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Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
WHY NORWICH SHIPPING DECLINED

CWritten Specially for The Bulietin.)
 Toward the end of the eighteenth century the portion of the town of Norwich then referred to as Chelsea, or The Landing, to distinguish 1t from the real Nerwich-new Norwich Town -had reached such a point of pros- per1ty and importance that there be- gan to be agitation for post ofice.
 To impress the government with the warded to Congress setting forth it's commercial influence, A copy of draft enumerating the list and ton mage of craft sailing from the harbor handwriting of that ell-informed cit- iHen, Joseph Rowland, Esq. sums up the maritime facts of the port of Nor wich as follows:
 Total, seven ships. nine brtga, nine Hns., seventeen slo0Paforry G6v 21o tons is owned in the Old Parish. and 4.012 Is owned in the port, or what Is called Chelsea. The above does not include number of river packets, or four New York packets"
 Yet when this list was made out. the shipping interest of the port had not reached it's maximum of prosper 1ty. Although 1t had been affected by foreign interference during the war, it was still in a condition to bear loss es without being seriously crippled, we are told. For several years after 1795, 1mportations increased in value and larger vessels were employed.
 Heavy eargoes were brought in from such points as Cape Francois, Martinique and Jeremie.
 This is indicated by the record that, In four successive voyages of the ship Hope, 1797-S, two in each year, three with Elijah Clark master and one with Sylvester Bill, the cargoes being land & Bill, J. Perkins and B. Colt, it is shown that the duties were from
 7,O00 to nearly $9,00O each. The cargoes of the ship Sally at this period were even more valuable, three in succession paying an impost of
 It is probable that the highest duty ever paid by Norwich merchants on a single cargo was in October, 179S, when the ship Sally, John L.. Boswell, master,-a name recalling Norwich business life for centuries-entering from San Domingo, was charged at the | custom house. (New London) SIP, ,121. After 1900, while the trade from this port was less f1ourishing, yet from twenty to thirty brigs, schooners and coasting sloops or packets were gen. orally kept in active service. and West India cargoes continued to arrive. The three -masted schooner Urania, the brigs Antelope, Atalanta, Dove, Hope and Harriet made a series of voyages with varying success, under John and Thomas Backus, Christopher Clover, George Gilbert, Oliver Fitch, | Francis Smith and others, bringing back goods to Jesse Brown & Son, Peter Lanman, Labez Perkins, Jabez Huntington, Dwight Ripley, Thomas Lathrop and other Norwich merchants.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
Sunday Morning Talk
SHEEP AND MEN.

A flock of sheep will go leaping over stone wall for no other apparent reason than that their leader has gone over before them. The bell-wether has only to get the procession started and then he can rest while it proceeds, No reason for jumping is demanded by the sheepish mind. It is enough that all the rest are doing 1t.
 Shortly after the Civil war; a gen tleman travelling in the South asked a lanky individual sitting on a rail fence why he had gone into secession. Cos all of 'em did!" was the reply. For how large a part of our actions can no better reason be given!
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

. Bridgeport is suffering from an cpl den1ic of rowdyism that the police, ex-
 cept in isolated cases, cannot be ex- pected to prevent. The recent increase in the number of insults offered wom- en is serious matter, one that will result in physical harm, possibly of a serious nature, if the practice of men accosting unescorted women on the street does not cease. Already some
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
pr. Ussher Has Impressive Story to
 Tell.


 MT. Editor: I was glad to see in a recent issue of your paper a letter from Rev. J. O. Barrows calling atten- tion to the mass meeting in Davis the atre Sunday night, Feb. 10th, at 7.30 o'clock. That meeting will be ad- dressed by a real hero (though he is the last man on earth who would be willing to make such an admission)- Clarence D. Ussher. M. ID. It was re- gently my privilege to hear part of his marvellous story. I can never for get 1t. The thrilling experiences of Dr. Ussher resemble some of the acts of the Apostles intensified by the hor- TOTS of modern war. If we had any Victoria cross in this land of ours it would be given to Dr. Ussher. Be- sieged in Van, Turkish Armenia, he was constantly under fire and yet he went on with his work of relieving the sufferings of the wounded and the dy- ing. When the city was evacuated he was about the last man to leave. Pass ing through a fever from which his wife died, wasted in flesh and broken in nerve, he reached Russia a mere shadow. That he lives today and is regaintng his strength seems little short of a miracle. It must be that God has some great work for him that remains unfinished. His story should be heard by all the people of our city regardless of their religious or non- religious affiliations.
 It is a pleasure to note how gener- ally the churches of the city are unit ing in this proposed mass meeting. My own church gladly surrenders its even- ing service in order that our congrega- tion may hear Dr. Ussher, for we an- ticipate his message to be city-wide and humanitarian in its appeal. am writing this as a man and a minister, but especially am ! writing it as a citizen, with the one motive of urging my fellow citizens of every class and creed to come out Sunday night and hear an impressive story from a man who has passed through everything but death itself. Thank you, MT. Ed ttor, for your kindness in allowing me this space.
 JOEL B. SLOCUM.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Even though Hiram Maxim declares that he can silence the exhaust of a locomotive, he can probably appre- ciate the difficulty in putting a quietus on the Ford peace efforts.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Now that Charlie Chaplin has re- ceived contracts calling for half mill lion dollars year for his services. it simply shows how much the people are willing to pay one man to be enter tained
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Grand Duke Nicholas was the first one in several months to prove that he was able to come back with one Of his old time victories.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

When Great Britain admits that its aerial forces are ten years behind Ger many's there is no chance of a denial coming from Berlin.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

What is left of the people in Ar menia will extend such a welcome to the Russian army as was never held out before.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Every warm February rain, or even the tflaws, accompanying a hot sun and a south wind must be placed to the credit of the grounding.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

It would make an interesting leap year story if the young woman in the west who won $500 from a trolley company because a conductor kissed her on the car should decide to marry him
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

The man on the corner says: Self made men should never blame others for the blunders that they make.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

TAa revo1ts against Roosevelt in Hs1, York, Massachusetts and Illinois ought to be enough to take all the pleasure cut of that West Indian trip.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Some cities are starting campaigns for saving infants, but others are pay ing much more attention to the safety of their "war babies" just now.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

There will not have to be many more twists before the Lusltania case gives the Finnegan story a back seat
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
EDITORIAL NOTES

Every day that Villa fails to reach Chihuahua City he adds effectively to his disguise.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

sIow that the Massachusetts legis- lature has fixed the size Of q drink, possibly it will go further and deter mine when a fellow is intoxicated.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
JOcI D. S%S'OC HA' Norwich, Feb. IS, 1916.
Medical inspection in the Schools.

Medical Inspection in the Schools.
 MT. Editor-The remarks of Ob- server concerning the so-called settle ment of the medical inspection ques- ton are very apt and quite to the point. To the minds of many of us, however, this settlement instead of clarifying the issue seems to have added complication. The manner in which the school board has proceeded to effect what they call a settlement of a matter which so vitally concerns the citizens, the tax. payer, and parents of our children seems to Indicate that the citizen has become merely a con ventence in the management of school affairs useful only in supplying such funds as they demand to pay bills contracted by these self-constituted autocrats. Common decency would dictate that at least. they make it
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

A pretty kettle of fish the Hartford board of health has stirred up. No sooner does the Public Utilities com mission take note of its complaint with reference to crowded trolley cars and order an improvement than other cities around the state begin to see the possibilities if you can go to work in the right way, therefore they pro- ceed, as is usually the case in Connec- tfcut affairs, to follow Hartfords ex- ample. New Haven already has it's health department working on the car question, a Ia Hartford, and Bristol is looking in the same direction Com muters who have faced the same prob lem and despaired of finding any way to compel a remedy, will slowly but surely get in line. And how popular the Hartford board of health must be in the offices of the Connecticut com pany, which will have to find a way to furnish all this improvement Connecti- cut cities will straightway demand!- Hartford Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Ostrfches can travel at a rate of more than 100 miles an hour.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

The ability to think and the courage to act independently, are powers high ly to be prized. Hardly anything is more needed in a thousand cities, towns and hamlets of America than citizens with minds of their own, pos sessed of "civic manhood, firm against the crowd" No foolish oddity or iso- lation Is desired, nor disposition to set ones own judgment stubbornly against that of the majority. The call is rath- CT to preserve an inner sense of free dom, to refuse to allow others to over ride ones personal convictions. The challenge Is that of the ringing com mand of the Apostle: Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind"
 No morality is worth anything that is merely conformity to an environ ment. It is no virtue to march se- dately with the Romans to church to- day If. on the morrow, we march with them also when they happen to be bound for a prize fight. Let one ask himself how far he is free and self directing moral agent, how far he is merely a follower of the particular bell-wether that goes just before him. The answer to the question win be Illuminating. One can then tell wheth- CT he Is a man or g. sheep.
 THE RARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

The crowd Is generally ready to move in whatever direction certain masterful individuals choose to have them. Men follow the bell-wether in politics and the women in fashions. It is a fair question to ask whether the instinct for imitation is any stronger among animals than among human kind
 If one could analyze the separate units in any mob along red-handed to rapine and slaughter, he would dis cover hundreds of individuals far less ferocious in temper than the mob &C., ttonS would seem to indicate. They have simply been swept off their feet; their individual decencies of thought submerged by the spirit of the crowd. If we could have taken the individuals in that crowd centuries ago outside Pilates judgment hall, crying Cruelty him!" Cruelty him!" might we not have found many children of Abraham not anxious at heart to shed blood7 ? There is no limit to the cruelty of an unregulated mob. Its members pass the stage in which they are like sheep following a bell-wether and become more like wolves that hunt in packs.
 When crowd of baseball fans surges on the field en masse to boot and harry an umpire they think is op- posing the home team, men are apt to do things together that few of them would be willing to do individually A small coterie of leading spirits can set the temper of the occasion. If a few mud pellets fly, more are pretty sure to follow. Soon Severybody's doing it."
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

Still, the trade declined, because of the increasing risks. The following item explains why:
 Sally. Blngley, of Norwich, 27 days from Antigua She had been taken by the French, retaken by the English, carried into Antigua, paid one-eighth for salvage and costs, and was then al- lowed to return home.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Massachusetts, which is always do- ing something to decrease the com fort of it's barrooms, is now consider ing a proposal to compel its bartend- CTS to do all the pouring when hard liquor is ordered. The measure would insist that the bartender pour not less than two ounces and not more than four But until the next law is passed the man who wants to drink less than two ounces will probably be permitted to leave what he doesn't want behind him.-Hartford Times.
 There's teacher in one of the Hart ford schools who has had a lesson, severe but likely to be remembered. A IA year old girl in her room wrote and passed to a boy friend in the school session note asking him to attend a church party with her. The teach CT captured the note and read 1t aloud to the school, presumably as a matter of discipline The girl, bitterly chagrined, went home crying, pur- chased and took a dose of carbolie acid, and died in a few hours. There are some things about child psycholo- gy which some teachers don't learn in their usual training course.-New Ha- ven Register.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

H Shakespeare was right honesty is about as rare as precious stones, for in his day and generation he reclconed there might be one honest man to ten thousand, and there appears to be no evidence that they are more honest men in our day than there were in Shakespeare's. Phases of honesty and misrepresentation to get curious1y mix ed up at times. Recently a negro ap- preached a Kansas City woman to so- licit aid because he had lost his wife and six children in flood. The wo- man looked him over and then said,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

During May, June and July, when the embargo was in force, seven brigs and two schooners belonging to Nor wich, took advantage of the chance and cleared. al for Martinico-which gives a good idea Of the hustle and enter prise of the townspeople.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-19

If most men were as careful about everything as they be not to let their religion interfere with their business the commercial world would hold a different relation to the world of labor, and would command a great deal more confidence. It is funny how careful men can be in some directions, and how careless in otbers. It would not do any harm if religion got mixed into business enough so that the re- tired business man did not have to confess to his Maker that in order to successfully do business and retire with competence he had to forget all the precepts he learned as a kid while kneel1ng at his mothers knee. The price of success makes the ten com mandments look like a joke too often. It is this carefulness in the wrong di- rect1on which gave rise to the golden rule of the 18th century: ''Do him quick, or he'll do youI" But no one ventures to claim 1t is better than "Do unto others as ye would others should do unto you!"
The Dolores star., 1916-12-22

Yves Dunlap came over from Dolores
Sunday afternoon to drive home in his
Stanley Steamer auto, that arrived
Saturday. He drove it about town
yesterday and, leaves for home in it
today. It's internal makeup is en-
tirely, radically, different from a gas
driven car. It's external parts are
beautiful, a delight to the eye. The
body is of aluminium, hand made, with
genuine leather and hair upholstering.
1t is 5-passenger car with every part
about it entirely automatic except the
driving throttle. 1t carries 20-horse
power boiler with a 600 pound pressure,
with a water capacity good for 200
miles, heated by kerosene and is driven
by twin cylinder engine that can 60
up any hill team of mules could. It's
water, oil and all other feeds are auto
matte. There is no noticeable exhaust
as it carries steam condenser. It's
speed is SO graduated that it can be
run from one mile and hour up to the
safety limit. 1t is electrically lighted
throughout. The car cost 81, 1926 laid
down here. Tuesdays Durango Demo.
crat.
The Dolores star., 1916-12-22
Afriola Items.

Tommy Shaftan sold his claim to
Posy Mcneil and left Monday.
Mrs. Dolan left Wednesday for Gum
ison where she will visit relatives for q
few weeks before going to join her
husband in Kansas.
Mr.. Fields left Monday for Texas
where he will spend the winter.
We regret very much to chronicle
the death of Mrs Allan Hammond
which occurred at Pueblo Monday
morning. She will be missed greatly,
not only by her own community but by
the whole surrounding country. The
sympathy of every one goes to the des-
olate family and friends. "She hath
done what she could"
The Pie Social Monday night was
well attended and $500 was realized
from the sale of pies, the proceeds to
go for a Christmas tree.
Miss Mary Royce was married Sun
day to Mr.. Buchanan of Dolores. We
wish this young couple a long and
happy life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Royce and fam
lily have moved to the Gum place for
the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ceaf Rutherford at
tended sale near Cortez, Tuesday.
A Literary Society was organized
Monday night with Prof. Muse as
president and Mrs. Mccall secretary.
This is a move in the right direction
and we hope every one will take hold
and make it worth while.
Mr.. Sanders from Sayre, Oklahoma,
was calling in Arriola Tuesday. He
has come to stay but will not locate
permanently until spring.
Mr.. Hudson reports the new barn on
his place all up and ready to be occu-
pied by the Holstein cows.
The Dolores star., 1916-12-22
CahOne Items,

Miss Florence Fink has come home
to spend few months.
Lloyd Turner is making arrange
ments to spend Christmas in Mancos.
Several here have got letters from
Cecil Crownover and his sister, Mamma,
stating that they made their trip to
Denver and Kansas City safely.
Mrs. S. H. Levitt received letter
from her brother, Bert Davis, who is
working on the state road at Rico,
stating that work on the road will soon
shut down.
G. S. Fink left last week for Rico
where he will accompany Frank Mid
daugh in the mines at that place.
c. c. Turner made trip to Mancos
last week and brought back several
head of cattle which he bought from
George Gyman & Malett.
Mrs. Bert Ballenger who had stroke
of paralysis several weeks ago is slow
ly improving.
Fred Taylor from Utah and son,
Walter, spent last Wednesday night
with C. s. Fink He was on his way
to the valley to purchase cow and
apples.
The teacher, c. o. Seelig, will at
tend the teachers meeting at Cortez
next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Willard Ford, who has been staying
with c. S. Fink for several months,
and looking over the country, started
for his home near Medford, Oklahoma,
last Friday.
The Dolores star., 1916-12-22
Dolores River Items.

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Seegar, Harry
Morgan, Sam johnson and Mrs. Bert
Parker were among our people at the
Ladies Aid dinner and bazaar last Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. James johnson came
in from Disappointment Monday staying
over night at Harry Morgans. They
will winter their cattle in the valley.
Mrs. MiIt Mcconnell returned from
her trip to California Tuesday. She is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Harry
Morgan, this week.
Mrs. Ed Moore is on the sick list
this week.
Mrs. Harold Bradfeld journeyed to
Dolores Tuesday to attend to her
Christmas shopping.
Mr.. Glenn of Lebanon, took load of
hay down to the sawmill below Beaver.
returning with load of lumber.
Mrs. Phillips and her pupils are busy
getting ready for an entertainment
and Christmas tree at the Riverside
school FRIDAY evening.
We were very sorry to hear of the
death of our old time friend, Mrs.
Allan Hammond. We extend our
heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
family.
Mrs. Cliff johnson of Lone Dome
was Dolores visitor Monday doing her
Christmas shopping and attending to
other business returning home Tuesday
Ranger Rist and wife went down to
the ranger station at Lone Dome for a
weeks stay, Monday.
The Dolores star., 1916-12-22
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
(Publisher)
Nnn-l,oal Land

Depa rtment OF tho Interior,
u. g. Land Office at Durango, Colorado.
November II, 1915
Notice Is hereby given that Ben l.. Wilson
Of Yellow Jacket, Colorado, who, on April u,
1918, made pre-nmptio declaratOry statement,
Of SW = section 2, township 81 north, range 10
wost N. N. p. Meridian, has filed notice Of in
tsntion to mako final ,presnptioa proof 70
before j. n. Brumley, clark Of tho district
court, for Montezuma county, Colorado. at
1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
William l. PigB. Roy @. Mari, August Moe RS
and Willis F. Lanier, all Of Yellow Jacket.
Colorado.
Jso. T. JOYCE, Register
First pub. Doc. |; 1915; last pub Jan. 5. lyl7.
The Dolores star., 1916-12-22

George Bowman received a fine Jer-
sey bull at the local depot Friday.
This animal weighed Grated 800 pounds
and WAS shipped from Ohio, making
his cost laid down at Dolores $500. He
is thoroughbred pedigreed animal and
is worth the money. Mr.. Bowman is
an admirer of fine Jersey stock. He
has herd of fine cows and the add
ton of this valuable animal means q
continuation of quality in his herd.