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MEXICO HAS MANY | QUAKES OF FORCE | Tor 468 Years 1 | guinary conflicts with Ponce Leon in 1513 and prevented lnm from landing troops off the Florida coast. For a quarter of a céntury the Indians carried on a flerce fight with the Spanish forces, but finally were subdued. After the arrival of De Sota about believed most of them had been killed and the others sent to the West Indies as slav: Collins says the skeletons are dif- | ycunsed !or two hour- over the tea ADOFTS OVERALLS <525 The paper sa!d the monarch ar. 4rhed at Cliveden, country home of | Lady Astor, for a call at almost the }Sime time as \Ir Ford came as a | Dressy Parishioners NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1928, week-end guest For nearly two hours the hoslcss and her three | mate conversations of this sort rare- at {1y find their way into print. It was | assumed that King George found the 845 Main Street MEET ME AT ordan’s Fashion, Quality and Value—Not Merely One But All Three Mexico City, April 13.—(UP)— |ferent from those of the other tribes | Henderson, Ia, April 13 (UP)—| talk agreeable since he and the queen Two earthquakes of considerable | which inhabited this country and There was no fushion parade on|could have withdrawn earlier if they Its Temblor History Dates Back ot the jrive aisappeared ana|[oya Plstor Thas Rebukes Hi§| =connacss 055 s vuie o {likely to go unsatisfied since finti- Hartford Store severity within a month have serv- ed to remind Mexicans that the carthquake history of Mexico goes back 488 years. The first quake registered, ac- cording to information in the Na- tional Library gathered by the Sci- entific society, was in 1460, There were four other temblors of varyng intensity up to the end of the century. Beginning in 1507 | there were fourteen quakes during | the century. In 1613, records reveal, there was | “a tremendous eruption of Mount | Orizaba (state of Vera Cruz), with | a consequent earthquake el | throughout New Spain.” | Another tremor with terrifying | results followed in 1622 in Zacate- cas. In 1664 Popocatepet] (only 40 miles from the city and still active) crupted and from that year until 1 temblors were frequent. Church Towers Totter Perhaps the most picturesque s that of the houscs did a e dance, the church towers red to the ground with horrible crashes and in the belfrys that re- mained standing, the bells intoned | sonorously, rocked by the swaying earth.” | The records then tell Tow the | axaquenos in their fright organized procession to the i £ the Vir- | in of Soledad, their patron saint. | Precisely when the head of the pro- ion veached the church, there | was another terrible quake, the faith- ful left in droves and no amount of urging by the priests could make them return. Passing up the 19th century when | Mexico was given a rest for the niost | part from carthquakes, we come to the great quake of 1811 which o curred as General Fruu Madero's victorious revolutionary | Army was entering the capital, - “Cuando Madero entro hasta® la tierr temblo,” said the Mexicans, “When Madero entered, even the earth trembled.” About 70 persons e Killed most of them in on. spot, when a wall fell, | INDIANS' GRAVES ON FLORIDA ISLE May Be Those of Vanished Galusas Tribe Fort Myers, F April 13 P | Believing they have found the re- mains of the “lost tribe” of Calusa Indians who inhabited this country back in the fifteenth century, arch- [ ~ologists have taken to the Smith- sonian Institution for study 75 skele- tons found in sand and couch shell mounds on a group of islands in the &ul? near here. Led by H. B. Collins of the insti-| tution, the =scientists spent four weeks in excavation work on Cap- tive and Sanibel Islands and believe they have found the remains of In- dian villages. These islands are said! to have been headquarters of Gas- parilla and his band of pirates, who vears ked towns along th Fiorida coast and carried off the most beautiful women Historians believe {t was the Calusa tribe which engaged jn san- {the’ peculiar shape of the skulls leads him to believe they belonged | to the Calus: The sketetons wer | found only a feet beneath th surface and several hundred others are believed to still remain in the mounds. Broken pottery discovered |also is different from that found in graves of other tribes. The mounds contained walks, or pavements, made of conch shells, In support of their belief that [they have found remains of the “lost tribe”, the archeologists point cut that the Caloosahatchie river, which runs through the countr habited by the Indians, been named after the The word “hatchie” in the Indian | language means river, RESERVOR 15 TO - REPLACE OLD TOWN | Several Mass. Villages Will Be, Wiped Out Worcester, Mass,, April 13 (#— | The lean shadow of desertion and | disintegration is lengthening Iy in the valley of the Swift river. Towns | that took root with ths coming of Puritan pioncers are to be snbhmerg- ed beneath. the wg s of the river that helped give them i The Boston metropalitan wafs district needs a la iter supp nd Massachusetts is serving writs ot cjection on hundreds of familics. The ercater part of the river valley will | be converted into a mammoth rescr- | VoIt covering approximately square miles, and $30,000,000 already Bias becn set aside for its building. Three townships will be almost wholly wiped o Several others will lose pirt of their Jands and in- | ibitants, | iills will become i islands, Families are leaving t a trickle which in a yc reached the proportions of a torrent. | When the great reservoir is complet- ed, the old towns of Prescott, Green- wich and ILinfield be no more, Dana, North Dana and New lem Easter Sunday at the Christian|so desired. church here. ! It was not known whether Lady As a rebuke to these members o{ Astor arranged the meeting or his congregation who consider| whether it was merely a chance one Easter Sunday as primarily a day|since the king and queen are now to “dress up,” the Rev, D. G. No-|staying at Windsor castle which is a land appeared in pulpit in|short drive from Cleveden. coveralls, and a large group of his| — sympathizers were in overalls, GWES SATISFAC'"ON Noland said he had heard of a number of people who did not at- tend church because they could not 2 afford to keep up their appearances Smilin’ Bill - Cissell, White Sox to the “church standard.” “I know pooge Shortstop, Coming Up To £00d men,” he said, “who feel that four present day churches arc on| Expectations in Games. dress parade. If my clothes keep men away from church, I shall ; wear plain clothes. Cissell, the $123,000 White Sox | Recently Noland and his close | rookie shortstop, has rendered sat- followe: have been appearing at | isfaction plus so far to the skeptic Sunday servic in overalls, angd | Chicago fans. the laonsresn has shown a In two games with Cleveland, the Ihealthy growth. This will be con- | former Pacific coast league star, has tinued, the pastor said, adding: “I led the \\'hl(c. Sox Dbatty attack, want the working people to-know hagging five hits in eight times at my church and 1 arc ome of them. Dat. In his nervousness in the first T do not want one of them to miss £ame, he pegged a wild throw to [the Dlessings of Christfanity be- -[;1 i Pl:o)‘l(v.‘ Il.:m (::]rgotthf‘\ 1::1\??: “The kid's a comer and worth the 0 not make the man. I want to money,” Manager Ray Schalk ob- now ahout his heart.” served. Noland was ordained by Dr. R. T |H. Miller, pastor of TIndependence! POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED Boulevard Christian church, City, and is a former Drake | Mavor Nicholas Monett of Lodi “niversity student. He has been | TOWnship, who also holds the job hecome a “sick chureh” doctor | Night charged with malfeasance in IHe 18 closi his third terms of ' Office in aiding and abetting in the work in Henderson, production of an immoral perfor- | Englishmen \\'ondc}ing as he left the auditorium in which . the performance was given. What Ford Talks About victor ket and Fiward Cohen A April 13 (A —Englishm+ '_nll-l. 1 o itors of the place, alse Daily Mail today specu- | were made prisoners, as were six to what Henry Ford and actresses and Joseph Nobilletti g George and Queen Mary dis- | said to own the building. You will like g f;cHAmn 0AK may Jose their {dentity also. Hard. } wick, Petersham, Pelham, Shute bury, Relchertown and Ware lie partly within the area to be used as w storage basin, MUSIC WITH PURC Il ASES Moscow, April 13.—(UP)—Grain- buying grgenlzations in many ps of the Roviet Union are conducting | their trade to the strains of brass bands in an effort to compensate the peasants for the loss of the old thrill in private bargaining : The Taste iz| Tells You WHY WILLIAMS & CARLETON CO. EAST NARTFORD, CONNECTICUY Also Packers of WILLIAMS’ EXTRACTS ety ...(..-v-“ The modern system of price-fixing | in advance and other efficiency de- vices have deprived the old timer of the excitement “of barter which zestfully was entered into by both | seller and buyer. As encouragement the peasant to come to town, grain-buyers now have him met on the road to the market place, en- tertained and listens to speeches as- suring him that he is one of the | many pillars of the new Soviet stat: ening at Red Men's Hd 7 Main St. Given By Mattahesett Tribe. 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