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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
MEETINGS OF
 WOMEN'S CLUBS
 FOR THE WEEK
WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY,. 9:45. Design. composition and craft classes, Art League rooms. 1V:00, Wednesday Workers, South Con- gregational church parlors. 1O:00, Executive committee. Ladies Charitable Society, Boys club. 10:15.. "Wednesday Morning Art Club, no meeting. 200, Ladies Sewing Society, First Bap- tiSt church 4parlors. 2:0O, Ladies Aid Society, Second Bap- tist church parlors. 2:30, Ladies' Aid Society, Peoples Presbyterian church parlors. 3:00, Thimhle Club, Mrs. E. s. Warnes. S:30, Artists concert, Wednesday Af- ternoon Musical Club, First Con gregational church
 THURSDAY. s;OO. 16s Rsranios class. Art League 1O:OO, Municipal Art class. Art League rooms. 2:OO. woman's Beneficent Society. South Congregational church. 2:30, Woman's Relief Corps Auxiliary. Elias Howe, Jr., G. A. R. hall. 2:So, w. R. C., G. A. R. hall, Sturde- want building. 3:3O, Ladies Union, Park Street Con- gregatfonal church parlors.
 FRIDAY. 1o:00, English Literary Club; hostess, Mrs. Frank Kinsley, 1O6 Park avenue.
 2:0O, Woman's Guild, Christ Episcopal church, parish house. 2:S0, Fidelity Sewing Circle, Mrs. Myra
 Hunt, 40 Cottage street. 2:S0, Kings Messengers, First Baptist church parlors. 3:oo, Protestant Widows Society, Ster- Rng Home. 800, Woman's Missionary Society, First Presbyterian church; host esss Mrs. J. R. Woodruff, 1S8 Washington avenue. 400, Authors Cub; hostess. Mrs. B. F. Walker. 697 William street- S:oO Round Table; hostess. Miss Sara Kinscella, 175 Harriet street. 8:15, Contemporary Club; host and hostess, MT. and Mrs. G. How land, 2S5 Park avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
DECIMAL CLUB PLAN FUNCTION

. Invitations have been issued for an informal dance to be given in Miss Slocum's gymnasium by the Decimal Club, on Friday evening, February 2. The young men who have charge of this affair are Ralph H. woodruff and William H. Frederick, and their prev ious dances have proven to be very enjoyable and successful ones. This is the fourth of a series of functions to be given during the winter months. WoodhulI's musicians win render a select concert during the reception hours and will afterwards play all the latest numbers for the dancers. Sou venir programs are being arranged which VIII contain sixteen dances. The patronesses for this affair will be Mrs. A L. Law, Mrs. J. I. ThackWray, Mrs H. Woodruff, Mrs. A. E. Nord- beck and Mrs. J. Scully.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
SIXTY BARRELS OF
 VINEGAR NAMED AS
 DEFENDANTS IN SUIT.
HarffOr1-

Hartford, Jan. 10-Sixty barrels of vinegar are the named defendants in an action which the United States government is trying before Judge Platt and a jury in the United States district court. The vinegar was seized by the government. It was part of a shipment from Oswego, N. Y, to a firm in this city. The government al- Ieges that the goods were branded pure cider vinegar made from ap- ples'' but alleges that it is an adul- terated and inferior article.
 The real defendants Place Bros of Oswego. N. Y. claim the vinegar was pure when shipped. As is customary in such cases the seized goods are also represented by counsel.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
George And Mary Finish Durbar And
 Off For England

Bombay, Jan. 10-King George and Queen Mary concluded their spectac- ular Durbar visit, today, sailing for England aboard the Royal liner-yacht Medina The royal couple left India, as they entered, in a t'blaze of glory
 They were escorted to the landing pace by the Bombay garrison and scores of local princes and British and native officials who had been ordered to participate so that the final pro- cession would be a properly imposing show
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
DIR. PorTBRToNs LECTURE.

When Dr. Potterton comes to the UniversaIist Church on Friday even- ing, January F, to deliver his lecture on Hawaii, an. Eden of the Pacific, it will be his twenty-fourth lecture in the city Of Bridgeport.
 |. pr. Potterton stands in the same class with Stoddard and Burton Ho mes and delivers his lectures in an easy, conversational manner, using mo notes and carries his audience with him through the country he is describ- ing by the aid of the abundance of beautifully colored pictures secured by him during his extensive travels.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mir. and Mrs. W. s. Mallory of 1s9 Whitney avenue, are receiving con- gratulations over the arrival of a nine pound baby boy. Mrs Mallory was Miss Ethel Lamb, a popular East STde young lady, and MT Mallory is the well known chauffeur Mother and son are doing nicely.
 Harry Gray, the popular wine clerk of the StratfieId. left for Palm Beach, Florida, where he win spend the win ter. MT. Gray has a host of friends who wish him a pIeasant trtnl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
WORLDS PEACE PETITION

London, Jan. 10-Miss Anna B. Eek stein, principal of a school of Ian- guage in Boston, has arrived in Lon don after touring America, Denm ark Sw'tzer: andY Austria, Sweden, France, Belgium and Holland, where she ob- tained 6.000,e00 signatures to a worlds peace petition to be presented 10 the next Hague conference in Tp1A-1915. More than 1000. 900 trade unfouistss of Great Britsfn have signed the peti- tion. Miss Eckstein says she will have 10000. 900 signatures by 1914
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
The Post. Tuesday.

"Cute dainty and pretty Clara Nor ton danced and sang herself right in to the hearts of the big audience at full, too, despite the weather condi- tions for the name of the Mortons IS one to conjure with so far as Bridge- port is concerned. For facial grim maces Sam Morton has most anything beat a mile and the audience laugh ed just to look at him. That act alone is well worth going to see- Don't miss it''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
INSTITUTE STEAMERS
 TO INSTRUCT FARMERS

A list of institute speakers on sub 'ects of. interest to all who are en- aged in farming. poultry raising or ent out by the advisory board on armers' instftutes of the State Board Ae-T culture. Any one interested =, having an institute held in his lo- ealitv may correspond with Leonard H. Healey. secretary of the board.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
TROLLEY co. APPEALS
 FROM WATERBURY ORDERS
Says That Construction Conditions Are Unreasonable, Unjust and
 Illegal.

Two petitions by B. I. Spock for the Connecticut Company carry appeals to the state public utilities commission from parts of orders Or decisions by the city of Waterbury regarding pro posed Construction in that city. In one petition, the company says that iE has the right to double track in Bank street from Meadow street to Plume and Atwood's turnout, a distance of about $50 feet, and to build a single track electric railway in Homer street from point near Byron street west to Thomaston avenue, then in ThoEn- aston avenue from Homer street to the track at Boyden street ApDlica- ton to the mayor and the board Of al- approval of these. plans. The plans were adopted on May 2, conditLona1Iy.
 The company appeals from the re- qukrement that the company shall use Seven-inch tFT'' rails, claiming that the order is without the Jurisdiction Of tho mayor and the board of aldermen to impose, and is sole'y within the juris- diction of the commisSon- Appeal is taken from the requirement that the company shah set iron poles for the support of trolley wires, for it is reasonable. unjust and Illegal and solely within the Jurisdiction Of the commission to impose. Appeal is tak-f en from a third requirement that tn company shall obtain and deed cerl tain lam to the city for highway EsuE. poses, for it is claimed that GhEs O der is wholly unreasonable, unjaIF and illegal, and purportS Co requ the company to exercise franch which it does not have Appeal ken from a fourth requirement first petition that the companJ enter into, agreement with the pay o1le-haif the cost of cons Of a concrete bridge over River on Thomaston avenue, claimed that this order, too, unreasonable and illegal
 In the second petition, the says that it has the right the present double track il and Cooke streets east into posed light of way leading Main street, and south and Cooke street, from Homer connection. Application to officials for approval of proPl was made on March 1S- were accepted in part on
 The Connecticut Compar from three orders. It al from a requirement that tE set iron poles for the sup trolley wires. claiming tE 1y unreasonable, unjust a appeals from an order tha a tar concrete pavement walk there being no Cooke street, and no Orde requiring the constructiS walks on this street sons for appeal are diff third order alone In the petitioner appea uuirement that it sflal moving in a westerly to a full stop bef0r street. claiming that reasonable, unfair the jurisdiction of aldermen to fmDos
 Hearings on b been assigned in
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

Do not allow your kidney and bIad- der tfoUole to develop beyond the reach Of medicine. Take Foley Kid ney Pills. They give quick results and stop irregularities with surprising b. F. Curtis. T 5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

HIGH SCH0OL NEWS
 The s'1914 Dranattcs' is to give anr other play in the near future This will be presented at Warner hall
 The B. H. s. basketball team Is te play the Derby High School team az delegation will journey with the team to Derby
 Helen Weiss and Loretta Harring- ton secured the highest marks in Ena-> fish Of the Junior Commercial cFaA5-
 The. lack of original jokes is gres Fs felt by the Criterion board. Sur there ought to be enough humorihsT at B: H. s. to keep the joke paNe supplied with made in Bridgeport humor. At the present time most Of the jokes of the Criterion are secur- ed from the exchanges.
 A dancing class for high school stu dents exclusively, has been organized at OuiIty's. A great many students have already joined. jAll have a most enjoyable time when they meet every Friday afternoon
 BerthoId Hastings. '07. in addition to his post graduate course at Yale is iu- structing two classes. One of these is in Geometry and the other in Me chanical Drawing
 
 There was a rehearsal of the Senior class play yesterday. An who had speaking parts were required to attend
 Owing to the slippery condition 4gf the sidewalks many of the stUdents were tardy yesterday morning.
 Recess has been discontinued at school for fhe time being Most Of the students were greatly disappointz ed to hear this news yesterday morn ing for a recess, no matter how short it may he, seems to make the day ap5 pear shorter and to have 8 beneficial effect on everybody. Many consideE themselves as martyrs until the new high school shall arrive.
 The indoor baseball team of B. F. 8 Is to pay the team of the hospital corps Of the Connecticut National mory-
 Tickets for the illustrated lecture on Princeton University to be present. ed at the Assembly hail on Friday ev- ening are being secured by the stu dents. A hall full of students is eK- pected.
 There was a meeting Of the print ing committee of the Senior class play yesterday after school in Room IT. were divided among the different mem bers of the committee.
 William Taylor Fl Commercial has been absent lately because of illness
 The Commercial aIumnae expect to have over three hundred attend their banquet at the @fSratheId' on Jan g.
 Boys are raritFes in the Senior Com merciaI class. There are but six boys to be divided among fifty girls.
 HIGH SCHOOL BRIEFS.
 Elizabeth McEroy: Meet me in the shadows.''
 Marion Hopkins: ''Tn keep still
 Helen Abberton: Hes gone-but sweet memories finger"
 Mfaicent Bee: How love hIm.'
 May Cody: ''Lord only knows
 Natalie Newman 'Fm positively saturated with the Senior class play
 Charles Brody: Don't bother me. I'm studying for a Greek test
 Frank. Hinderer: Look out boys. it's leap year,
 Emanuel Bros1er: 'It was dark ana he kissed her on the nose"
 Fannie Northrop: T dare all these male thunderbolts'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

The s'1914 Dramatics'' is to give auF other play in the near future. This will be presented at Warner hall.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

New York-A copy of the Gutten- berg Bible. on paper. printed from the first movable type. brought $27, ,o00 at auction sale here
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

The B. H. s. basketball team ts | play the Derby High School team al Derby on Friday evening A larg
 delegat tion will journey with the tea-u to Derby
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
POLI'S
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
 ABOUT BILL AT POIHS.
Telegram, Tuesday.

IcIegram, IueSday.
 ''In billing the show at Polis this week as the best bill in years the management told only the truth, for the four Mortons who headline would be sufficient to make it so, not to exceptional excellence, all of which, taken together, make great enter tainment."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
NEWS OF INTEREST TO OUR FEMININE READERS
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LIMITING WOMEN'S EDUCATION EYNISS CAROLINE HUNT says limiting

LIMITING WOMEN'S EDUCATION ggSasSgM EVE ISS CAROLINE HUNT says limiting 0l EAy womens education to preparation Mzga4@ / @I for making defeats of the pur- IIlgN x~gNI poses of education discovery and de- ENaE8N9S%J velopment of special talents It may E4NsAS9%zS0 failure to find life work suited to ~SCS the woman's natural endowment And if she does not
 marry she is handicapped by lack of preparation for life work If she does marry she is not well prepared she might be ocarry her special work in hours of les rre during the period when child bearing imposes it's essary limitations the unfortunate effect of this failure recognize cultivate talents appar cnt When she freed from the of young children she prepared she might be to enrich her life and add to her usefulness by systematic work in her own line. f
 However we may regard the invasion of women into the work of the world must recognize it fact. President Thomas of Bryn Mawr says: E'Everything indicate that will not only make their way all except few of the trades and but they will be compeed by economic beyond their con tro to stay in them after marriage It should be
 embered that convention does not permit prirn ary to chose to marry they to blame for indus trial conditions that force them from the home into the world to work If the sanctv of the is at stake alike interested in the preservation of it's essential ideal Women must be enlightened, educated hberay to understand their obligations and be prepared do their part the maintenance of the tial spirit of married and home life.
 Copyright North Syndicate
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

Helen Weiss and Loretta Harring' ton secured the highest marks in Ena fish Of the Junior Commercial class. s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
Standard, Tuesday.

'sFour Mortons biggest hit of the season When the Four MortonS had finished their act at PoIi's last even ing the applause was so deafen1ng that the quartette could not retire with the usual bows and Sam Morton was obliged to make a little speech in order to pacify the audience The act was the biggest hit that has been at Polls in many day and the man agement is to be congratulated in giving the local theatregoerS an act that pleases so well as the Four Nor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

Berthold Hastings, 'o7. in addition to his post graduate course at Yale is in- structing two classes. One of these is in Geometry and the other in Me chanical Drawing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

, The. lack of original jokes is gree 1T felt by the Criterion board. Sur E there ought to be enough humorIhs sT at B. H. s. to keep the joke pad supplied with made in Bridgeport humor. At the present time most of the jokes Of the Criterion are seeur- ed from the exchanges
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10
FarIner. TuesdaY.

-Four Mortons- get rousing recep- tion. Although it was a wild nigh- in our fair city the Four Mortons gained the decision over the weather at Poli's last evening and banished duIi care by means of their gay spir- it's. Sam, Kitty, Paul and Clara a holiday and the audience soon en- tered into the festive spirit. The old favorites who have not appeared at Polls since 1904 were applauded heartily all through their act and at the finish received an ovation. Clara is the sS,ame little bundle of ginger. Sam M5rton'S comedy is thing of joy forever. He has a number of new jokes and with clever Kitty as a fail he Keeps the people Slaughing. Paul Morton is a good dancer and is also faeard in several songs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

There was rehearsal of the Senior class play yesterday. All who had speaking parts were required to attend
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

A dancing class for high school stu dents exclusively, has been organized at QuiIty's. A great many students have already joined jAll have "a most enjoyable time when they meet every Friday afternoon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

Owing to the slippery condition Of the sidewalks many of the students were tardy yesterday morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

The indoor baseball team of B. H. s Is to pay the team of the hospital Guard tomorrow evening at the ar+
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

Tickets for the illustrated lecture on Princeton University to be present ed at the Assembly hall on Friday eV- ening are being secured by the stu dents. A hall full of students is eK- pected
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-10

Recess has been discontinued at school for fhe time beings Most of the students were greatly disappOint= ed to hear this news yesterday mOrn5 ing for a recess. no matter how short it may he, seems to make the day ap5 pear shorter and to have 8 beneficial effect on everybody. Many consider themselves as martyrs until the new high school shall arrive.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-03-18

Did it ever occur TO the property
owners of Moscow that paved streets
mean better fire protection for Mos
COW? With streets hub deep in mud
how hard and slow it is for the boys
to get to the fire. Yet the loss of one
minute often means the loss of home,
and sometimes the destruction of a
town. Paved streets are not lux
ury, but an investment and a neces-
sity. There is not one Argument
against them. This does not mean
that Moscow should attempt to pave
the entire city now. Let us pave Main
and as much of Third as possible, and
Washington from Fourth to First,
with Second between Washington and
Main, or such other side. streets as
the property owners demand, and
then a small residence district where
the people want it, as they do on the
hill in the neighborhood of North
Polk Paving will then take care of
itself. The people in unpaved dis |
tricts will not long be without the |
if the experience of
other towns is any criterion.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-03-18

LIT WHITE WAY

NEW YORK, Mar. 18.-The spectac-
ular career of Mrs. H. Bloodgood,
who says she used to live in Leaven-
worth, Kan, ended today with her COM
insane, after she finished one of her
wild spurges along Broadway In the
last three weeks she has spent more
than $1,000 a week The incident
closed with 3-night champagne party
that was stopped when doctors came
from Bellevue hospital.
Coincident with the commitment of
his wife, Harry Lattimer Rloodgood,
broker, announced his suit for divorce
would be dropped. The papers contain
sensational charges and counter
charges. They were withdrawn from
the files of the county clerks Office.
Was the "Duck Kings" Protege.
Harry L. Bloodgood is member of
one of New York's oldest families. He
is member of the Racquet club and
now lives with his mother, Mrs .Tno
IAf w 0SC 0OCQ street. |
His brother. Jack Bloodgood, was mar
ried to Clara Bloodgood, the actress, |
who killed herself some time ago.
Mrs. Bloodgood for several years
has been known to Broadway Both |
she and her husband were rated as
nigh livers. 1t is said that in the first
six months after their marriage they
spent $4,000. Mrs Bloodgood, be-
ore her marriage, was known as the
ward of Thomas Morgan Turner, the
cotton duck king" Friends say she
inst met Turner in Chicago five years
go when she was Helen Hamler,
tenographer, having just left her
cme in Leavenworth. Turner be-
anne interested in her and helped
ducate her. She was later named by
lrs. Turner in a suit for divorce.
The Bloodgoods have had a stormy
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-03-18
ASKS FOR CHANCE FOR
THE FREED CONVICTS

| NEW YORK, Mar 1S.-"Its hard TO
an ex-convict to keep out of Jail The.
go back to Jail for crimes with whicl
they have no connection just becaus,
suspicion readily attaches to them af
ter they have once seen the interior
of prison walls. Juries that other
wise might require stronger evidence
ale ready to accept the most flimsy'
Billy" McQuero, a stocky grey
haired individual sat in the office of
the Living Waters Mission on the
Bowery. Day after day, Billy listens
to the stories of the ex-convicts who
drop in at the little mission and then
he tries to reform them
The stories these fellows have to
tell are enough to keep you awake
every night They would keep me
awake only I've lived he same story
myself. John Hollis had to leave this
mission because of the strain of nine
years spent in trying to help the fell
lows along the Bowery to their feet.
What ugliness and hatred they feel
for the society that sends them to
prison for crimes uncommitted, is
kept in their souls and not often put
i'll words" said McQuere.
suspicion readily attaches itself to
an eX-convict. When a fellow once
gets shove downward, seems as
tht ugh he can't get on his feet again.
There's always somebody there with
the push but it's generally the wrong
way! Then too, there's the police de-
)al tment whose business is to send
men to Jail. Something happens. the |
cops get busy and round up all the |
fellows they know have done time
There maybe flaw in the alibi of sew
sral. Whether they know anything I
l!.out the crime or not, they are rush
ID off to Sing Sing.
"One crime is as good as another
o go to Jail fer. A professional thief
# the middle class thinks he is doing
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-03-18

welded life. Six months after they
were married Bloodgood brought suit
for divorce. The action was dropped
when they were reconciled. Last
vember Bloodgood brought suit again
naming Cuban. Senior Rodrigues
Bloodgood lived with his wife ten days
| in November, before he brought his
last divorce suit and says he has not
seen her since.
The Beginning of the End.
The beginning of the end of Mrs
Bloodgood's gay Broadway life came
last Sunday night. With a party Of
friends she was dining late at Jack s.
RiCtous scenes broke up the dinner
and Mrs. Bloodgood and some OF her
friends adjourned to her apartment at
1852 West 46th street.
Those in the party at the 18th
street apartment tell a story of a
piano player who was kept on duty
continuously "a hours, of champagne
free as air, and physicians who were
finally called in to treat the hostess
that suggested a visit by window
smashing suffragettes.
The Divorce Suit withdrawn.
Mrs. Bloogood was taken to Belle
veue hospital Wednesday night. She |
was entered under her maiden name, |
Helen Hamer, in order to avoid pub |
lie attention. Friends of the woman |
with her husband. He |
said that, as he was suing for di-
yorce, he would have nothing to do
With her. After consultation with his
attorney, however, he decided to take
are of his wife, and engaged two
SPECIALISTS to pass on her sanity. Az
er receiving the report that she was
insane, John L. Jordan, attorney for
3loodgood, announced the divorce ac-
ion would be discontinued
Eyes, 1 forgave my wife," Bloodgood
aid, latter she was taken to Bellevue I
ONE of her friends called me up and .
finally agreed to take care of her.
certain associates have robbed her of
er jewels, her clothes, and what ;
honey she had left.