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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03

The Woman's Aid society will hold
it's regular meeting tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. in the chapel of the
Congregational church.
The official board of the Methodist
church held a business meeting last
night.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Meth
odist church has just held a meeting
for the annual election of officers.
This society, like similar ones con-
nected with other churches, is an i'm
portant factor in raising the funds
with which to maintain public wor-
ship.
At the meeting today in Waterbury
Of the Great Council of Red Men, the
citizens of this town take more than
a usual interest from the fact that
George A. F'airchild of King street,
is a candidate for the office of Great
Junior Sycamore.
Half a dozen new telephones have
recently been placed in private houses.
Monday afternoon Mrs. David l..
Rhoades and Mrs. Frank Patterson,
entertained the Afternoon Bridge club.
At the whist given at odd Fellows
hall on Monday evening, refreshments
were served and Is prizes won.
1t was said, as a joke, at the late
minstrel show that there is an EN-
broidery club on every street in town.
One Of these known as the Saturday
AIIeTnOOn, went on LHdL Qdy TO New
Haven to be entertained by Mrs. How
ard Franklin.
Devon is expecting to have a new
school house which will cost $500.
Z Miss Amy Talbot has arrived from
California
Charles B. Curtis has been suffer-
ing from an attack of gastritis.
There is a proposition before the
people to have garbage collectors
come around once week or more, re-
moving whatever is to be thrown
away.
An acetylene gas lamp has been
placed in front of the Lines residence
The same gas is used for the house.
Vernon Morehouse spent the week
end in town.
The Methodist parsonage is to be
supplied with a telephone.
Columbus Farms, founded by the
late George o. Lines, has been leased
by Mr.. Cockerill of Bridgeport
DR.. Elliott CogswelI, from Cam
bridge, Mass, passed the week end
in town. He graduates from the med
lcal college next June.
The Tax Improvement club intends
to become Incorporated The sum of
$500 has been raised towards the new
fire house this club expects to build.
1t is proposed to start work on the
structure on Memorial Day.
Tomorrow evening Rev. E. c.. Bull
lock attends banquet at the Hotel
Astor in New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03
Sin THE THEATRES
POLLS.

It's a great scramble for first hon
ors on the bill at Polls this week
which is Anniversary Week and IN
cidentally the bill is a corking good
one. The several acts are greeted
with great applause and the ques-
ton 6 which is the most liked is
hard to judge from the plaudlts OF
the audience. Goodwin and Elliott
open the bill with q novel number in
Producing piano playing OF an excep-
tionally good order and comedy that
is irresistible. The act is staged In a
novel setting. Katherine Kay. young
girl with pleasing personality and
vivaciousness coupled with good sing
ing voice has a number Of songs new
to Bridgeport which she renders In
fine style and is followed by Ed Rlon-
dell. that cleverest of comedians who
laughable sketch THE Lost Boy"
with Mr.. Blondel1 showing the best
work of his envious comedy career.
The laughs come with wonderful
rapidity and the sketch is considered
by many the best act on the bill.
novel act and as pleasing as it is
novel. One of the brothers is a cap
able eccentric comedian and the 9TH
ed an excellent straight man while
Minnie Amato and company of pan
tomimists present 1.-THE Slums of Par
is with special scenery and effects
and with the work of Mile. Amato
and Mons. Coccia standing out with
distinctiveness. They do 1.-The Dance
of the Dagger" which is q vaudeville
classic for grace, art and sinuousness.
Cunningham and Nation with their
acrobatic talkfest show a thrilling
series of ground tumbling with high
kicking of a sensational order intro
duced and the Australian Woodchop-
pers furnish the novelty act of the
east in their exhibition of tree Telling
and chopping with a contest which
keep the audience excited from start
to finish. You pay your money and
you take your choice.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03
EASTON

Mrs John Wheeler was given a
pleasant surprise on Monday when she
went to get her mail from the post
man. 1t being her birthday, Mrs
Wheeler was "showered' with 81 post
cards from her friends.
Miss Mabel Seeley spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les Seeley.
Miss Louise Wheeler has returned
to her home in Bridgeport after spend
ing a few days with Mrs. John Wheel
er.
Mrs. James Tyler is out of town,
spending a few days visiting her
friends.
e Miss Evelyn Seeley is suffering from
poisoning, and is unable to attend to
her school duties.
Charles Everett is now on jury
duty
Miss Martha Andrews has returned
home after spending a few days with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer An
drews.
John Wheeler spent Monday in
Bridgeport.
o. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Silliman and Mrs.
Charles Silliman were entertained at
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Sherwood'S on
Monday evening.
The Grange degree team will have a
rehearsal for the third degree, at the
nall on FRIDAY evening.
Mrs. John Paterson has returned
after spending a few days with friends
in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hawkins, Miss Ida r.
Ogden and Miss Minnie Sherwood were
in Bridgeport on Tuesday.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will hold an afternoon sociable
at the home of Mrs. Fred Silliman, on
Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lyford and son,
Gilmore; Mrs Anna Bowdy and Mr..
Whitney of Bridgeport, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. G. Burr Tucker of
Rock House.
Harold Williams has recently visit
ed friends in Long Hill.
Miss Florence Marsh spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Am
brose Marsh. at Sport Hill.
There has been a large fire in Aspe-
tuck It burned over large tract
formerly known as the land belong
ing to Moses Ogden on the west side
of the Black Rock turnpike.
Mr. Senior of Bridgeport, was a
caller at John Candies, on Monday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03
OBITUARY

Susan, wife of A. c. Minckler, died
yesterday at the Bridgeport hospital
where she had been a patient for the
past week with rheumatism. She had
been a resident of this city for only
a year. Besides her husband, who ic
receiving clerk with the Mohican Co.,
she is survived by two children, May
and David, her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. D. Martin, of Cromwell, Conn; two
sisters. Mrs. E. E. Manchester and
Miss Florence Martin of New London,
and one brother, Charles Martin, of
Cromwell
Funeral services over the remains of
Mary wife of Michael Minogue. were
held yesterday morning from her late
home. " Freeman street, at $50
o'clock, and thence to st. Mary's
church, where Rev. Thomas p Null
cahy sang a high mass OF requiem.
Interment was in St. Michael's ceme-
terry.
The funeral of Emily May Cole,
daughter of John A. and Emily Cole
was held yesterday afternoon from
the home of the parents, 534 Atlantic
street, at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. A. c.
Thompson. pastor of the Emmanuel
Baptist church, conducting the SER
vices. The bearers were Edward
Donahue, Frederick Reilly, Harry
O'Leary, John W11alen, Charles O'Con-
nell and William Roache. Interment
was in Lakeview cemetery.
Thomas Cornell Christianson, broth
err of William H. Christianson of this
city, died at his home, New York city
at the age of AZ years. Funeral SER
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03
MAKING BAD BOYS
TEACH THEMSELVES
TO BE GOOD ONES

At the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nathaniel w. Bishop at Park Place
last evening the Bridgeport Aid of
the George Junior Republic held its
annual meeting, the guest of honor
being William r. George, founder of
the system Of "Repubiics' for boys
and girls.
Officers were elected by the Bridge
port Aid as follows:
President, DR.. Henry c. Blodget;
first vice-president, Mr.. M. B. Beard
sley; vice-president, Mr.. GeorEe
c. Edwards; secretary, Mrs. Alfred c.
Zones; treasurer, Mr.. Charles B. Read;
five new directors, Mrs. E. F. Shep-
herd, Mrs. Warner, Miss Fitch, Mrs.
Wheeler. Mrs. Ludlam
Mr.. George was introduced by the
host. Mr.. Bishop. Mr.. George out
lined. the psychological reasons which
make his system of Republics" the
best training for future citizens who
have evinced signs of youthful way
wardness. Send those unfortunates to
reformed, they are generally confirm
ed in their bad habits.
But send them to one of the little
-Republics' in which they are citi-
zens. where they make their own
laws. elect their own governments.
earn their own living, and the most
intractable of them quickly becomes
imbued with a sense of his personal
responsibility. He sees at first hand
the relation of the individual to Soc
iety. He sees that the police, whom
he had always been led to hate, are
really maintained for his protection
He learns the workings of the gov
eminent and the part that the in
dividual plays in it. It doesn't take
long to awaken in him the ambition
70 be good citizen and his progress
then is assured.
The Connecticut George Junior Re-
public is located on a beautiful farm
at Litchfield, bequeathed blythe late
Miss Buei of that town. Here the
boys have a real Republic, with all
officers, a police force, city court
etc. maintained by themselves The
principal, Mr.. Hutchinson, scarcely
ever has to interfere. so perfect is
by the boys themselves. It's a pecu-
liar fact but true, that the boys who
are the very worst and most incorri-
sible at the beginning often turn out
to be the best in the end. Their
natural energies have simply been di.
rected in the wrong channel and their
manly spirit of independence has
fought against restraint. Once shown
the true light by the workings of the
little Republic, they enter heart and
soul into the spirit of it, and when
they are graduated" and ready to
assume citizenship in the greater Re-
public beyond, they are far better
equipped to understand and rightfullv
exercise the duties of citizenship than
are many of the good children who
stand at the head of their classes i'm
the public schools.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03

cured for this week only through the
kindness of Oscar Hammerstein where
Juliet will open her Broadway run the
week following her appearance in
Bridgeport. Ralph Kellard, who has
been leading man with Viola Allen,
Edith Talliferro, Charlotte Walker,
Virginia Harmed and other well known
stars, will be the matinee idol Of t.The
Marriage Came Then every Bridge
porter knows what the annual closings
are, the only thing to bear in mind is
that the sale of seats opens Thursday
morning, and a ticket in your pocket
is worth two you think are in the box
Office.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03

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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03
Do YOU HAVE THE
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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-03

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parsley to an ordinary salad dress
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-23
Voice OF the eopIe
4 Pleu for Deattir.

10 the Editor oil the Tunes Dispa ten:
Slr.-Does II seem right ana Just that
when one man mas been condemned to
die CHIEFLY on the testimony OF another
man, no investigation should be niue
INTO tho truth or lastly OF this teSti-
HionS II seems lncuncelvapie that the
Naclliatlns testimony OF Il noturiousiy
uHreiiupiG ana worthless creature like
raul Seattle Should send 10 MS death
u man Ike Henry Beatue, who. what
ever ms reputation may DC along other
INES, certainly mas never been any
lhlhS put KIND ana gentle in his deul-
inSs with his fellow creatures and also
truthful.
But even should he have committed
TINS CRIME, which is quite beyond the
reach OF my ina Ginauon. the question
OF MS innocence or guilt has nothing
WhdteNcr to DO with the matter Paul
beattie has formally retracted tn. tes-
tlmony given By him at the trial, and
IL mas been tnHily proved that he was
influenced neither by dope" nor by his
companions when he signed the uffida-
VT and wrote the letter TO Henry Clay
Beattie. Sr.
Now, in tho name of all that is fair
ana gust. why 90 not the minions of
me law. VINO were SO eager to arrest
henry Beattie and bring him 10 ''Vir-
GINA Justice" arrest Paul Beattie and
sitt his conflicting statements 10 tho
bottom. And why, oh why, does the
governor not reprieve this poor bow
IN the shadow OF the death chair until
he can be finally proven guilty? Then.
IL he likes, let the law take It's course
Richmond CITIZEN =
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-23
THE HARLAN VACANCY.

Discussing Filling Justice Harlaus
Seat" the Birmingham Age Herald as
sumes that "ull the world knows that
a standpat President Will no, put a
second Harlan In the Supreme Court
vacancy" Then our contemporaries
concludes that mo one anticipates any
such appointment. although the court
may need man jus, like the dead
iurist. II will not, however, get a
man OF that nature. At the best a man
will bo appointed who will not kick
over the traces. as Judge Harlan
sometimes did" In view of President
Tafts record in the matter OF appoint
ments 10 the Supreme Court bench. OF
which II has been his privilege and
prcrogat!ve TO make All unusual mum.
Der. 1t must sttikG" out contemporary
readers that its assumption Is litu,
less than violent and It's conclusio,
somewhat hasty.
4 So FAR, in hlling Supreme Court va
canc!es, President Taft has displayet
snvst remarka bic and commendabl,
broadncss. having known no party, IL,
section, no political faction or doctrine
Virtually II is much more justiaabl
i 10 assume tina. all the world does no
know what he Will do IN this case. an
that no one OF unprecedented mind an
! tieipates that he Will do anything tina
he does not think right untii he dc
parts from the policy he has pursue
up 10 this time. criticizins him in an
ticipat!cn may be taking long chance
OF having 10 sit down TO a dish 9
crow.
Justice is justice. even 10 ones pol
t!cal opponent. Whatever else NJ
Taft may nave done or lef, undone,
cannot be said with truth that he HI,
avoided his responsibilities ana dut
10 the nation al large, IA respect ,
I supreme Court justices.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-23
THE CHINESE SHERMAN ACT.

In China there is an antitrust law
and the Chinese will not put up with
any toolishness from the malefactors
OF great wealth. The Chinese Sherman
law is the sort that might have beer
written by Tecumseh sherman, instead
of his brother John. 1t contains NC
nonsense and goes right 10 the hear,
of the subject It's provisions are:
Those who deal with merchants un.
fairly are TO be beheaded.
Those who Interrupt commerce are
TO be beheaded.
Those who attempt to close the
markets to be beheaded
Those who maintain the prosperity
of commerce are to be rewarded"
Inadequacy certainly cannot be
the ground. reaches everybody and is
applicable to every case. OF course
some OF the ninions of the trusts. es-
necally tho trust attorneys would
object that this Is not taking life by
due process. and all that sort of thing,
but the trust people have preJudices
which we may overlook.
Here, at any rate, is a perfect anti
trust law. II does not need amendment
II is Il popular law. and any arguments
against IT by the trusts are unreason-
able and based on purely personal rea
sons. Much have we heard about the
criminal prosecution OF trust Offenders
and here we have a splendid example
OF law permitting such procedure
The Chinese believe that II is all right
to put highway robber out OF bust
ness by carving his neck off. and they
make no distinction between highway
robbers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-23
ArgueH for Rcnttin.

TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-friday. the cath of November
I9ll' Will see the curtain rung down
on tragedy as great as ever occurred
IN Virginia. Henry Clay Beattie will
nave been a victim of lynch law" iust
as surely as ii he had been strung
up 10 inc nearest tree on the 18th OF
July, when he brought the body OF
ms WIG home. He was tried aud con-
aemned before he ever was arrested
,Iuolic opinion" did it. Moreover, pub
the past and Will do 80 again
The public dearly loves a sensation
something really shocking; something
SO SO. pad that, even the very worst can
surely they got 1t
To think that a sane man. normal
IN every way. with the ordinary feel
!ngs of humanity, would take n hein
less woman. and that w1mnu his wife
young and attractive, out on a public
highway and there shoot her is utterly
, nnthlnkaole After passing q day in
MS usual manner. going about his du-
ties in his usual kindly and courteous
way, leaving his father sitting peace
July reading. deliberately preparing
IT. aot aeed such as he is accused OF.
gong to the house where his wife was
waiting Tor him. seeing her with their
child at her breast, playing with IL
as any other fond young. father, as his
own rather might have done with him
and all the while have murder in his
Heart and weapon ready to kill her
such an Idea Is preposterous and it
onered In fiction would be considered
worth reading.
4 man, even devii-man, would need
a. very powerful motive to cause him
TO- TO commit crime like that TO say
mat any one would kill his wife in
such a cold-blocdcd manner In order
10 Keep his father ignorant of his
i Ia ,oa,., is utterly absurd. Few men are
80 very much ashamed of their lapses
as all that. and Henry Beattie assureds
~ was not one of the few Nor is
It at all likely that he was afraid oS
ms aatner,s wrath, and to assume that
! rev months than that he would rick
mourning his fathers anger is utterIv
PuGrIie. In any disagreement with his
amer ms wife would have been an
asset on Henry's side. Such a disagree
nient with such a father could never
nave been enough to warrant taking
life, NE. Then the pIatitude that ali
track uncovered-all criminals do NOT
| discovered oeeii
I'll, IL was Henry beatties immoral life.
TO the electric chair, and he will be-
oHered up as sin Offering for the
s nrni.o OF his people. who bolster and
dones and Sy wifnl, Of society that con
i the sin and shame until it is forced
/ upon the notice of tho public When
we can no longer ignore 1t. when our
| wives and sisters, our mothers and
daughters have II thrust before them
| IN case like this. up go ewes and
hands In holy horror. and nothing is
too bad for such man and no punish .
ment too severe Because he brea G
me seventh commandment lightly, il
~ readily assumed he Is capnblc Of
breaking tho sixth without proyocn =.
i tion. ~"
How body Of sane thinking men
could condemn man to death on the
evidence of such Il weakIinr as p,ul
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-23

inserting their long, winding burrows
under the living bark of the main
trunks of tho trees The Ralcign News
and Observer says that It has likewise
been shown that this beetle has existed
In tho South for forty years. but "it
la only at comparatively long intervals
that 1t increases to such numbers as TO
cause widespread depreciation" The
dying and dead trees are found scat
tored. in clumps. in large patches. and
in some places as forest of consider
able size. All are to be distinguished
by their fading red. black or denuded
tops, plainly showing the work of the
terrible beetle.
y. d. Hopkins, III charge Of the gov.
eminent forest insect Investigations
gives these four most important evil
donccs OF the presence and work OF
the beetle
Il. Ii in clumps or patches of pine
where there Is no plain evidence OF Sc
rtous injury by flre, the foliage fades
TO pale green and changes to yellow
ish and pale brown, II indicates that
the trees arc dying from tho attack OF
the Southern pine beetle, and that the
bark on such trees Is infested with
tho developing broods of minute white
Erubs and transforming beetles. There.
fore. such trees are ii menace to the
living trees.
'2. Ii the trees have reddish brown
and partially fallen foliage. or IL all
of the foliage has fallen, it indica tc.
that the broods OF beetles have emery
ed and that such trees are no longer q
menace to the living ones.
3. If the trees die during the period
between the LIST of March and the LIST
of October they will be abandoned b,
the breeds of beetles within a few
weeks after The foliage begins to fade
-. II the trees begin to die during
the period between the LIST of October
and the 1st of December. the broods OF
beetles will remain In the bark until
i'll March or April
These beetles are doing so much
damage that throughout the South
agitation has started having for Its
end the destruction of these pests. In
North Carolina. a systematic war for
the destruction of the pine beetle has
begun. 1t is only a question Of time
until the same thing will be done In
Virginia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-23
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