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Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-15
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS
 GO UP IN PRICE.
Result of War-Gernany Has Fur nished Much of the Chemicals for the World.

This war of the worlds" is going to make it expensive to be sick. The price | of drugs and chemicals is advancing l sharply. Wholesale houses are paying prohibitive prices for drugs and chem icais. and the manufacturers are con cerned in the new problem which now presents itself.
 There is hardly a process in manu- facture which does not at some stage require products made by chemistrs- In the last four decades Germany has been developing her chemical products making processes of manufacture moro and more efficient until it came to pass that the world depended upon Ger many alone for many things. Now the aid of the chemists of the fatherland has been withdrawn and the United States depends again upon it's own re- sources. There are many products used in the arts. in the dyeins of fab rics, in the making of print paper. in the tanning of leather and in the washing of clothes which requires the aid of chemicals.
 The rise in the price has not been due entirely to the closing of Germany to the trade of the world. There are other countries of the old world which are producing herbs of medicinal value on which manufacturers have been de- pending this fall. There are flowers used in color processes, petals which yield fragrant distillments. flowers which soothe pain and leaves whicn retard or hasten the action of the heart. Unless the steamship lines are soon running again, the prospects of obtaining the supplies of foreign her baria and laboratories are very small. The result may be that certain opera tions of manufacture will be discon tinued.
 Some Examples.
 Two of the chemicals in general use l to go up in price are tartaric acid and cream of tartar, both derived from the argols or deposits found in the wine | casks of France, Spain and Portugal. | The refining process is usually done in | this country. Tartaric acid was 3-4 | cents a pound, but IS cents was gladly paid for it on the advance. Cream of | tartar, used in baking powders, was I selling last week at 23 3-4 cents a pound and later it brought 30 cents a | pound. These two chemicals cause collars and cuffs and shirts to drop to | pieces. The laundrieS cannot get along | without them as they save rubbing. and rubbing means hard work, and hard work must be paid for Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime has gone up one cent a pound Nobody was es- pecially keen to buy oxalic acid last week at 1-2 cents a pound. but large quantities of it were sold later at a II cents.
 One of the sensational rises is that of chloride of barium. crude chem
 ical manufactured in Germany, quoted
 few days ago at $32 a ton and now
 at S100 a ton. Sal ammoniac, used ir
 making dry batteries. jumped from slX
 cents a pound to 12 and 15 cents Carbonate of potash, the basis of fer
 tiliZers. sold freely a few days ago lt
 three cents a pound and later was
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bringing from 10 to 12 cents Tin OK idle finds it's way into many industrial arts The makers of cotton fabrics used it as a mordant in printing and dyeing It was sold for 36-cents last week and is now held at 65 cents. Cit ric acid, ordinarily about 55 cents a pound.S has jumped to S5 cents, and vernol has advanced from s1.65 to s2.50 per ounce.
 Derivatives.
 The almost innumerable derivatives of coal tar. increased in price. Notice was sent out by the agents of the makers of phenacetine, aspirin and similar headache remedies that a sub stantial increase in price had been
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There is scarcely

There is scarcely neighbor around me who does not use your medicine. Mrs. ]. F. JOHNSON, R. No. 4, Box 30, Prince ton, Illinois.
 Experience of a Nurse.
 Poland, N. Y.-E1n my experience as nurse I certainly think Lydia E. Pink. lam's Vegetable Compound is a great medicine. wish all women with fe- nale troubles would take it. I took it when passing through the Change of Life with great results and always re- commend the Compound to all my pa- .ients if I know of their condition in time. will gladly do all I can to help others to know of this great medicine D Mrs. HORACE NEWMAN, Poland, Her. timer Co.,, N. Y.
 If you are i'll do not drag along until m operation is necessary, but at once ake Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 If you want special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,. confidentiaDiLynn Mass. -
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ana Q weakness all caused by fem ale trouble, and I took Lydia E. Pinkham's V e g e table Com pound with such ex- cellent results that I am now feeling fine. l recommend tn e Compoundand praise it to all. I shall be glad to have you publish my letter.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-15

Local proeressives declare that they will nominate full state ticket, can didate for senator. congressman. rep resentatives and state senators, and that every mothers son of them will be representative of the principles of the progressive party of the state. They claim a larger and better organized party than ever before and declare that they will show surprising strength in the city and state elections. It is said that the activity demonstrated by the progressives in New London is but a shadow of the work that is going on elsewhere in the state and that the new party will show both the old parties some new tricks and deals in the game of politics as played in Connecticut.
 If there is truth in the old saying, "A new broom sweeps clean," there will be something bordering on the clean sweep in the coming elections. But someone has said. talk was cheap and it took coin to buy grog.
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made. Carbolic acid went tip 2 1-2 cents a pound on account of the scarci- tS of the German article. Opium and will be much hindered by the present hostilities. It is now SS.35 a pound, having gone up G5 cents in the last few days SuIphate of morphia was quoted at S5-3O an ounce-a rise of 25 cents an ounce in one day.
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NEW LONDON LOST CONVENTION

The Action of the Democratic State Central Committee - dicates Good Landers and Mahan Prospects-The Sol diers' Monument Not Likely to Be Moved or the Park Lot Be Abolished-The Progressive Eenent-Brande- gee Sure to Be Nominated For Senator-Nothing But the Progressives Can Prevent His Reelection the Senate.
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 And tell you that this sense of liberty, limited only by dependence on an entirely just and absolutely changeless Jaw, is worth something more than dollars and cents to any real man. It can't be Eeckoned at fifty cents a day or $537 year. It is something which a man can sell for money, but which not all the money in the world can buy,-para- doxical as the statement may seem. The farmer who really appreciates it at its real worth isn't likely to es- innate it in terms of the market banking house The farmer who does mt appreciate it.-well, perhaps he does make a mistake in sticking to the old farml
 There's no accounting for tastes. I've known people who didn't like straw berries. Such unfortunates shouldrS | be compelled to eat them. But their dislike doesn't prove that strawberry isn't better than raw potato. a1lee- samee.
 THE FARMER
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The leading members fthe progres- siVe party in New London are in active political campaign and the indications are that the party will have a com plete local ticket in thes field in the October city election, and will vote their party ticket in the state election a month later. Already the party has a caucus enrolment of over 200, which according to political computation of the party means a total vote of over 500 in the city. It is said that there are progressiYes enough in the fifth ward to elect an alderman, especially if Alderman Kirkland should insist that he be not renominated. as th@e is be- lief that many republicans would join with the progreSsiVes in that ward against the gentleman who is slated as the nominee in opposition to Kirk land It is strong republican ward, enough republicans to defeat any pro- gressive- democrat fusion candidate. but who would naturally swing their vote to such candidates as Thomas w. Casey or Norwan NJ. Buddy who are mentioned as the progressive nominees.
 In some of the other wards. there are progressives sufficient to hold the balance of power and with just little aid from the republicans or democrats or both, would elect their candidates for aldermen. For some reason best known to the progressives, they an- nouncc that it IS their intention in New London and Norwich, too, to en- dorse the republican nomination of Sidney A. Brown for sheriff of New London county. but they will not en- dorse any other candidate of any oth- CT party.
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there is no doubt but Senator Brande- gee will be elected to succeed himself, provided. of course. the progressives nave drawn their political sled under the shet
 Mir. Brandegee is descrvedly popular with the. people and at the coming elec- tioE it will be the first opportunity that the people have to vote direct for candidate for the United States sen ate, and under ordinary conditions there would be no doubt as to his re- election.
 The progressive is an unknown. quality and upon the strength of the progressive vote depends the success of the demQcratic candidate be he Baldwin, Mahan. or any other man. At han seems as sure as the nomination of Brandegee. If that should come to pass there would surely be a hot political fight in old New London town, with two of the native sons bat ting for political supremacy.
 If the hoIding of the state convention in Hartford is victory for Mahan over Baldwin in the senatorial contest, the same rule applies in the guberna- torial contest between Landers and Comstock and in favor of Landers it being conceded that Baldwin and Com stock are hand-in-hand to defeat Ma han and Landers. Comstock is work ing the political game to the limit and he knows every point that is worth the playing, even to the extent Of dealing a card or two to those who
 have in any way profited through Gov ernor Baldwin or through MT. Com stock as chairman of the democratic
 state central committee, a position he | held for several years. until deposed
 by Forster of Rockville. There are
 such throughout the state and they | will be expected to see to it that Bald
 win and Comstock delegates are elect ed to the state convention. As a re- suit there will be some lively times
 in some towns at the caucuses when l the delegates ahe to be chosen. l It's a safe bet that there will be doubt | as to the delegation that will go from l New London, and that not a man
 among them will favor the nomination | of Charles F. ComStock for governor if MT Landers is the opposing nom | inee or any other man for that mat | ter; and that MT. Baldwin will not gel | a single vote for senator from tho | delegation. The democrats of New
 London, the greater majority of them | are for Mahan and Landers, and as is i sometimes said in political conventions
 first. last and all the time. There is
 no Comstock sentiment on the sur I face in New London.
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Iakina No Chances.

Colonel Roosevelt says he does not mind Penrose's, threats about those mysterious Ietters:- but he has dropped the topic suddenly, nevertheless Boston Advertiser.
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Runniro True to Eorn.

It can be said for George Fred Williams that anybody who expected anything else of him was either. dense- ly ignorant or recklessly optimistic Kansas City Journal.
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Touah on the Insane.

The idea of sending women who want to starve to deattsto insane asy- lums is a good one, if the insane asy- lums will let them in--Philadelpha Ledger.
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But

That doesn't tell the whole story. There's another side to it. There are, doubtless, many other vacations in
 which the farmer who should use the
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 NE:GA5Cs.!5j7
There Is Hardly A Woman Who Does Not Rely Upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
 etable Compound.

Princeton, Ill.-"I had inflammation, hard headaches in the back of my neck
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There is nowhere and to nobody in

There is nowhere and to nobody in the universe, such a thing as un- restrained license of action. But the farmer has wider liberty under law than any other worker in the world. Also the law under which he works is, unlike all human laws or rules. absolutely and eternally just, fair and invariable. When he once knows it, he may trust his bottom dol lar and his last drop of blood to it. There is nothing ex post facto. noth- ing whimsical about natural law If ever it seems so. it is simply because we haven't read it right or don't un- derstand it.
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Under that law. the farmer is ot1- erwise free Independent So far as Is possible to humanity. .his own mas ter
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just and fair. yesterday. today and forever There is no favoritism and no spite in Nature She plays no tricks and takes no underhand advan- tage. Whatever the game, she plays it is fair from beginning to end. The far mer admittedly has no hand in maS-, ing the rules of the game. but Ne can learn them, or the most of them Once learned, he is thenceforth at per feet liberty to play his part under them with unshaken and serene con- fidence that nothing will o@can change them by so much as the dotting of, an ssi''
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While a guest of Congressman Ma han in Washington, former demo-
 pubhcan offer and who poses as a publican leader in New London, gave out an interview to the effect that Sen ator Frank Bosworth Brandegee of New London would be nominated by the republicans and without opposi- ton. If that be so, and it probably is,
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This throws an interesting sideiight Dn the old and never-to- be- settled controversy between the big farm and the little farm. But I'm not thinking so much about that this morning. There's a deal to be said O both sides, In that matter. What I'm thinking about is that $537 average income.
 And whether or no it justifies the frequently heard assertion that farmin' don't pay.'
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01
Pleasant Gap Items.

Clarke Smith teacher of the Pleas
ant Gap school spent Christmas week
with his parents.
Miss Sylvia Merchant spent Sun
day evening with Miss Mary Kauff-
man. They were intending to attend
prayer meeting, but we did not learn
whether they attended or not.
\ George May visited Saturday night
and Sunday with his daughter Mrs.
Chas. Morgan. His son-in-law and
Cleveland returned home with him
to attend shooting match at Athol
Monday.
The shooting match at Pleasant
Gap Wednesday was success with
a large crowd in attendance.
Mr.. Roy Minick went to Oregon
Saturday.
Charley Bassett was a Appleton
City visitor Monday. "Poor Charley
almost froze and says he wants the
weather to moderate before he goes
again.
N. M. Nestlerode was in this vicin-
ity taking pictures Monday. The
storm overlook him and we guess he
froze his mustache off, as we noticed
he "was queer looking creature. ="
Carl Wittie and Albert burst are
erecting new garage" for B. Wix,
room for horses and cow.
Pleasant Gap is booming. 2 new
blacksmith shops are underway.
Uncle Jack Knowles Of Deepwater
township has rented house in Pleas
ant Gap and will build him black
smith and wagon shop and follow his
trade. He is hard to beat.
Mink Fox of Prairie township has
bought the B. Wix blacksmith. shop
and will take possession January /,
1914 in Pleasant Gap. ,,y"
Sidney Baugher has a rope ma
chine for making rope. 1t is dandy
and works like charm.
Cleveland Baugher went to Corn
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01

land to the shooting match and got a
goose. Vern Corum returned home
with him. They say they are going
to have a feast.
Miss Nellie Baugher and Miss Myr-
tie Stubbs visited Miss Sylvia Mer-
chant but Miss Sylvia was not at
Sunday.
In last weeks items we made a
mistake about the boys selling their
boots and coming home barefooted.
It was two boys in the neighborhood
that put their boots up at auction and
sold them. The highest bid was 80
cents and both boys came home
through the mud barefooted.
PUG and TOBIE.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01

AS ''In the spring the young man S
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
love- so about the Holidays his
thoughts seriously turn to thoughts of
matrimony.
More Wedding Bells
Miss Ada Stokes, youngest dangh-
ter of Mrs. A. Stokes, and Mr.. Harvey
Powell were united in marriage Dec.
oath, 1918. Mrs. Powell is one of the
Valleys favorites and numbers her
friends by her acquaintance. Mr..
Powell grew to manhood in this vi
cinity and has many friends. They
were treated to an old fashioned
charivari on Friday night. "May
their joys be as deep as the oceanand
their sorrows as light as its foam."
Mrs. james Slyter and daughters
spent the week end with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Latham of Rich
Hill.
David Evilsizer and family of Kan
sas City, Mo-, are spending the week
with the families of j. j.. Walker and
H. L. Evilsizer and other relatives.
Willard Isley of Rich Hill is visit
ing his friend, Gilbert Blankenbaker.
The Christmas entertainment at
Star was success and enjoyed by
all present. The tree was "a thing
Of beauty if not Joy forever.
Elmer Latham has been on the sick
list for several days. Hard lines,
Elmer, to be sick on Xmas week, and
got a best girl, too.
Howard Smith was taken to Butler
Monday to receive medical treatment.
Dave Thomas and family spent
Christmas day with his daughter and
family, Mrs. Lutte Bartlett, of Corn
land.
Mrs. Kate Daniels and children Of
Kansas are visiting Mrs. Henry Evil
sizer, Mrs. Will McGinniss and num-
erous other relatives. =
Simon Roush and wife of north of
town were the Christmas guests Of his
nephew, Thomas Booth and family.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01
East Lone Oak.

Mrs. Visa Cough spent the holidays
with homefolks. She returned to
Kansas City last Tuesday.
The Xmas program given at Peru
was very we'll attended and a good
program rendered which was enjoyed
by all present.
Rev. Gather preached At Peru last
Sunday and Sunday night
Rev. Haynes will preach at Peru
next Sunday morning.
Prayer meeting at Peru every
Wednesday night. Ernest Cough is
the leader for this week.
Several of the farmers of this vicin-
ity hauled corn from Butler and Rich
Hill last week.
Nuckols Bros. have traded their
place near Marshall school house to
j. w. Barnhart for his place near
Brackney.
C. M. Thomas who was in failing
health last fall has almost ore quite
recovered. He and Mrs. Thomas are
in Oklahoma visiting her relatives.
There WILDE wolf drive Thursday,
January l. Weunderstand the round
up will be on the Baker 80 north of
Mrs. Belts.
L. G. Thomas and family invited
several of their neighbors for a bic
| dinner dinner ei Christmas day:
PUSSY WILLOW,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01
FOSTER.

City Collector Lloyd is busy collect
ing taxes.
P. l.. Shelton was passenger east
Monday.
Ned Rowland left Monday for Pitts
burg, Kans., to visit his sister, Mrs.
O. c. Jones and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Appleby were
arrivals on Sundays train.
/ White Davis, who has been spend
ing Christmas at home left Sunday
for Pittsburg, Krnsas.
Mrs. Ethel Kaiser of Reavely spent
a few days visiting her uncle, D. H.
Arbogast and family.
After a weeks vacation Foster
schools commenced again Monday.
Jessie Merrell and family of Shaw
nee, Oklahoma, spent the holidays at
the home Of Mrs. ,Merrell's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Gray.
Fred Bridwell is still quite poorly
at the home of his parents of con-
sumption.
Ralph Mills, sister and mother spent
Christmas with Butler relatives
The merchants of Foster surely en-
joyed big Christmas trade the past
week. -
Mrs. Lyle Robb of Rexford, Kansas,
is visiting relatives and friends at
Foster.
Mrs. Cora Marks of KANSAS City
spent the holidays with Foster rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Deaton- and
family returned Sunday from Kansas
City where they had been spending
Christmas with>relatives.
Shirley Treasure came in Sunday
to visit his parents.
N. f. Bright renews his subscrip-
ton for The Times.
Ben Beatie and son, Waine, of Ok
tahoma, is hereE7spending Christmas
with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Bassett is reported as being
very poorly at this writing.
Tommie Leonard came in Sunday
to visit his sister, Mrs. George Hem
son.
1t is appalling to see the number of
deer killed by Uncle Mat Gray during
Christmas. week. '
Mrs. Sylvia Platter, after few
days visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G. Metzler returned to her
home at Kansas City Sunday.
DR.. Rhoades reports Mark Thomas,
who was kicked on the face Christ
mas day while driving his horses to
water is improving.
Miss Emma Parleir delightfully."- en-
tertained quite number of her
friends at her home in the south part ~
of town Friday evening. Music, both
vocal and instrumental, candy pulling.
and other amuSements were indulgad-
in until a late hour. The evening
was enjoyed by all present.
DINAH.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01
In and Around Maysburg

Mr.. and Mrs. Clary, and Charley
Clark visited at the home of Tan
White Sunday. a~
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark visited with
their daughter, Ethel, Sunday.
The Xmas trees at both churches
were we'll attended and excellent pro-
grams were rendered.
Mr.. R. K.e Goodwin and family visit
ed at Mr.. Joe Jacobs Sunday.
Mrs. Focht and son, Russell, called
on Tan White one day last week.
Mrs. Sterling Harness sister, Sad
lie, is visiting with her. r.,
Mr.. Sterling Harness and family
visited at Mr.. Dales Sunday.
While coming home from the Xmas
tree Tan White had break down,
but no one was injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clary went to the
home of Mrs. Clary's parents Mon
day and brought home the organ her
father gave her as Xmas present.
Mildred White is sick on account
of a sore throat.
= A NEIGHBOR
Get the benefit of the Cut prices
we are making, Black-Arnold.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-01

Sam Weddington has moved from
the Webster ranch to the Tom Vain
wright farm R. 7.
You can buy shelled corn out o1
the car at Butler for 75c a bushel.
Miss Smith of Kansas City gave q
lecture at the NJ. E. church of Vir.
ginia last Sunday evening.
Mr.. R. C. Jenson is contemplating
building large barn. He is hauling
some timber 6x6x2O feet long.
Friday evening December 26 Miss
Oval Kinion gave a social for her
friends. The evening was spent in
plays and games after which refresh.
ments were served. The crowd, il
is impossible to give names. all part.
ed at q late hour expressing thanks tc
the hostess fora most enjoyable even
ing.
Mrs. James CuZick entertained the
ladies aid of the Christian church,
also the ladies' aid of the M. F.. church
Of Virginia at her home Friday after
noon.
Mr.. R. P. C. Jenson and family
Mr.. Geo. Pahlman and family spen
Saturday evening at the home of Mr.
Schesler.
The Epworth League topic for Jan
Ia, Reason for daily prayer, Ps. 5;l-i
j. w. Park, Leader.
Mr.: Harve Patient of Nevada dice
Tuesday morning Dec; 30th.
Mrs. Geo. 'Rubel gave Christmas
dinner at her. home and all of hel
relatives we're present.
Mr.. Jenson and family, Mrs. Sches-
Ter and family and James Pahlman
spent Christmas with Mrs. Geo. PAIL.
man.
T. A. Poteet sale was well attend
ed and things sold well. N. M. N.