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Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-06
Pupils of the Westerly schools were

Pupils of the Westerly schools were
among the prize winners of the De-
cember contest in The School Arts
Guild, the awards in which have just
been announced. The first prize went
to JOY Brandt, Hill City. Kansas.
Among the second prize winners. five
in number, were two from Westerly:
Ellen Fowler, seventh grade, Pleasant
street school; William Geary, sixth
grade. Quarry Hill school OF the ten
third prize winners, these four were
from Westerly: Malta Bernaseoni,
sixth grade. Quarry Hill school, Vim
cenza Costanza. fifth, Pleasant street
school: Antonio Panciera, fourth,
Quarry Hill school; Louis Smith,
fifth, Quarry Hill school; Ernest
Champlin, fifth. Pleasant street
school, was a fourth prize winner.
These Westerly pupils were given
honorable mention, six out of a list of
thirty-four: Aston Blackler, c. z.
Carl, Ruth Harris, Diana Stanton,
Clara Strong and Ruth P. Thompson.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-06

There was an adjourned meeting of
the citizens of Pawcatuck Interested
in a fve-cent fare between Westerly
and Stonington, in the Pawcatuck
court house. Friday evening. Chair
man John Barker called the meeting
to order and Secretary Friend read
the resolution prepared by the COM
mittee appointed at the meeting held
Wednesday evening. The resolution
was unanimously adopted. 1t is adj
dressed to Representative Martin and
Broughton and they are requested to
present a bill at the present session
Of the Connecticut legislature, and TO
urge its passage. compelling the Grot-
on & SfoGington Street Railway Co. to
reduce the fare from ten to five cents
between StoningtOn and Westerly.
This movement. at this time, oriFi-
mated with Mr.. Barker, and the plan
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-06
JEWETT CITY.
Borough Meeting Hears Reports and
Votes Annual ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Themes-Socia and Personal Items.

An adjourned meeting of the free
men of the borough was held Thurs
day evening. 1t was voted to accept
the annual reports as printed.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-06
At the annual session of the Rhode

At the annual session of the Rhode
Island Oyster Growers association it
was decided to ask the present gen.
eral assembly for legislation forbid
ding the pollution of Narragansett bay,
in the interest of the cultivation of
oysters. officers were elected as fol-
lows:
Frank L. Howard of Providence,
president; H. Z. Fearney of Provi-
dence, vice president; John s. Payne
of Riverside, secretary and treasurer;
Frank w. Smith Of Warren. Frederick
S. Beardsley Of Bridgeport, John w.
Dodge of Riverside, George 4. Greene
Of Warren and George NJ Long of
New London. executive board.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, re-
quires a constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patie n
strength by building up the constitu-
ton and assisting nature in doing its
work. The ,proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials.
Address: F. j. CHENEY & co,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Rockville Booster Notes.

Bob Meredith returned from the
Flat Head country the latter part of
the week and states that that country
is punk and that is all there is to it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Adamson are
at Kansas City at the bedside of their
little daughter who was placed in a
hospital there not long ago to under
go an operation on her knee. They
report her getting along fine and that
she viii escape having stiff knee af-
ter it is well.
Raymond, the six year old son of
John Rinker was kicked by colt Fri
day evening. DR.. Short was called
and dressed the wound and he was
doing nicely at the last report,
Ed. A. Hook, accompanied by Wal
ter Watkins, Frank Buskirk and his
son Jim, were practicing his new
Rambler car in this city Monday. Ed.
had Watkins acting as chaueffer, as
he can't steer the thing straight on ac-
count OF the fact that he gets to study
ing how to spell the d-n thing and
shuts the juice off. II takes practice
to learn all these things. We had
the same trouble with our own car
when We first got it.
The postal service in this section of
the country is getting almost too
punk to put up with. Our postoffice
is blamed for numerous errors that
are really chargeable to the postal
clerk on the trains. We recently
started mail order to a customer of
ours and the next two mornings il
was returned to the post office here.
We have lot of complaints from our
patrons which can only be charged to
the neglect of some of the postal
clerks somewhere else. One party
gets her paper just every other week.
Another misses two weeks and gets
three papers at once. 1t is aggrava-
ting to our patrons and us as well
and the best we can do is be mutual
| ly lenient.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Killed His Mother in an Attic.

Pottsville, Pa, Sept After killing
his mother, George F. Simons, 81
years old, shot himself and died at
the home Of Violet Hartranft, to
whom he had been paying attention.
The body Of the mother was found in
the attic Of her home by the father,
George F. Simons, ST.
The door Of the attic room was fas-
tened with large screws. and the
crevices sealed. II is believed the
woman was strangled; The husband
notified the police, who went to the
home Of the Hartranfts to find young
Simons. When the officers arrived
the young man shot himself before
anyone could interfere. 1t is believ-
ed that he had quarreled with his
mother, who objected to his atten-
lions to the girl.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Declares Farmer is Master.

Jackson, Miss, September g.
President Hightower of the Farmers
Union, the best authority on crop
conditions in Mississippi, gives out
an interview in which he says the
crop is short everywhere, exceeding
ly so in Mississippi, and declares that
if farmers will hold their cotton and
not dump it on the market as fast as
ginned they would get Is cents per
pound for middling.
1.-THE farmer of the South has the
opportunity of his life. He has the
whip hand. He is master Of the sit
uation, and believe he has sense
enough to see it this time" says
Hightower.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09

DAUGHTER OF MRS. ). N. BROWN.
Mrs. J. M. Brown, Dunnegan, Mo,
writes: "My little daughter, three
years old, was troubled with very bad
cough which remained after an attack
Of catarrhal fever, which was q great
deal worse ut night.
"She would wake up out of her sleep
and cough until feared she could not
stand IL.
"Nothing that we gave her seemed to
do. her any good. then concluded to
send for DR.. Hartman's book entitled
THE Ills Of Life,' which i promptly
received.
''Iatthe same time commenced giving
her Peruna. She has taken one bottle
in all, through which she has obtained
q complete cure.
''She also since her birth was troubled
with indigestion, but since she has
taken Peruna she can eat almost any
kind Of food without any bad results.
"She is now as well and happy as any
little girl can be. When our friends
say how well she looks, 1 tell them
Peruna did 1t.
al shall always be friend of Peruns,
as consider IL the best medicine for
coughs and Indigestion we have ever
tried, and will recommend 1t to any one
similarly afflicted"
KTRS. LYDIA J. SPOONER, Santa
1V1 Monica, Oal, writes that they are
never without Psruna In the home, that
they find 1t The finest family remedy
they have svsg uesd.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
LAD CAUGHT IN ROPE,
CARRIED INTO SKY.
Balloon With Indiana Boy Dan
Cling Head Down, Sails to
Great Height.

Syracuse, Ind, Sept-With his
foot caught in the ropes ola balloon
just as it shot upward here Thurs
day, Quinter Neff, IL years old, was
carried into the air until the balloon
became a mere speck in the sky,
while thousands Of persons, attracted
to the Harvest Jubilee here, gasped
with horror.
William H. Simmons, the aeronaut,
who was scheduled to make the as
cention, had made all ready, but did
not notice the boys feet had become
entangled by the ropes of the basket.
Simmons cast off the balloon, swung
loose and upward. When the bag
reached the height Of about twenty
feet the spectators beheld young
Neff whisked off the ground and
carried upward, head downward.
There was a concentrated yell of
CONSERVATION from the crowd below,
which caused Simmons to peer over
the edge of the basket.
When he saw the dangling lad he
made instant preparations to cut loose
the parachute. II was the work Of
seconds to adjust the parachute, and
in it Simmons leaped from the bal
loon, believing the boy would have
better chance for his life alone.
Simmons descended safely, but the
balloon, relieved of the weight of the
man, shot upward at increased speed,
until it became a speck and the boy
appeared but a slight dark object,
scarcely discernible.
Each moment the onlookers expect.
ed to behold the lad come plunging
to his death. The great crowd stood
transfixed, the gaze of all fastened
upon the balloon and its dangling
boy.
Young Neff, however, had had the
presence of mind to cling to the
ropes, which had entangled his feet,
and, in sheer terror, continued tc
hang on as the balloon sailed away.
The bag had been inflated with or
binary coal gas and was not very
large, and Simmons had planned moi
to go high. The balloon, within q
half hour, descended in field no
far away, whittier large part of thu
crowd rushed, expecting to find Nef
dead.
The lad was found to be somewhat
bruised and so thoroughly frightened
as to be incapable of speech for fully
half an hour and then he merely SAID
he "was so scared he just had tC
hang to the rope"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Good Mules Bring Good Prices.

Two teams of mules were sold in
Rich Hill for $500, one team bringing
$500, the other $500. Both were fine
teams, though one of the animals in
the $500 team is said to have been
slightly blemished. II was sold by
Mr.. Gideon Holland, of the Sprague
neighborhood. 1t was a good sized
team and weighed 2,440 pounds in
just fairly good flesh. The $500 team
consisted of pair of gray mare
mules, one 1873 hands high and the
other nearly l6 hands, perfect mates
in appearance and weighing 2,49O
lbs. The animals were full sisters,
one 5, the other 6 years old. They
were sold by S. c. Collier, of the
Foster neighborhood. Mr.. Owen, of
Lees Summit, was the buyer Of both
ams.-Review.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Why He Ran So Hard.

From Lie.
The excited man dashes through
the gates just as the train is leaving.
An equally excited woman shrieks
madly at him from the rear platform.
Me sprints for the train, but it gains
Roadway and leaves him standing in
tie middle of the track, perspiring
am breathless.
''Whydidyou run so hard, Colonel"
askAa track hand. That's the limit
ed. Night "a knowed you couldn't
catch ifsfter it started"
Il knew blamed we'll l couldn't
catch il. | wanted to miss it, but that
was my wife on, the back platform
and ! had to put up a bluff"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Former Butler Boy in Trouble in
Denver.

The following taken from the Dem
yer, COL, Republican deals with an
old Butler boy, son of P. A. Burgess,
former President of the Bates County
Bank, and who owned the fine farm
just west Of Butler, now owned by
Buford Duvall. MIR. Burgess was a
prominent man and well remembered
by our older citizens. Bruce was
born here, and is about SO years old.
The family moved to Colorado when
he was small boy:
pending an examination of his
books Bruce Burgess, treasurer of the
Boulder Aerie of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles and prominent real estate
dealer of that town, was arrested in
this city by Detectives Sanders and
Kenney. He was taken to Boulder
by Sheriff Capp, of Boulder county.
Burgess is married and has one
child, but he is alleged to have come
to Denver with a young woman who
was employed as stenographer by a
Boulder business firm. Information
secured by Detective Captain Rinker
from the Boulder police indicates that
he intended deserving his family. He
has been in Denver since Friday.
There is as yet no positive founda-
ton for the suspicion that Burgess
tempered with the funds Of the Eagles
lodge. His own actions brought
about his arrest. Members of the
Boulder lodge requested him to re-
turn there and explain the where
abouts Of certain moneys, and he re-
fused to do SO. His arrest followed. !"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Night on Bald Mountain.

On a lonely night Alex. Benton of
Fort Edward, N. Y, climbed Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor,
tortured by Asthma, bent on curing
him with DR.. Kings New Discovery,
that had cured himself of asthma.
This wonderful medicine soon reliev-
ed and quickly cured his neighbor.
Later it cured his sons wife Of a
severe lung trouble. Millions believe
its the greatest Throat and Lung cure
on Earth, Coughs, Colds, Group,
Hemorrhages and Sore Lungs are
surely cured by it. Best for Hay
Fever, Grip and Whooping Cough.
Soc and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by F. T. Clay.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
No Man IS Stronger
Than His Stomach

A stfon1 man . ptronf al over. No man con b
strong who b suffering from weak stomach with its
consequent Indigestion, or from some other disease
Of tho stomach and it, associated orfans, which i'm.
pain Digestion and nutrition For when the stomach
ID weak diseased there 10 loss of the nutrition
contained IN food, which Il the source Of al physical
strength. When . man "doesn't feel Just rifht.D
H. -
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Missouri Pacific Time Table
BUTLER STATION.
Following is corrected time of trains:

East, arrives...,............. t:45p pm
&c. vANDERvooRT, AoxNr
Freight trsins do not carry passengers.
All freight for forwarding must be at depot
not later than eleven O'Clock a. m. or be held
for following days forwarding. Freight for
Interstate Division must be delivered before
Eve o'clock p. m, No freight billed for this
train In morning. n. q. VASDKRvooRr,
Agent.
The Missouri Pacific have through
package car service which delivers
merchandise from New York in But
Ter on the fifth morning out, fourth
morning delivery from Cincinnati
and Cleveland, third morning from
Indianapolis and Chicago, second
morning from st. Louis. Will be
glad to furnish you routing orders
which will insure quick time.
f. c, Vandervoort, Agent.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
West to Rule, Says Gore.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept.-'Presi-
dent Taft has not been practicing
criminal law lately, presume, so
fancy it's going to be an overdraft on
his resources to elucidate the Payne
low on his forthcoming swing around
the circle"
Thomas P. Gore, the blind Senator
from Oklahoma, said the foregoing
at the Hotel Baltimore.
up around Beverly" he contin-
ued, TN that land Of petrified conser-
vatism, that's a poor place to get the
atmosphere of the country. Up in
Massachusetts, they believe all pro-
gress is radicalism. It's pity there's
not more intercourse between the
East and the West.
"They believe we're a bunch of
radicals out here: the great unwash-
ed, bulls in a china shop, and all that
kind Of thing.
What an awakening they are COM
ing to, with the theater Of operations
in this country shifting to the Missis-
sippi Valley. It's the Mississippi
Basin that's really the throne of the
country.
''And when this power comes to
the West, as it will in a decade, it
will not be misused to the prejudice
of the East as the power Of the East
has been misused to theliprejudice Of
the West. 1t will be used for the
country's good. .
Senator Gore was on his way to
Oklahoma City.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-09
Go With a Rush.

The demand for that wonderful
Stomach, Liver and Kidney cure, DR..
Kings New Life Pills-is astounding
Frank T. Clays say they never saw
the like. Its because they never fail
to cure Sour Stomach, Constipation,
Indigestion, Biliousness, Jaundice.
Sick Headache, Chills and Malaria.
Only 25c.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
CHARMING WOMEN MATCH
EYES, HAIR OR COMPLEXION

There is an old saying that a woman
should choose the color of her indoor gowns
to match her eyes, her street garb to SCI
off her hair, and her evening gowns TO SUI
her complexion In thinking over one, s ac-
quaintanee one is brought to the conclusion
that the best-dressed women undounteuiy
act on this principle, whether consciously
unconsciously.
A friend. who makes no secret of the fact
that she is so, has just the particular shade
Of iron-g gray hair that is set of by pIack
velvet and chlnchilla, and she usually CON
trlves to have a black velvet coat or nat
or both-in winter also she has worn chin
chllla as far back one can remember
One noted her very pretty blue eyes when
she dressed for a reception at her own
house one day. She had matched her eyes
so perfectly in a gray-blue silk gown that
ner guests could hardy take thelr eyes on
her face Another of her triumphs, when
lives in ones memory was an old-rose bro
cade dinner gown which seemed to BRING the
delicate pink color into her cheeks NOW
the color was probably there any evening,
but none of her friends had suspected her
of possessing a complexion until she TOOK
the trouble to give 1t a proper setting Of
course, some of us have only one thing 10
set off hair, eyes or complexion IN Whlch
case 1t is perhaps the best policy TO uresS
1p to that one feature on all occasions
One Good Feature
1t may be objected that some women have
not even one attractive feature. but sueh
French woman. There is a story told OF
Partisan dressmaker, famous for her ingen-
ulty in complimenting even the plainest oil
her customers, who when confronted with
a client in whom she could find nothing TO
praise face, figure and expression being
equally hopeless, was at the point of despair
until 1t occurred to her to take a critical
survey from the back "Ah, quel Joll dos!
she exclaimed in transport of relief at
having saved her reputation. IL was the
first and only genuine compliment the I'M
lucky client ever received.
variation of the moyen age mode is
noted in the headpiece in the fascinating
natter blue foulard dress worn with the
deep soutached, girdle-a little deeper and
it would be a full-hedged cuirass. This
very simple dress with the quaint sleeve
tons is worn with a wrinkled guimpe OF
daintily figured net. The black Neapolltan
chapeau is faced with blue soft satin and
simply trimmed with a cluster Of old pink
roses.
The clever court suit Is of wide waie
serge in cinnamon color. The two-piece
spirit opens with buttons and buttonholes at
the left front Black MORE faces the coat
the natural straw mushroom hat being
araped with brown, caught with an antique
gold buckle, and faced with black straw.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13

Ice Customer-''Does that little piece of
ice weigh one hundred pounds?
Driver--'It certainly does"
Ice Customer-"It doesn't look it, Ia IKE
to see you prove it,"
Driver-"My scales are on the wagon:
Marm and I'm too busy to go back again"
Under the old way of ice buying,
and the old service, you never felt
quite sure that you got full weight
now, did you? And you didn't much
like to make a protest to the old-tlme
ice wagon driver-pretty sure to be
insulted-it wasn't pleasant.
For the past year we have been
evolving a new kind of ice service.
IT'S here now, ready for you. 1t guar
antees YOU certain things-a guaran-
tee that we take as much satisfaction
in making as you'll take in receiving.
II guarantees you courteous service
we have a force of drivers who know
what the word courtesy" means-and
act accordingly
It guarantees you full-weight ice.
we have inspectors who really inspect;
a system of "checking up that really
checks up We supply our customers
with rules for measuring ice, and
snecially prepared computation table
that enables them to ascertain the
weight of the ice extraordinarily and
quickly. ~
Telephone US, Home 10053, Sunset
Main S191, if you want ice. You'll find
ice delivery, weight and price-right.
We guarantee all. Los Angeles Ice
and Cold Storage Co.
Ask for Free Measuring Rule and
Ice Weight Table.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
sTENcILED GOWNS

If a girl is clever at stenciling she
may be supplied, summer and winter,
with costumes that no one else can pos
sibly have. In summer her parasols
and hats may be stenciled in any color
to give just the right touch to her
toilet. The house dresses and evening
gowns may be always individual and
entirely novel. A very artistic tea
gown was made of a soft old blue ma
terial, stenciled with a design of Vir-
ginia creeper in gray, with punches OF
berries in darker tone of the same
blue. The effect was shadowy and
charming-and unlike any other gown
in the room.
An evening dress presents the widest
possibilities For example, a white or
pale mauve mousseline do sole stem
ciled in a wisteria pattern. The deli
cate blue lavender of the flowers might
be massed about the neck and shout
ders, with long, dropping clusters and
tendrils down the long, flowing lines OF
the dress. For an older woman soft
pearl gray might be stenciled with
groups of iris in delicate tones of rose,
blue and lavender, with long, graceful
leaves in a green so dim as to be hardly
visible. The effect of the wonderful
opalescent color would be charming
Vogue.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13

the school yesterday, was received with
great enthusiasm.
After investigating schools in Great
Britain, Germany and Switzerland, Mr..
Francis says in reports already re-
ceived that he found the best methods
in the two last named.
The Alumni association of Polytech-
mic will give dance Friday evening in
honor of the outgoing class. Andre
Clifford, president of the association, is
in charge of arrangements, and the list
of patronesses includes the members of
the faculty The affair will be held in
the Goldberg-B osley auditorium at
Sixteenth and Flower streets.
A noon wedding which took place
yesterday at the home of the brides
parents was that of Miss Edith Lear
ned, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. H.
Learned of Gleason street, and Henry
Joseph McMeans.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
c. Edward Locke of the First Metho-
dist church.
MendPlssohn's wedding march and
other selections from "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" were rendered by Miss
Alice Learned, sister of the bride.
Mr.. and Mrs. McMeans will return
from a brief trip to Coronado to attend
a reception to be given May 10 at the
home of the brides parents
After an extensive tour of the United
States, and probably trip to Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. McMeans will make their
home in New York. where the groom
has business interests.
3
Mrs. Lester Schofield of Maple ave-
nue. entertained the South Park Five
Hundred club yesterday afternoon.
Elaborate decorations of yellow mari
colds served as a background for the
pretty gowns of the club members.
Those present We're: Mrs. Willis Wet
more, Mrs. A. V. Akey, Mrs. Oscar Cas-
per, Mrs. Adolph Mas. Mrs. Frank
Townsend, Mrs. Will Chambers, Mrs.
Frank Cameron.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
AN lMPRovlsEp CABINET

A young woman recently utilized
narrow space in her dining room, be-
tween door and window, in a way
that was both artistic and useful. She
had long strip of wood finished to
match the woodwork of the room,
nailed to the wall from the picture
holding to the floor.
The strip was about eight inches
wide and occupied the middle of the
wall space. on it were put at irregular
intervals small brass hooks, such as
are used in china closets. On these
were hung pitchers of every descrip-
ton, the owner being a collector.