Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 29, 1916, Page 12

(Written Spegially for The Bulletin.) Perhaps some of you may have no- ticed that apples from New York State took the first premium over all the country and the world at the Panama exposition in San PFrancisco. Oh, yes, there were apples there from the Ozarks. And from the Michigan apple-belt. And from the Hood River valley. And from all the other boosted and boasted orchard districts of the whole wide. land. Nevertheless, ani in despite there- of and in fair competition therewith, apples from “Little Old New York” won _first place, not only for quality but for beauty and market value. As | say, some of you may have no- ticed this victory of New York over the best showings that the most ad- vertised Pacific cogst orchards could do. But I doubt if'many of you have ob- served that, shortly afterwards, a New Jersey apple man won first prize against the best apples New York sent to its own state fruit show at Rochest- er. Came right into the victor's country into the very heart and center of its best apple section, and pulled the feather out of its cap. First, New York wins against every- thing the Pacific coast can do, right out at the very center of that Pacific coast, too. Then New Jersey wins over the best New York can do, right in the center of New York's fruit country. Where was all this time? New Jersey is about one-sixth the size- of New York. Connecticut is about one-tenth the size of New York. All three of 'em bunched together, are about one-third the size of California 1t New York took the feather out of Big Sister California’s hat, .and New Jersey then hornswoggled it away from New York, why mightn't tiny Connecticut have swiped it from New Jersey? But I s'pose Mr. Hale was busy with something else, just then, and nobody clse between Thompson and Green- wich cared enough hbout it to make an effort. Connecticut, For years everybody with a palate capable of doing business has known ! that eastern fruit possesses a flavor and a tang which are usually lacking in products of the extreme west. When California peaches first come on the market, each season, doubtless the most of us horry to buy some. JThey surely do look fine. And it's most a year since we've had the taste of a fresh peach. And we sink our teeth into one, instanter. The: we discover that the fair #lowing, seductive outside hides a stringy, unmellow, flavorles hunk of practically inedible toughness, which might about as well be pumpkin. Whereupon we unselfishly give the others away to anybody who will take our fifty-cent basket for nothing, and turn our eves Glastonb; way, to wait till we can get something from there which will be peach as well as look it. Same with apples; and pears; and plums; and grapes. And almost ev- ery other sort of fruit except oranges, whnich we can’t grow on account of our j edge. winters. ‘We can grow the common fruits here in the east just as fine-looking, just as attractive in a properiy arranged package, just as price-pulling, and ahout four thousand times better flav- RUB RHEUMATISM PAIN FROM SORE, ACHING JOINTS RUB PAIN 'AWAY WITH SMALL TRIAL BOTTLE OF OLD, PENE- TRATING “ST. JACOB’S OIL.” What's Rheumatism? Pain only. Stop drugging! Not one case in fifty requires internal treatment. Rub soothing, penetrating *St. Jacobs Oil” directly upon the “tender spot” and re- lief comes instantly. “St. Jacobs Oil” is a harmless rheumatism and sciatica liniment, which never disappoints and can not burn the skin. Limber up! Quit complaining! Get a small trial bottle from your drug- gist, and in just a moment you'll be free from rheumatic and sciatic pain, soreness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suffer! Relief awaits you. Oild, honest “St. Jacobs Oil” has cured mil- lions of rheumatism sufferers in the last half century, and is just as good for sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago; back- ache, sprains and swelling: APPLES: NEWXORKWINSAGAINSTALLCO;!— iapples,—on the bottom, follow it with ored than anything the extreme west does. % But when it comes to the actual selling of them in the markets then a bushel box of “Rivers’ from Oregon will usually bring more money than a threesbushel barrel from either New Yo‘gx or New Jersey or Connecticut. hy ? Simply because of the difference in packing and advertising. The fancy fruit which comes from the Pacific coast is picked with a care old-fashioned eastern apple men would call fussy. It is not yanked off imto unlined baskets and then dumped recklessly into heaps on the rough or- chard surface to wait the coming of a possible buyer, when the other farm work reaches such a point that there is nothing better to do. Instead, it is watched from day to day, on the trees, as_carefully as a mother watches a baby, so that it can be picked the very day that trained eyes see it is at its best. From bough to bex it is handled as carefully as if the apples were eggs, and liable to break if dropped or crush- ed. It is packed by expert packers who reject every fruit which doesn't come up. to strict standard of size and smoothness and color and freedom from blemish. It is packed so that one side of the box is just the‘'same as the other side, and one end the same as the other end, and the bottom lay- ers just as fine as the top ones. The boxes are usually papered within, so as to protect the fruit from bruise in transportation, and attractively label- led on the outside. Compare that method of handling with the system common throughout{: New England orchards. The apples lare picked, often by boys wko don’t care a hoot for anything except to get through tnd grab their money, dumped into piles between the trees, left there through rains and perhaps light snow: | finally bought in a lump by some per- | ipatetic speculator, who sends his own men and barrels for them. His packers are trained to get the most barrels possible and of the lot of any grade that will sell. So they put a layer of ‘“platers”—select, handsome ia basket of “firsts”, —likewise select- ed but not quite so fine, fill the middle of the barrel with a bushel or so of { small, malformed, wormey cider apples {and then finish off the top with an- other small basket of “firsts”, and an- {other layer of “platers Then the head is put on and forced home with a screw, inevitably bruising some of the very best of the top layer, and the speculator sells to anybody whom he can ‘stick, hoping that, whichever end is opened, the buyer won't dig in deep enough to disclose the culls which make up half the barrel’s contents. That's why the average New Eng- land farmer gets $1.25 or $1.50 a bar- el for his apples, while the Hood river man get’$3 or 4 a bushel box for his. It's just a case where the bounty of nature is wasted, and the opportun- itles offered are ignored, and the money of eager: buyers flouted,—for what? Lord ‘only knows whether it's lack of ambition or of energy or of knowl- Tt can’t be absence of common { sense, for every New England farmer |between Cos Cob and Passamaquoddy Bay will tell you that's the one, thing he's particularly long on! It is probably true that we can't compete with Illinois in raising corn nor with the Dakotas in raising wheat. ‘We lack sufficient areas of land suit- able for producing such crops at low cost. But we have the land and the climate and pretty nearly every other facility for producing, among other things, apples—apples of noble appear- ance and highest quality—apples which ought to bring and will bring if pro- perly handled better prices than any fruit from even the most vigorously exploited orchards of Oregon or Wash- ington jor California. We have been in the habit of looking somewhere 'way off, and crying Lo, here, or Lo, there, when the kingdom was$ realy beside us and within our own line fences. I know of a man who gets $§ a bar- rel for his apples, regularly. He picks them right and packs them right and delivers them, himself, to customers who can afford a good thing and are willing to pay a good price, provided they can be assured that they will get what they pay for. He has proven to them by past dealings that his word is as good as their eyes, that when he says a barrel will run all alike, as good in the middle as at either end, it will do so, to the last apple. He hasn’t a big orchard. And he regularly sells more barrels to the cider mills than to his customers, for he simply won’t pack inferior fruit. But isp’t it perfectly clear that there's mi money in selling one bar- rel of fancy apples at $6 and two bar- Year by crops. hi plant food made of animal substances. Esséx Fertilizers and MEAT and ' BONE, BLOOD and MEAT Fertil the natural fertility of the soil is taken away by growing natural fertility can only be restored by feeding nature’s e this plant food. in available forms—BONE, BLOOD gh-grade chemicals. They restore the natural fertility to the soil and produce abundant yields. run freely through fertilizer drills or planters. ers act quickly. They are fine and Due to the lack of potash this year, reliable manufacturers have either been compelled to charge exorbitant prices for potash or to make fertilizers without it. cro| = Essex High-Grade Fertilizers have alwa ‘We made extensive experiments without po Essex Animal Fertilizers that aill permanentls Ask your local Ml‘hlll them or write the grown profitable and now. you ly enrich your soil. The records made this very by New York and New Jersey “to dig ourselves the task will be | healinge cablt b Inscantly 3 Ly or overcome,—it is a . possible w that we have the goods. ' DANIELSON Willimantic Wedding Guest 1ll—Ex- plosion at Gas Plant Blows Off Doors of Three Containers—Annual Mili- tary Ball at Armory a Social Event. Mrs. Frank Gorman, who came here from her home in Willigpantic to at- tend the wedding of her sister, Miss Leah Bessette, is seriously ill with pneumonia at the home of her mother, Mre. J. M. Bessette, on the West Side. To Attend McKinley Banquet. Judge Harry E. Back,.Judge Sabin S. Russell and Attorney E. L. Darble will be in New Haven this evening attend- ing the annual McKinley banquet. John Ayiward left Thursday after- noon for Worcester to attend the fu- neral of a relative. Paul N. Swaffield of the high school faculty was in charge of the Killingly High -school basketball team on the trip to Willimantic for the game with Windham Hjgh Thursday afternoon. Rev. John Mogee, vice prineipal of the East Greenwich academy, is to speak at the Sunday morning service at_the Methodist church. Edward S. Carpenter is again con- fined to his home by iliness, after re- covering from a siege of three weeks. L. B. 8. Direstresses. Mrs. Amelia_ Tillinghast, Mrs. Barber, Mrs, Bond, Mrs. Jok sine, Mrs. Andrew Meech, Miss Kate nielson are directresses of the La- dies’ Benevolent society of the Congre- gational church for February. Right in the midst of*a quite prolific potato beit, local consumers are being called upon to pay $1.50 a bushel for the tubers, which in some cases are not so much at that. Only a mighty conservative ground- hog would neglect to take a chance on coming out.to enjoy such a balmy day as Friday, when January hung up an- other 65 degree record in Danielson. George Witter, Brooklyn, who has been in a Boston hospital receiving treatment for an injury to his eve since before Christmas time, has re- turned to his home. Over in Foster a man who is turn- ing out dyestuffs at reasonable prices for goods that are now sky-high has been discovered and is receiving offers i * | structure Gordon' is preparing a list of contrib- utors, to be made public ‘the first of the week. ‘BLEW THREE DOORS OFF. Explosion at Plant of Light and Powet Company Friday Morning. An explosion of unusual force at the local plant of the People’s Ll‘%’xlnfl Power" company at 3 o'clock day morning blew three doors off gas con- tainers at the plant and put the gas service ou: of commission until well along in the afternoon, when normal conditions were restored. The cause of the accident has not been deter- mined.. Fortunately none of the em-~ ployes of the plant were close to the site of the explosion and no one was injured. Such explosions have occa- sionally occurred at the plant in the past. One Hundred New Houses Needed. The considerable number of Daniel- son citizens who are contemplating building homes in the spring are grati- fied at learning that, local banking in- terests are prepared to do their part in advancing money for houses, at present so urgently needed in Danielson, a town that has outgrown itself as to homes much the same as do boys who find themselves squeezed in every part in attempting to be comfortable in a last year's suit. There is need at present of 100 ad-, ditional houses in Danielson. Laboring’ men—all men of limited means—are going to find it possible to own their own homes this spring, under arrange- ments that will make it surprisingly easy for them to enjoy the satisfaction of becoming their own landlords. House lots are to be offered at bargain rates by men who want to see Dan- lelson grow, banks will loan liberally to prospective bullders, and the way to home building smoothed in every re- spect, that Danielson may improve to the fullest its present apiendid and greatest opp@rtunity to become a real, hustling, growing town. Orders now held by industrial con- cerns make certain that Danielson has entered the greatest year of prosperity in its history. . To take full advantage of the possibilities, it is absolutely essential that more houses be built 8o that employment may be given to of substantial advances in prices for|scores of families now being turned his products. Will Read Papers. Miss Katherine Bill, Ray Bailey, Miss Ames, Miss Grace Stanton, Miss Branch and Lorimer Dixon are to read papers at the joint meeting of the Young People’s societies of the Con- gregational and Baptist churches at the meeting at the Baptist church Sunday evening. Wires to Be Strung Across River. The work of stringing wires for the high tension (11,000 volts) line from Danielson to the plant of the Killingly Manufacturing company at Williams- ville is well advanced. The wires will be strung across the Assawaga river. As calendar day for February, Fri- day was about the niftiest product of the kind that January ever produced, bringing promise of violets (maybe) and other real spring-like manifesta- tions not usually expected before late April. Weights and Measures Faulty. Charles Johnson, North Grosvenor- dale, county sealer of weights and measures, on. recent visits to Daniel- son has found some things not exactly according to the code of the require- ments of the state department he rep- resents. His instructions to dealers have been to be more careful. Contributions Liberal. Aaron Gordon, who was in charge of the matter of collecting contributions in thie territory for the Jewish relief fund, is well pleased with the generous response to solicitors’ requests. Mr. CARNEGIE Meeting ln',New York: in’ the resi- dence ' of Charles M. Schwab, Andrew Carnegie’s “boys” declared . the ab- sence of the man who gave them “the IN SOUTH SEEKING HEALTH, OF HIS “BOYS.” away onaccount of lack of housing. Any man who owned 50 houses in Danielson this morning could lease every one of them before night. The cry is for medium priced rents, homes that familles of average income could afford to occupy. Officers of Orient Lodge. Following are the newly elected offi- cers of Orient lodge, K. of P.: C. F. E. Young; V. C., Walter W. Ryde: prelate, A. F. Wood; R. and S, J. J. Cody: M. of F., C. H. Bacon; M. 'of E., W. J. Craig; M. of A, W. C. Baco M- of ' W., Frank Lathrop; I. G, H. E. Burton; O. G, Ralph Young; trustees, F. E. Lathrop, two years, H. E. Burton, three years; representatives to the grand lodge, F. E. Lathrop, W. W. Ryder (alternate). The officers are to be installed Friday evening of next week. ANNUAL MILITARY BALL. Thirteenth Company Provides Enjoy- able and Successful Social Event. The annual military ball the Thirteenth company, C. A. was held in the state armory Friday even- ing with a large number in attendance, many coming from surrounding towns. Among the visiting officers were Col onel H. Dorsey of New Lorélon, Captain Geocrge E. Church of Norwich, Lieutenant Bell of New London and Lieutenant Simpson of Norwich. Hardy's orchestra of Worcester played for the dancing. The dancers of MISSES THE MEETING e e e T O "1 ideal for events of the and gave opportunity for enjoymént of made the fact Suffrage Campaign to Open Monda; —8t. Mary’s ioners to Give One Day’s p.;mn ‘Rectory ting—Elks Plan Putnam Night—Vis- iting Nurse Favored. T H. H. Davenport of Pomfrei address the members of the Neighbor- hood association of .that town this tomobile tour across Judge M. H. Geissler is to address the members of the French Circle of Advancement relative to the proposed Building and Loan association tomor- Tow evening. Members of the W. C. T. U. held a meeting with Mrs. George P. Holbrook, of Elm street, Friday afternoon. Evangelist to Speak. Miss Frances B. Adams, evangelist, is to speak at the Methodist church here next Eriday evening. Richard Gorman, Ralph E. Thurston, and Attorney John F. Carpenter, as a committee of Putnam lodge of Elks, drafted resolutions relative to the death of Michael R. Joy. 5 Quinebaug Pomona grange is to*hold its next meeting in this city with Putnam grange Sudden Drop in Temperature. There was a drop of nearly 20 de- grees in the temperature between noon and five o'clock in this city Friday. Putnam’s- Grand List $1,605,362. The grand list of Putnam as com- piled by the assessors amounts to $1,- £05,362, an increase of $16,961 over last vear. A number of republicans from towns in this section of the county will be in New Haven this evening to attend the annual McKinley banquet. . As a resuit of the excessively warm weather of the week now closing all ice has disappeared from the Quine- baug river and from the larger lakes and ronds in towns in this section. Professor Baker of the Cgnnecticut Agricultural college, at Storrs, i sto speak February 1, at the first an- niversary meeting of the Community club at East Woodstock. Suffrage Campaign to Open. Monday wili mark the beginning of the special suffrage campaign to be conducted in Windham county towns and during which Miss Helen Todd of San Francisco will be heard. Miss Rosamor.d Danielson of this town will manage the campalign. Advertising signs -and rubbish gen- erally, were mingled in one hurd- bur- Iv in the streets of Putnam ®riday when the unusually high wind played high jinks with everything that wasn't nailed down. Close of Extension School. Sessions of the Agricultural Exten- sien school, which has been held daily since Tuesday at South Woodstock, were brought to a close Friday. The schooi was very successfully comduct- ed. French Dramatic Company at Theatre The Maurice Castel French-speaking dAramatists closed their engagement at the Bradley theatre wit Friday’'s hows. This company has been play- ing in' towns in New England having a larger percentage of French-speak- ing people. One Day’s Pay Toward Rectory. Moembers of St. Mary's parish are contributing one day's pay toward the cxpense of fitting and equipping the fine new parochial residence, which will soon be ready for occupaicy. During this the first month of 197%, republican organizations in towns in Windranm: county are 'making their preliminary plans for the fall cam- paign, which promises to be very ac- tive as organization will probably be more perfect than ever before. Putnam Night Next. Putnam. night is next on the list of events of Putnam lodge of Eiks, which has’already enjoyed entertain- ments arranged by Webster members and by Danielson members. The local Elks will spare no pains to make the coming event a red letter one. ! Danielson Men to Be Invited. An invitation is to be sent to the Danielson Business Men’s association to send representatives here on the evening of February 3 to the meeting at which the formation of a Building and Loan association is to be discuss- ed. Tt is felt by some local men engaged in forwarding the movement for the new. association that Danielson men may be interested In coming into the organization both as investor: and suprorters. It is also believed that some plan might be worked out under which the twc towns could use the same association to meet conditions now _confronting them. Danielson wants new houses as badly as does Putnem This being true, it is held, there might be advantage in working through one building and loan asso- ciation rather than two. . In ary event, the Danielson busi- ness men would certainly be interest= ed in what the speakers who are com- ing here will have to say about build- ing and loan associations and how they are successfully conducted in va- rious cities in Connecticut and else- where outside of the state. OBITUARY. Mrs. Ernest L. Davis. Mrs. Ernest L. Davis, 46, died at her home here at 6 o’clock, Friday morn- ing after an illness of about three years. Mrs. Davis was a native of ‘Worcester. She leaves her husband, a son, Harry, and a daughter, Hazel. iter-Tetreault Engagement. R Gustav Reiter of Webster has an- nounced the = engagement of his now employed as.a ivate e to the of the Dlltflcm! He is a school. - NEW YORK’S LARGEST AND LOVE- LIEST SPECTACULAR REVUE MAIDRAMERICA 125—COMPANY—125 Original Broadway Production 12 Gorgeous Scenes cluding the World’s Gi Comedien: FLORENCE MOORE And the Celebrated WINTER _GARDEN @) AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA CHORUS BEAUTIES —PRICES— ] 2 anuyycirel. 75e¢, Gallery Colonial “THE CUB” Remember—We show a Mammoth such agencies in many cities in New England. The duties of a visiting nurse were outlined at the meeting as well as the results achieved. Much interest was shown in the project which it is exe pected will eventually become a reali- ty here. BITUMINOUS MINERS TO ASK WAGE INCREASE Virtually a Unanimous Affirmative Vete at Miners’ Convention. Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 28.—The Unit- ed Mine Workers of America in con- vention decided by a virtually unani- mous vote today to ask the bitumin- ous ccal operators throughout the country for.a ten per cent..increase in wages at the basing point for miners on a mine run basis, a ten per cent. advance for all dead work and a 20 per cent increase for all men paid by the day. In addition to the convention rat- ified the demands formulated by the anthracite mine workers of Pennsyl- vania at a convention held in Wilkes- barre last September asking for a 20 per cent. advance in wages, complete recognition of thé union and an eight hour day fox day labor. * Among the demands asked for in the soft coal flelds is an eight hour day from “bank to bank"—that is, the the time of the miner is to begin at the minute he enters the mine until he emerges after his day’'s work. The working places in the mines of some men are as far as one to two miles from the entrance and they want to be paid for the time it takes to walk or ride the varying distances under ground. Weekly pay days are also demanded by the bituminous workers and a further demand is made that every other Saturday be an idle day insttad of working half a day each Saturday. A two year agreement is asked for in both the anthracite and bituminous districts. The checkoff dces not appear in the soft coal demands and it was alleged that the soft coal miners already have the checkoff and there was no necessi- ty for inserting it in the bituminous scale. APPARATUS TO PROTECT SHIPS FROM MINES Has Been Invented by Frantz Poul- sen of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Jan. 28, via London, 523 P. m.—An apparatus which it is claim- ed will prevent the destruction of ships by torpedoes or mines has been invent- ed by Frantz F\'isen, an engineer. The details of the device are with held but the principal feature is said to be a device from diverting the pres- sure on ships of the air masses form- ed by the explosion. The intention has been offered to the Eritish admiralty, which has prom- ised to test it at the earliest possible time. ALL DOLLED UP FOR HER DANCING CLASS 5 beauty of this little frock is that elever mother can reprod; . it. base is net, and over this: fall 30 Big Song Successes All the Winter Garden Favorites In- reatest SEAT SALE SATURDAY AT 10 A. M. Thrilling_5- senti Lou L in THE PLORER ERFUL KID HE COUNTRY BRING THE CHILDREN ‘ KUBANOFF Celobrated Russian, Vielinist Singing and Talking Comedienns e T —~PHOTOPLAYS TODAY— “THE GOLDEN CLAW” & Reel Ince Feature, With the Cel- ebrated Actress A TRIANLGE PHOTOPLAY —_— TRIANGLE KEYSTONE COMEDY WEBER & FIELDS, “the Famous ns in 4—COMPLETE SHOWS—4 | AT 130, 3.15, 645, 854 'l'h"ea“tr- reel World Featurs, Pre- { Vo Hines. Unparaljgled 5-reel All-Star Feéature Every Day Suffrage Meeting Mrs. Beatrice Forkes "obertson Hale | SPEAKER Town Hall, Tuesdsy. Evening, February 1st AT 8 P. M. Admission Free DANBURY ‘HATTERS GET “ FROM$350,000 TO $450,000 From Centributions Made for Payment of $252,000 Judgment. Danblln'& Jan. officers: of the| United Hatters of North Amerfca estithated today that the contributions made yesterday for the relief of the defendants in the Dan- ury hatters’, case would be at least $350,000 and pRobably $450,000, accord- ing to word received here today from the hatters’ headquarters in New oYrk. It was stated that while defi- nite figures could.not yet be given, re- ports received from the largest citie: in the country indicated that the re- sponse to the appeal of the American Federation of Labor for funds to meet the $253,000 4 s and costs award- ed D. B. Loewe and-Company, plaintiffs in the case, would be sufficient to protect - the defendants against losing a dollar of their personal property or savings. % e - About $400,000 would be needed, it was stated, and this amounht, it seem- ed certain, had been gfven. 28.—National 3 LONDON AS FINANCIAL - CENTER OF THE WORLD Sir Edward Holden Opines That War ' Will Not Afteot its Brestige. London, Jan. 28, 1.56 p. m.—The sug- gestion that the war might affect the position of Londoa as fi center of - the -world was repudiated today by Sir Edward HoMen, at the annual meeting of the London City and >Td- land bank, of which he is managing director. P “Not ~only shalt we not lose that position,” he said, “but we shall great- ly _improve it Referring to the- flotation in the United Statés of 'the Anglo-French loan, Sir “Edward, said: “The_L go\'& ernment people of the Tnite: Kingdom l;k:ve been placed under a great obligation.1o American bankers for the magnificent spirif which thev showed in buying straight out a loan of ‘such magnitude,” BAD COLD? TAKE “CASCARETS” FOR BOWELS TONIGHT THEY'RE FINE! © LIVEN 'YOUR LIVER AND BOWELS AND CLEAR YOUR HEAD. 0 HEADACHE, SOUR. CH, BAD COLD OR CONSTIPATIO! BY MORNING. P g:]t‘J..h the in | th Whether in e or any part vr‘he body—c‘re d& over- come By urging the liver to action and keeping the. bowels. « Take C: ‘cold will be " gone. 10~ forget the children. relish thi: Cnnd:,. Cathartic and. it is_often al;