Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 8

Om‘m-tndlyofrom ‘your,grocer, Try the worth-while recipes-on*every ARMOUR GRAIN COMPANY, Chicago (an9) ARMOUR'S OATS ; NORWICH TOWN MReports Heard at Meeting of Lathrop ! F.' M. S—Miss Etta Walker's Brother Dead in Providence—inter- esting Exhibits of Pupils’ Work. The First Congregational Lathrop fMemorial Foreign Missionary society imet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. W. Chapin on Town street. fifies Susan C. Hyde, prestient, was Sn charge of.the businéss meeting and sprogram. The report of the January 'meeting was given by the secretary. The next meeting will be in April. A Teport of Miss Preston’s address the officers of the auxiliaries lof the Fastern Branch was given. Then the fourth chapter of An WAfrican Trall, The Ten Tyings, was #ound to be most interestinz. Ques- itions and answers on the third and Ifonrth chapters made a good review. Exhibit of School Work. Parents and friends were interested in the display of work and in recita- jtions given in.the schools uptown™n [Wednesday. At the Weest Town strect vsd'lool there were six visitors and Jnore than that number at Town wstreet school. Attended Memorial Mass. Mre. John McGarrity dnd Mrs. Hen- g¥ Farreil have returned to Hartford, {having ‘been to attend the {month’s mind mass for their mother, Mrs. Elen Kingsley Sheltering Arms Service. Rev. G. H. Bwing and choir of First mgregational church will be at the gdtenng Arms for the Sunday af- Rernoon service. Miss Walker's Brother Dead. Miss Etta Walker of Washington jetreet is in Providence, called there by jthe death of her brother. + Mrs. Bixhy of Blies place substitut- #d at Broadway school Thursday. Rutherford H. Snow of Huntington avenue was down at the Westerly granite. quarry on business this week. Mr. and Mrs. Philo Hume left on JThursday for Chester, Pa., after visii- dn® Mr. and Mrs. James McKee of ‘Bliss place. At Seotland Road hall Sunday af- Aernoon there will be a Christian En- ideavor service and a eession of the Sunday school “Miss Mary Ryan of 'Weet Town wtreet has returned from a ten days’ visit in Bast Orange, N. J., with her sister, Mrs, eJremiah Fiel Mr. and Mrs. Kelley from NewYork Mave been spending the winter with Mrs. Kelley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bdwin Fenner, of Taftville road. Miss Ruth Conn of Berlin and Mies Esther Barnes of Mystic, clasemates of Miss Ruth Avery at Connecticut 'RID STOMACH OF GASES, SOURNESS, AND INDIGESTION *PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN” RELIEVES STOMACH DISTRESS IN FIVE MINUTES. You don’t want a siow remedy when your stomach is bad—or an uncertain one—or a harmful one—your stomach 38 teo valuable; you mustn't injure it ‘with drastic drugs. Pape’s Diapepein is noted for its e in giving relief; its harmiess- | H its certain unfailing action in ing sick, sour, gassy stomachs. l1ts quick relief in indigestion, dyspep- |sfa _and. gastritis when caused by lacidity has made it'famoustthe world ‘over. | Xetp this wonderf: eper in your home—keep it handy—get F large fifty-cent case from any drug stomach, sweet- and then if anyone should eat momething which doesn't agree with |them if what they-eat lays like lead, and sours and forms gas; dizziness and nausea; college, were her guests at her home on ‘West Town street the first of the week. YANTIC Charles Brown recently purchased a pair of black draft horses and is using them teaming. ‘Twb former Yantic boys in the U. S. government service are Corporal Roger McGlone, somewhere in France; and Private Patrick Laughlin, who is 2 ence have gone into a profiteer’s bank on the U. S. S. San Francisco. are foresighted, too. account? Mr, and Qs Chbires Jowith and| wviat enould we of, that sort do, ?\le:ednt:;: Bélzéé}i:;;!&iyhgm- say in regard to the prices of our! Profiteers! | X B ~ | preducts It is they ® Yon. ' Whilo! thele” they atlended ' the||s#Konia ‘we take all We oan gét, Te- | prices 15 ar ;:gglfjlfm‘é“ég;}s‘ev\:gg' automgbile show. gardless of by whom offered, and re- George Avery recentiy purchased a fine deliver’ ytruck. Orin Banuing, Jr, has been con- fined to the house for the-past week by_iliness. John C. Tracy, Jr. who has been epending the ‘winter with relatives. in East Hampton, -spent a few-. days earlier in the week at his home here, returning Wednesday. Mrs. John C. Tracy .is spending a few days _in_East Hampten, the gupst of Mrs, Wafkous. Charles Frink, who left here with the last quota of drafted men, is with the 30th regiment, Bighth battalion, at Camp Devens: FARM HELP WiLL NOT BE TAKEN. In Special Cail for 90,000 Men—Strict Watch of Those Deferred is Ordered. The foliowing notice has been re- ceived by the local exemption board: To Local Board Number B 8). A new national and state quota will be announced as soon as congress acts on pending legisla- tion governing the appointment of quotas, In the meantime it will be necessary to call a new increment of about 90,000 men to be distributed equally throughout the United States. The call for these men will go out later in the day. In several case this call will run over the cyrrent quota of the state. and boards upon which It is made, but the excess will be credited | ' on the new quota of each, state and board affected, as will all other excess due to special calls, The situation arising: from the scarcity of farm labor demands that the cail o the colors of men actively, completely and assiduously engaged in the planting or cultivation of a crop, but who are in Class 1 and Within the new quota, should. be deferred. until the end of the*new quota. Please therefore, that the president directs that, in’ filling this emergency eall, they shall pass the order numbers .of such men and defer their call for .the present. It must be that this step is taken eolely in the need of the nation and not for the benefit of any, individual. while boards should comsider it.a grave duty to Exercise this power to conserve and augment the agricul- tural production, they should observe closely the conduct of those deferred and immediotely upon becomins con- vinced that any person eo deferred is not giving his entire time ard ear- mest attention to agricultural duty or that he fe trifing with the deforment #ove granted him, the hoard shoulff forthwith cail him to the colors. citizens sfould assist in making this expedicnt effective and in bringing to the attention of the boards cases mer- iting deferment ‘as well as cases in which deferment is being abused. CROWDER. instruct your local boards, | borne in mind] Therefore, { t 'PATRIOT. OR PROFITEER---WHICH? (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) In this world-emergency, when normal has ceased to function and things moral, economi- «cal, and things spiritual are standing on théir heads, topsy-turvy-cally “together end to; ¢ When two millions of young men who used to be active in the field of production are now withdrawn from it and are being trained as cunningly as_possible in the art of destruction; ‘When governments which used to do their proper work and pay their necessary expenses for protection and maintenance and the fostering of im- provements on a pilior a year are now demanding a billion a month for waste and ravage; ‘When ‘the worid, which had for so long been moving forward and looking upward. is suddenly whirled backward down its hardly won ascert, and finds ftself gazing aghast into the pit of horror over whose brink the malefi- cent' forces of a worse than Apache savagery are seeking to force it; ‘When every instinct of decentt human mature and every teaching of ordinary eperience ang throb of the heart bids us resist to the last the onrush of the emergent friends; When in camp and city square, on field and kitchen, in factory and on the farm, and at markéts every standard to which we have grown accustomed self faced with the prospect, not only of no profit, but of an actual loss. _What should he do, this time? I'm not quite through with himn, even yet. e also raised some onlons, last Season. They were estra fine onions, snowy-white, good size, plump, and unuspally sweet. But the raising of geod onions takes a tremendous lot of manure and long hours of arduous labor. To say nothing of seed, which is now quoted at five times the price formerly ruling. Using the utmost care possible in connection with farm operations, he found that they cost him something over $150 a bushel to put on the market. He has just sold the last of his crop, after vainly trying for two months to get a better price for $1 a bushel. What ought he to’ have done? QU trade in.your automobile, piano, aemng Ynmchme or tygewmzr. Why not trade in your old heating hoiler for a new'one? - Increasing scarcity of labor makes it advisable to prepare now for next winter. ! ind out today what cash:allowance you can get on your old {ofler and let -us tell you how much a “Pierce” will save you next winter, in actual coal expense. Let our corps of expert heating engineers help solve your heating problem. The very dealers who offered him $1 for his potatoes were, themseives, gelling them at 28 cerits for a five-quart basket, or for $1.72 per bushel. The very dedlers to whom he eold his onions for §1 a bushel, in ten minutes ’had some of them exposed for re-sale at flve cents a pound, or $260 e: ‘bushel. AL Suppose this farmer. had refused; ar ago, to take the unduly high | price which was offered him for his| has disappeared, and all our wonted pututue;sm Suvpt;_se he g\;a . “No, T} 391 Birnie Street, Springfield, Mass.: bearings are hidden and lost in the|get a fair profit at 85 cents: I will| % ! : & foggy welter of confusion—a con- |NOL ‘Tob the conmsumer’ by taking “the | FEVCYORK SXEACUSE” J ROSTON (e RO EROOKIN (ORCESYER, fusion thrice cBnfounded by the pitiful effodts of incompetent amateurs to “ride the whirlwind and direct the storm’ ;—In this state of things, What ehould the patriotic and honest and foresighted farmer Go? $3_and $4 which the market offers.” | "Would the consumer, this year, have | reciprocated ;by insisting on paying | him a living profit on his poiatoes, | when the market rate was less?} Would that consumer have said: “No. it has cost you more to raise- thoss | potatoes ~ and 1 won't ‘zob’the farmer | by offering you less.than a fair price.’ & We riake a boiler for every use. There are farmers who are not pa- triotic,—a few,—there are farmers who are not honest—perhaps more than a few. There are farmers who are mot foresightsd—by far too man (moreover, 1 have or twice As a cold matter of fact, would th: ‘|actual consumer ever have zot h once led, potat enn: ‘thought that 1 had met freaks who |(rom the mariet. it my neighbors had | Weren't any one of the three!) sold them to the stére-keeper for a “To none of such am I talking or do I want to-talk, now or hereafter. The most of us are at least patriotic and honest, and there are a whole lot who lower price than that ruling? ~Would | the farmer's forebearance have heiped { the consumer? Wouldn't the differ- | such prices hurt worst. | It doesn’t seem to me that I hove| failed to notice in a single issue of my New York paper foit the last six weeks some reporl of this, that and | the other big corporation declaring. a | profit for 1917 of anywhere from fifty | to five hundred per cent. greater than | the year before. Profiteerin gardless of actual value? On the other hand, shonld we sell our prbducts at a loss, when the man- ipulated markets refuse a renumera tive price? GUR GOODS Now, don't get the idea that I'm going to play the part of a volunteer “god-in-the-machine,”. lowered over the etage front out a -theatrical foz, and beyond it to get a clear idea and | be fitted for 3 perhaps, been- interested in this stage - : ; fddicious: judgmer project in the past or that we would | to lay down any hard and fast law for| Only the other'day 1-read of.a| The one.fact. that a farmer takes geljéomfl br(-,:-e‘r’ll trade advantase by my ‘fellow farmers. prominent German captain of industry [ more for one crop than it fairly costs | the improvement of the highway no Don't read another word of this, if | jluntly saying taat the business man |aim, is not proof that he is a profiteer. | Just take under advantage by tie im- youre locking for amything of thal|who gidw't zet.rich out of thid wars|any more-than the fact that he has to| provement of. the. highway mow. Just sort. Tm not the judge of al} "‘E‘npnorr_umues “doesn’t dese; to have| sall another crop for than it | take under consideration the fact that earth,—nor of a single solitary in- {had the chance offered him.” It isn’t|costs him is proof e is a s branch of our government, a small dividual upon it, thanks be! <,m--n~ only wio feel -and act that)wastrel. It's ‘the which he , at the Nayy Yard must be serv- But I ?nflifl-“fom\“{‘m’fg i m“shs:mv More's the pity! jacts and the way i he makes | ed by some neighboring city. New Lon- depedsaiilyiiikesn i 200 voltenvmadidy - up_his balance of it and loss,|don is congested and unable to handle e o i A western editor which tells the sto business required by its enormox e, A teers, recently desc i e crease in population and construction. i g P which delibetatei It tells that story oniy (o him and | Norwich, which is only t¥o miles more sider the Al upon a cripple; Ihis God. He knows and God knows. | distant from the Navy Yard than e e on- “Tha "profiteering. of _ And that duo is a very potent ma- | London, is the jobbinz center of 1 B nd: Torosight A must first be rooted oui_of!jority, in the final cou <Ia Connecticut, is becoming the home i tizenship before we can offer; I -don't know whether officers who are stationed at the e e e united strensth against the profi- | profiteer or a patriot. ibmarine Base and wiho would like to | SiGreis susmekting stuat:thess 1’,“ i hen e tiro of praising being knows outside. vour own 20 back and forth by automobile and ors e trora iion Sour. |man who puts it over, wl All 'm suggesting today is that thus increase their hours of empioy- et e izt k ut paying hig make it clear to yourself and Him |mentin the government service. el hiond on toll, we - which you are. Then you ecan't go 3 Hneaw and won {ine man and far wrong Motor Truck Service. c:‘?uorfmflutn:' ity THE FARMER. Norwich is prepared to estanlish o 2 § 4 soives = 453 motor by d motor truck servic. e e ndividual. We will have th | WORKING FOR BETTER Yard if the themselves frov *lcitizens, the kind of patrio to help win the war. We have‘al given up about all the usual activ 6f & Chamber of Commerce devoting our efforts to problems rela ing to the war. We bespealk your’ co-operation. 1fave a'right to it in view of the f full of delays. The fedcrat zovernment ner cent. the to th e to be con- ction T ¥ inc other i things what- | ¢ t men should do | gestion and 1y bo to them.” crossing the blown flower e and L 0 iereinbefore mentioned, the reply to 3 i E . He regards number 1| unable to secure the. ~ transpo that e wonld be lad to attend number in the World's| cervice it ¢ wazelnik mecting and to uear whateve vice it demands from or the suppli pace with the char: growth of this xmpl)'!u\"r ) believe the ments desirabilit from = veply s, country into a second place, puts em there and keeps them there. If s own table rinneth over with fat- the dogs may have what spills of coustructis v standpeint. he made mentiot of the state has improved the | improved and we gan thus s : of Americans ¢ of our- HIGHWAY TO BASE.| Jifion or' any branch of Hs For example of = ;“"'"S' s e | (Continued from Page Seven). | inis movement | | ! : hey are evan Srhi e o | To all this, and to anything else i Ol e towards this pro- ik nelentod nites SOME! Condemnator; or objursstery Awhich : P Pooss . Tle X P i tongue can utte: t the profiteers, % & i eon Sl e nd another fa x| atd T sdy work st the Navy Yard is handicapped = = 1016, cxop: cost him | A pels vear bring about the improvemsat of rent, labor, o i DiaReH New Lone| highway it will cement our i e don and Norwich and _esnress and | bership as nothing else could & able expenses QUTSEIVES, | froicht service is So unreliable and | the way for co-operation on otie bush OU can get a cash allowance on that old boiler of now instead of wamng nnnl next Fall) a The Famaons “doion. draft” Boiler which uses less. _coal, gives youmare heat and requires less attention PiERCE. BUTLER & PIERCE MANUFACTURING ConPdRA'riON My honse has.......... rooms. How mach cash will you allow me on nry boiler and how mmch money can I save with a Pierce? Signed ....... younwhwhhasnot heated yom' house properly this past Winter, and put m—(if you act - 4 You must act at once because we -are- this offer for this Spring’s business. - Settle your heating problem right now. Don’t stand for another Winter of discomfort such as you have just gone through. Let us show you how ‘we can heat your house for less money. It costs you: nothing tosend in the coupon—you are under no —we simply want to* give you. mformmnn that will be worth money to you, no- matter how ml! or how large your heating plant may be. Fill o the coupon and send it today to * Established 1839 SPRINGFTELD NEWARK BAUTDMORE * WASEINGTOX Send The Coupon Today Pierce, Butler & Pierce Mfg. Corp. 391 Birnie Street, Springfield, M-u The make of my pnsem boiler is. Last Winter I burned. .........tons Address . SOLD BY STEAM-FITTERS EVERYWHERE letter to them the New London chamber. NORWICH WAR BUREAU HAS ENDORSED N are certain things in_ tis let- ter which are somewhat misleading. In the first piace. our statement that the road cottid be put in good cordition for $1,500 applied to the condition of the road at the time we closed the west side of the river owing % the uction of a concrete road, and v no means indicates t! can be made a motor dorsed the project and at sting road and put- | Recessary able condition, but if the road is to be used for heavy mo- tor truek traffic between Norwich and 3 Wase, that is an en- Wwar measure.. lowrs: the city of Should Be Properly. Repaired as Necessary War Measurs. The Norwich War Bureau has_ en- dated | chaamber, and also to the secrotary of PROJECT 2 recent meeting adopted resolutions urging the immediate repair of the highway as 3 The - reso- lution adopted by. the twar bureau fol- Whereas, a highway, extending from rwich to the towam of tively different matt Groton, exists on the west side of the Yaou will be interesied to nots that | Thames river, but is of no bvraztical on the request of the war department, |Use or benefit hecause of the: -peos we improved tee road from the Groton | cordition of the hizhway Iving between Ferry to the § a un- | the town lin2 of Norwich and a point derstood at most impo their relief. Inown as the Base on said higt Whereas £aid highwar, repaired, ‘'wonld be a great > that this s the that could be Requisition From Gevernment. You will also be interested to know other of lik char- requisitions for.the con: come offi wieh, © | repaired, would decrease than Cb % of Touisian: traffic on the highway west Thanies i i the oo = tho Groton characzer, and o terminale, so on the & Z S Wiereas said repaired, would appear te be run l\vt\\cen N ne Base, i truct the h ilo. said Submarits Base, d Groton, direct_hi e 1. way two commercial cente < the Chamber of sajd Norwich his been . fhe maval o in cha your, to the meeting on 3 tary Branche is now. reparing of the held on GENERAL VIEW OF BUILDINGS AT NORWICH STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE Jahway, it proper! litary advaniage and necese! ted States Submarine 1 properiy and direet benefit for commercial and transnorta- tion purposes to the towns of Nor- Preston, Ledvard and Grotom, he great ant of traffic on the highway west /d Thames river great amount of of “said d greatly relieve: the of a £r ocated. siving and u% rding its communication orwich, on tbe north, zhsnb\ g said Submarins Base In touch 10 the rs instead Commarce T2quasted rge, of, the to i'mn‘ur.m = } ‘a his time, but he wiil promptly order is & prime nec | from the submarine v it Ived, That the . aresse in all sorts of costs f a, bigger table for mext meal, Which| cesstul conduct of the war it r at the request of ti ndquarters at the sub- .. War Buveau heartily approy- to Tebor and from will hold more. lates to the submerine, States anthorities and the s acceptéd an invita- | s and recommends that the said high- to horse-feed, b e We count on your interest in this|®il of defense. d to pre- | way between Norwich and the said You and | don’t want to he profiteers. | matter and trust it will be The_commissioner has since notified cupmarine base | Submarifie ‘Bade immediatély be put We are far from being' such in spirit; | to induce you to come, to Norwica on | the secretars of the chamber t Y is concerned. Ts|in a state of proper remair as a neces- we don't want to be such in act. the 22nd and meet our members. 1i be present at the opening m ommander John | sary war mezsare and as & Al In this complicated world, however,{ would like you to know ths condit on e 22nd. s of the base will be present wnd | precautionary step for military and na- it isn't such a simple and easy ihinz | now existing and we want yo Secretary Branche ha will talk on matter. State Hich- | val preparedness. Vesterday he told me that h(, to know just what cour: 0 steer,|as to how to meet tho emerge the felio Charles J. Benfett | That a copv of ‘this resolution be 2ould hardly mive them away his|under all circumstances. We cannot|expect sovernment off s | Comm ation 10 attend | sent by the chairman of the Norwich market town: that $1 a hushe! was|always decide. off-hand. on the first- | publiciy, what they have already told | prop: n_invitation to_ attend Biireau to the Comnecticut State the: hest offe~ he had and that ‘for | viewed phase of a question. We need tely, the nocessity that exists. nded A. T. way Commissioner and to . the only 2 very limited Tot.. Ha finds him- |to look behind it and ail around it forget that we have New London | Connecticut Stats Couneil of Defemse. B