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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-11-05

Mrs. Cooke had . new servant and
after the first cake she baked the mis-
tress went to the kitchen.
Della" said Mrs. Cooke. your cake
was very good. but there was not
enough nuts in It. When you make an
other. please remember l like plenty
Of nuts in the cake"
well, num-" replied the girl, 'the
reason / didn't put more in was be-
cause I couldn't crack any more to-
day. Indeed mum. an my jaw hurts
yet from them I did oraok."-IAppin.
eottak
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-11-05

The Lawysr-Are you acquainted
with any Of the men on the turyf
The Witness-Yes. sir: more than
half Of them.
The Lawyer-Are you willing 70
swear that you know more than hah
of them?
The Witness-Say. II 1t comes TO
that. I'm willing to swear that I know
more than all OF them put together.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-11-05

He-I dreamed that | proposed to
you. and you accepted me. Do you
believe in dreams?
Bhe-Indeed l do. dreamed you
proposed and refused yoa-
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

Dimock, died suddenly at her home in this village Monday evening of facial erysipelas. She had been i'll only a few days and her condition Monday morning appeared so favorable that her son left home on a business trip. She was 53 years of age and was mar ried, March, 1884, to Dewitt c. Dim ock A son, Louis C., who is in the lumber business, a daughter Helen, who lives at home a sister Lillie and a stepdaughter Lizzie, both of whom made their home with her and a step- daughter, Mrs. George Brown of Nor folk survive.
 Personal Mention.
 Mrs. E. J. Holman and Mrs. Harriet; Morrison were visitors in New Haven last week.
 William H. Bracket returned Mon day from Fall River. Mass, where he had been spending 8 few days with Mir and Mrs. George N. Phillips
 Mrs Walter A. Allen and daughter Lura spent Friday with friends in Wa terbury.
 Mrs. J. A. Morse is going to Mt. Car mel near New Haven to live.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
BOLTON
Sale of Property-Graduatna Exer.
 cses to Be Held June G.

The Ladies Aid society met in the church basement Thursday afternoon.
 Mrs. C. ". Burt has been appoint ed delegate to attend the semi an = nual conference of Holland county conference of Congregational church es in Gilead. May 18th.
 Samuel R. Woodward has purchased of H. W. Howell the place Joining the New England hotel where MT. Wood ward lives.
 Mir. Howell has moved his family to Southington where he has secured employment
 Mrs. Eleazer Pomeroy of Windsor has been visiting her sister in law, Mrs. William c. White.
 Miss Esther King is spending a fortnight with her grandfather, Rev. C. w. Burt.
 Miss Annie M. AIvord was in An dover with H. G. Phelps the past week
 Mrs. Eva H. Warf1eld has returned to her home at Bolton Center
 Clinton F. Loomis and family and MT. and Mrs. Roy Carpenter of Hart ford spent the first of the week as guests of MT. and Mrs. F. $. Loomis.
 Graduating Exercises June 6. The graduating exercises of the Bol- ton grammar school will be held in the Congregational church Friday evening June 9th. The two members in the class are Miss Olive Hutchinson, val edictorian; Miss Helen Mathein, salu- tatorian.
 Fred White has moved his steam sawmill to Elmwood.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
EAGLEVILLE

The two autotrucks used for haul ing building material to the Connect icut college have during the past week been operated continuously night and day
 Artesian We'll in Cellar.
 Fred 0. Vlnton has the excavation of the cellar of his house which he is building all finished He has an artesian well drilled in the cellar and carpenters are now building the forms for a concrete wall. Mr Ninton's house when completed will contain all modern improvements.
 George Hayes who was taken to St. Joseph's hospital some time ago suf- fering from an injured knee, is report ed to be gaining very slowly.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

Prince whose summer home is in this place
 Mrs. Preston Comes East.
 James Preston of Denver, Co., made 9 brief visit in town this week He accompanied his mother, Mrs Eliza Preston, who will remain east dur ing the summer. making her head quarters at the home of her nephew. Dewitt I<ingsbury. Mir. Preston will remain east but a short time
 Miss Theresa Siegel of Middletown gave a reading at the Methodist church Wednesday evening. F. $. White is moving his steam sawmill to Elmwood, Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
Holland County SOUTH COVENTRY
Choir Gift to Congregational Church. Local Interest in St. Louis Marriage.

 Local Interest in St. Louis Marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wood enter tained Mr and Mrs. Thompson and other friends from Suffield over Sun day.
 Miss Gertrude J. Mcfarland has re- sumed teaching at West Suffield after spending a weeks vacation at her home
 Miss Sara E. White of Boston made a brief visit with her mother and sis ter last week.
 Rev. George w Christie occupied the pulpit at the Congregational church Sunday morning and evening Communion was observed at the morning service.
 Church Improvements. The choir uf the Congrega gational church has purchased a new brass altar rail and plush curtains which adds much to the appearance of the choir platform.
 Married at St. Louis. Announcements have been received of the marriage of William E. Prince of Cleveland Ohio, and Miss Helen Stanley Christie q St. Louis, Mo. They will reside in Cleveland. MT Prince Is the only son Ct Mir. and Mrs. J. B,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
THE TEMPTATION OF WARM MARCH DAYS

self, but it can't be like this all over. Nevertheless. it was like that all over.
 carried the fork back to the tool shed and hung it up and shut the door tight. and went around on the other side of the building 10 get as far away from temptation as l coula But that brought me to the southern front And the sun was even warmer there, and the wind even balmier and the little tufts of greening grass even more alluring. Also. blue-b1fu flashed past me and perched sWaying- ly on the topmost aspiring tWlg ot a wild apple tree Then he flew back again to the ridge of the old lumber shed Twice he repeated this perform ance each time cooking his little eye my way, as if to say; You see m here Mister; what ye 'fraid of went back to the house and sat down with my back to the window and tried to get interested in the Balkan war news But across every para graph l seemed to see that blamed blue bird flying, and over the odor of the Lyonaise potatoes Mrs. Farmer was cooking and they're my fayorite dish,-I kept smelling the insistent odor of that fresh turned garden dirt.
 Out went again. A neighbor chanced to pass. We talked d bit.
 Mighty warm for March
 Yes but it can't last"
 of course not; we'll have sleigh ing next week.
 Seen any blue birds yet?"
 Yep: there was a robin on the Hatch-Iot fence s 1 come by"
 'The frogs were yelling like a fire alarm last evening"
 You don't say? Oh. well. they've got to be frozen in three times. you know before spring really gets here"
 J LN 1,I tn if any seeds in. this early"-This was what I said please note.
 Lord yes: they'd rot in the ground"
 My onion bed dirt is in mighty good shape, though
 Yes? Been diggin' a little aready''
 "Oh, just turned over forkful to see how it acted
 Well so long
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

ana was not regular, my head ached all the time,I had bear ing down pains and my back hurt me the biggest part of the time, I was dizzy and had weak feel ings when l would stoop over, it hurt me to walk any dis tance and I felt blue and discouraged.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
SOUTH WELLINGTON
Case of ErysipeIas Proves FataI-In provement in Gardiner Halls Condi ton.

An epidemic of erysipelas seems to have struck the place. Mrs William <. James was the first sufferer. then Miss Mary Miller, followed by Miss Clara Miller and Mrs. Jennie Dimock. The first two cases are well on their way to recovery. The last proved fatal and Miss Clara Miller's condition Is critical
 Gardiner Hall Jr. Improving
 Gardiner Hall. Jr. has progressed in his recovery so that he has walked out for short distance and is gaining steadily Few believed seventeen weeks ago that he could survive his complication of troubles
 Mrs. Jennie Dimock widow of D. c.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 l wonder: 1 wonder about a whole lot of things. past, present and to come just this minute Pm won = dering whether other farmers like myself are as addle- pated and scatter brained as l sometimes am!
 From the thinness of the hair on top of my head, and the grayness of whats left, my looking glass intimates that | ought 10 have arrived at years of discretion. m old enough, heaN- en knows. But-What's the old say in no fool like an old fool" cut my wisdom teeth, long ago; but then, you see. they have all fallen out, since. Perhaps, if wisdom comes with them when they come. it may go with them when they go. Anyway, whatever the explanation, l still keep on doing crazy things The longer 1 live, the more keenly l appreciate the age-long applicability of the Common Prayer Books phrase: T have done the things ] ought not to have done, and l have left undone the things l ought to have done.
 Years and years ago l discovered that it WaSn wise to try to rush the year before the months began to get ripe. Experience and observation both showed me that one dldn hasten his crops as a rule. by putting seed into the ground before the dirt had warmed up into fit state for a seed bed. And so, when those first warm days came off, last March, knew better than to get my garden seeds in. Mind you, l say that knew better Nevertheless. l did 1t: l. e. I began doing ii. The Lord. in his great mercy. sent a cold snap be- fore I had got very far along and shut me off. Otherwise, it is hard telling how far ] might have gone.
 You see. the sun came out clear and warm and the south wind blew gently and the elm buds began greening and the peep frogs in the old-pOnd began To chatter. The first day l smiled superior: no, indeed, l wasn't to be fooled by one pleasant day Winter wasn't through yet There were frosts and snow coming. That was the first day. The next day was even warmer: IL was rather like May than March. About the middle of the fore noon, I found myself on one of the garden plots The ground looked fine now ] tell you. I walked back and forth across 1t. Then my legs carried me to the tool-house and pretty soon ] was back with a spading fork Of course it'll be StiCkE-Wet under the top inch.' 1 said to myself. The fork went down easy. the whole length of the tines. Also it came up easy, turning over a peck of the incest, warmest. melloWeSt dirt a gardener ever saw. "Whew.' thinks l to my
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

The third morning came; again as bright and glowing as a May day. The very first thing l saw, as I went to the barn to start my morning chores, was the other blue bird,-both the blue birds The first ones mate had blown in. and it was perfectly evident, from their conduct and conversation, that they were arranging to begin spring housekeeping
 Now. I've tried to make it plain that I knew well enough what I ought to do. I ought to have gone to mending fences, or clearing up hedge rows or splitting wood, or any other appro- priate March proceeding.
 But the spirit of spring had got into my blood. And, if ever a gray-headed, lame backed, stiff kneed old hayseed was tempted beyond his ability to re- siSt, it was this one
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

went back to that onion bed, Tn l looked over the spinach ground and the early pea patch. And the beet bed. And the place where parsnips and carrots were to go And the lit tie radish corner. Say, they all looked good They fairly grinned up into my face. l wouldn't yield to temptation and get out the fork again. but I did stick pointed stake into the dirt, three or four times. to find how it looked underneath
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

I began taking Lydia E. Pinkham 8 Vegetable Compound and am now in good health. If it had not been for that medicine I would have been in my grave long time ago. Mrs. ARTIE E. HAMILTON, RED. No. 6. Warren, Ind.
 Another Case.
 Esmond, R. I.-"I write to tell you how much good your medicine has done me and to let other women know that there is help for them. I suffered with barring down pains, headache, was ir- regular and felt blue and depressed all the time. I took Lydia 2. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound and commenced to gain in a short time and 1 am we'll wo- man today. I am on my feet from early morning until late at night running boarding house and do all my own work. l hope that many suffering women will try your medicine. It makes happier wives and mothers. Mrs. ANNA HAN SEN, Esmond, Rhode Island.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
BLUE AND
 DISCOURAGED
Mrs. Hamilton Tells How She Finally Found Health in Lydia E. Pinkhan's Veg
 etable Compound.

Warren. Ind. -''I was bothered ter rfbly with female weakness. 1 had pains
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

In justice to Sheriff Martin, be it said, that he was not the first to build beyond the established building line m Montauk avenue, for the lace mill since converted into 3 garage. is on a line with the Martin shack. and with the proposed tenement building
 But as a city official puts it one or two wrongs do not make a right. He
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
trotted right over to Hanks.

trotted right over to Hanks.
 What re ye doin' today" I asked. "Oh. nothin' much: jest pickin' up around the place.
 Want to come over and blow my onion-bed? ?'
 Good land. man, y ant goin' to SOW no onions now. be ye?"
 Yes b'gosh. I am l answered: T know it's silly but these last two days have been too much for me. Can ye come?"
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

We'll, he came. We got out the blow and secured it up, and plowed and raked off the onion-bed. There was still half a day left Might $ we'll blow that beet bed and the early pea patch just beyond, while we're hitch ed up" So we plowed them, too. Also the spinach and lettuce ground and the parsnip- carrot bed.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

The next day,-the fourth in con secutive successiOn.-wa another Summery one. We sowed the onions, And the early peas, And the spinach. And the lettuce. And the beets. Also the parsnips and the carrots How much more We should have done had the day lasted. I am ashamed to imagine.
 The next day, it turned cold The day after it showed. And then, for four blessed weeks. we didn't have single really warm or sunny day. Nor drop of rain Just chill and gloom and clouds and drying winds. There wasn't thing in earth or air to sug- gest that anything vegetable was ever going to grow, again.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

self. but it can't be like this all over. Nevertheless, it was like that all over.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

Which brings me back to where started: wonder if any Of my brother farmers and gardeners of Nutme6dom are in q similar boat " There are lots of them who know more about their business than 1 do. Do any of them ever "slop over" in this sort of way? Or any other way :, Do they always use their brains and their judgment, or do they sometimes yield to the feeling of the moment, even when they know. down at the bottom of their minds, that they're making dunn fools of themselves
 Eh. what?
 THE FARMER
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10
Unmarried Members Win.

Judge William B. Sprague and wife and Representative Parker Stearns of AndOyer were present at the entertain ment by the unmarried members of the grange Wednesday evening, and rendered the decision which was una nimous. in favor of the unmarried members. The married members will give their banquet of the grange, We'd nesday evening, May 21
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

Now at last, it has become warm went all over those March-sown up and really looking quite we'll One or two rows of onions show their length. The spinach is all there but no farther advanced than 1t ought to be, two weeks from seeding. Appar- entity about one beet-seed in a dozen has germinated. They won't need thinning! The lettuce rows show tiny plants at intervals of from one to four feet. The parsnips haven't come into evidence, yet. The carrots are feebly and parsley trying to break through the crusted top soil; most of them failing hopelessly in the at tempt. The radishes,-did l forget to mention them ?-Came up one after noon about a week ago. and were every last one of them eaten off by turnip fiea-beetles that very night
 As a whole, it looks as if I might get some rather early peas from that March days sowing. But the other garden truck is none of it any more forward than it usually is at this time though soWn weeks later than this year. while most of it is thin, scatter ing, weak,-What would be called "a poor stand Of course, there's no telling what the coming warm days may do. But if l get better than a l half crop from those early soWn seeds. it will he by reason of Providential mercy, and not of any common sense on my part
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-10

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin)
 I wOnder:-wel. 1 wonder about whole lot of things, past present and to come;-just this minute Pm won dering whether other farmers like myself are as addle- pated and scatter brained as l sometimes am!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-29
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-29
LYDIA a PRICE

Lydia a. Price died Sunday noon
AT her home, 3O4 r. Dayton ST. Mrs.
Price was q years old and one Of the
pioneers OF st. Joseph county. Her
death came after a lingering illness
Of hve months
She was born in Holmes county.
O.. Aug. u. 1884. and came To this
vicinity locating in North Liberty in
1864. She is survived by her nus
hand. eight daughters. Mrs Mary A.
Freeman, Ninamac. Ind. Mrs Mar
garet kurtz. Mrs Ella Klopfer. Mrs.
Minerva Hizley South Bend. Lillian
II. Price. Scranton. o.: Mrs. Angeline
knepp. North Liberty. Mrs. Emma
Dushva. Lakeviue. Ind. and Mrs.
Laura Steele. New Paris. Two sons
surviving her are Albert Price Find
lay o., and Frank J. Price. North
Liberty. She leaves also % grand
children and i great grandchildren.
Funeral serFi,es viii Zoe held Tues
day morning rom the residence at 3
o'clock. and at North Liberty at 10
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-29
SHIRLEY JURORS
DISAGREE AGAIN

For the second time the jury in
the case of Ernest Shirley, charged
with criminal assault on Frances Kyle
of WalkertOn. disagreed. At a spec
ial ession of superior court called at
10 o'clock Sunday morning by Judge
woodward, the jury filed in and re-
ported that il was unable TO agree
on a verdict. Rumor has il that the
final vote Of the jurors stood eight
TO four for acquittal.
Ii is believed that the summOning
of court on Sunday is perhaps the
first instance OF its kind in the annals
OF the st. Joseph superior court. All
attorneys for both sides were present
when the jury returned after an all
night session and reported its verdict
The trial just concluded marked
the third one on the case. The first
was held in the justice court. the
second last fall in the superior court.
at which time the jury disagreed. The
trial attracted much notoriety. the
court room being filed at nearly
every session. Miss Kyle told her
story each time in a low voice while
the room was filled with men. Shirley
was known in South Bend. having
waiter at the Hofbrau and Bud
weiser cafes.
Shirley was charged with assault
ing The girl in July. 1912. After the
girl told her mother the story, her
father is said TO have rushed about
town seeking Shirley with a shotgun.
He fed from South Bend 10 Chicago
and finally returned TO Walkerton
and gave himself up.
Al the time OF the alleged assault
Miss Klye is said 10 have been but
two weeks past her 18th birthday.
Shirley was "a years Of age.
Samuel Parker and W. A. McInerny
defended Shirley. while c. p Drum
mond assisted the prosecution.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-29
ELIlSWORTH'S HAIR GOODS
DEMONSTRATION.

The new styles of dressing the hair,
as made necessary through the gen
eral adoption of the small hat. are
many and varied. The woman who
would employ her hair TO best advan-
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special demonstration which is now
in progress at Ellsworth's. Madam
Drake, representing one OF the larg-
est hair goods houses in America. .
prepared To show you an assortment
of styles in French and German hair
goods Switches. Transformations.
Wigs, Mems Toupes, Wave for elderly
ladies' and an entirely new and vers
stylish hair piece known as Casts.
Demonstration on the Main Floor
The Ellsworth StOre.-Advt.