Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 25, 1915, Page 12

; Considering sthe a: gt we, frmeys Eet: {r%e"had nothing o and;get-gich.. - .o LR Considering the “amount,” I said. ~ Considering the character and -qual. ity of some of it, the wonder is great- er that don’t more of us bring up on the poor-far: o g nt -of ~advice Heve, for example, is.a hunk of wis- dom which T've jlst cut out of ia wide- ly circulated paper, ostensibly devoted to farm and garden ‘instruction: - “Cutworms eam: be kept away from’ voung plents by:a-simple device. A strip of stiff paper four inches wide pyshed: two inches down in a éircle srofind a‘young plant will keep off the cutworm.” - St Well. 1:should say. so! Sounds “about as.-easy-as the 'tradi tional rolling off. a-log. Let’s: se6 how it would work out n practical gardening: — 2 Last spring my small onion-bed ‘was attacked by glordes of cutworms. How easily T Could have’saved it, had: I only had this plece .of concentrated wisdom before.me. . Assuming« that .I./ little onions. to. an :inch I apart, that would have:left 18 plants to .the foot—1,300 to each hundred foot row. -There were 28 such rows, some- thing over 50,000 Httle onions in all Allowing four inches by two for each Strip of stiff paper and one strip 1o each onion this'would have’called for 2;800--square’ feet of paper, all cut up beforéhand” into” 18" piéces 'to the square foot. Now, assum at, my onion-patch with my 50,000 pieces of stiff paper, four inches by two, afready cut ‘and.peatly’ stacked on_several wheelbarrows, what next? Nothing,, more to.do but -pull. the weeds, ghin the o{llnns to an inch and 2 half ‘apart, “voll ‘the papers. up and, push one two inches down into the dirt . around. ‘each onion. Practical experiment with twelve suoh ‘pleges of actyal : paper. around actual plants.on.actual dirt has shown me that I can “do” just about tem plafits in ‘two minutes, if I'don’t have to. waste any time ing flies away or wiping the sweat out of my eves. In other words, i I had the paper all ready and a boy to ‘earry it along the rows for me, I could ‘protect the bed in the short space of.10,000 minutes, or 166 2-3 hours, or abeut 16 1-2 days. Of course, thinning the onions and pulling the weeds. would increase this estimato. somewhat. But why drag in any.refarence..to.such matters in a captious spirit? 5 It might, also, seem almost ‘indecent to suggest that some of those 16 days might be rainy. is it worth _mentioning, .of that the worms compietely destroyed : my. bed in two nights and ne ‘day, or 15°2-3, days before.I could 276 :got o the last rows with my pa- pers. _Still, I don't thini there would have’been much praetical 'good’in “pro- tecting” the plants in those last rows, fter they-had been 15 2-3 days dead. So ‘muth’ for ‘one “simple” plan. It is-only -a sample of scores and hundreds of others which are being | printed . or farmers’-fnstitut-ed at us unfertunate dirt-workers and bug- flghtarses aony © 7 . *f A fow years ags I asked &' man who was touring the farmers' institutes in my Vicinity &8 -a “garden éxpert” how it was possible in our climate to raise early’ muskmelons, .. He answered the question with a bored air of cock- sureness, much as if I had asked him how . to, speil “hoo.”. “Plant the secds ht seem .as do but follow it g that | Have arrived.| frame. till danger: of frost ‘and then transplant:sod, y ‘and- all -int6 the open in the spare time he could find in building supports alongkide to keep the heavy tiles from blowing over in high winds, or tumbling over when undermined by :‘splurging thunder-showers and breaking hi plants down. I’'ve often heard it said that you could always start up plenty of game. in any‘old woods—if you hadn't any gun: --n - Most anybody can sit on my fence in white -flannel - trousers and patent leather shoes' and a’ Panania ‘hat; and tell me how to do my work bettér and easfer. At least,-most everyone thinks he can; No doubt, too; they mean wéll by their advice, - :But, somehow, they do talk write an awful lot of tommyrot: and There-are a good many of us real farmers. who- also_get into -the -habit of peddling our advice around a trifle too freely and a good deal too cheap- |lyv. We get accustomed ‘to our own fields and our own, crops and our own barns and. our own. ways and can't undeérstand ‘why other farmers on other fields -don't ‘do " thelr 'work our way. It seems quite reasonable to us to as- sume that our way is the right way. And too many of ui assume that there is’and can be ‘only ‘one right way. That's where we are a bit hasty. Granting absolutely identical condi- tiéns “6n ‘every sidle there must be some one system or methqd or device which will wark Detter than any other—will be the best under those "conditions.’ But conditios ‘No “two farms are-just alike; no two' ‘crops are just alike; no two sea- sons are’just alike; no two farmers are just alike. One. man’s meat is another man's poison, according to an old saymg. If a, farmer .shotild ‘live as long as Methusaleh, I don’t -believe he 'wotild /| ‘ever be able to get on to all the whims and crankinesses of bis own farm or his' own weathér.” “Summering and wintering’. one s . only learning i A B.C’Si The very next farm may quite Wnether proposition..” Jones has a ‘drainage, problem and Smith one in irrigation. Brown’s farm runs natur- ally to hay and White's to apples and 1aék's - to weeds. Robinson has to .quack .grass and Tomlinson is averrun = with. . chickweed. Babson can’'t grow corn without lime and Bobson car't raise any with it. When I've found ‘6ut, after years of exper- fment and many costly failures, what to do with and for the Hatch meadow, ‘whieh 16 a leachy, gravelly, drought- usceptible field, my. knowledge there- shown here. ing and‘design. $2.7 try, Wedgwood Butt i giyen it'a fair trial, we It on its merit alone. butter —get - the i gi Wedgwood Creamery Butter I * and gei.t.his beautiful férty-twoapiéée dinner set It’s" strikingly beautiful in color- Sim y. send fifteen Wedgwood,..coup g}and the set is yofirugw@‘gx;k;? getting a set of dishes like this f make this great offer so't You' can buy-'bctter'futter‘thixy{ We gwood. *- -Start saving for the dishes today! “You'siiist eat - Always in pound carto =3 ons and Stich 'z 'small sum. We t you housewives.will ] * ‘have o y i e ing r's best —Weagwood. ‘el are never identical.’ School Enumerator Thomas, E. Don- ohue, who keeps "in the newspaper floodlight in Néw London and in con- sequence he 'is Known by name at least by évery reader:of local news- papers and he is deserving of all the prominence he receives. is the best kdgn papers an & when he says to a n{v! gath there is nothing doink. Hig latest contribution 1s' to the effect that for a first’ time there is a Chinese student in the public schools of the city, and which, of course, is a mistake. There was a Chinese student in New London before the present school enumerator knew there was a New. London, in fact, before he was 'bol and that Chinaman has been a resident of New London ever, since, and 1s_among .the best-known residents. James H. Hill was ‘bro,ught £o New London he was g baby, brought, it was sald, by a captalp of a vessel who found the. baby ‘filn a deserted Chinese 'hulk, the’, clothing the baby wore and other apparal found with him indicating that the baby was of a family of high rank, It is under- stood that Mr, Hill is still {n the pos- session of the baby apparel. It is over 50 years ago when Mr. Hill was ® student at the Union street school and “a :mighty bright student. at that, the’ leader in his class, He.was al- ways knowi as Chinaman, ‘when a lad, and’ so far as known he has never denied his nationality, although of late years he has been frequently referred to as a Japanese. He sure was a Chinaman_In his schoolboy days and therefore has thé distinction of being’ the first of ‘his pationality to attend the public 'schools of New London, and perhaps in_the eastern states, if not in. the whole country.. Based.on the age of others who were school- mates of Hill,” he is now about 66 years of age, and probably was about six years old when, he commenced go- ing to school, o on that basis he was a schoolboy 60 years ago, and at that time there were not-quite as many Chinamen in this country as at the present time. To carry the mattér further ‘it 'may, not be very- much amiss to say that Mr. Hill was the first native Chinaman to become a resident of the United States. It was -Mvr." ‘Hill; Charlés’ B, Jen- nings and a felv dthers who todk the initiative that “resulted 'in’ the selec- tion of 'the Thames Course for the Yale-Harvard four “miles _straight- away anntal races and naturally he was intensely intérested in the earlier races. - On one of ‘thése” occhsions Mr. Hill wanted to see the race from the press boat Manhanseétt, but was at a loss to know just how to get a press ticket. At that time ‘the late Lyman Baggs was dn-charge of the Dpress tickets with quarters in the office of the, Evening, Telegram, and was care- ful in the fssuance of tickets to only accredited correspondents for news- papers. At that time a Chinese news- paper was printed in New :York and it was suggested to Mr. Hill that he apply’ for a press ticket as represen- tatiye of that newspaper, and he did. He ‘went to the Jaundry of Sam Wing Sing, just opposite the Telegram office, and Sam covered a sheet of paper with hieroglyphics, which served as credentials, _Mr. Hill presented the document to . Mr. Baggs, making a bluft at interpreting . it to the extent of telling him that it. was from the Chi- ness newspaper, the interpretation be- ing ‘in the' crudest of pigeon English. It was a_staggerer for Mr. Baggs, but he fell #d handed over the press tick- et to Mr. Hill. Then Mr. Baggs was thafked in thetbest of English. He bhad a real hearty laugh, and so did Mr, Hjll.; In the years that followed while Mr.- Baggs. was in charge of the press -tickets, there was always one reserved for Mr. Hilk as the rep- resentative.of that New York Chinese newspaper.: When Jamies G. Blaine was candi- date for. president ‘of the United states Mr. Hill conceived the idea that it woyld be : cjeyer bit 'of advertis- ing to have the bullding in which he conducted his insurance business known'as the Blaine ‘block and with the _knowledgé and -consent of Mr. Blaine. So he framed a very. nice let- ter informing Mr. Blaine that he had just erected a new building and‘ pro- posed tg.name it the ‘Blaine block in his honor. Mr. RBlaine, sent g .letter of appreefation fo. Mr. Hili, accept- ing the honor and.hoped in the near future hé could come to New London and see the building and Mr. Hill per- sonally. My. Blaine never .saw that building. It Wis a “small one-stoy frame building* and was located up against the 'Rogers building in Main ‘street on.a part of the site of the pres- ent Goldsmith building. Subsequently: e PR R e T Facts fo Pain_results tion. Be it Jittle, farther. up Main street. cupled for several y Active—Prediction By Postmaster Maban. | Blaine block was placed on. wheels and wheeled to; another -location a It was lengthened out. just a little, and--oc- ars by Mr! HilL Now, it. s known as the Smoke Shop, .and not Blaine block. Both the republicans and demo- cratic nagers' are -now busied in quiet political work, the object-being to get out thes voters and to see to it that they vote right, just as the.party managers and the candidates for of- fice want them to vote. Meetings are held nightly and on a_little different plan than ever before indicating that the general town committees are of the opinion that better resuits will ba obtained if these meetings are by wards separately. rather than by gen- eral meetings where ‘the whole - local Political situation - is discussed. - So the ward meetings are held with the candidate for alderman -presént ~and assoclated with him the working poli- ticians of the ward, with Reheral meeting now and then. sandwithed in so that the committee proper can feel the pulse of thé whole city, and know just how to administer the proper dose of medicine and the kind that is need- ©d_ for successful results. This is true of ‘both the republicans and the demo- crats, started by, the former, but the latter were not slow. in_ falling into fine. “As election dav’neirs, the. in- teYest seems to increase and.it really looks now as if a vote would be polled, and the larger the vote the| & larger will be the republican majorit. provided the republicans vote for th republican candidates. But party line are not very taut in New London at 16cal elections. The. unusual activity by wards h not -only been aroused for the pur- pose’ of electing aldermen, but . will carry with it the other candidates. on the ticket, and 'with closer ward organization the ckgnces of dominant party are improved. be” hax occudled since the retirément of Mayor Mahapn. There is no doubt but Mr. Miner is the_ strongest a didate that the demaerats could have nominated and if he is not elected, and the chances ‘are strongly against him, the democrat* might just as well draw their sleds while sledding .is. good. With no_intention of pull master Mahan into local pol thus make him a targetfor his per: sonal enemies to_charge him with po- Htical’ activity, his personal will he missed in this political cam- paign. out and hustle for his friend Miner, just as Mr. local politics. ~But Postmaster Mahan is completely out of politics. in coming election at least. By advice of his physician, and with the consent of the postmaster general he is on a vacation, and will be in Norih Con- way, N. H. and vicinity, unfil elec- tion day at least, but he may come Tiéme to exercise his right to vote for his friend Miner. Postmaster Mahan started for North Conway last Thursday morning. the railroad station he was asked fca his” opinion as to the result of the ‘coming city and town election. His re- ply was: “What' do you hear about Miner, is he going to be elected?” So Later on he his answer was a query. said: “How is your ward, the Fourth, going 7 Mr. Mahan said: T. Miner will be, electéd maymr of-the city of New London, just as.sure as I am going to start for Boston on this train”™ The train started for Boston on schedale time. Washington County, R. I. HOPKINTON Post Office to be Moved to New Post- master’s House. John E. Welles. he appointment of Frank W. Mills to be postmaster at Hopkinton: will post His -house will be remodeled in the interior to for..the office and his mother Mrs, A. Irene Mills will' be in result in the removal of the office. to a private house. make room charge. the foundation becomes fi > his season's eng: for Hon E. B. Allen. John' Holt and -family, of New York, have arrived at the farm he recently purchased on the Woodville road.. ROCKVILLE = unders Seth purchase roy B. Kenyon. He is bel 1y Guilford Parker of funeral MeMullen the Acting Mayor Miner has been on a vacation since his nomination, recuperating. for an active campaign which he expects will result in_his glection. to the-effice | S presence Even if he did not gmet right Miner hustled for him whenever he was candidate for office, | it would be real nice for the democrats to have him within reash for consulta- tion now and then on the subject of the At Before reply .could be made “If the Fourth ward elects a democratic . alderman, . Alton Harry Hart and.family have moved trom the Mellen house into the house The foundation for:the new vault in the' town hall is completed and the. vault will be constructed as soon as William E.- Mellen o:"c'%mm; was| |at his country residence over Sun- y. 'Willlam .Saunders - has - completed agement as chauffeur of . Wyoming . has the Rockville store of, Le- i assisted s ot John Hoxsie | the day | sxin Day last - i N DANIEL FROHMAN Presents WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHEN WE WE sational success, “Madame X" RICHMOND Foxes * Captured—Cranberry Picking 57 Finished. Sherman Bros. have captured several foxes, . Joseph E. Dunn and Robert H. Moore were recent callers at the = Moore homestead. Thursday = morning .. found . the ground white. Jack Frost took nearly everything in his path. Miss Fannie J. Moore friends in Aubufn. Everett Moore has finished cran- berry picking. Potatoes are not up to the average in this section and are rotting, éome fields being hardly worth digging. USQUEPAUGH . John Michael has gone to R.'L 8. C. to. work for the winter. Mrs. A. Proctor of Philadeiphia, who has been working for J. C. Webster, has returned to her home. Mprs. Joe Hathéway and son Stephen, of Slocum, were in the village Mon- day and purchased a_ fine floek of R. Red chicks from J. Michael J. K. Lamond and family, of Mid- dletown, -Conn., have returned to their home, after spending the summer at J. 8. Lamond’s. Mr. Sallivan and granddaughter, of Providence, spent last week at A, W. Kenyon’s and attended the fair at West Kingston. Mrs. Anna Wells has returned home after several weeks spent with rela- tives”in Exeter. J. T. Wilcox Thursd: Dr. and Mrs. Webster of Westerly and Mrs. S. C. Webster, Jr., of North Easto visited at Dr. Kenyon's, is visiting visited the Beach Isaac Prosser’s family have returri- ed ta Cohoes, N. Y.. after spending the ummer at their cottage here. Charles Leveech has returned home to Providence for the winter. MEMORIAL BOULDER SET AT GALLUP HOMESTEAD Family H.union_a! Century Old Houge at Po Down in the hills of eastern Con- nvecticut near Moosup and miles from the nearest city, there lies a little val- ley which harbors the Gallup home- stead, the century-old home of a fam- fly that numbers among its descend- |ants mar e been promini One hundred years quiet and a place where he could raise tamily in the fear of Ged, It was to this section of the coun- try, now known as Portertown, that Ben Adams Gallup brought his 'wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. :George Dorrance of the Revolution and other early wars. Here at the beginning of the great war he hewed out a little log cabin and léft his wife to fizht for the freedom of the Cqgloni Through the many years of the war he served his country well and then returned for the peate and qulet that He so loved. Ben Adam Gallup’s Great House. The, vears went on and the family grew Jarger than the ilttle cabin could well house. Ben Adam had prospered, for the valley was fertile and the lt- tle mill had prospered. He was even considered wealthy for those days and with the help of slaves, for they owned elaves here then, he builded him a great house. Erecting a house then was a matter of feasting and this was well done for the builder built for the future. . Today the house stands as firm as one hundred years ago, while the walls of the little log cabin are crumbling and the old ‘mill that made a-man.rich is nothing but a mound of debris and the old mill race is nothing but a ditch to show where the waters once coursed. 300 at Family Reunion. Oh last. Thursday over three hun- dred descendants and friends of the Gallups gathered at the old home to Celebrate its centennial. They came from all parts of the United States and many are men who have made names for themselves in. their own cities and states. - Over famous -old Ekonk they came in autos where one hunidred years ago they would have come in ox-caris and journeys that were of days were but a matter of hours; never before had the old home seen such a joyous happy thromg and his TTy any more about that itching skin-trouble. Just get & jar of resinol ointment and a e of res- inok wodp at any drug store. With the resi- nol soap and warm water bathe ‘the .af- lected Should b with the first n-u::a Setn: For trial: freo wikte §-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. . ESMOND - Note—Wm. Elliott was nally starred in Henry W. Savage’s sen- THE ALEXANDRE 'DUMAS’ FAMOUS WILLI 'CLEMENCEAU CASE , SOCIETY. DRAMA 5—REELS—S —_— m‘&unv L THE TRUST L.ive L.obsters 30c¢c per Ib Choice Long Clams Oysters POWERS BROS. many who were there Thursday may never see the old home of their fore- fathers again, for some of them are now old and their steps are no longer firm nor théir eyes as clear as in years gome by. Through many years the home has always been occupied by a Gallup and until a few short years ago it’w owned by the Gallups, but now it has passed from the family name, but not from the family, into the hands of one who loves the old traditions of the family and in whom the Gallup blood runs strong for his mother was a Gallup. The Hon. Albert Noon, the present owner, is & man prominent in his own state of New Hampshire and was the last democratic candidate for #overnor ef -that state and is to. le the next candidate of the party. He is he owner of large mills at Peterboro and well known in Boston and New York as well as other cities. Address by Honm. Altert Noon. Thursday he .m: the address of welcome and a ulder on which is a bronze tablet commemorating the name of Ben Adam Gallup and the family of which he was one of the founders in this country. It is Mr. Noon's desire that the place shall al- ways be open to the Gallups and be known as their homestead. John E. Tanner gave the early history of the town of Voluntown and Alfred Gal- lup one of the oldest living members of the family gave the family history. Willlam Montgomery of New York made a few remarks and several poems commemorating the homestead were read. Avery Stanton at one time & ITHACA, FOX, LEFEVER, 114—Phone$—777 ATTENTION!!! HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN OUR LINE OF Guns and Hunting Goods is now ready for your inspection. and take orders for HOPKINS & ALLEN, . and all other makes of - *~ - 3 SHOT GUNS Largest stock, highest-quality goois at - lowest prices of political leader of the state of Con- Gen. Warren's address Ben Adam Gailup and Col. Dorranee, father of the wife of Ben Adim. Rev. W. J. Reynolds made remarks on-Then and Now, and letters were read from members of the family who were ble to bk present. The centennial closed with a prayer by the refifing pastor of the / Congregational church at Ekonk, Rev W. J. Reynolds. ") { A basket lunch Wa¥ served 1o «fl'and er good ice cream and cmke things were thergubandlthth. The dr- rangements for tde celebration were in charge of Alberr Noon and Miss Nettie Gallup, who has chafge of the home. stead. DRS. L. F. and A. J; LaPIERRE 287, Main St PRACTISE LIMITED TO Hours I0'a. m. to 3 p. m. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat We carry in stock REMINGTON, MARLIN, , r3 U. M. C. AMMUNITION