Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 3, 1918, Page 8

R RER T RS R, H : 5 yawetenkeoyen £ Fyrabmy e s e ‘Stop Corn Agony "Use “Géts-1t"—Seo Corns Peel OF !| { In Four Seconds The relief that “Gets-It” gives from corn-pains—the way it makes corns and calluses peel off painlessly in one plece—is one of the wonders of the »man cer the office, n the home, the the foot traweler, the < in the n have | a “Gets- the one sure, quicl om all corn and callus pain- sure painless remover that makes corns come oft as easily as you would peel a hanana akes 2 seconds to apply Gets-it dries a ce. Then walk w h &hocs, Biumenthal, Miss Lena Gives Out the Offi , President, al List. | as of rew associa- | e pub- | k the W LlMA BS‘W l c. planted | 1y warmed | op and | n the | rdeners prefer | vield better TELLS OTHERS How They Can Find Reher From Periodic Sufferings. IR S Nashue, N.H.—* 1 am nineteen years old and every month for twd years ) | had such pains tha 1 would often fain: and have. to leave | school. I had suct pain 1 did not know | what todo with my self and tried &: many remedies tha‘ were of no use. } read about L{dm E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound in the newspapers and decided to ty it, and that is how | {ound relief from painahd feel so much better thad 1 use to. When I hesr of @y girl suffering 25 T did I tell them | bow Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped me.’ ELINA MARTIN, 29 Bowers S l\ashua, N.H. | Lydia E. Pinkham’s \egemhle Com- made from native roots and gamd‘m contains no narcotic or harmful therefore i d:fé.mmy :afe l'fiem« r ter, who suffers o tumgnewyw periods as did Miss !g 80 girls write rsason E. Pinkham me Co., L; for is Because from their fl:ey have a store of ‘which is murhlfll helpful. |living, though wi | wore old clothes the year > FARMERS TALK TO OFARMERS The Farmer As’ Laborer and ’Capitalist (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) “Did you ever stop to think that a farmer is a laborer and a capitalist? If he is to continue in that double capacity he needs a proper return’from both work and money. In other words, he should have a good living and 10 per cent’ ». So says a recent number of The Farm Journal. “A good living and ten per cent.’ Happen to know. of any farmers ‘round your way who are getting both? I gon't. | know farmers who are making a it would be called a *good livi by the much higher-paid laborers of the cities ‘is nnu\her question. some more farmers who are than a living,—a little seem to think of one or fifty of whose cir- nstances 1 have some knowledge o is making, in addition, an income equal to ten per cent. interest on his nvestment But 1 can't the forty One farmer n ghbor “keeps books” fashion, i. e. he puts down takes in andwhat he pays he can tell how he stands direction each year-end. farm, land, buildings, stock, ete., represent and out-and-out estment of about $00. Last year, he got his “living” off it. That is, he got from it what corn and and buckwheat and potatoes and other vegetables the needs of home amption called for. Also apples, nd_berries. Also ik, fowls, pork and lard. Also hay, stover, mangels, turnips, etc. for stock feeding, He had to buy wheat flour, bran or middlings, sugar: tea, coffee, salt, and a few other groceries. His clothing kept down to the minimum. cluded two pairs of shoes, and at one overalls. Perhaps more. not much. For he and his all ‘round, going ut ,w far as to deplete his rag-bag when rments were half worn out to patch m with almost anything ~which would hold ‘stitches. “Our clothes look more like section of pateh-work quilts than anything else,” his wife remarked. Unfortunately, he kept no itemized record of his small purchases from the grocery, total bills, when pait But every cent of money he took in 2 single five-cent cabbage. head, was set down, and every cent he either in separate items or even for paid out, etc. Only a in monthly bills. He took in $982. for ment grain, potatoes, bages, etc.; and cottage cheese: also - timber' also apples and berrie: fowls beans, also butter, rock for road-work. His producing expenses, iabor, manuré, seeds, ef i uses truck for everything but lymber, c wood and rock,—were $736. lorgest items were for labor and de- | @ne year-round man at $40 a month and §32 paid out for ext mergem‘xes total $512 mostly for gasoline and oil, were | Altogether, with fertili as_above. charges for livery. “overhead” to $176. Adding $176 to- That was his He took in $982. He kept no account of the estimated value of the produce which was taken, from, time to time, to supply stock or kitchen ana cellar this, if its value cou rived creased the books. corn and oa toes, beans, onions, cabt rious other ete: fruits, vegetables: milk, eggs, apples and various canned ets. But when the wife pulls! a2 handful of young beets, or picks a | " cf peas, or breaks half-a-| “mes: dozen ears of sweet corn for dimmer, whols going to be able to: “keep track™ | at, would Tt he $736 nd In addit] record This was in pay- produce sold, and - included mangels, cab- eggs, milk also calves and incl and hi; Del taxes, gives outgo for the Deducting $912 from $982 leaves just about $70. hay needs. Of c of them or their value? My neighbor worked harder of thej cordwood; also broken motor The . two ave heen somewhat aggrezate income,— included & d buckwheat uding s de- help ivery in- surance and essential repairs amounted 912, farm. ourse over, pota- A= and 1f that was correct, he seems to have ,one I happen to: know of who even 2.| wasted in speeches and many reams | that true statesmanship would lead- to longer hours'than any of his hh:ad help, to. say nothing ahou: the, " “chores”. whichsamount to- considemble in the course of a year. He assured that the “living” he ~got frbm the farm for himself and stock was just about a fair wage for-his own labor, got his "living” and § in money for his year’s work. Now, if anybody gan buy the sugar and shoes, the coffee and crackers, the overalls and oatflakes, etc, for a family, AND get ten per cent.interest on an investment of $3,800, and then have something left to buy Liberty bonds with, out of $70 in money,— why, say, the man who can do that ought to be secretary of the treasury. and director-general of the universe! He could come nearer to getting something out of nothing than has been done since the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis. 1 have very faint idea how ~nearly this farmer’s accounts may or may not parellel (those of other \farmers,—if they are kept any. He is the omly tries to keep tab on the income-outgo part ' of his business. Probably no. two, anyswhere, would exactly duplicate each other. But the biggest farmer in my town, a man controlling over a thousand acres and" doing something with every acre of it, except the mountain ridges, every year, told me two yvears ago, that he didn’t get $300 | vear, clear off his farm. Nor did| e believe there was a farmer ‘in the town who did. What his investment actually has been I don't know. But it would certainly take five . times $500 to pay ten per cent. on it— probably much, more, The farmers of the United States are by far the largest single body of men engaged in useful production. They have' furnished more than twice, 1 think more than three times as many soldiers to the national army, as those furnished by any other industry. They are being told, daily, that upon their efforts depend the supplies without { which the war cannot be won;—can-| not even be continued. And yet the; Federal Board of Farm Organizations | has recently pointedly ‘told the Pre: {dent that there isn’t’a single genuine farmer in any position of authority on the Food administration or any other war hoard! There is much toity about be sure. to-do and hoity- | “helping the farmer.” to Much otherwise useful air is of good white paper in printing ap- peals and the scattering of immature, undigested advice, mostly from people whose knowledge of the practical side of farm problems is nil. would seem as when ‘the high- t efficiengy is desired in any par- ticular form of industry, the first suggestion of ordihary common sense |s would be to put the organization of that efficiency into’ the hands of the| man or men best fitted by experience and previous proof of capacity to un-| derstand all its practical difficulties and invent means for overcoming them. 1 believe “constructive” criticism is still permitted. That being so, one may perhaps be pardoned for saying the selection as head of the Tpod- producing Bureau of the one man best fitted by training and past suceess .to unday |as head of bring about increased tood-vrorlucflm; he Coal Bureau the one man who knows most about coal and all its mining and,transportation. prob- lems; as head of the Aviations bureau the man who knows the most about airplanes and how to make them best and quickest, ete., etc. In the meantime, until hard ex- | perience and costly losses cempel the adoption of this rule, we farmers have ot to keep on going it, each one by himself, as best he can, without help- ful or even intelligent co-ordination of effort, guided each one by the best light he can, individually, get on his individual problem. And, with all due respect.to The Farm ' Journal and its well-meant drive for “A good living and ten per cent.” T suspect that we had better continue to take a good deal less— at _least for the duration of the war. Let other men scramble for profits and call, some for ten per cent., and some for cent. per cent. on their in- vestments, if they find such greed seemly in this time of world-stress. There is a.better part for manly men —100 per cent. Americans—to play And I hope that the farmers of the country will as a body, continue to refnse to seek profit out of the nation's sore needs. Better for us and all the country if we content ourselves during the time of emersency with a_bare living, even a living Spartan in its simplicity and frugality, than that we it the Joss before the greater and join in any race for personal profit or pe- cuniary gain. Better a dish of 'herbs with patgjotic devotion as a sauce than even a growing bank account. Better pinching sacrifice to save a free country of free men than present gain, zathered now only to be enforced away from us later, into a Kaiser's Potsdam treasur) Abstractedly considered, as a matter of theoretical right, I do not think that “a good living and ten per cent” i anything like what farmers ought to, get, if he worlks his farm to its utmost. When taxes and insurance and repairs anq deterjoration and wear-and-teay. have been taken out of that ten pet cent.. the fractional sa won't lequal what the farmer could get for the same money, otherwise invested. The’ returns from good farming ought to be sufficient to attract both capital and labor to it. rather than repel tham from it. They ought to be such that the man with a few hundred dollars saved up would pre- fer to invest them in a farm, rather than in roilroad stocks or manu- facturers’ bon But this is a world of hard facts rather than fine-spun theories. And this particular time is one of un- paralleled dan: » nmot only to the as a whole but to each sep- ‘arm and individual farmer in it We'd betier be content with short 1s and small returns, now, than suffer total loss in a riot of rapine and ravage, later’on. “Inter arma ng w “when a fight's on the THE FARMER. ent leges,” is an old Uncle Sam is today master of a hungry world. ing the game squarely and counts on the quarter- He is play- every American to do the same. | fied to her’ profession. ich means in familiar | g Anniv'mry ,of Oum- and Mrs, Orrin M. Price—| Catch of Sixteen Trout—Death of Mrs Annie F. Leonard—David Sha- han Reaches England. Today (Friday) is the fiftieth an- niversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Orrin M. Price of Wightman ave- nue. Saturday afternoon and eveni it will be observed, when friends will | bring good- wishes and be informaliy entertained Relatives present from out of town will be their daughter, Mrs. Carrie Bdgerton and granddaugh ter, Miss Leola, and a cousin, William Mead. all of Hartford. | The marriage of Miss Angeline Guile | and, Orin M. Price took place in Boz- rah, the ceremony being performed by Rev. George Cryer. For thirty five vears Mr and Mrs. Price resided | n Bozrah, coming fifteen vanrs ago to! Norwich Town. Mr. Price is a veleran of the Civil War and commander of Sedgwick Post.*G. A. R. At different | times on Memorizl Day he has spoke most interestingly in the public schoals 7 OBITUARY Mrs. Annie F. Leonard. The death of Mrs. Aunie F. Leonard. | occurred Thursday morning at her home on Clinton avenue, after four | days’ illness with pneumonia M Leonard was born in December, 1873 in Norwich, the daughter of Mr. and ! Mrs. Waterman, Her early life was passed in Norwich Town, where she received her education in the public schools. . Her marriage with George Frederick Leonard took place June 19. | 1893.° Mrs TDeonard was one who! arm friends in her home town, she | was industrjous, a loving mother, and | ever ready to help where help was needed. Added to fine characteristics her firm faith and Christian life testi- She was a member of Grace Episcopal '¢hurch, Yantic. She belonged to The Daugh- ters of Liberty and another lodge, The | Royal Neighbors There remains her two sons Roy and George Leonard, her mother Mrs Agnes Waterman, a sister. Mrs. Ro- bert Woodmansee and two brothers, | Edward Waterman of Taicottville and George Waterman of Norwich Town. There are nieces and nephews. one nephew, Edward Carey of the U. S. Navy is stationed at Annapolis. | Reaches England. Word has been received of the safe | arrival in Bngalnd of David Shahan Aviation Corps, Texas, foremrly of Norwich Town. Catch Sixteen Trout | ‘While fishing in Mahoney’s brook, Tuesd: afternoon, Laurens Hamilton and Edwin Sevin of Bliss place caught sixteen trout. Sheltering Arms Service. W. H. Geer of Washington street will be in charge of the Sunday after- noon service at the Sheltering Arms. Myron Allen of Hanover, in Bac- kus hospital for treatment. | ———— i Mrs. Jerome Taylor of Warweous | hill was the guest recently of her | 0. Murph daughter, Mrs. Harry Palmer of Clff street. Mrs Louis Appley is seriously il ith “zrip, ‘at her ‘home on Vergason nue. 3 Mrs. Hanna Cranston of Niantie, spent a day récently with Mrs S A. Becbe of Pine Tree Farm. At Sacred_Heart Church May de- votions, also Tirst Priday devotions will be held this jriday evening. Miss. Mae Plerce \of East Town streat has received word from her cousin Corporal Everett Plerce, now in France. Miss Agusta Learned of Bast Town street is spending a week with Mrs. Joseph' Smith at her home on Wash- ngton street. Mrs. Harry J Taylor of New Lon- don was the guest Thursday of Mrs. Thugston - B. Barber at her home on Peck’s Corner. James Kivlin and two retyrned to Hartford, | visit with Mrs. Kivlin's mother, gle. Joseph Griswold et who of has been West® Town ! suffering. from } bl ood-poisoning is able to be out of |doors for a short time cach day Mr. and’ Mrs. D. Herbert and two | children of ‘Hariford, spent the past: K, with Hre, Herhert's sister the ses Shahan, of West Town sereet. | After passing the winter at Mr. and Qirs. G. W. Guard’s holise on Wash- ington street, Mr. and Mrs. A T. Ut- ley have left to oceupy their new home on McKinley avenu iss_Carrie Ziebra of Deep River, e Schreiser, Olive Kruck and Clif- ton Adams of Willimantic, were guests {he“irst ‘of the week of Mrs. S. A. Béebe of Pine Tree Farm. TWO CCAL BARGES ARRIVE AT WHARVES About 1800 Tons of Anthracite and 600 Tons of Bituminous Coal Reach Norwich Thursday. Two harges of coal arrived Thurs- day at the Norwich wharves, one of anthracite for J. O. Peckham and one bringing bituminous coal for the Ed- ward Chappell company. The day be- fore, a beatload of about 675 tons of anthracite arrived for John A. Morgan & Son, who have another boat load- ing. Thursday consignments will help greatly in easing up the coal shortage situation in ' Norwich, as the barges | brought about 1500 tons of hard coal and 600 of soft coal. A number of families have been un- able to secure coal and have been de- pending of late upon wood and gas for fuel. - Dr. James Murphy “Over There” Dr. James M. Murphy, son of Charles of Central avenue, has ar- rived safely ‘over there.” His father received the word on Thursday. Dr. Murphy enlisted early in the war and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He - trained at Newm&m THE KAY ?Tiinsnu' @ | Telephon*el'fio Loaves, Morgan's Dock, Norwie Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sunday at 5 pom, Leaves New York. Pier 46, East Rive Mondays, Wednesdays and Fr days at 5. p. m. F. V. KNOUSE, Agent. GEORGE G. GRANT Undertaker and Embalmer 32 Providence St., Taftwill Prompt.attentiox: to éay or night: call ‘Telephone 630 apri4MWFawl PLANTING TIME ORDER . YOUR -~ ELOWERS * AN ‘SHRUBS FROM THE Maplewood MNursery Co. H. PEABODY Phone 98 Greenleaf, Ga. He is a graduate ¢ ~ the Norwich Free Academy and ¢ Tufts Medical college, Boston. Fra ternally he is a member of Whit Cross_council, No. 13, K. of C., an Rev. Damiel Mullen fourth degree as sembiy. INVITED TO ATTEND WAR CHEST CONFERENC| Notice is Sent Here to Chamber o Commerce. Secretary H. R. Branche of th chamber of commerce has receive: one of the invitations sent out all ove the state to chambers of commerct representatives of the Red Cross am the Y. M. C. A. to attend a conferenc at the state capitol, Hartford, nex Tuesday at 2-D. m, to consider th community war chest project. Th meeting has been called by the coun cil's committee on commercial rela tions, to which the question has bee referred for investigation. In order to present the idea fror the standpoint of the. communit; which has tried it, the committee ha secured Mr._Addison B, Colvin, a Glens Falls, N. Y., who is prominen in_business. financial, and civic at fairs, in .that place, to describe to th mecting the Glens Fails Communit: Warg Chest. Bach individual is a military. i in an_unbroken chain, and:a sing Camp | week link may cause disaster. Your Bond May Bring m Home in Safety MERICAN fathers are now the < on 3 battle fronts of France.,Many must fall; how many depends upon us who remain safely at home. A single Liberty Bond will help 0 save 4. soldier’s life, your- Soldier’s lzfe, and bring him home to you — alive and victorious. Liberty Loan Committee of New England