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New Britain herald., 1916-12-04
EXCELLENT BILL
 ON KEENEY'S STAGE

An exceptional bill with World-fa- nous motion picture stars on the pro- gram Is offered this week at Keeney's theater. From Monday to Saturday, the bill is one of merit and the usual Keeney audiences are looked for. In addition to the superfine film enter tainments, the management has signed some solid gold vaudeville.
 Probably one of the best pictures yet produced by the alchemists of the "shiftless'' is "The Eagles Wing" a Bluebird release. The advance an- nouncements say that this film con- tains a thousand thrills and puts to shame any of the so-called prepared ness pictures yet offered the public. The Eagles Wing" will be shown at every performance during the week.
 "Th Pillory," virile drama with Florence Labadie featuring, willo be the added attraction for this evening and tomorrow's shows The Univer- sal Serial Liberty" the Internation- al News picture and an episode in The Shielding Shadow" top off asbilI of excellence.
 For Wednesday and Thursday
 MlSeu blOOO, u MGAlCdn DOrQer story will be the leader This pie ture features Claire Mcdowell and George Beranger. The famous serial Beatrice Fairfax" will be shown on those two days.
 Anyone who has ever seen the sweetest of serio-come edies "rIne Prince Chap" will want to attend Keeney's Friday and Saturday when it will be reproduced for the first time on the screen. The story is told in five reels and loses none of its ap- peal in being transferred from the living to the silent stage. Earle Will Hams in ''The Scarlet Runner" and several comedies have also been booked
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04

ningham, who wrote the book and supervised the production, has seen to it that the play is clean and thoroughly enjoyable in every re- spect The setting for the first act is roof garden and there are five scenes in the second act, all beautl- ful and said to be typical of an Ori- ental and Hawaiian atmO mOsphere. The cast is @ large one, including such persons as Emmet GuilfOyle, Joe Rouland, Hilda Bertin, Jeon Leon ard and Virginia Irwin. A big fea- ture is provided in the presentation with this show of the Nat Navarro Troupe, whose remarkable acrobatic work was one of the sensations of the Winter Garden Show in New York. There is an unusually pretty chorus and the musical excellence of the show is one of it's chief charms. "Songs of Yesterday" in the finale of the first act is an offering al- ways highly praised.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04
MASONIC CHOIR
 HERE TOMORROW
1E:.-xIs C

Everything is in readiness for the big musical concert to be given under the auspices of the Masonic Temple corporation of this city, by the Ma sonic Choir of Waterbury, assisted by Miss Grace Kerns of New York, to- morrow evening at Fox's theater.
 The committee assures every one that they will hear one of the best concerts ever given in New Britain.
 There were 200 fifty cent seats placed on sale at Crowell's and Fox's theater Saturday evening. These seats are considered the best to hear music in the theater. Other seats on sale are S1 and seventy-f1ve cents.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04

and so, without making any SyStemat- ic search, without looking at the house more than two or three times, without weighing the future, they bought the house.
 Subsequently, they discovered that the house was too small for their primary school and without sufi- c1ent grounds for the children to play in Gall facts they might easily have realized before buying.)
 So They Arc Making the Opposite
 Mistake
 Now they want to move again, and they are so obsessed by fear of mak- ing the mistake of being in too much of a hurry again, that they cannot de- eide at all. They have missed two or three good opportunities. We don't want to make the same mista Ike twice. they say. Plainly they are in more danger of making the opposite mistake.
 Last time had to buy a suit econ- omized; I bought something that would do instead of what I wanted and thereby saved several dollars The result was that I was never satis- fled. This time I was determined to be satisfied and as a result paid more than, on mature consideration, I real ly needed to.
 So the pendulum swings from one mistake to the other
 If we could only stop in the middle.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04
WITH A PLOT
 IN BURLESQUE

According to the best information available, Fred Irwin's Big Show, which is seen at the Grand Theater all week, is a show, with a su pstan- Iial plot. This, in itself is some what out of the ordinary for bur- lesque, which generally depends en- tirely on it's musical hits. dancing, sets and comedy work. Paul Gun
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04
Vews fov 7heafev Goer:s and Women Readers
SECOND TRIUMPHAL
 WEEK AT LYCEUM

Alma, Where Do You Live?", a tuneful comedy liberally streaked with lines that make those in the audience forget their troubles, opens at the Ly- ceum today and the members of the Lyceum Musical Comedy company an ticipate another week of triumph. It
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04

c. M. Grocock, 139 Main street is showing the smartest Of skating and hiking sets, those being used at the New York rinks-a1so a splendid line of large dress hats, small motor hats in fact every conceivable hat that is being worn by the well dressed wOmpn-adVt
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04

Corn beef hashed and mixed with cold boiled potatoes, then baked in a. loaf in the oven, makes a good lunch dish
New Britain herald., 1916-12-04

Morning glories adapt themselves to indoor life, and if watered and trained. will make a very effective bit of cheer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07

andottes. Rhode Island Reds, White Buff and Black Leghorns Anconas Oregons, and Progressives that made pen yields of 50 per cent or better The hens in the contest have now laid a grand total of ,000 eggs which is slightly better than the final score in the contest two years ago. There can be mo reasonable doubt that they will equal last years records within the next three weeks in which case all the eggs laid in the last five weeks may be considered velvet" The three best pens in each of the principal breeds are as follows:
 Plymouth Rocks Rock Rose Farm (Barred) Ka-
 tonah, N. Y. 1757 Albert T. Lenzen CWhite) North
 Attleboro, Mass. 1896 Oregon Agricultural College
 (Barred) Corvallis, Oregon. 1643
 Wyandottes
 Obed G. Knight, Cwhite) Bridge Tom Barron. (white) catforth.
 England 1886 Abel Latham, Cwhite) Brierfield,
 England 1741
 Rhode Island Reds Pinecrest' Orchards, Groton, A. W. Rumery, Danville, N. H. isos @ Springdale Poultry Farm, Dur
 ham, Conn. 1869
 White Leghorns Will Barron, Bartle, near Pres
 ton, England 1792 Francis F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel
 Conn. 17S1 F. M. Peasely. Cheshire, Conn. 1885
 Miscellaneous
 Oregon Agricultural College
 (Oregons), Corvallis, Ore. 1756 J. Collinson, (Black Leghorns)
 Barnacre, Garstang, Eng
 land 1878 A. Schwarz (Black Rhinelanders)
 Burlingame, Cal. 1542
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
PLAZA.

The second big show of the new sea- son will be, put on tapis at the Plaza today and, if one may judge from the t-.line up,'' it will equal, if not surpass lin general excellence that which drew record crowds during the fore part of 1.-the week.
 Gretchen, the Greenhorn," a new !Triangle play with the charming Dor lothy Gish as the star, will be the pain fphoto attraction. Miss Gish is given fample opportunity for the display of eher wonderful versatility in this thrill bing yet uniquely quaint, story of an Immigrants hardships in the new world. Six very clever kiddies play han important part in the development iof. the plot, which has to do with a tband of counterfeiters. who make d Ppretty Dutch lassie and her aged pa rent the dupe in their efforts to dis ktribute fake bills. How-it all comes Ito a finish forms one of the most sen- ksatfonal climaxes ever conceived for a fBcreen play.
 Peter and His Pals,'' one of those 5Hee-Haw Maud acts that make you hand every one around you laugh until lthe tears stand in your eyes, will head fline the vaudeville program. Peter is "a mule and is of a rather peevish dis sposition. The darkie in the act has a Hong standing gru against MT. FMule and the animals feelings toward the darkie are not any tod pleasant So. when the boss of the acAsets them Moose on the, stage. theresS fun and plenty of it.
 Anthony and Adele have. a beautiful accordeon and whistling fantasy that should please the most fastidious,
 while the Hippodrome Four in thefr l1inging offering and The Hadley Sis Iters in a singing and dancing diver fsion of extraordinary merit will com Fplete the vaudeville attractions.i
 A Keystone comedy in two acts di idect from the studios has been secured las a feature.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
INTERNATIONAL
 EGG CONTEST

There were two interesting and per- haps significant changes among the leading pens in the forty-fourth, week of the laying contest at Storrs. In the first place Jules F. Francais' pen of Barred Rocks from West Hampton Beach. Long Island that has been list ed as one of the best Rock pens every week from the beginning of the com petition has finally been displaced by the Agricultural College pen from Corvallis. Oregon. Tom Barron's pen of English Leghorns that has con- tinuously held either second or third place in the Leghorn class since the middle of December has now been relegated to fifth place by two Con- necticut pens entered by F. NJ. Peasley of Cheshire and w. E. Atkinson of Wallingford.
 All the hons together laid 3291 eggs in the forty-fourth week. The Agri- cultural College pen of "Oregons'' from Corvallis, Ore, were an easy first with production of 55 eggs. A New Hampshire pen of Barred Rocks owned by Fairfield Farms of Short Falls were second for the week with 51 eggs. Two Connecticut pens of Leghorns owned by Francis F. Lin- coin of Mt. Carmel tied for third place for the week with 50 eggs each. There were forty-five pens including White and Barred Rocks, White Wy
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
BRITISH COMMENT
 ON U. S. RETALIATION z
 FOR MAIL SEIZURES

London, Sept. Recommending on the amendment to the retenue bill passed by the United States Senate Tuesday night, empowering the Pres- ident to retaliate against interference with American commerce, the Man chester Guardian says that although those who see in it no more than a flourish having a special virtue on the eve of the election may be right, "nevertheless we should do well to note two things:
 "First-these reprisals are directed against ythe allies and primarily against ourselves.
 "Second-they are popular in America"
 The Guardian says it is not only realized here how strong a sentiment has been aroused throughout the Unit ed States/by the blacklist policy and interference with mails, and asks If the foreign office is convinced these practices of our are so useful as to counter balance the weakening of American sympathy they involve, or that they cannot be modified so as to meet American objections without inn pairing any utilities they may have for ourselves"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
AUTO coRTEGE TO SUPPLANT HORSE
 DRAWN FUNERALS
New England Funeral Directors Fall Into Line With Other
 Undertakers.

The auto hearse and the motor cor tege soon will be the fashion at bur ials. Although utilized to d great ex- tent in other sections of the United
 States, New England has been slow to
 pass from the traditional hack and horse-d drawn vehicle.
 With two motor-driven hearses, III
 Bridgeport the latest addition to the ranks is Undertaken George P. Potter of Broad street, near Elm, whose new combination hearse, nortuary wagon
 and hospital conveyance, is attracting
 widespread attention among the auto mobile and undertaking industries of
 Bridgeport.
 The conveyance indeed is handsome in appearance and noiseless in. action. Of solid black, its spacious interior is so constructed as to be easily vonvert- ible into any type of wagon utilized in the preparation or burial of the dead. It is also arranged for transformation into ambulance form. On the sides are large plate glass
 windows, beneath which the name of
 MT. Potter is attached in solid silver letters. All. the paraphernalia until ized in various funeral processions are
 part of the equipment so that the coloring may be changed from black to gray or to white and black.
 The cbassis is equipped with various l speeds requisite for funeral work and | in addition the conveyance carries the various fittings needed in burial work. | MT. Potter said that the trend of the times demands funeral conveyances that are both speedy and slow. Th~ automobile cortege is being regarded | in higher favor daily, because of the fast disappearing horse-drawn vehicle of modern style. An impression that ! unseemly haste is evidenced by the | automobile cortege, he said, is dimin-
 ishing by reason of the slower speeds
 now used in the automobile process
 sions.
 MT. Potter's recent acquisition is not
 only credit to his progressive bus
 mess spirit but to the general advance
 of the city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
GERMAN DAY PICNIC
 AND CARNIVAL

At Pleasure Beach. Bridgeport
 SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND
 EVENING, SEPT. 9TH
 Afternoon and Evening Concert by Wheeler & Wilson Band, Chorus Singing, Fireworks, Games, Big Ger man Dinner. Vaudeville and Many Other Attractions. Admission 25c a Person, including coupon for Dance Hall. Take Seaview Avenue Car to Bridge. IT s*
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
LYRIC
THE HEART OF DIXIE

Successful indeed has proved "The Heart of Dixie" four act comedy drama Of the South and the Souther- ners. which opened the regular sea- son at Bridgeport's most hoinelike theatre. The Lyric. "The Heart of Dixie tells tale, which indeed finds itself most interesting, of the broken heart Of a woman, mended by her second marriage. only to be broken again when her first husband, a brute of the southern mountains returns after wandering about for seven years, his mind blank
 Comedy. romance and tuneful mu- sical numbers run hand in hand through the play. Matinees are to be held, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons through the season, announcement has been made by Manager Isham.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
Amusements
POLES

The worlds greatest magical enter tainers, Leon & Company, "The Won- der Workers" opponents of Hindu magic are to appear at Polls theatre today and the balance of the week.
 They present a stupendous comedy mystery spectacle in one act and two scenes. A succession of baffihg and bewildering illusions, weird and un- canny mysteries, scenic surprises and electrical effects. They introduce the most daring.
 startling and sensational illusion ever attempted, entitled Fire and Water," a modern miracle. It is without doubt
 the most elaborately staged produc tion in vaudeville. A carload of beau-'
 tiful scenery, gorgeous costumage and glittering hparaphernalia is used in this, the seasons greatest novelty.
 Of equal interest to the lovers of the pi1otoplay beautiful is Miss June Caprice, the beloved character of the
 stage in Little Miss Happiness" the
 great Nphotoplay of country life in five faultless parts of photography.
 /, Another photographic feature Of marked interest is the new release of Ithe Pathe Pictorial news, which car fries startling events of the early part
 of this week gleaned by expert men from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. On the vaudeville side of the big program Alfred. White & Company in ] their original comedy skit, entitled
 ''It Happened In Cork" will take high rank in the delight of audiences.
 Another serio-comic offering is that of
 Alexander & Scott, entitled From
 Virginia Eddie Janis, the talented violinist, and the Four Maxims, clever
 object jugglers, are acts of note. :, It may be said that the Poli pro- gram weekly is made up with, the
 idea of catering to all classes and off, feEing the greatest diversion the vau- deville market permits. This weeks
 selection is no exception and has all
 the mirth provoking points necessary
 to a successful balance of the whole.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
DANCING SATURDAY NIGHT

Dancing will be resumed Saturday night at the Colonial ball room and will continue every Saturday evening through the winter. Prof. Guilty has again engaged Murray's orchestra of ten pieces to furnish the music, and the socials will be conducted upon the same high plane that has made Quilty's name known the country over. The ball room is centrally To- catcd in Fairfield avenue. is well, ven- tilated, brilliantly lighted, and will make an ideal place for innocent amusement under the best of condi- tions. No liquor is ever allowed at any of the affairs under Prof. Quilty's managemo 1t. The school of dancing opens next week for private lessons and classes will be formed the first week in October. Don't miss the first dance of the season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07

CHINESE LILY BULBS
 1Oc EACH JOHN RICK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
"THE PEDDLERv

Whether good acting or not is a novelty in these days, MT. Maurice Jacobs is especially fortunate in hav- ing selected Joe Welch, the famous Hebrew character comedian for the star in his splendid revival of Hal Reid's four act comedy drama "The Peddler" which will be the attraction at the Lyric theatre next week. Uni- versally considered the cleverest of all
 Hebrew comedians, Joe Welch will undoubtedly be welcomed by his le- zion of friends, who having watched his successful career on the vaudeville stage, are waiting anxiously to well come him in the serious roles of melo- drama for which by reason of his e.ra dramatic abilities he is so eminently
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07

Edward s. Wortz. United States at- torney for northern Ohio. at Cleve- land, was selected by President Wilson for appointment as United Sta.es dis trict judge of that district to succeed Judge John H. Clarke.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-07-07
son for IT has ever been discovered.

son for It has ever been discovered.
On June "a, 1S45, Ruloff went to a
neighbor and borrowed a horse and
wagon. The neighbor helped him to lift
large box into the wagon. and he
drove away. He journeyed to Ithaca,
which town he reached at shutdown,
and spent several hours in a tavern
holding wassail with sundry loafers.
He seemed boisterously happy, and the
loafers declared him a prince Of en-
tertainers. After while he paid his
score, hitched up his horse again, and
drove to Lake Cayuga. There he Sc
cured a boat, and rowed away with
the long box aboard.
The next morning he drove cheerily
back to his home, and when the neigh
bors asked where his wife was, he told
them she had gone to Ohio on a visit.
This satisfied the neighbors, but it
didn't satisfy Ruloff's brother-in-law,
who began an investigation, with the
result that Ruloff was arrested,
charged with the murder Of his wife.
The body of the victim could not be
found, so he was tried and convicted
on charge of abduction, and SEN
fenced to ten years In the penitentiary.
He was a good prisoner, and all his
spare time was gwen to study.
Immediately upon his release he was
rearrested, charged with murder, but
he made such an eloquent speech in
his own defense that he was acquitted.
But the people didn't want this man at
large. They considered him monster,
and as dangerous as rattlesnake. So
he was again arrested, charged with
the murder of his own child. He was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged.
After his conviction he made sue
cessful effort to gain the admiration
and confidence of the jailer's son, a
youth named Jarvis. He told great
stories of buried treasures to such
good effect that young Jarvis helped
him to escape, and the two reached the
mountains Of Pennsylvania, where
they led a vagabond life for a year.
Then, Ruloff, tired of being fugitive,
away from books and libraries, surren.
dered to the authorities, and, by means
of some legal twists, managed to re.
gain his liberty after a while. This
made the people so peevish that a
lynching party called at the Jail, but
Ruloff had disappeared.
His subsequent career for several
years was a compound of study and vii.
lainy. Sometimes he worked at his
great treatise, and at other times he
INDUCED in grand and petty larceny
On a hot August night in 1870 a
| burglary was committed in Bingham.
ton. Three robbers entered a store,
and, having removed their shoes so
they could work quietly, they began
ransacking the place. Two clerks who
| were sleeping in the store were awak.
ened by some slight noise, and they
put up brave fight to save their mas.
ter's property. They were getting the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-07-07

best of it when one of the robbers
drew gun and fired, and one of the
clerks FELL MORALLY wounded. The
robbers escaped for the time, but
day or two later stranger was found
limping along the road, and was gath.
cred in. He was soon identified as Ru.
loft, whose fame was everywhere in
those days. Ruloff felt reasonably safe,
for his comrades couldn't turn states
evidence. He had seen to that. A few
days later their bodies were found in
the river. One of them was Jarvis.
Ruloff had a deformed foot, and one
of the shoes found in the store was
made to fit that foot, so his connection
with the crime was established well
enough. He was his own attorney at
his trial, and the speech he made was
wonderful effort. 1t was much like
that Of Eugene Aram in fact, he
quoted Aram to some extent, saying
that his days were given to honest toll
and his nights to arduous study His
argument was along the line that So
ciety couldn't spare him. His great
work on philology was approaching
completion, and If the world was
robbed of that monumental volume, it
would be the greatest catastrophe of
modern times.
The jury decided, however, that So
ciety would be able to struggle along
without it, and found Ruloff guilty. he
was sentenced to death, and went to
the scaffold protesting that civilization
was doing itself an irreparable injury,
An eminent scientist examined his
brain. and announced that Ruloff was
by nature a thief and murderer, no
more responsible for his acts than a
tiger, and no more deserving of pity.
Only the high places in his criminal
career have been touched in this &C.
count. A complete story would make
a book as large as his own volume on
philology.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-07-07
SHORT CUT is OFTEN FATAL
From 5000 to 1000 Trespassers on the
Railroad Tracks of Country Are
Killed Each Year.

Taking short cut through the rail-
road yards to get home, John Jones
was struck by switch engine and
killed.-News Item.
John Jones was free American cit
izen and counted walking on the rail-
road tracks as among his rights under
the Constitution. it was his custom
when he got home at night by cutting
through the yards to take up his news
paper, settle himself deeply into his
chair and read until, speaking for the
THIRD time, and sharply, his wife called
him to his meat and potatoes. Once
in while Jones would come upon &C.
counts of railroad wrecks. They al
ways aroused the deepest indignation
in him. "'Tis nothing but criminal
negligence causes EN-" he'd say.
1t is a way with us Americans to
see things criminal in our neighbors,
none of them in ourselves. Take John
Jones. He thought of railway wrecks
as forms of depravity. But there was
nothing wrong in cutting through the
railway yards and running the risk of
making his wife widow, his children
orphans. If you told him that about
80 or 80 people we're killed in train
accidents last year, he'd suggest hang
| ing few railroad presidents. But If
| you said that the number of trespas-
sers killed varied from five thousand
to seven thousand persons year, he
had no comment to make. The sub,
ject didn't interest him much.
Well, John Jones is gone now. His
wife Is in black. His children have
been taken from school to earn rent
for the cottage. Jones neighbors still
use the tracks as their highway.
Corporations have been taught a
good deal of recent years as to their
responsibilities. Wouldn't 1t be good
idea to take up the case of John Jones
ow?-Toledo Blade.