Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 24, 1916, Page 12

(Writtes sudmy for' The anucum N\ve’ lnw hy mn ew this has; hnn. th s far, the coldt!t, -.na wettest . June since ti station was tounded. turxyvnve yem ago. Al a matter of fact, we farmers didn’t nged- o’lflchfl information about it. Not only has the first part of June been an undried-up Red Sea for us to wade through, but May was wet, cold, slow and backward. - Spring work was delayed, made unusually dificult 'when do-able at all, ¢nd oft- en prevented from proper pletion by the sodden state of Lhe soil. It's hard to do6 good work im Jirt that was soaked mud yesterday and hasn’t any sun today to help dry it off, Yesterday I saw one man trving to plow his garden! It had rained the dav before, was drizzling at .Le time, and he was hurrying to get through before e next clond-burst, which ibly forming along tlie hori- zon, sBould drench him. He wasn't really plowing, either: couldn't in the state of the dirt. He was just poach- ing up the mud. 1 Another told me he hadn't ‘planted his potatoes, yet, and didn't xnow ot but one neighbor who had. In my own gardens, those parts which are inclined to the gravelly are doing quite well, thank you. But the richer, loamy land is hardlr work- able. Corn’is the most disconsolately unhappy: crop I've ever seer on this ranch at this time of the year. Small, uneven, ~ yellowish, ~‘weed-smothered. For three full weeks after it vame up We were unable to get nn it with horse and cultivator, because during all that time it either rained or had rained so recently that the t was mud-pudding. Spinach, beets, onions, though, have thr in the slop. And what weather for trans- planting! We have got out ail our tomatoes, peppers, caulifowrr and most of our cabbage, ouc having | to “water in” a single plart. And that is something which never hm)-l pened before In my personal experi- ence. S, What's the use of “waterfrgz in” a plant which you set in the mud and which the rain is going to wet down for you within two hours? So far, out of more than ter thous- and such plants set, we haveut found a dozen which failed. to lice.. Nor have we found any serfous evidence of cut-worm work. Last year, | lost my entire onion erop by cut-worms and had to set cabbage plants at least three times over to get any, besides: ysing bushels of poisoneq~ bran-mash: Whether 1 killed so many by this means or whether the constant wet tki> spring has drowned ot the pesky things, I don't kriow. Irejoice over their evi- dent scarcity, whatever the cause. But. weeds! —I_ never saw such swamps and forests of themn. The for two or three years. . arrived “with' both. ‘When I was a small Bont. the' P -fo1 Dits hunt the over stra; chickweed for ' him " and yac(linv brought some home from' 3 neizhbor's. one “day, because I uldn’t find enough on the home place. Now, 1 wish someorie would call on me to feed a million “diesy hirds” on chickweed at a dollar a bird! I've got the stuff to do it with! 1 also h some one of you ‘that ‘has had experience with _tie ‘would tell me how to man: don’t particularly care for 1 the()tle! up against it real hard an: tically controlled it. My own asparagus bed is a sight make a truck-gardener wee, it is solid matting of . chickwee.l hrough which not a square inch of soil is vis- ible; chickweed running from four to twelve “inches high and -actually blanching the asparagus stoms which have nerve enough to push uj: it as effectually as if trenched in soil. Now I blanched asparagus; my m: for. green. Furthermore, running the asparagus ou Last year was the first when it real- ly troubled me. It was oretty thick and when we stopped vuting aspara- fus, about June 21, we sharjened our hoes into vegetablé safety-+uzors and shaved the whole top of tbe bed off We gatheréd up the weed and drew it to one side of the bed—fve iwo-horse ‘wagon loads of it off. a two-thousand- root bed. This, which we hopnd Trould mu the stuff, didn’t evcn phaze it there are more tnan ten mu;on la. s of it on the swme bed. We weren't. able to fight 4: when it sprouted because the groun.! was kept constantly sodden by steady ramnrall Now it is bevond the reech of hand tools. 1 don’t want to plow up the bed and kill all myf asparagus for the sake of finishing the cnickweed. That would be too much like buraing one’s house to get rid of the rats. The hed is only six on eight yesrs old and ought to be at its productive best. I ‘want to save it, if T can. But how shall T do it? What | propose to do, if no one of you can advise me'a better plan, is tn tear up the surface with @ spring- | tooth harrow, as soon as we are through cutting asparagus, cart of* enough of the bunched up weeds tn enable ve {o get at the dirt 7nd mel- low it, then sow buckwheat thick enough to ‘make: a idense growth. weather has just suited them angd it has prevented us from lNghtizg them effectually. Some o my small drilled- in crops we have had to abandon en- tirely simply “because by thc-time we ®got to them the weeds had completfely smothered them out. From ..ss than ten feet of one onion row I hoed up and carried to the hen-yard tyo corn- bl.lknl full of chickweey. In the whole ten feet 1 conldn't fird half-a- dozen starveling onions. Thc chick- weed was a 'mat about eight inches wide and six inches high und Toots were as thick in the dirt as its in- terlaced stems above ground. A nmelghbor who has been rick for two weeks asked me, vesteriay, clean up his little asparagus bed, is a small plece, perhaps twelve feet wide by thirty foet long, and hadn't been ‘touched for a fortnight. The weeds on it included sow thistle, clinch-grass, “majlows,” shepherd's pursy, charlock, wild mustard, wild buckwheat, golden-rod, dandelions, dock and some few others. "Tne this- tles, shepherd’s purse, charlock, mus- tard, golden rod and dock averaged about three feet high. while the mal- dandeclions m;d grass mnd?"‘a mat under them. It was more e hoeing down a young forest than a AT gasoline, ‘theu‘ owners about 1 Buckwheat will kill common weeds. Whether it will’ succeed with chiek - weed or not I shall have to find out by trying. But, if-it is dexdiy to tho weed, I congess to some nervousness about its effects on:the asparigus, It it dow't kill either, I shall bave had my work for my pains. If it ks botl, I shall have burned down my house to. et rid of my rats! —I ought to mention that 1 have tried salt at various rates of from one ton to ten tons-to the ncre. This kills the chickweed it is actially pul on—and seems to fairly elcctrify the next crop into a rankness and exuber- ance no other fertilizer can equal! It I wanted to grow chickweed for the market, I should feed it sat 1f our local weather experience has been fairly typical ~of { a‘ through New England, I'm wonderir.g what its effect. will be on the Lotatd crop. Hereabouts' those who have actually planteq are worrying for fear the seed will rot in the water-snakad soli. Those who have not been abla to plant are wondering whether it isn'c too late to be worth while. That reminds me of what an old | farmer. now dead, told me. some years age. He was “reminiscins” about one ‘mned their present average pnces for kcmsene and Titan kerosene engines save JIc.per hoi'se power per line engines. isway. Onan &ho&e engme hessav: lé.aahour 88c. in _days of work. - Say that is a 10-hour.day, 88 in 100 ;!l your: mgmedoasm a. !tu!!‘ E‘* o 8 -niWorlelt-r amwuehu Mr. e Hilhry mu 'P!nt dae nmei—end in Worceste: rs. Serah Hill is m&m rela- gvu in Thiladelphia, R. 1. Teabher’s Graduation. Miss May J.abbee, teacher in the Dorrance -district, has returned to her home in Providence, to prepuu for her own gradunation this ‘week at the state - normal . school Mrs. Fred White is the substitute for the rest of the term. The countiy never looked better, ihe foliage of the trees and the ferns along the “higb-ways are fine. J. A, Labbee and son Paul, of Prov- lden!ze. called at ¥. 0. Plummer's last weel WARRENVBJE Graduating chn From Several Du~ tricts Numbers Ten. Graduaung exercises were held in Baker’s hall, Tuesday, June 20th, at 2., m. The hall was very prettily decorated with flags, laurel and wild fiowers. Each school in lie town was well represented and all did fine work. A large number of visitors was pres- ent. -The graduating class from the several schoois numvered ten, five of whom were from District No. 3. Those - graduating in District No, 3 were Norman D. Baker, Bertha Bas- sett, Marjoric Case, Charles Snow and Allén A. James. School ' in District No. 3 closed Just Friday for the sum- mer vacation. Mr. and Mra. D. Mathewson and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brown have beén spending the week in Maine and New Hampshire. Levi Upton has left the employ of B. H. Gardner. Morgan . Brewer is working in his place. Mrs. Ellen . Mathewson has returned to Lier home here; after spending sev- eral weeks with , her daughter in North Gmsvenordnie b I I and. fflmfly .l.nd Miss Vers Dol Spen rday. after- Soon. 10 the AR NORTH WOODSTOCK Three Sunday Schools Unite %n a Crusade—Social Dames Entertain- The Woodstock and North Wood- stock Congregational and the Swedish Surnday schools joined last Sunday in a, crusade. Twenty-two automobiles decorated with banners and flags and filled with'children of il ages were in the line, which formed in North Wood- stock and passed through to East and South villages to Woodstock - Hill, where exercises consisting of singing and ealutes by the children were held. Miss Mary F. Potter has been a re- cent guest of Mr, and Mrs. F. Barber, of Putnam. Miss Winifred Potter is home for the summer. ‘Mrs. Emily Vinton* has from a visit.in Salem, Mass. Mrs, L. J. Leavitt and Mrs. Frank Perrin. were in Worcester, Tuesday. Social Dames Erttertained. Mrs. Frank Perrin, visited by Mrs. auther Leayitt and Mrs. Calvin Raw- n, entertained at her home, Thurs- day afternoon. . The - Misses “Bist*op have Boston for several days. ATTAWAUGAN Hill-Anderson Wedding at Home of " the Bride. Miss' Annie iderson and._ Samuel Hill- of Pawtucket were united in marriage Saturday afternoon at the’ ‘home of the bride in this place, by Rev, James B. Aldrich. There was a supper, which was attended by a few friénds from this place, also gZuests from Taftville, Provldence. Utica, N. Y., and Paterson, N. J. ' They will returned been in ‘make their home at Pawtucket where their home ‘is already furnished. ‘Walter ‘Rollinson was in “Providence Sunday. MrB. Lymxn Tllt is visiting her sis- ter at Pawtucket School _closed !l.l'f Fr(d" for the summer vacation. The closi cises were held at the M. E. Mrs. Charles n enteruinud her sister from Utica, N, Y., ldst week. Mrs. Charles An ‘&one to Utica, N. Y., for two weeks. The ‘company’s houses are nearly all | wired for electric lights. Mr. and- n.Alkfll!eymnuraner from Jewett City m and son Herbert, of Plain 3J. Larkha mn. Norwich, were g:m of Mr. t.nd Mre. Levi N. Clark, Sunda¥.’ Mrs. Burr Smith was in Jewett oity Tuesday. ‘Schools in Canlerbury elnina 'Wedv nesday, the 2ist. : Tolland Coumy SOUTH WlU.lNG’l’ON Heralds of the crm T'tlo of Chil- dren’s Day Exercises—Masons .to Attend Church Tomorrow. “Heralds of the Cross,” was the ti- tle of the Childrén's Dag exercises at Memorial . church. last . Sunday, - The decorations were in keeping with the spirit of the -exercises. . The pro- sramme; Mrs. Willlam H. Hall, or- Zanist: Prelude, children ma.rchefl in -and took their places. - Singing, Plevel's '-hnm. responsive reading; greet= ings, Superintendent George €. ‘Westerfield; Tesponsive reading; praver, Pastor Charles = A. Parker; singing, Come With Gladness; recita- tions, My Mission, Isabel Service; Just This Minute. ‘Hazel Brack- ett; A Helping Hand, ‘Hélen Taber- man: singing by thé school: oxercise, Tessons of the Flowers: recitations, The Men Who Try, Holman Hall; Why Don’t You Laugh, Walter Ben- son; class exercise, Guiding Stars, by four girls: singing, school; recita- tions, Confusing, Carolyn Warden; Growing Smiles, Frances Hall: My Prayer, Clara Taberman; song by the children; recitations, Da.\ules, Hel Our Thanksgiving. Annie Service; God is Over All, ‘Anna Far- ra; Our Country, Grace - Gurley; | singing. choir ml'ammx tht Lit- tle *Things “Did,' Ma' “iClear; “The: Things That Count. Francis WODG- worth: address by the pastor. Of- fering; emblematic piece, Heralds' 0! the Cross, by séveral voung - ladies; singing by the school. Benedietlon. The committee in charge of the exer- cises was Miss Rosa O. Hall, Mrs. Jas Service and Miss Alice Service. Plan Game Today. Although for three successlve Sat- urdays the atfempts of the Get-To- gether baseball tearm to have a game have been frustrated by untimely rains, they persevere and ‘have are ranged to have the ‘Glenville = Stars here this (Saturday) afternoon. Past Masters’ Night. At Uriel lodge, No. 24, F. and A: M., this is to be Past Masters night and visitors are expected from Favette. Ionic, Wolcott and- Bastern Star lodges. Uriel lodze has accepted the in- vitation of Rev. Charles A. Parker to aftend services .St. John's day at Memérial church at 11 o'clock .a:.m. Sunday. Excavating for the foundation - for the new bleach and ‘dve house -is well under way. John_ Fiala fell from a team wagon last Friday oon, breaking his collar bone. New Bridge Laid.: The iron and. cement bridge across the brook hos been iaid. It is to be covered ‘with several inches of gravel to take the wear off the concrete, Electric light wires are to be ex- tended to the new Houses being bufit by William -H. Hall on the - Fisher place, north of the village. 2 Miss Fannie Tesar left for York city Tuesday to -attend wedding of her brother, Michael SOUTH COVENTRY Funeral of Georfle B Clrponi-r——l.ccll Members of Company L-—Chlldnnl Day Tomorrow. ‘The funeral of George B. Carpenter was held from the Congregational church Sunday at 2 p. m. Rev. Mr. Beebe, pastor, officiated. . Burial was in Nathan Hale cemetery. The bear- ers were Burton, Charles 2nd Arthur Carpenter! sons of the deceased, and F. O. Boynton. 4 Childrcn s day exercises will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Congregational church. . - B 5 Members of Militia. : Coventry, men who are members of Company 1, C. N. G., are William Smi ‘William A, Wnlte. Henry Bee- be, ry Mavnard, Lee Knox, Wil- Ham Gillis, . Norman Boyi n. Charles Maas. ba, Rev George W. fimfi-w d Miss Alice Coombe Hattle an ce attended the ordination nt< Nun.h Cov- eInry Tuesday of Rev. Mr. Miss Bertha Green’. salutatorian of the gradua ‘Windham High ‘school, ‘to visit her mt. Gunty. in_ Vermont: the G‘hfl ’!fi' | vacation at A visiting relatives in ur. mm is ‘manager of a Du Pont' powder m-,nm- Gvo‘, The usual Saturday nmeshzvebuanmnimmrmgm .Wo weeks on account of weather con- dllalll. 4 . 8. Eugene Winter was chnc-p dele- #ate from the Columbia - Congrega- tional church to attend with ihe pas- for, Rev.' Mr. Owen, the ordination of | Mr. Winship at the Second Congrega- tional church in Coventry, to which he ‘bas been called. 3 E6e Return to thcn. 5 - Miss Nellie T, teacher in thé Chestniit Hill Qistriot for the past two years, and-who the school year $:as resided on Columbia Green with her motper, has with the Te- turned to “their home in. for the summer. The Foster band is expecting open next Sunday their Sunday .ll't.e!‘ noon concerts ‘at th proved so popular hAb&l]l (nwhbl;flhdtobeglyflefl ere this (Saturday) afternoo: local nine and a nine North ‘Westchester. Surprise Weathe: A strange #%ng occurred in this vi- cinity last Tuesday. It had been rain- ing every day for a long period and th’l“ it _didn’t rain. S. S. E. Ladies' Club met Pfld.ny afternoon with Mrs. Raymond There was an auction sale of the household .goods belonging to the es- t u of the late Sarah Hunt, Thurs- : afternoon at ~the residence of 'William Bertsch. . ‘BOLTON Sum of $38 Cleared for Library from | Play Presented by South Manchester Amateurs. Tommy's Wife, a tliree act play, was given in Bolton hall Saturday evening by the Girls’ Friendly socisty of South Manchester for the benefit of the Bol. ton library. The play was full of com. edy, which was well carried out by the actors, all showing marked ability. The hall ‘was filled. - Herbert Finnegan and ‘William Holman of Manchester ).lyed the piano and violin for dancr the: close of'the play. 'Cake nnd ice cream were sold. Thirty-eight dollars were cleared. . Charles N. Loomis and Rev. W. C. Besselievre were in Coventry Tuesday to attend the ordination of the new pastor, Rev, Mr. Winship, George Whippert of the U. 8. navy is off the coast of Cuba. Attend Class Reunion. Mrs. Charles F. Sumner attended the in_Hartford last week. r. and - Mrs. Fred H. Phelps of Windsor have come to their Bolton cottaze. Mrs. G. F, Meade and daughter of Worcester, Mass., are guests of Rev. and Mrs. Willlam C. Besselievre. Fred D. Finley was a recent Willi- mantic. visitor. George T, Newcomb. has been the guest of his daughter in Sufiield. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Atwater and two children of Forestville and - Mr. and Mrs, William B. Williams of. . Man- chester were Bolton visitors Sunday. Miss Ijelen R. Northam of _East Hartford is a guest at her condn;, Charles N, Loomis’. ‘STAFE ORD Masonic Lodges to’ Attend St. John' Day Services—Children’s Night - at the Grange. ‘Tonic lodge has accepted “inv tion to attend the service wllh t!{h Tocal Tc Mrs, Julia Johnson is the ‘ual’t ot Mr. and Mrs' Jerome = Oréutt, -in Bridgeport. Stage Driver Fred Sawyer is lnl- fering: from a badly sprained wrist. Mr..ang Mrs. C. C. Pinney of Néw York 'spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pinney. 25th reunion bf her high school clgss |/ NBEWII}H MIIN JuLY 10 ON THE FAIR GROUNDS—Afumoon 2115, Night 8.15 M.lLfl'ARY 113 UFFALO’» "2 ' STEAMER BLOCK ISLAN PREPARBDKESS" Conlymed:With the MW (umsgu-) m on’ M ANDTHE CEs-%: DOORS OPEN ONE HDDR m * gDow Ticket Office show duy. at ‘& ey Gorner Brosdway and Main Street. Prices sar ;n‘A'iLivasnvvcs Until Sept. 5, to WATCH HILL = BLOCKISLAND A. M A M. *8:55 #%9:15 . 10:25 10:45 11:30 - 12:00 1:05 1:30 P.M. P. M, ’Bnily. except Sundays. 2 Norwich . ........Lv. New London ....... Watch Hill .. 5 Block Jsland ....Due Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and WATCH HILL =3 Adults, 50c; Children, 25c. <P, M. P.M. Ly. 2;15 #92:45 11845 4:20 5:10° 5:35 | Block Isfand . Watch Hill . | New Londen Norwhh vae "euw oul» SPECIAL EXCURSION 'aelm's' Fridays; July ‘5 'to September 1 1 BLOCK ISLAND &% Adults, 75¢; Children, 40c. Shore- Dinner Houses and Bathing Beach near l*ndm.d at Watch’ Hin and Block lsland. For furthe: information, pam rates, -»ly at office of umplny on Shetucket Street, Norwmh. NEW ENGLAND STEAMSHIP CO- by thé children of the village i | Grange hall, Wednesday evening when the annual ehildren’s night was ob- served, About thirty children par- ticipated in a ~ varied me, recita!iom drills, glven: - the pi crnm-nduxewere served and a’so- cial hour was enjoyed. " Pmch at - Methodist Church Sunday Evening. The pastor of the-iocal M. E. church, F.. Bro will preach on “The ~Mr. and Mrs. Russell Colburn are|; having an outing at Lake Florence, Wales, Mr. Colburn is building a % % At Baptist Parsonage. Rev. and Mrs. F. A. Man ‘three small sons are now It their new home, the Baptist )a.non mua,tthzw Keefe, .Jr., has ma from a week's stay.with friends in P3Miss ‘Rith Andrews o~ Stmmons &l}mm‘hhmhrfitmfi- g ichard Beebe of Los mcflw ¢ ud speak gers Wwith her. The ,_concert, held in tAe evening - was & very ‘E_ B Roberts of chico- nhfi m ‘were guests of the latter’s daughter, Dora, .0 2 fier‘: in towd for' ley died Saturlay. .Buriel was c.a. ISBISTER, !onn(lejg. Agt. o i A Chunh Sumr—vmhlhw- of Club Hang June Hox. Box._ to Pastor, Mrs, ‘Willia; mneumi.otsope was in DL Peter's cemetery, M 2 ‘There: was-a supper- flr Cngre- gational: chltr('!.h pariors Tuesday ning, - with a large _Miss Natalie ot s:stu, -turned home M