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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

parish work. Miss Weston. for some
years prominent in the church work
met the young attorney there in the
regular church work and social oc-
casions. Since then a correspond
ence has been maintained and he has
been frequent visitor to Bridge
port.
Olav j, Schultz DeBruin of New
York was best man and Miss Nellie
Weston, sister of the bride, was
maid of honor. Following the cere-
mony there was a reception at the
brides home after which Attorney
and Mrs. Danberg left on q honey
moon trip, which is to include New
York and southern points. Upon
their return they will live on Stan
ley street. New Britain, where At
torney Danberg has furnished cory
home.
The bride has been employed as a
stenographert at the office of the
Crown Corset company, and is well
known in the city and has hosts OF
friends.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
FEAR DANCE WILL
JEOPARDlzE MAN,
Ill IN VICINITY
Southport Firerden's Ball
May Be Postponed at Re-
quest of Physicians
especial to The Farmer.l

Southport Jan. 27.-It is feared that
THE entertainments and dance to be
given by the members OF the South
port Fire Department on February 4th
will have to be postponed owing to the
illness Of Ado1ph c. Muser, the local
barber, who resides next door to the
dance hall. Physicians in charge OF
the patient have asked that the en-
tertainment be postponed as they fear
that the sound of the entertainment
would disquiet the patient VIII ois now
in a serious condition. They believe
that within few weeks the patient
will be conyalescing and the enter
tainment may then be held. The pa
tient is a member of the department
and it is believed that his brother
members will acQuieSee to the wish OF
the doctors.
On Friday evening the old fashioned
midwinter dance takes place, and
many invitations have been issued by
the house committee of the Greenfield
Country club. Members of the club
sic for dancing will be given by the
clubs orchestra.
Friends here regret to learn that
Mrs. A. D. Penny is seriously i'll at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Cummings, in Bridgeport, where she
went for 8 short visit and was sud
denly taken i'll with indannmatory
rheumatism.
Friday evening of this week a bus
mess meeting Of the vestry of Trinity
church will be held at the homo of A.
o. Jennings, a. member Of the vestry.
Great enthusiasm is being shown by
the members of the Kings Daughters
of the Methodist church in the play
which they will present to the public
within the next few weeks. and it is
expected that the affair will achieve q
great success. A rehearsal will be
held at the close of the chowder sup
per which the ladies will serve in the
church par1ors this evening. Mrs. s..
s. Jennings will entertain at the par
sonage.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
COUNTY CONFERENCE FOR
MUTUAL BENEFIT TO BE
HELD FRIDAY IN NORWALK

A county conference of the agricu1-5
tural, Industrial and mercantile inter
ests of Fairfield county has been call
ed by the Norwalk chamber of com
merce at the city hall in Norwa1k,
Friday, Jan. 20, at 2 O'Clock, when
the functions and organization of a
county league to effect cooperation
of the farmer. the manufacture and
mercantile house will be discussed in
public.
It is said that since 1900 while the
population has been increasing the
cultivated lands of the country have
been decreasing the resulting high
living expense of the employee causing
a corresponding high wage to the
manufactures with the result that
manufacturers here have been strug-
Cling to compete with the west where
food supplies are cheaper.
It is put forth that cooperation in
both buying and selling has made Eu-
ropes astonishing agricultural and in
dustria1 progress possible, that bank
ing capital has not been attracted into
rural industries here as it should have
been, that social life in the country
can be made as attractive as town
life and that country school systems
must be improved.
The functions of the League If or
ganized will be to coordinate and
unite all business forces 20 attack
common problems, to secure for Fair
field county the superintendent offer
ed by the Lever bill that passed the
last congress, to enhance agricultural
progress, and to make rural life more
attractive. as we'll as profitable by the
close study of local economic condf-
tions.
Tt is believed that a. large percent
age of the progressive farmers of
Fairfield county will attend and that
an organization will be completed
that will beat any of the eighty al
ready formed under the provisions of
| the Lever act
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
FAIRFIELD BRIDAL
COUPLE HONORED
GUESTS AT PARTY
Members of Girls Club Bus
lily Preparing for En-
tertainn1ent
Especial to the Farmer.)

Fairfield, Jan IA reception was
given on Sunday evening. at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Carroll on
Pine Creek avenue, in honor Of their
son, Thomas, who was recently unit
ed in marriage to Miss Theresa
O'Dwyer, the well known mil1iner of
Spring street. A supper was Serv-
ed the guests at 8 O'Clock and the re-
mainder of the evening was enjoyed
in vocal and instrumental music.
Rev. John H. Kelly, of Newark, N.
J., was guest, having been a neigh
Dor of the Carroll family since his
boyhood. Among those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Carroll,
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Carroll, Mrs.
Catherine O'Dwyer. Mr.. and Mrs. M.
O'Dwyer, of Bridgeport, Mr.. John
O'Dwyer of Southport, Mr. and Mrs.
Denis Donahue, Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Dunn, Mrs. Thomas Mentally of
Westport, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Dor
sey. Mr.. and Mrs. Toward Kelly, Mr..
and Mrs. George Hadley, Mrs. Geo.
Reynolds. Mrs. r. Lucey of Bridge
port, the Misses Anna, Mary, Kath-
ryn. Elizabeth and Agnes Dunn,
Frances LeaI1y, Mabel Gravensen, FL
sic Ellis of Danbury, Irene, Mary.
Annie and Bessie McNally, Sylvia
Poole of Bridgeport, Anna and Mol
lie Carroll, Jennie Donahue, Mary
Lucey. Nellie, Kate, Nora and MolIie
GOUId. Th0 gentlemen present were
Messrs. William O'Dwyer, Harry Car
roll, Louis Gould and John O'Dwyer
of Bridgeport. The couple are now
at home to their friends in beau
tifu1 home which the groom has fur
nished on Spring street
The grand list will be completed
within a, few days and it is expected
that it will be much larger than the
one compiled last year,
The Ladies Auxiliary of Fire De-
partment No. 2 will give a whist in
the f1remen's quarters on the even
ing of the second Friday in February.
The funds realized will be donated
to the department treasury.
The members of the Fairfield Girls
club will gather IN their rooms in the
Saum building, tomorrow evening for
the purpose of rehearsing for the min
strel show which they will give with
in the next few weeks. William
Toomey, of Bridgeport, is directing
the rehearsals.
The annual election Of officers will
take place at the meeting of Chemical
2, to be held in their quarters on the
evening of February 5th.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
STOCK MARKET

New York, Jan. 27.-Opening-
Passing of the dividend on United
States Steel common yesterday had
an unsettling effect on the market to-
day at the opening. Steel was only
slightly traded in but fell from yes
terday's closing price to 48A. The
preferred stock, whose dividend re-
mains unchanged. promptly fell An
points. The decline spread to Steel
sinking fund bonds which fell half a
point. London's range for Ameri-
cans was higher than the local mar
ket.
Noon-Trading in the first hour ag-
gregated 100000 shares, eQua11ing the
activity on the recent upturn. Sale
of steel in that period were exactly
1000 shares, all at the minimum. In
the unofficial market established while
the stock exchange was closed, sales
of steel were reported at a. Steel
preferred addeG to its initial decline
selling at littSe over point from
its minimum. Reading, the Hill and
Hartman. Pennsylvania, Canadian
Pacific, st. Paul and New York, Cen
trail sold lower. also Araa1gamated
Copper, Smelling and some less prom
inent issues. Slight recovery was
made in the second hour on dec11n-
ing volume of business.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
NEW BRITAIN LAWYER
WEBS BRIDGEPORTER
IN. SWEDISH CHURCH

Attorney Emil j. Danberg of New
Britain and MISS WaIborg w. Weston
of ESQ Orchard street. daughter of
Selma NJ, and the late. Policeman
Daniel Weston, were married at
o'clock this afternoon by Rev. D. J.
NordIing at the parsonage Of the
Swedish Lutheran Salem church, 1876
Park avenue The wedding is the
elimination of a pretty romance be-
gun four years ago when the groom
was a, teacher at the summer school
maintained in connection with the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

A marriage license was granted to-
day to James Henry Marshall. widow
er, aged AZ. railroad brakeman Of
Lenoxdale, Mass, and Miss Ida Uhlig,
aged 40, houseworker of 40 North
Washington avenue, this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

The Duke de Lorge, head of the
Durfort Cfvrac faIniyl, was killed in
battle, while serving as a sub-lieuten-
ant in the French army
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
HOUSTON & SON TO PRINT
MUNICIPAL DIRECTORIES.

The contract for printing .'the Lit
tie Black Books which contain the
lists of city officials and officials of
the common council was let by the
board of contract and supply today
to r. M. Houston & Son at a fat rate
OF SIS. This was the lowest bid
for the 500 books of which 500 will
be in paper covers and 100 in leather
binding. There were two other
bidders, the Standard association, $50
and the Brewer-Colgan Co, $3.50.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

The British steamer washington,
sailed from Seattle for Rotterdam
with a cargo of food valued at $512.-
600 for Belgian sufferers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

General Juan DozaI, Carranzista.
governor of Topic was executed at
MazafIan, after he had tried to escape
to the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

Governor Hall of Louisiana declared
he will refuse to honor requisition pa
pers for the extradition of women to
other states unless the charges are of
a major character.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

Governor John M. Slaton. of Geor
gia is in New York to arrange fo1
the sale of bonds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

The California raisin crop of 1914
was $50, 100000 pounds, an increase
of 1000, 600 pounds over 1912.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

President Wilson signed the emer-
gency deficiency bill, carrying approx
irnately 100000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27

Joseph Blanchard Ames, a prom
inent Boston hnancier, died at Win
chester, Va
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-27
RUBBER STORE

1911 Main ST., near stratfeld Hotel.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
He Could Wield an AK.

The skill of the old Maine shipbuild- CTS in the use of the adz and broadaS was wonderful. One old time yarn is of carpenter who applied very drunk at shipyard for employment, In or der to have a little fun with him the foreman set him to give proof of his skill by hewing out wooden bolt with no chopping block but Il stone. The carpenter accomplished his difficult task without marring the keen edge of the broadax and showed the foreman q neatly made bolt. Then he brought the ax down with terrific blow that shattered its edge upon the stone 'i can hew fust rate on your chopping block" he hiccOughed. but I'll be blamed if l can make the ax stick i'll 1t when git through" The story runs that the foreman lost no time ill em ploying such workman.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
FUTURE OF THE HORSE.
Can the Heavy Draft Animal Survive
 the Motor Truck?

The heavy draft horse is doomed He will not vanish suddenly. but his hour has struck Motor vehicles al ready are displacing him in cities. The cheap farm tractor will do the same in the country. In a few decades the great. magnificent brutes will be little more than q memory. Their places will be taken by bloodless machines that never whinny greetings to Il kind master. never search ones pockets for sugar--and never break their legs on icy pavements or drag out q frieDdlesS old age under the whips of stupid greedy drivers.
 When one thinks of these last con alterations the horseless age doesn't seem so gloomy prophecy. But if man is wise there will be no horseless age.
 l. If man has any real wisdom-and that belief. though often disappointed. never dies--the horse will be promoted to the position of humanity'S chief pet and plaything. but always with sub stratum of usefulness which will Keep him from degenerating into mere toy The draft horse. the trOtter-even the general purpose animar-may go. but the saddle horse ought to stay and thrive. Just ns medical prescription he is well worth while. for the old EnS lish phrase that ''the outside of a horse is the best thing for the insideS of a man still holds true. and as an in structor of youth and q means of real contact with nature he has no rival but the dog.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
Between Fear and Inclination

The popular Greek sentiment is for armed alliance with the entente forces. The polite Greek fear, on the part of the government, is that such alliance might prove bad choice. If victory for the German cause was clear, there is the differ ence in sentiment between the king and the people to be encountered, which difference doubtless enforces neutrality so far as Germany is con- cerned. The same consideration pre- vents active alliance with the enten- 1 te allies.
 With Roumania there is also neu- tral uncertainty. There is said to be diplomatic bidding as there was in the case of Bulgaria. and that the satisfactory price for Roumanian support to the one side or the other
 has not yet been named. Roumania is better worth bidding for than Greece; but there is some doubt
 whether it is the mere matter of price that holds that nation eneutral.
 In the second Balkan war Rouma- mia was a partner with Serbia in stripping Bulgaria of some of the territory that came to her as spoil of the first Balkan conflict. Approxim- ately 5000 square miles of Bulgar- ian territory passed to Roumanian control and Jurisdiction. Over that there is keen resentment in Bulgaria, which fact adds greatly to the diff culty of aligning these two nations in the one fighting cause.
 There is one further fact that in fiuences Roumanian policy in favor |of the entente allies rather than the central allies. In Hungarian terri tory, bordering on Roumania, there live approximately 3,0OO,O0O Rouma- |nians. That territory has long been coveted by the Roumanian govern ment; and in the triumph of the all lies there is the prospect that it might be acquired. To yield to Ger man persuasion and become allied with the German cause would des- troy that prospect.
 On the other hand, it is doubtless the cause in Roumania, as it is in Greece that the fear of a possible, or as the situation may be reviewed there, aprobable German victory. pre- vent an armed alliance with the ente- nte forces. It looks there very much as if in both of these countries it were case of letting I dare not wait upon I would" Portland Tel egram.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10

Jim Doggett has returned from a trip to the Summit.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
SHREWD GERMAN SNIPER
 IN X FARMERS CARE.

Dawson News: We got beast of sniper this morning (writes a corres- pondent from somewhere in France), and the manner of his taking was rather curious. His teeth betrayed him. We were about eight hundred yards from the nearest German trench and, like all regiments, we suf- fer a good deal from want of drink ing water, About half a mile to our immediate rear is a small stream, and we used to steal out at night for wa ter. Two of our men had been wounded and two others only just missed. and the firing came from somewhere behind our lines.
 A days close search revealed noth- ing, and meantime there was no wa ter, and our chief was getting sav- age and sarcastic. So early in the morning, just before the dawn, we threw out a great loop of men and gradually beat inward, but found nothing but shapeless old French farmer driving his riding play for potatoes. We questioned him, but he flew into rage because we were trampling over his beloved ground and ordered us off. Many of our men speak French and worried the old man. but he knew nothing of the "espion," and "sacre bleu, would we get off his field, or must he complain to the general, who would be just y
 We could no nothing but leave, and our subaltern reported to the chief, saying that the old farmer had gnashed his teeth as us, and jolly fine teeth, and clean too," pursued the sub, collectively.
 "What!" snapped the chief. MT. Jones, you will take couple of men and go carelessly to this old farmer, engage him in conversation, whilst you men pin him from behind sud- denly. don't want to lose men cap- turing dangerous sniper with clean teeth"
 Enlightened and feeling rather a bit ashamed, the sub. turned away, got a couple of men, and secured the old farmer. Oh, but he fought like a tiger. and the three men were rolling over and over on the ground for some time before he could be safely tied. He was a young man and a search revealed a belt of rife cartrides and two Lueger automatics. Later ill the day we found little dugout in a ditch with a rife hidden away under a screen of brushwood.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
It Sure ls

It Sure 10. Patience-Do you ever look back over the past?
 Patrice-Why. bless your heart! That's the only way one can look at he paSt."-YOnkers Statesman.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
MIGHTY MOUNT RAINIER.
ssh"aded by a Volcanic Explosion, it
 Still Towers Up l4,408 Feet.

Still Towers Up l4,4o8 Feet.
 Mount Rainier, in Washington cov- CTS 100 square miles of territory and rises l4.4OS feet into the air. In shape 1t Is not simple cone tapering to a slender. pointed summit like Fujiyama. the great volcano of Japan. It Is rath CT q broadly truncated mass resembling nn enormous tree stump with spread ing base and irregulurly broken top. It's life history has been varied one Like all volcanoes. Rainier has built up it's cone with the materials elected by it's own eruptions-with cinders and steam shredded particles and Jumps of lava and with occasional flows of liquid lava that have solidified into layers of hard basaltic rock. At one time 1t a, taiued an altitude of not less than 16. coo feet. if one may judge by the steep inclination of the lava and cinder layers visible in it's Hanks. Then followed a great explosion that destroyed the top part of the mountain and reduced it's height by some POGO feet The volcano was left behcaded, with a capacious hollow crater surrounded by jagged rim.
 Later on this great cavity. which measured nearly three miles across from south to north. was filled by two small cinder cones Successive feeble eruptions added to their height until at last they formed together low round ed donle-the eminence that now con stituteS the mountains summit. The higher portions of the old crater rim rise to elevations within few hundred feet of the summit and. especially when viewed from below. stand out boldly as separate peaks that mask and seem to overshadow the central dome
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
Judues' WiuS,

The wig is only worn by English bar risters to give them stern. judicial appearance. and no one can say that it fails in this respect. The custom was originated by French judge in the seventeenth century when. happen
 ing to don marquis wig one day. he found it gave him such stern and dignified' appearance that he decided to get one for himself and wear it at all times in court. This he did. and the result was so satisfactory from q legal point of view that not only judges. but barristers also. took up the custom throughout Europe.-London Graphic.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10

Exercise Is the chief source of i'm provement in all our faculties. Blair:
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
MINING FATALITIES
 ARE BEING REDUCED

V. H. Manning, director of the Bureau of Mines, has complied fig ures showing that 458 less men were killed in 1914 than in the year 1913
 The total number of men killed in all mines and quarries in the United States in 1914 was 3,193. In the year 1913 the number was 3,651.
 1.-The totals do not by any means tell the whole story" said Dr, Man. ming, There are more than mill ion men employed in the mines and quarries, and the death rate for the year 1914 was 3.16 for each 1000 men employed. as compared with 3.49 for the year 1913. These figures mean than in every 5000 men engag- ed in mining one man was saved in the last year. In other words. in near ly every mining camp of any size in the country there is one miner spar ed to his family, who would have been killed, had the same fatality Idlo ODIdIAcu Ill 1Dif do III lAC Pl lCN- ious year.
 These results are an eloquent tribute to the unceasing nationwide campaign which is being carried on in behalf of the miners by the opera tors, the miners themselves, the state mine inspectors, and the Bureau of Mines. It has taken the combined ef- forts of all these agencies to bring this about, and the Bureau of Mines is indeed proud of it's share in 1t, and exceedingly grateful to the state mine inspectors and others who have so willingly co-operated toward this de- sirable end.
 "I think it is to the credit of American manhood and American ideals that while the European na- tions at war are issuing their terri ble casualty lists with the names of killed and wounded by the thousand, we have so many agencies striving not to kill but to save life, and that we can issue lists showing a dwindl- ing death rate in our American mines. I do not mean by this that we have in any way reached ideal conditions. More than three men killed out of every one thousand em- ployed in the mines is too big per- centage of deaths. It includes much more than the natural hazards of the industry. What we are striving for is to get the rate down to that point and with the loyal assistance we are receiving from so many sources, we expect to accomplish that much"
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-12-10
Disguised.

Disguised.
 Custsmer-I'm going to . masked ball. and want something that will completely disguise me. Costumer- Certainly, sir. will give you come thing uice.-Pele Mele.