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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-15
sELECTMEN's NOTICE

The Board of Selectmen and Town Clerk of the Town of Bridgeport will be in session in the Council Chamber, City Hall, State street, on Friday, Oc- tober IS, 19. 21, 22% 2S, "A, 25, from 9 a. m. till p. m., for the purpose of admitting as electors all persons whose names appear on the list under the head of ''To be made" who are found qualified. Also Nov. from g a. m. till 5 pm. for persons who reach the age of 21 years after October 25, and on or before Tuesday. Nov. 5. This also includes persons whose time of residence natures after Oct 25 and on or before Tuesday, Nov. 5.
 Per order Board of Selectmen.
 JOHN w. SMITH, President.
 ALFRED J. KNAPP, Secretary.
 MICHAEL IASSOGNO,
 WILLIAM D. CALLAHAN.
 FRANK THORNHILL. G15 u*
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-15

carry out the orders of the Board of Health in mopping out the schools. He said that some of the janitors did the best they could and mopped out as many rooms as was physically pos sible, while others did not attend to 1 it at all.
Newark post., 1918-09-11
CONSERVATION
Banks Urged to Curtail their
Loans

Not only should the goods and
labor of the Nation be conser
for the prosecution of the war; the
credit of the Nation must be con-
served for the same purpose.
This is being impressed upon
the banks, and it should be i'm
pressed upon the people, too-the
borrowers from banks.
All of the banks of the country
are being urged by the Federal Re-
serve Board to curtail their loans.
They are urged to loan money only
where the borrower IS going to use
it in some way that will aid in or
contribute to winning the war.
This policy is not aimed at
hampering legitimate business. 1t
aims to help win the war, which is
the best thing possible for busi-
ness. 1t simply means that money
wanted for nonessential purposes
should be refused. Let the nones-
sentials wait until the war is fin
ished. The Government needs the
money to carry on the war. The
farmers, the men and the indus
tries engaged in war work or en-
gagged in producing things needed
for the efficiency both of our SOL
diers and of our home people, need
the credit to carry on their enter
prises.
Merchants should not borrow
money to stock up on luxuries or
things that the people should not
buy at this time. No one should
borrow money now to spend need
lessly or extravagantly. Unneces-
sry building, unneeded articles, un-
essential enterprises should all
await the ending of the war.
The Federal Reserve Board
points out that in the interest of
successful Government financing
it would be much better for the
banks to hold credit within reason
able bounds by intelligent CO.
operation rather than to discour,
age borrowing by charging high
interest rates. The people should
cooperate with the Government
and the banks in this policy Of con-
serving credit and curtailing Dor,
rowing except where the money
directly or indirectly, helps win
the war, helps our soldiers who are
risking their lives for our country
Newark post., 1918-09-11
Wheat Yield Increased
by Choosing Right Seed

Many bushels can be added to
the 1919 liberty wheat harvest, and
farmers can reap added profits
from increased yields with no more
than the usual labor or expenses
if the variety of seed sown this fall
is pure and is we'll adapted to the
locality, say specialists of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. The seed should be free
from noxious weed seeds and not
infested by destructive plant dis
eases. 1t should be clean, plump,
and heavy. If there is doubt about
what variety produces the best
yields in a given locality, the grow
er should consult his county agent,
State agricultural college, or write
to the United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. c.
Use Home Grown Stocks
Homegrown wheat should be
used for seed wherever possible.
The best seed to get is that of an
adapted variety which has been
grown continuously in the locality
for some time, provided it is pure.
The idea that varieties "run out"
if grown long in one section, is
only an expression for the fact that
they are allowed to become mixed
and weedy and disease infected.
Changing the kind of wheat grown
should be done only for the pur-
pose of getting a proved better
variety. 1t is often desirable to do
this, provided it is demonstrated
beyond question that the new var
iety is better for that locality.
So-called "new' varieties, ex-
travagantly advertised at fancy
prices, should be disregarded
completely. The varieties recon-
mended by the State experiment
stations or other authorities for
the several districts within State
Newark post., 1918-09-11
Soldier and Sailor Insurance

The business of insuring our SOL
diers and sailors is scarcely year
old, and yet we have written more
than $4,000, 100000 of insurance,
insuring approximately three and
a half million Of soldiers and sail
ors. This gigantic business, EN-
ploying 10000 individuals and do
ing a greater business than the
largest insurance company OF the
world, has all been organized IN
less than IL months. Of late the
bureau has been doing more than
a billion dollar a week business !;
the total for the month of August
will approximate $5,0O0,000,OOO in
new insurance. On one day 92,253
pieces of mail came to the bureau.
1t lis a great work, an intricate
work, work that every American
approves of. More than 80 per cent
of the members of our military and
naval forces are insured, and this
insurance has strengthened the
morale of our fighting men and
brought comfort and courage to
their dependents at home. In ad-
dition to- the insurance there are
added soldier and sailor family al
lotments and Government allow
ances to dependents, the disburse-
ment of allotments and allowances
already totaling more than $14O,-
000 Onn
Newark post., 1918-09-11
Accredited Dairy Herds Listed

Federal and State cooperative
control work for the eradication of
tuberculosis of cattle has been in
progress long enough to Justify
publication of the results, and the
Bureau of Animal Industry has is
ed promptly to State officials. Ad-
sued list No. 1 of herds officially
accredited as free from tuberculo-
sis and of herds that have passed
successfully one test with a view
ito certifcation. If the status of
any of the accredited herds should
be changed, notice is to be furnish
ditional lists are to be published
from time to time.
Newark post., 1918-09-11
What Your Subscrip-
ton Means

When you subscribe to a Liberty
Loan you subscribe to the sentl-
ment that the world must be made
safe for democracy and subscribe
to the fund that is 20 make the
world safe for democracy.
You subscribe to the belief that
innocent women and children on
unarmed ships shall not be sent
to the bottom of the sea; that Wo-
men and children and old men shall
not be ravished and tortured and
murdered under the plea of mill
tary necessity; that nurses shall
not be shot for deeds or mercy, nor
hospital ships be sunk without
warning, or hospitals and unforti-
fed cities be bombed or cannon
AIDED with long-range guns.
You subscribe to the doctrine
that small nations have the same
rights as great and powerful ones !;
that might is not right, and that
Germany shall not force upon the
world the dominion Of her military
masters.
You subscribe, when you sub
scribe to Liberty Loan, to the
belief that America entered this
war for a just and noble cause !;
that our soldiers in France and our
sailors on the sea are fighting for
right and justice.
And you subscribe to the Amerl-
can sentiment that they must and
shall be powerful, efficient, !. and
victorious.
Newark post., 1918-09-11

or region are the ones which should
be grown. In Kansas, for example,
the Kanred, an improved strain of
Crimean wheat, is commonly grown
in place of the Turkey and Khar-
kov. The introduction of these
hard red winter wheats into the
Columbia Basin of Oregon and
Washington, and elsewhere in the
Pacific northwest, has increased
yield and quality of the wheat pro-
duced. Poorer varieties are being
displaced rapidly.
See the Seed in the Field
The best way to be sure that the
seed wheat is free from mixture
with other varieties and also from
weeds and diseases is to inspect
the growing field. Each farmer
should do this in his own fields and
neighborhood. When his own var
iety is not we'll adapted or other
wise of good quality, he should in
spect fields Of adapted varieties
grown by some of his neighbors
and arrange to obtain seed from
them after thrashing. In many in
stances he can arrange to have
special care given to this field at
thrashing time in order to prevent
mixture. Such care is especially
desirable this year, when the sup
ply of seed wheat retained on the
farms probably is smaller than
ever before. If the best seed avail
able is not free from weed seeds,
Newark post., 1918-09-11

the best possible cleaning should
be given it.
Seeding with a drill always is
advisable. In general, early seed
ing gives better results than late
seeding. Where there is danger
from the Hessian fly, the time of
seeding should be in accordance
with the best advice given on this
subject for each section Of the
country. A chart showing the
wheat-sowing dates to thwart Hes
sian fly may be obtained from the
United States Department of Agri-
culture at Washington.
Newark post., 1918-09-11
u. S. BOYS WORK.
ING RESERVE
Mobilization Of High School
Youths Urged

The following plea is sent by the
National Director of the United
States Boys Working Reserve to
the High School Boys of the United
States and their parents.
My dear Friends:
The U. S. Boys Working Reserve
is an organization that is endeavor-
ing to mobolize the high school
youth of this Nation for productive
work in this time of national crisis,
chiefly upon the farms. Already
the farms of the country have been
denuded of fifty per cent of their
hither available farm hands.
They are about to be further de-
nuded. 1t is positively certain that
the farmers cannot harvest their
crops without the help of the men,
bers of the U. S. Boys Working Re-
serve.
We are therefore appealing to
the schools, to the boys, and to
their parents to answer the Gov
ernment's call and to permit the
boys to go to the farms in order
that the harvests of the country
may be garnered and saved, and to
feed our civilian population and
our fighting men, in France.
This release is thoroughly feast
BILE if the schools will awake, as
many of them have awakened, to
the necessity and will accommo-
date their organization to it.
The U. S. Boys Working Reserve
desires to assist in every possible
way in maintaining the education
and training of American youth.
It is using its every endeavor to
protect American youth from any
serious invasion of it's education
and. training. If the schools are
alive to their opportunity in this
crisis it will be perfectly possible,
in the opinion of our highest auth
critics among the school men
themselves, to do the work that is
ordinarily done through b nine
months period within the limits of
a seven-months' period. All that
the Reserve is asking of the boys,
and Of their parents, and of the
schools, is that they shall 50 adjust
! themselves to the crisis that they
will be able to accomplish within
seven months what now they ac-
complish easily in nine months.
1t is not necessary in this coun-
try seriously to curtail the time
ordinarily devoted to school work.
Whatever call the Reserve makes
upon the school boys Of the United
States has to do with their vaca-
tion periods. 1t asks the schools
in some instances to prOlong a va
cation period, and in some instan-
ces it asks the schools to grant a
vacation period, in order that work
that is vitality necessary to the win
ming of the war may be done. But
it relies upon the patriotism of the
boys to return to school with a firm
determination to devote themselves
conscientiously to their school
work, to waste no time in school
hours and to make every moment
of their school session count in ac-
complishing the course laid down
for them by their teachers.
Faithfully yours,
(Signed) w. E. Hall,
National Director.
Newark post., 1918-09-11
BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE

Buy lot on the installment
plan, Five dollars per front foot.
Lots 5Ox150 feet deep, and pay
ments $500 monthly. Only a few
more left at this price. Why pay
rent all your life when thru the
Building & Loan Association YOU
can own home in IL years? Call
to see me if interested.
T. F. ARMSTRONG,
Owner.
Newark post., 1918-09-11
In Menorian

In memory of our dear mother,
Mrs. Edward H. Strahorn, who
passed away September 10, 1917.
The golden gates were open
And gentle voice said, "Come,"
And with farewell words unspoken,
She calmly entered home.
Her Children.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
DEMAND Is FOR FLATS.

WEST 18TH STREET-The Nehring
Company has sold for Sarah Altman
the ave story apartment house at 5s6
West 18th street, on plot 75xloo
near St Nicholas avenue. 1t was held
at Sl15.OO0. and has accommodations
for thirty families,
THIRD ANESCE-The Mason Realty
Company has sold 1883 Third avenue
northea st corner OF 104th street, the
Ave story tenement, on lot 2oxloO.
The property was taken in exchange
by the selling company In August OF
this year for tho Northdale. at the
northwest corner of lTeth street and
Northern avenue
WEST l25TH STREEr-Porter & Co
have sold for Sophia and Fanny Good
man to an investor the Ave story dou-
BILE fiat. with store, on lot 26xs9.ll, at
543 West l25th street.
BELMONT AVENUE-Angelo l. Frun-
mento has sold the three story house,
on lot o46xl67.S. at 2l46 Belmont
avenue. near 1Slst street, TO Lucy
Glouni.
EAST 18TH STREET--Ja Mont
gomery & Son have sold the plot look
100, on the north side OF 18TH street,
100 feet west OF Alexander avenue.
UNION AVENUE-Shaw & Co, have
sold for the Lawyers Title and Trust
Company, as trustee, the three story
brick two family dwelling, on lot FOX
1872. at 1929 Union avenue, 10 Mrs.
Mantel. who will occupy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
SAVED FROM JAIL BY
LIKENESS TO HERO
Lieut.. Writings Father Pleads
for Erring Employee.

The chance resemblance of James
Ward OF 129 Perry street, Brooklyn,
to Lieut.. c. L. Whiting, who lost his
life as a result OF the fight made by the
Lost Battalion" yesterday saved him
from Sing Sing prison and gave him a
Christmas present Of another chance
to live straight.
Ward. who was driver employed
by the Private Estate Coffee Company.
81 Fulton street, pleaded guilty to
grand larceny and was about to be
sentenced by Judge Mulqueen In Cen
eral Sessions when d. Clinton Whit
ing Of ais Parkslde avenue, Brooklyn,
Lieut.. Writings father and young
Wards employer. stepped to the bar.
II am getting DID," he said. This
boy worked for me and like him be-
cause he resembles my dead son. I
want to take him and see that he
grows into a useful citizen, such as
my boy would have been had he lived"
Judge Mulqueen and Alexander 1.
Rorke. the Assistant District Attorney,
looked at Mr.. Whiting and at the
youthful prisoner and talked for a
moment or two.
"All right" said the court. Take
him."
Ward and the man whose son he
resembles left the court room together.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
BOAT OWNERS ASKED
TO ATTEND HEARING
Wage Board Will Decide
Workers Demands.

Harbor boat owners were invited
yesterday afternoon by B. NJ. squires,
chairman OF the New York Harbor
Wage Adjustment Board, to appear
Friday morning in City Hall at the
hearing to be given the operators of
harbor marine equipment and the ma
rine workers concerning wages and
working conditions submitted to the
board November s by the Marine
Workers Affillation Of tho Port of New
York.
The board has only four members,
three having resigned. A protest has
been registered by the boat owners
against such a body acting. and al
though the War Labor Board directed
Saturday that new members be ap-
pointed It is likely that only the four
will hear the case.
The boat owners came TO no decision
as to whether they will be repre- scented
at the hearing. In any event, a mem
Der OF the board said yesterday, an
award will be made and the Govern
ment will see that It is obeyed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
ENRIGHT FINDS WAVE
OF CRIME ORDINARY
Due to Successful Escape of
Brooklyn Bank Robbers,
Says Cray.

Police Commissioner Richard r. En-
right, who returned with his bride on
the Ward liner Mexico yesterday. after
not appear unduly perturbed over the
reported increase IN the number OF
holdups in New York city.
81 have not been in touch with con-
ditions in the city, except through the
meagre reports in the Havana papers"
he said. These reports merely reflect
ordinary crime conditions. The Brook
Ign bank robbery was one Of those &C
currences that cannot be prevented in
a city OF 100000. I should say II
was the work of Western crook who
knew his business,
Allowing discharged soldiers to run
about the town at random with money
IN their pockets, the Commissioners
thought, might act as an incentive to
certain kinds Of crime. The Commits
sioner said he had written to Mayor
Hylan and TO the War Department
suggesting that all returning soldiers
be forced to report to the local boards
at their places Of enlistment before be-
ing discharged.
The Commissioner would have been
back at his desk a week ago had Il
not been for the strike in Cuba which
prevented the loading and coaling Of
mis- ship.
The increase in the number of hold
ups and burglaries throughout the
greater city was attributed by Inspec-
tor John Cray. head OF the detective
bureau, to the successful getaway
made by the two bandits who robbed
the East Brooklyn Savings Bank and
murdered two OF its employees. The
crime, Inspector Cray added, always
srouses spirit OF emulation in the
petty crooks and gunner.
In their attempts to solve the mys-
| terry OF the Brooklyn bank holdup the
police. Inspector Cray admitted, have
run up against a stone wall, Not q
single new clue has been found to sheC
, light on the whereabouts OF Roy Tyler
who is supposed to have been the
| taller OF the bandits, or his shorter
companion.
! The epidemic OF lawlessness wa
brought home somewhat humorously
| to the Police Department yesterday
through the disappearance Of an auto
mobile which was being used by two
! detectives in the course of an investi-
! CATION. The sleuths left the car stand
| ing m front Of a store at 1850 Third
| avenue. When they returned the cal
was gone. A general alarm led to the
arrest Of Ave young men. who had Dor
/ rowed the car for joy ride. Two o!
them wore sailors uniforms. All five
were arraigned before Justice John f
Mcclellan in the Morrisania court anC
held in $1,000 bail each for the Grand
Jury.
Three robberies and one attempted
holdup within the last twenty-foul
hours occurred within a radius of G
mile and half OF the home OF Deputy
Commissioner Leach in Astoria.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
NAVY GETS DANIELS'S
WIRELESS GREETING
"SGfeiy Anchored IN Aztec
tions," He Says.

WAsHINcroN. Dec "a Secretarv
Daniels to-day sent broadcast hy wire
loss. TO the units OF the navy in all
parts Of the world a Christmas mes
sage as follows:
"Voic,ne tho continent a, thu vho,s
world which IL proud Of the acbieve-
ments of the American Navy semi
christmas cree,ings With corgratr1o-
lions unon hipb achievement An IN
the navy will celebrate This Cbristmas
with Knowledge NJ the annreciat,or ~
the American neon,e for tho irnnort.rt
mart thev bore IN bringing no,ca nv,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
PARK AVE. SUITES IN DEMAND.

Pease & Gilman have leased. fur
n!shed for W. J. Matheson his apart
ment in $40 Park avenue to Farnham
Yardley and for Mrs. C. f. Poor her
apartment, furnished, in III Madison
avenue to Stephen c. Millett of Millett,
Roe'& Hagen.
Douglas l.. Gilman & Co. have leased
furnished apartment in SIS Park ave
nue., southwest corner of 18th street, for
Miss Ddith Kohlsaat to l. ]. Francke, fur
nlshed for the season an apartment in
1875 East Seventy second street for Lu-
cius Pond Ordway to Mrs. Sumner 7.
Mcknight, furnished. for the season. and
IN 1851 West F'ifty-seventh street for
Mrs. Lorcna r. Davis TO Mrs. Edward
II Wardweil furnished, for the season.
The Payson Mel. Merrill Company
has leased. furnished. apartments at 9
East Forty-fourth street for Mrs. Char
lotte b Roff to J. G. Nalente Perfeito.
and at 112 West Forty-seventh street to
Ensign Edward NJ. Fuller, Jr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-25
NEW HOUSE FOR OLD HOTEL.
Worth House On sixth Ave. to ne
Put to New Service.

The Worth house, at the northwest
corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty
fourth street, has been leased by Spear
q Co for Michael p. Rich. The build
Ing will be extensively altered for busi-
ness purposes by the lessee. William l..
Miller.
Douglas L. Gilman a Co. have
leased a store in the new building AZ
21O Park avenue for the Vanderbilt
Avenue Realty Company to 8. Il Mum
zer OF Chicago, who viii open lacs
shop.
The Payson Mol Merrill Company
has leased a loft at 80 East Twenteth
street to Theodore Jewish for the manu-
facture and sale of silk dresses.
]. Arthur Fischer has l0ased for the
F. NJ b. Realty Company the three story
building at 257 West Thirty-flfth street
to Lenox a sogron for a term Of years.
at a total rental Of $4,000.
Pease & Gilman have leased for the
Metropoliton Life Insurance Company
to LYMAN Strunsky the three story
building at 81 West Thirty-ffth street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
NJ. & L. Hess have leased the second
floor at 1876 Fifth avenue to Samues-
Marcus Company. and with e. NJ Good
man, the second floor at 1915 West
Thirty -second street. to NJ. Schin q
Bro.
white-Csoodman have leased with
william A. White & Sons the third and
tenth lofts at 20s-10 Wooster street to
Benjamin Josephson also leased part
OF the first loft at 1850 West Twenty
sixth street to Rosenberg & Adler Dress
Co. part Of fifth loft at 1904 West
Seventeenth street to H. Blecheisen
leased the tenth loft at 40-6 West
Twenty fifth street to Samuel Aronson,
Inc, and the third loft at S0-2 West
Twenty first street to Wexler Rosen-
berg.
The Charles F. Noyee Company has
leased large space on the eighth floor
Of 81 and 20 Pine street to winthrop
" Taylor; part of the third floor in
the Johnston Building. 80 Broad Street
TO Reidman Cohen & Co., and space or
the fifteenth floor OF the Broadway
Maiden Lane Building, 10 Broadway
TO the Union of the Siberian Creamery
Association.