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Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

The girl who likes to talk hung up the telephone receiver with a sad, pained expression. She sighed.
 Tt was Angelica" she announced. "She says she's dying to see me and is coming over I know what that means! She is not expiring for sight of me at all-what she wants is some one to listen to her tale about her beaux"
 aAren't you interested in your friends?" reproached the patient listen er
 Occasionally" admitted the girl who likes to talk. Friends or foes, it's the rare time when they are thrillingly, actually interesting and you know iti What that girl Ange- lica needs is a sort of photograph arr rangement that would ejaculate at pro- per intervals No! You don't mean it! Did he really? Oh, this is so ex- citing, Angelicai Tell me morei We'll, what did you say to that? Did he! Oh, myl" Then l could finish this ma chine stitching in peace and get my letters. written
 There should be a law against it! Angelica will come dashing in with mysterious lights in her eyes and say that if I guessed a thousand years, I never, never could, guess what has happened to her. Now I loathe guess ing and I don't much care what has happened to Angelica beyond the fact that she stands before me safe, sound and we'll But if I said so 1 wouldn't t be a perfect lady. so I look entranced and gasp, Oh, what has happened to you? Tell mel
 "Then Angelica begins. She simply doesn't see why such thrilling things i are always happening to poor little
 her. when goodness knows she never | flickers an eyelash to attract attention Attention, in fact is very obnoxious l to her. All she wants to do is blush modestly unseen beneath messy
 stone, but what can you do when the men are so foolish and so persistent l Why, she never remembered laying 1 eyes on the man! That shows how
 much interest she took in him. An6 i he described perfectly-perfectly, my dear-just what she had on the three 1 times he said he had seen her. Jus fancy and one staring at you lik, 1 that and you not knowing it, and nt
 doubt your nose was perfectly shin!
 at the time and everything! Did vol
 ever hear of anything more romantic
 And he's the best looking thing | Tall, you know, with keen, piercing eyes and something sad about his ex
 pression that shows how he has live and suffered. And to hear him talk
 It was simply wonderful! About If and destiny and fate and how people,
 paths converge and-and everything
 She knew right away when Mrs. Shit
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
COAL REGULATIONS.

Consumers of coal have been find- ing that they were expected to do next to the impossible for number of months in order to obtain a sufficient supply of fuel to carry them through the cold months. According to. the requests of the fuel administration and their efforts to carry them out they are still of the same mind
 Fuel Administrator Garfield has for several weeks been urging the people of the country to lay in their supply of coal for the coming winter in or der that the domestic demands may be taken care of as early as possible and while transportation facilities can be expected to be at their best. Such is good enough as far as the sugges- ton goes. But what is being done to take care of those who are dis posed to follow the advice and thus help the fuel situation?
 If fuel is not on hand, if orders for only months supply will be taken and if no orders for the winters coal will be booked. how can the fuel ad- ministration expect that the con sumer is going to do his part?
 Such being the situation, is it any wonder that it is considered that the fuel administration is by its rules and regulations simply adding confusion to an already badly tangled up state of affairs? To tell the people to dc something which they find they can not do upon trying isn't helping mat ters very much, and it only convinces the coal consumer that after it's many months of experience the fuel admin. istration hasn't as yet done very much to straighten out the fuel prob. lem. Regulations have been issued 1T great number but when those giver to the people and those to the dealel do not jibe mighty little help is being given to straighten out the snarl
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

taken without any thought of their return. This country has not only agreed to allow Holland a certain amount of foodstuffs, which was done cut of recognition of the hard posi- tion which it has been placed in be- cause of war conditions, but it has made it plain that the vessels will be
 paid for while in use. that they will
 be returned after the war so that Hol-
 land will not be without vessels at
 that time and in case any of the ves-
 sels are destroyed by the enemy or otherwise they will be made good, ton for ton.
 The action taken has been delayed much longer than seemed wise, but it was all out of consideration for Holland and if it looks the matter straight, in the face it must realize that 1t is getting fairer treatment than
 the law requires or than Germany has
 given 1t.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Roads in Preston and Ledyard.

Mr Editor; wovld like to reply to our worthy correspondent from Ledyard in regard to the statement made in The Courier Tuesday, March 26, about Preston roads. Now 1 was always told that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones, and l say this because the roads in his own town are no better than his neighbors. Owing to the inability to procure an aeroplane and the inn passable condition of the roads in our worthy correspondents home town it was deemed absolutely necessary to postpone a session of court that was scheduled to be held on March 26th before 2. Ledyard justice until April 16,- hoping that the roads might be in condition to be passed over without endangering life and limb.
 Now if our correspondent would just kindly set an example for his nearby brethren in road fixing at home, instead of throwing mud at his neighbors perhaps they might be in fiuenced to do some slight repairs to roads in the near future.
 A PRESTON TAX PAYER.
 Preston, April l, 1918. f
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
 CRYING NEED FOR POLICE
 CHANGES,

No one can read the letter of City Attorney Robbins to Alderman Allen regarding the conditions and needs of the police department without reaiiz- ing that he has called attention to one of the crying necessities of the city at the present time. For that mat ter something should have been done several years ago to remedy the sit- uation if the police department is go- ing to be what it should be and per- form the work expected of it. Worn out machinery doesn't keep a factory On an efficient basis and the same is true of every public service depart ment.
 With all due credit to members of the force who lead the list in years of service, for they have been faith full in their duties, it is perfectly ap- parent that younger men are needed. Physical conditions make such changes inevitable. Large corpora tions recognize the value of replacing men who have been with them a long period of time with those who are better able to perform the work and there is no reason why such policy should not be adopted in city matters if they are to be conducted on a bus mess basis.
 Such changes as have been urged have been delayed too long already and it is to be hoped that this effort will be the means Of accomplishfng the much needed better1nent. with proper provision being made for those affected.
 But while attention is being given to the strengthening of the pension fund of the police department il is o1 ? equal importance that the frer,a4asl who are engaged in equally hazardous work should also be provided for Al the present time there are a few thousand dollars which have beer contributed to the department by cit izens in appreciation of the excellent service which has been rendered ir subduing fires and protecting other property, but that is even smaller than the police department has fol such uses and it has no certain mean. of receiving additions as the police pension fund. It is dependent entire. ly upon the generosity of citizens whC are able and disposed to manifes their appreciation of services ren, dered by financial contributions.
 The fire department on the othe hand is not at the present time handi capped by a number of old men. Al of them are active and capable aac such fund is not at the present tirnt needed. but it would nevertheless b, a move in the right direction to mak a start towards the establishment O such a fund for the meeting of tn uituation as time goes along and a The same time, if we have an eiIscier fire department now we should keel It so and improve it if we can. Thos Df such a department have as goo, feason to look forward to a pension during their old days as those of an other department, and in this con nection it might not be unwise if ther was contribution to such a fund eac year by those who have reason tc ex pect that they will be benefited. Sucl fund for the fire department woul serve to bring or retain efficienc there as much as elsewhere.
 The need of the police departmen s by far the more pressing, now an should be attended to as soon as pos sible, but the whole matter ought t set consideration at the same time.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
CELEBRITY THEATRES

CELEBRITY THEATRES, Have Been Built in All National Guard
 and National Army Camps
 in America. 'Smileage Books" issued by Federal Military Entertainment Council, pro- vide free admission to these theatres. Send one to YOUR soldier or to
 ANY soldier.
 Price s1. For sale at the following places: The Porteous & Mitchell Co. The Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston Store).
 Rathbone's Drug Store. Ricker's Drug Store. The Lee & Osgood Co. The Wauregan Hotel Office. Mara & Eggleton. George Madden Cigar Store). Engler's Pharmacy. K. of c. Rooms. c Ring & Sisk, Druggists. The Y. NJ. c. A. Office. II, M. Berou.
 J. c. Macpherson.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Forty miles deep has the wedge
 been driven across the devastated
 fields of France. The apparent in tention is to break through the allied
 line at the point where British and
 French join. and then roll up each army separately. The Junction was
 well chosen as the point of assault, for there the difference in language and the divided command would nat
 ural1y hinder the perfect cooperation to be found in one great army. Once the Germans broke through to Amiens, the great British military base, the allied armies would have lost touch with each other and the entire British force would be shut up in territory half as large as Connecticut and hem
 med in on two sides bv the sea. To
 the German high command the attain | ment of this object was worth the 1 frightful cost in lives The price has
 been paid, the goal has not been ob- l tained.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

anxious sympathizers had feared would never come-unity of com mand! Grand old Britain has. swal- lowed her pride and put her forces under the leadership of the brilliant French commander, General Foch, whom Joffre has called the finest strategist in Europe Strong young America. too. has placed all her avail able forces at his disposal. and by motor-1orry and afoot these troops have hurried to join the great reserve force that the allies are holding ready to strike when the Hun attack has spent it's force. True. the American force is not large as numbers go now- adays, only 100000 or so bat their quality is superb and their spirit is high. The whole world seems to feel that the crisis is at hand. and inspired souls thrill with the knowledge that the forces of freedom and righteous ness are uneonquerable.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

No break has appeared in the line of the allies; instead of that the line has bulged. When the assaulting forces came on faster than artillery and machine guns could shoot them down, the British would withdraw in perfect order. and the French, ever crowding close on the south side of the advancing salient, would extend their line ever westward. At the ex-
 treme north of the battle line on Yimy ridge, taken so glorious1y by the Ca nadians just Q year ago, the British have held firm as a rock. Thus with
 progress denied them in the north and hemmed in by the French on the south, the German salient has grown narrower and narrower in its progress westward and has been spending its force against the ever yielding British right. Not sign of panic has mark ed this long retreat but throughout the long days and nights there have been in evidence quiet confidence in ultimate success and perhaps the most wonderful morale that history has eyer kneWn.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Speaking in the Italian Senate, Sig nor Marconi strongly criticized the working of the Italian Mission in the United States, and pointed out that ther seemed to be an organized cam paign against Italy in that country, in which German agents were probably involved. He emphasized the neces- sity of clearing up all misunder- standings between Italy and the United States.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Now that the decision has been made to build modern road on the east side of the Thames it is to be hoped that 1t will be pushed to com pletion at the earliest possible mo. ment. Early action is necessary to take care of the needs at the subma- rine ., base.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Inasmuch as the Germans with their long range gun killed 75 and wounded 90 in church near Paris Good Friday the kaiser will have greater reason than ever to maintain that he is going forward with God"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

It doesn't make so much difference what the nationality of the guns with which Pershing's men are equipped is as it does that they are sufficient in number and efficiently handled.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

giving the boys in the training camps wholesome entertainment by buying and forwarding bunch of smileage books?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

The man on the corner says: What makes the study of human nature so easy is that specimens are not hard to find
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

If the Germans want the world to stop calling them Huns they are per- fectly conscious of the reform which they must first undergo.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

In the realm of agriculture also there are fSddists and fakers. The wider and more intensive interest in 'rais- ing things" which has sprung up in the past two years gives them an op- portunity which they have not wasted. Ordinarily people would read with
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Holland will not refuse any grain from this country in return for the use of Dutch shipping. Any reports to the contrary can be attributed to German propaganda.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Even though the Liberty loan cam paign is about to open, that is no req son why there should be any let up in the purchase of the thrift and war savings stamps.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Let our slogan be neeforth:-"More action, less talk;~ more powder, less ink; use the transports, not the mails. Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

These are the days when everyone is not only getting ready to buy more Liberty bonds but doing his best to lay in a winters supply of coal.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

The great battle in France that be-
 gan March 21 is still on. So vast are the operations and so extended the front that no distinctive name for the great struggle has yet been found. The foe pushes on. the defenders take
 their staggering toll of German lives, the assaulting ranks refill from the succeeding waves of men, and when
 the ever renewed line is about to
 cverwhelm the gallant defenders, these l retreat to new positions prepared for them in the rear by their own engi- l neer-regiments. Then the whole op- eration must be repeated. Shattered German divisions are withdrawn, fresh l troops are hurried to the slaughter and kultur moves forward over it's own dead!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Those who failed or refused to turn their clock or watch ahead are the only ones who are getting confused over the daylight saving change.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Out of the self sacrifice of sepa- rate companies, the heroic defense of the whole line, the mutual confidence ill the others loyalty and devotion, has come forth what military men have long known was needful. what
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

amusement such a proposal for in- stance, as to raise from 20 to 40 bush els of potatoes in a siX-by eight crib in the back yard, and that would be all Now with potatoes from two to four dollars bushel, they try the fool stunt-mores the pity. Pride makes some experinenters calm success, but the many would testify, if their pride would let them that they did not get back their seed, to say nothing of their other expenses.
 This extreme case applies as well to the raising of potatoes and strawber-
 ries from seed; which is possible but not practicable. If 1t were, farmers would start. their potatoes that way
 for the phenomenon Of the seeding po- tato has been observed for good
 many years. And so long as straw l berries will develop so many runners as to make the keeping Of them with ! in bounds one of the greatest labors 1 of caring for them, there is mighty lit 1 tie use in waiting for seeds to sprout
 and grow.-Hartford Times.
 | It must be confessed that as a
 people we have learned the busi- 1 nes of war with exceeding slow i ness and pain. When soldiers
 fighting men, were the great, all es-
 sential thing We mobilized press
 agents and the established literary i bureaus, instead of transportation depots. Those active little bee:
 might be useful in France. Con
 sress, too, ought to be sent over
 We can spare that aggregation oi political scrappers, contentious dis lputants and hinderers of action. Ex- perience at the heart of things is ar education that everybody sadly needs By all means send Congress across It would be the happiest, and poss- ibly the wisest thing ever done with z Legislative body in human history
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

The limit to the ridiculous is reach ed by Germany calling Russia's at- tention to the violation of a treaty.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
EDITORIAL NOTES

April has made a magnificent be- ginning and the straw hat season six weeks away. -
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
''I SUFFERED
 SEVEN YEARS !"
Was Eventually Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
 table Compound.

Philadelphia, Par suffered for seven long years with a lame back.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

The American public will have to learn that the war news will, blanket everything else. History is being made It is vital. It cannot be ignor- ed The thing which a year ago com
 manded attention are now relegated to the rear because of the overwhelming i potency of the news from abroad. Our high school boys are drilling Our other boys are lover there" in the thick of the fight. If we do not show ! ourselves worthy of them what incen- tive have they to keep. the honor of
 the country unsmirehed?
 1 Looking facts in the face is not the act of an alarrpist. It is mere pat riotism and common sense. We can no longer evade. We must stand fair l ly and sduarely on our own feet spuFning the crutches with which a disloyal element would provide us. The United States did not choose l the role of aggresser but it will glory | in the part of savior of nations whicf
 have borne the burden and heat of tht | day.-Meriden Record. ~
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Just suppose Theodore Roosevelt had been in charge of the aeroplane department Would we not now be humiliated by talk of delay caused by German spies, machines crippled through them and all things hinder ed? Admittedly the Colonel has an exasperating tongue, but he has also other qualities, including the tempera- ment needed to deal with the things that have caused us so much trouble He has a contempt for assertion as a substitution for achievement, and that is something this country needs to be toned up to. It is puzzle and a pity that place has not been found for his particular brand of genius and sefulness.-Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-03

Norwich. Wednesday, April 3, 1918.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-12-20
HAPPY HOLLOW

Amt iledTU nOlillD ITuIl u lei ScN-
long ] guess | will rite an see if u are
still there Reckon u noticed in tn
paper that tn Happy Hollow Ladies
wuZ 10 HAY We a Christmas b Car Over
in White River tn 4teenth. TIL par
sons folks come over frum Wood to
help but some thOt that TIL parsOn
come TO b present an Otticiate at tn
eatin Witch took place up TO Sister
HannaS place over Tia bank. Sister
nouSeman come a luggin some brown
beans which wuz still hot an punkin
pie-(guess they thought 1t would be
in order an a hep site safer to bring
somethin along.) Sis Gal Hugger
brot some reel honestogoodnesS cream
an watermelon pickles-th' reel good
kind like is made in Happy Hollow,
an as Tom Sez: 9TH best | ever
throwed IA lip over" Everbuddy
brung somethin good, tn parson in
cluded-he brung a first class appe-
light. TIL wimmen wuz all buzzin'
ar, und and a talkin an wirkin as fast
as they cood-(Missus kerlin who
lives next door sed she thot there
must be a lot Of Chineesers in tn
next room studyin tn Koran.) Well
they had a reel hOmeSteadin time
settin 2 on a chair at tn table, an
poor little Ruthie Houseman had TO
Git down on her gnees at tn end Of
En- table, there bein no more chairs
an nobuddy to set with. Tn p~reeclIer
wuz in his usual good spirits an went
rite off into "a spassum when that
punkin pie grinned at him. How
mel,ny peeces shell | cut this pie into?
sez Mfssus Gal Hugger. Not very
menny ordered the parson, buryin
hisself in tn folds ov the Millet Coun
Nv Pioneer to fergit his hunger. Lit
tie Ruthie backed off into the other
room to keep from being tramped on,
which sistec Hanna said waSa NIGH
ty good thing fer she hadn't no dust
pan to sweep her up on. Tn preach
ers wife fried steak SO 1t wood be sure
to oe cooked rite, an in a little bit
they had quite a feed dished up:
Sister Hanna ripped open a can OF
sweet taters whitct. wuZ ALREADY COOK
ed an didn't take mutchtime to warm
up an l tnot oy you IN tn time we
entertained yonr swell relations home
steadin style-an wished you Good
have been with us, TO keep TN, con-
~versation frum laggin" as Miss Brown
used to say when she wanted you TO
come over fer chaperone. Sister Han
ma seq they won't ketch her another
time thout seats enuf fer to set on,
an hez put in an order to Mr.. Hodge
fer tn first empty nail keg. Don't
know what she'll do fer a board, but
she'll have one II she has 2 slip out
some mite an pull one often somebody's
shack. Wisht you Good B with US fer
Christmas, l remember what a good
time I had with you folks last year
and l hope you'll enjoy this Christ.
mus fully as much and more.
Yours respectively,
UNCLE RUFUS.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-12-20

ESTRAYED-Thre yearlins heif
ers, one red, two white face, branded
reverse Fand l. connected on lief hip.
Liberal reward for information or re
turn to G.. l.. Bailey, Murdo, s. d.
Sec. 30, i3, 27n.Mellette county. 46 3t
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-12-20

TAKEN up steers an j cow.
Some branded L on left hip. Cow
branded with figures on left side.
Other brands can't be read. Owner
may have same by paying for keep
and this notice. A. Il. Miner, Wood,
S. ID. 80 st
Newport daily independent., 1918-07-19
NE MARK MAY USE
 NEWPORT POWER
Journal Suggests That Matter of Se- curing Power From Newport Be
 Taken Up With Officials.

Since it has been announced that the Arkansas Light & Power Com pany of Newport will supply Tucker man with electric current from the local operating plant, the town of Newark would also contract for the same service.
 The Newark Journal said this week: "The Arkansas Light & Pow CT Company of Newport has taken over the business of the Tuckerman Light Company and will furnish Tuckerman with a twenty-four hour service. Newark people should take up this matter with the Arkansas Light and Power Company for New ark. This is convenience that is greatly needed in this town"
 No steps, however, have yet been taken by Newark to negotiate for the service, it is stated.
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