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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
BOOMING ICE TONGS

NN AYOR WILSON'S proposal for the solution of the ice AVA problem will go down to history boom for ice Presently the streets will be merry with pro- of citizens each with his chunk of ice suspended tween tong points,
 To make this program operaabIe the mayor and should make appropriation for rain coats and ice tong be sold at cost to the people.
 Unless coats fifty pound chunk of ice will pretty much spoil SO garment The ice ongs equally necessary It is cold business carrying ice casped to the breast. Ice is slippery
 necessary compliment tary actions at it's next meeting
 How fortunate for Bridgeport that has chief cuve aldermen devoted to the people, Excepting of those Democratic aldermen who don't understand progress in the ice business.
 The is diplomatic. By building plant by undertaking the delivery of ice right to the city might have offended those who sell ce thus mparng harmony which should exist in popuous manufacturing center
 By building two ice stations at the citys expense tag herefrom the ice of the ice trust to all who wish it, Mayor Wilson makes two happy He is happy and the trust is happy.
 Join more with our mayor
 Three cheers for 80 cent ice'
 Long live the king"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06

notwithstanding the fierce oppo-
 sition of the Bolsheviki Soviets, the Zionist Organization of that country 1 has succeeded in enrolling 500, 900 adult Jews in the movement to eStao- fish a Commonwealth in Palestine, and in organizing a regulated mlgra- tion to that country as soon as polu- cal conditions will permit an eXoduse to be undertaken. In view of the fact that because of the prominence Of Leo Trotzky and a few other renegade Jews who are in the very forefront of the Soviet regime, the impression
 has gained ground that all Jews of Russia are Bolsheviks, these facts which are taken from report just received by the Zionist Organiza tion of America are enlightening as to
 the real Jewish attitude toward the extreme MarXists.
 "Regardless of all obstacles, the
 Zionist ideal has swept the Jewish
 masses of this country like a tidal wave" says this report. Nothing can stop it, and we pay absolutely no attention to the many prohibitive BoIshevist 'decrees' We go right on with our work, even though in many
 districts the Commissaries for Jewish
 
 fscate our assets, seize our books, seal up our meeting places and inhibit our propaganda. The measure of our suc- cess can be judged from the fact that in 1917-1918 our membership was 150,OOO shekel-payers, each paying tax of 25 cents in American money as against our present membership,
 each paying two roubles.'
 The report gives details of the fu-
 tile attempts of the Bolsheviki to pre- vent the spread of Zionist propaganda in Russia. The assembling in Petro-
 grad of a Jewish congress similar to the one that was held in Philadelphia recently. was prohibited when it de- veloped that over 50 per cent of the delegates were Zionists. In Petro- grad and in Moscow where the oppo- sition is not so strenuous as in other sections of the land, many well known Zionists were arrested for making speeches and writing articles favoring Jewish National aspiration. national ism being the subject of bitterest hat red on the part of the advocates of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
VICTORY LOAN DEMONSTRATION

TT HE KENTUCKY in the sound off Bridgeport, is sym 1 bo of American power. The Coast Artillery Vic tory loan train brings 10 Bridgeport manifestations of the land power of the United States fragment but enough to aid the understanding.
 It is impressive lesson which will be read to the ci- of Bridgeport today The duty to buy the Victory loan will be driven home objectivey.
 The crownng aid to this purpose will be the meeting at the Armory tonight where the chief speaker will be First Lieut. P E. Bingham who during his time in France served company commander He has the French and eight citations for bravery He wounded times. Lieut. Bingham said to be eloquent he brave and successful in peruadn the sale of Victory notes he in wallopng Prussans.
 The occasion will be stimulating Nobody should miss it. Unfortunately the seating capacity of the Armory limited
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06

als, at the cantOnmentS, benefits of all kinds given for the relief and aid so- cieties for our homecoming troops"
 The Young Mems Christian Asso- ciation's devotion, energy and self sacrifice" MT. AIbee continues has been so glorious and of such magni- tude that one cannot believe that any one would consciously criticise it's great work, or refer to it any way ex- cepting in the most laudatory terms.
 T have read some wonderful letters from artists abroad connected with the Young Mems Christian Assn. who have been entertaining soldiers, who deny that there is any condition exist ing in the workings of that organiza- tion which is not of the most liberal and humanitarian kind
 Praise has been given to the workers of the Y. RI. c. A. without stint, and to blame this great orCani- zation for the ort-comings of few would be un-American, uc-Christlike and a blot upon the intelligence and upon our gratitude for what the or ganfzation has done. I have talked with hundreds of soldiers, might say. through my employees, we have talked with thousands of them, who visit our tneaters each week, especially the wounded, to whom we give an enter tainment one morning Of each week, and we have not, up to the present time, heard one adverse criticism. On the contrary, there has been nothing but unstinted praise for the self-sac- riice and the he-e4c deeds performed as stretcher bearers and other danger ous volunteer work by those who went abroad in the service of the Young Mems Christian Association
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
CONGRESSMAN,
 UN-AMERICAN'' P
B. F. AIbee, President of Keith Circuit, Bars Slurs on NY'' Work in His Theatres

Vaudeville performers in the Keith Edward F. Albee, president of the B. F. Keith circuit, prohibiting them from any slurring reference to the work of the '. M- C. A- overseas.
 ''Un-American, un- -Christianlike and blot upon the intelligence and upon our gratitude for what the organiza tion has done" is the way in which NIT. Albee stigmatizes criticism of the Y. M. c. A. in a letter addressed by him to A. G. Knebel associate general secretary of the "Y'' War Work Coun- cil
 He bases the statements in his let ter upon information obtained by him self and the employees of his theaters throughout the country in converse ton with thousands Of soldiers Mir Albee declares that he personally knows @of the high esteem in which the theatrical profession holds ths Y NJ. C. A and all kindred institutions that have done so much from the be- ginning of the war in the foreign countrie-.
 He speaks also of the assistance that actors and artists have so freely rendered and are still rendering, to the Association, saying: The Theatri- cal people, as a whole, have done splendid work, especially the artists, from the beginning of the war. and are still doing it, being active in en- ertaining the soldiers in the hospit-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
BOLSHEvIKl MEET MORE THAN
 MATCH IN THE zIONISTS

MarXism. Periodicals dealing with this subject were suppressed, although the Zionists in Petrograd finally se- cured permission to publish weekly bulletin, on condition that it should contain only news items of special in terest and to refrain from the discus sion of Russian politics. In spite of these limitations and the arbitrary restriction of it's size, the bulletin has become an important factor III Zion ist propaganda.
 But if thee onditions are somehow endurable in Moscow and in Petro- grad, where the Jewish Commissary is a rather decent chap" continues the Zionist report, the case is quite different almost everywhere else. Throughout the land, the Soviet gov ernments are as arbitrary as were the Czarist officials in the good old times of Nicholas the Second. They refuse to recognise that Jewish life concen- traLee itself around the Zionist ideal and appoint as Commlssaries persons who have for years been our bitter opponents and who now have fine opportunities for paying off old scores against us. It is a simple matter. All they need 10 do is to call us er-revolutionaries' and they can raid us arrest US and give us q merry time generally"
 The report from which the forego- ing passages are quoted. come. as a verificatio7l of a statement made by Dr. Harold Williams, Petrograd cor respondent for a number of English and American newspapers, shortly after the overthrow of the Kerensky government At that time his dis guished reputation for impariality and accuracy did not prevent most newspaper readers from discounting his assertion that the Zionists were the strongest Jewish party in Russia.
 II is also verified by a report made at the Interallied Zionist Conference held in London recently, by z. Isser- son, a delegate from Petrograd. who declared that less than two and a half per cent of the Jewish population of the Russian capital are Bolsheviki, even though public avowal of adher- ence 10 the Soviet regime opens the way to good jobs and even sinecures under the present government.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
CONFIDENCE MEN .REAPED HARVEST

Chicago, May 6.---The American confidence man reaped a harvest of more than s10,0OO, 900 last year, ac- icording to figures compiled by Chi cago authorities. This is the approx innate amount actually collected from
 the credulous public by professional confidence operators and does not in-
 clude the millions gathered in an- nua1Iy by the various stock-jobbing
 schemes.
 The crude devices of the old-time confidence man, with his shell game, three card monte, gold brick, green
 goods. money changing and lemon games, have given way to modern methods, more complex and more profitable.
 The really successful confidence men of today usually have summer and winter homes, ride in limousines and are aided by richly gowned wo- men, authorities say. They are edu- cated and far more clever than their brothers of old days, whose favorite trick in Chicago was to sell the Ma sonic Temple to a ''rube" for small sum, or agree to make the building turn around"
 Land selling schemes. peddHng of worthless mine and oil well stock,
 
 events are now the hand maidens of :he modern confidence man, who matches wits with the banker, cap italist and lawyer, instead of dealing with the ignorant ruralist. Nearly all the victims of a Chicago gang re- gently sent to the penitentiary were bankers and business men. The gangs loot aggregated more than half a million dollars year.
 Fear of publicity keeps most vic tins quiet, thus giving the high class confidence man certain degree of immunity, authorities say. They add that federal prosecution for using the mails to defraud has been a big fac tor in breaking up gangs and recently brought about conviction of half a dozen leading confidence workers. Tom Brown, who came from De- trOit and made his headquarters in New York, was father of the present type of confidence man. said Will liam A. P1nkerton, veteran detective, in striking a comparison between the old and new swindlers. He operated forty years ago and formerly was a three card monte man. He was known as a bunco steerer and won by fake lottery schemes and other crook ed gambling devices. Then he invent
 
 toured the country. The green goods game came later and Brown had many imita tors who picked up thou sands annually. Wire tapping and other schemes now used developed from those old games. The modern operators don't bother with small money and often clean up $1O0. 900 in a single deal. The old timers thought
 S1,000 a big job.
 Victims are not really honest 1t heart, for they often enter into a scheme to cheat another fellow. The small town banker and business man has proved a shining mark for swind- Iers. They cannot risk their reputa- tions by complaining. It is surpris- ing how many shrewd business men
 fall into the net
 Is is estimated that $300O, 900 of the Fs10, 0,000,000 total was obtained in Flor ida, where hundreds of confidence
 workers are said to operate, partic- ularly among winter tourists.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
From The Farmer, Tuesday, May 6, 1S69)


 prize fight between parties took place early this in the lot in the of Tom Thumbs dence
 The fine brass band of Newcombs Minstrel troupe parad ed principal streets this morning. and egaed citizens with their music
 The farming and garden community busy avail ing themselves this spell of fine weather. The planting corn is being vigorously pushed forward.
 The popular billiard Charley spooner in Wall street. has been newly papered and decorated making of the most cosy saloons in the city, veIocpede evening, A. Cross ley the silver medal making the half mile in minute and 50 seconds Mr S. Skdmore acted judge the sion. s-.A.a- ..z2zxsI4z 4zxstsaasa. Messrs French Stevens veteran grocery dealers on press from Savannah They off like hot cakes among helr customers and the cry for more. We thanks to the gentlemen for sent dinner The tariff dispatches between New York and Eno1aos on and after the first of June will be ten dollars god ten words or less, and dollar (god for excess of the limit
 company of Gypsies called. passed through our city yesterday They numbered about ten persons men, women and children all looking tough. rugged saucy They had covered wagons, five two three dogs In their wagons slowed bedding stoves cooking utensils and table great variety we make doubt the choicest patterns, sufficient for their purposes The question often asked How persons ve?' We know not They to have enough eat and drink, but are never known to work. 
 We indebted President Bishop to Mr. Su- pernenden Hoy copies the report the Board of Directors to the Stockholders of the New ven Railroad company. From this document, the total receipts of the company transportation during the $ 63 854 total expenses transportation taxes and interest $ 386563O profits S 59Ol dividends $6O0O0O Twenyeight miles laid with steel during year cost of S2i2759 55 new equipments $38 0O0 iron bridge Bridgeport Sl3 52; lands, and machine shops at SIi7- 71939 About 2SOO tons of steel rails put ing the present year.
 The President of the that the trouble with the water the low sections of the city two caused by break in the pipe which lies channel of the Being under water the break made known only by the foul passed into the pipe at the opening the existing but the point the opening could not be found till close examination been instituted It is bad break in a bad place. trouble will be remedied with all the haste possible Mon the worst the week for such happening, easily the cOmmOon caused the tubs but it those that be foreseen orewarnng could be taken to prevent Accidents will happen in the best regat ed families
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
Mr. Root is entitled

the whole business of making peace. Mr. Root entitled to this consideration
 There never would have been war, if Root had been called in; and had he been called in after the could have concluded it immediately without anybody being ser ousy injured There many things in which the world is neglectful of advice it might have
 As for Senator Brandegee, he will ba pleased with what pleases Root Presently these gentlemen will meet the ant of the League face to ace when they have vote and take the consequences,
 That will be their opportunity to show
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
ROOT WRITES

TN LHU ROOT wrote letter Will H. Hays in which AL stated ideas the New York senator has about League Nations Covenant This interesting private between Hays and Root did not attract the aen world sitting Brande Connecticus intellectual has discovered the thinks mankind injured. At any the responsibility of the senate of the United says consider the proposals of Mir Root Even amend covering the Monroe doctrine does follow sug
 geson Root How unforunate If only world ha( a might have invited Root to aenc
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06

Paris, February-Some idea of the number of letters American soldiers ltSite home may be gained from the 5act that a single item passed by the 4. RI. c. A. Purchasing Department n one month was for 1o0, ,8o0, ,000 le1- tsrheads, and 100, ,Ooo, 900 envelopes, ~fich are expected to last the sol Gers three months.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06

Anderson, Stiles F.. EGoodseU. Ed ward Flicker. David s. Day, Charles F. Greene. Albert E. Layery William F. Severn.
 The club received it's charter of af- filiation with the other Rotary clubs of the world. received new members and heard entertaining talks from
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06
Sumner Simpson Chosen
 Rotary Club President

Sumner Simpson was elected pres ident of Bridgeport Rotary club, at the annual dinner, Stratfield, last night. Vice President Edmund s.
 Wolfe presided H. Burt Simonds was chosen editor and secretary and Egoert Marsh, treasurer. Directors were named as foIlowsI Albert s.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-06

District Governor "BnT' Edinburgh and Rev. Edward A. George, past president Ithaca Rotary club.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-31
NOTICE OF saJ1E.
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In tho Probate Q5fiee:of York C6unty
South Carolina, Immediately after tho
Clerks and .Sh sri as3 salss,ston MOnday
;Neyenibfp s9tdy ID Ia IN fea:itg of ths
door, of York Court Hpuse York, s. G.
I will offer, for sale to tho i,ighcst re-
spofisibfe bs6der:'% ~ ~, ~ ~
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OF land lying. being and situated 10
ihfne.er Township. County OF York.
and State of South Carolina. kncwp a.
the MARI Il Boyd plantation, bounded
by landsof estate ofJ.iEd- Rdddey, de-
son, decreased; iands OF Kelly Oates and
william Oates, aYid containing 49,
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Upon the following teSn1s. to- wit;
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.fsst atyseverr per cent from cay Of sale.
ard secured by a. 2 ond OF the. .purehas
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sold;I with leave to the ypurcilascr te
'pay his entire bid in casIs.t. Purchaser
must nay; Tor cab no 9srss .RevcnuT
stamps. recording fee, etc. yss;.gs, .2e +,
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for twentystWo hundred pounds 4 q
good intddlingi llnt. cotton, sinmerchaht
able bal Is, which said ront swip go l.e
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Executor &ef the, Estat Of Mary l..
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-31
Declares War fms EsWS " iU.'insons.i: q M

Declares War fihis EaW Ensonc.i;
tutional. Holding that IN. war pro-
hibition att OF November 2t, 1878. rio-
--latest .hc nth amendment to the con-
,stitution Judge Walter E*aas. in fed
eral district court at Louisville, Ky,
on Wednesday granted a temporary
Injunction of the Kentucky Distilletu
and Warehouse company, restraining
Elwood Hamilton, Internal revenue
collector For Kentucky, from irterfer-
Ing with removal from bond of 30, ,oo0,-
900 gallons OF whlskey valued at ap-
proxlmately s75.ooO.COo heid by The
con,rany- -. ''r VI -
The government thereupon appealed
direct to the United States snpreme
FeoGrt and'csknd that the case be ad-
vahced for Immediate argument. NJ
Judge Evans said he ,fohnd that the
act Violated thef fifth amendment to
the constitution which provides that
the United States snail not take priv
ate property without compensation.
He held that Il. coo 600 gallons OF @lilo-
Key were held IN. the plain. f1s ware
housc manufactured, from, four to eight
years before the war. II 1t was manu-
,sactureii with consent and under con-
troll of the government and constituted
private property the same, as any
other commodity. re
The w;.r prohibition acts Of Novenn-
ber q, 1918. he said. prohibited the
sale or taking Of whtskey' out, OF bond
and took from owners their most salu-
able right qTte held that congress; he'd
no power either in war .or peace TO
disregard the fifth amendment and
therefore he entered a decree in favor
OF the p'H.nttfs and gave final in!nnc-
ton and overrhIed the plea Of tre gov
crnment which asked the court toalfs-
miss tglc petition for waLttcf c,rnity.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-31

raw, or. tried TO dfag'your corn out
with knife. theIesAwill be a sur
Prise waiting for You when you use
"Gets-It." Imagine peelipg your corn
OFF glorious!y, oasily and tfpainiessly.
Just like pecl.ngr Off. a banana Eskil.
Well, that. is what happens -Wheai
else thet will givo, you 4 this SAM
result. Millions + Of folks have a had
the same blessed experience. VIII
putter and suffer, limp and spoil q
good time for yourself and your
friends. or your peace, Of mind whi' e
trying to attend to business? fUSe
"Gets-It," the, simple common Sc
way, SIR. 3, =, (. .. =.
'Gcts-It," the only sure. guaranteed.
money back corn-romover, .+cns'S but
a .tride at any drug store. MID by
E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, III.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-31
PEOPLE MUST HELP.
con1missiener Roper Calls for Assis-
.anoe in Enforcing. Prohibition.

Commissioned Roper Calls for Assis-
tanoe in Enforcing. Prohibition.
Law abiding citizens, churches. civ
JIG associations and welfare societies
are summoned by Commissioner Rop-
err to AID the bureau OF internal rcPe-
rue in enforcing the prohibition en-
fcrcemcnt law. ','i' So
Any lout'ng of the law, Mr.. Roper
declared will bring into disrepute the
American form Of government; .
While the bureau Is made the agency
directing the enforcement Of the meas
ure. with the Geyartrneat Of justice
conducting prosecutions on evidence
obtained by the bureaus men, respon=
sibi!ity 10 not confined to federal Of
lcers, the commissioner said. State,
county and municipal officials dre ex-
pected to DO full share in stopping
and punishing violations and the sue
ccssful administration of the law, Mr..
Roper said will be measured large y BY
the manner in which these officials
meet their requirements. -" ''ts
Local affairs being expected to take
the in;tiative in enforcing the law. in
! their territory, any failure or drrelic-
tion to assume their full responsibility
will be brought to the attention cf the
'aw abiding citizens Of the community
by officials Of the bureau. 90
Mr.. I,oper's plans contemplate the
organization of n prohibition enforce
ment staff. which will devote itself en-
tirc!y to that work and complete dis
associated from the tax collecting ac-
tivit!es of the bureah. There will be
deputy commissioner In Washington
in charge OF the prohibition section
and deputy collectors in each dis
! trict with an efficient force of men
under them. Pending the organiza-
lion of this force, employees qualified
, fer the work who can be spared from
the tax. work of the bureau have been
/ directed to cooperate to the fullest OK
tent with The public and with local Of
| ifcers.
TO prevent delay, collectors and
agents have been instructed 10 confer
/ with United States district attorne::'a
with regard to cooperation in obtain
ing and presenting evidence.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-31

= Keep your head; had ~ roaredTout
a hoarse voice. Hang on now, mn
wen get yer" iS.s :. -,
It was such rush. such breath
less, desperate struggle i can scarcely
recall the details. All I really renlehi-
ber is that I Sgripped the rope and
chung; was dragged under again and
again; was flung against the steamers
side, seemingly losing all conscious
ness, yet dimly realizing that out
stretched hands grasped me and lifted
me up by main strength to the mar
row footway, dropping me there IN
the pool Of water oozing from my