Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 12

MOTOR FREIGHT SERV‘K;E (All Goods Covered by Insurance During ' MORWICH—PROVIDENCE—NEW FALL RIVER—NEW INDON—PUTNAM . RD and Connecting Points EQUIPMENT—NINTEEN PIERCE-ARROW TRUCKS E. P. WINWARD & SON 185 MAIN STREET NORWICH Phone 1250 SOUTH MAIN STREET PROVIDENCE Phone Union 3842 17 WILLIAM STREET | . NEW BEDFORD = ° " Phone 3337 183-142 DURFEE STROET FALL RIVER Phone 3619 THINGS LONG PAST She came to the shadowy place In the woods alone. ’ The house stood there and the trace Where the path had gone, Now hidden with weeds that pried By the rusty gate. The pine trees, watching her, sighed, “It is too late.” She parted the wild white rose - By the shattered door As one who in dreamland goes, To return no more; But a shadow stood by the hearth In a kingly state That seemed to say in its wrath, “It is too late.” She passed up the old oak stair, And from lattice pane Looked down on'the garden there As a child again. But the green and gold were dead With the rose, their mate, And the fountain voices said, “It is too late.” . She heard the swift-rushing feet And the whirring wings Of a thousand dim and fleet Unearthly things; i 1 dinner. But none that her heart ‘had known ! : For her heart would wait That sings: Mabel Leigh in London Spflere. As a bird, when birds have flown; “Too late.” | HUMOR OF THE DAY ‘The Subbubs are no fools.” “Why, what did they do?” “Gave a lawn-mowing party and had the guests cut the grass.”—San Fran- cisco Chronicle. “That newly rich family near us are not a bit refined.” “How could you expect them to be when they made their money in crude ofl?"—San Francisco Chronicle. Magistrate (to prisoner)—I hope I shall not see you here again. Old Reprobate—Not see me ‘ere again! Why, yer ain't goin’ to chuck ver job, are yer?—London Opinion. “You cannot judge by appearances in this life.” ' ‘You surely cannot,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. “F'rinstance, moonshine liquor mostly looks like pure crystal spring water."—Washington Star. Dr. Green—Your father insulted me. Said he wouldn’t have me attend a cat for him. Miss Keen—The idea! I don’t see why papa should fear to commit a cat to vour charge—a cat has nine lives.— Boston Transcript. don't want her advertised as a diva? “Mage it a coloratura soprano and let it go at that. The last time I ad- vertised a diva I had to refund cen- siderable money to people who were expecting an aquatic exhibition.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. “We are golng to investigate the goedetic survey. What do you know about it?" “Nothing, senator. 1 don't even know what geodetic means.” “Neither do 1. and that will be awk= ward. We'll investigate something clse."—Louisville Courier-Journal. “Are your farmhands keeping busy?” “Yea" replied FParmer Corntossell. “I don't see how they stand it. Be- sides doing some work on the farm, they hold meetings lasting eight and ten hours a day deciding on whether they are doinz too wmuch work.”— Washington Star. New Haven.—Public school teachers will continue to agitate for a salary in- crease of $500 each, although the city administration is opposed to it. KALEIDOSCOPE A new transformer for ringing elec- | tric bells can be screwed into a light! socket, carrying a lamp on its outer end. It has been estimated by geologists that Australia’s little-developed tin deposits can be made to supply about three-fourths of that country’s needs of that metal. Italian , experts sent to investizat k the petroleum resources of the Cau-| casus have reported that the Batum| wells are capable of producing 5,000,000 tons a year, The ‘Belgian' government has just en- acted a law prohibiting the manufac- ture, sale or keeping in stock of match- es containing white phosphorus. The law provides for the confiscation and destruction of the prol'ihited products as well as of “the -apLaratus used in their manufacture. There are no road rules nor speed limits in Chile outside of thu cities, but | the speed limit in the cities is 25 kilo- meters (15.5 miles) per. hvur. In the traffic rules of the various Chilean cities there is a lack of uniformity, the Volnaraise. regulations requiring an automobile to pass to the right of al cuming car, while in Santiago it must pass to the left. Italian Libia now comprises the two provinces of Trinolitana and Ciremalica and lies along the north coast of Africa between Tunis (French) on the west. and gypt on the east, in longitude from about 9 to 23 degrees east. The ex- treme northerly point of Libin is at about the parallel of latitude 33 de- grees north; the southernmost point is pnknown, as the territory runs south into the unmapped Sahara indefinitely. Bristol.—The ~Turner Construction company of New York has bezun op- erations in Bristol on the contract made with the New Departure com- pany, which means an outlay for new manufacturing buildings and machin- ery of $4,000,0080. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S } Lancaster; with their | one can see the chief justice of the iing each other " NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919 (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) The Rural New Yorker has recent- ly given its readers a series of high- ly informative articles on the way in which Lancaster, Penn., manages its food supply. It seems that, for more than a hun- dred years, the producer-to-consumer problem has been settled in Lancaster. Settled in a way ‘perfectly satisfactory to both producer and consumer. Set- tled right. Settled by a simple appli- cation of what is often called “‘com- mon-sense” because, as has heretofore been intimated, it is so preciously un- common. How the system originated and how it has developed are historical topics, interesting enough, but perhaps a lit- tle academic. What a great many far- mers are more:interested in—and what a great many consumers ought to be interested in—is the question what the system is and how it works. Briefly stated, the whole method is simply one of complete elimination of the middleman in all local transac- t.ons. The city of Lancaster main- tains a public market. To this public market the farmers of Lancaster county bring their farm products, in their own wagbns or truck: Also, to this market come the housekeepers of own market- baskets, and buy direct from the far- mers, the goods they want at such prices as they agree upon, and carry them home. As bne observer puts it: “Here in Lancaster on a market day, supreme court of Pennsylvania, an ex- lieutenant-governor of the state, the manufacturer, the merchant, the socie- ty woman all cheerfully elbowing each other among -the stalls, looking for a choice lot of produce, or perhaps a bargain.” | let .me suggest that bpicture for} mental framing by a lot of New Eng- land housekeepers. Men of the high- est rank and standing, women of the greatest rvefinement, each with mar- ket basket on arm. “cheerfully elbow- | nong the stalls”'int the search for the material of their There isn't a store in the city which supplies farm produce. Why? The | attempt to start such stores results in| ‘sure failure. Why? Listen to the an- 1e Lancaster housewife simply will not order her vegetables by tele- | phone, but prefers to go to the market and see what she buys.’ Does this mean anzthing to: the housewives of Connecticut cities? Does it give them any idea of whyj| they have to ch hich prices far vegetables and wh: they tao often get such poor quality? Doas it suggest to them edy for high pric at least, so that the and profiteer- as local products right in their owr ev wowld show great-: r wisdom in doin3 something along se Lancaster lines than in suf- fering'anl scolding, after their present| manner? ! Lancaster county is no backwoods r en community. It ithern border of Penn- sylvania, touching the Maryland line.| v between Philadel-! Jt is a good farming land, 1y dotted with villages and well ironed by rail- roads. It is thickly inhabited, for country whose chief industry is farm ing, having, according to the census of 1910, a population of 167.00 Nor is Lancaster town a mere cross-roads illage, where “countrified” ideas rule, but a thriving city of 47.000 people, ac- cording to thai same census. Oné of the things that is said to impress travellers in the county is the evidence of solidly baseq prosperity which ev- erywhere manifests itself—in the city and villages and on the farms. Why shouldn't this be so? The peo- ple of that county seem to have com- bined, city consumer with farm pro- ducer, in ‘perfecting a system which assures a square deal to both, with- out the intervention of any thimble- rigging third party to underpay the one and overcharge the other. That the city consumers are satis- fied with it is shown by the fact that they won’t sustain or. support or do business with any other market. That the rural producers are satisfied is proven by the remark of a Lancas- ter farmer: “It doesn’t matter what we may have as a surplus, we can al- ways dispose Of It in Lancaster. We simply take it to the city:on' a mar- ket day, and the customer comes to That everybody is happy in the! system is shown by the fact®that it has been maintained for more than a century, and is today as popular as in the presidency of Andrew Jackson, It doesn't sweep clean because it is a new broom, but because it is a good broom—the only right kind -of broom: for the work assigned to it. So far as prices are concerned, the general rule is that the farmers get a considerably better rate than they could possibly expect from sending their produce to commission men in the big cities, while the consumers pay a good deal less than their fellows pay retail dealérs in other places of like size. In other words, the 50,000 consum- ers of the city pay less for their sup- plies, and the 120,000 producers of the rural districts get better pay for their stuff than they would under the Jobber - wholesaler - retailer - order- by-telephone - free - delivery system elsewhere in vogue. < A hundred and seventy thousand people are bhetter off—and perhaps a hundred middlemen are not so well off. There you have it in a nutshell. If, indeed. the real purpose and ob-{ ject of all government is to assure the greatest good to the greatest number, isn’t that state of things about right? Perhaps youwll wonder why, if the; direct producer-to-consumer plan works so well and has worked so well a hundred years—| in Lancaster for why it hasn't come into universal adoption. Well, human nature is about as queer a thing as infinite in- genuity and resource ever were able to create! I, for one,. long ago given up all attempts to explain or even to understand its erratic and capricious incon: encies. In one respect. most men and wo- men are very like sheep: they will follow their leader over fences and through briars and into mud or any- 4 thing else. Nothing seems of so much importance as keeping in line with the. procession. Where jt leads or whither it tends are matters of minor importance. In fashion. in society, in business, in politics the jazz-band is And the apparently incurable weak- ness of human nature is to follow on with,the bunch. That's one reason why, when community gets into the habit of do- ing things one way, it is almost im- possible to steer it out of the rut. It may be a bad way. The intelligence »f a majority may agree that it is a bad way. But it usually takes at AN INSIDE BATH WAKES YU LooK AND FEEL FRESH Says a glass of hot water with phosphate before breakfast keeps illness away. Physicians the world over recom- mend the inside bath, declaring this ! is of vastly more importance than out- side cleanliness, because the skin pores do not absorh impurities into the blood, causing ill health, while the pores in the ten yards of bowels do. Men and women are urged to drink each morning, before breakfast, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone 'phosphate in it, as a harmless means of helping to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day’s indigestible material, poisons, sour bile and tox- ins; thus cleansing, purifying the alimentary fore eating more food. Those who wake up with bad breath, coated tongue, nasty taste or have a dull, aching head, sallow complexion, acid stomach; others who have bilious attacks or constipation, should obtain a quarter pound of limestone phos- phate at the drug store. This will cost very little but is sufficient to show canal be- the value of inside bathing. CASTORIA FOR THE TABLE SOLD BY ALL GOOD GROCERS NATICK-MASS, . THANKSGIVING It adds such a wonderful zest to | ANY meal, that American hou wives buy it by the CASE, so as to have it ALWAYS on hand. THE VERY BEST—WHY PAY MORE? Don’t Pay Fancy Prices For Butter Buy “SWEET NUT” Margarine Ib. 34c 5 LBS. FOR $1.65 . o A delightful blend of India | Ceylin -Orange Pekoe. Gives a strong, rich brew1 without bitterness. I GARDEN SPECIAL i TEAbb. ...... 49 DIRECT IMPORTING COMPANY 157 Main Street, Norwich ' COFFEES Freshly roasted and steel cut to your individual order. Extra fine for the pecolator if desired. No. 1 STANDARD COFFEE, Ib. .. 43¢ least a full generation for even thatlv " majority to overcome its own inertm, and > right-about-face. =~ Lancaster seems to have had the exceptionable Juck to getestarted on the right road, || ‘when it was young and growing. Other| | places took & wrong direction. And both have kept going ‘on their, unlls paths, ever since. % Bu: however much we may be puzzied by the fickle and unreasoning character of humen nature, it does possess in some measure the capacity for progress. In a half-blind and fit- ful way, slowly and with manzy stumb- lings and retreats, it nevertheless; does improve. There is alwavs hope, even in a conservative and hide- bound New Fngland commaunity, that, some of its members may break away from precedent, and gradually induce others to break with them. In my town it took twenty years for the voters to make up their minds to close a mile of hilly, stony, gullied road which always drifted . impassibly in winter, and substitute a new one, level, smooth and immune to wash- ings or snow-driftings. Some of us grew impatient and some got mad. But we kept dinging away. The o}d road never had a single defender or apologist. Everybody agreed that “suthin’ oughter be done.” And, af- ter twenty vears, everybody agreed to do_it. g Perhaps a knowledge of how simple and satisfactory is the Lancaster plan for lowering the high cost of living!| may incite some other community to use the gray matter, abundant enough even if fallen in its collective brain-! pan, to start a twenty-year campaign} for the employment of a little com- Don't stay stuffed-up! business follows: reading, Leander Williams; Tarathy Miss , A tnur and Ethel - Ease at Once meeting the program was as Song, Santa Lucia, by all; song, and Jennie Dix, Mr. and Mrs. dialogue, The McCall and Miss Clara Gil- lette; song, Wait for the Wagon, Ar- nnie Gillette; Art Randall. James Quit blowing and snuffling!. A dose of “Pape’s Cold Compound” taken every two hours un- | ul three doses are taken usually breaks up a cold and ends all grippe misery. The first dose opens clogged-up nos- trils and air passages of head; stops! Critie, First dose of *‘Pape’s. Cold Cofi)pou’nd" relieves dis- tress—Three doscs break up colds—No quinine!” 10se running: relleves headache, dull- ness, - feverishness, sneezing, soreness, stiffness. “Pape’s Cold ' Compound” is the quickest, surest relief known and costs only a few cents at drug stores. It acts without assistance. Tastes nice. Contains no quinine. Insist on Pape's! Westerly, last Friday and Saturday. George D. Coates and family, ‘aléo Will C. Perry of Rhode Island, iere guests of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Perry recently. Mr. and Mrs. John Gourlay *-and A.|Mrs. Arthur Maine of Westerly wére mon sense in domestic econorics. THE FARMER. GOSHEN Miss Clara Gillett has been spending Randall gave an interesting account of his trip to Meriden, also a humorous extract from James Whitcomb Riley's works entitled Prior to Miss Belle’s Appearance. Song, America, the Reau- tiful, after which The Fotygraft Album was pleasingly carried out by several visitors with Allan Maine and family over ; Sunday Albert Paimer has had an attack of malaria. The audience room of the chapel has been papered. * ving, “We don't know where | e going, but we're on our way!” ! al sweetening and | several days with friends in East Hart- | club members. ford. Mrs. E. H. McCall is the guest of friends at Broadbrook. Andrew C, Lathrop and his brother- in-law, A. E. Lyman, of Columbia, were in New York thili week. . A telephone line is being built from the main line to the home of Michael Lynch on the road leading to Slocum Hilj. The poles have been set and are awaiting the wire stringing. A very interesting prozram was given at the Cogimunity club Tuesday evening, Miss Fthel Randall having charge of the entertainment. After the|her sistef, Mrs. number of the Sweet Home, sur nephew, family. Irving there. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2lst $5.00 ; Saved these two days on the purchase of an Overcoat. $5.00 Cut from the price of every suit of clothes in our stock. ] 89c Buys Mayo’s Ribbed Shirts and Drawers, regular value $1.25 each. . $1.98 sold at $2.50. 90c Has the purchasing power of one dollar on any goods in our stock not specially priced, as our stock is'too large and varied to quote special prices on every item. Pays for a Chalmers Union Suit; regylarly ¢ Calvin McCall gave an interesting account of his experiences in the U. S. marine corps. ,Mrs. Addie Bill has returned from a ; visit of two weeks at Sterling with her his They motored to Putnam and other points of interest while she was Anderson, and Miss Effie G. Maine was the guest of John' Gourlay, NOVEMBER 22nd ECONOMY DAYS AT THE STORE OF THE Eagle Clothing - 'The above two days will be ‘made very attractive to stud- ents of economy by very special offerings in all lines of wearing apparel for . Men and Women “No Items Reserved, All Goods Specially Priced” Saved to the purdnser of any Ladies’ Coat in our stock. ; Can be saved on any Ladies’ Tailored Suit in our stock. Discount on all Wool, Jersey and Serge Dresses. Discount on all Fur Coats, Capes, Scarfs and Muffs. "The Eagle Clothing Co. “Outfitters to Men and Women” 152-154 MAIN STREET Takes your choice of a beautiful assoré: ment of Satin and Georgette Waists, reg- ular values to $10.00. ) ttorney John Brennan and Walter Durfee of Providence were guests at Allan Maine's Sunday. The last| Pperry Maine heard two dogs having P"’W?‘Y‘" was Home, |3 fracas with some animal near the ng by all. brook. He cut a good d stick to use and found the dogs fighting a wood CLARK’S_FALLS jray fox. A few good raps finished e fox. X Alfred M. Clark is one of the jury- men called from this town to Norwich. Mrs. Horace F. Palmer is recovering from a severe cold and attack of bronchitis. Arthur Champlin has bought a auantity of wood at the mill here from at| George Navison. SATURDAY Co. $5.00 $5.00 10 Per Cent $5.98 10 Per Cent