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- THE STORE OF LONG AGO AND OF TODAY by-nine panes in its rather small win- dows, which were closed on occasion by stout shutters painted a - dull brown. This feature is especially dis- tinct in my. recollection, the brown shutters made such a contrast with the slatted “blinds” of vivid green which were de rigeur on every white- painted farm-house It was a rather long building with 4 broad piazma reaching entirely across the end which fronted the road. This piazza was reached by a series of four or five steps, also extending across the entire’ width of tHe build. (Written Speclally For The Bulletin.) Are any of you old enough to re- ; member the “general stores” which used, to flourish in 2very village and hamlet of New England? 1 am, and a recent experience has set me con trasting. them with their present day ‘There used to be,one standing at the cornér where my road meets the main esat-and-west thoroughfare between OUr two nmearest cities. I can remem- ber ‘18 almost as well as if I had.a photograph iying before me. Of two. stories, wood, of course, with seven !ill 1 | | i i g il 154 i 4 APPLE'j’ Hilflll!‘ i | e — Made in Fruit flavors, ’ As pure as all Purity itself. - SOLD BY ALL GOOD GROCERS e e WHIVPLE CO., NATICK MASS. ing. Eu,ctly in the middle was thsl double-doorway, - ome-half :enera-'l!y[ closed, ‘but the other half. always standing invitingly open on warm days. No such thing as a “show-win- dow” was dreamed of in those times, nor was any attempt ever made, SO far as I can remember, to “dress” the two small front windows with any en- ticing display of goods. But every morning during ‘the out-door season the store-keper and his clerk brought out a few hops and pitch-forks and shovels and things ‘of that sort-and| stood {hem up on the piazza gamst the front wall, Inside, .the walls were -lined with sheives and, in front of edch- ling of shelves, ran a__‘“counter.” is, “counter”. was, orflinarily a somewhat ornate construction, but I can remem-= ber cases where it consisted simply of a wide plank laid on rpugh “hor: es” of two-by-four stuff. At one end always rested the store’s “show-case,” glassed at top, ends and fromt, with mirrors set in the back doors to make its contents seem about twice as gor= geous as they were in fact. This case always contained some pocket-knives, occasionally a'few rhzors, and an as- sortment of feminine gew-gaws whose character and use is not clear to my male memory. The knives | can still see, especi; Iy ghe one utterly itpossible wonder with- four—count - ‘em!—fotir _real blades and a hook shutting over the whole to clean out your, horse’s hoofs When need arpse.’ Quife as clear in memory shines the array of glass jars standing on the shelves behind and filled with two kinds of candy; that in sticks about four inches long and gorgeous in red and white spiral i stripes, and that in hard round balls, also vivid in red and white and uni- versally called “Jackson balls.” Generally the shelves on one wall th cloths of various sorts— ginghams, cambrics, tickings, muslin, ete. At the farther end the neres and Jjeans and broadclohts and. “farmers’ satin’ and denims for overalls: In every family the women made their own dresses and practically-all the men- |folks’ working clothes from mater} bought by the yard at this or some similar <tar0 There wasn't a r the-shop. The r)])pnflu‘ shelves usually showed canisters of téa and coffec and spices, boxes of starch and soap, hottles of a few standard drugs, lumps of bees- wax, packages of tallow for making candles, and, when times were flush, perhaps a few jars of imported ginger brought all the way from the Bast Indies. Figming tools of all sorts ‘littered the rear end, behind the hig stove. Sometimes the salt codfish, - always whole, and the boxes of smoked her- ring were miged up with the Hoes and shovels, sometimes with" the tea and cofff>. On the end of the counter nearést them stood a cheese and reg- ular habitues were able to. tell, the minute they looked at it, whether it Aunt Wealthy” or an' twins or ‘“them s qver on the Judkihs Such a thing as a cheese fac- v was not.then dreamed of. Near by ‘also stood a bisket of eggs and -a tub of butter which some farmer’s wife had traded off for enough ging- ham to make a house dress. Under one counter were boxes con- taining three kinds of sugar; one black and “crawly,” one brown and cleaner-looking, one almost white— Choose your . Our Victrola Department Victrola IX $70 with inst to match $25) .and $7 in Records total $102) on easy pay- ments of $9 a month Victrola XI $130 and $11 in_Records ($141) $11 a month Choose a Victrola now for Christmas delivery. You may select records and pay for the com- plete équipment on EASY PAYMENTS as ofie purchase. Come in and spend an enjoyable half-hour in one of our light, sound- proof rooms, Main St. Christmas Victrola from our complete stock —carries the largest stock of étyles and finish- es, the largest stock of records and affords its customers specialized, obliging service. The Store of Victor Serwce.‘iupreme yjorwich, Conn.. is the finest in thecity Victrola XIV $200 and $15 in Records ($215) ready | & about what we now call “Coffe 1 fancy. Overhead, hanging from the ceiling in netted bags, were real sug-;in special containers; ar-loaves, chunks really white sugar which, when ‘some one demand- ed it for “company” ons, ‘was. |sawn off and had to be broken into |lumps @t home with a hammer. But there were no canned goods, either in mieats, or vegetables. Under the, other cotinter were a few drawers from which, upon rafe de- 'mand, the storekeeper would _reluctant- [y Tift out Lolts of lustrous black silk dress goods to mike a state dress for mgther_or a Christmas present for grandma. But these say the light very, very seldom. save dp her butter and egfs’ andj cheese maney for some years and, count it over carefully a good many | times, before she even ventured to ask a_sight of these treasures. And then it was a matter of weeks if riot months before she could make up her mind exactly which piece to take a pattern off. Down cellar were the two molasses barrels, one of black-stray and one for, table use; the hogsheads of New England rum; the barrels of salt pork; the barrels of sperm, oil for lamps; of linseed, neatsfoot, efe. | There was also an up-stairs. L as a Doy, never penetrated that region of mysteries, I think they- kept rubbers up there, but, beyond those, I have not even a glimmering of a suspicion. Does this hasty reminiscence sug- &est anything to any of the older ones among my readers? Of eourse, no two steres in the country districts were ex- actly ‘atike: but weren't they all on about the lines T have sketched? Well; having to wait for something at_this same store, one day last week, 1 had Tefsure fo make a sort of jn- ventory of its present contents. Be- lievé me, it was somewhat differént. from the picture my memory held up of the same store sixty vears ago. There was the show-case, about as usual. But it was now filled with candy. There were a score of varieties, chocolates and almond bars, and marshmallows and gum-drans and the Lord knows w] But not'a stick pf the o} not There .were fust three shelves with cloth on them. A piece or two of apron some of calico; -ofie of ; one of cheese- bth: one of scrim; one of lining cam- Bric: ‘and one of that gaudily figured stuff—cretonne?—which some women think is fine for window draping. That was the extent of the store’s resourc- es in cloth. The other shelves on that side were stocked full of ready- made shirts and drawers and stockK- Ifigs and overalls and pantaloons and gloves and shoes and caps and sweat- ers, and the like. But it was the other stack of shelves, on the other side of the store, Which brought into sharpest contrast the difference between the Long Ago and the Later On. This was the groc- ery side, with its assortment of things to eat. With the simple exception of a factory-made cheese in, its frame, there wasn't a single article of food on all those shelves which wasn't in cans or jars or cartons. The shelving reached from the floor to the ceiling. And every inch of every individual shelf was filled -with these package goods.- There were meats and fish and vegetables in-endless variety, all in cans and all cooked at the fac- syrups and molasses aise in cans; forty-seven kinds of céreals and bran and pancake flour in cartons; is one of your bu&l&lnd mnm-m':’ Y iLAGO CASTILE SOAP The pure olive oil Casti Spain for over 117 years. 37 ee "A," Mother had to | .|of the kindly ministry of sympathetic = spices and flavoring extracts and( soups and mercy knows what else, all even sugar in two and five pound Bags.for such as hadn't already had tneir weekly ra- tion. - 3 As T looked over this array, two moughtfi impressed themselves on my aileged mind with special emphasi; First: What-a big saving in ard trogble all'this affords for folks who are too lazy. to cook their own meals! Second: What a ot 6f money those same people are paving for tin cans and glass jars and .pasteboard car- tons! Then, as a resauant of tHos thought¥) there caiite upon me W force of a sledge-hammer blow the conyiction' that good part of the high cost. of our present; day living is due! to our deliberately taking it out of tin | cans and glass jifs and pasteb caftons, ready-cogkted and requ 1o Work excént with can-operter. For it must e’ understogd, even by the fool wayfaring man, that men do| not run canning factories ‘for their health but for profit. They do not manufacture tin cans for fun but to sell and make money on them. They do not maintain glass works and hlow jars by the million except in order to make Mmoney off the jars. They do not buy millions of aeres of forest and maintain armies of choppers and man- age wood-pulp works and make pa- per cartons by the trainload unie: :hey get their pay for: it all—good p: 00. And Mrs. Consumer, wWhen the groc- | er’s hoy delivers a baskeiful ni cans and jars and cartons on her kitchen | table, is paving for the tinware and the glasswaré and the ~paperw: paying the wages of al two the al ‘who them and the profits of all who, sel them, as.well es for the skimped | measures of usually inferior which they contain, | If she prefers to pay all this, and | can afford to pay it all, she surely has the right to do so. But why should she denounce hefore high heaven as a profiteer and a hog | the farmer who gets about two and a half cents for the bedns.in the can she pays fifteen cents for at the ready: made store? THE FARMER NORWICH TOWN In the sudden death of Miss Sara L.| Huntington the old First!Church of Norwich has lost another one of the Dblessed company of faithtul saints who, in the long ago, gave direction and character to the church’s activi- ties, a few only of wha: vive, and are still devoted to its interes Member of the well and widely known family of Norwich Hunting- ‘tons, living all her life in one of the oldest houses of the town, identified actively with the - history - of the church of which she had been so long a member, visiting, oftener per than anyone else of the membership that chapel in which she had worked and worshipped, deeply interested in{ the Sunday school, especially its 1 brary, courteous manners, with abundant sympathy for others devot- ed and loyal to whomsodver was her pastor—it seems aquite fitting that in that chapel whither it is supposed she had gone alone on some mission of churchly service her Heavenly Father should have laid His hand of iové up- on_her—about to call her home. The breaking years were " bringing sorrow and weakness and unsatisfied longings. The breaking up of the old home, the prelude of the last journey to meet departed es and Him in ‘Whom she 'sincerely believed, seemed to beckon upward. She “went up to the house of God.” and thence, by way friends in a prepared room, up to her heavenly home. * And on, the whole, none of those food | this who knew and respected and loved her For Saturday, December 6th, 0nly With‘out doubt the bxggest money saving sale of the season. Read every item, and see the money you can save on every | purchase made here this day. only, Saturday, December 6th. Men’s Hose, black only, a pair........................1T¢ 35¢ Men’s “Bull Durham” Hose, a pair BLACK AND TAN—EXTRA HEAVY. 45¢ Men’s Heavy Natural Wool Hose,a pair ............ 3Be $2.65 Men’s “Wool Process” Union Suits .............. $1.25 Men’s Fleece Lined Shirts and Drawers . ........ $1.95 Men’s Lanibsdown Fleece Lined Shirts and : $3.50 Men’s Lambsdown Fleece Lined Union Suits = $185Men’sSweaters,grayonl HEAVY ROLL COLLAR—TWO POCKETS $3-50Men’sExtraHeavySWeaters 8295 $3.50 Men’s Extra Heavy Flannel Shirts .........:. $1.45 Men’s Black and White Striped Workmg Shirts. . ATTACHED COLLAR. FOR THE BOYS $1.19 Boys’ Heavy Ribbed Union Suits ................. %8¢ 25¢ Boys’ Stockings, black and tan, a pair ............. 2lc Come in and look at these one day 5pecial§, ‘we will gladly show themtoyou. Youare hot compelled to buy. - WALK AND SAVE MONEY. GENTS FURNISWNGS HATS ‘SHOES and BOYS’ WEAR 100 Franklin Street. A FEW MINUTES' W‘LK FROM FRANKLIN BPEN EVENINGS These prices are for this day Harvard Ginger distinstive, the hrn thought ale at the resta c¢ Gliler Tations_and P of the Basert Haus BAC From by Camel " S /Pg;@; % eriodé Ecal Curiosity Has temptod many & first ask for this perfoction in Ginger Ale. This curicsity has been woll r prodit — aged and mellowed = with a delicious fldvor. rded, a tride ginger Ale is 1€ ghould be when ordering ginger and for the homa, Notwich Distributors for Harvard Ginget Ale—Jamcs E. Moore, 79-811 Waisr Street. - B ———e ary ug! her . |club leade INSURANGE Tl*e(‘Hune Missionary Society of (| Charistte TSV~ i t Cong 1 | 35 i i in tho Ghapct | INSURANCE FOP EVERYTHING INSURABLE an every member T m S of ‘the gregational | Ayers of rest | Norwich, will address they at the December meet- 7 evening in thel, Norwich Town chapel. Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Sthith of. Wil- Hams ‘street, included Mr. and Mrs. of Goshen Point, and , of New London, Mrs. John Herbert and son John of Taftville, and Mrs, Jonas \Herbert and son Harold of Griswold, were recent callers at the home of Dr..and Mrs. Charles H. Lamb, of Town street. Mrs. Mary Smith, and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith, and family, have re- turneq to their home in East Wal- after passing several days latives on” Upper Washjngton After spending several months _at | the home,of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1cius Fenton, of Elm avenue, MFs. Frank Jordan and her fwo sons have left for Tennessee, where Mrs. Jor- dan's_husband, Major Jordan, is sta- tioned. Mrs, Edward A. Smith_of Williams street spent Tuesday in New Londan. CANTERBURY PLAINS All feel proud of the seven local girls in the’ Victery Canning' clup who worked faithfully all summer to win the canner which was to be awarded the club in Windham county canning the most cans-of fruit-and vegetables. It is understood that. tlie canner goes to our Victory Cannifig club. This organization has turned the club inte a Victory Cocking and Sewing club for the winter and will hold the first lesson Dec 8175 $1.00 .. §285 $1.19 . | Miss Grace L. Dawley 20 at.the home of the |real, /wholesome winter weather. . John H. Per] f . Jewott ( irg with lati P. Sabins spent the week end h friend ° fleld mill, is recoveri Gertrude week. spent ‘her parents at Worcester. Rev. Thomas A. Williams. attended the | conference = of Congregational churches in New Haven this week. There was a Thanksgiying day ser- }'n?tn at the home of Mrs. W. W. Gil- Alfred Onderdonk of Plainfield was with friends here-over Thanksgiving. * A farmer who predicted ~that his bush -beans were going to be-a-plamb failure during the summer season was quite surprised while shelling them on a_recent rainy day that th % e was i yield of sixty fold. The variety ‘was the California Leopard. ,Sixty-one Deans were -counted from one- hean- stalk. After the:recent rain the tracks of two very ‘large coons.was seen wnere they had- crossed the road near Me bike. Arthur Lathrop returned to his du- fies_at the Trayelers Insurance_com- Dany in Hartford this week. Ciinton Gardner of Salem was a bus- iness caller-here Tuesday. It was with surprise that peonle here learned of the destruction by fire of the las yillage store and chapel at Bozrahvilig - Tt B. W ‘uésday morning. nesis- serving as-juror M the superior court in Norwich. W, Thoras - is ‘&” juror *at the court in Hartford." With ‘the temperature at 14 degrees Wedrlesday ‘morning, it seemed - like The-Communify club met Tuesday evening.. was Lvéted to procure a first class. fire ex inguisher to be used in the;hall in ¢éase of emergency. lowing was the literary program gi ing by thé club; reading, Clara Gillette, ' Acting Words, readh" Banish Catarrh Brenthe Hyomei for Two Minutes and (Relieve Stuffed Up Head. 1 you want to get relief from ca- tarrh; cold in thé head or from an irri- tating ‘cough in the shortest time, breathie Hyomei. It shouid clean out your héad and open up your nose in two minutes and allow you to breathe freely. Hyomel often ends a cold in one day, and brings quick relief from snuffles, hard crusts in the nose, hawking, spit- ting and catarrhal mucus. Hyomel is'made chiefly from a soeth- ing,” healing antiseptic oil that comes from- the eucalyptus forests of inland Australia, where catarrh, asthma, bron- chitis, tonsil influenza, pneumonia and consumption were never known to exist. Hyome! js pleasant and easy to breathe. Just pour a few drops into the hard rubber inhaler, use as directed and relief is almost certain. A complete Hyomei outiit, including inhaler and one bottle of Hyomel, costs but little at The Lee & Oszood Co.’ and drugsists everywhere. If you al- Thanksgiving | L. LATHROP & SONS 28 Sheluckat« 8t. Norwich, Gonn. g s 'IT TURNS ASHES INTO MONEY Besides attentive, expért service you scure INSURANCE here that means REAL MONEY PROMPTLY after #he fire. Rest easy by'insuring through ISAAC S. JONES Insurance and Real Estate Agent. Richards Building 91 Main Streei —_— RESTAURANTS WANTED WHEN YOU ARE IN TOWN, TRY THE VICTORY LUNCH, 252 Main St. Mrs. J. A. Thomas; song, Ralph Keh. yon; a peanut hunt for the childre: illustrated songs; reading, E. H. Mec- Call, Jr.; singing, club; reading, A. J. Randall; song, three young men. Mrs. Williams gave‘a'very interesting read- ing. a sketch of’life in England. After this there was #n auction of miscella- neous articles worth at least 10 cents. The. proceeds' were added to the club treasury. A. J. Randall had charge ot the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Curry and fam- ily of Springfield were guests of rela-» tives here recently. and Mrs. George Osborne and of Malden, Mass, were ing guests of friends here. SOUTH WILLINGTON Miss Dorothy ‘McFarlane has & se- vere cold and is under the dector's care. Mrs. Adolph Korper, Mrs. Lena Brackett, Miss Hazel Brackett, Miss Charlotte Bingham and Miss Harriett Smith spent "Thatiksgiving at the home of Louis Korperin Hartford. Mr. and_Mrs. Carl Goodman were guests of Mri afd Mrs. Wallace Lilli- tridge at Hartford Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs® Charles Robbifis 6f Migletown-ana Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Phoenix and Mr. Phoenix, Sr., were guests Thanksgiving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Jones. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Pike and family of Paterson, and Mr. and Mrs. William Costello;of Willimantic spent Thanksgiving at’the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Service, Jr. Mrs. Stepheén Davis and danm Dorpthy of Willimantic were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs, Elmer J. Mat- thews. Ben Knapp and Mrs. Annie Marks were united in marriage Thanksgiving Mr. family Thanks; eve by Rev. Theodore Bacheler. Mr."and Mrs. W. H. Brackétt spent Thanksgiving visiting friends in Palmer, Mass. Frank Ryder of Waterbury spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pourtrey, There is to be a special communica- tion of Uriel lodge next Saturday even- ing at 6.30, followed by the regular com- ready own an inhaler you can get an extra bottle,of Hyomei at druzs@sts. munication at 7.30. EST QUALITY:— MYSTIC SCRATCHFEED, Norwn:h,Conn SQUARE- : 1500 BAGS OF CHOICE WHEAT BRAN JUST RECEIVED, WILL BE SOLD FOR $2.30 PER 100 LB. BAG. ALSO THESE ARTICLES OF HIGH- No. 1 BARLEY, 96 lbs. perbag ............... No.lOATS BGThe per bisg: 5l T . % COTTONSEED MEAL, 100 lbs. per bag. . UNIONGRAINS 100 bs. per bag. GROUND OYSTER SHELLS, 100 lbs. per bag . _No.IREDWHE‘AT,VIOOlbs.perbag....:...... MYSTIC DRYMASH, 100 Ibs. per bag. . ...... BUFFALO GLUTEN, 100 Ibs. per bag. . ...... OLD PROCESS OIL MEAL, 100 Ibs. per bag 2 BESTFLOUR................ Charles Slosherg & Son : -13 Cove Street West Side $3.35 $2.65 B 100 Ibs. per bag. . . $4.00