Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 1, 1918, Page 9

© " NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918 . PLAUT-GADDEN CO.'S FIRST ANNI — S _Positively Closes Saturday, Nov. 2nd. Act Now! e ] R I BBASS BEDS 209, OFF BED ROOM FURNITURE Never was such a splendid selection of fine Bed Room Furniture offered at such low prices, which means ‘the opportunity of a lifetime. Do not overlook these specials. $140.00 Bed Room Suite, in ivory, consisting of Dresser, Chiffonier, Bed and Dressing Table $92.50 £100.00 Three-piece Genuine American Walnut T e N RN LR $225.00 Four-piece Mahogany Suite, consisting of Bed, Dresser, Chiffonier and Dressing Table $165.00 TEA WAGONS Tea Wagons in any' style of wood or period, which will match your dining room, at 20 per cent. off our regular prices, which means at least 40 to 50 per, cent. below to- A good Tea Wagon is available as low as $7.90. ROCKERS A large selection of Rockers is available in every style and finish, upholstered in ‘gen- uine leather, imitation leather, tapestry, velour and damask. = For the closing An- niversary Sale we offer a gen- uine Solid Oak Rocker like the illustration, at $9.25, reg- ular value $14.50.© - day’s market price. BACK YOUR STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE AND SHOP EARLY We agree to store any article selected during this sale until you are ready for its delivery, and any merchandise bought at this time as gifts will be delivered on the day specified by the purchaser. This is a most spiendid opportunity for early Christmas shoppers to save money. J Ymg.» [y (Carly (TOCK /2 your cRANDFAm!-'Jefi g CLOC FOR YOUR HOME il AT ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICES is necessary on the fol- , for _a Grandfather piece of furniture that to the appearances and ngs of a home. Our display n opportunity to select one at the present day prices. the following specials: $55.00 Hall Clock— . Sale Pri A beattitul $s730 | Han o Clock—S8ale Price $125.00 Hall Clock: = Sale Pri $175.00 Hall Clock with g:n.. il uine tubular chimes— E\ Sale Price $125,00 very other Hall Clock i relatively ‘reduced. We have a spioa did assortment to select from. These ke i L ;n!a-- a most beautiful $15.00 MATTRESSES at .......5.....v....$ 9:60 '$20.00 FIFTY-PIECE DINNER SET at...... $12.50 $ 3.00 HORSEY TODDLES at ....... .3 88 DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY. A LIVING ROOM SUITE IN CANE AND MAHOGANY Furniture of Finer Quality Can Be Purchased Now To the Best Advantag F—— There is little hope that furniture of quality—such as we offer now—can be had at prices so low for a long tu'ne - - to come. The great furniture factories are being drawn into war work; the cost of labor and materials is mount- ing and the government is gradually curtailing the use of certain woods. Fortunate indeed we are, to be able to offer unprecedented values purchased before the present advanced market prices. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2nd, THE CLOSING DAY OF OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY SALE, WILL POSITIVELY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO BUY GENUINE WHITTALL’S ANGLO PERSIAN RUGS, 9xtaRUGS, at .. ea. . vua..$97.50 $75.00 THREE PIECE BED ROOM SUITE at $52.50 TO SELECT FROM ALL THE HIGH GRADE FURNITURE IN OUR STORE AT 20% DISCOUNT. WO00D BEDS 209, OFF DINING ROOM FURNITURE = Just imagine a beautiful Suite like this in your own living room. Think of the rare comfort and luxury it would provide not only now but for years to come, b.ecause every piece is durably made and will give service for years. The coil spring seat construction of our living room Suites is a distinctive feature and their genuine com- fort is a revelation. . Upholstered in silk damask with b lid mahogany—Value $275.00— i SALE PRICE $175.00 GAS STOVES Closing Day Specials on Gas Stoves comprise ; the two fol- lowing numbers— 1. $22.00 Gas Stove $17.85 2. $27.50 Gas Stove $22.00 Do not overlook this op- portunity. RANGES AND HEATERS To select Ranges and Heaters at reduced prices at this time seems almost beyond belief, but we are offering our entire stock of Ranges and Heaters at 109 reduction from our already low prices. Remember our Ranges and Heaters are being sold at last year’s prices, because of early and heavy buying, and our selection is the largest in the city. This opportunity should not be overlooked by those who truly wish to save money. ~ YOUR LAST CHANCE TO BUY A PIANO OR PLAYER PIANO AT THESE PRICES 1. A good Jacobs Brothers Upfight Piano $135.00 2. Beautiful Upright Mahogany Piano. .. $140.00 3. Mehlin Upright Piano, possessing good - tone and action .................. $185.0 4. A genuine Stuyvesant Pianola Player $290.00 207 off on all Pianos and Player Pianos on the closing day of our Anniversary Sale. The showing of Dining Room Furniture now on our floors, in Oak, Mahogany, American Walnut, or any other wood, is without comparison in Connecticut. Prices are exceedingly low compared with present market prices,. and the reduction of 207 on any of the Suites means a real saving of a greater portion of the cost of a good Din- ing Room Suite. The following special for the closing day of the sale is worthy of attention. ‘One Ten-piece Mahogany Suite, consisting of : Buffet, China Closet, Table, Serving Table, five Chairs, and one Arm Chair upholstered in gen- uine leather, value $265.00—Sale Price.. —$182.00 See Window Display, All other Dining Room Suites relatively reduced. RUGS RUGS RUGS Our Rug display is one of the largest and best selections available hereabout. It will pay you to investigate this department of our store. 3 9x12 Tapestry Rugs, present day value $32.00— On Satieday only. .......ccivenvnnr...c. $20.90 $55.00 Axminster Rugs of the finest designs and quality—On Saturday only................ $37.50 Genuine Whittall’s Anglo-Persian Rugs, 9x12— On:Saturday only. 0.l ii. il iine.s . $97:50 The Plaut-Cadden Co. Established 1872 135 to 143 Main Street, Norwich, Conn. NOTE—Bring your Fruit Pits and Nut Shells to the Liberty Barrel in our store entrance. They may save a soldier’s life. REAL PRICES Al (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) I have a neighbor whq “went in big” on onions, last spring. He has some excellent land ‘for that crop—black, humus-filled soil in a recleimed know of who has at his call all the hoy help he can use for wecding on- ions. Altogether, by reason of his almost unique position in respect of soil and labor, he thought, as the rest of us did, that onions ought to be * hold,” - He. put in several acres. They did tolerably well, considermg the se: son. He fold me that he harvestel over sixteen hundred bushels. He still has about half of them on hand, despite his best efforts to sell them. “They are a drug on the mar- ket,” he said to me, the other day. He began selling at $1.75 a bushel. Then he was pounded down to $1.40. Next to $L15. that rate. But, apparentl ing to have a good man the problem of safe storage against freezing becomes acute. twelve miles; another of twenty-five miles: and sev running from 5,000 down within last limit, At the same time when h e is vainly trying to seil six or eight hundred 1 bushels of onions at a dollar a busnel, the federal food administrator for the county, including the largest have referred to issues a “ list for that city. Thi prices which, in the ji food administration, ought to pay for produce. In that lst I find “onions per pound 4 1-2 5 nts.” That means from $2 .50 per bushel of fifty pourds. Why is it that, when $2 set down as a “fair pri in_this particular eity, my within easy hauling distance of it— he has a good auto truck—can't sell his crop, even at $1 a bushel ‘The answer is as plain as the nose on any man's face. - The middlemen d| who are, getting from § to $2.30 a bushel, Zrudge the farmer $1 a bushel. They take from § as pay for their ses the onions_once. $1 o bushel as pay ting the land, sow: weeding the crop, ¥ i ing for seed and fertilizer and lahor, and furnishing the land, fenced and tax-paid! hey ant more than just three- fifths of the price. don’t propose to let him get tw out of it, if to $1.50 a bushel can help. And still we wonder at crime!” The same “fair price” list says t t “from 49 to In 2 re- cent issue of a prominent farm paper which much attention o rural There you®have it, price” to the buyer is rate of $1.96 to $2.03 miles anart. -Now it is not probable that the same buyer who pay bushel for conions or potatoes Wi 211 the $2 or h the corsumer Ordinarily the speculator who of the farmer passes h ases along to some commission merchant, first e profic for himself. ‘The commi in passes them along to th || Get Rid of That : Persistent Cough that weakening, persistent cough giopcold? threatening throat or lpng affections, with Eckman's Alterative, the tonic and upbuilder of 20 years' successful use, $0c and S$L50 bottles from druf . or from E(YJ‘}{MAN%ABORATORK Philadelphia DENTIST Rooms 18-19 Alice Building, Norwich DR.A.J.SINAY ND FIXED PRICE § the third profit sticks to' his fingers. 1t would be rank injustice to these men With being all hars oF ERE iteers or robbers. While the three of them get, combined, more than the . He also is the only farmer I[farmer, no one of them gets as much a§ he.” It is not they, personally and individually, who are to blame for the cnormous and .outrageous difference . / between what the consumer pays asd what the producer gets, but the sys- tem in which each ‘one of them' is only a cog. In the old days there were post-roads all over the country with toll-gates across them at.siated intervals. Ev- ery so often the traveler was held up at one of these gates, till he had paid a fee for permission to pass. That was in the earlier days. As popula- tion increased and travel grew and the needs of prompt, easy and cheap com- munication became more insistent, the whole toll system was seen to be in- defensible and unjust. Gradually but irresistibly the force of public opinion swept the toll-gates away from the nighways whereon they had impeded free traffie. There are voters in Connecticut to- day who, I am sure, never saw a toll- gate and can hardly credit the histori- cal fact that oncegthe ccuntry-side tolerated such thiffgs. Our present system of proGuce-dis- tribution, with any middleman who can find an eligible situation free to v {erect and maintain a new toll. across the routes of such\distribu is as much an anachronism and a hacl number as would be the re-erection of toll-gates across the Norwich-New ' | London or the Danielson-Putnam high- W When popular intelligence reached that point that it demanded the aboli- tion of the toll-gates, it didnt go ahout the job by cursing or kicking the toll-gatherers who stocd at the sates. They were simply the agents’ nd hired men of a system. Instead of lackguarding them, a sensibly direct- ed public sentiment laid the axe at the uuse; abolished the whole system; cut down the gates; took over the care and maintenance of the public high- ways and made them free for all #af- fic, from end to end. Some time or other, that same thing will be done with thé meedless and costly and vexatious and wasteful sys- tem by which the road between pro- Cucers and consumers is now blocked and barriered. We can not expect it at once. Tt will come only when public sentiment has reached the point of demandin it. And public sentiment will not reach at point 11 actual suffering has sharpened its wit, so it can seo through the hole in the mullstone. In the meantime, we producers can, | some of us, do a little towards hasten 1|n'z that time, by t\king every possi- ble opportunity to short-cut our own dealings. Twenty-five vears ago, when I came back to the farm, I found all the far- mers of the vicinage buying their sup- viles at 1 prices and selling their products at wholesale prices. _And 0 all had to “scratch sravel” taxes and make even a poor liv- one, have just reversed I have changed from arming to special gardening, such crops and such oniy as [ I direct to consumers at about prices. I sell nothing | traveiing speculators or! wholesalers. If I happen to have an}'i small surpiis, more than my wmred absord, 1 sel the| or my pig or my ‘hickens, and invariably get more than by selling to any eculator. “On the other hand, | buy most of my | suppli ‘wholesal This Is eastly combining with two or three hbors, buymg six | supplies at a time, and paying | wholes s for them. sell to a local mancet - will overplus tw sig! 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