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Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
BOND EXEMPTION
 UNDER NEW LAW
All Municipal Notes of Indebtedness
 Are Covered by Statute.

The new law this year concerning the exemption of bonds, notes and other ci1oses in action of municipali- ties from taxation is of interest. The law reads as follows:
 Section 1. All bonds: notes and oth- CT evidences of indebtedness issued after April l. 1917, by any county, town, city, borough or other munich pal taxing district of this state shall be exempt from taxation.
 Sec. 2. In the determination of the tax payable to or for the use of the state by savings banks, and savings departments of state banks, trust companies and national banks under the provisions of section 2422 of the general statutes and amendments thereof and section 2 of cha Dter S5 of the public acts of 19O7 there shall be deducted from the amount of de- posits of any such bank or trust com pany, in addition to the other deduc tions provided by law to be made in said deposits invested in evidences of indebtedness exempted from taxation by section 1 of this act in the deter imitation of the tax payable to the state by any stock insurance company under the provisions of part III of chapter 292 of the public acts of 1915, there shall be deducted from the whole value of the ca pital stock of such com pany, in addition to the other deduc- tions provided by law, the market value of any evidences of indebted ness owned by it and exempted from taxa ton by section 1 of this act, and the tax shall be paid on the portion of the value of the capital stock re- maining; and in the determination of the amount of the tax payable to the state by any mutual insurance com pany under the provisions of sections 2444, 2445 and 2446 of the general statutes and amendments thereof, there shall be deducted from the to- tai amount of assets of such company, in addition to the other deductions provided by law, the amount of the ma rket value of any evidences of in debtedness owned by it and exempted from taxation by section 1 of this act. All returns required to be filed for the purpose of ascertaining said taxes shall include. in the case of banks and trust companies, stat&,- ment of the amount invested in such exempted evidences of indebtedness, owned by it and exempted from taxa t[n by section 1 of this act All re- turns required to be filed for the pur- pose of ascertaining said taxes shall include, in the case of banks and trust companies, 8 statement of the amount invested in such exempted evidences of indebtedness, and in the case of insurance companies a statement of the market value of such evidences of owned by each such com pany.
 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from it's passage.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
HAY CROP HAS
 DIscoURAGiNG OUTLOOK
Weather Has Been Poor and There's
 Scarcity of Help.

Tn spite of the fact that the hay crop in this section is unusually good, pooy having weather and scarcity of help gives a rather discouraging out look for the farmer this year. The corp crop is backward but the potato crop looks pretty good at present. On Tuesday afternoon, under the auspices of the Farm Bureau there will be a spraying demonstration on w. O. Rog- CTS potato farm. Professor South wick of Storrs will conduct the dem onstration.
 Two canning demonstrations were conducted on Saturday under Farm Bureau auspices. One was held in Taftville and was under ths direction of Home Garden Supervisor Alfred C. Sheldon He showed how string beans, beets and peas are canned: The other was held St Palmer hal, Fitch ville and was under the direction of Miss Katherine Hunt and Miss Camil- la Healey. They demonstrated the methods of canning peas, beet greens and pineapples.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
URGED TO SIGN HOOVER PLEDGE
Every Housewife in County Will be Asked Cooperate in
 Food Conservation Movement-Object is to Enable
 Uncle Same to Share Supply With Nations in Need

Kew London county may be a little behind hand in time in the appeal to the housewives to sign the Hoover pledge. This lateness will, however, be- fully compensated by the thorough ness of the canvass that is to be made and the efficiency with which the work will be done.
 In this county the canvass for the pledge is to be conducted under the auspices of the Home Economies com mittee of the Farm Bureau, of which Miss Katharine Ludington of Lyme is chairman. The committee is asking the cooperation of the various wom- ems organizations of the county.
 The actual canvass will be carried out in each town by local bands of canva ssers-gir1s or womenv-recruit- ed by the local food committees
 The pledge cards have been drawn up at Washington; they form part of the food conservation campaign which has been entered upon by MT. Hoover, campaign is not so much to save money as to economize in food which can be made available for our own ar mics and for our allies.
 There is already, is we'll known. a food shortage, and the prospects for next winter for the armies in the field and for the countries of Europe are quite serious. The saving that Mir. Hoover is asking of the housewives is not a selfish saving. It is a saving to enable this country to share it's food supply with nations that would otherwise have to go short. Exactly what foods will be most useful to our allies will be told by MT. Hoover in bulletins that will be sent to every housewife signing the pledge.
 The pledge is printed on a card which will be presented by the can vassers to each housewife. It reads: To the Food Administrator, Washing
 ton, D. c.
 I am glad to join you. in the ser vice of food conservation for our na- tion and I hereby accept membership in the United States Food Adninistra- tion, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the food in the conduct of my household, insofar as my circum- stances permit" (Name and address follow).
 Then follow a few simple questions to be answered by the signer. They are: Number in household? Do you employ a cook? Occupation of bread Will you take part in au- thoried neighborhood movements for food conservation 2" There are no dues or fees to be paid.
 The pledge cards will be collected by the Home Economies Committee and sent to Washington. Each person who has signed a card will receive a
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
Y. M. c. A. MEETING
Rev. w. J. Crawford Delivers Stirring Message to Open Air Gathering.

At the open air gathering held Sun day afternoon at Buckingham Memor- ial under the auspices of the Y. NJ. C. A. a stirring message was delivered by Rev. William J. Crawford, pastor of the Norwich Town Methodist church. His topic was Jesus al the Door, Rev. 3: 20.
 There is q stranger on the door step. said Rev. MT. Crawford. His hand is on the door step. said Rev. Mir. Craw- ford. His hand is on the latch. His locks are wet with the dews of the night He has come from a far coun- try from a beautiful kingdom that lies a great way off He is travel worn and weary but his garments smell of aloes, myrrh and cassia out of ivory palaces. There are scars on his brow. scars on his hands; but above the scars there is a crown and in his hands there are blessings. He is the son of a King: Himself a King, and yet he is at the door with his hand nthe latch He comes on a kingly embassage.
 He is waiting patiently. Waiting and knocking that the door might be opened to Him. What does He say; :; knock.
 We can hear Him if our ears be not deaf in the shadow of our be- reavements, in the songs of our pros perity. There is a doorbe1 in every chapter of His holy word and every time the visitor touches the button there is heard some alarm, some warning, an invitation, a word of hope.
 The sinners heart is ont only closed it is sealed and bolted. Across the sinners soul is drawn the bar of ig- norance and alongside it is the bar of unbelief and the worm eaten bar of prejudice.
 The visitor will be a willing guest or none. He knocks and we open. He waits our welcome and if He should not enter, who is to blame? The one who stands waiting or the one who will not open? Only the space of a door between us and Christ. He on the outside: we on the inside. May God help us to open our hearts and keep them open.
 Miss Marion Beebe presided at the organ during the service
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
5HOEKDORFF- -RANTZAU
 SUCCEEDS ZiMM HERMANN As Imperial Foreign Secretary, Ac-
 cording to Report.

Copenhagen, July 15.-The Berlin correspondents report that Count Brockdorff- Rantzau, the German min ister at Copenhagen, has been select ed to succeed Dr. Alfred Zimmerman as imperial foreign secretary. Should this report be confirmed it would mean the return of the aristocratic tra ditions of the German service. Count Brockdorff- Rantzau is born in the German sense of the word and highly connected at court through his twin brother, who holds a high court position and through his mother Countess Brockdorff- Rantzau, mist ress Of the robes to the empress and one of the most masterful and domi nant personages in court life.
 Far more important to America is the role which Count Brockdorff- Rantzau played with respect to Ger man American relations during the war. Count von Bernstorff. the Ger man ambassador at Washington, not being altogether satisfied with the conduct of relations through the pre- ous attitude of James w. Gerard, the American amba ssador at Berlin, the German government endeavored to open an alternative change of com munications through Count Brock dorff- Rantzau, and used the minister to transmit to Washington through the American minister at Copenhagen, Dr. Maurice Egan, communications designed to take the edge from tense situations which now and then arose, and build up working agreements with the United States.
 Count Brockdorff- RantZau had long believed such agreements possible and had labored in this direction Finally he became convinced that the adoption of unrestricted submarine svarfare and a breach with the United States were inevitable. After the failure of the German peace proposals he ac- cepted the pending rupture as a fact.
 The imperial German chancellor, Dr. von Bethma nn- Hollweg, and Dr. Zim- mermann, after the complete rupture, endeavored to treat the American dec laration of a state of war as non-ex- istent, or at least, to act as if the dec laratfon that a state of war existed was not binding upon Germany. But Count Brockdorff Rantzau cherished no such illusions.
 The new foreign secretary is a man of firm. strong hand. with consider able energy for execution. He is a cousin of Count von Bernstorff.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
MUCH INTEREST IN
 FOOD OBSERVATION.
Nearly 800 People Have Received
 Training in Canning at Storrs.

Food conservation in the state of Connecticut is receiving wide atten- tion. Up to date 4s0 people have each received a weeks training in canning at. Connecticut Agricultural college These people have been prepared there to lead in demonstration work in their home communities.
 The women county agents of the state are being kept busy continually, teaching the most up-to-date methods Of food conservation, while many or ganizations of the state are giving free lessons to all corners.
 In addition to this work the com mittee of food supply of the state council of defense has published and distributed over 100000 bulletins on canning, and the Connecticut Agri- cultural college has published and dis tributed 75,000 such bulletins
 Besides the bulletins on canning the following home economies bulletins are just off the press and availa ble at the committee of food supply headqua rters at 36 Pearl street, Hartford: Cottage Cheese-An Inexpensive Meat Substi- tute: East Less Wheat-Try Wheat1ess Meals: Watch the Garbage Pail and the Kitchen Sink; Cutting the Meat Bills With Milk; Eat Less Meat; Time Table for Cold Pack Method of Can ming.
 One hundred thousand of these bull letins have been distributed through out the state during the last two days
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
COMMANDER PRICE IS
 DELEGATE TO BOSTON
Local Man Will Attend National En-
 campment of c. A. R.

Commander Orrin M. Price of Sedg wick Post, No l, A. R., is one of encampment of the G. A. R., in Bos- ton next month, having been appoint ed at the state convention.
 Every promise of a most attractive indicated by plans discussed at the meeting of the committee of arrange ments at the State House in Boston. Vice Chairman Daniel E. Denny of the executive committee presided and there was a full attendance of the chairmen of sub committees The ten tative programme submitted was as follows:
 Sunday, Aug. 19-Patriotic service at the Old South church at 8 p. m. with addresses by the comnander-in- chief, Corp. Tanner, Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon and others.
 Monday. Aug 20-Open meeting at Mechanics Building of Grand Army and allied organizations.
 Tuesday. Aug. 21-Parade and re- ception by Woman's Relief Corps to commander in-chief at Hotel Ven dome.
 Wednesday. Aug. 22-Nationa1 En- campment and campfire at Mechanics Building.
 Thursday, Aug 2a-NationaT En- campment at Mechanics Building and automobile trips to Cambridge. Con cord and Lexington.
 Friday. Aug. 24-Harbor sail and fish dinner at Paragon park.
 The committee had conference with Scout Commissioner Loomis of the Boy Scouts regarding services of the scouts in assisting in the enter tainment of the veterans. It is ex- pected that from 5000 to 4o0O scouts will be on hand, the full support of the scout organizations in Greater Boston was assured.
 Two large informa ton bureaus are to be established, one at the South station and the other at the North These will be in charge of the Sons of Veterans, with details at each of 50 scouts. Other information bureaus will be established. probably at the lead ing hotels, and the scouts will assist
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
SUPPLYING FARMERS WITH
 MUCH NEEDED HELP.
Labor Specialist Pease is Making
 Weekly Trips to New York.

R. W. Pease, farm labor specialist for the United States department of agriculture, now employed by the com nlittee of food supply of the state coun- cil of defense, arrived in Hartford Sat urday night with ten men secured through the New York Salvation Army employment bureau. Four of these men go to Windham county, three to MiddIesex- county, two to Litchf1eld county and one to Holland county.
 MT. Pease is undertaking to secure men for every farmer that desires help and who is willing to pay the mans fare from New York. He Is making weekly trips to New York, where he has a desk at the Salvation Army headquarters and a number of other free employment bureaus.
 MT. Pease reports an abundance of husky men who were willing to take up work on the farms but who had no farm experience. These men may be had for s20 to s25 a month and board Difficulty is being experienced in se- curing competent, experienced farm help, especially men who can milk. However, Mir. Pease has only two un- filled positions at the present time.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
MANY APPLICATIONS
 MADE FOR CANNING
Last Three Days of This Week Will
 be Devoted to Peas.

| Applications are coming into the
 Community Canning Club for having | work done. As it is getting so near
 the end of the season for fresh peas Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of | this week will be devoted to canning l peas. Housewives bringing them should be sure that the vegetables are | freshly picked and in good condition for canning. If too old it takes long | CT to cook them and if not fully filled | out there are many small ones that | must be kept by themselves. Also. if l they are picked when too wet, they | are full of water which make them | shrink more in the canning. Ordinar- | fly one quart of peas weighs 12 ounces and it takes about three quarts of | unshelled peas to fill a pint jar. The housekeepers may bring their peas and jars at o'clock, when the rooms open-closing at 4 D. m. If they wish to stay and assist in the work they
 may do so, or they may leave it who'll ly to the supervisor. The work is taken out of their own kitchen in this way and fuel is furnished, instruc- tion in each step of the canning pro-
 cess is given them, and the work com pleted under expert supervision-all at nominal cost.
 Housekeepers bringing or sending vegetable to be canned will be regis
 tered and their register number will be put upon each jar filled with their vegetable. This is a brass tag which can be used in the cooker and fully insures the housewife ip getting her own jar and vegetable.
 The jars brought should all be of the glass top kind. The others will not be used here, as they are not so relia ble.
 The price charged for canning must. of course, vary with the different kind of fruit vegetable. Some require more labor. fuel and sugar, etc. To- matoes, caulifiowers, greens, etc. cost the least Carrots, parsnips, beets. etc, will cost slightly more, while peas, string beens. corn, etc, are the most expensive of all. The actual ex- pense of doing this will be the only charge made. This is being worked out and will be given later.
 Fruit will be given attention in due time and this, too, must be strictly fresh and in good condition. The su pervisor will make the kind of syrup each person asks fora thin. medium thin, medium thick. or a thick syrup and the price per jar must vary with the amount of sugar used.
 There will be one day each week for things requiring syruDs.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
JUDGMENT DAY IN
 THE POULTRY YARD.
Hens on Summer Vacations Will Gel
 the Axe.

Judgment day is at hand for the hens of the state, and there will be distinct separation of the sheep from the goats" in the poultry yard if the pres supply of the Connecticut state council defense and the Connecticut Agricul- tural college do not miscarry. This IS the time of year when some hens begin others stay on the job and continue to help fiji the egg basket. If poultry IS to be kept at profit this year 1t is essential that hens which are receiv- ing high priced grain should make continual returns in the way of eggs, and successful poultrymen will elim- mate every hen which Is a stacker.
 Several methods are outlined in a bulletin which is being put out by the committee of food supply of the state council of defense and these can be used to determine which of the hens in the poultry yard are worth keeping and which ones should be executed for neglect of duty.
 For instance early Inolters are usu- ally non-layers and should do. Again, the color of the beak, ear Gobes, vent and shanks is affected by egg produc- tion and person trained in such work can easily detect the layers by their color-or rather by their lack of color for the heavy layers are usually pale, while the non nproducers are yellow in the beak, ear lobes, shank and vent.
 A further test for a laying hen is whether or not her pelvic bones are close together. A width of two fingers between these bones usually indicates a laying hen.
 In order to assist the people of the state in culling their focks, the poul- try department of the Connecticut Az ricultural college is prepared to give demonstrations at any time. Sufficient assistance has been secured to make possible 300 demonstrations if such a number is called for.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16

I bulletin of instructions and a house. | hold tag to be hung in the window Any woman who desires may also, on the payment of ten cents, receive fsom l Washington the shield insignia of the
 food administration, thus showing that she is enrolled in the Hoover food con- 1 servation army.
 | Only one signature is asked from
 each household. The person signing | should be the person actually respon- 1 sible for the administration of the | food. Signatures are wanted from all | women, whatever their income. The wealthier the woman, the more the ! likelihood of waste in her kitchen, and therefore the greater the need Of her pledge But even in the most careful, " conducted and most economical households there are possibilities of substitution. A perishabIe food that l is available here may be substituted for food that will keep well and that will therefore be available in France. It is war economy that is asked for, the most important part women can play in winning the war. very natural objection that was brought at first by housewives to the injunctionS of the government con- cernfng the saving of food was that they were not the great wasters. They pointed to the waste of grain in dis tillinE and to the eXtravagant use of
 food in hotels, and asked why they should be told to save in their kitch-
 ems when this colossal waste was go- ing on unchecKed. This argument can
 no longer be urged. All distilling is
 to De brought under careful govern
 ment supervision and cHe of Mir. Hoo-
 ver's first efforts was to get the CO.,
 operation of hotels and restaurants in
 checking the waste. In asking the
 cooperation of the housewives Mir.
 cover is not looking at the small saw
 ing that may be made iN one kitchen
 but at the enormous gain that would
 result if even one crust of bread were
 saved in each household in America
 One crust of bread saved each day
 by the housewives of America would mean an ample wheat supply to feed
 all the Belgian and French children who are now on the verge of starva- tion.
 All kinds of advice in regard to saw ing food has been offered by the news papers and magazines. until the women have begun to feel thoroughly puzzled and discouraged. Every housewife who signs the cover pledge will re- ceive from time to time bulletins from Washington which will give her au- thoritative information as to what the government desires of her. Every woman will thus. be able to act under the direct supervision of our national government and to feel herself part of the land forces of the United States
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
Johnson R Rathbone Engagement.

MT. and Mrs. Albert Rathbone of 45 East 18th street, New York, have an- nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Anna Talcott Rathbone, to Robert Livingston Johnson, son of Mrs. William Bond Birge and the late Frank R. Johnson of this city.
 Miss Rathbone made her debut win ter before last and Is a member of the Junior league MT. Johnson is now at the officers reserve training camp at Plattsburgh.
 Only a few days ago MT. and Mrs. Rathbone announced the engagement of their other daughter. Miss Grace o. colt Rathbone to Charles Farriday Weave of New York. Miss Grace Rath- bone is at present in Paris, where she has been identified with the work of the American ambulance hospital for the last year.
 MT. Rathbone, the Misses Rathbone's father, is a member of the law firm of Joline Larkin & Rathbone. |.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16

with your Compound for the benefit of other mothers '' MADAME EUGENE BEDARD, 558 Main Street, Springfield, Mass.
 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is so successful in overcoming woman's ills because it contains the tonic, strengthening properties of good old fashioned roots and herbs, which act on the female organism Women from all parts of the country are continually testifying to it's strengthening, curative influence.
 , If you want special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Go. (confi- dentiaD, Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read, and answered by women only.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-16
FORTY ARE KILLED
 AND MANY WOUNDED
Chinese Casualties Chased aa snlaii,
 Considering Ammunition Ussd.

London. July 15.-TelsEra phing un- der Fridays date, Reuters PekinR cor respondent reports the following ''Considering the enormous quantities of ammunition used and the number Of troops engaged, the casualties yeater- day were remarkably small. totailing ten killed and thirty wounded among the combatants, while thirty were kili- ed and a considerable number wound ed among non-combatants.
 "An of Chang Hsun's men captuF- ed were disarmed. They win be given three months pay and then disbanded.
 The situation is now entirely quiet. The police have taken the Htrictsrt precautions and no footing has occur red"