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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02
l ake the Question of China

The tables in the China Store are given up en- trey to those pieces appropriate for wedding gifts Nippon Ware The Japanese make the most beautiful and unique decorated china in the world. In sets or separate pieces.
 Tea Sets, Is or 17 pieces, bird and flower designs,
 $12OO Ice Cream Sets, pieces, delicately bordered, s7O0 Cake Sets, { pieces, very dainty, 5000 Chocolate Sets, tall jug and cups rose garland dec oratlon, $4OO Coffee Sets for the living room. Satsuma Ware medallion on dull creamy ground. Covered sugar bowl and cream jug, $22OO Service Plates, choicest English Porcelain several designs. No finer plates made and as they were ordered year ago, the prices are less than if bought to-day,
 $49 OO to SI2OOO dozen
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02
Choice bits of French China
 at tempting prices

Straight from Limogues, France, came these pretty pieces of china with touches of gold on handles and edges. A scattering of rosebuds or delicately tinted flowers form border designs. For gifts or prizes, or an odd dish needed on the table it is but a question of a suitable selection. Bon Bon Trays, or Jars with covers,
 S1.0O and $1.75 Footed Nut or Berry Dishes,
 $1OC to $225 Tea and Coffee Pots, $175 and $2.25 Sugar and Cream Sets, odd shaped sugar bowls with artistic handles,
 $1.25 to S225 Sandwich Plates, variety of designs and sizes, $1.75 Relish Dishes, five compartments,
 $2.25 Marmalade Jars with saucers at tached, $1.75 Salad Bowls. $225 Olive Trays, artistic patterns, $2.25 For the Dressing Table Comb and Brush Trays, large size, at. +ractive colors. s1.75
 small size, 50 cts Pin Trays, 50 cts Powder Jars and
 Hair Receivers, 50 cts each
 Basement.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02
ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH
 OF JOHN GODFREY SAKE

Today is the 103rd anniversary of the birth in Vermont of John God frey Sake, who was long famous as a humorist and poet. More than 40 editions of his collected poems have been issued in America and Great Britain. Sake died in Albany, N. Y., in 1887, after having been for years the victim of the gravest melancholy and mental depression.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02

Ii you are losing WelgnC, are thin, pale and run down you are in danger.
 Father Johns Medicine will build new flesh and strength for you. 1t is an aIl- the-year-round tonic flesh builder and people gain stead fly while taking this whole some food medicine. If you want to gain weight begin talk ing Father Johns Medicine right now.
 1t is safe for children, too, because it does not contain al- cOhOl.
 Begin taking it today and sec how you gain in weight and health. It is guaranteed free from alcohol or dan- gerous drugs in any form.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02

Savage Diner: Move yourself waiteri Why, great Scot, you ain't fit to wait on a pig!"
 Disguised Waiter: (who has decid- ed to chuck his job) Well, I'm doin my best to aaXhoW."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02
The store closes daily at 6 o'clock
This is Bride s Week

Everything for the trQuseau. Everything for the home every for beautiful artistic furnishings which always welcomed by people who making a home.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-02
For Linen Chests or Closets

There are just as good linens as ever were spun
 Linen Table Cloths,
 size ? X ? yards, s 8.75 2x 21a yards, $11.0o Napkins to match, 20 inches, 5 9,5o
 24 inches, S12.50 Linen Table Cloths, fine grades,
 2x2 yards, S12.5O 2x 215 yards, S16.OO Napkins to match, 20 inches, Sl2.5O
 24 inches, $13.O0 Damask Luncheon Cloths,
 36 36 inches, s2.5o and $500 45 45 inches, S4.O0 to $5.75 54 54 inches, $7.5J Small Madeira Covers, embroidered, 20 inches round,
 S1.65, S225 and $500 In 24 inch size, $2.5O, $3.50 to S6.5O Madeira Luncheon Cloths,
 44 inches, 5 7.75 to $12.5O 5 inches. $15.0O and $16.50 Luncheon Napkins, hemstitched, 15 X 15 inches, s5.5O, $500 to 5000 Linen scarfs, plain hemstitched,
 sizes IS X 36, $1.5O
 IS 45, $1.75
 IS 54, $2.OO
 IS 63, s$2.25
 IS 72, S2.5O
 Third foor
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
TO
MEET TONIGHT

Members of the Seeley Chamber
of Commerce will meet this evening
to close a contract with some vege-
table distributor for the growing OF
approximately 1900 acres of winter
vegetables during the coming fall and
winter.
President c. Fl. Connect of the
Chamber of Commerce will preside
and Chairman d. f. HARRISON Of the
committee which has been busy sign
ing un acreage will make his report.
1t is understood that 300 acdes have
been signed up by land owners and
that over 1000 acres have been Sc
cured by leasing.
Representative Of the distributors
will be present and will be invited to
present their plans. 1t is possible
that a contract may be closed to-
night and it is possible that a COM
mittee with power to act may be ap-
pointed to investigate the business
standing of the various companies
Most of the acreage, it is expected,
will be lettuce, with spinach and car
rots close seconds.
Mr.. HARRISON, as president OF the
Seeley Farm Center, has already ad-
vised ranchers who have land to lease
that they can go ahead and ploW y,
if it is necessary at this time to get
rid of Bermuda grass, and that the
expense of plowing may be charged
against the prospective lessee.
! The distributors will be required to
| erect suitable packing sheds to handle
1.-THE vegetables.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
HOTEL KEEPERS
WILL DISCUSS
BOOZE QUESTION
(By Associated Press)

Oakland, Calf, June 3.-HOtel men
of the Pacic coast will meet in this
city from June | to 13 to wrestle
primarily with the dry problem. The
occasion viii be the eighth annual
convention of the Northern California
Hotel Associon, but the delegates
also will lbe present from the hotel
organizations of Southern California,
Oregon and Washington.
About 500 are expected to attend
and every subject pertaining to hote.
keeping will be discussed, but over
shadowing all will be consideration of
ways and means how best 60 make
the bar pay. Notwithstanding Presi-
dent Wilson's urging upon Congress
the amendment of the wartime prohi-
bition law to permit the sale Of wines
and beers, reports coming to the local
committee on arrangements say that
the bonlfaces have about given up
hope Oh continued wetness. Neither
it is said, do they gain much en-
couragement from Elihu Roots suit
for the New York brewers.
To get some ideas on how to run
hotels under the new regime, the con
ventlon plans to 90 into ancient his
tory, one of the papers on the pro-
grom having to do with the manner
in which the Greeks and Romans did
such things in the b. c. period. This
will be covered in an address by Prof.
O. NJ. Washburm of the eDepartment of
Archaeology of the University Of Cal
ifornia an "The Hostelry of. Ancient
Greece and Rome"
Another menas of making up the
defciet from "spirit-less" bars viii be
considered in the attraction of tourist
travel. This will be discussed in a
poper on "The New Playground of
America" by Herbert Cuthbert, sec
retary of the Pacific Northwest Thur
ist Association of Seattle.
The dead beat will be brought
before the convention in papers by
Ezra Doctor, district attorney of Ala
media county, on "The Hotel, the Law
and the CRIMINAL and by Albert /.
Loeb, attorney for the Northern Cali
fornit Hotel Association, on "The
Credit Bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
BOARDS
IN YEARLY MEET

Nearly seventy officials of the I'M
perial county school system today
were in attendance at the annual
meeting of school trustees held at the
Wilson school under the craftsmanship
Of A. P. Shibley county superinten-
dent of schools.
The principal speakers of the morn
ing session were President Hardy of
the State Normal School at San Die
go, Superintendent West of the San
Diego county schools and Mrs. A. w.
Swanson, probation officer for I'M
perial county.
Matters of interest in the conduct
of school affairs and educational ques
ttions were taken up at the meeting.
1t is just a get-together meeting pre-
paratory to one of the most import
ant official acts of the year-the Sc
lection of new teachers and preparing
for the coming school year-accord-
ing to Superintendent Shibley
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
DOUBLE CROPS
BY FERT|L|Z|NG
L|EbERT' s PLAN

Although he is in Washington in
the interests of the All-American ca
ma, Mike Liehert has not stopped his
campaign for better crops ma more
of them in the Imperial Valley.
Letters recently received from him
enclose photographs showing the value
Of fertilizing as he has proven it to
his own satisfaction on his own ranch
near Seeley.
Pictures Of himself and his broth
er taken in d wheat field where every
fourth land was fertilized at the rate
Of two tons to the acre reveal only
the heads cf the two men with wheat
heads weighing down the talks on
all sides. In contrast with this, pic
turoS taken were no fertilizer was
applied show the men from the waist
up. The estimate is 20 sacks an acre
where fertilizer was applied and ten
to twelve where it was not.
"Fcrtilize," says Mike.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
ASK DELAY ON
VOTE ON ROAD
B 0 Nd ISSUE

A delegation of Westmoreland citi-
zens, including number from Braw-
ley, presented petition signed by
apEroXimately one hundred people, to
the county supervisors, this morning,
asking the supervisors TO delay the
vote on the proposed 81 100000 road
bond issue from July to some later
date.
The reason given in the petition
fol the proposed delay is the fact that
if the state road bond issue of $40,
100000 fails to carry at the special
election to be held July l, reap
portionment in the Imperial Valley
bond issue will be necessary. The
delegation believed that if the elec-
ton were postponed until after the
state election it would simplify mat
ters in this county.
After the attitude of TIE supervis-
ors was explained to them they left,
the supervisors feeling that they had
explained matters to them ana that
they were thoroughly satisfied
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
.COBLENZ NEW
RHINE CAPITOL
(By Associated Press)

Paris, June 2.-Coblenz will be the
capital of the new Rhine Republic
proclaimed yesterday in several Rhine
cities.
The new government and national
assembly met there, but the provis-
ional government sat at Wiesbaden.
The portion of the proclamation re
ceived in Paris said:
I'VE declare the Rhenish Republic
to be founded on the bosom Of eGr-
many. 1t is a pacific republic which
is composed of Rhenish province, Old
Nassau, Rhenish Hesse and the Pali-
tinate."
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
z CENT POSTAGE
COMING JULY |

An increase in sales in number of
stamps and decrease in receipts are
the two principal results expected by
Postmaster Charles Collins as a re-
suit of the change from Scent pos
tae back to 2-cent postage on July
1St.
Mr.. Collins also anticipates that
many firms, instead of mailing state
ments out June 80, will delay and
send them out the morning OF July
l, thus obtaining the benefit of the
lower rates.
The decrease will in all probability
decrease receipts at the local office,
but this will be general all over the
United States.
Nevertheless the decrease will be
welcomed by all citizens, as it will be
at least one instance of where the ia
nous Hi Cost o. Livin~ is coming
down.
Postmaster Charles Collins has re-
ceived orders from First Assistant
Potmaster General J. c. koons to eX
clude from the mails all parcel post
packages that are not carefully
wrapped and securely tied. Expert
ence mas SHOWN Jhat complaints OF
damages in transit are in almost
every instance due to the careless
ness of tie sender. Proper. pared
packages. it is said, nearly always
reach their destination in good shape.
Parcel post packages are now mail
able to British India by way of Eng
land, weight limit of eleven pounds
being fixed, and the rates established
being II cents a pound, plus a transit
charge varying from "a cents on one
pound to ~ cents on from eight to
eleven mounds.
Parcel post packages may now be
sent to Swaziland and Basutoland
these remote states having recently
been included in the Union of South
Africa, which includes Cape Colony,
Natal, Orange Free State and the
Transvaal. Registered mail is not ac-
cepted by this union.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03

;25 REWARD for the return of black
horse stolen frcm ranch p mile
east of .Iasrer school, June l..
Weight 1900, 7 years old, white spot
in face, one ear slit slightly. M.
I'reetas, Heber
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03

WANTED-At Varney Pros. ware
house, a bright young man willing
to learn warehouse work. Apply at
once
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03

= Wanted-Cool for about ten mGn.
Apply Timken Ranch, Brawley.
Phone 86F12.-Ady.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-03
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

Suitcase. Inauire William
Ball, Rath & Marshall.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07
FORD TRACTOR
FREE PRIZE AT
MACON MEETING
Fig Club Member Making
Best Showing of Four
Porkers viii Win Rich
Reward

Following the press dispatches
from Macon announcing that a Ford
son tractor will be awarded by the
local tractor agent to the pig club
member who exhibits the best SOW
and four pigs at the state fair in
Macon next fall, the pig club men,
bers of Fulton county have sWamped
DIR. d. E. Sawyer, county demonstra-
ing agent, with applications to en-
ter the contest. The only require
ment is that the club member must
register in person at the coming dem
onstration of the Fordson tractor to
be held in Macon the week begin
ming March TO-
DIR. Sawyer says he will take any
member Of the Fulton pig club who
ready eight members have signifed
are expected to make the trip.
The tractor is fully equipped and
will be awarded as a special prize
to the Georgia club members making
the best showing with SOW and four
pigs. The tractor is valued at ST.
200.
The state pig club agent and the
management Of the tractor demon
stration in making the one require
ment that the member must register
and then attend the demonstration
are acting on the theory that the
boys of today are the farmers of to-
morrow and they want them to see
the advantages Of power-driven i'm
elements over the mule and pillow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07
PRESIDENT SEES
"MOVIES" ON SHIP
ON WAY ACROSS
President Wilson is a sure-enough

President Wilson is a sure-enough
movie" fan.
Not only does he regularly at
tend the vaudeville theater in Wash
ington where movies" are always
exhibited, but OH Ibis first trip
across the ocaan last month he was
entertained by ID program OF screen
plays. .... ~
Nazimova's big; de luxe screen pro-
favorite star and one of her plays
selected was "ReVelation," the dra-
matization o. THE Rosebush Of a
Thousand 7 Jars written by Miss
Mabel WagnalIs.
Three even ngs were set aside by
special request for showings of Nine.
Nazimova' biG de lure screen pro-
auctions, 'Heve lation." "Toys of
Fate" ana eye fer Eye" President
Wilson ard MS. Wilson are enthu-
siastic admirers Of the Russian &C
tress and he4' work on the stage,
but until now have never had an
opportunity to view any of her IA
nous achievements in motion pic
lures.
The exhibition will be given un-
der- unusually Unique circumstances
following the completion of the
presidents ana his associates days
constructed IN the main saloon on
the ship, and the musical accompan-
iment viii nc provided by the
steamers orchestra of one hundred
pieces. ...
In addition to- he Nazimova pro-
auctions 20 pc shown on the peace
leviathan, Screen, Classics, Inc, fea-
lures and Metros All-Star series
productions viii he part Of the, eX-
hibitions. Among these will be Fran
els x. Bushman ana Beverly Bayne's
magnific ant olctrrizaGion of Ro-
meo and juliet" "Flue Jeans" star
ring Viola Dana; LEST We Forget"
in which Rita IoIvet, the survivor
Of the Lusitc1lia is starred; MY
Own United States" the William L.
Sheriff. prod-l9ti IN in which Mr.. Ar
mold DAILY is the star; Draft 25S.'
Stacker" sta, ring Emily Stevens, and
others.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07
Southern Farmers Reap Reward
From Liberal Use of Legumes

The aggressive campaign that has
been waged for the past few years in
the interest of better farming by the
use of legumes has not been without
it's reward. AS farmers have be-
come Better acquainted with these
crops ard rs they have more fully
understood their economy in crop
product on the greater has grown
the demand for information about
them.
Nor is this surprising, for when we
recognize the value of cover crops,
and the advantage of legumes as
cover crops, as preVenterS of ero-
sions, conservers of plant food which
might otherwise be leached out of
the soil; and, also their power to add
to the supply of plant food, deepen
the soil and add to it's supply of hui
mus; to improve it's physical cond1-
ton, and, in addition, their value es
hay and grazing crops, to the pro-
gressive farmer they become very
interesting.
But to properly perform the func-
tions of winter crop, those adapted
to that purpose should be sowed suf
ficiently early to so cover the soil
before their growth is stopped by
cold weather as to protect 1t from
erosion. But when they. are sowed
even too late for that, their root sys-
tenn may make enough growth to
stop a large part of the waste of
plant food that would be leached out
Of bare soil.
Then it is we'll known fact that
Of the three essential elements in
plant food, nitrogen, phosphorus and
potassium, one or more Of them is
deficient in most of our cultivated
soils. Of these, nitrogen Is the most
important, and, from recent investi-
cations, has proven to be- the most
elusive. Also 1t has been shown by
experiments in Germany and also in
this country that only from 40 per
cent to about IS per cent of the nj
trogen applied to crops is recovered
or taken up by the crops. This makes
the subject still! more interesting'
1eenmes have the power Of securing
free nitrogen from the air through
the agency of bacteria peculiar to the
particular kind of legume grown.
For instance, the cowpeas will thrive
only when the bacteria peculiar to,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07
Forrnaldehyde Gas Use ON
Potatoes Injuries the Crop

In treating a quantity Of seed po-
tatoes with formaldehyde gas for
scab at the New York experiment sta
ton, many of them were so severely
injured that they were unfit for seed.
The injury took the form of sunken
brown spots surrounding the lenti-
cells and eyes. The gas was general
ed by the permanganate method, US
ing the standard formula of pints
of formaldehyde solution and %
ounces of potassium permanganate
to each 1000 cubic feet of space. An
investigation into the cause of the
injury placed the blame chiefly upon
the small quantity G.5 lbs.) of pota-
toes per cubic foot of space in the
fumigation chamber. The high rela-
tive humidity of the air and the
sprouted condition of the potatoes
were important accessories.
Numerous Investigations have
shown that in order to insure eff
cient disinfection it is necessary to
In the disinfection of living rooms
during cold weather this factor is a
very important one because in artifi-
cially heated rooms the relative hu-
nudity is usually low and special
methods must be employed to raise it.
A relative humidity of about so per
cent is usually considered the mini
mum for thorough distinction.
In disinfecting seed potatoes Pro
fessor Morse recommends Just be-
fore placing the formaldehyde in the
generator the floor of the disinfect-
ing chamber should be thoroughly
wet down with boiling water" AL
though convinced that comparative
ly high relative humidity is neces-
sary for the successful disinfectton
of potatoes by means of formalde-
hyde gas many writer's do not agree
with Professor Morse as to the ne
cessity of wetting the floor with boil
inc water or to employ any other
means to increase the humidity. In
cellars and storerooms suitable for
sceG potatoes the humidity is natur-
ally high. The sprouted condition
of the potatoes is also a factor in the
humidity. BY the property of OBJ,
sorption the potatoes seize and hold
the formaldehyde gas upon their sur
face. If there are but few potatoes
they absorb so much gas that the It's
sue is injured; but when the gas
is distributed over a large quantity
Of potatoes it does not gather at any
point in sufficient quantity to cause
injury.
In our experiments various degrees
of lenticel spotting occurred with all
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07

Because of unsettled conditions
in Europe it is impossible to foresee
what the economic conditions with
regard to cotton will be.
The United States department of
agriculture is urging southern farm
ers to play SAFE" and just at this
time more than ever before safety
appears to lie in a balanced type of
farming that will enable the farmers
Of the south to raise their own home
supplies of both food and feed, which
they can do without interference
with either the acreage or the labor
necessary to produce sufficient sup
ply of cotton.
This view was recently expressed
by Secretary Houston in reply to a
telegram from Charles B. Metcalf, OF
san Angelo, Texas, though the con-
clusion had been arrived at and ex-
pressed some time before.
The agricultural colleges, In CO.
operation with the department. Of ag-
riculture, through joint extension
forces, have been organizing for sew
eral weeks past for the purpose of
bringing before farmers in the sew
eral states definite suggestions. for
operations in 1919. These joint
forces are furnishing farmers the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07
PLAY SAFE ON COTTON''IS
ADVICE TO SOUTHERN PLANTERS

latest information that the depart
ment and the colleges have been able
to gather concerning prospects for
next year.
Generally speaking. extension
forces are agreed that the wise poll
cy for southern farmers to pursue
in 1919 is to make sure Of the pro-
duction of their own home supplies
of both food and feed. Attention is
being called to the fact that an av-
erage yield of cotton on an acreage
the size of that in 1918 will produce
from two million to three million
bales more than was produced in
1918.
The secretary's telegram to Mr..
Metcalf says in part: 'On account
of unsettled conditions in Europe it
is impossible to make any definite
forecast of the economic situation,
but certainly it is safe policy to
pursue for the farmers of the south
to raise their own home supplies
of both food and feed They should
be able to do this and still have suf-
ficient acreage and labor to produce
the requisite quantity of cotton.
The department believes in bal
anced agriculture and that only with
a balanced agriculture can labor be
sufficiently and properly utilized.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07

the cowpea is present: the soy bean
requires the presence of bacteria
adapted to that plant; crimson clover
will thrive only when the bacteria
peculiar to that plant is present; and
so on throughout the entire list, with
certain exceptions. Those now known
are garden, or English peas, and the
vetches can become inoculated with
the same bacteria. Alfalfa, sweet
clover and burr clover will 1nocu-
late either plant.
Most of the 1egumes when cut at
the proper time and we'll cured make
a very fine quality of hay. When
the hay can be used to advantage on
the farm, 1t is much better to make
the crop into hay and feed it to
live stock; but If the land needs 1t
more than the live stock does, then
it may pay better to turn 1t under
for soil Improvement. Each farmer
may decide this for himself. How
ever, it may be we'll to remember
that feeding hay to live stock does
not add anything to its fertilizing
value. Therefore the manure of
given quantity of hay fed to live
stock and the manure returned to
the land will not contain as much
plant, food as the grass would have
furnished if it had been plowed un-
der instead of having been made into
hay and fed to the live stock.