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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09

IL OF CONNECTICUT gave Mr. Hughes but 293 plural "A y outside of Fairfield county.
 In Fairfield county Mr. Hughes received plurality of 99 than three times much his plurality in all rest of Connecticut
 That is to say oneh of the population of Connecticut in Fairfield county Hughes than three times much lead the other four-fifths of the population,
 This unnatural and unexplained result has naturally at raced the attention of thoughtful will be investigate
 Homer Cummings already has received reports of money and of the employment of such improper number of voters upon election work makes it best to him that investigation of conditions in Fairfield county
 Whether investigation should civil criminal procedure under state Federal authority by combna ton of all means, remains to be determined
 It is time that the excessive of money in election in Fairfield county stop If it necessary to make pes those who support such system of franchise debauch the examples be furnished at the earliest possible ment
 Readers of The will remember the significant mnicaon that into Bridgeport toward the end of the campaign.
 Said R. w. Austin whose at the bottom of this letter:
 If we can raise funds sufficient allow it will plee organization in each Close district will be impos sible to lose"
 Again, said Mr. Austin:
 If you knew necessity of certain work to be done toward the of movement and udcous in which dollar raised by this committee being expended feel quite confident you help yourself get of friends inter fested to the extent of making contribution"
 How were these money be used to make im possible to lose districts? What the certain ork to be done would make impossible to lose close districts?
 It is the duty government to find out MT. Cummings is just the that the people get the nfor nation.
 Many things need before the purity of the ballot box in Fairfield county will be properly saeguarded Let have an investigation into these methods Let be sweeping as such investigation can be made
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
RECORD 153 DEATHS
 DURING SEPTEMBER.

One hundred and ffty-three deaths occurred in Bridgeport last month &C., cording to the statistics on file at the town clerks office Of these the deaths record show of typhoid fever 8; diph- theria or croup 1; tuberculosis g; can- cer 12; spinal meningitis 1; infantile paralysis 5; pneumonia 16; diarrhoea, under two years 21; by accident or violence 20: of all other causes 65. The total deaths of those under one year were 31; of those from one to five years of age there were 16. Of those who died in institutions, 49 were residents of Bridgeport and nine were non-residents. There we're 22 still births
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
NEW ELECTION
 UNNECESSARY, C0MLEY AYERS
Council Should Decide Tie Vote, Declares City
 Attorney.

City Attorney William H. Comley. Jr.. has now practically decided that 1t will be unnecessary to call a special election to decide who has been chosen as Democratic selectman. As told in The Farmer yesterday the returns show that James P. Griffin and Fran els P. Heavy, the two Democrats low est in the count of the first two par ties on the voting machines, have 8,6s4 votes each Thomas Hupngerford, the other Democrat, has S,709 votes. City Attorney Comley believes that under the law, MT. Hungerford and the three Republican selectmen can be declared elected and that the council can de- eide between MT. Griffin and MT. Heavey as to who shall be the other Democratic selectman.
 Just what view the Democrats will take in this situation could not be learned today. Hugh J. Lavery, chair man of the Democratic town commit tee, still has the matter under consid- eration. Neither of the Democratic candidates would say today what ac- tion they intended to take.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09

the nine keeping accounts were aver aging to make $737 per year above all expenses and the interest on their investment, while the other fifteen, as nearly as could be figured, were each making $35S a year. While it can not be said that these men doubled their profits by studying their busi- ness, nevertheless the facts are sig nificant. MT. Manchester, the county agent, is now prepared to assist farmers in starting farm accounts.
 Killed By Auto.
 Joseph Green, 29, of Thomaston, died Thursday, from injuries received in an automobile accident in Terry vile. Frank Velner, "A, of Terryville, was operating the machine which struck Green Witnesses say Green was running for a jitney when he stumbled and fell off the sidewalk in to the street, where the automobile struck him.
 Farm Bureau Of1cers.
 At the annual meeting of the Litch- field County Farm Bureau, Robert W. Scoville of Salisbury was chosen pres ident in place of Clifford E. Hough OI WaSIlluS ton, WHO OcCll1Sd Ie- election on account of i'll health. The other officers are: Vice-president, Charles L. Gold, Cornwall; secre- tary, Harmon W. Treat, Bridgewater; :; treasurer. Philip P. Hubbard, Litch- field.
 Will of Carl Strakosch.
 The will of the late Carl Stra- kosch was admitted to probate in New Hartford Monday, the value of the estate being estimated at $150,- 900. Elfstone, the Strakosche home, is left to Mrs. Myra Parsons of Chi cago, and other bequests include s20,- 900 to Miss Julia Harris Strakosch of New York city, an adopted daughter; $20,000 to Celia Corauson of New York a maid in the employ of the family for fifteen years; $20,OO0 in trust for Craig Wynee Goodwin, of New Hartford, and $20,000 to Julia Strakosch Timar of Budapest, Hun gary, a sister. The residue of the estate will go to Julia Strakosch Lee of Cheadle, England. There were no public bequests.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
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ephonic communication. It Is not shell fire alone which brings down the telephone lines along the front. The closer to the line, the cruder becomes the method of hanging the wires; so that small windstorm or even rain, (which inevitably follows a lombard ment,) may put the wires out of com mission.
 "The electrician in question, who had been in this particular section of the Verdun front during four months of the great battle, constructed during his spare moments device for electrically eaVesdropping in the enemy's trenches. He had very little equipment at his dis posal, so he utilized for the most part pieces from the artillery scrapheap. Through the use of his trench dicta- phone several gas attacks of the en- emy were apprehended in time to make preparations against them. During the night the electrician ar ranged in the eneny's barbed wire a series of discharged '75' shell cases containing microphones, to which, he connected wires terminating in the French trench, where batteries fur nished current for reproduction of the sound waves on telephone receivers. A ground connection is made to carry the return current.
 GET NEWS BY FTRELESS.
 "It is true that the closer one gets to the front the less general becomes his perspective of the war. The men in the first-line trenches see the war sifted down to the few feet of trench where their guns are resting. News from other parts of the front is gen. orally 48 hours late in reaching these men, If soldier who has been hold ing down his few feet of trench at Verdun is assured that his country men on the rest of the front are do- ing the same he is much encouraged! This electrician made it possible for them to receive the daily communique an hour after it is transmitted from the great wireless station of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He did some more rummaging around the artillery scrap heaps, detached few parts from an old musket, cut some strips from a brass 75' shell case, bought small piece of deteetor crystal and in a short time was sending messenger out soon after midnight every night LO IdhS U LLIS 11lCIl III (lC llISI lli10 l1IG days news.
 "At midnight of the date of the in- terview the communique was a long one, being the first news of the French offensive in Picardy, which had just begun A messenger tok the glad tid- ings to his brothers in the trenches. Then the electrician adjusted his in- strument so that it intercepted mes- sages sent out by some German port able field wireless apparatus. The German spark is pitched very high and musical, while the French is dull and staccato A message sent out by an aeroplane was intercepted also by the crude but practical receiving in- strument.
 For military purposes the wireless is not as much used by the French as by the Germans The French, wher- ever possible, use the telephone in- stead, and along some parts of the front they have established under ground lines impregnable to shell fire. The French have closed automobiles equipped with complete telephone switchboards, so that temporary ex changes may be established at short notice wherever they may be needed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
WAR DICTAPHONE
 BRINGS DECORATION
Edison of Trenches" Gets News for the First Lines By a Scrap Heap Wireless Outfit.

A young French soldier has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre because he rigged dictaphones on the edge of a German trenchs near Fort Tavannes in the Verdun theatre of war, .by which he was able to warn his fellows of number of gas attacks in time for preparation against them.
 Out of odds and ends of the debris of war he fashioned the first dicta- phone, the case of which, was an emp ty "75" shell. Under cover of night he placed this in the barbed wire en- tanglements of a frst-hne German trench, a ground connection carrying the return current. It worked, and then he made other dictaphones until he had an effective system of electri- cal espionage on a considerable length of German trench.
 This same Frenchman, suffering with his fellow-soldiers from the strain of not knowing until 48 or 72 hours later how things were going on the rest of the long battle line, rigged up a, crude wireless station by means of which he caught the daily com munique from the Eiffel Tower. and distributed it to the other soldiers about him.
 George Kenneth End, in the No- vember issue of The Popular Science Monthly, paints a graphic word pie ture of the effectiveness of the ap- paratus, which he saw working.
 '3This young Edison of the trenches, he writes, lis the leader of a group of expert electricians assigned to one of the most difficult and most danger ous jobs on the front. The laying of wires from the listening stations to the switchboards further back aof the lines, the wiring of underground mines so as to afford illumination for the soldier toilers under the earth and the constant vigilance over inc wires which at any moment might 'be cut by exploding shells, is his job.
 Difficulties of Operation.
 Tt is useless to lay wires ,nder- ground along the Verdun front. SD three wires are strung for every line connection. These wires are str,1no from small posts about seven feel above ground, the several units of the same line being as widely separated as possible. Thus the chance of having a circuit broken are comparativelv small.
 At this particular switchboard which was about 1 5 feet underground there was telephonic communication with about eight different points along the first lines. Every 20 minutes each of the lines was tested by the operator at the switchb board. When a line was found to be cut, a squad of four men was sent out at once to locate the 1rac- ture and repair it. They might be caled upon at any hour of the day or night, for very often when the enemy is concentrating curtain of shell fire over section, information as to ac- tivities in the first lines would be abso- lutely cut off if it were not for the tel
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
Little Things for Everyday

All small necessities needed in every home, and without which many uncomfortable 2 ? !. Pins, needles, threads, silks, mending cotton harpns and dress shields hair nets and curers buttons of all sor shoe poh coat hangers beltng and tape scissors and shears. In Linngs, fancy stripes and figures quilted linngs in satin and satine, felt and felt nterlings.
 Peicoat Ruffes, to fix up partly worn out skirt.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
EITCHFIELD COUNTY NEWS.
Bookkeeping For Farmers.

The county agent in Litchfield county recently made a business study of twenty-four farms in Goshen, Win chester and Cornwall. Among other facts of interest he found that nine of these men were keeping farm ac- counts and systematically studying their business. On Investigating the profits on these farms he found that
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
Children's White Bucksl
Misses High Cut Storm Sho
Gas Ranges
Exclusively the h -:h grades

s'The Vulcan" Gas Range and Cookers, all cast parts of enamel baked and require no backing; sheet metal parts extra heavy; burners star style door panels, crumb pans and broiler pans white enamel.
 Three burner top cookers, $12.O0 up Three burner with broiler, $13.5O up Four burner singe-oven range, $19.50 up Four burner double-oven, $235O Four burner cabinet style $285O
 All connections free. M
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
APPROVE MOP" PLANS.

Jefferscn City. Mo-, Nov. 9-The proposed reorganization plan of the Missouri Pacific and St.. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railways, was approved here today by the state pulp lie service commission.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
HUGHES GOES MOTORING.

New York, Nov. 9-After studying the election returns for two hours this morning, Charles E.. Hughes went motoring shortly after Il o'clock. Mrs. Hughes accomanied him. The nominee declined 10 comment on the returns.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09

The British steamship East Point arrived at Philadelphia from London and reported that the fire in her. No. 1 hold caused little damage to the ves- sal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
The Sherwood Dish Drainer

An oblong pan of heavy galvanized metal to be used the draining board of the sink. It has separate wire apartment flat silver knives forks and spoons which stand upright and easily handled.
 Handy outlet into the sink. Best drainer aver
 75 cts
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
WAITING FOR THE RETURNS

HE DELAY in knowing the result of the election is
 avoidable The matter hangs upon the votes of great number of tiny places mostly situated in the far west Many of these villages and hamets remote from lines of travel They have neither railroad telephone telegraph facilities
 Ordinarily such returned the canvassing thority in esurely way The result usually known from the quickly counted vote.
 But this time the result being decided by the farmers and the vote of the nest village of number of states may be sufficient to change the result
 is likely that the matter not be fully determined for along time is most probable that the results every close state will be closely scrunized by the party who objects to the adverse return.
 All that the citizen do is to wait patiently for the deter minatiOn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
Goodyear Rubber
 Goods

The kind that give service. : Rubber Boots Arctics
 Felt Boots Rubbers
 Hot Water Bottles Fountain Syringes Marvel Spray Syringes Sick Room Supplies Rubber Sheeting Hospital Goods Rubber Toys Hose
 Tubing
 Plumbers Supplies Dress Gloves Work Gloves Fur Lined Gloves Sporting Goods And big variety of extra quail ity and popular priced goods.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09
Shoes for Children

Bear in mind that at Reads they make speciality of Chidren's Shoes. The Footform Last is modelled by orthopedic experts and allows for free growing in the right way. Babies Button and Lace Shoes of soft kidskin on orthopedic last, Sl5O t'Firststep ankle supporting shoes,
 sizes to }, $l85
 51a to 8, $500
 111a to ?, $350 Childrens White Buckskin, button models with wide toes, hand welted soles,
 sizes to 8, $325 81a to II, $4O0
 111a to ?, $45O Misses High Gut Storm Shoes of tan grained leather sizes, 111a to }, $45O
Morris tribune., 1916-03-24
ASSUMPTION CHURCH.

In the church of the Assumption
a weeks mission will be solemnly
opened next Sunday morning at High
Mass. This mission will be conducted
by the three Redemptorist Fathers,
Devine, Forester and Eberts. All
members of the parish who can do
so are expected to be present at the
opening of the mission. The hours
for the various exercises will be an
nounced by the missionaries.
A mission is a series of religious
instructions and exercises given by
priests who have especially prepared
themselves for this week, the object
being the renewal of the religious
life of the parish.
Needless to say, every member of
the parish is expected to assist at the
mission services: The good and pious,
that they may make still greater pro-
gress in virtue, the lukewarm to be
reused from their sleepiness, the sin
ners to be converted.
Morris tribune., 1916-03-24

ris, Minnesota.
A. Albert Miller, residing at Nor
ris, Minnesota.
The officers of this corporation who
shall hold their respective offices UNI
til their successors are elected and
have qualified, are as follows:
Frank Miller, residing at Morris,
Minnesota shall be President and
Treasurer.
A. Albert Miller, residing at Nor
ris, Minnesota, shall be Vice-Presi-
dent.
Elizabeth Miller, residing at Nor
ris, Minnesota, shall be Secretary.
Article vi.
The authorized capital stock of this
corporation shall be Fifty thousand
Dollars $3.50, OOO.OOI, divided into
five hundred shares of the par value
of One hundred Dollars ($100.00)
each. Of this capital stock there
shall be paid up in cash or it's
equivalent, Two thousand Dollars
($20OO.0O at the time of commence
ing business. The balance of the
capital stock shall be paid in and is
sued as prescribed by the Board of
Directors, but no stock shall be sold
for less than its par value.
Article VII.
The highest amount of indebtedness
or, liability of this corporation shall
at no time exceed the sum of Twenty
five thousand Dollars 1925, 100000
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, The
undersigned have executed this instru-
ment this 18th day of March A. D.,
1916.
- Frank Miller, (SeaD
Elizabeth Miller, (Seal
A. Albert Miller, (Seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered in the
presence of: Geo. w. Beise, Henry
Hartog, as to Frank Miller and Eliz-
abeth Miller; S. N. Edison, C. R.
Arsenault, as to A. Albert Miller.
State of Minnesota, County of Ste
vens, IS.
On this 18th day of March A. D.
1916, before me, Notary Public
within and for said County, personally
Morris tribune., 1916-03-24
Notice of Hearing

Notice Is Hereby Given, That, a
petition having been filed with the
City Manager and presented to the
City Commission, of the City of Nor
ris, asking that the following i'm
provements to 9th St. E. be made ::
/. The construction of % #. road
way. 2. A concrete curb. 3. A two
foot concrete gutter. 4. A boule-
ward properly leveled and seeded. 5.
Construction of asanitary sewer in sew
er District No. II. 6. The construc-
tion of five foot concrete walk where
none now exists, except in front of
lots 1922, inclusive, in Block 5, and
that the cost thereof, or such
portion thereof as the city commission
shall deem proper, be assessed against
the property especially benefited there
by, said petition will be considered at
a public hearing before the city com
mission, IN the commission chambers.
at the armory, on Tuesday the 18th
day of March, 1916, at 800 O'Clock
p. M, and that objections to the pro-
posed improvement will be heard at
that time and place.
The property affected by, and like
ly to be assessed for said improvements
includes the following: All lots
facing E 9th Street from the intersec-
ton of the same with the alley be-
tween Atlantic and Oregon Ave-, tc
the intersection Herewith of Columbis
Ave. .. ......
Dated at Morris, Mimi, March %
1876 S. A. Siverts, Jr.,
City Manager,
Morris tribune., 1916-03-24
The Court of Last Resort

Around the stove of the cross roads
grocery is the real court of last resort,
for it finally over-rules all others.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
been brought before this court in al
most every cross roads grocery in this
country, and has always received a
favorable verdict. 1t is in the coun-
try where man expects to receive full
value for his money that this remedy
is most appreciated. Obtainable
everywhere.
Morris tribune., 1916-03-24
Articles of Incorporation Of
Miller Investment Comnanu

We, the undersigned. hereby asso-
ciate ourselves together as a corpora
ton, under and pursuant to the
statutes of the State of Minnesota,
and for that purpose do hereby adopt
the following articles of Incorporation.
ArticleI.
The name of this corporation shall
be the Miller Investment Company.
Article II.
The general nature of it's business
shall be the buying, selling and other
wise dealing in personal property, real
estate and securities in the States and
Territories in the United States and
the doing of any other lawful act
which may be necessary or desirable
in the conduct or furtherance of such
general business.
Article III.
The names and places of residence
of the incorporators are as follows -
Frank Miller, residing at Morris,
Minnesota.
Elizabeth Miller residing at Morris,
Minnesota.
A. Albert Miller, residing at Nor
lis, Minnesota.
Article ".
The period of duration of this
corporation shall be thirty $500
years, commencing April First,
1916; and the place of it's principal
office shall be in the city of Morris in
the State of Minnesota, but it may be
changed at any time by majority
vote of the stockholders of the cor
poration, to accommodate the business
of the corporation. 81
Article V. .. d.
The management of the affairs of
this corporation shall be vested in a
Board of Directors consisting of three
~ stockholders to be elected by the
stockholders. The officers of the cor
poration shall be selected from among
the directors, and shall consist of a
President, Vice-President, and Secre-
tary and Treasurer. Except in case
of President and Treasurer, no person
shall be competent to hold more than
one Office.
The directors of said corporation
shall be elected by the stockholders
thereof at the annual meeting of the
corporation, which shall be on the
Second Monday in January of each
year, and shall hold office for one
year or until their successors are
elected and have accepted such office.
The names and addresses of the
Directors of the corporation who shall
hold Office until the first annual meet
ing for the election of directors, are
as follows -
Frank Miller, residing at Morris,
Minnesota.
Elizabeth Miller, residing at Nor
Morris tribune., 1916-03-24

appeared Frank Miller and Elizabeth
Miller, tome known to be two of the
persons described in and who executed
the foregoing instrument, and they
acknowledged that they executed the
same as their free act and deed.
Geo. w. Beise,
Notary Public,
Stevens County, Minnesota.
My commission expires Oct. 13,
1921.
(Notarial SeaD
State of Minnesota, County of Hen
nepin, IS. ...--
On this day 18th of March A. D.
1915, before me a Notary Public
within and for said County. personally
appeared A. Albert Miller, to me
personally known to be one of the
persons described in and who executed
the foregoing instrument, and he
acknowledged that he executed the
same as his free act and deed.
Raymond V. Hess.
Notary Public,
Hennepin County, Minnesota.
My Commission expires Aug. 10th,
1922.
(Notarial Seal. a~
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS.
County of Stevens, MINI.
hereby certify that the within In
strument was filed in this office for
record on the 18th day of March A.
D. 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M. and
was duly recorded in Book N. of
Miscl. on page 500.
Jos. ]. Gaffney,
Register of Deeds.
State of Minnesota, Department of
State.
| hereby certify that the within in
strument was filed for record in this
office on the 18th day of March A.
D. 1916 at 10 o'clock A. NJ. and
was duly recorded in book 1874 of
Incorportions on page 454.
Julius A. Schmahl,
Secretary of State.