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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-11

issued last night by British war Office
brings total British losses to date
up close to $4,000.
Berlin, via Hague.-Admitted that
kaiser and German general staff have
been in danger from a Belgian
French bomb attack by aviators.
They are directing general cam
paign against France from German
legation in Luxembourg. A few nights
ago it is admitted Belgian and French
aviatoTs flew over city and attempted
to drop bombs on the legation build
ing. Four bombs fell near it, but it
is stated they did no damage.
Nish.-The SerYian army which
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-11

School erected in honor of Father
Maurice ]. DoTney, ''The Stockyards
Priest" cost 100000. Near st. Ga
briefs church.
Bod y of an unidentified man found
on tracks of Penn. R. R. last night.
Police on job.
Stolen auto of E. Ryan, 800 w. 4ath
ST., wrecked. Albert Kearney, 1859
W. Ohio ST., locked up. Companion,
Mrs. Martha Lampke, 1441 S. Leavitt
st., in hospital under police guard.
Capt. Rehm, West Lake st. station,
celebrated 10th year on force Thurs
day.
M. P. FIannery, 22o6 w. jackson
blvd, ticket agent Lake st. Metro
pOlitan 81" station, held up. Passen-
gers scared robber away.
Florence Hoffman, IS, 1926 Mon
tana ST., tried suicide. Poison. Re
Vived.
Fireman answering call at paint
factory of J. w. MasUTy & Son, 1895
Federal ST., found man on floor, dying
from fumes. Believed to be watch
man.
George H. WhittIe, retiring pres. of
Public Safety Commission, urges bet
ter plan to identify motorcyclists.
Larger licenses.
Pauline Henderson, II, told the po-
lice that she had been tramp since II
years old. When mother died. Taken
to Harrison st. annex.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-11
OF THE Day CONCERNING CT


Safe taken from Hamilton Theater,
63d and Halsted SITS, found near VIII
low Springs. Blown open. $40 taken.
Painters Union No. 147 to hold
special meeting Tuesday eve, Sept.
Is. Elect delegates to State Fedora
ton of Labor.
Miss Cora Ensminger, Billings,
Mont, who. filed suit for 1925, 900
against Chas. Blair, Butte, reported
on way to Chicago. Did not show up.
Auto of A. R. Gibson, 1919 w.
Jackson blvd, caught fire at Lake
and LaSalle SITS. Slight damage.
Harry CIanahan and Fred Mathers
sent back to Peoria on charge of rob-
bling North ChiIlicothe, ILL.,, postoff1ce.
Petrona Black sued Emil HetVer
for $25, 900 breach of promise. Claims
wedding set for Aug. 9.
Bernice, 1s-foot gasoline launch,
disabled two miles out in lake. Tow
ed ashore by lifesavers.
Joseph 7. Lennon, mayor of York
ers, N. Y, and Is members of coun-
Gil arrived in Chicago. Touring large
cities.
Frank cassel, 70, 1906 w. e3d ST.,
dead. Heart disease.
Burglars entered home of Mrs. r.
NJ. Little, 58O6 South Park av. Got
clothing, silver and jewelry valued at
$500.
Thos. Brown, 634o Aberdeen ST., in
court on charge of stealing $500 in
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-11

has been forcing back Austrian in
vaders today occupied the Austrian
city of Semlin. Bloodiest battle Of
the campaign preceded the victory.
Servian advices say the enemy lost
an enormous number of men. Sem
lin is few miles north of Belgrade,
across the Save river. 1t is a city of
considerable importance from a
strategical point of view.
New York.-The Belgian commits
sion which is en- route to Washington
to lay before Pres. Wilson charges
of inhUmanity against German
troops reached heeT today on board
the White Star liner Celtic.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

profitable should I insist or you in sist that all the experience that is worth anything to us is Just that which we have ourselves picked up? Aren't there about eleven million oth- CT farmers farming and finding ex- perienca? Aren't they likely. as an eleven million bunch, to accumulate stock than has got under my hat-brim or yours? And if somebody comes along who has digested this universal experience, gathered through many generations and from diverse condi- tions into a sort of general human experience, isn't it, after all, within the bounds of possibility that heimay be able to give useful pointers, even to us Wise Men of the East? s.
 It seems that the Nebraska farmers weren't enthusiastic over the plan un- til a years field test ofIit under ad- verse conditions had proven its practi- cality. Probably we of the east will have to go through similar course. Has anybody thought of making a start in that general directionP Now that a soil survey has been made of New London county, affording a basis to work from, why mightn't it be a good thing to see if the government couldn't be induced to send a demon strator here, to try for a year and see what he could accomplish? Of course, such farrners as are already doing as well as they want to needn't seek or accept his advice. But I fancy there must be some who are not fully real izing their utmost ambition in the way of crops and profits. They ought to be willing at least to take a chance"
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

There sure have been chanaes that are not m the line of progress on the shores of Winthrop cove. Going back to whaling days, note the changed conditions that have come to the wat erside of Water street, then the bus lest section of the whole city, now al
 most abandoned. When the men of this time, now past middle age, knew Water street. it was business from one end to the other, so much so that car goes from vessels could not be accom- odated en the wharves and lined the street. At the upper end Was fba wharf Of the New Londsn and New York line Of PEopellors. where praetic- ally all the freight from the metreno- lis was landed and where there was always q return cargo This site is now unused except for small fish market. Next was the Darrow coal and cement plant, now vacant Then the old wooden mill, now silent. Next the Williams and Barnes whaling wharf and the Badet coal and lumber. plant. now occupied by the old Bish- op plant and used for storage pur- poses. Next came the extensive
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

On the opposite side of the cove, Just inside the railroad hridqe was a coal yard where coal carrying vessels discharged large cargoes. Just above was the big manufacturing plant of the Aibertson and Douglass company at whose wharf large steamboats. such as the City of Boston and the City of New York, of the Norwich line, received boilers and engines and were overhauled and repaired. A short dis tance beyond, at and near the ap- proach from Main street to the pres ent Crystal avenue bridge, on what was known as the Mather property. was another large shipbuilding plant.
 This Is only to show that the waters or Winthrop cove was of great benefit to thriving New London industries, but this gradual filling in process. making land of private ownership. has tended to lessen the facilities of new London for manufacturing pur- poses. The industries that once bord cred Winthrop cove can never be re- vlVed, owing to lack of water facili- ties. But the Colgate eyesore will probably be permitted to remain, for ever, or until the last born babe of the present year reaches its centen- nia1 anniversary
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

For instance, and as one illustration of the sort of thing I mean:
 They have a law out in Nebraska that, whenever a certain proportion of the farmers of any county petition the county commissioners for farm dem onstrator, the said commissioners have got to hustle around and get them one. laying a special county tax to meet the cost. There is also on that state a.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

You know, just as well as do, that we'd both feel our bristles rising at the very suggestions.
 But right there comes in the perti- nent inquiry whether we are farming with our bristles or with our brains.
 We would resent as something akin
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

Since I've read about this move out in Nebraska, I've been wondering a little how such a thing would take in Connecticut.
 Remember that the average demon man.
 Remember, also, that he is apt to be a man with experiment station or az icultural college training
 Most of us have grown and griz- zled working our farms. We may not have much book learning." but we feel pretty well acquainted with the dirt we've worked for forty odd years
 Now comes the proposal that we submit our farming operations to the direction of some fellow of half our years, a stranger to our Iand and full of '"book ideas"
 What would be our attitude?
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

Never mind about the neiqhbors Don't let's worry ourselves over the way they'd take it How would WE take it,-you and F
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

The remains of the whaling schoon- CT, Charles Colgate, the last of the new London Whalers, has been for years lying on the muddy bottom of Winthrop's cove, growing slowly but surely into permanent decay, so slow ly that portions of the old hulk will be visible for the next century a black eye to the progress of the city unless the Municipal Art society, or some other organized body interested in busy and causes the demolition of the eyesore. There are men of today who wonder how the dismasted old vessel reached it's final resting place, for now there is barely water sufficient in the cove to float the float that came to New London from Norwich many years ago and took aboard that mini ature of the old court house, at the head of State street, and toted it off to Norwich
 During the big fight in which effort was made to have Norwich the only shire town of the county that little court house was in a Fourth of July parade in New London and painted on the sides were these significant words:
 Too Old To Go To Norwich" But it went, the miniature court hou5e, though New London and Norwich are still the shire towns.
 In this connection the Winthrop cove referred to is what was former ly the water that extended from the New London Northern Railroad bridge to Mill street. where %le stream from the town mill pond empties into the cove. Nowadays, since the govern ment has done dredging between the pig Central Vermont pier and the water front from the old Norwich line pier in Water street to the railroad bridge. that section Is referred to in government literature as Winthrop cove, but was not so when the gray haired of today had knowledge of To- calities in that section.
 Winthrop cove is being fast filled in and encroached upon by abuttinu owners who evidently claim riparian rights, as the late John Bishop used to quote so frequently in town meeting If this filling process continues as rapid in the next half century as it has in the past, Winthrop cove will be among the coves that was and is no more. Even now above the Crystal avenue bridge the only water is the brook through which the water from the mill pond empties and the ecca- extraordinary high tides. In the space enclosed by that bridge vessels Of considerable size have been built and launched. and not away back in the revolutionary period at that.
 William Miller, the father of Cap tain William Miller, the well known yacht master, built schooners there that were engaged in the coasting trade, and the present Captain Miller as young man, wielded the broad axe and helped at ship building.
 In the section now enclosed between the Crystal avenue and the railroad bridges was one of the busiest mari time sections along the entire water front. On the west side, and not far from the rotting hulk of the Colgate. was ship yard of considerable proportion. Here many coasting yes sels were built as were also some of the most noted of schooner yachts, in cluding the Rambler and the Calypso; and many yachts made the cove their winter quarters
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14
WHAT DEMONSTRATORS HAVE AND MAY
 SHOW

Volunteer Agricultural Development Commission, made up mostly of bank CTS, packers, millers, railroad men, etc. who agree to pay half the expense of such a demonstrator, whenever the le- gal number of farmers in any county will pay the other half.
 The machinery being thus all pre- pared, last season happened along the hardest farming summer known to the state for years.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

The average western farmer is, think, a little more likely than his eastern colleague to open all his eyes when waking-up time comes around When some fellow who has come upon an agricultural discovery that prom ises better and bigger crops happens along and slaps him on the back and yells Hey. Uncle here's a chance to make your farm pay better" he wakes up at least to say Show me-" That attitude has come to be known the world over as one belonging to ''the man from Missouri
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14
DIR. E. ". HOLMS. Dentist

Shannon Building Annex, Room A. TeIephone 62a octlod
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

l don't know whether the farmers of Nebraska think themselves western ers' or "easterners." Reckoning on a line from New York to San Francisco. there are about as many of them east of the middle as west of it. Perhaps they're a little of both Anyway, they hadn't up to last season got their eyes open enough to see the possibilities in the farm demonstrater proposition. To that extent they showed the eastern spirit. But the government, which had sensed the situation last season pick ed out four counties in different parts of the state and, on it's own motion, sent four demonstra tions into them As has been noted, the season turned out phenomenally bad for all farm op- erations.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

Now comes in the western spirit. No sooner had the exceptional success of the farmers in these four counties been made clear than the other farm CTS of Nebraska woke up to their op- portunity. Already the farmers of thirty eight other counties, embracing more than half the farms and more than half the farmers of the entire state, have put in applications for farm demonstrators for the coming sum- Tner.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

The committee and the court of common council, too, blundered In call ing city meeting for the purpose of issuing bonds to the amount of SIP. 900 for the completion of the building, under that home rule law, and the meeting was called off. Subsequently, the court of common council renewed the vote recommending the appropri- ation of that sum of money for the purpose. and the city meeting to be called will act on the renewed propo- sition. It Is planned to have the money appropriated, the specified tax laid, and all the legal details carried out, but there is no intention to in crease the tax rate by reason of this appropriation
 Should the appropriation be made. and under the circumstances it should be, only such sums of money as are actually needed will be hired from time to time. until the next session of the legislature convenes and then au- thority to issue bonds to meet the ex- pense will be given the city. and the interest wil be met without special appropriation. As the tax would not be due until next July. or after the bonds are issued no special tax would be collected. That is the way the matter was explained in the court of common council when unanimous vote prevailed in favor of the appropriation of s72.0oo.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14
J. F. coNANT, n Franklin st.

Whitestone Dc and the J. F. c. los Cigars are the best on the market rf ~ TTy them
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

it may not stand to reason, as we understand "reason", that any strang- CT is likely to know better than we what to do with our farms
 But suppose actual trial shows that such a stranger really does know bet ter how to get profit off the farm than we do?
 Shall we fcrego the profit in order to maintain our dignity and cossett our good conceit of ourselves? Or shall we whack dignity and self-con- ce1t into the scrap-heap, and take the extra dollars?
 It seems that more than half the Nebraska farmers have promptly de- cided to take help from any direction that it is offered, if only it is real and profitable help.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

The four counties into which the demonstrators were sent were Seward, Gage, Merrick and Thurston
 When the season had ended and re- suits could be counted up it was found that just four counties in Nebraska lad done better than any others in the state, in point of total yield and actual profit.
 And those four counties were Se- ward, Gage, Merrick and Thurston.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

tell you, experience is a grand teacher. My own opinion is that it beats theory all hollow
 But why in the name Of all that is
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14
NEW LONDON'S WINTHROP COVE
Gradually Disappearing by the Filling Process-Changes Along the Water Front-Money Needed to Complete Re modelling City Hall - Explanation of Expenditures Would Bring Harmony

whaling business of Williams and Haven and the Colt lumber and Coal plant, now the plant of the gas and electric light company and the New England Carpet Lining company. Then came couple of dwelling houses, a store. the large marble yard of James Lyman, dwelling house. two black smith shops, a block >and spar yard, the large boat building plant of Shar- ach Reeves andthe Hebron coal yard All this latter section Is now idle, fenced in by the Central Vermont Railroad company. except the freight house of accommodation.
 So 1t will be readily seen that the changed conditions of Water street do not indicate increased business in dustry. This same comparison might be carried on along the entire water front. It serves to show that the nat ura1 advantages of New London har- Dor have not been taken advantage of, and that business, the manufacturing establishments. are not located on the water front especially in the section of the city here mentioned
 Since the abandonment of the shores of Winthrop cove for nanu- facturing purposes, since the passage Of those good "old whaling days" New London has more than trebled in population and increased one hundred fold and more in real progress. in 1uence and importance, and has de- veloped from a whaling station into a real live city and is still on the grow, with prospects brighter than ever. The city has outgrown it's old city hall and is now building, and has been for the past two years, a magnificent municipal building, the term city hall having been cast into the debris of old New London. That municipal build ing. if it will be really worth what it will cost. will be fine building even for progressive New England. It will inal estimate, so much that some of the people, just a few, perhaps, are developing into full fledged Missouri ans and want to be shown.
 In fact the query has been made as to expenditures. and official reply was made by explanation that did not explain. Figures were printed to show that certain amounts of money had been paid to the contractor paid by reason of payroll and the like, tend ing to show that cash in large sums had been paid out by the city treasur- CT on account of the building and in the regular waN. That point was patent to everybody. The money could not be paid out in any other way. There are some busy-body tax payers who wanted to know what the money had been paid for, so as to judge whether the peoples money was being judiciously expended. and that the tax payers have the right to know, for they are to the city what stockholders are to a big corporation.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

There are not very many Eastern farrners,|real farmers I mean who find themselves in the automobile cIssa Yet there are many thousand western farmers who do.
 Why is it?
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14
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 whenever you pick up the paper and read a story of great farm prosperity, of farmers getting rich and all that sort of thing, 1he date line is pretty sure to be somewhere out west. It's been so for several years; is so now
 It won't do to dismiss all these stories As just so much western brag, either. Statistics show that western farmers are buying and using automobiles by the ten thousand. Now it might be possible for farmer who wasn't mak- ing money to buy a bubble wagon by mortgaging his farm. But I think any one who has ever used one of the things will admit that no farmer could run one after he'd got it-supply it with gasoline and oil and new tires and repairs,-unless he were either making money or had a surplus in bank.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

Oh, don't mean that they are physi- eally asleep and snoring. They gener. ally have the eyes of their faces open. But too often they are either unable or afraid to open the eyes of their minds. They can see a stump or a fence, and know when they've got to the end of one row and must begin mother. But they aren't wide enough awake to see the reasons for their farming. They're too sleepy to strike out for themselves along new lines of promise. Their mental eyes are closed tightly against all suggestions from others of help from outside.
 It's the regulationn thing to say of q farmer that he's awful set in his ways" And we ourselves know, if we're honest with ourselves, that there's too much truth in the half sneering criticism.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

The municipal building Is so far advanced that its completion is ab- solutely necessary, and the city meet ing should approve of the councils action in that particular. Just the same the city meeting is the proper place for the committee to prove its efficiency in the expenditure of over S100, 900, before spending S72, ,o00 more of the peoples money. The committee should render to the taxpayers an ac- count of their stewardship. The per sonnel of tho committee, as a whole, Is beyond reproach, and 1t is well that 1t is so.
 Just a little explanation. even a skeleton report of what has been done and how 1t has been done, will go a long way towards a harmony and sat isfying a city meeting. There is no doubt but the sum specified is required to carry to completion the municipal building, as planned. and that sum should be appropriated at the coming city meeting, and it probably will be, and without question. if the whole matter is properly explained. It would never do to suspend the work on that building in its present stage of con straction.
 The democrats have a ma ajsrity in the court of common council and in the
 (Continued on Page Fifteen)
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

Probably there are several reasons. I don't profess to know them all. I'm not even sure of a single one. But I've got sort of suspicion lurking around in that sub b-liminal conscious ness of mine that one reason may be because the western farmer is a lit- tie more apt to wake up before he goes to work.
 It ts fact that a whole lot of east ern farmers do most of their farming asleep.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

to an insult the suggestion that some brash young fellow with his head full us how to manage our farms better than we had learned from experience.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-14

but,-a9aln thls contrary minded but" but in case it should be shown as a matter of cold fact that four of these brash young chaps had enabled four other farmers to beat a bad sea son and get better crops, despite it, than any other farmers in the coun- tryside, what then?
 Another pertinent inquiry is wheth- CT we are farming for results, or simply for the sake of having our own way?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-09-11
Sunday School Convention

The Nineteenth Annual Convention
of Essex County Sunday School As
ISOLATION will be held in the Metho-
dist Church, Island Pond, Wednesday
afternoon and evening and Thursday
forenoon, September 23rd and oath.
Committees on arrangements as fol-
lows: Entertainment-Mrs. L. F.
Jones, Mrs. L. B. Jones, Mrs. c. NJ.
King. Reception Mrs. Robert
Lawton, Mr.. L. B. Jones, Rev. o. F.
Barnard and all boys belonging to
their Bible classes. Music-Mrs.
Emma Rawson. Decoration and Ex-
hibit-Nrs. Claude S. Foster and
three young ladies' Bible classes.
Advertising-W. F. Morong.
All visiting delegates will be en-
tertained by the people Of Island
Pond, and are requested to address
their requests for entertainment to
Mrs. L. F. Jones as early as possible.