Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 11, 1918, Page 11

3 i Lacking Coal, Winter Suit, in a large va- | Ladies’ Muslin Und \pifl n— Quinebaug Mills Batiste, Mnfi Chine, all daintily Mnul ‘p lace and embroidery. - Over Sixty—Cast For Senion Play. Heérbert C. Keech was lmnftu Thursday for the harvesting ol ‘ Almm!ers lake. James A. Pearson of eMwden was visitor ‘with friends in Dentelson’ Thursday. | PETTICOATS ..o.oven $108 80 Ladies' Outing Plafnel Robes and Ph- jathas, a large:- assortmént, - both " with collars and collarless, white N the employ of a firm in Bridge) sbigon's newest styles .. $10 to $25 Ladles' Sepgrate Skirts, in all the new- est styles, made from serge poplin, vajour and silk . .. $5.98 to §10 Ladies” Volle 'hhu, dantily trimmed and made in the new high stock styles $1.00 to $3.50 Crepe do Chine and Georgette Crepe Silk Waists, tade in all the —new mmln seresens $5.98 to $8.50 Ladlés’ Dark Colored Striped Taffeta and Colored Wash Silk Waists, all new fesigns ............$5 to 3675 Ladiss” House Dresses, In a large as- sortment of styles and colors $1.25 to $250 Ladles’ Silk Kimonas . Dantelson Thursday on trains. Racicot Brothers, one of the distributors of furnituré in New . and colors. Eaeh :..ve Dr ZLadies' Bxtra Size Robes to $1. Silk Petticoats, made of good q silk plain and w eo;nn 298 t0 uto Extra Size Silk Petti¢oats . Ladies' Sweaters, in plain stiteh Japanese Silk Quilted - Vests, . with ed a clearance sale—adv. [ On 8Bhort Schedule. The Quinebaug mills are running & reduced schedule of -hours now ‘ha.m street, Putnam, and Bave ope; ble each ‘day. Shrubl $1.29 - $248 CORSET COVERS, ... BNVHLOPE cnmn.' Qip‘n of this week. Enemy Aliens, Is being compiled _through vario The first prize was won by Mrs. G. Berr, and Mrs. Sloan was given thé consolation award, Refreshments were served by the hostess. re. Hurry Hayden is visiting her mother, Mrs. Reynolds, in Essex. SCOTLAND Fred P. Tracy Injured by Fall from Loaded Sled—22-Inch Ice, Yet Some lcehouses Are Empty—W, C. T. U, Mesting. ) . Miss Anna Zeigler spent New Years at her home here, ! After the usual church service Sun< day morning, holy communion service wag celebrated. There was a good number in attendanee. Mrs, Mary Lathrop has gone to Nor- wich for the remainder of the winter, George N. Perry lost a. valuable horse early Monday morfing. The animal was sick but a short time. Miss Lottle Lovering has returned to Plymouth, Mass, after spending several weeks at her home here, Fell from Sled. Fred P. Tracy received a b&fll! wrenched arm and shoulder from'a fall from a sled load of wood one day) last week, 22-Inch lce. Tce is reported as being 22 inches| thick in some plaeces, and still there are several empty icehouses, Guest from Nebraska. ELLINGTON Party for Students During Vacation— Holiday ~ Exercises — Four - Table Whist — Abern-Lewis Engagement Announced. ] effort, Suffragists here were delighted the proposed Susan B. - | amendment. Theatre Manager Pays Big Tax. Manager J. F. Lewig of the O3 theatre and of two other the Miss Linda Morris, teacher in the Sanford school for boys at Redding Ridge. spent the vaeation with her sister, Miss Sarah Morris. . . Mrs. Agnes H. Kibbe spent Christ- mas tweek with her brother, Hoyt Hayden, in Hartford Miss Marion Pease has been enter- taining her cousin, Miss Carter, of Boston. Mass. Mrs. Mande/ Kimball of St Paul's sehool for boys, Concord, 5 H., spent the vacation at her homelon Maple Vacation Party. street. Mrs. H. C. Aborn entertained 2 Aum- ber of voung people at a muunx party Friday evening. At the clogg of the fun outdoors all assembied in Mrs, Aborn's home, where an oyster stew wae served by the hostess. his check to cover war taxes on a missions in these three houses fir tI amounted to $1,902.04. missions. Lack- of Coal Money Loss. Payrolls of manufacturing. concer in the town of Killipglv will be redus Indigations now are that many hu dreds of bushels of potatoes held now and April 1. The movement Holiday Exercises. b4 There were the regu exercises at the grange Wednesday evening, when the children furrished the program. The tree and gifts were omitted this year, but apples and pop- corn were distributed. My. and Mre. Arthur Hale entertain- od Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cheney and two_children, Rogér and Ruth, and way. Christmas Under Quarantine. signed. on Bhort Schedule—Manager J. F. Lew-| is Pays Big Thestre War Tax— High - Schoe! Honor Rall . Numbers on account of the fuel shortage. Water power is being used to keep the plant ‘ in.operation as many hours as possi- in Danielson broke down under the weight of ice that has elung to the tender branches durln( the days A list bf enemy aliehs in Killingly agencies that are enzaged in doing the work connected wth the country’s war Thursday with President Wilson's an- nouneemeht relative to his stand on Anthony Connecticut towns said Thursday that months of November and December, Of this tax $455.74 was from Orpheum theatre ad- 2d many hundreds of dollars this week because the mills are not operating to capacity on account of lack of coal. this section for a favorable market will be released for the trade between this reserve supply is already under- A-letter from Camp Dix brings the Information that some Danielson beys who have been quarantined - bechuse one of the minor maladies that affficts soldiers has -broken out in the bar- racks to which they have been as- PUTNAM NEWS ]| Letter Gets Jail Sentence fer Local uu—flflym Patients at Hospi- hl-—'l'hnw: flmlfluti-qu lic ' Demeonstration of A Si | Cooking Annewnced = m‘mls- at 8| were. ‘on ‘Willlam B. Wheatley “has mlned itities of coal moved rwn Quantities Soen land, have purchased the entire stock of the New York Furniture Co., South Jud n- " irh- body- of his heme Thursday !lllrnuu of réquiem, Ans¢lm Mayotte, was ggy‘u church.” The | service, was ;mnfl many rela- tives lnd friends. Burla! was in St an. cemetery, Mre. Lucina Basto. At her home on Thursday afternoon LDy Bacsa of the Congrega-/ tional ¢hus eondumd funeral ser- sto, long - 2 Mhl was in lazier, L.- Glazier, e in Biliott, will Mess., today for Afmrla o, most all of his E;q- A dressed tohim by llhl Tocal ”""..;2 s aidrees. v -in its reco: ntyally reache Aand from a barrister minion ‘the .local- board is _of.a. communication i tic e’g ot WiBdhA. counsy s ‘ THURSDAY'S CLASSIFICATIONS iven Out Last Evening by Exemption Board, A.fldlllml cl jeations by the lfloll hoa; - Putnem, 2 ot e ‘vhuwm Covette, mn, ( Smith, Southbridge, 1; Arthur E. w:— terbouse, Am'v-um. Mm bolrd Dane! ‘Robert Wil n Day ‘the people. of towns. George Gifford, Putnam, 2; chulu J. Whit- n-y, et:;rm Gros! 1; Cla ene‘ Noi D-vmmrumsrn. 4 A!Ifluuu Nonh Grosvenordale, -1; Mike 'Kalo, Good- year, 1; Jean S(llu, North Grosvenor- date. 11 Arthur W. Gregoire, Putnam, on on u&cn flxht the - l’llll he addressed as the jail sentence. The wrif o( the 'letter wu fi\ outcome, it devslgped in -court, of it having sold an luwuvn to m his h.gun and wrote asking that the accordian be im and that he would pay back the money. Keilbosa p: no attention to him and then tolhvvnd the writing of the threatening letter. In his letter thréatening to shoot Keilbosa. the defendant was the super- lativeness of He sald, in the name of the Lord and a litany of saints, that he certainly woum shoot Keilbosa on sight and his only defence when haled into court to answer for recklessness was that he was in- toxicated when he wrote and, again, that he didn't mesn it, and that the letter was intended only to frighten Knllh:::, which effect eertainly was achi Suffragists Elated. Suffragists were delighted here on Thursday ‘when they read of President Wilson's stand on the Susan B. As- thony amendment and described their feelings as joyful in the extreme. Mrs, W. J. Bartlett, who served a Sentence of 00 days for having done Dpicket duty in Wuhlnmn could not contain herself for joy and she seed in the impending great victory for the suffrage cause a bountiful reward for the sacrifices that the pickets made in the interest of their organization nd u:umen throughout the United || Stad Mrs. Bartlett made it clear that the pjekets had no desire to heckle the president during a period of grave concern in the nation’s history, but were only following out his awn ad- vice to them to concentrate public opinion on the cause of woman's rights. be ns c- n- in of by B: D, o and Mm. Charles Price enter- | punler o g_;’m:! "’.KM rs. Jared| fority of the members of the Daniel- James Darey. & family party Christmas day. Concert Followed Supper. A chicken ple supper was served New' Year's eve In the church dining toom by the A. B. C. committes, The supper was followed by an excellent toncert arranggd by Mrs. James Car- ter. j Miss Esther Reed of Boston is visit- vut Ber lmther, C. W. Reed, and fam- Abcm-L‘ah Engagement. The engagement of Miss Ruth Meeting Instead of Recap! The W. C. T. U. held I'NO?YLQIF! meeting last Tuesday instead of the usual New Year's reception. About| 25 were present and a pleasant meet. ing resulted. The Loyal Temperance] Legion assisted in part of the pro- gram, Henry Clark was in- Norwich last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Eu ene Klm’b have been at Lebangn t] th o pisscii T wlibil ol trip to the front. Thrifty—But Violating Law. g off the conseguences of fuel famin~ by picking up“coal that off cars in transif Don't be stingy with the boys wi M. Son company at Fort Terrv have been assigned, have been at their. homes here recently, and the feeling here is that the boys will soon ‘stast on their rersons wio have the time to be found along the railroad right of way, on which it falls after rattling At St. Mary's chyrch at 6 o'cleck Thursday morning there was a high mass of requiem at the funeral ser- Vices for James Darcy, veteran of the Civil war, who died at his home on Chapel street. The body was taken to Ludlow, Vt., for burial. don Tetreault. The fumeral of Hibdon Tetreault —_— handle the line say the sale of cresp- ers this week has been unprecedented. Iee-covered streets and sidewalks have promoted the business, one store dis- pn:lnx ot 107 pairs of the aids to safer a is ho A 4 are ‘“over there’ Letters arriving [ I fl'xkifi'gfii. Jovle, fof HAMBURG , {from Danielson soldiers in France con- Miss Evel ~ tx haa returned tain a common complaint—that they Yome after ‘spending _several (lays | Ogden Power in Newpert Naval Hos. | 2Nt smoke the French tobacco' and with friends in New Britain. Mrs. Nellie Rice of Worcester was :l"{-ll over Christmas of her ter, Mrs. Bugene Finance. Honors at Whist, Miss Mabel Haling entertained four tables at whist Tuesday . afternoon. cigarettes and their plea for smokes American brands. Wood" $10 a Cord. A constant stream of cord wood pital — Personal items. Mrs. Mary Blll hu returned from @ visit with her brother’s family in Saybrook, . Newton Lee, master of Lyme srange, attended the state grange a: Hart(ogrd the past week, In Naval Hospital. Ogden Pawer, who enlisted in the navy some time ago, is jn the navy bospital at Newport, suffering from rections from this place. — Pa— working daily cutting off wood lots CROUP AT MIDNIGHT; WBLL IN MORNING “A few fhu ago one of my patrons b small child taken with croup whooping cough and measle: wfi: W, "Ties M D PAVIS| " Miss Grace Handing returned to her ‘:‘ 2 ottle ot Feins tomy | school in- Middistown ' Saturday. fore morning the child was| Mrs. Lizgle Bll recolved a very sub- The fathe: stantial gift from the patrons of Lyme |- library on the Sunday sebool Christ- mas tree. In last week's Red Cross item it should have read twenty-eight hundred conpressors instead of twenty-eight. Bon homes, not because thi change desired, but because there a cord. Carload of Coal Arrives. One carload of coal came throu to known cough mod.h for the Danielson and Pl h.l )'DII can get the genuine Hd‘lv and ’ga{’ 'glsx 1!:\' ocolds. croup an agTippe. e Osgood Co. & ‘over a critical period in its efforts an ampic fuel supply. wa position. Hardware and other deaiers WOMAN WORKS Y Pern, Ind. ere is nothing quiie so's06thing' or refreshing as a cool smoke 'on a hot day —or any other kind of But your pipe must be right. Try he famous R:c)erszde ly 75e. that tastes B o i e 2ot Tt genuine French down ains § badly ~ tand it. Fmed fl:fle*en the best flowing into Danielson these days from woodland_country for miles in all di- Choppers, too, as tanry as can be obtained. are meet the beavy demand. Wood is re- placing coal as fuel in many Daniel no alter- native. Some of the cord wood being sold here is bringing as high as $10 nfie'd Gas and - Eleetrict company, but thiz will be sufficient only to tide the concern Other coal iif ordered for this concern and on the but gétting the cars to destina- tion continues to be an uncertain pro- ‘who 15 HOURS A DAY Marvelous Story of Woman' Change from elhau “T suffered from a dis- placement with hackache and dragging tat times 1 could ‘not be on my feet and it did notu«mu')wngh of HIGH SCHOOL GIVES OVER 80 TO COUNTRY'S SERVICE Honor Roll of Graduates and Former Students Now in the War. Graduates and former students of Killingly High School are doing their bit for Uncle Sam in the great strug- gle for liberty. On land and sea they are wearing the uniforms that are a mark of honor and' a testimonial to their devotion to their couniry’s cause. More than 60 of them are in tha ser- vice and the schoel and their old home town is proud of every-one of them. They are in many branches of the ser- vice and scattered through camps in this country and in England and France. It is with particular pride that the school lists its former members who have attained to high rank in the na- val or military service, at the head of these Leing Colonei Wiliam Paine, Wwho is commanding one of the' camps in Michigan and Lieutenant Com- mander Walter F. Jacobs, U. 8. N., who for sometime past has been in com- mand of one of Uncle Sam’s great battleships. . The list herewh given is as com- plete as it has been- possible to make t uptodate, but if it does not contain the names of other former students who are in the service the names of such should be sent to Principal Ernest R. Warren, so that a star for every man who is doing honor to the school may be placed on a service flag that is to be flown at the school | in the not distant future, Colonel William Paire, Captain T. P. Todd, Lieutenant Commander Waiter Jacobs. Charles _ Franklin, James Brunsdon, Lester Bill. Joe Burton. Ed- win Blake, Raymond Bartlett, Way- land Bartlett, John Casey, Ralph Den- nison, Ralph Hllpln Richard Healey, Oliver Jacobs, Corporal Merrill Jacques, Le Roy Keech, Henry Myers, Ravmogd Preston, Merrill Smith, Har- old Beckley, Merrill Bennett, I.eon Blanchard, Foster Burgess, Frank Baker, Sergeant Henry Burnett, L is Brown, Leodore Boulais, Corporal Arthur Choquete, Paul-Chapman, Aus- tin Brooks, George Clark, Roger Will- jams, Per Brown, Raymond Casey, Howard C: Alanson Colvin, Oliver Tatro, Captain Albert Wa.rren Wil- bur Wild, Farl Dixon, Lorimer Dixon, Daniel Doyle, John Dowg. Harold Greene, Francis Gagnon, Henrv Gal- lup, Earl Geer, Henry Glilbert, Bernard Gartland, Ear] Kimball, Raymond Han- lon,- John Horton, Norman is to is gh to 9 t Friend. Ju.e ‘Getsier aftérwards muspendéd rmm Harvey, Claude Jette, Mason Logee, Fred Mil. ler, Irwin Miller, George Pfarl, Lester ol thet T amnow well | ghippes, "Russell Wellr, | end stro .ci €t | Of these Edwin ', Blake, - Richard up in the morning atfouro’clock, domy |Healey, Merrill Bemnett, Lorimer thengo tog factoryand ,lll d:y, come hogaoe n’d get, supper T don't know how munfi fgioends I have told what Lydh E. h.ml Vegetable Com ‘m“‘"fi’h i‘l?. film 86 West 10th St. aru,M ‘Women who saff lunbdmuldullnluty yoot and herb remedy, L; hf-m bam’s Yegeiaise Comgaid For a Chafed Skin Over 100,000 le haye proven i that nothing relieves the soreness like Sykes '“"‘& the such ail- thcr One lutpmu its extraordinary ling n-I -nu:?b- drug m Dixon, Francis Gagnon, Henry Gilhert, John Horton, Mason Logee and John Dowe are already in France. Senior Play Planned. The cast for the senjor play, Bread Upon the Waters, to be given at the Orpheum theatre includes. Sidney Bard, Adsent Goldbnotb. George Boys, Ralph Shoales, Lila Harris, Antolnetts Labonte, Beatrice Maynard. Rehears- als have begun, with B. F. Dawson as coach. The play was chosen by the follow- ing committee from the senlor class: Lila Harris, Antoinette Labonte and Sidney Bard. Children Cry “FOR FLETGHER'S CASTORIA which Larose sets is.a c!ilu:' of Ejln:d:: .that_he s subject to that country .and , States. The claim e case was to the ad+ . al for the de- | year, Iy, ¢ power at its big manu- facturing vluu continued to dwindle Thursday and brought the time nearer when the-industrial activities of the elty will be sadly-crippled unless some aid eoal is rushed in here- to relieve the shortage, and it is felt that this will be dope, Considerable quantities of coal were being rushed through here to the north on Thursday. Hospital Crowded. Another' new high record in the numbar of puuanu at the Day Kimball hospital at one time has been made, the report Thursday of those !n the lnem.mtm on the preyious evening being 52. This number taxes the ca Dpagity ‘of the_ hospital to the utmos: Bnd indicates that the time is not far distant when additions to the institu- tion must be made if it is to meet all reault, Danielson, 1 0. Kelley, Danielson, I; Dafiel Weaver, Dayville, 1. J. McGudder, Goodyear, 1: Ar- thur . Belirive, wuod.u-sk 4; james E, Warren, Danielson, /wulm Hugh Neeley, Woedstogk, “Ver- G«m-r deur, “Good - I3 Jolcph Fm 3 mifl L. Swanson, Putnam, Henrl Latour, Putnam, 4; Joseph A. Hebert, Good- year, 4. Demonstration of Sugarless Cookery, A demonstration of Sugarless Cook- ery will be given in St. John's hall, Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 8 o'clock, by Miss Charlotte Embleton, home manage- ment demonstrator of the “Windham County Farmers' Association. ‘Although the” new supply. of sugar from the West Indles will soon : bs available, it will still be necessary to use sugar sparingly, and tbe serving of a sugarless cake once or mcu a Wweek will help to conserve the supply. The demonstration is public, and it in Tioped that many will take advantage cf the opportunity to receive this val- uable instruction, _WESTERLY MANHEADS FIREMEN'S LEAGUE David Robertson Elected President .at Annual Session in Providence—Washington County Medical Society _ Elects - Officers—Dr. T. E. Robinson Made Treasurer of State Veterinarians—Cemetery Association Meeting = The Rhode Island State Fireme: League in annual session at Provi- dence, elected David Robertson - of ‘Westerly president. The other officers elected are George H. Merrill of Paw- tuxet, George Hunt of. Providence, J H. I. Burdick of Wickford, Edward A. Brennan of. East Greenwich, William R. Comrie of East Providence, vice presidents in order named; Frederick W. Cady, ‘of Bast Providence, secre- tary-treasurer; ' Nelson Himes of Wes terly, William Comrie of East Pro dence, George E. Shearn of Crompton, Daniel F. McLaughlin of Riverside, tournament committee. There were sixty-three delegates present, representing thirty-eight branch ogpganizations, and these six past presidents were also in attend- ance: Leroy R. Whitman, Levi S. Win- chester, John A. Hamilton, Thomas H, Rhodes, Daniel G. Coggeshall and Ev- erett F. Fiske. ~ At the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Association, which has membership in Westerly, officérs were elected in_Providence on Cor- A. Thursday, as follgws: Mighael J rigan, of Providemce, president; Keller, Arctic, vice president Keighley, Providence, treasure: Barrett, Providence, secreta ward T. Coiton, J. P. McDonald and A. J. Johnson, Jr., of Pawtucket, ex- ecutive committee. Governor Beeckman has been re- quested to ask the general assembly for the necessary state legislative ac- tion that the government may not be delayed in the erection of a fish cul- tural station at Block Island. On June 3, 1913, congress authorized the es- tablishment in Rhode Island of a fish cultural station. The bureau of fish- eries has selected a site on Block Isl- and, near the weather bureau station, but finds the land desired cannot be purchased without state legislative sanction. The state has by law au- thorizeq the Ugited States to acquire lapd for haval and other governmental uees, but fish culture as not distinct- 1y included. . Dr. Thomas E. Robinson, of West- erly was elected treasurer at the an- nual meeting of the Rhode Island Vet erinary association, held in Provi dence. The other officers elected ar Dr. G, F. Salisbury, of Wickford, pres- ident; Dr. Christophér Horsman, of Providence, vice president: Dr. E. J. Cole, of Pawtucket, secretary. Dr. Rob- inson is a member of the Westerly town council.and also milk inspector for the town. T There was an average attendance of members at the meeting Thursday evening of the Westerly Historical so- ciety, President Bthan Wilcox presid- ing. The interesting and instructive feature of the session was tbe excel- lent paper prepared and read by Mrs. Elisha C, Burdick on The Old Land- marks of Providence. President Wil- cox read a letter from H. J. Gensler. of the official reporters’ office, United States senate, as follows, which was addréssed to President Wilcox, whd Is also librarian emeritus of the West- erly Public Library “I am making a collectin of por- traits of all the United Btates senators from 1789 to the present time, of whom there have been 1080. and I have. suc- ceeded, after hard work in gathering pictures of all but fifty odd. This col- lection is intended for presentation in the archives of the semate for future Benerations. Among the missing pic- those-of Joseph Stanton, Jr. William Bradford. 1793- 7; Samuel J. Potter, 1804-1805; Ben- jamin Howland, 1804-1809. I have been told that you are very familiar with the genealogy of Rhode Island, and I am writing to tell you of my needs in the hope that you may be able to asstst me in my igteresting, though tedious, undertaking. If . can tell me anything about portr: of these distinguished men I.shall be under many obligations t§ vou.” The members of the historical Society were Grgeq to assist in this important his- torical movement. A commuter between New London Westerly, was asked if a billiofi dollars in one dollar bills, would fili the smoker of the train on which he was traveling? He eaid he would fig- uré it up to his satisfaction aad with pencil and paper he tackled the job. .| dollar bills; —Small Doings of Town and State. When_the train reached Stonington from Westerly, he said: T guess; I don't know the size of the average freight car nor the cubic inches of a bunch of one hundred one but allowing that the bunch of bills measured ten cubic inches, and that a freight car inside measurement is nine feet by nine, and the length forty feet, it would require a train of 214 cars, plus, to transport one billion one dollar bills! That is caual to seven average throush, freight [rains.” 5 The annual meeting of the Washing- ton County Medical society was held Thursday at the €olonial elub, and of- ficers were elected as follows: Dr. A. B. Briggs, of Ashaway, president; Dr. P. J. Manning, of Wickford, first vice president; Dr. H. L. Johnson, of: Wes- terly, second vice presjde: Dr.; Wil- liam’ A. Holland, of Westerly, secre- tary-treasurer; Dr. Samue] C. Web- ster, of Westerly, auditor; Dr. R. R. Robinson, of Wakefiedd, censor for thre years; Dr. Frank L Payne, of Westerly, councilor to the Rhode Is- land Medical soclety for three years. Dr. Isaac_Gebor,-of Providence, read | . | & paper on Some Aspects of Modern X- - | Ray Treatment, and Dr. John Champ- lin, of Westerly, told of council of na- tional defence work. Local Laconics, Dr. John L. May was.in Bast Green- wich Thursday attepding a meeting of the examining board. A brother of Mrs. Morton Stenhouse was Kkilled Dec, 11 while in action on the battlefield in France, Mrs. Edward B. Coy, the sale of Christmas Red Cross seals in_ Westerly, hag sent a check for $420.80 to headquarters, Sergeant James A. Moore, now at Camp Devens, has been promated to be top sergeant in the Ninth company, Third battalion, Depot brigade, The war depaitment announces that Barrington, R. L, is among the banner communities where the draft quotas were filled by voluntary enlistments, Mr, and Mrs. Waiter Doll and son, Walter, Jr., of Greenstone, Pa., are vis~ iting at the home of Mrs. Doll's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs, Bverett Barns, in Elm street. Tce harvesters report that the ice at Wood River Junction, Westerly's main source of supply, is thicker than at any time in 30 years. The average cut is 12 inches, but in some parts of the pond it is 20 inches. The Rhode Island Anti-Saloon league has requested all pastors in the state to preach Sunday morning on prohi- bition and to urge the ratification of the federal amendment to the consti- tution. “Nine days of zero weather and four days of ice beats 'that speéles of weather in Westerly far the 40 or more years that I've been here. It's almost impossible to keep my horses ’shoes sharpened.” So said Dwight C. Rogers, the teamster. Postoffice Inspector, Chaflu H. Pen- dleton of Westerly and police officers are investigating a break at the East Greenwich -postoffice, when $3.000 in cash and stamps were taken. The safe was blown open, and it is believed by expert cracksmen. A bill presented dn the house Thurs- day would give Governer Beeckman power to meet any emergency which may arise and to expend up to $200,000 in aiding depcndents of“thoge in the military service and in the protection of life and property within the state. At the annual meeting of the Riwer Bend Cemetery association Charles P. Cottrell was chosen president and Ev- erett E. Whipple, John T. Hdmond, Everett Barns and Walter E. Whoelér the board of trustees. Mr. 'Whysler ‘was reappointedl secretary and trhas- urer. John Parsons, president-and general manager of the Pequot Shirt company, has resigned. It is reported the plant will cease operations in Westerly Jan. 31. Thig plant is one of a chain owned by the New England Cotton Yarn com- pany, and 28 out of the:31 plants have been’ sold. in charge of According to the . Echo de Paris; Baron von Schoen, the late German Ambassador to France, has visited ex- King Constantine at Zurich, rd | (Written” Specially for The Bulletin.) “S80 many farmers content them- selves witn- discontent.” That was the sentence which flashed out on me, the other day, from an edi- torial' in a western farm paper. The rest of the article was about what is to he expected. Practical, matter-of- fact, earnest enough, but without any other trace of a spark from the fires of 'what I can't help calling genius. Then, right in the midst of this every- day farm talk. suddenly came that vivid, illumipating, tersely true sen- tence— ¢ “So -many farmers content them- selves with discontent.” Practically all of us farmers grumble, more or less. We grumble at the weather, first of all: we grumble at the selectmen and at the assessors: We grumble at the school-ma’am: we grumble at the storekeeper when he buys our eggs, still more when he sells us our sugar. We're like some of those geysers out in Yellowstone Pprk —all the while in a state of growling grumblement - which keceps the ground constantly quivering around us, even between the irvegular intervals of our boiling-over eruptions. The geysers, after muttering and growling for a while, according to its size and vigor either spits out or spurts out a few tubs full of hot’ water, and then re- sumes its normal state of unhappy un- rest. In Jike manmer many farmers stéw and grunt and croak for long in- tervals: finally breaking out into some sort of actually furious bellow for a few minutes. After which they drop back into the chronic state of whige- ‘whimper-grumple again. ‘ In some sort of internal seismometer with an outside dial could be rigged on to us, I suspect a great lot of us would be found in a state of earthquake-y inside commotion most of the time, constantly on the verge of an eruption and—which is the worst of . it--re- maining about so all our lives. In other words content with our own dis- content. Now, there are two sorts of discon-. tent. There is this sort which takes it out in faultfnding and kicking, — and stops with that: never carries it- self into action or evefi into effort for correction and remedy. There is also the sort which some one has aptly called “divine discon- tent;” the dislike of existing abuses and the dJissatisfaction with existing advantages which lead their possessor to zealous work towards abolishing the abuse and enlarging the advantage. That is the sort of discontent which gets somewhere and takes its owner along with it. The other sort never gets anywnere, nor helps anybody else to do so. The one is active; the other is passive. The one is A manly charac- teristic. the other a clam-like attri- bute. The one pulls, pushes, drives, impels the world forward from bad to better; the other doesn't move any- thing,—just makes the axles creak. The article in which | found my text was devoted to a plea for better think- ing and wiser action in dairying mat- ters. Its point was that dairymen who spend their lives grumbling be- cause the market won't pay them a profit on a 150-pounds-of-butter cow might find it willing to pay at least a decent profit on the 300-pounds-of- butter-cow which a little more fore- sight and thought would substituts for the scrub. To say tet it is “just as easy” to have the 300 pound cow as the 150 pound cow would not probably be true. You can't buy a good new shovel for the price of scrap-iron. Nor will you long keep vour shovel a good one if you don't give it better care than the pile of serap-iron out back of the barn, exposed to all weathers and slowly rusting itself back into its original oxides. Moreover, if a man is content with a 150 pound cow that settles it. Why should he try for a better? — But, on the other hand, if he is not content with that scrub critter, if he is -thoroughly and wholeheartedly dis- contented with her, if he is so discon- tented with her performance that he is forever grumbling about the returns he gets from her,—then why in the name of eofficiency and common sense doesn’t he at least try to remove the cause of his discontent? When a locomotive has full steam up in its boiler, what's 1he economy of keeping it for days an® weeks and vears standing still on the track, wheezing and puffing and snorting and forever blowing off steam, instead of turning that steam into the cylinders and_letting it accomplish something? ‘What's the use of a man having steam in his boiler if it is never used to get him anywhere? If it is all spent in blowing off? What is true of dairying is true of every other form of farm activities. Secretary Houston says smocthly jenough in his plea for greater prod tion that “Many difficulties conffont the agricultural forces.” Sartain sure, Mr. Secretary We working farmers do not need to be told so. We know that labor is s0 bard to get that many of us can't get it at all. We know that fertilzers are scarce and high, 0 high that many of us can’t afford them any more. We also know that they're pretty poor stuff when we do manage to get hold of a bag or two. We know that seeds and tools and farm machines cost any- where from twice what they used to up. We know that we can't get sup- plies when we need them, nor deliver our products when scld because the country’s transportation svstem has broken down. We know that we are “up against it” better than any out- sider can. Where we used to have several things to grumble about we now have pretty nearly everything in that cate- gory. Nor need any frequenter of farm gatherings doubt that we are, most of us, freely exercising our faultfinding functions. While we are di permitted to ask in a feeble and very humble whisper what earthly good it does us or ever will do us, if we stop there? If we take it out in grumbling? If we are content merely with b?mg discontented ? g so. may T be Mind yeu, I'm not blaming any farmer for being discontented. I'm not blaming any one for grumbling. ‘What 'm trying to suggest is that all the grumbling we can do, even when it is nine-million-lunged power, will ;\equipments and capacities are o un-| never get us any forrarder. If com- plaining and whimpering would do any good, if they would brf about any reform, if they would M any - im- provement, then they would be worth while. But they don't arfi won't: never did and never will. Jjust as well éxpeet to break & “ out en the bk steps and blowing hot air against tie northwest wllt It {sn't what we say but what we. do that will Count. That is what we have got to consider,—and aet upon.| It's about time to nop grumbling end | DO SOMETHING! e { But what shall we do? Brethen, I don't think that's just the right way tc esk the question. It %“ ‘What shall “we” do, #0 much as operations, | shall ‘1" do? When it comes to farm 1 frankly :hu that x‘ haven't s much faith in or respect for tion as I onee had. Our mm intensely individual and our respective like and unequal that organization) seems less effective with us than with, almost any other class. If wonld work, I shou!d be for it with beth hands and both feet. But it doesp't| seem to. | There Is & right way to manage| each farm. Bach farm? Nay, each separate acre of each farm. We ers can and ought to find out way, each for himself. And right along that line seems to me comes fis answer to our question what to Let uf‘l:lh man ;t i‘t“ l‘l‘;l. his hfll “-s possibflities and its limitations, up 8s a problem in efficiency. Let each one| plan to make the utmost possible for the coming season out of the possibil- ities beforo him, limited hewseever they may be. Is hired labor uobuh..fl ? Let| him take earefnl thought of every, line in which he might make freer use of machinery him talk the th est neighbars they can't work up & ing each other in Are fertilizers so high as to be omt of the question? Then now is the time to cunsider if there isn't mom way to increase the output of kfln‘ manure from the hru at ieast, to preserve the unmuns value ot th.! uhmlb made. Is it hard and costly to get supplies? Then let cach man go over his re- sources of land and labor very care- fully and see if there {8 mo way in which he may e those ressurces 2 nis owh supply all of, anyway, & larger proportion than now of ‘hn home needs. as a substitute. Let No single one of us can do much. But “every/little counts.” When there are nine or ten million “littles” they count big in the sum. If every one of us farmers who has grumbled about ten things in the past vear will only set himself to remedy or correct the cause of one grumbie - the coming vear, he will cortalnly de-' serve well of his country. | And T guess he'll be a trifle happler, imselt. jimes THE FARMER. cosnm Py Accident to F. H. ammmg—m Spring Pigs Weigh 500 Pounds—Big Hoot Owl ShoL | As F. H. Brownxu; was splitting | wood a stick flew back with muech| force, breaking his thumb. lee Bound. h Work out of doors this week was practically at a standstill. During TThe ice storm, creepers and other dmm= were brought into use to make walk- ing safe. #There was fine sieighing and | when the sun came out to stay Wed-| nesday it seemed almost like & new world of crystal. Farmers have had mich extra work in getting water to their stock as the freezing weather cut off the runnlns water supply. Two Pigs Weigh 500 Pmd-. I A. R. Curry butchered two hand- some spring pigs Tuesday that weigh- ' ed five hundred pounds for the pair. First Blusbird. | "A sweet sign of hope and promise was the note of the first bluebird on Tuesday. One wake-up was also seen. Shot Big Owl. J. A. Randall shot a large hoot "l Friday which was roosting in the top of a large cedar tree not far from the farmhouse. It is clajmed the hoot owl | |is the worst enemy thn wild game 'has to contend with. ONLY POWERFUL MEDICINE WILL END RHEUMATISM Tt matters not whether you have had ‘agoninizing pains from rheumatism for 20 years or pjistressing twitchings for 20 ‘weeks, strong enough and mighty and powerful enough to drive rheumatic poisol rom _ your body and abolish all misery or money 4 & Osgaod Co. and alf druggists sell Rheuma on a mno-cure-no-pay basis. A large bottle is inexpensive, and after you take the small dose as directed once a day for two days you should know that at last you have ob- tained a remedy that will conquer rheumatism. For over five years America Rheuma hu been by broad-minded released thou:amh and despair. throughout prescribed hysicians and has rom agony, pain Orpheum Theatre, Darielson TOMMY LEVENE AND HIS Yankee Doodle Girls JANUARY 14-15-16 A DANDY MUSICAL COMEDY CO. POPULAR PRICES,