Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 12

NOTE: After today the Farmer's Friday’s Bulletin because of the great on Saturday—The Editor. (Wrtitten Speciaily for The Suue‘.‘.n_.\ It has been reported that certajn sedentary people, mostly residents ‘of the city, have ceased to believe in the existence of a personal devil I do not find that this I entable skepticism has reached the ranks of working farmers. least, I ha heard no doubt expresse nal and active ex ence iring the A DIABOLICAL SPRING FOR SUPREME EFFORT demand for space by important news feot Tith their Taint- tindugs. o m;m the cow lost her interest in hay, because the grass of the pastures had got big enough to taste better. - And this particular John Farmer, whose manure had mosily beén got out still earifer, the plow to work. early. Most of his scil is light and it proved in fine condition for both" plow and harrow,—friable, ~crumbly, easily worked into an idéal seed-bed. Such early = things as onions, beets, carrots, parsnips, - spinach, lsttuce, radish, etc, were put in, with a small patch of extra edrly peas, and a few rows of similarly early potatoes. Then we began fitting the ground for main crop potatoes, for corn. etc. That was three weeks ago. From that time till the present we've either stood still—or gome backward. During that three weeks, righi in the heart of seeding time, when every fair is_worth a_week -of fair weatier during the growing eeason, it has rained or snowed every day_ but two!' One of those two was a Sun- day; the other we put in feverishly hurrying to fit one small potato-patch so we might plant. it the mext day, only to wake on that mext morning into another drenching mixture of rain and enow, which has continued without let-up to this writing. As I write, my gardens are e sod- den waste of rain-soaked mud: the roads. which were. worked three weeks ago and made into excellent automo- bile tralls. have reverted into mere streaks of elime with hub-deep ruts filled with mud and water; the hills to the north and east-are, and have 5 Letter will be made a feature of It certainiy seems, at times, as if a very diabolic intelligence were at work manipulating Spring weather exactly so as to cause the farmer as much work and worry as possible, without ally driving him. to despair and suicjde. It,is not only a common, it is an last fortnight ing that time ) almost unvarying detail of country|been for ihree days, white with smow. ihe weather has borme his daily trade- |life to hear your neighbor farmers 5 i : been the evident out- | say, every recurring April = gt Every morning I find the water-tub It has bornms his |seed no sech weather in all my life: |, %4hq Jane crusted over with ice, and r brand. If helcam't plow ner plant ner oW ner|almost every day the body of some dtan’t make it, as actually gone | nothin’.” poor little snake, tempted out of its g istence, then| As a matter of fact they have seen ! winter nest by ‘the promise of Spring S enody has taken his job and is|very much such weather a great many | gniy to be frozen to death by the @ct- Samrring it on in exactly the old way, | times before;—as many times as they | yal Spring. 1 believe ¢ certaln poets and |have known Springs. But the pecu- This, right in the busiest and most lems (of both sexes) | lar viciousness and contrariness of | important pact of the year: when min- roapsodize ove ng. Some of their | the season is so freshly Lrritating, | utes are worth hours of common time: worship is every time, that year-old memories | when every day's deiay means weoks pecially among t2 gloat ove: of the sun overlooking with & dieh of fragrant violet in some winter bot-house—on equin- | we move to the good old summer- is neither summer nor win- h none of the good features of of the 2 veering and vacillat- never headed for two the same direc- to turn ttself down at least y-four hours season when the farmer for crops, get in his | his year's real work. conditions are eo ar- hese fundamen- tions are de- made difficult, —are often compelled to be done over and over again, and then in such hurry as to be incompiete and imper- ts weather { fory dull and deaden in comparison, and sach existing Spring really seems a l-e-e-t-1-e meaner than it ever did be- backwardness, later along: when evaey postponement of seeding means a reductlor of possible zcreage and a ion of expcctable crop: pring, of all Springs, when every farmer and gardener is anxious. Considering the weakness of human memory and the Astu?sl humen tend- ercy to exaggerate present ills and|eo- hjs own sake as weil as for the minimize past or future evils, the Very | saie of the famine-feating world, to frequency of this rural lamentation|as nis best and nis utmost! about Spring ie proof of all that I ¥ have said. _Herein, also, lies ansther of the little ! difficulties of farming which our good friends of the cities don’t think of when they are exhorting the farmer to raise bigger crops. I know. from many past experiences, t it i apt to be truethat each pring is the worst ever. \1t simp! seems v time we're goins e ; B Cin . 1 we. il “Rept| We camt raise bigger crops. unless weather records, and would compare | We Plant more seed on a larger acre- age. We can’t fit that larger acreage or sow that larger amount of seed un- less. at plowing and seeding time, we e for past years with those of the ent, in mos ses wa would be le to =supply our own proof to our- eclves that existing troubles are little have weather conditions which make plowing and eeeding possible. Neith- er can be done in the rain,—or in the mud which remains for a day or two after the rain ceases. 2 In my own cass my fertilizers have been ready, my teams and tools have been ready,.my hired man and I have been ready, my seeds have been ready for three weeks. But the weather isn't ready,—and that settles it. With the best disposition in the worild to ‘do 2 little more in the way of food pro- duction than ever . before, with all plans and preparations made for it and with al] necessary expenses in- curred, we simpiy hang around in- the rain and wait, helpless to do anything else; seeing, with the dawn of each sour, black dav, the sligping away in- to impossibllity of another hope. A neighbor who had nerved himself up to the point of putting in an ex- tra ten acres of oes. has aband- oned it: too mufh else to do and too iittle time, now, to do it. Another neighbor has had to give all hope of raising oats. The time for profitable oat sowing in this latitude has already passed. and wis big field is still so eoft that it canmot be plowed. Tndeed, he tells me what he doesn’t think a team could be got across it, with” no load, without belng mired. Now, | want to serve notice, right here, that neither the farmers nor the gardeners of the country are in any degree responsible for the weather. They can neither plant nor grow crops unless the weather assents and assists. Paul may plant and Appollo may water,—if the weather permits. Bither one wouid be a fool to do either thing in the snow and the rain and the mud. But T expect next fall. i there is a shortage in some needed cereal or vegetable supply, to have our critics jump on our bent backs once more, With scoldings and clapper-clawing: because we have.failed to do our duty. It's s0 much easier to find fault with somebody else than it is to do that somebody’s work that we can't expe ordinarily lazy folks to pretermit th: fauit-finding function, merely because it 1s unjust. But it does seem a bit hard for us to be prevented from doing what we are eager to do by hostile natural cendi tlons which we can't control and, the same time, be criticized for not doing it. as if What we can't help were out fauit. Now doewn If those ultra advanced thinkers who have abolished the devil wouid kindly rehabllitate him, if oniy for rurzl reference during the months, say. of April and May, they would be help- ing to relieve the too much be-cussed farmer of some objurgations he doesn’t deserve. THE FARMER. a DAYS AU D' TbR. u M Starting Wednesday, May 16 2 PERFORMANCES DAILY, AT 2 AND 8 P. M. ANNETTE A DAUGHTE KELLERMANN OF THE GOD MOST PERFECT ¥ PRESENTED WOMAN IN SENSATIONAL NEW YORK By s SUCCESs WILLIAM FOX Breaking All Attendance Records AS INCOMPARABLY - REVEALED IN Bown through the ages. from the ancient era when exquisite Clespatra reigned unchal lenged. when Venus exhalted physical woman, untii today ANNETTE KELLERMANN'S have known ne |- like or equat. TRA., Height 5 feet 5 inches Height .... inches Height 4 inches Neclk . 13.7 Inches Neck .... inches Neck .. S fnches Waist 29.3 inches Waist .. inches Waist . 31.2 inches Hip: . 39.6 inches Hips . inches Hips 40.8 Inches Shoulders 40 inches Shomlders . 6 inches Shomlders 41.1 inches pper arm 6 inches Upper arm inches Upper arm Fore arm 95 inches Fore arm inches Fore arm Chest 33.4 inches Chest inches Chest Foot, leng! 9.3 inches Foot, iength inches Foot, length EVENINGS, 25¢, 50c, 75¢, $1.60 MATINEES, ALL SEATS, 25¢c and 50e. SALE OPENS SATURDAY, MAY 12th, AT 10 A. M PRICES ferent from those of many past sea- sons. At the ssme time I frankly admit that, despite all argument and comparison of records, this particular Spring of 1917 does seem to.1ze about the most treacherous and beastly sea- son ever! Tolland County SOUTH WILLINGTON Pobuda Family Furnishes Two Sons to Uncle Sam and a Third Anxious ta Go—Due Day Meeting—Lady Mer- cedes’ New Record Astonishes Hol- stein Breeders. Three or four weeks age we had a number of days of good weather. The frost melted out of the ground, the roads dried up, the soil began to warm, the weeds to start and the dickey birds to chirp. The frogs in_the old frog-pond began to peep and boom: dandelions and cowslips to Come and cut me for gree: white-birch and red-slm buds to swell and lighten the sombre gray of the winter woods The first young men to enlist from this town are the sons of Charles Po- Moth That Relie Dr. Caldweli’s Syrup Pepsin] Is a Dependable Family i incident to first im- be in this should 1d iaxative ed to gently carry i leave the erform the com harbs with W. B.| under | Pep contalns | is the mc as a Little | pated | p Pepsin is sold | rhere and costs | AS COF EEM -AS to buy. Baby Carriages and 1917 models, SHEA & BURKE er Praises Rémedy‘ praise | t eks. | obtained WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO BUY EVERY TIME YOU COME TO THIS STORE We want you to come in often and look over our stock so that you will know what you want when you are veady It is the only way you can always be sure. We are making this a store of service so bring any furnishing problem you may have to us and it will be solved. |buda, Edward and Robert. Edward in the Third Naval Reserve of New York, and Rohert in the Coast - Artiliery, ationed at Fort Monroe, Va. :Mr. Pobuda has also a boy werking in the Brooklyn navy yvard who has written his father for permission to enlist. but cwing to his being so young, his fath- er will not consent. This should stir up other voung men of the town not to let one family furnish the town’s quota! ved Her Baby Due Day Meeting. The Due Day: meeting of ihe W. C. T. U. was held at the home-of Mrs. E. J. Holman, Saturday afternoon. The devotional exercises were led by Mrs. T. Y. Fuller of Scotland. Tt was to the and Sailors take up 'Red Cross work department of the Soldiers Miss Hall Serving Her Country. iss Doris Hall left Saturday of last week for Washington, D. C. where she has entered the National Service Training Camp for Women. At the camp, courses are given in First Aid Work, Home Nursing Diatetics, al- €0 Wireless Telegraphy, signalling and many other lines of work which wo- men may be called upon to take up in the present crisis. Death of Mrs. Thompson. . Mrs. Margaret L. Thompson, 77, died in Stafford hospital. Thursday. She is survived by two brothers, Swift Long of Jamaica Plains, Masss., and William fifty To avoid abst cents a and re ire_to _ask for Dr. Cald- of Fitchville, Conn.. and a sis- well's Syrup Pepsin. See thai a fac- Scott. of Newport, R. I. Sh simile of Dr. Caldwell's signature and | buried ‘at Willimantic Saturday his portrait appear on the vellow car- |afternoon. in which bottle, A be the bottle is packed. free of charge, can writing to Dr. W. B. Cal Washington St, Monticello, Joins 18th Company. Loufs Czegledy left for New York to join his company, the 19th company, National Coast Artillery. They will be stationed at Fort Hancock, . Sandy of . Mansfield. well, Tilino veland Stroppeel Mass. was a re Mrs. V. H. Halls. Potter is much Improved and i= expected to return from the hospi- tal today (Saturday.) Miss Georgiana Mundell and Arthur Colourn of Springfield. were guests of 3r. and Mrs. Hans Havsen for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller of Seotland ent Sundav with Mrs. E.-J. Holman. Mrs. Daniel Lea Rovce was operated on_Tuesday at the Stafford hospital. There are a great many.delinquents {in securinz their dog licenses. Tt means quite a number of extra dollars - the tawn. Automobile Accident. While returning from Tolland Tues- the steering rod on the car Fliram Loverin hrske, com- % steep hill near West Will- ington. The car plunzed into the fence 2 telephone pole kept the car from zoing over 2 six foot embankment. Mr. Loverin was not hurt. The car was considerably damaged. Instructive Lecture The publte yecture and lantern sitdes on Ezypt at Social ‘hall Sunday night was largely attended. George West- erfield delivering the lecture. These lectures which are given everv Sunday night are very instructive and inter- esting. Lady Mercedes’ New Record. Lady Agnes Mercedes, the cow spok- en ofIn thess columns a few weeks 2go as being the highest milk produc- ing cow in fhe state and owned by Gardner Hall, Jr. and Co., has added greatly to her record and world-wide reputation; by producing 131.1 pounds of milk in a day and 7312 pounds of milk in 7 days. These are state rec- ords, surpassing. all.other records by several pounds. She has also made a butter record of 30 pounds In seven days, which /is considered a wonder- ful record among Halstein hreeders. Lady is not only an abnorinally high producer but a show cow as well, hav- ing carried away a, I Toli of prize money from the Natjonal Dairy Show at Springfield last October, and she has the honor of leading the on the night of the opening of 1 YOULL CALL ies now being shown, priced fairly. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES nt guest at Col. and | show, which was considered the larg- est parade of cattle known fn history SPRING HILL Timely Addresses at Public Mecting— Generous Offering for Beigian. Chil- dren. A sprinkiing of representative citl- zens from the several parts of the town to the number of about 50 assem- ©led at the town hall Wednesday evening in response to circulars which had been distributed and listened to addresses by John E. Gifford, agent of the Toiland county farm bureau, who spoke on The Food Situation, and| {James N. Muir, superintendent of | | schools of Rockville, on Our National | Du Both speakers sought to im- press on the minds of those presant I their duty, both individually and col- lectively. aoder existing conditions. A collection taken up at the close for the relief of Belgian childrén amount- ed to $30. Short Paragraphs. The barn and other outbuildings-on what is known as the Pitt Barrows place have been sold and will be moved awa: ‘Miss Ethel Freeman has returned to her home from Mansfield Center,where she spent the winter. As she was u able to resume her duties as organist at the Baptist church last Sunday, ! Mrs. C. C vis officiated Miss Olive Wtldes. afte: came sit her eister, Mrs. H. C. Haw- last week, became ill w#h mumps | and was confined to her be® for sev- eral dayvs. Her mother was with her last Sunday. Mrs. A. D. Shepard of Norwalk again keeping house for A B L wort: Mrs. R. R. Knapp of Bridgeport has gbeon visiting at her old home week A BOLTON NOTCH Miss Hattie Warner of South Man- chester spent Sunday with her grand- mother, Mre. 1. E. Howard. Mrs. William Howe of Syracuse visiting her sister-in-law, Reed. Mrs. Jessle Smith was a Manchester visitor Thursday. E. A. Shaw was Sunday. Aleck Jennings is employed with th Stuart people on the Fox buil Hartford. Mrs. Emma Dennis has gone to amford to visit her daughte George Howe of Steriing was a vis- itor in town Sunday Leonard ILieburg and Miss Mary Warner of South Manchester called on friends here Monday. Miss Mabel Howard v Manchester Thursday. Washington Countyv, o HOPKINTON School Committee Authorizes Print- ing of 400 Coples of School Report— Meeting of Town Council—Probato Matters. is Mrs. Estelle in New York over s ted in South The monthiy mesting of the school committee was held at the town hall Monday morning. The members and | superintendent were all present. The iannual reports of the commlittee, su- perintendent, principals of the two high schools, the critic teacher of the training school, the medical Inspectors. anr the truant officers were approved ana ordered printed for dlstribution to the tax payers at the financial town meeting, May 24th, to the number of 400 copies. Bills were ordered paid to the amount of $51.62. The diplo- mas and certificates to be used at the end of the school vear in June were signed bv the committee. Town Council Meets. The town council held its monthly session at _the town hall Monday aft- ernoon. David J. Naylor, Thomas S. Maines and Haroid R. Crandall were appointed a committee on Memorial Day exercises. Bills were ordered paid ‘amount of $686.01. Probate Court. In the probate court Howard B. Thorp administrator on the estates t bn-and Caroline Can- bission to sell the leceased. to the Topay - BREED THEATRE i85 TODAY AT 1 AND 2.45 TONIGHT AT 6.45 AND 8.30 A Powerful Picturization of Hall Caine’s Master-piece The “DEEMSTER” WITH THE GREAT AUTHOR’S SON APPEARING AS THE STAR THE MOST IMPRESSIVE AND THRILLING LOVE STORY IN NINE WONDERFUL ACTS A Photo-Play That Will Hold You Spell-bound from Beginning to End AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA MATINEE 15¢ EVENING 20c The management gave a private screening of Hall Caine’s mastor-piece, “The Deemster.” m. to day to representatives of the press, amusement committee of the court of common council and ssveral promi nent oitizens. After witnessing thia wonderful production they were all unanimoun in the opinion th without a doubt the greatest photo-play ever screened. It held them from start to finish and there was action in every minute of the play. FCUR SHOWS COMING MONDAY AND TUESDAY PEGGY HYLAND and ANTONIO MERENO in A ROSE OF THE SOUTH ; NEXT MON. TUES., WED ZBROADWAY Triangle Photo-Plays BOSTON THEATRE—THE BIG TIME HEADLINER DIRECT FROM KEITH'S Spariks-Afli Company IN THE SPECTACULAR COMEDY OFFERING, “KAT-TALES ON THE WHARF.” SPECIAL SCENERY CHARLES ALTROFF ' SCARPIOFF and VARAVARA THE SHERIFF OF HICKSVILLE Famous Russian Boy Tenor and Master Boy Pianist Time and Prices LOUISE GLAUM in BOBBIE DUNN and SWEETHEART OF THE DOOMED MATINEE UMMER A 5-Part Triangle Drama of Emotion- At 2.15—10c and 15e SLIM S VILLE al‘ Tensity Rising to a Mlgnifi?en( EVENING in the 2-Reel Keystone Gloom Dispelier Climax Whersin a Noctorious Siren At 6.45 and 845 VILLA OF THE MOVIES Becomes the Angel of the Armies of 5 y ; France. 10c, 15¢, 20c and 25¢ 2,000 Feet of Laughing Film | Comedy Com- Roller Coastsr the and His Merry Musi pany in “Zam Zam. Charts Given Away by Bob to Children at the Matines. TODAY AT 2and 7P. M. BOB OTT Mat. 1.30.3 AUDITORIUM Eve. 7-830 ma J. Johnson, administratrix on the estate of the late Lucv E. Maxson, was allowed recorded and she was given permission to distribute the bal- ance in he nds and her bond was —TODAY— cancelled. - = & Villia &, McG 2 appoi i,z women ot il Vieginia Pearson er, Isabella S, Hull, d sed, a e B Sl M “SISTER AGAINST SISTER’’ appralser -of the personal property of! sald estate. 1 A TRAGIC STORY OF LIFE—A VIVID PICTURE OF SOUL KILLING POVERTY—A PLEA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE The final account of Alexander B Briggs, executor of (hed will of ;Tusa!; Emily Collins, deceased, was aliowed . . - B and ordered recorded Chas. Conklin in The Film Spoilers Mutual Weekly Partelo, widow of Charl H. Parteln, was granted a monthiy al- lowance for six months out of his es- tate toward her support. MONDAY AND TUESDAY Third Chapter of THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS NANCE O’NEIL in “GREED” Personals. e e Capt e Fleventh Episode of THE SECRET KINGDOM Knight street, A way, tl:is wee! and calling on friends. Mr. and_ Mrs. Vernon Turner recent- FOUR PERFORMANCES TODAY,1.30, 3, 7, 8.30. Children at Matines 5¢ iy married, are now living in & house belonging to the Wolf Worsted Co. at Bethel, where Mr, Turner is employ- ed. 3 Harold R. Peterson Is very ill at his | present & solo with guitar ac- RICHMOND home on Wigh sirest. Ashawav. | companime SO T posi The - of William H. Picker- Fhilip ¢ ¢ and his men are work- - 2 Znéhh'zs'%::;\‘gn.d fram Ashawav to Dor-|ing on the s Juse. ramodeling it | George Abbey Dies While Visiting His rhester, Mass, as Mr. Pickering 1s|into a bunga Hobert Ave ¢ Brother at Crompton. emploved in Boston. wrgh = & — -- Arrive from North Carolina. & WEE¥APAUG fr dley, with her e enildren pent the wint pFannie e tu ; Nor has arrived at ruesday after a few Five Dollars Toward Red Cross Votad | Sohy (%0 Lhiow, whore she her sister, Mrs. Philip by W. C. T. U—Scouts Occupying spend the summer. hll_‘\:n.dd - E i . . eddy e oppets’ two sisters f hele Cotags Scouts in Cottage. | Nitsdinae Dlor are. vister - The Déean View W. C. T. U. met at| Rev. Robert Smith and six of the|for a iwhile. the hofme of Mrs. Emily Chapman on |Boy Scouts of Westfield. Mass., are The funeral of Mrs. Fred Wednesday afternoon with nine mem- | their cottage, the Haversham house, lived near the Richmond Bers and two visitors from Bradford [for a week. was largely attended Tuesdas present. During the business meeting | Mrs. Howard Langworthy and Mrs.| Georgé Abbey of Hope Valley dled it was voted to give $5 toward-Red |Leon Biiven attended the services at|Tuesday morning at his brother's in Cross work. A lesson on aleohol and | the tabernacle Thursday afternoon. | Crompton, where hie went (o make his health was given by the president, | Harrs Noyves recently purchased In | brother a visit. Everett Moore was in Providence on Norwich a player-piano with mandolin business the last of the week. Mrs. Browning, who also took charge attachment. of the program. One of the ladies