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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-09
A Daily Story.
 Real Life

At ten-thirty she dropped weari- 1v into bed, too sick at heart tc wonder what was to become of her. She fell asleep. Without the aid of,Mleeping powdcrl
 Simon had to shake her to awak- en her. He called her name, over g Suddenly her eyes opened; she sat bolt upright, then dropped back onto the pillow. Her large eyes filled with tears. "Oh, Si, where have you been? I dreamed"
 simon leaned over her. She. touched his face with one bn-
 "stcp dreaming, honey" he laughed. Come to! It's three A. M. and I've got, our check! The show went off swell Boy! That guy sure throws a mean party. Moneys just mud to that bird And they're going to build the Caslno!"
 Before Doris unbelIeving eyes he held the check. sSix hundred dollarsl She squeezed her eyes together and looked again.
 "OH, DARLING, YOU'RE
 WONDERFULLY
 "Oh, darling, you're wonderful! How on earth did you do 1t? What flowers did you use? Is that your check 2"
 He cupped her face in his hands and grinned at her. "It's ours. And didn't have to go to Switzerland to find something these gents wouldn't recognize, either. Had 'em guessing, and 1t didn't cost me very much"
 "But what" Doris begged.
 Well" he explained soberly. '9 tried to think of something city people wouldn't have a speaking acquaintance with, so l went to Birdvillet and bought a load or early potato blossoms from Seth Turner. They were pretty, too. Sort of cream colored, and the leaves are lovely--if you get 'em young."
 "Oh, si, you didn't You couldn't she laughed. "Sure l could" he went on, smoothing the check. T gave 'em what they wanted, didn't I? Some- thing different" Doris buried her face in his shoulder. He was afraid she was going to cry again
 "You're marvellous, honey ... And to think l called you simple v
 "That's all right, Doris. That's what made me think of potato blos- soms. If you hadn't, old Simple Simon might have gone on - well, we wouldn't be the owners of liar. Dor Views best flower shop, any, way :"
 Soiemnly he handed the check to her, Let's celebrate. I'm hungry! How about having sandwich?" | Doris remembered the supper she had forgotten to eat. She leaped out of bed.
 I'm starving ... Kiss me, Simon Burke!"
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/"T don't care If you cover the table with daisies! You're just as simple as your name, simon Burke. I'll never try to help again"
 Please Don't!' Si called after her as she stalked from the room.
 They went to sleep with a stony, Goodnight" The first In their two years together. Doris wakened on Saturday morning with 6 start - and reached Simon.
 But Simon was not there. Nor was he to be found anywhere in the little flat.
 Where was he? Suppose she had driven him to some desperate end ? What if she had destroyed him with her greedy ambition? She had heard of women like that ].
 She called the hotel. And was
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banquet table. It was too late to back down now. Perhaps she had better collect all the flowers in both shops and tako them to the hotel herself. But they had nothing unusual nothing at which city people would glance twice!
 She spent the afternoon in the new shop, waiting on customers. She learned that people in Harbor View did buy flowers If your shop was on Main Street! It was thrilling, and the town was in q festive mood. The goings-on at the hotel meant Q great deal to the natives.
 Somewhere Doris got through the day; forgot to eat supper. Her mind was filled with simon. His whereabo His safety
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SIMPLE SIMON

told that, the guests had arrived by private car, that the management was delighted with the decorations thus far, and that work had not yet been started on the dining room.
 She hung up with 0 sinking heart. SI had probably gone off somewhere and killed himself Leaving her to life of remorse. She ran to the shed, which served as garage. But their rickety old car was not there Where = oh where could Simon be?
 Somebody had to decorate that
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By MAUDE WILLIAMSON

nORIS crying. It the first time Si had her cry the two years they had been married She looked like little girl than sumped in the swivel chair before his old desk.
 From the open door into the greenhouse came moist earthy smell of growing plants Artificial funeral pieces, potted begonas bolts of unused ule stared at Simon this shop that had been his Rrandfather's
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"I'm sorry, honey. wish I had the money to buy Jm Cross out. but we haven't. And that's that"
 That's always thaty Doris sniff fled. "All you need is little nerve, and you'd be the leading florist in town. The rest would be easy"
 Listen, Doris. Where could l get five hundred dollars as Q first payment?"
 She hooked her hair behind her ears, wiped her eyes and gulped. You'll laugh at my idea" simon chuckled. I'd like to hear something that could m ake me laugh. Shoot"
 well Jim Cross is the only other florist in Harbor View, isn't he? And when the Hotels open, he gets all their business, doesn't he?"
 "Sure-with that dandy store on Main Street. But" "All right. They're opening the Hotel this weekend for a private | party of New York capitalists. I 1 heard all about it from Charlie Burns, in the drugstore. Charlie knows everything! The man who's S giving the party calls himself an cntreprcneur, and If he can sell the | idea to these rich men, he's going to build 9 Casino here that will make Harbor View a real resort, Charlie says people will even come here in winter z. !. See?"
 See what?"
 "I knew you'd laugh" Doris snapped.
 Jim Cross has to get out of town tonight, doesn't he?"
 "J'll say he does," Simon agreed. "Old man Timmons has seen to thatw
 Everybody in Harbor View knew about old man Timmons and his. twenty younger wife, who had developed sudden passion for flowers. Jim Cross' flowers
 "All right" Doris went on ex- citedly, then call Jim Cross right away and tell him you'll accept his offer, and that you'll send the five hundred next week. He'll agree"
 SIMON LOOKED OUT THE
 WINDOW
 Simon looked out the window; scratched his head. Sure, he'll agree. But l won't have five hun dred dollars next week-any more than l have now.r
 You'll have 1t by Sunday-if he leaves town and you get that week. end business. There's never been anything like 1t before in this town. Charley said the man was going to spend thousands of dol lurg
 Simon said. "Yeah, l betw
 He strolled across the dim shop, touched the frond of q fern. Lis ten, Doris. Even if I got the or der, we couldn't hope to make over fifty or sixty dollars profit. I'd have Jim Cross place on my hands -. and be a laughing stock"
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Whatever sugs estion either he or Doris put forth was promptly rejected by the other.
 Simon was the first to break
 The seriousness of the situation appalled, him.
 "WHAT THE DEVIL SHALL DO"
 What the devil shall I do? Slip over to Switzerland and corner the edelweiss market? Maybe that would be exclusive enough;" Doris lips quivered. He needn't think he could shout at her {. :.
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The To1Oer goes phlateic for the moment. The first stomp to be issued i 19S4 is to be three-cen issue n celebration of the ercentenary of the foundimg of Maryland. Engravers are moW pre- paring design Uhch WW be loid before Postmaster General Farey for his appro0al very shortly. Mary lund becomes tue second state to have specia stomp issued for ts SOOth amniversary Mo8sachmsetts had one tn 19SO We presume that Connecticut p0U be en- titled to also Uery s0on Our tercentendry p1ns certainly ought to include such stomp.
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The Cast of Characters in
 Simple Simon"

SIMON, . small.town florist with no bank account but resource ful wife.
 DORIS, his wife, who has busi- ness as well as common sense.
 "Not if you're smart!" She pushed the phone toward him. Honestly you won't, Si. Call him now :. It's the chance of life- ,timew
 Poor Simon.
 Hello, Jim," he said into the telephone. i've decided to buy your place, after all. I'll send the first payment next week."
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Editor, Tall Tower Topics It would be difficult to de- terne whether there is drunkenness than dur
 ing prohibition but in any event there is doubt but that
 people addicted the drink habit than prior to the passage the Vostead In those days it to find sefrespecting young congregated where liquor was sold and the presence respectable in such places out of the question This order changed soon after the passage of the prohibition with the result that millions of young people ruined and it will take generation to repair the damage done morals during that period People like discuss this subject because the number of families hit by the abuse of liquor during proh bton so large it would be regarded bad taste to intro citizens do not hesitate to say that it mistake to dis card prohibition. How any man woman can take this stand with facts available to show the mischief done while prohibition was the law of the land is something body can explain? Thousands who favored prohibition when was first mentioned and voted for it in good faith were among the most active in effort to get rid of it, once they what doing but regardless of this 1t
 had and still has it's advocates We'll there other evils that have their voares It from the beginning and it never will be different.-Observer
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Moviegrams.

Movegrams Ernst Lubitsch will direct "The Merry Widow" for M-G-M Wallace Bery and Jackie Cooper are costarred in "Cabby Mademosele" features Alice Brady and Frank Morgan lately starred in When Ladies Meet" and Broadway to Hollywood" Christopher Bean" has been renamed "er Sweetheart for the Marie Dressler is the star Una Merke has been added to the cast of Tt Happened One Day" Lulu Vollmer whose "Sun-Up" rather successful Broadway years back and whose radio sketches of southern mountain life most entertaining is doing scenario work now Clark Gable and Jean Harlow being mentioned for "Chna Seas" which Tay Garnet will direct Demar Watson child actor believes is his lucky number He
 was born in July seventh month"; is the seventh in fam iy of nine actor children is aged has been in seventy pictures played his first role at the of months
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60 PER GENT VOTED ON
 REPEAL

Harrisburg, Pa (UP)-Only 60 per cent of Pennsylvania's voters cast ballots on prohibition repeal, a study of the November election returns revealed to-day. Out U 3,902,278 registered voters in the state, only 2,447,424 persons voted on the prohibition question.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-09

Editor Tau Toa0er Topics The East Farms Com- ,uny Club aOiU sponsor amoher of cts monthly socnls ohch qviu be held m the form of Valentine dance ct the East Fnrms school, February 1G Everybody dt- tendng is sure to enjoy the rhythm of ocal grls' chestra There qo be valemtine getacquaimted damce and prize elimination dance Enclosed yom a0iU find t1Uo tickets and the club members sincerely hope y0M sUiU be nm0ng those present. Cordially yours, Ticket Committee, East Farns Community Club.
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Charles q. Dawes was VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. MOUNT C0LiMA, in Mexico. is the highest active volcano in North America. GER MANY is second Co the C. (. in tho number of telephones. with Dearly 100000 in use.
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Now it can be told.

Now it can be told. Josephus Burnt Hill) Ev- ans Bucko Otherwise known as Chick Errico and mutual friend soourned to New York city over the weekend In fact Monday night and friends of the opponents of the printing trade wondered if the East River had claimed few more victims But mo- was merely an extended visit Now the boys regang acouantances with their first introduction to night club life It happened at the Silver Fox Social Club To the unin
 ated the Silver Fox Social Club First Avenue And according the caow Brass City youths it is of those places where among the singing walters sing bass The boys had First Avenue cocktail at the Silver Club they claim So far they could make out composed of couple of ggers of obasco sauce two or three more ot The first two are mixed rapidly, thrown the foor and then the alcohol drunk quickly Somehow other that has familiar ring to it. Wonder where the boys read it.
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THE END

candlepower calcium flare would have plopped right out onto the
 floor of the building. And water doesn't put them out.
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The Tower acknowledges to-might the klad anVlta- ton Of Eugene Forker of the New York American to attend the opening Of the National Stump Exhibition Ter Center Saturday morning at o'clock. Im additiom Co the Nepo York American the sow is being sponsored by more tham 70 of the leadimg phateic societies of tRe nation Posmaster- General "Jim Farey is going to be om hand for the fesvities Incidentally the sho0 is scheduled to ast a0eek and WW probably bring to- 0ether the grentest collection of samps in the Dord not to mention the most costly.
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Dear Editor: I ans qOrting congratulations Co Su- perintemdemt 0f Streets ThomGs Fleming and his Gide JaD,es McMnhon, 0nd also tue "Gnng' of nnen aho rnanned the fleet 0f plou0hs that 0ored fat fully au last Thursday niOht throu0hoM the city streets aoish Co ndd my apprecidtom of thetr 0ery th0rough ,ooyk m the removGL 0f tue sn0o from our city streets aohich s certainly 0reat credit Co the depar 1nent-An Observer Who Paused Through Erchdn0e Place. (And noe know nH De appreciGted VerD much, Observer after nH he abuse the Street Department bovs have been akinO ts inter from certain crttics The Ed
 Good Night
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TASTES DIFFER
Good Evening.

So0d Evening.
 TASTES DIFFER " Some like sherry; Others like port; Some like chianti, So in short It's very hard
 To agree on wine, Whats one mans choice Is certainly not mine. So each to his likes, Drink and be merry, Whether it's port Or whether it's sherry.
 -Em. En-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
Ocean Worth 371zc Cubic
Yard, Rules Ancient Law

Boston.-The Atlantic ocean is worth
3715 cents a cubic yard, according to
an appraisal contained In the Massa-
chusetts general laws.
The statute reads: 1.-THE amount of
tide water displaced by any structure
below high-water mark shall be
ascertained by the Department Of Pub
lie Works, which shall require the per
sons who cause such displacement to
make compensation thereof by exca-
waiting, under its direction, between
high and low water mark In some part
of the same harbor basin for a guam
tity of water equal to that displaced.
or by paying to the Commonwealth. in
lieu of such excavation. an amount as
sessed by the department, not exceed,
ing 37ls cents cubic yard of water
displaced"
This law dates back to Civil war
days.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
To DIG UP SITE OF
JAMESTOWN COLONY
Hope to Uncover Story of First
Settlement.

WASH .on.-A company of 200
men Of TIC civilian Conservation corps
will be assigned to excavate James
town island. where in 1907 the first
permanent English settlement was
founded In America. The excavation
work will be conducted to uncover the
story. as written in the 300-year-old
foundations erected by 1O5 colOnists
of the settlement. for the official rec
ords of the national park service. Ap-
proyal of the project was announced
by Robert Fechner, director of emer-
gency conservation work.
jamestown island. in Virginia, is a
unit Of the Colonial National monu-
ment. In the party that established
the settlement was Capt. John Smith,
who arrived In the hold of the tiny
vessel In irons but soon was released
to become a leader of the colony and
one of the romantic figures of the Co
lonial days. 1t was few years after
the arrival of the party that John
Rofe married Pocahontas.
After years of tragedy and suffering,
including Indian massacres, famine,
fire and pestilence, Jamestown became
the center of prosperous colony. In
1899, after a vote by the General As
sembly, the seat of government of Vlr-
gipla was moved from jamestown to
Middle Plantation. now Williamsburg.
With the passing of the capital James
town was abandoned and reclaimed by
wilderness #
The Association for the Preservation
Of Virginia Antiquities several years
ago obtained. about twenty acres Of
land on the island where a number of
early American relics were found. Re
Gently the remainderof the island was
purchased by the federal government
for national park purposes.
Plans for surveying the island and
the locating of the foundations Of the
early homes have been made by b.
Floyd Fllckinger, superintendent Of
the Colonial National monument. At
present several sites are being consld-
cred for the camp Of the C. G. c. com
pany, which soon Is to be moved from
Yorktown to jamestown. A level open
space near the bridge connecting the Is
land with the mainland has been chcs-
en- tentatively. Once the camp Is in
stalled 1t is planned to survey the en-,
tire island by dividing It into 100
square foot areas and exploring each
separately, SsaR8a =
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
Crows Act as Squirrel
Dors for This Hunter

Walnut Ridge, Ark.-Crows are
squirrel dogs for c. f. Howerton.
farmer near here.
Howcrton's priced hunting dog. Old
Drive, was killed by rattlesnake
and the farmer didn't look for SPUR
rels until the diminished family meat
supply forced him into the woods.
without Old Drive he was helpless.
Cawing crows attracted his atten-
ton ard he decided to shoot them.
As he approached the crows flew and
three saulrrels scurrled through a big
tree. lie bagged all three squirrels.
He heard more crows and found
them quarrellng with two squirrels
over nuts being stored for winter.
Now whenever Howerton hunts,
crows lead him to his quarry.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
NOTICE

Under the present law the motor
boats used for pleasure are entitled
to a refund from the state gasoline
taxes paid by them. Work boats are
not entitled under the present law
to similar refunds. This discrimiu-
alton against the work bosts does
not seem to me fair particularly
when the owners Of the boats have
nearly all suffered very consider
ably from the depression. There
fore it is my intention to recon-
med to the next General Assembly
Legislation giving the work boats
the same right to a refund for the
gasoline taxes paid by them such
refund amounting to four cents per
gallon.
ALBERT C. RITCHIE
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
Brothers Meet at Fair
First Time in az Year

Chlcago.-For the first time since
the elder OF the two left his Tip
perary (Ireland) home - years ago to
seek his fortune in America, two broth
ers met through a Worlds Fair visit In
Chicago.
The brothers are John J. Holloway
Of Lynn, Mass, and Patrick Holloway,
fifty-seven, late soldier of fortune, who
lives with a sister at 800 South Green
Bay road. Highland Park.
Although John Holloway has visited
Chicago several times before, always
Patrick has been away--with the First
Cavalry IN China. with the Sixth Ccv-
airy in Mexico. with the Rainbow Dl-
vision IN France, But this time when
John stepped of the nas;on bus, an ell
derry gentleman said tn him:
"Are yen John Holloway"
"Sure And you're Patti"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
PREDICTS NEW ICE
AGE FOR AMERICA
Savant Says It Will Come in
10000 Years.

London.-Another Ice age. in which
the polar cap will creep far down into
Europe and North America. is coming
In ten thousand years or so. says Dr.
g. @. Simpson. director of the British
meteorological office.
1t will be followed by warm era
when the semitroplcal conditions, in
which monstrous saurlans splashed un
der giant ferns in what is now the
United States. will return.
DESERVING the rule which he enforces
In his own office. that weather fore
casts must be limited to the next 40
hours. Doctor Simpson told what II
would he like on the earth hundreds
Of thousands of years ahead
He based his prophecies on a the.
DRY Of solar changes which he has late
ly shuwn to be confirmed by the story
of world weather in the period GOV
cred by the last four Ice ages.
Suns Heat Changes.
It is the SUMS heat, he says. that
changes. A complete cycle of change
takes anything from 100000 to 1000
000 years, and the difference in radi.
alton represents range of about 40
per cent.
1--WE are Mt present approaching a
minimum" he said. "and our climate
is cold and dry. All the evidence
points to the conclusion that the earth
will continue to get colder and drier
for a long time yet"
But even after the suns radiation
has begun to Increase ngain, he ex-
planned, Europe would have to 20
through another Ice age before we
once again got really warm weather.
with temperatures from five to ten de
grees higher than they are now and. no
doubt, another influx of seml-tropical
life.
An increase in solar radiation. he
said, would mean that there was more
difference in temperature between the
equator and the poles. There would.
therefore. he stronger winds more
cloud and more rain and snow.
AT first" he explained, 1.-THE in
creased precipitation would result In
greater accumulation of snow. and the
increased cloud would prevent summer
melting The polar Ice caps and the
ice fields on mountains would extend.
spreading into lower ATTITUDES and
down to lower heights"
Warm Period to Follow.
That would bring the next Ice age
to its maximum tens. perhaps hun
dreds Of thousands Of years hence
Then. as the suns radiation further
increased in strength, the ice would
be first checked in Its advance and
finally melted. There would follow
the warmest time Of all, "a warm. wet
interglaclal PERIOD" with half as much
cloud again as there is now.
Next. as the suns radiation began
to decrease in intensity again. the
same sea OF changes would be re-
versed, and after another Ice age we
would drift slowly back to present con
ditions. We should have had two Ice
ages in the course Of the one solar
cycle, while In the tropics there would
have been a single wet period CORE
spending with the wet, Interglacial pc
Rod nearer the poles.
When the next Ice ages are on, the
Atlantic will be much less healthy
place for ships than will the Pacific.
1t will be largely filed up with ice,
because Arctic ice has much greater
tendency at this time to drift down by
that route than into the Pacific.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
Plan 10 Use Dry Ice
for Cooling Airplanes

Calcutta.-A transportation com
pany in India is experimenting with
dry ice, or solid carbon dioxide, as an
agent for cooling alrplanes. If salts
factory results are obtained, planes
travelling across that country will be
air cooled In future. Should expert
ments prove successful travel should
be facilitated between Calcutta and
Bombay. where simmer temperatures
of 115 degrees are considered normal
and ITO degrees Is sometimes ex-
rocdrd
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
Texas Cotton Reduction
Boon TO Dove Hunters

FL Paso. Texas.-The federal gov
ernmenrs cotton acreage reduction
program is helping Texas dove hunt.
ers as well as farmers, according to
reports here.
The reduction plan has increased
the number of doves that will be avail
able for hunters next season.
Acreage taken out Of cotton has
been placed In grain or other food
crops. This will cause doves. attract.
ed by the grain, to remain in the val.
ley regions instead of going elsewhere
for food.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-09-28
Old Flag Found

Manchester. ohlo.-An old Colonial
flag, believed at least one hundred and
fifty years old. was found In the
musty loft of an abandoned log cabin
at tranquility, near here. by Edward
Palmer. The flag contained 10 stars
and 10 bars.