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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-06-22
NOTICE f
Special Town Meeting

THE LEGAL. VOTERS IN TOWN
MEETING ct the Town of Norwich
are hereby warned to meet in .
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, to be
held at The TOWN HALL. located
in the Court House Building, IN said
Norwich on MONDAY EVENING, June
26th, 1915, at eight o'clock, to act upon
the matter set forth in a certain petit
ton addressed TO the Selectnen Of said
Town and signed by more than twenty
inhabitants OF said Town. qualified to
vote in Town Meeting which petition
asks for the holding Of a Special Town
Meeting fer the purpose of taking ac-
tfen to rescind the vote, passed at q
previous Town Meeting, which vote
provided for q partial exemption from
taxation 81 certain property Of the
Winchester Woolen Company, a COR
poratfon, located IN said Town: also
TO do any other lawful act or acts that
shall seem proper IA connection with
the purpose for which the meeting is
DATED Ar NORWICH. thas zoth
day Of June A. d. 1916
CASPER X. BAILEY.
CHARLES p BUSHNELL
ALBERT W. IILIEBRIDGE,
se1ectmen OF the Town OF Norwich.
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YarTflc


Between Germany and italy there
les d small country by the name o.
Switzerland, the capital Of which Il
Bern. It IA tho highest and most
mountainous region IN Europe. the
southern part being crossed by the
Alps; while I'M the northern part, the
land IS alfnot level. Many peaks 81
the Alps are from two to Two ana 3
hall miles high. and always covered
with snow and foe.
Some az eha most beautiful Iaaen "a
+Ehe world auo found iu swltzeg
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Fdo's Anpeal,


F'ido was a great pet with us all
and had SO much sense that he could
almost talk. One day we were sit
ting at work when someone knocked at
the door, and when it was opened IN
walked Ffdo- He seemed to be in pain
and hnped very much, but came
straight up to me. He whined, looked
al me, and then put his injured paw
on my knee. as muda as to say: Help
me-
/ took his paw up and found a sheep
burr stuck into his foot The place
was much 1nflamed and so sore that !
could not take out the burr without
hurting him very much. So I waited
for papa who was q dOeter, and knew
how to manage this new patient
He laid Edo ON ibis back and held
him down while he drew out the burr
wiil pincers. Tt was like having a
tooth drawn and Fido yelled witt
pain; but it was soon over, and he
eapered with joy at the relief.
NANCY TETREAUET, Age ID.
Versailles
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JunsI

June-the beautiful.
The soft, balny air OF June, filled
with happy songs OF the birds IS here!
All nature is decked in gorgeous ar
ray. The vfolex-bustercu and hon.
eysuclxIe are bowing and silently sa-
latfng the bees in search OF honey
while love and desire are everywhere
in fond embrace.
New hopes and dreams Of future
happiness are waited back and forth
in silent messages.
Bye and bye, the winters blast will
come. Then they viii an sleep be-
meath natures shroud--but only for
a little while. Like the swinging
pendulum lick tick; youth, age; hope.
dismay; laughter. tears; back and
forth--forever, they will return again.
The flower gardens are beautiful
with their ANIMALS AMI perennia1s Ny
garden is almost crowded with flowers
have sweet peas. dahlfas, peonies
Swan River daisies, pnlox. candy
tuft, asters, balsaua, mignonette. stock
cosmos, peoples. violeSs. escholtzia
and pansies. The pansies bloom al
summer and have such brilliant colors
LILLIAN NJ BREHAUT.
East Norwich N Y
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Chicago.

Chicago is in the state of Illinois
on Lake Michigan.
1t is the greatest meat, grain and
lumber market in the world, and Is
Il times as large as Hartford
No Other city in the world has
grown SO rapidly as Chicago. Fffts
years ago it was very small town
and now it is the second largest cts
in the United States.
In 1897 Chicago was incorporated as
o city, at which time the population
was about 1000 In 1900 it's popuIa-
ton was over 1875, 000.
It has more railroads than any Other
city in the world. It has great stock
yards where thousands of cattle and
hogs are killed every day.
CGARISSA CHAIRMAN, Age Is.
Yantic
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LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Grace Kern of Norwich: l thank you
very much for the prize book, which I
think is very interesting. The Wide
Awake prizes think are wen worth
trying for, so am sending you an
other story Many thanks FOR the
book
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The moth is in the family Of the
varied horns. The feelers OF a butt
terfly are straight and smooth, but the
feelers of a moth are curved, and OXEN
1r1nged. If YOU put them under q
microscope you might think, that you
We're looking at lovely fern.
The moth is a night Aver. He mas
big, thick body, and a furry coat
lie also has fancy feelers and hooks
tor eyes.
The Wasp-nncth nies often By day.
he has lovely painted wings, but they
do not shine as do butterflies.
The hav9lE-moths are larger than the
ordinary moths. They are larger and
have large furry bodies.
The Deaths Head moth has black
and white marks like a skull on his
shoulder.
The caterpillar OF this moth is about
four inches long and is green. graz
and yellow with black dots. It dygs
On potato vines.
You can keep this caterpillar for q
month, and I win tell you now, an
have tried. You must keep it IN a
dark place, and give it potato leaves
to eat and some moist earth to live
IL.
hope many Wi1e-Awakes may
get the caterpillar of moth, and keeK
it until it changes.
ANNA RESNICK, Age 1S.
Rozrabville
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both suffered severely from heat rash,
which entirely disappeared IN two days
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everything else had failed. IL lillian A.
Guillard, 20 Char gate ". Boston, Mas.
Not . rlain talcnm powdez, but I ki9hIy
me1icafed pEepnEation anequnIIsd to
heal slEin soreness q infants, children ard
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~ leading New England phyuicians.
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was recommended TO me
by an eminent children's
Specialist ID Boston, e.
the best Powder TO uae
IN my work / must say
Il IS q wonder worker.
] am sending two pic
$780,, - 1s&t7( -.
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LEGAL NOTICE
To WhOmhM May Concern

Notice Sc hereby given that at q
CounoiI OF the city Of Norwich, held
on the 22d day ef May. 1916, the 1oa-
lowing proportion was Submitted ~
the Anal resolution was adopted.
Norwich. counecticut, June 20. 1915.
Attest: ARTHUR 6. CROW LL4
City Clerk and clerk Of TIE court Of
Common Council
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The Roosevelt Silence

The Roosevelt Silence.
Colonel Roosevelt was almst as 81
lent after the nomination as Justice
Hughes was before - Washington
Star.
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Here Is proof and baby's picturs
!" Ny work Is entirely among infants.
Five years ago Sykes Comfort Powder
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
NO BLooDsHED IN REVOLT
Change Of Government in Chinese City
Caused Merely. a Ripple Of
Excitement.

The province Of Chekiang, where
L was "interned" for four weeks,
writes a correspondent of the Chris
tan Herald, gives a good illustra-
ton of the revolutionary spirit all
over China. About four o'clock one
April morning we were awakened by
the firing of three or four guns. I
lazily said to myself as l turned over
to go to sleep again. "The reyolu-
ton is on" but l did not really be-
lieve that with SO little disturbance
anything serious could have hap
pened.
But in a few hours / found that I
had guessed right that the tutuh, or
military governor, had been called
out of bed by the leading revolution
lists and had been given his choice to
join them or leave Hangchow. He
chose the latter horn of the dilemma.
Whereupon the independence of
Chekiang was declared, the civil gov
ernor was chosen tutuh and procla-
nations were posted on the walls de-
claring the province Independent
and that law and order must be pre-
served and l%ooting would be pun
ished.
To be sure, during the first hour
or two the old governors yalnen or
palace was looted by his former
bodyguard, who, | suppose, thought
it was their legitimate booty; but
otherwise there was no disturbance.
10 bloodshed, only excitement and
uncertainty for a day or two. After
this business went on as usual, ex-
cept that the banks were naturally
chary about loaning money.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
MELBA's MELBOURNE LEGACY.

News from Melbourne is that
Mime. Melba, the prima donna, will
get one-sesenth of the estate Of her
Disappearing father, David Mitchell,
says IN exchange. He divided the
estate in equal shares to his seven
children, and Melba's part will be
S215,000. David Mitchell was an
Australian contractor, and Nine.
Melba, his third child, was born in
Melbourne. Of Scottish descent, he
was a strict Presbyterian and had a
great aversion to the theater and
opera house He resisted the aspira-
tons of his daughter to win fame
with her beautiful voice, and it is
related that he succeeded by personal
e~ntreaties in limiting the audience
at one of her early concerts in Mel
bourne to 80 individuals. Nine.
Melba, then in her teens, accom-
panied her father in 1887 to Eng
land, where he oficiated as commits
sioner for the colony of Victoria at
the Indian and colonial exhibition.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
JOHN MUIR NATURE LOVER
Message Of the Wild Was Firmly I'M
planted In the Soul OF the Great
Naturalist.

When John Muir was up among
his mountains nothing else mattered,
says Golfers. He could roll out
cheerfully after a night in the rain,
no wood dry enough to burn for a
breakfast fire, eat a cold snack with
some mountain spring water to
flavor it, and 60 gladly On his way
through the soaking underbrush, his
heart fairly singing within him for
the mystic f~ragrances Of the woods
and the music Of the rain. He could
get up in the dead Of night when a
more than usually promising storm
had Numbered in from the Pacific
and leave his dry shelter to build a
safe fire in an open space, that he
might see the raging sway of the
gale and hear its tremendous SYM
phony. No cliff work or peak climb
ing, however seye- ?, could blunt his
Joy in the marvellous blossoms Of the
upper places. All this may sound
like bluff, but the reality of it is
proved in a hundred passages,
straight from the heart, that shine
out in Muir's writings with the
CLEAN of pure gold set in granite.
No doubt he was an athlete, gifted
with a physical constitution beyond
the ordinary, but the deeper truth
of it is hat the message Of the nat
ural world, in which many Of us pass
but dull days, had so gone home to
John Muirs soul that there was no
place there for the blight of weari-
ness and self-pity. He was alive.
How many of us deserve a vacation,
anyhow?
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
APATHY THAT SHOULD SHAME
Conditions That Cause Deaths Of
Thousands Of Infants.

"No community that has an in
FAINT mortality rate of more than so
can maintain that its babies are get
ting anything like a square deal"
That is the statement of the New
York milk committee. 1t means, of
course, an annual death rate of 80
in every 1000. The committee has
prepared a statistical bulletin that
shows the infant mortality rates in
Ia American cities. According to
the figures, only four of the cities
are giving the babes ga square deal"
They are La Crosse, Wis, 30.6; Og-
den, Utah, 1917; OMAHA Neb., Al,
and East Orange, N. j., 4S.8. Some
of the cities with the highest infant
death rates are Passaic, N. j., 1885;
Montgomery, Ala, 1851, and NASH
vile, Tenn, 1928. No city with a
population of 100000 or over has
an infant death rate so high as those
just given, nor, on the other hand,
has any of them a rate below so. The
lowest rates among cities of hat size
are those of Seattle, Wash, 53.1, and
Portland, Ore, 57.7. The highest
are those of Jersey City, 1929, and
indianapolis, 1916. In commenting
on the figures, the Journal of the
American Medical association says
that the conditions that cause those
high rates may be remedied by any
community that is determined not to
tolerate such a waste of infant life.
If only six babies in the Borough of
Manhattan were to be killed or even
threatened with death by a bomb
from an aeroplane, the country
would be afame with indignation.
An observer from Mars might find
the fact curious when contrasted
with the calm uncencern with which
we regard conditions that doom
thousands of infants in this country
to death.-Youth's Companion.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
FEW CHIEF EXECUTIVES RICH
United States Presidents, as q GEN.
eral Thing, Left White House
With Modest Fortunes.

Washington sit an estate valued
at $500, 900 John Adams died mod
erately well off, leaving about $751;
900; Jefferson died 80 poor that if
congress had not purchased his
library at $4,000 he would have
been a pauper; Madison was frugal
and left about $150,000; Monroe
died so poor that he was buried at
the expense of his relatives; John
Quincy Adams left about $55,000;
Jackson died worth about $S0,000;
Van Buren, left some 100000 1t
is said he did not draw his salary
while in office, but at the expiration
Of his term OF service drew the whole
100000, according to the New
York Mail. Polk left an estate val
ued at $15o,000; Taylor had saved
something from his pay while in
the army and died worth $150,000;
Tyler married a lady of wealth Fill
more was always frugal and added
to his savings by marrying a woman
Of wealth, and was worth about
100000; Pierce's estate was valued
at $4,000; Buchanan left 100000;
Lincoln about $4,000 and Johnson
$4,000; Grant was wealthy, but lost
his fortune in the Grant & Ward
failure; Hayes was always frugal,
and added to his fortune, while Gar
field was only moderately well off;
Harrison died worth $250,00O,
while Cleveland's fortune was large;
Mckinley and Taft we're not well
off, while Roosevelt had a substan-
tial competence; Wilson has royal
ties from his books, and his second
wife is a woman of wealth.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
ORIGINATED IN EAST INDIA?
Have Been Cultivated There for
Thousands of Years.

Cucumbers have been cultivated
for about 5000 years in the province
of Kumaon, East India, still they
were unknown to the ancient Ro-
mans, and the Greeks in the days of
Homer knew nothing of them.
In the seventh century we find a
city near Corinth changing its name
from Mekone to Sikyon, meaning
Cucumber City, which is indisputa-
BILE evidence of the extensive cult
walton of this vegetable in this dis
trict of Greece.
Among the Romans we find King
Tibirius (assassinated 81 B. CO.
using cucumbers daily. They were
even cultivated in lighthouses for his
special use. Plenius speaks of salt
ed cucumbers and Atheneus men
tions mustard cucumbers in 200
b. G.
Charles the Great brought this
Indian plant to Germany, where it
gained much popularity. The Slavs
had introduced it into Austria and
Hungary before it became acquaint-
ed in Germany.
Today cucumbers are known all
over the globe and are eaten in as
many different ways as national
taste demands. As a food of nour-
ishing qualities, we cannot consider
the cucumber, since it contains near
ly 81 per cent water. AS a vegetable
it is not very popular.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
EARLY SECRETARIES OF WAR
Men Well Known in American History
Who Have Held That important
Position.

The first secretary of war of the
United States was Henry Knox, who
was born in Boston 166 years ago,
July 26, 1850, of Scotch-Irish par
entage. Knox was the chief COM
mander of the artillery throughout
the revolution, and was secretary of
war both before and after Washing
ton assumed the presidency, being
one of the few soldiers appointed to
that position.
His successor, Timothy Pickering,
had also seen active service, and
James McHenry, the third to hold
the post, had been a surgeon in the
revolution. Samuel Dexter, the next
in line, was a lawyer, but Henry
Dearborn, Jefferson's secretary of
war, had had much military expert
ence. William Eustis, appointed by
Madison, was a physician, and gave
way to a military man, John Arm
strong. James Monroe and William
H. Crawford were lawyers, and since
their time most presidents have APP
parently considered a legal educa-
ton the best qualification for a head
of the war department. q. S. Grant,
who held the wal portfolio for a
brief period in 1867, and William T.
Sherman, whose tenure of office was
equally short, were the only distin-
guished military men to hold the
post in the last half century.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
CULTlvATING ART OF READING
Some Time Ago Acclaimed Is
Good by Modern Author.

Do not join reading societies, be-
cause they kill individuality. Choose
your subject and work all around it.
There is an extensive literature on
the subject of "The Art of Reading"
'The Best Hundred Books" etc.
Most of it is useless and bewildering.
The best advice | have ever seen in
print about reading was by Sir Her
bert Maxwell, and it appeared some
years ago at the end Of a Nineteenth
Century article. 1t - as follows:
eff any young person of leisure
were SO much at a loss as to ask adj
vice as to what he should read, mine
should be exceedingly simple-read
anything bearing on a definite OBJ
ject. Let him take up any magma
bic subject to which he feels attract
ed, be it the procession Of the equi-
noxes or postage stamps, the Athe-
MAN drama or London street cries
let him follow it from book to book
and unconsciously his knowledge,
not of that subject only, but of many
subjects, will be increased, for the
departments of the realm of knowl-
edge are divided by no octroi. He
may abandon the first object of his
pursuit for another; it does not mat
ter, n subject leads to another; he
will have acquired the habit of ac-
QUESTION; he will have gained that
conviction of the pricelessness Of
time which makes it i~ntoIerabie for
a nan to lie abed of a morning"
The art of reading is a thing to
learn, and with it comes the equally
valuable art of skipping.-'The Pri-
vate Library" by A. L. Humphrey.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
WHY HE U NOT.


"Hey" yelled the stevedore, as
they were loading explosives for the
allies; 'handle that stuff more care
full"
whats wrong wild itr' asked
Cassidy, who had hold of it with
Casey.
Don't you know" replied the
stevedore., "that some of that same
powder exploded last month an
bowed up ten men?"
"Shure that couldn't happen
now" replied Casey, "for there's
only two av us here."-Boston Tran
script.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
PEAcH TREE N

When you drive to Seneca, says
the Sabetha Herald, observe the row
of peach trees extending for two
miles to the city limits. The trees
were planted from stones by the pri-
mary pupils in Mrs. Emily Collins
schoolroom. Every spring for ten
years Mrs. Collins has taken her pu-
pills on a tree-planting walk. Event
ually all roads to Seneca will be
lined with peach trees. Talk about
Apple Seed Johnny! There is as
much religion in planting a tree as
there is in the planting of a prayer
any day.-Kansas City Star.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
so SENSITIVE.

Every seat in the trolley was oc-
cupied, when a group of women got
i'm. Going through the car 10 col
lect fares, the conductor noticed a
man who, he thought, was asleep.
"Wake up" shouted the con-
Huctor.
z wasn't asleep" said the passen-
ger.
"Not asleep snapped the conduc-
tor. "Then what did you have your
eyes closed for?"
ut was because Of the crowded
condition Of the car" explained the
passenger. Il hate to see women
standing"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
EMPEROR CROWNED BY POPE
pimpIe Ceremony That Gave Charlie
snaane Domination Over Countries
Of Western Europe.

In the fifth century the German:
conquered Gaul, the country known
in modern times as France. The
bolidarity Of modern France was at
tained in the fifteenth century. The
FIRST time in German history that her
people felt the pull Of a force which
drew it toward common lines Of ac-
Zion was i'll 1913. The most famous
pf all the achievements of Charlie
magne was his establishment of the
Western Empire, and it came about
In this wise: Charlemagne went TO
Rome in 800 to settle a controversy
between Pope Leo III and his enc
mics. To celebrate the satisfactory
adjustment Of the dispute the pope
held a solemn service on Christmas
day in st. Peters. As Charlemagne
was kneeling before the altar during
this service the pope approached him
and set a crown upon his head, sa-
luting him, amid the acclamations
of those present, as Emperor Of the
Romans"
The reasons for this extraordinary
pct, which Charlemagne afterward
persistently asserted took him com
pletely by surprise, are given in one
of the Frankish histories, "The
Chronicles of Lorsch," as follows:
f'The name of emperor had ceased
among the Greeks, for they were
enduring the reign of a woman
nIrene1, wherefore it seemed good
both to Leo, the apostle pope, and to
the holy fathers (the bishops) who
were in council with him, and to all
christian men, that they should
name Charles, King Of the Franks,
as emperor, for he held Rome itself,
where the ancient Caesars had al
ways dwelt, in addition to all his
other possessions in Italy, Gaul, and
Germany. Wherefore, as God had
granted him all these dominions, it
seemed just to all hat he should
take the title Of emperor too when
1t was offered to him at the wish Of
all Christendom."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
WHEN IGNORANCE PROTECTS.

1t is a habit of Sir Douglas Haig
always to look after the comfort OF
his men. He wanders about the
camps at odd times to see that every
thing is in order. In that connec-
ton Pearson's Weekly relates a good
story:
As he was strolling past a tent he
heard the angry voice of a sergeant
threatening what he would do to an
unfortunate private who had dis
obeyed orders.
"Its lucky for you, my lad"
roared the noncommissioned officer,
chat I'm not sure how to spell sin-
subordination,' or else I'd report
youw
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
TIME SAVER.

Charley, DEAR" said young Mrs.
Torkins, "what is the theory of evo-
luton?
"Oh, it would take me an hour to
explain it."
"How clever you are! / under
stand Darwin had to write several
books in order to explain it."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
ITS USES.

"Did you see where in Europe they
are mixing shredded wood with -four
to make bread? "
Eyes; wouldn't that make a fine
diet for the platform makers at the
convention? ?"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
SAFE FROM THAT.

"Did the opposition make any
scurrilous attacks on your husbands
private life when he was running for
Officer"
my husband has no private life.
He's never. at home."-Puck.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
PAINFUL DISCOVERY.

Gas far as the pleasure clubs
plans r concerned, did you find
out, Nellie, if there was any move
ment on foot last night?"
II certainly did. l found when he
danced with me that all Jim Clum-
ser's movements were on mine.D
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
RIGHT IN LINE.

"Plunkville is talking of getting
a preparedness parade"
I'm for it. I'll guarantee a pla-
toon of society ladies carrying lorg-
nettes."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-02
VERY STRANGE.

Friend-What is the strangest
case that you ever had in life insur-
ance?z
Agent-Miss Oldbud. She took
out a 20-year endowment policy In
1896 when she vas nineteen years
Of age, and it natures this year
when she is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..