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Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21
Local Laconics.

The White Rock Walking club i planning for hike to Norwich ol Thanksgiving day.
 Rev. John. M. Collins, one of West erly's pastorless clergymen, preached Sunday morning and evening in tn Broad Street Christian church, and II the afternoon delivered an address o- The Men and Religion Forward move ment in the Mantle Baptist church a Bradford.
 The parties having the contract l. build the new town building and couI house are required to rage the Bab cock house and remove the material It is probable a portion of the houss will be used as an office and store house during the construction of tht new building.
 Contractor Ecclestone and his mer moved the house from the location i has occupied for over seventy years at the corner of Broad and Unici streets, as far as the corner of Elr street, Monday. The house will prob ably be on the new site in NewtoI court within two days. The electric liGht service was suspended in the section during q Part 6f the day. as wires had to be taken down to permit the passage of the building.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21
Bids For Westerly Town Building
Fifteen Opened by Town and State Commis =rs Fl Decision Reached-Fifth Companys Fair Closes Wi Drill For Cross Medal-Superior Court Session May be Held in Westerly

1 the present session of the superior court, which opened Monday in West klngston, will be held in Westerly Tn addition to the old cases of local interest, these new actions at law from Westerly are on the docket: Hattie EIdredge vs. Stephen c. Peci<ham. ClementsA- Griscom vs. Frank Larlin William w. HiscOx vs. P H. Opie Co.
 Frank BrucNer vs Smith>Granite com panys Eugene F. Philbrook vs. Lila B. Wilson, Washington Trust Co. vs. Westerly Narrow Fabric Co, Frank A.
 sherman. ct al. vs. Westerly Narrow
 Fabric company, Henry F. Bishop vs
 Joseph T. Murphy, and Charles Gold berg vs- Solomon Soloveitzik- The
 Westerly liwyers in these cases are
 Samuel H. Davis. Everett E. Kingsley
 and George R. AIcKenna.
 The bids for the contract to con
 struet the new town building and
 courthouse in Westerly, fifteen in num-
 Der, were opened Monday afternoon
 in the town clerks office, in the pres
 ence Of James M Pendleton, Everett tin H. Spellnan and Thomas McKen-
 zie, the commission on the part of
 Westerly, and Senator Louis w. Ar hold of the state commission. the oth- CT members, Judge Willard B. Tanner and -Abram Atwood of Providence, not being present. With Architect Walker, the commissioners went into secret session before the bids were opened, and in a few minutes MT. Pendleton announced to the bidders, and others in waiting, that nothing relating to the bids would be made public at present, as the commission would take some time in the examinat&n of the bids before any information relative there to was given the bidders or the pub lie.
 Bids were received from the R. A. Sherman Sons Co.,, and the Isaac Sher- man Co, of Westerly; Peck, McWin- jams & Go, Doyle & Murphy, the Fen ton -Charnley Building Co.,, of Nor wich; Woodbury < Leighton Co.,, of Boston; E. K Watson S Co, of War ren; J. c. Robinson I& Son, of New York; William H. Hamlyn & Son, P. F. Harding, William Williams, J. w Bishop Co, Charles E. Mcclure Co, Norcross Bros CO., of Providence.
 The bids cover contracts for an en- tire granite building, one of granite and brick. and for one all brick with granite trimmings. Colonel Greene. representing one of the bidding firms, said before the secret session of the commission was held, that the build ing could be constructed of granite iu accordance with the plans and speci- flea tions and within the appropriation and with a balance left for extras.
 While the building is to be owned Jointly by the town and state, the state commission IS not bound by the vote of town meeting, still. at the town Senator Arnold expressed willingness to have the state section of granite provided the appropriat tion of $5O,O0C made by the state, for building an6 was not exceeded, iT securing the appropriation he gav positive assurance that there wouls be no request for additional appropri ations.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21

the janitor. John Kay. During the evening sandwiches and coffee were served and cigars were passed.
 Copies of Game Laws.
 Town Clerk Arthur P. Cote has re- ceived from the secretary of fisheries and game copies of the game iaws passed at the last general assembly.
 Edward McGuire of Hartford was the guest the past week of his father, James Mcclure.
 Union St. Jean Ncmnates Officers
 Council No. 1sS. L'Union St Jean BaptiSte d'Amerique, held its monthly and social meeting last week. Renie Ganvin presided The reports of the treasurer, collector and whist commit tee were heard and accepted. The re- port of the whist committee was so favorable that il was agreed to have whists in the future twice a month The nomination of officers for the en- sting year was made and the folloWlng were chosen: Chaplain, Rev. U.s O. BellerOse; dean, George Lacroix; hon. orary president. Remi Ganvin: presi dent. Philip Cardin; vice president, Victor Roy; secretary, Arthur Cote; assistant secretary, Zoel Gaucher; treasurer. Joseph D. Pratte; collector, Joseph Boucher; auditors. F. A. Ga reau, 4. FoUrnier Emile Fontain; master of ceremonies. Hyacinthe Du- nais: marshals, Joseph Lacroix and George Despathv; medical examiner Dr. Bourret. The meeting closed with an excellent repast. Fulgence Gareau was caterer.
 Local Briefs.
 Alloy Cote lost two valuable horses, one Friday and one the previous week.
 Fred and William Chartier of WiIli- mantic were guests this week of local relatives
 Francis c. Logan has been appointed to take the military enrolment and w D. Nolan the personal tax enroll rnent of the town of Sprague. Both appointments were made by First Se- lectman R. J. ToGoin.
 Thomas D. Hanley was called to Norwich Sunday on account of the death of a cousin.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21
4 Mai Carriers Load

seems heavier when he has a weak back and kidney trouble Fred Dueh- ren, mail carrier, at Atchison, Kan, says: T have been bothered with kid ney and bIaddera Tduble and had a se- we're pain across my back. Whenever carried a heavy load of mail my kid rey trouble increased. Some time ago started taking Foley's Kidney Pills and since taking them I have gotten entirely rid of all my kidney trouble Osgood Co
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. l.. w. GROVES sigma ture is on each box. 25c.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21
STONiNGTON.
Winds ard High Seas Do Damage Part of City of Worcester's Smoke stack Blown OVer-Eridge Club Meets.

The storms during the past month have broken all previous records in Gashing high against the Atwood shops and over the sea wall and breal1wa ter and even washing over several high docks.
 The Travel club will hold it's session today (TUesday)-
 Going to Gloucester.
 Steamer Nomad was lowed from the Atwood wharf to the steamboat wharf Monday morning She is to be put in order to be taken to Gloucester, Mass, for the winter. Her captain and crew arrived here Monday.
 One section of the starboard smoke stack of the steamer City of Worcester has been blown over by the heavy
 Evening Of Bridge.
 On Monday evening the Bridge Whist club rpet with Miss Edith Durgin at the Ocean house. 4 pleasant pro- gramme with refreshments was en- joyed.
 Rev. and Mrs. Dwight C. Stone lea ye today (Tuesday) fer Danbury. Conn, to attend the 45th annual meeting of the general conference of the conSre- gationaI churches Of Connecticut.
 Judge and Mrs. Elias Hinckley have returned from New York.
 Mrs. N P. Trumbun and Mrs. NJ. D. Trumbu1l have returned from a visit in Hartford
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21
Local Briefs.

Havana is meditating an auto omni- bue service. as in many European n cities.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-21

i the janitor. John Kay. During the | evening sandwiches and coffee were | served and cigars were passed.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The Murray men seem 10 have
triumphed in the selection of Brewer
and Elliott as members of the state
board of agriculture F. S. E. Amos
took the pains to write to friends here
and urge the selection of none but
Cruee men as delegates to the Still
water convention. but a Murray man
went. There is evidence of a Cruce
machine being built and if such is the
case Bill Murray is going to be a
mighty useful man to block its pro-
gress- One POLITICAL machine is about
as bad as another and it will be a sad
day for Governor Cruce when he de
cides that he cannot get along without
a machine.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11
BLOW AT FREE PRESS.

Munsey's for August clears awaJ
the rubbish and shows how puerilt
is the plan first conspicuously urged
by Charles NJ. Shelton and later sup
ported by other freak reformers.
Munseys says: 1t appears that the
state senate of New York may qualify
for membership in the freak legisla.
ton club by passing bill requiring
every newspaper editorial to be signed
with the name of the writer.
1t is not ngely that any bill of this
character could be enacted into law.
II it should be. it would in all proba,
bility come into fatal collision with
the constitutional guarantee of a free
press. Ii does not readily appear to
the public that, behind the printed
word, stands an organization stronger.
more responsible. more amenable to
-Jrced retribution, than any single in
diyidual It does not readily sink into
public apprehension that the man
thirsting for the name of the writer
generally has good and sufficient rea-
son for not risking a passage at arms
with the publication for which the
writer speaks.
In the old days it was possible to
shoot an editor, and by that simple
means to bury his paper in the same
grave. In the journalism of today. the
passing of any particular writer, how.
ever brilliant or forceful. finds the
organization for which he works su-
perior to his loss. The paper con-
tinues to appear even as the Harri-
man roads continued to operate when
the master hand was stilled. Another
takes up the pen, keeps up the work.
The ranks close over the gap, how
ever great. The fight goes on.
Even the conspicuously great are
powerful only as they represent the
proxy OF power. Separate the man
from his cause, and you have puny
residuum Of individual ineffeetiveness.
The reason for the anonymity of the
journalist of opinion is the worthless.
ness Of his personal point of view.
Divorced from knowledge OF the man.
the cause he presents makes it appeal
on the high ground of conscience and
intellect
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

II an ordinance of the city be bad
If it is proving to be detrimental t1 tie
general good, it ought to be repealed
with as little delay We in Vinita
must all suffer alike through any un.
wise action of the city authorities. We
have gone far enough in the meter
proposition TO know that we are ih
trouble and that some modification Of
present plans will have to be made.
The meter system may be the correct
system and the Chieftain verify be-
lieyes it is, but correct meters must
be installed and set to work in q
proper manner before we can expect
satisfactory results. The price we are
paying is undoubtedly too high and
there is a growing belief that the
kind selected is deficient some where.
There is also little question but what
all consumers should be either on a
meter or on fiat rate at the same
time In other words the meters
should be installed for every consumer
before any one should pay meter rates.
Start all in to using meters at the
same date. There must be no juggling
as to the actual cost of these meters
and the number contracted for so the
people may know definitely all about
it Unreliable meters and inefficient
management will create distrust and
dissatisfaction that will grow instead
of diminish. We have an abundance
OF the finest water in the world and
the people of vinita ought to have it
at the least possible expense.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11
PROSPECT IS BLUE
FOR LOCAL ASYLUM
New Building at Vinita Can Not Be
Completed Until Legislature Can
Meet And Take Action.

Oklahoma City, Aug Sit has de-
veloped that there is little chance of
the completion of the two large build
ings for the eastern hospital for the
insane at Vinita until another session
of the legislature makes a re-appro.
priation of the funds previously appro.
Ipriated for that purpose. The original
appropriation was 100000 from the
public building fund, but the contract
price of the buildings was $139. 1000. Of
this amount $65, 900 has been expended
but early this summer work was sus-
pended nthe buildings because the
public building fund became exhaust
ed. 1t has been discovered that the
appropriation for these buildings ex-
pires by Limitation on September II
next, and unless the buildings can be
completed by that time no more money
can be used for their completion after
that date. Owing to the fact that the
public building bonds have not been
sold there is little prospect that any
more of the appropriation can be used
until it expires. This will require a re-
appropriation by the legislature of the
amount unexpended on September II
The recent session of the legislature
appropriated s25O,OO0 for the erection
of additional buildings at the eastern
hospital for the insane, but the con-
tract has never been let for their con-
struction as there is no money in the
public building fund. It is expected
that the public building bonds will be
sold soon and in that contingency the
contract for the additional buildings
can be let in the near future. The
buildings under the old appropriation
are less than half completed and the
prospects are that they will remain
in this condition until another session
if the legislature makes reappropria-
tion.
The board of public affairs has been
more fortunate with regard to the ad-
ministration building of the state uni
versity at Norman Work was stopped
o nthat building June Is because the
building fund was exhausted, but the
contractor made arrangements to COM
plete the building and wait for his pay
and work was resumed July l and is
now going on.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Henri Peter Robbins, editor of the
McAlester News-Capital, declares thai
he is an ex-Missourian, and The Even
ing Light hastens to correct the error
Robbins is from Arkansas. He was
a native of that land where rocky
Ozark peaks surround, and the folks
conveying the news of the philoso
piers birth were so long getting the
message across to where there was a
railroad and place to register remark
able events, that he thinks he was
born in Missouri and that the event
was some years later than when il
really occurred. This is done that
Walter Ferguson may keep his histori.
cal records correct. and that when he
gets his pen ready for the life work
of Robbins. there may be no error in
the biography.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11
JUDGE DAVIS DISSOLvES
NEWSPAPER INJUNCTION

Sapulpa, Okla, Aug. 9.-Yesterday
was injunction day before Special
Judge Preston S. Davis, of Vinita. The
larger portion of time was occupied
in hearing arguments of the Spurrier
Lumber company against the Turner
Realty company and the Turner Drug
company.
The companies have not been form.
ed long and taking up the matter of
thei rexistence, the learned court took
occasion to say that whether inten-
tionally or unintentionally grave
fraud had been committed. The find.
ing of the court was for the plaintiff.
He ordered all deeds to the company
| by Turner set aside.
The case of Burnett VS.. Catheriner
Brothers and the Daily Star came up
for hearing and the motion of defend
ants to dismiss and their further de-
murrer to the amended petition were
each overruled. The original, petition
as well as the amended, one will go
to the supreme court.
In the case of the attorney for the
Durant minor interests, Judge w. G.
Robertson, against B. B. Burnett. re-
signed guardian. and which resulted
in an injunction being granted by
Judge w. H. Brown against Burnett
and wife disposing of any of their
property, and which caused an assault
by Burnett and his brother on Judge
Robertson, the court dissolved the in
junction over the protest of Judge
Robertson who, was present, and who
offered to put bond for $4,000, or
any other sum in order that the in.
terests of no one might suffer while
the settlement was pending.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Recently the Birmingham Ledger
published cartoon representing a muir
der being committed in front of a sa-
loon, and presented the inquiry: DO
the people want a return to such con-
ditions?"
Oklahoma is a prohibition" state
yet Lawton has just witnessed a
tragedy associated with the sale of
liquor. Pearl Rogers was killed, and
w. B. Gentry, the deputy sheriff who
killed him, is in hospital dangerously
wounded
Prohibition, as we have seen it. does
not reduce crime. While we are not
prepared to say it increases the num-
Der of homicides, it does increase law
lessness in other lines. Furthermore.
it has caused the advent of the "road
house" in Oklahoma, infinitely more
iniquitous than the ordinary saloon
and fostering crime far worse than
Observation-Disclosures.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The sale of liquor has never beer
stopped in Vinita and never will be
A few men have been sent to prison
and fined but the Illicit sale goes mer
rily on. To say that no one knows
about it is imposing on the credulity
of an unsuspecting public. We have
no open saloons in Vinita but any man
or boy who wants liquor can get it.
This is true in some measure in every
town in Oklahoma and is the inevitable
consequence of the laws in force at
present. Our officials are as good, and
perhaps above the average in all the
counties of the state.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

Senator Robert L. Owen made a
notable speech in the United States
senate Monday It was the beginning
of campaign against the tyranny of
the federal courts. Senator owen
boldly LAUGHED an attack upon this
branch of the government which has
outgrown its appointed place and has
become the chief instrument in the
hands Of the obstructionists. The SEN
ator was advocating the recall for
United States district judges He de-
clared that once the recall on federal
Judges was provided there would be
no more law making in these courts
established to enforce. not to make
laws. The senator yentured the asser-
tion that once the recall was put into
practice the country would not be
treated to the spectacle of a supreme
court reading into a law" matter
which congress had not only not put
there, but had refused to incorporate.
The address of Senator Owen, we
believe. will be but the opening gun
in nationwide campaign to reform
the federal courts which, as conducted
today. are a disgrace to civilization
and mockery to a republican form
of government The federal courts
for the past thirty years have been
mostly useful to protect the big cor
porations from the operation of reg
ulative laws adopted by the several
states and to wear out the poor man
who has had occasion to bring per-
sonal damage suits against a corpora.
tion. In Oklahoma we have had many
examples of the usurpation of power
by the United States district and cir
cult courts. These courts have aided
in making it impossible to enforce the
prohibition law which congress COM
PEELED us to adopt as a preliminary to
statehood. They have sought to de-
feat the grandfather law, the two-cent
fare law and to advance our freight
rates. The time has come when the
American people are aroused over the
menace of the federal courts and Sen
ator Owens address in the senate Mon
day is but the opening note. The peo-
pie of Oklahoma are in hearty sym
pathy with Senator Owens position
on this question. -Times-Democrat
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

A lawyer charges a man $40 for ten
minutes conversation. The man in
sists on paying it. A doctor charges
one dollar for prescription, and the
patient says: "Oh, pshawl Is that
enough?" An undertaken charges 800
for conducting funeral, and he is
just perfectly lovely with everybody
inside and outside the family, says
the Marion (Ga,l Record. A man buys
a gold brick and apologies for not
having bitten before. An editor walks
a mile in the hot sun to get facts OF
a death or a wedding or a social func-
tion and spends three hours writing it
up and tells lies praising people until
he hates himself. Then if he makes
an Insignificant omission or charges
five cents straight for three extra
copies he is a stingy, careless, good
for-nothing old cuss who never gets
anything right and charges four times
the price of city papers twice as large.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

The day Of tin" bridges and wooden
structures over creeks. draws, ravines
and branches should be over before il
is ever begun to any great extent.
Concrete and stone should be used ex-
clusively. This county might be bond
ed for one hundred thousand dollars
to build tin" bridges and by the time
the bonds were paid the structures
would be worthless, whereas If stone
and concrete were used they would
never have to be replaced.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

1t is going to require the very best of
management on the part of cities and
towns of Oklahoma to stem the rising
tide OF excessive taxation. The bur
den of tax is resting like an iron hand
upon the municipalities of the state
and relief will have to be provided. If
our present rate is increased it will
mean an unbearable burden, and in
deed if it is not lowered the people
viii be forced to cry out against It.
Taxes on land have been reasonable
but that has now gone up to a high
mark All the towns of the state are
sufferers and the limit has about been
reached.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

How rain does transform this old
earth. A few weeks ago the hot winds,
the parched earth and barren pastures
was the picture of dispair and desola.
tion. Now the face of nature is smil.
ing with fast growing and maturing
crops Crop failure is turned into an
abundant yield and business strikes a
liyelier pace. How dependent is proud
man on the seasons for his daily bread.
But, while the earth remaineth, seed
time and harvest, cold and heat. day
and night and summer and winter
shall not cease"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

In the event of the adoption of a
charter under the commission form OF
government there are at least three
classes of citizens that should not find
places as commissioners. The politi.
clan, the land CRATER and the tax
dodger The city of Vinita is at pres
ent dominated by an unholy alliance
between these three classes of in
dividuals. The man who oppose spend
ing money for schools, who try to cor.
ner the public funds and who try to
cash worthless obligations of the city
These fellows say the proposition to
inaugurate a commission form of gov
ernment is a vaguery of the Chieftain
which they know is untrue. They say
it might do for Muskogee because that
city is larger than Vinita but it would
never do for Yinita because it is too
small The logic of that idea in its
final analysis would mean if a bust
ness is small it needs no system in its
which is exactly the re-
verse of the truth. Prevent a man or
a bunch of men from grating and you
always make them sore.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-11

One of Tom Thompson's confessions.
In the Howard (Kans.) Courant: 81
belong to several lodges, but l don't
know that anybody ever flew to my
rescue or rendered me any very great
service because he was a brother 1
have had strangers ask me if / knew
where they could get a drink. just be-
cause they saw wore an Elk button.
But that's all.