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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

Realizing that their equipment 10
becoming out of date, a pl5a = -
ing considered by the Pawcatuck fire
district whereby that district may pur-
chase a fire truck to replace the trucks
which are now in use by the depart
ment. With this end in view a petit
ton is being circulated in the district,
and if enough signatures are obtained
a special meeting will be held to dis
cuss definite action About fifty sig
natures have already been secured. 1t
is probable that a meeting will be
held week from next Monday.
One new writ was entered at the
weekly session of the Third district
court held in the cour house on Union
street, Friday morning, Judge Oliver
II. Williams, presiding. This action,
for trespass and election, was brought
by William Segar VS.. Oscar C. Stoot.
The defendant occupies a store in the
Rhode Island house which the plaintiff
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

One chance remark in this woman's
letter impressed me- It was to the
profit depended almost wholly on the
season, and the crop, whether it was
large or small. as the market for the
Canned goods was always about the
same. Considering the tickle manner
in which prices of other farm products
go hopping up and down, it IS some
thing to have goods to offer on which
steady. -s4F
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

"Klns's Cat" Draws Pension.
A London puss, officially known as
the kings cat" is the only one In the
kingdom to receive an allowance from
the treasury. He inhabits the record
Office and 13 cents a week is spent
for his meat.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

seeks to recover. H. B. Agard rep
resents the plaintiff and A T. L. Led
wedge the defendant.
The suit Of Henry Walton VS.. Peter
Palmer was continued till April 81 by
agreement. McKenna for the plaintiff
and Rathbun for the defendant
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

necticut and Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. Everybody knows that there
is a tremendous annual waste in the
gardens and fruiteries of New Finland.
There may not be SO very much in
any one garden but the aggregate, If
they were all totted UP, would be
something immense. If it could be
saved the individual items might not
be large, but the aggregate would to-
tai very impressive figures.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

King George v. is related to nearly
all the reigning house of Europe,
one exception being Austria Hun
gary.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

In normal season, when the to-
matoes yield their average of 5000
cans to the acre, this woman makes
a profit Of fifty per cent clean and
clear, after paying all costs for rails
ing and canning the fruit rather more
profitable, though involving more
trouble and ''puttering." -.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

Given the possession of garden
and of some little knack in the pre-
paration of vegetables and fruits,
there is evidently a chance in this
home canning proposition for the de-
velopment of a fairly profitable side
line on many small farms
THE FARMER
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

Now, ] don't suppose That this Cos
pei of the home canning outfit is for
everybody. But it manifestily fits
some in Missouri and Arkansas and
Nebraska. It may reasonably be as
stunned that 1t would At others in Con
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

ago and wrote to the United States
Department OF Agriculture at Wash
1ngton for bulletins. They gave com
plete and easy instruction"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10
WHAT TO DO WITH THE SURPLUS PRODUCTS

who can scare up a postal card to
write for it.
AS seems to be usual, It was IN the
west that the idea was taken UP. It's
getting SO that about everything new
and useful to farmers gets its first
real welcome in the west. We east
ern farmers are so dog gone wen sat
isf1ed with ourselves that we rather
resent the suggestion Of anything new.
At least, a. good many Of US do.-tso
many. But "out west" they are not so
-cock-sure that they are perfect In
either theory or practice. So, when
the government experts showed in
plain words and with simple pictures
and easy directions how the fruit
vegetable grower could can his sur
plus, quite a few westerners sat up
and took notice.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

Another method lie to sell all one
can, direct to consumers, at full re-
tail prices, thus putting into your
own pocket all the profits and COM
missions and other charges incident to
bulk selling: and then to can the sur
plus, right at home, and sell that al
so Greet to the consumer for winter
use. thus again keeping to yourself the
tolls which otherwise would have gone
to buyer and packer and wholesaler
and commsston-man and retailer and
railroads.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

Cwritten Specially for The BAlein)
There are VARIOUS ways of dtspcsing
of surplus fruit and vegetables.-ber-
ries and garden truck, etc.
One way Is to sell the professional
buyers, men who travel about the
country picking up anything and ev-
eryLhing they can get cheaply enough.
These men, having bought your stun
for next to nothing, sell it again to the
packers at q profit. The packers put
1t up and sell 1t toefhe wholesalers, at
another profit The wholesalers sell
it to the retailers, at another profit.
The retailers sell It to the consumer at
still another profit. And the railroads
merrily haul 1t around from one to
another, back and forth, crtss-cross
and every-whfch- way, at further pro-
fit 70 themselves for each haul. The
farmer who gets thtrty-Ave cents on
q dollar for the stuff may be regard
ed as doing rather unusually well.
Another way Is 10 eat what you can
give the neighIoors all they'll take. and
feed the rest OF the pigs.
Another way Is to let the surplus
fall off and rot on the ground In
these latter methods. neither the pigs
or the soil get certain advantage.
I sometimes think IT'S about as much
as the farmer gets when he sells the
first way.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

Several years ago, the government
put out, as one Of its free bulletins
for farmers, a full description Of all
that was needed for successful home
canning of fruits and vegetables, in
tin. Since then the bulletin has been
revised and kept up to date. It's at
the service Of any farmer or farmers
wife or farmers boy or farmers girl
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

"Buf we can't can vegetables and
fruits, ON the farm. to compete with
those put up at regular canning es-
Establishments" hear come one say.
That's where you're dead wrong. We
can do exactly that thing. That Is to
say, scores If not hundreds are ding
it. every season, and there appears
no clear reason why we can't do what
others are doing
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10


and easy directions how the fruit
vegetable grower could can his sur
plus, quite a few westerners sat up
and took notice.
It's rather interesting, not to say
suggestive, that a big percentage Of
those who thus took up home canning
were the wives and daughters Of far
mers. The rather monotonous COM
ptaint that farm women are kept at
such steady drudgery that they
haven't time even to think, doesn't
seem to be universally true, out west.
In the last two years must have
read forty accounts Of how little nome
canneries had been started in the west
and southwest, generally by women
who wanted more home comforts
than wheat and corn seemed to bring
money than Father could sometimes
afford.
For instance, they're telling, out in
Missouri, about thirteen years old
girl who last spring set out a tenth
of an acre Of tomato plants. She
set them herself, cultivated them her
self, staked and pruned them herself,
picked them herself, before and after
school. In the fall she built a fire
under a tree, put her washboiler over,
and canned ESQ cans Of f1rst-class, A
No. 1. tomatoes. every one Of which
came up to fancy standard and has
been sold at a good price. She also
got $3.50 in premiums at the fair, and
is hoping for another prize which Is
to be given the girl wha made the
largest. profit from tomatoes. But
that last she isn't sure Of, because
there were a whole lot Of other thir-
teen and fourteen year old girls who
made money the same way and the re-
turns aren't all in yet.
More interesting, even, to those who
are waiting to increase the farm in
come, Is the experience OF a farmers
been reading. She writes that before
she investigated, she had the Usual
idea that 1t took special skill and ex-,
pert training TO put stuff into tin cans
SO 1t would keep. For one thing, she
didn't suppose it was possible for any
one to solder a can, unless he was q
workman trained at the fre-pot and
soldering iron.
Now, with the help of her own fam
lily and a few girls hired outside at
the rush season, she puts up about
thousand cans a day, and sells them
for even better prices than the big
canneries- hope to get. Hear her.
Canning tomatoes, beans and fruit
for market is easier than canning fruit
for the family in the usual way. I used
70 put up Iru1l IN glass each year, ana
can few tomatoes, but now have
charge Of our canning plant and it is
not harder, than housework, and my
husband, who was skeptfcal at first,
has become quite enthusiastic.
"Our little place IS mostly in fruit
and vegetables. We grow tomatoes
and beans to, can, and we put all our
Cherries peaches, pears, plums and
some of our berries in tin.
TIT Is more simple than can tell
you about. got the idea four years
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-10

The state board of control and sup
ply has awarded the contract for fur
nishing the state institutions at How
ard with coal to Oscar Tefft Of this
town. The price of the stove coal was
given as 1884 per ton, with $685. for
nut coal
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
Lunar We uetation,

Professor Pickering Of the Harvard
Astronomical observatory declares that
there is nothing less true than that the
moon Is without air. water or vegeta-
ton. There are certain large lunar
areas that darken toward lunar noon
and fade out toward lunar sunset.
They correspond in some degree"to the
y called Marian seas, and Professor
Pickering uses the term fields to de-
scribe these plains or slopes, which he
believes to be covered with vegetation.
He is convinced that the dark fields to
be seen during the lunar summer do
not owe their blackncss to shadow, for
you can see them at full moon when
shadows are absolutely invisible. The
blue-black color of the fields and ca
nails, he argues, can therefore be owing
only to a discoloration Of the surface
that comes alike on slopes and levels
in the lunar summer, and that is invis-
ible In the spring and autumn. We
know Of no mineral that acts in that
manner and the only possible expla-
nation seems to be that It is the result
Of covering Of vegetation.-Youth's
Companion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
Tho Smokers Paradise.

Mexico may be called the smokers
paradise. There is plenty Of good,
cheap tobacco In that country, where
the leaf grows freely. Furthermore,
no tax Is levied upon it. One may buy
in Mexico cigar, every bit as good as
the average ten cent brand in this
country, for sum equivalent to two
and half cents Of our money. olga
rettes are cheap in proportion. TO pro-
tect the domestic article Mexico levies
a prohibitive tax upon imported to-
bacco, so that no Mexican thinks Of
buying an American cigar. The labor
ing classes are able to buy two boxes
of cigarettes, containing ten each, for
two and half cents in our money.
The tobacco in these Is the sun dried
natural leaf and Of coarse grade, with
coarse paper wrappings. The market
Is abundantly supplied also with ciga-
rettes Of high grade tobacco in the best
paper wrappings. For the most part
the Mexican takes his tobacco In the
form Of cigarettes.-New York Tribune
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
PLOT AGAINST
IOWA HORSES
Someone Tried TO Keep Them Out
Of Expo itlon-.Schsme Failed.
i0WANS DIDN'T SCARE EASILY
elngmAster Received Fake Telegram,
But Won Two Grand Championships.
investigation 10 Being Made.

California. the Pacific coast. and es-
psoially the Panama-Pacihc EXPOSE
ton authorities are being severely cri-
tioised all over the middle west be-
cause Of the arbitrary ruling Of the
California state veterinarian that Iowa
and other middle western states
should not be permitted to exhibit cat
tie, sheep or swine at the worlds fair
, now being held in San Francisco.
Investigations made by the Greater
Iowa Association indicate concerted
campaign carried on by Pacific coast
breeders TO keep out all classes of
Iowa live stock. Efforts were made
, to have Iowa horses denied admission,
but the state veterinarian evidently
had no excuse upon which to base
refusal to let Iowa horses compete.
A New Scheme.
But the effort did not stop there, EVIL
IDENTIFY, because during the recent Iowa
state fair, J. o. Singmaster OF Keota,
who was In Des M0ines showing his
string OF Percherons, received the fol-
lowing telegram from one of the larg-
est breeders in Kansas:
Would advise you not to ship to
San Francisco. My opinion is you
can't begin to sell anything and you
have the most wonderful four-year-old
stallion to buck up against, also a
marvellous three-year-old mare"
Mr.. Singmaster knew this breeder,
whose name was signed to the tele-
gram, and suspected that something
was not quite right. He had two diff
ferent parties make an Investigation
with the result that the man, whose
name was signed to the telegram, de-
clared he had never seen it or heard
Of 1t, had not sent it, and would give
a good deal to know who had forged
his name. The Investigation is still
on to ascertain, If possible, who sent
the telegram.
Licked EN- Anyway.
Mr. singmaster went out to the Ex-
position with his Psrcherons and
made a wonderful showing. The buga-
bt, Of opposition did not appear and
breeders with whom Mr.. Singmaster
discussed the case are confident that
telegram was part of well-schemed
plot to keep him away and reserve the
Percheron prizes for Pacific coast
breeders. Singuaster won grand
champion stallion and grand champion
mare.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
Dresses and Flowers.

II you have had waist or light
dress stained by wearing a bunch of
flowers you will appreciate how much
trouble might be saved by owning a
channels case to cover the stem. Make
this by stitching into shape piece Of
channels the desired size. Into this
case may be slipped the stems Of any
short stemmed flowers, and then they
may be carried or worn without stain
ing waist, glove or gown.-Exchange.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
II Would Help.

A facetious bishop went to preach q
charity sermon a short time ago In a
church. The rector said:
II am grieved that you should have
to come on such windy day."
The bishop replied: tut, tut, my
friend. Didn't me to raise the
wind ?"-Wisconsin State Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
Greatest Railroad Terminal.

Greatest Railroad Terminal.
Chicago is a greater railroad center
than New York, or any other place on
earth. AS railroad terminal the
Windy City bears the palm over all
the world and will probably continue
to do so for long time to come
New York American.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
Tho Chjns of Burma.

The Chins of Burma are divided into
a large number Of clans, and man
may not marry a woman Of his own
clan, but after the marriage ceremonies
are over the wife Is initiated into her
husbands clan and has her wrists
wrapped round with cotton yarn as a
witness to all evil spirits that she is
under the guardianship Of the kun, or
ancestry, Of her husband. The Chins
are afraid Of WITCHES; but, as has been
the case with other peoples, they find
great difficulty in learning for certain
whether given woman is witch or
not. # they knew it they would GER
tainly drive the woman out Of the vii
lage and perhaps resort to further VIC
lence. Like the Burmese, they believe
that witches have the power by their
nominations to introduce foreign mat
tiers into the bodies Of those whom
they hate and 50 to cause them to die.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
The First London Directory.


The great family Of Smith, Brown,
Jones and Robinson had not spread so
far over London when the first direc-
tory was published as it has now. Only
eighteen Smiths, ten Browns, nine
Joneses and four Robinsons figure in
It, the Cooks, Halls, Hills and Kings
being almost as numerous. There were
then but five London bankers, or gold
smiths that keep running cash." as the
directory describes them = Richard
Blanchard & Child, at the Marygold, In
Fleet street: Mr.. Coggs, in the Strand,
at the Kings Head; Benjamin Hinton,
at the Flower de Luce, IN Lombard
street; James Herriott, at the Naked
Boy. in Fleet street, and James John
son, at the Three Flower dc Luces. In
Lombard street.-London Graphic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
a Modern Trend

A Modern Trend.
'arhen she doesn't think that two
can live as chenply as one?'
mo; her idea is that two ought to
live as extensively as five or six
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-10-21
Widows, Caps.

Widows' Caps.
The widows cap is as old as the days
Of Julius Caesar. An edict Of Tberius
commanded all widows to wear the
cap under penalty Of heavy fine and
Imprisonment.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-01-07
ALASKA YIELDS A VAST AMOUNT OF
 MINERALS

The annual report of the mineral resources of Alaska and production in 1914 is now in preparation under the direction of Dr. Alfred II. Brooks, head of the Alaska division of the U. s. Geo logical Survey Advance sheets of the report have been sent out. and the following article in regard to the min eral production of the territory gives some interesting figures. It says:
 Mining began in Alaska in 1880, and since that time the Territory has pro duced minieral to the value of s26S,- OOO,OOO Of this $244, ,OOO, 1000 has been in gold s19,SOO,OOO in copper, $2.251,- 900 in silver, $S7O.OOO fin coal, and the rest in tin, lead, quicksilver, marble, gypsum, petroleum, etc. Copper min ing began in Alaska in 1901, and the total production is about 133 ,000, 900 pounds.
 It is estimated that the value of the to al mineral output of Alaska in 1914 is $19,24S,OOO, compared with $19,416,- 900 for 1913. The preliminary figures on gold output for 1914 show value of $15,9O0,OOO; in 1913 the value was $15,626,S13. Silver to the value of about $191,OOO was produced in 1914, compared with $21S,9S8 in 1913. Though the low price of copper since midsummer greatly curtailed the out put of that metal, about 2O,S5O, 900 pounds, valued at about $2,S72, ,00O, was produced in 1914, against 21 ,659,- 95S pounds valued at 3,357 ,293 in 1913.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-01-07
Placer Mines.

FidNtf WlNGks
 The data in hand indicate that the value of the placer gold produced in 1914 was about s1O,7OO,O 900, or practic- ally the same as that of 1913. which was $10,6S0,0OO The distribution of this output is, however, not the same in the two years. Some increases in the output of the Ruby, Seward Pen. insula, Iditarod, and Hot Springs dis. tricts were made, but on the other hand, there was a marked decline in the placer-gold output from Fairbanks and lesser decreases in some of the smaller camps. The abundant rain fall which occurred in most of the Yukon and Seward Peninsula camps during the mining season of 1914 greatly favored placer operations.
 The Chisana district is the only new placer camp developed in 1914. Prom. ising discoveries are reported in the Iiealy River region of the middle Tan. ana, and also a find of placer gold in the upper Tolovana basin. between Fairbanks and Rampant.
 About A gold dredges were operated in Alaska for the whole or part of the open season of 1914. Pre- liminary estimates indicate that these dredges produced gold worth between s2,O5O,- 900 and $2,300,OOO In 1913 S9 dredges were operated in Alaska with an out put valued at $2,2OO, 900. The decreased output per dredge in 1914 are account. ed for by the facts that in 1913 sev- eral of the dredges were working in very rich ground and that several of he new machines were not completed In time to operate for more than a brief period in 1914. A further handi cap to the dredges this year was the fact that the dredging season at Nome opened later than usual In addition to the A dredges operated there were about a half dozen under construc tion.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-01-07
SURVEY OF DRY STRAIT
 CHANNEL NOW ASSURED

The survey of the Dry Strait chan nel, near Wrangell. which was en dorsed by the Chambers of Commerce throughout Alaska, has been included in the appropriation bill, according to a wire from Delegate Wickersham It will require s25.000 to do this work and it is believed this amount has been asked for.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-01-07

ing of the Midas mine, near Valdez and the completion of aerial trans at the Jumbo and Mother Lode mines. in the Chitina district. Yakataga and katalls Region.
 There was a little beach mining at ing O., in the same field, operated it's hydraulic plant. At Katalla the AL aska Oil & Refining Go. operated it's wells and plant during a part of 1914. Late in the year it was reported the company was fin financial difficulties and that operations had been suspend ad
The Cordova daily times., 1915-01-07

There are two kinds of Peteluma Eggs. The "6enulne" and the Pro cessed. When ordering from us you are sure of the Genuine when you specify "Peteluma's. "-ONIEIL & SLATER COMPANY.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-01-07

Kinney has a corner on Coffee. What We mean is COFFEE. not the wishywishy kind you have been buying and nichnamed coffee. One can of Dwight Edwards will convince you that we are right.