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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

one will take up the job
 The prospective deal for the sale of the Della Lyon property is off, the owner having refused to accept the payment terms offered by MT. Elmer son.
 The sale at the Sanford school last week for the benefit of the Episcopal church netted $75.
 The Sanford school closes on Friday of this week for the Christmas Kaca- tion.
 The assessors are nearly through many valuation changes in an en- deavor to secure equalization, but. whether the net result will materially Affect the total figures as compared with last year cannot yet be stated. 7 The committee on fire district limits which was appointed at the last meet ing of the department will report in favor of doing away with the limits altogether.
 The breaking of snow blockades not being a requirement. of the. towns road contract it was up to the select men to restore travel conditions after the tie-up from Mondays storm It was the.worst blockade for years. Lit tie could be done towards clearing, the highways on Tuesday owing to the continuous drifting and active opera tions on Monday by shovelling gangs and. teams did not complete the job The tie-up as to mails and milk trans portation lasted two days, aII attempts to get through in the meantime meet ing with failure. Locally the te1e- phone system suffered little ore no damage although it was badly demor- a1ized in some other sections A mes sage to the local exchange for Trurn- bull on Tuesday got there by way of Danbury, Ridgefeld, New York and Bridgeport
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Leeds Is Head of
 Association To Run Protective Home

At the annual meeting of the Bridgeport Protective association held last evening in The Stratfeld, Norman Leeds was elected preside lent. Other officers elected are William B. Board man, first vice president; Mrs. Carolyn E. Doremas, second vice president; Mrs. Alice B. Boardman, secretary; Moses w. Manwaring, treasurer; Miss Mary Miner. corresponding secretary. Reports, on the work of the associa- ton were received.
 Supt. Kathryn Hewitt made her re- port, separating the groups of per sons who applied at the home, into types. She said a training school for neglected and delinquent girls is greatly needed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
FOIL PLOT FOR ESCAPE
 OF THREE CRIMINALS

Boston, Dec. 1s-A plan by which three prisoners in the house of cor rection on Deer Island. hoped to es- cape on Christmas eve was thwarted through discoveries last night by Carleton L. Brett, master of the insti- tuition, and David B. Shaw, penal com missioner. According to Brett the three men, all classed as dangerous crina- ina1s, had partly sawed the bars of their cells with hack saws stolen from
 the engine room. Brett and Shaw
 having heard of plans for the break; concealed themselves last night and overheard the men further plan for their escape
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
Machinist, Tn Poor
 Health, Takes Life

Because he was unable ito perform his work as machinist, Otto Kraut, aged 67, of 23d Goddard avenue, one of the oldest German residents of this. city, committed suicide by gas poison ing at his home yesterday afternoon. < 5 Kraut was found dead in the parlor of his home by two daughters, Ger trude M, clerk in the Union Metallic Cartridge Co.,; and Louise, clerk in the Standard Manufacturing Co., They en- tered the room upon their return from work and found their father in a chair with the gas cock open Medical Ex-. aminer s. M. Garlick finds that death was by gas poisoning with suicidal intent.
 Surviving the deceased are his wife. two sons, William, of this city, and Charles, of Baltimore; four daugh- ters Mrs. William KnobloeE, of 231 Goddard avenue; Mrs. Herman Rob stock, of Seayiew avenue, and Ger trude and Louise, who. live at home. Kraut was a machinist by trade and was well known among the German residents of this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
MONROE

The remains of Mrs. Augusta Fur. ney of Derby, sister of the late Will, liam R. Ferris of Hammertown, were inferred in the family plot in the East Village cemetery last week.
 Ezra B. Meeker3 has sold some val uab1e land to the Bridgeport Hy-' draulic Co.,,
 William S. Clarke has purchased two eots~ of, Alfred s. Edwards of Stepney.
 cers for the ensuing year Monday eve- ming, Dec. 20. sI
 Harmony grange, at largely at. tended meeting last Thursday even- ing, elected officers for 1916 as fol- lows: Master, Charles G. Lacey: over- seer, Minnie F. Lacey; lecturer, Edith N. Curtiss: steward, Stanley Joyce:. assistant steward, Herbert M Gar lick; chaplain. Edward E. Curtiss: treasurer, Theodore Lockwood; secre-s tary, Edwin c. shelton; gate keeper. Merwin s. Burr; Ceres. Elizabeth Flora, Alkaline Clark; lady assistant steward, Carolyn. Garlick;N organfst Sara Sinclair; executive committee Alex Sinclair. Mrs. Charles C. Lacey who has filled the lecturers chair for. the last. three years with the greatest satisfaction to all, hos now been pro- noted to overseer, and has the honor of being the first sister ever elected to i'll that position the second highest office in the grange.
 The mumpa which have been so prevalent in town for the last few weeks, are now being entertained by Edwin c. Stevens on Barn Hill.
 Services at St. Peters church on Christmas day at Il a. m with eel ebration of the Holy Communion | A special town meeting will be held "Wednesday. Dec. p, at 2. p. m., at the town hall, Monroe, to- take action on the advisabi1ity of turning over the schools of the town into the hands of a supervisor. instead of leaving them with the town school committee, Al 1 a former election vote on this same question was taken, and resulted as follows: Yes. four. No, s113. It is be- l1eved there is no change in the senti- ment, as far as can be learned
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
THE PRETTIEsT FAcE

and the most beautiful hands are ,f- ten disfigured by an unsightIy wart It can easily be removed in a few days without pain by using Cyrus Wart Remover. For sale only at the Cyrus Pharmacy. AIS Fairfield Ave.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
GAsoLENE GoEs UP.

New York, Dec. 1s-The Standard Oil co. of New York announced today an advance of one cent a gallon on all grades and packages og+ gasolene for export
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

either side in passing through the Panama canal locks, according to the current issue of the Canal Record The ships will have beam of 97 feet and the locks are no feet wide.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
LEG IS BROKEN.

Mrs Bridget Hearn of SIT Jane street, was admitted to the Bridge leg.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
DREADNAUGHT CAN sA1I CANAL.

Washington. Dee. -Battleships of the >California class will have a. clearance of six feet four inches on
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18
GEN. voN sTocKHAUsEN KILLED

London5 Dee. 18-Major General von Stockhausen of the German army has been killed in action. according to a. dispatch from AInsterdam.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-18

HOPING AND wREATHs OF
 LAUREL
 JOHN RICK & SON
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
A. NJ. CAN BE-. M. D.

Physician and Surgeon
Office and Residence, Corner
" ain and College Streets, Mary
vile, Tenn. Phone 62
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
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held in place by hooks in the ceiling.
The roost platform should be made
tight. 1t extends the full length of the
room against the back wall, and is
4 feet 10 inches wide and three feet
above the floor It is then high
enough for person to get under when
necessary to handle the birds or clean
out the house. There are three roosts,
framed together in two 10-foot Sec
tions. The top is one foot above the
platform and hinged to the back wall,
so they may be turned up out of the
way when the platform is being
cleaned. The back roost is IL inches
from the wall, and the spaces between
the next two are 16 inches. They are
made of 2x9-inch lumber placed on
edge, with the upper corners rounded
Off The roosting closet is shut off
from the rest of the room by curtains
similar to the one described for the
front of the house. For convenience
in handling there are two of these
curtains, each feet inches long and
three feet wide, hinged at the top so
as to be turned out and hooked up.
This leaves a space of 2 feet inches
between the curtain and the roof. This
space is ceiled, and in it are two open
ings, each three feet long and six
inches wide, provided with a slide
door for ventilating the roosting closet
when necessary. The nests are placed
on framework under the roosting
board. This frame should extend at
least three inches beyond the back of
the nests, and should be so arranged
that they may be easily removed for
cleaning
If several Of these houses are joined
together to make one long laying
house, door should be placed in ev
cry compartment five inches out from
the edge Of the roosting platform.
These doors are three feet wide and
seven feet high, divided in the middle
lengthwise, and each half is hung with
double-acting spring hinges, allowing
it to swing both ways and to be kept
closed without attention.
Extending across the building and
through the center of the doorways a
track of wood or iron may be placed
for the ready movement of suspend
ed car. The platform of this car should
be ks feet and elevated about one
foot above the floor. Attached to each
end of the platform is an iron guard
which projects one foot beyond. AS
the car passes through the building
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
Attention
We buy and sell town and farm property. If YOU
want to buy sell house and lot or farm. see
us.
McNutt & BroyIes.
Sale Notice

By virtue of an order of sale issued
by Joe H. Gamble, Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Blount County, Tennessee, on
the 9th, day of October 1915, Twill sell,
to the highest bidder, for cash, in hand,
on the %, day of November 1915, at the
Court House door in Maryville, Tenn
essee, at 1000 o'clock A. M. all the
right, title and interest that j. P,
Jackson has to the following tract of
land:
Situated in District No 9, Blount
County, Tennessee, and bounded as
follows:
Fronting on College Street on the
South, running thence with an alley to
the M. E. Church South property, on the
North, then with the M. E. Church
property Eastwardly to Robert B.
Roberts hotel property, formerly Jack
son Hotel property, then with Robert B.
Roberts line Southwest direction to
College Street; thence with College
Street to the beginning, and known as
the old jackson Livery property, and
also being a part Of Lot No. Sd, accord
ing to the plat of the old Town of Mary
vile, and being same property conveyed
to j. P. Jackson by G. c. Jackson on
the 18th, day of January 1911, of record
in book of deeds, Vol. 68, page SOB, in
the Registers office for Blount County,
Tennessee.
The property of Defendant, j. P.
jackson is levied upon as his property
to satisfy the following claims as set
out in the orders of sale. Said sale
being made to satisfy the following
judgments due: Ellis-Chandler Co., D.
F. Young, Maryville Ice & Coal Co.,
W. L. Webster, j. P. Martin, E. l..
Ellis, Dianey Bros, Indian Refining Co.
and C. P. Montgomery, against j. P.
Jackson. The judgments are to take
priority in the order in which they ap-
pear.
This the 9th, day of October 1915.
H. B. Webb,
Sheriff.
Brown & johnson
Attys.
o. 28-n. 4-11-18
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04

the front wall. The height of the
ridge from the sill to the extreme top
of rafters is IL feet 4 inches All
studding is 2x4 inches. The building
is covered with one inch rough lum-
Der, then papered and covered with
rustic siding The roof is covered with
one-inch boards and thin building pa
per, and then shingled. The cost of
the building may be lessened by using
shiplap for the sides and by covering
with high grade roofing paper.
The front of the building or of each
section has storm windows, feet
II inches by feet inches. These
glass windows are screwed on up
rights 2 feet inches from each end
of the room. They are three feet above
the floor. The distance between the
windows is feet 10 inches, and the
top part of it, to a depth of feet &
inches from the plate, is not boarded
up, but is left open to be covered by
cloth curtain when necessary. This
leaves a tight wall feet 10 inches
high, extending from the bottom of the
opening down to the floor, which pre-
vents the wind from blowing on the
birds when they are on the floor. A
door, 2 feet 10 inches wide, for en-
trance to the yard, is made in the front
wall. The lower half is boarded, the
upper covered by the curtain. Another
door, 15x15 inches, is placed six inches
from the floor under ore of the win
dows for the birds to pass through the
front yard. A similar door in the CEN
ter of back wall admits them to the
rear yard. A light frame, made of 1x3-
inch strips and 1x6-inch cross tees, is
covered with ten-ounce white duck or
unbleached sheeting and hinged at the
top of the front opening, which it COW
ers when closed down. This curtain
is easily turned up into the room and
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04

Dear Friends:-My home is in Cades Cove Tenn, my age
10 years age that want to learn things but papa
not able to send Nashville to school so am not asking
purse donated want get value received so nave
the AGENCY for BILLY Sunday the Man and His Message book
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Demons Traffic in Innocent Girls" Ruins Runous Rule
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YOU anything you want the Bibles and or
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in the book line the likeness of loved enlarged
in any of the standard grades My Company guarantee their
work to deliver Tinted Crayon ST. Water Color or Sepa $3.50
Pastel $3.50 These prices include nice frame If two heads
are wanted addO Nothing extra charged for full figure
Address YOUR wants Ollie H. Myers Cades Cove Tenn.
PS you don't wish anything mentioned in my letter step
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that the people buy good Book the profit will help me to raise
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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
To The Creditors of
0. T. Stanley Eft Tx

In obedience to an order made by the
Chancery Court at Maryville, in the case
of Tennessee and Southeastern Coal
Company VS.. O. T. Stanley ct ux., the
creditors of said defendants are, hereby,
notified to have themselves made party
to said cause by partition, and to file
and prove their claims against said de-
PENDANTS in said cause, on or before the
7th day of May, 1916, or they may be
excluded from the benefits Of said suit,
and from sharing in the assets of said
company.
Said creditors and claimants are, also,
hereby notified that by order of said
court in said cause they, and each of
them, are enjoined from instituting any
suit against said defendants, otherwise
than by petition in said pending cause;
and all parties now suing said defend
ants are enjoined from proceeding in
their suits further than to judgement.
This 9Th day of Oct. 1915.
R. S. Walker,
C. & M.
Brown & johnson, Soils.
Oct. IA, 81, %, Nov. 4.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
CHICKENS RELISH A VARIETY
Fowls Need Something Bulky and
SuccuIent to Take Place of Grass
and Green Vegetation.

When digging potatoes, artichokes
or other crops, store some in a place
easily accessible and do not forget to
give your fowls the benefit of them.
The poultry needs something bulky
and succulent to take the place of the
tender grass and other green vegeta-
ton on which they have been feeding
for months.
Remember, an exclusive grain ration
is to concentrated.
Give them something filling" for a
change and see how they will enjoy
it. Variety is spice for hens as well
as humans, and healthy fowls are the
result if this truth is kept in mind,
and incidentally we might say, healthy
fowls fill the egg basket.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
SEALED BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the
Blount County Bridge Committee at
office of Chairman of County Court of
Blount County, Tenn, Maryville, Tenn,
at II 100 O'Clock Saturday November,
9Th, 1915, for the building of re-en-
forced concrete arch of thirty-five feet
clear span, and twelve feet clear road
way, over Bakers Creek at Stoney
Ford.
Each bidder shall furnish with his bid
complete detailed plan of the work
he proposes to build together with spec
ifications of same
For information as to foundation,
etc, see J. L. Clark, Chairman of Bridge
Committee, Maryville, Tenn.
The Bridge Committee specially re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids or plans.
Chairman:
j. L. Clark.
E. Hitch
W. L. Russell
Oct. 28-Nov. q
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
|. M. DEAVER

General agent INTERSTATE
LIFE & ACCIDENT CO., and
the SOUTHERN LIFE INSUR-
ANCE co. -616 VanDeVentor
Bldg. Knoxville, Tenn.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04

After working and experimenting
with heated houses and then with
glass front houses and various other
kinds, many poultrymen and investiga-
tors came to the conclusion that they
had not yet discovered the right way
to build their poultry houses. Then
came radical change. 1t was from
the closed warm house to the curtain
front house. These houses were con-
structed with two windows in front,
one at each end, and in the center a
long opening. The bottom of this open
window was high enough from the
floor so there was no direct draft on
the birds. The walls of the house
were built absolutely tight so there
were no drafts. The opening was COW
cred only by light cotton curtain.
Thorough trials of this style of house
developed the fact that the fowls kept
in such buildings were more healthy
and vigorous and produced more
eggs than under other systems. So
that now the curtain-front house has
come to be generally accepted as the
most desirable poultry house to build.
The free circulation of air through the
house removes all dampness, the litter
is kept dry, and the birds scratch free
ly in it.
After several years of experiment.
ing the Maine agricultural experiment
station has adopted the following plan
as the most economical in construc-
ton:
Each pen 20x20 feet will house 100
birds; a house may be made up Of as
many or as few sections or pens as
the owner desires. A door in each
partition will make it easy to do the
work In long houses one end section
may be left for feed room.
Three 6x6-inch stills run the length
of the house, the center one supports
the floor timbers in the middle of the
house, while the outside ones rest on
a rough stone wall, high enough from
the ground for dogs and cats to go
under the building to look after rats,
etc, that may harBor there. The
stone wall rests on the surface of the
ground, with large openings in it ev-
cry 20 feet to allow the circulation of
air. This keeps the ground and tim
bers dry during the summer. The
floor timbers are 2x6 inches and rest
on top of the stills. The front studs
are eight feet, six inches high. The
two sides of the roof are unequal in
width, the ridge being eight feet from
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
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this guard strikes the doors and
pushes them open easily. All food and
water can be carried through the
house on this car, and it will prove a
great labor saver in a long laying
house. The droppings from the roost-
ing boards may also be removed on
it, being gathered in pals or boxes,
loaded on the car and pushed to the
manure shed.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
Don't Use Diseased Fowl.

No fowl should ever be used in the
breeding pen that at one time in its
life had a contagious disease. But no
harm can come from using birds that
had been afflicted with slight colds or
frozen combs.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-11-04
]. A. McCullOch, M. d.

Physician and Surgeon
Front Office over George & Mitchell
Drug Store. Both Phones, Office SO.
Residence SO.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
VETERANS SHOULD TELL
OF THE MEANING OF WAR

LEXINGTON, Neb.. May 29.-(Special.)
Congressman Sloan delivered the me-
mortal address at Lexington today. In
the course of his remarks he said in part
as follows:
The soldiers Of the north were unlike
the millions massed now in the conti-
mental conflict. no know not the provoca-
ton nor the cause for which they battle.
but who offer life and take life while
their diplomats debate in press and forum
&c 20 who are the aggressors and who will
be TO blame. Every soldier Of the union
whose grave we decorate or today sur
wives through the debates In and out OF
congress for years the cause OF our civil
conflict.
Whatever may be the outcome of the
war-mad European conflict there will be
little for consolation and much for vain
regret
The Grand Army of the Republic in
every community, while loyal TO legally
elected national authorities In this period
OF great international concern. should
impress upon the people from their ex-
perience. the awful solemnity and bur
den. suffering ana sacrifice i'm blood and
treasure involved in a great war. SO that
no word or act from those in or out OF
authority may precipitate an unwise
movement toward mingling in a conflict
which almost every consideration short
Of grave national dishonor bids US avaid.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
Nebraska
DEATH OF PATIENT
CAME IN SCUFPLE
State Board Receives Affidavits
Showing How Charles Steokel.
berg Came to His End.
AUTHORITIES THINK ACCIDENT
tFrom a staff Correspondent

(From a staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. May 20-(special lin an
swer to inquiries by the State Board Of
Control into the death of Charles steckel-
berg. which occurred at the state hos
pital at Norfolk. the board has received a
letter of explanation from Superintendent
Cutlery and also aftidavits from Edward
Newsom. who had the alteration with
Steckelberg. and also from Simon r.
Baer. another employee who was present
at the time.
1t appears that Steekelberg was run
ming one OF the farm teams and had re-
fused to go out with the team. Newsom.
who was assistant farm boss, tried TO get
him to go and when he demonstrated with
him the patient jumped upon him and
while engaged in a scuffle they both fell
to the floor of the barn. Steckelberg's
head striking the cement floor. He later
became unconscious and died. The fall
occurred on May "a and Steckelberg died
three days later.
Superintendent Cutlery says in his let
ter that Newsom has been employed at
the asylum six years and was for a major
portion of the time in the violent ward
of the hospital. He was careful in his
handling of patients and successful In a
marked degree. so much SO that he was
transferred to the farm to look after the
men who were doing the farm work. His
success has been so marked that the SUI
perintendent desires the board TO retain
him. The coroner decided that no inquest
was necessary and that the death Of the
man was purely an accident.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
MIIford News Notes.

MILFORD, Neb., May 2s.-(SpeciaD-
The commencement exercises Of the high
school was held at the Congregations
church last evening. The graduating
class consisted of ten. the largest class
over gra iuated at this place. The COM
mencenent address was delivered by
Chancellor Avery of the University OF
Nebraska and was forceful and epigram-
matte.
rho lang continuous rains, while help
fI to wheat. hay and pastures, may be
lama sing to the corn recently planted.
The Memorial Sunday service will be
held at the Evangelical church tomorrow.
Rev. Larppler will deliver the sermon
followed by tie Memorial day services
1t the Soldiers Homo on Monday.
Fifty years after the close of the war
the Grand Army post at this place asks
the citizens to take control of the exer-
cises and at the last meeting passed the
honors over to a representation committee
of patriotic citizens.