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Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
Mrs. Lockman's Estate Left to son.

MIS- Eockman EState Eert 10 0on'
 The last will and testament of the late Mrs Mary A. Lockman, whose summer home was at South Coventry, leaves all her property, personal and real to her son, Dewitt Loekman. He and William C. Dewitt of New York are named as executors. The will was filed with the surrogate court in New York and the estate Is being probated there as we'll as in this district. The will provides for tive trust funds in the event that Dewitt Leekman should die before his mother. Both these trust funds are defeated by the fact that MT. Leekman survived the testa- trix,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
At Raptist Church,

Paradoxes of the Christian Life was the subject of Rev. w. F. Rowley's sermon at the Baptist church Sun day morning. Communion followed the discourse Tn the evening the pas tors sermon theme was Constant Trust for Constant Need.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

of MT and Mrs. Joseph A. Tremblay of 469 Pleasant street, died Saturday morning. The funeral was held Sun day afternoon and burial was in St. Joseph'S cemetery
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
Want License Clause in Warning.

Petitions were circulated In some of the churches Sunday asking the se- lectmen to insert the proper clause in the warning for the October town meeting to secure a vote on licensing the sale of intoxicating liquor in the town of Windham.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

Sewing machines valued at 10000 900 were exported from this country in 1912, more than $4,00O,000 worth go- ing to Europe
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
WILIIMANTLC

passes on their land. Mir. Chesbro said Saturday that he felt certain such was not the case
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

Roxbury-Ervin June of Riverbank lost several GOODS of chickens last week, some weighing three pounds. It was the work of grey fox.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

in that month. Eight patients were discharged cured, transferred to other care, and died, leaving still under care, Sept. l, 95 patients.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
Ao+ o+ 1000
Case Continued.

The law quoted Saturday relative to the ice situation Is the act of 1909
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

New HaVen-The ninety seventh an- niversary memorial service of the New Haven Grays was held in Calvary Bap- tist church Sunday morning.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
Brief State News

Yalesville-Rev. w. A. Tate, pastor of the Baptist church, has resigned to accept a call to the Baptist church in Marlboro.
 Hartford-Lewis E. Gordon and fam fly of Asylum avenue, have returned
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
BALTIC

Enthusiastic Celebration ef Passage of 55- Hour Labor BilI-Gift Presented ex- Mayer Fisher of MiddIetown- Forty Hours Devotion Begins.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

from the Weekapaug Inn, Weekapaug, R. l., where they spent the month of August.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

West Hartford-The local group of Senior Campfire Girls of America left last week for weeks camp at How ard Beach, near Black Hall.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

5ridgeport-war has been declared by the butchers of Bridgeport upon the ice barons of the city and next year they propose to establish an ar tif1cial ice plant of their own because of the prices forced upon them.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08
FUNERAL,

Ernest L. Tremblay. Ernest L. the four months'-ol sor
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-08

Granby-James R. Hayes, a farmer of Granby, was the guC of George s. Goddard, state librarian, at the coun- ty fair at Hartford. MT. Hayes, who Is ninety years old, has made a prac- tice of attending the fair for years.
 Stamford-The Visiting Nurse asso- citation reports for August 109 patients cared for, 28 of whom were admitted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

small white blossoms, and other plants and shrubs that were unknown to me Do not assume that dwell upon these details with too much fancy. l am dellb- erate1y sketching humble home in the Azores, that you may contrast it later with the habitation that SO many an i'm migrant finds when he becomes a tene- ment-dweller in the United States; for behind this story is serious purpose. otherwise it had not been written.
 There appeared to be a recognized et1- quette for the entertainment of visitors. ManueIs arrival had been greeted by the shouts of half dozen brown-eyed chill dren, and his wife, a good-looking peas- ant, had followed and made shy courtesy, after which she had withdrawn within the house, calling the children after her. But upon our return, from an inspection of the gardens we found that refreshments had been spread upon a rude table that stood beneath a prirI1- tive grape-arbor, and we were urged, with a hospitality that could not be turned aside, to partake of fruits and native wine and a few precious waters in an American tin box. Neither Manuel nor his wife partook of the refreshnent with us, but stood and served, happy ln the service of foreign guests.
 You've got fine place here, said Mir. Landscarn when he had refreshed himself, feeling that some such statement on OFT behalf was necessary.
 Manuel shrugged his shoulders with a pleasant depreciation Your country very gran'," he replied, e'No leedle house like this. All big, gran'."
 He's got the right idea" observed Landscam, with wink at me. "Yes, we've got something to talk about over there. Biggest country on the globe !; booming night and day. You'll probably be over to see it yourself some day"
 sfRT,-oI, T ad States" said Manuel, seriously. You know some Portuguese peoples, mebbe p
 Can't say that I do,'' replied Land scam, humorously. Might have seen 'em, though, and couldn't tell what they were"
 Have any of your own family gone over" J inquired, in order to shorten the pre1iminaries to what felt sure was coming.
 Manuel turned to me eagerly. Yes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

into the background of former casual acquaintances. never expected to meet either of them again, unless in the chance
 crossing of our trails by some future coincidence.
 It happened that in the early spring of
 the following year the crusade against
 the white plague was extended to my
 own State, where it was prosecuted wig orously. Public meetings were held in
 cities and towns all over Massachusetts ]; leading physicians took the platform to preach fresh air and hygienic living; and public-spirited men, of foreign birth
 translated to their people of their own race the new rules for the treatment of
 tuberculosis. Every factory in the State
 was placed under district medical
 inspection, and rigorous measures were put in force to prevent the spread of
 the disease among working men and
 women.
 But we soon discovered that in cer- tain cities, where the local health depart ment was in the hands of mercenary politicians, the most dangerous breeding places of all, the infected tenement blocks, were still immune to the crusade and showed no decrease in their death rate. It became necessary to create sen tinent against such conditions by pub 1icity-a work in which the newspapers and magazines stood ready to cooperate where the facts were found to sustain OUT contentious.
 It fell to my lot to examine into con- ditions in the city where the Landscans lived, though I was not aware of this at the time; and in the course of the week Fate directed my footsteps to one | of the s1ums that was occupied almost
 entirely by immigrant families.
 By this time I had become very fa-
 rni1iar with the genesis of the s1un and it's process of development. Behind every dilapidated, rocking tenement block was landlord who had acquired the
 secret of making his money earn a
 greater profit than the richest trust stock in the country could offer. Much of the property had been well built originally, but it had run down and finally been bought in at a sacrifice. And this was where the s1un landlord came in. He never repaired unless forced to do so
 by the last stages of disintegration; but
 he subdivided tenements, divided rooms of decent size into two or more rooms by partition-often leaving one of them
 without windows-and added ugly upper
 stories where none were ever intended. The newly arrived immigrant, finding
 uncertain employment and forced to hus- band resources, was driven into these tenements He was charged a high
 rental in proportion to what he got and ] what the landlord paid to the city in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

when he came to the surface moment l later he was purple and gurg1ing and struggling wildly. Manuel had just dis mounted from his box, and without hes after his recent fare. He had an arm under MT. Landscam before the latter could go down a second time, and with hardly more exertion landed him upon the lowest step out of the water, gasp ing, grateful person.
 After ali, aside from the fright and the wetting, no great harm had been done, though MT. Landscam verify be- lieved that he had been snatched from watery grave We persuaded him to enter the boat, since his change of clothing was to be found aboard ship !; but he would not allow the sboatn1an to row us away until he had drawn his purse from damp and reluctant pocket and had offered Manuel handsome reward in money.
 But to the surprise of all the bystand- CTS the islander refused to accept it. That all right" he said, beaming. You don give me money. You fin, Maria Souza and then we all square You understan'
 The steamship, outside the breakwater, gave series of warning bellows as no tice. that she was impatient to raise her anchor.
 "I'1l find her.. declared Landscam, with COnVict1On- T il ma her 1T we nave to hunt the whole United States over for her I'm a man who pays what he owes"
 '.That all right" replied Manuel, grin ming from the ancient steps. ''You hurry now. Good-by."
 When we were aboard the steamship and Landscam, clad in dry clothing, was comfortably watching the island sink astern, he reiterated his promise. That man back there saved my hfe,0 he de- c1ared, with feeling. Mrs. Landscam never came nearer to being widow than to-day; and when I get home I'll find Maria Souza if I have to call in the Pinkertons."
 At Gibraltar landed, while the Land seams remained on the ship to continue the passage to Naples. Tn the course of the weeks that followed, crowded as they were with fresh incidents, my re- cent friends faded from my memory
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

please" he said. "Our gran mother, she lost over there Her boy Jose run away from San Miguel three year ago so not to be in Portugal army. You understan. :? He forget to write to her, an she all time say she goin' over and fin him. She make the home here with us since 1 ask her daughter to marry. You un- derstan'? Bineby her brother in Horta die and leave her little money. She buy ticket an go in beg sheep to fin Jose. don write, too. My babies, they wan their grandmother. You utlderstan',- write Portuguese people in New Bed ford, United States. Nobody see Maria Souza. That all"
 It took me few moments to draw out the remaining facts and make the story clear to Mrs. Landscan, who was deeply impressed with the recital. There was not much to be said for the missing Jose, who had been wild scamp before he ran away to escape service in Portu- gal; but the aged Maria had left a vacant place in the none too large cot tage that nobody had been able to fill. Manuel himself had never had the fever of immigration; he loved the island and
 his little farm; but he also loved his 1nother-in-law, and he would not yield to the fear that some nisfortune had over taken her and that she might be dead. She vas to have gone with family whom she knew in Ponta Delgada, but sudden illness had postponed their er1i- grafton, and she had taken passage by herself, knowing that many other island CTS would be aboard the ship. That was all Manuel could tell us, except that the consul had investigated the case, but without obtaining any information of the missing woman.
 We expressed deep sympathy to Man uel and his wife and offered one or two perfunctory suggestions; but there did not appear to be anything that we could do to help them, and, after a polite interval, we asked to be driven back to the city, as there were still the shops to be visited and there was no great time to spare before the steam ship sailed Even as it was we came very near delaying too long in Ponta i Delgada. One by one the boats that had brought the other passengers ashore had put off from the messy sea-washed stairs at the landing, until only our own remained when we arrived there
 | MT. Landscam made a characteristic dash for the stone stairway as l as-
 sisted his wife from the carriage, lost his footing, and with splash disap- 1 peared into this remote corner of the ocean. Presumably he went down with his mouth open and shipped an uncom- monly large amount of salt water, for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

It is a well-known fact that an ounce of worry is more destructive of happiness and often of life than thirty nine pounds of real trouble. The Don't Worry Club has, therefore, been started by the undersigned, for the pur- pose of eradicating this vicious prac- tice from our daily lives. As a begin ming, I venture the following rules which will be found to be strictly harmless, and to contain no traces of formaldehyde or other deleterious matter:
 I. If you are caught out in the rain eleven miles from home, don't worry, but sneak into the first open door you come to and borrow any umbrella that you may find in sight. Lest, being. a perfect stranger, your request for the umbrella be refused, do not ask for it, but just take it, writing the announce ment of your appropriation with promise of its immediate return on the hall mirror with cake of soap.
 2. If you have a heavy bill falling due tomorrow, don't worry, but let 1t fall. If you can't pay 1t when the into the house and play Under the Old Apple Tree" to him softly on the piano1a, and every time he mentions the account laugh merrily and tell him he ought not to talk shop while nak-- ing social call. In short while all
  ferred to the shoulders of the man to whom you owe the money.
 B. If yous are disappointed in love, don't worry, but think of old Blithers up the street who was not disappoint- ed in love, but was very much discon- certed by marriage. Reflect how his devoted wife always sits up for him whenever he goes to the club, and takes so deep an interest in his affairs that she opens all his letters and makes a practice of going through his pockets during the wee small hours while he sleeps.
 4. If you have been sent to jail for twenty-five years, don't worry, but try to figure out how much you will save in that time on living expenses, bad cigars, and uncomfortable vacations in American summer resorts. Con slider, also, that, having been sent to prison, the chances of your going into politics are materially diminished, that you are likely to be spared the neces- sity of voting for party candidate whom you intensely dislike, and re-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
JUST FOR FUN.

A Rhode Island farmer set ban tam hen on fourteen turkey eggs, and great was the scandal thereof through out the neighborhood. Friends from far and near dropped in for to see and for to admire the freakish feat
 "Sa-ay, Silas," asked envious Hiram Haggers, "haow many turkeys d'yew ca1'1ate ter git outer them aigs7'
 "Oh, shucksp Silas answered. 7'L ain't ca1latin' t git many turkeys. ] jest admire t see that pesky little critter a-spreadin' herse1fl"
 UNi0eCSGt Syndicate
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
HIS DEFINITION.


 The late H. G. HerricIe, who wa6 for many years high sheriff of a cer- tain county, always took a great in terest in the local schools, and was at one time chairman of the school committee. Shortly after the death of Garfield. Sheriff Ferrick visited a certain school and spoke to the pupils concerning the life of the distin- guishedy statesman, and then asked:
 "Now, can any of you tell me what a statesman is?H
 A little hand went up and little girl said:
 "A statesman is man who makes speeches"
 Hardly that" Mir Herricl replied tFor instance, I sometimes make speeches, yet 1 am not 9 statesman
 The little hand went up again, and again the little girl answered-
 q know; a statesman is nah N'z.o makes good speecac5.--
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
Some Rules for the Don't Worry Club g

joice that your sentence fs so long that by the time you come out the whole world will have forgotten that you ever hit your friend on the head with a piece of lead pipe and tried to run away with his pocketbook-
 If YOU are run over on the streeE by three automobiles and tossed by the last one against speeding. trolley car which throws you under the wheels of a heavily laden brewery wagon, don't worry, but bear in mind a realization of how much trouble you have escaped in coming days No man who ever passed through this eJ5- perience was ever afterward sued for breach of promise or called upon to- make an after-dinner speech
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

NE comes upon the Azores Islands like gorgeous pl1an- toms rising beyond a tt1r1- bling, tossing sea. It is much as though, walking through a hot street of Naples in midsummer, one should suddenly behold a vista of real blocks of ice melting upon the curb stone, while indifferent clerks gossiped over the, soda fountains in the shops. Any American would know that this must be a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-20
TRIED TO CONFINE CHILDS
Millionaire's Girl Companion
Accuses LAWYER of Plot.

Miss Lydia Robinson. the Young woman
beneficiary Of trust fund Of $4,000 in
The will Of Irving w Childs. who referred
10 her as my friend who was with mo in
Spain" continued her testimony IN the
Surrogatc's Court yesterday in the pro-
cceding brought 10y Mrs. Gertrude +.
Chids wife Of the testator To- obtain Ger
tain information necessary to her contest
Of the Will
child. spent about $1,000. ooo IN reckless
living. and Miss Robinson, who accom-
panied him on European trip. added the
information Yesterday that the Young man
drank a quart OF whisky day IN his
rooms besides what he drank b. cafes
Frederick II. Clarke. Childs's lawyer.
executor and beneficiary Of 5000. joined
Chiids i'm Europe Miss Robinson testified
Yesterday that Clarke told her he believed
Childs mertally incompetent ana asked
Miss Robinson to aid in putting him ~ an
ASYLUM for the sake of Childss family.
Miss Robinson said that after she met
Childs i'm Mexico they went together 10
Havana She did not know he WAS mar
riod until she had been with him six OF
eight months. Childs told her that he ala
not live happily with his wife. She intro
ducod him 10 her family in Maryland as
her husband
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-20
TRIANGLE LESSON LOST
Fire Protection Not Improved
by It. Committee Finds.

The committee on safety formed soon
after the fatal Triangle hr" on March -.
1911. will say iu its annual report to-day
that conditions in New York factories are.
i'm great part. unchanged and ar" su'h
as would casil" make possible the recrr-
renee II similar tragedy.
The committee instituted during III"
ycar au investigation into factory condi-
,ions to determine the adequacy OF pres
eut laws and what complianc" there was
with them II also reported deinguehc''S
to the proper authorities and continued Us
inspectious and complaints wherever uu-
corrected conditions continued. II MADE
e,udies of fire conditions IN .,3h' factories
in all parts of the city. An Investigation
Of g., buildings showcd that in one-haf "t
them the stairs were unsafe IN 'hr''-
fcurths of them emergency cNit~' "utsihe
fire cscapcs or outside stairs "er" uhsate.
About ~ per cent had doors which
on.ncd inward or we're INSTRUCTED, ana
this offence was even NOR" common III
the ease of the emergency cAtS N""",
three fourths Of the buildings hlS''o''"
such poor general maintenance that hr"
might occur at any time in piles OF run
hish papcr ami innammablc material
I'm ono district ~ factories were found
T., which the number of employees WAS
greater than the emergency capa'i'S W
exits. The committee IS no" AZ "'Th "''
. public programme of safety Tor factory
workers. and will attempt L" "h'alh en-
,,r,o,,,on, NJ otner fir. legislation II has
sa,ur,d
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-20
HER NEEDS EXCEED $4,000
Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Gets so,
900 Increase of Income.

Helen A. De Witt. daughter OF the late
William =. De Witt. who has been re-
ceiving an allowance Of sl2."o from her
estate. will hereafter get an addltiohai
SS"a. making her total yearly income
S20.p1 She is only a few months more
than fifteen years old. but is SAID To ne
mentally and physically, Ike girl OF
twenty years.
For several weeks the application OF
Helen De Wits uncle. Josiah II. pe
witt. for an increase i'm his niece's allow
ance has been i'm the hands of Wilpur
Lawrence. the referee in the case. lie
found in favor of tine girl. and yesterday
Surrogate Fowler approved the referee :
report and signed an order allowing her
uncle 70 eypend sooG0 year on his niece
and ward.
Helen De Witt inherited an estate oi
81 800. GO from her father and mother apd
has an income of more than $1,000 a
year. In the testimony before the rel
cree. the uncle and guardian testified that
his nlece's expenses in helping To main
tain a city home and a country place were
5000. with an additional go" Tor ies"'
and administrative fees. Her total eX-
peuses he said. were about NJr1 a lhon'h,
and nor spring clothing expenses would
ne NJ least 8. 100 Miss De Witt is SAID
to he nearly AS tall as her uncle ana
weighs 100 pounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-20
CANNED SUFFRAGE NOW
Workers of the Cause" Pose
for Talking Pictures.

Look out for knetophonic suffrage,
Yes. the cause" has been canned for
the talking movies" and samples will
he put on the market shortly
\ dozen votes-for- women workers from
the different organizations gathered at
the Edison studios. in Bedford Park. yes
terdaN and assisted in the canning bee.
They held regular suffrage meeting IN
little stage. with the phonoeraph man
recording their words and the picture
nan taking their poses
II was very realistic meeting. except
I'm one respect the speeches We're very
short 30 one was allowed Ia talk for
more than one minute 10y the watch of
hic man who was most unreasonable
TO women. for he told them in the same
breath 10 look pleasant please. and -
cut their speeches short.
Miss Harriet May Mills was chairman
of the meeting Mrs James Lees Laid
/, law. Miss Elizabeth Freeman. Mrs John
Rogers jr. Mrs. Mary Ware bennett
and Mrs Raymond Brown were tn"
speakers. Mrs. Arthur +. Townsend. Miss
Eiinor Byrnes Miss Ida Craft. Mrs
Anna Ross Weeks. Mrs cyrus W. Field
and Mrs. Francis Maule Bjorkman filed
I'm the picture and waved banners 10 give
an animated we want the vote and We y
have il" air to the thing
While the suffraeists were waving their
flags and chorusing The vote The
vote" there came from the other side
Of nearby screen sweet feminine
voice.
My husband I have everything In the
world ] want now What more can a
woman desire than place I'm the heart
Of the man she loves"
But il wasn't plot. II was another
group of people doing "a record for the
movics-a sweet series OF pictures show
ing the life of a woman from her child
hood to her old age, a womanly woman
who said nothing about wanting the vote
There were two exposures of the SUI
frage propaganda and the boss said that
one OF them would be sure to be success
ful. and II the speeches and the action
svnchronized all right. and ne d So" 10 ~
that they did som" Of the theatres In
this country would be presenting moving
arguments for suffrage very soon