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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
THEY'RE FHNEt DON'T STAY
BILIOUS, SICK, HEADAcHY
OR CONSTIPATED.

Enjoy lifei Keep clean inside with
Cascarets. Take one or two at night
and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever experienced.
Wake up feeling grand. Your head
will be clear, your tongue clean.
breath right, stomach sweet and your
liver and thirty feet Of bowels active.
Get box at any drug store and
straighten up. Stop the headaches,
bilious spells, bad colds and bad days
Brighten up. Cheer up, Clean up!
Mothers should give a whole Cascaret
to children when cross, bilious. fever
ish or If tongue is coated-they. are
harmless-never grippe or sicken.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
Stephen Brown of Hillsdale was o.
caller here Sunday.
Death Follows Injuries.

Stephen Brown of Hillsdale was D.
caller here Sunday.
Death Follows Injuries.
George G. Palmer died Nov. goth
after being sick in bed one week. He
fell from a wagon and received inter-
nal injuries. Heart trouble caused his
death. He leaves a wife, two sons, a
daughter and three grandchildren.
Burial was in Wood River cemetery
Sunday.
General News.
People from Providence, Washing
ton. r. l., Greene and Hoxie attended
the funeral of Amy e. Moore Lewis
Sunday.
Mrs. Daniel Sweet of Providence is
staying for while with her mother,
Mrs. George Palmer.
Mrs. Amy A. Austin and son Fred
of Arcadia made visit to Amy S..
Weaver Sunday.
Francis Smith is able to be out of
doors again after being in bed since
October. -
Robert E.. Moore was in Providence
Monday.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09

New embroidery forms are made of
felt, compressed and starched, so
that when articles on which they are
used are washed they expand and
fill out the slack in the embroidery
threads.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
Washington County, R. /.
ROCKVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs Charles P. Palmer and
daughter, Married. OF Westerly, were
recent guests of Miss jennie Elrd;ck.
Mrs. Esther Tefrt Of Westerly has
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
SPRING HILL
Blacksmith Shop Burned - Neiehbors
Help Save Nearby House and Other
Buildings.

Fire broke Gut about o'clock Sat
urday morning last in the blacksmith
shop in the rear of the half house
owned and occupied by Daniel Shapiro
on the road to Storrs. and the shop all
burned. Good work by tho neighbors
who promptly responded to the call
saved the other buildings, but the end
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
w. C. r. U. Meeting.

supper at the Kenyon house Thursday
evening for the benefit Of the society.
w. c. r. U. Meeting.
The Ocean View ". c. T. e. met
Wednesday at the home Of Mrs. Geneva
Champlin with ten members ard three
visitors present.
Gifts for President.
Two weeks ago the union met at the
home Of the president. Mrs. E. e.
Browning. After the business meeting
the topic for :he day, When Women
Vote, was taken up and discussed. At
the close of the program Mrs. o. e.
Macomber, in behalf OF the union, pre-
scented the president beautiful silver
salad spoon with initial engraved
thereon, and also surprised her with
large birthday cake with many
lighted candles. for all of which and
for the kind words and good fellowship
the president extended her sincere
thanks
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
BOLTON

Two Golden Weddings Celebrated on
Thanksgiving Day-Feasting, Gifts
and Congratulations For MIR. and
Mrs. William n. Loomis.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09

| supper at the Kenyon house Thursday
| evening for the benefit of the society.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
ToIland County
COLUMBIA

Local Milk Producers Attend Provi-
denoe Meeting-Lyman Case to Be
Tried in RoekviIIe--votes- For Wo-
men Meeting Today
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
SILK CONCERNS ARE CHARGED
WITH MISBRANDING GOODS

Washington, April S-The work of
the Federal Trade Commission in
policing the avenues of trade be-
ens in dead earnest today, when a
hearing will be held on the cases
brought against New York and
Philadelphia thread concerns, who
are charged with unfair business
practices. The members of these
firms have been cited to appear to-
day to show cause why they should
not be restrained from continuing
the alleged unfair practices.
The complaints charge that the
firms manufactured and sold mer-
cerized cotton thread as silk and
that the product had no portion Of
silk 1t is charged that to brand
this sewing thread as sewing silk"
is misleading, and the rival manu-
facturers have been injured in their
business
The commissions complaint sets
forth that "the word silk when ap-
piled to thread of textile goods, both
in the technical and popular usage,
has a precise and exacting meaning,
and is only accurately and properely
used in describing materials derived
from the cocoon of the silk worm"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
ECANS ON FRESH TRAIL
I'll VILLA BUT HAMPERED
FOR LACK Of SUPPLIES:
OUTLOOK NOT ENCOURAGING
PLAN ANOTHER
AMERICAN HOSPITAL

Paris, April S.-A number of wo-
men prominent in American colony
here, assisted by several others who
have been doing war relief work, met
today to plan for the establishment
of an American dental hospital in
Paris to treat the many soldiers who
have been wounded in the jaw. DR..
Spaulding has obtained many prom
ises of financial backing. in addition
to what the women can raise. The
French government has offered to
provide a suitable building for the
hospital.
Such vast improvements in facial
and oral surgery have been made
recently that about so per cent of
all the wounds, even when the jaws
have been almost torn away, can be
cured SO that a slight scar is the
only indication of the wound The
question of retaining dentists in the
army with the rank of adiutant to
perform dental services is under ad-
visement by the government
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
sECUTION OF NURSERY
WAITS ON DECISION
OF COURTS

ami, April S.-What has hap
to the case against Griifing
aers for alleged violation of the
Y plant act?
aat question was asked at last
It's meeting of the Dade County
I Growers and Truckers Asso-
On in the Chamber of Commerce
es when the trend of discussion
itrus canker matters turned to
Griffing case. The Griffing nur-
was charged with having trans
d some stock contrary to the
law, Prohibiting the movement
ny stock within certain zones.
matter was discussed at a num-
Of meetings Of the growers last
land at one time A. NJ. Grifing g
ared before the association in
Use Of his company. Committees
2 appointed and the association
ucted a thorough investigation
the case. The result was that
TX Stirling, who was an inspector
lis county at that time. made a
,al Trip from GaInrs a. to MI-
immedately after the citrus
mar lest fall, and it was stated at
meeting last night that "Mr. Stir
swore out the necessary papers
nst the Griffings."
understand that these papers
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
GERMANS ALSO CLAIM TO HAVE
CAPTURED FRENCH POSITIONS
TWO KILOMETRES WIDE IN
VERDUN REGION
(By Associated Press J

London. April S.-The salient
French lines west of the Meuse with
bethlncourt village at a sharp angle
are being pounded on both sides by
the Crown Princes troops. They
have made small gains at two places
between Hancourt and Hill 81. The
Hill lies two-thirds of a mile south
of the village. Sharp fighting on the
other side this salient, French claim
they have the best of the fighting
here. Little fighting in other parts
OF Nerdun region. The German war
once announces the capture of
French positions two kiIometers wide
in the Nerdun region.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
SOLDIERS TO WEAR SANDALS
(Bv Associated Press. J

Hankow, April Northern SOL
diers who are making the trip along
the Yang-tse to suppress the Yunnan
revolutionists have experienced so
much difficulty in getting through
the mountains when wearing leather
boots that the government has issued
large orders for sandals, and will
provide all its forces in the future
with foor wear OF this character for
use in the mountain districts. II is
the rainy season now in Sze-chuen.
and consequently muddy hills and
mountains have made it especially
difficult for soldiers to move. carry
ing heavy arms and supplies.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
RUMORED THAT YUAN SHI
KAI WILL ABDICATE
(By Associated Press. }

Peking. April S.--Japanese news
papers have printed a rumOr that
Yuan Shi-kai will shortly abdicate in
favor of another person to be elected
by the Chinese public. This rumor
has been copied in China by news
papers in treaty ports which are un-
friendly to the Yuan Ski-kai admin
istration. and has been stoutly de-
MED by the government.
Japanese newspapers declare the
uprisings in South China have en-
barrasscd Yuan Shi-kai so seriously
that it is necessary for him to make
way for another peron
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

Evidently the prohibitionists are not
New York State this year. To the
surprise of the anti-saloon forces, the
Assembly Excise Commission has just
killed the Statewide prohibition bill
and the optional prohibition referen-
dun measure proposed by the league.
1t is not likely that the matter will
come before the legislature in any
other form during the present session.
because there do not seem enough
members in favor of prohibition to put
through the anti-saloon measure.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
ENGLAND CONTINUES TO
IMPORT WINE
(Bv Associated Press !

London, April Notwithstand-
ing the restrictions on the sale of
spirituous liquors as a result OF the
war, England is importing just as
much wine at least as before the war.
During last year her imports were
10, 1881 gallons asainst II .36O.-
994 gallons in 1913 when the Rhine
wines were not cut off and the
French exports had not declined.
During the first two months of this
year the imports increased over the
corresponding period in 1913 II is
said that the imports from Portugal
have been very heavy during the
last six months, exceeding those of
any similar period.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

II is probably that Ambassador
James w Gerard, American Ambassa-
dor at Berlin will spend large part
Of his vacation in the United States
this year Politicians declare that the
purpose of his homecoming is to
work for the reelection of President
Wilson. Ambassador Morganthau, Un-
Gle Sans representative to Turkey,
Is already in the United States and
will help the Wilson campaign in any
possible.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
BOYS ARMED WITH POCKET KNIVES
BADLY DAMAGED NAVAL BALLOON
Which LANDED NEAR ARGYLE
tBy Associated Press.)

Pensacola Fla, April S-The
naval observation balloon, which
broke its moorings here yesterday
and landed at Argyle, Fla, was bad
ly damaged by number of boys re-
siding near the scene of the descent,
according to unofficial reports. Boys
armed with pocket knives rent great
holes in the bag which was already
injured. on account of colliding with
tall pine trees which stopped it's
hight. II is not definitely known
when the men sent to get the bal
loon will return.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
ENTRANCE OF PORTUGAL into THE WAR
HASTENS THE FATE OF GERMAN EAST AFR|CA|


cgic points, having the great harbor
of Delagoa Bay for transports and sup
plies. and railways reaching inland
right up to the German possessions
With the British feet guarding Por-
tugals home ports, her little fleet and
her army are free to turn their at
lention to this land stand of German
colonization in Africa.
What military defense Germany
can make on all these flanks of her
great colony is not clear The Brit
ish view is that she can make no de-
fense, beyond temporary obstruction
of forces pressing from all sides. The
German military force is chiefly Afri-
can natives. trained by German Off
GERS, with no chance of transports
bringing home forces. The big guns
from the German raider Koenigsberg
are there. and a large supply of ma
chine guns. But with native troops
the obstruction is not considered form
idable against the hardy South Afri-
can and Boer fighters under General
Shuts, along with British and Indian
troops, and the Belgian and Portu-
guese forces on the west and south.
While the stake is much more than
the control of colony. yet the colo
ny itself is a valuable possession
When Germany entered late on the
colonial field, she got only what was
left the marshy, low country, with
out ports or political importance, ex-
cept German East Africa, which by
It's geographical position is the key
TO eastern half of the continent. It
is five times as large as Great Brit.
am, and three times as large as the
Philippines, with a population of eight
millions.
AS an asset it has not been much.
costing for development about three
times what it yielded, but as the
Keystone of Germanys colonization
its political future was considered
worth all the cost It had begun to
buy about $4,000, 900 of Germans in.
dustrial products year. Like Kiau.
chow as an entering wedge to China,
II was the entering wedge to Africa,
ana wedge driven in the psycholog-
ieal spot, right in the middle of the
continent, splitting the vast British
colonization in two
Whatever the results of the military
campaign may be. it is recognized
that military occupation is not per.
manent political occupation. But IL
military occupation once establishes
an nunbroken British chain from
Cairo to the Caue. it will be one of
the last things yielded in any future
peace treaty. Outside of this terri
tory, Africa may still be thrown in the
scales of the future peace bargaining,
for there is less intimate attachment
to it. than TO home soil like Alsace.
Lorraine, Poland or Belgium.
For the moment, however, attention
is directed TO dispossessing Germany
from her commanding position mid
way in Africa, and in this view the
issue is more than a struggle for
Germany's last and greatest colony
it is the conquest of Continent, with
French African Empire in the west
and British African Empire in the
east.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

rich British possession in the north
from the Suez southwark, and the
great British stretch from Cape Colo
ny up through Rhodesia.
But right in the middle of this chain,
Germany has held one ink-German
East Africa-and without this link
the British chain was broken into
two detached parts, each a small EN-
pire, but not together vast British
African Empire, like the French Afri-
can Empire of the Northwest That
is what gives a meaning to Portugals
entrance in the war, as Fastening the
fate of German East Africa, the one
link to the British chain from Egypt
to the Cape
Already British development has
reached down from the north and up
from the south, close to the edge of
this last link There is a travel route
now, but not always on British ter
ritory, for midway the chain breaks,
and one must go either by the long
slender lakes, Tanganyika and Nyas-
sa, or across the Belgian Congo on the
west or the great stretch of German
colony lying straight across eastern
Africa from the ocean to the central
lakes. Once this stretch passes to
the Allies or to Britain and the con-
tinent of Africa will have her imper-
ial domains pretty well established
England in the east from Egypt to
Cape Colony; and France in the West,
from the Atlantic to the Nile; with
spots of territory here and there
italian, Belgian, Portuguese but all
Allied
The British military campaign has
just opened against German East
Africa, with General Smuts. the old
Bocr leader, in chief command His
forces is striking from British East
Africa, lying Just north of the big
German colony. His early movements
have been back of Mombassa, where
Col Roosevelt landed for his Afri-
can trip. He has pressed into the
German territory, taking villages and
some strategic hills, and reports the
German forces falling back to the rail
way. One of the German develop
ment was little spur of railway
across the northeast section of this
colony, not far from mOmbassa, and
from the interior to the sea-
The Belgians have meantime devel
oped their military campaign on the
western flank of the German colony
Prostrate as Belgium proper is,
through German occupation of most
of the home country. the Belgian col
ony is very much alive. with great
commercial progress at Bona, Eliza
bethyille and other centers where
there is a complete administrative
system. A considerable army Is now
strongly reinforced by Belgian forces
from the Flanders front, where the
British and French are considered
sufficient to permit the Belgians to
look after their colonial interest and
strike blow at Germany where she
is vulnerable in Africa.
Then, finally, on the southern flank
of the German colony, Portugal now
enters the contest, with Portuguese
East Africa one of the strongest STRAIT
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

The Government officials along the
Mexican border are reported to be
having considerable difficulty in pre-
venting war correspondents from
smuggling not only news but taxable
articles across the border. So much
trouble has been experienced in this
direction that strict laws may be en-
forced which will initiate against the
news-gathering privileges of the cor
respondents.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
(By Associated Press. J

(By Associated Press
London, April S.-The war between
German and ortugal has centered at
tention on the struggle for Germany's
last and greatest colony, German
East Africa, now hemmed in on four
sides-by Portugal's African colony on
the South, the Belgian Congo on the
West, Britain on the North and South
west, and British ships along the East
with no communication between the
German colony and the home country.
This is the chief significance of this
new war for there is no chance of a
clash of Germany and Portugal in
Europe, with Germany occupied in
more important fields. And besides
the stake of German East Africa, there
is the larger stake of Africa itself,
for these shifts of colonies are grad
ually determining the future of a
whole continent, second only to Asia,
greater than North or South America,
and three times the size of Europe.
Togoland, the German garden SPOT
in Africa, was the first to fall; then
the Kameruns; and then German East
Africa. Each was promising col
ony but Togoland has been the only
one that really paid for the immense
effort of development. The losses Of
these colonies were trifling moves in
the far more important game-the
conquest of Africa as a continent
and the struggle for German East
Africa is the last stage in this great
er game.
England and France are already
entrenChed in Africa; Eng
land from Cape Colony northward
and from Egypt southwark; and
France in her great African empire
of the Northwest -Algiers, Tunis and
Morocco. The vast French area. in.
cluding Sahara, was at first dcrded,
and Lord Salisbury referred to the
French possessions as the second
greatest in Africa chiefly sand" But
with the colonizing of Algiers and
much of the adjacent country, un-
known riches have been developed
and an African empire really worthy
of the name has gradually developed.
Seeing this, Italy has more recently
gained foothold in Tripoli, thus
completing the European occupation
of the Mediterranean fringe of Afri-
ca from the French on the west to
the British in the east Incidentally,
too, this European ocnupatioc of the
Mediterranean fringe. gives a Euro
pean circuit of the whole Mediterran-
can, with Britain posted at its two
gateways, Gibraltar and Suez, and
midway at Malta.
East Africa, from Egypt in the
north to Cape Colony in the south,
has been the main field for British
development. But all the time one
great obstacle has lain across the
path of this development: German
East Africa stretches like wall right
across the middle of the Continent,
a solid German political barrier be-
tween the English advance southwark
from Egypt and northward from the
Cape. Cairo to the Cape, has long
been a dream of British statesman
ship,-a real connection between the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
DR.. BUTCHART DIES
OF BLOOD POISONING


Manking, April S.-Dr. James
Butchart, a member of the Nanking
University Medical school STAFF. died
at the foreign hospital here Feb. Il
from the effects Of blood poisoning
contracted several months ago. DR..
Butchart was a member of the Chris
tion Foreign mission and an Amer
lean. He had served in the Chinese
mission field for twenty-five years,
and was recently called from the in
terror to take the chair of ophthal-
mology and otology in the medical
school in the University of Nanking.
Mrs. Butehart and four children sur
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
CAPTURE TWO FIELD WORKS

VbN NNSOCIatNu TreSS.
Paris, April = Germans renewed
the attack south of Haucourt in the
Nerdnn region last night and gained
Il footing and two small field works
between llaucourt and Hill 2S7. says
the war office.
Grenade lighting between Bethin-
court and Chattancourt was turned
to French advantage. East of the
Meuse there was intermittent bonn
bardment of French positions. Near
Fort NauX the Germans attacked
with Grenades and were repulsed.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
DR.. WILL0UGHBY
TO RETURN TO U. S.

Bombay, India, April S From
5000 to 25,OOO soyerejens have
been melted down in India every day
for the last eighteen months for the
purpose Of making up for the falling
off in the imports of gold bullion
The effect of this has been to create
a decrease in the circulating medium
which may have to be made good by
the end. of the year by the increased
coinage of rupees.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
Wilson to Receive News on the
Mayfower
(By Associated Press)

Washington, April s. The Ger-
man reply to the inquiry by Gerard
whether German submarines at
tackled the Sussex and other mer-
chant ships carrying Americans, is
momontarily expected. Unofficial
Berlin adviccs said that Gerard had
forwarded Il preliminary report VIII
son is aboard the Mayfower for a
weekend cruise and anything received
win be forwarded by wireless
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
villa at Parral
BY Associated Press.

Nby Associated Press.
Pas0, April S.-Mexican sources
ted that Villa had reached the
,ns Of Parral and had sent
aries into a town west of the
ION and obtained provisions
was not verified The fact that
andit Is reported only fifty
from Parral, two days ago,
color to the story. This infor-
n served at least to dampen the
Of another spirited dash of the
lean cavalry to end the bandits
(. Army officers say this is
y likely in view of the distance
Fivance corps is from the supply
q unless Villa is within fifty or
miles Of the Americans
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
GERMANY NOT
RESPONSIBLE
FOR DAMAGING
STEAMER SUSSEX
(BY Associated Pressl

Berlin, April s 1.-THE German gov
German submarine or warship was
responsible for the explosion which
Sussex.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
ONE KILLED; -FOUR
INJURED when
TRAIN HIT AUTO
At F0RSYTHE, GA.
(By Associated Press. }

Forsyth Ca, April 81. r.
Worsham, father of E. Lee Worsham,
State entomologist, was instantly
killed and j. T. Guest, candidate
for county surveyor in the primaries
here today was fatally injured when
a Central of Georgia train struck the
automobile in which they were rid
ing. d. NJ. Green, Walter johnson
and Wallace Tribble, the driver, were
injured