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5 * worth Wedding. * " iong the annual assessments fled he state treasurer for collectioa, is an increase in the stale tax year of $23,837.63 upon Corpo: ing business in Rhode Isian | assessment minus the banks will be assessed June 20 is Manufacturing corpora- e taxed upon thelr corporate which with business and mis porations, will pay $9, n last year. The total sie excess fund is $138,107,928.15 .30, La: 03.26, aRnd 01224 An ir of $12,705.48 more than Jist year will be paid by public serv- fie cirporations, which are taxed upon Bross earnings, that amount to $19, 1130.91, and the tax is $213,2618 Last year the earnings o 318,200, $75.01, and the tax $200,576.44 @he siate will receive from tax on g¥ster ground rentals $13,540.25 against $13,334.15 last year. The tax is based Bt the rate of one per cent. upon the Tental pald by lessees to the shellfish commission. The New York New Haven ford railroad leads the publi corporations in amount of ta has been increased about §2,000 over Jast year, and being $62,435.13 instead ©of $60.544.84. The gross earnings this year are fixed at $6,243,513.94 as against 36,054,454 last year. The gross earn- ings of the New England Navigation campany are placed at $32.386.05 this year instead of $56,682 last year, show- a a falling off in tax from $566.82 tu The Adams Express company is the only express company to pay a tax In the state The gross earnings are $80.492.72 and the tax at the rate of three per cent. is $2,684.84. The Norwich & Westerly Traction Co. earnings are fixed at $58,- $35.38, and the tax at one per cent in ssoL1s. : ¥ - The earnings of the Westerty Automatic ‘Telephone company are Dlaced at $36.162.36, with a two pe: cent. tax which amounts to § The Westerly Power Co. and the tax Light & 467.69, . in $1,074.67 Among the manufacturing, mercan- jand miscellancons corporations hawing a corporation excees of §50,000 or mare, are included the New Eng- Jand Granite works of Westerly, with excess of $95407.33, and taxed for $377.62 by the state. The Pawcatuc- Woolen mill at Potter Hill has exces: of $367.240.20 and will pay a state tax § At a i of the incorporators of It Primvens Coroaony committees for the ensu- ing year were efected as follows: Hur- ; Samuel Nar- Wiittam ! Charles J. Butler, Michael J. Papalin Frank F. Dodge, Mrs. Frank A. Sher- men, Joseph Guarino, Willard H. Ba- com, Rev. Willlam F._ Williams, Vin- cent DePietro, Dr. Frafik I. Payne, Misg Jennie B. Stanton, Miss Helen Segar, Fdgar P. Maxson, managing commilttee. Bteps were taken to se- ctire the services of an instructor to have dfrect charge of the playground. Ralph H. Hoxsie, who has been in fosble heatth for the past four years, | died Wednesday afternoon at his home in High street. He was born in West- erly 56 years ago, the son of Caleh and Mary B. Burdick Hoxsic d_is survived by two daughters who reside in Providence, Mrs. Gertrude Taylor and Mrs. Bertha Eaton. He was a member of the Stone Cutters’ union and wes formerly employed hy the Smith and the Newall Granite com- Danies. The first band concert of the season wab given in Wilcox park Thursda. evening by the Westerly band, Charle: O. Gavitt, leader. The following pro- gram wes ably rendered and appreci- ated by the crowd of listemers National air, America; march, Men of Harvard, Gray: overture, Stradella, Flotow; cornet s0lo. The Charmer Pol- ka, Boos, Mr. Gavitt; popular airs, Snooky Ookums, and Row, Row. Row: American sketch, Dowp South, Myd- dieton; waltzs, Rendezvous, De Zuleta: That Haunting Rag, Lenzberg: ox- cerpts from Oh'! Oh' Delphine, Cary popular two-step, See My Harem, Ber- lin; march, Captain in Command, Hil- lard; finale, Star Spangied Banner. The people of North Stonington were entertained Thursday evening. by & most mteresting programmc Ten- dered by Mrs. Frederic L. Martin, so- Prano: Miss Charlotte Maxon, violin- ist; William Browning, basso; John Riusi, tenor; William §. Mart! #0; and Miss Violet Bolles, pia programme follows: Carmen—Micaela aria, Mrs. Frederic L. Bizet Martin > Officers and Committees—Ralph H. Hoxsie Dead—High School to Graduate Twenty—Bailey-Holds« i i ¥orza del Destino, Verd: John Ruizi, Willlam Bropning (a) O Come With Me in the Summ.r Nieht, Van der Stukes (b) From the Land of the Skyblue- wate: Cadman Woodman Martin (e) A Birthday, Mrs. Frederic L. Chanson_ Meditation, Cottenet Miss Charlotte Maxon Attilla—Ta 'sol Quast’ Anima, Verdi Mrs. Fred L. Martin, John Riusi, William Browning Re Pastore, Mozart Vioiin ‘wbbligato by Miss Charlotte Moxon . Mrs, Fred L. Martin Crucifix, Faure Mrs. Fred L, Martin, Wm. S. Martin Local ‘Laconics Sheriff John R. Wilcox was in West- erly Thursday 3 1t is_a job well done, the paving of the Pawcatuck bridge and a section of Broad street E. Jack Flynn of Norwich, a grad- uate of the Westerly high school, was a visitor Thursday in Westerly. Kev. Clayton A. Burdick is the at thor of a fine bit of prose in The Ar- butus, printgd in a weekly publication. Mrs. John Loveland of Westerly has | presented a supply of hymn books to Milton_ college, a Seventh-day Baptist insticution. Mrs. Evelyn Stillman left Westerly Thursday morning to sall from Bo: ton for two months’ trip abroad, sal ing on steamship Canopic. Harris M. Parbour of the department of philosophy in Brown university is to become professor of philosophy and history in Milton college. Capt. Herbert Dunn, U.S.N, on special duty at the navy department has been called to Haversham by t serlous iliness of his son. | The Westerly Plavsround associa- | tion will have the Riverside park | property in readiness for use as & Dublic playground at an early da The Ocean house at Watch Hill is | among - the guests for ths two New York police in- | spectors, The Watch Hill house will | The Westerly volunteer firemen are | even ready for duty, but they are no: | | publicly criticised because there is so ii hem to do, and the public | Would be thankiul if ‘there were less, | me at ali opsn and season are There will be added attractions at y Atlantic beach this summer an best of traflic facilities will be fur- | Wester} under Clark ished by the Norwich & action Co. The resort will be | the_management of Herbert P, | ot Westerl A former rector of Cl churen, Wester the Philadelphia ¥ i now dean of | Theological seminary The commencement exercises of the Westerly high school will be held on | Wednesday, the 25th, in the new towa | hall. Theré are graduates. On Westerly w ~ CHILD'S HANDS CRACKED AND BLED 1 Poisoned by Brown Tail Moth, me? Wrists Down Sore and Red, Scratched Until TheyWere Aimost | Raw.“ Cuticura Soap and Oint= ment Commletely Cured Her, | v ® Fames Place; Brockton; Mass, — "3y #id was poisoned by the hrown-tall moth | when she was five years of age. Her hands | from her wrists down were sore, red and bleeding. Ehe scratched them until they were almost raw. She suffered enough when they cracked and bled. Her hands and wrists looked 50 bad I was discouraged to | #ake her out in company. It kept Her from was sq dis. said ‘I will ae what the Cuti. | and Ofntment will do. 1 started o mse them. I was obliged to keop her bands and wrists done up day and nighy linen cloth saturated with tho Cutieurs, béfors it was applied in hot water and Cutfenrs, The bathing scothiod her wonderfulty, | 1 took the cloth from her hands jn morning tho dry skin wouid nll peot off, Ersight Season to Watoh Hill Opens: | {eth soniversary and sthere are but et 4 ew of us left to remember it. OF al ctivities of the Churches—Summer | [ Sf, 5 1eft t0 remember it Of all Visitors Arriving only seven left, and of the 27 that o 7R R were captured only 3 are alive. The The freight s for Watch Hill | énlisteg men were paroled in Septem- fa the ferryboat Watch Hill was | ber, after serving time at Belle Is gpen Tuesday morning. a carload of |land-ang Libby. The officers were held freight from the Norwich line arriving | for 21 months. on, the first local freight train a=6.30 JOHN WOODWARD. m. was switched to the freight plat- | © Norwich, June 10, 1913. rm at the dock foot of Broad, street ere the boat received the load and | started on time for the H{ll E il The new | gasoline engines on the 'Watch Hill | Mr. Editor: Tt interest- re working satisfactorily, the vessel | ing to note a city meeting how th malking as fast time as when running | “old guard” i passing away, and with steam power. how the number of the “Down anl _Express Agent Tift, Who resides In {Out club” is rapidly becoming au Mystic, comes to his work on a motor- | mented by those who have failed to cycle. This enables him to reach his | office here without delay in the morn- ing and to return home at his pleasure | I after completing his day's work Steamer Trigl Saturday. ¢ Stonington steam fire englne will be | given a trial Saturday at 2 p. m. at the cistern on Dewey gibare b The smack Btta ahd Lens’ Capt. |, John Ostman, came In Wednesday having a catch of 126 mackerel av ng in welght 3 pounds. slx zood | 7ed bonita and about 1400 butterfish of zooq Church Interests. | wav he did. Of course, Mr. Jengen has The monthly session-of the' teach- | Plenty of time to look up figures, and rs' study class of Calvary and the | We will not make sany comment upon econd Congregational Sunduy scliools | his correctness. because we have heard s held In the Congregational chapel from him before in city meetings.~ All Wednesday evening. we feel s this,sthat he should have The Children's day services of the | EORe (o the city’ treasurer for his facse, First Baptist Bible school wlll be held and that would have saved him the In_the ehurch Sunday evering, trouble of showinz to the people what The sum of 330 waa cleared as a |8 Smart man he was. A man who I3 exult of the rummag Tesday | real terested In city affairs, if \ao | der direetion of the Ladies'Aid find thing in whicl he thinks he | of the Second Congregational |€an assist the department, sen Brisfs and Perssnals, building n meeting of & ir ller’s hall Thursday, -evening. Gleorge Avery has returned e New Lenden after a Dbrief visit with | = relntives here, A Matr and ¢ gten and Mrs veiatives heve Wednesda Dr, M, M, Maine of Seuth Manehes- biscopal | €@ sisting of 12th Penn. | v guestion ight of | which compelled the the town council to increase the sal- | batile of the war to be foug ary of the suporvisor of highways from | tvsburg. From the official r 3900 to $1,000 a vear. | conversation with the Confederates we i Shbee S T | inflicted a loss to the enemy of more i STONINGTON | than two to one, in the three days’ t Sunday, the 15th is the fif- meeting and nobody was willing to lis contingent | and their oid g on the back ter is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. C. O, Maine, Wi"A. Pike ana family of Pittsfield; Mass,, have arrived to spend the sum- mer at Bythesea, their summer home ‘Wamphassett’ Point. Mrs. W. H. Fairbrother has gone to New York to visit relatives. Carl Trumbull of Hattford has a rived hére for the summer. Mdss Kathryn €omsteck has returned fter a visit with relatives and friends n Newport: How to Remove Basily. Here's to try a remedy : for the guarantee of a reliable dealer it will not eest you a penny removes the freckles; while If 1t Bive you pense s trifiing. Simply get Aouble strength, Local Clerks Defeat Baltic Clerks, 13.5 —Parochiat Schoo! Graduating Exer- cises the 22d—Art Exhibit at Acad ey and a iam Walers and George Swan of Providence are visiting at the h of Mr, Bwanson on Main street, ful complexion. Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots— a chanee. Miss Freckle-face, freckles with that inless it does a clear complexion the ex- n eunce of othine— from Lee' & Osgood, few apylications should show | vou how easy it is to r1a yourself of the homely freckles and get a beautl- | Rarely is more than ong sunce needed for the worst case. Defeated Taftville Clerks. Be sure to ask the druggist for the 'The Baltic Clerks defeated the Clerks | double strength othine, as this ls the from Taftville on Sayles field In a| preseription sold under guarantee of fast and exciting game Thursday after- noon. The score was 13 to batteries were: For Baltic, Cote and Charon; for Taftville, Dugas and Stoae and Benolt. Umpire, Louis Fontaine. There was a rehearsal of the choic of St. Mary’s church Thursday evening In the church after the June devotions. Graduating Exeroises. bl The graduation exercises of the class | making o study of politios, of 1913 of St. Mary's school will be | effort feli flat. held Supday evening, June 22, in Shan non's hall Rev. G. H. Comeau is spending Week in retreat at Keyser island, Peter Hussey is to begin work at the Shetucket worsted mill next -Monday The Cqunecticut company had Wor! men out® Phursday building a switch at upper Beautiful Work by Academy Pupils. |ical spebch or a v The annual art exhibit of the Acad- | kind emy of the Holy Family will open June | ing 15 and_ conti until June hours for visiting the exh: from 3 to 5 p. m. and 6.30 to 8 p, on week days and time after p. m. on Sunda The work to bo exhibited displays the art and skill of | he is bo the young students in originality of sentment. — design and skilful use of the needle: The little sil ETTERS TO THE EDITOR. meney back 1f It freckles fails to . he seemed so willing. somebody. It must hav quit taken But the | body them. was going to The result was that those alive. - forth vears ago, there an_official, interest, coteri but the sl skyrockets, S the result that back, with the ciplents of thousands of dollars certain municipal operations, were egated to the past. Mr, Editor: Com Torry fs in error as to the distance of Winchester, Va., from the Potomac river; Winche ter'Is thirty-two miles from Har Ferry, which i at the junction of the Potomac and the Shenandoah rivers. The battle hester was fought June 13, repl sen, 6,000 men, | in d General Bwells U. 8. A : about 3,000. The Confed eq the town early on 13th and skirmished all day. The Union forces 1l back into the town about midnight, On the skirmis continued till noon ¥ were driven intc le pits and remained there till 5 <. At that time the Confederates I ked with 18 pieces of art )n_the west side of the town. General Milrov withdrew il his- f into the fort and the sunted and the cen started from since 1 back have of politicians who themselves s fallen flat, fa betterment, tes attack- 1t somel publie will, Nerwich, June 18, 181 WILLIMANTIC FUNERALS Barah Breault, he fumeral ef was held Thursday fusion. con- Conhn., 5th-Ma and 123rd Ohio, and the cavalry under the command f Col. 'W. G. Ely, became engaged mnd fought the £ T 1863 at_Stephenson’s Stati Winchester and thers Marcus Lucius T funeral of 110th day afternoon. erable club of which the deceased s a_member attended in a body. une . Congregational church, officlated. ed resolution of condemhation which to heap upon remove him a little while to shape that up somebody must have beea the In that resolution there was an inkling (to use a very common expression) of a little dirt which some- have thrown.at who were trying to throw it were buriel It seems lately that every gold watch or pive wiiich is presented to anybody is now accompanied with a whole polit- t report of some If those reports had been com- probably | would be no call for them today. Many fter he is placed in office, becomes very neglectful of thé public’s and the only way he realizes that he has ignored the public is when ted out of office by their re- , rumor has it, were on the ground to shoot off some rockets kicked little circle, whose friends have been the re- #zom rel- Most of the insinuations which have certain quarter: “old guard” has been beaten d the cirels re wont to sgvie omething else have been ced by an element only interested | " There is a great deal that might be snid upon this subject. but let us hope ody has profited by the se- vere public reprimand administered to those who have failed to listen to the “JUSTICE."” Mrs. Barah Breanlt morning at St { At the seventy-third annual ting | only a b ry. It was img Mary’s church and was dargely attend- of the Rhode Isiand Baptist Sunday | sible to know numbers: OPpOELAE | tequiem high mass was pung by School association, Ethan Wilcox was | us ~ t S war | Charles J. Lemieux. There was ted a member of the board of di- decided | SPecial -music with solos by Joseph ectors, as was also Allen Peacock of acuate the started udreau. Burial was in Joseph's cem- hawmut, a brother of Rev. Joseph L. | k and were del y teams |etery. The _ bearers were Octave Puacock of Westerly | imals till nearly "% | Brousseau, William Brousseau, Bdward Rev. Nathaniel Groton, formerly of | e had made Brousseau, Joseph Breault, Charles Westerly, s sqon to marry a Phila- | 2nd it was breaking 'day. When we | Breault and George Breault. deiphia young iy, Miss Anna Heffern, | Were fired upon fm stretch of Marcus L. Tryon. He is the son of Rev. William Gorton, | Woods on foven B0 inare. whs A LD Bt skas at THe von, hetd from his home on Spring street, Thurs- embers lof the ven- was Rev., . Brown, pastor of the Hampton Mre, | the " foltowin, the members delayed | O, 1s, Robinson sange several hymns, of the class will take a sall to Green- | E% RO ward Burial, in charge of Undertaxer Jay M. port and in the evening the class ban- | JOift Colonel Shepard, was In Windham Center f v eabpbage R | his men and we charged cehete iotla = A, Thaver, Troop A, |2 Pattery of artillery and L Cavalry, Rhode Island National Guard, | o, fhree c peroming Mentioned In Brief. Cottolene shortening. years, an The source college, sentor class, closed its sessions day merning. delin of Gildersleeve. jum at Shelton Wednesday purpose of laying out a sewer | there, Meriden,—James L. Cowles, “the father of the parcel post, with the exception of Brief State News Gildersleeve—Thg record for early | | peas seems to be heid by Andred Wer- The pods well filled, flve peas heing found in some, Shelton. — The state tuberculosis commiseion, with its engineers, in- spected the grounds of a the sanator- the yester- are for the system | called manufacturers and business men in the Postal Progress league, of which he is secretary. Bridgeport.—Sunday will be a day of rejoiding for the pastor, congregation, and parishioners of Saints Cyril and Methodius church at Crescent avenue and Church street, for on that day the Rev. John J. Nilan, bishop of the Re- man Catholic diocese of Hartford, will consecrate the bell which will call the plous to devotions, and the handsome new edifice which has been erected on the site of the old church France has 40,000 acres of almond tre Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S was in CASTORIA THe Drama of the City Meeting. a0t hie wishes of the people. acts and fizures in pamphiets ga- ore seemed to be present at the ity en to_them. The little silk-hosiery were loaded to the muzzle kicked back and ex- ploded on t It was a on city affa o note Mr. Je ting his gre bility to find figures, while, if he h aken the trouble to go to the o casurer or {he proper source, ho would not need to have patted himselt hefore the taxpayers the SWe 2 New for General Alken's well-word neihir G Children Cry FOR FLETGHER'S CASTORIA | | | f»”,, vu)x}:;‘ffl 1y -good shooting; at ‘the ‘.1-5 corps, John-| G. 8. Aubin has purchased of A, C. H0h WTh. the e - ALt sy could have cap- | a residence on Windham ot G A & “_ o Why, or what w | riety Girls were the attrac- i S B Gre 15 was mot done I have ne: at Loomer Opera heuse, Thurs- Captain Thayer is son of Tht Confederates knew our | evening, presenting A musieal hayer utnam, who forme on Saturday night Lieu- | dy. Their engagement eontinues filinded. the THET roel et Rockwell and myself | emainder of the week with a Sate s L B se for something to eat | atinee Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Holdsworth Aefo e on Ded o 11y one hundred-students of the ¥oro Taartlon Waltonts Aoy pas : cticntAgricultural cellege at Rev. W Wiliors b o o, ly told his ghter to | geor ft_for their homes Thursday [ithe" bride’s; parents Palmer street. | jar and when we found So much food, | Ifom the Willimantic station, The | Miss Annie Railey was bridesmaid and | we asked what it was ail for, and | Moore was best man. The ush- | she saids our boys will be in town | Sutcliffe. A reception ed the ce>~ (it Our brigades fight on the | mony, Mr. and Mrs. Bail, left ony| of June 15th, 1863, n eastbound train on their wedding | corps and enabled’ Milroy trip. s ang_the other two brigades to The salary of the supervisor of It therefore accomplished two highways of Weste 000 a vear | one was to. prev Lee to | and ho 18 required h his own | 2 rmy as he so much de- | onveyance, which and sired, and the other was to leave | riage. In New London the salary of | about 600) men useless and not doing | the highway commissioner is $2, | anv duty at all. 1 therefore claim that | year and he is furnished an autom - | G. Ely and his bri bile. Still there are some people In Reroes of the batt When you order Cottolene you are ordering the best cooking fat on the mar- " ket — butter, lard or cotton-oil imitations .of Cottolene included. is still the best. wholesome manner; it makes food that is rich but does not disturb the digestion. ottolene is packed in\patent, air-tight, tin pails. It is always pure ang sweet, and protecued%r Cottolene is always uniform. Use it right and you will always have the same results—the best. Cottolene is far superior to lard, because lard is made from hog fat, and cannot compa : wholesomeness and purity. Lard is an animal product; Cottolene is vegetable. Cottolene is even better than butter for shortening and frying, and costs no more than lard. ~ Cottolene is richer than butter or lard; therefore, you should use one-third less. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY Merfden Wednesday, Interesting local | was the first successful cotton-oil It has “made good” for over 20 of Cottolene is pure; it is made in a cleanly, -om dirt, dust and Ftore odors e with Cottolene in The Porteous & Mitchell Co. Our Annual Sale of Cottage Furnishings and Household Needs Is Now In Progress Ten Days of Remarkable Values In Household Needs Th'u is one of the most important of our Annual Sales as it comprises a most comprehensive range of Home Furnishings, embracing all lines particularly adapted for Cottage, Summer Home and general House- hold needs. . % believe that there are hundreds of Householders hereabout who have Summer Cottages to furnish —many more Householders who will appreciate this op- portunity to replenish their Home Furnishings at prices which insure liberal savings—hence this Sale. Domestic Department There are special values in Sheetings, Pillow Cases, Sheets, Bed Spreads, Comfortables, Blankets, Towel- ing, Towels, Table Linens, Etc. Kitchen Furnishings Hundreds of special values in Kitchen Utensils—also in Screen Doors, Window Screens, Oil Stoves, Wash Boil- ers, Galvanized Tubs, Etc.—everything for the Home or Summer Cottage. Floor Coverings--Draperies In this department there are many splendid money-sav- ing opportunities in Lace Curtains and Curtain Mater- ials, Hammocks, Porch Screens, Carpets, Rugs, Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Etc. The Greatest Millinéry Eventof the Season Extraoedinary Sale ATS aad FLOWERS in the usual way would sell up to $1.50—all now at the remarkably little price of . . .. . e 25“ Hundreds of Untrimmed Hats and Fine French Flowers — newest of this season’s styles that The Portegqs & Mitchell Co.'