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Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
NEW CLERK AT SMITHS.
N. J. Piatner Takes Place Vacated
 by Oliver R. Porte ance

N J. Platner of Philadelphia has taken the position of pharmacist at Smiths drug store, filling the vacancy made by the resignation of O. R. Portelance, who went to Taftyil1e. MT. PIaIner is a graduate of the Albany college of pharmacy. and mas been lately employed by the Mulford com pary, manufacturing chemists in Phil adelphia.
 MT. Platner is a prescription special ist with a high rating, who will prove a valua ble assistant to Manager James Nara. His long experience makes him an excellent man for the store, which always has the best.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Will of Alfred Mitchell.

The will of Alfred Mitchell who died at Kingston, Jamaica, was admit ted to probate at New London Friday. It is very brief document and directs that after the debts and funeral ex- penses are paid the estate shall go to the teStator's wife. Mrs. Annie o. Mitchell. The will was drawn on Oct. l, 1910.
 Mrs Mitchell is named at executriX. Mr. Mitchell owend the extensive Pc quot estate, large farm a Lyme and the estate at Kingston, Jamaica.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
STATIONARY ENGINEERS. 1~ ns sfE .s -.ssl sfysS a~ss -.-.s.-<~tS ~tS Delegates Named to State Convention
 at Hartford This Month.

sociation, No. 6. elected it's two dele gates and it's two alternates to the state convention at it's meeting held Friday evening in the Bill block. Pres ident Levi Saunders was in the chair for the business of the evening. John D. Carpenter and Harry Leonard were named as delegates with Carlos B. Eccleston and George NJ. Ellis as al- ternates. The convention is to be held at Hartford June 23-24.
 At it's meeting June 16 the local as- sociation will hold it's annual election of officers
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Opportunities to Save.

The already adequate savings facii- ties of the state have just been added to by the establishment in Willimantic of another postal savings bank. With the gra dual extension of the govern ment savings system, if people do not save money and keep it in a proper place it will be their own fault.-Com- mercial Record
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Native Strawberries.

On Friday afternoon there were half-dozen crates of native strawber ries received by Somers, they being the first to be secured this season. The berries came from the Navy Yard where there are extensive beds for the cultivation of this fruit For the past few days the picking of handfuls and single baskets of berries herea bouts has been reported, but this is the first large picking received rere.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Joseph C. Worth. dr.. Injured.

On Thursday afternoon. while stand ing in wagon in Market street in front of Worth 6 Co.'S, Joseph C. Worth. IT,. was thrown violently into the street when the horse started sud denly. He landed on his head and suffered from concussion of the brain. He was reported as much improved on Friday. as his many friends will be pleased to learn.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

for many years past, viii furnish the provisions. The Harvard supplies will be purchased in New London.
 The Froehiichkeit Singing. society is to have an outing on Sunday, going to the farm of Louis Haack, Jr. at Trad ing Cove The Plainfield Brass band is expected to furnish the music.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Episcopal Rector Resiens.

Rev. Frank H. Bigelow. who for the past seven years has been in charge of the chapel of St. .Tohn's Episcopal church in Stamford, has sent in his resignation to become effective on July 1 next. pr. Bigelow has accepted the associate pastorship in St. Johns Episcopal church in Bridgeport of which Rev. William H. Lewis is rec tor.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Failed to keep Promise.

his pdromise to marry Mary Ternow- sky she had him arrested and he is now in the Norwich jail under bonds of s5,G00. Teh girl, who is from Col chester, met Shien June 10, 1910.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

During the six months ended April 26, 1911 40,73G immi grants were landed at Halifax. They were of a most fa- vorab1e class and largely booked for the western provinces.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

WirsIow Tracy Williams was one of the three Gentlemen of tine Council. chosen to serve until 1914, at the an nual meeting of the Connecticut Soci- ety of Colonial Wars, in Hartford, on Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Miss Emily Beckwith. a teacher in the Walnut Lane school, Germantown, Pa, reaches her home on West Town street today Saturday, for the sum- fner vacation.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
To Exempt PIainville Camp Grounds,

A petition has been presented in the senate at Hartford which asks that the Plainville Methodist camp grounds be exempt from taxation on the ground that they are used for religious pur- poses.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Miss Frances R. Whitney of the fac uIty of the Catherine Aiken school, Stamford. returned Friday evening to her home here after the close of the school year.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Mrs. F. E. Dove of Summer street left on Friday for q visit with her daughter. Miss Amy Dove. in Philadel- phia. Miss Dove sails on June 9th from Philadelphia on the steamer Me nominee of the Red Star line to spend the summer in France and Switzerland.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Mrs. William C. Osgood of East Town street returned Thursday after a visit in PittsfieId, Mass, where she was the guest of MT. and Mrs. w w. GamweIl.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Mir. and Mrs s. N. Warrington of West Northfield Mass, are visiting their son. H. l.. Warrington, of Wash ingtOn street
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Mrs Horace l. Briggs of Providence is at her former home in this city for q stay of several days.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Miss Marguerite Sayre of Newark N. J., is the guest of Mrs. Rush w Kimball of Broadway.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
Incidents in Society

Mrs. E. D. Warden of Constantinople is the guest of Mrs. Peter Wright of Slater avenue.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03
PERSONAL

Henry Giddings of North Franklin is assisting l. H. studdafd & Son at Lords Point.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Among those appointed by Gov. Sim con D. Baldwin as a delegation from this state to attend the thirty -eightt national conference of charities an6 corrections at Boston, June to IA are Mrs. Martha C. Mitchell of Nor wieh and pr. Donald L. Ross of Mans field.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

The Ladies Sewing circle of the A. M. F. Zion church, which recently held their annual fair. realized s106.s0. From this amount sT5 was paid on the pas tors salary. They feel grateful to the public for their kind assistance.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Mrs. Harris ffymon of Groton has returned from Norwich, where she visited relatives.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

At the Connecticut agricultural col le2e, Storrs, efforts are being made to secure funds for painting the picture of Willis Nicholas Hawley of the cla ss of '9S. who died during the Spanish American war Professor Wheeler states that about s100 has been re- ceived so far
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

The case of the Singer Sewing Ma chine company vs. John J. Ryan whicl was scheduled to have been heard il the court of common pleas today. ha. been postponed for two weeks. Tn. suit is brought to recover for sewing machines which were bought by MT Ryan.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

The Moosup Journal says: Mrs. Mary Hayden Loughran of Central Village, who was in the Moosup U o1- Icy accident last December. was ex- amincd Friday at her home by Dr. Hartman of Norwich. who found that she was more seriously injurtd than reported.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

Mrs. Lena Becker of New Londor has brought suit against the city cl New London for g GOO damages fol injuries received by a fall on a wall in Bradley street March S. 1911. Shs received a sprained ankle and rup. tured fragments of her right leg.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

There will be competitive examina tions at military posts throughout tho country beginning Sept. for the ss- lection of about 100 civilians for the appointment to be second lieutenants in the r. $. cavalry, field artillery ant infantry
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

The supplies for the Yale crews are to be purchased in this city as usual this year. arrangements having been made to that rsseat- Somers Bros, as
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-03

John Donovan. deputy highway com missioner. was in Westerly Thursday. He also visited the selectmen of Ston- ington and North Stonington. An at tempt is being made to improve the roads.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
How to Drive Out Rats
April 4, 1911,
Name and Address.

Rats are the bane of the lives Of ware
housemen, and a foreman Of one concern
gives some advice on the proper way OF
hunting and exterminating the rodents.
Never attack a rat I'm closed ROOM
he said. open a door or window and give
II a chance to get away. Even II you've got
a dog to help you, you may be bitten II
you don't Rat bites are very dangerous.
A rat eats all sorts of carrion and filth and
then puts his dirty whiskers into anything
else that he wants to sample.
Here's another idiosyncrasy Of rats.
They logically carry out the principle OF
the survival OF the flttest. And they are
not merely suffragettes or suffragists but
the females absolutely boss the rat tribe.
The slightest token OF physical weakness
in the baby rat is the signal for death
at the teeth OF its mother. About five rats
survive from a nest of ten or fifteen. The
male rat will fight TO save the little ones,
but is invariably driven off by the ferocity
Of the mother. You never saw a rat yet
that wasn't a perfect specimen. II the
mothers did not have this trait the earth
would be overrun with rats. Rats live
and travel in colonies. The head OF the
group Is always an old female rat. When
start TO clean up settlement Of rats
lay for the head female rat. II / catch
and kill her the others disappear,
zone OF the peculiarities Of rats is their
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
Uap UuohondJe Voice the Supreme EgOism Of Woman
A - .,oI ~ - WV and Mans Simple Truthfuness
BY AMERE MAN.


The mon hly bills were an in and conse-
qsuntly the monthly gloom was on.
About the first Of every month In the
average household the cold practicalities
n meeting the butchers and grocer's bills
eHcts the most imaginative person from
his castles in Spain. or. to be more speci-
lie. from the little house In the country
toward which he is endeavoring to save
money.
The establishment OF the Post Graduate
Husband was IN no wise exceptional 20
this seasonal saRging Of the spirit and the
pocketbook And Il was In one Of these
periods OF gloom that despite the expostu-
lations OF the Amateur Wife Her Husband
decided that 10 buy wood by the cord and
saw and chop II himself would result IN a
big saving.
I'VE can't do anything about coal eX-
ccpt pay what the extortloners ask for
IT," he admitted. sadly, but I see on this
months bill charge Of $40 for kindlng.
That is a totally unnecessary expense.
Cord WOOD il much cheaper and II will be
the finest kind Of exercise for me to saw
and chop h-as We require it-of course"
But you don't know how to saw and
chop wood" exclaimed His Wife, incerdu-
lousy.
know he'H to chop wood? You forget I
was brought ND on a farm and the only
way could earn money for school books
was TO look after fathers woodpIlel used
20 hate the iob-but you order the wood
and then just walt and watch me; that's
all have to sayl" r.
So the Amateur Wife ordered three tons
OF coal as usual. but stipulated that cord
wood should be sent instead OF kindlins
wood. thereby saving something like a dol
lar on the months bills.
When she opened the door for the Posi-
Graduate Husband that evening she under
stood from his first question that his woe
man fervor had not abste.
Did the wood conner" he asked, as he
I discarded his hat and overcOat.
7 yes. dear" smiled the Amateur wife
and Mary tells me the supply of kindling
II completely exhausted. She hasn't ever
enough TO- start the kitchen fire in thu
morning"
I'm chop some for you after dinner
You needn't lose any sleep about g. tina
is'-and his face fell suddenly would
chop some, only we have neither a saw
nor an axe in the house"
The eyes OF the Amateur wife sparkled
Her voice exulted as she exclaimed
"Oh, yes, we havel / bought a beauti
ful shiny axe and a perfectly lovely say
this afternoon They were awfully cheap
paid eighty-nine cents for the axe AM
nlnety-elght cents for the saw! Every
thing is ready for you All you have Il
do is to saw and chop the wood Wei
both go out in the back yard and III
watch you work! | think It will be lot
OF fun"
The Post Graduate Husband snorte'
cynicaly
oh, ot course it's lots OF fun to watcl
tie other fellow work he said.
Then he yawned feellngly and ostenta
tously.
~ don't know why but I'm dreadful!
tired and exhausted tonight" he observed
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04

clubs and theaters that they enjoy are
better and truer to their wives because Of
IL. In small town where there are no
shows, no bar-rooms and no place to stay
at night except home, the men get fidgety.
The result is that they seek other women.
There is a great deal more immortality IN
small'towns than in large cities
This knowledge is what has prompted
me 10 come to Evansville TO live with Mr..
Strodes. He would never be content in
Newburg. While I prefer the suburban
city, because l was born and raised there
and have shared my joys aud sorrows
there with 80 many husbands, yet have
learned that II wife wants 10 keep her
husband she must first make him satisfied
In this world It is the woman who must
make the sacrifice"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
Lorettas Looking Holds Up the Imaginary Invalid

The glass reflects a rather pleasing
image Looking well Is an important part
Of your sickness. Your kimonOs are Of
the daintiest hues. Your pillows are mar
wells Of French embroidery. The elder
ducks OF the north and the sQuint-eyed
Inhabitants OF China have given their best
10 make your covelid a thing OF beauty.
You are an expensive luxury. You are
a self-osntsred crank. You are an impOsi-
ton on the good nature ana the pOcketbOok
OF the man who acquired nominal posses
sion through the marriage ceremony. OF
course. he Is rich, or, st least. by hook or
crook. gambling In stocks. or fleeing the
lamb. he Is able to scrape together the
whereWithal which makes your imaginary
invalidism possible.
The time and the money and the pneu-
matte tires which you waste In seeking
the offices Of attractive physicians is
scarcely commensurable. When one OF
these agreeable gentlemen. reading your
ailment In the coquetry % your hat and
the hstless. elegant ensrvati0n Of your
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04

validism with such picturesque accessories,
you feed your neurotic emotionalism by
playing the role so effectively. that women
less able financially than yourself are in
spirod with the desire to emulate you.
Like a good many other things that are
not. imaginary invahdism ought 10 be
grounds for divorce. or subject 70 compul-
sorry treatment, said treatment TO consist
OF active eXertion on the part OF the invalid
az the handle end OF a good-sized broom.
The social scheme has no place for the
imaginary invalid. She is a clog. She is a
cancer in the body OF society And she IL
a tremendous nuisance and burden and irri-
tation to her husband.
Once upon a time a good man appreci-
ated the fact that he was being imposed
upon and abused by an imaginary invalid
wife. lie cultivated an enthusiasm for a
perfectly healthy. absolutely normal wo-
man. And the invalid wife recovered mi
raculOusly.
It's strenuous cure; but the indolent
unsatisfactory, self coddnng. imaginary
invalid needs heroic treatment
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04

manner. prescribes a trip TO some expen-
sive cure" you are in the seventh heaven.
And your husband-possibly he feels nearer
the promised land when you are at Palm
Beach. At any rat, he raises the money,
and you take the trip.
But are you benefited No. You have
simply associated yourself with other wo-
men like you, who have inspired you with
the latest In invalidism. You will re-
turn home with a new disease. or a more
fashionable complication OF the old one;
and the attractive doctor Is again required.
You are tired OF practicing the fine arts
of your coquetry upon your husband.
The doctor Is a new mark at whom you
aim your shafts. IL Is women OF your tupe
who have created a large and lucrative
practice for handsome medical men who
understand the frailties OF femininity.
Your husband is unfortunately not the
only sufferer He may be able TO pay the
price OF your inVandism. But there Is a
queer quirk In woman nature that causes
certain OF the sex 70 be seized with a
mania OF imitation. You inveat your in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
"Well Off"

Jeremy Sanderson, the well-known So
clclogist Of Duluth, was condemning the
international marriage that gives an
American girls beauty and millions 10 some
elderly and withered nobleman.
Those mercenary foreign hounds that
fitch our girls" said Mr. sanderson, bit
terly, ARE well off-well off, l mean, In
the Calhoun use OF the term.
eli. Clay Calhoun, testifying in an as
ssult case, spoke Of one Washington White
as well off
"Now witness, said the cross-examin-
ing lawyer when you declare White to be
well off, what do you mean? Is he worth
$4,000?
" No sab. Oh. no, sab, said Calhoun.
"EIs he worth S5,OOO?'
"'No sab. Nah gracious, no.
is he worth 1900?
"'No sab; he aintwurf II cents
Then how is he well off?
'Bekase, sab, his wife an an No
weshlady and keeps de hull family in
hang-up style
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04

II His Wife understood these tentative
surrenders OF a weak spirit she gave no
sign.
outdoor exercise is Just what you need,
she said coongly. Don't you remember
how other great men sawed and chopped
wood? There we're Lincoln and Bismarck
and Gladstone, and oh so many other
statesmen"
The countenance OF the Post Graduate
Husband expanded with frank gratlflca-
ton.
That's so" he agreed in utter serious
ness, for no man can see the humOr Of a
fond wife's estimate OF his character.
Come on out to the wood piler
SO the Amateur wife accompanied him
to the great tumble Of logs in the back
yard
His preparations which consisted OF re-
moving his coat collar and waistcoat
consumed an unconsciously long time.
When at last he began to saw Il was evi-
dent either that the saw was DUH the
wood wet to the core or that the Post
Graduate Husband did not know what he
| was about.
| Hope severed the big stick the frs,
time. perseverance the second, but in the
/ third round it was plain that the woodmsn
was continuing exclusively on his nerve.
"There!' he said finally. i think that'll
| be enough for tomorrow
His wife surveyed the four immense sec
tons of log with undlsguised dismay
But dear, It has to be chopped yet!
That wouldn't fit in the stove!'
The Post Graduate Husband looked up
rebeliously.
Let William do IT," he said as he wiped
the perspiration from his brow. What
do we pay furnace man for, anyhow"
but Gladstone dear-and Lincoln-and
Bismarck-What about them2" twinkled
his smiling spouse
you know very well Lincoln never could
afford a furnace manrl answered the Post
Graduate Husband, as he walked wearily
into the house.
Copyright, 1911. by the n Y, Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
Reward of Industry

Jack London, at publishers dinner in
New York. said OF industry:
The boy who starts at the bottom in
some big concern thinks all he needs TO
do IL to work his very best, and then his
employer will raise him up and up till
finally, he is made general manager. AS
a matter of fact, the truth lies nearer
Lawson's case.
4" Lawson, said the head Of a rich firm,
I have noticed that you work with amaz-
ing zest. No detail Of the business is too
small to escape you. No task is too hard.
You are the first TO arrive in the morning,
you are the last to leave at
"'Oh thank you, sir; thank you, sir,
cried Lawson, expecting his salary to be
doubled.
Hence Lawson, his employer ended,
with a snarling laugh, TN ask you to
dig out the first Of the month 1t is men
OF your caliber who get a business down
pat and then go and start rival estab-
lishment in the next block.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
Wife to Nine Men Has Own Ideas

MIS-. Harrison strodes Of Evansville, Ind,
has iust been married for the twelfth time
size has only enjoyed nine husbands, now
ever, having married one man three times
The Evansville correspondent OF the New
York World says that. as might be eX'
pected. engraved on the heart of this much
married woman is the picture Of the one
man who died in her arms-the one man
she Logged most OF the nine who have called
her wife
Pooly Ann strodes has been married
4 twelve times The last ceremony, on her
Wedding on March l. united to Harrison
strodes farmer OF Evansville. Although
Samuel Weed was husband No. g. he leads
all the rest In her esteem because as she
says. he was good to her and was "as
patient as a saint on his deathbed.
Giving up the house in Newburg, Ind.
where she had lived with all her husbands
but the last, Mrs Strodes has removed
10 Evansville. Conspicuous on the mantel
OF her new home are the photographs OF
all her past husbands strodes was a ten
ant In one Of the several residences she
owns. and she became acquainted with him
IN collecting his rent. Mrs. Strodes for
tune Is estimated at $4,000, and all gained
by the cumulative estates left by her past
husbands.
Mrs strodes r. now 20 years old but is
as active, as well preserved and as ener-
getie as the average woman OF 40, Without
the aid OF girl she took possession OF
her furniture a. It was unloaded from 9
van al the door OF her new home and sci
IL in order,
Asked why she had siven up home in
the beautiful suburban town Of Newburs
and moved TO an unpretentous residence
district In Evansville, Mrs. StrOdes said
'Newburg has been too quiet for my nus
bands There are no saloons there. Mer
do not want to hang around the house al
the time. They do not knit or sew and
they do not enjoy the gossip OF other wo
men who are sure 90 call during the even
ings 1 would have kept Mr.. Baker thus
hand No. lOl n + had listened 10 him and
moved TO Evansville. Men want their sa
looms. their card games and enjoyment
u may seem quite contrary 70 general be
lief. but know that men who live in oitie
and get their entertainment IN the saloons
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-04
Ode to a Skull

Behold this ruin! IT'S a skull
Once OF ethereal spirit full
This narrow cell was MES retreat,
This space was thoughts mysterious seat
What beauteOus visions filled this spot,
What dreams of pleasure long forgot?
Nor hope nor JOY, nor love nor fear
Have left one trace Of record here.
Beneath this moderng canopy,
Once shone the bright and busy eye,
But start not at the dismal void
II social love that eye employed,
II with no lawless fire It cleaned,
But through the dews of kindness beamed
That eye shall be forever bright,
When Stars and Sun are sunk in Night
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready swift and tuneful tongue;
If Falsehoods Honey It disdained
And when IL could not praise was chained
II bold In Virtues cause Il spoke,
Yet gentle Concord never broke
T1e silent tongue shall plead for thee
When Time becomes Eternity.
Say. did these fingers delve the mine?
or with the envied rubies shine?
To hew a rock or wear a gem can little
now avail 10 them.
But, II the page of Truth they sought,
or comfort to the mOurner. brought,
These hands a richer need shall claim,
Than all that wait on Wealth or Fame.
Avails IT whether bare or shod.
These feet the path of Duty trod?
If from the bowers Of ease they fled,
TO seek Affections humble shed;
II Grandeur's guilty bride they spurned,
And home to Virtues cot returned
These feet with angels wings shall vie,
And tread the Palace Of the Sky
James Watson.