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Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
A FREAKIsH AND ToTHEREND-To SEASON

other good application. which was plowed under The manure was mixture of COW and horse stable cleanings, thorough ly worked over by hogs. All these ani- mals had been heavily grain-fed during the winter. Pretty good manure, youll observe.
 Well, we furrowed it out fairly deep, cut our seed to two, three or four pieces, according to size. covered it about four inches deep with hand hoes, narrowed it twice before the tops pricked-which is my usual custom, cultivated it twice with scratch tooth cultivator, horse-hoed it once. and shovel-plowed it once. The greatest length of the patch is from east to west. It slopes gently toward the south and that side is rather moist. CThere is 9 swamp right next to it) We made the rows to run east and west, the long way of the field
 About 2 third we planted to an exceed ingly early potato the Early Harvest Another third in the middle. to potato known as the Grapevine, of focal origin and which has shown itself admirably adapted. as a mid-season crop. to our con- ditions. The lower southern third was
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wormless. while celery is hanging back with no prospect now visible for a crop.
 Four weeks ago I would have sold out my chance Of a sweet corn yield for thirty cents-and charged the thirty cents. Since then it has grown like weeds. In truth, never saw a weed grow SO fast. From stunted, tasselless hills, it has jumped up to six and eight and even ten feet high and is simply loaded with ears. Four early sorts, plant ed at different times, to provide 2 sue cession of pickings, have ripened in bunch, and even the extra lates, like Evergreen and Country Gentleman, have come on nobly. once gave up all ex- pectation of getting any Lima beans. The vines were feeble, the blossoms late and sparse. But they, too, have spurted like the corn and are going to offer a normal bushelage, if the frost only holds of a bit Tomatoes also, which on the first of August we abandoned as hopeless, are waking to a belated life and producing a fair amount of fruits
 Altogether, with me and in my gar dens, it has been a remarkably freakish and 'tother-end-to season. Nothing has behaved as usual and nothing 1t now act ing quite normally.
 But that field of seabby potatoes keeps me awake nights trying to puzzle out some explanation. If any of you folks have got one which will hold it's shape and won't rip in the seams one copper fastened and cable-sewed; one warranted not to bag at the knees or fray at the outtonholes, I'd be glad to get 1t and file it away for future reference
 THE FARMER.
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all ran the same; bang-up good potatoes, and smooth as billiard balls. We have HOW Gus them all out; thirty or forty busi;eis. and not over 9 dozen ill the whole lot showing . trace of scab; that trace too slight to be noticeable except on careful examination.
 Let me add that I had Q few rows of the extra earlies "a another part of the garden. on dry ground inclined to be sandy where the larger patch was on the clay-loam side, and these dry-ground paintings were also hopeiessly scabby. Let me add further that there was no trace of scab in any of the seed when dug last fall or when planted this spring, i whether of the earlies, the nlid-seasons or the lates I have had no trace of scab on my potatoes for at least eight years, and have no reason for supposing 1 that there was any infection in the ground
 Now then what am after is an expla- nation. I want tw0 explanations. in fact ]; one why the early and nid-season pota- l toes scabbed 50 disgracefully, both in dry and in moist land the other why the l late potatoes didn't scab at all. When i you have a row of potatoes twenty rods 1 long, every hill of which is unutterably scabby, and another row, side by side 1 with it and only thirty-three inches away, not single one of which is scabby; when the soil is practically identical, the ma nuring and care identical, the seed in both cases scab-free, and the weather conditions of course the same. you've got l q result which puzzles this particular John Farmer. I've tried to wool out an adequate explanation. Hank has scratch ed his head and tried to help me. But we've both of us given 1t up.
  l You see. what I want is a warranted explanation, not a guess nor a theory. It's scabby, rnoney-losing fact which l confronts me. not mere conundruIn. I'm up against a condition, not theory, as ! President Cleveland once put it. 1 Some people hold that stable manure l induces scab. That guess won't answer my question. for all my potatoes were 1 fertilized with stable manure-the un- l scabbed as heavily as the scabbed. 1 One neighbor thinks it was the moister soil But no boundary of denarcation 1 between moist and dry soil runs across
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
NORWICH TOWN

Al the First Congregational church Sunday morning, the celebration of the Lords Supper will take place following the sermon.
 Having been suspended during the summer, the weekly service at the Shel- tering Arms is to be resumed Sunday afternoon. Rev. Samuel IT. Howe. D.D., pastor of Park Congregational church, will officizte. Chorister Ebenezer Learned will have charge of the musical service
 Employees of the saxton woolen cor poration will return 10 work next Mon day morning. the mill having been closed down for two weeks vacation.
 The first fall meeting of Home Chap ter of the Kings Daughters. Is 10 be held Monday afternoon at the Johnson Home. During July and August meet ings were omitted.
 Miss Marion L. Bailey Of Elm avenue commenced her duties at Broadway school Norwich, Tuesday Miss Bailey fills the vacancy due to the retirement of Mrs. Maurice Wallen CRuth Lathrop Potter).
 Miss Alice Kennedy of Town street Norwich Free Academy 1921. returned home Tuesday evening, following a stay of two weeks with reIativees and friends In Danielson and Brooklyn, Conn. h the latter place Miss Kennedy visited her grandmother. Mrs. Mary White While in Danielson she was the guest of Miss Afariory GaHfney, also visited her other grandmother. Mrs. Charles p Kennedy.
 Mrs. Sarah Snow and her sister. Mis: Agnes Thorpe. Of Sturtevant street. re turned Tuesday evening, after nearly . weeks visit with their brother, William Thorpe of Gardner. Mass. While CT route to their home, Mrs. Snow and Mis: Thorpe passed one day in Boston. Harry Vail Of Town street Is expect cd to leave tomorrow (Sarurday) t spend the weekend with his family a the home Of his brother and sister-in law. MT. and Mrs. Earl M- Vail Of Con cord. N. II. The following week the Val family will visit relatives in Canada, be fore returning to their home at Nor | wich Town.
 The primary school on Stu-tevan street having been closed. Miss Sara Nc Clellan for many years the faithfu | teacher, has been transferred to the frs and second grades at the West Tow street school Miss Mcclellan succeed
 Miss Sadie Kilroy. transferred to tn l third grade al High street school Nor wich.
 William Russell Jarrett Of Philsdei phia. Penn, is passing a week with hi family at the home of Mrs. Jarretts ia
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an undulating field in as straight iins as caa be drawn within t'lirty-ti,ree inch es--the distance apart of my rows.
 Another thinks the wet yeather had much to do with it. But the weather wasn't any wetter over the early lotato,s than over the lstes less ti;.a three feet rom them.
 Another tells me it was my own 1auIt in not soaking the seed against scab But I used to do that regularly. and the last time did it, some eight or more years lgo. my crop was badly scabbed despite the fornalin soaking. l haven't used for1ralin since. and have had no scab since till this year.
 Still another tells me that old ground brings on the scab, while it never appears when potatoes are planted on newly Turned sod. But all my potatoes this year were planted on old ground. and some were scabby and some were not Furthermore, the other time I had a ,seabby crop. some eight years ago as I nave noted, they grew on sod land
 The only difference I can make out myself is that my scabby potatoes this year are of carly sorts, while the smooth ones are of a late kind. But one of my 1eighbors, who planted the same late kind and who planted it on sod ground and 1 who soaked the seed in formalin, finds more than half of his crop scabbed be- ! Fond all decency.
 | Whatever attempt make at an expla- nation brings up against some fact which knocks it out of the ring, first pop.
 As 1t is. Eve lost several days of hard work, several bushels of seed which at planting time l could have sold for s6 Dushel, and from one to two hundred dollars worth Of crop-all because of an eruption of pesky scab. We've saved two or three bushels of the biggest and least infected potatoes. When they are deep , ly peeled, the interior morsels cook beau tifully. They are much more nealy and seem richer than the smooth lates. Per haps we can use some of them in an emergency.
 Until better instructed, I'm going to lay the whole blame at the doors of the
 season" It has clearly ruined several other crops, and can't kick if this potato disaster is also accredited to it. Certain ly it has been the most freakish season I have ever experienced in gardening op. erations.
 My pea crop, for instance. was the best and biggest I've ever had. while my muskmelon crop is total failure Beets and carrots have yielded unusually well and have been of high quality. while po- tatoes, also root crop, have gone to the bad. Cucumbers have done quite as well as usual, while both summer and winter squash have completely fizzled out. Pep- pers' produced good yield, while egg plants haven't even begun to set-and frost only a few days away Turnips which have failed me for the last three years, are growing fat and smooth and
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10

given up to Dibbles Russets-a late pota- to of high cooking and keeping qualities This. bear in mind was tiIc molStef' ti:rti Of tho field Tine year turning cut what it did. you can imagine that land natur- ally wettish was a good deal more than that this time. Indeed. the wafer at times stood on part of these Russet rows. actually drowning out quite q few hills. IT never sprouted, or. if they did failed to get their sprouts up into the daylight But most of them grew as did all the plantings of the two earlier sorts.
 After the tops got too big to make horse-work desirable, a rank growth of
 wild amaranth, pigweed and mustard started up which we pulled out by hand.
 Then one bright morning, when the tops
 looked promising, I sauntered '1lithely
 over to the patch with a digging spade
 and a basket to get out a few extra
 carries for an inquiring customer. It was
 Q rather unusually good looking potato
 patch, above ground. and I picked out 6 row whose tops were biggest and with a faint coloring of maturity in them. Driv- ing my spade into the first hill, I grasp ed the tops and pulled, pried and dug out -threc potatoes, one of them big as 3 hens egg and all three scabby as curry combs That was all. The next hill was | if anything. worse. I zigzagged over the 1 field trying hills in both the extra carries and the mid-seasons. All were about the
 same, small, few in a hill. and so scabby
 as to be utterly unstable.
 | Since then wa have Tnade an exhaustive ] trial of all parts. And we haven't found
 a single smooth skinned tuber yet among 1 the early and mid-season sorts All are scabby beyond description. Assuming that the late Russets would be similarly affected. one day last week we tried a hill of them. more as 8 matter of form than with any real hope. We didn't even take basket along to hold any possible spuds.
 And right then and there came the surprise of the summer That first hill of lates. on the moister side of the patch. turned out a dozen good sized. sy1netric- ally shaped, absolutely smooth potatoes. There wasn't a single small one nor a trace of scab in the hill. We dug another just as good We dug 3 dozen. They
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
HUMOR OF HE DAY

Mrs Gaggs-"sO you don't be,Asrs A clubs for women-eh?
 MT. Gsggs-A club Is much tee gen- tie for some women; I prefer an sH.- London Answers. -
 ''Rastus, what an alihi?"
 Oats provin' dat you HI1z at pay CT meetin whar you wasn't, tn axdsu to show NSt you wasn't at the 'crAp game whsr you wuz."-Lehigh Bur
 Hub-One night while you were away. I heard a burglar. You Ehsu;d have seen me going downstairs three steps at a time. -,
 Wife-Where was he, on tho rsse1 -Pearsonis Weekly.
 Where can I find the key ts @e- cess 2" ... ...- .--.--
 Go to work at what you are s.ss suited for. Some find 1t on the GET net, some nthe typewriter. Sore .on the piano. .'-Kansas City Journal.
 "Howis your singing society getting along? inquired Si Simlin.
 Fine" replied Jud Tunkins. '-Ths singh doesn't amount to muck yet but some of the argumets are run os first class rePartee."-WSSAiExt Star.
 "They say the cause of their eaSx- rel was letter his wife found ia his pocket" z.
 One that he had forgotten to uaaIls-
 No; one he had forgotten 10 burn Boston Transcript.
 any more" s5l ''Wny not?"
 I've just got tired of hearing h. perfectly good excuse any trzdes-naa cAr offer for soaking the life out Of nnc"- Detroit Free Press. t-. -- The Interyiewer-G!ve Y 10 m straight Whats the real reason YET weren't in the army during the wartE The ight-Honest, pal, I va crazy to go. but I promised my nasnAee. not to do any iightin' without hts zp. proval.-Houston Post. s
 Would you call Blithe-by ssupA-
 Well, he has a limited amount sf intelligence:' 7. "Yes?n
 He can trace the decline in thz ,ss, uisrity. of mince pie to the E,ghteenih Amendment -''-Birmnigh2m AEo-Rersid You seemed to be pretty sick yv~ssr- day asa-
 Yes" s.- | What did the doctor sayr' aE 1 Well, l thought I was sick ezS4Ee for trip 10 California. but all hs pre-. scribed was a fishing trip."-Phlsaei. phia Bulletin.
 Eisht-yezr-old Sonny slid carefully. n to his seat at the table.
 Have you washed your hands as<ss mothcr
 '.Yes. nother'-meekly.
 Are they cleanE' from father. ! ''Well-pretty near-almostr' rL ub. | answer.-New York Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
THE KALEIDOSCOPE

London has squad of motorcyels 1< licewomen. lf .
 Toledo. O.. has union depot for nS tor trucks.
 An acre will produce about tee pounds of indigo.
 Arabian desert natives neither susks nor drink.
 The United States had eighty -ssvur earthquakes in 1919. ~
 Palm trees supply food, timber. n1Al rope fiber and sometimes material fer clothing.
 A frontage on Broadway, New yszk near Forty-fifth street measuring 5uG. 8 feet S-4 inches. has been soid foI s4o.0Oo.
 The Brazilian government has tAkas exclusive control over all wireless teikE raphy and telephone services In tn: country.
 At an auction sale at Szr Azr4r Tex. B. NJ Halbert paid si.75o to VII liam Rodel & Sons, ss Monmouth, OEN- for 8 two-year-oid Ansora buck geKt
 There is a strong sentiment h Esg Zealand against permitting any Ger mzn-made goods 10 enter the country e. any goods partly composed cf GGuz. products.
 On the farm of the State ssaaseriuu in the eastern part Of Rutland. .Nass.. h an elm which stands almost n the ex.s; geographical center Of the state. It called the Central tree. .
 The Chinese government plans ts rss airplanes to locate bandits and Emzg- glers. transport precious metals from tae interior 10 coast ports and explore feI new railroad and highway rouses.'
 A boy al Hazieton. Pa. saw sens thing drop from q great height !a the Eb and picking it up found that t wza q letter 10 Mrs. C. p. Tanner, ef Eazis- ton, which her son. Charles a; Belle- tonte. had sent 10 her by s!-plsne. -
 Besides coal. Germany IS an iznporAr of Bohemian wood. Czecho-S.ovak!A pos sesses such vast forests, especially arinee the district Of Slovaiiia has been sariex- ed. that 1t is able Co supply the denands of nearly the entire Saxon industry. The state Of New York has ordered i 2 Ii grams Of -adium. at . cost ai | s2s5, 1000 10 combat cancert. and onA gram, about one-thirt!eth Of aa ounee costing SI20.0O0. has arrived n a ieze cylinder eight inches in diameter Aae T. inches long.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10

ther, Charles Kimbali, Of sl@ Ta1ss:ns- ton street
 Mir. and Mrs. Maurice Wa,lea CRz:t Lathrop Potter) returned to Norwich Town Thursday afternon from their wedding trip, having passed RVsFA weeks ill New Hampshire.
 William House. U. $. S. S.-2, has re turned after passing the weekend and Labor Day at his home or TewriA street
 Little Miss JacquiliRe Neck of .Ha<t- ford. who has been passing the summer with Norwich Town relatives, Is st1pres- ent the guest for two weeks of At. ana Mrs. John $. Bennett Sc.
 Following a brief stay at his hszns eH Town street James F. Thu-sfon .-eturE- ed Thursday morning 10 Qucaca1Sn- taug Beach, E. l. .-t
 Dr. Charles H. Lamb Of Town gtioet was a business caller in New LyHA1n Thursday
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
CHAIN GE

know you, know eyour wise and lovely face; And have felt your deft and supple hand Whose touch make such difference ir the planned Familiar ways of my souls dwelling place
 Love has great fear of you, and,likewse grief =. Close-cinging grief that grudgeS earth her own Breathe on them once and their donlinion'S flown, For you are ageless and their span is brief Oh farest of Times daughters-potent Change, ,s Life finds in youher wisest, gentlest friend; We mortalS know not where to make an end
 But you-with spells forever new and strange, Round of our joy into sphered perfection et To light the altered way with soft reflection 7
 s
 Marie E. Gilchrist, in New York Post Sr4
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
Written Specially for The Bulletin.

] should sort O like an explanation. Not that it would do me any pecuniary good, but t would relieve my mind.
 The facts are about as follows. 10 the best of my knowledge and belief:
 Last spring ! plowcd a patch of an acre or SO, which had been in corn for two preceding years and in cabbage for ;hs two years before that This means 7s course. that # had been highly ma -ured for four consecutive years. But as : wanted to insure g paving crop of pota- -ocs on i- tL.s season. ! gave it still an-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10
Shea's News Bureau Magazine Specialist
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Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-10

Some people have money and deaa know how to enjoy H. while other know how to enjoy 1t but haven't ss: the money. v
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-06-12

fuse, to turn to God and His
Church, the while they heed the
siren of socialism, pantheism and
all the calls Of false prophets in
the social as we'll as in the politi-
cal field.
Today it is necessary for our
Catholic people to bestlr them
selves and to stand fast by the
faith that is in them. The teach
ings of Christ produce spirit of
calm, of peace and of perfect con-
tent. 1t is the rejection Of those
teachings that brings calamity on
the world. When men will insist
on robbing their fellows in the
name of business; when they will
scatter the noxious fumes Of i'm
purity in the name Of drama or
art; when they will ally them
selves with false standards OF gov
eminent in the name Of liberty :;
when they will attack lawful au-
thority in the name of freedom
when they will build a political
party to fleece the unsophisticated
in the name Of so-called right ;
when these things are evident, as
they are today, then is it time to
clean house in the name Of relig-
ion. 1t is time for every man to
prove the ground on which ne
stands; to scorn false leaders, even
when they masquerade as Catho-
lies to bark back to the purity OF
his faith, and to make his life con-
form in every detail with that be
lief which is his only hope for
eternal happiness.
Unrest, forsooth! The robber
is restless after he has stripped his
victim; the murderer is restless
after he has snuffed out the LIE
of another; the criminal in gen,
eral is restless after he has perpe
trated deed condemned by GOO
and His law. SO is the world to-
dav restless because it has forgot
ten it's God and His divine law
Let Catholics lead the way back
to God, let them spurn false lead
ers and their deceptive tactics, le+
men adopt the teachings Of Christ
and then shall we be spared tn
mockery Of Investigations ant
commissions and searching inqul
sitions; a tissue of proceeding
that make mockery of mocker,
itself.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-06-12
TWO JUb|LEfS
CHICAGO HONORS ARCHBISHOP
MUNDELEIN-MAN PRE-
LATES ATTEND.

Last Tuesday morning the Holy
Name Cathedral in Chicago witnessed
perhaps, the most distinguished as
semblage ever held in that city. 1t
marked the opening celebrations in
honor of the Diamond jubilee of the
Archdiocese of Chicago, and the Sill
yer jubilee of the Most Reverend Arch
bishop Mundelein.
Accustomed as that city is to con-
ventions and gatherings of worldwide
prominence, this event is said to have
eclipsed them all.
Besides twenty-nine bishops and a
large number of other prelates there
were present the following members
of the Hierarchy: Most Reverend John
Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate; James
Cardinal Gibbons; Archbishop BOWL
ing, st. Paul; Archbishop Messmer
Milwaukee; Archbishop Keane, Du
buque; Archbishop Glennon, st: Louis
Archbishop Hayes, New York; Arch
bishop Moeller, CINCINNATI; Arch
bishop Shaw, New Orleans; Arch
bish Harry, Omaha; and Archbishop
Christie, Portland, Ore
Various parishes of the city had ar
ranged special celebrations, and a vas
historic pageant, staged by $4,000 par
ochial school children, was a specia
feature of the weeks festivities.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-06-12
FATHER MCCARTHY DEAD
IRISH CENTENARIAN PRIEST
PASSES AWAY IN DUBLIN.

Centenarians among the clergy are
rare. Rev. Arthur Mccarthy, who has
Just died in Dublin. had attained the
age of 1O1 years. His was an eventful
missionary career. He completed his
studies in Capetown, where he was
ordained in 1847. In 1852 he founded
with Bishop Grimley the first Catholic
mission in St. Helena. For ten years
he ministered to the troops there, and
also to the Catholic civilians. Next he
went as military chaplain to Cape
town. Later he went to Malta in a
similar capacity, and ultimately was
sent to England, where he served at
various army stations. He retired
from the military domain in 1882 and
during some years did missionary
work in Great Britain.
Father Mccarthy went to Dublin in
1887 and was chaplain to number of
institutions in succession. Fourteen
years ago, at the age of 81, he with
drew from active clerical duty. Yet
he continued to celebrate Mass up to
last year, and on the centenary of his
birth he received the apostolic bless
ing from the Holy Father. His dis
appearance breaks a link in history
for he was probably the last living
person who had talked with in
habitants of St. Helena who had seen
and spoken to Napoleon.