Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 24, 1915, Page 12

28 jpecially for The Bulletin.) } I can control the stinking squash bugs 1 (wé‘::lt::hs! me I mever knew a year | by hand-picking their esgs and when bugs and weeds were so plenty [ping them at night under old shin. ! as they have been thus far this sea- | gles. But the cutworms tunneled un- ' son. der the covers and we had to, g0 over The tent caterpillars may have been | the whole half acre and dig ‘em out; as bad, last spring, as they were this, | from one to four at every. Aint but with that single exception the other insect hordes have thus far been inaugurated last spring on the gar- den ‘Warsaws of my neighborhood! 'mo vicit than-us- | fighting the worms and bugs and bee- i PSR T > e, tho weeds were. growing .as I = 5 never m.dw them grow before. uxfnat& Talk about the German drive on |BTass an quack-grass; SUNTERTREILIL: S Warstws fia. miildness and innocence | PIEWeed; pusley and planeain; chick- compared with the drive the cutworms o diient o fiflsuse;se sz, a.nxud "Wfld buckwheat—whew! but didn't they In_ the meantime, while we were flourish! Not a bug nor a beetle nor Ror e e, invasion seam imitea | Sourihl” et & bug hor & ool noe e st ot e country. o far |of them. When we finished cuttig as I can hear, it was pretty nearly from our bed of only two as) 3 thousand roots, we hoed up and {gontinent-wide, I resd of extensive | (PRI 09, 0 208 o oads. ot ot Maine farmers feeling dis- | chickweed. It's heaped in a big pile ey it at one side and I'm hoping with the | Couraged on account of thelr ro S |aid of salt sprinklings to get it to rot irecent date notes that “never before were So many cutworms known in this state” ' We Have always had them more or = out by his attention from his weed and bug pest into harmlessness, 1 don’t se that I've been picked '?ap:anio majesty for special less plentiful in the corn land, though | this year. Doubtless T'm just one of » never so bad but they could be hunt- £ ‘ed down and dug out when hoeing the young shoots. This year they began F by absolutely .destroying my young a good many thousand poor farmers who have been having very similar experiences. It really begins to look as if we lants got | must fight a desperate war of self- gaozngfidéh’etlgrgo'&hea;gn&eg;n T)?:y defense to save anything whatever in seemed to appear suddenly, overnight as it were, in all parts of the bed and had eaten off fully nine-tenths of the e | fon crop is ruined hopelessly, my; cab- plants before we really knew what| 0o B0 5 tomatoes and vines are g three or four weeks behind-hand, be- out, and poisoning them with bran- X bait. But, while both schemes helped | C2use of bug and worm damage; corn has not yet half recovered the set- some, neither controlleq the pests. I've back of - colt: " han! . June, "They ‘was happening. We tried digging tham had to tear up the bed and sow it to the way of crops. Here it is, the last of July. My on- fodder corn, in order to get some use used to say that from the heavy manuring: applied to it ,This is the first time in 20 years’ ex- perience raising onions that I ever knew a cutworm to injure them. TI've had onion-maggots and onion rust “A cold-wet May Makes a barn-full of hay.” ‘That's the sort of May we had this and various other onion pests to fight, | Past spring. But my bay isn't a half- but & cutworm invasion of the strons | <rob. Nor have I yet seen or heard of smelling bed was something new and 2Dy neighbor who is getting better. wholly unlooked for. It's pretty late to sow corn, even for flea-beetles appeared im, swarms and fodder. But that's what some of my At the same time the little black | f2ITving friends have got to do to clouds. They finished up my radishes | "ith, Text winter. : In short order, attacked the early tur- nips, and for a week, in spite of Rainy days and evenings I've been cprayings and dustings, ate every lit- | trying to study up ways to save my tlo lettuce sproutling off the minute |life from the weeds and insects, next It pricked through the soil, They also | season. So far as I can make out, the attacked cabbage, caulifiower and cel- | strategy of weed fighting may be sum- ory plants in the seed beds, so that|marized under three main heads:— for a time it seemed doubtful if a |preventing them from going to seed on single one would be left. the farm; preventing weed-seeds from Later, when we began to set out being brought on to the farm; and, the saved femnant of the _cabbage | thirdly, starving out the roots of per- plants, the cutworms went for them |ennial weeds by preventing their tops nt the apparent rate of about two worms to one cabbage. In order to from making any growth. ‘The first thing is possible. We can Eet twelve hundred plants to grow we | keep our own weeds from going to to set over three thousand. And |seed in our cultivated fields, if we are I mixed and applled beside those |willing to spend enough time and labor plants and the tomatoes about a hun- | at the task. dred pounds, of the poisoned bran-bait But how we are going to prevent —had to, to save any at all. the birds and the winds from annually re-sowing our farms with weed seeds Tomatoes, too, you'll observe. The |produced on our neighbors fields is very day we set our first tomato plant | another proposition. —Dbig, . handsome, : thrifty, pot-grown And how we are going to find time fellows, many of them a foot high and | and opportunity to go over our ‘pas- budded, the old hard-shelled potato- | tures and brush-lands and mow or bugs began to chew their leaves off, | chop off the seventy and seven varie- and the sneaking, underground cut- |ties of wild peremnials which infest ‘worms to cut them off at the stems. \Again, this was new to me. T've had them is still another proposition. For the life of me I can’t figure any to fight Colorado beetles on tomatoes |plan which makes either of th before. And I've occasionally had a |things feasible. 8 very small plant bitten off by = cut- worm. But to have them cut off by the dozen when the stalks were as|simmers down to As to the bugs and worms, it just : that we've all big as my little finger and about as|got to fit ourselves out with veritable “woody” as young chesinut trees—|drug stores of poisons, and arsenals well, we all have to live and learn new [of blow-guns and spraving devices, things. This was a new thing to me. |and fight to the death for everything Next thing | knew the cucumber | we have planted or sown. and melon vines were wilting. Cut- worms again, drat 'em! I can keep ‘Someone advises fall plowing as a off the striped hbeetles With home- |means of checking cutworms. That cones of wire mosquito netting. | luckless onion bed of mine was fall- Men’s greatness is measured, not by the things they promise to do, but by what they accomplish. Soitiswithanthingsinflxiswofld.;, Many men have announced their inten- tion of doing greater things with -electricity than Edison has promises that in many cases are never fulfilled. 1 More than 99% of all Diamond Tires exceed the service that is promised for" them, That comes pretty near giving'yois_absolute , * ty. [Equip your car with Diamonds at these - *“FAIR-LISTED” PRICES: LT Tread Feon, ‘| age did when they were boys of the Rev. William J. McGurk of Man- - Mary Pickford » Mistress Nell IDOL OF THE SCREEN IN A CELEBRATED FIVE-PART ROMANTIC PLAY e — Little Mary is Assisted By Owen Moore and an Excellent ofsavhing | § WONDERFUL SETTINGS ~ INTENSELY INTERESTING : Other Reels Will Also Be Shown S BANKS AND CHURGHES | BBt m i e st o Today—THE PARISIAN GIRLS, Musical Comedy Co. 13—PEOPLE—13 5E ol %EAFE L gsg; 31 i fis: i i i : sebe 0 NEW LONDON’ Boys of the Old Days and the Present,. AVlSTss‘?GfADW»“Y 'm'%:z;}& l : A Tt this month of July at Bargain Prices. THE BOTTOMLY TROUPE .. 5o, Tt is not so mam: that wspapers told of the rowdyism and | If you are in the market see this FEATURE ? s m""'m""" "Master Picture of the ’n’oe-?’»nx.' 5:15123‘:: e:gc?n: nt.:e act of rowdies. It developed that PICTURE THE QUES With Margarita Fischer to fight | stock at new banking house and the change |one of the boys actually offered gh THE HIRED GIRL .. - Rural Drama With Teddy Sampson the result was four new bank buildings, bs became contas ellow they termed as a squealer, ;;t:uwz : otiaings e THE L L Co. THEY RAN FOR MAYOR . A Screaming Funny Comedy oving. the” epidemic ot new CHAPMAN € icholflho';luea. which-mnu;m &llxntl Nav'; fi%" \m:xt .tge mzméz;'tm . COMING MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY ondon a8 now as e school an e recelv police - Btk Gubaings Py Bath . DIRECT FROM Bein. Mo fha chaint bare. BE| D il v o ¥ e 14 Street, Norwich, Ct. keirhs, soston 7 COLONIAL BELLES the bullding trall. The Second Con-|bouy 'that the police regulations were : SEVEN PRETTY GIRLS IN A HIGH-CLASS MUSICAL OFFERING gregational church has nearly been not as strict in New London in the MUTUAL g IN FOUR doubled in size, The First Baptist : Church s belng rebullt and enlarged, | S0Y® When they were boys, or perhaps| JOSEPH BRADFORD MASTER MAN’S PREROGATIVE 5% The Montauk avenue Baptist church | 16V Would Bave Bk I0 tae EEnesah PICTURE FEATURING THE GREAT ACTOR, ROBERT EDESON being constructed to replace the 1 Siice Gesten 1i A e BOOK BINDER MUTUAL WAR WEEKLY || KEYSTONE COMEDY fice destroyed by fire, and the Third | that for a boy to wander beyond his Baptist and Methodist church socie- Matinee 230, 10. Children Sc. Evening, 7 and 845, 10c, 150, 200 territorial boundary on & Summe ties are contemplating the enlargement and improvement of their churches.|liSht- perhaps for a stroll with bis Blank Books Made and Ruled to Order Sunday girl, who happened to be a This is taken as indication that the | o i5t%, €% JTI0 SERRIREq B on, 108 BROADWAY growth of religion is in keeping With| nean: o scrap every time, with the the general growth of the-city. - . lady in the case a witness. Then the offender would drum up his gang and In the long, long ago, some fellow | wait for the other fellow and the wrote of the little drops of water mak- | trick was returned. Very often there ing the mighty ocean, and perhaps|Were pitched battles between boys re- for + of City Water—J. B. Herreschoff’s Visit to This City— Colonial Theatre this little early day rhyme had some- | siding in different sections of the town, o e Do i e L L el e ol el Mary Pickford Appearing in “THE TWISTED TRAIL” thing to do with the commendable and | Sometimes by previous arrangement - e’ &ahe.ps netce?zty c':cumt; mker;u 'bty ;’:&1 f;:;rw:irr:s;:w:ge1yedtncmge;x‘:: gg,:r-l;l.s.fi:!t:.u:"(‘gy,r-;uu:').LiunbinA “'E::,.,‘#:T; Tu!'oszsixj ater worl 0 o - - e D e O T e 0] or Towiien, nor takea in by the soies.| Automobile ‘and Furniture Monday—4 Reels, “SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL,” with Alice Joyce order a stoppage of leaking of a drop | It seemed to be a custom of the time f e ime, for in th ate | and many of the yeal good boys of the M H of mater st 8 tme, Tor In the et | o e a1 | Automobile SlipCovers drops wasted would equal the mighty | But times and conditions have changed - Lake Konomoc in magnitude. An in- |since the old men of today were boys, at Factory Prices spector is now making the rounds of | but they were not a whit better be- FLAGSHIP OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Built in the Navy Ya tects and Archaeolog Spain, from the o:ifl Phivats, residences and it tne Toucets | haved thgn the bose of e vresent| JOSEDH ANGARANO h’ anniversary leaves a warning to the effect that if | fleet-footed, however, because it took these leaks are not stopped within ten | a -pretty swift cop to catch one of 258 Franklin Street days a meter will be placed on the | those old-time boys, and the man who premises at the expense of the house | caused the issuance of a warrant for | Telephone 311-5 owner. In order to escape this un- |the arrest of a michievous boy of that nece!:ary expens:, the sfirvlce of the | period was a poor politician. plumber is sought and little washers are put into place and the faucets STAFFORD leak no more. Therefore the plumbers| The antics of these boys have been —e a.ralbeneficia.rlelsfl of m? lnspect‘:ondas ::_f:rhkd' ::“: ths_ ~ ':.:r:' -ur;: e :t:: Phoenix Woolen Mill Opens After Va- well as the public at large, who de- i illi Sire that ail possible steps be taken to|compared. with a stiff game of poker.| Sation—Grangers Accept Willingtan prevent a water famine. In some|Suppose the boys of today, that is| Invitation. houses visited by the inspector, leak- | S0me of them, did the tricks their age has been ordered stopped under daddies did, do you suppose they would Miss Ethel Rollin..son of S:Ailem, penalty of a meter, that would actually | Pe released on payment of a fine in the | Mass., is spending the summer vaca- Amount to the waste of a quart of|Dolice court, in the event of arrest?|tion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Water in forty-nine hours. But a quart| NO. These old time boys, were not| W. Rollinson. - of water here and a quart of water |content to speak to an unaccompanied Mill Vacation Ends. there, is even greater than the little | Woman or to bzttac;( {mdthofler mtflgfi" n"wmg' m:"_ ::"ua‘ o At some other boy, bul ey actually 4 H drops of water that make the mighty | JIC O alderman In eMey; just be. | Phoentx Woolen Company closed their || An Educational Feature ADM!SSION loc — cause as chairman of the public|plant the first two weeks in July, giv- Don’t Miss It In ¢l connection, attention called property, he planted the trees that now | ing the employes an opportunify lol’l again to the co“fi'"uou. waste of a adorn Williams park, and caused its|a vacation, and in the meantime do- large quantity of water at the Hebe abandonment as a baseball fleld. Not | ing necessary repairs in the mill. They arianing fountain, at the juncion of | Content with this, they posted motices | resumed operations Monday. Truman and_Bank streets. That |2l over the town that read: *J.B. C. Crowds Hear Concert. : Beware!” The initials of the name fe'i‘;}'::ay“?m]‘,’s“m‘;e;:‘_‘e"{ ;““:fi;u{:"i:’:fi‘;t of the offending alderman. And this| There was a large crowd at Hyde e STEAMER BLOCK ISLAND 30557 SF long period, but the basin has been was hung from the limb of a|Park Sunday evening to the concert r iarge elm tree in State street, opposite | given by the Italian band. T A s et et thos| Main. It was put up at night and re-| Many members of Stafford grange an monument than in any five hundred | ™&ined until noon of the, next day,|are to visit Willington grange next residences that have been visited by | viem it was cut down by Louis Man- | Friday evening, when that grange will the inspector. It would be all right iere, the auctioneer, who sold caké and | observe Children's Night. Norwich, Conn, of Cadiz, Spain, bz the Naval Archi- s appointed by ti government of nal drawings of the Santa Maria for the landing of Columbus in 1892. ~ Over 4,000,000 peeple visited this ship at Chicago in 1893 Now Showing at the Foot of Shetucket and Market Sts. For Five Days Only, Commencing Thursday, July 22, 1AM to9P. M. was ~ | ples and lemon beer. That same tree Miss Lottie Hatch spent last week A.M. A M. P.M. P. M. g;heinw%i}fl’;lams ::3?( e xl?k;h(elef:ou‘::- was later girdled, and, so it was said, | with friends in Waterbury. Norwich ..... Lv. *855 *#9.15 | Block Island . Lv. *2.15 #9245 tive fountains, but the Hebe fountain by the father of one of New London’s Mrs, 1. P. Bocth is the guest of her New London . 1025 1045 | Watch Hill I ity riniking Dlace for horses | ROW leading citizens, and he was never | cousin, Miss L. S. Cady, of Monson. | Watch Hill ... 1130 12.00 | New Londo and the water would supply the needs | feferred to as a gangster or a rowdy,| Mr. and Mrs. Harris have returfied | Block Island . 105 130 | Norwich . nor were the fellows who hung the | after two weeks' outing at Quaker Komomoe very much more than a drop | alderman 1n efMgy. These little mat- | Hill. from a house faucet, that would not|ters were treated as boyish pranks.| Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Hassett of Y e ordinary drinking glass in four | Of another occasion a bunch of boys, | Holyoke spent the week-end with Mrs. hours, That Hebe fountain ought to|DNOt classed as gangsters or rowdles, | Nella Weston. be inspected. in those good old days, hoisted a| Frederick Glover is spending a week ‘:}‘ll:fyw;: ttrl‘“:n ';:)r:m 2: dfl:; l‘i:erty pole | with th;‘ family of William Walbridge ; e parade, |at Old Mystic. The death of John B. Herreshoff, | since removed to the front of the | Miss Mabel Colburn is home after the blind boat builder of Bristol, R. I., t i\ le. < iaE . om who designed and constructed ths | have Improved Since You lmlg::a two weeks' visit with relatives and fastest sailing craft that ever floated, | young, Maggie. 3 g}::&!n :‘:r;’ew Haven, Hartford and recalls a visit of Mr. Herreshoff to New s vt R London more than a quarter century it Hettad - 3 and family of Holyoke have been en- aso. Ho came aboard the Siiletto, Tolland County o e I e Bl s in the TUnited States, and afterwards ‘f'gp 1 % George Kingsbury. added to the navy and was among the R 5 Bont ot the. torpeds bonts. “The mulc| 22+t BOLTON etto had been launched but a hort SPRING HILL time and had not been turned over to|Casé of Ptomaine Poisoning—M. ¥ = the navy department, and came to New | Carrier French Ill—Catholic Cate-| The bell on the Baptist church, TRAVELERS’ DIRECTORY - London on a builders’ trip. The Stil-| chigm Class Held Sundays. which has been destitute of a clapper- Hfl.l'mofly m flle Home etto came néglnfiulde ;he c\:stcm hou:e it spring Tor some time thereby interfer- wharf, so-called, and naturally at-| polton friends were In South Man- | ing largely with the vibration, is about tracted considerable attention, espec- ‘ % . et o e Sirontion. gopec| chester last week Friday attending the [ to be supplied with a new one. This(1$1. TO NEW YORK $1 Rests with the Cook funeral of Mrs, Emily H. Norton. will be greatly appreciated, as the bell of her great speed. Naturally, among 1 e e e town 1o ranYinamonE | Little Margaret Franceshina is home | has a rich tone. CHELSEA LINE e e dlonty omssatheser % P | from a Hartford hospital, where she| A party of young people from Spring *Daily, except Sundays SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and F ridays, July 7 to September 3rd WATCH HILL R2fan | BLOCK ISLAND &75a Adults, 50c; Children, 250 Adults, 75¢; Children, 400 Shore Dinner. Houses and Bathing Beach near landings at Watch Hill and Block Island. For further information, party rates, apply at office of company on Shetucket Wharf, Norwich. NEW ENGLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY C. J. ISBISTER, Afent *+Sundays only underwent an operation for appendi- |Hill is camping at Mason Island. FREIGHT AND PASSENGER The best natured person in the T} Sewatateimen . This chip mas ] HUE. MK AL D, Ralér “Snd’ two Smel) e e W S PorKk ]| worla will get grouchy siaving over a e ott for Tt He aonies| Willlam R. Grant is improving and | children are at Vernon for a few days. NO! coal or wood fire, S e et o e e wante up the middle of the week. He|Leona and Muriel Palmer have been From Norwich Tuesdays, Thurs- Make-thie o ve te Wilchen O B o O e ot hog Craft, to- | bic been very ill with ptomaine pois- | staying at Alanweld in the meantime || days. Sundays at 5.15 p. m. . of e ESistoL” The reporter’ aueried the | “TinE: and agtending the summer school at || New York, Brookiyn Bridge = | Willam R. French {s il with|Storrs. er, East iver, £0o osev. R i oo rict aud hol vealaria. Mrs. James Church of New Haven || Street, Mondays, Wednesday, Fri- Modern Gas Range :fisd":n&n mm"‘s atr.thee:;;seroefld 0‘; Mail Carrier OFf Duty. has recently been a visitor at the|jdays, at 5 p. m. the wharf” The reporter made his| -nrre Merritt, Bolton's rural mail s'{,‘;‘,;‘;,?‘};’“c:“'g::,'n:”:;& Baates V. KNOUSE, Agent ; GAS IS A TIME-SAVER Busnges e ot e, s, S 41| 5 Tom Mndgver T ol it B | sl of Harioed Save-vecn Viting (| §T. TO NEW YORK S || Moot 088,08 7%s" (o ofa™s inting in Tegard to the then famous oy and his father Is substl- | Mrs. Sarah and Miss Ethel Freeman. : match and the firs is ready. Blitetto: = sty S O Rev, J. W, Payne of Jewett City and e Vo e S S N s = !2s Fryer of Providence, R. I, | Misn Olive Johnson of Bridgeport have ~% at Mrs. . Jane Finley's. o v, Kitchen and a joy to the Cook. Mr. Herreshoff shook hands with *:n ™~ W. C. Besselievre is spending a | Teemury Becnn, — [0F® &t the home o Order now before the Summer rush. 4 ge LR L We are aiso headquarters for Hum- reporter at the end of the intervirv. 3 n Worcester, Mass. Most of the farmers in this viginity Gas Arcs, bac end remarked: “Glad you calle’ cx. “ir: R. B. Dow of Hartford and|report a very light crop, and it has Hehie and Huud and Voican Task me as it is a pleasure for me t . "= Henry Osborn of Manchester N.|peen difficult to harvest it on account ~ Water Heaters. news to- the press, and especia ‘o are with their brother, W. R.|of unfavorable weather. & such a little fellow as von are. n : in Bristol call and s e rce Loomis of New York Basket Picnic. years later the reporter d:d call and |is : harles N. Loomis’s. s e See the great boat builder After a| Riigglen du tnilar | o Eueioe T otslembens cf the W< few words had been spoken, and no he guest of friends|pienic at “Wildfern” last week Fri- reference made to the New London day. The ‘adies here were also in- lndd;m 'i\{dr,tllen'cqmfi ga'&A “Glad | Willlam K. Sumner. sori Andross|yiteq. % you have kept your word and called on |and daughter, Miss Dorothy Sumner, Laa Soct 2 me; I cannot recall your pame, but|of Rockville, were recent guests af d:;;f:'.t “‘::B:;du“ chfifl’,"]‘:n.;fl. you-are the young man who asked me | Mr. Sumner's mother's, Mrs. Jane B.|gey evenin about the Stiletto when in New Lon- | Sumner's. =2 F don with the boat to give the govern- | Robert Loomis and family of West- artford. Comn. Soone Ineectora. ODPOEtanIty. Lo Jook | felt Srane e ST Hia e THE DEL - HOFF I apologize for not com- her over. Mr. ‘and Mrs. Willlam H. Loomis, SPECIAL TO WOMEN ; PIANO OWNERS, NOTICE! European Plan plimenting you on the nice write up Mrs. A. M. Sper and daughter, You gave my boat, and if not too late, | Mise A, E. Sperry of Rockville, are|The most economical, cleansing and Rates 78 ooik oy el S If you will communicate with " Aot i « HAYES BROTHERS. W. L. WHITE, Pianc Tuner, permit me to thank you now.” The|in town for a week's stay. of all antiseptics is Teporter was givemn the freedom of the Mrs. E. E. Fordyce of New Milford Telephone 1227. 26-28 Broadway of TAFTVILLE, he will give you a new proposition in to taking - germi plant. It showed the remarkable mem- | and nephew, Trueman Bigzelow of the L4 ory of Mr. Hereshoff, for he met the|West, are visiting at Mrs. Louls H. reporter only once before, ten years|TLevey's. had elapsed, and he readily recalled o care of your pianoc. . . . Community Silver Miss W. G. Carpenter is at Exeter All Latest Designs At the incident upoh recognizing the| Pond, th it of Mr. d Mrs. Wil- voice of the reporter. liam . Alvord of Manchester Green. |A soluble Antiseptic Powder THE WM. FRISWELL CO., 25-27 Franklin Strest ° The City of Norwich Gas and Electrical Dep't 321 Main St., Alice Building A et 1| yArthur Carpenter of Watervleft, N. ¢ veek, several [ v endi is vacation with DR. ALFRED RICHARD: young fellows, residents in the north- [ mother. Mrs. Loulse A. Carpenter bl: RI S west section, have been. referred to as|the Birch House at the Center, T gangsters and rowdies, just for doing Eaiholic Bundy Serules DEN T1S what the daddies of other boys of like Y. E in treating catarrh, inflamma nose,” throat, and : past generation. It appears that one |chester is holding catechism class each Tha; B 305 young chap happened to speak to the | Sunday during the summer at the yer lliuillg, Room For ten wrong lady efter nightfall, and he was | Center. ‘has Telephone 488-2 mozmmd fined in m‘:]' lice court. Suffrage Meeting. That e night, one of ‘witnesses inst the boy was attacked by some of the fellow’s associates, and the 'whole bunch weré taken into custody |1