Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 10, 1915, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) “Do.you believe in:scientific farm- ing?” ‘asks one friendly inquirer. Be- fore I answer his question will you per- mit me a few brief remarks ebout the verb in that phrase? Nothing is more common than this question as to what one’s interlocutor | cock believes, It seems to be one of the|old favorite ‘fornis’ of farmers, at grange|fog meetings and institutes and wherever | fact, they are themselves truly scien-| In spite of hard showers, in the fore- Next Mon., Tues. and Wed—Big Time Comedy Act B SULLYS &t o A Combination of Singing, Dancing, Gymnastice and Comedy Old Time Fourth of July Celebration Delights The Townspeople—$90 For farmers who seem to think it's all Library Benefit—Family Gatherings. and moonshine, when, in eactual —_— the ‘together in ‘bunches. “Do you farm the best type, FEATURE N FIVE ST S, o ) She i < e S = o 2 Fvone THE OUTLAW'S REVENGE pily lieve in level cultivation of potatoes . X A Mexican Melodrama of Today Featuring Mae Marsh o | There’s all the difference in the world 1Do you believe In keeping your strav | 1ot meen “sclentific farming” and so- | Dears: sk MUTUAL WAR WEEKLY | gMstines 230—t0c. Children B called “book-farming.” The one is i KEYSTONE COMEDY Evening 7 and 845—10c, 150, 20c a five or a three-year rotation 'for . | farming by and according to knowledge, raaet Thess wars some o e st | ot s astalog b Eucsae: In one short session of the|2and some other fellow’s guess, at that. speakers 5 last Farmers' Institute I attended. | I'm mbout these practical problems is of | get Teal importance to Tom Jomes! | hand and a brooder thermometer OF course it ia possible that Jones may | in the other.. I don't fesl so much ks | olowed by decorated automobiles and — ary. 0OL’S GOLD,” Biograph. “CAPTURING THE COOK, Comed: heve & distant and fhdicect intarest in |laushing at nim as liks wesbine oter | monfies of Mr. Perry ana Mr, I C.|"osthoned Colebeation ‘Heid. Tuseday | “no event af the holitay was el oo sodas Lotmre: oo s and CHARLIE CHAPLIN, 2 Reels e o} workings o im. He s entific, = ¥ o BT y—Lollypep oo Lol f i insides, But what he has a real in-|but he isn't; he's just being silly. On inners of Celebration Events. | clambake dinner furnished J v e O Whildras terest in is not Smith’s faith but his|the words. Bill may believe or disbelieve | T think he would get mad enough to of weather, sadly terfered In thirty-nine or forty-nine separate|fight if you called him & scientific M. C. A, of Willimantic. Throughout er, e 1nt with | Ever yone in the neighborhood was program arranged - ropositions, The thing that interests|farmer, he so hates the mame. Yet First” automobile, drawn by a yoke of | for Monday’s Fourth of July celeb; ones, . practically, 18 not what he be- | that's just what the old man 15 & good a e, Y & yo . ra- | places. On account of the rain the ta- M t l d H n iavas or Gisbelieves, but What he d06s. | past of the tima. oxen. an old automobile, drawn by a|ton ::;chbubtmhdm ®d to be the big-|bles were transferred to the upper Qlorcycie an orse aces Does he.raise extra fancy gilt-edged A No. One potatoes and sell 'em at ten i 3 Ball game, 9 a. m.; band concert, 10 a. cents a bushel above the market-price?| He’s terribly “sot” in his notions, | Historical Exhibit in the schoolhouse, | "8 3 bas a. | Nason, who made the bake, was on ‘som " | was a center of attraction, even though |™-: Parade 1I a m.; dinner 13 m.:|to his job, and with abi athats B e o omten. tost ™ oy 1t | nly. quser. But he. can raise mighiy |1t was somewhat incomplets, on ac- | Atheletic, 1 o 3 p. m.: ball game 3:15 3 5Bt Saturday, July 10 at 1:45 p. m.. Postponed from the 4th does it. Perhaps Smith may “believe | g00d corn. A few years ago I saw him | count of the rain. - | fireworks 8 p_ m. . in plenting his potatoes at the full of | turning over a new plece of sward for | The library was also open for In - 3 ed at the tables. As a token of ap- rse Ten Mile Professional the meon, or o the ebb of the tide, or | corn and got to talking with him about | spection. foomng to the heavy rains during the | reciation Mr. and Mrs. Nason were 2:30 Trot or Pace Purse $65 in rows made by & red-headed man,|it. No, he never had had corn on that|{ Candy, lemonade, and peanuts were BoneT to: Toeead flfioflh Was post- | presented a small package the con- Purse Three Mile Professional Side-Car driving & white horse behind a green | patch, and he didn’t know how 't'would on sale all day:in the entry of the|DPoned to Tuesday when the program |tents of which was ot disclosed. Running Race, |2 mile heats Pursuit Race marker. But what does he DO to nis | turn out. But he'd noticed where the | schoolhouse. NrerCirried out as far as possible. | Those presentfrom other places were Purse Purse 315 tatoes: How deep does he plow; | woodchucks had thrown out dirt that it| There were various sports on the o i gl n“ &M\Y two games of | Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Bellows and Mrs. Five Mile Professional Fifteen Mile Profession:: Bow much fertilizer doss he apply; | was about the same all over the piece, | church lawn during the afternoon. Brst wae aayed in the afternoon. The | Jane Smith of Brooilyn, N. Y., Dr. and Purse $55 Purse $90 what sort; how deep does he plant: | exceptin’ one leetle corner, down by the | ~Much of the success of the day was | "'=t Was een the local nine and a | Mrs. E. R. Storrs of Hartford, Mr. and e . y how does he cultivare; how doesihe|swamp, and it was jest about th esame | due to the untiring efforts of Mr. Bige- [Nine from Hartford campers at the | Mrs. Robert Thompson of Rocikville, Admission 35c MUSIC BY TUBBS’ BAND Boys 8¢ dig and grade? These and similar|sort o' dirt as that on the old Hatch [ low. lake. Eleven innings were played and | Fred Rosebrooke and family and F. G. guestions, always considering what |lot. sort of soil he hes to work on and with | you —these are of real interest and real | manure on that Hatch lot after hayin’ | ssociation, there ‘were no expenses; |leave. The second was a game by the | the Fourth with B. M. Sears. Mr, man who buys a book on “How to Week-end as the guest of his parents, L make $40,000 a year off 4,000 hens on - Mr. and Mrs. G. Amidan. As if what Bill Smith “believes” | Four Acres of land,” and starts out to | SOLowed by those of Mansfleld Ce: not a bit inclined to langh et the _Robert Amidan of Tolland, spent the smmc Hu Colonial Theatre “A THEFT IN THE DARK,” 3 Recls—Miriam Nesbit figuring Clambake at Home of Mr. and Mrs. rich keeping hens, with the book COLUMBIA 0. Nason on Wedding Annivers- and Mrs. O. B, : " n other hand, there's Old Hoskins: | o¢"Cojony Rights in 1774 and the ¥.| Uncle Horace Johnson’s poor spell | the 10th anniversary the line were horribles, a “Safety|Carrying out invited besides friends from other h and labeled “Jitney.” ly years. Fol- e the warade ba-Tadustrial and |1owing was the Drogram e arrarngcs: | neorlotie borse b of - Judge NORWICH FAIR GROUIDS . prepared a feast which was all that p. m.; Indlan council arill, 7:30 p. m.; | could be desired. Fully 75 were seat. 2‘”,]"" or Pace Five Mile Novice Three Tires He'd found by experience that if| Through the erosity of = various | the score stood 7 to 7 when the game | Nason of Willimantic. put on a good top dressin’ of stable | merchants and friends of the Library|Was called as the campers had to| A B. Cummings and family spent importance to Jones. and got & good, thick turf from it. then | therefore all the ninety odd dollars |locals and the Andover nine, assisted | Cummings went back o New Yoo MT. HOPE Rachel and Helen Packer, and Mr. Of course, we all have our beliefs. The man who has them may have a reason for them and may not. He may be courteously willing to satisfy he may resent it as offensive meddie- someness. ‘But, when it comes to farming methods, it isn't what he be- lHeves but what he accomplishes that the we're all properly interested in and|.;; o may often learn from. And, also of course, where a man’s bellef is founded on his experience of success, what he belleves certainly has an indirect bearing on the question of how he ?y turnin’ that turf under, kinder shal- | taken in goes to the Library treasury. by the athletics of chester on ac- | Monday night ;Mrs. Cummings will ow, Damanlee T e hatons tno| There was a family gathering at Mr. | Andover 2 to 1. e ed Camp Meeting at Danielson, for planted your com, so's *t you could and Mrs. George L. James', the Fourth.| Saw President’s Summer Home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Armstrong |2 feW dave. cover up se and manure at the same inothers curlosity concerning them, or | (01" 1% 370una by experionce that 1 | 2058, of Newington Mra. Adrian James G youdid tiue orl_the HAGD It you got L R bl ot g her parents, Mr, und Mrs. A Lo Feint | A. D. Palmer spent, the Fourth at|lrmed Sunday to her duties in Chap- um good corn ‘bout every time. Wa'll, o kA six, this patch seems to bo mighty near | Stearns and thiee sons of thie DIaCe |vijiicd with friends at the summer| B M. Sears and W. A. Weld were in |, 217 2nd Mrs. Albee entertained Mr. C 't bea Mr. apd Mrs. Smith of Branford |N. H, being shown about the house :ohoyd o e e rout %] spent a few days last week with the another triumph for “scientific farm- ing” TFor if ever a farm problem was called on Mrs. Bacon, Sunday afternoon. The Bird and the Aeroplane. Mr. Hawker has just broken a rec- ord by fiying to a height of 20,000 feet, and one looks around for a standard with which to compare the feat. The and Mrs. Ralph Church, Mr. and Mrs, |average English bird does mot as a Walter Church, Miss Lillian Hall and | rule go above 300 feet, and even when e Jesse Lee, Monday, July 5th. migrating he sticks nearer one thou- and premises by the caretaker and BOLTON Mr. and Mrs. Walter Church of |sand than two. A flight of wild geese next spring and puttin’ a good [ Family Gathering. count of limited time this was a five | remain a couple of weeks, and Myron inning game and resulted In favor of | Cummings will stay through the sam. | MIS Frank Larrow recently attend- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James and two % Mrs. Stella Shumway, who has been Miss Bessie Frink, booki and three sons of Roselle Park, N. Y., a frm in Windsor N, oorierper for | are visitors at the Lajess home. YNty S Al Texiu. wegk. sve. Mabel James, Mr. and Mrs. Robert lin. over the Fourth. Miss Frink recently | Wilafern. same sort of dirt and it lies about |2nd Miss Annette James, a grand- “ home of Presi, Palmer, Mass, Wednesday. same to the sun and he didn't see|child from New Jersey, = of dent Wilson at Cornish, esday latter’s sister, Mrs. Ayer. later seeing the president and partr West Hartford are spending July at|sometimes reaches 2000 feet, but not Mr. and Mrs. Marsh and daughter, |On their arrival at Windsor station, | p 2 Mrs. Jennie Bacon' invariably. But no aviator has yet Elsie, spent the weekseid at Danielson, | Which is also the Cornish station. Miss | oy °f $18 From Dance—New |Mrs Jennle Bacon's @ e York has |outdistanced the Mghost s o Ie Nohioges “that susocess. Frobably the |aPProached in a more truly ecientific | Flsle spent the weekrend Frink returned to Windsor, Tuesday.| Fastor for Congregational Church | ;") 1 "Fomily at the Youna's home- | great condor of. the- Andes i, abie {0 guestion is based on this somewhat spirit than Old Hoskins approached Miss Eunice Buchanan is spending a Taken Seriously 1l The dance ziven by the members of | St€ad- attain a height of 27,000 feet.—London this pasture iot, I haven't heard of it 3 roundebout ratiocination in a good| g "ol applying the general principles | Part of the summer months in Maine Miss Harrlett K. Porter has returned | the Bolton Hall Association in the Mr. and Mrs. E. B Packer, Misses | Chronicle. cases. Now, having thus expressed m: derived from his accurate and exact and Vermont. from a two week’'s stay at Sllver Bay | hall last Saturday evening was largely Miss Bessie Learned left last week |ana a visit with ~ friends o Sases) knowledge of the Hatch lot to the de- attended and a profit of eighteen dol- : -~ P Y | velopement of a crop on the similar |for Massachusetts, where she Jfliflme{d chusetts. lars made. Music was tusrnl:hed by spinion that neither my “belief” nor| sidehill lot. He wasn't acting “by |2 touring party to the Panama ~| . The pulpit was occupied last Sun- Lyman’s orchestra of Columbia. Fred- sny other man's “belief” about dis-|guess and by gosh:” he was following | hiDitlon. day by Rev. Frederick M. Holister, | erick S. Doane was prompter. puted farming principles is of much ourselves, I'm perfectly willing to| But swer my inquirer's good-natured Y strictly sclentific lines, doing a job of | MI. Leon Shaw and Miss Helen Ofin, | formerly of North Stonington. It will] Michael Sherid. h ved his Emue-.l importance to others besides | scientific farming, in a scientific way, | Of Hartford spent Sunday and Monday | be occupled next Sunday by Rev, E. §:| family. from . South Manchester to I didn't tell him so. He hates the | With Miss Olin’s parents. Sanborn of Dover,, Mass. ) Among the visitors in town for the their farm in town. COMFORTS THE SKIN 1| very mention of scientific farming so c roh. Mr. and Mrs. William Legate of | o you believe n scientific farming?” | hitterly that, it he had suspected him. | Fourth were Mr. Chapin and family| = Campers at Chu Hartford and Mrs. Louise Hellar of self of falling into It ‘or into the same | ffom Hartford, Willlam Reed Della| SHEPs Was a large attendance at|Chicago, spent the first of the week as oS ok e Sounty with 3t he would have stopped |En0 of South Coventry, Harold Wy- g cf service last Sun- his Alvord's. D eant by “mclantific farms| Dom't get the Idea that all ‘science | $hop, are enjoying a week’s vacation. |man of Brooklyn, N. Y. who with his Ve ey be Gifferent from my under- |1s confinel botwesn the covers of books | , MF. and Mrs. George Wyman and|fumily is ccupying the house of D. S At 5 . jtanding of What it means. €0, before|and admit that there s a Iot of it in|Grece are visiting Mrs ~—Wyman's|A. Lyman near the Lake for a few |1 Shenoins o faw weeks at Andrew you begin sneering at me as a “doctrin-{ such quarters and 1 think the farmer |f8ther and sister in Southbridge, Mass. | days. 3 e hire” or a “theorist,” and before I be- | who doesn’t take advantage of it all, pin denouncing you as an old fagy and L stick-in-the-mud, let's agree on a Bofinition it wo can. Tm. wiltiog to]dice. But there ls aiso & 1ot of It in | her niece, Miss Iva Croker of Paw-|north shore of the Lake. e 'Webster; are you? Very well,|the ‘here goes: Science, according to the veracious and wise Noah of dic- Henary fame, 1s “Knowledge—the com- prehension and understanding of truth ts—truth rrlnciplel." etc. “Scientific farming,” ley. fleld with & tool again. Having Vacation. Ao S e amant ik Solo was finely | “Ners. Loutse Jewett and son of Dlowing and never touched ’the|man and Blanche Hallihan. day. Many campers and summer vis- [ SUcSts of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Fin- rendered by Miss Wiley of H The people that work in Mr. Kirby's | The organ was played by Hawaed Yo | Hartford are visiting at Samuel M. Miss Mabel Casazza of- New York Miss Josle Larkham has returned| Parties from East Brimf Mass., New Pastor, after spending a week in Danielson. |are occupying the m;fl&. just | Rev., Willlam Bessehlevre of Wor- -| Mrs. Emily Larkham is entertaining |erected by Madison Woodward on the | cester, Mass. is soon to move into the local parsonage, having been engaged Hubert Little of Meriden has been the Congregational Club Officers. sp;}ldlna (:h;‘ ‘week with lde. ghhuvea. r. an rs. George amplin P e et ot e | have returned from a visit with thelr | at Charles N. Loomis'- following officers were elected: Presi- | d2ughter. Mrs Herbet Oschlers, at| Mrs. H. W_Howell of Marion was dent, Miss Elsie Marsh; firet vice- | Newark N. J, calling on Bolton friends the first of president, Harold Storrs: second vice- | Miss Edith Little of Springfleld has |the week. Mrs. Howell was a former president, Grace Wyman; treasurer, | Péen spending a few days with rela- |resident of this place. ding to sclence | Stedman Storrs; secretary, Lucy |tives here. Mrs. Elmer Ellsworth Grumman of accumulated wisdom of practical | tucket, R. L BCCOT hen, would seem to be simply farming | —the best science possible for us. Do |Payne. Ralph Anthony was elected In New Summer Home. Naugatuck was a recent guest of Mrs. \ccording to knowledge duly arranged | you ind referred to general truths and|bur principles. know that it’s “sour” without buying a lunch was e ook of litmus paper end testing 7| o & saidin There’s an awful lot of poppycock|It may have-taken me several years to suppose, after living with my Wil- | chairman of athletics with the help of | Mr and Mrs. Eibert C. I Louise A. Carpenter. meadow for twenty years, I don't|Charlie Robinson and Chapfleld. After | Straight Univessity New Orloars acr " ar- rived, in town last € o o MANSFIELD spend the summer here. Mr. Little STAFFORD took Dossession of the property re-| The Gurleyville Sunday school pic- S cently purchased from Mr. De Buys|nlo was held Saturday July 8rd, on Picnic and Other Social Affairs—Holi- |2nd Will occupy the same during his|H. E. Simond's lawn. Luncheon was | day Visitors in Town. stay. served at one o'clock, after which a Tall Rye. very pleasant afternoon was spent in | . 'W. Rolltnso; urchased A, T. Frink exhfbits stalks -of rye |Taces and games. i ST W, Somssn bis X ®|from his feld which measure seven | Miss Allieen Fuller of Hartford has | Miss Ruth Larned is home from |feet and nine inches. been visiting her brother, Charles, of | e os Bacn T Tond At e e place A & - fiiena from | ee is spending a week o with friends In Westford. We¥ |at the Tipper summer home, near the | Hartford, spent the Fourth with Mr. S ariaetn ot Mroans Mes T Gy, irand Mrs, Theodors A. Lyman of “Charies 3. Fuller of Hanks Hi is = ar, T, an . 1 3 2 COMFORT PO’ William Black’ of Brookiyn: N. 7 1a Sevaral |confined to his home by @ sprainea| FHE WDER CO., Boston. Mass., xas&355 5o, s guest of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Mrs, Lyman’'s parents, anide. The grounds about the Riverside Is Time Keeper. Bertha Fuller of ) mills have been much improved bY| Horacs Little is emploved as time|> iy ;eu o oot T Louise m f Mansfi Mrs. Nella on and Anne Fen- | tion Company which is buflding the | sr ki, section of state road between this - ing place and Willimantie. New York spending their vaca- 261 MAIN STREET, NORWICH Teester | Eugene Ochler, 15, son of Mr. and|tion with the formers mother, Mrs. N‘B.'nmm ms%munxaeth- the |- Hanks is very 5 was o ua of the X his ‘Windbam High school. 9, 9. e o iz Miss Annle Phillips, Miss Dobson i PO . » - H iy 5 T ) Lo e M e e Ruberoid ™ or “Ru-ber-oid " as the trade name of the Stand- “fi“m"x?m‘“"&“‘“m P. Collins in d in athletics, wheretobuyaswellaslmomngwhatm buy' Day ’ ard lfmt.Co.n.:dnmdxmgroofinzoftharn:anufm Rev. m:t lér:l._lH. A Ticesny and oo | Earold ‘v’;oocvel‘rrd‘,d Boye 100 y3. dnah: after da’ more swm find fl'is’ fl|° store of o sy s e o the s me o B of hae [l |5 Bt B ine, o | . 31, e e S Giegn's Sulphur ; : Al » iion in business. Thereis only one | Wainesdes and Thursass. *>7 125t CHISE 20, o, ST St | 7 value;! Convince yourself. : i BTt the holiday with his wife snd danen an of Canter ter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bray. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holden e Dresses, and family of Bondsville were also many years . mwuh 1;”!" styles, in materials—$ Successful Picnie. and fireworks. $150 Chiffon ‘Excelleht new Walsts— The Universalist outing held at|¥ent off but the Indian failed to show ' e s 5 i park last Satur up, OBITUARY. nine was Miss Eila Curti the Scouts by & score of 11 10 Tor oo was Home from South.