Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 27, 1918, Page 9

-INVENTORY - SALE - FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN AT DECISIVE REDUCTIONS READY FRIDAY, DEC, 27 AT 8 A M. READ ON, DON'T MISS A WORD SUITS YOUNG MEN'S" MOD- Slz 5 ELS, WITH SLANT OR ” PATCH POCKETS, GOOD VARIETY OF COLORS AND SIZES—SORD FOR $15.00 AND $18.00 FANCY WORSTEDS $16 50 THAT - WILL HOLD b THEIR SHAPE AND WILL WEAR-WELL —SOLD FOR $20.00 TO $24.50 HERE’S: WHERE WE $19 50 ARE STRONG ON REAL REDUCTIONS. THEY SPEAK FOR THEM- éhl.\t LD EOR $25.00 AND $27.50 $24 SUITS TAILORED OF . EXCELLENT FABRIC, IN REAL ALL NEAT PATTERNS WORSTEDS TNAT ARE HARD TO FIND TODAY—SOLD FOR $28.00 AND $30.00 OF SUITS FOR MEN $285 WHO WANT SOME- THING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. FULL, HALF % QUARTER LINED— SOLD FOR $3 qoo TO $35.00 THIS LOT CONSISTS Ribbed - Fleeced Lined Underwear, Shirts and Drawers, $1.15 Grade— Sale Price 59¢ a Garment Heavy Weight Caps with In-Band, former SW_EATERS—'IROUSERS—SEHRTS OVERCOATS f OVERCOATS IN THE $16 50 RIGHT LENGTH AND * WEIGHT THAT WERE GOOD VALUES AT $22.00 OVERCOATS, in $19 5 ‘GRAY, BROWN OR . OXFORDS THAT DO NOT CHANGE STYLE FROM YEAR TO YEAR—SOLD FOR $25.00 AND $26.50 COATS THAT WILL $24’5 LOOK MIGHTY GOOD TO YOU, BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL NEW PATTERNS AND SOLD FOR $28.00 AND $30.00 SOFT FABRICS, BEAU- 28 50 TIFULLY TRIMMED v AND EXPENSIVELY TAILORED—SOLD FOR $32.00, $34.00 AND $35.00 ALL WOOL MACKI- 798 NAWS, FORMER VeV PRICE $1000 AND £12.00 A LINE OF OVER- MEDIUM WEIGHT 4 98 MACKINAWS, F OR- ¢ MER PRICE $6.50 AND $8.00 Many of them Full Lined, Heavy Weight Fabrics, Warm and Commrtable. Just right for the raw, blustering days to come. Sizes 6 to 18 years. Former Pnces were $6.50 to $15.00 Heavy Cotton Hose, in Tan or Black, 25¢ Grade—Sale Price 19¢ Neat Patterns in Stff Cuff Shirts, $1.00 and $1.25 Grade—Sale Price 79¢ LAMB LINED COATS GLOVE& HATS, COLLARS And ndly - mote articles all i in on sale pncu. Be here on fime rf- K A hurch-Reed Co. { while my neighbor prop: flowing artesian well, if he can get one | with anything less than 500 feet of | {another affair. ‘Written Specially for The Bulletin. ‘This happens to be my bdirthday, I'm not guite 90 vet, though I sometimes feel like it. I'm old enough, however, to remember when the world agricul- tural was very different from what it is mow. This ammiversary, which I'm “celebrating,” but passing very qliletly and humbly in the exercise of my ordinary ‘duties about the farm- stead, has set me thinking about some g}!, the differences between now and en. For instance, as I came down from the barn with the milk this morning I glanced over to my next neighbor's, where a thoroughly modern drilling outfit is at work boring what it hoped to be an artesian well. They haven't yet got through the gravel and dirt, but the huge drill, driven by a gaso- line engine, is forcing its way down- ward, carrying a six-inch iron pipe with it as it sinks, which piping will be continued till bedrock is struck. After that, the drill will go on down, just the same, and almost as fast. When I was a boy those neighbors got their water from a “dug well’ just inside_the dooryard fence, drawing it up in a wooden bucket with a windlass made out of a round log cut in the woods and suppled with a wooden crank, likewise hewed out of native sticks, and all pinned together with wooden pins. At the same date our own family well had a long pole suspended to a 12- feet high post by a wooden pin driven through it at about the middle of its length. The lighter end hung over the well, and from it depended a not much overgrown bean pole, with the bucket at its end. The heavier butt end of the long pole—we called it the “sweep”—rested on the ground, ror mally, and kept the empty bucket just | at the top of the well curbing. When we wanted water we pulled the small pole down till the bucket reachéd the bottom of the well. Thgn the heavy butt almost balanced it, so that the lifting to the surface was compara- | tively easy. Now a pump draws water from that same well directly to the kitchen si drilling. . Speaking of wells reminds me of old folks w leaving me in sole charge. Nosing around, as boys are sure to do under | such circumstances, I found the pump, the point and about {welve feet of iron pipe which had beeri bought for use as a “drive well” at the barnvard. Two attempts there, however, had resulted in the point striking hardpan some ten fect down, through which no tools at a farmer’s command would force it. So the idea had been given up. With no very definite conception of what I was going te do, I dragged the peint and pipe down ifto the farm lane and, with no better tool than they old “beetle” made of a hornbeam knot, I proceeded to pound it into the dirt. The “beetle” was pretty heavy for an $-year-old, and the driving grew harder as the depth increased. But I could see that it went a trifie with every blow, and so I kept on. Before I had driven the twelve feet of pipe ail in, I struck a water vein. Secrewing the pump on. I found that it drew and delivered a full stream of water, muddy at first, of course, but soon clearing up. It proved to be un- usually cold and when my father re- turned and tested the results of my boyish prank he gave a little grunt and said something to mother about the Lord looking out for children and fools. Which I didn’t think very com- plimentary, at the time, But the real wonder of the'affair is that this “driven well,” put down in half a day by an 8-year-old boy, without any ldea In driving it except to have “ajoke on Dad,” has never gone dry from that day to this, but has furnished all the water asked from it, no matter how many barrels at a time, even in the midst of the worst droughts, Another memory came to me as I glanced over northwards at my neigh- bor's artesian drilling plant. It was just sixty years ago that I aw, in the field lying between us, the first mowing machine ever used in this town. I had a small scythe of my own and, being big and strong of my age, used to mow quite a litfle with my father. We were working away ‘when the sound of this machine in the next fleld attracted our -attention. Leaving our scythes in the swathes, we went to the fence and, leaning over it.” watched the operation. Don't get the idea that that primeval mowing machine looked anything like what we noy use. It was pretty near- Iy all built/of wood. It wae as big as a modern reaper and binder, and had a huge reel, much like those still used on some reapers. The cutter-bar was a substantial beam of wood, reinforced with iron straps, and the wheel at the end was about the size and look of a wheelbarrow wheel. It took four horses to draw the clumsy contraption. One man sat on a high seat and drove the wheel horses. Another drove the leaders. A third man walked ahead, to make sure that the way was clear of stumps or stones or woodchuck holes or big weeds, Another walked behind and was kept busy freeing the knives, which clogged up about every ten or twenty feet. , A fifth with a fork fol- lowed still farther back, and drew the hagsled off grass away from the standing, so as to leave a foot strip clear for next fime around. After waiching the performance for about fifteen minutes, my father said to me with a chuekle: “Well, bub, you ’nd I, with our old scythes, could 'a’ cut more grass in the same time than that machine has done with four horses to pull it and five men to 'tend ®” ‘Which was manifestly the fact. We picked up our seythes and, in the re- mainder of that forenoon, cut at least dogble the area which the machine cut, and &id the job much cleaner and better. Recafling alt this, | am led to observe amess other things, that even an h-making invention, like that of the borss mewer, has tb be improved threngh long years of test and experi- ment before it becomes the almost perfect tool any of us can buy today LOUIS E. KENNEDY Conn. Underhk'g MMA!—-M’- for about a tenth what this sixty year ago monstrosity. cost. I don’t recall clearly many things management before the Civil war of 1861-'65. But I well remember how, during that war, the prices of many necessaries roge to small farmers about domestic such a height could not afford to buy them. I recall Some of .the devices this particular family resorted to. Tea and coffee were out of our reach. We made a substitute for the one out of sweet fern and sassafras and some other leaves; and for the other out of rye and corn, parched in the oven and then ground. our own veal, our own mutton, and our own poultry, borhood sharing developed by which one farmer would, when he butchered a calf, divide with two or three others, each one returning an equivalent of same with fresh pork and mutton and beef: wheat, but we did raisé rye-and corn and oats and buckwheat. “Rye'n In- jun” was the standby for bread. Sugar ‘was so scarce and high that we SLB.)‘(AK ed beekeeping to get honex and made what maple segar we could from a few scattering rock maples in the woods. unknos made many “preserv always packed at least one barrel of choice apple: with dry oats, and with small dec April. As I contemplate the array of canned corn and peas and beans and asparagus and spinach and tomatoes and berries and pea quinces shelf, I wonder what some of the old- | timers wi back. weren good things and alt as I think o niversary day, i | s to have 4 (5 For meats, we raised our own pigs, A system of neigh- al when he, in turn, slaughtered one. We thought then we couldn't raise Canned vegetables or fruits were , those times, but my mother s" and my father and one of winter pears which kept them fresh v until March and | ches and pears and , etc, now filling a long cellar 1d think if they could come I suspect they'd wonder if we having altogether too many gether too handy. s borne forcibly upon me the old times, this an- e., that we're a mighty off, even at the worst, forebears. They suffered reater than any we're ask- One thing Thé,bhckwaid season has leff usw:th too many Overcoats 165 Men’s and Young Men’s Overcoats " Go On Sale Today 30 Overcoats, were $22, $25, $26.50, Now $17.50 35 Overcoats, were $25,$28, ' - 40 Overcoats, were $30,$32, - 35 Overcoats, were $35, $36.50, 25 Overcoats, were $38,$40, - We are long on Coats and short on talk. save money on your Overcoat come to our shop today. . THE - Now $29.50 CHURCH - COMPANY Now $19.50 Now $21.50 Now $33.50 If you want to that we, their de- | *George is proof that they e Once, about 1860, the | pu t away for a few days, | h and the; wid endure am much a y st be that we are made of poorer|friends in Danielson. cester lx ave Vi r dl the hOlu\ . J. Dunn, of North Main street. ‘About 1400 wer: ang e Cross in the Da Private Jeremiah Dby heen in the chemical cf the service and stati tare branch |water which had been ned at Edge- y passed through here en route to Camp Devens to be mustered | . Reed spent h relatives in Boston. i Canagda, Hamilton, whi y : ago, again returned to Danielson from | ime his health began to fail he was | B0 in the employ of the Juinebaug com- | the holiday wi Sergeant Raymond the hospital where he hag. been re- ceiving treatment at xewd \;j;.l\ibridge R A e et Danits ith relatives jn |Other daughter and still another of \y‘mrbury v (heavy batteries), t has not been officially announced. It is understood that the patronage that the ‘extra trolley cars|guest of Miss Sadie Tracy, Christmas put on a few days ago a€e receiving | day. 5 determine whether they will be| Aiss Catherine Coffey is at herhome continued after ‘the holiday The army plane that ficld on the Kimball farm A 1 hill in the town of Brooklyn Christ- | He was born in the town of Killingly mas afternoon got away for Mineola |and had always lived here. Mr. Law- 7 o’clock Thursday morning, head- | rence was a selectman of the town ior:, several years and for a long time con- It is claimed in some well informed | ducted a livery stable in ‘Ballouville. quarters that payrolls of manufactur- | He leaves his wife and a son, Edwin, concerns in Danielson and the re- | of Ballouville. ngly have | Deputy Sheriff Edwin Bennett of| 3 heavy this year | Brooklyn was fined $41.66 by J es in any other year on i plants have paid a record wage scale, | for violations of the state game law. haye run all of the time, some of the | The charges were that Sheriff Bennett and night f§rces | had not visited his steel traps as often as once in 48 hours and that he had! landed In a| Frank Lawrence, 68, died Thursday ing" south from Danielson. mainder of the town of Ki concerns keeping d In circles where attention is being given to the orzarfization of the 1913 1 iries are being rece Open weather is permitting steady work on the new freight yard south of the Dayville station. and a crew.of men were a a big embank-,;of ment has been cut away erable ‘grading done. Maybe the bureau of domestic ani- mals will give the dog owners here a | Fortress Monroe. New Year's pres to allow the anim: quarantine that has been them for over a year—and!stationed at Camp Devens, is spending then again, maybe the bureau won't do any such thing. ers have hopes. Another pleased audience witnessed | Corporal James Murray, formerly a the last showing of My Four Years|paying teller in the Iirst National in Germany, a remarkable photoplay, | bank, is on Jeave of absence here from at the Orpheum lheale; Thursday eve- | his station at Camp Upton. The scenes where & troops are shovn in numbers werepar- | _County Agent E- W, Ellis, who went ticularly pleasing to the audience and | Wi e s to hle home on- Cape brought forth much applause, as rep- | Cod for the holiday season, became ill gh on Vtnat wouldmt | there, requiring an extension of his apermi Is freedom from the | in the year. But the dog own- at Goodyear. reus of Fall River spent the holiday with friends in Danielson, Walter Sayles, who has been a gov- . well| ernment inspector in a textile plant itfat Peace Dale, kas been visiting with A boom of Jamaica ginger sales is x any of us, willing to sub-|reported. 'The ginger serves as a scribe to that humiliating confession? THE PARMER. DAN!ELSON who 2 S . is ill at his|€d to one of the base hospitals at temperance drink in a “dry” town. Lieut. John E. Casey, who went ot s an officer of the 33th company, C. A. C., is now attached as an officet 'to n_infantry regiment in France. has been| Dr. William Saretzki who i ttach- Camp Upton, is spending a few days’ Getty of Wor- |leave of absence at his home here, nd Mrs. Bloi| Miss Mabel A, Merr of Bridgeport | was a_visitor with Danielson friend; returning to her home Thursday. Helen Trzepacz, 4, daughter of M . John Trzepacz, resident in what is known as the Quebec section of the West Side, lost her life as the result of falling into @ tub of scalding who has ready for her bath. The a few hours. Her funeral will be held this mor Amadee Garrippe, 69, a native of ied at the home of his pany here as one of their outside help. n is an- doughter iv resident in Cfncapee He | has a son in the army and scns in Fall | There seoms to be a fendency_here |River. .;GVh Field Artille \vhlch is on its wa .| Mr. and Mrs. M. Connor and daugh- home from over- | ter, Mary, of Putnam, Miss Dollie} Coast Artillery,| Connor, Mrs. M. E. Halligzan of Pr iling of which fidence, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Greeley Christmas day. amount ol Dennis Smith_of Worrester wa: the eason. |in F mpton this week. at Wood’s | morning at his home in Ballouvillé. ecord, The | Eqward Riley of Brooklyn Thurs ay trapped on certain lands without per- mission of the owner. Game Warden nett, who has been an expert trapper for years. PUTNAM m _shovel coast artillery service and has return- ed here from Fortress Monroe, Va. Gunner Perry became an instructor at g He will rezenter ion } Worcester Polytechnic institute early in force: Sergeant Archibald Maedonald, Jr., a leave of absence with his parents, Senator and Mrs. Archibald Macdon- ald. American stay. He is not seriously ill, however, Today, St. Joi the Evangelist's day. | 2nd is sxpected home in the very near will be observed .with special services 3 in a number of churches in this vicin- |, Clark college students who have been at their homes here since the P i Worcester institution was closed on Thursday morning brought another little snow storm, followed by a con. | aceount of a new outbreak of influ- giderable drop in temperature, 2 t Practically all the Kiilingly men who tc‘éfr‘.’i'n;":f;:i at the opening of the have heen mustered out of service | COm have found jobs waiting for them here, | _Cariton ~W. Durfee of Putnam but some prefer. to enjoy a well d served relaxation gfter army life be. fore setting down to thelr. usual oceu- enza will_return Sunday to take up Heights is entertaining Mr, and Mrs. Killiam and children of Flushing, L. I Cargill council, K. of C. will open its membership campaign Jan. 6. An old English tea party, the fifth | Navigators will be appointed to bring | event of the kind, has been |in names from the four wards of the to ba hald Mew Years davility, Resmsitine hoodamentese axa o so badly scelded that she lived but| 1 lay | merning by Benjamin Starr, who will Harry Battey of East Killidgly | rom Windham county men Wwho |prought the cases asainst Sheriff Ben- would like appointments as messen- s, doorkeepers and in other such Work there| Master Gunner Gilbert Perry, son| ty Engineer and Mrs. George| and consid- | Perry, has been mustered out of the be established at the stare of William St. Onge and a progress chart is to be displayed in the window at Dona- jue’s store. Putsam Heights residents had a gocd view of the army plane that wandered into this sector Christmas afternoon when it got off its course. The plane was flying very low, so low that a little girl who waved at the aviators was seen and. received an answering salutation. The funeral of Herbert H. Maynard, grand of Putnam lodge of Odd Fellows, was held from his home on Woodstock avenue Thursday after- noon, funeral services being conducted a tthe chflpel in Grove street ceme- tery by Rev. S. J. Rook, pastor of the \It\tnndis! church. The service was v a delegation from Israel lodge. Mr. Maynard is the third officer of the lodge who has died within a few weeks. Oscar Munyan of Thompson has re- ceived word of the..death of his |daughter at her home in Attleboro. She leaves he dren. The town of Thompson is having another experience with _influenza A considerable number of per- at town were reported on as being ill with the dis- husband and four chil- in hursday case. The parcel post business at the post- office this Christmas season did not reach quite the volume that flowed {through during theé Christmas season of 1917, ‘Postmaster Alexander Gilman said Thursday, but the first class mail matter and Christmas cards were handled in greater quantities than ever before. » The funeral of Miss Lillian Flanni- gan was held from her home in West Thompson Thursday morning with a solemn high mass of requiem ‘at the Sacred Heart church in that place. Rev. J. J. Blty of Pomfret was cele- brant of the mass, with Rev. Adrian Dykemans and Rev. Arthur Routhier of St. Mary’s parish in this city dea- con and sub-deacon, regpectively. The mass was attonded by Who Iargest, fu- | neral congregation at the church in there being a considerable num- ty. Burial was in St Mary's cemetery, Putnam. ‘The Spiritual Phase of the Kingdom Finance will be the subject of an ad- dress at the Baptist church Sunday speak at the évening service on The Confessions of a Shoe Merchant. Mr. Starr has created special interest by his addresses at various churches in igland. New Ei Floyd Cranska of Moosup has sent a checl of $50 to be added to the fund collected at Thanksgiving time for the Day Kimball hospital, bringing this fund this year to about $1,200. Busitiess continues to be active in the city court. Judge Geissler, who did not even escape the necessity of holding a Christmas day session, again presided at a session Thursday morn- ing. The past two days brought only infoxication cases for consideration Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McDermott ana children spent Christmas with MY. McDermott’s mother in Danielson, re- turning here Thursday. Overseas men are getting the pref- erence as to discharges at Camp Dev- ens, it is said here by returning sol- diers. These boys have had the longest and the hardest service, so are being F.H. & F. W. TILLINGHAST Funeral Directors and Embalmers Central Village, Corh. AUTOMOBILE EQUIPMENT + Courtesy, Efficiency, Satisfaction Telephone - Connection, . Moosup Div. le tout ahead of ‘the boys who did not get “over there.” Tremendously heavy freight trans are being hauled through this city by the giant locomotives that have come into use on this part of the New Haven system. These locomotives have such great hauling capacity that the road has been emabled to cancel some freights and still move the same number of cars. New Year's eve there will be a series of festivities in this eity. Dances and parties are being announced that will offer opportunity for those who attend to see the old year out and the new year in. Rounders from surrounding towns have recently got into the habit of coming to Putnam and loitering about, not a few of them eventually finding their way into the city court. " STAFFORD A barn is being built by John Nytas on the place he recently purchased from Louis Putney. Faul Booth returned last Tuesday from Camp Upton, wher he has been in service seven weeks. Noah Payson, 73, father of Mrs. J. W. Rollinson, died in Monson' last week. Deer are frequently seen near the Alva Sands farm. One day last week Mrs. Sands saw a herd of seven near the house. Ralph A. Booth has resigned as teacher ct the Pinney Grammar school 10 take effect at the close of this term. He is to-be employed in Springfield, Mas Sunday morning there was special Christmas 1cusic_and sermon.at the Baptist church. There was a Christ- “I'mas tree anl supper for the children Tuesday evening. Special music was enjoyed at the Christmas savvice of the Universalist church. The choir was aseisted by | s Gladys Roberts, violinist, Mr. and Mrs. Gilber: Wagner, Misses Dobson and Puffer. Music, organ: Prelude and Pastorale, Manney; anthem,, Christ- mas, Shellev; soprano with vio- lin obligato, The Christmus Message, Dressler; violin solo, with organ ac- companiment: postiude. march. BALLOUVILLE Last Saturday there were shipped to New York five comforters by the local branch of the W. F. M. §. These are for the French war orphans. At the time of the rummage sale last summer,- when $53 cash was raised for the same worthy cause, Mrs. W. D. Woodward, the president, thought perhaps iwo or three quilts might be forthcoming, but 50 much interest has been manifested by many women | throughout the village that there will be five more comforters to be forward- ed at an early date. Properly Ssoup. symfl'vlh Slade’s Cela'ySllf.Shdc’sG\lmSalL il be found both pleasing andp‘no;ishln( 'Ask Grocers far or Cloves—all Send Stamp for