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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
JUNE WEDDINGS

One of the prettiest of the seasons weddings took place last night at The Stratdeud, when Miss Marcia Del bridge, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jo- seph DeIbridge of Fa9rdeld. became the bride of George F. Higgins, Jr. The bride was attended a,y Miss Gladys Erune1l, who was maid of honor. her sister, Miss Sylvia Desbridge. rose girl. Miss Doris Murkette and Miss Jo- sephine Conover as bridesmaids and Miss Christine Williams, mid maid girl.
 Miss Anime Marie Pfalzgraf, of Black Rock avenue, was united in wedlock yesterday to John Bell Johnson, in the parsonage of the Park Street Congre- gationaa church. Rev. Gerald H. Beard
 fficiated. The groom, who is employed by Pardy Construction Co.,, and his bride left for wedding tour of the Pocono mountains, Penna-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
GERMAN CREDIT IS
 NOW AT LOW EBB

London, June 2s.-A dispatch to
 the Daily Mail from the Hague says that the exchange. rate on the Ger man mark in Holland rose yesterday to 33.95 guilders. The correspondent refers to the statement of the Frank furter Zeitung. saying that there are indications that the next return of the Imperial Bank of Germany will show considerable decrease in the stock of gold and says German credit stands at a much lower ebb than the mark rate appears to show. A re- newal of the German treasury bonds, Whereupon Germany borrowed money from Holland to pay farmers for ex- ported foodstuffs, has been agreed to only on extremely onerous conditions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
POSED AS REPRESENTATIVE
 : OF NEW YORK RED CROSS

Danbury, June 2s.-James C.. Matt thews, who displayed a cheek in the name of the Red Cross society calling for a considerable sum of money, to substantiate his claim that he was connected with the Red Cross society in New York city, was arrested here yesterday on charges of violation of the motor vehicle laws. His car was minus one light and one marker and it's registration certificate and the driver was without a drivers license. The police also reported that the driv- CT was speeding and that he violated a traffic law. Matthews said he was on his way from New York to Bridge port. His case was noiled in the city court on payment of s10 costs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
FIVE LOCAL YOUNG MEN AMONG CORNELL
 GRADUATES OF 1917

The names of five Bridgeport young men appear in the list of 1917 Cornell graduates. They are T. H. Prentice. W. s. Futile. G. Miller, w. A. Coulter and W. R. Lalley
 Messrs Lalley, Futile and Coulter were prominent in Bridgeport High school athletics. MT. LoIley played baseball and football and was mana ger of the baseball team. MT. Coulter
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
DIES, VICTIM OF
 ANCIENT FEUD

Norwaik, June 2s.--Lerenzo Dem- onerano, concerned in the Wood street shooting affray on Sunday night, died this morning at the Nor walk hospital. Domonerano was shot in the back just below the spinal col umn. Internal hemorrhages caused his deatR
 Before Domenerane expired an an- te-morten statement was secured by Detective Sergeant Thomas Hunt,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
AUTO THIEVES TRACED
 TOWARD MIDDLETOWN

Colchester, June .2s.-Thieves in an automobile made their third visit to town during Wednesday night, rob ping the Tip Top store of MT. Lazinsk of about $1,0O0 worth of shoes, cloth- ing and cigars. According l to the store proprietor the best good were selected This same discriminating taste was shown in selection of goods to be carried away in the other bur- glaries. Again the machine was traced toward Mfddletown.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
RUSS PROVINCE WANTS
 SEPARATE GOVERNMENT

Petrograd, June 2s.-The Ukraines. inhabitants of an extensive region of Russia embracing part of the terri tory of the old kingdom of Poland. is sued in general congress in Kiev declaration alleging that their petit ton to the temporary government for autonomy had been rejected There upon the Ukraines were summoned to organize separate local government which, it is hoped. will be confirmed by the coming constituent assembly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
OLIVET CHURCH To
 HOLD PATRIOTIC
 MEETING TOMORROW

Patriotic services will be held in the Olivet Congregational church, Sunday evening, July 1, 1917 The members of the Fourth Regiment, c. H. G., and Battery F of Stamford have accepted the invitation to participate in this service. All are invited to attend and make this service memorable one.
 The Boy Scouts and Path Finder Girls will attend. Special music has been arranged. Rev. W. H. Alexander of Chester, Conn.,, will be the speaker.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

through Frank Tortorella in the pres ence of the medical examiner. Dom. onerano said he had been shot as result of a feud of long standing over Mrs. Rafael Autore of Wood street, which had originated in Italy. He also said who did the deed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

J Tomorrow will be the end of the month bargain day at E. H. Dillon & Co.'S. Wonderful values in summer millinery, sweaters; petticoats, summer
 furs, ostrich neck boas. You cannot afford to miss this saae.-Adv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

was catcher on the baseball team. an president of the Athletic associatia Mir. Futile was known as one of ta best basketball players ever turns out by the local school. He captains she team.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

Mayor Mitchell introduced in G Board of Estimate a resolution to gt him authority to appoint a commit sioner of markets.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

The American sailing ship Gaien ss1 tons. was sunk off the Ushant ! lands by a bomb. There were no ca ualties.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
Another New Book
 lover the Top''

By an American Boy who went.'' Arthur Guy Empey, torn with rage. at the perfdy of the Ger mans in sinking of the Lusitania, he went into a recruiting office in London where he met a lonely Tomnnie Atkins, who greeted him with 1T s'y, myte, want to tyke ong'' He took on, and this is the story.
 $1.5O One of the features of the book is a s"STor1nny's Die tionary of the Trenches. 7
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29

Advertise in The Farmer !
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-29
Silk Coats
Men $ Socks

A collection of odd colors and sizes, regular ly 29 cts,
 p cts to close out Riddles Socks With colored tops, also plain colors with striped tops, :
 25 and s5 cts : Riddles Silk Socks, 59 cts and $1.W
 Silk Lisles Black and white, for women,
 65 cts
 Main floor.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
AMERICANS ARE wAsTEFUL.

Greater food crops and the practice
of more household economies are
urged by Secretary of Agriculture
Houston, as measures to help reduce
the cost of living. American families,
he estimates, waste in their kitchens
annually more than $780, 100000 worth
of edibles. He said there is no real
shortage of food.
Mr.. Houston emphasized the import
ance of the food cost investigation d.
rected by President Wilson and held
out hope that increased acreage this
year may insure greater food supplies.
Wheat and potatoes he said, were I'M
usually short last year, but neverthe-
less there will be enough to supply
nearly normal needs.
Limitation of waste in the kitchen,
he pointed out, would do much toward
affording relief.
"As a nation," he added, I'VE seem
to have a disdain of economl5inS. Oh
course the waste in families'of limited
means is slight but in families of mod
crate and ample means 1t is consider
able. Even if the estimate OF S100,'
900, waste in the country, as prepared
by our experts, is cut in half, it would
still leave an enormous waists"
Prices must be maintained at Ger
tain level or farmers will not in
crease their output Mr.. Houston de-
clared and either the government OF
the community must guarantee rea
sonable price. There is no necessity
for alarm over the reports of food
shortage the secretary thinks, because
crops generally were as large or larger
than the five year average.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15

filed In all your rounds, you'll not
find healthy, pure, sweet mind, pos
sessed by any sense of wrath whose
language needs Turkish bath or
course of great occasion there might
be some excuse for letting ring-tail
cuss words loose. The Father of our
Country swore at Monmouth and then
swore some more. And the Man OF
Or, with boils so thick he couldn't
buzz, let loose cuss words that were
brown until old Bill-Dad called him
down, and great men, under some
heavy yoke might let loose cuss
words that would fairly smoke, but
we could forgive them, as we write,
the story of their deeds of might, but
the little man who will swear and
swear and thus pollute our common
air is as foul and foolish as the frogs
that trumpet in their native boys.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
MILITARY TRAINING.

"If we were never to have war"
says Howard u. Gross, President of
the Universal Military Training Lea
que" the physical moral and educa-
tional benefits of the training would
justify the sacrifices and the expense.
Bishop Fallows, as the head of the
Pontiac School for Delinquent Boys
'cnce said Military training would
have saved. at least rs per cent OF
them.
Sometimes our misguided pacifist
friends make the statement that
there never was a good war or bad
peace"
can eminent New York divine an
swers by saying that 'the Scriptures
do not teach peace at any price, but
rather righteousness at any. COST
In strength there is safety-with us
means peace"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
OUR COMMERCIAL CLUB.

In cleaning house. not long ago, we
found some old time letter heads away
back yonder,-some thirty years ago.
They were Oskaloosa Commercial
Club letter-heads, and Col. A. w.
Swain was president and Fl. S. How
ard was treasurer. ]. w. Johnson was
secretary. They are valuable as
keepsakes, but of infnity more worth
in showing that the Oskaloosa Com
mercial Club is no spring chicken and
it has been on the job and alert to the
best interests of Oskaloosa ever since.
To be sure there have been seasons
in those thirty years when the Com
mercial Club seemed inactive, and
many criticisms of doing nothing
have been heaped upon it. But we
want to say right here and now that
for all 1t has cost, in all these years,
the Oskaloosa Commercial Club has
delivered as many goods as any other
Organization of public character.
Never has the club had more than
$500 to 5000 per year to expend and
that barely paid secretary and room
rent. You cannot make bricks with
out straw, neither can you build cities
without cash. But :, the Oskaloosa
Commercial Club has come as near
performing the miracle as has any
one since the days of Moses and
Abraham.
The Oskaloosa Commercial Club
has been instrumental in building or
encouraging nearly all the factories
we have; has helped colleges and
churches over the hill; has encour-
aged good roads; fought for the pub
lie library, the federal building and
the city hall; supported band con
certs, fall festivals, Sunday school
rallies, all kinds of conventions, and
has kept Oskaloosa on the map in
many ways. The best men and the
Invest wires in the town have served
in its boards of directors and II has
ITO apology to make for its past his
tory.
"But let the dead past bury its
dead" as Longfellow has said. and
now to the future. Let US all get
back OF the new organization with
our service and our cash, and reniem-
Der we cannot expect a onelcylindef
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
WOMEN MAIL CARRIERS.

Women letter carriers will soon be
delivering mail in Paris. This meth
cd will be an experiment and prefer
ence will be given to the wives OF
soldiers. Some doubt has been ex'
pressed as to whether the women will
be able to shoulder the wooden box
that the Paris postmen carry, without
being too greatly fatigued. The wood
en- boxes now are well filled, since
several mail deliveries have been sup
pressed or consolidated with others
Sometimes also the mail from the
United States is so heavy as to greatly
increase the weight of the boxes.
Recently women tried to replace
the postmen at Neuilly, suburb Of
Paris. but they lasted only three days
The postal administration, however
hopes that the Paris experiment VII!
be more successful.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
en- KERwIN PROMOTED.

e. f. Kerwin, a former resident and
well known in Oskaloosa has recently
been elected as vice president OF the
Virginian railway with his headquar-
tiers at Norfolk, Va, he being IN
charge of the operating department.
Recently he has been general super
intendent of the NJ. & St. l.. X. X. ana
this is now the second time that he
has been called to the east to take
a position of larger possibilities. he
began railroad work in August 1871
with the old Eria r. r. and hnaliy IN
March 1885 he came west to the Union
Pacific +. r. and here after serVlns
with the Chicago, Milwaukee q 81
Paul r. R. and the Chicago Great
Western r. r. he came to the ola
Iowa Central in March 1890 and was
dispatcher and trainmaster untli
June 1902 when he went to the Cen
trail r r. of New Jersey, as the chiel
.disnatcher and later a division super
intendent. In February 1914 he again
came west and has since been serV
ing as general superintendent OF the
NJ G. St. l.. r. r. This place he no"
resigns to again go east. In his new
work he will be associated with =
w Huntington also former reslaeh'
and we'll known here, and togethei
they will meet a greater work.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
MEN NEEDED BY NAVY.

Among the reserve vessels OF the
American navy along the Atlantic
coast are sixteen battleships. On
board these vessels are only about 20
per cent of the full crews needed to
man them. In case of war only part
of them could be used immediately.
The navy department realizing the
seriousness of this situation, bas
notified its recruiting officers to en-
deavor to enroll as many as possible
of the former members of the navy
who are capable of sea service. they
would be attached to the reserve
corps and would be called upon for
duty only in the event of war.
It may be hoped that great many
of the men who have served on Amer
lean warships will respond to this call
for trained sea fighters. The depart
ment wishes TO place the names oil
10, 900 of them on it's navy reserve
lists. At least 100000 of them are
now in civil life. The Navy League
OF the United States places the mum
Der at $4,000. One of the purposes OF
the league is to aid in the enrolment
of former bluejackets.
Here is a pressing need. Able bod
led men who have been trained on
Uncle Sans warships ought to re
spond to the call in large numbers
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
MARCH DISBURSEMENTS.

Dividend and interest disburse-
ments during the month will again
establish a record for March with a
distribution of $4,000, 900. This COM
pares with s154,00O,O00 a year ago,
the highest March on record until this
year.
Of the total amount nearly SGS,0O0,-
600 will be paid out as dividends by
industrial companies, representing an
increase of S20,000,000. OF this in
crease nearly half is supplied by the
payment on United States Steel COM
mon. which is distributing Ia per
cent over and above the IA per cent
regular quarterly dividend. A.
The total is the largest ever distri
buted in single month by industrial
corporations. comparing with previous
high record of $66,679,O0O established
last October and nearly attained in
January. Two of the largest increases
aside from Steel common are the pay
ments to shareholders of Calumet and
Hecla and the KennicOtt Copper com
tpany shares.
While distributions are still incTeas
ing. apparently. financing for new com
panies and for additions to old com
panies is falling off. The figures fol
this month compiled by the Journal
of Commerce show that only $4,000,
600 of new money was raised, com
pared with $3O3,OOO,OOO a year ago
The decrease was mainly, as expected
among the industrials. The railways
arranged for $73,OOO,0OO, a decrease Of
50 900 900, but the industrials raised
only SLIT 100000, which is falling
off of S1O2 ,000,0 900 from last year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
NEGROES TO CHICAGO.

Demands of the labor market are
declared responsible for a great mi
grafton of negroes to Chicago from the
south, now under way.
Twenty-Five hundred have arrived
within the last two weeks.
April j, will see an increase of To-
600 in Chicagos colored population,
it is said, and $4,000 are looked for BY
September 1.
Efforts, made for some time by Ia
Dor agencies to bring large numbers
of negroes from Dixie, have been slow
of result, because of warnings sent
by the Appomattox Club advising the
Southern colored workers not to come
until provision was made for their
care.
Lodging and food for one week has
finally been guaranteed by several
stock yards firms, who are in need
OF 10000 or more men.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
CITY IN THE MAKING
BUILDING OPERATIONS GOING ON
ABOUT THE TOWN.

To any one who stands at the cor
ner of North Market street and X
avenue east, the main building of the
new Penn college over on College
HILL seems to be looming up in large
proportions and the work is surely
but slowly reaching the level of the
main or first floor. Three-fourths
of the basement stands above the
ground level ana this looks almost
like a complete story in itself and in
a sense it is, as the ceiling is higher
than is usual
The work done so. far has several
interesting features and probably the
most notable is the long heating and
ventilating tunnel that runs through
the center of the length of the build
ing and from this connections are
made 10 the various flues and shafts
about the building. In the construc-
tion work the Oskaloosa rough faced
brick is being used with the popular
open or raked joint, that sets back
the mortar about quarter of an
inch. This effect added to the hand
some Bedford stone work will make
an elevation that will be decidedly
pleasing and attractive.
Steel window sash are being used
and the various floors are to be laid
.argely in concrete, with steel re-
inforcing. At the west end of the
main building, the new power station
will be placed and still further west
will be the various units OF the new
dormitory building and not far from
| this will be the new gymnasium build
| ing This grouping brings the clus
| ter about the central station so that
he heating connections are almost
| direct in each case and thus the ser
vice is more effective.
In a short time the transformation
| IN this part of the city will be re-
markab!e and even now there is talk
Of extending the Market street paw
| ing out to the new location. North
| G street will also be extended to the
new property, and the North l. street
side of the grounds will also be large
| ly improved. A noteworthy fact
regarding the new buildings is the
solid and permanent character of the
construction work and this feature
will be the rule in all of the work
lone.
There is plenty of room on College
Hill for fine grouping of buildings
with their connecting approaches and
walks, as we'll as liberal supply OF
fresh air, and the two will be fine
Incentive to good health and an edu-
cation that will bring out ambitious
action on the part of the scholar.
From now on the project will be
yiewed by the public with almost in
tense interest.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
THE QUEENS TROUBLES

There used to be an old saying that
'The King Can Do No Wrong" But
not so the Queen = at least in teh
opinion OF those who are prone to
criticise. An Associated Press report
from Amsterdam says the question has
been raised in the Parliament OF Hol-
land as to whether Queen Wilhelmina
did wrong in going skating when her
country is in so serious position. II
seems that she went with party oil
friends to ,Leeuwaarden a few days
after Germany had inaugurated its
submarine warfare.
While there Is no chance that the
motion even will come toea vote in
parliament, it has been the subject OF
much discussion in the Hobbies and the
newspapers.
Supporters of the motion assert that
skating and ice sports are dignified
and imply the neglect of state affairs
by the queen
The queens supporters reply that
her trip to Hollands most famous ice
course was only natural in view or
the national importance" Of skating
IA the Netherlands They say that
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
MORE CROPS. LESS ACRES.

Prof. Coulter OF the University OF
Chicago calls attention to the fact
that while in the, last ten years the
population of the nation has increased
20 per cent the increase in the an
nual food supply has been only / per
cent. He lays at the door of the
American farmer the blame for this
failure to give the people enough food
stuffs to keep prices within reason.
For one thing, farm labor has been
lured to munitions factories and to
other city jobs by high wages and a
desire for shorter hours and variety
of social pleasures. These causes OF
high prices joined to the extraordin-
ary shipments aborad of foodstuffs to
meet the necessities of war distracted
Europe and to the faulty methods of
distribution in this country, go far to
explain the present state of things.
ut is we'll known that American
farmers habitually fail to raise the
maximum crops from the acreage now
TILED This is proved by comparisons
with the production per acre in Den
mark and other well cultivated for
eign countries where intensive meth
DDS of cultivation are employed. One
reason for this state of things is UNI
doubtedly the fact that farmers have
feared overproduction, with depressed
prices and ruinously low returns fol
their labor. Their fear has been re
moved at least for the time being
and as a consequence preparations
are being made for the planting OF
"a largely increased acreage of crops
this spring.
"Thus the farmers as a class con
tinue to ignore a fundamental fact
that larger production per acre is
needed rather than a greater acreage
of titled soil, better methods applied
to the present acreage rather than
work scattered over a broader eX
panse of titled land. When farmers
learn that intensive cultivation pays
better and with less effort than thu
old fashioned kind they will adopt 1t
There could be no more opportun'
time than the present for them t.
put in practice this important lesson
Improved soil, improved seed, inn
proved cultiyation-these are tn
three great needs on American
farms"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-15
THE SOLDIER.

The soldier comes back from the
carnage and wreck; he's minus an
arm and a leg and a neck; ah, never
again will he swagger and swing! he
walks with crutch and his heads in
a sling. AS long as he lives he viii
sit by his door and tell how he wad-
ed in enemy gore, and young men
will list to his narrowing tale and
blush that they're standing unwound-
ed and hale. I'd rather come home
from the war in a dray all broken, dis
membered, my head shot away, than
stand around telling by day and by
night that l was too proud or too
moral to fight. The soldier comes
home for a season of peace, he carries
his legs in trunk or valise, his lungs
and his wishbone were shipped by
express his body is filled with the
keenest distress. But people VIII
listen. their hats in their hands, to all
his adventures in war stricken lands;
they'll call him a hero, soul brave
and true. they'll praise him and bless
him and give him a chew. Then SAD
is the lot of the Outstanding wight
who feels that it's wicked and sinful
to fight. The girls turn him down and
the boys boot his name; he crawls
meath a culvert to bury his shame.
WALT MASON.