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Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
WELLINGTON
Sunday School Picnic Proves a Great
 Success.

The Sunday scllol picnic was fairly well attended, the day was beautiful and hal an enjoyable time. The good ies that are always an important ad- junct of such an occasion were all that could be desired. Miss Alice Pratt superintendent of the primary depart ment, Supt. Bartlett, Rev. E. w. Dar- row, Misses Mathews and DeWolfe and others assisted in entertaining the lit tie people-and the day was declared d success.
 Thirty-nine were registered at Sun day school Sunday afternoon
 People were pleased to meet Mrs. Case, wife of the late Rey. MT Weed who for some time supplied the Con gregational churches here and at West ford. She is guest at the White farm.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

We little farmers in the hiIIy east have small use for such engines of agriculture. Nevertheless, we like to know about them and to think that our brother hayseeds. somewhere else, are able so roaringly to override the ancient measure of a mans work. I know I do and the same is probably true of you. We're all much of
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

muchness. I've even enjoyed the pie lures recently published of men blow ing with automobiles As I looked at them l said to myself: Now, if we could only hitch a good, lively thun- derbolt and streak of lightning to our blow, then we WOULD be going some." And, by love, the very next day I found that we had done it. Per haps not exactly lightning flash, but something just about as quick and as powerful
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
HEBRON
Rumored Real Estate SaIes-Miss Mar, BisseII Enters Nit. Holyoke College.

MT. and Mrs. Elisha Lewis were call- CTS in town recently.
 Mrs. Ida Jennings Moulton of Mas = sachusetts gave an entertainment in the Town hall Wednesday evening for the benefit of the Congregational church.
 It is reported that the Simons Broth CTS have sold their house and store to a purchaser from New York.
 Mrs. Belle Hildreth of Hartford is visiting her mother. Mrs. Rathbun
 MT. BarroWs of Hartford is spending
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

dWritten Specially for The Bslletin.)
 vhe age takes much credit to itself for it's apidity It is fast age ac- cording to it's own confession. Some of us shake wise heads of foreboding and wonder where things are coming to. Others accept the fastness with satisfaction and rejoice greatly therein. Some of us think the brakes ought to be put on. Others opine that little more steam and gasoline and dynamite and thunder and lightning would be a good thing.
 Without nquiring too closely into 4he arguments of these two schools, and assuming, as they both seem to, that the age is really a fast one, go- ing somewhere at d "git thar" gait, it would be natural to suppose that farm ing would share in the general speed ing up. This is probably the fact, on one one side at least. l haven't t noticed any great acceleration in the movement of the seasons. The earth, I am informed, is spinning on it's axis exactly as fast and no faster than for some years past. Likewise it is mak- ing it's annual orbit around the sun in just the same number of months, weeks, days. hours, minutes and sec onds that it always did. The moon and stars, too, all are keeping careful schedule time. Not even a sp1it-second stop-watch at the focus of the Lick telescope can detect any quickening in their motion. They haste not and rest not but roll on forever" The regnant and supreme forces of the uni verse are manifestly in no more of a hurry now than they were in The Year One. So far as they are con- cerned. and so far as they dominate the field of agricultural activity, it is quite clear that this age is neither faster nor slower than any other age that ever has been or ever will be.
 But it isn't of them that we think, mostly, when we talk about our fast ness We're thinking more of the hu- man side Of affairs. It's the way we're doing things that we plume ourselves upon-not the way that old-fashioned Nature does things And certainly there has been marked change in the rate of our going. The advance from bullock wagons and pack mules to the thousand miles-a day locomotives of 1911 is hardly more striking than the progress which has been made in farm ing tools and methods. The other day at a western fair one big wheat field was given up to an exhibition of the old ways beside the new. In one cor ner a few men were reaping with the sickle-what is now called the grass hook" Next the others were cradling the grain. Then came an early built reaper, which required one man to drive, one to work the machine and two to rake off and bind the sheaves. Still further along came the self-rak ing reapers and then the self binders. Last of all, d huge traction engine was sweeping down the acres, drag Ring behind it Veritable machine shop and factory on wheels, which cut the grain, threshed it, cleaned it, measured it, bagged it, and dumped the bags ;n wagons trailing alongside.
 We little farmers in the hiIy east have small use for such engines of agriculture. Nevertheless, we like to know about them and to think that our brother hayseeds. somewhere else,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

While the use of dynamite for tree planting is yet in somewhat experi- mental stage, enough has been done already to enable its advocates to de- clare that the four following facts have been actually determined:
 F'irst-Planting trees with dynamite practically eliminates the loss of young trees during the first year.
 Second-Trees can be planted much more rapidly by the dynamite method than by the old method
 Third-Trees planted with dynamite come into bearing from one to two years sooner than those planted by the soil method
 F'ourth-Treas planted by dynamite grow much more rapidly and yield much more heavily than those planted in the old way.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

F'rink were recent callers in Williman- tic.
 Miss Mary Bissell left for Mt. Hol- yoke Monday to enter college.
 MT. Chamberlain took George Little and family to the Rockville fair We'd nesday.
 It is reported that Henry Spaffard New York.
 E. T. Smith is filling his silo.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
vacation at Miss Caroline Kel :

his vacation at Miss Caroline Kel iogg's.
 Mrs. Etta Bissel was home for few days. She Is staying with her father, who is very feeble.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. Hunt are visiting at w Q. Sayms'. Their home is in Pitts field, Mass.
 Mir. and Mrs. Herbert Maynard of New London were callers in town re- gently.
 Miss Ellen BuelI and Mrs Mary F.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

-iss Ellen Buell. and Mrs. Mary
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
Stains? They're Easily Taken Out"
says Anty Drudge.

Stains! they re Lastly ! dNcH Out.
 says Anty Drudge. Mrs Fsdqet- Do you know, Anty, am getting to bea regular crank watch every egg-mark or stan that the children make the napkins and table cloth, and get so nervous can't enjoy my meals. A,ty Dqudqe3Dont mind the stains and above all don't get nervous Just rub FesNaptha soap on the spots, soak in cool or lukewarm and rub lightly and your napkins and tabe-cloths will be spotess.
 The housewife Is quite likely to be judged by the appearance of the wash as 1t hangs on the line. It Is the one part of the housework that Is all out of doors; all in the eye of your neighbors.
 "How nice that wash looks IS a coveted washday saying. If you knew-lt was either Fels-Naptha soap or too much work that gave the nice look. Drudgery may give it; Fels-Naptha soap will give 1t without drudgery.
 Fels-Naptha makes the clothes clean and pure, because it DISSOLVES every particle of dirt.
 You first soap the clothes, roll and place them in cool or lukewarm water for half an hour You then find that only light rubbing is needed to make them pure as driven snow.
 And it's as good for every other part of the household work as for the wash. A trial will convince you. Follow directions on the red and green wrapper.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23


 Soda crackers are extremely sensitive to moisture. s- Before the advent of Uneeda Biscuit the only persons who ever tasted fresh, crisp soda crackers were the people in the bakeries.
 Imagine their trip from bakery toyour table; exposed to air and moisture kept in grOcers' boxes and finally in a paper bag on the shelf i'm your pantry. Could they be the same as they were the day they were baked?
 Now that we have Uneeda Biscuit-we h lave perfectly baked soda crackers perfectly kept. No moisture can reach them-no con- tamlnatlng lnflu- ences can affect their flavor-their goodness is innpris- oned only to be liberated by you for you when you open the package.
 Alwaysin the moist ure proof package. Never sold i'm bulk. , cents a package. NATIONAL BISCUIT
 COMPANY.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

It is estimated that the peanut .ax- perts fros1 Tsingtau will have reached 50,000 tons at the end of June, 1911.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28

At this, the closing of the year 1911,
we wish TO extend our sincere thanks
TO the people Of Hillsboro and High
land county and our readers generally
for the liberal patronage..they have
given us During thesyear many new
subscribers have been added to our
list and few, indeed, who have drop
ped off, until now the NEws-llERALD
undoubtedly has more readers in
Highland county than any paper pub
lished in the county. We have labor
ed hard to give the people good
newspaper and lit is most gratifying
to us 10 have shown this. substantial
appreciation of our efforts. q We have
made many mistakes, have missed
some items Of interest to our readers.
have been misinformed in regard to
the facts I'm items we have published
and articles have not always been as
well written as they shouldlhave been.
Such things must occur as we are only
human. No one ever regrets 1t as
deeply as the editorl and manager
when these mistakes occur. We want
all the news and we want to publish
it accurately. We do not attempt to
reward friends or punish enemies
through columns of the paper. The
truth, impartiality and fairness is
always our endeavor. For the year
1912 we will strive TO improve the
NEws-HERALD. We hope that we
have protted by our experience, have
learned things which will make us
able TO give our readers better news
paper than ever before. I'VE thank
you again for your patronage in the
past and hope that our efforts merit a
continuance of IL i'm the future.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
SPEED IN BASEBALL.
What an Infield Double Play Means In
Time and Action.

What an Infield Double Play Means In
Time and Action.
In an article on baseball In Every
body's Magazine the writer shows the
wonderful speed that is used in making
some of the plays. He says:
Making first base, though more dra'
matte to watch, is an uneventful ex-
peditlon compared with the trip to sec
ond. II takes fast man TO negotiate
the journey in 3 3-5 seconds. No thrown
ball goes over 300 feet, and II batted
ball travels beyond the safe limits OF
single throw It must be relayed by the
fielders. While you are watching the
outhelder scamper after the ball the
relay line is being swiftly formed in
the infield. There could be no such
quick and accurate fielding OF deep
outfeld hits II the outfielder taking the
ball did not know that behind him was
ranged his line OF relays ready to take
the ball the instant he could turn and
throw 1t. The relay line In profess
sional team forms almost automatical-
ly.
To make a double play In the inheld
the shortstop. for example, must field
a ball that has been batted about 1876
feet He passes the ball from ten TO
twenty-five feet TO the second base
man, who must then throw II ninety
feet to first. All this while the batter
is running ninety feet, trick that, as
we have seen, 1t takes snappy run
ner to turn in 3 3-5 seconds. It's a
close call and case OF utilizing the
fraction of a second, but with sharp
! fielding the margin is all on the side
OF the fielders. The double play LIS the
menace ever threatening the runner on
| first
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
EAST MONROE.
Dec. %, 1911.

Dec. %, 1911.
Orland Zimmerman. OF Detroit,
Mich, visited relatives here a few
days the past week.
j. w. Durnell and wife, Of Cincin-
nati, visited friends here last week.
Sam Simmons, of Washington g. H.,
was visitor here recently.
F. c. Littler, of Dayton, spent Xmas
visiting relatives here.
Harry Newland and Miss Mary New
land, Of Clinton, Ind. are guests OF
relatives here.
Miss Lillian Morton, of Blanchester,
visited relatives here lastlweek.
Robert Snyder, Of Wilmington, Wis
tied friends here last week.
CISCO Cox, of Highland, spent Tues
day here.
A. f. Haines and wife visited rela-
liyes at Midland City .a,sfew days
recently.
Born, TO Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.. Fish
back, Friday, Dec. %, son.
Mrs. Molie Ramsey andc grand.
daughters, Misses Sarah and. Isabelle
Boyer, visited at Jacksonville last
week.
W. S. Tuttle and family spent.a few
days last week with relativeslat Sabins
Ernest Stoker and Elliott Lloyd
spent last week atIColumbus.
Misses Hattie and Clara Raines Ell
aertalned a number Of young folks or
Monday evening of this week.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
PROSPECT CROSSING.
December 25, 1911.

The Berryville school closed last
Friday for a weeks vacation. The
advanced class under the supervision
OF Prof. A. O. Fling had very humor-
Gus program prepared to entertain the
parents and friends, after which they
were given a very generous treat. All
returned home feeling that the after
no n had been we'll spent.
Roy Ellison returned home from
Columbus Saturday, where he has
been attending school, to spend his
vacation.
W.. c. Kelley, OF Cleveland, is the
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
l.. Kelley, for week.
Prof. O. A. Puckett and wife, OF
Bainbridge, are the guests OF their
son, George, and family.
Elizabeth Ballentine, Of Blanches-
ter, is spending the holidays with
home folks.
Mrs. DOME Ashmore and son,
Frank, are the guests Of friends In
Wilmington and near Xenia.
Chas. Ashmore and family were en-
tertained at the home Of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Pearl Main, OF Marshall,
Sunday.
Sanford Greed and daughter, Cora,
and son, Homer, took Xmas dinner at
the home of II. N. Kelley.
Vernon Reno and friend, OF Nor
wood, were guest Of Grover Eakins
and family Xmas.
M. M. Ream and wife visited Jas
Greenfield and family Thursday.
The Sunday School scholars OF
Prospect Church were given big
treat Sunday morning.
Newton Faris and family attended
the Sunday School Convention at New
Market Sunday.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
TRAVELLING STORES.
Portable Shops on Wheels a Curious
Feature OF Cuban Life.

Among the many interesting things
to attract the attention of the tourist
in Cuba are the travelling stores, con.
Sisting of all sorts of queer vehicles
which traverse the city and rural dis
tricts
These portable shops are constructed
in an ingenious manner so as to dis.
play their wares to the best advantage.
Every article used IN household and
wearing apparel of all kinds are ON
sale. and the owner OF the wagon.
which resembles department store,
boasts that he can supply dry goods
and notions of all kinds. from paper
Of needles to n ready made gown The
sides of shop on wheels are made
OF glass and so arranged as to give
them the appearance of shop window
Perfumery is one Of the leading ar.
ticles sold in this way. for. however
poor the natives may be. they always
gave money enough TO purchase CO.
Iognes and generally the most expeD-
sive varieties
During carnival season a plentiful
supply of masks. caps and grotesque
suits Is added to the stock. Men with
pushcarts laden with linens and laces
or cooking utensils go about the streets
Of Havana, offering their goods TO the
women who cautiously peer out from
behind barred windows. These carts
have the appearance Of street organ
and are pushed among the splendid
smooth avenues of the city with ease.
Often men will carry their stock, dis.
playing 1t on a pole TO which cross
wise sticks have been fastened, like
the old fashioned cotheshorse. Toys
also form a part Of the stock of these
human delivery wagons. - Leslie's
Weekly.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
HIRED NEWSPAPERS.
A Custom In London In the Days When
Prices Were High.

B
Prices Were High.
A London newspaper. the Daily
News. has unearthed an interesting
document which goes back to the days
OF dear newspapers. when these papers
were taken around to houses and hired
for so many hours at so much an hour
Tucked away. 1t says, In the leaves OF
an old guidebook to the Crystal palace.
dated 1854. has been found little
printed leafet. issued from Westerton's
library and newspaper office. 20 St.
Georges place. Hyde Park Corner.
making the following announcement:
Can be had from the office by 8
o'clock In the morning. TO keep at 10
cents per copy. or lent to read for three
hours at % cents or two hours for 1S
cents per week. II can also be sup
piled at O'Clock in the afternoon at
the reduced price OF q cents per copy
or posted into the country at So per
quarter payable In advance"
In those days the Daily News had
been started only eight years under
the original editorship of Charles Dick
ems and was still published at 10 cents
copy. Its editor at the time war
William Weir. and Harriet Martineau,
perhaps the first woman in England to
undertake regular journalistic work,
was one Of the writer's OF its leading
articles.
The system of hiring did not disap-
pear quickly. Certainly down to the
year 1880 there were many households
in which the Times was still left on
the same terms. and it would be diff
fcult to say when the system finally
died out.-ChriStian Science Monitor.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
A Draw.

~ found 30 cents this morning" con-
fded Jimmy
Found whole half dollarP cried
his mother How 6ne What did you
do with it?"
Pete Jones was along. so gave him
half"
Dear, generous boy! Did you do
that of your own accordr'
"Yessum- well. we decided that
would be right"
Jimmy! He didn't whip you and
make you give up halff"
mo, mamma. II he'd licked me he'd
"a had 1t all. The scrap was a draw"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
NEW PETERSBURG.
December 25, 1911

Rev. Shrivers CLOSED his meeting
here Monday night on account Of Ill
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Cowman spent
Christmas with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dodds, of Bridges.
Miss Della Williams, of Springfield,
Is here to spend thelholidays with her
parents.
The Wise Brothers brought In a
large drove Of Jersey COWS and calves
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Spence enter
tained with Christmas dinner. The
following guests were present Mr..
and Mrs. West. Mr.. and Mrs. Nose
Pearce, Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Cope,
Mary West, Of Columbus, Grover
West, Frances West and Clarence
Pearce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Karnes are
spending a few days with theil
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
Whsrs the Fruit Grows.

A politician In San Francisco who
has been In office and on the city pay
roll for many years was addressing a
meeting OF his fellow citizens. 1t was
a labor meeting
"You men must know" spouted the
orator, that you are the great body
polite in this city. You are the roots
and trunk OF our great municipal tree.
while we who represent you In office
are merely branches on that magnin-
cent tree"
True for you" piped a man In the
back of the hall "But did ye ever
notice all the fruit grows on the
branches. Saturday Evening Post
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
SUGARTREE RIDGE.
Dec. 25, 1911

Dec. 70, l9ll.
The M. E. protracted meeting closed
Dec. 10 with fourteen accessions to
the church. The meeting was con-
Quoted by Rev. George Easton.
Mrs. Reuben Doggett is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Booth is better.
Roy Vaughn wears a grin all the
time, It's boy.
John Shaw and wife are rejoicing
over the arrival of new girl.
Harry Lyle and wife are at the bed.
side of Mrs. Lyle's mother.
Mrs. David Temple is at Christ's
Hospital recovering from an operation.
Geo. Hetherington and wife are the
guests of the latter's father, VIM.
Borden today.
Miss Lum Stout entertained several
OF her relatives Sunday.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
Cleaning Fluid.

An excellent homemade cleaning
fluid useful generally for many emer-
gencies is made by dissolving four
ounces of white CASTLE soap In quart
OF boiling rainwater, When cool add
two ounces each of alcohol. ether and
glycerin, four ounces OF ammonia and
finally one gallon Of rainwater and
then bottle. This will remove grease
spots from clothing and spots from ta-
BILE covers. carpets and rugs.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
LOCALIZED NICKNAMES.
They Appeared In Official Records In
Colonial Times


Nicknames are not likely TO go out
of fashion so long as human nature
remains what II Is SchOObOys will
nickname each other. rolegians Will
nickname their professors, and sol.
diers will speak Of their commanders
as Hell Fire Bill" Fighting Joe" or
what not. In these days. however, 1t
is not customary to spread such titles
upon official records, as was formerly
the habit. according to the archives
OF several of our states.
In the Dutch records in 1914 we
have John Petersen. alias Friend
John. In the Newtown purchase from
the Indians. dated In 1856. one Of the
boundaries is "by Dutchman's land
called Hans the Boore." and In the
Bushwick patent. dated Oct IL. 1867.
one of the boundaries is John the
Swedes meadow" In 1906. in the
Kings county records. man is named
living at Gowanus as "Tunls the Fish
er."
The common council OF New York
I'm 1851 ordered fsh to be brought into
the dock "over against the city hall
or the house that Long Mary former.
ly lived in" and in the same year an
order was passed that Topknot Betty
and her children be provided for as
objects of charity"
The explanation of this custom In
many cases was that the persons in
4. \ 70, ax,ca
or had forgotten them. so that the use
II their generally accepted nicknames
,ecame necessity. So numerous
were the Smiths living upon Long Is.
land that 1t was thought necessary to
distinguish the various original fami-
lies by some peculiar name. Thus we
have the Rock Smiths. the Blue
Smiths. the Bull Smiths and the
Weight Smiths. Harper's Weekly.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
FALLSVILLE.
Dec. 25, 1911.

A happy New Year to all.
Mrs. Jas. Roads and daughter, Nell,
were shopping in Hillsboro Saturday.
Charles Boatman and wife enter
tanned few of their friends with an
oyster supper Saturday evening.
Mrs. VIM. Ford spent last week with
her daughter, Mrs. VIM. Hamilton,
near Boston.
Miss nellie Roads spent Wednesday
with her sister, Mrs. j. w. Rogers, at
Hillsboro.
Mrs. VIM. Powell and sister, nellie
Roads, we're shopping In New Vienna
Monday.
John James, of Seaman, Is spending
few days in this vicinity.
Miss Rachel Michels and brother
Luther, spent Saturday night AND
Sunday with Charles Boatman and
family.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28

II some way could be devised so that
the Editor would not have to look an
hour every time he wanted his scissor s
the New Year would be happy one
for him.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28
If You Are a Trifle Sensitive

About the size of your.shoes, it'ss some
satisfaction to know that many people
can wear shoes size smaller by shak-
ing Aliens Foot Ease into them
Just the thing for Patent Leather
Shoes, and for.breaking In New Shoes
Sold Everywhere, 25c. Sample FREE
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy
N. Y.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-28

Judge Hollister, of the y. S. Dis
let Court at Cincinnati, on Tuesday
granted the application Of Bernard
ii Wolf, proprietor Of the Bee Hive
Store here, for discharge in bank
ruptcy.