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New Britain herald., 1917-09-18

Charter No. 11s4. Reserve District No.
 Report of Condition of the
 NEW BRITAIN NATIONAL BANK at the close of business on Sept. H. 1917.
 RESOURCES Loans and discounts s2,5OS, 061.o3 Acceptarces of other banks discounted 3s.50o.o0 OverdraftS. unsecured 1.4SS.5S U. s. Bonds {other than Liberty Bonds of I0l:.)
 Liberty Loan bonds, unpleged 96, GOO co Bonds, Securities. etc. Bonds other than U. s. bonds
 pledged to secure postal savings Securities other than U
 S. bonds (not including
 stoclss) owned
 Total bonds. securities. etc 42s, ,3e214 Stock of Federal Reserve Bank
 (5o per cent. of subscription 5,soo. % Value of banking house 215,000.0O Lawful reserve with Federal Re
 serve Bank 151,s4s1s Cash in vault and net amounts
 due from national banks s4s, aaoo go Net amount due from banks and bankers, and trust companies 21,96799 Checks other banks in the same
 city town as reporting bank 2,443.9S
 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in ss1o, 900 % Surplus fund POOL % Undivided profits .S1S6,914.O3 Less current expenses.
 interest. and taxes
 paid .............. 6,O91.21
 ----- 1S0,S16.S2 Amount reserved for taxes accrued 912.2S Banks 17,29O.2s Net amount due to banks and
 bankers 572s49s Total of items 29 & 30 74.5S5.21 Demand deposits subject to reserve Individual deposits subject to
 check 2,264, 431.97 Certificates of deposit due ir less
 than 30 days tother than
 for money bororWed) 52,767.S5 Certified checks 1,411.72 Cashiers checks outstanding 13,47s.43 Dividends unpaid 22.50 Total demand deposits subject to Reserve Items 31 32, B. 34
 and 3S .......... $2, 332, 112.47 Time deposits subject to reserve Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) $40, 900 % l Postal savings deposits 03,371.sO Other time deposits 297,199.24 Total of time deposits subject to reserve, Items 39. II and 42 .S730,571.04 Total $S,s2S,997.S2 State of Connecticut County of Hartford I. F. S. CHAMBERLAIN. cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief F. s. CHAMBERLAIN, Cashier Subscribed and to before me this 18th day of Sept, 1917. H. l.. CURTIS, Notary Public. CORRECT-Attest: A. F. CORBIN. E. N STANLEY, JOHN B MINOR, Directors
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
MISSION SOCIETY EEECTION.

At the first meeting of the Womens S Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church which was held yes- terday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. A. Mills, officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. Fred H. Goodrich; second vice president, Mrs. T. w. Mitchell; corresponding secre- tary, Mrs. Walter Westlake; treasur- CT, Mrs. J. M. Burdick. The office of recording secretary was left open. A program committee was appointed as follows: Mrs. Goodrich, Mrs. F. J. Skinner. Miss Florence A. Camp and Miss Bertha Sheldon.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS.

The allotment for New Britain has been placed by the International Li- brary association as $2,75O, as it share of a fund to be used in purchasing reading material for soldiers and sail, ors. At meeting of the board of di rectOrs of the New Britain Institute last evening plans were discussed for raising the money. A committee com posed of w. F. Brooks, P. F. McDon- ough and w. T. Sloper was appointed to arrange ways and means for col lectjng the fund.-
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
Boston Store
 OUTING FLANNEL Night Gowns

For Ladies and Children.
 For Ladies we have com mon and extra sizes in white and colored, in several differ ent styles, from 75c to $1.39.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
IN BUSINESS 25 YEARS
William CoWlishaw Observes Annivcr- sary at West Main St. StOrc-I1c- ccives Many Appropriate Gifts.

teINCS MdHJ fAppIoPih&sN NhNS'
 William Cowlishaw of 439 West Main street a well known grocer, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his business last evening. Starting busi- ness on a small scale at APO Main street, he afterward removed to his present stand where he is now doing business on a much larger scale, en- ploying eight clerks and a book keeper.
 MT. Cowlishaw was presented with many gifts, including a beautifully wrought loving cup from his brother Walter of Boston.
 The store was artistically decorated with palms, cut dowers and Japanese lanterns A fine display of comes tibles was shown. Littlehales' orches- tra furnished the music.
 MT. Cowlishaw is prominent mem Der of local lodges and also vice president of the New Britain Paper Box Co. He is a native of Meriden,
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
Children's in colors, sizes 4 to IA years, at 59c each.

Bungalow Aprons in ex- tensive variety of styles, de- sirable patterns, from 75c to $1. 50 each.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18

OUTING FLANNELS
 Checks, stripes and grey, 27 inches wide; 15c a yard. White, 27 inch, 15c and 25c. White, 36 inch, 17c.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
Report of the. Condition of NEW BRITAIN TRITET CfN

at the close of business on the 1lth September. 1917.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-18
THE MISSES AND WOMENS' APPAREL SHO1

or so much of said property q satisfy said tax warrant anj charges thereon. Dated at Newington, Conn.,, 4th day of September. 1917.
 E. B. PROUDMAl
 Tax Colled
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
GREAT WEALTH IN
WATER RESOURCES
Report Issued on Surface Waters of
Massachusetts, by United States Geo.
logical Survey, Department of the
interior.

The water resources of Massachu-
sets have at all times played an i'm
portant part in the industrial and COM.
mercial development of the Common
wealth. In the settlement and growth
of the American colonies the rivers
were the principal avenues of COM
munication and commerce, the means
for transporting logs Nfrom the forests
to the mills, and the sources of power
for grinding grain to make flour and
meal, for carding WOOL and for the
manufacture OF lumber. But condi-
tons have changed. The heavy for
ests have been destroyed in Massa-
chusetts. and only Merrimack and
Connecticut rivers still carry logs.
which are brought from distant for
ests in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Flour and meal are now manufactured
in relatively large local plants OF inn
ported from the still larger plants Of
the West. and SO cheaply that there
is no need for the small neighborhood
gristmili The sawnill, the gristmiil.
and the wool-carding mill have been
replaced by the machine shop, the
paper mill. the cotton mill, and the
scores of other manufacturing plants
for which Massachusetts has become
noted. The small Industrial towns of
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

needed, to be cut and drawn at the
same time when he was cutting his
employers supply. using the employ
er.s time and tools and team
Now he's living and working in the
city. He gets So a day instead of $50
{ month. And he pays $12 month
rent for an upstairs tenement without
a foot of garden; he pays-the last I
eight cents quart for milk and goes
without eggs, ooh, forgot to mem
ton that his country privileges in
cIuded a hen house from which he,
needed sold over $25 worth Of eggs1;
h. has to pay more than double for
clothes what rural requirements de-
manded; and now am informed he
others, because, as he and they assert,
they cant live on their present
wagesf
That mans case is not exceptional:
it is general and typical He was real
ly better off, in health and in pocket,
in his country cottage, than in his
back stairs, upstairs city tenement,
though his money wages were only
third those he pockets in the city.
For it ought not to be forgotten
that it isn't what goes into a mans
pocket which makes him rich, so
much as what he keeps in his pocket.
The man who earns a dollar a day and
has to spend but seventy five cents of
it is at least $500 per cent per diem
better off than the man who earns
three dollars a day and has to spend
three hundred cents every day to live.
But do you suppose you can make this
particular wage Garner look at it that
way?
No much. He simply sees the three
dollars and he can't see through them
nor over them nor around them nor
behind them.
He won't come back to work on any
farm, unless he can get his three dol
lars day there And we farmers
can't make him If he doesn't want to.
He has the admitted right Of every
free-born American citizen to chew
the cartridge of his own nose, if he
really likes that sort of diet
What, then, are we farmers going to
Well, a good many of us are going
to get along without help, as far as
we. can; raise enough for our own
Use and leave it to chance and luck
whether we have anything to sell or
not Some of us will probably pay
the increased wage demanded-if we
can find anybody energetic enough to
Use hoe at any price-and trust to
our ability to screw out of the already
whimpering consumer enough more
money to pay wages with.
In either case, whether crops be still
further shortened, or farm prices still
further advanced, all prospects indi-
cate that Mr. and MRS. Consumer
are going to have an even worse time
III 1917 than they had in 1916. And
v G farmers are going to be still more
vigorously discussed.
Or shall we leave The prefix dis off
I'll at last verb, to make it more ac-
CT rately state the case?
THE. FARMER.
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ords has also been rendered by sew

ords has also been rendered by sew
craI power companies.
All the records have been studied in
the light of the best available infor
nation and revised where revision was
re cessary and possible, and they are
now presented in this report for the
use of the people of Massa chusetts.
An especially interesting part of the
report is a chapter on topography, by
Arthur Keith, which outlines the geo
logic formations of Massachusetts with
special reference to the drainage bas-
ms and gives a nontechnical discus
sion of. the geologic episodes that have
contributed to the formation of the
river systems
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
THE LABOR OUTLOOK FOR AMERICAN
FARMERS 1917

(Written Specially for The Bullein.)
Yesterday caught a ride to the
village with our local coal purveyor.
I had noticed that of late he had been
delivering alone, instead OF accom- :
panied by a helper, as formerly, and
asked him the reason.
sCan't get a man. was his reply:
s1f / do find one, he isn't willing TO
Go q full days work or to work every
day: won't come on till eight O'Clock,
no matter how pressing the calls may
be- and won't work minute after
five. even if he leaves a load half I'M
loaded. Last one I had didn't do as
much work in a day as a twelve year
ing between two suns because he had
heard of a place where he could get
ten cents day more wages
You're a little short of coal, too,
swered, I'm delivering half ton to
F.eople who call for two or three tons,
and a ton to people who want five.
Can't get it: car ordered last Sep
fember hasn't arrived yet, nor can 1
get any track of it. Orders put in
now won't arrive before next spring if
they do. then"
In the village ] met the jobber who
has brought my ice from the lake the
past six or eight years NO" he said
when asked him about it; Il ant
Eoin' to cut any ice this winter. Can't
get any nGIp at any Price
Where are So-and-So and Such
and-Such % I asked, naming two men
who helped him last winter. "Oh, So
and-So's got a job at So a day in the
electric works at Pittsboro' and tother
ones firm on the railroad and thinks
he's goin' to get ten hours pay for
two hours work. was the answer.
The fish man who has regularly sup
piled US with sea-food during winter
seasons hasn't appeared thus far this
winter. I understand that the whole
sale cost of fish is SO high that he
hasn't the courage to try to sell any
st such prices as he would have to
ask in order to make any profit for
himself
The feed and flour dealer has at
last got a small boy to drive his de-
livery team and hopes once more to
be able TO get at least a part of his
orders to his customers.
Last winter, a full year ago, drew
q small load Of quartered oak floor
ing strips to the planing-min to have
Il EN- finished up They're there, yet,
untouched. because a man can't be
got to run the planer.
Late in the fall, just before the first
snow came, I burned off an acre or
more of what had been heavy hay. be-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES

day and the day following with his
uncle, n. G. Stark, in New London.
Clarence Alexander of New Haven
spent Sunday with his parents here.
Buying Up Tobacco Crops.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Manning of
Manchester were in town a few days
Stree, the former buying up the few
remaining crops of tobacco. He re-
ceived two crops yesterday and others
will soon follow. Prices are better
than in previous years.
Mr. and Mrs. Durham of Middle
town and S. E. Williams of North
field. were guests Wednesday at J. B.
Gilston's.
Grange Installation.
The officers of East Haddam- granFe
were installed Wednesday, evening by
MIR. Durham of Mattabasset grange,
assisted by Mrs Durham. The US
ual banquet followed
Mrs Emeline Stark is again i'll.
Fer grandson, H. Ward Hotchkiss
from New Haven was here to see her,
New Years day.
Read Booze Sermon.
A meeting of. the W. c. T. U. was
held with Mrs. A. w. Chaffee Thurs
day afternoon. The afternoon was
given up to reading the Rev. Billy
Sundays booze sermon, a powerful
argument of the liquor traffic
Mrs Arnold R. Doe and little son,
have returned from a visit with the
formers parents in Swansea, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
Dark Outlook 5or D. F.

, Colonel Roosevelt refuses to discuss
his coming trip to the Caribbean to
catch devil fish on the ground that j.
is a personal matter. When T. r.
Elakes it a personal matter we should
hate to be a devil fiah.-Grand Rapids
Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

Eation and by amateurs for philan-
thropic objects. Miss Fries is with
her parents at their shooting lodge in
Tillery. N. C.
Mr.. Hartman is the second son of
the late Edward II. Hartman He
makes his home with his mother at
= East Sixty-nfnth street, and w.
EAverel1 Hartman, who married Miss
Kittie aLanier Lawrence about a year
and a half ago, his brother. Mr.. Az
ereH Hartman succeeded his father
in several directorates and control Of
the Hartman interests.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

The funeral of Wayland W. Boss
so. who died suddenly Friday night
was held at his home. Monday after
noon. Rev. I. l. Cottrel1,, pastor OF
the Rockville Seventh Day Baptist
church of which Mr. Boss had long
been a member, of1ciated at the flu
neral, with singing by members of
the church choir. Mr.. Boss was buried
on the farm, beside his parents. He
is survived by three brothers, and two
sisters, besides other relatives.
Guest From Stamford.
Miss Mazda Burdick of Stamford,
Conn, has been a recent guest of Ma
Marion Pendleton, at Pleasant Or
chardS.
Mrs Marry Sunderland of WEXFORD
is the guest of Mrs. Benjamin Ken
yon.
Mrs Abbie Tillinghast has gone to
Providence for the remainder of the
winter.
]. Palmer Greene, who has been ill
for two weeks past, does not seem to
improve very fast.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
Inaetivity causes csnstipation.

/ ack of exercises in the winter Is a
frequent cause of constipation. You
feel heavy; duh and listless. your com
plexion is sallOw and pipply, and en-
ergy at low ebb. Clean up this condi-
tion at once with DIR. Kings New Life
Pills. a mild laxative that relieves the
con gested intestines without gripping
A dose before retiring win assure you
a full and easy movement in the morn
ing. Csc at your Druggist.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

The engagement of Miss Gladys C.
c. Fries. daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
Harold H. Fries of 40 West Fifty
ninth street, New York, to E. Roland
n. Hartman, son of the late Edward
III. Hartman, has been announced.
Miss Fries was introduced to soci-
ETY. two years ago. She has been much
identified with the activities of the
younger contingent of society, is a
member of the Junior League of New
York and has taken part in several
entertainments given by that organi-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

Niantic.zaIr. and Mrs. James Bond
of lack Point have come up into the
village to spend the winter with Mrs.
John F. Luce of Main street.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

At the Broadway Congregations
church the communion service will be
held in the morning. and the after
loon service at O'clock
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

At Trinity Episcopal church there
VIII be holy communion and sermon
a. 10.30 a.. m. and evening prayer and
address at 7.30 p. m
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
EAST HADDAM
Manchester Man Buys Up Tobacco
Crops-W. C. T. U. Members Hear
Sill Sundays Booze Sermon.

Mrs Martha Smith is visiting
friends in New York
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Smith are i'll
with grip.
Schools about the town opened
Tuesday, after the holiday recess
Walter NJ Gillette spent New Years
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
Revised.

The pension is mightier than the
sword.--Life.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

l.
/ am told that nearly half the big
poultry raisers in my home county
have gone out of the business. simply
because they can't afford to pay wages
asked for labor and prices demanded
for feed, even with eggs at fifty cents
a dozen or more.
Practically every farmer in my
neighborhood with whom I talk says
he isn't going to try to do anything
more, the coming season, than he can
individually take care Of. There isn't
margin enough between the prices he
is compelled to pay for labor, fertilizer,
ground feeds etc, and the prices he
can get for his crops to leave any
thing for himself~ So he's going to
make his own stable manure go ~
far as is will. take care of as much as
his own unaided labor cam, keep as
rnuc1 stock as he can raise fodder for,
and let it go at that.
If this condition of things is general
throughout the country,-and all re-
ports seem to indicate that it is, do
our friends of the city, who are in :
clined to blame the farmer for high
prices and short supplies, realize what
it means?
It means still shorter supplies.
It means still higher prices.
It means that the short 81 GIFTED lab
orers who are now hocking to town,
lured by the promise of fifty cents or
a dollar day more in money-wages.
are going to be compelled to pay fifty
cents or a dollar a day more for their
living and, with them, all the rest of
the civic population.
/ call such people short sighted"
deliberately and intentionally.
Six or eight years ago a local car
penter dissatisfied with local wages,
moved to a neighboring city where
rates of pay were almost double. He
had plenty of work, here, and earned
But those offered in town were big
ser, so he fell for them.
Now that same man is back here
again. NO, of course ] amt getting
any such wages" he said to me. re-
Gently. land work amt as plenty as
twas. But, with a humorous twin
kle of the eye, 4 don't have to go in
to my pocket for money but three
times a day, here, and over in Pitts
boro 7 had to keep reachin' for a dime
O. dollar all the time"
Then you think" asked I, that
higher wages per day don't always
mean bigger net income per year?
His response was very vigorous: he
didn't merely think so, he knew"
it, because he had learned it by I'M
comfortable experience.
know man who used TO get $50 a
month CT a farm. He had a cottage
house for which he paid SIS month
rent. The house carried with it a
garden big enough SO that he was able
tt grow in it all the vegetables. ex-
cept a few bushels of potatoes, which
lis family needed for the year. His
pay included. besides money q quart
of milk day and all the firewood
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
Gigantic Butterflies

The largest butterflies are found
in British Guiana. some of which have
7: wing measurement of II inches.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
SUNDAY SUBJECTS

At the ShsItering Arms Rev R. B.
Harris and choir of Grace Memorial
aptist church will conduct the SER
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

cause hadn't been able. since August,
to get it cut; couldn't find a man with
team and mower to go at it nor g
man with a seythe to attack it that
way.
A neighbor, | am informed, has just
sold off ten of his twelve cows, be-
cause he can't get help to care for
them, nor enough for the milk they
produce merely to pay the wages ask
ed, if he could get the man.
Another has plowed under half his
big straw berry bed, leaving only as
much az he himself, with the help of
a son and his daughterin -law, can
take care of. Can't get outside help,
unless he offers as wages more than
the berries will sell for
Another dairyman who Eve heard of
but do not personally know, has some
capital and is slowly sinking it in
the hope that the tide will turn, some
time, and enable him to recover it:
He's managed to find couple of
women to help with the milking and
has kept one man, by paying him big
wages, The rest of the work he's do
ing himself, and putting in about
fourteen hours a day to do it. Even
at that, he finds that his milk is cost
ing him. delivered, about two cents a
quart more than he can get for it.
His man who has been asked to milk
two more cows than usual is now de-
and the feed which he buys to supple
ment his homegrown folders, has just
taken its eIeventy eleventh step up.
He's getting a cent 81 quart more for
his milk than it used to sell for, and
it's costing him about four cents a
quart more than it used to cost to
produce.
His customers meantime. are unan-
imously and vociferously of the opin-
ion that he's trobbing" them of a
cent q quart.
And SO it goes, and so it is. AS Mr.
Cleveland once remarked, it isn't a
theory but a condition which con-
fronts US farmers. Last years wealth
er was not bad for farming, as q rule
The season was. not only in our neigh
borhood but throughout the country,
fairly average, as seasons go. It isn't
honest to blame the weather.
The real reason for short crops was
not in any failure of soil or climate,
hut in the lack of labor for adequate
preparation and proper care of the
crops.
The reason for the shortage of labor
was that almost every available man
of working capacity had gone to the
city. where he could get higher wages
It's apparently going to be not only
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

At Park Congregational church the
sacrament of the Lords supper win be
Observed at the morning service. AT
4.30 O'Clock the regular vesper service
will be held.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
New Use far seaweed.

Sea iced is made into a composIr10n
to ia The place of bone for handles
o. =.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
Washington County, r. !.
ROCKVILLE

Funeral of WayIand w. Boss-Mrs.
Abbie TiIIinehast Leaves for Prov
dence,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
Chance for Rexenne

Chicago is worried because one of
its skyscrapers is 16 inches out of
plum Why not sell tickets to see it,
like the promoters did in the old days
when visitors desired to see the Ma
sonic Temple turn completely around
at the noon hour ?-St. Paul Dispatch
BriceePort.-Jonatha Godfrey of
bridgeport has sent in his resigna ton
to Gov Marcus H. Ho1oomb as mem
Der of the state tuberculosis commit :
sion. The resignation is to take effect
Immediately.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

The Associated Bible Students hold
services in W. c. T. U. hail. 80 She
Jacket street. There will be Bible
study Sunday morning. The topic
viii be The Gathering Together of All
Things in Christ. There will be a
hotodrama of The Creation at the
Davis theatre at and 7.30, open to
the public. ,sssszfs-,.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

cause 1 hadn't been able, since August,
to get it cut; couldn't find man with
man with a scythe to attack it that
way.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

Just as bad, but good bit worse, the
coming season.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

At Mt. Calvary Baptist church the
aston will preach. in the morning on
What the People Should Do. In the
evening the subject will be The Great
sst Meeting is to Be Held. The Lords
supper will be observed There will be
Sunday school at noon, and there will
be a meeting of the B. Y. p. Z. at
80 O'Clock. =-z -
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06

At the Mckinley avenue A. M. E.
Zion church, Rev. E. George Biddle,
pastor, there will be preaching in the
morning on Law or Grace, Which
The Sunday school meets"at noon. the
Union Lyceum at p. m, and there
the evening with Miss Cassie Robin
SON as leader. The subject will be
The Boyhood of Jesus. In the even
irg there will be preaching ard holy
communion. The subject of the SER
mon will be Sons of God.