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Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

The particular feid Of which I have
 spoken Is ,an out1ier, not joined to his ether holdings. It Is much nearer me
 than his own house: was once in fact,
 1t will raise corn: I think 1t can be
 made to grow potatoes. ftlsre is one corner which I suspect might do well for cabbages, and another where beans ought to do something.-if can keep
 the woodchucks down. By the way, right here, a rather large bean grower at the other end of the county told
 me, during a, recent jury foregather- common salt together, put 1t wer down in every woodchuck hole. and never had any trouble from the pests in his beanyard So am planning to put the larger half of this lot into corn, a corner into cabbages and an other corner into beans, and the reai- due into potatoes. am also planning if we can find the time, to blow up g. small back pasture lot of my own and SOW it to buckwheat.
 My idea is, that can undoubtedly sell all the cabbages and beans can get at a good figure. Same with the potatoes. The corn, husked and crib bed but not shelied, will make a sat isfactory grain ration for farm horses during the winter, fed on the ear. The buckwheat, mixed with some of the corn, shelled and cracked at the local grist mill will make a. tolerable poul- try food. s.es
 Last, winter, when my hens were laying but few eggs and my horses doing nothing but eat their heads off in the stables, had to buy grain for both at constantly rising prices.
 Next winter if my plans work out right, shall be able to carry them through without having to rob. my own table in order to feed them. Nor shall I have to sell them off because can't afford to buy their rations.@
 Not only that, but, by this making reeds. I shah release for the. use of some more needy fellow-b the few tons of provender which, otherwise. I should have to take out from the worlds scanting supply. The idea is both to save money for myself and, ae the same time, save food for others who may need 1t more sorely. It is a rare thing that a man can, at one and the same time and by the same operation, serve his own selfish ends and the cause of his fellow men. It Is truly killing two birds with one stone,-a saving in ammunition and an increase in the food supply.
 According to all reports, the whole world etarngfy faces a food shortage which threatens to come close to fam inc proportions. Twenty-Five million men have been removed from the fields of production and turned to the abor of waste and destruction. At he very moment when the greatest demand of history rises before the world, twenty five millions of it's able bodied producers are taken forcfbly ! rom the tasks of supplying its need ] and devoted to increasing that need. l t is really net loss of fifty millions ] Q the world Not even modern civ 1 lization can stand such a catac9ysm. 1
 Yet we farmers of the eastern | ytates can do very little towards re- | olenishing the worlds depleted gran tries. We haven't the fields; we | laven't the soils; we haven't the labor. | We can't raise wheat by the square nile and corn by the solid county as ' hey do "out west-'' As in the past
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
ROCKVILLE

The evangeiistic meetings arc bsinr continued this week. Rev. c. B. Shaw Of Ashaway is assisting the pastor. Rev. I. L. Cottrell.
 Mrs. Carleton, who has been III for several weeks, is reported as gouss- what better.
 J: P. Greene. who has been eonf4ned to his home by illness the past week is gaining.
 Miss Frances Barber of Woody Hul was a. recent caller on hifss Tlorsnce Barber.
 The cold weather is not favor able to farming.
 Elisha Burdiclc and family Of rvYezt- erly were in this place Sunday.
 Carleton Smith of Westerly wzz a caller at Woodcrest Sunday.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

| piles between Cape Cod and Portugal.
 We'll, in this state of things. I vel comed the chance to get the use Of a | few acres more land to work and a. 1 few. more loads of manure to turn in 1 to rationsf for somebody
 1 My neighbor is a city man, who does business and gets money in the city
 and comes up here only for vacations and summer rests. He has the prev alent city idea that farming is noth- ing but merely blowing and seeding,- and selling the crops. He has the also too prevalent city idea that urban in- telligence Is a degree finer than rural, and that metropolitan business acu-
 men, cant help but prove a ducat-
 producer in the country. as well.
 In the last few years, he has had
 several severe shocks to this placid self esteem. He has tried to man age'' his farm from his city office, buy ing his supplies, even his horses, etc, in the city and sending them out. He has had a good and faithful farmer on the place, but restricted the mans freedom of operation in many direc- tions; has furnished him with tools and supplies, not such as the peculiar exigencfes of the farm called for, but such as happened to strike his own fancy: has sometimes kept the man waiting weeks for decisions, when the season wasn't waiting a minute: has made 1t a regular practice to call h&cn the I3T11 WO1k when was most pressing to shave lawn or trim a hedge, and to take the horses from the he1d whenever he. or any of the fam fly wanted them to drive. He has bought costly and wholly unsuitable tools because some other ''city far mer" recommended them, and has at the same time compelled his manager to borrow from the neighbors scores of the common, everyday appliances which every practical farmer wants at his hand.
 As a result of this sort of thing, his farm hasn't been self supporting and he declares that last he's got sick of paying out good money to chase bad.
 So he has put care-taker on his place, and has offered his farm "on share to anybody who will work it |
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
ROPKINTON

The community social was held Wednesday evening at the home of George T. Kenyon.
 Several of the townspeople have at tended court at Westerly this week in the auto accident case Sisson vs. Mills in which the little son of MT. Sisson was struck and killed. as he ran in front of MT. Mills machine.
 Many of the people of Ashaway have attended the tabernacle services in Westerly and received Q blessing in their spiritual experience. The cold wet weather the first of the week. has delayed operations and very little planting is done yet.
 4 large number of taxpayers ap- IsrgE fHzsErre t51e G,z11.zzEl1tse oln rE-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

Naturally, am going to work every last square inch of my own gardens tc the utmost, this sea son. I am gO- ing to go the sfntensest of intense cui- tivatior; going to utilize waste cor ners; going to force crops when pos able; going to double production wherever feasible. I am going to do this, not only for my own sake be- cause Of the increased sales which seem likely. but also for the sake of the great big world wffose people have been brought close to the verge of actual famine by the combined say agery of q Prussian hyena and . HapsbUrg hog.
 What little I can do in the way Of supplying the world want will, in very deed be little. It will be less than a drop in the bucket hardly better than 2 drop in the ocean But even the Atlantic is nothing but a huge con denSation of single drops. Little drops Of water" etc: you remember the old Sunday-scho hymn? We're all of us little fellows in our relations to the human mass, and the utmost that any one can do Is but a. seeming y, negligible trife, compared with the swelling ocean of world-need-
 Which doesn't in the least excuse any one of us from neglecting to do his full and honest share. One drop of water would scarcely be missed from the ocean. But if all the drops which compose it's heaving mass should ne
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
Washington County, R. !.
RICHMOND

E. A Whitford of Exeter was through this vicinity Wednesday, driV- ing a herd of stock purchased in Ston- ington.
 Mr. and Mrs. John w. Smith were business callers in Hope Valley on Thursday.
 William Woodmansee, while cutting wood for Samuel James. cut his foot badly with the axe. He is now quite lame.
 John M. Phillips has been blowing for Mir and Mrs John Beverly on the old George VNOodmansee place.
 A party of fishermen from Provi dence were callers at the Moore home stead Sunday and Thursday
 Ralph Moore has been working for Wendell Phillips a few days
 Everett Moore was in Hope Valley "Wednesday
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
COVENTRY
Patriotic Addresses at Flag Raising Johnson Grant Marriage - Special Church Meeting.

A large company gathered at the church lawn last Saturday afternoon for the flag raising. Miss Rosalie Clement raised the flag, while the Star Spang!ed Banner was sung. MT Gif- ford of Ellington made an address, touching on several subjects, including food production, and w B. Hawkins, subject was Patriotism in Safety and Danger. There were several recitations by school children, all closing the eX- trcises by singing America.
 Johnson Grant.
 Harold Johnson, son of Peter John son. and Miss Blanche Grant were married by Rev. Harold $. Winship at the parsonage Saturday afternoon.
 Miss Hattie M. Hawkins entertained a company of young lady friends Mon day afternoon and evening in honor of her 21st birthday.
 Church Meeting.
 4 special church meeting was hsld Tuesday evening to hire the pastor for another year at an increase of salary and to elect a Sunday school superin- tendent in place of Robert w. Pitkir. resigned. Emil J koehler was elected sI1perintendent and Miss Esther Ninton assistant.
 The Ladies society gave a miscel- Ianeous supper and entertainment on Wednesday evening
 Mrs. Charles Smith of Manchester is spending the week with her mother, Mrs. L. J. Loomis
 Mrs. B. 0. SpauldinS of Norwich Is visiting Mrs. c. R. Knight.
 The grange meeting was held Thurs day evening.
 Mrs Arthur Shepard, who has been spending three weeks with her par ents. returned Friday to her home in Hamden.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

the world will have to rely on the corn belt and the wheat. country for it's main, supply of the most needed cere-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
UsoUEPAUGH

Ralph Denhan1 spent 6unday 4z Providence.
 It Is reported thGt enc of the 1nea1 farms Is sold to Providence purcazs- CTS.
 Richmond grange held a suppar Wednesday evening.
 Mrs. Cole has come Ao her honas hsra for the summer.
 Mfr. and Mrs. s. T Brown of Hrlls- fAee WEe czz1Az=Iz IzA EnEzE
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

vision of taxes at their recent r,sstA,e seekln~ abatement of the taxes as- sessed against them last August, f5fz
 as mat committee Is not a board ,5F telet only to correct errors made s,. the assessors, they failed to xat nr, relief from that source. PraEz1sig Essn, or them will be heard fr0rzs ak che E-- nual financial town meeting 1ez-, 7Fs-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

So he has put care-taIeer on his place, and has offered his farm "on shares" to anybody who will work it
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

the world will have to rely on the corn belt and the wheat. country for it's main, supply of the most needed cere- als. | But that fact doesn't excuse us from
 doing the little we can to help The English soldier is fond of saving that he wants to do his bit.' What does one soldier amount to against an on sweeping horde of savage enemies? But ten thousand such soldiers, each
 one doing his apparently insignificant
 bit" combine to make a line which
 not only stands firm against assault but, later, is able to chase the torn
 and decimated foe back to his de-
 lenses and hunt him out of them.
 Almost every one of us eastern far
 mers can do his bit" if he will, and
 If he can be made to appreciate the
 effective value of a great many such
 bits combined into one aggregate.
 We can, at least, supply a much
 larger proportion of our home needs,
 during this war, than we have been
 accustomed to do We can grow enough corn and buckwheat and oats for. the hens and the horses and the cows. Probably some of us can grow rye and a few can produce wheat. In small quantities, of course. Not enough to think of sending to Europe or even to New York. But enough to reduce to minimum the amount of these same things which. otherwise,
 western If a million eastern farmers saved only an average of $50 a year each in the amount Of provender bought for home use. next winter, the total would farmers but actually added to the supply of those who must buy because they have no land on which to pro- duce.
 We've talked this over, before, as general proposition. Under ordinary conditions. I don't know how many of you have agreed with me or dis agreed, in the past. Nor do care much. Present conditions are differ ent and threatening.
 Don't you see, fellow farmer on some backroads, hillside farm, that every year or two, means dollars worth of feed taken from some one else? If you didn't buy it, 1t would go else where. Probably to some one who can't possibly produce anything eat
 You and l can. with ordinary luck. produce enough on our own little farms to cut down if not to quite cut out the cost of tboughten feeds
 With grain as high as it is now = and every prospect of its going still higher.-to do so would seem a mani fest teaching of common sense esJn- omy.
 But to do so also means d distinct and direct service to the cause. of civ ilizatfon and the welfare of a strug- gling world.
 Today, as never before, and. let us i hope, as never again, our own inter ests, our patriotism our humanity l mbine to urge us to the fullest use 1 of all the opportunities at our dispo- l sal toward the rationing of the world |
 This one line which has been sug- <GSted IH ar1r-f., ;3sI Is not. Many a nickle makes a | nuckle. And the widows mite weighs l heavier today and has for nineteen 1 hundred years. than all the saekeIs l which Pharasaic wealth has poured bv bushels into the same treasuryi
 .-..- TIFF, T7A F2MFSE
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
EVERY LAND cuLT1vAToR DOES HIS BIT

cwFitten specially for The Bulletin.)
 I was glad, when one of my neigh hors got "cold feet last winter and decided to make no attempt at farm ing, this season, to take over rom him one of his fields, lon shares"
 My own avaifa bie acreage for blow ing purposes is limited. So also is my manure supply. This neighbor had a rather good field under the blow. last year, and he had twenty or thirty loads of manure at his barn, which were available for that particular field, if chose to take it.
 For himself, he had about come to the conclusion that he couldn't afford 10 continue spending money like water on his farm and getting money off it only in inappreciable driblets. If would take the heFd and plant it to anything chose, in order to keep the weeds from oyergrowipg it, he'd be glad to have me.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
Holland County
COLUMBIA

Whist for Red Cross Benefit-Hone Guard Off7cers-Town Can Give storrs Chapter Points or Red Cross Organization. -..-r ---e e.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05
Another Road Runnino.

Although that Berlin to Basdad railway scheme has failed, the world is glad to know that the Siberia to Russia special is now running on schedule tjme.-Wash1ngton Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

g1ect to join it when their time came, we might soon be raising onions on the Grand Banks, or driving automo- biles between Cape Cod and Portugal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06

the Young Men s Christian association
and private schools conduct evening
classes i'll technics, languages, account
ancy, stenography and typewriting, and
the usual high school studies.
Notwithstanding the drafts for mill
tary service, practically all schools in
Washington show an increased enroll
ment this year. This is due to the
great influx incident to the war. Ten to
twelve thousand new clerks and other
employees have been appointed in the
departments and this great civilian
army is being added to daily. Stem
ographers and typewriters and mechan-
zeal craftsmen for the service general
", and what are Known as schedule
clerks, index and catalogue clerks,
clerks qualified in statistics or account
ing, and clerks qualified in business
administration for the office of the ord
nance department Of the army are in
demand.
The representatives of the federal
civil service commission at the post
offices in all the cities are receiving
numerous inquiries from persons who
wish to be at the seat of government
at this time of big events aud to have
a part in the actual administration OF
the government $ great business. Won
EN- are finding in this office work an
opportunity to ''do their bit in a very
practical wav
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
If BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat less meat and take glass of
Salts to flush the Kidneys
Drink plenty of water.

Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys,
they become ovcrworkcd; get sluggish,
ache, and feel like Jumps Of lead The
urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is
irritated, and you may be obliged TO
seek relief two or three times during
the night. When the kidneys clog you
must help them flush off the body 5
urinous waste or YOU III be n sick per
son shortly. At first you feel dull
misery IN the kidney region, you suffer
from backachc, sick headache, dizzi-
ness, stomach gets sour, tongue coated
aud you feel rheumatic twinges when
the weather is bad
Eat less meat, drink lots of water;
also get from any pharmacist four ounces
ct Jad Salts; take tablespoonful
IN q glass Of water before breakfast for
few DAYS and your kidneys Will then
act fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with litlIia, and has been used
for generations 20 clean clogged kid
ncys aud stimulate them TO normal ac-
tivity, also to ncutraliZe the acids in
urine, 50 il no longer is source of irri-
tation, thus ending bladder weakness.
lad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in
iurc; makes q delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone
should take nov and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active. Druggists
here say they sell lots of Jad Salts ia
folks who believe in overcoming kidney
trouble while 1t is only trouble.-Advt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
RULING PLEASES
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
Limit that May Be Issued to Men of
Draft Age to Be Raised-Companies
Not to Assume War Risk

difficulties which life insurance I'M
derwriters have experienced during the
last few months in placing policies with
men under 81 wears of age will be
eliminated partially when a new rul-
ing of the large companies goes into
effect soon. Atithe Isesert time there
is 4 limit Of $500 IN al single men
and 5000 for malrie3, men ii they are
within the draff fge, 7 srhtv -hfvc fur
Their been subject to an addition of
$500 to the regular premium on each
! , 600 for the first year and whatever
the companies elected to charge after
that. It is now proposed to raise the
4 limit, but companies will not assume
war risks. If policy holders are drafted
or enlist they are entitled TO the new
government insurance and il they 20
+ to war under the new regulations they
will be returned all premium money
paid into the companies, or if they are
able to pass the examinations upon re-
turning Will be privileged to renew
4 their policies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
CIVILIAN ARMY OF CLERKS.
Many New Ones Being Taken on Each
Day in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-To the
Young man or woman who seeks to OBJ
tain college degree and a livelihood
at the same time, no city in the coun-
try offers an opportunity more attrac
tive than that TO be found in the ma
tional capital. The several luniversi-
ties at Washington provide evening
classes with hours arranged convenient
lv for government employees, who or
dinarilv complete their days work at
i.30 and all Libraries, including the
Library of Congress, arc open at night
For years thousands of young people
have entered the civil service at Wash
/ ington with the main idea of devoting
three or four years to equipping them
selves for professional or scientific
career while supporting themselves
Many of the young men live at fra
ternity houses, comparatively conducted
thereby lessening the living expense
also securing place where they car
entertain their friends.
In addition TO the university courses
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
SCHOLARLY LECTURE
LARGELY ATTENDED
Christian Science, a Religion of Right
Thinking, Subject Presented by
C. w. Chadwick.

Clarence w. Chadwick, c. s. B.. of
Omaha. Neb., authorized lecturer of the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Of
Boston, delivered scholarly lecture be
fore large and interested audience
in the Auditorium last evening. His
subject was Christian Science: A Re
ligion of Right Thinking, and the speak
er was introduced by John L. Lawton
Mr.. Chadwick said in part:
Mrs. Eddv's vision of the Christ not
only healed her Of the effects of So
called fatal accident but enabled her
to reach a purified mental height, where
she could spiritually discern the deep
things of God and give them to the
world Her whole earthly life, from
| childhood, was one continuous search
after spiritual things. She forsook all
to follow Christ, and behold the result
discovery which is bringing untold
| blessings to the entire world.
Mrs. Eddy, as the Discoverer and
| Founder of Christian Science, fought
the good fight and bravely won her
! laurels. Her works which have fol
! lowed her have proved her one of the
greatest Of religious Leaders and Teach
erS.
1t was III the year 1900 that Mrs
Eddy made the all-important discovery
that all causation was Mind, and every
effect a mental phenomenon (Retro
spection and Introspection, p. "a.
BY Mind she means not the carna
or mortal mind which is - enmity
against God, but the one infinite, 81
preme, governing intelligence of the uni
verse, eternal and Interchangeable
Jesus was man actuated by spiritua
ideas. He was the perfect example o
a right-thinking man. 1t has well beer
said that ideas are the great warrior
of the world. All the good and grea
things IN human history have beer
achieved through the activity of som
grand idea The primary mission o
Christian Science is to acquaint humani
tv with God through the medium o
right ideas.
Thousands of witnesses i'll all part
of the world Will testify under oat
that Christian Science has healed ther
OF so-callcd incurable diseases. The ev.
dcnce is overwhelming that Christia
healing is today an established fact j
the world.