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Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07
CENTRAL VILLAGE

Miss Susan Wilcox was called tc her home in Norwich by the death ot her father. Senator William B. Will
 The Thursday club was entertained a. the home of Miss Lucy Broadhead
 Miss Elizabeth Barber has returned from visit with relatives in Provi- dencc and Washington. R. l.
 William Handy is reported i'll in a Springfield hospital.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Mills of Conf m1cut have announced the enga cement of their daughter. Miss Mildred Mills. to Earl Davis of Manchester, N. H.. well known here. the only son of Mir and Mrs. Arthur Davis of this villa ge
 Mrs. Arnold B. Mathewson and Miss Ruth Mathewson have returned from Brooklne, Mass. where they have been to attend a wedding. spending several days with friends.
 John Fletcher and Miss Clara Fletcher spent Saturday with Provi- dence relatives.
 Carl Trudeau. who is staying with relatives and attending high school, spent Saturday at his home in Moosup
 Miss Rmth Mathewson is substitute teacher in Moosup for a few weeks on account of the illness of one of the
 Mrs. Mary F. Loring entertained the members of the D. A. R. chapter Sat urday afternoon.
 Mrs. Celinda McStay is visiting at the home of her sister in Torrington. 7
 Wilbert Hall. who recently vacated the parsonage and is staying with relatives in Scotland, visited here Fri day and Saturday.
 Samuel Scholfeld. who has been i'll for two weeks. is much better.
 Miss Phebe Barber spent Sunday with Miss Lena Eaton at her cottage at the Willimantic camp ground
 Eugene Gallagher of Blackstone Mass. spent Sunday at thehome of his uncle Edward Gallagher.
 Mrs Harris Reed, who has been very i'll for several weeks, Is able to go out of doors.
 Miss Cassie Medbury spent Sunday at her home in Canterbury.
 Ships deteriorate with age-with the exception of hardshipS.
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GOSHEN

Arthur W. Lathrop of Hartford was home over the week end.
 A good delegation from the Goshen Y. P. $. c. E. attended the union Christian Endeavor meeting held with the Fitchvi1Ie Baptist church Sunday evening, the 18th. The subject for the evening was The Helping Hand. This meeting was the fourth in a se- ries.
 A number of farmers are still using evergreen sweet corn and ripe toma . toes daily fresh from the garden.
 Mrs. Elaine J. Scott of Salem, N. H., is a guest at the home of Philip A. La throp at Walnut Grove farm.
 Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Wall<ingshaw and daughter of Springfield. Mass. were week end guests at the home of w T. Curry.
 There has been no walnuts for a number of years; this year there Is a limited supply of hickory nuts.
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visiting relatives in town.
 Mrs. Hermon Gager and Mrs. Fred Race entertained the members of the Ladies Aid society at Community house Friday.
 MT and Mrs. A. R. Race and daugh- ter Rena motored to Granby Sunday and visited the old Newgate prison.
 Mrs. Hannah Kingsley and Mrs. Grace K. Peckham attended the mis- sionary meeting at the home of Mrs. A. H. Beebe in LeffingweI Tuesday.
 Mrs. s. w. Throop of Lebanon spent Wednesday with Mrs. Grace Peckham.
 Mrs. Theodore Crandall was Will lima ntic visitor Thursday.
 Mrs. Frank A. Redwood entertained Saturday MT. and Mrs. Fred G. Bliss of Norwich, Mrs. Bliss of Berlin. Mass. Miss Miriam Bliss of Boston. Miss Mary White of Los Angeles, Cal, and George BeclSwith of Franklin.
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RAWSON

Miss Louise Anderson of Boston Is visiting at Edward Berggren's.
 Mrs. G. R. Turner. who has been at I. w. Hammond's for the summer. has gone to New Haven.
 I. w. Hammond recently spent sew eral days with his nephew, C. A. Ham, mond, in Springfield. Mass.
 Mrs. Edward Berggren and Miss Louise Anderson were in Willimantic Friday.
 Mrs F. Whitehouse and Miss Rachel Kenyon, who are working in WilH- mantle were a their home here Sun day.
 Miss Marian Hammond has returned home after spending two weeks with relatives in Springfield, Mass. and New Britain. Conn.
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What Is Going On Tonight

Company B. Third Regiment c. S. tG-, drills at the Armory on Pleasant St St Jean Baptiste Society meets at .S7 Valley St
 WiIiimantic Woman's Club meets at iSos Main St Violet Rebekah Lodge. No. 57. l. O. O. F- meets at soT Main St.
 The republican party in this city k~ere successful in sweeping all their candidates into office with the excep rron of George H. Spencer. running for assessor, who lost to his opponent. John R. Pickett. democrat. by T3 votes. The vote for collector of the town Ttaxes was as predicted and was so IclOse that a recount was necessary be- kfore victory was conceded to George A.
 Bartlett. republiAaz, over James J. Hee. democrat Long before the day f1cr voting came both sides were work ing hard for this position. as they real fzed that the hardest fight of the fe4ection would come on the voting for rrhese two men When the vote had been counted Mir Bartlett had 933 fvotes and Mir Lee 930. and upon sec tond count Of the votes Mir Bartlett was tgiven 935 votes and Mir. Lee s30.
 The vote this year was equal to that ? IS blanks were thrown out
 The polls were opened at S o'clock zt the usual place on the second floor of the old town building on Church street The polls closed al o'clock.
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NORTH FRANKLIN

Mrs. William Weaver entertained the Social Corner Sisters 1t her home Thursday with one hundred in at tendance. A lunch of salad. baked beans, sandwiches, cake, pie. coffee and fruit was served.
 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith of New London called on the formers parents, MT and Mrs. William Smith. Sunday.
 Mrs Irving CapweN and daughter Lois of New London are visiting Mrs. HerD.on Gager.
 Mrs F. A. Redwood attended the Social Corner gathering at Buckingham Memorial, Norwich, Thursday.
 Mrs. Lloyd P-Ayer and Mrs. Hermon Gager were Hartford visitors Wednes- day.
 Miss Mabel~DueFr~ has returned home after spending some -time with Mrs Frank Lathrop of Bozrah. Mrs. James A Randall A< GasAAA 3a
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HOPKINTON

Charles I. Blake visited friends in Taunton, Mass and attended BrocktOn fair two days last week
 Frank ". Mills returned Sunday from a business trip to Buffalo, ". Y. He also visited Niagara Falls.
 The many friends of Miss Mary K Walsh are pleased to see her home after a summer spent in the British provinces.
 Sunday services were omitted in the First Baptist church last Lords day on account of threatening weather
 Howard Saunders of Alfred, N Y was a guest of friends in town last week.
 Dr. and Mrs, A. R. Briggs are en- tcrtaining two cousins from ProVf- dence.
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QUICK RELIEF FROM
 CONSTIPATION Get Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry of thousands since DF. Edwards produced Olive Tablets, the substitute for calonnel.
 Dr. Edwards, practicing physician for 17 years and calomel's oid-tine enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablets while treating patients for cfHonlc constipation and torpid hvers.
 Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets do not contain ca5ornei, but a healing, soothing vegetabAc laxative.
 No griping is the keynote" of these 6ttae sugN coated. oliye- -colored tab ktx. They canse the bowels and liver to ad normally. They never force them to unnatural action.
 If you have dark brown mouth bad hreath-a dull, tired feeIing-ick headacsne-tnepid liver constipation, yquH ind quck. sure ana pleasant re- a1lts hom one or two of Dr. Edwards 0h1e Tablets at bedtime
 ThoarMuds tai1c them everynight just to keep right. Try them 10c and 2Sc.
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Must Hunt Up a Grievance.

The great steel strike is sure to af- feet all our important industries. though there is so little steel in a lead pencil that we suppose it will be some time before the uaragra phers will have an excurse to quit work.-GPand Rapids Press.
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Welsh 330s; auditor, Louis Mercy 303"; collector of taxes. Eugene Le- Claire 342s; consta bles. Clarence Kahn 305*. Peter Bryant 305*, Charles Albro 2s8*. Charles Fournier 29S*; registrars of voters, First district, Timothy E. Shea 301*; Second district, Arba Browning 305%; town school committee, John c. Hawkins 314*, Willis C. Terry 307*
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07

Wednesday.
 Delegates appointed by the Sunday school to attend the New London coun- ty convention at Park church Oct. 2 are Miss Lizzie Budeit, Miss Clara Hyde. Albert Bradlow and Walter Hyde
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07

Newtown-Prof. c. r.. r. Window, of Yale university. will lecture on pub lie health nursing at the town hal on Oct. 1T.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07
ONLY MEDICINE MADE FROM FRUIT Extraordinary Success which "FTuit-a-tiVeS" Has Achieved

One reason why "Fruit-a-tives" is so extraordinarily successful in giving relief to those suffering with Consultation, Torpid Li0e,-, Lndiges- fion, Chyosle Headaeh<s, Meu,aLgia, Kidney end Biaddev T,on6Les, RAeHsnotts,x, Pain in the Baek, EoSema and other Skin Affections, is, because it is the only medicine in the world made from fruit juices.
 These "Frnit LfDer Zd6keks" ara composed of the medicinal principles found in apples, oranges, figs and prunes, together with the nerve tonics and antiseptics.
 5oc. box, 6 for $2.5O, trial size 2se. At dealers or from mFRUIT-A-TIVES Lmised OGDENSBURG. E.Y.
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[SClATIC PAINS
 ] QUICKLY RELIEVED

ment handy to allay aches ] |. "HOUSAND5 of men and women,
 when the least little rheumatic = "crick" assails them, have Sloan's Liniment handy to knock it put. Popular third of . century ago -s>- more popular today. !,
 That's because it $ SO wonderfully helpful in relieving all external aches and pains n sciatica, Iumbago, neural- gia, overstrained muscles, stiff joints. weather exposure results. A little is Ill that is necessary, for it soon fene- seofes Uithent rsbbsng to the sore spot: Leaves no muss, stained sAin, clogged pores. A bottle today is wise pre- caution. Keep 1t handy.
 All druggistsE 35c zOc S1 40
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WILLIM ANTIC

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Ships deteriorate with age-with the exception of hardshipS.
The citizen., 1919-01-23
GERMANY MUST PAY
Nation viii Never Be Able to
Make Amends for Damage.
FERTILE SOIL IS DESTROYED
innvmerabIe unexpIoded Shells VIII
Make Cultivation Precarious--
Doubtful " Land Can Be
Reclaimed.
by WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

What must Germany pay for?
That question can be adequately an
swered only when IL is remembered
that Germany started the terrible con-
flict in Europe for no reason other
than that Of conquest and loot start
ed IL only to satisfy the selfish ambi-
tons Of selfish people for world
domination. That is being admitted
today by what is left of the German
nation; IL Is admitted by those who
were directly responsible for the war.
And IL is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that Of conquest and loot that Ger
many owes to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought. not only in so far as she
can pay now, but in so far as she can
pay for generations yet TO come.
Among the many. many sections Of
Belgium and northern France that I
personally covered, following closely
on the heels of the retreating Hun
what were the cities of Ypres and
Menin, approximately 20 miles apart.
Here, before the coming of the invad-
ing Boche, was what was considered
the most productive soil of the world,
and the most intensely cultivated.
Here In a number of farm villages
lived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul-
tivating the small fields which 1t
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them off from the
The citizen., 1919-01-23

roadways, and the families that culti-
waited the fields lived not on the little
farms but in closely built villages of
from 100 to 500 people each.
Devastation Is Complete.
II is hard to realize today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
along this long, straight road was ever
cultivated. ever produced foodstuffs
for a people. In fact, il is hard to
realize today that this was ever an in
habited country.
OF these peaceful villages, the living
places of these farm people, there is
no trace left. There are not even piles
Of debris. of broken brick and stone
and lumber, TO mark the spots where
they stood. There is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear
lily dragging themselves back TO that
spot which had been home TO them and
TO their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can mark the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood.
| have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years OF exile,
stand beside this road and gaze long
ingly over the devastated landscape.
In an effort TO locate some familiar OBJ
ject that would remind them of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
even one small object that would tell
them of the homes. the only homes,
they had known.
II was German ambition. German
cruelty, German lust, German wanton-
ness, German brutality, that were the
cause of the destruction OF these
homes, of the agonies of peaceful,
thrifty people.
What can possibly compensate these
people for their loss. tor the misery
they have suffered and must still suf.
fer, for the homes and the associations
that are gone foreverf No. Germany
can never pay in full, but she can con-
tinue 20 pay and pay and pay until
there has been bred out OF the German
people that desire for war, that love
Of conquest. that brutality. that IL has
taken centuries. almost. 20 breed into
them. and which has resulted In laying
a whole world waste.
In all that 20 miles between Ypres
The citizen., 1919-01-23

the bed with tremendous vigor. Mean.
while he looked at me and exclaimed /:
"You dreadful childw
l knew that my sins were RESPONSE
BILE for this violence. II frightened me
and my cries increased.
The door at the bottom Of the stairs
opened suddenly.
Aunt Deel called:
Don't lose your temper. Peabody. I
think you've gone fur 'nough-ayes
Uncle Peabody stopped and blew as
II he were very tired and then l caught
a look In his face that reassured me.
He called back TO her; Il wouldn't
"a cared so much II Il hadn't "a been
the what-not and them Minervy flow
ers. When boy tips over what-not
he's goin' II purity strong"
"Well. don't be too severe. You'd
better come now and git me pail O.
water--ayes, l think ye had"
Uncle Peabody did lot OF sneezlng
and coughing with his big. red hand
kerchlef over his face and l was not
old enough then TO understand II. He
kissed me and took my little hand In
his big hard one and led me down the
stairs.
dreamed that night that long-leg-
ged what-not. with wax wreath In its
hands, chased me around the house
and caught and bit me on the neck. I
called for help and uncle came and
found me on the floor and put me back
In bed again.
For a long time l thought that the
way man punished a boy was by
humping his bed. knew that women
had u different and less satisfactory
method. for l remembered that my
mother had spanked me and Aunt Deel
had a way OF giving my hands and
The citizen., 1919-01-23
BOOK ONE
Which Is the Story Of the Candle
and the Compass.
CHAPTER ..
The Melon Harvest.
THE AUTHOR

Once upon time | owned a water
melon. / say once because | never did
Il again. When | got through owning
that melon l never wanted another.
The time was 1891: ! was boy OF
seven and the melon was the first OF
all my harvests.
| didn't know much about myself
those days except the fact that my
name was Bart Bnynes and. further,
that l was an orphan who owned a
watermelon and a little spotted hen
and lived on Rattleroad In a neighbor-
hood called Lickityspllt. lived with
my Aunt Deel and my Uncle Peabody
Baynes on a farm. They were brother
and slster-he about thirty-eight and
she little beyond the far-distant goal
OF forty.
My father and mother died In a
scourge OF diphtheria that swept the
nelghborhood when l was a boy OF
i've.
A few days after I arrived In the
home OF my aunt and uncle l slyly en-
tered the parlor and climbed the what
not to examine some white flowers on
It's top shelf and tipped the whole
thing over. scattering its burden OF
albums. wax flowers and seashells
on the floor. My aunt came running
on her tiptoes and exclaimed: "Mercy I
Come right out o. here this minute
you pestl"
took some rather long steps going
out. which were due 10 the fact that
Aunt Deel had hold OF my hand. While
l sat weeping she went back into the
parlor and began 20 pick up things.
my wreath my WREATH" l heard
her moaning.
How well remember that little as
semblage OF flower ghosts In wax I
They had no more right to associate
with human beings than the ghosts OF
fable. Uncle Peabody used 10 call
them the "Minervy flowers" because
they were q present from his Aunt
The citizen., 1919-01-23

and Menln, on both sides Of that long.
straight road. am sure did not see
one square foot Of soil that was not
a part Of a shell crater. What had
once been the richest soil of the
world is today but a waste, made so
by the shells that fell upon IL be-
cause Germany sought world domIna-
ton. This soil has been destroyed by
countless thousands Of shells falling
actually one upon another, each dig
ging deeper into the earth until the
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultlva-
tion for years to come. II indeed It can
ever be reclaimed.
UnexpIoded Shells Buried In Soil.
There lie today on the surface of
this land many thousands Of unex-
plodcd shells, and there are buried In
the soil many, many thousands more,
each one of them a menace to any
farmer who attempts to put a plow
into the soil In an effort to reclaim 1t.
And this land is destroyed, as the
homes were destroyed, because Of Ger
man ambition, Of German cruelty, of
German lust, of German wantonness
and German brutality.
Who is to pay for it? Who is to
risk destruction that II may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
II may serve the purposes of the hu-
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants. who had no part In the start
ing of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years Of homeless agonies,
who have suffered not alone the loss
of homes and land but the loss Of
relatives and friends as well, be the
ones to risk destruction in the effort
to again bring these lands back to a
condition where cultivation Is possi-
BILE? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting of these shells. hidden as
they are beneath the surface of the
ground, when the plow strikes and ex-
plodes them? II undisturbed, those
shells continue to be a menace for
years to come, but who are to risk
their lives In removing them?
Could the American people gener-
ally, and especially the American farm
ers, have seen the sights l have seen
The citizen., 1919-01-23
THFu6HT
IN THE RLFARIN6
A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
IN THE TINE OF SILAS WRIGHT
N
IRVINE HACHELLER
l.

AUrroe %
tBtN HOLDEN Dn AND l. DARRfl or TIE BLESSED TLtS
kItPINo up WITH LIZZIE ETC. ETC

Minerva. When Aunt Deel returned
to the kitchen where I sat--a sorrow
ing little refugee hunched up IN n cor
ner-she said: "I'll have 20 tell your
Uncle Pehbody-ayes
"Oh please don't tell my Uncle Pea.
body" walled.
"Ayesi I'll have TO tell him." she
answered firmly.
For the first time I looked for him
with dread at the window and when
he came ! hid in closet and heard
that solemn and penetrating note In
her voice as she said:
'T guess you'll have to take that boy
away-ayes
"What now1" ne asked.
my stars he sneaked into the par
lor and tipped over the what-not and
smashed that beautiful wax wreath !"
Jerusalem four-corners he ex.
claimed. "Tll have to"
He stopped as he was wont to do on
the threshold OF strong opinions and
momentous resolutions.
The rest OF the conversation was
drowned In my own cries and Uncle
Peabody came and lifted me tenderly
and carried me upstairs.
He sat down with me on his lap and
hushed my cries. Then he said very
gently:
"Now. Bub, you and me have got to
be careful. What-nots and albums
and wax flowers and haircloth sofys
are the most dangerous critters in st.
Lawrence county. They're purity saw
age. Keep your eye peeled. You can't
tell what minute they'll jump on ye.
More boys have been dragged away
and tore to pieces by 'em than by all
the bears and panthers in the woods.
Keep out O. that old parlor. Ye might
as well 20 into cage o. wolves. How
be goin' TO make ye remember itT
IL don't Know" l whimpered and be-
gan TO cry out In fearful anticipation.
He set me in chair. picked up one
Of his old carpet-sllppers and began to
thump the bed with IL. He belabored
The citizen., 1919-01-23

along this longA straight road between
Ypres and Menin, they would say. as
| say, IL is the German who must pay;
IL is the German who must risk de-
struction in the effort TO put this land
again into condition for cultivation.
| believe that one condition Of the
peace treaty should be that Germany,
either as one nation,.or proportionately
from the several small nations that
may be formed out of the German en-
pire, should call its military classes to
the colors each year as IL has done in
the past; but In place of putting guns
into the hands of these men, and train
ing them for the purposes of war-a
war of conquest-that Ii should put
these men into the territories she has
devastated, TO reclaim the soil and TO
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed Let
these Germans. under guard OF Bel
gian troops, take the risk of destruc-
ton; let them guide the pillow that may
strike the unexplOded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wagen
of the German soldier while they are
doing this.
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
That would be the nearest thing 10
an accounting that Germany can rem
der 10 the world, but she should pay
all that II is humanity possible for a
people TO pay who have so ruthlessly
despOiled the world. Her people should
pay, and pay. and pay. until they have
learned beyond the shadow OF a doubt
that war for the purpose Of conquest,
for the purpose of loot. for the graft
ficatiOn of selfish ambitions, is the
most Improbable business they could
possibly engage In.
And remember that the devastation
TO be seen along the road from Ypres
10 Menin is but an example Of all the
terrible destruction to be found
throughout Belgium and northern
France and Serbia and other countries
that have been Overrun by the con-
Quest-seeking armies Of the BOche.
And remember too. that II is not alone
the devastation that is 10 be paid for,
but II is the work and the tears and
the economic loss Of every nation that
was called into the struggle TO defeat
the selfish purposes OF selfish pe0-
Pile. that the world might be a decent
place In which free men might live.