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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-04

A Medicine That u Especially Pre-
pared For Just One Thing.
July try one bottle OF LAX-FOS WITH
PEPSIN for Habitual Constipation. 6Oc.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

At the recent meeting of the Strat- ford Republican club a large delega- ton of members were elected to mem bership in the organization.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
NAME E'BAYER" ON
 GENUINE ASPIRIN
Safely stop headaches as told in "Bayer packages"

Millions of men and women have proved "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the "Bayer Cross on tablets. the quickest, surest, safest relief for their Headaches, Colds. Neuralgia. Toothache, Earache, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis. Pain seems to fade right away.
 Buy only a Bayer package contain ing proper directions. Always say "Bayer''.
 Handy tin boxes Of 12 tablets cost but a. few cents. Druggists also sell larger "Bayer'' packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetica acidester of SaIicyIica- cid.-Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
400, ,0OO POUNDS OF EELS ON SALE
 FOR YULETIDE

New York, Dec. 23-Fulton Market yesterday opened New York's Christ mas eel sales to retailers who cater to Italian yuletide tables. What the statd and dignifed turkey is to American Thanksgiving dinners the restive and wriggling eel is to the festive Christmas season of the sons and daughters of Italy. and to meet this annual demand for big. little, dressed and live eels. wholesalers were ready to start marketing yester- day morning something like 400, ,00O pounds of them.
 Law abiding eeIs have been yanked from the fresh waters of the St. Law renee river and various streams in Maine, Delaware, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina to disport themselves in fancy sauces and gravies at Ital- ian feastA
 They command high prices, live ones ranging from 30 to 40 cents a pound according to their wriggling ability, and dressed ones bringing from 16 to 20 cents. Before the world war invaded the eel market, they cost only 25 cents a pound alive, and from s to 14 cents dressed, deal CTS said.
 Fresh water eels have the field in this country virtually to the exclusion of the salt water variety. Their weight averages i or pounds each. This is in contrast to the 30 to 50 pound salt water conger eels which hold sway in Italy. But the fresh water eel flavor reputed to be richer and "more wriggling" than the conger so matters are declared evened.
 Some 6OO,O0O pounds of eeIs are marketed here annually, 1t is stated
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

Andrew Christinson and Chris Hen drickson left Stratford yesterday for Miami, Fla, where they will spend the tar-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
BIDS REJECTED,

Due to the fact that the two bids received yesterday afternoon for the sale of the city's S568,OOO worth of refunding bonds were optional ones with q commission basis they were rejected for the time being and new bids are expected to be called for by the first of the year. In case either of the offers is accepted City Auditor Heating will announce the winner $ name within the next few days
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
BILLIARD CHRISTMAS TREE.

Over 2,oOO children and about A. 900 persons were made happy last night by the Christmas exercises and gifts of the Bullard Machine Tool O., when they entertained 2,0O0 boys and girls at the State street Ca sino. The children's parents were also invited to the party. Boxes containing an average of 20 gifts for each child were given out by Santa Claus. Stanley Bullard welcomed d the throng to the party with a short speech.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
NOT MANY ARE
 APPLYING TO
 MISSION FOR HEL P

New York. Dec. 22-Prohibition is largely responsible for the reduction of activities in the old Jerry McAuley Mission, the dry dock of a thousand wrecks," on the lower East Side water front, according to Mrs. John H. Wyburn of the mission.
 It Is seldom that more than 60 der elicts now seek the mission on nights when free dinners are served, in comparison with the 200 in ante-war days. Mrs. Wyburn, speaking at the filth anniversary celebration of the mission Sunday night, said there aren't so many drunkards any more'' The boys" instead of coming to New York to winter are heading for Mon treal, where things are not so dry The work or fight" law during the war also contributed to the Iessening of the missions work. she said.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
ARRESTED FOR
 RECKLESS DRIVING.

Louis salami, of 63O Fairfield ave nue, driver of an automobile which struck and seriously injured Daniel Welch, of Hartford, in that city, Iast night, was arrested for reckless driv- ing, by the Hartford police, and was arraigned in the Hartford City Court today
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
GOT S5S IN CASH.

Chris Peterson, Of 923 Broad street, reported to the police last night, that someone entered his room yesterday and made off with $58 in cash. Charles T. MoIlins. of S75 Broad street. reported that thieves entered his room and got away with two suits of clothes, an overcoat and S20. Both men stated that the burglars used a key in gaining en. trance.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23
STAMFORD
Special To The Times


 stratford, Dec. 23.-The third Glee Club concert given under the auspices of the StratfOrd High School GIee club was given in the Stratford Con gregationaI church, last evening, un- der the direction of Miss Alice J. Hul. The affair which was well patronized proved to be an event of unusual merit and all who attended spent an evening of much pleasure. Mrs. W. Baldwin presided at the organ and Miss Inez Carey oficiated at the piano and Arthur Smith, violin Be sides the songs sung by the members of the glee club there was several selections by the quartet.
 The members of AzaIia Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, held their annual installation of officers in Odd Fellows hall in the town building last evening, the meeting being large iy attended and all present passing q very enoyable evening. Following the installation of officers which work was done by Past Grand Ma iron Mrs. Clarecia, Curtis. assisted by the retiring officers of the lodge, q Christmas box was opened, when the members present exchanged gifts. Following the meeting refreshments was served and a. social time enjoy ed. The following were the officers installed: Worthy natron, Mrs. Re bekah Dutton; worthy patron, Geo. Dennett, associate matron, Mrs Jessie GoodselI; secretary, Mrs. Dorn; treasurer, Mrs. Emma Johnson; con ductress, Mrs. Annie Jacobs; asso- ciate conductress. Mrs AIbertina Perry; chaplin, Mrs. Jane Holden; marshall, Mrs. Belle Stacey; organ ist, Mrs. Lloyd; Ada, Mrs. Agnes Coulter; Ruth. Mrs. Pauline Denett; Ester, Mrs. Minnie Smith; Martha, Mrs Mary Buckley: elector, Mrs. Alma Osborne; warden, Mrs. Mary Cummings, and sentinel, Mir. Lloyd.
 The recently appointed board of building conn rnissioners met in the of fees of the building inspector in the town hall and organized, when Will liam Blamey was chosen chairman and building inspector. The other members Of the board are Edward J BlakesIee and Ernest E. Seyfret. All plans for tho proposed new building will In the future. be pass ed by this board before operations can be begun and then it will be the duty of the inspector to inspect the building frequently while in the course of construction.
 A very pleasant meeting of the Del phian society was held in the Strat- ford Trust building at the center last evening at which time Elliott W. Peck gave an IIustrated lecture on Egypt '' MT. Peck, who has trave1ed through Egypt has Q, large assortment of views many of which he showed and ex- T1lained at last evenings meeting. The society now has q membership of over 40 members
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

CORTEZ c. ROCKWELL plumbing and heating; jobbtng 8 speciality. Corner Main and Hillside avenue, Stratford. D 10 tfs
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

club by Frank AbercronIbie Is the popular question among many at the present time. MT. Abercrombie, who decorated the interior of the Futile auditorium recently for the Stratford Republican club smoker and enter ta!nment went after his property to- day and found that two of the flags had been stolen. Mir. Abercrombie after doing some detective work pre- sented a bill for S10, so 1t is alleged, to the High school basketball team who 1t is stated were the only ones using the hall since the night of the clubs smoker.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

c. Edwin Clark, who has been i'll for
 some time at the home Of his parents
 on King street, died yesterday morn
 ing. Mr. Clark, who has lived in
 Stratfcrd only short time, was
 brought here from Cleveland, Ohio,
 where he was in the hospital there.
 He was a prominent Red Man, being
 la member of Keuka Tribe of Ham
 mondsport, N. Y. He was 43 years of Iage and is survived by besides his
 father and mother one sister. The
 funeral will be held Wednesday af- ternoon from the home of his parents, 122 King street, at 2:30 o'clock. Business in the Stratford town court has been vey slow, in fact unusually so during the past two weeks, as only two cases have been tried and both cases have been noued. This is a very rare occurrence for the Stratford Icourt, as on Monday there are usually a number of cases to be tried. F. O. Rhoades is quite i'll at his home on King street.
 Mir. and Mrs. Louis Well. who are spending the winter at West Palm Beach, Fla. report they are spending a vIry pleasant winter.
 Andrew Christinson and Chris Hen drickson left Stra tford yesterday for Miami, Fla, where they will spend the winter.
 At the recent meeting of the Strat- ford Republican club a large delega- ton of members were elected to mem bership in the organization. George Meechan, ST, of South ave nue is still confined to his home. Ills many friends are hoping for his speedy recovery.
 FOR SALE-7 room, 1-family house 1 lot 100x100; price, S4,S00. Apply Pc l ter Gleason, Stratford, Conn. 1 CORTEZ c. ROCKWELL. plumbing 1 and heating; jobbtng 8 speciality. Corner Main and Hillside avenue, n
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

Who stole the flags which were oaned to the Estratford Republican
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

FOR SALE room, 1-family house lot 1O0x10O; price, 4,8O0. Apply Pc ter Gleason, Stratford, Conn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-23

George Meechan, ST, of South ave nue is still confined to his home. His many friends are hoping for his speedy recovery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
The Joys of Existence
In D'Annunzio's Fiume

1E IUME, apparently, has caught
= the divine afflatus, the patriotic
fervor or the sheer idiocy, according
to ones point of view, of Gabrielle
pAnnunzio, who stands pat while dip
lomats scratch their heads and all the
world wonders.
Beatrice Baskerville, correspondent
Of the, New York World, writes under
recent date, "Fiume, entirely indif-
ferent to the rest of the world, lives
life which to the cold blooded OBJ
server from other regions is more like
musical comedy than anything else. y
Parades, banners, bands and Dan
nunzian messages appear in bewilder-
ing confusion. The atmosphere is
charged with politics of the most vio-
lent kind, such as only tempera-
mental folk like the Italians could in
dulge in for weeks without respite.
Fiume literally snaps its fingers at
Washington and the peace conference.
And why not? There is plenty to eat
and not the slightest chance that any
body in Fiume viii ever have to 60
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
PLoTvrERs BEHIND PLOTS

From the New York Times.
Two facts. or perhaps it is safer to
say two natural conclusions from
available knowledge. give high de-
gree OF FEASIBILITY to the charge
made by several responsible officials
in the state of Arkansas that the I.
w. w. have been melting the negroes
there to rise in armed revolt and mas
sacre their white neighbors.
The first of these facts or conclu-
sions is that no otner group of peo-
pie living in this country would do
such a thing. and the other is that
the record of the l. w w. shows that
among it's members are men quite
capable OF it.
That. of course. is not evidence of
the sort that would lead to convic-
ton in court, or that even would JUS
tify arrests. There is more than a
chance. however. that 1 the investiga-
ton which the ATTORNEY General and
the Postmaster General have been
asked to make. and which presumably
they will undertake at once, will re-
veal just who have been working on
the ignorance and the animosities of
the negroes and deluding them into the
belief that such wrongs as they have
and such ambitions as thew nourish can
be attained by a revolution"
None knows better than the l. w W
leaders the utter hopelessness of ac-
complishing in that way more than a
few murders. at frigntful ultimate cost
to the negroes themselves. but such
consideration would not cause either
hesitation or conjunction in minds
aiming to bring about any and every
disturbance of the social peace that
can be devised. So the promoters OF
the abhorrent enterprise have been
spending not a little money in organ
izing and arming the victims Of their
plot and they have secured. by means
easily imaginable, the support of GER
tain papers here in the north, not
openly to preach race war, indeed
but to exaggerate real grievances and
to create unreal ones. and by clear
Implication to convey the thought that
for such situation only one remedy
the most desperate-exists
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16

Nation Needs Services
OF Wilson and Gompers

1T IS unfortunate that the two men
4 who are best able to lead the coun-
tJ safely through it's maze of indus
tnal troubles are both sick. President
Wilson, who has proved himself a
friend to labor on many occasions,
mast still retain a great deal of III
fuence, even though his wish that the
steel strike be postponed was ignored
by radicals who precipitated the strike
without the Endorsement of higher Of
hciaA, such as Mr.. Gompers.
For many years Samuel Gompers
has been the foremost labor leader in
the world, by virtue of his position as
head of the American Federation of
Labor. The value of his services can
not be estimated and, because of his
sanity, his ability to see two sides
of a question and to avoid the pitfalls
of extreme radicalism, he has been a
powerful factor in the business and
industrial life Of the country, benefit
ing employers as well as employees.
But here of late there are indica-
tons that the conservative leadership
of Mr.. Gompers is being strongly
combated by the bolshevist element
within the ranks of organized labor.
Overruled in the case of the steel
strike, Mr.. Gompers tried to make the
best of bad situation by keeping it
within moderate bounds. There are
men, such leaders as Fitzpatrick and
Foster, who are not in sympathy with
!, Mr. Gompers. They have an alarm
ingly large following.
President Wilson and Mr.. Gompers
are suffering from tie same COM
plant, nervous breakdown. They
are paying the penalty for their ex-
hausting work during the war and i'm
mediately afterward. AT this critical
time in the nations history they can
i'll be spared
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The reason why the man with the
new auto is in such a hurry when he
is driving is because he isn't going
anywhere in particular.
lot of women are up to date in
everything in sthe world except their
birthdays.
You often realize what a 'chump you
We're 10 years ago don't you? And
10 years from now you will realize
what chump you were 40 years ago
Every girl knows that other girls
think she is more attractive than they
pretend to think she is.
There may be infallibleNmen. But
we never knew one who was so much
that way that he changed his shoe
strings before they busted.~
thousand dollars is the avera ge
cost of being presented at court IN
England. But the average cost in this
country is about s. and costs.
When woman isn't talking about
her peighbors she is talking about her
health.
Most wives are smart enough. TO
make friend husband think he is hav-
ing his own way when he isn't.
Another darhli Once upon time
there was a pretty girl who did not
act like she knew she was.
Why is it that there isn't nearly as
much pleasure in spreading the good
we know of man as there is in
spreading the bad we know of him?
If man had to wear a pair of shoes
with stilts for> heels he would make
an exhibition of himself and get =
ride. in the patrol wagon. But a wo-
man can get away with 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
hungry because of D'Annunzio's coup
in selling the city.

hungry because of D'Annunzio's coup
in selling the city.
The Italian government is itself in
high disfavor among the patriot"
of Fiume. The poet-warrior is said to
have the enthusiastic support of 900
out of every 1000 Italians, who want
an Italian Fiume and regard Gabrielle
as the very last word in heroes. The
blockade imposed by the "Nittian gov
eminent" is a farce for the simple
reason that practically all Italy sym
pc thizes with D'Annunzio and nobody,
official or private citizen, has any in
tention of letting him or his followers
suffer merely because Nitti has tried
to keep Italy's account straight with
the peace conference. That "every
city in the Italian peninsula is collect
ling money for Fiume" and Americans
are cordially hated there are other IN
dications of how Italy regards DAN
lnunzio's escapade.
Another interesting bit of informa-
ton conveyed sby the Worlds CORE
Ispondent is the statement that Luigi
Rizzo, the daring Italian naval officer
who sank an Austrian dreadnaught
with three small motorboats and 10
men, win be Fumes deputy in the
Italian parliament. He is also the
choice of Messina and his election is
assured.
That's the way the situation stands
as regards Fiume. It's pretty ket-
tie of fish for the diplomats, particu-
larry the kind who don't understand
the poetic temperament.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
MILES OF WALLA WALLA

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal
TT was Miles Poindexter, of Waila
Walla who sprang up in the Senate
if the United States and fixing his
incandescent eye on Gilbert Hitchcock,
Missed that it is the pacifsts and slack
ers who are advocating the ratihca@ons
OF the peace treaty today.
And then Miles of 'Walla walla sat
down. He was not knocked down. For
there is something, called "the courtesy
of the Senate" under which, or behind
which, or inoculated with which, one may
say things in the Senate which if said
in Walla Walla would insure a sudden
assignment to the cemetery or the hos
pital.
So Miles Poindexter merely sat down.
And the next day it rained-rained cats
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16

flowers will wave in luXuriant abund-
ance. Whether their presence be the re-
suit of fields thrown out of cultivation
or. indeed, is natures gentle protest
against human slaughter, does not much
matter. We suppose the scientists have
the better of the argument. But we
rather like the poetic idea of the peas
antry. 1t long has been noted. The fact
gave Macaulay opportunity for vivid
word painting Says he:
THE soil, fortified by 10000 corpses,
broke forth into millions of<poppies. The
traveller who, on the road from Saint
Iron to Tirlemont, saw the vast sheet
of scarlet spreading from Landers to
Neerwinden, could hardly help fancing
that the iguratiye prediction of the He
brew prophet was literally accomplished,
and that the earth was disclosing her
blood and refusing to cover the slain
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
A FAMOUS MIsPRINr

From the Cornhill Magazine Gondon.)
Misprihts are often source of joy.
Few are more pleasing. than those en-
shrined in the ancient yarn-probably
copcocted-of the pvblic banquet at which
speaker, in proposing the toast of the
army, coupled with it the name of a
distinguished general, whom he described
proceedings, as a bottle SCARED vet
cram" In the next issue of the paper in
which this libel had appeared a note was
Inserted, expressing regret for typo
graphical error. and explaining that the
words should have been battle scared
veteran
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
HUSBANDS EFT CETERA
From the Galveston News.

From the Galveston News.
i m RANGE LEADER: 1t is said that
III N in England there are 10 females
to every male due to the war,
and that some of the females are leaving
England for other countries in the hope
Of finding husbands.
Well. after they find husbands prob
ably they will wish they had stayed at
home and read sentimental novels instead
of going a-hunting. A husband, dear
spinster, is not much of a find If
all OF you, or any of you will pick out
an ideal man as limned by your favorite
fiction writer and theoretically wed your
self to him, the chances are that you
will be happier than If you hustle around
and land specimen f/the homo genius
OF course the popular idea that a hus-
band is a "provider," and that his strong
right arm is a shield for woman is pleas
ant Every day single women who are
saving money give up good positions in
order to marry men who have never
saved a dollar and are as independent
financially as fish on string. Some
women marry in order to live shell
tered life. and are on the move, some
times in the rain ever after.
There was never better chance than
now for the English women in England.
The English men are on strike pretty
much all the time, and even when sup
+ hue 9v%o
Indifferent soft of way few hours in
the middle part of the day. Their spare
time they spend in wetting their whistles
and talking politics, knocking off from
these labors frequently in order to
screech their demands for cheaper liv-
ing. They have the usual FOOLS idea
that the government can provide cheaper
living merely by ordering reduction of
prices, as if any number of political ipse
dixits increases the volume of dry goods
and groceries.
At this moment the English railway OPP
sratives are on strike, demanding that
their wages go up and their expenses
come down. Their leaders. wordy men by
day and dreamers of dreams by night,
tell them that the government" is re-
sponsible for everything that doesn't suit
them, and that in order for al things
to be pleasant it is only necessary to-
overthrow the sort of craftsmanship that
has made England what it is and substi-
tute therefor the bolshevistic tumble
wits who pose as friends of the "proleta-
riat."
If the men of England have set in to
reduce that once proud island to a state
of begeary. maybe the women win come
to tho ez1 nd save II MANY oe 49,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16


, and dogs of pacifism and slackerisn. For
George Washington Norris, star pacifist
and Stacker of Miles Poindexter's own
west, got on his feet in the Senate and
stood on them for seven mortal hours
bombarding the peace treaty, only sus-
pending hostilities with promise of more
to come.
After which was heralded the announce
ment that the peace treaty would be be-
sieged for minimum of II hours by
Robert Marion La Toilette, favorite son
of Wisconsin. Queen Rose in the rosebud
garden of Cerman-America
Then Miles Poindexter of Walla Walla-
but enough's enough; for like certain
lamented predecessor,
THE subsequent proceedings interested
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