Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 26, 1909, Page 11

A FARMER'S TALK TO FARMERS Amateur Opinions of Crop-Raising—Quick Bred Theories . and Facts—The Treatment Required for One Crop Fatal for Another—The Hand Hoe the Old Reliable for Special Work—Easy Farming i Slovenly Farm- ing—Work is what Brings Success Not Loitering. (Written Specially for The Bulletin) Every once in a while I read in some farm paper or magazine how to raise cfops without work. 1 don't fnean in the advertising columns; one expects fairy tales there; but in the correspon- génce rom “Youn; arme: et One writes: “Why break your back and disfigure your fingers pulling Weeds from the onion and beet bed? Get a wheel hoe and let it do the work. Another tells how to raise a crop of corn or potatoes with on! horse cultivation. “I think the hand hoe is about the worst abused tool on the farm,” said one” farmer to me. “The horse hoe does the work easier and quicker.” Note those words: “Easler and quicker. No doubt about that; not the least little bit in the world. With a steady horse, a good-cultivator or horse hoe or spring weeder, and a fair supply of sénse in the man behind the handles, one n do a great deal of work on a great many crops. Yeats ago I dis- covered that the common' smoothing harrow was the most useful tool of any sort 1 could put on my early pptatoes The are always planted in deép, yel- Jow soil, just as early as I can work it into the proper state of dryness and finenes: I put them in the bottom of furrows at least five inches deep, ¢ ver them leve i then go over the patch with a smoothing harrow at least once a week tll the ro how the whole length. No matter if the plants are some of them, two or three inches high the last ¢ the hartow may break off a few chance tops, but it will root up or smother several million sma weeds. The good is so much greater than the harm that I jgnore the latter This ng, being cold andbackward, it took these early tubers a good four weeks t as to show the rows. They harrowed in t manner fou es. When they did come up, they came through mellow trigble dirt, and literally “grew like wee grew faster than the weeds he latter had become dis- couraged, while the 'taters still felt very hopeful and pushing. A trip through the rows with a cultivator, an- other last week with the horse ho and about an hour's work with th hand hoe, chopping out & few docks or Iike deep-rooted weeds tools hadn’t torn up, and soldering milk the some hills which the —and my patch is today as clean as any farmer could wish. So, you see, | believe in making the horses do all the work they can do— and do well. That is the one first re- quirement. The work must be well done., Planting pbtatoes as I do, in tic sort of =oil 1 have for them, nine- tenths—yes, I guess nineteen-twen- tieths of the work on them is done oy horses and ho tools. But one man’s food is anothe man’s ° poison; one crop's requirements are very different from another crop’s. I can't make the game system—nor any other s, which ignores the hand hoe with corn. My corn land is marked, not furrowed; the seed is planted ehallow, not deep; It is dead sure to be more or less littered on the surface with straw from the manure or old stubble which the plaw didn’t wholly cover; I have to “crow-string” it as soon 'as planted to keep the black- winged thieves from digging the seed out. One can't drive a pair of horses back and forth under these sagging strings, and they must stay in place tiil the corn is well up. Moreover, 1f I take them down, as I one year did, to go over the patch with a weeder, the work involved In removing and re- placing them is certainly as much as that saved by the horse tool. Still further, my only experience with the weeder was disastrous to the crop. Enough corn hills were destroyed by it to take all the profit off the patch. And the same harrow which works beautifully with the potatoes is even worse on the corn—does more harm. My exnerience with this latter crop fs that I must use the hand hoe more or less, if I'm to get anything superior in the way of a yield. When I was a lad there were no horse hoes; we “plowed out” the corn rows with a Lght one-horse plow. Then with the band hoes, my father in the lead, we aftacked the hills. First we stooped down and with our fingers pulled sut afl the grass and weeds which were growing in the hills. With the same always handy tools we scratched the dirt mellow in between the corn shoots. Then, with the hand hoe, we cut away the weeds in the little square of dirt which surrounded the central hill, and “L:lled it up” Say, perhaps the boy's horse stepped on| fingers weren't sore, and perhaps his I'ttle back wasn't aching long betore the dlnnér-horn blew! But what corn we used to get from those flelds, tréat- ¢d in this Way from two to four times each season! 1 don't do as much fn- ger work nowadays as we used to, aud the horse-hoe makes possible a great rcdletion in the amount of hand hoe- o required. But I can't ignore the rand-hoe ‘wholly. In order’to get the results I want I have to give my corn palch at least one thorough hoeing, and usually one or two more “dress- ings” around the edges and in the por- {lons where the soil cakes hardest ot | the weeds grow rankest. | " In small garden crops, likewise, T can't rely wholly on labor-saving tools. In such beds as onions and beets and cerrots and parsnips the double-wheel hoe helps much. But when it has done the best you can make it do there re- nuins a lot of work In pulling wee from the row itself, In thinning out tuo thick seedlings, in loosening the cirt between the plants, etc. which we on this half acre have to get down on our knees and do with fingers and d-weeders as we crawl abasedly a‘crg the rows. Of course, a ?ro deal depends upon armin | wiat sort of one s doing— Vhether it is in-tenafve or ex-tensive. 7Tillage methods which suit one system 't work at all with the other. The ior cost is also a determining factor in many casés. You can't afford to put eleven dollars’ worth of labor on a ten dollar crop, The farmer who srreads himself over a hundred acres of cultlvation, egch year, usually works or the principle of getting what he can at the least expense. The trucker, on the ofWer hand, who condenses him self ugon two or three acr follows | & diametrically different line His r “Get the best and biggest crop vou can—and dafn the expense.” It's a waste of time to argue which is tne | best rul>. There isn'c any “best rule” | for all sorts of farmers on all sorts of farms. The right thing for one is tne wrong thing for another. Circum- siances govern, not theories. One may | fiue it more profitable to work ten acres and get twenty bushels to the acre; another may find it better to put tho same work and fertilizer on four acres and get fifty bushels to the acre. Like many other things in life, “it all depends” For me I'm convinced that thorough work, generous manur- ing, daily care of a few acres is more profitable than slipshod work, inade- quate fertilizing, and neglect spread over many acres. And 1 can’t help thinking, after watching the methods of some of my neighbors, that a good deal of their affection for modern la- bor saving machines is due to laziness, rather than to a carefully thought out system of crop management. They sed to tell a story of young Daniel Webster. Following his father in the meadow, he kept complaining that his scythe wasn't hung right. Irritated by his constant fault-finding, the older Webster finally exclaimed: “Hang it vourself, Dan” ~ Whereupon “Dan” hung it on an apple-tree limb and sat down in the shade. It's a great deal easier to lean over the bars and watch the horses and the hired man go round the meadow on the mowing machine than it is to get hold of the old scythe and mow out the fence corners where the machine can't get. That's one réas son why there are so many hedge rows of wasteful shrubbery ~along farm fences. It's a great deal easier to let the horse drag a cultivator a few times back and across a field, stirr- ing about the dirt and killing about half the weeds, than it is to grab a hoe and stir all the dirt and kil all the weeds. That's one,reason why some farms are wearing out Whichever sort of far: he must bear in mind that he can't get something for nothing. No real success can be achieved without work, hard work. Work doesn't always bring sucqess; alas, we know that too well. But success never comes without i There's no easy way to climb a lad g one does der. 1, for one, don’'t believe there’s any easy way to farm it. A man can exist on a farm with very little work it he is willlng to live on soggy potatoes and is lucky at fishing. But > not thinking of that kind. Mod- ern tools are helpful In %o far as they enable us to 40 more work and better work tfan we could do without them. When they tempt us to let poor work pass because they do so much of it 50 easily, their value is open to ques- tion. Good farming calls for head- vork and hand-work both. Neither one will fully take the place of the other. THE FARMER. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES. WINDHAM COUNTY. WAUREGAN. Close of Term at Grammar School. Mrs, A, E. Sheales has been seriously 11 Timothy Reynolds is recovering from & recent illness, and Mrs. Charles Leavens spent in_Occum with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Toplift. A. Lawrence Johnson from his school academy. The grammar school closed last week Friday for the summer vacation. Miss James and Miss Tracy have been re-engaged for the coming year A very handsome stained glass win- hag duties at returned Worcester dow will be unvelled in the Congrega- tlonal church at the morning service on Sunday. The window is in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Stockley and will be unveiled by a nephew, John Whittaker, of Providence. Mrs. 8, Draper of Attleboro, Mass., has_been visiting her sisters, Mrs. J. A. M. Atwood and Miss Lydia Haskell. | < ASHFORD. Mail Carrier for New Star Route. Miss Inez Whittemore was in Provi- dence Monday and Tuesday Miss Fannie O'Donnell of New Ha- ven is visiting in town. 1. P. Richards and family are spend- ing the week in Providence, Meriden and Waterbury. E, P. Adams has contracted to carry the mallg over the new star route be- tween this place and Mansfiald Depot, commencing July 1st, at whioh time the present roufe to Willimantic will be_discontinued. Ralph Poole is in Wallingford . " ABINGTON. Children's Nirht. Grange Observ Chlidren’s night was observed at ge Wednesday night in eharge of Mrs. N. A. Badger. Visito sere present from Chapiin. Esther and deasie King, who have lved with their grandfatber. Rev. C. ¥ H. Burt, have gone to Meriden to re- side with their father. Miss Jessie Dennis of has opened her home here summer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gallup and Mr. Mrs. Fred Botham are at Crescent ch for a week. ieorge and DorothyQ€mith and Mr and Mrs. Thomas Booth of Chicag are at Charles*Smith’s for a few weeks George P, Sumner was in Boston | Tuesday. Providence for the WARRENVILLE. | School Meeting Elects Mrs. George O, Balch Committee — Aid Society Meets. Mr. and Mrs. John Searborough and son Floyd were in town Saturday. At the school meeting Saturday even- | ing Mrs. George O. Balch was elected | cemmittee. | _The Ladies’ Aid society Mrs, David Russ Tuesday W. L. Durkee and famify attended commencentent at Storrs college Wed- met with | nesday, June 18 Arthur E. James recently spent a few days in Hartford and Unionville, Miland Upton is flL Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Case and Dwight Shippee attended the funeral of Miss May Lyon at Westford Monday, June |2 E. A. Fields of Hartford and Mr Tyler of Providence were in town Thursday and Friday of last week. WILSONVILLE, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Jennings of Woonsocket, R. I, were at his father's Saturday and Sunday. ’ School closed last™ Friday for the summer vacdtion. S. Adams was a Worcester visitor Thursday. Joséph Baker and son of New Bos- ton called on relatives Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Brightman were out of town visitors one day the past week. The contractors have finlshed grad- ing and finishing the piece of road to- ards Abington. It has not been in- spected and approved by the highway commissiorer yet. " RAWSON. Roadway at Overhead Crossing Com- . pleted. Dr. Dwight Lewis of New Haven was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Fulléer on Sunday. The roadway under the track at the Eleventh section has been completed and is open fo travel. Mrs. Patrick Malley of Pomfret has been spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. James Fitagerald. Charles Phillips of Plainfield was the guest of his father on _Friday, whipping the brooks, bringing in a string of 25 trout, most of them weigh- ing one pound each. Many of the farmers are picking very nice strawberrie PHOENIXVILLE. ish State School Meeting. Mrs. W. A. Downing is visitihg her parents in Worcester. At the annual school meeting Sat- urday evening the samle officers were chosen as last year. W. H. Latham and his son Bdwin B. Latham of Willimantic were here Tuesday. They made the trip in their automobile M. F. Latham was in Providence on Saturday. SOUTH COVENTRY. Notes of the Week. Contractors Road — Horace Parkburst and daughter, Mrs. C. Haskell of Jewett City, were the guests of the Whitford sisters at Whippoorwill farm Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Ladd are spending the summer with \Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barber. Mrs. C. BE. Douglass of Norwich spent the day Tuesday with Mrs. Thomas Barber. Fred Lewis of Plainfield was the guest of Miss Ethel day. Hyde over Sun- DATVILLE John Jordan of Cherry Valley, Mass spent Sunday at the home of Miss Hat- tie Marfitt Mrs. William Reynolds is visiting friends in New York state Mr, and Mrs. F. L. Woodard and Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Potter were guests of Willlam F. Bidwell, instead of W. F. Bennett Miss Deborah Russell, who has been visiting in Mystic, has returned home accompanied by Miss Alice P. Fish Mrs. Roy Spaulding and son, Philip, of Ashland, N, D., are spending several weeks with Dr. and Mrs. Darling. SOUTH WINDHAM. School closed Thursday afternoon with a picnic given by the teachers. Cake and ice cream were served. Mr. and Mrs. Guilford Smith opened their summer home in Windham Wed- nesday. TOLLAND COUNTY. BOLTON NOTCH. Stolen Team Found Near Belknap— General News. Walter Doolittle and his sister, Sa- die, attended the circus at Hartford Tuesday. They dreve to Manchester Green and left their rig in Arthur ok's barn. When they returned, they found that someone had taken the rig. They walked to Bolton and found the horse and carriages Wed- nesday morning near the Belknap postoffice. The persons that stole the rig are known and arrests are to fol- low. Mr. and Mrs. Loren 8. Maine were in PBristol and at Lake Compounce last week. * Judge N. C. Maine was in Hartford and Waterbury Tuesday and Wednes- day. Mrs. Irving Hawkes Is spending a few days in Waterbury. Miss Ruth Warner of South Man- chester is spending_several her grandmother, Mrs. M. ard Master Howard Sumner of Rockville the guest of his grandfather, M. Howard Miss Emma Brown of South Man- chester is visiting in town. WILLINGTON. Miss Lyon's Death Due to Overwork and 11l Health. s with E. How- is W, The tragic death of Miss May Lyon, who took her own life last Friday r.ght, has cast a gloom over the vhole countryside. Tl heaith, hard study, the dread of taking the state teachers’ examination, and also of an irpending operation for append overwhelmed her as she came over- tited from the strain of the last day of her very successful schiool year. Sunday morning Rev. Austin Gard- ver at the Congregational church r.€ached on the Publican and the Luke xvii:9-14, afternoon at the Baptist church the Rev. Mr. Darrow's sermon reated of the faith of Noah. Robert Fratt's cornet was a pleasant addition t> the organ musie Miss Alice W. Pratt is home from the state normal school, Willimantic, and Miss Edna Bugbee from the nor. el school mer New vacation, CHESTNUT HILL. Haven, for the sum- Organizations Combine to Buy Piano | for Yeomans' Hall. A fine piano has been placed in Yeo- mans' hall. The instrument was ob- tained through the combined efforts of » different orders and f th »wn, including the A, O. U. W. the Grange, Success club, Ladies’ A fety and the public generally. course was taken to insure to al right to use it freely at any and a times, The fair of the W. 8. S. E. on Sat- urday last was a great success, the re- ceipts being $97.97, Eugene Oehiers stepped on a_scythe Thursday. The lad wa& barefoot at the time and received a severe-gash. TURNERVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. Will Harvey of New York spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Generous. Mrs. D. F. Jaquith is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Frank Belcher of Staf- fordville, and Mrs. H. C. Barlow of South Coventry. Former Station Agent Frank White is visiting at T. R. Prentice's. Several from here attended com- mencement éxercises at Bacon acad- emy, at Colchester, Wednesday. Mre. Joseph Stubbs of Baltic spent Friday with her daughter, Mrs. Rob- ert Generous. School closed Tuesday for the sum- mer vacation. Miss Alice Slater, who has taught here successfully the past two terme, has gone to her home in Colchester. WILLINGTON. EAST" Mrs. Holt Sells Place. has been Jane Snow making her mother, Anna Snow, a visit of several days, while Mr, ‘and Mrs. Lymaa Squirés were in Hartford visiting their son, Walter, The bridge near place is/ completed. Mrs. Luclan Holt has sold her place and soon returns to Nedark, N. J. to make her home with her son, Dr. Wil- bur Holt. the Lucian Holt & s Local Nine' Defeats Lebanon—Waest Strest Social Eight Gives Highly Successful Fi Miss Florence Latham, who bas just completed a course at Pratt institute, New Yotk has gone to Saratogs, N. Y. as assistant manager in an in- dustrial school. It is expected that Rev. William Prentice of Bast Hartford will oceu” py the pulpit at the morning next Sunday. Mr. Prentice With- his “boys” is camping out at Columbia lake. He will exchange with Rev. Mr. Harris. The ladies’ ald society met with Mrs. Harriet R. Yeomans on Wednes- day afternoon. S. B. West attended the banquet of the Army and Navy club, of which he is a member, which took place at Groton Friday. Saturday afternoon a ball game was played on Columbia green by the lo- cal players and the Lebanon nine. The game stood 15 to 1 in favor of the Leb- anons. This afternoon the Columbias £0_to Lebanon to play the same nine. Raymond Hunt, instructor in La- fayette college in Easton, Pa., with his wife, is spending the summer Va- cation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hunt, on Columbia green. Social Eight's Sale Nets $37.97. The West Street Social Eight gave a pleasing fair and entertainment &t Yeomans' hall Saturday afternoon and evening. More than a’ year ago the club decided to make an effort to raise funds for the improvement of the cem- etery in West street, and aprons, sun bonnets and numerous other useéful and ornamental articles, the result of their handiwork, together with candy, e cream, cake and other refreshments were placed on sale at the fair, The various tables were well patfonized by the crowd in attendance. The hall was handsomely decorated for the sale. The Columbia cornet band un- der the direction of Prof. A .E. Ly- man, their instructor and leader. gave a fine concert on the green in_front of the hall. A beautiful “Rally Round the Flag” quilt was dispesed of, go- ing to Mrs. Kate Nordlind. Another handsoine quilt was disposed of by vote for the most popular lady in town; the winner of this was Mrs. Louise Marshall, a sister of Mrs. ordlind’s. The sale of articles and refreshments was continued in the evening and a_pleasing entertainment was given. Philip Borden. who is spending the summer at the Gilman summer home, Sky Farm, in West street, was present with ~his large graphophone and gave several fine se- lections, consisting of operatic, band, and minstrel records, including a se- lection by Caruso, the noted tenor. But the most popular record was one that Mr. Borden forgot(?) to bring with him and so was obliged to give it himself, and the hearty encors brought out a response equally as good Mjss Julia White of Coventry. a graduate from the Emerson Sohool of Oratory, gave several fine recitations. After the entertainment articles re- maining uction. unsold were disposed of at The fair netted $97.97. Personi Egbert Brown has been visiting his granddaughter, Mrs. Masterton, in Middletown. Miss Grace Randall left last week for Colorado. Mrs. W. H. Kneeland and daugh- ter were Hartford visitors last Thurs- day Mrs. Mary B. Yeomans is spending several days at her home on Columbia green, STAFFORDVILLE: Supt. Lambert Resigns from Garland Mill—Schools Close for Summer. Miss Anna Tobin was the guest of her brother, James, in Meriden over Sunday. Forrest Thompson of West Swanzey, N. H., recently visited his father, W. A. Thompson. s. Frank Belcher and two sohs been spending a week with her parents in Coventry and sister in Tur- rville. James Putnam of West Swanzey, N. H, has accepted a position as machin- ist in the Garland mill A salad supper was served in the Methodist church vestry on Thursday evening. A 'bus load of people attended the centennial celebration of the Stafford Hollow Baptist church Sunday evening and heard a fine sermon by Rev, W. D. Fennell, D. D, of Hartford. New Superintendent. Samuel Lambert, who has been su- perintendent of the Garland mills for the last few months, has resigned, and Mr. Weizner is the present superin- tendent. Pupils Enjoy Picnic. Sahools closed last week Friday and the local teachers gave the children and friends a pienic in Carpenter's grove. Refreshments were served and a fine time was enjoyed by all BOLTON. Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Watrous— South District School Clos Harry M. Loomis has sold his farm to_Chester Barbero of Bridgeport. Some from this place attended the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Watrous in the Congregational church, Andover. June 19. Mrs. Watrous was born In Kast Hartford, September 13, 1827, Nv- ed in Andover the greater part of her life. Her husband, Mahlor Watrous, died several years ago. She is surviv- ed by one daughter, Mrs, Levi Church 1l of Wethersfield. Mrs. Watrous died at the home of her njece, Miss Maria Wetherill of Manchester, where she had made her home recently. She was highly esteemed by all. Robert Von Deck was taken to the Hartfo hos<nital last week, i#ll with citie, and is reported to be im- g s=ince the operation. 1ol in the south district clos- lay for the summer recess. re two cases of measies on nountain. Mrs, Dallas Hanlon and three daugh. ters, of Californta, are visiting at C. Loomis’, Miss Maude E. White was a recent gpest at E. J. White's in Hebron. Miss Martha Perry of Hoiden, Mass., is visiting at her brother’s, Rev. C. M. Perry’ STORRS. Storrs Hall Undergeing Cleaning— Prof. Clinton Visiting Father in De- troit. Storrs hall is undergoing a ough cleaning nd kalsominin = paratory to th: «jpcning of t mer school teachers on Jun Prof. Clinton is spending two w at his father's home near Detroit, | Mich. Miss Susie Rice has returned from a business trip to Providence. Mrs, H. D. Edmond attended the re- union of the state normal echoo! in Worcester on Wednesday, June 23. Miss Davenport of Norwich has been spending the week with Prof. and Mrs. Frederic_Stoneman, Prof. J. . Fitts ia building a house opposite H. V. Bugbee's store, with the zesistance of persons from Hartford and Forbush. Rapld progress is being made and it is expected to be com- pleted by early fall, Prof. and Mrs. Wheeler have beed visiting friends in Amherst, Mass, Admiral Perez Gaeitua of the Chil- ian navy_who, with three otlier Chilian naval officers, is on a long tour, has been extended every courtesy by the navy department to inspect the various Amerioan navy yards. Grange Has a Memorial Day—Tobacy co Setting Nearly Completed. Miss Matie E. Niles has returned and Wil spend the summer ith her parents, Mr. Mrs. % Niles, e L , » at Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Howard. Cheney of Manchester were Suests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hale on Sunday. Last Sunday was observed as Mem- orial day by the grange. Farmers have aimost completed set- ting tobaceo. Arthur Hale is r‘lmnunt the 1‘::' son proj , previous the moving i of M. Bingey and Sr. Hayden: Mrs. Mary Noble is very low with heart trouble. Miss Reynolds of Hartford was here for a few days last week. Mrs. Maud Kimball is home from Boston for the summer. The parks have recently been taken care of and the flower beds planted. Mrs. Mandell and- son Howard are in town for the summer, having spent the winter in New York and New Jer- sey. Fne body of Mr. Stewart, who died last Saturday, was taken to East Hartford for burial on Monday. Miss Mary Thompson suffered a shock last week. Arthur Hale will go to Norwich to attend the celebration in July. GILEAD. Recent School Meetings—$25 Gifts to Church and Aid Society. C. S. Hutchinson and family hav returnéd to Hartford from spending week at Mr, Hutchinson's old home. E. W. Webster has returned to Springfield, Mass., after spending sév- eral weeks with relatives herc. Hebron grange met at the hall Fri- day evening. The Ladies’ Ald society held their annual strawberry festival at the hall Wednesday gvening. Some from here are In Colchester this week attending the exercises of commencement week. Miss Carrie Hutchinson was in Put- nam Tuesday. Misses Doris and Eva Hutchinson of Princeton, Mass., are visiting at Maple- lawn! At school meetings recently held W. N. Hills was elécted committee for the Eighth district and E. E. Foote com- mittee for the Tenth distriet. A number from here attended the graduation exercises at Hebron Mon- day evening. Many farmers this week. Mrs. Lucy (Ford) Spencer of Man- chester has recently given $25 to the Ladies' Aid society. Gelon P. Randall of Rocky Ford, Col. a native of this place, forwarded a draft of $35 to the ecclesiastical society as a token of his kind regards to the place and to help pay the expenses of the society. commenced haying SPRING HILL. Miss Julia Moulton Enjoys Outing— Personal Interests. The Mission band met with Mrs. Ar- thur Palmer last Saturday. The members are very busy. Rev. Leonard Smith gave Miss Julia Moulton a pleasant outing Monday by taking her to Willimantic for a_visit with her venerable friend, Miss Sarah E. Bennett. Miss Moulton has passed her 90th birthday, but is a well pre- served woman. Mrs. Washburn of Coventry has been the guest of Miss Ida Reynolds re- cently. Miss May Storrs visited last week. Mr. and Mrs, B. M. Sears have been spending several days in New York. Mildred and Myron Cummings are at their grandfather's, B. M. Sears’, for the summer. Miss Vera Freeman left for Bridge- port Wedneaday for & week's stay with er former classmate, Mrs. Laura ‘Wheeler Thornton. W. A. Weld went to Palmer, Mass,, recéntly Mzs. Olin is to remove to Storrs. Several from this way attended the graduating exercises of the Windham High school. Mrs. Bingham was in Willimantic on Wednesday to attend the reunion ar- rang2d by Mrs Sibley. Dinner was served at the Hooker house. Mrs. C. C. Davis led the Christian Endeavor service Sunday evening. SOUTH COVENTRY. Mrs. Sarah White Attends Class Re- union at Albatny. i o Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Robertson of Lexington, Mass., are visitors at Ad- dison Kingsbury's. Mrs,* Alice McChristie Phelps of ‘Wallingford has been visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. Frank Tracy. Miss Ethel M. Hull of the Phelps school, Wallingford, is home for the summer. Miss Fanny White of Beacon Falls, is at her home for the summer. N. Searle Light of Hackensack, N. J., is spending a week at the parson- age. Mre. Sarah White has returned from Albany, N. Y., where she attended the 50th annual reunion of her class at the state normal college. She accompanied Mrs. Burton of Hartford, a classmate. EAGLEVILLE. Lanchin, in Mystic Emil proprietor of the Eagle Mills boarding house, is serving | green peas, the first of the season. A number of men who are engaged in clearing a path for the proposed pole line aré staying in this viilage at present. Mrs. Louise Clancy returned to Cooperstown, N. Y., on Monday after spending six months with her mother in town. UNION. Morris Marcy of Southbridge with Ccorge Taylor of Worcester visited fiends in town the first. of the week. Hey. Mr. Childs of 'Holland with M-, Boussard of Long lsland called on Rev- Mr. Graham Saturday. B. H. Horton Was reappointed dis- trict committee in distrjet No. 1 Sat- urday. Mrs. Mary Dodge visited in Southe bridge last Friday. L4 COUNTY HOME. Be Ready for Ocoupancy in a Month—Work Progressing. will The new county home in Allingtown, New Haven county, is nearing com- letion, and will be ready for ocoup- aancy in a month., Thé building is at present in the hands of plumbers and painters. Mrs, Agnes E. Midell, who has been matron at the present New Haven county home for several years, will be in_charge of the new home. The children, many of whom are be- ing boarded in the homes in the vicini- ty of New Haven, will be transferred to the new home immediately after its opening. Joy Rider Fned. Frank Bucklyn, a chaufféur, who took a party friends on a joy ride Saturday in the automobile of the Ho- tel Gerde, of Hartford, without the owner's parmission, was fined $100 and costs in the Bast Hartford town court. The car struck a wagon, injuring the occupants, John Golder and his son. The charge against Pucklyn was reeite loss driving and evading responsibility. WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. L. HOPKINTGHN. Ordination Today—Indian Arrewheads Unearthed. | A children's day concert was held in the Seventh-day Baptist chufch last Saturday morning. The exercise was entitied Volce of Nature, and was well rendered by the Bible school and oth- ers. Mrs. Charles N. Kenyon took great pains in training the children. Reév. B. P. Mathewson attended the anniversary exricses of the Connecti- cut Literary institute at Suffield, Conn., Juné 14 and 15, of which schosl he was a graduate in the class of 1839. The ordination of Roger W. Lewis to the office of deacon in the Seventh- day Bagtist church will take place this (Saturday) afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Mrs. E. P. Mathewson and daughter Mabel are visiting {riends in Warten- ville, Conn. George H. Sprague has purchased a 1ot of land, containing three-fourths of an acre, opposite his house, from Wil- liam V.’ Avery. G. Arthur ‘Mills was preparing a piece of corn ground on hig land east of this village last week an0 unearth- ed several Indian arrowheads in good condition. Postmaster W. H. Brown has what appears to be a stone chopping Kknife, a plece of fine workmanship. Eleven were graduated from Hop- kinton high school June 16. At the Hope Valley high school thére was no graduating class, but twelve recei ed certificates of work completed i the ninth grade and entrance into the high school next fall ARCADIA. to Beach Pond— of School. Automobile Parti Cle: ’ Many automobile parties puss through this place en route to Beach Tend A family ,named Hampton, from Tennessee, recently moved into fhe house formerly owned and occupied bs_John H. Edwards. Miss Phebe L. Richmond closed the spring term of school last Friday. George G. Palmer, formerly of place, now of Willow Valley, is (Il Benjamin Shelon was the guest of Manfred C. Arnold and femily of ast Creenwich, R. I, last weeck. Stepheri A, Cahoon of Wyoming_ was the guest Sunday of Benjamin Shel- aom. < John Arnold will be mail carrier from Arcadia to Hope Valley, com- neneing July 1. " ROCKVILLE. Back to the Old Home from Wiscon- sin—Strawberry Supper. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Day of Beloit, , made a brief visit with the lat- ter's aunt, Mrs. L. F. Saunders, last week. Mrs. Day went went with her parents when a child and this was her first visit to Rhode Island since that time. Miss Elva Woodmansee has been the this W guest of friends at Cross’ Mills and Providence this week. Frank Jordan and family of Hope Valley have moved into one of the fac- tory tenements at Centerville The strawberry supper given by the Loyal Workers at the home of Eilo G. Barber Wednesday night was well at- tended. Ice cream was sold on the lawn. 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Your mouth wil from ine cumbrances. > ®Before we accorr this result |3 we put, the gums and the natural | teeth In a healthy « lition, tight- ening the teeth which may bé loose and curing pyorrhea If the patient is afflicted with that dreadful dis- THOMAS JEFFERSON All of the teeth we supply are D D8 il practical teoth \ in its own ot 5 ocket fall " pature’s plan, so Originator of Dr. King's Restor- | Spcket f = Ny Paivided i ¥ ation” Mathod * for . the ' hatural |77 Ehat the strain s eRpaly Civiles. restoration of teeth g- orl; and use them In exactly the same of the King Safe Syst uter 46 Bo. whuId. M naet Painless Dentistry and, Inventor | 1 i S e of the “Natural Gum" Set ot | 'f t0 deceive Expects. Wiy Teeth, Etc.. Ete. All rights re B e BRAUTINT to 100k at-aid.a ot B served. of constant delight to the one who An fmpression has gone forth that there is, sor urgical oparation ¢onhected with tie method of re: Ing mi teet Some peonle have writtén in o know It we bore down into the bone and put the teeth in on pegs ! % Others have an idea we 'set ‘the tew feeth Into t} kets where the natural, teeth were originally 1t 15 quite nathral that some ! uch qites- tions, and In order that they ma. tate that there is no boring, no cutting, no this method, noth- ing about the work that is painful wl be atterward Patients leave the office with these teet! ice and at once begin chewing meat, eating candy, tous h the same com- fort they would enjoy if every tooth In their head had grown there It we couldn’t promise this and r ® & promise, the Re- storation Method would not be a success. It w n ter than ordinary bridgework or partial plgte WE ARE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS All Forms of Dentistry Treated by Experts. While the Restoration Method Is our great specis we are general dental practitioners as well. From the simplest filling to the most in- tricate plece of porcelaln work, our experts.are at the service of the 3 ablic. Naturally we would do sich work well, much bett t could ba done in a one-man office, for the operators employed here are ali men of the very highest skill. They need to be to do t on work Bunglers would not be tolerated in our office for a d er would dental students. We demard the finished craftsman, b it the opere ating chair and in the laboratory KING DENTAL PARLORS, Dr. Jackson, Manager. Franklin Square, Norwich, Conn, apridTuThs N NOTICE! THE ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NORWICH DECLARE THE FIRING OR EXPLODING OF ANY FIRE WORKS OR FIREARMS OR KEEPING UP ANY BONFIRE IN ANY STREET OR HIGHWAY OF THE CITY: TO BE A NUISANCE PUNISHABLE BY A PENALTY OR FOR- FEITURE OF FIVE DOLLARS. DURING THE) ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION TO BE HELD ON JULY 4TH, 5TH AND 6TH, 1909, THE DANGER OF SERIOUS INJURY TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY FROM THE EXPLOSION OF FIRE. ARMS, FIREWORKS, FIRECRACKERS, AND THE LIGHTING OF BON- FIRES WILL BE GREATLY INCREASED BY REASON OF THE CROWD- ED CONDITION OF THE STREETS, THE UNUSUAL NUMBER OF MOUNTED PERSONS AND THE CHARACTER OF THE DECORATIONS ON BUILDINGS. ALL GOOD CITIZENS ARE CALLED UPON TO OBSERVE AND TO ASSIST THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED ORDI- NANCE. ALL INFRACTIONS THEREOF WILL BE RIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED. Dated at Norwich this 22d day of June, 1900, COSTELLO LIPPITT, Mayor of the City of Norwich. My Lady Beautiful heeks, rounded figure, Health is true beauty. 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