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Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

Some of you hard headed and in tenseIy practical chaps may think I'm a sort of sentimental and transcen- dental noodle when I talk about farmer farming for the sake of his own soul. All right; think so, if it does you any good and makes you feel any more satisfied with your own sweet selves. But I believe that mans brain and soul, while perhaps no more noble or holy than his back and his belly, are rather more important. They count more in reckoning up that total which we call manhood. They avail for more, not only when you're helping women and children off sinking Titanic, but also when you're blowing Connecticut hillside, or hoe ing Connecticut potatoes. Doubtless you couldn't sell your own head at the rate of two-for- accent, if it was cut off and put in a basket. You can sell a cabbage for from five to fifteen cents, most any time. Is a cabbage head, then, worth more than your head? You've heard of the man whose soul the Angel of Death carried away in mustard seed shell in which it rattled, it was so small I've always suspected that man must, in life, have devoted himself solely to raising ven-hundred- pound hogs or sixty pound cabbages.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
FLOODS ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
The Excitement and Peril of High
 Water in Seven States.

High water time is one of the most interesting sights that the Mississippi
 affords. Boat bring in to protected towns loads of refugees from planta- ! tions which are outside of levee pro- 1 tection. Negroes leave their cabins on rafts, and float out chickens. hogs, | mules and all sorts of plunder. They crowd upon the levees, waiting for a boat to take them off, Planters send their stock away to safer pasturage, if they are able. The river swarms with craft Men are brought to the levee in special trains for emergency work; lumber is shipped to build bulkheads and prevent the caving away of the dirt. Trains bring in thousands of sacks to be filled with earth and raise the top of the Ievees above the flood. Steamboats carry lumber wheelbar- rows, skiffs, sacks and materials of every kind up and down the river to threatened places. Every one must do his utmost at this time of high water.
 It is almost time of martial law. The danger Is too great to allow the ordinary force of the local authorities to suffice for the protection of the le- Vee. Up and down the bank of dirt which must be held, walk armed guards. sworn in as the levee patrol. Their horses are hitched at a tree behind the bank, saddled and ready. Day and night these mon patrol up and down, their rifles unslung. Per haps one man will guard q half-mile of levee, rarely more; and when there Is danger of some one cutting the bank they are posted every two hundred yards or less.
 Standing on the levee by the side of q guard, the thin strip of earth, per haps only a few inches above the crest of the stream seems a pitifully weak defense against the river floods. A small boy might cut a small trough across the top and start the creVasse that would destroy property over miles of country. Again, there have been cases where men rowed across and cut the leVee on the other side, to save the bank on their own A half dozen strokes of the spade and the damage might be done. which none could stop. Timer thieves too, might find 1t profitable to flood the swamps and steal the rafts there while the owners were trying to save other property.
 Because of all this, the armed guard shoots and shoots to kill. His idea of his task is to make a job for the coro- ner and not for the doctor, It is enough to ask questions afterward of the man who comes with @ spade to the levee.
 Besides this danger there is another that the waves may begin to overlap the top. Steamboat captains are warned to keep away from the shore when they are standing up or down the river at full speed. A guard will walk with watchful eye along with a boat If 1t threatens the banks and comes within the prescribed limit he tries to pick off the pilot These are not times for shot across the bows.
 After the flood waters have been in the river for some days tapping aga Inst the levee, water will begin to seep through the earthen bank on the land side. If the water that comes there Is clear there need be no fear,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

A good part of our time, in these inn perfectly organized conditions of hu- man society in which we live, must be devoted to the mere task of preserV- ing our existence. We've got to live, in order to keep soul and body togeth- CT. But some of us farmers make just as big a blunder when we think that sordid necessity is the sole end and purpose of life, as any other man does when he puts the means above the end
 Let's have the best farms we can: let's do the best farming we know how; let's improve all we may and gain all we righteously can; but let's do it for the sake of our own souls and not for the sake of the soil,-for the enrichment of our own manhood and not for the benefit of bank ac- count.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

Easy on the woman and easy on the clothes.
 That's why progressive women are washing their clothes with Fels-Naptha in cool or lukewarm water, in summer or winter.
 It's easy on the woman because 1t does away with fires for heating water, makes hard rubbing unnecessary and takes less than half the time of the old way of washing.
 It's easy on the clothes because there is no boiling to make the clothes tender, and no hard rubbing to wear them into holes before their time.
 Save yourself; save your clothes-use Fels-Naptha.
 Costs little money for big cake, and lasts longer than ordinary soaps.
 In using 1t follow directions printed on the Eed. and green wrapper.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES
HOPKINTON
Local Delegates to Republican Con
 vention-Supper and Entertainment.

Charles 1T. LangWorthy and family are getting settled in their new some
 At Republican Convention.
 Senator Silas R. Richmond, Repre- sentative Charles W. Clark, Hon. John s. Cole and Clarence D. Wood repre- sented this town as delegates at the republican state convention in Provi- dence Wednesday, for the purpose of electing the Rhode Island delegates to the national convention in June.
 Melted Over $22.
 The ladies of the Seventh Day Bap- tist church in AshaWay gave fine novelty supper and entertainment in the parish house Tuesday evening. The profits were over S22.
 Charles l. Blake. cook on the fish ing vessel of Captain Babcock, was at his home here over Monday night.
 Miss Sue Kingston of Carolina has been visiting friends in town for a few days.
 Many from the south part of the town attended the exercises of laying the cornerstone of the town hall and courthouse in Westerly Monday after noon.
 Miss Essie I. Kenyon is ill.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

know another farmer whose barns are in even worse shape than his house. And the garret floor of that latter building is almost covered with pails and pans, set there to catch the water which leaks through the rotten roof. You can imagine the barns. I've heard it rumored that an insurance company once declined to is sue a S100 policy on the biggest one, because the agent didn't think the building worth that much. But he has money "out at interest" in all direc- tions. He holds mortgages and notes enough to fill a safety deposit locker. So far as money goes, he is rich
 Now, is he a Successful Farmer" Again I have my opinion; what's yours?
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
Holland County
EAST WELLINGTON

Mrs. M. Cushman and son Morris attended the auction of the late Sam RockwelTs property.
 Miss Edith Cushman is improving in health.
 The Italians that lived in the San ford Niles place moved away this week.
 An abundance of rain has kept the farmers late in getting in their oats.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

forage. He left a whacking big farm when he died and plump bank &C., count He never read a book because he hadn't time. He never stepped his blow or his hoe to listen to a bob-o- link, or to watch the little lambs leap ing about his spring pastures. He may, perhaps, have sometimes been "Orion slowly sloping to the west" but he couldn't have told one constellation from another, because there wasn't any money in the Knowledge and, therefore, 1t wasn't worth his while.
 Now. was he a Successful Farmer" I have my opinion: what's yours?
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
ROCKVILLE
Fifth Anniversary Of Wedding CeIe- brated by Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Gro foot.

brated by Rev. and Mrs. A. J. cro- foot.
 Misses Evelyn Palmer and Gladys Edwards have returned from a visit with friends in Stamford, Conn.
 Miss Lucia Meserve of Providence was guest recently of Mrs. Emory Kenyon.
 Miss Lottie Burdick visited at Mrs. Charles o. CrandalIs recently. Mrs. Harold Crandan is visiting her former home in West Virginia
 D. Ava Crandall made a business trip to Wauregan, Conn, Tuesday. J. E. s. Crandall is spending several weeks at his home here.
 Wedding Anniversary.
 Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Crofoot ob- served the fifth anniversary of their marriage by entertaining a number of friends at their home Wednesday eve ming.
 D. A. Crandau was caller in West erly Wednesday.
 Mrs. Jared G. Barber made a brief visit with her daughter at Wickford this week.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

get sore and then keep on working till they get strong How many numb heads there still are who think they can get strong without first getting tired. That they can keep healthy by violating the laws of health and then taking medicinesl Such critters are not calculated to make ornaments of country living, nor opponents Of successful farming. They slJuld re- main in the city, where hospitals are handy and cemeteries right on lhe trolley line. Listen once more to cur western writer:
 The successful farmer must be able 10 forget the amusements of town and the annOyances of the country, until the slow spirit of country life gets hold of him, and the sweet spirit of the open places envelopes him. Then will he have found a home and the land will have found one more mdu to help feed the world"
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

For which very reason,-among oth- ers,-it is highly advisable that those and those only should try to farm it who can see the glory of the farm even in the gloom of a lowering winter; who can prophetically smell the harvest in the strench of the man ure-heap; who can even find comfort in the ache of hardening muscles, and joy in the conquest of difficulties:- above all, who can feed their souls from the farm as well as their cows and their horses.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

as that indicates that it is only the seepage, but if it comes through in a muddy flow, then there must be a quick and effective effort to stop the leaking. A muddy flow shows there is a break in the bank and that the water is strong enough to carry away material. Men and mules and lumber and sacks of dirt are rushed to the spot In the case of a muddy flow there is only one way to stop it, and that is by adding material on the riv- CT side, to stop up the holes at the point of inflow.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

The great question is whether we farm it to live, or live just in order to farm. If the latter, why, then, brains might, indeed be of some service: but I can't see where our souls come in It looks as if they were about as use less as an appendix Yermiformis. It suggests the suspicion that God must have made a mistake. Yet we know that He never did such thing as make a mistake and never can.
 No, men and brethren: if there's any mistake to be sought after we'd better look at home. and not into the back door of Heaven.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

a little dirt under my finger nails. Not that l should deliberately choose dirty fingers of any sort But somehow, the dirt of the soil seems less defiling, to me than the black out of an ink bottle. God made the first, and somebody over in New Jersey compounded the other out of no one knows what poisOns.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

in a great many years was brought In by the three gentlemen. lt consisted of thirty. the largest or which weigh ed one pound and five ounces and two one pound each; 20 of the 30 messur- ed over ten >inches long. the total weight being 13 pounds and five ounces.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

And, just between you and and the post, these last are the only ones in the calling who really count
 The man who was built for book keeper, but whom accident has forced upon a farm. l pity He never will be worth his salt IS a farmer, and he will all his life have a hard time He will always be d fish out of water; a whim- perer over bad luck; a drudge and, not infrequently, a victim The born farm CT. on the other hand. would be quite as unhappy if shut into an office and fastened to a desk and a pen. For in stance. feel a good deal worse over an inkstain on my thumb than I do over
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
A FARMER SHOULD FARM FOR THE JOY
 AS WELL AS THE PROFIT OF IT

(Written Specially for The Bulletin)
 There are farmers-and farmers. There are farmers who farm for the saks of their cows or horses; farmers who farm for the sake of the farm and it's dirt; farmers who farm just for the sake of getting a living, keeping a dog and digging fishworms; farmers who farm for a bank account, and farmers who farm for the sake of their own souls.
 These last farm it because they have to- just as they breathe or as a fish swims It's nature, and they cant real ly help then selves Better yet, they don't want to help themselves out of the habit.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
Anty Drudge or Teaching 'Rithmetic.

Teacher Gin arithmetic class )-"Now Mary, if your mother spent two hours boiling the clothes, three hours in rubbing them, and an hour to hang them out how many hours would that be altogether" Little Mary-"Yes, but my mama doesn't boil the clothes She washes them with Fels-N Naptha in coo! or lukewarm water, and she doesn't have to rub them hard either"
 Anty Drudge-"You'd better make the time shorter Mistress Schooteacher, when you give an addition question like that to little girl whose mother knows the advantage of washing with Fes-Naptha."
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

ana De nldue nOTTIDly unhappy.
 They have a breezy sort of way, out west. of saying things as well as of doing them I've so greatly enjoyed reading a little letter from a subscrib- CT, recently printed by a Wisconsin pa per, that l want to pass on some of the pleas Ire to you in the shape of q few extracts. For instance:
 Making d living on a farm does not consist solely in inhaling ozone, rolling in clover blossoms, and picking ripe fruits. There is crop of blisters, backaches, muddy boots, washouts, bugs and drougkts also be harvested" The city man who hasn't plenty of pluck should stay in the shop or at his desk, for on the farm he will find a life-si environment that will hit him with vindictive force regularly on every soft spot he owns Getting back to the land is profit able, pecuniarily and spiritually, only to those who care more for independ- ance than for steam heat, or who think more of health tban of musical com edy"
 That seems to mo mighty sensible talk, sensible and forcibly put So does this bit: The successful farmer must be willing to work till his muscles
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

Large Catch of Trout in UnionviIe. w. s. Sloan, J. F. Conlin and J. F.. Wirth took day off recently on a brook withint few miles of Union vile, and the result was that the fin est string of trout seen in Unionville
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

The lsnger live, the more become convinced that farmers are like poets in one respect, they are born, not made. It sometimes has happened that a man born to be a farmer has turned poet. And it is on record where men born to be poets have undertaken to farm it. The result has been about as distressful in the one case as in the other Likewise, it now and then oc- CUTS that man intended for the farm finds himself doomed to a city life. In that event the sooner he breaks his bonds and escapes into freedom, the better for himself and the world. But I agree with such men as Dean Bailey and our own J. II. Hale, that the coun- try and the farm are no places for the city minded. Each had better stay in the frying pan and be just moderately
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
lnfrinninn Unon Bryan

Colonel Roosevelt insinuates that if the worst comes to the worst he will shy in again four years hence.-Co- lumbia State.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
Ssvina the Country.

The country is going Co be saved an right We have the assurance Of all the candidates to that effect Taco ma Ledger.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

All this talk about back to the land" movements is good, so long as it is limited to the idea of bringing back upon the laud such as are fit for it.. But the shoemaker had better stick to his last, and the bookkeeper to his books, and the clerk 10 his counter-if those are the occupations at which he really belongs. Certainly he had bet ter keep out of the country and as far as possible from a farm, if he hasn't in him, soaking through his whole being the love of the farm
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
And Doesn't Explain.

We like Robert La Toilette because he says what he wants to say and does mt stutter in saying ft.-Nebraska State Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

Farm lands in this country, exclu- sive of buildings. more than doubled in value between the years 1900 and 1910. The gain was 117.4 per cent.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
Leases Cottage.

Dr. L. c. Sanford of New Haven has rented the Robinson cottage, on Wheat Point, for the summer
 Hobart Ayers and his mother, Mrs. Ayers, spent Monday on the farm of Mir. Ayers at Weekapaug
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Parker and lit- tie daughter, Ruth. who have been guests of Mrs. Parkers parents for the past two weeks, have returned to Hartford
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

There is a great deal of talk, these days about Successful Farming. We're all interested in it, too. But I suspect that we understand the phrase diff ferently. We don't all think of it as meaning the same thing We actual, working farmers l mean. We wouldn't all of us define Successful Farming in the same words.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

knew one farmer, one, who used to go to bed with the chickens and get up with them whose house was a lit tie, old cabin, cheerless within and for bidding without; who had got so into the habit of searching his soil for pennies and dimes that his neck be- came permanently bent over before he was forty: whose barns were Veritable palaces of live stock and
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27

uncomfortable, than jump into the fire and be made horribly unhappy.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
WEEKAPAUG
Ernest Howard to Have Charge of Pumping Ensines-Robinson Cottage Leased

MT. and Mrs. Ernest Howard of Hope Valley have moved to the Cav itt cottage for the summer while MT. Howard has charge of the engines for pumping water for the cottages at Tha beach
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-10-17
Notice of Adjustment Day

Estate of Abram c. Strong Deceased
The undersigned. hay ing beer appointed
Administrator with the will annexed of the
Estate of Abram c. strong. late OF the County
of kcarncy. in the state of NehraSn a. deCeas-
ed. hereby gives rotice that he will appear be-
fore the County Court of Sedgwicli County
Colorado at the Court House in 1uleSbu,c
in said Sedgwick County, on Monday. the
Eleventh day OF November. 4. D. 1872. at the
hour of 10 o'clock A. NJ. of said day. at which
time all persons having claims against said
estate are notified and requested TO attend
for the purpose OF having the same adjusted
All persons indebted to said estate are re
aueslcd to make Immediate payment to the
undersigned.
Dated at JulesburG. Colorado. this eighth
DAY of October. A. d. 1912.
Roy I. johnson. Administrator
with the VIII annexed of the estate
Of AbramC Strong, Deceased.
First Publication. October ~. 1872
Last Publication November :. 1872
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-10-17
Notice for Publication

L. :. Land Office at Sterling. Colorado
S,>,,, t.,,, september ~, 1917
No'ice Is hereby given that Lucille i'natr,v nf
lu!esnuiG. Colorado. who. on February Il 1907.
matte Homestead entry No. 1891 -ci:i.i io, NFL,
ON frincipal Meridian has filed notice of in.
ten;i2n TO make final five year proof. 10 cs-
Iapiish claim 10 the lana above described be
lotc Clerk of The District Court. at Julrshu,t-
Colorado, on the l@th day of November laja,
Claimant names as Witnesses:
tinley Dy" and Burbert r. Reirhrlt of Ju,cs-
Wright of Holyoke. Colorado '0''''
W. II. POUND
Register.
First Publication sept &c. 1912
Las Publication Oct ST. lgl.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-10-17
Notice for Publication.

Serial O,..9a
department o. the Interior. s. Land Office
Al Sterling. Colorado. Sept II. 1872,
Heice Is hereby Z iven that Eliza H. Shcarcr
fo'neStead Entry No. 5j.0-0i..as for NyVi,.
Sef1Gn pr;In 70; Township 10 N, Range 4s W. 9Th
- t'lcpai Meridian has filed notice of intention
~ MAKE una! fvc year Proof to establish
claim cam to the land above described before County
Judge Judge at Julesburg. Colorado on the 9TH day of
Claimant names as witnesses:
Hnsh Green. Thomas Richardson and Rl,ine
tlora. of ,1ucsburg Colo and Edwnra pi.h
ardson. of Nenango. Ncbr. ~" '''''i
W. H. POUND, Register.
Flrst Publication Sept 26, 1912
Last Publication Oct. 81. l9l.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-10-17
Notice for Publication

MPL. Serial o53l>
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
L. :. Land Office at Sterling. Colorado. Sep
tember 96. 1879.
Notice is hereby given that James sum
mers. fNenango, Nebr. who. on November 81
1907. made Homestead entry No. GdsN-0.3iS. fnr
NWls Section ID. Township 10 y. Range ~ W
9Th Principal Meridian. has filed notice or in-
tcntion to make fnal three year proof 10 e,-
tahlsh claim to the land above described he
fore County Judge. at 1ulesburG, Colorado on
the eth day of Nov. l9l..
Claimant names witnesses:
George Me. one, Benjamin Barnes, Charlie
Na=el of Julesburc. Colorado. and william.
Sattlrr. of Nenanso. Nebraska.
W. II. POUND. Register.
First Publication Oct 5. 1919.
Last Publication Nov. I. 1871,
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-10-17
KedVance
Notice for Publication

MPI.. Serial O6as7
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
L. :. Land Office at Sterling. Colorado. sep
tember s5, lyi.
Notice is hereby given that William H. Dun
can OF Julcsburg. Colorado. who. on April 8,
1919. made Homestead Entry No. Na31.
for sc \, Section u. Township II \.
Range - W. 9TH Principal Meridian. has fled
moi Ice Of intention to make fnal three year
proof. 10 Is, abliSh claim to the land above de-
scrib"d. before County Judge. at Julesburg,
Colorado. ON the a5th day OF November 1917.
Claimant name, witnesses:
Stewart X. Duf:ield. Albert Gilbert David
Cameiin ard James Brown all OF Juiesbury.
Colorado.
". II. POUND. Register
First Publication Oct. =. 1912
Last Publication Nov. :. 1912
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-10-17

pnrchase from the county Tax Cestifi-
eaAss No. SlsS and It's iasnrd TO the coan-
~ Of Sedevfk upon saLs of said Lands
for taxes Il 1909 Il their face value. for
the puFPoe Of sarFendsrins tl,e0 70 rs-
deem said lsnds from aaid sale. And il
appearing thas subsequent taxes are un-
paid On sid Lands for the year 1910. On
motion Of Nr. JOhnson, sscooded By NJ.
Dye, it Is ordesed thst the county treas
urer be and y hereby authorized to ~
sign aaid certificate to the owner Of aid
lands upon payment BY aaid owner of
the full amount for which said lands
vese sold and also the full amount Of
taxes due and unpaid for the year 1910
~ith accuFed IeEal interest upon the T.
mount Of taxes due the state Of Colorado
for said years.
The following claims were audited and
allowed:
Ordinary Fund
Finley Dye, commissioners fee and
mileage so. 70
F. W. Sherman, commissioners
fees aud mileage e:.-,..-..-.-.-..... 1000
W. T. johnson, commissioner
fees and mileage ..--.-..---...-.- ll.GO
II. r. Madden, subscription to ex-
pense Of meeting Good Roads
ASSOCIATION ..---- ---.-.-..,----------- lO.op
Read Fund
John Cass Lumber Co, supplies 6O.4O
Poor Fund
Finley Dye, Meal and ticket to
paulef I'D
Emergency Fund
John Cass Lumber Co., quarantine
No further business coming before the
board they adjourned.
LILY Y. LABAREE, Clerk.