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Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
RURAL SCHOOL NOTES
Items of Special Interest in the Bet
 torment of Rural Schools.

Every agricultural school should have a normal department for the sole purpose of training teachers for rural scnools,' declares J. L. McBrien in his Arkansas report.
 Trees for beautifying school grounds are furnished free to rural schools in California by the Chico State Normal School. Chico will also send, on re- quest, a man to lay out school gardens in rural communities
 Kansas State Agricultural College has campaign on for enIisting 20,0OO Kansas boys and girls in agricultural and homemakinG contests this year. \ special State organizer has been ap- pointed.
 Edgecombe County. N. C.. has re- gently held a series of community up- lift meetings" under the auspices of the educational and agricultural de- partments of the county. The county commissioners appropriated S10O to- ward the work. Another item of progress in this county is the provision for woman assistant superintendent of rural schools at salary of ST5O per year.
 Although California has had for more than 10 years a law authorizing consolidation of schools, consolidation Is not~Iooked upon with favor, accor l. ing to J. c. Muerman, an official of the Bureau, who is now stationed in the southwest. Two of the schools visited by MT. Muerman had only pupils en- rolled. The teachers received S7O a month. Both schools had good libra ries.
 Hawkins County, Tenn, recently ac- complished notable feat in consoli- datiOn. Four schools were consoli- dated; and the new building provided is a $4, 800 structure with six acres of good land. located on a pike road. Two Of the old schools were converted into residence for the principal. The land was donated with the understanding. that it should be worked as a demon stfatien school farm. The principal is hired for 12 months in the year
 State Superintendent Harris of comments the Natchitoches Parish School Board for inviting the country boys from all sections of the parish to assemble for a week to study agricui- tural questions under the direction .)f agricultural experts. The boys of each rural school elected one or more repre- sentatiVes to attend this institute The 6S farmer boys were given free enter tainmeRt in the homes of the people of Natchitoches. These boys were in- tensely interested in the work of the institute and jointed intlligently and earnestly in the discussion of agricui- turaI questions.
 J. c. Timbelmap, of Chester w. Va. tells of q certain school in his State Where 40 pupils were enrolled. All 40 pupils attended school the months required by the compulsory attend ance law, but 10 stayed away the Ia st 3 months of school. Now it cost just as much.' argues lIr Timberman. 60 operate this. school the last 8 months with the reduced attendaRce as it did
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when the entire 40 attended. There is loss of 25 per Lcent of the entire ex- pense of the school. The teacher re- ceives So5; and 25 per cent. of S55 is S13.I3 per month loss. Multiply this by three and you get d loss of S41.5 for months. The district has IS schools. The taxpayers therefore lose S11-25 multiplied by Is, or ST42.5O each year, through a WEAK CONIPUL- SORY EDUCATION LAW and NE GlIGENT PARENTS. Do you think any private business would permit such a wiilful waste? If such criminal waste is not good for private business why do we permit it in public busi ness?"
 A school census for rural districts has been put into successful operation by Superintendent Morton, of Concord township schools, Frankfort, Ohio. The census card used gives more facts than the usual registration card. It shows whether eyes have been examined and when; whether the pupil has been vaccinated and when: and physical de- fects of any kind. h explaining why he drew up the census card Superin- tendent Morton says: 'Coming into a new field here last fall. I found 1t a very difficult task to become acquairt- ed with between 400 and 800 enrolled pupils, there parents. and the condi- tions under which they lived. Hence the census card. The teachers have filled out one of these for each pupil in the supervisory district. With these cards filed alphabetically in my office l have immediate access to a very large amount of information, which is at times almost indispensable. The first thing I did was to ascertain the percentage of retarded pupils and then proceed to investigate individual cases These cards together with the teach CTS monthly reports, make it possible for me to talk intelligently with any parent who may drop into the office concerning his children, their progress in school, or any other school and home problem.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
MYSTIC
Country Clubs Annual Meeting Fanny ledyard Chapter, D. A. R., Celebrates Fist Anniversary.

The annual meeting of the Mystic Country club was held Monday even ing. The reports of the officers show the club to be in a good financial con- dition. The following officers were elected: Chairman, Eleanor Fish; if nancial secretary. Miss Edna Wheeler; secretary, Mrs. Frank Bindloss. Oth- CT members of the board are Edgar A. Rathbun. Miss Lurinda Dudley, Miss Margaret Bindloss.
 Had Outing at Old Lyme.
 The members of the Fanny Ledyard chapter, D. A. A, held an all day meeting Monday for the purpose of celebrating the s1st anniversary of the chapter. The members left Mystic on the 9.30 ear for Groten and then for Lyme where they took din- her at BOXWood inn, and spent a very pleasant afternoon returning.
 w. c. T. U. Meeting.
 The regular meeting of the Woman's Christ ian Temperance union was held Tuesday afternoon. The president Mrs. Charles F. Newbury, presided.
 Short Paragraphs.
 Misses Mary and Margaret Calvin have returned to New York after a ten days visit with their sister, Mrs. Walter D. Sheehan.
 Alexander Jordan of Norwich was
 Dr. C. F. Congdon was a visitor in Norwich Tuesday.
 Miss Eva Mcfarland has returned to Danielson after several weeks stay in town.
 Mir and Mrs. Alonzo E. Collins have returned from a visit in Rockville and Hartford.
 Lieut. and Mrs. Roy Lyons have returned from their wedding trip and have been guests of Mrs. Lyons parents, MT. and Mrs. Julius Dudley. They left Tuesday for Fort Terry where they are to reside.
 Mir and Mrs. Henry Holmes are spending their honeymoon in the vil- lage. Mir. Holmes was a former resi- dent of this place.
 Mrs. John T. Brooks is visiting her parents in Hartford.
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Local Laconics.

1 Local laconIcs. Mrs. Harriet s. Campbell of Provi. | dence is visiting relatives in Wester- ly.
 Mrs. Lulu I. Palmer and daughter | Of Rockville, R. l., were in Westerly | Tuesday.
 Mrs. Ladora Keaton Of New York ] has arrived at her Watch Hill cot tage for the season. Mir. and Mrs. Alfred Ligouri of New London are guests of Mrs Ligouri's parents in Westerly. William D. Hoxie and family, oi Brooklyn, have arrived at their sum
 mer home ill Elm street. Arthur NJ Weeden. a janitor of the Memorial library, was in Ncrwie:1 Tuesday just to see the big parade ! and the circus.
 Buono Livingstone and Mrs. Agnes MaNsWeli are to be married this morning in St. MichaeTs church, by Rev William Krause. A mail train composed entirely ot steel cars passed through Westerly
 bound to New York, for the first time at 1.S0 Tuesday morning. Henry V. Brown will conduct the Terminal store at Pleasant View this
 summer and D. Everett Hoxie will
 be in charge of the post office
 Miss Aobie Babcocll of PhiIadeI-
 pi1ia has arrived in Westerly and will srend the summer with her mother Mrs. Harriet B. c. Babcock in Elm
 street.
 Ira Allison Snyder made an early
 start for Norwich Tuesday so as not
 to miss anything in connection with the Barnunl X Bailey circus. He re- turned on the last special car.
 The chief inspector of safety appii-
 hos commerce commission that the mis- hap to the Gilt Edge train near Wes- terly last October, was due to a de- fective ralI.
 Louis A. Celia, one of the first ItaI- lans to take up residence in Wester- ly, where he has resided for over forty years, will sail from New York Saturday for a. visit to his native Genoa. It will be his first visit to his old home in twenty two years
 Mrs. Elizabeth Mathews, for nearly twenty years a resident of Westerly but recently of Woonsocket, died on Monday in the Hospice street hospi- tai in that city. She is survived by two sons and q daughter Joseph F. Mathews of Westerly, Edward A. Mathews of Ottawa. Canada, and Mrs. J. A. Hay Of Blackstone, Mass. Mrs Mathews was in her seventy fourth year.
 Dr. William Williams Keen. grad uate of Brown university in 1859, dean of the surgical profession of the United States, has been elected pres 1dent of the International Surgical congress, 1nd is to preside at the next meeting to be held in Paris in Sep terfber, 1917. Dr. Keen is resident of Philadelphia and is quite well known in Westerly, having spent the summer at Weekapaug. The first three meetings occurred in Brussels in 1905, 1908 and 1911. and the fourth in New York ir April, 1914. The former pres idents have been, in the order named 8 Swiss, Kocher of Bern; a German Czerny. of Heidelberg: a Erenchman ampionniere, of Paris: and a Bel gian, DepaSe of Brussels
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
STONINGTON
Motor Boat Races for CeIebration-O. A. R. Chapter to Mark Houses Struck During Romba rdment.

The regatta committee for the cele- bratfon have arranged for motor boat races to be held Monday, Aug. 10th, from to II a. m. The races will be over short courses and the boats divid- ed into three classes: first class, 12 to Is feet; second class, IS to 20 feet; third class, 20 feet and over. Prizes have been offered to. the winners in each class.
 D. A. R. to Mark Houses.
 Edward Northup is making the tab lets to be placed on the buildings in the borough which were struck dur ing the bosnbardment of 1874. The tablets will be placed by the members of Anna Wasnsr Bailey chapter. D. A. Capt. John Ostman returned Monday with a catch of 645 large macke ,el taken near Long Island
 Now State Road Open.
 The new state road from Stoninston to Westerly is open and is much apprS- clated, as it had been closed so long. The plans for the state road from here to Mystic are completed.
 Rehearsins Play.
 The choir of St. Mary's church. es- sisted by local amateurs, is rehearsing the play Alvin Gray. or the Sailors Return.
 school teachers meeting is to be held this Wednesday, evening at the close of the evening service.
 Mrs. w. A. Breed has returned from New York.
 The steam yacht IdaIa, N. Y. Y. C., has been anchored in the tarbor. Her owner, Captain Hoxie, is a. summer resident of Westerly.
 Tug PliEy Fisk, with a coal barge came in yesterday
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BALTIC
Public School Graduating Class Exer. cises to be Held Friday Evening" Holiday for Circus.

The graduating exercises of the class of 1914 of the Baltic Public school will be held Friday evening in Sprague hall
 society is to be held in their rooms this evening.
 Mills Close for Circus Day.
 Both mills of the Shetucket wors- ted Mills Co.,. were closed all day Tues day to permit the employees to attend the Barnum and Bailey circus fin Nor wich. Several extra cars had to be run to accommodate the crowds and around time the travel was so heaVy that the cars were twenty minutes late.
 Rev. Joseph V. E. BeIanger. pastor of St. Mary's church is making his an- nuai retreat of one week at Keyser Is- land South Nerwalk.
 Mrs. John Woods whe has been i'll at her home for the past two weeks has so far recovered as to be able tn be out of doors
 An unclaimed letter at the Baltic post office for the week ending June 9th. 1914, is for Pierre Picottin.
 Miss Anna Reider of Waterbury is visiting local relatives.
 Regarding a former Baltic priest a Waterbury paper said Saturday.
 what IS said to be the largest num- per of boys and girls to be confirmed at any one time in any one church Tn tAls city will receive confirmation at tne Church of Our Lady of Lourdes on south Main street this afternoon at o'clock. The Rt. Rev. John J. Milan. plshop or the diocese of Hartford will De in charge of the ceremonies and assisting him will be the Rev. oJseph NaldamnrinI, pastor of the church, and his assistant, the Rev. Louis Rabotti. The girls have a majority of 55 over the boys in the confirmation class there being 256 girls and 281 boys. a total of f51. All of the boys and girls are connected with the church, and the number this year exceeds bw far the highest record previously attained. which is 226
 After the confirmation exercises. Bishop Milan will bless the new ban ner of the Italian society, Religione Patria. for which Dr. l. De Luise and Miss Mary Bauby will be the spon- sorS
 This morning a large class of chiI- dren received holy communion from Father Fald;.mbrini.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
MkiMUS BENEFITS
 OF COMPENSATION LAW. Allowed to Widow of Man Killed by Caisson Accident at South NoruaIk.

Bridgeport, June 9-The maximum benefits under the workrnen's compen- sation law were allowed today by Commissioner Buckingham to Manda Culp, of Hoboken, N. J., widow of Jo- seph Culp, who was killed by the col lapse of d caisson in the South Nor walk bridge on the night of May 20. The allowance Is S10 week for 312 weeks and Sl0G for funeral expenses
 Culp was head carpenter on the work and his salary was such that the usual half rate could not be allowed under the law and the widiw get the max imum allowance. Culp and the en- gineer in charge of the bridge work were instantly killed by the collapse
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
NOANK
Activity at Long Point-captain christopherson and Family Going Back to Norway

Groten Long Point is rapidly filling up With summer guests. Several of the cottages are being wired for electric light, the service being expected in full running order in about two weeks. The dredger has finished work in ,hs Venetian harbor and as soon as the sandbars along the sides are sufficient ly leYeled the work of constructing tho bridge over the lagoon will be con- menced. This will be high enough to provide passage for motor boats. Wayside cottage has been occupied in the last few days by Rev. Thomas Travis and family of Montclair N.
 Dr. and Mrs. Culver of Jersey City have arrived at their summer home, 1 Magnolia cottage. Gernain Doucett and family have
 moved from the village to Groton. Returning to Norway. Capt. and Mrs. Harry Christophersor, and children leave today for their ol :. home in Norway. where they intend to ! remain.
 Clifford Packer of Meriden and NIT,
 and Mrs Harry Packer of Springfield, Mass. have been visiting relatives in the village.
 Adelaide Libby is to continue her studies next fall in Smith college. Freeman Rogers has returned from
 visit to relatives in Spring Hill S'iiO w. swan ana Miss Grace Knapp of Providence will ar rive today at their summer home on Pearl street
 Miss Grace Fitzpatrick is entertain ing Miss Franke MacIntyre of Brook- lyn.
 Carroll Ashcraft has returned from a visit on Fishers Island. Island Cottage Opened. The Mouse Island cottage of Curtis Gates and family is opened. Warren Packer has returned ta ,,ts nome in Nferiden after a visit here Frank A. Mcdonald is night watch man at Branford farm. Franklin Rathbun, a student at the Connecticut Literary institute in Suf- held, has arrived at his home here for the summer.
 Miss Eleanor Lamb has retrreed from visit of several days in Nor Wich.
 The Groten Long Point cottage of Miss EdWina Roath of New London has been opened. MT and Mrs Frank Carpenter moved yesterday from Prospect Hill to New London
 Mystic Island Dock Damaged. The dock at Mystic Island which was damaged last winter by the storms is to be rebuilt. Mrs. Charles Schaffer entertained the members of the Silver Link society yesterday afternoon. Prof Everett Fitch of New Haven is visiting in the village. M. s. Tryon has recently finished another cottage on Mason'S Island Samuel Fish of New York has been visiting his famHy here The Danforth cottage at Groton Long Potnt has been opened for the summer Bagatelle cottage on Mason's Island, owned by Miss Maud Allen of New York, has been opened for the season
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
CONTINGENT GIFT OF s1oo,ooo
 TO SHEF. SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
An Additional S1oo,o0o Must be seeur-
 ed-Name of Donor Withheld.

New Haven, Conn, June e-An- nouncement was made today of g, pro- visional gift of S100,0GO to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, by a grad uate of the school whose name is with held. The gift Is contingent upon se- curing or an additional S100,0o0; the money to be used for the development Of graduate course of one year and. 1T possible, two years, as an addition to the present undergraduates course known as the select course, in prepa- ration for business and business ad- ministratiOn.
 It was also announced that Arthur Kenyon Rogers, professor of phiIoso- pny at the University of Missouri, has accepted call to Yale. He will take the place of Professor William E. Hooking, who goes to Harvard.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS
 VIOLATED AT TORRINGToN
Nine of Party Who Attended Scarlet Fever Victim Fined S15 Each.

Torrinston, Conn. June s-The thirteen members Of a funeral party who were arrested yesterday morning after attending the funeral of a scarlet fever victim, were tried in the borough court this morning on the charge of violating the quarantine regulations. Twelve were found guilty as charged Nine were fined SIS each, and the other three who said the undertaken asked them to go into the house where the funeral was held. were fined S1 each. One prisoner was discharged
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
FLOOD STAGES OF
 MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
Expected From Heavy Rains Which Have Fallen in Territory of North ern Tributaries.

Davenport. la. June 9-F1ood stages of the Mississippi river here and at points below are looked for accord ing to notices issued here today to contractors on river work by United States weather bureau officials.
 Heavy rains flooded the Wisconsin and other tributories of the Upper Mississippi, and the crest of the high water is expected in the vicinity of Davenport by Friday night.
 Contractors engaged on river i'm proVements are rushing their work
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
A GOOD COMPLEXION
 MEANS PURE BLOOD

Everybody that wants fine, glowing, youthful skin. should take old reliable Hoods Sarsapariila, physicians prescription, which gives a clear, healthy color. When your blood is made pure, pimples, boils, hives. eczema disappear.
 Languor, loss of appetite. tired feeling, weakness are symptoms of impure, unhealthy blood.
 Hoods Sarsapsrilla purifies the blood. Get bottle today.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10

All Buried at Public Expense.
 In some cantons of Switzerland all the dead, rich as well as poor, are buried at the public expense.
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By substituting plenty of good social opportunities at the school and meet ing the pupils halfway, the school au- thorlt1es succeeded in getting the students at the West Chester Pa, High School to give up voluntarily the secret societies in the school.
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of the caisson far below the river sur lace Coroner Phelan has not yet gi"en his finding in the case.
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Two others connected with the In- dustrial Trust company hold salaried town offices. Manager James M. Pen dleton is town treasurer and collector at a salary of $1,000 and Teller Lewis Stanton is superintendent of health at a salary of S200. The only other bank official holding public office is Thomas Perry, of the Washington Trust company, who serves as school committeeman, without salary.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10

It pays to be honest, but sometime pay day is late in showing up.
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1fueSS ReCNntaace

TO do It no more is the truest re- pentance.-Luther.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-10

THAT IS FORGOTTEN
Great Deal Of Treasure In Banks Re.
mains unclaimed Throus, Long
Tsrsn ef-Years.

London.-The case Of $1,1o0 de.
posted in Q Laneashire bank 80 years
ago and unclaimed until the other
day, is by no means unique. Every
year the excheQuer benefits consid-
erably by absent-minded persons who
fail to claim dividends due on govern
ment stock.
The amount left unclaimed every
year averages $1,15o. 600. the owners of
the stock being untraceable.
: When Chancellor of the Exchequer
Goshen converted the national debt
in 1889, over $4,000 of the notices
sent to stockholders were returned
marked unknown" and after every
possible in,aay had been made. $780,
250,000 remained unclaimed.
The case of the Ashburnham chests
Of old silver, remembered after lying
hidden in the cellar Of bank for over
80 years is by no means unique. About
$4,000 ounces of silver that belonged
to Harriet Mellon, the famous actress,
have reWained in the strongroom Of
Coutts' bank since 1880, the year of
her death. There was no secrecy
about the hiding place. for the octo-
genarian, Thomas Coutts, espoused
the actress in 1915 and, dying seven
years later, left the whole of his vast
fortune to her. She was thirty-eight
when the banker married her, and
when she was fifty, she made a second
alliance with William Aubrey de We're,
ninth duke Of st. Albans, and died as
a comely duchess three years after
ward. without either affection or in
science in the display of her wealth"
as Sir Walter Scott testified.
Opulent in person and big Of heart,
Harriet showed her true self when,
on the death of her banker-husband,
she insisted on sharing her huge pos
sessions-all hers by right-with her
stepchildren. The public had idolized
her throughout her stage career from
the time when, as q child Of eight, she
had been a little mourner at the bier
Of Juliet, until February Z. 1915. when
she took her farewell at Audrey. Her
mother was a shopgirl in Cork. who
became dresser and wardrobe keeper
in Kean's company. Her father was
Lieut.. Matthew Mellon Of the Madras
infantry.
The Contradiction silver is of the
style Of the regency when Paul Storr
was called upon to fashion tureens and
sauce boats Of immense dimensions.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-10
PORT WINE MADE IN LONDON
Spurious Article 10 From RaIsins and
currants, Not Portuguese
Grapes.

London.-All is not port wine that il
so labeled. A reporter was in
formed that q large quantity Of
spurious wine is made in London
and designated port" although neith-
er it nor any Of its ingredients has
ever been near Portugal. The tech
nical description Of port wine, as given
by an expert, Is as follows:
"The words port or port wine when
used by themselves denote a fortified
wine Of a particular type and having
particular characteristics as to sweet
ness, color and bouquet, made from
fresh grapes grown in Portugal and
shipped from Oporto."
This description does not apply to q
large quantity Of the so-called port"
wines sold in London. As a matter of
fact the cheap ports" are nearly all
made in London. The manufacturers
make the wine quite openly and their
factories are subject to the inspection
Of excise officials, but as they make 1t
from dried currants or raisins and use
in the manufacture a certain amount
Of real port wine they avoid the pay
ment Of import duties.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-07-10
bARESPHOTOSECRET
Method of Taking Multiple Photo
graphs Is Explained.
Scheme Showing Four or Five Like
nesses Of Same Individual on One
Plate Has Always Had Air
Of Mystery.

New York.-The scheme of show.
ing in a photograph four or five like
nesses of one individual has always
proved an attractive one because Of
a certain air of mystery surrounding
1t. To the average person it is quite
mysufying how the different poses can
be secured of the same individual
all on one plate. The attached sketch
shows how this may be effected.
There are two special mirrors with
frames only on three sides, each five
feet high and three feet wide, placed at
an angle Of about rs degrees, the angle
being formed by the edges of the glass
alone.
The subject sits at table, with his
back to the camera, facing the right
angle formed by the mirrors. The cam
era then points at the back of his
head and the reproduction obtained
from the combination of the mirrors