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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
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"We only been here two months but we're purity near settled now," Price told me with real pride. He had came originally from Ken lucky, but for number of years had been farming in Lawrence county. Poor crops and low prices had finally put him on the relief rolls.
 "Looks like we'd make out here fine," he went on. ''The house'll cost us $1,150, and by the time we get the farm equipped and every thing going we'll owe the govern ment around $2,500. We don't have to pay anything for three or four years, and then we get 25 years to settle up. We can do it easy. We'll grow everything we eat right here, and we should have ten bales of cotton and sell eggs and chickens and some hogs. We've already got a community canning factory where we can put up all our own vege- tables, and sell some besides. And we're going to have community shop to make mountaineer furni- ture and things like that. We'll pay the government around $150 a year, and most of the rest will be clear"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
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visited a half dozen other homes and heard the same tale of high hope and promise. No pion- eers of old ever embarked on a search for the Golden Fleece of the good life and freedom with more earnest enthusiasm than these broken homesteaders of the Dyess Colony. Each day brings new fam flies to the settlement in 1885 cov- cred wagons. In these government trucks they are hauled in from every corner of the state. Most of them are so poor that they have nothing but little household fur niture and possibly a single COW and a few chickens. They have been carefully chosen by case workers in the different county re- lief agencies. They are all inno- cent victims of a system over which they had no control.
 Howard Eichenbaum, who has served as architect for all the com- munity buildings and homes and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

RECAUSE Gen. Edward Brad : D dock, commanding the British! forces against the French and Indians holding Ft. Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, Pa., failed to heed the advice of his subordi- nate, Col. George Washington, the United States today honors the young American as the greatest in its history.
 The British officer scoffed at hiding behind trees, as the In- dians did, and walked his 2000 men into disastrous defeat. in which he also died.
 Upon the loss of General Brad- dock. Washington found himself leader of the British army. This led to his appointment as com- mander of the British forces in Virginia and then as head of the revolutionary army.
 On July g, 1880, the U. S. is- sued a stamp commemorating the. Battle of Braddock's Field, show ing Washington in the uniform of British colonel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
.ABC ENGINEERS
 METALEXPOSITION
Welding Demonstration to Be Staged at Chicago
 By Engineer Swift

Exhibits of "Made-in- Water bury' products of the American Brass company will be displayed at the National Metal Exposition of the firm at the Chicago Amphi- theater, September 30th to october 4th. The central feature of the display will be welding booth, where c. E. Swift of this city, welding engineer, will give demon strations of gas, and Thigh volt age" arc welding. In connection with the latter the American Brass company is a pioneer in the work.
 The arc welding will be with samples of copper, brass and bronze, using Anaconda Phosphor Bronze ID" welding rods. The oxy-acetylene welding will be with Tobin bronze rods.
 In addition to the operating sec- tion of the exhibit, there will be displays of welded Everdur tanks; cast iron parts, repair welded with Tobin bronze; and a complete dis play of Anaconda welding rods.
 Those in attendance will include c. p. Swift, w. E. Swift, w. C.. Wallis, N. Brantberg and W. H. Dowd.
 Tnrkev has a nlartie of crows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
GIRLS HOLD MEET
 AT CROSBY HIGH
Swimming Contests Ar- ranged by Waterbury
 Girls Club-ReSults

Several groups of girls took part yesterday in swimming meet ar- ranged by the Waterbury Girls club and held at the Crosby high school. The results were as fol- lows:
 Cork relay: Group first, Dor othy Sullivan; second, Rosemary Hayden; third, Florence Jenu- saitis.
 Group 3--First, Elaine Hemin- way; second, Connie Lucas; third, Rosalie Mckee. +
 Balloon race: Group 4-First, Barbara Carlyn; second, Betty Donahue; third, Rosemary Hay den.
 Group 3-First, Elbaine Hemin- way; second, Doris Day; third, Gloria CarWody.
 Group 2-First, Marie Hansan; second, Catherine Duer; third, Helen Tchakirides.
 Group First, Helen Sullivan, second, Claire Wrenn; third, Maureen Delaney. Lighted Candles: Group 4, first, Dorothy Sullivan, second, Peggy Donahue, third, Barbara Carylin. Group 3-Ffrst, Connie Lucas, second, Frances Kelly, third. Rosaline Mckee. Duck relay, Group 2-First, Marie Hanson, second, Catherine Duer; third, Helen Tchakirides; fourth, Mildred Riccuitti. Group First, Maureen De- laney, second, Claire Wrenn. third, Phyllis Shea, fourth, Helen sulli- van.
 Girls who swan 40 yards are Florence Jenusaitis, Ellen Hyland, Peggy O'Connor, Monica Delaney, Marie Pronovost; 30 0 yards, Eleanor Brady and Rosemary Hay den
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

been in on the development since its inception, showed me about the 20,000-acre project. It was start ed in March, 1884, he explained, when w. R. Dyess, State Relief Ad- ministrator, and successful business man and planter in his own right, sold the idea of a great experiment tai project of small homesteads for rural southern workers to Harry L. Hopkins. The vast tract of delta cut-over land was purchased at around $2.50 an acre; six portable sawmills were installed and road machinery brought in. Actual work on home building was started on Friday, July 18th, of last year.
 TO date there are 250 homes completed, out of total of 700 that are planned. Fifteen miles of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
In between times.

In between times. .. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pulaski or this city won the husband and wife at the first annual carnival of St. Teresa's church, Long Hil last Sunday afternoon If the kind friend of Billy Joyce will re- veal his her identity information in epistle on the Tower spindle can be used. No names, no prlntee
 Frank Graham in his New York Sun sports column Mon-
 day night recalled to Waterbury boxing fans the heyday of Joe Shugrue Graham remniscng about the hrst appearance of Benny Leonard at Browns old gymnasium in New York where Shugrue in his prime knocked out Leonard just beginner in two rounds. Graham puts it this way "Introducng-" bawed the announcer, sintroducing Benny Leonard who meets Joe Shugrue here next Tuesday night" Out of the blackness just beyond you a voice bawled: Good night Benny?'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
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It will all take a trying amount of patience and intelligent leader ship. But one of the things that have discovered in this rambling over America is that we have tens of thousands of fine and experi- enced men and women who are ready and waiting to throw them- selves into the mighty task of the rehabilitation of our country. They want only the chance.
 When you leave Dyess Colony and drive southward you soon get into the country of old-time plan- tations, weighed down and handi- capped by a vicious system for which the owners are personally no more to blame than the abused share-cropper himself.
 Here in this homestead project may be the answer that will not only be fair for all but will help build a new and beautiful south land.
 TOMORROW: What the South thinks of Huey Long.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT AS SYMBOL NEW MAKING

The reaction to a great soc cial experiment of those per- sons most directly affected by it is described below by Frazier Hunt after a visit to the Dyess Colony in Arkan- sas. This is the ninth of twelve articles which Hunt, who travelled from coast to cost to sound out popular sentiment on public questions, has written for The Waterbury Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
Settlers Village Itemettes

Neat and attractive decOra. tions were installed in the two Scottish rooms in the eLan-to house today by the committee including, Mrs. Margaret Me- Evoy, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd, Mrs. Jenny Gardner and Mrs. Marion German. The Scottish rooms will be in tip top shape for the dedication Sum day afternoon at 2 o'clock. There'll be bagpipe music m everything.
 Two pretty little girls in native costume served as the reception committee at the Lithuanian cottage today. They were Miss Alice Staselunas and Miss Lillian Pukinskis. They lent much color to the exhibit with their green, yell low and red dresses.
 Among the man yintercst. ing exhibits in the Lithuanian cottage are hand-knitted gloves and bed spreads, and a gen. uine Mirta potted plant from Iithuania. Considerable inc terest is also manifested in the manglcs used by housewives in the homeland in beating soilcd clothes clean on wash- day.
 Attention of visitors to the industrial exposition is cen- tered on the pure nickel sheet display. It takes four thick nesses of this nickel sheeung (.0O8) to equal the thickness of human hair.
 Another display in the Town Hall that is exceptionally in- teresting is a roll of copper tubing (seamless) drawn in one length of 625 feet. No other plant in the world has facilities for manufacturing tubing exceeding this record. The tubing in question was made in one of the local plants, supplying another reason why Waterbury has something on everybody.
 The evolution of batteries is clearly portrayed at the in- dustrial exposition. One dis play shows the Waterbury batteries used by Commander Rici-hrd F. Byrd on his Antarctic expeditions. An other reveals the type of bat teries used to operate railroad signals from coast to coast, and from Canada to Panama on the American continent, as we'll as the continents of South America, Europe. Asia. Africa and Australia.
 Visitors at the Pennington house on the Colonial side or the historic settlement spend hours watching Mrs. Mary Rakiclxas operate an old weaving machine. Mrs. Rakiclkas started t0 weave ii' Lithuanla at the age of f4. She came to America 24 years ago. She actually manufactures articles while demonstrating shc ancient exhibit in the Farmington house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

cleared ana in crops. It is an inspiring exam pie of what imagination and work, coupled W i t h govern ment backing, can really do.
 T h 1 8 Dyess Colony lies only @ f e W miles from the heart of the share croppers war in north . eastern Arkansas. But it is separated as far in dist ance and time and thought as AL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
BY FRAZIER HUNT

Copyright 1885, NEA Service, Inc.
 A little over year ago it was an abandoned tract of swampy marsh land and cut-over cypress forests. Today it is a thrilling col ony of 250 bright, modern little homes with some 1,500 acres
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

Homesteads in West Virginia are separated from the coal mining hell in Scott's Run.
 sat in the living room of House No. 211 and chatted for an hour and more with Bennett Price and his wife and mother-in-law. It was a neat five-room house, wired for electric lights, with bathroom and modern conveniences. With the house went 30 acres of land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

structed outside the attractive French cottage. Another oven and a fireplace are to be found inside. The roof and trim of the cottage has been painted a French blue. The cottage is stuccoed with blinds on each window. Dedicatory exercises will be held at the Branch exhibit Sunday after. noon at 3:30 o'clock.
 Mrs. Laura Jones, % years old, of New York city, posed today for photographers talk ing pictures of the Pearl Street O. m m u nity Civic Leagues exhibit in the Lean. to house. Alexander F. Davis, a cousin of Mrs., Jones, living at 198 Bishop street, this city, posed with her. The scene portrayed, represented two old cOlOred people sitting before the open fireplace, ono knit ting and the other reading.
 The mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of the gay old stork from the nest atop the Lithuanian cottage was cleared today when Alder man John Bender reluctant ly confessed' the bird had been returned to Engelman's Baby Shop on South Main street. It had been borrowed for the dedication last Satur- day. Mr.. Bendler promised, however, that another stork would be forthcoming soon to occupy the. nest.
 The furnishings and decor atiOns for the Irish cottage be. gan to arrive today. Souvenirs of every description =, all from the Emerald Isle-will be on display. The Irish cot tagc will be dedicated Satur- day afternoon at 2:3O o'clock. A record breaking attendance is expected. The program for dedication will be announced soon.
 The committee in charge of the creation of the "Casa Italiano," or Italian house, is well satisfied with the work accomplished to date and will adhere to September list, as the dedicatory date. Huge cement olive oil and wine making apparatus is being in- stalled in the cellar of this par ticular cottage and should prove to be extremely inter- esting to prospective visitors.
 The Polish cottage continues to draw considerable attention with its many authentic and attractive exhibits.
 The frame work of the Ger man and Russian cottages are both coming along fast and these exhibits will be ready for dedicntlon within tho near future. The German-Ameri- cans have selected August 2bth for their exercises at Settlers Village. The Russian committee will set date soon for the dedication of their cottage '-f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

Star gazing. Marge Doavling, comedy sheriffs' office steno dropping plenty o onecenters from Play iand, Rye Beach, N r., achere she is stopping tor few days. Georgie Luddy BM Johnson and I'd Curley Jr,, aoiN give the folks on Washington HiN something to talk about avhem they spin around ln thei "72" Chevvie mert a0eek Leutenant BiU Pollard of the detective bureau IS Spoffard Lake-ing in NeW Hampshire for few aOeeks and recommends the spot Gs ideal vacatiom resort. George Graham, one ot the finest ularound athletes developed at Thomaston high aviu soon middeaiset to place the ring on the finger of pretty Vera Gaunt of fair toa0n Sam Baumel IS back in toaOn after long soomn to sunny Florida.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

graveled roads have been built and AS miles of right-of-way cleared ; 40 miles of road-draining ditches finished. The three-room houses have averaged $S90; the four-room homes SLOTS, and the five-room homes $1,150. The barns average $100. All the houses are equipped with bathtub, toilet and lavatory and are wired for electricity. It is hoped the central plant will be built from funds allotted by the Rural Electrification Program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

It's small world after all. One never knows whom he will contact in his travels Last Friday, party made up of Ed Fitzgerald Exchange Place haberdasher, Jim Hennessy Cunningham cigar salesman Pat Winters. Miller and Peck counterman, and Bill Gerard onsorial expert Infested to New York where decided to make tour of inspection of the steamship Europa which docked the preceding day. Due to the recent Nazl con did manage to walk up the gangplank of the envabe Rex docked at 18th Street strappng young Italian steward was our guide. Learning from the Brass City our guide introduced himself. T am John Pitorri of Genoa Italy but born in Waterbury at $40 Bank street." What thrill John told his father the late Peter Porr worked for years with Frank Pepe local producer Johns first trip to this country aboard the Rex he had just signed up with the Italian Line after three years stewardng aboard the Conte Grande Pitorr then made feel at home and took us through the entire vessel explaining everything in detail much to delight and amazement It was great trip and one we will always remember.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

It's great to see local youngsters take hkng to art avork aud tue ke Yesterday afternoon ta0o yong- sters paid the Toaoer vist and erhbited shoo crat taken from photograph of the Itaan ruler It came from the pen aud efforts o Jerry Base Crosby soph- onaore and beleve it acas neat accomp.sh"'ent; Jerry has done considerable cork along these es ana seems headed for bright future and knoacs the game from to 2. His compano Dante Deleppo of 20 Rose street also quite competent avitk the pen so be tes Dante contemplates entering Crosby % Septeoer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
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The homesteads are in 20, 30 and
 40-acre plots, according to the quail ity of the land and the size and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

Dots and more dots |. Marty Sweeney of the department are their way Old Orchard Me- for two weeks We hope to tune in of their woppers on their return. Christine Kelly Danbury Normal School undergrad who teaching all kinds of dance steps to youthful daily habues of Hamilton Park playground plans to present her proeges in outdoor minstrel Tn the not-so-distant future Frances Bryke is counting the days before her annual vacation and this year Frances has selected Old Orchard Me- which is getting big play from Waterburans this year. David Else good Appleton son of Rev. Floyd Appleton rector of St. Paus church in Woodbury dropped in yesterday to in-
 form he has been named Woodbury correspondent for the Bridgeport Times-Star Dave is Taft school grad and spends his leisure moments Shakespearean-ly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
WORM SCARE FATAL TO BIRD

Charleston, W. Va. (UP)-Harry l.. Snyder, of Charlston. owned parrot who ''couldn't take it." One warm night Snyder decided to let the 3e-year- bird out of its cage for q frollc on the font lawn. The parrot dug up an over-sized fishing worm andN was 70 startled that it died e few minutes later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
Good Evening.
SMOKE FASHIONS
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

OMOhE IAOAAAOANO (Or Cigarette Ads Point tue Wdy) There was girl in our town And her style really wasn't bad; When asked where she got her ideas, She replied-from cigaret ad. Neat, natty, she's turned out, Whether for beach or tea; Her bathing costume the last word, Her chiffons lovely to see. For sports, just lamp her hat, Her tweed coat suggests an English cut; Her travelling rig is cool though dark, She looks very high-priced, but She does her dressmaking all herself, She's up on each new fad; Ask her where she gets her style, And she replies-from cigarette ad.
 Elm Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
COSTIGAN ORDERED
 TO PINE CAMP, N. Y.

Two Waterbury officers are among the nine Connecticut re- serve officers ordered to active duty with the regular army or national guard units for the first army maneuvers to be held at Pine Camp, N. r.. the last two weeks in August. Capt. Joseph P. Costigan. Makes, has been assigned to the 18th Medical Regiment. Ordered to duty on an inactive status Is Lieut.. Joseph vanderma. Makes, who is also attached to the 18th Medical Regiment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07
AnslUers To
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Below are the answers to test questions printed on
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

Tinely topics . '. ]. The Fulton Park greenhouse is rapidIy being dsmanted Every pane 0f glass in the structure fronting Cooke street has been renaoOed PIants aOere taken out a0eeks ago. Lobster b1ous those fGniGr a000den objects that bob around the Sound Vherever the lobstermGn has crat are not pointed those vvid Gnd distnctve colors to cntc the fisherans eye bat that he cGn tell 0here his 0aCR line Of pots Each man uses different t0Ior or combination 0f colors Cedar Lake in Bristol is dttractimg more and WaterbwGns summer rcsos They have speedboats tearing around the oe 3,osc Dominic aud Tony Mecca n'Gestros of the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

4 stone oven 'Is beIng eon-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

Turkey has 2 plague of crows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

TOMORROW: What the South thinks of Huey Long.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-07

The Polish cottage continues to draw considerable attention with its many authentic and attractive exhibits.
The Washington times., 1935-11-11

Army Horsemen
Vie in Show

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE
National Horse Show DOTTED its
top hat, spilled its blue blood,
and continued before en almost
100 per cent bourgeois audience
today.
Entering it's sixth consecutive
day, the exhibition has practically
sated the interests of the Four
Hundred. The trend was noticed
last night, when the show went
forward in the presence OF a
gathering of 10000 persons, most
ly metropolitan wage-earners.
The hit Of the evening was a
riding exhibition by New York's
crack mounted patrolmen, who
earned the crowds applause with
faultless jumping. Mrs. Donald
o. Page, noted New Jersey sports
woman, donated a blue ribbon
to the police horse selected by
the judges.
Two important contests will be
on tonight's program. The five
gated saddle horses will battle
for a $1,000 stake, and Army
officers of six nations will COM
pete for the international indi-
vidual jumping championship.
The U. S. squad won the team
military jumping rivalry.
The Washington times., 1935-11-11
Seventh Game e
Lost by Braves

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-SportS
followers everywhere commiser.
ated today with their frustrated
brothers-under-the-skin, the citt-
zenS of Boston.
Sixteen thousand Back Bay
hopefuls turned out in Fenway
Park yesterday to root the Boston
Redskins of the National ProfeS-
sional Football League into long
awaited victory. But it was not
to be.
Emulating their professional
baseball kin, the Braves, the Red
skins dropped their seventh
straight game to the Chicago
Bears, "a to IA.
At Brooklyn. the Dodgers were
booted out of a tie for first place
in the Eastern division when Pitts,
burgh's Pirates beat them 1877 on
two tuIchdowns and a field goal,
Out in Green Bay, Wis. the
Packers continued to show the
way to the Western division by
routing Detroit's Lions, 81 to Z.
mainly on a 21-point forward pass
ing surge in the second quarter.
Another Eastern team took 1t
on the chin in Chicago, where
the Cardinals pasted the Philadel-
phia Eagles, IL to 3 on a two
touchdown rally in the last min
uteS of the game.