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Our Potato Chips (Fried in Olive 0\1) . Be package a1 FRESH APPLES FRESH CELERY 65c ‘Will be plenty this week. PEAS, BEANS, SQUASH, CAULIFLOWER GRAPE FRUIT (Seedless) NEW POTATOES FANCY PINEAPPLES 10c .7 Try our FRUIT SALAD SOMERS GRA ROCK GINGER ALE Better than imported Call feed on You will find that we have just what you want and at reasonable prices. Our chop feed isn't sour; is Free from moisture; jis ground from yxtra good corn and oats, and is clean Mnd sweet. It will pay you to order | our chop feed from CHAS. SLOSBERG, 3 Cove St. NOTICE GENERAL STATUTES OF STATE OF CONN., SECTION 1288, REGU- LATING CELEBRATION OF FOURTH OF JULY. Every person who, between sunset | on the 3rd of July and 4 o'clock ih the forenoon of the following day, or be- tween 11 O'CLOCK in the evening of | July 4th and sunrise of the following day, shall discharge any cannon, pistol, gun, firecracker ,torpedo,, or any ex- plosive, causing a loud report, or who shall by ringing a bell, blowing a horn, beating a drum ,or in any other man- ner make any disturbing noise, or make a bonfire shall be fined not more | than $5. The police are instructed to enforce this law. TIMOTHY €. MURPHY, Mayor. “Wanting is—what? Summer redundent Blueness abundant, Where is he blot?” Robert Broumlng. A Kkitchen without a gas vange can blot out the blue of summer skies with its heat and drudgery. Ate ranges bake with fresh air, theiz scientifi- constructed ventilated ovens in- perfect heat regulatfons, the key ultless baking. A short cabinet design including large hot- an efficiency stove in every , a “kiichenette” compact yet complete, and those sturdy 3 burner cookerg are in our shov-room ready for inspection, 'It's a plan to in- stall a gas range before the scorch- ing weather comes, avoiding disap- pointment and possible suffering, as Franklin put it “BE ON TIME." Rkl Gas & Electrical Dep't. Alice Building, 321 Main Street PEAS, BEETS, BEANS, CUCUMBERS, LETTUC STRAWBERRIES, ETC,, coming in’ fresh every day. People’s Market @ Franklin St. SUSTIN HOLDEN, Prop. Fly Paper and, Sticky Kinds at DUNN’S Pharmacy 50 MAIN ST. Poison DR. C. R. CHAMBERLAIN Dental Surgeon In charge of Dr. B, L. Geer's practiee dumag his last iliness, McGrory Building, Nerwich, Conn. —— A LARGE LINE OF FIREWORKS ALL NEW At NOVELTY SHOP GC. L. HILL TPHERE 15 ng 24 Bastera Congecticyt ggual to The Buk lsiia foy pusiaess s us when in need of chop| ' - @he Bt letin. Norwich, Wednesday, June 26, 1912. pe Bl o e i ok o i VARIOUS MATTERS. Trolley parties are popular Wwarm evenings. these Many of the travelers southbound this week are teachers on vacation trips. Crushed stone is being shipped daily to Norwich from Terry's Bridge, near Thomaston. The dry spell predicted by Horace Johnson is lasting too leng to please the farmers, Ice mer® and soda fountain clerks realize that the good old summer time has arrived, The popular slogap with the small boy just now “Come on in! The water's fine!” Dr. W. T, Grenfell's book “On Im- mortality” has been added to the Otis library collection. The closing of the schools and the hot wave e sent scores of families to the beaches this week In the final ho Wheeler York of in the list for a d s at Yale, Allan rth Stonington is ertation. The comfort station, located in tae parklet at Ocean beach, is yet in the hands of the contractors and not ready for use. The annual state convention of the Daughters of Veterans is to be held with Phoebe Packer Rathbun tent, at Mystic, July 10, French residents have been notified | that the Champldin memorial erected at Crown Point, wiil be dedi- cated Friday, July The first serv Bastern Point cl | day mext, with p jamin W. Bacon, e for the season at apel begins on Sun aching by Rev. Ben- D.D., of Yale. A sword from a handsomely polished Philip H. Spelman, window at George big swordfish, and mounted by is shown in the A. Davis' store. A former Norwich society girl, Miss Van Schaak of Ridgefleld, has taken charge of the rural branch of the Girls’ Friendly society of Connecticut, The boarding silding for C. M. Shea of the Yard is in frame and being shingled. It will be ready | for occupancy the first of September. | | Dr. Robert Lauder of Bridgeport | has been appointed physician for the soldiers’ home at Noroton, to succeed | the late Dr. Myron Robinson of Col- ester, | According to the Connecticut Churchman, Grace church parish, Stafford Springs, will petition the con- vention to be transferred from this to | the Hartford archdeaconry. Jerry Bowns, who has lived on the Norfolk road, Torrington, for many | vears, has been committed by Judge (of Probate Willard A. Roraback to the Norwich State hospital | | _Through Principal Francis P. Me- | Namara, the Greeneville public schools | have reported their handsomely writ- ten lists of pupils to be enrolled in { the City Beautiful association. About twenty young guests were en. tertained Monday by Mr I"rfdaxuk A, | Johnson of Uncasville at ly giv- en in honor of th hnth ),.nhddy of her daughter, Miss Carol Johnson, Several Road eve from church, ng, here will Stonington when Mrs. of Norwich her recent go to the Thursday Dwight C. Town, will trip to the de- Holy Land. Forrest A. Macy, in Southbridge, hospital, He was and bu Tuesday 38, whose home was died Sunday Worcester, from tu born in Woodstoc was in North Ashford onm al The Sunday school Park church will b Thursday, Take steamer Yantic or et, leaving Hall's wharf, Commerce street, 9 a, m., re- turing; leave Kitemaug at P. m.— picnic of the held at Kitemaug At a London Norwich treasu socialist meeting in Fred Holdsworth of elected secretary and e committee, and Will- New Sunday, was fam of Norwich, assistant or- ganizer, vice Edward Perkins Cla removed. p Brewster asked that June 24, ohn Baptists's day, there be pra er for the deputation from this com- mission on a world conference to con- sider faith and order, which be | to confer with bishops of the Chure England. liam M. Brown, in, Mass., § in Moosup. children, who died in formerly lived | three n Hartford, and of Baltic He He leaves his wife, vo sisters two_brothers, John H. Michael F, of Norwich overseer in the Ray mills and an o5 . was A linen shower was tendered Mis: Mary Lasch of West str Mondz night at the home of the s Mullen of Garfield avenue. Miss Lasch soon to become the bride of Thom: Mullen of this city, employed in Willi- mantic.—New London Gl A flower lover writes: The sweet peas will be in full bloom in most sec- tions by July first and can be kept it. full bloom until killed by frost, if you pick them daily, just as soon as the lower flower on the stem s to open and allow none to go to seed. A Bridgeport paper states that Mr. and Mrs, Willlam W. Collins of 2 Harrfet streef, attended the tion of their daughter, ite Collins, from Brown university, Providence, last week. Miss Collins was graduated with high honors, gradua- Miss Marguer- Deputy Timothy D. B United States Marshal E. Hawley has subpoenaed ghennison of Mystic to appear as & witfiess in the United States district court in Philadelphia on July 1 in an action agalnst the James Burton Scott company of Philadelphia—Hartford Post, Word comes from Wallingford that Principal James MeGroty of Whittle- Bey avenue school, formerly of Mont- ville, hag been mentioned for prineipal of the high school to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Principal Nickless, but does not care for the appointment, On Friday and Saturday, eompetitive uummalhmu for gchelarships at Mt, Joseph’s seminary, Hartford, will ha held, JFer five years these schelar= shxfas have been wen by girls frem Bt, iek's peneool, Nerwich, This year no one will compets, Rev, Father *Freanor deeiding to give pupils frem other schosls in the state a chanee, A pew heaeh, Grpton Leong Peiat, having three milés of Sound frentage, has just peen gpened. Prices are low (8193 ppwa ds)fin start gnd are bound ] Fapidly, undeg witl and finest peach ihe eeast. Beach plots formerly soid at $560 and are now $3.000 tq §5,000, advagee piprovements ake {his the largest while * at isiag medlum @ | Watch Hill {hey are 390,069 each. Send for booklet. Jas. Jay ith Be., Room 3L Shanpey fi“!m | | | Swanton, William Hayes, | William _Allen, PERSONAL Miss Mollie Shekter came from Ban- gor, Me,, recently to visit Mr. and Mrs. B. Halpern. Mise Gladys Holmes of New London has as her guest Miss Gladys Minef of Norwich. Miss Flora Spalding has returned to Leonard Bridge after visiting Miss Geraldine Oat of Pearl street. who_ has_been in the spring, N Miss Helen Pomeroy, in Norwlch since e has returned to Brooklyn, Mre. G. E, Bartlett and Miss Marian C. Bartlett of Whitaker avenue have returned from a trip to New York, Mrs. J. H. Allen of Church street visiting at the home of her brother, Christopher G. Newbury of Water- ford. Mrs, William C. Semple and two children, Flora and William, are visit- ing with relatives in Hartford and Manchester. Mrs. Rose Rowell of Church street and her little nieces, Evelvn and Angie McKenna, of Boswell avenue, returned Tuesday morning from several days’ stay in, New York, Mrs. J. C, Darby of McKinley ave- nue, who was to sail on the steamer Oceanic on the 29th for England, will sail July 6 on the Olympic, the saiing of the Oceanic being cancelled on ac- count of the strike. REQUIEM MASSES Gelebrated Monday and Tuesday for Deceased Members of A. O. H. Di- visions. A requiem mass for the deceased members of Division No. 1, A. O. H., was celebrated on Monday morning at o'clock at St. Patrick’s church and on Tuesday morning for those of Di- vision No. 2. Rev, Hugh Treanor, the rector, was the celebrant of both mass- es. The following _ are the deceased members of the First division: Jeremiah D. Duggan, Patrick Kiviin, Henry Hughes, Michael D. Murphy, John~ Gilmartin,. Thomas W. Shea, Philip Barclay, Bernard Carroll, Will- iam Doyle, Frank Murphy, John Sull- ivan, James B. Rigney, John Sullivan, James W. Farrell, James Kirby, Dan- iel J. Devine, Patrick W. Pratt, Mi- chael Davitt, Thomas Downey, Robert Patrick D. Murphy, Patrick Devine, John Murphy, Patrick J. Welch, James H. Quinn, William S. Shannon, Patrick Maloney, John Welch, Patrick Daley, Patrick McMahon, Thomas Sullivan, John Sullivan, John J. Ward, Timothy Sullivan, Dr. P. H. Harriman, Michael Kane. Of the Second division the members are: Benjamin Sullivan, J. Twomey, Patrick Daley, Thomas Mahoney, Wil liam ¥, Corkery, Thomas Greiley, Mi- chael Skelley, William Mahoney, Dan- iel Coughlin, John Caffery, William J. O'Neil, James Cotter, William H. Gernhart, Michael Mahoney, Patrick Fitzgerald, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Pat- rick J. Mahoney, Michael Finnegan. SEASHORE LIMITED. Central Vermont's New Train Passes Regular Here at Thamesville, What is called the Seashore Limited, the new train between New London and Montreal on the Central Vermont road, which made its first run Mon- day night, pulled out on the dot of 8.05 p. m. It passes the southbound train here regularly at Thames- ville. It is the train de and is greatly Puliman luxe of the line, admired with its new sleeping cars and parlor oach. The train consisted of a bag- age car, a coach and three sleeping AT The cars are electric lighted, with reading lamps as well as over- head light. They are luxuriously equip- ped and no detail is spared for the comfort and convenience of patrons. On the first trip Conductor Harry Remmert and Engineer A. E. Little- fleid were in charge of the train. D. Ritchie is the Pullman conductor and the porters are L. H. Washington and Ira W. Taylor. F. W. Golden is the baggagemaster, M. Bryant the brake- man and John Casey the fireman. COULD BE ACTING MAYOR. Stuart Douglas as Vice President of New Rochelle Council Had Chance. Stuart Douglas, formerly of this city, now of New Rochelle, N. Y., could be acting mayor there this week. He is a member of the council and also its vice pretident. As the mavor and president of the council are at Baltimore, he would be mayor if he was at home, but he, too, was expected to go to Baltimore, if which is the case, New Rochelle mayorless. Resigns as District Agent. After serving for 15 months as su- perintendent of the Norwich district for the Metropolitan Life Insurance comuany, Ralph W. Ames has tendered his resignation. He has been a faith- ful and efficient official and has accom- plished much in the line of improve- ment in the business in eastern Con- necticut and Rhode Island. He has had | future is : {a .22 | been 65 agents under him. He has taken an active interest in Y. M. C. A. work and has made many friends here. His 15 yet unsettled. George C. Jepson of New York is at present in charge of the business, and a regular superintendent will probably be nam- ed soon. Boys Shot Rifla in City Limits. Four boys from the East Side had their cases nolled after a reprimand before the police court on Tuesday, he charge against them being viola- ion of a city ordinance in discharging calibre rifle, Clarence Briggs of Penobscot street was arrested on Monday _ afternoon by Policeman 721 Charles Smith after headquarters had recelved a complaint that shots had hit the house of James D'Atri on North Main street across the river from the Kast Side. Three smaller boys gtreet were also summoned to police court Tuesday morning and all were glven a stern warning against a repe- tition of the offense. from Penobscot Transferring Postoffice Sub-Station. The postoffice sub-station which has located for several yvears at the drug store of C. . Treat is to be trans- ferred on July 1st to the drug store of N. Douglass Bevin. Recently the post- office department has cut in two the amount which was pald where sub- statfons were located, and as Mr. Treat considered this amount inade- quate for the volume of business his station had developed Into, he declined to continue the station thems, Into Henorary Mentbership, W, ¥, Lester of thig eity was ene of the five gpecial pgents welsomed into henorary membership by the Conneeti- eut asseeciation of loeal fire insurance ageats which held its midsummer meeting at 'The Grisweld, Bastern Peint, on Menday, Abheut 75 members attended the meeting, Launeh Krazy Kat Floated, harles Hprten's launeh, Krasy Kat, from New Lenden, whieh was ha,dly damaged in the 'thmas Fiver near Al- Iya's Point, Monday, by striking a sub- merged rock, was fleated ’guusdsy Fhe beat was taken te New London. Pver 160 feet of the new sewer ia Liftie Water street from Marker has been lais BREED ELM IN REMOVING OLD BREED ELM Washington Square Landmark Must Go —In Weak and| Dangerous Condition—To Be Replaced oy Maple Plant- ed in the Enclosure. In such a weakened condition as to be dangerous, the old Breed elm, a landmark on Washington square generations, must come down, and on Tuesday, under the direction of Tree Warden H. C. Lillibridge, and with Henry E, Davis in charge, the work of taking it down was begun. It is all | to be removed, and it is expected that a maple will be planted In its place in ‘the little triangular plot where the so-called Breed elm has stood for so many years. In its best days, the old tree had a magnificent spread and was a prized ornament in this spot. At different | times when its removal was advocated | for one reasan or another, different citizens constituted themselves -its guardian, and raising a vigorous pro- test succeeded In having the sentence for | ITS BEST DAYS. of death against the old elm com- muted. Since the ravages of the elm- | tree beetle in recent years, the stately i 0ld tree has gradually lost its beauty | ISSUING SECOND CALL ON PERSONAL TAX Collector Robinson Has Reminders for 1500 Denlinguents. Tax Collector Thomas A. Robinson i preparing to issue the second call on the personal tax for 1911 to such as have not vet given attention io the first set of bills that were sent out, There are about 1,500 deli; vet who have not put into his hands the $2 which the personal tax bill calls for, and they will all receive a new bill within a few days, with a pointed but polite reminder that Collector Rob- inson is waiting to give them a re- ceipt in exchange for a two-dollar note and that the wise man will be the one who accepts the fact gracefully that the tax must be paid. He already has a large proportion of the bills ready for mailing and as | soon as the complete lot is in shape to go into the mails the whole batch will be sent out. VOTING MACHINE CONTRACT. Town Counsel Fanning Form to Be Made Company. is Preparing With Triumph Town Counsel Joseph T. n now at work upon the contract which is to be made with the malkers of the Triumph voting machine when the town buys for at the last town meeting. The special committee selected the | type of machine to be purchased, while the making of the contract purchase was intrusted to Town Co se] Fanning. DEARING PROPERTY SOLD. Purchased by Louis Wunderlich, Who Will Conduct Business. The property owned by Henry Dear- ing and sons, Nos, 19, 21 and 23 Bath street, was sold Tuesday to Louls Wunderlich of Taftville. The prop- erty includes the Dearing saloon and flats and the adjoining wooden building the Dearing firm for a long time. Mr. Trushonsky. Mr. Wunderlich has arranged with the county commissioners to have the saloon title transferred to his name, ! and he will take possession at once. Fred Dearing will take a much- needed rest before engaging in another line of business, having been head of the Dearing firm for a long tmie. Mr Wunderlich has been employed as a night watchman for the J. B. Martin company for some time, and is well known in Taftville, ARTHUR L, STORY Believed to Be Out of Danger After a Very Serious lliness. Arthur E. Story returned from Hart- ford Tuesday after a week spent in Hartford where he was called by the serious illness of his father, Arthur L. Story, assistant superintendent of the state police. Mr. Story has been crit- ically ill with pneumonia and four doctors were called in consultation three times. At the one of Tuesday it was believed he was out of danger and would from now on show steady improvement. His legion of friends, not only in this vicinity but in Hartford, was shown by the many inquiries received daily as to his condition. They will be much pleased to learn that he is on the way to recovery, OBITUARY. Mrs. Charles L. Wilcox, Mrs. Charles L. Wilcox died at her home on Pleasant street, Groton, Tues- day noon from an illness lasting sev- eral months. She was born in Groton ‘Aug. 13, 1855, the daughter of Oliver P. and Caroline Wilcox Caswell. She was first married to James C. Woodmansee, who died about 15 years ago while they were residents of Yantic, Bh leaves her sacond husband and two daughters, Grace N, Woodmanses and Mrs. Edwin A. Weeks, all resi- dents of Groton, and geven grandchil- dren; algo an only sister, Mrs, George Wells, of Old Mystic, The interment will be Friday after- noon in the Poquetanuck cemetery, Remedeling Geer Bullding, In the work of remodeling the Geer building, an Broadway, for the oceu- ency of the New Londen County Mu- ual Fire Insurance eompany offices, the centrasters haye put in the eon- cretg foundations for the rear walls on Bath strest and have new erected an enclosure pn the Breaway freat, while they are werking en the main flogr of the building. At the rear a briek additien is te e puilt, twe steries high, the first story being a hasement on u level with the eellar of the old building, Passed Pharmacy Examinatien, arry Pord reeeived notice on Tues- day that he had passed the registered state examination for druggists, which he teok before the pharmacy beasd on dune 4 ai Harilora ents | Fanning is | the set of machines voted | REAPPOINTED TO MKINLEY AVENUE CHURCH. Rev. E. A. Carroll to Continue as Pas- tor There—Conference Names Minis- ters for Putnam, New London and Willimantic. The New England conference of the A. M. E. Zion church has closed its 68th session, which was held at New Bedford, Mass. Among the appoint- ments made by Bishop Walters of New York city, the president of the confer- ence, were the following Presiding elder, Rev D. D.; Norwich, Rev. 1. A. Carroll; Putnam, Rev. J. B. Wallac Williman- tic, Rev. S. E. Robinson; New London, 8, Whitted, Ri M, Momzingo. This is a reappointment for Rev. Mr. Carroll to the McKinley Avenue church here, where he has served for the year just closed. This was one of the shortest sessions in the history of the conference, but it showed that the church had made an increase in membership and finances during the year. Incidents In Society. | Harold Thresher has returned to Glen Ridge, N. J., after several days last week. Ronald Byrnes of Ne York who has been passing several da at who i& spendi at Bast ern Point, in Norwich. the summer visiting here | city; Tleft | his home, on Warren street, has town. | Miss Alice Bragan of Hartford been the guest of friends A | {and at times has become something | Mrs. Leonard W | of a nuisance through the fact that| David Bacon, have | pigeons roosted in it. At one time ex- | mer home on Hill, | Mayor Thayer brought the old elm in- | Mass., for the sea to prominence by giving it the sobri- —— quet of ‘“the public pigeon roost.” | Florence arpenter and Miss \ Although the tree now stands in the | § Loring returned Monday from ‘lnld(“e of Washington suare, it orig- Tpton, where tney have been | inally stood in the yard of Mayor | spending several days. | Breed, who lived in the house owned —_— by the late Mayor Calvin L. Harwood | oth Taber of Providence, | on Washington square. It was in the | form Novesioh, . i returned | Breed yard up to 1870, but during the | home spending ve days Ity of the late James Liloyd |with Miss Ruth Lord of Washington . the fence was taken down and | sifeet. a roadway built to the west of the e | elm, This made the tree the central| Wiss Juliet Staunton of Pittsburg, lnby« t of Washington square, who has been the guest of friends m town, has gone to Silver Ba | where she will attend the college con- | FINISHING WEST MAIN ference. | STREET MACADAM REPAIRS. Food And Tgmper;ment GCity Gas Department Has Also Stop- | l‘f“‘”"*"}‘,"‘;":‘“ s ped Leaks in Pipe Line. T oen ot o . but, moreover, The macada on West Main | street are p completed, and the street now in fine condition. | "I he roadbed on the east side of the car s repaired first. e west sides of the car track ‘wich Gas and Electrical com- | ahead of the reparir work | all the way from Maple street in dig- | ging up their pipes to repair leaks | which had been causing loss of gas there ever the street since the last sewer job in| AUTO ADVICE | Given to Business Men's Association by Corporation Counsel. In the reported advice given by Cor- poration Counsel J. T. Fanning to the Norwich Business Men's association | he was wrongly quoted upon me | points relating to auto speed law He read the latest state law to them goes a step further and tells us that we may do over our temperaments and dispositions to any desired style by the simple practice of leguminother- apy % Leguminotherapy is the latast scientific noveity. It is a big name for vegetable diet \owever, the or- | ginary, helter-s vegetable diet, diet, whereby the exact | temperamen re- lations of eac I‘ vegetable to the human system are carefully determined. of which he first section is as follows: operate a motor ve- 1 hways of is rate of speed le and proper, e width, traffic and or so as to en- f any person. He told the business city could pass an would conflict wit hit and he read the section which stated that it is prima facie evidence that the speed is reck- | les: dangerous if it exceeds the 5 miles an hour for an eighth and that the speed shall not miles an hour when ap- trolley car about to stop men that no ordinance that of a mile, exceed three proaching a on the side on which passengers are ordinarily discharged. There are e ceptions which apply out side of city | limits, but not in ecity limits, where the speed must not exceed ten miles an hour, if e road is obstructed or the view blocked or in other cases. CONNECTICUT LEGISLATORS. What Men from This State Are Doing In and Out of Washington, D. C. Senator Brandegee is back to Washington from take up the Panama canal pending before the senate. Representati been at the capital convention. Repres away expected to Chicago to bill now ve g0 entative Tilson went he said. Representa- tive Higgins has gone to Seattle from Chicago to investigate the case of Judge Hanford. Messrs. Hill and Hen- ry are expected to return home during the democratic convention Repr Reilly will that gat He paid a visit to Baltimore the other day. At the head- quarters of Chairman Mack of the national committee the congressman met his old friend, James W. Reilly, formerly a Connecticut newspaperman attend City Equal Suffrage Campaign. { The New London Equal Franchise league is to be the leader in the coun- ty campaign which is to begin on July 4th. HEscorted by about 30 members of the Boy Scouts, a procession of auto- mobiles will go to Niantic, and fiunl there the route will be to P Beach, Waterford, Oswegatchi Golden Spur. The automobiles will be decorated with flags, bunting and signs. Pl rds are being distributed over the line of march and women in the pa- rade will distribute literature. i Continuing School Inspections. Members of the new town board continued their visitation of the school buildings on Tuesday. They inspected the ville, Long Society, district. They have still to visit the Falls school, Norwich Town, Plain Hill and Wauwecus Hill and the The Modern Child. Men and women who used to walk two miles to district schools and car- ry their lunch are now agitated over the inability of their children to get home every day for a course dinner. —Galveston News. Habit Too 8trong. Doctor Wiley pays a wife Is entitled to one-third of the husband’'s salary; but even then rhe could not resist the temptation to go through pock- ets.—Mllwaukee Sentinel, Modern Joy Ride. Senator Penrose is having a regu- lar joy ride en Teddy's old steam rol- ler, Well, Boles will be Boies.—Wash- ingten Pest, The Wise Girl, The wise girl deesn't get married until she can afferd it—Atlanta Jeur- nal, Of the 113 teurisis whe lest their lives last year by Alpine ascents, 11 Wore Women. danger the property or the life or limb | school | ools in Occum, Taft- | Bridge | By the Purchase of the | OUR 40-PAGE Raspberry Syrup a Rallion’s braduation Gifts Articles suitable for a graduation gift such as a nice small size watch with good movement. Solid Gold or Gold fiiled case, $10.00 AND UPWARDS Also Pendants, Gold Beads, Lockets, Rings and a complete assortment of other guitable nr\lclen. Ferguson & Charbomea FRANKLIN SQUARE Reinvest Your July Interest- and Dividends TO OBTAIN A HIGHER YIELD Preferred Stocks of high-grade manu- facturing corporations. ‘MANV CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE, appreciative of the fact that they are entitled to, and can gel, better than 4 or i per cent. on their money without endangering principal, are now sh ting their securities, greatly to their advantage. HIGH GRADE MANUFACTURING STOCKS—those of corporations that have established high reputations and have paid substantial dividends regularly for a long series of years er such investment opportumsi- JULY CIRCULAR gives details regarding these issues 50 contalns much information that will be helpful in the selection of securities for the reinvestment of interest and dividend funds. Sent upon request Turner, Tucker & Co. BOSTON NEW YORK 24 Milk § 111 Broadway FLAGS Bunting, Festooning and Decorations for the 4th. Green p for example, according | te this new science, caus Lriv ity.and PR TS should be withheld from v w;;!A n H with a congenital tendency to flirt ]Th B d St m the cther hand, they are excell Lt ¢ Droagway oditore, for wall flowers and pessimists r { should be given in gener helpings 67 Broadw.y. to bashful boys. Carrots develop good temper and amiability, and are parti- cularly recommended for jamitors, ear conductors and ticget gents e| | Fotato develops reason, as well A NEW COLLECTION OF mness and reflection, but b> taken less it induce apat | indifference, or that Jisinei | work w hn h is observable among | | boys fed daily n - fried potatoes. | | String beans stim ot 1 vn! | ac faculties " | canlifiower, nouris! ! they S eatite 1) wleatity hwof Silk, Silk Crash, Linen | and manner ,and are there to )w o | Shunned by those In-training for the | Drele and Cravenette for the Colored Rain. | Auto and Boating wear. Black rain recently fell in Hamp- ‘ shire, England, but such a thing has \ been known before. In Noveintk .t l““!.' ink black rain fell steadlly | several in New York, and | least twice during ti | similar phenomenon has ed in England. Red rain mon, and in May, 188 heavy fall of blood red T | wellan, County Down, | red hue was not merely on face; when one squeezed the ained, in fell at The morning the fingers w A remarkable Hague in the was in uproar n finding lakes and ditches which | contained water overnight now fu | “blood.” A physician, however took some of it from one of the canals, put it under hi8 microscope, and found that it was due to swarms of tiny | animals, all in a state of lively motion. This, however, sured the populace, a prodigy no { blood deeply red T 1670 town had 11 of com- by no means reas- who thought such awful than actual Railroads Fifty Years Ago, A curious relic of railroad operation fifty vears ago, down in Tennessee and Georgia, is exhibited in the extracts from the rules then in foi Each engineman will keep a watch which must registered by the time of his conductor at the commencement of each trip, and will always have in his_ po: jon the current schedule book. Should any stock be may be likely to endang of the mext train passing, t man will stop his train unt cleared Kkilled the which safety engine- As a general rule, when trains meet between stations ,the train near st the | turnout will run back. Any dispute as to which train has to retire is to be determined at once by the conduc | tors ,without any interference on the | part ‘of the enginemen.. This rule is required to be varied in favor of t ¥ loaded engine or the worst | gr: If they meet near the center in case of backing, a man must be placed on the look out. so that the train may be seen and the engineman | at once receive notice. The backing must be done cautio 2 Many German Women Work. ! In 1882 the women of Germany em- | ployed in occupations other than do- mestic service were over 4,000,000; twenty-five vears later the figures | stood at 8,000,000, which is an in- crease relatively much greater than the gain in population. While the em- ployment of the men has increased 20 per cent. during the last twelve years, the employment of women has in- creased 57 per cent. during the same time At present a full third of the economic labor of the empire is being carried on by women. Statistics re- cently published show that there are 9,600,000 wage-earning women in Ger- many, which means that nearly every second adult woman is earning her own living and directly contributing to the wealth of the country, Pre historic Man, Traces of three distinet types of ab- eriginal man have been found In the Delaware valley, Dr, Ernest Volk, re- viewing the researches of the last thirty years in the current American Museum Journul, says that, going threugh the Dblack seil where the bones of Indians are found, the re- mains of “some prehistoric man,” whe used argillite for his implemenis, have been exhumed l’l«m yellow depesits and the se called “gladder man" or ‘svavel man’ is found in the Tren- track is | upon | following | The Toggery Shop j 291 Main St., Norwich, Conn. { ton gravel along with fossil bones of xtinct arctic animals like the musk ox and elk. Later Fighting Hours. Duels are sometimes dangerous. Grant Duff tells a story of an old Irish politician, who was continually fighting duels, and fighting them, as the cus { tom then was in Dublin, in the gray of the morning. When he was 80 his physicians interfered ,not with his fighting duels, but with his fighting them at the accustomed hour. "I cannot bear,” said the old man, “to in- convenience my friends.” His medical advisers ,however, were inexorable, 8o he yielded at last, saying: “If it must be 80 God’s will be done.” And he consented to keep later fighting hours for fear of taking cold Kaiser Bars Marseillaise. kaiser refuses to listen to the ; strains of the “Marsel he came to the throme he never allowed the French na- | tional hymn to be played at his court, The | at any of the state theaters or by any German naval or military bands. When he entertains the French ambassador dinner or receives him in state and wishes to pay him musical honors, he orders the musicians to play the old Marche de St. Denis,” which is in | every sense of the word a Bourbon ‘ hyman, | Macauley, treatise | tr Macauisy Was Precocious. the historian, was a pre- cocious child. He read incessantly, and by 7 he had begun a compendium of universal history. At 8 he wrote % designed to convert the na tives of Malabar to Christianity, and about the same time composed his first poem. Browning, too, had completed a whole volume of verse by the tima he was 12, hut his earliest artistic ef- fort was a painting of a cottage and rooks, which he painted at the of 2 in lead pencil and black currant Jam Jjuice, NO EVIDENGE of the payment of a bill is so convincing as a can- celed check. We oficg the convenience of our Commercial Depart- ment. . You furr’sh the money{ we do all the rest, Tt The Thames Laan b TrustCa. The Bank of FrieaVly Helpfuiness 24