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Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
SUDDEN DEATH OF

SUDDEN DEATH OF
 REV. PAUL F. WERTH
 Rev. Paul F.. Werth, pastor of the German Lutheran church of this city for the past seven years, died suddenly at his home at 169 Franklin street ear ly this (Saturday) morning. MT. Werth was in good health during Friday bu: about o'clock Friday evening com plained of pains in his head and soon became unconscious and without re- gaining consciousness died about 13C o'clock this morning. Death was due tc cerebral hemorrhage.
 Rev. MT. Werth was born in Use dunn Pommerania, Germany, March IT. 1869, son of Charles and Amalle Ment- gel Werth, bei-- one of a family of six
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
ENTERTAINED IN HONOR
 OF FIFTH BIRTHDAY

Miss Alice F. Qufnley of PIP Boswell avenue entertained a number of little friends in honor of her fifth birthday on Thursday afternoon. The little ones sat down to a nicely decorated table Games and music were enjoyed and the children had merry time Little Alice received many nice gifts.
 Those present were Marian and Doris Krohn, Lucy Schulz and Vera Krohn, Alice and Ruth Quinley.
 Mrs. John McNeely and Mrs. Harry Hldebrand assisted Mrs. Quiniey in en- tertaining.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
Unoaalmea I,etters.

. Unclaimed letters in the Norwich post office for the week ending Dec 23 are as follows: George B, Adams, Frederick F. Cook. H. R. Frank, Joe Fredricks Miss Eva B. Fries, Olive Potter, Mrs. Ford P. Shea.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
SMALL <cRowD AT
 BATTERY B DANCE

There was a. disappointing crowd 2. the dance given by Battery B at the state armory- on Friday evening with the Swanee .Serenaders of Worcester, Mass, playing for the, dancing. Those who attended said that the orchestra was one Of the best that had ever ap- peared in Norwich and 1t was regretted that there was not a larger patronage to enjoy this orchestra.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
Do You Want a Victrola !? < Then Cut Out This Ad and Mail It to Us Today.

lt will bring you
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 tion about Q U 2 special [ plan of en-
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 day. lf you long to Q V n a Vietroia
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
ATTENTION, LADIES

MME, LAckEN6AcH announces the opening of her Beauty Parlor, at 3 Washington Square, Wednesday, Dec. 27th. Your inspection is cordially in- vitsd. Souvenirs will be given to all customers during opening week,
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23

Soldiers of the British army eat 51 cents worth of food a day. The cost of ration a day to private in the French army is Ss cents. E.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23

|uont delay any longer. Send this ad today with your name and address
 to The PLAUT-cADDEN CO, fS5
 Main Street Norwich, Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
NOTICE!
Try our Christmas Dinner

ny our OhIistnas DinnE Turkey or Chicken. with all the Fix ings. Can't be beat. All for sI.0e. Orders for any kind of Pies made at all times- Regular Home Cooking.
 And don't forget to try our zoe Din ners weekly, at The Dew Drop Ina LaneA. 1ls Fraakiin Street.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23

,Airplanes fitted as offiees with desks typewriters, card -index cabinets, etc are the latest developm ants in comme-- eaaI aviation
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
DIED
CARn nF THANKs

We take this means of expressing our appreciation of the many kind acts anS expresSons of sympathy, shown us dur ing the illness and death of Mrs. CharIea ". Tubbs, and we are also deeply grate- Lul tog those who sent flowers to the funeral. z
 (Signed)
 EfF. AND MRS. HOWARD c. PECK. HAM.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
Cordially your
KATHERINE BUCKLEY.
 Chairman

Contributions for the tree are being received in abundance. which Is ample proof that the people of Norwich are never backward in helping toward a char itable work especially when it is the means of making little hearts happy.
 The members of the committee are as follows: Katherine Buckley, Miss Henri etta Steinkamp, Mrs James Dutton, Miss Nellie Kingsley. Mrs. John Murphy, Mrs. Nellie McHale, Mrs. James Guilfoyle, Miss Agnes White. Mrs. Hannah Eier- mann, Mrs. Joseph Farrell and Miss Loretta Bellef1eur
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
COMPLETING ARRANGEMENTS
 FOR CHRISTMAS TREE PARTY

Final arrangements are being made for the ChriStmas tree party to be held by the members of Mercier assembly, No. 2, Catholic Ladies of Columbus. at T. A B. hall Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 The committee. with it's chairman, Miss Katherine Buckley, has been hard at work all week filling stockings to be ready for Santa Claus to distribute to his little guests on Sunday afternoon. The invitations have already been sent out and it is proposed to entertain about 300 children of the city. The invitation, which reads as follows. will be the means of admittance to the party:
 Dear Little Friend: You are cordially invited to attend the Christmas tree to be given by the Czth- olic Ladies of Columbus on Sunday af. ternoon at o'clock in T. A. B. hall Be ! sure and come. as Santa Claus will be | waiting with little gift for you Cordially yours,
 KATHERINE
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
BORN

BEUNELLE-In Norwich, Dec. P, 1922. daughter, Lucille Virginia, to Mir. and Mrs. J. Nolace Brunelle HADBN-In Norwich, Dec. 22, 1922. a son to MT. and Mrs. John Haden (Alice EricSon).
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
INEIEzr.EIT $ EN SOCIETY

MT. and Mrs Byron H. Evans of Wash ington street, leave Sunday afternoon for Bridgeport to remain over Christmas at the home of their son and daughter-in- law, Major and Mrs. Lafayett E. Evans.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich, Saturday. Dec. ss, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

county engineers, and work is to be started at once. The section will be in Lake county, Indiana, between Dyer and Schererville.
 The Pennsylvania state police rate chronic yio1ators of road rules by means of punch marks on their regis tration cards. In this way every motorist carries his record with him, and the card is ready to exhibit to the prosecuting attorney.
 The official Argentine army tests of motor trucks for velocity and econofny under heavy loads and bad road conditions held recently were won by an American four-wheel drive truck. The three German trucks en- tered in the contest were unable to finish.
 Because some people take dena- tured alcohol, which is used as an anti-freeze agent in radiators, and. unaware of it's poisonous qualities,
 SC 1t in preparing "hootch" for sale, Federal prohibition agents are try ing to stop the purchase and use of this solution for automobile radia tors.
 Ten northeastern state, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary land, with an aggregate registra tion of 2.564.7ST cars, have more than one-quarter of all the motor vehicles registered in the United States.
 Among the latest novelties of auto mobile conveniences is a proprosed automatic garage of % stories. in Chicago, to cost s1,20O,000 After the owner or driver deposits the car in the building, an elevator carries it Up stairs and stores it in it's allotted space. All this work is accomplished by woman operating at a keyboard on the first floor.
 The public service commission of Nevada recently issued an order re- duiring the drivers of automobile stages and trucks engaged in the transportation Of passengers. explo- siVes and inflammable liquids to stop before crossing the tracks Of any steam or electric interurban railroad, and look in each direction for approaching trains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
HUDSON-ESSEX
 GOING STRONG

Hudson and Essex arc going strong into the spring season and will soon reach full speed production .- stated Roy D. Chapin, president of the Hudson Motor Car company.
 Our February shipments were 15o per cent more than last year and our March schedule calls for an increase of 200 per cent more cars than last March.
 We are shipping at tn rate of 200 to 25o Hudson and Eessex cars a day and it looks like the beginning of one of our very best seasons.
 Since all business fell off in the summer of 1920, there has been a great pent-up demand for motor cars that has never been fully released. In- dications point 10 the fact that this spring will see the companies that of fer unusual value doing a business of which they will be more thcn proud
 As an indica ton of the volume of Hudson and Essex sales. we are just shipping 10 our San Francisco dis tributor, H. O. Harrison, a solid train load of our products in 55 of the larE- est box cars made; 275 Hudson and Essex cars go in this shipm ,nt to this single western point. representing a retail value of almost a half million dollars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
DESTROY MARKET FOR STOLEN CARS
 ID STOP THEFTS
Laws, Locks and Protective Devices Are Not Adequate, Commissioner Declares.
 Many Stolen Daily
By Associated Press

Chicago. March 11.-Destroy the market for stolen automobiles and thereby stop the thefts, is the plan now in process of formation by the f interstate motor theft commission here
 l Laws, locks and protective devices have proved themselves inadequate, l says W. R. Van Courtland. commis- sioner. The professional motor car thief is unabashed. Motor vehicles of an approximate, value of sS00,o00, the commissioner says. are stolen every day in the United States, de- spite all measures taken to check the thievery. Large numbers of persons thrive as a result of the traffic. The plan is this:
 A car is stolen in Chicago. If the numbers are changed one of two things happens. either a duplicate of some other number is made or fake number one that the manufacturer never placed on car. When the car is sold and re-registered in any state some number must be given. A dup licate number will immediately be caught and the two or more cars car rying the number will be thoroughly investigated. X fake number will show up just>as quickly and be look ed into. If the number is not chang ed there will be a report of the num- Der on the commissions records as that of a stolen car and when the same number is registered again from the same state or any other it will immediately be caught.
 Lack of Clearance System
 The lack of any national clearance system in the past has been one of the largest contributing factors in making this lawlessness easy and profitable MT. Van Courtland states. With the commission's national clear ance system in operation car stolen in Maine the numbers changed ana the car sold and registered in Cali fornia. would immediately be caught he asserts.
 The plan is virtually finger print system as applied to automo- piles. A master record of every car registered in the 4S states as well as the new cars that come into existence Is to be kept at the commissions headouarters. The numerical ar rangement of the records makes checking of any vehicle simple and automatic. A smith ejght3 for ex- ample engine number 12S4 IS regis tered with the state. The commission receives this number and goes to post f but finds another Smith eight al- ready registered Tn that state or some other-and they do not correspond m detail It is immediately apparent that one is incorrect No man changes these numbers except for fraud. It is n simple process of elimination for the law enforcement bodies having jurisdiction over these cars to de- termine where the trouble lies and then with the aid of the commission, the original Identity of the stolen car and to whom it belongs is determined.
 Through this national clearance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
JUST WHAT A
 TRACTOR IS

The tractor is unit of power pro- pelled by the newest type of kerosene burning heavy-duty engine Of the four cycle type constructed so as to develop more power with less speed and therefore eliminating the wear and vibration of a high speed auto mobile motor. Just imagine your automobile being driven 200 miles in a day on a grade of per cent for a period of 90 days how long would the engine stand this wear and grind before it would need overhauling ? When you drive your tractor one day 1t is equal to driving your car 200 miles. and if you use the tractor aa an agricultural implement. it will be used about 90 days or equal to driv- ir.g your car 1S,000 miles on strain all the time. Then you can see why the tractor engine has to be built so strong, substantial and capable of standing up under this strain. There fore the bearings and connecting rods and all parts in the engine are three or four times as large as that of the automobile motor.
 As everyone knows that simplicity is what the public wants to deal with the tractor is very simple in construc- llOH any man Wlln oTuindfY sense can operate the tractor.
 Is the tractor a paying proposition to the small farmer? That is a ques- ton very often asked and as to the answer. this was decided upon by MT. Henry Ford that a farmer with a 4o-acre farm, the tractor is paving proposition, because the tractor is not only used to break up the soil and prepare the seed bed, but various other uses such as pumping water saving wood, cutting ensilage. haul ing logs and doing work under the belt that a 22 horse power engine can do. So you can see that the tractor is to be considered as a power plant IS well as blowing implement It can also be used as an industrial ma chine for grading and excavating work of all kinds, and last of all, used as small locomotive to run over rail and take the place of the old troublesome steam dinky locomotive
 The tractor is fast becoming a ne- cessity to the farmer and the price is now so low that any farmer can af- ford to own and operate a tractor and make it pay not only in the increase in crop production, but in the good it does to renew and enrich the soil. The time that is saved and the labor ano cost of operation, your expenses are severed in half. when you farmers wake up and farm the progressive way and get busy and make up your minds to make this year a profitable year by getting a Fordson tractor and making, bigger crops and save money on the cost of production the tractor is not just an experiment. but a plain ordinary farming necessity. and is here to stay
 All information regarding the Ford son tractor and agricultural imple- ments used with the engine will gladly be given by H. l.. Gooch of the
 HANNA MOTOR COMPANY,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
2fo l MOTOR ] DIGEST IA R] y

An automobile school is conducted for prisoners at Sing Sing, New York. Motor car theft losses in the United States every 24 hours are placed at more than S300.0OO
 Capital invested in ten large auto mobile manufacturing plants in Can ada, amounts to s43.000. 900.
 The automobile and the motorcycle have revolutionized the business of detecting crime in England.
 In and around Marseilles, the pop ular water resort of France, there are .000 passenger automobiles.
 Farmers in Algeria use motor trucks to supplement the rail serv- ice in the transportation of their products.
 As an aid to unemployed laborers in England 90.000 men are engaged in making new roads and maintain ing old ones.
 According to reports, attendance at automobile shows throughout the country is ahead of that of the same shows last year.
 Advertising signs, particularly those classed as dangerous and view obstruGting on the highway, are to be removed in Ohio.
 More than 10D,e00 physicians in the United States depend upon automo- piles to extend their service in their communities.
 cially in the west, an operator of a motor vehicle caught going down a hill with his clutch released is ar rested.
 Accommodations for dining and sleeping, as well as electric cigar ette lighters, are provided on a motor bus, recently designed in France.
 t.I. k.sr.1 1 I Irish Automobile club will hold an international motor exhibition in Dublin during February 1923.
 Pneumatic rammers. having a pres sure of i5 pounds and delivering more than 400 strokes minute, are operated in road building in France for packing concrete.
 Automobile interests in France are planning to change machinery, once ture of cars on wholesale scale in factories of that country.
 New York leads all other states ill the Union in motor vehicle registra- tions. with S1e.000 cars Ohio ranks second with 726,70O, and Pennsylya- mia third, with 6S95 5s9.
 Automobile railway ears with gas oline motors which are taking the place of steam locomotives weight AisvVv Po"huS VatHt ahu SoSl Roi9VV OL which $3,000 is for the body.
 In the production of passenger au- tomobiles, Michigan leads all othe states with more than s5 factories. Ohio is second with 2S plants in ac- tive operation, and Indiana, third with D.
 Chicago. with 2,14S miles of paved street, besides "A miles of boulevards and lo1 miles of park driveways, is considered the best city in the United States for operating a passenger au- tomobile.
 The Ideal section" of the Lincoln Highway is to be built under the supervision of federal, state ana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
Buying WaUe Result Of
 WiLlys -OUerland Reduction

the Willys-Knight touring and s32o on the Willys- Knight coupe.
 The new prices. it is said, were made possible by the savings through reduction of several millions in in- ventories and outstanding commit ments.
 list of the features of the Over land car shows Timken add New De- parture bearings, Mather vanadium steel springs, Auto-Lite starter, Stewart Warner speedometer, Budd all-steel body, with baked enamel finish, three speed transmi ssion, de- mountable rims, etc.
 The Willys- Knight car isl equipped with the Knight type sleeve valve motor, an outstanding feature of which is its proved ability to give tremendous mileage without motor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

The record smashing price reduc- ton announMd on overland and Willys- Knight cars last week has re- suited in a buying wave all over the country. according to announcements of Willys-O overland officials this week.
 Retail sales varying from one to fifty cars were reported in various cities and small towns within 24 hours after the new prices were an- nounced.
 Demand for both cars is of such proportions that stocks on hand throughout the country are largely depleted. Price cuts range from s45 on the Overland touring to $150 on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
WHEN THE NESTS HAVE CLEARED
 tMAN.,

William Allen White. in Judge.
 The conference on the limitation Of armament has been frying in it's own Tat for nearly two months now. and with all the open sessfc>ps and com muniques and in spite of the daily interviews with reports the people are confused as to what has hap- pened. There has been a flood of publicity but little news. The public ity has not been intelligentfy inter- pdeted; partly because the reporters did not understand it, and somewhat because the publicity was delivered cryptically. The reporters were nol supposed to understand it. Big things have been going on behind the scenes behind the scenes-pf lingual differ ences. racial aims, national tempera- ments. Half score of wells have concealed the truth-some immoy- able wells; but the big black blank ct of diplomacy has curtailed every thing. By midwinter the blanket will come down and we shall "know as we are known" and "there.u h., something doing in the good old sum mer timer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
ITCHING ECZEMA DRIED RIGHT UP
 WITH SULPHUR

Any breaking out of the skin. even fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly overcome by applying a little Mem tho Sulphur, says a noted skin spec ialist. Because of it's germ destroy ing properties, this sulphur prepara- tion instantly brings ease from skin irritation. soothes and heals the eczema right up and leaves the skin clear and smooth.
 It seldom fails to relieve the tor ment and disfigurement. Sufferers from skin trouble should get little jar of Mentho-S Sulphur from cny good druggist and use it like cold cream.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

test" the commission believes that 1t pose permanently of a. stolen ma chine. Closely identified with the commission the sheriffs, police de- pertinent heads, chamber of com merce secretaries, manufacturers, business and professional men. Names that appear on the national advisory boards include Joseph A. Faurot, dep uty commissioner. New York; Dan Beard, national Boy Scout commits sioner; J. A. Hall. educational direc- tor. Associated Advertising Clubs of the world, and Gutzen Borgium, sculptor and president of the Inter national Sporting club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
HAND-DARNING MACHINE

Darnins is made into pleasant occupation, 1t is claimed, when done with a device recently introduced in England. The little dArning machine. according to description and i)lustra- tien in the Popular Mechanics Mag azine, consists of a flat stretcher which is placed behind the hole ish the stocking. and over which is slipped saddle that holds the stock . ing in place,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
HIS BEST ExTINGUIsmER

From EverybodY's Magazine.
 Mir. Budger and his wife were con tinually at variance regarding their individual capabilities of making and keeping a good fire. He coutended that she did not know how to make a fire, or how to keep one after it was made. Sho, on the other hand main tained that he never meddled with the fire that he didn't put it out in short, that he was regular fire damper and, as he was always anx- ious to stir up things in the various fireplaces, she made it practice of hiding the joker just before it was time for him to come into the house. One night there was an alarm of fire in the village, and Budeer flew for his hat and coat.
 Where are you going" asked the wife
 Why, there's fire, and I'm going to help put it out"
 Well, my love" responded Mrs. Budger, 'I think the best thing you can do is to take the poker With you.
 The Grand Canyon of Colorado is 5000 feet deep-its deepest pare, with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
NOVEL ROAD-GRADING METHOD

/ That such a commonplace opera ton as the grading of dirt roads in sus ceptible of improvement has been shown in Wisconsin. It was to be expected that the tractor would dis place the four or six horses formerly used for pulling the grader, but the idea of putting the two graders abreast behind the tractor is novel. This innovation is described and H. lustrated in the Popular Mechanics Mag
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
EXPLAINED

From Judge.
 Woman-You say you met my father on the feild of Gettysburg?
 Tramp-Yessum. He was running sightseeing bus, and I was selling sandwiches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

Bacteria are being used to turn sugar canes from which the sugar has been extracted, into an available nitrogenous fertilizer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

From Judge.
 How did the wedding go off, Any hitch?"
 No, nor hootch"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
DITCHED

From Judge. "
 And you say you lost control of your car?"
 Yes couldn't keep up the in- stallments."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
RATHER HARSH

From Judge.
 "A New York woman is teaching etiquette to dogs"
 T know, some society pups who could profitabiy take a course"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12

The Grand Canyon of Colorado is 5000 feet deep-its deepest pare, with nearly perferrdicular side,