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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
FAIR FIELD
THAT ELM AT FAnRFTELD.

A great deal of criticism has been called forth by the petition to the selectmen, made by well known wo- man of Fairfield. that an elm tree, that stands in the middle of the high way opposite the library. be removed. There is to be hearing on the mat ter tomorrow at the town hall at 10 a. m. This petition was the result of several dangerous experiences driv- ing toward the center from the main street. The trolleys and autos. whiri- ing around Dr. Donaldson's corner neck and neck, force teams to either take quick turn to the right, or, if another team is coming from that quarter dash into the tree in question. If the critics would stop to realize the number of teams that approach the
 main street from Spring street. Un- the railroad bridge, they must see the timeliness of the petition and thank Mrs. Wright for causing 1t to be formulated. That she had any mos tive in making the request other than that of public safety. it is absurd to suppose, while as far as apprec.ation of trees and all nature no one has a keener sense of it than Mrs. Wright,
 as her writing amply prove. It is always to be deplored when a fine old tree must go Yet a tree is. noth~
 inr compared to the possible loss Of EnOt a single put peTudpS Mduy lives. One objector argues that no one has yet been hurt by colliding with this
 elm. This. is the same sort of talk
 that caused Capt. Smith to run. the Titanic full speed into the Iceberg!
 A birthday party was rendered Miss
 May Tierney. oldest daughter of MT. and Mrs. Edward c. Tierney, of Sam ford avenue. There were many of Miss Tierney's playmates who attend ed. Games were played during the afternoon and then the youngsters en- joyed a merry feast.
 Mrs. Edward Leahy can now pro- ceed with the erection of her new dou- hle house, the Superior court having refused to make permanent the in- Junction obtained against her by her father, Terrence Gearity
 Mr. and Mrs. Edward c. Tferney and family have planned for an automo- bile tour to Northampton. Mass.
 Tomorrow evening at o'clock, at the town hall, the Fairfield Improve ment Association will meet to discuss the question of exterminating the mos quitoes of the swamps in this vicinity, Valery Havard has issued the call for this meeting.
 Hugh Lole has returned from bus mess trip to Chicago.
 F. Duhigg of Mill Plain is recover, ing from a severe attack of pneu- monia.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17

Messenger the pioneer settler in Har- Winton and the founder Of the town. He settled in Harwinton in January of 1730. The second oldest record that Harwinton possesses Is a note of & transfer of land in which the road mentioned. This is important as 1t speaks of a much travelled thorough fore in the early days that caused Harwinton to be much better known than 1t is to-day. It was over this road that people from Hartford and gained access to points in ''the West ern lands. This road was put into it condition in December of 1732 by Cap tain Messenger and other East Har- winton Proprietors.'' It continued to be the main thoroughfare until long after the establishment of stage coach accommodations. .sa
 It was over this road that General Washington passed as he retufned to his headquarters, then at West Point, N. Y., from the conference held at Hartford, Sept. N. 17so, with his suite. Count de Rocharnbeau, Admiral Ter nay, and other distinguished French commanders whose forces were then with the American army. He passed over the road with his suite, which included Major-General the Marquis de LaFayette, General Knox, and several other Americanl officers of distinction. This famous party had luncheon while in Harwin- ton in 6 house occupied by a MT. Bronson. and later used by. AbaJah Catlin as an office: That building was the first tavern house kept in Harwinton, but whether 1t was so us-. ed when Washington passed through on this trip does not appear now. Harwinton's choicest maidens honored' themselves and the town by serving at the repast partaken of by the not ed visitors. One of those naidens was .Candace, the daughter of George Catlin. afterwards the wife of Lewis Catlin.
 The earliest marriages recorded in Harwinton are:
 William Roboson, was Marreed to Elizabeth Lawrence on the :6: day or January anno dom 1736:-
 Edmon Austin was Marreed to Su. sanna Lawrence on the :6: day or January Ann dom 17S6:-
 The. earliest birth recorded is that of Ruth Phelps: Ruth Phelps of Har- winton the Daughter of Let Samuel Phelps & Ruth Phelps his wife was Born the Sixth Day of February An no Donnir 173S.
 The earliest death recorded is that of Dorcas Bissell; Darc1s BisseH or Harwinton the Daughter of Jabez Bis sell and Dorcis Bissell his wife, Died 29 day of April year 1742.
 The first town meeting was held Tn HarWinton in Dec. 20, 1737. and the first dwellinr house to merit such a name was erected by Daniel Messenger in 173I
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
TARIFF TO BE ISSUE
Governor Wilson Sounds Slogan of
 Democratic Success
(By c. H. Tavenner.)

-'-' a'''- (By c. H. Tavenner)
 Washington, May 7.-That the com ing. campaign must be fought out on the question of the tariff, and that the people will not long be content to see this issue pushed into the back ground in order that picturesque personali- ties" may have the center of the stage, is the contention of GovernQc Wilson, of New Jersey. In one of the most recent of his speeches the New Jersey executive said:
 "It has dawned on the whole coun- try that the tariff is no longer a statesmanlike plan of protection. but privately managed game for profits. It is huge scheme, carried out through the votes of enormous num- bers of men, who are deceived by the old phrase and do not face the new the selfish and the interruptions are more likely to win than any others. It is huge make-believe.
 'tNo doubt there are many causes which lie underneath the rise in prices, but however economists may argue, we have only to read the testimony. of trials instituted by the government, or investigations instituted by Congress; we have only to dig little way into the tariff schedules, and get experts to explain to us the significance of here a phrase and there a fraction. to see the whole business laid bare and bald before us by which systematic ad- to raise prices, and without regard ing either justice or the rights of the public. The tariff is the mother of artificial prices because 1t Is the foster mother of monopoly, and only when the roots of the whole evil thing are touched will we begin to get control of the forces which have all but mas tered us.
 "The serious and sinister aspect of the tarin is the fact that certain groups of wealthy men have got con- constituting themselves the. chief pa- irons of the party In power, by sup plying 1t with camtaign funds, by con- vincing 1t that panic will ensue upon any, even the slightest disregard of their interests and demandA These beneficiarieS of the governments pol icy have become its master, and the government itself is as much under their control as the stock market and the prices for staple goods
 4sWho can, doubt, in the light of all the circumstances, that the tariff Is to be the chief issue of the coming cam paign? It is a great moral question, because nothing could be more pro- foundly immoral than any group of men should control the government of all the people for their own personal profit. Such a possibility alters the whole aspect of government which strument of gain; . terrible engine of selfishness, instead of a thing for the dispensation of even-handed justice to all. Such . possibility introduces ey- cry possible element of corruption into the operation of the government"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
-ccAL NEWS ITEMS

ohm F. Haley. one of the best ERown photographers of Connecticut, "a $ leading spirit in the Bridgeport Kboto clubs has been selected as. dele- gate to represent Connecticut in the Association of America The appoint Ment of MT. Haley was announced hy Carl E. Alderman, chairman of the foreign affairs commission of the na- tionaI assbclas lion.
 The first anniversary of the lnsti- tuition of the Angeline H. Bartlett tent Daughters of Veterans, was obs seryeds'at the G. A. R. hall last ev- ening,
 Twenty members of the Young Eel lowsrs of the Olivet Congregational church held get together dinner. at Irwin's restaurant last evening. Rev. Morgan Millar was tOastmaster; and former Mayor Buckfnghamfs was the principal speaker. \ y, t4,
 E w Coates. the enly Bridgeport survivor of the 21st regiment, Conn. v4iGf attended the sd annual reun- ioh ip Hartford 'yestd tdfday, where. the veferanS were the guests of Rodman post. e. A. R.
 Little Dorothy Cameron of 5so East
 
 F, Stewart Summers friends were glad to learn today that his illness, which at first was suspected as a case of typhoid fever, is not SO serious. He has been bedrfdden for a week but is 1mending rapidly.
 The marriage of Miss Alice Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter. c. Miller 227 Jane street. to Mir. James MansAeld was performed at the home of the brides parents, Rev. B. H. Kenyon officiating, last evening. The wedding feast was doubly significant for 1t marked the 30th wedding anni- verysary of the parents of the bride. Miss Lida Castle attended the bride, and Miss Martha Mansfield played the wedding march. Richard Mans field. nephew of the bridegroom was the best man. Both bride and groom sfe employees of the Bradbury com- pany.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
EARLY HISTORY OF
 TOWN OF HARWINT0N
Written in 1858 By Rev. R. Manning
 Chipman.

In the possession of Allison Bunnell of East Plymouth is a small book which he prizes very highly. It is the history of the town of Harwinton written in 1858, by R. Manning Chip man. a former pastor of the Harwin- ton Congregational Church.
 MT. Bunnell recalls some of the In dians mentioned in the history. One of the Harwinton Indians, who was living there unmarried in the year 1897. and apparently about 50 old, was called "Stockbridge Indian" and went by the name of Adonijah Chops. Of whatever tribe he was he seemed of unmixed Indian descent. He re- members this Indian as being small of stature and he recalls him as 8 half blood, although MT. Chipman thought him full blooded Indian. MT. Bun nell remembers that Chops used to go about with fiddle hidden behind strument he was enabled to pick up few pennies.
 In 1886 there was living in MT. Chip mans family a girl, then II years old, calleds Lydia Pemberton. At the same time living in MT. Dowd' s girl Both were of indusputably In- dian form and features. Their moth CT was a white woman, said to have been from Litchfield (South Farms,
 now Morris). Their father was repre- sented as a full-blooded Indian, and was called ''Mohegan or Narragan-
 sett" MT Bunnell recalls this Penn
 berton Indian He was not a very ac- tive Indian brave and his occupation was anything with nothing in par ticular.''
 The section of this state that in- cludes the townships of Plymouth,
 Harwinton. Bristol. Pennington and some other western towns and cities, was once used by the Indians as more
 of a territory for hunting and occa-
 sional residence than for permanent
 abode. Especially so was this true
 of those days when the English first
 made settlement in Connecticut, and
 this ownership appears to have been
 mostly exercised by the Tunxis In-
 dians, whose headquarters appear to
 have been at Harrington. From their
 tents at that place small groups seem
 to have penetrated the forest to the
 west in the very early days of English
 settlement in this state, simply for
 hunting and fishing. Not only is 1t
 true that the early residents of liar
 winton bought land from the InJ
 dians, but such is. found to have been
 the case in practically every case
 where land records are traced back for
 any great length. The Indian con-
 veyance of the land that forms the
 township of Harwinton is to be found
 among the Pennington records. Most
 every land title can ultimately be trac
 ed to an Indian deed.
 MT. Chipman recognized in Daniel
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
Great Anniversary Sale at E. H.
 Dillon 6 Co.,, 1105 Main S1


 They intend to make it a memor- able occasion for value giving. They are offering untrimmed hats, trimmed tailored hats, trimmed dress hats. flowers, ostrich plumes, willow plumes. shirt waists, petticoats, marabout boas and capes. rubberized rafncoats, long cloth coats. blazer jackets and reversible linnette. coats, some at half former prices, many at less than half former prices.
 Saturday is the Last Day
 Of the great one dollar shoe sale at Thing and Co.'s. A sale that is a surprise that Bridgeport people will never forget. It is the greatest sale we've held in some time, and it has kept us on the jump from the begin ming. Never before such remark able offering of mems, women's and children's shoes. Remember these values are not the ordinary kind, Ask anyone who has attended this sale. They will tell you about the great bargains. Do not let this sale slip by, you Come. today at Things shoe store. No. 1153 Main street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

New York, May 16.-Ordinary to choice steers sold at $6.90@$8.90 per 100 lbs; oxen and stags at S7@ $7.26; $5.s0. Dressed beef 11hc@13kc for native sides. Common to choice veals sold at $7@$9.25 per 100 lbs.; cuiis at $5@$6.60: buttermilks at $5.S0. City dressed veals Il hc@ 16c; coun- try dressed firm at 9Hc@12c. Com mon to prime clipped sheep sold at $4@$6 per 100 lbs.; common to prime unshorn at $4.50 O ST; common clip ped lambs at $7@$7.25; prime spring lambs at $10.25. Dressed mutton ac @12ac: :dressed lambs at 14c@17hc; hog dressed at 1sMc; country dress ed hothouse lambs at $S ST per car cass Prices were 75@$S.20 per 100 lbs. for hogs; pigs sold at $7.o0 @$7.75.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
Litchfield County News
Deer Killed by Troile,

Deer Killed by Trolley.
 Game Warden Frank Barnes of Plymouth. on Wednesday buried the carcass of a deer that was killed near Reynolds Bridge by a trolley car.
 In Army 21 Years.
 Emil Elsensohn, of Torrington, who is in the regular army with the Twenty-ninth Infantry, stationed at Fort Niagara, N. Y., was detailed to accompany the body of Sergeant VII. liam J. Ryan, who died suddenly at the post. to his home in Thomaston. Ryap was 43 years old and had served In the regular army for twenty one years.
 Burned by Molten Lead. He was about to pour the metal when he slipped and fell into the pit. where 1S0 pounds of metal were poured up- on him. It is believed that he will ed on the back and limbs. being burned by molten lead Tuesday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
GET A RECEIPT

All successful business is founde, on getting and giving a receipt ol every transaction. The National Casl Register Go. builds a machine whicl issues a receipt automatically the in stant the money is received Quick positive and protective.
 positive and protective. R11 p'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
The Courtland School Gin
43i Washington Avenue

Pupils entered at anytime. New Kindergarten Primary class for girls and boys between the ages of and 6 years Parents invited to visit the school before placing children else where. AIS uls
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17

Dr. B. F. Herman. Dentist, has re- nnoved from Noble Ave-, to Room 28 Sanford Bldg, corner Main and Cam non Sts. II os
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
THE PRErTIEsT FACE

and the most beautiful hands are of. ten disigured by an unsightly wart. It can easily be removed in a few days without pain by using Cyrus wart Remover, for sale oply at The Cyrus Pharmacy. 253 Fairfield avenue and 1S6 Cannon St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17

Summer maidens are welcoming the advent of the fichu, that graceful and |-becoming accessory. A recent model I is made of soft white batiste, with cof0fed dots &nd scalloped border, ty-
 ing in a sailor knot low in front and
 slit at the shoulders with a smart fastening of black velvet bows.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
POINTS OF INTEREST.

How to Make Your Money Go the Farthest. The way that the business man does
 1t is to make use of his credit af- ter he has established 1t, and some
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
SPECIAL MUH1cAL SERVICE.

} A special musical service will be given at the North church at 4.15 o'clock Sunday afternoon. There will be familiar music by Harry Shelley and the we'll known composition, 'Hark. hark. my soul." will be sung by Miss Mary Haley and Mrs. John F. Fay. Rev. Henry H. Tweedy of New HaYen will deliver an address.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
Another Lot at 60c

We've offered this brand of men shirts before at 69c and they've al ways made tremendous hit. They look the part of the dollar shirt they bear every ear mark. They re in percale and madras, very select and desirable patterns and cuffs are at tached.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17

WANT ADS. GENT A WORD.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
Mems Shirts SSS ;5;$s: SSsiI$$ ;SS5SS;$Sss:isSIss$;;$$$s89c ss;$ Ss;$s

A large quantity of very handsome shirts for men with the hugely popu- lar soft French cuffs. Every mater ial used in the making of high grade shirts is represented, including plain pongees, solid colored poplins and great variety fancy patterns and stripes in all the favored shirtings
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17

An exceptional bargain is this in Cotton Voile and Lingerie Waists of very striking design-they've been selling as high as $2.98
 NOW 20c E0h
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-16

Capt. ". T. Downing in command, and
the company was split into three de-
tails and stationed at handy points
about the city
The crowd. however, once dispersed,
all went home and went to bed and 1t
IS hardly expected that the demOnstra-
ton will be repeated.
Near Riot at Bridge.
There was a near riot al the Santa
Fe bridge shortly before o'clock
Thursday evening. A Mexican who later
gave the name OF ElpidO Rivera, in
sisted on passing through the lines and
going to the Mexican side Policeman
Shobe stopped him and placed him IN
der arrest Then the crowd of nearly 900
Mexlcans booted the policeman and
threatened to take his prisoner away.
shobe and three deputy sheriffs on
DUTY drew their revOlvers and waited
Tor the crowd to come forward Not
man moved
During the afternoon Thursday a
number OF Mexican boys in the crowd
at the santa Fe bridge yelled 'AIuerte
los Grlngo Death to the GringOesn
them.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-16
A Valuable Suggestion
IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE

It now conceded by physicians that
the kidneys should have more attention
as they control the other organs 70 a
remarkable degree and do a tremend-
Gus amount Of work in removing the
pOisous and waste matter from the sys-
TEN by filtering the blood
During the winter months especially,
when We live an indoor life, the kidneys
should receive some assistance when
needed. as we take less exercise. drink
less water and often eat more rich
heavy food, thereby forcing the kid
news to do more work than Nature in
tended Evidence Of kidney trouble,
such as lame back inability to hold
urine smarting or burning, brick-dust
or sediment. sallOw complexion, rheu-
matism, may be weak or irregular heart
action. warns you that your kidneys
REQUIRE help Immediately to avoid more
serious trouble.
An herbal medicine containing no
minerals or opiates has the most heal
Ing influence. An ideal herbal com
pound that has had most remarkable
success as q kidney and bladder rem
edv is DR.. Kiimer's Swamp Root
You may receive a sample bottle Of
Swamp Root by mail, absolutely free.
Address On Kflmer & Co. BinghamtOn,
\. Y, and mention the FL Paso Daily
Herald
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-16
.FLEES TO CITY
FROM ROBBERS

after being robbed and i'll treated by
bandits at Parral, James W. Handle
ton, an ore buyer, is at the hotel Orn-
corff. accompanied by his wife and two
children They came into FL PasO
Thursday afternoon on the Mexican
National train.
Mr.. Hambleton recited the following
STORY OF MS nOluup and robbery by
Dand of AleNicans at Parral last Mon
Gay night Il was at the table with
my family, having just finished sup
per when masked man entered the
mousse and said DO not move /
grasped his gun and in minute had
MIN by the throat and threw him TO the
floor.
Then four more men, all of them
armed with rifles and wearing the
regulation 5000 cartridge belts and
with handkerchiefs covering part OF
their faces, got me and had me down,
one of them holding a dagger to my
throat and the others holding pistols
to my body
They made me get up and go down
to my office. there open the safe and
give them all the money / had I'm IT,
which was about $500 Mexican money
While I was there, five others threat
ened my wife at home and tried to
force her to tell them where she kept
when returned to the house,
was compelled to so to a small safe
she had In her writing desk ana give
them all the money she had there
Then they forced me TO open jewel
case in which she had jewels worth
about $500 Mex. Altogether they got
$1,000 Mexican money and the Jewels
valued at $500.
I do not know who the men were
nor where they came from, but am sat
isfied that some Of them were from
ParraL
.aThe next morning I telegraphed to
the British minister at Mexico City. for
I am a British citizen, and, though I
have lived IN Mexico for &c years, this
is the first time that anything Of the
sort has happened to me. Ny telegram
to the British minister was net an
syvered and, therefore. I do not know
whether or not he received It. I under
stand there have been other rObberies
ana holdups I'm and near Parral, though
I 40 not know who the victims were. I
heard that James l. Long, the Amer
lean consular agent, was one Of the
victims and that they got about $500
from him.
These men were bandits They did
not represent any party"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-16

New evidences Of an anti-American
feeling. precipitated by the infantry
mems unfortunate mistake yesterday,
we're displayed on the streets OF FL
Paso last night
The recent incident when score
~ armed Mexicans were taken IN
cbarre bv United States troops while
IN American territory west OF mere was
Tera-5e5 IS a sort Of joke But the
aT-srt 81 an American squad OF armed
men accidentally. touching Mexican sou
sDDarentlv had caused a score or 90
OF residents In the south part ca C-L -
cf+v to think an injustice hao Deen
done, and they proceeoeo 20 See
The first demonstration occurreo az
+t,e home OF the Mexican consul on Ore-
- street. where, IL IS understood,
T5sesas 10 cross the river were demand
ii and the consul was asked 70 eA-
rIa5r WHY the American 5o4ulers We
not held prisoners for one week, as -
Mexican soldiers were Wheh caplui Gu
on this side. ,bo,,+ s-so
IN the evening in front OF the w es ,--l
Union office on Oregon street, WneIe
q eoeacb was made with sugBe
tbsf resident Nadero be asked Tor Tue
resfRnatfon Of the consul Inc sPsS1-'
II is said aroused the audltoIS ~
state Of undue excitement and 2 - -. -
Of police were required 10 dlsPel90 ''ie
rearing that the auditors sti1 mar
bored the resentment which hao DSel
fired In them by the woman agllelo. ~.
earlier In the evening, Company n OF
the Fourth regiment Of the Texas Nd
tfonal Guard was called together Win
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-16

Additional Mexico News on Ne 4
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-16
JUAREZ IS TO
HAVE NEW MAYOR
Continued from Page J.

IContInued from Page =
visited the race track in Juarez and
searched the stalls and other places
for arms and ammunition The stable
men, who were sleeping there, feared
that the place was to be looted. but
the men assured them that all they
were hunting for was arms. They found
none.