Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 1, 1911, Page 13

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) There is no doubt apout it,—this is country. A big country with a lot of peopie in it. A whole lot ‘ent people, too. That's %‘M - thing about ’ em. le are no Chinese walls be- the states to separate them, and no very marked unlikeness is seen be- tWeen the people on opposite sides of the imaginary bounddry line, it is still ttue that there is a difference. Tt be- opmes more evident as one takes long-, trips Into the interior and studies types. m 1 first went to Bos- ton from York ", used to smile at my “brogue.” not understand it at the outset. 1 was sure that 1 hadn’t any such as a “brogue” about me, and that 1 ed as good and as clear,English as anybody from Beacon street. But somethi: I found out that, when I wa: to the other end of the city, 1 took a “hor-rse-car-r”, while the na: tives always preferred to go by “Hohse- cah.” to be sure, birthplace, wheré the air was roundly sounded. to Bos- ton, whence the east wind_ had long blown all the “r's” away. When you come to go two thousand miles far- ther off the unlikeness are more numerous and more marked. I've been thinking especially of them since I looked over a of western ‘drm papers, the other day, and noted what different things seemed to inter- est western It was not only that the articl in the body of the plper had a d t tone, but the ad- vertisements were of an unlike char- acter. One Dakota paper gave up several columns to & serious discus- sion of wheher it was worth while or net to save the mdnure from the stock. Another, n Iowa, advised agauinst the gener:l practice of letting all the corn- stalks waste and thought there really might be enough “fodder” gained by saving them to pay the extra labor. Imagine a New England farmer hav- ing to be told that manure and corn- stalks were worth saving! The ad- vertisements included a good many tools and contrivances that I could only guess the use for, as well as a good many that were clearly meant to farm whole counties at a time, and must have cost to run about &s mtuch as the whole annual tax of a good many New England towns. There were pictures of traction en- gines by the dozen,—all of different makes and each one, of course, “the very best,’—drawing behind them sangs of from six to twelve plows each, many wih a train of harrows behind the plews to harrow as, they went along, and seed at the same time. One traction engine with two or ihwee men, according to the plains, would plow, drill, | whole county “home.” several farms and it wouldn’t do to say they belonged to any particular ome. There was a good deal abeut irriga- tion, tos. Talk about your lprlnm hose! Their rabber hip hoots are ®ny mote comfortable in midsymmer, mor that the mwid is any cleamer or mmore delicately scented. Probably thers are some farmers in Connecticut who look with Th Problem confronting apyone ip need of 3 lazsr tive is not a question of a single sc tion only, but of permamently bene- ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live in & heslthful way, with the sssistance of Syrup of Pigs and Elixir of Semna, whemever it s re- & consiierable fi: Important | Last Saturday odist church an enter T glven under auspices of the 'Ald society. Two interesting ni crops with. Do you, rsader? I con- fess frankly that I dow’t. Of course, there’s sometbing mouth-filling and magnificent in having and talking of many thousand private elevators, where he loads, not single cars, but whole trains from his own threshers. And it must be a little bit awful to look out frem one’s front door on an apparently limitless world of corn, stretching levelly away to a fading horizon—which doesn’t rise up to shut your view, because it dips away out of sight towards China and the Philip- pines. But I think it must get mighty monotonous at times. If my mountain—I call ~it m though I haven't any deed of it ex- capt the deed of eyesight which Go gave me to it when He opened my eyes—if my mountdin were suddenly removed and cast into the sea with all its ridges and peaks and buttressing foothills and outlyirig knolls, doubtless it would add several thousand acres to the areh of level and arable land here- ebouts. But, say, I should miss old Douglass Knob, with its rounded top catching for' me and throwing back into the valley the first rays of the sunrise, and I should miss the grate- ful shade it casts in the long, hot summer afternoon, when the same sun sinks behind it and pours a radiating glory over the eastern sky from its flaming spokes of light, while, I am finishing’ up my day’s work in the cool shadow. I should miss, too, the arbu- tus and the' liverwort vrhich are al- ready preparing to peep out at me from among its rocks. I should miss the roar of the wind in its forest-clad ridges—those ridges which thrill me with the majestic sound of the tem- pests, but at the same time save me from their hurricane fury. We could raise a good many mor: potatoes and pumpkins if it were all a level prairie where that rugged mountain looms. But—I don’t want to swap Douglass Knob for many hundred acres of prairfe—at least, not just yet. There’s anothe: our vocation from the mers potato-growing, corn- cropping, hay-making side. 1It's a business, I'll admit; but it’s something more than a business—it’s a life. Furthermore, the life is still more than meat, and the body more than raiment. One charm of it is that it enables us farmers Who have souls as well as stomachs to feed both at the same time. My farm is the Gibraltar of my soul, as well as the factory which feeds me and pays my taxes. I can retire to its impregnable fastness, whenever the banditti of “business” get too rampageous, and defy them. I am master here, under nature, and none shall intrude whom we do not invite. What can the man with ten thousand acres, who does his farming by steam and sells crops by the train- logd—what can he knmow about his in- dividual acres? What can he care for them-—except as money-producers, per- haps? That man must be a bigger sort than I ever met who can make a ‘We are so built ust ‘“snuggle up” more or just what the small farm- er can do with nature. He can actu- ally become somewhat acquainted with her. He comes to feel her something actual and present. She is a compan fon—a freaky onz, to be sure, but nev- ertheless a companion whom he can consort with and enjoy as well as en- dure:. He grows used to her whims and becomes versed in some of her laws, He gets to know how she acts with the Hatch-lot and in what differ- ent way she reacts on the Cold Spring pasture. He learns what she will do for him on that gravelly field back of the barn, if he gives her the right en- couragement, and what she won’t do a&nd can’t be made to do on the Long lot up under the hill. He discovers where- she will grow reses and where she prefers to grow parsnips, and he's i:lt as much interested and absorbad the one as the other. He comes to know his land, acre by acre and inch by inch. . He feels the difference be- twesn two neighboring fence corners, and finds a real enjoyment in pitting his wits against nature’s inertia or stubbornness. Ws a blessed thing we aren’t ail made alike. If we were we should all want the same farm, and the price of surroundis land would drop to zero. But I really believe we New England farmers with our little farms, rugged and uneven, dipping from rocky ridges to sodden swamps, ‘with our small flelds and our twisting fences, can, if ‘we avill, get more real life and more soltd satisfaction and more “fun” out of them than we could from no matter how big and fertile ranches which we must work by steam. What's the old rhyme? “A little farm well-tilled; A little barn well-filled,” etc., etc. It is not always riches to°add acre to acre and bigger barn to barn. For ‘a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which h> pos- sesseth.” Den't forget that. A farm- er may hold deeds to a whole county and vet own less of the landscape than his hired man; he may have a barn bursting with garnered crops and a soul starving to death; he may neced a special building to keep his stocks end bonds and bankbooks in, and yet ‘e a pitifully poor critter. Z THE FARMER. > Enjoying Ourselves. The New York Times observes that in 1910 the cost of so-called luxuries indulged in by Americans inclu.ed item: Jewelry, $300,000,u00 gus,mmn; ':ulom obacco, 50.000,- 000; alcoholic drinks, $1,745,300,001 total, $3,365,300,000. “Waste, extrava. Howl the economists and the ¥es, there is a percentage of waste due to overindulgence and to overeharges by _retailers, particularly in the matter of liquid refreshments. But this waste, comparatively speak ing, is only i rntal. Money spent for “ereature comforts” and luxuries is not wasted. ‘A Jife narrowed vn to ¢he bare necessities is a very ss, burdensome sort of exi ence. It is a whether over- indulgence on avhole is worse than g .., Apparently they prove the n_ woman is fonder’ of candy than she is of jewel- ry, which may, as one pleases, either < deqd;n'.ln on that she has” an’ ~love for things that tickle the Py te, w,nmfl!hfl she has 3 °to discount c array. "The. fes. for tobateo are not rela- tively high' wheh .omé ‘considers. that the weed to cept possibly in one instance figures are encour- aging rather than otherwise, beeause they reveal an optimistic¢ spirit in the people. As a rule pessimists/are not open-handed.—] Free Press. Little M—W’hl& is the dead Iet-l on the programme were, Married, by the following ple: * Ruby Fuller, Vera Ruth Nye, Edna Lohman, Irene Potter, Hattie Moss, Moss, Harry Peterson, Homer Wood, Edgar Fitch, Will 8mith, Charles Bar- ber, Rev. Duncan:Dodd, and Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Gro ren- dered by a quartette composed of Rev. Duncan Dodd, William Smith, Edgar Fitch and Mr. Knox, was fllustrated by a tableau. A supper was served in connection with the entertainment and the affaj¢ was’ well patronized. Miss Smith Won Silver Medal. On Friday evening of last week a silver medal speaking contest was held at the Congregational church, in charge of the W. C. T. U, The con- testants, all of 'whom were from Wind- ham county, Were accompanied by Mrs. Gager and Mrs, Slate of Willi- mantic. Following are the names of the contestants: Howard Rice, His Written Sermon; Hattie Lewis, The Drunkard’s Blow; Minnie. Snow, In the Kes: B ld Gager, A Boy on Prohibitien; Fannie Smith, College Oil Cans; Royal Slate, A Promise; Elsie Eriscon, Who Struck the Blow. . The judges, Rev. Duncan F. Dodd, Miss Julia White and Curtis Dean, awarded the prize to Miss Fanny Smith, Rev. Duncan Dodd presented the medal. In addition to the above there were recitations by Pauline Backus, The Artless Prattle of Child- hood; Sylvia Elmore, Little Blossom and Hattic Hall, The Baldheaded Man, There were selections by a dou- ble male quartette composed of F. J. Tracy, E. Fitch, Willam Smith, J. E. Stanley, H. C. Barlow, W. H. strong, L. A, Kingsbury, Rev. Duncan Dodd, and a duet by Rev. Duncan Dodd and Miss Nellie J. Albertin, At the close of the programme ice cream and cake were served in the vestry. Carleton Washburn of Belding, Mich., made a brief visit to relatives here last week. H. P. Dimock Critically Il Henry F. Dimock, whose summer home is in South. Coventry, is re- ported to be seriously ill at his home in New York, with little hope of re- covery. Preparations are being made for an Easter concert at the Congregational church, The statement in last week's news that Patrick Curley had purchased the Lyman Coggswell place on Main street was ineerrect, as Mr. Coggswell has not disposed of this property. Death of James Wooley. . James Wooley, aged 81 years, died en Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. F. Townsend, fol- lowing a long illness with grip. A service was conducted at the house on Friday evening by Rev. Duncan F. Dodd. The body was taken to Phila- delphia for burial, the funeral being held there Monday. Mr. Wooley eame to South Covent from Rockyille about two years ago, He leaves three song and two daughters, all of whom reacheéd here before he died. Henry ¥, Parker and family have returned from their western trip. SQUTH WILLINGTON Sure Sign of Spring—Cemetery Asso- ciation Re-elects Officers. Bluebirds, robins, peep frogs and other ‘harbingers of spring have awak- ened suspicions that winter was past, but the conviction was clinched Sun- day when a large crowd gathered near the village for a ball game, Gone to California. Warren E. Butler left the 21st for Qakland, Cal, where he is to live with his son, George. Cards have been re- cevied from him. written en route from Atlanta, Ga. He was due to arrive in Oakland the 28th, Officers Re-elocted. At the annual meeting of the Will- ington’ Cemetery association, held on Monday, the officers were Te-elected. Lee Burdick and George H. Nichols were elected on the board of diree- tors to fill vacancies caused by the deaths of Rev. Austin Gardner and Charles H. Ryder. The name of Ma- jor E. V. Preston of Hartford was add- ed to the list of directors. Walter A. Allen and George H. Nichols were chosen auditors. Adolph Korper Improving. Steady improvement is noted in the case of Adolph Korper, who has been ill at his home the past two weeks. His son Leslie of Hartford is here with him. Miss Minnie Kimmel has a mild case of diphtheria, contracted, it is supposed, while on a recent visit to her home. Next Sunday the preaching service will be held at 11 o'clock. Sermon by Rev. A, B, Coats, D.D. - Sunday school will be held at 10 o'clock. HEBRON Teachers and Students en Vacation— Outings—Florida Tourists Return. Principal S. T. Marshall is spending a week with his unele in Ellington. Miss Florence M. Jones is in Gilead for the week. Joel Brown returned to St. Joseph's hospital Tuesday, the 28th. Miss Ellen Buell has raturned to her home, after several weeks in the coun- Ty. Mr. Griffing is critieally ill. Joel Brown is ill again. There are several cases of measles in town. Home from Florida. - Henry Spafford and family, who have been in Florida for the past three months, have returned to their home in this place. George Wyman has returned to He- bron and entered tha employ of Ed- mgi!d Horton. iss Carrie Kellogg is making a number of repairs to the inside of her home. The schools of the tewn will com- mence next Menday after having a vaeation. Miss Eleanor Lord and a friend are at E. J. Lord’s during their vaeation. BOLTON NOTCH Best-Oliver Marriage on Wednesday— General News. Miss Grace Oliver and bride last Wednssday. After a wed- ding tour in the south they will be at home after. Ma: in Hartford. ¥ Miss Sadile d bas returned to | New York’ after a visit with her: mother, Mrs. M. E. Howard. \ Mrs. E. A. Shaw was a New . York visitor last weelk. : Mrs. L. S. Maine is the guest' of . friends in Hartford. N Mrs. Marion Seott of Great Barring- ton, Mass, js the guest of her niece Mre. M. E. How: Mr, and Mrs. am of Hartfor: Satur- were the of L. 8. Maine Herman “aftar the - m this place of of sugar maples'! the. onof mapid n e WPITERE oLyt o and all o - ' % for the WBusiness of making. He is now runnine al 400 buckets .‘?nd thinks the sap season will run well over into April on account of the recent cold weather. ; News Notes. Mrs. W. H.'Kieeland recently spent Sutiday with heér -daughter Juila at South: Willington, where the latter is en “in teaching. ‘Mr. anc Mrs. Raymond. P. Collins and little son of Hamden spent Sun- with Mr. .Collins’ father, Deacon ‘William A." Cellins, on Chestnut Hill. ‘whg for the past two resided i Hop River wil- age, bas -moved to- Columbia green and is occu & part of the old ho- tel owned by tHam L W. Porter, the tenement which he occupied before moving to Ho) ver. - Herman Wolff; fireman on the New York, New Haven & Hartford raflroad, spent & day last week with his parents, Mr. and Mry. Fred Wolff. Measles have been prevalent in the eastern part of the town for the past week. - Sechools in town are having a vaea- tion this week. Bluébirds and robins show that. it is surely’ ng, although recent weath- er hardly indiedte it. Clement Lumis, who resides with his brother in East Hartford, -has been spe several days with his parents, Mr. and Mra John A. Seurs on Co- lumblia green. Mrs. Owen of Hartford was with friends i this place over Sunday. Miss Viola Lewis and Miss Joseph- ine eeland, teachers in Chaplin and East Killingly, respeotively, are spend- ing their week of vacation at their homes in this place. © WILLINGTON State Secretary Coats to- Speak at Horace ears has D, B. Gardner and Samuel Gardner were' with® their sister on Sunday, rdner presided at the Y. P. 3 _Sunday evening. W. Darrow preached from Esther x 1 West Hunday the charch service will R mee at 3 o'clock. Communion be obsprved. There will be an evening meeting at 7 o'clock, with a se] e of sopg at which Rev. A. B. tes, ‘state secretary, will be pres- ent. Sunday school commences at 2 o'¢glock. The n; t at town hall Fri- air ol AT, o T bers were recefved. A herd of it deer, six does and two fawns, 'e “about the Hill Sum- day afternoon and -found many ad- mirers. .. Koy c)fl- A“ceiaMfiPv{::t;n is atl Maple er” er newly-pur- cfifw fil?sldc house renovated with fresh paint an mer There was a ding at the Myrtle home on Saturday, Rev. Mr. Darrow uniting in marriage Rose Myrtle and Frank Safranck. Dr. Converse and -wife attended the funeral of the doctors uncle, Mina G. Needham, at Staffordville, on /Satur- day. H. H. Moore of West Warren, Mrs, Mass., and Mrs. L. L. Walker of New w_dining hall is letion. Most of the in and the interior wood- work is belng finished. - Among the signs of spring Is the gang of boys who for their vacation ‘Work are raking the college campus. _Herdsman Walker Recovering. Mr. Walker, who is herdsman, is re- covering from an attack of grip and tonsilitis. Miss Edna Butler. has rsturned from a ghort stay in New York. To Attend Hearing. A hearing before the appropriation committee on appropriations for agri- cultural societies, agricultural college and experiment station will be hzld on ‘Tuesday, April 4, at the capitol. Sev- eral who have charge of college work {sera are planuing to attend the hear- ng. ? STAFFORDVILLE Sudden’/ Death of Miner Needham-— Funeral on Saturday—Pastors to Exchange Pulpits, Miner Needham, 64, died very sud- denly at the home of his nephiew, Will- jam Converse, last week, wursday morning of a short. illness of pneu- monia. Mr. Needham was an employe of ‘the Fabyan mill. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Washburn and:Mrs. Lucy Bon of Monson, Mass. The funeral was held in the Methodist church last Saturdey at 2.30 p. m. Rev: Robert Williamg officlated. Bur- ial was In_ Staffordville cemetery. Among the relatives who attended the funeral from out of town were Mrs, Mary Washburn, Mrs. Claude Duncan, Milton E. Belcher, Elmer Bon and Mrs. Lucy Bon of Monson, Mass., Mrs. Carrie Goodwill of Springfield, Mass., Mrs. Harry Moores of West Warren, Mass., Mrs, Mabel Walker of - New Haven. Dr. Frank Converse and wife of Willington. Personal Items, Moore is visiting_his son, Ed. Moore, and family in Rochester, N. Y., and Ernest Moore and wife in New Jersey. Rev. R. G. Clapp of Stafford Springs Congregational church will exchange pulpits with Rev. Miss Jones next Sunday morning. EAGLEVILLE. Constructing ‘Underground Telephens Line. A party of men in the employ of the American Telegraph and Telephone company ig unloading several carloads of madierial for the construction or the underground tslephone line which passes through this vicinity. J. L. Ross and son of the Eagle mills are insthlling two large steam boilers. George ket e LSS B A . crept away from burning brush néar the house of W. P. Wildes. i The plazza which aderfis the fyont of Town Clerk B. M. Sears' residence has recently been extended and Té- paired. Lo The people on the Hill have ‘com- menced rehearsing the m;:awm 4are on Spain, Athens and Peapsit wes 'en by C. #.m’l'mnmt =t thz hmil Tuesdey evening. : Teacher Resigns. " Miss fiel:n nct Inl‘ :'?““ a8 8 to @ by Gertrude Chi ot J‘c“ ¥ ..w!;el Gilbert, a t Northfleld semiRary, fimnm.‘., is spending the vacation at Ber home. 3 Surprise Programme. Hebron grange m: at the hell Ty ont il . Post, Mrs. J. C. Fogfl & surprise| §L.5% Ttrworth. UNION. 4 8. Among the Breakers, prasenited undaf the auspices Ladles’ Aid scciety. GILEAD Surprise Party—Interesting |llustrated Lecturg—Grange P!;n. © Programm Last Saturday afternoon Miss Doriy 1. Hutchinson was pleasantly surpriged . by ten young friends af §lawn. ‘Mr. end Frazier have returned Mrs. Fred Post is very Hl with wm measles. o called om. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martyny, for- tflm mfé‘lwvm % . merly of Springfisld, Mass., have moved' of . into C. S. Hutchinson’s house. friends in town my . J. Dextar Humt spemt several days| 2 at his summer reeently. A leuitural is home [ A very interesting stereopticon - lecs: The work is befng done by a Boston firm, ‘W. E. Ross recently purchased large Prairie State inecubator. Henry Boswick of New Haven was in town Friday on business. SPRING HILL Brush Fire Causes Alarm—Drama Be- ing Rehearsed. a Four mor2 cases of measles on the Hill this week. Mrs. E. F. Storrs has been in Cov- entry a part of this week. Quick work by neighbors who re- sponded to a call last Saturday pre- vented what might have been a seri- ous matter as the result of fire which The Sirolin Sentinel L e m‘nanqufite Plague NORWICH, Every Cough or Cold MayDevelop Into Consumption SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 177" -~ . A cough or cold by itself cannot cause consumption, because ‘‘“The Great White Plague” is a germ disease —and the germs must find lodgment in the lungs be- fore Consumption can begin. We all breathe millions of these germs every day; and our bealthy lungs are able to repel their attacks. BUT— Lungs weakened by a deep-seated cold are not able to withstand the attacks of the invading bacillifgnd here lies the danger in neglecting apparently trifling ailments of the throat and lungs. Treat every cough or cold as being full of deadly possibilities. first sign of ‘‘catching cold,” avail yourself of the powsr *? to cut short the attack. After the first dose or two of “‘SIROLIN’’ you wiil find that b the most disagreeable and continued doses obliterate all traces of the ailment. Fordeep-seated sfymptoms have disaj or a day or two will entirely Couglisand Colds, or other throat , take a course oF ‘‘SIROLIN’’ troubles, g [ bottle#, untilnot only areyou rid of the ail- » ment, but havegained all of the tonic, uybulldhix,]x' which arepeculia: ;:nsmo Allcock’s is the originai.and Jieates. 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