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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26
STEPNEEY

Miss Elizabeth Gilbert was an over
Sunday guest of friends in Bridge
port.
A force of eight telephone Iinemen
who are repairing the line in this sec
ton are boarding at the home of c.
E. Osborne.
The Red Cross auxiliary have
changed the place of meeting for next
Wednesday and will meet at the home
of Mrs. Perry Hubbell.
Miss Beatrice Davis was the guest
last week of her sister, Mrs. George
! Andrews, in Bethel
1t is hoped there will he a large at
tendance at 1.-The War Rally held at the
Monroe town hall on this (Tuesday)
evening.
Mrs. Roy Turner, who has been
spending a month in Harrisburg, Pa,
has returned to her home here.
Mrs. William Craft was a Sunday
visitor at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gilbert were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Milon
Hawley.
Edgar Northrop was a visitor of his
father Eugene Northrop, at the
Bridgeport hospital on Sunday.
Henry Fohrenbach, George Bach
man and Raycroft Beardsley from
this town have been called for army
service and leave this week for Camp
Devens, Aver, Mass. George Lane
Turney has been called for the final
examination on Saturday, March End.
Miss Olive Corning has spent a few
days as the guest of relatives in New
town.
Mrs. Lillian Williams, Frederick
Laborie and Charles Shepard were re-
cent guests of MIR. and Mrs. Mark
Curtiss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar B. Plumb and
Miss Beatrice Plumb of Nichols were
guests on Washington's Birthday at
the home of S. B. Hayes.
George l.. Turney enjoyed q trip
week to New York where with a party
of friends he attended the Hippo
drome.
Harmony Grange will meet on
Thursday evening when the following
program will be presented: Song by
grange; discussion led by L. B.
BeardsIey, is it profitable to fatten
pigs at the present high cost of grain?
The best weight of an all round farm
, team: sheen as an investment on the
farm, Ambrose Hurd; character song,
Arthur Curtiss; what 1 say tramps,
Mrs. Alex Sinclair; does the farmer
, wife get her share of the proceeds?
, Mrs. Elmer Lund; reading, Merwin
Burr; pantomime, Bernice Bartram,
Stanley Joyce; violin solo, Ernest
Sherman.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26
COUNTY BUREAU
FOR EVERYBODY

I. c. Davis, state leader of county
agents, today denied that the County
Farm Bureau is an organization which
exists solely for the benefit of the
farmer. He pointed out that the en-
tire production and conservation pro-
gram for the state has been placed in
the hands of the County Farm Bu-
reaus by the Council of Defense and
the U. S. Food Administration and
that breakdown on the part of the
Farm Bureaus would mean a break
down in the state and the national
food program in Connecticut.
Every person interested in the food
supply of the state has a vital inter-
est in the County Farm Bureaus -
said Mr.. Davis, 'the city man and the
farmer are equally interested. We
are all together on this food PROPOSE
ton and the Farm Bureau is the Or
ganization delegated to handlez it for
US locally
Each County Farm Bureau in the
state, according to Mr.. Davis, is or
ganized and ready for the financial
and membership drive coming March
4 to II. The amount of money neces-
Sd1y III Se1Ch County Ids pcSH uSISE-
mined and the County Farm Bureaus
have accepted quotas as follows: Fair
field county, $1,000; Hartford county,
! $4,000; Litchfield county, $4,000;
Middlesex county, $500; New Haven
county, $4,000; New London county
! $4,000; ToIland county, $4,000; Wind
! ham county, $500.
In each case a county committee
has been appointed to attend to the
details of the campaign and this COM
mittee has assigned a quota to be
raised in each town under the direc-
ton of town committees. Both mer
and women will be given opportunity
| to join the Farm Bureau ard to con.
| teibute to its support since in every
case the County Farm Bureau con.
Germs itself with home economics anc
conservation work, as well as with ag.
riculture from the production stand.
point
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26

In view of the coal shortage, it is
hoped that the operators and miners
do not loaf more than six or seven
months this season while arguing
about the price of labor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26

People who growl about taking off
the railroad trains might like it bet.
ter being transported across France
with the soldiers, 80 to a freight car.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26
EMPIRE

''Bill'' Hart, Thomas H. Ince's ia.
nous star, has introduced a new
character to the silent drama. For
more than three years "BiI'' has been
playing had men" gamblers, high
waymen, cattle rustlers, hold-up men
and when he finished THE Silent
Man" for Artcraft he told Mr.. Ince
that for a change he would like to
portray a. law-abiding citizen, a re-
spectacle and respected member of
society.
Have a. heart" said SPILL" land
try to put yourself in my place. HOW
would you like to spend all your days
holding up trains and stage coaches.
and doing all of the sensational stunts
| have since L commenced to make
notion pictutres for you three years
ago? There must be some sort of a
decent type of man that can play"
"Give me an idea and I'll trail with
YOU" answered Mr.. Ince.
The next day Hart brought in the
basic idea of a new photoplay maxi
ing a compromise. In the first part
of the story he is a bad man and be-
comes reformed, and during the re-
mainder of the picture he favors Law
and order.
Denison Gift, one of Mr.. Inces staff
writers, was entrusted with the tasl
of fashioning a story that would NEE
with Harris ideas, and the result i!
seen in EVOLVES of the Rail-" released
by Aircraft, which is the attraction a
the Empire theatre for the last time
today. Tomorrow, Charles Ray il
The Hired Man
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26

1t is safe to go in and listen to the
Congressional debates if you wear a
gas mask.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26
REPORT DEFICIT IN
GERMANY'S RAILROADS

Amsterdam, Feb. 26-The official
information that the receipts of the
German railways have increased by
s115,OOO. 900 since the war might lead
people to suppose that the railways
had benefited by the war. The Off
cial reports, however, snow that this
is not the case. In consequence of
the advance in wages and in the cost
of all materials, the profits have not
only been fully absorbed, but there
is an actual deficit which is likely to
increase.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

Packers in Chicago had a 'tip"
that the United States was going to
appoint Joseph 3. Cotton, a New
York attorney, as head of the pack
ing and live stock department.
An American steamer arriving at
an American port brought IT mem
bers of the crew of the Danish
steamer Tranquebar. The loss of
their ship had not previously been re-
ported.
Mexican bandits killed one Ameri-
cin, Edgar House, paymaster of a
Texas oil company, and wounded
three others. They were shot while
on board an oil vessel at Tampico.
A score of persons are reported
dead and about 25 injured in a train
wreck near Columbus, S. c., on the
Columbia & Greenville Railway, a
branch of the Southern Railway.
William H. Taft will be one of the
speakers at the New Jersey confer
ence of charities and correction, to be
held in Newark in April.
The German government ordered a
consolidation of the breweries of the
| country. Breweries of the highest
efficiency will take over the smaller
ones and pay compensation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-26

The farmers idea of building I'm a
parcel post business is frequently to
charge the same prices paid at the
grocery store, while you have to walk
to the post office for the stuff and paw
postage and telephone charges to get
it.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
Elusive Happiness.

We must remember one thing. 1t is
not absolutely necessary to be happy.
1t is all very well to talk about happi-
ness, but one Of the strange contra
dictions of life is that we can never
find happiness, If we search for it,
Happiness is elusive. 1t will escape
us, If we seek to hold it. But if we
go our way, If we refuse to lose our
faith, no matter how sad we may be,
no matter how weary or how disheart-
ened, we will learn to find happiness
in little things, in the reading of a
book, in the singing Of a song, in the
making of a dress, in the doing of our
work.
1t is the last thing indeed that is
the real cure for the establishment
Of life that comes to each of us. Work
is the great p~anacea. If we work, and
work well, we shall find much to COM
pensate us. And if along the way we
choose to pretend that dreams do
sometimes come true, who can blame
us ?-Exchange.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
ONLY NEEDED TO BE FED
Simple Reason Why Imported Engine
Could Not Be Persuaded to
Do Its Duty.

The first locomotive used on the
Champlain & st. Lawrence railroad
came from Europe, accompanied by an
engineer who, for some unexplained
reason, had it Gagged and secreted from
public view. The trial trip was made
by moonlight, in the presence Of a few
interested persons, and it is not de-
scribed as a success. Later, the i'm
ported engineer made several attempts
to set the Kitten-for such was the
nickname applied to this pioneer loco
motive-in motion toward st. Johns,
but in vain; the engine proved refrac-
tory, and horses were temporarily sub
stituted for it.
Meanwhile, the railroad officials call
ed in a practical engineer from the
United States, who announced that the
engine, which was thought to be hope
lessly unmanageable, was in good or
der and required only plenty Of wood
and water. His opinion proved cor
rect, for after a little practice the en-
CINE attained the extraordinary speed
Of 20 miles an hour !-Prout's Railways
Of Canada.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27

Are they made of silk or are they
of wool? That is the question that
Clues our eyes to the new showings of
suits and leads us to take many an
extra step for a closer view. 1t turns
out that many of the suits for mid
summer are made of new weaves in
silk fabrics that are soft and supple
and have little luster, so they keep us
guessing. Besides the all-silk fabrics
there are silk and wool mixtures, all
of them calculated to make US forget
to deplore the scarcity of wool. In
ease the government should see fit to
commander the wool production 1t
will be no hardship to wear these new
fabrics.
There are many belted models in
the new modes and many coats open
over t~rig-looking pique vests. Uneven
lengths, cleverly applied buttons and
unusual pockets are features that tone
up their style-fine points in the tech
nique of making. Skirts grow mar
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
WIVES OR WIDOWS

Not in a hundred years has there
been as many widows in Europe as
there are today.
Nor as many helpless orphans.
Never has the continent faced such
a tremendous task as the proper edu-
cation and training of these citizens
of the future.
J For without the mothers directing
hand this always is a task paramount.
And most of this training must of me-
cessity be in government supported
institutions and schools, under Off
cial supervision.
And this means the wiping out Of
home life, home influences, home me-
mories for a great majority Of these
orphans.
God grant the children of America.
a better, kindlier fate.
And yet if threatens. Inevitably I'M
the proposed army of five Million
must be hundreds of thousands of
fathers. The age limit cannot be-
raised TO As without this result. TT
means a wife left behind for every
father who goes. ,
Shall they be wives or widows7
Shall their children welcome them
back or shall they he orphaned?
In no small measure the answer Is
in our hands. yours and mine.
This army of five million or more,
the military experts say, will strike
the deciding blow in this militant de-
lirium yer there. 1t will be the de-
Gliding factor in crushing Prussianism
and Kaiser Bill.
And the better prepared it goes the
quicker it will do the job, the less
men will be lost from its ranks. The
less widows. the less orphans left
behind.
It's for you and me to say how we'll
prepared these crusaders shall go.
Their weapon is a gun; ours a.
Liberty Bond.
Are you buying your Bonds?
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
SHEAvES AND SHELLS

Along the Vesle river the shells are
falling by the thousands into the
strongholds of the enemy. They are
exacting a terrible toll of life from
the German ranks. They are forming
barrages behind which the Yanks are
pushing forward, always forward.
They are demolishing trenches and
barbed wire entanglements. Occasion
ally they are demolishing an enemy
ammunition dump. They are beating
the Hun backward toward the Rhine.
And over thousands of fertile acres
through this broad land the sheaves
are likewise falling-into the yawning
Streams of golden grain are filling
the granaries and elevators. The
yield has been exceptional. Few are
the fields that have not set a new
production mark. And the price is
better than it has been in many q de-
cade.
Like the Shells, the Sheaves will
help in beating back the Hun.
For not only will they furnish sus-
tenance TO the allied armies in the
field. They will also contribute ma
terially in furnishing the militant sup
plies of warfare. Hand-in hGnd the
sheaves and shells will serve.
The farmer has done well his part
In production. He will reap hand
somely in profits upon his seasons
work. And having lone so he will
be in better shape than ever to help
his country further through the pur-
chase of Liberty Bonds.
And his country, more than ever
now, expects him to do this.
Buy Bonds. and Buy Early.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
CENTER OF MANY LEGENDS
Famous Dome of the Rock, in the Holy
Land, Has Long Been Held
Sacred Place.

The Mussulman's grief at the fall of
Jerusalem is largely centered in the
fate of the Dome Of the Rock. For
centuries devout Mohammedans have
journeyed to this spot, which they
count second only to the holy places of
Mecca in religious significance.
Directly under the rounded dome
topped with the Turkish crescent is the
sacred rock about which a host of ira
ditions-Jewish, Christian and Mo-
hammedan-have been collected. From
this rock Mohammed assembled into
heaven on his steed Ell Borak, the light
ming. Here also, if tradition is worth
anything, rested Noah's ark, and Jacob
saw the angelic vision. This spot is
is miles nearer heaven than any 9TH
er on the earth, and the Turks accept
the old Jewish theory that this is the
center of the earth. Here on the judg-
ment day will the angel Gabriel stand
when he sounds his trumpet.
There is little room for argument
over these statements. You accept or
reject them as you will. But long and
heated have been the learned disser-
tations to decide whether this identical
spot, already overcrowded with asso-
Citations, is the site of Solomon's tenn
pie or of the tomb of Christ. Science
now leans toward the former conclu-
sion and grants that very likely the
rock marks the place where stood the
altar of the famous Jewish temple.
Even for a confirmed skeptic the
place must hold some interest, for the
structure protecting the rock is a
worthy rival of the Tai Mahal in beau
ty of design. The building is octagon-
al like a mosque and popularity called
the Mosque of Omar, to the distress
of the well informed, who point out
that it is only a shrine and that the
true Mosque Of Omar is a small vault
like building in no way connected with
the sacred rock.
Mohammedan worship is as yet un-
disturbed by the viceroy of the Chris
tians, the chief difference being that
the Mohammedan is now the tenant
and the unbehever the landlord.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
GIVE INSIGHT TO CHARACTER
Shape Of Eyebrows Reveal Vlgor, In
sincerity, Lack Of Vitality, and
Many Other Things.

1t Is now conceded that the Greek
eyebrow is quite in accord with the
conception of mere physical beauty in
women. Like the rosebud mouth, it
does not indicate the highest order Of
intelligence and the arch is expressive
always Of greater s%ensibility and great
er sense of character, says London
Tit-Bits.
Scant growth of the eyebrows invari-
ably denotes lack Of vitality; on the
contrary, heavy, thick eyebrows indi-
cate a strong constitution and great
physical endurance. They are not
beautiful on a woman's face, however
much they may signify either mental
or bodily vigor, and when they are not
only heavy, but droop and meet at
the nose, they are disagreeable and are
said to accompany an i~nsincere and
prying nature.
Romantic women usually have a very
w~ell-defined arch in the center of the
eyebrow, while a sense of humor is in
dicated in the arch nearer the hose.
Long, dropping eyebrows, lying wide
apart, indicate an amiable disposition.
Where the eyebrows are lighter in col
Or than the hair, the indications are lack
Of vitality and great sensitiveness.
Family defined eyebrows placed high
above the nose are signs of Incidence
and weakness.
Very black eyebrows give the face an
intense and searching expressing;
when natural, they accompany a pas
sionate temperament. Very light eye
brows rarely are seen IN strongly intel
lectual faces, although the color of the
eyebrows is not accepted simply as de-
noting lack of intelligence; the form
gives the key to the faculties and their
direction. Red eyebrows denote great
fervor and ambition; brown, a medium
between red and black.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
What II Came To.

"Tve figured the whole thing out,
father" said Mabel. 1.-THE car, to be-
gin with, will cost $1,000, which at 6
per cent is $500 a year. If we charge
10. per cent for depreciation it will
come to $500 more. A good chauf-
feur can be had for $125 a month, or
$1,000 a year. I have allowed $40 a
week for gasoline and S. for repairs.
The chauffeur's uniform and furs will
come to about $500. Now let's see
what it comes to. Three hundred plus
500"
Don't bother, my dear, I know what
1t ONE to-" said the old gentleman.
"What?" asked the girl.
my DEAR" said the father impress
sively, ut comes to a standstiIl, right
here and now."-Exchange.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
LIBERTY GOYD PRIMER
EVERY MAN MUST SPEED UP

Never so much as right now has
it beer so necessary for every work.
man to put every ounce of his energy
into his job to bring his productive
ability up to its highest mark, and to
keep it there.
Never has so much been demanded
of him, and never has he been so well
paid for what he does. Nor has his
financial condition, generally speaking,
ever been better.
Never mas his part in the national
welfare been greater.
For upon what he produces by the
work of his hands must in a great
measure come success in the winning
of this war and the perpetuation of
our free government. Without cloth
ing, the supplies, the armament aud
guns, the shrapnel and shells which
he is making, the coal he digs and the
hundred and one other things that
come from mine and workshop. the
boys at the front cannot strike their
hardest and most telling blows.
And not the least of the duties Of
the w%orkingman is TO appreciate this.
iOnce approaching it he will gauge his
factions accordingly.
Before the war the normal produc-
tive capacity of the United States was
about O.OOO,O OO,0 0 Some 100000
men have been withdrawn from pro-
iductive enterprises and sent to he
front. And the demands of the war
have pushed the productive require
lments far and away in excess of for
.mer figures.
So with 100000 men taken from
the mines md workshops the former
standard of productiveness must yet
be surpassed, and his may be done
only by every man staying on the job.
giving it every ounce of his energy
and speeding up the output to the
very limit of human capacity.
: This means that every man must
speed mp. He must do his level best
every minute of the day.
Buy your Bonds and help end the
war.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
Proclamation by the Governor
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Whereas, William Hughes was at a joint
meeting of the Legislature of the State of
New Jersey, held on the T~wenty-ninth day
OF January, A. d. One thousand nine hundred
and thirteen, declared elected a member of
the United States ena from the State of
New Jersey, and subsequently duly qualified
himself as such member OF the United States
Senate, and after such election and qualifica-
ton, to wit, on the Thirtieth day of January,
A. ID. One thousand nine hundred and eigh-
teen, departed this life, thereby causing a
vacancy to exist in the representation OF this
State in the Senate of the United States:
Therefore, I, Walter e. Edge, Governor of
the State of New Jersey, pursuant to law, do
hereby issue this my Proclamation, directing
tina an election be held according to law in
the State OF New Jersey. on Tuesday, the
Fifth day of November. next, ensuing the
date hereof, for the purpose OF electing a
member of the United States Senate, to fill
the vacancy caused by the deathsOf the said
William Hughes.
Given under my land and the
Great Seal of the State of New
Jersey, at Trenton, this Six
tenth day of July, in the year
OF our Lord One thousand nine
the Independence OF the United
States the One hundred and
IL. s. Fo~rty-third.
Governor.
THOMAS F. MARTIN,
Secretary of State.
Endorsed:
"Filed July 16, 1918,
Thomas F. Martin,
Secretary OF State"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
The

The first steamer, we believe, that
was ever operated on Lake Erie was
named the Walk-in-the-Water, and
was built just 100 years ago, near
Black Rock and Buffalo. On her first
trip to Detroit the Walk-in-the-Wate
stopped at Cleveland, where a grand
reception was given to her officers and
crew and a series of feasts was held
to commemorate the awe-inspiring
event.-Emergency Fleet News.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
FIGHTING MEN CAN'T CHOOSE

When the order comes for the men
in the trenches to go over the top
there is but n thing for them to-
do. They cannot stop to think it.
over, to pick their way in advance,
TO find convenient hummocks to drop
behind when the machine guns let
loose, to consider for a moment the
possible cost.
They have to go; they have no
choice.
They know that ii may mean death
for them before they have gone twen-l
ty feet. They know that it may mean
being crippled for life, possibly blind
ed, utterly incapacitated for the rest
Of their days.
But do they hesitate?
Not an instant. They go.
And the price they pay is the price
of your security, your liberty. your
prosperity, ease and comfort through
all the years to come. ,
What encouragement are you offer.
ing them?
You have your choice. Ew are
you making it?
Are you standing behind them?
Buying Liberty Bonds? Contributing
TO the other war aids that make for
their maintenance, comfort and care,
at the front?
Or are you Sinking your duty?.
Stacking your responsibilities Smoth-'
ering the spark of patriotism that
every American must have? Playing
the traitor to them and your countryfl
1t Is up to you to buy Bonds and
to buy more than you ever bought
beforei
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
The WhippoorWiII.

The favorite hunting ground of the
whippoorwill is about the edges of a
forest, or over the tops of the trees,
where the big, fat moths r to be
found at night. 1t makes no noise as
it flies, because its feathers are soft
and fluffy, but as it darts past you
sometimes it utters a sort of groan.
The n%ighthawk occasionally gives vent
to a loud "yawk" as 1t flies through
the evening air.