Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 24, 1917, Page 9

Rules for Youmg Writers Use pen and ink, not 3. Short and poinfed s will be ‘"-:l preference. Do use over 2 ‘words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used, 5. Write your pame, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. “Address all communications tc Uncle Jed, Bulletin Ofce. “Whatever you are—Be that! you say—Be truel Be_honest—in fact, > Be nobody else but you POETRY. At Bedtime. When Mother reads a story, e before we go to bed, There's net one of all of us that is a sleepy head: We gatner 'round an’ crowd up close about her rockin' chair, An' as she reads 1 watch the light glowin’ on her hair. Oh, Jimmy's eyes get big as plates, an' Mary sometimes Squeals, An' Betty sits with tear-stained face, because she sorter feels Real sorry for the dragon when the hero kills him dead: When Mother reads a story jes' before we go to bed. 4 When Mother reads a story jes’ before we go to bed. 1 lean up close and hold the book so che can pat my hea For when the giant's vellin’ flerce it's awful nice to know That Mother's arm is holding you an’ will not let you ol Buddy mouth falls open most, he gets so filled with fear, £ An' Helen's eves grow bright like stars, an’ when the end is near We hear the word “They happy lived forever—it was said,” When Mother reads a story jes' before we go to bed. —Margaret E. Sangster. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. _ The golden robin has arrived from the south—returned to his old nest in the cim tree. His plumege is just gold and black, and he was called the Baltimore oriole because his colors and Lord Balti- mare’s colors were the same, although he had been wearing them thousands of years before Lord® Baltimore wa: born No one can tell how this bird learn- ed to make half-hitches or to tis firm knots before man had acquired the skill to do it. In the long-ago these birde muet have had fierce enemies or they would mever have hung their nests ifke pouches on the withy sprays at the end of the branches where noth- ing larger than ants could venture to annoy them. Some parts of the nest seem to be nicely sewn together with long horsehairs, and the male bird finds the vegetable fibre and the wool and flose or feathers and the female weaves the materia’s together and binds them so the highest winds will not aisiodge them. They have been called “hanghirds” because of the way they suspend their nests. In one of their nests a naturalist discovered a strand of grass over a foot long, and it was put through the material 3¢ times in stitches and a horeehair was woven through 14 times in 2 space of 10 inches. He thought it might be possible to teach the birds Bow to darn stockings Their loud and jubilant calls are very much like the red-breasted gros- beak’'s, but their call is not quite as ahriil but more frequent. They only spend a small part of the year with us, and then with their young they fiy to Central America, 2:000 miles away, to spend the winter. It is a seurce of pleasure to know the birds and to be familiar with thelr habits. o! THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. i- Sertha Adelman, of Yantic—The .THE WIDE AWAKE BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT . | oy Scouts and the Army Air Ship. = lecelia- K. Sterry, of Brooklyn, 27 ¥ -The Submarine Boys' Lightning ~+ Zigelmayes ¥ radv at the W e Musial, of Mansfield Cen- Allies Under Two Flags. en Frink, of Norwich—Ruth < at Stiver Ranch. y Fish, of Springfield, Mas: 4zaercen'dfairy Tales. Catherine McVey, of Norwich— ¥ EBrown and Sieter Sue on Grandpa's Farm. S—Leona Sullivan, of Norwich— Ruth Fielding in Dixie. All winners of prize books may call at The Builetin business office for ihem at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. S OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Co-coran of Lowell, Mass.: ~ccept my sincere thanks for »rize book you sent me. --is Pariseau of Jewett City: 1 u sc much for the prize book : me. 1 was very pleased when it. F y of Colchester: T received X _Ruth Fielding in Mov- and 1 think it is very 1 thank you ever so A. Brown of Columbia: T want sou very much for the lovely 1 have read it and found it very interesting. Charles W. Brush, of Fitchville—I thank you very much for the prize book sent me. 1 have read it through. The name of the book is “The High School HBoye' Fishing Trip.” Hazel McDaniels, of Mansfield—I thank you for my book. I think I will try again and see if can win an- other. Albert Mathewson, of Versailles—I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. I am going to work on.a farm and will send you an- sther story when I come back. Katherine Gorman, of Versailles—I recelved the nice prize hook you sent »riza Dok me. 1,Bave read it through and found it ve ing. I thank you very much it Eisie Riben, of Mansfield—The book s a gift for wrl letter was Te- teived with much t and_appre- iation. T Have read the book moet k\lflmmnh CIRCLE WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. The Lost Gold Piece. Soms years ago a girl named Alice Warren lived in New Hampshire. On her twelfth birthday he: father gave her a gold dollar, of which she was very proud. She carried it_to school and showed it to the girls. Then she put it in her desk ana it rolled into a crack, but Alice did not see it. : When school closed at noon she opened her desk to get the money, but it was gone. She told her teacher and she tried to find it, but did not succeed. Alice went home and ran into the house ing. “UWat 1s the matter? said her mother. “‘Sadie Thompson has stolen my gold dollar,” said Alice. “Did_you see her steal it?" asked Mrs. Warren. “No,” sald Alice, ::but ehe sits at my desk, and 1 know that she took i ‘Her mother told her that she must not_suspect or accuse Sadie. The next morning Alice went to school, and ehe was very cross .at Sadle. ®adie asked her why she was cross at her, and she said “Because you stole my gold dol'a Sadie said she ha: not taken it; but Alice did not believe her. At recess Alice told the girls that Sadie had stolen her money, and poor Sadie’s heart was almost broken. Some STORIES /| of them believed it, and some=did not. One day about a week afterwards Alice opened her desk to get a book, and she saw something bright in the crack. She dug it out with her pencil and found that it was her lost dollar. She feit very much ashamed. She went quickly to Sadie and said: “O, Sadie, I have found my gold dollar in a crack of my desk. T am very, very sorry that I accused you of stealing it. Will you forgive me ‘Sadie kissed Alice and said Yes, indeed, 1 will forgive yom. Tt grieved me very much to have vou belleve that T would steal your money, but now we will be good friends again LEONA SULLIVAN, Age 12. Tattville. Jacob. T was eating my dinner one summer afternoon when T was about 10 years old. I looked at my flock of sheep hurrying around, when I saw a large lion. He was taking my favorite lamb, Jacob. 1 grabbed my strong crook and started after him. He saw me and picked my lamb up and started run- ning away. I chased him about a mile before I caught him. 1 gave him a blow on the nose. He roared and was going to jump at me. T took hold of his beard and threw him and took the lamb out of his mouth. After that 1 thanked God that He had given me strength to kill the lion. That evening I told my father of m: adventure. T bound the lamb's leg and took it back to its mother. I skinned the lion and made a coat from its skin. HYMAN RABINOWITZ, Age 11. Norwich A Woodchuck. One day when I was on my way to school I saw a little brown animal in the fleld where our cows were. I look- ed at it for a long time, but 1 could not teil what it was. I got up close to it behind a tree o that the animal would not see me. From behind the tree T saw that it was a woodchuck. When I got home that night 1 set a steel trap for it. In the morning when I was going to school I looked at the trap. T was surprised to find I had caught him. 1 got a big stick and killed him. This was the first wood- chuck T ever caught. THOMAS SULLIVAN, Age 11. Bozranville. Looking for the Cows. One day as the cows did not come home eariy 1 and my brother went to look for them. My brother said he would like to take the dog with him, so he took a piece of ropé and tied it te the dog’s collar, and the dog went with us. As we were going along the path we saw the dog was looking at something. Then my brother thought he saw something moving, and he let the dog go. The dog ran right to the place where he was looking. He began to bark loud and look back to us. My brother started to run, but be- fore he got to the place where the dog was, the dog had already killed a :‘v_oodchuck and was going home with im. ‘We ran around, but we couldn’t find the 's. Then we climbed a fence in a lot of corn and there we found them eating. They spoiled some of the corn. We chased them home to th& barn and locked them up in their places. We had to milk late that day. When we reached home the dog was lying with the woodchuck near him. The dog used to follow my brother wherever he went. The first one he killed was a big one. Then he killed six little ones. 1 think that the big one was the little ones’ mother, be- cause he killed them in the same place. BERTHA ADELMAN, Age 11. Yantic. 5 LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Stone Hili School. Dear Uncle Jed: I go to Stone Hill sehool. 1 have reading, writing, arith- metic, language and spelling. I like to do_arithmetic the best of my studies. I am in the second grade. I have a nice pet. It is a white kit- ten. T like to play with it when I come home from school. I also have a banty. Rosie. We have a black pig. He is ve: clever and iikes me. - = = ETHEL DAVIS, Age 9. Plainfield. It's name is A SHort Vi Dear Uncle Jed: When I was out of school at Easter time, my mother and little sister and myself went to visit my aunt and cousin, Caroline, who live in Westerly. We started early in the morning so as to make the most of our time as we intended to get home before dark. It was a beautiful morning and we started off in great glee, leaving Franklin square on the 7.45 trolley. It was very pretty all along the country road. We saw flocks of shrep on one side and a number of cows on the other. We were just ome hour making the trip. We met my uncle and cousin Caro- line at the station. They thought we would like 8 see some of their new " buildings, so we went along until we came to the Pub- He Library and we went through it; then to the new post office. These are both very nice bufldings. .Then we walked through Wilcox park. It is & very pretty park and most people Visiting Westerly g0 to 1o Mio8t intefesting of all was our visit pumping station. We enjoyed oy waiohing fhe machinery very mush station before. noon & Pumping By ‘time it was =nd we were £lad to stars little get_there in a_Jit When we arrived she had dinner ready, and it tasted good. After dinner Caroline gave us each 2 pretty Easter basket filled with Eas- ter eszs and Bunny rabbits. Then we sat and lstened to the records she played on her talking machine. We njoyed them very much, and the time passed so quickly it was time for lunch Dbefore we knew it. Our next thought was of, getting home. We didn’t -get home as early as we had planned) but it wasn't quite dark We were very tired but well pleased_with pur day’s outing. ALICE ZIEGELMAYER, Age 7. _Norwich. Thrilling Ghost Story. ;i Dear Uncle Jed: I have read the stories written by the Wide-Awakes, and enjoy them very much, so I thought I would write a story. Alice had just heard a thrilling ghost story and was on her way home alone. She thought she would go home & short way through the woods because she had ‘stayed longer than she Rad expected. Alice was a little girl and although she tried to be very brave she was startled by every noise she heard, thinking it to be the ghost, which she had just heard about. This would not do, so she began to run. Soon, just behind her, came the hustling “of feet as though someone was following her. She _dared look around, so she kept running. The sound In back of her continued till, at last as Alice was nearing her home she summoned up courage to look be- hind her. Carefully, she turned her Lead, and to her great surprise and amazemenp, instead of seeing the ghost, she saw her own dog which she had taken to her friends with her. She had forgotten the dog, but the dog had not forgotten her. ‘When Alice reached home she told the family of her adventure and they all joined in laughing. ELLA KINDER. Mildred’s Pet. Dear Uncle Jed: One night when Mr. Swift, a friend of ours, came home from_ his work he had something un- der his coat. When he got to the house he took from his coat a little young deer. ‘He had white spots all over his back and he must have been tiny because I saw him some time afterward and he was so small Sometimes when we were going to Willimantic we would stop in and see im. About ten or eleven months after Mr. Swift found the deer he got quite big and they wanted to sell him. Grandpa said he would like to buy him and he did ‘We have not had him long so there is not much to write about him. When he gat here we had to put him in our pony’s stall until we could get a better place for him. In a few days we zot a place which was a little larger than the stall and which had a smal] yard ready for him. He_ is in there now but we hope to get a better place for him soon. Once in a while T go down and give him some grass or sour apples. We named him Sport—that is, grandpa did when he came up from the city to see him. MILDRED H. KNOWLTON, Age 10. Mansfield Center. Dear Uncle Jed: One week before Easter my uncles wrote that they were coming to see us. My father went to Willimantic Sat- urday afternoon, the 7th day of April, to_meet them. My father and my uncle rode as far as the barn and then my uncle ot aff the bugzy and walked silently, try- ing to creep up to the house and scare us. But before he got half way the dog saw him and he could not scare us, Thay brought us some rabbit candy and many other kinds. On Sunday and Monday we walked out (my fa- ther, T and nty uncles) all around the farm. Before they went away my mother gave them four dozen egzs. and fwo pounds of butter and some meat and other things for a present. On Monday after my uncles went away we had a lot of fun plaving. When we saw father comfng home we ran to meet him. He brought us some cloth for dresses which my un- cles bought us. SOPHIE MUSIAL. Mansfield Center. The Girl Who Knew More Than Her Mother. Dear Uncle Jed: There was once a girl who thought she knew more than her mother. She was going to a dance and she asked her mother to make her dress the way she wanted it, and not her mother’'s way: and her mother said she would. ‘When the dress was fin- ished it was not fit to wear and the girls at the dance laughed at her dress ‘When she went home she told her mother about ft, and her mother said “I\did as vou said, did I not?" and she couid not deny it. Another time she wanted to starch her handkerchiefs and her mother said that if she did she could not use them: but she wanted her own way, so she did it and she could not use them. ThoSe were two lessons she learned by disobeying her mother. MARY EVANS, Age 12. Plainfield. Home Economics Club. Dear Uncle Jed: T thought you would like to hear about the Home Econ- omics club. It is a branch of the Ag- ricultural Department of Massachu- sette. It extends through the months of February, March and April. There is an enrollment card on which there is a number of activities. I took sewing, making light desserts, taking care of my hedroom, dish grving, ta- ble setting and crochet. The club members have to take sixty hours' work. In sewing T made a nightgown ind a fancy apron. I also made a cake, a cottage pudding and a baked custard. T crocheted a covering for an asbes- tos mat The. prizes are: First prize, a trip to ‘Washington: second prize, an automo- bile trip over the Mohawk Trail; third prize a week of camping at Amherst. At the end we have to write a_story of our experience in the club. T have written my story. If you keep the club up and do mot give up you get a club pin. We exhibit our work at the Bastern States Exhibition. T do not expeet to get a_prize this vear, as it Is the first #ime T have taken it up. IVY FISK, Age 12. Springfield. How She Helos ‘Mother. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you how I help my mother. Morning, I go on errands. At noontime when T get home from school early, T set the fa- ble, and after I wipe the dishes.and put them away. After T come home from school T g on errands, for the morning’s break- st. Saturday 1 dust, and this is how T help my mother. CATHERINE McVEIGH, Age . Norwich. My Work On the Farm. Dear Uncle Jed: Every morning I get up at a quarter of six and give the horses oats and hay. Sometimes however, my father does it. Then my father and I clean the feed the cows and chickens, and at past six we harness the fast horse - TN There was a fly in our town, he was wondrous flip— climbed upon the gravy bowl And took a little dij He scrambled o'er tha butter and He smeared it on floor; He_trled his humble handiwork Upon the kitchen door. He floated to the garbage can And found it full of zerms. We hit him with a spatte: “Then he came to terms. and 1 ride down with my sister to the mill where she works. I ride because my brother can't drive; but now I take him with me to learn him_ to drive. Every Saturday and Sunday my father and I carry manure and spread it on the ground. We put our manure in a manure room and in the room there is a hole about three feet deep, 80 it is hard to throw the manure in- to the wagon. One dny (on Tuesday), T was absent because on Monday while_carrying the manure the back wheel broke. 1 had to ride to the blacksmith's to have it fixed. T stayed till twelve o'clock. Then I took the horse by the bridle and walked home. T gave the horse dinner and ate din- ner myself. Then I rode five miles to our neighbor's to get a wagon. By the time L came home it was a quarter past five. My brother heiped me un- itch the horse. Then. we hitched up the other horse and rode for my sis- ter. When she came home we had to churn butter, saw wood and do many other things. ‘We haven't much work to do in the barn because we have only three cows ang three horses. It takes us a little while to do the work. ISADORE RTBEN. Marsfield Center. A Lost Child and a Policeman. Dear Uncle Jed: One bright sun- shining day in June, Mary asked leave of her mother to go out and hear the hand organ man and see the monkey. Her mother said, “Yes, you may go, if you will promise not to go very far and come back soon.” Mary was so serious and anxious to reach the hurdy gurdy man that she had no time to wait to hear the rest of her mother's repiy, but hurried eagerly down the street with a happy throng of ohildren. The hand organ man played manv ome of which were, “Old Black “The Star Spangled Banner,” “America,” and other songs, very nice. The hand organ man’s monkey danced very amusingly for the children. Mary was so interested in the monkey that she did not see the children dropping out one by one. Soon all the chil- dren had gone and what was left were strangers Mary had never seen b fore or heard of. The hand organ man kept moving on and on, each time drawing nearer the city and soon Mary was left to mourn over herself in the dark. All of a sudden she began to sob. Aftracted by her sobbing a police- man came fo assist her. This police- man was ‘very kind and loved each child as if they were a member of his family. He said little one?” “I can't find my way home,” sobbed Mary. “Where do vou live? liceman. “I_don’t know where,” said Mary. “Have you a mother?” asked the policeman. : “Oh, yes, sure! Why, of course!™ replied Mary. “I have a pickaninny doll whose name is Dinah, and a Teddy bear whose name is Buster Brown,” “What makes vou cry, my " asked the po- e in a big, large, brokn house with Alice-blue trimmings,” said Mary, “and the street on which T live is called Washington street. You know, George Washington lived there when' he was a little boy, ~and you know the time he killed his mother's beaudiful black coit and wouldn't tell a ile to save his neck. Oh, my! what a good boy he must have been,” ex- claimed Mary. The policeman was amazed when he heard Mary relate this strange tale and wondered where she got so mixed up, but he said nothing. He started on his way to police court A Well Dressed Hog, by Roger 5. Miner, North Franklin. but had just arrived there when a tele- phone came from her mother stating that a child about four years of age and dark complected had been lost. _He took Mary home in his automo- bile, and upon his aiival was award ed a five dollar gold plece; but he very politely declined the reward and he went epinning home with a heart glowing with happiness for having re- turned the lost child to her parents. HELEN FRINK, Age 13. Norwich. CARRYING ORE AND COAL. Enormous Traffic Accompanies' aMnu- facture of Steel—Its Extent Baffles Imagination—Great Lak Ship- g. The place where the raw materials are brought together for the manufac- ture of iron and steel must be selected with due regard to the economies of manufacture and distribution. It should be near the ore or the coal( or both), or else be somewhere along the route’ of cheapest transportation, where the ore and coal may meet. Pittsburgh became the first great cen- ter of Ahe steel industry, with vast fields of coal near at hand, a_supply of natural gas originally plentiful, and excellent railroad facilities for the transportation of raw materials and the distribution of the finished pro- ducts. Cleveland, half-way between re and coal, und also the Mahoning and Shenago valley districts, are cen- ters of large activity in iron and steel South Chicago is another great ste manufacturing point, close to the greatest rallway center of the world, with Lake Michigan affording cheap and easy transportation of the ore and coal supplies in Illinois and Indiana. Gary is only a few miles from South Chicago. Into these centers the raw materials are poured — carloads of limestone, long trains of coal. and a constant stream of ore. One can see one train of fitty cars, each carrying fifty to seventy-five tons of ore, rushing down- ward from the mines to the ore docks on Lake Superior. One can imagine Afty or a hundred such trainloads, But even one hundred train loads means only 330,000 tons, and the imagination refuses to picture the vast number of trains required to carry down to the Gocks the £5+:00,000 tons produced by the mines about Lake Superior in 1316 —enough ore to fill a string of cars that would reach from New York to Honolulu. _Sixty million tons of ore in -916—when in 1852 five barrels was the total shipment from_the Minnesota ranges. August 17, 18; a ban- ner ore day. On that day a vessel loaded with 132 tons of ore passed through the new Sault Ste. Marfe canal from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan. In September, 1915, an ore boat came into a dock at Duluth and took on 11,- 262 tons of ore in one hour. In one hour and forty-five minutes from the time of her arrival she started on her return trip down the lakes with her cargo of ore. In 1915 also, at one of the Lake Erie ports, the great Hulett unloaders, snatching fifteen tons at a bite, took out a cargo of 11,083 tons in thres hours and forty minuies. Any ship but an ore shop would require many days to unload such a tre- mendous cargo. These ore docks are at Duluth and Two Harbors. They are complex af- fairs of three levels—first, the dock proper, jutting hundreds of feet into the laké: upon the dock, beside a hasin wide enough to admit the great ore steamers, is a_structure of heavy timbers, whose upper sections form pockets for the ore: and on the very top are lines of railday tracks. The loaded trains from the mines are run out upon these tracks over the ore pockets, and the contents of the cars are dumped automatically into the pockets. © Then the empty cars are switched over to the return track and started back again to the mines. One of the great fleet of ore boats comes up from the lower lake port, slips into the basin, and is made ast to the dock. The fresh water ship, six hundred feet long and only sixty feet wide, is an iron shell with houses at each end—officers’ quarters and bridge in the bow, crew’s quarters and engine room in the stern. There are hatches spaced six feet apart all down the long open deck between the houses. As soon as the ship is made fast these hatches are opened and from the ore peckets above are let down chutes which are folded flat against the pockets when not in use. The doors of the ore pock- ets are opened, two laborers with crow bars stand by to start the ore. which goes rushing into the hoid of the ship so swiftly that in twenty minutes a 10.000-ton ship 1s loaded: and a few minutes later, under its own steam, it puts out into the lake and joins the endless procession of boats carrying ore throughout the open months.— From The Story of Steel. Portland.—The Sunday school insti- The Balloon Boy, by wona Dugas of Versailles. A SUMMER SURPRISE “What a delightful story!” exclaim- ed Agnes. “And I didn’t feel you pull my hair one bit.” She was a_ girl about 10 years old, retty, and bright, for her age: but er one great trouble was her thick, black, wavy hair, no one could comb it as quickly and with the gentleness, (for it was always entangled) as il her Aunt Charlotte. Her aunt was bending over her, ad- justing the red “butterfly” bow. She Wwas young. aimost a girl, being about 27_years 0id and unmarried. “Yes, dear, it was kind of pretty, do you know where I found it?” she an- swered. “In one of those short story masga- aunty?” questioned Agnes. don’t "believe I'll teil vou after spoke her aunt, with her hand- some eyes twinkling prettily. “All right, I'm going to walk with Brhel, but T thank you again for it with this Agnes kissed her aunt and was_gone. ‘weeks jater it was a rainy day, nes was down-hearted because went wrong with her. “Why didn’'t 1 think of it before,” she said, springing up from her chair. “Aunt Charlotte 1s a physical train- ing_teacher in one of the big schools of Brooklyn and I'll ask her to come up_here and play with me.” For three-quarters of an hour Agnes yent through folk dances with her aunt. . “Let us play school until we are rested” at length her aunt spoke, breathlessly. “Do you know, aunty, lately I am beginning to like history, that is, since you explain the difficult parts to m Suppose vou write a short compo- sition about the chief executives of the city and state and let me see how much you remember from what your father ‘told you.” The happy pair passed the rainy afternoon pleasantly, in this way until supper time. Another week fléw by and Aunj Charlotte ran out to the lawn where Agnes was sitting. in_one hand she carried a flat parcei and in the other a box _of candy. “Which shall T open first?’ she in- quired of Agne “I know one is candy: other.” Instead\ of opening it the aunt laid it in the girl's lap. She quickly tore the wrappings from it, then exclaim- ed in surprise as she looked at the fy_leaf of the new hook: “I don't understand. I haven't done anything to win any prize. Can you explain what is the matter? “Yes, I think I can. You remember three weeks ago I told you that nice story, while T combed your hair? Well, T found it in a paper your mother has just subscribed to.- Then vyou wrote A composition that rainy day last week, I thought it was good enough to send -to The Courier, and it was. You_understand now, don't you?” “Yes, perfectly,” she said, “You have started me thinking, aunty and now. 1 will write often to the paper.” Agnes immediate n to read her book, after which she her prom- ise to her l.unt.m > CECELIA K. STERRY, Age 13. Brooklyn, N. Y. gt open the tute held at the Swedish Lutheran church Sunday afternoon and evening was largely attended by teachers from Middletown, Higganum, Cromwell and Meriden. Tn the afternoon there were addresses by Rev. Lundgren of Meri- den and Rev. C. E. Anderson of Mid- dletown. Peter Pan, by Everett Burrill, age 10 Stafford Snringa £ Those who suffer with ki ache, urinary ills or any It or bladder disorder, want Who can better advise than wich resident, but has had relief. Norwich p recommend Doan's Kidney Piils one case and there are man Help Wanted In Norwich And Furnished By the Help of Nerwich People. e kidne Who has also suffersd Mrs. E. Mulkin, 613 N. Main St X . wich, says: “T had dull . BT RTT : the small of my back o . lidd o trouble mostly when T ove good relief and myself. When T was . great deal, my back f . tired. Doan's Kidney = mena them.” A Sunbonnet Baby, by Edith Purvis| puee soc, ac of Norwich. simply ask for a . Doan’s Kidney Pills—the MAY DRAFT INTO THE NATIONAL GUARD Governor Has the Authority to lssue a Conscription Order. Gov. Marcus H. Holcomb has dee clared that he had authority under the law lately enacted by the legi: ture of the state to issue a conscrip- tion order to fill up the ranks of the units of the Connecticut National Guard fiot as yet federalized. He in- timated that he had such action under consideration, but did not say that he was likely to’ tike it soon. In case he takes the step, it would be independ- ent of the federal selective conscrip- tion. That such a draft as the go\- ernor may order is advisable_is the opinion of Colonel Edward Schulze, Who declared with emphasis last night that he wished to see the ranks filled. Colonel Schulze asserted that this method in his opinfon was the best in sight. “We have been trying' other measures long enough,” he sald At full war strength, to which com- manders have been ordered to recruit the units of the Connecticut Guard r now in federal service will have t following strength Radio company officers and 75 men Coast_Artillery, regiment of 13 com- panies, 58 officers and L5331 men 1 Four troops of cavalry, ii officers and 421 men Field hospital and 73 men. Ambulance and 150 men. First separate cers and 150 men. The total is 59 officers and 2.240 m The home stations of the uniis are follows: signal three company, six officers company, five r-fl\m-ra} company, three offi- Radio company, Hartford: Coast Ar- tillery, Bridgeport, G h, ‘Dan- bury, = Stamford, Norw Norwich, New London and Danielson:” cavalry, Hartford and New Haven: field hos tal, Hartford: ambulance company, Bridgeport, and separate company, New Haven. While it is quits possible that most of these units may be mustered in at their home stations, it is believed that this will be done at Niantic on Jul 25, or soon after. The First and Second infantry are endeavoring to recrult to “war strength” of 56 officers and 1.34% men Full war strength is 56 officers and 2,002 men. In a special order from the adjutant general's office it is announced that in accordance with the isual e it is ordered that the national flag he displayed Memortal day, 1917, on the state armories and the soldiers’ home at Noroton, at half staff from sunrise until midday; at noon the flag be hoisted to the top of the staff remain there until sunset Permission is granted organizations of the Connecticut National Guard de_ the parade siring to in of Memorial arms on that participate day, aay PATROL BOAT BASE AT THE STATE PIER. U. 8. Government Negotiating for Eastern Forwarding Company Hold- ings. The United States government, it is understood, s negotiating for _the holdings at the state pier in Bast New London ef the Hastern Forwarding company. Negotiations, it is said have been in progress several weeis but no definite arrangement has been made. J The Eastern Forwarding company operated the Deutschland. the subsea merchantman which plied between this country and Germany bearing precious cargoes. The first time the Deutsch- land came over she made Baitimore her port. Shortly afterwards the Eastern Forwarding company leased a section of the state pier in East New London, erected storehouses and es- tablished the place as the Amerigan terminal for the merchant submarine one trip here. another, The Deutschland made discharged a cargo. took on and went back to Germany Since then the submarine terminal k Pr ha at hi ed co eq eq m sa ot to! re. m A fi 8 ¢ in Mrs. Mulkin had who Eastern Beach, authort subma and will about Buffa ops., s been was_t Forwa Lon and m that its negotia The prope New warding compan: nsists vipped with ghis, etc., a ipment. T 0 was the fig The supr ent in such a t tisfactory arrangem herwise be made r public u Contract for S 1 ¥ The contract horsepow 111 be ULLETIN'S PATTERN 1989 CHARMING DRESS FOR MOTHER IFl's Dress With Sleeve nish. The 10 pattern is - and 12 yea as of 44 A patters il Torrington mously the Torri annual meeti Yes! CLEAN UP! Clean House