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Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21
THE PLACID KIND

on cleaning day. Perhaps Della dust
 ed the notebook off into the waste basket. But ,1o be cheerful dea:2- just learn to control yourself. Why should you worry over such trivial matters7
 Then Mrs. Bondwed's sister wo,Ha call her on the phone and relate. hys- terically that -wo of the children were down sick. the cook had left and the and she was nearly crazy.
 Now, Inez,' Mrs. Bondwell would soothe over tic phofle n that sweet little sensible voice that makes you want to use an axJ do get. the right proportion on thingsi What is salad at a card club. or no salad at card 1 club in comparison with j, nation 1 starving to death 1.' people being te-
 headed? You must not get so wrought !up! I am sure Bobby ani Helea will be all right soon. And why don'I ycu go out for your dinners? You'll find lyour troubles just rolling apsly if 4au 1 get any further becau9e 3Y this time Inez would have thrown an eSasl .af- ated fit and hung up-thds sp;t' ing Mrs. Bondwell the nece ssty of wrig- gling out of having to go ov.4r and help l in the pinch.
 l "Or some girl would arrive will, fire in her eye and demand of Grace why she hadn't sent out tilse notices she promised to send or cone to the eo;15- mittee meeting, which had no duoi u1n
 and Grace would just sn1iia sweet Fly. She would tell her caller that it was impossible, to go to :he meeting and that she hadn't time to write the notices and inplore her in ! pitvins and gentle manner to keen calm ond realize what trifles those things were Absolutely nothing. disturber Grace and Mrs. Bondwell. And they ne6 the faculty of making all the oth- CT people who were Kicking scod- ing complaining and moaning for hell
 feel that they were uncontrolled, fool 1 ish, unbalanced human beings wht
 ought to be ashamed of themselves
 only they knew they weren't-and tht mixture of emotions would result ir
 dreadful tempers. People like that al
 ways reduce every one else to disa
 greeableness. I got cross myself, jus because couldn't combat en ) They've got you roped and tied. Eu
 it's a good graft!"
 T know what to do with that kint ] of woman" said tne patient listener } inspiredly. Put Ter on a desert is , land, where she can't get bottle 0 hair dye, and let her hair begin t
 turn gray: I'll bet she'd begti tc sfi around and worry then! n!"-ExcnanS
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

by the board of trade of the cost of living for man and wife, and also the maintenance of. one or more ehil- dreii. -......
 A living wage will be- so fixed to foffn the basis from which all wages rates will be calculated
 Maintenance of the children of workers will be met by payments from a fund administered by the govern
 nent =~z
 BnpI5yes receiving. not more than $. above the declared living rage will 1 be paid the full cost of maintenance for each child.
 For each five shillings by which the wages of the parent exceed the living
 wage. a deduction of one-twelfth of in respect of each child. Thus the child allowance will grad ually diminish. so that it vanishes in the case of workers receiving 3 pound 1-.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21
Cleaned from Foreign Ex.
 changes

Lloyd Georges defence of the gov ernment:
 The case against the government had completely collapsed.
 Critics talked as if the government had done nothing. They ignored these facts:
 Navy reduced almost 70 pre-war standard. -..f
 Russian expedition wound up.
 Army being reduced from 3,700,000 to 100000 men. Courageous proposal for the lfqnid- ation ef our great debt in 50 years.
 The first elementary fact was that we had just emerged from 8 great war.
 Our GS.0eo, 900. 0e0 debt was money well spent every penny of it-and requited by the triumph this country has won.
 The debt could not be repudiated We must pay. It was an obligation of
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Hereafter" said the girl was likes to talk. T am an apostle of riot and carnage! Anything to stir up trouble On with the iy aaDiite bombs ant I.o:s-l on gas!"
 You seem disturbed. the patient listener told her mildly "Whar has stirred your erslwh;le D acid natur e'' e:''.
 T like that word. ergewhile, dis tracted1y. Tt is so expressive And so exact. in this case. Erstwhiie may have controlled mlr disposition and repressed my pes ssllnistic feai S, fought audible worry and been as much a Little Sunshine as an err ring human being can be. but not from now on. No! Not after the Bond wells! Oh, my! have concluded that giving an imitation of Full Sunshine
 in Action is nothing but the easiest graft lazy woman ,an pick out 1fs such a safe one. too, for nobody can
 hop on you for being cneery you've got them there! Be lnilJ ard the stricken world can't get out a disap- proving word, no matter how it SUI E. es with its daily hate. What, onlcuB : CTS would say, roar at u woman wno bravely smiles in face Of every blow and refuses to lose her temper? It 1ust isn't done!
 'The week I spent tt the Bondwe. $ wrought me up so fthat if Mrs. Bond well had frowned or # Grace had even sniffed in disappro gal I should nave burst into sobs of ttlanksfulness Bit they led a perfectly unaisturbed life Oh. it was naddeniag.
 "HoStense," Mir. .Bondwell would call 1 from his dressing room, fhsre isn't d I button on one of my shirts, there are
 no darned socks tka- I c1n find and i my new ohes are iise1 uD. the hard | kerchiefs don't seem to have come liE 1 from the laundry aaj where is 'l, 1 bottle of hair toni3? AnG hava yol seen that little note book that I laid
 on my dresser? Thunderatfon. I wish l you'd take a little interest,""
 "'why, dearest Mrs. Bondwel would say creamily from where she
 reclined on the couch with novel how foolish you arei You must nor | let such foolish little things disturt you-it's bad for your digestioa-anf ] how silly, when the world is full ot
 e-lch great problems. to lose ore! l temper over socks and things. I ex. pect the sewing woman overlooked them the day she came to mend. Sh, means well. but she does forget tt look over your shirts the lauudreS works so hard, poor soul. you can blame her for losing handkerchieTs Maybe the hair tonic got thrown ou
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

kidnapped our demands were to the effect that Mexico do everything pos sible to bring about his safe return, but if as planned, it had been left to that government it is likely that Jenkins would still be in the hands of the bandits And yet because he 'ef- fected his cwn release he is being charged by Mexico with complicity in the plot Mexico seemingly doesn't intend to exert itself to properly protect peace full Americans as long as it interprets the attitude of this country the way it does, and just as long as Mexico is not held to it's obligations it can be expected that it's policy will remain unchanged.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

honor
 War pensions-e 120, 100000 - were also a debt of honor.
 Germany would have refused to sign the peace treaty if we had not kept sohp divisions in reserve. ..-t
 We should have substituted a defeat for a deficit; and thrown away the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of brave lives merely to make our. ac counts balance for the year 1919:
 Our position today is sound. i-
 The fiav=t deed us is at the bottom of the sea.
 The giea. ping element in Europe has Desh swept awag. Consefiption is gone in the coun Itry that drove other countries into conscriptiUn, is that nothing? We can weather the storm. The country is not sinking.
 Is it crime to be optimistic? Hope is the mainspring or patriotism. Trade depends on confidence. Panic is dangerous. Fear is blind. For economy. as well as liberty, the price is eternal vigilance. The Old Clock: He sands in the hall. | such a steady respectable. comfort able looking old fellow that our vis- | itors all < fall in love with him at first sight.
 In these. days of fussy little alarm | clocks, rushing ahead in q breakneci. don't stop for goodness sake" i sort of way, our old friend comes as a reminder of more spacious. leis- urelya times. He beats out the sec onda in a1measnred q solemn fashion refusing to be hurried, and yet get ting along no less surely and cer- tairly in more reliable manner than any of our fiishty youngsters.
 The old Scottish clock maker; whose name stands on the dial, truly huilded 1 well. From that timeless shore of bliss to which we hope he has gone. per haps he views with satisfaction the I creature Of His hands. still telling of .i the little minutes and hours by wficf we mortals order of!r .livre.
 In the de~d ~F ''~ house is still, after the business of the 4 the tick, tick clock is 6 mighty comfortable thing. His voice alWays =seems to be saying. f'Ps here don't fear" afid verify believe he ha. a kindly care over us during the hours of darkness.
 What is tie tradesman's tariff foi courtesy? one asks. on reading this extract from a report of proceedings before a profteering tribunal, when 2 chemist was accused of overcharging for naethylated spirit:
 The chemist said the cost worked out to him as. Sd goll.. over Is. 2 pint, and added: "Then there is tht loss by evaporation. and have tt sell 1e half-pints. say. Good morn.
 ing 1s times stick Is labels on Il
 bottles, and Say Good afternoon | times. (Letid Iaughter.)
 The edse was disrnissed #
 If dffe aeisk .fN- ssf7@t'''S1 account fl future it will appsrently rim.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

With a jury fixing nearly s17,eoO, ,u6o as a fair price for the government to pay for the Cape Cod canal. or more than twice what the government of fered, it cannot fail to be noticed that it makes difference whether the gov ernment is buying or selling as to whethef the price is high Or low.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21
or more oyer the living wage.

or more over the living wage. s
 This fund is established by month iy payments from employers.
 No payments are due in respect Of the children of employees on strike.
 The bill will apply to practically all employees in the state whose earnings do not exceed 6 400 a year.-uondon Chronicle.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21
nunht to Scare Them Of.

The house of representative is seek. ing some means of excluding Hndesir- able immigrants for another year. Why worry-won't an enforcement of the prohibition laws take care of that! Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

The issuance of the writ Of super sedeas leaves the Previdenca wet de- cision on war time prohibition high and dry until the United States su preme court acts,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

Bad packing it is said may cause Rraziliars to stop buying fewspfint paper Here. Fl at would Be cause for regret If we did rot need this paper right here at home
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

It" because of the new. secret principle in the "Gets-It' formula. "Gets-It' does away forever with "contraptions,' ,.wrappy plasters,s ointments that rub off. blood-letting knives. and scissors that snip into the quick" "Gets-It'' Cases pain. It takes but a second or ing or trouble. It dries immedia tely. You put yonr stocking right back on again. Your corn will come off paifi- lessly in one complete piece. That's common sense. It never fails
 "Gets-lt, the only sure, guaranteed, money back corn-remover, costs but a trifle at any drug store. Manufactured by E. Lawrence & Co.,. Chicago. Ill
 Sold in Norwich and recommended as the worlds best corn remedy by Chas Osgood
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

MT. McAdoo left the treasury job because it iidn pay enough, but Mir. Glass leaves 1t to take a senatorial job paying several thousand less a year.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

What consideration is the agree ment of the miners that does not ex- rire until next spring getting in the present negotiations?
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

Times certainly have changed. Down in Pennsylvania a culm, bank started 50 years ago is being rescreened, the coal therein beirg worth g to s4 a ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

Alabama operators deny that they are preventing aEy miners from re- turning to work: No one. However. could blame them for culling out the reds.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

The man on the corner says: There are those who not only wait for op- portunity to knock hut then expect it to do all the work.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

A dry world is predicted by 1925. If We remember right that was the year in which we were promised a taxless city.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

Clemeneeau has received an en- dorsement from the people that mus tickle the cookies of lis heart.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21
Ep,ToRiAl. NOTES

Just as the country expectei L.. Fol !ette was the first to be tripped ty th' c1oture rule
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21

Really life is getting very con1plicat- j ed in these postwar days-and court esy almost beyond our purses.
 SAn unique scheme for the relief of wage earners with limited irie0nies is contained in a New South Wales SNs- ernment bill passed through the leg islative assembly.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-21
Corns Come Off
 Like Banana Peel
|s.Gets-itr Leaves Tee Smooth as Your
 Pasm-Never Fails.

Ever peel off a banana skin? Well. that's the way "Gets-It' peels off any
 icorn or cailus. It's a picnic. Nothing else in the world will do 1t but Gets
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-18
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

July 14-Howell county votes one,
half million dollars to build hard-sur-
face roads.
kansas City last year cleared
100000 over operating costs of the
water plant"
Springfeld-Green county defeats
road bond issue for $2,000,000.
st. Joseph--Building permits fol-
June total $1S7,853.
Maryville-$50,0 900 bonds for i'm.
provement of water system voted.
Monet shipped 104 cars of straw.
berries this season.
Carthage-$100,000 concrete ter
tank elevator going up.
1.-THE people of Fulton voted re-
Gently not to establish a municipal
telephone system and they acted
wisely in SO doing" states the Fay
cite Advertiser. 1.-TWO telephone sys-
tens in any town are a nuisance and
lit never improves matters when the
city owns one of them"
Joplin--Southwestern Creamery Co
increase capacity to $4,000 pounds a
week at a cost Of $4,000.
Kansas City-Publc Service Com
mission authorities merger of Z. G.
Home Telephone and all southwestern
Bell Telephone interests about Kan
sas City,
Kansas City-Government places or,
der with local factory for 140 truck
bodies starting a new industry here.
Kansas City-The Columbia Ribbon
and Carbon Co. of New York, the
Raymond Bag Co., Middletown, Ohio
and Pennsylvania Chocolate Co., al
establish large branches here.
Kansas City-$50,000 will be spent
in charging postoffice here. Will in
crease working space rs per cent.
Kansas City New seven-story
building to cost 100000 being erect.
ed, to be occupied by rs to SO cent
store.
South Missouri Democrat-"For.
merly the most sought-for thing ii
the world was perpetual motion. Now
it is perpetual peace"
Adton-A Schuyler county man sole
and sent out 10000 chicks by parce
post in two days, the postage amount
ing to $500.
St. Louis-16-story Arcade building
will be completed August /. Has beer
under construction for more than tive
years, and will cost $1,000,000.
Bethany--Bethany township is tt
have ga more miles Of hard-surfacec
roads.
Caruthersville-A new thoroughly
modern brick undertaking establish
ment being erected here.
Standardization bonds voted
for hard-surfaced roads in this town
ship.
Leeton-Head of Nafziger bakeries
purchases Curtiss airplane and viii
make his regular rounds of bakerie:
in the machine.
Leeton-the State will pay bounty
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-18

of fifty cents apiece for hawks, Gag
les and horned owls, the killer to
bring the head to the county clerk
who will make a requisition on the
State for the same.
st. Louis-Motion picture house to
be erected at cost of $6G0606,6
be erected at cost of 100000.
Maryville-$45,0 900 was world rec
ord price paid for a bull here this
week.
Kansas City and vicinity report 100
sales per day on motor cars.
Kansas City-There are 725 motor
cars now in iitney use in Kansas City.
Of that number almost 400 cars are
registered and their owners members
of the jitney association. Nearly
seventy thousand persons, or almost
one-fifth the population of Kansas
City now use motor transportation to
and from their work and pleasures.
st. Louis-State Board of Equali-
cation increased assessed valuation of
real estate and personal property in
st. Louis from $663,293, 484 to $730,s
1896.
Humansville-Electric Company ex-
tending power line to Pennington.
jefferson City-Preliminary sur
veys indicate that Missouri has five
million acres of land available for use
for soldier settlement. Of this two
million are swamp and overflow lands
susceptible of drainage, and the three
million acres are cut-over lands on the
southern slopes of the Ozarks, suit
able for agriculture, fruit, poultry
and dairying,
Green City--Local farmer brings
we'll cured ham to merchant and re-
ceived in exchange, 100 pounds of su-
gar, S10.75; corn, % cents; hominy,
rs cents; breakfast food, so cents;
fifteen pounds of salt fish, $2.25; one
hundred pounds grit, $1.25.
Humansville-100- barrel mill for
flour and corn products now nearing
completion.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-18


est opportunity that ever came TO a
people. Why, we. are the darling OF
the gods. NO nation IN all times was
ever so placed, II civilization Will real
~ move on once more over there.
Here we are, the reservoir OF the
worlds capital, and at the same time
the worlds reservoir OF raw materials
We can finance the world and feed the
worlds industry with Its raw mater,
ial. There have been nations that
were the financial reservoirs, but they
we're not also the reservoirs OF raw
material. Inc future that america
has with its present opportunities is
very great II the Old world goes on
and does not go pack-and never more
hung on one Word imam on that "ora
III --because II may not 60 forward.
1t is distinctly possloie that IL may
not go forward, out IL is up 10 US 70
DO all that we can, ana w4at whi De
asked Will not De great. henlenper'
Wiat am propneSylns 10 N.Y. Soliie
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-18
MISSOURPS GREAT
COAL DEPOSITS

jefferson City, Mo-, July 9.-Mis-
haustible coal deposits, still totaling
1885, 100000 tons, which, at the av-
erage rate of consumption for the last
ten years, 4,066,063 tons annually,
will last for 20,623 more years, re-
ceived official and therefore highly
substantial recognition from the Fiji
tieth General Assembly, recently adj
journed, through a clause in one of
the general appropriation bills that in
the purchase of fuel during the bien-
NAL period 1919-1920., equality and
cost considered, preference shall be
given to coal mined in Missouri an
nounces advance information from
the 1919 Red Book of the Missouri
Bureau of Labor Statistics, given
publicity today.
The section was drafted particular
ly to apply to the State Sanitorium at
Fulton, st. Joseph, Pennington, Mar
shall and Mt. Vernon, the Soldiers
homes at Higginsville and st. James;
the Fulton School for the Deaf; the
st. Louis School for the Blind; the
State Industrial Homes for girls at
Chillicothe and Upton; the Missouri
Reformatory at Boonville, and the
Missouri State Penitentiary at JEFF
ferson City, but, also, indirectly, it
applies to the coal used for heating
and electric power at the State Cap
itol building, State University of Col
umbia, Rolla School of Mines, the
Normal Schools at Warrensburg,
Cape Girardeau, Springfield, Kinks
vile and Maryville, and the Lincoln
Institute at Jefferson City.
The section is correctly and right
fully construed to constitute an Off
cial order of the General Assembly,
endorsed by Governor Gardner through
executive approval of this particular
appropriated bill, to all Missouri State
officials and boards and commissions
to patronize home industry.
1t is Appropriated that the coal
needed to supply warmth and power
for the State Capitol building and all
State educational, eleemosynary, PEN
al and other institutions and estab-
lishments, during the two years of
the period 1919-1920, will cost Missou-
ri tax payers $4,000. A majority Of
the institutions or establishments
enumerated or included in the "Mis-
souri, coal preferred" ultimatum of the
General Assembly are either in or on
the border of the States immense coal
deposits which extend, chiefly,
through the counties north of the Mis-
souri, River, from the western part of
Lincoln and Rails counties clear across
the State through Platte county and
then under the "Big Muddy" into
Northern Kansas: and north in Cen
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-18

trail Missouri, from Galloway and
Boone counties into Iowa; and south
in Central Missouri across the Mis-
souri, River from Ray and Boone coun-
ties into Lafayette, johnson, Cooper,
Monitean, Cole and Henry counties,
and then southwest in Southwest Mis-
souri, through Bates, Vernon and Bar
ton counties across the line into South
Kansas.
Missouri's coal industry in 1913
gave employment to nearly 1000
miners and helpers Alone not con-
sidering probably 5000 more salaried
officials, clerks, stenographers, whole
sale and retail coal dealers and their
numerous employees, and railroad men
on short railroads with coal transpor-
tation as their main source of income.
The pay Of Missouri coal miners in
1918 averaged SIS day, and that of
helpers and others doing inferior
work, 1925. 1t is estimated that
Missouri coal mine operators dis
tributed a total of $8,000,000 in sal
aries and wages during 1918.
The coal deposits of Missouri cover
an area of 23,960 square miles and
originally measured, according to the
United States Geological Survey, De-
partment of the Interior, 1000, 000, 900
tons. The first official record of coal
being mined in Missouri commences
with the year 1910, when 1912 tons
were placed on the market. The
quantity regularly mined and con-
sumed since then, up to the close of
1917, totals 136,328,740 tons, which,
at an average wholesale value of 50
ton, was worth $276,657, 480.
To convey an idea of the worth of
the unmined coal still existing in
Missouri, 1885,, 100000 tons, the SAND
at a wholesale value of So a ton, a
low value considering the present re-
tail worth of coal per ton, will sell for
total of 1851 ,265, 100000, a sum of
money SO large that it can pay the ex-
pense of the United States in the war
with Germany, including the large
loans made to other nations, totaling,
approximately, 36,00O,000,000, nearly
seven times over.
The Missouri output of coal, 1917,
reached 5,670,549 tons, the same hav-
ing mine value of $225 a ton, of
12,758,735. First class miners that
year averaged $3.40 per day of eight
hours, as compared to So per day in
1918. The output Of coal, Missouri
mines, 1918, is placed at 100000
tons, the same at SO ton, having a
total mine worth of S1S,0O0,O00. The
1916 output of coal, Missouri mines,
was 4,742,146 tons, with total mine
worth of $9,044,505, at $1.91 per ton.
Miners that year were paid from ST.
10 to $2.98 for each eight-hour day.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-18
HOGS REPLACE FARM HANDS

Pleasant Hill, Mo-, July 8.-Farm-
ers in Cass county, who have been un-
able to cut their wheat, which went
down as result Of rain and wind just
when it was ready to harvest, are buy
ing all the hogs they can get and
turning them on the wheat, which
otherwise would be total loss.
Farmers whose wheat is yet standing,
in many instances, are paying as high
as S. per acre to have it cut. Thresh-
ing machines are passing the wheat
which is in the shock and threshing
the crops which promise to be lost in
case of rain owing to the fact that it
could not be shocked when cut.