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Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
BIG WAGES INCREASE IN
 NEW LONDON LAST YEAR.
Approximately $1,750,O0O More Paid Out For Labor in 1917 Than in the Previous Twelve Months-Increase in the Total Volume of
 Business Along Industrial Lines Over Eight Millions of Dollars. se@

industrial figures approximately $75o months the proceeding twelve increase considering fact that 5sO The increase in the total volume of business for was $s2o924o for the previous not quite five millions
 industries City the Sea employment to employees this steadily with in dcatons large gain this Wages paid out in all concerns for the just closed toaled s2 the figure for 1916 being 6SsO The total valuation of the markets the world s142OO while the lines was ss2, ,3Oo - <
 principal activity New London is the manufacture of machinery including marine machinery This industry gives employment to 0O hands who received during 1917 total of and who turned manufactured s10s60000 silks and fortables the gives employment 1850 hands who received in 1917 amounting and who turned out goods to the value of 8sO0O
 total of 47o hands employed industry and the value of their manufactures $sS3O00 hands find employment the boiers They and the value of their manufactured other industries grouped together employing out manufactured goods these AS hands totaed s27S00o
 An Unusually Prosperous Year.
 Throughout county as a whole industrial con- unusually year spite of the congesed freight conditions that @ ana nannactued products The output is larger than and the begin and New London which have already above
 manufactured goods in which
 gain of several millions the paid total of $3,ss45362s point ysaue or product wooen mills take the lead In at $SoS46 These employ roll for the toaed approximately s700000 The roll for the oaed approximately $7oOOoo manufao- the value of their O3o0oo considerable gain the previous found employment in the counts mills last building and the manufacture machinery import line and according indications in this work will show very large gain this The Iron works busy in tine the Cotton mills employing nearly including Norwich product as17 to the value of $175O00O The distinct in industrial lines turned out ss5eo worth of goods during past
 The manufacturing volume for New London this including of countys manufacturing only $T314444
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01


 hands are on pay of woolen manufacturing concerns eight employed in cotton mills one hun ninety mills and all other industries grouped under one head employ approximately three hundred Wooen mills paid out wages mills $6SoOOO silk mills s1s5 Oo0 and the industries $S25,G0O.
 Wooen lead in the value of product manu- representing their output for the in Cotton mills second the value Of thelr being $2Oo0ooO Silk mills take third place product being s6OOo0 The value Putnam was $5,oOO,OoO t~ess-rsn
 Putnams manufacturing volume for 1917 $20,96000O figure representing the total value value of the manufactures. 1916 manufacturing volume s1S.5s4,Ooo.
 Other Towns in Wndham County
 Not including Willimantc Putnam, Windham county towns turned markets the value of during 191 figures representing the 1916 being $29926OS9 The manufacturing volume for last $4030600O with $37 total of 5S50 hands employed industrial being increase of several hundred employees the ceding paid these $595O9 hundred thousand dollars the preceding twelve months.
 Cotton mills, employing 2940 products valued at $S4000 and paid in $90 Two thousand hands employed by woolen These employees ceved $50OooO product $4060000 All other industries employing 40 factured products to the value of $1500,000.
 Three hundred thousand dollars representing paid these 40 employees
 The manufacturing Wndham county as whole $s35as2s17 in 1s1 the 1916 total being $747671se6
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
NORWICH BANKERS CO OPERATED
 IN RAISING LIBERTY LOAN
Rendered Government Every Assistance Possible In Financing the War Against Germany-Un- usual Activity Along Commercial Banking Lines Last Year.

savings banks of have average year Liberty much of money its way receiving windows Along banking activity during looking year during twelve months of 1913
 Norwich bankers to have in way possible government Liberty allotments and it Of much qualification to the great ly oversubscribed.
 The banks only assisted the by receiving subscriptions solicited we nauguating easy payment plans whereby the humble patriots might hep Uncle Sam in financing the against Germany.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
WILLINANTTC'S INDUSTRIES SHOW
 's.a.ss GAIN OF OVER FIVE MILLIONS
Thread City Concerns Paid Out Total of $2,774,-
 717.62 in Wages During Last Twelve
 Months-Total Value of Manufactured Prod ucts Was $12,543, ,405. War Time De

Wilantic's industries made creditabe gain during months that the birth of the 191 for the business volume industrial lines shows increase of $6osS7 the previous The volume for 1917 23os762s17 while the 1916 s17443o This gain of five onehalf millions of dollars is doubedy due the great demands being made prac cay industry indication that another big increase will this
 Figures compiled in the city give hands employed in all industries 43 the total paid these 4135 s277471762 manufactured that city for 1917 $124 and the material used turning these manufactured products $7,769s50o.
 Cotton mills employing s5 paid wages of $2304938 and turned manufactured goods valued $92798566 In the manufacture silk throwing ITO hands employed throughout the these received $322 They the to the value of 2940o0 Machine foundries employment $10446S24 The total value of the manufactures that particular line
 06989 Grouped together all other industries in about Wimantic employ 276 hands The paid by totaed $00 and the value of the product factured $S,615,000.
 During the year 1916 there 4,513 employees all in Wilimantic and the total paid $229749 The total value of Wlmans manufactured prod ucts in 1916 was $100390S1.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
SMALLER YEAR THAN USUAL
 FOR WILLIMANTIC SAVINGS BANKS
Liberty Loans Partly Explain Decrease in Savings Accounts During 1917-Over $680,000 Sub scribed to Uncle Sam's War Loan Fund.

The 1917 below the in the savings depart of the Wimantc which handle Liberty partly explain the smaller savings s6S00 subscribed the loans in that Every of given wage during year, American Hollands Silk mill in the lead. ..set
 The Wilmantic Trust moved into their been changes officers W. Burnham who the secretary the Hampton bank
 National charge of the sales of the the apporonment reached in both drives has change in the officials.
 Institute that business for year practically the 1916 During the year. the rooms have redecorated
 Johnson Wilmanic Trust Company to ter the U Raymond Young employed the Wndham National bank has also enlisted
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01

again than doing bit the loans Putnam subscribed than of million dollars worth of
 This unprecedented subscriptions handled through Punams their forces early and loan arranged easy payment plans that those small might bond buyers They details working many problems to individual They facilities of their banks disposal people and did gladly without compensation buying heavily of their own
 have met demand made us" than could be colume the simple state ment used to describe wonderful activity
 Putnams banks have found wanting in great test that has been again their great value to the the Identified with them big this growing city.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01

s756 3s6OsO6S representing the vol-
 e of business banking building jobbng and Wndhan counties during the year 17 according figures collected compiled The Bulletin gain oS4s9 in large to time substantial granted by the manufacturers. aGssE@5sas
 county the total business volume s4s6
 s4o45s4s in 1s17 $4226S5 99O 30 The business 1917 $29012562225 compared with s24sss7OO5.ssin n 1916, s}
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
ABNORMAL WAGE INCREASES DUE:
 TO PRESENT WAR CONDITIONS
Putnam Concerns Paid Out Four Hundred Thous-
 and Dollars More In Wages During 1917
 Than In Year Preyious-Woolen Mills Take as, the Lead in Value of Manufactured Product.

the manufacturing in Putnam paid during the $660o00 compared 2O0 paid out during the twelve months ending Dcem 31, 1916. gain of s4000OO increases brought about through conditions The figures compiled the show industries
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01
NEARLY A QUARTER MILLION
 FOR HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES


 State Highway Department Lays Out $217, ,5s561
 For Improvements in Eastern Connecticut-
 How the Expenditures Were Divided in the
 Three Countries Bolton Notch Improvement
 Greatly Appreciated By Automobile Drivers. = The Highway department, the improvement of during twelve 1917 has total of $217S561 The New London amoued to $12S5545 while in Wndam county the expenditures $3S96356 and in To land county $5676660
 London county expenditures divided as follows:
 6s of line roads s112,6ss74
 Trunk line bridges .....:......,...... a21s71 tt
 Total .............................. s121.s5545x Expenditures in county divided as folowE
 1O6 miles of trunk line roads 34S5S14
 Trunk line bridges 4,60542 ' X
 Total ............................s s8,ss85s Expenditures Holland county divided follows: IA miles of trunk lire roads, including Bol-
 ton Notch improvement 5S61647
 Trunk line bridge New London Hartford - turnpike e miles west of Cochester) 315013 @-s Total ..............................s 5s7ssso
 The most important improvements follows:
 In New London county:-Tne reinforced road on West Broad street. Pacatuck town of Stonngon beginning Rail- bridge extending along tuck distance of 250 feet total half being paid by own balance by state) Also New London turnpike beginning 2360 extending Waterford-New London line 1763 feet being reinforced of about $5So0 The Navy improvement construction is another much Improvement
 Windham county:-The concrete road on Main stree prominent improvement covering in length feet being paid by the state feet by trolley balance town ingly.
 Holland county-The Bolton Notch improvement is in- prominent that greatly tomobIe travellers. is the state highway commissioner and A. w. Bushnell is the division engineer
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
RESEMBLANCE EASY TO SEE
Kalser's Code Of Morals Really Might
Have Been Copied From Those
Of cannibal Chief.

Billy Sunday was condemning Ger
man kultur.
''Kalser Wilhelm with his kultur Is
no further advanced" he said, "than
the savage cannlbal of the tropie
swamps and forests, Yes. the kaiser
Is an exaet counterpart Of Chief
Wawa.
"A missionary penetrated into the
kingdom Of Wawa. the cannlbal chief,
and tried to convert him, but, of
course, It was no go.
"'Do you know the difference be-
tween right and wrong2' the mission
airy asked in the course OF the argu-
ment.
81 do that, says Wawa.
Gwen, then, what is rightT says
the missionary.
nIt's right, says Wawa, when !
raid that village across the river, steal
oil the girls and cattle and kill all the
men.
"sAnd what is wrong? said the mis-
slonary
''Chief Wawa put on look Of pious
horror and turned up the whites of his
eyes, just like the kaiser does, and
then he answered, in snuftllng voice /:
est would be wrong for that viii
lage to do the same TO us "
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
bankers MIn 4oId conventlon

Atlanta.--A meeting of the execu-
tive council of the Country Bankers
Association of Georgia was held when
it was decided to hold the next annual
convention on April % and 26 at the
Piedmont hotel This will be the sec
ond convention Of the Georgia bank
ers. The first was held at Macon in
April of last year The association
is one year old. Plans for aiding in
the sale of thrift stamps and war saw
ings certificate stamps and for encour-
aging the production of greater food
crops in this country were discussed
at the meeting, No definite action was
taken. The convention in Atlanta this
year is expected to be marked by a
record attendance The association
has membership of 300 of Georgias
leading bankers.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
urasd 10 Raise More food.

Atlanta J. Brown. chairman Of
the Georgia Food Production and Con.
seryation Council. will call a meeting
OF the council at an early date to dis.
cuss the food situation in Georgia
The state food administration board
and the Georgia chamber Of com.
merce will cooperate to get a large
attendance at the meeting, which will
be held in Macon.
Mr.. Brown and other men in the
state who are familiar with the situa
ton will lay before the farmers con.
ditions as they really exist, and viii
impress upon them the necessity OF
Georgia raising sufficient foodstuffs
this year'to feed herself. While wish.
ing to avoid any unnecessary alarm
Mr.. Brown and others have been in
close touch with the president and
Mr.. Hoover, who say that unless this
state raises enough food to feed her.
self. this year severe shortage viii
be practically inevitable.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
Pupils Go in For Gardening

Thomasville. The pupils of the
ThomasviIle schools are going to be
gardeners this year and there will
be model gardens planted on the
grounds, in which it is anticipated that
many fine vegetables will be grown,
The ladies of the garden club have
taken up the matter and will help to
push it. C, B. Culpepper, county farm
demonstration, is much interested in
the work Of the children, who will be
allotted squares to cultivate, and it
is expected that there will be great
rivalry among them to produce the
best and earliest vegetables.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
AND GERMANS
ARE SPLIT ON RUSSIA
The Renewal Of A State Of War Is
Resented BY Germany's Ally,
Austria-Hungary

London.-A deep, serious schism
has been created between Germany
and Austria-Hungary by the termina-
ton Of the armfstice between the CEN
trail powers and Russia and the renew
al of state of war, according to the
Copenhagen correspondent. -. ~. :
The Austrian press, continues the
correspondent, is warning Germany
against the .reopening of hostilities in
which Austria does not wish to par
ticipate The semiofficial F'remden-
5blatt is silent, but the Neue Freie
Presse is quoted as pointing out that
the Austrian monarchrno longer bors
ders upon Russia and is not, like Ger
many, compelled to resume warfare.
The only thing Austria might do
against it's will, says the newspaper, is
to protect the free connection between
the monarchy and the Ukraine.
Inc Zeit, which has intimate connec-
lions with the Austro-Hungarian for
eign office, is reported by the cores
spondent as contending that Count
Czernin, the foreign minister, can CON
tfnue to act as a negotiator with the
west. 'For our monarchy" it says,
tthe war is in the main finished, and
for one of our antagonists it has yir'
~tuallytnot begun. Millions of think
ing people now point to Count Ger
min and President, Wilson" The arti-
Gle concludes with a sentence which
the correspondent interprets as being
plainly addressed to Germany, read
ing:
From our side the pre-disposltlon
to,positive. negotiation has never been
interrupted, and it is to be hoped that
the negotiations will not be interrupt
ed from the other side
The Austrian press is protesting
against a re-opening of hostilities IN
which Austria has no desire to par
ticipate, the correspondent says.
The newspaper, Die Ziet, hopes The
Czernin-Wilson rapprochement CON
tinues," and that Germany won t. IN
terfere with it.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
MADE USE OF STEAM POWER
Centuries Ago, Men Were Familiar
With Its Possibilities, but Did
Not Develop Them.

A real curiosity in the United States
patent office is a working model OF the
first steam engine, built by a clever
inventor named Hero a century and
half before Christ was born. =
A modern engineer would call it
steam reaction turbine. 1t consists OF
a spherical vessel pivOted on an axis
aad supplied With steam through one
Of the 9piyots. The steam escapes
Though Beht pipes in oppositesdifec7
tioas, thus f'ssssisfRg. the globe to re- re-
volve. ~
Hero was the.afirst steam engineer.
Having hit upon the idea that the ext
pansivk energy of steam could 'be*used
for power, she developer. number of
devices for. its mechanical employ
ment.
One of them was hollow altar, be
Meath which a fire was built. Under
the ALTAR was vessel containing wa
ter. The latter SeQnyetted into steam,
opened the temple doors by pressure
upon pair Of vertical posts on which
the, doors swung. When the fire cbOled,
the doors closed automatically.
The ancients 1000 years and more
ago used steam power for turning splits
and various other unimportant pur-
poses. But it does not seem to have
occurred to them that this source of
energy might be made available for
mechanical utilization ON large scale.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
Atlanta Jews Raise $4,000

Atlanta. More than $4,000 was
raised for Jewish war sufferers with
in thirty minutes at the RSsenhlatt
concert at the auditorium, following
an appeal which simple ;te theEfnitiat'
ed was R3sihly a succession of tugs at
the heartstrings of the vast assembly
of orthodox Jews whose religious fer
vor was atBased by the sacred son.
nets, effectively sungs3y the greatest
Jewish cantor, Josef RosenIb.lIastt Most
of the donations were in small
amounts. The donors were not from
the wealthy9alone, but from men and
women of small means.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
VILE TASTE n
BLESTERED MOUTH
oklahoma Lady Had Dreadful
Time Before FindlngsThe Right
Remedy Black praugpt. !.

Seward, Okla.-Mrs. Annie BowlDy'
of this place, says in letterfwritten
for publication: II have. used Black
nraught for two years, or more, and
win never cease to be grateful for
what it did for me,and mine !.
Some time ago. my mouth broke out
with blisters. l had a vile taste in my
mouth all slick and disagreeable.
seemed to have great dealrooff onward
fever 1 suffered with. my back ana
kidneys. !.
was so nervous, 1t was dreadful.
I would almost cry-I suffered, So |
had gas on the stomach and pains but
as | said, the pain and trouble
was most severe. / had thu doctor
and used several medicines without
result.
Still hurting and sufferingS 7 began
TO use Thedfords ck-Draught'
making it into a tea, and using
teaspoonful dose at a time in hot
water. gradually got better, my liver
began to act, the fever went down and
1 have, never had any more trouble of
this kind,
There is no other medicine so good
as Black Draught. ~, !. 49,.
You will say~.that, too, when you
have given Thedford's Black-Dratfght
"a trial. ~" e
1t is. a good medicine. ;.
Buy package today.
All druggists sell Black-Draught.-7--
Adv.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
Catarrh CANNOT BE Cured

by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, ais they
cannot reach the ssat of the diseases
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly 'influ-
enced by constitut onal conditions. HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh
1t is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on che Mucous Surfaces OF the
System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is composed OF some of the best. tones
known, combiued with some Of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect combination
Of the ingredients in HALLS. GATARRH
MEDICINE. is what produces such won
derful results in catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free
f. J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22

Our boys are defending this, country
on the high seas and Oh. the land. ow
own defense against a common enemy
Is to keep the system clean by riddlhp
the body Of the toxins, or poisOns, which
are bred in the intestines. When Won
feel tired, sleepy, headachy, when your
breath is offensive, or pimples appear
on the face and neck, it is time to recog.
nize the danger and protect your bodily
health by taking. something for the liver
such as DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
The machinery of the body needs to
be oiled, kept in good condition, just as
the guns or machinery of a ship. WHY
should human person neglect his own
machinery more than that of his auto
mobile or his guns? Yet most people
do neglect themselves. Their tongue
has q dark brown color, skin sallow,
breath bad, yet they fail to see that
their machinery needs attention.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have
been known for nearly half century.
They are made Of May-apple, leaves Of
aloe and jalap, made into tiny pellet
and coated with sugar. They are stand
ard and eficacious. You can obtain
them at any drug store in Walls for
twenty-five cents. Ask for DR.. ,Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets-an get no other!
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22

women." Mrs. JOHN KoPPELMAfgfv, r.
No. l, Mclean, Nebraska.
This famous root and herb remedy,
Lydia e. Pinkham Vegetable Com
pound, has been restoring women Of
America 20 health for more than forty
years and IL will well pay any woman
who suffers from displacements, In
dammation, liberation, Irregularities,
backache, headaches, nervousness or
''the blues" to give this successful
remedy . trial.
For special suggestions in regard to
your ailment write Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The result
ofits long experience Is at your service,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
% :;
,B0SCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP

will quiet your cough, 1soothe the in.
.fldmmation of a sore throat and lungs,
stop irritation in the bronchial tubes,
insuring a good nights rest, free from
coughing and with easy, expectoration
in the morning. Made and sold in
America for fifty-twos years. A Won
derful prescription, assisting Nature in
building up your general health and
throwing off the disease. Especially
useful in lung trouble, asthma, Group,
bronchitis, etc. For sale in all civil
lied countries.-Adv..
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
SOUTH IS URGED
TO FEED ITSELF
BY THE UNITED STATES DEPART.
MENT or AGRICULTURE
AN REPORT
SHOULD RAISE MORE FOOD
Cut Down Cotton Acreage And In
crease The Production of Hogs
And Food Crops

washington. Planting of an in
creased acreage of spring wheat and
the production of an increased supply
of other food products and live stock,
especially hogs, is recommended in a
supplementary food production pro
gram issued by the department of ag-
riculture. 1t re-emphasizes and am
plifies the program for 1918 issued by
the department last August and later
suggestions regarding increased pork
production and increased production
of foodstuffs in the South.
The South is urged to provide food
for it's own people and feed for it's
live stock and then to plant as much
cotton as can be cultivated and har-
vested. To raisers of hogs and beef
animals the world need for meats and
fats is made clear. Farmers are urg-
ed TO join with the men on the ranges
in providing sheep whose wool is
needed to equip the soldiers.
Notwithstanding an increased pro-
duction of staple crops in the United
States in 1917, there is need for more
food" the statement says. Taking
into account our own needs, the needs
of the nations associated with US in
this war. and the needs of friendly
neutral nations, our best efforts will
be required to provide enough food in
1918. Whether the war continues or
not, the demands on this country be-
cause of the increasing population
and the needs of Europe will be great.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-02-22
New Road Material Discovered

Waycross,--W making repairs on
the main road between Waycross and
Ruskin, Commissioner Youmans acci-
dentally discovered roaubuilding ma
terial which promises ito prove very
valuable to thisseetion. 1t is muck
found in the ponds. sand when used for
surfaeipg roads it has the appearance
of having a big per cent of cement
in it, as it becomes very hard with a
smooth, surface as soon as dry. It,will
be given a thorough test as to its
durability, and if found satisfactory
in this respect will be used extensive.
ly in Ware county roadbuilding.