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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
WESTPORr

Last Thursday the oldest woman in town, Mrs. Carolina Smith Wheeler aged 94 years and 10 month, died She was born in April, 1916, the tuck. Her mother was Sarah Bough- ton of Ridgeftld. Mrs. Wheeler has always lived in town, and was the mother of B. Stern Wheeler of the Saugatuck Manufacturing company. Another son, Robert Wheeler, is em- ployed in the same plant. A daugh- ter, Kate lived at home and took care of her mother. There is also a married daughter. Mrs. Wheeler was an Episcopalian.
 The town meeting is being held this afternoon at the Town Hall. The thorize the selectmen to borrow mon- ey to meet the current expenses; to release John Norval Marchand, a mortgage once held by the town; 10 consider the advisability of disposing of the Town Farm, and purchasing one further removed from the vil- lage; to accept proposition for providing. crushed stone for the re- pair of highways; to adjust the con- troversy between the town and Ar mold Schlaet, and to dispose of the school house in the Last Long Lots >selectmen had but s1,40O with which to pay town bills. This will not last until October. Last year the town borrowed S8,000 on short time notes. Last year the schools cost $16.000 and it is thought they will cost more this year. E. T. Bedford and some others wish the town to allow them to purchase crushed stone and put t on the roads near their homes, but they ask the town to do the carting. While none of these matters are of paramount importance, they excite some local interest.
 The recent meeting of the Musical society was held at the home of Mrs. William l.. Taylor, with Mrs. Fred erick A. Taylor at the piano. She riceiose winning much applause. The vocal soloist was Miss Alice U. Smith of Saugatuck, who possesses a pure sweet voice.
 Wednesday evening next at Holy Trinity church Rev. Earl H. Kenyon. of St. PauPs church, Bridgeport, will be the preacher.
 It is said this town is interested in what is called the Mexican War; since number of residents own shares in the San Pedro Gold Mines Company, amounting to quite few stockholders have never realized more than two dividends. They wouldn't care if the promoters were cleaned out.
 The Civic club still lives and con- tinues to address communications to the public. The last one is quite a long document, ana informs the peo- pIe that if they do not like the club, it's officers, and what it proposes to do. they can join by paying $1 and elect their own officers and run it to suit themselves. It says the prob lem of Sunday closing has been be- fore the people for over a year. There are no black balls in the club and anybody can come in, black CT white. The report is that detectives were in town last Sunday trying to smell out
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
MINISTER WHO SAYS CHURCH
 CATERS TO THE RICH, IS TO SPEAK HERE ON MARCH 26

Within the last few years Connec- ticut witnessed the retirement of two prominent clergymen from the pull pit and their joining the ranks of the Socialist party. The first one was Alexander Irvine of New Haven. He is now considered by many of the Socialists as one of the most gifted orators the party possesses.
 The other is the Rev. DuBois H. Loux of Meriden, whose resignation from the pulpit in that city few weeks ago stirred the state. MT. Loux gave as the reason for his retirement that the church is forced to cater to the rich and is not doing it's proper work. This offended many of the in fluential members of the congregation and they forced him to resign before the date set by himself for his volun- tary retirement
 Dr. Loux will speak here at the Elm pire theatre on March 26. His coming will be the signal for a large audi ence and it Is probable that number of local clergymen will be present to hear what pr. Loux has to say regard ing the relation of the church to the poor people in the 10th century.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
WARNING I'D RAILROAD MEN

Look out for severe and even dam gerous kidney and bladder trouble resulting from years of railroading
 Geo. E. Bell 639 Third St., Fort Wayne, Ind, was many years a con- ductor on the Nickel Plate. He says: .'Twenty years of railroading left my kidneys in terrible condition. There was a continual pain across my back and hips and my kidneys gave me much distress. and the action of my bladder was frequent and most pain ful. I got a supply of Foley Kidney Pills and the first bottle made a won derful improvement and four bottles cured me completely. Since being cured have recommended Foley Kidney Pills to many of my railroad friends" E. B. Brill and Curtis Phar- macy s135
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
GOVERNOR BALDWIN WILL
 BE GUEST OF TEACHERS
Plans Completed For Conven' ton of Eastern Commercial
 Teachers Association

Governor Simeon E. Baldwin will be among the speakers at the banquet of the Eastern Commercial Teachers as- sociation, which will be held in this city on April 13, IA and 15. The ar engagements were completed at a meet ing of the committee Saturday, at which Gov. Baldwin's acceptance was received
 gram, in which seven leading type writer firms have contracted for space.
 These firms will be allowed space in the High school building for an exhibit of their machines and some of the most expert typewriter experts in the country will be present to demonstrate them.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
FIRE CAUSES TIEUP
(Special from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
 Racine, wis, March 13-Thirty fac tories are idle today. interurban and city railway service is at a standstill and over a thousand persons are out of employment as a result of a fire which completely destroyed the cleo tric power plant Of the Milwaukee Light. Heat & Traction Company, en- tailing a loss of $140,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
Charles E. Dickerson
 Makes Hit in NorWalk

Charles F.. Dickerson, we'll known local entertainer, appeared at the 18th annual banquet of the Norwalk Board of Trade, Saturday evening, and for a long space of time won the eager attention and enthusiastic applause of the banqueters.
 The affair took place in the Nor walk hotel, and MT. Dickerson's share in it was greatly appreciated by the assembly. Among those who heartily applauded the Bridgeport man were Congressman E. J. Hill, and James Farrell, the new president of the Sttel trust.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
T. l.. WATSON & co.
SAFETY OF CAPITAL

is the first but not the only thing to consider in making an investment The rate of earnings is important, too. We have paid our depositors regular semi-annual dividends for 51 years.
 Our business IS under the supervi- zion of the Bank Commissioners for .Connecticut. Funds in our care are secured by selected mortgages on Bridgeport and suburban real estate, and on securities specified by law. Deposit any time; interest begins first of each month and dividends are tpayable January 1st and July 1st.
 PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK
 Marble Building
 92l-9a6 MAIN ST., Bridgeport, Conn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
GIRLKILbED BY
 TOBOGGAN SLIDE

Special from United Press) Boston, March 13-Tearing down the framework of their winters tobogsan slide at city play ground, today, with 20 other boys and girls. Catherine McDonough was killed when it fell on her. The others escaped unhurt.
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15

Is visible for many miles, and hum dreds of people came from adjacent cities in Illinois to view and admire 1t. Should this work weather well and preserve it's fine contour and lines, MT. Taft thinks it is probable 1t will mark an era in the erection of statuary in re-enforced concrete.
 On leaving the grove which bordered the roadway climbing the bluffs, the statue appeared in it's majesty on the bank of the river. There was no un- yelling, az Mr. Taft wished the first sight of the monument to be one of It's entire majesty.
 Below. midstream, lies Margaret Full ler's island, sacred to the memory of Madam de Ossoh, the poetess who once lived here. Two miles distant, beyond the oak groves, rise the spires of Oregon. MT. Taft's other works, the Indian "Paducah" in the city of that name in Kentucky and "The Eternal Silence" the Graves monument in Graeeland cemetery, Chicago, have a similar feeling of majesty to that of his latest creation.
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15

present. The rtenographer may be in the next room or the other side of the building, but she hears the words as distinctly as though she were at his elbow and sets them down.
 The detectives got some of the sus- pected men, separately and together, In hotel room, a dictograph was under the sota. A court reporter was at the other end Word for word his nimble fingers recorded every word that was uttered. None but he and the detectives knew.
 Nothing escaped the transmitter- not even the opening or closing of the door-and the stenographer trans- cribed everything which the little in- strument reported to him. This re- port was admitted as evidence by the judge who presided at the trial.
 The inventor of the instrument is K. M. Turner.
 In order to entrap the legislators who were suspected of receiving bribes, Detective Smiley acted as briber on the occasion when the dic- tograph was used, and he and O. O. Walcott, the stenographer, were prin- cipal witnesses for the prosecution.
 The defense objected strenuousIy to Wolcott's evidence being admitted, but the court ruled that 1t was cor roborative of the direct evidence and was admissible.
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15

meaning and distinction which it never had had before, daily expert ence in the practical side of his work was ever more and more impressing upon him the sovran fact of his pro fession that "the. proud mission of the physician is distinctly twofold, name ly, to alleviate human suffering as well as to preserve human life"
 To a man of Simpsons sensitive na- ture, this truth made a constant ap- peal And yet how little. hitherto, had the profession been able to do to realize it, especially in relation to the department to which his life-work was now directed, and where some realiza- ton of 1t was, perhaps, most of all to be desiredl To nobody, therefore, was the first whisper of the good news of the discovery of an anaesthetic that could relieve suffering more welcome that to Professor Simpson.
 The year 1S46 is the date of the discovery of the fact that ''by inhal- ing sulphuric ether"-(the genesis of chloroform)-"the generality of indi- viduals may be rendered insensible to pam. HE 0AoCONCly Wd6 undQC ny Dr. Morton of Boston. News of the discovery which, so far, however, had only been applied in America to den tai surgery, very soon reached Eng land. where its merits were eagerly discussed. Its great value was imme- diately proven by various experiments, Simpson among others estimating 1t highly, and, as ikely-when applied to other departments of surgery and when certain elements of danger to life were eliminated from the specific ito become an anodyne of wonderful efficacy. How far and in what precise form 1t could be made SO was the problem that Simpson at once set to work upon. and for this undertaking he was probably one of the best equipped medicos at the time in Great Britain
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
TOWN NAMED TAFT
Only Three Residents in This
 Indiana Burg.
sI. nal Tower That Is On the Map and Has Politicians As Neigh bors-TeIegraph Operators
 Total Population.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Prssident Taft on his recent trip to this city passed through or rather by Taft. Ind, for the first time. He, however, prob ably did not know it unless he was reminded of it.
 There was only one inhabitant of Taft out of bed the night President Taft whizzed by the original station of Taft That one inhabitant was c. A. Newlin, telegraph operator, who had out a green light, which meant a clear track for the President.
 The President, in all his travels. had never before been through Taft. Ind While conducting his presi- dential campaign he visited Anderson one October evening, going in from the east, and was then routed by way of Nashville to Indianapolis. His re- cent trip was the first time the Presi- dent has ever travelled over the Big Four railroad between Anderson and Indianapolis. and hat is why he al- ways missed Taft, Ind
 This Taft, Ind, is not a joke or a creation since William H. Taft be- came President The place or station was named while Mir Taft was a resi- dent of Cincinnati and preparing to go to the Philippines as governor of the islands. Some one in the general offices of the Big Four soon after the Spanish-American war, when it became necessary to give names to new towers for interlocking signals and other devices for safety along the Big Four railroad between Anderson and Indianapolis. chose names of per sons and ships then in the public eye. First one tower was named Taft. Then one between Pendelton and h. gals was named after one of Dewey's good ships of war. Raleigh Dickey Wainwright, who had not then be- come rear admiral. but was making history while fighting the Spanish, :, was honored with the name of a tow CT at the southwest corner of Ander- son Wainwright and Taft are next
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
DIcToGRAPH AS A DEFECTIVE
an Important Part in the Ohio Bribery Trial.

Columbus, O.-In the trial of Rodney J. Diegle, ergeant-at-arms of the Ohio state senate. convicted of aiding and abetting the alleged bribing of state senator. the state relied on a me chanical device, the dictograph, high ly sensitized telephone. for it's strong est evidence.
 The dictograph transmitter was se created in detectives room in ho- tel and court stenographer in anoth- CT room, reported the conversation in which it was alleged bribes were of fered and accepted.
 For the first time in the history of detective work this curious machine was used.
 A dictograph consists of series of sensitive metal plates set in a hard rubber cylinder In it's clements 1t Is telephone transmitter magnified. Used in a business way 1t enables man to sit at his desk in his private office alone and talk of his correspond ence without the stenographer being
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
PIGEON CAMERA THE LATEST
Instrument Attached to Breast of the Bird Takes Pictures While Lat
 ter Is in Flight.

Berlin.-The pigeon camera is the latest. Dr. Neubronner is a German specialist who ha- sanitarsSm a few miles from his home. Several months ago he obtained a number of carrier pigeons by the use of which he was able to carry on concentrations be- tween the house and Che office. With the coming of the warm weather some of his messengers played hockey" the messages were undeliv- cred and, try as hard as he would. the doctor was unable to find out where the birds passed their idle moments.
 Then he invented small and deli cate photographic apparatus which he
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
MARKS MISSOURI SEA LEVELS
The United States Geological Survey Has Recently Completed Work
 In the State.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The United States geological survey, working in conjunction with the surveyors of the state of Missouri. have been establish ing the levels in this state and plac- ing tablets or bench marks" in many places. These markers show the height of that point above the sea level.
 These bench marks are of two forms. One is a circular bronze or aluminium table three and one-half inches in diameter and one-fourth inch thick, having a 3-inch stem which is cemented in a drill hole in solid rock in the wall of some public build ing, bridge abutment or other sub- stantial masonry structure or in the solid rock
 The second form to be set in the ground where there is no rock or ma sorry. consists of a hollow wrought iron post four feet long. A bronze or aluminium table is riveted over the top
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15

door neighbors as towers. At the east end of the Big Four yards in Anderson another tower was named Gridley.
 It is well known that the first town west of Pendleton is Ingalls,, named after M E. Ingalls,, but that was be- fore Taft was named. J. Q. VanWin- kle, formerly of Anderson, was gen eral superintendent of the Big Four road at that time and 1t has always been surmised that MT. VanWinkle named the towns Taft, Gridley and Ra-eigh.
 Taft, Ind, is on the official rail road map as issued by the Indiana railroad commission. Taft is import ant to the Big Four road. It is a guard, sentry against any danger of collision of trains or loss of time ir switching and passing.
 Taft is a twenty-four-hour place, that is, it is never depopulated. Three telegraph operators work eight-hour shifts. s. D. Solomon has the first trick" from 12 m to a. m. J. w. Stephens takes the second trick" as they call 1t, from 8 a. n. to D. m- and c. A Newlin from 4 p. m- to 12 M. W. Hummel. repair man for the tower interlocking switches and semaphore signals in the vicinity of Anderson, Is an occasional visitor to Taft. Ind. MT. Stephens and MT. Hummel were at Taft when a core spondent visited Taft. Ind. for pic ture of the place.
 Jerome Brown, former county com missioner, and Dory Riddle, who quit newspaper editing to turn farmer, are among the nearest residents of Taft. Brown .s Republican and Riddle is a Democrat. Sid Conger visited Taft frequentIy while he owned a farm that adjoins Taft He recently sold tho farm to Carl von flake. of the Marion county board of commission CTS. Former Governor W. T Durbin owned the farm before Conger bought it. SO there has been more or less oi an atmosphere of politics about Taft ever since it was established
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
BLACK HAWK STATUE
Lorado Taft's Monument to
 Vanishing Race.
Red Man, Towering Over Valley Long Indians Sole Property, Seems Leaving the Site Reluctantly
 Made of Concrete.

Oregon, Ill.-With impressive cere- monies the statue of the famous Indian chief Black Hawk was dedicated at Eagle Nest camp, the summer colony of Chicago artists and writers, near here. The statue of the great chief tain is the work of Lorado Taft and stands on a 20O-foot bluff across the river from the town and just outside the limits of the camp. Among the members of the party at the dedica- tion were some of the best known of Chicago's artists, sculptors and writer's Edgar A. Bancroft was the principal speaker and presented the statue to the people of Illinois. Responses were made by Dr. Charles c. Eastman and Miss Laura M Cornelius.
 The statue of Black Hawk occupies a position on the highest point in Rock river valley. It is mammoth in size-being 47 feet high-and repre- sents the work of four years. It is built of concrete and is expected to be a permanent monument to the red men who once roamed this section. The facial lineaments are of Black Hawk, but the sculptor's idea was to make the statue typical of the vanishing North American Indians.
 The figure of Black Hawk is repre- sented girt in blanket, reluctantly leaving the valley which served his tribe as council grounds long before the white man came to this continent
 This remarkable statue. which is made of re-enforced concrete by new process, is itself imposing, and has been placed upon rock 200 feet above the water, the highest point in the pie turesque Rock river valley. The statue
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
oId Church aa caraaa.

Long Hill. Conn.-The old white First Methodist church building, steeple and all. for many years used as a place of worship and the first church built in the town of Trumbull, has given away to the progress of the times and garage. The edifce. which stands almost in the center of the vil- Iage, has long been a landmark. The steepIe will be retained. the galleries will be made into waiting rooms for women and the pulpit and platform Q show place for accessories.
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15

V the long and notable list of dis
 coverers in the domain of medical
 science-those who have done
 much to reduce the sum of human
 suffering during the past fifty or sixty years-there are two outstand- ing names that will always command a special measure of the gratitude of the world, namely, Sir James Young Simpson for his achievement in the field of anaesthetics, and Lord Lister for the successful application of his system of antiseptics to surgery. More, perhaps, than any others in century of medical advance along various lines, both discoverers have practically revolutionized the old med ical formulae and made obsolete for ever the ancient dictum that physical pain was an absolutely necessary part of the human lot, to be borne as best it may, and, in the pathetic phrase of Robert Burns, without remeid," It is, however, with Simpson that we are mainly concerned at present, since the centenary of his birth has recent ly occurred This took place at Bath gate, Scotland, an unpretentious town between Edinburgh and Glasgow. His parents, David Simpson and Mary Jarvey, were. if in a humble way of life, of excellent report, and both were descended from goodly stock.
 Having graduated at Edinburgh uni versity with much distinction when but a mere lad. young Simpson was at the time of the discovery of anaes- thetics in his thirty-ffth year, and al ready occupied the chair of midwifery. Prior to this, however, he had given evidence of the possession of a dar- ing and original mind bent anxiously towards new departments of medical science.
 ng to the theme of his chair a new
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15

with the guests. were more detectives and men from safety vault company in New York, who were to transport the gifts to Manhattan. Following is a partial list of the gifts:
 Pair tortoise shell opera glasses. studded with diamonds, $5,000.
 Onyx clock and candlesticks trim med with solid gold, $1.500.
 Solid gold inkstand with diamond clasp. s2.5OO.
 Complete silver table service from the I. T. Burdens, $35,000.
 Two dozen butter plates, $200.
 Four solid gold candlesticks, $500. Two solid gold candelabra. $25O.
 Solid gold after-dinner coffee set, $500.
 Silver salad bowl, $100.
 Two solid silver compotiers, $500. Check from Dennis Sheedy, $10O.- 900.
 String of pearls from mother and father of bride, $50.000.
 Foreign touring car from father oi bride. $10,OO0.
 Two dozen Dresden plates, $500. Silver tea service. $500.
 Silver tray, $250.
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
QUEBEC BRIDGE IS BIGGEST
Time of Construction Shows Advance In Engineering Since Brooklyn
 Bridge Was Built.

Quebec, Ont.-The new bridge across the St. Lawrence river near here supplants the mighty structure that fell when half finished in the summer of 1907 The site of the new bridge is the same but the north pier is moved out 50 feet further into the river. thus apprsciably shortening the central spcn The new bridge contains 130.000.C30 pounds of steel. as com pared with the 1O0.00O.O0O of its pred ecegsor. It will cost when completed not less than $12.000,0O0. and will have the longest truss span of any bridge in the world-1,S00 feet, or 90 feet more than that of the great Firth of Forth bridge in Scotland.
 The construction of this bridge, which has taken two and half years. is an impressive, indication of the progress of mechanical and civil en- gineering since the Brooklyn bridge was opened to traffic, May 24, 1888. The latter required 131k years to erect, and to date has cost over $22,- 0.0Oo, of $10.OOO,0O0 more than the prospective cost of the new Canadian giant
 The iengta of the river span of the Brooklyn bridge Is 1,600 feet-200 fee. less than that of the bridge at Quebec. Of the other bridges across the East river the Manhattan has river span of 1.47O feet; the Williams burg bridge has . span of 200 feet shorter than that over the St Law renee: the longest span of the Queens. boro bridge is 1.200 feet.
The Holbrook news., 1911-09-15
PRESENTS TOTAL A MILLIoF
Many Costly Gifts Are Lavished or Denver Bride of New York
 Society Man.

Denver. Colo.-Florence Sheedy, youngest daughter of Dennis Sheedy, millionaire mine owner and merchant, of Denver, recently became the bride of I. Townsend Burden, of New York. No wedding in Denver in years has attracted as much attention as this ceremony. The bridal gifts. which came from all over the world, aggre- gate in value $1.000.000.
 Glittering baubles by hundreds lay on tables in the drawing room of the Sheedy mansion. Outside force of Pinkerton detectives kept watch. In the rooms of the big house, mingled