Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 15, 1913, Page 12

(Written Specially For The Bulletin.) Did you ever hear of the Ten Com- ndments of Farming? Perhaps you have your own, made from your own experience, and proved by repeated tests. In that case, I've got nothing to say. But there are a lot of farmers who do their farming “by guess and by gosh,” as they say up in Maine. It may be added that this sort usual- do their “guessing” in and summer and their cussing when they come to harvest. m. ..I1t was rather for the behoof of this kind that the late Dr. Knapp of the co-operative demonstration bureau in the department of agriculture, made up his famous Ten Commandments of Farming. Perhaps you may have them; if you haven't, You may be interested. = It should be said, in explanation, that Dr. Knapp was him- | dirt-digging farmer; | self a practical, that he was called to the department work because of his eminent succese at his own; and that, in travelling all over the country, he came to have a broader view of the general conditions of real farming than almost any oth- er_man in the country. Here is his agricultural Decalogu “1 Prepare deep and thoroughly pul- verizeq seed bed, well drained: break §n the fall to the depth of §, 10 or 12 inches according to the soil, with im- plements that will not bring the sub- wotl to the surface. (The foregoing ths should be reached gradually.) 2 Use seed of the best varlety, in- telligently selected and carefully »tored. “3 Use intensive tillage during the growing perfod of the orops. “5 Secure a high content of humus in the soll by the use of legumes barn-yard manure, farm refuse an. commercial fertilizers. “6 Carry out a systematic crop rota- tion with a winter cover erop on Eouthern farms. “T Accomplish more work in a day by using more horse power and better tmplements. “$ Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilizing all the waste prod- wets and the idle lands of the farm. ‘3 Produce all the food required for e men and animals on the farm. “10 Keep an account of each farm roduct, in order to know from which he gain or loss arises.” t Now | know the general methods of working their farms followed by abcut Lirty or forty farmers. Some better han’ others, but that number at lcast, With some degree of understanding. And I can't at this minute recall a single ome who keeps all these ten rommandments;—nor any nme or ight or seven of them. Some obey alf-a-dozen; some obey n few which others ignore: some try/to ming most of them but get tired out be- lore they've fairly begun. The one which there is the widest attempt to obey is No. 6 All - but mhout three of the farmers 1 w to carry out some sort o on. rot But when you come to spec'fy “sys- tematic” rotation, I feel doubts. There are rotations and rotations. Mighty few that 1 know of could properly b called “systematic.” They are more described as “happen- ccuratel. hance-y. The one which not a single farmer my personal acquiaintance oteys is No. To 9. tell the truth, in the way it is it would be a pretty hard one to carry out, literally. Most men want tea or coffee or sugar or sali: a good many farmers find 't wise to feed their ock cottonseed meal. I very much doubt if any farmer In Connecticut could produce on hig farm coffee, tea, sugar, salt, and cottonseed meal. Let's mend the t So as to read ing Produce all the food required for men and animals on the farm, which el e will permit and which | can raise cheaper than you can b | imagine some of you chuckling when you read that and thinking that T've taken all the teeth out of that No. | 9. With labor as scarce and dear now, there seems to be a good many things wh it costs the stern farmer more to raise than he can buy I remember one day in Daniel Hawkins say- a nefghbor: “Why. I could buy my potatoes and corn cheaper'n I se 'em,—If 1 only had the m ; I think you'll see the point. 1If you've been farming a good many Years and trying to sell your produce, I'm sure you'll see it. it won't need 2 diagram nor foot notes to make it Really, this ninth commandment | ms to me about the most import- 1t, not to say vital, of the whole lot A farmer's business is to ise ‘things. The farm is the place to raise the spring | He has got to raise them and in order to obtain money to buy other things. There is a long list of grains and vegetables which {can be raised on Connecticut farms as | well as anywhere else in the world. | Yet there are hundreds and thousands of farmers who are buying, some one them on. sell them and some another of those things which they might raise. Pin one of them down to some | particular crop, corn, say, and he'll tell you that it would cost him more to raise a ton of corn and have it ground for his stock than it to buy the ton of meal, ready-ground | out_of Tilinois corn. Waorst of all, he’d prove it to you by figures from his own past experience. | Whereupon he'd snap his fingers at you and demand to know If that wasn't exactly the condition you added to | Dr. Knapp's ninth commandment. Well, when we're talking about ten commandments, let's consider them as |a bunch. Let's take this same chap's corn that cost him more to raise than | he could buy it for. Did he start off | by giving it a “deep and thoroughly | pulverized seed-bed”? Or dig he turn over a fleld of tough sward, scratch the top an inch or two deep, and leave one end of the plece undrained for the water to settle on and sour? Did he use seed of the “best variety, intelligently selected and _carefuliy stored?” Or did he take such seed as he happened to have and about whose germinating qualities he had more faith than knowledge? Did he use “intensive tillage” or did he go over the patch about twice with an ordinary cultivator, and then only when the weeds had got so thick he began to feel ashamed of himself? Did he economize in costly hand la- | bor by the use of the very best horse tools? Or did he make the old tools “do” another year, and pay big wages to half competent hired men to finish up the work they failed at? | No one would class vou as a highly { moral man if you tried to keep one of the real Ten Commandments and reg- ularly violated four of. the most im- | portant of the others. No one could truthfully call you a wise corn-grower if you merely did one thing right in vour corn fleld and four more important things wrong. If you've ever seen a photograph of the roots of a corn-plant “dissected out” from the soil in which they lived, you'll agree that they want all the lose | dirt they can have to ramble round | in. Furthermore, experience and ex- | periment combine to prove that, oth- er things being equal, the crop | actually will do better in a deep, mel- {low seed-beq than in one where it has | to waste all its energy in Gorkscrewing rootlets through hard-packed dirt in an_arduous search for nutriment. Your crop might have been bigger had you given it a better seed-bed. The use of wisely selected, tested seed as been shown in scores of- tests {to result in an increase of yield of from ten to twenty per cent. Your used better seed. The practice of intensive tillage has, likewise, been proved to be an almost invariable crop sweller. Your crop might have been bigger had you tilled better. The wise and judicious use of horse- drawn tools has, over and over again, been demonstrated to reduce the labor |cost of the crop. Your crop might have cost you less had you used better tools. | | crop might have been bigger hag you | mation, that who puts onl the Connecticut farmer | the best seed, whether {of corn or any other proper crop, in {to the best prepared seed-bed and gives it the best possible tillage with the best horse tools will get a very | much bigger crop than the average at very much less cost, per bushel, than the average. | . I know, whereever I tried out faithfully and persistently, 1 have | founa that I could raise things cheap- it {er than I could buy them. I think It would work out about the saie in most cases A Tenessee correspondent, who had | twelve ac | exact | es in corn last year, kept an account of the cost and the value of the crop, just to find out for s own satisfaction whether he could the corn he wanted for his hogs er than he could buy it. = He plowed his grass pasture in the fall, |'stirring the dirt twelve inches deep. He harrowed it into an ash-heap be- ‘1v)rr' planting. He got the best seed {jattainable and had it tested It wasn't fia good corn season; the rains delayed {Iplanting and hindered cultivation. But he kept his horse-tools going till in- 0 August. When the corn had been f'cribbed and measured, he found he {had harvested 800 bushels off his twelve acres—not a big yield,—at an exsct cost of fifteen cents per bushel do not take Subsititutes or Imitations Get theWell-Known Round Package - oG o MILK P, & Wwater. HORLICK'S MALTED MILK Made In the largest, best equipped and sanitary Malted Milk plant in the world ‘We do not make“milk products”— Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, etc. But the Original-Genuine HORLI Made from pure, full-cream milk and the extract of select malted grain, reduced to powder form, soluble in CK’S MALTED MILK The Food-drink for Al Ages. BF-ASK FOR “HORLICK’S” Used all over the Globe The most economical and nourishing light lunch. would | The chances are, in my humble esti- | for everything, including labor, seed, and rent of land.’ ; Now that was cheaper than he could buy corn,—a good deal cheaper. Please note that my propossd amend- ment to that ninth iment asks you to raise ell the farm-consumed foods and fodders which you “CAN raise cheaper than you can buy.” There 18, possibly, a big difference batween what you do raise and what you can raise. If you don’t obey some others of these agricultural com- mandments, there's gure to be & big difference. It ien’t quite fair to your farm nor to yourselves to sdy that you can't obey the ninth commandment, while You are deifperately ang all the time violating the first and the second and the fourth and the seventh. Give your farms all the chance you can before you say they won't do this, that or ‘tother thing. THE FARMER. Tolland County COLUMBIA William P. Johnson Begins Tapping Maple Trees—Dairymen’s March 21st. Representative George H. Champlin was securing his ice crop on Tuesday | of last week. Whitcomb's steam saw mill is on Al- bert Brown's woodlot on the South shere of Columbla lake. The grange held its semi-monthly meeting Wednesday evening of last weelk. Rev. and Mrs. E. O, Foster with a few other Columbia people atténded the American Board Missionary insti- tute held at Willimantic. Henry C. Isham has resumed work on his new house, suspended during the ¢old weather of February Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Abramson of East Norwalk, former residents, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Buell. Met at Parsonage. The Girls’ club met with Rev. and Mrs. E. O. Foster last Saturday aft- ernoon at the parsonage. The Church Night committee met Wed- nesday evening at the same place. Mr. and Mrs. Lester J. Hutchins and son, Joseph, were with Mrs. Hutchin's parents, Mr, and Mra. Daniel Webster in _Berlin, over Sunda: Mrs. L. B, Winter has been vigit- ing relatives and friends in Hartford and qlanchester. Tapping Maple Tree. Wm. P. Johnson began operation in his sugar erchard last week, he has out abeut 400 sap buecket: He has an up-to-date outfit in his orchard and turns out an excellent quality of syrup. Mr. Johnson is proprietor of “Riverside Farm” in the eastern part of the town. Able to Leave Hospital. Mrs. Kate Nordland who some weeks since was operated upon at St. Jo- seph’s hospital is now at her home by the lake and i8 slowly recovering. Home From Nerwich. Miss Leno G. Wolff, stencgrapher and bookkeeper for J, C. Worth & Co., of Norwich, spent Saturday night and Sunday visiting her mother and brother on Columbia green. Aubrey Winter has been ill for several davs. Mr. and Mrs. William Bertch and daughter Ellzabeth and littie son Wil- liam left for Philadelphia last Thurs- day morning. The little boy is to be taken to a hospital for treatment. They will be entertained by relatives while they remain in the Quaker City. Dairymen’s Institute. The Connecticut Dairymen’s associa.. tion will hold an all-day dairymen's institute meeting at Grange hall, Co- lumbla, Friday, March 21. The asso- ciation’ comes here by invitation of | Columbia grange. It is an open meet- ing. There will be addresses by F. E. | Dufty, president of the association, and by H. O. Daniels of Middletown. Other prominent dairymen are expected tu be present and address the meeting. SOUTH WILLINGTON lce Harvesting Practically Ended— Man Reported Dead Very Much Alive. The Perry Ice company has nearly filled its icehouse after running Sun- aay. Monday afternoon they removea the section of runway over the road. | and while they will put it back In th. | event of another spell of cold weather, | indications are that they are through or this winter. Son Allowed $500. Acting Judge of Probate Frank T. Newcomb, at the hearing in Tolland lagt Saturday, allowed George Knight | 600 on his larger clalm for pay dus | him from the estate of his father f services during the past 20 years. The contest hag caumsed some bitterness. Jacob Lentocha was the first ave his dog registered for 1913. Very Much Alive. | Willlam Townson of Thompsonvil came here Monday misled by the r port that had come to his family th | his uncle, Willlam Maine, was dend. | Instead hé found him very much aliv. Eomeone from Willimantic had con- | fused the matter and it was not Mrs. | Pear] Maine Hopkine' father but the | father of her husbund whese funeral {was held Tuesday and whose death cecurred last Baturday in Mansfield. | To Mark Livingstone Centenary. The Union Sunday scheol will hold its annual foreign mission and Baster | concert combined next Sunday at 3.30 to | p. m, The programme being arranged is of especial interest from the fact of its celebrating the 100th birthday | anniversary of David Livingstene, t) missionary explorer to Africa. Te | missionary commitiee of the Sunda; school has asked for house plants, farns and palms for decorations. Gordon L. Bidwell of Nerwich was a visitor in_town Monday. Medos Labonte made the first pay- ment of personal tax on the 1912 list. Death of Foundling—Mission Workers Make Generous Offerings. One of the little ones cared for by Mrs, Judsoh Bonney died last week. The funeral was held in the chapel of the Baptist church Sunday noon. Burial was in North Coventry. Mission Meeting With Generous Offer- ing. The quarterly mission meeting of the Dunham Memorial church was held Sunday evening. Topic, Lessons from the Life of David Livingétone. An ex. cellent programme prepared by Mrs. Asa Burdick, superintendent of mis- sions, was well carried out. The offer- ing was the largest during the vea-. This offering added to those already made exceeded the amount of the ap- | portionment for the vear and more ! than doubied the amount of any pre- i vious year. Aiding Alaska Orphanage. The Bible school voted to double its annual offering for the orphenage in Alaska, A special offering of glven to the orphanage In mémory of a little one who recently died. Mr. ana Mrs. William Biehaut | Gilead spent the week-end with | latter's parents. .= Mrs. D. F. Jaquith i8 with her moth- er. Mrs. W. C. Taylor of Séuth Cov- entry, who hag been il ) .. The roads are in a very muddy con- dition. of the " food is appreciated. the world. Noticed in the finest biscuit, rolls, cake, etc., is due to the absolute purity and the accurate combination of the ingre- dients of the RovaL Bakine Powper. made and can be most readily made with the RoyaL BAKING Powber. Hence its use is demanded in the most cele- brated restaurants, in the homes of the people, wherever delicious, wholesome extend to every civilized country in The only Baking Powder 'made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM NO LIME PHOSPHATES Its sale and use BIG IMPROVEMENTS FOR NEW LONDON New Haven Road Plans to Expend Nearly Eight Million On Bridge and Tunnel—Much Interest in Harbor Improve- ment Matter Before Senate—Fire Department Critics Are Disappearing. — According to statements made by President Mellen, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad com- pany will expend during the next three Vears nearly eight millions of dollars in the bu"dmf of a new bridge over the Thames river and the building of a new route through the city a part of which will be tunnelled. The new route s not definitely stated and the location of the new passenger station | has not been officially announced. This change will finally result in a general change in the aspect of the present business section of the city and will mean a spreading out that will result in a sizeable city with all that goes to make up a growing municipality ang will place New London among the larger cities of the state. The fact that this and other work of mag- nitude is to be done means guite an increase in the population of the city not only while the work is in progress but affer the work contemplated 18 completed. It is an established fact that whenever great undertakings of this nature are completed many of the workmen remain in the places where they have been employed on the special work and have no difficulty in linding the occupation that has been created since their coming. There is no doubt but New London will be the busiest place in the state in the building and construction line beginning with the opening of the coming summer. For in addition to the building of the bridge and the new layout of -the railroad, work wiil be commenced on the grounds and build- ings of the Connecticut College for Women and, perhaps, the actual con- struction of the steamship terminal piers for which the stats has appro- priated $1,000,000. Therefore it is a low estimate to state that at least $10,000,000 will be expended in the work mentioned. There will be of necessity an army of workmen here to carry on the work and with them will, come many famlilies that must be housed. The coming of new industries to the city has already caused a scarcity of tenements and arrange- ments have been made to provide for the present needs and once commenced this work will be carried on to meet all requirements in that particular line. Prospects of a greater New London were never brighter than at the pres- ent time, Now that all this 1s te come, it be- comes plainer that Mayor Mahan's for- sight in the matter of progress and stability in getting the city in readi- ness for a healthy growth is deserving of extra commendation, for there is nothing more inviting than good side- walics, a system of parks, well-paved streets and new public building, which added to the natural advantages as a place of business and residence, will tend to make New London an ideal city, and after all there is every indication that New London will seen tdke rank with the leading cities of the state, The big_noise made over the selec- tion of a fire company to have charge of the new auto-chemical hose wagon has subsided and all the people, save perhaps a few of the disappointed men of some of the other disappointed com-. Dpanies, are satisfied with the fire com- mittee’s decision and the court of com- mon council’'s approval of placing the new apparatus in the fire house of the William B. Thomas Hose company. It 1s conceded that the company a body of good firefighters and should have the very best machine that can be purchaseq within the appropriation. They are entitled to just as good a machine as the one recently furnished the Niagara company and there is none better manufactured. That ma- chine is of the triple-action type and there i no need of another of just that type, but the new one should be of equal workmanship, capacity as to comparative power, durable and well- equipped, and of the same make. It is a duty of the committee of the court of common council committee ha: in charge fire departmen matters to see to it that the city gets full value for the money expended for the machine, ang not an inferior ap- paratus as a matter of favoritism to some dealer. They should be reminded that in the transaction of city business they should do just us they would in the conduct of thelr personal husiness. If this 1s done the Thomas hose boays will have tlie best fire apparatus of its type In existence. This has been proven by, actual rest It would not be an uct of good falth to the city for the committee to know- ingly purchase an inferior fire appara- tus at a price that ceuld seeure the very best. While the noise us to ihe locating of the new machine when it arrives has abated, the nolse is just starting over the kind of machine that should be purchased: Next Tuesday in the state senate there will probably be definite action so far as goes that body on the bill presented by Senator McNeill, of Bridgeport, to repeal the miilion dol- lars appropriation made by the legis- lature of two years ago for the de- velopment of New London harbor a% a terminal for steamships and to give to the state a port of international importance. At the recent hearing the many benefits that would accrue to the direct benefit of the people of the staie was fully explained and em- braced in the newspaper reports of the hearing. At that hearing the sen- ator from Bridgeport had but two supporters and the trio composed the entire number present who favored the | repeal, and one of these openly de- clared that his opinion might be changed after becoming acquainted with the report of the commissioners. This report has since been printed | and circulated among the members of | the general assembly and it strongly | advocates the continuance of the work, which was not commenced until after | a most searching investigation by the | commissioners as to the advisability | of expending the appropriation. The bill making this appropriation was not railroaded through the legis- lature of 1911 but was under open con- sideration for several weeks before final dispositicn ang the passage of the bill making the apprapriation. Then again the commencement of the work was not ordered until after the ex- hausting investigation made by the commission of which Governor Bald- win was a member. Therefore it is not believed that there will be many | votes in favor of the repeal bill in the | senate next Tuesday should the mat- ter reach a vote. = After the senate action, which it l& fair to presume will be against repeaj the measure will go to the house where it will undoubted- Iy receive the same kind of treatment administered by the senate. The present committee on cities and boroughs to whom the bill for repeal was referred have made report against the repeal by an almost unanimous Senator Peck being the only enter and he was not at the pub- hearing on the matter. Senator | Peck has presented a minority re»! port, however, which will give some groung for a general debate on the question, should that be considered ad- | visable. * As this whole matter wes | thoroughly threshed out by the last legislature and all the facts fa- | miliar to the members and every other | newspaper reader in the state, it | would not occdsion much surprise if Representative Lynn Wilson, one of the gentlemen from Bridgepert, who | ! has been known to move the previous question, might do so on this occasion | and bring the matter to a direct and ! immediate vole and not consume the valuable time of the legislature in an | endeavor to undo what was done by a previous legislature, just to satisfy | the political grudge, and personal at | that, of the senator frem Bridweport. | Senator McNeill claims that his sole | object in wanting the bill repealed due to what he claims the impoverish- | ed condition of the stated condition | of the state of Connecticut, and, by | the way, to hear him tell it, one] would believe that the state is on the verge of bankruptcy and that Mr. Mc- Neill ‘was to act as the watch dog of the state treasury. But In this respect the senator is just a little bit inconsistant, for as chairman of the committee on appropriations he: takes & different view as to the financial re- sources of the state, for already he has reported favorably on bills mak- | ing appropriations that would indi- | cate that the state was the richest in | the union and that it was for the ben- efit of the whole state to make the ap- | propriations. The only time the sen- | ator seems to be of the opinion that! the state is to slide into bankruptey | is when the giving to the state a state | port worthy of the name is mentioned. | Some smart fellow many years ago wrote a little strong that will live for- ever in which reference was made to something about consistency being a pewel. Plan $3,000,000 Baptist Fund. How to raise $3,000,000 for the Bap- tist church was discussed by Prof. Shailer Mathews of the University of Chicago, at a meeting of the Baptist Ministers’ conference at Masonic tem- ple March 3d. The money is for ise in furthering & religious campaign fur upbuflding the church in its mission ary, soclal, and other endeavors. Prof. Mathews said that John D. Rockefeller had hromised abgut $50,000 under con- ditions which the church could meet by securing a certain amount through individual efforts. Tea i& the national drink of Russia, extending all over the empire and into Siberia MATINEES EVERY DAY 5o See the Race in the Sky, and the Fall “DRINK’S LURE,”. “AFTER THE WELSH RAREBIT, Breed Theatre IMMENSE TWO REEL SPECTACLE 2000 Feet—A BPRAMA IN THE AIR—2000 Feet Earth “BRONCHO BILLY AND THE SHERIFF’'S KID,” HIGH-CLASS FILM DRAMA! of the Aviator from his Machine to with Anderson Biograph Domestic Morality Drama . :s.Spectacular Edison Comedy MYER HARRIS in the End of America’s Most DOROTHY CURTIS English Musical Mimic AUDITORIU THE CRUSADER Four Reel Religious Picture Produced at a Cost of $50,000 Mon., Tues., Wed., Mar. 17, 18, 19, or WAR IN THE HOLYLAND & COMPANY f the World Famous Sketch ED. AND JACK SMITH Fashion Plate Singers who ‘Dance Bargain Matinee Daily 5 and 10¢ DAVIST E All Star Show on., Tu.,Wed EATR ROADWAY I H F Waithour and the Princeton Girls MArvVELOUS ACROBATIC CYCLISTS GEORGE C. DAVIS l Greatest of All Irish Cemedians LOUIS AND. CHAPIN “TWO LOONEY KIDS"” 2 REELS SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE REYGA'IE SQUIRES TONIGHT—VICTOR AND HI S COMPANY OF 20 PEOPLE LETTERS FROM TWO STATES Tolland County Werk on State Road—Friends Hear of | Frank Clark’s Death. W. O. Eldredge has been appointed inspector of the section of state roai | between Babcos bridge and the roal leading to the hill, work upon whi will be resumed as soon as the fros: is out of the ground. This is the river road between West Willington i Stafford Springs. Mrs. Charles Amidon, formerly Alice Holt, and her daughter Doris are vis- itine Mrs. Amidon's brother, Dr. Wil bur E. Holt, and her mother, Mrs Lucian W. Holt, in Newark, N. J Death of Frank Clark. Word has been received here of the death Feb. 19th in Hamilton, Mo.. of Frank Clark, a prominent resident, who for many tlouring mill industry. ‘Mr. Clark born in Vernon, this state, his Henry Clark, having married Miss 4 relia Bldredge. daughter of Hezek Eldredge, of this town. The deceased was & cousin of W. O. Eldredge, who residence is at the picturesqu homestead, Eldredge Mills. Clark married Miss Nettie L. years had carried on a large war Eldr of Willington, youngest daughter Mrs. Reuben Edgerton by a previot marriage. By occasional visits Mr. and | Mrs. Clark have kept in touch with thelr eastern frienc the news o: Mr. Clark’s death i row by many fri by his widow and two brothers. and Mrs. Clark had no children. Notes. Brown wera New Yorl Downing and Mrs. companions to Wednesday. Mrs. Brown after a visit to her sister in New York will spend some time with friends in New Jersey The leciurer who w expected 1o speak on temperance at the church Sunday was not e to come. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Leonard Return | Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lombard Return lar Removed. The Ladies’ Aid society met We resday for the annual election c cers. Return from Nashville. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lombard ve been liv in Nashville, Te ) thelr ¢ on, nk lLombs recently returned to their home Mr. and Mr rd left about 1+ ago and ir to live \ son for the rinder of s. but owing t climate it thought best to Mr. and Mrs. Lombard are botk 70, Saturday morni thermometer re wi have here. Lomba ended the zer week tl last red at several plac out tow Old Tree Removed. The old Lombardy poplar tree th stood on the opposite shore of Mash- apaug lake from the home of Mr. Kin been recently cut down and ney I ut removed. It SLoo! years. For the past < waves from the lake ha awa the earth from the roots of the o 1< leanin: thought and the tree w landmark | toward the lake and it wa best to cut it before some accldent was caused by the tree falling on some of | the summer people who pass under” it whole boating. Mrs. Fred A, Sackett Gives High School Pupils a Treat—Sermon on Livingstone. Mrs. Fred A. Sackett entertained all the high school puplils from this pla e Tuesday afterncon in Williman ere the The places of entertainment | ice cream parlors and the ynoving pic tures. 3 Rev. and Mrs. Fenimore Cooper and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Porter v ed Hartford this week. Mr. Porter tended the State Tax Collectors’ assu- | ciation_meeting in the statehouse. The 100th anniversary of the birth of David Livingstone will be the theme at the Congregational church, Rev. John J. Lockett pastor. MT. HOPE. Mr. Mrs. Stimpson and and Mrs. Larrow and son have moved to the vil- | lage. They ave ta occupy Mrs. Stimp- son’s property 1 Many from here attended the fun- eral of Dr. C. M. Kaight in Chaplin | Wednesday. He will_be very much missed Ly his many friends and pa- | tients who have depended upon him in sickness _for many years Charles MeCracken is visiting his uncle, George Albee. Mable Moore ls spending her Ea ter vacation at home. 4 Miss Edith Adams is with Mrs. Oren Russ. W. J. Towne has entered the em- ploy of H. C. Barlow at Westford. HEBRON Horse Drops Dead as Woman is Driv ing—Meeting of W. C. T. U. As Mrs.. Ma Beckwith w turning from Turnerville Saturday ernoon her horse dropped dead on t reet. William Chamberlain has ned to the house the past week with ere cold Christine Monday niel Horton was home over S been con- -Frink was in Wi un- W. C. T. U. Meeting. Pt WO F. T held their meeting ] ursday afternoon at Mrs. F. Frink Weekly ery Thu monthly M prayer meeting held sday evening at the chape N 2dna Latham was in New over Sunday. The weather is. springlike robins and other hirds are in_the early mornings. J. N. Hewitt and son were callers in Norwich recently on business. Preached at Stafford Springs. J. H. Fitzgerald, Jr. of' Water- bury was calling on friends in town on his way to Stafford Springs, where preached the Lenten sermon at h Lorq was in Norwich over Yory and the rejoicing V. ss- Mary day, The Tmprovement society is rehears- the play entitled The Time of His Btta mother in H STAFFORDVILLE Horton ford her is visiting | Tentative Plans to Federate Methodist i and Congregational Churches—Li- brary Books and Book Cases Moved. ) e |, Efforts are being made to federate Methodi: and Congregational rches of this place. The plan is as | follows: Each church is to retain | own board of trustees and committe | the lang to have a treasurer and in.common. Members to be admit ording scopal Two clerk. ice as to wi placed upon. t to vote on tom in M to the and Congregational c separate rolls to be kept each member ha ch roll his name All _members calling of a es. the h P Equipment Moved. The books and | to the village libr have been to the school uilding a room now vacant which has been u the Girls” club. Rev. Marion H has moved from Mrs. Vaill's t to Mrs. Jullus Browning's will 'stay after the r who bookcase belong Brownir in the scarlet fever hospital elvn Clark of Ha spendin: few weeks with mother, Mrs. H: Q. T | Charles Willlams moved week from George -Moore's to Colburn hill. tenem 4 STAFFORD Universalist Church to Observe Palm | Sunday—Grange interests. i g ‘ Mise E. F. Kipp of West Springfield |is the guest of Mre. F. A. Lasbury | Mr. and_Mrs. F. L. Glover and Miss | Hannah Black attended the funeral of a relative in Colerain, Mass, last v will be observed at the hurch with speclal ser vice and sérmon. Young People’s Christian union devotional meeting at 6 o'clock Topic, What Is Victory? The Christian Endeavor met at the home of Mrs. Emily Goodell Wednes- day evening. Mrs. Gedrge Kingsbury, illnéss with pneumonia, died Tues- day afternoon at the Johnson memo- rial hospital. = The funeral was held Friday afternoon at the Congrega- tional church. Worthy Deputy Coming. Somers grange will furnish the pro- gram at the Grange meeting next Tuesday evening. There will be a_col- lation. Worthy Deputy Walter Price of Warehouse Point will be present. The union Lenten service heid at the Baptist church Friday evening was after a long | | | the last of the series. Rev. Marlan ones-was the speaker and her topic, The Promised Presence of (Thrist | These Lenten services have beefi well attended. | WEST WILLINGTON Vincent Hawky has an auto Mrs., G. 8. Amidon Is visiting her | mother, Mrs. Lmcian Molt in Newark | N H ool closed this week for Easter | vacation | AMr. Langhammer's son attends { Connecticut Agricultu col at Storrs and_boards at home Alfred Cowles remains about the | same. Mrs, Himmeler is caring for | him.