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Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
CREST OF BIG BUSINESS
 IN NEW LONDON PLANTS

NeW London $ manufacturing plants were at the crest of big volume of business in 1919 that sent the wage disbursement for the year far above anything that had been known before in that city. The total amount paid out in wages by some 50 manufactur- ing plants, large and small, was Ss,504.260, which went into the hands and pockets of about 7,221 workers. In the. year before. the total wage dis bursement was $6.9S0 500. while the product value leaped from s20. .633, 900 to s23,777,00O.
 Machinery and marine work. the largest employing line of industry in the city, having about 3 100 employes paid out s4.784, 900 in wages in 1919 9ss compared with $4 6e2. roc in 1918 ard the product value was Sf0O15 GOO I5olle' an1 iron working concerns em.- ploying about 50 hands, paid out in wages 1.000, gaining on the year before and turned out $325.O00 in product.
 Mills handling silk and cotton goods. employing 2,175 people. had wage dis bursenaents of $138O, 900 in contrast to S1.071,900 in 1918, while their prod uet reached a total of $7.445,0O0 Man ufacturers of metal and iron goods were tremendous business gathers in the year, employing about 775 work CTS. and paying wages of S1.052. 900 which nearly doubled their figure of the year before Their product was approximately s2692.0OO.
 In the woolen industry employing
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
HIGHWAY WORK NEW YEARS.
 NEW LONDON COUNTY.

Formal exercises conducted at noon on Wednesday Nov. ,. by the officials of New London and Groton opened to public use the highway bridge over the Thames. river on which the state highway department had been at work for about year in changing it over from railroad to highway uses. This called for an expenditure of $450,00O in grading up the approaches and laying concrete highways at both ends of the bridge, changing the draw, and laying the roadways for vehicular and foot traffic. This bridge, erected ori ginally at a cost of $1,000,O0O by the New Haven railroad, had served the road for many years, but with the in creasing weight of trains and locomo- tives a stronger bridge was needed by the railroad. which erected new bridge a few hundred feet further down the river and turned over the old bridge to the state for highway pur- poses.
 On the. shore road in the town of Groton 13,S75 feet of concrete road has been laid at cost of s1005T6.52, and in Ledyard and Groton the completion of the east side r.ver road has been completed by laying Se,l29.1 feet of navadam at a cost of S1S4,933.SS. A piece of bridge work has been done in Ledyard byF the widening ot the bridge at Breahwater. which cost iS1,449.6S. Across the river in the town of s1ontville an appreciated improvement has been made on the yCheslerheei road where 51s745 feet of macadam was laid at cost of S22,S2O.9S.
 In the trunk line system ot the state. the improvement of the Norw1ch to Westerly road has been begun, an i'm portant stretch of road that when completed will offer a fine highway from Norwich to the Rhote Island shore. This extends through the towns of Preston. Ledyard. Stoning-- ton and North Stonington. The part of the work that has already been done has called for the expenditure of 1,399.45 on 51,943 feet of bituminous macadam construction.
 The North Franklin road in the town of Lebanon has had 9l22 feet o1 macadam laid at a cost of $1S,600 and Rozrah street in the town of Bozrah has been improved by laying 5 SOC feet of macadam at a cost Of SS.50o but this work has not been completed yet. ,.za. on the Norwich Lisbon road has been carried through at a cost of S44, 4,S25.S1 and the Newent road in the town of Lisbon has had 4 4.770feetof macadan laid at a cost of S12,000 with more work to be done before the road is completed
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
BIGGEST BUSINESS YEAR
 IN NORWICH INDuSTRI

ludustrialiy Norwich saw in 1919 the greatest year that it has ever eX- perienced ill wages paid out to ap- pToximately 9,734 workers in it's mills and manufacturing plants and in val ue Of production from some 65 indus tries in the town and city.
 The total payrolls of these concerns were SS.2SJ.240 in the past year where they showed S7.56S,5Ss in the year be- ore and value of product rose from e2022.S04 to Szl, 0.600. The total plume of business done in 1919 was 569sS40 in manufacturing lines, an rease in proportion to the gain in .Gos and product.
 ta the cotton mills where 2,62G em- 1ycs were at work. the wage dis rsements increased from S2, ,107,70S
 s2.61S,S52 and production from es9.s69 to s1S-O7O 600. Woolen mills
 ing 1895 employees showed payrolls
 s1s42.0o0 as against s603 OG0 the
 before. while their production
 res for 1919 were sT.925,0O0 as apared with sa.7i5,oOo the preced-
 yeaE.
 mother line of textiles. sEiz and let manufacturers, contributed
 e'y 10 the big business of the year, bursting SS91 .007 in wages and wing product of s726O OO0 in value gre the figures were respectively
 '.S0o and s5075,5OO in 1918. The n5er Of employees was S55.
 ape manufacturers and betting ! leather goods manufacturers em- ying 399 workers. showed a busi- $ increase from s506, 500 to S42S,250
 wages and from s1.T31 500 to SS0,00O in value of product. Foun- ry and iron work, employing 2s0 lad a total payroll showing of s246.5oO which was a gain from s117,0OO the year before and their product was s5I6,000. The several factories pro- ducinS metal goods, giving employ ment to 155. shared in the larger fig ores for 1919. having payrolls of s152.- 800 and product value of s4SO. GOO which were respectively $119.1s5 and s52I-500 in the year before.
 In one line only. that of firearms and cutlery manufacturing there are smaller figures 10 record. due to the shutdown of the Marlin Rockwell corporation factory for six months of
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
NORWICH, CONN.

JAMES DANA corr, Assistant Treasurer.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01

absence of the Chamber9wo be the recipients of such mail. The head quarters are used constantly for both public and private meetings. The Chamber is. truly, a community center in this respect.
 We finished this. the fourth year of Chamber of Commerce activities, with the largest membership on record and, in addition, a record of accomplish ments worthy of an organization like ours. Some mistakes have keen made and We may not have accomplished as
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
WINDHAM COUNTY.

Expenditures of $91,4S9.44 in Wind ham county have included number of projects that will materially i'm prove highways there. In the town of Plainfield work is still under way on the Canterbury road where 4,625 feet of screened gravel road has been laid at a cost of s106S5, while the West minister road in Canterbury is still incomplete. It is of the same con struction. S4,02050 having already spent on the stretch Of 3,1S5 feet.
 In the Killingly and Putnam section of the county the Goodyear road in the town of Killingly h3s had 7,119,15 feet of bituminous macadam laid at q cost of S26 440>97 and Grove street in Putnam, where the work in not vet complete, has had $2661507 so far ex- pended on a concrete highway of 3,S37 feet. A stretch Of macadam 4s0O feet on the Abingdon road in the town of Promfret has been laid at a cost of $1o, ,2S3.27. A piece of work as vet only partially completed is the Brandy 1ill> road in the town Of Thompson, 1S,410 feet of bitunlinous macadam at a cost to date of S1400, while in Eastford the Phoenixville road has been laid in gravel at cost of S6,992 .63 s5ss5
 HOLLAND COUNTY.
 Volland county has shared in the attention given to roads by the state highway department under which SfS5.729.2S has been spent there in the past year. Most of it has been in thc town of Mansfield. There has been the completion Of the Stafford Springs road, aSS,514.15 feet of screened gravel at 2 cost of sf23,97S. s9;,t the King hilI road was graded for 800 feet at cost of s1 o31.52. and the varrenvi1Ie road had 5000 feet of screened gravel laid at cost of s9.56f.73. Screened gravel was also the type of construction for 513 feet of road at the South Coventry railroad station, costing s116234.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS
 NORWICH GERVIcE STATION

Norwich Chamber of Commerce are a general service station for the com munity. Several thousand visitors both resident and nonresident are
 handled annually. They are given
 such information as they may seek and accorded the most courteous treatment. This speaks well for the business men of Norwich who main- tain such an institution. Tn add ton to personal calls, thousands of letters are answered, giving information about our city. These. otherwise. would have to be answered by some of our leading business men. who. in the
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01

the year. However, the other con- cernS making firearms and cutlery all show bigger business than the year before Approximately 1929 people were given employment in these lines during the year and the wage 64s- bursement was $1,149,131 where it was S2 561,2 in 1918 while product value was $3.769 600 where it was s7,9S5,00O the year before.
 Approximately twenty manufactur- ing plants, large and small. in mis- cellaneous lines, employing 1,231, showed a larger year than ever with payrolls of s1162 900 as against $S79.- S70 in 1918 payrolls and $4,495,000 in product value as against S3,353 900 in 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01

50 the wage account was about $60,OOO while miscellaneous classification of about 30 other industrial plants where about 1.gi1 workers are em- ployed shows that they paid out in wages S1,097,260 where their wage ac- count was $4S2.G0O in 1918. These plants turned out product worth ap- proximately $2,650.O00
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
Nervous People

should use KALPHO and observe its mag ical effect in the treatment of nervous. ness. Insomnia. brain fag,. irritability, mental exhaustion, nervous headache, loss ot memory, etc. KALPHO acts on the brain. nerves. .musclesand blood cells; rebuilds wornout nerve tissues and is in dispensable to all mental workers Con tains no harmful nor habitfornling drugs. At druggists Sl.00. Refuse substitutes.
 KALPHO is sold by the Lee & Os good Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01

$2,66668O into the pockets. of Willi- mantle workers, an increase of $252,- 0S0 over the year before, and the product value was $9,733, 900.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
HOLLAND COUNTY.

Avon.-Rev. ]. W Ioulton has re- ceiVed his appointment as census enumerator for the town of Avon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
Notable Days in June.

There are not many notable days
in the month of June, but some of
them are important. June A, 1S47,
the Mexican-American war began.
June 10, 1865, Ben Franklin drew
lightning from the clouds. June IA
is flag day, which we should all re-
member. June Is, 1915, Magma
Charta sealed by King John of Eng
land. June II, 1918, the battle OF
Bunker Hill. June 81, the longest
cay of the year, the beginning of
summer. June 27, 1917, first Ameri-
can troops to arrive in France. June
2S, 1914 assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand, the cause of the World
War. June 80, 1876, the first rail-
road started in China.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
NOTICE IN PROBATE.

To whom it may concern:
You and each Of you are hereby
notified to appear at the Clerks Of
fee in the court house in Winneshiek
county, Iowa, on the 1Oth DAY OF
July 1920, at 900 o'clock A. M. to
attend the probate Of an instrument
purporting to be the Last Will and
Testament of B. j. Geving, late OF the
City of DEBORAH, in WinDeshiek
County, Iowa, deceased, at which
time and place you will appear and
show cause, if any, why said will
should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof have here
into subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of said Office, this Sd day
of June 1920.
s. J. MOORE,
Clerk of District Court
By C. X. SELIAAND Deputy
WILLETT & NELSON, Attorneys.
23-4.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
Canada to Iowa Booze Route.

Late yesterday afternoon an air
plane came out of the north, circled
over Des Moines twice and landed
at a flying field near the city. The
airplane contained eighteen cases of
whiskey and was piloted by Winni-
Ieg aviator, who sold the booze for
$3.50 case within two hours after
ris arrival. With these facts as a
foundation police began a city and
country wide search last night for
some of the liquor brought to Des-
Moines by the air bootlegger, and
were on the trail early this morning
OF evidence which may be the basis
fer the strangest liquor case in the
History OF the American country.
The plane left Winnipeg, Canada,
at $3.50 yesterday morning bound for
Des Moines. Eighteen cars went to
the flying field at 4:30. Every car
l.turned before six. each with case
of whiskey. Before the police learn
ed of the daring coup the whiskey
had been hidden and the aiTplane
pilot had left his plane. At the rate
of $3.50 per case the eighteen cases
brought the driver $4,000. The whis'
key is said to have been high proof
Canadian made liquor of the best
quality
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
GOES TO IRELAND TO WE'D.
Miss Ruth Steele, Riverside, TO Make
Long Journey For Husband.

Toledo, lat will be a long
journey that Miss Ruth Steele, of
Riverside, Washington county, will
make to secure a husband. On June
10 Miss Steele will sail for Ireland,
and at Belfast she will meet her
flance, Thomas B. Mcmillan, formerly
of this city. The wedding will take
place at the home of the bride
groom's parents in Belfast.
The approaching wedding is Of in
ferest here from the fact that both
young people were former students
I'm Leander Clark College. where
their courtship began. When the
war broke out Mr.. Mcmillan left col
iege to enter Y. M. c. A. work over
seas. He served as secretary Of a
unit attached to the British army,
but shortly after taking up his work
enlisted under the royal colors and
won a lieutenancy. He was with his
regiment until it was demobilized
last April.
Since her graduation from Lean
der Clark, Miss Steele has been
teaching, and during the school year
just ended taught at Pleasant Plain,
Jefferson county.
After few weeks visit in Ireland
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcmillan will return
to this country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
Loses Right Arm.

John Durcher Jr., who lives be-
tween Clermont and West Union
met with an accident this morning
that cost him his right hand and
forearm. The Durscher family use
a small gasoline engine to do the
washing. This morning the engine
was not running right. John was cal
led and had it running when the
governor became detached. He
reached over to adjust the governor
end in doing so pin in the fly
wheel caught his hand and arm. The
flesh and bones were so badly LAGER
ated and broken that it was found
necessary to amputate the arm a
couple of inches below the elbow. 1t
was a deplorable accident and the
young man at last reports was rest
ing as easily as could be expected
under the circumstances.-Elgin
Echo -'--.'~ - 49,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
NOTICE IN PROBATE.

To whom it may concern:
You and each of you are Lereby
n IT lied to appear at the Clerks Of
fee in the court house in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, on the Gath day OF
June 1920, at 500 o'clock A. M.
to attend the probate OF an instru-
ment purporting to be the Last Will
and Testament of G. w. Payne late
of DEBORAH Township, in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, deceased, at which
time and place you will appear and
show cause, if any, why said will
should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof ! have here
unto subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of said Office, this 18th day
of May 1920.
8. j. MOORE,
Clerk of District Court.
BOICE & HOOK, Attorneys.
20-4.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16

II you think you are fooling your
friends it means that you are fool
ing yourself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16

When a woman has very old
fashioned furniture in her home it
is a sign that she's very poor or
very rich.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-16
AT LAST
A TIRE
~

So. many car owners grope in
the dark try to solve the tire ques-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-22
Ho1U the sUoraen of Holland
haze ansuOered the ques-
ton of birth-control

VHE war has made US realize that
we cannot afford to ignore anything
= that claims to improve the health Of
our children; and this is why Pictorial
Review, in line with its forward-IooLing
editorial policy, presents to the thinking
women of America the opportunity for
considering the much misunderstood sub.
ject of scientific birth-control.
Everybody has heard Of birth.control,
but comparatively few people know what
IL really means. Many people are shocked
at the very word. Pictorial Review does
not take side. in this discussion, but
when a conservative country like Holland
boldly endorses the movement and pub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-22

fishes its reasons for SO doing, it is time
we looked into the matter judicially and
impartially.
The remarkable story Of what the
women of Holland have done under the
leadership of DR.. Aletta Jacobs is graphic
ally told by Eleanor Kinsella Mcdonnell
in the mid-winter issue of Pictorial Review.
In this Illuminating and inspiring account,
there is valuable information for every
woman in America.
In Holland today-Holland, mind you-
slow-moving, conventional Holland-they
have a smaller death rate and a higher
healthy birth rate than in any country in
the world. That fact is unacceptable. And
DR.. Jacobs states that this is due to a
sane understanding and appreciation Of
birth-control. Whether this is so or not, is
for the women of America to Judge after
reading this amazing article.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
n. ]. UTILITY BOARD
CUSTER HELD VALID
Supreme Court DECLARES Cover
nor Had Power to Remove
Commissioners
SECOND APPEAL EXPECTED
KN thr .Associaich Press

Trenton. Dec. 2T.-Thc action Vt
rovarnrr Edwards recently in ousting
.n, state Board of Public Utility Com
,ui>S,nnprS FROM office. following charges
brought brfur" him by the city of Jcr.
soy city, accusing the board of misCUn-
duet in Office and neglect Uf duty in
granting increased trolley fares and
other utility rates, was upheld today
hv thr Supreme Court. The provision
uf the act " lnll. under which the
board was created. YcSting in the gov
rrnor the powrr to dismiss the commiS.
s:onrrs after charges had been preferred
aud hearing given, was upheld by the
court
It Is expected that tho oustcd com
mis>iourrS will immediately take an ap-
neal ~ the Court 0f Errors and Appeals,
the highest state court.
Despite the action Of the governor in
oustng the commission. it has CON
tinucd t. function. the members qucs
tiuning the governors legal right to
remove them. When the executive rc-
moved the board he called Il special ScS
sion nf the Srnat" and nominated a
new board. Democratic in complexion.
to replace the old Republican commits.
sion. The Republican Senate. instead
Of confirming the appointments. referred
the matter to Attorney General MCCran
TO determine the legal status OF the de
facto board. The governor also re-
VuestCd the attorney general to act in
the matter and the latter instituted quo
warrGntu proceedings in the Supreme
Court demanding by what right the
board continued to uSurp the functions
Of the utilities commission.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
HARDING PLANS
TO LOWER TAXES
President-Elect Drops Foreign
Affairs to Devise Means to
Cut Expenditures
TO SEE CONGRESS CHIEFS

Marion. o.. Dec. 27.-Turninc from
the consideration Of foreign policies |"
a discussion of domestic problems. Pres e
idcnt- elect Harding plans to hold con,
terences this week with n number. ot
Senate and House leaders. Some time
next week he is expected to leave, his
home here for a trip TO Florida. where
he will rest and hold conferences an
Ill March 4. when he will be inaugu :
rated.
Congressional leaders who have beei'
asked to come here for conferences with
Senator Harding this week include Sen
ator McCumber, of North Dakota. and
Representatives j. W. Good. of Iowa
Frank Mondell. Of Wyoming: Patrick
II. Kelly. of Michigan, and Daniel H.
Anthony. of Kansas.
Will II. Hays will be in Marion TINS
week for a discussion Of cabinet Seler-
tiOns, and Senator Harding will CONFER
with Governor elect Harry l.. Davis,
Of Ohio, regarding Senator Harding =
resignation from the Senate and tn"
appointment of successor to finish out
his uneXpired term. Days on which
the various conferences will be held
were not announced.
Plans Smaller Expenditures
Concrete steps will be- taken by AR.
Harding during this week conferences
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
SOVlETS DENY AGGRESSION
Troops Not Concentrated for Attack
on Rumania, Tchlteherin Says
Innsi u nj lnnnla Nnn ~ ID.

L. - RumOrS that concentration Of
Russian Soviet troops in the region of
the Dnr>trr river was with aggressive
intent against Rumania were denied by
George Tchit"herin. Russian RolShcvik
minister oi foreign affairs. in wireless
dispatch to the Rumanian foreign
office.
NJ. Trhitrneriu declared il was
necessary for the Soviet forces to take
up winter quarters there. owing to the
situation along the front.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
MASKEDMEN RAID
CORK NEWSPAPER
Entire Plant Of Examiner De-
stroyed With SIedge Han-
mers and Bombs
EDITOR IGNORED WARNINGS

Cork. Dec. 27.--Thirty armed and
masked raiders invaded the offices OF
the Cork Examiner Christmas eve
broke the machinery with hammers.
wrecked parts of the building with px-
plosives and set fire to the property.
They escaped before the arrival of the
police. The fire was extinguished, but
other damage was very extensive.
The raiders, who wore civilian cloth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
SEEK MISSING MAN HERE
Husband ls Thought to Have Come
TO Phila. From New York

Philadelphia police hav" been asked
to ioin with New York in search for
Philip Glaacr, twenty six years old,
born in this city and missing from his
present home. 2O49 Washington ave-
nue.. Bronx, New York, since Au-
gust ~,
Mrs. Lizzie Glazcr, wife Of the mis-
sing man. came over to Philadelphia for
Christmas at the request of Glazcr :
father. \. Gla2cr. of 4So North Fourth
street, who believes that his son may
br in this city ut the present time.
The missing man. who served eight e
cen months in France during the war,
resigned from his position as automobile
uaintor on August 10, and told his wife
that he was going out to look for an
other job. Since then she has not
heard from him.
Gla2cr is five feet, six inches tall,
with dark complexion, black hair and
black eyes. lie had lived in Philadel-
phia until year ago. when he and his
wife moved to New York.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27

Hold sixtleth Wedding Anniversary
Towanda. Pa. Dec. 2T.-Mr. and
Mrs. Levi Towner. of Towncr Hill
yesterday celebrated their sixticth wed
ding anniversary. all members of the
family being present.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27
2s orunks in One Police Station

The Tenth and Buttonwood police
station was the haven for twenty eight
storm tossed incbriatrs last night. too
full of holiday cheer to make their home
ports. This is said by the police to be
the largest number of "drunks" accom-
modutPd in two years.