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Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
Windham County
SOUTH WINDHAM
Moving ioture Men Busy Here--Miss Mabel CIinton's 2Oth Birthday-At- tended Larliu Reunion.

Mr. and Mrs, w. c. Backus spent a few days at Greenport. l.. l.. recently,
 Miss Josephine Palmer was week end visitor at Worcester.
 Mrs. E. ". Avery is visiting friends at Mystic.
 Mrs Mary Larkham spent Tuesday at Watch Hill
 Miss Harriet Porter of Columbia and Miss Alice Bugbee of Willimantic have been the guests of Miss Ethel Golden
 Mrs Mary Crane and Miss Helen Crane are visiting Mrs. Budd of Hopewell Junction, N Y.
 Quite a little interest was taken in two men who were taking moving pie lures in the village on Tuesday
 In the absence of the pastor there will be no service held at the Congre- gational church on Sunday. It was also voted to omit the c. B. service that evening.
 Mrs. Arthur Sweet was visitor at Bolton on Wednesday,
 Miss Florence Backus has returned from stay at Watch Hill.
 Miss Hazel Backus has returned from Ticonderoga, N. Y.. where she has been spending a number of weeks
 Miss Mabel Clinton entertained a number of her friends in honor of her About g young people were present from Willimantic and South Windham and a very enjoyable evening was spent by all.
 MT. and Mrs. George Backus and Miss Celista Backus spent Wednesday at Watch Hill.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. E. Card and infant sons attended the Larkin reunion at Pleasant View on Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
PL.AINFIELD
Rev. MT. Banford Resigns After Three Years Psstorate--Sixth Reunion of Academy Alumni Brings Former School Days Back.

Michael Doyle and two sisters spent Sunday in New York city.
 Mrs. Harry Holloway, who has been very sick at the home of her sister in Washington, R. L. was brought home Saturday. Although still very weak she bore the journey nicely.
 Mr. and Mrs. George Whittier oi Brooklyn spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Benjamin Watson.
 Mrs Arthur Maffitt has been enter taining her mother from Providence this week.
 Among guests in town Thursday were Mrs. Rose Greene Douglass of Willimantic, Mrs. Mary Cogswell Bar stow of Norwich, Mrs. Julia Doyle Shea of ~Jewett City, Mrs. J. Carrie Frink Stanton of Danielson. William P. Barstow and many others who were heartily welcomed, also Mrs. Alice Hutohins Moves.
 Mrs. Edgar Armstrong is quite sick at the home of Frank B. Greene.
 Asks to Leave Sept. 1.
 Rev. MT. Loomis of Moosup preach ed here Sunday morning in exchange with Rev. MT. Bamford, at which time MT Bamford's resignation was read to the Congregational church here. He wishes to leave here Sept. l, when he will close a three years pastorate.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
THOMPSON
Rev. E. r. Root Will Address United Baptist and Congregational Churches Afternoon Tea.

MT. and Mrs. Edward Rabbit oi Manchester, N. H., have been visiting relatives in town the past week.
 Manager Hufchins of the Vernon Stiles hotel has new automobile.
 Mrs. H. B. Ingraham has been spending several days with her daughters in Providence.
 An afternoon tea was given at Miss Howe's and Miss Marcus school Mon- day.
 Rev. John K. Moore. who is enjoying his vacation with his family at Eliza bethtown, N Y. his first parish, will preach there next Sunday.
 Rev. MT. Boardman of the Baptist church is taking two weeks of vaca- ton. The Baptist congregation is in vited to join the Congrega tional, who have Rev E. Talmadge Root of the New England Federation of churches who is we'll known and much liked here.
 Miss Elizabeth Osborne has been visiting at Frank Bates.
 Mrs. William Chase was leader of the B. Y. F. U. meeting Sunday even- ing.
 Earle c. Pierce returns to the Wor- cester School of Technology next week.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

Dr. and Mrs. Harry Barnes and child were at pr. George Barnes on Tuesday. Dr. Harry Barnes and fam fly came from New Bedford, Mass, in their auto.
 Miss Edith Dillabee of Worcester, W. E. LaBelle.
 Mrs. Henry Allen of Whitinsville, Mass, is at w. E. LaBelles
 Sabin S. Russell and Mrs c. A Rus sell spent Sunday at Eastern Point.
 Wayland Bennett spent the week end with his parents, MT. and Mrs. F. w.
 Mir and Mrs. w. F. Bidwell spent the week end at Eastern Point.
 Edward Wells family has moved to Putnam.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Brennan spent the week end in Central Village.
 Mrs. Charles Fralick leaves on Sat urday to join her husband.
 Frank James has returned from St. Josephs' hospital, Providence, very much improved
 w. D. Cogswell is suffering with hay fever
 Mrs Lorne Greig left Wednesday for Hanover to spend Labor day with Mir. and Mrs. Angus Park and to attend the wedding of her brother, William Park.
 MT. and Mrs. Benjamin Cogswell are now al the groom's home in Dayville.
 William N. Bennett is spending the week at Northbridge, Mass.
 Miss Ruth Scott is visiting Miss Agnes Johnson.
 Napoleon Gingras spent the week end at Rocky Point.
 4Irs. George Michie returned from Canada last Saturday, where she had been spending the summer.
 Hon. w. P. Kelley has been having as his guest Edgar Kelley of Kansas.
 Rev. Fr. Kost is taking his vaca- ton.
 Mir and Mrs N. L. Reynolds have returned from a week at Pleasure Beach
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
ASHFORD

Miss Tessie Flynn of New London is at the Cassidy house.
 Earl Poole of Wallingford spent Sun- day at his home here. D. B. Packer was in Willimantic Monday.
 The fair and entertainment given by the Ladies' Aid Society last kFriday afternoon and evening netted a neat amount. Refreshments were served. Artists on the violin and cornet rend- cred good music,
 F. M. Grant Is digging his potatoes which are large and smooth.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

It would be luderous if it were not so pitiful, this spectacle of whole com munities unable or unwilling to use their@own brains and muscles to help themselves We farmers are not with out fault in the matter, too. Like all the rest, we are most of the time look ing for easier. ways to do things rath- CT than for better ways. The moving machine is easie% than the scythe. But it won't cut into fence corners So they are left to grow up into untidy hedgefows of brush and weeds. The riding blow is easier than the other
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

And then there was the great erowI-
 ing, whinpering, whining fault finding
 mob of consumers; always snivelling | over the high cost of living" but ut ] terly unprepared for and incapable of | taking advantage of the chance to buy | potatoes at four cents a buShel when 75,000 bushels were offered at that 1 price!
 l What do helplessness and incapac- 1 ity deserve, anyway? We all know | what they general get: don't they | really deserve it, too?
 A prominent judge of a very high i court in a recent address frankly ad- 1 mitted that he should be utterly hope | less of the future if he didn't occas- i sionaily read past United States his- | tory and see what bad scrapes merci- | full Providence and amazing good luck | had got us out of in the past. But it's long streak of good luck | which never turns and it is asking too much, even of Providence, to expect | it to nullify all our bluderings, forever There's every reason for fearing that there may come time when we shall | have to stand on our own legs, without the crutches of luck or favor to prop us up. And, as things are going, the | legs are getting l-e-e-t-l-e bit shaKy. As | understand it, an optimist is one WnO, when ms neck IS DTOk6H, Tc- joices because he will never have to
 milk the cows again: while pessimist is one who, when he lifts the full milk pail off the stool croaks because the COW didn't give pure butter, already worked and salted.
 Plain horse sense is neither unduly optimistic nor unworthily pessinistic. 1t takes things as they are and tries to make the best of them. And that sort of horse sense seems to be getting
 mighty skuss"
 1 don't suppose that people in those
 old days we hear about so much re- ally liked to work any better than we
 do now. But they had to, compulsion
 kept their muscles hard and their
 minds alert. It made them industrious
 and economical from habit even if not
 from choice. We nowadays, have got
 so in the way of having other people
 do things for us that our self-helping
 sinews are getting fiabby from disuse.
 When an emergency confronts us we
 don't know how to meet it: when an
 exceptional opportunity offers we
 don't know what to do with it.
 We've got so used to having other folks buy our potatoes for us and bag
 them for us and deliver them at the kitchen for us and wash and peel and
 cook them for us and put them on our
 plates for us,- we've got so used to this and to paying those other folks
 with good dollars and cents for doing it. that we don't know how to act when
 somebody offers us our potatoes for
 four cents a bushel if we'll only come ard get 'en.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
DAYVLLE

Frank James Back from Providence Hospital-WiII Attend Wedding of William Park at Hanover-Personal Mention.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

WHEN Sau want to put your busi- r ess peforo She public. there is no me- dium better than through the anYert1s- ing columns of The Bulletin
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
AeuIcuI rrRAL LIME.

AGRICULTURAL LIME. We have just pit carloau into our storehouse and can supply your ooe- experts of the country say the grounu limestone is hotter than the burnt nm Q, and this is Wat we have. SoIo py the bag, ton or carload.
 PECK. M'WILLIAMS co. feb19d
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

There is nothing so tren,endeus in the mere fact of 5000 bushels of po- tatoes going to waste. But there is something which is horribly dispirit- there was neither a man nor an organ ization capable of preventing that waste.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

1t isn't rotten potatoes that I mourn for, but the social fiaceidity and de- crepitude which the incident discloses
 You can raise a crop of potatoes in ninety days, If the season is favor . able. But foresight and capacity are plants of slower growth.
 When once stunted, they recover tardily. THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES
Death of Mrs. Pa

Sunday morning in exchange with the pastor.
 Death of Mrs. Patrick Daley.
 Helen, widow of Patrick Daley, died Tuesday evening after a very short ill., ness. She was 73 3>years of age.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

kind. So we leave waste headlands'' all around our fields, reducing by so much their alreAdy small areas. We're continually looking for some thing which will permit us to do our work easier instead of for things which will enable us to do st better.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

in short ads Calling public atten- ton to the chance might well have saved the roads at east the amount of freight charges they lost. But no; it must be 500 bushels at 8 buy, or noth-
 ing
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

if things keep on this way for few generations moro, all our descendants
 will be able to do will be to sit in the
 sun and blink thefr eyes and feebly
 complain because somebody doesnt t
 keep the flies from tickling their large ears.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

lf ever parody Dean NeaIe's fam ous translation of the mediaeval Lat in hymn 1t will begin something like this
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

A cloud of locusts brought an air man to the ground in France recent ly.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

'The world is waxing lazy;
 Hard work is out of date: Let's hire a girl to Iced us, A man to hold the plate!"
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

One railroad sold whole car of 605 bushels for s25. This was less than a quarter of the freight. A few other cars were sold at comparable rates But the roads wouldn't sell less than q carload at a time, and individual purchasers couldn't handle six hundred bushels.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

That is to say, they thought they couldn't. And remember what thought did'
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

More healthful than tea or coffee. Agrees with the weakest digestion.
 Keep it on your sideboard at home. A quick lunch prepared in a minute.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-30

There are a whole lot of questions circling around such an event as this; q whole lot which deserve study, and the consideration of which might well make sensible men wonder where our koasted brains hide themselves when they are wanted to work.
Deming graphic., 1913-05-06
TIME TO PRUNE

The natural tendency of the vine
is to make its most vigorous growth
from the buds farthest from its
roots, and whatever method of prun-
ing or training may be adopted, the
aim should be TO confne the growth
very near the root or main stem.
In winter pruning, ordinary vari-
cites should have from one-half to
three -fourths of the entire vine cut
away. This work should be done be-
fore the buds begin to swell in the
spring. Late pruning is better than
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
FOREIGN POTATOES
ARE UNDER THE BA|l
Quarantine Order Issued, but
Afterward Modified; Hous-
ton Makes Statement.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22-Secretary
uing the quarantine put temporarily inLo
effect September 20 last forbidding pota
to impo-tations from the British isles.
Canada and all continental Europe. This
action was modified. however by a Sec
ond order under which the quarantine
may be raised under proper regulation
and inspection from foreign countries or
districts which can show that they are
free from potato wart and powdery scab
tine two diseases which the department OF
agriculture aims TO keep out OF the coun-
try. The first becomes effective Decem-
Der "a, but will admit until January Ii
voices issued on or before Wednesday
next. The second becomes effective jan
uary IS next
Representatives OF various countries
affected appeared at hearings recently
held at the department and protested
against the quara rantiue,
In the case OF certain provinces IN
Canada and certain countries and dis
tricts Of Europe, the officials here believe
the absolute prohibition can be lifted In
time 10 allow the movement of the pres
ent year crop, under regulation and In
spection. which under the secretary's or
der Is similar TO that Tor nursery stock.
In statement accompa nylng the or
ders, the department announced that the
present potato excitement Is apparently
due to misunderstanding OF the yield OF
this year.'
The department experts estimate the
crop at 33l .525 900 bushels. which. the
statement says. lis considerably above
the ten-year average and exceeds the
annual food and planting consumption OF
present supply IN farmers hands Is
large.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
To ADVERTISE CITY
IN F F||VAVC|AL WAY
Commercial Club Would
Remedy Defects in Clear
ing-house Reports.

That the financial strength and growth
of Salt Lake City is not properly repre-
sented In the clearing house statements
which are published in the financial and
other papers of the country. is the belief
OF the board Of governors Of the Com
mercial club. The reason for this, the
board finds, is the fact that not all OF
tho banks OF the city clear through the
Salt Lake clearing house. An attempt
will be made to remedy this condition be-
cause the board believes that bank state
ments OF this type are one OF the most
forceful advertising mediums to he had.
At meeting OF the board of governors
held yesterday noon President Il. D.
committee from the members: the COM
mtttee TO he reinforced by business and
professional men of the city and with
himself as chairman, 10 take the matter
up with the executive committee OF the
clearing house. The committee WAS in
structed by the resolution to confer with
the clearing house executive committee
and with the officers Of the ba nks w.lich
arc not members With q. view to securing
from all of them daily publication OF the
total bank clcarings.
While there are several banks III the
city which are not members Of the clear
ing house. all but one of them clear di-
rectly or indirectly through the clearing
dent OF the clearing house Several nom
members clear through banks that are
members OF the clearing house and thus,
outside Of a few minor exchanges. their
business IS indicated in the clearing house
figures.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
JEILlFFE BELIEVES
SCHMIDT ABNORMAL
Battle Of Alienists at the Trial of
Former Priest for Murder Is
Now On

NEW YORK, Dec 22.-The procession
of alienists began their march TO the
witness stand today al the trial OF Hans
Schmidt for murder After DR.. Smith Ely
JellIffe OF New York had testified for
the defense. court adjourned early to en-
able Schnaidts attorneys to construct a
hypothetical question which viii be put
20 DR. Jelliffe and other medical eT-
perts
Practically ali Or. Jelliifes testimony
indicated that Schmidt was abnormal:
The witness said the priest complained
10 him that his bishops and fellow clergy
refused 10 acknowledge his authority. ,
The defendant excused his forgeries OF
the signature OF his professor at Munich
by saying:
II was in high spirits and good health
and | entered into the personality OF The
professor. ] was the professor, SO "
was not wrong for me to sign his name.
DE- Jelliffe asked Schmidt II he ever
played the violin in a bath tub: as, one
OF the former witnesses had testified.
''I did, said Schmidt; 1T was nobody s
business. / felt like 1t and ] put my
feet in the water and sat in 1t and
played What an inspired man does
heaven wishes him 10 do"
During one OF his visits TO Schmidt 8
cell, said DR., Jelliffe, another physician
who accompanied him prlcked his fore
finger with needle and showed the pris-
oner a drop of blood Instantly Schmidt s
face beca me livid.
''AlI blood is mine he said, making A
lunge for the doctors hands. trying to
raise it to his lips
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
FAILURE TO SUPPORT
SUBJECT OF OPINION
Defendant Is Freed, but Is
Denounced by Supreme
Court Justices.

In three opinions. all concurring, but
each for a different reason. the supreme
court yesterday reversed the judgment
of conviction entered in the district court
in tho case Of Robert e. Bess. charged
with failure TO support his minor chill
dren. ..-...-.-.-. ----...--.- -..-
In the main opinion. Chief Justice Nc
Carly. while upholding the law on fall
ure 10 provide and emphatically de-
nouncing those who violate it, finds
ground for reversal. in that there was
not sufficient evidence to show that
Bess willfully neglected 20 provide. JUS
tice Straup concurs, but nevertheless
scores Bess scathingly FOR dereliction OF
duty. He concurs because he believes
the ends of justice can be better met in
the civil court than in the criminal. JUS
tce Frick concurs for the reason that
10 send Bess to jail would only plunge
his children into further want and suffer
ing.
Ress was arrested In November, t9tl,
on charge OF falling TO provide for his
obtained a divorce several months prior
10 the criminal action against Bess and
had been given CUSTODY OF the girls.
While Bess took the two minor boys. II
was shown that Bess had supported the
boys but had failed TO pay his wife
aimony for fhe support Of the girls. He
vas convicted and sentenced to three
months in the county jail.
Bess appealed. arguing before the su-
preme court that Ids daughters had not
suffered because OF his. failure to pro-
vide, inasmuch as the mother. with the
aid OF friends. had managed to provide
for them The supreme court rldicules
this contention as an absurdity. which
If upheld would make farce Of the law
and mockery of justice.
Such an argument, the court holds.
presents the anomaly OF man seeking 10
pervert the very law he has violated SO
as TO make It defense of his action.
Called TO account for hts own derelIc-
tion Bess, the court holds. seeks TO
shield himself behind the rotherly love
and devotion of his wife and the charity
OF kindly disposed persons, who per-
formed the duty he had neglected 10
perform
In all three opinions the principle is
laid down that It IS the duty of father
to support his wife and children and
that the assumption of this duty by pth-
Ell persons does not absolvs the father
from liability under the law.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
PRESIDENT WILSON
NOT READY TO TALK
SO Far as Known Administration Will
Not Advocate Government
Ownership,

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.--Although
Postma ster General Burleson in his an
nuaI report favored the principle Of gov
ernnent ownership of telegraph and tele-
phone lines. President Wilson has not
taken a position on the question and has
not made UP his mind
Government ownership OF the nation S
telephone lines will cost less than 5000
900 and would present no greater dif-
ficuties OF financing than did the Pan
anna canal, Representative Lewis OF
Maryland told the house today in an
exhaustive analysis OF his proposal &c
have those lines operated by the postof-
flee department.
THE perversion of the laws OF public
and private financierlng." said Mr.. Lewis
'by which public governments have beer
disinberited of their normal functions
has led to such corruption and demorali.
zatiou that cities like New York, with it,
street railways. Philadelphia with its gas
works and San Francisco with its tele.
phones, have shamed the scions OF Roman
corruption In their most dishonorable
days
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
CALL ATTENTION TO
BALTIMORE PLEDGE
Prohibitionists Memorialize
President to Ask Congress
to Submit Amendment.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Dec. 22.-Presldcnt
Wilson was memorialized today 10 ask
congress to submit constitutional
amendment looking TO the abolition of
the LIQUOR traffic In the country at
large,
The memorial. which was signed by
special committee OF twenty-five named
at the great Anti-Saloon league demon
strs tiou which took place on the steps
of the capitol In Washington on Decem-
her 10, and which was an outgrowth OF
the national convention or the Anu Sa :
loon league of America and other tenn
perance forces held in Columbus NoVcm-
bcr 10 to IA,
President Wilson was unable TO re-
ceive the special committee upon the
ooca sion OF The Washington denonstra-
ton and the memorial sent to the White
house today was issued in lieu OF pc.
sonal hearing. 1t asserts In effect that
nation-wld prohibition would be only an
advanced step In the applica ton OK Inc Inc
upon which President Wilson wes elected.
The memorial quotes the section OF the
Democratic national platform OF 19l2 re-
Sarding the conserva ton OF natural re-
sources OF the country, and continues:
I'VE believe that men. women and chill
dren should be Included with the 1oreSts,
sources of water supply; arabic ana MN
era lands and navlgable streams as OBJ.
jects Of national protection 10 prevent
sher being wasted or absorbed by spe-
cial or privileged interests. such as the
extant organized government co-pa rtner-
Ell liquor trust OF the United States.
Concluding. the memorial says;
''Tfe party which YOU have the honor
TO lead offers its platform OF l9l2 as
the pledge of justice to the people and
l,pon that pledge we plant our appeal
for the right to have this most vital Is
sue passed upon BY the people and their
legislatures throughout the states ana at
the earliest Practicable opportunity.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
ZELAYA ANNOUNCES
TIME. OF DEPARTURE

NEW YORK, Dec. 22-Jose Santos
Zelaya former president of Nicaragua.
will sail for Europe on the La Lorraine
Wednesday. he announced through his
secretary, Joaquin Mazias, who VIII ac-
company him.
Mazias was emphatic in asserting that I
Zelaya was leaving upon his own volition
and at a date set by himself and that he
had received no message from the de-
partment OF state urging him TO expedite
mis- departure.
Zelaya leaves in accordance with an
agreement reached between his counsel
and the Nicaraguan government which
caused his arrest Tha nksgiving eve on the
charge OF numbering two countrymen In
Nicara qua in 1909. His government, In
consenting TO his release instead OF his
eXtradition 10 Mica ra qua, stipulated tha,
Zelaya must go 10 Spain, not to return to
Nicaragua, and must never engage In
Central American politics
Ielaya said tonight he would proceed
TO his estate i'll Spain and reside there
perma nently.