Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 25, 1917, Page 5

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Phons No outside calls made after 7 JOSEPH BRADFORD BOOKBINDER Slank Books Made and Ruled to Order 108 BROADWAY CALL AND SEE OUR GOODS Nene better for the price. COFFEE ......... Ib. 20c, 23c, 28¢ CEYLON TEA .. eee Ib. 44c JAPAN TEA ............. Ib. 27¢c ALL OTHER TEAS . Ib. 30c BAKING POWDER ........ Ib. 15¢ COCOA . SODA ONITED TEA IMPORTERS 218 Main Street 60, GEORGE G. GRANT Undertaker and Embalmer 3Z Providence St., Taftville Prompt attention to day or night calls Telephone 630 apriaMWFawl To Whom It May Concern: . Norwich, Conn.. June §0, 191 Notice is hereby given that the part- asrship lately subsisting between us, the undersigned, carrying on business &t 74 Main St, Norwich, Conn. under the firm name of The fahn Furniture on the 18th day of June, 1317, by mutual consent, and fhat of the businces and ts is how ‘in Herman S T pay and dis: rfe all dobis and ties of said Partnersip apd receive all money pay- abis To tha mmia late firm. oo PV (Stgned) BENTAMIN LAT, JOSEPH M. LAHX. HERMAN S. SPARS. i647 ADAMS TAVERN i861 sffer to the public the fines: standard Brands of Beer of £urope and America: Bohemian. Pilsner, Culmbach Bavarias . Bass, Paie and Burton Muers Ale, Guinness' Dublin_Stout, & C. Imported Ginger Ale, Bunker Hill P. B. Ala Frank Jones' Nourish- iag Ale, Sterling Bitter Ale, Apheuser, Budweiser, Schlitz and Pabst. A. A. ADAM, Norwich Town Telephone 519 American House Special Rates to Theatre Troupes, Traveling Men, Ete. Livery Connection Shetucket Street FARREL & SANDERSON, Props. On account of Increase in price of to- the Whitestone Cigar will b now _on at $3% per 1,000. EA 11 Frankiin 8t F. Norwich, Monday, June - VARIOUS MATTERS lamps st 7.55 this Light evening. vehicle In some sections farmers have be- sun haying. s 2 Acres of daistes are in bloom in su- burban fields., The Connectieut district shows a. total Federal income tax of $3,906, 858, The Second church Sunday school closed yesterday for the summer, to re-open September 9. A number of Bay State cars ran over the newly opened Mohegan Trall, Saturday and Sunday. Starting today - (Monday) certain trains on the Central Vermont rail- way will be discontinued The whippoorwill's note has been heard, a signal, the farmers say, that it is time planting was all done. Jumbo circys parade today at 11 11 o'clock, big show on CIiff Street grounds.—ady. There s a report that P. Gyger, a former station agent at Haddam, is in prison in Canada, having been ar- rested as a German spy. For the second séason, Mrs. J. C. Worth, of Norwich, has leased her Neptune Park cottage to L. P. Broad- hurst, a Hartford bank man. By degrees, the Shore Line Eiectric company is getting convenient wait- ing shelters erected at impertant points along its Montville line. School at Crystal Lake closed on Thursday and Miss Chapman, the teacher, has returned to her home in Groton ' for the summer vacation. At _the annual commencement of Mt. St. Joseph's Seminary, Hartford, honors awardea included, second aca- demic, Mary V. Driscoll, of Norwich. At the high mass in_ St Patrick's church Sunday, Rev. Myles P. Gal- vin preached on love of God and love of neighbor as the sum and essence of all moral law. This vear the annual Central~ Baptist sunday be held at Mohegan Park tomorrow (Tuesday) starting from the roque srounds at 9 a. m. picnic of the school is to Application for a marriage license has been made to the Middletown town clerk by Randolph N. Pearson of Springfield, Mass., and Minnie May Fortune of Willimantic. Yesterday was the last Sunday af- ternoon until October that the Otis Library reading room will be open. There were 37 visitors, Miss Martha A. Ward being in charge. See Spalding, Browne, Harriman and | Shahan's circus today, 3 o'clock, on j cue Street—arv. A brief thunder shower early Sun- day morning was followed by a day of intense heat and great humidity. The mercury stood at 90 degrees and over during the afternoon. While 30 members of.the Montville Baptist- church were having a picnic m a loeal grove Saturday, one of the little girls had_an_hysterical spasm, so severe that Dr. E. C. Chipman was summoned to treat her. the magazine department “of a York Sunday paper, Rear Ad- miral Caspar F. Goodrich, U. S. N, retired, of Pomfret, answered the question, why the stranger in our sates remains an alien. At a meeting of the official board of Trinity Methodist chureh Sunday and also in the Sunday school, ac- tion was taken on the tragic death of Miss Alice Coleman, daughter of a former pastor, Rev. F. W. Coleman. | _The thirty-eighth annual reunion of | the Secott Family association is to be held July 4 on the grounds of Mrs. Estella M. Mattoon and Mrs. Bertha !.\Y. Atwood at Watertown, as the | miests of Mr. and Mrs. James. A. | Black. At the eighth annual conference of the King's Daughters and Sons of Middlesex county in the Congrega- tional church at Middlefield Thurs- there was an address by Mrs. H. Dawley, state president, cf Norwich. Beginning with a check for $200 from one parishioner, the handsome sum of $653 was the collection in_St. Patrick's church Sunday for the Red Cross. This was sent to Bishop Ni- lan to add to the contribution of the Hartford diocese unit. When the new automobile law goes into effect, July 1, those who obtain | jitney operators’ licenses must swear to the accuracy of the statements contained in the application for the license. A mere statement will not in the future be sufficient. The Masonie Veteran association is Noid its forty-mevemtn apnual re- union in New Londen, Thursday, |Jtne 28." The association will be the ; guest of Unjon and Brainard lodges, {F. and A. M., and tbe meeting will be at the hall of Brainard lodge. A large number of members of the Holy Name soclety, led by their pres- ident, Alexander jordan, received holy communion at the 7.30 mass in St. Patrick’s’ church Sunday, from the rector, Rev. J. H. Broderick, who was assisted by Rev. Myles P. Galvin. From Somersville, Tolland county, Mrs Leland Keedey, accompanied by Iher littie daughter, Harriet, went to DeKalb, TI., to attend the wedding {of her sister, Jean EHwood, and Frank H. Chappell of New London. Leiand Keeney also attended the cere- mony. to Notification has been sent out that twelve hundred college students have | volunteered their services during the summer months to the American com- mittee for Armenian and Syrian Re- lief, to organize local committees throughout the country for the rais- ing of funds. Some of the dyes which Capt. Paul Koenig brought from Gedmany to New London in the commercial sub- marine Deutschland, are now being used to make plaid kilties for Cana- dian soldiers—the MacLean Highland- ers, which company has been recruit- ing in Boston. The United States civil service commission announces civil servida examination for sub-inspector of field artillery ammunition, for men only, from which vacaneies at varioush manufacturing. plants within the Unit- ed States at rates of pay ranging from $3.50 to $5 per diem will be filled. Open Meeting. Members of the Preston City grange are making preparations for an open meeting which will be held on Tues- day evening in the Preston City Con- gregational church. ” Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Potter of New York are spending a few days in town. Miss Joseéphine Hart, of Montville, is the zuest of Mrs. W. O. Seymes, at Hebron. 4 George Watson of Yantic is visit- ing his daughter, Mrs. Daisy Lana- gan of Stafford Spring: Miss Alma Bowman, a student at Cornell, is at her home on Greene avenue for the summer vacation. Capt. Cecil G. Young, of Washing: ton, D. C. is spending a brief fur- lough at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lillian S. Young, of Norwich. Charles H. Preston, son of Architect and Mrs. Charles H. Preston of Water- ‘bury, is a patient at the Waterbury hospital, having been operated on for appendicitis. Mrs. Fred Ohman and Leon Ohman ‘of South Coventry have been recent guests at Spring Acres, Bethlehem, Conn., where Bernard Robinson of South’ Coventry is spending the sum- i at the home of his aunt, Mrs. F. . New. Mrs. Alfred Griswold and son Theo- dore, of New Britain, are spending a few ‘days with Mrs. Griswold’s cousin, Mrs. Harry Bjurstrom of Clairemont avenue. Mrs. Griswold is the wife of Captain Griswold who is in command of the company of infantrymen station- ed in this city Edmond St. Onge, of Westerly, who was visiting” in Norwich, sang the offertory selection, Ave Maria, at the high mass in St. Patrick’s church on Sunday. Mr. St. Onse is the posses- sor of a bass voice, well trained, and his singing made a very favorable impression on the large congresation. MISS ALICE COLEMAN MEETS TRAGIC DEATH Received Broken Neck When Fast Speeding Automobile Turned Up: Down. Miss Alice Coleman, daughter of the Rev. F. W. Coleman, pastor of St. Mark's Methodist church of Brook- line, and formerly pastor of Trinity Methodlst church of this city, at Fall River, Saturday night, the result of a broken neck which she suffered Sat- urday afternoon when she was one of a trio of young people that figured in an automobile accident. Richard W. Tierney, Jr, a Philllps Andover AcademY student, who was driving the automobile when it turned somersault while speeding through Rock street, Fall River, was arrested, accused of manslaughter. A charge of operating an automobile at excessive speed was also preferred against him. In regard to Miss Coleman's death the Boston Sunday Post said ‘Tierney, who is the son of a_local garage man, and Miss Eunice Wilcox who was the other passenger in the car. escaped with minor injuries. The automobile was demolisked. Miss Wil cox is the daushter of Robert A. Wil- cox, a local paper manufacturer. The car with which Tierney’s speeding ma- chine coliided was driven by Walter E. Lethbridge of 292 Coffin avenue, New Bedford. Miss Coleman and Miss Wilcox were in a druz store on Maple street drink- ing a soda when Tierney spied them. He invited the girls to ride home with him. Migs Wilcox, who knew Tierney, accepted the invitation. The trio were riding through Roek street at an excessive speed, the police say, when a wheel of the machine side- swiped the Lethbridge car. The girls screamed as the speeding car shot ahead and then turned over in the air. It crashed to the ivound, a mass of wreckage. with the trio under- neath. Citizens puifed frantically at the debris and rescued Miss Wilcox and Tierne. Miss Coleman was pinned un- der the body of the wrecked machine and when she was finally rescued physicians said her neck was broken. She was rushed to the Union Hospi- tal whera she died two hours later. Her father, who was at a Sunday school picnic at Spot Pond was notified, but he failed to reach the hospital before she died. Miss Coleman had iust completed her first term at Connectiout College for ‘Women. Her father as formerly pas- tor of the Methodist church at Nor- wich, Conn. The Colemans came to Brookline about three months ago. Y. M. C. MEETING. W. J. Crawford Addressed Men’s Gathering On Decision. A. Rev. An interesting meeting for men was held in_the Y. M. C. A. building at 4 p. m. Sunday and both the address fand the music were helpful. Rev. W. J. Crawford, the new min- ister of the Norwich Town Methodist church was the speaker of the occa- sfon, and his message was listened to with interest. The text selected Today (Monday) is Pershing day for the ek Croms, and Norwich in. dom mon with every city and town in the country, has been asked to observe the day. On Sunday Francis J. Leavens, chairman of the Norwich Red Cross | chapter, received the following tele- gram: Hartford,*Conn., June 24, 1917. ‘Chairman Red Cross' ~Chapter, Nor- wich: An appeal comes from the war coun- cil of the Amerivan Red Cross at ‘Washington stating that $20.000,000 for the war fund is necessary to be raised. 1t is requested we make Monday a na- tional Pershing day and help the fund as a_pledge of our loyalty to General Pershing and our men in Europe as well as to those who are going. Please pass the word to all workers so that in the effort to compiete the fund Connecticut by its patriotism and duty may be foremost in doing its share. Connecticut War Council, American Red Cross. CHARLES G. PHELPS. Secretary. The total reported on Saturday by the local team captains was $2,801.3, making the total to date $13,522.61. A final drive will be made today to bring the total up to the allotment for Nor- wich, $25,000. At noon today the team cartains will meet with the general committee, Francis J. Leavens, chair- man, at the Wanregan house, where a iuncheon will be served, followed by the final reports. The headquarters in the Buckingham Memorial will be open from 7.30 until 9 o'clock tonight. The report made on Saturday by the team captains was as follows: General Staft—Cash, $168. Today Designated in Telegram Received From State Head- ~ Team Captains Will Report at Noon Luncheon—Total - Amount Subscribed is Well Over $13,000. — $188.15. Team No. 1, J. C. Macpherson, cap- tain—Pledges, $260; cash, $5; total, Team No. 2, T. H. Beckley, captain— Pledges, $18; cash, $49: total, $67. Team' No. 3, W.'A. Norton—Pledges, $5; cash, $817.50; total,'$322.50. Team 'No. i H. Bigelow—Pledges, 385; cash, $361. total, $466. Team No. 5, B. W. Perkins—Pledges, $481.50; cash. $174.98; total, $656.i8. Team No. € J. J. Corkery—Pledses, $31; cash, $23.50; total $54.50. Team No. 7, L. M. Crandaii—Cash, $30; total, Team No. 8. J. H. Perkins—Pledges, $36: cash, $232; total, $268. Team No. 9, Lee R. Robbins—Pledges $100; cash, 33%: total. $135. Team No. 19, H. E. Flagler—Pledges, $62; cash, $337; total, $39 Pledges, 1,068.50; cash, $1,735.13: tal, $2,801:63. aturday morning Captain Flagler visited the American Strawboard company plant and from the employes was rewarded with a coliection of $107 The Record newsboys donatel coliec- tively $5.50, the William W. Backus Hospital Aiumni_association contrib- uted $10 and the Davis theatre donated its receipts on Friday, amounting to $158.15. A D. A. R. chapter, through Miss Mabel R. Carawell, donated 35 On Saturday Boy Scouts appeared at points about the city, one on Frankiin square in front of the car station, an- other in front of Ring & Siek's, another at J. C. Macpherson’s store, and others at Sevin & Son's, corner of Main and Broadway. Union square and other places. They used hat boxes for their collections nad were rewarded in gen- grous manner for thelr time and ef- ort. to- BIG DRIVE TO FILL NATIONAL GUARD. Efforts Being Made to Secure the State’'s Quota. Connecticut has begun a great re- cruiting drive to fill to war strength the First and Second regiments of the Connecticut National guard and to se- cure the state’s quota of men for the regular army. The campaign is being carrfed on under the direction of the Connecticut state council of defense, working through its county auxiliary committees and its committees on pub- licity and on miiitary and naval af- fairs. Final arrangements were made for the recruiting campaign at a confer- ence held Saturday at the defense council's offices at the etate capitol, following which the quotas of the sev- eral counties were announced. Fur- ther arrangements will be announced within a few days. The council of de- fense wiil co-operate in the regular army recruiting week ordered from June 23 to 30 by President Wilson's proclamation of Wednesday. The state’s quota of men for the reg- ular army April 1 was 2,228 Up to June 20, 1,004 had been enlisted. The balance necessary to fill the quota on June 20 was 1,224. Military men have made it plain that twice the number actually needed will be required for examination because practically every other man is rejected. Recruiting for the regular army quota is_ statewide. For the First reziment, Connecticut Nationai guard, the recruiting will be carried, on in_Hartford, Tolland, Mid- 4 dlesex ‘and Windham counties. This regiment on June 20 needed 330 re- cruits to fill it to war strength. Re- cruiting for the Second regiment will be carried on in New Haven, New London, Fairfield and Litchfleld coun- ties. On June 20 the Second regiment needed 481 recruits. The committee in charge of the cruiting campaign has designated quotas for all the counties In the state. FEach county will be expected to provide a certain number of re- cruits for the regular army and an additional number of men for the na- tional guard. The county committees will assign quotas to each town and citv. The quotas are allotted on the basis of the number of men liable to military duty. TO ENLIST NURSES FOR RED CROSS W. K. Tingley Asked to Form a Detachment in Norwich. A copy of the following telegram in regard to Red Cross nurses has was Hebrews 3:7 and Sth cerses, and the topic was “Decision. Tn part the speaker said: “Men of de- cision are the men who make history, lead armies, fight battles, rule nations and control the industrial world. They are the pioneers, the explorers, the dis coverors, the mer who plung into un- trodden 'wildernesses, outclass _ their feflows and win while others dream. They are the men who reach the front and stay there: it Is Inevitable: it must be so, eternally so. Tt is posi- tiveness that shapes life and destiny, not siubbornness, not impulsiveness, not foolhardiness, but the ability to make choice between alternatives; to seize occasions. to grasp crises. He who waits aonther's judgment must take a secondary place; only pis- itive men lead. A weather vane is simply a weath- er vane; the indevisiveoitivectookfor er vane: the indecisive mind waits to be plaved upon by -stronger minds, ana_veers to north or south, to east or west, as stronger influences rule it: no one envies the man who is set on a swivel. God wants men of deci- sion, positive men:” a double minded man is unstabble in all his ways.” De- c¥fon Is needed in the pulpit and in the pew, and the obligation to decide is upon every man, and especially fs the unsaved man called upon to de- cide the great question of his soul's salvation; the call is not only to decide to to decide right but to decide now. Attitudes have much to do with life in its influence upon the church and toward current evils and reforms: at- titudes indicate character. Decision to be effective must be complete: there must be no bridges left for the return trip; there is no return for God's man.” ‘Hugh Kindet rendered two vocal solos, much to the delight of the au- dience. The meeting was centainly one of Interest and both the speaker and solo- ist will be wanted agafn In the near future. Secretary Hill had charge of the ser- vice. Increase in Postal Saving: The Increase in postai savings de- posits for May, 1917, was $3,500,000 or over one ard ome-half times that for May, 1916. In the past 11 months the deposits increased about $45,500,000 or over twice the gain made for the entire fiscal year ended Jume 30, 1915. Total deposits in the United States on June 1st were $131.500,000 standing to the credit of 690,600 depositors. been received by Mrs. W. K. Tingley “Urgent demmnds of the Red Cross make it advisable to admit to state associations at once all eligible nurses wishing to enroll. _Will you kindly ask the president of vour society to call a meeting of either state direc- tors of state association as by-laws require to act on these. Announce the meeting widely include all. Send Iist of members so accepted to Red Cross immediately. ANNIE W. GOODRICH, [2) President American Nurses' Associa- tion. June 22. Mrs. Tingley has been asked to in- terview every registered nurse in her district to see how many will enroll at once for active service in the Red Cross nursing service. Applicants must be between twen- ty-five and forty vears of age. If they are registered nurses, that is, if they have passed the state examina- tions of Connecticut or any other state, and if they belong to the Graduate Nurses' association of Connecticut, send at once to Miss Harriet E. Greg- ory, 75 Elmwood avenue, Waterbury, Conn., for Red Cross _application blanks. If they are not members of the Graduate Nurses' association, send at once to Mrs. W. K. Tingley, 7 Broad strest. Norwich, or telephone 28, for application blanks, and there will be a special meeting of the board of directors at New Haven Friday, June 29th, to vote them members. This does not necessarily mean that nurses now.enrolling will have to o abroad immediately, but doubtless will Sooner or later. Housewives’ League. A meeting of the Housewives' League will be held Monday afternoon at 2.30 in the parish house of Park church. Mrs. E. W. W. Hayward of Hartford, state chairman of the Housewives League, will and every woman interested in this most important sub- ject of food conservation has been in- vited to attend. Presented Gifts. Tn honor of their approaching mar- riages, Migs Annie M. Petrie and Miss Jeanette C. Strahan were presented with gifts by Principal Fred L. New- Broadway school in behalf ton of the ACTIVE CAMPAIGN MARKED OUT FOR STATE Big Drive This Week to Secure Men For the Regular Army. This is the second day of the eight- dav period designated by President Wilson 2¢ “Recruiting Week for the Regular “Army,” and the Connecticut Council of Defense with the active co- operation of Major W. A. Mercer, the commanding officer, and regular army recruitine #ations at New Haven. Wa- terbury, Hartford, Bridgeport and New London’ wiil throw its full strength in- to the rampaign to raise the state's @uota. A total of 1,200 men are want- ed_for the regular army. To Erinz the regular army up to full strength 76,000 men are needed. The country cannot wait for the draft- ed army. The president in his procla- mation called on “unmarried men, be- tween the ages of 16 and 40 vears who have no dependents and who are not engaged in pursuits vitally necessar: to the prosecution of the war to pre- cent themselves ‘or enlistment during the weei hereir, designated, to the numbe- of 70.070." This proclamation is sufficiently lear to inform men that thera will be few exception when the slass swung) An active campaign has been mark- ed ont in this state. Recruiting par- ties from the regular army stations at Hartford, New TLondon, Rrideeport. Waterbur and New Haven will he sent t> the several countles in the state to co-operate with the various chairmen and committees of the de- fense leacue. Armv men will be sup- plied with enlistment blanks for voung men to sign and if fe are ready to en- lise on the ground, they will be sent to the recruiting stations. The regulars will also inform the voung men of the state as to the requirements and the chances for zGvancement in the army. The main afice sent out the follow- ing statement for the benefit of the young mcn in the state: “Young men are wanted for the rez- ulars irrespective of registration. If ou_are from 21 to 30 and have. of course, registerad. vou are wanted. It You are from 15 fo 20 or 31 to 40 and have not registered, vou are wanted, too. If a man has relatives to whom he wishes his money sent monthly he can make an allotment of part of his pay. and it will be eent each month by the government. “Men are nlisted for the period of the war only. After the war ends they car: get an honorab'e dis- charge. ~ Fodies of men acquainted with cach other or from the same neizhhorshood or having common bonds of language may make appli- cation to be assigned to the same regi- ment. Conrecticut men should enlist this wee! Threy still have a _chance to select their own branch! Remember. say army officers, that the draft will not allow any young man any choice. He must go where the government sends him. This is final and young men should take heed. Fiftq-one new regiments are now being formed in the regular army. This means a total of 812 new companies and there are opportunities galore for all. It is essential that men between the ages of 18 and 40 vears of age enlist at once, say army office: UNION LYCEUM Was Car Out Memorial Baptist Church. Programme Grace at The Union Lyceum met Sunday at Grace Memorial Baptist church. The Scripture lesson was read by Miss Ruby Epps and the Lord’s prayer was saed in unison. The minutes took the usual course. The programme was arranged Dy Miss Henrietta Carter and was as follows: Recitation, The Slave’s Dream, Sarah Lacey: reci- tation. My Guiding Star, Mabel La- cey: Paper on Economy, Thomas Spivery: recitation, Somebody’s Child, Francis Fields; solo, In the City of Broken Hearts. James Green: solo, Where's My Wandering Bov Tonight, James Lacey: violin solo, The Trou- blesome Mind, Ed Brewer. Miss Carter was =iven a rising vote of thanks for arranging the program. A collection was taken by Marjorie Fields and James Green. The meeting came to a close by the singing of God Be With You, and benediction was announced by Cassie Robinson. FUNERALS. Mrs. Henry F. Ulmer. The funeral of Cora Mae Wyman, wife of Henry F. Ulmer, was held from her late home on Maple Grove avenue Saturday afternoon with many rela- tives and friends attending, some com- ing from other cities. Rev. R. R. Gra- ham, rector of Christ Episcopal church, officiated, and the bearers were Edgar H. Allen, John F. Rogers, Arthur L. Peale, George A. Ashbey, Rollin C. Jones and Henry G. Peck. The casket was covered with a wealth of beautiful flowers. Burial was in Yantic ceme- Undertakers Henry Allen & Son Co. were in charge of the funeral arrange- EXERCISES ON FOURTH AT UNION SQUARE Musical Committee is Hard at Work Preparing the Programme. The exercises marking the one hun- dred and forty-first anniversary of the dissolution of all political connections between the Colonies G Britain, “July 4th, 177 upon Union square, in the early even- ing of Independence Day. 3 The musical committee: Charles D. Geer, Frederick W. Lester and Miss Mary Rogers are hard at work prepar- ing the programme, Tubbs ull Military band has been engaged to enliven the oecasion with patriotic selections and there are to community sings by hundreds of school children with other forms of patriotic musical treats. Allied as the nation s today, with all its strength supporting Great Bri- tain, againat 4 foreign foe, it is per- haps, well to review the conditions as they ‘existd 141 vears ago. The first continental congress assem- bled in Philadelphia in ~ September, 1774, and there laid the foundations of the Republic. While its assem- blage was first recommended by home meetings, the cause as already shown, was taken up by the assemblies of Massachusetts and Virginla. alone was not represented. bers were called delegates, who declar ed in their official papers that they were appointed by the good people of these colonies. It was called the “rev- olutionary government,” because 1t de- rived its’ power from the people, and not from the functionaries of any ex- isting government. In its each colony was allowed but a single vote, re- gardless of the delegates, and here be- Zan not only the unit rule, but the practice which obtains in tha election of a president when the contests reach- es under the constitution and law, the national house of representatives. The original object was to give equal- ity to the colonies as colonies. In 1775, the second _Continental Congress 'assembled in Philadelphia, all the colonies being agatn represent- ed save Georgia. The delegates were chosen principally by conventions of the people, thouzh some were sent by ihe popular branches of the colonial legislatures. In July, and soon after the commencement of hostilities, Georzia entered the Confederacy. The Declaration of Independencs, passed in 1776, dfew vet plainer lines between the Whigs and Tories. A gulf of hatred seperated the opposing parties, and the Tory was far more despised than the open foe, when he was not such, and_was the first sought when he was. Men who contend for liberty ever regard those who are not for them as against them—a feeling which led to the expression of a po- litical maxim, of apparent undyving force, for it has since found a fre- auent repitition, in every earrest cam- paign. After the adoptlon of the Dec- iaration by the Continental Congress, the Whigs favored the most direct and absolcte separation, while the Torles supported the Crown. On the 7th of June, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, of Vir- ginia, moved the Declaration Ir these words: Resolved, That these united colon- ies are. and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all alleglance to the Britain _crown,” and that all political connections between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totaliy dissolved Then followed preparations for the formal declaration, which was adopt- ed the 4th of July, 1776, In the precise language of Thomas Jefferson. All of the state papers of the Continental Congress, evince the highest talent, nd the evils which led to its exhibi- tion must have been tong but very patiently endured to impel the study of the questions involved. Possibly only the best lives in our memory in- vite our perusal, but certain it is, the higher capacity was never called to the performance of graver political Quties in the history of the world Tt has been said that the Declaration is in_imitation of that published by the United Netherlands, but whether this is true or false, the Ifberty-lov- ing world has for more than a cen- tury accepted it as the best protest oppression known to political history. A great occasion conspired with a great author to make it grandly greal Dr. Franklin, as early as Julv, 1775, first prepared ‘a_sketch of articles of confederation betwez1 the colonies, un- til their decanciliation with Great Britain, and in faflure thercof to be perpetual. John Quincy Adams says this plan was never discussed in con- gress. June 11, 1776, a_committee was appointed to prepare the force of a colonial confederation. and the day fol- lowing one member from each colony was appointed to perform the duty. The report was_submitted, laid aside 20 1776, taken up April 7, nd debated from time to time ovember 15th, of the same year, when the report was agreed to. It was then submitted to the legislatures of the several states. these being ad- vised to authorizf their delegates to congress to ratify the same. On the 26th of June, 1778, the ratification was ordered to be engrossed-and signed by the delemates. Those of > shire, Massachusefts Bay, Rhode Ts- Jand, Connecticut, New York, Pennsyl- vania, Virginia and South Garolina, signed July 9th, 1778: those of North Carolina_July 21: Georgla, July 24th, November 26th: same v ‘ebruary 32nd and May Maryland refised to ratify un- til the question of the conflicting claims of the Union and of the sep- arate states to the property of the crown—lands shold be adjusted. This was accomplished by the cession of the lands in dispute to the United States, and Maryland. signed March lst. 1781 On the 2nd of March, congress, assem- bled under the new powers, and con- tinued to act for_the confederacy un- i1 March 4th, 1788, the date of the organizatior, of the government under the federal constitution. Our political life has therefore three perlods, “the revolutionary government,” “the con- federation,” and that of “the federal constitution,” which still obtains. The federal constitution is the re- sult of the labors of a _conventlon call_ ed at Philadelphia May, 1787, at a time when it was feared by many that the Union was n the greatest danger. from inability to pay soldiers who had, in 1787, been disbanded on a declaration of peace and an acknowledgement of independence;_grom prostration of the public_credit ang faith of the nation: from the neglect to provide for the payment of even the interest on the public debt: and from the disappointed hopes of many who though freedem did not need to face responsibilities. A long discussion followed, and a most able one, but a copstitution for the Dpeople, ebrodying a division of legis- lative pewers prevailed, and the re- sult 35 now daily withessed in the federal constitution. While the revolutionary but seven yvears, the political revolu- tlon incident to, identifled with and Airecting: it. lasted thdgteen years. This was completed on 3th__of April. 1789, the day on which Washington was inaugerated as the first president under the federal constitution ic Sth, war lasted The Chamber of Commerce Is to be commended for its action in urging a safe and sane Fourth. Curio on Exhibition. William Cecelki of Sixth street has on- exhibition in_the show window of Fagan's Smoke Shop a curio made by himself. It represents the Birth of Christ, the Last Supper and the Cruci- fixion, carved of wood and Inside a large bottle. Action Oyer Contract Balance Will Be Tried Saturday. The cdurt of common pleas in this cfty on Saturday morning took up the trial of the case of Neilson Brothers vs. Miss Ludie H. Main of North Ston- ingion. It is an action brought for a balance due on a contract for a house built in North Stonington. Lawyer Desmond presented a certificate staling that the defendant s ill, and the case went over until June 30th. The case/of Stephen Zytkorski ot Bast Great Plain, a farmhand, against | Issac Rebinowits; who runs a farm in Baltic, near Versailles, then went to trial. ‘Georse Greenberger acted as in- terpreter for a2 plaintiff. The plaintiff aleges that he worked for the defendant on the farm of the latter and his wages varied from 38 to | $12 per month. It is alleged that the sum of $52. was pald on account and there is a baiance of $27.86, but the court allowed -~ Attorney Setwart to amend - his pieadings and make the sum read $32.80. The case was tried Dbefore Judge Kelly in Baitic and Mr. Douglass, attorney for the defendant, allowed judgment to be entered for the plantiff and then he took an_appeal The judge took the paper sin the case. WEDDINGS. Whaley—McKelvey. In Poquetanuck Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock Huida Fenner, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Mc- Kelvey, Jr., was united in marriage with Donald Whaley of Newport. The ceremony was performed In the front parior before a bank of roses, lilles and ferns by Rev. Leavitt C. Sherburne, reetor of St. James' Episcopal chureh, of which the bride is a member. The bride wore blue taffeta and georgetto crepe. She was given away by her father. . Many beautiful gifts were dis- played. Mrs. Whaley has been stenographer for the Shore lLine Electric company in Norwich. .She has been a member of the choir pf St. James' church and is_popular with many friends. Mr. Whaley is the son of Mr. and _Mrs. John Wha'ey and is employed in New- Port by the government. Following the ceremony, lunch was served, after which Mr. and Mrs Whaley left amid a shower of confetti for their honeymoon trip. They will reside in Newport. Olmsted—Overton. At Ridgefield, Saturday the wedding of Willlam Beach Olmsted, Jr. a son of Rev. Willlam Beach Olmsted of the Pomfret school and Mrs. Olmsted, and Miss Margaret Crittenden Overton, the oniy daushter of Mr. and Mrs. Clough Cosby Overton of 49 West 57th street New York city and Ridgefleld, took place at 3 olclock in St Stephen's Episcopai church, which was decorated with white peonies and foliage. The ceremony was performed by the bride- groom’s father, Dr. Olmsted, assisted by Rev. William B. Lusk of Ridgefleld and Bishop Charles Sanford Olmsted, an_uncle of the bridegroom. The bride, who, walked with her fa- ther, wore a'soft white satin gown hav- ing 'a court train from the shouiders and trimmed with old family Jace. The veil, also of old rose point, had with the 'lace' been worn by six generations of brides. She' carried clusters of Easter dilies, Mra. Robert 'W. Wigton of Philadelphla was matron of honor and the bridesmalds were Misses Nan- cy Olmsted, a siater of the bridegroom, and Christina M. Nichols, Gertrude Mall and Augusta Dixon of New York. Mr. Olmeted had _his brother, Fred- erick’ Olmsted. as his best man. The ushers were Charles Wiggins, 2d. of Pomfret. Conii., Willlam Ross Proctor, Jr. Robert Hare Delafleld, Reginald M.’ Lewis and Theodore Sizer, ail of New York. Myron A, Hofer of Cincin- nati, Harold C. Brown of Buffalo and Robert W. Wigton of Philadelphia. The wedding reception was held on the lawn under the trees. Mr. Olmsted will sail within the next bulance corps In France and shortly afterward Mrs. Olmsted will sail to Join him near the front Miss Delia Church Hartford, Conn., June 24 —Miss Delia Chureh, who celebrated her 101st birthday on April 4 last, died in a hos- pital tonight. Miss Church was born in Granby in 1816, During her early life she traveled extensively, making a tour of the masted sailing vessel and toured Zu- Fourth of July Noti The Géneral Statutes forbid the dis- pinwheels and Chinese firoc Exceeding two inches 1n Permission will be glven for the of any other firecrackers, 'sto an- nons, fireworks or explosives of any nature whatsoever. ~Furthermore, no Permission will be given for She dis- charge of efther pistols, cannons other firearms: and even the Artic above permitted sold will not be ps mitted ‘used on the public streéts in the public parks of places, but on ‘the private property of private . dividuals. ALLYN L. the City BROWN. Mavor of of Norwleh. Funeral Directors and Embalmers 322 Main Street Chamber of Commerce Bullding "Phone 238-2 Lady Assistant A large assortment of Bracelets gnd Bracelet Watckes, including Waltham and Elgin, $2.00 and up. 15 J. 14K Gold Bracelet Watch, §11.08 Genuine La Tausca Pearls of & sizes, $2.00 and up A tull line of Solid Goid Signet as Stone Rings. Gentlemen's Watches in 14k goid and gold-filled, $4.00 and up. All goods fully guarantesd J. OGULNICK & CO 32 Franklin S Norwich Causing Anxiety. Just now our pacifist friend David Starr Jordan, is much about the cc fear him own ma down.—Grand Rapids Pret ng Need of Russia beggar on he ‘and he w need o old saws “Put a the adage, dition.” The 1s a book of vertiser. What They'll Beriin is feelin age, and if they let the Kaiser have t ionger shortage. Fee! 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