Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 18, 1916, Page 12

EVIDENCES OF SOHL EXHAUSTION—CAUSE NOT KNOWN (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) ‘Up to a score of years ago oats ‘were a fair crop on the John Farmer place. We used to grow them regu- larly. They made up a part of the usual corn. oats, clover, timothy ro- tation. We should as soun have thought cf ceasing to plant potatoes as of ceasing to sow oats. They used to grow on all eorts of soll, gravel- salable. sistent search i vhich turned out ev Al C enats ly, loamy, dry or wettish with about :2le$;lgwwsnom“e :mrou;;g: q.‘.’x‘; Suen | “We know, for instance, that most THE FARMER. s Othe Utmost capaCIty at the Ma'estlc oqual success, They made a stiff |compite failures as others, but not 4 SHOWS TODAY i 2 straw which stood up against any- thing short of a whirlwind, and “filled” solidly, with good, long heavy heads. From thirty to sixty bushels an acres of lawful weight was the common production. Then, about twenty years ago, there worse than others had been recentl and he, for one, had about made his trying at the crop any more. ard, < came a sudden change. Our cats fail- v as if what I twenty years ago, ‘l’ln.ylon E. Hunt; tressurer, Henry B. Five People. whes - 5 Saainda otten na Shameteesl. 2027083 1, S W Sooretne S e L e T This is the Photoplay that Broke All Records in Providence for Three We were surprised but by no means |individual baa luck, was really just S Blakeley: gatekeeper. Henry Schrief- AMY LESSER J downhearted. True, such a thing |the symptom of an -epidemic which COLUMBIA fer; Ceres, Miss Myrtla Collins; Pomo- W, . : hadn't happened befcre in three gen- |has slowly spread over the entire [ — na, Mrs. RacHel Buell; Flora, Mrs. Singing Comedienne eeks' Thousands were TurnEd Away‘ erations, but then, like all other far-|neighbornood. Equal Franchise League Members In- |Martha Doubleday; ~lady assistant we had become more or less mers, wonted o naving the unexmected and It was only a And that hus other cl farm anges in % o unprecedcnted happen CRiaE e S ithin f Library—Kittens Abandoned on the e piigie 3 s . % s % ¢ a6 gl 5 sessonal e, e reasonca, ind Rerniy or RihiA e rioods S G| Green. COVENTRY {pishe \Wakicly Siit SWhros IniOve edly, has been laid upon the disagree- | comes at last to the realizations of is ‘wouldn't e repeated. So we sowed | th; Jeh Fa gencrations who - x . o more oats, next spring, without feel- |have farmed and fizzled in fhis par-| The Columbia Equai Franchise oo WILFRED LUCAS able or unpleasant features of this won- | great, its holy meaning. ing any special worry about them. Hctar valley of incecision. And the crop was, again, a com- plete and wretched failure. Then we began to sit up and take {his carlier farming y notice. What did it mean? As “Joe” |Wheat here as commnonly Allen used to say. the only way toand as profitubly as find out was by ascertaining. So|Crop began to peter we proceedwd to ascertain. We tried |that rthey. with all th some half-dozen patches of oats, next | had to give it up as a bad job. year, under as many differing condi- |fifty years I don'{ <uppose enough ‘tions. Some were sown after corn|Wheat has becn grown ‘n this whol but with a littlo special oats fertil- [(oWn to make ten barrels of flour. iger harrowed in: some were sown |And I grew two burrels of that, as an fer ‘Dotatdes. with a light dress experiment, “to sse what I could d. fine man kewise har- |One yea: periment paid me a rowed in. Some were sown on new |fuir businessy profit. Other vears it Around, sward turned under and fer- |failed to cover expenses At present tilizer top-dressed: some were put on | Prices of ren my wo: gravel loam ar ¥ returncd a p: whe cheaper, th But d now i \vxlhmi ke up a edrs had | e 1 borrow one of ity borne. And these every TS O ArErdetay | Gl ine hei ™ )ik A i B . e R gt A The Light of Happiness failure. the one ¢ which hed forme ! sur banner out-lot ¢ a” deep | and mere scr ng: we |lected cow manure and horse manure |and and pouliry manure: we trie f- dazen micties A comme we trigl lend plcter 1 1im tried everything <ted neigh- | no go. Not!: It certainly s if we of s h 2 t any |of excep:: exreriment. | paration x | d nywhe [rapidly as buckwhent. When my father | very farm, of recent | farms of big | chard, v But msst of the sowing some. Ti nd we haven't t evidence a 8 d it had il the other the viciniiy, its peach or- ich produced crops as res- years, therc oat flelds rd, s | Silas George ¢ 2 to {ularly and as abun, | About 35 vol- |ter, Helen Gorman = were ests _ of | Spencer of P re callers at |true, but it is better for him to eat A DRAMATIC ENCOUNTER be. Last vy my nearest . Forty years a T 1 Albany for the w strictly native food than for him. to neighbor who 1 i had awindied bt 2 & > fields in oats farm jold trees, which § .. but vefused to bea other v this sen: and. ‘ene hich ~he was tolA"me that ke th iooking . got about ght g he acre of welghing twelve nound ured bushel had mowed & where the during the own mile New acked up o fertitizing could d the sike which a bu: ne asked to tr found worth selieve we have re not worth shrub which regula: He also t A as fo its top and then, each edze of the condition among |Spring, starts out a_feehle growth of rowers thun I of various |shoots, only to be other failires. On the big _Shaler | ter. farm two fifteen-acre fields, he said,| One neighbor, a profes: had been left uncut, not being worth |grower, who has prodably a hundred barvesting even for straw. Daytonlacres in orchards of various sorts, 2ad also left his uncut, for similar |some yi ago made an attempt at -easons. The Dunwoodys had cut and | peaches. remembering how, on a cer- hreshed thei 1t found them solt:nn hill slope of his place, they had nal fruit- ight and chaffy that they were un- [used to bear profuscly when he was o they were using them for litter in_ their hen-yards, in_the-hope that somc keen-eyed biddy might, now and then. discover a grain as the re- sult of industrious scratching and per- In fact, my neighbor told me, that he hadn’t heard of a single cat crop one was classifiable as a success. He added that this year was simply a bit D his mind that there wasn’t any use in All of whicl: makes it look suspici- me thinking about | production My grandfather and my father in out on them, so r neighbors,| P! For | which ok hold of this | from vear | with the even one | vis ones - | service, 5. formerly | | :d the mext win- | a boy. He got one first érop which barely paid the cost of the trees and their. trans-planting. - - After. that he never got enough, any one season, to pay for the labor of that particular season, He finally abandoned. the a tempt and devoted himself to. plums and pears and appies, with a few side-issues, like grapcs and quinces. Now, ail of these things have set me to wondering. Here is a country town on whose farms for more than a hun- dred years wheat and _peaches and oats @rew naturally as buckwheat and apples and quack-grass do now. Then they all “fizzied out.” They no longer w naturally or easily. They can Dbe made to grow only by the expendi- ture of an amount of labor and a cost of fertilizer and a degroe of patent skill which few working farmers have to_give in right comhination. The simple and trite explanation is to say tnat the soil is exhausted of the elements peedful for their welfare. But, if that were all, we can restore the deplete elements till the soll is as rich with them or even richer than it ever could have been. In my own case, I have done just that thing. But it wom't return resuits. It is quite characteristic of most intelligent men that, the longer they live, the more they sce that they don't «now. I am beginning to suspect that there is something, perhaps in the air, perhaps in some even more sub- tle’ hiding-place, which affects certain crops quite as powerfully and as vit- ally as the so-called plant-food in the Tolland County vited to Andover—35 New Books for league has received s cordial invita- tion from thé Andover E. F. L. to at- tend a meeting at the Andover town hall this (Saturday) afternoon at 3 o'clock. Dr. Valeria Parker wiil be the speaker, For Worthy Cause. Plans_are or foot in Willimantic, in on Welch of sted, T creps won't without light, — sunlight. In Ed! ess they ma: indeed, sprout. but grow feebly, spind- lingly, un ably. No matter how ch the soil may be nor now favorable the temperature, -without -sunlight they peak, pine, and dwindle. Today all the processes of photo- graphy and its ailied arts depend up- on our knowledge of and ability -tfo control: a “cerain. rty of light known as actinism. y years ago, actinism wasn't understood or co sidered of any account. JuSt what it is nobody knows, even mow. All we know is some of the things it does and eome of the things we can do with its help. Is it a crazy idea that there may be in the very light uf day sume oth- er still - anknown property which af. fects vegetation as actinism sffects a sensitized - photographic _plate? - Some mysterions function which we don't even suspect, which may, never- theless, vitally. the life processes of different plants? 1 don’t profess to be a prephet, but 1 rather expect ~that the time will come when, by the discovery and con- trol of some at: present unknown pro- perty of air or light or some other natural element, my successor on this very farm will grow peaches and wheat and oats and a good many oth- er at present ungrowable things as easily ‘as I can now grow beets and sweet corn. I only wish I could have his knowl- edge, right here and now! LETTERS FROM TWO STATES Charles Fredericks: chaplain, steward, Miss Vera Collins; committee, George H. Cramplin. executive Former Pastor to Praach Tomorrow— Shepard-Chace . Marriage. The members of the Ready Helpers Soclety gave Miss Hattle Chase a iscellaneous shower Saturday eve- Varlous xames were played and refreshments were se1ved. Mrs. tha Pralon it week with relatives'in New York. spending the under Charitis the day h 1 interest | i who ! teavor | ron were Rev. and Owen and Mrs. H. W. Por P Wolff «f Westfield r, Miss Lent G. W flakes—Tuosday, Nov Weil Went Dry. 1 ecil house } that’ the weil seemed no supp'y of son, for the fall { Bartford, Sunday and morning resided John 11 den_ were William A vls and family of Ham- Jests of Mr: * father, Cellins, at Chestnut Hill increase inissionary meet- d @t the cnapel Wednesday ander ths auspices of the tary society. It g and about 2 dies frem Ha cting, including s. Raymond and Miss i were present. Four ford essed tne . Capen, 3 1ls. Suffrage Mecting. Columbia Equal Franchise lleague held » meoting sast Tuesday {evening at the Lome of’ Mrs, Fannie | Dixon. Welch. Delegates wer-, chosen {to attend the suffraze meeting at Haven this week. They were Mrs. |her farm for . for the benefit of | some timc ag: of Marchester, | church | Mrs. Anna Ahders, who a house in sold_her per: Rockville orai pro D Former Pastor to Preach. Rev. H M. Rartlett of former pas risitin, occupy exchanged ; 8, 1918° ~ 'YOUR LIVER AND BOWELS RIGHT THEY’RE FINE! DON'T REMAIN BILIOUS, SICK, HEADACHY AND CONSTIPATED. BEST FOR COLDS; BAD BREATH, SOUR STOMACH—CHILDREN LOVE THEM. Get a 10-cent box now. Be cheerful! Clean up inside to- night and feel fine. Take Cascarets to Hven your liver and clean the bowels and stop headaches, a bad cold, bilious- , offensive breath, coated tongue, sallowness, sour stomach and gases. To-night take Cascarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleans- ing you ever experienced. Wake up feeling grand—Everybody’s doing it. Cascarets best laxative for children also. DAVIS THEATRE CAMP . ROCKIES Big Scenic Neal-Seigal-Franklin In the Five Part Triangle Play “THE RUMMY” A Great Picture. See It. CHESTER CONKLIN In a Two Reel Keystone Comedy 4 SHOWS TODAY At 1:30, 3:15, 6 and 8:15 { | 4 TIMES D At 2, 3.30, 7 and This is the Photoplay Now Playing t HEATRER BROADW AY Theatre, Boston, now in its Fourth Month. This is the Photoplay that is Turning Thousands Away from Three Thea- tres in New York City, Now in Its Fifth Month. Mother Love. much stress, deservedly or undeserv- derful play that it is well to recall that, after all, its moral is The Triumph of The District Attornev's wife, after her persistent avoidance of the pains and responsibilities of “matarnity That she, on account of her foolish, aye, her criminal acts, was unable to wear the glorious, diadem of motherhood, simply emphasizes the worth of that diadem. No Children Admitte SEATS NOW SELLING 1A DMUTRINES Frusayass ) £ 1SS AERS SR s s reme “Paotoplavs BREED THEATRE COMING NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY err prescnt amden. BOLTON Tai HOTCH from hers attended the mecting conducted by L the of remcdciing the vecently hought by rner of South Man- s the guest Sund; bel Howard. Mir. and Mrs, L. A. Ronert, of Surday of cPherson and Mauchest Mr: in Hartford . A, L. Oliver and granddaugh- n Deck STAFFORDVILLE Miss Kate Silk of B her mother, Mrs. Rose day. Mr. and Mrs, guests of M Union last weel Afr. and Mrs. C. R. Kemp of Hol- ke, Ma were recent guests of F Bosworth. en pie supper was served in the Methodist vestry Thu: ay evening. A good sum was re- on was with ilk, over Sun- Wiliam Ferry Jernie Carpenter in were | Wi er residence town for the on and left winter Jills vis- ity this This vas ment c Lo Golden Elweod Burick: to Old s M i, | sue_written by Superintendent Walter | | C. Shields of the Education Bureau, it Brif: 3. - .Br [Tlovd R. ¢ Mirs. arge s, and exaniler were present. RICHMOND Moore of and Girard met the wood lot w ecently bought home S visit with der:ce. £t here Tuesday, go- Joseph Dunn is at the Moore stead for a_ while. Evc 3 was in Providence on returned homce EAST HADDAM company ! METRO PICTURE CORP. Presents THE ~ in THE WHEEL OF THE LAW A ROMANCE OF SUPREME DRAMATIC FORCE WHICH DEMON- STRATES THE FALLIBILITY OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE PECRELL S R R S b s A L Pathe Weekly ! || I.Y §i Henry’s Thanksgiving EVENS | Northwestern District at Nome, by others of the United States Bureau of published Education who have ngratulated by P. P. States Cox their enterprise:. In the leading artic v, he condition, a real wealth of the country received a ple “Why don’t ple some food?” paupers out of a sel noble race. | that we have not fed home- {are proud of him as a man feeds himself. >ne reason why by hite race have cov the land. As far as years to come the wt off vet for a if this northern . Claxton, Urited | missioner of Education, for imo is not dependent. , even in his present nd vital factor in the ration from ment; he can support himself, not al- | according to our standards it is arn o expect the government to sup- 1 so often ive the poor peo- We are pr have so often been pus the white race has be make any attempt to push the Eskimo | part of the map. will undoubtedly be deve i long time to © will have plenty rt of Alaska, th some unexpected develop: of Alaska. It is teachers and been foramlly | e of its first is on| He has never the Govern- heard from ig- aritable peo- would make spporting and ud of the fact kimo. We because he the E: primitive races ed to the wall ted and needed we te 1k White there elopments i of room Therefore, even a a1 Evening at 7-8:30 All_Seats 0o TODAY AND TONIGHT VIOLAIN DANA 5 Acts of Exquisite Photo-Play Metro Travel Series At the Count of Ten SPECIAL FEATURE DE LUXE Boots § Saddles TWIXT CUPID AND OLD GLORY' Eugene Walters :30 Mon., Tues.,” Wed., Nov, 20, 21, 22 OLD STAGE PLAY A Romance Enactéd on the Bo: The Recent Camping Ground of th " National Guard i Hearst News Pictorial Showing ' THE DEUTSCHLAND AT NEW LONDON ADVENTURES OF MR. JACK WITH FRANK DANIELS Mat. 10G. 3 Shows—Eve. 10c and 20c Washington County, R. .| o Sour Suiidor an the- aer| Congregational Roll Call. USQUEPAUGH Miss Mertic Paliner spent Sunday with her sister. Mrs. Aldrich, at North Next Thursday Prize Nigh€| ) Prizes Free9 " First Prize—One-half barrel of Rex Best Flour. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Sth, 3th, 7th, 8th, Oth, each one, 25-pound bag of Rex Best Flour. All prizes now on 2xhibition in R. F. Smith’s store window. become _desirable for =6 white | population, we believe that with what | development the Eskimo has already |, -d, 83, . |received, and the additional develop- Joseph A. Tord, 83, the oldest shin|ment that even five years more of un- carpenter and boat builder on the|gisturbed possession of his northern Connecticut river, at his home, | fastnesses will give him, he will be well puddenie Sung: _ fitted to meet advanced economic con- failure. 'He is survivea by his_wife. | ditions. Mrs. Sarah Acklev, of this| “we of the Alaska school service dfe d a nephew, P. J. Thomas of | helping to bear the white man's burd- en; we do not claim to be ministering to a dying race; we want no praise as helpers of the weak or as ministers to the downtrodden who are dving in filth and degradation. We do not allow anyone to class us in these categories. That class of work is entirely humani- tarfan and is properly the duty of the missionary organizations. But as rep- Ethel Blakely and Mrs. Mary Hutch ins. About a dozen were present. A excellent lunch was served b; Welch, Married 40 Years. O TR Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. McGlaulin, as’ Aid society is to hol@ an oyster prer in ihe vesiry soon. Mrs. C. Kenyon and Miss Mertie Palmer called on friends at West ngston Wednesday- J.'S. Lamond was a business caller at Wakefield Monda; Mrs. Richard Par: of West Kingston vi: Sunday. rs. J. L. Briggs was a visitor at West Kingston Wednesday. J. C. Webster was in Providence one day recently. Mrs, Melissa D. Palmer and mother, Mrs. Caroline Palmer, are visiting Westerly friends. Mrs. Carrie Brown amd daughter Dorothy of Hillsdale were. callers here Tuesday. Mrs. Anna Wells is visiting relatives in_Exeter for a few weeks. Eber J. Sherman of Exefer was a caller here Wednesday. Dr. Kenyon and J. C. Cahoone were callers at Fred Smith's in Richmond Monday. Thureday evening of last week was nelghbors’ night at Richmond grange. Kingston, Exeter, Hepe Valley, Ash- away and Slocum granges were well represented. - Refreshments were served and a general good time was enjoved. Kennerh, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. David Perkins, le il ROCKVILLE A number from this place attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary E. Barber, held at her home at White Oak farm, Sunday afternoon. Rev. I L. Cot- trell of this place officiated at the ser- ¥ o, rfn‘m' sna . awusnter Dies Efla Barber of Woody Hill, wers ,fil’ on friends here Sunday atter- Meriden. . Loi a visit wits Kansas. Deacon E. W. Chaffee was appoint- ed delegate from the Congregational church fo the state conference held in New Britain. November 14 and 1. Mrs. A. W. Chaffee, Mrs, E. B. Johnson, Miss Harriet Bugbee, Mrs. F. R, Davidson wére in New Haven!|= R TEITR this week attending the suffrage con- vention. Mrs. Joseph Lee is visiting” her son and his family in New Haven this week. Annual Roll Call. The annual roll call meeting of the Congregational church was held on Thursday evening in the .parish_house. Supper was served at 6.30. Follow- ing this the meeting in the audience room. Reports were given from the various organizations connected with the church and there was special mu- sle. Thirty-Eight Guests at Grange Meet- ing. The regular meeting of E. H. grange was largely attended Wednes- day evening. Mr. Duffy of East Hart- ford addressed the. meeting. Guests to the number of 33 were present from Middletown and East Hampton, each grange furnishing several numbers for the programme which was high- 1y Interesting. A fine collation was served at the close of the meeting. xH..rnhamOsdltea h6i N * NN N N MAGAZINE PUBLISHED : MEAR THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Bevotsd to the Intersste of the Eskime \”/ianluter Baker & CQ IJtd- resentatives of the government we claim the right of our service to exist because we are developing the re- sources of Northern Alaska just as much and as surely as any prospector or trailmaker. We are making a coun- try. productive just as much as any re- clamation project that was ever man- aged by the governmen Trouble Ahead. Contemplating a republican major- ity in the house in the light of the re- publican votes on the McLemore res- olution and *he Adamson bill, the ad- ministration should worry. — Boston Transeript. Kimball left’ Tuesday for relatives and friends in w and children d relatives here TR In the great out of doors or at theevening reception § :+ . Baker’s Cocoa i ally acceptabl ili\?igoré)’rcing aI;ld' de- ‘licious. [T formerly of this place, ncw of Easton. Pa., celebrated the q(!: anniversary of “ ,’ their marriage this week. They re- ceived congratulations from Columbia | friends. Hubert P. Collins and famil; tor- | } ] | ] led to New Haven last gam‘uzi;;o:r:a with Mre. Bmily Cobb last week. H. W. Porter is breaking in a new {Colling’ aunt, Mre. Ella Collins, il 3, it, ollins, and b peogle are able to buy this marvellous fruit medicine, Rl e |to leave them by _the roadside to suf- fer and starve. Several helpless little been using this remedy in steadily increasing quantities. day, d i Every day, dozens of letters were received at Ottawa from Srowarlodil Cha e ot o ot icons Wednesday. The trip was made by + . s . morning. mwere unable to obtain anything else in this country that | ™3™ B winter, chatrman of the Be- “FRUIT-A-TIVES” is the of an English physician and it is the Sy spent the day with relatives. This Wonderful Fruit Medicine Placed On car. - . Columbia Green ard vicinity right in your home town, free of duty, at the same price mping ground for waifs have been found wandering sufferers in-the United States, enclosing the regul i . g arretail automobile with Rev. Vernon Cook of ped them so much, clesiastical society committes, has re- only medicine in the world made !nifl , oranges, figs and. with valuable tonics and: p'n!hnhh ia, Constipation, Rheu- Miss Minnie Reed of New London spent the week end with Mr, and Mrs. Sale In New England In Response to Steadily Increasing Demand. Herman N. Collins and two friends from Attleboro, Mass., were in town to br a gwfl!:r dumping ground for at which “ Fruit-a-tives” is sold in Canada. Euperfiuous Kittens but are-sos mepel. “FRUIT-A-TIVES” came to the United States in about the strects recently. Rev. T. Newton Owen, pastor of the Eice for a supply of “Fruit-a-tives”, Becauseof thecustom |Wifiimantic, Geese Fly South. Kidney and Headaches and Ne and all grange held its regular meet! Curtis A. Holmes. s Stupendous Success in Canada and England, %7’ Sioems souris < et superfluous kittens but are too merci- b response to a great public demand. Columbia Congregational church, at- « f - ws, these friends of “Fruit-a-tives” were P‘g‘i‘f{h‘;’; A large flock of wild geese was ob- the Stomack, Liver, Skin, ey sction vihd *c hflam‘f—a—m&fi ‘n% 6forase, |omcers resuited forlows: The W. S. 8. E. Tadies' ciub met {:ng trip. They were guests of Mr. At last, you and thousands of other sick and ailing ful to kill them but are cruei enough For, several years, the people in this country have tended the state corference of Con- " everybox. Vet they were content to do this served fying southward Wednesday st