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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
Thirsty? Use Belt to Get Drink.

When Oliver Herford comes to a babbling brook and wants a drink, he does not throw himself prone on the mud and try to get water on the vacuum-cleaner principle adopted by the COW, nor does he use his Panama on the Gungha Dhin principle. He might use a straw or a drinking cup, if he could ever remerber to carry them with him. A hundred things he might do, if he could think of them.
 But what really happens? Oliver takes off his belt and winds 1t up as tightly as he can. The coils are wrap ped around one another so that a cone is built up. That forms 0 cup with a hole in the bottom. Oliver uses finger as a stopper for the hole, and proceeds to dip up his drink in the fashion set long ago by the first civ ilized man.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
Soldiers Appreciation.

RecGsitly a woman well known in America, who has devoted all her time tg relief work since the war be- gan, WAS visiting a hospital. The com manding officer had sent a military car foA her. She entered the car just as an ambulance filled with wounded passed by. As she noticed the thin, pale fa2es, tears came into her eyes. The sgdier-chauffeur asked if she was Ill
 "No,s she said, "these are tears of gratitude and pride."
 Madame" replied the boy, simply, If I thought that my being soldier was wc.thy of but one of your tears, shoul3 feel that had not lived ln vain" ."-~Red Cross Magazine.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
DAzED BY HUN ATROCITIES
Emotional Faculties of Afflicted Bel gans Probably ParaIyzed by the
 Horrors They Had Witnessed.

Efr. Brand Whitlock, former Ameri- can minister to Belgium, has been talking about the horror of Louvain in tine London Daily Telegraph:
 T was struck by the lack of pas sion displayed by nll those who had so terribly suffered. I seldom heard any of them express hatred of the Germans CT any desire for revenge.
 None of them, as far as I could learn or observe, even acted in the tragic manner. There were no he roics and no histrionics; they did not even demean themselves as do peo- pie in the cinema or the romantic nov
 'In moments of great danger, or great strain and tragedy, people are simple and natural; they do not act in the theatrical sense of the word"
 To say that a play could be acted without gesture or other expression of what we feel is absurd. Nor would, think, history support MT. Brand Whitlock's inference, whatever may have been the story of unhappy Belgium.
 When Mme du Barry died upon the scaffold in Paris, her shrieks de- lighted the knitting women. The Due de Guise ran wildly from his assas- sins to throw himself at the feet of Henry of France. Pitt wept for his country's misfOrtun no"-the family of the iIl-fated Louis XVI did not cease their lamentations all night when they heard that he was to be guillotined at dawn.
 The choler of Judge Jeffreys found expression in the rawlings and rantings of a madman. Boabdil wept when he was driven from Granada. Henry VII could swear like q f1shwife-CatheriLe Howard shrieked at Hampton court, and the superstitious hear her shrieks to this day.
 In my view, the unhappy Belgians were dazed by the very horror of the circumstance. The atrocities commit ted by the Hun were too awful. Shall we wonder if the emotional faculties were paralyzed ?-London Dispatch.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
JAIL SENTENCE
 FOR ASSAULT

Max Rapo of il Waller court charged with assault on John Masley, l3 Waller court, was fined s1 and costs and sentenced to GO days in Jail by Judge Frank c. Wilder in City Court this morning. Masley, the other half of the assault, was fined $10 and costs.
 The assault was the outcome of a celebration of the Russian Christ mas, which took place at the home of Masley last night. Officers who made the arrest told the court that the celebration was at its height last night, when Rapo became so en- thusiastic that he drew a knife and slashed his host across the face.
 Rapo filed an appeal from the sentence. and posted a bond of $500 for the appeal
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
KEPT NEWS FROM
 CAPT. ROOSEVELT

American Army of Occupation, Tuesday, Jan. 7.---Ry The Associated Press )---News of the death of Col onel Roosevelt was withhesb by a friend from Captain Kermit Roose- Welt, of the Seventh Artillery, until the captain had been given an oppor- tunitl to read his fathers latest let ter. The friend was in CobIenz when the news was received at army head quarters there. and he delivered the letter before transmitting advices on the ColonePs death
 Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose- Welt Jr., Is with the Twenty-sixth in- fantry near Montebaun. pr. Richard Derby, Colonel Roosevelt's son-in- law, is a surgeon attached to the headquarters of the second division.
 Word of the death of Colonel Roosc- Welt was received over the wires of the American signal corps and was flashed immediately to all headquar- tens in the area of occupation
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
Month of Haruest Moon-

Aside from the autumnal equinox. September each year is marked by an- other astronomical event of considera- ble interest, namely, the so-called har- vest moon, 1t being the full moon near est the autumnal equinox. The harv- est moon rises at nearly the same time for several successive evenings i'm stead of nearly an hour later from night to night, as Is usually the case, and 1t Is from this continuous run of bright moonlight nights that this moon Is said to derive its name, farm CTS as a rule taking advantage of the extra light to gather in their late sum- mer crops and store them away for the. winter.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
Hwns to Wear Bark Shoes,

To hslp out in the present great scarcity of leather and the consequent dearth of footgear, e German army authority recommends the introduction of linden bark moccasins such as are worn by the Russian peasantry. Made from the bark of young twigs, these shoes gre said to stand two years wear; get they are light and easy and caH be made to fit well. The iln- den forests of the prince of Monaco, near Laon, France, Germans say, would sapply sufficient bark to make 100000 shoes, and the making of them would furnish excellent light oc- cupatioR for prisoners and slightly wounded.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
IMPORTANT DECLARATION

Paris, Jan. B. (Havas)-Deputy Matin. made an important written declaration before his death early this week. The deputy is said to have de- clared that the previous testimony he gave concerning the charge of trad ing with the enemy, on which he was being detained, was untrue. He ex- plained, the paper says, that fear of eventual vengeance had prevented him from telling the truth.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
YANKEE BOYS PUT
 THE PUNCH IN FIGHT

In a letter to Collector J. L. Mo- Govern of the Customs office. Will liam P. Melia, of the firm of Brady and Melia of Black Rock, writes en- Enthusiastically of the Yankee boys and of the splendid work they did when going over the top.
 "It was the Yankee boys that put the punch in the fight that brought victory" is the way he puts it m the letter.
 Private Melia took active par. in several intensive drives and 1t was while going over the top, that he was badly injured. In the letter he writes that he has fully recovered and hopes to be back home soon.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
BOlshevism Strong
 In Bridgeport?

That Bolshevism in Bridgeport is stronger than in New Britain is the belief of the Federal authorities here and the outcome of this movement is being watched very closely. United States District Attorney John F. Cros- by of Hartford made the statement that organizations are being formed in the various cities of this state and that Bolshevism Is spreading actively from New York into Connecticut
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
DUST EXPLOSION.

Dust exploding in a grinding ma wlnne at the American Graphophone Co, Barnum avenue, at 9;30, was the cause of an alarm from box 735. Off,
 hcials of the factory stated that a quantity of old records were being Teground in the machine, when sud- denly the explosion took place. The machine was slightly damaged, and no one was injured by the explosion.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
MRS. A. A. TAYLOR'S
 AUTO RECOVERED

An automobile belonging to Mrs. A. A. Taylor, widow of the late Thomas P. Taylor. a former mayor of this city of 287 Washington avenue, which was stolen Monday night from John and Broad streets, was recovered early last evening.
 The automobile, which was of the ASedan type, was found in a horse shed, An the rear of a store, at 1897 Central avenue.
 Charles Bell, the proprietor of the store. keeps his horse in the shed dur ing the day. Yesterday morning, on arrival at the store, he found the ma- chine In the shed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
GENERAL INCREASE.

Washington, Jan. 8-General ina creases in class and commodity rates in eastern and central trunk line te-- ritory and to and from Virginia cities, designed to bring the charges of non federal controlled railroads up to the level of the increases given Federal controlled lines last spring, were ap- proved today by the Interstate Com merce Commission.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
RESTAURANT ENTERED.

Dimetre Simon, proprietor of a res taurant at 1234 Railroad avenue, re- ported to the police this morning that his place had been entered last night by the way of rear window and $30 worth of cigarettes and ci- gars, and S1 in pennies taken
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

An alarm from Box Ar. at 8:3O this morning was a fire in a storage shed of the Sprague Coal & Ice Co. on Knowlton street. One of the employees of the company sleeps in this shed, and for heat has an oil stove. This stove became overheat- d and exploded. The employe lost 'othes and money. The entire dam age is estimated at $2oo.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
JAMES H. KORAN.

James H. Horan. son of the late James Horan, the well known flor ist, died last night after a brief ill., ness with influenza at his home, No. 755 Laurel avenue, at the age of 29 years, MT. Horan was a popular young man, and the news of his death will be a shock to his many friends in the city. He Is survived by his mother, his wife. Helen Curran, and two children, James and Marion: three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Brady, Mrs, Robert Hawkins. and Mrs. Maurice McKenna, and one brother, Stephen D, He was a 1 member of the Elks lodge and was
 also a member of St Augustines church
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
ENTER NEWS STAND.

The Union News stand, under tho viaduct at the railroad station, was broken into last nigh tand S4 worth of War Savings Stamps, s3 in change and $3 worth of cigarettes and can dy taken. A window was broken in the front of the stand, and the goods taken through the brak
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
Illustrates Red Cross Needs.

Twenty thousand dozen pillow cases, 1000 dozen pairs of bed socks and 19,000 dozen face towels, just re- ported as being on hand at one Amer ican Red Cross supply house in France, gives an idea of the size of the stocks maintained by the organization.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
ELIAS HOWE, JR. POST, G. A. R.

The funeral of our late comrade, Walter P. Bryan, will be held at the Washington Park M. F. church Thursday at 2:30 p. m. Comrades will meet in the Sunday school room at 2:15 sharp in full uniform The G. A. R. service will be given in the church except the committal, which will be at the grave in Stratford.
 The regular meeting of the post will be held in the evening at 8 o'clock in G. A. R. hall, at 925 Main street.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
WILING TO GO TO JI$L.

Volunteers from the ranks of the Women Workers Union who will go to Washington to aid the suffragettes in keping the watch fires burning in front of the White House, are stead fly increasing in number At the meeting last night held at head quarters, over 50 signif1ed their will ingness to undergo jail sentence if necessary.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
Thn,Inbff,II Uncle.

T write for the few" declared the amateur poet
 And a good idea, too, declared his grouchy uncle; "the fewer the better" Kansas City Journal.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

After deploring the loss of life in the war, some people go down town coughing and sneezing and helping spread the influenza that has carried or 100000 pAopla tn this ee.se<---
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
OBITUARY
RUTH E. TONLINsON

The death of Ruth B. Tomlinson, Wife of Harold G. Tomlinson, occurred this morning at her late home, 2S Joseph street, at the age of 30 years.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

WANTED-Young lady for office work, cashiering and stcnography; good salary and excellent position. Apply J. W. Connors Co.,, 1154 Main St. AIDE
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
TOUAY'S WANTS

TO RENT Seven room flat. and also 14-room house suitable for rocming house; all improvements Also some household furniture. Geduldig, 203 Newfield Ave.
 ARcA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

men to know Joe, the barber, is back to his shop. 176 Fairfield Ave. One flight up. From a. m. to 8 p. m. Hair cut, 25c
 Shave 10c. Ass*p
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

Rio Janeiro, Tuesday, Jan. Pres ident Alves today 'cabled his condo fences to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, and the foreign minister instructed the Brazilian embassy at Washington to express to the family of the former American president the profound re- gret of the Brazilian people. Edwin V. Morgan, American ambassador, received many visits and telegrams Q of coincidence.
 Newspapers here are unanimous in paying homage to Mr. Roosevelt, say ing that he always worked earnestly to increase the friendly relations be- tween the United States and Brazil.
 Buenos Aires, Tuesday, Jan. 7- Tho Argentine Foreign Office las in- structed the Embassy at Washington to express to the United States gov ernment this country's sorrow over the death of Theodore Roosevelt. The embassy is directed to send a representative to the funeral and place rlace a wreath at the grave in behalf oe the Argentine government. A per sonal representative of President Irigoyen called at the American en- hassy today to express sympathy.
 Oyster Bay, N. Y, Jan. S-The first of two special trains bringing to Oyster Bay the nations represen- tatives to the funeral services. of for mer President Roosevelt, members of the diplomatic corps at Washington and intimate friends arrived here at 12:19 D. m. today.
 On the train were Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, personally re- presenting President Wilson; Secre- tary Lane, General Peyton C. March chief of staff of the United States army; Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves, of the navy, a delegation of United States senators and representatives and members of the diplomatic corps in Washington, and a number of state legislative leaders, both Repub- licans and Democrats. Admiral Win slow and Governor Smith of New York state and Mayor Hylan, of New York city, came n automobiles.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

Senate passed the House resolution providing s1oo.o0o to fight influenza among Alaskan Indians.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08

work of Theodore Roosevelt has been inaugurated by leading men of Oyster Fay and Nassau counties who for years have been neighbors of the former President While at present it Is planned to include only those who have been citizens of the town and county in which Colonel Roosevelt made his home, 1t was said that the come nation wide, if 1t seemed to meet with public approval.
 Washington, Jan. & Washington joined with the little village of Oys- ter Bay today in mourning the death of Theodore Roosevelt. While the funeral of the former President was being conducted in the town which knew him as a private citizen, gov ernment activities insofar as possible ceased in the city which knew him as public official.
 Flags all over government build ings here were at half mast today, and will remain so for 30 days in ac- cordance with the proclamation is sued yesterday by President Wilson at Paris. The Senate, over which COIOnel Roosevelt was the presiding officer for a short time before be- coming President, stood ajourned. The House planned to meet for only brief session.
 Although, under an act passed in 1893, t was not possible to order the various government departments closed, work was reduced to mini mum during the services at Oyster Bay.
 Rome, Tuesday, Jan. Pope Bene- dict, when informed of Theodore Roosevelt's death this morning by Cardinal Gasparri, papaI secretary of state, expressed profound regret. The pontiff said that, as president, MT. Roosevelt was most favorable to Catholics, one of his cabinet mem bers being of that faith.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-08-12
VIGOROUS MEN AND
WOMEN ARE IN DEMAND

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-08-12
BROTHERS FACE
EACH OTHER FOR
TENNIS HONORS

Jack Chase and Pete Chase, broth
ers, Of New York, visiting in Rich
mond, are the contestants for the
Junior Tennis championship of the
city. They have successfully disposed
Of their opponents and late Tuesday
afternoon or Wednesday morning, will
play the final deciding set at the
Fairgrounds. Richard Thornburg. last
years champion, has challenged the
winner.
In the first match for the tourna.
ment Charles Carlson took two
straight sets from Dana Steber. Keith
King then played Roy Hawekotte and
won in two straight sets. John Craig
and CHUCK" Holden then engaged
and after three fast and well played
sets Craig emerged the winner.
Jack Chase was easily the superior
of Jim Coe, for in two straight sets
that these two played Coe was un.
able to score a single point against
his opponent. Monday morning Pete
Chase took two straight sets from
Richard Robertson
WeII-PIayed Game.
In the semi-finals Pete Chase put
Keith King out of the running. This
was a we'll played match and Chase
had to exert himself to the utmost in
order to win two sets out of three
Brother Jack, not TO be outdone by
Pete, then upset John Craig in two
sets. Bob Hawekotte who did moi
have to play in the first games, as he
drew the odd number, met Carlson bu
his rival did not have much trouble
in beating him. Carlson won the
match in two sets. Monday evening
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-08-12
POWER LINE FROM
C0NNERSVILLE TO
CAMBRIDGE, PLAN

A high power line from Connersville
to Cambridge City. is the nucleus of
the plans just completed by z. D.
Johnston. president OF the Hydro
Electric Light and Power Company, of
Connersville. 1t has been predicted
that the new Cambridge City line will
finally become a trunk line. but Of
ficials would not say.
A petition has already been filed
with the state Public Service Commis-
sion and it will be but only a short
time before the company will receive
an order from the commission direct
ing them to begin the work, which is
expected to be completed by the latter
part of fall.
The new line to Cambridge City will
be more powerful and larger and
greater care will be used in its con-
struction. while the total cost has
been estimated at twenty-five thous-
and dollars. 1t has not yet been de-
cided whether the route will be up
the Milton road as the old one. or
whether the line will come straight
through regardless of highways. This
decision will be reached shortly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-08-12
Nouel Features Offered At
Veal Brothers Shows Here

The Veal Brothers exposition shows
opened a weeks engagement at Exhi.
bition park Monday night. The shows
ara high class attractions, offering the
best in outside amusements.
All the attractions were open Mon
day night, and everything was run
ming smoothly. Among the shows
which line the Midway are the me-
nagerie. the big circus side show, the
Darktown Follies, minstrel organi-
zation of clever singers, dancers and
entertainers; Louis" the South Sea
Island Wonder; Penry's Wild West;
the Athletic Arena; the U. S. A.
Girls; the Wonderful Mechanical City;
Swans Water Show Trained Sea
Lions and Tiny the smallest horse
alive
A trained elk, said to be the anly
elk successfully trained, is one of the
features. The elk was used a few
week ago by the Indianapolis B. P.
o. E. to help Governor Goodrich be
come member Of that organization
The park is well lighted at night
Free acts and band concerts entertain
the crowds and only games or science
and skill are operated by the conces.
Sionairac
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-08-12
FARMYARD NOVELTY ACT
HEADLINE MURRAY BILL

Three clever acts of which "Orren
and Drew" in a farmyard mimicry
novelty were the topliners which was
greeted by an enthusiastic audience
at the Murray theatre Monday evening
when the bill opened.
Orren and Drew do some things that
everybody in the audience would like
to be able 10 do and when the au-
dience shuts its eyes it's almost GER
tain that chickens. cows, dogs and a
variety OF other animals are on the
stage. The couple have been making
records for the Edison company for
some time and the audience Monday
evening appreciated their ability.
The Lynch trio was effective with
little singing, little dancing and a
little talking. The youngest Of the
trio, a little girl, made the hit with