Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 14, 1921, Page 10

10 is the Genuine and Only Laxative Bromo < Quinine rablets The first and ariginll Cold and Grip tablet, the merit of which is recognized by all civilized nations. Be careful te avoid imitations. Be sure its Bromo The genuine bears this signature 30c. MYSTIC annual meet t the er National fro the ensuin lows: E. D. Holmes, L. P. B. N of the bank clected pre Tuesday evening there . C. Latham camp, No. 19, S. of V i d by Past Com were: Command- cnior vice, Walter er, Franklin E. Burdick e. J. W. Phil secretary W. W. Leigw Jatriotic ge S. Richmond n, Philip Mark's evening. at year were es E. Cameron nd officers for cted as foliows: i tre rer, Chris- cnior warden, ior warden, John presided at the ensuing yes John Good topher C. McGaug Charles E. Cameron ni G. Wheeler vestry. ward G. cron, Sta . Henry fer, Charles W ; delegates to diocesan conventio: les E. Cameron and John G. Wheeler; ternates, C. C. MecGaughey and John Goodman; dele- gates to archdeaconry meétin A. Stan- ton King and J. H r. Miss Gerda Pete London was a visitor here this we Mrs. W. llyn of New London is a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gaskell. Mrs. Cha Ruth, are Mrs. Wil Fisher's Isl relathves here. Stoninston lodge, No. 26, I. O. O. F., met Wednesday evening. T les Dodd and daughter, Miss siting in Philadelphia. am Parlow has returned to d after a lengthy stay with Grace church, Stafford Spring: s now living. The Ladies where he Ald society of the Congre- gational church had an all-da use Thursd: ng. A basket lunch was taten at poon. Pequot temple, Pythian their installation of officers M. ay even- ing in K. of C. Castle hall. new of- Soers' are: Most exceilent chief, Ruth Weeks; excellent senior, Margaret Eld- redge ; excellent junior, Eva Ehle; man ger, Florence Craig; mistress of records wnd correspondence,r Marion Crowley; mistress of finance, Muriel MeClellan; srotector, Martha Archangel: z Mary Young; past chief. Annabelle ow. ‘The instal officer was Srand Chief Mrs. sy Grand Chief Mrs. M: Berry of New London present were M Sadie Rockyille, Mrs. Eva Adams of \ Th dosand Mrs. Nina Jeffrey of New Lone fon. The meeti; 7 the Woman’s Ch: Pemperance @ 9 was held Wednedd afternoon in ¢ R..hall. The prog follows: Farewell 1920, read by Charles Newbury ; Hapyp Georgia Woodmansee ; Mrs. James E. F. Prown New Year. Mrs v_Enforcerent, ; Twofold Duty of; American™ Citizens, Mrs. Jennie Brown; The : Remedy, Mrs. Augusius Parks; Peak of the Fight, M Clara 8. Murphy; Mrs. Ellis' Christmas Surprise, Mrs. Edwin Thompson; Seven Open Se. crets for Better Law Enforcement, Mrs. Charles; Newbury. It was. voted to hold a food ale. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Noyes are in New York attending the automobile show. Miss Emily F. Denison is ilL Work has begun on the Tripp bloek, which has been purchased by John F. || Nayes, who plans many chanzes and al- | The west end of the buiiding, | terations. W oceupied by Jacob Diek as a bakery, is to be set back a distance of seven feet md “is”to taver to a point on the east cnd; large plate glass windows are to be installed and other improvements made. The west end is to be altered over into a theatre, with a seating capacity of €00, and the roof raised to allow for a galle Mr. Dick is moving to the new b ing recently erected by him on lowér Church street. Mliss Franes A. Nye is a visitor in New York. Miss Phebe M. Stanton was in Noank Tuesday. The bmilding occuried by the Mystic | Fish company on the south .side of the * bridge approach has been torn down to make way for the new bridge to be in- stalled. ‘Have Pains? Aches and pains scem to be the lot of the ordinary mortzl. However, these should be' taken simply as nsture’s warning signsls that some part of the buman machine is out of order. Itisa mistake to resign one’s self to physical torture when the cause can b= removed. Joley Kldney Pilly @one up wesk, inactive, sluggish kid- meys and help rid the blood of poison- mess waste matter that causes aches end ains in arms and legs, backacke, rheu- i ins, sore muscles, stif or Isssc B. Turnmen, Asbury Park. N.J..writes: “"My back csused me a great deal of troudle for @ome time. 1 experinaced sharp, shosting paivs The paina ivit any back. ) recome @end Foley Eidoey Pilin th wiy trisnds.” LEE & OSGGOD Co. illiman- | | re-eombine (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) It is amazing what an amount of mis- ruth-seeking Tead- er may amass frbm current publications. Perhaps less amazing but even more information” a really pitiful are the numbers and enormity the wrong conclusions which spring from the absorption of so much misinforma- tion. Most provocative and irritating of is the red old- veterans that they much about war—or anything else. Fhere used who thought they could teach grandmothers how to suck eggs. These remarks are city magazine called ‘“Forbes. percentage etc. He twisted the long-cuffering Arabi ais till’he has made them prove, to His prime contention i end that it is cov in the country than in the cities.” To pro vom 1890 to 1912, and condescending contemptuousness with which some self-satisfied and hali- baked theorist tells a lot of battle-sear- i don’t know to be a saying reflecting e o e T Coun® {hete | tho facts, and hazard this as 2 mere sur- suggested, by a clipping, sent -me. last week by a Wind= ham County reader, from a New York | The writer of the article from which the clip- ping is taken has manifestly soaked him- self in figures, and general averages, and has combined and census resuits: he has mul- tinlied and subtractgd: he has turned and ! tention to the government firures which numer. s that “the driff from country to city has been checked. ng that it “pays better to work |farm “slump” came before 1 live, there was a per.od of eight or ten years When our farm assessments ‘were boosted by from cight to fificen per cént., each year, one aiter another. For | instance, my own farm is/today assess- {ed at something over eighty per cent. more than it was ' twealy years: ago, though it wouldn't sell, as a farm, for | as much now as it would then. (The oppressive taxation foliowing increasvd assessment-value deters prospective buy- ers from considering anything in loenl farms, except at “bargain” prices.) Per- haps this fictiticus and enforced increasc in asscssments may have been reflected in reperted valuations. I don’t know. 1 have no access to any figures showing of all lmise. Now please listen to one more state- | ment of this city statistics-monger: “Furthermore, when a business depres- | sion comes alons, the farmer fares better than other business men. He is a pro- ducer of absolute necessities, and’ his jmerket does not slump so badly.” i Oh, ye gods and little fishes! Only the other day, I ealled your at- | showed that the farm inarket, this past conson, “slumped” to such an extent that his own satisfaction, at least, that the cartthe -farmers of the wiolsa country were is Defore the horse and the tail is wag- |able to seil their big 1920 crops for only > |ging the dog. |$9,000,000,000 as “asainst more than 1$14,000,000.000 paid them for the small |er crops of 1919. That was a “slump’ “the dollar which has | of $5.000,000,000. And it all happened in done it.” because workers are now dis-| than three months. Moreover, this any other | market in the land so much as tottered. these astonishing assertlons | No other market, whether of commodi- he gees back to census fizures runming; to price esti ties or of labor, has even yet fallen in comparable degree. mates rurning from 1913 to 1977—This were comrelled to admit the accuracy of | the “Ferbes” figures and the correctness pect. - Tror 3 U3! Let me beg you to glance over some cing 1921, a8 you've recently been foreed o5 ggures from the governimeit’s fest fo mcte by the necemary Jhamec. of e report, that dor Decembier, Atk iy old almanac for a fresh one.—Even if we | oty HEE SO0 R O b of the deductions therefrom, noted that they are comparatively cient history, now. According to these reported fizures, gzin of farm wealth from was 27.1 cent.. ‘while the gain other industries was 39.1 1 s this remarkable 1904 and 1912 farm w 113.9 per ‘cent., rer cent. for other industri Iy this was a most phenor most miraculous increase culture and other industries—i happened. long enou: ral capacity of prove what jsn't true. are doubt them rather than ace s. cnal and inclined pt the than doubled in those eight yeais. e man ! fullness or accuracy. Certainly, those of us who were tively enzaged in nr ing taween 1904 and 1912 ha swept over the country. by state after state. were urged and 4 ments. It w: Local asse: In this wholly rural town wt it is to be 1890 . to 1900 cent. But, ! bLetween | 3 creased | as compared with 1115 Certain- in. hoth agri- it really | lived tounding theory that farm wealth more e no mwemory of Corn, to begin with: The cowstry’s 192y crop was 3,232,367,000 bushels against 2,358,509,000 bushels for 1919—k e. 574,- 00 bushels MORE -in 1920 than in And its farm value is reported by same authority as having been $3,- 741,000 in 1919 and $2,189,7 i, e. $1,662,000,000 LESS in 1920 than in 1919! The farm valuer per bush- el, reported by the same authorily, was in 1919 and sixty-seven cents, just If, in 19201 ing wheat: The farmers of the west procuced 4,603,000 bu. 1s MORE in.1920 than i 1913, and they got $194,830,000 LESS for it! Oits: We raised, amongst us, 294,301, an- the of | al 900 bushels more in 1920 than in 1919, to |and we got $169,515,000 less for them. as-| Potatoes:We grew 74,055,000 bushels | more in 1920 than in 191Y, and they were I §$70,394,000 less to us. The southern rice-planters pro- here @id these figures. come from.| guced 10,720,000 bushels more iX 1920 = g-mjin an in 1919, and had to sell it for $50,- The cotlon states baled 1,- 568,00 more bales in 1920 than in 1819, : = jand its price on the pientations is re- ow confusing juoried at $1,120,000,000 less. ible it is even for the most con-i Omions: With about 8,000,000 bushels farmer to answer them With|ja,ger output in 1920, the farm price is reported at $1.31 a bushel against §2.13 in 1919, Cabbage: With considerably over dou- ae- be- doubling of our wealth. One ! fatm price is reported as $30.78 2 ton in a pessible ‘20 aganst $52.74 in '19. (These figures, n of some part of this aileged in- | both as to onions and cabbages, are! crease. I cannot, at this moment, sir 1y at variance with the prices the ct dates, if, indeed, there ere ; g d by buyers for the big city mar- ny exact dates but it was snmr".\‘l\nrn‘il Onions, for example, are quoted out, the besinning of the present cen- |in the New York whelesale market at an tury that a wave of assessment-raising | average of about 75 cents instead .of taken un | §1.31, and cabbage averages $16 a ton ors | in that same market, instcad of $36.73. iven to ratsing assess- | These are New York whelesale prices, re | oo, and a good deal higher than prices 21,000 in ble the crop in 192 of that of 1919, the! vaid at the farm. As a matter of,lnct.] a large proportion of the cabbage-crop of the biggest cabbage-producing state ia ine union Was left to rot on the ground, 1ast sall, because the growers cowida't get $7 - ton for it £ o b)) . Well, ezough of that. We practioal! farmers naio. admiticdly, less intecest n the possible deductions. from ‘mare or less doubiful statistcs than we hawe i (ne maniiest, apparent and uadeniable facts which we are up against. When \e come in, soaked to the skin, from our work in a back lot, we don't look at tic weather bureaw's forecast to know whether it is raining or not. We know when We are wet through, without refer- ence to governmental confirmation of the dampress. ' Similarly, we know when we are being “stuck” by -the matiet, wheth- er Washington and New York city know it or naf 5 I Is comparatively easy fo sit In 3 snug city office and write out rainbow- tinted boomlets for the country. It is not dificult for those accustomred to mani- pulating official figures to make them prove anything, either of fact or of fc- tion. ; 2 Indeed, judging from the sort of stuff which gets into the big city papers abodt farming, it might Beem as ‘if, the less one knows about it, the better fitted he feels himseif to lay down the law con- cerning it. Facts are not only stubborn but eften depressively hampering things. . The writer who is burdened with the fewest of them can often soar higher into the realms of imaginative ether . than his matter-of-fact brother, who really kmows the differchce between garget and heaves, and who has to sell his potatoes before he can pay his. taxes. The trouble is that farming is not an affair of the imagination, but one of dirt, manure, rain, - blight, bugs, incompetent help and a thimble-rigged market. It doesn’t depend upon what can be proved about it with figures so much as upon. what can be dome for it with a hoe. Almost anything ean be proved if you go at it right. Some saintly monk once provéd that ten thousand angels could rtand upon the point of a needle. Arch- bishop. Whateley- proved that Napoleon Bonaparte was a myth. And now here comes a gentleman from the neighbor- hood of Wall street; who asserts and as- country has ceased, beczuse farmers are making so much more money than any- bedy elset Despite the serried argnments of Arch- bishop Whateley, most of us are still in. clined to believe' that Napoleon was more substantial than a myth. Deapite the big figures of any New York city magazini: we farmer§ know that the drift to t. cities didn’t cease between 1904 and 19127 that it dldn’t cease between 1912 and 1920; that it hasn't ceased yet, and that we are everywhere and every day throttled and shackled by the loss of farm labor due to it. We -neither know nor care what. expert statistic-jusxlers imay assert about it; we know when it rains or yhen the sun shines, and we know that we had to pay more for la- bor and more for fertilizer and more for tools in 1920 than we did in 1318—and en had .to sell our crons for about h~lf iwhat thev fetched, per bushel, in that {same 1919t |/ It may be nossible to figure this out as ‘‘prosverity” on paper. Wwriters in all the cities of the Iand won't | £l the emptiness in the farmers’ pock- =ts. Moreover.. we know what is In and jwhat is not in_our own pockets. better than anybody else. THE FARMER. WEST KINGSTON Rev. Mr. Pickles supplied the pulpit of e church herc Sunday evening: . - Oliver Watson was a business caller in Providence Wednesday. Abcut every one arcund here has been sufiering from a severe cold. Miss Christine Tucker has entered a Providence hospital to train for a nurse. Her oldest sister s a registered nurse. Lvereft Moore of Richmond was a eal er here Sunday. He was accompanied by his zon Pnilip. Leonard Jos!in and prondson of Exeter were here Sunday afterncon. ir. and Jdirs. R. H. Bristow and daugh- Pound 12Yc Regular 35¢ FINE TEA—COCFFEE o DR CORNED BEEF Pointed Brisket, Lean Chuck | Sirloin, Perterhouse, Short, Pieces, Shoulder Clods BAKER’S CHOCOLATE FRESH SEOULDERS STEAKS Round Pound 23¢ Value LAST DAY OF SALE |BORAX SOAP—SOAP- 25¢}INE, 5 for. MEATY PRUNES SLICED—No Skin or Fat ..... GRANULATED SUGAR |SPRINGDALE CREAM- |COCKING COMPGUND 10 Pounds ......... 90c|ERY BUTTER, Ib. ... 49c{2 Pounds PURITAN FLOUR, 1-8Sack..................... LEGS—Short Cut, Ib. 27¢c MEATY FORES, Ib.. 12 Lot D0 oe00oNOon0d s SUNKIST, SEEDLESS ORANGES, Dozen... 25¢ sumes to prove that the drift from the| Rut all the fine fignring of all the fine, Do you know where the purest and best flavored maple sugar comes from? The flavor of the New Karo tells you |Over a thousand tm'ofrx'cll maple sugar from Vermont and Canada to flavor the New Karo . ‘The American housewife endorses the New Karo this way: Over five million cans were consumed last year. This is a greater sale, by far, of eny kind of maple or maple flavor syrup. If you are particular about the syrup you buy, and the price you pay for it— the New Karo is your kind of syrup. Perfectly delicious in rich maple flavor —yet very moderate in price. So mod- erate that you can gerve it every day, every meal. And all grocers everywhere have it. Go to your grocer today and get a can of the new Xaro, Try it just once. If you re not absolutely satisfied, return it and your grocer will give you back Your money, NATIONAL STARCH COMPANY Sales Representative for Corn Products Refining Company 47 Farpsworth Surect, Boston, Mass. W. A. CAHOON, Man, The New (GREEN O “can) Flavored with Pure Maple Sugar ter Annle were visitors at Narragansett Pier Monday. The boys are gotting up a supper to be held tn the church. Mrs. Koy Knowles was in Providénce Wednasday ‘to attend the Gonferemce of churches. nder the leadersh ne of Swantown 11 are only $1.75 gregational church Sunday afterncon. The prospects for a large harvest of icemien are to Preston 3 er being at his home here prst wesk Lee returned to Preston lee returncd W f fol SHUNOC Loca) relatives and friends were in Girsgo Thursdry to attend the funeral of Thomas H. Eccieston, heid at the Meth- odist church. Voluntcwn. He was = |c: | brothér of the. late -Joseph Eocleston, a | omas Jones at Weste intances in this place lewitt were saddened at :t of his sudden dea The Shunoc 1 For Tomorrow’s Serve Parksdale Farm Eggs in the way that you like them best. You will be delighted with the result—They are extralarge, plump, meaty and whole- some—right — for every purpose—on the table and in the kitchen. Valuable coupons are packed with Parksdale Farm Eggs. Save them and get a handsome set of Fine Parisian Dishes, d Coupons are also packed with Wedg- wood Creamery Butter. It comes in a dust and odor proof package — pure, wholesome and delicious. If your grocer can’t supply you with Parksdale Farm Eggs and Wedgwood Creamery Butter let us know. P. BERRY & SONS, Inc., Hartford, Conn. For 30 coupona ek $6 00 you &e: 42 pieces of Parisian Chira, gracefel in design and beauti. fully embossed with « gold band. For 30 more coupors and $6.00 you can get anotber 36- pisce set. A third se of 34 :’;fl’ for enly 30 coupens and compietes this magnif. l;u:‘ dinner service. 113 pieces s