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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
OUR NEWTON|N
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NEWS LETTER
Especial to The Farmer.)

II aes (Spec1aI TO Ine FdTmcI.J
Newtown, Feb. Matthew Quea-
ley had a relapse yesterday His
son, M. j. Quealey Of Bridgeport, was
telephoned for yesterday, came to
NewtoWn and took his father with
him to st. Vincents hospital
Several friends from Newtown.
Hawleyville and Sandy Hook attend
ed the funeral Saturday OF John
Mitehel of Sou thhurE:s
4 Miss Victoria Martin has been con-
fined to her home on the Boulevard
with a severe attack Of grip.
A bundle whist and dance under
the auspices of N. H. S. athletic as
ISOLATION will be held Friday night
at the Newtown Inn. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend and a
good time is assured.
The parish slipper given by the la
dies of st. Roses church at st. Mary s
hall, last night, was great success.
The tables were covered with boun-
tiful repast which was enjoyed by
all. Dancing was enjoyed until a
late hour with orchestral accompah-
iment.
Mr.. c. H. skiff was recent visitor
in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haugh spent
Tuesday evening with friends in
Woodbury..
Miss Genevieve Brown and sister,
Catherine, are guests Of their aunt,
Mrs William Egan.
Miss Mary Murphy. N. H. S., IT,
is confined to her home, i'll Of grip.
Jean. Aftermath of Walnut, Tree
Hill, has accepted a position in Wat
erbury. He spends the week-ends
with his family.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

:
Within ten minutes after an appli
catio-. Of Danderine you can not find A
single trace Of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a
few weeks use, when you see new
hair, 1:ne and downy at first-yes-but
really new hair-growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine immediately
doubles the beauty of your hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time. The effect is amaz-
ing-your hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy, and have an appearance Of
abundance; an incompatible lustre.
softness and luxuriance.
Get a rs cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or
toilet counter, and prove that your
hair is as pretty and soft as any that
it has been neglected or injured-you
surely can have beautiful hair and lots
Of it if you will just try little Dan
derine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
Scandinavian Liner
Postpones Sailing.
Because of Dangers

New York, Feb. 1-Announcemen
was made here this morning by rep
resentative of the Scandinavian
American line that the sailing Of the
passenger liner EIellig OIav, booked
to leave at 2 p. m today with 800
passengers and cargo, for Copenhagen
via Kirkwall, had been indefinitely
postponed.
The Hellig Olav, as well as all other
neutral ships plying between Ameri-
can and scandinavian and Dutch
ports, have been compelled by the
British government to put in at
Kirkwall or Falmouth for examina-
ton. Orders to hold the Hellig Olav
were issued by local agents here pend
ing more detailed adviceS from the
home Office in Copenhagen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
The WEATHER
New Haven, Feb Forecast:
Unsettled tonight; Friday fair,

New Haven, Feb Forecast:
Unsettled tonight; Friday fair,
colder.
Connecticut: Cloudy and de-
cidedly colder tonight and Fri
day, with severe cold wave;
northwest gales.
The storm that was central over
Illinois yesterday morning has
moved eastward and is now CEN
trail over New England. 1t has
caused general rain or snow in
nearly all districts east of the
Mississippi river. 1t is followed
by D ridge of high pressure ex-
tending from Montana southeast
ward to Louisiana. 1t is produce
ing pleasant. weather, with lower
temperatures, between the Rocky
mountains and the Mississippi
river. Zero temperatures extend
ed as far south as Oklahoma.
Indications favor for this city
rain or snow, followed by fair
and colder tonight and Friday.
Cold wave warnings are order
ed for this district.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

the action of the assessors, nor the
product Of their efforts and investi-
cations.
'This year it is commonly under
stood that at least one assessor will
not sign the tax roll, because the $4O,-
900, 900 of increases therein contained,
are not, as he says, the product Of his
official action, and are not just in a
legal or in moral sense.
There is also feeling that this bill
| merely is an effort of a selfish political
group to obtain possession of the tax
| ing power. So our people in Bridge
port think the General Assembly
should follow the precedents it has es-
tablished, and submit the bill to a ref
erendum of the electors, as a condi-
ton of its becoming a law.
Mr.. Robinson then made an attack,
upon "the member who will not sign
the ROLL" saying he had not done his
duty; that during six years he had not
done two months work.
Mr.. Wilson replied that all Of these
men whose offices are to be abolished
by this bill are appointed by the may
or and some of them have been twice
appointed by the mayor and some Of
them have been twice appointed by
him.
Turning to Mayor Wilson, he asked:
cit is true, is it not, that the man
you accuse. was appointed by you,
and that you have never until this
moment made any public accusation
against him.
Mayor Wilson. II don't know
whom you mean"
+
a member of the board appointed by
the mayor, who had not done his du-
ty for six years the mayor would know
it."
Mayor Wilson: 'sI meanNI do not
know which one"
"Are there others who have not
done their duty?"
Mayor Wilson: There are three
others.''
''These three were appointed by you,
and some of them reappointed
Mayor Wilson: Eyes; it is hard to
get good men for $1,000 year."
Mr.. Wilson continuing said: '"This
will be news to Bridgeport. This is
the first time the mayor has taken
the public into his confidence in this
way. He but proves the need OF
referendum. If it is true that these
assessors, or three Of them, have been
derelict over this long period, the pub
lie ought to know. The public can
get the facts, when the referendum is
argued And the public can make up
it's mind whether there is an effort to
punish public servants because they
have not been complaisant to arbi-
trary power, or whether Mayor Wilson
is legislating out of office four off,
GERS, only three of whom he accuses,
whom he has appointed. and some
times reappointed.
The committee took the bill under
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

Mayor Wilson ampl1f1ed these re-
marks into a charge that three mem
bers Of the board did not do theil
work. There are four members or
the. board, but Mayor Wilson did not
,ame the three who were the object
of his accusations.
Asked if he had appointed all the
present members of the board, and
if he had reappointed all Of them, he
said that he had.
This interesting attack upon his own
appointees was drawn from the may
or, by demand for the referendum
on the bill to create the office OF ta1
commissioner, which demand was
made by Attorney Hugh J. Lavery and
ex-Representative Lynn w. Wilson.
1t was said that many people In
Bridgeport oppose the tax commission
er bill, in the belief that it is design
ed to put arbitrary taxing power in
to the hands Of a group Of politicians
and believed that it's further purpose
was to punish assessors because they
had refused to sign the grand list.
The charge was made in set terms
that the present grand list with it's in
crease of $40,000,000 is not the pro-
duct of the investigations, acts and
judgments Of the board of Assessors,
but that it is the product Of outside
unofficial action, and utterly improp-
er and illegal, so illegal that at least
one member of the board has said he
will not sign the tax roll because the
acts described on the roll are not his
acts, nor in any proper sense official
acts at all.
The committee on Cities and Bor-
oughs met at 2 o'clock, with a stack
of Bridgeport bills in front of them,
some already prepared and some
skeletons of bills to be drafted.
Mayor Wilson was present, assist
ed by City Clerk Robinson, Alderman
Primrose, Alderman Finkelstone, AL
derman Cole and others.
The bill to create tax commits
sion was favored by all these gentle
men Then Attorney Lavery OPP
posed the bill unless referendum is
to it.. x
1.-THE referendum he said, "is es-
tablished in Bridgeport. The peo-
pie are used to it; when fundamental
measures like this are involved, they
demand it.
Mr.. Lavery then pointed out that
the legislature has conceded the right
of home rule, and asked that the bill
be returned to the Common Council in
Bridgeport, to be acted upon by the
under the home rule act.
The committee heard Mr.. Lavery
and seemed much inn
pressed by his argument.
VTY;1 n hi hi is Yn
garded by some Of the people OF
Bridgeport as an effort to legislate re-
bellious assessors out of office. 1t
is no secret that during four years
past there have been enormous in
creases in the Grand List, and that
these increases were not primarily by
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr.. and Mrs. James p. Walker of
293 Vine street were pleasantly sur
prised Monday night by group OF
their. friends, members of the Fidelity
lodge and Sewing circle at their home
in honor Of the 25th anniversary Of
their marriage. The day was also the
birthday Of Mrs. Walker. The guests
were gaily costumed for the occasion
and games and music made the even
ing pass merrily. Mrs. Walker was
presented with handsome pair of
silver candlesticks in honor of the oc-
casion.
Capt John, Hay Beth, Of the Ar
gyll and Sutherland IIighlanders and
widely known as Tan Hay author
OF THE Fist Hundred Thousand"
spoke before the members Of the
Thursday Reading club and a limited
number OF their friends at the Brook
lawn Country club, this afternoon.
Capt. Beth talked on Trench War
fare in which he has had much ex-
Jerience. Out Of courtesy to the
club, Mrs. C. M. Calhoun, who was to
have given theE last Of her Current
Events lectures today postponed it
until Saturday.
y e y
Mrs. Carolyn B. Doremus Of 231
West avenue, will give a tea at $3.50
tomorrow afternoon to the leaders
and workers In the financial campaign
OF the Bridgeport Protective assoc
citation. Miss Katheryn Hewitt will
speak to the guests.
The Brooklawn Country club pro-
gram for February:
Saturday. Feb. 3-Tea. Dinner
dance. Table dhote dinner at Z
o'clock. Music<7 to-12 o'clock.
Friday, Feb. COMEDY Club
dance. Table d'hote dinner at Z
O'clock
saturday, Feb. 1oTea. Music
4:3O to $50.
Wednesday, Feb. 14-Valentine
luncheon. Table d'hote luncheon at 1
o'clock Auction bridge at 2:45. Three
rubbers Scores taken promptly at 5
o'clock. Prize given by Mrs. Chas.
Saturday, FEB. 17-Tea Dinner
dance. Table d'hote dinner at z
o'clock Music to II o'clock.
Thursday, Feb. 22-Washington's
birthday dinner dance. Table d'hote
dinner at Z o'clock. Music z to II
Saturday. Feb. 24-Tea. Music 4:so
to $50.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
AMOS p. WILDER TO
SPEAK AT SUPPER

A well spread table. social half
hour and three sparkling addresses,
will signalize the supper at the Peo-
pies church next Tuesday, Feb. 6,
given under the auspices Of the Mems
league The speakers will be Hon.
Amos P. Wilder, ex-consul to China,
Miss Margaret Tangster and Mr..
Ellsworth Grummond.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

vary Congregational church, the
chuch members voted last night in
favor of the transfer. They said they
preferred to have the saloon in the
new location. THE commissioners re-
Gently granted Andy the transfer and
the remonstrants have taken an APP
peal to the superior court. The new
location is at Harral and Madison
avenues
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
MILK PRODUCERS TO
MEET IN DANBURY

A meeting Of the directors Of the
Western Connecticut Milk Producers
association will be held Saturday.
Feb. 3, at / o'clock p. m, in the
rooms of the Danbury Chamber Of
& Commerce to consider the question of
joining the Connecticut association
and toshear the reports OF the special
organizers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

President Wilson nominated to be
Rear Admirals, Captains Harry M. p.
Huse, Robert S. Griffin, George E.
Burd, James Il. Oliver, John Hood
and William s. Sims.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

Paris Feb. THE central COM
mittee of French ship owners inform
ed the Associated Press today that. the
new German submarine policy will
cause no change whatever in sailings
from France.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
MAYOR AND City CLERK
Make SHARP ATTACK ON
ASSESSORS AT CAPITOL

Mayor Accuses Three of His Own Appointees of Derec
ton in Duty, in Effort to Force Through Measure
That Will Abolish Board of Assessors and Create
Post Of Tax Commissioner Opposition to Legisla-
tion Without Referendum for Bridgeport Electors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
Especial to The Farrner.)

Mayor Wilson and City Clerk Robinson sharp at
tack three members of the Board of Assessors before the
Committee Cities and Boroughs yesterday afternoon The
declared that attend
ng of the board, did not do his work not
make much difference whether this signed the
list not
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
FAVOR ANDY TRANSFER

Although a remonstrance was filed
against Larry Andy's transfer of a
liquor license on the ground that the
location was too near the Italian Cal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
ERNEST sIMONs DEAD

Greenwich, Feb ERNEST Simons
70, a prominent manufacturer of Port
Chester, died today Of pneumonia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
GIFTS TO PLEASE EVERYBODY

of
a sand
from
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
Free Lecture Course
Begins Tonight Under
Auspices Of Library

The course of free illustrated lee
lures in the High school hall under
the auspices of the Public Library
will begin at 8 o'clock tonight.
Rocky Mountain National Park,
one Of the youngest in the national
park system, is the subject of the
first lecture. by Rev.IWilliam Wallace
Rose of this city
Exports Of cotton from Galveston.
Tex, in January were 226.OOd bales :
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent WAL
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-01
FRENCH LINE TO CONTINUE.

,ce from Main Street. Bridgeport
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
THIEVES ENTER SCHOOL AT
TEXICO: DAMAGE A DESK

During the sumner vacation,
sneak thieves entered the TeXico
school in the low er valley. and broke
open the teachers desk and relieved
the drawers Of everything OF value
left there when school closed. The
greatest loss as q result Of the theft
was the damage to the desk itself.
Suggesting that possibly schools are
a favorite place for thieves. Miss
Myra Winkler, the county suDerin-
tendent, recalled Monday in reporting
the Texico theft that the pantry OF
the domestic science class at the
Shelter school has been emptied on
several occasions, and that the door
Of one room in that institution had
Deen broken down and phonograph
stolen
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
2 ISOLATED AT SILVER CITY;
BELIEVED 10 HAVE LEPR0SY

SILVER City, n n, Sept. 1I.-Steps
yesterday by county officials TO $50
late two men examined Saturday IN
der the selective draft disclosed that
the men. both natives OF old Mexico.
were suffering from a malady be-
ieFed 10 be leprosy-
one was employed in a mine at
Santa Rita, n n, and one at a Lords
burg, n NJ mines. one case was well
advanced. according to examiners for
the draft board. Neither man was
prevented from working. however, or
knew he was seriously Ill
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
WOO REOPEN
At CHIHUAHUA
A. S. & r. Official Says No
Coke Procurable; Off
cial Party Leaves.

-Four officials Of the American Re
timing & Smelling Co., Karl Eners,
n. A. Prosser, W. S. Morse and G. a.
Brackington, left for New York on
Sunday night after their semi annual
inspection trip through the west. The
present conditions in Mexico with re-
gard to the opening Of the Chihuahua
smeiter Fere discussed by the Off
Gals and local representatives Of the
company.
Although the report has been
abroad for some time that the smell
ter was TO be reopened at Chihuahua
and business resumed, c. L. Baker
general manager Of smelling plants,
said Monday morning that there was
as the coke 10 run the smelter was
not procurable on account OF the
enormous demand for IL for war pur-
poses. Ny Baker said:
says Mexican Story @POppycOel.7
"a little construction work is be-
ing done at chihuahua, but It is not
with q view TO the reOpening % III
smelter. ard the idea circulated thE
Mexican officials have offered the
protection OF Gen Francisco Muir
guiais forces is all poppycock- The
only reason the smelter is not being
run IS lack OF coke. No Mexican Of
ficials have approached me with the
suggestion that we begin operating
gain. and the fictitious suggestion
that the MeEicans take over the smell
ters-and reduction works is not to
be considered have no statement
TO make concerning the smelter sit
uation- The work OF the American
Smelling & Refining Co. viii continue
as before. We have three shelters
operating at Monterey, Matehuala
= nd A nsT1n sea ID ar1r -
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
Flags Of Allies Fly
From Plaza Staff To
Honor Hoods Birthday

The flags Of the allies today float
over Ell Paso, from the top Of the
high pole in san Jacinto plaza, to call
the attention OF everyone to the fact
that this is the birth anniversary Of
Cen John B. Hood. confederate leader,
and IL is being observed as flag day
by the Daughters Of the Confederacy-
A large American flag. 10 by IS feet,
leads the string. followed INN ediately
by the Lone Star OF Texas Then
come the standards OF various ally
nations each much smaller than the
Stars and Stripes At the bottom
floats the British flag, almost as large
as the American
City clerk Jack Dawson ordered the
fiaEs some time ago by mall and
or tilted TO ask for one Of Servia- The
flags that were delivered, however,
included Servfa, but not Great Britain
A large British standard was Dor
rovved at the last moment from for
mer British consular agent Homan
c. Nyles.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
7000 MELONS To
Be GIVEN AWAY
Japanese Farmers Plan
Great Melon Feast for the
Dona Ana Fair, Sept. 27.

Las Cruces. n. N. Sept 17.-Well
known speakers and men prominent
in agricultural development OF the
country Will make addresses at the
Dona Ana fair on Farm Bureau day.
On that day also viii be given away
to people at the fair 1000 melons by
japanese tenant farmers on the Las
Cruces Garden Farms Co. lands, the
tenants being Joe Ohmura- Y. Kaw
Asoki, T. Hashimoto and n Nigga
motto. It is expected TO be the great
est melon feast in the history OF the
valley.
Melon Shipments $50 Cars.
over 23O cars Of melons have been
shipped from Las Cruces this season
and besides many other in crates have
been shipped in small lots. Fifty
crates per day are now being shipped
to Deming.
Las Cruces Wishes Camp.
Las Cruces has made claims for a
site for the new artillery training
camp which viii be located in the
southwest.
Takes Hogs To TT. Worth.
Dan Williams has gone 20 Fort
Worth with a shipment OF hogs Of the
Dan Ana County Hog Growers assoc
citation.
Cousin Of Las Cruces Man.
Lieut.. Vim. T. Fitzsimmons. the first
American officer killed in France. by
a German bomb, was a cousin Of Z. J.
Heilman, Of Las Cruces.
Miss Grace Flecl. OF FL Paso, was a
week end visitor with Misses Blanch
and Laura Cox at Las Cruces.
Miss Rosemary Bennett has re-
turned from Los Angeles and has
position in the Mesilla schools.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
GIVE US SOUKROMLINOFF.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS DEMAND

Petrograd. Sept. 1.-THE trial OF
Gen Soukhomlinoff. the former war
minister, for treason, was Interrupted
yesterday by the breaking Of windows
IN the court room, followed by the ap-
pearance Of delegations from three
companies OF a regiment which was
waiting outside The delegation de-
clared that the Soukhomlinoff case
was the simplest OF issues and that it
was plain the court was deliberately
prolonging the trial
i demanded that the defendants
(Who included Soukhomlinoffs wife)
should be handed over to the regiment
which would settle. the case forthwith.
The dmand was refused
The session was devoted to further
testimony regarding Soukhomlinoffs
relations with Miassoyedoff, a German
spy who was executed.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
ACCOUNTANTS NEEDED
FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Washington. D. c.. Sept 17-Plans
for the concentration OF q large num-
Der Of the country's leading account
ants for important war service in gov
eminent auditing and supervision
were announced here today at the
opening OF the annual meeting OF the
Institute OF Accounts
An effort is being made to put ac-
countancy service during the war on
as high a plane as has been achieved
by the British. Several hundred pro-
fessional accountants have offered
their services to the government and
a committee has been absorbed by the
war industries board. The committee
already has obtained IA members as
divisional auditors in charge Of ac-
counting at army cantonments.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
WILL CARRY 10 MEN IN
CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT

Hampton, Va, Sept 17.-Plans for
a flight from Hampton TO New York
in which Lieut. Resnati viii carry
ten men in the large Italian triplane
which he brought TO this country,
were announced yesterday after
conference Of British, FSench. Italian
and American officers OF flying corps
at the training field here. The flight
viii be made this week, probably
Thursday or Friday.
The conference was devoted 10 dis
cussion Of methods Of improving
American and allied airplanes. Adop-
ton OF a standard machine for use by
all the allies was discussed, was was a
suggestion for a flight from here to
san Francisco as a test Of the posi-
bility Of transatlantic flights.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-17
PLUMBERS QUIT;
MAY BRING MORE
Employers Claim Former
Agreement for 81 Day
Holds; Men Want So.

About % TO 30 union journeymen
plumbers in FL Paso made good their
declaration to the master plumbers
Saturday afternoon that they would
strike Monday unless their demand for
81 an hour. OF IS per day, was ac-
ceded to. None Of the principal mas
ter plumbers in the city had union
journeymen when the work hour ar
rived Monday.
There are seven master plumbers
maintaining stocks and working
forces here Their representatives
met Saturday afternoon, John Guheen,
chairman, presiding, to hear the de-
mand Of a committee Of union plumb
ers. headed by z. H. Brindel, Charles
Escott and Ed Peterson. for the in
creased pay At the conclusion Of the
conference it was announced that the
demand would not be met
May Bring Men to Finish.
Whether the master plumbers viii
bring a force Of journeymen into the
city TO complete number Of building
jobs not yet completed had not been
definitely decided Monday morning.
but two OF three Of the employers said
tlfat was the intention. There is no
big work pending that viii require a
great number Of experts, one of them
said.
Claim Former Agreement Holds.
A verbal agreement made in July,
1915, between several OF the employ
ers and union representative is
claimed to be in effect for two years
from September J. 1917, OF until Sep
TENDER 1, 1919. This agreement was
on the basis OF 81 a day, without the
usual extra pay for. overtime. An
said that the master plumb
ers considered this binding and would
not further consider the raise de-
handed. as the work in sight would
not justify higher wages.
Mr. Brindel, head Of the journey
men, could not be located up to noon
Many Of the union plumbers are
said to be out Of the city at work on
government contracts.