Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 15, 1914, Page 7

3 e are’ quite a_few model farms ew England, and one or two ofy are in Connecticut, but Branford the highly organized estate of odore Morton F, Plant, does not b to take a back seat fo any of them. It is worth a visit, or, in Tact, & good many visits, from the man in< terested in seeing the mcme of eastern ‘“f' Of course, it is not another Dairyple farm, like the big 77,000 acre Pproposition In’ North Dakota: but the 850 acres that Supt. R. H. Ortez has t(: look after are trained down to a poin where nothing can be desired in the ‘way of productiveness. May Send Berkshire Pigs to Fair. President Arthur D. Lathrop an Treasurer Frank W. Brewster of the New London County Agricuitural so-| clety, who put in the afterngon at/ Branford Farms Friday, did » « <o the whole of it. They wanhted, uost | ‘part, to look over the il stock—he has a little ovc sead, the cattle foreman, Morr. nson, told them—and they wantc., 00, to see if they could get some of the Plant animals for the Norwich fair in Sep- tember. Mr. Ortez did not give them a positive promise that he would have his farm represented, but he told the delegation from Norwich, which in- chided R. Plaut and the societys advertising man, thet he thought he might be able to ship several Berk- shire pigs to Norwich. The piggeries are in East Lyme, on a farm near the Plant game preserve. Branford Farms Will send two carloads of stock, or about 25 or 30 head, to Charter Oak fair, which opens the same day Nor- ‘wich opens. “Why don’t you shift your dates and then we can give the preference to the home county?” asked the Plant super- intendent. ; ford got our dates—we didn’t get theirs,” said the Norwich pres. dent. “We've had the same dates for years. Charter Oak did not have the first call. They butted in on us, not we on them.” There is reason to belleve Branford Farms will be represented. Mr. Ortez agreed to look over the list of stock booked for Charter Oak. He is glad) the New London county fair is in tie hands of progressive men that will push it, and he told Mr. Plaut that ae noticed the, Norwich exhibition is be- ing liberally advertised. “Got to do it,” said Plaut. “This is the day when you've got to go to the people, not sit at home and suck your thumbs and expect them to come to you.” - Cattle Foreman Johnson is a ready man to talk. He is a Scotchman,.with & long memory for anything that inte~- | ests him and a ready wit that makes | him companionable to visitors. His| barps are open all day to people that wish to visit them. The Norwich pa got to the place just in time for the 2.45 milking. The morning milking is a 4.45, just after the cows, turned out by the night watchman at 6 at night, get back to their stalls. Milking by Machinery. The milking is mostly by machinery. The devices in the Ayrshire-Guernsey barn are nine in number, and Mr. Johnson has 12 men. : The patent milk- er takes all the teats at once, and it gets all the milk, which is then weigh- ed, strained through cheesecloth aad cotton, and sent to the bottling plant. “How much-milk a 'day?” is the question Mr. Johnson gets, first crack out of the box, from the visitor. “About 1,400 quarts a day is what we aim to produce,” said the boss of the barns. “That is quite a lot, but we get rid of it all, and very often we wish that we had more. Fully one-half of it all is taken by the hotel, and then the demands of the mansion, where there is, of course, a big force of help and much entertaining, are very large.” The chief-accountant at the farm ot- fice added that there are lots of times when they could sell much more butter at a gilt edge figure if they had it. Ayrshire-Guernseys. In the Ayrshire-Guernsey barn are 86 of the handsomest cows on the con- tinent. There are five Ayrshire bulls. Nether Good Time is as good as any of them. He is six years old. son of Nether Craig Spicy Sam and Imported Bell. Of the cows, Jemima, one of the first animals the Norwich party stop- ped to admire, is a 60 pound a _day cow. Lady Florence, Redhill = Nameless Tharm and Brown Hill Snowdrop are away up high among the Plant milk- ers. Fatinanza, a great milch cow in this barn, gave 16,000 pounds of milk Zast year and made in the neighborhood of 800 pounds of butter. One Hundred Calves. At present Mr. Johnson has at least 100 calves. Several of the pretty little fellows, Holstelns, Guernseys and Ayr- shires, ‘are in a building close by the larger cow barn. Most of the ‘ball calves are sold. Every good heifer is dikely to be kept, but when the cow boss finds a calf badly marked it is killed and sent over to the mansion, as a general thing, The smaller barn, which has nothing but Guernseys, was also visited, and —_— CATARR! “ADS ~ CONSUMPTION -th is as much a blood dis- ease as scrofula or rhemmatism. It may be relieved, but it eannot be rémoved by simply local treatment. It breaks down the general health, weakens the lung tissues, and leads to eonsumption. Hood’s Barsaparilla is so sme- cessful in the treatment of catarrh that it is known as the best remedy for this disease. in’ bléod. - Ask your druggist for it. Perfection in Productiveness is Aim at the Big Eastern Point . Farm~-Sterling Mil kProducers in His Herds—About © 1,400 Quarts of Milk Daily—11,000 Hens—Modern Fa- * cilities in Every Department. It purifies the . here one of the milkers gave the men from Norwich a chance to stick their fingers into the. electric milker. “Feels just like a politician’s hand - shake—soft and loose,” said a man who nas held an office or two and whose ac- quaintance with men of political predi- lections has been considerable. The <eontact @oes not hurt, but you are not exactly prepared for the kind of a sensation you get when your fingers slip for the first time into the business end of the electric milker. Takes Pride in the Cattle. The barns at Branford Farms sare kept sweet and clean. The owner likes his stock, and he never fails to take his guests throush the barns person- ally. On such tours he hates to find anything dirty or cut of place. Mr. Johnson says his dozen men work pretty hard in the morning hours, but in the afternoon, when' things have been made shipshape, he lets them re- lax a little. The milking of the 86 cows in the big harn is a sight not s00n to begforgotten. It would not go badly in tHe moving pictures. The name and number of each regis- tered cow is over the stall in plain blue letters, and he that runs rhay read. Have Many Visitors. £ All the Plant employes on the big farm are courteous fellows. They have a-deal of company, and they admit they generally enjoy showing people arou.d on a day when there is nothing extra doing. The roads are in fine shape, and around the buildings there is plen- ty of shade. There isn't any white- wash on Branford Farms, but there are hundreds of yards of white paint, and everything in the building line is spick and “span. All the refuse is drained into one tank and from that tank a three-cylinder pump throwing at least 100 gallons a minute shoots it away, via a 10-inch pipe, to a part of the farm where fertilizen is needed. There are at least 11,000 hens at Branford Farms, but these will not be shown at any fairs this fall. The call for chicksn, from the hotel and cae mansion and the cottages and the help, is, quite naturally, something enor- mous. The storehouse is 275 feet long and 75 feet wide, divided into 10 sections. There is a perfect avalanche of crack. ed corn ground for the poultry depart- ment every day. The machine was at work yesterday too early for the Nor- wich Visitors to get a line on its op- erations by actually seeing it, but the storekeeper’'s clerk, a bright young man; vouchsafed the information that five tons had-peen ground in about six hours. The feed is all put up in bags of uniform size, and they fill one section of the storehouse to the raft- ers. All the storehouse floors are ce- ment. . 300 Yards of Henhouses. The henhouses stretch along for about 300 yards, and they are sur- rounded by vards that cover at least 100 acres. Superintendent Rivers of the. poultry department has his own office and his own clerk, and every- thing there, -as elsewhere on the grounds, is looked after in a syste- matic manner. A spur track from the main line of the New Haven road at| Midway permits the unloading of a car of grain at the side doors of the store- house. Superinfendent Ortez a Busy Man. Superintendent Ortez, who has to look after everything in a general way, is a busy man from early in the morn- ing until late at night, and often he is about the big farm, gr at the farm office, when the help, with the excep- tion of the night watchman, have knocked off for the day. He spine around the place in a high powered touring car, driven by his own chauf- feur. Often the superintendent is a hard man to find, but he is well in- forred and affable when you do find him. He was reported in_ several places Friday afternoon before the Norwich party got him rounded up. They chased him in their car from the big cow barn to the storehouse, from had about given Mr. Ortez up as a bad job when they finally met him coming back from Groton ferry. He told them he was glad they liked the Plant place, 2nd he invited them to come again, as well as to go to Bast Lyme to see the pigs 4nd about 50 head of stock the commodore has there. LIEUT. JOHN F. FRENCH DIES IN MINNESOTA At Age of 71—Was for Many Years a Resident in Central Village. The Bulletin's Central Village corre- spondent writes: News was received here Thursday of the death of Lieut. John F. French at his home in Windom, Minn., which oc- curred at 4 oclock -that morning. Death came very suddenly, but he had suffered with a slight heart troubls during the winter. He was born in Plainfield 71 years ago and was the son of Capt. John S. and Jane H. French, who lived at Central Village “Te was a member of regiment of Connecti- v naving entertained the surviving members here during his visit three vears ago. He has lived in Windom since 1579 and was highly es- teemed. At the iime of his death he was one of the county commissioners, also vice president of the Farmers' National bank. His first wife died three years ago. He has since mar- ried Mrs. Edith Tripp Rogers, former- ly of this village, who survives hi.n. He also leaves one son, Willis Frenca, and two grandchildren in Windom, two brothers, Henry French of Provi- dence, Ernest French of Central Vil- ‘lage, Ct, and a sister, Mrb. George Gadbols, also of this village. The body will be brought to Putnam Tuesday, Aug. 18, and the funeral will be held at the Congregational church, where the members of the Grand Army and veterans will attend. Norwich Central Labor Union invites the public to hear ; LABOR’S CHAMPION Prof. Williard C. Fisher Candidate for Governor Speak on ' Labor’s Interest. In the 1914 Campaiga TOWN HALL Monday, hug. 17, 1514, P, 0. GARDNER LAKE SWIMMERS. Misses Leotta Oat, Edenia De Cesare and Josephine Hipkins Cover Course from South Shore to Island. Misses Leotta Oat, Edenia De Cesare and Josephine Hipkins have made the swim from the south shore of the lake to the island, Miss De Cesare making the swim over and back. . Miss Mar- Jjorie Phillips and Miss Florence Back-- us were the first young ladies to make the swim last season. Mrs. Charles Champlin and daughter of Palmer are spending August in Jo- -seph Oat’s cottage, Moma Binna. the storehouse to the poultry farm, and | 15c Hosiery at 10c Men's Half Hose in black and colors, sizes 914 to 1l—our entire reduced to Silk Hosiery at 25¢ Women's Silk Boot Hosiery, gauze weight, in black, white and tan, ex- tra good value at 25c a pair. Tan Silk at 39¢ Women's Tan Silk Hos weight, full-fashioned, regular value at 39¢ a pair. Silk Hosiery at 50c Women's Extra Fine Black Silkc Hosiery—also Outsize Silk Hosiery in black and white—all at :50c a pair, ry, gauze 50c Women's Union Suits at 23c ‘Women’s Ribbed Union Suits, lace trimmed, both regular and extra large sizes, good 39¢ value at 23c a suit, Union Suits at 36¢c Women’s Ribbed Union with Torchon lace trimming, regular 50c Union Suits at 36c. Union Suits at 41c Suit our both ‘sleeveless models with cuff knee, our regular 5%c suits at 41c, [TEMS OF INTEREST TO MEN HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, NECKWEAR AND SHIRTS with French cuffs, balance of our Spring styles of $1.50 Shirts, Women’s Silk Hosiery SUMMER WEIGHT—BLACK, WHITE AND TAN . WOMEN'S SUMMER DRESSES tional value at... 50c Neckwear at 38c Men's Neckwear—a choice of our the product of some of New York's leading duced now to .... A i N This offering includes Dresses of French Linens, Flowered ’ stock of Men's 15c Hoslery st 10c s | entire stock of Men's 50¢ Neckwear . B . White Voiles and Rice Cloth, all = 98 e B Tunic models, regular $6.50, $7.50 and 35.98 Dresses, reduced to o VERY SPECIAL s Summer Weisht Risbed Unlon Suits, in both ecru and Size 14-inch at 49c Exsctly 30 Women's White Lawn Dreses, with (rimminge of Size 16-inch at 59¢ neat lace inserting—these button in the but for that bleached, and in all styles, an unrestricted choice of our entire ‘ line of Men's $1.00 Union Suils at...... 096 Size 18-inch at 6% they would sell at $3.98—Clearance DPriCe....ceeeseescecsvecsa 39¢c Underwear 29¢ $1.50 Bathing Suits $1.19 £ = 5 ~ - hegs Dot S i i W Dress Hats at $1.48 s Buiriggan Underteas lons | 2ezs Betine swer o e | Mlafting Suit Cases omen’s Dress y and short sleae Shirts, double seat | Snq dens’ gooven our resuinr 3120 Drawers, regular 39¢ value at 28¢. | Bathing Sults at $1.19. Size 14-inch at 480 wPhis incindes all oor Dress Hats that sold at $3.95, 3500 and AL Men's Negligeo Shirts with at- Size 16-inch at 55¢ $5.95. Many of these made in our own Wwork.room, others are VERY SPECI tached cuffs; and Men's Soft Shirts Size 15-inch at 650 Y $1.19 o] . Our entire stock of Better Hats, including Paris Hats, Gage &lk Glrdles 50c Hats, and our own Pattern Hats, former prices up to $18.50— all reduced 0 ....cvisvarenann Silk Girdles, all sizes, in black, white, Kelley green, sky, navy, pink, lavender and brown—extra good value at 50c, ‘ Sheered Silk FElastic Belts, in same line of colors as foregoing at 50c each. $3.98 Fancy Ribbons—39¢c and 50c Values at 25¢ a yard 1000 yards of the newest ideas and most attractive color com- binations in Fancy Ribbons—all wide Ribbons—suitable -for Girdles, Hair Ribbons, Etc., regular 3%¢ and 50c Ribbons at.. 2& Dolls—Dolls : Women's Bungalgw Aprons at 50¢ Women's Bungalow Aprons, in black and white checks, light and dark stripes, made extra full sizes, of best quality percale, in a big assortment of patterns. These are very special value at . WOMEN'S NECKWEAR Some Exceptional Values Guimpes and Vests — a splendid showing—made of organdie, muslin and lace all-over, with the roll or lily collar—prices are 3%, 50c, 59%c, 75¢ and $1.00. Waiods: 25¢. 28 Sc Neckwest: ai 19 One lot of Women's Muslin and Organdie Neckwear, including lgc Silk Hosiery at 59¢ Women’s_Silk Hosiery in white and tan color, extra fine thread, good 7c value at 59¢ a pair. $1.00 Hosiery at 85¢ ‘Women's Fine Silk Hosiery in black, tan and white, our regular $1.00 quality at $5c a pair. $1.25 Hosiery at 98¢ Women's Silk . Hoslery in black, tan and white. with silk double tops, our regular $1.25 quality at 980 a pair. o ) Union Suits Union Suits at 59¢ Women's Union Suits, lace trim- med and cuff knee, regular and ex- tra sizee, our regular 75c suits at 59c. $1.00 Suits at 79¢ Women’s Fine Lisle Union Suits, both lace trimmed and cuff knee— our regular $1.00 Union Sults at T9c, $1.50 Suits at $1.09 Women's Silk Lisle Union Suits, with fine lace trimming, our regular $1.50 Union Suits at $1.09. Our import line of Dolls has been delivered and are now on display— Dressed Dolls, Jointed Dolls, Kid Dolls, Character Dolls—price range 25¢ to $7.50. Basement Specials In our basement department we are offering our line of Ofl Stoves, Window Screens and Screen Doors at cost for quick clearance. Boys” Department Boys' Sweaters, in cardinal ang in brown, sizes 8 to 14 vears, regular $1.25 value at Windsor Ties in the new rainbow effects and plain colors, a big variety—ask to 25c have one made up—all at.... 95¢ Boys” Sweaters, cardinal, gray and tan, sizes 8 to 14 years, regular $2.50 value 3131‘95 Boys’ Odd Suits, sizes11to 18 vears, in neat mixtures, regular $4.00 Suits at 52-95 the lily or roll collar, which is so much in demand at this time—actual 25c and 50c value at..... . z 1 rest of the season, making the trip by automobile. Miss Althea Lewis returned home Saturday ‘after spending five weexss with her grandfather, Lewis Latimer. Mrs. Charles Winchester retura- ed home after a pleasant visit with relatives in Providence. | Mr. and Mrs. Prothero and Mr. and Mrs. Fielding of Norwich are spending a week at Best View, one of Mrs. Phii- lips’ cottages. Camp on South Shore. Fred Bliss ahd Harold Hudll, Joseph Hull and Lawrence W. Beebe are camping on the south shore of the la’ George Day has purchased Erie| Mitchell's property and expects to open the blacksmith shop. HAS BIG AMOUNT TO SPEND IN NEW LONDON. New Haven Road to Start With $300,- 000 in Improvements. The extens: ve improvements which the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad company is to make in New London and Groton, involving the expenditure of several million dollars, will be commenced immediately. Bids for the construction of the new line of railroad from Hallam street to tihe bank:\of the Thames river at the point of contact with the new bridge were submitted to the company’s office in New Haven Friday, and the contract will be awarded at once. It is stated that for the construction of this por- tion of the improvements and the ac- quisition of property incidental therc- to the directors have appropriated a sum in excess of $300,000. | Real Estate Agent A. H. Ryder of the New Haven road has been in New London for the past two days carrying on negotiations with property owners in East New London whose holdings it is desired to\zwquir& Property Owners Stirred Up. The activities of the railroad’s agen's has caused a furore of excifement among interested property owners in that section of the city. Property valuation has rapidly since the beginning of the mammoth. pier. It is now generally admitted by those conversant with the projects in hand that East New Lon- don is destined to become the indus- trial center of that city. Plans are already under way for the creation of an immense industrial area on the land which is owned by the state of Con- necticut north of the present railroad bridge. When the reclamation of suo- merged territory is completed the com- monwealth will be the possessor of 39 acres of land of the greatest value for purposes of manufacturing. Three manufacturing concerns out- side the city of New London have al- ready laid plans for the acquisition of real et;e in_the Winthrop ‘Neck vi- cinity. ne of these is a manufacturer of machinery and the products of the other concerns are so well known that they are mot disclosed for fear of up- setting their present plans. One of the largest New London concerns is also seriously considering removal from its present location to Bast New London. A man who is closely in touch with the affairs of the New Haven road said Friday that in connection with the building of the new railroad bridge and the other improvements which ‘hne company had already announced its in- tention of making, there ‘is anbther change contemplated in the center of the city. This. he stated, is the erec- tion of a new station north of the pres- ent union station, probably in the vi- increased Many at Dance. ‘The dance held at Spring Grove pa- Z‘I‘lhn Friday evening was well attend- Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hanney, for- merly of Gardner Lake, now of Water- ford, are visiting their son, Winfleld W. Motored to Camp. Dr. and Mrs. Sim of Brooklyn, N. Y, bhave arrived at their camp for the cinity of Atlantic and Potter streets. He said that it is the ultimate intention'| -of the company to abandon the present Station and to effect an exchange of land with the city, if possible, by which y by a tunnel, which was ac- v agitated a couple of years ago, dered in the near future. le such a change is considered de- tions. . It is not expected that the change in location of the depot will be under- taken until the new railroad bridge is well under way. It is estimated that it will be at least two years from tae present time before that structure is completed. With Thermos Advertising Car. Ronald M. Kimball, who has been a salesman for the American Thermos Thu vertising car. Mr. Kf enter Brown universitf in Se = ; We advertise only what we have MURPHY & McGARRY, and exactly as it is 207 Main Street | This is the Last Day of Qur Smoke Sale OUR STOCK HAS BEEN SO COMPLETELY BROKEN UP IN THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF THE SALE THAT WE FEEL THAT AFTER ONE MORE DAY OF SUCH SELLING THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT TO SELL. : THERE WAS NOT ONE DOLLAR'S WORTH OF MERCHANDISE BROUGHT INTO THIS STORE TO SELL AT SALE PRICES, CONSEQUENTLY WE WERE ABLE TO CLEAN UP OUR STOCK THOROUGHLY. 3 . HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRICES THAT PREVAILED DURING THE SALE AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL CLOSING HOUR SATURDAY NIGHT. : Men’s Suits $12.00—nowW ........ $ 800 $15.00—now -........ $10.00 $18.00—now ........ $12.00 $20.00—now ........ $13.50 $22.00—=n0OW ........ $14.75 $24.00—now ........ $16.00 $25.00—00W ..0v..... $17.00° $28.00—now $19.00 Men’s Shirts 50C—NOW . svsennnnnn $£1.00—nowW ...... $1.50—N0W .....c..i0 +.98c B. V. D. Union Suits.....69¢ Hats $2.00—N0W ...vevea.. $1.38 $3.00—NO0OW ...iuuaee szzs Boy’s $5.00 Suits—now ......$2.50 Boy’s $6, $7, $8 Suits—now . .$3.98 50c BlouSeS ... .vvrvieis 25 $1.00 Knee Pants ,.,... 48¢c THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET THESE HIGH-GRADE SUITS, FURNISHINGS AND HATS AT THESE REMARKABLY LOW PRICES. REMEMBER THIS MERCHANDISE IS STRICTLY PERFECT AND INJURED IN NO WAY. the ‘space occupied by the old depot would be thrown into the Parade and other property taken in lie uthereof in the prospective new site. It is not believed by those who are acquainted with the policies of the directors that the project of entering Bottle company during the last twe for & week's trip through Rhode Island and Massachusetts with the Thermos ad-- ball intends Lo ptember.