Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

OF these rich faddlStS would take a
/ notion to make a collection Of the Ca
madam house fly!
mo one comes to me unless he is
in trouble" says Jurge William J.
Gaynor of New York, and if I should
run for mayor / suppose every one in
trouble will vote for me at all events,
so that | will have some votes"
Governor Brown of Georgia refuses
to issue proclamation permitting
peach growers to pick their fruit on
Sunday to save it from going to waste,
his explanation being that the execu-
tive has no authority to suspend a
criminal law.
Sonora de Portela, wife of the Ar
gentine minister, has taken rank as
one of the most successful hostesses
| in Washington. OF Spanish descent,
she combines all the vivacity of that
race with the easy poise and distinc-
ton Of the northern woman of fash
ion.
Mrs. d. NJ. Wade of Montgomery.
| Orange county, N. Y, who is now rs
years old and escaped nearly all ills
! children have, but now is suffering
/ from an attack of whooping cough.
Mrs. Wade would not be surprised if
she has the measles before the sea-
son is over.
Editor E. E. O'Reily of The San
| Antonio Light-Gazette intends to be
| off for Washington soon. He is the
/ bearer of Texas request for the pleas
ure of President Tafts company next
fall. The invitation is signed by Gov
Campbell other state officials, the
Texas mayors and representative citi-
zens.
| When ]. Eads How. head of the ma
| tional committee for the relief of the
unemployed, left his headquarters on
the Bowery to go abroad it was under
| stood that his chief mission was to in
vite George Bernard Shaw to attend
national convention OF the men out Of
work to be held in Chicago in Janu-
airy.
Miss Harriet Ward, great grand
daughter of Gen. Artemus Ward, who
| Continental army in the American
revolution. next in command to Wash
ington, died in the old Ward home
stead in Shrewsbury Mass, from
cancer of the stomach. She was &C
| years old.
| AS a memorial to George T. Angeh,
/
died in Boston last spring, the directors
OF the Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and
| of the American Humane society are
planning to erect humane building"
| About $4,000 has already been raised
| for the purpose.
| Clinton Humphrey Baker, known as
Scissors" Baker, a knife and scissors
| grinder who frequented the downtown
Office district. was found dead from
| heart disease in Boston lodging
house Baker, who was a lovable old
man, was once reporter. having
worked with Mark Twain on the Vir
ginia City (Nev.) Enterprise.
! Gerald Mark Borden of New York
| city has received from Pope Plus X.
an appointment of Private Chamber
lain of Cape and Sword. The con-
ferring of this title is an unusual one
| and corresponds among the laity to
that of monsignor among the clergy;
| 1t is an honorary appointment and
carries with it no privileges.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood has been
added to the already long list of off,
| GERS and officials who have decora-
| tions and honors give them by for
eign governments, but have had no
|
NIT them TO receive and wear them.
France has given Consul General Wood
| the Cross of the Legion OF Honor.
The fortunes of hundreds will lie In
| the innocent hands of Harriet Post II
years old, daughter of Attorney Frank
r. Post of Spokane. Miss Post has
! been selected by Judge James w.
Written, superintendent of the regis
tration and drawing for the Spokane
| Flathead and Occur d'Alene lands, to
| draw out the envelopes of the appli-
cants for the Spokane allotment.
Henry Weidenbach, artist, serving a
| term of four years in the Ohio peni
tertiary for grand larceny, is to go
over the state house in Columbus I'M
der the guard Of an official and redec-
| crate some of the valuable oil paint
| ings there. Gov. Harmon and Adj
Gen. Weybrecht have said that they
consider Weidenbach a thoroughly
competent artist to do the work.
Bayard Stockton. who presided at
| the Fourth of July celebration at
Princeton this year, told of CONVEX
sation he had with Grover Cleveland
shortly before the ex-president died.
Mr. Cleveland" he said made the
statement that he thought the Declar-
/
in every town of the United States at
least once every year, to make the
rising gentration more patriotic and
to keep the older ones more mindful
of their privilege"
| Twelve years ago Prince Buelow
was a poor man. He retires from the
office of German chancellor with a
| large private fortune and the rank
| of count ard prince On the day the
kaiser gave him the latter title Bue-
| lowtwas notified that his share of the
estate of Herr Godfrey. the wealthy
sugar merchant of Hamburg amount
] ed to s1,375,000 Herr Godfrey had
nevery met Prince Buelow. but had
become interested in his public career
| and left him his fortune.
Rosa Nouchette Carey, who died in
London, was in her day one of the most
popular of the lighter novelists, not
| only in her own country. but in the
| limited States uthere her hooks were in