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A Moorish Soldier.

Christians. s'he policy of his little son,
AbdulAziz, has been much more lib
eral, and from the western view point
more enlightened, and is, sad to relate,
one Of the contributing causes to the
present alarming situation. He recent
ly consented to the request of the con-
sular corps and the shippers that har-
Dor improvements should be under.
taken in Casablanca. Whereupon the
suspicious Kabyles of the adjacent
mountain Businesses rushed down to
the white House" city and killed IL
or 15 Europeans, mostly Spaniards,
who were engaged upon the work.
In making concessions to the Euro
pean spirit of progress and enterprise,
for which his people are not ready, the
unlucky and probably most incapable
young sultan has raised a storm which
may cost him his throne. To-day, If
he stands with his people, he is threat
ened with foreign expedition, while
If he stands by the treaty he runs even
greater and nearer danger at the hands
of the various pretenders to the
throne, by whose activity the sultan's
life has been made very miserable
ever since, or almost ever since. BY a
harem conspiracy and the weakness
Of his father the young prince was
called to the difficult post of ruling
the Moors.
Present Ruler Unpopular.
Abdul Aziz's accession to the throne
was a most unpopular one, and this
fact probably accounts for the fact
that early in his reign he surrounded
himself with foreigners who, with
some exceptions, were not generally
men of high type-rope walkers,
photographers, balloonists. and sleight-
of-hand men were. the representatives
of western civilization who for a long
time appealed most powerfully to the
young sultan's appreciation of our cul-
ture. In view of the rising tide of dis
content and the disaffection even of
the people OF the capital, and the
growing strength of the various reyo-
lutions in progress, in the last year
the sultan has dismissed his star of
foreign adventurers and goes to the
mosque as regularly as his father did
but probably the harm has been
done. In Morocco. as Well as in other
countries, reputation for orthodoxy
is hard to retrieve.
One brother of the unlucky suItan
Mulai Haf1d by name, of whose char
acter and leanings upon the questions
OF the day little is known, has been
formally proclaimed sultan In the
great mosque at Morocco City. An
other brother Hassan. it is said. has
been exercising rights of sovereignty
in the Riff highlands, west of Tetanu
and on the Mediterranean coast for
two years past In the Sus country an
other brother. who bears the name of
Morocco's greatest sultan. MuIai Is
mail IL threatening rebeIlfca with q
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evening breeze began to blow, and the
damp fogs to rise from the grave
yard of so much Christian chivalry:
indeed, our teeth were chattering and
our hearts cold before, in the mystic
light of the rising moon, we rode up
mound in the middle of the battle
field which, according to the local leg
end that may be true, was built out
of the corpses of the Christians who
were slain that day, and was also the
coign Of vantage from which, when
the battle was fought and won, the
Emin OF the Sultan proclaimed the
hour of prayer and of THANKSGIVING.
the greatness of the One God OF
Islam and Of Mohammed his Prophet.
ceded to England.
After this disaster Portugal gradu-
ally withdrew from Morocco, and in
1860 what remained of her conquests
were ceded to England as part of the
dowry Of the Infanta Catherine of Bra
ganza, who became the wife of Charles
II. Another piece OF real estate includ-
ed in the dowry Secause the King of
Portugal was just at that moment
short Of cash was the island OF Bonn
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lance. Churchill served here two
years and then was so fortunate as
to secure a change of garrison to
place where there was not so such
thankless fighting, but the English
government, reluctant as ever to give
up a corner of land that has once
been painted red, hung on to the we'd
ding present of the luckless queen for
a generation. On one occasion the
earl of Teviott, the British governor,
with most of his officers and a large
portion of the garrison, was surprised
by the vigilant Moors, and but few
escaped with their lives. After 20
years of constant warfare, harassed
day and night by a tireless and trucu-
lent enemy, the keepers of John
Bulls treasury counted up the cost,
and shortly after the figures we're
known Tangier was abandoned, and
so the second attempt of the conquest
of Morocco failed.
Spain Had Enough.
In 1859 the Spaniards, under O'Don-
nell, invaded Morocco, bent upon OBJ
tanning satisfaction for undoubted in
Ju11SS al In0 uduQS Ol IdWlSSS s.,
and perhaps with thoughts of perma-
nent conquest if all went well. AS a
matter of fact, nothing went well.
From 10000 to $4,000 men were en-
gagged for two years, with heavy casu-
alties, and even greater losses from
sickness. At the end of the second
campaign, the Sancho Panza in Cas-
lillian politics got the upper hand Of
the Don Quixote, proclaimed honor
satisfied, the terms offered by the
MOors all that could be desired, and
retired in blaze of false glory, out
of which O'Donnell secured a duke
dom and many Spanish regiments un-
pronounceable Moorish names. But
the real results were none
In 1898 the Moors attacked the
Spanish possession of Melilla, and the
Madrid government, if hungry for ad-
venture, had every opportunity, and
even justification, for punitive ex-
pedition, but very wisely did not
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ness men, they paid him large sums to
go away and not restrain trade.
Typical of this same Sultan Mulai
Hassans attitude toward what is
called progress and improvement in
the western world is an anecdote, the
authenticity of which I feel 1 can
vouch for. There were and still are
some dangerous rocks in the harbor
of Rabat, and the owners of the coast
ing steamers engaged in the Morocco
trade were anxious, for obvious rea-
sons, to have them removed. Having
failed to interest the local governor in
the matter, the steamship men got to-
gether ard sent an envoy to FeZ, who
requested that the companies con-
cerned might be allowed to remove
these dangers to commerce at their
own expense.
SuItan's Willy Answer.
Certainly not" was the sultan's
immediate answer, 'the rocks were
put there by God for some good pur-
pose, let no man dare to remove
them
What the sultan doubtless thought
was that foreign men-of-war could get
into the Atlantic ports of his empire
quite easily enough, and at all events
he did not wish to appear in the eyes
of his sullen people as facilitating the
exits and the entrances of the hated
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Industry in Alabama.

Alabama is now producing as much
pig iron as Pennsylvania did a quar-
ter of a century ago. In 1887 the
south made trifie mere than 500, 900
tons. Last year it made $500, 600
tons. The south has about one half
the known iron ores of the United
States A great steel industry has
sprung up in Alabama within the
last ten years. and it is said to pro
duce better steel rails than the
north, and at lower COST
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avail itself of the opportunity. It
has always seemed to me that, thanks
to the travels and researches of the
late Padre Lerchundi and oUners Of
his thorough and deligent school, the
Spaniards understand conditions in
Morocco better than men of other
nationalities. They showed it at Ne
lila ten years ago, and rather think
the commanding officer of the Span
ish contingent in Casablanca is show
ing it To-Day when he refuses to ex-
pose his men outside the city 70 the
furious driving charge Of the Moorish
irregular cavalry
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NAlS2HFN p1re, ana ABOUT opposite
N4 Charleston, rises out of
M|SM% the sea the little port of
%SSS) Casablacca, which is
known as the white
House" port in every language that is
spoken along the coast. 1t is white
and beautiful, if you lie in the offng
of clear night. Like all the rest of
Morocco, and indeed, the Mohamme-
dan world, Casablanca is best seen
5y the pale moonlight, and to wind
ward, writes Stephen Bonsal in the
New York Times.
Nearby salee, at the very name of
which our New England ancestors
who went down to the sea in ships
were wont to shudder, and with good
reason, is now closed by sand bar,
which even the daring Barbary cor
sairs would not dare to cross in their
1ight-drawing feluccas, but the Moor of
the bad country is still a pirate,
though the times have driven him in
land from the seas. Until recently he
preyed upon the passing caravans as
"A century ago he swooped down with
his hawklike galleys upon our be-
rcalmed sailing ships. The Kabyle
horsemen who rush with so much fury
and reckless daring up to the French
batteries and rifle pits, do it not only
because they have a hatred of the
Christian which their church sancti-
fies to a virtue, but because they are
starving to death and want to get at
the men who have taken the bread out
of their mouths.
Held Plains and Passes.
Ten years ago these dashing horse
men, whose gorgeous costumes and be-
jeweled weapons made them most
beautiful if somewhat barbaric OBJ
-jects to behold, were the lords of the
plains and the marshes which lie be-
tween the western Soudan and the
port owns of southwest Morocco. They
were the masters of transportation in
this part of the world, and had to be
reckoned with. If you cared to take a
caravan flight in ostrich feathers, gold
dust, slaves, or salt, they would pro-
tect you or pillage you, whichever was
the most profitable.
Sid Boubkehr, who was and is the
most prominent man in this part Of
the world, used to rebate and cut rates
just like all the other masters of
transportation, and just like you and
1. He would give a caravan protec-
tion at his price or he would pillage
1t to secure the just tolls which were
his, as he never doubted, by the divine
right Of might. Boubkehr and his
colleagues and rivals got all they
could get out of the job without dis
turbing business or destroying val
ues, and would still be doing a profit
able and philanthropic business were
It not for the recent opening up Of
the Western Soudan by the French,
who have diverted to their own in
terests and profit all the former cara
van trade from Morocco down to Tim
buctoo and the Niger. So without
wishing to be unduly alarmist about
the situation of the besieged garri-
sons in Mogador and Casablanca it is
clear that their assailants are not
only fanatics, but hungry fanatics
S who have been quietly put out Of a
most profitable and gentlemanly bust
ness, which permitted them the ex.
travagance of often paying one hun.
dred good dollars for a carbine, which
An New York would have been dear at
twelve
These dashing bordermen were
bound to the imperial government by
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the slenderest of ties; they were
wholly Immersed in their profitable
business operations and IN annexing
to their own households the most
beautiful slaves culled from the pass
ing caravans. When the tax-gatherers
ventuTed into their domains they
buried them alive, but when the late
sultan. Mulai Hassan, who was fight
er. appeared in their neighborhood, be-
ing conservative. clearAeaded bUaf-
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Farmer Dies Riding in Buggy. =
George B. Gloon. a widely known
business man of Franklin county and
for several years merchant at Le-
Ioup, died in a buggy while driving
along tie street at Ottawa. A man
seeing IL. CI~on apparently helpless
II, his burg zhile his horse was just
ssaTting Z, rn caught the animal.
Tesfh baa occurred several minutes
befc-e.
crue ysrtcr Must Pay. = Attcr-
ney Genc~~l Jackson has given an
opinion thar drug ssndsrs zAask pay
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a tax OF $50 annually in the counties
or towns where they propose to sell
their goods. There is law covering
the matter and vigorous protests
have been fled against it. A suit is
expected to test it's constitutions
ity.
Looking After Child Labor The
state labor commissioner OF Kansas
will take more than 1000 children
from the factories of the state, where
they have been employed, on account
Of the violations Of the child labss
laW
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-12

There are difficulties about the nav igat1on of the Missouri river strange to eastern experience. The river sea- son opened April l, when three steam boats started from St Louis for Kan sas City and Omaha. Uncle Sam has been successfully appealed to to take the snags and other Instructions out of the muddy Missouri, and three snag boats are to improve the river between the mouth at St Louis and north to Fort Benton, Mont. Besides clearing out the thousands of snags, the govern ment engineers in charge of the work will make a new survey of the river between St Joseph and Kansas City, which has changed it's channel several times within the last few years. There is much interest in the cities along the way in this new effort to make a difficult river navigation amount to something.
The Newtown bee., 1907-04-12

A beautiful incident of Easter was a ''sunrise serenade' to Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangelist, who now, blind and bedridden, awaits translation in his home on South Oxford street, Brooklyn. It happened to occur to some one at the end of a sunrise service in the Hanson Place Baptist church near by to suggest that the great choir, made up from the choirS of five churches, go around the corner and de- light MT Sankey. Rev Frederick Mills started them with God Will Take Care of You, and then followed "On- ward, Christian Soldiers!' "When the Mists Have Rolled Away" and other hymns which MT Sankey himself had so often sung. The old evangelist was affected to quick tears of joy. After that the singers went a little further along the street and paid the same at tention to Rev Dr T. l.. Cuyler, the veteran of all veterans in the minis terial group of Brooklyn. pr Cuyler gave little talk on the lesson of Eas- ter, telling his hearers that his Chris tian experience was brighter all the time. As to MT Sankey, "why," said Dr Cuyler, "he's in Beulah land now, just waiting to be ushered into the new Jerusalem.
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from Rock Crystal Quartz has been proved to be the best. Paint made from Pure Silex, Pure White Lead and Zinc (1-3 of each by weight) and Pure Raw Linseed Oil, makes the most du- rable paint combination ever manu. factured. For this reason these in- gradients are used in Breinig's Litho- gen Silicate Paint, which when az piled to wood, iron, etc, hardens into a covering of artificial stone and is not liable to crack, chip, peel, or to disin- tegrate; hence it's name,-Lit hoRen or "Stone Former" R. Fl. Beers & Co.,, Newtown, and the O. A. Way Co.,, New Milford, sell this paint
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TOWN TOPICS.
FOR THE SELEcTMEN TO CON-
 SlDER.
BETTER ROADS WANTED.

Long Island City, April 8, 1907. Editor of THE NEwTowN BEE,
 NewtOwn, Conn.,,
 Dear Sir:
 Is it possible to have the re- Sponsible parties repair and regrade the road from BotsfOrd Depot to Gray's Plain school so that it will be fairly decent to drive over? The trucking of wood and ties over said road has simply ruined it for driving and it certainly needs about six inches of fill almost it's entire length; the rocks and stones ought to be removed and the road rounded up, and it ought to be done now. I write you because l do not know who the officers are that have the matter in charge, and know that if you will only agitate the ques- tion of good roads in your valuable and widely read paper the matter will un- doubtedly be:attended to immediately and not left until after the 4th of July.
 l must thank you for the pleasure myself and family have enjoyed on the receipt every week of THE BEE. We are all anxiously waiting for 1t and each one wants it first Very truly yours,-Henry c. Johnson, Gray's Plain, Sandy Hook, Conn.
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fire at the home of J. M. Blackman of the Glen, which would surely have resulted in serious damage had it not been for the proverbial cool-headedness and sang-fro1d of Charles A. Peale, who succeeded in ejecting burning sofa spectacular fre-fghting style. Miss Maud Blackman, while looking for the ever famous hat pin, touched match
 to the fringe and before it was realized
 the whole lounge was in flames. Con- sternation reigned. The next moment
 MT Peale was seen to seize and emb brace the burning sofa, rushing for the open
 as if he were abducting the beautiful princess of fairy tale. The fire was checked, however, after doing but slight damage to the rest of the room.
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The Brookside baseball team of Bridgeport would like to arrange a game with any amateur team in New town or vicinity. The Brooksides can be secured for guarantee of expenses. Address James F. Stone, 36 Edwin street, Bridgeport.
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In brief but pleasant call on o. l.. Camp at Kent Hollow, Saturday,-Mr Camp called to the editors attention the fact that he .had passed several years in Newtown in the family of the late Simeon B Peck. He inquired particularly for David o. Peck, now president of the Newtown Savings bank, with whom he had many a pleas ant time in his younger days. MT Camp is a successful farmer and has a pleasant and attractive home.
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The Farmers Supply & Roofing Go. have made special effort this year, to have large and complete line of field and garden seeds. Their stock is fresh, their seeds true to name, their goods are the best that can be ob- tained. They have them grown ex- cluStvely for their trade. Their trade covers the largest variety of goods to be found in Western Connecticut, and their prices are always low.
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Arthur Beardsley of Zoar, who pur- chased o. B. Gilbert's place in Half Way River, moved his family to their new home, last week. MT and Mrs C.. B. Gilbert have moved into a part of Mrs Horace Bradley'S house in ZUar.
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Thomas O. Murphy of Botsford saw four fine deer in hls lot just nor tn of his house, one day last week. They seemed very tame. MT and Mrs Mur- phy went out to look at them and got within few rods of them before they became frightened and ran away.
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MT and Mrs Sylvester CIarkpf Mon roe were guests,-. Sunday, of MT anc Mrs Albert w. Fairchild.
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Lead and Zinc, alone, in combina- tion with Pure Oil, while admittedly better than Lead and Oil alone, by no means make perfect paint. It is nec- essary that an inert base be added to Lead and Zinc in order to make a paint that will wear well. Of all in
 ert bases, Silex as manufactured by u S
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Edward Conger, ,who is at the Bridge port hospital for treatment, having been kicked in the face by horse, is now improving.
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When in Waterbury trad Ing you can get toothsome dinner at a small price at Calendars Half Dime Lunch on South Main street.
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MT and Mrs Otto Mattegat of Bridge port were guests, Fast day, of Mrs Mattegat' s. .parents,> MT and Mrs John E. Sammis, ST., at BOtsfOrd.
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John Downs of Half Way River and William Hawley of Hawleyville arrived at Hawleyville, last Friday noon, with a car of nice cattle which they pur- chased at Lyme.
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Henry Clay Judd of Bethel drove to Newtown, Sunday afternoon, and called on B. l.. Johnson and other friends MT Foote's father, Ziba Foote, was a native of NewtOWn.
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MT and Mrs Julius Waltersdorf of Bridgeport, who purchased the Burton Sherman place below Botsford, ,are now nicely settled there. w. O. Barlow and family, who lived in the place, have moved into the Wheeler place near Monroe depot.
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George A. Drew and family, former ly of Newtown, who have been living in Nichols for the past year, have moved to Bridgeport, where MT Drew has taken a position
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Rev Father Fox was in New Milford,
 Monday, the guest of Rev Father Cronan. Father Cronan, who has
 been quite i'll with stomach trouble, is lna IGxx
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Mrs Anna Chambers spent Wednes- day and Thursday of last week in Dan- bury.
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The offering taken by the Congrega- tional Sunday school for the famine sufferers in China amounted-tO $l3.3O.
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John Calvin, who has charge of MT Johnson's place in Zoar, is erecting 8 large new poultry building for him. William Thicket is in charge of the work.
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Arthur T. Nettleton, treasurer o1 the Newto Savings bank, passed Sunday in New Milford.
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The guitar which Robert T. Banks sold by ticket was drawn by John Keane of BOtsford.
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Mrs James O'Brien of Zoar was con- fined to her home with the grip, last week.
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Mrs George P. Sanford of Bridgeport was in town, Saturday, looking after her house preparatory to opening it up fOr-the season.
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Miss Angie Wakeman spent last week in Westport, the guest of MT and Mrs Fred B. Hubbell.
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MT and Mrs Charles Wakeley of HuntingtOwn are both i'll, and under pr Gales care. Mrs Wakeley is now almost helpless The neighbors have been very kind, while the selectmen have made arrangements for their comfort and care.
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MT and Mrs s. A. Blackman were in New Milford over Sunday, guests of their son, Dr Claude Blackman.
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T. E. F. Butler of Arastra, Col., formerly of South Britain, in sending postoffice is the highest in the United States. The elevation is 12, 5O7 feet.
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Andrew o. Moore is driving hand some horse, bought of the estate of Clark Jackson in BrOOkfeld.
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ant and worked for William Ruffels, has moved his family to New York state.
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MT and Mrs Ava Bulkley of Bridge port were guests, last week, of MT ano Mrs John E. SammiS at BOtSfOrd.
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MT and Mrs Clifford Stoddard of New Haven were guests, Sunday, of Mrs Stoddard's parents, MT and Mrs Oscar Dikeman.
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MT and Mrs Alonzo Cree of Taunton entertained their granddaughters, Misses Bessie and Berdyth Edmonds, of Plumtrees, Bethel, last week.
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MT and Mrs Winthrop Bassett of Elizabeth Barnum in Dodgingtown.
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George F. Duncombe of Bridgeport spent Sunday at his home here.
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Andrew Smith of Bridgeport ha been the guest of Phillips Morris.
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MT and Mrs Harry Curtis of Bridge port passed Sunday in Berkshire.
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For guns, rifles and sporting goods call on Dan D. Smith, A Fairfield av- enue, Bridgeport, opposite Polls theater.
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J. T. Sheehan has had 8 piazza built on to his residence.
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H. w. Oppe is spending al week in New York City with friends.
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Miss Mildred Baird of Lordship Park Bridgeport, has visited her sister, Mrs John o. Pitzschler.
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MT and Mrs William Terrill, who have been living in half of Mrs Susan Halls house in Sandy Hook, will soon move into the M. o. Bradley place on Gas street. Morris Beers and family, who have occupied the Methodist par sonage for the past year, will move in- to the house vacated by MT Terrill.
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Mrs B. G. Lake passed Saturday in Danbury. ..-..s-s
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Hubbell BrOS., Derby's Famous
 ShOemakerS.

CalIender BrOs.,
 HALF DIME LUNCH RooMs, Iss South Tain St., Waterbury, Ct Try 8 cup of our excellent Coffee. Pastry all home made.
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Mir Shaw, who has lived on Mt Pleas