Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 10, 1911, Page 14

§Written Specially for The Bulletin.) | gether enough to buy a few shingtes to “pateh” with. A friena or mine, who has kapt a 1ot of family account books, running back well over a hundred years, was teMin; me, the otner cuy, of some queer ex tries In them. in ene book covermg some years before 1856 he found that his grandraiher and father used to pay from twelve %o fifteen cents a pound far sugar, as high as thirty-five cents a yard for catico, adout twenty cents a pound for nails, and 6 on and on. At the swme time, when they did a day’s work fer a meighbor they charged wages of “fenr York shillings” a day— fitty cemts. They sold their potatoe at prices ranging frem “two shillings to forty ocenis a bushel, fed out all their hay aamd corm, and got about twelve and a haif cents a pound for their butter. At which prices the grandfather| bought and f#6r his farm, and the father enla amd much improved it. Mhe gon rankiv admiis shat he can't| zet a ¥ving off ii, and should have to =ell out if he had no other source of in- | comse from smaidl investments. Yet thai same son can get purer su- | =8¢ at swowt fve cents a pound—by | the hundred—better cakico at six cents | a vard, nails at less thap two and a| heif aguts by the keg. And he « eorn $£h50 o day wages—$2 a day haying and harvestipg —can get thirty | cents a pound for mds butter, and from | sighgy "o nfmety cents a bushel for his potaftees from Comsiumer customers. The same term. e .same sun and raia, tfe same manure at command wpd oual fertilizers buyable, of which the former generations Rmew | naught; higher prices for what he pro- dwces and smaller prices for whet he baws—and yet this genemation can’t méke the fagrm support it, where for- Teer genesations eorned net only a Hv- (r, made the farm pay for itself, ihto the hasKiin. And had some small © ipaest, bestdos—What—on | ~—earth—is e matter Ylu may swggest various reasons. Jhs, -mm r-rmwr is lazy and | s moon—with a ring aroun If we could, worker u-,uu Teliow' about his nlace. he hasn't any buiness senee? Bwl he has; he's as sharp at a a0y of us. Perhaps he o he dofs Dbut only water wilere his grandfather and famed to buy and drink rum. saccoust books show that they B it B§ the keg and sometimes By t0e barvel. Perhaps ne nas a Digger | Tamity ? smaller than m either or | T mr-dln. generations. Perbaps the | r..% mnm« run down? Ol resi- have knewn it for sixty emrs sofl . me it is making as_gooa grops as thev ever knew it to. Where, n fhe tremendous change come hat e the explagation? Well, these same account books give the smswer. if one really wants to know 1t. It has to be worked out a little, but it's fetrly illumimative, when vou he- %0 get at it. For onme instance, ‘here i=n't A vecord for vears and yvears of a single purchase of a suit ciothes or a dress. There is one recora of tha purdhase of so many vards of broadcloth—presumably for the farm- er's “Sunday go to meetin’” suit—and several records of the p co, once of seme gingham, and once of a “paftern” of black sik. That broad- cloth and sik were “made up’ at home by mather and deughters. They were quMe ar proud of their deftn and skill in doing it as their grand- daughter is of her skill a whioh geme, she plays it, wears a drees n by 2 dress d costing at leas: twice as the entire olothing bil father’s family for a year. The usual| overwday clothing of those days v alwi produced s wed. Wool was take tha joes! mfs and mede into clot many pyarde being given for pounds of weol, the factory taki many ng its profit i a sort of “oll” Then the cloth | was cut and made up as needed heme. Seme flax was raised and fr the fiber reudh but exceedingly ser animals were tanped at the local tan nery, snd from the resultant leather the featgear af the family was m 1P by #he nwighborhood cobbler, ing st 0 mueh a day, like an3 other | e e simgle matter of clothes yearly money expenditure of a large | was hard- | of a small- | pow. That shows where some | family two generations bac 1y ome-tenth of (e expens o fami of the money goes or featuiz of the former meth- od. .c living s freguentiy suggested in rhese off Books . though not fully writ tem out. There is Lardly an item show- ing the pwrchize of meat. But are items shawing exchanges of meat with different neighbors. .1t is evid, that when Jabez kiled a beef he used what he could as fresh m what he though’ desirable, and distrib- | uted the rest arsund ameng his neigh- bors. Then when they slau 1tered they retusned to bim an equal amount of fresh meyt. The same with pork, and, ocoasionedy, with mutton. When the shad wers ‘running” in the river they used te buy them by the wagon load at five cents a fish, cisan and salt them down Itke mackerel, snd use them freely during the rest of the year. That wvas @bowl their only actial money out oy for meat qr fish. The result was that they ususdly had all the meat t wanted. at the exact cost of raising it. Xew ths meat that is consumed on that fasm i bought almost wholly from the Duéchers. and the price includes not omly Lhe cest of the meat itself, but aMo the profits of the speculative ioumer, the Rretiis of the slaughtering heuse, and the cest of delivery. This particular farmer gets about the same for his heef when he sells it “on the heof” fiat his zrandfather did Then he pays semething more than dowble for the meat he buys to con- sume. Nowy, these are just examples of some things those old books suggest. It sesms to me that they tell the story of why farming used to pay profits where new it fails o pay living wages. The reason i in the changed meth- ods of living. As a simple matter of fact, we farmers are getting much more money, all things censidered, than our fathers did. We are spend- ing very much more. It gramdfather gof three hundred dollurs & vear off bis fasm «nd speni (wo hundred dol- lars, he was a hundred doRers to the good. And he put it In the bank, or bought' mere land with it, or bulit & Letter Laen. HMis grandson gets five hundred dellars off the same farm, and spends every red gent of it to pay out- slders fer the clathes and the provis- ions (hat the farm used to provide for itself. He has none left to invest or te buy with or ‘to bubld new brrns. 1 the 'e¥i .bann reof gets to leaking, he *hinks himself lucky te scrape to- OLD ACCOUNT BOOKS AND WHAT THEY REVEAL It’s the old truth retold that wealil consists, not in the amount of money in the proportion which he which he spends. a year who spends but $: r S the rest, is rich: the man with $8,000 a vear who spends $16,100 is poor, and always will be, do I care how said a neighbor to me, once. in an age of luxury. What used to be the rare treats of a ar must now be our 3 550 o8 it Tafmer 10 -me, not long find I've bought fourteen dozen oranges, to say nothing of ba- nanas, etc., for the youngsters, dur the past year. I got ome orange at perhaps one at the Sunday These young thing: now. don’t appreciate as much as I did my things which rare luxuries we now hold, but as necessities. have them. be considered not merely that's the end on't. eternal law inherent in things wh phrased in the homely sa. can't have yvour cake and f we must have plums But there is one | | If we don't ¥ find apples enough for 2] any oceas complain that we can't make a 1sn't equal .| into consideration the city ich an energet dana healdh of zland farms it wouldn't sati I'm not saying, understood as meaning (hat we f 1911 ought to go b: imitation of the details of l\\unz D the farmers took r‘nnm(mns as found them and but it is les: less strenuous. campelled in a rougher T and not circumstances, responsible. There are one-horse o-horse farms : ot Al | in New London especially, that the city obile- ¢ of | o machine and irchase of cali- | just keep a man s| When vJe farrv- ! other ¢ tennis—at | we shall hear a h as| of her ;rnx\d-‘[ it, ourselves TOLLAND CGUMY STAFFORDVILLE Visitors During the Week—Father Guest of Rev. Marion H. Jones. home made—and often home| to} so | » made for summer | Harvey of Wi Guest of Pastor. e Gi lrt»l» atte: | ed thou neral of her f Providence, . Mrs. Eva Parkor, | section of Main street, days recently | several davs with 3 at, salted | son Lyon visited fr les Smith has purchased an s May Attendance Schools—Missionary Address. Those schools having the centagze of Jones Street. ger district., 89 per cent. Mies Sarah dent of schools, 91 per cent superinten- town Tuss- Spoke at Congregationz! Church. ._Jehn Solomon town Sunday and spoke in gational church that mo: tentive congregation. of John S. Porter, 3 Austria, who has spoken here several 2 to an a‘- Mrs. Ralph Wright i diss Florence Gilead over Sunda State Recognition Dus Mr. Plant. fedgdments - his $1,000,000 college (o be establizhed in toion coun - good college & womans coll n: tmes college | cups and Bryn Mawr, —Wdlcruur)' In His Absence Acting Mayor Downey Recommends Such Recognition NEW LONDON’S FREE ADVERTISING Political Antics of Difficult Interprékation—'l'he Why and Wherefore Unnecessary—Neglect to Enforce Building Laws—A New Amusement Scheme. The regular monthly meeting of the]the building down and carted the ma- court of common council was pecu- | terial away placing it where the ma- liar in that every measure that was|terial was at the disposal of the owner introduced acide from tne routine | Of course the city paid the penalty business, action was deferred to an | but the eve-sore wagremoved and now adjourned meeting to be held next|a tasty building of BFick is on the site Monday evening., in_ most instances|and all parties concerned are better in deferénce to the absence of Mayvor ' satisfied than if the old shack had lm-l Bryan F. Mahan. The presiding offi- | dergone repair: cer was Senior Alderman Stepnen J. — Downey and during the progress of | Alderman James F. O’Leary an- the~mesting he took oceasion several | nounced at that same council meeting times to remind the republican coun- | that he had contemplated presenting a il that Mr. Mahan, democrat, was *he | Tesolution that would result in the best mayor New London ever had and | government of the construction it was difficult to conceive that there | buildings by the building inspector in would ever be his ecual. 0 far as the public interest and.rights Just why this special outburst of en- | were concerned, and which would al- thusiastic appreciation on that occasion | S0 cover such instances as the old was not clear to all the members and | Shack in Main street, but upon investi- when the presiding officer suggested a | zation he was satisfied that the present vote of thanks to the mayor for his|local- laws covered thé situation and untiring efforts in behalf of the city, | ail that was lacking was proper en- Alderman Benn was prompted to ask | forcement. He was strongly in favor Why this demonstration at this time. | of the recommendation that the build- He appreciated all that the mayor had | ing be torn down, but that it be dons done and is doing, but if a vote of | in the regular and in the legal wa thanks was to be given he thought it | possible. He deciared that the build- well to specify why the thanks and |ing was beyond repair although 0. not have it a case of glittering gene- | course the building could be propped and to an extent meaningle<=. [ up so that it might stand for a lonz te was adopted and the clerk | time longer, but that it would then =1 to whip the thanks into | continue to be a disgrace and a nuis shape for presentation to the mayor. |ance that would not be tolerated in —_— any well-governed city. Mazyor Downey at another period made e i nom.ed‘ryemarks in regard to the| Some of the aldermen showed an advertising in the newspapers of the | ®arnest desire to protect the business legal not required under the chart- | of the moving picture houses in lower | er. although there did not seem to be | Bank streei. that have recently tal on for the eloguent outowrst | advantage of their monoroly of th Unless from the report that the ap- |business by reducing the number of propriation had been exhausted. He |vaudeville acts to the minimum, and 3 4 S reek have substi- The impression that the appro. |during the present week have su | mave e Impros t PPro | tuted the ancient iilustrated song| iation had béen used entirely - ;e S drertising and evidently did not take | Picture instead of the more expensive Y rinting | vaudeville act. ~There is an open which included a svecial edition of hds of doliars | houses ~and sn!'ne enterpr 3 could be saved the city by entering | Men believing it would be prof ract with newspapers by | take advantage of the present ‘o take a specified number | tion contempiate leasing il ing during the | lot for amusement purposes. an informed tha:|plan to give moving picture contracts were made with mer- | OPen during the summer seaso: and could be made with the|to do this it would be neces: he same terms. He said that | I now the city naid excessive rates for | ticket office and to erect a 2 ®d advised that the mat- | Within the fire limits, stigated. Without further | Small the building, permi e matter was referred to | &ranted by the court of common coun- ting committee, without com- { ¢il. 1 ions to make repor » next meeting. derman showed a fam' iness department hat was surprising man declared that thous: 1dir uch a petition court of common cil and wa | quickly condemned by some of the al- jdermen on the ground that to per- mit such an undertaking in the city Sideviarn anid which e would be prejudicial to progressiven f‘a(mn'l:((\ ibse. t In\lkw,],: e enaper | and_unfair to the men now engaged| management. As a matter of fact the | in the moving picture busine: not a regular ad. | Presiding officer reminded Fod the same rate|men that there wi . Svatisec o zedlpm,\- houses i: om- oresent t ng done is com- | I e the year and should I 10t air” schem stated that it titioners to the he alder- the ¢ - in nature. hampered by an jve fact,| = The petilion intention of the pi It can be put dewn as posi gets more free advertising from & all the other ady hined, regular and transient, thereore, is getting more vaiue the amount expended. 3an mavor of the ci mething aiong the same lin suggested by Alderman Downey, but gentleman made the claim that! London was paying more for ad- | than ar ual adver- tiser and more in proportion than a n ihe When_he ascertained that the - re- he court of were pr but of course that is a matter not sirable as an eig bric by instances all ov r the city where permission of the city fathers, petition has ever been pres sion to build a sence board. In the present i should be some reason besides fries - the other fellows to prevent on of a sr t in Bank street. Should the happen to prove a city nd the publi rates, and .\mm(a..'\efl that he | n_the declara that tter that should not be prejudged. ion on thi off until the next Mon meeting. HAR"FORD AUTD cLuB satisfied its advertis years ago. hat respect have not| Opposed to Reckless Driving and Dis- i regard of Law. that subsequently | fed his statement he meant to have difference in rat€s| the Automobile club of Hartford w the local news- | held on Saturday, at which ca t the rates shouid | reckless drivinz and the disre the : A . ‘and perhaps regardless of drivess oC tie sWee obin in prices charged to P sers fased on circ 3 man Downey suggested, the mat- | r of advertising <‘v(nl|0 e investi- ated especially if the city can be sav- is of dollars each vear up- n suggested by the gentie- 5 opposed to reckless ing and regarding the operating engines not muffled. | = | of the | on the p! man. ers to the following lav | “No motor vehicle shall be ope Ther is! an;old shack in: the busiest | 2pon, fhe: pub e, usiest | limitd of any pied butnot owned by an enterprising | ness firm, th lisgrace to any | or even village in this progres: F trie evening and would mot be tolerated in | & </oN 8 cities. Tt is an old wooden | ;i "0 1 the oldest ant s an old | z when he first s a child | building has not been kept in de- nt repair and radually so deter- that the inspector of buildings, - council meeting Monday even- | mmended that the buildi razed .as it was not s occupancy. It was subseauer Ized that the owner of the ordered repairs and the structed to order repairs until the subject was considered at that next Monday i reeti le the inspector of buildings has | tv o order suspel pending _investig r the cou il have the hori rect the razing of the bui result ¢ on be attained through legal procedure and it is said that there will be difficulty in finding in the statutes any la prevents an owner of a puilding placing it in re- provided no =~dditions are made as building or extension of building in New London is governed by city chart- er. - operated on any other pubi ay_between the hours of 9 o'clock the engk muffled.” @efgnbors end friends. True there was a case in New Lon- @o the 008 work goes don some years ago when the city, like Steve Brody, tcok a chance, and re- a building or the remnant of a ding that the poor judgment on the the volunteer firemen couplea with their efficient service, did not per- mit the building all to be fed to the fire The was located at he corner of Bank and State streets nd certainly was a black mark for a ssive city The owner was for bidden by order of the court of com- I (o make repairs and ther stood for months, ner declaring that the building was | Sorthy of repatr and that in tiee he would recelve the legal right to get the - building in readiness for oc- rev. (At day break onme cool morning, Sireet Commissioner Brown and a gang of men acting under the- direction of the court of comm~= ~——=it ~—— TO youmg and old 1t is P ;www&wm&ammw Elisha Holiy Injured When Bicycle Brolm—Ndn: Elisha Holly, who was badly hurt hy the breaking of his bicycle, is improv- ing, and it is hoped that he will soan fully recover. In the town of Richmond Tuesday the republicans elected all their candi- datés by a large majority. Mrs. Sarah Hoyle and son, Harry, at- tended the graduating exercises of Mrs. Rust’s kindergarten school at Boston last week. Miss Florence Milner was one of the graduates from ‘Mrs. Rust's kindergar- ten school in Boston last week. Nathanrig¢l Hendrick, who has been the guest of E. K. James and family, returned to Wickford Junction Tues- day. Mrs. E. K. James spent Sunday with friends in Westerly. Mrs. E. K. James and Mrs. B. B. Moore atiended the W. C. T. U von- vention in Wakefleld. William Haigh will speak at the Baptist church at Shannock Sunday mornin: The Shannock Sunday school will hold a children’s day concert Sundiyl evening. Mrs. W. J. Nichols and daushter, Miss Mary Nichols, and son, Charles i Nichols, of White Rock, calied on their prother, Bradford B _Moore, coming in ineir auto via Hopkinton City ana Hope Valiey. building lot of large dimensions on the opposite side of the street and flboul ng young in the ion must be' . and the ! two well con-! - at thel e and that they were here! t be the j rect a high board fence around the enclosure, | bill boards are erected and without | and no | nted in the court of common council for permis- | r erect a bill| stance there I building in the < a way of riddance, but~t is matter was also put| A meeting of the governing board of of oad were d. The board went on record driving | ement called attention of automobile ed vithin the ty or borough of this ate, at any time, and no vehicle shall high- n na 6 o'clock in the morn- e of such ve- shall be fully and completely ment of all furmas of femaie troubles. Mrs. Dorcas E. Knowles -and family arrived at their summer home near Kenyon on Wednesday. Carleton Smith of Wyoming called on Henry D. Hoyle Sunday. Arthur Barber of Shannock calied on Andrew W. Moore -Sunday. ROCKVILLE New Pastor Occupies Pulpit of Sev- enth Day Baptist Church. The pulpit of the Seveath Day Bap- tist church was occupied last Saturday by the new pastor, Rev. A. G. Crofoot, who, with his wife, arrived here on Fri- day. Myron Kenyon and family and Hen- ry Lamphear of Westerly made an au- to trip to this place last Saturday aft- ernoon. Arrive for the Summer. Misses Lottie and Mary Burdick have returned to their home here, having spent the winter and spring in Stam- ford. New Haven and Westerly. Miss Sylvia Lamphear of Wester- ly was a guest over Saturday of her cousin, Mrs. Carlton Irish. { Arthur Irish of Providence has been a recent guest of his'parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Irish. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crandall spent Saturday night and Sunday in West- erly. Miss Nettie Crandall of Westerly has been a Tecent visitor here. USQUEPAU( EPAUGH. | Three Candvdate: to Be Baptized on 3 o4 Sunday. have a small building to be used as a| | _ There is to be a baptizing here next \unr‘m\ There are three candidates. will be at 11 o'clock, with m at 12.30. Fazel Withey and daughter ented in the | 1djth have returned io their home at Attleboro. Mrs. C. €. Kenyon, Mrs. N. B Ken- von and Archie Kenyon attended the Supper at West Kingston Thursday evening. Attorney Jemes Williams of Provi- dence spent one day and night re- cently at T. G. Locke's. Amecs H. Kenvon of Pawtu t spent Saturd: and Sunday at his home ss_Mertie Handell of Hope Valley unday in this village. . D. Palmer is visiting for a with her sister at Wake- Rebecca Mackintosh of Slo- { within the jurisdiction of the court of | cum's spent Thursday with Mrs, 1. M. ommon council although not as de- | 7 ! story building of or stone. This is demonstratec Kenvon. ARCADIA. Election Results in Republican Victory Benjamin Nye, formerly a resident Do Your Cooking in the Cool Ahotkncheuuhdcbemerthmapmn fl:ermgend)ere,maflfl)ecoohngudflxewulmgmbe done there, too. What a_relief it would be to move the range pleased. You can do this with a New PafedmnOilCook- st:lv«.—cooltzhmn dn:fi;r out o;lthe only range that is really portable—that worl 'anyplace_ There are no connections to be ma range no wiring, as with an electric stove ; no sooty flues and ash-filled grates, as with coal or wood. The long, enameled chimneys carry the heat directly up saucepans, oven or boiler; you get full value from your fud without waste. ¢ mmmerBu! e where you porch, if you like. ltuthe -as in a gas M-J-vmhl 2and2 blue eaameled of this place, River Point, commence “his work, Benjamin Sheldon’ was the guest of Leander S. Himes and family of i last Thursday and Friday. Ralph Tillinghast of Edgewood an Clarence Lewis of. East Pro’ camping near Boonie pond, Milivilie. is working for Henry R. T, and left Mondas Reynolds of Pine Hill as farm hand. The znnual June town meeting for the election of town officers was held at the town hall, ing in a_republican victory. William T. Barber has engaged as carpenter to a building contractor at lNI’l‘nt. 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