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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20

Remover, and bicycle tires, II, d, Archer 1878
The Domestic Science classes at the High school
will make doughnuts, fruit and nut cookies.
sponge cup cakes, spice and chocolates cakes to
order Wednesday, April 26th, Orders must be
sent In to the High school not later than Mon
day afternoon,
WANTED-A competent woman as cook and to
assist In laundry in private family. Good home
and salary with steady employment, Answer
stating experience, age and where can be inter-
viewed, Mrs Hiram G. Todd 40 Circulat street,
Saratoga Springs N, Y, l5t9
MEN WANTED-Two strong healthy men, be-
tween the ages Of n and 40, we can offer position
with chance TO learn trade and receive living
wage while learning, Bonus system. Large,
clean, we'll ventilated shops. Apply II, Il. Sturte.
want Company, Hyde Park. Mass l6t2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A surprise and farewell party was
 given Miss Mariette G. Warden at the home of her uncle, P. S. Warden, 255 Lewis street by her class mates and friends, Tuesday night. Miss Warden has resided here the past sev- en years, and recently graduated from Sacred Heart School. As a token of remembrance she was presented with a gold monogrammed bracelet. Mu- sic, games, and dancing were enjoyed. A luncheon was served, Mrs. Bertha Dermont catering. Confetti was showered on Miss Warden, as he, friends depared. All extending their sincerest wishes for her future. Those present were the Misses Agnes Allen, Ruth Alvord, Mary Ramon, Irene Broderick, Catherine Delaney, Mabel Fo1kman, Teresa Judge, Catherine Kerkin. Ada Killian, Florence Pello- grin, Mary Persico, Thomas Bradley
 Lewis Fouremanch, Jack MeHugh. Raymond Fitzmaurice, Daniel Maho- ney, Ralph Rose. Edward Smith, John Connors, Edward J. Mihalcik. :
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
GIRLS! MAKE A BEAUTY LOTION
 WITH LEMONS

At the cost of a small jar of or dinary cold cream one can prepare a full quarter pint of the most wonder full lemon skin softener and complex ion beautifier, by squeezing the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle con- taining three ounces of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal skin softener, smoothener and beautifer.
 Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any pharmacy and two lemons from the grocer and make up quarter pint of this sweet1y fra grant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It should naturally help to whiten, soften, freshen and bring out the roses and beauty of any skin It is truly marvellous to smoother rough, red hands.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
NOTICE


The Connecticut Company makes the following statement
 Effective October 1st 1917, the rate of fare will be in of the necessity of carrying the coins necesstaed by this change fare H tickets will be sold for dollar at the local office.
 Ths necessary because of the alarming in in the cost of performing transportation service we'll the enable the finance the increasing demands improvement of all kinds
 The performing street service has been increas for time with the tremendous increases in the cost of all fue materials and supplies used the operation and the this me the not suf cient and obligations of the Company and supply to enable the officers to finance the growing for improvements of all classes the heaviest of the State various municipalities for pavements
 The present confronting the Company show that the of fare is longer reasonable and it clearly charged with the to of fare which careful consideration, been decided to be six cents
 It is not only The Connecticut Company that is confronted It has the cent fare other street railways important which is the Bay State Street Railway, operating the cities and north and south of Boston
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
SPEeutATiON-iN
 WINE RESULT OF EXCESSIVE COST
French Find0 Their Favorite Y Beverage May Reach Pro-
 hibitiVe Price.

Beziers, France, Sept. 20-French- men are in no danger of going thirsty this year, but they will pay dearly for their favorite beverage unless the gov- ernment can check speculation in wine.
 The yield of grapes will be from 40 to 50 per cont. greater than that of last year; last years crop was nearly fifty per cent. greater than that of 1915, yet wine costs twice as much as 1t did a year ago and three times as much as it did in 1914. Ordinary table wines then sold at the equivalent of cents a quart for red and 10 cents for white, at retail. They bring twenty-five cents, respectively, today.
 Acquisitions for the army, lack of distributing facilities, scarcity of wine casks, bottles, and wine tank cars. in sufficiency of help, high cost of ferti- lizers and chemicals, and the natural economic effect sof-war are given here in the wine country as the reasons for the rise. Another reason is the pur- chase of ''wine on the vine" and suc- cessive transfers of the crop from one speculator to another, even before the grapes have ripened, the same system as adopted by speculators in coal inn portation licenses last winter.
 This abnormal dealing has made or dinary wines relatively dearer than the fine wines. Burgundies, clarets, and good white wines, generally are abundant and have not increased ex- cessively in price. They are not so much subject to speculation and they escape acquisitions, but they suffer quite as much as ordinary grades, even more in some cases, from the in- sufficient supply of bottles and casks.
 The minister of provisions proposes to either requisition the entire crop, annulling all speculative contracts, and supervise the distribution to the retail trade, or fix a maximum selling price at which common wines may be sold to the consumer.
 ,The opinion of the wine country was thus expressed by a grower of the Gard; "They propose to limit the avails of the winegrowers' work, but not one has ever talked about keeping down the profits of the merchants who sell us sulphate of copper and sulphur" said he. '"The great danger in these projects for limiting selling prices or requisitioning at arbitrary figures is that winegrowers will sim ply abandon their vineyards; conse- quence, a, scarcity of wine an higher prices yet.T @gEEf36 <K&Ex
 The wfnegrowers' association pro- noses as a compromise that conces- sfons be made to the state on the quantities of wine requisitioned for the army and that in return, the state leave the wine market to adjust ftxelf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

sence spent Sunday in Georgetown. One of them said that he had made four voyages to France on a war ves- sel acting as. part of a convoy for troop transports.
 Louis Perry of Georgetown was married on Monday to Miss Hazel
 Purdy of Danbury who recently grad uated as a trained nurse. The grom is one of those drafted from this town and will probably be a subject of the next call to the training camp at Aver.
 slkidding in a muddy place on the Estate road above Pine Tree oCrner on Tuesday morning the new Ford car of Joseph Kratky made a. dive through
 the fence railing. The car was con-
 siderab1y damaged but Kratky es- capped injury. Emil Nardine and Benjamin Dell
 left today for the Aver training camp
 in response to the first call on the towns draft contingent. It now looks
 as if all the eight who were drafted
 will receive a summons to service.
 The Center Methodist church is to be repainted, the expense being borne r by George Banks of Philadelphia. Thieves recently made a night raid on Marshall Sanfords potato patch | and dug and carried away several bushels of the tu'bers. 1 Deputy Sheriff Banks with five other deputies is on duty in Danbury to act in case of possible disturbances aris- | ing from labor troubles. l Capt. H. S. Barnes and IT. Sanford Osborn, with their wives, are due to
 return today from a weeks sojourn l in the White Mountains. | Mrs. Lemuel Sanford has been re-
 engaged as teacher of vocal music in ] the public schools.
 l MT. and Mrs. D. S. Sanford are back
 from Boston where they spent about
 a week.
 The officers association of Battalion
 D, Home Guard, met last week at the
 home of Captain Barnes and com tpleted their organization. l Rev. Mir. Cunnin gham and wife went
 to Kent on Tuesday on a weeks va- cation trip.
 | Assessor A. A. Gorham is putting Aup a large silo adjacent to his barns.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
Quarantine Rule Does
 Not Include Muzzling

The opinion has sprung up in the minds of dog owners about the state that 1t will be necessary under the law compelling all dogs to be quar- antined west of the Connecticut river, to muzzle all dPg& U VI
 This, Deputy Connmissioner of Do- mestic Animals Charles c. Cotton said yesterday, is a mistake, as muzzling is not included in the order. It applies merely to keep dogs on premises un- less they are on leash, of a length specified by the law, and exceptions being allowed only in the case of hunting sheep, or cattle dogs, the provisions in each instance being pro- vided for.
 It is felt that this order may be more effective than any muzzling law would be, andN that Furthermore, it will be more humane treatment toward the dogs, which oftentimes suffer from the kinds of muzzles put on them. The quaraintine law goes into effect Saturday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
CREGO-GROVES

One of the prettiest weddings at tended by Bridgeport society this year was solemnized last night at 6:31 o'clock, in St. Johns Episcopal chu5ch where Miss Cleora Groves and Floyd s. Crego were married by the Rev. Stephen Fish Sherman IT,, rector of the church.
 The bride was given away by her father, Charles. Groves. A reception VAS held after the ceremony at the E1ooklawn Country club. The brides-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
DODGE-NELSON.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Alice S. Nelson and Samuel R. Dodge, which took place at the home of the groom, in Ansonia, on Saturday the 18th. Both young persons. have a wide circle of friends here. Miss Nelson was for merly a stenographer with the Loco mobile Co., and MT. Dodge is tool designer for the same concern. He is also a. member of the Criterion club
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

maids were as follows: Miss Phyllis Tomlinson, Miss Edith Wilson, Miss Lionne Smith of Saltwater, N. J., Miss Margaret Ouphant, of Southport, and Miss Alene Pierson of New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

The German language papers are to be required to print their editorials in English, but if some of our states men would confine their remarks to the German language no objection would be offered
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

Reading that the new Liberty mo- tor will run an airplane 100 miles an hour, some of the sporting drivers wish to substitute them for their auto mobile engines
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

Some congressmen's idea of the. way to make the war popular is to remind everyone of it every time he has to get three cent stamp for a letter instead of a two.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

American exports to Germany have dropped from $1,053,s21 in July, 1916, to zero in July, 1917.
 Large quantities of old steel rails were bought by Japanese brokers in Seattle and shipped to Japan.
 Puerto Rfco's quota for the Nation al Army will be 12,5s4, instead of l. 900, as had been announcAAl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

Mrs. E. M. Sanford and son Clinton have returned from a visit with friends at Fairfield Beach.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

This is a speedy age, but you would never know it by the gait of the boys on the way to school these nice Sep tember mornings ..
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20

One of our ex-presidents has been up in an airplane to try out the new Liberty motor, but it is not yet certain that the new engine would life the other off the ground
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-20
Two of Mrs.Fwy.s Family of Five 2 Children
I am writing this slettEss 5aos. afSSWh LHI IS

mothers whose children suffer severe colds and ill health. My children were weak and nervous. Fifteen years ago a friend recommended Father Johns Medicine. tried it and found it more than satisfactory and have been using it ever since. Five of my children were brought up entirely upon Father Johns Medicine. (Signed) Mrs. J. E. Frey, 674 Genesee St., Buffalo, N. Y.
 Mothers everywhere know the value of Father Johns Medicine as family tonic and body builder because it does not contain alcohol or dangerous drugs but is all pure wholesome nourishment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-17
BEST AUTO MADE
University Students to Study the
Hudson SuperSlx.

The Hudson Super-Six, because OF
its motor principle was recently made
the subject of exhaustive study and
experiment by the mechanical engi-
neering department of the Leland
Stanford university. A series OF tests
were made in the engineering labora-
tories at Palo Alto.
In their papers on the subject, the
Leland Stanford university engineer
ing students wrote the conclusion
that the Hudson SuperSix motor
principle will deliver more power per
cubic inch of displacement than any
ever built The university engineer
ing department has studied the mo-
tors OF every well known automobile
now being manufactured. The Hud-
son tests we're conducted under the
direction of T. s. Anderson, we'll.
known western mechanical engineer
ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-17
AouEDucT GUARD SHOT

Kingston, Feb 14.-Private Hugh
Taylor of Company c, Tenth Infantry
N. G. N. Y, was shot to death last
night by fellow guardsman whose
rifle was discharged accidentally dur
ing a chase after two unidentified men
seen near a oulvert of the Catskill
aqueduct near New Paltz.
The shooting occurred at Bontecou
tunnel, three miles south of New
Paltz, where double guard was plac-
ed last night, when early reports
were received that loiterers had been
seen there.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-17
Lingering Coughs Are Dangerous

Get rid Of that tickling cough thai
keeps you awake at night and drains
your vitality and energy. Dr.. Kings
New Discovery is pleasant balsam
remedy, antiseptic, laxative and
promptly effective. It soothes the IT.
ritated membrane and kills the cold
germs; your cough is soon relieved
Delay is dangerous--get DR.. King q
New Discovery at once. For nearly
fifty years 1t has been the favorite
remedy for grippe. Group, coughs and
colds. Get bottle today at your
Druggist, soc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-17
ATTENTION FRIEND

Are you looking for first class
boarding house or good table board,
all home cooking, then call at the
do Drop-In" All Main street next
door to Harris Theatre and be con.
vinced.
Mrs, Charles n. Lee
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

| have been in and seen at once sew
eral railroad accidents with fatali-
ties, and heard, of course, the first
frank explanations of the workers.
There are few propositions that
seem to appeal to common sense, but
that certainly are not applied to the
American railroad situation. Theyare
not the banalities of politicians and
other whimsical sentimentalists and
misunderstanders such as "No rail
/ Dad should overwork its men,; and
Give per cent is a big enough re-
turn upon any sound investment"
They are not even the moralzings of
reformers to the effect that the rail
roads of to-day are being punished
for the sins of the railroads of yes
terday. LET the dead past bury its
deadW A new world has dawned,
and things should and will indeed 90
differently, as Luther said of the
Germany Of his day. Our business
is to move crops and Goals and metals
to their markets quickly; and to
mobilize the lRbOrers of the land at
the points where they can do us the
most good now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

and yet preserved apparently for.
ever.
The third proposition follows, that
in sound Jurisprudence the chief
business of government is punish
ment, not prevention. Freedom is
the right to do as one pleases, at his
perils of the common law and of for
feiting the good opinion of ones
neighbors and of mankind. 1t is
quite true that we have very nearly
cured the evils of the old days in
railroading; but at what price? We
are like the peoples of old who for
bade merchants to go upon the high
ways lest they be robbed, with the
result that almost no goods were
exchanged and progress was held
severely in check.
II was said some years ago by a
Senator of the United States that II
would require a thousand clerks 10
read the railroad freight schedules
as fast as they were issued. The
remedy has been TO put the railroads
in straitjackets and their hands in
bags that they might write no new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

that time almost no one had any
such view Of the two railroads.
We have been so busy with stocks
and bonds and notes and refundings
and reorganizations, with an eye
first to the stock market and next to
the legislatures, that most Of us
have forgotten and some apparently
have never known that the first
business of a railroad is not to
serve the public, not to afford gam
bling opportunities upon the mar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Aims to Eliminate
Dummy" Directors

Further, it is proposed to bring
about the abolition of the practice of
electing dummy" directors and
to make directors and corporate
officials responsible for all pub
lished reports of the activities,
earnings and affairs OF the corpora
ton. This provision, coupled with
that which proposes that close
scrutiny of corporate financial
activities shall be maintained at all
times, is expected to establish a
much needed confidence on the part
of the general public in all corpo-
rate enterprises and the men who d.
rect them.
An association of investors such as
this, because of the constructive and
cooperative nature of its policy,
must occupy a high place in the
history-making readjustment now
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Development Of the Nations Transportation System at Standst
for Years. Must Be Encouraged Because Business cannot
Grow Faster Than the Facilities for Moving An Economist
Saws That Complete Change Of Public Opinion Must Be
WROUGHT if the Blight on Progress Is To Be Removed

these that the common sense PROPOSE
tons should be observed. One is
that the American railroad needs as
manu- cars and locomotives and as
much other equipment as are re-
quired at the time OF n'Grimum de-
mand. Average demand, with req
uisite supply, means painful and dis
concerning failure when the peak of
the load comes.
A second proposition is that since
a railroad is business it requires a
free hand in its management. I'm
shackle the railroads, and give them
room for development. The trouble
is not alone with the Federal govern
ment. Texas may thank herself and
her own Legislature that her splendid
eastern half, with $4,000 square
miles of the richest soils and with the
best agricultural climate on earth,
has only l2,O0O miles or railway
trackage; and most Of this in inferior
condition.
This proposition may be stated as
one of taking the hood off the eyes
of the railroad and letting it once
more look into the present and the
future with ambition and confidence.
Shackled and hooded, the railroads
of America haze stood almost still
for many a year. The last railroad
to be modernized was the Union Pa
cifc, as every one knows. The rail-
road situation reminds one Of a
photograph, with the human figures
as it were transfxed for eternity; or
of flies caught in honey motionless
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

New England States have 1913 in
habitants dependent upon every mile
of track, and no other section has
anything like so many. Illinois has
but 462, and Iowa 224.
In the last six years / have been
over the tracks of almost every rail-
road of any Importance in this coun-
try, and in every state without eX-
ception. But little of this travel
was in long stretches, for | had bust
ness in many cities. To judge by the
train schedules and service, by the
rolling stock and the railroad sta
tons, and by the talk of trainmen
and of passengers and Of merchants
with freights to send and TO get,
there are a dozen more or less fine
railroads in America; and even these
might be better, and would be bet
ter if the traffic managers could
have their heads. AS Tor the rest
of our hundred or more railroads,
they run all the way from fair to
wretched.
At one way station in a Southern
state, as / was waiting for a train
that was seven hours late, a teleg
rapher and station agent unbur-
dened himself of his troubles; he
had not had his clothes off to sleep
for more than a week. Who would
wonder that the day before there had
been a smash-up with three lives
lost on that very section? But who
that knows the stock and bond mar
kets could blame the directors and
officers for overworking their men?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
MINISTERIAL EXPANSION HALTS WHEN RAILROAD BUILDING STOPS

as uncomfortable to do busir.,.
1t is a truth that the goal Of n
American social institutions ,Io,r
be TO encourage men in ind.,..
dence, including independent Ev.S
hood as the condition precedent A.,
essential to political independer,,
Nevertheless, proclaiming upon "A.
litical platforms and in the p,.,,
and elsewhere freedom and inden.,
dence as watchwords of Amerie,,
ism, we proceed TO enslaye on,
transportation systems, thouy,
transportation Of men and merch,,
disc is civilization and measure, :
fairly.
There are many other aspect, o,
the present railroad situation. |,
weakening, gripping and bleachi,y
these carriers between the seas ther
are dangers that touch our own IA.
tional independence. But no aspect
is more important than this Of on,
having a right opinion respectir,
railroads as business enterprises
Crime is within the province q,
the courts, and sin is within Tia,
of the Church. When our legi,.
latures set out to punish crime BY
retarding business and to proven,
sin by forbidding enterprise, they
usurped the functions of other 50.
cial institutions, and though acting
under the guise Of democracy were
false to its true spirit, which Is
freedom with innocence assumed IN.
til sin is committed and guilt d
proved. But for this unfortunate
excess of zeal for Righteousness, not
unmixed with envy of the successful
and of the lucky, we should now
have far greater and far better rail.
roads, with all their resultant bens.
fits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Distribution of Railway Mileage in the United States

of peace is a rapidly moving, cease
lessly changing affair, a complex
organism of seemingly limitless
variety. Kinetic, dynamic, we have
tried to make it static and manag-
eble accordingly. This course has
been and is exceedingly foolish.
What with our commissions and
boards, our councils and our other
addenda to courts and legislatures
and executives, we are succeed
ing in making it dangerous as well
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Mobizing Stockholders for Defence of Their Properties

under way in the United States. I.
has been pointed out by the associa.
ton that it is on-proft-making, and
that it does not propose to advise on
the buying and selling Of securities.
1t also emphasizes the fact that it
does not contemplate becoming
critical or fault-fnding institution.
Judged on the basis Of such
promise, the undertaking seems
worthy of the support Of all who be-
lieve that working together for
common economic cause and for nut.
ual protection is the one founda-
ton upon which a sound, properly
conducted corporate life can be
maintained.