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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
BUSINESS AND WAR

f In looking forward to our entrance into the war, many people have been , fearing that it would cause a great business shock, and lead to suffering and unemployment. Such, however, is , not the usual story of wars Even with all the suffering in Europe, there are no unemployed. There is something for every willing hand to do.
 War in this country has usually Noeen preceded by stock market furries.
 Tn advance the spectators are apt to
 sell short. trusting that peoples fears
 will lead them to throw securities overheard at bargain prices. But the
 speculative crowd does not allow prices to slump very far. They realize that war creates work and business, and tends to make industrial enter
 prises profitable for the time being. ,, The final results are tremendously ex- , pensive, but the people of ten years hence will feel 1t far more than to- day. 4sNsa&fsS {. So9 let no timid business man get scared and think our great country is going to rack and ruin War will make a demand for thousand kinds of supplies. and the factories will have to get them out in a hurry The need TOT 1OOQ Wlll Dc lncTedSSO, duO LIo
 farms will have to hustle to fill the ; hungry mouths.
 War is a time of artificial stimulus
 Go business, and the first dose is as
 exhilarating to trade as some power
 full drug. The costs of it will be paid later, but paid gradually, and there
 will be no panic and no industrial dis
 aster. Though our military and naval
 situations may be wholly inadequate for this crisis, yet financially we are
 we'll prepared.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
BLATZ QUITS PLACE
 WITH WATSON FIRM

Warren D. Blatz, one of the most active factors in banking circles here, has severed his connection with the firm of T. L. Watson & Go. and will soon take up his new duties as private secretary of Guy P. Miller, treasurer of the Bridgeport Brass Go. and head of the American Tube 6 Stamping Go.
 MT. Blatz through his active work in all civic and commercial organiza- tions, his broad views and large busi- ness and social acquaintance is widely known in the commercial center of this city and will carry with him to his new work the best wishes of all actively engaged in business enter. prise here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
State Saengerfest
 May Be Called Off
 Because of the War

The advisalbility of calling off the state saengerfest in Stamford in the summer of 1918 was considered at a meeting of the directors of the Con- necticut Saengerbund In Seymour on Sunday. The directors decided to put the matter up to the delegates of the various German singing societies, who will convene in September The di- rectors believe that, by September, conditions will make it easier to de- eide kt,e question.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
BOSTON STOCKS
Boston 1880 p. m. Prices reporte. Over Private Wire to T. l..
 Watson & Co.

Arizona Com. 12 Am. Zinc 341A Allouez 61H
 Butte & Superior 42A Cal. 6. Arizona 78H Cal. & EIeclai 546 Copper Range 601s East Custe 1872
 Isle Royale 311I Lake 12 Mohawk S315 North Butte P
 Old Colony 2A
 Old Dominion 59
 OSceola S4h
 Pond Creek 231h
 a1nt Maryis S1 Superior 12 U. s. Smelling pfd. 501a Utah Apex 2A Wolverine A
 Ventura
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JAIL GUN CARRIER.

nue, who recently entered St. Augus- tines church and walking to the altar rail left a gun and razor lying on the communion railing, was given 30 days in jail by Judge Frank Wilder in the city court this morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
GOVERNMENT
 CROP REPORT

4 summary of the April crop repor' br Connecticut. and for the United States. as compiled by the Bureau ol 1 Crop Estimates (and transmitted through the Weather Bureau), U. s i Department of Agriculture, is as fol lows:
 Connecticut. 1 Rye-Condition April this year. st i per cent: 10-year average April con ! dition, 95 per cent.
 :. Hogs-Losses from disease past year [ 1.6>per cent; 10-year average, 2.6 per cent.
 Cattle-Losses from disease past , year, 10 per cent; 10-year average, l.s 1 per cent. Losses from exposure past
 year, se.1 per cent; 10-year average, 0,1 per cent.
 Sheep-Losses from disease past 1 year, o.s per cent: 1o-year average ll.s per cent. Losses from exposure past year. 0.1 per cent 10-year av- craze .0.S per cent.
 : Horses and Mules-Losses from dls-
 case past year. 1.2 per cent; 10-year I average, 20 per cent.
 : Prices-The first price given below !; IS the average on April this year, /, and the second the average on April last year. Corn, 124 and 90 cents i per bushel. Oats, 90 and 60. Pota- i toes, 262 and 137. Hay, $17.20 and ] S2s.so per ton. Eggs. 30 and SS cents per dozen.
 United States.
 Condition April 1 this year. I as.0 per cent: 1o-year average April l i; condition, S9.6 per cent. Hogs-Losses from disease past year, s4.s7 per cents o10-year average. iS.7S per cent.
 ,Cattle-Losses from disease past tgyear, 1.94 per cent; 10-year average, 200 per cent. Losses from exposure past year. 1.45 per cent; 10-year av- craze. 2.45/per cent. Losses from ex- posture past year, s.2S per cent; 1o- year average. a.06 per cent.
 Horses and Mules-Losses from dis ease past year. 1.69 per cent; 10-year average. 1.94I per cent. Prices-The first price given below is the average on April this year, and the second the average on April last year. Wheat, 1900 and sS.6 cents per bushel. Corn, 113 and 7O.S cents. Hay, $500 and $11.78 per ton. Cot i ton, 18.O and Ills cents per pound. Eggs ,26.0 and 17.9 cents per dozen. ! The average condition of winter wheat on April was 63.4 per cent. of a normal, against 78.3 on April l, ,1916, 88.8 on April 1, 1915, and 86.2 ;; he average condition for the past ten years on April 1. There was a de- crease in condition from December 1, ils16, to April 1, 1917. of 22.S points. as compared with an average decline 1 in the past ten years of 40 points be- tween these dates. Upon the assump- lion of average abandonment of acre. age and average influences on the
 crop to harvest, condition April 1 forecasts a production of about 43o,- 900. .OO0 bushels. which compares with .401,744,000 bushels, the estimated production in 1916, and 673.a47. .000 in 1915.
 The average condition of Rye on !, April 1 was 86.o per cent. of nor mai, against 87.8 on April 1, 1916, S9.6 on April l, 1915, and 89.6, the av- craze condition for the past ten years on April 1.
 The condition of rye forecasts a production of approximately 60.000,- ! 900 bushels; last years estimated pro- duction was 47,38s.000 bushels: the . 1915 crop 54.050.000 and the average of the preceding five years s7,56s.ooo
 bushels.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
Prices l Prices II Prices l l l
 Where can you get better value than by using
 FRISBIE'S PIES
NOTICE.
BRIDGEPORT HYDRAULIC co.

No. 82O Main St.
 Water rates for the quarter ending Epril 1st, 1917, are NOW DUE and payable at the office of the Company, No. 82O Main Street. All bills must be paid on or before April 18th, 1917. Business hours on Saturdays from 8 a. m. to 12 m.
 For the accommodation of the pub- lie the office will be kept open from
 8 A. M. TO 8 P. M Mondays, April 2nd and 9th, 1917.
 ALBERT B. LAVERY, U 2\t" Secretary.
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i'1sks.@sa'zz RESTAURANT

THE GLOBE Restaurant-Regula dinner or supper zoe. We serve the best food, coffee and butter in the city. For two and one-half years in business. Our ice boxes have been open to the public for inspec- ton. 3S5 Fairfield Ave. Barnum 5685.
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WANTED 10 RUX

WANTED to buy old false teeth. any condition. Goldberg. l4e Fairfield Ave-. over Royal Lunchs
 H 20 elf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10

0. H. FLEMING REAL ESTATE AND RENTS/
 HOUSES FOR SALE One, two and three family houses' any section of city you want; easy +arms. also lots, farms and factory sies, all bargins.
 eba Main St., City Savings Bank Bldg. Phone a50O Bridgeport, Conn.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
N:GNs
WATCH REPAIRING

FOR SATISFACTION in watch ana clock repairing go to Henry c. Reid
 and Son, Watchmakers, Room BIO Conn. National Bank Bldg. 102& Main St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
TEA HAND LUNCH ROOM
WINDOW SHADES

WINDOW SHADES of every descrip- ton. Estimates cheerfully given. Neuss & Vaughn. Corner Broad and State Streets.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10

CEOECsJE IL. f1AWE0,
 of said Bridgeport,
 VS.
 THE HAWES CORSET CO, 8 corporation located in said Bridgeport.
 SUPERIOR COURT, FAIRFIELD COUNTY. April 5, 1917. Judgment Confirming and Appointing Temporary As Permanent Receiver and Limiting Time for Creditors to Present Their Claims.
 This action by complaint, claiming the dissolution of said corporation and the appointment of a receiver to wind up its affairs came to this court on the first Tuesday in April, 1917, and thence to the present time when the parties appeared, and were fully heard no plea or answer having been filed The court finds all of the allega- tions of the complaint true, and that on the 2Sth day of February, 1917. William F. Rose. of said Bridgeport was appointed temporary receiver of said corporation by the order of the Hon. William l.. Bennett,a judge of the Superior Court; that said temporary appointment was confirmed by the order of the Hon. William L. Bennett, a judge of the Superior Court, on the 18th day of March, 1917, and that said William F. Rose accepted said ap- pointment, and qualified as such tenn porary receiver under bond of fif- teen thousand dollars, and that he is now acting as such temporary re- ceiver.
 Now, therefore, it is ordered and adjudged that the temporary appoint ment Of said William F. Rose, as re- ceiver of the defendant corporation, be and the same is hereby confirmed and made permanent that the said William F. Rose be and he is hereby appoint ed permanent receiver of said corpor- ation, and that the authority and di- rections heretofore given to him as temporary receiver be and the same hereby are reaffirmed and continued.
 Ana It Is further ordered that four months from and after April 9th, 1917, be and the same is hereby linn lted for the presentation to said re- ceiver of claims against said estate; :; that all claims not so presented be thereafter forever barred, and that said receiver give notice to all parties cncerned of said limitation, and that all claims not presented within the tir.e :ir.s.-d will be thereafter barred. and of the address to which claims may be sent to him by mail, by pub fishing such notice in three issues each of the Bridgeport Telegram and Bridgeport Farmer, newspapers pub- lished in said Bridgeport and by causing copy of said notice to be mailed, postage prepaid, to each known creditor, all on or before the 18th day of April, 1917.
 By the Court,
 WILLIAM T. IIAvILAND,
 Clerk,
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MISCELLANEOUS

FLUFF RUGS-Made from old car psts, Call us Barnum S5S5.
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PATENTS A. M. WOOSTER

Late Examiner US. Patent Office, 1115 Main street, Bridgeport. Send for booklet on patents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
New York Stock
 Exchange Quotations

Reported over the private wires of T. L.. Watson & Co.,. Bankers and Brokers. Corner Main and John Sts. Bridgeport. Conn. Members of New York Stock Exchange,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
TO RENT

TO RENT-U pleasant room flat, all Improvements. $50. Adults. Call 1905 North Ave.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10

10 RENT-Residence on Gclden rffYi recently renovated. Store on Main St. Store on East Main. Edwin Frauenberger. 164 State St.. Bar mum 2649.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
Presence of One Woman in Congress
Will Not Revolutionze That Body
By HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON
President Ohio Woman Suffrage Association

reporter long ago asked what effect thought Miss Rankin
what effect that body would have on MISS
Rankin. I answered both questions in word-"litte"
would delegate in the great Federation OF
Womens that body He would stand for the things ne
believed would right he would act committee II nc
we're be all he could do whether he married
SINGLE radical conservative 1t would given out
through PRESS would get certain sort of attention.
The Rankin alone cannot
of if she would to do Much has been
said her being the pivot which questions
would She not unsophlstcaed
coming civilization for the first time She is
college studied the questions of philanthropy and economies
congress will not give her big head She will not dis
credit congressional experience Of will teach her
life certain All glad she
elected anything to make OF us sorry
She to have unusual to women She IS
the that get for the thing Few
States where have equal for equal
might almost there for when succeeds
place and receives his salary she usually given additional
of his pquise taken from her. but every
of representatives. be that member woan
gets pay gets for services
What would the world think if law should passed whereby
would get $4,000 salary and Miss Rankin got but $4,000
One greatest things therefore, which Miss Rankin will do in
which laid upon
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08

posed the latter part Of his great epic,
and in the same recess now stands q
bust Of the poet who did so much for
the literature and language Of his
country.
Its Gambling Houses.
If you say Macao to the ordinary
globe trotter or the sailor whose voy'
ages take him to the Orient, the name
means chiefly a place where he can
gamble, for the city is one Of the few
places where the goddess Of chance
may still be wooed with the sanction of
the law. Gambling licenses and opium
supply the greater part of the colony's
revenues, and such sign as "First-
Class Gambling House" is frequent on
the main street. Naturally, one re-
suit of this is that Macao swarms
with lawless characters from all parts
Of the world and deeds of violence are
rather frequent.
The gambling dens are conducted by
Cinnamon, and fan-tan is the game
usually played. 1t is apparently the
simplest of all games, and one at
which it should be impossible to cheat.
A sheet is spread on table or on the
floor, and the banker sits with bowl
full Of copper coins in front of him.
These he counts out by tours, and the
gamblers stake their money on there
being three, two, one or none remain
ing at the end in the bowl. China
men with a practised eye can tell
while there are still a great heap of
the coins in the bowl how this final
counting will result, and the banker
has probably keener eye than any Of
the Chinese gamblers, and has seen
before them what the count will be.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
81 eague to Enforce Peace" But Another
Name Applied to Entanging Alliances
BY GEORGE w. WICkERSHAM
Former Attorney General Of United States

talked aetoo muc-about without
consideration of what entails Some of us have
still talking becoming part league enforce
apparently without rejecting that such league but another
name for Washington warned
against whole national history and policy counter TO-
sufficiently reflected upon what the obligations Of such
would mean? Some of those who most vous have cried out
against military preparedness been equally vocerous favor
But neither be secured maintained by
pou elegant hoes Peace result Of conditions favor
ing it.
not permanently surrender right exclude the
Asia from the extension of their institutions
Central South America it will be idle talk Of forming nena
peace league Only the in such league strong
virie nations make such league Of any value.
would be Free himself must strike the blow Our patriotism
must of Steiner stuff than rhetoric it is to through
great perls.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
Courtesy Travelogue Bureau.

Courtesy TravelOgue Bureau.
daughters to naval officers, departed
with all his wealth to his mother
country. Several miles inland is All
Fong's birthplace, the village of Wong
most, and there he has created mag
nificent estate which is his favorite
place Of abode in his old age.
San PauIo and camoens' Grotto.
! In the most ancient part of the city
are the ruins Of San Paulo church.
This was the collegiate church of the
Jesuits and dates from the sixteenth
century. In 1885 it was destroyed by
fire, but it's great front wall still
stands. There is also an old castle
that is worth seeing, and several Por-
tuguese fcrts that are garrisoned in
iordinary times by 500 soldiers, and
visitors Of a commercial bent will wish
Ito inspect the cotton, canning and oil
factories and the brick and cement
works that, aside from fishing, COM
prise the chief industries of the place.
! To the literary tourist the place Of
most interest in Macao is the grotto
,of Camcens The author of the Lusiad
the epic poem of Portugal, when he
was banished from Lisbon in 1547 be-
Fcause of a love affair, first fought
against the Moorish pirates on the Bar
barry coast and then, after being par
.doned and again banished, betook him.
self to Macao and took up his resi-
dence il house with a beautiful gar
den. There, in a rocky grotto, lie com.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08

~NOO1tSSy 4AofCAO6o0 AoAOo
TN THESE years Of war when Eu
rope is closed to the tourist, thou
sands of American travellers are
turning to the Orient, and most OF
those who reach the coast of Asia get
a glimpse at least of the oldest foreign
colony in China. This is the POrtu-
guese colony of Macao, at the western
entrance of the Canton river and only
40 miles from Hongkong, the great
British base.
Macao is perched on a peninsula
which is itself part Of the island Of
Hiangshan, separated from the main
land by narrow arm of water. 1t
was occupied by the Portuguese in
1867 and has been held ever since by
that once great maritime nation. For
nearly three hundred years the Portu-
guese paid ground rent to China for
the colony, and in 1887 the sovereignty
of Portugal was recognized by China.
But the extent Of the territory has
never been settled, for China has al
ways disputed the right of the Portu-
guese to the islands of Taipa and Kolo-
wan and to the coastal waters. Conn
missioners were named in 1909 for the
ILLUMINATION of the boundaries, but
they could not reach an agreement.
The city Of Macao is interesting in
various ways and, despite it's age,
much of it is well built and not I'M
handsome. Along it's curving water
front, known as the Praya Grande, is
long row of fine residences and other
buildings. Among the most imposing
of these is the three-story house Of All
Fong, the Chinese millionaire, who
lived in Honolulu for so many years
and, after marrying his beautiful
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
Principle Of Rural Credit Act Might
Be Adopted to Build Merchant Marine
Dy PERRY BELMONT of New York


per Of foreign American R
ships. been estimated that between 100000 \
gross tons of steamships Of vari-
types would be required carry 60 cent Of the 8A
foreign of the United States. At the present
the amount of registered American tonnage
Therefore, become independent the foreign carrier the ton
United States must be increased by construction and transfer
100000 TONS At the present time building
ships States slightly under what they be built
this condition being temporary and due to the abnormal
dons existing that probably will continue exist for
We building at cost Of from $35 to $3.50
evident therefore, that create sufficient amount of Amer
tonnage independent beyond the waters edge will call
for an investment How shall
such money induced to seek its investment American
ships?
develop the required merchant fleet national policy
that would render
ping capital system of credit might be devised Tor
financing operation of tonnage which would do for
shipping what about to be done for agriculture through
the An enlargement of the ruracdt system itself
might groundwork Of the proposed plan to establish
"maritme" credit system.
An appeal legislation would be based the unsound
the maritime states have Joined in supporting the
system the turn of the nonmarme to assist the
It based the wholly economic ground that such
system benefit Of the farmer and the inland
opening the their products to wider markets as tor
the economic welfare of the whole country.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08

Some of the copper coins are really
three coins joined together, and blow
from the stick with which the banker
counts out the coins will turn one coin
into two or three if required. To coun-
teract the possibility of the banker not
being too honest, Europeans who gam
BILE in large sums put their notes into
envelopes before they throw them
down on the divisions of the sheet. A
man can back all four numbers if he
will, one envelope containing notes for
hundreds of dollars, while the others
may each contain note for a small
sum. The banker, however very
often guesses in which envelope is the
big sum Of money, and the division on
which it is laid is not very likely to be
the one to win.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
No Lack Of Advice.

s'There are great many people in
this world who don't know what's good
for them"
perhaps so," replied the cynical
man, "but they always have pleEty Of
neighbors who would gladly tell them
what is good for them If they would
only listen"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
Optimism SO Per Cent Pure.

Ban;;s-Watts is a prettT optimistic
character, hear.
P!anks-I should say so. II he
failed in business he'd thank heavefs
he had his health; if his health fallen
he'd he glad he had his business, and
is he failed in both he'd say there was
no use having one without the other,
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-08
Almost.

Circumstances occasionally force a
man to admit that other peoples troy
bles are almost as great as his own
New York Globe.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-02-23
Rural Carrier Examination

The United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has announced
an examination for the County
of Teton, to be held at Brown
ing, Choteau and Conrad on
March 9, 1917. to fill the position
of rural carrier at Conrad and
Waller. Conrad added, and
vacancies that may later occur
on rural routes from other post
offices in the above mentioned
county. The examination will
be open only to male citizens
who are actually domiciled in
the territory of a post office in
the county and who meet the
other requirements set forth in
Form No. 1877. This form and
application blanks may be OBJ
tanned from the offices men
toned above or from the United
States Civil Service Commis-
sion at Washington, d. G. Ap-
plications should be forwarded
to the Commission at Washing
ton at the earliest possible date
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-02-23
Loses Way in Blizzard

Charley Rooney. well known
north country rancher, had a
very trying experience last Fri
day evening. which night have
resulted more seriously. He
was on his way from Cut Bank
to his ranch, and when between
the ranches of Martin and An
drew Teterud. about $50 in the
evening. he encountered sud-
den and violent blizzard. which
nearly blinded him and caused
him to lose all sense of direc-
ton. After trying vainly to
find the road, he unhitched his
team and started out on foot,
leading the horses. 1t was 1l;3C
when he finally stumbled onto
the Oikle ranch, having taken
over five hours to cover a dis
tance of about one mile. His
face and neck were quite badly
frozen. but after receiving at
tention and a good nights SLEEP
at the Oikle home, he was able
to resume his way next morn
ing.