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Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Cost of Living in One Year Increases
 Tewnty- three Per Cent.

According to the bureau of labor statistics of the Department of Labor, in the year from November 1b, 1916, to November 15, 1917, prices of food as whole advanced 23 per cent. Potatoes is the only article that shows a de- cline in price. Corn meal advanced ST per cent; bacon, 62 per cent: pork chops, 4S per cent; beans, 39 per. cent; salmon 3S per cent; milk, 8 per cent: and lard, 27 per cent.
 Food as a whole was IS per. cent.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

health, and cannot thank you enough for the relief it has given me. Miss KATE LAWRENCE, Box 725, Spring Valley, Ill.
 School girls and girls who are em- ployed at home or in some occupation should not continue to suffer tortures at such times, but profit by the experi- ence of Miss Lawrence and thousands of others who have tried this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink. hams Vegetable Compound, and found relief from such suffering. If compli- cations exist write the Lydia E. Pink nam Medicine Co.,, Lynn, Mass. The result of their 40 years experience III advising girls on this subject is at your service.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Color of Cord on Hat Denotes Service
 of Wearer.

Just as the sleeve chevrons and bars stars, and eagles on the shoulder pro- claim ranking officers, tha hat cord de- notes the branch of service each pri vate has entered.
 Light blue signifies Infantry; scarlet, Artillery; yellow, Cavalry; buff, Guar termaster's Corps; scarlet and white. Engineers Corps; orange and white, Signal Corps; scarlet and black, Ord nance; black and white, field clerk; maroon, Medical Corps; black and gold, officers; silver and black, adju tant generals clerk; green, instructor Home Guards; green and white, Home Guards. These cords are worn only on service hats.
 Cadet aviators wear as hat bands inch and a half white ribbons and on coat collars insignia representing the aviation branch of the Signal Corps. propeller blades.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
WILSONVHLE

Mrs. Ed. Keegan is entertaining her sister from Lynn. for a few days.
 Mrs. Ida Childs who has been ill from pleuro- pneumonia is gaining slowly. /
 MT. Langelier. who was injured in an auto smash, Is at his home for few days. He will return to the hospital for fur ,tler treatment.
 Mrs. Theroux received word We'd nesday morning of the death of rel ative in West Thompson.
 Miss Edith Upham. who has been in is able to be- out
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
75,0o0 Coiored Men Called Into Army
 by SeIective Service Law.

Eight per cent. of the 9,5S6,50S men registered under the selective- service law are colored. Of these nearly 209.- 900 have been called and more than 75, 900 have been certified for. service. Out of every 100 colored men called 36 were certified for service and 64
 were rejected, exempted, or discharged, while out of every 100 white citizens
 called, 25 were certified for service.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

died from consumption was held Sat urday at the home of Peter Snyder at Breezy Hill farm. T. A Williams of f1ciated. Burial was in the Goshen cemetery. s-
 Among the storm signals recently heard along the coast was the heavy siren at Saybrook Point, which is sell dom heard at this distance.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

States in 1917 place it at nearly 14 per centf greatnr than any previous year.
 A second training camp will be held at Porto Rico, starting February 1. The attendance of 400 will be selected from citizens and residants of Porto Rico.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

higher on November 15, 1917. than on November 15 1913. and 46 per cent. higher than on November 15, 1914. During this four-year period corn meal advanced 127 per cent; flour, 109 per cent; lard, 104 per cent; bacon. TT per cent; sugar, 75 per cent: and potatoes. 72 per cent No article de- clined in price
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Silk Department

Sllk Department 1s-inch Messaline formerly soc
 SALE PRICE 1sc 26- inch MessaIine in all coiors and black. Dollar quality
 SALE PRICE sse 35-inch MessaIine in a complete color fine. Regularly $1-50 yard SALE PRICE $1.33 Crepe de Chine-40 inches wide, in both light and dark colors-
 SALE PRICE $1.3s 4o-ineh Crepe de Chine-sood weight and pure silk. Value $1.79 .......... SALE PRICE $1.59 Printed Crepe de Chine, in small designs, 4o-inches wide. Regu- IarIy $2.o0 and S2.5o yard
 SALE PRICE s1.s5 Fancy Plaid and Stripe Silks, 35 inches wide and a biq assortment to select from. Value $2.00-
 SALE PRICE $1.7 Satin Radiant-a soft medium satin, 40 inches wide, in all eolors and black. Regularly $2.0o a.
 
 4o-neh Crepe Meteor, in light and dark coIorings. Regularly $500 .......... SALE PRICE SPAS 40-inch Charmeuse, $2.50 grade in street colors principaIly-. SALE PRICE $2.19 Moire PopIin, 42 inches wide, a suiting weight in all desirable ccIors. Value $3.00- SALE PRICE $2.2s Beldinss Fancy Lining Satin, a yardslwide, in handsome designs and colorings. Value $1.75- SALE PRICE $157 skinner's Fancy Lining satins which we have sold for $2.25 a yard. A yard wide SALE PRICE s1.se Satin Stripe VoiIe, 40 inches wide in choice selection of handsome ! colorinss. Regularly $2.5o a ! yard" .......... SALE PRICE $2.17 HaskeiE's Black Silk in all weaves. Every weave Guaran- teed. AT SPECIAL SALE PRICES
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

GOICd WlLAA OlAA AoAAA
 fly physician but re- ceived no relief then I explained my trouble to another doctor and he ad- vised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's V e g e a ble Com pound. Soon after taking it I began to notice a change for the better, and af- ter taking. six bot tles I am in perfect
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Men Training for Navy Have Benefit
 of Libraries and Clubs.


 of Libraries and Clubs
 The Army and Navy Commission on Training Camp Activities. in addition to the work being done in Army camps and cantonments, now has its repre- sentatives in every training station of the Navy and at every place where anlisted men are preparing for sea service.
 There are S6 clubs for sailors at camps and in. adjacent cities. There are reading and writing rooms, as- sembly' halls, and some of the cities have arrangements for athletics, swimming pools, and gymnasiums. In the IS camps there are given each week 92 entertainments ranging from professional performances. lectures and exhibitions, to club nights and weekly dances.
 More than 60,00o books have been furnished ships and stations by the American Library Association. The Y. M. c. A. has 42 buildings and tents in tha various camps.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Defective Eyes Cause Many Men First Pasced fn ha Pa;eo&eJ ,4

Passed to be Rejected at Camps.
 Examinatiin of the records of 10000 men passed for military service by local boards and then rejected by camp surgeons show that nearly 22 per cent. of the final rejections were caused by defective eyes.
 Teeth were responsible for $50 per cent; hernia, TAT per cent; ear, 5.94 per cent; heart disease, 5.87 per cent; tuberculosis, 5.37 per cent.
 Attempts to evade military duty by deception regarding physical condition were very few
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
WAR NEWS DIGEST
Stories Activities and Conditions
 the Battle

American Forces Now Six Times as
 Large as in Spanish American
 War.
 There were 1.4S2.650 enlisted men and 110 S65 officers in the United States Army at the opening of 1918, more than one and a half times as large as any force ever mobilized by this Nation according to a statement by Secretary of War Baker.
 During the war with Spain the Army of the United States at its max inlum strength aggregated 27,O00 men and officers. The Army in the field and in training now is practically six times as great as the maximum num- Der under arms in the Spanish Amer ican War
 About 45,000 officers were commis- stoned from civil life in the two series of training camps nearly eight times as many as the number of officers in the Regular Army April IT, 1917
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

Thrift, thrift, Horatio!" That's the sole explanation of the difference.
 Both are farmers. One is thrifty; the other is not
 Just where the unthrifty ones trouble lies, don't know, for sure. though the wifes very handsome new cloak which appears in public less than a week after they sold COW at a fancy price, last fall, makes me a little suspicious
 Two summers ago a 'fone- horse" farmer I know of fixed over an old, two-horse moving machine with of hay with it. He had good horse when the having season opened, and 9 dead one soon after it closed. He saved $8 or s1O in wages which a hired team and machine would have cost him. He had to pay out $125 for new horse. When he was fit ting cn those shafts and when he was cruelty overworking his lone horse he thought he was practicing thrift He wasn't He was simply throwing away money.
 For it must never be forgotten that thrift is just as far removed from 'closeness" as it is from eX- travagance. When we buy seeds and have to pay almost their weight in gold for them. it is to dump them promptly into the dirt there to spoil as grain, that is. The seed we SOW, after it has germinated and sprouts disappears, vauishes, dissipates into nothingness.
 Yet it is thrift of the highest de- gree thus to sacrifice that cJ5tly seed Who doubts it? Not the farmer who knows that the seed he buries for ever in the soil has in it the promise of a return ten, twenty, hundred fold. He doesn't need to be told that it tis thrift to lose his seed for the sake of his harvest. It is always thriftier to spend a dollar today thar | to lose hundred dollars next fall be- l cause it wasn't spent when it should I have been.
 In fact, think the most common form of .thriftlessness among farm,
 CTS is that of shortsightedness Ou1 1 failure to discount the inevitable flu. i ture, to cast anchors to windward be
 fore the storm is fully upon us. tt
 make provisions beforehand for prob 1 able exigencies-along these lines Ii, i our greatest mistakes.
 l Naturally, we can't foresee all tn,
 future. We are not inspired prophets Things are going to happen which ",
 can't foresee; often things which n,
 one would expect. But there ar
 other things which anybody can ore dict with reasonable certainty iron
 the teachings of past experiences. I
 is a curious fact with US finite huYnal
 beings that the surest way for us t 1 see ahead of us is to look behind us
 That which haeh been is that whicl
 shall be; ans that which hath beel
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

understands how to emply this period of shortage of wood and coal on a large scale for the benefit of the treas ury"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Lace and Embroidery

Department 25e Tuxedo veilings- s...
 " SALE PRICE tse ; Sc and toe Val and Irish Laees-.f :
 SALE PRICE se Special Lot of Laees, comprising x. ls;;... Iorehor, cluny and Normandy vafs, from i to 1N inches wide. Were 15c- and 1se "a yar6-s
 SALE PRICE foe Filet Lace Edges from i to 4 inches wide. Formerly .f2He, te 16e "a yard ....s SALE PRICE 16e Erbroidered Edges from 8, ss.sa' inches wide and priced at se and 1oe .............. SALE PRICE Sc 15e Swiss and NaiRsooIe Edses- :.
 SALE PRICE tos Embroidered Edaes, ,1o i.el,ss wide and suitable for pettieoaes. Were 25e a yard. SALE PRtCE tSs Emhroidered Fteuneinss ef extra " fine quality. ~ Were 45e- -yard---.-
 .s.. SALE PRICE 2ss 45-ineh Embroidered FIeuneinss A that are slightly soiied. Were :. marked at $125 and $f50 yard ............; SALE PRICE 6ea Semi Made camisoies of fine ern- bFoidery in white, pink and blue. Were 75e a yard. SALE PRICE 4se Gold and Silver Lace F1ouneins formerly $1.5o to $2.oo yard- SALE PRICE Ns Odd Lots of All Our imported .'t Novelty Lace and Metal Bands j: and Edges AT SPECIAL SALE PRICES Bands, AppIiques and Msdailions for dress trimmings- AT LESS THAN HALF-PRicEr Maraheut and Ostrich Trirfnnina- AT LESS THAN HAEF-PRlcE
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

Draperies and Floor Cover
 ings. Remnants of Printed LinoIeum, from 4 to 12 yard lengths, values 69e and 75e square yard7
 SALE PRICE 41c Remnants lniaid Linoleum, to 12 yard lengths, values $1.15. to $1.35 square yard, SALE PRICE 6sc 7ec Tapestry Stair Carpet
 SALE PRICE 5sc see Wool Inarain Carpet
 SALE PRICE ssc S33.50 Administer Rugs. in by 12 size ..... SALE PRICE $29.50 $23.50 Tapestry Brussels Rugs, g by 12 size ... SALE PRICE $f9.50 Sample scrinr Curtains. These are slightly soiIed single pairs in prices ranging from 75e to $500 a pair .....e.. oNE-THlRD OFF. Duplicates of Samples
 10 PER CENT OFF Odd Pairs of Curtains, including Quaker Lace, Marquisette, Irish Point, Madras, Nottingham, etc
 ONE-THIRD OFF Remnants of Curtain Materials, including Madras, Serin, etc.. in all grades ..... ONE-THlRD OFF 25c curvex Flat Curtain Rods .. 19c Cretonne, short lengths of all grades of pretty Cretonnes. Lengths vary from to 10 yards. Suitable for Knitting Bags or over drapes -. ONE-THIRD OFF 60c Linoiine Window Shades, in green, white or cream
 SALE PRICE 4ec
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
SHE WAS ONLY TWENTY
Yet Suffered with Functional Disorder and Was Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
 Vegetable Compound.

Spring Valley, III. For many months I suffered from periodic pains-i doc
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

an unexpected doctors bill or help out the Red Cross with.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

done is that which shall be done" By needing the past we may forecast much of the future.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

Roland Kenyon of the Naval Reserve Coast Guard at Point Judith, R. l.. was home for several days this week. He made the return trip on his mo- torcycle Tuesday.
 Andrew Lathrop of Norwich was home Saturday and was in attendance at the funeral of his uncle, C. W. Barnes in Preston
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
GOSHEN

Foxes Kill Ten Fine Dueks-Boun+y and Good Price For Fox Peits-Tall Fir Near Parsonage Cut pown-Fu- neral of Polish Man Who Died From Consumption.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

True thrift, basine it's reasoning on that memory of the past, not only pre- pares for autumn harvest at spring seeding-tine, but likewise prepares well in advance for all such happen ings as experience has taught us to be likely to recur Nor, having made such provision for everything which may reasonably be anticipated, does it stop there. But, recognizing it's own fallibility it considers the possibili- ty of other things happening; things perhaps not very probable, yet cer- tainly not impossible. Wherefore thrift not only makes preparations against the emergencies it's past has taught it are reasonably to be expected, but also prepares a surplus of precaution against at least some of the demands which it cannot definitely foresee but which are within the range of possi- bility.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

don't know, beloved reader, but you do that exact thing and may have been doing it all your life. If so, you don't need advice. But there are farmers whose lives might he made much easier whose comforts might be greatly increased, whose hardships might be vastly Iessened. if they would show only half as much foresight in the management of their other affairs as they art compelled Sto show, each returning season, in the management of their crops.
 THE FARMER
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

Verify, brethren, it seems to me that constant prodding is needed along this line for the exact reason that there are a whole lot of US very farmers who do NOT do all these tEingsi
 Some of us do
 And some of us dcn't
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

To keep on multiplying instances:
 There is another family near me which all the time lives from hand
 to mouth" No sooner does 8 dol lar come into the home treasury than it has to be paid right smack out again for something urgently needed.
 They never have a dime to spare, are
 frequent borrowers of supplies from
 neighbors, have to be trusted" for
 half their daily groceries because they
 lack ready cash to pay for them. Tn other words, they're always hard up." always complaining of their Lard ships, always wondering what poor folks are going to do.
 Yes, I happen to know that they received, in actual money, a little over one quarter more, last year. than | the family right next door to them of the same size-which second family always has ample supplies on hand, always pays cash. and generally has a
 trifie of -rreney in the stocking to pay
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
PeIts Valuable.

Foxes are often heard by their pe- culiar bark these frosty nights. There is a town bounty of one dollar. and it is claimed q number one nelt is worth from SIS to $20.
 Eighty Seven Foot Fir FelIed.
 The large fir tree that has been a landmark within few feet of the front door. of the Goshen parsonage was cut down Monday. It was thought best to remove the tree for the safety of the building. The stately fir was g. feet tall. 9 feet higher than the spire of the Goshen church just across the road. Fifty-on rings at the butt in dicated the trees age, the first thirty years was noted to have been of rapid growth. "As straight as q forest pine.' quoted one of the worlmen, while trimming the branches $
 The funeral of the Polish man who
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
Foxes Kill Ducks,

Foxes are getting numerous and bold again. J. A. Thomas shot a nine pound fox ahead of his fox hound on Saturday Foxes raided the hand some flock of Indian Runner ducks of Deacon J. Y. Thomas early, Sunday
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

"WeH, what of it?" you may ask. Don't we farmers have to be eco- nomical: don't we have to be indus trious; don't we have to be careful in our use of money; don't we spend a good half of every recurring year in planning ahead and getting ready for the other half? Why talk to us about doing the things we do and have to do and don't need teaching about?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25

It isn't the weather that is to blame for this mans and his fami1y's dis comfort, nor for. his having to buy a new stove. It's his own lack of thrift, l. e., good 'husbandry, just as the other mans shortage of fodder is due to his lack of thrift, i. e., prudent foresight.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-08-15
.FONTANA GETS THREE
YEAR PRISON Term
Judge Amidon Delivers Ringing
Preachment on AmericanizatiOn
of America

'The object of the sentence i'm
posed upon you is not alone to punish
you for the disloyalty Of which you
have been guilty, but to serve notice
upon you and the likes of you who
have been cherishing foreignness that
the end Of this regime has come; that
the day has arrived when you and the
likes of you must grow an American
soul within your body. The court
finds that you are guilty under each
count of the Indictment, and as pun
ishment therefore it is decreed that
you be imprisoned in the federal pri-
son at Leavenworth for three years,
the sentences under three counts to
run concurrently and not in separate
sequence"
SO Judge Amidon in federal court
last week concluded a remarkable
charge in the sentencing of Rev. John
Fontana, pastor of the German Evan
gelical Lutheran church of New Sal
EN-, convicted under three counts of
violating the espionage act of 9117
Rev. Fontana is held under continu-
ng bond of $4,000, pending further
action of counsel.
Court Denies Motions
The court denied motions for ar
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-08-15

of the oath of allegiance. 1t has been
nothing in the past but formula of
words-it must in the future be made
living characters, incorporated in the
heart of every foreigner who comes
to US seeking citizenship. They must
begin at once, all over again, to cher
ish American thoughts, American his
tory and American IDEALS
Must Live Americans
"That means something to be done
in your daily life, not simply that you
won't take up arms against the Unit
ed States or that you will fight for
the United States if it goes to war.
1t means you will live for the United
States and cherish and grow an Am
erican soul. 1t means you will take
down from the walls of your home the
picture of the kaiser and hang in its
place a picture of Washington; it
means you will take down your pic
lures of Bismarck and put in their
places pictures of Lincoln. 1t means
that you will speak the American Ian
guage, sing American songs, study
American history and open your eyes
through every avenue to influences of
American life. 1t means you will
begin first of all to learn English, the
language Of your country, so there
will be windows and doors through
which American life and American.
ideals may enter.
Must Get About 1t
because the task is difficult is all
the more reason why you should get
about it. If half the efforts had been
put forth in these foreign communi-
ties to build up American life that
have been put forth to perpetuate for
eign life, the situation would have
been entirely different. You have vio-
lated your oath Of allegiance in this,
that you have cherished foreignness
and have tried to make it everlasting.
That is the basic wrong of these thou
sands of little islands of foreignness
of trying to drive out foreign life and
build up Americanism, they have stri-
ven studiously for years to stif1e Am
erican life and to perpetuate foreign
ness.
This Must Stop
"The object of these proceedings in
this and other courts is to give notice
that this must stop. I see before us
another day of judgment. When we
get through with this war and our
civil liberties are made safe once more
on this earth this day of judgment is
coming. Foreigners and foreign insti-
buttons which have cherished foreign
ness are going to be brought to the
bar. There is going to be a separa-
ton of the sheep from the goats. Ev-
cry institution that has been engaged
in this business Of making foreignness
perpetual will have to cease.
II can understand that the use of
a foreign language may be necessary
for time in church attended by
foreigners, but it should be used as a
temporary expedient, not as a per-
manent institution. No, freedom of
the press will protect a permanent
foreign press. This temporary stu
alton must be made as temporary as
possible, not, as in the past, as near
perpetual as possible.
To Revoke Rights
off 1T IS NECESSARY WE WILL
CANCEL EVERY CERTIFICATE OF
NATURALIZATION IN THESE
UNITED STATES. The federal gov
eminent has power to deal with that
situation, and it is going to deal with
1t with a firm hand"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-08-15
LOANS TO OUR ALLIES

The United States Treasury has ex-
tended additional credits of $100,000,-
900 to France, 100000 to Belgium,
and S3,000,0000 to Serbia. The total
of credits advanced to our associates
in the war against Germany is now
S6,492, 100000.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-08-15

Money to roam on farm land and
city property. Current rates. No
delay. C. Aurland, MinOt, N. D. If