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Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
YANTIC

Miss Elizabeth Kempton has resumed her duties at the Gunnery school. in Washington, Conn, after spending sew eral weeks in town with her, parents, MT. and Mrs. William Kempton.
 Miss Julia Baker has returned to her home in New Britain after weeks stay in Yantie the guest of Miss Mil dred Pendletop.
 David Sharp of New York was a re- cent guest of local friends.
 Mir and Mrs. Thomas Rowley and daughter have left Ysntic and are to spend the winter in Boston.
 Edward Wolfe has returned to Brook lyn, N Y.. after spending several weeks with his grandparents. Mir. and Mrs. William Kempton.
 Miss Gertrude Schleising of Philadei- phia is the guest of Miss Edith Rother for two weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. David Avery and Mir. and Mrs. Earle Avery and children Elizabeth and Sherwood William. have returned to their home in -Hoosiek. \. r., after spending some time in, town with relatives. Mrs. Earle Avery and children were the guests Of Mrs. Av- ery's mother. Mrs. Nj. D. Murphy. at the Cross Roads. for several days. Mrs. Thomas Llllibridre has left for two weeks stay in Hamilton. R. |. where she will be the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Simon Lillibridge. H. l. Gibbs has returned from bus mess trip to St. Louis. Miss Venie Bogue has returned to her duties at the Pleasure Hill school Franklin. after spending the weekend at her home here.
 Miss Mary Curry has been calico home from Norwalk on account. of the serious illness of her father John Cur. ".
 Herbert Austin has returned io Al bany. after several days stay at hi. l home here. l Supervisor Frederick Porter of Wi ! iimantic was a recent. visitor here.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
New Hair Remover In Demand, Say Druggists
 Phelactines Removes Roots and All

Since the virtues of phelactine as a hair remover pecame generally known. druggists in this country have been hav- this femark rkabie product. The fact that t actua flyf, ,ffFnoves t1le :oots-before oTfe's very eyes-as well as the surface hairs, isies c9hrse mainly responsible for me method is mot to be sad at ali With M the usual, depflatory, electrical or other pfoc=ssesM tti.is entirely safe. non -irritat ing. noh-poiEonous. odorless-and in- stsntaneous !iliA stick of Dhelactine, used n accordandss with the simple instructions which accoffEany it. is certain to satisfy and delight. ule user.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
GROWING DEAF WITH HEAD NOISES ]?
 TRY THIS

If you are growing hard Of hearing and fear catarrhal deafness. or if won have roaring. rnmbl.nE. missing noises in your ears. go to your druggist and get one ounce Of Parmint 1ldouble water and a little grannlated sugar. Take one tablespoonful Jour times a day.
 This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head noises. ClogEed nostrils should open. breafhine become easy and the mucus stop drop ping Into the throat IL Is easy fc pre- epzreA costs little and Is pleaxafit tc take Anyone who is threatened with catarrhal deafness. or who has hea< noisss, shtuid give this prescription .
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
A. L. Potter Hsne.teaa Sold.

~Throuyfa the agency Of Francis D. Dsa- ohue Miss Ella M Potter has sold re Wtncenty and Julia Korycki of Brooklyn. V. Y. the real estate located zt s2 Starr street. It IS beautiful i7-room house with all improvements. large barn and three acres Of land. IL was the home of A. L. Potter. the well known coal deal CT for many vearx. The new owners pur- chase tho property for a home and will occupy the same in the near future
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
What fs Goinr On Tonight

Vaudeville and Motion F-c.ures st ths Strand.
 Motion Pictures at Bred Thsatr- Davis Theatre.
 Shetucket lodge. No. a7, L O. O. F.. meets in Odd Fellows' h7il
 Norwich Nest No 13so. O. O. O.. meets in Owls hall
 wauregsn lodge; No s. K of P. meets in Pythizn hall
 Court Quinebaug. No. 12. F. of A-s meets in Foresters' hall
 St. Anne's T. A and B. society meets in T. A. E. hall Sachem chapter. No 57, O. F. S meets in Triple Link building meets in Buckinham Memorial.
 Elks Indoor Carnival at Eiks hall.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
county Vi. c. T. U. oonyention.

The county convention of the wo- mems Christian Temperance union will be held in the All Souls church, New London, on Thursday. September 90, this being change in date from the 18th. The morning session begins at 20.45 with a devotional service. The morning hours vii be given over to reports from diff ferent departments. basket lunch will be enjoyed at 12e3 E. L. G. Hohen- thai will speak in the afternoon on
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BON TON DEMONSTRATIONS
 - G-.n -rrrs

Miss Milne expert eorsetiere .direcs from the big plant of the Royal Wor- cester Corset Company, is ct the Spec. ialty Shop, 1fo Main Street. Norwich, this week This affords women who un- derstandf the importance of tn, corsei a good chance to be fitted by a profes- sional wearers of Bon Ton corsets. in particular, will want 10 see the new styles. which are cut on silhouette lines have the new soft tops. and average I4 inches in length Flesh tints. both iH coutii and broche lead in popularity this fall Special makes for stout GUS toners insure a trim. graceful and fash ionabie figure. Drop In and talk cersets with Miss Milne.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
PROTECT YOUR cH11D-AHD OTHERS

The beginning of school brings coughs and colds to mary children At the first sign of a cold it IS well to give child dose of Foleys Honey and Tar Com- pound, that safe, reliable cough medicine Mrs. J. B. Pluijners, 246 Autumn St. Passaic, N J., writes: 'Foley's Honey and Tar certainly Is the best cough and cold remedy I ever tried for smy little boy" Children like it. Good for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, hay fever and asthma. Lee (. Osgood Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28

Temperance Legislation. Mrs. Annie :. s. Fenner will also speak. Mrs. Wilson. state president. will report on the cvn- Yention on alcohol at Washington.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28
PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY
 BY LAMBS r. NoLoSr

James P. McGlone Of Trading Cove has filed a petition in bankruptcy with Referee Thomas NJ Shields. and October 6th has been set as the date for the nrri meeting Of creditors. Mr. McGlone has been running an auto supply and or atatlon on the Norwich-New London iurnpike at Trading Cove. He reports his assets al x54z.eo and liabilities nt gs7sL5i.. of which S4ss.l2 is owed to the Fisk Rubber O., which is the largest creditor.
 Some men make speciality of being honest because IL pays better than dis honesty.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-28

It's enough to make strong man tremble to tbink of poor shad with .rheumatism in all his bones.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

ancestral connections from whom his
great qualities could be inherited
Others by accepting and spreading
the myth got credit for being re-
lated to the great man. Still! others.
and probably the greatest number,
were the gossipy kind who like a
tang to their anecdotes.
At any rate, the myth grew and
spread, and though the authentic
record of the marriage of Lincoln's
parents was discovered in 1878 the
myth is still alive. This is the
raison d'etre for William E. Barton's
hook, The Paternity of Abraham
Lincoln, published by the George H.
Doran Company, comprising 414
pages with the appendix and index.
1t is a good deal like killing a flea
with a sledgehammer, and the deeper
one gets into the book the more one
feels that way about it. Why waste
so much effort killing a story that
oisregards dates? Why not merely
set down the authentic dates and let
the incident be closed?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Seven Men Named

Doubtless, there is an interest in
collecting the several forms of the
myth and making a permanent rec
ord OF them, an antiquarian inter
est. They are a part of Lincoln's
history, and that part might as well
be accurately told as long as it is to
be told at all. The useless part is
the 200 or 300 pages spent in refu-
tation, when all that is needed is the
true chronology Of events.
DR.. Barton enumerates in his book
seven men besides Thomas Lincoln
who have been credited with being
the father of Abraham Lincoln.
There is not great deal of variation
IN the stories. Details, Of course,
are all that could vary, and the
foundation of them all is the alleged
laxity Of Lincoln's mother, Nancy
Hanks, and this in turn is founded
on the inability to trace positively
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
mplete Record of Lincoln's Parentage

the Nancy Hanks who was his
mother, while some of the many
Nancy Hankses are admitted to have
been pretty loose in their ways. Of
all the legends, perhaps the most in
teresting is the one that makes John
c. Calhoun Lincohl's father. It is
better than most of the others be-
cause the details have been looked
after and a lot Of what looks like
verification has beer done.
TO begin with Nancy Nanks is
placed accurately. Her existence is
proved by the records before Cal
houn is brought into the story. This
Nancy Hanks was the daughter Of
Luke Hanks. Of Craytonville Cross
hoads, Anderson County, South
Carolina, who was the son of Will
lam Hanks, Of Amelia County. Va,
who was the son Of Benjamin Hanks,
q Plymouth, Mass. Thus, the
Nancy Hanks Of the Calhoun myth
agrees with the accepted parentage
Of Lincolns mother in having Will
lam and Benjamin Hanks as ances-
tors and being descended from the
Hanks family Of Plymouth. The diff
ference lies in the immediate father
chosen for Nancy.
In the Calhoun myth Nancy
Hanks's father, Luke, kept a tavern
at Craytonville crossroads. He
died and his widow, Mrs. Ann
Hanks, continued to keep the tavern,
and was keeping it in 1907, when
Calhoun was admitted to the prac-
tice of law and began to ride circuit
in South Carolina. His Office was
at Abbeville Courthouse, and he at
tended court at Pendleton. The
Hanks tavern was eighteen miles
from Abbeville Courthouse, on the
way to Pendleton, and twenty miles
from Pendleton. Consequently, Cal
houn, going from Abbeville to PEN
dleton and returning to Abbeville,
always stayed over night at the
Hanks tavern. Nancy Hanks was
helping her mother in the tavern.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

nothing is left of the Calhoun myth
All Of the others fall in the same
way. Authentic records leave moth
ing to them and it is really pity
that DR.. Barton should have taken
them so seriously. A more grateful
task would be to settle individually
the parentage of Nancy HANKS, in
coins mother. Mrs. Caroline Hanks
Hitchcock and Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell
have satisfied themselves by their
researches Of the legitimate birth of
Nancy Hanks and have published
their conclusions and the material
on which they are founded.
Still it remains true that the doc
umentary evidence in the case of
Nancy Hanks is much less complete
than in that of her son, while some
of her own relatives were more than
willing to discredit her; and if the
testimony of Herndon, Lincoln's law
partner, can be accepted, Lincoln
himself believed his mother to be
illegitimate. Nancy was frequent
name for the girls of the Hanks
family, and both tradition and such
documentary evidence as there is
seem to present several Nancy
Hankses who might have been Lin
coins mother.
More than one Nancy Haaks had
children born out of wedlock and
others of the Hanks girls erred in
the same way. Tradition insists
upon a Lucy Hanks who became the
mother, while still unmarried, of a
girl who was brought up as Nancy
Hanks and became the wife of
Thomas Lincoln and the mother of
Abraham Lincoln.
This tradition was evidently the
one Lincoln himself believed. On
the other hand, there is a Nancy
Hanks. daughter of Joseph Hanks
and Nancy Shipley Hanks, whose
authentic record, so far as it exists.
answers all the requirements for the
Nancy Hanks who was the mother
Of Lincoln.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

Calhoun, so goes the story, fell in
love with Nancy and became the
father Of her child.
More of the MYTH
At this time, the myth continues,
Abraham Enlow, Of Swain County
North Carolina, was travelling be-
tween Kentucky and South Caro-
lima, dealing in mules. He had with
him as a helper young man named
Thomas Lincoln. Enlow and Lin
coin stopped regularly at the Hanks
tavern, and Calhoun used Thomas
Lincoln to escape the burden of
Nancy Hanks and her child. For
$500 Lincoln married Nancy Hanks
and took her and Calhoun's son to
Kentucky, assuming the parentage
of the boy.
Some versions of the story say
that Lincoln was born at the Hanks
tavern, at Craytonville crossroads: {:
some that he was born at Abraham
Elbows farm in Swain County,
North Carolina; some that he was
born in Kentucky, some that he was
born on the road from North Caro-
lima to Kentucky and some that he
was born on the farm of Thomas
Lincoln's uncle, Isaac Lincoln on
Watauga Creek, Tennessee, or on
the road to Watauga Creek. They
all agree that he was named Abra-
ham for Abraham Enlow, in recog-
milton of Enlow's kindness to Thom-
as Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.
There are several points Of this
story that will bear investigation
Authentic records show that there
was a Luke Hanks who kept tav
ern at Craytonville crossroads, An
derson County, South Carolina. His
widow, Ann Hanks, kept the tavern
after his deasll, and he had q daugh-
ter, Nancy Hanks. John C. Cal
houn rode circuit in South Carolina
in 1907. His Office was at Abbeville
Courthouse, and he travelled fire.
quently between Abbeville and PEN
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
knut Han1sun Made HUNGER Steppin9-Stone on R0a

that / replied, for l am dealing
with gentlemen
"Some of the passengers began to
laugh at me, but there were two or
three who now sided with me. They
paid for ALL"
DR.. Anders Doe, who knew Ham,
sun in Chicago in 1886, says:
He was such an out-at-the-eI-
bows lad. He was very poor, and
it was cold out on the back plat.
form of the old Halstead Street
horsecars. still remember Knut's
chapped, red wrists where his coat
sleeves forgot to meet his mittens,
But he always carried books in his
pockets. Euripides, Aristotle, Thack-
cray. Such a dreamer he was. The
passengers used to get mad because
he would forget to ring the bell and
they would miss their corners"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Too Stupid for The Job

The superintendent at the Hal
stead car barns said Hamsun was
too stupid ever to make good con-
ductor and fired him. He was al
ways forgetting the streets on the
line, and one day when an old lady
asked him if the car was south
bound, Hamsun scratched his head
and went forward to ask the driver.
care we going south?" he asked.
eve are going to hell" the driver
replied.
That was the day he was fired, but
he was not yet ready for another
struggle with the Christiania pub
fishers. and he got a job with the
Cottage Avenue line, where they had
cable cars.
Il was working there at Christ
mas time, 1887 says Hamsun. "The
public in that part Of the city was
better, and | had to collect the five
cent pieces With gloves. There l
had no strong sensations to expert
ence, but soon grew tired Of seeing
these villa dwellers and listening to
their conversations.
The life was hard enough at it's
best, and he made it harder because
he was saving money to go back to
Christiania.
"All winter long," he says, ~ COW
cred my chest with paper to protect
it from the strong, penetrating
wind. Every time l moved the paper
cracked noisily, which embarrassed
me very much, for my fellow con-
ductors always had fun at my ex-
pense.'
By spring he lad had enough of
the Chicago streetcars and went
to New York One does not know
if he beat his way on the trains, but
he did work his way back to Nor
way on a freighter sailing out of
New York. That time he had more
money than he had ever before
taken back to Christiania, and he
made use of it to mingle in the Nor
wegian Bohemia. Moreover, he
sold something occasionally. One
Of the things he sold was a sketch
called "Hunger" that a Danish
newspaper bought.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

dleton, The Hanks tavern was the
natural halfway house between
Abbeville and Pendleton Thomas
Lincoln had an uncle, Isaac Lincoln.
who had farm on Watauga Creek,
Tennessee. So far authentic records
support the Calhoun myth.
Facts Versus Gossip
Going into the realm of posi-
bility, there is nothing to show tLat
Luke Hanks, of Anderson County,
South Carolina, was not the son of
William Hanks, of Amelia County,
Virginia. There is nothing to STOW
that Calhoun did not stay frequently
at the Hanks tavern at Crayton-
vile crossroads. The probability is
that he did. There is nothing to
show that Calhoun did not know
Nancy Hanks, daughter of Luke
Hanks. Thomas Lincoln visited his
uncle, Isaac Lincoln, on Watauga
Creek, Tennessee.
Taking up once more authentic
records: Nancy Hanks, mother of
Abraham Lincoln, died in Indiana,
October S, 1918. Nancy Hanks,
daughter Of Luke Hanks, married
and became Nancy Hanks South.
She was still living in 1888, for she
is noted on the records of South
Carolina in that year as one of the
living heirs of Luke Hanks. Thomas
Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were mar
ried June 12, 1906, in Washington
County, Kentucky. Their first child,
Sarah, was born February 10. 1907,
in Hardin County, Kentucky With
the exception of one year, probably
1911, they lived continuously in
Hardin County, Kentucky, from
1906 to 1916, when they went to
Indiana. Abraham Lincoln was born
IN Hardin County, Kentucky, Feb~u-
airy II, 1909. Thomas Lincoln
visited his Uncle Isaac on Wau-
tauga Creek, Tennessee, between
1895 and 1900, probably in 1877.
When these corrections are made
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Then Starvation Again

He was getting near the end of
his rope when he sold that sketch.
The money he had saved in Chicago
was gone and he had to depend for
food on what he could earn by writ
ing. 1t was a long time since he
had sold anything, and he had
known hunger, starvation in Chris
tiania. "Hunger" was the dissection
of his sensations during three days
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
A Writer at II

ferhaps it was his boyhood in the
far North that made Of Hamsun q
writer poet and dreamer. The long
arctic nights may have brought out
'ae hereditary trait. For such a
nature as his is described, paradox
eal and rebellious as it is poetic
aao picturesque" seems necessarily
ING nnal fruit of powerful heredi-
iy tendencies, and his peasant
-'foears are said to have been
marked out from their neighbors at
'eas' once in each generation by an
a'as1ic tendency that made of them
sA'lled craftsmen. At any rate,
..om the time he learned to make
u's letters he was striving at liter
afy creation, and when at sever
w." ne consented to be apprenticed
" shoemaker it was in order that
~ might earn the money to have
printed at his own expense his first
.No completed works, a short novel
and long poem.
Inc next use he made of his an
plenticeship was to jump the lob with
s: s'ae more savings and go to Chris
~a1ia' where he hoped to work his
!. 10y through the university. But
'nas hope he failed. There were
WV reasons for this failure. The
40 IOre important was that he had
..s .%peo to pay for his lectures bv
~, sss,llne stuff to the Christiania pub
.sa .'saers Of newspapers and periodicals
sAa ne couldn't do it. They did not
.a''s his poetry, his fiction or his
s'ass. This failure produced the
s.na reason why he could not re-
saln ssss at the university. He became
.,nef ,.m an unbearable nuisance to his
ssl'0w ~ students or the butt Of their
: ~ They did not understand him
81 he made no EFFORT to be under
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

without food after weeks with almost
nothing. The 81 or SO he got for
the sketch kept him for another
week, and again he starved. In the
end he had to give up and ship be-
fore the mast on a small freighter
sailing for one Of the French ports.
The next three years took him to
Paris, Russia, Finland.
But he wound up once more in
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

lated into English. Three of them
are his earliest, Hunger, Victoria
and Shallow Soil. The fourth is his
last book, The Growth of the Soil,
written in 1918 and doubtless di-
rectly responsible for the award of
the Nobel Prize. Edwin Bjorkman
says Of it:
"The scene is laid in his beloved
Northland, but the old primitive life
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

Christiania. This time he elaborat-
ed the sketch "Hunger" into book
by the same name that covered his
last bitter struggle. 1t brought him
success and fame, money, leisure to
write and to enjoy the small farm
in central Norway where he has
since lived, and it led to the Nobel
Prize he has now received
Four Of his books have been trans
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
By Fred B. Pitncy

II 4 b e | a ( q d
award to knut
Hamsun of the
Nobel Prize for
Literature for
1919 has just
been announced,
Thus, the prize
goes for the sec
ond time to a
norwegian and
for the first
time to a former
streetcar c o n
ductor. Bjorn-
stjerne Bj0rnson
was the recipi-
ent in 1908, but
no other CAPTAIN
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
X NHE facts that the marriage
n Of Abraham Lincoln's father
Il and mother on June 70,

ME ldC'CS lHdC JilS marriage
h Of Abraham Lincoln's father
e and mother on June 70,
1906, is matter of anthem
tic record in the office of the County
Clerk at Springfield, Washington.
County, Kentucky; that the birth of
his sister, Sarah, in 1907 is properly
established and that the date of his
own birth, February ~, 1909, three
years after the marriage of his
father and mother, is properly es-
tablished, ought to be enough to sat
isfy any decent minded person Of
Lincoln's legitimate paternity. But
there are people who question. Per-
haps, it is because they have not
taken the trouble to learn the au-
thentic dates; perhaps they would
rather believe i'll than good. What
ever the reason, they do question
At one time there seemed to be
reason for asking the question. 1t
was during the Civil War period and
for a few years thereafter. The
records could not be found. They
had not been lost or mislaid. IT was
simply that the search was not made
in the right place. Lincoln himself
looked for the record of the mar
riage of his father and mother and
could not find it. Hence, 4 myth
grew up ascribing the paternity of
Lincoln to various men, among
whom were John c.. Calhoun and an
adopted son of John Marshall.
To Besmirch or Explain
Some Of those who believed in
and circulated the myth in It's DIFF
ferent forms were inspired b. hatred
Of Lincoln and welcomed anything
that would besmirch him. Others
thought it necessary to explain him.
It seemed impossible to them that
g man Of his acknowledged parent
age should attain the heights he
reached. Therefore, to them it was
necessary to give him father and
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
The Norwegiian's First Book De-
scribed His Sensations After
Going Days Without Food

he describes are no different from
their fellows all over the world.
They are professional spongers,
drones, lady-killers, ready to beg,
borrow or steal, ready for anything
except to earn their living honestly,
and pretending to despise the hands
that feed them. There is nothing
peculiar or unusual about the type,
and the book is chiefly interesting
because it shows how deeply Ham
sun was hurt by their failure to
recognize his genius.
Probably they despIsed him be-
cause he had done honest work, and
when his money was gone, when they
could no longer eat and drink on
his. savings, they kicked him out of
their society of ragged grafters.
Hamsun, unfortunately, could not
treat them with ridicule. He had
to use bludgeon on them.
Hunger, published in America
by Alfred A. Knopf, is much bet
ter book. There is no idea of re-
venge in it. It purports to be the
record of the thoughts, feelings and
actions Of a man who has not eaten
for three days and repeats the ex-
perience four times at brief inter
vals. To one who has gone through
the experience of three-day in
voluntary fast. coming on top of two
or three months of insufficient food,
the book does not ring true at all
times, but there is a high percent
age Of it that will bear laboratory
ANALYSIS.