Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 11, 1911, Page 14

(Specially Written for The Bulletin.) 1 come mx pretty regularly to the subject of co-operation, as the Iittle boy says, “just because.” him “What made you throw l(ones at the hens”" and h. shifts uneasily from one foot to the other and abstracted- can’t tell why he does these things, bt he knows there must be a “because.” So he gets that far.and then stops. We're_all more or s like little boys. We can’t always be sure of the reason for things, either external or within us, Those of us who are most honest with ourselves can’t even be dead sure of our own motives. We are such complicated mix-ups, such jum- Dbied hm'-wdlel of reason and un- reason, of god-like aspirations and beast-like down-pullings, that no fel- low can ever be quite sure of himself. But I think I ses in co-operation one open door through which the farmers of the land might enter into actual possession of the things which are theirs by right. I know there are some others who think the same. I also know that in some cases selact com- panies have emtered this door and are today enjoying greater profits and an eniarged competence. I have myself shared in some of the advantages of co-operation. 80 you mustn't blame me If I keep banging away into the woods from my old-fashioned muzzle- loader, with my very smoky powder. You see, there's always the chance I may hit something. We New Englanders used to be ahead of all creation on most things. We got so into the habit of being there that a good many of us think we still are. But we aren’t. In too many of the roads of progress wew tagging along ‘steen miles behind the rearguard of the real army. In this matter of co-operation Europe is far ahead of anything in this country. But even in America, the west is giving us New Englanders its dust. With a vastly better farming country to work at western farmers have refused, in many cases, to sit down under the old toll-gate system of business. They have revolted, and by co-operating in the buying of their supplies and the selling of their products, have made one acre do wiat used to call for two, and have made one dollar worth as mueh as two used to b In some recent western farm papers T've found two or three interesting facts about some egg-selling associa- tlons. Two are in Minnesota, several in Canada. One, in Carlton county, Minn., is run in comnection with a creamery. When the farmers bring in Y. their cream they also fetch their eggs. Tach farmer has on hand a lot of cartons holding a dozen e They pack their eggs in these, keeping all the extra small and extra large for home use, putting the white eggs in one carton and the brown ones in an- Their agent has an arrange- with a big store in a big city, whose customers want real eggs and are willlng to pay real money for them, by which all these eggs are prompily paid for in cash at the price the agent es fit to filx. Please note that last clause. The egg-man does not ask the ocer “How much are you pay f eggs today ™ He ships in to said g er his carefully sorted, spotles clean, even-sized, absolutely eggs, and with them sends a o many dozen eggs at en. And Mr. Grocer pays the out winking, even when it is ten cents a dozen above the so-called “market srice” of common eggs. fresh for bill When this e;g selling association | as started, three years ago, the farm- in the neighborhood were shipping st fifteen cases of eggs a year. there are 125 farmers in the and they are sending out about cases a weelk. They bezun by getting two cents a dozen more than the re ular “store price.” Now they are gei- ting. in cash, five cents a dozen more | than the storekeepers pay, in trade. Another is in Meeker county, Minn. This aiso uses the dozen carion: re- quires the eggs to be of uniform shape. size and , and also_that none sl B» over seven days old when sold. Each egg is stamped—with a rubber stamp furnished by the a =0 that it bears the name of iation, and the number by which the individual farmer is regisiered. Every package of eggs is guaranteed, to the last egg, with a pledge to replace an nd bad in any way what n wembership of about sevent paying its members an average of five cents a dozen over again in cash, mind 3 past eight months has handled 22,000 dozen eggs. That is, these farmers have, in eight months, got $1,100 more for their eggs,in cash, than they would have got for the same eggs, in trade, had they continued to leave them at| the stores. ot 3o to be added that these particu- e have been sold “at the mar- 'he comsumer has not paid one um more for them. But, by eliminat- ing the speoulator and the jobber and the cold storage man, the farmers have =ot about £5 per cent. more. average CO-OPERATION AND ITS RESULTS! | tions of poultry keepers. There they form what are called #circles,” each circle inch\fllng the farmers handy to a certain “gathering station”—usually a farmhouse, The eggs are brought to these stations, from which a wagon of the association, which is composed of five ‘“ecircles,” collects them every week. They are taken to a central point, where all are “candled” and re- packed. Each “circle” elects ons mem- ber of a governing committee which hires an expert agent to handle the eggs. As in the Minnesota cases, each egg must be stamped so it can be tréced back to the farmer who brought it in, and each case is guaranteed. The members agree to about a dozen rules: They are not to bring in undersized nor ill shaped nor dirty eggs, nor eggs from “found” nests, nor any eggs nov laid by thelr own hens; they are to keep their eggs in a dry place and at as even a temperature as feasible, and they are to replace all bad eggs found. In these Canadian associations the payment is always in cash, the price runs from two to seven cents a dozen above “the market,” and the farmers can’t supply all the eggs that are de- mandad of them, even at these higher prices,which the; Canadian associations also ship dressed fowls, similarly guaranteed, and all dressed at the central station, so as to be uniform in quality and appearance. They find that this is even more profit-- able than co-operation in selling the eggs—and it saves all the dirty work of dressing fowls at the farm. Now, these are only cursorily gather- ed facts from one single limited field of farm production. In zll these cases the farmers sell their eggs to regular deal- ers, who retail them, charging the reg- ar retailer's profit to the consumer. . as Secretary Wilson has suggested, tile farmers’ selling organization had been met at the other end by a con- sumers’ purchasing association, this re- tailers’ profit might also have been eliminated, and the egg buyer have saved it for his own pocket. Such a combination would be almost ideal, for in it the producer Would get fair prices | When we all get so w Up in Canada in at least three coun- ties are simflar co-operative organiza- The Important Problem confronting anyone in need of a laxa. tive 1s mot a question of a single ac- tion only, but of permanently bene- ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live in a healthful way, with the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, whenever it is re. quired, as it cleanses the system sently yet promptly, without irritation ud will therefore always have the : roference of all who wish the best of ily laxatives. The combinatioa has the approval ! physicians because it is known to, te truly bemeficial, and because it has riven satisfaction to the millions of well-informed families who have used it for many years past. To get its bemeficial effects, always buy the genuine manufactured by the t 8yrup Co. only. for his produce and the egg eater would get his bréakfast at a consider- able saving. It is all so simple and so easy, in theory, that one can’t halp wondering why it ien't universally practiced. When you seek to find the re: however, you haven't far to go. needn’t stop as the little boy does with a blank “becausa’ It’s just be- cause we farmers are so cantankerous- ly and pugnacously “independent,” so waspish and “tetchy,” so jealous and suspicious. Not all of “us, thank heaven! Perhaps not even most of us. But too many of us. We're all so used to making our own rules and being our own bosses that we can’t and won't stand for other bosses or for rules that others help make. So long as each one of us can have his own way in everv- thing, and all the time, we slide along as easy as a wood-shod sled on frozen But when a dozen farmers un- to co-operate either in selling or buying every consarned one of the dozen has got to abide by some general le or other which he doesn’t wholly like. And they must work under some leader whom some of them are I to_disapprove or impugn. Moreover, soms of them will perhaps be inclined mittee in charge, s neighbors. They will sniffing the air for some voritism. Th thought bzing critical hhouml will for- the wa trouble begin: That's the sort of thing which ma co-operation impossible in some Io t and with some neighbo: the sort of thing, which lead: 1 out of ten of the failures which occur in co-operative attempts. The question isn't whether co-opera- tion is the wise thing and the right thing. That question is answered as soon as it is asked. he real que: is whether men and women are wise enough and t enough and reasonable enough to be_fit for co-operation with each other. We're undertaking to run a government on just that plan. And we certainly are making something of a mess at it. But we're improving—a little and in spots. Perhaps, by and Dby, we may get to that point where a majority of us farmers will cease to feel that Number One is of more ac- count than all the rest of the world. an subordinate individual whim to the general welfare, why then we'll all co-operate, as a matter of course, just as we plow be- fore we plant and eat breakfast when it’s ready. In the meantime, and until that time, a few of us have apparently got to keep on being, like John the Baptist, just voices crying in the wilderness. THE FARMER. The Gayfly of the Socialists: With a socialist administration giv- ing bals, and a republican declining even an inaugural one, our wpsy-turvy politics seem more upside down than ever. And when the gayer official is one with a title so suggestive of comic operd. as the Mayor of Milwaukee, a er instinctively looks for the foot- hghts The republican, being a pro- gressive, might be expected to ask for an inauguration characteristic of his proposed administration—*“direct, cer- tain, simple”—even though he is the governor-elect of so sunny a state as California. But one’s idea of social- ism is of social reform in a somewhat different sense from that of popular- izing such public utilities as waltzes and quadrilles, As the mayor says, however, “when we look into each oth- er's eyes, as we did last night, we find that the other fellows are not so bad after all.” It might be well for the first republican congressional caucus this winter to take the form of a ball, care being exercised that the speaker and certain of his fellow partisan: should “look ineo each other's eyes. One detail must be watched. By an oversight, the programmes of the Mil- waukee affair did not bear the union label. This will be remedied, it is an- nounced, at the next dance.—New York Evening Post. Wil Make It Unanimous. Perhaps, it Roosevelt's “silen keep him in the limelight he'll never want to break it—Atlanta Constitu- tion. » . Not While the World Lasts. The scientists now assert that the earth is going to dry up. But it is very apparént that the sicentists never will—Grand Rxpids Press. , In_ addition 1o frying to drunken man nearly plcture taken.—Topeka Capit: DANIELSON Club to Be . Organi Close During W, Farmers’ Stores . Funeral—Late Charles W. Tayntor. an Expert Shot—Captdin Darbie on Waiting Orders. F. E. Bitgood was in Boston Friday on_a business trip. Joseph Gagnon of the West Side is a patient at the Day-Kimball hos- pital, having undergone an operation. D. E. Jette was in Boston Friday on a business_trip. Thomas Lambert of Lowell, former- ly of Danielson, is visiting with friends in town. , A, L. Reeves, president of the East- ern Connecticut league, will.go to Jewett City Sunday for a meeting of the directors of the organization. Charles T. Preston is récovering from injuries received whem his horse ran away while returning from South Killingly last Sunday. Rural Carrier Arthur Logee reports having seen a number of robins this week while covering his trip. Mrs. George Danlelson is to hava the members of the W, C. T. U. at her home for a meeting next Tuesday afternoon, whén the subject will be The Pre: Farmers’ Club Projected. A meeiing to perfect a neighborhood farmers' club is to be held at the home of Mrs. L. C. Jarvis on Allen hill next week, Mrs. M. V. Woodworth, who has been ill With pneumonia. for some time at her home on Hawkins street, is gradually improving. Mrs. Jjane E. Sweet has been named as administratrix of the estate of Miss Grace J. Sweet, who died in Dan- ielson a few days ago. William F., Davis, formerly of Dan- ielson and Putnam, now of Elizabeth, J., is at his home in Dayville where his father, John Davis, died this week. William N. Arnold, tax collector for the town of Killingly, has issued the usual notice relative to the collection of such taxes as come due in April of each year. Back from Ohio, Rev. F. W. Armstrong, who has been conducting a series of special meetings of an _evangelical nature at Liver- pool, O., has returned to Danielson and will speak at the services at the Pentecostal church Sunday. Officers of Parish House Association. The Parish House assoclation of the Congregational church has elected these officers for the ensuing term: President, Rev. C. H. Barber; vice president, Preston B. Sibley; secre- tary, Harry E. Back; treasurer, Frank J. G. Bailey. In Memory of W. W. Woodward. Busjness men of Danielson will close their stores from 1 to 2 o'clock this (Saturday) afternoon in respect to W. W. Woodward, who was the dean of the active business men in the bor- ough. George Duval Won Final Game. George Duval won. the final game and first honors in the pool tourna- ment that was closed Thursday night at the rooms of the Bohemian club, playing A. V. Woodworth, 100 to 45, Mr. Duval made the smaller number of balls while Mr. Woodworth was still in the 80's. In connection with the game a smoker was held, more than 50 members attending. Cpposed to Snaring. M. S, Warren, F. E. Bitgood and Lafayette Blanchard appeared be- fore the committee on fish and game at Hartford this week relative to measures pertaining to the use of nares and scented bait. The hearigg an interesting one and people from veral counties in the state were heard by the committee. The particular objection to the effort to repeal the law prohibiting the use of nted bait in trapping foxes, or rath- er in snaring them. The sportsmen hold that as many dogs as foxes are snared., the dogs being much valuable than the other animal Shot Before Queen Victor Charles E. Tayntor, who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week. was one of the most expert rifle and revolver l0ts in the world. His home was ned with many beautiful trophies in competition, and there is hard- e of importance in the United State on which he has not contested and won honors In the 8¢'s Mr. Tayntor was one of a number of world famous shots that participated in a tournament shot before Queen V and the members of her court, he winning sec- ond place in the competition. 48 DEGREES TO 83 DEGREES Temperature Noted by Borough Vis- itors in Los Angeles. Henry F. Clark, who is spending his second winter in Los Angeles, but expects to return to Danielson in the ly part of May, sends to a local riend the United States weather bu- reau records of tempe: that the city of roses has eniyved since De- cember 1. The lowest mark for De- cember was 42 degrees, reached on the 29th and 31st, and the highest 83 de- grees, reached on the 6th. January and February made low temperature records of about the same degree, al- though the mercurv did not climb as high by ten degrees during thesa months” as in December, the average maximum being about 65 degre Mr. Clark says that he is enjoying | his usual health. March Directresses. Arthur G. Bill, Mrs. Mrs. Henry Morey, and Mrs. Charles Charles the month of March. ON WAITING ORDERS, for Capt. E. L. Darbie May Be Sent to Texas. Capt. Elbert 1. Darbie, Thirteenth company, C. A. C., is on waiting orders for directions to proceed with other. Connecticut officers of the National guard and expects to leave here for Texas in a few days to participate in the war manoeuvres. Capt. A. Putnam Woodward, @. O., and Lieut, Hal R. Eaton find them- selves so situated that they will be unable to leave, so Captain Darbie will probably be the only officer from this section that will travel down to the banks of the Rio Grande. It is optional with the local officers as to whether they go or stay, but Captain Darbie does not foresee any- thing to interfere_with his going and relishes the plan so to do. Just when he will leave is uncertain, but it will probably be at such time as the other Connecticut officers get away. Commission Appointed to Consider Change in Charter. Representative Frank _P. Warren, Rienzi Robinson, Judge M. A. ay, Frederick A. Jacobs, Tim- Hopkins, Arthur G. Bill and M.ny B, Gordon A. Johnstone were named as members of a commisgion at the spe- cial borough meeting held Friday evening, to draft such amendments to the present eharter of the borough of Danielson as may seem advisable, or suggest changes in the proposed char- ter, or draft a new ome. The com- mission ig appointed without festric- tion as to what it shall revise or ad- No vise in the way of a charter. <ing, a|time limit has been fixed for the filing alwavs has his) of its report. ‘Warden - Bullard called the meeting to order at /7.30 in u:q and many among those abroad) | Town hall. About 1 werg pmen-t. Juigt Harry E. Back fs-a member of | the court of burgesses exphined thal need of revising the present charter, and the provisions of the proposed | ‘charter, drafted by a committee of the court or bflxfisses‘ He SMed that much contained 1 the had beea incorporated in the evisic charter, with such mew features as seem desirable, and also that there might be many things open to crit- iciom in the araft presented to tae meeting, which has been called to see what action the electors would take relative to the matter. - Robinson criticised ome or two features of the dra!t'. gl‘l"esented. ‘but on the whole those af e me very little to say, the tendency being seemingly to hesitate and to awalt developments, Some of those present were - frark enough to say after the meeting that they knew little about the present charter, less about the propos- ed one, and did not leelieoml;‘e";@nt tol discuss the proposed revise. e Tes- olution naming Dr. W. E. Hyde, Frank T. Preston and K. A. Darbie as a nom- inating committee to present the names of a charter revision commit- tee to the meeting was presented to the meeting by Arthur G. = Bill, the names of the committee brought in be- | ing accepted. The meeting also vot- {ed to construct a sewer before Sept. | 1 through Mechanic street, from Acad- emy street to a pojnt north of Hutch- j ins street. : Boat Train Delayed by Accident. The northbound boat train due here at 7 a. m. was delayed an hour and a half Friday morning by an accident to the locomotive that disabled it near Killingly pond, about two miles south of Danielson. The locomotive of a northbound - freight that finally came along was used to push the stalled passenger train into elson, from where the switcher from the Putnam yards took the train to Worcester. The Ladies’ Art club is to meet next Wegdnesday afterneon with Mrs. F. A. Jacobs of Broad street. PUTNAM Bishop Partridge Now of Kansas City See—Rev, B. M. Donnelly to Deliver St. Patrick’s Day Address—Firemen Feast — Owls Instituted — Andem Hearings in Superior Court, Bishop Sidney C. Partridge of Ja- pan, nephew of Judge L. A. Catlin of Nevada, thas just been selected bishop of the diocese of Kansas City, to suc- ceed the late Bishop Atwill. 8t. Patrick’s Night Entertainment. 'Thomas P. Ryan, P. J. O'Brien, James H. Rafferty, F. H. Murray and James O'Brien have been mamed 3s a committee of Division No. 1, A. O. H. to make arrangements for an enter- tainment to held on the evening of March_17. ev. Bernard M. Donnelly of Grosvenordale will make the ad- dress. May Visit K of C. Council. “Congresman-elect Thomas -Reilly of Meriden has given a- provisory prom- ise,to .come to Putnam on March 19 to attend the degree to 'be conferred on a class of candidates in Cargill coun- cil, K. of C. He contemplates a short visit in Boston about that time, and will try to so arrange his trip as to make it possible for him to make a stop-over in this city. Common Battery Switchboards for Putnam and Willimantic. Rumor has it that common battery switchboards are to be installed in the central offices of the Southern New England Telephone company in Put- nam and MWillimantic, and that the changes will probably be made in a short time. The Putnam and Willi- tic' divisions are the largest in Windham county and together have about 3,000 stations. Protectors’ Guests Finely Entertained. _The members of Protector Hose Co., 1, did themselves proud at their supper and smoke talk held in ment headquarters. After the eatables were cleared away and cigars tlighted, C. Dwight Sharpe, a former foremap of the company, announced that tife duties of the tnastmaster had pectedly fallen upon him, and he | did remarkably well, easily carrying ;.1\\':|_\'»U'c oratorical honors of the { evening. All the responses were short ard to the point. Among those who spoke were: Mayor Archibald MacDonald, Corporation Counsel John F. Carpenter Alderman Brodeur, Chief Mark H. Wilson of the Putnam fire department, Dr. J. J. Russell, Barrak Smith, Fore- man Dick Sharpe of ' the Protectnrs. Johin B. Byrne, C. M. Letters, and last, ‘but not least, “Plain Bill” Fuller. 1 | Cigars, cribbage, whist and a gen- eral jolly time kept the crowd busy until a late hour, and the general opi ion was that the Protectors made bet- ter hosts than basketball players. 1 Owls Instituted. am nest of the Order of Owls uted Thursday evening in L 11 by the Deputy Supreme ank Lombard of Hartford, the officers of Norwich and rd nests. There are about 150 members in the new nest, and many of them were not able to be present, 180 Org: r Whitney has obtained a special disperisation to keep the char- ter open for three days to allow those who were not able to be present to get in at the charter fee. Mr. Whitney is to work in conjunction with the mem- bers to quickly built up the Putnam branch ot ‘the order. | SUPERIOR COURT. Short Calendar Businéss Disposed of— No Decision in Paine Divorce Suit— Holbrook-Andem Case Resumed. Swperior court opened Friday morn- g at 10 o'clock. Short calendar mat- ters were first taken up. In the case of William J. Kelley vs. Edward J. Taylor, which was for ths foreclosure of a mortzage held by the plaintiff, who resides in Danielson, on property of the defendant, located in Brooklyn, the court fixed May 1st, 1911, as. the law The mortgage with acerued interest amounted to $313.33. In Harizy S. Place w. town of Ster- ling, the court overruled the motion of the defendant that plaintiff furnish $100 bond for prosecution. The case of Emma E. Bradley vs. George S. Bradley was provisionally assigned_for trial on Wednesday, March 15th. Other cases werz assigned for trial as follows: Peter A. Turgen vs. Fred- erick 8. Woodward, Wednesday, March 21st; Ernest E. Moore, trustee, vs. Mary ~ O. Jasmine, et al, Tuesday, March 28th. Decision Reserved in Divorce Suit. Then the uncontested divorce case of Minnie A. Price vs. David E. Price was taken u Mrs. Price, who now lives in Woodstock, stated that she marriéd Price in Southbridge o) n. 10th, 1902, that at the time suit .was brought Price resided in Charlton City, Mass., but now lived in Brattleboro, Vt. She said they had troubl&all their married life. that Price very seldom worked and that he considered her lazy becausz she would not work to support them both. Previous to April 1st, 1907, but onthat he had used her brutally, date, when they were" bridge, Mass., in addi and choking her, he threatened to shoot her and ordered her to leave the house. Shey left him, coming to Putnam-and then going to Woodstocks where she has since Yesided. Emerson Morse of Woodstock ‘{esti- fied that he knew the couple'and that ahouse-helenging te- they had lived in- her. m, clothing, food and mmwy. vtwhieh she was very mlmh in Forest A. Marcy stated that hehld received a letter from Mr. Price post- marked Brattleboro, Vt., in which Price wrote that he understood that Minnie (Mrs. Price) had instituted di- vorce proceedings and - that he hoped ‘'she would be successful in sescuring it. Edward Bailey of West Woodstock took the stand.” His story W:s-ss fol- ‘lows: Something over years ago Mrs. Price came to his home in ‘West Woodstock, scantily clad and in a generally destitute condition. She asked if she could not do the house- work for her board and clothes. He took her in and a short time after her child, Stanley Francis, now over three years old, was born. She has resided with and worked for him since that time. ‘The court reserved its decision. C. S. ANDEM Resumes Testimony in Suit Brought by Trustee George'F. Holbrook. At 11.35 C. S. Andem, defendant in George F. Holbrook, trustee, vs. Clinton S. Andem, took the stand and Mr. Har- vey continued his examination. Mr. Andem said that upon his return from the New Hampshire trip in the second week of June, after the $32,300 mortgage was recorded, in company with Attorney F. F. Russell he called at Mr. Arnold’s office one evening to receipts which made up the 22,300 were two notes for $5000 each which Mr. ! Arnold_immediately tore up.. Mr. An- dem did not know why. Mr. Andem then suggested that the motas ought to be preserved until the matter was fully settled and thereupon Arnold re- turned them all to him with the excep- | tion of thos2 which had been torn up. Mr. Andem never had any question as to the safety of his investments with Arnold and never made any investiga- tion of Arnold’s business other than to listen tb public opinion, the recom- mendations of Judge Russell and an occasional inspsction of the land rec- ords of Putnam. In Charge of 1,300 Operatives. Upon cross examination by Mr. Searls, Mr. Andem said that as agent of the Grosvenordale company, having charge of two large mills, emploving 1,300 operatives and turning out 80,000 yards of cloth per day, he was kopt so busy that he had no time to make any closer investigation of Arnold’s busi- ness than he had made. John E. Carpenter’s Testimony. Attorney John F. Carpenter then took the stand. Questioned by Attorney Harvey, he stated that he is now en- Zaged in the practice of law in Put- nam. In years past he has been cashier and now is and for some time has been vice president of the First National bank ‘of Putnam. He said that he had acted as attorney for C. Fred Waterman in endeavoring to se- cure payment of a note held by Water- man against Arnold and had succeeded in getting a_part payment of the note. He knew Mr. Andem and remember- ed that while he and Mr. Andem were = r { i give the conmsideration for the mort- | gage and to receive the mortgage | note. , Among the checks, notzs and | § ‘are the results for wfifch we strive in all our installations. - WE KNOW HOW to instal Steam or Hot Water . Heating Systems, High Press- ure Power or Heating Plants, Sanitary Plumbing Outfits or Gas Fitting Installations so that the above mentioned re- sults may be obtained. We have the best equip- ment and material, and our pricesare reasonable and right. Pipe, Fittings, Valves, Packing and Engineers’ Supplies are special- ties with us. PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTEN- TION GIVEN TO MAIL OR TELE- PHONE ORDERS. Satisfaction Guaranteed Robert Brown Estate, 55, 57, 59 West Main Strast. ARTHUR M. BROWN, Manager Office 133 — TELEPHONES — Residence 864 Open from 7.30 a. m. to 5.30 p. m. %o o % % N 2% n N S Y riding~in a train between a year and a half and two years ago, among other things, the conversation turned upon Arnold and his methods of doing busi- ness. Mr. Carpenter expressed it as his opinion at that time that it was only a matter of time when the bubble would burst and Arnold’s business go to pieces. Mr. Andem replied that there were some things which he himself did not understand about Arnold’s meth- ods. Mr. Carpenter at that time knew of and was surprised at the part that Mr. Andem had dealings with Arnold. Arnold Kept Banks Busy. As vice president of the First Na- tional bank of Putnam Mr. Carpenter Mr. Rawley states that this is a mis- take and that such is not the fact. swallows passing northward over the Alps, leaving Italy, was surprised by a heavy snowstorm near the hospice of St. Bernard, so famous When the good monks saw the helpless birds coming like a black cloud, they opened the doors and windows of the hospics, swarmed in and were sheltered from the storm and the enow. All the rooms were crowded by the swallows, which remained the whole night. The next day was fine, and in the morning the birds resumed thelr flight. Hundreds of the swallows which did not succeed in reaching the hospice werc later found dead in the snow. Swallows in the Alps. The other day an enormous flight of Meriden.—Company I stood second in the drill report for the Second regi- ment for the month of January. Com- pany F of New Haven led with a figure of merit of 99.75, and Company I's fl‘\u}lfiu 98.91. in history. and thousands of the birds is kept in close touch with the affairs of that institution and he stated about the month of May, 1910, Arnold kept that and surrounding banks pretty busy Harvey asked Mr. Carpenter if, in his capacity of prosecuting attorney* in the city court of Putnam, he had ever, previous to June 3d, 1910, had complaint made to him concerning Ar- nold in which it was claimed that Ar- nold had not turned over certain mon- eys of which he was bailee. Mr. Car- penter answered that no such com- plaints had been mada before June 3d, 1910. Mr. Searls objected to Mr. Har- vey's question if there had been any after that date, and the court ruled the question out. Clerk Floremus Clark Testifies. Floremus Clark then took the stand. His statements were as follows: He is now the clerk of the trustee, George F. Holbrook. For the past thres years he has been Mr. Arnold’s clerk. His duties were to keep account of the sales made at the greenhouse, the rents and tha repairs on the real estate. He was directed to make a list of the properties included in the Andem mortgage to have in court when the case is next taken up. Frank F. Russell on the Stand. Attorney ¥rank F. Russell was then called. Mr. Russell has known Mr. Arnold since the first day he cames to Putnam, which he thinks was about ten years ago. He is a partner in the firm of Searls & Russell, which firm Mr. Arnold retained in 1906. Aside from any law_business transacted be- tween them, Mr. Russell had a great many dealings with Mr. Arnold during the past ten vears, the first of which was in 1905, when Mr. Russell sold Arnold a house, taking a mortgage thereon of $1,000. Since then he has taken many mortgages and has had participating and special accounts. His last transaction with Arnold was on Jan. 1st, 1910, when he lent him $1,000 in cash. At the time of the failure Arnold owed him $20.000; $13,- 000 was covered by mortgages and $7,000 was unprotected. 2 At this point (3.15 p. m.) court ad- journed until Tuesday morning, March 14th_ at 10.30, when the jury will be in attendance, and criminal matters will be taken up. This case will be re- sumed at the first opportunity. Did Not Receive Part Payment. 1t was reported Thursday that Thom- as Rawley had received a part pay- ment ,on what Mr. Arnold owed him. Bright —Entrancing —Snappy Prices 25¢ to $1.50 BRADLEY THEATRE, Putnam; March i5th RED MILL ~ with 50—PEOPLE—50 A Musical Mint Augmented Orchestra Special cars north and south after shaw AN EXCEPTIONAL ATTRACTION BUY Poultry Nettin Diamond (one and two inch) Mesh 19 Gauge Wire, all widths, from one to six'foot. Also the new Excelsior Square Mesh, 1% inches at bottom and four inches square at top. AND Roofing Two-ply Tar Roofing, also one and two-ply Rubber Roofing. 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