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Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
cLARK's CORNERS

Mrs. Ethel Neff, Amos Stone and Miss Clara Stone were in Hartford Tuesday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Willis E. Wade and J6 hn Hammond motored to New Lon don and spent Christmas with Mrs. Wade's parents.
 Allen Jewett and daughter, Mrs. Vio- la J. Clark, spent Christmas with MT. Jewett's son, Elmer c. Jewett, of Brockton. Mass.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lester H. Jewett have gone to Springfield to spend the win ter with their daughter, Mrs. Myron Palmer.
 Miss Mildred Parks of New London spent the holiday at E. E. ChapeFs.
 James Bray of New Haven is a re- cent visitor at F. J. Navin's.
 The school gave a very enjoyable Christmas entertainment Wednesday evening. of this week. A good number of parents and friends were present.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
EAST WOODSTOCK
Willimantic Pastor Speaks Before the Community Club on European Ex- perienees.

Paul Swenson of Hartford spent the week. end and Christmas with his par ents, Charles Swenson and wife.
 Miss Agnes White is home from He- bron, where she has been teaching.
 Edith Eddy of Stafford Springs is spending her vacation of two weeks at Valley Farm.
 Alan and Ethel Upham are home for a week. William and Mabel Richard . son are at Roscoe Alton's for the va cation.
 At the meeting of the Community club Wednesday evening an interest ing address was given by Rev. Vernon M. Cooke or Willimantic who gave "Reminiscences of his European trip at the outbreak of the war. A solo, Memories. by Ruth Witter, and a read ing extract from Pickwicl< Papers by Eleanor Linderman completed the programme.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
SCOTLAND
Christmas Boxes Sent to Children Auction at John McCarthy's Farm.

A short Christmas program was held Friday night, the 22nd, in Grange hall, after which oranges, popcorn and candy were distributed. There were also twenty Christmas boxes dis tributed to the children, sent here to the Sunday school by James McGee.
 Christmas Visitors.
 Several out of town visitors were here with relatives over Christmas among those were: Elmer and How ard Brenn Of Springfield. Mass; Har- old and Earl Kenyon, Of WilIimantic; Miss Charlotte Lowering, of Plymouth, Mass; Erwin and Edwin Webb of WilAmATtic and Florence yickers of Putnam.
 Mrs. Mary Lathrop went Wednesday to Norwich. where she will spend the rest of the winter.
 Auction Sale.
 John Mccarthy sold his farming implements, horses and some house. hold furniture at auction here Tues day. the 18th.
 Mr and Mrs. Thomas Clark of Hartford spent Christmas with rela- lives here.
 William Adams, who has been at St. Joseph's hospital WilIimantic, has been removed to the home of F. P. Tracy.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
Not Too Soon.

It looks as though the British Em- Elre had gone in for the commission- probably not too soon.-Kansas City Star.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

them. but after a couple of weeks I then found that they were rapidly increasing. They were large. red and hard and they itched and burned so that soon large red spots appeared caused
 by my rubbing. At night fir would rub ffny face if wol1ld
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
SPECIAL RARGAlMS 6

on Ladies' and Gents Diamond Rings, Scarf Pins and Watches. Also on Solid Gold and Gold filled Stone and Signet Rings.
 A large assortment or the finest French Ivory at the lowest prices. All heavy stock.
 Heavy Sterling Plated Three-piece Carving Sets, SPAS.
 A beautiful Calendar to each custc- mer.
 J. OGULNICK & co. 32 Franklin St. Phone 714-12
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

Seventy -six American cities have public employment bureaus.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
TERRIBLE ITCHING P|MPLES 0N FACE
Large, Red and Hard. Burned So
 Large Spots Appeared. At : Night Could Not Sleep.
HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT

"A few pimples made their appearance on my face. and thinking that they would soon disappear I did nothing to remedy
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

itch terribly 50 that could not sleep.
 "I chanced upon a Cuticura Soap and Ointment advertisement and sent for free sample. and then bought more and my face was completely healed" (Signedl Miss Edith Q. Schuman. IT Bedford St., Hart ford. Conn.,, Sept. 20. 1915.
 Sample Each Free by Mail
 With 32-p. Skin Book on request Ad- dress postcard 'Cutieura, Dept. T, Bos. son." Sold throushout the world.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

The English city of Shefiield has 400 steel manufacturing concerns. z
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

WHEN YOU WANT to put your bus mess before the public, there is no medium better than through the ad- yertising columns or The Bullatin- J
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

Anyway, Pm sorry to see a man of MT. Howe's usually keen observation and alert common sense parroting .the superficial sheer about farmers never being satisfied.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

fact, it is a mighty lucky thing for MT. Howe and good manly other iterators of the old sheer that farm CTS don't give up in discourag cement, even when they aren't fully satisfied If the farmers of the country didn't take an awful lot of bad luck with more or less of the Billiken spirit and face it with more or less unfad- ing grin. and go back at it, over and over and over again, some of their too ready critics might eventually find themselves short, not sonly or head lettuce, but of potatoes and flour and lamb-chops and beef steaks
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

Written Specially for The Bulletin.
 "A farmer is never satisfied says E. w. Howe in Sayings of Country Town. Don't expect it."
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30

There seems to be an idea prevalent il. some quarters that farmers, as a class, are especially given to grouch- mess; that they really enjoy finding fault: in short, that they are never satisfied and never could be; no, not even if daily miracles of ideal weath- CT and abnormal crop-fecundity should be worked for their behoof.
 I wonder if it is so? If we are, take Us "by and large" an agglomeration of snarlers?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
fruit LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
"CaIifornia Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup Of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with,
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, fe7erish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. When it's little system is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, Indigestion, colic-remem-
Der, a good inside cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for 90
cent bottle of California Syrup Of
Figs" which has directions for babies.
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
No Pomp in Switzerland.

How many Englishmen-or, for that
matter, how many Swiss living in Eng
land-could give offhand the name of
the president of the Swiss confedera-
ton? In accordance with the Swiss
constitution, the head of the state, or
the president of the federal council, as
he is officially called, only holds Of
1ce for a year, and is elected every
December. The federal assembly has
Just elected its president for next year.
He is M. Camille Decoppet, who re-
ceived 1856 votes out of 1873.
Owing to the curious international
position of Switzerland and its rela-
lions with the belligerent powers, the
position might be supposed to be one
of considerable Importance, but even
the Swiss people are apathetic as to
who shall occupy it, and they give to
their chief no state honors whatever.
He is accessible to almost anybody,
and a British minister at Berne has
told how, when he went to visit the
president once, the door was opened
by his wife, who was busy cooking,
while the president was sitting at his
desk in his shirt sleeves. SwitZer-
land is a true republic, according to
the old and classic ideal-the only
one.-Manchester Guardian.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

their peace. Men, too, understand the
heart of man, and quote tersely: st
is not well for man to live alone" The
widower who has been led along by
this persons opinion and that per-
sons views and another ones remarks,
finds, when he sits down and goes
thoughtfully over his life, past, pres
ent and future, that the ideas of 9TH
ers should not influence him.
Every man must live out his own
existence, Independent of anyone else.
Those who warn him the most vigor-
ously that he is better off single are
not eating at lonely table or sitting
at lonely fireside as he is. They
have their living loves, a cherished
face by their side, someone to speak
to, a warm, gentle hand to clasp their
own lovingly.
Such friends can talk we'll and mean
well, no doubt. But when it comes
down to it, what do they care for his
lonely hours? His heartaches are his,
not theirs. His beautiful past, tender
with its memories, is a page that has
been turned. The present alone is his,
hour by hour and day by day.
The lonely heart is sad one. Life
should be measured by it's sunshine
that drifts across the present, not by
its gloom. Because the heart may
bloom a second time it must not be
supposed that its first bloom, which
withered on the stem, has been the
less cherished. 1t is neither wise nor
best to keep the sharp knife of mem
DRY ever at an old wound. 1t is more
merciful that 1t should heal.
Love is essential to life just as the
dew is to flowers and the sunshine to
the troubled world. Without it's balm
the heart shrivels. Tenderness and
hope die within it. There is nothing
to look forward to.
Love is the strongest staff which de-
,clining years can lean upon. 1t salts
fies the heart as nothing else can.
The heart is peaceful when there is
no void. The widower's path should
not be made hard which leads to his
second loving. On the contrary. it
should be smoothed for him. For he,
and he alone, knows best what his
heart Graves.
Love, pure and true,
Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew,
That gems life's petals in its hours of
dusk,
When life is falling from us like a with
cred husk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
BEGIN HOT WATER
DRINKING IF YOU
DON'T FEEL RIGHT
Says glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

If you wake up with bad taste, bad
head is dull or aching; if what you eat
sours and forms gas and acid in stom
ach, or you are bilious, constipated,
nervous, sallow and can't get feeling
Dust right, begin drinking phosphated
hot water. Drink before breakfast, q
glass of real hot water with tea.
spoonful OF limestone phosphate in it,
This will flush the poisons and toxins
from stomach, liver, kidneys and bow
els and cleanse, sweeten and purify
the entire alimentary tract. Do your
inside bathing Immediately upon aris-
ing in the morning to wash out of the
system all the previous days poison
Gus waste, gases and sour bile before
putting more food into the stomach.
To feel like young folks feel; like
you felt before your blood, nerves and
muscles became loaded with body i'm
purities, get from your druggist or
storekeeper a quarter pound Of lime
stone phosphate which is inexpensive
and almost tasteless, except for
sourish tinge which is not unpleasant
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, SO hot water and lime
stone phosphate act on the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels. Men and
women who are usually constipated,
bilious, headachy or have any stomach
disorder should begin this inside bath
ing before breakfast. They are as
sured they will become real cranks on
the subject shortly.-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
coURTING ON STORMY DAYS.

My dearest! If the might
And tenderness of manly trust
Can bless thy life, thy love must,
In darkness and in light,
Forever turn to thee, thy goodness to
reQuite.
Many a girl looks out on stormy
morning with a thrill of keen disap-
pointment in her heart, why couldn't
today have been clear and some other
day have been stormy? He will not
come this evening""
The girl with her first sweetheart
turns away, doing her best to hide her
discontinue. She goes about her du-
ties without putting the usual amount
of heart in them. There's no song on
her lips. So much for doleful antici-
patton. She doesn't don her pretty
clothes after dinner, but mopes and
signs in the living room in her en-
deavor to kill time.
To her great surprise, the bell rings
upon the minute. She hears his step
In the hall. The next moment he is
by her side holding her hand. He
leads her to their favorite tete-a-tete
seat before the glowing fire. He is
very much astonished to hear that
she did not expect him. "The worst
weather ever could be will never keep
a man in love away from his dearie,"
he explains. He also adds: Stormy
ones are the better counting eve
nings."
Tom, Dick and Harry. with their
sister and their cousin and their aunts,
are not so liable to drop in for call
of an hour or two. leaving lovers
scarcely an opportunity for hand
clasp or an endearing word. Home
life seems all the cozier to a man if
he comes through storm to enjoy it.
He is reluctant to leave.
If ever a man has the proposing
bee in his bonnet it is on a stormy,
wintry night No matter how cold it
may be, how 1igh the snow is, or
how the sleet RACES about him, he
wouldn't lose that sweet hour with
her. More than one man has come to
the conclusion, as he trudges along
through the pitiless storm. that the
best he can do is marry without delay
and to end the hardship of coming
and going.
How sweet and sunshiny a girl
should be to the lover who has braved
so much to be with her! Many a
time he sits with wet feet. but she
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

Everyone appreciates the usefulness
of a silk coat which may be made to
serve for many occasions and emer-
gencies. And everyone will welcome
the newly designed silk coats for
spring whose arrival is hurried to meet
the requirements of southern tourists.
Just now both long and short coats, of
taffeta and other silks, are among the
most pleasing of the heralds of the
new season. They almost divide hon.
ors with the beautiful white gowns of
net and lace that hold the center of
fashions stage.
A point that is most interesting, in
considering the silk coat and the lin
gerie dress, is that anyone who is
clever enough in handling materials
may aspire to owning them. The ma
terials used for making them are mod
crate in price, and these things de-
pend for distinction on originality of
design and beauty of workmanship. A
silk coat may be the most common
place of wraps or it may be as chic
and unusual as the model pictured
here. It all depends upon how the
silk is cut and put together.
The model shown is full, with long
flaring skirt, and is loosely belted
in at the long waist line with a belt
made of the silk. The collar is
very short, ripping cape about the
neck, repeating the appearance of the
cape idea in early importations. The
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
PhiIip BojIeau-Artist.

AS for the artists actual life, it has
been as full of romance as any make.
believe could be. 1t is true that he
pronounces his name like swallow
with a b. and not, as has been sug-
gested, like some continental battle
field, but by all rights it should be
given with all the liquid and soft-spok-
en- grace of the most patrician of
French accents. The artists father
was a nobleman of France, no less in
deed than M. le Baron Gouldree dc
Boileau, who had been consul general
from the French government in Can
ada and who was secretary to the
French minister in Washington when
he met and married one of the daugh-
tiers of Thomas H. Benton of Missouri.
This was the artists mother, and it is
through her that he claims kinship,
and very proudly, too, he declares,
with the Prestons of Virginia, and,
through them, to share in our own
goodly inheritance of southern ideals
and traditions.-Southern Woman's
Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

and appear on the points of the collar.
All this work is done, with amazing
cleverness, by machinery, and the
blouse may be bought for a moderate
price, something like four or five dol
lars. When the embroidery and sew
ing is done by hand the blouse will
bring more money in the shops, but
the needlewoman may make it 1T
home, introducing her own bandwork.
for less than the machine-made gar
ment must bring to be profitable to
the retailer.
At the right a blouse of white
crepe de chine is shown, IN which ma
chine stitching, in black, furnishes a
very elegant and graceful decoration.
This idea was brought out by mo-
diste of Paris in khe earliest costume
showings, and is proving very useful
to makers of blouses. The blouse is
almost perfectly plain, with high col
lar and deep cuffs. 1t is finished and
stitched with exquisite neatness, and
calculated to delight the eyes of all
those women who appreciate the ele.
gance of tailormade styles.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

than ever was and recommend your
remedies to all my friends. Mrs. LENA
WYNN, 1912 E. o Street, Richmond, Va.
While Change Of Life is a most crit
ical period of woman's existence, the
annoying symptoms which accompany
it may be controlled, and normal health
restored by the timely use of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. j..
Such warning symptoms are sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, dread of impending evil,
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
of the heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipation, variable APP
petite, weakness and inquietude, and
dizziness.
For these abnormal conditions do noe
fail to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

doesn't know that. This may be the
reason why he is tribe irritable. but
she should not mind this, remember
ing only the eagerness to be by her
side brought him out on the wild,
stormy night. The lovable sweetheart
should put on a little white apron,
step into the kitchen, and make him
good, hot cup of coffee. Next to love.
this is the quickest msans of putting
heart and cheer into him.
1t is useless to tell lover that he
should stay away on such stormy
night. Nine men out of ten will an
swer that they would not miss these
sweet, wintry counting evenings for
the price of kings ransom. They
are safe barometers which show a
girl just how she stands in a mans
affection. The lover who will not
miss his winter counting evenings is
sure to make the best of husbands.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
Return of TUNES.

Novel in cut and in diversity of
styles, the tunic is again feature.
saws the Dry Goods Economist. Many
of the new seasons dresses have the
oyerskirt extremely full and almost
even in length with the underskirt.
In other models the tunic is long IN
front or at the sides, with a rounded.
oointed or cascaded outline in the
other sections. Some of the new
tunics are trimmed with small ruff
fes or have groups of tucks. small
or large, in trimming effect. Often
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

Ever since the discovery of uric acid
In the blood by Scheele, in IT'S, and
the bad effect it had upon the body,
scientists and physicians have striven
to rid the tissues and the blood Of
this poison. Because Of its over
abundance in the system it causes
backache, pains here and there. rheu-
matism, govt, gravel, neuralgia and
sciatica. 1t was DIR. Pierce who dis
covered a new agent, called "Anuric,"
which will throw out and completely
eradicate this uric acid from the sys-
tenn. "Anuric" is 81 times more po-
tent than lithid, and consequently you
need no longer fear muscular or ar
ticular rheumatism or govt, or many
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
A coaxer.

The latest American church device
for raising the wind is what a re-
ligious paper describes as some col
lection box" The inventor halls from
Oklahoma If a member of the con-
gregation drops in 25-cent piece or
a coin of larger value, there is silence.
If it is Decent piece bell rings, s.
cent piece sounds whistle, and
cent fires blank cartridge. If any.
one pretends to be asleep when the
box passes, it awakens him with
watchman's rattle, and a kodak takef
his portrait.-London Christian World
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

Blouses for the coming spring are
made of all the daintiest wash fabrics
in cotton and silk, and their creators
never before presented such varied
and beautiful assortments. Excellent
as the model waists have been hither-
to. those of today are better. The
American woman is welded to the
blouse: it answers her needs perfect
w. It is made for utility, but not at
the sacrifice of beauty, and the sheer
cottons and lightweight silks used in
it's construction are woven to last and
TO withstand washing. They will even
outwear heavier materials.
Two of the best of the new models
are shown here, for the benefit OF
those who wish to make early pur-
chases or to make up their own
blouses in advance of the season.
Each of them embodies at least one of
the new style features of the spring
season.
The blouse at the left is made of
fine white wolfe and cut on the most
popular of patterns. The back piece
IS extended over the shoulder to form
a short yoke at the front, and the plain
surface of the material is relieved by
groups of the narrowest of fat tucks.
The vogue for narrow landings, and
two colors in one garment, is reoog-
nized in this model. A border of
wolfe. in blue or rose or maize color,
finishes the edge of the collar and
.be top of the pockets and cuffs
and extends down the fronts. The
handing is set in with hemstitching,
and the effect is very fine. Small
sprays of embroidery outline the peck
cts. in the same tint as the banding.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24

management of the full, long sleeve
with fiaring cuff is distinctively new
and original. A side-body which ex-
tends over the shoulder, is set in to
the coat and is extended so that the
arm's-eye falls on the arm several
inches below the shoulder. Here the
sleeve is set in with piping of silk.
The cuffs are confined near the
wrist with band of silk finished with
a button. The belt is cut with four tab
extensions, and these are decorated
each with row of four buttons, and
buttons in groups of four provide the
fastening at the front.
A soft and heavy quality of silk is
appropriately used for coats of this
kind, and they are made up in dark
colors and in black.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-24
WHAT is URIC ACID?


other diseases which are dependent ON
an accumulation of uric acid within
the body. Send to DR.. Pierce OF thei
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,I
Buffalo, N. Y, for a pamphlet on
"Anuric,' or send 10 cents for trial
package of "Anuric" Tablets.
II you feel that tired. WORKOUT feel
ing, backache, neuralgia, or IL your
sleep is disturbed by too frequent
urination. go to your best store and
ask for DR.. Pierce's "Anuric."
DIR. Pierce's reputation is back OF
this medicine and you know that his
pleasant Pellets" for the liver and his
"Favorite Prescription" for the Ills OF
women have had splendid reputation
for the past fifty years.