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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-01
VOLUNTEERS KEPT
 BUSY THESE DAYS
Brush Fires Keep Men on GO-Lillian Andrews
 Gets Scholarship
CHESHIRE NEWS
 Hubert Rigney
 Cheshire Phone 334

Cheshire, April Many calls have been received by the Cheshire fire department because of grass and brush fires. There is a forest fir fighting group under the leader ship of Warden Clifford H. Terrell, who have special equipment provid- ed especially for fighting forest fires.
 These men come under the con- trol of the state and are paid by the state for the time occupied by them in fighting fires. The mem- bers of the Cheshire Fire Depart ment are all volunteers who receive no pay for their time at fires and lose much time from their regular occupations in such work. Care should be exercised in calling the right group of firemen to handle fires. ...--
 If the fire is in the woods or in the grass far removed from build ings of any sort then the forest fire fighters are the ones who should be called. However if there are build- ings near then the Cheshire depart ment should be called, but do not do so unless this is SO.
 Cheshire's volunteer department is one of the finest in the state and has served the town faithfully for many years, becoming more effi- cient as time passes.
 Receives Stipend
 A scholarship has been awarded Miss Lillian Andrews, daughter of Mrs. Edward c. Andrews of Brooks vale. at Connecticut Teachers col- lege in New Britain, Miss Andrews is a member of the senior class and has been given the scholarship for high academic standing. The scholarship is for this year.
 J. Edward Rourke has been con- fined to his home on Main street. by illness.
 The injuries sustained by Henry Girard, son of MT. and Mrs. Henry Girard, Jr., of Wallingford road who fell from an automobile when the door suddenly opened, are not serious as believed at first. He suf- fered only minor cuts and bruises.
 Miss Betty Haunegan is spending the Easter recess with her parents MT. and Mrs. Roberts B. Haunegan of Main street. Miss Haunegan is a student at Russell Sage school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-01

The Connecticut State college Gle club will be presented to Waterbury by the local alumni association at the Waterbury Women.s club, Central avenue, Wednesday, evening. Apgil 9th. at 8:l5 o'clock. Y
 The tlee club has 90 voices and includes the following students
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-01

Miss Betty Haunegan is spending the Easter recess with her parents MT. and Mrs. Roberts B. Haunegan of Main street. Miss Haunegan is a student at Russell Sage school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-01

So far I have 225 "frsts" to my
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Last Joint Reunion North and
Symbol OF United
With Stars andB edcahon
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The Army Medical Library and the
Army Medical Museum have been
located since 1887 at Seventh street
and Independence avenue S.W. Con-
gress, however, recently appropriated
$3,75O,O00 for construction of a new
building on a site yet to be chosen.
The library. now the largest of its
kind in the world, was established
about 1886 by DR.. Joseph Lowell,
surgeon general, u S. A. His were
the first efforts to develop a compre-
hensive and complete library of medi-
cine.
"A great part of this library was
assembled in 80 years, between the
years 1864 and 1895, by the librarian,
Col. John Shaw Billings, who was
not only one of the most distinguished
medical men America has produced,
but by universal acceptance is ac-
knowledged to have been first among
the great librarians of the world
DR.. Reynolds explained.
When he was first appointed IL
orarlan IN 1854 the library had no
more than 2.253 volumes. In his long
tour of duty as librarian he devel-
oped it to primacy among world medi-
cal libraries, collecting the incunabula
and medical literature in old book
stores and elsewhere with rare in
sight into their ultimate value"
TO HIM belong the credit for start
ing the index catolague, the key
that unlocks the stores of medical
knowledge in every civilized country
IN the world, every medical library
and hospital. .s.
These indexes, composed of so vol
umes, have proved influential in the
advancement of medical science
Every book or pamphlet which comes
into the library is carefully indexed
When DR.. William H. WEIGH, a
celebrated Baltimore physician. was
asked what he thought were some Of
the contributions the United States
had made to medicine he named the
followins:
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1862 says Freeman, but the ther-
mometer gave warning of another
torrid day. and, except for the distant
rumble of early bombardment by
Ewell's corps against the Federal right,
all was peace and quiet until noon"
On this day came the greatest
massed charge OF infantry ever wit
messed in America; Longstreet's as
sault, better known to the world as
the Inflated "Pickett's charge" for
victory or death at Gettysburg. di-
Sected from the west with $4,000
men-in histories "the flower of the
Confederacy." to cut the Federal Army
In half. Gen. E. P. Alexander, chief
OF Confederate artillery, describes this
final action at Gettysburg:
AT l pm. the two guns of Miller's
Battery OF the Washington Artillery
of New Orleans fired the signal from
the Peach Orchard-the grand roar
OF 1873 Confederate and 90 Federal
cannon burst in on the silence as a
blazing volcano, and for one and one
half hours the air was filled with
screaming, whistling shot and shell
fences. trees and rocks were blown to
bits: the earth shook and trembled
Behind low earthworks, stone-and-rail
fences. Federal soldiers hugged the
ground, awaiting the coming storm. II
Under a pail of smoke that dark
ened the sky the march began-ls
regiments from Virginia, Is from
North Carolina. 3 from Tennessee. 3
from Mississippi and 2 from Ala
oama-across the open plain, in the
perfect formation of the Spartans-
OF the Romans under Caesar.
MOVING that last mile into the
deadly, bloody angle" their faces
colorless and gaunt, their bayonets
nxed. charged men among the bravest
ever born, In the face of the most
stubborn defense ever offered by the
Nations defenders, under Gen. Han.
cock. Great gaps were torn in the
advancing lines by solid shot spherical
case. and shrapnel and canister, but
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mary Ridge to the south. Hills corps
north to his left and Ewell's corps
east through Gettysburg.
Longstreet. however who had urged
a different plan of attack for that day,
histories agree. sullenly chose to wait
until every Confederate brigade had
arrived-Law's Alabamians the last to
reach the front at O'Clock. Mean
while the Federals had been crowd
ing in all day on Cemetery Ridge to
the east, which had been bare and un-
defended all morning.
The famous historian, Comte de
Paris, states that had Longstreet at
tackled the Federal positions at 9
am, as Lee had indicated, a COM
plete victory would have been certain
for the Confederacy," and the battle
of Gettysburg would have ended.
At $3.50 the Confederate artillery
opened on mile-long front against
the Federal positions at the Peach Or
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/. The discovery of anaesthesia.
2. The discovery of insect trans
mission of disease.
3. The development of the modern
public health laboratory in all that
the term implies. O..
4. The Army Medical Library and
its index catalogue.
"Of these four" DR.. WEIGH said, "the
library and Its catalogue are the most
important"
At present there are 100000 books
in the Army Medical Library and
over 100000 pamphlets and manu-
scripts Among its priceless works
are the 460 incunabula, books pub
lished before 1900. When it is known
that there are only 600 medical in
cunabula existing in the world to-
day the rarity Of this collection is
appreciated.
The oldest publications possessed
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famous yellow-fever experiment Of
1900, proved that insects carry this
disease; that from this discovery came
the technique of modern sanitation,
largely begun by the Army in Cuba
and carried forward in this country
and its possessions to such astound-
ing results by the Public Health
Service and the Navy Medical Corps,
and that in the founding and assem-
bling of the Surgeon Generals Lii
brary and its index catalogue and
the Army Medical Museum the corps
has made a contribution that cannot
be equaled anywhere else in the world?
world?
THE library in the custody of the
Army Medical Corps belongs to the
Nation. and its significance lies in
its completion. That the fulfillment
Of this desired end nears Il . cause
Of congratulatiop."
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gerry is modern development CO.
incident with the World War. The
museum has a series Of models made
from actual subjects of face in
jury during the Civil War which show
that credible plastic surgery was done
even in those days." the general told
reporters. ..
THROUGH the efforts of the War
Department and the Army Med
ical Corps particularly, a new fireproof
structure will be erected to replace the
present building, which is obsolete and
inadequate to hold the many price,
less books and specimens. To separate
the library and the museum could not
be done without causing a great loss
the one to the other.
On this point the Surgeon General
stated:
Need I say that this corps, IN the
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each time they closed up and moved
unfiinchingly on.
Armistead's virginia.. Pettigrew's
and Lanes North Carolina, Davis
(MississippD brigades reached the gap
and crossed the Federal line at the
angle, fought hand to hand. clubbing
muskets." and with rammers, sticks
and stones-nearly all Of these men
were killed or captured In that his
toric charge all field officers but two,
and 1900 men in gray, and nearly
5000 in blue had fallen within a few
minutes.
"Plcket's charge" was the end at
Gettysburg, and the beginning of the
end OF the war between the States.
All historians agree with Horace
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Greeley that the battle of Gettys-
burg was the bloodiest of all of Amer
lca's wars; where under the hot July
sun OF 1853 more than $4,000 men
who wore the blue and the gray fell
Tor the causes each loved and be-
ieved right
The field Of Gettysburg today
CLEANS with the glory of peace, where
war no more gathers its grim har-
vest. The morning and the evening
sun shines upon nearly 900 memorials
in stone, gliding them on all sides,
showering the Nations grateful bene-
dlctlon and eternal honor upon its
sons who gave their best, both victor
and vanquished, in that war of broth
ers and neighbors.
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by the library are the following:
l. DE Pollutione Nocturna," by
Johannes Gerson, printed in Cologne
In 1467, the only copy in the United
States.
2. "Speculum Humamae Vitae" by
Rodericus Zamorensis, printed in
Rome in 1863.
3. DE Epidemic" by valescus de
Taranta, printed in 1470.
4. Regimen Pestilentiae," by Al
CAMS Louis, printed in Valencia about
1490.
The first purely medical book ever
written, DE Medicinis Universalibus."
by an Arabian physician, Mesue the
Younger is owned by the Army Medi-
cal Library.
MOT alone are physicians benefited
by national medical library,
but veterinarians. dental surgeons and
nurses will find knowledge in their
own fields in abundance within its
four walls.
The library has an added attrac-
ton in the medical museum, which
Is the finest of its kind in the world.
Gen. Reynolds says that, although
located in q rather obscure and out
of-the-way place in Washington, 1t
is not unusual for more than 1900
persons to visit it in one day. Also
If it were more accessible it would
surely be one of the show spots Of
the Nation.
Here is to be found one OF the best
collections Of pathological specimens
ever assembled In one place. The
Dionne quintuplets in Canada were
not the first known to biology. The
museum has five mummies of quints
born April 20, 1896, and since the
Dionnes have become the object of
worldwide interest these little num-
mics have attracted no small amount
of attention from visitors.
"As historical museum, through
which the history Of American med
icine can be traced from actual spec
linens, the museum has no peer. We
think, for instance, that plastic sur
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night, weary of marching from Cham
bersburg, some miles west of the
town.
Under the weird light of the same
pale moon Lee retired to a small house
west Of the terrified village for a few
hours rest. Nearby his staff biv-
ouacked, and on the ridges and fields
about most of the Confederate soldiers
were asleep. From the south Federal
corps were marching over shadowed
roads, their screeching wagon trains
bringing up food, shot and shell for the
second days battle at Gettysburg.
THE SECOND DAY.
AT AN early hour, while the stars
were still shining, Lee was busy
with plans for attack on that mem
orable second day." says Burrage in
his Lincoln and Gettysburg" Be-
fore O'Clock Lee indicated to Long
street to take the right wing on Sem
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Famous Army Medi.
cal Officer Fought
for his Theories.
By Verna PHILLIPS.

N YEW evidence of the enthralline
circumstances through which
VI DR.. Walter Reed proved that
4 mosquitoes were yellow fever
carriers has just been obtained by the
Army Medical Library here.
DR.. Charles r. Reynolds, Army sur
seon general, yesterday disclosed that
Brig. Gen. A. B. TRULY, U. S. A., re-
tired, of San Francisco has sent to
the library the original copy of an
engaging letter written to him by DR..
Reed at the turn of the century, while
the noted medical man was in the
throes of establishing how the deadly
germ was communicated.
The letter reflected the exlltation of
DR.. Reed, who then realized he was
on the threshold of confounding other
men of medicine who considered him
the father of wild theory
History. of course, tells the rest.
Dr.. Reeds theory proved to be exact
rather than wild. Steps then were
taken to eradicate the mosquito. and
the birds" as Dr. Reed called them,
were eXtermlnated and the dread yell
low fever plaques and their appalling
loss of life no longer terrorized man
kind.
Walter Reed was born September 13,
1851, in Belori, Va. After one year of
general academic study and one of
medicine, he was graduated from the
Virginia Medical School at 10 with
the degree of M. D. He went from
there to Bellevue Hospital Medical
School in New York, where he OBJ
tained another NJ D. after one years
study. He interned at Kings County
hospital and then entered into private
practice. He abandoned this, however,
in 1875 and joined the Army Medical
Corps
For 18 years he developed his mind
and his medical skill as an Army doc
tor among Indian fighters in Western
Army posts.
IN THE early part of 1900 yellow
fever appeared among American
troops stationed in Havana and the
OlllVCo OI0VCS oCADCu OppOI
to investigate the cause of the disease.
Three medical officers were sent to
Havana, among them DR.. Reed
Just at that time an opportunity was
afforded Dr. Reed to investigate an
epidemic Of yellow fever prevailing at
Pirar del Rio Barracks, in a remote
section of Cuba.
After studying the victims DR.. Reed
decided they were stricken through an
intermediate host, an insect such as
the mosquito. He believed it to be one
which had taken the parasite into its
stomach soon after the first person
bitten collapsed with the disease, and
that the insect, after an interval of
9 to 16 days, re-conveyed the injecting
agent to other individuals.
Then came the letter to DR.. TRULY
proving that mosquitoes carried the
disease.
An idea of the value of DIR. Reeds
work may be had when one is re-
minded that yellow fever claimed
100000 lives in this country. New
Orleans suffered 4l,34S deaths, and
Philadelphia reported lo,03s.
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chard. the Wheatfield, Devils Den and
the Round Tops. and in the words of
F'reeman-"like the drums of a STIR
ring overture to an opera that told
of the struggle Of demigods and he
roes, and then as if to remind the an
cry deities that human love and NOR
tails hope were at stake in the COM
ing combat
At 4 o'clock began the charge of
Hoods brigades of Georgians, Ala
bamians, Texans and the Sd Arkan-
sas, forcing back the Federal salient
of Gen. Sickles at the Peach Or
chard, and at o'clock McLaw's four
brigades. principally South Carolin-
ians and Mississippians, and. with all
divisions making three charges. drove
two Federal corps back to the nat
ural rocky defenses of Cemetery Ridge.
FOR more than an hour the battle
ragged and the toll in dead and
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wounded was terrific, the rocks and
bushes presenting veritable flame
BY O'Clock the five brigades of
Gen. w. T. Anderson, 5000 Con-
federates, were added, charging
against the Federal center, held by
Hancock's corps on Cemetery Ridge,
and at one time Wright's little brigade
Of Georgians penetrate the Federal
lines, but. too far advanced to be
supported and Drawing the CALLING fire
of several times their number, are
forced into hasty retreat or be de-
stroyed.
BY nightfall nearly 10000 dead and
wounded lay bleeding along the slopes
of the ridge, along Emmittsburg road,
in the Wheatfleld and Peach Or
chard and in the valley of death
around the hideous boulders of Devils
Den. Records show that nearly 10000
Confederates had charged nearly
$4,000 Federals in the closing hours of
the second day at Gettysburg.
Gen. Longstreet's report for his
corps on that titanic struggle in
clues, The weight against us was too
heavy to carry my seventeen thous-
ands against the Army of the Poto-
mac" He wrote Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
later:
Weird spirits keep midnight watch
about the great boulders, while un-
known comrades stalk in ghostly ranks
through the black fastness of Devils
Den"
The Confederates had gained a
moral victory-they had driven the
Army of the Potomac back-but to
more secure positions. The gallantry
on both sides proved the valor of the
men in the ranks in deathless cour-
age, however much their leaders may
have erred in the delay of the battle
that second day.
THE THIRD DAY.
A LIGHT haze obscured the scud-
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By Herbert H0llander.
~ o YOU think summers now
are hotter than they were in
former years?

- Are dad and grandad talk
ing through their respective hats when
they contend that summer used to be
a pleasanter and more comfortable
season than it is today?
In short, is it true that our sum-
mer weather has changed?
And here are the answers
Summer temperatures now are def
nitely higher than they used to be;
father and grandad are not talking
through their hats, and a pronounced
change has taken place in our sum-
mer weather!
Folk who for some years have been
arguing that the sun didn't seem SO
hot formerly now find the highest
possible scientific authority support
ing them-none less than the United
States Weather Bureau.
The Weather Bureaus division of
climate and crop weather, under the
Evening star., 1938-06-19
THE THIRD DAY.

A LIGHT haze obscured the scud-
ding clouds and dimmed the
pale stars on the morning of July 3.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-06-09
200 Attend Golden
Wedding Reception
At North Redwood
BY Mrs. O. w. Simondet

North RedWood-More than 200
people called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Moritz at the farm home
Sunday afternoon to congratu-
late them on their golden we'd
ding. Dinner was served at noon
to immediate relatives and close
friends. The dining room was de-
| corated with gold and white
steamers and wedding cake
served as the table centerpiece.
In the afternoon Rev. Birkholz
read the marriage service for the
honored couple and Mr.. Moritz
gave a talk on pioneer days.
Musical numbers were given and
refreshments were served to
everyone.
Those present from outside the
community were Reinhold Sch
midi, Detroit Mich; MIR. and Mrs.
George Kuck and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kuck, New Ulm; Mr.. Wer-
ner and Gerhard Deagner, Mil
waukee; Mrs. Hilda Pappas and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
ard Schilling, Minneapolis and
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Akre, Echo.
Mrs. Ed. Spiering and daugh-
tiers Elvera and Virginia accom-
panied relatives to Brownton
| last week where she is spending
a few weeks. Her sister Ila re-
manned here to care for her home
I, during her absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Peterson
of Sleepy Eye and Mrs. Heddine
Simondet and daughter Martha
| were Sunday evening dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Simondet.
| Wednesday evening dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. III.
Sommers were Mr.. and Mrs. H.
A. Matz of Rochester, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Schendel and son
Wayne of Renville, Mr.. and Mrs.
Aaron Sommers and daughters
and H. F.. Manthei.
Mrs. Mary Doering, Mrs. Ted
Tibbetts, Mrs. Harold Eichelberg-
er of Montevideo, Mrs. Lee Doer-
ing and Mrs. Grace Phillips of
Redwood Falls spent Friday af-
ternoon with Mrs. John Eastman.
Carol Eastman accompanied her
aunt, Mrs. Tibbetts home and
will spend the summer with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Herdina
and son Of Mankato visited Sat-
urday at the home of his brother,
Joseph Herdina.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ziegler Of
Belview, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Ziegler, B. H. Kuenzli and Mrs.
c. F. johnson of Morton attended
graduation exercises at Franklin
Friday evening. Their niece,
Juanita Sampson was a member
of the class.
Mrs. Louis Gardner of Madison,
Wisconsin, Mrs. Thor Peterson
and Mrs. Lloyd Stelter of Mime
apolis, Dick Lindeman of Olivia
and Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Lindeman
of Clements were here Thursday
to dispose of property belonging
to their mother, the late Mrs.
Martha Lindeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Anderson
and daughter Joyce, Mrs. M. An
derson and daughter Adeline and
son John motored to Minneapo-
lis Sunday. Mrs. Anderson and
Adeline left there Sunday after
noon by train for New York
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-06-09
Erwin A.
Meiierding
Candidate For
Sheriff
REDWOOD COUNTY
REDWOOD COUNTY

Mr.. Meierding was born In
Morgan township in 1890 OF par
ents who came to Redwood coun-
ty in pioneer days. His wife is
the former Sophia Laabs, daugh'-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Laabs
of near Echo. They have a family.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-06-09
SAINT JOHNS LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Edw A Rirkholz Docfor

The church that breaches the Cos
pei in it purity
Annual Mission Festival at ST.
Johns Sunday with special services.
10 a. m. services in the German.
Rev. Marquardt from Mountain Lake
will be the speaker.
AS IN the past years We will bring
our luncheon along and enough for a
few friends and visitors and partake
OF a common meal during the noon
hour
p. m. services in the German and
English. Rev. Fritz from Fairfax and
Rev. Marquardt will be the speakers.
p. m. services in the English.
Rev. Gamm from Marshall will be the
guest speaker
At each service a special offering
for mission purposes win be taken up.
Use the monthly manila envelopes
for June and previous months.
Our Mission Festival is one of our
outstanding services during the year.
Let's all make it such and plan to
attend ourselves and also invite
friends and relatives to attend with
us.
Commencing Monday, June II, at
$3.50 a. m. a four weeks course of
summer school will be conducted. All
children able to read somewhat up to
confirmation age should attend.
Naomi Birkholz will have charge of
the lower grades. while the pastor
will instruct the confirmation class.
Subjects. taught viii include catech-
ism. Bible stories, Bible reading,
hymnology, singing and German for
those desiring it.