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League Interested in Legis- Jative Measure—Annual Meeting of the D oo 3 SCREEN CHARACTERIZATION IN Ladies’ Aid Society. The Columbia Egqual Franchise league, of which Mrs. Bertha Lyman is president, is particularly interested in the measure to come ent legislature, ESSED BY THE PHOTO giving ‘women right to vote on excise ~questions. o the fl!n: emt' "3»'.’.‘1’& pose e su! hardly wish to line up with the - in T Frie L CHARACTERIZATIONS EVER WIT- Funeral ‘of Mra, Oliver Main—Safes _ MATINEE TODAY—1 and 245 EVENING—7 and 845 —_— MONDAY AND TUESDAY. — e 2 N A THE MUSKETEERS OF THE SLUMS—TWo Reels b Purchased and Removed from Town spending several - ily of his brother, Alonzo Little, and has been doing some work for his brother in the line of painting and paper hanging. Shipping Apples. Several farmers who have quantities of apples have been ready to ship to New week, provided cars The apples were to Chestnut Hill. Ice Crop Secured. Nearly, if not all tic ice houses in this yicinity have been filled with ice of excelleat quality from S to 12 inch- es thick, something that does not hap- Pen every winter. b To Present Play. The Grange Dramatic c! ing a play, Last winter the club Bar Haven, which success, and was given the surroundinz towns: Held Annual Meeting. The funeral of Mrs. Susan Emily Main, who died Saturday mo home of her soi law, H. Pickering, on Laurel street. ;, was held at that afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Mathewson officiating. ©Oak Grove cemetery, bearers were Almon F. H. Hoxie, F. Howard Martin and Her- bert A. Burton. . < s Mrs. Maln was in her was born in_Voluntown, daughter of William and Dorcas, cleston, and was the widow .of Oliver She is survived by two da Everett E. Brown and. M William H. Pickering, and three grand= Her death marks the ending of a quiet, useful earthly life. beets, fifty-odd cabbages, a hundred beside such thiugs as celery and chard and carrots and salsify and spinach. {Written Specially for The Bulletin.)/ One of the ways in which the far- _mer can beat a part of the high cost of living is by having & ;" When I say “by having a really mean by taking care of a gar- den and raising things on it. " A good many farmers already have “and-all their lives have had what they call “a garden.” > few farmers already have and have always had a real garden. skimp the rest of this and turn right over to the baseba “Marrieges and Deathe. ing to them nor at them. heads of lettuc 1 T pwegé-dfly be secured. Now, 1 don’t father all these claims. hipped from I very much doubt if any 50x60 foot garden will grow all these things the same season- and zrow Beans, for instance, want a very dif- ferent soil and widely different fer- tilizing from onions. gardens. wouldn't produce. a pint of peas to. the acre on soil properly prepared for cabbage: crop of cabbage on land enough for peas. where nor any advice-giving “‘Farmer’ up here in Podunk can (el just what a garden plot miles away can be made to do—1 wii say that the yields specified table are not excessive suitable soil Burial was them well. _SIDE RACKING LAUGHABLE SITUATIONS 10c ENTIRE HOUSE th year. Sie 1 fing that S aquite good No seedsman an b is reheas- 11 wifh pleuro-pneumonia and muéh alarm is felt over his condition. gon_ Norman H. New York city has been called home him constant atteniion. Deacon John-I. Tracy is spending a few days in Hartford. Daniel Henry Miller, ployed in New Haven, with his mother in town. Trojan-Balek. Miss Fanny Balek and Jjoseph Tro- d in ma;riage at the a four-act. I've sesn a good many farm gar which were so cziled only by patches of too smal] to presented the graund near the house, X srow farm crops on and too poor to and is givine produce anyvthing much beyond scur- vy-grass and pussiey. lected until all the farm work is done. Plowed some day late when there happens 1o be haif an ho left after the corn and oats and po tato grounds have been attended to. Fertilized with a basket or yard manure—if house has taken trouble to scatter it on! Sown witih any old seeds which happen to have from last year, or that can be bought out of -a traveling seed-case at the The safes it the toswn hall, discarded when the new vault was constructed, and which were purchased some time ago by Charles P. Eccleston, were re- moved from the hall Tuesda: Community /Social. The community social was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boss Kenyon Wednesday evening, Jan. 24th. Mrs. Caroline Maxson was a business visitor in New London Tuesday. Charles 1. Blake is out after a few davs' illnes 3 The family of Charles Jolly took up their abode Monday in their new home in Maple court, Ashaway. in several vt Generally nes- prices which he zives for the various spent Sunday crops stilted. 0 plot adds in the sprin eetinz at the home of Miss Hutchins recently. p to over $69, i surer showed nual report or the tre receipts for the year $268.21 and the disbursements of $: i the treasury 3648.85 on deposit in_the savings bank. The elections of officers resiuited as First direct 2 a bushel, etc—prices re not high. head, early peas at at three cents a bunch, which you'll admit Jan, Jr., were uni home of the bride lu 4 p. m., Rev. performing. the cercmony. was attired in white satin ornament-d with orange blossoms and wore a tulle veil. bouguet of white rosce. tended by her sister, wore u ZOwWp of pin the woman Countryman been left over It is quite improbable, anyway, that and pear] beads J. "Hutchin; She carried a cares for chard or or turnips or salsify. or celery or let- And then left to the tender mercies There are thuse who can’t stom- of the early and the latter rains, the cut-worms, and the black flea bee- T carrid p.nx |and Prospeet of Missions, Joseph Briza, Jr., of Hadlyme, | Gildersleeve will I ociety has a membership ead of having the annual MONDAY AND TUESDAY = WILLIAM FOX Presents VALESKA - SURATT S IN “JEALOUSY” FIVE REELS hath no fury like a woman scorned ALWAYS THE_BEST SHOW IN TOWN “Hel SENSATIONAL WIRE ARTISTS MOHR & MOFFETT Presenting a Story in Song and Rhyme Douglas Fairbanks (ouer e s e o s CARTOON COMEDY il TFODAY AND TONIGHT Cwen Mocre - Marguerite Courtot /IN A PICTURIZATION OF EDGAR SELWYN’'S STAGE 8UCCESS ROLLING STONES TR weER HIS WEDDING DAY -10c ENTIRE HOUSE Clara Kimball Young “THE COMMON LAW” SELIG TRIBUNE WEEKLY THE PROPERTY MAN, Comedy PHILLIPS’ STRING CONCERT ORCHESTRA 4—SHOWS TODAY—4 At 130, 8.15, 6 and 8.15 R VAUDEVILLE “THE THREE KUNDELS A WONDERFUL ACT MORGAN AND WEST Two Jolly Comics “THE MATRIMANI A" CONCERT"ORCHESTRA in Songs and TRIANGLE DY DRAMA was. best man. from New York, N ddam, Higzanum. nany beautiful pre ption and a: hemian hall for w h = nished by Wolfe's orchestra. Club Entertai the coming summer the ladies voted to have a series entertainments during Monthly meetings are to be fir-t Tuesda~ af Food sales will be held during summer tles, and flv!'e striped g “stink-bues, Meeting of W. C. T. UZCarpenters Perry Cottage—Mrs. | Langworthy, 97, in Feeble Heaith. The Ocean View W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. Emily Chapman with ten members and visitors present. The the Spiritual services in Wil .mautic, next meeting will be held with Miss Olive Pendleton Jan. 30th. Mrs. H. A. Macomber, who has been ill with laryngitis for the past three | better, but not {eble to speak above a whisper vet. Mrs. G. T. Coilins, whc has : at the Macomber farm fo- a few and the seventeen s ‘ ferent kinds of predaceous beetles. and of food. sate; the twice seventeen kinds of blight apd mildew and fungi, and the seven varieties of chok- experimenting W varieties as takes to, on one has, would give at least an tion as to what cot without sayi times seventeen the woman of t family takes lher sun-bonnet and her old gloves and the patent weeder she bought at the five-and-ten-cent store and does. a little sporadic scratching and weed-pulling in an amateurish | can’t-get-down-on-my-knecs-be- cause-my-skirt-is-so-tight e and the chairm- at the home of Mrs. be obtained by and cabbage and are expected to be planted, fol- owing the removal of such ea Installation and Supper at Grange— | Various Happenings of the Week. ¥ that’s the kind of garden you sport, dearly beloved reader, whisper in your ear that the one rea- son why it doesn't pay and isn't worth the trouble, is because you don’t take more trouble and m-ke it pay. There is nothing worth having this world—nothing, —which doesn’t cost its real value in work or worry or trouble or some other intangible but very You can't get somethinz for nothins— nat even if youre willing to take dishonestly. Money isn’t the only nor thérchief price which is paid. money has to be bcuzhtf, the same s other: things. demtally, it sometimes a_higher price than it is worth.) Ev- hing has to be p~id for. sooner or either with mone: ‘bor and sweat. paid for with money, the moner had first to be paid for in.labor or sweat —or some less worthy Ccrpenters have rzised Thomas Dobson is confined to the work is progressing house by iliness Miss Eliza Damor is requiring the $18 worth | cottage ana with the good weather of the past | | posited to t ¥ plot is from such follow SUNDAY SUBJECTS A e R e - ¢ jing service ing crops, put June to the first v crops have ma- been remov: There is no compelling reason why the farmer i i ground, or even ‘he citv dw a responsible back-yard shouldn’t save for his ewn A pocket much of what he arden sass™ and o'her That he ha: Killed Gray Foxss. Cleveland Carpentet and and Leon Bliven each killed a gray fox one day Failing at 97. Abby Langworthy, is now sick gradually growing weaker. rie Frazier of Westerly is caring for liam Russell is in the Po Homcopaitin wmmsion . .woeiving treat- Thte Holiness Mission meets at 87!and Men's I Main street. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bray have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holden of Bondville. | Norman Phillips. has _been from his duties in H. F. Cady’s store because of fllness. ; Raymond Hall of Saybrook has been the guest of his Wadsworth and Mrs. who is 97| At the Gospel Mission, meetings ave | heid megning, afternoon and evenipg now paye for i r liinithe Steiner building. “green’ stuff.” often donc Christian Science Reading Room in the Thayer building the sub-! pastor. there will be preaching in ject for study will be Truth. t prove that Mrs. Leon W. Bliven. who has been with brenchia! grip for the past | taree weeks, is able to be out'of doors. Harry Noyes was a week end visitor | in Westerly, USQUEFAUGH Held by Ladies’ Aid Society—Will Buy Stove for Vestry Charles Cum- Paid. for at |Terely and vi : Miss Hazel Puffer has returned to having made rapid an operation Tohnson hospital for appendicitis. To Live With Grandparents. At Park Congregational church there will be preaching morning and at 4.30 in the afternoon by the pastor, 8. H, Howe, D. D But | warn everybody who this that taking care of n garden, even of a Jittle, K 50x60 back yar i beer and skittles easy as rol 1en a thing is It is not as At Trinity Episcopal will be holy communion at 9.30 a. m., morning prayer and sermon at 19.30 a. .,_and evening prayer at 7.30 o'clock. Annual Meeting the death of his olburn Mosely. re- the funeral his_grandparents. Russell Colburn, his home with them. is expresséd for the boy and the be- | The brothers, Georze of Burlington, spent a few days following the funeral with their parents. Supper and The officers of Stafford grange were | installed in a most impressive manner Past Master Master Howard, Re left an orphan by mother, Mrs. May turned from volves work. and most of which If a garden is worth while at all, is perspirational. “ it -is worth while to and address will pay for itself. while it' had better be given over to mgrrel and chickweed and pus: have one which it isn't worth The Ladies’ Aid society met with the president, Mrs. C. r1. Pamer sat- As it was the year- iy meeting there was ‘the election of Other busin acted, among which was a vote to buy a stove for the vestry kitcinen. J. Sherman of Ex er here Wednesday. knees alons boilifig sun on vour bent At the Spiritual _strest, Mr., Willard J. Hull of this city will_speals at 11 o'clock upon the sub- ject, Who Pays? Ths evening ser be omitted. md your fingers grimy with v one fact can't reaved parents. My own opinion, sphal experience and such observat as is possible to me, is that no eq is capable of based upon per- broperly cared for Broadway Congregational Dr. J. H. Selden wilk preach in the morning on The Divine Ordering of Life, and at the 5 o'clock service on Pay the Man. area of any wais s dbcing so much, of earninz so ey of ‘doing so_ much health and the physicai comfort of the family. and of saving so much need less out-go as the farm garden—i is_inteiligentiy cusly cared for. My own gardens ‘which ls ful spring_than Norv: ject to eariler fall expect. as a matter of course, from them a steady succession calent fresh vegetables when we can and salsify and asparagus in the spr ter freezing puts an end to the r turnips and Brussels Sprouts, stc furnish us with such winter storage as Instaliation. church, the Rev. the best whe T lis for the touch of the work- Kiugston caring for Miss Sarah Cham- plain, who 1, suffering from Mr. Williams and square feet, At Grace Memorial will be preaching morning ing by Rev. James H. Da “om Mashapaug grange. o'clock under the direc- tion of the social committee was most most _satisfactory to Put a gar- The supper and children ngston spext the week end with relatives here. ss later in the sfon of the Sunday school at noo At Grace church, Yantic, Rev. J. W. Areson, rector, there will praver and sermon at 10.4 of -the Sunday evening prayer and sermon at appetizing and those who partook of it. E. Barrows has returned from London, where guest of Mr. and Mr COVENTRY Farmers Have Exhibits at State Dairy Meeting—Charles And it wondt it gets such mand further hand care. Dawiey of Richmond were visitors at Mrs. Eva Webster's Sunda: spond generousiy unl be morning ., a session he has beer atives from Providence Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. €. Kenyon and son spent Sunday with relatives at Peace- ’'m not urging anybody to attempt a carden of his own. - Nob At the Norwich Episcopal church there will worship and sermon on God's Estimate There will be an evening ser- RICHMOND Mrs. Everett R. Moore returned to her home Monday after caring for rel- epce for a month. Fannie and Philip Moore- were call- ers at Noose Neck Hill Saturday and at_the Reynolds Lillibridge place, Clarerce Lewis was a caller potatoes and cah- | fo’ some who. bages and onions and beets and ruta 18 : bagas and celery carrots and beans duction of summe cellar shelves by tomatoes and bal: corn and string beans and asparagus as well as berries of vegetables “That Which i The Associated Bible -Students hold services in W. tucket street at 11 o'clock. bé a lecture. by Peter J. D. Wright of New York city on Born Ag; Flesh in the Spi At the Second Congragational church worshlp with sermon. by the pastor, Rev. Herbert J. Many farmers from here have at- : v meeting in Hartford Several of them took ex- hile- the over-pro- is represented cn greater or .atlves in Pro some trouble and The officers of the grange were in- stalled last Thursday evening. Charles W, Lee returned home Wed- afternoon from the where he had been for the last two weeks. The cotiage prayer meeting was held H. Schell Wednes hat's all. and fruits. e Harry Prown and Willilam Sherman were through this viginity Sunday. Toore is getting in a part eraging from six to seven i you prefer to buy t than raise K them, In which c privilege to tak ngs rather is the sense of the farmer spending his scanty Vegetables, when he can have a wida lesser cost from his be morning at te home of C. Aoy Sremem Mrs. Stephen Brown of Hillsdale is teaching at Beaver River for a while. The highwsys are in terrible een- dition, just enough ice to make hard ROCKVILLE China Speaks at Seventh Day Baptist. Church, : Crofoot, who. has been a missionary in Shanghai, China, since 1899, and is now home on a furlough on dccount of his health. gave & short address in the S. D. B. last Saturday night. ; H. A. Saunders and son Albertus were callers in Hope Valley Tuesday. Many ‘in this vicinity are suffering trom colds and kindred ailments. EAST HADDAM lce From, 12 to .14 Inches Harvested.— Dr. E. G. Williams 1li—Trojan-Balek And it’s ‘my personal so far as the garden vegetables ar aforesaid H. C. L. least H2. C2. L2. next seasor If we green goods men have got to pay double for fertilizers and wages n order to produce our stuff, buy it have zot to foot the bills—or go without. without unless you raise your o I don’t suppose even the city house- wife really expects sell her peas and green corn, etc., for less than it costs him THE FARMER. High Crime. Now Penrose Brumbaugh. impeached, because the governor talked against the senator. In ‘Pennsylvania that comes near be- ing kigh treason!—Boston Advertiser. An attempt is being made t - Uk Arbor day in Treland. | o school at noon, and a meeting of the young ‘people at 6.20, and ing eervice with sermon by the min- expectation Answer me that! morket prices The regular meeting of the Ready Workers was held _Thursday evening in_the chapel. Miss Hattie Hawkins is visiting her sister in New Haven. Most of the farmers have their ice. bouses filled with-a fine quality of ice. BOLTOM Carles Ruggles Tal Orleans—Other News Notes. Mrs. Charles N. Loomis is in Crom- well, ihe guest of her daughter, Mrs. William_E. Stetson. Miss Sarabel Pinney is in Hartford this week visiting friends, Mrs, Josephine M. Sumner, who has been ill, is imp: - Many Bolton people are ill with colds Mrs. Frances E. Ruggles, who has Dbeen visiting her son, in Springfield, has now gone to Rock: Even .the suburbanite and the cit dweller, if he have 4 do_much to reduce h Judicious use of that same back varil An enterprising New lingland seeds man -has gotten up and ing ameng his customers showing what may tensive farming”—which is same thing as sensible gardening—on a.plot 50 by 60 fee that ten rows of emall stuff Inches apart, and fourteen twenty-four &part, making twentyseven rows in all and - oceupyins forty-seven feet, be planted lengthwise. may be. raised, on an average, about tour bushels of peas, about five' bush- els of beans, three of potatoes, three of beets, two of oniou nips and two of parsnips, with five or six hundred cucumbers, ten dozen of sweet corn, over a hundred bunches of eighty | bunches At the First Congregational church, i i morning topic will be Concerning Be- ing a‘ Christian. 6.30 o’clock there v vice of the Christ clety with an address Missionarg be a speclal ser- This plan shows “her . farmer” s Trip to New At the Federated church, Rev. A. W. there will be preach- ing at both morning and evening ser- vices. The Sunday school meets at the Junior Christian Endeavor at 3 p. m., and preceding the evening service there will be a song service with special music. 5 At the Church of the Good Shep- ‘Universalist, Rev. ¥ Cobb will preach on the sub; side Ministries. day willmeef Church_We At the Baltic Methodist Pastor, Rev. Charles S .ub‘hec,‘ o ARTSehTan i A lan 'suus schoo! . church here{ Burdon, pastor. From these two of tur- There will 15 and observe The topic will Carlos Ruggles, 5 | church the ad. At the. First’ Baptist church, Rev. George Henry Strousé, minister. the 4 | morning theme wiil be Nothing s { Without .a Venture, T [ Sunday u at ftho L. ¥ F.W.! At Trinity M. E. church, Rev. { Coleman, pa 1 Le a marn- | 0w’ on The! | Ventures of 7z {noon ‘and_the o'clock. The eve The Seeing Eye. ing by the Trinity At the «McKirley avenue A. M. E.| n church, Rev, F George Tadd { he | morning on The Promise of the Father. | { Session of the Sunday school at nouvn The Union: Lyceum meeting will be held at 4 o'clock. The 7 o'clock ser- vice will ‘be 'ed by Mrs, Pear! Fields. At 8 o'clock there will be preaching by the pastor on Service, Visio THE LAND OF THE BEST. American People Have a Country of ! Unparalleled Beauties and Wondarful Resources, (Speciai to The Bulletin.) Washington, D. . i, — How peculiariy blest are (: n peo- ple not only in that they have been spared the horrors of the gr war now devastating most of Kurope, but in the wonderful resources and paralleled bheauties of the countr; seif, -is strikingly set forth in a munication to the National Geographic isociety from its director and cditc Gilbert H. Grosvenor. A part of the communigation, issued as a bulletin bas there been afforded a 1 or> impressive filustration of the statement . that it pays to advertise than is to'be found in the story of the endless stream of tourists hastening to Burope during the several decades be- fore the great war. “The appeal of the art treasures and associations of the old world, which is the original home of all Americans, is really not sufficient explanation of the fact that until last year 100 American tourists ‘were crossing the Atlantic to one American tourist who crossed the United States. The delightful litera- ture which.the European travel bu- reaus and steamship companies placed at our disposal &0 whetied our appe- tite, far 2 _view of the lakes of Ireland and Scotfand, of .the castles on the Fhine and Danibe, of the scenes made Mrs. C. C.|marvelous picture book of nature's 1i- nor yet is it the narrow pride of the spread cagle orator alone that awards to the. Grand Canyon and Yosemite and the Big Trees first plac the wonder scenes of the earth , in Virginia, and Mam Gained | amnor randeur any caves in Falls has no forests are the glory of the es to Asia and to Africa te ten civilizat tern plains own cliff dwellings reveal past as strange as other parts of the is the treasure house continuous possibllities for canals plcturesque the mountain gorges tures of the Security, | rrass k< shington to ¢ Ohlo canal from W. berland, or the hi cnly as those of picturesque adorned with and studded with human hand £ great fresh water on which you ean take a voyage of one thousand miles on ocean linersy the grandest gla- vegetation on earth marvelous works of the It Lake Ciyt; impressive than and mountains like' Mt Mec- which towers nearly one mile loftlest peak in Pu- tjords more “One ‘could spend ‘an ‘entire masterpieces and not reach of the catalogue.” eing nature’s Blot on the Landscape. Excepting earmuffs. we like winter scenery.—Toledo Blag Aids_to Efficiency. no fogs or rocks oun mever rurn 1f there werb warships would aground.—St. Joseph’s Gaszette. The Chilean government has :post. poned conversion of its paper curren cy to gold until January, 1919. Rheumatism famous by Shakespeare., Dickens, Vic- Remarkable Eome Cure Given by One Whe: tor Hugo and Goethe that we turned pur backs upon gcenerv more beauti- Had It—He Wants Every Sufferer to Benest. ful, wild flower gardens and forests incomparably finer, mountains more superk, and lakes ‘more radignt than any to e seen in the lands across the Atlantic. “It is true that one finds a more ancint culture in Europe. It is also true that he finds more splendid archi- tecture. And likewise it is true that he finds._there, better art; for before Amcrica_was born into the family of nations Europe had castles and-cathe drals and masterpieces of art - and scuipture. - - “But In “that architecture which is voiced in_the i!or}mm temples of the sequof 2! nd in the castles of the Grapd C m,, dn ' that art which is mirrored in American lake, which is painted in geyser. basins and frescoed upon the sidéwalls of the mightiest eanvons, fhere is’' a majesty and an appeal that the mere handiwork of meny-spiendid” though It may be, can never rival. “Nor is_our eountry lacking in hal- Send No Money—Just Yosr Address. Years of awtul taugnt this man, Mark H. New York, bow terrible eu enemy piness rheumatism is, a5d have gi pathy with all unfortunates . " He wants every rhouma Be was cured. Read what he says: lowed* srd historic spots. Is Waterloo, ere Napoleon tar of empire set fotever, any more sacred to the Amer-, @n heart than Appomattox. where a pation wag born out of the throes of internecine strife? Are Austerlitz and Wazram. with their high tides of French empire of soll, more sacred |, oF. atmosphere ;more hallowed than Valley Forge and Gettysburg, Ply- || th Rock. Independence Hall, and s Vernon?., Do London. or Paris * Berlin, contain re of inspiration to | u§.as a people than Washington, th najion’s capital? e have wi d fav to find the yresque and the magnificent. and veR it is not entirely provincial ph-los- 1 which savs that New York is in o WAy Ahe. wondertul, the most striking, and the most interesting ‘of all cities of. the earth: neither is ti the voice of the man who has .1 have given it terribly sficted and eve @atisn, and it effected