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Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
CHESTNUT HILL.
SeIectmen Close Churches for Re- n1ainder of Month-Fair Postponed

Mrs. c. M. Lindsey of West Haven was the guest of Mrs. J. George Clark several days this week.
 The selectmen of the town have given notice that the churches in the town shall be closed the remainder of the month.
 Mrs. Herman Strong of Ansonia is the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. Henry Clarke.
 Mrs. Elmer Caples is entertaining her brother, William Peckham and her cousin, Mrs. Charles Warren.
 The Ladies' Sewing circle have postponed the annual fair and enter tainment which was to have been held Aug. q to some future date on ac- count of infantiIe paralysis conditions.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
ROCKVILLE
Over 1CO Boy Scouts Are Enjoying
 Camp Life.

There are over one hundred Boy Scouts at the camp at Yawgoo pond this week, the largest number that has been there at any time.
 A severe thunder storm visited this place Thursday afternoon, commencing a little before four o'clock. and for a few minutes the wind blew gale and the rain fell in torrents. Another cloud came over about ten o'clock D. m. but was not as severe.
 Mrs. Viola Burdick and son, Leroy of Westerly, called on her aunt, Mrs. L. F. Saunders, Tuesday.
 Misses Florence Barber and Ella Palmer attended the Pomona grange meeting at Hope Valley Tuesday.
 Mrs. Benjamin Kenyon has been i'll for a week past.
 MT. and Mrs. o. L. Burdick of Stam- ford, who are stopping at Quonocon- taUg, were callers here Tuesday,
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were callers at Mrs. sarah F'rankltn's Wednesday afternoon.
 (. D. Kenyon has q new Ford trick for delivering his R. l. Johnny Cake Meal
 Mrs Caroline r. Kenyon spent Mon day in Providence.
 Mrs N-m. Palmer and children of Providence arc spending tho summer with Mrs. Caroline Palmer.
 Mrs. John l.. Briggs spent Wednes- day and Thursday ~i,n relatives at West Kingston
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
Unrcagai-ted With the Facts,

The joyful expectation of early peace is cherished by all classes in Germany. according to the professors of Berlin University. who in making the an n2uncemont declare that # must be g peace that shall give Germany. in crea SC in power and extension of do hain. If that sort of peace is being joyfuII received just now the censors must have been unusually busy Springfield Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
BOLTON NOTCH

Mrs. Jennie Bishop and Mrs. Emma McGuire have returned to their home after staying a few weeks with their sister Mrs. L. s. Maine.
 Charlie Chapman of Boston is visit ing at M. W. Towards.
 Mrs. Loren Maine was a Hartford visitor Wednesday.
 Miss RaIpha Hills of Hi11stown is
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

world but unlike the written word buried under the official blue pencil, these temporarily suppressed sections may be revived hereafter when the war is a sad memory.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
We, nationally, hold our bushes

We, nationally, hold our business men in high respect. We are also in clined to brag about our government And we are required, under severe penalties, to avoid showing contempt for our laws and courts
 Yet if this system, which first underpays and in1poverishes the pro- ducer and then Overcharges and robs the consumer, is the best which Big Business" and "a free government and highly saIaried courts ccll give us, then it's high time fer Big Business and the rest to confess their incompe- tence and turn over the job to more capable mer!
 As the thing stands. the outcome of their system is a double crime, robbfng the producer of half his rightfuI due and stealing from the consumer twice the value Of it's stinted dole.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Recently a careful investigation of the farms of Chemung county, New York. has revealed the fact that the average money income they obtain, mostly from dairying industries, is S277 a year.
 In most cases they can secure this pittanCe only by calling on their wives to bear a hand at the milking and generally do @ mans work about the stables
 Not a case was found where this avera ge farmers income eQualIed the annual wages paid his hired man.
 Bear in mind, too. that there are no Sundays or holidays in the dairy farmers year. He works three hun dred and siEty-ffve days-to say noth- ing of nights. The cows must be uillled twice a day and twice every day. Sunday of Fourth of July or circus day; they must be fed and, if the daiTTman is selling certified milk, their stables must be kept spOtIessly clean and a careful grooming given them at least twice a day.
 T. won't do to take a day of" or to neglect any one of the multifariOus details on which the regularity and fulness of the milk flow depend.
 The dairy farmer has to furnish land an5 seed and labor to raise for age and supply pasturage. He has 10 erect stables and hay-barns and grain-harns and silos. He has to in vest heavily in his COWS. He, usually has t7 buy supplemental grain and ground feeds at constantly rising prices. And he has to work harder and longer hours than the ordinary hired hand will sutmit to, and. ire ruently call on his wife to help him. s- least uiIklnE-UiTuCs.
 He must invest good deal of money tu land, buildings and stock: he r- st take all the risks that go with a form os production dependent upon uncomfortable natural condi- ti0rz.-the freokiness of weather, the whimsies of crops, the uncertain
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
Holland County WELLINGTON

Death of Miss Alice Maud Preston Ends Life of Usefulness and Sweetness = More People Adopt Motoring.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Twenty years ago the egg buyers of my country town combined to keep down the price of eggs Finally they offered ten cents 9 dozen-'in trade, too-for fresh eggs, and wouldn't pay a fraction more. The thing had been getting on my nerves worse and worse for some time and, when that uIti- matum was served on me, I simply got mad-hOtly. stubbOrnly and wholesomely mad! I carried my bas- ket full of eggs right back to the egg room
 But what are you going to do with 'en ?' queried the would-be buyer.
 Don't know now. and it would be none of your business if I did" was
 my answer" They're worth more than ten cents q dozen to throw at the barn door and see 'em splash" In less than a week, I had sold those dozen, cash-and I've never sold one since for less than that price. Just what l did and how l did it 1 would make too long a story, here | Nor would the telling he important 1 My system might not fit any other 1 situation on earth. I was in the con ditiOn of the boy whom a passer dis i covered digging like mad at wood chuck hole Wi-h a dull hoe. 'What'ye diggin' fer?" querted he. ''WOodchUck." terseIy responded the ! bow without stopping
 Don't never expect to git him that wav. Go Ee?''
 Got to-" shot back the boy. We're out e meat"
 The way ! get out of my hole may not be the way for anyone else to es-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

These particular farmers are aver aging, year in and out, about two cents a quart income from their milk,-the very same milk which is sold in the cities for from eight to twelve cents a quart.
 There is room for no argument or explanation after the mere statement of those figures. The system which makes it cost from six to ten cents to get two cents worth of milk to city baby is a rotten and an outrageous system.
 What the railroads share in it may be,-what the big milk companies share,-what the retail dealers share, these are minor matters of mere de- tail.
 There is neither explanation, paIlia- tion nor excuse for a system or any part of one which makes the mere handling of a food necessity cost three or four times as much as the value of the food itself
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Another thing |, personally, regard as sure, and that is that there is all ways a way out of any difficulty, if you can find it. But you've got to find 1t for yourself, and not lie on your back and whimper for someone else to do it.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Why do farmers stand it? Why do they continue to slave for the enrich ment of others and their own impov as other workingnen, already having better wages and shorter hours. do against much less intolerab1e condi- tiOns?
 Don't ask me
 Look around among your own farm ing neighbors, reckon up their meth Ods and their purposes and their ideals-not forgetting your own in the bunch,-and answer for yourself.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Or just what can farmers do to get their rights as against their ex- ploiters?
 Again I say don't ask me.
 Look around your own neighbor- hood-no two in the whole land are alike or facing identical conditions,- and answer for yourself. What may be the cure for Chemung County. New York. might be bad medicine for New London County, Conn.
 One thing is sure: "'W7ho would be free, themselves must strike the blow"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
WHY DO NOT DAIRYMEN STRIKE

health of aninals,-and then he must work harder and longer than his hired man for less than his hired mans wages!
 This is not a dyspeptic dream: 1t is not the ferment of soured imagina- tion:-it is simple statement of the cold, proven facts brought out by an impartial investigation of the bus mess of over five hundred farmers in one of the best farming counties of agricultural New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

But the one set Of workers whose continuous and absolutely 1ntoIerable rnistreatment would warrant them in not only striking but in fomenting actual revolution, if no other remedy were available. are still right on the job and taking their stinted wages and their minimized profits and their short ratiOns. just as if they liked them.
 Coal-miners and stevedOres and rail way men are all getting higher wages for their labor and usually working shorter hours than the eleven million farmers who feed them
 They strike for still more wages and still fewer hours.
 The farmers don't
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one has got to make his own ladder or cut his own steps.
 But there is a way out: there MUST be. I suppose some of you hate the very word cooperation so bitterly that you'd rather die of starvation at the bottom of any hole than call on the ncighbOrs to cO-Operate in help ing you out,
 Tn that case, stay at the bottom, and hunt around for the SPIT q year that may be there, if that suits and SatisfieSI
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

visiting her cousin, Mrs. E. NJ, How ard.
 Mrs. Susie Waters of Waterville is visiting at Mrs. T. N. Skinners.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

There isn't a class of productive workers in the country who get such pit;fully inadequate returns for labor and investment and risk as average eastern farmers.
 If the miners and the stevedores and the railroad men were subjected to similar treatment they would speedily find that the conditions against which they are now striking were a thousand-fold better than those under which a larger number of more important producers on eastern farms daily live and toll.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

But, # that doesn't suit nor satis- fy, isn't it worth while to get out even if you have to "get together" to do it?
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

The other day some sociological au- thority in New York city put forth the statement that it was impossible for a family of five, days, to live even decently on less than s84O a year.
 If that be so, how must the $277 a year farmers of Chemung county live?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

The way ! get out of my hole may not be the way for anyone else to es- cape from his differe4t hole. Each
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

CTNritteu Specially for The Bulletin)
 Strikes! Strikes!l Strikes!!!
 That's nearly all one gets to read about. these days in domestic affairs.
 Things are about as hot and hostile in the American industrial field as they are on the European battle fronts.
 One day it's the coal-miners; the next day it's the stevcdores: then the railroad men take a hand: now the street railways of New York city are in a stew and a good many million dollars are going to be wasted and sev- eraI million people inconvenienced and made to suffer.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

Talk about your "ruraI credits bilI"! How much good will it do to give a Chemung county farmer a, chance to borrow money if his farm brings him in only SPIT a year, with which to sup port his family, pay taxes and insur- ance,-and interest on his borrowings?
 The average farmer would have small need to borrow money, anyway, If he could only get decent pay for his labor and a fair interest on his own investment in plant, etc.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28

Kept out by doors and shutters. Of.
fensive comic supplements, so Called
may be kept out of the house, but that
does not insure the children against
becoming acquainted with them the
next day in the park or school. OBJ
jectiOnable theatrical performances or
motion pictures are fortunately con-
fined to restricted habitats, but the
poster flaunts its crude or insidiOus
suggestions where none can escape
them.
There is enough in the house for In
telligent and conscientious mothers to
do to keep person busy. But those
who have little time to spare and are
looking for some worthy object upon
which to eXpend their energies may do
well to consider the need for con-
certed movement to control the char
acter of the posters used to interest
me public in the motion picture shows.
There has been great Improvement In
recent years in thu character of the
theater poster, but the "mOvie" poster
which confines it's ministrations to
limited localities, remains fragrant
menace to childhood. There is an Op-
pOrtunity for enlightened motherhood
to help through community service.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
Used the Wrong cask.

A certain milkman was in the habit
of watering the milk before starting
on his rounds in the morning. He is
dead now, SO we are not telling any
trade secret.
One day, by some unlucky chance,
the man omitted to do so, but to his
joy he discovered at the first house he
called It, huge cask, strongly band
ed with iron, and filled to the brim
with wafer, the head having apparent
ly just been taken off.
Such good chance of repairing his
neglect was too good to be lost, and
the milkman had just succeeded in wa
tering the milk satisfactorily when
the figure of the master of the house
appeared in the doorway, and a voice
asked sweetly:
Are you sure you've put in enough,
my man?"
Poor John was pctritied.
'If / were you" continued the voice
Il should have chosen some other cask.
My doctor has ordered me u course of
sea water baths. you know, and you
have just mixed your milk with salt
water. But perhaps your customers
like it that way"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28

The standard apple barrel ls 26
inches between heads, diameter of
head 17B inches. circumference at
bulge 64 inches. 1t holds three bushels.
All the barrels should be carefully
faced" The quality of the apples in
the ''face" should not mislead the buy
er, but should be a fair sample of the
contents of thespackage.
Corrugated circular cardboard is Of
ten used against the top and bottom
of the barrel to prevent bruising the
fruit. These can be purchased at from
l to 2 cents apiece, according to guam
tity, and are. good investment.
The "face" of the barrel is made by
placing series of circles of apples in
the bottom Of the empty barrel. The
bottom of the barrel forms the top
when the package is headed.
When the first circle around the
outside is completed, the next circle
is placed. This circle being smaller, it
will contain several apples less than
the larger circle. The "face" is COM
pleted by finished in the same manner.
The face should be firm when fin
ished, with each apple setting firmly
against the other. The apples in the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
Gasoline panoer


A number of statements have been
made at one time or another to the eff
feet that the pouring of gasoline
through chamOis skin in funnel will
generate enough electricity to ignite
the gases, unless the funnel is ground.
ed on the tank. This is contradicted
by Professor Foley of the Indiana uni
versity. He says. however, that when
the atmosphere is.very dry, as it usual
ly is on Il cold, clear day, man may
become charged by scuffling about on
a clean, dry floor, or his clothing may
become electrified by friction, as no
ticed sometimes when cOmbing the
hair. Under such circumstances, pour
ing gasoline through funnei, whether
or not there is any chamois in it. gives
rise to induced charges that are quite
too complicated to be explained in a
few words. Such charges might fire
the gas.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28

OWay frOLi the deIIoralizing effects Of
crude melodrama, were able to glOAt
on highly colOred pictures represent
ing:
man choking q woman, the latter
holding dagger.
A woman choking man. the latter
holding revolver.
A lynching party leading man with
n rope about his neck.
A veiled figure pushing a man from
the edge of Il precipice.
Masked men saving the timbars on a
railroad bridge.
woman pouring the contents of
suspicious looking bottle into a glass
Of liquor.
And many others equally suggestive
Of violence and fraud and deceit.
Where there Is change of bill every
day you get large assortment Of
suggestions in given time, but in all
cases you get enough to stir the i'm
aginatiOn of active youngsters.
Mrs. Heath, like so many other care
full mothers, had tried hard to protect
her children against the many degrad-
ing influences that every large city
holds. She had tried the method of
exclusion in relation to the home By
keeping improper books and pictures
out of the house and by keeping the
children away from improper picture
shows she had hoped to solve the prob
lem-fOr her own children.
Now she realized that the forces act
ing upon the development of children
cannot be controlled by house rules or
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28

the place kept clean. PiCkers are dis
gruntled and do poor work where they
have to wade through weeds and
briers wet with dew or autumn rains.
The grower who gets into his Or
chard now secs anything else which is
the matter with his orchard, has his
attention called to anything which
needs to be done to improve it, and
learns a good lesson for next years
operations.
Dead limbs take a great deal Of wa
ter from growing apple trees. They
are In the way at gathering time and
make the whole crop look diseased. If
caused by canker. the disease will
spread to other parts of the orchard.
Prune them out now and paint the
wounds.
Water sprouts and surplus limbs
take too much water from the trees
in time of drought; prune out those
which are not needed on the tree and
save the water for the ripening fruit ;
fruit won't mature well where shaded
by sprouts. The crop shows up bet.
ter where the tree is kept pruned, ad-
mitting sunlight and air, and enables
the buyers to see the fruit better.
These statements are not guesses or
mere opinions. They are some Of the
things that have been proved by care
full tests at the Missouri agricultural
experiment station.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
Imnartlnn Information

The British soldier will make a joke
even against himself. An elderly lady
in bus noticed the initials "R. ID. c."
on a soldiers tunic. She puzzled her
brains. but could not solve the mystery
as to their meaning. At last her curl
Osity OverpOwered her and she asked
what they stood for. Reformed
Drunkards' corps, ma'am," said the
soldier gravely. Dear me-" said the
lady, "hOw very interesting" And
probably not one of those who laughed
at the reply could have explained what
"R. d. c." really meanS-LOndOn
Chronicle.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
The Antjclimax.

The revival meeting was tense in
its interest, and the evangelist was
waxing eloquent. He arraigned the
laxness of the church people and pres
ent-day evils in general, and every
one was too absorbed to notice the
growing uneasiness of two lads on
the front seat.
With the question, What's the mat
ter?" pronounced in tones of thun-
der, the preacher reached his climax.
The two boys had risen and were
starting for the door. One of them,
hearing the preachers question,
wheeled and said: "Aw, / got the
nOsebleed. The Christian Herald.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
TRAINING TODAYS
BOYS AND GIRLS
Dangerous Effect of Movie
Posters on Children.
SUGGESTIONS OFTEN VICIOUS
Need for Concerted Movement to
Control the Character Of These
Pictures Is Recognized by En-
Iiphtened Mothers.
BY sI0oNlE M. oRUENsERo.

IT WAS blOod-curdling yell that
came from the nursery and para
Iyzed everybody for a moment, And
with the sObbing that followed imme-
diately, the mother started for the chill
dren's room, the rest following appre-
hensively. Howard had hold of one
end of the clOthesline, the other end
being tangled up about the neck and
arms of weeping and protesting Louise.
Between sObs the girl complained that
brother had nearly chOked her, and
when there was a chance to get an ad-
ditional word in the boy explained that
they had only been playing and that he
had not meant to hurt sister.
The children were soon disentangIed
and duly HdmOnished not to play such
dangerous games again. Howard was
penitent and dOwncast and Louise cast
about for sympathy. But mother had
to ask the question that she had kept
back with difficulty throughout the
whole affair. Whatever made the child
think Of doing such an awful thing?
why, mother" said Howard, sensing
a possible vindicatiOn in the historic
sequence, 1--WE were playing what we
saw at the motion pictures"
This was more dlsquieting than ever,
since 1t aroused suspicion of secret at
tendance upon the forbidden amuse-
ment parlOrS. Mother and father had
agreed that the children were not TO
see any motion pictures, except such
aS had been strictly censored. first by
the regular agencies and then by some
member of the family. And so far as
mother knew, the children had actu-
ally attended only three or four motion
picture shows, of II perfectly harmless
Find, and always in the company Of
some older member of the household.
She therefore asked at once: "When
did you see anything like that ut the
motion pictures"
This afternoon, on the corner of the
avenue" came the reply.
That looked bad, for mother knew
that the children were supposed to be
III the park with the maid during the
afternoon. Who took them to the
show? Where did they get the money?
Who gave them permission to go? For
a minute the exposure of scandal0us
plot was imminent. But there was
nothing to it. The children had never
gone to the motion picture show with
out the approval Of the parents and
the ones they had Witnessed stood out
distinctly and innOcuOusly in their
memories. What Howard had seen
was merely the array of posters in
front Of the picture parlOr. and there
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28

(By ]. o. RANKIN. Agricultural Editor,
Missouri Experiment Station)
Have you moved those weeds?
Then your farm is worth more and
you are better neighbOr and bet
ter citizen than If you had not. EVERY
one thinks more of the farmer and
farm If he sees the weeds neatly
moved as he drives along we'll
dragged road. AS he passes the end
of the line fence he sees a fence row,
not weed row, and the same is true
of the cross fence.
Does this describe your farm? Then
rabbit shooting may not be so good on
it next winter, but buyers will offer
you more an acre on it because they