Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 2, 1916, Page 6

[AVOID DANGER There is no reason for having a cold room even if it is tao early to start your heater. * A cold . room is dangerous. uy a Gas Heater and be comfortable A full line in stock. Prices $2.25, $2.75 and $3.25. Tubing 10c per foot. THE CITY OF NORWICH BAS & 321" Main Street, Alice Building ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT Two Members of School Committee to be Elected Today—Sale of the Cap- ron Property. would make the committce six bers as heretofo of two committ year, probably mo nominated. and in 19 didate will be nominated, if the vote|by Rev. Mr. Roosevelt of Hebron. to| Mr. %ird Mrs. Ronald K, ned Saturday to their summer home r two weeks in the of the town in be obgerved. Theref three years hefore the be reduced to three from six members. | White Mountains This will be the plan unles elected today from qu way to legislate one of the overs out of office. No matter which party in tho state election, the senator from the Shoestring di: the town of Stonia can candidate 1s of the Mystic section and judse of the town court of Ston democratic nominee is Cornelins Cran- dall, for over fiftecn the borough of Stonin: The Capron has been purchased by Mis ShefMeld from William L. Main. TLobster thievery seems to he a_ spe- being taken from the wells of seen of late in the borough s total silk from the he STONINGTON day. Prior to the recent annual town L meeting when a vote was passed to| (. redyce the membership of the school | otny Kelley and Patrick Murray were committee from six to three, each of [ No the party caucuses nominated cand dates for the committee, Lorenzo D.|{a] conventions. Fairbrother, republican, and Thomas W. Hickson, democrat A. Kramer, James Both will be today, -their names b on serving for the term to |South Main ‘st they will be elected. That |left Saturda m- | after a shor geles, Cal, visit, leav. When the t men expire n winter with friends. cessors wiil be| Services were held et ot s | chaPel ¢S hnday. TReTAinE nnuai raeet De | tu will | on Broad ittee omm ay, @ some way | _Willilam B to prevent the two to be | Westchester Saturday. ifving, and a | The election ing held tod. opened at §.3 Stonington’s Senator. successful m. and 3 p. m. The town is also voting on the; loense iquention. John rict will come from n. The repubi nic 1. Hinckley, Miss Marg the fourth ret Donova de_school ngton, and the s warden of home in New H: Borough Bricflets. ce in Water street arah Dublin school butlding, Middletown. in the borough, the crusteans |iand Saturds hing | niversary celebration. live black snakes have been | We reets by | Miss Lillian Johnson tdiners, and three of [ will teach in one of the B e b iAnea ansom school building. B oo s hoon, Hiled | “Supervisor J. A. Youns returned T ion of of Now Zealand.| Have COLCHESTER Borough Delegates at Norwich Con- ventions—Mrs. Mary Moses Going to Los Angeles—Vote on Purcell, vich Saturday attending democratic congressional and senator- Coing to Los Angeles. ng on| >rs. Mary Moses, who has cial ballot. They will probably |iting her brother, J. R. { for several for Hartford and wi for Los An- erc ‘she will n the Epi tton was Voting on License. will close at ns was the gv atives in Portland Saturday. Teachers Return. som school building, returned day, after spending the vacation at the Miss Bessie Monahan, teacher in the returned Friday from her A number from town went to_attend the J. Frank Rogers of Salem end visitor in town. in one of the rooms in the rday from a short stay "womwiGn BULLETIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2,1916 slate were classed as bolters:and ,m'?lpned the slates for eaucus action, . and ‘the slate is presented openly and r ¥ ] [ith dellberation. Those who opposed e Extra Pension of $10 Per Month for Three Medal of Honor Men—No Campaign Banner Flying This Fall—New Manager for Babcock Properties. There were three Rhode Islanders ‘who served in Rhode Island regiments In the Ciyil war who will receive $10 & month extra pensions for the re- mainder of their lives, becayse thelr names appear upon the army and navy medal honor roll, for brilllant service and extraordinary bravery while in ac- tion. There medal of honor men are James A. Barber of Westerly village, and Charles D. Ennis of the Potter Hill section and David Naylor, of Ashaway. Mr. Barber's occupation is that of a fisherman, but which he practically abandoned some three years ago by reason of the scarcity of fish and con- JAMES A. BARBER sequent_unprofitableness of the busi- ness. He still owns the identical boat which he built soon after the close of | the Civil war and he spends some Of his time aboard his favortte crz rarely goes fishing. He is in _the civie center of Westerly almost daily and at the nhe 15 a regu- lar attendant a superior court ses- | sion during the tr of Engineer | Charles H. Mansfield for manslaught- ér in connection with the ad wreck at Bradford, as a very near re ative was one of the five killed. He has followed the testimony carefull ir. Bark n; ride in 1 ing on the roll ¢f hono nd his name was among the ve o be entered thereon, some ye r the close of the war. The hat provides for the additional of $10 a month was passed by s last Apr states that the of each s persbn who hos served in the i or naval s ce of the Unit States in any war and who has attained the age of sixty-five, and has reccived a medal of honor for havng “in involving actual conflicr with the ene- my distinguished himself conspicuously by sallantry or intrepidity at the risi |campaign fund, as thers is no use of his own life, above and beyond the | money in eiections here, nor is the call of duty,” shall be entitled to a|committee required to get out the lace on this new roll of honor and to|party vote, or do anything that com- the additional pension. | mittces in’ other places are supposed | Mr. Barber enlisted in November, |[fo do. Stiil the town committee of | 1861, as private in Company G, First Rhode Island Artillery, and was pro- | moted fo be corporal. ' He re-enlisted o5 0 veteran volunteer in 1 He was wounded and confined in hospital fc two months. He was honorably dis- charged and mustered out of se‘rucel June 24, 1865 £t, but | Hing |of B | first place in all New England to & | work ction | Eleven Civil war veterans now living in New England will receive this addi- tional pension, besides the three in Rhode Island. They are: Wallace A. Beckwith and George Williams, of New London, Conn.; Andrew S. Bryant, of Springfield, Mass.; John F. Bickford, of Gloucester, Mass.; Walter G. Merrill, of Pittsfield, Mass.; Charles H, Pink- ham, of Worcester, Mass.; John H. Boutwell, of Montpeller, Vt.; Charles G. Gould. of Cavendish, Vt.; Charles 1. Rich, of Bennington, Vt.; David D. Stevens, of Peabody, Mass.; and Jack. son Sargent, of Stowe, Vt. Rhode Island will be well represent- ed among the contestants in the fire- men's muster at the Brockton fair next Friday, and some of these veteran organizations expect to be among the winners. The prizes aggregate $1,550, divided info 19 water offerings, there- fore some of the Rhode Island ma- chines ought io be among the winners in view of the good work they have done at other musters during the sea- son. The machines that will g0 to Brockton from Rhode Island are King Philip and Hydraulion of Bristol, Watchemocket of Iast Providence, Gaspce No. 1 of Providence, Hay Cart (formerly N. F. Dixon of Westerly) of Pawtucket, Fire King of Pawtuvet Volunteer of East Greenwich, Wash- ington No. 1 of Wickford and Star No. 1 of Westerly. The list of entries to date indicates that there will be nearly 40 contest- ants, included in the number being the following, in addition to thos Rhode Island: Union of Fast tree, White Angel of Salem Winckendon. Veteran of Charlestown, Converse of Malden, Red Jacket of Cambridge, . Okommokammessett _of Marblehead, Granite of Quincy, De- fender of East Weymouth, Konohasset of Cohasset, Protector No. 3 of Brock- ton, Active of Weymouth, Hancock No. 1 of Brockton, Alabama Coon of Stoughton, Protection of Amesbury, Washington of Holbrook, Congueror of South Weymouth, Hingham - Vet of m, Enterprise of Canpello, Live 0. 41 of Somerville, Germania of Chelsea, and Protection No. 1 okville. In presidential years that have gone Westerly prided jtself in being the e 1 republican campaign banner bear- ing portraits of the candidates, the president and the vice president nom- inecs, swing on over Dixon square, a huge up to e there is no Ha n Wester iy d there is hat line. Perhaps the newly elected »wn committee will have done what 2d | the preceding committee has left un- done. The town committee of West- the republican committee, as that he only party of consequence in the town. is altogether different in its ngs from perhaps any othe ommittee anywhere. ©n account of he preponde: of ¢ committee is not required to r Westerly, with =14 members, is per- ‘ger than any other * in the For the I of something clse to 1o, or some s’ commit- inating committee, and y that, and nothing more. This committee ing doing along | jealous publicans the | ¢ | Tenochtit not adherents to the principles of the party. This new committee will prob- ably continue in the same routine, and there is interest in the action of the new committee in the party caucuses, especially by the Outs, who have been deposed " from the committee. With changed conditions in management, will the alleged party principles cry hold good, or will the Outs become the bolters, or true blue party men, stand- ing to the rack, fodder or no fodder? Local Laconics. The superior court will reconvene in Westerly at 10.30 this morning when the Mansfleld trial will be resumed. Thus far the trial has been upcn the infallibility of the railroad block sys- tem. William A. Wikox has succeeded the Industrial Trust company as man- ager of the Mattie P. Babcock proper- ties in Westerly, including the Bar- ber Memorial building, in which Miss Babcock has a life interest. A majority of the delegates ' from Westerly are opposed to the retention of Gearge Benjamin Utter on the re- publican state central committee and will nominate whom they would like as his successor. Still the state conyen- tlon may prefer Mr. Utter. Such moves have been made in politics. THE VENICE OF MEXICO. The Home of the Aztec Lake Dwell- ers a Place of Much Charm. (Spectal to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, D. C., Oct. 1.—When peace once more broods over Mexico and the “See Amerlca First” cam- paign is made to embrace the wonder- ful scenic beauties of the southern repubiic one-of the most popular re- sorts for tourists will probably be “The Venice of the Valley,” graphi- caily described in a communication from Walter Hough to the National Geographic Soclety, a part of which is issued today in the following bul- £ the pleasurable experiences g those that delight the traveler Mexico is a visit to the home of Asztec lake dwellers. Much of the charm of the great Valley of Mexico, where they live, is due to the stretches of water among the _trees verdant fiel in a landscape d in beautiful mountains and with clearest air of heaven. r lakes—Texcoco, Xochimilco, Zumpango, and ‘Chalco,—do not reveal themselves except from the, high mountains encircling the valley. They are shallow bodies of water the midst of extensive marshes, una proachable and lacking the effect of our lakes with their definite shore- lines. For this reason they have never aways of civilized commeree, navigation flourished in their were from jient and re- markable tes, whose people, pro- | tected in the fens, dug out canals and | developed an indigenons commerce nd_transportation to the fullest ex- tent “Long before C z came the In- dians of worked in the | bogzy lake a dug canals hith- {er and canals between great city of be- tween th of wa s, then as now, their boats and in the fens buil thatched houses. “Pere Sahagun, the Franciscan, re- cords that ‘the City of Mexico is like another Venice and the people them- [selves are comparable to fhe Vene- tians ity and savoir’ This written he 16th century, but in the lapse of sev the city's onderfui dry sround {tion to na tincd to be | dwellers wi farther afleld in the entrancing valley of the sky. i “The way to the present Aztec Ven- ice, which bears the name of Xochi- milco, in the fleld of flowers,’ is through one of these ancient canals— a prehistoric water road from Ten- ochtitlan to the capital and eat of one of the group of seven Aztec iribes which long ago came from remote Aztlan to the rich valley of Mexico. “The life on the canmal, vivid and picturesque, is as striking now as it was then; it may even be suspected that thé change from that time to this has -not been very great. It is hard to get a start to the lend of the fens in more ways than one—the nesotia- tions for passage in a barge with boatmen who display the characteris- tics of that tribe known the world over; and the conflicting claims also of all the costumes incidents, shipping and so forth, of the boiling, squirm- ing kaleidoscope canal and shore pop- ulation on itg multifarious quests be- wilder the beholder and make him forget that he is on a journey to see the lake dwellers in their primitive homes, Tardily, then the barge comes into the clear pool in front of the medieval toll-gate fortress. where all shipping must go uader a low bridge and where the old-time toll collector armed wiih & pike, could threaten the recalcitrant without much_effort. “Beyond the gateway begin more vistas of a new world! On this canal, bordered with irees and spanned with quaint bridges, is a perfect stream of craft, from the slender . dug-out chaloupe to the square-bowed flat- boat, hurrying on with everything to feed, repair, and adorn the great city. Freight is of all descriptions; but one looks curlously on the small bundles of grass and other green forage for animal feed, the pulque, barrels, veg- ctables and flowers. The Indian boat- men, clad in white cotton shirt and trousers, are rworking with a \will, sometimes wading in the canal and drawing the heavy-laden boats after them; and alas! returning to their paradise, a woman piloting her hus- band who 1s the worse for pulque. “Flotsam and jetsam in the canal are vagrant bulbs of water hyacinth, a wicked, beautiful plant, whose re- productivity makes men work to keep it down, but here it has met its match and is made to be useful for the Az- tecs throw sreat masses of it upon a strip of hog to the thickness of a foot or more. Thé water hyacinth is provided with large cellular floats, a natural provision for its dessemlna- tion, which has made it an obstruc- ion in some of our sourthern rivers. “Upon this bed of flate the natives spread a laver of muck, dredged from the bottom of the canals. Perhaps before the plant floats have decayed these gardens may drift away should the water rise. Even now portions of the lake on square miles of vegeta- tion cover the surface like the ‘sudd’ of the Nile, and the canal roads have to be staked at the sides to keep them from disappearing “The term ‘floating gardens’ was properly applied by the early histor- ians of Mexico to masses of water weeds ered with a thin layer of soil, employed by the Mexicans at a period when the fluctuating waters prevented the formation of permanent chirampas, and so in the New World the Indians repeated the famed gar- dens of the lake of Cashmere. “The Xochililcos are oXpert garden- ers and assiduous at their work. Most of their plants are started in seed beds from which they are transplant- ed to the chinampas, and it is strange to seet boat loads of corn sprouts brought to be planted In this manner. Curlisouly . enough, these morass gar- dens sometimes require irrigation, which is_accomplished by throwing on water from the canal with a wood- en scoop. “It cannot be said that the Xochi- milcan man has 4n open and ingenu- ous countenance, but it shows_ force of character and lights up quickly in response to kindness and recognition. The young women bave round, often rud but rather expressionless Cleanses the teeth thoroughly—dis- solves, quickly—purifies the breath—. Or.Lyon's For The Teeth Powder —~ Cream A Standard Ethical Dentifrice Send 2 stamp today for a generous trial package of sither Dr. Lyon’s Perfect Dental Cream or Tooth Powder. L W.Lyon & Sons, Inc., 511 W. 27¢h St,N. Y. ity REMOVAL The Norwich Fur Co. are now located at their new store at 45-47 Main Street, next to Shea & Burke’s Furniture Store. a new line of Furs, Coats, Skins, and all kinds of Trim- mings for Fall and Winter. We are open for business now with All Remodeling and Repairing at reasonable prices. Norwich Fur Co. 18 years in Norwich M. BRUCKNER, Proprietor BRIEF STATE NEWS Meriden—A decrease of $§,917.19 has been made in the town debt accord- | 163 Main street has been notified by ing to the town reports just filed for | his lawyer in New York that his share The bonded indebtedness of | of estates in Aberdeen and Boxbern, the town is now $605,000. the children are pretty and the | tion living, on the mother's side. The! older women are better preserved than |oldest one is living in Hungary. The' the women of the Pueblos of _the|mother's maiden name was Anna Wujs southwestern United States. Both sexes work hard, and where there is ; such uniformity of poverty the strug- | and treble damages as allowed by the gle for existence makes life a serious |Statutes, have been brought against matter and engraves deep lines in the | George W. Sherwood of Bridgeport, as, e T e e A IOrs. raad | with | WostDort ‘Au. 15, Jast.; Wheiactions mourning and rejoicing. 5 “What will be their fortune when |lor court. | thelr swamps are drained and thelr old lake dweller iife merged into the humdrum of farmers? If by svod for- tupe they are kept from the deadly effects of alcohol, the ohief moloch of | yi's + z - S e o ot “tney | Warehouse Point that no dhildren wili happily on the dry lake bot- | po > 570 ‘N0 i1 ol i Tom, ‘0 BePRe” e thave Yot Sote- | o Jonger any dount that the plague is Bridgeport — Four suits for $4,700' a result of an automobile collision in' were filed the other day in the super-' Warehouse Point—The spread of in- fantile paralysis has caused an order, to be issued by the managers of the Hartfora County Temporary Home be taken into the home until there is! | Litchfield—The library at Litchfield has recently permitted to be placed' upon its shelves the nucleus of a lit- tle collection of books owned by the Litchfiell Garden Club, which books it is hoped will soon be installed. These books have been presented by the Garden Club Library committee. Middletown—James Fyvie, of No. Scotland, amounts to $28,000, as fol- lows: $5,000 from_ the old homestead Litchfield—Announcement has been | in Aberdeen, which is to be sold, and made that the marriage of Robert|$20,000 from granite quarries im”Box- Myles, who spent a_summer in Litch- | bern. fleld recently, and Miss Greer, grand- daughter of Bishop Greer, wiil be on The Useful Man. A man who admits that he 8oesn’t Addison—A son was born last week | know much probably is the kind who to Mr. and Mrs. William Rath of Ad- | will eventually learn a great deal and The child is the fifth genera- | be very useful Atchison Globe. because their If you suspect coffee hurts you,try INSTANT POSTUM | in its place for ten days. he Test Tells — “There’s A dreat many former coffee [ — rinkers now use INSTANT POSTUM improved health shows the change has helped them f i ~a '\l e 4 t ‘4 By - % - : ~