Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 21, 1917, Page 12

"i‘r;lland : Gou;ity STAFFORD Entertaining Programme at Mothers and Daughters’ Canning Club Meet- ing. J. W. Rollinson has purchased new touring car. Mise Annie Shephard of Springfield, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Jen- kins. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Wagner have been visiting friends in New Haven. Mrs. Frank Chaffes and daughter have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grundy. Frank Dimmick of Philadeiphia is spending his vacation with his par- , Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dimmick. Mr. ana Mrs. Herbert Glover and two sons-of Providence spent several aays with Jacob Glover and Mrs. Em- TWhite. eorge Colburn and Clifford Col- burn, with their families from Burl- ington, Vt., have been the guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Colburn. Canning Club Meets. t the monthly of the Mothers and hters' Canning club, the follow- £ programme was given: Miss Hel- Bol assistant state superintend- of club work gave a canning monstration. Roll call answed by giving good =alad combination, frethods of drving fruit and vegeta- les, methods of salting the same. §iS foce Tracy: hearty salads to fake the place of meats in hot weath- gr, Miss Margaret Glover; canning fruits without sugar, _ why canned spoil, Mrs. J. W. Rollinson; ng of two or three Kinds of green Mrs. C. H. Puffer; palatable inexpensive substitutes for ofl in Ad dressing, Miss Isadore Dunham: king of a reliable salad dressing to 1sed for fruit and one for vegeta- Miss Helen Anderson. BOLTON Grange Has Children's Night—School Teachers Re-engaged. \ d Mrs. Fred H. Phelps of are at their Bolton bungalow. Mrs. C S. Hutchinson r, Louise, of Hartford, are mmer home at the Center. Louis H. Levey with rs. A. B. Anderson, of have motored to town the Levey summer home. Finley has returned to after a two weeks' stay at { ad: be Bles hom imer J. Finley, Jr. has returned to fter a visit with relatives in M. Sperry and daughter, lle, are guests . F. E. Rug- Mary and Elizabeth Daly turned from a few weeks' stay ‘ew London Children’s Night at Grange. Children’s night in the Grange was tended when held last week evening. Miss Adelia N. the flora, arranged an inter- program. among the numbers was a play entitled, “Miss Columbia’'s Diae: Prote Flo e n 2 nce Loomis of New York siting at Charles N. I.oofis.’ Teachers Re-engaged. School Supervisor, N Potter has gaged the o'lowing teachers: izabeth M. Daly, of Boston, the South echool: Miss Esther on, for the engaged Degrees on Class of Candidates. cipied the pulpit ' church Sund: of Williman- Jite school. has iness and made » Tuesday. Degrees. the Grange evening at was served and two rmad from a visit in roung ladies’ club met at the sther Tewett, for work *y_will open their dny, June 22. speak. has recetved a 1 has greatly Flanderg will road x coat of pa improved the & public 1! Las recelved s newv hoohs fwm the state. christ of Naw Invitations Invitations have heer rece in town for the of Miss and Royal Wabster, which place at rents, the home of the in Colnmbia, Friday MT. HOPE Wednesday Mioore has retu SASTORIA For Infants and Children n Use For Over 30 Years 7 \lways bears the iignature of to Sterling after spending the week end at home. B. O. Moon and Mabel Moon and Mrs. Winch, went to Union and Southbridge, Mass., last Sunday. Mrs. Helen M. Winck has gone to Southbridge and Charlton, visiting friends and relaives for a few days. Mrs. Jennie Bacon and Miss Lina Bacon attended the wedding of Miss Helen Packer and Dana Perry at ‘Willimantic, Monday, July 16th. i HEBRON ~ Ball Team Won Game, 16 to 3—Local People Go to Willimantic. Mr. Parrit returned to Boston, Sat- ‘urdago mfter spending the week at the Douglas cottage. Mr. and Mrs. James Martin of East Hartford spent Sunday at G. A. Lit- tle's. Mrs. Verder Parkhurst of Middle- town and Miss Vera Parkhurst were guests this week at Mrs. Fred Burn- ham's. 4 . Willimantic Visitors. Among those seen in Willimantic Tuesday were Mrs. Fred Burnham, Mrs. Verder Parkhurst, Mrs. W. O. Seyms, Ward Porter, A. R. Gillette and James Brown. The Red Cross meeting was held at Miss Kellogg’s Wednesday afternoon. Miss_FEleanor.and Mary Lord and Afiss Helen Gilbert are spending the weelk at the ghore. J. B. Tennant and Sunday at Giant's Neck. South Windham baseball team play- cd the Beron team Saturday at He- bron. Score 16-3 in favor of the home family spent Crane of Berlin spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Howard Hart. STORRS Excellent Concert Given In Hawley Armory — Artesian Well is Being Drilled. A most successful concert was given in Hawley armory on Thursday evening. Those who gave their time so generously were Mrs. Charles Thom of Washington, D. C., who is a soprano soloist, Miss Katherine Stone- burn of Philadelphia, who was charming in different dances. Mrs. Stoneburn was her accompanist. Mrs. Glenn H. Campbell of Storrs, who came back from a camping trip in order to give dramatic readings. Ju- lius Hauschild of Storrs rendered cello solos and Miss Isabelle Mon- teith, violinist. Letters From Camp. Letters from the boys at Platts- burgh have begun to arrive volcing their appreciation of the comfort cases sent by the Red Cross. The new artesian well is being drill- ed at the rate of twelve feet a day. The drilling soes on night and day. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond were in Hamp- ton on Sunday. President e.nd Mrs. C. L. Beach and Mrs. Charles Thom and children, were at Ocean Beach on Wednesday. SPRING HILL Ladies’ Aid Society Served Salad Sup- per—Persanals. The Sewing club met Tuesday aft- ernoon with Mrs. Powell. Road Closed. The road was closed to travel for awhile Wednesday forenoon while the barn from the Barrows place was being moved. It was necessary to disconnect all of the telephone wires and drop them to the ground, and use 2 piece of cable which was put just below the surface where the crossing was made. Served Salad Supper. The salad supper served by the members of the Ladies’ Ald society on Wednesday evening was well patronized, there being quite a good number of visitors present. After the supper, Miss Rose Rochette of Wor- cester, Mass., who is staying at the | home of the TaJess', kindly offered to entertain those present with plano music. Miss Rochette has been an instructor for several vears in Wor- cester and Boston and is certainly a very fine pianist. Tt was a musical treat T. Storrs has returned from it with her daughter in Salem, a Mass. Mrs. R. R. Knapp of Bridgeport was at her home the first of the week. pid nie C. TLeadbetter of New- s at Alanweld for the sum- Jitney Caught Way to Hartford. of New York is visiting her husband, who is Mrs. Charles Cunningham emnleyed on e new bridge. aw, Mr. and Mrs. Lor- and Fred Richart were in ugan Sunday. Darfing and Hartford, are two daughters, visiting at Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were Henry Smith and John in New London, Sun- . A. Shaw broke a wheel on omobile in Manchester, Sunday | Jitney Caught Fire. A Willimantic and Hartford Jitney - Hartford burned on Maine's isfat o'clock Tuesday e The car, 2 Ford touring, was ! SOUTH COVENTRY Methodist Church Observes 50th An- niversary and Invites Scldiers to Supper. The Ladles’ Assocfation of the Con- -egational church will meet this aft- con with Mrs. Latimer. The hos- °sses are Mrs. Latimer, Mrs. A. E. Does the dread of the dental chair need have no fears. crowned or extracted ABSOLU CONSIDER THESE ETRICTLY SANITARY OFFICE STERILIZED INSTRUN If theee appeal to you, call for charge for consultation. DR. F. C. JACKSON By our method can have { BL!’\’N"ITHOUY P. Don’'t You Want Good Teeth? 'cause you to negiect them? Yeu enu teeth filled, IN. OTHER FEATURES T ZNTS R . CLEAN LINEN ASEPTIC DRINKING CUPS LOWEST PRICES CONSISTENT WiTH BEST WORK examination and estimate. Ne DR. D, J, COYLE | DENTISTS 203 MAIN ST. Lady Asistant (Buccessors to the King Dental B A M to8 P M. co NOBWICH, CONN. H. C. Beebe. Celebrates 50th Anniversary. * The fiftieth anniversary of the Methodist church took place recently. They served supper in the evening and invited the Company I soldiers. The Home Guards looked real good in their new suits at drill last Friday night. SOUTH WILLINGTON Good Attendance at Lectures Held in Social Hall—Food Sale by Camp Fire Girls a Success. At Social hall last Sunday night, under the auspices of the Sunday School committee a stereopticon lec- ture of the Mississippi Valley and the | Guif States was given, which was { yery interesting as well as instructive. The lecture was read by the Sunday School Superintendent George West- erfleld. The views were in charge of ‘Walter Malo. Camp Fire Girls’ Sale. On Friday evening of last week the Camp Fire Girls of this town held a sale of ice cream, cakes, candles, and i fane articles at the hail. This sale I was' a success and reflects credit on the workers. Attended Cornerstone Laying. A number of Masons from Urlel lodge, No. 24, A. F. and A. M. upon invitation of the Rockville lodge of Masons, attended the laying of the cornerstone of the new Rockville post office. 5 Personals and Notes. Hans Hansen visited in Hartford last Saturday. H Gus_Klar ad_sister, Annie, spent Saturday and_Sunday in Springfleld, visiting with friends. They also made the trip to Mt. Tom, in Holyoke. Mrs. J. R. Edwards spent last Sat- urday in Palmer, visiting with friends. Teon Woodworth of Hartford, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of his_brother, Charles Woodworth. Miss_ Elizabeth Cerney and Miss Mary Bardo of New York city will be the guesis of Mr. and Mrs. Tessin of the Glass factory for the next two weeks. Washington County, R. L. USQUEPAUGH Church Clambake a Big Personals. Success— The clambake at the church Wead- nesday was a decided success in every way. The dinner was delicious. After dinner Rev. C. H. Palmer introduced Rev. Mr. Wedeman, pastor of the Wood River church, who was present with several of his mission band. Rev. Mr. Wederman gave a splendid talk. Mrs. Revnolds presided at the organ and with Mr. Johnson as leader, the band sang several selections in which the congregation joined. Mrs. N. Greene of Narragansett Pier gave a very inter- ¢sting talk on weman's suffragz There tere people from Westerly, orwich, Hope Valley, Exeter, Woo. ville, 'Hills Grove, Lafavette, Provi- dence and Boston. Personals. Mrs. Mita Fuller, Miss~BEsther Fuller and Mr. Carpenter are at the Bagley homestead for a week. Mrs. Colston of Wakefleld called on Mrs. J. G. Briggs_Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Wilcox, daughter Emily and son Frank of Nor- wich attended the clambake here on Wednesday. Mrs. Wilcox lived here when a_girl, the daughter of the late A._W. Kenyon. Mrs. Prosser and family from New York are at their summer home here. HOPKINTON Dorothy Wheeler is visiting rel es in New Haven, Conn. for a part of her school vacation. Schoolhouse Sold. The school committee of the town of Hopkinton has sold the schoolhouse and lot, known as the Kenyon school- house, located near Bradford, to John Dinwoodie, Jr., who will convert the house into a dwelling. The school has been closed for somé time and the pupils transported to the graded school in Ashaway. Mrs. Edgar H. Babcock and Miss Bdna M. Summers were business call- ers in Westerly, Saturday afternoon. The funeral of Mrs. Albert Hender- son was held in the Friends’ meeting house, one day last week, with burial in the Friends' burying ground near- L Haying progress slowly on account of so much wet weather. RICHMOND _ Everett Moore and son, Philip, fin- ished -haying at. Slocum, Monday. J. Potter of Providence and an- A_rnhsr man were recent fishermen here. hey caught a trout weighing over a Adelaide Palmer, who has been visiting her grandmother for a few weeks, returned to her home in Prov- idence, Sunday. Ralph an Philip Moore are assist- ing Frank Sibley and Clark sisters at oming, in their haying for a few EAST HADDAM Equality League Discuss Future Plans at Interesting Meeting—Boys Here on Furloughs. Mrs. Hattle S. Hotchkiss has re- turned to her home here, accompanied by Miss M Grant, after an ab- sence of several months in New Ha- ven. | Mr. and Mrs. Will Holmes motored |from Hartford Sunday, and were guests at Mrs. Martha Srmith's. Belongs to Field Artiilery. Donald Duncan of Brookiyn, N. Y., 1and LeRroy Gelston, of Norwalk, are | visiting at the home of their grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gelston. Mr. Geliston is on a furlough. He is stationed at Bridgepor Battery F, 10th Field Artillery, C. N. G. Recent guests at W. M. Gillette’s were Mrs. Hattle S, Hotchkiss, Miss Grant, Mrs. Merton Lee and Mise Doris Lee of New Haven. Some of the tobacco crops about town have been sold at 25 cents per pound. Future Plans Discussed. A regular meeting of the Equality League of Fast Haddam and Moodus, was held at the V. I. Society parloré on Tuesday, July 17, at 2.30. e work of the year was reviewed and future plans discussed. May Go to Europe. Lloyd Baker, who has been in training with the U. S. Naval Reserve Force at New Haven, left a few days #inge on a patrol boat for the W. I., and Yter go to European waters. Mr. and k Burdick of Crescent Beach mm cn a busi- companied by Mr. and s Reynolds, have recently taken tomobile trip on: the -Mahawk Mrs. Susie Beebe has been enter taini Miss Loretta Plumley of Clin- tonville, and Miss May Butler, of Norwich. B. L. Lawton and family of Meriden are at their summer home here. HADDAM NECK Chaplain Raymond Addressed Camp- ers—C, E. Society Held Social. The city boarders are in evidence now. Al the boarding places are fill- ed_to the utmost. Mr. Fay of the farm bureau was a caller in town on Monday, looking up hogs. Mrs. Otto Nilsen has returned from a short visit with friends in Wood- haven, N. Y. Addressed Camp Wappawog. A large company of campers greeted Chaplain Raymond as he spoke to them on The Evils of the Day at Camp Wappawog on Sunday afternoon. His subject next Sunday will be How Men Cheat Themselves. Next Sunday morning at the Con- gregational church Dr. Raymond will speak on Undeniable Facts. In the evening his theme will be Who is Your Boss? Special singing by the children’s cholr at the morning ser- vice. Miss Margaret Nilsen will sing a solo at the evening service. C. E. Society Soci The Christian Endeavor soclety held a social at Mrs. McVeigh's which was largely attended by the young people. Luncheon was served by the commit- tee. The canning demonstration held st Grange hall was largely attended by the housewives, and considerable in- ferest was manifested. Mrs. Frank Houes is improving in health, so that she can sit up a few hours ‘each day. John Kougez epent the week end with his family at The Rest, returning to his business on Monday. ABOUT CLASSICAL HEROINES “I am unregenerate,” sald the young woman who likes to talk, “and I know my views are most reprehensible— but T own-to the keenest sympathy for the girl who has to read proper books that are good for her mental development. Honest do you know *hat vou are brutal to your child?” “Well!” gasped the mother so ad- dressed, “I'd_like to hear what you know about bringing up children!” “Pooh!” scoffed the girl who likes to talk. “When it came to books I wasn’t brousht up! And I had the reading fever! I read everything I could Jay my hands on from the Eible and_Shakespeare to Dutchess novels, Berfha M. Clay and the Fireside Com- panion! And I wouldn't take a mil- lion dollars for the fun I-got out of those silly romances!"” “They were full of the most delect- ble and appropriate people! When vou are 15 what do vou care for a wonderful heroine if she has a pug nose or large feet! Your sensibilities are shocked and you want none of her. What vou do want is a slender, girl- ish creature of 17 wth a roseleaf complextion, curling hair of spun gold. eyes like dew drenched yiolets, a fairy fizure and delicate little feet that would not crush a pathway of rose petals! That's what you want! “And you want her to wear lovely robes of shimmering satin and lace. Never could she go out and pull weeds in the garden like any other human being. The oniy time ehe fusses with a garden is when, after dinner, she strolls down its pathways with the titled h never spoiling her satin slippers in the wet gras nor injuring the hem$ of her filmy skirts as you regretfully realize you ehould have done if you had attempted it. “And the hero by the wav! Really, the heroes that the modern first class novels hand out are an impostition on any trustinzg young girl reader! Rare- ly are they good looking. At the most they have strong faces with rtugged, knobby foreheads and they have p poses. Some of our best writers take a malicious pleasure in showing he- roes who are actually undersized or wear glasses or are stoop shouldered and anaemic, and they get away with it because their older readers are dis- illusfoned. anyhow, and know that the human race is more than apt to grow ay any one with sense would know at once that that is no proper kind of a hero. He must be young and yet a thorough, experienced man of the world. Te must be slender, yet fearfully strong and his white firm hands can throttle the worst thug who dares attack him. Nothing ever ruf- fles his brow across which his heavy hair waves careles: “And. by the way, the perfect story never puts its characters in any other room but the drawing room. You feel at once how well bred they are even if they are forced to live in a four room flat. Always it 1s the drawing room, no matter If the caller can hear father bang down his shoes in the bedroom ten feet distant and mother washing dishes in the kitchen. You feel that it is but temporary and they will soon be moved back into their ancestral hals. Why, “And the villain! since I've grown up T've read books tn which the villain was so exactly like anybody else you'd never in the world suspeat hm, and that mever wll do, you know! The ideal villatn puts a sinister glint to his eves and to his lip when he ties his Oh, joy! cruel cur cravat in the morning and he never mislays these properties. “He has a fiendish way of always steping in at the psychological mo- ment and blighting somebody and he is_absolutely implacable. Not in the whole twenty-four hours of the day does he display a nice human im- pulse. He is on the job every second and keeps you thrilled with horror and wrath. “Also in the modern novel people are usually left in very moderate fin- ancial circumstances at the end of the book. In my youthful romances the leading characters always inher- ited millions of dollars in the last chapter from some relative who kind- Iy died just then and restored the money to the branch of the rightful reir. “Castles and millions and family jewel s and bowing retainers—my goodness, how I wish 1 could find one of those books now! To hear a hero on page 526 whisper brokenly. ‘My darling’ with his face pressed against her golden curls, to listen to the despairing means and curses of the villain as he is dragged off to im- prisonment, to have the butler, as a matter of course, bring in the tea things with hot scones and jam with- out being ordered to do it—why, they haven't served tea in the last ten novels I've read lately! And as for ball gowns of trailing black lace wi ness trip recently. Mre. Margaret Peck, of Norwalk, has_been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Rathbun. Things Seen and Heard in India. ‘The quarterly meeting of the Lad- ies’ Missionary Soclety was held at the parsonage, Thursday, July 19. Subject, “Things Seen and Heard in John S. Brooks ac- crimson pomegranate blossoms pin- ned upon her breast—I haven't even heard of one for a thousand years, and I did love them moi” “I agree that this is most affecting,™ said her listener. “Still, I insist that my child shall not read that volume she had entitled ‘Love's Doom, or the Sorrow of Lady Elaine!’ The idea!” “Huh!” said the girl who likes to talk, ‘Tll bet she sneaks it from your bottom bureau drawer the first time | NORWICH --CIRCUS DAY BATTLE GROUNDS ime THE ONLY SmOW Dv THE WORLD THAT 13 mize: ELECTRIC-LIGHTED Majestic Roof Garden TODAY EDWARD L. CONNELLY In an Entire Change of Programme JUNE CAPRICE in “A SMALL TOWN GIRL” Casey in The Pawnshop The above programme will be shown every afterncon at 1.30, 3 and all rainy nights at the AUDITORIUM —_— vou go downtown—and it will serve| You right, depriving her of proper ind heroes and villains as hicago News. heroines Chemical Wealth in Lakes. The most noted example of an in- land sea the United States is the one in Utah. This lake contains vir- the same salts as occur in the wa s of the ocean, oniy at a much righer degree of concentration. Iur- ! ther we: in the stat of Oregon and California, there are a number of | us sizes containing wa- | cases heav charged | salts readily recover- | Especially noticeable among | the Searles Lake, in the| lower part of Californi ns Lake | and Mono Lake, in the eastern part of | alifornia. These lake water tain considerable quantities of carbonate, which is households as well as industrie: borax content of these water considerable and offers a readily avail- | able so e for this ealt. Some potash is recovered, and a great quantity of | common table salt is also obtai from these lake waters. The or of these salts is in many cases hard | to trace. In some cas are un- doubtedly due to an arm of ocean becoming land-locked and water gradually evaporating, prod centrated sailt s tions: but Some there are present saits wl not occur in the ocean wates 1 to be sumed that these salts E been leached out from the surround- ings .in smost cases high mountain ranges. The war, with accom- panving high prices for chemicals, brought these L waters to the ten n of the American Chemical clety, and plants are already estab- lished and are being established nn‘[ the dge: of these lakes where,| through s r evaporation, a artificiall rious salts are from e: other and obtained marketable condition. th the Wasting Sympathy. To those who feel so bad at the prospect of making the German spies faee the firing squad, how much hu- ma: ianism do the same spies feel in to furnish information that 3 g—sli U TODAY 1.30-3.15, 6-8 p. m. 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Comfortable Staterooms—well ventilated—can Dining Room service a la carte Fare Norwich to New York $1.85 Applications for Staterooms and Tickets Ticket Agent N. The New England Steamship Company New London (Norwich) Line To New York Strs. City of Lowell and Ches Chapin 11.30 P. M. 7.00 AL M Rre 7.30 A. M. be oceoupied at 7.00 P. M ter W. ould be made to Y., N. H. & H. R. R, Norwie This picture, reproduced from one received ‘very recently in America, shows a line of American soldiers in camp in the Aispe district in France standing at attention as the flag i SOLDIERS It was made from one of a rench official pictures show- ing American soldiers actually at the front in the Afsne district in France and published in the illustrated Lon- don News. These photographs were probably passes. series of taken not later than June 25, and Gen- eral Pershing’s first contingent was landed next day. Indications are that these Americans are part of the pio neer troops serit abroad, before the main expedition to prepare the way E g8t 50 7 & 3