Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 14, 1909, Page 11

It is the Little Things that Make Up Life—1 hereis Nothing New Under the Sun—Neglecting Small Details Ends in Large Losses—The Difference in Farmers. 4 A shingle s only a little thing. 1If Peter Tumbledown had put one on his leaky horse barn roof last week before the rain he wouldn't have lost those two bags of ground feed which were soaked by the leaking water and promptly heated and spolled when the following hot wave struck on. He lost $3.10 because a shingle was too small a thing to engage his massive intellect. You all remember Ben Franklin’s fa- mous fable: “For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse went lame; for want of a horse the rider was captured and his des- patches taken away; for want of these the battle was lost.” Not long ago I passed a broken down wagon by the side of the road. One wheel was hope- lessly smashed, one axle badly bent, part of the load spilled beyond recov- ery; a whole day had been lost to the teamster, all his day’s pay, several dol- lars for repairs, and so on—all because he had thought a certain worn out bolt too small a matter to waste time in replacing before he started out. ‘(Written especially for The Bulletin.) “'It's the little things that make up e. To which true and ancient saying I can imagine you responding: “Of course: and tne sun rises in the east, end o plus two equal four. Teali us something new, old Truepenny.” Cnn*t?“o it, dear boy; there is noth- ing new to tell. KFven the freshest society scandal was enacted and chron- icled hundreds of years ago, and }‘Il-! been hundreds -of times, since. The latest fire on Franklin square is just another fire over again, ard the new- est murder is hardly a variation on the one in Eden's borders, many thousand years back. | am not so wise as the Great King, who was also called “The Preacher, and he had to give it up ages .in_ce. “That which hath been is that which shall be, and that which hath been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there a thing whereof men say, See, this is new? It hath been already, in the ages which were before us” If vou don't believe it, why, fight it out with Solomon; it is he who says so. They had wheat trusts in ancient Judea and the Assyrian transportation com- panies used to pay rebates four thous- and years ago. There was at least one steam engine in _Alexandria in the vears marked B. C., and if the priests of Isis didn’t have telephones and tele- zraphs four millenniums before Morse, thev had something quite as effective in carrying messages instantly over hnndrads of miles of space. In the way of philosophical truth, the foggy vaporizings of German metaphysicians are only a weak dilution of the oracles of a prehistoric past, and the very latest divagations of theusophy and soul-seience are hut re-hashes of a lore that was commonplace in anclent- est India. Don’t, therefore, sneer at this little ol farmer man because he says something you have heard be- fore, There's an automobile now standing before a neighboring blacksmith’s shop which went into a ditch and against a wall, killed one man and seriously hurt two more, the other day, just because somebody didn’'t properly make or fit one little gear. Some years ago one farmer's wife complained that she couldn’t afford to make butter; she didn’t get enough to pay the feed bills. She fell ill and a competent neighbor took hold of the dairy. In two weeks this latter woman had turned a loss into a good profit, simply by taking pains in two or three small details o1 caring for the milk and saving 'the cream. Another neighbor came to see me recently. Could he get a little ice? His had all wasted and he was going to suffer 1 dofi't know how much loss unless he could get some for his milk room. I have but a small icehouse and am already furnishing one custoues, beside supplying my own needs from it. So I couldn’t heip him. He has a bigger house than mine, put more ice into it last winter, uses no more than I do. You see, when I take out a cake I carefully pack the sawdust back over the exposed remainder, tramp it down enough to make it compact, lay my shovel over the next cake, so that I don’t have to uncover a square rod to find it tomorrow. He, on the other hand, grabs a shovel and digs away any old place till he strikes ice, yanks, tears, breaks out enough for immediate use, throws it out of the door and the shovel into some corner, half the time doesn't eyen take pains to shut the door when he comes out.” I'm, sorry for him, -but I'm not going to suffer for lack of ice myself by letting him have what I've taken pains to preserve when he could have had more than I by taking equal care, The trouble with most of us is, not that we haven't enough new truth to go on, but that we don't use the old truths we know all about.: “It's the little things that count in life.” You have heard it scorks of times; you probably believe it is true. But it is also highly probable that you don’t act on that belief once a week. If veu do, you are the exception. There's a’ great difference between knowing the truth and living the truth. Some people know all the rules of grammar, yet vinlate a dozen of them every day. A very few people talk good English who couldn’'t repeat one of the book rules correctly. Still fewer know the rules so thoroughly and obey them so instinctively that they in- variably say the right. thing in the right way and according to the law of the language, before they stop to think what the law {s. But they are the very small minority, the exceps tions, the salt in the salad. Four times out of five—I guess one might say nineteen times out of twen- ty, our accidents and our losses and our discomforts are due to our own fault in not looking after the little things. = Those whom our Bulletin “Man-Who-Talks” wisely and wittily Some great man once said that ®genius was nothing more than the capacity for taking infinite pains. Cer- | g)i5 the “children of hard luck” ar : 3 3 d e tain it is that the one thing which | canerally the fathers of that same luck. {mpresses most observers of great Not always, of course; some things can't be foreseen and prevented, no matter how careful of the little things we may be. One can't help dying If he's struck by a healthy lightning sh; but he can help leaning against a wet tree trunk when the storm fis roaring its loudest. Deacon Sanders says he couldn't help it that his best cow choked to death on a green apple out in pasture the other day. Perhaps not, but if he had cut the bushes out of that pastyre ten years ago, when he ought to have done so, and wnen the wild apple tree was only a sprout, where would the green apple haye come from? genjuses is their unusual faculty for detail. Mr. Edison doesn't perfect his wonder-working' inventions all at one blow of the hammer. He has factories full of machinery and of strange sup- plies, busy with the activities of scores of chemists and metallurgists and elec- tricians and engineers and skilled warkmen, each one of whom is a pick- ed man in his specialty. Yet Mr. Bldi- #on is the master of them all in every smallest detail of the innumerable sep- #Murate and differing intricacies by the combinati)n ¢f which, after thousands of trials and experiments, he at last achieves success. But, as a rule, we farmers have souls above details—or think we have. We can’t see into the corners of our fences, hecause they are not so prominent as thé ‘spreading expanses of the open fields. Of course, there are exceptions: some of us are so stingy and small that we see only the little things and we ean't see anything else. But these old hunks are rather rare. And they are gensrally hardly sane people, in the ¢true sense of that word. They are warped and twisted deformities, to be pitied, not quoted. The most of us waste opportunity and lots profit just because we can’'t or won't look after the little things. \ Three years ago, | noticed a little :-tch of Orange hawk-weed growing y the roadside about six miles from my place. It was close by the home of a busy farmer who raises big fields of corn and potatoes and oats. In fact, it was right against his fence, But it was too small a thing for him to notice—certainly too small to excite enongh interest to send him oui with a lttle salt to kil it. In due course it ripened and secattered its seeds, Now the pest is so firmly established in that town that farmers are writing to the papers to agk how to save their pastures. All agree that it started from this little chance patch; it was abso- lutely unknown till then. Ten minutes is but a little time; a pound.of eoar: salt is of but little value; the combina- tion of the two three years ago would have saved a great many losses and & tremendous amount of work. According to the latest crop pros- pects, tne corn yield of the United States is going to come close to 3,000,000,000 bushels. That's a whop- pin’ lot of corn. But it's all made up of single kernels. And nature takes more pains and lavishes more solicitous and constant care on the fashioning and ripening of each of those separate kernels than some thousand-acre farmers of the wide west think they ought to give to their whole farms in a year. It's out of the little things that big things are made: “Many a mickle makes a muckle,” as the Scotch saying has If there is any one thing which, more than another, differentiates the pros- perous from the unthrifty farmer, 1 believe it is this very matter of de- tails. In many cases all the difference between profitable and unprofitable farming lies in the attention given to minor matters, after the bigger affairs have been looked after. T find that the work I do in my truck patch evenings, after supper and the chores—just “puttering” here and there, nursing one backward plant, pulling a few en- croaching weeds, tending to a new hatch of bugs, nailing a board on the line fence, catching up the looge threads of the day’s work—I find that this sort of thing often counts for about as much in the debit and credit account of the gardens as the solid work I put in between 7 a. m. and 6 THE FARMER. . LETTERS FROM TWO STATES. ~ WINDHAM COUNTY. ' MOOSUP Guarantee Dlnontinuea, Spinners $trike—8unday School Class Has Picnic at the Lak The spinners’ strike at the woolen remains practically unchanged. J. ‘Werner, agent of the American len company, explains that the spinners have practically been work- by the pound or piece work here- tofore, with the difference that they have recelved a guarantee of ten dol- lars a week, under which plan some of the men have received as high as twelve and thirteen dollars. No other mill in the American Woolen com- grounds and put in cement walks and curbing. This promises to be one of the most attractive residences in the village, Mrs, Kate Payne is recovering from an injury to her foot while splitting wood a few days ago. At one time z.here were symptoms of blood poison- ng. By order of the official board of the Moosup Methodist church the church will be closed for the next two weeks and the pastor, Rev. Mr. Wheeler, will spend a part of the time at Button- woods beach. Miss Ella and Lilla Millett are spending two weeks at the Williman- tic camp grounds. Joseph Daigneault, in tharge of the worsted department of the Pocassett Worsted company of Thornton, R. I, is visiting with his wife at his moth- pany’s syndicate pays this guarantee er's, Mrs. Amanada Daigneault's, of and as tbe cost of spinning is more | MOOSUp. thgnlln othe; mlll-,ithedgulumn can not longer be continued in competi- tion with other mills in the company. WESI’_M_IF_S_TER Mr. Werner says that men can con- | Miss Alice Baker Recovering from tinue to earn good wages by the new system, , but they seém unwilling to make the attempt. Miss Cora Stainthorpe has gone to the Rhode Island hospital to receive Injuries. The C. E. meeting Sunday evening was led by the president, Edgar H. treatment for trouble with her left eye, | PATkRuTSt. | b Outing for Sunday School Class. Mass., spent a couple of days here’ last week with the pastor, Rev. A. A, Smith, and made several calls in the parish. Misses Grace' and Sybil Rathbun have returned from a visit with their aunt in Central Village. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coulter are entertaining their little nephew from New Haven. Miss Alice Baker, who was thrown from her carriage near Plainfield de- pot and severely Injured two weeks ago. is improving slowly. Mrs. Merrill Button, Miss Carrie Button, Mrs, George Rathbun and Wednesday Mrs. John Stanton gave her Sunday school class of boys a pleasant outing at Moosup lake. The ‘boys passed the day with games of va- rious kinds and boating. At noon ta- bles were spread under the large oaks and a lunch of cake, fruit and ice eream was enjoyed. Handsome Residence Planned. The foundations of William Bella- vance’s new hause on School street are in and the frame work is up and nearly covered. C. R. Johnsan is put- ting fo @ well and will grade the from an ppendicitis that he has been removed tr‘.’m Backus hos- | pital to his home. ‘Wednes- day at the funeral of Nicholas Powers. b (CENTRAL VILLAGE August Outings for Local Resj - People Who Are Being MW“; Here. Edwin Kennedy and William Loring spent Wednesday in Providence. Mrs. Daniel Dutton- and daughter Olive spent Wedne: at Crescent park and Rocky Point, R. 1. Mrs. Kate Kaston spent Tuesday in Pawtucket, where she was one of the entertainers of the Woman’'s Relief corps, George Oxley, who has been ill for some time, has gone to the home of his son in Clinton, Mass. ‘Walter Westcott injured two fingers badly while playing ball with the Dan- ielsons Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George R. Torrey and son Maurice have returned from Southampton, L. 1, where they have been visiting Mr. Torrey’s sister, Mrs. Charles Walker. Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, Mrs. Willlam Kyle and little daughter, Mildred, have returned to Pawtucket, R. I, after spending a month here with rel- atives, Mrs. Alpheus Ryder and son Ray- mond, who have been spending the past month with Mrs. Amos Peck in Attleboro, Mass., returned home Mon- day nigrt. Mrs. Charles Bragg is spending a week in New York. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Fearbocker, returned with her to New York, where she will visit be- fore returnin gto her home in Phila- delphia. George Harrington, who has been at the Newport naval station for several months, is visting his brothers, Ar- thur and Frank Harrington. Ulysses G. Cooper is moving his family to his new residence, recently built on Texas Heights. Mrs. Hattie Kennedy of Providence has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. Al- fred Hill and M ‘Warren Hopkins. Home from Pleasure ch. Mrs. William Simmons hag returned from the Simmons cottage at Pleas- ure peach, where she has been spend- ing the sumfmer with her daughters, Mrs. John E. Vaughn and Miss Mari- am and Stanley Vaughn of Norwich. Mrs. Stephen Marcustre of Webster, Mass., came here Saturday on account of the illness of her little son, who is spending two weeks with his grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burke. The baby has recovered, Mrs, George Loring is spending tweo ;ee"fil with her brothers in Westerly, Willilam Dean spent Sunday at thé Greene camp meeting. Rev. A. J. Hetrick of Canterbury preached here Sunday. Mrs. John Shelley spent Sunday at Greene, R, L Dance Postponed. The dance to have been held by the Central Social club Saturday evening was postponed. Sixteen young peo- ple went to Canterbury Plains to a dance that evening. Misses Sybil and Grace Rathbun, who have been visiting relatives here, have returned to Canterbury. Marjorie Tillinghast is fast regain- ing the use of her shoulder, dislocated spent by a fall. Mrs. John Phillips Friday down the Providence river. Supt. john L. Chapman returned on Friday from a pleasure trip to Maine. Mrs. Charles Barber has been en- tertaining her sisters, Mrs. Luther Eaton of Plainfleld and Mrs. Waity Fillmore and daughter Grace of Wor- cester. i Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hopkins, Fred Brewster and George Torrey have been . D. Pond have re- ‘vacation spent with - ence. is for a short , Conn. tt has returned to g 5 ord, Mass. Miss len L. Wittér accompanied her for a uhort‘flm%‘ 5 Riley B. Witter was in Boston the past week. Bl Rt M:u*flfim is visiting. at the pti aTs . Mr.edllt& Mrs. !\'nd?k A. Sml}‘r’]‘“{&‘ enjoy a_shore nner at elds Point Saturday. Mr. and Edwin Spalding of ‘Worcester with their daugntrer were gle guests ;t n_:(r ‘and Mrs. Frank A. ulding Sunda; ';lr. and Mrs. (;nmon Frink of Can- terbury were with Mr, and Mrs, F. A. Spaoulding Sunday. Miss Jane Welch of Hartford is vis- iting Mrs. Lily C, Kingsley and daugh- ter. Miss Ethel Alllen is visiting Mr. and Mrs, William R. Pond of Meriden. Mrs. Dewitt C. Park has been visit- ing her daughters in Boston. A. S. Fiel has been visiting In Boston the past week. Mrs. Mary B. Meeks and Mrs. An- gelina Skirven of <hester town, Mr., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Sprague Bond. The Baptist Sunday school held its annual picnic on Wednesday at Quine- baug Lake. Mrs. Hiram Browning of Preston is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Dr. A. H. Turner. WEST WOODSTOCK - Invitations Issued for Graham-Myers Wedding—Four Generations at She field Home. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Mary Rachael Myers of this lace and Rev., Hugh Graham of Union ednesday, Aug. 18, at the home of the parents of .the bride-elect, Mr. and Mrs. William Myers. New arrivals at Knelm are Frank and Willlam Maule of Passaic. N. J., Mrs, Sarah Decker, Mrs. Sturgls and two sons of New York, Miss Elizabeth Fanning, Miss Ware and a friend of Pawtucket, R. L. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Sheffield enter- tained a large party of relatives on ‘Wednesday, besides having guests Henry Sheffield and Miss Sheffield of Chicago, Mrs. Ida French, Mrs. Harry French and son Roger of Malden. Mrs. Cora Casey of Worcester has been the guest of ‘her mother, Mrs. Henry Murray. Mrs. Helen Brown of Willimantic is staying with her sister, Mrs. Lucy Bicknell, who has been ill. Mrs. John Shepard has been enter- taining relatives this week. On Sun- day four generations were present— Mrs. Laura Fox, Mrs. J. A, Litchfield, Mrs, Harry Young and son James besides Mr, Young, Stuart and Olive Litchfield. Mrs. Lorin Bosworth has been ill this week, but is improving. EAST WOODSTOCK. 8ylvia May Has Party on Seventh Birthday. Ethel Upham i{s spending a week with her cousins, Faith and Dorothy Hull, at Buttonwoods, R. I. John E. Aldrich is entertaining his son, Arthur Aldrich, of Providence. Louls Bunce of South Manchester is visiting hig uncle, N. O. Chaffee, Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Lindeholm and children of New York are spending their vacation at Pigeon Hill farm. Misses Alice Steers and Pear] Alton left Monday for Bridgeton, Me,, to in Boston, attending the ball games. Mrs. John Hoover of Greene, R. L, |SPend thelr vacation. has been visiting relatives here a few rthday Party. days. Sylvia May celebrated- her seventh birthday on Monday. Sixteen little misses accepted the invitation and met at her home from 3 until 6 o'clock. After a short time all were blindfolded and marched in line to the home of Mrs. . M. Gifford, an aunt of Miss Sylvia’s. Here games were played on the fine lawn and dainty refreshments were gerved. Miss May received many pretty gifts. The following were pres- ent: Misses Agnes White, Ruth Witter, Sleanor, Louise and Doris Linderman, Gertrude Anderson, Mabel Richardson, Marguerite Clemens, Mildred, Annette, Gladys and Mary May, Dorothy Dart, Clara Eddy, Mary Chamberlain, Mar- guerite Atwood. SOUTH WINDHAM. Summer Visitors in Local Homes, Guests Come and Go' Summer Jaunts. Ernest Keene of Milford, Mass., is visiting his cousin, Percy Mattocks. Mrs. Stephen Slingsley and daughter, Miss Harriet, and Mrs. Afthur Eld- redge are visiting friends in South Willington and Hartford. Sidney' P. Butler of New Haven spent Sunday with his wife at Mrs, I. P. Briggs'. Howard K. and Clovis L. Carpenter of Putnam spent Sunday at Allen W. Kenyon's. M J, Louise Kenyon is visiting friends in Providence. Alvin Burley of Springfield called on friends in the valley Tuesday. Mrs. Allen W. Kenyon was in South Willington Sunday. Mrs. Allen Kenyon was in South- bridge, Mass.,, on Wednesday. Miss Jessie Tourtellotte of North Grosvenordale and Miss Della Newell of Spencer, Mass., are guests of Miss Hazel Keach. Douglass and daughter of Willi- Mrs. Nathena Godfrey of Hartford is the guest of Mrs. Mary Turner. Mrs. E. W. Avery and Miss E. A. Larkham returned Tuesday from a visit with friends in Mystic. Miss Annie L. Smith is spending a week in Westerly. Mrs. M. L. Larkham and son, Wil- liam Backus, attended the funeral of Mrs. Eugene Latham in Windsor Locks ‘Wednegday. H. A. Avery and H. A, Card called on friends in Mystic Sunday. Masters Allan and James Eaton ‘have returned home after spending a week with Mrs. H. A. Eaton. ch and Harold Briggs of Pomtret are guests of Mrs. I. P. Briggs HOWARD VALLEY Preston Woman Preached at Valley Frank C. Hawkes left Tuesday for| Miss Edith Parsons. who has been Raster, R. L visiting friends in this village, return- Mrs. Henry Humes is entertaining | € joome on Monday. her uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon Love have the sympathy of their friends in the Elmer Hawkes began work for M. loss of their hild. W. Jewitt at Clarks Corners last Mon- day. J. W. Baker is spending his vacation Lewis Hawkes is at work in Shel- | in Mystic. ton, Vt. W. W. Vaughan 1s visiting friends Miss Pauline Kern of Preston|in East Hartford. Mrs. T. J Belanger is entertaining her sister, Miss Mildred Heath of Beecher Falls, Vt. preach in the Valley church last Sun-l day and is expected to preach here till conference meets, lomatix%e next month. James Dougherty, who has been ill e s sc \long, has resumed his dufies gs as- CLA“K’S CORNEBS s‘*mt at the Sterling station. g it 1 Tl ety e August Visitors at '_fl\o Maples. POMF!ET CENTER' Mrs. Arthur M. Smith of Cherokee, Kansas, visited Mrs. E. E. Brown the past week. Mary 8. Brown spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother at Central Village. Robert Rust is building swimming pool at Courtland's. Miss Fanny Brown started Friday for Frostproof, Florida, where she is to_teach. ‘Willis Covell is making extensive improvements om his residence. Hon. James Botham visited at Town Clerk Covell's Wednesday. Recent guests at The Mapies are Mr, and Mrs. W, H. Needam, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, also Philip J. Palmer, rrinci- pal M. F. Palmer, all of Springfield. Miss May B. Hart of Plainville has been the guest of Viola F. Jewett. Jeremiah McCarthy and family of Willimantic are visiting in town. J. Sullivan of New Haven is visit- ing John Navins. Mrs. H. E. Colburn is visiting at Liberty Hill Mrs. L., H. Jewett has returned from Niantic. Alfred Neff has moved to his new home. NORTH WOODSTOCK Mr, and Mrs, Jonas Minot from Bath, N. H, are guests of L. J. Leavitt, Mrs. Willlam Clark and daughter Lena are visiting Mrs. Clark’s sister, Mrs, Newton D. Skinner. ; Quinebaug Pomona grange has been invited to hold a meeting at Echo farm, the home of State Master L, H, Healey, on Aug. 36th, Mr. and Mrs. Lindall Houghton have returned from a week's stay at Block Island. Mr. and Mrs. William Brown and daughter Mildred are at Narragansett Pier for a few days. fired at him or anothe The pulpit of the Congregational |and glorious fact rem: church here was supplied Sunday by jJeff was unharmed, and a great nation Rev. Mr. Waters, the Rev. T, Turner|is not bereft ‘and desolate,—Kansas being ill Qity. Journaly a large ASHFORD. William Sprague has moved his family to the Whitaker house. Miss Brown of New London and friends are at Elmcroft for a few weeks, Miss Inez Whittemore, who has been spending the summer here, returned to Providence Wednesday. P. Canning has been in Wallingford. Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Richards were in Southington a few days this week. The Country Is Safe. ‘Whether ‘the bullet that came so near perforating Hon. Jeff Davis was G P07 v Max Crampton of A ball 3 2 on bia the week e o o By | Diain . g ire, sy Nion Jlumbia and Hebron mines. The He-| Mrs. George Rouk of brons were the winners. Y. has been visiting Miss - Mrs. Eunice nunsiriuq-uy returned | Niles. from a visit of several weeks with the| Mrs. Allen and daughter Hattie family of her son, Henry D. Hunt, at of their cousin, Francis Providence. Mr. Hunt and his family are now visiting Paris, France, the for- Raymond Pinney of Manchester was mer home of Mrs, Hunt. a visitor in town Wi 2 Fred Wolff was the guest of Bert| Miss Rosa Barr Hartford spending her vacation at her home. M;‘vll o‘fml’:nnchefierlon suturdgy;‘ last. TS, rt A. Little of New eans e G = is_visiting_relatives in Columbia. MOUNT HOPE Mrs. Caroline Lowton was in War- renville visiting her son, M. J. Lowton, Dr. and Mrs. §. A, Little of Hartford Sunday. are spending the week with the doc- o Mr. and Mrs. George Walker of Gur- tor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Little, on- Columbia Green.. They will loyville called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry ‘White recently, spend the remainder of their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Little Mrs, Willam Ford of Norwich is visiting with her sister, Mrs. J. H. at Chebeague Island, Me. Misses Bessie Kingsbury, Vera Holmes, Marian Pratt, Gertrude Mar- Bacon. Mrs. W. H. Grl% and sister, Miss Ida Dean, were Himantic visitors Master Charles Lowton of Warren- tin and Edith Smith of Rockville wiy boarders at Mrs. Eunice Hunt's in recently. ville has been staying with bis grand- mother for a few days. Pine street district, where Miss Kings- bury was rormerl‘y teacher. the EAST WILLINGTON Miss Mosier of New York Is guest of Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Harris. Mrs. Brockett and Mrs. Edwards of Mrs. Gilbert Ide is under the doster's care. Mrs. Philo Chureh, her ter, from Rockviile, iy carimg for Simsbury and r. and Mrs. W. H. Brockett of South Willington were Albert Watrous fell from & load of hay and broke his shoulder. *zuests of the family of W. H. Kneeland in Pine street over Sunday. ., Mrs, Fred Squier has recently beez to the hospital again. Jewett Collinse was with the family WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. | of his brother, Raymond P. Collins, at HOPKINTON Whitneyville over Sund Voluntown Man Wins Local Bridew Mrs. Etta Andrews of Hartford is visiting the family of A. A. Latham at New Traveling Library Arrives. Chestnut Hill. The Sunday school of St. Peter's On the evening of July 28, Rev. E. P. Mathewson united in m Episcopal church, Hebron, held a pic- nic at Columbia lake on Thursday ias:. Barl Lewis Palmer of Voluntown with Mary Elizabeth Collings of Miss Collings recently returned - 5 in Hartford. Relic hunters from Middletown were in town this week looking for furniture of ye ancient time. They succeeded in picking up an automobile load of vari- ous articles. The residents of Chestnut Hill held a picnic at the home of Mrs, Walter E, Palmer on Wednesday last. These lo- cal picnics have been held annually for several years at the end of the haying season, Mrs. J. A, Utley is visiting relatives visit at her childhood’'s home in" England. Miss Ethel M. Durkee and Milton L. Durkee are guests at the home of Rev. E. P. Mathewson. Mr, and Mre. Peleg Crandail of Mew York are visiting at the home of Mr. Crandali's mother, Mrs. Jason P. 8. Brown. Miss Rotha Lewis is visiting friefids in Boston. sirs. Delle Waldron of Montville and Miss Jennie Belle Gadbois of East Lyme were recent visitors at the home of Wiliam S. McGonegal. Miss Deborah Wells gave a birthday party Monday to ninsteen friends, hav- ing attained the age of five years on that date. An enjoyable aftemmeon was spent in games, followed by sandwiches, cake and ice cream, Mr. and Mrs. n ter and son visited at the home John E. Wells Sunday. A new traveling library has arrived * in town from Providence. " ROCKVILLE Driving Accident—Horse Breaks Neek in Runaway. Baptist Society Gives Entertainment— Vacation Outings. The ladies of the Baptist church at Mansfleld Depot gave an entertain- ment in the church Friday evening, Aug. 13. Cake and ice cream were on sale during the evening. Miss Ethel Millard of Norwich is visiting Mrs. Mary Durkee, Mre, Merritt Smith is in Palmer at the home of her son, Percy Smith, helping to care for her little grand- child, who is seriously ill. Arthur Snow of California is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Snow of Mansfield Depot. Mr, and Mrs. Eugene Carr are enter- taining their daughter, Mrs. Mae Man- castroppa, of 8t. Albans, Vt. Mrs, J. D. Thompson was in South ‘Willington Tuesday to visit her daugh- ter, Mrs, Charles Allen. Rev, and Mrs. R. H. Sherman of Ripley Hill are entertaining their grandson from Hartford. Mrs. Charles Thompson, who was called to Palmer by the serious illness of her little grandson, has returned to her home in Mansfield Depot. Mrs. Fred Brigham entertained the past week Mrs. Card of Plainfield and her sister, Mrs, Will Card, of Greene- ville. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pollagrd and daughter Ruth and Mr. and Mrs. Carl- ton Pollard and daughter of Williman- tic visited their father, Henry Pollard, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Doris Long is visiting her fa- ther, Daniel Long, in North Coventry. Mrs. H. F. Williams and daughter, Miss Inez, returned home Saturday from a week's it with Mrs. Wil- llans’ mother, Mrs. Eilsie Bliven, in Canterbury. Adam Huffer of New York was in town last week. Miss Bertha Botham is in Willi- mantis visiting Miss Ruth Smith. SOUTH WILLINGTON Teachers Renppointad—Employes’ Ex- cursion 8et for Next Saturday. Mrs. Leroy Kenyon had a nm escape from a serious accident she was thrown from & wagon In which she was riding and was kicked by the horse. She escaped with se- vere bruises. Prof. Oscar L. Burdick and family started for New Hampshire - day to visit friends. Mrs. Alice Wells and daughter. Miss Louise of Waesterly were of Miss Lottie Burdick from day until Monday. Elmer Burdick of Moscow lost his horse Tuesday. It ran away and throwing itself broke its neck. Miss Lucette Crandall is the guest of friends at Westerly. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chester of North toninglon have been of the former’s sister, Mrs. J. P. Greene this week. Moscow mill started up Wednesday after being still a few days to have the engine repaired. USQUEPAUGH Aid Seciety Mests With Mrs. Albert H John Williams of Willimantic w the guest of Fred Willlams last week Friday. > At a meeting of the town school committee, held in the hall the &th it was voted to engage the following teachers: Miss Lillian Matthews on the Hill, Mrs. D. L. Royce at East ‘Willington, Miss Lillia Fenton at Moose Meadows, Miss Mabel Pease on Village Hill, Miss Mary C. Miller and Miss Julia Kneeland at South Will- ington. These are all re-engagements. New teachers will have to be secured for the remaining schools. Misses Alice and Julia Denman were visitors in Norwich a part of Waebster, Cottrell wenteto camp day. “Dog"” from Rhode Istend spent y. might with Ames "H. el umpen, e hae boem ik is convalescent Herbert Robinsen has e new church steps. He made ot cement. last week. J A game with the West Willington ball team on their grounds has been arranged for this (Saturday) afternoon with the promise of a return game to be played here the 28th. The seventeenth annual excursion of the employes of G. Hall, Jr., & Co. to ‘Watch Hill and Block Island has been announced for Saturday, August 21, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Brackeit spent Sunday at the home of Miss J. H. Kneeland in Columbla. Mr. and Mrs. Rdward Janes of Mid- dletown spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W _H. Janes. Miss Claire Sheehan of Wallingford is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Brackett. BOLTON Guests at Mrs. Mary G. Sumner's are Dr. and Mrs. J. Clark of Burling- ton, Vt., Miss Mary E. Scanlon and Miss May MecBriarty of New Britain. Mrs. Mary Williams of Broeklyn, N. Y. i visiting at Mrs. Cary D. Car- Mr, and Mrs. Al Hoyle Tuesday at Matulm-ch Town Trea Charles J. Greens b;g ilbur left Wedn they will attend Alasks- Yukon expestfion. Mrs, E. K. James speat Tuesday st lem“' Beach. dence fs spent penter’s. Miss Lula Eaton of Boston was the guest of Mrs. J. W, Phelps recently. Leslie Bolton is with his father at the Thousand Islands. Mrs. Frederick Sutter of Long Island s v ing her daughter, Mrs. F. J. Mathieu. Miss May Sweeney of South Man- chester returned to her home Wednes- day after a few days spent with Mrs. J. J. Sweeney. v Miss Edith Maxwell of South Man- chester and Miss Helen Maxwell of Hartford were recent guests of Mrs. A. N. Maxwell. Misg Norris of Hartford is spending her vacation in town. The Ladles’ Aid society met in the grange room Wednesday. Miss Edna H. Bidwell of East Hart- ford and Miss Mary Dewey of Torring- ford spent the first of the week at A thur M. Bidwell" CHESTNUT HILL. Vacation at QOrr's Island—W. 8. S. E. Mrs. E. K. James, . A. H. Phii- lips, Miss Ada Broadbent spent Wed- nesday with Mrs. Chazles Bliss at Matunuck. B One of the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is & wast fund of information as te the best motheds of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the werld's best produets. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims trutbfully presented and which have attained te world-wide acceptance through the approvel of the Well-Informed of the World; net ef indi- viduals only, but of the meny who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtain- ing the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Bthical remedy, approved by physioians and com- mended by the Walldnformed of the World as a valusble and wholesemedamily laxative is the welldknown Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get it benefinial effects always buy the genuing, manu’ factured by the Califerais Fig Syvup Co., quly, and for asle by all leading druggists Mr, and Mrs. William C. Robinson of Post Hill have returned from a two weeks' stay at Orr's Island off the coast of Maine. Almost the entire outward trip was made by trolley, the party boarding the trolley at Putnam and continuing to Portland, thence by boat to the island. The W, 8. 8, E. made a trip to Man- chester Green on Thursday, where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert Walker. Weather conditions were favorable and everything was done by the host and hostess to m: the stay of the ladies pleasant. It was & de- lightful euting. \