Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-04

of Norwich's total population attended the New London county fair on Mon day, the second day attendance was far ahead of expectations as over 5000 people attended. which brings the rec ord for the second day up a trif1e. The large attendance was noticeably com posed of. those from different parts of the county who came to see the judg- ing of entries which was completed fair weather, neither too hot nor too cool, and the stands about the ground did an extensive business. Many fa- vorable comments were passed on the exhibitions and probably the one com- ing in for the most credit was the exhibit put on by the New London Ship & Engine company
 The attractions on the stage were repeated on Tuesday with the excep- tion that The Hazeltines. who took the place of the Whiriing Edwins, put on an Australian barrel jumping act that was clever and out of the or dlnary. Mir. Hazeltine did his roller skate jump into a barrel from the high incline without flaw
 On Tuesday Edward J. Connolly sang Mother McCree, When You Come Back and You Will Come Back and l the new Fourth Liberty loan drive , song, Your Boy and My Boy. MT. Ccnnelly's clear tenor voice carried to the farthest corner of the stands and he was applauded heartily.
 James G. Hammond, secretary of the New London Chamber of Com merce and member of the state council of defense was the speaker
 of the afternoon and in his short ad- dress, straight from the shoulder, told | the people in plain English what he 1 thought of Kaiser Wilhelm and his CO., horts in crime and his opinion entire 1 ly agreed with that of his audience as they cheered and applauded the I speaker. Mir Hammond spoke as | follows:
 Friends and Neighbors of New London County: As a member of the state council of defense I want to take counsel with you this afternoon.
 First, let me talk about our state, our Connecticut, the state which we are all proud of and want to support. Connecticut is the arsenal of America and more war material for the great world cause is manufactured here than ir any other state iii the Union. One of the most pitiful stories of the war is
 that of a Canadian regiment that was cut to pieces when the Hun made his advance. The boys of that regiment met death with a smile and a prayer on their lips for the cause Of free
 dom, and now we Of the grandest country on earth are fighting for the same righteous cause. We must sup port the grandest army that the sun
 ever shone upon, the army that fol-
 lows Old Glory. the flag that has never known defeat and pray God she
 never will. This army is going to wir
 2. glorious victory, but while those
 boys, our boys, are giving their al
 we must give too for their support
 The state of Georgia unless she car
 furnish 5000 men for labor in one oi
 her factories will have that factory
 removed. The demand for supplies manufactures but in food. Here ls where the farmer comes in. The far
 mer, the son of the soil, holds the des-
 tiny of democracy in his hand ant
 on his shoulders rests the task O. saving the world from the vile rav
 ages of the f1endish Hun. Our boy! are on their way to the Rhine anC , they'll cross it, too. and then on tt
 Berlin, but it will be the farmer O America who will keep the fires burn
 ing in their bodies. The arch fien( , who heads the German hoard is knowl
 as Kaiser Wilhelm H., but after thi.
 war he will be known as Wilhelm tn
 last and Wilhelm the Damned and , will be the farmer that will do it Tn Connecticut farmer has done a grea
 deal but he can do more and he will l I know it.
 , I am forty years old and was borl v and raised on farm and I have neve X lost my love for the hardy son of tn farm. I know what the farmer ca
 do and it will be ne who will mak
 it possible to whip those damned dir
 ty Germans
 The safest way to bring back ou toys is for us who remain here i h | America to finance this war Th f | boys are not fighting for a decisio = but they are fighting for knockou z and they'll get it. To bring this aSol : we must lend our support. we mus n buy thrift stamps, Liberty Bond. . support the Red Cross and other or = ganizations who are caring for ou boys over there. Millions of mother |, have given their boys but what al we going to give. and give we mus a President Wilson is carrying tn . greatest burden since Lincoln am Q we must stand by him and stick { d it until we get victorious peai
 and for Gods sake, people, help ,4 TOW
  ' most amusement at the ground C
 Tuesday was the OK race staged und,
 the direction of Daniel Connolly. 4
 OK race, sounds about as exciting as
 funeral but the one Tuesday was a ri
 of fun from the moment the beasts al
 peared on the track until they disal [. peared through the main gate at u y, conclusion of the heat The object J. the race was for the contestants e drive their yokes of oxen onto u y track, take off their yokes and tht le at the tap of the bell yoke them I ,, and drive them once around the trac 'k the first one under the wire. winnil IS the money. There were three entri 1e for this race Carl DeWolf, w. or Blacker and M. Brokoff. The n1inu el the oxen were let loose the fun star B. ed. One yoke stood as if hitched b CT the other two yolSes started out or view their new surroundings. T At pair belonging to DeWolfe got aw ls' to good start. in fact such a sta n- that the dr!1er was unable to Ike le; pace with them Nnd had a lead ui nearly a quarter of a mile before t ut other two runaway pairs were yok
 and started on the track One D: w after going short distance shed t ey yoke and did the distance single f ," while the driver of the last pair gra e. bed the tails of his beasts and dro He them like chariot racer. All we
 well with the first pair until they q
 cided on the back stretch of the tra
 that they wers going the wrong W ht and turned into the back gate a of started back the way from which tn ,e, had come. This change of mind ga at the tai1-ender his chance and he ere
 up until he was in the lead before f
 driver of the wsywsrd beasts had s " them back on the track but he V ! far from the wire and oxen are not I