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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-19

Marriage Intentions

The following marriage inten- tions have been filed at the office of the town clerk:
 Morton Walker, 252 Hillside ave- nue, and Marjorie BIick, 26S Will low street.
 James T. Farren, Naugatuck, and Helen E. Griffin, 43 Eastwood avenue.
 Michael Church, 217 Bank St., and Ellen Kenny, 10 Murray St.
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Behind The Lines

bers of the regiment provided the chorus.
 Included on the general com- mittee were: PatrOlman Joseph T. Phelan, chairman, assisted by Ed ward Keenan, Capt. Philip Kelly, Capt. Peter E. Fox, William Dill lon, Patrolman Edmund Cass, Mi chael J. Fallon, Albert Trahan and Lieutenant Bendler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-19

Second row, left to right, Her bert Hoft, Lawrence Fallstrom, Helen Kalita, James Tehan, Rus sell Hansen, Eunice Vancelette, Elsie Ruby, Viola Albino, Florence Rein, Elonise Fox, Elmer Arch ambault, Donald Maher and Ber- nard Coffey.
 Third row, left to right, Clayton Wigglesworth, Joseph Amico, John
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-19

In spite of the wide spread of its front legs, the English bulldog passes its hind legs outside of the front legs when running.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-19

senting the setting for MT. Whalens tumble and injuries which required two weeks of hospital treatment, as well as other medical consideration.
 Perry Graicerstein appeared for the plaintiff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-19

John Milminster, who died in New Zealand at 101, never smoked or drank.
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Keeping Up
Whi!96Seienfe
&SeAo@Sye r4e
Ancient Ruins Are
Found in Utah
Close to Trail
Ceremonial Building and
Many Other Houses
G Science Service.-wNU Service.

Blanding, Utah.-Within 80
yards of a trail over which
Zeke Johnson, custodian of the
Natural Bridges National Mon
ument, Utah, has walked for
more than 20 years, he has dis
covered a ledge full of prehis-
toric houses, including that rare
find, a kiva or ceremonial build
ing with an almost complete
roof and what is apparently the
original ladder for entrance
still in place.
Mr.. Johnson was engaged in re-
pairing the trail between the
Augusta and Caroline bridges-two
of the three natural arches which
the national monument was estab-
1ished to protect-and lunchtime
found him in a narrow canyon in
which there is little sunshine at this
time of the year.
Lucky Find on a Cliff.
Seeing the sun bright and warm
on a cliff about 30 feet above, he
scrambled up to eat his lunch in
the sunshine
Imagine my SURPRISE" he says,
1'when I saw a ledge full of houses,
within 80 yards of the trail over
which l have walked for 20 years.
There is one large kiva with the
roof almost complete and fine lad
der standing in the hatchway with
the small willows still holding the
rungs in place. / could not tell
how many rungs are on the ladder,
because of the debris which the
packrats have piled up around its
base; only 81 feet show between
the top of the pile and the hatch.
Two Well Preserved Houses.
Besides the kiva," Mr.. Johnson
continues, there are two we'll
preserved stone and adobe houses
with no roofs but walls which are
in fine state of preservation. A
small barrel shaped structure
ADULTS against one of the houses.
Six or eight rooms with walls of
fine masonry but partly torn down
also are on the ledge. There is a lot
of broken pottery and faxed stone
lying around. l picked up six ar
row points and several broken
ones"
Mr.. johnson adds that few pits
dug in the ruins indicate that some
one had visited the ledge long
time ago, but that the kiva had not
been touched.
And in effect he says sis my face
red'' not to have discovered these
unusually fine prehistoric ruins long
agol
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-11
Who Discovered America?

EVERY schoolboy il told that
~ Christopher Columbus discover
ed America. And every schoolboy
who believes that is wrong, for al
though Columbus was the first man
to set foot on the New World, he
did not touch the mainland of either
North or South Amrica on his first
and second voyages of discovery.
On his third voyage, in August,
1893, he discovered the South Ameri-
can continent in what is now Ven
ezuela. Little suspecting that this
was really the terra firma for which
he had searched so long, he thought
it was only another island off the
coast of southern Asia.
In his earlier voyages, Columbus
had touched at Cuba and other is
lands in the Caribbean sea. Before
he reached the mainland, however,
an Italian merchant in the service
of Henry VII of England named
John Cabot had explored along the
coast of Labrador and as far south
as Chesapeake bay or Maryland.
But neither Columbus nor Cabot
ever suspected that they had found
a new world. Both believed they had
merely opened up new route to
western Asia and the Indies, and
that the land they had discovered
was a remote and wild part of the
far East. That is why they called i:
the West Indies.
Columbus even thought that Cuba
was western tip of Asia. The is
land was not circumnavigated UNI
til two years after his death. The
only bit of land now under the
American flag that Columbus ever
touched was Puerto Rico, which he
first named San Juan Bautista.
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stands the little house where he
was born on December 26, 1887,
will take the lead in the celebra-
ton. The national capital, where
he spent the sunset of his life,
and where he is buried in Wash
ington cathedral, will also par
ticipate and from these two CEN
tiers will come the inspiration for
a nationwide observance of the
career of one of the great figures
in Americas naval history-the
Hero of Manila Bay"
It has been said that Dewey
was directly descended from
Charlemagne and other European
monarchs but he probably took
greater pride in the sturdy line
of New England patriots who
were his more immediate ances-
tors-nine generations of them
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"If have anything to do with, I
shall sail over in the night and
capture Manila before break
fast"
That there was another man
who had the same idea is shown
by the cablegram which Dewey
received at Hongkong, China, on
February 25, 1898 from the Wig
orous young assistant secretary
of the navy named Theodore
Roosevelt. 1t read: "In the
event of war with Spain, you will
capture or destroy the Spanish
ships in those waters and operate
in the Philippines" Dewey was
ready and waiting for just some
such message as that. Although
war had not yet been formally
declared, this gave him a free
hand to fight the Spaniard when
and where he found him.
So with bands playing "The
Star Spangled Banner" Dewey's
squadron put out to sea from
Hong Kong and headed for Ma
Mia, where, on May l, 1898, in one
of the shortest naval engage
ments in history, he destroyed the
Spanish fleet without having a
single man killed or suffering Sc
rious injury to any of the Aneri-
can ships. Next the Spanish navy
yard at Cavite fell and the power
of Spain in the East was ended for
all time.
The Nation Is Thrilled.
The news of the victory at Ma
Mia thrilled the nation as had no
other event for many a year. I'm
mediately there was a demand
for prompt and official recogni-
ton of Dewey's feat. President
Mckinley appointed him an act
ing rear admiral and in mes
sage to congress on May 8, 1898,
recommended that the thanks of
congress be given to the victor of
Manila. Not only was this done
but, in addition, congress voted
that a handsome jeweled sword
be presented to Dewey by the
government.
When the new rear admiral
came back to the United States
in 1899 the sword was presented
to him by the President at an i'm
pressive ceremony in front of the
Capitol in the presence of a
cheering throng of thousands of
people. 1t bore the arms of Yer
mont and the United States, and
had the initials &c. D." outlined
in diamonds.
In March, 1899, Dewey was
made Admiral of the Navy, the
highest rank ever held by any
American naval officer, Farra-
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Twas This WAY
By LYLE SPENCER
q Western Newspaper Union.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Cotton-Picker

COTTON is harvested today ex-
~ actly as it was when Eli Whit
ney invented his cotton gin way
back in 1893. Negroes shuttle among
the cotton plants, plucking the fluffy
bolls by hand and stuff them into
huge bags they drag behind them.
The ordinary worker picks about
a hundred pounds of seed cotton
day, for which he receives about
go cents.
Great strides have been made in
harvesting other crops. But in cot
ton little progress has been made
since Revolutionary times.
Now, John and Mack Rust, two
farmer boys from Texas, have just
brought out machine to pick cotton
automatically. Engineers have
been trying to build such machine
for 30 years. The International Har-
vester company is supposed to have
spent So, 200, 900 on contemplating re-
search. If the Rust brothers sue
coed, it will be the greatest in
vention of this decade.
John Rust got his idea for the
picker watching his grandmother
at her spinning wheel. She moist
ened her wheel to make cotton stick
to it. Rust uses smooth, wet spind-
les to fan through the cotton plants,
picking clean each boil en- route.
In trial tests, the Rust machine
has picked as much in an eight-hour
day as diligent picker can gather
in an eleven-week season at about
half the cost. Cotton planters be-
lieve that if the machine proves
practical, as they think it will, they
can grow cotton at profit if the
price drops below five cents per
pound.
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M ODERN machine guns are
Az about the most destructive
weapons used in modern warfare.
Capable of firing 800 bullets a min
ute, they can sweep an open field so
fast that no human being could hope
to get across it alive.
The machine gum, invented by
Hiram Maxim, is usually thought
of as a very recent invention. Act
ually, however, the Romans had
their ancient equivalent of it long
before gunpowder had even been
thought of. The polybolos, first built
by Dionysios of Alexandria, was a
crossbow so constructed that it was
capable of shooting 80 to 40 arrows
minute. The tension string of the
bow was operated by a crank. The
arrows came out of a funnel above
the arrow groove, and each time
one was fired, another slipped au-
tomatically into place. The machine
could be operated by one man.
Reconstructed models of the poly
bolos are surprisingly accurate in
their aim, the only defect being that
it had to be trained on one spot,
so there was no scattering" Under
certain circumstances this was an
advantage, like preventing the enc
my from climbing up scaling lad
ders or escaping through a gate.
this and other ancient weapons
such as the hurting sling were
once considered so dangerous that
the church and the laws of some
countries condemned their use.
Some of these weapons were in
deed dangerous, such as the horn
bow which could shoot an arrow
1000 yards, an achievement which
cannot be equalled by the heavy
Colt revolver used in the American
army.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-11
Russians Invent New
Musical instruments

Moscow.-An instrument re-
sembling the organ, which pro-
duces sounds of oriental music
as we'll as those of western mu-
sic, has been invented by A. S.
Ogoltevets. The octave of this
instrument has II intervals.
Demonstrated before the Academy
of Sciences of the u. S. S. r., the
new instrument won high praise,
Tass, official Soviet news agency,
reports.
Soviet musical inventors have pro-
duced interesting results by using
electricity to intensity the sound of
violin and guitar music. Recent cleo
trio musical instruments introduced
include the Emoriton, Violepa and
Equodin.
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involved that by the fall of 1897
war with Spain seemed immi-
nent. Commodore Dewey was in
Washington at the time and his
request to take command of the
Pacific fleet had just been grant
ed. Shortly before leaving the
capital he happened one day to
meet one of the justices of the
Supreme court on the street, who
said to him:
Commodore, it looks as
though the Spanish war were
coming"
"It certainly does" was Dew
ey's answer.
81 SUPPOSE" said the justice,
'that the first battle will be
fought at Havana"
"No," said the commodore, "it
will be fought at Manila
''What do you mean?" said the
justice, to which Dewey replied:
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row. Leaving his son at home
with his parents, Dewey went to
the Pacific to take charge of
some important surveys in that
ocean and very quickly he began
rising rapidly in the service. He
was commissioned captain in
1884, commanded the Pensacola
on the European station from 1885
to 1888, served as chief of the
bureau of equipment from 1888
to 1893 and as a member of the
lighthouse board from 1893 to
1896, In the latter year he was
advanced to commodore and also
served as president of the board
of inspection and survey.
War With Spain.
During these years condi-
tons under Spanish rule in Cuba
had gone from bad to worse and
American sympathies became so
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-11
Roots of Prairie
Grasses Grow at
Astonishing Rate

Wa shington.-Roots are
formed at the rate of two miles
a day by an average clump of
one of the wild prairie grasses
of the West. When the plant
is two years old, it has total
of nearly 800 miles of roots,
probing through a mass of soil
seven feet deep and four feet
square.
These figures on the root "mile-
age of crested wheat grass were
presented at the meeting of the
Botanical Society of Washington by
T. K. Pavlychenko of the University
of Saskatchewan. Mr.. Pavlychenko
was born in Ukrainia, but for sew
eral years has been Canadian
citizen.
Crested Wheat Grass Valuable.
Crested wheat grass, the SUBJ
ject of his special study, was in
troduced from western Siberia into
the Plains area several decades
ago, as means for combating
weeds which were spreading at an
alarming rate in the old cattle coun-
try. The grass proved to be not
only a very successful weed control
and a good forage plant but also a
remarkably efficient binder of the
soil against the wind erosion that
starts dust storms.
To make a really thorough in
vestigation of the cord-like roots
of this grass, Mr.. Pavlychenko un-
dertook monumental job, combin-
ing the patient digging of a geologist
with the delicate technique of
surgeon.
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leading back to Thomas Dewey,
the first of that name, who came
from England and landed at Bos-
ton in 1888. Among them was
his great grandfather, William
Dewey, who was a Minute Man
at the outbreak of the Revolution
and later corporal in the Cont
mental army who served at Sara
toga under General Gates.
Williams son, Simeon, was
born at Hebron, Conn.,, and died
in Montpelier, VT, at the age of
ninety-three. Simeon Dewey had
made his impression on the life
of Montpelier as Justice of the
peace and was one of the organ
iZers of Dartmouth college who
gave so acres of land for its use
and support. Their son, Julius
Y. Dewey, became doctor.
John Barrett, biographer of Adj
miral Dewey, declares: CDR. JUL
Jus Dewey explains the greatness
of his son. He was great before
him. He may not have won ma
tional fame, but his fellow citi-
zens appreciated his sterling
worth. He was an exceptional
man. He was a rare development
of the very best Vermont stock"
Graduated from Norwich col
lege at the age of seventeen,
young Dewey, even though there
was no heritage of the sea in his
ancestry, decided he wanted to
go to the United States Naval
academy at Annapolis and DR..
Dewey secured the appointment
from Vermont for his son. At
first, young Dewey's grades were
not high but after warning from
both his stern father and his
teachers he improved his schol-
arship and was graduated third
in his class in 1858.
A Baptism of Fire.
In April, 1861, Midshipman
Dewey was commissioned lieu
tenant and soon had his baptism
of fire. For he was assigned to
the steam frigate Mississippi in
the West Coast squadron in the
Gulf of Mexico which brought him
under the command of David G..
Farragut.
Dewey was on the Mississippi
when it ran ashore at Fort Jack
son, after losing its bearing in the
smoke of battle. On swimming
away from the ship, Lieut.. Dew
ey, after the order to abandon
her came, saved the life of a
sailor from drowning at the risk
of his own life and Captain Smith
in his report spoke of his bravery
and GOODNESS.
When the Civil war ended
Dewey was a lieutenant-com-
mander, high rank for young
man of twenty-eight. Next he
was stationed at the navy yard
in Portsmouth, N. H., and there
he met and fell in love with Susie,
the daughter of Gov. Ichabod
Goodwin. They were married in
1867.
In 1873 Dewey became the IA
Their of a son but it cost the life
of the little boys mother. In
consolable over his loss, Dewey
asked for a distant tour of duty
so that he might forget his sor-
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Uncle MiA
Says: ~
Life Is Short

Life appears too short to be
spent in nursing animosity or reg
istering wrong.
If you don't think you can do it,
try it anyway. Then you will find
out why you can't.
Think about it pretty often and
one will daily find a gratifying op-
portunity of being kind.
Love of money is the root of all
evil; but curiosity oft leads to
wickedness.
Correcting Errors
Correction of error is the plain
est fruit of energy and mastery.
George Washington was famous,
but imagine the magnitude Of his
fame if there had been newspapers
like those today.
If we like a man, we even like
him when he is stubborn against
our views.
We believe in applying the mind
to art, culture and literature-but
not every instant. Sometimes we
like to think of corned beef and
cabbage.
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This was the man for
whom they had poured out a
flood of adulation such as few
other Americans had ever be-
fore received and few have
known since.
They built a triumphal
arch in his honor in New
York city, they raised money
to buy a house in Washing
ton for him, and they pre-
sented him with a loving cup
made from 10000 dimes.
They made songs about him,
such popular ballads as:
"Twas on a dewy morning in
the dewy month of May
When man named Dewey sailed
into Manila bay"
They named their sons after
him. (And if today you're intro
duced to man whose first name
is Dewey" you're safe in guess
ing that he was born late in 1898
or early in 1890
And then these Americans who
constitute The Public, which is
consistent only in its inconsistent
cy, proved once more its tickle
ness by turning against the man
whose name they had flung
against the stars. They didn't
approve of his marrying again
nor of his deciding his gift house
to his young second wife. And
when in response to what he un-
derstood was popular demand,
he announced his candidacy for
the Presidency it was character
lied as the "climax to series
of unfortunate mistakes" and the
public that had once praised him
now ridiculed him.
But this latter episode was for
gotten when at sunset on Janu-
airy 16, 1917, he died. All the
honors that man can give to a
hero were his. There was state
funeral in the Capitol and burial
in Arlington. The newspapers
printed column upon column
about his career and once more
the name of the ''Hero of Manila
Bay" was on every Americans
lips.
1t was thus for only a day or
two. At that time Americans were
facing the grim reality of their
country's being drawn inevitably
into the war then raging in Eu-
rope. Within three months after
his burial in Arlington, America
had gone in with the Allies, and
under the shadow of this great
conflict the war in which Dewey
had won his fame grew more and
more Insignificant.
A Forgotten Hero.
Out of the World war came
new heroes to be acclaimed and
to the younger generation of
Americans Admiral George
Dewey became little more than a
name in their school histories.
And thus it has been for the last
two decades.
But this year it will be heard
again for America is preparing
to celebrate the centennial of his
birth. Vermont, and particularly
its capital, Montpelier, where still
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Ask Me Another
9 Il General Quis
@ Bell syndicate.-wNU Service.

/. What is an incarnation?
2. What is an antitoxin?
3. On what island was the lab
yrinth of the Minataur?
4. What is a locomotives pilot
sometimes called?
5. Does Holy week come before
or after Easter?
6. Is Japan north of south of
the Philippines?
z. What does ''irascible" mean?
8. Who was the first emperor
of modern Germany?
9. What was the latest terrific
rial acquisition of the United
States?
10. Who wrote "Old Wives
Tale?
IL. What is prunella?
IL. What large group of British
Islands lie southeast of Florida?
Answers
/. A formula for magical words.
2. A substance neutralizing poi
son.
3. Crete.
4. The cow-catcher.
5. Before.
6. North.
z. Prone to anger.
8. Wilhelm I.
9. The Virgin Islands (boughs
from Denmark).
10. Arnold Bennett.
IL. A strong cloth.
IL. The Bahamas.
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The Term "Inauatfn

The term 'unquote" is a tele-
graphic form used originally to in
dictate the closing of quotation in
telegram. The term received pop
ular approval as a needed shortened
form of lend of quotation and now
supplements the older printing
term, send quote. Literary Di
gest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-11
Mighty City Wall

The mightiest city wall of north
ern Europe encircles the city Of
Visby on the Swedish Isle of Got
land. It's towers, meats and ruins
enshrine legends from the early
days of the Vikings.
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Recalling the Hero Of Manila Bay
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

mn WAS just 20 years ago that the word flashed over
the wires from Washington, D. c., that named
Il George Dewey had died there and Immediately thou
81 sands of Americans recalled once more how that
name had thrilled them May morning back in
1898 For this the "Hero of Manila Bay"
- and his astounding victory in the far-o Philippines
at the very beginning of the Spanish-Amercan war
placed his high in that galaxy of naval heroes
includes the of John Paul JONES' Stephen Decatur,
Hazard Perry and David Farragut.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-11
Good Work

The best preparation for good
work tomorrow is to do good work
today; the best preparation for life
in the hereafter is to live now
E. Hubbard.
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THE OTHER WOMAN LIVES
JUST AROUND THE CORNER

TT may seem unreasonable, but
lmost men cannot understanding
a woman who is usually happy
and loving should have recurring
periods when her whole character
seems changed. He cannot appre-
ciate the distress, the discomfort
that all women must endure. He
does not know what it Is to do
homework with an aching back
and falling energy. All he does
know is that other women seem
more cheerful by comparison.
Are you such a three-quarter
wife?
Don't let the ordeals that all
women face cause you avoidable
discomfort or endanger your home.
Do as so many wise women have
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
For three generations one wom-
an has told another how to go
'smiling through with Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t helps Nature tone up the syS-
TEN, thus lessening the discom-
forts from the functional disorders
which women must endure in the
three ordeals of life: L. Turning
from girlhood to womanhood. z.
Preparing for motherhood. 3. APP
preaching middle age"
Don't be three-quarter wife;
take LYDIA z. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
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CORRECTING Errors

DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
tonic which has been helping women
of all ages for nearly 20 years. Adv.
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ChristianitY's Success

Christianity's Old and original SUE
cess was won by warm-hearted and
quite practical con,radeship.