Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

a < < .5a l4 the pastures, go huclSleberrying on the knoll and go after the cows in the ev- eniny. Later, each one of us took our turn as boy on the farm and now we are scattered all over the face of the earth. One sister is in Baze Swift zerland, one of us boys is at home in Honolulu and two of us are swal- lowed up in the big city of New York
 What is this to you and your read ers?' Why, just this-Mother sold the old farm fourteen years ago, for it had come into her possession from her mother. and all of a sudden a year or two ago, there was a stirring in the breasts of Us boys to get that old plae< back: not that we expected, any of us. to retire yet, but because when we visited the old place and stood at the top of Landphere's Hill, after al- most fifty years since one of us. at least, stood there first, we couldn't dis cern 9 single new house within the range Of vision anywhere on the landscape It was the same old coun- try. and. of course. there were the as-- sociations of memory and a few of the same old folk, notably Neighbor Newton Lrs dphere and his sister. We'll, sir. we bought the farm and we were fortunate enough to strike up real friendship with MT. and Mrs. Jo- seph T. Church, who for fourteen years had owned the farm, and it wasn't long before we were at work together fixing up the old place and in modest way endeavoring to make it a happy self-supporting institution. Don't laugh, MT Editor, we really be- fieve that we are going to raise some thing that will find a market and keep Us all happy.
 And now my storys begun The l ownership of the Jonathan Hill Farm now stands in the name of Mary A. Richards, of Honolulu, and Mrs. NtnhordC ad hor hirO T1a1dnro the writers youngest brother. and MT. l and Mrs. P. H. Richards. of Brooklyn, and yours truly and his wife. with | three of the grown children of the l bunch, have been up here at Mont vile to celebrate Thanksgiving in the home of their anSastors; and you may | be sure that this was real Thanks giving.
 It wasn't the lure of land in general | that brought us back to the old farm, l but the vivid memories of boyhood and | the charm, of a place unchanged ex- cept by the natural decay, which we | have not been too eager to put away | by renovation. The names of all of US can still be seen, carved on the i c'apboards on the back of the old ell | of the farm; but we have been having
 a big time.
 | It is perfectly natural that you
 should want to know who we old tim
 CTS are who are reinvading the peace 1 of New London county. Well, the man who owns the farm is the pub-
 fisher of the oldest paper west of ths | Rocky Mountains. It is entitled 'Tht
 Friend" and was published by early missionaries in the Sandwich Islands | years before there was anything worti 1 while in San Francisco. This sam' Theodore is treasurer of the Board o
 Missions sat has to do with a 1arg portion Of the work in the Hawaiian l Islands.
 Paul, the next older brother is tn president of the Hub Publishing com | pany the Hub being the oldest pa pc
 published in the vehicle trade in tn
 world
 | And yours truly, why he is simDl
 an advertising agent who succeede
 his father, and has seen the great bus
 mess of of advertising grow fror
 small beginnings to a point where
 is q mighty sales factor. Added to hi
 duties ir New York, this latter indi
 yiduaI swelis out his chest and say
 that he is general manager of the Jon
 nthan Hill Farm. No, he must talk that back for the real manager is sti Joseph T. Church, a respected citize
 of Montville and township assessor What Richards doesn't know abou farming would fill all of New Londo
 county. but with Church to fill the aW
 full void there is going to be somethin I done that will. at least, offer ne' I recreative life to a few of US and a
 interesting task to the. real farmer. Please understand we are boastin of nothing except the pleasure of re
 nemberine old scenes and reveling i them as though we were boys agail
 Yours for fun and fellowship at tn
 farm,
 J. A. RICHARDS. r MontvfIIe, Dec. 1, 1916.