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Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

go them at least one better If there is any doubt Fon this point, just ask Tom Jeffers, the present police lieu tenant of the New London force, or Postmaster Bryan F. Mahan, ex mayor, eN-congressnan and one of the best known public men of New Eng land, or any ether man who is now beyond the half-centur-y mark and re- sided in New London for that period.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28
But what the story of that old far

But what the story of that old far mer who solo fancy cauliHowcr for five cents q head and thought any thing more was an at tempt to rob" sorlebodY,-what that story suggested to me was a different idea. I've my self had experience with similar queer cOdgers. A number of years ago my own cauifower trade suddenly drop ped away }nc-To than half. It was quite a puzzle to me for a while. At
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

Probably the old farmer whom my huckster friend ran against didn't really know any more about cauli- flower than his old marplot of my neighborhood. He doubtless put in ten cent paper of seed and happened, by pure luck and chance, to get a fine crop. There was more of it than his family wanted so he sold the surplus The ruling rate for cabbage is about five cents a head in his neck O woods, and so he turned off his cauliflower at the same rate. He may SOW as much seed next year and not get two heads. Those of us who are in the business knCE that it is a mighty chancy crop, even when given the best conditions and the most intelligent care. It al so costs more to raise, as a regular trade, than any other allied plant. Why, the seed is expensive, to start with When cabbage seed wholesales for twenty cents an ounce, cauiiflower seed wholesales for dollar and a half an ounce. And, where cabbage seed usually comes up and makes transplantable seedlings. cauliffower seed is apt to be from half to four fiths infertile, and half of what does come up often turns out 10 be broc- coli Then it requires as a rule. specially adapted and painfully fitted soil, tremendously heavy maturing. and much work in tieing to bIanch It costs more to produce and is worth more than any other member of the cabbage family
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

1 a hundred or two heads once in his life time, he throws it away without
 taking the trouble to find out how
 much injury he is doing to his cauli-
 mower growing nelghpors, nor now
 much money he is losing for himself. 1 The ordinary housewife cannot un- | derstand, if she can buy caulifiower l from him for five cents big head,
 why she should have tc, pay twenty
 five cents to- anybody else. She is | inclined to suspect that those who ask I twenty-five cents arc wanting an ex- Eorbitant price. She does not under stand that he, by reason of a ,conabi- nation of ignorance and stupidity and
 fortuitous luck, Is selling her silver l quarter for a nickel five-cent piece,
 and that he can't keep 1t up nor can
 anyone in regular business do the like. He is giving her a caulifiower and
 twenty cents in money, every time. She assumes that he must know what
 doesn't.
 And right there is where certain farmers make the big mistake They fhappen to have a streak of luck which, | when it comes, they are apparently in 1 capable of taking advantage of. They | are too >shiftless or too engrossed in l lesser matters to find out what it really means to them in money or profit So they waste, ingnore, throw away the gain that chance, kinder to | them than their own gumption, has l laid at their feet. Not only that. but they callously injure scores of more :. intelligent and deserving producers, without bringing any permanent ben i eflt to any consumer. They are the sort who can always be relied upon in any farming community to set out on campaign of cut-throat competitioh. It is they who are relied upon, to a large extent. by grasping town deal CTS to keep down prices to other pro- ducers If the city grocer. can buy the value of at half what it is worth, he, of course. will do so. And then he will quote that as his price to the next farmer who comes in with-a lead Of that same produce, for which he expects and wants a fair return. NeighborEiness is one thing and business is another. We all, doubt : less, give away produce to immedi- ate neighbors who chance to be in need of that particular thing and think no more of it, But when we give it. we give it outright and as a matter of gift, not under any pretence of a matter of barter The two things come under quite different heads Yet the practice of some farmers of selling at any price just in order to prevent some other farmer from sell ing at a etir price is so well known that many speculators rely upon it to beat down quotations. It has been called cutthroat competition" for years and in all parts of the country Sometimes it is the result of tgnor- ance, as in the case of my mountain neighbor and his cabbage -caulffower acre. Sometimes it is the result of a stupid shiftlessness which won't take the trouble 10 find out the real value of the good luck which has chaneed. Sometimes it is the result of a con temptible desire to "befyt'' ones neigh bor-farn1er, even at the cost of sacri- fee to the beater
 Always and whatever the cause, it makes for loss to the already under paid f%rmer, and for profit to the shifty speculator.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

Frank cronin, republican, is the op- ponent of James R. May for the state senate, and both have had the same legislative experience. but May is a democrat, and it is believed that the republican natural majority, both in Groton and New London, is more that May or any other democrat can over come. Philip z. Hankey and F. Le- roy Harwood. republicans, like their democratic opponents, are without leg islative experience, and like the demo cratic candidates, for the senatorship, their qualifications are about equal, but they are wrong in politics. The republicans are out to win, out as per haps they never were before and the party managers are doing that kind of pussy-foot work that will result in getting every republican voter to the polls on election day and that surely spells democratic defeat, provided the republicans vote the republican party ticket straight. and they usually do, especially once in four years.
 The republicans are not just oroan. izing for the near end campaign, for
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28
New London Sees Republican Victory Party Organized and Will Get Out the Voters-Trouble
 From Gang of Boys-Not as Bad However as Those of
 By Gone Days.

they don't nave to. as they are fully organized for the election of November |, and have been ever since the Ilorni- nations for president. and long before In fact the republican party is a perm anent organization in New London, and the voters are all fully canvaSsed and plans were made to get out the vote, before the democrats opened their political eyes. It was eyer thus and ever thus twill be. Somehow or oth- CT the democrats do not seem to know the rudimentary principles of scientific political organization, and just at the present time. perhaps more so than ever, they seem to lack that leadership that is essential in the proper play of the game of politics. True; the democrats has. just formed political club, and perhaps with the expectation that all who have signed membership cards will throw off their coats and thrown in their votes for the democratic nominees on election day But that is not organization as inter- preted by he local republican workers who have grown gray in the game There is more in the manipulation of successful plays in the political game than signing a political cluo member ship card.
 gang of young fellows, numberinq perhaps forty and with range of ages
 
 gate in the vicinity of John and Douglass street, along Bradley street, have not been acting as well as the Sunday school boys just before Q pic nic, and have been giving the police force more or less trouble by wrang- ling between themselves and making living uncomfortable in that section, and in q degree have terrorized the neighborhood. Now the police have resolved to break up that particular gang and if necessary will arrest the whole of them and have the court administer punishment to fit the of fence. It may be that these particular boys are tougher in their acts than were the boys of old New London half century or so ago, or even less. But this is doubted by one who was a boy at that period. This may possibly be accounted for in the fact that there were less boys and less policemen then than now.
 It is a safer bet than any made in
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

 Q spirit of narrow and bitter ignor- ance. It must seek to expand and re- ward business: it must seek to in crease the efficiency and the output of labor; but it must also secure for labor it's full share in the refard. Business cannot permanently flourish unless the wage workers and the far mers have ample opportunity to share in the rewards of our national eff fort s-
 Remember always that shis effort to secure for each man his rights will be a failure unless at the same time we insist upon the sfulI perform ance of duty by eachs l. Neither far mers, laborers nor business men de- serve any consideration for their rights, save in SO far as they fully and whole heartedly recognize their duties to the state and to their fel- lows, and perform these duties.
 MiddIetown.-The- county commits sioners have submitted their report to the state comptroller covering the is- suance of licenses for the year ended September 30, 1916, which shows that from the 97 licenses issued in the county total of $S9,0s9,34 was rs- celVe9p. @$ g$Ess sSs
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28
HOW MARKETS ARE KNOCKED DOWN

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 A huckster who came into my lane the other day to sec if l wanted any sweet potatoes or clans or other fruit which l can't raise for myself, had also some caulihower aboard. Seeing some rather curdy looking heads in my shed he asked what I was getting for them. "Oh, anywhere from ten to twenty-five cents" l answered, "ac- cording to size and curdiness." Then he told me why he asked.
 A dozen or so miles back on his route an old farmer who was look ing over his load asked him what he got for his caulifower which, be 1t noted. he had just bought at city market. T have to get twenty cents apiece" answered the huckster.
 ''Wha-at?" fairly shouted the old farmer. Dye want to rob folks? Why. I've had hundred bigger'n them in my garden this fall, and I've sold 'em for five cents apiece to any body who wanted 'em."
 Now, don't know how it has been with distant gardeners, but in my vii cinity cauliflower has been a mighty poor crop, this season. It has matured slowly and the heads have been small CT and more "scraggly'' than desir- able. Moreover, from half to three quarters of the plants set have failed to make heads at all. I have had the poorest yield for many years and, owing to the general scarcity, have had at the same time the biggest de- mand. I have tried to buy it from other gardeners but could not because they, too. were swamped by the de- mands which Over-ran their limited supplies.
 This condition has, of course. raised the price in the markets so that my huckster friend who doesn't raise his own but has 10 buy it of commission men in the city. has had to pay more than usual fer his supply. He told me. in confidence, what his cost him. And. believe me, he wasn't making much if he sold it all at the price he quoted Tn fact he said and I credit him as telling truth, that he shouldn't think of carrying it at all. if it wasn't that a few customers really wanted it and he was anxious to accommodate them that if he coud do so without actual loss
 -
 In my own case. as my customers
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

Vet, when some accident of unde- served luck enable some farmer who is wholly ignorant of the crop to raise
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28
Especial to The Bulletinl

New London, Oct. 27--Vgith New London as the home of an active Uni ted States Senator the home of q praiseworthy congressman, who is a deserving candidate for reelection, and with a candidate for the state senate and, of course, two candidates for rep resentatives on the republican side, and a candidate for state controller, state senate and the two representa- lives on the democratic side, it is not surprising that there is unusual ac- tivity, even for a presidential year. The election of United States senator by the people instead of the legis.a ture would ordinarily lessen the inter est in the election of candidates for the general assembly, but that is not the case this year. From present in dications nearly every republican and democrat in the city will vote the party ticket, and if this is done Alton T. Miner will not be elected comptroller, James R. May will not be elected state senator and neither William A. Holt nor William C. Fox will be elected representatives. They are all most excellent citizens, and all that, but they are drilling in the wrong politi- cal squad.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

last I found out that a rather shiftless ne -do-Well living in a shack on the
 mountain had set out, the spring be- lore, to raise an acre of cabbage. By some mistake which you may be sure the seed man didn't intend, he was sold caudfower seed instead Of cab bage seed. aT1e young plants look very much alike to an amateur. MT. Mountaineer set the whole acre to them and didn't find out his mistake didn't know what to do with them. He didn't even know what they were and was inclined to turn his COW into them to feed them off as waste, when speculative and none too honest netghbor suggested to him that, per- haps, they might be worth "suthin,' 7 even if not quite so much as cabbage, and offered him two cents head for the lot This offer set MT. Mountain eer to thinking, He loaded some into his old nag and came down into the valley, where he soon found plenty of caRny housewives ready to take his cauliffower at five certe a head. As this was, all he expected for cabbage, he sold off his load and went back f~N another, congratulating himself on his wonderful luck In short, he filled up the little town with five cent cauli- flower, so that those of us who knew what it was worth and who had had to pay cauliflower price for our ca ul- flower seed found our market gone for the season. Later, when it was all over. and MT. Mountaineer learned that he had peddled out his crop fer about hundred dollars less than he could have sold it for in one bunch to a wholesaler, he had to take a full weeks drunk to recover his wonted equaninity. Which used up all he actually got for his caui1f1ower and left him with a fixed determination there after to stick to fox-hunting and hood
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

cidentaIly,-though, this isn't at all the point I'm after in this talk, these incidents show the true selling field of us eastern farmers. It is near home, to people for whom we can ourselves raise the stuff, to whom we can personally deliver it, and from whom we can make personal collec- tions. We can thereby slightly under sell the market" and yet get vastly better prices and surer pay than when we ship The same stuff to some distant city, to have .freights and commissions and retailers profits all deducted from our final returns,-if, indeed, we're lucky enough to get any returns at all If We can't have cooperation by which companies of small shippers banded together can compel as favor able treatment as the biggest shippers now command, at least we can build up, each for himself. something of a local trade, within reach of our own delivery wagons, wherein we can take the whip hand of everybody else.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

In my own case. as my customers
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

are also my neighbors, practically all of them, I have not asked any more, quality for quality, than the ruling prices of the past few years. I have sold a few heads which were either small or scraggly or unblanched for five cents to women who said they would do" for pickles or chilli sauce or similar use. But I would as soon have thought of selling silver quarter dollars for a nickel apiece as selling really good caulif1ower heads for much less than twenty-five cents. One candid
 customer, who was told that the price for two fair heads was twenty cepts each, answered.; You're giving them away. l priced some in town day be- fore yesterday, not as white as these and no bigger, and they wanted thirty five cents for them at the mar ket." ''WelP', T wered. with a lit tie laugh, that's why you didn't buy of them and do buy of me, I s'pose."
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

Always and whatever the cause, it makes for loss to the already under paid f&rmer, and for profit to the shifty speculator
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

The republicans are not just orqan. izing for the near end campaign, for
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL


st. Louis Z, Philadelphia 4.
Washington 6, Detroit 4.
Other games, rain or wet grounds.
Standing Of the Teams.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18
PoWNAL CENTER

Ned Towsley has been i'll the past
week.
Ernest Murray has accepted a posi-
ton at Pittsfeld
Mrs. Ellen Towsley of Pittsfeld is
at her cottage here.
Martin Gardner of Williamstown
spent Sunday in town.
Mrs. A. Kateley of Blackinton was
the guest Of Mrs, NJ H. Myers re-
Gently
Mrs Elnora Towsley, who was con-
valescing from pneumonia, has suffer.
ed q relapse
Mrs, lnez Thompson. who has been
the guest of Mrs, Mary f. Lampmap
has returned home
Mrs, Agnes Sexton and Raymond
Sexton Of Bennington were guests Sun
day Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. b. Patterson.
Mrs. Ida Kimball, who has been
spending several weeks at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Clinton Kateley
returned to Bennington Sunday Mrs
Kimball's condition is somewhat i'm
proved.
Lampman and Patterson OF the Pow
nal Center garage sold two Ford tour
ing cars Monday, one to the rural mai
carrier. Clinton Kateley and the Other
to Milton Potter, both OF Pownal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18
HowE's TRAVEL PICTURES
A Little Comedy viii Be Mixed with
Educational Features


The little nonsense now and then"
which is relished not alone by the
best of men" but by everybody, and
which always forms such a delightful
diversion in Howe's Travel Festival
will be as much in evidence as ever on
the forthcoming engagement at the
opera house, Tuesday evening, May %.
Among the features of the new pro-
gram may be mentioned a pictorial
excursion to the Firth of Forth bridge,
Scotland; to France, Italy, Holland,
Madeira, Switzerland, Glacier National
Park and an aeroplane ride above the
clouds.
Besides there will be some distinct
novelties which at the same time prove
the possibilities latent in cinemato-
graphy. A marvellous example of this
class shows animals moving at speed
s times slower than normal. The re-
suit is weird and uncanny yet of alb
sorbing interest because it shows de-
tails of these movements which the hu-
man eye never has or could detect. OF
marine scenes there is a Installation
showing the rigors and dangers to
which torpedo boat is exposed during
terrific gale on the high seas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18
SOUTH SALISBURY

Rupert Montgomery and Clyde FL
well were in Bennington Saturday eve
nne.
Raw Dickinson left Tuesday for
bridgeport, Conn, where he has en-
Ploymen;.
c. $. Heminway and family have
moved from West Arlington into Chas.
P. Salmon's house.
Mrs. Edward r. Percy will attend
the Rebekah assembly to be held IN
Burlington this week,
Mrs. Grant Bronson is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. George Wright in
Ellensburg, N. Y
Mr.. and Mrs. Lou Montgomery and
daughter, Wilma of Arlington, were at
Frank Montgomery's Sunday,
Mrs. Nina Galusha, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. William Pap
ers in Bennington, has returned and is
with her sister, Mrs. Frank Harris
again
Mrs. Sylvia Jones Bottum, wife oy
Lemuel Bottum died in a New Haven
hospital May ., following an operation
for gall stones She had been i'll for
several weeks and was removed to the
hospital and lived nearly week after
the operation. The funeral was held
from her home in Montowese, Conn,
Monday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, the
Baptist minister officiating. There
was a profusion of beautiful flowers
and she was laid to rest in the Mon
towese Cemetery Mrs Bottum was
born in Arlington, October %. 1857 and
spent much of her life in SALISBURY
and Bennington until about 20 years
ago, she, with her family, moved to
Connecticut and have lived there
nearly ever since. She joined the Bap
list church at Center SALISBURY when
girl and on March 10, 1877 she was
married to Mr.. Bottum. Besides her
husband she Is survived by four sons,
Marcus s., George d., and Earl * OF
Montowese, Conn, Frank of Walling'
ford, Conn. and two daughters, Maud
NJ, who lives at home and Mrs John
II. Messenger Of New Boston, Mass.
She also leaves one sister. Mrs Irving
Howard of East Arlington, Vermont,
She was loving, thoughtful wife and
mother and will be greatly missed in
her home,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18

Lord Derby could be very absent
minded, and once on time he walked
with Lord Clarendon, his opponent,
aud told him all the secrets Of the cab
met. Lord Clarendon listened amazed.
but thought it too large an order when
he was asked for his advice. Il was
not for him to counsel his political
foes. At this intimation Lord Derby
woke up, saying, REALLY, thought all
the time was talking TO a colleague.
He had continued, hardly recognizing
the fact. a controversy he had been
having with other ministers at the for
eign office. Of course Lord Clarendon
honorably preserved the cabinet Sc
crets, but he told his story against
Lord Derby and made a laugh.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18
Standing Of the Teams
Marine Tonnage.

Displacement tonnage is the weight
Of the whole ship and everything
aboard her. IT is found by computing
the exact cubic space under water in
Guiding the rudder and propellers and
dividing the total by thirty-hye, since
thirty-fve cubic feet Of sea water
weigh a ton. Displacement tonnage IS
now used only in rating warShips.
a ships gross tonnage is the cubical
measurement or contents below decks
and includes, in the case of passenger
vessels. all the cabin space. The ne;
tonnage is the gross tonnage less de
ductions fixed by law, Net tonnage
excludes cabin space and machinery
space.--New York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-18
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