Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 8, 1913, Page 15

NORWICH BULLETIN, *SATURDAY, MARCH 8 ECHOES FROM THE LODGE ROOM Past President Ashley T. Boon Honored By Supreme Nest of Owls — Odd Fellows Conduct Whist and Dance — Supreme Secretary Tyler Visits Norwich Council, R L { ODD FELLOWS. William S. Hutchison of New Ha- ven, grand scribe of Odd Feliows of Connecticut, has prepared reports of the progress of the order and its pres- ent condition in this state and copies OowWLS. Norwich nest, No. 1396, received one application for membership at Tues- day evening’s meeting in Owls’ ball, at which president Worthington pre- sided. Plans for the class initiation | to be held next Tuesday, were dis- |have been mailed to all subordinate cussed at some length. There will |lodges, to encampments and to the probably pe 12 candidates to take the | Rebekah lodges. The reports are inétitery degree. to Dec. 31, 1912, and the principal items are as follows Subordinate Lodges. Number of lodges . Total membership Net gain tor the year . Initiations ... £ S Admitted by card Past President Ashley T. Boon has received notification from the supreme Reinstated Withdrawn Suspended ... 2 Expelled . 3 Deceased s Tioe 309 Total assets December 31...3882,319,60 Total receipts subordinate lodges e 240,143.44 Amount paic xpenses . 02 Amount paid for relief. Net gain. in assets for the S Total invested funds Invested in regalis phernalia, etc. 4 L Number of brothers relieved Number of weeks fof which benefits were paid .. g Encampments. Number of encapments Total membership .......... Net gain for the year Total assets Decembe 7 99 21,015.06 Total receipts Z 2 = Add increase in valuation e real estate, paraphernalia, Dest of his 1 ¢ b regalia, etc. .... : 23.71 ent Of his appointment to the homors | Amount paid for expensc 2,139.19 of the second degree,which also makes him a member of the national board |Amount paid for relief of zovernment. - This is an honorary ; Net gain in assets ...... degree and can be held by but 150 | Total funds December 31... members in the country at one time, | INVested in regalia, para- With the notineirioh of Bis apboiat.| < phernalia, each -.......... 18638.38 ment Past President Boon is entitled | Rebekah Lodges. te the honors and privileges of the de- | Number of lodges 54 gree, although he will not go through | Membership, women & 4, the ceremony until the meeting of the | ' man 2458; total 40 supreme nest at South Bend, Ind, in , Net gain for year 454 June. There are but four degrees in |Initiated, women 481, men the order and the fourth is reserved | 316: total ... : for officers of the supreme nest only. | Admitted by card ¢ 12 Mr. Boon has been one of the leading | Reinstated ... i workers in the nest since its organ- | Withdrawn 147 ization and hie many friends hére ar- | Suspended 1R 5 133 pleased at the honor conferred upon | Expelled ... . ... ..o ooooooo: 3 him, feeling that it is well deserved SONS OF HERMANN. Deceased ........ s Total funds December 31 Amount paid for expenses... 10 Herwegh lodge, No. 12, of New Lon- | Amount paid for relie 2,025.5 don is making plans for a big celebra- | guvg the grand scribe: “In my opin- tion this summer when the lodge [; Sa¥s the srand scribe: 'In my opin reaches its 25th anniversary. = The |giCtion’ were maver in better condition Jegrace o kL e G p e etter cc c odse has been adding considerably to than to and the record for 1912 inftiating four ay evening. its membership of late, e oy e is one of which we can well feel proud. S s e The gain in membership of 454 i e i Tt greater by 74 tifRn 191 Lyiwien e i reported the largest gain in member- ship for 15 years. Thirty-seven lodge INDEPENDENT FORESTERS. reported a gain, 15 a loss, and in two Court. Norwich, 0. 4289, held its |the membership remains the same as gul, neeting Monday evening in |last year 'or s’ hall and two candidates Monday evening will be a banner ere initiated. Two applications for |night for Unc lodge, No. 11, for on membership were received and balloted | that evening will be observed the V- upon. There will also be work in |entieth anniversary of its organization. initiations at the next meeting. It |The entertainment committee has ar- was decided to postpone the fair for |ranged a pleasant programme for the | which plans have been under way to a | members and their wives and a record \ater date attendance {s expected. The occasion T promises to be a most enjoyable one. REBEKAHS. Uncas and Shetucket lodges combin- Friday wenty held its | €d for a most 1|evening in Odd enjoyable whist “eliows’ hall. Hope Rebe lodge, No. 21, regular meeting Wednesday at Fellows' hall and the session was de- | tables were played and zes were | voted to the transaction of routine [awarded as follows Ladies irst, fan- | busines An invitation from Uncas |cY box perfume, Mrs. John | ledze, No. 11. L. O, O. F., to attend the | Second, syr M Charles Camp- | pelebration of its 70th anniversary next | bell. Men—F Thermos _bottle, | Monday evening was received and ac- | Clinton Lane; second, pocketknife, Mr. eepted. Brodell. Dancing followed the whist, | —_— mpsic being furnished by the Odd Fel- | FRATERNAL BENEFIT LEAGUE. |lows' orchestra. Refreshments were | Norwich counsil, No. 25, had as its | Served and delightful time was en- | uest on Monday evening’s meeting in | Joyed by 'vthian hall Supreme Secretary Frank 5 ¥ T\r;lel of New Haven, who gave the ROYAL ARCANUM. embers an interestin, talk Two + o gandidates were Initiated and routine cerelaty SOt TVopwloh chviell STiioss e et tot 2 has had notice from deputy I8 rand regent, Frea Elliott, that is to be here at the meeting nes 1es- 2 ‘FO.RESTERS OF AMERICA. |4, "evening, and an extra large at- Sub-Chief Ranger Arthur Porthier | tendance is expected out to give him a presided at the meeting of Court Sa- | greeting. chem, No. 94, held Thursday evening — in Foresters’ hall. Two -candidates were initiated in a pleasing manner by KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. the degree team and three applications | Wauregan lodge. No. 6, held its reg- for membership were received. George [ular meeting Tuesday evening in Py- | B Fox and Frank Hero were appolnt- | thian hall | ed to secure new uniforms for the de- At the district meeting of lodges | gree team. The team is rehearsing |at New Haven on April 23, about 20 | now for work to be carried out some |lodges of the order in towns nearest | time this month at New London New Haven, including the New Lon- | One member was received by tra don, Mystic and Norwich lodges, will | fer from Court Meriden and another |assemble ang bring candidates for the fiom Court Griswold of Jewett City. |rank of page. The rank is to be con- ferred under the direction of supreme lodge officers. P~ The supreme lodge and the srand lodge of this state collaborate on April 22, 23 and 24 in conferring the rank of page at Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport. ~ The state has been divided into three sections with these cities s centres and the lodges in each dfvision will journey to the big cities with their candidates. The classes are known as the Rathbone Bible classes, the new members being obligated with the Bible used by Justus H. Rathbone, the founder of the order, in insututing the first lodge at Washington in 1864, . KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. White Cross council, No. 13, held its regular meeting Friday evening, with a good number in attendance Five ap- plications for membership were pre- sented and balloted upon and the reg- ulur order of business was followed. | St Louis has 22 stove manufac- turers. They have formed a booster’'s assoctation. We will serve another six o’clock dinner, Sun- day, March 9th. Tables are now being reserved. Phor- 704 Music by the Orchestra. WAUREGAN HOUSE PARKER-DAVENPORT CO. Proprietors COAL AND LUMBER. -~ Goal All Sizes Lumber Full Assortment CHAPPELL C€O0. Central Wharf BRANCH — 150 Main Street Telephones J. 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P CO., NOoRWICH CONN. lli — — s e - T = > L MAKING OVER CLOTHING A DUTY | suitable iron holder. If the iron vwmn-,s - ’l",, a E r x SOCIAL CORNER. ; e ea it preces of mofv i e | Steamship Tickets to Europz S Social Corner Editor: The making |band will keep soft and cool and there i Anchor, Allan (Continued from Page Fourteen.) | over of garments from the best parts | Wil be no sorcnces as is frequently | ~Cunard, Whice Sear, Anahon O 5 | of “cast-oft clothes is a mother's o: | Telt after tronin- davs. e g Gevmenn, | Erwsichy and ciner. ines. it 59 it will leave an impression; sew the | housewife’s duty. With a utile care | o i‘r’: '[* e .,,,"f,”;'fi %mj‘ @t |and Second Cabin and Third Clas: spring with the middle in the marked | I the making, the made-over garment | o5 7 inink I kne S | tickets at the lowest rates. Berths tons, snaps or hooks and eyes begin Where new clothes are bought ready. if"fil“""f S FRANK. | 8pring and Summer sailings. at the neck and work downwards. made there are alterations necessary aroes e = S 4 ' | and considerable sewing to be done | | n s When ready to buy mater s on oy | TO MAKE A FINE SANDWICH. | Joh A Dunn, dress or suit, get your patte:rn first, | What are better than the balbriggan | 3 o l Steamship and Tourist Agent. and if you know the width of the goods | undershirts worn by the head of the| Dear ditor and Social Corner: Do | . vou are to purchase, take paper one- | house, the bodies of which so readily | you like sandwiches are good for | 50 Main Street alf the width and lay on your pat- | make over, and they are so service- | lunch box or home table? I have tried | —mme— —_— tern and measure the length and save | able? I cut from the shoulder and | them. Stone and chop twelve rge ¥ buying too much cloth. I saved 1 1-8 |form an arm-size and then gore ou- lol! es; add four finely chopped, hard- 1 I'. (; A’lcnlSoN. M— D.. yards 54 inches wide on a foulard suit | under the arms enough to form the | boiled eggs and enough melte itter | PeAYSICIAN AND SURGEON, by doing this way. The patterns near- | body, tapering out below the hips, |.to make a paste; season with salt and | , ,qu, i secone Fb or. Shapnon $idg ly all call for more than is necessary. |leaving the bottom whole, sewing up | pepper and spread on thin slices .f Night ‘cheme 1083 The 54 inch goods cut to the best ad- | the seam and whipping over. The | bread and press two together — — vantage, therefore the cheapest in the 1 short sleeves are usualiy cut between | I cut all crust from mine | end. | the elbow and shoulder. " If the neck Have any of the Corner writers i r hurt me or mine. T can Always In: Am glad to welcome you | good, work is saved on that. If it is | pattern of fdat cat cut from black [e€ay with truth: “He doeth all things in the Corner. Allow me to make a |not, I bind it over. 1 wear these my- | cloth? I want to cut and sew a dozen | wel J.E. T guess. Your initials used to be J. B.|self in the summer and one pair have I on a suit for a play | I don’t just know what they are now. |lasted me two seasons. Little Yantic don't frighten me. Only | — Am T right? AUNTY. When ironing the hand frnrmrnr]vlnnn thing on earth does ghtn 1| Platon friendship is seldom prac Willimantic. becomes sore from heat and an un- | don't know how to control that. Yet|tised on « girl who has mouey i Bpeaker Champ Clark that déserves to rank with the ever-green story of of 80, retorted Mr. Curley, “but 1 regret that T do not think it would.” human knowledge I would gladly do Demosthenes, who Mr. Curley finished his speech without cuitivated clear |trouble speech with a mouthful of peb- And They Did! bles. Speaker Clark bears the reputa- Former Speaker tion of having the Cannon does not clearest enuncia- believe in the tion in the House “higher .edueation ntatives and of being the most for people who easily understood speaker in that body. have to earn their | ‘When I was a boy in Kentucky,” sald living be- the “sweac | the Speaker, in explanation of his clear of their brow.” diction, “my father determined t e to talk without mouthing. of rprm: Sugiiéa jiua; reamon; bling my words, so he cut a little plece B = o s Yanie of wood. just long enough to stand end. appropriation bill wise between my teeth when my jaws a while ago, when were wall opened. Then, with that im- pediment to the movement of my lips, I Was required to practice articulation. atment was heroic, but it taught n speaking.” Has Curt Excuse. Retorts on the floor of the House, when members are the House was de- bating certain ex- penditures for.In- dian education. “In Douglas county, ML, back ffty-four years 2R0, there was one man whom I will call Jones, who could not read or write,” sald Uncle Jos.” “He was a great cattleman who had three ssctions of la way n the eat at dx- |bow to farm. There wes another man, bis te; or brother-in-law, named Smith, who had ¢ rsr il gbout the same amount of land. Thelr e A families grew up. Jones taught his boys how to handle stoek, and the oth man tried o teach hia Boys the same. ‘Finally Jones came into my office on! , day, and I asked him: How {8 it down in your township? How are you getting along?’ OB, pretty wel replied, OF 2 Smith and Lits big family got- o . he guld; ‘bBut he is Eoing te wirls and twe bo: over to Asbury University.' a3 ‘Well, that's all right,” [ maintained, he has warked hard and has the mones to send them.’ * ‘Yes, it all right,' he objected, ‘But they have get the netion that they do not ocare mbaut farming. and he will send them over thera and when they COMIGREY of As+ury College'—thia mAD “literacy test” {m- migration bill was under discussion in December, Repre- sentative Curley of Massachusetts made a vigorous mud in many ways remarkable speech sgalnst it, and In defense of Italfan immigration. In the midst of his speech, Representative Ca- leb Powers of Kentucky trisd to inter- rupt him for a question. X asked Mr. “Will the gentleman yleld? 38 § feit that it wouid add to-the sum Powers. There is an al \ Iy most unknown cir- (HRR! “!l)‘ cumstance in the — e life history of was 2 very profane man—‘they will jist come back damn eddicated idjits.’ “And so they did,” added “Uncle Joe,” amid the laughter of the members of the House. Did He Mean It? Senator Thomas P. Gore. the biind senator from Okla- homa, was present- ed to a blg ban- quet in Washing- ton one night as the toastmaster of the occasion. After a few opening re- marks, Senator Gore sald blendly: “Now, friends, I 4o mnot intend to bors you with a speech, but I will introduce a man who will. Whereupon he Introduced Representa- tive Henry D. Clavton of Alabama, but the banqueters treated him kindly. Obvious. When Str Wiifrid Laurter was pre- mier of Canada. & couple ef years ago, and R. L. Bor- den, the present premier, was lead- er of the alway active ‘‘opposttion’ i the houss ef commons, the two fameus men sat en sither side of the teastmaster At a press gellery ban- quet in Ottawa The teon stmaster wus plainly “fussed” when he get up te fess I don’t know which is the deep sea.” | to AR, eingle-handed war, hes been declared against King Alcohol in the United States by Capt. Rich- mond Pearson Hebson, representative in Congress from the sixth district of Ala- bama. There 18 but one soldier in Capt. Hobson's prohibition army—himself—and he is his own commanding general in the campaign. But he is entering that cam- ernment and the leader of the oppOsi- tion,” he sald with a smile, “and T con: “I can easily inform the toastmaster which is the devil,” interrupted the premier. Thoughtful, Anyway. ‘Want advertse- ments frequently | PRISR. to which he Intends devotlng the bring unique re.|Test of his life, with a certain deadly gin- sults as John R.|Bleness of purpose that he displayed ‘one Farr, representa. |ine morning in the late mineties when he tive from Scranton, | Pulled the plugs in the old Merrimac at Pa. will testity, | the mouth of Santiago harbor, and thus Mr. Farr was once | Pottled up Cervera's fleet in a small country| He® Will not be content with victory in town. in meed of a|Some small skirmish, some brush with st e |the enemy, such as the passagc of law Sienosraiiiar ° | restricting the interstate shipment of advertised for one|jjquor or state or federal regulation of the liquor traffic in any form whatsoever. Capt. Hobson is for complete suppres- sion and prohibition of the liquor traffic He would make it contraband by organic jaw. And he expects to see national pro- | hibition brought about, largely throug his own efforts, within the next twenty years. in the local paper and sat up most of the night {n his ho- tel waiting for an answer. Finally, he started for bed, and had just dropped off to sleep when a krock at the door eroused him. The visitor was a small and nervous person, Wwho twid- dled his thumbs. “I am a stenographer.” he said. “Oh, you came in answer to my ad- vertigement,” suggested Mr. Farr, with 2 lighted candle in his hend. His Greatest Speech. Consequently, he is_golng seriously to work, almost unaided,” with hie crusade. This vear he is literally blanketing the country with his propaganda lfterature. | Xext year every school child In the “Yes, 1 am the only stenographer United Btates, from the seventh grade town.” | upward, will receive one of Capt. Ho “And you can go to work for me t0-|gon's admonitions to taste nat, touch morrow. . | smeli not siconol, und he expects to ke: Well,” repited the visitor, “I wanted | iy tnis” aimiribution for twenty venrs. tell 'vou that I read your advertine- | “Luy'is Gealese. ha sald in an interview, ment, and thought I had better came |.yq try to bring mboat pronibition now and tell you that I cannot work for you |y® ofy 20 NTOE, SO PR laae ts too a8 1 am consideradly behind In my fish- 1 2y 0% FTURN 000 OIS foal popul ing and am golng (o spend & week In the | ¢ion, The hope of the future is In Lhe o mountains. Good night, sir! cation of the children of today, The wo: < ¢ |1 em doing now will bear resilts twenty years hense, 1 wish to educato the next = Eoneration is it grows fo manhood and rtee 1 ¢ | womanhoed, o that jt W now the T I o | paralyaing nafure of this sreat destroyer, nterrupted him with a |2lechol, te heing up & generation with o greet prependerance of total absialn THen it will bs possible ts nake the Ce: stitution ef the United States the abl ing place of prohibition for the pation,’ ‘While Capt. Hebson Pogan his eam. n Representative John Joseph Kindred of Nev. York is an expert allenist, Champ Clark'; the bene-erus! sentative Beatelle sneering remark, te whieh Qlark thunder. ously replied; | “You Keep your meuth shut. You hlvll more mowth apd lees braine than &ny man who ever sat in an Ameriean Con- | sress!” puign on u magnificent sgile omly this el | winter, he ttarted the werk a r age. Representative Frank Buchaman of Chi- | At that time he reseived leave te print eago 11, used to be an ironwnrkei and | carefully prepared indietment of a “The Great Destroyer” of n. gtart the speechmaking. “d am between the leades of the govs was' presiden: of the lronworkers' Union | hol as Sians. for & long Ume This made it pesaidie Lor aum - 'Hero of the Merrimac, Single-Handed, to Bottle Up Old King Alcohol States in the seventh and eighth srade: every youth in the American high schools and every young man and woman in ool- @istribute the speech under his congres- sfonal postal frank. Last vear the doct ment was mailed to every college student |in the United States—about 750000 of |lege. There ars a million and & quartes them—and to every teacher in the pub-|pupils in the seventh and eighth grades lic schools up to the high schools—about |and the same number in the high schocls 250,000 of t.em—making a total of over a | Nexteyear's malling list will contain con- million coples distributed. slderably over three million names. In But this vear the distribution 1s to be |addition Representative Fobson will in- close & personal letter with every pam ! phiet It is the purpose of Capt. Hebson te keep up this malling for twenty year His specch will continually be kept vised so as to be the latest word on th | subject of totai abstinemce. After next | Year the mailing liat will be revised so | that the speech will go to every A |fean ohild once in the seventn grade. once in the elghth, twice during the high | school course and twice in collese. | "Should the fortunes of politics | ageinst Capt. Hobson at any time and move him from Congress, thus depriving him of the nuse of the mafling frank, it will make nn change in nis program. He is prepared to carry on his campaign of | education to the end “My study 0" the { brought nwe 1o 1ie oo { holiem is an organic dlsease and must be given organic trea'ment,” he said. 'To accomplish anythitz with this great evil | it i necessary to go to the masses of the w0 cavses of drinking lusion that alco people themselvas and educate them as | to the grent facts of the case. Tt is aiM- | cut to educats sdilts, and 8o it becomes a question of rea~hing the youth of the nation and heiping them to mold their of intemperancs indf- | per cent of all Arunkards i habit befors the ags 3 per cent hofore tha age 7T per cent befors the age REPRESEATATIVE R. P, HOBSOY. oung man tha “ithout beroming & much more e Capt. Hobson x are only 2 per e emploving o wpe offics force ‘o he wil drink @ no hing but mall c of hir spesct addition, the ces of the b 2 earlt a question of vemth ediication e been snlisted. The teach- & ach t h ers of the U'nited States will again of t try y ¥ with ceiva thelr copies -f th. apcech this year, cardinal fucs on the 3ubj A th but wadded to the maiiing list are the Way & new generation of on-drinkers |names of every high wchool siudent in|Will be raised and it will become ths n and n|great effective army of prohibition twen- Only | ty_years hence.” the Unitsd States—about a mill! quarter high schoel puplls alene. | coilege freshmen and senlors will recejve| The campalgn of one man to suppres |copits of the speech this year; with|an industry ch does 4 busmess o these end a imailing lst of members of | $2,000,000,000 annually sounds & bit Iik {the ¥. M. €. A, the total number of| Don Quixote charging e stone windmi copies which will be framked out by the|with a wooden lance. Eut one needs only | Alubama representative to the yo-th of [to talk with Capt. Hobson a short while the land this ;ear Is expected te be over to gain o good deal of respect for his twe million war, He is net at all the usual type of ‘Che propagands, kewever, will not fall | temperanee reformer. nto {18 fuli stride unfil next yeur Then| Raliglon cata no figure In his campaizn Capt. Hobson purposes to send copy of|Thers is no “Father, coma home with me his spesch ia in ike aow' asciimeniality; i his Mtesatuss.