Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 26, 1920, Page 11

M m the nly.bqnlmmd"vmh their folly—which ._\.»_25 . | Wil have a tendency to make us like unto them, ‘We can ans t | ard set forth the fhelr errof. a roee'rll aomnlefl. Mwms&lflntm Ln.matuma Mlzermm nh-r.hm e CoMfle flocking ba an"mffi to! Or we can ‘waft ff] the poor consus Fs of the m‘*nm’mfl:‘- 'fi “”m ess of staté °'fi‘.'; d bigo but L Iy, it 18 the ¢ th-c e’ J}xgn AReimer| SN ARt and despite AR -1n Mpac sma: Ya’ sdulvalost. t say -mm the few farm. products | What are 'we going to do about it CAN WAl for th ""”L ere | we farmers, ;¥ mean? We can do va-| 6 millenfriva: t (mwm The Bulletin.) relation of the farmer ood | farm prices to the H\th Cost of Liv- lat n—mum"fl‘?é. mc-nou.hwrx 2nd est what you powd gm’cr;:‘m.: R e o £ MERROW . and Mrs. Jokeph Gollner:- ckson street, Willimantic, 'wm ‘:u Sunday of Edward Green and Spinks. <Miss Barah Wilcox is vmuu )lr d Mrs. John Rhodes and Mr. . James Rhodes of Tolland. The birthday party this week was for Mrs. M. L. Usher. ibvited to spend the Eagewood and on her arrival thers found,a_company- of friends nmu Each was the bearer of ‘& and when each package m n unwrapped and placed on S:m: table a very dainty rmlt met eyes of all Mrs. l flt? ln A ured tea, assisted rdick. Mrs. Usher meuv-d gifts, Birthday cards and many good Mr. and Mrs. I F. Wiltox, Sarah Wikox and Mrs. Ph Wers guests at dinner Sunday of Mf: d Mrs. W. B. Martin of Rockville. Harvey Gergler, who is emploged in jartford, spent the week end ‘with hu ily hers. Leon Woodworth of Hartford ?ea Monday with his sieter, Mrs. L sher, and her tamily. Mrs. B. C. Rallock was in Boston-the st of the week. C. M. Burdick of Chaplin was a mid- ek guest at A. T. Burdick's, i ERTY HILL There will be morning servicé a ehurch next Sunday, with pes the pastor, Rey. John H. Knott. e C. E. meeting will be at 7.30 p. m. E. E. Caples, leader. Subject, Country's Need of Christ. o Mrs.John F. James and daught Dorothy of Wlmmnuc were nug WE Mrs. J. George Clark Weunesday and jn the _afterp g c meeting of the sewihg circle, of: " Mrs. James is president. lt was ' e n_rm hall se days have melted of &' oo s and the mud is quite deep. Not a_very great acm.h of frost is in the ground. The morthern lights In the sky Monday night were brilliant, mostly “a pale white it, and lasted until about 4 a. m: @ greatest display prevlonl to th was in me spring of 1868, }‘ foetased ‘directly oveshead =g all o and lr&‘nfl the sky and the col- were 1y'of a pinkish cast, al- m‘un the eolors of the rafribow were promirent. SThe midwéek meéting was heid the hail* Wednesday rvfmfig i ¢ “Last- Surtday - there was g large. at- teindance’ al chufch, considering the d¥stance that some live, and the trav- eling. There were 45 present. Hirry E. Bedat the week- £nd ow Fishers mnnd. returning Mon.. day with Mrs. Bedat and Margaret, who have beem ding fartnjght with. Mes. Oscar Younce a; Mrs, Harry Willlams, Mrs, Bedgt's) lsters. Fourteen from LeMngwell nten(ed the Firsi Baptist church, Norwieh, Senday evening, wh Qamh ZA%e @ talkc of the Des Molfies Gont ference. i Pearl W. Ross, of New Britain, is spanding several days with his par-fts s, Mr. Mre. Alpert Ross. lott Dolbure is failing In gdltl. Miss Ruth J. Bllis has been & few Aivs at the home of Wcl- n Miter, Yficx( merning Mr. llb*n iches ‘at 11 o'clock. _The 3 B be Jed: by Mrs Chitrlés g for her topic, Medical Mis ll.hrl :‘% Bapll!l Mission Fields, Acts 14 s Walter, Main and_-AMR: Kimbail lprl!‘! Vl;idx;udny in Westerly. ce Main was a week. 1 s a week end, guest Jn Annie Congdon spent _Tyj ?(-l)fiy Witk net staler “‘ estéy) ligs Grace ulrned wi her ’:éu flhzndedsum J.h! somm: ouse tury “ Mes. Uz\lh( Mfl: l‘:’fl’v ter's In Hopkinton City T, -hy The 8chiool. hare 18 Sloséd 18 Easter vacatics. The dance hefd 4t the comibnity neuge gu Esnlnz was. lacgely & very enjoyable ughter, | , almost, wt accumulates of true and T in the city. bought some of the of the very 1 in s R cenit milk sold in town. for ~if tarmer gets six and and a can you have fotgotten the New York state onion-grower who, after sending a elr-lolfl of first qlls]lly uuao;., ?a caived a for ma from thu oker, tn up ‘the balange of over and above what ¥ |the same dealer three dollars got three cents a basket lm' his rul!. 1 ‘have been offered a dollar a hun- dred for sweet corn.which at very time was retailed in_city stores for fifty cents a dozen. Once I took m cesi: < ps to a eity o was retailing them at twanity-five cents a pw!! He offered me :venry cents a bsrfil. for them. baking. beans . were '?fln‘igo gongymers 6 Atteen cents me $4.37 1-2 cents per hundred pound bag. Now comeés ~ Frahk Hagehbarth, president of the National Wool Grow- ers' uubdi n, With a concise state- et et Vdm “the weol inwu' gets for wool in a suit of clothes. For a three-; mlee woolen suit of the grade which E" arotnd $50, the wool costs $i ~For the higher-priced sults made of the very finest West- ern wool and ling around $75 the wool cests $7:37. Just about ten per ocent. » That is, of m!;y (:ollar YO‘: pay 't' 70“? woolen suit, ten cen goes to ar the wool in it and ninety cents =4 n.e getting it on. your back. Or, in other words, ten cents goes to the. farmer and ninety cents to the ‘and tailor and dealer. ‘Which isn’t exactly true, either. For the er doesn’t get that full $7.37 F the ih the §75 suit.” The wool sells at Boston market for $7.37, and the farmder gets what is left after tak- L e enty-five to y .4 fi't:m ml i? sut;!;' a stult He really a le less lan ten per Sent, Bt eatl, Je thate - : - In order o be umeuz Mr. per- haph (O3 pay. it must be admitted that there is something more to a suit uuu- just_the wool. Yes, indeed. There -buttons and thread and lin- HUI andl - padding. - And, of “course, they muyst be paid for. . Also, there is the -dabor ~8f- spinning the wool - into Jam, weaving it inta cloth, and ‘sew- {oe it into-e This, also, must be paid fc AN tfi!‘ ‘Brofits of- the wool ‘broker, and the. woolen manufacturer; and the mill agerit, and the wholesaler, and. the tajlor—five cumulative profits, at least. “some of these In-detween pro- cesses and- its_are legitimate and nec: efhaps. they all are. I fess to know. But the sim- vident fact remains that it -growing farmer who sup- plies. practically the entire material value of "5 suit,—and who gets less than $7 for it. 1f - the ‘weel 14, be taken m.n ‘him for - absolutel; nothing, -if should be compelled to work for nn wages and board himself, so that the entire cost of the woel might be sav- to the.smit-buyer, that grumbling individual would still have to pay $68 for. ih ehgen L. if any- fair-minded and reason- -ym persen. who is not a aner s to read this, I want i he really thinks the clothing is solely- hllk the $7 1 ?_0s 1, due e er? Or partly to the 'wu handlers? i It's on the same line with that T o 'Fu'n;' R A e a N 14 witieh $11 Just 82 e cents went to of the mgt graihs, xfg- -.mnm whe will ARMY AND NAVY GOODS ydu kihow all about the elthtew lects that | produced. | J '-tke the . pains to ine price eon< ditions, knows -that the farmers af the country, instead” of being “the | suilty causes of high prices, are, ‘real- 1y, the worst sufferers -mi the great- est losers from them. or Mustration: 1 have just been ofleu-d sixty cents a dozen for some gs by a eity groeer. Now I do nmot Beliove that he 15 frying to “beat’ me. He is selling them at seventy or sev- gmiy-five cfnts 2 dozen. As he col- ias Fro ¢¢m:‘n‘ altrisk o{bren.k‘xe, treudng. ® like, this does riot impress me as un- reasonable. . He has the fllh! to some profit. . But where . is .my -profit in selling esgs to him at that price? an average of twenty-five.cents a doz- en. At that time; 1 was able to buy, scratch feed for about ‘a dollar - a hundred—oftener for less than that rather than more. Now I.am E‘Sly\fi an n;vgentay; mvev hcmtls for uq(:’ d sort of feet en I was getting twen! five cents a dozen for the esgs, those days; I found that-the feed bill for the year a ahout fwenty- two cents'a dozen for the éggs metually ‘That gave me thpee eems a dozen on the bousing, -and Some years ago | sold my eggs ""lg'fi“mn, depr care enough abodt It to make the-sams’| Were: tedious calculations, at present. But, by a simple -ratio, it-is easy to see that I must get at least eighty-t cents a dozen, now, to be as M of comparatively, as T was when I paying a dollar- ‘for feéed and- sell eggs for a quarter. But I'm not of-' fered eighty-two cents; I'm offered ‘chxld:snotf\my recovered: after | sin the eruption and fever are still and if this mfltgnmatxon is not cleared up, the air passages may ‘be weakened, thus paving the ‘way for pneumonia or serieus disease of the lungs. - 1 Nightly applications of Vi Rub will - aid nature m (cause Vicks acts locally by stim- ‘ulation thru the skin to-draw lout the inflammation, attract the {blood -away from the con; ad spots and r%xeve :%5 c&:‘ In|pea dition, the m i dienits of Vicks are vapmzelag‘vm the body heat. vaf e breathied i all As /thafl 2! lt c&? mmfi"o‘f“’ m:- ui”-u.n u-g, what s Ml &ey J'h le. truth about tho vmnlo matter of farm production and pflcn is that neither one has any cofl- trolling influenice over retall prices. ut " They - shouid th do noL ‘They do net }%‘r !’Y sportation -nA d.m - fiflogn u%onnm:nnfly tl‘:“; B s Tl in_figuring “cost. 1t is i the methods by which farm -produets-are distributed that the pres- lies. . . Yearly and “almost [ daily_more people are coming:io see: this and to say it. But those who do are stiil'a small minority. The ma=- Jority stfll decline to use- their brains, make up for their irrationality by. ., vigor . of =~ thelr voelfenllnn‘ It's too dum bad, to*be the' sttuation, never- theless. 1t ‘i ‘perfectly irue that the’ prices of .most farm- products are | higher the war. is ectly n6 matter what reforms My be instituted’ in the matho’&s of. distribution, those prics Rme-hll higher. Thev will have to, ‘order to compensate for the h|gher Prices of seeds, of fertilizer, of labor, of tools, of everything which enters into the cost of farm produetion. s are, .there 1s no excuse for hluus assertion ‘that farmers 'f ting rich. If they were, wouldn’t t.hey tlck to their enriching occupatioh, II\: floek_in constantly in- creasing numbers to the.clty, its shops and stores and offices? It farming ‘8 g propesition, wonldnt their mns and their hired -stay on the farm, instead of flee- in( it for ; better wages and better elsewhere? Y'l the sorry facts are, as every investigator -discovers—as we farmers know too painfully to admit or doubt —that the farms are being deserted "“’”“‘&f““‘g uqxumgli\ applied an T frely “Vieks should be rubbed in aver the throat and chest until cloths. Leave the cloth- ing loose around the neck and {the bed clothes arranged in the f of a funnel so the vapers arising may be freely inhaled. If the cough is annoying, swallow zsmfllhtofvimthamofa Slfiples to new users will be sent free on request to the Vick Absolutely Ends SATURDAY MARCH 27 9P.M. 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In‘both q\n.litylnd’pltum,avuy'fiidelu'ofl ment is ready for your selection, and our prucutpncunemhnto_ke doubly attractive. . Floor Coverings In All Accepted Styles RUGS, MATTINGS, LINOLEUMS, ETC. Whether you are looking for a Wme Rug, dainty Matting, or durable Linoleum, our large stock Texoleum, Inlaid and Printed Linoleum, Congoleum. ' See Our Display of Log Cabin Colonial Rugs SALE OF / Supreme Percales BEGINNING TODAY 25c¢ a Yard HenotheblggesthhGoodahrmwehvebeenlbh to offer you in many months. Thisis a very fine, soft finished Percale, 72 threads to the inch one way and 76 threads to the inch the other. lnthereguhhunwxdth,%mdus,flmld sell for 59c a yard, but this is but two-thirds as wide, and should sell for at least 39c. .- Grays will be found in the assortment. FIFTY PATTERNS TO CHOOSE FROM DON'T HESITATE—BUY NOW 25¢c A YARD REPAIRED AND RECORED Theroughly Tested Under Air LAMPS AND MUD GUARDS I Straightened and Repaired - GAS TANKS AND PANS TO ORDER ALL WORK GUARANTEED WM. E. SHANLEY 499 MAIN STREET, (East Side) NORWICH, CONN. AND REPAIR WORK OF AcL KINDS Automobile: Trucks and Carts Mechanical Repairs, Painting, Trim- ming: Upholstering and Weod Wosk. Blacksmithing in all its branches Scott & Clark C Pg{& §07_TO 515 NORTH MAIN & LEGAL NOTICES | Notlce to Taxpayers ns liable to pay taxes in the Town et Ladyard: are horeby notisks that I have A warrant to levy and o lect a tax of 20 mills on the dollar the Jist of 1519, aiso a warrant to Jewy and cofiect 2 personal tax on any 390 liable to pay such tax in the Towa of Ledyard. ‘V For the purpose of collecting sud: taxés 1 will be at the store of Nor) & Povey on April 13, from 10 a. m. 12 o'clock moon: at the store at Al Point, from 12.30 p. m. til John Gray's, from 2.30 p. m. til On-April 14 at Mansfield's uore Poquetanuck from 2 p. m. to 3 p. m.2 All taxes must be paid direct to ‘!‘ Tax Collecta: All persons . neglecting this nollk will be charged legal additions. JOHN W, FINEGAN, Tp! Collector, Town of Ledya: Dated at Ledyard, Coma., March 13, 1920, mar22d NOTICE TO CREDITORS. AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Norwich, within and for the I).nnix of Norwich, on the 25th day of Mare A D. 1920 Present—NELSON. J.- AYLING. ulfl Estate of Mary Jane Brau nanmm 1n sald District, decs: le the Exécutor cite ¢ d to bring potice to that effect, ctopy of this order, op the signpost neagest ta the place where waid de welt. and in the sa by pubilshing the same onoe r having a circulation t and make return to thi LSON J. AYLING, Judge The above and foregoing 18 & mp ¢ record. H "“{!:I H HELEN M. Dnm:r. NOTICE—AIl creditors of sald 86 ased are hereby motined to present gclr claims against said estate to uz ned at 527 Congress St e, within the time limfied wbove and foregoing order. ROBERT M. BRADN, mar2éd Executer. AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Norwieh, within and for the District of \nrwlch on the Z5th day of Marel 19 ) LSON J. AYLING, Juds€ Estate of Benjamin F. Bentier. late of Preston, in said District, decehsed, The Admlnistratrix appearcd in Conry ang filed & written application alleging that sald estate is now in settiement in said Court, £nd prayibg for an order t§ el certain real estate belonging te sald estate, fully described in said apj plication. Whereupon, 1t Is Ordered, That sald pplication be heard and defermined ay the Probate Court Room in the City of Norwiet, n said District, on the 9ty day of March, A, D. 1920, at 10 orl el in the Yurenoon lnd that notice fif i pendency of said application. and ol said hearing thereon, be given by the publication of this order once in soms newspaper having a circulation in said t, at least three days prior ta the date of sald hearing, and that res turn be made to the Court. YLING, Judge. = The above and foregoing Is a trud copy of record. : ttest: HE] N M, DRESCHER. - mars Clerk. = T A COURT OF PROBATE_HELIT at Vnrwleh within and for the District of §°’,'§7," on the 25th day of Marehy Pfeunt—m J. AYLING, !Ildn. Estate of Aln Walton Pearson.. late of Illr-lnh. ances. orwic! (‘A& Aobeared In Court and Mied & petition praying. for the reasons theres in set forth, that an instrument pur3 porting to be the last will and testa ment of sald deceased be admitted tof fiom .. Whersupon, Tt Ts Ordered, That said: petition be heard and determined a e Probate Court Room In the City o orwieh: in-sald DISFict. on the 30t day of March, A D. 1530, at 3 o'clock: in the afternoon, and that notice of thes ney-of said. petition, and of sald® aring thereon, be given hy the pub-t lication of this order one time in sSomes haying a circulation in sajds at Teast three days prior tor of ‘said hearing. and that ve-: dp to this Conrt N 1. AYLING, Judge. The above and foregoing s & trdeg copx. H mEN M. DRESCHRR. marsed . Clerx. praan g i (i FRRTERTEY