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Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
pANIELsoN

Hearing on Eli Dagenias' License APP
pIieation Asains PostPoned-Sasinss
Accounts Gain Over 100000 During
1e16-6ig 5uildfng Boom for Coming
Year-shePard HiII Cow Gives I 200
Pounds of Milk in Past Month-New
Fire Station at Industriak Place.
Mrs. Alphonse Gareaua of Garter
street is visiting relatives in Canada
Edward sHeneault OF waterbury Is
the guest Of relatives here for the mol
Miss Marietta Healey is visiting Mr..
and Mrs. P. F. Murray, Academy
street.
John C. Lane OF Bridgeport was the
guest of friends in Danielson over
EIks at Putnam.
Local members of Putnam lodge of
FIfs we-e in Putnam to watch the old
year out and the new year in
Local relatives were in Putnam Sum
day to attend the funeral OF Thomas
Pepin of Carter street, who died IN
Boston hospital
with friends in Hartford
Miss Winnie E. shaw OF worcester
is spending the holiday with friends in
Danielson.
have returned to their home in Lynn
after a visit with relatives here.
License Hearing Postponed.
The hearing of the remonstrance
against granting a license to Eli Dage-f
Mas was again postponed from Satur-
day A date for the hearing will be
fixed by the county commissioners at
their meeting this week.
ST. James paroc71ial school is to re-
open for the winter term Wednesday
morning.
Herbert Keech is preparing to
cut ice at Quinebaug lake, where the
ice is nearly heavy enough to warrant
starting operations almost at once.
Mrs George +. Genung is to have
the members of the Brooklyn Women's
club at her home for meeting this
afternoon.
Gain of Over 100000.
Savings accounts in Danielson's
banks show a gain in excess of $780,
600 during 1915. Not all the earnings
went to meet the high cost Of living,
the workers make manifest.
Several parties motored to Provi-
dence Sunda yevening to watch the
old year fade away and the birth of a
new one.
Only Degrees Above Zero.
Sunday mornings low temperature,
as shown on the recording thermome-
ter at Woodwards store, was degrees
above zero.
Pcstoffice Hours Today.
Postmaster Pil1ing puts in force a
new holiday arrangement this morn
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

! ing, keeping the Office open only from
80 to 11.30 a. m, after which hour
it will be closed for the day. The
rural service is suspended today.
Will Address Milk Producers.
Rev. c. A Downs Dayville, has
made arrangements to have G. e. En-
bree, organizing the Rhode Island milk
producers, address a meeting of milk
producers here next Saturday About
a score of men ship from this vicinity
to the Providence market.
Big Building Boom in 1917.
This year of 1917 promises to wit
ness the greatest building operations
are expected within few days of
building plans that will represent the,
investment of millions-and there will
De other announcements later.
Officials who inspected Webster's
crossing at Dayville last week have
taken under consideration different
plans for its elimination. 1t is said
that what appears to prove the most
that the crossing will be a thing of the
past in the not distant future.
DayviIle as Freight Station.
During the next 80 days, it is stated
by men in a position to know, Day.
vile is going to be one of the busiest
freight stations between New London
and Worcester. An estimate is that
there during the period, the majority
of them coming in in connection with
the construction work to be done by
the big textile concern at Williams
vile.
Prisoners to Cut Ice.
There are 81 prisoners at the Wind
ham county Jail in Brooklyn this New
Years morning. With the coming of
1917 one of their first outside jobs will
be to harvest the ice crop, which is
practically ready for cutting, being
to inches in thickness on the pond
where the supply is usually cut.
Cow Gave SO Pounds of Milk in One
Day.
William s. Brown, who has started
to develop a herd of thoroughbred
Holstein cows at his Shepard Hill
farm near Wauregan, has one COW
that gave 1900 pounds of milk during
the past month, and this record, he
expects, will be exceeded during Jan
uary. The cows best record for one
day is given as 50 pounds of milk
Feast of the Circumcision.
For New Years day special masses
are being said at ST. James church,
the first at $50 a. m. The day is a
holy day in the church calendar
Fire Station Needed.
The steady growth of Industrial
place and that section of Danielson
and the growth Indicated for this year
and years to come has suggested to
the minds of some the need of estab-
fishing a fire station and organizing a
fire company there. The long, hard
run that the companies had last week
in getting to the fire at the Philias
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
COUNTY LOCAL
To Be Established in Borough by Milk
Producers Association.

Danielson is one of the places Sc
lected Saturday at the farmers meet
Ing in Putnam for the establishment of
enc of the Windham county locals of
the New England Milk Producers as
ISOLATION. Organization of this local
will be undertaken during the present
month, very probably. and it is hoped
to get all the men Who sen milk to
join. The ultimate plan includes the
the members of the local may find it
convenient to buy at saving prices that
" i'll be open to them, purchasing as a
unit. But for the present the idea is
to get organization and protection pre-
paratory to the real test of strength
that it is said is coming between the
producers and the big city middlemen
who handle their product.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
BANKS BIG YEAR.
Prosperous Condition of Country Re-
ffected in Statements of Local In
stitutions.

The years banking business that
closed with Saturday was one of rare
success for the institutions of this
city. The extraordinary prosperous
condition of the country is reflected
in their statements. The First Ma
tional bank had its banner year and
It's earnings for the past twelve months
are understood. to have been splendid.
Officials of the Putnam Savings
band also expressed themselves as
gratified. especially with the increase
in new accounts. Many of the new
accounts at the institution are in the
names OF young people thus insuring
a continuing savings bank clientele,
and frequent deposits are being en-
couraged so as to inculcate the habit
of saving.
lee-cutting to Start Today.
This New Years day has been set
aside as holiday by the great major
ity of workers of the city-but not for
the icemen and their employees. Sat-
urday night all arrangements had been
completed for starting this morning on
the harvesting of the seasons ice
crop. The concerns that get ice at
Perry's pond will have a force there
this morning, weather permitting, and
the work of filling houses Will be rush
ed. Saturday the ice measured z in
ches and was thickening fast. Close
to 9 inch ice is looked for by the har-
vesters who will get out this morn
ing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
largest
Stock

The past year has been
the most successful in our ten
years Of business in this city
and We take this method to
thank our patrons and friends
for their generous patronage.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
FUN ERAL.
Thomas Pepin.


The body of Thomas Pepin. SO. who
died in a Boston hospital, was brought
here Saturday. Funeral services were
held at st. Mary's church Sunday aft
ernoon, burial in. st. Mary's cemetery.
Mr.. Pepin, whoH leaves his wife in
Danielson, where he had been a res
ident a number of years, having en-
pIoyment in the mills, was formerly Of
this city.
EIks' Charity Ball.
A committee of Putnam lodge of
Elks is arranging for its annual ball,
the entire proceeds to go to charity.
The ball is to be held during the pres
ent month.
City Notes.
At the week end, City Clerk Thomas
P. Ryan was confined to his home by
illness.
Putnam made a splendid record of
lack of arrests during the two clos
ing months of the year, one of the
best for a long period.
The post office will be open today
only from $50 to 11.30 a. m. The ru-
raj service will be suspended.
entertaining Boston relatives over the
holiday.
Judge NJ. A. Shumway will preside
here during January.
Social dances We're a feature of the
city's life Saturday evening. which
furnished the nearest opportunity to
dance out the old year.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

Jodoin place gave the IRE q big start
before the fremen arrived. It Is felt
by many that a fire station located as
far north as North street is needed
right away for the proper protection
of the many homes and the big mill
properties in that section.
The business section OF the borough
certainly would feel worried with all
of its fire apparatus stored beyond
North street. and it is but reasonable
that property owners up that way
should feel much the same when re-
garding the present distribution of fire
companies.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

logical Survey, Department of the In
terror, indicate that the quantity of
crude petroleum produced and mark
eted in the oil fields of the United
This quantity is greater by per
per cent than the corresponding out
put in 1915, which reached the record
breaking total of 2S1, 104,104 barrels
Mr.. Northrop estimates that 38 per
cent of the 1915 total came from the
Oklahoma Kansas field, 80 per cent
from California, and the remaining 80
per cent from the Appalachian, Lima
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

Elimination Of the middleman. and
selling price that will show the pro-
Queer a profit, were the keynotes
sounded here Saturday at the meeting
in Odd Fellows hall, to organize a
Windham county branch of the New
England Milk Producers meeting.
About forty were present, representing
most of the Is towns in the county,
when County Agent B. w. Ellis called
the meeting to order and explained
the reasons for the assemblage.
S. H. Peckham. Woodstock, was
elected chairman of the meeting and
B. w. Ellis secretary. The men pres
ent own between 500 and 500 cows,
most of them are shippers of milk to
middlemen who do business in the
Boston and Providence market and all
of them were anxious to, be identified
with a movement that holds promise
of doing them a permanent and bene-
fetal service.
E. C. Embree, manager of the Maine
Farmers unions and at the present
time actively engaged in organizing
the milk producers who sell in the
Providence market into a co-opera-
tive movement, was the principal
speaker. There also was an address
by James H. Cutler, well known here
as careful student of the problems
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

the movement as a new feature of the
milk producing building.
During the present week Mr.. En-
bree is scheduled to make addresses
in number Of places in Rhode Is
land and Connecticut, in the way of
organizing locals. He is to be at
Danielson next Saturday.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

ments, reached a total of about 81
900 barrels, an increase of more
than ) million barrels over 1915, while
stocks fell off more than three million
barrels, according to estimates by
Ernest F. Burchard of the United
States Geological Survey, Department
CT the Interior. Prices averaged
higher and trade conditions were gem
orally better than in 1915, and the
outlook for 1917 is reported as good.
Nearly so per cent. of Germany's
alcohol is made from potatoes.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

Indiana, Illinois,, north Texas, north
Louisiana. Gulf coast, and Rocky
Mountain fields.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
PUTNAM

County Branch of New England Milk
Producers Association Organized
Address BY {. c. Embree-Locai
Banks Report Big Year-Ice- Cutting
to Start Today-FuneraI of Thomas
Pepin.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01
Shipments of Portland Cement Break

STIPHleHts OF FoTtIand Cement bTeak
Record.
Shipments of Portland cement in
the United States in 1915 approXi-
mated 94,508,000 barrels, an increase
over 1915 of more than Z 1-2 million
Earrels, the heaviest shipments in the
history of the industry. Production,
while it did not keep pace with ship
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-01

Crude Petroleum Production.
Preliminary estimates by John d.
Northrop. Of the United States Geo.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
THE STRIKE
SITUATION

There is no material change in the
strike situation in the Northwest,
both sides waiting the action of
government agencies.
The 10-hour lumber boycott is a
weighty factor in the metal trades
strike in Seattle, and that too seems
to wait the Intervention of the gov
eminent.
There are now about 120 eight
hour mills running in the Northwest
and they are gaining. There would
be more now but for the Lumber
Association agreement providing a
large forfeit as a penalty for ac-
ceding to the demands of the Shin
gle Weavers and the Timberworkers
Unions.
The Shipping Board, the Wage Ad-
iusting Board and others interested
in the settlement of the strike will
before long, it is thought, show the
mill men the error of their way.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
THE METAL TRADES
IN SAN FRANCISCO

A temporary agreement was Ell
fected in the strike of the San
Francisco Metal Trads last week
and the men returned to work on the
following conditions:
wages up to and including $4.25
per day shall be increased 20 per
cent; wages from 1926 per day, up
to and including SIS, shall be in
creased 1917 per cent; wages from
IS per day, up to and including a
point where such increase shall not
bring the wages above Sc, shall be
increased 10 per cent.
at is understood that the in
creased scale adopted shall not create
any advance which shall bring about
a higher wage than 5000 per day.
Eight hours shall constitute a
days work and all overtime shall be
paid at the rate of time and one
half for the first three hours after
regular quitting time. Double time
shall be paid for all time over eleven
hours day, but this shall not APP
ply where more than one shift is re-
quired.
"All the foregoing shall be bind
ing until such time and thirty days
thereafter as the wage adjustment
board shall render its decision in
settling condition"
The outlook in the San Francisco
Car Strike points to eventual victory
| for the strikers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
NEXT TUESDAY WILL BE
FIRE PREVENTION DAY

A Plea to the Public:
Citizens of Washington, Children of
the Schools of Washington, do not
forget that our governor, as we'll as
the Governors of many other states
of the Union, has issued a proclama-
ton designating October 9th as Fire
Prevention Day. This is the an
niversary Of the great Chicago fire
which over forty years ago practi-
cally destroyed that great city. 1t
was all caused by the careless hand
ling of lantern.
We never know what will be the
outcome of carelessness with fire.
The annual cost of fire waste in our
own country runs into the hundreds
of millions of dollars. Most of these
fires are from preventable causes,
many on account of gross careless
ness.
Now is the time to examine your
flues, stove pipes, ETC., to clean up
your premises, and get rid of all
loose inflammable substances, par
ticularly in the easements. See that
no oily rags are left in the closets
or dark corners. Do not store any
gasoline in the house, even in small
quantities.
This department has done much
hard work in the way of fire pre-
vention in the grain fields and food
storage warehouses and manufacture
ing plants, during the last few
months, and in our efforts have re-
ceived the hearty cooperation OF
those with whom we had to deal
1t is now for the individual house
holder and the small dealer and the
children, as well, to carry on the
good work and see what united eff
fort can do in the elimination of the
fire waste in our great state. Will
you not do your part?
H. O. FISHBACK,
Insurance Commissioner and EXOff
State Fire Marshal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
UNFAIR LIST

BARBER SHOPS
III. Turner, 11O4 Hewitt; William
Whitaker, Lowell; Barnhart SHOP
Monroe; Independent, llOl Hewitt
BUILDING LAB0RERS
Peter jackson, L. Starke, Emil Nit
tersbach, f. Cloke, John Grant.
BUILDINGS
1917 Hewitt Avenue,
CARPENTERS
Joe Erickson, r. B. McAdams, Ru-
dolph Hartman and his building,
Colby avenue, between Twentieth and
ty-first, Tyner, and N. f. Butts.
CIGARS, TOBACCO, LUNCH
Henry NJ. Prince, cigars, tobacco,
lunch, etc, 1911 Hewitt Ave.
ELECTRICIANS
F. R. Hare, Jack Shields, electrical
contractors; Globe Wall Paper Co.'S
electric department,
FISH COMPANIES
San Juan Fish Co., Seattle.
IRON WORKS
Summer Iron Works.
MEAT MARKETS
Everett Avenue Meat Market
Riverside.
PACKERS AND PURVEYORS
Libby, Mcneil & Libby, Packers
and Gamers.
TNTEDC
William Christensen, NJ. Koken
GLOBE Co., l.. l.. Swartz, H. f. Main
II. Patzrnan, II. O. Johnson, R. j
McGrcgor, J. {, Jensen, Carl Steen
R. D. Garner, f, Drolet, c. A. Barr
PLASTERS
A. c. Wright, A L, Knapp, Booth
Tom Nygard, W. l.. Porter.
PLUMBERS
c. L. Schweit2er w. J. Callahan
Otto Mer4 and Globe Paper Coz
plumbing department.
STORES
E. J. Long, grocery store Nine
teenth and Virginia; Ridgway Gro
Gerry Co. and his building at 34O
Colby avenue.
IAILORS
Scotch Wooden Mills, 1904 Hewitt
TRANSFERS
c. J. Wit, gtnd colLer Colby ant
Hewitt; C. A. Worth.
MISCELLANEOUS
C. W. Anguish, 35O5 Lombard
American Packing Co., Everett; Cal
/ Smiley and son; Fitz Gerald.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
TRADES COUNCIL
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1917

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1917
Council called to order at 8 p. m.
by President Moncur.
Bro. G.. Moore, delegate from the
machinists, was obligated and seated.
Communication received from Rep
resentative Hadley, transmitting
copy of bill providing for an eight
hour day in the lumber industry,
the same as the bill introduced in
the Senate by Senator Jones. Text
printed in this issue of The Journal.
The Cooks and Walters reported a
fair meeting and four limitations.
The Electrical Workers reported
good meeting.
The Plumbers had a good meet
ing. One reinstatement.
The Single Weavers reported
news of a walkout in three 1O-hour
mills in the Seattle district
The Transfers had a good meet
ing, two limitations,
The Butchers had a good meeting.
One initiation.
The Timberworkers reported their
usually good meeting. The Slim
son suit for $4,000 against the
Union was dismissed. The mills are
running short of common labor.
The Boilermakers reported fair
meeting.
The Journal was instructed to So
licit funds for the purchase of to-
bacco for soldiers in the field. The
Journal force, the members of the
Trades Council and the agent at the
Labor Temple will receipt for your
money. The money will be sent to
the American Federation of Labor
at Washington or the Secretary OF
the Tobacco Workers international
Union at Louisville, Kentucky. Come
through with your contribution fol
smokes and chews for the soldier
boys.
Bro. Ed Taro was appointed as
delegate to represent the Trades
Council on the Board of Control OF
the Labor Journal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
WILL AGREE TO 1T
IF WILSON SAYS so

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29-Sena-
tor PoindeXter today sent to the
president a telegram received recent
ly from Seattle saying in effect that
if the president will so request, most
of the large lumber mills and log
ging companies of Seattle and Ia
coma will go to the eight-hour basis,
and thus contribute to the settlement
of labor disputes now prevailing in
the shipping industries of Washing
ton.
The president, acknowledging the
telegram, informed the senator that
he has turned the communication
over to the labor adjustment board,
which is to leave for Seattle next
Wednesday, with the request that
they give it consideration, along with
other information available, when
they began hearings at Seattle. The
name of the sender of the tele-
gram is withheld.
Message Given Wilson
The message itself reads as fol-
lows
81 have reliable inside information
that leads me to believe that re-
quest direct from the President to
the mills hereafter named, asking
them as a patriotic duty to go to the
eight-hour day would meet with
prompt response. | believe the
mills are looking for and would
welcome an opportunity such as this
to grant the eight-hour day. All
negotiations now pending between the
government and laboring men on Pu
get Sound would be greatly facilitat-
ed. l believe also that settlement
of the lumber situation will go
long way toward adjusting all other
labor difficulties in this section. l
am creditably informed that owing
to local conditions in Seattle and
Tacoma the going to an eight-hour
day would work no hardship upon
the mill owners"
Mills Referred To
The mills referred to are: In Sc
attic, Canal Lumber Company,
Schwager & Nettleton, Gould Lum-
Der Company, Stimson Mill Com
pany, Newell Bissell Lumber Com
pany, Brace & Hergert Lumber
Company, Bryant Lumber & Single
Company, West Waterway Mill Com
pany, Millings Sawmill Company,
Occident Lumber & Timber Com
pany and Dungeness Logging Com
pany.
At Tacoma, St. Paul & Tacoma
Lumber Company and Dempsey
Lumber Company.
On receipt of the above telegram
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05

cular has been sent to retail clotn-
iers by the Council of National De-
tense:
Council of National Defense,
Washington, September "a, 1917.
Dear Sirs:-We wish to call to
your attention the recommendation
that this board has issued to all the
clothing and garment manufacturers
in the United States. These rec
concentrations are:
First-That for the spring season of
1918 clothing manufacturers should
avoid excessive multiplicity of styles,
combining themselves to the number
of models actually required by the
trade.
Second-That they should avoid
models which use cloth for needless
adornments, such as belts on coats.
Third-That they should use cloth
in so far as possible, in which re-
worked wool or cotton is in part
substituted for new wool.
The board has found through con-
ferences with representatives. of the
cloth and clothing trades and by 9th
err Investigations that there are pro-
duced each season many more styles
of cloth and garments than serve
any essential purpose for either man.
If nj nj
This excess of styles wastes labor
and wool not only in the manufac-
ture but also in the merchandising
of cloth and clothing; and it wastes
them at time when they are urg-
emily needed by the Army and for
other essential uses. Although the
saving may be small in individual
cases, the saving in the entire in
dustry would be very large. There
is, indeed, such urgent need of men
and materials in essential work that
the country can not endure the waste
that results from the excess of styles
in clothing.
Careful investigation shows that
there is a serious shortage of wool,
so that economy in it's use will be
urgently necessary. The Government
is equipping its fighting forces with
garments containing substantial guam
titles of wool substitutes. Under
these circumstances we are con-
fident that the civilian population
will not demand or expect clothing
made entirely from new wool.
We are relying upon the earnest CO.
operation of retail clothiers in max
ing these recommendation effective.
Already many clothing manufactur-
ers have assured the board of their
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
THE HAMMER

Put the hammer in the locker,
Hide the sounding board likewise;
Anyone can be "knocker,"
Anyone can criticise.
Cultivate manner winning,
Though it hurts your face to smile,
And seems awkward in beginning,
Be a booster" for awhile
Somebody From Somewhere.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
TOTAL 54.4 MILLS

The tax rate for Everett citizens
this year will be 544 mills. That's
all, and it's enough. The above
figures cover the rate for city, coun-
ty and state taxes, in fact it in
cludes everything.
There will be PAP mills for county
and state purposes, 1877 mills for
Municipal purposes, and 11.5 mills
school tax.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
A NEAT TRAP

81 see you have your hand in a
sling" said the inquisitive passen-
ger. Broken, isn't it,"
eyes, sir" responded the other
passenger.
"Meet with an accident ?"
"No; broke it while trying to pat
myself on the back"
Great Scott; what for?"
"For minding my own business"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05

whole hearted cooperation; and, as
war measure, we expect you to
purchase for the spring season Of
1918 only such styles as are con-
sistent with these recommended
tons
Yours, very truly,
COMMERCIAL ECONOMY BOARD,
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DE-
TENSE.