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The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
Boxbay Nevertear Silk.

The special sale of "Boxbay" is still in force. Every purchaser off ve yards or over will be presented with hand. some mirror.
 Boxbay Silk is guaranteed not to tear, split or crack. All shades, 19 inches wide. soc yard.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
White Goods.

White India Linon Lawn, B inches wide, 1Oc, 121c, 15c, 200, 25c yard.
 White India Lawn. 40 inches wide, 1Oc and 12Ac yard. Fancy Weave MerceriZed White Ma terials, Dotted Swiss Muslin, large as- sortment of styles to select from 12sc, l5c, 25c yard.
 White Mercerized Dotted and tigur- ed Madras, 124, l5c, 25c yard.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
SOUTH BRITAIN.
TO VISIT PORTO RICO.


 J. A. Beard, in company with his brother, Dr T. E. Beard of New Haven, has gone on trip to Porto Rico. They sailed from New York on Tues day of this week. MT Beard expects to be gone for month, while his brother will likely stay much longer. z.zzssThe sociable held by the Ladies Aid society of the Methodist church, at Miss Curtis, last week, was we'll at tended and was financially successful.
 Quite number from here were at the Donation Supper given by the Southbury Methodist church, to the pastor, Rev John Nash.
 Rev John Nash spent Monday and Tuesday of this week in Meriden, at tending the meetings of the Methodist Ministers association, New Haven district.
 The Helping Hand society of the Methodist church, invite everybody to attend their sociable, next Tuesday evening, at the parsonage.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24

D. N. Clark, the hardware man in Shelton, is offering some special bar gains in decorated china ware. Call and see him when in Shelton.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24

We still have good supply of those boys and misses school rubbers made with reinforced heel and toe. "The can't stub lem out kind" that we are selling at rock bottom prices. If you are looking for bargains in.rubber foot wear of any description it will pay ye u to call at Corbett's Sandy Hook Shoe store.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24

Mrs Esther Sherwood of New Fair field is moving into Rev James Taylor's
 house in South Center district. l.. c.
 Nicholson moved her household goods for her.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
Satin FOulards.

New line of printed Satin FouIards in great variety of designs and color ingS. 49c yard.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24

Walter Ruffells had his big woodpile awed up, last week. Bert Peck of Hattertown did the job with his engine and saw outfit.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
REDDING.

The little house, formerly occupied by Fritz, was burned to the ground one night about two weeks ago. Mrs Rowing has recently purchased this house with about Is acres of land near it.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
WHAT'S GOING ON.

WAITS GOING ON.
 Miss Mabel Goodnow has been on the sick list.
 Nov Is the time to feed your COWS Row Kure. It keeps them healthy, saves you money and gives you more milk. For sale at W. N. Hurd's store. Miss Beatrice Maud Clark gave a party to number of her young friends, Friday afternoon, February IT, at her home, Maple Croft, in Tashua, the oc- casion being birthday anniversary. The afternoon was pleasantly passed with games, after which the little ones sat down to fine supper. All present will long remember the party with great pleasure.
 The Ladies' Whist club will have a bundle whist at Mrs w. N. Hurd's, Saturday afternoon. Miss Rena Downs has been i'll with l the grip, but Is now improving. Dr Gallup was the attending physician. There is to be masquerade ball at Hadley's hall, Monday, February 27. NJ Hubbard of New York spent Saturday and Monday with his family here.
 Mrs Robb enter tained friends from New York state, last week.
 Miss Sadie Bell Craft .spent Sunday in Bridgeport, the guest of Miss Elsie Canfieldi
 Charles Sweezy of Yonkers, N. Y., spent few days last week with Mrs RObb.
 We have new lot of that fancy rice, 6 lbs for 25c. The last lot went fast but we have larger supply this time. Very nice eating is our New York state corn, three cans for 25c at w. N. Hurd's.
 Mrs Rachel Clark, who has been vis- iting in Bridgeport for few weeks, has returned and is now spending few days with her daughter, Mrs w. c. Kachele, in Tashua. Mrs Frank M. Garfield, Ernest M. | Cantield and Miss Feather Garfield of Easton were guests, last week, of Mrs Mary A. Peet.
 Mrs Harriett Garfield of Easton was guest of Mrs c. G. Downs for a few days, last week.
 MT and Mrs Edward Farrar welcom- ed son to their home, Tuesday, Feb ruary IA. Mrs John Thomas is caring for Mrs Farrar.
 MT and Mrs Benjamin Flarity vel comed son Tuesdoy, Februery IA. Warren Smith of Bristol spent few days with MT and Mrs Joseph Kohler of Tashua and with MT and Mrs Thom- as Lord, last week. John Gabler went to New York to attend the funeral of Mir Twlng. J. D. Robinson of Bridgeport has purchased John Schmidt's place near Chestnut Hill, formerly owned by Percy Ryan, and has taken possession. MT and Mrs Holbrook and Walter Nichols and family of Bridgeport spent Sunday with MT and Mrs Robert | Staine.
 Mrs William B. Craft of Stepney is caring for Miss Jennie Turney. Mrs Leo Gabler entertained her mother, Mrs Nichols, and her sister, Miss Ethel Nichols, of Stratford. Mrs A. E. Pixley, who has been ill, is slowly gaining. Mrs Jane Mallett is caring for her.
 Rev J. A. Osborn returned, last Saturday, from Cornwall Bridge, where he had been having week of evangel- istic services.
 Services in the Methodist church will be held next Sunday, February 26, as usual In the morning the pastor will give an exposition of the second chapter of Ephesians. In the evening his subject will be "The Publican and the Pharisee." Friday evening there will be the usual weekly prayer meet ing and choral rehearsal.
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The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24

MT and Mrs B. F. Bdssett of Hope we'll were guests, a few days last week of MT and Mrs w. E. Gilbert.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
SHERMAN.

Editor A. P. Smith of THE BEE was pleasantly entertained at dinner: Fri day, by MT and Mrs N. T. Hunger ford.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
For Shirt Waist Suits

The best aSSort ment of neat Fancy Silks ever shown in this city. A par ticularly attractive line at 49c.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24

MT and Mrs N. F. .Glidden of New Haven were in town, Thursday.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
AFFAIRS ABOUT TOWN
THE BRIDGEPORT MARKET.
WHOLESALE QUOTATIONS FURNISHED BY RUC
 6 DARLING. BRIDGEPORT.

Butter, choice creamery prints 36c lb
 good 2sa3oc, common 2Oa22; cheese, factory
 1talS. dairy 14ale; eggs, fresh nearby ss calves 7a11c; pigs 6a7; hogs 4a5; potatoes 55a 50 bu; onions. red 5oas5c, :yellow, 75ca1 10 bu
 nips 4Oa45c bu; scelery 75aS1.' dog; dried reas
 l.50 bu; beans, marrow $50; pea s2.50; honey l4al6; beeswax, 3oc lb; apples, Bald wins. 1.50a2.50 Greetings 1.50a2. 50.
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
MRS A. BROWE.

Mrs A. Browe of East street died at
The Newtown bee., 1905-02-24
A RAILROAD PURCHASE.


 The Railroad Company have recent ly purchased of P. Hendigan, William Parks and Plumb Brothers a strip O. land, 40 feet wide and 500 feet long adjoining the depot property. Tn. Company will, in the near future move the present depot several rods tt the north and convert 1t into freight depot. They will build upon the sitt of the old depot new and convenient one. They will also have'a new drive way made on the east side of the de pot so that it will be possible for teams to drive up to the depot door and ge, oheir passengers. This will be a great improvement and much appreciated by the Trumbull people.
 l FORMAL CALL EXTENDED TO REV MF CROSS.
 At business meeting of the Con gregational church, last Monday even ing, the society voted unanimously tt | extend an invitation to Rev J. l. Cross to become their pastor. MI Cross has been with the church for the past year and at the meeting many kind words in appreciation o1 his useful work were expressed. MRS BANFORD s. BEACH. The community was saddened, last week Thursday, February 16, by the sudden death of Mrs Harriet St Johr Beach, wife of Banford s. Beach, who passed away at her home after an i'll aess of only three or four days witt Brght's disease, aged 34 years, nine months and seven days. The funeral was largely attended from her late | home, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock | Rev J. L. Cross officiating. The buria | was in the Trumbull Center cemetery
 There was a large number of beauti ful floral tributes. Among them was a beautiful Tyre from the Masons. Mrs Beach leaves to mourn her loss beside her husband and daughter, Dorothy Beach, one son, Edward Merrill Beach a father and mother, MT and Mrs Ed ward Merrill of Norwalk. She vii also be missed by host of friends MT Beach and family have the warn sympathy of all their many friends anc neighbors in this great loss. P. Hendigan has just purchased o1 | Plumb Brothers four or five acres o
 and just north of William Parks | house. MT Hendigan is having the brush cut on the iand.
 Adolph Heinz purchased a new horse of Bridgeport parties, last Wed nesday.
 Harry Maurer has leased WOolsey Sterlng's farm for three years ane | will run it in connection with his owr | farm. MT Maurer has a fine herd O | about 30 COWS now from which he get daily between 275 and 300 quarts O. milk. This is retailed in Bridgeport | He expects now to increase his herd tt | 50 head of COWS. With MT Sterling | farm he will now have about 200 acre! of land to care for. MT Maurer has al the best machinery for carrying or | farm work and has one of the bes equipped farms for the business tha it has been the pleasure of your core spondent to look over.
 | F. w. Isham of Washington, D. C.. has been spending a few days the las week with his daughter, Mrs J. L Cross.
 Mrs c. B. Weed, who has beer
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
ROLL WEEV|L MUST REMAIN WITH FARMER
The Government Reports After an Exhaustive lnvestl-
CATION That 1t Is Impossible to Destroy the cotton
Pest, Cultural Method Is the Only Relief.

gion now infested by the boil weevil
it is entirely feasible to produce cotton
at margin of profit that will com
pare favorably with that resulting
from the production of most of the
staple crops of the United States by
following what's known as the cultur-
al method. This consists of changes
and notifications of the system OF
cotton raising, including the destruc-
ton of the plants in the fall, early
planting, thorough cultivation OF the
fields, planting the rows as far apart
as feasible, thinning the plants in
the rows and using certain fertiliz-
erS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29

The Union Pacific railroad recently
completed the first of a number of mo-
tor cars that will be used in passenger
and light freight service upon branch
lines of the system, says the Kansas
CITY Star. The new car in shape re-
sembles an inverted racing yacht. The
roof tapers from the top and is smooth
ed and rounded The front is tapered
to sharp point so as to afford the
least possible resistance to the air. Its
design gives it great strength and
makes it difficult to be telescoped.
The motive power is a six cylinder
ed gasoline engine. The car is also pro
vided with large air reservoirs in order
that it may be started or stopped by
air pressure. The floor Of the car is
sealed and water tight, enabling it to
be cleaned by turning on hot water.
The seats are of leather, and there are
no lodges or crevices to harbor dust or
dirt. The car that has been completed
has a seating capacity of twenty five
persons. A second car under construc-
ton will seat sixty persons. This car
is being built of steel instead Of wood
and is intended for journeys of sixty
to seventy miles on the branch lines in
Nebraska and Kansas. The cars have
been built at the Omaha shops of the
Union Pacific under the supervision of
w. r. McKeen, Jr., superintendent OF
motive power and machinery. They
were designed for the special purpose
of providing economical and rapid
transit for use on steam railroads in
competition with electric interurban
roads and on branch lines where it is
not considered practicable to operate
heavy trains.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
TWO DAYS IN SNOW BANK.
But the Man Thawed Out and May
Survive the Shock.

But the Man Thawed Out and May
Survive the Shock.
Despite the fact that for a day and
two nights he lay in snow bank with
the thermometer lowering around zero
John G. Sayles, who is now in the
hospital at Syracuse, N. Y, is ex-
pected to recover. He is a cook and
lives at Utica. He was looking for
work, and after an unsuccessful attempt
in Syracuse he again started out. He
became cold and sat down to rest.
When he attempted to walk he was
Mortified to find that his feet had
frozen so that he could not move.
Cold and wet, he lay in the snow bank
and nearly persisted. He finally de-
termined to make one mere desperate
attempt, and succeeded in rolling out
of the bank. He managed to crawl to
the home of a farmer, where he was
partly thawed out. His feet will prob
ably have to be amputated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29

The Santa Fee system is making ar
engagements to plant the southwestern
deserts along it's route with spineless
cacti which contain both food and wa
ter for cattle, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean. The Mojave desert will first re-
ceive attention, then Arizona and New
Mexico. Spineless cacti plants are now
worth 500 each, but they are easily
propagated. They were developed by
Luther Burbank, the famous horticul
turist. The percentage of nutrition is
next to alfalfa The railroad company's
action means that millions Of acres of
desert will be turned into pastufe
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
MUKDEN, CITY OF DEATH
Several Wars Have Waged
About Manchuria's Capital.

Il Is Estimated Five Million sOI-
diers Fought Around Mukden In
at Least Twenty Noted Struggles.
ONE of the Worlds Central Battle
Points Since Eleven Hundred Years
Before Christ.
Mukden, the ancient capital Of Man
ehuria, now passed into the control of
the Japanese, was described last Au-
gust in this manner by an American
war correspondent, says the Chicago
Post:
Most cities of China proper have
1912 distinct smells. Mukden has but
SPA. 1t has been Russianized, and
wherever possible the Russian has in
troduced clean streets, some kind of a
sewerage system and orderly houses
hence Mukden is now known as the
cleanest town of the many where the
filthy Chinese have predominated in
the past"
Mukden, known as China's sacred
city" belongs to the province of Shing-
king, and on the line of railway run
uing north it is about half way be-
tween .Newchwang and Kuangchang
tsu, which belongs to the province of
kirin.
Now, aside from the fact that Muk-
den holds the sacred tombs of the an
eient Manchu, or pure" dynasty, it
has other interest in that it has been
one of the worlds central battle points
since LOO years or more before
Christ
Where Russia and Japan have been
eontesting longer than year race
after race and nation after nation
have hurled themselves against each
other for certainly 5000 years The
soil about Mukden, the ranges o. the
Long White mountain, the great
stretches of gray plains have been
soaked with the blood of tens of thou
sands of warriors. 1t is GolgOtha-a
place of bones-and the wraiths of
Men WHO nave gone " IneII maj JUG
ment in conquest or plumber.
Dates i'll Chinese or Monaghan his
tory are much mixed, but SO far as ac-
curacy can be depended upon Mukden
was a settlement long before Christ
was born. The Prince of Pohai had
some possessions there about 40 B. c.,
and at one time Chinese allegiance was
thrown off entirely and a centralized
government established with five royal
residences, one of which rose at Muk-
den. Then came Khitan from Hulan,
and he established the Lao dynasty,
and Mukden, not yet very notable
place, but already battle tossed, passed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29

A new railway track layer, with a
crew of forty men, will lay two miles
of track day, according to the Indian
apolis News. The track layer has a
huge crane sixty feet long, which pro
iects forward over the road and hauls
behind it train of sixteen fat cars
loaded with ties and rails. A continu-
GUS double line of cars moves constant
ly over rollers and carries the tie with
it. Both rails and ties are seized at the
proper time by the machinery and plac-
ed on the road in front of the train,
where they shortly form part of the
track over which it passes. This de
vice is said to be the most expeditions
as we'll as economical track layer in
the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29

into other hands. AfterwardN the
Jurchin had their try, and they estab-
lished the Kin or golden dynasty and
made Mukden a great trading post
on the central highways.
These highways extended up to the
boundaries of the savage tribes on the
north-into Helungkiang and far along
the Amur river-extended south the
modern Picking, to HankOw, to Can
ton and even into India. Princes Of
the royal blood left Mukden in those
days of the beginnings and made two
and three year pilgrimages to India
to learn strange things from wise men
and to trade in jewels and fabrics.
Fifteen hundred years after Christ
was born Nauhachu had his chief seat
Of government in the south Of the Long
White mountain, about 100 miles east
of Mukden. Mukden itself had then
risen to be one of the most important
trading points of the north. 1t has
been stated that its annual volume of
business rose into the millions and
that the wealth and fashion Of the
north congregated there to bargain.
play politics, love and hate.
In 1916 Mukden saw a wonderful
army for those days before its gates.
Nurhachu had taken to himself the
title of heaven. decreed" and had de-
clared war on China. An army of 2OO,-
coo was sent against him, but, as the
oh ra1o+aH oftQrvUa
"He slaughtered all; none returned to
say of how their end came"
Mukden was captured by him in 1921
after terrific fighting and a slaughter,
If we may believe the statisticians,
that far exceeds what has recently oc-
Cured there. All prisoners taken were
promptly beheaded Liaoyang was cap
tured and made the capital, and sew
enty other cities promptly surrendered.
In 1914 the Manchus, risen to great
power, marched into China and placed
one of their own on the throne Of that
government, and a Manchu has ruled
there ever since. In the eighteenth cen
fury Mukden rose to great commercial
and political Importance, but by the
time of the opening of the nineteenth
century, through causes largely due to
the decay of the Manchu dynasty, the
city declined in Importance, and when
the Russians began their active con-
troll of the community after the Chi
nese-Japaaese war Of 1894 they found
it place of squalor, filth and disease.
The sacred tombs had been pre-
served, hat the city was almost isolat-
ed from the world, its people indolent,
careless, out of touch with the world.
The Russians made it base of COM
mercial and military supplies, intro
duced some modern methods of santa
ton and proposed to make it the half
way station between Port Arthur and
Hardin.
In 5000 years there have been fought
in front Of or about Mukden some
twenty odd noted battles of the orient,
and it is conservatively estimated that
within and about the city during that
time more than 100000 men have
been engaged in bloody struggles for
the control of territory and govern
ment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29

The United States department of ag-
ficulture has issued a report on the
recent Investigations by Special Agent
Hunler Of the bureau of entomology
giving recommendations looking to
averting damage by the boil weevil.
The report says that the work OF the
bureau of entomology for several
wears has indicated that there is not
a remote probability that the boil
weevil will ever be exterminated, and
hat as a matter of fact no injurious
insect ever has been exterminated. 1t
says, however, that although the very
large yields of cotton of former times
may no longer be possible in the re-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
Health and Profit in Icy Bath.

Clad in a bathing suit, Michael j.
Larkins of Lowell, Mass, dived from
a dock into the icy harbor at New
Haven, Conn. A crowd of 1000 people
witnessed the performance. Larking
came up with icicles in his hair and
took up a collection. He secured
about 80. He says he cured himself
of consumption by his cold baths and
is now making a living by performing
his additions in public.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
Five wives Claim Evangelist.

At least FIVE women are said to claim
as husband J. S. McMurray, who is
now in Jail at Scranton, Pa. When
arrested McMurray was acting as a
solo singer for an evangelist. Prior
to that he had been Organist and choir
leader in fashionable Baptist church.
Chief of Police Freeman of Pasadens
Cal, thinks McMurray, who is also
said to go under the name of Rugby,
has a wife in Houston, Tex, Des
MOines Ia, Pasadena, Cal, Virginia
and Canada.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
NOTES OF THE RAILWAYS
Oil Locomotive That Runs 5000
Miles Without a Stop.

Three thousand miles without a stop
and at the rate of 100 miles or more
an hour is the capacity of a new type
of locomotive which has been ordered
by the Southern Pacific railroad, says
a Chicago dispatch.
The locomotive is entirely different
from anything now in use. The cost
Of operating it will be less than one
half the cost of operating the present
type of steam engine. Fuel Gil, cost
ing but or cents a gallon, only will
be used.
The machine is what is known as
the four stroke cycle. There is a com
pressed air reservoir, from which the
power is obtained for starting. This
gives the piston its first stroke, when
it takes in the air at atmospheric pres
sure and temperature. The second
stroke congresses this air and raises it
to a temperature of about 900 degrees
+. The third stroke is what is known
as the working stroke.
The oil is sprayed into the hot air,
the amount being regulated by govern
ors. During the first part Of this stroke
the combustion of the oil is carried on
at a constant pressure for period that
is regulated by the amount of oil spray
ed. The second part of the stroke is
an expansion, with trans
ference Of heat and the fourth stroke
eXhausts the gases.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
Incredible Brutality.

1t would have been incredible brutal
ity if Chas. E. Lemberger of Syracuse.
n. Y, had not-dOne the best he could
for his suffering son. MY boy" he
says, cut fearful cash over his eye,
so [ applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
which quickly healed it and saved his
eye. " Good for burns and ulcers too.
Only 25c at Dawson Drug Co.'S.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29
Has Stood the Test for % Years.

The old original Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic. You know what you are
taking. It's iron and quinine in 2
tasteless form. No cure no pay. SOC
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-03-29

Plans are we'll under way for the
building of another railway between
Birmingham, Ala, and Atlanta, and for
an air line from Birmingham to tide
water at Brunswick, Ga, according to
special dispatch received in New
York from Baltimore. According to the
Manufacturers Record, application has
been made in Georgia for charter for
the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic
Railroad company, which is to build
the long projected extension of the At
lantic and Birmingham railway from
Montgomery, Ga, to Birmingham, with
a connection from Atlanta to the eX
tension at Wedomee, Ala. Birmingham
is the eastern terminus of the st. Louis
and San Francisco road. which is now
part of the Rock Island system.