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Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

Mrs. c. W. Grant and daughter, Miss Clara l.. Grant were Norwich visitors one day the past week.
 Mrs: Mary Swift and Mrs. Ruel Hyde or WlIl1mant1c, were guests of MT. and Mrs. s. N. Hyde. Wednesday.
 Silver Wedding Anniversary.
 One day last week a few friends of MT. and Mrs. William Weaver gave them surprise visit in observance of the tWenty-f1fth anniversary of their marriage. Luncheon was served and social time was enjoyed by all
 Miss Faith N. Gager was in Greene Vile, Tuesday. attending the funeral of Edgar N. Brown.
 Social Nets sig.
 Thursday evening of last week the Ladies' Aid Society held a social at the home of MT. and Mrs. Louis Smith, with large number present. Follow ing was the programme: Monograph selections, dialogue, A Dental Opera
 tion; solo, Miss Blanche Smith; dia- logue, "Tramps Versus Female Van 1ty"; solo, Miss Blanche Smith; dia- logue, Catching the Train; song on the phonograph, Tjpperary, and other se- lections were given during the evening. Cake and coffee were served. Twelve dollars was netted.
 Rev. Harry A. Beadle attended the social at Mrs. Louis Smiths and was calling on friends here. bIouy Gfant was the Week-end guest of friends in Norwich.
 Archie Lamb was the week end guest of Mrs. Lambs mother Mrs Josephine Hart, in West Hartford. Saw Big Ice Jam at BrattIeboro. In a letter from Lloyd R. Robinson, Linotype operator for "The Brattle-
 boro Vermont Reformer'' he writes of the big ice jam on the Connecticut ! river as follows: When I came from dinner Friday noon at o'clock the river was as smooth as glass and boys had been on it. Way up the river nearly one-ha1f mile we could see a
 windrow of ice piling up. It extended from bank to bank. It rolled up like hay being raked up into a windrow.
 It came at a terrific rate of speed down past the island, cleaning every thing before it. At five minutes after one, about one-half the building on the island was nothing but kindling wood before it. The river was high but with the ice 1t began to rise very fast. In hardly no time huge cakes of ice 37 to A inches thick began to strike the iron bridge across the Connecticut river to the park. The bridge began to sway and no one dared to cross it. People living in those houses on the island were rushed to higher ground. IT. less than 20 minutes the large boat house began to go down the river on the broken ice. The road is about 10 feet over the high water mark but the great force behind the ice showed huge cakes 37 inches thick right up through the bank into the roads talk
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Who is Going and Coning-Incidents. Accidents
 and Building in Three Counties

present, including Worthy Master C. B. Jewett and others from Norwich grange. North Stonington grange now numbers 172 members.
 Religious Notes.
 The United Brethren from wester- ly have continued their mission here through the week, holding a meeting each evening, at which Dr. Martin of Providence has been the speaker. 4
 Rev. and Mrs. Lucian Drury attend ed the Ministers conference at Ston- ington Monday.
 Rev. s. M. Cathcart of Westerly will preach in the Congregational church Sunday.
 s. H. Davis of Westerly, formerly pastor of the Seventh day Baptist church in that town, but now a legal practitioner will occupy the pulpit of the Third Baptist church Sunday.
 Rev. Lucian Drury will supply the pulpit of the First Baptist church in Westerly Sunday morning and eve ming.
 Mrs. Edward Man and her daugh- ter, Miss Evelyn B. Man, are visiting in New York
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Heard About HiohIanders,
SHUNOC

Misses Anna and Fanny Merrill at- tended services Sunday evening in the Third Baptist church in North Ston- ington village.
 Rev. and Mrs. John M. Collins and Rev. and Mrs. Lucian Drury attended the Baptist ministers meeting Monday in the Baptist church at Stonington borough.
 The weather has been decidedly colder the past week.
 Relatives in North Stonington at- tended the funeral of Robert E. Swain held in the Newent church, Lisbon, on Tuesday. MT. Swain formerly lived in Ashwillett. His wife, who was Jennie Pierce, and who survives, is a native of that place, daughter of the latt Joseph and Lydia Meech Pierce.
 Samuel Davis of Westerly will speal in the Third Baptist church Sunday morning.
 Rev. E. A. Witter, who is supplyinl the pulpit of the Third Baptist church has gone to New Jersey to assist il revival services.
 Mrs. Maria N. Merrill is now mucl improved after a long illness.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
New London County NORTH STONINGTON
Death of Rev. Freeman T. Whitman, Who Married Bessie R. Maine-Lec- ture by Prof. rkpatrick-Grange News.

Friends in town have received an- louncement of the death of Rev. Free nan T. whitman, of South Attleboro, dass. MT. Whitman was a native of sova Scotia, born March 3, 1849. He Fas graduated from Brown university n 1878 and from Newton Theological institution in 1881. He held pastorates n Massachusetts and Rhode Island nd was pastor of the English Bap- Ist church in Rangoon, Burma, from ss0 to 1894. He is survived by his fife, who was Miss Bessie B. Maine. laughter of MT. and Mrs. Ephraim V Maine of this town and a daugh- CT, Miss Elizabeth w. Whitman.
 L. L. Drury, teacher in Mount Iermon school, at Mount Hermon, lass, spent Tuesday at the home of ds father, Rev. Lucian Drury,
 Mrs. Thomas P. Norman and her augfter, Miss Ella Norman, have loved from Ledyard to this village. Rev. George H. Chambers, of Brad ord, R. l.. was in town Tuesday.
 Mrs. Daniel E. Gray and MT. and Frs. Luther c. Gray were entertained dinner Tuesday by Mrs. Amos Wheeler in honor of the birthday of Irs. Daniel Gray.
 Cut by Saw.
 B. R. Park, while operating a cir ular saw a few days ago severed NO ringers ana DrOke another.
 Illustrated Address.
 Professor w. F. Kirkpatrick of torrs college spoke in the Wheeler brary Friday evening. on Lessons .om the Egg-laying Contest. The ,cture was illustrated by stereopticon Jews.
 Grange Numbers 172.
 At the last regular meeting of the range 16 new members were obli- ated in the third and fourth degrees. he degree work was admirably car ed through by the ladies degree team the grange, which is led by Mrs. ertha E. Hooper and Miss Lila C.. homoson. A number of visitors were
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
PENDLETON HILL

The Ladies' Sewing society will meet with Mrs. M. O. Chapman next week Thursday
 The gypsy moth scouts were on the Hill Monday.
 Misses Winifred~ and Cecile Palmer spent the week end at their home here, to celebrate Miss Cecile's birthday.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Hillard of North Stonington spent Sunday after noon at c. Dwight Thompson's house.
 Homer Kinney bought 8 horse. at Mrs. Norman's auction in Ledyard.
 Misses Calista and Rose Eggleston, of Ciasgo, were recent guests at Irv- ing Buttons.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Brown of Brad
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Divided Receipts.

Divided Receipts.
 The teachers in District Nos. 5 and g held an entertainment in the vestry of the Congregational church last Fri day evening. Ledyard grange gave a supper after the entertainment The door receipts went to the schools and the proceeds of the supper to the grange.
 Town Clerk William I. Allyn was a business caller in Norwich on Tues day. MT. Allyn is slowly recovering from his serious accident which hap pened some time ago.
 Miss Nellie Geer who has been vis- iting for some time with relatives in Syracuse, N. Y, is homeward bound.
 Teachers Meeting.
 A teachers meeting held in the Gen. ter schoolnouse Thursday afternoon, was conducted by Supervisor F. w. Barber of Putnam. All the teachers were present except three.
 The regular meeting of the town school committee was held in the Bill library on Tuesday afternoon. All the members were present together with the supervisor. Only one bill was pre- sented and routine matters were dis cussed.
 Sells Brasaw Homestead.
 Eugene N. Bragaw. administrator of the estate of the late Silas B. Bragaw, has sold the homestead consisting of 94 acres to pr. Charles B. Graves of New London.
 The Ladies' Aid society met at the parsonage Wednesday.
 Mrs. Sarah H. Main of Lantern Hill has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Julia Cromwell of Mystic.
 Walter Parmeter and family who intended to move to Vermont have changed their minds and will remain in town another year.
 The hearing on the probating of the will of Ellen S. Satterlee late of Ledyard which was to be held Thurs day afternoon has been adjourned for one week.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
LEDYARD
Pupils in District No. 8 Give Enter tainment-These in and g Share Profits With Granse-Saie of Bra gaW Farm.

Miss Grace L. Finnegan, teacher in District No. 8, held an entertainment in her school, Wednesday, February 24th, to obtain money for the school library. The following programme was carried out: The Organ Builder, Helen Whipple; The Old Oaken Bucket, song by Allison Whipp1e and Lawrence Collins; He Worried About It, Miss Mehitable Crane; Uncle Ned, song by school; The Yankee Court ship, My Shadow, Albert Whipple, One Night in June, Helen Whipple; Tell Me Little Raindrops. Richard Burton; Home, song; clog, Cyrille Desfosses.
 Albert Sclzer visited this brother, Louie, in Lisbon Saturday.
 Theodore Taylor of Colchester was an over Sunday guest of his parents, MT. and Mrs. D. D. Taylor.
 Mrs. Thomas F. Norman held an
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
LEONARD BRIDGE

the Orange supper and entertainment at Academy hall, in Goshen, Tuesday night.
 Mrs. Ida E. Cummings and son Carlton were in Willimantic, Tues day.
 Rev. Elwel1 o. Mead was in Hartford
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

Tuesday night where he addressed the Boys Club of the Asylum Hill Con- gregational church.
 l.. Schroeder is entertaining his uncle from Norwich.
 Fred Royce was a recent visitor at Springfield, Mass, and Stafford.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
FRANKLIN

MT. and Mrs. William Weaver Sur Prised on Anniversary-Socia Lloyd B. Robinson Describes Brat tieboro Ice Jam.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

Recent figures give the number of automobiles registered in this country as 1,735,369.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

ford spent Sunday night at Mrs. EIiz- abeth ThompSon's
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

ing trees nearly a foot in diameter with it. Up on the West River rail- road we saw ice piled ten, fifteen and twenty feet high. No one expected to see the ice break up now as it is very thick, but owing to the warm weather, the first of last week and rains, it got started to break and nothing can stop 1t where it begins to pile up.
 West River Railroad was a wreck and the Boston and Maine could not get through. This great moving mass of ice suddenly stopped a little before two o'clock Friday. It stopped just below Brattleboro. It is now a frozen mass, extending for miles above here. God only knows what is going to hap
 pen when it gives away with warme Iuo
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
ISTERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN RHODE ISLAND.

some time in Rehoboth, Mass, and Providence, R. I.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Ship Submarines via Franklin.

Now that the daily papers have pub lished the information that Germany and Austria have protested to the state department of the United States that submarines are being built in this country for Great Britain it is not very surprising to learn that it is common report that they are being shipped through Franklin under heavy guard. This has been going on for some time, report says. Report has it that the various parts of the submarines are being shipped by water to New London or Bridgeport and there are placed in cars and rushed through to Canada over the Grand Trunk railroad. Up to date this is the nearest that Franklin has come to taking an active part in the world war.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
NEWS FROM ONE HUNDRED LIVE CORRESPONDENTS

auction Friday. On Monday James Holdridge moved her household effects to North Stonington village.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

Mrs. c. W. Grant and daughter, Miss Clara L. Grant were Norwich visitors one day the past week.
 Mrs. Mary Swift and Mrs. Ruel Hyde of Willimantic, were guests of MT. and Mrs. $. N. Hyde, Wednesday,.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
THE GATE TO OPPORTUNITY

ID RIDGEPORT EVEN it's ardent supporters must ID admit city. It boasts higher insi learning high school ago through the Everitt Corgh and the Teachers Association of city, university opened several of it's extension courses here to be sort of trial.
 1t time for registration for the second half of the of splendid offered the in
 Drama and the one in Victorian literature likely lack numbers Each require fifteen members to make to work It is deporabe thatn 8 city than hundred thousand inhabitants people interested study of the drama of today the production of that English literalre the Victorian period.
 college limited neither to occupation previous education Examinations neither at the beginning conclusion of the meeting many of them is in the evening wage may opportunity to advance their
 caton city state with the exception of Stamford or three have recently advantages offered to the public College towns do not provide these courses for their people. is charged and there is subsidiary library the books required for the reading courses all to them Two three reading required during the week besides the hour and a half of class work.
 The extension limited only to the desire of the city university has already sent some of
 professors to teach the classes here 1t
 should expand rapidly Valuable domestic science for inc women of many other of learning easily brought to the city if only certain people to have them and adhered desret To lose the classes would be misfortune
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
WILSON uIII. NOT SPEND HUMAN LIVES FOR GREED

CARTOON done in the best jingp style The shows
 tree with two bodies pendant. A indicates that e American eitize1is President Wilson president nobody shall interfere with it. Al af which porrays the belief of The sun that the United States should interfere with it.
 In the first place the evidence exceedingly scanty to that American citizens hung except for the usual military killed perhaps others have criminals.
 An American who takes up Mexico has the satns as anybody else who takes arms there
 The Americans who suffered by criminal agencies ntheusandh those who suffer the way this country.
 Should Mexico having the to with us be- Mexican citizen chaneed be killed by of those bombs that go off frequently New scity?t
 Bombs laid by nsuTeconists in the city Of New York killed wounded subjects of the Itaian nation all e who have been killed in Mexico during the dis fbanee there If there deeeney the daughters by rebel gunIfen make it up.
 B just reasonable for Mexico to demand the United States that 1t restore order
 n would be for the United States
 
 The United States long Wilson is Presidents will not the border with kill be killed American people will billion investments. owners capital this country needs, It o deveIopea foreign country Let them then fight of their choice Why should youths gt e2 Why should the American treasury bleed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
SKATING.

The art of skating was invented by. the Dutch, and was popular in Hol- land for centuries before it spread to England and France, The first blade-skates used in England were in- troduced from Holland about 1860, but the first mention Of them occur red in a diary bearing this date. an z0th, in 1861. A little later the i'm mortal Pepys remarked om the prac- tice of skating in St. James Park. Prior to the use of skates by the Dutch, a sort of skate made of the bones of animals were used by the northern peoples, dating back to pre- historic times. In the twelfth cen tury a Danish historian mentioned the use of these bone skates, and at about the same time the young men of Lon don fastened the leg-bones of anil mals under their feet by means of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
LETTING THE CRIMSON WAVIa

HE NASSA AGHUSEITS Legislature is trying to amend
 antired flag law that the crimson of Harvard Gslayed public. he legislature went for the Socialist found the effect their yard flying the big game Cambridge The idea that doctrine be suppressed by legislation against emblem Is survival of the dark There in the Socialist doctrine which suppression by satute and little that be suppressed experience o the German rulers during fifty The doctrine good things which the world has adopted will adopt and useless things which will goto the scrap heap other inventions that lack The best way who thinks he has idea to listen to may have it. and it useful The idea politics Persecu- ton is aind of advertising that be purchased
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
VAL srREErs TRIRurE To RRYAN

SHE WALL STREET paying it's tribute more 4 to Iiann Jennings Bryan. is letter which Mr Bryan his difficulty finding places Democrats who had the party, eated that he desires legitimate strengthen Democracy.
 They hate Mr. Bryan. They have hated twenty years They hate him because he knows how fight country
 For mere theorists with remedies for evil with to put them into effect Wall only tempt
 Bryan theorist. practical statesman who takes the tools hand better tha others. do.
 How nice would be if Bryan and all men of ideals would preach the better way, shield and all the paraphernaia of material victory to Wall street. and the grafters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
RICHARD LIE GALLIENNE,
 49 TO-DAY, AUTHOR OF
 GREAT ANTI-WAR POEM.

while the European struggle has inspired many baFds to write in de- nunciation of war, none have gained the wide reading and popularity of Richard Le Ga1lienne The author Of this brief classic was born in tI.iy- erpooIs forty-nine years ago today. and for several years was engaged in bus mess in that city before he came to America and attained a place among the foremost poets of the century. MT. Le Gallienne's verses on War are well worth repetition at this time: War
 I abl1or
 And yet how sweet
 The sound along the marching street Of drum and hfei And forget Wet eyes of widows. and forget Broken old mothers. and the whole Dark butchery without 8. soul.
 Without a scli1-save this brief drink Of heady music, sweet as death; And even my peace abiding feet Go marching with the marching street For wonder. wonder, goes the fife And what care for human life? The tears fill my astonished eyes, And my full heart is like to break And yet stis all eInbanneder lies, A dream those little drummers make Oh. it is wickedness to clothe
 Ton hideous. grinning things that
 stalks
 Hidden in music. like a queen That in a garden of glory walks, Till good men love the thing they Ioathei Art. thou hast many infarnies, But not an infaTny like this.
 Oh, stop the fife and still the drum And show the monster as she is
 It is trifle trite, but the average reader is inclined to scribble on the margin Of these verses the commen- datoEy comment, How true!'' for who is so peaceful that he is not ent thrilled by the glittering penopIy and the wild grand music of war-aas not forgot. ten for time. that the pagentry stand fors ''drak butchery without a, soul 2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
A LIBEL NOBODY BELIEVES

HE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS make mistake of dgn 4 flying with attention cafed by of those irresponsible publications which stepped i the bgoty of the dark misunderstood progress There nobody hopeless fanatics,
 minds cannot be reached by who will the the statement Knights sary refung would probably be upon nvestga- ion that the publication of the false sath the that the author pun isaed
 the false of which Knights complain were atr- particular criminal libel It ought to be forbidden this country hat anybody should charge all the association falsely with gross wrong doing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
FAMOUS OLD ORGANISE, TEACHER 63 YEARS, IS
 DEAD AT AGE OF g

Pittsburgh. Jan. 2o-Dr. Edward S. Cummings, aged 92, organist and composer and first organist Of the First Unitarian Church of Worcester Mass, when the Rev. Edward Ever cit Hale took charge of the congre-l gatIon in 1849. died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Af Finu- cane, here yesterday. He was a teacher of pipe organs and piano in New York for 6S years.
 me American Cotton Manufacturerss association will convene in Memphis. April 13 and IA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20

ronage be we should have much
 broader patriotic, capable and useful
 set of legislators"
 The president to perspective than this of Connecticut enjoys Bridgeport have ned the postofce contest something ranging in between European financial panic the United States Per- the district congratulated because Congressman takes won't act until he finds the hope later the post office department may entirely under civil service Then post will behaviour and promotion will be the service, for merit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
MAGNIFYING THE POSTMASTER JOB

n RESIDENT WILSON recent interview so thina
 to say about postoffice squabbles. Here wat
 Take the pOstmastership of any Of our large cit les for example. When of those Or ap- pointH1ent is you would think, to propon- ents and opponents Of the candidates it. that the very foundations of the Republic will is not appointed, or if another And yet ven lure say the only of the great mass of the people inc posmastership Of city they qeI mail promptly and that the office tered and efficiently. Let repeat pat
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
The D. M. Read Company.

was $2.O0O. The largest amount to be laid aside since the present priest assumed the pastorate, fifteen years ago.
 There Is now in the different say ings banks in the city $11 GOO. which sum will be allowed to accumulate along with the profits gained each year until $25,000 is reached when the pastor will start to erect a. new edif1ce. The church property is valued at $3O,0OO. In the parish there are only 700 souls along with a parochial school with five teach Hng sisters and attended by 200 chil-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20

thongs, pushing themselves over the ice with poles. Several of these priln- tive bone skates have been discover ed in Tnarshy fields near London. and skating as we know it now. however. originated in Holland at an u11- known period .amd was taken up by the English in the seventeenth cen tury.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
ST. JOsEPHS PARISH SHOWS NET GAIN OF
 S2,Ooo DURING YEAR

At St. Joseph.s German R. C.
 church last Sunday the annual re- port was read by the pastor, Rev. Hu- bert Dahme, disclosed that the in- come from the parish for the year 1914 was $7,O0O. The expenses. consisting of salaries, fuel, Fighting. etc., were $5,OOO. The net saving
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
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Bargains are plenty now.

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
Laces. and I trimmings.

A large assortment of white and cream Laces, Princess, Yenise, Irish and Novel ty Laees, containing many loa1fdinge, were formerly 25 cts to $500, now 5 cts to 90 cts Camisole I.aces, were s cts, now 10 cts Nets and All-overs in co1ors,
 were 50 cts to $2.00, now 10 to 75 cts Princess All-over, was $13.50 now Ss.5o Black Toldo Bands,
 were 9 cts to $4.5o now 10 to 50 cts Embroidered and Beaded Bands in col
 ors, were 25 cts to $3. 50, now 5 to 50 cts
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
Initial Handkerchiefs.

For women. Wide hems with long stylish letter. Were 15 cts,
 cts, for 9 cts
 Not all linen
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20
A Clearance of Large Rugs, g xl2.

of Brussels sBorder nn1akei a ng a form price .35ay yard a Hemp vlde 30 cts at 2 ss inoleun Rernnan
  sI5o for s1OO
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-20

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