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Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
ROCKVILLE
Recognition Services for Rev. I. L.
CottreIl, New Pastor of S. D. 3.
Church,


Rev. ]. L. Cottrell, the new pastor
of the S. D. B. churchf arrived last
week with his wife, and they are now
settled in the parsonage Mr. Cot
tren preached his first sermon here last
Saturday morning. In the afternoon
recognition services were held in the
church and were well attended many
visitors being present from Hopl1in-
ton, Ashaway and Westerly. Short ad-
dresses were given by Rev. E. B. Saun-
ders and Rev. H. C. Van Horn of Ash
away and Rev. w. G. Thomas of Hope
Valley, with a brief response from the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Cottrell. At the
meeting Rev. E. A. Witter of Hopkin-
ton presided. Special music was fur
nished by the church choir and a solo
was rendered by Lloyd Crandall of
Ashaway.
Funeral of jeremiah Sherman.
The funeral services of jeremiah
Sherman were held at his home We'd
nesday afternoon.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
YANTIC
Woman's Guild Meets with Mrs.
George Adams-Mrs. George w.
Taylor Leaving for Summer Cottage.

A. w. Buchanan, state agent for
the Connecticut Board of Education,
was visitor at the local schools
Thursday under state supervision.
Entertained Guild.
Mrs. George Adams entertained the
members of the Womans guild at her
home, Wednesday afternoon. Durin &
the time much, sewing was done on
useful articles The house was attrac-
lively decorated with flowers. At the
close of the session fancy cakes, can
died fruits and ice cream were served.
Leaves for Maine.
Mrs. George w. Taylor leaves today
Saturday for her summer home at
Lake Sebago. Maine.
The members of the baseball team
have been giving all their spare time
to practicing this week in preparation
for their game today Saturday.
George H. Kahn. who has always
taken great pleasure in driving, pur-
chased an automobile during the past
week.
Dr. H. H. Howe has purchased a
runabout automobile.
To Take Part in Target Practice.
Local members of the state militia
will go to Brewster's Neck today (Sat-
urday) to take part in the field day
exercises and target practice.
Local Small Notes.
Howard Bishop was in Hartford
Friday.
Mrs Abby Mclean has returned to
her home in Flushing, L. l., after a
lengthy visit with her aunt, Mrs. Ellen
Bescwick, who has moved from here
to SO Washington street, during the
past week.
Some of the elms seem to be trou-
bIed by some cutting insect as the
ground is covered with leaves on
stems.
Local automobiles going to Hart
ford may find the road good, but COM
plain of the treacherous place at Boil
ton Notch.
Rev. M. Mclean Goldie left We'd
nesday night for New York to meet
Mrs, GoIdie and Miss Catherine Goldie
who are due today Saturday on the
New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
HOPKINTON
Community Sing Held - Five Kennel
Licenses Issued.

The installation of electric lights in
the Second Seventh Day Baptist
church was completed Friday and the
house is now well lighted.
The Sunday evening community sing
was held this week at the home of
AIonzo P. Kenyon.
William B1iven Of New London and
family visited friends in this town
Sunday.
The statement last week in the items
from this town that five hundred
licenses were issued to owners and
keepers Of dogs in March should have
read five kennel licenses" instead.
Henry H. Crandall of Hope Valley
was business caller at the town
clerks Office Friday afternoon.
Mrs. A. Irene Mills has returned
home from Mystic.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
RICHMOND

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Smith made a
business trip to Crompton Tuesday.
Henry N. Girard has moved his saw
mill from the top of the mountain to
one of Sam James lots near Julia Jar
Wis place.
Mrs. Samuel Wright and Mrs. Her
bert Watson of Wyoming called at the
Moore homestead Sunday,
Luke Hol1ey, with six horses and a
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure, deaf
edies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is inf1amed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing. and when
it is entirely closed deafness is the
result. and unless the in1ammatio can
be taken out and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out of
ten are caused by catarrh. which is
nothing but an infiamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of deafness Caused by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu-
lars free.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

number of men, is working on the
roads in this vicinity.
Not very many attended the social
and dance at Edwin Smiths Saturday
night.
Thomas D. Thurston and Charles
Boss of Exeter were callers at Ever
EFT r. Moore's Saturday.
The frost Tuesday and Wednesday
nights caused quite a loss to many
who have early garden stuff up.
Mrs. Joshua Boss is still confined
to her bed.
Charles D. Kenyon was through this
vicinity Sunday.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

The Ocean View w. c. T. U. met at
the home of Mrs. Emily Chapman
Wednesday afternoon with seven mem
bers and one visitor present. The
president being absent Mrs. Looffow,
vice president, had charge of the meet
ing. After the business the topic Mar
cotics was taken up and several papers
were read. At the close Mrs. Chapman
served dainty refreshments and a So
cial time was enjoyed.
Robert Smithers spent the week end
with his family at the Robinson cot
tage.
Hobart Ayers of Pittsburgh, Pa,
spent several days last week at his
farm here.
Mrs. Elmer l. Macomber, who was a
visitor at the Macomber farm last
week, has returned to her home in
Westerly.
Miss Ethel Barnes is the guest of
relatives at Davisville.
Ten Room Cottage.
Mr.. Stevens of Quinebaug, Conn, is
having his barn at the rear of his sum-
mer cottage here at the beach remodel
ed into a ten room cottage.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
THE CONSTRUCTION OF FARM FENCES

CWritten Specially for The Bu1letin)
Fences.
Field fences; pasture fences; road
fences; fences against the Wooos'
line fences!
wonder if there's any one other
function of farm life which causes the
farmer. more work and worry and real
trouble than his fences?
Some statistical person has dug into
the subject extensively and asserts
that the farmers of the United states
are in the habit of building about
$50 100000 worth Of new fences every
year.
Fifty-million- dollars'-worth!
That's some fence. Always provid-
ing and assuming, of course, that II 5
a real fence. Webster defines a fence
as an Enclosure about a field intended
to prevent intrusion from without or
straying from within. Another def1ni-
ton is: barriers to confine livestock
or prevent their depredatiOns."
This last doesn't fit all cases. A
good many fences are constructed
mainly for Ornament" such is the
perversion of taste among certain peo-
pie. Some fences seem to be built to
afford a trellis and support for useless
or noxious vines and weeds. And
good many, while they may have been
intended, in Webster's language, to
prevent straying livestock, show
surprising difference between this as
stunned intent and actual fact.
The earliest settlers seem to have
made their first Enclosures of brush.
There was plenty of it left from clear
ing up the forest and it was good
way to get the stuff out of the way.
When it rotted away into uselessness,
the next device was the stake and
rail worm fence. Timber was plenty:
in truth, there was too much of it.
When my foFebears settled on this
farm, five OF six generations ago, the
low lands were covered with a growth
of huge white oaks, while the upIands
were even more thickIy set with tow
ering white pines. The oak land was
cleared by simply "girdling'' the trees,
letting them die on the stump, then
removing the smaller and waiting for
winter storms to blow over the big
ger ones.
The white pines were on land that
was wanted for more immediate use.
So they were cut down, the best and
straightest split up into fence rails,
the others dragged out of the way as
much as possible. Some were rolled
into swales and left to decay there.
Some were piled around and upon
scattered boulderS and burned. This
served a double good. 1t not only
got the trees out of the way but
1t made the removal of the rocks cas-
Ter All the settler had to do was to
wait till the boulders were glowing hot
and then dash some cold water on
them, with the result that they would
flake and split into fragments such as
he could easily handle on his stone
boat with his stout oxen.
Some of these pines measured two
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
Whole Family Dependent,

Mr.. E. Williams. Hamilton, Ohio,
writes: Our whole family depend on
Pine-Tar-Honey." Maybe someone in
your family has a severe cold-perhaps
it is the baby. The original DR.. Bells
Pine-Tar-Honey is an ever ready
household remedy-it gives immediate
relief. Pine-Tar-Honey penetrates the
Innings of the throat and lungs, des-
troys the germs, and allows nature to
act. At your druggists, Csc.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22


lengths out of four are all right, the
rusting and breaking OF a few strands
in the fourth length practically ruins
the entire fence.
And then there are the posts. No
matter how good the wire, If the post
rots off just at the surface OF the
ground the fence Is worse than use
legs. We use yellow locust posts,
whenever We can get thems-which isn't
always. For the rest, we use chest
nut. Our experience with chestnut
posts has been that dead trees, which
have dried ON the stump and dried
there but are cut before any trace of
rot has appeared. will last much longer
than green-cut stuff, especially If the
old bark is stripped off before setting.
Another thing: when I first heard
some one recommend the setting of
posts with the little end down, I was
inclined to sneer at the idea as a sort
Of superstition. But, by Jove, it does
make q big diferencel We've tried it
several times, and IUe observed cases
where neighbors have tried it. In one
short stretch Of fence, made some
eighteen or twenty years ago, with all
the chestnut posts set with what was
their upper end while growing in the
ground and their butts in the air, only
one post has yet failed Yet I have
he'd completely to rebuild two other
stretches, put up later. where the
posts were set butt-end in the ground.
don't try to explain it Perhaps
the reversal of the sap-carrying pro-
ducts may have something to do with
it. Perhaps not. The fact remains.
A neighbor has a forty-rod piece of
fence, the posts of which were set
nearly forty years ago. OF deliberate
purpose, one-half were set little end
down, and one-half little end up. He
wanted to see which lasted the best.
Most of the first half are still good.
Not a single one of the last half has
been in existence since twenty years
ago.
Undoubtedly, concrete posts, or iron
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

In a recent discussion of fence
building, I heard it stated that "a
really good timber post" costs about
twenty cents, while q concrete post
costs about twenty five cents.
have inquired of two farmers who
recently experimental with concrete
posts, and both tell me that, consid-
ering the labor, the reinforcing and
the extra work involved in setting up
the posts and fastening the fence to
them, they can't make the cost come
anywhere near as low as twenty five
cents.
The price of good chestnut posts, in
my neighborhood, remains at from
eight to ten cents, instead of twenty.
Where, as in my case, the farmer
has plenty of growing chestnut in his
own woods, the cost is even less
Properly set,-and by that I do not
mean just sharpened and driven six
or eight inches into the Dirt guess
they are still the cheapest and, on the
whole, the best material we can gel
at.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

posts set in concrete bases, ought to
last longer than any sort of timber.
But the use of concrete is too young,
yet, to make any definite promises
about It. And steel posts are as liable
to rust as steel wires, though Of course
their greater size would make them
Withstand it longer. In both cases
moreover, the initial cost prohibits
their extensive use by common farm
erS
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

Just one thing more: I don't care
what the fence is, nor how carefully 1t
was made at first, there will always
be places in it weaker than others
If those weak spots are attended to-
just as soon as they are seen, without
waiting, it will seldom take over five
minutes in any one case, will very
likely to prevent loss from straying
stock which is sure to find them out
and will greatly decrease the bothera-
ton Of the annual spring fence-ma
ing. THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

Above all, 1 hope that they'll find
some way of returning to the use of
old-fashioned iron, instead of steel.
There's no use talking, when steel is
subjected to the influence of outdoor
weather it rusts about twice as quick
as iron. I've recently had to replace
a roof of perfectly good shingles, laid
only six years. because they were put
on with steel wire single nails, and
the nails rusted off. Every time that
roof got wet the rust took a fresh nib
bic at the nails till it ate them quite
in two, letting the loosened shingles
blow off at the first breeze.
It's the same with fence wire. Steel
wire rusts for the mere fun of it,
where iron wire at least tries to with
stand the attacks of civilization CAL
vanishing helps protect the steel, of
course. But there's room for much
fraud in glavanising,-and fraud is
being practiced. There's room for mis-
takes,-and mistakes are being made.
A fence, like chain, is no stronger
than its weakest link. If the gaIvan-
Using is thin or imperfect in places or
uneven in deposit, moisture quickly
finds these imperfections and begins to
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

WHEN YOU WANT TO put your bus
mess before the public, there is no
medium better than through the ad-
vertising columns of The Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

WHEN YOU WANT to put your BUS
mess before the public, there is n
medium better than through the ad5
vertising columns of The Bulletin
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22
Washington County, R. |.
WEEKAPAUG

w. c. T. U. Devotes Meeting to Topic
of Notwithstanding for Quinebaug
Owner.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

rust the wire in two. Even if three
lengths out of four are all right, the
rusting and breaking OF a few strands
in the fourth length practically ruins
the entire fence.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

| have comparatively big wood
lot. More than half the acreage of
my farm is on a steep mountain-side,
covered with forest. And I still have
a good many rods of rail-fence. But
I'm not cutting any more timber to
renew it. Almost every spring some
section is torn down, the few good
rails remaining used to patch up what
is left, and a wire fence substituted
where the old was removed. 1t won't
be many years, now, before the last
relic will have disappeared.
Whether the wire fence will last any
longer-or as long; whether it is
cheaper-or as cheap; whether we
can afford it or not, it is what we've
got to come to.
And I, for one, hope that some
foresighted wire fence maker will be-
fore long get his colleagues together
and convince them that they must
adopt some standard of wire making
which will hold in reference to ma
terial used, workmanship, galvanising,
etc.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

hundred feet in height and from five
to six feet in diameter at the butts
An acre Of them, standing now, would
fetch more at my nearest lumber
would sell for! But there was no call
or use for them, in those days. They
were simply gigantic weeds, in the
way of cultivation. They had to be
removed before corn and potatoes and
rye and oats and apple-trees could be
grown. Nobody could sell or give
away pine lumber, because everybody
had too much of his own.
And SO some of the best of it was
saved to construct the necessary farm
buildings; the rest was destroyed or
used to make fence rails out of. With
in ten years have had occasion to
take away the relics of what, a hum
dred years ago, was a line fence. At
ter removing all the rotten chestnut
rails which were visible above ground,
rails cut, split and laid either by my
father or grandfather, we came to
other rails sunk into the, dirt, some OF
them more than a foot below the sur
face level. Almost all of these were
of white pine. They were doubtless
used in making that fence, a, hundred
and fifty or more years ago. In the
course of time they had slowly sunk
into the soil, under the weight of new
rails constantly being added to keep
the fence to adequate hight. The dirt
there being inclined to moistness and
sogginess, they had been preserved
from rot. drew q, big load of them
home to the wood yard. let them dry
out and found they made a little the
best kindling- wood I ever had the
luck to get hold of. They were, eX-
cept at the ends, perfectly sound; full
of pitch; and so straightforward that
one could split match-wood fakes off
pieces fourteen inches long with his
jack-knife without the slightest ten
dency for the slab to thin out at the
further end.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

But we aren't using white pine for
fence rails. these days. Why the stuff
is getting SO scarce and so dear that
the saw mills are using. for box-boards
little trees my great-grandfather
would have called bushes. We aren't
even using chestnut any more. The
demand for it for railroad ties, for tel
egraph poles, etc. has made it too val
liable to waste in fences.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-22

Undoubtedly, concrete posts, or iron
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08

rather than laying out and constructing
new roads, is the end in view, but even
this will call for large expenditures by
the state and the towns through which
the road viii pass. That it will, when
completed, be worth all the time. work
and money expended upon it there is
not the slightest doubt Increased auto
mobile traffic means increased expendi-
lures of money directly to the inter
ests of the people living along the road.
While the towns will benefit greatly in
this way the agriculturists will benefit
doubly. The larger tide of traffic will
inevitably leave more money in their
hands in an indirect manner and there
will also be the added advantage Of a
good hard road in all weather over
which to reach the markets. If good
road enables a farmer to haul with
two horses the load he now pulls with
four he will be able to dispense with
the services of the extra pair, cutting
his expenses in half, reaching his mar
ket in the same or in better time and
with less bodily WEAKNESS, all of which
is worth money
The assistance of the farmer is need
ed Just as much as that of his town
bred brother and he must not be over
looked when the work begins.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08
and sealing WaX Of cabbaSes- &, kin8S
C o N G. r e S S
Howard LRdnn

Congress is large and nimble debat-
ing society which is supposed to act as
a megaphone for the common people. It
meets once a year in Washington, D.
C., and remains in session until all of
the money in sight has been appropri-
ated for worthy and beneficent pur-
poses.
There are two branches of Congress
the Senate and the House of Repre-
sentatives. Owing to that pernicious in
fringement upon vested rights known
as the primary election law, it is hard
er to get into the Senate today than it
was ten years ago, when a man could
be elected by long distance telephone
without having to promise anything
but a few postoffice buildings. Under
this law, however, a candidate for the
Senate has to hang his silk-lined frock
coat in the closet. don the short and
ghstening alpaca and attacks the adj
ministration six times a day from the
tail end of an observation car. He is
also obliged to spend his entire salary
for the first four terms before reaching
the point where he can take full and
uninterrupted advantage of the frank.
| ing privilege. On this account thou
sands Of bright, brainv men who would
make splendid senators refuse to go in
protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08
WEST BRATTlEB0R0

a. NJ. Bennett completed Saturday
the wireless telegraph outfit for Joseph
2. Estey.
The Twentieth Century club viii meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Charles
Stockwell
Mrs H. f. Weatherhead returned
Saturday from visit of two weeks at
her former home in Canton, n. Y.
Miss Alice Liscom, who had spent
week at her home here, returned to her
work in the Holstein -Friesian Office to-
day.
Hazen Stockwell went to Boston
yesterday afternoon to begin his studies
today in the Bryant and Stratton bust
ness college.
John +. Scott of Hinsdale, who had
been in the Melrose hospital convalesc-
ing from an operation for appendicitis,
was discharged from there Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs W. R. Phillips, who
spent several weeks at the home of l..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08

to training for fear of burdening their
heirs and assigns with chattel mort.
cages.
The House of Representatives is a
ponderous body whose mission in life
is to enact bills and then pass them
on to the Senate for interment. This
Is a very satisfactory arrangement, as
it not only mollifes an angry constit-
uencv but gives the Senate reputa-
ton for patriotic defense of the pub
lie treasury. The chief duties of a
representative are landing postofice ap-
pointments, securing special pensions
and placating inhamed rural route pa
irons who cannot reach the Postmaster
General with a club. There is popular
impression abroad that senator or rep
resentative has nothing to do except
answer roll call and draw long. green
pay checks, but this is a mistake. If
the average business man had to put
in as long hours as many members OF
Congress DO. he would take a job in a
sweatshop and call it a sineeure. There
is considerable pure ivory in the
American Congress, but mighty little
graft, and many a foreign or domestic
intriguer has found that it is harder
to buy an American representative than
it is to find a soft shirt that will fit
around the neck.
~, Y
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08
8 ackS

Strange Use for Old Flour Sacks.
That the thrifty early settlers Of
Michigan made good use of flour
sacks IS shown in an autobiography
just issued by the Rev, Anna How
ard Shaw. She is describing how
young rustic in the Michigan back
woods proposed TO her
- His costume, like himself, left
much to be desired. He wore blue
flannel shirt and a pair of trousers
made Of flour bags. Such trousers
were not uncommon in our region,
and the boy = mother, who had made
them for him, had thoughtfully Sc
lcctcd a nice clean pair Of sacks. But
ON one leg was the name of the firm
that made the flOur-A. and q. w
Greenland by a charming coinci-
denee A. and G. w. Green happened
to be the two young men who were
calling on my SISTERS!
"On the back of the bags directly
in the rear of the wearer was the
simple legend, '96 pounds and the
striking effect of the young man.
costume was completed by a bright
yellow sash, which held his trousers
in place.
''The youth Informed me that his
dad had Just given him cabin, a
yoke of steers, COW, and some hens.
When this announcement had pro-
duced its full effect, he Strengthened
up in his chair and asked solemnly
viii YOU have me?'
81, anxious only to get rid of him
and to end the strain of the moment,
said the first thing that came into
my head. u can t, | told him. 4 IN
sorry. but-but-I IN engaged
lie rose quickly, with the effect
of q half-closed iack-knife that is
suddenly opened, and for an instant
stood looking down upon me. He was
six feet two inches tall, and extreme
" thin. l am very short, and, as |
looked up. his nour-bag trousers
.ccmcd to join his yellow sash some
where near the ceiling of the room
He put both hands into his pockets
and slowly delivered his valedictory.
That's darncd Disappointing to n
fellow. he said, and left the
house.
WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR
SACKS OF ALL KINDS AT ALL
TIMES.
E. CROSBY & co.