The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-18
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that the scheme was indefinitely post poned.
 ! The Jewish Farmer, of New York City, announces that the Jewish az ricultural and industrial aid society will continue to grant. free scholar ships in short winter courses at the agricultural colleges. The society es- abolished these scholarships in 1908, when seven young men were awarded scholarships in Connecticut and New Jersey: in 1909 thirteen scholarships were awarded in Connecticut, New Jersey. New York, Ohio and Wyoming.
 From points as widely separated as Bangor in Maine, and Omaha in Ne ,braska, come accounts on the same day of the erection of two splendid Orthodox synagogues, the one in Omaha completed and the one in Ban- gor in the course of construction.
 Temple Israel, at Kings Highway and Washington boulevard accord ing to a St. Louis (Mo.), paper. has had its classic beauty still further enhanced by the addition of two bronze tripods in front of the build ing, which bear concealed electric lights. The peculiarity of the lights | sidewalk and steps of the building their rays by means of refectors, are thrown straight up in the air, thus bringing the huge columns and facade of the structure into bold relief.
 Brownsville, a district of Brooklyn N: Y, the largest Jewish settlement in the world, for it's area, according to Captain Isaac Frank, of the fTn- = zIs >ko ,,1<, by the action of Police Commissfonel Waldo in sending the new Jewish in spector. Henry Cohn, to that district Captain Cohn is the first Jew to reach the grade of inspector in the history sof the New York police department.
 The Heinsheimer Memorial annex to the Young Mems Hebrew associa- tion. New York, which provides liv- ing quarters for the members over 21 years of age, will be informally open ed on September g.
 Horace M Kallen, formerly of liar yard university, has left Boston for Madison, Wis, where he will soon take up his duties as instructor in philosophy
 The persecution of the Jews in Rus sia has taken on a new form; it is no longer the order of the day to hand them over to the tender mercies of brutal mobs. The agents of the government now attend to these mat ters themselves and are working with out conscience to ruin Jewish mer- deprive. the proletariat of their means of livelihood.
 A Jewish correspondent, writing from London of Chief Rabbi Adler, says: There is one fact in his career of such interest that it is to be hop ed the light may be allowed to shine upon it. There was a meeting at which King Edward was present and so was the chief rabbi In the course of conversation his majesty said:
 s.IIow is it, Dr. Adler that I never see you at any of my courts?''
 Sir replied the doctor. your courts are always held on Friday night. That is the eve of our Sab bath Our laws forbid us to ride on the Sabbath. It is too far for me to walk from my house to Bucking ham palace to attend your court and back home again. Therefore, I am unable to be present to pay my duty to your ma5esty.''
 Then replied the king. "I will have one court onsanother night than ETlQdy III OTO6T5 CndC you udy De dUI6 to attend it." And his majesty did.
 Mr. J. B. Greenhut, president of the Greenhut- -Siegel- Cooper stores, has offered to distribute free of charge several hundred thousand sanitary drinking cups among the school chill dren of New York.
 At the annual encampment of the Spanish War Veterans held at Okla homa City, Maurice Simmons aged B years. a lawyer of New York city, was elected command n-chief. He was one of the first boys to win a Pulitzer scholarship which enables worthy boys to obtain a college edu- cation. He was graduated from col lege of the city of New York in 1897 and resigned from a position in the public schools to enlist when the Spanish American war broke out.
 Through the generosity of MT. Jo- cob H. B. Schiff, the auditorium of the Young Mems Hebrew association a scroll of the law The ark will be completed in a few weeks. The late Mrs. Esther Hermann bequeathed s25,0 900 to the J. M. H. A..
 Confined to his bed, Rev. Dr. Henry HOchhe1mer, oldest rabbi in Baltimore and probably in the United States, will soon celebrate his ninety third birthday at the Hebrew hospital, where he has made his home for years. For 33 years Dr. Hochheimer was rabbi of Eden street Synagogue and for the last fifteen years he has lived at the hospital. With the exception of slight defect in sight and hearing he retains all his faculties in fine shape. Dur ing his time of service he united in wedlock more than 1000 couples and officiated at as many funerals Dr. Hochheimer came to this country 60 years ago with Carl Shurz from Ger many.
 Through the efforts of Drs Magnes and Penderly, the sum of $7O,0OO has been subscribed to the education fund of the New York Kehillah by the summer residents of Far Rockaway and Arverne.
 The British parliament has exempt ed Lendon. Manchester, Leeds and