Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 10, 1916, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) | bushels firom the Some -tifne -ago I tried to Sir up m-fl“g_g‘?tmmmm interest among such farmers as are th‘“‘nfil lucky enough (o-have swamps in mfifi‘- Pflfl‘"d lte-’!'l- | inm'. pl‘d’-‘:il‘:‘:‘et:e. of ‘these agrig £y daie e ) y —_— e H i " Whether [ succeeded in any_degree | brought .them:a good deal more: than e S et I've never {.-m ‘But . correspondent | SIXty cents a bushel "fi‘, a wwgm‘::: e "'..Jna'y &:“i‘éfi%‘%w 2‘2“:’3‘&?& But, allowing that figure as the fair At W o8 o b Iung - | market value of thelr crop in cash, B e A e nay be antercst- | came fo $3.400. The entire cost ' of : draining ‘the whole hundred acres had |to 13 ] < : 5 : t T e . 4 - - ing to somebody. g oot 1408 il o SO R NG ssed - the | . There was a ball game on the park eck. B FIRST = '‘RUNNING IN The correspondent seems to have ity nve acres highe yeer seeidcrng SOe Sumitiu ol atiaatile. 5. fScintay agernoon, e : erisooe Mysteries “n,m TON g‘".“’AY AMERICAN e ot et it Rt a eqand ot MOE SR A dnanlie: A8 ; o foes — found farmers In hig oot o imat tng | thousand dollars o pay for seed, (ill- | and left at H. W, Porter's store. the rain—only seyen innings were - NAPOLIAN THE GREAT AND SALLY HIS MATE wisdom of put! labor and money | 888 labor, etc. i Y1 “Besides’ which they had the staiks|bu; e “Toom in the|; Mr. and Mrs. Moses Hart and Mr ll:'c.zl'l::n:yorfiy u::t/.l?-'; t(:‘r[ rII:.;a Fells | which proved very valuable forage for % v and Mrs. Kelsey -of Montville spent Lacal Inventor Secures Patent ''on & Toothbrush — Family of Wood- “ 3 airy herd and saved. a good New H Sunday at J. B. Tennants. 3 S A the “experience which we had in til- | their d: ew House on Old Site. R aod Mrs B o LG chucks Kilted. . Coming Monday and ing and taming a hundred acres .of | many dollars in grain and hay. Laurens Holbrook has begun the | Gecum Sgnda.y,F o 3 4 g Y Y marsh” because ‘some farmers are ; Dinaning erection of a new house in Pine street still afrald to invest money in tiling on the site formerly occupied by the Miss Addie Tilden has returned to THEODORE . MARK TWAIN'S : e llimantic after -spending the week- X in ¢ S L A N A R pecal music at {he Con- | R &t het home. '8 ROBERTS PUDD’N HEAD WILSON it is harvested, if they have any kind| 9estroyed by fire many. years ago. gregational church Suriday. * Mr. Smi! . Miss Bertha Tilden of Windsor Th alled the marsh in guestion y| _There is to be a hoir rehearsel this | f_New Haven assisted in singing. . visiting her aunt, Miss Evelyn Tilden, MATRIMONIAL BLISS, Comed; LADDER OF LOVI !—iul Drama «The Bottoms”, The land was & nat- | on, %, COrR Year, fhiey will (be abte 12| (Saturday) evenins, The Ladies Aid soclety met with| Miss Ellen Merrow -and friends - E y = ural basin soaked with water at even |, fhey do not hesitate to call the old| Tomorrow (Sunday) will be observed Mrs. Susan Rottman Thureday. Fif-|have returned to Hartford after’ a the driest seasons of the year and| . krat swamp, is paying them ana|2S Children’s day. teen were present. : brhze;t:l.y";t Miss Merrow's summer 'l"h v s . five feet deep in ralny times. flooded five feet deep rai George Merrow of Hartford was in likely to keep on paying them upon{ Graduating Exercisss of Schools. S about hundred acres and " Y e 3 T T ‘S ke Gmatte it ] Tl onumal ik ST RRMTE | Pl B R STATRORD s, Franie Millara wini By Far e 2 . t | int hich it 9 TS, was in - 2 2 e s on, I RC Al A copsin:| Ar i Snly Pays them 100 per cent per | e church Friday evening of last | Improvements Planned at Park—Local | mantic one-day. focentis erable part of it was inhabited by afannum, — ‘which is less than what{Week under the direction of Supervisor| interest in County Farm Bureau. Frank Millard played in the band [We= - — muskrat . colony. It - never produced | about half of. it, paid in 1914—o son: All the schools were well P _|at Stafford gMemorial Day. Z enough of anything to pay the annual | would think #hey might be fairly con~|represented and the exercises were| Mrs Kate Findeisen of Springfield| Frank Newcomb and family of Tol- levied on it. it had long been|tent. “{largely attended, some coming from|iwas the guest of Mr. and M . P.|land spent Sunday with ‘Mrs. New- (} "I = 4 =T ::::ded‘ as an.expensive maisance| I don't believe that many Connecti-]other towns. Thers were eleven in the | Brown oves Sunday. o * comb’s mother, Mrs. Lucy Millard. _..,0.. d.ay COLONIAL. odaz which detracted from rather than|cut farmers are averaging 100 pe graduating class, as follows Eleanor - Miss Mary Kane of Salem, Mass.. i John Toth 1s working for Eugene e added to the value of the farm. cent off their best uplands—nor even|I: Collins, Rachel E. Hutchins, Barl| visiting her aunt and nncle, Mr. ana|Skinner at the George Merrow farm. | Parts—HER WAYWARD SISTER—Three Parts.....Lubin Drama = ninety-five per cent. . ¢ shon| Sinter: Serah R Turner, Laura Greene.| Mrs. John Kane, at the Strest. Lliss Mildred Eiler picked a_largs :R:?:!:r: ;-::; NBE"‘- V“"':"" g"'“ PR, strongly suspect that some of them | M. a , Una B Herbert Thresher hopes to begin sit- | bunc pink lady slippers among N ina_Drama- dr;?n‘?:‘ ‘tthesyu cr:a:otzgntgh-vl;;::";:s}? would be much tickled if they could lA’_amelu Brousseau, William Fries, J.|ting up very soon. His leg. fl,,um, which was a rare white one. THE LITTLE SISTER . OF THE POOR. bin Drama ble. The farmer who owned it wasn't| St ten per cent as a regular and sure| & Tiorimond Mathieu, Pauline Saltin. t by being kicked by a horse, is i A number from here attended the|] WURRA WURRA .... b versed in drainage problems, so he|thing. Of the lst of graduates one was from | dafly. 7,8 horae '8 GalLINE | i nt ‘Hillale Hall Mangfiert Tas REA. WU ~+Kalem Comedy “ o SR the Hop River school, one from West pot, last Frida; veni: called in an expert civil engineer who . Wolcott lodge, F. and A. y evening. made & careful survey of the eftire .And yet, don't you suppese, that|Street, two from Chestnut Hill, three|ohserve St. Johw's day by at g Dio B R Dimock wes in 8 tract, found out exactly what must be | there’s as good a chance for making a ervices in a body at the Congrega- one. day last week. d uld be e, took the con- | Connecticut swamp pay its way as one motto Was | tional church at Staffordville the last| Frank Millard played in the orches- s o xroancgz ur’;rd g‘l’(chins 3:: tiling, and su- | in Wisconsin? ‘They don't have as ard Blue, and| Sunday in June. ltm at Hillside Hall, Mansfield Depot, % ‘ perintended. the whole operation. long a growing season mnor as warm u The attendance at the . Pinney|last Friday evening. 4 ’ L) 9 pring- Thet It was something of a job is|a summer there as we do. . Thelr win- b : rammar school has been much affect.| Uriel Lodge, No. 24, met Saturday suzgested by the fact that the steep-|ters are -longer and colder. They | Z est grade aliowed for lie tile was one- | have to raise comon farm crops, such At ‘the close of the exercises Su- night at Masonic hall, Merrow. - — number from here attended the Third of an ineh in a hundred feet,|as corn, because they are so remote|Vervisor Garrison = was presented a| Major C. B. Pinney and son, Robert,|SuPDer and sale at the Baptist, church, that the outlet tile had to be a foot in t;om markets flthh‘:,tl ‘h:i-}:: ":a.n'z ha;m‘i]e t‘mum gedmo“;ljhe follawing program | are on a fishing trip in Maine. :g::fl*‘d Depot, last Wednesday ev-, - F diameter, and that several hundred|the more pro e ick crops for ERLS 3 2 3 feet had fo be laid at a depth of nine| which reclaimed swamp lands are es- | March, Foster band; prayer, Rev. T.| o :c""‘l """;":"’"t"‘g‘ - Patent Secured. : ; feet below the surface. pectally adapted. *h*""t_‘"} en; America the Beautifu T e e Arthur Haller recently secured a The contract price for the whole| But the Connecticut farmer with a|Chorus; Schools in Colonial Days, Sa-|commissioners it was voted to expend -y patent on a toothbruSh which he ex- 0 ; ane 00 in, experimental lighting of the Pe T < " job, survey, ting, ditching and til- | sizable swamp, if it were dramed and|'2R R. Turner; aritimetic drills, Old |31 Dpects to place in the ‘market soon. Mr. S ( J 7 o0 Sony patting Miahing ARGl | Aale D I e i Hop River: expression arills, Chegtnut | park lawn, —The skating rink s to|Flailar 1s spending his. spare. time. o GREATEST SHOW ON EA tile from the railroad but the contrac-|as onions, cabbage, caulifiower, toma-| Hill; To the Boys of America, War- 5.4 ?vel e to be used as 'a|other inventions which he expects tor paid for them. It took 13,200 feet|toes, sweet corn, asparagus, spinach,|T® :T.;A“"”’ Minute Man of the Rev- | tennis court. % : soon to have patented. or the jobrand the .cost was $1.75 a|etc.—crops for all of which there is|ution: Eflm Grade Reading and [Officers of Progressive Union. Woodchuck Family Killed. rod or, according to the farmer's own |a.steady demand, almost at his door, | {Tithmerie, Drills, =~ North District; | A" meeting of the Harmonial Pro-| The warm days this week affected figures, $14 an acre. and at prices which make the possible| ¥alue ol = lcs, M. Irene Math- | gressive union was held June 1, 8t 2|, friendly woodehuck at the Homston returns from fleld corn look like thirty | G4’ Fappy Daye, Old Hop s D at the home of Mrs. N. Weston. | Nurseries,-$o-much 8o that she. per= cents, - 5 d A = e owing officers were elected: | sistea i h 1 ¢ ins; History and Language Drills, Pine | Presidential committes, Mrs, H. . T, |58 n " carrying “her young. family 7 > e, . H -|into the cold sto A & There are ' dozens of other things|go oo Oor Commercal Relations with | Cady, Mrs. N. Weston, Mrs. A. C.|Houston arsiving sbose the same. times, next job, that of breaking up the crust.| which such land is pre-eminently | pund: The Angels of Buens, 'vm:. U°"~ Scripture, - The society is planning for | caught the entire family of wood- E ¥ It was, of course, awfully rough and|fitted for and.among which. the farmer | Brousseay: Chart of . Dates. Wewt| Iree free lectures the coming sea-|chucks and dispatched same with boggy, and _the men ‘expected a severe|could pick and choose to suit his par-| gtreef: Chart of Rivers. H" son.. 2 Sport, his hunting dog. s IB Bfl = struggle. But “even we were sur- ;lfulul'r cond.mon!.d‘fle needn‘tdllmét and Nathan Hale, Hop. Hiverr . our Interest in Farm Bureau. —_—— % ;Sr-: prised at the ease with which the soil | himself to corn and potatoes and oats - : 3 1. Considerable interest is being man L 3 EX 10 was turned by the breaking plow.”|and hay, tinless jabor conditions are Flag, Pamielia Brousseau: Santa.Lu-|.. Washlngton County, R. L - i 2 ifested among the farmers of this sec. Pressuro of = other work compelled| such as ‘o make eMcient tillage im- | T2 RO Birds ond | Their Uses | tion “or “the town in the formation of When the tiling was finished afid the surface had dried out, even the owner was a little nervous about his them to stop after twenty acres had | possible. - that William Fries; You Need Sand. J. A.|2 Tolland County Farmers' Bureau. A been broken. Anysay, they thought|coarser mrg crops, if they P4 o e -3 Al meeting was held last Friday evening HOPKINTON twenty acres would' be enough to ex- Iike as well as in wi orimond Mathieu;. The Lizh:t on b g 1 D . Wisc Deadman’s Bar, Pauline Saltin: Dr.|i0 Grange hall to consider the matter. periment with the first time. There would be profitable. 0 4 2 :| The meeting was called to order by =B e X Guestion | af Xo TS hettut the Wheeloek's Schiool and ~Closing Ad- School Board” Signs Diplomas and 3 E. C. Pinney. Mr. Pinney said be was 4 i drainage was adequate; question as to dress, Eleanor F. Collins: Spring Song, | 5o, very extensive farmer. but was| CoTtificates — Probate Business — whether the ‘soll Wasn't too sour to ; : b il vardin Cortitoetoa "y | Interested because of the benefit the| Town Goes Republican in Tuesday's corn, which was e crop they wanter | giv : : ug dress ite-headed Bird Comes Again. |had formed. He then introduced Prof.| The school committee of Hopkinton PERFDI 1] it to grow. So they planted the twen- |ing of y, T A year ago a freak bird came and|Davis, of Storrs college. Mr. Davis|held its monthly session with the “,‘,‘- ty acres to corn and then waited de- | claimed- swamp doesn’t need manure|made its abode near the home of Mr.|said the real purpose is td help the|c¢lerk, Miss Clara A, Olney, of II i purps d help Y, ope velopments. and won't call for any for years gnd|and Mrs. Fred‘A. Abell on Columbia |farmer to solve the market, problem | Valley, Monday morning. Bills were > -years,—unless a' Ifttle cheap lime is|Green. It was apparently a common|and to help him to ratse better and|ordered paid to the amount of $30.50. The corn came up. That was the|found advisable along at first, a8 a|brown sparrow with a snow white!larger crops. J~M. Learned was ask-|The dipiomas and certificates to be first testimony, in their favor. For| sweetener. . head. The bird was seen frequently|ed to act as chairman fo a temporary | given out at the graduating exercises Tickets on sale show-day at Engler's Drug ‘Store, Main and Broad- the firet month afterwards it just The amount. of ready money one|during that season until it left for its| organization tnwardbfiormlng a bureau. | of the two high schools in town were way, same prices as charged at show grounds, about held - its: own with the corn| would save.in fertilizer alone between | winter quarters, wherever they were. . signed. 2 i = planted at the.same itime on upland |ten acres of, drained ewamp and ten|Recently Mr. and Mrs. Abell =~ were = Probate Court. Soil, Then it began to shove ahgad.|acres of worn-out upland Wwowld pay|somewhat surprised when their white. STORRS The will of Mary G. Stillman was 5 It grew hetter, matured earlierdnd | interest on quite an investment for tiie [headed guest appeared -this seaso —t: admitted Monday, June 5th to probate | to_Providence and Auburn Saturday. | represented his town in the legisla- they cribbed 1,400 bushels from theland 'ditch-digging. . ;:;d;:flely well pleased with his last|Children’'s Day Last Sunday—cmngo and Samuel H. Davis was confirmed Most gardens are looking very poor | ture in former years and also had fill- twenty acres. < —_— xeprience. Commengement Next year a cloud-burst occurred up { That swamp, if it's anything like nd Celebration of | 2s executor ‘1 Robert L. Coon, ap-|on account of' the cold weather for|ed many other offices of wust. * He ' 2 2 Able to L. Hospital. iser. this time of year. lcaves an aged wife, two eons, & the, river. ewceping, away a dam’and|the dversge and orthodox swamp. 18| 5. 5 weat, whe has e st 7o.| Twenty-fifth Anniversary. A 5 Westahe S Frehiendi e B grandson and a sister, besides other estroying’ all that was planted. Bu ply a world- epos| vege- i - Jo- _ : ¢ relatives. - His funeral was held at his fn 191 they Eot Afty-five Acres Of “the | table food. on which the cultivator|SCE's hosplial, Willimantic, for treat.| Childrem's day_was observed last|Poibted guardian of the person and - ROCKVILLE s funera e estate of Eliza Frances Stillman, a ‘home Thursday at 2 p. m. with burial bottoms” under plow .and planted it|may draw at will and with small| et since March, returned to his|Sunday. The songs and recitations by | » — in the family lot in Rockville ceme- Agnin to com While that 'vear sw| present danger of having his' drafts | former boardirg Dlace at F'. A, Hunt's, | the children were under the direction g’o{;’:fl.‘:"w’::‘“':ff- with Robert’ Lol £y nerat of Benjamin Kenyon, Former| tary" Rev. I L. Cottrell, pastor of the another tlood, it wasn't accompanied | dishonored. - Pl o gt week, much | of le, . !13‘- Edgong)-“ Afiter Hhel’ The firae nid: Gasls maconbtsof -3 akia Member. of State Legislature, Rockville Seventh Day Saptist church, by any dam break. and so the crop| “Intodt, for untold thousands of years, | "IRTOVES T bealth, | e e e e oo sro| A. Vincent, administratrex on the es- . of which Mr. Kenyon had been a con- was not injured. They cribbed 4000|has been draining and settling the| ,isucrs this week: Mr acd M oo e o o0 e O Opconfesslon [ tate "of Roxy P. Kenyon, end of|, Rev. I L. Cottrell returned home | sistent member for seventy years, of- - =|Utley, Mrs. H, W. Porter, Mrs, Clars| dred K., Bebs, Lelia M. Eaten, Hisio| Thomas Hope and Robert J. Meickle, | Tuesday. morning from attending the| ficlated at the funeral Two hymns Robinson, J. P: Little. > 3 bt T e Kerwin, | €xecutors of the will of Hannah Mc- EuBa tern Associau(;:lldo levem . Dy were sung by a male quartette. Lillian H. Swenson and Martha C.|innes Palmer, were allowed and ord-|Baptist ‘-'h“mgm e "'«u.lr e Noyes. ' Thete oo wribaph 1| ered” recorded. B..church at infield, N. J. ELLINGTON service for small children and at the | . Lnventories of the estates of Martin | Leroy Kenyon mmo;:dm ey E clese of the morning service commun- | V. B Hyde and Sarah E. Bennett, g:?,?é::e'day’ g g Local Delegates Return. From Fed. | ion was obscrved. O and aigered feeqiint. 7 eration Meeting — Waedding Anni- Commencement at Collage 55,",%,",:,2,“{;‘,3“5 st e FUNERAL. 33 Explaining a Note. “Never had habit of note-writing.” His letter to Harriman was not a note, but an ultimatum. — New York Iivening Post. versary—Strawberry Festival. Commencement exercises began Fri- d with order of notice. Z5 3 e day evening with the president’s re-| ' The town council on the same date Benjamin Kenyon. % Miss Mary Kimball and Mrs. John T.| ¢eption in the armory. It is expected|elected Walter C. James special con- Benjamin Kenyon, 85, ' who.died early Will Liven Them Up. McKnight have returned from New | that there will be a larger attendance | stable. Monday marning June 581, after an| Democratic leaders say -that the Yerk, where they have “been attend-| this year than.usual because of the Bills were ordered paid to _the|illness of less than two days, was one|St. Louis convention will be quiét. ing the biennial convention of the|SDecial observance of the twenty-fifth | amount of $1080.10. of the oldest and best known citizens| Don’t they know Bryan is going to be General ‘Federation of Women's clubs, | arniversary. of the callege. 2 of “the’ town of Hopkinton. ‘He had! there?—Detroit Free Mrs. McKnight is president of the lo| Rev. Frederick D. Buckley .will| . Eaven Blsetion. 5 - ; o cal Women's club, preach the - baccalaureate sermon in t the town election Tuesday a 3 farge vote was polled. - Two tickets| - Mr. '::;n;:nh?efi:u 'Df;"‘ }”h:"'fl"‘“ e po e 'il"‘hth%:;i;gnnewh“ s el TSR TR TR TR S > | 3 ett. cele- thene | 2618- e ican candidates were g o 5 * brated the forty-fourth anniversary of :H I:e ;:‘mfé‘::’&r};remie col- | elected by good majorities, with one ¥ their marriage - Sunday, May 28, at lege battalion’ beginning at 9 a. m. |°Xception. For member of the school 2 s b their home here. Guests were prennt] followed by the comencement exercises | Committee to serve for two years, Rev. > 5 2 %gll( glme d, Windsor Locks and|in the armory at which time there will | : -Adefbert Witter, citizen, was slect- 3 N ed by a majority of 31 over Frank . : e friends of Clyds Cordtaen, who | Coert oo o7 - b oo °| . repunl ; " | serlous operation for ap-| ~Mrs, Buckner . and son, Cromble, | , Charles I Biake, of High street, DO Y 2 pail of coal? - s o 1 A 3 e " | Ashaway, is visiting friends in Taun- . a pail al ou Afford Any but a Titan - iord, nogpiial &l from St Louis ave vislting Mre. C. .| #Shapay, s visiting friends in Taun OV sty cutying ; ago, are 3 o & = 25T T S tag Steadily fmbroving ana| Jh g Hev. E.-A. Witter attenaed the{lj 15 there any fun in sifting the ashes? : Kerosene Engine? PR Ot b SO WILLINGTON | cnh ay Beptists in Bisinneid; 3%, |J . . Can anyone get any enjoyment out of cooking a meal S v T Ve R s ‘roasting hot kitchen? : s s at Hall Mills Get Genorous| Air. and Mrs B R. ot ""':':r A ks TR / o age L nd—0ame With Glenville To- %,::"fm ?i,“ ” e ""’“’,,g% e smothering heat of the Summer is there any i are T Siops ity Hab o spoken of i1 this column | srmson. e oy, Saturday aft- T present average prices for kerosene and £ gasoline, Titan kerosene engines save their owners about 1.1c. per horse power per ° hour over gasoline engines. - Es Fridty. orantug it & recently was to- their employes| Edward Allen of California, is visit- : T 2 e e 1 T g2 3 e : last week by Gardiner Hall, Jr., & Co.,|ing his brother, A len,. . % Figure it this way. - On an 8-horse engine the sav- | B, seciety ! wherry. testival | and amounted to & littie mére than an o o B o Sy hard work as well as that? ing is 8.8¢. an hour, 88c. in a 1o-hour day, $88in 100 |towards purchasing & pias el Srortet monin Sey for ek ene’ | "RICHN SR n’t we all like Srir Seo e e days of work. ~ Say that is all vour engine doesina 5 (bas 4 i | oy Sae et b S B | ke Cana Mee ©- 0 Keuyen of : ;