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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

proportion of college men than can be found in any other labor organization in the country. The statistics were compiled by two members of the. un- ion, one of whom says he is former instructor in mathematics in an east ern college.
 we represent a class of men who have found themselves unable to cope with some of the harsh requirements of life.
 'I was absolutely united for busi- ness but might have succeeded if I had had even a rudimentary know1- edge of business affairs. I was un- married and came west with just enough money to keep me a week. At first I tried rough work but was un- able to endure such hardshfps so became a dishwasher."
 The union Is the only one of its kind, it is asserted. A dishwasher gets $10 a week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
B, \, s. SOPHOMORE GIRL WINS $I0O
 AND GOLD MEDAL
VICTORIA LLNDEROTH UNANI. MOUSLY ADJUDGED WINNER
 OF s. A. R. ESSAY CON- TEST.
OTHER PRIZE WINNERS FROM BRIDGEPORT ARE BRUCE SINIONDS AND SIDNEY
 SANZER.

To Miss Victoria Linderoth, of 1946 North avenue, a sophomore in the Bridgeport High school, has fallen the distinction of winning the chief prize offered in the essay competition con ducted by the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Miss Linderoth took as her theme, ..The Heroic Age of America The Judges were unanimous in declaring her work the best submitted. Miss Linderoth has been awarded a $1OO gold medal offered by Judge Morris B. BeardsIey.
 The other Bridgeport High school prize winners were, second, Bruce F. Sim onds, a senior, son of Principal H. D. Simonds of the High school. and third, Sidney Sanzer, a freshman. of 80 Colorado avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

where 1 took up Laws Serious Call '- expecting to find it a dull book las such books generally arel and perhaps to laugh at 1t. But found Law quite an overmatch for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.''
 Johnson once more pronounced the "Serious Call" to be the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language" Laws masterpiece has also been high ly praised not only by Wesley and Whitefeld, but even by such avowed enemies of Christian orthodoxy as Gib- bon and the late Sir Leslie Stephen Westminster Gazette.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
A Queer Marriage Ceremony.

"A queer marriage ceremony was that in Queen Elizabeth'S reign, before the deaf and dumb alphabet was invented, between Thomas F1Ishy and Ursula Bridget Ursula could talk fast enough, but Thomas was deaf mute, and as it was required that promises should be exchanged in spoken words nobody knew how to manage the thing. Final ly the bishop of London helped to de wise service by signs, and Thomas proceeded thus: Having first taken Ur- suIa in his arms. he took her by the hand and put the nuptial ring on her finger. He then laid his right hand significantly on his heart and after ward, putting their palms together, ex- tended both his hands toward heaven. Having thus sued for divine blessing, he declared his purpose to live with Ursula till death should separate them by closing his eyelids with his fingers, digging the earth with his feet as though he wished to make hole in the ground and then moving his arms and body as though he were tolling fu- neral bell.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
BEDDING CITIZENS WROUGHT ALMOST
 TO LYNCHING BEE
Especial to The Farmer.>

| Bedding, June 16I twas lucky for Will Deming that news of the felonfous l assault which he committed a week
 ago yesterday on Dorothy, the five year | of the Hometown district, did not soon
 CT become generally known. Otherwise 1 he might have been the victim of a | lynching bee. It is also quite proba-
 ble that had the infurtated father ran
 across him within a day or so after
 the outrage there would have occur l red the off-hand killing of the offend | CT.
 | Deming is a. middle aged coIored man l of defective mentality. He had pre-
 viously committed many offences. mostly in the way of petty thieving but was not looked upon as dan
 gerous character. MT. Williams did | not enter a complaint against him un- til Tuesday. having been greatly wrought up and previously undecided as to what he ought to do- The ar
 rest was made Wednesday afternoon by Constable Warner who found the culprit at the house of one of his colored friends in this town. Before
 the close of the next day knowledge
 of the crime had spread and many citizens including those not given to emotional impulses were expressing a.
 desire to volunteer for 1ynchfng ex- petition.
 By this time, however, Deming was lodged in Danbury jail under bonds of $2,500.
 In addition to the more serious charge he was arraigned on accusa- tions of stealing two bushels of pota- toes on May 14, and of two hens on April Is, from George Williams, by whom he was then employed. The theft of the potatoes occurred on the
 morning after the fire which destroy
 ed the barns of Albert Williams,
 brother of George. Demfng was Seen to cross field with the bag of pota- toes on his back and when descended upon admitted his guilt and also own ed up for the second time to the theft of the chickens. His first admission as to the latter theft was at the time Of it. Deming went to Danbury with his employer and. drove home alone with the team without the 1atter'e knowledge. Not finding the horses where they had been left MT. Will
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

Hams reported their supposed theft to the Danbury police office and then hunted for them around the city. He got a ride home with Lenuel San ford, who assisted in his search, and as he reached his own premises saw Deminig coming out of his poultry house with a bag on his back
 With MT. Sanford he followed Dem ing to the 1atters home and there the contents of the bag were revealed as two chickens with their necks freshly wrung off. Had MT. Williams prose cuted he would have deprived himself of farm help which he needed and therefore he did not prosecute.
 Deming pleaded not guilty to all the charges but offered no evidence be yond his own denial. His bail on the assault case was fixed at $2,0O0 and On the chicken stealing charge at $500.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
IBR ssSI

he was in the Philippines. The pres ent uprising in the island of Jolo rep resents the resentment that is felt by some of the Moros over an effort on the part of General Pershing to bring about the complete disarmament of the tribe in the southern Philippines. General Pershing concluded more than a year ago that this was neces- sary as a final step toward permanent peace in the archipelago. In the north disarmament has been effected peace ably, and it had been hoped that through the good offices of the sultan of Jolo the Mohammedan tribes In che Jolo group and in Mindanao might likewise be induced to give up all their weapons. There have been. however, small groups that have in sisted on retaining their weapons, and General Pershfng has been obliged to resort to force.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
Turkish Stamps.

Because Ce a passage in the Koran forbidding the making of images Turk ish postage stam mps have no picture, but bear instead the sign manual of the sultan, which is, in fact. an impression of his imperial hand. This signature is said to have had it's origin with the Sultan Murad l.. who on completing Q treaty with the Italian republic Of Ra- gusa in 1865 and being unable to sign his name applied ink to his open hand and stamped it upon the parchment
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

Duluth, June 16.-The steamer Jesse Spau1ding, ore laden, reported as missing after being in collision with the coal carrying steamer William M. Snyder, Jr., is af1oat and making her way slowly with big patch of canvas covering her injured side. The Shy der arrived here, this morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
Those Gift Cigars.

Hemmenhaw handed his best friend a cigar.
 'Have a smole,'' he said. ''Sure," said the friend
 'aThere. I'm glad that's off my mindN ''Om your mtndT'
 'FYes. That cigar is the last of a box my wife gave me, and will tell you in confidence have been handing them out all day. You got the last Ha, haF' ''Wel, the laugh is on you"
 "On me?"
 ''Yes went with your wife to pick out those cigars, and they were the very best I could find in toWn."-CleYs- land Plain Dealer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
Conscience.

Mrs. KnSgg-Talk of consciencel 2 don't believe you have any idea of what conscience is. MT Knagg-Sura. l do Conscience is that inward moni- tor that, when you're wrong, prompts you to think up an excuse for blaming some one else.-CounselOr.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
WashinEtn.

Washington, June 14.-Major Gen eral J. Franklin Bell, commanding the Philippine division of the army, was called upon by the war department for a report in regard to the opera tions which General Pershing is con ducting against the Moros in the is- land of Jolo. First reports indicated that several American soldiers had been killed or wounded Some ap- nrehension was felt by General Wood,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
What Did He Meant

"'And so you are married 9" ''I told you was going to be" ttBut I thought it was a joke" ''It isn't."-Houston Post.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
It Moved pr. Iohnsen.

William Laws Serious Call'' was the work that converted Dr. Johnson.
 'I became sort of lax talker against religion" said the sage of Fleet street to Boswell. ''untl l went to Oxford,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
Reversed.

Greeble-Ts that your baby7 Craw- don-No, sir. The possession is on the other side. He is not my babys I'm his father.-Christian Register.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

It is a good thing to be rich and & good thing to be strong. but it is bet ter thing to be beloved of many friends -Euripides.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
Mo Treat.

Mrs. Neighbors-WOuld you like c piece of bread and butter, Johnnie2 Johnnnie-Not me. We have that at home.-New York Globe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
DISHWASHERS UNION
 HAS 100 COLLEGE GRADS

San Francisco, June 16--Of the 700 members of the San Francisco Dish washers Union, 100 are college grad uates. This, it is said, is a greater
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

Everything has two handles-one by which it may be borne. another by which it cannot.-Epictetus
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
It Paxa to Trade

Al E. H. Dillon & Go, 11O5 Main r-treet because you can choose hat 1..zses here with more than 1000 to i,obopse from and prices less than else
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

chief of -staff,, over the report that the sultan of Job was leading the Moros. If this is true, he said, the sultan, who has been relied upon by the American authorities, has been guilty of treach- cry, and this might mean a serious menace to General Pershing's com mand. After further reflection Gen eraI Wood was inclined to doubt the report, placing strong faith in the sultan, whom he knew~very well when
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

Appear to know only this-never te fail nor 1alI.-Epictetus.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
COLORED SILKS

Special value in FouIards, 75c qua ity.. Sale price 49c yard. Stripe and Fancy Silks, value 75 Sale price 39c yard. 36 Inch Wash Silks, value $1. Sa price 75c yard.
 Remnants at half price.
 Cleft Aisle Rear0
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16

% It pays to trade at Dilon's and you choose hat
 easier here with more than O0O trimmed hats to select
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
TOILET DEPT.
NOTION DEPT.

Special value in Wool, Picture and Piano Busters, assorted co1ors. 1oc and 15c each.
 CRight Aisle Rear.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
THE SIMITH-IvURRAY co
June Sale
SILK DEPT.

19 Inch Black u-de-Cygne, value soc. Sale price 39c yard.
 21 Inch Black Peau-de-Cygne, value 69c. Sale price soc yard.
 27 Inch Black Peau-de-Cygne. value S5c. Sale price 69c yard.
 Black Figured and Stripe Silks,va1ue 89c and $1. Sale price 79c yard.
 36 Inch Black -de-Soie, value $1. Sale price z5c yard.
 36 Inch Black Messaline, value $1.z5. Sale price $1.OO yard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
WARM WEATHER MILLINERY


 in Panama Hats, Natural Ieghorn Hats, White Peanut Braid Hats White Chip Straw Hats, White Hemp Braid Hats White Hair Braid Hats, Natural Straw Hats retaied here at wholesale prices.
 PANAMA HATS ...............S S1 75 to S15OO NATURAL LEGHORN HATS .... 298 to 600 WHITE CHIP BRAID HATS. .......... 75 to 15O WHITE HEMP BRAID HATS ... 98 to 25O WHITE HAIR BRAID HATS. ..... 98 25O NATURAL JAVA BRAID HATS .... 69 to 15O
 lit to trade Dillnn,s and a hat
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17
SALE 0f TIMBER

Ketahikaa. Alaska, Apgil II l6l5. Sealei bids marked outside Bid, Tim ber sale application. March T lal5. Tonga,-" and addressed 70 the Forest Supervisor. TonSas> National Forest. kel,hihan. Alaska will he received up to ana including the 17tA day of May, l2l5. for al the merhsnrabIe dead timber standing or dawn. and al the li.e timber designated fov cutting by Forest officer. located n an area 10 be definitely designated b. Frre,t officer before cutting begins, including about u acres located on the east side of TooGahl Greek, a small stream emptYing into Frederick Sound at a point half way between Cape Strait
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17
They Went Together.

Tom Meyers was $ peddler in humble way in Chicago. and be and his outfit were well known in the poorer quarters His wagon wus old and rick sty. his horse had seen years of service in Il street ear line. and the peddler was old and feeble as his horse, which, by the way, bore the impressive name of Baron.
 Saturday is always a busy day with peddlers, and one very cold Saturday peddler Meyers had an unusually hard day. As he drove home late in the evening he noticed that Baron looked sick. He gave him good supper of pats. rubbed him down and then went to his own supper
 An hour later he again visited Baron and found him worse. He applied such remedies as he could. and then. finding that the horse evinced q desire to lie down, he led il out of the stable and up the street
 Around and around the block he led Baron. and in the early morning po- iicemau found the horse lying on the street and the old peddler by his side with an arm on the animals neck, and both were dead.-St. Louis Globe Dem ocrar
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17

and Portage Raz. nortG shore of kupre4n9f Island within the Tonsa>> National Forest, estiuatedto be soo.oo,, tea; board measure .t i've spruce saw timber. leg scale. moee or Ies,. N nid Of les than >I.oo per thousand feet board mea>ure for sswlimbeg will be considered. and . depo.iye of S2oo.oo mus, be sent 10 C T. Garjner. Special Fiscal Agent. Foreat Service Ketchi- kan. Alaska. for earh bij submitted tG the supervisor. Timber upon valid claims j> exemp; from sale. Tae right 10 reject any and all bids i- reserved. For tur.he" information and regula- tions go1er=ning sales address Forest Supervisor Tonga,s National Forest, ke,cEikan. Alaska. ". c. Weigle. Fere,t Supervisor.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17
Finely Built Boat.
Bemmsrt Bros. Brought New 64 Foot Hull in for Installing Big New Imperial Engine:

One of the strongest boats per haps that has eyer been built n this section is the new boat ot the Demmerst Brcs., of Shakan, nov in for the installatiOn ot the big Imperial engine. Sixty four feet in length with I and I-2 inch plan king, with each rib a yellow cedar natural crook, oyer forty cedar knees and an inner skin ot I and 1-2 inch lumber fitted and caulked. she should prove wonder fully tight and strong and remain so after years of use. The boat was L4ilt by the Denmerts them selves, who have worked continu- ously this winter on her construc- tion. one entire month being spent in getting out the cedar crooks.
 With the $ horsepower Imperial engine, she IS expected 10 make about seven miles per hour and to have strong towing poWer. The new hull was towed in from Shakan by The ": A. Kelly which looks a baby beside her new sister and will look still smaller when the house is built on the new hull.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17
.on non n0sl FEET NATIONAL

FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE ANOFNT AND KINDS -- 2oo, ,oeo,"0 fee, B. NJ. more or iess. ot Sitka ,prace. western henlork. western red cedar. cottDnwood, and yellow cypress.
 LOG CATION-Within the Ionsas> N.'- tional Forest. Alaska. on the west side of Eastern Pas>age ant OF the islands and both side> Of SIlhlne River STTMPAGE PRICES = Lowest rates considered, 800 per Ii. for yellow cypress. sl. .o0 per. M. for Sitka spruce and western red cedar. sawtimber, 50cents per cord for Sitka spruce pulpEood. and ? cents per cori for western hemlock and cottonwood pulpwood. Rates 10 he readlustea every five years.
 DEPOSIT-with bid 52. .5oa, 10 apply on purchase price fl hid is accepted, or refunded fl rejected. Ten pet cent may he retained ss forfeit iithe .ontrac, and bond are not executed within the required time. FINAL DATE FOR BIDS - Sealed bids will be receiyed hy the District Forester. Portland oregon, up to and inducing May lo, l"lj, This date may be extended B days upon the request of any person who desires additional time for examination of the Timber.
 The right 10 reject any and all bids iS reserved.
 Before bid, are submitted full in formation concerning the character oi the timber. conditions of sale. deposits and the submission of bids should be obtained from the District Forester. Portland, Oregon, or the Forest Super visor. Ketchikan, Masks. Geo. Ii, Cecil, District Forester,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17
4 Self Dumping Wheelbarro~.

A new wheelbarn0w dumps its load forward as its handles are pushed down. saving its user the labor ot lift ing it
The Wrangell sentinel., 1913-04-17
Sentinel Sold

On May first. 1913, the ownership of the Wrangell Sentnpel and job printing plant passes to Richard Bu- shell, IT,, managing editor Of the ketchikan Daily Miner.
 Any accounts due on or be- fore that date will be be pay. able to the present manager.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-24
AIRS OF THE STOCKYARDS SUMMONED BY
O'HARA WELFARE COMMISSION

The O'Hara Welfare Commission
has given it's answers to the SANDER
ers and DULLES of Big Business, who
have been viIlifying and threatening
it,
Instead of laying Off of Big Bust
ness when it returns to Chicago Mon
day, the commission will drag before
it the members of the biggest Big
Business trust in Chicago.
The commission has summoned,
before it Edward Tilden, car of the
stockyards; Louis F. Swift, president
of Swift & Co.; Ira Morris, head of
the great Morris Packing House;
George F. Sulzberger, head eof the
'Sulzberger Company, and ]. Ogden
Armour, head of the enormous Ar
mour interests.
The commission wants to ask
these gentlemen what wages they are
paying out in their boosted square
mile Of industry"
1t wants to know just how low are
the wages paid to women workers
by the northumberland packers.
It wants to know what it Is that
has caused the region Back o. the
Yards" to be such as to wiring every
heart with one spark of human de-
cency in it.
It wants to know about the stories
of women forced to toll like beasts
for long hours in a consumption-cre-
ating atmosphere for a few cents a
day.
1t wants to know about the stories
of the pitiful procession of women
looking for jobs that daily may be
seen outside the gates of the Yards
at dawn.
There has been great deal of
agitation lately about the conditions
Back O. the Yards"
These conditions are such as
should shame every true Chicagoan.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
people are herded like cattle in that
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-24

uhC anu OLA W d IOOIls-
They are dying off like flies. every
year of consumption. ..
And among them are thousands of
young girls, imported from south
eastern Europe.
They are alone in the world of
Chicago these girls when they arrive
here. =
And they are taken out Back O.
the Yards" and dumped into some
evil tenement to make their way as
best they may.
They get a job in the yards, and if
they manage to make more than S.
week they are extraordinarily
lucky.
By the packers casual labor" sys-
tenn, their income is never certain.
Only their board bill and room is
that.
And so they begin their lives in
free America. Back O. the Yards.
In that same region are crowded
thousands of young men who have
been imported from southeastern
Europe by. the packer-shipping trust.
They, too, are working in the
Yards, in the eonsumption-flled at
mosphere at pitiful wages.
These wages are not enough to
support a wife.
And so the inevitabel happens.
The percentage of illegitimacy is in
creasing every year Back O. the
Yards
Wages, the misery wages paid by
the packers who boast that the indus
try built up by their fathers is the
greatest in Chicago and the greatest
in the country, are at the bottom of
all these conditions.
The O'aara commission wants to
know what these wages are.
Lieut.-Gov. Barratt 0'Hara today
also gave out the first word of a plan
for a nationwide industrial confer
ence to be held next September or
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-08-08

Good farm loans wanted. c. D. Wall.
 Up to Thursday morning there had been total shipment of eight cars of peaches from Green Forest station.
 Hugh Morrow, professor of Chemis- try in the State University, is here from Fayetteville, visiting his brother, Dr. F. R, Morrow.
 w. F. Youree and wife of Harrison, are visiting at the home of his grand parents, MT. and Mrs. J. A. Hurley, out north of town.
 Mrs. Samuel Orebaugh got home from her northern visit Wednesday. She says that the country is all dry as a powder house from here to Des Moines, Ia. Some places the grass is being burned off the railroad right-of- way.
 Little Wilburn Sneed fell out of a window in the second story of his home feet, escaping with slightly scratched nose. It was remarkable escape in- deed.
 Mrs. Amos Blasingame and children left for their home at Wellington, Kan. Wednesday evening, after months with her parents MT. and Mrs. Oscar l Grim.
 If you want your suit to look and fit right, have Bill Coxsey take your measure. He represents three lines, the best on earth, D. Ancona &1 Co.,, 5. L. Nelson Co.,, and the International. adv.
 Harrison had another big fire Wednes- day night, this time in the warehouse district. All the oil tanks and ware houses were wiped out, including the new quarters of the Ozark Wholesale Grocer Co.,, which was burned out a short time ago. The fire fiend seems to have it in for Harrison.
 A basket of grapes was presented us yesterday morning fromJ. s. Fuckers mountain vineyard that excels any grape product we have ever before seen for either size, perfection of fruit or flavor. There were any number of specimens in the lot that would measure two inches in circumference. If this isn't an ideal grape country, there isn't any.
 A new order concerning parcel post goes into effect August 15, which affects the first two zones. In IneSe two ZCHeS lEe WSlSlC lllulC IS lli- creased to twenty pounds and the local rate is made to apply to the first zone and the first zone rate is made to take the place of the second zone rate. No change is made in rate or limit of weight beyond the limits of the second zone.
 Relatives and friends were grieved indeed to learn of the tragic death of Mrs. Alice Kirkham, wife of R. F. Kirkham, which occurred at her home near House, N M, July 29, she being the victim of a stroke of tightening. It seems that she was out in an electric storm trying to house some little tur- keys when the bolt struck her, death being instantaneous. Mrs. Kirllham was daughter of Andrew Cox of Green Forest and was born and raised in this community, having emigrated with her husband and daughter to Canada some eight or ten years ago. About year ago they moved to New Mexico to make their home. She was about forty years old.