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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
E. il. DILLON $ co.

leaves tomorrow for two weeks outing with friends. Boston will be one of the points visited
 Miss Eva Jewell of Dobbs Ferry, who has been the guest of Mrs. Am drew Graham for a week, has returned to her home.
 Miss Esther Lewis, daughter of Dr. G. F. Lewis, is entertaining large party of friends, and classrnates at the Lewis cottage at Walnut Beach.
 The foundation for Frank GoodWin's bungalow in Broad street is coInplet- ed and ready for the superstructure. Miss. Adelaide Lencomb, classnate and roommate of Miss Vivian COnine. is a guest at the Conine home in Broadbridge Road.
 MT. and Mrs. Gerald Curtis are re. joicing over the arrival of an heir at their home here. MT. Curtis is the grandson of the late Ezra Whiting. The horse lost from the cavalry troop which arrived here Monday night swas found in the yard at the Stratford Inn after midnight. The intelligent animal learned early in his visit to the. town just where to go to obtain the best of entertainment for man or beast.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
C0NFESSES TO BRUTAL MURDER
 OF LITTLE GIRL
FARMLAND GRAY, RUN DOWN BY BLOODHOUNDS, TELLS HOW HE CRUELLY SLASHED TO PIECES NAOMI MITCHELL.

Bangor, Me, Aug. 7-Attorneys ap- pointed by the State to defend J. sherman Gray, 35-year-old farm hand, Who confessed to the murder of IA year-old Naomi Mitchell, today pre- pared their clients defense along in- sanity lines. Gray's confession of how he followed the child from the village grocery where she had pur-
 chased provisions for the following day. and how he tore her clothing from her, slashed her body with a knife and cut her throat, was given out today by State detectives who captured him after a weeks manhunt with bloodhounds in northern Maine woods. It follows in part: "The night left Mason's store I got up there in the woods and met Naomi Mitchell. She was sitting down side of the road. I went along. She spoke to me. I got up and went along aways, then we went down into the woods from the road. Then we
 had some squabble there.
 Then I tied her hands behind her back with a piece cut from her skirt.
 Then I took her farther down into
 the woods about 20 rods. Then l killed her.
 'I cut her throat Then I cut her
 body, and cut her clothing off. left her clothing there in the woods. l
 against me all the time I don't
 know how I happened to take the knife out of my pocket. 1t just pop-
 ped into my mind. After had cut her throat I wanted to kill myself, but did not know how.
 CT did not realize what I had done
 until 9afterward. heard man down
 in Munroe Sunday night talking about
 the case and knew that they were af-
 ter me. I got away up into Brooks,
 where they got me. :.
 q killed Naomi Mitchell by cutting
 her throat with a jaclzknife on the
 night of Wednesday, July 24." F Gray's attorneys declare they. will
 make defense even if Gray attempts
 to change his former plea of not
 guilty. If they fail they will ask
 the court to send Gray to an insane
 asylum for life.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07

to me-.
 The New York Parental School has
 handsome five-building plant occu-
 pying 107 acres, of which some sixty
 acres are farm land. Besides their
 school work in the winter time, the
 boys, except those, in the band, learn
 the rudiments. of some trade, such as
 printing, tailoring and carpentry.
 The most striking thing about the
 school is that there is no fence sur
 rounding it and no bars on the win-
 dows of the different buildings. Prin- cipal Todd says he does need fence so that he can keep persons from trespassing and stealing fruit and veg letables from the farm. But aside from
 that he maintains that no fence is needed.
 The boys have different fresh vege- tables from the farm every day and ear corn that is really sweet several times a week. The meals are all cooked in the big kitchen located in 1 the power house and the hot food ie | sent around to the cottages in sub- way passage which connects all the | buildings. Boys from each cottage are on hand at the kitchen few minutes before meal time. They push their cottages share of the meal on a table on wheels through the subway te l their companions. Although the young sters only get meat once a day no one would admit he did not have enough to eat. When asked if they could gel
 a second helping if they wanted it the boys in one cottage said yes in no un- certain tones.
 At the entrance to the grounds there l is a bulletin board for Board of Edu- cation lectures. A visitor in the sum I mer time might think the signboar6 was a joke, but in the winter season a course of lectures is given at thu 1 school every Saturday night. These lectures differ from the ones in the | city, as they are intended primarily for the pupils, while in town schoo children are not admitted.
 ''I see that the boys are kept busy concluded Principal Todd, from tht time they get up, except in their play selves. until they go to bed Tha
 keeps them out of mischief. Then b! bedtime they are too tired and sleep! l to be unruly."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
CRAHAME-WHITE'S WIFE HAS HAD
 ENOUGH FLYING

London. Aug. 7.-Not only has Mrs. Claude Grahame-White, formerly Miss Dorothy Taylor, of New York, had all the flying she wants for herself but she also insists, her own and her hus- bands friends said today, that her husband give up aviation. Such is her horror of, the air that she de- clares life will not be worth living if the man she loves continues to ex- pose himself to the dangers she ex- perienced.
 :, Grahame-White has tried to con vince his wife. that the zparoxysm Of terror she suffered while they were flying the channel together as a windup to the honeymoon trip which followed their marriage June 27 was found motionless and she herself caused all the danger by throwing her arms about him so tightly that it was only by a furious struggle he freed himself avoided losing control of the aeroplane and tumbling into the wa ter.
 Mrs. Grahame- White is not con- vinced, however. and it is possible her aviator husband may stop flying to please her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
STAMFORD BRIEFS.

Court Liberty Bell, o. c. S., will give a, lawn party at the residence of Mrs. Annie Rudine, King street, this evening. Those who attend are promised a pleasant evening with plenty of refreshments and other fea- lures.
 Mrs. Richard August of King street
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07

again Aug. 1s. The bids will b. opened the 20th and if it is desired tc reject them at that time it will be within the right of the commission tt do SO. The wood blocks can be bought at once, it was explained, and. stored until needed The sewer work on Fair. field avenue is progressing rapidly.
 It was decided to include the. Elm |street paving in the bids for blocks. .~
 A the meeting last night Col. M. H Rogers was reelected chairman of the commission, upon nomination of w B. Llashar. tts1 Eg7axaa batag E.
 William P. Kirk, a large property owner on Fairfield avenue, advocates that the city pull up the paving that is left on Fairfield avenue and lay 2 macadana road which will last until the controversy is settled. He believes that the work of laying the macadam work could be done within ten days The cost of such work, he believes. would be small.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
BIRTH WATCH KEPT
 FOR 'STORk ARRIVAL
 AT ASTOR MANSION

New York. Aug. 7.-An army of re- porters hunting the stork is something New York never saw before and Fifth avenues interest is about equally di- vided between the doings of the news paper contingent and events in the Astor mansion where Col. J. J. As tors posthumous $S,0O0,O00 baby is daily expected.
 The old order of things has been re- versed. The 'death watch" bane of city editors, has been supplanted by the birth watch., The Astor man. sion has been surrounded since it be- came known that the important heir was expected very soon and bulletins in. all the newspapers chronicle the arrivals and departures of family phy- Gician specialists, nurses and relatives and the daily automobile airings of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, the girl widow of the Titanic.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
kIlle NICK SNUDS
 TURKISH MINISTER BY
 WAY OF ESPlANATI0H

Vienna, Aug. 7.--snubbed by Kins Nicholas of Montenegro when he de- manded an explanation of Montsne- grin aggression in Alhania, the Turk ish Minister at Cettiije prepared to- day to leave for Constantinonle The tMenty-four hour period allowed by Turkey for satisfactory response from Nicholas concerning recent iron tier incidents elapsed with nothing but the most evasive reply.
 The Austrian and 1tolian Ministers at Cettinje are trying to prevent Tur- ko- -Muntenegrin hostilities, which will be too near home to be pleasant for either the Rome or. Vienna govern ments, but it is believer Russia is enz couraging King Nicholas to force the Sultan's hand 4 declaration of peace is looked for immediately following the present diplomatic break.
 The Montenegrin troops who drove back the Turkish advance across the frontier yesterday, still occupy Turk ish territory.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
Weather Indications

New Haven, Aug. 7.-Forecast for Connecticut: Generally fair tonight and Thursday, light variable winds.
 Weather conditions: The area oi high pressure which has been produc- ing the pleasant weather in this vii cinity during the past two or three days is now central over New Eng land The western disturbance now forms long trough of low pressure extending from Oklahoma to upper Michigan. It is producing cloudy and showery weather from Colorado east ward to Illinois. Scattered showers were also reported from the south At lantic coast. The rain during the last 4S hours has covered the greater part of the corn belt.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather followed by increasins cloudiness late tonight and probably showers Thursday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
DEPUTY GRAND REGENT TO
 ADDRESS GILMORE COUNCIL

Every member of Gilmore council should be on hand tomorrow evening to get the new password from Dep- uty Grand Regent John J. Snavely of New Haven, who will also make a few remarks of interest to the members present. Brother Snayely halls from the Elm City where he enjoys a weIl- deserved reputation as a forceful and convincing speaker, and is particular ly at home when addressing Royal Arcanumites. An enjoyable time is promised to all attending members. Meeting called to order at o'cock sharp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK
 HAS NO OPPOSITION

St. Louis. Aug. 7-.W. s. Cowherd of Kansas City has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats and John c. Mckinley by the Republicans, ac- cording to today's returns from the primaries in Missouri
 Speaker Champ Clark was renoTni~ mated for Congress without opposition. Congressman Barhodlt will be also re- nominated. Theron E. Catlin, whose seat was declared vacant by "a House committee because of excessive use of money in the last campaign, has been renominated
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
 BY COMPRESSED AIR

Buffalo. Aug, 7--Manslaughter by compressed air was the charge today nlsced against Warren House, since the death of Val Ukasik, whose organs were injured bya an air current three days ago. House and Ukasik were fellow. workmen and in a friendly scuffle it was alleged that House forced a compressed air tube in Uka- silks mouth and opened the valve.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
Daily Matinee Excursions.

The delightful matinee excursions given on the steamer Park City to Port Jefferson, New York; are enjoyed by large number of merry excursion ists from Bridgeport and vicinity. During the month of August this trip is an exceedingly pleasant one and the sail most invigorating. The steamer leaves the wharf al the foot of Fair field. avenue at 1:30 o'clock, returning leaves Port Jefferson at 4:30, thus aI- lowing one hour and thirty minutes on the Sound. Special fare for the round trip. Children under 12 years of age half fare.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
How To Kill Your Town.

Buy from peddlers as much and as often as possible.
 Denounce your merchant because they make profit on their goods.
 Glory in the downfall of man who has done much to build up your town
 Make your town out bad place and stab it every chance you get.
 Refuse to unite in and scheme for the betterment of the material inter- ests of the people.
 Tell your merchants that you can buy goods great deal cheaper in some other town and charge them with ex- tortion. If strangers comes to your town tell him everything is overdone and predict a general crash in the near future.
 Patronizs outside newspapers to the evolution of your own and then de- nounce } ours for not being as large and as as he city papers.
 If you ara d m .rch ant don't advertise in the home paper, but compel the edl- tor to go elsewhere for advertisements, and howl like a sore head because he does SO Buy rubber stamp aud use it. It may save you few dimes and make your letter heads and wrappers look as though you were doing busi- nese in a one horse town. If you are a farmer, curse the place where you trade, as the meanest on earth. Talk this over with your neigh bors and ell them the men are rob- bers and thieves It will make your property much less valuable; but you don't care
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

Whenever h e count try newspapers find foreigners in- vading the field of the home merchants with goods and merchandise and selling them to farmers, they are asked to arise and whack the intruders and advise the farmers to buy their goods of the home mer- chants. And when foreign printing houses send their representatives among tn e merchants aud business men, many of these same merchants give them their orders and get inferior work for the money. That's reciprocity.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
S1OO Reward, $1OO

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease. requires a constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have much faith in its cura- tive powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
 Address: F.J. CHENEY & Co.,, Toledo, O.
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
A Bill to Increase the Presi-
 dential Term

A bill has been introduced by Senator Works of Califor- mia for extending the presi- dential term from 4 to years. This is a bill that most every one ill this country except poll ticians would like to see pass ed and if the voters through out the country will continue to lombard with letters, we will soon be electing presidents on- ly every 6 years and prohibit ing them by by law from serv- ing more than one term. Dur ing presidential year every business man must expect business to be slow and 1t is foolish for this country to in- dulge in so much politics when 1t gains pothing by it, but suf CTS a positive loss.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
She Knew Who Peter Was.

It was at Sunday school examination and the superintendent was shoplng of the result of his abors. During the ex ercises he asked the children who could tell him anything about Peter. No one answered. The same question was re- peated several times, till finally a lit tie girl held up her hand. ''Well, my dear," said the uperinteudent, that S right; I am glad to see that there is one little girl who will put these larger boys. and girls to shame" The little girl came forward to the platform and was told to tell the audience what she knew of Peter. She put her finger in her mouth, and looking very smiling said:
 Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
 Had wife and couldn't keep her;
 Put her in a pumpkin shell,
 And there he kept her very we'll.
 Amid the roar that followed she hur- ried gaily to her seat.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
Congress and the Votsrs

Congress has complained of the most active bombardment of letters from constituents of any previous. congress in the history of this country. They say that the people are watch ing legislation in Congress closer than ever before. One effect of this letter writing to Congressmen Is the passage of the bill prohibiting the use of poisonous phosphorus in the manufacture of matches. President Taft has just signed the bill which will prevent the manufacturers from using the white phosphorus which ofsen caused the death of its en- ployes.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
The Republican Fight

The Democrats in Wash ington are watching with a great deal of interest the bit ter fight between Roosevelt and Taft for the republican nomination. The fight has be come so bitter that its effects are bound to be felt when 1t comes to the election in the fall.
 Roosevelt entered the fight so late that President Taft had secured nearly enough votes toinsure his nomination before the Roosevelt fight got good start. However, the overwhelm- ing victory that he won in Hi nois and Pennsylvania has had the effect of discouraging the re-nominatiou of President Taft. It is believed that if Roosevelt should win the no- imitation, the Taft people would knife him at the poles thus insuring the overwhelm- ing election of a Democrat.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

Good schools, good church es and good roads are thing to have in a community. In order to have these things people must be educated to take pride in all these. Your home paper can and will do more to encourage all these things than any other agency. The school children read with pleasure the home happenings, and as they grow up become interested and make useful citizens. Give the children the home paper to read. It Costs you but a trihe.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
Have a Monopoly on Your own Mind

Fashion scoward O usa al Difference to of othe OTHERS STAKE you-becomes
  andY
   a To BRING DEFORMITY jelly To STYLISH COMMON
  be the INSULT that 90 intelligence Conformity 8 a CRIME really a MONOPOLY
 
 
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Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
The Appalling Ocean Disaster

The awful calamity that oc- cured recently in the loss of Titantic which colided with a huge iceberg. has overshad- owed every other sucject in Washington, and in fact all civilized countries. Congress has already started an investi- gation as 1t appears that the entire crew and all passengers could haue been saved, had there been an adequate supply of life boats which would have kept ahoat until rescued. This disaster has had the effect of turning the attention of the public to such Southern ports as Norfolk, Va, Savannah, Ga, New Orleans, La., and other places, where icebergs melt before. they strike the paths of the Ocean steamers.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
Stretching a Point

Br'er Jasper died and the other dea. cons told Br'er Johnson he must say something good about the deceased or Sunday night. At first he declined but finally consented.
 Sunday night, when time for the eul. ogy arrived, he arose slowly and said "Brederen and sistern, promised ter Say sump'n good bout Deacon Jasper tonight, an, will Say we all hopes he's gone whar we know he ain't."-McCa1rs Magazine,
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
Senator Cullom, of Illinois.

Senator Cullom, of Illinois, 7,
 who has been in public life for AS years of which 30 were in the U. s. Senate has been hurled over the Tarpean Rock oi defeat, because he voted to retain Lo1im in the Senate. This will be a warning as to what other Senators may ex- pe.t who voted the same way.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07
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Starting A Mail Order Business

There are two entertaining things that mail order men are fond of stating: if you are likely customer, that mail order goods are sold at almost no pro- fit; if you are a likely stockholder, that mail order houses pay tremendous dividends. They sell everything below cost, but they make money because they sell so much
 Starting a mail order business is a comparatively easy matte All you have to do is to buy a tray of guilt watches for 70 cents each, mark them up to $5 and then mark them down again to $3.95-and there you are.
 Of course there are some other incl dental things to do. You must adger- tise. Have made pretty picture of the watch. Explain in glowing terms that the watch has case, and works inside of 1t. Of course, every watch has that; but, if you are clever, you can use high-soundiDg phrases that will make It appear that putting works in watch is an idea entirely original with you.
 Of course you don't have to start with watches. You can begin just as well with doors or cameras or dress patterns. It doesn't matter much what you have to sell as long as you have a good live catalog writer to sell | it.
 Hire man with powerful imagina- tion. Before he begins to write do not show him the goods. Let him imagine them. To show him might destroy his illus ons, and it is a terrible thing to destroy young mans illusions. Of course, in the case of caralog writer, it is almost impossible You can take d catalog writer's illusion, put it on a stump and hit it with an ax, empty a shotgun into it. and then blow up the whole thing with dynamite, and the illusion will remain intact. If it doesn't the catalog writer is an impostor. He is not a real, regular, journeyman cata- log writer.
 As soon as you can, get out man. moth catalog. Try to have it at least two inches thick and so full of glowing terms concerning you and your busi- ness and your goods that man see it in the dark. If your description is bet ter han the goods, do not worry. There are 90,000,O00 people in the United States. It wlll take l.ng time to get clear around.
 After you have passed the catalog stage, try selling stock. This works even quicker. Any body who buys your goods will readily believe you are mak- ! ing lot of money. The stock pr oposi- tion has been only partially developed by mail order men. but it has tremeu- dous possibilities. Take the people into your confidence. Anyhow, take them in.
 Explain how you are letting the pea pie buy stock so they will boost the house and share in the profits. If you capitalize for $lO,0O0, ,OOO and sell $lOO worth of stock 10 man and he buys a harness for $4.94, do not try to figure for hIm his share of the profits. It might destr oy some of his illusions al- so; aud remember always that illusions are your stock in trade.
 Ihls stock proposition is good one; do not overlook it. The mail order busi- ness was a good thing when it made the customer put up the cash in ad- vance and pay the freight; but to make him also put up the capital Is the finish ing touch. And that also is d part of the business.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

The man who talks little but does much toward show ing visitors. the advantages possessed by his town and sec tion Is the man who really counts in the obtaining of en- terprises and making cities but of villages.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

A Chicago woman has sued a beauty doctor for $50, 900 for spelling her complexion. Just think of any girl with $50, 1000 worth of beauty seek ing the services of a beauty doctor.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

newspaper. in speaking of a de- ceased citizen, said: "We knew him as old Ten Per Cent-the more he had the less he spent-the more he got the less he lent-he's dead-we don't know where he went: but if his soul to heaven is sent-he'll own the harp and charge them rent"
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

Boss-There's $lO gone from my cash drawer, Johnny; you and I were the drawer:
 Office Boy-Well, s'pose we,each pay $5 and say no more about it?- Philadel- phia Bulletin.
Holbrook argus., 1912-05-07

Canadian newspapers are now whooping baseball just like a real rooter. Turned us down on reciprocity, but If we can't get them one way we will another.