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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
Files Appeal From
 Tax Commissioner

Appeal from a finding of William H. Corbin, tax commissioner for Connecticut, is taken to the superior court by Frank P. Norton of Green wtch and Irving M. Tompkins of New York, executors under the will of the late Louise P. Norton of Greenwich, papers having been filed today
 This appeal is brought under Sec ton of Chapter 243 of the Acts of 1917 of the General Assembly. The complaint alleges that August last Commissioner Corbin made @ finding that certain property of the estate is liable to taxation, and that no tax had been paid during the last year. It Is claimed evidence was offered to the commissioner that the property was properly listed for town and city tax, and that the taxes had been paid, and also that some of the property included in the finding has paid taxes to the state of New York, and is not liable to tax in Connecticut
 Executors of the state and the commissioner have been unable tO agree upon the amount for which the estate is taxable in Connecticut and action is brought under the statute to the superior court to determine the liability. The case is returnabIe to the January session of the court.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
WHFN MAKING SALAD.

The most important thing to re- n,ember. when making a salad, IS to have everything cold, Never serve heavy oil mayonnaise salad after a biz dinner or a very heavy luncheon. These salads are better as maln course at a luncheon or to serve wlth sandwiches in the evening.
 Have something crisp in the salao' like green peppers, radishes, onions parsley or lettuce cut fine. These are all fine to mix with soft frults' meats and vegetables. Cut every thing for the salad about the same size. Add green peppers and chill sauce for a cold weather salad.
 Fruit salad is splendid to serve al any time of the year. In winter 1t IS needed as an aid to digestion and to carry off waste and in summer for its cooling effect. For a fruit salad cul fine fruit up and let 1t stand ln sieve over a bowl for an hour or SO SO the juice will drain off and no' thin out the dressing. It can pe used for fruit gelatines or often It ls used with a little oil in place of vine gar or lemon suice as g. thin dressing Mix most salads with the dresslns just before you are ready to serve them. Mash 3 bit of cheese to French dressinB and serve poured over plain lettuce once in while.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
MONROE:

Miss Lucy J. Lord, who is attending school at Ho1idayburg, Penn., is en- toying her holiday vacation with MT. and Mrs. Marshall Beach.
 James McDermott was a Sunday visitor in town.
 The schools in town closed last Fri day for Q weeks vacation.
 Miss Lois Standish returned home from her school duties in Hartford last Saturday and Miss Olive Stan dish will spend the holiday season with her mother, Mrs. Florence Stan dish.
 The next meeting of Harmony Grange will be the Christmas enter tainment on Thursday evening, Dec, 26, with exchange of presents as usual.
 Washington lodge installed their of ficers at a special meeting held on Monday evening, Dec. g.
 MT. and Mrs. Chase Edwards have gone to New York city where they will be guests q MT Edwards pa rents over Christmas. Mrs. Walter c. Hazzard, who has been quite ill, is improving.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
Safety" Umbrella Handle.

A certain wise man of this city per sists in carrying an umbrella with a broken handle. The handle has come loose from the center rod, and twirls around and around on the rod.
 ''Why don't you glue that on?" asked one who is perpetually telling other people what they ought to do.
 The man gave his broken umbrella a whir1, and replied:
 q don't fix it because I find 1t quite useful this way. The other day,~for instance, I took it to the theater with me. and placed it between my seat and the next.
 "When the show was over, my neighbOr absent-mindedly reached for my umbrella, caught the handle and marched off. After he had gone a few feet he looked down to see what he had drawn-and then he threw the handle away. I came along and picked up my handle. Why should l get it fixed so somebody can get away with itY'-Washington Star.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
HERE IS NEW EAST
Result of British Occupation of
 Mesopotamia.
Ages-OId Somnoient Peace of the Des- ert Gives Place to Activity Which Amazes Traveller Familiar
 With the Old Days.

It was early morning when I arrived | at Basra, the seaport of the Mesopo- i tamian zone, and stood for two hours 1 or more at the dock rail, wondering vaguely why somebody did not come to take me ashore, while 1 watched with intense interest the diseIaberka- ton of the troops we had brought, and 0 scene along the river bank of toll some and bewilderingly muItifarious industry, Eleanor Franklin Egan writes in ''The War in the Cradle of the World" It was war-twentieth century war-in the process of de- stroying for all time the somnolent peace of world that has drowned for ages in eastern dreams.
 The Arabs-children of the desert and inheritors of noiseless ease and ancient methOds-say: 'The British came with the smoke" But it was the other way round. The smoke came with the British, and it rolls today in black spirals of industrial abomination from workshops innumerable, from electric power plants, from many steamboats and from tall chimneys and tunnels of every kind all round the horizon. And with the British came also the loud murmur and the chatter and clank of toll, the shrill shriek Of the locomotive and the honk of the horn of the motor.
 The Arabs say also: Leisure is God given and haste is of the evil one" They neNA worked before in all their lives, but they are working now, and they are working with a rapidity and cheerfulness which denote much with regard to the reward they get and the character of the discipline they are under.
 But the scene on the amazing river bank looked to me like the utmost in disorderliness and confusion. Docks and wharves were lined with ships and crowded with men and women coolies-wOFking ant fashion, coming and going in endless lines, carrying on heads and bent backs boxes and bales of materials and materials and ma terials. Acres of low sheds stretching away into the fFinges of the palm groves; miles of closely tented open space seen hazily through clouds of dust; pyramids of hay and smoked grain under light green canvas; mule wagons, motor lorrieS, ammunition
 carts, ambulances, an artillery convoy
 getting under way out across a baked
 gray waste in the distance; automo piles hurrying hither and thither; off cers on hand Ome horses moving slow ly here and there; long line of di minutive dnnkeys tricked out in bright ly ornamental pack saddles and witt jingling halters and strings of blut
 beads round their necks; longer llnt
 of ambling, munching, disdainfu
 nosed camels on the way down to tn
 adjoining dock, where they were beini
 swung up one by one, like so man.
 bales of hay, and deposited in the hol, ] of big gray ship; it was a scene t
 hold the newcomers attention and t
 make the time pass swiftly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
TO
 CASUALTY LIST

Washington, Dec. 26-The following additions to the casualty list mailed for today, Thursday, Dec. 26, are as follows: Wounded, Degree Undetermined, Previously Reported Missing
 in Action). Private Harold L. Wellstood Greenwich, Conn. Sick in Hospital, (Previou5ly Report
 ed Missing in Action). Private Angelo Camacoo, New Ha- ven, Conn.
 Private John c. Carlson, southing- ton, Conn.
 Private Reuben Fudowitoh, Hart ford, Conn. Returned to Duty, Previously Report
 cd Missing in Action. Private John L. Burns, Waterbury. Conn. Private Lewis W. Cowles, Wolcott Conn.
 Private John M. Jose, New Haven, Conn.
 Private Joseph Haplan, Hartford, Conn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
TRIAL TO
 START TOMORROW

Trial of Louis E. Bonjon for the murder of former Alderman Daniel B. Walker, is expected to commence tomorrow morning in the superior court, criminal side. before Judge w. s. Case and a Jury for which St has been especially assigned. An extra panel of 50 jurors has been summoned to appear in court at D o'clock.
 During a disturbance in Walkers cafe in State street, Bonjon is alleged to have shot Walker, killing him all most instantly Coroner Phelan held Bonjon as criminaIly responsible for the death of Walker.
 States Attorney Homer S. Cum mings will have charge of the prose- cution, and Attorney I. Cohn. and Judge w. H. Comley, Jr., are asso- ciated in the defense. It is expected the trial will last several days at least.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

A resolution was introduced in the Senate demanding that George Cree1 furnish copies of all cable messages sent to Europe by the Committee on Public Information,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

Americans in and cut of the Army called to Paris by the visit of Presi- dent Wilson resent extortion rates which hotels and restaurants are charging
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

The Brynhilda sailed from New York, Sept. 27, with a cargo for Afri- can ports. Two days later lifeboat to which was attached part of the davits was picked up some distance off the American coast, the boat be- fling identified as belonging to the ship. Later on naval craft search ing for the ship and survivors found lumber and other wreckage also iden- tified as part of the ships cargo. As the ship carried wireless and no re- port was heard from her, she was given up for lost and it was gener- ally believed she had struck a mine. This opinion was accepted by the un- derwriters to the extent that eighty per cent of the ships insurance was paid.
 The vessel was commanded by Captain J. s. Keannely, Maiden, Mass, and carried a crew of 21 men.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

Six persons were killed and mum Der injured fn collision between pas anger train and & freight Fralh oil the St. Louis 6 San Francisco rallroau in Oklahoma
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

Department of Commerce anneunc- ed the organization of an American Chamber of Commerce at Tampico, Mexico
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

Exports of sugar from Cardenas, Cuba, for November was 201, ,965 bags, compared with 147, ,600 bags in Octo- Der.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

An explosion in one of the buildings of the American Powder plant at Maynard, Mass, shook the surround ing country.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

Administrator and to be forwarded to Belgium.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

delegation of American Jews headed oy Rabbi Wise will arrive in Paris in a few days to confer with Col. F. M. House regarding the Zion ist movement.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

Joseph B. Martin, Smoky Joe," for 13 years a deputy chief of the New York Fire Department, was designat- ed as assistant chief.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

Private reports from The Hague say the ex-Kaiser's illness should be ac- cepted with reserve.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

President Nicholas Murray Butler has sent a personal Christmas greet ing of Thanksgiving to every Colum- bia University man in war service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
BRYNHILDA IS
 REPORTED SAFE.

London, Dec. 26-The safe arrival at Algoa Bay, Africa, of the Ameri- can sailing ship Brynhilda, was con firmed by Lloyds here today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26

About 14,o0O,00O pounds of cereals that were used as wheat substitutes
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15
'SEATTLE'''W0RKMEN
fCR0WDING THE CITY
HOUSED BADLY NEEDED
(By Associated Press)
(Ry Associated Pressl

Seattle, Jan. 15.-Civic organiza-
tions of Seattle are now wrestling
with a rapidly growing housing prob
lem. Laborers, attracted by the high
wages paid in shipyards and other
war industries here, have filled the
city. There are few vacant houses
and practically no apartments. Plans
now being made to speed up the pro-
duction of ships, it is stated, will add
between 10000 and 100000 men to Sc
attic payrolls in the next few months
and the problem is to provide them
and their families with homes. The
construction of barracks, patterned
after army camps, for the single men
has been suggested.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15
SIXTY MILLIONS
|. IN THRIFT STAMPS

San Francisco, Jan. 15.-When the
people of California absorb the $780,
600, 900 worth of war savings stamps
allotted them by the government, they
will be made richer by $9,s40,O00
This is the amount of interest that
will be due them January 1, 1928
the date of maturity.
The war savings stamps sell fo.
SAFE each this month. Every month
they will cost l cent more, so that
Yin December the price will be 1928,
Figuring the July price of S4.1s as
the average, California people will
pay S5O,16O,OOO for its s60,000,000
worth of stamps, and will gain from
interest the amount named above.
The total issue of war savings
stamps provided for by the govern
ment is S2,OOO,OOO,0O0. The interest
rate is 4 per cent, compounded quar-
terly.
! In offering war savings stamps
"baby bonds"-to the people, the gov
Iernment has, of course, as a prime
consideration the raising of $4,000,
100000 needed for the prosecution OF
the war. Beyond this, however, ac-
lcording to State Director of War Saw
ings John S. Drum, there is purpose
of equal importance-that of discour-
aging wasteful spending.
''If the people of the United States
continue to spend their money with
the same freedom they have in the
past, and continue to demand the lux
uries to which they have been accuS
toned in times of peace, there will n1
be enough of either labor or mate
rials available to take care of the gov
ernment's war needs" says Drum.
"By foregoing luxuries, or postpon-
ing their pleasures, as National D.
rector Frank A. Vanderlip has e.
pressed it, the people will be able
surrender to the government the pu.-
chasing power of portion of the
money. This same money investe
in war savings stamps will make
the people both savers and servers.
The stamps are being offered in
constantly increasing number OF
places. One million agencies are to
be established throughout the United
States within the next thirty days.
California will have 5000 banks,
stores and offices in which people may
buy both the thrift and war savings
stamps, Uncle Sans new securities.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15

Washington, Jan. 14.-David F
Houston, secretary of agriculture, has
asked Congress for an appropriation
iof $6,O00,000 to enable the Depart
ment of Agriculture to buy and sell
seed to farmers for cost at a rea-
sonable prce. The necessity for the
appropriation is explained in the fol-
lowing order which the secretary has
sent to the secretary Of the treas
ury:
81 have the honor to submit here
with, for transmission to Congress.
for inclusion in the Urgent Deficien-
cy bill, an estimate of an appropri-
alton of $6,OOO,OOO to enable the de-
partment to purchase and sell seeds
| to farmers in areas where unusual
conditions prevail, and particularly
in those which have suffered during
the past season from severe drought.
1t is suggested that the following
language will accomplish the par
poses which the department has in
mind:
"To enable the secretary of agri-
Iculture to meet the emergency caused
by the need for food and feed crops
by purchasing, or contracting with
persons to grow, seeds suitable for
the production of food or feed crops,
and to store, transport and furnish
such seeds to farmers for cash at a
reasonable price, $6,OOO,OOO; and this
fund may be used as revolving fund
until the secretary of agriculture de-
termines that no such emergency ex-
lists; and the secretary Of agriculture
is authorized to pay all such ex-
penses, including rent, and to employ
such persons and means, in the Dis
trict of Columbia and elsewhere, and
to cooperate with such state author
tiles, local organizations or individ-
uals, as he may deem necessary o
accomplish such purpose"
"The seed situation has presented,
and continues to present, many diff
ficulties. Under the provisions of
the Food Production Act, which made
available $2,5OO,OOO for the purchase
and sale of seed to farmers in re-
stricted adeas for. cash, at cost, it
has been possible for the department
to furnish some relief. Lage quanti-
ties of seed Of cotton, grain sor-
ghums and corn have been purchased
for the drought-stricken sections of
Texas in order to assist in making
available adequate supplies of seed
for the next planting season. The de-
partment is taking similar action in
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15

An auto party composed Of the
following people is stopping at the
Barbara Worth hotel: Mr.. and Mrs.
"A. Straus of St. Louis, Mo-; Mrs. Lula
Reeder of Cleveland, O, and Mr. and
Mrs R. De Golice Of Rockport,
Mass. :
w F. Holt is in Ell Centre on bus
mess. Mr.. Holt arrived yesterday and
lis registered at the Barbara Wortk
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15
CALEX|CO FIRE
PROVES MYSTERY
L. S. Neagle's Big Baled Stack Goes
Up in Smoke, Cause Undetermined
Work on New Congregational
Church Begun This MOrning-Ca-
lexicO Correspondence
(By The Press Correspondent

| (By The Press Correspondent
~Calexico, Jan. 15.-Deputy sheriff
are investigating the burning of
large stack of baled hay, the propert.
of Lee S. Neagle, of the Jasper dis
trict. The hay was destroyed Sunda!
morning, and the cause has not beer
determined. Tramps of the l. w. w
stripe are suspected. There were l.
tons in the stack; Neagle finished bal
ing it yesterday.
Begin New Church
! Work on the new Congregations
church on East Fourth street was be-
gun this morning, a good sized crew
of men being put to work. The struc-
ture is to cost in the neighborhood OF
$4,000, and will be one of the finest
religious edifices in the city when COM
lpleted.
Calexico Notes
The illustrated lecture on "Yellow-
stone Park" given last evening, was
greatly enjoyed by an appreciative au-
ldience. There will be another lecture
Friday evening.
G. R. Bailey, contractor for the new
paving work, is making his headquart-
ers at Calexico hotel.
Misses Genevive Owens and Edna
Hartman will complete the organiza-
ton of the Campfire Girls at the
home of Miss Owens this evening.
William Lorenz, who has been i'll
with pneumonia, is improving in
health.
Miss Ethel Chestnut of Ell Centre
was in Calexico yesterday. She has a
number of voice students on Mon
days and Thursdays. Her studio is in
the Masonic Temple.
Mrs. V. E. McQuown is visiting
Mrs o. o. Bragg, of this city.
Floyd Geyer and Miss Mary Blaney
were visitors in Holtville yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15

North Dakota and Montana, and has
arranged to purchase considerable
quantities of old corn suitable for
seed for sale to farmers in Indiana,
where an emergency exists with ref
erence to the supplies if viable seed
corn.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15

Travis, the 2-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Sechrist, residing six
miles east of this city, died early yes
terday morning. The funeral was
held from the Shafer parlors, Rev.
Palmer officiating.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15

Need Not Conserve Elbow Grease.
Conservation in fats doesn't mean
that you are expected to economize in
elbow grease.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15

Phone YOUR wants to The Press
26-and get quick results. .
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-15
AIDS FARMER IN
GETTING SEEDS
FOR 1918 CROPS

Department of Agriculture Instigates
New Movement for the Assistance
of the Tiller of the Soil Who Finds
1t Extremely Difficult to Procure
Good Seeds.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09

The shallow oil ot CARRIER tests As
ana ~ gravity The deeper Hand
Hl bilInra. ard at the OH state
lssls A. uul ll gravity The E932-
toOt production from tho duo well
a. this depth in the shallow field
tests - gravity uu th.s aud the
irrcgulHIity Of the shallow sands In
the rod beds is based tho argument
uf strong hopes that the mother oil
is 10 Doe found deeper and OF lower
gravity
Thc Garfield oil company tSin-
Clairj 40. - on the Walker farm,
In the northwest corner, southeast
-2l-I west, is underreaminE G-inch
pipe TO 2 1850 feet II ia three quar-
trrs Of mile west OF the same COM
pany.s l,932 foot producer. In this
sand it only had ~ show of OIL 1t
also missed the 1.600-foot sand in
Which two locations west Champiin
got Il 500-barrcl well and a qaur-
ter Of n mile north the HcaldtOn ana
oil state No. started off at 900
barrels A location gWCst ana two
north Is where the Carter company
picked up 500 barrels Of production
at l,721 feet. II Is n twin well TO
Hoy sand or 1,100-foot production.
H. II Champlin also missed the
1900 1900. and l,7O0-foot pay
levels In No. I on the Bcgss farm.
southwest 24-22-i west It is n twin
10 No I, and ~ drilling AZ l,S00 feet.
The Empire II drilling In an offset
to the south at l,7S5 feet.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09
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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09
OIL MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Nature Is SuDren,e.

After all nature Is supreme. with
clearing weather there Will be "A
tremendous wheat crop and every
loyal man and boy IN the oil country
will be in the harvest field during
the coming weck--that is 10 say II
the weather clears and the sun
shines enough to allow the binders
60 navigate.
There have been many who have
registered for the patriotic wheat
drive and It remfins to be seen
whether or not they will be found
wanting or will he counted among
those who can gather the festive
wheat bundles into shocks.
This Is also the time for the old
timers 10 relate the time worn stories
of big doings years ago In tho wheat
field. Fred Aiken says that no could
handle a cradle with the best Of
them.
d. w. MoQit has promised 10
spend his vacation In tho whca,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09
Garlpcr and BillIhgs.

Special to The " rid.
CARRIER, Okla, June S-Thc
past week in the Garhcr oil fields
has been quiet. And in the shallow
field four miles south OF town there
has been disuppoln,fnonts. and II
is not looking as pretty Just now
as tho adjoining wonderful ticldA Of
ripcning grain or the wealth Of
blooming roses. This shallow dis
trict adds one nice we'll, ilealdtun
md oil state Interests No. s on the
Relveal farm, northeast 2i-22-i
west. II In not completed, but Is
flowing 500 barrels from l,i0O feet
Deeper drilling must bring results,
and surely will on this dome. To
catnloB the shallow sands or pay
levels is likely 10 he given up. Good
wells have been found In eight dit
fcrent sands or rather pockets.
There n only one sand that can
be classed as regular, and It remains
to he proven. 1t is the fonca sand,
the strata productive Of the big wells
on the Biliitws DOME and tapped 40
the unfinished Barnes well, the dis
covnry we'll OF the oil stat" u""
and Thought to be the same sand
that the Carter people reached In
tho famous slime well at 2,3O0 feet
n mile and half north OF proven
shallow production.