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Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23
STRING HILL
Christmas Tree and Exercises at the
Baptist Church-GeneraI News.

oaPtlSt Onurch-Generai News
Master Prentice Smith is visiting at
c. q. Davis.
Arthur Cummings and family of
Staten Island, y. Y, and Walter Cum
mings and family OF Webster. Mass,
are at B. NJ. Sears for Christmas
Christmas Tree for Baptist Sunday
School.
There was Christmas tree with eX-
ercises for the young folks connected
with the Sunday school at the Baptist
church Friday evening.
Daniel c F'laherty has been confined
tc the house for the past week with an
attack of tonsiIitis-
Twenty-Five per cent. of the people
who live on the Hill have reported
more or less i'll the past week. Colds,
grip. distemper or something of the
kind has been having a great run.
The attendance at the church service
last Sunday and at the school during
the week has been very much reduced.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Thompson enter
tanned twenty friends "Wednesday
evening at their home in honor OF their
eleventh anniversary.
Miss Florence Dean OF Hartford IS
spending her Christmas vacation VIII
her mother, Mrs Irving Botham-
Miss Willett teacher at the Depot
school. closed her school Friday for the
Christmas vacation. special exercises
icing held in the afternoon.
The Sunday school has the Christ
mas tree this Saturday, evening,
with exercises in the chapel room.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

Mr.. ingalls, was conscientious in all mis-
dealings. Earth has lost an honest
man.
Christmas exercises are to he held in
East Wellington schoolhOuse. The
scnoolhouse IS being finely decorated By
the teacher ana pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs James Votave have
gone to New York to spend the holt
days with their daughters, Agnes and
Anna.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23
Washington County, R. |.
ROCKVILLE
Christmas Concert Observation-Disclosures
from California.


The Rockville Sabbath school is to
give a Christmas concert in the :. ID.
Il. church this Saturday evening
There is no Sunday school hero. the
Sabbath school being an auxiliary of
the Seventh Day Baptist church, the
only church here. which holds its
services on the seventh day Of the
week-nOt Sunday.
A. Clinton CrandaIl, who was i'll last
week. is improving.
Mrs. Claude Hopkins has been the
guest of relatives in Westerly for a
few days.
James G. Charnley, who has been in
California for several years, is at the
home of his father here.
Eric G. Barber and d. Alva CrandaH
attended an auction near North Ston-
fngtCn Monday.
Grease with butter the saucepan in
which rice is soaked and the rice will
not stick to the sides and bottom.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23
EAST WELLINGTON

Rev. E. barrow will hold services in
East Wilmington schoolhouse Jan. 18th.
1t was with much sorrow that all
heard of the death of William ingalls,.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

That is another sort Of proposition.
! suppose there still are men who
can and do plow two acres of sward
= day, and plOw them we'll But
haven't happened TO see one for sew
eral years doing that amount with an
ordinary plow- I lately saw a field
which the owner proudly told me had
been pIOWed all in one day There
were more than two acres and a half
"A IL He called il '.plOwed-" 1 should
h6ve called it hog-snOuted. 1t must
have required much longer to harrow
II into useable condition than it would
have taken 10 pillow il properly He
may have saved some minutes at the
spisot; he certainly wasted several
hours at the bung-hole.
But suppose you really find the man
Who starts IN blowing at seven o'clock,
instead OF appearing at half-past seven
10 begin Harvesting up. suppose you
find one who doesn't have to go TO the
spring eleven times during the day to
wash out the night before's taste. Sup
pose YOU md one who Will tend to
business Just as smartly when you're
away as when you're watching him.
suppose you find one who can pillow a
straight and even furrOW and take less
time at each corner than on his way
across the field. Suppose You find one
Who viii stick to the job six minutes
after time, in order TO finish ii up and
clear the slate.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23
MANSFIELD DEPOT

Mr. and Mrs e. 3. Thompson Erter-
tain on Eleventh Anniversary of
Marriane
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

We can all wish for more things
than we'll ever get, but don't let's stop
wishing for that rea son. Perhaps some
Oe our wishes may come the sooner, if
we wish hard enough and long enough.
We can all plan our work more sue
cessfully than We can do it. But if we
keep on planning hopefully and more
and more wisely perhaps some of our
good plans may develop into facts
sooner than if we should stop all plan
ming.
1t has been said that any fool can
ask a question seven wise men can't
answer. Very likely; but that doesn't
make the fool a seven times more val
liable citizen than the wise man. Even
the most simple of us can figure out
better ways for doing better work.
Probably they'll few of them work out
as we hope Most of them will run up
against some stump or other of prac-
ucability, and bump their noses hard.
But for goodness sake. don't let's
lie down contentedly in the mud. just
because we failed to get out Of it the
first struggle.
THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

You'll pack him in ice and send for
the doctor and unhitch and rub down
at the less than half an acre actually
ploWed
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

We can't attain to perfection in
farming any more than in law making.
But the more assiduously We plan for
perfection and figure on it and dream
of it and work for it. the farther We'll
get on the long road towards it.
Which is the greater. the farmer or
his farm " nicn is master the dirt
under foot OF the man who treads it?
l cant get all ! want or all | think |
ought to out of that dirt. l can't get
all l plan to get from it. / can't make
it do all the things l think it should,
But, by lingo, I'm it's master for all
that, and I'm going to keep whacl1ing
away at it till | can do more with it,
and still more, year after year, either
in my own person or in the coming
and distant generations. Isn't that the
proper spirit, after all? These fellows
who plan and figure out their farm
work seldom if ever accomplish what
they set out TO. But, say, just be-
tween YOU and me-two old skeptical
ayseeds-isn't it reasonable to sup
rose that, if they keep it up. they'll
eventually come nearer to their end
than they would if they dreamed no
dreams and saw no visions, but stolid-
~ and hopelessly accepted their fate
as it happened to come to them?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23
The dreamer lives forever;
The worker dies in a day"

Many of the grandest accomplish
Hents of the ages have been simply
the realization of some great souls
dT cam. They were sneered at once as
impossible: they were argued against
later as inpra cticable: they We're re-
sisted all the while unwise till at
last the clock of Time struck sunrise
and the world barred its head to the
new and glorious dawn of better
day.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

II is hard not to synpathize with the
disgust which practical farmers often
feel for theoretical farmers Neverthe-
less, it isn't good politics to show it or
express it Those who figure ahead
have to look ahead by the very nature
of their task. And looking ahead is
not a practice worthy of contempt On
the other hand, quite the contrary. No
farmer should ever be ashamed of
making a nistake-once. 1t is making
the same mistake twice and thrice and
perpetually over and over again that
is shameful. No farmer need blush
for failing to predict the unforeseeable
But how shall he knew what actually
Is unforeseeable. unless he keeps test
ing the future? He may fail nine times
and on the tenth trial strike it rich
It's better to guess wrong twice out
of three times than never to guess at
all. and thus miss all chance of ever
guessing right.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

Suppose you find this sort of semi
angelic person to help you at $3.50 a
day=how about the team?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

IL IS all as easy as rolling off log
70 set down on your nice clean paper,
As q starter towards beginning the
spring work, such an item as TO Ia
1or cost of blowing four acre corn lot
So. 0O.' reckoning labor at $50 a day
ard q DAYS work at two acres. The
naxr thing is 10 find the man and
team 10 Go il.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

Suppose you find this sort of semi
angelic person to help you at $3.50 a
day-how about the team?
You figure to use your own team, of
course Yes, your own team which has
been standing idly in the stable most
all winter, fed chiefly on hay with a
little bran or middlings and occasion
ally a handful of oats or an ear of
corn. They are about as soft" as
two pieces OF fresh putty. 1t will. be
a hot, steamy. enervating kind of day
it always is, that first day of the
spring plowing=and your two poor
horses if they are forced to do an
acre before dinner, will be on the verge
of a complete breakdown by that time
They'll perk up a little during dinner
afternoon half-hour with the pillow will
practically finish them. They won't do
another acre, and you can't make them
do it, unless you are willing to kill
them, or cripple them
There comes in one difference be-
tween your "fggerin :" and the facts.
But, in case you have been through
this before, and know that you must
make big allowances for it all, you'll
tent man and the unhardened team.
That's easy enough to do. You'll sim
ply figure that it will take a full day
to pillow that first acre, instead of half
a day Anything wrong with that
sort of paoer-woFk ~
Well, after you've been at the bust
ness long enough. you'll discover what
is meant by that common phrase: IF
it isn't one thing, it's another
Man and team will start off easily,
with frequent breathing spells. Things
will go smoothly, if slowly. for quite
a while. Then, about halfpast ten,
one of the tugs will break About half
past eleven the plow-point will catch
in a hidden stone and snap short off.
About hah-past one will come up a
sudden thunder storm for twenty min
utes. And about half-past three your
man will have ''sunstroke,' of the
too much beer the night before varie-
ty.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

There's a big difference between the
Things that-are and the Things that
ought to-be. There's no comparison
between that which we want and that
hich we get. There is little likeness
between the world of our dreams and
the world of our daily work. But
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

The longer farm it, the more | APP
PrecIate that extra and additional
6eat1tude once suggested by some
cynical Aumorist: Blessed are they
VINO DON'T expect nuthin'-for they
shall mot be disappointed"
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

lf-oh, if these "ifs"I-if we could
only make our great expecta- ions come
out in results, what a different world
II would be- If we could only hitch
our wagons to star, we surely should
be going Some. Since we can't what
Shen? Because we can't do what we
want to. shall we cease to do all we
can-and cease trying to do more and
better? Because we can't have the
moon to play with, shall we refuse to
take the earth to work with?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

Things arr apt 10 DendNe very III
fprentlv when you set them down on
PAPER from what they do when you set
them ont in dirt.
You see, your paper IS usually cream
and smooth and YOUR pencils-unleSs
Won b1z- The .-ryofera cent kind-are
.-=ne-aIIv able to make black marks
ST here YOU want and as you want
Pur the dirt isn't clean or smooth.
il is real dirty dirt full of stones
and rubbish Uneven cloddy, gritty
-r greasy. cIay-ey or graVeIly or mud
dz- and mucky: underlafd with rocks
and Overfaid with trash.
And then, things happen TO your dirt
hat never have the cheek to interfere
with your hggerin'.'
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-23

Little Tom Tucker sings for his supper,
But it's doubtful whether he'll get it,
His mother washes the old-fashioned way,
Boiling and rubbing the livelong day.
She has no time for cooking on Monday,
And little Tom Tucker goes hungry.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05
Report of Leaf Tobacco Association

The following is taken from the re-
port of the board of directors of the
Leaf Tobacco Association, of Baltimore:
The 1909 Maryland Crop exceeded
considerably the early estimates placed
upon it by the trade, both as to the
number of hhds. as also the average
weight of the same; the total receipts
to December 31st reaching %, $50 hhds.
Included in these were about 200 hhds.
Bay, or Upper Country, and l, $50 nhds.
Groundleaves of the 1910 Crop, against
a total of 29,O72 hhds. the previous
year.
Owing to the dry summer the crop was
unually heavy in character, with thick
and sappy leaf. Yellowish hhds. were
more plentiful than usual, and on the
whole the crop showed lively color.
Light handling quality such as want
ed by Holland and Germany, was very
scarce. By far the greater part of
the crop consisted Of French grades,
and the proportion of common leaf was
comparatively large.
Notwithstanding these defects a good
demand was sustained right along, as
stocks abroad were small. and all sub
stitutes equally as dear.
France abandoned the contract
system, and bought through their own
representatives, who entered the
market early. Up to December 3lst
O,314 hhds. were shipped to France,
and in Januar, and February Of this
year other Purchases of about 1900
hhds, were maze, leaving yet several
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05

CEALED PROPOSALS for building
~ three sections Of State Highway ag
gregrating about 6. SO miles in length,
along the Road, from the District OF
Columbia Line to the Charles County
Line( graveD, in one section, a distance OF
six miles: and TWO sections along State
Road No. l, VIZ: Section 10 near Paint
Branch, a distance of 3G-100 miles
(stone macadamG Section lab through
BIadensburg, u distance of A7-1G0 miles
(st0ne macadam); ia the County of
F.iuce Georges, will be received by
the State Roads Commission, at its
Offices in the Urion Trust Building,
Baltimore, Maryland, until 1900 NJ. on
the 10th DAY OF MAY, 1911, at
which time and place they will be
publicly opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the blank
form contained in the Book of Speci-
fications which will be furnished by the
Commission upon application and pay
ment of So 00 for each section. Plue
prints of each section will be furnished
at the rate of % cents for each half
mile.
No bids will be received unless ac-
companjed by a certified check for the
sum of Five Hundred 900 Dollars,
payableto the State Roads Commission.
The successful bidder will be required
bond, give and comply with the Act of
the General Assembly Of Maryland of
1903 Chapter 141, respecting coEtrae Its,
The Commission reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
BY ORDER If the State Roads Com
mission, this 18th day of April, 1911.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05
ADVANCE OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

We view with wholesome awe
the quick and formidable advance
of woman suffrage. If the par
ade turns out as impressive as
it now threatens to be, the anti
suffragists, male and female,
will tremble, in their boots and
suede pumps. But the argu-
ments :''employed by the more
vociferous advocates of the
cause are still deplorable. At an
East Side massmeeting Sunday
night one of the speakers, Of the
masculine gender, declared that
a man who told a woman she
was, too dignifed and to gentle
to vote was afraid that a woman
would get his job" Do men
get work through the exercise
of their right Of suffrage? If
so, why are so many men unem-
ployed?
The women who fancy they
will get desirable situations if
they have the privilege to vote
are sadly mistaken. Fitness and
industry will still be the require
ments. There are not nearly
enough political jobs to go around
now. Year by year, we are
hoping, they will be fewer, as
mere Jobs to be distributed by
favor. Moreover, the men will
not stop voting, certainly not
the men who are looking for
political jobs. The number Of
applicants for every post may be
doubled when the women get
into politics, but profitable
pulls" will be as scarce as ever.
New York Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05
Friday, May S, 1911
WHY NOT HOLD A CONVENTION
IN BALTIMORE OF ALL THE
STATES INTERESTED IN THE
DRAINAGE OF SWAMP
LANDS?

Last June Senator John Walter
Smith secured the adoption of an
amendment to the Appalachian
Forest bill providing for an in
vestgation by the Federal Govern
ment of the feasibility of draining
the marshes of this State. The
bill made provision for ample
funds to make a careful survey
and are port to Congress, says the
Baltimore Sun. The Appalachian
bill had already been amended
at the instance of Senator Stone,
of Missouri, so as to provide fol-
the survey of the swamps in
certain Southern States, and
Senator Smiths amendment was
to include Maryland and appro-
pirate the necessary funds.
The Appalachian bill is now q
law, and doubtless the work OF
surveying will go on.
Maryland is deeply interested
in this subject, and Mr.. Smith,
a Maryland Senator, is a member
of the Appalachian F st Com
mission. There are ny diff
culties to be overcome before the
Federal Government could en-
gage in the drainage of lands
which are private or State pro-
petry. 1t is reasonably certain
however, that these difficulties
could be overcome, and the pro,
per way to go about the devising
and adoption of a plan would be
to have a drainage convention
in Baltimore City composed OF
delegates from all the
States interested. The States
included in the Appalachian
Forest law are Missouri, Florida,
North Carolina, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Maryland.
All the other Southern States
and some of those in the
West have large swamp areas,
and representatives from all OF
them might gather in Baltimore
to take a leading part in the
call and in the convention.
Maryland has 1913, 678. acres,
or 513 square miles, of swamp
lands. The total area of all the
improved farm lands in the
State is only a little more than
100000 acres. The swamp
land, as it now is, is worse than
valueless, as it is the breeding
place for mosquitoes and is in
furious to the public health. II
reclaimed and made productive,
its value would probably be in
excess of S3O,OOO,OOO To re-
claim the lands would be the
addition of much to the value of
the property Of the State.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05

James H. Preston, democrat,
was elected Mayor of Baltimore
City in the election on Tuesday.
His majority was the smallest
given any Mayorality candidate
since the election of the late
Mayor Robert M. McLane.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05
n Office
To Owners Of Traction Engines

NO TRACTION ENGINE shall be
~ operated upon any Improved State
Road. or section thereof, except such
as have wheels with smooth surfaces
ard greater than four incnes in width
nor shall any sleds with brakes be useo
on said roads.
An person violating the provisions
of this Notice will be prosecuted under
the provisions Of Chapter J01 Of the
Acts Of the General Assembly Of Mary
land Of 1915.
BY order of
TEE STATE ROADS COMMISSION,
E. E. G0sLIE, Sec'y.
j NJ. TUCKER, Chairman.
ADr213t
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-05-05
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The Washington times., 1911-05-28
Y. v. c. A. RE TREAT
IN COUNTRY TO Be
THROWN OPEN SOON
Vacation Lodge Will Be
Scene of Patriotic Exer-
cises on Memorial Day.

40 give young women a place where
they can have an inexpensive vacation
and enjoy quiet, refreshing evenings
and week-ends, the Young Women's
Christian Association will open their
country house. known as Vacation
Lodge. at Cherrydale, Va, on May 80
and keep it open until October l.
The lodge is pleasantly situated and
within easy distance from the center
of the city, as ii takes only thirty-tive
minutes to reach the lodge from the
ostoffice. The fare is only cents on
the Great Falls line.
On the opening day there will be spe-
clal patriotic exercises in honor Of
Decoration Day, the Rev. John T. Hud-
die will deliver a patriotic address and
this will be followed by games on the
new athletic field. In the evening, the
dramatic department Of the association
will present THE Dawn of Tomorrow,
under the direction of Miss Emavieve
Rose. At the annual meeting of the as
sociation Mrs. Perry Heath, Mrs
Charles L. Frailey, Miss Mabel GranNjn,
Mrs. Woodbury. Pulsifer, DR.. Ada R.
Thomas. Miss Elizabeth F. Pierce, and
Miss Margaret Taber Johnson were
elected to the board of directors.
The reports of the chairmen of the
different departments were received, and
show a large increase in the number Of
young women who availed themselves
of the advantages offered by the as
SOciatiOn.
The Washington times., 1911-05-28
GIRLS SLIDE EIGHT
STORIES TO TEST A
ROPE FIRE-ESCAPE
Broadway Crowds Set
Thrilling Demonstration
of New Device.

NEW YORK, May 2S.-Considerable
attention was attracted yesterday at the
Studebaker building. 1000 Broadway, by
the spectacle of several women Ieaping
on the window sills of the eighth floor
and one after another being rapidly shot
to the ground by means Of ropes. The
incident caused a large and curious
crowd to soon fill the thoroughfare.
1t was learned the girls were giving
a public demonstration of a new patent
fire-escape. The apparatus used was
worked somewhat on the plan of the
pulley, the shoulders being placed in
straps, which passed under the arm
pits, and the operator holding a guide
rope by which to regulate the speed in
the descent.
The girls who gave the demonstration
were not the least frightened by their
downward trip from such a height.
They are Misses Leslie Leigh, Kittie
De Wire, Hazel Robertson, and Rose
Czjaki. The three first named are
actresses.
The Washington times., 1911-05-28
Commencement Begins
AT Eastern College

The commencement week exercites OF
Eastern College began this morning
with the baccalaureate sermon by Presi-
dent Hervin u. Roop. This evening
there will be a campus praise service
at Gas o'clock. followed by an address
before the Christian Association OF the
college by the Rev. Charles E. Fultz, OF
Washington.
Tomorrow there will be an exhibition
concert by the advanced pupils of the
music department. Tuesday will be class
day, and on Wednesday at 10 o'clock In
the morning the commencement exer-
cises will be held.