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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Two million trees have been plant
ed in Kansas this year, and yet Kan
sas is a long way from being a cool
and shady spot.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

The man who invented the lawn
mower died the other day. Why can't
something like this happen to the
man who pushes one next door?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

A sea serpent has already appeared
at Atlantic City. 1t is Is feet long and
all regular patrons of that resort are
seeing things.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

If, while looking over your winter
garments on suspicion that some of
them may be all wool, you happen to
e a moth, the proper course Of &C.
ton will occur to you.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

1t woul not be quite fair to charge
all the suffering of last week to the
account of humidity. The heat had
Vomething to do with 1t.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

A Chicago professor advocates a
school for scientific %spooning. but 1t
strikes us that spOoners are born, not
made.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

The house fly may be of some use in
the world, but thus far he has been un~
able to prove an alibi. Therefore,
swat
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Evanston has a rooster hat sings
bass. Instead Of being nursed into
celebrity he is classed as a nuisance
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

With hay at s27 a ton in Chicago.
the Western farmer buys an automo-
bile and pays cash for it.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Lightning is keeping up its reputR
ton for speed. 1t knocked an Ohio
telephone girl insensibIe before she
could give it the busy signal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Good hot weather advice is to drink
plenty of water, but not out of a pub
lie drinking cup.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Chicago women advocate shirtwaists
for policemen in summer, but who 10
going to button them up the back?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

An eastern clergyman tells US te
marry only our ideals, but he over
looks the fact that ideals change with
years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

An explosive golf ball is something
new to us. although we have often
heard of explosive golfers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Though Saint WaPursh% the West Saxon royal maiden of te eighth
Catholic Europe, Ter name has become associated with som of the most
noted popular uperstHion of Germany. WaIpurgs night, between April 80
and May l. vas held ito be the night when the witches rode on Droomsdcks
m goats to the old places of judgment IN sacrifice, in order to enjoy them
selves there with heir master, the devil. The best known of these tchhtHs
vas theB Broken, the highest point of the Harz m in these modern days The
Germans Of tn neiehborhood go there to spend Wapurgis night In reVelry.
They wear all sorts of grotesque Masks, m at midnight greet thu month of
with great cIamor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Now a doctor has produced a lea
gtimulant from toads.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

While swatting the fly, let US re-
member that the horse needs a drink.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Invented all wool underwear to keep
mum
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

Death is a big winner in automobile
races.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-07-07

All dogs are not bad dogs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
SYNOPSIS.

AT the expense OF a soiled hat Herbert
Orme saves from arrest a girl in a black
touring car who has caused a traffic lam
on state street. He buys a new hat and
IS given five dollar bill with: 'eRemem-
per tne person you pay this to-" written on
a; a second time he helps the girl in the
PACK car and learns that in Tom and
BESSIE Wallingham they have mutual
1Ilends, but gets no further hint of her
1uenuJy. He discovers another inscrip-
uon on the marked BILL which in a futile
attempt to decipher it. he copies and
places the copy in a drawer in his apart
ment. Senior Poritol, South American
calIS ana claims the marked bill. Orne
refuses, and a fight ensues in which PORT
tol is overcome. He calls in Senior AL
catrante. minister from his country, to
Vouch for him. Orme still refuses to give
up the bill. He learns that a Jap has
called for him. Orme goes for walk
and sees two JapS attack Alcatrante He
rescues him. The minister tries diplo-
macy, but fails to get the marked bill
Returning to his rooms Orme is attacked
oy TWO Japs who effect a forcible eX-
change of the marked bill for another
Orme nnds the girl of the black car wait
ing Tor MIN. She also wants the bill. Orme
tells his story. She recognizes one of the
Japs as her fathers butler, Maku. The
second inscription on the bill is the key
TO the hiding place of important papers
stolen from her father. Both Japs and
and the Girl start out in the black
car in quest Of the papers. In the uni
Versity grounds In Evanston the hiding
place is located. Maku and another Jap
are there. Orme fells Maku and the
other Jap escapes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18


''No, the fellow had a good start,
so the cop stayed by the jap"
"And what became of the Jap?"
The life-saver jerked his head
| toward the door beside him. He's
in there. getting over his headache"
'1s he?" This was a contingency
which Orme had not foreseen. Nor
had he any desire to come face to
face with Maku. But if he betrayed
notice it.
''The cop is taking another look
through the campus" he continued.
What does the Jap say about it?"
asked Orme.
'He doesn't say anything. It looks
as though he couldn't speak English.
The cop is going to get Asuh."
"Asuki?"
"a Jap student who lives in the
dormitory"
"Oh," said Orme.
The fact that Maku would not talk
was in a measure reassuring. His ap-
parent inability to understand Eng
| fish was, of course, assumed, unless,
indeed, he was still too completely
dazed by the blow which Orme had
given him, to use a tongue which was
more or less strange to him. But
what would he say if he saw Orme?
Would he not accuse his assailant,
hoping thus to delay the pursuit Of
his companion?
The danger was by no means slight.
| Orme decided quickly to get away
| from this neighborhood. But just as
he was about to bid the life-saver
casual goodnight, two men came
around the corner of the building.
| One was a policeman, the other
young Japanese. Orme unobtrusive-
| ly seated himself on the edge of the
little veranda.
'How is he?" asked the policeman.
"All right, l guess replied the life
saver. ct looked in a few minutes
ago, and he was sitting up. Hello,
Asuki"
Hello, there" responded the little
Japanese.
Come" said the policeman, after
an unsuspicious glance at Orme, and,
mounting the steps, he led his inter-
prefer into the station
Now, indeed, it was time for Orme
to slip away. Maku might be brought
out at any moment. But Orme
| fingered. He was nearer to the solu-
ton of the secret if he kept close to
Maku, and he realized, for that mat"
| ter, that by watching Maku closely
and, perhaps, following him home, he
might be led straight to the other
man. If Maku accused him, it should
not, after all, be hard to laugh the
| charge away.
A murmur of voices came from
within the station, the policeman's
words alone being distinguishable.
ASK him." the policeman said, eff
he knows who hit him."
The undertones of a foreign jargon
followed.
well, them" continued the police
man, find out where he came from
and what he was doing on the
campus"
Again the undertones, and after
ward an interval of silence. Then
| the policeman spoke IN an Undecided
voice.
'If he don't know anything, l can't
do anything. But we might as well
get a few more facts. Something
might turn up Ask him whether he
saw anybody following him when he
went into the campus
Orme had been straining his ears
in vain endeavor to catch the words
of Asuki But suddenly his attention
was diverted by a sound from the
lake. 1t was the 'puh-puh-puh-puh"
of a motor-boat, apparently little
distance to the northward. The ex-
plosions followed one another in rapid
succession.
He turned to the life-saver.
What boat is that?" he asked.
81 don't know. Some party from
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18

''There's Rule Against Going in There After Dark"

| meet the other car returning, to get
| off at the car-barns and make in
| quiries. The possibility that the jap
anese had changed to the elevated
road on the North side was great, but
the conductor might remember if the
change had been made.
But Orme did not turn at once
toward the car-line. Though his logic
| pointed in that direction, he was IT.
resistibly Influenced by a desire to
walk eastward along the drive where
it skirted the southern end of the
campus. A half-hour might go by,
and still he would not be too late to
meet, on its return, the car which the
Japanese would have taken. He
started, therefore, eastward, toward
the lake, throwing frequent glances
through the iron fence at his left and
into the dark shadows Of the oaks.
He came to the lake without en-
! countering anyone. The road here
swept to the southwark, and on the
| beach near the turn squatted the low
brick building which the girl had told
him was the life-saving station. A
man was standing on the little veran-
da. His suit of duck was dimly white
in the light from the nearby street
lamps.
zone of the crew." Orme surmised,
and he sauntered slowly down the lit
| tie path.
The beach sloped grayly to the edge
of the lake, where breakwater thrust
| it's blunt nose out like a stranded
hulk The water was calm, tapping
the sand so gently that it was hard
to believe that so gentle murmur
could ever swell into the roar Of a
northeaster. A launch that was
moored at the outer end of the break
water lay quiet on the tideless sur
| face.
"Good-evening, said Orme, as the
man turned his head. Are you on
watch?"
The life-saver slowly stretched.
"Till 12," he answered.
mot much longer, then?"
NO. thank heaven!"
! Orme laughed. Il suppose you do
get more than you want of it," he
said But on a fine night like this l
should think it would be mighty pleas
ant"
Not if you have to put in several
hours of study after you get through"
STUDY"
Eyes. You see, have special ex-
animation tomorrow
"a service examination"
ooh, no-college."
Are you a STUDENT"
"All the crew are students. It helps
good DEAL if you are working your
way through college"
'"Oh, I see. But surely the univer-
sity hasn't opened for the fall?"
mo, but there are preliminary
exams. for those who have conditions
to work off,
Orme nodded. TITS a fine campus
| you have-with the groves Of oaks"
"Yes"
Gust the place for a quiet evening
stroll. I thought I'd walk up the
| shore"
There's rule against going in
there after dark"
| rs there? That's too bad"
Something funny happened there
| just little while ago."
so? What was it?' Orme was
getting close to the subject he most
| desired to hear explained.
why, one of the cops was walking
along the shore and he found jap
anese, stunned"
| "a Japanesei"
HE evidently had wandered in
there and somebody had hit him over
| the head with club"
after money!"
Probably There've been a good
many hold-ups lately. But the slug
ger didn't have a chance to get any,
! thing this time
| How so?"
HE was bending over the Jap when
the cop came UP. He got away"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
Getting Away.

Haven't you forgotten something,
sir?" asked the anxious waiter, as the
thrifty guest prepared to depart with
out bestowing tip.
mo, | think not Here's my hat
and here's my cane l don't think |
have forgotten anything"
But you've forgotten me" said the
waiter in evaporation.
mot at ALL" answered the other.
81 saw you standing Their all the time.
Bon soir, garcon; bon soir."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18
AZ n Increased Him.

Penuchle Editor-What's the general
effect of the new "hobble skirt?"
Bridge Editor-Well, if it is the one
saw on one of the elevated loop plat
forms the other afternoon is correct
sample, the general effect is hard to
describe, but the particular effect IS
to lower the waist line to point just
below the knees.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-18

A good thing needs no putting, but
this truth does not apply to tobacco
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
FIRST SPIRITUAL UNION
 HAS ANNUAL MEETING
Officers Re- e-eIected for Ensuing Year All Reports Approved and Balance Shown in Treasury.

The annual meeting of the First Spiritual union was held at the Spir- itua1 Academy on Tuesday evening with a large attendance. The reports of the officers were submitted and showed the union in excellent shape. The treasurer's report showed a bal ance in the treasury after all bills had been paid. The services for the sum mer closed the last Sunday in May and will be resumed the first Sunday in October.
 The officers were reelected as fol- lows: President, William F. Bogue; secretary, Miss Mary F. Clapp; treas urer, William F. Bogue; speakers com- mittee, w. F. Bogue, MT. and Mrs. Na- than Brewster, Robert Parker and Mrs. R. A. Jennings; music committee, Mrs. Augustus Gould, Mrs. Charles Twist; auditors, Henry Bellows, Wales w. Clapp.
 Rev. A. P. Blinn was retained indefi- niIe1y as speaker as was Charles A. Dowsett as organist.
 The Helping Hands held it's monthly business meeting before the meeting of the union. which was the closing session of the season. The report for the month showed that the year had been an excellent one for the organ ation and it is in excellent financial condition. The sum of $60 was voted to the union.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
MARRIED JUNE 8.
Mary C. AdIes and Harry D. Fine Were United in New York-Not Known Until His Death.

Tha death Monday morning of Har- ry D. Fine, young boiler contractor. following an operation for appendici- tis two weeks ago in a sanatorium in West One Hundred. and Twenty third street, says the New York World, re- vea1ed that woman who for years had given him the protection of a mother had become his bride when his life was in danger.
 The widow, whose family and most intimate friends did not know of the marriage, was Miss Mary c. Adles, for more than ten years a fashionable hairdresser, with an establs shment here and another in Newport. Fine was a second cousin of Miss Adles. His home was in Boston, where his parents still live.
 Ten years ago Miss Adles started to make his education her life achieve ment. She sent him through college and let him have the best instruction in music, for which she showed nat ural talent. When the time came for him to make a choice of a career she eral years prior to his death he was boilers in large buildings.
 When it became necessary for him tc undergo an operation he asked her to become his wife and she consented They were married June by a rabbi Her marriage was not disclosed to relatives until his death. She attend = ed him in his last sickness, the body being sent to Boston for burial on Monday
 Miss Adles has been in business here for a number of years
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
REPORT MADE OF
 STATE FIELD DAY
Representativss of St. Anne's T. A..
 Society Tell of Their Trip.

St. Anne's society heard a report at it's meeting Tuesday evening in the T. A. B. building perlors from the sev- eraI members who were it's represen- tatives at the c. T. A. IT. field day and parade in New Britain last Saturday. The parade was of large proportions, the cadets alone making a division that numbered 1.500; there were about twenty floats aiid a large number of societies whose members marched. The ladies' societies were represent ed by their officers riding in open ba rouches, among whom was the St. Anne delegation from Norwich. For having the largest number in line and making the best appearance, the prize was awarded the Torrington society. The Cadets from New Haven took the prize offered for their class. The field day at Berlin park was big feature, from which it was reported that the New Britain society will realize about s2,000. In the evening there were two dances to go to. The St. Anne mem bers spent Sunday in Hartford on the way home.
 St. Anne's society received one new member at it's meeting and discussed plans for the county field day on the 18th at the drawbridge.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
WEDDINGS.
Thompson-WiIIson.

The wedding of Miss Gertrude Lou
 ise Wilson of New Haven and George Albert Thompson of this city took
 place Tuesday evening at o'clock at
 the home of the brides parents, Rev. and Mrs. Theodore Booth Wilson, No.
 573 George streeet, New Haven.
 The bride had as her only attendant
 her sister, Miss Marguerite Wilson.
 Mir. Thompson had as best man an
 artist friends, Rue M. Luquiens of New
 Haven.
 The ceremony was performed by the
 father of the bride, Rev. T. B. Wilson,
 in the presence of the relatives and a
 few friends, after which there was a reception from 6.30 to 8, eight girl
 friends of the bride assisting The
 Darah Martin, and the house was art
 istically decorated in pink, green and
 white
 The bride wore handsome gown of white embroidered chiffon over
 white messaIine herSyei1 being caught
 with lilies of the valley. Her only orns-
 ment was gold necklace, the gift of the groom. She carried white roses
 The maid of honor wore a. pink em-
 broidered gown with trimmings of pink satin and she carried sweet peas. The
 brides mother wore a black chanti1ly
 sage trimming of old rose.
 The groom is a graduate of the Yale
 Art school where he was also instruc- tor, and is nov director of the Nor wich Art school The bride is a grad uate of the Boardman High school, New Haven Normal School of Gym nastics and a prominent young woman in New Haven.
 After a short wedding trip MT. and Mrs. Thompson will go to Willow Point, West Myttic. where they have taken a bungalow for the summer, and in the fall will take up their residence here. Began GaIIiean. At 6.45 o'clock Tuesday morning Miss Mary Allen Galligan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Galligan of No. 4S2 Main street. East Side, and John F. Began of .Branford were united in marriage at St. Mary's church, Rev. J. H. F'i.zmaurice performing the cer- emony. Relatives and friends were in attendance, including a number from Branford, Stamford, Hartford, New HaveA and Willimantic. Miss Julia Murtagh of this city was maid of honor, and the best man was William Began of Bralfford, brother of the groom.
 The bride made charming appear ance III a gown of white mafquisette and the maid af honor wore a dress of white embroidered bstiSte. Following
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
NEW PASTOR
For First Baptist Church i1 Bridge
 port-Comes from Providence.

A Bridgeport paper says: /
 / The Re-. John M. Brown will as sume the pastorate of the First Bap- tist church about July 1. He comes of and actively concerned with relig- ious matters for over a century. Mr Browns ancestry is Scotch and on his fathers side were intimately related with the religious liberty of Scot Ian. In the family tree" it is not ed that one ancestor was killed on ac- count of his religious belief and an other had his estates confiscated on account of his following the lead of Prince Charles. His grandfather left his native place with Dr. Chalmers and helped him found the Free Church of Scotland.
 MT. Brown was born in Brooklyn in 1870. He was converted to the Baptist belief and was baptized in the Greenwood church of Brooklyn by the Rev Dr. Robert B. Hull. Preparing for college in the College Grammar school of Brooklyn( he enered Co., lumbia university, and later followed a post graduate course in Edinburgh university of Scitland. He took hon ors in classics and philosophy and was honored by being fellowship in that institution. His theological studies were at the Rochester, N. Y., Theological seminary, and he was instructor in Greek for about a year there.
 Oliver Street Baptist church of Kan sas City, Mo-, served as his first pas torate, and there he was exceedigly successful. The result of a compara- lively short time of work was the ad- dition of 586 new members. During this period two new churches were formed from the mother church and d third church made a net gain of over 200 new members.
 Mr. Brown became the pastor of the Central Baptist church of Providence. R. l., in 1903. That church is intimate ly connected with the work of Brown university He remained there until 1910, when he resigned.
 He has been aditor of the Baptist Teacher and the Advanced Quarter ly for eight years, and this has cir culation of more than 800 GOO copies used in the Baptist Sunday schools throughout the United States and Canada. He has the record of hav- I9qoB9Id 10 uIeIdBqo 1usp!s5I u99q Sur in a number of universities and col leges.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
CHRIST CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL
Annual Picnic Held at Ocean Beach and the Days Festivities Greatly Enjoyed.

Close to two hundred of the mem bers of Christ church Sunday school and church enjoyed the annual picnic of the school on Tuesday, going tJ Ocean Beach in two special trolley cars, leaving here at 9.15 a. m. The transportation was, as usual, furnish ed by the church. and the arrange ments for this part of the day were capably looked after by a committee consisting of Walter c. Crooks, Will liam F. Habekotte, and Joseph c. Worth, Jr.
 Lunch was served in the pavilion, and was arranged for by the teachers under the direction of Miss Annie M. Petrie, Miss Mary OSgood, Miss Lopise Robinson, Miss Susan L. Gal 1up and Miss Mary Richards as the committee. The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all attending, and the re- turn was made in the afternoon, one car leaving at 4.53 and the other at 5.25 o'clock
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
TREASURE FOUND
 IN cHEsEBRoUeH BUILDING. Old Hat Contained Rats Nest Lined
 With $5 Worth of Coins.

rats nest in an old hat lined with about $5 worth of old dimes, nickels and big copper pennies was unearthed on Tuesday under the westerly one of the two Chesebrough buildings which are now being torn down, on Franklin square, to make way for the modern buildings to be erected by the new owner of the property, Judge John M. Thayer. J. Andrew Rossmark, who has bought the old buildings for the lum- Der he can get out of them, was the finder, and as findings is keepings' in a case like this, is the present owner of the rats horde.
 The nest was found on beam un- der stairway and mad evidently been there for some time, if anything could be judged from the ratee and character of the pieces of money, which nearly all went back beyond what are now in circulation. Put on the scales, the sonns showed an even pound and three quarters which the rats had carried there to line their nest with.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-28
Nurses Will Contested.

In the probate court at New Haven Monday a contest was started on the admission to probate of the will of Mary J. Waldron, aged SS, who was for 32 years nurse in the home of Henry l.. Hotchkiss in Hillhouse avenue When Miss Waldron died she left an estate of about sS,000, of which $500 was bequeathed to the Humphrey street church. and the balance to rela- tives in New Canaan. On behalf of relatives a New Haven lawyer is op- posing the will and claims that undue influence was used on Miss Waldron In getting her to make the bequests and in the eliminating of New Haven rela- lives