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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
DOLLAR DINNER FOR S. A. R.

General Sflliman Branch, Connec- ticut Society, Sons of the American Revolution, will give Q dollar dinner ts it's members at the Str;lt1e1d t.s- 1norrow nik lit large number of tickets have been scld and large attendance is expected
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
ROLFONIANS SCORE WITH THRONG OF
 FIRST NIGHTERS
Capital Musical Production Heads Enjoy.
 abe Bill at POIi's.

Seldom has there been a bill offered at Polls more generally satisfactory than that holding forth at the popular vaudeville house this week. headed by the splendid musical production, .'The RoIfonians.'' The bill includes plenty of novelty and each act has individual merit. The Rolfonians were given an exceptionally warm welcome by the first mig ghterS, who thrOnged the thea tre in the usual large proportions.
 B. A. Rolfe, producer of many vau- deville acts. has fathered the Rolfon- ians which promises to be one of his best efforts. He himself is featured. The vaudeville patrons who few weeks ago saw MT. Rolfe presiding as orchestra leader during the perform ance of his act, 1.-The Leading Lady did not suspect he possessed musical genius such as he displayed. last nisht in his cornet solos, The Rolfon1anS singers who appear in a stage setting representing an afternoon garden party. The music is both vocal and instrumental and covers a wide range each number came in for it's individual share of applause.
 Bert Levy. a newspaper artist. fn- troduces a brand new phase of sketch ing. Through an apparatus invented by himself, he outlines his work upon smoked glass and the the reflection was exceptionally demonstrative.
 The return of Byers & Hermann, grotesque acrobats. was another wei come feature of the bill.
 Pringle & Whiting. familiar favor ftes, presented new act of refreshing novelty. Writings clever comedy and Pringle's splendid vocal efforts com bined to form one of vaudeville's most pleasing offerings. They have kept to the front in the advancement of vau- devi1le, accomplishing results without appeal to the slapstiek= variety of hu- nor.
 Jane Beynton and Fan Burke, an at- tractive pair of pretty girls. appear ia a double pianologue with comedy and dialogue interspersed.
 John Harvey. Helen Case & Co.,, with their cowpun chers' quartette, were well received in a musical comedy. Holly and the Boys
 The Lessos with new stunts of com edy Juggling opened the program.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
GEORGE EVANS HAS
 FEM HOLLERING AT
 HIS MINSTREL SHOW
The HOsey Boy and His Black Face
 Troupe Del ght Jackson Patrons

George Evans, the inInitabIe Honey Boy'', and his own troupe of minstre S., formerly the Cohan & Harris min strels, delighted a small audience at Jackson's last evening. Included in Evans staff of burnt cork troubadours were John King, Earl Benham, Vaughan Comfort. John P. Rogers, Sam Lee. Clarence Marks. Will Oak land, Arthur Alexander. Tom Scout, and many others.
 The song hits included ''The Hat My Father Wore, Put Your Old Gray Bonnett' Casey Jones', and When You and I Were Young" The play was elaborately mounted and in troduced many novelties of scenery and costume. The conventional first part took place in a scene called ''The Crimson TrelIis". A Sunny South scene by moonlight, a scene of Manila with military manoeuvres, and the finale, George M. Cohan's famous afterpiece, The Ffremen's Picnic. in a country fairground setting added to the bag gage expenses of the big organfza- ton.
 With his accustomed success, George Evans kept his auditors convulsed with laughter during his half hour of monologue. Speaking of a dry Sun day in Derby. George said one of the natives told him Derby was so dry that frogs five years old hadn't yet learned to swim. He was featured with Alexander Scott, the latter ap- bearing as a dashing wench, in t'The Firemen'S Picnic.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
IN THE THEATRES

European vaudeville theatres. was re- naarkable in every respect but partlc- ing. as this country is now doing, a surfeit of dfaphanously clad dancers, and other equally salacious entertain ments. The offering presented by this clever young lady was so exQuisitely bea autifu1 and so unlike those present. ed by her the preceding terpsichorean artists that she won immediate and continued favor. Miss Mantillo will be seen at Jackson's Theatre the last four days of this week. and she is sure to prove one of the seasons most important headliners. Included on the bill will also be found the follow ing we'll known acts: Sterling & Chap man, two unusually sweet singers who render Scotch ballads in a most orig ney, an ininitabIe story teller. with a most amusing line of talk: and MT. and Mrs. Ernest Roland in their new usual three reels of new and interest ing pictures will be shown.
 Mrs. E. J. O,Nei!l. the well known gagged for St. Patrieks Day. and will present a most attractive program of popular Irish airs.
 The attendance at the evening per- formances at this theatre have been tremendously large of late in fact it has been practically impossible to pro- cure seats after 7:45 Naturally there are a number of lovers of this form of entertainment who are unable to reach the theatre at that early hour but who would be regular bizweekly at tendants were there some way of ob- taining reserved sittings in advance. The request for reserved seats have been so many and so insistent that in deferen e to the demands of thou sands of his patrons Manager Jackson has finally concluded to reserve a sma'1 block of seats in the front of the thea tre, for which nominal added fee will be asked. This plan will go into effect immediately and seats can now be obtained at the box office for the engagement of vaudeville the last part of this week. There will be but 200 seats reserved. while the remainder of the house. Including over 2OD0 seats, will as heretofore remain at the orig inal little price
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
REUNIONS OF COUPLES
 WEDDED 50 YEARS
MT. and Mrs. Joseph B. Curtis Receive Assisted by Mir. and Mrs. Lewis
 Burritt of StratfOrd.

Put on your old gray bonnet
 With the blue ribbons on it
 And we'll hitch old Dobbin to the shay Through the fields of clover
 We'll drive up to Dover
 On our golden wedding day.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph B. Curtis cele- brated their 50th wedding anniversary yesterday. They were assisted in re- ceiVing by MT. and Mrs. Lewis Burritt of Stratford. at whose wedding a. half century ago they. were bridesmaid and best man. There were present three of four persons who had been wit nssses of the wedding of MT. and Mrs Curtis. These were Mrs Eliza Hub bell. James HubbelI and Mrs. R. D. Dorman all of Stratford.
 The Curtis home at 125 Clarence street was thronged throughout the day ana evening. The welded pair were the recipients of many handsome gifts. MT. Curtis exhibited the we'd ding clothes worn by Henry J. Curtis his grandfather. who was married in ITS. MT. Curtis is native of Strat- ford. Mrs. Curtis was born in Hunt ingtcn n. and was married in that town. They have one child, Mrs. A. L. Tracey. MT. Curtis has spent 49 years of his married life in this city. He was formerly a builder. but has been for some years retired.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
JACKsoN'S
.suNpnR souTHRRN sKIEs


 There Is the gay spirit of Halloween n "Under Southern Skies. which will be the attraction at Jackson's Theatre this evening, with an excellent com of the pretty idyll. now as famous as Way Down East.'' Under Southern Skies Is by Lottie Blair Parker. of ssway Down East fame. It is as essentially a geographical play as ssWay Down East''. and succeeds in staging local color and Southern life in really charming and unhackneyed
 s.ITnder Southern Skies is love story. downright and wholesome; with youth ard gaiety, humor and pathos, of Southern life. all set to the telling of how Leila Crofton was wooed by two youths. one who wished for her happiness. and another who wished for his own selfish ends and forced her to an unhappy bridal The story is la d in Southern Louisiana during 1875. and the scenery is true to the last detail of picturesque plantation life. The stately wide verandahed colonial man. sion of Major Crofton. in the first and fourth. acts, is an accurate presene@@ tion of an old Hal1owe en party: and the wedding in the next act reveals the completing possibilities of hospi- tality and good cheer found in these mansions of the old regime. The Halloween party before mentioned, with it's magic and mystery of witches. candles and mirrors, made to frame true lovers ElSSeS, It's JacR-O-lanIeIIl Il quadr5lle in the freight. and the in troduction of the jubilee singers. are great features of the production. the old Southern melodies and jubilee songs lending the real plantation lit to the occasion. Special low prices will prevail. While the sale of seats has been very large there is yet to be sold a number of good seats.
 
 JAcKsON's VAUDEVILLE. The unquestionable hit scored by Miss Rosita Mantilio, one of the worlds greatest classical dancers, dur Hag her triumphal tour of the leading
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
THE AMERICAN IDEA.
Conan 8 Harris Musical Comed
 Booked For Here Next April.

In order that they may attend the annual New England convention of Springfield next June, the Bridgeport council of the order is going to pre- sent Conan & Harris big musical Jackson Theatre, on Monday night, April II. Trixie Friganza is leading lady and is supported by a company of 65 people.
 The Commercial Travellers made a king strike when they succeeded in landing this big musical hit, and there is no doubting the big success of the good way of proving the banner
 house. of the year, notwithstanding
 the tremendous crowds of Mile. Ge- nee or the ''Follies'' and the commit
 tee of the local council is to be con gratu1ated on it's good luck. This com
 rnittee comprises F. W. Copeland. c.
 D. A. Thompson. T. M. Adams and F.
 The Bridgeport council numbers 30
 members. By convention tine., June g, 10 and Il, it will contain 90 members.
 Springfield convention. The local council wants to go in style. wearing a distinctive insigna and accompanied
 by the Wheeler & Wilson band. IT. order that this may come about, | it is necessary to raise funds, and F-The American Idea' is the result. Though it Is not yet, decided posi- 1 lively. an effort may be made by Bridgeport council to land the 1911 New England convention for the Park City. It would mean a big undertak- ing in the way of entertainment. and New Haven council would probably
 join hands with the local council. Last
 year the Springfield board of trade
 gave 1.50o toward the fund for enter taining for this years convention, while in 1907 fund of $7.5eo was spent in entertaining at the Boston conyen- ton. It is expected that nearly one half of the 7.5G0 members of the order in the New England states will at tend this years session. There are 60. .000 members in the 800 councils of the country.
 The officers of the Bridgeport coun- Gil, No. e6e are follows: Senior coun- selor T. M. Adams: Junior counselor.
 B. L. W. Burgess; Past counselor. c.
 E. A. Thompson; Secretary and trea-
 surer Oliver G. Righter; Conductor, F.
 G. Funkie; Page. c. J. Whftten; Sen init tee, Lewis Smith, H. c. Freshour, F. J. Cooney and W. T. Probert. Tickets for tThe American Idea'' were given out at the meeting of the council Saturday night. They will be exchanged one day before the regular sale at the box office.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
OIL PROPERTIES
 BRING TWO MILLION
(special from United Press.)

Bradford. Pa. March 15.--Negotia- tfons for the sale of large oil proper ties on the Ossage reservation in Ok 1ahofna in which number of western New York and Pennsylvania men are interested have been closed, accord ing to dispatch received here today The consideration was $20O0,000. The formal transfer of the property will occur at Pittsburg April TO-
 The companies whose holdings are thus disposed of are: The American Oil & Gas Company; the National Oil & Gas Company; the Western 6 Sen eca Oil Company; the froquois Oil &
 The property comprises 2s.oOo acres of leased land with a daily production of four thousand barrels of oil
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
PROVED HIS ALlBI
Yale News Showed Russian Pa.riot Lee. tured in New Haven at Time
 of PlOt.

New Haven, March 15.-Eriends of Nicholas Tchaikovsky, the Russian revolutionist, have sent cablegrams stating that he secured his release at bis trial last week through evidence placed before the Russian Govern ment by The Yale Daily News.
 The chief charge against him was that he was concerned in a conspiracy against the Russian Government, matched out on Feb. IS, 1907. The defense was an alibi. Tchaikovsky declared that he was in New Haven that night delivering a lecture at Yale on Student Life in Russia
 Copies of The Yale Daily News con taining an account of his lecture were sent to Russia, and when placed in evidence at the trial tablished the alibi.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
M1ss DowILNgs DISPLAY.

Miss Julia I. Bowling announces that the spring millinery opening will occur Wednesday. Thursday md Fri day of this week. All the latest ideas will be shown at her rooms. 100-l02 Meigs building.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15

GoTTLIEB-GORMA co are ready with their millinery display which lasts until Friday All are in vited to inspect the display which comprises all the latest ideas and crea- lions
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
BICYCLE S.UNT TOO MUCH
 FOR THE REAR ADMIRAL

Washington, March 15.-Because he could not walk 50 miles in three days or perform an equally strenuous stunt Nalzro will be retired, according to or ders published by the Navy Depart rent today He is the first naval of ficer of high rank to fall victim 10 the new regulations prescribing phy- sical tests
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
BREACH OF PROMISE
Woman of 60 Sues Man If 65 For Dam.
 ages of S7.O0O.

Greenwich, March 15.-Papers have been filed in Port Chester in breach of promise suit by Maria Ross, aged 60 years, against John Massar, aged 65. The sum which Miss Ross de- rnands is $2,O00. Attorney Benjamin Taylor mas been engage0 by the plain tiff and Councelor William Baunch will represent the defendant.
 MT. Baunch will not yet make known what the defense will be. MT. Massar has been a resident of Port Chester for many years, and is well to do. Miss Ross is not poor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
Children Cry
 FOR FLETCHER'S c A s T c RIA
FINE DEER KILLED

Thomaston. March 15.-As the shop people were going to dinner yesterday y woods close to Randall T. Andrews house. jumped over a fence and ran across the street. On the opposite side was wire fence which it evident ly did not see. as it ran it's head in one of the square loops with great force.
 In plunging around to extricate it. self the animal broke it's neck The deer. a. fine specimen. had recently shed it's antlers. The carcass weighed about 200 rounds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15

FRANK ELS aM ILLINERY OPE1N1ING
 New goods, newly redecorated store, latest novelties. most artistic patterns and desigs, these are a few of the many attractive offerings that Fran ke1's millinery. 11S5 Main street. offer the ladies of Bridgeport for their 1910 spring display dayS which are We'd nesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. The stock as well as the store fixtures were completely ruined dur ing the fire of a few weeks ago and the store has been closed during alter ations, but will be opened Wednesday when all are invited to call and in- spect the new goods and the renod- eled store on which many dollars have been spent.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
rUBLIC OYSTER HEARING TO BE HELD FRIDAY AT
 SOUTH NORWAIK.

Hartford, March 15.-The State Soard of Equalization, acting as a commission to investigate the oyster properties, will hold a public hearing at South Norwalk, on Friday, March Is, 1910, at 2 o'clock D. m., at the South Norwalk Club rooms, Wash which it invites owners of oyster properties and natural growt thers in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15
DROWNING VICTIM
 COBBLER SAUNDERS

Identification was effected at the morgue of Rourke & Rourke late this afternoon of the drowning v1c- tim who died in St. Vincent's hos pital late last night as a cobbler, Ss unders by name. Little has yet heen learned of his place of employ ment or his family relations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-15

this state to be present, to give their views relative to the conditions pre- vailing in the protection and taxa ton of such properties; the produc- tion thereof and revenue therefrom; the present policy of the state to- eS therein.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-03-23
The Cutters.

The world has little use for gutter
1.-THE fellow who starts and backs out
because the creek is up; the fellow who
starts to trim the hedge, blisters his
hands and decides to let it go until
spring: the boy who goes racing through
his school books until he strikes parti-
ciples and compound fractions, then
wants to quit school 10 get job; the
girl who starts out TO be great musi-
clan and learns just enough to play rag
time to beguile the fancies of some
young saphead.
There is big family Of the cutters,
but they are sorry lot They never
want job that takes time and patience.
With the qualifications of bill poster
they would like to earn the salary of
railroad President. Their ideal is job
that requires two hours of easy labor each
day, with Saturdays and holidays off.
You will find them scattered up and
down the road of human failure, turning
back from the handle of the pillow, COM
planning of their lot and of the world.
They are clogs in the wheels, broken rails
on the road, time killers, patience killers,
forever wanting what they have not.
The people who accomplish things in
this world are those who qualify them
selves in spite of bad crops, high water
and measles, who hang onto their work
until failure turns TO victory; whose
courage rises as difficulties thicken, and |
whose faces are forever turned toward !
therising sun. 1t was not bad plan, |
that of the Indians finging their boys
into the river, where they had to swim
or drown. The best thing any parent
can do for his child is to compel him to
finish what he undertakes Keep him
at it, no matter how much he cries and |
objects; make him do the thing he has
started to do. And the best thing any
boy or girl can do is to do this very thing
being made to do it. Success
is good deal like habit. There is not
much difference between failure and
success. One quits and the other does
not.-Spare Moments.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-03-23
Stock Notes


Oscar Bonita, Of Boyle county, and
| GilesHawkins. of Burgin. sold 1900 acres
of timber land in Casey county at 1925
per acre.
The l55 fine Jersey cattle recently
shipped from England for ]. B. Hag-
gins Elmendorf farm are expected at
Lexington soon. A new dairy barn is
being built at Elmendorf to house 400
COWS.
At Boston. Mass, four tons of cold
storage eggs were confscated by a
Government food inspector, and after
receiving treatment of carbolic acid
they win be sold to tanning establish
ments.
As result of the extreme cold
weather during the closing week of
February, farmers lost many sheep and
lambs. Aged ewes died in large num-
bers, one prominent Bourbon farmer
who had flock of more than one thou
sand sheep lost 81 ewes.
A number of valuable papers bearing
on the tobacco situation were stolen
from the residence of Congressman ].
Campbell Cantrill in Georgetown last
Friday. The burglar described as a
well dressed man, fired couple of shots
at Jack Payne nephew OF Cantrill.
who interrupted him. Neither shot took
effect
Farms of the United States, with
their buildings, implements and live
stock are today worth almost 100000
900, 900. No such increase in agriculture
al values was ever before known in the
history of the world in any country
The farm product of the year just clos
ed was worth almost four times as
much as the product of 1899.
The cattle called Holsteins in Ameri-
Ca are all defendants of or direct i'm
portations from Holland. The antiquity |
of the breed is so great that history re-
cords no peorid when the shores of the
North Sea and its inflowing rivers were
not noted for their great black and
white cattle. The pedigree of these
cattle dates back over 1000 years.
They decended from the cattle of the
Frieslanders who. several hundred years
before Christ, inhabited the country
north of the rivers WAL and the Rhine.
The pupils of the public schools of
Fayette county have organized corn
club, the object of which is to study
the scientific cultivation of corn. The
club is under the patronage of county
school officials and prize of S25 will
be given to the club member who grows
the most corn on acre of ground dur
ing the coming season. Select seed
corn will be distributed among the
members of the club in due time, the !
methods of seed selection, testing, ger
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-03-23

mination, cultivation and all other es-
sentials to a high class crop will be
fully explained by Prof. George Rob
erts, who win deliver lectures before
the club on the subject Of corn culture
at intervals during the season.
DR.. Knapp said there were three
factors undertaking successful farming
as to crops. First: "A better seed bed.
Second: Better seed. Third: Better
cultivation. A better seed bed means
deeper and more thorough ploughing
and working In the case of grass land
turning up on edge of the turf and a
deep working to IL to 10 inches of the
soil with the disc pillow. A better seed
means care in selection and curing
means the establishment of a breeding
plot and the raising by the farmer of
his own pure bred seed. Better Guilt
walton means not deep cultivation
which will cut off many OF the feeding
roots of the plant but shallow and
frequent cultivption which shall pre-
vent evaporation of water and destroy
weeds. Shallow blowing and deep
cultivation are two conditions of a poor
cron
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-03-23
Must Be On Time.

Among every 100 men who become
firemen only IL are ever made engi-
neers," says Warren s. Stone, chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, one of the most powerful labor
organizations in the world. ''Out of
every 100 engineers only ever get pas
senger rurs. The next time you see a
white-haired man in the cab of a big
passenger locomotive don't wonder at
all at his white hair, but make up your
mind that he has the goods or he
wouldn't be there. 1t is a case of the
selection and survival of the fittest 1t
takes nerve to run the fast trains these
days for you sit at your throttle tearing
across the country at the rate of more
than mile minute and if any one of
a dozen people down to the man who
spiked down the rail, has made a mis-
take YOU ride to certain death. -
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-03-23
Kentuckians Moving to
Missouri.

A St. Louis special says: During the
last few months about one hundred fam
families from Kentucky have moved to
Northwest Missouri to take up the culta-
walton of tobacco. About two years ago
extensive experiments proved that this
section is adapted to tobacco culture
Last year 100000 pounds of tobacco
were raised in Platte county and about
COO. 900 pounds in Clay county. During
the year thousands of acres of tobacco
will be cultivated and Kentucky families
are moving here to teach the native far
mers the best method of culture. AT
present Weston, Mo-. is the center of to-
bacco business. Hundreds of tobacco
barns are being built and many farmers
are growing five to ten acres.