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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15
CHAPTER xI.
Other Relations.

P T is but natural to presume after
 the foregoing that the affairs of
 the Medcrofts were under close
 and careful scrutiny from that confidential hour. The Odell-C -Carneys were conspicuously nice and agreeable to the Medcrofts and Miss Fowler. It may be said indeed that MT. Odell- Carney went considerably out of his way to be agreeable to Mrs. MedcrQft- so much so, in fact, that she nadeAt point to have some one else with her whenever she seemed likely to be left alone with him. The Rodneys strug- gled bravely land no doubt conscIen- t1ously to emulate the example set by the Odeit.Carneys, but it was hardly to be expected that they could see new things through old world eyes. They grew very stiff and ceremonious-that prerogative, of course. Were they not cousins of the Medcrofts?
 Four or five days of uneasy pretense passed with a swiftness that frEitat tied certain members of the party and a s1owness that distressed the others. Days never were so short as those which the now reckIessIy infatuated Brock was spending. He was valiant Iy earning his way into the heart of Constance, a process that tried his pa fdence exceedingly, for she was blithely nimpressionable if one were to judge l by the calmness with which she tended | off the inevitable though tardY assault She kept him at arms length Alp pearanceS demanded a discreetneSs no matter how she may secretly have felt toward the good looking husband of her sister. To say that she was enjoy ing herself would be putting it much | too tamely. She was reveIing in the fun of the thing. It mattered little to her that people, her own cousins in | particular, were looking upon her with cold and critical eyes. She knew down in her heart that she. could throw a bomb among them at any time by the mere utterance of a single word. Ii mattered as little that Edith was be | ginning to chafe miserab9y under the | strain of waiting and deception. The novelty had worn off for the wife o1 | Roxbury. She was despairingIy in love, and she was pining for the day to come when she could laugh again with real instead of simulated joyousness. Connie, dear,'' she would lament g dozen times a day, 'its growing un- bearabie. Oh, how I wish the three weeks were ended. Then could have my Roxbury, and you could have my other Roxbury, and everybody wouldn't be plying me and cavillfng at you be cause I'm unhappily married.''
 l "Why do you say could have your other Roxbury?" demanded her sister on one occasion. "You forget father expects me to marry the viscount I''- "You are so tiresome, Connie Don't 1 worry me with your love affairs-1 1 don't want to hear them. There's Mir
 Brock waiting for you in the garden
 fI know it, my dear He's been waiting for an hour. I think it Is good for him to wa1t,'' said the other, with airy confidence. What does Roxy say in his letter this morning?''
 -He says it will all be oyer in da1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15

that she had really come to the con- cIusion ehat her husband was the kind who sets his wife an example by being a bIt-dfvarfcaf7ag shimsen.
 Mrs Rodney fa3rfy screeched with horror when she heard that Tootles was "a poor little, began and 'aIl that sort of ching, you know" My dear" said Mrs. Ode5f=Carney, hating herself all the time for engag- ing in the s3yread Of gosssp, but femi- ninely unable to withstand the test, your excellent cousin, Mrs. Medcroft, receives two letters day from Lon .don-great, fat letters which take if teen minutes to read in spite of the fact that they are written in a per 1ectly huge hand by a mana man, dye hesr7 They're not from her hus- | band He's here He cannot have written them in London, don't you see? He"-
 T see'' inserted Mrs Rodney, who was afraid that Mrs Odell-Carney might think she didn't see. " Mind you, Mrs Rodney, Pm terribly cut up about all this She has, s.Oh, I knew you would be- mourned Mrs Rodney, Her heart in her boots s@You must just hate me for exposing you to-
 -eRubblshg' scoffed the other. '1t Isn't that I've been through dozen ! affairs in which my best friends were ifr1ghtfuIly uIly-ercompIIcat meant to say that I'm terribly cut up over
 poor Mrs. Medcroft- She's a dear. 2 Believe me, she's a most delicious sin ner- Even Carney says that, and he's
 very fastidious- very 1oyal.'' -4Tfley are married in name only, ' said Mrs Rodney, beginning to sn1fne. She looAed up and smiled wanly through her tears "You know what I E>ean- My grammar Is terrible when I'm nervous" She pulled at her hand
 kerchief for a wavering moment "Do
 you think I'd better speak to Edith
 We may be able to prevent the di-
 vorce"
 asDfvorce, my dear,'' gasped Mrs
 Odell-Carney fncreduIousIy-
 At this junoture MT. OdeIl-Carney
 emerged from his shell, so to speak.
 Ho mtaIked through the window and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15


 Morning came, and with it horse fback ride for Brock and Miss Fowler lE-hat was enough foreAGrs. Rodney, she Eetould hold in no longer. Mrs. Odell- Carney must be told She, at least, must have the chancetto escape before tfhe storm of scandal broke to muddy kher irnrnaculate skiKts. Forthwith the considerate hostess appeared before kher gueSttwith a hea1fu1 of disclosures ghe had decided in advance that it would not do to beat about the bush, lwo to speak She would come directly Ito the obnoxious point.
 They were in Mrs Ode1l-C -Carney'S sitting room. Mfr. Odell-Carney was smoking a cigarette on the balcony, just outside the window. Mrs. Rodney did not know sthatthe was there. It is only natural thatEhe held himself in aospftzbfy aioof Mrs. RUdhsy bored him to death Hetdid not hear all that was poured out between them, but he heard, quite enough o.cause him some thing of a pang He distinctly heard his wife say things to Mrs. Rodney that she had solemnly avowed she would not say-thfngs about the Med eroft baby
 It goes without saying that Mrs. 2 OdeII-Carney refused to be surprised by the disclosures She calmly ad- , rndtted that she had suspected Med , croft of being too fond of his sister-in- 1 aaw:sbut, she went on cheerfuIly, why not2 His wife didn't care a rap for l him-she said rap and nothing else. 7 Mrs. Medcroft had an affair of her own. dear child She was not so slow as Mrs. Rodney ithought, oh, no. Mrs. Odezl-Carney warned up considerably Rn defending the notato be pitied Edith. zzFle said she had liked her from the Aseetrnang, and more than ever, now
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15
IHE COuRILAND SCHOOL, Ind

4S1 WASHINGTON AVENUE
 Before deciding on a school for your daughteT examine carefully the Courtland School booklet for 1913-14, to be found at all book stores. The principal will be glad to correspond with parents who may desire further information PIC s3~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15

As far as that went, she was right
 The tiny little Colonial dressing ta- b1e belonging where it was by every law of room decoration. Also, it would ruin the mural effect to cut the wall for an electric light. So, at my advice, she placed two old Colon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15

~T is but natural to presume after
 the foregoing that the affairs of the Medcrofts were under close
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15

confronted the two ladies, one of whom at least was vastly dismayed by his sudden appearance.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15

The longer the trip you have to make with a heavy lunch basket, the more the picnic grounds seems to ap- peal to those poetic feminine mem ssasuaas e6 a1eA 1@@@kA
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

Big line of new fall dress goods. Fits.
Friday and Saturday sale black petit
coats soc, Zoe and 05c at Naughan's.
Fifty umbrellas on sale Saturday for
soc each. a good umbrella for school
use, at Perry's.
Auction sale, Q. J. Howes, $40 North
Main street, Saturday at p. m. See
ad. on page 8. O. II. Hale, auctioneer.
BE ON hand Saturday for real base.
ball game-Cohoes, n. v, and the Ital-
ians. Special arrangements will be
made for the game. The italians in
tend to have their team decidedly
strengthened for this game.
One of the big events at the Labor
day celebration to be held at Intercity
park will be the hose race between teams
Barre and Montpelier for
a purse of $50. Both teams, which are
entered for the big state meet, have
been practicing diligently for the past
few weeks and will show championship
form on Labor day. This event alone
is worth travelling far to see Each team
is picked from the best runners in Barre
and Montpelier. ADV
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

Peach ice cream is a special at Ken
bricks, Friday and Saturday.
States Attorney j. Ward Carver went
this morning to Woodbury. on official
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Blann of South
Main street leave to-day for st. Paul,
Mimi, for visit at the home of their
son.
Mr.. and Mrs William W. Scott, who
have been passing few weeks in camp
at Queen City park, Burlington, returned
to the city to-day.
Mrs. +. Benjamin, who has been a
guest at the Curtis farm in Chelsea for
the past few weeks, left this forenoon
for her home in New York City.
Two-reel |. NJ. P. drama, Secret Serv-
ice SAM" featuring William Shay and
Jane Fearnley, also a comedy and an
Animated Weekly at the Bijou.-Adyt
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. DeBrune and chill
dren of Greensboro are passing a few
days in the city as the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. G. DeBrune of Al Park street
Miss Anna Eastman of Woodsville,
N. H., is making an extended visit at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Bar
clay of Franklin street Mrs. Mae Taisey,
who has been spending few days at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay, re-
turned to-day to her home at Groton.
George Henry Clark of East Montpe-
lier sustained serious injury to his
right hand last Saturday, when the
member became caught in a circular
saw, the two smaller fingers being cut
off and two others being much lacerated,
although the physician, DR.. w. +. Lazell.
gave hope that they would be saved.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

Miss Lena Abiatt of Bolster place
went this morning to Mortified to at
tend the wedding of a relative.
Miss Mary Ronca, who has been pass
ing several days with her uncle, A. Ron
ca, will leave this evening for her home
in New York City.
James Williams of Graniteville was a
visitor in the city to-day on his way to
Rutland, where he will pitch for the
Rutland team against the strong Proc
tor Independent club. William will re-
turn for Saturdays game at Intercty
park.
Mrs. Jemima Robertson, who has been
making an extended stay at her former
home in Aberdeen, Scot, arrived in the
city this morning from Boston, where
she recently landed from the Cunard
liner, Franconia, sailing from Liverpool
August 20.
The Perry Auto Co. unloaded a car
of six 1914 touring cars in the Central
Vermont freight yards this forenoon. All
of the cars have been sold to local per-
sons, and representatives of the COM
pany will leave this evening for Boston
to secure second consignment
The following team viii represent the
Bonaccord football club against the
Barre Hill Rovers on Friday. at Granite
vile: Goal, A. Ross; backs, j. Forbes
and G. Cormack; half backs, B. Palmer,
g. Mitchell, G. Henderson; forwards, A.
Palmer, A. Mackie; right wing, II. For
sythe; center, j. Milne; left wing, j.
Massie; reserve, j. Strachan. Players
please take notice that the cars leave
Maple avenue at 4:30 sharp. Let all be
on time, so as to play full time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
PLAINFIFLD.

Have you purchased your ticket for
the drama, Wedding Bells to be given
by the pythian club of Marshfield Fri
day evening at the opera house? This
is the strongest play ever presented by
this club. which includes the best talent
OF the town. DO not fail to hear them.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

See our display of crepe melior at
Fits.
See the new fall neckwear just opened
at Vaughan's.
The Peoples Shoe store viii be closed
Thursday and Friday, preparing for the
biggest clearance sale of footwear this
season.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
TALK OF THE TOWN

Come to the Doc sale Saturday at
Fits.
Fifty-four inch ladies' cioth only Acc
per yard at Vaughan's.
Wanted: Ten extra sales ladies for
the big clearance sale OF footwear at
the Peoples Shoe store. Put in your
application to-day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28

There will be a special
communication of Granite
lodge, No. 80. F. & A. NJ,
Friday evening at 1880
O'Clock. Work. NJ. NJ. de-
gree. Per Older, ". NJ
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
TOOLATE TO BE CLASSIFIED

wANTED---A secondhand coal heater must
be in first-class condition. Address E. A. A..
Times Office. 1908
FOR SALE-An international hot-air fur
mace: 24-inch frebox. Inquire of John
OLeary, "a Eastern avenue. lA0tS
MALE PASSENGER wants to leave Barre
for Hsrdwick Saturday about 80 D. m.
Leaving Hardwick to return Monday about
D. M Autoists what will you charge
Address III" care Times office. l40t1
WANTED-A young man to work in gran
tie Office Address q" Times office.
140t2
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28

Regular conclave of st. Al
demar commandery, No. IL,
X. T., this evening at 1880
O'Clock.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19

Grange will be held at the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station, Thurs
day, April "a An. illustrated lecture
will be given on Uses of Electricity on
the Farm"
The Washington times., 1913-04-19

of people. especially the school child
rem. to the historical significance of
various events rather than to the noise
maging idea.
Mrs Glenna s. Tinnin. who had
charge OF the designing of the woman's
pageant. March 3. probably will have
charge of the proposed parade. She
said today she could not give out details
of the affair as yet. but that there
would probably be a huge procession
with floats representing various his
toric scenes connected with the Revolu-
ton. The school children will be asked
to march. The Boy Scouts will be in
vited to take part.
Officers and directors Of the Drama
League who are expected to attend the
meeting today are Miss Leila MachIin.
president; George F. Bowerman, vice
president, Mrs. Ethel Smith. secretary;
Miss Florence P. Smith, treasurer and
the following directors: Judge Wendell
p. Stafford. Mrs. Henry F. Brown. G.
w. Coleman. Mrs. A. D. Sperry. Miss
Mary A. Cryder, DR.. Abram Simon,
Gilbert II. Grosvenor. Ralph A. Graves.
Cuno II. Rudolph, Miss Julia Chandler
Manz. Miss Sophie Siebert, Mrs. Henry
p Rainey. Miss Hazel MacKaye. Gil
son Gardner, j. P. S. Neigh, and Nelson
b. Bell
The Washington times., 1913-04-19

]. Harris Rogers has purchased from
F. A. Singer. of Washington. the old
Hyatt mansion and about two acres of
surrounding ground. The price paid is
said to have been in the neighborhood
OF $4,000.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
BULLET REMOVED
AND BOY MAY LIVE
Benning Lad Struck by Missile
Fired by a CoIored Man
While Riding on Car.

In the hope of saving the life of If
teen-year-old William Meredith, who
was struck in the head with a bullet
alleged to have been fired by one color
ed man at another colored man, while
standing on the platform OF a car at
Rossiyn, Va. yesterday afternoon sur
geons at the Georgetown University
Hospital operated on the boy today
and removed the bullet, which entered
the head in front of the right ear.
Although in a serious condition, he is
reported to have a chance for recovery.
Rodney Parker. the colored man who
is alleged to have done the shooting, Is
still At large, in spite Of the fact that
officers and citizens Of Alexandra
county, headed by Sheriff A. H. Barbor.
secured the countryside until after mid
night and took up the search early
again thi smorning.
Young Meredith, who is the son of
Guy Meredith, an employee of the Penn
sylvania railroad, living near Bennins,
was on his way to spend Saturday at
Clarendon with his grandmother, Mrs.
J. e. Meredith, and his aunt, Mrs. ].
Z. Kemp. He was standing on the rear
platform OF the car.
When the car stopped at Bank street,
Rosslyn. several colered men got aboard.
There were others standing on the
ground, and one of them who had just
at one Of the men on the ground.
Parker, II is charged. drew a re-
volver and fired into the ground The
bullet struck the Meredith boy and he
fell to the platform.
stopping the car Immediately. pas
sengers carried the lad into the Of
fee OF the Rosslyn Milling Corporation,
where he was cared for temporarily by
Miss Irene Basin. He remained un-
conscious but a short time. Later he
was taken to Georgetown Hospital
A general alarm was Immediately
sent out for the colored man who did
the shooting, and four colored men are
said to have been with Parker at the
time the shot was fired were arrested
and are being held in the county jail as
witnesses.
Mrs. Meredith. the boys mother, has
been Ill for some time. and does not
know OF her sons serious condition.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19

The board of county commissioners
has appointed James Thomas Unsw o-th
constable for Chillum district.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
INDEPENDENCE DAY
PAGEANT PROPOSED
Drama League Will Consider
Great Parade to Be Held in
Capital on July 4.

Plans for a huge pageant commem-
orative of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence will be discussed at a
meeting of officials of the Washington
Center of the Drama League of Amer
lea late today in the Public Library.
Miss Ethel Smith. secretary. said the
league expects to hold a pageant on
July 4. which shall attract the attention
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
Alumni Will Gather.

The Washington Alumni Association
Of the University of Wisconsin will
hold a reception tonight in the assem-
bly, hall Of the Calvary Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Columbia road and Fiji
teenth street. Prof Emory r. johnson,
Of the class Of IS, will make an ad-
dress.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
Biological Society
Will Hear Lectures

The Biological Society of Washington
will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the
Cosmos Club. c. d. Marsh will give
an illustrated lecture on Stock Poison
ing by Lockspur." and William Palmer
wfll talk on Relics of a Prehistoric
Feast"
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
FARMERS URGED TO
USE PARCEL POST
Maryland Grange Advocates
Sale of Products by Mail and
Offers to Help Plan.

HYATTSVILLE. Md. April 19.-The
Maryland State Grange has begun an
earnest campaign TO teach the farmers
of this State the opportunity there is
for them in the marcel post. Changers
are urged to raise some farm article
figure out the cost of sending it by
mail, and a price to the consumer which
will not only net a profit but at the
same time allow the product to be sold
cheaper than through the middleman.
These reports will be published by the
grange publication and distributed to
those persons who are now purchasing
from the stores.
j. Harris Rogers has purchased from
F. A. Singer. Of Washington. the old
Hyatt mansion and about two acres of
surrounding ground. The price paid is
said to have been in the neighoorhood
The annual oratorical contest between
the colleges of Maryland Western
Maryland, St. Johns, Washington. and
Maryland Agricultural will be held on
Friday evening, April 25. In the new
auditorium of the Maryland Ag,icul-
tural College.
The quarterly meeting of Pomona
Grange will be held at the Maryland
AGRICULTURAL experiment station, Thurs
day, April "a An illustrated lecture
will be given on Uses Of Electricity on
the Farm
Among the delegates who are in at
tendance at the congress of the Daugh-
tiers Of the American Revolution in
Washington are, the following from this
county: Misses Apply and Ethel T.
Lynch, of Seat Pleasant; Mrs. Fred
erick Sasscer and Mrs. H. w. Gore,
and Mrs. Kendall, Of Upper Marlboro.
The board of county commissioners
has appointed James Thomas Unsw o-th
constable for Chillum district.
At a meeting of the committee of the
Prince George county commission on
State aid roads. held in Baltimore, ap-
plication was renewed for the perma-
nent improvement Of the Queen Chapel
road under revised estimates Of the
State engineer. it being determined to
ask for alternative bids under specifca-
tions calling for gravel and concrete
]. Frank Rushe, of Hyattsville. has
his candidacy for the nomi-
nation for county commissioner.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
Notice the Depth of These Lots

Did anything like them before in city homes? They
give you plenty grow your vegetables wh
and save the heavy expense of buying them
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
You'll Have to Hurry
If You Want One of
The Largest
Groom Homes
Instructed in of
9Th & K SIS. Me-

\ LLSOLD but six (6)-that's only one weeks record
n and one of the stomest weeks of the past
twelve months. Now that we have fair weather
again. this week should the final closing out of the en-
tire operation be quick if you would take advantage
OF the greatest Groom home operation ever offered in the
northeast
The pictures give some idea as to the large size and
general excellence of these homes inside and outside
while the front erraced lawns among the largest in the
city-full 81 feet deep. -.
First floor comprised of hall, parlor dining room and
kitchen-parquetry hoors-hardwood trmmings-beauti-
full art lighting xtures-front door full French plate glass
Full tiled bathroom, with upper walls and ceilings o.
washable sanitas Three spacious bedrooms with large
cosets-bedroom doors transomed-upper floor finished
in white enamel and mahogany
Beautiful pressed brick consructon-three porchess
completely equipped laundry in celar-nodern heating
plant-rear tradeSmen'S entrance.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19

Other good features:
Six bright rooms.
Front and rear porches.
Cellar under entire house
Excellent furnace.
Gas hot water heater.
Cabinet mantels.
Expensive gas fixtures,
with electric attach
ment.
Art glass table dome.
Double floors.
Holland shades at every
window.
Ventilated gas range.
Convenient kitchen cabi-
net and drop table.
Cheyal mirror in hall.
Picture holdings in all
rooms.
Plate rail in dining
room.
Beautiful wall papers
Plenty Of clothes closets.
The Washington times., 1913-04-19
ire Is Way to Turn Vacant Rooms Into Pro

of and the lookout for private fam,
lilies.
The Want Ad. columns of The Times offer way to
bring the ogethe-prvate families with for
and desirable and search of such accommo-
daionS.
The cost trihing Fortytwo cents may bring you an
income of $6 week.
Bring your advertisement to the main
office in person mail it. Leave it at one "rhe want
of our drug store agencies telephone it ..-. |
"Man $500" s~. -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-03-04
PAULo GRIPPE.

On Monday evening, March 10th,
will appear the famous Dutch cellist,
Paulo Grippe. This young man who
has made such an impression in the
musical world of Two continents was
born in Holland in 1892. His father
was a. celebrated Dutch landscape
painter and his mother was a singer
He was taken TO the the Hague
where he studied the violin, but it was
not long before he found greater
pleasure in the big soulful tones of
the cello, and his father permitted
him to study that instrument. He
studied at the Hague and next in
Berlin, but not until he came to
Paris did fortune really smile upon
him. He then attracted the atten-
ton of the great Pablo Casals. This
wonderful artist took great interest
in him and laid the solid foundation
on which rest Paulo Gruppe's art.
Though still very young Grippe has
played with great success in England,
Germany, Belgium and Holland. He
is now making his fourth tour in the
United States.
His accompanist, who comes with
him for this concert is Mr.. Isaac Van
Grove.
This is the closing number of the
course presented by the Tuesday Mu-
steal club, and it Will rank with the
Schnitzer concert in importance.