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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-06-09
TYPEWRITER FOR SALE-Nearly
new. C. f. Hilliard. 3Ef

FOR SALE--Two registered Jersey
bull calves; one ready for service.
Top stuff. T. P. Fackrell. RI Att
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
WASHINGTON COUNTY, K |.
USQUEPAUGH.
Happenings of the Week-Recent Wis
 itors.

Mrs Clark E. Wells of East Green wich was a caller in the village We'd nesday.
 Mrs. Nelly B. Kenyon is staying this week with friends at Hope Valley
 Mrs. Fanny Bicknell, who has been visiting at Dr. Kenyon's, has gone to Wakefield to spend few days with her nephew. J. c. Cahoone.
 Enroll Wilcox of Norwich spent Sat- nrday night and Sunday with his grandfather, A. W. Kenyon.
 J. c. Cahoone of Wakefield was a caller here Thursday
 Mir. and Mrs. Benjamin Smith of Pawtucket spent Saturday and Sun day al Dr. Kenyon's.
 William A. H. Potter of Ashaway was a caller here one day this week, and a witness in the fire case.
 Mrs. l.. K, Crandall and little son started for Presque Isle, Me, Monday morning, leaving Kingston at 4.52. Mrs. Crandall's father, Dr. Kenyon, went with her as far as Boston.
 Mrs. Mary McConnor is visiting her parents in Providence.
 Mrs. Henniger and family have moved to Providence.
 Miss Annie E. Kenyon is attending the R. l. c.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
RICHMOND
Beaver River School Opens-Notes
 and Personals.

Arthur Thompson is employed at the spinning room in the PaWcatuck mill at Potter Hill.
 Miss Julia Callahan has entered as student at the New England Con- servatory of music at Boston.
 Mrs. Henry T. Kenyon has been the guest of friends in Providence.
 Hon. Charles J. Greene spent Sat urday evening with B. B. Moore and family. He has recently returnhl from a vacation Of over two months, spent in Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington and Canada.
 John A. Phillips spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. A. H. Phillips.
 School opened in Beaver River dis trict Monday with Miss Alice Ayers of Mystic as teacher.
 Mrs. M. H. James spent a few days recently with friends in Westerly.
 Mrs. O. W. Sherman and Miss Per cie Lewis of Kingston and George E. Lincoln of Brooklyn called on Mrs. A. H. Phillips one day the past week.
 MT. and Mrs. Presbary Hoxie of Phenix spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weaver.
 Andrew W. Moore called on Mrs. Susan Hoxie at Wakefield Wednes- day.
 Miss Elma Burdick of Bradford is teaching in Washington district near Kenyon.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
WEEKAPAUG.

W. H. Cope and family, who have occupied Wyncote for the past seven years, have closed the cottage and re- turned to their home in Media, Pa.
 MT. and Mrs. Leon W. Bliven spent Thursday of last week in Norwich and New London.
 William Abbott of Fishers island is the guest of his wife's parents, MT. and Mrs. G. H. Moves.
 Dr. Ellen H. Gladwin is in Hart ford on business for a few days.
 Mrs. o. B. Macomber and daughter spent Wednesday in Providence.
 Nettie Gavitt. the oldest daughter of Oliver Gavitt. who has been quite i'll, is now improving.
 Mir. and Mrs. Elmer Macomber of Westerly spent Saturday at their home here.
 MT. and Mrs. Cleveland Carpenter attended the Grange fair in North Stonin Gton Thursday.
 Henry Murry was a visitor in Prov idence Wednesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
HOPKINTON

Recent visitors at the home of Jason P. $. Brown were Mir. and Mrs. Peieg C. Crandall of New York and Hector Darroch of Mystic.
 The voting lists of this town for 1911-12 have been received from the printer and have been posted about the
 Charles H. Langworthy is reported to have sGId lis farm in Tour4uag Val ley to purchasers from New Jersey.
 Miss Susan Cole, who has been con- fined to the house by illness for long time rode out one day last week.
 Some of the local residents greatly enjoyed Monday evening, when they attended the lecture at Ashaway by Will Carleton
 Theodore F. Tillinghast of Providence was at the office of the town clerk Thursday afternoon on business.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

w. H. Dunbar, a former resident, has been appointed manager of the western Canada office of the General Film company at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
 Rev. M. D. Merchant of Hartford will preach a the Baptist church Sun day morning. In the evening a union temperance meeting will be held in piace Of the usual service.
 Farewell Reception.
 A farewell reception was given Rev. A. Arnold Rose last Friday evening in the vestry of the Universalist church. The room had been decorated by mem bers of the '. P c. U. with hemlock, autumn leaves and boltmia, During the 19 months of MT. Ross stay the ' :. F. c. l.. has prospered and the recep- ton was under the auspices of this SO ciety. After a social hour a literary and musical programme was presented, after which R. A. Booth, in behalf of a set of military brushes. He was fol- lowed by Rev. l. P. Booth. who pre- scented in behalf of the society a case Of solid silverware. MT Ross respond ed with cordial appreciation of the bea utifui gifts He will be married soon after his arrival at Brewton, Ala, where he has accepted call to one of his former parishes.
 Grange Meeting.
 A meeting of Stafford grange will be held Tuesday evening.
 Mrs. Ellen Webber has returned from a visit with friends in SoIners and Hartford
 MT. and Mrs. William Park and son Raymond have returned from a trip through Canada made in touring car.
 Mrs. J. C. Bugbee has returned from visit with friends in Brimfield and Soutfloridge.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
ROCKVILLE
Address in Interest of Anti Saloon
 League.

Mrs. Herbert A. Babeock. Mrs. Marshall Taylor and Mir and Mrs. Elisha C.. Burdick of Westerly were guests of Miss Lottie J. Burdick on Saturday.
 Rev A. B. Christy of Providence spoke in the $. D. B. church here on Saturday morning in the interests of the Rhode Island Anti-Saloon league.
 Mrs. F. H. McLearn of Walworth, Wis, who has been the guest of friends here for a few weeks, left last week for Ashaway and Westerly, where she will visit before going to New York and Philadelphia, where she will visit friends.
 Abel B. Kenyon was a recent guest of N. H. Lamphear and family of Westerly.
 Mrs. J. Court Barber of Westerly was a recent guest of her daughter, Mrs. Claude Hopkins.
 Henry A. Saunders was in Hope Valley Tuesday.
 Erlo G. Barber has recently erected a new crib at his home, Woodcrest.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

East Hampton for three successive Sundays.
 Mrs. Sarah Hanks has returned from a visit with relatives in Rockville and East Hartford.
 Mrs G. R. Dimock and Mrs. H. E. Simonds called on Mrs. Anna Rowley at Spring Hill Wednesday.
 Edwin Cross from Willimantic as sisted the choir at the morning ser vice last Sunday.
 Mrs Otis Conant and Mrs. Charles Dodge were guests of Mrs. Conant's s sisters at the Willimantic camp ground Saturday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
ARCADIA.
Possible Contest for Senatorial Nomi
 nation.

The political situation in tf1is town, Exeter is unsettled. Senator Eben Slocum is said to be out for re- -elec- ton. Ex-Senator George B. Reynolds, who was replaced by Senator Slocum, is said to be desirous of the nomina- ton and probably will make a contest in the caucus for the place.
 Benjamin Nye of Pine Hill, R. l., . former resident of this place, was calling on friends here Saturday.
 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel c. Jencks, ac- companied by Mrs. Edward F. Perk- ins and sou Earl, all of Apponaug, R. l., were guests of Benjamin Shel don at the Locust Ridge, farm. Mon day and Tuesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
BLAME CATS
For Spread of Tonsilts in WaterviIIe
 Families.

A mild epidemic of tonsilitis has appeared in Waterville It is the usual thing about this season of the year. Many are of the opinion that the large local army of cats may have some thing to do with the annual reappear- ance of this disease. Most of the fam flies have at least one, and besides there is the ever increasing number of strays which find their way into base ments and cellars. With the first ap- proach of cool weather these are driv- en to seek shelter indoors, and since it is known that their fur is a con- veyance for germs of a rowing dispo- sition, It is believed that diseases like inf1uenza and tonsilitis are spread in this way
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
Factories on Six-Day
 Schedule.

Ths near approach Of fall has re- suited i'll an increase in business in nearly all of Waterbury's manufactur- ing plants, with the result that the five days a week schedule of the summer months is giving way to full six-day week, the new schedule going into eff feet in nearly all the factories with sAa hsGse,i~--> of this week.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
There are some cf US who are qiven oo much to drea ming and scherninp

too much 10 dTeamlng and schemlng and rainbow chasing There are eth- CTS who are always too busy digging dirt to see Occasion when it passes. It is manifestly necessary that we should scratch gravel in this work-a- day world But it isn't necessary. that we should fill our eyes and ears with it so we can neither see nor hear when the tide floods and the opportanitv knocks. It is well both to work and to watch THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
aint Praise.

On the other hand there is more to Rudyard Kiplings poetry than his anti-reciprooity rguments.-Detroit Free Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
Beats a Carnegie Medal.

A New York policeman who saved a year old girl from drowning was re- warded with a kiss and a hug. That beats q Carnegie medal Rochester Herald
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
Grange Meeting.
GURLEYvILLE
Rev. E. F. Smith Occupied Pulpit at
 East Hampton.

The Ladies Social Benevolent so- ciety held social in the conference room Friday evening.
 Rev. F. F. Smith has been supplying the pulpit Of the Methodist church at
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

But it must be taken at the flood, and the man whom it is willing to lead on to fortune must be on hand to meet that flood Some one else has said that Opportunity knocks once at ev- cry mans door," But it seldom bur glarizes. You must be alert to open the door or it wanders elsewhere It will not force itself upon you
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

senator Mayor Bryan F. Mahan is sureiy the Man on Horseback, for he has unsaddled the men who directed affairs in New London in the past, and is now the accepted leader of the whole people, with, of course, an ex- ceptional few, and without regard to political af1liation. It has been prac- tically demonstrated that he does things and usually succeeds in all he undertakes in a public way, and with
 out regard to the character of the opposition at the early stages of the game, for it evolves into a clear case
 of meeting the enemy and going with him. Prior to the city meeting that acted upon the annual budget there
 was opposition of apparent strength
 led by Former Governor Waller, a nat
 ural leader of men, and who on many
 occasions has swerved men from set
 opinions to his way of thinking and
 carried projects through city meetings
 at will. Conditions seem to have
 changed. MT. Waller and few other
 citizens of prominence were openly
 opposed to matters in the latest bud
 get and aired their views in the pub
 lie press and at semi-official gather
 1ngs Of citizens, but when city meet
 ing day came around these men were
 mum as the traditional oyster. Ev-
 cry solitary item in the budget, that
 carried with 1t expenditures in excess
 of the estimated receipts, went through
 N1tAiOdl OppOSitiCl dIlcI tie way ltu
 been oiled by the crafty mayor.
 At the very opening of the meeting
 the mayor made 8 nice little speech in
 explaining the real situation, and soon removed the belief that if the budget
 prevailed the tax rate would be in creased from sixteen to twenty mills
 He assured the citizens that the own CTS of their own little homes were already amply taxed and were bear ing their full share of the burden of taxation, but that it was the intention to raise the grand list about s100,000 by a more equal system of taxa ton. Let the city meeting adopt the budget and the assessors would be required to do the rest. Hardly had the mayor concluded his telling little speech when vote was submitted and adopted re- questing the court of common council to name an honoary committee to ad- wise and confer with the board of as sessors and board of relief relative to the taxable property of the city with view to the equalization of taxation. As indicated, the committee is advis- ory in it's character, and it could not be otherwise, as under the law no committee of the court of common council has the authority to command the assessors. They are an elective and not an appointive body and have as much authority to direct the alder men of the city as to their duty IS the aldermen have to direct one of the assessors
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
For the Insurgents.

What a splendid ballot insignia for the new insurgent party Mount Etna would Washington Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

It isn't likely that many of us will find valuable mines on our farms, nor weeds capable of supply a factory with needed raw material. But some of us may yet do one or the other of these very things-if we only keep our eyes open and our brains working. Not many miles from me is hill which was for years regarded as sim ply worthless. It was so steep and rocky as to be unfit even for pasture, and so soil-less that it wouldn't grow trees. But one day quarryman with eyes in his head clipped off a bit of rock. He saw something in it that seemed to him different So he took it to a friend with some ca pital, and they had it analysed. It turned out to be the most admirably adapted for road metal. railroad ballast, etc, of any within a hundred miles. Now that often objurgated "Rattlesnake Ledge" is the most valuable land, acre for acre, of any in the vicinity.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
HOLLAND COUNTY
STAFFORD

Former Resident in Business in Mani . toba-FareweIi Gifts for Rev. A. A. Rose.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
Give Your WasherwomAn Fels-
 Says Anty Drudge.

SayS Anty Dfuo&e. Mrs Gosspe-"Goodness, but Mrs. Verrich must have lot of work in that big house. I've heard she had four women doing the washing"
 Mrs. Cottager-"I have had than dozen doing my washing, though only one at time. Any Drudge-"If you bought FesNaptha soap, could keep your washerwoman longer or dc the washing yourself Washing is small job for woman If she uses FelsNaptha in cold or lukewarm water and lets it take the place of boiling and hard rubbing"
 Dirt Is the home of germs You gather them in the dust that settles on your clothes, in the mud of the streets, from soiled car seats and Tn many other places. You want to kill these germs in the weekly wash, or they may cause trouble Fels-Naptha soap IS a germicide. With 1t, boiling is not necessary either to destroy germs or wash the clothes. In cold or lukewarm water, Fels-Naptha makes short work of dirt, and disease germs cannot live in the same tub.
 Be sure and use Fels-Naptha soap the Fels-Naptha way-no hot water.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
NEW LONDON TO EQUALIzE TAX RATE
The Taxes not Likely to be Raised From
 16 to 20 Mills
THE ASSESSMENTS TO BE INCREASED

An Appropriation of 1000 for Town Clock-A New Steam Fire Engine Provided for-Rev. MT. Bix1er of the Second Congregational Church has Call to the
 Chair of Theology and Christian Doctrine in Atlanta
 Seminary Which New London Hopes he will Decline.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
Shakespeare once said:

"There is a. tide in the affairs of men Which. taken at the flood, leads on to
 fortune.h
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

Another new item in the budget is the appropriation of six thousand five hundred dollars for a NEW STEAM FIRE ENGINE. It is said that there is a piccaninny in that little pile and now it is the topic of conversati tion wherever volunteer firemen congre- gate. It was agitated by the chief en- gineer and others for years that there
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

Perhaps it will be long time be- fore these and kindred weeds become staple" crops. Perhaps such a time will never come. But I have no doubt that there are uses for very many of the things on our farms and in our swamps and under our hills, if only We could bring them to the eyes of the right men. That Minnesota wire grass had been growing on that swamp for thousands of years, regard ed only as a nuisance on waste land, till the man who happened to know what wire grass was good for chanced along and saw it's possibili- ties
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30
One Of the new items in the budget was the appropriation of one thousand

One of the new items in the budget was the appropriation Of one thousand dollars for a clock to replace the ven erable and now unreliable timepiece that has been located in the steeple of the First Church of Christ since the edifice was built and which has been out of kilter for the past decade. The recommendation for this apporpria tion is due to the persistent efforts of Alderman James F. O'Leary, who has been earnestly urging the council to favorable action for new clock since he became chairman of the pulp lie property committee. The project has been pigeonholed for short periods but the alderman who represents in part the Fourth ward, knowing the need for the clock, and the black eye to progress caused by the misleading and intermittent time teller. persisted until victory perched on the peak of the banner pole.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

About two years ago it was diseov- cred that this wire grass was an almost perfect material for certain grass mattlngs which are in large de- mand just now. Whereupon all talk of draining the swamp ceased. The bog, just as it is, seems to be about the most valuable land in the vicinity. Already it has supplied some 5000 or 4,000 tons of dried grass, is giving employment to several hundred per- sons and scores of teams. has resulted in the investment of about $150,000 in buildings, etc, and promises to afford for years to come the most re- munerative occupation in the county
 By fastening bog shoes to the horses feet. 1t has been found possi- ble to use them in cutting the grass and hauling it off.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

Now l don't happen to know of any swamps in Connecticut which produce a grass suitable for mating, nor do I know of anybody who would buy and use it if there were such swamps. But wire grass isn't the only waste thing and nuisance in the world which may have in it the possibility of use fitness. There are a good many un- regarded products of nature, which she is bringing forth on all our hills and in all our SwanpS which a fuller knowledge will some time show us real and practical use for. Doubtless you've all heard old people declare their belief that nothing was made without a purpose. In my part of the country the old fashioned herb docs tors used to assert that every plant was good for something-if we only knew just what. l don't really know whether they were right or not But hope they were. I hope that we shall keep on discovering new uses for all sorts of plants, till at last the time shall come that we will cease to talk of weeds. because there will be nothing growing which won't be worth while for something.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

Another western story which inter- ested me was that of big swamp near Karlstadt, Minn. It covers a good many thousand acres and two years ago people were beginning to wonder whether it would ever pay to drain it and make farms from it. It is covered with thin bog turf, out of which grew a few coarse weeds and a tremendous lot of what is locally known as wire grass This turf is so thin that much care had to be talk en to prevent horses and cattle from wandering into it, as their feet would promptly cut through and they would become hopelessly ingulfed in the un- deriving mud and ooze.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

by contract under the direction of state engineers, where stone was plentier than dirt and gravel in big ger supply than loam, which cost more than six times this to build, and has had to be oiled every year since, to keep the automobiles from tearing 1t out by the roots.-Perhaps they don't have so many of these road wreckers in Dane county. Wisconsin, as we do.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-30

Just between you and me, I'd be mighty glad to have some scientific gent discover a profitable use for quaek- grass. and pusley, and pigweed, and Canada thistle, and burdock, and raeweed, and wild carrot, and daisies, and stinkweed and hawkweed, and a few other of the apparently natural crops my land wants to produce. could grow almost any of them much easier and cheaper than corn and cab bage and potatoes and onions. think-mind you, 1 don't assert it as an actual weighed-out fact, but think I could have cut about fourteen tons to the acre of that pigweed which the botanist5 name Anaranthus retro flexus, this fall, ill my various corn patches. And almost any year I can produce quack grass and pusley enough in one small garden to keep a good sized factory running-f I could find one to use them.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1911-04-13

The health Of this community
- very good at this writing.
We had large crowd at the
singing at Mr.. T. s. Tarver's las,
sunday All reported a nice
me.
We had prayer meeting at Mr.
William Scots Wednesday night
Mr.. Scott Snipes spent thi-
ok with Mr. J. II. Grain and
family.
Mr.. John Sparks has been on
the sick list the past week, but is
Improving.
Mr. Harvey Thwestt visited Nh
saac Shepherd Saturday.
We are having some disagree
10 weather. as it il raining at
the present time.
There will De singing at Mr. W
F. Lambs Sunday afternoon.
The roads Ut this section are in
Q bad condition and We hope 10
nave some roads soon.
Much success to the dear old
EAGLE and its many readers.
Brown Eyes.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1911-04-13
A Newspapers Position.

The Brookhaven Leader speaks
from experience when it gives
voice to the following:
The position Of . newspaper
IN . community is. indeed diff
ncult one. II should be quite
catholic IN its tastes and yet it
should always observe a certain
restraint. It should sympashize
with enthusiasts and yet whisper
words of discretion TO the enthu-
SHASTA It should be- tolerant of
mistakes and yet always a vigil.
ant force for public righteousress
The ideals Of newspaperdom are
singulariy high They never stooo
When one standard bearer shows
signs of falsering, another PUSHES
forward to take his place and
carry the banner on. Nevspa-
pers make mistakes sometimes
OF course. Yet to anyone who
knows the many possibilities OF
error that they encounter 1t ia mar
velous how often they are right. "
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1911-04-13


The health of our neighborhood
is improving.
A large crowd of young peopi'
attended Sunday school Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. K. 3. Humphreys and wife
visited their daughter, Mrs. Ber-
thu West Sunday.
Mr.. x. 3. West aud wife were
called 10 the bedside of their
daughter. Mrs. Eta McDougal at
Charleston Saturday.
Messrs. James Hsmlinton, vii
Bell and Wade Hamlinton. OF
Taylor. were in our midst Sunday
afternoon.
Misses Belle West, Irene and
Evelyn Ship made a business
trip to Oxford Monday.
Msssrs. Milton West and Cleve
land Humphreys spent Saturday
in Taylor.
A good many OF our young pee
pie went TO Yocons bottom boa
riding Monday afternoon. as the
water is all over the bottom and
Is -tiil rising.
We guess the people that are
living on Yccona River are look
ing sick for the water 10 from 3 to
5 feet deep all over their crop
ground.
Much success to the dear old
EAGLE anG its readers.
Two YOUTHS.