Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 9

| Better Fumiture At Lower Prices Than Ever In Our Great Foran & Son Co.’s Warehouse Stock Sale FINE SELECTION * Included in this Great Sale is splendid » Furniture for every room in the home —the very newest creations in all the latest period styles and popular finish- es. A visit to our store will be a revel- ation in the remarkable opportunities this Sale holds for those who love beautiful furniture. Make your selec- Spring. A Few of the Many Extra SPECIALS Solid Oak Saddle Seat Dining Room Chairs— Regular price up to $6.50 FOR THIS SALE $2.90 Fine PRillows filled with new chicken and duck mixed feathers, good qual- ity tick—Formely sold at $4.50 per pair FOR THIS SALE $1.85 $144.00 Tubular Iron Cot, gray finish with a pure white cotton mattress DURING THIS SALE $7.90 INVESTIGATE THIS SPECIAL OUTFIT Outfit consists of Brass Bed, Fine Silk Floss Mat- tress and High-grade advantage of this wonder- ful offer. The bedding included in this outfit is of the very highest quali- ty and style and guaran- teed to be absolutely sani- tary., Formerly sold as high as $100.00. For This Sale Only COMPLETE OUTFIT tions early — assortments are. now complete. here. Al should take | . " PLEASE NOTE Only the stock contained in the warehouses of Foran & Son Company on Brainard Street, Bank Street, has been involved in this * rohase. Absolutely no damaged-by- orn, or seconds of any na- ture are included. All merchandise in ' uestion is new, and in many cases, as never been uncrated. This is not a fire sale, but a bona fide sale of strictly high-class mer- THE PLAUT-CADDEN COMPANY FINE DINING ROOM SUITES You will find here the finest selection possible of Dining. | Chairs and Rockers as Room Suites in all the newest; styles and finishes, and at | 1oV 25 $2.45- prices that will amaze you. Fine Suites-as low | - kg, ; FINE SUITES AS LOW AS $110.00- AND $189.00 DAINTY BED ROOM SUITES No matter what you have in mind in the way of a Bed- room Suite you will be sure to find it here and at a price that will surprise you. All the)designs and finishes are For example: A fine 3-piece ‘Walnut Suite consisting of Dresser, Chiffonier and Bed—Former price $225.00. SALE PRICE $95.00 ALL OTHER SUITES RELATIVELY REDUCED PIANOS AND PLAYER PIANOS Included in this great sale is every Piane and Player Piano on our floors and you may choose from such fine makes as CHICKERING, HARDMAN, HALLET -& DAVIS, WASSERMAN, CRAWFORD, BEHR BROTH- ERS, CONWAY, ETC. SOLD ON EASY TERMS THE PLAUT-CADDEN COMPANY 135-143 Main Street (Established 1872) SUCCESSORS TO FORAN & SONS CO. Bank Street, New London, Conn. WHY THERE IS A DECLINE IN FARMING (Written Specially for The Bulletin) I can remember when the summer's haying was all done with hand tools. The scythes ground, dry and raked up. My neighber thought it seemed too bad to leave that second Joad of finely cured hay out over two nights and a Sunday, to risk either urned | being dried into chaff or soaked with into | Sudden showers. So he asked his em- windrdws with hand rakes ,etc. ployed teamster to work over time lomg New 'the grass of the same meadows | 0OUZh to save that load. is cut with mowing-machines; shaken up j The latter briefly but very vigbrous- with tedders; raked with horserakes: |1y informed him that his day's work perhaps loadéd with self loaders ang |ended at five o'clock. Me'd work just unloaded at the barn with horse-forks. Tong enough over to haul the load ai- I wrete that phrase, “the same mead- |Teady on the rigging to the barn. Then ows,” just a little too quick. Als a |he Was goin’ bome. W}uch{gau leav- ‘matter of cold fact, the meadows aren't [ing the hay on the rigging Wt the barn the same. The dirt under them amd the | floor. lLater, I saw him in his automo- 2 Y boundary lines which contain them may |bile, taking a party out for a pleasurs be the same. But the meadows them- |drive. The neighbor finally managed to selves are not. work the load off alone, and got the ve- They're not as big as they used to |MRININE 10ad from the field, the followtng be. Neglect, year after yu’r, of the | Wednesday. It was pretly poor staff, fencecorners has led to the graduaj | PUt he allowed it would make bedding. widening of the hedge-rows till actual People sometimes wonder at the deeay acres have been cut off the old meadow’s |of farming in the New England and mid- area. Annual machine mowegg around |dle states. Farmers, however, dem’t stumps or stones has resulted in the | wonder. They may gnash their teeth and springing uwp at each one of a steadily |they may sometimes use ugly language spreading clump of bushes, thus still [about it. But they don’t find any mys- farther decreasing the mowable acreage. |tery in it;—nothing to wonder at. Remissnéss in the cave of ditches has nul- | Toeir trouble is almost wholly due to " LOWER PRICES The reputation of this store has been |l builded on good Furniture for less | N\, 2 lified old drainage plans so that many | the incompetentcy and the ruinously high New London, and in the warerooms past five years when furniture prices low-2ying spots have reverted to Swamps, ©0st of the labor procurable. They have in the rear of the former store on | everywhere hfld gone sky high, lhis unsafe to trust horses upon and producing to pay as much now for two hours’ help oenly a worthless hay at best. by man and team as they used to pay for twelve &ours’ help by as zood‘a team ¥ty w’fii’&:‘&'&?fi!& ::V Zad 3 aGruSdsight Better mam! ageregated Sixty-two acres of smooth, | I the oid days there was = rivelry level, heavily grassed land, cutting an ex- | VMONE farmers and among their hired cellent quality of hay at an average rate | D€, 100, t0 see who could get of better than two tons to the acre. They haying earliest and in the best shape. All P TRNEA el S NIGeAT Thriers” OTE t:moerned took pride in their work anti “natoral grass land,” a little too moist | Pragged about their efficiency. The av- for profiable plowing, especially in the | “™%® farm hand that can be hired today spring, but annually producing heawy | SC°™® to Bave no pride in his work His Yiolds of sweet, wild eass which stock, | Only” apparent ambition 1s to see how cows especially, preférred te timothy or | P2dly de can “so'jer” on his job. without st being kicked off it. He revolts out- At that time every square foot of the | FiSht if asked to work ten minutes’ over- sixty-two acres was gone over with hand | time In an emergency, but takes it ms tools, as has been eaid. The scythe- |hiS “right” if given an hour or a halt- swingers picked out the last spear of |35 “off to weed his own garden or— €rass near intrusive stumps or stones |0 !0 the circus He-takes everythisg Snd, with the heel thelr scythes, cut | Which i not out of his reach, and gives out’any bushes or weeds that might be | Jugt-as little as he possibly can. starting up. Also, they moved into every | I other words, he a_thowssad comer of the old rail fences, even reach- | times magnified idea of his own persomal ing behind stakes to clean wp amy trash | 3nd individual “rights” and privileges which might be harboring there. They |304 N0 apparent conception whatever ef knew how to keep the points of their | %is duties and x . scythes in and the heels down, so that| Of ceurse, there are exceptions, shintng they mowed closer and cleaner than any |ones which every employing farmer In machine can. As a result these meadows, | the meighborhood knows. Nor wid I when the last load had been pitched on | hesitate for an instant to admit that seme and the last “scatterings” raked up by |empioying are every whit ae the boy behind the pitcher, were aa clean {mean and selfish as they can be. There store consistently maintained a policy of keeping prices down to the low-- est possible levels, and for the past i} six months our prices have bee [ duced time after time until our regu- | lar prices were down to less than even the prevailing market. Now you may have your unrestricted choice at prices | that are even lower. - RUGS 1, OFF | Do not overlook our fine display of Rugs, on which reductions were never greater. You may choose any Rug and deduct one- half-from regular price. Y e as a bound’s tooth and as smooth as a | IS something to be said on both sMes PORU gentleman’s lawn. o of the farm labor question. ‘ H( HAR_S Al“l) But the stubborn fact remains that 3 Tn those days, the farmers themselves = . ROCKERS with the aid from thelr own families and | sosprn: africulture s foday less et e o hired men, did » fective than it was sixty-five years ago. trres the k. And the canfe is in the lesser eff: Now they are all dead amd gome. TOe |,y of the farm labor attains®T. meadows both have to be cut over by E hired heip and machines have taken the flmhlflfln!\flmhfle"fl places of hand tools. Instead of the | between the conditions under which farm sixty4wo actes of good grass thy used | Work must be done and those under which ; ocontain, the hired men do not find ($hop and factory employes work. The : Fine selection of Porch it feasible to. mow more than thirty acres. (farfmer is dependent upon the weather, The rest has grown up to hedgerows and | fOT che thing, to.a degres unparalleled in bushes or.returned‘\to swamp. The yieid | Other occupation. He must work when has fallen off and the guality bas deteri- | he cafi, not when he would like to. He orated may be a convinced bellever In the wis- Moreaver—and here's the point which | 4om of an eight hour dav. But there impresdes me most sharply,—it takes thé | Will be many days in his season when &e 1921 hired men with their mowing-ma- | Can't work as much as eight minntes. Chiffoniers with gallery wood back — formerly sold as high as $20.00 chines and their tedders and their horse- and others when he must work fourteen For 'flm Slle rakes and their horse-forks at the barns, | Irours or lose the best part of his crop. more days’ work to go over the thirty | Nature deesm’t beleng to the Federation $8 90 acres of lightsr and poorer grass than |of Labor, nor as she even joined in say o it used to take the old farmers to go |strike for a forty-four hour week, yet. over ‘siity-two acres Wwith scythes and (and she is the farmer’s boss. Not omly hand-rakes! I know, for I've watched | his boss but his paymaster. She goes them too many years to be where she will, when she will, and as she New you and I believe in Progress, | Will. The farmer tags alng ®ehind. Progress with a capital P. But I'll be | 5topping when she stops and epurting hanged ¥f I can see where there's been | When she spurts; working when shel let Pragress with any sort of a P in the | him and hunting cover when she scowis: agricultyral art as applied to those | taking what she sees fit to eive hin meadows. Instead there has been re- | When she sses fit to give it. To apply the REFRIGERATORS The finest selection pos- sible of Refrigerators. All the famous makes are here and we are offering them at great reductions. and decadence. They have | methods and regulations of 2 machine- lost in avallable acreage, tfiey look rag- | driven shop to an occupation conducted ged and unkempt;, they don't produce | under farm conditions is as ahsurd as Rt as much “hay per acre mown nor of so | wouid be to set mouse traps to catch ei- good quality. Sixty-five years ago they | ephants. wers held at $100 ‘@n acre, when money was money and a man Worked hard twelve hours for his dollar. Now there | yond our control Sometimes. right in isn'f 4 ‘farmer who knows tnem Who |the midst of the hurry of having time, would give $25 an acre for them, lit won't shine for a week. Whereupon though money isn’t worth a quarter as|we ‘lay off” and suck our thumbs. Other muth in terms of labor as it was then. ‘What's the reason? you ask COUCH HAMMOCKS We can only make hay when the sum Just the thing for your Sugmer Home or Porch duiing this hot weather. Do-not wait any longer, but choose yours today. EASY CHAIRS Large, roomy, overstuired Chairs; with spring cen- struction throughout and large pillow arms, former- ly sold at $100.00 During This Sale Bhines, a celestiai phenomenon quite be- days it shines from five 2. m. to seven p. m. On whioch occasions we work at Well, a little incident occurred last week | our hay every minute the sunshine lasts. Saturday will perhaps suggest a clue. That is. we do if we're farmers and wot This was the incldent: A neighbor | mere shirks. who had been compelled to hire an out- | | remember one month durtng my Se- side man and team to mow and draw in | tfve farming when neither I nor my hired his hay found himsel at five _o'clock, | helper, tiired by the month, could put in Saturday afternoon, with 2 full load on |more than six days’ work, because of the ‘wagon .and andther full load om .the | gaverse weather condltions. No dedae- tion was made in Lis monthiy pay for the twenty days when we idled. He was a good man and a fair one. When the weather at last turned decent he made no objection In words or manner over work- ing long beyoad ‘knocking-off”* time. to make up for previous delays. But be was an exception. Where one follows &is course a dozen are Iike my neighbor's teamster—won't work two minutes over time even to save a perishable crop. And that sort of thing doemn’t reswit tn elther efficient or profitable farming Tt simply will—not—do. THE FARMER Ping Orehard—While playing gelf with her father, N. K. Thompson of the Pine Orchard course, Miss Henrletta Thompson, 18 years old, was struck Wy a £oif ball and may lose the sight of her left eye. LEFFINGWELL Frederick A. Leffingwell'! 6f Brook &treet, Norwich, wassa, visitor Sunday with Mr. and™) f!vaferre!t Lefiingwell, Frank H. Rogers, Johm /H. Shepherd, Frank Hunteley and Roy L. Beard were at Ocean Beach{Sufiday! | -/ Miss Eleanor Harrinzton of Ann street, Norwich, rooently-spent-a few days with Miss Ruth Roth, a student of Eastford High school, is visiting Rev. and Mrs. P. S. Collins. A party of six local young people at- tended a supper in the Preston City Bap- tist church Wednesday evening. Miss Ruth J. Ellis of Norwich Town visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ellis, Sunday. Sherman and Eug e Rogers, with thi:; )I;ildz, Holmberg of Poguetanuck visil iss Evelyn Beard this week. ‘Alice *trieh Henry Ames of Thames. street, Nor-| 17 FETROINE ST BITNA. frant wich, was in Leffingwell last week.. p Sunday morming the sermon will be. by)| Wilcox recently. Rev. P. S. Collins, on Favorable Facts.| -Charles Macomber of Voluntown has B. Y. P. U. at-7.30. Topic, The Influ-|been assisting Perry Merritt with his ence of the Bible on Literature, Art, Mu- this place. Mason Gray and sen Clifford have finished har-esting the hay on the John Potter farm in Griswold. - i| Exeter, R. L, visited Mr. nad Mrs, H. M. Ps.- 19:" 1-14. Leader,