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Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
OVER 3o,ooo BACK
 YARD GARDENERS
Big Increase in Food ProduetisB
 Throughout the State.

Clifford I. Stoddard Of WoodbridFs, who with Wilson IT. Lee of Orange. represents the state board of aFri- culture on the committee on food pro duction. of the state council Of de- fense, made statement to the board at it's June meeting in the capitol in regard to the work of the committee He said that between 3O,0OO and 40.- 900 additional producers Of food had engaged in intensive gardening in the SnIte by cultiVatfnR lots and yards. and that the different county farm bureaus had assisted in the work and stimulated the efforts to increase the food supply. The manufacturers throughout the state had taken I'D agricultural production on a more or less extensive scale. Tn the town Of Danbury 200 acres of potatoes were being grown by the manufacturers tE cooperation with their employees. The manufacturers were also assisting the farmers in the solving of the labor problem on farms
 Mir Stoddard said 1t was hard Co estimate the increase in the dusn tity of foodstuffs which would be pro- duced this year in the state. Tn Md dlesex county the increase was said to be 35 per cent. In Litchheld coun ty the acreage of corn and potatoes had doubled. Tn all counties except one, which Mir. Stoddard did not name. the increase was material Tn a mum Der of counties short loans had been procured for farmers. But, said Mr. Stoddard, the farmers did not show a strong inclination to tae a loan when they found that they will be required to pay per cent for it.
 Everett F., Brown. of Pou1frst pTs- sided at the meeting. The sscTe- tary announced that the city Of Nor wich had invited the board to hold itE annual meeting in that city this year. The following were appointed a com mittee to consider the invitation; J. Arthur Sherwood Of Easton. J.. P. Palmer of Norwich. and N. Howard Brewer of Hockanum.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
ALL HOUSEWIVES SHOULD
 SIGN UP IMMEDIATELY
Fifteen Day Campaign to Be Launch
 ed Next Week.

Every woman in Connecticut who means business and is willing to try to live up to Herbert Hoover's pledge for | housewives, should sign up inmedi- of the food conservation committee of | tie State Council of Defence Wednes- day at the office at the headquart- CTS of the committee of food supply. They are going to get chance to sign, too,' said Miss Sprague.
 The work of enrolling housewives of the state has been put entirely in the hands of the committee of food fifteen days will be launched July 1. Each county of the state will be in charge of a member of the committee and the blanks will be given out from the County Farm Bureau offices un- der the direction of this representa- tive. Local organizations and home economics committees of the county
 farm bureaus will be asked to as
 sist in the work of distributing and
 collecting these blanks. Instead of
 having each housewife mail her
 pledge individually to Washington, the
 card will be collected as soon as sign
 ed by the organization distributing them and a list made of those singing.
 This list will be forwarded together with the signed cards to the county
 headquarters. Each county list will
 then be used as permanent mailing
 list for leaflets and bulletins.
 +1t is estimated that there are 300.
 900 homes in the state Of Connecticut" said Miss Sprague, land 1t seems req
 sonable to expect that almost with out exception the 300 900 housewives
 in these homes will seize the oplsortu- nifty to help by enrolling along with
 the home makers of the other states
 hope that no one will sign until she has read tNe pledge cards carefully and considers fully what 1t means. It
 is serious work and no one should enter lightly into 1t. The housewife
 who lives up to the pledge Is doing splendid, patriotic work and deserves
 n7,1rh DraiSe"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
ACkLEY FAMILY HEAR
 FROM WOUNDED SOLDIER
George B. Asheraft Has Been in the Trenches for Months.

The Ack1ey family of Gallup Hill received letter recently from George E. Ashcroft, formerly a resident of Lynn, Mass.,' but who has been for the past two years fighting with a British regiment, and at the present time is confined in a hospital in Nal ta, with a wound in the leg.
 MT. Ashcroft has spent most of his life in Lynn but soon after the war broke out he sailed to join the colors and fight for his native land. He knows what life at the front is like for he has spent months in the trenches, and has been stationed at different posts in England, France and Greece. He has been in three big battles, and has been twice wounded, but at the present time is doing well, and hopes soon to be able to get back to his Coy.
 MT Ashcroft is well known to many people in Ledyard and vicinity hav- ing visited there much summers.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
HANDSOME coRNET FOR
 PROF. H. E. WHEELER.
Presentation Made by Members of
 Buffalo Musicians Union.

At a recent concert mad ball given by the colored musicians of Buffalo local No. 533, A. F. of M, the orchestra of 20 pieces was directed by Prof. Henry F. Wheeler. pianist. who was born in Norwich At the close Of the concert Prof Wheeler was presented with a handsome cornet as token of appreciation of his efforts in making the affair a success. Prof. Wheeler was for several years the pianist of Prof. Fred s. Jackson's orchestra of this city and is at present teaching music in schools in Buffalo.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

complaints because work is so hard or | whimpering appeals for something easy to dol
 Of course work is hard. But it is | there to do and it has got to be done. The question for us IS whether we shall face the music or sbirk and | skulk; whether we shall accept frank ly and courageously our share in the common fate or try to sneak it off on to other shoulders, already fully laden: i: whether we shall be men or mice. It would be real progress if this whole nation could be shaken out of it's softened frame of mind and into a clearer conception that life is a mighty strenuous thing, after all. If this war is going to compel a whole lot of moilycoddles to brace up and take their place in the ranks of real workers, it will have caused at least one good result If it shall bring us on the farms back ! to a realizing sense of the o1d-fashion- ed virtue of economy, it will have done another good thing. am told that the price of tin has reached such an altitude that the can ming industry is likely to be crippled. Well. I don't want to see anybody in = jured i'll his business, but if the flow of canned goods to the farms could be stopped, instanter and completely, I'm inclined to think it would be another good thing!
 Some farmers are said to be selIinq stock because they can't afford to keep it at present prices of feed. 9th CTS are reported as disposfng of their hens for the same reason.
 If the price of feed continues to soar till every farmer is compelled to re- turn to the one-tirne economy of rais- ing h:.5 own stock and chicken. fodder it will be still another good thing
 If western wheat crops are so short and four prices so high that eastern farmers are forced once more to raise corn and easte<n housewives once more to learn how to make corn bread and Johnny cake, this will be two more good things.
 Years ago. 1 remember readinq some verses wh/n I have to quote from memory:
 Said one little chicken,
 With 3. queer little suuirm: T wish I could find
 A fat little worn"
 Said another little chicken.
 With a quaint little shrug: T wish could find
 nice little buzz
 Said the old mother hen
 From the dusty garden patch: If you want any breakfast,
 COME OUT HERE AND
 SCRATCHi"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
WILL TOUR VERMONT
 AND NEW YORK
Superintendent Graham Leaves Today
 on Vacation Trip.

Superintendent of Schools E. J. Gra- ham leaves Friday for a trip through Vermont and New York. He will go through the Connecticut valley to Springfield and Bellows Falls to Rut- land, Vt. From there to Lake George and up the Mohawk valley to Canojo- harie and Cooperston. From there he will go through the Catskills and Ari- rondacks to Piseco Lake
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
MontviIIe Girl EnIists.

Among the enrollments at the naval reserve office in the municipal building at New London Wednesday were three young women. They were Irene Stah- Ter and Eleanor Anderson of New Lon don and Alice L. Quinn of MontvfRe. All of them go in yeomen and have been assigned to work at the naval reserve headquarters at the state pier in East New London, where all is hustle and hustle these days.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
STEPHEN COOK WAS
 OVERCOME BY HEAT.
Fell Unconscious on Main Street and
 Attended by Physician.

Overcome by the heat Thursday af- ternoon, Stephen Cook, employed by Jonathan Smith of Norwich Town, fell in an unconscious condition on Main street. Several who saw MT. Cook fall rendered first aid and the man partial ly regained his senses. Dr. W. T. Dris- coll attended the man and he was later taken to his home in Norwich Town. MT. Cook recently fell from a ladder while repairing a windmill and Mrenched his hack
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
PIan Was sueeessfuI.

The plan of the state council of defense to extend the period of reg istration from June 3 to Wednssdsy worked out successfully. The ob5ect of the law was to make people req 70 ize they must register and not 10 prosecute them unless the people themselves wilfulIy ignored the pres ident's proclamation.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
Summer Schedule of Masses.

There will be June deVotions this (F'riday) evening at Sacred Heart church. During July and August masses Sunday will be at 7:30 and g o'clock, and sessions of the Sunday school will be omitted
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
Wounded Scalp in Fall.

John Summers of No. 24o Bay View avenue, Edgewood, N. J., received a. painful scalp wound when he fell from the top of a load of baled cotton on an automobile truck at the foot of State street, New London, late Wednesday afternoon. He is at Memorial hospital where his condition is reported as not serious.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

There are whole lot of people in country, by seashore and on hillsides, who would be worth more to them selves and their generation if they could be compelled to do their own scratching for their own living.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
Early Peas.

Emil welte of East Town street picked a large quantity of peas from his garden June 2S. They were plant ed the last of April.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
NORWICH TOWN
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Luther Return ing to Yarmouth-June Peas Picked In Weite Garden Thursday-Naca tion Trips and Outings.

turn today (Friday) to their home in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Miss Eliza beth I. Luther and her brother Philip Th Luther will accompany them to spend the vacation in Yarmouth.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Supt. and Mrs. E. J. Graham and sons are leaving for Canajoharie, N Y, and vicinity to spend the vacation
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Raymond Ewing of Elm avenue, . student at Cornell University, Ithaca N. Y, will spend the vacation at Silver Bay, N. Y.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

At Scotland Road hall Sunday aft ernoon, there will be a Christian En- deavor service and a session of the Sunday school.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Rev. and Mrs. Edward H. Smith and daughters return the last of the week from Auburndale, Mass, having been there since the first of January.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
Move From Washington Square.

MT. and Mrs. John Miller and daughter Elizabeth have moved from Washington square, Norwich. to one of John Mullins apartments, at the foot of the Green.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Mir and Mrs. Sidney P. Smith and daughter and Mrs. Owen s. Smith are taking a trip to Providence and Wal tham, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Miss Jennie N. Case of Broadway comes this week to spend the Vaca- ton on Peck's Corner.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

MT. and Mrs. George A Peck and son Crosby of Otrobando avenue have returned, after a few days visit with relatives in Colchester.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Albert G Thompson of Washing gtol Place is spending a few weeks witt friends in Boston and nearby places.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
Compiling Registration Cards.

Compiling and tabulating the regis tration cards for Groton is being done in the office of the tax collector in the municipal building at New London The work was begun Thursday morn ing by a force of women clerks
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

After a weeks visit fin Hartfort with her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Edger, ton, Mrs. Orrin M. Price has returned to her home on Wightman avenue.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Mrs. William Potter, her daughter Anita and son Kenneth of Otrobando avenue were in Worcester. Mass and attended Ringling Brothers circus.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

L. Stanley Gay has returned to East Greenwich, R. l., after spending a few days at his home on Town street.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

can remember when the farmer
 and his hired man, both, 1abored from dawn to dark in the having and har- vesting season; when they never gave
 thought to the number of hours they worked, but a great deal of thought as to the number of loads of hay or shocks of grain they saved. I do not suppose they really loved hard work any better than you and I love 1t. But they put their duty above their sioth; reckoned the doing of the work more important than the taking of their ease
 crude tools in those days. We can do more in fewer hours, now, because of our better tools But nothing excuses us from the enforcement of putting
 our work and it's results first, rather than our comfort or our laziness # would not be progress to dis card moving machines for old-f fash ed scythes. But how about the fence corners and the brooksides and the rock heaps? Are they7kept moved and clean, as of yore, or are they growing into annually widening hedge-rows
 and clumps Of untidy and wasteful
 brush because tits too much trouble
 It would not be progress to go back to the old fourteen or sixteen hour
 work day. But how about the cured
 hay lying in swath and ready to be
 cAADaJCu "heH the enu or the ten
 hour day arrives and with it cloudy
 threat of a rainy morrow? Is that hay saved, regardless of hours, or is it left to be wholly or partly spoiled ra- ther than work over hours?
 To whom much is given, from him much will be required. Since we are able, thanks to modern improvements in tools and machinery, to accomplish greater results from a like expenditure of energy than our dads and granddads therefore from us is demanded a greater output. Nor shall we be ex- cused if we fail to produce it.
 Ohs ] am sick to death of hearinq, hrst. i6a a1aes side and then on another,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
Random Notes.

Mir. and Mrs. Wood have moved from East Town street to Central Village.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Mir. and Mrs. James Rockwell and Miss Louva Rockwell of Ivoryton come today Qriday) to visit MT. and Mrs. GeorgeHS. Beebesof the Scotland road. F
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

do not pretend that hard work is rapturous happiness. I do not assert that it is always nor often wholly en- Joyable to those who perform it.
 But I knOw-and so do you, if you'll stop long enough to use your brains that it is the unacceptable law of the universe, and that it can't be avoided or amended or abolished any more than the law of gravitation.
 If some few seem to defy it and ex- ist in disobedience to 1t, remember that others are being compelled to work double times in order that they may loaf at their ease. The work is being done, whether they do their share or not; if not by their own hands then by the hands of someone else.
 And, in any fair balance of judg- ment, the men who meet their duty face to face and perform it to the ut most, regardless of personal discom- fort or strain, are vastly more honor able and worthy than the others who shirk their share in no matter what way
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29
PROGRESS TOWARD IDLENESS MARKS
 LOSS NOT GAIN
twrttten Specially for The Bul1etin.)

1 CWritten Specially for The Bul1etin.) Continuing our talk of last week. I don't believe have really settled into the "old fogy" class, just yet. I reputation among my immediate neighbors- Instead, they are more apt to eye me askance, as trifie too rad ical Therefore, when I take the ground that a certain degree and extent of reversion towards past methods and ideas would be a good thing for all concerned, am at liberty to hope that fogy's" hobby, but am, instead, utter ing something of a real progressive's anxiety for real progress. For it needs to be borne in mind, especially by some of the more braSh of the younger set, that progress isn't always identical with chang
 It is quite as easy and-heaven for give us!-rather more common to change for the worse instead of the better.
 Mere restlessness is not evidence of progressive spirit. It is more apt to be the symptom of ar ulcerating van ity, or a lack of reasoning power. "The shadows murmur, but the deeps are dumb"
 One usually gets along faster and farther by sticking to the road than
 
 across -swamps the road was sensibly carried around. Nay, it sometimes happens that, when one has tried a new road only to find it a "no-thor- oughfare, true progress consists in de- liberately going back in ones track till he gets once more into the paved highway.
 That's just what l think it might be we'll for us, the people of the United States, to do; willingly if such thing were possible; under compulsion if conpulsion is necessary.
 We've got off the real road in our search for novelty and our desire for short cuts
 We've got into the almost national habit of regarding work as a curse to be avoided, rather than as a blessing to be desired and sought for
 And we shall have to overcome that habit and resume an attitude towards the worlds work such as bef1ts real men and women, if we expect to re- sume any real advance, or to avoid 0 very real slump.
 In spite of all which the preachers and noraiists have said or may say, too many of us have fallen into the unworthy habit of looking for ease rather than for opportunity. We have grown into state of mind which not only avoids hard work for ourselves, but looks down on others who do it. There are plenty Of "Get-rich- quick Wallingfords," and plenty of "Dosit easy Susans," and far, far too many who admire or envy and initiate them.
 Who was the philosopher who, when charged with being crank" retort- ed: Well, it's the crank that makes things go 'round?'
 It's work, hard work, usually un- pleasant and often cruelty straining hard work that makes the world of humanity move and keeps it in the right direction.
 That work has going to be done, and done continuously or things will stop. The more there are who join in do- ing it, the more effective and satis- factory it will be. The more there are who shirk their share, the harder will the burden fall on those who do not shirk, and the less effective the accom- pIishment
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-29

Ohs ] am sick to death of hearinq, frst. 56a a7ae. side and then on another,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01
LARGE DECREASE IN
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Building Inspector Butler is Not Ban-
guine of Return of Normal Con-
ditions Before October.

The monthly report of Building In
spector Butler shows a large falling
off of building operations as compar-
ed to August of last year,
We expected this" commented In
spector Butler yesterday. The war,
OF course, is the primary cause, but
the fact that labor is scarce, owing
to the demand for workmen at gov
eminent cantonments and warehouses,
has added much to the embarrassment
of builders. With wages soaring to
princely incomes, the local contra
tors have had to, practically. shut UP
shop. Owners of property are not
investing. because of the high price
and scarcity of material which with
the high wage scale fixed by the gov
eminent, has made building almost
prohibitive. / look for return 10
normal conditions about october,
when the cantonment and warehouse
work viii have been about completed.
The report speaks for itself:
Summary.
Number of permits issued for new
work in August, 81; for alterations
and repairs, Az. total, rs.
Estimated cost of new work in Au-
gust s4S.655; alterations and repairs,
$62,9S9; total. $1I1.624.
Average value of permit for new
work in August. sl.56e,516.
Average value of permit for atefa-
lions and repairs in August. N,4Sl,-
113.
Average value OF total permits is
sued in August. S1,4Ss,320.
New Structures.
Six brick dwellings, $12,100; six
frame dwellings $4,000, four frame
sheds, $3.50. one mandatory, $4,000;
one brick stable. $500; one boiler
room and heating. $4,000, total, 3d.
$48,655.
Alterations and Repairs.
Six brick dwellings, s4,35s; sixteen
frame dwellings, $685.; II brick
stores, s26 .697 FIVE warehouses and
nanufa ctories. s12.519; one frame
shed $500; one Office. building, $3.50.
one public garage. $4,000; four pri-
vate garages. 500, one hospital So
SOC, one bank building, $1,000, one
theater, 5000, total, forty-four; s62,-
$50
Total number of examinations and
reports from January ! TO July 81,
l9l7, sos; total number Of examina-
lions and reports during month Of
August. 1917. So total nuuber Of
examinations and reports from Janu-
airy to August 81, 1917. 4ss
Amount OF new work from Janu-
ary ! TO August 81. 1917, 5000, 1925;
amount OF repair work from January
! 10 August 81, 1917 s59S.374; total
amount Of work authorized from Janu-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01
HOLIDAY HOURS AT
POSTOFFlCE MONDAY

Postmaster Hay r, Thornton an
nounced yesterday that the following
hours will be observed on Labor day.
September 8:
The Executive division, the money
order dp..sion and the cashiers OF
fee Will be closed, The following de-
partments will be open from to II
A. NJ. Stamp window, general deliv-
cry window. registg- division. parcel
post division and carrier windows.
in the main postoff1ce only.
The carriers will make deliveries as
follows; Two and three trip carriers
VIII make one delivery, reporting at
I A. N and collecting boxes on their
routes -Four trip carriers VIII make
two deliveries reporting at ! A. NJ.
and collecting boxes on their routes.
Parcel post carriers Will make regu
lar delivery, reporting at $50 A NJ.
Rural carriers viii make no delivery.
Special delivery messengers will make
fun deliveries
Collections Will be made as follows
The first tse regular business trips
and the nth trip viii be made. omit
ting the third, fourth and sixth trips
Additional hotel delivery hX night col
lector
Dispatches to stations as follows
At Is and 10 80 A. NJ, 2:50 and
$40 P. NJ. Registers on .AYt dis
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01
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COMPLAINS ABOUT
PARKING TRAINS
Administrative Board Asks Corpora
ton Commission to Relieve Sit
uation at Elba Station.

Many complaints have been receiv-
ed by the administrative board from
merchants and property owners along
Broad street, west from Elba sta
ton, about the parking of passenger
trains, and the running of light en-
gines on the southstde of the street
from Laurel street west for several
blocks. Yesterday the board directed
its clerk to notify the corporation
commission and request that some &C.
ton be taken to mend the situation.
This matter was taken up by the
corporation commission about a year
ago, and was allowed to die, because
1t had been stated by the officials of
the company that the cars and en-
gines would not be run along and
parked on the street, after the new
union station had been completed
The board. however, in view of the
many complaints received, deems IL
pertinent that action should be taken
at this time