Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 15

\x Hearing on Eli D plication Agai Accounts Gain 1916—Big Buildj avings er_$400,000 During Boom for Coming Year—Shepard Hill Cow Gives 1,200 Pounds of Milk in Past Month—New Fire Station at Industriaf Place. - ..:;.;,ue._m Ap- ESY Garter Mrs. Alphonse Gareau. ‘gt - Cai street is visiting Felatives in Canada. Edward ‘Heneault of Waterbury is the guest of relatives.here.for the hol- iday. Miss Marietta_Healey is visiting Mr. and Mrs, P. F. Murray, Academy street. John C. Lane of Bridgeport was the guest of friends in Danielson over Sunday. Elks at Putnam. Local members of Putnam lodge of Eiks wee in Putnam to watch the old t and the new year in. Y irs. 5.°C. Phillips is at Attieboro, Local relatives were in Putnam Sun- day fo attend the funeral of Thomas Pepin of Carter street. who died in a Boston hospital. E. L. Darbie spent the week end with friends in Hartford. -~ Miss Vinnie E. Shaw of Worcester is spending the haeliday with friends in Danelson. = ‘Attorney and Mrs. Roy Bergengren pave returned to their home in Lynn after a visit with relativés here. License Hearing Postponed. The hearing of thé remorstrance azainst granting a license to B Dage- pias was again postponed from Satur- day. A date for élhl hearing fl:elll}- b: fixed by the county,commiss a thelr meeting this 'fl‘»m‘ St. James’ parochial school is to re- open for the winter term Wednesday morning. H!rbgn Keech is preparing to cut ice at Quinebaug lake, where the tce is nearly heavy enough to warrant starting operations almost at once. Mrs. George F. Genung is to have the members of the Brooklyn Women’s ‘glub at her home for a meeting this afternoon. ’ Gain of Over $400,000. Sevings accounts in Danielson’s banks show a gain in excess of $400,- 000 during 1916. Not all the earnings went to meet the high cost of living, the workers make manifest, Several parties motored. to Provi- dence Sunda yevening to watch the cld year fade away and the birth of a few’one. Only & Degrees Above Zero. Sunday morning’s low temperature, as shown on the recording thermome- ter at Woodward's store, was 6 degrees above zero. Postoffice Hours Today. Postmaster Pilling puts force a ing, keeping the office open only from 630 to 11.30 a. m. after which hour it will be elosed for the day. The rural service is suspended today- Will Address Milk Producers. Rev. C. A. Downs, Dayville, has made arrangements to have C. E. Em- bree, organizing the Rhode Island milk producers, address a _meeting of milk producers here next Saturday. About a score of men ship from this vicinity to the Providence market. - Big Building Boom in 1917. This year of 1917 promises to wit- ness the greatcst- building operations in Killingly’s history. Announcements are expected within a few days of building plans that will represent the investment of millions—and there will he_other announcements later. Officials who _inspected Webster's crossing at Dayville last week have tuken under consideration different plans for its elimination. It is said that what appears to prove the most acceptable plan will be adopted and that the crossing will be a thing of the past in the not distant future. Dayville as Freight Station. During the next 90 days, it is stated by men in a position to know, Day- ville is going to be one of the busiest freight stations between New London and Worcester. An estimate is that 1,000 cars of freight will be handled tiere during the period, the majority of them coming in in conmection with the constriction work to be done by !l;lel big textile concern at Williams- ville. Prisoners to Cut lce. - There are 64 prisoners at the Wind- ham county jail in Brooklyn this New Year's morning. With the coming of 1917 one of their first outside jobs will be to harvest the ice crop, which is practically ready for cutting, being 8 to 9 inches in thickness on the pond where the supply is usually cut. Cow Gave 59 Pounds of Milk in One Day. Willlam S. Brown, who has started te develop a herd of thoroughbred Holstein cows at his Shepard Hill farm near Wauregan. has one cow that gave 1,200 pounds of milk during the past month, and this record, he expects, will be exceeded during Jan- uary. The cow’s best record for one day is given as 59 pounds of milk. Feast of the Circum % For New Year's day special masses are being said at St. James' church, the first at 5.30 a. m. The day is a holy day in the church calendar. Fire Station Needed. The steady growth of Industrial place and that section of Danielson and the growth indieated for this year and years to come has ‘suggested. to the minds of some the need of estab- lishing a fire station and organizing a fire company there. The long, hard run that the companies had last week new holiday arrangement this morn- in getting to the fire at the Philias Jodoin place gave the fire a big before the firemen arrived. It .fi by many that a fire station located as far morth as North street is needed ight away T e proj » e Tany homes and the. Sie mil fn—ni':- in that section. w5ose The business section of the borough certainly would feel worried with all of its fire apj tus stored beyond North street. and it is but reasonable that property owners up that way should feel much the same when re garding the present distribution of fire ‘companies. COUNTY LOCAL To Be Established in Borough by Milk Producers’ Association. Danielson is one of the places se- lected Saturday at the farmers’ meet- lug in Putnam for the establishment of cne of the Windham county locals of the New England Milk Producers’ as- sociation. Organization of this local will be undertaken during the present month, yery probably, and it is hoped to get all the men who sell milk to join. The ultimate plan includes the establishment here of a warehouse for the storage of such commodities as the members of the local may find it convenient to buy at saving prices that w1l be open to them, purchasing as a unit. But for the present the idea is to get organization and protection pre- paratory to the real test of strength that it is said is coming between the producers and the big city middlemen who handle their product. PUTNAM F County Branch of New England Milk Producers’ Association Organized— Address By E. C. Embree—Local Banks Report Big Year—Ice-Cutting to Start Today—Funeral of Thomas Pepin. Elimination of the middleman, and a selling price that will show the pro- ducer a profit, were the keynotes sounded here Saturday at the meeting in_Oda Fellows’ hall, to crganize a Windham_county branch of the New England Milk _Producers’ meeting. About forty were present, representing most of the 15 towns in the county, when County Agent B. W. Fllis called the meeting to order and explained the reasons for the assemblage. S. H. Peckham. _Woodstock, was elected chairman of the meeting and B. W. Ellis secretary. The men pres- ent own between 500 and 600 cows, most of them are shippers of milk to middlemen who do business in _the Boston and Providence market and all of them were anxious to. be identified with a movement that holds promise of doing them a permanent and bene- fictal service. E. C. Embree, manager of the Maine Farmers’ unions and at the present time actively engaged in organizing the milk producers who sell in the Providence market into a co-opera- tive movement, was the principal speaker. There also was an address by James H. Cutler, well known here as a careful student of the problems PUTN *'CHESTER E. JOHN ASH GEORGE E. GEORGE D. DANIEL J. BYRNE CHESTER E. CHILD HENRY T. CHILD JOHN P. GROSVENOR Resocurces, The ANM SAVINGS BANK Of Putnam, Conn, Incorporated A. D! 1862 CHILD, President LEBBEUS E. SMITH, Vice-President Trustees CLAUS A. HAGSTROM JOHN G. JOHNSON ERNEST B. KENT SAMUEL P. REYNOLDS MELANCTHON RIDDICK BROUSSEAU CLARK LEBBEUS E. PHILIP WOISARD DANIEL J. BYRNE, Secretary and Treasurer $2,320,I84.79S EDGAR M. WHEATON SMITH Strong, ‘DEPARTMENT CHRISTMAS CLUB THE WINDHAM COUNTY NATIONAL BANK ‘DANIELSON, CONMNENCE The New Year right by opening an account in “The Million Dollar Bank?”’ Here is the o?;é_ortunity for placing your funds in a Conservative, National, Million Dollar Bank Vi lulf‘ert‘m all the facilities consistent with sound banking y SAVINGS DEPARTMENT SAFE DEPOSITORY CONN. Brooklyn Savings Bank DANIELSON, CONN. MAKE A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION TO OPEN AN (Incorporated J. ARTHUR ATWOOD, 1872) ACCOUNT AT THIS BANK Deposits dan. 1, 1917, - $2,558,985.41 A gain of Approximately $200,000 in deposits during 1916 Th'.n is a Bank of Safety and Service President WALITAM JH. BURNHAM, VicePrésidént - - Vi Potter, Secretary-Treasurer NCE A. CLAKRE] iz LN Accounts Opened by Mail R Largest Stock The past year has been . i The coming year we will the most successful in our ten Ccontinue our past policy and aim : e of giving the best values in years of business in this city poysehold furnishings at the and we take this methed to lowest possible prices, this in a thank our patrons and friends Best Quality Lowest Price large measure being responsi- ble for our success and steady for their generous patronage. growth. 'THE ONLY STORE IN NORWICH WHICH FURNISHES THE HOME COMPLETE We Extend To All Our Patrons and Friends Our Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year SCHWARTZ BROS. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS Telephone 965 9-11 Water Street that the farmers are facing relative to marketing their milk. Tae net result of the meeting was the appointment of a permanent com- mittee whiéh will supervise the organ- ization of “locals” in about a dozen places in Windham county and the signing up of about a score of the milk producers as members of the Windram county branch of the N. E. Milk Pro- ducers’ union. These men paid in one dollar each, thereby making them- selves eligible to be present at and participate in_the general meeting to be held at Springfield, probably in February, but possibly sooner, for the purpose of effecting a permanent cen- tral organization, adopting constitu- tion and by-laws and other methods of procedure. The permanent committee namgd at Saturday’s meeting is made up of Wil- lis Covell, Pomfret: C. B. Pomeroy, Willimantic: C. W. Durfee, Putnam. This committee will have in charge the work of supervising the work of the local organizations at Willimantic, Hampton, Putnam, Pomfret. East Woodstock, ~Danielson, Central Vil- lage, Jewett City, South Windham, Plainfield and Moosup. This work will be undertaken at once. Among those who signed up Satur- day were W. S. Brown, A. C. Botham, E. T. White, H._W. Jordan, A. T. Avery, Chester E. May,. Willis, Wal- ter E. Brown, William Jennings, John Stromberg, George Kimball. Nelson Richardson. This group own _215 cows. sa - Mr. Embree’s Address. In the course of his address Mr. Embree, who is one of the most suc- cessful orgnizer of farmers co-oper- ative movements in the United States said: - “In this movement we are not ask- ing you to do any thing new. Every problem that we talk to you about long since has been solved. We simply ask you to do as others are doing—or- ganize for your own protection; act as_your own middlemen. “The splendid results of careful or- ganization and pooling of interests is indicated in the striking successes achieved in many lines of endeavor. The only successful method is to fol- low in the wake of big business, and farming is_one of the greatest busi- nesses. The New England_ states’ farmers are riot organized. We hold the balance of power and we should organize. not to ask for anything but what is right, for when we do more than that we shall go down. We simply need organized protection to secure our rights. ~We are produc- Ing milk at a loss. We must find the way through, organization, co-opera- tive buying and careful selling to make the milk pay us a profit. “The worst clash yet is due between the milk distributors and the milk pro- ducers. When it comes we want an organization to mreet it and to be able to cope with the situation. This clash may come at any time and we must be ready.” Made No Rash Promises. Mr. Embree was particular to say to his audience that he was careful of the statements he was making rol- ative to helping Solve the milk pro- ducers’ problems. He made no rash promises or spread-eagle statements. but very clearly and forcibly directed attention to the co-operative move- Texas, the movement as a new feature of the |jogical Survey, Department of the In- | Indiana, Tilinoi north | ments, al of about milk producing building. terior, indicate that the quantity of [ Louisiana. Gu t, and Rocky | 194,000 bs increase of m During the present week Mr. Bm-|crude petroleum produced and mark- | Mountain fields. than 5 million barrels over 1915, whil me; i:“::g:fluxdpl?ursml‘llfile ;:2;:";:! g‘rfl e t.hlaglnefl fleld;gzofothe United — stocks fell off more than thre illion = es in was 292,300,000 barrels. | gp; barrels, _acco; stimates land and Connecticut, in the way of | This quantity 1s greater by 4 por | ShiPments of Portland Cement Break | pir™ e ag e organizing locals. ~He 1s to be at|per cent than the corresponding out- Record. States Geological Survey, Departmer Danielson next Saturday. put in 1915, which reached the record- Shipments of Portland cement fin(cf the Interior. Prices averaged == brenking total of 281,104,104 barrels.|the United States in 1916 higher and trade conditions were ge: BANK'S BIG YEAR. Mr. Northrop estimates that 38 per |mated 94,508,000 barrels, erally better 1915, and the e cent of the 1916 total came from the |over 1815 of more ths n | outlook for eported as good. Prosperous Condition of Country Re- | Oklahoma-Kansas fielf, 30 per cent |tarrels, the heaviest =5 Tacted Tn Statomette of Local In- |from Californis aid the remaining Z:Ih!swry of the ) Nearly 80 per cent Germany e per cent from the Appalachian, Lima- | while it did not keep pace with ship- | alcohol is made from potatoes YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT IS CORDIALLY INVITED BY THE First National Bank OF PUTNAM Capital and Profits $268,000 Organized, Equipped and Conducted FOR SERVICE The year’s banking business that closed with Saturday was one of rare success for the institutions of this city. THhe extraordinary prosperous condition of the country is reflected in their statements. The First Na- tional bank had its banner year and Its earnings for the past twelve months are understood to have been splendid. Offjcials of the Putnam Savings band also expressed themselves as gratified. especlally with the increase in new accounts. Many of the new accounts_at the institution are in the names of young people thus insuring a continuing savings bank clientele, and frequent deposits are being en- couraged so as to inculcate the habit of saving. Ice-Cutting to Start Today. This New Year’s day has been set aside as a holiday by the great major- ity of workers of the city—but not for the icemen and their employes. Sat- urday night -all arrangements had been completed for starting this morning on the harvesting of the season’'s ice crop. The conecerns that get ice at Perry’s pond will have a force there this morning, weather permitting, and the work of filling houses wlill be rush- ed. Saturday the ice measured 7 in- ches and was thickening fast. Close to 9 inch ice is looked for by the har- vesters who will get out this morn- ing. CHARLES H. BROWN, President G. HAROLD GILPATRIC, Cashier FUNERAL. Thomas Pepin. The body of Thomas Pepin, 23, who died in a Boston hospital, was brought here Saturday, Funeral services were held at St. Mary’s church Sunday aft- ernoon, burial in_St. Mary’s cemetery. Mr. Pepi, who®leaves his wife in Danielson, where he had heen a res- ident a number of years, having em- ployment in the milis, was formerly of this city. Elks’ Charity_Ball. A committee of Putnam lodge of Elks is arranging for its annual ball, the entire proceeds to go to charity. ‘The ball is to be held during the pres- ent month. | City Not At the week end, City Clerk Thomas P. Ryan was confined to his home by iliness. _Putnam made a splendid record of lack of arrests during the two clos- ing months of the vear, one of the best for a_long period. The post office will be open today only from 6.80 to 11.80 a. m. The ru- ral service will be suspended. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Dumas are entertaining Boston relatives over the V. Judge M. A. Shumway will preside at the seesions of the superior court here during Jamuary. . Social dances were a feature of the city’s life evening, DEPOSIT YOUR INSURANCE POLICIES, DEEDS and other valuable papers in our Burglar and Fire-proof Vault where they will be protected and ready for you when you want them. A good sized Box for $3 per year. _ YOUR REGULAR PAY DAY That's the time to join our new HOLIDAY THRIFT CLUB and put your spare cash in the Bank, ready for your VACATION or for next CHRISTMAS. THE DANIELSON TRUST COMPANY THE DEPARTMENT STORE OF FINANCE, DANIELSON; CONN. J. ARTHUR ATWOOD, President FREDERICK A. JACOBS; Vica-President CLIFFORD STARKWEATHER, Treasurer : § % 5