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Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
sRANDEcEE AND THE SENATOR
SHIP.

Tho question Of the reelection Of
Senator Brandegee to succeed himself
IN the United states senate has now
been before the state and under gem
eral discussion for nearly two months.
Prior to the election in November
1t was generally assumed as a matter
Of course that Senator Brandegee
would be returned. 1t Is said that
many candidates took their nominal
tions for the legislature on the dis
tinct understanding that this was to
be the case.
Senator Brandegee loyalty supported
the entire republican ticket, both state
and national He contributed literally
to the campaign fund of the party
and stumped the state in behalf of all
its candidates. We think that it is
evident to any unprejudiced mind that
not single argument has yet been
advanced why this young and able
senator should not continue in the
position for which he is so well fitted
Elected to fill the unexpired term
OF the late Senator o. II. Platt., he
took his seat in December, 1905, and
hence has served just three years, or
one-half of a senatorial term. He is
a member Of several very important
committees in the senate.
He is chairman of the committee on
forest reservations, and in that ca
pacity has reported and carried
through the senate many important
bills for the preservation Of our for
ests and the regulation Of stream flow
He Is also a member Of the committee
on interoceanic canals which has con-
troll Of all subjects pertaining to the
great Panama project, which viii be
at the forefront for several years as
the greatest engineering feat ever I'M
dertaken by any nation.
He holds a place on the committee
on the Philippines, on Industrial arts
and expOsitions, on Indian affairs, on
education and labor, and on patents.
The latter committee has pending be-
fore it the great question Of the re-
vision of our copyright laws and is Of
especial Importance to Connecticut.
whose citizens take out more patents
in proportion to population than any
other state in the union.
AS time passes, Senator Brandegee
win be promoted upon these commit
tees and VIII. no doubt secure still
more AAAPOi taAL pIaceA' lie mas been
constant I'm his attendance upon the
sessions Of the senate has voted for
all the wise and progressive measures
which have been passed during his
term OF office and has become an in
nuential and popular member Of the
upper branch OF congress. His rec
ord compares favorably with that Of
either Senator Plat or Senator Haw-
ley during their first term in the
senate
With becoming modesty, Senator
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
CIRCULATION
THE BULLETINS ANNIVERSARY
CALENDAR.


The anniversary calendar which
me bulletin issues this morning IS Of
more than ordinary Importance and
shoSld be priced by Norwich people
as a souvenir Of a local historic event
of unusual significance.
Z The three eolored Illustrations show
the changes which have taken place
since the celebration Of the 2ooth an
nlvarsary OF the settlement OF the
town, IN 1859 The three portraits are
readily recognizable by older residents
who knew william A. Buckingham,
Amos W. Prentice and winslow WI
lIarns in their prime. Mr.. Prentice was
mayor at that time, having succeeded
Mayor Buckingham, and all three were
very active in arranging for that
memorable celebration.
The plates for the work were pre-
pared by Pindar 8 Co, engravers, Of
Hartford, and the four color printing
was done in The Bulletin Job Office
under the superintendent Of Mr.. VII
liam A. Andrews.
To be preserved these calendars
should be mounted upon thick card
board and then they may be hung up
and win be Of service during the year
The bulletin wishes all its readers
a very happy New Year and hopes
that the reproductions Of these scenes
win awaken a spirit Of enterprise
which viii in September next manifest
itself on the 250th anniversary Of the
town in even q greater celebration
than that which marked the year
1853.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
The Circulation OF
The Bulletin.

The Bulletin has the largest cir
eulation OF any paper in Eastern
Connecticut, and from three to four
umes larger than that OF any IN
Norwich. It is delivered to over
5000 OF the 4.O5S houses in Nor
wich, and read b. ninety three per
cent. Of the people. In Windham
It is delivered to over 500 houses,
IN Putnam and Danielson to over
100. and in all OF these places i
Is considered tho local daily.
Eastern Connecticut has forty
nine towns. one hundred and sixty
Eve post office districts and forty
one rural free delivery routes.
The Bulletin is sold in every
town and on all Of the r. F. D.
routes In Eastern Connecticut
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

A very matter-of-fact Scotchwoman
called to see a neighbor. an elderly
woman, who had been ailing for some
TIME.
And how do you find yourself to-
day, Janet?' was the greeting
All Martina, I'm very bad This
cold, damp weather'll ,be the end Of
me. III be a dead woman before very
long"
"Hoots. toots. woman! You've been
saving that any time these last %
years. I've no patience with you I'll
tell you what IL IS You want firm
ness of mind. Elk Il day for dying
and stick TO il"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
Dignity Is What We Use To
Conceal Our ignorance"
IubDard's definition Of the

is Ebert HubDards definition of the
word dignity.
Unquestionably Ebert is correct,
and every thinking person viii agrees
with him.
Think Of the people with dignity
and count those having II naturally
He who has it naturally, combined with
ability, is great success in life.
Those with assumed dignity are-well.
they are understood and discounted
by the public.
We've no dignity, natural or as
sumed, and II its use was attempted
by US the public would discount It.
Let the public estimate US correctly;
give us credit for a thorough knowl-
edge OF the photograph business: for
doing work at reasonable prices.
Years OF experience in this business
exclusively entities US 10 It.
LAIGHTON BROS,
Photographers Main Street
Opposite Norwich Savings Society.
al g2fd
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Poquonoc.-There is sentiment
throughout the town of Groton about
selling the town halls in the three
voting districts of the town. These
halls were a necessity before thes town
hall i'm Poquonoc was given to the
town by Morton r. Plant. Those in
favor Of selling them point out that
their usefulness is now over.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Eastern Connecticut sends a New
Years greeting to Governor elect Lii
ley this day. May he make a record
that will shine when his enemies are
forgotten.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

The Boston Transcript thinks that
it may be possible to muster quite a
number Of civil war veterans in 1850.
Metchinkoffs intestinal cultures will
tell some.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

The Bulletin extends it's New Years
compliments to the socialists and all
other lists" We are all good fellows
if we do not see things Just alike.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

President Harry a. Garfield Of Will
liams says that every college today is
on trial for its life, between the high
schools and the universities.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

President Roosevelt will open the
New Year with a message on the Sc
cret service issue. Maybe 1t will go
resounding down the corridors of time.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

A happy New Year to our senators
and congressman, may they ever stand
pat for the welfare of the state and
the glory of the nation.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Look out for today's additions. It
makes a difference whether you
charge up your years TO yourself, or
give yourself credit for your achieve
ments.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

The city of Bath, Me, has shown
that a New England city will stand
by a man of means frmer than it
will by man of piety.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
Waists

In sLSjecting our splendid stock
Of Waists to this Clearance pro-
cess, we've established a new
low price selling record.
All wool Nuns Yelling Waists
that were $1.9s, IN red, navy,
white and brown
SALE PRICE e7e
White Lingerie and Lawn
Waists, long sleeves. open both
back and front, all sizes, the
regular 800 kind
SALE PRICE 69c
Your choice of any of our $500
Silk Net and Lace Waists, in
Guiding all this seasons newest
styles
SALE PRICE $685.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

backing Fox against Lilley. what do
you think of this?
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

No doubt Abe Ruef Of san Francisco
is glad that fourteen years is the
laws limit since the judicial bent is
to do its worst
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

The Bulletin wishes his honor, the
mayor and the city fathers, a happy
New Year and smooth sailing on the
political sea
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Maine reports nearly three million
eggs under hens and in incubators for
the trade OF 1909. Maine takes time
by the forelock
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

whom she had sent away, but who
had returned. and the story ended that
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

The man who tells "A colby in this
part Of tho state is eligible to an An
aniss club; and the Colby club is
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Enfield, r. T., after today takes it's
place in postohice annals and on the
map as Esmond. Direct your letters
correctly.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

It seems to be paradoxical but the
year 1908 has been great in drouth,
great in disaster and great in crops.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

"A happy New Year, everybody! The
freshness will soon wear off.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Citizens who intend to wish the let
ter carriers a happy New Year should
not forget that money talks.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
Fashionable FurS

Al PRICES EVERYBODY
CAN AFFORD TO PAY.
They are going to be sold and
quite regardless of cost.
Isabella Fox Scarfs that sold
at $3.50
SALE PRICE $s.45
Black and Brown large Shawl
Scarfs that sold at $3.9S-
SALE PRICE S2.a5
Black Rug Muffs with sherred
satin lining that sold at $500
SALE PRICE $3.e5
Isabella and Sable Opossum
Pillow Muffs that sold at $500
SALE PRICE S2.98
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

The only ones who have found SEN
ator Bran1egee wanting are those who
want Hill to have his place.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

When Taft comes north. Augusta,
Ga Will appear like a declining star.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

Happy thought for today: A big
ger, better, buster. cleaner and more
attractive Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
WOmen'S and Misses
Suits and Coats
AT SENSATIONAL
CLEARANCE PRICES.

SLEHFAFAtNCE FnILE0s
When you consider that these
Suits and Coats are this winters
smartest tailored effects and in
every respect arc up to the high
standard of excellence maintain
ed in our Women's Garment Sec
ton. these Clearance prices ARE
LITERALLY SENSATIONAL.
Ladies' and Misses, Broadcloth
and Striped Worsted Suits that
sold at $1O.95 and s12.50-
SALE PRICE ss.45
Ladies' and Misses Striped
Worsted Suits. in fine quality
materials, that sold at $500 and
$3.50
SALE PRICE $3.50
Ladies and Misses Suits that
sold at 1895 to $500
SALE PRICE SASS
Ladies' and Misses Coats.
made of fine quality broadcloth
and kersey, with fur collars, that
sold at $1O.95-
SALE PRIscE $685.
Ladies' Rubberized Rain Goats
in striped and plain color satins,
that sold at s10.95-
SALE PRICE $685.
Children's Coats IN navy, red
and brown that sold at 1856
SALE PRICE $2es
Children's Bearsl1in Coats, reg
ular price s2.25-
SALE PRICE s1.s5
children's Curly Bearskin
Coats, sizes to s years, regular
price $500
SALE PRICE $685.
Boys' Overcoats, made OF good
quality extra heavy. fancy wool
sassimeres, regular price $685.
SALE PRICE $2.65
F7annelette Kimonas that were
1888
SALE PRICE s1.45
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
Children'S Dresses

Children's Dresses made of Hy-
degrade Galatea cloth, regular
price S2.25-
SALE PRICE $1.69
Children's Dresses, made Of
Hydegrade Galatea cloth, with
pleated skirts, nicely trimmed
sizes 6 to IA years, regular price
$2.75 and s3.25-
SALE PRICE $2.35
Children's Fancy Worsted Plaid
Dresses, lined throughout, regu-
lar price S1.0O and $125-
SALE PRICE see
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
Extraordinary
Bargains in Dainty
UndermuSIinS

Muslin Underwear Of such
quality seldom meets such price
cutting as we've subjected our
stock of dainty Corset Covers,
Chenise, Skirts and Drawers to.
Skirts that formerly sold at
$1.25-
SALE PRICE sse
Gowns that formerly sold at
$1.00-
SALE PRICE zee
Corset c. 7ers that formerly
sold at 39c-
SALE PRICE 25c
And many other bargains
throughout the entire department
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01

win becoming modcsty, senator
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-01
EDITORIAL NOTES

EDITORIAL NOTES
"A happy New Year, everybody The
freshness will soon wear off.
When Taft comes north. Augusta,
Ga, viii appear like a declining star.
Happy thought for today: A big
ger. better, buster, cleaner and more
attractive Norwich
Citizens who intend to wish the let
ter carriers a happy New Year should
not forget that money talks.
The only ones who have found Sen
ator Bran1egee wanting are those Who
want Hill to have his place.
It seems to be paradoxicaI. but the
year 1903 has been great in drouth,
great in disaster and great in crops.
Enfield, r. l., after today takes it's
place in postohice annals and on the
map as Esmond. Direct your letters
correctly
The Bulletin wishes his honor the
mayor and the city fathers. a happy
New Year and smooth sailing on the
political sea
Maine reports nearly three million
eggs under hens and in incubators for
the trade OF 1909. Maine takes time
by the forelock.
No doubt Abe Ruef Of san Francisco
is glad That fourteen years is the
laws limit since the judicial bent is
to do its worst
The man who tells "a colby in this
part Of tho state is eligible to an An
anias club; and the Colby club is
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01

western section of the Inland Empire, which has
for its eastern neighbor the Palouse country,
reaching far south even to the valley of the John
Day River, in Oregon.
Nearly hemmed in by the Rockies on the east
and the Cascades on the west, here Nature has
created a great basin which is a little world in
itself. In it are p,ateaus extending a hundred
miles and more, valleys now known to be of the
greatest fertility. Much of the surface of this
great basin is as level as a table; consequently
the traveller may be startled to com upon a
crack in the surface a thousand, sometimes two
thousand, feet deep, for here and there are cou-
lees where the Columbia and other water courses
in past ages literally ate their way into the bowels
of the earth and have left these gaping assures as
a sign of their power.
There are a hundred thousand square miles of
this Inland Empore. 1t encircles five of the larg-
est counties in the State of Washington, not to
say the region which it embraces in Oregon. It
contains mines, forests, and from them those who
have entered it are extracting, riches as we'll as
from the tree and shoot. Well can it be called the
Inland Empire, for into it have come 300, 900 men
and women within a quarter of a century, and
10000 more are yearly swelling it's army of toll
ers.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01

ing along this line, and is now asked to extend
their work.
The Supreme Court of this state has recently
rendered a decision that sustains the State Rail
road Commission in fixing "rates that shall be
fair, just and reasonable, and sufficient" For some
time an attempt has been made to give the Inter
state Commerce Commission greater power to act
along these lines. However, they now have suff-
cient authority to remedy many inconsistencies
as has recently been shown by their decision in
the Spokane rate case. In fact, the trend OF legls-
lation and of commission action is along the line
of equalizing differences and giving communities
and individuals equality of opportunity. so that
no one town or person or line of business shall
have it in their power to lord it over those about
them.
The general effect of this course of action is to
eXalt the small towns, and enhance their value,
as places of residence and business. 1t tends to
stimulate a greater diffusion of our population,
and is of vast Importance as an aid to their home
making on the farms throughout the land. Freight
rates have made and broken many a town. I'm
just discrimination has depopulated many a rural
community by making their industry Improbable.
Happily, however, a better day has dawned, and
the power of public opinion has been invoked with
more or less success and with increasing force, to
compel a recognition of equal opportunities before
the law.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01
WHAT OF THE BOYS AND GIRLS?

AS we look into the faces of the boys and girls
as they 20 to and come from the public schools,
we can but wonder as to their future. They will
become part. and parcel OF, that great Common
wealth of 200, 600, 900 people that will occupy the
country at the middle of the present century.
It is a pertinent question: What will be their
status?
We fully agree with the Rural New Yorker
when it says:
eve believe in the future of American farming.
We never were more hopeful of that future than
we are now. This country is gaining In popu-
lation faster than the supplies of food and fiber
are increasing. AS supply runs closer to demand
there will be increased respect for those who con-
troll supply. The farmers, too, are waking up,
and will use their power more and more. Edu-
cation and cooperation will enable them to get
a fairer share of the consumers dollar, and with
that will come the comforts and larger opportunity
which country neighborhoods need.
1.-THE writer has entire or partial control OF the
future of four boys. We do not believe in fitting
square pegs in round holes, but We shall try to
get every one of these boys out on the land. In
orcharding, forestry and other departments OF
soil culture there are to be great chances for
young men in the future. We do not care to offer
soldiers to the country, but we would like to give
good farmers"
Surely, there is no brighter outlook than toward
the farm. 1t is worth our best efforts to en-
courage and develop the trend toward the farm,
as well as to improve it's opportunities and Ca
pacities for supplying satisfaction to its votaries.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01
THE FARM PAPER.

In these days there are a vast multitude of farm
papers. With the wonderful progress OF modern
printing facilities it is comparatively easy TO es-
tablish a paper. 1t is less easy, however, to adapt
a paper to the particular and varied needs OF those
who are making a livelihood by the intelligent ap-
plication of labor and thought TO tarm practlce.
There is no calling that touches so many points
of theory or covers so many and varied lines OF
experience as does life on a modern farm. 1t
has to do with production, with transformation,
with preparation for use, with marketing. Inc
farmer is at once a toiler, a thinker, a home
maker, a member of the community with its
school, social and religious interests, and a citizen
to exercise it's political duties.
It is the mission of the agricultural press to
gather and distribute information along many OF
these lines. To be of value it must have personal
contact with the sources of information, and pos
sess that personal knowledge of the facts and con
ditions involved that it will be able to properly
present the matter so that it will be of practical
use to it's readers. 1t is because of a lack of this
vital need that here and there a so-called agrl-
cultural paper falls by the wayside. 1t matters
not how nicely they may be printed or how splen-
didly they may be Illustrated, If they only deal
in glittering generalities or bombastlc magazine
space writing, they are found wanting when
weighed in the balance or applied TO actual lie
on the farm.
Turn to your real farm paper and from issue TO
issue it will bring information that touches the
current conditions of farm life. or course, 1t may
contain many things that any one reader may not
have occasion to apply, just as a hotel bill OF fare
contains many items no one person would DESIRE
but somewhere else there is some one who is in
terested in those items, while along with them are
some that are of vital consequence to yourself and
YOUR business. 1t may be in the home, in the
dairy, in the orchard, in the barnyard, in the sta
BILE, in the field, or in some other salient spot, but
the topic is sure to be there somewhere.
Not only do the reading columns speak OF the
soil, the tools, the stock, the seed, the farm prac-
tice, but the advertising columns also present
many things of interest along these lines, and ap-
peal for a better and higher standard of farm prac-
tice.
These spring days are ushering in a busy sea-
son on the farms. In that busy season the true
farm paper is a helper and a friend. 1t is the
hone and effort of The Ranch under its new
MANAGEMENT, to fulfill this mission in such a man
ner as to be a lasting benefit to its widening cir
Gle of intelligent readers.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01
THE INLAND EMPIRE.

To realize at least something of the bigness of
this Inland Empire, let us follow the Columbia,
which forms part of its western boundary, says
Lippincotts Magazine. "The Oregon" is a name
which, is far more appropriate, since the mighty
river traverses fully a thousand miles of the Ore
gon country in it's course from the snow-covered
SUBMITS of the Canadian Rockies to the sea. The
Oregonian remembers that it defines the north
ern limits of his state, but on its way southwark
it forms a bend truly majestic in its proportions,
even as seen on the map. The territory which it
partly e~ncircles is the big Bend" country-the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01
A FAIR FIELD AND NO FAVoRS.

The Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union has applied to the Interstate Commerce
Commission to require the railroads to deliver the
grain of the Inland Empire at Astoria at the same
rates as at Portland or Puget Sound points. The
Union now has 40 warehouses at interior points
and expects to have 100 more in operation at the
opening of the grain season.
The demand of the Farmers Union for rates to
Astoria is the beginning of a move by the Union
to market it's grain at tidewater. Astoria offers a
good place for terminal elevators, and the Union
is DESTROYS of taking the grain there. AT present
the rate from Eastern Washington is 28A cents
per 100 pounds. 1t is only 1914 cents to Tacoma
and Portland. This shows how the matter OF
freight rates is muddled and complicated by the
railroads. Passenger rates have been unified and
simpiifed until there is far less discrimination
between terminal points than formerly prevailed,
but not SO with freight rates yet. The Interstate
m Commission has made a good beginn'
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-05-01
= editorial =

Subscribers and advertisers should note the
change of location of The Ranch office to
Fourteenth and Main, Seattle. Can be reached
by cars on Jackson Street, Yesler Way and
Old Renton lines. Phones: Sunset, East Al;
Independent sos. Subscribers who have been
calling at The Ranch office for their papers,
will be able to get them by calling at section
G, basement of Central Bldg, Third Ave.