Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 22, 1913, Page 6

Use Within a Month. William D. Wilcox, formerly of Wes- . “Bristol, was taken suddenly il hile visiting in Provid Thurs- and was removed to the Rhode and_hospital, where he died Fri- ay. Mr. Wilcox enlisted from Ston- agton in Company C, Fighth regi- ment infaniry, Conneoticut Volunteers, Sept. 11, 1561 and reenlisted as & vet- eran Dec. 24, 1863, was promoted to corporal on March 18th, 1864, and to Sergeant May 18, 1864, He was mus- tered out of the service Dec. 13, 1865, Subsequently he was orderly sergeant of Company B, Westerly s, Rbhode Island State militla. About forty years ago he was clerk in the White Rock store and left there to engage in the fruit and confection- ery business in a store on High street, 1 and was suoceeded by Ethan Wileox, B librarian emeritus of the Westerly public library. Mr. Wilcox was clerk in the Westerly post office wien Eu- gene B. Pendleton was postmaster and afterward entered the rallway postal Service. He became enteebled and entered the Soldiers’ home. Warren Moon, age 83, as active as the average man of 60, and a veteran of the Civil war, happened along in Dix- on square, Friday, and, pointing to the new post office building that is be- ing slowly constructed, remarked to Eugene B. Pendleton: “Say, Gene, old as I am, I'm certain I could have built that building alone in quicker time than those fellows are doing it.” He @ had hardly finished when along came another Clvil war veteran, Joel B. Kenyon, age 8¢, and Who looks it, said: “Gene, that post office building is go ing up mighty slow; of course it wasn't commenced when I was a boy, but it does seem so.” This goes to show that ©old minds sometimes run in the same channel. Mr. Moon was a corporal in Com- pany C, Third Rhode Island heavy ar- tillery. * He enlisteq Feb. 16, 1862, was wounded in action at Oleoston, Flor- ida, Feb. 20, 1864, and was mustered out Feb. 18, 1865. Mr., Kenyon, served in Company B, Second regiment, Rhode Island Volun- teers, enlisting June 2, 1863. He was wounded in the battle of Petersburg, i Juno 18, 1864, sent to hospital and Borne as absent sick untll July 7, 1865, when he was mustered out of ser- Vice. It was a coincidence that they stould have made about the same comment. The Knights Templar of Rhode ls- land will have their annual field day at Watch Hill next June, on St. John's day. It will include a dinner at the Ocean house, or Watch Hill house, # the plans for which are not yet com- pleted. It is expected that about 800 sir knights will participate which will represent St. John's and Calvary com- ‘manderies of Providence, Holy Sep- ulchre commandery of Pawtucket, ‘Woonsocket commandery of Woon- socket, Washington commandery of Newport and Narragansett command- ery of Westerh It is quite probable that delegations from Columbian commandery, No. 4, of Norwich and Palestine commandery of New Lon- don will participate In the festivities. nst the seized liquors Gabrielle was heard by Judge Williams in the Third district court Frida: There was no claimant for the liquors. ~In response to queries by Town Solicitor Agard, Chief of Po- lice Thomas H. Brown testified that, in pursuance of a search warrant, he visited the residence of Gabrielle, mo- companied by Officers West and Mit- The case of Guissep, | TALKED ABOUT IN WESTERLY William D. Wilcox Dies in Providence Hospital—K. T. Field Liquors Destroyed—New Station May Be Ready For 11y, an inmate of the Soldiers’ home. chell. They found a half barrel of beer in the cellar on draught, a quart bottle partially filled with whiskey, ana saw the usual paraphernalia of a kitchen bar room. Gabrille, acocrd- ing to the witness, sald he had not sold much liquor or beer since his license had expired and that the beer found in the cellar was for some men Wwho_were to do work for him. Offi- cer Mitchell gave evidence in corrob- oration. Charles Anderson, a neighbor, testi- fled that he had seen people o into Gabrielle’s sober and came out Intox- icated. The liquors were declared for- felted to the state and ordered des- ove Local Lacon Good Friday is no holiday in Rhods Island. Charles H. Williams of New' Lon- don was in Westerly Friday. Mr. #hd Mrs. Willlam Clark of New London are visiting relatives in Wes- terly.: * Aubrey L. Maddock of the New Bri- tain Hefald force, is visiting Westerly relatives. Miss Laura Woodworth of Ne don is the guest of Mrs. Fred in Westerly. John Leslie, a former Westerly shoe merchant, now of Wallingford, is here on a briet visit, Miss Dorothy Morgan, of Westerly, and Mrs. H. M. Bell of New London were registered Thursday at the Cop- ley-Plaza, Boston. Miss Sarah Thompson Palmer, of Pendlston Hill, superintendent of schools in the town of Colchester, was a visitor Friday in Westerly. John H. Murphy, who recently pur- chased the vacant lot adjoining his present business property, proposes to erect a brisk bullding thereon adapted to busiress purposes. Granolithic walks are being laid around the new passenger station, the interfor work is nearing completion and it is believed the station will be ready for use within a month. David Livingstone, the African Traveler and Missionary, will be the topic of discourse by Rev. J Peacock at the Seventh-day Baptl church in Ashaway today (Saturday). A physiclan of Westerly who was sentenced to six months on the state farm for being a common drunkard, within the law, has been placed on probation by the state board of char- itles and correction. David Carley, who. has been of the building of the new and court house, has been made intendent of construction of the ,000 power house and repalr shop t Van Nest, Y., for Lon- Opie the , New Haven ford Railroad compar per-Ranger Constructi Whites Hanged For Negro’s Murder. Birmingham, Ala., thur Jones and W' men, were hanged here today for the murder of John Holland ,a negro, in Jefferson county, eighteen months ago. This is the first time in the history of this county that a white man has been hanged for killing a negro. Even the girl who has a steak-and- onions appetite can rave over the w the stage hero es the heroine's hand—Chicago New: for smartly dressed men does not necessarily JUST TO GET ACQUAINTED $5.00 PAIR OF MADE TO MEASURE PANTS FREE ABSOLUTELY TO EVERY CUSTOMER ORDER- ING A SUIT OR TOPCOAT - - - - Fit, materials and satisfaction guaranteed in every detail, or a new suit free. Made to measure, any style. Correct ! Clothing |: “TO 10 Broadway THE TAILOR WHO MAKES GOOD CLOTHES AT LOW PRICES why “TOM” is the talk of the town—VYes, you will be interested, and bear in mind please, “you get here.—All it will cost you is a few minutes of your time—Goodby—See you today. ” MURRAY, Just a few words more. pets. - Everything is plain here. plain. but plain. something to show. could be sold right. Suit or Topcoat To Order $15.00 TAILOR Open Evenings d yew at Whitsuntide by birch | on its back by means of ropes, one yew, a In Shropshire the | passed round its neck, another round | and’ fresh flowers. Christmas_holly used to be burat on | two legs (fore and hind) and then | the hearth on adlemas Day. A | carried over a beam by a pulley. A | pretty Shropshire custom was the | man then sat on the head and neck | “purification” of the house in early | to prevent struggling. When the spring by placing w in it a bunch of | animal was thrown to the ground the d: flowe: this | horns sometimes gnapped; if broken ‘white puri the core the injury might be seri- £ in the purifying p . Each hoof, being cloven, Te- and | the snowdrop seems to have been de- ifred two shoes or “cues” which were the |rived from its use as an emblem of |fixed with hammer-headed nafls. A the d us also a housebreaker. he working hours of housebreakers tween six in the morn night. During the y Some London Curiosities. In the London County Council book of London tics (as | sive a sign_of London's pre | dominance as Paul's itself) there ebreak captured £16,833, of | the purification in Candlemas care- | supposed Romano-British _ ox-shoe re many items of general curiosity. [ Which 6 was recovered. The |mon and processions; another | discovered by General Pitt-Rivers in Who would dream, for in busiest time with h iers is for the flower was ° | Cranbourne Crase is crescentic in A e i betwgen seven and nine at night. An old rhyme | form, widened at one end and slightly aptures among nisht poachers Plural voters will be interested to 1o- | snowdrops “firs rears her hedde on | concave on the upper side, and meas- London, thirteen of who and _seventy-four ures 3 2-5 by 11-8 inches. Ox labor in Sussex. In * but this mild winter e been in flower 1 1w don has further de | garden smowdrops h has lingered longest arrests for | poachers? Then London still r: wder £000. A fair | Since the first week In November, and | 1910 teams were to be seen at work 2 £ | D hough. if it were out off from | POrtion live in the Inns of Courf—six- | some species bloom naturally in’aut. | daily near Brighton and up to about imply expensive clothes, but rather correct Sutside world, they would not | ty-SiX in the Inner Temple and sixty- [ umn, on high ground, in Greece and | nine years ago bullocks were both | keep us many minutes from starva- | tWo In the Temple, these fig- | adjacent countries. The snowdrop is| worked and shod at Pyecombe and Y d to th x tion. Still there are 3205 acres un- | UTes, of copree, 1 1—5:': p":l'a | ve of Central and Southern Bu- Ps.nigdean_‘ Te;ms oé t“;‘en(y-‘two o= fldfl der cultivation within the Metropol and - o e Inns outside | rope, but it is said not to be i gen- | en formerly rew timber along th sty pted to the requirements of men who | tan boundaries, They produce 2201 | the are more cly inhabited. | ous in Britain. It was probal in- | baa roads of Sussex, three weeks | fons of hay and 1580 tons of po Pl K st_with troquced fn the Middle Ages’by monics | eometimes belng Tequired for the <3 - s . . parters of peas and 259 quarters | S nn has sixty-nine, | returning from I and by other | journey to Maidstone and thence by X dulre to be ‘umly flttll’ed on a"’ occasions. (];Kw"gl‘?'fi, In lh: matter of hl?rglnrlss and the tiny Staple Inn eleven. travellers. river to Chatham. “The drainage {here were 352 cases, but In seventy- F 5 s of arable land and the evolution of the e four” of them ‘motning was siolen. Holly Leaves and Goblins. P e Sraught Horse tometner. with ° such - The superb tailoring we offer our customers The burglars captured £8657 worth, | The day for pulling down Christmas o R X" in Sussex. | dangers incldental to the use of cat- e and of this £1746 was recovered. The | evergreens h aried in and ac- | Walter Johnson's chapter on “The | tle as the entanglement of their horns = popular hour wl(h] burglars is b??d“‘Tfin | (‘{rdu\g 1o P r custom. In Her- | Labour'd Ox,” im hi ‘\\'B}'Fh ln&n!rn, 1 ;1‘\ the (;})\'l’rg“l"n&fit hetdggfs'\uor ‘1;;);\1;11 ¥o and four in the morning, and the | rick’s time. n eens were | ish Archacology,” conveys the infor- | times, their liability to fall ex - 4 will meet all the demands of the most par- Doputar method is fo breai in throuzh | charms as well decorations, the | mation that working bullocks on|ed by heat in the furrow, or, when windows secured by bars or bolts. | Caristmas hol rosmary, | farms used to be shodd, as well as | attacked by flies, to make a dash for 2 There were ninety cases of the kind | and bay were down ti those required to travel on roads, and | the nearest pond or Yhi{‘kFQ are all ticular dressers. | T rean hours and elghty-four be- | Candlemas-eve But for | throughout the last four or five cen- | cited as causes for the decline of ox toweon four and six in the morning, | cvery leaf left oft day maids | turies the custom may be traced though | labor. Housebreaking differs from bur; y | are ‘warned by the poet o many |it is uncertain how far it was general. | oy in the matter of time, and a | gobline you shall see,” for these deco. | The shoeing S EE:y Baonc e Vavcor b et toascedt burglar by night pursuing the same | rations must now be replaced by box. | risk both to the “ox-shoer” and ox. It |$50,000 for library purposes from An- | Your Easter Suit E IS HERE also the SHIRT COLLAR and NECKTIE to & make the finishing touch to your dress. occupation in the same way through [ On Easter-eve box was displ was more usual to throw the bullock | drew Carnegi CORN-GROWING CONTEST FOR 1913 The Bulletin Offers $230.00 In Prizes SEVEN PRIZES—$100. to 1st; $50. to 2nd; $25 1o 3rd and 4:h; and $10. ezch te mex! three in order To Promote Corn Growing in New London and Windham Counties The Bullein makes this offer for the best acres of corn grown by boy or man. Who May Compete—Any farmer or farmer’s boy in New London o more than one prize. Only cne entry can be made from a farm, whic, indham Countles may compete. No contestant will be awarded can be made by the owner, his son, or lessee. Date of Entry—Notice of intention to compete should be sent to The Bulletin Company on or before Apri: 1, 1913. It will be better to write for blanks now, and familiarize yourselves with the details. Amount of Land—Any amount of land may be planted, provided it Is actt the yield of one acre only. This one acre must be one piece; and may be selecte within and be a part of the plece entered in the contest. : one acre or over In extent. The awards will be made upon by the contestant at harvest or before, but must come The quality of the corn will be decided by a free laboratory test made by the Storrs College expert from one quart of selected corn. IT WILL REQUIRE FIFTY NAMES TO WARRANT THE COMPETITION. um gen. new. eart] com the the The: ‘When water is decomposed by radi- drogen ¥ Hlectrolytic decomposition fo: vapor emitted by the posed by the ultraviolet sun; the hydrogen formed rises toward water does not return to the surface. face of the globe is always diminish- | ing, ana tn gradually, dry To cite one e of the Alps ther The Earth Getting Dry. or by ultraviolet it produces hy- and peroxide of hydrogen. ns oxy | al formati a. | dred @ A German tnvestigator thory relating to the drying of h on the fact that one form of de- position producs oxygen, whil other does not. Part of the water i seas is decom- | hydrogen Tays of the | hydrogen ac n impc high atmospheric strata, and all the refore, the quantity of water on the SCHWARTZ BROS.’ 19th Prize Letier - January 27th, 19 Dear Sir:— I bought a carpet of you about three years I must certainly say I am pleased with it. show any wear yet and enough. So I made up my mind that when I wa more I'll know where to come. Whenever of Schwartz you buy, on his good can always rely. Whether you have the cash or not you’ll get best he’s got. border will come Schwartz’s-great big auto. MRS. AXEL JOHNSON, When you come down to see me, don’t expect you are coming into a mirrored and carpeted place—the kind of an establishment where they’ve got to add on just a little bit more to the price of your suit to get even for the mirrors and car- “Tom” is “Tom’s” fittings are substantial And “Tom’s” talk is plain. But when it comes to a show-down “Tom” has More goods in more different styles and color effects than you ever saw in any tailor’s store in town before. And they were bought “right” so that they | off in the depth of the lakes and sra: umulated it certainly gets walk All you have to do is order and anywhere on t 25 Geer Avenue, —