie Personalities
is going down to Iowa to have
look at the much-raved-about Iowa
Clark Gables. And they had bet
ter be good, too! Yowsah! If
those men are one-half as hot-cha
as they're supposed to be, Auntie
may stay down there. And Vow
sab again!
ARNIE WALKER, who is presi-
dent of the Nebraska ALPHA PHI
ALPHA chapter, sent word down
that he was on his way, and for
them to open the Alpha house wide
for him. Seeing he is a big
shot, suppose they will do it, too.
Every available nook and Granny
is taken up down there, so some
body, or a lot of somebody's are
going to have to sleep on the run
ming boards of gasoline buggies.
OZZIE SIMMONS writes that he
is expecting to be half-wrecked in
the Saturday game, so he's enjoy
ing life, and studying his lessons
like good boy. / don't want to
see him wrecked, but l hope Mime
sofa wins, which they probably
will.
Talk about being wrecked and
think of the Pittsburgh outfit.
What Minnesota did to them in the
second half was a catastrophe.
BEVAN smacked some of those
fellows so hard, they're still
groggy. And some one smacked
JULIE ALPHONSE so hard that
he was hearing brides sing when
he carried the ball over for that
touchdown. In fact there was pull
enty smacking all the way around.
Well, WILLIS WARD was kept
on the bench in the Georgia Tech
Michigan fracas. And Georgia
Tech showed how appreciative they
were by keeping one of their stars
on the bench. Phooey. Anyhow,
it might be just as we'll Ward
didn't play, because those Gawgia
boys would probably have tried to
murder him, and star would have
been lost.
Girls, ] promise l will bring you
back full report on the Iowa stu
alton, so sit tight It'll next week.
Yours, in hurry-Auntie.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-10-26
SEVENTH ANNUAL DANCE OF
THE CREDJAFAWN SOCIAL
CLUB

Each year since its organization,
the Credjafawn Social Club has en-
tertained it's friends at an annual
dance. This year the affair will
be held at Halle @. Brown House,
st. Paul, on Halloween, Wednes-
day, October 81. Music will be
furnished by one of the leading
young orchestras of the Twin
Cities, Babe Salter's Creolians;
dancing will begin at P. M. The
Credjafawn officers urge you to
come early and stay late and be
safe from the spooks and witches
that will be providing about that
night.
Every effort is being made to
assure the patrons of having a
good time with the Credjafawns.
Admission will be 35 cents, so plan
now to make the Credjafawn Dance
at Halle Q. Brown your Hal
lowe'en entertainment.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-10-26
SPORTS
By Reginald Harris

We wish apologize the appearing
last week concerning the site of the Rondo Merchants 1t
originally given Highland Park last Sunday afternoon but to
change schedule the Dunnng field
played last Tuesday The remaining include: Sunday
Oct EMBA Dunning field Tuesday, 3d.
Clark at Highland Park Might Game).
NOTE
Because of the crowded condition the paper will
sign off this rather abruptly. you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04
Parks PlavOf
 Seems Assured

The Wilson A. c. nine defeated St Stanislaus, 16-1. in a one-sided tilt played at Fulton Park Sunday afternoon. The game. was the on- ly contest scheduled in the Public Parks League. There is now possibility that the present second round will finish with four teams deadlocked for first place. This situation will require playoff for the division title and another for the league championship when the winners of the division is decided. The Raymond Hillies have yet to meet the c. and c. Juniors and the Wilson A. c. hines, both of whom can be in the running should they emerge with win. The Hillies are listed to face the Wilson's at Fulton Park Wednesday night at 6:00 o'clock, and the c. and c. Jun iors Thursday night at the same time and place. The league meeting, usually held on Tuesday evenings has been postponed until tomorrow night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04
R HARRY CRIMSON

When he can't beat 'em, he hires em.
 The Chicago Prima Beer team hit St Louis boosting a string of 163 shutouts, and it's being scored upon in each contest created con. siderable excitement. And when a softly named Hap Eddens strode to the plate with the bases bulging, and slapped a triple off the great Ruppert, 1t practically amounted to a riot. Three runs off the Rup- pert of many no-hit, no-run rec ords! Wow!
 The Chicago Prima Beers man. aged to score twice to tie the score in the ninth inning, and win in the twelfth, but l tell you 1t was q close shave.
 Ruppert is as generous as he is versatile, according to newspaper accounts, which, by the way, were as complete as those of games played by the Cardinals. Either that or he losses somebody else's baseball around.
 Debating Society, Too
 "Ruppert instituted a practice that may prove costly to soft ball promoters in St Louis," recount ed one reporter. He threw three dozen balls into the stands before the first game started. After 1t got under way every time ball was hit into the stands a fan kept 1t. Five dozen balls were used in nine innings"
 I suspect that one of the req sons for the increased popularity of soft ball as spectacle was brought out in 8 resume of the contests.
 After seeing three representa- tive teams play, the outstanding feature of a soft ball game ap- pears to be debating" typed the observer. "The players argue with the umpires, with their op- ponents. with the fans, and even with themselves. Several times during the series there threatened to be fights, but never were any blows struck. The final shot wasn't fired until midnight" Baseball has been taken too far | away from the customers, and could stand little of this aggres- siveness.
 To date. my experience with soft ball has been limited to glimpses of it on playgrounds. But I see where I'm going for it with more zest, particularly if I ever catch up with that man Ruppert.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04

i. All players must qualify by playing eighteen (18) holes medal play at the Waterbury Municipal Golf course any day from Sept. to 6. inclusive. Any amateur golf CT who is a resident of Waterbury is eligible to play.
 2. Players must get their spe- cial qualifying score cards from the official in charge before start ing and state their intention of qualifying at that time. No score will be accepted from any player who does not observe this rule. and the first eighteen consecutive holes scored on the same card will be the only ones counted.
 3. Each player must turn in his card with his name, address and telephone number plainly marked thereon and the card mutt be attested by a player or players who accompanied him. No player can qualify without an accom- panying player.
 (. Tn the qualifying round all putts must be holed. No butts can be conceded. Violation of this rule automatically disquaiifies a player or anyone who signs or attests his score.
 6. Tn the qualifying round players must require an op. ponent's ball that is in the line of play on the green, or in possible danger of being hit, to be lifted. Otherwise. for ball hit a penalty of one stroke must be taken.
 6. Any rules printed on the special qualifying score cards. or officially posted ground rules which govern play at the course will he in force. Otherwiae play will he governed by the regula. tions of the United States Golf as. socIation. including the use of the l ss4 reeuIatien ball.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04
BATTALIN0 AND
 FELDMAN CLASH . FRIDAY NIGHT


 New Haven, Sept 4-Bat Batta- limo, former featherweight cham pion of the world, of Hartford, re- turns to ring warfare at the White City Stadium as a junior welter- weight contender on Friday night. against Lew Feldman. New York Hebrew. in the feature attraction of Matchmaker Al Weill's all-star professional fight card. It marks Bats second venture since his re- turn from South America in the prize ring, his first being the meet ing with Jackie Davis in Hartford about a month ago. The rugged Italian of the Capital City decision ed Davis in 10 rounds.
 After Battalino had relinquished his featherweight crown, he re- tired from ring activities for a period of a. year but financial need and a strong desire to return to the fold prompted him to seek his fortune in the South American prize rings. His record reveals that in his three battles in the country, below, he won all three, two of which were by knockouts.
 Feldman and Battalino were scheduled to meet in Madison Square Garden in New York over a year ago, but the colorful Hart ford scrapper failed to come with in the 126-pound weight limit and for this reason the bout was not allowed by the Gotham boxing commission. Battalino was forced to give up his featherweight crown.
 The New York Hebrew is con- sidered one of the foremost light weights in the world and is a strong contender for the world title., Feldman lost close deci- sion to Kid Chocolate. the Cuban bon bon, at the time he held the featherweight title of the world. Among some of the outstanding members of the class defeated by Teldman are Johnny Pena, Tom my Paul. Pete DeGrasse and Jim- my Slavin. To date he has had over so fights of which he only lost IS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04
GRANT BRILLIANT
 IN TEAM PLAY AT
 TORRINCTON CLUB
Wethersfield Star Cuts Four Strokes From Par;
 New Haven Second

Torrington, Conn, September 4 - (UP) - Bobby Grant clipped four strokes off par to lead the Wetehrsfield Country Club Golf team to a decisive victory over 13 state club teams in holiday tour nament here yesterday.
 New Haven Municipal with 47S points, led the morning round but succumbed in the afternoon play off 13 to 5 to the Grant players. Grant, who won medalist honors in the morning with 73 turned in card of 6S in the afternoon.
 Charley Clare, Waterbury, and Bruno Pardee, New Haven, fin- ished second and third respectively in medal play after playoff against Arthur Gedney, New Ha- ven, and Frank Paul, Naugatuck. Each had scored 77.
 Team scores in the morning round were: New Haven, 378; Wethersfield.. 4S3; Naugatuck, 496; Torrington. 496; Bridgeport, 497; Meriden, 507; Hartford, 509; Edge wood, 515; Watertown. 551; West Hartford, 559; Washington, 561: Chippanee. 563; Pequabuck, 566. and New Britain, incomplete card.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04

St Louis - Matt Ruppert is said to earn about $S0,o0o annually as the Walter Johnson of soft ball.
 As matter of fact, Ruppert might be called both the Walter Johnson and Carl Hubbell of the playground game, with a little bit of Charley Gehringer thrown in.
 They tell me he has pitched suc- cessive games, throwing the 12 or 14-inch sphere with his right arm in the first, and with his left in the second. And he plays second base when he isn't handcuffing the op- position.
 Ruppert's Chicago Prima Beer team, recognized as world cham pion, recently drew 11,000 paid ad- missions in two consecutive nights of play against all-star arrays in St Louis. This gives one an idea of to what extent the old estab- lished game of kitten, or diamond ball, has caught on as a gate at- traction. It also makes 1t easy to see where the ambidextrous Rup- pert gets his revenue.
 must hasten to see Ruppert, Leo F. Coutt, of the American Soft Ball association, of which George Harold Sisler is president, informs me that Matt has lost only one game since 1905.
 Walter Johnson pitched for Washington for 21 years, the ubi- quitous John Picus Quinn stuck around for 22 campaigns, and Jack Britton has a more remarkable record than either. Britton fought for 25 years. But, surely, even a Ruppert. in a game that sounds as soft as soft ball, cannot hang on much longer.
 Wuxtra! Score on Ruppert Speaking of the second game in St Louis, Coutt relates a couple of more interesting facts about Rup- pert.
 "It was only the second time in Rupperts entire career that he weakened" explains Coutt, "the first time since he lost to a pitch- CT named Pecnick at Kenosha, Wis"
 Pecnick is a member of the Prima Beers.
 Plainly. Ruppert possesses som ething more than strong arms,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-04
GIRL TOREAD0R
 OF 1912 LIVES IN CONNECTICUT
By WILLIAM D. CLARK United Press Staff COrrcspOndent

South Lyme, Conn (UP)- Twenty-two years is only yesterday to Tillie Baldwin, former world famous champion trick rider, relay racer, equestrienne extraordinary and the only woman ever to toss a bull with her bare hands.
 Tillie, now living in retirement at her ranch home here, marched in her last parade with the now disbanded 101 Ranch in 1912. Be- hind her bespangled figure rode Joe Lewis, noted circus clown, and Dan Dix, another clown astride Old Virgil, who already has lived far beyond his allotted years.
 Tillie brushed past the aston ished man and into the clowns tent where Lewis was hurrying on his makeup for the show. He seemed irritated as she stood star ing at him.
 You don't know me. Joe Lew is s?" she asked. T must have grown old"
 Nope" snapped Lewis. Seems though if I remember that blonde hair"
 It was one of the few times he ever had seen her attired in fem- mine clothing.
 Have you forgotten all the bum prone riders in the old i0i?" she asked.
 "Tiliie Baldwin," he exclaimed as 22 years rolled away in the light Of recognition. He pumped her hands. slapped her on the back and forgot the show"
 They reminisced. old Virgil was led in to receive a few affectionate pats. Few of the old timers were left. Once famous throughout the world, they either had died, or rec tired and were forgotten.
 Tiilie Baldwin was Anna Math- Ida Winger when she ran away from home in Norway as a little girl. Later she met Will Rogers, became the most famous woman rider in the world. won all the rodeos in the United States and Canada and then joined up with Fred Stone. 10 manage his Con. necficuf ranch. She still rides every day and her home ks adorned with silver-mounted saddles. som- bI1r0s and souvenirs of her circus riding days. in private life she is known as Mrs William C. Slate.