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NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, \914 STAND BY THE OLD RELIABLES—TEST OUT NEW THINGS The Bulletin.) | wise Providence provides so many dif- fering sorts,—just to suit the differ- i of aifferent folks. Now that the gardening season 1. with lots of am interested in seeds. dsman's catalogue, recently Specially For iltural Experiment ighboring state lis apples ns grown within each one differing enougt | the others to demand a special S04 is antry his would make « of ap- one f a specim. ery kind could lowing two inches apple an exhibit s eived listed 65 or cucumbers lons: 42 of pea of tomatoes, edsmen have other this_one not tiow many kinds of different vegetables are actually grewn it would take a s government census to find out. There must he thousands of them Many beans of s m ‘many Some people like a certain sort of apples, o certain of beans. a ertain grade of tomatoes. Other up one f within _which seed-buyer is constramed to Keep. time it happens that soils ary greatly. Climate eis of latitude within very nar- The same acre one cor which vields fine spinach may, at . opposite side, refuse to Erow nach enough (o p: the seed his curious crankiness of the dirt other limit within w the ist keep. There's no use »w tropical fruits or ves- New Engiand skies: little profit in_trying to tomatoes on land that is fit only 4 beans or cow peas. the apple nd star saved ed o climates who ts flavor desir s and apple tr i R soils sometimes diffe sides : w limit fruit w hey hem desirable rchard approved it suggest that spot in the disco “ While this indicates that which isu't present cu r n having variety siderable min, while ldwin app sorts judged no Greenings bergs and Pipp ¢ rden: d Belleflowers ar trati The old i found But has thus 2 wide of rom, it sht sorts, we a Iy niy by our ikes, but and ikes n 1 like rath my but 1 don’t nelghb who can raise it Letter than mine, better: I've plan of fertiliza_ without results. given up trying to raise m melon, and now grow the next my second rugh 1 g suspes E ave a no prese B an - | his methods are and his p cultivation can’t_have pie sand- wiches will do, s the Bald- | »w much f oth_ e es a3 | isn't w Too many people, buying order se which most books. thing is to find ou prefer to have your land will grow last twenty years, 1 heir liantly riers, fed or The is reason ORIGINAL ‘GENUINE The Food Drink For All Ages—ngth Nautritious and Convemenf Rich milk, with malted grain extract, in powder form—dissolves in water—more healthful than tea or coffee. 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WE SOLICIT YOUR INSPECTION 137-141 Main Street N\ other | varieties of | more | about thirty varieties of tomato. In that lot I have found just two which seem to grow best and which my cus- tomers eeem to prefer. Now I stick to those two. Out of every hundred plants 1 set ninety-eight are of (hese sorts. It is quite reasonable to as- sume (hat this sort of limitation, which truck-growing on a commercial scale has forced upon me, will also be sen- sible in even the smallest kitchen gardens. Find out what Kinds you can ra and then stick to the oné or two Wi you like best. Don't keep changing seeds every spring, just because the seedsman blows extra hot about some of his new varietles. | have tested out in my own n-aeml At the same time, don't forget that | every good variety was once & new one and untried. There's such a thing as being conservative, and such a | thing as being reactionary,-old-fogy. ish. The only way in h our frui and grains and plants are improved is by ding of new strains. When Jone is offered with a big flourish of | { catalogue trumpetings as a twentieth century wonder and the very finest | thing ever discovered, just take the | brag with a little Maybe it Is a | fine thing,—fc or Texas be it s better-flavored.—in some { neighbor’s mouth: Maybe it is hugely { productive—in the other fetlow And, maybe it is just the one truck-patch and your You never can tell without firs ing out. When 1 order my ve: t select the old-standby known and t for i 1 thing which e well f. pparently ought to pre and and my climat 1 send for the smallest of that variety, and it with a dozen or iwenty plants put right in beside my regulars, and having (he same conditions and | treatment ery vear I try about a dozen planis of some new tomato, fo ¥ alwavs at least one new generally a new bean and pea. | e last dozen years T have by this means found a real gold ine in one or two of the much-praised noveities. | { Usually the harvest makes me mighty glad that 1 didn't “plunge” on any of them. They arily much less satisfactor: the standard sorts, and they always cost more. may be the thing for Srmith Jones, Robinzon: but they're mighty to be no-goods for John rmer than ap | There's considered still e another thing in regard to these | there is | corn, while the other wo | thing but beans | thousand miles apari | appointed. rietles which are offered in profusion very spring: | They are invariably produced by specialists who are work- | ing along just one line, with soil un- usually adapted to that line, under climate specially provided for that line, and themselves b ytaste and prac- tice pecullarly fitted for that line. What such men in such circumstances can do, you and I, working ordinary farms under ordinary conditions, and being quite ordinary people ourselves, can’t expect to do. I'm delighted to know that there are at least 66 kinds of beans. Because that means that every teflow, 1o mat- ter where he may live or what his taste may be, has 65 chances for get_ ting a sort he will llke and can rais Gymnastlc Camval Tonight in Y. M. C. A. Hall at eight o'clock. CLASSES OF THE Y. M. C. A, n Benefit of the Physical Di Tickets, 25 Cents, Reserved ed Drama The Trail ' Book Store. Many New Features This Year. But for me-—and probably for you. Jjust one best kind of string beans, one best kind of shell beans. and one best kind of Limas. The thing for us to do is to find out which Kkind that And then stick to i The only way 1 know of to find out is by trial king somebody else’ word s about the poorest sort of way to select. The difference between your next neighbor's garden and your's may Dbe as wide as that between a garden in Japan and one in Vermont. I have one isolated garden patch of scarce an cre. one end of which will grow fine 't grow any- and dum poor beans, that! There couldn’t he a greater rence between the soll at opposite of that acre if they were a at ne year for vears in the hich were about as d well come in the On the theory of ances this one ought to be extra fine. 1 hope %o, anyway. But, how ever good it may turn out. it won't do ail it might for our gardens unless we ourselves start them off right, with the right kind of preparation and the right kind of seed: My suggestion this morning is that whether you're planning a big or a lit- tle garden, you confine most of you energles to the old standbys. Experi ment gingerly with twi things, if vou have the land and the time and the disposition. But don’t bank on them. When you flip a cent, the chances are even that it will come heads up. But when you try some fruit or vegetable novelty, the chances are about ten to one thal it will prove a fizzle. Once in a while vou may strike a bonanza. IU's bet- ter not to expect uae, however Youll he much less likely to be dis- immed poor ones as co temperate zone. HE FARMER. - NEW LONDON'S BUWLING ALLEYS . bushel. ln These as in Other 'flnings There Have Been Many Changes | —Personal Tax Collector Berth to Be Filled—Uncer- tainty as to the New Official. do | an article in a his week that had t Is and the tribulations and of the unreasonabie | bowiers upon the boys | ame at the far end of | is reminds that there all the vear around bowling “the city and that the only public bowling ailey in city 18 | that h is open to the pubiic at « the good old summec ivate alleys at the ristian association eliows’ hall, the Elk Thames club, which in- the pin boys are chosen rather than from the as w he rule when were open to the alleys were in New London. with the tr demands of the who play alleys from the gam wling alleys | not known | surprise eve New London has progressed in many things but not in the matter of public bowling alleys, which is pe © of “the decided change roblem during past half referr whaling days, which in this instance, be it when a great part of the of the city went down sea in ships, all the bowling alley n the city were of the public kind and bowling alleya were perhaps for the rea- ciubs of importance and fraternal organ- not reached the present hat 1al known were not It was the custom in the old times a whaleship arrived for the be the customary oy 1o their minds was the whalemen as a money, all they re- were usually strapped a hunt for he saloon the pin the spend or the torrid zone in s spent in and share alley When the whalemen were ashore for | a brief sporting life there was a scram- s who made game. | times, t possil big pi the balls graded biggest pin boys gave bowling h a side trip v bridge i deciding saw off the was then managed by Jim Br Just where the bowling alleys were { located cannot all be recalled just at| this writing, but there was one con- nected with the old City hotel and lo- | cated just back of the office of the Wesi and Smith stable. There was| another in Prison street kept by Mar- | tin . Coates and just next to his sloon, and there was another alley 1 | Bradley street in the basement of | the building formerls occupied by mmond and Caulkins, undertakers, | with John Danicls, he iwho beat fhe “nion ball building in Golden stre { now the Leverone building, which w | connected “with the Perry | Douglase aloon. At a later period there was a lley kept by i located in F as nk_street near With a popu- i lar the money_for the lleys in New Lon bresent time there is D % alley i & | | The private bowling | the kibosh on the | have Vani alleys have put public alleys and Killed thern beyond are reaching he pool 1 e mor sing | and New covered lis are all which is billiards. three nolitely termed wher zume the ! man | backed ben H. Wilkin- | or fou 1 game, can be played in the city of New London. Yes, times have hanged in New London since the coming of the popular social and fraternal anizations, but the fel »ws on the outside who are inclined be just a little bit sporty must be satisfied with a game of pool or the me of cards that are varied suffi- clently 1o satisty any of the players. Though not classed as the most de- sirable of positions, Mayor Mahan -will have no difficulty in finding some one mpetent to fiil the vacancy of per- sonal tax collector caused by the death of Joseph D. Culver, as already there | s quite a line-up for the appointment of democrats, tried and true and also some irue blue republicans, some and it would not | the city if the the place. The 2 democrat on and it is but fair | democrat will re- | appointment and that the || mayor will exercise his best judgement 7 making the appointment and select | a man fully qualified for the position: | nd some smail vbody ter were selected for mayor was elected democratic ticket esiime that to ; The mayor will find in the list of candidates for the place democrats who never lifted a finger or donated o dollar towards party have been regular contributors to cam- paien funds and without cammensu- rate reward. There is at least one among the applicants who is deserving of the appointment for the service rendered to party, for the self- sacrifice he has made for party sake by permitting the use of his name for office_when defeat was known to be| certain, in order that a complete ticket | could be placed in the fleld, and who de financial contribut equal t any other candidaie. for any | fice on the here are | many democra type and it time call over| who are what there s of that had the party simply not itis a the: those work | is in more. and nothing |c ——— - \ Ex-Alderman Thomas school enumerator and sealer weights and measurss, Although Probably he has not heard of the va- | Tommy know that he would Tt no difference republican in men’ (hat interests him. if Tomm res- vet | the city on the fra- and not_the Tn his time| of a_jiner and | as not reached the highest | of the offices it is not the fauit of | Tommy. He knows how to gef office | and not hestitate to use that| knowledge to the limit | That he is competent goes without | the saying or he would never achieve | the success he has, and his nerve is with true merit. He has an nounced himself as candidate for in- side guard to the grand lodge of Elks and if he does not get there it will be disappointment to_ Tommy Donohue and_ his friends. When he gets foot- | hold in the grand lodge it's safe bet- | ting that he will not be content with | the position of guard, but will aspire e higher up the very high- | d will probably get there. | knows Tommy Donohue and ybody hopes he will win in for advancement in Elkdom. his try Words Without Rhymes. There many words in English that Lave no rhyme. As given in “The Ryhmers' Lexicon,” by Andrew Laug, they are as follows: Altch, alb, amoagst, avenge, bilge, bourn, breadth, brusk, bulb, cott, couch, culm, cusp, depth, doth, eighth, ffth, film, forge, torth, fugue, gulf, hemp, lounge, mauve, month, morgue, mourned, | ninth, oblige, of, pearl. pint, porch, | pork. poulp, prestige, puss, recumb, | sauce, scare, scarf, sixth, spoilt, swoln, syiph. tenth. torsk twelfth, ua- plagued. volt, warmth. wasp, wharves, widtn, with, wolf, wolves are Sadie and Mabel attended the funeral conference | Manchester, muda ford spant called on wood day evening day or three new |in Rockville, Wednesday W. C. T. U. Free Will Offering Meet- charch Mrs. port, N. Y., moved f; don hos) John sciatic Mathews acted a: the guest Saturday school over the Easter vacation. her daughter. Mrs. R. H. Worden, | started building a shanty men, one fever. mains on T for '$4,700. Rev. H. M. Bartiett Resigns to Go to | led a call | tui | will leave May that| E. Denchus. | to | forr tion of Rev stac- | meeting on Thursday Know | it 'i'olland county of the BOLTON NOTCH E. A. Shaw Returns From Bermuda —Local Guests At South Manches- ter Party. Mrs. Minnie Howard and daughter - . ~ 1 ISABELLE LOWE of Everett day. A" numbe Scott in Hartford, Tues- from this piace attended in Willimantic, Sunday. Peep frogs were heard for the first time Wednesday night Mrs. Thomas Skinner Friday Home Frem Bermuda. E, A. Shaw has returned from Ber- s feeling much better Mrs. James Bert of Hart- Sunday at A. Olliver's Robert Warner of South Manchester visited in SEATS ON SALE WEDNESDAY Mr. and at 10 A. M. Mail Orders Filled Lonesome Pine WA LTEF AS JUNE AND PRICES #5392 7= ey s EATRE} YLD THES DN \Matinee at 2.30. Evening at 7 and 845 THE BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW ATERALL and WiFES Comedy Singing Sketch WILLIAMS AND WAYNE Singers and Dancers SARONSKI Wonderful Vislinist PAUL RYAN Ecoentric Comedian MASON AND LEE Sensational Athietes 4 Reels Mutual Movies D R COMING ALL NEXT WEEK A CYCLONE OF FUN THOMAS’ MUSICAL COMEDY CO. SWEET FUNNY SINGERS COMEDIANS FEATURE PHOTO-PLAYS OUR MUTUAL GIRL, Ne. 10 NO ADVANCE IN PRICES NEW Y local friends, Wednesday. At Birthday Party. Muud Woodward, Sadie and Howard attended a birthday the home of Mrs. O.<J. At- South Manchester, Wednes- and leased his place to J. H. Bullock. L. S. Bigelow and family are in New York Mrs. Li Hartford. Mr. and Mrs son, Elmer, spent at Warrenville. Mr, Mabe! party an Kelleher is Albert Friday w ice was in Hartford, Tues- ANDOV ER Congregational Church in Prospe Condition — Improvements B Made—New Managers at Cream. M. W. Howard visited his daughter SOUTH WILLINGTON Easter d. ing—Plans for Concert— Quarantine Rai Mr. and Mrs move on Bunker Hill s James will residence. Mrs, W. B. Sprague mans are confined through an attack Mrs. Taibot, srandmof Talbot, is sick Ladd, The free will offering meeting of the | W. C. T. U. is to be held in Memorlal | Sunday evening, April 12th. Emma Graves Dietrick of Lock- will be the speaker. Miss Ariine Burroughs has been re- | m Hartferd to the New Lon-| George L 21 breakdown, is much 1 licenses have been issued t T roads have Liscovec and John Liska bad condition, but the state Potatoes are selling here for $1.10 per | right tonsilitis Dog. Changes at Creamery. and Mrs w Willlam H. Braekett was un- be present at the session of school because of an attack of Theamatiom, and Mrs, B, J | Supt able to day M Hawk Easter Concert. The annual Haster concert of the| unday school will be held in Memoriak hurch Sunday evening at 7.30. Mrs. L. K. Fuller of Scotland was of Mrs. E. J. Holman over and Sunda Gardiner Holman Hall is home from not vet matured Congregationai Church M The annual meeting of the was held last S nd Fuller Mrs. Ellen Morrison has been visiting in Bristol. Birthday Shower for Patient. Miss Lizzie Dimock, at the hospital ntic, received Aifty postcards many friends on her birthday aturday and Mrs. tafford were guests of Mr. “red Colburn last Thursda Miss Bdith L. Morgan and Miss Daisy Baker spent their teachers’ v iting day at a school in Somers last Mrs. (;r repair the steep ‘Tm work is now the chure has donated $ Sund:y Schoo! Officers Elected Roland Eilis of West (S and Mrs Neliie Little of Willimantic and | Florence, of Hartford, were s of Mr. and Mrs. Edward . Eld- Sunda fact Me il Lockett Miss Mathew ket The pas that A. Vito has 16 house his is nothing doing on trunk | Lockett, a ine road work vet | home “departmer Quarantine has been removed from |a flourishing the home of James Service, Jr., the last | members and on the list of cases of scarlet | the year. He | money ive Late Ice on Lake. |a new furna ke Beauty, unusual for this | ¢ time of year The Frank Orcutt place, on Village Hill, has been sold to Augusto Scusset Beyond the Missions > Woma Foreign that soc The will _preact Coming of Christ | Cooper will condu! Teacher Improving ss Alice R. Mo COVENTRY Massachusetts—Grange Meeting. M. Bartlett has tendered h pastor of the Second irch, He has accept = double parish of Co- in Massachusetts. He ist. Hill has been engaged as | Second Congregational | Rev. H ek ongres: o APEinE Newell A ton of the rch Mr. and Mrs Bolton, and erly ed Bolton grange ond dezrees Miss Qlive 1tchinson R. G. Secor have moved | Tuesda will occupy the house by S. H. Woodward is slightly improved and Resignation Aceepted. A speclal church meeting was held Friday evening to accept the resigna- H. M. Bartlett Grange held iis regu! The programm < in charge of the new members. MANSFIELD "CENTER Mrs n New Theodo n town A F. been ver Frank Coventry ar | hn y Is visiting friends e lLyons of Stafford day of last week. Rosswell. humane agent active lately Davis has moved to lle was Daily Thought. There never was a good war or & 14;-“m,,j bad peace—Franklin, has FLOOR MGPS If you have polished floors, such as linoleum, painted or! varnished floors, you are certainly missing one of the greatest conveniences of the house if you have not a Dusting or Polish Mop. We have a line of the latest in O-Cedar 31d Wizard Mops and Polishes. PAINTS and VARNISHES Agent for Heath & Milligan and Wadsworth Howland Sapolin Varnish Stains and Enamels. STOVINK for red stove covers. MENDETS mend everything in pots and pans, water- bottles, etc. URO HAND SOAP, 4 10c cans for 25¢c. 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