Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 31, 1910, Page 13

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1910 L 7 F (Special to The Bulletin. Whether it is absolutely true or not in small details I cannot avouah, but what's a mighty Interesting story which they tell of H. W. Campbell of South Pakota. Let me tell it to you, if you liaven't already heard it He was a Vermonter who had gone ‘west to get into a better farming ountry—as he hoped—than old Ver- muont could furnish. He had settled on | | ! | | { i what gave promise of being a splendid wvheat farm. He had worked early | end late hard on his flelds, only to | meet constant sledge-hammering fail- | ure. Those were dark days all} the newer west. Drouth an 1 enemies, especially drouth, were too much for the unaclicmated farm- - from the ecast, who were trying to e 1 lving in Longitude 101 West | by the methods used in Longitude 73 With thousands of others, mpbeoll was sore and tired and_ discouraged. | Jverything he had he had sunk in his | vafling venturs, He bhad stuck to it #iil the last possible moment. The was smpty, the pocketbook there wasn't a ray of hor zon. He d just one lame t o help carry him back to- d's country” in the ecast. s letting that lame mule his voung wheat field be- cause it we ready doomed to failure | as a whent p, and that was all th wvalue he could ever expect to get from wards And he w pasture on Going out to catch his mule for th last time and start eastward, Campbell noticed that, though the ad been no rain since he turned th ile on the | vet in the mule tracks, where | was packed and stems were green and strong | L tall, while everywhere else the &lems were y and ndling _and tead w thig man Campbell not only 1 the usual useful asortment | arms and big hands and stur- lgo ha « st ju p. H the mule alone and went wly all wver his fleld. Bverywhere he found it | the same. Where the mule had step- wed on the ground and compacted it the wheat In those enough heat—good re the mul dn't stepped on 1 the wheat was good for notl except pasture, and pretty poor ¥or even that, What made ths differenc “Why, e thought to himself, “if I only had enough mules and could have dr n them all over the fleld till they'd s all the ground, I'd have had Tieat all over it.” But what spe- ire wae there in the foot of a ward making wheat grow?| Campbell didn't catch the mule. It was doing weil where it was and he had a Job of thinking t do, right aw: Heo back to shack and thought he begun experimenting. If a | could make wheat grow on with its hind foot, couldn’t with b s in his head, grow with something else 3 foot? He tried first one another, till at las an entirely new sys f farming He lacked the right of tools, and had to make them he hadn’'t the money h prairie then i evolved 4N AN e e 3 elf because g agricultural tools his crazy notions. simply d at Well, all that was twenty-five or more years ago. Now the tools | mre eded for the Campbell | 1 farming” are made by | ¢ f firms United States | and by manufa in Hungary and ndia. He is e good vheat farms with an cate of | 000 acres in wheat each ) cing Ze of sixty © acre has grown so r he has to a force of clerks ir | - to ook his farm and other | accounts. His lame mule started a | movement which has revolutionized | agr Iture over an immen 2 him independently we h converted so thereabouts that ¥ said him “Mr Union Pacific railroad g 1pheli the ot Von dollars a year it w 1't pay you for the increased freizht from your Pl | ! There are several great moral les- | sons to be drawn from this little bit of | 8 You can study it for | y Tha u- b ng it, and ick to m oa lMttle longer iIf T elaborate m for you Be , 1T want to add | different story of znother farmer sther part of the country. This | Davenport and he lives where there isn't so troutle from drouths. there have their own most of his nelghbor: , and then cotton, and the otton. Whe and the 1 some with the fluctuat- I scheming spe: and the ineficient help proc nd the boll weevil, and a other troub they have to go ot s of the @ and their gsters of the time. You see, they haven't anything to sell but cot- ton, and that they can sell only once year, while they have to keep buy Mg things of all sorts about al few i When the cotton is sold, if the get a decent price they're flush for whil Then they're strapped th QOQvercome eonstipation permanently by proper | personal co-operation with the bene- ficlal effects of Syrup of Figs and | Elixir of Senna, when required. The forming of regular habits is most im- portant and while endeavoring to| form them the assistance of Syrup of | ’i‘s and Elixir of Senna is most val @@ble, as it is the only laxative which @8ts without disturbing the natural #unctions and without deb ating and it is the one laxative which leaves the fnternsl organs in a naturally bealthy condition, thereby recally aiding one that way. To get itz beneficial effact buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for | sale by all leading druggists. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is never classed by the well-informed with medicines which make extravagant end unfounded claims to cure habitual constipation without personal co-op- eration. ARMERS TO FARMERS HOW OBSERVING FARMERS WIN SUCCESS rest of the year. alway stand there money market that is the purse-strings but s sell for ing bills. is a stringen Nor does the cotton enough to pay ‘When the this happen in the domest in the wais bands of all concerned. Mr. Davenport raises cotton like his neighbors, but he doesn't stop there. He also raises corn, and wheat, and and potatoes, and a little rice, and some cattle, and a few sheep, and a dozen or two hogs, and a lot of other makes the wastes of one oats, truck He erop feed another. to sell the whole year 'round. | his neighbors are crawling into town credit on some flour and pork, he's driving in to deposit a little more money at his bank—and is eat- ing his own home-produced flour and He has only about 200 acres of land, but it is his favorite boast that ole family can live in comfort for years on end from the to be pork. he and his w g for He has somethir ‘When products raised on his farm alone. felt not only in LETTERS FROM TWO STATES TOLLAND COUNTY. GURLEYVILLE tors in Local Momes for the Holi- day—Festival at M. E. Church. Miss C. N. Turner iz the gueSt of Mrs. Noyes in Willimantie. Mrs. Hattle Pierce from Willimantic is the guest of Miss Abbie Conant. Poston_and Mabel Moore of Sterling, at B. C. Moore's. C. J. Grant_ left Tuesday for Co- lumbus, O., where he is to teach in the state college. ant and Irene Russ of the hizgh vacation at their homes. ze school closed ¥riday, the th Christmus exercises and a STORRS. Mrs. C. L. Tucker of Lebanon is e sn:ndine the holidays with her par-|C. J. Grant to Be Assistant Agricul- ents. Mr. and Mrs. John Wrana spent turist at OAhuz University. Christmas in South Willington. Among the guests in town Christ- mas were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Si- C. J. Grant has been engaged as as sistant agriculturist at the University { e e, - | of Ohio, afy Columbus. He will take e :“’f,ei,‘l‘.;;‘ Simonds, at M. B! up his new duties the first part of Mr. Grant has been cheese :onnected with the soft chee: igation of the department of a ! flela Center, at Mrs. | ham’'s; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Tucker, at G. R. Dimock’ Bert Simonds of Willimantic, at E. C. Dodges’; Earl Bates, at O. H. Conant’s; Master Ar- thur Burdick, at G.. A. Walker's, Methodist Christmas Festival. Martha Dun- ir ns ic ment station. . Mr. and Mrs. John Fitts Christmas in Ware, Mass, Miss Surie Rice left Wednesday for i spent The M. E. Sunday school held fits|a ghort visit in Boston. Christmas cohcert and tree in the Dr. Charles Thom left Tuesday for e SOME HISTORY-MAKING EVENTS OF THE CLOSING TWELVE-MONTH 18 PORTUGAL JOINED THE REPUBLICS in October, banishing the royal family and establishing a provisional presidency. ANOTHER “U. S. A.” HAS ARRIVED, in the union of the four ament convened South African British colonies,” whose first parl in November. CONSTITUTIONALISM HAS TAKEN STRIDES forward both in the school are enjoying | riculture carried on at Storrs experi- | of a si rit of the ¢ ed from one one m i er e of th \Martin the latest a > MEE Thing. srstand ahe of the Cc¢ Christinas eve { hote came her dance at nilegs Fair year why y cl the dea been delaved so long.— Iv decorated Chicago r-Ocean He hasn't revolutionized agriculture; he hasn’t made a millionaire of him- self; he doesn’t have to have an office and a set of clerks to look after his | business—hut in the midst of a neigh- borhood of semi-failures, his farm is| and he’s comfortabie and | United States and England, “Independent citiz nship” coming to the fore to claim some of its righ hitherto usurped by “The ” Tn China the provinelal assemblies have given place to embly, with a genuine parliament promised for 8 success, ! KOREA AN1) FINLAND show the reverse of t happy, with all his prospective needs | Hermit Kingdom” of Asia having been ar amply supplied and a fund in bank tn the sturdy Russian g d duchy having been f insurance and reserve in cuse der to the douma the rightés of its own diet to make own [ of lean years or an unc<- | laws pected call. ¢ FOU MPORTANT TREAT have been sizned in the old One of these two farmers attained O . it T ots et it Japan Insuring the status quo the success which comes with great | in the far east, while the Ruseo-Austrian, Turko-Roumanian and wealth—won it out of the very jaws Turko-Bulgarian documents tend to preserve the peace in the of defeat, because he used his brains Balkan region. to invent methods for meeting new c The very club the enems; THE CAU OF PEACE_has been furth im- i to bludgeon him with, he | portant rulings of The Hague | court, cov sted from that enemy's hand and fisheries and the Orinoco Steamsh co 3 fie ade a tool to achieve success for | the fourth Pan-American consress, g at B re as himself. The other man has won for brought agreement on several mooéted points in and Cen- mself and his family tral American matters. being likewise using his brains. Unde » conditions in which | ARIZON W MEXICO HAVE 1 ST 1 we he found hin , complete dependence | have other CENSUS i 103,902 a single meant virtual s crop dom and constant dwelling on the pe of us, counting in Porto F dico and t ilous edge of want. So he diversified ! “YOTRES-FOR-WOMEN" has achieved twe notable v his interests widely enough to obviate ington has joined Colorado, Utah i T all reasonable chances of entire faii- ing universal rrage; and Norw W ure, He made his farm self-support- | in all local elvctions. ing’ and quite independent. If meat was so high that common folks LITTLE WARS have m 1 Al couldn't afford to buy it, he didn't bania and N g f need to buy, he killed and ate his own. | and in S d i It mattered little to him what the teen o s price of flour was; he raised his own continents. wheat and_ground it in his own mill | He didn't have to sell his cotton the | MAGLE Bt WaS DICkad t0 Bt M Ooney | e————————————————————————— e s to live on. If it was unprofitably low = he kept it, and sold something else church Monday evening. which was high. ing programme was g The follow - : voluntary ik » to Cornell university at Ithaca I tri and I s home in ! vark, Now, neither South Dakota farming | girls’ song, Welcome, Wil obby a Slater has returned ffom conditions nor Texas farming condi- | recitation, scripture reading and her home in 11 tions are the same as. Connecticut | marks, by the pastor, J. F. Roberts A farming conditions. Everyone of us | followed by the Lord's prayer: sinz Scotia, is farmers has his own fight to make on | ing by the choir; Holy Nigl . the battlefleld of his own farm. We've | Stimpson; recitation, I'reddie Rup- hky of eport got to meet our enemies as they come | Precht: recitation, \\villmm Hobby 5 with Prof. G. H. at us, not as they come at some other | SOng. There's a Time We Dearly Lo = 5 : fellow, somewhere else. We can’t win | recitation, Ralph Sunderland; reci D F vy is spending her out by imitating ° the_other | tion, . Alfreda ‘Walker; Echo Sone |vacation in Thompson 0 Go 3 thoir and girls, Gle Highest; recitation, Charlie Stimpson song, Star of the East, Lulu Stimy son: recitation, Agnes Rupprecht; re citation, Leon Dimock duet, Mrs Charles Hobby and Miss Frances Dim- man’s” tacti But there's a ‘“grand strategy” in war which involves gen- eral principles and governs the adop- tion or rejection of particular tactics. A smart epigram which recently i Christmas SPRING HILL The Week's Hospi Visitors. e guat which Y Y | ock; recitation, Ralph__Sunderlanc N Art of rolling. up weies peads: | choir, While Shepherds Watched The! = B s with the ShirtSlecrern "rrar Desing | mocks by Night: dialogue, _Mrs. W. P. Wildes is to be in New clever—but it isn’t true. The begin- | DO “ea, ten young ladie York on husiness few days this - i g nd the tea tal vee nings of success, whether it be success | 2round the tea ta St H Hawkins had a family in accumulating wealth or in Some Cayer, 165 ne ¢ other worthier form, are in the gray | gimen s e Weel : matter inside your head. Campbeil's | GTace Forsytihe pe Seconc problem of how to make wheat grow | /5% HESEAd FEn am, old lady 8 without rain he solved by the use of | 57ene: M am, her daugh. | W brains. Davenport's problem of | M99 NI s Kunice: Wood. | to make a farm pay in a-state | {5 T : Sttt bosie: 1 of he solved by using his brai ong, | S eredll welzont I amity Tokine work: #u. T. 00" and. 1h horny | €990, The singing by the choir wi 7 e horny | dycellent. The gi were distributed callouses on his palms testified that from a well-laden tree and he spake truth—“but I think I ac- and DMis complish more, sometimes, by jest set- R s o W tin’ on the fence for an hour or two A and whittlin’.” He didn’t mean mere- MANSFIELD DEPOT N Iy whittling aimless shavings off a pine stick, but whittling out ideas and ex- | School Entertainment — New Marker | pedients to meet emergencies. | for Pulpit Bible. The old idea was that the fool of the family was good enough to make Anna Hall of New York is vi UNION. Christmas Exercises in District School a farmer of. Humph, I guess not—not | | her mother, Mrs. George Sted- | "‘Sa_"ta Claus at Congregational in these latter days. anyway. Better : Sunday School. him to the lezislature, where he'l) | _Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox of 1 River ge and do less damage. are guests of Mrs. Irvinz Be m 5 cess In farming depends first of all on | Miss Florence Dean of Hartford is|t way farmers use the think-stn her vacation with moth- | Sod providently put under o ] skulls. That comes first of all. The daaa next thing in order is the rolling up oklyn, N. Y of the shirt-slee e kg to reverse the order. More farms are failures from lack of applied brains than from lack of applied fertilizer. Of course, this doesn't mean you and It won't work home ox I The school on Ripley pretty entertainment F A well-laden tree was enjoyed by the children. E gave fternoon stripped ar This school me. We are exceptions, But just - g think over your neighbors. please, ang | hi8 done good work this year with | seo if you don't agree with me Miss Green as_teacher. THE FARMER. Mrs. H. O. Vinton of Eagleville i e e lr"’l’h“ ed the book m: Tit | . belonging to t Bible of the How Gold May Be Distilled. Pt e ol Investigations of a French chemist| The first one was gift of Mri show that gold in the electric furnace | Vinton's mother to the chapel society. }‘mxls !rp-ly“z\! & temperature of 2,400 | A vote of s was tendere degrees centigrad In two or three | v at the ing service mifitttes, 118 satd, from 100" to: 180 | gar s L L morning Sservice grams of gold paes into the state of Princip lerman 6f Occum is pass- vapor. In condensing upon a cold | ing his Ghristma at his home | | pody this golden vapor forms fillform | on Ripley Hill. i 7 | masses and crystals At its Mr. and Mrs gar Rhodes enter- | ition gold dirsolves ' tainel a ily party Christmas which, at the time of : is deposited in the Millard. who teaches the graphite, is at her home in Nor- i alloy ot gold i rat. In 2 { nd copper, cop- i . : ; alloy of gobl | | a 1 STAFFORDVILLE the tin burns on contact with the | Many at Christmas Eve Entertainment ! purple by a fine dust of con d T | This is one method of i ! e color known as “purpie | R | this s N .’v ,‘“ v. Where Names are Changed. s Y. S res ! It is ommon in Samoa for girls to Mr. Fitz d Miss Thompson beéar bovs' nar and for boys to bear North braham, ere ent names If a is born s=con ta Chlirtsimi of the death ¢ i) 1 a hov!C % More Past Than Future. | Secretary Dickinson is optimistic, | and optimism is one of the loveliest adornments of the human mind, but it still seems true that the Philippines MOUNT HOPE Visitors in town for Christmas wera C. J. Grant, Mrs. L. M. Knight and son Milton, and Miss Cora Grant, at A. M. Grant’s; Arthur Burdick of New B: ain, at Henry White's; C. B. Moore of have more past than future.~Louisvilie Courigr~Journal. D. J. McCORM SOUTH WILLINGTON Cantata Well Presented — Company’s Employes Receive Christmas Gifts of Fruit. The Christmas entertainment in the hall Saturday evening pagsed off pleasantly and entertainingly. The | decorations were much more elaborate { than usoal; the main hall had a large ver star in the center of the celling from which green and white wgs festooned to the sides and corners of the hall; from these were suspended gilded pine cones. Bells, evergreen and mottoes added to the beauty. The Cantata, “Frost Queen” was carried through in_splendid shape. Charles N. Flagg, Jr.. of the firm of Taylor, Flagg & C of Meriden, was ! the guest at dinner Monday of Mr. and ! Mrs. Giilbert Spicer. Mr. Flagg, who was emploved here some seven years | ago, reports busines: excellent. Hon. A. James’' condition is not se favorable. Adfer S. Potter has been threaten- ed with pneumonia. Officers of Sunday School. Following is the list of officers elect- ed last Sunday to serve the Sunday school during 1911: Superintendent, Thomas A. Denman; assistant super- irtendent, Fred Williams: treasurer, Miss Rosa O. Hall; secretary, Gallup | Service. | Homer N. Neil was home from New Britaln over Sunday. Mr. and Mcs Hoiner N. Neil were guests Monday of Mr. and Mrs. Har- old Higgins of Willimantie. tree and exercises, which was much | Wednesday " Each one bring- Miss Grace ers and her sister Pinney Bertha spent Christmas with their | serious attack of Miss Goldie Liebman 1is going to sonage. Storrs college for the winter térm, be- Clifton Newell spent Christmas | ginning Jan. 2d. F Mr, and Mrs. Clarence The Congregational Sunday school | spent Sunday with Mrs. Hattle had a Christmas tree Monday evening. . - children. after which John Sellers HEBRON acted as Santa Claus. town. Entertainment at Congregationa! Sunday School. Miss Eleanor Lord is home for the Christmas vacation. Hebron Friday. Mrs. Anna Wade and daughter, Albert Spafard is soon to go to Mich- igan, to werk in an automobile fac- The C. B. society admitted three new members Sunday ovening. Saturday for Florida, where they will spend the winter. out walking every day—as Spry as a bov. enjoyed by the children and neighbors. a present, one. s 18 recovering from a sister, Mrs. raham, at the par-. with friends in Springfield. Sadd and son Thrall, There were pleasing exercises by the | Arthur Gage of Melrose is visiting in | Joel Brown Active at 87—Christmas Allison Frink of Columbia was in Helen, are in town for the holidays. tory. Henry Spafard and family started Joel Brown, who is 87 years old, is | Christmas Festival at Congregational Church. The Children of the Congregational | Sunday school gave an entertainment | in the church Monday evening, as fol- | lows: Christmas anthem, by choir; } prayer, by pastor; responsive reading, { by congregation; duet, by Rev. Harold and son; remarks by the pastor; hymn, by congregation; exercises by the children, Spirit of Christmas, Each class dressed to represent a different nation. Santa Claus came in and un- loaded the tree. Bach one was re- membered with a present and a box of candy. All were then invited to the church dining room, where they en- joyed a nice lunch of sandwiches,cake and coffee. Edward Raymond was not absent for three years, and was presented a | gold pin for punctual attendance. Wagon Overturned. Clare Robinson wan driving to towa .\,BLP;”{‘"‘{WQL"S‘ J:hnm‘fg. :“1:2 :P“}lf; Monday evening with six in the wag- \,‘:,’ ""}mm'm i Hartford. i © 7" ¥'ion. He turned out for a team to Observing the holiddy, the entire|Pass. wien his wheels struck a plece { plant of G. Hall Jr. & Co. was closed of ice and hiz wagon was overturned. oo MoTARE i i The occupm;:s \l\'erl:- scattered, but no | Several vowng wolden engles were | O Was seriously hurt. captured here last Saturday. Marks H. ‘r’}}“"f (a",fi family were in about them disclosed the fact that they “’;}{_\ bt P B * and P ity had heen at one time in the posses- P g _P‘"(. BN s in on of the United States government. ;‘;l‘(\'" h‘\'.' 3{1" Bissell's mother’s, Mra. 4 . - o Bisse Gifts of Fruit to Employes. Mrs. Emily Mathbun spent Christ- tes of Indlan River oranges and | mas s were much appreciated a1l Jr. & Co. to the fam ed by the working forc 8 time stmas Family Party. with her daughter, Mrs. Richards, at Oceum Miss May Carpenter of Exeter is at Clinton Porter this place ia in e s James Rrown of Hatrtford. i athering of 15 enjoyed ST hiome of Mr. and Mrs. | Monday % BDLTON Exceliert Entertainment Given at the Congregational Church—HMoliday Vis« itors. eaux. 2 Monday night to his e Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. Burt have been in Middlebury, the guests of rel- atives. J. Wesson Pheips has been visiting in FElmira, N. Y., and Wooster, O. Theodore Perry left Tuesday to spend his vacation with relatives and friends in Chester, Niantic and New York cit me in WILLINGTON | Services of Christmas Day—Jfficers =¥ Endeavor Society. w's Christmas hymn was | ¥ ted and the original i ing ' i 5 S gand the orlelnal| Miss iilian King is spending the his beautiful sermon mude tue | '“p Mathieu of Iestershire, N. Y., | © memorable. In the evening | s jn town for a woek. i | Mr. Gard spoke at the En- Bloazer Pomeroy of Windsor was & vor meeting, i was led by Mr. | poiton visitor the firat of the week. Darrow. Mathews the W, R. Purple Is visiting In Spring. new pr Willimantie C. 4 go4" | F. union was present * spoke of the Leslie Bolton of Hartford was a re- = :;’x:‘ “f"“!”:"i:‘g ‘\‘"“"ir" 'li *’"J‘]tl;’ T“‘:dl'r; {cent guest of Polton relatives. Keeney - 1da Adams Ma o graduate of the LTI 1 | TRRned MuThe At i for a vieit. hot Fred D, Finley speut Monday in Wil- pedagogy, is an wice for president of the | vl i ! ficors for the coming lby;;ar;tfie with his sister, Mrs. Henry | o Repardnenpresident; | Mr..and Mra. C. D, Carpenter were | S ebins, vice presi- | guosts of the fermer's brother, Louts 1 nte Faimer, recording{dgrpenter, in Hartford over Christ- treasurer; Miss Emma onding #ecrotary IHartfora She a for the re- Lilie Mack is in New York vis- g relatives ank Tyler of Buckland and Roger er of Hebron have thelr sawmills in South Bolton on George Curtis’ and the late Mile Loomis’ land. v missionary from Bo- preach in the Congrega- 3 : reh. he Raptist congrega- Christmas Entertainment. to attend the service tmas entertainment given the teschers hed Christmas tional chureh last week F: Miss Alice g by the children in the laborate programme and South scheols was excep- H fine. The children had been s not been able | iy ed by the teachers In several Sundays, respes + schools, Theodore 8. all Perry and W m R rple. K is visiting in Williman- - o e EAGLEVILLE. items Noted About the Village ima Florence Robbins is vis- es in Norwich. ELLINGTON Christmas Trees for D;y and Sunday Schocls and Grange. ‘Wilfred J. Dore, stationed in the naval training station at Newport, R. 1., has been spending the holidays at his home in the village. | George E. Revnolds, who has been spending the past month with his fam- ily in the village, is to return to Pel- { ham, N. Y. after the holidays. Baward Slater of Hartford spent a number of days the past week fishing in nearby ponds and rivers. Edward Folev of Forest View farm receutly purchased an excellent pair of yvouns horses from James Erown of ‘Wiilimantic. | Mr. M Richardson entertain- | clatives from Rockville and Man- with Christmas h ool had & tree. school held their tree ening in the church. A od “The Sunday on Monday of Hartford spent Sun- here. home nge held a Christmas trea Try * m AMES HANLEY BREW ZREWERS OF aLE AXD S ICK, 30 Franklin Street, Local Agent