Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 15, 1911, Page 13

THE GRADUATE AND THE FARM (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The school and college year has now closed in its usual “blaze of glory.” ¥rom thirteen to thirty thousand stu- dents of different institutions have “‘graduated.” Some have taken “sheep- skins” and some have drawn plain paper certificates and some have got nothing to show for their school work cept what may be in their heads. Fvul they've all finished with the school room and are now preparing to take a course in real life. It's the customary thing to poke gentle fun at these young folks. They are apt to have high ideals and, also, rather high opinicns of their own abil- ity. They frequently show themselves —to put it ‘mildly—just a little bit bumptious. They haven’'t vet quite com ed the hemispheric difference between swagger and dignity—between over-confidence and self-confidence. They teo often make themselves rid ulous in the eves of clder travelers b their assumptions of superiority. Therefore, they are easy subjects to satir and ridicule and cartoonize. But, s ehow, I haven't any tempta- tion to laugh at them nor at the trite and st q “smartness” which makes fun, of the Rather, T am moved to profound sympathy with them and to a painful apprehension, as I foresee the awful mistakes that too many of them are going to make. They wonder, most of them, what they are going to Go with life. I 2 with something of terror in my wonder—what life is going to do with them. They have been learning | little in the still inside the sheltered cove. Now they must see where they can get among the breakers and the surf and seaweed snd the undertow and the ‘rashing storm waves of the broad ocean, where there are no life lines for them to cling to, and no swimming- master to help if they get out of their depth. Yet, if they are going to reach their castles in Spain, there are thou- sands of weary miles of buffeting be- * fore them. And few of them—very, very few of ithem, are ever going to reach those castles of their youthful dreams. “If youth cnly knew,” sighs the old French proverb. How ecan it? Knowl- edge is the child of experience, sel- One might as expect to raise a two-year-old in a minute as to find an old s head on a young man’s shoul- Nevertheless, we grizzled old are almost as fond of giving ce to the lads as they are of tell- us how we should have managed world- when we first took hold of Perhaps it never does any good; and yet, in some rare exceptions, it might. dom of mere teaching. well For many years I've wondered why men of education, college men and the like, should so unanimously refuse the farm and the open life of the country. They plunge into the professions, | rats into a granary; the nrofesslons where statistics show that not one out of five of them can make a decent living and not one out of ten a real place in the world. Or they go into business where, again, statistics make it clear that eight out of every ten will fail wretchedly. In both cases they #cem to be blind to the deplorable fact that, whichever they go into, they are ting themselve nto the hop- per of a machine in ‘which their ideals and their high aspirations and most of that in them which makes for in- dividuality are to be ground up into a mush of uniformity. There isn't any one of all the varied oecupations a man may adopt on earth which af- fords such opportunity for him to grow along his.own lines as the pur- suit of agriculture. Yet these young men., whose souls a aflame with protest against the vulgar conven- tional, turn their backs upon the one occupation which offers greatest free- dom from conventional trammels, and chcose some other which is hedged and fenced about with arbitrary laws and precedents. Of ten young men who go into farm- ing with intelligence and energy and ambition behind them just ten will be able to make a 1 least; a zood, wholeseme, h al[nfu' fairly com- fortable living. Of ten who go into business and the professions at least five are going to live their lives in squalor and misery or drop out alto- gether, bankrupt in soul, body and estate. Yet ninety-nine in a hundred seem eager to choose the half-chance in place of the certain Some one strong or It man has achieved a success which shines across the night like a sun-rivalling outglow in a tall lighthouse on its lofty headland. Straightway the voung graduate de- termines to erect a like light on a like peak. The commonplace gleam of lamps in a thousand homes in the sheltered valleys allures him not a whit, You wouldn’t class James J. Hill, the western railroad organizer, as a the- orist or impracticable, would you? There isn’t a harder headed, more in- practical man in all these Kidney Diseases Are Curable under certain conditions. The right medicine must be taken before the dis- ease has progressed too far. Mr. Per- ry A. Pitman, Dale, Tex., says: “1 was down in bed for four menths with kidney and bladder trouble ana gall ston One bottle of Foley's Kid- ney Remedy cured me well and gsound.” Ask for it. Lee & Osgood Co. United States. Yet it is this same James J. Hill who recently wrote in an article intended for reading in one of our largest colleges his belief that “‘a good many hundrad university gradu- ates in this country every year wouid be better off if they had shaped their studies with a view. to agricultural in- dustry, and taken their diplomas straight to a farm.” Mr. Hill asserts that the man with a university education, “supplemented by just such practical instruction as he would feel essential in any other oc- cupation,” is of success on the farm in proportion to his industry and ability. “1 do not know,” adds Mr. Hill, “of any other occupation of which these sweeping assertions can be mad2." And then he adds these golden words: “I do not know of any occupation in which it is more possible to continue in connection with the main business of earning a living that enrichment and enlargement of the mind which i the best gift of university life, and its proper though seldom realized contin- uation after the university hae been left behind.” Right there Mr. Hill touches a side of life’'s problem which ought to ap- peal more strongly than seems com- mon to the eyves of youth. The old idea that a farmer is nothing but a hoe-smith, a dirt-digger, a clod-hop- per, a drudge in purely physical sia- very has gone out among those who know, The farmer needs and finds use for his brains quite as much a-farming er does a-lawyering, or thz n a-huckstering. Further- finds use for about sixteen more kinds of brains than the profes- sional man or the business man ‘ever does. In the professions and in busi- ness specializing is the rule and an essential of success. The man who wins out must know one thing and do one thing. The special work may be a great work and the one thing he does a big thing, but he must restribt himself to its limits, whatever they may be. Instead of broadening out he must narrow himself; instead of “en- richment and enlargement of the mind” he must accept somathing perilously near atrophy in all but one or two of its functions. He must prune his life of al] side-branches and out-spreading limbs, till it spindles up into a sort of attenuated flagpole of a tree, instead of the wide-crowned symmetrical per- fection it might have been. But the life of the free country and the open lands invites all there is in a man forth to grow naturally and equally. The real call of the modern farmer's work is as much on his mind as his muscles. One great beauty is that it builds up both—the sound mind in the sound body. One great glory is that it exareises every muscle and every fac- of the mind with impartial fair- There is nothing one-sided nor ded about it. To meet all its demands and fulfill all its exactions one needs all the training he can get in ‘every possibla field of knowledge. He needs all the experience and skili he can acquire. He needs all the ductility of thought and fertility of re- source he can develop. His whole wosk is a continuous education, quite as high and honorable in its character :nfi scope as any given in academic alls. : It is rotten nonsense to talk as If educated men had declined to some- thing below their proper level when they take up farming. They have sim- ply undertaken a post- graduate course which will call for the exercise and development of all that is best and worthiest-in them, if they propose to get what's really in it out of it. They have chosen the most natural life there is—the life least hampered by conven- tional restrictions, least liable to maiming and mutilation. Thay have chosen the most symmetrical life there is—the one least in danger of becoming abnormal. They have chosen the life giving greatest proinise of success—Iif by “success”” they mean the real thing and not some gaudily bedizened arti- ficial imitation. Let it be admitted without hesitation that the farmer’s life is not apt to lead to wealth and e: and luxury. Very few lives do. If they are your objects and yon deliberately set out to achieve them, the chances are 99 in the hun- dred that vou will fail on the road. If you are the hundredth man—thez one exception—and win them. it is not a mere chance, it a certainty that vou will find your whole life has been a failure, not ~merely in the road you have 4 2led but in the end you have attained. For neither wealth, nor ease, nor luxury is the worthy end of a manily life. They may grat the craving of weaklings and degenerates, but nevar do they fill the measire of a man, THE FARMER. WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. 1 HOPKINTON Miss Taiey Allen returned to her home in Hope Valiey Monday. Leon A, Sprague was in Westerly Wednesday on busine: A picked up nine in Ashaway played a nine from Bradford on the baseball grounds at Bethel Sunday afternoon. Bradford won the game. Mrs. E. P. Mathewson and daughter, Anabel 8., have returned from a visit in Warrenville, Conn. Rev. E. P. Mathewson preached Sun- day morni in the Second Baptist church, North Stonington. That is Best in Hotel Life * Recognizedfor years as the headquarters of New York's representative visitors from every state in the union, Anmranged, appointed and conducted under an established system of Hotel M-nwemthnhnlongmadlopubh:dmmd. HOTEL PERFECTION AT CONSISTENT RATES BOOKLET 5th Ave. and 30th St. WINDHAM COUNTY : WARRENVILLE Young People’s Entertainment—Lan- phear House Struck by Lightning. Robert M. .Baleh, Milton Durkee and Raymond O° Baker have recently join- ed the Babcock band. Miss Eva S. Spoorfer, who for the past few menths has been in the em- ploy of Mrs. W. H. Platt, has returned to her home in Westford. ; Pleasing Entertainment. The young people of this village gave a fine entertainment in Baker’s hall, Friday evening of last week. Mr. and Mrs: A. M. Bassett have been entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bas- sett. E. L. James and son, Earl, spent Sunday with friends in Westford. Miss Genevieve Bicknell is attending the Summer Normal school at Dan- bury. Mrs. E. A, Rossiter of Lilac Villa is entertaining Mrs. William J. Ennis and child and Mrs. Charles Winkler of New York. Mrs. E. L. James spent the day in Phoenixville recently. Struck by Lightning. Henry Lanphear's house was struck by lightning last night, but no special damage was done. Mrs. E. A. Rossiter gave her guests an automobile ride on Thursday. Mrs, Everett Mathewson and Miss Mabel, who have been visiting at w. L. Durkee's have returned to their home in Ashaway, R. I. Miss Ethel Durkee accompanied them home. Degrees Conferred. Ashford grange, No. 90, gave two candidates the third and fourth de- grees last Wednesday evening, after which an appetizing supper was served, WAUREGAN Plans for Telephone Improvements— New Raceway Nearly Completed, Fred Girard of Worcester spent Sun- day here with friends. Misses Sanese and Malvina Plankey have returned from Pittsfield, Mass., where they have been guests of rela- tives and friends. Telephone Improvements. Condensers are being placed on tele- phones here preparatory to the instai- lation of the cannon battery system which will go in effect September 1st. Finger Crushed. Miss Malvina Chagnon employed in one of the card rooms of the Waure- gan Co.’s mill, had the index finger of her left hand severely crushed in a gear, Wednesday morning. The new raceway for the company s nearing completion. The cofferdam will be removed in a few days. Wiiliam Wild has returned from a short vacation spent at Warwick, R. I The rumor afloat last week that the Decosta farm on the Brooklyn side had been sold is denied. The scarlet fever epidemic seems to be on the wane. No new cases having been reported of late. Called on Army Conrade. Linwood Harris, a member of the Third Connecticut Volunteer infantry during the war with Spain and later in called on his old com- rade, F. E. K this week. Blueberries are very plentiful and are being picked by young and old in large quantities. Farmers hereabout say about half a crop of nearly everything raised on a farm will be the average this year. " DAYVILLE Local People on Summer Outings— Visitors Being Entertained. Fred Ormsbee, who has just return- ed {rom Norwich, has gone to New Haven for the summer, Robert Bennett is visiting in Provi- dence. Dr. A. E. Darling has been confined to_the bed for a few days. Milton Burrett is working for C. E. Ayer during the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Frank spent the week end at with Mrs, C. A. Russell. Mr. and Mrs. David Chase left Mon- day night for the summer with their daughter, Mrs. Jenney. Miss Mae Burnett is in the Boston Store at Danielson. Misses Emma and Clara Lone and | Mrs. Reynolds were in Providence on Tuesday. ‘Mrs. Mary D. Stokes entertained her son over Sunday. Newlyweds Welcomed. The friends of Mr. and Mrs, William Campbell welcomed them home from their wedding trip. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Miller and daugh- ter, Deborah, are guests of Mr. and Mrs., A. Miller. M. and Ralph Elliott are visiting Tn Grosvenordale. M. Bennett Kelsey Point 2 s Lillian Andrews 1is visiting friends in Providence. M D. Curtis entertaining n Curtis of New London. Mr. and Mrs, David Kin nd daugh- ; recent guests of Mrs, Sarah ; Shippee is the owner of a mo- vele. He has made a trip to and from Putnam on it. NORTH STERLING Bad Fire at Hubbard Place—Death of William S. Blackmar at 92. The house, barn and all the outbuild- ings at the Jeremiah Hubbard place were totally destroyed by fire Thurs- day morning, July 6, about 9 o'clock, The house was occupied by Walter Davis. The origin of the fire is un- known. Henry H. Crowell and family of Wil- mington, Del. have moved here. Thes will occupy the house at the Bitgood four corners this summer. Death at 92. William S, Blackmar, who died July 2, aged 92 vears, had been totally blind for a number of years, ONECO Paper Mill Stull Becauu of Low Water Mrs. D. S. hemon is much better. Several attendéd the Ladizs’ Aid so- ciety meeting held at Sterling at the home of Mrs. Horace Burdick, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitford were in Providence Wednesday. Mrs. E. L. Kenyon was in Moosup Thursday. Mrs. O. F. Gibson attended the fu- neral of John Tanner at Greene, R. T, Thursday. Mrs. J. S. Mowry and daughter Gladys were in Moosup Thursdayv. The paper mill was still Wednesday for want of water in the pond. Mrs. William Littlefield was on Ster- ling Hill Wednesday. HAMPTON Joseph Burchnall lost a valuable cow one day last week. It is thought the extreme heat and scarcity of water was the cause of its death. ‘William H. Phillips and family have gone to their cottage at. Cresceni Beach for the remainder of the sum- mer. Arthur Pearl was a Thread City vis- itor Wednesday. Fred Burnham. who recently lost a couple of horses from his pasturz near his home, found them lmst Tuesday in Windhap | - WOODSTOCK VALLEY City Owners Occupying Summ Homes—The Week’s Visitors. William N. Whiting of Providence spent this week at Allen W. Ke: yon’s. H. C. Fiske aund family, Cady of Siafford Sprmss, len W. Kenyon's Sunday. and Mrs. John Spencer and sons and Sire Lucreils Brocd of Wilimen: tic and Miss Wood of Glendale, R. L, were at Allen Kenyon's Sunday. Mrs. Lyon of North Windham spent Suladay at Asa Thayer's. . iss Edith Briggs of Pomfrct spen last week with relatives in the Valley. Miss Jessie Butler returned to Attle- borc, Mass., last week. Miss Fannie Kenyon is visiting rela- tives in Putram. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason 2nd daughter of R)e, N. Y., were at Allen W, Ken- yon's last week, Miss Maria Hiscox has returned from a visit in Flushing, L. L Mis. Forest Marc¢y is extremely ill with pleura-pneumonia, Miss Edith Carpenter has just re- covered from an attack of grip. Occupying Summer Home. Mrs. Marian Vriom and two daugh- ters and Miss Josephine Newhall are at their summer home from East Or- ange, N. J. Mrs, Leonard and family from Flat- bush, L. I, are at their summer home. Calvin Esterbrooks has been enter- taining his daughter from Fiskdale, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Jackson and daughtfer, - Mrs. Sumner, called on friends in the Valley Wadnesday. SOUTH WO0ODSTOCK Ralph Andrews Overcome by Heat. r. and Mrs, ere at Al- H. W. Young, who has been ill the past week, is slowly improving. Raymond Sheldon has returned to | Southbridge, where he is employed in‘ the American Optical Works, 1 Mrs. Q. B. Curtis and daughter left | Monday for Stafford, where Mr. Curtis | has accepted a call to the church ol' that place. Miss Florence Barber gave a talk Sunday morning in the absence of the expected candidate. Miss Minnie Wilson has recovered | from a severe attack of pneumonia. Ralph Andrews while working in his garden Tuesday was overcome by the excessive heat. T ABINGTON Miss A. B. Hammond of New Haven | and Miss C. T. Bunnell of Bridgeport | are at Breeze Hill farm for the sum- mer. AMrs. Bond who has been at A. B.| Potter’s, has returned to her home in | Hartford. C. A, Sharpe and W. E. McGrath enjoying the breezes at evenings during the hot have been Wildwood spell, Robert Weeks and family from Packerville are occupying G. P. Sum- | ner’s cottage for the summer. Mrs. George Johnson is now ploved at Putnam. TOLLAND ¢ COUNTY SOUTH WILLINGTON Tax Collector Mun Prod Delinquents —Albert E. Vose’s Funeral—William P. Baxter’s Death at 79. em- James Service; Jr., collector of taxes, has Leen able to collect a large per “‘cent. of the personal taxes, but there are still some remaining unpaid. he s no choice in the matter, he is preparing a list of delinquents to hand to ihe constable, who must at once | proceed to prosecute such claims. If it is hard to pay the personal tax of $2, it will be harder to pay costs of $7 or $3 in addition. Funeral of Albert E. Vose. The funerai of Albert E. Vose, who died Sunday morning in St Jjoscph's hospital, V imant was held here Tuescay. Burial was at the Hill cem- etery. Deceased was 57 years of age and hcd_until recently lived in West- brook. He is survived by a widow, formerly Mrs. Fannie Scott of this village. William P. Baxter diéd at his home July 4 at the age of 79 years. The burial was in Mansfield, the 6th. A | brother, who is in Canada, and a sis- ter, Mrs. Marlin Knight, survive him. Lightning Burns Barn. A small barn belonging to John Lescovitz, just south of this was struck I village, lightning and burned to the ground .ast Thursday evening. About 1 1-2 tons of hay had just been in ine barn and was burned. | covered by loss was ‘partly in- surance. STAFFORD Overcome by “Heat—Rev. A. Arnold Ross Resigns Pastorate of Univer- | salist Church. and Mrs. Charles Whiton of | spent Sunday with Mr. | Glover. N Jenokr was overcome by heat last Friday. A physician was called to attend him. i Mr. and . J. G. Mitcheil and sons, | of Columbia, were the guests of Mr. ! and Mrs. F. A, Lasbury last Sunday. Mrs. William Park and daughters, Misses Eunice and Mabel ,Miss Blanche Soule and Angus Park are at Niantic for two weeks. Called to Alabama. At the parish meeting of the Univer- | salist church last Wednesday evening the resignation of the pastor, Rev. A. Arnold Ross, was read and accepted. Mr. Ross has received a call from a church in Brewton, Ala., where he was for'nwrh pastor, Maud Booth and Miss Annie Brown are sent as delegates from the local Y. C. Y, to the national con- vention the Y. P. C. Y., being held ! in Portland, Maine. Mi Margaret | Glover and N Blanche Shippey are also attending the convention. GURLEYVILLE Storm Prevented Outdoor Service. | Thunder F. C. Duniam and daughters, Misses Arlene and Marguerite Dunham and Mrs. Arvilla Dunham were guests of | Mr. ang Mrs. Irving Swift at a recent family gathering at their residence in | Atwood, { Mr. and Mrs. John Wrana and chil- dren were recent guests of Mrs. Wrana’s parents in South Willington. Rev. Ernest Mills from Boston, spoke at the regular evening service at the church last week Thursday evening. | The thunder shower toming up just at the time prevented him from holding an outdoor service that. had been planned and was also the cause of a small attendance. EAST WILLINGTON Mrs, George Wilson is in poor gealth. Her daughter is caring for her. Olin Wilson and William Downs moved J. Osborn to Coventry this week. z Mr. Church from Hartford has bought Mr. Osborn’s place. East Willington was visited by a hard thunder shower Wednesday night. Mr. Sterry took Mr. and Mrs. Os- born to their new Lome in his auto Thursday. Much regret is felt in hav- ing to part with such good meighbors. / | ed mired in the swamp in an exhausted | his neighbors, and with aid of ropes, | cuperating. | absent ! vear for the lake to reach high waleri | gramme was carried out: | Genter church, i southe “Obfess o It means the Ongmal and Genuine MALTED MILK The Food-Drink for all Ages. Rich milk, malted grain, inpowdaedlom. For infants, invalids and growin; Agrees with the weakest digestion. Pupnmv i wgolebody. Keep it on your si at home. Invigorates ni mothmandthnged. A quick prepared in a minute. et the best., All druggists. ugeg! % Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK’S. In 110 Combine o. Judt COLUMBIA . Cow Mired in Swamp for Two Da)‘m—- Funeral of Mrs. Charles A. Post, a Former Resident. A cow belonging to Mr. Antonio Gregoria failed to come up at night | with the herd one night last week. After searching the pasture and woods for two days the animal was discover- condition: with the help of several of pulleys “and team, the cow was ex- tricated from the mud and is now re- Mr. Gelon Randall and family of Colorado are visiting friends and rela- tives in Columbia and vicinity, At present they are located at the lake. Funeral of Mrs, C. A. Post. The body of Mrs. Charles A. Post, who recently died at Hartford was broucht to this place for burial last Saturday. Mrs. Post was for many vears a resident of Columbia. She was a daughter of Chester Bill at one time landlord at the “Old Inn.” Mr. William Godtfring and family of Philadelphin are snending the summer in this place, with the family of Will- iam Bertoch. Mr. Godtfring will be y a considerable portion of the time on business. Lawn Social Successful. The Ladies’ Aid society held a lawn | social at Yeoman’s hall last Wednes- day afternoon. Supper was served | from 5 to 7 and ice cream was sup-| plied to all who desired it. The social, was well attended considering the busy | seasor. uf the year. 1 Rev. H. M. Lawson Peached. | Last bunday the pulpu in this place H. M. Lawson as | a suppls church is without a pastor and we are still consolidating. Mrs. Edge of New York is spending the summer with the family of Abbott Little. The American Thread Co. of Willi- | mantic have commenced to draw on, Columbia lake for waterpower. There | was not sufficient rain during the past/ mark. A good delegation of lads from the | Hartford, with their ' manager, attended the morning church | service last Sunday. The company is| camping at the lake, BULTON Excellent - Sermon by Rev. Francis | Bachelor—Vacation Notes. 3 Rev. Francis Bachelor of Talcott- | ville occunied the pulpit of the Con- | grezational church Sunday morning in + with the pastor, Rev Charles Mr. Bachelor preached an sermon; the text was L Co- excellent rinthians S5 Mrs. E. Daly is entertaining rela- tives frem w Jersey, Louis D. Eaton of \ew York is vis- iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank itaton. Mr, Katon has recently re- ned from a i s trip in th s ates lasted sever which montt Clair S. Hutchinson and Mrs. Hutch- inson of Hartforc are in town for the | summer | Mrs, Charles M Lee n1s returned | fium a mcnth's to Bosion. Mra. | mother, Meade, returned for a Guest fram Ohio “ora Mawvey of Chid gucet of hier brotner, John M. J. Kell White and H are spending some tir with thewr parents, Mr. . Witite, ss Annie Pen:ia of is vigiting her unele, Andrew . Maeg- Misscs and Hattie South Manc er are at Warner’s of H ford was Miss Jennie Ferry ¥ J. E. Connors, a recent guest of M 'SPRING HILL. L-ght— Heavy Thund Storm. Mrs. Bessie G. Barrows, who has been at Hartford for several months ,has re- turned to her home. Walter Cummings and family of Webster, Mass., spent last Sunday at B. M. Sears’. Mrs. Edwin Thornton and son of Bridgeport have been guests < Mrs. C. E. Hawkins. Mrs. E. Davis of Norwich, Ct., and Robert Smith and daughter of New Rochelle, N. Y., are visiting at C. C. Davis’. Erastus Rogers and family of No- ank, Ct., are occupying their summer home on Spring Hill. The hay crop hereabouts is ex- tremely light and is mosily gathered in. The heavy thunder storm here Wed- nesday evening was much appreciat- ed. Hay Crop ELLINGTON Heavy Rain Fell on Wednesday After- noon—Newsy ltems. Ellsworth Niles and friend of New York are spending some time with the foimer's rarents, Mr. and Mrs. Niles. Miss Annie Neelans of ‘Wallup was g visitor at F. B, Nangle’s over Sun- ay. Mrs. Katherine Geary is spending three weeks at the shore. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hale attended the funeral of Mrs. Herbert Hale in New Haven on Saturday. A much needed rain fell on Wednes- day afternoon, which was accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning, and in some places hail. . Mr, and Mrs. Michael Oates are en- tertaining relatives from New Jersey. Miss Angie Elliott and Miss Edna Clough are in Atlantic City as dele- gates to the Y. P. S, C. E. convention. | 8. R. Dawley, STAFFORDVILLE Hanner Entertains at ~Cereus Party—Personals. John Lilley, who has been quite ill with heart lroubls‘ is improving. Mrs. Ira Bradway has been the guest of Mrs. Mary Heck recently. A Mr. and Mrs. P. A. West were guests of relatives in West Somerville, Mass., recently. Misses Ida and Jennie Pratt and My, Saunders of Spencer visited their brother, William Pratt, last week. Charles Marchant of Waterbury vis- ited local relatives recently, Mrs. G. Hanner entertained a part: of friends to watch har beautiful nl‘ht blooming cereus Frxday mpzht WASHINGTON COUNTY, R.L RICHMOND W. C. T. U, Outing at Home ef Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Briggs—Personals. Edward K. James died Thursday mnrmng at his home in Beaver River Valley after severa! weeks’ illness. Alfred Dixon of Peace Dale has besen visiting his cousins, Henry and Edwin Hoyle for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Hoxsle ae- companied by Dr. K. G. Barber of ‘Washington, D, C., took an auto trip to_ Watch Hill one day recently. Everett Moore and H. Kelley have { been employed by B. B. Moore this week. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dawley were callers in Beaver River Valley, Sunday. John Beresford of Carolina was a business caller at William H. Kinge- ley's onz day recentl: Mrs. Harold W. Potter ill with typhoid fever. The Clark’'s Mills W. C. T. U, in connection with their July meeting enjoyed an outing Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Presbary H. Briggs, where a picnic was enjoved. After the repast the followinz pro- Scripture reading by the president, Mrs. S. R. Dawley. Prayer, Mrs. Walter N. Rey- nolds. Roll-call, the text word being labor. Singing, Mrs. Albert Hoyle. Reading, Remember Maine, Miss EBlanche Meadowcroft. Reading, Tha Rumseller, Miss Carrie Lanphear. A duet, Mrs, Presbary H. Briggs and Mise Ruth Briggs. Reading, Prayer and Praise, Mrs. S. R. Dawley. Reading, The Well-Ordered Day, Mrs. Waiter N. Reynolds. Solo, Mrs, Albert Hoyle. Reading, A Praver for Jimmie, Miss Ruth Briggs. Reading, Our White Ribbon, Mrs. Albert Hoyle. Solo, Mrs. Reading, With Sailor Boy, Mrs. Agnes H. Phillip: Reading, Mary at the Sepulchre, ¥lor- ence Barber. Singing. The meeting closed with the W. C. T. U. benedic- tion. Mrs. Jane Marshall of Beverly, Mass., who has been visiting Mrs. A, H. Phillips has returned home. Fred FHoxie of Phenix spent Sunday with Presbary Brigs USQUEPAUGH. Alvin Clark Dies from Effect of Heat. C. E. Kenyon h: finished working for his father and is now engaged in business at Ashaw; He moves next Monday Miss M. D. Palmer, who has been visiting friends in Providence, return- ed home Tuesday. J. M, Phillips cut A. W. Kenyon's fattie Holgate called on friends at West Kingston Tuesday. Died from Heat. It has been reported here that Alvin Clarke committed suicide at Matinnuck Wednesda t later news says he was found dead by the roadside, over- heat. was held at Fred Webster's v in honor of Milton A. Woodmansee's fourth birthday. Dr. E. E. Kenyon attended the meet- * ing of the Washington County Medi- al society at Wakefield Thursday. Friends of E. K. James were very sorry to hear of his death Thursday morning. Mr. James had been ill sev- eral weeks. ROCKVILLE of Heat and Drouth—New York Preacher Coming. Miss Louise Collins of Stamford, Conn., was a guest over the week-end of Miss Lottie Burdick. Hottest Day on Record. The long continued hot and dry weathzr is seriously affecting growing crops. Monday was the hottest day on_ record. Mr. and Mrs. Effects Elisha Purdiek of Westerly were guests at “Rockhaven’ from Friday night_to Saturday night Rev. Edgar D. Van Horn of New York is expected to occupy the. pulpit of the S. D. B, church here today (Saturday), July 15th. WEEKAPAUG. . Mrs. Howard Butcher, Jr., is enter- taining Mrs. Clothier and son of New London. Mrs. Mary Ghilerson of Geneva, Y.. is the guest of Mrs. W. H. Cope. Mrs. Smith and daughter, Julia Hartford are among the guests Recky Crest for July. Clarence Hammond Smith who has been a guedt of friends here returned home Thursday morning. Mrs, Lillian T.ogan is weorking for Miss Leon W. Bliven. E. E. Carpenter is assisting his son, Cleveland Carpenter with his haying. Children Ory : FOR nmun's =i A N. of at CAST