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Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26

of making an enrolment of voters.
 Rev. C. W. Wilson of Lancaster N. H., is to preach at the service at the church next Sunday.
 Wheat Fields Flourish.
 Wheat fields that were planted by farmers in towns hereabouts are promising, it is said, a good yield Of grain.
 Rapid Window Opening.
 As a troop train. bound for Camp Devens, was pulling through this city Thursday morning, an enthusiastic se- lective from a town in the Hartford section of the state slammed one of his fists through a window in the car and instantly after his other fist through another window. It surely was warm in those cars-but there are other ways of opening windows!
 Lunches Provided at Worcester.
 Box lunches for the men who left here Thursday for Camp Devens were provided at Worcester. Captain Archi- bald Macdonald having meal tickets for the entire local party
 Joins Quota From Canada.
 Armand Forth Of Granby. p. Q. has arrived in Putnam to go out to Camp Devens with the men of this district today.
 The annual field meeting of Cuine- baug Pomona grange is to be held at the home of Randolph H. Chandler in Thompson on Aug. 9.
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NEWS OF BROTHERS DEATH
 REACHES MAN LEAVING
Israel p. Henries Killed in Action
 Joseph w. Goes to Devens.

A strange coincidence Thursday was the receipt here of a war department telegram announcing the death n ac- tion in France June of Israel P. Henries, whose brother Joseph w Henries. was just leaving with the contingent from this district for Camp Devens. Another brother Stephen Henries, entered the service through the operation of the selective service act last fall
 The Henries are of\Woodstock. Is- rael P. was a volunteer for the ser vice He was well known in Wood stock. where his parents are resident and is believed to be one of the few fighters that this district has sent out that have some degree of Indian blood in their veins
 No details were availabIa here on Thursday as to how Henries met his death.
 Safely oversea.
 A card received here announced the safe arrival overseas of Leon Talbot. who is with a regular army regiment as a volunteer.
 Newsy Notes.
 During Thursday afternoons half holiday members of the store forces of the city visited Roseland park, in Woodstock, and Wildwood park in killingly.
 George E. Shaw presented each of the selected men leaving here for camp on Friday song book, contain ing the most popular of the patriotic songs
 Rev c, F, L. Smith of Lafayette, R. l., is to preach at the Advent church here Sunday.
 Lawrence Perkins, Pomfret, after a year of service on the western front as a Y. NJ. C. A worker, is at Lan- caster. Mass. recuperatins after a gas attack It is stated that a number of Put nam residents are interested in hay ing a kindergarten school established here during the coming school year Registrars of various towns here abouts have given notice of days when they will be in session for the purpose
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A large crowd, including many rel atives and friends of the men. was at the railroad station here Thursday just before Eoon to bid farewell to the contingent of 65 men that went out from this district to Camp Devens
 Women, and some men, wept, as they parted with the brave young men who stood up we'll under the or deal of getting away from their homes and the ones they love. Citi- zens of about all of ARe towns and villages in the distr were repre- sented.
 The men assembled at Union hall at the appointed hour. were given their instructions and allowed liberty for a time. About II o'clock they were again assembled and the roll called As their train was late. they did not get away until 11.45. and it was singin. cheering crowd uaat looked back for the final fiutter of handker- chiefs and waving arms.
 The men went out on a special train that carried more than S00 men from towns along the Midland division to Hartford and beyond.
 During their stay in the hall here the boys were entertained by Miss Viola Kane, Millbury. Mass, with pia- no selections and vocal solos. Miss Kane, who is acting as assistant clerk for the local board, was heartily ap- plauded. The boys joined with her 1 in singing patriotic airs.
 Before leaving the 65 men were out 1 fitted with comfort bags and sweat l CTS by the Red Cross chapters of Put nam and Danielson.
 Their going away from the district will be quickly followed by that of other registered men. A small group | leaves here this morning for Fort | wireless men who have trained at the ] trade school. During the next ten l days groups will leave for Maine, l sachusetts and New York A Thursday call was for If men to go to 1 Newton Mass The district has 16 iyolurteers for this group
 l The list of nf4n who went out on
 Thursday follows:
 1 Samuel Kay Wilfred A Forth, The odore LaParle. Alfred Brunelle, Ar
 chic J. Bourgeois. George E. Fairfield l George Labelle. Napoleon Pelleti@
 Frank Kalbinakis. Harrison F. Smith Rob Roy McGregor. Ernest J. Morin
 Elmer E. Robbins, Boise Manocchio
 Rosario N. Lacroix. Peter E. Gervais
 Elmer Lucier, Alfred Greenwood, -Jo- oCPlA AoouIbs I9NlAuAlb " 1ONiI: NA1StA iCs
 J. Whitney. Clarence A. Pecllham, Jo- seph H. Montie, Thomas Cuff, David s. Peterson. George A. Lachapelle
 Harry E. Torrey. John J. Breayea
 Henry Leblanc Ambroise ]. Laparle Archibald Macdonald, Clifford $. Bo- wen, Ralph Tavel. Walter C. Chand Ter, Martin A. Nelson, Augustus E Racine, Jr. Abram 2. Rainville. Fef
 stratios Xiarhos. Charles W. Stone
 James V. Currie. George R. Johnson
 Thomas Moran, Eddie Y. Nelson
 Charles J, Harris Adrian Breault. .Jo seph W. Henries. Walter F. Bennett
 Asa E. Smith. Harold H. Austin, Will
 fred Gilbert, Joseph Vanasse, Claud A. Adams. Polydor Messier. Walter E , Adams, Francis McKeon, George M
 Jordan, Arthur E. Elliott. Archill
 Touchette, Way Condos, Anastasia
 Naum, Philip Duhamel, Frederick A SrEith. William F Korany. Joseph E , Charbonneau, Henry Labonte.
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 gratulations recently on the able manner in which his department has handled the dangerous fires Of the rast few days. Though at least two of these fires were in the very heart of the business sections and the de- partment was called out on night alarms the fires were handled in q very efficient manner and conquered with comparative rapidity.
 Chief Bourcier is pleased over one feature of the ire-fghting of the past ten days. and that is the splendid wa ter pressure that his men have had to work with. The pressure has been amazingly good and the water supply ample for all needs. Chief Bourcie1 estimated the loss in the Chickerine block fire of Thursday morning. tc building, store fixtures and stock, al about $2300.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26
FUNERAL.
Mrs. Vernon H. WstherslI.


 Funeral services for Mrs. Clara E. Wetherell. wife of Vernon H. WAther- ell. were held at their home on Main street Thursday al 1 o'clock. Rev. J. T. Edwards of the Baptist church officiated. During the service Miss Emma A. Burbank sang Safe in the Arms of Jesus. and Some Sweet Day. The bearers were Frank T. Preston. E. H. Hammett, William J. Craig and Wilfred L'HeureuX. four deacons of the Baptist church. Burial was in Nestheld cemetery A. F. Wood was in charge of the funeIaI arrange ments
 Public Lighting Restricted.
 The Danielson and PIajnfeld Gas and Electric company has received copies of the United States fuel ad- ministrators order relative to the re- striction of street and display light ing. These regulations restrict the use of electric lights in most ways that are unnecessary. The amount of public lighting is to be only so much as may be necessary for safety. and the use of cluster lights for purposes of display or decoration shall be re- duced to such portion only of the cluster as is necessary for safety.
 The use of light generated, pro- duced. by the use or consumption of coal, gas. oil or other fuel. for iilu- minating Or display advertisements announcements or signs or for the ex- ternal ornamentation of any building must be discontinued entirely Mon- day Tuesday Wednesday and Thurs day of each week in New England.
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LYME

Harry Moves has been called to New York to resume his work with a vau- deville company,
 Miss Harriet Reynolds has returned from the summer school at Danbury.
 Ray Harding attended the burial of Howard Reynolds at New Britain on Monday.
 Mrs. Janison of Harrisburg, Pa., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Bill, on Bill Hill.
 C. M Peck is painting the summer residence of Harry Hall of New Lon- don.
 George Ferrer and family of New York are spending the week at the Martin house. a.
 Mrs. Ely and daughter Marguerite are at Hot Springs. Va, for the benefi; of Mrs. Ely's health.
 Farmers report potato blight in many parts of the town.
 Misses Tessie and Grace Harding are spending the week at the west shore, guests Of their sister, Mrs. Egbert Bull. 
 To most mems minds an ideal wife is that of an acquaintance who is said to spoil her husband.
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DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

watchmen on duty there.
 The watchnan arrived first, but up- on ascertaining that Hoey was quiet awaited the arrival of Chief Grim shaw before going to Hoey's room. When the chief arrived and went up to the room Hoey was lying dead, a ghastly sight upon the floor.
 The body was taken in charge by Undertaken Louis E. Kennedy. Hoey's wife is said to live in Woon- socket and he is believed to have a son who is an electrician m Provi dence. Hoey has worked in mills hereabouts for several years.
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OBITUARY.
Helen Burns Clarie.

The body of Helen Burns Clarie. S. daughter of 1r. and Mrs. Thomas C. Ciarie. Of Goodyear. was received at their home in that place Thursday The child. died in a Worcester hospital late Thursday night She was taken i'll with appendicitis last Sunday and was removed to the hospital Mond Roland H. Gray, Second Lieutenant.
 Roland H. Gray, sergeant in the Ninth Separate Separate company, State Guards. will be commissioned a second lieutenant to succeed Irving W. Davis who left here this month to serve in the U. s. Marine Corps and is now in training at Paris Island Sergeant Gray has had considerable military training and his appointment is highly satisfactory to the members of the company. with whom he is very popular.
 Manufacturers Invited to Meeting. In response to a request from a large manufacturing concern, a. meet ing of the Killingly War bureau has 1 been called for Saturday evening at the bureaus office in the town hall 1 building. An effort will be made to ! devise ways and means of, getting ev- cry man and woman in town to work steadily and, if possible, to secure more employees for the mills in town that are producing on government or ders. 1 Invitations have been issued to all manufacturers doing business in this vicinity to be present at the meeting.
 On Brief Home Leave.
 Captain F. P. Todd, M. D., now in the United States service as an army transport surgeon, has been spending a few days between trips at his home in Danielson.
 Heard and Seen.
 A number of Danielson people were lat Putnam Thursday to see the con itingent leave for Camp Devens.
 Sergeant Leon N. Blanchard sent a poppy from France to his mother, Mrs Myrtice E. Blanchard, O. Dayyiile. Miss Beatrice Geer. night operator at the Danielson exchange. is hayins 1 a vacation. .#'
 Henry C. Latour of Fall River was 6 visitor here Thursday.
 Rev. NJ, l. Ginet. M. S.. entertained the altar boys Of St. James churcT at an outing at Old Killingly pond near Killingly.
 Dr. L.. J. Morin has been at .Woon socket this week to attend a meeting of supreme officers of the Union St John Baptist.
 No Appointment Vet.
 No announcement has conn
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for a rest.
 Miss Dora Pinney has returned from a weeks visit in Windsor.
 William Maneggia has returned to work for the Western Union Telegraph company after a weeks stay with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Andrew E. Maneggia.
 Guests at MT. and Mrs Charles NJ. PiEneys for the week end were Mir. and Mrs. Walter Burdett and daughter and I'M. and Mrs. Homer Sanford, all of Hartford.
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through as yet relative to an appoint ment to fill the vacancy in the post mastership at Danielson.
 Mrs. BeKha Lamothe, who has been patient in Worcester hospital has returned to her home here
 Mrs. Fred Dubuc and children and Mrs Frank Mailhot and son Of High street left Thursday for vacation at Oakland beach.
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drill,, fertslized with the same amount of the same sort of manure failed to produce one-tenth the crop I could harvest from it this day. ifsI chose to pull them now.
 There you have it. Seed the same; same; cultivation the same ;-every- thing which can do the same. But the season, which can neither control nor aEect, is different
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26

Cwritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 Of all OUT naturalists,-and by that word I mean students of all natural phenomena, whether living or deadI organic or inorganic,-I Aancy that John Burroughs is the mostcompletely sane and sincere.
 He isn't a naturalist for the sake of what he may write or lecture and the fees he may earn, but because he takes to nature and loves it. His attitude is not a pose. but the frank expression of a rather rare and wholly unstudied love for the things that are natural as opposed to those whicht are artificial or conventional
 He shares with the late John Muir the distinction of deliberately and by choice making his home as nearly in the lap of nature as human frailties and civilized restrictions will permit. His simple place on the bank of the Hudson.-"S Slabsides. .'-is the home of a practical gardener, frutt-gTower and farmer. He doesn't play at country life but lives that life in actual fact, summer and winter.
 That he writes books and magazine articles is due to the fact that he also possesses a unique capacity for putting into words the things he observes and the lessons he learns. He sees about 'steen times as much in his out-doors as you O. ] would see. In addition, he Is able to tell what he sees so clearly and 90 interestingly that you and l and ten thousand others read 1t with syidity.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26
Nature is Capricious, Unequal, Incalculable

found so much confirmation as is con- tained in the paragraph quoted above from the sanest, oldest, and most trusted of all Americas nature stu dents.
 Though in it's larger revolutions the memorable wheel turns true and can be reckoned on always to return whence # started. yet fin detail and within narrow limits, Nature is un- equal, capricious. incalculable."
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26
BOLTON
Gifts and Allotment of About 200 Books for Library-Recent Visitors.

Bolton library has recently been pre- sented books from the estate of Miss Elizabeth Steele of Springfield, Misses Martha and Etta Patterson, Miss Hell en Berry, William B. Trowbridge of Hartford, MT. and Mrs Charles Alvord of Torrington, and with those coming from the state will make about 200 ad- ditional books.
 Miss Annabel Post is home from a six weeks stay in Manchester, where she was staying at the old homestead
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PUTNAM

Crowd at Station to Bid Farewell to Men of National Army-Mrs. Agnes Lapointe Grennon Committed to Lyme Farm-News Of Buffers Death Tn Action Reaches Joseph w. Hen ries Starting TO Devens.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26

According 70 the geologists, the earth has for nobody knows how many million years been swinging back and forth from one glacial age to another, as the pole has dipped in it's alterna- tions above or below the North Star. They assert that this movement is reg ular, still going on; that, as the earth passed through one glacial epoch ten or twenty or fifty thousand years ago, so it will pass through another. ten, twenty, fifty thousand years hence they don't profess to know just how long it takes.
 Also. as the earth swings annually around the sun, it's calculable orbit brings it from soltice to solstice, through alternating summer and winter
 Furthermore, the pine seed,-if it grows at all-always grows into a pine tree, and the cabbage seed-if it grows at all-into a cabbage.
 Water invariably runs down hill if it is given the chance. and the wood chucks and the rabbits and the bugs eat your clover and your beans and your potato-tops just as regularly as you plant your crops
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DANIELSCN

DeSPondent, Feter f7oey -CutS HIS
 Throat With Razor = Funeral of
 Mrs. Vernon H. Wetherell = Helen
 Burns Clarie Dies in Worcester
 Hospital-Manufactu Invited to
 Attend Conference With War Bu-
 reau:
 Using razor to end his trouble, Peter Hoey slashed his throat in his room at his boarding house in the rear of the Keystone block, Water street, just after g o'clock Thursday morning and was dead before aid reached him.
 So viciously did Hoey cut that his head was nearly severed from his body. Two beds and the sides of his room were covered with blood and ,, there was a large pool on the floor, when Chief Michael Grimshaw en- tered the room and discovered the body.
 Hoey's suicide is attributed to mel anoholia attendant upon his. recover 1 ing from an attack of alcoholism. His successful try for death Thursday morning was not his first attempt to end his life. for he faaped from the fCotbridge over the Assawaga river near the state armory. more than a year ago and was rescued and revived only with difficulty.
 Hoey was a man about 60 years ot 1 age. Recently he has been working | at the plant of the River Weaving company, but on Wednesday, went back to the Danielson Cotton com nany, where he mad previously beer employed.
 Coroner A. G. Bills investigation o1 1 the case on Thursday developed the fact that Hoey was restless during all of Wednesday night and paced his room, which he occupied with another man. His fellow roomer has since stated that Hoey told him during the night that he would die before morn 1 ing. but he did not say anything about killing himself.
 Hoey did not get up to go to worl Thursday morning. and after the oth-
 CT boarders had left he asked a sir living at the boarding house to ge him a revolver. This frightened hel
 and she telephoned for Chief Grim shaw, also sending to the Danielsor Cotton company plant for enc of thu
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Per contra, last summer had fine yield of early summer squash. This summer. with everything about them which I can govern the same, the crop is a fiat failure. shall not have enough to pay for the seed { If basing my action on last sum mer's results, had refused to SOW any more carrots this spring but had largely increased my planting qEssnm- mer squash, where would haveEbeen? In the soup so far as both are con cerned. It is the same with numerous other crops. By beets, onions, cab bages, caulifiowers, lettuce, spinach, spring wheat, etc, are simply fine; far and away beyond the average. My corn, squashes, cucumbers, melons, peppers, oats, grass. etc, are all stunted or thin OF weak and unprom- ising. @
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I've got, this summer, the best car rot-bed ever had in my life The tops are rank and deep green. The stand is as regular as heart could ask Already we have pulled carrots from it bigger than any I dug last year as late as October. And they're still growing,-growing like weeds.
 On that very same ground, last year, the same variety of seed. bought from the same house, sowed with the same
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Now, I'm just an average farmer, and have just average dirt and av- craze weather to work with. There's nothing Iy4sual nor out-of-the -ordi- nar- about anything on my particular place. It's just sample leaf from the big book we farmers are all reading and trying to make. head or tail of.
 You all have the same freakishness of weather the same uncertainty of sea sonal conditions to meet
 Unequal, capricious, incalculable" " Our limits are narrow by virtue of the very environment in which we work. Within those narrow limits that is the sort of thing we're up against.
 If you won't believe me, will you be- lieve John Burroughs?
 THE FARMER.
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Oh, yes, there are a lot of things in Naturey from the procession of the equinoxes down to the buzz of a mos quito which are so inveriable and cer tain that we can and do depend upon them. We bank upon them in advance and build all our plans of work and life upon our confidence in their reg ularity of recurrence.
 But
 Do you as a working farmer. ever know during the spring planting time what sort of a summer it's going to be? You indeed know, with all needed cer- tainty. that there will be a summer of some sort. But will it be over wet or ! over dry? Will it be unusually hot or unusually cold? Will it be a good sea son to raise potatoes or one whose wings will shake blight and bugs and rot over your friends? Will it be right for corn or. like the present. so
 backwar and with such persistently
 cold nights as to endanger the matur- | ing of a profitable crop?
 ] Do you, when you undertake any
 farming work of any sort. have any i degree of assurance or insurance that | it will turn out well? Do you know what seeds Nature is planning a season to suit, and what other sorts she is preparing to bludgeon into failure and unprofitahleness?
 Of course you don't. You make the l best guess you can; you shake up the dice as thoroughly as you're able: you l flip 'em out on the green cloth as de- | bonairly as possible. Then you see 8
 one two three or set of double -sixes just as they happen to fall, and pick ur
 your winnings or pay up your losses
 accordingly. As plain. unvarnishet
 statement of facts, that's about what we farmers all do. We use our ma unrest judgment; we call to our ai6
 the teachings of experience; we sum.
 mon expert aid we do the very best we know how:-and then, after all we have tO trust for results to the
 whims and crotchets and absolutely unforeseeable vagaries of the inyisi.
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bIe, iinscrutable, incalculable and ca pricious opponent. Our judgment. our experience, our technical skill help somewhat; indeed, very much. But they do not enable us to foresee con- ditions nor to insure results.
 We might as hopefully try to. bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion, or guide Arc turus and his sons along the COW path to the woods!
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But the notable thing about his naturalisn is that it is actually nat ural: that it is nothing put on as garment nor adopted as a profession, but is something he was made for and can't help, just as a bird was made for flying and can't help it, as soon as its wings are grown.
 He is undoubtedly liable to mistakes in his observations, being fallible like all others, but he is a keener. a closer, a shrewder and a sharper sighted ob- server than most of us, and his ob- servA ton and his reports of them are as honest as q carpenters square and as implicitly dependable.
 In a recent article in The Century magazine. this veteran student and lover of Nature wrote the following:-
 Our belief in the uniformity of ma ture, or in the unchangeableness of natural law, is fundamental We act upon t every hour of our lives our bodies and minds are built upon that plan. Yet in detail and within narrow limits. Nature is unequal, capricious, incaiculable. Can the farmer always foretell his crops or forecast wet season or a dry? The problem is too complex, or our wits are too shallow.
 Of course this appealed to me, the instant I read it. For have we not, you and ]. over and over again talked together about this very capriciousness of nature. as related to our practical farming work? Have not some of you shaken your heads a little and gently but anxiously,-celled me to ac- count for saying that our calling was really only a gamble? Have not some of you felt that I was talking carelessly if not recklessly-. when I compared our vocation to that Of the gambler? Has it not made some of you wince a little 70 hear another farmer assert that he and you and all the rest of us hayseeds were really engaged in throwing dice with an invisible. a capricious, an in calculabie and a relentlessly regarding adversary
 Well. can you blame me, then. that ! should feel elated when this perhaps somewhat temporarious talk of mine