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Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-25
.vgindham County
! EAST KILNGLY.
Mgssr- Helen Meath Entertains Young Frisnds With Delightful Hospitality.

xrs. Irvinx Hirl and son Maynard v4stted relatives in Providence wed
 Mrs. A, c. Chase and son Mervin o< Axtayvaugan spent Wednesday with :. Ciarence souis and family and Mss Doris Smith attended church in Dan- iG1D6u Sunday evening. S& Harold Pierce ofy Pawtuclxet. R l.. xpeut the week end with Allen, Buff. dhetbn' and family. -.--..--- '. --1e l.
 Roscoe Rich of Oxford. Mass was the guest of Arnold P. Rich and fam tsy Thursday. Miss Heath Entsrtains.
 Miss Helen Hcath entertained q largo party of young friends at her home Saturday evening. Games were played and refreshments were served during the evening. x
 1riss Lila Mathewson visited friends in Danielson Monday.
 Norman q. Adams and bride of Hochdale. Mass. spent several days the past week with Mr. Adams nephew and the latter's wife. MT; and, Mrs. Luther c. Andrews. at Maplecrest.
 Fred Souie and $daughter Lula of North Attlehofo spent Wednesday with Mr. Soule's parents, Deacon and Mrs. W.sha T. Soale.a -'---~----'9 ,-''s-s@
 Miss Nellie. M. Chase spent Sunday with friends at Foster Center. R.-A
 Miss Gladys Mason of Providence spent the week end at her home here.
 Mrs. Isreal P. Chase was the guest of her son, arthur E. Chase, and fam fly in Danielson Wednesday.
 Lloyd Stone of Providence is visit ing friends here.
 Miss Juiia Morgan of Mashentuck spent Sunday with Miss Helen Heath.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-25

gathering being at the Plains. Rev. MT. AIanship, lately came to the Meth odist church, has been asked to preach the sermon.
 Studying St. Marks Gospel. = Last Sundays sermon was intro ducing for Bible League study the book of the gospel according to St. Mark. prefacing that study with short story of the life of the evan Mark. 3" Acts 12:i2.
 Following the mornings service. Frank Hoxie. lately returned from the State Conference of Churches at New Britain gave an enthusiastic report of his trip, supplementing his report at the evening meeting of Christian Endeavor.
 Ladies Association to Meet.
 The Ladies' Association will meet Tuesday from to o'clock with Mrs. Hiram Haines. All the ladies' of the parish have. been urged to join this circle. ,,.F-.. ....
 Mrs. William Towns entertained last week her brother. Edward Davis, who motored from North Haven for & few days hunting. William Towne re- turned in his car for a return visit in North Haven.
 Miss Melissa Larkham spent sev- eral QayS last WoSk at Her DrOIneT s, George Iarkham's. He has recovered from recent illness and is about his work again.
 Mrs. A J. Hetrick. who has been much confined to the house during the last weeks, is under 8 doctors care and is improving somewhat
 MT. and Mrs. Frank E. Miller are spending the week in New York
 Allen King and son of New York are in their Canterbury home for the hunting.
 Mrs. Beecher Brown and daughter Miss Helen Brown. have been spend
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-25
EAST WOODSTOCK

Set Of Books Given Library in Mem- ery of J. M. Paine--Mr. and Mrs, J. 8. May Celebrate Silver Wedding.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-25

| gathering being at the Plains. Rev. MT. AIanship, lately came to the Meth l odist church, has been asked to preach i the sermon
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
SCHOLARSHIP WINS SUCCESS
Statistics Show That College Men
Who Graduate With High Honors
Gain Distinction Later.

The list of the first ten scholars of
each of the classes that were gradual
ed from Harvard college In the sixth
decade of the last century, as present
ed by William Rosco Thayer, is list
OF men eminent In every walk of life.
Indeed, it is likely that the first quar-
ter in scholarship of any school or col
lege class will give to the world as
many distinguished men as the other
three-quarters.
What can we say In this connection
of the 420 living graduates of the ten
wesleyan university classes from 1890
TO 1892 Just this, says Harper's Mag
azine: or the men in that group who
were graduated with highest honors,
oO per cent are now regarded as distin-
guished either by "Who's Who in
America" or by the judgment of their
classmates; of those who were elected
TO Phi Beta Kappa-the scholarship
honor society-30 per cent; OF those
who won no superior honors In schol-
arship, only ii per cent. OF the men
now living who were graduated from
Wesleyan university between 1860 and
1889, 10 per cent are listed In "Who's
Who;" of those who received high hon
ors In scholarship during this period,
~ per cent Of those who attained no
distinction as scholars, only 10 per
cent,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
Oil Germ DestroYers.

Certain essential oils have been
proved to be powerful germ destroy
ers and recent experiments have
shown that they may even give effec-
tveness t. preventive vaccines. f..
dHerelli of the Pasteur institute has
Investigated especially the subject of
rendering white mice immune to the
bacillus typhi muriuc, an organism OF
the group producing paratyphoid At
tempts have been made to prepare
vaccine for the mice from product
containing the dead bacilH, but failure
has been the result 1t was then sug-
gested that some new method of kill
ing the bacilli might have effect. Trials
were made with essential oils, such
as those of cinnamon, garlic, thyme,
martoram, cloves and mustard, and
the bacilli killed by these were found
to be immunizing under certain con-
ditions. A white mouse for instance,
is made proof against the living bacilli
by injections of a vaccine c1ntaining
from 100000 to 100000 corpses of
bacilli slain by oil of mustard. But
the numbers must be very carefully
maintained. With dose OF more than
100000 dead bacilli, the immunity
Is feeble or non-existent; but, on the
other hand, the dose must be not less
than half million, no effect resulting
from 10000. 1t is concluded that the
Oil Of mustard gives a vaccine that is
very active in the right doses.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
Ennui at the Front.

At times, at the front, 1t gets dread
ully dull. When there is an attack
md, in consequence, plenty of work to
10, 1t is all right in a field hospital.
But when there are no attacks, when
here are no new patients and all the
bid ones become convalescent, when
here is practically no work, it becomes
nsupportable. Nothing but the green
hedge en- all sides of us, shutting us
nto ourselves, into our little, gossip
ng inclosure, with no news and no
newspapers, with no aeroplane Ito fly
overhead, with nothing to do but walk
fown TO the little pond and sail boats.
There is fleet of boats on our little
bond, all made by our chief surgeon, In
moments of ennui, and every day he
soes down to the pond, sets his boats
lfioat on one side, picks them up on
he other. and walks around and sets
hem going again. All because of su-
preme boredom, because there are no
attacks, no work, nothing but GONZALES
cent patients. to be discharged In
lay or two. 1t often gets like this, and
1t such times we can stand ii no long
sr and ask to be sent out in the motor,
On JOY rides, or any other rides, any
where, just for change.-Ellen N. La
Motto. in the October Atlantic.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
CANDY HAS MADE GOOD.
WHY CHANGE?
70 FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC
Aviators Confident That Such a Trip
is an Event of the Near
Future,

If the war has accomplished no other
Useful end, 1t has advanced the prog
'ess of aviation many years. In the
United States, without the spur of mil
tary and naval aeronautics, aviation
VAS regarded as a profession for cir
.us performers, whose main duty was
% loop the loop" and provide thrills
'or the crowd. Now, with aircraft
manufacturers turning out aeroplanes
1t the rate of 16 day, the public is
beginning to realize that it is a re-
narkable healthy infant industry,
closely rivaling the unprecedented
growth of the automobile industry in
Is early stages. One of the foremost
ieronautical experts in the country re-
Gently said TO the writer:
within one year after the signing
)f pence between the European pow
.rs, the first aeroplane will make
successful flight across the Atlantic
ocean. Very soon aeroplanes will be
carrying out mails to inaccessible
spots. Shortly after this will come the
carrying of passengers on a sched-
lle as regular as that of our Twen-
ieth Century limited. Many of us will
i've to see the aerial express with
many planes, multiple engines, and an
enormous carrying capacity, which will
AXE us to San Francisco or even to
London and Paris as easily as we can
low ride to Kansas City In railroad
rain. POPULAR Science Monthly.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
WORKS OF ART FROM EUROPE
American Collectors Gathering a Vast
Number of Them as Result
of the War.

An authority ON antiques and old
furniture estimates that within the
last four months more than $6,000,000
worth of furniture and objects dart
have been sold by European owners
and dealers to Americans. And II is
expected that the process-a furniture
auction every week in London and
Paris for the benefit of American col
lectors-will go on through the re-
mainder OF the war and after it, un-
doubtedly doubling this figure.
Pinched noblemen and others posses
sing old houses in Europe are clearing
them Of their heirlOoms, which Ameri-
cans are buying and Transporting to
this land of the free. Europe's extrem-
ity, in this regard, is Americas oppor-
tunity; and American houses, in city
and country, are filling up with beautl-
full old furniture, pictures and decora-
tons. In sense, Europe is paying for
bombshells with old furniture, for the
gentry are heavily taxed to buy the
shells, and when the shells are paid
for the Americans, who sell them, put
the money, to this remarkable extent
into furniture, fabrics and objects of
art. Ii is curious process. Bomb
shells have no intrinsic value, no value
Of use; they represent mere destruc-
tion. Nor does antique furniture
bought at price far beyond it's mere
value for the purpose of sitting
down upon possess intrinsic worth.
A chair for which "a is paid may be
exactly as good for that purpose as
rare Chippendaie worth $1,000. SO
the process is an exchange of luxuries
the luxury of death for the luxury
of refinement. But how vastly TO the
advantage of America IL is--that we,
in return for, say, s12.000,000 worth"
Of engines Of destruction, which may
be razing European towns to the
ground, should scatter through all our
homes of wealth the most beautiful
furniture that the world ever pro-
duced.-Boston Transcript.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
NEW AND DEADLY WEAPON
United States the Possessor Of Aerial
Torpedo Which viii Add Terrors
to War.

There have been several experiments
| on the Hampstead Plains (L. I) avia-
ton fields which promise to revolu-
tionize the present method of drop
ping aerial bombs. The experiments
have been conducted with the utmost
bomb probably viii be put on the mar
ket soon. The experiments have been
successful and this government will
have an aerial torpedo which will be
fully as important to warfare as the
wireless torpedo, recently accepted by
the government.
The torpedo Is about six feet long
and may be used either from an aero
plane or sent up and adjusted TO fall
at a certain place. 1t will have a
propeller and wings which can be set.
II has a radius of 100 yards of explo-
sive force and mt that distance could
kill every man within that circle.
officers of the First Aerial company
admitted that the torpedo was invent
ed by f. +. Barlow, who is connected
with the Frankfort arsenal at Phila-
delphia.
From what could be learned, the
bomb will be so constructed that the
person who operates it may stay in
one camp, and if an enemy camp were
two miles away, the prOjectile could
be set to go through the air as far as
that, when the engine would stop and
the bomb fall to the ground, exploding
just before il reached the earth.
It's inventor asserts its great value
is in the fact that IT explodes just
before Ii reaches the ground, and the
greater portion of its power does not
sink in and be taken up by the earth,
but spreads over large territory.
The torpedo also may be carried on
the bottom of an aeroplane, and the
aviator can release it with lever
when he Is over an enemy camp. The
torpedo wiz then explode when near
the ground.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04

The city life is conscious of itself.
The smail-town life Is not. An army
Of fairly competent minds busy inter-
preting the life of the city to itself,
and this so thoroughly that not a
teamster or ribbon-counter clerk of
he urban lot but has his spokesman
n the public prints and partakes some
where Of the typical. And the sales
person who has once seen salespeople
elevated to the rank of printed or
acted comedy or tragedy is conscious
of new sense of personal conse-
luence which years of cbscurity are
powerless wholly to erase. To have
had ones social setting touched by the
wand OF art is to have shaken hands
with a celebrity--life is never after
wards quite the same drab common
piace.-Seymour Deming, In The Al.
laptic.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
BAY RUM is OUT OF VOGUE
Witch Hazel Now ls the Popular Lo-
ton in Barber Shops in
This Country.

For many years bay rum was used
in all barber shops as soothing lotion
following the shave. 1t was also used
as sort of dryer after the shampoo
and caused many to writhe in the
chair when applied after a good mas
sage. Despite these facts, it continued
to be the kingpin of all applications.
Several years ago an enterprising indi-
vidual, knowing the properties Of
witch hazel, began to advertise this
liquid as n substitute for bay rum.
telling of the fact that witch hazel had
the same qualities as bay rum and was
much easier TO "take"
The customers of the various barber
shops read the advertisement, and so
did the BARRIERS. The result was that
nine out of ten of the patrons of bar
Der shops asked for witch hazel in
stead of bay rum, and the latter com
modify rapidly sank into oblivion. To-
day, according to the managers of bar
Der shops in big hotels and elsewhere.
witch hazel is much more popular
than bay rum.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
COUNTING Birds

The United States biological sur
yey Is now making It's third annual
count of birds, with the aid of yolun.
teer enumerators all over the country.
Each enumerat0r undertakes to count
the number of breeding pairs of each
species found on a selected area of
forty to eighty acres, and the count
actually consists In an enumeration Of
the male birds found In the course of
a few early morning Reconnaissance.
From the figures thus obtained, the
Scientific American explains, estimates
are made of the bird population in the
various sections Of the country. This
year the survey is making special
effort to secure statistics from the
semiarid desert and mountain regions
of the West, ard also from the fruit
districts of the Pacific coast and the
South Atlantic and Gulf states.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
How Rainfall Affects Radium.

One of the most elaborate investiga-
tions of the relation between the
amount Of radium emanation in the
atmosphere and weather conditions is
that recently carried out by Messrs. ].
X. Wright and o. f. Smith at Manila,
the observations extending over a pc
riod of about 13 months. The effect Of
weather conditions upon the rate at
which radium emanation is exhaled
from the ground and the relation Of
the rate of exhalation to the radioac-
uvity of soil gas at different depths
were also investigated.
Rainfall and wind movement seem
to be the principal meteorological con-
trolls, the amount of emanation in the
air being greatest when these factors
are at minimum, and vice versa. A
decided diurnal variation is found to
exist, the emanation content being con-
siderably greater by night than by
day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
MYTHlNG BUT A HlGHBR0W!
rhe Average Man Naturally FIinches
From the Reputation for In
telIectuality.

No one really wants to be consid-
.red highbrow The term itself, as
Van Wyck Brooks says, is derogatory.
Here and there person may be so
superior as to be fiattered by the
lerision of the herd. Undergraduates
ike TO think they are. But "A man
has to be far gone In superiority be-
ore he relishes the notion of being
lyoided for it's sake
You cannot imagine "a man like
Nietzsche trying to prove that he had
4 heart any more than you can imag
ne him shooting the chutes at Coney
Island. He is the kind of Olympian
whose dignity seems to have been in
lerent. You would just as soon drink
beer out Of porcelain as slap a
Nietzsche on the back. But the ordi-
lary Olympian, certainly in America,
Is more anxious to show he is gre
garlous than to protect his reputation
For superiority and intellect.
You do not have to slap him on the
back; he slaps you. If he is running
FOR office, In particular, he wants it
20 be known that blood, not ice water,
flows through his veins. He yearns
TO indicate that he is a good fellow.
He tells funny stories, has himself
photographed playing pinOchle, is dis
covered by his interviewer sitting at
the organ singing, Home, Sweet
Home" A man may have the temper
lment of hermit crab in private life ;
in public life he must smile cheerily
when a bolermaker crushes his fingers
and bellows: Tommy, put ii there"
New Republic.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
Firing Gun From Aeroplane,

How machine gun is fred through
revolving propeller is told In a re-
cent issue Of Aeronautics, in an article
describing the more important features
of two German Fokkers brought down
behind the British lines in France. On
these monoplanes, according to the de-
scriptioa, the machine gun is fired
through the propeller by means of a
small lever actuating Bowden wire.
Provision Is further made to throw the
machine gun mechanism momentarily
out of gear as each whlrling propeller
blade comes into line with the muzzle.
This is done very simply by means Of
a double cam fixed on the engine shaft
and acting on a system of levers. The
French Morane, after which the Fox
ker type has been modelled, also fires
It's machine gun through the tractor
screw.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
MORGAWS CIGARS COST SIPS
Cuban Factory, Pays Ninety
Cents Apiece.

They found among the effects left by
Pierpont Morgan $4,000 worth of
cigars. held in my hand few days
ago two boxes of his favOrite brands
His after-dinner smokes cost 81 pr
each.
A representative of the Cuban fac
tory which makes them tells me that
Morgan ordered usually 5000 or 5000
at a clip.
'There are only two men in Cuba
who can make that cigar, and nearly
all Of them are produced by one man,
said this Cuban producer "We pay him
40 cents to make each cigar and he can
roll about - Of them in one day"
The king of Wall street smoked a bit
better cigar than does Emperor Will
liam of Germany The kaiser'S cigar,
made by the same factory In Cuba, is
worth 30 cents.
The Oldest brand of cigars was put
out 112 years ago-that is. the oldest
which is in existence today | under
stand that, Ia face of the British bat
tleships, the kaiser is still able to get
all the cigars he wants.-Philadelph
Public Ledger
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
Political Adyertisement.) }
Political ADVERTISEMENT
THREE ESTIMATES OF CONGRESSMAN CANDY.

The Edgemont Enterprise, Edgemont,
South Dakota.
The following editorial from the Edge
mont Enterprise, under date Of June p,
1916, Republican newspaper, gives the
reasons why that paper is supporting
Congressman Candy for reelection:
- The man who is led, who is dictated
to by party bosses, is out OF date nova
days, is behind the times. The news
paper man who allows himself to record
only that which political bosses dictate ,
who bends the knee in utter subseryi-
ency to party, losing sight altogether Of
that which is for the best interest Of a
majority Of the people, is not only an ass
but untrue to the responsibilities that
he owes to his nation his state and his
community.
When man demonstrates his WORTH
ness as public servant, when he forces
the acknowledgment that he has the
ability, the energy, the honesty OF pur-
pose requisite for the efficient conduct
of affairs nationally and locally, it is the
very essence of good business Judgment
to "hold fast to that which ye have"
and not undertake the very question.
able operation Of swapping horses in
midstream."
Harry L. Candy is democrat just as
the editor of this paper is a republican
from conviction. Just as thousands
affiliate with one party or another, to be
under banner, to be designated one
way or another, yet all together, with
one accord, at heart desirous of promot-
ing to the best of their ability the vel
fare and interests OF ell the people. He
has been our Congressman now for the
past two years, aad no man will deny
that he has, in that time, done aught but
render strictly non-partisan service to
his district. lie has nov been long
enough in service TO become more or
less familiar with the work, and his
future efficiency is thereby made more
effective. My dear farmer friends,
would you, for one minute, consider the
proposition of discharging an employee
who was conscientious and energetic in
your interests one who was familiar
with the work you wished done, in fa-
vor of an untried prospect, whose sole
recommendation would be that he wes
good republican or democrat or prohbi-
ZIONIST as the case might be? Use the
same hard-headed judgment in the selec-
tion of your Congressman that you would
display in your choice of a capable, eff
cent employee regardless ofhis political
affiliations
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
Footnote Was Costly

While sorting the daily avalanche of
parcel post mail, attaches of the Pitts
burgh post Office encountered a toe
of an artificial leg and laid the pack
age aside for rewrapping. Presently,
the foot came out Of its wrapper. The
following inscription, penciled on the
cork sole, leered tauntingly at the
postal man:
"Just a footnote: Before repairing
please use an anesthetic."
The ten words automatically trans
formed one artificial leg, fourth-class
merchandise travelling through the
mails for 10 cents, into first class-mail,
calling for letter postage. The leg la
ter in the day reached its destination.
an artificial limb repairer, looking like
a page from a stamp collectors book,
and S282 due
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
Plan New Sea Canal,

Amsterdam papers are discussing
the advisability Of enlarging and deep
ening the North sea canal and dispen-
sing with the locks at Ymuiden, thus
giving free waterway without locks
from the North sea to Amsterdam.
Only by doing this, 1t is said, can Am
sterdam hope TO check the steady in
roads on her trade made by the rapidly
progressing port of Rotterdam, which
has sea-level canal connections.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-11-04
A Submarine for Napoleon.

Whenever Napoleon was banished to
St Helena various schemes were set
on foot for his rescue. One of the
most remarkable originated In the in
ventive brain of smuggler named
tombstone.
"A submarine" says Sir Walter
Scott In his Life of Napoleon" "was
% be the means of effecting this enter
Prise. 1t was thought that, by sink
ng the vessel during the daytime, it
night escape the notice of the British
.ruisers, and, being raised at night,
night approach the guarded rock with
,ut discovery.
"The vessel was actually begun in
,ne OF the building yards of the
Thames, but the popularity of its con-
Itruction having occasioned suspicion,
I was seized bv the government"