Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 8, 1920, Page 8

NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1870 (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) TO FARMERS HIGH PRICE REMEDY IS IN CONSUMERS’ HANDS | a big supply, which were offered at 90! starve or freeze or go about unclothed. the profiteers. Certainly, they can't Dut—and right here's the nub—they can live just as well on cheap cuts of theat as on sirloin steaks. They can keep just as comfortable in reasonably- priced shirts as in silk ones. < They can wear old clothes, even if these have to be patched and darned. They can spend a little mors time and a good deal less money in hunting up sources of supply behind the profiteers’ backs. The other day—as I think I may have mentioned before—I went to my neigh- boring city after a few baskets of can- ning peaches for myself and some neigh- bors. The price demanded was $3.75 and $4 a bushel. I came back without them. That same day, a neighbor, mo- toring through a fruit country not 200 miles from ‘that city, found the roadsides almost lined with baskets of the finest Elbertas, picked from the loaded or- chards behind them and offered at 75 cents a bushel. I came back from the| city without any peaches. But, also the same day, a truck from a near-by marn- ufactory went to that same city and bought fifteen baskets at $3.75 on orders them as butchers and icemen. This taet‘ shows two things; first, what co-opera- tion” will do, and second, what common sense in buying will accomplish, I quote from a recent = Toledo, Blade: “Apple orchards within a few miles of Toledo are burdened with fine fruit. Far- mers. are offered nineteen cents a bushel. Take nineteen cents to the re- tailer and find how many apples he will sell you for that amount.” Verlly, the advice is good. There, are, however, several thgus- and fliyvers in Toledo, all capable of reaching apple orchards within “a few miles,” and every one capable of brin ing back several bushels of “fine fruft.” Better advice would be that the owners of said flivvers spin out the few miles to tire apple orchards and buy some apples of the farmers direct, not necessarily at nineteen cents a bushel, but at a decent price, enough to pay for picking them and leave the farmer a nickel or two over for winter. There are more ways than one to skin a cat—if you really need the skin, and don’t feel like paying the furrier a hun- o., consumers hold ‘em up by recklessly buy- ing things they don’t absolutely need, at priess only millionaires can afford to pay. Mr. and Mrs. Consumer would do bet- ter to stop denouncing the farmer, whose nose Is already worn to the gristle om the grindstone - and look on their own doorsteps for the squalling cause of their trouble, THE FARMER. _ANDOVER F. J. Olds, who is in St. Francls’ hos- pital, Hartford, where he went for a surgical operation, is doing well and is expected home soon. A number from here attended Rock- ville fair Wednesday. Andover grange visited Columbia grange Wednesday evening, furnished the programme and were given a very nice supper, A number of women cast their first vote Monday the election going republi- can, The funeral of Charles Baker, a life- long resident of this. town, was held on Danielson, M. R. Noon ; aud'pors, John F. Ash, Guy L. Baker; grand ,urors, T. A. Hanley, Charles O. Thompson. James Hutchins, Walter Brown, Mrs. Cora Over- lock, Miss Stevens; collector of taxes, FitzHenry Paine; constables, Henry M. Holbrook, H.-D. Covell, Richard Clemens. Fred Childs, William P. White, Peter Murphy, Arthur E. Darling ; registrars of voters, J. F. Ash, H. T. White; town 8chool committee, J. F. h, Alice E. Johnson, Alice J. White. LISBON ‘The registrars of voters have 94 names on their list to be made before the state election. Of this number, 68 are women. Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Reynolds, Miss Lucy Baldwin, Mrs. S. B. Hadley, Miss Sarah Louise Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. George Ross, Miss Katie Ross, Mrs. P. B Hyde, Walter Hyde, Miss Clara Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. ennedy attenced conference in Preston Wednesday. The first white frost o .".e season waq Thursday morning. CASTCRIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bzars | the Signature of from the employees. Somehow, one | can't soverely blame the dealers from | taking $3.75 for 75 cents worth of peach- ' 14 English saying which|tents a basket.' Nobody would buy Pl BSEAMRINE 100 OhN i L Ithem. So thi canny proprietor “cut the | "Set @ beggar on horseback, and hell|Price” and made it §1.25. Whereupon ride straight to the dev 3 | they went off like hot cakes. The same|es—so long as people rush to them and This is simply a vigorous way of say-|'tore reported that, when tomatoes were|fairly thrust the money on them. That ing that ,m,‘;', who don’t honestly earn |35 cents a pound, it couldn't get enough!same week, When the dealers found Drosperity arent usually able fo bear it|!0 SUPPLY its customers. When tomatoes! themselwes in danger of having to carry sensibly. | went down to 10 cents a pound, the de- | surplus peaches over Sunday, they sent 8. FRAGES, sngland | 12nd dropped off, till the store stopped |hucksters out into the neighboring coun- bo}-r:l l‘r::‘(’n;':u\g y.i:‘:..lmn ;:: tlfi::‘ T:n-l"'ymfl to'carry them. The reporter who |try, and retailed the same peaches at $1. i g ds the store's experience asks: ter way scores of times. Some neighbor | [°¢0Tds e has had a big windfal] of fortune—fall- ‘;Sn“dtm‘lhls a queer quirk of the human en heir to a pot of money—had an ex- i coptional streak of good luck. He (or| In almost every newspaper which I Now, peaches are a very agreeable and pleasing food. Most all of us like them fresh, or canned, or in pies and o hortcakes. But they are not a necessity ¥ee, .no matter from what part of the | £ t s the 3 n B t :' c‘vh'er)q“:::m::n;tilly“;ax:ches :\:‘: ‘?1!-‘ tountry ft comes, are columns and :g ;:;hthe}r:n éxncde ‘: ;T?lfelizvou:gxre::e an expenditure and an amount of dis.| Pages of advertisements of clothing at 3 P Dirosiitiey, trices running from $35 to $85 a suit.[Would come to that fair price, as surely lay which w ave seemed wicked : las w i 2 rn”h.mhwl?- f:r;irhtlmc % mA‘nd the | And people are paying those prices. If ““2-333273'3‘ -sm}?addogn h ot Seighbors, shaking wise heads, remark |ihey Weren't, the prices would mighty | Weve slwavs T h among themselves that “he can't seem to | 3000 drop. SN ne o I e e e tory to us. Now it is worn into rags, and what I used to pay fifty cents a vard for, the carpet people ask $2.75 for. Wherefom, we are daily climbing up the rags and shall continue to do so, until T v the price comes down within our reach. really care about it. When it\ TI'm not alone in this refusal to throw What one of the highest authorities on |€omes down to sharp dsfinition, that|away momey on profiteers. Governor trade conditions in the country says in|'"ord “necessity” is given very differ-iCoolidge of Massachusetts, whom a good regard to the manufacturing outlook: | Nt meanings by different people. There many of us regard with hearty admira- stand prosperity.” | But what can the buyers who do not | | vant to pay double and treble prioes for It may net have eccurred to you, but do? Aren’t they| is the fact, nevertheless, that nosmall | SOMmOn necessities t of the high cost of living has been | Felpless? rought on us by our own conduct, as a |, “Well people, along this very line. Here's| ¢V that depends upon how much | “Persons who by wages paid during|'T® e’ic'iedmzl.v flew things which We itjon for his sterling common smse and the war suddenly became possessed of |Can't get along without temporarily, if|sturdy Americanism, said, the other day, more money than they ever had before the inducement to do without them iS'that he hadn't bought a suit of clothes fo do with, demanded so much of the|Sufficient. At least nine-tenths of the for eighteen months, nor a new pair of best and costliest goods that manufac- S iioh St SRl ariy Caliect | shoes for two years. And he added that turers mada up enormous quantities. 8" ‘are merely luxuries which (he, too was finding some company. Now they are overstocked because the|Nave got used to and There anre indications,” he remarked, @eneral public has stopped buying be-|Dive., when there's@re ‘that Americans are beginning to under- cause of high prices.” about it. nd what thrift means.” Praise be! Simmered down to its bones, this man's| The remedy for high prices is in the| One biz meat-packing company, em- explanation is that millions of people |hands of consumers, and in theirs alone. |ploying more than 35,000 men, has re- finding themselves in receipt of bigger|They can refuse to buy. This may be cently bought 35,000 all-wool suits, wages than they had ever dreamed of as|2 very hard medicine for them to ad-!mostly in blue, brown, and gray mix- rlunged minister to themselves. wildly into buying the They may pooh- | tures, for $18 a suit, and is selling them h-priced goods which, thereto-|Dooh it on the ground that such conduct: to its employes at cost, superintendents fore, had been absorbed only in small|Wwould hurt them worse than it would'and presidents being as eager to get quantities by the uneo’ rich. Whereupon 0 6 @ealers and manufacturers naturally S e stocked un with the kind of goods the| 8 many loyal subjects. 1it's Just| *They are, first, healthful, and, demand was greatest 1t highest for—and the prof- everyday common sense that causes|second. economical. Their packing dred dollars for it, under the ‘“trade can make old- shoes and old clothes do for a little longer, and can live on beef stew instead of porterhouss steak till the prices of these and similar things come down within eyesight of fairness, then they'll come down. Don't doubt it. But they wen't come down so long as day. POMFRET town election wers: Assessor, in. Now, the same millions, all who eat to be unstinted in their|allows no dust or dE of any kind: having boosted things by their own- act, praise of Royal Lunch Biscuit—ongggo impair their cleanly wholesome-| re sickeninz <t the act's logical result of the National Biscuit Company'filiness, they are sold by the pound. 1 demouncing r own work. the ther fellows for (the name ‘Royal Lunch’ is or every acker) or you may get them in 2 In-er-seal Trade Mark satisfying helps to the hungry.” Competent, dependable, pre Mrs. Harrison spoke fe This is human nature, so-called, Wwith- out a doubt. The worst of it is that| those who have sown .the wind are not; Was a bulwark of str@igil X the only ones to reap the whirlwind. If Wilks, a conscientioys little new! it would only blow down their shoddy wed who was wearing herself out I} castles and leave the rest of us in peace, the kitchen we could stand it. We might even find| with them ), UONCEEAIN FOSURES Breseeatot tell how a certaln comfort in hearing them| eonneelor almost reverently. felicious they are. Only by trying squ But that isn't the way things z rrie will you learn how appropri-. g0 in this world. The innocent suffer “T've seen many young ma: " with the guilty tsh; with the fool- the self-blind- women like you baking all the time and good logks the foreseeing with The really responsible causes of the ruction find more fault and do more grumbling about it than its undeserving victims. That, also Is human nature, so- called. And it isn’t a wholly admirable sort of nature in either view. with considerable body, and slightly sweet, ROYAL LUNCH Biscuit go splendidly with milk. In many homes they are on the table at every meal. Their A travelin h: d in 3 1 B Mble 800 I Teril; ohe. Mis iast perfect consistency and delicate flavor have made epring, when a cattle rustler who had themeveryday biscuit every- where. The name ROYAL LUNCH is on every biscuit. Sold by the pound and in the famous In-er-seal Trade Mark { NATIO package; | BISCUIT NATIONAL BIsCUIT (BASReReloI TV NNR G| COMPANY N — FF. Uneeda Biscuit acquired much money by the discovery of oil under his pastures, came in and msked for silk shirts. The clerk got him down some at $12 each. “Hain't ye got no better ones?” was the demand. Hunt- Tl take three,” and the ex- threw down a hundred dollar Anxious to make hay while the sun shone, the clerk, as he did up the $45 worth of shirts, remarked that they had some stunming collars and other neckwear. “Don’t want ‘em,” was the reply: “Never wore a collar in and ain't goin' to begin, now.” story seems to me highly signifi- rustier bill. Lunch BiS big a pll‘l;e baking o g‘n‘l‘({ My Todd cal Lunch Biscuits ‘table staples’ and they are all of that. They express the very spirit of the new house- keeping. tale of the grocery store which, finding grapes pienty and cheap, stocked up with ONE DAY SALE ON SUITS Saturday, October 9th $35.00 to $65.00 values, at............... $25.00 to $49.50 SEE OUR COATS ................... $25.00 to $65.00 = TRICOTINE AND SERGE DRESSES that are dependable in the straight line models that achieve the effect of slender ness—coat styles—square and round necks, a variety of trimming effects, good chasing. Smart Dresses Suits are really indis- pensable and the new models capti- vating—fur trimmed and smart tailored models in tricotines, velours, veldyn and duvet superior. Lower prices are an tailoring and finish make these Dresses an economical investment. There is always a selection to pick from in our line of Skirts, in plaids, plain and pleated. SPECIAL VOILE WAISTS...................... $1.00 From 9 A. M. to 12 M. Only added attraction — $45, $49.50, $55 to $89.50. MANDELL’S WOMEN’S SHOP Right on the Square BB i — e e[ e[ ——[e———a e [ —— [ —— | ———1 ‘Tuesday at the Congregational church. name" of Labrador sable or Hudson Bay | Burial was in Andover cemetery, Rev. From Bunion Pain 4 L.t Mi:r.d B le decide that they S‘:"’“;dseu Yetgla ey fim__*dw-um'r nd when people o that the: £ ; i can get along without peaches and stair| MrS. F. L. Hamilton, who has been a agonizing banion. Awl-hmhwh-“ carpets and various other luzuries, and |Patient in St Josepl's. hospital, Willi- ing the bunion may be, is guaranteed to remove it. mantic, returned to her home Wednes- The successful candidates in this week's Joseph Stoddard ; selectmen, G. H. Hicks, Jonas FEEE eSS October Brings a Multitude of Fresh, New Fashions-—and Still Lower Prices Our consistent efforts to lower prices on merchandise in our various depart- ments has born the fruit of perseverance. we are able to announce that prices are much lower at The Manhattan and patrons old and new will find it to their interest to investigate before pur- Wherever you go it is ., ‘always the frock that attracts attention. We have the very newest of the new styles in chic tailored tricotines or dressy satins and silk duvetynes—these prices defy competi- $25 — $39 — $45 — §55. ew Fall Suits |RICH FURS and Distinctive Styles — Sterling Qualities — Better Values — a combination on which you can always depend when buying here. B s Instant Relief 2 FREE Trial Wil Convince You Utley & Jones, Pharmacists, 145 Main - It is with satisfaction and pride Wrappy Coats The new coats are the best looking we have shown for some time. Their large cape col- lars, either of fur or self material are as smart as they are cozy and warm. Qur stock includes the finest ma- terials and colors in becoming styles for Women and Misses. Good coats as low as $25, others $39.50, $45, $55 up to $95. FUR COATS Enjoy the great out- doors but have furs; to protect you from chilly winds and the’ cold. Our stock of Neckpieces and Coats embraces every reliable kind of fur and fashioned in the most approved style. Our prices will save you many dol- lars and our guaran- tee protects and as- sures you of long wear. e