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Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27
STAFFORDVIL.LE
Notes of the Visitors-Missionar, From Turkey Guest of Miss Jones.

Miss E. G. Rogers, a missionary of Van, Turkey, and Miss Clark, of Wor- cester, Mass, were guests of Rev Miss Jones last week
 MT. and Mrs H. B. Smith of Southington were the guests of their daughter Mrs. w. D. Hamilton, last week. Mrs. Smith remaining for an extended visit at the M. E. parsonage.
 Miss Pearl and Earl Bowden who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. Parker in Monson a few weeks have returned home.
 Mrs Lizzie Shepard has returned home after an extended visit with rel atives in Canada.
 John Bowden and William Ryder have accepted employment in Pitts field, Mass.
 Mir and Mrs. Allen S. West and two children of Springfield, Mass, are spending two weeks with their mother, Mrs. Lima Booth
 Mrs E. Harrington and children, and Dubrelle Wilson are guests of Mrs. E. Duncan in Worcester, Mass.
 Mrs. c. Dunbar and son Robert, of Springfield, have been the guests of Mrs. H. G. Durham.
 Horatio West has accepted employ ment in Pittsfield, Mass. where he expects to move his family soon.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

gational church was held at the town hall Thursday afternoon. The report showed a balance for the year of over $40 over the expenditures, and a heal thy condition of affairs.
 All the officers were reelected. A public supper, which was well attend ed, was held in the evening, and a so- cial time followed
 Norwich Orchestra Played.
 A concert was held Friday evening at the town hall by Eldredge's Orches- tra of Norwich, followed by a dance.
 Another Accidental Shooting.
 The young son of Charles Twist blacksmith of North Coventry. acciden- tally shot the son of MT. and Mrs. Somers of the Red House" on Tues day. The wound, while serious, is not dangerous.
 By Auto to Toledo.
 Deacon and Mrs Phelps. with their new auto, started for Toledo, Ohio, Thursday morning Besides the ehauf- feur, C. Parker Stearns, they were ac- companied by Deacon Winthrop White who will go the entire distance with far as Westfeld, Mass.
 Mrs. Percy and Ruby Beebe are vis- iting in New Salem, Mass.
 Open Air Service Planned.
 At the Congregational church the pastor, Rev. John J. Lockett will preach morning and evening. If the weather is fine. the evening service will be in the open air
 At the Baptist church the pastor, Rev. F. H. Cooper, will preach at 1O.45 a. m. on Paul Gathering Sticks"
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27
STAFFORD
Former Pastor Will Occupy Universa- list Pulpt-Grange Holds a Lawn Party.

A. D. Cady has been confined to the house the past week by illness
 Miss Katherine Remmert of Baltic is the guest of MT and Mrs. P. Shea
 Cecil Ogden from South Manchester is the guest of MT and Mrs J. M Wright
 Mrs. Jacob Glover has been on the sick list the past week, but is i'm proving
 MT and Mrs E, C. Pinney are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Jerome Or cutt of Bridgeport
 Mrs. Nettie Kiffe and daughters Dorothy, of Springfield are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Cyril Johnson.
 Mrs. Della Enc of Somers has been visiting a few days with Mrs. Ellen Needham.
 Lawn Party Under Grange Auspices
 A lawn party under the auspices of the Stafford grange was held Thursday evening.
 Miss Dobson of Springfield is the guest of Miss Annie Phillips, who is enjoying a two weeks vacation at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Charles Phillips
 Mir. Hersey Will Preach.
 Rev. Harry A. Hersey, a former pas tor, will conduct the morning service and preach the sermon at the Univer- salist church next Sunday
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our farms, but in ourselves, if we won't be satisfied with what they give us. but must reject their bounty in order to call for flour from Minneapolis and oranges from California and onions from Bermuda and grapefruit from Florida and figs from Smyrna and beef rom Nebraska and pork from Missouri and lamb from Montana and new potatoes and cabbages in March from Texas. THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

know lot of farmers, whole big lot of them, who re,-apparently,- living on the farm to support the gro- cer and the butcher and the feed dealer. They are working their legs off to raise things to sell for what they can get, Then they use the mon ey to buy things to live on for what the other fellow sees fit to charge.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27
FARMING FOR LOSS AND FARMING
 FOR PROFIT

1 They have to sell what they raise for less than it is really worth because the various middlemen have got to get their sixty per cent. rake off before the produce finally reaches the con sumer. They have to pay more than it is worth for all they buy, because the same or some other middleman must have like rake-off on that. too, They lose half their load going to market and a half of the other half getting home with their imported and out Ofseason purchases. The old farm has to bear all the loss, both ways, going and coming.
 Is 1t any wonder that the tired acres eventually go on strike against such reckless wastefulness?
 Mrs. Kennedy was indignant when. in state which could raise a hundred and thKty five bushels of corn to the acre, sfe had to pay dealer $l.7O for bag of corn to feed her hens when in state which might raise first class beef and veal and mutton and pork. she was compelled to pay the butcher twenty two cents a pound for round steak. Say, the last round steak 1 bought from the butcher cost me twenty eight cents a pound, and was so tough that it gave the meat grind CT toothache trying to get it into shape for Hamburgsi That was the time l struck against the meat trust. Can we not make the old farm furn- ish more of our food and more grain for our stock?" she asks.
 She calls attention to the fact that fifty years ago farmers got their liv- ing from their farms; today they sell nr tVx-n %I, any price they can get, and buy every thing needed at someone elses price," Again: "The farmers family of fifty years ago lived on the vegetables and meats raised on the farm today the farmers family is dependent on the grain dealer, the butcher, the grocer, etc, because by hard and constant practice the members of the family have acquired an appetite for foods al- most unknown fifty years ago" Mrs. Kennedy doesn't want to go back to all the customs of half a century back, but she very pertinently asks if it isn't possible to revive some of them in connection with modern methods to the advantage of the farmer
 "
 Here is her plan for helping to solve the problem,-a plan drawn from housewifely experience and from the housekeeper's point of view: By re- turning to the food of our fathers, sim pie home grown bread stuffs, rye bread, rye biscuits, good old fashion ed buckwheat cake raised with yeast. more johnny cake with real butter and cheese, old fashioned cured meats that were raised on the farm. At least, we shall know what we are eating and our grain-bns will be hlied from our fields and not by the grain dealers"
 It does me good to read this kind of talk. l am especially pleased to hear 1t from the indoors branch of inc
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27
ANDOVER
oregonian Here After 21 Years Ab- sence-Ladies' Benevolent Associa- . ton is Prosperins-Automobile Tour to Ohio.

Thomas Morrow of Hartford is en- poylng two weeks visit with Mr and Mrs Albert Wright.
 Mrs. E. II. Norton Of Manchester formerly of this place, is the guest of Mrs. Webster
 Mrs. s. C. Smith of Waterloo, Ore. is visiting her sister. Mrs. Willard smith, after an absence of over 21 years from this place where she was born.
 Benevolent Association's Annual.
 The annual meeting of the Ladies Benevolent association of the Congre-
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

know another so called farmer who is,-living on the farm to demonstrate to others what he seems firmly to be- lieve himself, that he knows more than all the rest of the universe including God, Nature and his neighbOrs. The farm was his fathers and before that his grandfather's He is working it the same way his grandfather did, hundred years ago, barring a very few modern tools. He has to use a steel blow, because he cant buy one or the old wooden ones. and his grandfather is too dead to tell him how to make one. and, of course. he has some Oth- CT tools that the third generation back hadn't seen. But in his methods and his aims he adheres as closely as he can to the methods and aims of a hundred years ago. He still blows out his corn and potatoes. He won't have a spoonful of commercial ferti- lizer on the place He uses nothing but stable manure for his potatoes. When his grand dad. on virgin soil, newly reclaimed from few million years of fOrestation, used to dig an average of a bushel from every thir- teen hills, he gets less than a peck, and those so scabby and grubby that he can't sell 'em and even the cows sniff twice when they find the things in the managers. The world has moved on to newer knowledge and wiser management in the last century. but he will have none of it. 1 sometimes think, if he had his way, he would rage all the experiment stations in the land and burn all their teachers at the stake as dangerous heretics
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

If we farmers, men, women and young folks, are only willing to return to the natural manner of living afford ed by our environment and made pos sible by our opportunities, the only eff feet high prices would have on us would be to bring us in more money Tor the surplus we sell And we shouldn't have to live on baked beans and salt pork three times a day, eith- CT!
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

Next to willing husband, FelS-Naptha soap is the handiest thing woman can have about the house. Not only on waShday IS Fels-Naptha useful, but when ever there IS anything to be cleaned.
 FelS-Naptha will clean windows and polish them at the same time. It is the only soap that will "cut" smoke grease without securing. Fels-Naptha is just as superior for washing dishes as for washing clothes And as it is used in cold or luke warm water there is no danger of cracking fine china or glassware. For washing floors, walls, hnoleum or anything else that is washable you'll find Fels-Naptha, cold or lukewarm water and soft cloth, an unbeat- able combination.
 And don't forget that FelS-Naptha is the best kind of an antiseptic. Germs do not live in things washed with it.
 Follow directions on the red and green wrapper.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

What are we living on the farm for?" bluntly asks Mrs. Edith M. Kennedy of Moosup, in a recent issue of The Connecticut Farmer.
 I wonder if that question hits any other farmers in Eastern Connecticut as squarely on the solar plexus as it hit John Farmer up here on Podunk Heights?
 What - are-we-living- g-on-the- farm-for?
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

know one so called farmer who is apparently-living to feed potato bugs and cut-worms and stinking pumpkin bugs. That is, he every year plants some potatoes and some corn and some cabbages and some squashes, which he usually allows the aforesaid bugs and things to eat up, because he had rather talk politics or go fishing than attend to them when they need attention. The bugs and worms get some fodder from his crops; he sell dom gets anything except the chance to grumble that h'there ant no money in farmin', no more" It surely looks as if he were living on the farm to feed the bugs.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

The real trouble lies in the unworthy desire of too many country people to ape city customs and methods. The city has it's opportunities and its limi- tations, both of which the country has not. Likewise, the country has it's limitations and it's opportunities. neither of which the city possesses. City people show good sense when they take all the advantage they can of their opportunities and make the best they can against their limitations. Country people show a big lack of sense when they throw overheard their differing opportunities and try to live on their limitations, because. forsooth they must initiate the cities. The city man, before fruit stand hesitates be- tween an apple and a banana. He f- nally takes the banana, because it costs less. Why should he? He can't raise either. He must buy whichever he eats. But the farmer can raise apples by the barrel He not infre- quently has so many that he uses them to feed his hogs or make cider from. Undoubtedly he has the right to buy bananas at twenty five cents a dozen and sell his apples to the cider mill for twenty-five cents a barrel, if he wants to.
 But he hasn't any right to yawp about the high cost of living after such specimen of farm ,mismanagement.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27
Anty Drudge and the Postman.

Anstman-"Wel Anty; pretty soon I'll have to get push cart"
 Antg Drudge" Sakes alive They're writing to me from everywhere wanting to know how to clean this that'and the other thing with Fes-Naptha Seems as though they're just finding out that Fels-Naptha IS good for other things besides washing clothes But answer them every one. Just say Anty Drudge, Philadelphia, Pa"
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

farm family. When that side of the menage definitely decides to return to economical farm living on the fruits of the farm, why, then we shall re- tRrn thither, by a large majority and With great celerity!
 So far as the high cost of living is concerned it ought not. and need not bother the real farm family. Because the real farm family can, if it unani- mously chooses, live adequately, live wholesonaely, live satisfactorily on the products of the farm, with only a very few purchased importations. Almost any farm can produce all the meat which wholesome living requires, within it's own borders. Almost any farm can produce all the grain that is needed for home consumption, both in the kitchen and in the barn feed bins. Almost any farmer can pro duce all the vegetables that are es- sential to healthful living, the year round. Almost any farm can produce all the fruit which a family would find it desirable to use, either fresh, pre- served, or canned.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

UT,-and 1 beg the compositor to put that in capitals and the reader to say it out very loud when he reads it., BUT no farm can supply the table with fresh porterhouse steak every day.
 If the fam6y can't eat pot-roast and stew and corned beef part of the time, If they must have only fancy cuts and those about every day why, then they've got to buy off the butcher and pay him enough to give him a good profit and make up for the "scrag" he has to waste, too.
 BUT,- few farms in Connecticut can produce the bleached de7vitalized, innutritious and pithless f1ourdust which is used to make the snowy white" bread and biscuit many cooks insist upon If the fam fly won't and can't eat bread with the natural yellowish or brown ish tints of honest four why, then they must continue to buy of some one else the poor stuff which the cities are compelled to use. because they can't grow their own grain.
 BUT,-no farm m Connecticut can supply the table with cucumbers and lettuce in January, or new onions in March, or green peas in December, or sweet potatoes in April If the family must have its vegetables out of sea- son, why, then it must buy them and pay lot of transportation charges and of handlers profits to get them from distant tropical lands.
 BUT,-no farm in Connecticut is likely to produce oranges and bananas and grapefruit and kumquats and dates and figs. If the farmers family must have these-can't get along with mere apples and pears and peaches and plums and entrants and gooseberries and strawberries and raspberries and blackberries and ouin- ces and grapes and cherries,-why, they must buy oranges at whatever they're asked to pay knowing when they do so that, of every dollar they spend, only twenty cents goes for oranges. The other eighty is taken up to pay the retailers and the jobbers and the wholesalers and the railroads and the refrigerating plants and the various other chaps who pass the Los Angeles twenty cents worth of oranges to you,-and charge you eighty cents for doing it.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-27

It does me good to read this kind of talk. l am especially pleased to hear It from the indoors branch of the
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-03-28
BEL0IT DOTS.

Mr.. Tom Parrish had a blind
mule, supposed to have been bitten
by mad dog. AS Mr.. Parish
went to feed his mule, the latter
broke out and attempted to pursue
and attack Mr.. Parrish, but owing
to lack Of vision Mr.. Parrish eluded
him, when the mule ran into the
fed and died in a bog. So much
for the consequences of the work of
"a NANCY mad dog.
Rev. @. ]. Pinson, formerly Of
Albany, has been called to the pas
torate of Laundering Spring Baptist
church and has also taken charge
of the public school located near
the church. Mr.. Pinson and fami-
" live near by. We congratulate
the church and school upon this
acquisition.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-03-28
SMITHVILLE NEWS.


Miss Rosa Christie has returned
home from Dawson where she visit
ed relatives.
Mrs. r G. James, Of Leslie, i
the guest Of Mrs. B. D. McKenney
for a few days this week.
Mesdames e. NJ. McAfee aad
Matte Rhodes and Miss Edith Nc
Kenney were visitors in Albany
Tuesday
Mrs. james Salter has returned
from a visit Of several weeks to rel
atiyes in Macon.
Misses Erin and Annie Laurie
Wells have returned from Americas
where they spent the week end very
pleasantly with their sister, Mrs.
Z. Ivey.
Mrs. Hutehins Tye. Of Eufaula, !
Ala, was the guest Of Misses Mary
ard Lucy Pipkins last week
Miss Annie Randall, Of Leesblrg,
spent Sunday here Wither parents, !,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Randall.
Rev. Julian Rhodes, Of Atlanta,
delighted large congregations both
Sunday morning and evening att
the Baptist church, coming here I'M
the interest Of the Ministers Insur-
ance Alliance.
Kiss Msrgaret Burton entertain
ed The Young Ladies Embroidery
club Fridap afternoon.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-03-28
Typewriters Given Away

The Emerson Typewriter Com
pany Of Woodstock, H.. have re
Gently given away over 400 Of tai
highest grade, wholly visiable EN-
erson Typewriters made in tht
world. They have gone into every
state and territory in the United
States. They may be some in your
town. They are giving them away
everywhere to men, women, boys,
and girls, over 18 years Of age, on
surprisingly liberal conditions.
If you could make any use of a.
$4,000 typewriter providing it did
not cost you one cent, then in a
letter or on postal card addressed
to Frank L. Wilder, President.
Woodstock, H., simply say. Mail
me all your Free Offers, " and by re-
turn mail you will receive their Free
Offers, and names Of over 400 who
have recently received typewriters
free, and you viii learn on what
easy conditions you can get one of
their typewriters free right away. |
The Emerson Typewriter is one
Of thr highest grade, wholly visible
typewriters in the world. Many
who have used the EMERSON
and other makes pronounce the
EMERSON superior to any
$4,000 typewriter on the market.
tt is a wholly visahle machine
has every new up-to-date feature, !
looks like other high grade $l00.00l
typewriters, though it sells regular
for less and on terms of $500 down
10 cents day until paid for, The
EMERSON has every new inn
provement, universal keyboard, L
back spacer, tabulator, two color
ribbon, everything the best; is the
ideal machine for beginners as well
L i ~
IS for the most expert typists and
stenographers; just the typewriter
Tor the smallest or largest Office.
II you can possibly make any use
# high grade typewriter, even
though it didn't cost you one cen
If money then bcsure, on postal
ard or in letter addressed to
Frank L. Wilder, President,
Woodstock ILL.,. say Mail me {
your Free Offers" +,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-03-28

quently the same individual is fOun,
promoting both Of these commonplace
es at the same time.
I, Ethical culture is more than tn,
training which comes from telling |
child to sit down or stand up or apollo
gize or be punctual. These things
are well but the effects are super
fetal. They are merely supplement
tary to what should be taught in or
der to lay in the minds Of the young
any thing like firm basis for civili-
zation. The mainsprings Of human
character lie in the great centers of
feeling and conviction, and these are
eft untouched by mere formal obed-
fence to school rules.
Children should be taught the
science Of ethics as well as the TECH
nique. They should be taught sOhy
they should do certain things and
a0hy they should refrain from doing
other things. They should be taught
the ability Of truth, honesty, kindness,
and the other excellences of life, and
the isutilitg of their Opposites, They
should be supplied with moral stand
ards and moral ideals to act as an
chors in times of storm. They should
understand what they are composed |
Of and where the various ingredients |
in their composition came from.
Teach these things to the young a.
long with a knowledge of the nature
Of habit, and you viii lay a foUnda-
lion for character and civilization
which will be as rock to quicksands.
compared with that incidental train .
ing derived from mere conformity to
school l,''eS.
Kindness, humanity, truciif9lness,
md moral courage can be taught TO 4
Dung minds just as easily and ehrec-
lively as Latin or arithmetic. All
hat is necessary is to begin early
nough, use ingenuity, and keep at
|. It is not possible to teach morale
" to all with complete success.
Nournful as the fact is there are
'eings who come from the Joins of
nen with such wealth Of evil inn
,ulses, with such an aptitude for do i
ng the worng thing, that the most ;
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-03-28

grown up as harmless to animals e
any Hindoo; for her solemn charge
regarding mourning-doves has always
seemed as binding as. The Ten Com
mandments. mention this in order
10 point out to parents and teachers
the vast influence they may easily
WELD in behalf Of our wild creatures
which are in sore need Of protection.
The Influence Of Selection
Altruism is developed in indiyid-
uaIs in the same way as It has been
developed in the race by selection,
selection among the ideas, habits, and
impulses Of which individuals are
psychically composed. The mind
grows on what it feeds.
CONCLUDED on LAsg PAGE, 6TH Coz
Announcement for Congress.
To the yoters Of the Third Con
District: | have the
ambition to represent the third
district In congress. As to my fit
ness, and worthiness | promise
submit that to the voters Of the dis
trict, along with other gentlemen
who may aspire to the honor n .
primary. ! am q
farmer and have contributed all
that / possibly could to the adj
Of the farming interests
if my section Of the county AS q
Of congress would be con
rolled largely by the same desires
md purposes that have actuated me
ls a private citizen in advancing the
interests Of the country,
which ultimately is the interest Of
very person, whether merchant,
awyer, doctor, banker, mechanic
II citizens following other eallings.
shall be glad to meet the voters
ace to face in every county Of the
district before the dag Of the cleo
ion john r.. MERcER.