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Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
FOR BoYs' CLUES.
Project to Establish a Number in the
 State.

For several days past Miss Kealey of New Haven has been soliciting in Wal lingford among the prominent citizens in the interests of the State and Ma tional Friends for Boys association. She came at the request of Walling- ford people, and is meeting with sue cess, she having obtained the sigma lures of different ones for quite an amount of money, one Wallingford per son giving $50.
 The Friends for Boys are planning to establish clubs for boys throughout the state, and especially in such towns as have no boys clubs. A systematic and thorough effort is being made to aid lads mostly between the ages of 10 and 18
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
WEST WELLINGTON.

Rev. Thomas lyric will preach in the chapel on Sunday afternoon.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. Jacobsen, Jr, and MT. and Mrs. Arthur Devereaux spent Sunday at Mansfield.
 Miss Edna Bugbee is spending a few days with her parents.
 Marlin Knight is i'll.
 Miss May Lyon is improving slowly. Miss Lillian Converse spent Sunday with MrS. M. Pearl at Mansfield, Four Corners.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
Assistant aunainn In.nsetor

Alderman John II. McAfurray has presented a resolution to the Bridge port common council calling for the creation of the ofiBee of an assistant building inspector. who shaIl be a com petent mason at the time of his ap- pointment. 3'he matter was referred to the committee on ordinances with instructions that they report at the next meeting of the council.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
HUMANE SOCIETY.
Investigating Story of Torrineton Child
 About Her Grandmother.

The humane agents are investigat- ing the story of Annie Rudynai of Tor rington, aged 10, who alleges she was ordered from the home of her grand mother Mrs. Andrew Rudynai of 31 Riverside avenue. Mrs. Rudynai was appointed her guardian after the death of her mother. a few years ago. For a time the child was placed in the Gil- bert Home in Winsted. and later was with her other grandmother in Cleve- land. The girl alleges that once be- fore she had been compelled to leave home and shift for herself She is now at the home of an uncle, John Rudynai, on East Main street, Torrington, pend ing an investigation.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
BEER SELLERS
Talk of Forming Trust In Torrin9ton
 to Reduce Expenses.

One of the principal matters discuss . ed at the meeting of the TorTtnBton liquor dealers meeting held on Sunday last was the keg and botfling bust- ness. At present the majority of tho proprietors of licensed places conduct beer wagons, delivering kegs and cases to residences. The plan would be to have one place for keeping the goods, from which the deliveries would be made. Then when an order came to any of the saloons that might be in the combine, 1t would be teiephoned direct to the union station and looked after promptly. This would save both time and expense for the dealers In general. There would be no need for SO many teams and few men could do the work of dozen or more who are now employed at the various places.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES.
Gll.EAD.
Pupils Give Lincoln Entertainment and
 Box Social.

The pupils of the Center school gave Lincoln entertainment at the hall Thursday evening. followed by a box social. The proceeds are to be used for the school library.
 Mir. Williame of the Hartford Theo- logical seminafy occupied the pulpit here last Sunday.
 The L. A. s. met Thursday afternoon with Mss Martha Buell..
 The fce storm of Monday and Tues day worked great havoc to fruit and shade trees, also breaking telephone wires.
 Mir, Pratt, superintendent Of schools, was in town Monday
 w. H. Miner, who broke his hip a few weeks ago, Is slowly improving.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

know another house, the very sight of which irritates my sense of home likeness so grtevously that invariably look away from H when passing, if that be possible A better house than the country averages, so far as cost is concerned, 1t and the grounds about it are always spick and span. It isn't that which aunoys me. It's the our tains and shades of the front windows In every one of the windows which open directly upon the road the shades are always drawn just two inches be- low the nltddlo sash rail, and the filrny curtains behind them are looped and pinned and fastened-I don't know but they may be sewed and nailed, into such shape that they form an exact geometrical figure, a sort Of elongated fosenge. Every window in thls part Of the house is exactly like every other window. And they're always just the same-Ilave been for years and years BVsry time I pass it I have an insane desire to throw a brick or a stick of cordwood through ono of those win dows so as to make it look as if there had been something alive in the house to which they belong.
 Az this would be considered un- neighborly conduct, l have thus far resisted the impulse. But I find it more comfortable to put Satan behind me by carefully directing my atten- ton to the crops on the other side of the highway. as soon as I reach the well-marked bush which tells me the house is about to come into sight.
 When The Wise Man and The Wise Woman build their house they build 1t to i've in, not to make 2 show of. They
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
BOLTON.
Valentine Party for Juvenile erana,

WaFeHLTfl5 aTty TOT JWVeFITe N1range.
 Rev. c. M. Perry is threatened with pneumonia.
 Mrs. John Fl. Massey Is i'll.
 Ernest M Howard has been given the contract for carrying the mail be- tween Bolton Notch and Bolton Center for the next four years.
 Eleazer Pomeroy of Windsor was a guest of his sister Mrs. William c. White, the first of the week.
 Miss Anna B. Post visited Miss Mary F. Scanlon of New Britain Sunday.
 The members Of the Juvenile grange enjoyed valentine party Saturday afternoon.
 itor for a few weeks.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

John Liptzh. tried in New York state for assaulting his wife. was fined when the woman told Che court that. being religious. she stopped occasionally in the field while at work Co read her Bible to which the husband objected, and the assault followed.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
connectiout People in the Southland.

NUHIISNtINNt O~F'~ ''' N'I~ ~~N1 IINIs
 Recent arrivals of Connecticut tour ists in Florida include Dr. and Mrs. FYberle of Hartford, at the Royal Palm. Miami; l.. w. Bidwell of Hartford, at Jacksonville; George c. Williams of Hartford and the Hon. Alexander Me Neill of Bridgeport, at Palm Beach; V. E. McNeil Of New Haven, at St. Augustine. and F. N. Darlington of New Haven. at Sarasota. Ex-Ssnator Andrew Gordon of Hazardvile, who is spending the season at the DeSplaud hotel. Daytona, won the first gentle mems award at progressive euehre.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
MOUNT HOPE.
Eishtieth Birthday of Miss Mary Barnes of Norwich celebrated-An- other Surprise Party.


 other Surprise Party.
 Mount Hope has had two surprise parties recently. On her s0th birthday Miss Mary Barnes of Norwich was wis iting Mrs. J. IF. Bacon. The Hooker family gathered to sarprlse her and they spent a very pleasant day. MT. and Mrs. White were invited and pleasant entertainment was furnished by the graphophons.
 The other party surprised oren Russ on his birthday. About 25 spent a pleasant evening there, playing games, after which lunch was served
 General News.
 Lincoln Gay was observed in the school by exercises.
 Miss Grace Russ is visiting her sis ter, Mrs A. T. BuRdicG.
 Clinton J Grant and Miss Cora D. Grant of Storrs spent Saturday and Sunday at their home
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
HOLLAND COUNTY.
BILLING TON.
T Tobaoeo Shed Blown DOwn-Grangs
 EntGrtains.

@
 Misses Ethel and Hazel O'Neil of New York were in town on Friday. They formerly lived here.
 During the wind and rain storm of last Wednesday a tobacco shed be- longing to Michael Oates was blown down.
 Mir. and Mrs. Fields of Stafford were guests at A. H. Peck's over Sunday. MT. and Mrs. H. c. Aborn are in Los Angeles, Cal.
 Miss Ella Nangle of Hartford was home on Saturday.
 The library was closed on IAncoln's birthday.
 Mrs Alexander McKlnstry is re- covering from her recent illness. Another of the entertainments given under the auspices of the grange was held on Friday evening.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
pnnkn4 pirl.nd

Gen. Thomas McbIanus of Hartford | has returned from his southern trip in good health and is telling his friends | of how he was touched up by a couple
 of pickpockets for s20.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
STAFFORDVlLLE.
New Hampshire man,Aeent for George Clifford, Will Start Up Garland Wool. en NH, After Years Absence.

William Chamberfin is III with ap- pendicitis.
 Nr. Lambert is agent for George Clifford of New York. who owns the
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
SOUTH COVENTRY.
White Armstrong Wedding on Thurs day Evening-Treasurer Morgan Re- signs After Fifty Years Service.

There was a surprise party at Fred A. Warren's, in Flanders, last Satur- day evening.
 Miss Birge of East Windsor is visit ing Mrs. Mary Mason.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
The Final Test.

Mir. Taft has leant upon the founda- tions of the Gatum dam and they are reported as safe. It was the final test. Louisville Courier-J Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

WHEN want be put your bust ness befor, the public, there is no me- fium better than through the sdvertis- kAa columns Of The Bulletin
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

Mrs. w. J. Beggs of Seattle. Wash. is said to have produced the first rose absolutely without thorns. Mrs. Beggs has studied MT. Burbank's methods.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

The other man, when he, also, felt the need and had the ability to enlarge his house. did not abandon the first little house. He enlarged it a little at one end. and added a wing" mak- ing it of exactly the shape and size needed to incloss the added rooms he required. That is. he and his wife planned the rooms first, and planned them just as they wanted them. Then they built an outside around the rooms. They gave not thought to how the outside was going to look-till after the interior plans had been perfected for their future comfort. Then they devoted a little casual consideration to that comparatively unimportant matter. AS time went on. they con tinued, adding to their home-always retaining the existing portions, and always adding the rooms they wanted, of the size and shape they wanted, with the outlooks they wanted. They now have a house, as roomy as that of the first man, without any pretense of architectural dignity-indeed. with little architectural coherence. It is a sprawling, 1nany-angled bunch of a building without a room in 1t which isn't lighted from at least three sides. without a chamber or closet but is just the chamber or closet which was want ed. with every part dedicated to daily use--a big, convenient, cheerful, cozy home,
 To me, knowing the delightful in- terior, even the outside of this house is immeasurably attractive.
 It's the inside of the house that we live i'm the outside Is there simply to hold the inside together. What sort of hen would she be who laid an egg, shelled with rainbow colors and gorgeous to look at, but filled with crushed oyster shell. grit and ground bone? THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
DO TIT N0W

As the best thina sny pFSP&rty @wusT can do. Don't wait 1nM 06la, bA6 weather comes before making neces- gary fall repairs. If you have new work begin today by getting our dg- ares.
 sFETeoN & YOUNG. mugS1d o@aarRi WhapS.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

HAVE TOUR H0RsE ENsuAED. Hs may break his leg bhis slippery we@shsr.
 E- G. LAWSON, Ama.. Phone 5ss' za4 MRSa Sc. up ssaAEs. dec12d
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

The other day l passed a rather pre- tsntious farm house, set well back from the highway, with a curved gray el drive up to the front door, and a gateway with high stone posts at it's entrance, with two feeble vines of some imported sort trying to make believe that by and by they might climb up around the posts. The house was freshly painted white with the tradi- tional green blinds. The barns and outbuildings were all in ostenatiously good repair. Clearly the home of a well to do farmer and his family.
 l noticed that grass was beginning to show, thinly, in the gravel of the little used drive to the handsome front entrance. while twisting sham efacedly away from its carefully edged contour well trodden path sneaked tortuously around to the back door. You see, visi- tors were expected to come to the front door, while the folks of the house al- ways came and went by the little crooked path which led to the home like kitchen. The sweeping gravel driveway and the bare front piazza and the pillars with their tig-sawed brackets and the door with its shining panels and imitation electric bell, were there for show and the use of rare visitors. those who lived every day in the house never used them-had no use for them.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20
A FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS.
The Old Darkened Best Room-The Imps of Show and Sham Still Very Much Alive Homes They are Constructed-The Wise Man and Wise Woman Build for Inside Convenience Rather than Outside Show Plan for Delightful Interiors

, and theirs are to dwell in 1t all their lives. At least they hope so. Which is the more important for them, their own convenience and comfort for every day of every year, or the casual ad- miration of a chance stranger driving by? They are to live on the inside; isn't that of more interest than the outside, which they never see when they are in the house? The structure which is to be a home should be built and contrived. in every least detail, with first regard to its use and com- fort as a home. Everything else should be subordinate to that. Then' if money and time remain, ornamenta- tion and appearance may properly De considered. But 1t surely is putting the cart before the horse to build your home so the outside shall make brave show and then 1t your own lives to the arbitrary limits set by the shell you've made.
 Two houses that know of, standing several parallels of latitude apart ana neither owner knowing of the other, illustrate my idea almost ideally. Ihe two owners have had very similar lives. Both began as poor farmers; both have prospered; both are now well-to-do; both have raised families. When they began each one built small house, suitable fofS the 1mmedi- ate needs of two people. As their families grew and their means in creased, they have both enlarged their borders. But on absolutely different lines.
 The one, finding his little house too narrow for the growing family, called in a carpenter and had built a new an1 larger house. Like most similar con- structions, it was built on straight lines, with few angles, with strict economy of timber, and. so far as the frame was concerned, looked in it's earlier construction very much as a barn would have looked at the same stage. It was larger than the old one, and made possible the construction of more rooms. These were fitted to the outside, being given such shape and size and lighting as the rigid walls permitted. The Kitchen was put at the back and the dining room and the sit ting room and the bedrooms crowded in wherever they would go. not where they ought to have gone. As result the house was never satisfactory and when, later, even it became too con- stricted for the increasing demands of the family, it was with little regret that another new house was determin- ed upon. In this case an architects plans were secured and followed. The result was a really fine looking resi- dence, from the outside. and consider ably increased convenience within. But again mary of the rooms had to be cut to fit the exterior; the efforts of architect and builder were directed, first, to making an attractive outside and only secondly to interior conven- fence. All the sentiment which had been lived into the original home was obllterated. The family might as well have transferred itself into 8 big, modern hotel. It's a fine place to look at, and attracts much admiration from visitors. But as a home 1t is not 8 bowling success.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-20

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 I suppose the old New England sur perstition of a best room, kept care- fully closed 360 days of the year, with windows darkened to save the carpet and doors dramatically sealed to keep out the dust, with chairs set in rigidly straight lines flanking a hair-cloth so- ia, with a Family Bible and a Family Album lying crosswise on the top of a little table, with law of the Medes and Persians that the small boy of the household must lose his supper, ii he cares to enter it alone and wfths out permission-I suppose this sort Of thing has been discarded pretty generally in the country. 1t hasn't wholly disappeared, however. I know today quite a few houses on fairly prosperous farms, into the front rooms" of which I have never been seen for a brief moment when I have been called on properly to admire the new paper just put on the walls or the fresh carpet or the rare old ma hogany table, their legacy from the small estate of Uncle Josiah"
 Once | wrote my name big and clear in the black book of a neighbor to whom I said. after duly admiring the effect of changes in a room had nev- CT seen before CD: Why, it's so pretty and bright that you ought to use 1t every day. "Huh!" grunted the careful Martha, "'twouldn't be fit to live in, in a month, if John nd the children was traPseing in nd out every day" And so, to keep it fit to live in," nobody was ever allowed to live in it.
 There are not many such relics left, however, at least. not so many as there used to be when l was a boy. But I'm not so sure that the spirit which inspired the old-fashioned vulgarity is wholly dead. l see, in driving about the world that lives within my bishop rio. @ good many little things which lead me to suspect that the imps of Show and Sham are still very much alive.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-03-11

r T. Cooper's theory that the
,n,arican stomach has grown weak
and is responsible for most sickness
:" receiving the strongest. sort OF en-
Easement from a surprising number
of New Workers.
Among MANY people who have re-
oently become convinced that Cooper
:, correct and his medicine all he
n,aims is Mrs. Eleanor Harris, of 226
Rodney street, Brooklyn.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Harris
called at the store wnere Cooper is
Meeting the public, and when inter-
riewed said: Il am only too willing
N tell what a remarkable experience
I have had with Cooper's New Dis
coyery, and what wonderful medl-
cine | know it to be.
81 have had rheumatism for sixteen
rears and took so much medicine in
irving to get rid of it, that for the
nast eight years my stomach has been
In fearful condition, as my digest
ion was almost ruined. For ten years
I consulted one physician after an
other, but my rheumatism got stead :
ily worse. Finally my stomach got
in such a state that had to stop TAX
ing medicine altogether.
SWhen first heard of Mr.. Cooper's
medicine and what it was doing In
New York l was afraid to try it; but
finally decided to take it, and If it
did me no good l would never take
The Somerset reporter., 1909-03-11
LIFE ISN'T WORTH
LIVING
This Statement May be Generally
Attributed to the Lack of
Good Health.

We want to talk to people who are
nervous, who suffer frequent head
aches, who don't enjoy their food,
who are irritable, quickly lose their
temper, are SO tired and worn out
that they feel they must give up, and
have become so Respondent that life
doesn't seem worth living. We know
exactly what is the matter with peo-
pie in this condition, and if they will
follow our advice, we can tell them
how to regain good health and that
bouyancy of feeling which makes
life seem all sunshine and happiness.
Most of the above described con-
ditions are chiefly caused by catarrhal
inflammation of the mucous MEM
branes This delicate web-like lining
of the body becomes infiamed and
congested until weakness and mental
depression follows. The only way
that this can be overcome is through
"A treatment of the blood. We have
the treatment, and we are 80 posi-
tive that it will produce the results
we claim for it that we will supply it
to anyone with the understanding
that we will return to them every
penny they paid us in every instance
where the treatment Is not in every
way satisfactory and beneficial to
them.
We want you to try Rexall Mucu-
Tone, which is a powerful nutritive
tonic and body builder, and mucous
membrane Alternative that cleanses
these membranes and restores their
natural and healthy functions.
Rexall Mucu Tone drives out all
the catarrhal poison, restores the
mucous cells to good health, tones up
the whole system, allays inflamma-
ton, removes congestion, and stimu-
lates the whole system to healthy
activity. 1t is splendid for building
up flesh and muscle tissue and re-
moving all weaknesses.
Come to our store today and get q
bottle of Mucu- Tone, and after Civ
ing it a reasonable trial, if you are
not satisfied simply tell us SO, and we
will hand back your money without
question. Surely, nothing could be
more fair than this. Two sizes, SOC
and S1.0O. Frank w. Buchanan,
Skowhegan, Maine.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-03-11
Somerset Veterans Association.

The next meeting of the Somerset
Co. Veterans and Ladies' Auxiliary
will meet in A. ONU. w. hall, Ode
Fellows block, Madison, on Tuesday
M arch 10th. Morning session called
promptly at 10 O'Clock. Address Of
welcome by Rev. F. III. Means, pastor
of Congregational church, Response
by Chas. Folsom Jones.
Reduced rates on Somerset rail-
road from Bin ham and way stations
Tickets good to return Wednesday
Also the usual reduced rates on cleo
tries to Maids on.
Marcellas Perkins circle will serve
the dinner at noon.
A fino program has been arranged
for the afternoon session consisting
of war songs, solos, readings, recita-
tions, speeches etc. One of the special
features in the afternoon will be a
violin solo by Master Willie Robbins,
aged eight years, and cornet solo by
Master Victor Robbins, aged IL years.
There will be debate by the COM
rades, question, Who leads, all things
considered, Washington or Lincoln?
opened by S. F. Emerson, f. II. Wing
and others.
Comrades come and help make the
day one of pleasure and profit. A
cordial invitation is extended to the
public.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-03-11
(FRoM WORLD,
SUPPORTERS or COOPER
THEORY MULTIPLYING

any medicine again. l started the
treatment six weeks ago the first
fleet it had was to give me better
appetite than | have had for ten
years. Then my food began to di-
gest and no longer distressed me for
hours after eating. At the end of the
third week | noticed that | was not
suffering as much from rheumatism,
and each day the pain and stiffness
grew less until l no longer had any
rheumatism. For the past week l
feel as though had been made over
entirely, as l have no pains nor aches
and eat three hearty meals day, with
no Indigestion whatever.
"My two nieces and my sister have
had stomach trouble. When they
saw what the medicine was doing for
me they tried it. 1t has helped them
just as it did me, and are delighted
with their Improvement. One of
them told me that it was worth more
than its weight in gold to her. This
sounds almost impossible, but every
word of it is true"
Cooper's New Dicovery has made
wonderful record in New York and
other cities. 1t is now on sale at
leading druggists everywhere. A
treatise by l.. T. Cooper, describing
the cause Of most i'll health and how
to guard againt it, sent free upon re-
quest. the Cooper Medicine Co.,
Dayton, Ohio.