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Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Richards -Mahr Enqaqement.

The following item announcing the engagement of Tyler c. Richards, for merly of this city, appeared in recent edition of the Boston Globe:
 Announcement was made last night of the engagement of Miss Am7lie c. Mahr of Arlington Heights, well known in Boston musical circles, to Tyler c.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
NORWICH MAN IS ORDERED TO REPORT
Andrew Ii. MiIlea Will Train at Cor.
 nell University.

Tuesday evening Andrew H. Millea of 357 Main street received instruc- tions from the office of the chief of thu signal corps to apply to his local exemption board for induction into the military service. He is then ordered to repor. at the School for Military Aeronautics at Cornell University, Ithaca. for training as photographer. Mir. Millea has had several years 'ex- rerience as a photographer. He ap- piled for transfer to the aviation corps last summer.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
TAFTV1LLE
Boy Scouts Distributing President's
 Flag Day Address--ViIIase Notes.

Tuesday, in spite of the storm the local Boy Scout troop were busy dis tribating President Wilson's Flag Day address which was delivered in Inde- pendence Hall in Philadelphia last spring. This is the first service which the Scouts have been called upon to perform since they have been enlisted as official news dispensers.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
ERROR IS FOUND
 IN PLAlNTiFF'A APPEAL
Supreme Court upholds the New Ha.
 ven Road in New London County Case.

Five decisions of the supreme court of errors were handed down in Hart ford Tuesday. They included the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road against Benjamin A. Armstrong and others, a New London county case. Error is found in plaintiffs appeal and no erfor in defendants appeal The case was tried by Judge sShumway
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
COUNTY AGENT WARNER 3
 ATTENDS CONFERENCE.
Many Important Matters Brought Up
 for Discussion at Hartford.

County Agent F. c. Warner of this city on Monday attended a county agents convention in Hartford, when number of important matters were discussed: Among the more important matters was that of cooperation with
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Prosper Lurette and James Poyerd nave returned to Fort Terry after spending few days at their homes in the village. -'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Worknien have been engaged for the past few days have been replacing the broken fiashboards on the mill dam
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
MARRIED

LoHsE-AyERY-In Norwich. Jan. 1s, 1918. by Rev. Herbert J. Wyckoff. Miss Lena Estella Avefy of 104 Franklin street. Norwich. and Hugo Henry Lohse of Rock Island, H., U. s. navy
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Lieutenant Christiansen, of the Ger man Naval Reserve, under whose command the attack upon the Scan dinavian convoy was recently made, has received the Order Pour le Merite.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

MT. and Mrs. Joseph c. Johnson Of Stamford have returned after spend ing the weekend with friends on North Main street. |
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Miss Agnes Ravens of Westerly is spending a few days, wit hfriends on Prospect street.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

The mill workmen have been cutting
 ice on the ponds but have had to aoandon operations owing to the snow.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Villaae Briefs.

The seventh grade of the weuuonnoc school attended the manual trainine class at Broadway school Tuesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Comparisons. | Predictions for Tuesday: Fair, snow
 at night. Tuesdays weather: Snow followed
 by clearing.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

MT. and Mrs. John Wiedwald have returned to Hartford after spending q few days with relatives in the viii lage.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Personals.

Joseph P. Dubrowski of Hartford was recent visitor in the village.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Richards, who achieved distinction as tennis player and is now connected with a Boston advertising business. The ceremony is to take. place next Saturday evening at the home of the brides mother, Mrs. Ella Mahr, at 3f .Efmweod street.
 E. Miss Mahr's grandfather was court physician to the Grand Duke Adolph of Nassau and her father was a pupil of the great Joachim an dlater in charge of violin courses at the New England Conservatory of Music. He died four years ago.
 Miss Mahr was educated at the Rox- bury High school and at the conserv- ,atory. MT. Richards is of Norwich,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Conn. He is now a member of the naval reserve corps. They will live in Arlington. ~t
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23

Thomas Houlihan'is is confined to his home on Central avenue by illness.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Sun, Moon and Tides.
GREENEv1LLE

Six hours after high water it is low tide, which Is followed by flood tide.i
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Remnant Week Specials From Several Departments
Stationery Department

Odds and Ends and Miscellaneous Goods of which we have surplus to be disposed of before inventory. Writing Paper and Corres- pondence Cards, ,soiled boxes, regular prices 25c to 42c- Clearance price ............ 19c Highland Linen Writing Paper in one quire boxes, 24 sheets and 24 envelopes, five different styles. regular price 35c-Clearance price ........ 29c During this week we offer a choice Of our entire stock of Popular Copyright Books, fully 900 titles, by the best known authors, regular price 60c-Clearance price ........ 5cc
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
$1.Oo Hand Bags, 69c ,

Women.s Leather Hand Bags. some show signs of being handled, reg ular s1.00 Bags at 69c each.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Toilet Goods

Talcum Powder, corylopsis,
 lilac. arbutus and carnation, value 1Oc--Clearance price 7' Bath Soap. round cakes,
 value 1oc---CIearanee price .. T Imported Spanish Castle
 Soap, regular price 15c-
 Clearance price ............. f2 P. & Ms Lsterated Tooth Paste, value 25c--Clearanee
 price .....'. .'........... 1z Hair Brushes, solid wood backs, with genuine brfstles, value 5Dc-Clearanee price .. @
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-23
Our Bullgtill,
THE WEATHER.

Nerwieh, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1e1s.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
NfUDDLING

NF course, the newspaper or in
u dividual who has the temerity
event to express difference of
opinion regarding any feature of the
present administration at Washing
ton will be accused in certain
quarters of lack of patriotism, but
unless there is quick change of
front regarding many things that
affect the interests of the people,
there will be a whirlwind of protest
before the year is much oldor.
It is perhaps reasonable that the
enemy should be given no comfort
through criticism of military effort
or lack of preparation, but when 1t
comes to civic administration, as in
the case of the revenue measures
and the regulations growing out of
their enforcement, the people have
a right to be heard. And they are
being heard with great frequency
nowadays. especially with reference
to the muddled interpretations or
lack OF Interpretation of the income
tax features of the revenue laws.
Since the turn of the year bankers
and lawyers and the people gen.
orally have been wondering how they
are to construe certain provisions of
the war tax law and even the spe-
cial representatives of the govern
ment sent out through the country
to help the taxpayers make proper
returns are unable to clear up
mooted questions growing out of the
special tax features imposed under
the war revenue measure.
If 1t is difficult for experts to tell
wha. law means and what is re-
quired Of the people, how under the
heavens are the people themselves
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
STAND BY HOOVER
PRESIDENT WILLIAM


-)RMER PRESIDENT WILLIAM
n HOWARD TAFsrS endorsement
l. of Herbert Hoover comes at a
time when the federal food controller
is sorely in need of popular sup
port. He has been subjected to un-
mercifully severe criticism at the
hands of the congressional probers
and is in danger of losing that
confidence which the public has
reposed in him. Mr.. Taft points out
that Mr.. Hoover, in accepting the
controllership, was actuated only by
the highest patriotic principles and
that while his orders have worked
some hardship they have been OF
inestimable value in conserving the
food supply not only Of this country
but of the allies as well, and that as
a result the country has been saved
a disaster of the first magnitude.
Unquestionably Hoover has made a
lot of enemies. He has also made a
number of mistakes. But as a whole
what the former president says of
him is true. 1t must not be forgotten
that Mr.. Hoover is a man OF fnde-
pendent means and that he is now
working without salary, save the
dollar a year which the government
allows in such cases as his. AS q re-
suit of his splendid efforts in Bel
gium, where at the outbreak of the
war he saved the people of that
stricken country from starvation, he
became acquainted as no other man
in the world was, or is, with the food
supplies of the world and he early
recognized the necessity Of food con-
servation in this country for the per-
iod of the war. He has done a mar
velous work and has induced the
people voluntarily to do many things
in the way of "wheatless" and
days and the like, which
mandates were requir-
ed to bring about in other countries
at war.
1t is worth while to know that not
one of his acts, so far as the con-
gressional inquiry has developed, is
open to suspicion and that in almost
every instance his Judgment has
proved to be sound.
The opinion of Mr.. Taft is that no
mere personal antagonisms should
be allowed to stand between this ma
ion and the successful prosecution
Of the war, and he chides those who
place their selfish interests before
hose of the nation as a whole. This
S a proper view and If it were work
ID out in practice at Washington,
here would not be so many blum
iers, nor so many little men in big
places.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
ONE IN TWENTY-SEVEN

A SSUMING that the State of
u Pennsylvania has 5000, 900 peo-
pie and that there are 300,-
900 automobiles or trucks or other
motor vehicles, that means one for
each twenty-seven persons, to be lib
eral. And yet it is not one of the
States where automobiles are really
numerous. A year ago it was esti-
mated that there were $500, 900
automobiles in the whole United
States or one to each twenty-nine
persons. That number must have
materially increased in the last year.
just as the registrations at the State
Highway Department showed a gain.
1t may be added that the bulk of
the cars in the United States last
year were owned in the big agrlcul-
tural States of the West and the
group of three States just to the
west of Pennsylvania, which are the
center of the car-making industry.
Some of those States had a car TO
every eighteen or twenty persons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
Over he Toe
t~ Pe~na.

The biggest baby ever born in
Penn Yam, N. Y, came as a New
Years gift to Mrs. Charles Granston.
1t weighs eighteen pounds and 1t is
said Food Administrators Hoover has
already cast a wary eye at Baby
Granston.
Story is told of a Pennsylvania
woman whose son served in the
Spanish War, and whose feats of
heroism she was fond of reciting.
yes, indeed, was one of her boasts,
"he fought in the Battle of Vanilla
and was all over the Halloween
Islands"
Most patriotic hen on record be-
longs to Carl Smith, near Findlay,
Ohio. Recently she stole a nest,
laid sufficient eggs to cover it, and
then settled down for a three weeks
repose. Seven chicks We're hatched
with the thermometer IS dgrees be-
low zero. And she is now starting
a new family.
The wife of workingman in the
Midlands (England) was describing
a quarrel between two other women
and her final comment was as fol-
lows: "If 'er'd said to 'er what 'er
said to 'er 'er'd ave killed 'er or
'er 'er!"
AT meeting at Seward, Neb., the
pastors and teachers of the German
Lutheran Church of the Missouri
Synod in Nebraska adopted resolu-
tions of loyalty to the United States,
and recommended the cessation of
German language instruction in all
parochial schools of the state for
the duration of the war. One of
the leading parochial schools of the
state, located here, will drop Ger
man language instruction tomorrow
and it is expected that other schools
will adopt the same policy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
RAILROAD CONTROL

X OVERNMENT control of the
~ railroads of the country Cd ing
the war will determine once and
for all the question of governm ent
ownership of these great public
transportation agencies. 1t must
nor be forgotten by the people that
the very thing which the law has
prevented-the pooling of traffic
facilities-is now being done under
government direction, with the
result that embargoed freight is
moving with increasing activity
everywhere.
Practical patriotism has been
demonstrated by the railroad Off
cials all over the country. The vol
untary act of the 693 railroads of
the United States in merging their
competitive activities for the period
o. the war and the uniting of all n
one continental system was a fine
exhibition of constructive patriotism
by the great transportation agencies.
Coordination of the nations car
riers was the only solution of the
big problem. Freight congestion
will rapidly disappear under this
sane treatment of an increasingly
serious situation. Thousands of cars
have been saved for general traffic
by the pooling of coal and lake ore.
We must remember, as we go
deeper into the war, that it is not
possible to do in a war period the
things that were possible and :eas-
enable in peace times. Nor should
we forget that the railroad corpora
tions have been hampered almost to
the limit of utter decentralization by
regulations that even the govern
ment found 1t necessary to eliminate
in the interest of the fullest use of
tho transportation systems of the
country.
We must realize-everyone of us
that the United States is in this
war to the finish and that it is in
conceivable there will be no mis-
takes. We are putting the power of
the country in high gear for q
smashing blow at the Prussian
menace and 1t will be necessary for
all of us to cultivate all the patience
possible, even to the extent of al
lowing to pass unnoticed many of
the utterly bone-headed things that
are done in the name of govern
ment. But it can hardly be expected
that people will shut their eyes to
purely political maneuvering under
| FIch conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
WANTED-A PRACTICAL HEAD

"HE conditions which now exist
in the Water Department as a
result of a mistaken policy of
economy are so serious as to justify
the greatest care possible in overcom-
ing a situation which involves peril
for the whole community. The
penny wise pound foolish theory of
municipal administration invariably
leads to trouble and while there may
be temporary popularity in Saving
at the spigot while losing at the
bung" in the end comes adverse criti-
cism, and worse~
In the present instance, the well
fare of the city is at stake and there
ought never again to arise such a
situation as confronts Harrisburg by
reason of the policy of reducing wa
ter rents at the expense of necessary
equipment and expansion of the
pumping and reservoir facilities.
We are assured that every effort is
now being made to place the pump
ing station in first-class shape, but
until the broken machinery shall
have been replaced and the equip
A.nent is up to the requirements the
speople are bound to be more or less
nervous over a possible shortage of
the water supply.
1t is not improbable, however, that
out of this serious development may
come realization on the part of the
people that it is up to them to give a
little more attention to the selection
of proper officials to conduct the nee
essary business than has been the
case in recent years. And the pres
ent municipal body must learn the
lesson right here that trifing with
the vital welfare of the community
will not long be condoned by the peo-
pie.
In the reorganization of the COM
missioners for 1918 the apportion-
ment of duties must be made with
reference to fitness and nothing else.
Whoever is placed at the head of the
Department of Public Safety, which
includes the water works, should
have at his elbow a practical assist
ant who will give his whole time and
attention to the proper supervision-o of
this important public utility. After
the experience through which we are
now passing there will be no excuse
for any further failure and no expen-
diture, however large, is too big to be
made when necessary for the protec-
ton and safeguarding of the health
md security of the community.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03

have been reelected are in some
cases taking the oath in private and
in others are not waiting for the first
Monday of January to come around.
One of the interesting things is that
Judge Robert B. Mccormick, of Lock
Haven, will take two oaths in six
weeks. He was named to succeed the
late Judge II. A. Hall and will begin
his own term on Monday.
There are some suspicious that
ex-senator Walter Merrick, of Tioga,
may take it into his head to run for
Congress.
Representative John Siggins, Jr.,
of Warren, one of the young legis-
lators who made good at the last ses-
sion, will be a candidate for renomi-
nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
Kaledines and the Bolsheviki
BY A. ]. Sack, Director, Russian Information Bureau,
Woolworth Bldg, New York City.

1t is possible that in the fight
against the Bolsheviki Kaledine will
have the backing of all the construc-
tive forces of the Russian democracy.
There was definite report that the
Constitutional Democrats are sup
porting him, and it is not impossible
that he has also the support of all
the Socialist factions opposed to the
Bolsheviki. There was report that
live secretaries of the Kerensky cab
met, led by the moderate Socialist,
Prokopovich, have Joined General
Kaledine, and it is probable that he
also has the support of such prom
inent leaders as Plechanov, Prince
kropotkin, Avksentieff, Madame
Breshko-B o-Breshkovsky, Tseretelli and
others.
1t must be said most emphatically
that Kaledine is not a counter-revo-
lutionist, and his object, as far as we
know, has nothing to do with any
plan for the restoration of monarchy
in Russia. General Kaledine's pro-
gram was fully expressed in his re-
markable speech at the National
the time to make the people of the
United States acquainted with this
document.
General Kaledine was one of the
most impressive figures at the con-
ference. Tall and powerful, he spoke
commandingly, emphasizing every
point of his declaration.
Having heard the report of the
Provisional Government regarding
the difficult position in which Rus
sia finds herself" began General
Kaledine, 1.-The Cossacks of the twelve
regions, the Don Cossacks, the Co.'S
sacks from Kuban, Tersk, Orenburg,
Yaitzk, Astrakhan, Siberia, Amour,
Transbaical, Semiretchinsk, Enissey,
and Ussuriysk, hail the decision of
the Provisional Government to lib
crate itself finally in matters of ma
tional administration from the pres
sure of the various class and party
organizations, which, together with
other causes, have brought the coun-
! try to the verge of ruin.
1.-The Cossacks, who have never
known what serfdom means, the Cos
sacks who have been free and lnde-
pendent since time immemorial, who
have always enjoyed a large degree
of elf-government, who have al
ways adhered in their own life to
the principles of equality and frater-
nity are not intoxicated by the new
| freedom. Having received it anew,
having regained the freedom which
the Cars had taken from them, the
Cossacks, whose strength rests in
! their common sense and in their
sane conception of the fundamental
| principles of statesmanship, have ac-
| cepted the new freedom with dig
nifty and calmness. and have imme-
diately proceeded to put it into life,
| by creating in the first days Jf the
revolution, military committees
elected on a democratic basis, sue
! ceeded in co-ordinating the princi-
pie of liberty with order"
Note-Mr. Sack a few months ago
delivered an address on Russia be-
fore the Harrisburg Chamber of
| Commerce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

B. Dawson Coleman. the Leban-
on iron manufacturer, has been
named as q director of one of the
big Philadelphia Savings funds.
e. K. Morse, the transit expert,
has recommended both elevated and
subway lines to relieve Pittsburgh's
problem.
John A. Brashear, the Pitts
burgh scientist, took time off to
make the New Years address at the
Y. M. c. A.
Samuel Frederick Houston, who
becomes president of one of the
Philadelphia banks, comes of fam
lily long identified with that business.
H. P. Armsby, of State College,
has been elected a president of
the American Association for Adj
vancement of Science.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
The State Press

Intelligent people in France and
Britain discovered long ago that the
German system operates by arousing
all possible internal diSsensions in
every nation at war with Germany.
The American citizen or the alien
who devotes much of his time to de-
nouncing alleged evils here at home
while carefully protecting Prussiant
ism and kaiserism from his venom
should be kept under close scrutiny.
Whether he is actually in the pay of
the kaiser is not especially important.
He is doing and saying what the
kaiser is willing to pay to have done
and said-that is the important fact.
Newcastle News.
Censors of the Public School
Board of Philadelphia are at work
on the German textbooks eliminating
the atrocious stuff that for years has
sung the praises of the kaiser and of
the damnable "kultur" which has
been made the vehicle of empire
building with the sword. But why
bother to scissor and mutilate? Why
not throw the books out altogether ?
Why not, indeed, Danish the study
of German from the schools?
Germany is an outlaw nation. Its
one thought is domination through
brutality. When this war is over Ger
man will not be spoken except
among German people. The Ian
guage will never be heard of in
diplomacy. The world can get along
very we'll without it. Throw it out!-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Meanwhile, the allies must fight
until the military power Of the Teu-
tons is crushed and the kaiser is
ready to submit peace proposals thai
mean something.-Altoona Mirror.
Both Sweden and Spain have has.
tened to show their friendly and
sympathetic feelings for Germany
that of the former almost openly
avowed, and that of the latter scarce
| ly concealed, by their acts of en-
couragement to the false, faithless
and perjured Bolsheviki government
of Russia. Sweden and Spain have
made their choice, so have America
France and Great Britain. When the
| war is ended there will be a frantic
scramble to secure the friendly ac-
acknowledgement of these allies in
whose hands will rest the destinies
of the world. But when those nations
recognize their friends 1t is not like
ly that Sweden and Spain will be on
the list.-Lancaster New Era.
Statistics from the most dependa-
BILE sources agree that the death toll
| in the present war is nothing COM
pared to former wars of any note. II
| has been figured out that the mum
ber of men killed in action or died
of wounds in the present war is al
the ratio of only IL per cent. Al
the battle of Shiloh the Ninth Illi-
nois lost 63.3 per cent; the First
Minnesota at Gettysburg, S2 pei
cent. and the Sixty-ninth New York
1000 out of 1900 in twenty minutes
Lebanon News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03

They have all been making so much
money that the average is possibly
higher now.
But Pennsylvania is doing fairly
we'll to have one car for every twen-
ty-seven persons. 1t means that all
of us will get a ride some time dur
ing the year anyway and that Com
missioner O'Neil will have a constant
flow of money through licenses to
keep up the main highways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-03
COLD CONCORD

Anyway. we're glad the railroads
are to be run by director general
from the treasury rather than by
brigadier general from the quarter
masters department.