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CENE—a garage; time, mid- nighg. ¥Characters, the deal- in with a limping ‘damaged tire. , .. CUSTOMER — “Give me a 5 Firestone; I. know what it will ' do and I haven’t time to experi- ment on an unknown tire.” DEALER—“Sure; you Want : most miles per dollar and I . want most friends per mile.” Exit customer, hapfiy and satis- fied, with— . iresione ~ TIRES Most Miles per Dollar One little flower to a living man is| If a man is unable to stand pros- worth more than a wagon load of |perity he should sit down and enjoy floral emblems to a dead one. it. their pidemic What is Castoria CASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Nar- cotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. - For more than thirty years it has been in"constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness ariging therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the Signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-as-Good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. #/Have You Tried It? Everybody has read thé above headline; how many believe it? Have you & littleonein the home, and has that dear little mite when its stofiach was not just right felt the comforts that come with the use of Fletcher’s Castoria? You have heard the cry of pain. Have you heard them cry for Fletcher’s Castoria? Try it. Just help baby out of ita trouble tomorrow with a taste of Cas- toria. Watch the difference in the tone of the cry, the look in the eye, the wiggle in the tiny fingers. The transformation is complete— from pain to pleasure. Try it. 2 s You’ll ind a wonderful lot of information about Baby in tha booklet that is wrapped around every bottle of Fletcher’s Castoria. GeNUINE CASTORIA ALwars Bears the Signature of i Loss OF SLEER - § resutting trerefrom ininf2ocy FocSimile Sidnatareo & At 6o g5Dases3 (4 The Prayer Perf Sitcomp Riley o masic. banner class in attendance Frank E. Tolhurst of Hartford, was the leader of the Epworth League evening service with the topic, Inro- ducing Jesus to Our Friends. r. and Mrs. John C. Reynolds and young children will sail on the S. 8. Cedric, White Star Line, from New York, Tuesday, July 29th, for, Lon- don, via Liverpool. Mr. Reynolds is traveling for a Trading corporation of New York, buying selling metals fo rimport and export. Mrs. Reynolds 1s the daughter of Mrs. Lucy A. Hurl- butt and with her children has been spending some weeks at the home of her mother here. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds expect to be abroad sever- al months and will visit Mr. Reynolds’ parents in Ireland, Mr. Reynolds hav- ing been absent from his former home six years. Mr. Reynolds, who spent the ‘week end here left Monday for New York. Mrs. Reynolds and chil- dren, will join him there Friday, pre- paratory to sailing. © Mrs. Lester M. Hurlbutt and little daughter, Marion, who left the village the first of May and with Mr. Hurl butt have been guests of relatives in- cluding Mr. Hurlbutt's brother, Attor- ney Rov Hurlbutt, of Charleston, W. Va., returned here this past week and are guests of Mrs. Ellen Stoddard at he rhome in the village. Mr. Hurl- butt, who occupied the family home bere during the constructton of the new Thames River bridge at . New London, while employed as civil en- gineer by the New Haven road, has received the appointment of superin- tendent of roads for Logan county. West Virginia, and will locate his family there and be near the nome of _his. brother. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Taylor and daughter, Madilon, motored from New York Friday and spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimball at their home in_the village. Arthur E. Frost of Brooklyn, New York, has returned after spending a few days with his cousin, Mrs. Lulu B. Hempstead and Norman L. Brown. J. Edmund Norman took a party of twelve young people from the Bluff for an automobile straw ride to Ocean beach, Friday evening, returning via Norwich. Miss Addie Secor and party left in her_ touring car Sunday for her home in Watertown,. NJ Y., stopping in Al- bany, to take Judge and Mrs. Emer- son for the remainder of the dis- tance. Mrs. Walter Gardiner of New Lon- don has been spending a week at_the home of her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Latham E. Smith, at' Rose Lawn farm. Other recent guests there have been Mrs. Charles Davies and Miss Eliza- beth Brown also of New Landon. A. O. Fafold, station agent at the railroad station here went to Sias- conet, Nantucket, Saturday afternoon, to join Mrs. Fafold and son, Stanley, who have been spending a week there. Mr. Faford was an operator there at the wireless station, for several months during the war. Henry E. Collins of Allyns' Point was in Boston Monday, accompanying his daughter, Miss Arlene, who was en route to the White Mountains. Walter C. Cleveland and farty of Boiss, Idaho, who have been guests of Rév. O. E. Newton and Mrs. New- ton, at the parsonage, and who motor- ed here in their own' car, covering 3,- 000 miles, have continued their jour- ney an dwill tour Vermont this week. They are due in Boise the first of September, but will ship their car and return by railroad from Detroit. Engineer Bentson of the New Ha- ven road who was here from his home in Webster, Mass. for a few days' fishing at Red Top, Thursday caught a small shark off the wharf there with 2 hook and line. He had his catch on exhibition at the railroad station here at the late afternoon train that day. Coroner Franklin H. Brown and his| grandson., Master Franklin Brown of Southington. with Herbert Corey, spent a day’ fishing in the Race in Mr. leWn's auxiliary boat, Ruth, recent - Harold Botham, Harry Cook, Elmer Cloutier, Eester Dart, Alfred Young, of th local patrol of Boy Scouts, are at Camp Terremuggo, near Hartford. The boys left Saturday and were join- ed Tuesday by Rev. Charles C. Tib- betts, pastor of the Methodist church, their scoutmaster. There are others from the Y. M. C. A. including Per- cy Allen, Bernard: Allen, Oliver La- Bounty and several others, under su- pervision of W. W. Lyman. At the last meeting of the Montville State Guard association service but- tons were distributed. A committee composing W. W. Lyman, C. E. Flaher- tv and A. G. Huggard, was appointed to arrange for the association’s annual outing, August 3rd at Camp Richards, on the Oxoboxo lake shore. It was also planned to entertain during the time the boys who were in service in the recent war. Elaborate plans are being made for athletic sports. John Lynch is the committee of arrange- ments for the dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hope were week end guests of friends in Natick, Mass., making the trip by automobile. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woodmansee are entertaining Mrs. Roger Brockett and child of New York. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Methodist church held its annual pic- nic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Comstock, Thursday. A pleas- ant day was spent. The building which Michael Burlake has been erecting on _the propefty which he purchased . from Edward Glasbrenner last winter is nearing completion and Mr. Burlake has mov- ed in. A part of the building has been let to Samuel Florman, who now oc- cupies the store in what was Newtan's ‘market. Mr. Burlake and family will occupy the upper part as their home, Mrs. E. G. Lyon has been entertain- ing her son, Fred D. Lyon, of Chica- o. 5 John Home, son of Judge of Pro- bate Dan D. Home, with Mrs. Home, left this week for Franklin, Mass., where he is employved. Lathrop Miller, who has .been in the U. S. Servide on board the U. S. S. President Grant during the war, has received his discharge and returned 1o the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Y. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Webb and child of Roswell, N. M., who have been liv- ing at Perryville lately, started on Thursday morning on their way home. The trip will be made on a motorcy. cle with covered sitle car trailer at- tached. Tents foldng beds and camping utensils will be carried by the trajler. Mr. Webb, who has been in the service for over a vear at the sub- marine base recently received his dis- charge. -He plans to make about 700 miles a week and spend the nights in camp by the roadside. He started on his trip -by way - -of - Willimantic, Springfield, Mass. Albany. Buffals MORE Kellogg’s is eaten today than ever before. Why? Millions of people won't have any other than Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes, because they know its unvary- ing "quality and they are delighted with its inimitable flavor— oven - fresh in our waxtite package, Every grocer everywhere A sells Kellogg's everyday. iagara Falls, crossing th sion bridge to Canada, about two months. From will go _to Chicago and to where_he will spend the Ppecting to an e at spring. ¥red S. Simpson, the New London hospital for surgical treatment for several turned home, somewhat George Hewitt im; is recove from a ladder. Miss Marian O’'Connell her vacation with relatives Hall. tract to build a house for M wick, at the Cedars. Miss Jeanett Yanener ha to New York after spending tion wtih relatives in town. Mr. and Mrs. I. Horwitz and spending Roswell who has been injuries sustained last week in a fall is spending Perry Brothers have taken the con- e susp: son, of Boston, and son of Waterbury. Mr: there he ring from town Sunday. in Black| New Haven ington Arms company mor that pany of Toledo, Ohio, number of records and plant preliminary purchase of the big plant. frs. Hard- s returned her vaca- books of the are enter- Officials of the denied the ru- the Willys-Overland had sent on accounts to examine to completing taining their daughters, Mrs. Roth and Brody and Califoimia,| Austin Perry is moving the cottag- winter ex-|es which he recently purchased. lo- next|cated on the road to Bartlett. in e B T, NORTH STERLING weeks has re- , proved. Willlam Hawes of Sterling spent | Sunday at Mr arah Hill's. vis of Danielson was in Rem- com- a the munition the Check Your Baggage: Direct to LEXINGTON 6 Minutes from the Heart of Business {bsclutely £reprook Slowest fnsurance rate of any botel in, the city. plan. light 450 large, ‘contentment. rooms pleasingly furnished and for rates are lower er cent than those of any eat excellence in service. Popular cafes and & modern Coffee Shop. ol other first class hotel in Chicago. Gt priced Seek your friends where you are most likely to meet them—at The Lexington —enjoy every comfort and convenience known to modern hotel methods—save one- half the cost of the same accommodations in the down town hotels. The Lexington is the leading hotel in Automobile Row — its gara, accommodations are perfect an e it is the mecca of motor tourists. Residents of your city, rcspnnd}ng to wide advertising, have helped to make The Lexirzton one of the most successful hotels in Chicago and for this we thank them.” You are invited to write for reservations, or to wire at our expensé, with every assurance of service, hospitality and moderation in charges. Building Owned and Operated by Interstate Hotel Company HERMAN MACK, Vice-President THE MAN YOU MIGHT HAVE wEEsx, The man you might have Been You surely st can b There is no aim nor place Too high nor great for thee. The man you might have been You ought to be and cam: Be_strong, have faith, look up, Resolve to work and win. The man you might Have been You still can be, ‘tis true Today but claim. your own, And your own will come to you. The man you might have been You want to be—you must; Be brave, take heart, fight on, To your real self be just. ||The man you might have been ‘ You surely yet will be; The best of iife is yours, Since God has charge of thee. —Grenvilld ‘Klelser, In August. Nau< us. A DREAM OF THE PAST. ' Sometimes I dream of all the splendid men And glorious women of the long ago: They pass before me in a shadowy Tow To meet lite's battles as they met them then. . From the far days when David harped and fought What mighty men have lived, what great deeds dome, How many fair, proud women has the sun Illumed and. blessed, what wondrous deeds they wrought. ‘And still great men, brave women, live today, And toil for all the suffering and oppressed; Yet must they follow, in the self-same way Those wha in cycles past found peace and rest; And can it be that all this strength and power 1s lost—gone like the weed that lives an hour? —Ninette M. Lowater, in the New York Sun. HUMOR OF THE DAY from Jones—Have you reference your former employer? Typist—Well, nd; I'm_ unfortunately married to him.—Boston Globe. | “Money isn't everything.” “Maybe' not, but right now it's th hing I can think of that I really —Detroit Free Press. only want Ella—They had & “war wedding,” didn't they? Stella—Yes, but they afterward found that it was only a skirmish.— Life. “Did you feel foolish?" “Worse than that. I felt like a man does when he is riding in an outo- mobile being drven by a woman.'— Judge. “Taking a glass of water, Colonel”* “Just experimenting a trifle,” said the Colonel genially. “I may have to drink it as a beverage later on.” ~= | Louisvillé Courier-Journal. how large a plece of caks do “I want a big piece, but dod't gimme so much that I'll have to divide with sister."—Pearson’s Weekly. “Your husband denies it,” said the doctor, “but isn't it true that~ he s between meals?" replied the patient's wife. “He eats between smokes.”—Cincin- nati Enquirer. Lady—Why_ did away from school? you take your boy Grocer—They were ruining Why, they were teaching him sixteen ounces make a pound.—Min- neapolis Tribune. Country Judge—Ten dollars. Motorist—Can you change a twenty- dollar bill? Judge—No, butsI can .change the fine, Twenty dollars.—Massachusetts —Technical Voo Doo. Mrs. Perkins—How quiet they are in the next room. Mr. Perkins — Yes, it ‘reminds me of my army days. It was always wonderfully quiet just before an en- gagement.—London Opinion. Wicks—How did you ‘manage to get your wife to give up her vaca- tion?, Wiseman—I’gave her a potted. fern for a birthday present, and she won't go away and trust it In the care’of any one else.—The Olive Branch. KALEIDOSCOPE Japanese harbor improvements - in Kobe and Moji are being undertaken to the amount of $13,000,000. A recently invented textile for un- dergarments stretches lengthwise but not across the weave of the material More than 132,000 tractors were built in: the United States last year, and-this year's production is estimated at nearly 315,000. Otis Sidensparker, of Thomaston, Me., 91 years old and the oldest' man in' town, has just finished splifting six '‘and a half cords of firewood at his door. Part of the light from a new celling fixture is diffused downward through a translucent bowl and the remainder is reflected indirectly by an overhead circular reflector. Government officials in the Philip- pines have imported seed of a blight- Pproof -coffee from Java in the hope of re-establishing an industry that once was highly profitable. Few wearers of bracelets know that they were once used to distinguish the insane. Before lunatics were confined in asylums they. were obliged to wear an armlet for distinction. A method for extracting an astrin- gent juice from persimmons having been invented in the United States, Japan has received an order for 2,000,- 000 young persimmon trees. Four houses to every 1,000 feet of street will hereafter be necessary for the acceptance of a new street in the city of ‘Auburn, Me. according to 'a vote last week of the ¢ity council The fishing tours, which were formerly so common to' Iceland after herring and cod, are again-being pre- | pared for at the coast towns, but even now the difficulties are great, and here also the danger from floating mines constitutes a serious drawback. In the police courts of New York state it is getting to be a common practice to sentence minor. offenders to a term of saving, and in Syracuse last year $5,000 was invested in this way in War Savings Stamps, all later returned to the ‘men or used to,help their families. A Bath man has just received divie dend checks from seme shares of a silver mine which he bought 34 years ago and had forgotten ‘all about. A friend who .remembered the purchase told him‘of a notice in some paper that the mine was about to pay its first dividend. Eastern ' Siberia: may: be said to be the least developed .portion' of ' the country, but, on the other hand, this district {s rich in resources, which should be utilized to a greater extent in the future., This will be reflected in a rapid growth of trade with the Pa- cific ports of Russia. Bound, to Cateh Him. ¥ There may be as Postmaster Genw eral Burleson says, no truth in the re-« port of his resignation, but when the resignation rumor starts on. a trail it nearly ab pots him er or later, W