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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-03-21
Pt. townsend loses Custom House

The Seattle papers last week an
nouceed that the headquarters of
the Puget Sound customs district
will be removed to that city from
Port townsend July /, and it now
Iooks as if the fight made by Port
Townsend. with the assistance Of
other cities on the Sound, to keep
the Office has failed. The P.I says:
Seattle, com mencing July 1,
will become the headquarters of the
customs service of the state under
the terms of a bill prepared by
Secretary McVeagh and sent to the
senate by President Taft.
''The law decreasing the number
of port districts throughout the
county 100 to SO and by reason Of
which it is estimated that 100000
will be saved. annually makes Port
Townsend a SUPPORT, and large part
of the employees at the latter place
will with the change be tranferred
to Seattle. where it is predicted the
entire second floor Of the federal
building will be required for the
new customs headquarters.
Cali customs transactions under
the new law will center in Seattle.
making it the principal city in the
government circles of the north
west"
The new law will change the
name of this district from Puget
S und to Washington and the ports
Of entry in its jurisdiction will be
Seattle, Port Townsend, Aberdeen,
Anacortes, Bellingham, Blaine,
Chopeka. Danville, Everett, Ferry,
Friday Harbor, Laurie, Nelson
and Northport. Port Townsend,
Angeles. Roche Harbor, South Bend.
Spokane, Sumas and Tacoma.
Pay your subscription and ask
about the premiums.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-03-21

Jas. Fleming is building one of
the finest residences in the county
on his ranch. This site is splendid
and the view from it is described as
simply magnificent. Our old friend
Jim Farnsworth is doing the work,
and we hope he'll get through as
soon as possible SO he can come in
town and see us.
Miss Eva Cary is learning to set
type in the Graphic office. If she
turns out as good printer as her
cousin who fixed the islander sign,
lis painter. there will be no ques-
tion of her success as a tpyo.
Lopez island is rapidly gaining
the reputation of possessing and
breeding mighty good horse flesh.
Among others Jas. Buchanan has
a splendid stock farm and some
first-rate animals. He has three
Clydesdale beauties which are des-
tined to materially improve the
work-horse strain Of the Sound.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-03-21

Pay your subscription and ask
about the premiums.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-03-21

Last week three men, who are
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

that 1t was hopeless and, rather than have the apparatus go to the Kono mocs who were making determined effort for it. he transferred his power and influence for the Thomas com pany, which is located in the First ward, that was then represented by MT. Donohue in the court of com mon council. And that's where the apparatus went. And perhaps that's why he was opposed so strongly at the polls last Monday and perhaps that's the main reason why the Nam eaugs voted in favor of expulsion One who claims to represent the feel ing of the Nameaugs in this matter declares that the old company was once a power in local politics and that power was to be restored. He said the boys went out and got Donohue and would have got Dick Crockett too, in the Fourth ward, if the time could have been divided The feeling against Alderman Crockett by the Nameaugs is because as chairman of the fire committee he declined to per- init an addition to be made to the Nameaug house because the appro- priation made for the purpose was entirely inadequate.
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ONECO

Mrs Mary Gaul received a hand some bouquet of gladioli of different colors from Springdale Farm in Vest Greenwich R. l., Tuesday night.
 MT. and Mrs E. Marr went to Westerly. Thursday morning.
 Miss Mabel Moore entertained the teachers from Ekonk and Sterling Hill Wednesday afternoon
 Mrs. Ada Greenwood spent Thurs day in Sterling.
 The board of Selectmen was re- elected Monday.
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In the expulsion vote passed against Ex-A Alderman Donohue the Nameaugs have probably poked sharp stick into that traditional hornets nest and are liable to get stung. There is a strong public sentiment in raging the Name aug Engine house in order to clean the lot of the new municipal building. If the property was individually owned the city would have probably made purchase and removed the building ere this Then again of late the Nameaug has not been the most efficient fire fighting company in the department and it would not be in the least sur priSing if the council ordered the dis bandment of the company and the clearance of the site The fire de- department as at present organized could spare the Nameaugs better than ever before.
 The Nameaug company has a long and honora ble record, and has had in its membership and today some of the true representative citizens of New London. but they all do not take active part in the affairs of the company today. Seeing the trend of affairs members of the company formed an association several years ago and be- came incorporated for the purpose of perpetuating the name and glory of the grand old company of fire fighters. Should the present Nameaug company pass away the Nameaug association would succeed and probably a club house would be erected and maintained The plan to get the present house for that purpose has faded since the erec- ton of the municipal building.
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MT. HOPE.

Dr. r. A. YouHgs of New York spent the week end with his family.
 Mir, and Mrs. G, H, Willis and sen Harlow and Mrs. H, M, Winch of eSuth Manchester were callers at B, o. Meores Sunday.
 H. B. Church and Br. Magee of Hartford were cut cunning Wednesday morning at Afr, ehuref's farm.
 Hunting started in goed style We'd Resday around here
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Holland County
COLUMBIA
Rally sunday-Town Meeting Votes Not To Purchase Stone Crusher- Church and Personal Interests,

Sunday was observed as Sunday school rally day, and the attendance at the noon session was large, 93 members of the school being present. Mrs. E. c. Foster addressed the school in regard to plans and expectations for the coming year.
 The cemetery association held a special meeting Saturday afternoon for the purpose of taking action re- garding the improvement of the new addition and putting it into shape for use. J. P. Little, c. k. Hitchcock committee to ascertain what was necessary to be done and to report at an adjourned meeting.
 Delegates To Ordination.
 Last Sunday A. A. Latham was chosen delegate to accompany Rev. E. O. Foster to the EcclessiasttcaI Conference at South Coventry, We'd nesday, at the ordination of Rev Mr. Eaton.
 Will Attend Convention.
 At the session of the Sunday School last Sunday Superintendent and Mrs Clayton E. Hunt, Mrs. E. o. Foster Mrs. Henry B. Hutchins Miss Eliza Hutchins, Miss Mildred Latham were chosen delegates to attend the Tol- land county Sunday School conven- tion at Rockville October 14th.
 Broke Even.
 The Columbia baseball nine went to South Windham Saturday after noon and played two games with the South Windham team. In the first the Columbias were victorious, to ?. The second was won by the South Windhams, 15 to $.
 Max Antes of Conway. Mass, has been visiting his sister, Mrs Kate Wolff
 Miss Maud Latham teacher in the Middletown High School spent Satur- day and Sunday at the home of her father and sister, on Chestnut t1lII.
 Illustrated Lecture.
 At the Sunday evening meeting, Rev E. o. Foster gave an illustrated lecture entitled, Through Armenia and Kurdicton." The lecture was interesting and the views were ex- cellent There was a good attendance.
 Charles Gates of New London has been visiting the family of his nephew, Cecil L. Gates at their sum mer home here.
 Mrs. Emily A. Little is spending a few days at the home of her son, Louis W. Little. at East Hampton Vote Against Stone Crusher Purchase
 The annual town business meeting Monday afternoon was largely attend ed. The master of the repairs of highways was left in the hands of the Selectmen. The proposal that the town purchase a stone crusher was voted down A vote was passed fix ing and generally increasing the com- pensation of town officials. A sum equal to 21-2 mills on the grand list was appropriated for schools, and a IT mill tax laid to defray or rather to partially defray the expenses of the town for the coming year.
 James F. Little Was Il Hartford wis., ttor Tuesday and Wednesday,
 Mrs. J, A, Uuey is visiting relatives in Hartford and P1aIhville,
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Windham County
SOUTH CANTERBURY

A meeting of the w c. T. U. was held at the home of Mrs. s. E. Had ley Tuesday afternoon.
 Mrs Mary Dubois has sold her farm to New York purchasers
 A. J. Greenslit of Willimantic was in this vicinity Tuesday.
 Charles H. Newton of New London was the guest of Levi N. Clark, last week Wednesday night.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

(Nritten Specially for The Bulletin)
 Two of the big show ranches of the west, the Keystone and Adams farms of North Dakota, have recently been sold. They contained about 15,000 acres and were sold at somewhere be- tween $60 and $50 per acre. They are to be broken up into smaller farms of about 160 acres each. This means that there will soon be nearly a hundred separate farms, managed by separate farmers. where there used to be only two. managed by two superintendents
 1t means something more, though and something vastly more signif cant. IL means that the former own CTS couldn't get a profitable return on S6O or $50 an acre from their big holdings. Otherwise, they would not have sold. The very fact that they sold indicates that they didn't find the land worth as much to them as the money. At the same time, the fact that others were willing to pay that price, if only they could break the plot mp into small farms. indicates that the new purchasers expect to get a fair profit off the same land at the prices given.
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know another little place with a small cottage house on it, a lawn about twelve by fifteen feet, a dozen rose bushes. a plain little barn, and about twenty acres of land, all told. The owner keeps six COWS on that lit so much as a hundred dollars. But he takes care of them, feeds them and milks them himself, and his wife makes the butter. Practically every square foot of his little place is under tillage, and exceedingly thorough tillage too. He hires but little help and that by the day in sea- sons of special need. He has brought his little farm up from what I re- member as once a Wretched eXpanse of pasture land to a state of almost ideal productivity and thrift. He has done it himself, with his own head work and hand-Work. He is making a living, has paid off his debts, and is salting a little away now and then for future reference.
 And Pm free to say that I think he cessful one. toO,-than MT. Millionaire on his big estate, scarcely a dozen miles away, beyond the hills.
 The man hasn't yet been born who can take as good care and do as well with d thousand acres as he can with ten. The results from the thousand acres may take bigger figures to state, bigger in both income and out go; but true farming isn't done with Arabic figures in a book: it is done with hoes and harrows in the dirt Bill Jones can paint a barn. both sides and both ends. while Meissonier would be painting a single half inch on a "F'riedland" canvas. But that wouldn't make Bill Jones a better painter than the great Frenchman.
 1t is quality, not mere quantity, which counts when any true balance is struck. In farm work especially, we have got to aim at efficiency, first of all. No man is so efficient at the end of a ten-foot pole as he is with in arms length. No man can reach around a big farm so easily as 8 small one.
 It. net more acres to the farm that are wanted, but more farmers to the acre. It's not bigger farms that are called for but better farming.
 The sooner all the big farms go: the sooner they are broken up into holdings which one man can ade- quately manage; the sooner we reckon a farmers grade, not by the number of acres he owns but by the, number
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of bushels he produces, per acre. so much the sooner we'll get back to the right farming road
 It's q great deal nearer true success to make a small farm pay ten per
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The funny thing to me, however, is that because his cows have cost him hundreds and his bulls thousands of dollars apiece, and because they are kept in a palatial barn and have bed- rooms and parlOrs and sun baths in stead of mere stalls,-because of this he actually thinks that he is running a model farm" and setting an ex- ample for real farmers to live up to! He gets a fancy price for his milk from people anxious to pay out money for a name Yet. even then, the more labor and feed charges against his herd make the milk cost him more than it brings him, to say nothing of the tremendous interest charge on his lavish investment.
 All his work is done for him. He never even milks one COW. He saun- ters about his place during the sum- mer and fall, gives an order here or grunt of disapproval there,-and goes back to the avenue and the opera as soon as the first snow-storm whitens the landscape.
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cent. clear profit. than to lose two per cent on a big one. And. when you get right down to brass tacks, that's about what most of the big ones do!
 THE FARMER.
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QUALITY NOT QUANTITY COUNTS


on a New England hillside than in growing ten thousand acres of just common grain out in Dakota. Especi- ally when the good corn and the good oats are the results of the farmers own matured skill and tempered eff ciency, not the carelessly flung gifts of virgin soil and lucky season.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

Within less than ten miles of me there is a great estate. The big house lies back a mile from the public road, and is quite out of sight from it., reached only by a winding drive, all ways closed with ornamental iron gates and fianked by the cottage of a keeper without whose consent the gates open to no one. The estate in cludes more than q thousand acres: 1he big house is a palace, within and without; the huge barn is more lux urious than many a farmers home; there is a lake, and waterfall, and a ''sUn&en garden and a half dozen summer houses and pergolas and the like; the lawn is a stretch of green velvet, and the flower parterres a blaze of gorgeous color.
 The owner has spent and yearly spends on it much more than it could possibly return to him if it were cropped as a farm. He makes his money at something else and then blows it in" on this fancy estate. Which he has the right to do. And I suppose he enjoys it.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

Until a short time ago, scarcely one person in a thousand had ever tasted a really good soda cracker as it came fresh and crisp from the oven.
 Now everybody can know and enjoy the crisp goodness of fresh baked soda crackers with out going to the bakers oven. Uneeda Biscuit bring the bak- cry to you.
 A food to live on. Stamina for work CTS. Strength for the delicate. Give them to the little folks. Five cents. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

No; the day of the Big Farm has passed. And l. for one, am glad Of it.
 There is something magnificent in the thought of one man directing a ten thousand acre wheat prairie; of his power-drawn gang blows turning over a dozen furrOws at each move nlent across the field; of his huge harvesting machines, cutting, thresh- ing. measuring and bagging the grain. all at the same time. There is some thing royal in the idea of David Ran kin driving about his principality and directing the work of a hundred and forty -IhTee-mule. twO-rOw cultivatOrs in an 1S,0O0 acre cOrn-f1eld.
 But there is something a good deal more satisfactory and better worth while in raising ten acres of A No. One Prize Medal, Bang-up good corn than in raising 1S.0O0 acres of just common corn. There is something much more desirable in growing twenty acres of sixty -bushels-to the acre. forty -eIght- to- -the-bushel oats
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Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

The character of labor which farm CTS can hire. these days, the wages demanded and the narrow margin of profit from farm production unite to make the big farm a dubious prODOsi- tion, to say the best for it, More often it is an actual loser.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

Mighty few men try to do another's work as well as they would try to do their own. Even among that few, fewer still are able to do it. You and L for example are perfectly honest workmen, anxious to do our best You are running a. dairy farm on POdunk Mountain and l am running a market garden in Jordan Valley. Please imagine yourself suddenly transported to my gardens and set to work. Don't you know that, unless I actually stood over you most of the time, you'd make a sorry botch of pretty nearly everything you undertook? You don't know the soil; you don't know the previous CrOppage; you don't know the local weather signs; you aren't used to my team or my tools; above all you're not used to my ways" You may be a stronger man with 8 brighter mind than ]. Yet you would hardly be able to do as much and as good work as I, who am used to local conditions and know exactly what l want to do as well as the chances of what can do.
 I am sure that. if the supposed con- dition were reserved and were put into your dairy barn, I shouldn't be worth my salt to you:-should, prob ably. do about as much damage as service for a while And this though both of us are perfectly sincere and devoted in our desire to do exactly the right thing at the right time
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

On big farms, where the owners must employ. not single helpers to work beside them and under their own eyes, but gangs of men to work under hired managers, the case is much worse. The kind of labor which is obtainable under such conditions is usually the very kind which has all ready been tested in various manu- facturing capacities, and found want ing everywhere. It is apt to be shift less; it is often dishonest: it is almost always inefficient. At its best, it is a spiritless and perfunctOry doing of another mans drudgery. and very un- like the hearty, pushing energy with which good farmer goes at his own work.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

Later on the cIty decided to pur- chase another motor. driven fire ap- raratus and again Alderman Donahue commenced to plug to get the appar= atus for the Naneaugs. He realized
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11
NEW LONDON ELECTION RESULT
Normal Republican Majority Returned = Council Remains Democratc-PoIitics in the Fire Companies Active as Ever-Groton Realizes Value of Shore Resorts-Te in Stonington Vote.

was created the commissioner had ample time to do the work and with out putting in any overtime. Condi tions may have changed, however, and the service spread beyond the reach of even such a competent official as Charles Prentis.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11
Why this difference of opinion?

Simply because the former ~ners had to depend wholly upon hired managers and wOrllmen to carry on their ranches, while the new owners intend to manage their own farms and do their own work, with only such help as may be required at spec ial times and on special jobs.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-11

And Pm free to say that I think he is a better farmer and a more suc- cessful one. toO,-than MT. Millionaire on his big estate, scarcely a dozen miles away, beyond the hills.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
OLD PROBLEM SOLVED
A Library for. Persons Seeking
Data About Country Homes.

Among the multitude of perplexins
problems which face the builder Of a
home, especially if he be one who is un-
willing to accept a mere box out of a
mould, not the least troublesome is the
selection of an architectural style. As he
visits the new homes of his friends his
mind is kecnly receptive to the impress
sions made by each distinctive style-or
lack of il.
An attractive short cut in the invcsiieJ-
ton of suburban homes has been formed
as selling feature ny the Mcknight
Realty Company
The contiuucd demand Of homo invest
ors for something showing the character
of our various properties. said Frank
Crowell. sales manager of the Mcknight
Realty Company. yesterday. caused us
To have prepared a collection cd enlarged
photographs OF our developments and the
actual residences completed and occupied
up To the present time. There is now =
decided Discrimination among nome pur-
chascrs To ram5le aimlcssly around the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02

APARTMENT DWELLING LEASES

Pease & Gilman nave leased large
apartment for the Montana Realty Com
pany AT No 375 Park avenue. TO Robert
Hager. jr, who recently sold his house.
NO. East SD street. through the same
brokers' 10 David Gardiner.
j. r. Wood " II. Dolson Company
'eased for Mrs Minnie r. Brown the
dwelling No. 81 West 10th street. to Nellie
H. Miller; also suDleased for Mrs. r..
shuln the dwelling No. 100 West S7th
street to Dr Marshall G. Pease. ir.
H. G. Senior 4 60. leased for Kaisie
Nckars the dwelling 30. 10 West Gth
street 10 Dr.. -Obry. and Tor Mary Ennis
me dwelling No. 3, " est 07th street TO
Marie Soto t.|tt
Gustaye Britt leased the dwellings No.
~ West 18th street to Marie Kohler; No.
8" West 18th street to Harriet Roy, ard
30 ze5 West 18th street to Sonyerian
leE~'''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
A BOOK ON QUEENS BOROUGH
1t Has Been Compiled by w. I.
Willis, of That Section of City.

The manufacturing and industrial com
mittcc of the Chamber of Commerce Of
the Borough of Queens. of which j. g..
Wigmorc is chairman, announced last
week that 1ii-page book. entitled
Queens Borough has been ISSUED by
it and would soon be distributed. Some
members of this committee who have had
charge OF the publication Of the book
are \. l.. Langdon, c. 6. VI. Thomas,
William II. Dahman. Theodore Steinway
John J. Halleran and II. T.. Read.
The book has been compiled and ar
ranged by Walter l. Willis. secretary Of
the Chamber. and consists Of l4 pages
printed on the best quality Of paper, ard
contains in addition To twenty-five pages
of half-tonc cuts OF attractive views of
the industrial, commercial and residential
features of the borough, about ninety
pages OF test matter and statistical data
setting forth all the advantages and pos
sibilitcs of Queens from every point OF
view
Among the important topics that are
thoroughly covered are the following:
Manufacturing and industrial advantages
ana statistics of the borough. list of fac
tories in the borough arranged according
TO articles manufactured. residential adj