Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 7, 1916, Page 12

NURWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, UCTUBER 1, 1916 " "IDLE:TALK IS NOT JI (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) “Don’t never prophesy onless Ye know,” said Josh Hillings. This would he a very good lesson for some score of volunteer weather- prophets and some few professional “forecasters” also—to meditate upon in_the silent watches of the night. But it suggests to me, just at this time, the formulation of another text, exactly like Josh's with the exception of one word. “Don’t never criticize onless e know."” The. .fact that criticism without knowledge is about the commonest fapin, of conversation doesn't make it any:‘the more excusable. Popularity, of &_vice is no defense of its viciousness. Merely because one's neighbors all UST OR PROFITABLE when any call was made upon him for really hard work, Fre invariably dodged it on the plea of lack of strength. He even let his wife do tasks which were generally heid to be man's work, and got many looks and some cutting “hints” from other women about it. Then, when he dropped dead, one from heart failure brought on by a sudden strain which he could not avoid, it came out that he had for years had some sort of heart trouble which made :he atrempt at severe work or the undergoing of unusual strain practical suicide. Instead of seing lazy, he had simply been de- cently prudent. But I haven't noticed, since then, that many of those who used to crit- icize .him werr made so ashamed of themselves as to lead them to refrain from the some sort of judgment of thers, There's an awful fot of this cort of thing in the country, among country nen as weil &s country women. I jon't sw that there is any more in the country than in the city. the ) business to be any of if ther place, and, in the country, peopie naturally come to know ieir neighbors better fthan in the ty, it is cspecially noticeable—and especially inexcusabie. | Jones and his wife may scold each | @o it affords no reason why you or 1 should do it. “Other men's failures will never save you,” sang the old hymn; nor ill the plea that others are equall, guilty serve as a cloak to cover & hide one’s own shortcom It is not the conduct of others but our own conduct—your's and mine— which must meet and fact the white light of fudgment. Fashion convention may sway Mrs, Grindy’s opinions, but they have | no bearing, cven, on the final ques tions of practical morals. “Wherefore thou art without ex- cuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein you judgest an- other, thou condemnest th: for same. things | §. At least, that was Paul's idea. And| %Paul had a pretty level head, to sav | otemE about DENYE . canonized saint | angy 8y inspired (;unh | Bbut suppose’ he maant that we all | Jcommit exactly the Dut that we folly a practice same follies icise in othe in the same mudr sonably sure to be ty. We may not | mire plastered ov It is not for the pot to ground of mere f windows. eir neighbors mdfent o, the part of some | neishbors, « FL “p ) be sure, but n-#rguble thatitchesz ~8nd is so uasightl; treatment help, then when Re healed gave me ins/ant relief and tion complet ““Why don't you very druggist sells nol Soap. Samplea free, v nel, Baltimore, Md. Remember | Get— teréd | qu other more than vou and your vifc do. You may think this im and wish they didm't. Bt right have you publicly or| your own cronies to make| opinion of what Mr. and M Jones do in iheir own home a m ter of eriticism_and__adverse jud ment” Perhaps they may either both have lotter temp: hard er 1o control than you and vour wife. | Perhaps, even as it Is hold in, bottle up, suppress vastly more itg than you, with your smatic_tempers, are ever tem utter. You dom't know the Joneses as they know s the point,~-you » set yourself up as j es till you know ses “and motives nseives. Which won't very long time Or, Mre. Jones’s house is s a little untidy. She and en children are always im when they go out, el htrc 00l or elsewhere. yisitors, bregki t v inte they know purdened v witho with half-a-dozen chil fed and clothed, some- to do than her two Mrs. Jones, other two hands on accomplish in a given| nat she simply had to let | %o undone he time be- hat, perhaps, chese to r a dirty dress for ty worl | crubhing, etc., in order to save the I gown she possessed fo ies” Or that she might per- sometimes get so tired, so wern thoroughly exhausted at her fourteen or fifteen hour she was simply combelled | or lie down with folded t reservoir of her strength 2 little? | Without kncwing these thing nd | many others cognate to them,—how is it possi for o r people to judge Mrs. Jones righteously” = | Jones himself doesn’t farm it as| some of his neighbors think he should. } ntinues to use some rather odd old-fashicred tools which the of us have discarded as out-of- and supplanted with more mod- inventions. But, before we crit- ze him for that we would have to know whether he could afiord to row away the oid ones and buy new. He has a bigger family to sup- port than some of us. The calls on his purse for boys' shoes and girls' dresses are hizger, and his purse is slenderer. It he is making a worn- out plow do duty another year, at the cost of harder work to himself and longer and even poorer crops, in order to keep his boys at school and help” the oldest girl through her nor- mal course,—if he is doing something like that, say, in which of our mouths dees it lie to criticize him? Sometimee he does mighty foolish things, too, in the way of seeding and cropping. That is to say, they seem mighty foolish to ms who look on from ou'side his line fences. Well, I've done some mighty foolish things’ during the few and evil days of my pilgrimage. And so have you, dearly beloved, What is strongly to the point, we both know it, too: both you and L Perhaps Jones though so, when we were doing it, and had the grace to keep his thought to himself. without blatting it out for cverybedy to hear. It's an exceedingly rare man who REMOVAL The Norwich Fur Co. are store at 45-47 Main Street, Furniture Store. mings for Fall and Winter. All Remodeling and Repairing at reasonable prices. ‘Norwich Fur Co. . BRUCKNER, Proprietor 18 years in Norwich M. We are open for business now with a new line of Furs, Coats, Skins, and all kinds of Trim- now located at their new next to Shea & Burke’s | republican nom was A ht fternoon was served young Italian 1[by t ',,z., e | CBITUARY. T Tt e | Mrs. Henry Ray. mon council r ». | Henry [ ¢ Harland road, | and at > be 1 next|long a resident c ich Town, dicd | Menday ev \ the | Thursday night " at the Shelferinz | gift of the e rms where she had Leen:for the past | and, perh: all L s ' a “he invalid. She | republic | w s cheerful and uncomplain- |i a was a patient sufferer. Mrs. | There is to the|Ray was well known to-those’ who hasn’t more or less often made a fool of himself. Generally those who haven't are such as Nature did the job for at the outset, so completely that there’s no room left for doing it over .again! The' very fact that a man can make a fool of himself, occasionally, proves surest things in the world that the “rooral deestricks” would . be some- what happler places to live in if the residents thereof would spend more time in keeping sticks out of their own eyes and less In talking about the motes in’ their neighbors'. that he wasn't wholly a fool at the| “People will talk” you say, “and start-off. we can't stop ‘em. “Wherefore, being all more or less| Perhaps, but we can stop ourselves. infected with the scab, we shall be doing better to scratch ourselves as oportunity offers, rather than the | step which is wholly in his power to- Joneses and the other neighbors. wards reforming the world. — “Charfty Dbegins at home.” And so “l tak it gor business is to mind |do some other things. When you oor business”, said the canny Mc-|and I have made our farms and our Rimmon of Kipling's story. homes and our characters so speck- There certainly is enough of it to|lessly and immaculately perfect tnat keep up all wholesomely busy without |no criticism can fleck them, then, — adventuring ’cross lots on to any|and not till them,—will come any call neighbor's demesne. to us to begin reforming our neigh- And, withou: any reference to our | bors. friends of the city 1t Is one of the THE FARMER. NEW LONDON'S POLITICAL GOSSIP Conceded That Both Parties Have Named Strong Candidates For State Senate-—Fossibility of a New Charity Com- And every man who thoroughly re- forms himself has taken the one first missioner—Those Mentioned For Representatives. (Spectal to The Bullegin.) effect that the present charity com- New London, Oct. 6.—It makes no|missioner is not over-anxions of re- difference which party wins out in the [apointment as the duties are setting coming election, so far as the state[to be too exating and that he Is not senate is concerned for the Eighteen- | phvsically able to do all t ex- strict in the 1917 gen- | pected of ‘nim by the charicy com- % 'to’be represent. | mittec. Last. year e was sllowed ar | 3 Londoner that can fill | assist but this was faken away | the “position to- the Full sfaction | from him at the commencement of the ¢ tir of the people of ent term of office and in con- district | his pres regardless of party affiliation. uence he sver-worked. two men were ever nominated for the event t sent_incum- same polil e whose qual not to be considered asfa tions and experience are more e te, there is a_ bare possibility balanced thar Goss, 2 democrat, will be Cronir, republ s R v, named as his succe Mr democrar. th ndidates. | conceded to be the Mr. May w rom| sioner that ever fi most n mmit rat office, who W er member of ver on for The man !l represen? in SISTER'S WARM COAT ] LOOKS LIKE THIS So Playful Bottle green velvet lined and inter- lined gives this cozy coat for wee girls, The skirt is smocked on the yoke, but {what m the garment entirely de- lightful is a bit of dyed rabbit skin around the neck. | came to the Schoolhou: Club, was in- dustrious and a zood neizhbor. She was born in Dublin and came when a young woman to New York, then af- ter a few vears to Norwich, where she ests of zency part_this city in the senate of Con-|married Henry Ray, who survives her. in serv lezgi! necticut and his name unas like — nd w of Frank Q. Cronin, but there is a May Twice Promoted as b r May not in sound. But' thel Robert Sterry 6f“Otrobands avende Cronir, nominees fur representatives vet[returned on the ship Itas ——— > come. So far s of | aine .coas Both are comparatively young mer,|both principal 2l are| an both were born in New London, bothi | concerned every ave perhaps a | He e on in th ublic | feyy e candfdates, | d_will be at ve.city, both th _ Henr R | rumbull this winter. re d both fankey the | = - D i e apd e s “‘;;:l[ To Teach in Hackensack. - Ain 152 lawver. wl : enticemaocratil| James Murray of West Town street My 15 3 FnccessAill busines i eclare t they | left for Hackensack, ere i t since Groton, | wit ot ions il be|he is a member of the facuity of the Ceer I o fons will D2l Newman school. been priv- ¢ nt positions | T senator, although| now rests rely with “hat C Local Jottings. de Dy roton i} Charles Browning of Plain Hill is Postm having his silo fil represented (1 = Lou |. Mr. and ) Elias Parkhurst hav bee visit daughter, Mrs Robert Stott of I Hill Newe ol home on Wes: street after e o R weeks' visit in The democrais « an_alderman ) (¢ It 15 ¢ B B o in (h_ree of the five wards in the city imit s TN Miss Katherin Murray of West election but t Town et t has Dbes spending the, the city ie week. with friends in )\ g letown. dem maj Dorcas Socioty Mests—Death of Mrs. | Henry Ray—Robert Sterry to be | Quartermaster at Fort Trumbull This Winter. | | /| | NORWICH TOWN { dini i i Sl ert Miner The 1 o were or and Mrs. F wor - 1fp Rév. H. T. Arnold will be in charge of tl {noon service at the Sheltcing Secretary F. . Warncr of the New London County Improvement League was in Storrs on a business trip Fri- day. laugl 1st Town ttle son t, after a m Mont- ville, There will be a session of the Sun- day school an Endeavor service S 1t Scotland Road hall. After a Cantérbury with Mrs , Mrs. Sarah Goldswe to her home son from <. Judson’s derick S ts, Mr. and of the Wauwecus Hill road. Mrs. Mary P. Lathrop v spending a_day or twc sin, Mrs. Thurston B. Barbc s Corner, returned Friday to her home in Scotland. Washir;gton Coumyi, Rl HOPKINTON am H. Durfee Elected Tax Col- tector—Wodding Anniversary Cele- | brated—Business in Probate Court.| The school committee mer in quar- terly session at the town hall Mon- day morning, with all the members present. Superintendent Henry J. Wheeler read his quarterly report which was received on file. Council Mests, The town ccuncil mei at the town hall Monday afternoon. William H. Durfee was elected tax collecfor at a compensation of tw: hundred dollars, he being the only bidder. The fo lowing named persons were eloct: supervistors of election to serve Nc 7th next: Voting District No. 1, Ed- win R. Allen snd Henry J. Wheeler: republican, Bdward Murra and Michael McGinn, demor District No. 2, Albert S. Babcock and (eorge E. Allen, republican; Charles H. Brown and Mallory O. Maine, demo- crat. Bills were ordered paid to the amount of $1,275.34. Probate Cotrt Business. The first and fina! accounts of El- mer E. Kenyon administrator on: the estates of Mary P, Palmer and Jere- miah K. Sherman were aliowed and ordered recorded and distribution of balance in hands of the administra- tor ordered in each case. The will of Mercy Collins was proved and ordered recorded and Ad- Champion Aviator Guynemer of the|of wind drove the machine with its French aviatfon corps miraculously |badly shaken pilot within the French lines, smashing the machine, but Guy- escaped death after downing 3 Ger- |namc:’cscaped unhurt. His escape is man acroplanes in a like number of jthe most miraculous yet recounted in minutes. Guynemer was brought 'air fighting on the Somie. Picture down by the bursting of a shrapnel ;shows Guynemer carrving the flag of shell, which penetrated the left wing |the First aviation group of the French of his aeroplane. The aeroplane fell larmy. French reports say Guynemer precipitately 8,000 meters straight over!ha,! brought down twenty-one enemy the German lines, when a sudden gust ' seroplanes. die Collins was apointed executrix. The inveutories of the estate of John Cautelin and Caroline Cautelin were received and ordered recorded. The first and final account of Mary A. V. Hill, administratrix on the es- tate of John Hill, deceased. was: re- ferred to Nov. 6th, next, with order of notice. The will of Thomas. A, Worden, de- ceased, was proved, allowed and or- dered ‘recorded and Marcus Worden, son of the deceased was confirmed ex. ecutor, notice thereon being wafved by _all parties concerngd. Petition for .the apointmnt, of El- dred F. Collins as adminisimator on the estate of Thomas Dorr Main, was referred to Nov. 6th, with order of notice. K Village cellaney. Mrs. Stephen Saunders is critically Mon. Tues. Next Wee 8—PEOPLE—8 The Only Monday The Supreme Tuesday Screen Artist v AUDITORIUM 3-BG jACtl'S—3 . 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A large number of friends and neizhbors ga:hered at the home of Charles R. 1enyon, at Hopkinton City Saturday evening to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon. The ladies of the First Seventh Day per of the scason In the parish house, Tuesday ~ evening. Readings _ were given after the supper by Mrs, Muncic of Westerly and there was in addi- tion music. The assessors’ lists of taxes for 1915 have been fAled in the office of _the town clerk and copies are being pre- | pared for tha collector and printer. At the Broadway Congregational church the pastor will preach in the morning and at five o'clock. The af- ternoon subject is Patriotism Not Pro- vincialism. At Trinity Episcopal church there will be hoiy communion at 9.30 a. m., morning prayer and sermon ot 10.30 2. m, and evening prayer and addres at 7.30 p.m. Rev. Samuel H. Howe, D. D., pastor of Park Congregational church, will preach at both the morning service and the vespen service at 4.30 o'clock at the church, At the Greeneville Congregational church, Sunday morning, the pastor will preach on What Is Involved in Jesus Going Before Us? The Sunday | school meets at noon. At Christ Episcopal church therc ~ morning prayer, holy baptism and a | sermon by Rev. R. R. Graham at 10.30 | clock. ‘Sunday school will be held | at noon, | At the First Congreyatioral church ! there will be preachinz at the morning | service on In His Steps, by the pastor, . George H. Bwi The meeting { the Y. P. S. C. E. will be held at 30 o’clock. At Trinity M. E. church, Rev. F. W. eman, pastor, the morning be Selected for Service. In the evening the pastor will preach on Dy- ing to Live. This will be Rally Day the Sunday school At the Second Congrag there will be morning worship with sermon and hymns for the children, Sunday school at noon, and an evening service with sermon. The minister | will preach morning and evening. onal church Rev. J. W. Areson, rector of Grace church, Yantic, will ofliciate at the | services on Sunday. Thers will be celebration of holy commucion and a sermon at 10.45 o'clock. Evering pr: er will not be resumed until Sunday, Oct. 16. There will be preaching morning and evening at Grace Memorial Bap- tist church by the pastor, Rev. R, B. Harris. Sunday school will be held at noon and the Union Lyceum in the afternoon. The programme will be in charge of Miss M. Ruby Epps. At the Church of the Good Shep- herd, Universalist, Rev. Joseph F. Cobb, pastor, will preach on the sub- ject, The Spirit of the Age. There will be Sunday school at noon, a meeting of the Y. P. C. U. at 6.15, the topic to be How to Get the Most Out of the Y. P. C. U, At the Baltic Methodist Episcopal church, the pastor, Rev. Charles Smith, will conduct services morning and evening. There will be a session of the Sunday school at noon, a mee Fing of the Junior League at 5 o'clock and a meeting of the Epworth League at 6 o'clock. The Circles of Providence will be the subject at the morning service at the First Baptist church, Rev. Georze Henry Strouse, pastor. There will be Sunday school at noon. A meeting of the B. Y. P. U. at 6.30 o'clock and evening service. The topic of the ev- ening service will be Progress by Ci sis. At the McKinley Avenue A. M. E. Zion church, Rev. E. George Biddle, pastor, there will be a preaching ser- vice at 11 a. m., a session of the Sun- day school at noon, and a praise and prayer service in the evening. This will be the Bishop Asbury anniversary service and ‘the topic will be Metho- dist Pioneers. Sunday_will_be observed as Rally Day at the Taftville Congregational church. The morning topic will be The Gathering of the Clans. In the evening the topic will be The Conse- cration of Our Gifts. The Bible schoof rally will be held at neon with an ad- dress by Secretary Edwin Hill of the Norwich ¥. M. C. A. At_the Federated church, Rev. A. W. Burdon, pastor, there will be morning and evening services ‘at the usual hours. Sunday school will be Edmund T. Smith is_moving his| household goods from Maple Court, Ashaway, to the house he recently Baptist church served their first sup- ! SUNDAY SUBJECTS. The Holiness Mission holds services at 87 Main street. { | At the Sheltering Arms a service | will be conducted by Rev. H. T. Ar- nold. At the Christian Science Reading Room in the Thaver building, Frank- | lin square, the topic will be Are Sin Disease and Death Real? be holy communion at 9.30 o'clock, | topic | “[. 4—SHOWS TODAY—4 Aty Keith Vaudeville 3 ROADWS ! Triangle Photoplays THE (=SLEGiAPH TRIO COMEDIANS, SINGERS AND ALL ROUND ENTERTAINERS Middleton & Spelmeyer In Their Dainty Episode “AN OCEAN WOOING” HENRY B. 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November 6—WALLACE W. ATWOOD, PH. D., Harvard, ILLUTSRATED, 3 Grand Canyon of the Colorado November 13—CHARLES F. AKED, D. D, LL. D, American and the Worla State. October 17—DE Lectures will begin promptly at 8 p. m. Tickets for the entire course $2.00 cach on sale at store of Cranston & Co., 25 Broaiway, Norwich, on and after October Tth. t noon and a meeting of the Jun- | subject, Why Doesn’t God Stop the iihoel}d(‘,a E. society at 3 o'clock. The C.|War?. Sunday school Rally at noon. B, meeting will be held at 6.30 o'clock. | Miss M.-Sutnah’will speak. The young will be The subject for the evening people’s meeting will be at 6.03 p. m. The Devil in an Uproar. s From the Consular Reports. least $95,000 women and girls in Haiti wear the “mouchoir tete” or head handkerchicf. Solid reds, yei- lows, orange, purpie and black are the s in the silk Main street, as usual and even- The Gospel Mission, Steiner *uildir Meetii Sunday, morning, afternoo ing. At _Mt. Calvary Baptist church, Rev. B. W. Williams, pas w l‘" be morning and_evening i The | morning subject will be Harvest and Summer and the evening subject will be The Reward of the Faithful. rice s at from $6.51 to eing cheaper tham co i War has had a effect on R articularly injurious ik industry. At the: Preston City Baptist church, Probably Will. Rev. F. W, Tholen, pastor, there will || o "o 06000000 ‘country may- :‘ge:ms;xe;;n{‘::r T oE e | be hut denTer ongress think that ft. ed Saved at Sea and will be iven by |PUt that over so easily it can attempt |a $4,000,000,000 country next time.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. the young people at 7 o,clock in the evening. Man Who Knows. At the Central Baptist church, Rally ) Beitveal hap ailthoy e Of all men in the country Josepnus \[-’xgs.“‘ll“h?m?hlz .“yir\ ‘ .1:}:1‘!5 Slo- | must know best when a target it hit. cum. D. 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