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Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

That he is competent goes without the saying or he would never achieve the success he has, and his nerve is backed with true merit He has an nounced himself as candidate for in side guard to the grand lodge of Elks and if he does not get there it will be disappointment to Tommy Donohue and his friends. When he gets foot hold in the grand lodge it's safe bet ting that he will not be content with the position of guard, but will aspire for the place higher up the very high est place and will probably get there Everyb 0dy knows Tommy Donohue and nearly everybody hopes he will win in his try for advancement in Elkdom.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

Too many people, in buying their spring seeds, order those which are most highly puffed or most brilliantly pictured in the seed books. This isn't wise. The right thing is to find out. first. what you prefer to have and, second, what your land will grow prOfitably. In the last twenty years
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04
STAND BY THE OLD RELIABLES-TEST OUT
 NEW THINGS

wise Providence provides so many diff fering sorts,-just to suit the differ ing tastes of different folks.
 Now that the gardening season is about to open l. with lots of other country people. am interested in seeds. In one seedsman's catalogue, recently received. I find listed 65 varieties of beans: 41 of lettuce: 24 or cucumbers: B of onions: 67 of melons: 42 of peas: 45 of radiShes: B of tomatoes and so on Other seedsmen have other varieties. which this one does not. How many kinds of different vegetables are actually grown it would take a special government census to find out. There must he thousands of them.
 So there you have it. again. Many men of many minds: many beans of many kinds
 Some people like certain sort of apples. a certain line of beans, a certain grade of tomatoes. Other people prefer other sorts. This sets up one fence within which the seed buyer is constrained to keep. At the same time it happens that soils and climates vary greatly. Climate changes with the parallels of latitude: soils sometimes differ within very mar row limits. The same acre one cor ner which yields fine spinach may, at IuS opposite SlQe, refuse 10 grow spinach enough to pay for the seed. This curious crankiness of the dirt makes another limit within which the seed -sower must keep. There's no use in trying to grow tropical fruits or veg etables under New England skies: there's mighty little profit in trying to grow tomatoes on land that is fit only for field beans or COW peas.
 While this indicates that we are fortunate in having a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to pick from. it also suggests the wisdom of picking the right sorts, while we are about it: the right sorts judged not only by our own personal likes and dislikes, but judged, also. by the likes and dislikes of our gardens and fields.
 For Illustration: there is a certain kind of watermelon which I like rath- But l cant raise it anywhere in my gardens. Just why I don't know, but l can't. have a neighbor. not more than two miles away, who can raise it. lis soil isn't any better than mine his methods are not any better: I've initiated exactly his plan of fertiliza tion and cultivation without results. So I've given up trying to raise my Ideal melon, and now grow the next best, my second choice
 If fellow can't have pie sand wiches will do, to fall back on,
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

Ex-A!derman Thomas E. Denohue. school erumerator and sealer of weights and measures, although reg istered as q republican. has not yet announced whether he is a candidate for the office of personal tax collector Probably he has not heard of the va cancy, or perhaps he may be of the opinion that he could not very well fill the three offices, even with satisfac- tion to himself. Those who know Tommy best know that he would not undertake anything he could not do and they also know that if there is any office he wants, citywise or fra ternally that he does not hesitate to make his candidacy publicly known. It makes no difference to Tommy whether the appointing powers be democrat or republican in the city or Orangeman or Hibernian on the fra ternal side. It's the office and not the men that interests him. Tn his time he has been something of iiner and if Tommy has not reached the highest of the offices it is not the fault of Tommy He knows how to get office and does not hestitate to use that knowledge to the limit.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

It was the custom in the old times when a Whaleshp arrived for the sailors, and especially the officers, to go bowling after taking the customary hack ride. Money to their minds was made to spend and the whalemen as a rule did spend money, all they re- ceived. and were usually strapped when starting out on a cruise to the frigid or the torrid zone in a hunt for the right or the sperm whales. Much of their money was spent in the saloon and the bowling alley. and the pin boys came in for fair share of the coin.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

When the whalemen were ashore for brief sporting life there was scram
 ble Of the street boys to get a chance to set up pins in the bowling alleys, and when a ten-strike was made it meant al least half a dollar to the pin boy of that alley, and at the end of every string coin was rolled down the alley to the boys who made it possible to play the game. It was all biz pins in those times, with the balls graded from the pony to the biggest ball in the trough. When the pin boys gave satisfaction to the bowling sailors that boy became a part of the party that made the rounds of all the bowling alleys in town. with side trip. out to the Rope Ferry bridge in hacks to saw off the deciding games on the neutral alleys at the Mantle house that was then managed by Jim Brown.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

Daily Thought. There never was a good war or e bad peace.-Franklin.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

Just where the bowling alleys were located cannot all be recalled just at this writing, but there was one con nected with the old City hotel and To- cated just back of the office of the West and Smith stable. There was another in Prison street kept by Mar tin s. Coates and just next to his saloon, and there was another alley in
 Bradley street in the basement of
 the building formerly occupied by Hammond and Caulkins. undertakers
 with John Daniels he who beat the big bass drum, as the proprietor
 There was also a bowling alley in the Union hall building in Golden street, now the Leverone building. which was connected with the Perry Douglass saloon. At a later period there was a
 bowling alley kept by Eben H. Wilkin- son and located in Bank street near the corner of Howard. With a popu- lation less than half as large as the present there was money for the owners of bowling alleys in New Lon don, while at the present time there is not room for a single bowling alley open tC the public that conld be con ducted with profit by the owner
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

GyInnasic Carnival Tonight in Y. M. C. A. Hall
 at eight o'clock.
 GLASSES OF THE Y. M. c. A. Benefit of the Physical Department.
 Tickets, 25 Gents. Reserved Seats 10 cents extra at
 c. A. Davis Book Store. Many New Features This Year.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

New London has progressed in many things but not in the matter of public bowling alleys, which is per haps indicative of the decided change in the social problem during past half century. With apology for referring to the good old whaling days. which is necessary in this instance, be it known that when a great part of the population of the city went down to the sea in ships, all the bowling alleys in the city were of the public kind and private or club bowling alleys were not known, and perhaps for the req son that social clubs of importance were not known and fraternal organ izations had not reached the present degree of sociability.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

The private bowling alleys have put
 the kibosh on the public alleys and
 have probably killed them beyond
 resurrection, and are now reaching. cut for the control of the pool busi-
 ness. l. is perhaps more than passing strange that the once popular and scientific game 0: billiards is not known to the young men of New Lon dor today and zthe baiZe covered tables, ,he cue and ivory balls are all used in the game of pool which is politely termed pocket billiards
 There is not a public place in the city
 where a game of billiards, the three
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

That's, perhaps, one reason why
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

There's still another thing to be in regard to these new va
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04
NEW lONDON'S BOWLING ALLEYS
In These Other Things There Have Been Many Changes Personal Tax Collector Berth to Be Flled-Uncer- tanty the New Official.

There was an article in local neWspa per this week that had to do with the trials and the tribulations of the pin boys and of the unreasonable demands of the bowiers upon the boys who play the game at the far end of the alleys. This reminds that there is not an all the year around bowling alley in the city and that the only public bowling alley in the city Is that which is open to the public at Ocean Beach in the good old summer time. There are private alleys at the Young Mems Christian association quarters. at Odd Fellows hall, the Elk club and the Thames club, which in dicates that the pin boys are chosen from the select rather than from the street gamins as was the rule when all bowling alleys were open to the public and private or club alleys were not known in New London.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04
Teacher Improving.

Miss Alice R. Morrison, principal of the public school, who has been ill for two weeks, is reported much better. School reopens Monday. April 6, after the spring vacation.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

The mayor will find in the list of candidates for the place democrats who never lifted finger or donated a dollar towards party success. Others who have been regular contributors to cam paign funds and without commensu- rate reward. There is at least one man among the applicants who is deserving of the appointment for the service rendered to party, for the self sacrifice he has made for party sake by permitting the use of his name for office when defeat was known to be certain, in order that complete ticket could be placed in the field and who made financial contribution equal to that of any other candidate. for any other office on the ticket. There are not many democrats of that type and it is about time they had the call over those who are in active party work for what there is in it; simply that and nothing more.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-04

wise Providence provides so many diff fering sorts,-just to suit the differ ing tastes of different folks.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
fOLEYS ORINOLAXAI1Vf
AN OUNCE
Foa s1onAen TaovspI and CONSTIPATION

medicine Drugs opened Blowing
Rock complete satisfaction
from crucbes Of the chsnsts
Blowing
,,-,..a OF PREVENTION
however, catching
we'll by patronng
which the fetching and delicious beverages dispensed
MORPHEUS DRUG STORE
bring happiness
anyone and warranted bushe peck
around the neck from best girl provided
% large box Of writing paper
IS WORTH POUND
ohappiness and will insure from him
Of write frequently proposa
according directions
and useful fancy articles be
drugs and With Blowing Rock Breezes better
OFCURE ELSEWHERE
aud no Questions
ksd at u ophsvs New Blowing Rock Drug Store.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
WOODROW WILSON.
Some one has said that the m,

Some one has said that the man
who spends hours in prayer and
pennies on charity may get a re-
served seat in Heaven, but if he
does it will be a seat behind a
post where he can'tsee anything.
It's our humble opinion he won't t
get a seat up there at all. We
believe it's an insult to God to
beg him to do great things for
us and then 60 down in ourjeans
and fish out acopper to put in
the collection for church or char
ity work.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
What N Avery County Farmer Is Aeesa-
plishiag.

pHshIag.
Mr.. Editor Since writing my
last letter in regard to the roads
from Blowing Rock via Vale
Crucis, Banner Elk, Newland,
Montezuma, Linville and back
to Blowing Rock, I learn from
Mr.. 8. NJ. Dugger that he had al.
ready made the survey Of the link
from Newland to Montezuma;
that the heaviest grade along
this line is only two and one half
per cent and the distance is only
two miles and six hundred yards,
and l believe an effort will be
made to construct this road in
the near fture. -"
1t may be Of interest to your
readers to be informed what can
be, produced through this sec.
tion, so Twill give you the result
OF what one man is doing by way
of farming and gardening. Mr.. ].
L. Hartley, of Linville, has a
2OO-acre farm at Linville which
has an elevation OF something
like 4, 200 feet, and also a small
garden at his home near Lin.
vile River. He told me that he
has grown this year seventy dif-
ferent varieties OF farm prod
ucts on his mountain farm and
in his garden near his dwelling.
He has something like two a.
cres in Strawberries and com.
menced gathering and market
ing Strawberries on the 2Sth OF
May and finished marketing the
crop on the Bird. of July. He be-
gan gathering and marketing
raspberries on July l, and fin.
ished gathering this crop on the
5th day of August. His Fl r s t
peaches were ripe on the 5th OF
July, and he had a succession OF
this luscious fruit and will have
this crop ripenihg continually
until the first of November. He
says that he has a process of
spraying which will retard the
peach buds in the spring and
keep them back for three weeks,
and by spraying under t h is
method he can avoid the effect
Of the late frosts and insure a
crop of peaches for that season;
but he says he is not yet ready
to give this little secret to the
public.
Mr.. Hartley says he isgrowing
fine alfalfa, cantaloupes and wa.
termellons. He uses very little
fertilizer and depends mostly up
on clover as q fertilizer and cover
crop, and he says that he is q
great believer in clean cultivation
in orchards, small fruitplats and
in spraying; and he says his kind
OF farming and gardening is not
the place for a lazy man, but
that foresight, attention and in.
dustry are required to make a
success.
Mr.. Hartley's receipts from his
garden and sale of fruits will
average from $1,000 to $4,000
a day from the latterpartofMay
until the LIST of November; and
then he has a fine variety of ap-
pies from the earliest to the la
test, and has green fruit every
day in the year. Mr.. Hartley
now has 25,OOO strawberry
plants OF the largest and best
xyo o%;oo fCr.oolo
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
70 All Americans.

~ 10 CAliciIlcly ucCcssdIy, III Uilt
present state of affairs on the
other side OF the water, that you
should be extremely careful not
to add in any way to the excite.
ment. OF course, the European
world is in q highly.excited state
of mind, but the excitement ought
not to spread to the United
States. So far as we are concern.
| ed, there is no cause for excite.
ment. There is great inconven.
fence, for the time being, in the
money market and in our ex.
changes, and temporarily, in the
handling OF our crops, but Amer.
lea is absolutely prepared to
straighten everything out with.
out any material difficulty. The
only thing that can possibly pre-
vent, it is unreasonable appre.
hension and excitement.
We must all at the presenting
ment act together as Americans
in seeing that America does not
suffer any unnecessary distress
from what is going on in the
world at large. The: situation
in: Europe is perhaps the gray.
est in it's possibilities that has
arisen in modern times, but it
need not affect the United States
unfavorably in the long run. Not
that the United States has any.
thing to take advantage OF, but
her own position is sound and
she owes it to mankind to remain
in such a condition, and in such
a state of mind that she can help
the rest OF the world.
| want to have the pride OF
feeling that America, if nobody
else, has her self possession and
stands ready with calmness Of
thought and steadiness of pur'
pose to help the restof the world.
And we can do it and reap a
great permanent glory out dido
ing it, provided we all cooper
ate to see that nobody loses his
head. l know from my conference
with the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry, who is in very close tou c h
with the financial situation
throughout the country, t h a t
| there is no cause tor alarm. There
is cause for getting busy a n d
doing the thirg in the right way,
there is no element OF unsound-
ness and there is no eau Sc for a.
larm. The bankers and business
men Of the country are co-opera-
ting with the Government with q
zeal, intelligence and spirit that
makes the outcome secure.
WOODROW WILSON.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
Injection And Insect Bites Dan
gerOus. 81

AuAoCllOA [AlAu AuScCU DlUcS OSlll'
gerous. e..
Mosquitoes, flies and other in
sects which breed quickly in gar
bage pals, ponds of stagnant
water, barns, musty places, etc.
are carriers OF disease. Every
time the bite you, they injectpoi.
son into your system from which
some dread disease may result.
Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment.
1t is antiseptic and a few drops
will neutralize the infection caus.
by insect bites or rusty nails.
Sloan's Liniment disinfects cuts,
bruises and sores. You cannot
afford to be without it in your
home. Money back if not salts
fled. Only 25c: at your drug
gist.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
Summer Coughs Are Dangelr,o,uu l,,u


Summer colds are dangerous.
They indicate low vitality and
often lead to serious throat and
lung troubles, including Con.
sumption. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery will relieve the. ctngh or
cold promptly and prevent COM
plications. It is 300 thing and an
tiseptic and makes you feel bet
ter at once. To delay is danger
ous-get q bottle OF DR.. Kings
New Discovery at once. Money
back il not satisfied. 50c. and [.
bottles at your Druggist.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
STATE nD GENERAL NEWS.

1
Jarvis post Office Wilkes Coun.
i ty, has been discontinued.
The commissioners ofRandolph
county have let the contract for
q new jail.
On the 10th. inst. three per-
sons died from heat in New York
City. Though the temperature
did not exceed IS degrees the hu-
midity was awful. =
Democrats and Progressive Re
publicans have combined in Utah
to prevent the reelection Of Reed
Smoot to the United States Sen
ate. %@. =. -
The Government officials have
cabled instructions to all the U. s.
Embassies in Europe to charter
ships Immediately to bring all
stranded Americans home.
jefferson is to have q new Re-
publican paper, "The Ashe News"
From the Hustler we learn that
Charles 3. Spicer, a former pupil
of the A.. T. School is to be it's
manager. All.
The Federal court at st. Paul,
Minn., has declared the Interna-
tional Harvester Company to be
a monopoly in restraint of inter-
state and, foreign trade and Or
dered it dissolved. This compa-
ny controls from 80 to IS per
cent ofthe trade in Agricultural
implements. ~, ..,. ,,..
Mrs. W. W. Duncan, widow OF
the late Bishop Duncan died re.
Gently at her home in Spartan
burg, s. c. and It is a remarkable
incident that one OF the old fam.
lily servants dropped dead at
Mrs. Duncan's grave during the
burial service.
Mr.. Alvin NJ. Cline, associate
editor and manager OF the Ashe-
boro Courier, was married to
Miss Gussie Ingle of Elon Col
lege in the Guilford Hotel at
Greensboro recently. After spen
ding several days at Blowing
Rock, they will maketheir home
in Asheboro.
The body of Mrs. Wilson, wife
of the President, was laid to rest
in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome,
Ga. on Tuesday of last week. She
was buried from the church her
father served during her girl:
hood, and where much OF her
girlhood was spent, and, it is
said, in sight Of. the SPOT on
which she promised to be Mr..
Wilson's wife.
1t is learned that Mrs. Ashley
Horn, aged widow of the la t e
Hon. Asheley Horne, donor OF
the monument to North Carroll.
ma women OF the Confederacy, is
among the great number OF A.
mericans in Europe suffering Sc
rious Inconvenience by reason
of the war condition. Her party
escaped across the German from
tier, being without food or drink
for Is hours. They had been at
Lucerne and were turned out of
q German train and forced to
walk a long distance into France
and then again evicted from train
to give place to French reserv-
ists.-Lexington Dispatch.
A MT ~
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20
I some e0E1RABlAps " uM.
Washington Dispatch, eth.

S~"sDv - wsNs .st5, a.,
Washington Dispatch, eth.
Great Britain's eontraband OF
war proclamation was cabled to
the State Department today by
AmbassadoS Page. It /, placed
arms, ammunition and all dis
tinctly military supplies on the
list Of absolute contrabaud and
designated food, grain, money,
horses and general supplies as
conditional contraband subject
1toseizure and to thecohtraband
laws when intended for the use of
a power with which Great ,Bri.
tain is at wal.
The proclamation follows the
usual lines, and those issued by
other powers involved in war
probably will be virtually iden-.
teal.
; 1t names the following as abso
lutte contraband:s Il y
l. Arms Of all kinds and their
component parts.
2. Projectiles, charges a n d
cartridges of,all kinds and their
distinctive component parts.
8. Powder and explosives, es.
pecially prepared for use in war.
4. Gun mountings, limberbox
es, limbers, military wagons, field
forges and their distinctive com.
ponent parts, 2.
5. Clothing and equipment Of
a distinctive military character.
6. All kinds of harness of q
distinctivelyJ military character.
7. Saddle, drought and pack
animals suitable for use in war.
8. Articles Of camp equipment
and their distinctive component
parts. e >
8. Armor plates.
10. Warships, including boats
and their distinctive component
parts, of such a anature, that they
can only be. used on a vessel OF
war.
II. Aeroplanes, airships, bal
looms and air craft of all kinds
and their component parts, to.
gether with, accessories and arti.
cles recognizable for use in con-
nection with balloons and air
craft. ne
II. Implements and appara-
tus designed exclusively for the
manufacture ofmunitions ofwar,
for manufacture or repair OF arms
or war material for use on land
and sea. '
The following will be treated
as conditional contraband:
1. Food stuffs.
2. Forage and grain suitable
for feeding animals.
3. Clothing, fabrics for cloth
ing and boots and shoes suitable
for use in war.
4. Gold and silver in coin or
bullion, paper money.
o. Vehicles OF all kinds avail
able for use in war and thereon
ponent parts.
6. Vessels, craft and boats OF
all kinds, floating docks, parts Of
docks and theircomponentparts
Z, Railway material, both fix
ed and rolling stock, and mater.
ial for telegraphs, wireless tele-
graph. and telephones. ..,..
/. 8. Fuel lubricants.
8. Powder and explosives not
specially prepared for use in war.
: 10. Barbed wire and lmple.
.ments for fixing and'cutting, the
same.
II. Horse shoes and shoeing
materials. IN
IL. Harness-and saddlery.
13. Field glasses, telescopes,
chronometers and all kinds Of
nauticalinstruments. y
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Guu,snnr Co,,rrhs A - ma, c.c,,-,,,c
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-08-20

A course II an agrira|turalcol-
.lase won't bslp a young to SOW
5big wild pats.