Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 6, 1913, Page 7

Bapflsl Women Hear Mission Speékers | ]-[owEscape | é‘ Bad BeforeGroupMeetmgantSu!e Church—Miss Mary Fovaen s s e sioe | 0 Eifotts oF March Weather Mrs. Carrie Robinson Told of Foreign Field. A group meeting for the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary socie- ties of the Baptist churches of this section was held on Wednesday morn- ing and afternoon at the First Baptist church. The special speakers were Miss Mary Houston and Mrs. Carrie Robinson, both from Boston, the for- mer representing the home mission fleld and the latter the foreign. The meeting was called to order at 10.30 in the Sunday school room at the church by Mrs. William G. Gil- christ, president of the Women's Mis- sionary society at the church, who read a scripture lesson which was fol- lowed by the singing of Come, Thou Almighty King. Praver was offered by Mrs. Jacob F. Starkweather and aftér another hymn, the meeting was given over to Mrs. Thomas A. Per- kins of the Waterford church who Presided during the day. At the morning session there was an attendance of 25 and in the after- noon the number increased to 40. There was a roil call “with responses from the Central Baptist, First Baptist, Jewett City, Lefingwell and Third Baptist of Greeneville. Bogh Miss Houston and Mrs. Robin- son made their principal addresses in the afternoon, but both also spoke at the morning session. Emphasis was ’ placed on different ways of earning such strength you surely need Peruna.|wife Mr. Pratt took the medicine money for missionary object ities. sion, reading the 91st psalm. side of the home departmen the work. of Nellore, India. Altogether, foreign field for the board j after. The afterncon session the singing of the hymn, A | Power of Jesus' Name. there are 600 boarding schools ts, as mite boxes and other methods. At- tention was called to a home mission- # |increases the digestive powers. Pe-|unti] after he had taken several other ary convention to be held April 7 and runa regulates the bowels. Peruna|remedies without any improvement. 8 at Malden, Mass. and to Daugh- s ters’ day, which is a way of interest- ing the young girls in mission activ- At 12.30 the women enjoyed a bas- ket lunch, and at 2 o'clock the meet- 3 ing was resumed. Mrs. Charles Eilis K B b LA of Lefingwell conducted the devotional S begins—with a cold e to expo- | thcn when I do not feel weil or have exerciges in opening the afternoon ses- Miss Houston presented the financial a which g she said wanted to raise $164,000 for e é 7| |after effacts. Convalescence slow. fered from the after effects of grip. t, Mrs. Robinson spoke upon the topic, The Need of the Foreign Work and was listened to with ciose atlention. | She said that the foreign department | needed $120,000 to close its books on March h. She devoted much her time to a relation of incidents from the mission fleld, speaking at length | he said, in the to look d with 1il the NO TRAIL LEFT BY JEWETT CITY YEGGMEN Detectives Find All Clues Run to Nothing—Case Baffies Investi The borough of Jewett City has of- fered a reward of $1,000 for the ap- prehension of the yeggmen, who slew Patroiman Patrick B, Driscoll on Feb. 15th. This sum is offered in uddition to the $250 reward offered by the post office .department for the apprehension and conviction of the safe blowers. The authorities acted promptly in an attempt to detect the guilty men, but no tangible evidence has been se- cured. It is thought to be as baing 2 case as any homicide in castern BACKUS HOSPITAL It is nicely illustrated. report of the executive comun L. Wooward, secretary ending Sept. 30, 191 ber of patients- treated in Connecticat within recent years. Var- fous trails have been followed from Jewett City in all directions but all have either been fruitless or of abrupt termination that left the investigators as much at a loss in regard to the whereabouts of the safeblowers and murderers as though they had not once been seen. Through the instrumentality of Sheriff Brown, bne of the best men in the service of the Burns National De- | tective agency, was put at work on the case soon after Patrolman Driscoll died in the hospital at Norwich. C. B. | Chalvin, a Burns detective of inter national reputation, has covered eve inch of ground which the suspects may have traversed and is able to disclose nothing on which the friends of the murdered officer may base hope that his assassins will be brought to jus- tice. Special agents of the posi office department have followed the leads without avail. The state police de- partment has had men at work on the pase continually without being able to accomplish more than to run down numerous rumors with always the | same results. | wedish residents noted Wednesday | &s Tora day. | Can Almost See Pimples Go The New Calcium Sulphide Treatment Does Wonders to Every Kind of Skin Eruption. H You dc want to wait forever and a day to zet rid of your pimples or ether skin eruptions. You want to get rid of them risht mow. Next week You may want to go somewhere where Fou wouldn't like to have to take the pimples along. Pimples Quickly Disappear from Face, | Arms, Neck and Back. and Insure | & Beautiful Complexion. | | | Yo n get rid of them fust in time by taking Stuart's Calcium Wafers. These wonderful little workers have cured had boils in three davs, and| some cases of skin diseases in a week. | They. contain as their main Ingredi- ent most thorough. quick and effactive | blond cleanser known. calcium sulphide. Remember this, too, that most pim- ple treatments reek with poison. And they are miserably slow besides. Stuart’s Calcium Wafers have not a particle of poison in them. They are free from mercu >iting drugs or venomous opiates. This is absolutely uaranteed. They cannot do any harm, but they always do good—good that you can see in the mirror before your own eyes a few days after. Don't be any longer humiliated by having a splotchy face. Don't have strangars stare at you, or allow your friends to be ashamed of you because of vour face. Your blood makes you what you are. The men and women who forge ahead arc those with purc blood and pure faces. Stuart's Calcium Wafets will make you happy because your face will be a welcome sight not only to vourself when you look into the glass, but to everybody else who knows you and talks to you. Stuart's Calcium Wafers are sold by al' first ‘class druggists at 50 cents a box. They are very pleasant to the taste and in results are truly remark- able. Best for Si Nearly every skin disease vields quickly and permanently to Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and nothing is better for burns or bruises. Soothes and heals. John Deye. of Gladwin, Mich. says, after suffering twelve years with skin ailment and spending $400 in doctors’ bills, Buckien's Arnica Salve cured him. It will help you. Only 26c. Rec- ommended by The Lee & Osgood Cas wards, 49 ed in pri her of patoents at one time, 35 average, 31; average cost per and the new wing has been several months, proving a ADMITTED 663 PATIENTS In Past Year—453 Were Discharged | Cured—Annual Report is Issued. The big and imuortant work done by { the well equipped Backus hospital is shown in the 19th annual report of the | institution, just issued in printed form. Executive Committee’s Report. The following is in part the annual ittee, F. for the year Number of meetings held, 14: num- general number of patiénts treat- te rooms, 166; largest num- 5: daily $20: number of out patients, 1,247, in- £ volving 3,117 visits; genera diseases, | Report of Training School. e o Brtw o ve ‘nad sieyuation to President Wilson on Tues- involving vi eve and| Superintendent of Nurses Kathieen |hundreq nests were destroyed In Suf- | 4aY. As soon as he is relieved he will involving 90 visits! woman’s| A. Down reports in part as follows field last week by scouts employed by | 0 _to Connecticut to visit his mother. ses, 21, involving 170 visits; num-| During the vear 35 applications 10X |the state. Several mests have alap | Governor Clark is a native of Chap- of ambulance calls, 123: number | admission have -been made, 15 were [pac,Spoo oo DEEREL AOE OlE ares In:@ingham county. of births. 43; number of deaths, 64. received on probation. § were accepted ford, where men in charge of Donald R e T The Eliza A. Tompkins free bed has| into the school, leaving in the school | j Caffrey are now at work. A well dressed voung man who or- | | been occupied during the entire vear| 12 seniors, 7 juniors and 1 probationer. early three years ago thc first |ders groceries sent to some fictitious in use valuable addition to the hospital buildings. There has-:been no change in the; medical and surgical staff except the sreatly regretted death of Dr. H. Harriman and the appoint Patrick ment of Dr. Harry E. Higgins to succeed him. Changes in Superintendent. The hope expressed at th: last an- nual meeting that the superintendent, M and his T gnation, which w Symington, might be fuliy re- siored to health, has not been realized | as ten- dered in July, was accepted. In recog- nition of his long and faithful to Oct. 1, and to grant him a service | it was voted to continue his full salary smalle: amount each month from that date until further action by he committee. Staff Changes. The resignation of Miss Mary L. Love as matron and superintendent | of nurses, and of Miss Alica dietitian, have also been received and | Fitz as accepted, the vacancies having been filled by the appointment of Miss Kathleen A. Dowd, former head nurse. to succeed Miss Love at the same salary, and the appointment of Mt lda M. Egil, one of our graduate nurses, to fill the position of head nurse. Temporarily, the position of dietitian is being filied by Miss Mary BE. Moriarty. Miss Helen . graduate of Mary Heminway Ryder, depart- ment of househoid arts of the state normal school, Framingham, Mass., has been appointed to succeed Miss Fitz as dietitian. For several months Mr. T | treasurer of the hospital, b too ill to perform the duties office, and he offered his res rumbull as been of that gnation, but_he was persuaded to withdraw it until the annual meeting, and the sec- retary was appointed acting (reasurer in_the meantime. During the year the rates of ambulance and of board tients have been increased to partiall cover the increased cost to tl i pital. for use for pa- he hos- Ladies’ Advisory Board Reports. The ladies’ advisory board, compris- ing Mrs. Hugh H. Osgood,Mrs L. Hubbard, Mrs. John ( Charles Averiil and Mrs. James L. Case, makes reports as follows: Dur ng the past year we have made| ! more than our usual number of vis and are glad to report great improve- ment in all departments of t pi We are most fortunate new superintendent and matrc are uptiring in_their efforts the work of thé hospital to t he hos- in our n. They to raise e high- est efficiency. taking great personal pride and interest in everythi nected with it. We w who have in any way the comfort and pleasure of ng von- h to thank all contributed to the pa- tients and nurses on the different holi- days during the year. We 1egret the resignation of Mrs. Adam Reid from | our committee, her place now being filled most acceptably by Mrs L. Case. James | Superintendent’s Report. Supt. F. Leon Hutchins rep follows: Number of patients remair hospital Oct. 1, 1911, ing the yvear, 663; total, 680; 348; females, 315; total, 663. Discharged — Well 453, imprc not improved 11, not freated 64 born in hospital 43 Remaining in hospital Sept. males 19, females 17: total 8 est number any one day, 55: average cost per week, ports as ning in 7: admitted dur males, oved TS, dled 30, 1912 6: high- lowest any one day, 15; daily aver number of weeks occupied, at- $2! tendants and others averaged 40: total average, 75; ambulance calls, 132 Out Patient Departments. For general diseases: Number of pa- tients treated, 1,294; number of visits made, 2,563. For diseases of the eve a nd ear. Number of patients treated, 83: num- ber of visits made, 90. Glasses were furnished to 75 patients, 7 of paid. For diseases of women: Nu f which mber of patients treated, 21; number of visits made, 170. Total number of treated, 1,247 made, 3,11 patients total number of visits The Eliza Tompkins free bed has been occupied every day during the year; 22 patients have been treated entirely free, occupying the hospital 714 days: 81 patlenis have been par- tially supported either by thiemselves or by the different towns. The current expenses of the year, including all items, amount fo $36.- 310.89, a detalled statement of which appears in the superintendent's ac- count. Summary of Expenses. Extraordinary expenses: Lactures to nurses, $125; insurance, $30 water, $19.3%; total $449.3 current exnenses, $35,861.51 $36,310.20. Deduct cash rece; relay &’ YNcounts, $184.85; ved from outsids balance total, deduct of ek, | MRS, CHARLES ANSPAUGH. hvw M Bt to be pro-|that she continwed the treatment for you bave had|a short time, when she was thor- l!'ip during u:o winter and have not|eughly cured. After noting the effect recovered your former health and|that Peruna had in the case of his Peruna restores the appetlte. Peruna|himself for the grip. Not, however, strengthens the nerve cemters. Pe-|The Peruna completely cured him. runa does all these things, end with-| My C. J. Powers, No. 1631 Willlams out any untoward results. No family| st Denver, Colorado, says that the should allow themselves to be without g,p Tt hire' wervi weaks’ He toolk Peruna durlng the month of March.| Peruna and at once he began to gain The symptoms of grip are First,|strength and was finally cured. Since sure. Second, a number of people|taken a cold I always take Peruna attacked at same time. Third, con-|and it never disappoints me in its fined chiefly to head ang respiratory | action. organs. Fourth, accompan 'y hig! Thus we might go on indefinitely to fever for several days. Fifth, Serious|rccite cases where people have suf- The experiences of the people that|Then they have resorted to this rem Peruna is a remedy for grip have|edy or that remedy. Finally they been uniformly good. Very few if any | have been consiraineq to take Peruna. have been disappointed in Peruna as|The result is always favorable. whole vear. It is the month of ill|& STip remed 5 If the people gemerally understood health. axd blizzards. February has Mr. C. O. Peterson, of No. 3327 the ‘beneflt of Peruna no household Hamilton A Chicago,- Illinois, had| weuld be without it, during the month passed with its epidemics of grip and |, “gevere attack of the grip, which |of March especially, when climatic holocausis of colds, which have sown|left him very weak. lle was in a con- | diseases prevail so extensively. | the seeds of disease and derangements | dition that he was unable to do any| Mrs. Charles Anspaugh, R. ¥. D. 1, work. He began to take Peruna and|Kimmell, Indizna, whose portrait is March is the critical month of the broade: - " f ast. March is a month of un-| FPNC L 0L M wos strong and well. | given, above, writes: “Peruna has toward weather, but is the month that|The consequence is he always keeps|Leen a godsend to me. I can feel safe reaps the consequences of February | Pertna in his home. % in saying that it saved my life, as I derangements. If one succeeds in get-| Mr. George E. Pratt, No. 828 19th|was all run down and was just mis- S h i i B B of Maruh [SES Mol ois, writes concern-|erable when I commenced taking your 5 PO S Mareh | ¢ his : She had had the grip.| Peruna, but ara on the road to recov- even tolerably well, the rest of the| After using two bottles of Peruna she|ery now. I cannot thank you too vear will be comparatively easy was greatly relieved So much so ‘much.” —— s ayroll, $3.53; total | for this service. It may be justly said | water colors, and particularly his Fets returned from y $188.33; total expense for hospital and | that nowhere can mothers or their lit- | Lannion,. possess much distinction. Washington sireet dispensary for the |tle ones be so well cared for as under | There is nothing better in the exhibi- Year, $36,122.51. the watchfulness and care of the do tion than the two broad, original and Wi i i tors and nurses of this hoepital, whose | graphic pictures by Henry Bill Selden, Th:r':""f:”‘t [sh"";: Diepensary. « |Teputation for efficiency is of the |ocalled The Evening Boat and Cloudy D e Lanatan. siredt Inigheat. Sky—the latter all sky, Indeed, save eé- - 563' } R S ':.'{gg patients trea I for a little dark streak of earth, but coimatéa expenses of (his-department S WIS LS INOW L s e e T 0 2 Pathologist and Roentgenologist. | Found in New London, Tolland and | 4| sska GOVERNOR RESIGNS. Dr. P, J. Cassidy, visiting patholo- Hartferd 'Count —_— gist, reports 317 examinations made e o Walter E. Clark Will Visit at His For- Dr. "W.#Tvler Browne, roentgenologist, [, The brown-tail moth—a pest which H in Chapli States that dumian thaCentEenolo8ist |has kept the entomologists in Massa- mer Home in Chaplin. patients have been referred to the de- |Chusetts busy for vears, has been partment and $4 plates have been |foUnd in New London, Tolland and ¢ : from Juneau, Al Hartford counties, according to a |from Juncau, Alasia, In an Associated Press despatcu a, it is stated that ailed his resig- | made. Miss Helen T. Ryder. a graduate of | hrown-tails were found at Thompson. | address, tendering in payment a check | the Framingham Normal school, class | Bach winter since the scouts have ex- | found to be bogus, has been operating of 1911, is dietitian and teaches the | amineq the trees in that corner of the | about the state. classes in Invalid cookery. state ang except.for a few nests scat- | Miss Ida Bell, R. N.. graduate of the | tered outside, the pest has been con- | = class of 1911, is supervisor of nurees. [anog ONgnG, o n B A inter and has charge of the obstetrical de- |nests have been found in three ad- | partment. Jacent counties. The nests are on the In the death of Dr. Patrick H. Har- | extreme ends of twigs, and are formed riman the school has lost a friend Whd | of gray webs often including dead | was ever zealous to maintain a repu- |leaves. In these nests the young cater- tation for the hespital training school. | pillars live through the winter and re- | Other Statistics. sume their feeding upon leaves next | Regarding the residence of patients, | Summer. The remedy is cutting off | 376 from Norwich were treated, while |[and burning the nests in winter, and 1 many others came from all over the each property owner should sec that state. Outelde of Connecticut, 11 |this is done. In Massachusetts u state | | law requires this. Spraving the | came from Boston, 22 from Bradford, 4 R T, 1 from Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 from |foliage with arsonate of lead in sum- | Cazenovia, 4 from New York city. 1|mer is ancther remedy. regular physiclan’s simple and S5 0blo. 3 fgat Pawtucket BT, 1 The brown-tall moth is chiefly a pest | sure internal and external treatment | from Potter Hill, R. I, 1 from Pitts- |of fruit and oak trees, and causes |for any kind of piles can now be ob-| fleld, Mass., 1 from Rutland, Vt., 12 [Much annoyance to Dersons on account | taineq at N. D. Sevin & Son’s and drug- | o wenteiis R F of & rash produced when the hairs | S 07U U i Regarding the nativity of patlents. | from the caterpillars come in contact A & e = nearly every mationality was repra- | With the human skin, The brown-tail SUIE fasie Tsombapis s TIRM HOED el T eivil condition of patients | 8hould not be confused with the gypsy- [ follew the Instructiens and if it does| Siana 301 ‘ElanlEs and married; | moth—a different pest—which has | not quickly relieve and er banis widowed, ‘males females 663. been found only In Stonington and |the agony of stubbern piles, money | Wallingford and exterminated. pack In the spring of 1912 the hospital | HENRY BILL SELDEN and is usually all that is necessary to :,(_:.avg: ?:d:—()\'lfln‘bs:‘::,i?n;hi'\‘5")"1’]‘(1“1‘!1"{(1(1](‘[:\(:\’: EXHIBITING WATER COLORS. | remove the cause, reduce the swelling . aor - : . . . and rid you of this miserab diseasa | taining on the ground floor the resi- | Hig Pictures Given Distinctive Men- | o7 R ent : Ae physician's and surgeons’ quar- jooklet from Dr. Leonhardt ters, consisting of three large sieeping tion at vew York Show. Buffalo, N. ¥ rooms. a large library and reading 5 5 % Sana L In this year's show of the Ameri- {::)g:\“\ linen room, bath room and stock can Water: €olor sotlety. - Ilanry By | On’ the second floor is located the | Selden. a painter well known here, I | T e = = 2 an ex! tor. children’s ward, containing . 14 white e el | enameled beds, together withia meai- | o AR ex(ract from the New Tor« cine room, diet kitchen, bath and linen | FUSTIRE AU BYSL L rcom. Adjacent and connected with the ward »ne of the largest sun par- lers and playroom, connected with the b, SO S oy memes ERBAY Up! I Headachy, Bilious, ! date childrens’ wards in the country, where children can be treated and cared for, under the best of medical - . skill and nursing. —— he cost in this ward is $7 per week. i which includes doctors' attendance, sursing, medicine and board Maternity Ward. . On the third floor is located the ma- No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head ward, consisting of private | ,.hes how miserable and uncomfortable you are from constipation, indiges- rooms, with their new. white enamelel| {ion billousness and sluggish Mtestines—you always get the desired results beds, spotl linen, solid oak furni- | WO Gascarets. | and every convenience for this They end the headache, bilousness, dizziness, nervousness, sick, sour, | jiing of service. including one af the | o.gq stomach. They cleanse your Liver and Bowels of all the sour bile, rest and most complete delivery rooms, | fou] gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A Cas- bath and follet rooms, medicine room | caret tonight will straighten you out by tomorrow morning—a l0-cent box B e e R G from your druggist will keep your head clear, stomach sweet, liver rnd | (Al of these rooms are almost com- | j wels regular and make you feel cheerful and bully for months. | pletely shut off from the rest of the % X - i sets of heavy doors in auring even more pri- atient were at her CTATHARTIC, hospital bv tw the corridors, in vacy than if the these rooms are 315 per ding doctors’ attendance nursing. medicine and board The mater: patients and the chil- | dren in the children’s ward are cared for and receive the services of the nurses of the hospital whose training and experiences have best fitted thein. ’s Puremalt Makes the invalid feel hetter Keeps the well from feeling ill KING’S PUREMALT was mentioned among the food pro- ducts of absolutely pure quality in “A List From Which Housewives May Choose Without Doubt or Hesitancy,” which appeared in an article entitled, Here Are Foods That Are Pure,” by Margaret Wagner in Collier’s Weekly, September 2, 1911. This list was the result of several years analytical work by the pupils of the State Normal School of Westfield, Massachusetts, under the direction of Professor Lewis B. Allyn. KING'S PUREMALT drug stores and in strict conformity with the Pure Food and brug Act of Juue 30, 1906. NOT A BEVERAGE. Send for prices us? King's Puremalt Deparimz2nt, 36-38 Hawley St.. Baston is sold at all to your druggist or io ~ AUTHORITATIVE STYLES IN Silks and Dress Goods Our Spring showing of News Silks and Dress Goods is now ready and we invite your inspection. Every person considering Dress Fabrics for Spring wear should see our magnificent showing. Every piece of goods shown re- flects a correct style and coloring of the season. Of the high quality there is no vestige of doubt. The values are just as good as our superior buying organization and small profit prices can make them. 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