Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 30, 1920, Page 2

SaSchool in the Sth district went on the daylight saving plan Monday, @i also the American Thread Cos Bin 11 a. m., next Sunday, new time. concert in Willimantic Tuesday Monday MACPHERSON’S “FOR QUALITY” MEN'S SPRING OVERCOATS If you want to see some real Spring Overct;ats— styles that are right up-to-the-minute — we have them. Conservative models as well as form-fitting and box back models. Made of fine quality all wool fabrics, in smart her- ringbones, tweeds and knitted fabrics. Many being weather proofed are equally desirable for wear as a medium weight top coat or for rainy or stormy weather. J. C. MACPHERSON . QUALITY CORNER OPPOSITE CHELSEA SAVINGS BANK GLASGO cently. town for a while, brother of John Gardner. Walter G. Burdick called on friends ing services at the Bethel will | in Norwich Town Thursday. R. H. Young attended an ol |, A cablegram from , also visited her sister, in W. Young. fay Gardner return after spend Mrs. 4 to New | peared g a week |12, 1 or so with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ray Gardner, whose hugband died re- Mrs. Garduer will remain in Ray Gardner was a the American em- bassy at Rio de Janeiro, March 13 1920, states that a presidential decree, continu- ing for 1920 the American praference. in the same form as' the.decree of 1919, ap- in the official gazette of March LESS CONTAGIOUS THAN PREJUDICE AND PASSION (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) Very, very slowly; and very, Ve gradually, an intelligent of the desperate farm situation is begin-| ning to filter irito the comsciousness: some city. editors. i Instead of the customary sneer at “country rubes,” these gentlemen are more. and more mu:atg; u:om‘;:n i tone: of sympathy. a re | to help.out. To be sure'the sympathy is voiced somewhat condescendingly, not to say superciliously and the helpful desire is sométimes tinctured by a more or less laughable ignorance of the real facts. Nevertheless, the change-1s a neticeable one and not unwelcome. Here, for is the way the ed- | itor of the Toledo, O., Blade sees the sit- uation and prophesies the future: “Agriculture has reached, ‘the- point where high prices instead of incréasing production are making. it difficult and un- {| profitable for the farmer to produce as much as he did when prices were lower. “With the whole world clamoring for farm products and willing to- pay un- heard of prices, the farmer is unable to gét men to help him till his flelds. High wages paid in the cities are draining the country districts of men. Farmers fac- ing the opportunity of disposing of erops at fabulous figures fipd that their inabil- ity to get help makes it necessary for them to reduce acreage. This lowers production, increases the food shortage and still further inflates prices. * “If the shift of population from farm to city continues; if the production of foodstuffs keeps on decreasing; if the farms of the country fall inwg disuse and idleness we* may see the day when city dwellers ,though Tich ~ and . prosperous, will in vain bid fabulous sums for food which cannot be had at any price. If HIENEE e A U TR oo R for Good of Human Feet RY Value Over fifty million pairs of Ipwich Hosiery Women'sStyle2397 gave satisfaction last year. Mediom weight mercer- ized Eale hose with fashion and fibre silk hosiery. This grear volume of sales is the resultor Good Value, of shapeliness and comfort, of good looks and sturdiness from' top to toe. - Ipswich is knitted to meet the teeds of human feet. Every size is correct in every 5 dimension, because Ipswich sizes are the result of scientific measurements. The Ipswich Trade Mark is a guide to hosiery satisfaction; it stands for quality at IPSWICH MILLS ~°STARJSEED Ipegich. Mass. LAWRENCE & CO., Sole Selling Agents ‘prognostication of serious future for the city consumer. Its interest-lies in the fact that it is the editor of a oity newspaper who is: writing it. You have been saying it for; lo, thess many years. A 'good many professedly farm papers have been saying it. And that's all the good it has dons. We might as well have tried to light up the state of Rhode Island with a tallow candle set on top of Lantern Hill. But the above extract and similar comments which T note from time to time, in other paners issued in large cit fes, indicate’ that intelligence is begin- ning to penetraté even the sh of darkest city-dom. Let us be duly +Hankful therefor. Let us also hope that the thus far feebly twinkling rays may develop and persist til they shall illumi- nate minds yet, wandermg biindféld in the deserts of ignorance and class pre- judice. g Within the last six weeks I have seen displaved at the local village store the posters of six farm auctions, all within less than ten miles of me. Farms and equipments, stock, teams, tools, machin- o hay, grair, food supplies, ete, ail offered for sale to the highest b¥der. One of these six was due to the far- mer's age and the death of his wife, which two misfortunes had combined to drive him from his home to a refuge with a married son. Two others were brought about by the farmers’ decision. to, move to town and work at big wages in a shop. The other three simply and solely from the fact that the farm- ers concerned could get no help to carry on their dairy plants, and were without capital to sink in maintaining them at a. loss. These six farms have been . in the habit of producing somewhere abeut 130.090 quarts of milk and 7,000 bushels of rotafoss a year for market, hosidesi| what was consumed on the farms and besides the numerous other- products grown. Not one of them is-to. continue milk or potato production heveafter.. You who have to buy milk and pota- toes, vlease figure up a rough estimate of the loss in these two articles alone for the whole countrv based on this known loss from one-half of one county. Yom are getting big wages iu town. The doi- lars just roll in to you and they look migh'y good coming in. But you can't eat them or wear them or burn them in your stoves. And ‘if. your refusal to help ETow notatoes results in such, a scarcity that they retall for '$125 ‘yhere- In is your $5 a day werth any more to you. notato-wise, than would ba $1 o day ‘with potatoes at 25 cents a peck® One of the largest farmers in my meighborhood, whose holdings cover so large an acreage that he. can’t selk it at auction or any other way, and who has usually heretofore employed from ten to 2 dozen men ‘the year 'round, with ex- tra help in haying and harvest, had, at my last information, contracted with | Just two men to work for him the com- Ing season. This, because he couldn’t get more at any wages which their labor would earn for him. Another, with several hundred acres of areble, pasture and orchard land, hasn't re-hired a single ome of his ol men, When they made known' to him what { Wages they would expedt, ,he turned { sauarely on them and sald: *Yow're ask- | ing more in wages than the entire farm | brought in, last year. Take my teams | | and -tools at a fair valuation; pay me just a trifle in rent for the farm,enough to take care of taxes and insurance and repairs, and Tl tutn it ‘all over to you. .and you may have all you can make off it” 'Did they accept the offer? Not by a long shot! They knew perfeotly well that the farm couldn’t possibly bring in | the wages they were demanding: But that they sagely reasofied, their lookout. They comld get such’ wages in the city amd, if the country couldn’t pay them, to. the city' they'd go. Both these farms have also produced some milk and some potatoes for market. Now they will not. Add something. more to the shortage you've already figured out, on their account. If the gross re- sults in decreased production and in- creased consumption look good to your eyes, then gloat over them. If they do not look promising or profitable, then kindly think about something else—ahout what yowll live on next winter, say, when the shortage becomes acute and there’s a fresh railroad strike, and deal- ers’ bins are empty and they are jummp- ing their prices every fifteen minutes! The Blade writer isn't talking foolishly when he foresees the day ‘When oity dwellers, though rich and Drosperous, will in vain bid fabulous sums for food which cannot be had at any price,” be- cause it wasn't produced. There is another farm, near me, which has usually produced some 500 gallons of maple syrup each spring. It has a med- orn evaporating plant and its output. hs been taken greedily at remunerative prices. This spring, thé owner tapped his ‘trees as usual and started work. The sap flowed- unusually well eversthing be- tokened a prosperous season. The second day his one hired man left him, without five minutes’ warning, to_take a a big electric works, and he § find another capable of uoing the work at any price. I getting. en in years and with considerakle stock to_care for three times a day, he waa physically unable to continue "the syrip-making. He pulled -spouts, his trées stored the buckots, ets, away. -What sap was already in. the pans he In which single instance the thomght- ful mind may see 2 suggestion of one of the causes why maple syrup ,which to retail at a dollar a galion, hardly obtainable at $4 and §5 For there is no reason to this instance was the only kind in the country. Of course ,we've all read ‘“overalls” clubs which people are join- ing all over the continent in a to cut down the exorbitant cost & . The | doesn’'t seem to bite in as deeply nor as Plugged E ‘What they'll nly Satau and-his m o-!‘n‘u-h-on.l indignatl 80 in this case.. In order to ! t back” at some few - thousand goug- ‘lli‘:ndh\hnn“‘ ::t:h:- . m“i vi over the head. Bold no brief for shop-workers Who have already showh ample ability- to make vo- cal their own' complaints, But I ean't help piping up; in my fesble way, when it other editors in other cit do will take a few days off, 1 then ,to learn fhe real condl tions' of farm production in this unfor-| And T hope they'll dip ow Ink bottles, afterwardy, for ther town readers the sor- | as it really is. But ,as somé once remarked, it's too bad at health isn't catching instead of dis- contagion of common sense affectively as that of prejudice and pas- sion. k?na it spreads very slowly. As an epidemlc, it must be classed as slow freight. . Hope is, of course, always permitted. We can all live IN hope. But it's a rather thin diet to live O THE FARMER. WILLINGTON Leon Woodworth, of Hartford, visit- ed Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Robbins, Sun- 2y. Charles Cowles will return next week to Somersville to work in the tobacco felds. Mr. an@ Mrs. Hans Hansen are driving a new ¢ar. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dimock Hartford visited the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Burdick, Sunday. They expect to return to their farm fn a few of Lincoln’ White has bought from Miss Coleman the Bancroft lot, which ad- Joins. his property. Miss Vera Coleman has come from New York to her, summer home, The Studio. b There was a_dance at Bohemian hall at_Daleville, Saturday evening. Miss Sara Dunhing has returned from New. York. Miss Palmer will not come at present owing to the llness of. her sis- ter, Ren Robbins is working for W. C. Pnrh- repairing roads. M. Anton Wostrel is in a hospital in Boston. being treated” for a, chronic aitment. Wrank Vonasek met with a vainful ac- cident” while in the pearl butfon fac- A shell broke, cafting an artery wrist, Mrs, G. V. Smith mave an address on 04 Blue Ching befora the Woman's club at Willimantic last week. Clarence Eliredge has bought the small house ’last occupled by John Smith, Jocated about three quartersiof a mile north of the Hill. He will have an that it is the" work- o f..‘,s,--:&"\;.,. this ‘mereage in _the Utiey & Jones. Main street. | e Pharmacists, 145, i addition built to the house. . Edward ' DeWolf has been on several trips to New York for the Hall Thread Co., with his truek, carrymg a- load:and | returning with one. John Willis is sawing logs for Frank Bosworth on Amidon's lot. entertajned guests from Harftord and Brookl¥yn. ® The. ladies of the HIIl were ifivited lnI the home of Mrs. Theodore Bachelor, on Mrs. Allen Thursday afterioon to meet Meyer. ful animal. by the pearl workers. iting his mother, ‘Mrs. -Henry Stark- weather, in Washington, D. C. John Fuller has working in Frank Pokuda’s saw mill. Mrs. Gardner recdived news' Sunday Mrs. Francis Spooner, 29, had died quite suddenly at the home of her parents in Now Haven. She had been ill, but her condition was She leaves her husband, one one, her parents, and sister, in Spencer, Mass., was visiting her parents, that her granddaughter, not _considered serious. and Mrs. Spooner, whose home i§ and was apparently in her usual health until the Thursday previous death. She has fin somrow at the passing and talented Woman. o GOSHEN O. A. Nettlton has made a record this spring killing snakes, having dispatch- April 22 while planting potatoes he thought he | would see what his deg was barking so, fieercely at, in some hazel nut brush, it was found to be a flat-head, or hissing It proved to be a very large one and looked a good .deal like a rattler, and these snakes when surprised will. hiss like-a. goose and at the same time flatten ed 26, most of them black ones, adder. out the head and ody when angry. They are said to be a poisonous reptile Regardless of high price and scarcity of sugar early Monday morning acrdss Mrs. Kinney of Norwood, Mass., came Friday for a visit with Mrs. Smith, be- fore leaving for her new home.in Califor- nia. : Mrs. Gardimer and dawghter recently James Taylor regrets the loss of his sorrel horge dt thesage of 30 years. His | dri wife was much attached to the faith- Saturday eveninig Andrew Bodnar at- tended the dance at Stafforaville, given Oscar Hemmer has returned from vis- returned from New Hampshire where he has been since fall, her y friends here who on of this bright |5y § it before ! meeting conferr! your pieces ahead yet. Singing led PANY'S LEHIGH COAL. It is the smallest possible ashes, : Try our BOULETS, at $10.75 per ton. The best we have had yet. SHETUCKET COAL & W0OD (0. amount of ABINGTON flelds came a sweet song thet was times. repeated, “Drink your tea! tea! drink your teal” People here have not set their time- A local farmer went to town Monday afternoon. Finishing his shopping. he made special note on leav- ing the city that it was 6.15. On reaching home he was heard to exclaim, “What only 6407 L guess the little old Ford was running on its reputation this trip, as T have never made such time as that Mlss Vera Briggs is substituting as teacher in Mansfield this week. . F. English of Hartford is expected to conduct the service here next Sunday, at 11 o'clock. A Alpert and H. Levine of Colchester ‘were callers here Monday. Wolf Den degree team gave the third and fourth. degrees Friday evening to a class of 20, at Little River grange, ampton. Twenty-five members of Wolf- Den- attended. < Saturday Quinebaug Pomona heid its at Wolf Déen Grange hall and the 5th degree on a large a small ciass at olf Den. vocal solo, clags. The high priest of Demeter was present and gave an address at the aft- erngon session, The program includ- ed: by Prof. Wheeler; reading by Miss Grace Randall, elocu- tionist Storrs college; plano duet, the Misses Ashes; England After the War, Richard Barton; Roberts. Wednesday evening first and second degrees were conferred upon Arthur Carl M. Sharpe with hia family, of Milford, Conn., spent the week with his mother Mrs. P. A. Sharpe and end \ returned Monday, making the trip by automebile. Mrs, C. P. Grosvenor continues fll Mr. English of Hartford preached Sunday at the Congregational church, Dr. and Mrs. Goodridge are ot “Mashmoquet Meadows” for the sume mer. The Whist club met with Mrs. Pan- nie Fuller last Wednesday evening. The prizes were won by Mrs. Fuller and N. A. Badger. . Thursday afternoon the Ladies’ so- ciety Is to meet in the room at the par- sonage arranged by the committes for their meetings. Mr. Amidon has purchased a new car. Will Galllip has sold his farm and is going to California. Mr. and Mrs. William Weeks and Mr. Litchfield of Worcester attended the Pomona meeting Saturday. Observing a passage of Exodus which refers to the discayery of Moses in the bullrushes in an ark “daubed with slime and with pitch” Standard Ofl engineers ‘went to Egypt on a little trip of explora- tion and made discoveries as the result of which there will soon be extensive oif operations there. $ 25 Model. $ 35 Model. $ 75/Model. $125 Model. $150 Model. $165 Model. $200 Model. $225 Model. $275 Model. 50c Weekly 75¢ Weekly $1.50 Weekly $1.75 Weekly $2.00 Weekly $2.25 Weekly $2.50 Weekly $2.50 Weekly $2.50 Weekly WE HAVE A FEW PIANOS AT SPECIAL PRICES, BEFORE WE MOVE. BEFORE WE MOVE We Will Quote Special Terms On Victrolas and Brunswicks The Talking Machine Sh 46 FRANKLIN STREET : VICTROLAS—VIOLINS—MUSIC ROLLS—RECORDS—PIANOS.