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Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

(written Specially For The Bulletin.
 Most every farmer I know of keeps a cow-or more. Most every one keeps a horse,-or more. Most every one keeps ashen,-or more. Most every one keeps a pig,-or more. A few of them few sheep, also. Some have a dog. And good many have cat
 So far as can judge by their talk every blamed one of lem buys most of the grain he feeds those animals. One confesses that he buys corned beef for his dog, and one boasts that her cal gets all the canned salmon it wants!
 My very nearest neiohhor keeps two horses-and buys every pound of the oats and corn and middlings that they eat. Another neighbor keeps nearly a thousand hens, and buys every kernel they gobble. except perhaps a bushel of sunf1ower seeds which they pick up about this season.
 Another went in. for potatoes. this summer didn't try to raise any corn because last year it didn't pay. Nov he's selling potatoes for forty cents bushel to a soulless speculator, and will have to buy horse-feed all winter ht Lord-knows-how w-much- -a-hundred to feed his horses.
 And we call this 'Farmingi"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24
NOTICE

All pefsons in the Town of Norwich liable to pay taxes are hereby notified to return to the Assessors on or before the first day of November, 1914 a written or printed list, properly signed and sworn to-, of all taxable property owned by them on the first day of October. 1s14 Those failing to make a list will be charged a penalty of 1O per cent additional, according to law.
 Blanks can be sbtained at the As sessors' Office ip City Hall or will be sent by mall upon application.
 Office Hours: 3 a. m. to p. n. Lists will be received beginning Thursday, Oca. .1st, 1914. -.
 Dated at Norwich, Conn, Sept. 2Sth, 1914.
 JOHN F.. MURPHY,
 JEREMIAH J. DONOVAN,
 MICHAEL J. CURRAN.
 sep26d Assessors.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

The state work now in progress in East New London in the eonsfructjon extensive ip-shore work which carries with it the reclaiiming of a large tract of water front. north. of the railroad bridge, gives but faint idea of the nax- nitude of the proposition. For with a1l this the warehouses. the superstructure or the pier, the railroad Connections and all other essential appurtenances are yet to come. Warehouses and piers are not built in a year. or in two years. but there has been substantial com mencement to indicate the inportance of what the water development means to New London and the state. Connec- ticut is doing its part well and the zen :.
 eral government will be urged to O. operate In the matter of increasing the depth of water in the harbor:a and in the vicinity of the pier. At the presenf time there is 8 depth of so feet of Wa ter at mean low tide alongside the nier
 and it Is planned to have at feast. that depth in all parts of the harbor and the entry thereto. ;.e" -l ~--o
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM missfonerS for New London County: We hereby apply for a license to sell and exchange spirituous and intoxicat- ing liquors, ale, lager, beer, Rhine wine and cider under the name and style of Joseph Connor and Son in the building at 6S Water street, Town of Norwich, except In the rooms and apartments in said building. any part or parts or which are cut off or partitioned in such or retiring rooms. Our place of busi- ness Is not located within two hundred feet in direct line from any church ediffce or public or parochial school, or the premises. pertaining thereto, sor any post office, public library. or cemetery. Dated at Norwich this 14th day of Oc- tober.. A. D. 1914. Andrew F. Connor, Thomas M. Connor, applicants. We, the undersigned, are electors and tax
 nayerS, owning real estate of the
 Town of Norwich, and hereby sign and endorse the foregoing application Of Joseph Connor and Son for ; a license
 and hereby certify that said applicants are suitable persons to be licensed pur- suant to said application. Dated at Norwich this 14th day of October, A. D. 1914. John F. Murphy. D. IL Dris
 coll. R. C.4Plant Ade1a Morris. Herman L. Sears. herebyb certify that the above named signers and endorsers are electors and taxpayers, owning real estate, in the Town of Norich.I Dated at Norwich, this z3d day of October, A. D. 1914. Chas. s. Lolbrook, Town Clerk oc24
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24
BUT IS TIT

Some of us old fellows can remem ber when these rocky hillside farms which we now think won't keep two cows and goat used to keep herds of sheep and fiocks of cows main- tain fashioned families of any where from ten to @ dozen, pay taxes and church dues, and manage to save enough to help a boy through college. Now the owner has to buy even his hen feed!-Or thinks he does.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24
BUT DOES HD?

What are you paying for the grain your farm animals consume I'm sure I don't know what you pay in actual dollars and cents. But I know this, that you're paying for every. bushel you buy.
 First, The price which the grower out west somewhere sold it for.
 Second Profit to the elevator trust which bought it. of the grower and transshipped it.
 Thir The freight from that elevat- or to your railroad station,
 Fourth Rent, insurance. taxes and another profit to the dealer from whom you buy it.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

[ don't know which would be wisest and most profitable for any partic- ular one of you to do.-raiee your farm needs on your own farms or buy 'em off somebody else's farm.
 That's something for each one to figure out for himself.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

.a at Y
 l'II agree, without word of arsu. ment, that we Connecticut farmers can't raise such grains to sell as cheaply as farmers of the great plains We haven't. the land nor the. climate that they have. But 1t doesn't fol- low that we couldn't raise what we need to use, more profitably than we can buy it of them and pay all the ex- tra costs and profits which are welded on to it by the time it gets to us. To say that -we can't raiee corn fr Connecticut is to talk nonsense. We can't raise much, it is true; we cant raise enough to export. But we car raise it. raise good corn; raise more corn to the acre than any other state In the Union does. The records prove 1t Why, in 1911-the last year fol which statistics are available-the av- craze acre yield of little Connecticut was 4S 1-2 bushels. while the highest yield of any other state in the coun. try was only 45 bushels, and the av. craze yield of the great corn growing states of the so- called "Corn-Belt" wal less than S5 bushels.
 In 1910 Connecticut's average yield was over 53 bushels to- the acre again the highest in the country, while the Corn BeIt'' average was less thar BS
 For the ten years, 1so0-isos botf inclusive. the average yield of Con. necticut was S6 34 bushels. while thu average of the Corn Belt'' for ths same ten years was 34 IA.
 Suppose it costs ten per cent nnor, to raise an acre of corn here than 1T the Corn Belt? The average yield. i. ten per cent greater.
 And in 1911 the average farm pric. M corn in Connecticut was 7s cents bushel. while the average farm. pric. pf corn in Illinois. the same year, wa. 30 1-2 cants.
 It may cost us more to raise an acre Efran it costs the Illinois corn-grower but we get more bushels to the acre and every bushe1 is worth more money
 Of course ! understand that he, tn, Illinois farmer, raises it by the car
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

stunning the he's neglected some essen- tial figures of expense as farmers are very apt to do in figuring up such. mat : .ters, and allowing that he's $40 too low in nthem,-admitting that his 400 bush els cost him $1o0. even then his oats stand him in but twenty-five cents a ,bushel.
 Can you buy lem for that?
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

There Is nothing artificial about New
 London harbor, but conditions have changed since creation, and are stead fly on the increase. The ships are larg- er$+today than. ever, and sthe. big fuii- rigged ship of fffs old whaling days is
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

1t might be worth while for some oi us to think the matter over anew this winter, and plan to experimsn' a little, next spring, along the old fashioned lines of farm independence and self-help.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

No man hae ever held elective office
 without produeins a few diseontented individuals, through some real or fan c1ed wrong, mostly faneied, and these chaps bob up about election time and circulate baseless stories of the candi- date and calculated to lessen his pop ularfty, but these mud -slinging meth ods are of the days that were and are no more, and the mud -shnger is be- sm1rched with his own mud. It4is well that the mud-slingers are few and are speedily growing less. Sheriff Brown may have escaped this small class of d1scontents, but if he has the miIlenium has been reached. Still it is hard to conceive of anything that any, person might say prejudicial to the re-elec- ton Of Sheriff Brown that would have any effect upon the sensible voters of New London county.
 Other men with like experience might be able to serve the county fully as well as Sheriff Brown, but that person IS not resident of New London coun- ty Therefore the proposition of. many democrats in New London to make the election of Sheriff Brown unanimous is worthy Of emulation all over the coun- ty. He is the rights man in the right place. But what's the use? Sheriff Brown is known to nearly every voter or New London county.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24
Aur1LE PROBLEM FOR FARMERS TO SETTLE

bad, while we can only raise it by the crib. But, Great Scott, so one of US wants more than a. crib-full to feed his hens and pigs! What do you and want of a carload I mean for own use on our own farms.
 And it's just raising of what we want for our own use on our own farms that I'm trying to suggest.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

But I do believe that a. whole lot of us have got into the habit of taking it for granted we can't raise some things which we can, and that we're fhis coming winter for horse-feed and cew-feed and hog-feed and hen-feed which we might have raised ourselves cheaper than we shall buy 1t.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

Now, 1t is very probable that you can't raise that wheat, corn, etc, quite bushel for bushel, and acre for acre.
 But how about those other items7
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24
That -brinus US to wheat

- naG-pEtnQS us IQ iHUSdS
 Connecticut doesn't raise enough or
 it to get into. the crop reports. She
 isn't even an "also ran. She's com .pletely out of the raee.s Yet wheat
 can be raised in Connecticut. It used to be. It was once as regular crop
 as some other of the cereals. Prof.
 Jenkins of the state experiment sta-
 tion answers the question twill it grow we'll in Connecticut by saying
 bluntly:
 .'Of' course it will Formerly it was
 ce mmonly- grown here and ground in ing it today. Ex-Gov. Woodruff re- eently raised eight acres which yield Cd forty bushels to the acre. This station has grown an acre. of wheat yearly for the last three years to test fifteen varieties of winter wheat. Ev-
 of them has winter-killed at all. though
 one of the three winters was unus-
 rally hard on crops which wintered on
 the land. 1rt sst5.s
 He reports that the 1918 crop ranged from 23 to 35 bushels of cleaned wheat to the acre, with from 5000 to 4,700 pounds of dry straw.
 In view of these facts 1t would be absurd to pretend that wheat won't grow. well in Connecticut The ay- craze yield of wheat per acre for the whole United States In 1911 was only L8SlV6 DuSQolS 6IlQ A El<tllxt. Compare that with MT. Woodruff, 8 returns or even with the lowest re- l ported from the Experiment Station. | Of course we can't go into comps- titlon with the great wheat ranches of the far west in raising wheat for ex- port. Nobody would suggest such a thing. Why, the whole available farm area of all Connecticut is less than half, the acreage which Kansas alone had in wheat in 1911. But why couldn't we raise enough for our own cllickens2 Why should we ispaY Kansas farmers and transconti- mental railroads and elevator trusts and iNprufft-hunting dealers from one end isof the country to the other for 7 the chicken. feed we can raisesourselves? The=whole nub of the question lies in l this: Whether. it is cheaper for us to pay Kansas wheat. men and Montana and Illinois corn men to raise the stuff | for us. and pay the elevators and the speculators for handling 1t for us. and pay half the railroads of the country | to haul 1t to us,-or to raise ft our l Selves. That Is to raise wheat we want for our own farm needs, mean. have a nelghbor wF,o's just had his ten-acre oat-crop threshed out. He got about 40 bushels, which isn't a big
 yield. considering all things. He fig | ures that his expenses for the crop l from spring stubb1e to october bagged | ora in wAr<a fy;Aa faSS +ho,5 vcn
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

have neishbor who's just had his
 ten-acre oat-crop threshed out. He got about 40 bushels, which isn't a big yield. considering all things. He fig ures that his expenses for the crop, from spring stubb1e to october bagged
 grain wore trife less than s6u. As
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

We don't beat all the rest of the country at oats, to be sure. But we can do pretty we'll with them, too, thank you. In 1911 our average was a trihe over 35 bushels to the acre, an average beaten by only one state this side of the Mississippi, Maine The average for the great grain states of the west, including Ohie, Indiana, Illi- inois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. l. wa Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and both tho Dakotas, was only about A 1-1 bushels.
 2 And oats are not only a nourishing human food in the form of oat meal for oat-hakes, but they are the tra- ditional grain for horses. and a most valuable ingredient in a milk ration, ard one of the best egg producers known when fed to hens, mixed with corn, buckwheat and wheat.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24
LEGAL NOTICES
TO THE BOARD oF CouNrY CON

TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM missioners for New London County: We hereby apply for a license to sell and exchange spirituous and intoxicat- ing liquors, ale, lager beer Rhine wine and cider under the name and style of Levine Bros. in the building at North Thames street. Town of Norwich, ex
 cept In the rooms and apartments in said building, any part or parts of which are cut off or partitfoned in such, manner as to form booths side rooms or retiring rooms. Our place Of business is not located within two hundred feet in a direct line from any church ed1fice or public or parochial school. or the premises pertaining thereto, or any post office, public lt- brary or cemetery. Dated at Norwich. this 18th day of October, A D.. 1914. Abraham Levine, Saul Levine, ,appIt- cants: We, the undersigned, are cleo tors and taxpayers, owning real estate, of the Town of Norwich and hereby sign and endorse the foregoing appll- cation of Levine pros. for license, and hereby certify that said applicants are suitable persons to be licensed pur- suant to said application. Dated at Norwich, this 13 Ih day of October, A ID. 1914. L, Marcof, Joseph D. PfeiffeT. A Cramer, Michael Schwartz, Geo. O. Hathaway. l hereby certify that the above named signers and endorsers are electors and taxpayers, owning real estate, in the Town of Norwich. Dated at Norwich, this 18th day of October, A: D. 1914 Chas. s. Holbrook, Town Clerk. oc24
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

Buckwheat, next Buckwheat isn't a crop to be des-
 pissed, by any manner of means. Not only, is buckwheat flour the standby for fashioned griddle cakes, but buckwheat slorts furnish, one of the very best sources for protein supply in a milk ration. Not only do. they analyze high in this respect, but prac-
 tical tests show that they're worth
 about as much as high-p priced cot ton-seed meal Moreover, hens just
 love the grain and do well on mix lures including a goodly percentage of 1t.
 And any field which will raise weeds will raise buckwheat. To say that we can't raise buckwheat in Connecticut is to say that weeds won't grow here. And that every farmer knows isn't true.
Charlevoix county herald., 1914-03-28
Briefs Of the Week

sttS(S<SeStttt tt SIS eSS>SD
Clark Hare Of Boyne City was in the
city Thursday.
II. C, Clark went to Crawling Thurs
day on business.
The interior of Spence's Bakery is
being remodelled this week.
David Ruch went to Greenville on
Wednesday to visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Crawford returned
home from Allegan Wednesday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Marley Win
tiers, Sunday March %, daughter.
Mrs. John McEachron was guest of
her daughter at Boyne City this week.
Atty D. L. Wilson left for southern
Michigan Friday for visit with rel
atives.
Pres. C. S. Abbott of the Electric
Light Co., was in the city first of the
week.
Mrs. X. Burns of Charlevoix is visit
ing her friend, Mrs. Stafford, on the
West Side.
Mrs. E. Newson and Esther Huftile
are visiting relatives at Watersmeet
this week.
Mrs. S. 4. Richmond is guest Of her
daughter, Mrs. Carl Stroebel and fami-
ly this week.
VIM. Harrington is expected home
from Milwaukee, Monday, where he
spent the winter.
Mrs. Clark of Kalkaska is expected
first of the week to visit her son, A.
w. Clark, and family.
Carl Heinzelman has purchased the
popcorn stand of N. Muma and now
has il open evenings.
Mrs. Ida Proctor and daughter Lillian
who spent the winter in Oklahoma, re-
turned home Saturday.
A. G. Rogers has started work on
the new hotel which Clark &c Rogers
are building at Monaqua.
Mrs. j. Hewitt of kalkaska visited at
the home of her sister, Mrs. AL Ham
mond latter part of the week.
Alfred Blake and Victor Cross were
at Charlevoix on Sunday last in the
interest of the Y. NJ. C. A. work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Roy returned
home Tuesday from their visit at Flint
and other places in southern Michigan.
A very pleasant time was enjoyed al
the character party, given by the L. o.
T. NJ. NJ. at their hall, Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Atkinson were
here from Detroit this week, guest OF
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Gay, and other relatives.
Mrs. VIM. Raino and son Kenneth,
went to Frederic Friday to meet hel
daughter Miss Winifred, who is return
ing home from Canada where she ha:
been attending school.
About twenty-five friends and neigh
bors helped to celebrate the eleventh
anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Prices
wedding. Wednesday evening. Cards
and music, with pot-luck lunch were
enjoyed.
Charlevoix county herald., 1914-03-28

N<~ttfttttFrer
"All Fools Day." next Wednesday.
D. E. Housknecht is moving his fam
fly into the Phillips house on Upper
Main st.
A new arc light is being installed at
the corner of Second and Williams SITS,
sssjs week.
@The Single Top Trail" by Keister,
has two laughs for each item. II drives
away the blues.
A marriage license was issued this
week to Ora o. Mahoney, age %, and
Ellen Stinson, age l6, both of Charlie
voix.
DR.. R. A. Risk has purchased the
former Adams house on Main ST., and
will occupy same first of the coming
!, month.
Our Fashion and Embroidery de-
partments are up to the usual high
standard this week and some especially
good offerings,
Through error the date of "The
Flaming Arrow" was given as next
Wednesday on the first page of this is
sue. 1t should be Thursday.
Mrs. Victoria Smythe, daughter of
c, p. Chaddock, of this city. and Frank
E. Fogg, former resident of this city,
were married at Centralis, Oregon,
March 18th.
Under the poultry Department we
are offering an article by Harry La
mont, an U. S. expert, with plan OF an
inexpensive poultry house and halftone
of the open front house.
Dorothy, little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. G. Glenn, was taken to the
Petoskey hospital Tuesday by DR.. r.
A, Risk, where she underwent an op-
Grafton for appendicitis.
Godfrey Mcdonald, father of NJ. A..
Mcdonald, supervisor OF Eveline
township, and Mrs. Lon Sheldon, Of
this city, died Wednesday morning at
5 o'clock of pneumonia, aged rs He
was a pioneer of this county. coming to
South Arm in the early 70's, and had
since resided in Eveline township.
At the Eveline township caucus held
last week, q spirited fight for nominal
rSion was put up by the candidates, one
hundred forty ballots being taken. Be-
low is the ticket placed in the field
supervisory. A. Mcdonald, clerk
Joseph william Flanders, treasurer
Frank Wageman, highway commission.
er-Joseph Courier, justice of the
peace-Frank Russell.
doc Shores, who has charge of 81 the
CharleT8ix Lumber company's opera.
tons at Chestonia the past winter, was
badly hurt Saturday when the cable
used Unloading poles on the cars broke
allowing the pole to roll back, striking
him in the breast, throwing him about
six feet into pile of logs. AT the time
the accident happened it was thought
that Mr.. Shores had been killed, bu
after being unconscious for some time
recovered and was given medical atten
dance. He was brought to his home in
this city Tuesday, and is in a seriou:
condition.-CharlevoiX Courier.
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-17
FLY DESERVES NO FRIENDS
XIII Him Without Mercy Wherever
You Find Him, Is Edict That
Has Gone Forth.

The true cussedness Of the fly sell
dom shows forth till about this time
in the fall. He is more numerous now
than before, and seems many times a
greater nuisance.
He haunts doors and windows,
watching for a chance to slip inside.
He promenades over your face while
you are trying to get beauty sleep
in the morning. He comes from gar
bage can and stable to walk over
every uncovered bit of food. and he
seems to take fendish pleasure in
drowning himself in the milk pitcher.
The Chinaman who hates you bad
enough will kill himself on your door
step, so that his ghost may haunt you.
The fly loads himself with typhoid
germs and plunges to milky grave
that he may start an Inflammation In
your Peyer's patches.
Fly swatting now Is necessary, but
palliative. The buzzing pest is Of too
well growth to be destroyed All that
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-17
cHAprER xIx-continued.

Preparations for train-wrecking,
should say" he replied, bluntly. They
are tinkering with the trestle. Buck
hurst's ragamuffins have Just seized
the railroad station at Rose-Sainte-
Anne. where the main line crosses,
you know, near the ravine at Lam
merin.
That's all have to report, except
that your friend, Robert the Lizard, is
out yonder fiat on his belly under
gorse bush, and he wants to see you"
''The Lizard!" l exclaimed. Come
on, Speed. Where is he?''
"Yonder, clothed in somebody's line
uniform. He's one Of them. Scarletr,
do you trust him? He has rife"
YES, yes" / said, impatiently.
Come on, man! It's all right; the
fellow is watching Buckhurst Tor me.
l greeted the poacher frankly, offer
ing my hand; he took it, then his hard
fist fell away and he touched his cap.
'"I have done what you wanted" he
said, sullenly. q have the company's
rolls-here they are, He dragged
from his baggy trousers pockets a
mass of filthy papers, closely covered
with smeared writing. Here is the
money, too," he said, fishing in the
other pocket; and, to my astonish-
ment, he produced a fiatte1ed, soiled
mass Of bank notes. Count it," he
added, calmly.
what money is that?" asked, TAX
ing it reluctantly.
Didn't you warn me to get that box
the steel box that Tric-Trac sat
down on when he saw me?"
"Is that money from the box?"
exclaimed.
Yes, m'sieu. l could not bring the
box, and there had been enough blood
shed over it already. Besides, when
Buckhurst broke it open there was
only bit of iron for the scrap heap
left"
touched Speeds arm to call his at
tention; the poacher shrugged his
shoulders and continued: "Tric-TFac
made no ceremony with me; he told
me that he and Buckhurst had settled
this Doctor belmont, and the other
the professor-Tavernier."
Murdered them?" muttered Speed.
'Dame!-the coup du Pere Francois
is murder, suppose"
Speed turned to me. That's the ar
got for strangling," he said, grimly.
'Go on" ! motioned to the poacher
How did you get the money!"
"Oh, pour ca-in my turn l turned
sonneur," he replied, with a savage
smile.
A sonneur, in thieves slang. is a
creature of the footpad type who, trip
ping his victim fiat, seizes him by the