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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12

The Superintendent of the Northesx
of Illinois is Rev. Geo. McGinnis. B'
January, 1914, he had held pastorate4
Chicago, Aurora, Joliet and Wauleega1l4
ance work for years, having organized
when boy on the farm, becoming its
of drinking men by the pledges signing \
while in the grain and coal business
League and became its superintcndent,t
from Utica under the old no-liccns< -
He has written hundreds of artjele
which have appeared in papers all og<$
office at Lincoln, Neb., and was =
He was granted the degree of ISs4s |,Z'
of the Divinity School of the Univet4ll<
Saxon Origin and Destiny. He ha6 ~
law student, business man, ChantSzltlss
took charge of the work, many Of }6t
seats in the Northern Illinois pf1R
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
LIQUOR DEALERS
APPLAUD TALK
BY WET MAYOR
LaSale Saloonkeepers Called
High Class Business Men
and Civic Leaders,
But Sell on Sunday

The Illinois Retail Liquor Dealers
Association recently met at LaSalle,
ILL.,, in annual convention. The ad
dress of welcome was delivered by
DR.. H. M. Orr, Mayor of the city. In
his speech, the Mayor praised the
local saloonkeepers and expressed his
opinion of all who are opposed to the
saloon business.
The saioonkeepcrs of EaSaiie, ("
said the Mayor, "have the same
standing as any other class of busi-
ness men. He makes himself a useful
member of society and is always at
the head and front of any movement
that will advance the best interests
of the city. They conduct their
places as business men and in no
place in Illinois can be found high
er grade of saloons or better class
of business men conducting them"
Please Explain This
If the Mayors statement is true,
how is it that the saloonkeepers of
LaSalle continue to violate the state
law with reference to Sunday closing?
How can men who constantly disre-
gard the laws of Illinois lay claim to
the same high standing enjoyed by
other classes of business men? 1t
would be interesting to have some
one explain just how the LaSalle sa-
loonkeepers or any others make them
selves, as saloonkeepers, useful men,
bers of society. Also many are Curl
Gus to know what movements for the
best interests of any city are ever
headed by the liquor interests.
Mayor Orr's peculiar ideas of good
citizenship and his own conception
of the duties of public servant were
further expressed as follows:
"If we have any of those long
haired men or short-haired disap-
pointed women, l am willing to talk
with them and show them their folly.
l would rather sacrifice my right arm
than to cater to their foolish theories.
When l say no, l mean it, and it is
final, and l would willingly submit to
being drawn and quartered before l
would subscribe my name to a Sun
day closing order like Mayor Thomp-
sons of Chicago"
Loud Applause
Here we have an ideal wet Mayor.
The hearts of the assembled saloon
keepers must have leaped with joy at
hearing these noble" words.
The news report of the Mayors
speech concludes:
"The Mayors remarks were loudly
applauded."
From this it must be assumed that
the Mayor had expressed the senti-
ments of the assembled liquor dealers.
Therefore, they stand before the peo-
pie of the state as being in accord
with Mayors who would make any
sacrifice rather than enforce the peo-
pies will when such law enforcement
involves loss of saloonkeepers' profits
The people of the state should re-
member the "loudly cheered" remarks
of the Mayor of LaSalle when the
same saloonkeepers make campaign
claims to the effect that liquor deal
ers are law abiding and patriotic citi-
xens.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
Metan1orphosis

The coiled pipes forming part of a
distillery's equipment are called
worms. Certain parts of the tractors
being built in Peoria are called cata-
pillars. Many Peoria workmen have
turned from worms to catapillars
since the distilleries have been closed.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
Blind Pigs in Wet Territory

Giuseppe D. Loda was refused final
citizenship papers because he was
convicted last month of operating a
blind pig in South Wilmington.
Ida Jones of Peoria was arrested
recently charged with the sale of liq-
uor without a license.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
Jail Blind P;qqers

Edward Frisby and John Remus,
both of Gilberts, are serving 80 days
in the county Jail at Geneva. In ad-
dition to the Jail sentence they were
fined 5000. Their offense was selling
liquor in dry territory.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
HARGE SEVEN DEALERS
SOLD LIQUOR TO TROOPS

= sepe7 Aufera sa'cenkeepers -vny
be arrested on the charge of selling
liquor to members of the Third regi-
ment. A secret service man who has
been in Aurora has returned to Chi
cago with the names of the saloon-
keepers against whom he stated that
he has positive evidence that they
sold liquor to soldiers in uniform.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
FINE BLIND PIG KEEPERS

Three alleged keepers of blind
pigs" were fined $50 and costs by Po-
lice Magistrate Barlow yesterday aft
ernoon on evidence collected by De-
tective L. F. Cooley and Special
Investigator Mcdonald.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
LOOKS INTO GIVING OF LIQ-
t9R TO GIRL
Poncewoman Phillips Wants Man
Responsible Prosecuted to the
Full Extent of Law

An investigation to learn where an
IS year old girl who was arrested by
Alderman Philip Mueller last Satur-
day night for being drunk, got the
liquor that overcame her, has been
started by Policewoman Mary Phil
lips. The girl spent the night in
Jail.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
CARDS AND SALOONS

Notwithstanding strict orders IS
prohibit cards in their saloons sew
eral saloonists are creeping into the
police records for violating this rule.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12
Evils of Drink Are Not Les.
sened by License Method
of Control
DEALERS DISREGARD LAWS
Items in Aurora and Joliet News
papers Tell of Fights, Cards,
Sales to Soldiers
BLIND PIGS, too

The failure of regulation is re-
vealed in the following news reports
taken from Aurora and Joliet papers
of recent date. Unlike Rockford, Ell
gin, Freeport and other large dry
Illinois cities, Aurora and Joliet still
cling to the theory that regulation is
the proper solution of the liquor probs
lem.
The first three items below ap-
pcared in the Aurora Beacon News.
The last two are paragraphs from a
news report and an editorial recently
published in the Joliet Herald:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12

Following an argument in a saioon
at Indianapolis. Ind, over a dime. one
colored man was killed when the two
contestants got to shooting at each
other. 4
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12

clean government in scores of other
communities in Illinois and neighbor-
ing states. He has become known
not only as one of the most effective
anti-saloon speakers in America, but
as leader in the great civic reform
movement that in recent years has
redeemed so many American cities
from corruption and misgovernment.
AS testimony of his success along
this line, Mayor Bennett was twice
elected president of the Illinois May
ors' Association.
When the history of the anti-saloon
movement in Illinois is finally written,
Mr.. Bennett will occupy large space
in its pages.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12

District of the Anti-Saioon League
fore entering the League work in
in .Earlville, Springfield, Sandwich,
He has been interested in temper
a neighborhood temperance society
president and reclaiming a number
nethod. When in his early twenties
IN Utica, he organized a Citizens
Which resulted in driving the saloons
ian.
/ on the dry warfare for the press
I the nation. He read law in a law
ii in the old Union College of Law.
pr his legal work and is a graduate
of Chicago. He is author of Anglo
successively farmer, school teacher,
lecturer and preacher. Since he
larger cities and ten of the county
lave gone dry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
w ell make a
skirt for 81.

Our capable and progressive tailors will make skirt
for any the style she likes for dollar
That dollar the entire cost Of the skirt addition
the regular charge for whatever wooden cloth Is picked
for it.
There are extra charges Of any sortfor covering
buttons findings, such One dollar pays for it ALL
Every skirt make under this offer is guaranteed to
fit to the satisfaction of the who is weart She
the judge It must be finished in way that meets her
approval too In other words the buyer decides and
proves
There a number of pretty new styles from which
to choose Some notably tasteful for of full
figure Some Of special grace for slender women.
One particular model looks exceptionally well when
made up gray-and-white check of large size. fin
shed skirt of this is exhibit. It's worth special
spection.
But there are IA styles, all told; that at
least one to suit every woman.
And these excellent woolens to make them from
serges taffetas crepes poplsns plaids, mohairs IN
plain weave or fancy stripes SLID va
Panamas crepe, stripes, paids serges, popns fancy
mixtures $150 I'd
Lustrous poplins and fne-weave serges,- $l75 yd
Fancy stripes and plaids, fancy crepes India twill
non]in serge and melrose- 50 yd
And wonderful lot Of blackand-white combinations
in checks and plaids and unique strpes59c to ~ yd
- ss 5
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
ATTORNEY SHAPIRO
ADDRESSES JEWISH
CONGRESS- BRANCH
'sUnited States, It's People
and Laws" Subject of
Lecture in New York.

w. Attorney Charlet H. Shapiro. who
was recently elected representative
at large from Connecticut to the
American Jewish Congress-. delivered
nm address on 'aThe United States, Its
People and Its Laws" in the summer
series OF open air library meetings of
the Seward Park Branch Of the New
York Public Library in that city,
Thursday evening, to q large au-
dience, under the auspices of the So
cial Service bureau of the B'nai
Firth. Assistant District Attorney
.Markewich was chairman of the
meeting.
Mr. Shapiro has been invited to
deliver an address on 1.-THE American
izafton of the Immigrant; and The
Duties and Obligations Of an Ameri-
can Citizen" at the meetings to be
held in August and September.
A series OF slides showing indus
trial. agricultural and commercial OPP
portunities for newcomers in various
parts of the United States, prepared
by land and Industrial commissioners
- number Of states for Mr.. Shapiro
are used in connection with these lee
4 lures.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
.C|TY'S PAYROLL
TOTAL INCREASES
ALMOST A Third
Bridgeport Industries Boom
ing More Than Ever
Before.

Bird seport's industries are still
booming The payroll which during
the last moth has increased nearly
one third is today estimated by the
leading bankers of the city to be more
than one million and a half dollars
per week. One bank alone is paying
out every week slightly over one mil
lion dollars for approximately 100 fac
tories and stores in this city.
In every factory devoted to the
manufacture of anything that may be
utilized in warfare the increase of
skilled help has been large during the
last month, the factories reporting
receipt of large orders which will ex-
tend over period of several months.
The big munition works in this
city have jumped up payroll aggre-
gates to a large extent. The Ameri-
can Tube & Stamping Co. is constantly
increasing it's forces, and the Locomo-
bile Co. of America, is adding large
numbers of workers to its regular
staff Similar conditions prevail in
nearly every large factory but one,
which recently changed hands and is
now, in process in Inventories and
changing personnel.
/ Bankers in this city assert that
within two weeks at the preset rate
of increase Bridgeport's payroll will
exceed two millions of dollars, proba-
bly, exceeding any other city in the
state. Bank deposits throughout the
city are enormously increased.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
GEORGE MARsDEN

George Marsden, one of the best
known English residents of Bridge
port, died at his home, Warrington
court this morning following four
months of illness. Mr. Marsden was
born in Esngland 81 years ago, but
came to this city to work with the
Salts Textile Co., 26 years ago. A
short time after arriving here he went
to work for the Read Carpet Co,
where he remained as an employee for
20 years and until the company dis
continued business. Later he was en-
ployed at the Remington Arms & Am
mu1ition Co., until ill health four
months ago caused him to give up his
work there. MIR. Marsden was MEM
er of the Pioneer lodge, No. 70, Sons
of ST. George, and belonged to Dewey
camp, Modern 'Woodmen of America
He is survived by his widow, four
the English residents of Bridgeport
He is survived yb his widow, four
daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Jessup and
the Misses Laura, Florence and Alice
Marsden, and by three brothers, John,
Harry and William, in England.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
U. S. Forcing
NeutraIs To
Take Sides
g Copenhagen Press Protests
Against American Policy
of Refusing Exports Of
Foods to Neutral Nations
Our Policy Declared
More Ruthless Than Eng
lands.

Copenhagen, July THE Ekstra-
bladet and the government organ,
Politiken. commenting on the pro-
posals to limit supplies to Scandinavia
and Holland, complain that the en-
tente powers, with America at the
head, lack appreciation Of the diff
cult position Of small neutrals and
proposed measures Of the great pow
ers fighting in the Isanne of liberty. JUS
tice and civilization are calculated to
crush these small states whose sole
desire is to maintain true neutrality
toward both camps.
Judging from these newspaper re-
ports, the situation is regarded as des-
perate. The Politiken says America
seems to lack the most elementary ap-
probation Of Denmark's difficulties.
It says that articles from influential
American papers indicated the United
States intends to force Denmark
either to Join Germany and starve OF
Join the entente and share the fate OF
Belgium The American policy
which from the outbreak of the wan
until the breach with Germany was
never neutral but English, the pape,
continues, and now has become Amer
lean, that is to say still more ruthless
toward neutrals than was the English
All that Norway, Sweden, Denmarl
and Holland demand, Is permission te
remain neutral and avoid starvation
Even this modest desire seems IL
danger of becoming illusory.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
Deaf Mutes Take
Vow With Pencil
and Pad Of Paper

Jack is in no danger of an exemp-
ton cold. No, am not taking him
out of the draft. Without speech or
hearing he would not be selected for
service. I love Jack and he loves
me and that is our reason for being
married"
This little epist1e was written today
by Mrs. John Garland who a few
minutes before she penned the mes
sage was Miss Louise Laneri, of Ho-
boken, N. j. She and Mr.. Garland
were made happy wife and husband
by Assistant Town Clerk Clarence E.
Winton and they both used a pad and
pencil to give expression to the GUS
tomary marriage vows.
Garland is 23 and gave his occupa-
ton as factory inspector. His bride.
a charming young lazy of 81, gave her
occupation as canvasser. The BRIDE
groom's home is Jersey City. Both
are deaf and dumb.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
AUTO STRUCK BY
TRAIN; 4 KILLED
And | INJURED

Sault Ste Marie, Mich, July T.
Four persons were killed and one was
injured last evening when an automo'
bile was struck by a Canadian Pacific
passenger train near Blind River. The
dead: Mrs. John D. Sloveryher daugh-
ter, Mary, Mrs J. w. Brooks and her
daughter, all of Blind River.
The injured man was Ralph Glynn
a lumberman of Sault Ste Marie. Sew
eral years ago Glynn was famous
athlete. He was a star on the Notr'
Dame football eleven and later at tht
University of Wisconsin. .
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
The store is open
Not lip-service
but real service.

Llp-servce is best exemplifed by the who sings
the Star Spanged Banner loudly he browns out the
voices OF all other mean the street for fear
recruiting officer will stop him.
Real service is the sort being given every day
by young whove left their regular work to drill
and guard and fight for Uncle Sa-at but mere fraction
of their former wages
Nobody has any respect for the lp-servant.
1t is possible for store to be ipservant. It
sing its praises and tell Of its goodness and exat
its own powersand people become wearied by it.
But store be real servant It can have the
merchandise people want sell it to them at fair price, have
cheerful air. be active and prompt and on the job
when folks need it.
This is the sort of store plan make the Rowland
store.
No ip-seryice here; instead genuine and hearty SER
vice.
That service to all the people with equal facility
To make that all people do have equal chance to
profit by the store service it open each day through the
from $50 in the morning till in the afternoons
and Saturdays is open till 9 in the evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
Attached Property Of
Danbury Hatters Is
Appraised at 1862, GIG

Danbury, July THE appraisers
appointed by Judge Thomas, of the
United States court, estimates the
value of the real estate under attach
ment lin the Danbury hatters' case
and to be foreclosed during the pres
Ient month, have completed their work
and made their report to the court
The total valuation is 1882, SIC. OF this
amount, property valued at $3.50, 1850
is in Danlbury, $58, 092.50 is in Bethel
and s21.150 is in Norwalk. Real estate
men who have made private exaInin-
ations of the property records esti-
mate that the Membranes upon the
real estate in question including mort
Cages and tax liens amount to ap.
proximately $50, 900.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
lr5.s
DIEsE;.

K rSr-A ~ n ,s- Z.
WAITER-In this city, Thursday,
: July 8, 1917, John Walters.
Friends are invited to attend the
funeral from the residence of his
q 3dauefiter. Mrs. Elizabeth Lennon,
No. N144 Madison Ave-. on Monday.
July 9Th at $3.50 a. m. and from
St. Augustine's church where a
solemn high mass of requiem will
s be offered for the repose OF his soul
: 1t nine o'clock.
Burial in st. Michaels cemetery.
HETERS-In this city, July Z, 1917,
Robert Peters, aged 46 years,
VI months, IL days.
Friends are invited to attend the
funeral at Frank Poke & Son,
Mortuary parlors, 77s State Street
w on Monday, July 9th at 2:30. p. m
Interment in family plot, Mt
Grove cemetery. Automobile cor
|, ters. sasp
.1EARsDEN--In this city. July 8. 1917
=, George Marsden. aged 81 years.
Friends are invited to attend the
Il funeral at his late residence No.
Warrington court on Monday. July
9Th 1t 1880 p. m.
Interment at Lakeview cemetery
Members of Pioneer lodge and
Dewey camp take notice. a.,
| sEELEY-In Stepney. Monroe. Jul.
a, 1917, Emily 8. Ives, wife of Hen
~ w. Seeley. aged ~ years.
Friends are invited to attend tht
funeral at her late home, Stepney
on Monday. 9Th inst. at O'Clock
y. m. s5s-ss
81 Burial In stepney cemetery. az
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
Ten THOUSAND
NAMES READY
FOR DRAWING
Two Division Boards Here
Complete List Of Eligibles
For Draft.

Reports OF two exemption board
chairman of this city. fled at noon
today, placed for immediate use OF the
government in selecting an army, a
list OF 10,143 Bridgeporters between
the ages of 21 and 81. They will now
mark time, until the jury wheel turn
ed by the provost marshal general
drops out the numbers Of those who
will be taken for service.
The reports containing these names
were fled by Chairman George c. Ed
wards, for the first city division and
Chairman Sanford Stoddard for the
third city division.
Mr.. Edwards list contains 5,551
names and was given to the city clerk.
in the absence Of Mayor, Wilson, at 4
o'clock today being tint first turned in.
On Mr.. Stoddards List are 1882 names
and this was completed shortly after
nooon. The reports of the other four
district cEairmen are expected at city
hall early next week.
| Some interesting things became ap-
parent today from announcements
made at Washington and statements
as to the local method of numbering
seriously tht registrants. La list will be
posted in a public place within the
limits of each city exemption division
and this list will have the serial mum
Der which has been assigned to each
person registered. Those who regis
tered must acquaint themselves witt
| their own serial mum Der, which may
differ from the number of the regis.
| tration card they received June s. The
obligation is made certain in a positive
statement issued at Washington.
There are six exemption districts il
| the city of Bridgeport and the cards
| IN each have been numbered one. two
etc. This means that instead of Their,
being a single number one in Bridge
| port there are six, and much concer1
| Is being felt as to whether some on,
will be drafted or all six, should tn,
| given number come out of the wheel
| Belief was expressed today that tn,
1 draft would be from each exemption
| division throughout the country in
dividually and If such rule is adopt
| ed the results will be simple.
| one wheel should turn from all part
of the United States, according to tn
| custom followed here, six person
1 would be selected on each turn. I
| is possible that the Washington of
ficials may take the reports of tn
! divisions of this city and other larg
cities where similar rule has beel
followed and make a single progress
sion of numbers by adding the total
in each district in their. regular or
der of succession.
1 Mr.. Edwards division covers tn
first, second and third election dis
tricts and Mr.. Stoddard's the sixtl
and seventh. These two boards hav
thus accounted for five of the 13 pre-
cincts Of the city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
DEBT oUTLAWED,
BUTCHER LOSES SUIT

James H. Dorus of this city, who
formerly conducted meat market in
Main street, has lost his appeal in the
supreme court In the suit he brought
against Florence G. Lyon, formerly Of
this city but now of New York. Dorus
claimed Mrs! Lyons husband had
neglected before his death to pay a
meat bill amounting with interest to
about 500. The common pleas court
found in favor of Mrs. Lyon on the
ground that the debt was so old ii
was outlawed. From this decision Do
rus appealed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
BRIDGEPORT MAN
is SUED BY N. Y.
REALTY CONCERN

Alleging that Charles r. Townsend
Of this city failed to pay for three
lots he purchased in Westbury, N.
Y, the Montray Realty Co. Of New
York, has brought suit against the
local man for $4,000. Papers in the
action have been filed in the superior
court.
1t Is said that on February last
Townsend agreed to buy the property.
He paid s25 down and agreed to pay
SIS monthly. It was understood,
the complaint states, that if Townsend
defaulted in his payments all the de-
ferred payments could be called for
at the option of the company. It is
claimed Townsend did default and
the company seeks to collect STATS in
payments due. The suit is returna-
BILE to the September term.