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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
THE SIEGE OF THE sOMME

H ERMAN CORRESPONDENTS for the New York newspa- pers break the mOnoony of the with extended statements of the German of the siege assertion is made that the German trenches held line as thin ten to The Germans estimate that lies have fired at least shells during battle that the Allies have sustained the 3OOOOO and have gained about five and half miles at two points front of twenty miles.
 The German viewpoint given utmost that they keep their line unbroken it stands Neverhe they have other works the present lines, The works include bomb proofs 70 deep
 The German reliance against assault by infantry placed upon numbers of than the management of ar lery and machine gun fire.
 Taking the German claims into consideration with the from the bureaus of the Aes The Far to change it's opinion when the battle of the somme began The cost b the Allies is fly greater unless they succeed piercing German and dividing the Kaser's front
 warfare matter of sapping and mining and slow approach With occasional infantry ushes when strong points thought o be appropriately weakened when these that the attacking force sustans terrible losses which be very much larger than the losses of the few machine consuming the activity of but men, \ ake5 awful toll of soldiers at charge The German claim of ten to in the attack probably mot exaggerated The power of modern chiefly exert
 favor of the strict defensive The more u til itsucceeds XXI
 What is true the Allies along the Somme may
 regarded equally true of the German forces before dun. 1xSk@& X
 It is from the German and Italian fronts real victories
 must be looked for Austria be approaching exaus ton The greatest threat arms is the possible Icollapse of the forces of Franz Joseph.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
NEW BRUNSWICK

The first governor of New Bruns- wick was Thomas Carleton, who was apointed to that post 132 years ago today, August 16, 17S4, the day when this province was separated from No- va Scotia. Governor Carleton was a famous British soldier and a brother of Sir Guy Carleton. Lord Dorchester, commander-in-chie of the British forces in New Brunswick settled on the shores of the St. John River about century and a half ago. When the thirteen colonies rebeiied many loyal subjects of the king fled to New Brunswick, then Sudbury county, No va Scotia Royalists though they were, the new settlers seemed to have imbfbed some of the rebellious spirit of their former neighbors, and they immediately began to complain of their treatment by the Nova Scotian authorities. After much agitation the English authorities decided to placate the ''kickers" by giving them a gov- ernment of their own, and the prov ince of New Brunswick was accord Tingly formed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
THE VANISHED HUGHES OF 1908

When MT. Hughes was nominated the Democrats braced themselves for an encounter with a dangerous op- ponent, and the Republicans rejoiced over the nomination of a strong cam paigner. On neither side was there any doubt. His reputation for years had been that of a campaigner to be feared by his foes. It was so much his reputation that it was not argued course. In the speech in which Governor Whitman nominated him at the Chicago convention the governor gave it as one of his qualifications. MT. Whitman did not argue the point any more than he would have argued about the multiplication table; he merely re- called it to thee minds of the dele gates as historic fact. He referred to the stumping campaign MT. Hughes had made in the West in 1908 as a thing unforgotten and unforgettable. He might have instanced. too, MT. Hughes speaking trips in New Ycrll state, trips that created for him the reputation he sustained afterward in the west. Democrats and Republi- cans alike recall those journeys, for they were not inconsequent affairs like, for instance, MT. Whitman's own peregrinations about the state; they still stand out, though similar excur- sions by other governors are forgot tenI aNt
 The telegram of acceptance he sent to the convention, whatever else may be said of it, did nothing to initiate against this solid reputation of his. It conveyed the impression of fighting force and energy, and seemed the promise of an e1ectrifying campaign on both sides; of a candidate who concentrated in his own person all the power of speaking for tho dissat- isfied in such trumpet t4rO that the Administration would hasS~ { mans job on the defensive. Th6 he went into seclusion for month nd a half. and when he came forth after his CO., citations the Hughes of the past was gone. For two weeks now the na- ton has been watching him in won der, excepting every day to hear him say something that sounded like the old Hughes. Let us have the pep and punch of the Progressive com tbined with the logic and righteous
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16

ness of the Republican, and we will have @ combination that all hell can't beat" said Governor Willis of Ohio to that same convention, pardonably ex- aggerating the good qualities of the Republicans; and there was no doubt in its mind that in nominating Hughes it had combined that pep and punch with those other qualities which MT. Willis slightly disguised in mention ing. But the pep and the punch are candidate. The sounding board does not act. MT. Hughes speaks with passion and fury, bue he is the only person who is excited. The lion does not roar. he only barks. He barks first at one Knot and then at another; at present he seems to have found that the great issue of 1916, the year of years, the year in which but one thing is in all mems minds, is the question whether the Administration is true to civil service reform. When Senator Harding proposed to make the tariff the issue he was laughed at, and his Presidential boom disappeared; but Harding, after all, only proposed to wage Harrison-Cleveland campaign not Blaine Cleveland campaign, and was four years more up-to-date than Hughes.
 Where is Hughes gone? The Hughes of 1908? This is not he, this itinerant fault-finder, picking flaws here and there with as much emphasis as if he were attacking great evils and proposing statesmanlike reforms. The Hughes of 1908 could make an echo; this Hughes can't. What became of the Hughes of 1908 in those six weeks during which, wrapped in seclusion in Bridgehampton, he was supposed to be studying up what to say? Was he really studying up what not to say? Is. that the trouble? Is that the cause of the disappearance of the Hughes of 1908? For this people could be awakened if strong man spoke to it about something he believed in, if Theodore Roosevelt. for instance, were, the candidate and spoke to it as he did in those stirring speeches of last May It saw then man whose tread westward shook the con- tinent; it sees now man who walks over the issues like a cat, and springs only at small game.-New York Times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
PREPARATION

fTSEES in Great Britain some 25ooOoo persons are en-
 gagged in making munitions of The production of shells of e larger sort has increased 70 times pro- ucon the first year before the The manufacture of smaller shells and other material of slaughter increased sal the way from 32 to 100 times
 England Scotland, Ireland and Wales with population of could not long, in the absence of war tell 5ooo0o and 5OooOOo male fighters purposes of preparation
 It that most of the preparation for war; large scale must be made after the fighting begins all it is possible for any state to maintain is skeleton organ zation for fighting, for manufactures and the like.
 In this view of it. the industrial census which the admns
 ion has caused to be taken of the of preparation It is for country need make begins where the necessary things can be made.
 Such preparation will of embody plan of in dusral training that will equip the citizen carry some definite and useful work in the world It must forgot that preparation today military industrial
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
GENERAL R'|.A|!L NIXON

General Sir John Nixon, upon whose
 shoulders was placed the blame for the failure of the British expedition to Mesopotamia, was born fifty-nine years ago today, Aug. 16,. 1857. He entered the army nearly forty years ago, and was considered one of the ablest officers in the British service
 when the present war opened. When the Indian Office decided upon cam paign against the Turks in Mesopor tamia, Sir John was placed in conn
 mand of the entire force, and person. ally led the column operating on the Tigris. Bagdad was the objective
 of the expedition, and in the first clashes with the Turks Gen. Nixon was
 the victor. while the column led by
 Gen. Townshend reached a point with
 in a few miles of Bagdad. Then the
 tide turned, the British suffered se-
 we're reverses, and in January last Sir
 John was relieved of the command of
 the expedition lon account of i'll health" In April J. Austen Chamber
 lain, Secretary for India. announced in the House of Commons that the responsibility for the advance of the British troops on Bagdad, which re- suited in the forced retirement of [Townshend's army to Kut-el-Amara, rested, with Sir John Townshend' s force long withstood the Turks. but eventually was compelled to surren- der to avoid starvation. General Nix on had his first experience of warfare in 1879, when he took part in the Afghan campaign. He won many honors during his long service in In- dia and as a cavalry officer in the South African war. At the outbreak of the present war he was in command Of 1.-the southern army of India.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
SEEING REASON

~HE RAILROAD D managers to be congratulated upon
 their ability to that the eight hour day right inevitable The acceptance of the eight hour day principle smooths things out.
 Thatthe railroad managers should wish to be shown to operate the eight hour day is natural their faces and they seek help which they.need much
 Railroad have been greatly devoted finance and little to ralroading that they have made naturalization of the railroads almost necessity ass
 If President Wilson the country from great strike he will have performed service of incomparabe value strike at this time would parayze prosperity There would be but remedy It would be necessary the to seize and operate the lines the wheels industry would cease to- turn. ~< #
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
THE EPOOREsT PEER

ssThe poorest peer in the realm financially speaking-is the unenvi- able distinction attributed to Anthony Mildmay Julian Pane, the thirteenth Earl of Westmoreland, who was born fifty-seven years ago today. These are hard days for British nobles, and doubtless there are not few members of the, House of Lords who are in- clined to believe that the poverty of the Earl of Westmorland is not so bleak as their own. The first Coun- tess of Westmorland, who was a daughter of the fourth Earl of Ross lyn and famous beauty, died in 1910, after having given the Earl two sons and two daughters. London society confidently expected that the widowed
 Earl would seek to recoup his fortunes
 by marrying woman of wealth. and there was great surprise asfew months ago when the Earrs engagement was announced to the daughter of the wid-
 ow of rural clergyman. The thirteenth Earl of Westmorland succeeded to the, title and what was left of the family estates just quar-
 ter of a century ago. His father had
 been recklessly extravagant, and had
 plleQ up nuSe fOcpIS WAllCH Uuc 6Ou
 undertook to spay. In order to ac- complish this. the Earl found 1t neces-
 sary to dispose of the family estate,
 Apthorpe Hall. and all it's art trea-
 sures. The sale realized between two
 and three millions, but practically ev-
 cry penny of it went to the creditors.
 Lord Westmorlands poverty drove
 him on several occasions to the length of publicly advertising that he would
 not be responsible for debts incurred
 by the first Countess. This naturally
 aroused much talk and brought about
 dissension between the pair. On an-
 other occasion the Earl was given
 much undesirable notoriety through law suit in which it was alleged
 that his name had been sold to SUD- port a stock promotion scheme.
 His oldest son and heir, Lord Burg hersh, twenty-three years old, is a lieutenant in the British navy, and his younger son is also serving his country on the sea. The Earl saw much active service in the South Af- rfcan war as major of the 3rd battal- ion of the Northamptonshire regiment. The earldom of Westmorland dates from 1924, and several of the earls lhava wan fanaa in various unAs. Most
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
HEALTH PROTECTION

HE VALUE of health protection is admirably expressed 1 The Telegram, which comparing familiar with un- familiar mortality, says:
 We still shedding tears the women and children
 went down in the Lustania but ten times women children hundred times every year diseases that could have been prevented by preca,- < ton
 Bridgeport to congratulated upon its safe public health. This will not be, contemporary and such modern magic The to the costly and slow road of education cleanliness care obtained by temperance in eating and ng by the of wholesome oods and especially of whole
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16

Workers in the general ware pot teries of the East Liverpool district gave notice that unless they were al- lowed free clay they would strike.
 Patrick Farrell of Providence, R. l., was run over and instantly killed on a trestle on the Providence -Wiliman- tic branch of the New Haven Rail- road,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
A showing of pumps

1. Dull Calf. Patent Leather and White Kid Pumps for women Can be fashionably worn With spats III tbe earlv fall season $4.00 to $500
 large stock of Sports Shoes and Sneakers for women together with an ample stock of Play Shoes and Sandals for little folk all at popular prices
 Women's Bathing Shoes, were $1.5O, now $1.19
 Others at ss cts, 50 cts, and $1.oo.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
Wash Skirts

Wash Skirts A choice assortment of Wash Skirts made of novelty fabrics in stripes and plain colors Regular $595 {. for $395
 All styles of Wash Skirts up to and including $2OO skirts for $1.0O
 All Wash Dresses including white and fancy dim ities and sports suits. Former prices up to 5000.
 $395
 Children's Goats for early fall wear sizes to IA years, include heavy silks that sold for $16.5O. wide range of styles. Now $5OO
 The Fur Sale continues to be popular event and again urge you to make an early selection, while the choice furs remain. . IT,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16

milk and pure water It good housing, clean streets, clean garbage and few flies.
 chief difficulty with health departments in the past their dncination to work all the round They endeavo and then relapse into negligence and Let make Bridgeport the heahiest city in the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16

Three men were killed and several others. were injured at Vance near Washington, Pa, when double-head- CT freight train of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crashed head-on.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16

distinguished of the line was the grandfather of the present Earl, who was famous as a soldier, diplomat and composer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
. September Fashions

Standard Fashion Book Patterns and Fashion Sheets for September here, showing all the early fall styles Secure your Standard Fashion Book now together with coupon good for any Standard pattea
 25 cts Pattern Section. floor.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-20
Announcements

The ArdmOre Home Economics
club will meet Thursday afternoon
at the Ardmore school.
The membership committee of the
Y w. c. A will meet Friday even
ing at 6:15 o'clock for supper at the
association building. Following the
supper membership boosters
meeting will be held 20 make plans
for a membership campaign.
The Neighborhood circle will meet
Friday afternoon with Mrs. Fred
Haslanger, Allen st.
The Woman's Civic league and the
Franchise league will meet Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock i'm the gym
nasium OF the Chamber OF Com
merce. Mrs. Isabelle Bowman. presi-
dent OF the Civic league of Elkhart
will be present The Civic and Fran
chise league of Elkhart and the
Franchise league Of New Carlisle
Will be guests.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-20
PERSOMALC
4

Dewey Coomer. 2O5 Sadie St. has
returned from a visit at Elkhart.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Valentine 701
w. LaSalle av., are spending q few
days at st. Joseph Mich.
Mrs. F. r. Clapp. rs L. South ST.
is making an extended visit at Lake
Wawasee.
w. F. SVEN OF Galien, Mich,
who has been visiting in Oregon is
spending few days here with Mr.
and Mrs. 6. w. Sven. 74S Leland
av.. and Mr.. and Mrs. f. w Ray
buck, 752 Cleveland az, enroute 10
his home
Mrs. B. r. Shively and children,
George, John and Mary will leave
their summer home in Brookville,
Pa, Monday for New Haven, Conn,
where they will make their home for
the winter. George and John Will
enter Yale university
Mrs. William Geyer and daughter
Dorothy. OF Toledo are the guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Dugdale
2O9 r. Navarro ST.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Nelson of
Chicago have returned home after
a visit at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Hathaway. 40 Manitou pl-
Howard Fulton. 11Os : Lafayette
ST. has returned from a two months
business trip 70 Colum bus, ..
Mrs. John c. Neithardt. Mrs. Z. r.
Frie@e and Mrs. Carl J. Anderson
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-20
What the French Maid Told Marjorie
By JANE LOWELL.

White dotted swiss or figured mad
ras will be fresh and dainty IL an
ordinary white spread is used on
the bed. IL is something OF prob
lem before one has learned the trick,
10 attach the valance to an iron bed
stead. If tied 70 the bed with tapes
the valance will be sure 10 sag after
day or so, and in any case IL must
be so put on that IL may be remov-
ed once a month for laundering.
''The best way is 20 cut an old
sheet exactly the size Of the spring
and attach the valance 20 this. Throw
the sheet over the spring and at
tach it with snap-button fasteners
to four tapes sewed around the four
bed posts.
The valance cannot be continu-
Gus ruffle but must be slit up at the
corners OF the sheet, the rUffle fall
ing at the sides and foot OF the bed.
If il is sufficiently full it will hide
the legs of the bed and a snap but
ton fastener will help 20 hold the
edges of the ruffle together"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-20
RIVER PARK

Mr.. and Mrs. 9. +. Williams have
gone to Chicago for a weeks visit.
Miss Mabel Snyder and Clarence
! Goers have returned 10 Niles after
visit with Mrs. William GOers,
| Mishawaka av.
Mrs. Harry Sanderfer and son,
Henry. left Wednesday for a five
weeks visit at Marion and Gary.
Charles Ham, jr. has returned TO
Chicago after a visit with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ham,
s Sixteenth ST.
Mrs. George Fetters. Pleasant St.
has been quite i'll for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cross and
Fred Scherit OF Dowasiac, Mich,
have returned after visit with
River Park friends.
Mrs. Thomas Shelly, s Sixth ST.,
who has been seriously i'll is inn
proving.
Miss Anna Shields Of Medarville
Mrs. Albert Werth and daughter.
Maxine of Dennen, have been guests
of Mrs. c. b. Ault the past week.
Clyde Bowman of Goshen has re-
turned after a visit with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Bowman,
Mishawaka av.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Taber and
Mrs Sarah Taber of Plymouth, who
have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Taber, Mishawaka av., have
returned.
The True Blue club which was TO
have met Thursday with Miss Ruth
Whitcomb, $. Nineteenth ST. has
been postponed two weeks.
Mrs. w. Edris had for her guests
at dinner Mrs. Margaret Mathews,
Mrs. Clarence Heltzel and Mrs. Isa-
bel Newly Of Claypool
NJ. F. Angel, Mishawaka av.. has
received word Of the death Of his
mother, Mrs. Chariot Angel of
Syracuse.
Mrs Angel died Tuesday at .
o'clock at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Emma Darr. after three
years illness Of paralysis. She was
SO years old and had lived at SYRIA
cuse most of her life. She leaves
three sons, and three daughters,
NJ. r. Angel. River park: Winifred
Angel, Warsaw and Fielder Angel,
Blue Island H. Mrs Mrs. Retta
Skeer Fort Wayne; Mrs. r. Scar
floss and Mrs. Emma Darr, Syracuse.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at the Dunkard church in
Syracuse and burial will be in the
Syracuse cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. VI. Angel, Frank
Russell and Ruby Angel and Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Mccoy VIII attend
the funeral.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-20

-four, half a cup of sugar. one egg,
half a teaspoon of soda. and sour
milk enough 10 make dough. Roll
out. cut with a biscuit cutter and
bake in a quick oven.
Dinner.
Baked LiVer-Place in a baking
pan a slice Of liver about three
inches thick. Dredge with -four,
pepper and salt Pour over a cup
of water and the juice of half a
lemon. Bake until tender
Honeyed Sweet Potatoes 90 Boiled
sweet potatoes, cut in thick slices
and dip in honey. Sprinkle with
dripping sweets with pepper and
salt and place in the oven on we'll
buttered baking dish. until Drowned.
Dreamed Cabbage-Cbop half a
cabbage and boil until nearly done
in sailed water Drain. cover with
milk. and finish cooking. Thicker
with a little dissolved -four and sea-
son.
Peach ShOrtcake-MiX four cups
Of flour with a tablespoon each of
butter and lard. add a heaping tea
spoon of baking powder. Bake in
quick oven in a round pan When
done, split in half and cover with
sliced peaches. sprinkled with sugar.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-20

meeting a rummage sale was plan
ned and tie routine business trans
acted. The program for the day con-
sisted of a discussion on What are
the Duties Of a Home Missionary
Society ?" and a vocal duet by Mrs.
William Entzian and Mrs. c. A.
Webster. Dainty refreshments were
served after which the society ad-
journed 10 meet oct. 10
Mrs. Emmett Thomas Of this city
was among the guests at an attrac-
tive dinner party given in Elkhart
Monday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. H. Burrel 1101 +.
Jackson St. by the Misses Helen
Hendricks. Miss Gladys Helfrick Miss
Helen Boss. Miss Mildred Burrell in
compliment to Miss Mildred Scherl-
ing whose marriage 10 Harry c.
GOard will take place there this
week.
More than so members of the
Business Woman's Bible class met
last evening at the Y W. g. A. for
their first meeting of the season.
Following the plans of last year the
class viii hold its regular supper
each week at 6:15 O'Clock followed
by the lesson in charge of Mrs E
H. Harris. The lesson for the first
part OF the year will be the gospel
Of John.
Miss Hazel Drake and william
Zeiger. both OF Union township. were
married Thursday Sept Il. at the
parsonage OF the Mizpah Evangelical
church by Rev Mr.. Haley. Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Baughman. uncle and
aunt of the bride, were the atten-
dants. They will be at home after
oct at the zeiger homestead in
Union township.
Members of the Luther league Of
Holy Trinity church went 10 Chain
lakes last evening where they en-
joyed a wiener roast. The members
took the s o'clock car and returned
late in the evening after a pleasant
time. Miss Bessie Woyahn was
chairman OF the committee in
charge.
The Young Mans Bible class of
Trinity Presbyterian church will en-
terrain with a marshmallow and
wiener roast Thursday evening
at 1880 o'clock at Chamberlain lake.
TIE trip will be made by automo-
bues.