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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
MILLION WOMEN
 WORK FOR ARMY

Hanover. Feb. 10-Over a million women are engaged throughout Ger many in work for the soldiers at the front. Members of over two thou sand womep,s societies give their services voluntarily to the various branches of assistance both for those fighting in thet renches and for those who have returned disabled by wounds or disease. Not only are they doing splendid work in nursing in the field and in the hospitals, but they are looking after those who are convalescinE in private houses and public institutions or recuperattng in order to be able to return to the fir ing line,
 In the numerous recreation halls where the wounded soldiers gather the women also do their best to pro- vide entertainment. Tn other re- spects. also they are kept busy-for instance, in organizing popular kitchens where food is provided cheaply for. the fndigent dependents of the soldiers. They also knit and make warm garments for the troops, while many of them devote them selves to the care of the children of poor women obliged to go to work to keep their homes together during their husbands absence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
NICHOLS


 .sAt the Photographic is the name of the sketch to be given by the young people of the Christian Fsndeasyof so-- SO. ciety at their Valentine social on m Thursday evening, Feb. Il. This v II II be feIIoved by music and s games. Home made candy will be ons sale and eshraenfs will t5s served.
 Annoancement has been made oI the engageneaIt Of Miss Adelaide e. Field and Charles Daniel Brewer 0f this place. Mrs Lewis Christie has gone to Toronto. Canada for a two weeks, visit with her sister. Miss Hubbard of BridgepoTt is caring for her family The choir rehearsal will be held at the home Of Mrs. c. E Esoodyear on Friday night. Mrs William Cooper has invited the members of the Ladies Aid society to spend a social afternoon with her on Friday of this week. MT. and Mrs. Cooper have sold their farm in Strat- ford and will vacate the first of April Their many friends regret that they are to leave town,
 Mrs. George Rasmussen has recently entertained her brother. MT. Botsford. Of Botsford.
 Mrs. Clarence Goodyear will enter tain the Priscilla. club on Friday af- ternoon.
 Mrs. Nathan B. Curtis, who has been lfH with tonsiIitis and conphc hcations, is slowly improving.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10

Newtown settle down to work.
 Miss Dorette Gordon of New Haven is the trained nurse in attendance upon Miss Gertrude Blake, the High school student, wh oiss recovering from g. recent operation
 Miss Mary Rafferty is assisting in the care of Miss Le Fan of Walnut Tree HILL 2.
 Miss Marguerite Bradley has re- suIned her place in the High school after several weeks absence due tog 8 coasting. accident.5i
 John c. Leavy, manager of, the Blue Ribbons, basketball team, Harry Bradley, Robert Bradley aI1ds other enthusiastic fans. autoed to Bridge port, Tuesday night, to witness the game between their favorite five and the NorwaIk quintet-s
 Mrs. Joseph Brenner of Patterson, New Jersey, is spending a few days at her summer home in@thset Dor ough. ss
 Frederick Beard, son of MT. and Mrs. Arthur Beard of Sandy Hook, who has held a position with the American D. & T. Go. for 12z years, has received a wel1-merited promo ton. From the positi on of foreman at Bridgeport he has been advanced district manager for western COR nectieut which includes most Of New Haven and Fairfield counties, with of hcs at as Church street. New Haven. He is already installed in his position and will remove his family to } tflad city March l. H His many friends are congrat tulating him upon hts sue l E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
How To Gain Weight
 A Pound a Day

Thin men and women who would liSt to increase their, weight with 10 or 5 pounds of healthy ssstay there, fat should try eating a little SargoI with their meals for while and note results. Here is 8 good test worth trying First weigh yourself and measure yourself Then take Sargol -one tablet with every srneal-for two weeks. Then weigh and meas ure again. It isn't a question of how you look or feel or what your friends say and think. The scales and the tape measure will tell their own story, and most any thin man or woman can easily add from five to eight pounds in the first fourteen days by following the new flesh stays put.
 Sargol does not of itself make fat
 but mixing with your food, it turns the have eaten, into rich, ripe fat produc- ing nourishment for the tissues and blood-prepares it in an easily assim- Hated form which the blood can read fly accept All this nourishment now passes from your body as waste. But SargoI stops the waste and does if
 quickly and makes the fat producing contents of the very same meals you are eating now develop pounds ano pounds of healthy flesh between your skin and bones. Sargol is safe, pleas
 ant, efficient and inexpensive. Al leading druggists in Bridgeport and vi cinity sell it in large boxes-forty tab lets to a package-on a guarantee O, weght Increase or money back. z.---Adv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
FROM JOHN PAUL JONES TO
 DEWEY.

Down from the woods to the little town of Machias, Me, early in May. 1775, came a, man named O'Brien, at the head Of crew of lumbermen, to hear tales of the insolence and fear lessness of British seamen.
 O'Brien and his men listened to the talk of fleets b4ockading our American ports unti1 they Fcou1dn' t stand any more of it, so one night they went aboard a lumber sloop in the harbor, armed mainly with pitch forks and axes, sailed alongside the armed schooner, swarmed over the side, and. proceeded to make Amert- can naval history.
 Such was the birth of our navyi If one were to proceed to draw a graphic line showing the growth of the United States navy, according, to number of the Worlds Work, he would have four humps representing vigorous growth; three of which ! would sbe followed by depressions- long slides downhill that represent periods of complete apathy on the 1 part of the public and of Congress the humps representing crises or ex- treme emergencies compelling imme- | diate action to safeguard the nation l It is a long stretch from John Paul F Jones to Dewey yet during that en- tire period our naval policy has been
 
 crastination. After our successes in I the Revolutionary War, the navy was tdisbanded entirely, only to be hastily built up again to punish the pirates l of the Barbary Coast and later to be tgreatlx enlarged to enable us to com. pete successfully with Great Britain lThen followed a long period Of inac. 1 tivity until the Civil War, which 1T turn was followed by e.an apathetit Edrift'' on the part of Congress unti the war with Spain caused a renewa of our sea forces.
 ''In 190S,' concludes MT. Oskison f"occurred the impressive demonstra ton to the world that the American Naxy was once more in being. Six teen of our capital ships were sen away on the cruise that was extended 1 from Norfolk to San Francisco, ant l thence around the world. Thei, record on that cruise was aItogethe e admirable, and it's effect on our yer, recent naval development has beel good. Year by year since, Congres has added capital ships to our fleet and only England and Germany nov stand above us in modern f1ghtin, units. As to their present equip ment and personneI-wel, we're nov trying to find out whether or not W have once more 1apsed into a. stat of apathy
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
MAsFERPIEGEs MISSING
 FROM PLACES IN GALLERY

London, Feb 1O-Vfsitors to the National Gallery who remember it as second only to the Louvre halt with bewiIderment when they enter it now, looking in vain for their favor ite masterpieces. It's walls are still plentifu1ly hung with paintings, but the whole collection is fmmeasurab1y inferior to that of six months ago Gone are the works of Raphael and da Vinci and Holbein; only one or bens remain. In fact, most of the collections have been taken away for safe keeping in underground vaults where neither bombs nor conflagra- tion can reach them. In some cases, notably that of the priceless Ra- phae1 Madonna-the empty frames remain in places, awaiting the re- turn of peace.
 Another wartime feature of the Gallery is the sand bin of shiny gal vanized iron, which occupies a. prom inent position in the center of every room. The sand is for use in case of fire.
 A reminder of suffragette activity of the days before the war is seen in the hideous glass cases which sur round a few wall spaces in some of the main galleries. One of the few Rembrandts which remains in the 1 building is thus housed, the glass | frame extending from floor to cell ing, and preventing approach with | in three or four feet of the can- l vas.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
Amusemenfs
 POLES


 A1as evenly balanced bill through ssz= with p1enty, of Interesting feat rea,', says the sBridgepost Post re- flew of the current bill, at Polls the 9tre, Tonight affords. a final oppor- unity to those who haven't seen this Aest vaudeville and picture programs
 Making the Movies is the name N one of the. funniest satires ever tagged in VaudevilIe, heading the pro- grom. The travesty on the moving picture meier .rs eraIaIn s err is ehoek It'll Of laughs and also gives one a good insight into the manufacture ssf noti6n picture plays.
 Other big features of the vaude- viIle bill are Mayo and Tally, for uIeriy Of the Empire City Quartet. 'McDonod gfr, late soIo1st with the fa- nous Boston sFa adettesA in a very hap- by 9Fffteen Minutes in Songla1te. =
 Eanlof1 afid Clifton, presenting a Garlique and sensational hand-to- hand balancing offering; The Four Musical Kfeises5 premier. instrument talists; and sI-avine and Innans in a ralraL comedy skit,a5 sSalIy's Visit.'' s Theshighest praise from press and patrons has been accorded the feat lre photopIay, hve-part h1miza- lion ofsNat Goodwin's big success, "A fsflded Fool" The drama is most Interestingly presented by a very ca pablo cast headed by William Far. nun and Margaret Vale, the latter a niece of Presid ent Wilson and a very talented artist In addition, there are other high-elass. photoplays.
 For the last half of. the week, in addition to a big vaudeville show, Manager Poli announces Mrs. Leslie Barter in a sfx-part hlnization ri fDu Barry This is recognized .s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
PATENTS s
NOTICE
ro WHOM Tr MAY CONCERN:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;
 The undersigned having on the 29th day of January, 1915, been ap- pointed by the Honorable Edwin F. Gager,, 8 Judge of the Superior court Of the State of Connection. sitting in Chambers, as Temporary Rceivers, in the State of Connecticut of The Real l ty Investment Co., a corporation or ganized under the laws of the State l of New J Jersey, were ordered to give ! and file a bond with good and suffi- cient surety. approved by said Judge, I in the sum of twenty thousand dol lars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of their duties in this state as such Reiceivers and thereup- on given the authority and control of | the assets in this state of the said The Realty Investment Company and such other power and authority as pertain to the office of Rceixers in this state; and the officers and agents l of said corporation being en5oinsd 1 and restrained from further action in the affairs of the said corpoFa- ton in this state except at the re quest of and to assist the said Re- ceivers, and it being further ordered that when and if the said Receivers I were made permanent Receivers an inventory should be filed and other action taken pursuant to law; It was Further Ordered; That no tice of such temporary appointment I and of a hearing ont the confirmation of the same and for the appointment of appraisers as required by law be held before the undersigned on the 18th day of February, 1915, at twelve l o'clock noon, in the Superior court room in the County building, in Mid dletown, be given to all parties in in- terest by serving on, or before the. 31st day of January 1915, a true and attested copy of the Complaint in this action, and verification and tllis order upon the President of The Realty Investment Go. now in the State of Connecticut and by publish ling a copy of this order of notice for three days prior to the 12th of Feb lruary, 1915, in the Hartford Times Bridgeport Farmer, Hartford Cour- ant, Adiddletown Penny Press and the New Haven JournaI-Courier, all be- ing newspapers and having a circu1a- ton in the State of Connecticut, not less than six days before such hear ing.
 (Signed)
 EDWIN B. GAGER,
 A Judge of the Superior Court for the
 State of Connecticut.
 A true copy of the order of No tice in the above entitled cause;
 Attest:
 SILAS A. ROBINSON,
 JOHN L. DOVER,
 Temporary Receivers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
EMPIRE
KEY1, AT EMPTRE.
"MASTEsR ]

s.NfASTER KEYr AT EMPIRE.
 The latest episode Of the greatest of all serial films, The Master Key featuring Robert Leonard and Ella Hall will head the select photoplay program offered to-day at Keeney' s Empire theatre.
 A number of other excellent feat rures and single reel pictures will also be shown.
 Tomorrow another feature pro gram will be offered headed by the latest instal1ment of the great nys- tery detective serial, The Exploits Of Elaine in which Craig Kennedy Inc greatest scientific detective of the age and the mysterious master crinn- fna1 known only as The CIutching 2 Hand figure prominently.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
PLAZA

By special arrangement with the New York booking offices Billie Burke,s great laughing success, Fix ing the Furnace. .wlI1 headline the latter half of the current week and local theatre goers are in for q ser les of real, hear ty laughs in this offerz Ing. liking the Furnace is farce pure and simple and novelty con structed. A supporting bill of stel- lar proportions has been fitted around 1t and the snnoviess program is of es-
 To@day's bill contains Charles Chap Hrss funny two reel oferings .sais Trystilag Places, 7 which is responsfb1e for a half hour of zcreaznss at every showing Charlie is the better half Of Keystone Mabel and gets himself
 Harry Bouton & Co., in tneir orig 1naAs mixture Of mystery and laughs entitled Straight and Crooked Mag ic'' are heading the vaudeville attrac- tions. The act is sonnet hing entir ely out of the ordinary run Of acts of it's type and is really in a class by itself. Stunts that first creati feeling Of deep wonder in the nindssof spectator later cause a veritabIe riot of 4aagh- ter and the audience never knows what to expect next.
 The remain6ler of the pregnant is made Up Of Cummings and GIadIngs in Ye1x eIexer a1 classy singing a5YFs s lsE s art oE which deserves especial credit Sear1e d Stuart, two merry young men in a singing and talking oddity that has plenty of good comedy interspersed; the Arfon Four, a quartet of male snng-birds singing. songs that please and MT. Quick. the lightning cartoon ist in in1promptu cartoons Of current events.
 Hogan sne Porter, another Key stone comedy; j .sThe Scrub a drar11at- fe story of college life; and gtsAfter 2e Years are also shown
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
OUR TOWN NEWS LETTER
fspecial to tte Farrner.l )

Newtown, Feb. 10-JoFan T. Carroll of 957 Central avenue, Bridgeport, has been appointed administrator of the estate of his father the late James Carroll of Southbury. The deceased left prpperty interests in iboth New towm and Soll6a1Fbury 8
 The valentine sale of the Ladies' Aid society of the Gongregational church, will be held at the church parlors, Thursday afternoon, Feb II, at 3 o'clock At 5:30 p. m. there will be a. chicken pie supper to which the public are cordially invited.
 MT. and Mrs. c A. Northrop of Bridgeport, are guests Of MT. and Mrs. A. B. Brinton.
 Miss Alkaline Hurd attended the banquet of the Camp Fire Girls of New Milford. Friday night, and re- ports an excellent time.
 Tickets for the play, Miss Fear less and Company '' to be given at the town hail. February IS, go on sale today at R. H. Beers & Co.'S store The cast of characters include these well known local players: Margaret Henley, sheiress, Alkaline Hurds Eu- plaemia Addison, chaperone, Marion Curtis; Sarah Jane Lovejoy from the Lost Nation. Catherine Mayerss Katie O,Connor, servant, Sarah Beers; Bar bara Livingston, Jessie Beers: Bettie Cameron, Dorothy James; Marion
 
 Lizzie, the ghost, Helen Northrou D . Misses Alias and Alfbi. the silent sis ters. Georgia Northrop and Elsie Fer 1 ris. After the play, dancing will be enjoyed.
 Pootatuck Grange held a very in teresting meeting Tuesday night at which several appHcationse for mem bership were received and acted on. Interest in grange work and problems | is unabatedt and with the infusion | of new members all are hopeful for the future.
 night from a business trip to New York.
 Interest in the shrievalty appoint n7ent for Newtown shifted this week | to Sandy Hool15 where two new can ldidatesz for the honor of deputy un- der High Sheriff Simeon Pease have | come into the IirneligI1t. These are Constable F. J. Thral1, JI:s and Mer- | chant M orrfsD. Beers. The friends l Of both candidates are booming them 1 loudly. Sandy Hook thinks the plum belongs in the second district, but members of the G. o. P. in the cen l ter of the town say there will be nc change for this section with dual can i didates. Besides the delegates tc 1 the county convention residing there I were all Bailey men, and, it is thought their advocacy of either of the second | district candidates will queer then 1 with High Sheriff Pease. Merchant R. N. Beers of the borough, was the only Newtown delegate voting fol l Pease, but he is no relative of hi. namesake in the valley. From a re I liable source it was learned toda, 1 that the merchant in the center o the town had been offered the ap pointnent, but declined Doubles
 he has the pull to land the appoint 1 rnent for any Republican he endors
 ed, but as yet, the story runs, h, is not back of any candidate so ia:
 mentioned. It is to be hoped. how
 ever, that the high sheriff will ex
 crcise his prerogatiye and duty O Rnazning some one soon. and let ofnc1a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
RELATIVES SEEK
 CONSERvATOR FOR
 MRS. ERWIN MILLS
A. S. Jelliffe, Westport The atre Manager, Leaves
 Town Suddenly
Special to The Farmer)

Westport, Feb. 10.-A petite on has been filed in the probate court for the appointment of 8 conservator for Mrs. Erwin Mills, formerly Mildred Taylor Mrs. Mills left town sud- denly Saturday. Arthur B. Je1liffe, proprietor of the Opera house has also left for parts unknown. Mrs Mills has been the pianist at the Opera house for the past two years.
 Both are married. It is rumored that Pinkerton detectives are searching for Jellfffe. Mrs. Mills before mar riage was a performer on the Keith circuit She is the daughter of the late Frank N. Taylor and is heir to one-thfrd interest in the Taylor es- tate. valued at about $12,O0o. The petitioners are Mrs. Frank N. Tay- lor mother of Mrs. Mills, and Frank and John Taylor, brothers. The hearing will be before Judge Brad ley, Feb. 20th.
 State Policeman Rowe H. Wheeler was in town yesterday. It is believed 1 that he is in search of the promoters
 of the cock fight held in Wilton. Sun
 day
 Many have planned to attend the
 dance Thursday. evening in the large | barn lately erected on the Chestnut l Hill avenue, property of MT. and Mrs. l the supervision of Allan D. Clifford l of the Lower Paris, who has com 1 pIefed his studies art Storrs college. Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie, rector of
 Holy Trinity Episcopal church, will attend the meeting of the standing committee, in Hartford. Friday The
 rector is chairman of one of the min 1 or committees and will submit his
 report for the past year. The following missionary societies
 will meet at the Holy Trinity chur ch
 this week The Little Helpers will meet this afternoon, the Junior
 Auxiliary this afternoon and the Boys Auxiliary. Thursday afternoon The board of relief will meet in the Town hall tomorrow afternoon. ! ported very i'll at the Bridgeport hos Fpita1 where he has been since October
 Miss Hattie Bradley, daughter o1 I MT and Mrs. Fred Bradley of Indian I Hill road, Saugatllck. returned lasi I evening from a week end visit witk l relatives in New r ork.
 I The Cannon and Weston parishion- lers of Rev. John Mace, pastorsof the I'Zion Hill M. E. church, learn witt sincere regret that at the conference to be held in April he will probably De T transferred to another parish. Rev I Mr. Mace has been in charge of tht
 Zion M. D. church for the past three Eyears and has made many friend, I during that time.
 I Letters are awaiting the fo1fowi1ls claimants at the local post office Irene Branard and Christfan1ls T ISchnfdt
 Fred Perry, of Lincoln street lef today for New@ fork on a bushes. trip.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
Fairfield County News
Population of Stamford.

Population of Stamford.
 On April 15. 1915, the population #of the city of Stamford is estimated at 29s032, as compared with 25,138 in 1910, an increase of S,894.
 . Growth of Greenwich.
 Nearly $1.oeo, GOO is to be expended for new buildings in Greenwich. the coming year
 Net Income. s75.6o1.
 The annual report of the board of electrical commissioners for the South NorWa1k electrical plant states that the net income for the year is $75,- 6O1 64 and adds: s'It seems to us on- ly just that the consumers whose pa tronage has not only paid up every dollar of the investment in the com mercial part of the plant, but also of the original street lighting installation and whose continued patronage must be depended upon for the whole un- idertakins's successful patronage, should be allowed a fair share in the prosperity that they have thus so largely capitalized. To this end, we believe that such rate reductions should be granted to the consumers as may be determined justi1abIe in the future
 Farmers Institute. H
 The Connecticut Agricultural Col tlege and the Advisory board at the in lvitation of Shelton in 3co-operation with Earnli1l River grange of Hunt ington, will hold a Farmers Institute at the Grange hall, Shelton on the Iafternoon and evening of February 17- I The program will be as follows: At J1:30 D. m. address of welcome by I Henry M. Bradley Jr-s master of the l grange; ..Dairyfng'' by Wilson H. Lee of Orange; Poultry Raising by c. H. Brundage, of Danbury. At D. l m, Fruit Growing by Everett E. Brown, Pomfret Center; stSeed Test ling,o by B. M. Stoddard, Connect1- lcut Experiment Station, of New TIa- Iven.
 Shot by Friend.
 Roy woode1I, of Towners, N. Y, was brought to the Danbury hospital Thursday evening with gunshot 1 wound in his right thigh, the injury | having been accidentally inflicted by la friend of MT. WoodeH while the two men were hunting rabbits. At the hospital it was stated that while ithe wounds are painful it was expect ed that no serious results would ob- tain from the wound. MT. Woodell was in advance of his companion when the latter sighted rabbit. Not knowing of his friends intention tc shoot MT. Woodel1 stepped into range
 just before the man discharged his gun Fortunately MT. Wooden was not close enough for the shot to pene- l trate very far into the flesh.