Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 4, 1915, Page 12

4y DECEM R 4 1915 THE FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS THE BIG FARM AND.LITTLE FARM CONTROVERSY Written ‘Specially for The Bulletin. Those who still read the old books and find them worth reading may re- call the tremendous controversy which raged in_ Lilliput during Gulliver's memorable visit, between the Big- Endians and the Little-Endians. From the beginning of farming there has been a controversy.between the Big Farm and the Little Farm. Con- sidering the instinctive land-hunger of man and considering ‘also the almost; universal admiration for bigness just because it is big, there need be no wonder: that the advocates of the Little Farm usually find - themselves in a minority and with few sympathizers. Furthermore, having regard to the average character of soils and the average “slackmess” of human nature and the manipulations of markets by wholly hostile thimble-riggers, it seems to be a demonstrable fact that the Big Farm is apt to pay better in aggre- gate money returns than the Little Farm. Bear in mind, I'm admitting ¢his as a fact solely under and on account of present existing conditions. And one of the widely existing pres- ent conditions is that a great deal of farming is durn poor farming! Now. if that condi others, is going to exist forever—i subject to amendment nor open to im- n, along with pwvement—then we Little Farmers would logically find ourselves com- pelled to take a back seat and preserve a decorous silence. But some of us have enough to see quite a few changes even In so conservative an occupation as farming. We've lived to sce the mowing machine supplant the scythe: to see the silo fast taking the place of the stover-stack; to see the gasoline engine doing much of-the drudgery which formerly was done wholly by hand: to wee the telephone in half are farmhouses and a free mail delivery to half the farmers’ doors; to see a vast change in our knowledge of fer- tilizing problems and a great advance in our opportunities to solve them, etc., ete. lived long It is not probable—at any rate, it hasn’t been proved—that we have al- ready reached the limit of progress. One of the wisest men the world has aver known once declared, near the close of his long and busy life, that he had been only an infant picking up chance pebbles along the shore of a limitless ocean of knowledge. The longer he lived and the more he came to know, by just so much the more was swelled his vision of the boundless Be- vond which he was But he laid down work, when the time came, with the firm assurance | | | that others, his successors. wonld car- ry it still further and oper newer and | owerless to enter. | | to keep on moving forward with the rest -of the universe, it is sure that there will be in the -future many changes in our methods. Some will be due to new discoveries of which we ancients have at present not even an inkling nor a suspicion. Some will be due to gradual improvements such as those which, in our own time, have transformed the first slow, cumbrous, heavy, inefficient and costly mowing machines into models of fitness and convenience. We shall do better farming in the persons of our grandchildren than we did in the persons of our granddaddies or than we can do in our own and at present. If so much be accepted as probable, then the arguments which favor the big farg, under present conditions, may ‘not favor it under better condi- tions and with wiser farming. Certain- 1y, most of the advances we have made in the last generation point with in- creasing force to the wisdom of better her than larger farming. I've often thought of the case of Clark of Higganum, whose grand- father couldn't make a living on 350 acres but who, by wiser management and from fuller knowledge, made a big profit year after vear from only 1 acres of that 330, and those 16 about the poorest of the lot! Remember one thing: It isn't the amount of dirt vou work that brings success, but the amount of crops you raise and sell, and the ratio of gain you get for yourself. What shall it profit a man to own a whole county for a farm, if he can neither fertilize it adequately nor cul- tivate it properly, nor harvest it eco- nomically—nor get his money back from the crop? How many times have we heard, and ourselves used, that So-an-So was David Rankin could manage a 20,000 acre cernfield and make money off But Dav Rankin had strong, new land of ceptional fertility to work on. And David Rankin was himself e\(‘e;.(inn man. bout as few David Ran- 'y or farming as there are Nay the annals of war. You and I don’t belong in the class with either! It was no less a man than Liebig who said, vears ago: “It is not the land itself that constitutes the farm- { er's wealith, but 1t is in the constitu- ents of the soil which serve for the | nutrition of plants that this wealth | truly consists.” That is to say, a farmer’s wealth doesn’t lie in the number acres he owns, but in what is in' those acres and what he can get out of them ever newer flelds so that, in time, even the advanced frontler of his latest! knowledge should be only a back- ground for the wider and fuller wis dom of the futt | feel just that way about farming. We poor hayseeds have done quite a few things and made quite a little since the days when we were eaded youngsters, driving the s to pasture of a misty morning. But I don’t think we have done it ab- solutely all. I rather suspect that there are tow-headed youngsters of today, driving their kine afield in east- ern Connecticut, who, before they ac- quire our apportionment of gray hairs, will look back to the way we now farm it with about as pitying a won- der as wa have for the grandsires who used to mow our meadows with scythes and reap our grain flelds with tickles and k‘arrn\v w “A” drags, and cultivate by “plow out” with | some old piow too worn lo be fit for other use. I, if the farming world is soing | Coal in |in some There’s one thing reasonably clear: the poorer farming one does the more ccres he must farm to get a big crop. Poor ed and v re- bushels of corn to farming on highly ated land may pro- bushels to the acre. is going to need a and is planning to way, he'll need four tertilized and culti duce a hundred Naturally, if one hundred grow i acres to get his crops. But that doesn’t prove that poor work on four acres is better farming than goes on one acre. Far from it. It simply proves that the poorer farm- er a man is the more land he needs to slosh ‘round on. Of course, that isn’t all there is to There are other things to be Lhuukht nf other factors to be reck- oned et is so poor, naturally that it takes four acres of it to do a s decent acre’s work. And cases that the cost of ing such land in good heart w the cellar Hay in the barn Money in the bank —that’s the good-all-over, fur- coat feeling that just naturally takes hold of the now at the owner of a Diamonded Car, beginning of the cold and stormy weather. 99% perfect, only one tire out of a hundred returned for adjustment, was the remarkable vote of confidence cast by your own friends, on your own roads last year, as well as by the many thou- sands who rolled along the highways and byway~ of every one of these forty- eight United States on Diamond Tires. There’s a record for you to tie up to, for, no matter where you are, remember it was made on the same identical roads you motor on every day. Ask y-ur Diamond dealer to tell you more of this, and to put on Diamonds now. Then we know you will be an all-year Diamond enthusiast. DIAMOND *‘‘ FAIR-LISTED "’ PRICES: TIRES be more than it could be made to re- turn in yieids. Some men are such slap-dash crit- ters, naturally, that.they simply can't “putter.” Yet good, grst-class culti- vation savors very strongly of “put- terin, It is, at any rate, a matter of small details. I have one neigh- bor who farms two hundred acros and has to do job work besides tc keep himself busy and occupy his spare time. His expressed convigtion is that one day’'s labor is enough for any acre in any crop. When he sees me putting the labor of two men six days a week for thirty weeks on less than ten acres, he simply can't un- derstand it. Nor could he himself en- dure the “idea. He laughs at me. And I laugh at him. You see, we're two quite differ- ent creatures. With his make-up and his habits and his general state of mind, he couldn’t any .more work my way than I could thw. He's a Big- Endian and I'm a Little-Endian, and it has to go at that. If he’s going to farm he must have what passes in the east for a big form to spread him- self over. Nothing else will serve. ‘Which being the case, I'm glad he’s got the big one. But I don't want it, allee samee. There’s just one thing about the dispute which I hold to as a ctonvic: tion general and unassailable. That is, that big farming tends inevitably towards poorer - workmanship and small farming as inevitably towards better workmanship. That thesis I'll maintain at all times and against all comers. Assuming it, therefore, to be true, it seems to me that.the real hope of the future for the progress of farming methods lins in the work of the small farmer. Anybody can make two blades of grass grow, if you give him dirt enough and space enough. But to make two blades grow where only one grew before or would grow naturally Z_that is an achievement and has long been held an honorable work. There is plenty of room, at present, for both big farmer and little former to work side by side. But, as popula- tion increases, the size of farms must decrease. The globe won't swell to malke more acres as the number of it# inhabitants grows. Sooner or later, we've got to face the problem of making one acre pro- duce what we've heretofore worked over two to get. We little farmers may take such pride as we choose in reflecting that we're the piloneers attacking that problem and that the farmers of the future will have to come tp our Jines eventually, whether they want to or not! TH E FARMER. Windham County WESTMINSTER Helpful Church Services—Spring Pig Weighs 304 Pounds. Helpful services and good attend- ance was the record of last Sunday. being present in the evening. service the singing was inspiring. Next Sunday the pastor will call at- tention to the approaching centennia anniversary of the American Bible so- ciety In the morning service, which will be followed by Sunday school. C. E. meeting in the evening as usual. Over 50 attended the union service of the Green, Plains and Westminster churches last week on Thanksgiving night. Piloted by a generous church mem- ber, the pastor and Mrs. Davies rode through the southern part of West- minster last Wednesday, calling on parishioners. Frank Koch has returned to New Rochelic after spending Thanksgiving with his parents at Broadview. Mrs. D. Bernett has returned from New York, having spent Thanksgiving with relatives. Spring Pig Weighs 304 Pounds. William Ladd butchered a spring pig which weighed 304 pounds, the largest ana best pig killed at Gay Head. Israel Rosenweig of Rosedale has gone to New York, where he will work this winter. Miss Emma Bondi of New York spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roth. Miss Odelia Blain will return from the hospital in Willimantic, where she was a patient ill with scarlet fever. Fred C. Green has returned to North Scituate, R. 1., to resume his work for Charles H. Phillips of Plainfield NORTH STERLING Frank E. Potter and party of Prov- idence were here last week on a hunting trip. Miss Lucinda G. Knight and Mr Abbie Hillery spent Thanksgiving with Olney Knight and family. F. O. Plummer and family Thanksgl\lng with relatives in Wor- Rebeeca Murphy finished work teacher at the Dorrance district st week, having received a better :ppointment near her home in Cum- erland. Williams of Providence spent with H. H. Crowell. red Brooks and family of Provi ence spent Sunday with George "ierce, Jr. POMFRET CENTER Dr. Allerton Cushman and spent the week end in Pomfret. veral from Pomfret attended the Jwls' minstrels in Putnam. Robert Rust was in Boston Friday. Miss Mary Averill, who has relatives in Pomfret, started this week for Washington, D. C. where she will spend the winter. Messrs. Ralph and Roger Brown of Plainfield and Miss Lula Bennett of family New Bedford called at Westland re- cently. Arthur Grosvenor was in Providence Wednesday. Winter Trips and Cruises rate and combined tours 10 to days from New York to the American Mediterranean. HAVANA AND PCINTS IN CUBA Interesting and restful, because of the fascinating charms of tropical life and climate. Excellent modem Speadiss of beautiful fowess—charm- gt .m.l"fu. and ool door ""'J - e o of o Eaboes oo datailed informsa- tiom wil be supplied upon request. WARD LINE GeneralOffices, Pier 14, E. R.. New York orany suthorized ticket agency or tour bureau WIHEN YOU WANT 10 put your bus :iness Dbefure the pu theére 1s no medium better than tnrough the ad- wamticine calumns 6 The Rnllatin, S At this spent | GALA BILL Monday, Tuesday, BIG KEITH HEADLINE ACT Revue Singing, Dancing and Comedy A GREAT ACT FEATURE PHOTO-PLAY Monday and Tuctday 5 PART BLUE RIBBON FEATURE THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE Star Cast of Vi Don’t Miss This MUTUAL WAR WEEKLY FUNNY COMEDIES CONCERT ORCHESTRA Wednesday The Darktown 10 PEOPLE—SPECIAL SCENERY A Big Lively Hodge Podge of A Great Melodrama With an All- graph Favorites Today at 230, 7 and 845 ARCO BROTHERS Modern Samsons Athletic Act Ev.r Slon Here Wm. Fox Presents THEDA BARA The Famous Vampire Woman i Most Wonderful Picture Ever Shown on a Screen 6 9% 5-PART & LN FEATURE STARTLING BUT TRUE SEEING AMERICA FIRST ‘Scenic Travel Picture KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Funny Cartoon Comic Films THE HOUSE PARTY Matinee, 10c. Eve KEITH SUPREME VAUDEVILLE in the Greatest HEATRE e e e FEATURE PH OTO PLAY PRICES with a Remarkable Company c¢ INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS = LOWER FLOOR, = BALCONY, $2.00, Seat Sale Opens Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 10 A aturday,i Dec. 11th MAr'l'lNEl L ONLY m——— GALLERY, 50c 2.00 and $1.50 1.50 and $1.00 CANTERBURY a former resident of of Plainfield, was a Elmer Handy, this town, nmow guest one day last week of W. L. and C. W. Bennett at Crystal Spring farm. John Moffitt and family of Scotland were recent guests of Mr. Moffitt's sister, Mrs. Elsie Bliven. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pellett of Central Village and Mr. and Mrs. Ozeal Hop- kins and daughter Dorothy of Brook- lyn were guests Thanksgiving day of A. H. Pellett and family. Mrs. Elsie Bliven and daughter, Edna M. Bliven, were guests on the holiday of relatives at the Green. Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Bennett spent the holiday with their son, A. C. Ben- nett, and wife. Dr. Bennett is soon to move ot Plainfield, where he has bought a nice home, and will build a barn and garag Toliand Count County Loemis Brothers and Their Wives Cel- chrate Forty-Ninth Anniversary of Their Marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Loomis of Bolton celebrated Sunday, the forty- ninth arnive ry of their marriage, at the residence of their daughter, Mrs. William Stetson. His brother, Will- iam H. Loomis and wife, also of Bol- observed the forty-ninth anni. ¢y of their wedding Monday. N. arried on Thanks- am H. on Thanks- | nine years ago. Both | wre very popular in the tow; N. having represented the e at the legislature. and has filled about every office in the gift of his fellow townsmen, having been town treasurer for twenty-five years. He is a democrat. William is a re- publican, and has also filled many of- fic o eve and W c)\\|\<“ day forty Charles town tw Addressed Men’s Club. John J. Lockett addressed the club of the Willimantic Metho- cburch Wednesday evening. Officers of C. E. Society. The Christian Endeavor society elected the foliowing officers for 1916: Rev. Mer" dist President, George Ladd: vice presi- Mi; sther Jewett; secretary reasurer, Miss Marion Stanley; nan of programme committee, H. "hompson: chairman of mission committee, Mrs. R. L. Jones man of lookout committee, Mr: chairman of music Katherine Stetson: Howard Stanley, and Clarence Mrs. committee. ushers Stetson. Mr. and Mrs. H. entertainine Mrs. C, son, of Stamford. Mr. and Mrs. R. Hadaway of Hart- . were here last week end visiting nds. SOUTH COVENTRY Preacher from Hartford at Congrega- tional Church—Play Given by An- dover Amateurs A. Thompson are | Thompson and | Among Thanksgiving visitors were \Jr and Mrs. John Faulkner and Har- Small of Hartford, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rosebrooks and five children of Webster at George L. Rosebrooks’, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Kingsbury of New London at De Witt Kingsbury's, Mr and Mrs. Arthur Brainerd of Som- ers at Charles Kolb's, Everett J. Wil son of New Britain at William J. Wil- son's, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Beardsley of Sound Beach at G. H. Robertson’s. Rev. Mr. Woodbury of Hartford oc- cupied the pulpit at the Congregation- al church last Sunday morning. Andover Amateurs Give Play. A play, Sunbonnets, was given by Andover young people in the vestry of the local Congregational church Fri- day evening. Mail Carrier 111, Rural Mail Carrier George B. Car- penter, who has been unable to be on his mail route for some time, is in a very feeble condition at the home of his son, Charles Carpenter. Substi- tute William A. Wolfe is covering the route. Miss Helen A. Wood, who is em- ploved as a milliner in Providence, is home during the dull season. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Armstrong have moveg from Wall street into the dwell- ing house opposite Mr. Armstrong’s wagon factory. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Crickmore spent Thanksgiving at Mr. Crickmore's home in East Windsor Hill. Miss Sara White of the Massachu- setts State hospital, Worcester, spent Sunday at her home. COVENTRY Deer Shet-—Doath of Jehn Hughes Unexpected—Stereopticon Lecture. George Bovey of Vermont has bought the house and lot on the Tol- land road of W. S. Green. Herbert Pender has moved his house- lold gocds to Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Austin held their annual family reunion Thanks- giving dav. Mr. and Mrs. James Wood of Ver- | about forty | cently non, spent Thanksgiving day with Mrs. Wood's father. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Newell spent Thenksgiving with their brother in Rockville. Gilbert H. Storrs and family spent Thanksgiving with their father, E. F. Storrs on Spring Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wood of Hart- ford were at home over Thanksgiving. Shot a Deer. W. S. Green shot a large deer Thursday morning. Candidate Preach: € W. Hanna of Fast Granhv on o Next Mon. and Tues. AUDITORIUM LOUISE and FERERA Musical Artists occupied the pulpit Sunday morning as_a candidate. ss Flora Darby has returned to her home ir Sterling after spending threc months with her grandmother. Death of John Hughes. John Hughes, 85, died early Sun- v morning after only four days’ ill- being urnconscious most of the Mr. Hughes came to this town years ago, and until re- has been engaged in farming. He is survived by his wife and four children. Hlustrated Lecture. The Ready Helpers gave a stereop- ticon lecture in the hall Wednesday evening. B. O. Spaulding who has been 1In poor health for a long time, is much worse. The grange held its regular meeting Thursday evening. Several applica- tions for membership have been re- ceived. The Ladies’ society met Friday aft- ernoon in their parlors. Tea was serve ed at 5 o'clock. BOLT ON Dance Fcllows Moving Picture Show For Hall Benefit. A moving picture show w the Polton hall last week F ing with the pathescope films and used with the dry batteries. The show was greatly enjoyed by a full house. In addition to the pictures, in- stremental and vocal music was pro- vided by 1. the blind ban- joist, ana ¢ pianist, « Fartford. ayed for dancing ' after the enter ent. Frederick S. Doane was prompter. Ice cream was sold during the evening. Samuel M. Alvord had charge of the evening's programme. The proceeds were for the henefit of the Bolton hall. lies' Aid society met in the room of the Bolton hall day. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Lee have moved from the Center into the Clark house. Miss Minnie Engle of Hartford has been visit: Miss Anna Post at the su er house. Miss Gertrude Turney is at Mrs. sephine M. Summer's. t Miss Eleanor Hutchinson of South nchester spent Thanksgiving vaca- cation at her father's, Calvin Hutchin- son’s. Jo- Sidney Whipples of Baltic visited William B. Trobridge recently. Mrs. I H. Warfie nd_ Miss Doris Warfield relatives last weel ited East Hartford STAFFORDVILLE Herbert R. Bosworth is ill with diphtheria and the home is quarantin- ed. Mrs. Margaret Bowden and two children, Pearl and Earl, and Mr. and Mrs. John Bowden were Thanksgiving guests of Mr. William Bow- den, in Monson, A. V. LeClair a Thanksgiving guest of Mr. and s. Fred Bowden. Burton and Clifford Pelcher spent a few days last week with their grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Taylor outh Coventry s Catherine Silk of Boston and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Erickson of Mon- son, Mass., were guests of Mrs. Helen Larges over Sunday. Rev. E. H. Tunnicliffe, who has been visiting is ter, in Philadelphia, is expected to return to the parsonage this weel: and preach tomorrow (Sun- d=y) in the M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. Allison Lyon were guests over Sunday of the latter’s par- Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Cor- n Wales, Mas Reta Roberts of Orcuttville was with Mr. and Mrs. John Rishton over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kober spent a few days last week with Hartford rel- atives. SPRING HILL Eight-Year Old Glen Stalker Fracturing Elbow. Falls, Last Sunday while G. A. Stalker and his family were at his father's in Vindham, young Glen, eight years old feli and received a bad fracture of his | right elbow. He was taken to the private hospital in Willimantic, but, as he had recently eaten it was near- ly 9 o'cleck when the anaesthetic was administered so that the fracture could be properly attended to. The youngster was game, however, and c¢ame out of the operation in good shape. He came home from the hos- pital Wednesday. Miss Ida Reynolds has been visiting in_South Coventry this week. Mrs. Flaherty returned Monday eve- ning from a short visit with her daughter in fixddlemwn In Aus&mlxa the birds have no song and flowers have no scent, though the leaves of every tree are full af ador TODAY -3 Acts Vaudeville onl PARAMOUNT PICTURES Jesse L. Lasky Presents the Hlustrious Broadway Star EDGAR SELWIN = THE ARAB in a Spectacular Picturization of His. Own Romantic Drama in 5 Zicts ! BERNARD ROBINSON Comedy Acrobat l AND THE PARA- MOUNT FEATURE = Colonial PRESEN | i SHOWS, 23), 7, 845 Mat. 10c; E ve. 1Cc and 20¢ Produced by Cecii B. Demille CHAS. MOOR E & CO. Combination N-jvelty Act Brother C'fficers P — Theatre The Famous Comus Pil:yyers T THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT | A Sketch Every Man, Woman and Child Sh puld See NEW NOVELTIES AND VAUDEVIL LE | FEATURE PICTURE PROGRAMM E Colonial Augmented Orchestra Matinee 2:30 E fening 7, 8:30 | BOLTON ‘John Hughes’ De:th—Holiday Week Visitors. Henry Clark of Southold, land, was a visitor in towr Sadie Howard of New R Thanksgiving with her mot M. E. Howard. : | Death of John Hughes. | John Hughes died a | NOTCH [ 1 5 his home & v after a short illnes: His funeral | held ay at the 1 E. church, of which | member. | i Miss Ruth W, an- | { chester, spent Saturday | { with her grand AL | { Howard. | NMr and ne and | Mrs. Minar ksgiving with Mrs. Hartford, Ho ward's, at Man- Hale, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hale and daughte of Spring. | ent T nksgiving at Dr. M. M. | " Attended Funeral. nd Mrs. James Hughes, Mr. . George Hughes and daught- er of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hunt three children of Hart- ford, and Jot Whit- ree childr of V man- town to attend the funer- John Morris spent Thanksgiving at \I' and Mrs. Thomas tended the funeral of ¥ as at Mansf . Wednesday, e t De Wolfe moved sday. house Tu STAF! Walcott Lodge Meeting—Service to Be Held at Schoolhouse. his new ORD Miss Harrict to Johnson hosp There will be Universalist church ernoon for a i a of W The meetin wcott lodge was of Salem I 2 ten days’ vacation with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rol- Miss Nettie E. Brown, who is at- tending Dean academy, Franklin, Mass. spent the Thanksgiv with her rarents, Mr. and Mrs. . own. The topic for the Y. T. mext Sunday Christian Unioner = Leader, Miss Helen Anderson, Mrs. Sarah Watts returned Monday to her home in Norwich, N. Y., after spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Sibley. Service at Schoolhouse. Next Sunday at 3 p. m. a service will be held at the village school- Wednesdays $3480 Soin Intermediate tickets only $ 4 3 30 Tuesdays Fridays First class Tickets only Staterooms with twin b staterooms withoutbath limit, six months. ‘Write for information and beauti: ARTHUR W. PYE, Passeager Traffic Ma City Ticket Offices: 290 Brozdway, cor. into |~ e —— cLATER HALL MUSICAL C(OURSE Season, 19 15-16 MME. POVLA ' FRISCH Dramatic Scprano Friday, Dec. 10:h, 1915 THE MARGULIES TRIO Tuesday, Jan. 111, 1916 ALBERT SPA ULDING Violinis & Friday, Feb. 4, 1916 COURSE TICKE TS, $250 All Seats Reserved Tickets on Sale Wedresday, Dec. 8 ————— e — Amateur Vaudeville Next Monday and Tues day Evenings, December 6th a nd 7th NEW AMUSEMENT HALL Norwich State h'ospital Palm Room open at 7. Entert ainment at 8. Tickets 50 cents Include trolley from Fr:klin to Hospital and return. istmas _ Novelties, Home-made Candy, Etc., for sale. spices of the Woman's U MO A e at Ge(. A. Davis’ MUSICAILE JOHN BARNES WEILLS, Tenor At Union Lodge iBuilding, New Londois, Tuesday, Dec. 7, at {3.15 p. m. Tickets 75¢ Reserved Seats $1.00 On Sale at store of George A. Davis FRANCIS SLATEi{ PALMER Concert Pianist: GEORGE J. D. CURRIE Dramatic Reader MISS MARY C. 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