Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 15, 1914, Page 13

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“RWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDA BIDWELL CHARLES D. TINGLEY FRANK H. PATRICK MEMBERS OF NORWICH COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS EXPOSITION COMMITTEE RUDICK EXPOSITION IN MERCHANTS’ WEEK for the merehants of the es_befere the Nerwich As An Aftractive Business Center. rounding territer: | erable extent the eit te a eensid- will be judged ss way Dy the eeming ex- position, and all the ieading stores and manufacturers will Industrial and Good Home Exposition at Armory Under demenstrate their a share tewards | shew the suoecess oo-operation merchants and (Continued from Page Eleven) considerably | eities like Hartford. dence and Beston, and this fact enables hants te effer at cerrespondingly lower prices. It is only fair for the people of an community kot as far as possivie: | llve in the smalier towns and village or out on the farm, find that there are {hings which Auspices of Norwich Commercial Travelers Council— Scheme for Booths than Half a Hundred Exh | Have you ever stoppea to think that there are 44 Clethiers and Ta hibiting and selling Men's Do the men (of course the v realize the vast and Ladies' that More itors will Occupy. Beautiful Decorative Norwich mer mianufacturers is a sufvient suarantee that the exposition will appreach what planned to aftain Norwich exhibiters who the project Apparel Btores there are? Grocers—Well—therd many goed sroceries n our city. beyond a doubt have sa far orwich members of Ruddock, who are | Pendleton, Jr., Charles Osgood Co., The Turner Co., Norwich Grain Co., Stoddard Gi! Barstow Co., J. B, Fan- can boast of five Furniture Stores carrylug lines of furniture, floor coverings wre carried in over other stores. Why send out W catalogue when Furnfture Houses offers a as large and complete with the same tempting and clever merchandise de Buy goods near at freight bill Dog_Collars, Thermometer ty Boxes, Loose-Leaf-Books, Thes must week sume market that can bedding and the commerical travel- London are taking a St in the exposition the exposition merchandise, prices and reasonable mercial School, J. C. Worth & Co. t for a five pound | : y is the mos manager of S0gRs onvenient and ec should take center for all 1 a radius of Norwich Gas and United Workers, Co., Geduldig, and Cadden Gallup Co.,’S. Kronig_and Son, S. J. J. P. Barstow Co., Porteous and | Reuter ana_Son, Bulletin Co., Providence Bakery, Habekotte, Mutual Fire In- and you save a If ‘you want IF ANYTHING IS MISSED, READ THE PAPERS. In the Big Drill Shed. London County Haviland Dinner Sets, Instruments, Bulbs, Seedlings, the Norwich Merchants' Week Com- Automobiles, steam about rries the most complete and of its size. elr spaces secured include the d lines of any The writer noticed large Monthly to-Home adverti | book case at $11.00, Before going far, a visit to dealer was made sectional case stronger build sprinkled with stores Sugar Refining Domino sugar and syrup: | Co., heating system; Booth & | Honeywell Dry goods, g that has furnishing goods, best g ality, right Hotels all grades, 00 popuiar to Do-ne-Do, etc.; was found, logg’s grape juice, grape juice: | your pocketbook or corn. or three boats run daily been ordered, it would have Manufacturing Co. sight unseen Children Will and parochial | have been invited to participate in the | exposition, the large entrance of the armory will | be reserved for the exhibit to be made ¢ the schools, where the chiidren will | advantage of displaying to| Participate up a sandwich with Taft and Gov. ce to face with ex-president | merchandise, you are the salesman. The other Saturda al-friend _spoke afternoon a Ru- tired shopper NOAH ROGERS, JR., Committee department, you will get The writer suggested rm; nothing and examine the new there he found a bicycle just The writer suggested in the readi must learn To these people descriptions writer suggests advertisements in our | The merchants immense lines, ing merchandise in the c t you in a cloth hamper Keep in mind, NORWICH THE LOGICAL TRAD- ING CENTRE FCR EASTERN CONNECTICUT. the natural tr Western Rhode account of the and steam railway, but becau mercantile and the high standard merchandise which the: There are several accessibility YOUNG, IR, ALEXANDER JORDAN Seaior Councillor MES CONWAY, Committee Treasurer isited Norwich nt 0ld Home W the thousands of point for any of the chief factors is, tion facilities. trolley lines that traverse Eastern Cc given territor: Manufacturers Will the exposition, | Desides the retail and wholesale houses orwich Manufactur- booths for exhibits, PEEPFROG metime during the atural center in a number of the find a nat NO LACK OF ATTRACTONS FOR VISITORS. living in the must, of necessit; to do most of their tradi Bottle Co., the H. B. Porter Norwich as o. ¢ Committee. Sussman and the woolen miils of transportation, ] the exhibitors j cided to give tho have de- | : se who visit the ex- Elven:tercitory the people pleasant reminder of the lo- jcal show. Another factor which contributes Special Nights. a Travelers Merchants' night ! night, with Special features for the other evenings of the any community accessibility centers of the country re Norwich rea and Manufacture the advantage of unsurpasse Hub of New entertainment aJso attractions will equipped stores ma lines of books, turing concerns of that section, as w as many from other parts of the c as a_distributin their products. Coast Artillery Men To is the me- the imports of the and a marke! find an en= which every PRESCOTT, Little Child cries at night, tosses rest- nd mutters in its onstipated, fretful and everish, or has symptoms of worried and splendid rooms exposition their committee has nd wanting I after the shopping t tendencies, n conductin some foreign introduced have your nigt little one’s cryi aps because of your own Rebate Tickets. of rebate admis: which will be dis of the city, provided so every one who trades in Norwich will opportunity York and B of Norwich ! of the nearnes: merchants to make frequent carch of the new and in Springfield where he tributed by the merchant t and best any thonsands of mothers rely at such times npon a tried and trusted remedy always kept in the house, Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Used by mothers for 24 years. lcanse the stomach, act on healthiul sleep by reguiating the child's system. 1o give and pleasant include Sla and the Free the freight on commodities, an important item of expense, is min instance by the splendid facilities by comfortable ar Throughout eastern Connecticut transportation will alwavs be remembered. re attractions pleasing variet high grade decoration advertising all agreed that tiful in decorative effect has ever exposition, It there were no other reasons than enumerated. to take the ip to the Norwich Fireproof Material and New Lights. | the attention of any commu there 1s still another, a more convineing argum. wich is better able to s chandise needs of the people living in under consideration and the line of economy should. appeal to It is a well known fact of any commodity is regulated by cost_of the article plus the expense of conducting the business of selling it. In | the large cities of the countr to. the higher cest of doing bhusiness, percentage W to the first cost of the merchandise, is appropriation | greater for investigating the habits of the oy advaniage Vera Crus—Washington Post. Mr. Prescott the booths minded that others to come to nd the plans for thirty-nine around the walls of the armory x large squares in the centre of hotels with In the summer the visitor w a sail down the river a convenient soh the territory Employment for Wilson. necessary for the If nt ever be president to engage ertainty that he will have several ma- boats main Fhe material used in decorat- that the price jor league berths open to him #s man- ager whenever he wants to sign up.— (S, C) State. Haven and »ads will be found convenient 6000 candie power in the radium new will make the as day und be the fi been seen in this city. The Exhibitors, any substitute. Be sure you ask for, and obrain, Mether Gray’s Sweet Powders FOR CHILDREN place as light Ought to Include Lind. come and go at pieasure. - | of Norwich Visitors will get bigger, better values Here rents are low, light- is cheap. advertising. the ather expenses af conducting bus- fhan tw send to-larger cities, where exposition will efier an uncqualied op- heir orders weuld not receive (he ame carc as they would locally. Many of the erials _sold in local stores are from the home manu- facteries, as the indusiries of Norw include the maklng sitks, ribb weolen and eoiten goads, velvets, eling, bedquilts, awnings, fir per and dre ds, One impertant thing should be re- membered, and that is the u ¢ Norwich daily newspapers. w ar- reaching s spread the sreat ad- vantages h eating and furr small radiu Norwich. from a package of MRS. C. E Nerwlch Tow FRUITS FROM ALL CIMATES TO BE HAD HERE. The bu of Norwich is much larger > population alone demands. W e have to offer the nef towns and cities Our fiftee service 18 ertainly the est in Connecticut, and furnishes easy transportation for the many people desirous. of coming here to purchase goods. Qur dry goods stores second to outside of New Y nd Boston ofter the trade ¢ e world to thelf patrons by g a stock of fancy and le goods needed in e eryday life, beside giving the op tunity of ordering from catalogue ¢ that money can buy from New and_ other fo ties furniture stores offer tter variety of hardwood, well made fur ture than any city other than New York and Chicago. From the four or purse of | fashioned furnit Norw ry loca o e the gardeners The beautiful Thames river is the liab) isewhere elle i We hav tired of around o t t periodicals riety and —— | Reason for Discouragement starve eath. It is mall_wond that Ei ad sh = rather d couraged with reference to pieasing | all political tastes.—Washington Star. An Excellent Senator B Platform. retirement bec rton his conviction led him “to :ake tions on legislative matters have been unpopular” should him, if his constituents b honest as he is.—Wall Str 4 a No Professional Joaulousy. The New York clergymen yho say “the day of the old-fashioned evangel- ist_is over” of course haven't even nodding acquaintance with prc al jealousy.—Jittsb Hobson Needs a Monitor. hmond Hobson says ho will rum for president if the Wilson pri- mary bill becomes a law. 'This Mer- rimac man ne w monitor.—be | Journal Would Be Invincible. Get Cha side eign Clark’s mouthpiece powers—Wall Street Journals of our 16 inch guns and defy for- In the study and taming of our na- tive birds, one soon learns that there are numberless tragedies In the seem- ingly joyous lives. The hawks, owls, ‘buichier-birds,” and domestic cat are always ready to take advantage of the second when the bird s not “upon the alert.” It is unfortunate that more of the farmers and small fruit cuitur- ists 4o not realize the bemefits to be derived from the presence of these feathered allies. If the common wild birds had been given a fair chance in the past, there would be but Ltde need of aving orchards end gardens weeds would be much smabier. who have learned that it is i for birds to obtain their when trees and shrubs are with ice and the ground covered with o deep or crusted snow. supyly them for a time. This movement needs fo be more widespread for there have been numerous reports of the finding of deed birds after the bad storms of the past winter. In 1914 the following kinds of birds have visited my feeding places: Crows, Pluejay, meadow lack (a flock of eight) hairy woodpecker, Gowny woodpecker, covered | nuthaten, chickadee, jJunco, goldfimch. English spar W, EONZ sparfow, tree | sparrow, brown creeper. and a ver unwelcome northern sbrike. Starlings | are common on adjacent property | Flickers are occastonally seen and I | have heard a bobwhite a few times. Now tho bluebird, robin and phoebe | have arrived. As a few robins and bluebirds sometimes winter es far nerth as Connecticut, the time of their first appesrance In & given locality is riable. coming of the phoebe more My records for mine vears give Murch 34th as the earliest Qate and April Bth as the est. March 29th is the a when one may expect this om- r of the am- was herc on March February, when a nutl chickadees were eating h. One day in ch und two EXPERIENCES WITH COMMON the crop of troublesome i but one. Many | vears, porhood. This vear one | from the the window | shelf was made ready one Was there. It was soon followed by another and from that time they continued 1o come. Five days later, when the window was raised on & spool, Gne came six times and took a bit frum my hand, which T held on the window.siil. The next duy the sl xwere on-the shelf together. After this [ only saw five and as u “bitcher bird” was seen near- by 1 suppese he may have cuught the missing ome. Ome was caught by a cat and in about two wesks there were only three und instead of throe tame enough to eat from my hand there was A sovond wne becasne tame in about two weeks. The thirdone was very much airuid, probubly bhecause the pair were quite apt to drive It from the shelf. Soun one of the tame ones Qisappeured. leaving wut two of the #x. One day in February [ was de- Iighted to see three new ones. 1 think these all loarncd to cume to the shelf, Hut not to my hand. Theu the hawk mentloned above came aound and soon there were but three agxin and for about two wecks there have been but twe. It is so late in the season the last one to zo mxy have gone in search of a mute, If o, T may see it again later. 1 hope notifing will happen 1o the pair that s left. They come to the window-shelf many times every day. but have been very thmid bout coming to my hand ever since e hawk came to the window. One day the gentle ome ate twenty-four bites from my band in a few nroutes. 1 thisk the other ventured once. he most Interesting of the other birds that come to the window-shelf are the nuthatche nce my last report “Nuttle” the first one that I ever tamed and “Lady” his third mate, have disappeared. Both were so fear- less that they would eat from my hand when I sat be dow and held o ten ide the open wi t food. It was five months and eleven davs time that Nuttie first vem- tured to me for food until his disap- pearance. He became tame in early Spring so he must have been at least 2 b dashed against the giass. | alx years and about eight months old. ghtened and perhaps hurt it flew | His plumage was as glossy and perfect aw pparently without catching |as a young bird's; if he showed any ng, aithough one chickadee was | sign of age, it was merely that he % the nmext d The hawk was | someétime sseemed a 1 heavy in around on_other ng t the si biuejay a some bright reddish brown rs as it away and disap- | veared over n. The winter 2.13 was the on one durin h rs that I | had no tame chickadees. The winter there were six for a time, all | ald fly hearlessly to | e windo d in my the evidently nested yw-st ate as June Tth. The me e to eat r ¥ one came ) d to my hand in the vard most seventeen months none came for food, aithough here were sometimes two and once four in the yard During the latter part of last ree near they could not see the a f. They saon discovered the sq seeds, which, cut in half and ce beads, were tied on a small r order to bring them nearer | \ heavy cord was tied between the tree | e ticd about near wh ,‘on the edge of the win- days, | fiying. Lady had been around aimost a year. The previous summers they ught_three babies to the window- if. The young birds became tame enough so that one could stand or sit beside the window and watch them. but did not learn to eat from my hand as did the four in 1911 The loss ow Nuttie and Lady left but one nuthatch, a very fearless fe- | male. which had been coming to the window-shelf for about three months. uebell.” sa named because of her unusvally bluish crown feathers, was jolned after a few weeks by a male. They were daily tors for nearly | four weeks then the female came alone for mineteen days. She did not often eat from my hand she had been in the habit of doing and the made never did, although he came again the last part of April when Bluebell had been gone a month. and stayed until June. For the next si= months, one was occasionally seen or heard in the vard and a few times there were two. On Dec. 4th a pair began coming daily to the window- shelf and by the end of the month the male was very tame. By the middle of Junuary the female began to be tame. In less than a week she was missing nd has never been back. I think he male was the same one that was here in the spring. If the female was Bluebell, which 1 doubt. she was very much garker since moulting. The male is work | continues to come to the shelf for food s a flock of six|but, since the loss of his mate. has They at once | never taken a bit from my hand and on the li nd | is afraid if he sees anvone very near. s|On March 22nd a new female, which , stand | for over three weeks had been for food s o ck the meat |to a tree in the vard, came to the fr re % clinging under- | window. She seems smaller than the neath, w ks down. they were | other and is much lighter colored. m ces: even. when the cord | They come for food many times every sw b ! forth in the wind. |day, but evidently do not wish for on reached the bu jany closer acquaintance b and in ju en | . H. minutes " me the window | Pre City, Conn., Apri 1914, WHERE INDUSTRIAL AND GOOD HOME EXPOSITION WILL BE HELD Father’s Job. minist ( British Always Up in the Air. the success of the Lead in Aero War Craft— in this country the titular | Headline. 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