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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
HEIRS TO s2,5oo,ooo.
Meriden Relatives of Montreal Bishop
Want Family Property Returned.

The biggest suit ever started in Mer-
iden, which involves sum consider
ably over $4,000 is being brought
by Joseph Beaudreau, employed by the
Meriden Cutlery company, on behalf
of the heirs of jacques Jauvier Vinet.
a famous bishop of Montreal, who died
thirty years ago, says the Meriden Rec
ord.
Mr.. Beaudreau, represented by At
torney 1. H. Mag is acting by an agree
ment for all the heirs. who are F'aben
Beaudreau, his father. for thirty-five
years a resident of Aferiden and now
a Cheshire farmer, Rosetta Beaudreau
of Waterbury, Sophia and Elphire
Beaudreau of Montreal.
The Meridep claimant for the big
estate has been working for ten years
to establish his claim and has at
cost of $3.50 secured a list of twenty
nine docGmentS in the French language
OF Wills, deeds, etc, many of them very
old <pertaining to the natter) from the
records of Montreal.
The story on which the heirs base
their claims involves one OF the most
prominent men in the Cana dian city
and in the French Catholic church. 1t
is full of interest.
In the property involved is included
the site of the present big Montreal
postofffce, owned by the government,
to which the Meriden heirs think they
can prove = claim. the famous at.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

All these dams were built on
rather poor gravel foundation. Stream
flow data in this country were scarce
IN the SOS. and only the smaller
streams had, as a rule, been developed.
Accidents occurred in the building
of these larger dams that made Mr..
Potter,S experience more valuable
than 1t would otherwise have been.
AS the law does not require that
members of the state board of engf-
neers should report their doings to
anyone, there is no convenient way
to find out how many or what dams
have been brought TO their attention
officially. From such plans as MIR.
Potter left among his papers. kindly
loaned me by his family. said Mr.
Chandler, and from my own personal
knowledge and from certificates on the
land records of the various towns in
the district, it appears that Mr.. Potter
had some official connection with nine
dams.
The first dam approved by Mr.. Pot
ter was that at Greeneville in the city
of Norwich, to take the place of the
one built in 1880, by the Norwich Wa
ter Power company. The new dam
was built III 1881 and 1882 and devel-
ops the largest water power in eastern
Connecticut
His second dam was the Quine
baug river in the town of Thompson.
at a village called Reedsville. This
dam has a timber rollway and a long
earthen enbankment. over which
highway passes.
The third dam Mr. Potter was called
to act upon was in Woodstock. A
dam had been built without state APP
proVal, in an improper manner. 1t was
unable to stand the pressure of the wa
ter. Ten feet was added to the width
OF the base under Mr. Potter's approx
al.
His fourth dam was the new Slater
dam at Jewett City, built to take the
place of the one carried away in the
fwA - Te otfr ,r,1-a raw-Ev
dam. with granite face. founded on
ledge rock and is probably the finest
dam in Mr. Potter's district.
Dam number five was also at JeWett
City, above the Slater dam. This new
dam also replaced one that went out
in the freshet of 1886. The sixth dam
was at the Pachaug reservoir. taking
the place of a wooden dam that had
become rotten. Number seven was
timber dam at Moosup.
AR. Potter's eighth Gam was for a
storage reservoir for water power in
Lebanon and his ninth and last dam
was for the Ponemah water supply, a t
Taftville.
Reservoirs Built in Connecticut Under
Supervision of Nelson ]. Welton. by
Nelson J. Welton, The Sea Wall in
Connecticut. with Power Stations and
Manufacturing Buildings, by George
A. Orrok.
The annual report of the retiring
president, f J. Easterbrook showed
the association to be in good condi-
ton numerically and financially. The
association now has a membership of
297 against 286 at this time last year
and the finances are in good condition
Mr. Easterbrook suggested the estab-
lishment of an association library and
appointed "a committee to select an as
ISOLATION pin, committee TO frame a
resolution to present to Connecticut
representatives in congress providing
for an appropriation for a big testing
machine, and a committee for consid-
Grafton of law requiring a better prop
erty description in deeds.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

Martins bridge over the North river,
Reau de Roscolla, built by Bishop
Finet at a. cost of $1.500.00O and the
site of the beautiful st. Laurents
church in Montreal, and 100000 in
cash.
The story as explained today by
Attorney Mag starts when Jacques J.
Ninet was bishop OF the district %
Montreal, rich through property left
by his mother prosperous and famous.
He broke down under nervous strain
and while in very unbalanced mental
condition was taken by Mgr. Bouejet,
a. brother bishop. and Hubert Pare,
prominent Canadian, to Rome TO re-
cuperate and at the same time to pay
a visit TO the pope. While on the jour
ney, thinking, according 20 an aff1davit
in a suit he later brought, he was sign
ing a will, he put his signature to
deed transferring his vast property to
Bouejet and Pare, so Mr. Mag states.
Later, back in Montreal, after he
recovered, he brought suit against his
friends for the reconveyance of his
property.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
The Valuable CLAWS.

With all desire to be fair in COM
menting on the Ballinger investigation
it strikes US that this portentious young
CLAWS, supposed to be the star witness
for what we may call the prosecution,
is making a, rather feeble spectacle of
himself in that capacity. Mr.. CLAWS
seems to have been bitten with a soht
of rabies of suspicion of everybody's
honesty but his own and Pinchot's,
and that may account for the f1imsi-
ness of most of his testimony
Even those who are hoping against
hope that CLAWS will yet blow to
smithereens the administration that
severed him from the payroll must
admit the righteousness of his mental
exposure of himself last Monday. He
adduced the important fact that he
once heard a man named Carrie say
he thought the reason why Garfield
was not in Tafts cabinet WAS because
of his ntagonism to Alaska coal
claimants. The busy CLAWS promptly
embodied this precious tattle for Col
Hers in an affidavit; but he did not
regard it as reflection on President
Taft i-Mflwaul1ee Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
Round Table Meeting.

For their first meeting this month,
the Round Table met with Mrs. Edwin
A. Tracy, No 33 Spalding s/eet, hav-
ing a large attendance. -fIe rollcal
was an interesting featUZ, being re-
sponded to by humorous anecdotes of
Abraham Lincoln Two meritorious
papers were given before the inter
mission, and two other well written
papers closed the evening. The pro-
gramme was follows: Maurice of
Nassau-The Lincoln of Holland Rev.
P. c. Wright; The Siege of HARLEM,
Miss Eleanor Rose; On Dutch High
ways. Miss l.. Angie Stanton; and
Dutch Legends, Miss Jennie L. Case.
Refreshments were served. At the
next meeting in two weeks the bach
elor maids of the club are to be the
hostesses.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
HOSPITAL FUND
Might Easily Be Provided for Work
ingmen and Their Families.

Speaking of the Grimm nos 3ItAl, Gid
the urgent need for more room at that
institution, a Shelton man ltRoaftrer
suggested the following plan: # every
workingman would do here as they 40
in my home city" ne said "tnat is,
contribute the small amount of say f'vs
cents er week out of ths,s pa for
hospital fund, no workingman nor his
family need suffer for the cost OF the
best hospital treatment That III being
done in England. and has been done
for number OF years, and in my
actually paid for the erection OF q big
addition to one OF the hospitals. with
wards for both men and women and
have also contributed enough 50 THAI
any workingman or his wife or his
daughters have absolute free hospital
service when it is needed by them. All
this has been done by the small c,m-
tributions made each week. ana which
have not been missed by tae giysra.'-
Ansonia Sentinel
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
PROBATE JUDGES.
Judge Marvin of Hartford Elected
President of Assembly.

The Connecticut Probate assembly
held its annual meeting Wednesday in
the senate anteroom of the apitol at
Hartford The meeting was called to
order by Judge Darlington of Winsted.
The following officers were elected:
President, L. P. Waldo of Hartford;
first vice president, w. H. Burnham Of
Hampton; second vice president, II. H.
Woodman of Bethel; secretary and
treasurer, Joseph B. Banning of Deep
River.
The following members were elected:
Elweyen T. Clark of Haddam, Oscar r.
Atwood of Brooklyn and Lewis l..
HinckIey of Stonington.
The committee on business appointed
is as follows: John T. Hubbard of
Litchfield, Curtis S. Bacon of Middle
town and Oliver E. Getty of Danielson.
There was a discussion on the fees
paid judges of probate 1t was led by
Judge Marvin who took the chair when
he was elected president
There were thirty-four members of
the assembly present.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

State of Ohio City Of Toledo. S. Lucas County
Frank T. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner Of the hrm ct D. J. Cheney q Co., doine
business in the City Of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid ana that said Erm w11 the sum Of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case
pf cs..s- that cannst be cured by the use Of Halls
CO... eurn FRANK J. CHENEY.
sworn to befsrs and subscribed In my pres
~nce this stn day Of December. A. D. 1885,
A. w. GLEASON,
fS~~11 Notary PbuItc-
HAIRS CatarTh Cure Is taken internally. and acts
directly the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
-rzfar send fsr testimonials free.
r J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
SOLD b all Druggists. Zoe
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
State Board of Agriculture.

Through the perseverance of State
Grange Master L. H. Healey, the SER
vices of N. p Hull have been secured
to speak at two institutes in Connect
cut-one March at North Haven, one
March 9 at Wd1limantic.
Mr.. Hull is president of the Ameri-
can Dairymen's association, also mas
ter of the Michigan state grange. The
state board through it's secretary, Hon
L. c. Fanton, will arrange remaining
list of speakers.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

It il a grim reminder of Speaker
Cannor1's attitude which Massac husetts
faces in recording tire death of WilEaLa
G. Lowering of Taunton, a man Of the
highest integrity and the best Ideals.
and a faithful perseverdmg servant OF
the public. One OF the latest chapters
in his life was the first deposition from
the committee on interstate commerce,
on which he had served long and ably.
Ana STrea1ter Cannon thrust him off
this body because OF the independent
attitude which he pursued and which
led fnirn to join the movement Tor re-
form in the rules of the house-bos-
ton Record.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
OPEN MEETING TO
OBSERVE LINcoLN's BIRTHDAY.
Sedswick Camp, Sons of Veterans, to
Have Many Guests Friday Even
ing.

In recognition of the greatness of
Abraham Lincoln, and of the magni-
tude of his service to our country, and
in accordance with the annual custom
Of the Sons of Veterans to observe
Lincoln's birthday. the membefs of
Sedgwick camp have arranged to hold
an open meeting at the Buckingham
Memorial building on Friday evening,
Feb. IL at O'Clock An appropriate
programme will be given.
Several well known speakers have
been secured for the evening and a
well known orchestra will furnish
music. Sedgwdck post, G. A r., the
Citizens corps and the Third and Fifth
companies, c. A. c., will be present.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
A Safeguard to Children.

Our two children OF six and eight
years have been since infancy subject
10 colds and Group. About three years
ago started to use Foley's Honey and
Tar and it has never failed to prevent
and cure these troubles. Tt is the only
medicine can get the children to take
without a row" The above from W.
C. Ornstein. Green Bay, Wis. dUpli-
Gates the experience of thousands of
other users of Foley's Honey and Tar.
It cures coughs, colds and Group, and
prevents bronchitis and pneumonia.
Lee & Osgood.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
Wnnen "a Rlan,e

Women are blamed by a Brooklyn
preacher for the 9Th divorce rate. We
understand that they also are to be
blamed for most of the marriages.
st. Rae><sstsoatSh-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
Fate Of Ultimate Consumer.

The formation in Minneapolis Of a
million dollar cereal combine to handle
the breakfast food output suggests tie
fear that the ultimate consum az VIII
soon find himself in the latest dhe,I
eating his boots with q few prunes on
the side.-New York Evening Teie-
gram
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

or all European countries. only Hol-
land has a lower rate Of infant NOR
tally than Great BritaJ
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

Six hundred patents are applied for
every week in London.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10
That Postal Deficit

General Hitchcock reports
that the Post-Office Department loses
$o4, 100000 a year in the business of
carrying second-cass mail magazines and
periodically. ~
There is not deficit of $I7,ooo,ooo,
as the department alleges, but actually a
surplus of more than 81 &c, 900, 900, when
the specific loss on free rural delivery is
taken into consideration, and the de-
partment's figures Of So4, 900 loss on
second-class matter are wrong by more
than 500, 900, 900. 81
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-02-10

COAL AND LUMBER.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11

Miss Kitty Henderson bought all
her shoes at Smith & Browns. She
didn't do so because she had any
wish to keep the firm out Of bank
ruptcy. but because Horace Walpoie
White was one Of the clerks, because
he complimented her on her 1nstep'
because she was a stenographer, be-
cause Horace was fine young man,
and because, in time, they became
good friends-and more.
Mr.. Walpole was no villain. He
was earning fair salary and lived
with his widowed mother. He had
thoughts of matrimony. When Miss
Kitty came along with her number
two-and-a-half feet, with high and
dainty instep, he quite lost his heart.
He had paid more attention to the
instep than to the face, but Miss Kitty
had fair-looking face and figure.
Miss Kitty also lived with her wild
owed mother. She also earned sal
airy of $12 per week. She never even
glanced at the young mans feet, and
cared not a cent whether he had a
high or low instep. but she also had
thoughts of matrimony. Why not?
Like a sensible girl, she was not
waiting for a young lord or prince,
or for an old dotard with his mil
lions. A good looking shoe clerk on
fair salary looked good to her.
All the young woman had to do
was to keep buying her shoes from
Smith & Brown-high shoes, low
shoes and slippers, and all Mr.. White
had to do was to stand ready to wait
on her Cupid did the rest He gets
in his work in shoe store as we'll as
in a palace. In time there came
call at the house; then more calls.
Then the theater and little dinners.
Then moonlight, sentiment, engage
ment and bliss!
1t was just at this happy period
that the good mother of the f1lial son
lost her appetite. Something must
be had to liven it up again. Horace
thought of pickles., clam broth, jel-
lies, malts and other things, but fin
ally decided on a lobster-a live, &C.
tive, aggressive lobster-a fighting
mad lobster would be taken home and
boiled alive and afterwards served to
the ailing mother. It would either kill
or cure her.
What more natural than clerk in
shoe store at $12 per who wanted
to take home a live lobster should
board boxes around him? 1t was done.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11
Chairs for the Robbied.

You know those rubber rings that
are fastened to the bottom of chair
legs, sometimes half a dozen one on
top of the other, to raise the chair
high enough for a child to sit at the
table, said the restaurateur. well.
we are using them by the dozen, not
to boost children, but to give the
women with tied-in skirts chance to
sit down. High chairs, so the well in
formed tell me, prevent their knees
from poking through the material;
therefore high chairs are necessary
equipment in every restaurant that
caters to we'll dressed crowds. The
style is too ephemeral to warrant
buying a lot of long-legged chairs, so
we simply elevate part Of those we
already have by means of rings and
reserve them for the hobbled women"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11

passerby as the abode of sincere peo-
pie who have disdained to live in a
rented house and who. despite their
meager means, have an independent
spirit 1t Is this spirit of indepen-
dence that wins the way to greater
things and even to wealth later on in
life. Some of the greatest men In
American life have come from "a cot
tage built for two The struggle pos
sibly to pay even for the little modest
house and the discipline resulting from
it have led to greater endeavors and
consequent success. Home does not
consist in gilded walls and imported
marble. The house, after all, is a
mere framework of the home, and the
home itself lies in the affection that
dwells inside the walls. Never forget
that. The aspiration to own home
is a natural result of that nesting in
Stinct inherent in all animals. 1t is
more highly developed in human be-
ings in many beautiful forms. So, If
you are a struggling clerk and the one
of all others who you think was in
tended for you is of the same mind
you are thinking of the new home.
Maybe you have hesitated about en-
gaging the minister because you could
not provide her" with a house as
elaborate as some others in your town.
Well, It all depends on the stuff you
two are made of. If you want to be-
gin there is no reason why you should
not start in "a cottage built for two"
Later On there will be more in the
family and then you can add another
room. but no matter how poor you
are, If you have enough to justify you
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11

installments he has got to stay or lose
what he has in it. 1t is healthy to
get into debt for a home If you do not
overreach your income. Look out for
that. The mayor Of a large town told
the writer that he never would have
been worth a cent if he had not
bought some real estate on time with
small payment down. He had to
struggle to meet the payments and
often did not know where the money
was coming from, but 1t came some
way and he finally had his property
clear You see, he had to make his
payments to protect what he already
had in. If you wait till you have the
money in bank to pay for home
complete the chances are you never
will have one, for the money will go
some other way. Get into debt-rea.
sonable debtor home, and you
will be surprised how easy the strug-
gle will be.
Now, this house can be built for
s400. Though it is small 1t has neat
appearance, and we will venture to
say there will be happiness in it.
The house is sixteen feet six inches
wide and twenty-eight feet six inches
long, exclusive of porches.
1t would be we'll if possible in choos-
ing site for this little house to place
to allow for a lawn a-d flower beds
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11
FOUND FOUR-LEAF CLOVER
Little Woman Sees Leaf, and All the
Passengers on the Train Think
That She Is Lucky.

A northbound Frisco passenger train
stood on the siding in the Ozarks.
Many of the passengers were at late
breakfast in the diner.
Just as a waiter began to pour cot
fee for a quick-eyed little woman, she
said: ooh, wait; must get out. Just
there by that tie motioning, Il see
a big four-leaf clover" The waiter
brought it. and the passengers ex-
claimed, How lucky" and the little
woman said, 1T will bring good luck
all the day"
Now you know, and we know, that
il wouldn't do any such thing. Glover
leaves, rabbit feet, buckeyes, and i'll
made pennies, or any other inanimate
thing. do not bring either good or
bad fortune. But when a fellow, or
a girl for that matter, finds four.
leaf clover, he Is exhilarated. It slim
ulates. by reason of giving additional
heart-beats; he tries harder, he walks
faster, he looks happier. he speaks
cheerier; he is therefore more attrac-
tive to others, and he hits the old
world harder, and makes 1t give down
it's milk.
Did you ever see calf getting it's
dinner? You know how 1t butts IL
the COW doesn't give down the milk?
Well. the stronger the calf, the harder
the butt" the more milk. So the
leaf makes US butt harder and we
win: hence, we call It lucky. Maybe
it il.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11
Great Britain's New Coinage.

With reference to the suggestion
that the Inscription of Britain's new
coinage should be in English instead
of Latin, one may recall precedent
During the Commonwealth, most of
the coins minted bore English inscrip-
tons, and an Irish half-penny issued
God Save the King" 1t was Charles
II, by the way, who first provided
copper coinage, while Henry III. was
responsible for the introduction of
gold into the mint. AS early as the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-11

Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject Of building for the readers of
this paper. On account Of his wide expe-
rence as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
194 Fifth Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, and only en-
close two-cent stamp for reply.
You have often heard of "the cot
tage built for two" There is some
thing romantic about such little
houses, for the reason that they usu-
all are owned and occupied by the
newly married. No young man who
is thinking Of getting married can do
a wiser thing than to have his own
home at the start, even If it Is very
modest one. This article is addressed,
therefore, to the young clerk who does
not get more than SIS week who has
saved up possibly $500 and has found
the right girl She will have to be one
of those sensible girls who Is thor
oughly in love with the young man
and willing to start out in "a cottage
built for two" Usually, you may have
noticed, young couples who pull to-
gether and begin life that way soon
have a more pretentious house as a re-
suit of their team work. There is
something touching and pathetic about
the little house. 1t appeals to the