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Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

hotel. had here provided an elegant dinner for the entertainment of the citizens, to which at 2 o'clock they sat down. while Joseph Hpwland, Esq, president, and Joshua Huntington. Esq, vice president. did the honors of the table. After the cloth was re-
 movea toasts were drank under the
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
THE SHIP.
INDEPENDENCE DAY 1s45.

The Old Fashioned Celebrations Aban- doned-cold Water !Pionics and Sum day School Gatherings Do Not Fill the Bill-Editor Faulkner Condemns This Safe and Sane Way of ceIebrat- ing-He Would Prefer the Good Old Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
~of our dry goods merchants of that

"Of our dry goods merchants of that day, our good friends Ely & Go. so lately transmutel. into. Williams & GrosvenOr. and Ebenezer Fuller. are the only ones that remain. Tweedy & Barrows, H. w. Stannard. Wm. A. Buckingham. J. W. Boswell, Bucking- ham & Andrews, Judson & Avery, the Eddys. J. W. Bulkeley, and A. Wattles. with his rearing steeds and spacious wagon, all appear in our advertising columnsl and probably the best feath- CTS in Norwich were to be found at the store of that modest. honest man. Dea- Wm. Rogers. Tn groceries
 Charles, Colt. E. C. Eaton. Jr.. Hyde &
 Hall, Backus & Norton CwholesaIe). Robinson & Thompson, Horatio Willes, &c,. were among the list our files re-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

The receipts have been-nett
 proceeds of three cent Tax
 on list of 1S4I. ........ 2,O59.67, Sales of burying ground lots.. 51.00 Total .............. 2,110.S7 JOSEPH BREED Auditor.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

cord. Wm. Faulkner was keeping a variety store and selling Spencer's Vegetable Pills and Brandreth's Pills, with the large lettered heading-~Dis- ease is an unit" $. Dennis had Fancy Goods, and R. w. Mathewson offered 10 the public Pease's Hoarhound Cam dy and hair brushes; also a good stock of drugs and medicines. l.. w. Rogers and C. c. Allen signified their readiness to attend to all dental op- erations. and MT. Nat. Gilbert wanted fifteen hundred bushels of potatoes; and various paragraphs scattered here and there through our columns indi- cate the fact the seat of the trying Justice was filled by Judge Roath.
 "In our churches, the Rev. Mir. Arms, up town, was preaching to people who sat in good roomy pews. and after a time-honored custom, half of them with their backs toward him-a breach of politeness not to be tolerated in these days. Rev. MT. Bond was the pastor then, as now of the Church street con- gregation; but the old white wooden church with its green inner walls and its scoOped out pulpit Ca nice place it must have been on a hot S"rA~--' is superseded by the present granite edi- flee. so pleasantly arranged and hand somely finished. The Rev. Seth B. Paddock was then filling the pulpit now so worthily occupied by his son. Rev. Benjamin Paddock: and a notice call ing the attention of those interested to the formation of another society in Chelsea gives the first official infor- nation of the movement which has re- suited in the prosperous church of the Rev. Mir. Gulliver. The Baptist Gen. tral is an offshoot of the West Side Baptist society. Christ church and Trinity-one (but which-we believe has ever been a disputed point) the out growth of the other-now stand two to the one of seventeen years ago. The Universalist church has been rebuilt, and the Catholic cathedral confirmed and sfahlfcbad
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

discharge of artillery from Peppers Hill The company, ~all bore with tenn perance the tide of joy" and dispersed in perfect order about o'clock in the afternoon.
 The ladies resorted in the afternoon to large and delightful bower erected for them on Peppers Hill, upon the bank of the Thames. where one of the ladies. inspired with the rest by the festive and joyful occasion, made an elegant address to her associates.
 After which they were joined at tea by the gentlemen. The scene present. ed all the happiness which refined so- ciety on the most joyous occasion is able to inspire. At sunset a federal salute was fired. In the evening the ship Hope was brilliantly illuminated and added an elegant and novel spec tacle to those which had rendered the day altogether as delightful as any the town ever witnessed.
 The ship carpenters dined on board the public ship building in this port. under the superintendence of Joseph Rowland. Esq, by Mir. Jedediah Willet.- whose skill and activity are seldom surpassed. The ship, which is of fine form and excellent workmanship, has been completely planked up from her keel in Is days from the raising of her frames. On this theater they displayed patriotism and zeal nowise inferior to their mechanical genius and industry: echoed the toasts of Union hall and added some volunteers in like fed eral spirit-one of which was a THE SHIP.
 Should F-renchmen invade, and our
 freedom inthral,
 Wen teach them the force of the adz, axe and maui,
 For the country's our ship. whose
 staunch hull we'll maintain. While spike or a bolt, or a trunnel
 remain,
 And if internal foes lead to ruins
 dread brink,
 For our country's great fall, we'll un-
 dauntedly sink.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1865.

Ten Thousand People Visit the City 100 Veterans of the Old 18th and a Score of Veterans of the War of 1872 in Line-Addresses in the Open Air at the Little Plain-2,0o0 School Chil- dren in the Civic Parade-A Great Time With Plenty of Noise.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
INDEPENDENCE DAY, 17ss.

The Naval Ship Hope Takes Part-A Parade With Matrons in the Lead An Address at. the Meeting House A Banquet at Union Hall-A Patri- otc Woman Makes an Address on Peppers Hill.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
GREAT wHIc DEMONSTRATION.

In the fall of fs4s, during the press idential campaign, which resulted iH the election of Taylor and Fillmore Norwich was the scene of a most en- thusiastic demonstration by the Whia party. The Courier has the followinR description of the procession:
 Such turnout of Whigs, old ana young. was never seen in Norwich be- fore last evening. When the hour for the Torch-Light Procession ar- rived, the People, the sovereign, mighty masses were on hand. The Pro- cession, under the lead of a splendid Brass Band from Danielsonville and Webster. drew out in long and impos- ing array with banners and transpar- encies, and 6 perfect wilderness of brilliant torches, while cheer on cheer went up from every part of the long. blazing line.
 "The procession marched through all everywhere along the line of marciy were greeted with waving kerchief4 and encouraging smiles of the faif from window. balcony. and door.
 And all went merry as a marriage bell It was not until near o'clock that the Procession got back to tho place of starting, viz.: the Town HalL But when at length 1t did arrive. sucl a rush as there was. not for seats but for standing places. however smalli We never saw such an inside pressure there before. And yet 1t was utterly impossible for more than a part of the crowd to get inside of the Hall.
 'The meeting was called to order by Mir. Mayor Durham. and after a spirit stirring air from the Band. a half dozen short, eloquent speeches were made by as many different gentlemen. and the enthusiasm of the audience kindled to the intensest glow. With another burst of music from the Band, and nine deafening cheers for old Zack' and Willard Fillmore. the meet ing adjourned"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

more's four beautiful gray horses. Next in procession was another barouch | containing Secretary Cass, Secretary ! Woodbury, Colonel Earle, Hon. J. R. Poinsett, drawn by white horses. In the next carriage was Judge Williams. | Major Herman. Lieutenant Prentiss, and the committee from New York Next followed a. carriage containing four old democrats who have been un- wavering in their support of Jackson and democracy.
 The procession, consisting of an inn mense number of horsemen and car riages, moved round by the Falls viii lage. At the different manufacturing establishments specimens or the work were exhibited, the productions of their own machinery, emblazoned with appropriate notices On arriving at the old Indian Burying Ground, an ad- dress was delivered by Governor Cass and the president laid the foundation of the monument to Uncas, the friend of the whites, and the chief warrior of the Mohegans. At this place the fe- males connected with the different manufacturing establishments were ex- hibited in procession, dressed in white. We thought they looked little too pale for perfect health. On arrlv1ng at the Little Plain, the procession was escorted by military troops to the hotel destined for the reception or the preSl- dent. Here he was received by the mayor, Hon. James Lanman, and crowned by a young lady with-a wreath of roses. The number of persons as- sembled was greater than we ever De- fore witnessed in this city, We should think they amounted to about 12,000. After dining at the hotel he was es- corted to the steamboat Gen. Jackson, where he left the wharf amid thunder ing cheers from the populace. :,
 But it was not until July 4, 1842, that the monument was finally erected, when the ladies of Norwich, by a series of entertainments, raised the money needed to finish the work begun nine years earlier.
 A more beautiful spot than the one on which this monument was erected does not lie out doors. It is the an- cient burying ground of the Mohegans and lies on the high banks of the Yam tic. near the romantic falls of the charming little river-is embowered in woods, and is filled with rude and rough stones placed over the graves of the royal family and the nobility of the tribe, who have been here time imme- moI-ial. Over the remains of Uncas himself the citizens of Norwich erected this handsome and enduring monu- ment, the cornerstone of which was. laid in 1888 by General Jackson and an address delivered by General Cass, then secretary of war, accompanying the president on his tour through New England.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

John Breed. dwelling houses, on | Tippecanoe St. Joshua w Shepard andaRogers & Baker, joiners; Hebard, mason.
 Daniel Tyler, cottage, on Washington l St. Joshua w. Shepherd, joined; He- bard mason.
 Ethan AIIen,- dwelling house on | Washington St. Field, mason. : Clark Kinney, dwelling house. on Washington St. James Spalding, join CT; Elijah Clark, mason.
 Park. James Spalding, Tanning & WilloughDy, and others, joinsrs. pr. Eaton, dwelling house, cor. AL l joiner; Hebard, mason. D. p. Coon, dwelling house, on Un- | ion St. Erastus Williams, builder.
 Mr.. Rathbun, dwelling Mouse, on School St. Rathbun, builder St James Spalding, joiner; E. Clark, mason.
 l Methodist Pa~sonage House, on Main l St. under contract). Tanning & Will loughby, joiners; Hebard, mason. Mir. La Brit, dwelling house, near Toll Bridge. Tanning & Willoughby, joiners; E. Clark, mason. Church Members Nine Pin Alley, Coon's Hollow. Jas, Hoyt builder.
 "A fine portoco has been built upon the north side of the Town Hall |. and is quite an improvement to School stret. the street it fronts upon.
 His Ex-Horor, Gurdon Chapman, Esq, has erected a handsome building in the vicinity of the Strand. <. The Rechabites have a spacious hall in the third story, and on the first floor Messrs. Fuller & Knowlton have rent ed a store for the Auction and Com mission business. MT. Hoyt has open ed refectory in the cellar. "On the other side of the street, and immediately north of where MT. J. B. Trueman has so long kept a Fruit and Confectionery Store, is a three story brick building just erected, the off, spring, we understand, of that gentle mans enterprise. The south store is to be occupied by Messrs. Trueman & TubbS. ."-NorWich News Oct S. 1S45
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

The Industries Revivins = A New Newspaper Creates JeaIousies and Disputes-Population Incerases Slow /. ly-General Jackson Lays Corner , stone of Uncas Monument, Which | Was Nine Years in Being Set Up.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

for a tsn-hour day, and the Norwich News spoke of the movement as <ol-
 we understand that the journey men mechanics of this place are very generally adopting the Ten Hour Sys- tenn of labor. and that the employers with but few exceptions. have ex- pressed a readiness to accede to their wishes In this respect. believing that the system will be mutually beneficial. if once adopted. Several meetings have been held within few weeks past. by the mechanics, and an attempt VIC are informed, was made to establish a general Trades Union. This, however, has not yet been effected, although we understand that the project has not been abandoned.
 ~Let the mechanics of Norwich but persevere, however. and we feel assur- ed that they will attain their wishes in the establishment of the Ten Hour System No honorable-minded em- ployer will interpose any serious ob- jection to it's adoption, knowing that the advantages to be derived from a regular and reasonable system Of hours will be mutual with himself and workmen. Ten hours a day is as much as many should be required to work especially at hard bodily labor"
 
 "Hard Times in Norwioh.-January 1S45. We. mechanics and laborers that have worked on the Prebyterian grad ite Meeting House, most humbly show eth the committee of the aforesaid church. to see how we have suffered in the dead of winter. by means of John Bishop. first Contractor, and John Bostwick, sub Contractor, being swindled and >defrauded out of our wages. We now humbly lay it before the public. what every human nature ought to feel, how many families hava to endure. that have no means for their support, but their hard days earnings, and fully as bad for single men, that cannot pay their board Therefore we will leave this to the tender feelings of the committee, ta have some settlement more pleasing tg us made than the 25 cents on the dol- lar, that John Bostwick has lately of- fered. So brother masons and labor- CTS take warning by this until sucn time as we are paid up.
 Stone Cutters and Masons, whG have worked on the Prebyterian Meet< ing House."
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
non the nther side of ths street and
A YEARS CITY EXPENSES.

The expenses of the City for the year ending May 30. 1S43, were: Interest on City Debt .$1,245.1S Expense of Fire Department 22032 Highways Cover and above
 what has been appropriated
 by the Town) )......... 101 65 Repairs of Fences, parade
 ground and park. ..... 3411 Repair of Fences on Franklin
 street ...:..... 11.27 New Steps leading from Main
 to Water street. ..... SS.04 Repairs of burying ground
 fence ..s..--..-......' 1894 Repairing of Hearse carriage. 5,63 Printing Bills .......... 1885 Firing Salutes 4th July. ... 5000 Balance of Law Expenses. ~ 9051 Petition to General Assembly
 respecting Railroad Loan. 71.S7 Insurance on City Hall. .. 1050 r....-etp "oubhgl...ll Q NNNN Expenses of City Meetings
 City Court and Common
 CoIncil meetings .... 2775 Assessors fees and List Book 5000 Baskets for measuring Coal. 1900 Regulating City clock. .. 2O.O0 One Book Case. e........... GOO
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

"The Silken Bsnner.-we should do less than justice to our own feelings and those of the Whigs of Norwich did we fail to make special mention of the beautiful silken banner wrought by the fair hands of the fair whig Ladies of Mir. Haikes' boarding house in this city and by them presented to the Whigs of Norwich to be borne fin the proud procession of last evening. The three hearty cheers with which this Banner of Blue was greeted at the Town Hall last evening. when it was presented to the Whigs in the name of the Ladies in question more eloquent ly expressed the thanks of the Whigs than any words of ours could do.
 "'And the Mageians did SO with their enohantments.'-The Locos got up Torch Light Procession last eve- ming: and from the accounts we have of it, we think it must have been a dull and dismal affair enough. . The transparencies were so small that no boy could make them out without the aid of py-glass; and then the lights were so few. SO dim. and at such solemn distances from each other, that it is said Co have given the procession the appearance of a funeral train, rather than of a hopeful, enthusiastic procession of freemen."
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
"our streets have been graded and

Our streets have been graoed and regarded in many parts of the city and our sidewalks (ohl alasi the mud of a half score years back!) laid. and hand somely laid; and lamp-posts with gas lights have saved and do save many beside belated editors from good hard knocks against unyielding trees, pro- trudihg fences and posts, and are to be well spoken of though they may have depressed the lantern trade or lessened the profits of the whaling business"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

"There are very few girls of fair capacity and nimble fingers who could not. at the present rate of compensa- tion, earn from four to six dollars per ten hours q day. The length of time requisite for educating the fingers and the minds sufficiently to enable the cOmpOsitOr tO earn the amount named depends. of course. upon the aptness of the learner and the facility with which the mysteries and motions of the black art are acquired Norwich Courier, April 9. 1854.
 A TEN-HoUR DAY WANTED.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

At 12 o'clock m we arrived at Ely's Ferry. The preparations made at this place to convey the president with his suite and the committees fo Norwich convinced us that our city would not be behind her neighbors in givin~ them ai good reception. The president vice president, Governor Edwards and Ma jor Donaldson were drawn in a splen- dfd 6arouch by Messrs. Bailey & Whit
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
OLD LYcEuM DAYS.

JOSEPH BREED, Au
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

Ten years later we read: By public opinion, female industry has been lim- tied to the exercise of the needle, and then discouraged by the small returns it has brought from excessive com petition. But even here there is an opportunity to make the employment more profitable. The needle woman who will lay aside false pride and go out as daily sempstress into families will readily command from thirty three to fifty cents a day, even when from twelve and a half to twenty-five cents is the price allowed by the shops for a shirt made at home. Norwich Cou- rier. April 22. 1854.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01
~cOMMER&.AL YEAR COMES TO AN END;
 f,URE LOOKS GOOD FOR MONTGOMERY

ha abeean but the of the of bs~ 1vn for reu d offers nothing D O a apoy
  dnyn of will uhha of b there reyp t in money will than of the afr pend dmge he in its history with good market for M@ma and her surrounding the fall business @s and confident
  in of hayed md in wenbe he sdoha  man h In few of of gai6a ahon Montgomery yet midh lat tn business ha been After Aha said and her the industry known Mso@sy. her debt ansaf duaeled
 
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01
MRS. DUKE IN JAIL
DIVORCED WIFE OF TOBACCO
 FRINGE IN TROUBLE.
Cannot Pay Automobile Rent and Lands i'm Chicago Police station.
 Creates Disturbance
 tn Hotel.

Chicago, Aug. 31.--Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, divorced wife of Brodie L. Duke. was arrested here tonight and spent the night in a cell at the Harrison street station. Mrs. Duke was arrest ed on the complaint of an automobile company because of her inability 10 pay $40 rent for machine during the day.
 Before her arrest, Mrs Duke created disturbances at the Palmer House and in the criminal court building. At the Palmer House she demanded the best suite in the hotel and when asked to pay for 1t in advance admitted she had no money. but said tomorrow she would have $1,0oO. She then tried to send telegrams to Governor Deneen of this State and other prominent men. but the telegraph operators in the ho- tel refused to accept them unless paid for In advance.
 Later she went to the Criminal Court building and told Assistant States Attorney Day that relatives of her former husband were plotting to take her life After leaving there she visited a number of lawyers and bus mess men and tried to interest them in a plan to float bond issue to save Turkey from bankruptcy. Mrs. Duke had been using a hired automobile for all these trips and when the chauffeur demanded his money she declared she had none,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01
GIVES KNOX BEATING
PRESIDENT ADMINISTERS DRUB-
 BING TO CABINET MAN.
However, It Was Over Taft's Gof : Course--Chief WiIi<fe visits
 Beverly to Arrange for Coming Trip.

Beverly. Mass, Aug 31--President Taft took his Secretary or State. MT. Knox, out on the links of the Myopia Club and gave him sound drubbing at golf. MT. Knox could not claim that he was new to the course in extenua- ton of his decisive defeat, for he prac- ticed all of yesterday morning. The Secretary of State Is hrsr rate golfer down at Chevy Chase in Washington. but the Presidents constant playing du- ring the past three weeks on the more dificult course at Essex ad Myopia has given him a form far above his Wash ington average.
 John F. Wilkie, Chief of the United States Secret Service. was in Beverly this afternoon. He always visits the summer home of the President two or three times a season. His visit of to- day had also the arrangements to pc made at the various places where the President will stop on his long trip through the West and South.
 No time has yet been fixed for the visit to the President of the Secretary of the Interior. Mir. Ballinger. who iH now on his way to Washington rom - MT. Baliinger informed the President hv wire yeste Hlay thAt important eas- tress matters had caused his retlrn to yvashineton. The Secretary was.to have Joined the President at Butte. Mont. or Spokane. to make @ large part or the Pacific Coast trip with him
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01
MINERS MAY STRIKE
PITTsBURG UNIONIsTs PREPARE
 TO LAY DOWN TOOLS.
Trouble in Pennsylvania CoaI Fields May Result From Feud Between
 National and District OrganisatfOms.

Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. 31--Unsanction- ed by either National President Lewis or the Nationay Executive Board of the United Mine Workers Of America, 20,- 900 union miners will likely go on strike in the Pittsburg district tomor- row.
 District leaders decreed the strike today after two days conference be- tween the Pittsburg district mine oper- ators and union officials over the use of black powder. the new explosive or- dered by the State in mining coal.
 A proposition made during the con- ference to have a committee of five miners and five operators investigate the use of other permissible explosives was bitterly opposed by District Presi- dent Feehan and other local officers. Upon this proposition came the wide split between the National and District organizations, the miners decreeinR by vote to stand by their district leaders.
 President Lewis tonight asserted he would hold another conferences tomor- row with the operators to settle the trouble. District President Feehan de- clares. however, that whether President Lewis holds the conference or not, he will expect the men in his district to lay down their tools. The present troubles between the National and Dis trict organizations is the outgrowth of Q long standing feud between President Lewis and President Feehan, dating back to President Lewis election to his present ofic0.