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Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
HOPKINTON
Buds of Night Blooming cereus Open
 School to Begin Tuesday.

Mrs. A. Irene Mills entertained over Sunday her sister, Mrs. Sherman and son from Slocumville.
 Mrs. Alice L. Sprague of New Shoreham is visiting at the home of her brother, George H. Sprague.
 Schools to Open Tuesday.
 The public schools throughout the town open for the fall term next Tues day.
 George H. Sprague is visiting friends at Block Island.
 Three buds of night blooming cereus opened at the home of Rev. E. P. Ma thewson Wednesday evenin gof last week.
 Miss Marion Carpenter arrived Sun day morning at her home on High street. Ashaway, from Alfred, N. Y.
 Miss Zoe l.. Kenyon returned home from her work in Westerly to remain for few days with her mother, Har- riet c. Kenyon, who is in poor health, but has gone back, as her mother is better.
 Miss Mary Collins has been engaged to teach the school at Tomaquag. Charles NJ. Lamb has a night bloom ing cereus at his home on High street which opened three flowers Thursday night.
 MT. and Mrs. Jason P. s. Brown Yis- | tied Westerly and Watch Hill Monday
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
STAFFORD
Grange Meeting-Local People or
 Summer Trips.

A meeting of Stafford grange is to be held next Tuesday evening.
 Misses Elsie and Ruth Tracy of Manchester are guests of Mrs. W. T. Jones.
 Miss Nellie Hewlett of Springfield is the guest of Mrs. Oscar CoIburn.
 Arnie Butler of Somerville is a guest at Frederick Glover's for a week.
 Miss L. s. Cady has returned to her home in Monson after a few weeks visit with Rev. and Mrs. l. P Booth.
 Mrs. B. Sawtelle of Greenwich. Mass. has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Swift.
 Ava Brown spent Saturday and Sunday in Providence, the guest of his son William. who has recently begun work there.
 Mrs. Edgar Swift and son Ralph have been spending a week with Mrs. Swift's parents, MT. and Mrs. Oliver Bliss, in Longmeadow. Mass.
 To Teach in Brockton.
 Miss Edna Barstow of Springfield was the guest of Miss Ethel Robinson over Sunday. Miss Robinson will su- perintend the commercial course n Brockton High school the coming year.
 Mrs. Jessie Booth and daughter Mil dred have returned to Burlington, Vt. after spending a few days with Rev and Mrs. l. P. Booth
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 Miss Maud Peckham has been wis iting friends in New Jersey the past two weeks.
 Benjamin Farrow has entered the employ of F. A. Jordan. Miss Mildred May has been visiting her cousin, Laura May, in New Bos- ton.
 Alice Allen of Holden is visiting at Maplewood.
 Mr. and Mrs. E. E. May spent Sun- day in Williamsville with w. N. Ald- rich and family.
 Mrs. Frank Thompson and children of Worcester are with Mrs. Thomp sons parents, Mir and Mrs. V. T. Withereu.
 Despondent, Committed Suicide.
 Hon. H. J. Potter received word. on Sunday of the tragic death of his brother. Caleb Potter, who committed suicide by drowning at Fall River on Saturday evening. Mir. Potter was a former resident, one of eight sons He was between 65 and 70 years of ageaand had been in poor health the past three years.
 Mrs C. E. Pike is visiting relatives in Milford and Hopedale.
 Plans Heart to- Heart Talk.
 Communion will be observed at the Congregational church next Sunday. Rev L A. Turner plans to have a heart to heart talk. It is also the tenth anniversary of his passionate in the North and East parishes.
 Frank Hubbard of Hyde Park spent several days this week with his sis ter Mrs. G. L. Upham.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
NORTH WOODSTOCK

Horace Swan has returned to Prov idence.
 Thomas E Briggs is steady im- proving.
 Edgar 4. Lewis of Hartford spent Sunday at his home here.
 George Hopkins started his saw mill on the Elder Green place last week.
 William Owens of Providence has been visiting his brother, Jorah Ow- ems
 NIr. and Mrs. John Griffith have been visiting in Providence and Oakland beach.
 MT. and Mrs. Willis Bixby of Boston spent Sunday with F. o. Hummer.
 Mrs. Irving Salisbury has been wis., iting old neighbors and friends here.
 Mrs. J. D. Hillery spent few days last week in Pawtucket and Provi- dence
 Charles Trask is ill
 William R. Spooner has secured en- ployment in an automobile shop in Hartford.
 Mrs. Alice Pierce is in Danielson caring for Mrs. Frank Gilbert.
 Henry H. CrowelI and family and
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Holland County COLUMBIA
Over $2s Melted by Tea and Mite Box opening--West Street and Cen ter Schools May Be Closed


 Miss Lena Wolff has been visiting friends in WiIlimantie.
 Mite Box Opening.
 The woman's auxiliary missionary society held their annual mite box opening Friday afternoon of last week at the chapel. Tea was served in Yeo- mans hall. The opening of the mite boxes disclosed something over $2S.
 The Liberty Hill people enjoyed their annual picnic at Columbia lake on Fri day of last week.
 Mrs. Anson Hyde's Funeral.
 The funeral of Mrs. Anson Hyde was held at her home on Chestnut Hill Saturday afternoon. The serv- ices were conducted by Rev. k. o. Foster pastor of the Columbia Con gregational church. Burial was in the family lot in Columbia cemetery.
 Miss Chappell of Waterford was the guest of Miss Josephine Kneeland on Sunday. Misses Chappell and Knee land sang a duet at the morning church service.
 Miss Ethel Goldman of South Wind ham has been spending several days as the guest of Miss Harriet K. Porter.
 The selectmen have been having re- pairs made upon some of the local sec tons of state road.
 Henry D. Hunt of Providence has been spending a few days with his mother and sister at their home on Pine street.
 May Close Two Schools. It is reported that the schools in the West Street district and at the Cen ter will be closed the coming season for lack of pupils.
 In a ball game played here Satur- day afternoon by the local nine and a nine from South Windham, the lat ter was defeated, 13 to 4. Mrs. John H. Davis and children of Hamden are guests of Mrs Daviss fla tler, William A. Collins at Chestnut Hill
 Mrs. Horace Griggs was taken to St Joseph's hospital for treatment last l Tuesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
BROOKLYN
Miss Jarvis Gives Shore Dinnsr-La-
 dies Aid Societys Fair.


 Henry Parkhurst visited relatives in Willimantic and vicinity and was at the camp ground the past week.
 Miss Emma Scarborough of Hart ford is visiting Miss Charlotte Scar borough.
 Mrs. Elmer Mohitt visited her par ents, MT. and Mrs. \. WolcoJt Witter, of late.
 Miss Louise Titcomb of Fall River has been a visitor at the Baptist par sOnage.
 William R. Pond of Meriden is hay ing his annual vacation and is spend ing it with his parents MT. and Mrs T. D. Pond, his wife and daughter joining him here
 Mrs. George F. Genung is'visiting rel atives in Providence and spending a few days at the shore.
 Hugh Park of Chatham, N. Y, is at I. w. Chapmans joining his wife, who has been visitor there for two weeks James Kemp, a former resident of this place, now living in Worcester, was a visitor over Sunday with Mir. and Mrs. N Wolcott Witter.
 Edwin A. Spalding of Worcester was the guest over Sunday of MT. and Mrs. Frank A. Spaulding.
 Miss Rita E. Pond is visiting MT and Mrs. T. D. Pond.
 Shore Dinner.
 Miss Lucy Jarvis gave a shore din ner in the grove of Albert B. Webb on Saturday afternoon, which was well attended and enjoyed by all.
 Annual Fair. The Ladies' Aid society of the Con- gregational church held their annual fair in Unitarian hall, Wednesday aft ernOon and evening. In the evening drama was given. The financial re- suits were most satisfactory.
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ton to spend his vacation.
 Fred K Ripley of Providence spent over Sunday with his family here. Allen Stevens is at his home here, on his vacation.
 E. B. Sheldon is working at Narra- gansett' Pier.
 Mrs. C. H. Palmer is to teach in Westerly this fall.
 Miss Helen s. Lamond teaches at Kenyon, which school she taught the past year.
 Miss Annie E. Kenyon is to teach at Lower Point Judith. Miss Kenyon was graduated last June at R. 1. 5. c. MT and Mrs. Fred Clarke of Arctic and Mrs. Grace Nichols and child were visitors at J. $. Lamond's Sunday.
 Canoe Trip.
 Randolph Carpenter and J. K. La mond have returned, after ten days trip in their canoe.
 Sunday School Picnic.
 The picnic held Thursday for the three Sunday schools in this vicinity was a success.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Washington County, R. !.
 WEEKAPAUG
Guests Depart from Rest cottaqe-
 Canoe Trip Ends.


 William Bagley of Massachusetts day.
 Josie Sullivan and cousin. Of Provi- dence. who have been spending their vacation with Mrs. Mary McConner have returned home. Miss Annie E. Kenyon spent Sun day with Miss Carmen Andrews of Slocum.
 Mrs. Henry Garbutt and daughter. Dorothy, spent Monday at Slocum.
 Leave Rest Cottage.
 Mrs. Fred Ripley and two children nave returned to Providence. after spending June, July and August at Rest Cottage. They were accompan- 1ed by Miss Grace Ripley, who spent the past week at Rest Cottage.
 Miss Ethel Henderson of Westerly spent Friday night and Saturday as the guest of Miss Annie E. Kenyon.
 Grafton Palmer has gone to liver
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31

The second reason is that supplies are bought with intelligence and judg- ment-not in any hit-or miss sort of way. They are bought for what they are, not for what they look like, nor for what some soapy salesman may say they are. The commissary buyers always buy where they can do cheap est. But cheapness doesn't always mean to them nor to anybody else lower price We all know that low priced goods are often dearer in the end than high-priced goods. I've bought cheap" overalls for 35 cents. And I've bought cheaper ones at S7 cents-cheaper because they would made to sell, not to wear. Sometimes a pound of butter at thirty-fi cents IS cheaper than one at twenty eight cents-if the crafty salesman pIts only thirteen ounces in his low priced pound" As an ilIustration-the com mlssary buyers choose for bread flour blend of Kansas and Dakota, hard wheat, every barrel of which is thor oughly tested before acceptance. Then full pound is put into every loaf with the result that it is sold from the government bakery at four cents, bet ter bread than you can buy almost anywhere in the United States
 I'm inclined to think that a judicious combination of want to" and know how" would enable most any of us 10 whip the htgh-price devil round the stump and into his hole.
 But 1t can't be done by sitting on the stump and sniveling, like a pettish baby with a sore thumb.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Years of Suffering
Catarrh and Blood Disease -
 Doctors Failed to Cure,

Miss Mabel r. Dawkins, 1914 Lafay- cite St, Fort Wayne, Ind, writes: For three years 1 was troubled with catarrh and blood disease. I tried sev- eral doctors and a dozen different rem- edies, but none of them did me any good. A friend told me of Hoods Sar- saparilla. I took two bottles of this medicine and was as well and strong as ever. I feel like 8 different person and recommend Hoods to any one suf- fering from catarrh.'
 Get it today in usual liquid form or choool9tea tablets called SaFsatabss
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
EAST WELLINGTON

George Rounds has sold a woodlot to Charles $. Amidon.
 Mrs. Baldwin has returned from he old home
 Will Downs is improving.
 Cool nights and mornings are the rule.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Rrsakfast.

OrangeA, Toasted Corn Flakes, Honiny, Eggs to Order, Fried Bacon, French Fried Potatoes, Corn Muffins, Hot Cakes, Maple Syrup. Tea, Coffee or Cocoa.
 Luncheon.
 Puree of Vegetable Soup, Beef 8 la Mode. Fried Liver and Onions, Mashed Potatoes, Spinach and Eggs, Navy Beans in Cream. Tea, Coffee or Cocoa.
 Dinner.
 Beef Broth. Beefsteak, French Fried Potatoes. Green Onions, Mashed Turnips, Buttered Beets, Lettuce Salad. Apricot Pie, Ice Cream and Cake. Tea, Coffee or Cocoa.
 Not 2. bed bill of fare. eh? How ynucb would you pay for similar meals st the average hotel in the States Not less than S2 8 day-more likely Ss. .o cents a meal.
 And Uncle Sam makes .o1.8e cents profit on every meal at that price as if costs him all told,Asupplies, fuel hreakage. service. laundry and every thing else included, just 2s.1l cents. This i. in 1912, too, mind you-1912, when all the hotel keepers and all the restaurant managers and all the bousekeeperA of the country are stand inF on their hind legs and paving the air in anguished protest over the nlsh prices" of everything.
 Narrower, this cost of 2s.11 cents per rnsal. this year 1912, is almost 8 cent and z. half less than similar meals cost last year, in 1911.
 don't much wonder, after that, to read the reporters statement:
 indeed. since I came to Panama, l have lost all my sympathy with the woes of the American landlord His prices are such that he ought to be rolling in wealth, and if he is not mak- ing money he does not know how to run his hotel. I am also losing some of my pity for the whining American 7ousekeeper In these days of so- called high prices, and I believe that any conan in the United States, if she Gol1res as closely as does Uncle Sam, could not only put more flesh on the homes of her children, but lay away tnurr spare change in her stocking or in the family slot savings bank on the mantel."
 The Spaniards and Italians, who want a, simpler bill of fare, are served with the food of their choice in dining rooms built to suit their tastes, and with simpler table furniture. The re- uorter ate with them several times The dinner consisted of 8 quart of hot nutritious soup. big piece of Chicagc roast beef. potatoes. half a loaf oi
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
RemindfuI of Rooseyel.

Candidate Debs seems to deserve the prize for silent running.-Chicagc Record Herald
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Flowers of the Sea

The sea has flowers as the land has but the most brilliant of the sea flow. CTS bloom not upon plants, but upon animals.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
The Reason.

T wonder why gossip travels SO fast?" Because the tongues which carry it are always on the rail"
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

I George c. Spooner took an auto trip
 to Rocky Point Tuesday. Mrs. Julia Griffith is under the doc tors care
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
First Americsn Humoris+

Now that Mark Twain is dead MT. Roosevelt easily ranks as the first American Humorist-Boston Advertis CT
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Or Too Much Tonnov Ro+

After the election Colonel Roosevelt may assert that it was case of too much Johnson. Philadelphia Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
Windham County
EAST WOODSTOCK

Caleb Potter Suicides While in III Health-Pastor to Mark Tenth An niversary.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
How does unoIe sam do 1t?

AloW AOGS OnSiG OdH QO II
 Well there are just two reasons. The first is that he buys in big quanti- ties, instead of in retail job-lots. Ev- erything is bought through the com missary department and kept in the biggest and most complete cold stor- age plant in the world till wanted. The cost of this cold storage plant is included in the charges against the hotels and kitchens. About 100,0 ,000 people, reckoning in women and chil- dren, are fed daily, and it takes a train of twenty-one cars, every morning, to carry the supplies to the various points desired. Of course, no private family can expect to buy quite so cheaply as the government. But, by the simple plan of neighborly cooperation which have been preaching, in season and out of season, for 10, these many years, private consumers CAN so combine small individual orders as to make one big wholesale order, which they can buy at wholesale prices-usually from a quarter to half less than what they now pay for the same supplies.
 They can do it, if they will. It has been done and is now being done And what Jones and his neighbors do Smith and his neighbors can do-if only they are as anxious to do it as Jones ct al.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31

Written Specially for The BuIletin.)
 A correspondent out in Wisconsin has been writing me a few mighty in ferosting details about prices way af5 in 1S40. That was the year when hfs grandfather migrated to southern Wisconsin and took up a couple of Claims" The family have lived on this place ever since, and my correspondent remembers good many of the happenings along the road from that time. He recalls how his grand father used lf-laughingly to call himself land poor" because, while he had a whacaking big farm and very rood one. too. he seldom had or was able to get money enough to pay post age on a letter.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31

That was back some seventy years ago. I have just been reading a very interesting story, which may be re- sarded as complementary to it, from a newspaper man who has been inves- ligatinE the way Uncle Sam feeds his went odd thousand hired men who are opening the Panama. canal.
 There are three classes of hotels or eating houses for the people who are digging that ditch; one for the laborers who mostly come from the West Indies and whose staple diet, by their own preference, is that which they are accustomed to at home, and consists largely of codfsh, rice and sugar; one for the so-cakIed silver laborers," who are mostly Italians or Spaniards and who want beef, pota- toes and macaroni; and one for the American workmen, who want the best of everything on earth and plenty of it. For these last, Uncle Sam main tains nineteen hotels along the line of the canal. These hotels all have wide verandas, are all inclosed in netting so that neither fly nor mosquito is ever seen in any of them, use clean table cloths every day and fresh napkins every meal, serve their viands on first class china and other ware, at the hands Of prompt and attentive walters. Here is sample menu from one of Jhese hotels, which the correspondent aveTS is no better than the average menu served any day and every day at all the nineteen:
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31
A DEMONSTRATION WHICH BARS DISCUSSION

good bread, and full tumbler of wine the sort you pay a dollar a quart fol at any hotel"
 For this kind of board, the Europ- cans pay 40 cents day, or 13 1-S cents a meal.
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cans pay 70 cents day, or l5 1-3 cents a neal
 The Iaborers, mostly West Indian negroes, have very decided tastes of their own They want certain kinds of food, prepared in certain ways. They do not want to eat at tables, but to carry the food away to their own "shacks," or where they please In order that they may have what they want, as they want it, Uncle Sam pro vides them with Jamaican cooks of their own selection. At each meal each man is given a bucket of rice, a great ladle of soup and meat or fish, a pint of coffee, a banana or two, and plenty of vegetables. He also has one full loaf of bread a day.
 For this food all of it cooked just to his taste and as clean as any ever served on solid silver or in cut glass, he pays 27 cents a day or g cents a meal.
 Taking all three classes together, they paid Uncle Sam for board during the past full year about $1,250,000 And he came out almost exactly $20,000 ahead. That is, he made s20,000 clear profit from his years hotel business, supplying hearty men with three full meals a day of the best food that can be got. for 30 cents, 13 cents and 9 cents a meal, respectively.
 All this in what we people at home are bowling about as the year of high est prices ever known
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31

About the only crop rsissble on the farm which could bye sold was wheat. That would grow finely and yield hountfully Then. when it was pain A1lly threshed out and winnowed by hand, it could be sold at Milwaukee ar Kenosha, bodh ninety miles away, for sometimes aLs much as forty cents a bushel. Often 1t was less; rarely any more. The trip with a single load ook five days at the very least. My correspondent remembers that grand father seldom brought much money home. He brought, instead, a few bun dies of imperatiVesy needed supplies, rhe payment for whAch had taken all the money his wheat sold for.
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For instance: 4 bushel of rather coarse and not very clean salt cost s2: a barrel of pork cost SIS; 8 pound of tea s1.50. Calico was 3S cents a yard: flannel 75 cents. and "a paper of mighty poor pins@ Is cents. An axe, without the helve. cosx S2.50. The stores charged % cents for @ pound of randles: 75 cents for plug of tobacco, and 70 to 50 cents for bar of soap, according to the khd.
 The only way in which these pioneer farmers saved any money at all was by going without things they wanted, pr making them at home. They got xlong without flannel because grand father kept sheep, and grandmother spun and wove a coarse sort of woolen substitute. They couldn't afford even cheap cotton socks a 50 cents a pair, so grandmother knitted woolen ones out of the yarn that was left. Of course. they raised their own pork and mutton, and made their own soap out of wood ashes aud waste grease. They also saved some pennies by run ming" their own candles. Grandmother RWore off chewing gum and grand father swore off on plug tobacco.
 And SO they managed to live and bring up Q big family on an income which R present. day farmer would consider scanty to feed a cat, and with prices of common necessities higher than even now.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-31

Oranges, Toasted Corn Flakes, Hominy, Eggs to Order, Fried Bacon, French Fried Potatoes, Corn Muffins, Hot Cakes, Maple Syrup. Tea, Coffee or Cocoa
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Moreover. shis cost of 2s.t1 cents per nsaI. this year 1912, is almost a cent and Z. half less than similar meals cost last year, in 1911.
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BEST TWO IN THREE FALLS.
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And Uncle San, makes .o1.ss cents profit on every meal at that price. as if costs him all told'Ssupphes, 1ueb breakage, service, laundry and every thing else included, just 2e.1l cents.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-08-05
SBASHORE HOTEL
OWNER Is NABBED
Atlantic City Man Accused of Con-
Quoting Hostelry as a Mere
Bunco Game.

Atlantic City. n. J., Aug 4.-Using q
hotel as a mere bunco game is the
charge made by the police against Paul
C. Rosecrans, owner OF the Hotel Lex
ington. at Arkansas and Pacific Ave
nues. where 800 guests are now packed.
some of them five and six in a room.
Rosecrans was arrested late last night
on the complaint of two New York
dressmakers. who had come to the ho-
tel to get "A room Overlooking the beach
and boardwalk and on arrival had
been thrust into an attic cubby hole,
where they could not even see the sky.
Rosecrans is said TO have made sloo,-
0Ce. He kept himself hidden away. and
hired husky to take care OF the
patrons. who put up a fight. He adver-
tises broadcast THAI his hotel is in the
Marlborough district and is surround
ed by three acres Of well-kept grounds.
shaded lawns and walks. which extend
directly to the ocean front by the mil
lion-dollar pier"
On the back fence is painted pic
ture Of the beach and boardwalk, and
this is what the hotel overlooks-"
lnqu!rers are sent a card showing the
hotel a red block directly on the board,
walk whereas II is a fifth OF mile
from the ocean. On the back there is
a caution TO bring This card with you"
and be sure and bring baggage checks
direct to the hotel.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-08-05
DIES IN UNION STATION.

Mrs. Elma Hunt. of 500 Third Street
Southeast. collapsed on the cement plat
form at Union Station yesterday. and was
picked up dead by trainmen who hurried
to her assistance She was about to board
the Washington and Buffalo express when
the fatal seizure occurred. Her husband,
Howard Hunt. was preparing his engine
for the fast run to Baltimore. when he
was notified. He was relieved from duty.
The station physician stated that death
was due to acute Indigestion. For several
days Mrs. Hunt had complained of sharp
pains in her side. but did not think the
trouble serious. She was going to visit
her relatives in Baltimore. Before her
marriage she was Miss Elma Bull, Of that
city