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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
AMERICAN HARDWARE
STORES
BOARDS
USE OF SCHOOL
FOR WAR WORK

The Board of Education last even
ing granted the local draft boards the
use of the High school on June 5,
when young men of 81 will be regis
tered The pupils will be given one
day vacation, as sessions will be sus-
pended on that day.
Grace Clark will have to get the
permission of the war bureau to give
an entertainment in the High school
auditorium for the benefit of a choco-
late fund for the soldiers. Rules re-
gardipg the use of the building were
adopted at last nights session of the
board.
Miss Beatrice E. Burns and Miss
Lucy Chamberlain, who were i'll for
some time were granted their salaries
during the time they were incapaci-
tated.
Permission to hold dental clinics in
several of the schools was granted
DR.. Zones. The schools that are to
be used are: Garfield, Walterville,
Lincoln, Columbus, Shelton, Jackson.
Prospect and Clinton avenues.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
REVOL UTIONARY
CLAIMS SETTLED
IN MEXICO SOON
Government Appoints Com
mission to pay Damages
Arising From 8 Years
of Internal Strife.

President Carranza of Mexico has
appointed three members of the Com
mission that is to consider the ques-
ton of the settlement of damage
claims arising out of the revolution
General Esteban B. Calderon was ap-
pointed President, and Attorneys Jose
Diego Fernandez and Salvador Mar
tinez Alomia members of the body.
Two other members are yet to be
appointed, but their selection will be
shortly announced. AS soon as this
is done the Commission win organ
ize and begin it's duties.
The decree constituting the COM
mission recites that it will consider
all claims for indemnities suffered
by persons or properties in conse-
quence of the revolutionary move
ments that took place in the Repub-
lie from 1910 to 1917. All claims
must be submitted with the necessary
proof, due inquiry will be made there
in, and a decision rendered. If any
claimant shall not be satisfied with
the judgement rendered, an appeal
may be taken to an arbitration COM
mission composed of three persons
one to be selected by the Mexican
Government, one by a Government
of the country of which the dissat-
isfied claimant is a citizen, and one
by the two arbiters already noted,
none of whom shall be of a diplomat
ic or consular character. Separate
arbiters must be appointed for each
case appealed. The decisions reach
ed by them hall not be subject to
appeal but must be accepted as fin
al.
In due time a special law will be
enacted which will provide the funds
needed for the liquidation of the
claims that may be annually approved.
The Commission will consider only
those claims based upon the follow
ing:
| Damages caused by the revolu-
| tionary force or forces recognized OF
acknowledged as such by the light
mate governments that may have
been established upon the triumph
of the Revolution. Those damages
| by the same governments as a con.
sequence of their functions during
the struggle against the rebels; anG
those damages caused by the depend
ent forces of the so-ca1led Fedora
army down to the time of it's disso.
luton.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
NEED CLERKS in
ORDNANCE DEP.
DISTRICT OFFICE
Many Opportunities for Men
and Women Unable to
Fight to Help Win War. :
REGISTRATION AT
181 STATE STREET
Some Responsible Positions
Open Which Will Pay
Good Salaries.

Abundant opportunity for patrio-
tic residents to serve Uncle Sam and
receive pay for it is provided by the
Bridgeport District Ordnance office,
which is charged with the response
bility of producing and supplying
ordnance materials for the army.
Just how many such men and won-
en- will be required is difficult to es-
innate because the growth of the dis
trict office cannot be predicted. At
this time the officers in charge de-
sire a large registration that they
may have an immense reservoir
from which to draw skilled workers
as required.
Bridgeport realizes the import
ance of providing guns and ANN uni
ton for the huge armies Uncle Sam
will soon have in training and over
,, seas. Those who help in providing
these supplies fill as important a
place, nearly, as the men who are
fighting the Hun horde. OF course,
like the army, the ordnance depart
ment does not attempt to compete
with civilian employers in the mat
ter of pay Still many of the places
are very well paid.
| Among the place for which regis
| trants are desired are ordinary
clerks, male and female; men and
women for minor clerical work, such
as filing; women typists and steno-
graphers of varying degrees of ex-
perience; men capable of assuming
responsible direction of offices or
portions thereof; men and women ex-
perienced in accounting of all kinds;
men and women bookkeepers; men
and women of mature judgment for
auditing vouchers submitted in con-
nection with government contracts
and who are capable of independent
decision and with some knowledge OF
commercial law; men who have had
experience in balance of stores
work, keeping of perpetual inven-
tory and stock records; men and
women clerks familiar with transpor-
tation, commercial and government
bills of lading and capable of figur-
ing mileage and who also have some
knowledge of commercial law; mer
or women with training and expert
ence in the use of the Dewey system
Of classification; multigraph an6
mimeograph operators; statlst1cfans
men and women with experience II
keeping graphical schedules anG
charts of production.
Registration does not guarantee
that the government will require the
services of those who apply, any
more than all who so desire may en-
list in the army, but it puts the ap
plicant on record as willing to hell
win the war. It is an opportunit!
for those who really want to share
in the war.
The ordnance office realizes tina
such a demand for help may disturb
to some extent established business
but because of the war such hardship
must be borne. So far as possible
the division desires to interfere a.
little as possible with the office or
CARNATIONS of factories already en-
gagged in war work and prefers t.
draw its employees for non-essentia
enterprises, but of course this can
not be done exclusively.
Applications are now being receiv
ed at ISL State St., personnel division
Bridgeport District Ordnance office
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
Three AMERICAN
labor DELEGATES
TO co TO MEXICO
Will Establish Faternal Re
lations With Mexican
Labor Considerations.

To meet and confer with the or
gained workers, Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has appointed com
mission to go to Mexico City, con-
lsisting of James Loed, President of
the Mining Department of the A. F.
.of L.; Santiago Iglesias President of
THE Free Federation of Workingmen
of Porto Rico, and John Murray, Sec
rotary of the Pan-American Fedora
ton of Labor Conference Committee.
To first establish fraternal relations
with Mexico's Unions, Syndicates and
considerations of Labor, and family
to extend the Pan-America Fedora
ton of Labor to the Labor move
s1nents of all Latin-American coun-
tries, is the main purpose of the Com
emission
A million and a half Mexicans are
to-day living in the United States, a
large majority of whom are wage
workers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
BUILDING PERMITS

Permits aggregating $17,575 were
granted yesterday afternoon at a
meeting of the Building Commission
ers. The Remington Arms company
is to build one story frame build
ing and one story concrete build
ing on Helen street. Other permits
given were as follows:
One family house, north side of
Exeter street, for J. and P. Damiano;
one story brick store west side of
Howard avenue, for Mrs. Fannie
Pinaky; private garage, north side of
Black Rock avenue, for W. H. Cur
ley; one family house west side of
Ellsworth street, for J. H. George;
porch, Crown street for Mary B. Hen
shaw; private garage, west side of
Prescott street, for J. H. George;
generator house, east side of Harbor
street, for the Bridgeport Metal Goods
company; addition to garage south
side of Prospect street, for Augustine
Maroltoli.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
INTERNATIONAL
Eco CONTEST

In the twenty-ninth week of the
laying contest at storrs, Connecticut
birds pushed the weekly pen record
up to 81 eggs or a yield of over 81
per cent. This pen of Leghorns en-
tered by George Phillips from Sey-
mour were also awarded the blue rib
bon or first prize for outlaying every
other pen in the contest during the
month of April, in which these ten
be said first as last that all the best
pens in the twenty ninth week were
of the same breed. The Leghorns
excluded all the others and won for
themselves all the front line posi-
tons. Henry E. Heine's pen from
Lakewood, N. j., was second best for
the week with yield of So eggs. M.
7. Lindsay's pen from Mattituck, N.
Y, were in third place with a produc-
ton of so eggs. E. A. Billiards. pen
from Chestnut Hill, Pa, and A. P.
Robinson's birds from Calverton, N.
Y, tied for fourth place with SO eggs
each. The total production for all
pens amounted to 4578 eggs, or a
yield of about SIS IL per cent. This
does not quite equal the unusual pace
at which the birds have been going
for the past fortnight; nevertheless,
it is nearly 500 more than were laid
in the corresponding week last year
| and is, in fact, better than for the
corresponding week in any previous
| contest.
- ~
ally understood that hens will lay
perfectly we'll without the presence
| of male birds. There is not a rooster
! in any pen in the entire contest. Every
one ought, by this time to be wiz
| tually through with their breeding
| operations, in which case it is certain
ly well to consider whether or not the
rooster should be disposed of. If he
is only moderately good, it is perhaps
the better plan to market or consume
as this automatically reduces the grai1
bill by just so much and the product
from the hens will keep better ant
will keep longer. Infertile eggs cal
not begin to hatch, whereas fertile
eggs if left too long in a temperature
as low as 10 per cent. may begin tt
| develop. If, of course, the male birG
is too good and too valuable to slaugh
ter, he can be separated from the
hens and thus get the same result.
The three best pens in each of thu
principal varieties are as follows:
/ Barred Plymouth Rocks.
Jules F.. Francois, West Hamp-
ton Beach, L. l., ........... 112-
Tom ]. Adamson, Laurel P. O.,
Quebec, Can, .107'
Richard Allen Pittsfeld, Mass. ..104t
White Wyandottes.
Obed G. Knight, Bridgeton, R.
. Brayman Farm, Westville, N. H.. 1902
F. w. Harris, Melrose, N. Y. 80. 100
!, Rhode Island Reds.
Richard Allen, Pittsfeld, Mass. liz
Pinecrest Orchards, Groton. Mass. SO
7 Chas. H. Lane, Southboro, Mass. So
White Leghorns.
: A. P. Robinson Calverton, N. Y..107
) ]. o. LeFevre, New Paltz, N. Y. los
/ Braeside Poultry Farm, Stouds
; burg, Pa, ................. JOB
Miscellaneous.
: Ore Agricultural College Gore
gons) Corvallis, Ore. ......... ia
Cook & Porter, buff Wyan-
dottes) Easthampton, Mass. 1902
H. P. Cloyes (Buff Wyandottes,
East Hartford, Conn. ........ 81
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
farm BUREAU
TO DISTRIBUTE
800 TINY PICS

The Fairfield County Farm Bur-
eau is now engaged in distributing
$500 little pigs to club members and
adults. Beginning back in April
when IL pure bred Poland China
land gifts were brought into the coun-
TRY for breeding stock the demand
for pigs to supply pig club members
Increased until at the present time
t1nore than two truck loads are be-
ang delivered each week. In the eff
Efort to increase the pork supply and
bat the same time to strengthen the
breeding stock of this country pure
bred Berkshire, Poland China and
aDuroc Jersey SOW pigs have been
Fplaced in different towns.
Over 500 pigs have been delivered
ITO Danbury, Bethel, Newtown, Ridge
field, Stamford, New Canaan, Darien,
sNorwalk and Stanford. Most of the
pigs which are being distributed in
this county came from Lakeville,
Conn, and Fishkill, N. Y. Mr.. A. G..
Lord, Lakeville, Conn. is one of the
largest hog raisers in Litchfield coun-
ity. The Fishkill Farm, Fishki1l, N.
Y, is owned by Henry Morgantheau
J Jr. Mr.. Morganthau is now in France
ere by the United States Govern
emit.
While increased pork production is
main object of the movement I'M
rtaken by the Farm Bureau, pig
~. Ab members in order to earn the
certificate of War Service signed by
the Governor, must keep expense
and receipt records on their pigs
Record books, seasonal instructions
free to club members and also a 1-2
pound package of rape seed is also
given to each boy or girl who have
the room to grow this forage crop.
All club members enter intd the
record contest which begins June list
This is both a county and State COM
Ipetition. The county Pig exhibition
will be held at Danbury Fair, Oct
f7-12. Sperry & Barnes Of New Hav-
en- have offered $500. dollars IL
prizes for the State. A complete lis
will be sent out Club members il
June.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
LEON BOURGEOIS.

Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois, the
former prime minister of France
who entered the coalition cabinet of
Aristido BRAND in October, 1915, as
minister without portfolio, has had a
long and distinguished career IN the
politics of the third republic. M
Bourgeois was born in Paris sixty
seven years ago today, May 20, 1851,
shortly before the second republic
gave way to the second empire. His
public career began in 1877, when he
became secretary general of the de-
partment of the Marine. Five years
later he was appointed project of
the Tarn, and in succeeding years
he was secretary general of the pre-
lecture of the Seine, project of Haul
Garonne, and head of department
in the ministry of the interior. He
became project of police in 1887, and
the following year entered the Cham
Der of Deputies. He assumed his
first cabinet portfolio in 1892, as
minister of public instruction, later
becoming minister of Justice under
M. Alexandra Ribot. When the Rib
OF ministry fell in October, 1895,
President Faure asked M. Bourgeois
to form a new ministry, and under
his leadership France had for the
first time ministry composed en-
tirely of radicals. His career as
prime minister was a stormy one, for
he was subjected to constant and
bitter journalistic attacks. The Pan
anna Canal scandal was revived, and
the newspaper La France created a
sensation by publishing the names of
more than a hundred deputies who
were alleged to have been improper
ly influenced by the canal company.
In 1895 M. Bourgeois, after five
months as premier, was succeeded by
M. Moline, in whose cabinet NJ. Bour-
geois became minister of foreign af-
fairs. He was again minister of pub
llic instruction in 1898 and minister
of foreign affairs in 1906. He has
written a number of books on sociol-
ogical and economic subjects.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
STRATFORO
OSnecial to The Times.A


Stratford, May 29.---There will be a
memorial parade in town next Sun
day. The first Sunday in June the
Sunday schools usually have what
Ithey call June walk, but this year
they want TO make it a little more
patriotic affair. Major Louis Her
man will be the grand marshal of the
parade which will be headed by the
Wheeler & Wilson band and will in
clude Company L, Fourth Infantry
State Guards, the public school chill
idren and the Red Men. There will
be a short parade to Academy Hill
flynn w. Wilson of Bridgeport will
be the speaker. There will be singing
Wy the Liberty Chorus. S..
The Red Cross rooms will be closed
lall day Thursday, being Memorial
Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Smith, who have
been spending tine winter in Texas,
have returned home for the summer
There will be a food sale in the
town hall Saturday afternoon for the
benefit of the A Company, 520th col
ored engineers.
Weatogue Country club will hold a
dance tomorrow evening at the club.
Taylor's orchestra will play for the
dancing.
Robert Graham of White street is
confined to his home with a very bad
sore throat.
= The Iota Sigma club which was tc
hold dance in Red Mems hall Fri
day, May 81, will not hold it there but
will hold it at the Y. W. C. A. hall
Golden Hill street, Bridgeport.
All schools will be closed tomorrow
being Memorial Day.
The Stratford High school will holt
fair in Red Mems hall Saturda!
evening at o'clock.
The final reports on the Red Cros
drive are not all in and probably will
not he in before Saturday.
Robert Luce of Catherine street lef
Monday for Fort Slocum. Harold
Johnson of Park avenue left Monda,
for Boston where he enlisted in tn
merchant marine.
Meeting held last evening of tn
sewer committee in their office in tn
town hall.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
Babalko Rejected
By Army Surgeons

Frank Babalko "a fireman at No. z
engine house, returned to duty yes
terday after brief and very success
full career as a rookie in the army
He was one of the drafted men who
left for Camp Upton, last Friday.
Army surgeons rejected him and he
is now back at the old stand, fighting,
but not Huns. He lives at 72O Shell
ton street.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
Seven New Teachers
Engaged By Board

The Board of Education last even
ing hired seven new teachers to take
places in the schools during the COM
ing year. Those who were selected
by the board members were: Hazel
B. Cole of Portland, Me-; Marion Cole,
Chelsea, Mass, and Ada Seabury of
Winthrop, Mass, who will be teachers
of English; Alice Marsh of Webster,
Mass, will teach mathematics; Lucia
Richardson of Salem, Mass, science
or mathematics; John D. Wadsworth
of Sabattus, Me-, history, and Waldo
V. Andrews of Woburn Mass, to
teach science.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

health, and cannot thank you enough
for the relief it has given me. Miss
KATE LAWRENCE, Box 725, Spring
Valley, Ill.
School girls and girls who are en-
ployed at home or in some occupation
should not continue to suffer tortures
at such times, but profit by the expert
ence of Miss Lawrence and thousands
of others who have tried this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and found
relief from such suffering. If compli-
cations exist write the Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The
result of their 40 years experience in
advising girls on this subject is at your
service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
Ii DELINQUENTS
TAKEN TO AVER

Aver, Mass May 2s.-Thirteen draft
delinquents. rounded up in various New
England cities, were brought today to
Camp Devens and placed in the Ma
tionaF Army. Some of them failed to
register for military service and others
did not return questionnaires.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
CONSTANT PAIN
AFTER EATING
The Tortures Of Dyspepsia
Corrected by 'FTuit-a-tiVes'
ST.. MAKr1N's

ST. MARTINS
s'For two years, I suffered tortures
from Se0eye Dyspepsia. I had
constant pains after eating; pains
down the sides and back /; and
horrible bitter stuff often came up
inmy mouth. tried doctors, butthey
did not help me. But as soon as I
started taking F1uit-a-ti0es' Tor Fruit
Liner Tablets I began to improve
and this medicine, made OF fruit
juices, relieved me when everything
else failed"
MRS. HUDSON MARSHBANK.
Soc. box, 6 for $3.50, trial size Csc.
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
Limited. OGDENSBURG, Ny.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

tOfeQ Win our Tam
lily physician but re-
ceived no relief
then l explained my
trouble to another
doctor and he adj
vised me to take
Lydia E. Pinkham's
v e G e ia BILE Com
pound. Soon after
taking it ! began to
notice a change for
the better, and af-
ter taking six bot
@tA1 nra IN nANF oct
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
TRANSFERRED TO DEvENs.

Fred PARROT, of Bridgeport, has
been transferred from Camp Upton to
Camp Devens, where he will enter the
field artillery service. \ Parrot left
Bridgeport for Camp Upton last Fri
day. He was in this city yesterday,
and visited Division Six draft board.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

Katherine stinson's fight to New
York from Binghamton was again de-
layed when her aeroplane turned over
twice and crashed to the ground. She
was uninjured.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
DANBURY MAN STRICKEN.

Danbury May 2s7sumner B. Lee
land, hotel clerk in this city for
several years and formerly> in the
clothing business here and in Bristol.
was stricken by apoplexy while at the
desk in the Cleveland hotel yesterday
afternoon and died before reaching
the hospital He was SIS years old and
unmarried.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

Two aviators flew from Paris to
London and back, with load of mail.
in a hydroplane in three hours and
10 minutes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

The Baltimore & Ohio's locomotive
repair plant at Glenwood, Pa, will be
doubled at cost of $1,700,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

CoRTEZ G. ROCKWELL, pIumbing
and heating; jobbing speciality. 1851
Main and Hillside avenue. Phone
Stratford HAP or 114-3 B10stf
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

C. A. Abercrombie, the Main street
newsdealer, is The Times representa-
tive in Stratford. Items of news sent
to his store will receive prompt atten-
ton. Telephone Stratford 10.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

TOMATO, LETTUCE AND
CABBAGE PLANTS.
JOHN RECK s. SON.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29
she WAS
ONLY TWENTY
Yet Suffered with Functional
Disorder and Was Cured
by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Spring Valley, Ill. = 'Formany months
/ suffered from periodic pains-I doc
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

fPut a Bohn siphon refrig-
orator in your house and
watch the iceman vince.
as he notes your rapidly
decreasing use of his prec-
ious freight.
lice as you know is nothing
but frozen water.
Tits the freeze you pay for,
not the water.
fBohn Siphon protects that
precious GOODNESS and gets
the utmost out of it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-29

Advertise in Tho Times 70 Prosper
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-10-17
~ Soothe Your
|/8 Itching Skin
%AAwith CutiCura
All druggists: Soap g. Ointment q 4 50. Talou..2s
DEMANDS SKILL AND DARING
"Ground Flying" the Most Dangerous
Feat Which Air Fighters Are
Called Upon to Perform.
Sample eac6 ffes 81 *csassls, Dsps. I. sessss."

"Ground flying" is perhaps the most
exciting of all the aerial tactics in
which the British airmen are instruct.
ing their American pupils in northern
France. 1t demands a high combine
ton Of skill and daring, but it is a
game in which the British have during
the past year won n marked superior
ity over the Germans.
~-Fhe-stsaining of. ground flying" pi-
lots is particularly thorough and in.
cludes much necessary practice in
leaping hills, trees and telegraph poles,
etc., in a name which promptly
leads the uniformed spectator to con-
demn the airman as u reckless fool.
But failing this practice the pilot
would acquire the skill and con-
fidence necessary for this highly spe-
cialized type of work. The machines
used are fast and difficult to fly, and
operating so close to the ground the
pilot knows that he has literally no
more margin for indecision or hesitat.
ing than he has in actual aerial COM
bat.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-10-17
Couldn't Understand IL.

A newly drafted negro who had
been in camp only a week entered tho
orderly room and asked the captain
for n three-day leave. His reason for
making the request being sufficiently
good, he was given his pass. Just as
he left the room he saluted the cap
tain and said: "Thank you, sergeant"
The captain didn't intend to let
such n mistake pass unnOticed, so
called the negro back, saying: John
son, one of the first things you want
to learn to do Is to address soldiers
by their proper titles. l am a captain
hot a sergeant"
A look of surprise came v e the
negro's face. He said: Excuse me.
cap'n, but ALI done thought they'd
make such a nice mar as you-all is, q
sergeant."-The Bayoret.