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Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
DNlglEI BON AND PUTNAM NEWS

belief that d bone had snapped, but this had to be left for an x-ray exami-
 nation to establish.
 Kane, a young and c1ean-cut young fellow, fell off the tender of the loco motive while the train was running,
 quite slowly. past the electric light and gas station. at the Hutchins street crossing. He was seen to fall by Charles My CTS, who happened to be in that vi cinity with a light Ford delivery
 truck. Myers assisted train men in
 loading Kane into the truck and then conveyed the injured man to the bag gage room at the station. where pr George M. Burroughs examined Kane and advised that he be sent to hos pftal for X-ray examina tion. After examination by pr. Burrough hs Kane sat up on the stretcher and
 lighted cigarette. This he smoked com placently as he swung his legs, below the knees. back and forth. He made hardly a complaint about his in jury Which must have been exceed ingly painful. but it was evident that he was seriously hurt. for at every effort to stand on the injured leg he collapsed.
 Tfainn1en said that Kane had boarded the train at Putnam. but had been put off. It was evident that he later managed to avoid detection and stole a ride to Danielson.
 He was climbing over the coal on
 his way from the tender toward the cab when he rolled off to the ground, the first impression of those who saw the accident being that he had been
 killed. Kane. 1t is stated, formerly
 Corset sale at the Keystone Store adv
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days in the workhouse at occoquan,

days in the workhouse at Occoquan, Va, near Washington.
 Mrs. Bartlett, like the other p1em- bers of the party. accepted the sen tence to paying a fine of s25. they maintaining that they have not com mitted any violation of the law and were acting within their rights when they were taken into custody by the Washington police.
 A despatch coming out of Wash ington on Thursday states that Judge Pugh warned the suffragists who were present at the hearing that if any similar cases developed he would inn pose a sentence of six months in jail. to which the suffra gists replied that will not stop us either"
 Herbert E. Nelson Going Today
 Herbert F. Nelson of Woodstock will so out from this city today as one of the men who are making up the first five per cent of this districts quota. He is the first man from the district that has gone to Aver. who is not resident of the town of Ki1- ingly, which has tie honor of supply ing all of this weeks contingent of six go, out tomorrow are George Ter rance Moran of DayvilIe and Clifford Henry Jordan of Elmville. Jordan has fad previous service in the United States regular army and is anxious 10 go to Aver.
 Naturalization Hearing Sept 1s.
 September IS is set as the date for q naturalization hearing in Putnam and on the following day there will be a similar hearing at Willimantic.
 During the past few weeks an ur- large number of aliens have taken out their first papers and those already declarants have signified their desire to come into full citizenship. Practically all of the countries of Europe are represented in the dec1ar-
 
 the subjects of enemy nations. There are many Polish applicants among those who desire to be admitted to 1 |
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
cHILDREN'S GARDENS
We'll Worth Money, Time and Effort
 Spent on Them.

Superintendent H. F. Turner of the schools in Kiilingly said Thursday that the results about to be shown in the form of vegetables will establish the worth of all the money. time and effort that the children of the villages of the town have put into food, pro- duction during the spring and summer seasons of 1917. MT. Turner has act: ed as garden supervisor during the time since the close of the schools in June and he is well pleased with wha has been done by those that have charge of the gardens.
 These gardens are to- be found in about every section of the town and their number runs into the scores. While great amount of produce will come out of any one garden. the aggregate production will be such as to surprise many people and will be sufficient to provide vegetables for a large number of persons throughout the winter season. this in addition to all the supply that has been made available from these gardens durin s the summer months.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
SHORT CALENDAR SESSION
Judge Joel B. Reed to Preside This Afternoon-Reward Case Up for a Hearing.

There will be a session of the SUI perior court here at 1 o'clock this af- ternoon, with business arranged as follows:
 Hon. Joel H. Reed, Judge. Short calendar. Hearing on petition of Stephen f. Coffey. ct al for allowance of reward for Information against cat tie thieves; John Szmslli vs. Matt kroll, alias Msciey Kroll: Frank A. Spaulding vs. Allen J. Mcdonald.
 Uncontested Divorces-Everett l.. Kies vs. Lucy H. Kies. Walter Young vs Leonora Young. Oschule L. Mintook vs, Andre Mintook.
 Trial List to Court-Fayette L. Wright vs George M. Cameron, Mary Lynch Ys. Laurctta M. Mains, ct al, Everett P. Chappell vs. Joseph Nohei- mer. ct ux. Louis Grouman vs. Alvin P. Corey.
 To Jury-William W. Wheatley vs. Fred R. Dubuc. Agnes, Danielson vs Ade1bert Peckhar1. P. 1T. Mccarthy ct al, appeal from probate. Susan E. Brown vs. M. Eugene Lincoln.
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Fingers Crushed.
OBITUARY,
Katherine BaqIey.

Dd9iSys
 The body of Katherine Bagley, Al who died at the Day Kimball hospi- tai, was forwarded Thursday morning 70 Crompton. R. l.. for burial. Hermon c. Carver and George Pot win, registrars Of the town. have put out their notices relative to register ing for the caucuses and annual town elections.
 Mayor J. J. McGarry has purchased runabout car.
 A shipment of army equipment that went through this city on a freight train Thursday afternoon atract!ed special attention
 Mrs. Susan Goodman SteIiwag. Mrs. Susan Goodman Stellwag, 72, died at Pomfret. The body will be sent to Forest Hills, Mass. Mrs. Stell- wag, who had spent much of her time in Europe, was a sister of Miss Flea nor Clark. Preparing List.
 At the. office of the exemption board Thursday a. list of the nearly 50 men who are to go out from this city to Aver. Mass. Sept. 19. was being pre- pared.
 Asked to be Sent to Jail.
 Judge L. H. Fuller presided at a session of the city court Thursday morning when, one of the two prison CTS, charged with having been intoXi- cated, requested that he be sent to jail.
 Letter From Europe.
 Railroad members have received a chain letter, signed by all the Putnam members of a United States Engi- neers' regiment (railroad branch) now somewhere in Europe. The letter brought a message of good cheer to the boys back home. -
 Seriously III.
 Mrs George A. Hammond was re- ported Thursday as seriously i'll at her home on Oak hill.
 Mir. and Mrs. Eben W. Holden and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Munroe of Boston are spending a vacation of three weeks at D. C. Parks Rose Hill farm. Bound for Camp Devens. Thursday afternoon the express from Hartford came into this city with l special car attached, conveying men | rom western and central parts of the | ,tate to Camp Devans at Aver Mass 1 The car was transferred to a Worces- | CT train. Francis Gagnon of Davville l vent out with the contingent. There | were about 50 men in the party, most | y fine sturdy chaps who will make | good soldiers.
 Mrs. Bartlett Sentenced to Work
 house. 4 special despatch from Washing l on Thursday stated that, with | lozen other suffragists who were | aken into custody at Washington on Tuesday Mrs w. J. Bartlett had been entenced by Judse Puxh to serve 60
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CWritten Specially for The Bulletfn.) )
 wonGer if there's any use saying "Corn" to Connecticut There hasn't seemed to be, in the recent past.
 In fact the intense anI complete lack of all interest in this particu- lar crop on the part of Connecticut farmers has been one of the most striking features of the local agri- cultural situation.
 The state used to raise good corn. Occasional and sporadic spurts at the old work by here and-there exception al farmers have shown that the state can still raise good corn.
 Most of the lands now devoted to tobacco are nearly ideal for corn. Probably there is more money in the weed than in the grain. If there is it would be a manifest waste of good there.
 But, outside the Valley, there are big areas of land, not suitable or available for the culture of the plant either naturally intended for corn or capable of being made so by compe- tent treatment
 Why, hen, is the cultivation of this peculiarly American and enormously valuable crop at present so utterly neg 1ected in our state?
 It isn't forgotten in others. Even in the south where cotton was so long throned king, the better farmers are turning to corn as an alternative which, in seasons of small cotton yield or low cotton prices, will serve as an anchor to windward, to hold them off the shoals of bankruptcy In the mid dle west, where. as in New England corn culture had been for thirty years decreasing, interest in it is renewing itself IL is in New England, where larger crops and better paying crops can be grown than in even the south or west, and where it's value per SC, is greatest, that apathy sti1 seems to reign.
 An Ohio correspondent of Hoard's Dairyman calls attention to the fact hat corn and wheat are now at prac- -ically the same price per bushel He yoes on:
 You can raise from two to three imes more per acre than you can of | wheat. A bushe1 of corn is worth i nore fo" food than a bushe1 of wheat. | md this is true if we confine the | comparison to the grain only and con- 1 'ider it solely as human food When | he entire plant is considered and
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animal feeding included, wheat is out
 of the running entirely"

This is absolutely and indub.tabiy correct. The average wheat yield of the United States runs somewhere taround fifteen or sixteen bushels per
 acre. A yield of twenty-five bushels IS exceptional. Yet corn yields of I fseventy-f1ve bushels are not unusual. and yields of a hundred bfishels have been scored on more than one Con- necticut acre.
 more labor to. care for an acre of corn thar an acre of wheat and labor is scarce and high"
 l suspect that people who argue this
 way are, unconscious1y, perhaps. comparing the labor cost of wheat sown, reaped and fhreshed by ma chlnery, with the labor cost of corn,
 pnnted harvested, husked. etc, by
 land? If the wheat had still to be sown by hand, narrowed in, followed
 by "bushing" Of the grass seed then cradled by hand and thrcshed out on
 the barn-f floor with fails, wouldn't the Ia "a nor.cost DOT of an acre of wheat come corn? And corn can be planted cul- t!Vated, harvested and i1ueked by ma ch1nery just as efficiently as wheat.
 However, comparisons between these two crops are not of much in terest in Connecticut, because wheat growing here is even less followed than corn growing. There are other crops with which a comparison would be more locally applicable
 At present potatoes a~e way un tarmers in my neighborhood have no trouble Tn getting from s1.5o to s2
 oushel, according to quantity and quality And they doubtless yield a corn.
 Yet the labor of preparing and planting and digging and bagging and tha ue.,Vering Y ,i1I potatoes is much greater fertile and more carefully prepared soil. They won't do well on eraveIJv or stony land where corn will often do US pest. They need even 1nore gener- ous fertilization.
 ] don't know for certain, b11t T,d te l willing to bet dimes against dough- l nuts that there-are as many. acres in | Connecticut which would grow corn a s l mere at are % acres which vii! produce of product, would certainly be no more. And don't forget that when you raise corn. you get not only salable | ,r6P 1bjon or gram, rn+s1 but nzs GU. of stover nore for COW fodder than any possible | ,rop or hay CT clover you could raise n the same area.
 |, re Ohio CorresPondent from whom
 have quoted plaintively remarks that if the experiment stations would 'nly teach us how to grow corn per on the same land and vet ! lold it 10 the highest prcductiveness, hey would do the entire world a great ,ood"
 Perhaps. But why wait for the ex- ] 'eriment stations to do what any and { very farmer can do for himself? Corn an be raised for an indefinite mum er of years on the same ground and [ with steadily increasing productive ( ess. if the farmer who owns and I manages the ground will do his part. f furthermore, he is in a much better osition to find out just What his part I 5 than any experiment station testing t way on different soil in a different t ,cality.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
MUST DEMONSTRATE SKILL
Otherwise Driver Cannot Secure Au-
 ton1obie License.

Under a new law now in force no more drivers licenses for automobiles will be issued without the applicant having made a satisfactory demon- stration of his qualifications to a rep reSentative of the state automobile de- Dartment, of which John Macdonald of this city is deputy commissioner
 Under the new law it will be more difficult, if not quite impossible for an unqualified driver to secure one of the states licenses. The. tests are not unnecessarily severe, but under them an applicant is required to show
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
WILL BE RErs1D Foh THEIR WORK

Women everywhere suffer from kid ney trouble-backache. rheumatic pains. swollen and tender muscles. stin joints and it is to help those who suffer IS she did that Mrs. c. J. Ellis, 505 sth Ave. Sioux Falls. s. D.. writes: T feel sure if anyone Bothered as I was will give Foley Kidney Pills a fair trial they will be repaid for their work It seems fooIish to neglect an aiIment when there IS su ch d remedy to be had" They correct bla dde- disturbances, too The Lee 6 Osgoou Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
MidHetown.--sunday next the thtr-

Middietown.--Sunda next the thir- ty-first anniversary of the consecra- tion of St. Johns church will be com memorated. To be consec-eted, a Catholic church must be free from debt. The services took place on Sep tember 10, 1886. Rev. B. OR. Shnridan was pastor. He was succeeded by the present pastor, Rev. Janfes P. Doflo- van. D. D., who has made ma6y fff- provements to the church and the St.
 Johns corporatton properly during his
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07

West Hartford. - The Housewives association is asking all residents who have surplus fruit of vegetables to take them to the ev1porat1ng plant in the Hartford Evening School building for drying and packing for the use of the French soldiers.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
FELL FROM TENDER
]. R. Kane, Stealing Ride on Freight,
 May Have Broken Hip Bone.

J. R. Kane. 72s southbridge street. Worcester, was injured here Thursday morning when he fell off the tender of locomotive hauling southbound local freight train No. TIT. His left hip was so injured as to cause the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07

l Clarence. NJ. Higham of Hoboken, N. J., formerly of this place. is spending a vacation at his home on Main street Mir. Higham Is employed in the office of the Remington Arms works in Ho- boken.
 Charles w Charon has returned from an automobile trip to Providence, Worcester and Boston.
 Clayton Rood has moved his house. hold goods from Fifth avenue to rent on Railroad street.
 Will Teach in Torrfneton.
 Miss Rose McCauley of Putnam, a former teacher in the public school at Versailles, has been engaged to teach in Torrington this year. Friends here are pleased to learn of her pro motion.
 Special meeting of Baltic Red Cross at their room this (Friday) night, at 7.30. Members are urgently requested to attend.-adv.
 Returns to Canada.
 Miss Camilla Gaucher left Tuesday to resume her studies at St. Cesaire's was accompanied as far as Worcester by her sister. Imalda Gaucher.
 MT. and Mrs. John KArshaw, MT. and Mrs. Beardow of Fall River, were recent guests of MT. and Mrs. Fremont Firth. They travelled by automobile.
 Home From Shore.
 Mrs. George Bell and family have home after spending the sum- rner at Groton Long Point.
 Mrs. Clayton Rood and son, Clayton, have returned from ocean Beach, where they spent the summer.
 James Spence is enjoying a few days 
 Peter Richmond, who has been spending a brief visit with friends in New York has returned home. Thursday on business.
 Robert Walker returned to business his week. after a vacation spent in Fall River.
 Visited at Academy.
 Miss Pauline Ashe of Springfield, Mass. recently spent a few days with he nuns at the Academy.
 Mrs. Herbert Grant has returned to Quaker Hill. after visit with her sister, Mrs. DelWin Martin.
 James Wiley was in Westerly on 
 Henry Fontaine of wauregan visited friends in Baltic Thursday
 Miss Annie Miley has returned to River Point. after a short stay with fer aunt, Mrs. Thomas Miley. Joseph Healey of Monson, formerly f Baltic. recently. spent a vacation with his parents. MT. and Mrs. Cor elius Healey.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
BALTIC.

Former Local Teacher Goes to Tor rington - Vaeationists Returning From the Shore-Automob Out inus
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07

that he can handle a car with consid- erable skill and judgment.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
PUTNAM

Mrs. Susan Goodman SteIIWag Dies at Ponfret-Mrs. w. J. Bartlett at Washington Sentenced to Work house-Herbert E. Nelson Leaving for Camp Today-Short Calendar Session This Afterncon - Drivers Must Demonstrate Skill to Get Au- tonobife License.
 MT. and Mrs. W. B. DaVison are en- tertaining Mr. and Mrs. Wayland F.. Davison and daughters, Myra and Mary, of Uxbridge, Mass.
 Fingers Crushed.
 Joseph Karykowski. an enploye at the plant of the Manhasset Manufac- turing company, had his right hand caught in a machine Thursda. and two fingers were badly crushed. T.
 J. F. Lane. Worcester. who fell from the tender of a locomotive at Daniel son Thursday morning was brought to the Day Kimball hospital.
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seem to rsnsmBsr having told
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-07
In preparina and treatind tha land,

You aon't know what you "ean,t"
 do. or what you can do till you've tried.
 Nor can you really try. if you put your brains to sleep and send your
 judgment out visiting and tie one arm behind your back before you begin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH.

The late Henry James, in ''An International
! E,pisode.n makes one English arstocrat pro-
pose to another on their way to the United
States that they should take lessons IN
t'.American' What must have seemed a joke
to Mr. James readers must now be taken seri-
ously if Professor Frederick n. Scott, of the
University of Michigan, can be looked upon as
an authority on the standards of English and
American speech. At banquet OF the Ma
| tional Council of Teachers of English In New
York City Professor Scott said that there Will
/ be ali American language and explained that
! it probably will be a dialect grown into a ma
tional speech, and not either the dialect OF
New England or of the south but rather all the
dialects of the country. In order to justify
his astonishing proposal, he declares that
the stuff out of which a great language is
created is the simple, homeIy expression of
sincere feeling and sturdy thinking and that
| g American speech is not degraded or pie
beian form of British speech but vigorous,
hardy offshoot that is gradually assuming a
form appropriate to our character and daily
Ineeds.'
Now, the answer to this is that Americans
cannot claim to speak and write English if
they do not follow the usage Of the best English
speakers and writer's. A dialect is a local de-
Walton from correctness of speech, and any
American dialect has no more claim to be cor
rect English than the dialect of Lancashire or
Yorkshire or Galway Cork. It is possible
that the best English is spoken in Dublin, but
neither Dublin nor London can dictate how the
English language should be spoken and written
There is indeed much that is vigorous and
expressive in American slang, but slang is in
its very nature something different from the
speech of the educated. Peculiarities in the
use of words cannot constitute distinct
language If Americans profess to speak and
to write English, it must be either good or bad
English
There is no American language; and there
never will be such thing, in spite of the pre-
diction of Professor Scott
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
Economic, but Not Too Much.

New York Times: 1t is more than
little confusing to the public to re-
ceive alternating exhortations, now
to rigid economy and now to go on
spending money about as usual. The
inconsistency is more seeming than
real, however, or at any rate it can
be removed by a little real thought
on the subject. That everybody
should be more careful in all of his
or her expenditures at this time than
usual is true, but care means. not
what the tariff makers used to call
a horizontal reduction, but one that
discriminates and has due regard to
consequences. The economies should
be in the. use, and that means in
the purchase. of things that are high
priced because they are scarce. It
puts nobody out of work to simplify
down somewhere near to the necessi-
ties what is bought for the table, be-
cause, in spite of all we can do in
that direction, the prices OF food will
remain high, and, instead of discharg-
ing their hired men, the farmers will
continue to cry for more Of them.
The case is quite different in regard
to most manufactured articles, for
there sudden diminution of demand
means commercial and Industrial
troubles of the severest sorts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
Why Daniels, McAdoo, ct all

jefferson Bee: At this time when
President Wilson is asking of con-
gress unlimited men, resources and
authority to make our armies most
efficient and congress and the people
are responding with unexampied
patriotism in furnishing our COM
mander in chief with all that ne
wants, why does he retain as his cab
met advisers and chief executive Of
ficers such weak individuals as Dan
iels, McAdoo and others who might
be named?
The Bee has recognized no polite
al distinctions in our national at
fairs SO far as the conduct Of the war
is concerned. We don't care whether
a man is republican or democrat,
so long as he is the most efficient
man for his post. But we do object
to muddlers and incompetents, with
which the cabinet is now VIGOROUSLY
overloaded Daniels is without the
first symptom of fitness for the all
important job he holds. The same is
true of other cabinet members.
though in lesser degree. In this
crisis the national government ought
to recognize nothing but sheer merit
and capability 1t ought to be man
aged as great business would run
its affairs. President Wilson is a
great head to the concern. There
are none better. But he cannot do
it all The head Of great business
enterprise surrounds himself with
the ablest assistants that can be had.
A mans tenure Of position depends
upon his ability to deliver the goods
and upon no other consideration.
This is the rule of efficiency. Poll
tics ought to be forgotten now, and
the incompetents should make way
for men of real parts in our govern
ment affairs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
Time and a Free Press.

Senator Vardaman: Mr.. President,
it is my deliberate judgment that in
abnormal times, such as in the provi-
dence of God our beloved country is
passing through today. the freedom
OF the press-the privilege of the
newspaper to criticize and discuss
the acts OF officials, to spread broad
cast proper news, to furnish the
forum In which suggestions may be
made touching all public questions,
to promote discussion, and In that
way encourage the attrition of ideas
and the friction of suggestions, which
alone make it possible for the eternal
truth to be evolved-is vastly more
necessary than in normal times,
when the current of affairs moves on
without a ripple.