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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
:;saA!ORE CHILDREN
Il: q Il ORK AS RESULT
LAW KNOCKOUT
Probe Report Also Shows
Hours for Youngsters
Have Been Heightened.

Washington, Nov. 8-Employment
OF children has increased since the
Federal child labor law was declared
unconstitutional, June 8, 1918. ac-
cording to reports of Investigations
received by the Children's Bureau Of
the Department Of Labor.
The Federal law, in operation nine
months, prohibited employment in
mines and quarries of children under
6 years of age and in factories of
children under IA, and of children be-
tween IA and 16 more than eight
hours a day, six days week, or before
a m. or after p. m.
While the law was in operation Csc
factories and 26 mines and quarries in
20 states and the District of Columbia
were inspected. These inspections
showed 1873 children under 1G years
of age employed in mines and quar-
ries and 3S3 children under IA en-
ployed in factories; 1904 children be-
tween IA and 16 working in factories,
more than eight hours day or at
night.
In the Investigations made since
June 3 by officers of the bureau 9O9
children under IA years of age We're
found at work in 1872 factories; 3,1S9
under sixteen were working mora
than eight hours day and 149 were
employed at night.
Twenty-four states do not require
the eight-hour day for children be-
tween "A and 6 years of age. Among
these are all the New England states
except Massachusetts, and Vermont,
Pennsylvania and the Southern tex
tile states. In these states a return to
the nine, 10 and 11-hour day for
children under 16 seems to be gen.
eral.
The children's bureau issued 1913
working certificates for IA and II
year old children in North Carolina
South Carolina and Georgia during the
nine months the child labor law was
in effect. In these states ihe 11-hour
law and the 60-hour week are gen.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
FRESH VEGETABLES

Fancy Head Lettuce, Green, Lima and Wax
Beans Celery, Chickory, Egg Plant, Caulifower and
Romano, Red Cabbage, Green Peppers, Brussel
Sprouts, Cape Cod Cranbe-ries Artichokes, Toma-
toes Parsnips, Horse Radsh Root, White and Vel
low Onions, Hubbard and Marrow Squash, Sweet
Potatoes Soup Greens, all varieties of Apples and
Pears.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
Chicago Noisy and
Rough; Police Busy

Chicago, Nov S-Chtcago and the
middle West turned loose an unre-t
strained but premature celebration of
peace yesterday that entailed injury
to number of persons and disruption
of industry before official denials
could stem the tide.
The carnival of noise and ribaldry
was the result of a false newspaper
despatch which was spread through
out the country before officials could
contravert it.
Relatives and friends of soldiers
overseas, at first raised to heights of
joy, later were overcome with disap-
pointment when they learned the re-
port was untrue. The sky wept with
them in Chicago, and The downtown
district became a muddy sea beneath
the tramping thousands.
Upon receipt of the report bells and
whistles started ia flood of noise that
continued for hours, while workmen
in factories and mills of this and
other cities threw down their tools,
cheered and INDUCED i'll schoolhoy
pranks. The city hall, stores, offices
and munition plants closed for holt
day
Police reserves were rushed down
town and were forced to use their
clubs to control the crowds of horn
blowing, bell ringing celebrators, and
several We're injured.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
THANKSGIVING

What better time to give thanks
than the Thanksgiving of this year?
Thanksgiving for the victory of dem
ocracy and the overthrow of auto
cracy. The festive board ought to
look wonderfully inviting this year for
these reasons. See our stock of fine
shining silver, sparkling cut glass ard
our fine line of carving sets. All
priced remarkably low considering the
nigh cost of everything. We have cut
our profit down ourselves in jubilatio
over the happy events.
50. YOURS FOR DEMOCRACY
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08

Washington, Nov. Sit is posi-
lively asserted that the government
is planning at an early date to fix
prices definitely for such necessities
as steel, wood, hardware, glass, iron,
food and other articles required dur
ing the reconstruction period in Eu-
rope, with the idea OF preventing prof
iteering and aiding our Allies in re-
establishing themselves.
The prices to be determined by a
committee to be selected by the Pres
ident and department heads, will in
clude a fair profit for the manufac-
turer. 1t is said that more prices
will be fixed in the next sixty days
than during the entire period of the
war.
President Wilson last night was
given a report based on a survey of
the cotton situation by DR.. Thomas
W. Page, Chairman of the Cotton
Committee of the War Industries
Board. The report recommended
that no basic price be fixed on cot
ton by the government, setting forth
that there is no cotton shortage.
At one time President Wilson IA
vored the fixing of a. cotton price,
but later agreed that such action
should be postponed until an official
and thorough survey of the situation
could be made.
Sweeping legislation to guide the
United States back into peace pro-
duction and provide for the re-absop-
ton of It's man-power into industry
is practically ready for introduction
in Congress. 1t will provide for a
continuation of the activities now en-
tered in the War Industries Board,
War Trade Board, Food and Fuel Ad-
administrations and various labor boards
and for a continuation of the neces-
sary authority in the hands of the
President to handle such emergencies
as may arise during the period, &C
cording to the Democratic leaders.
While the power of these various
boards endures to such time as a fl
nal peace may be proclaimed. yet the
new legislation is expected to appear
in Congress Immediately following
an official announcement of an armis-
tice. Administration leaders do not
intend to allow their control of Con-
gress to pass with such measures I'M
provided. A Republican Congress
might seek to tie the Presidents hands
in the great reconstruction work, or
on the other hand, might claim the
credit for the successful accomplish
rnent Of the great organization to
come.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
RIP VAN NOAH.

It was the first twilight game at
the local ball park, and the little fan
with the whiskers just had to tell
something to celebrate the occasion.
Boys, here's a new one my son
wrote me-" he said, as he climbed into
the blea1hers.
We'll, spring it! Spring it," begged
tthe gang" Let's get it over with"
"Yuh know my sons at the national
army camp at Chillcothe Yeh, he
came out 1at-footed fer the war.
Hah-hah!" said the little man, as he
but into a cigar which everybody
knew was made in Wheeling. We'll,
here is what he wrote me this morn
ing: Dear Pop---Here is a joke 1
hope you see the point. What put the
chill in Chillicothe? Why. the draft,
of course. Jimmy. P. S. This is
some city Now wasn't that just like
Jimmy? Some little joke. He-her
Yes, some little joke said the
crowd, you old Mr.. Rip Van Noah.'
Buffalo Courier.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
NEAR EAST REPORTS
3,95O,O0O DESTITUTE

The American Committee for Relief
in the Near East has established a
chain of relief stations between Bag
dad and Teheran. A cablegram an
rouncing the arrival in the latter city
oe DR.. Harry Pratt Judson, was re-
ceived yesterday.
Conditions are desperate, with l.
100000 persons in advanced stages of
restitution in Persia alone, although
more than 100000 has been cabled.
Sufferers throughout the Near East, it
is estimated, number 3,95O,OOO, only
$4,000 of whom are Immediately &C
cessible for relief.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08

Fire caused s25,66O damage in the
plant of the Long Island Daily Star
Publishing Co., of Long Island City.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08

Provision is to be made that the
administration program, which Dem
ocrats point out, is leading to a sue
cessful termination of the war, is to
be continued until hampered through
the reconstruction period. The open
season for politics, which was declar-
ed in the recent campaign, has not
been closed and the feeling still runs
high between the two parties.
In fact. it is openly stated in ad-
miniStration circles that it will be
pleasing to those close to the Presi-
dent if a treaty of peace could be
pushed so rapidly that it might come
before the Democratic Senate for con-
firmation before March when the
present session of Congress ends.
The Republicans elected Tuesday
will not sit in Congress until De-
oember, 1919. Estimates on the time
necessary to complete the peace treaty
range from six months to a year and
a half.
Friends of the President believe
that the readjustment of American
man-power into the industries pres
sent problems fully as difficult of So
luton as did the organization Of the
country for war.
1t l. known that Herbert Hoover
Food administrator, has told the
President that the Food Administra-
ton as at present constituted is I'M
necessary after peace, as two-thirds
of its activities have to do with the
regulation of food conditions internal
to this country. He regards the prob
lens after the war as one of keep
ing foreign spectators from invading
our food supplies and taking them
from our own people and the cree.
ton of an embargo against the with
drawal of food supplies from this
country except under license from
some Federal authority which shall
see that the food so exported goes
to the places authorized.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
Liquor Dealers
Seeking Licenses

Application for liquorlicenses from
bridgeport are beginning to come into
the office of the county commission
ers, although as yet very slowly. The
license year expires with the present
month and applications must be filed
in time for the necessary publication
before Dec. 1. 1t is expected that
practically all of the Bridgeport deal
ers will ask for a renewal of their
licenses despite the prohibition of tn.
manufacture of beer Dec. 1, and the
prospect that the entire nation will be
dry after July of next year.
Issuing of licenses in the other
towns of Fairfield county will COM
mence next Monday when the COM
missioners go to Stamford for that
purpose
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
WAR PROJECTS PUSHED ON.

Washington, Nov S-The War De-
partment authorized yesterday the
construction division to proceed with
thirteen war projects costing 1S.O00,-
600.
The largest appropriation, one of
$7,500,00O, was made for enlargement
of Camp Grant, Illinois. Other ap-
propriations for extensions included
Camp Custer, Michigan, $4,815, 900;
Camp Dodge, Iowa, $2,S35,21O; Della
ware Ordinance Depot. s1,203,1S5 and
Aerial Gunnery School, Miami, Fla,
100000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08

Coinage of a copper cent for Canada
is Planned.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08

eral. Inspections made indicate that
most of these children, and in North
Carolina many more who are under
IA, were put on the 60-hour week as
soon as the Federal restrictions were
made ineffective. In the latter state
children from to IA years of age
found employed more than eight hours
q day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
MUSTARD GAS INVENTED HERE

The report that an American in
yentor laid before an agent of the
bureau of mines fifteen months ago a
formula for mustard gas, which the
Germans are now supposed to be
using. is to be taken up by the Amer
lean Inventors association. The ale
cation brought to the attention OF the
association at it's meeting the other
day was to the effect that Benjamin
P. Brooks, chief chemist of the Com
merciaI Research company. of Flush
ing, L. l., gave formula to the gov
eminent bureau and heard nothing
more from it. 4. few months ago it
was found Germany had hit upon the
gas, according to F. J. Hemen, presf-
dent of the association.---Wa Washington
Star.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
ASKS PERMISSION

Action has been filed in the Su-
perior court by John R. Harrison of
Branford in which he asks permission
of the court to bring suit against
John B. Dillon, receiver of the Shell
ton Basket Co. He alleges that Dill
Ion, as receiver, purchased material
to the value of $2,913.9O-upon which
there is still balance due of $77531.
Dillon's report as receiver was accept
ed two years ago.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-08
U, S, TO FORESTALL PROFITEERINC IN
BUILDING MATERIAL And FOODSTUFFS
FOR use IN DEVASTATED DISTRICTS

Prices to Be Determined by Committee to Be Selected
BY the President and Department Heads Will In
clude Fair Profit for Manufacturer Sweeping Leg
islation Already Projected to Guide Nation Into
Peace Production.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
Widow of Nine Laid to Rest in
Craze Beside Seven of Them

love with the woman and carried her
with him to the Indian post Of Prairie
de La Crosse, now La Crosse, Wis,
where they were married. This man,
according to record was a brother Of
the late Angus Cameron, United States
Senator from Wisconsin. Their we'd
ding occupied half a page of the latest
historical work on Wisconsin. Cam
eron died in April, 1855.
John Sharp, the next husband, who
lived near McGregor. was old when
they married, and on his death, left
the widow some property.
It was then that the dashing young
Bowles appeared and wooed the many
times widow. Unused to home life, he
soon deserted, however. and the wom-
an married nearby farmer named
Herman. In less than year theh lat
ter's name was inscribed on a marker
in the cemetery. Twice more the wom-
an married, but the bodies of these
men were never brought to tn gravelot
as were the bodies of her other mates.
This fact seemed to distress the widow
and when, as she sometimes did, she
broke silence. it was to remark her
disappointment.
Childless, apparently friendless, and
with her last husband in his grave, the
aged woman spent her remaining days
farming her little plot, singing, and in
season touching up the little cemetery
a bit with fresh flowers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
Dandruffy Heads
Become Hairless

If you want plenty of thick. beauti-
full, glossy, silky hair, do by all means
get rid of dandruff, for it will starve
your hair and ruin it If you don't.
It doesn't do much good to try to
brush or wash il out. The only sure
way to get rid of dandrun is to dis
solve it. then you destroy it entirely.
To do this. get about four ounces OF
ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at night
when retiring; use enough to moisten
the scalp and rub II in gently with the
finger tips.
BY morning. most If not all. Of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will completely
dissolve and entirely destroy every
single sign and trace of it.
You will find, too, that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop, and
your hair will look and feel hundred
times better You can get liquid ar
Won at any drug store. 1t is inexpen-
sive and four ounces is all you will
need, no mater how much dandruff
you have. This simple remedy never
fails.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
WILLIAMS IS
LOVER OF ART

Evan Williams, the American tenor
who will sing in the Coliseum week
from Monday night. instead Of Tues
day night, to conform to the fuel ad-
ministration order, has been invited
to attend the Indiana artists exhibit in
the art gallery when he comes for his
concert.
Williams is an art critic of distinc-
ton and his beautiful home in Akron
O., houses a collection OF paintings
by American artists which would do
public gallery credit.
He is in art, as he is In all his rela'
tions, for America first and whenever
he has an opportunity to set forward
the cause Of American art, in music
and painting. he puts his whole en-
ergy into it.
Evan Williams is one great singer
whose patriotism it never has been
necessary to apologize for. His Amer
icanism is unquestioned and he never
hesitates to champion the cause of
the United States and the Entente AL
lies.
Williams will sing one of his highly
interesting and popular programs
here. He sings every number in Eng
lish. A list of the groups OF songs
and airas in his repertoire was print
ed in Tuesdays Palladium and re
quests for numbers are invited. They
may be sent to the Peoples Music
Course, Fulghum's, 1000 Main street.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
Is REGISTER FOR
COURSE IN MUSIC
'e on way from landing point to training

Vocational music is a feature of the
new courses offered at the high school
beginning next Monday.
Credit will be given students for
outside work. At the end of the IS
weeks course an examination will be
given by an examining board COM
posed of Supervisor Sloane and two
other members of the faculty.
The following students registered
Friday for the work: Clarinet, Mar
ius Fossenkemper, Roland Hockett;
violin, Stella Knode, Mary Jones,
Grace Barton, Margaret Wissler, Mar
tina Webb, Richard Robbins; vocal,
Miss Mary Louise Norris: piano.
Misses jeanette Banks, Mary Luring.
Lucille Shurley, Katherine Bartel. Hell
en- Geers, Loureen jerks, Helen Wick
EFT, Martha Eggemeyer, Marjorie
Gault, Lorene White, Marcella Wal
lace. Lois Johanning, Elizabeth
Brown and Frank Grove: cello, Miss
es Katherine Gates and Vera Blossom
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01

M'GREGOR, Ia, Feb. 1.-The mys-
FERROUS Mrs. Emma Cameron Van
Sickle, known far up and down the
Mississippi as the Woman Of Many
Loves has been laid to rest beside
seven of her nine husbands in the
front var dof her home which tops the
river bluffs just outside this city.
Puzzled neighbors, with whom the
woman never mingled, are preparing
to erect another tombstone amid the
scrub pines and struggling bushes of
the rivers queerest cemetery.
Il could die happily il l but knew
they were all to lie beside me in my
little graveyard the aged recluse re-
marked to a neighbor just before she
died
Three of the marble slabs which now
peek out through the unkempt brush
were engraved by stone cutters; the
others were marked by the hand of the
many-times widow. One of the mounds
bears no marker. and for this no ex-
PLANTATION was ever offered.
Only One Quit Her.
Only one Of the woman's husbands
ever deserted her. He was Ralph
Bowles. a gay young butterfly whose
intrepid exploits finally caused him to
dangle at the end of a rope for horse
stealing. She obtained his body and
placed it in the yard.
Three Of the slabs bear initials. 80.
c. W, "P. D. c." and ''P. e., while
another reads, "ePter. died Jan. u,
1854, aged SO. By Emma"
But over her favorite husband, Clint
on Van Sickle, the widow placed a
marker inscribed:
"Clinty, my heart clings to thee, love,
I'm heaven hove to meet above
You were ever kind and true to me,
so was | to you, Emma c.
This husbands name was the same
as his wife's maiden name
First Married in Ohio.
Mrs. Van Sickle was first married in
Ohio when 16 years old to a man
named kellogg, who lived but a short
time after married. She emigrated to
what is now Michigan and in the mid
forties met and married a man named
Cunningham. After his death, Peter
Cameron came down the pioneer trial
with a CARLOAD of rich furs, fell in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
HIGH SCHOOL LOSES
ONLY ONE PUPIL

Say. kiddo. let me see your card"
and goodnight, knew I'd funk in
algebra" and other like expressions
We're heard in the corridors of the
high school building, Friday morning.
The expressions were occasioned by
the passing of the old term and the
beginning of the new. Cards contain
ing grades were given out by the teach
ers. Principal Bentley said every
student was on time.
One hundred and twenty-five stu.
dents from the Junior high school
Friday afternoon. Principal Heron
linus said that last year 126 students
entered the school in February
One hundred and twenty-five stu.
dents from the grade schools register.
ed at the Junior high school. Last
wear 1876 students entered in February.
The number was cut down on account
of the war according to Principal Heir.
onimus.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
100 SIeuths Search for
Missing Three-Year-Old

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-One hundred
detectives were searching today for
Lillian Kosher, years old, whose mys-
ferrous disappearance from in front of
her home in Lenox avenue Tuesday az
ternoon has stirred the police depart
ment to unusual activity
The police already have searched
houses, school yards and parks for a
trace of the child but without success
Scores of cellars in the vicinity Of her
home, where it was feared she might
have been lured, and murdered, we're
searched. The police also are working
on the theory that she may have been
kidnapped.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01

parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Knoll.
Pupils from here. who are attending
school at Whitewater are at home this
week on account OF the school closing
for the week. George Irelan and
family of williamsburg. o., were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. l. Wiley.....
Thomas Constable returned to his
work at Richmond Saturday after
spending a few days with his mother,
Mrs. Glen Moon. !. !. Chester Arnett,
Carl Mills Of Palestine and Hazel
Tharp spent Sunday afternoon with
Miss Marie Harding.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
Daniel kifchell is
Denied Nelv Triad

Motion tor a rehearing OF the Dan
Tel kftchell case was dismissed from
circuit court Friday morning.
Kitchell was convicted of allowing
cholera hogs to run on public high
ways and fined 500. Prosecutor
Strayer called him the Alfred Under.
hill of his community"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
BETHEL. IND.

Everett White, Raymond Knoll, Miss
Pearl Knoll and Mrs. Nina Love spent
Monday afternoon in New Madison
with Charles Roberts and family. 49,.
Forrest Boren, who is stationed at
Camp Shelby, Miss, and has not been
able to speak above a whisper since
Christmas. is still in a critical con-
dition.. =. . Raymond Knoll OF White
water, is spending few days with his
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
BOYS INSTALL MACHINERY

Boys of the Junior high school have
installed all the machinery in the
basement where the wood work de
partment was formerly located. Forg.
es, new metal benches, new FORCES
/ lathe and drill press will be used
in the industrial work. More students
have registered for the work at Gar
field than in high school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
FAMOUS ENGLISH BANKER
DIES AT AGE OF rs YEARS

LONDON, Feb. 1-Alfred Charles
DeRothschild, of the banking family
of that name died last night
Born in 1912, Alfred Charles De-
Baron Lionel DeRothschild. He was
educated in Trinity College and was
a partner in the banking firm, of N. NJ.
Rothschild and sons. At one time he
was a director Of the Bank of England.
Mr.. Rothschild received the c. V. c.
in 1909.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
AL6US TO DECATUR

Secretary Albus, a member of the
Speakers Bureau Of the Lake Division
Of the Red Cross will go to Decatur,
Ind. Monday night, where he will
make an address for the State Council
Of Defense at the Adams County war
conference.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01

Measuring the current carried from
electric wires by streams Of water
from the fire hose, an Italian scientist
found that chemical extinguishers
were the most dangerous fire fight
ing equipment to use around live
wires.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-01
SMALL BLAZE THURSDAY

Early Thursday morning the fire
department was called to the home
of James A. Taylor, 432 North West
Eighth street, where fire started
from a spark caused loss of $40.