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Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-18
HEBRON

improvement Society Gives Lecture
 and Dance. School commenced Monday for the spring term.
 Mrs H. F. Tennant and children have been visiting her mother on the green.
 Howard Hart has hired Mrs. Susie
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BOLTON NOTCH

Mrs. Marion Scott of Hartford is visiting her niece, Mrs. Minnie How ard York Saturday
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HOW A SCRUB-OAK FARM WAS MADE
 PROFITABLE
PROFITABLE

(Written Specially for The Bulletin) If it can't be done one way, perhaps ft can be anothed.
 That simple fact is one of the big eest lessons of experience, taught as often by failure as by success.
 That it is a fact is pretty clear. con sidering the number of wise saws and proverbs which state it in one way or another.
 If at first you don't succeed, try again" There are more ways than enc to skin cat" "Everything comes to him who waits
 Huh" grunted the smart young -Aleck to whom this last had been quoted: I'd like to know how long a feilow'd have to wait before he could carry water in sieve2 e2''-"Till it froze," calmly answered the old man, es he dropped another potato in the furrow and carefully pressed it down with his foot
 There are good many farmers who are farm failures, simply because they aren't doing the sort of farming that will pay. Which doesn't mean at all that their sort never pald anybody anywhere:-just that it isn't calcu- lated to pay them on the farms they're working.
 Some farmers probably would do a good deal better if they'd stop trying to raise corn and potatoes and devote themselves to nay and hay alone. Some would probably make more money if they sold all thetr farms ex- cept a brook and a gravel bank and kept hens. Some might perhaps in- crease their incomes by cutting out all the staple farm crops and making a drive at berries and small fruits There are skunk farms and frog farms which are said to make money for their managers
 Almost anything is farming which is done by a farmer on a farm. He doesn't need to restrict himself to a monotonous repetition of the corn potatoes -oats-hay rotation. He can branch out in any earthly direction to which his abilities or his opportuni- ties-or even his limitations point.
 For illustration, take the case of T c. Preston, a Missouri farmer.
 He bought a little place of forty acres. ten years ago It was scrub oak land, and reckoned about the poorest in the vicinity. The lot had on 1t a one-room shack and the prev ious owner had managed to work al- most an acre: the other thirty-nine had been too much for him. That's why he sold it for a song and thought the song worth more than the farm.
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The next summer he had a specially good and big yield of tomatoes Whereupon he plunged" to the extent of s135o, the exact cost of his first canning outfit With it he and his wife canned not only enough tomatoes for their own winter use, but sold some to their neighbors and the vil- Iage grocery store.
 As they were put up strictly on honor without the use of a drop of water or a grain of salt or other pre- servative, the people lucky enough to get hold of some immediately wanted more.
 Within three years Mir Preston's output grew to fifteen thousand cans, and even that wasn't enough to supply the local demand.
 He now has fully ten acres of his forty under intensive cultivation some more in cherry, peach, plum and pear trees, has & roomy and attrac- tive house, ample outbuildings, etc.
 The whole of the work is done with the heIn of five women and girls and
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pose bird; different ways of prepar- ing eggs for the table; five ways of cooking chickens
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leaving town. Plans were made for the second anniversary of the club, to be held with Mrs. Sarah White. in
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canning outfit which cost just $50 complete and ready for work.
 With this outfit and help he can put up 300 e-pound cans of tomatoes day. He pays S23 a thousand for the cans which come all ready to cap, with solder attached. The labels cost him S2.50 thousand. His shipping crates, holding two dozen cans cost from twelve to fifteen cents each, ac- cording to the quality of the lumber cers for from s1 to s1.S5 a dozen, av- eraging about $1.25; or more when delivered direct to the consumers. It is this fine along which MT. Preston Is now. working most vigorously. He expects very soon to have educated his customers up to the point where they will all buy direct from him, the producer, and thus save some money for themselves, while making more for him. He averages better than 5000 cans to the acre of tomato plants.
 MT. Preston's tomatoes thus bring him in an average of over S104 thousand cans, while he pays $30.58 for cans. labels. and crates. This leaves him over S73 to pay the wages of five girls and the cost of produc- ing tomatoes enough to fill the thous and cans.
 The business is not a bonanza. MI lSSlOlI QOCS llOl UUS ally IT Ol vegetables to can. He limits his op- erations to what he can raise him self. If he sells s1,200 worth of can ned goods, he expects to take just an even half for his own wages and profit. He doesn't worry over the danger of competition or Of being swallowed alive by some trust. There is one good thing about it,n he says whin- sically. The business is too small for the big companies to take notice of, and you're in no danger of being crushed out by some trust
 He doesn't depend on tomatoes alone. but grows all sorts of vege- tables, so as to broaden ms chances in case any particular season should turn out disastrous to that particular crop. He cans corn and peas for home use but doesn't try to put them up commercially. as they require an extra heat which would call for a more expensive outfit. if they were to he attempted in quantities and for general distribution. But he ooes put up beans and sweet potatoes for market, besides berries and small fruits
 Of course, he sells fresh fruits and FegetabI all there is remunerative demand for during the regular sea son. The canning proposition is sim ply 8 conservation of what would otherwise be waste; a profitable using of stuff which otherwise would rot and be thrown away.
 What do you think of it?. 'Twouldn't work with you, eh? Ali right, then don't try it.
 But isn't it just possible than some thing else would work with you. if you could get on to the right thing for your surroundings and your ca pacities?
 on don't have to do just as Pres ton does. You can skin your old cat in any way that suits you. There are more ways than one to do it.
 The point is that he found out the way to set a very neat income off a little patch of scrub land. py taking the conditions which he found and making the best of them.
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Preston didn't find it a gold-Tnine, either. He had pretty hard sledding the first year or two. He couldn't even get enough off the place to feed him. self and wife, though he put all the ground he could work into such veg etables as they needed for home con- sumption.
 One day, the second winter he was there. his wife remarked that it was a shame farmer should have to buy in cans at the grocery store every winter the same things he had grown in his garden the summer before
 The chance remark set Preston to thinking. Why couldn't they can, each summer, their own vegetables for the coming winter? He raised corn, peas, tomatoes, beans, sweet po- tatoes and various small fruits which wouldn't keep over winter in the na- tural state. At first he dismissed the idea as simply a dream How could common untrained farmer expect to can such things successfully. even if he had the money to buy the canning outfit? But the idea wouldn't stay dismissed. It kept bobbing up in his mind and priching him. At last he blew in a one-cent postal card, as a preliminary investment, asking the Department of Agriculture to send him it's bulletins on canning. When they came he studied them and, as he studied, saw his previous doubts grad ually disappear.
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COVENTRY

Mrs. William Rose Stricken in Church Orator for Memorial Day-Pouitry Night.
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It's a condition you're in, tuo; some sort of a condition. If you really want to better 1t there may not unlikely be some way,-some way which the very conditions themselves finger post you toby which you, also. might add g. needed stimulant to your financial circulation.
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And all the time he keeps his eyes wide open, looking for ways to do bet ter even that which he now may be doing fairly well.
 THE FARMER.
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The whole of the work is done with the help of five women and girls, and
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MT. Preston's tomatoes thus bring him in an average of over $104 a thousand cans, while he pays $50. .58 for cans, labels, and crates This leaves him over s73 to pay the wages of five girls and the cost of produc- ing tomatoes enough to fill the thous- and cans.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
Pioneer Editor ls Dead.

Sandusky. - John T. Mack, edi-
tor of the Sandusky Register, died
suddenly at his home here We'd
nesday morning. For more than
year he had been in i'll health and
since last fall had been unable to
leave his room.
John Toland Mack was born in
Rochester, N. Y, July 26, 1916. In
his youth he moved with his parents
to Broadhead, Wis. He taught school
in winter and worked on farm in
summer. He attended Beloit univer-
sity and later was graduated from
Oberlin college, where he met Mrs.
Mack, who is we'll known throughout
the state in D. A. r. and Daughters of
1912 circles. In 1870 Mr. Mack came
to Sandusky and entered the employ
of Col. |. F. Mack, then the owner and
publisher of the Sandusky Register.
A few years later he purchased an in
terest He took over the Register and
organized the Register Publishing Co.
In 1909 when Col Mack retired, and
he had the editorial direction of the
paper since.
With the late William H. Cappellar
of Mansfield and several other Ohio
publishers, Mr.. Mack organized the
Associated Ohio Dailies 2S years ago.
Mr.. Cappellar served two terms as
president during which time Mr..
Mack was secretary. Mr.. Mack sue
ceeded to the presidency and had been
at the head of the organization ever
since. He was also an officer and a
past president of the Buckeye Press
association and member of a num-
ber of other organizations of news
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
0. K. WOMEN'S RIGHTS
EQUALITY IN POLITICS, EcoNoM-
IcS AND SCHOOLS VOTED.
Or. Jordan Is Elected President of
National Education Association
Warning as to Sex Hygiene.

st. Paul, Mimi, July 1.-THE edu-
cational policies of the National Edu-
cation association for the coming
year were adopted at the annual busi-
ness session of the organization
Thursday.
Bitter opposition was evidenced in
connection with the resolution rebuk-
ing the large private foundations, but
the resolution was passed after the
hours Of debate.
Opposition was also made to the
resolution calling for suffrage, but the
opposition was not taken seriously by
the women present. Women we're in
the majority at the meeting and wom-
ems rights were recognized.
Resolutions indorsing woman suf-
frage and equal pay for teachers re-
gardless of sex were passed and five
OF the ten vice-presidents were al.
lotted to women.
Asked concerning a reported elev-
enth hour political meeting ole suf-
fragist merely answered:
I'VE were given everything we
asked"
The clause in the resolutions deal
ing with suffrage read:
The association regards efficiency
and merit, rather than sex, as the
principle on which appointments and
selections should be made, and there
fore declares itself in favor Of the
political equality Of the sexes and
equal pay for equal services"
Without a dissenting vote DR.. David
Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford uni
versity was elected president of the
association for the ensuing year. Oak
land Cal, was chosen as the meet
ing place next year.
The plan of President Edmund ].
James Of the University Of Illinois
for national graduate university sup
ported by federal aid was approved.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
CINCINNATI MARKETS

Corn-No. 2 white 79@791ac, No. 3
white 7SR@79c, No. white 7S@
78Rc, No. 2 yellow 72@72Rc, No. 3
yellow 71k@72c, No. yellow TO
71hc, No. 2 mixed 7Ok @71c, No. 3
mixed 69k@7Oc No. mixed 600
69kc, white ear 75@77c, yellow ear
76@7Sc, mixed ear 74@76c.
Hay-No. l timothy $19@20.50, new
$3.50, standard timothy $1S@19.5O,
No. 2 $17@18.50, No. timothy $3.50
1850, No. 1 clover mixed $17@17.75,
No. 2 clover mixed $15@15.75, No. 1
clover $13, No. 2 clover $11@11.50.
Oats-No. 2 white 41@411Ac, stand
ard white 40R@41c, No. white 400
4012c, No. white 36R@3S1ac, No.
2 mixed $500 No 3 mixed 500
361ac, No. mixed 35@3G1sc.
Wheat-No. red S1@S1hc, No. 3
red, old S0@S1c, new S11ac, No. 4 red
73@79hc.
Poultry-Hens, old, 15c; do light,
15c; roosters, 91ac; springers, * lb
and over, 24c; springers, under Y lb,
10000; young spring ducks, 2 lbs and
over, 12@14c; ducks, white, lie; tur-
keys, toms, 1412c; hen turkeys, 9 lbs
and over, 14Rc.
Eggs-Prime firsts 19c, firsts 1870,
ordinary firsts lac, seconds 12c.
Cattle-Shippers $7.50@S.75, extra
$S.S5@9.25; butcher steers, extra 1925
@8.40, good to choice $7@S.15, COM
mon to fair $525@6.5O; heifers, extra
$S.25@S.5O, good to choice $7.50@S.15,
common to fair $4.5007; COWS, extra
$6.35@6.50, good to choice $5.75@6.25,
common to fair $9.25@5.50, Gamers
$3.25@425.
Bulls-Bologna $525@6, extra $6.1O
@6.25, fat bulls $6.25@6.5O.
Calves-Extra $10@1Q25, fair to
good $7.50010, common and large S.
@9.50.
Hogs-Selected heavy shippers SO,
good to choice packers and butchers
$S.95@9, mixed packers $S.90@S.95,
stays $5@7, common to choice heavy
fat sows $G@S10, light shippers $3.50
@9, pigs Clio lbs and less), $3.50
S.75.
sheep-Extra $4.65@4.75, good to
choice $4.25@4.65, common to fair
$2.75@3.5O, heavy sheep $4,000.
Spring Lambs-Extra $9.40. one load
fancy ewes and wethers $3.50, good to
choice $9@935, common to fair 500
S.75, yearlings $475@7.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
BODY BARS 7. D. JONES
SENATE COMMITTEE TO REPORT
UNFAVoRARLY ON APPoINTEE.
warburg VIII Permit Name to Go Be.
fore Senate but Not Before
Banking Body.

Washington, July 11.-By a vote Of
to the senate committee on bank.
Ing and currency decided on Thursday
to report unfavorably the nomination
of Thomas d. Jones of Chicago to the
governorship of the federal reserve
board. Senators Pomerene, Hollis,
Shafroth and Lee of Maryland voted
to report Jones nomination favorably,
while Senators Hitchcock and Reed
joined with the Republicans of the
committee in opposing confirmation.
The committee agreed to postpone
indefinitely action on the nomination
Of Paul NJ. Warburg to be a member
Of the board, pending Warburg's final
decision concerning his appearance be-
fore the committee.
Henry Ford, the automobile manu-
facturer of Detroit, discussed business
conditions with President Wilson and
the probable effect of the antitrust
law on the country.
On leaving the White House Ford
said:
Il certainly think that business in
the United States is due for a big i'm
provement and l told the president
so. l had a general discussion with
the president over the trust program
and other matters. The automobile
business Is much better than it was
last year, and my own company is do
Ing so per cent better this year"
Paul NJ. Warburg will permit his
name to go before the senate for the
federal reserve board if President Will
son desires him to do so, but has not
changed his determination not to ap-
pear before the committee on banking
and currency. Word to this effect has
come to the White House, it was an
nouneed on Thursday, and the White
House let it be known that President
Wilson will stand pat" on the nomi.
nation and fight for the confirmation
of Warburg.
The Rucker bill to amend and codify
existing laws relating to publicity of
campaign contributions was passed by
the house by vote of 103 to 19 on
Thursday.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
CONFESSES PUTTING
POISON IN WHISKY
WOMAN ADMITS ACT WHICH
CAUSES DEATH OF ONE MAN
AND ILLNESS OF ANOTHER.
duplicates Brother In Attempt to
MHrder Uncle In Order to Secure
$3.50 Insurance Carried on
Life of the Latter.

Youngstown. Admitting she had
she gave to her uncle, Sam Or.
wig of New Bedford, Pa, Mrs, Emma
Mackey, alias Daugherty, implicated
her brother, ]. c. Snyder, in an at
tempt to murder Orwig in order to Sc
cure $3.50 insurance carried on the life
of Orwig and on which but one pay
ment had been made. The poisoning
of the bottle of whisky resulted in the
death Of Alfred Delito, watchman,
to whom Orwig gave a drink. Orwig
himself, who also drank from the bot
tie, is at the City hospital, but will
recover.
The confession of Mrs. Mackey
came after she was told Snyder had
confessed that he had urged his sister
to place strychnine in a bottle OF
whisky and give it to Orwig. She de-
scribed how, at a signal from Snyder,
she had put strychnine in the whisky
which the two men were drinking at
her home. After Orwig had left, tax
ing the bottle with him, she became
remorseful and tried to reach him be-
fore he boarded a car Orwig had be-
gun to grow sick soon after he had
given Delito a drink of whisky.
Strychnine was found in the whisky
and in the stomach of Delito by City
Chemist George Stevenson. Both Mrs.
Mackey and Snyder are held by the
police and will be charged with the
murder of Delito.
Mrs. Mackey ran a rooming house
in E. Federal-st. She is the widow Of
Ulysses Mackey, blast furnace blow
er, who was taken to India by Julian
Kennedy when he built a big steel
plant there in 1912. Mackey returned
to this country last year to take his
wife and six children back with him.
He found his wife in the Cleveland re-
formatory for deserting her children.
He secured her release and took them
to India, where he died in a few days
after their arrival. The widow then
returned here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
STREET CAVE-INS
IN FASHIONABLE QUARTER OF
PARIS FOLLOW GREAT
THUNDERsToRMs.
Passengers Rescued From Taxi Which
Falls Into HoIe-No Casualties
Are Reported.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris.-In the central fashionable
quarter of Paris several street cave
ins occurred after a heavy thunder
storm. In the Place Saint Augustine,
not far from the spot where a taxicab
was engulfed in a similar subsistence
on June Is, portion of the roadway
about 10 feet square collapsed. Traffic
has been diverted from this neighibor-
hood.
Other pits were formed in the Rue
de Caumartin. near the Rue de Havre
and in front of the Opera Comique.
No casualties are reported.
A section of the roadway in the
Boulevard Ney suddenly subsided and
a taxicab fell into the hole.
Firemen succeeded in lifting the cab
out and extricating two passengers,
who had escaped with bruises.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
TO SAVE ARCTIC EXPLORERS
Captain Bartlett to Start From Nome
to Take of Victims of kar-
LUX Wreck.

Seattle, Wash, July 10.-The reve-
nue. cutter Bear, with Capt. Robert A.
Bartlett of the Stefansson exploring
ship Karluk, will sail from Nome, ac-
cording to news received, probably
within week, for Wrangell island.
off the coast of Alaska, to take off
18 white men and four Eskimos, one
of them a woman, who have been in
the island since March 10, when they
arrived from the scene of the wreck
Of the Karluk. The Karluk was
crushed by the ice January 10, north
Of Herald island The men took all
the provisions off the ship and placed
them on the ice, also everything else
Of value on the boat, which sank the
next day. Herald island was in sight
to the south and two parties set out
for the island, but were unable to land.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
sEAMEN PERISH IN COLLISION.

Boston.-Capt. John H. Thomas, of
the five-masted schooner George P.
Hudson, and two seamen lost their
lives in a collision between their
schooner and the coastwise steamer
Middlesex in fog off Cape Cod. The
schooner, which was coal laden, bound
from Philadelphia to Boston, was near
ly cut in two and sank within five min
utes after the collision. The Middle
sex, bound from Boston to Norfolk
without cargo, put back into port
with nine rescued seamen from the
schooner aboard, bringing the first
news of the disaster.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
GUADALAJARA TAKEN
OBREGoN TAKES BIG CITY, WHIP
PING 10000 TROOPS WITH
ARMY OF 10000.
5000 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN
Long, Heavy Battle Believed Prelude
to Fall of Mexico's capitaI-General
Villa Opposes Peace Farley With
Huerta Government.

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mex, July IL.
-Guadalajara, capital of the state of
Jalisco and the second largest city in
the republic Of Mexico, is occupied by
the constitutionalist forces under
command of Gen. Alvazo Obregon,
commander-in-chief of the department
of the northwest, after a terrible de-
feat of the federal garrison.
Five thousand prisoners were taken
The number of dead and wounded on
both sides is great, but cannot be
given in detail at this moment owing
to the fact that the battle was fought
over a zone more than 100 kilometers
in width.
From prisoners it Is learned that the
garrison numbered 10000 men and
that not more than 5000 succeeded in
cutting their way out after abandon
ing their wounded, all their artillery
and stores, including great quantities
OF small arms and ammunition.
After the occupation General Obre-
Own AOob iO III oClIulllG q hSdNy
column in pursuit Of the fugitives and
as they are on foot he believes he will
have no trouble in preventing their
escape to Quarataro or San Luis
Potosi.
The battle for the occupation of the
city lasted continuously for 48 hours
the attack being led by General Blan-
CO, the hero of Topic.
No estimate can be made of the
federal loss, but it is said by Generals
Blanco and Obregon to be compara-
lively small and will not include a
single officer among either killed or
wounded.
General Obregon says that his army
numbered but 10000 men and that he
had fewer than 20 cannon when the at
tack began. Comparatively little dam
age was done by the bombardment
Like Zacatecas, Guadalajara was
considered impregnable and that it
fell into his hands SO easily surprised
even General ObregOn.
The number of guns captured is not
yet definitely known, but prisoners
say there were fully 40 cannon.
Washington, July 11.-Constitution
alist headquarters here received no
confirmation of the report published
in Mexico City that General Villa was
assassinated by woman in Torreon.
Constitutionalist agents say the re-
port is so obviously false as not to
warrant denial
Washington, July 11.-General Villa
has voted against informal peace con-
ferences between representatives of
the Mexican constitutionalists and the
Huerta government, as proposed by
the South American mediators.
Seeing final victory almost within
his grasp, Villa declared there should
be no parleying with Huerta except on
the battlefield.