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Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

We could get along if every iron mine should suddenly peter out. Some thing would be found to substitute. If our coal pits should cease to yield fuel there are the rivers and the tides and the llmitless heat of the sun to which we could resort for power and warmth. But 1T this pitiful little skin of black fertile dirt sifted over the earth should be skinned off or should lose it's power to produce vegetation there is no oth-
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13
GILEAD
Happenings of the Week-Persenal
 Notes.

G. II. Hodge. Mrs. W. R. Carpenter of Perryville, R. l., and MT. and Mrs. Sherwood Raymond of New Britain were guests at D. Fl. Hodges over Easter.
 Mrs. Ralph Carpenter and children of Hartford are guests of Mrs. Carpen- ters parents, Mir. and Mrs. Benjamin Lyman.
 Mrs. Melissa Jones is visiting her son, J. Banks Jones.
 Miss Helen E. Foote spent last week with friends in Manchester and West Hartford.
 Miss Ethel T. Hills, Miss Doris Post,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13
JOSEPH BRADFOBB,
 Book Binder.
tauk gsoLa Rlnas and Ruisd to Ords,
 1os BROADWAY. Taiephons aAA -

WHEN you want TO put your busi- ness before the public ,h>re Is no me- dium better thsd through the Sdvertls- ln- columns of The Bulletin,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13
THE FARM PROBATIONARY CONSIDERED

face would be promptly transformed into inarable desert. And at least nine-nine hundredths of all the life that now exists would come to a swift end
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

When you look out across your broad acres and see the crops waving to the summer winds, the grass rip bling like a green sea, the whole land scape @ picture of lush vegetable life, and think that it's all yours, from the center of the earth to the outermost limits of the air,-then just take an other breath and reflect that there's less than a foot of it, after all, that's of any earthly service to you or any body else,-just the foot which you cultivate and crop.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13
Fresco for State Prison.

Miss Genevieve Ccwles has presented the state prison at Wethersfield a mural fresco to bear a message of hope and comfort to the convlcts. It was placed in the chapel recently. Miss Cowles started the painting with her twin sister. now dead Miss Cowles and her sister, Miss Maude Cowles. members of an old Pennington family and graduates of the Yale school of fine arts under Professor Weir have made a place for themselves in the art world by their work in stained glass.
 We feel sorry for the man who can't blow his own horn without going on a toot.-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

Next time you stick your blow into the ground and watch the black dirt roll from the mould board. notice all so, here and there the streak of vel low, worthless subsoil occasionally wis ible at the bottom of the furrow Then say to yourself; By ginger old man, that's all the farm I've really got: six or eight inches of it Guess I'd better treat it pretty well, if I want it to keep on feeding me and my chil- drenl" THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

All our systems of fertilization and tilage and crop-rotation are simply devices to keep that top foot of dirt good natured and willing We can't treat it too respectfully nor too kindly nor too generously. Some of it seems to be naturally more tractable and amenable than other parts. But it will all do something, when properly entreated, and-here's the point,-we farmers have to make it do all it will. If not one way. then some other way. There are getting to be so many folks in the world that it takes all that top foot is capable of to feed them. It won't do for us to talk any longer of run down" farms or of worn out'' soils or of decreasing yields. We've got to work that skin of fertile soil for all it's worth,-and perhaps a little more.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

1t seems absurd to say that shovel full of soil, taken haphazard from your garden, is worth more than similar shovel-full of pure gold. Yet in the assessment of pure values it cer- tainly is No man could live on the gold alone. But the dirt will grow corn or potatoes or cabbages on which he might live, and for which he'd gladly swap all the gold in the uni verse, after he'd gone foodless about a week
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13
Holland County COLUMBIA

Republican Caucus-Fivs Young Foxes Duu Out--Men Grangers Win in Competition.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

CT treasury in the universe on which we could draw.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

if that reflection doesn't make you take new interest in the said foot of surface dirt, then l don't know what would Why, it actually gives me sort of shivery feeling when l think how much depends on that thin stratum My respect for the soil is increased almost to awe. Even the mud on my boots becomes precious and l feel guilty, when I scrape it off on the door, mat, because l have un- Intentionally brought it away from the field and thereby reduced, by so much, the inadequate depth remaining
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

life to two-inch plank! Why. a two- inch plank is thick in comparison with rhis little skin of surface dirt out of which we farmers feed the world, Two Inches of oak are a good deal more, proportiOnately and in com parisOu with the mile Or two depth of the sea. than a foot Of black fertile surface soil, in comparison with the diameter of the earth. The sea is only a mile or two deep. while the earth is eight thousand miles through. And. for that eight thousand miles of globe. there are less than two feet that are of any use to grow things.-a foot here In Connecticut and another foot on the other side of the sphere Make proportion of the thickness of the plank to the water and see how thin. In comparison, seems this tissue of fer tile soil
 Then stop and think a minute.
 The life of the entire world, of all its countless millions of men. of all it's droyes and herds of animal life. of all us lnnumsrable birds and insects. de- pends upon foot or less of plant-Dro- duclng dirt lying on the top. and not 90 thick in proportion to the bulk it surrounds. as thin paper v-ran- ped around an orange.
 1T some great elemental plane could De driven over the surface. merely scurhng off this thin shaving and drop- ping 1t into the sea, there might he lett a few pockets of deeper soil in me bottoms of land-bowls, and a few narrow riboons of the same in brook or riFer-made intervales: but ninety nine hundredths of the esrtb's s,Ir-
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

Probably we shall not blow up or go under another glacial drift in your days or mine Probably the soil will remain for many years to come about what it has been for many years past. It's impressive to reflect upon the pos abilities even though we don't have to act on mere possibilities. We act ac- cording to probabilities. But if lit- tie thought about things that are pos sible even If not probable shall give us a higher respect for the dirt we are apt to handle so carelessly and even to sheer at sometimes, why, then the thought won't be wasted
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-13

For one practical application; the man who unconsciously thinks of his farm as an exhaustless reservoir of fertility will be much more apt to abuse or neglect it than the man who fully appreciates how thin the really useful layer is. As long as the pres ent natural order lasts, we are going to have that top foot to work with. But we have got to keep it in shape. It takes even that foot many thousand years, in ordinary processes, to gath CT to itself and store up the fertility. i C., the plant food which half doz- en crops will take out from it. If this soon exhausted supply is not in some way renewed the soil runs out We must make it keep on, year after year, feeding us and the world.
 And there's only a foot of it.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19

New dill pickles at Garrisons. tt
w E Feltz, field clerk under Major
Cusey has been transferred to Jay, in
Delaware county and left for his post
of duty today.
Leonard Trainor was here from
Chelsea last night His little daugh-
ter took the Katy for Muskogee to
visit relatives.
George Fineannon, John Dotts and
w, L. Taylor returned home to Blue
jacket last evening after spending the
day in the city.
Lige Dugger, Bert Lennox, John
Watson and Chas. Ross were here
from Welch yesterday, returning on
the evening train
Barton, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. /.
Morning, entertained number of his
little friends yesterday afternoon with
a birthday party
zack Pumphry, republican candi-
date for county commissioner from
district No. 8, is in town mixing medi-
cine with the voters.
The social club of the high school
entertained last evening at the home
of Miss Agnes Gunter in honor of the
Wagner football team.
Roy Virgins, one of Bluejacket's S
leading merchants, and his brother-in.
law, Houston B. Tehee, who is visiting
him from Tahlequah, are county seat
visitors today.
G. V. Carselowey and family and o.
L. Patton and family will drive out in
the country tomorrow to attend fam
lily reunion at the home of Mack Car
selowey.
G. W. Garfield and Mr. Engle are
here from Kansas City, representing
the LaSalle Extension University, a
correspondence school, in which NJ. S.
Runyan is a pupil.
Judge P. S. Davis addressed large
crowd of enthusiastic democrats at
Bluejacket last night, He speaks at
Big Cabin tonight where all of the
county candidates will be.
Mrs. Lon Conner and Mrs. j. l..
Mitchell returned from a weeks visit
with their parents on Beatties Prairie
last night. Mrs. Mitchell returned
home to Pryor this morning.
Miss Stanfield has a very pretty dis
play of her sheet music. which she
composed, in the Patton Music Co.
window Miss Stanfield is the new
music teacher and has studio In the
Patton music store.
The following candidates drove out
to the Warner school house last night
to attend a democrat speaking: P. ].
Coyne, Polly Smartt, j. F. Mccullough,
T. w Smith, Carey Caldwell, f. ].
Hobby and VIM. Trott.
Earnest Banzet, candidate for dis
trict clerk on the republican ticket,
who has been sick at the home of
Sam Leforce for some time, was able
to return to his home in the north part
Of the county today.
F. G. Townsend and family have ar
rived from Ft. Worth to make their
home here and have rented a house
from J. M. Jones. Mr. Townsend is
an expert piano turner and will be
located with George Kapps.
Mrs ] o. Brown accompanied he
Cyrus Brown up from
Big Cabin this morning. Mr. Brown
took the Katy Flyer for Paris, Tex,
where he goes for visit before re-
turning home to Montecello, Ey.
Chas. R. Lefiwich, of GreenYille, o.,
md F. Gellum Cromer of Dayton. o.,
came in last night to look after some
'eal estate investments. Both gentle
nen have been here before and think
Oklahoma land is a good investment. |
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19

State OF Oklahoma, County of Craig,
IS. In Justice Court in Big Cabin
District.
~. c. Renfro, Plaintiff VS.. F. N.
Sprague, Defendant.
Defendant will take notice that he
has been sued in the above named
court for alleged failure to pay pas
ture rent in the sum of $500, and
cost. The defendant must answer on
are before October IS, 1912. or plain
tins bill of particulars will be taken
as true and judgment rendered accord
ingly
w NJ. CHAMBERS,
Justice OF the Peace.
L. G. RENFRO. Plaintiff. &c
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19
> 10000 900 900 Q
, MISCELLANEOUS ADS. @
> o 10000 ooo 5000 0

| loan money on farm lands. C. B.
Muropulos, Raymond Building.
FOR SALE-A desirable residence
lot in the Knight Additional bar.
gain if taken soon. Apply at Chieftain
office. II
FOR SALE-Lot 13 in block 30,
size so by 1s5 feet, west front. One
block west of North park. This is a
bargain. Apply at Chieftain office tt
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19
Fine Farm For Sale.

46O acres, 2k miles west of Alton,
$4,000 worth of improvements Mod
ern house. good barn, artesian well,
good fencing and other improvements.
Fine valley land. Address the owner,
j. w oRwTG, Alton, Okla. II
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19
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e LOCAL AND PERSONAL >
10 0 o 0 o o o o % 100000 o

New bulk kraut at Garrisons. II
S. A. Hughes goes to Bluejacl,et
today.
c. B. Hanks OF welch is in the city
today.
N. E. Harrison is in town from
Kelso.
E. H. Trott returned last night from
Chelsea.
Mrs. A. j. Thorpe visited at Tulsa
yesterday.
Try Whitney's restaurant. II
Miss Elenor Benge, of Adair, is
shopping in the city.
w. e. Bell, Kellys hay man is in
town from Big Cabin
Miss Fannie Kelly of Alton visited
over night in the city.
Cecil Hernandez made business trip
to Parsons last evening.
J. Fl. Hendrex of Pryor is transact
ibts OuoAiCCo hC1t IOQdl.
e. p Dunham was here from Pensa.
cola today on business.
DR.. A. W. Heron made a business
visit to Adair this morning.
Leo Spaulding has returned from a
weeks visit at Kansas City.
0. L. Rider went to Kansas City on
a business mission last night.
T. ]. Thornton, was here from the
north end of the county today.
Mrs. Ed Sharp went to Bluejacket
last evening to visit her mother.
Deputy Sheriff B. S. Webb made a
business trip to Bluejacket today.
Sweet cider at Garrisons. If
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Pitchford left
last night for visit at Rich Hill, Mo.
Mrs. VIM Baxley is visiting rela-
tives at Exeter, Mo-, for a few days.
FOR RENT room house, furnish
ed. Phone 612, or call at 240 S. Smith.
VI. H. Hendricks and wife returned
last night from a visit at Hannibal,
Mo
Grant Mcdonald returned last night
from a visit with old friends at Salem.
Mo.
Miss Willie McCrary went to Alton
this morning to visit friends over Sun
day.
]. A. Holmboe, contractor at the
asylum left last might for Oklahoma
City
F. NJ. Reed the Chelsea elevator
man was transacting business here
today
Dutch bulbs and Chinese Sacred
lilies just received at the Moss Green
House s ct
The wood repair on the city hall has
been completed and painting will be-
gin Monday.
Mrs. Jas. S. Davenport and Mrs.
Champ Clark went to Tulsa today to
visit friends
Mrs Jane Marker who suffered
stroke of paralysis last week is re-
ported worse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Turner are re-
ioicing over the arrival of a new boy
at their home
Mrs. B. G. Chandler went to Adair
this morning to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Dr. White.
Pink and red carnations, 5Oc per
ioz; white 75e, at the Moss Green
House. SGT
G. w. Mitchell came in from the
'arm last night and visited his chill
iren over night.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Il, Wolf are enjoy
ng a visit from VIM. Shelton and
laughter, of Grove.
Mrs. l., f. Parker and Miss jamie |
Hall went to Claremore on the noon
rain to visit friends.
Ed Ross, formerly with the Hum
'hry Commission company, came in
asst night from Tulsa.
Mrs. J. S. Davenport and Mrs,
,hamp Clark returned from a visit at
duskogee last night.
George Perry and S. H. Perry are
lere visiting at the home Of WIN.
leeks and John A. Wise
George W. Brown, of Memphis,
'enn., is here for a visit with his
mother and other relatives.
Nat Hunt republican candidate for
egister of Deeds has returned from a
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19

FARM TO RENT-32O acre farm, l
miles south of Welch Good barn anu
will built new house. Terms $500,
or $4OO cash and secured note for $500,
w e. Wolfe, Vinita, Okla
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19
For sale.

50 acres, 40 in cultivation. 40 in fine
meadow, 9 room house, barn, good we'll
water spring. A bargain at s26.5O per
acre. c. B. MURoPULOs, Raymond
building, vinita, Okla
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19

Beautiful College Addition Lots.
1000 down and ten dollars month.
no taxes. VIII furnish money to build.
Buy 'em now. C. B. MUROPULOS,
Raymond Building.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-19

It has been our persistent effort to
make this bank one Of the strongest in
the country and we believe we have
succeeded in doing 50.
In the selection of bank, the first
thing of importance to be considered
is absolute safety Allow us to sug-
gest that this bank fully meets that
requirement.
There's comfort and satisfaction in
having your money with an institution
Of unquestioned reliability
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-04
THE LATTER DAY SAINTS
Reorsanized Church Of Christ Closed
Conference Held in Fargo at
Assembly Hall Last Night.

The semi-annual conference Of the
Reorganized Church of Christ of Lat
ter Day Saints, which has been in ses-
sion at the Assembly hall Saturday
and Sunday, closed last night TO meet
In Miuot next July, at which time the
annual camp meeting Of the church
will be held in that city on the banks
Of the Mouse river. ''-'- "r
Delegates to the general conference
which Will be held in Independence,
Kans., next month were chosen as
follows: William Sparkling OF Minot,
j. S. Mangoner of Bantry, Thomas
Leitseh Of Clifford, Mrs. John Young
Of Berlin, J.: w. Wright and state
workers Mr.. and Mrs. J.. c. Page.
A free lecture was given Friday night
by two of the Mormon elders who
have been in the city for several
weeks. During his discourse one OF the
speakers that evening said he still be-
lieved in the doctrine Of poIygamy and
prophesied that the time would again
come when the. practice. would be rec
ognized and universal
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-04
HUNTERS MUST
Use GREAT CARE
STATE GAME AND FISH BOARD OF
CONTROL WILL cIRcuLARlzE
STATE REGARDING SPRING
SHOOTING OF GEESE THIS
YEAR-oTHER MATTERS UP,

The state game and fish board of
control convened this afternoon at the
Gardner hotel to clean UP all of last
years business and attend to other
matters regarding the shooting of
other game this spring, when the sea-
son opens for the shooting of geese.
The law permitting the spring shoot
ing of geese which was passed by the
last legislature goes into effect for the
first time this year. 1t is feared that
some of the hunters may not fully un-
derstand the provisions of that act
and that other game may be shot also
during the spring season. In order to
prevent the killing Of any other game
at this time and protect everything
else, it is expected the board will de-
eide to circularize the state warnins
all hunters of exactly what game may
be shot at this time and of the strict
enforcement of this law.
Game in the western part of North
Dakota will be the subject of discus
sion this p. m. The question Of a re-
serve wherein the bigger game of thai
section may run at large, will be dis
| cussed.
The board will also wipe the slate
clean of all of last years business ct
this meeting, as about all Of the county
auditors reports are now in. Chief
Game Warden Mclean met with the
board.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-04
Notiee of Election.

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual election for elective officers of
the city of Fargo, Cass county, North
Dakota, will be held on Tuesday, the
10Th day of March, 1912, at the fol-
lowing named polling places in the
several voting precincts Of said city,
to-wft:
First Ware Precinct, Central Hotel.
Second Ward Precinct, Fargo House.
Third Ward Precinct, City Water
Works Pumping Station.
Fourth Ward, First Precinct. Cass
County Courthouse.
Fourth Ward, Second Precinct, A.
L. Wallis Lumber ONCE.
Fifth Ward, First Precinct, Milk In
spector's Office, Fire Department
Building No. /.
Fifth Ward, Second Precinct, Base
ment Carnegie Public Library.
Sixth Ward. Precinct, Lincoln School
Building.
Seventh Ward Precinct, Roosevelt
School Building.
Such election will be held to fill
the following named offices Of said
city, to-wit:
Mayor, City Treasurer, City Justice
of the Peace, Member of Park Com
mission, and n alderman for the
regular term in each of the seven
wards of said city.
At such election the polls will be
kept open from eight O'Clock in the
forenoon to FIVE o'clock in the after
room of that day and no longer.
Dated March End, 1912.
e. r. ORCHARD,
City Auditor.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-04
ON PATRIOTISM
Miss Frances Shea Delivered inter-
esting Grafton at the High
School this Morning.

Miss Frances Shea spoke on Patroit-
SIN and Holiday Observance at the
high school this morning. The style
of the patriotism Of the present day
was lamented and the observance Of
national holidays, especially the Fourth
Of July, was strongly ridiculed.
The speaker described the manner
in which Europeans celebrate their
national days and compared all the
continental countries to the United
States in this respect, showing that
the method of celebration of the
Americans, abroad as well as at home,
was inferior to that Of the Europeans.
The speaker claimed that the man
ner In which the Fourth is now cele-
brated tended to lower instead Of raise
the plane Of national patriotism. Re
counting the number Of victims claim
ed by every Fourth and stating that
most Of these are children, who are
unaware of their danger and are often
only watchers, the speaker made a
strong plea for a safer and saner
Fourth.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-04
City in Brief

Is there any harm in playing pool or
billiards at the Club?
Johann Refs of Casselton filed his
petition for naturalization today with
the clerk Of courts.
Go to the Dixon Cafe for your meals.
Wen please you or refund your
money. So5 Broadway.
A marriage license was today issued
to William j.. Greminger and Louise
S~chobinger, both of Embden, N. d.
Ed N. Scott of Big Sandy Mont.
formerly of this city, is visiting old
friends In Fargo. He has been a rest
dent of the sister state for more than
thirty years.
w. e. Byerly of yelva and t. d.
Casey of Dickinson, members of the
state game and fish board of control.
are both in the city today guests at
the Gardner hotel.
w. Dale Wolf of Grand Forks was
in the city Saturday night and sum
day spending the day with his brother.
Sec. r.. r. Wolf and family. He UNI
PRED the game at the A. C. Saturday
night.
w. P. Porterfield is on the hosbital
list. Last night about $50. while
walking on Seventh street south, he
slipped on the icy sidewalk and fell.
His right arm was broken between
the elbow n shoulder.
Judge Goss of the North Dakota
supreme u passed through the city
yesterday en- route from a visit at
his old home in Michigan. just north
Of Grand Rapids. 1t was his first visit
home in a great many years and the
justice stated that it was one he
greatly enjoyed.