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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22

ANOTHER BLOCK PARTY is ar- ranged tonight at s o'clock on Spruce street, near Bostwick avenue The Union recreation will also hold a block dance on Commercial street this evening. On Friday evening there will be a block party on West field avenue, under the direction of the North End recreation center.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22

MISS ANNA BRADY and Miss Lena Sancher of the Y. w. c. A., who have been spending a week at the Gould Homestead in Fairfield, will take trip to Albany, where they will spend another week.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22

CHARLES NICHOLS. boys secre- tary at the Y. M. c. A. who during the summer has taken charge of Camp Pootatuck, Woodrow, Conn.,, is spending three weeks in Syracuse as the guest of friends. During his ab- sence Raymond Hill is in charge of camp. MT. Hill is also a boys secre- tary. He arrived at the local head quarters of the Y. W. C. A. the last week in June after his graduation
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-22

ANGELINE BARTLETT TENT, Daughters of Veterans. and the Sons of Veterans will have an outing to- day at Mrs. Edith Greens cottage at Silver Sands, Milford.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
ASTRONOMY STILL AT FAULT
Men Of Science Forced To Admit Exact
Results From Their Calculations
An Not Possible.

The celebrated observatory at Green.
wich, the place from which we reckon
longitude, was founded by Charles II
In 1875. mainly for the purpose Of In.
vestigating the movements OF the moon
IN the interests Of navigation. Although
In the intervening two and half cen.
turtles astronomers have worked nt the
problem. the moon has not yet become
entirely amenable to their mathemnt.
les. In recent report Of the obser.
vatory at Greenwich attention is In.
vited to the Increasing deviation be-
tween the calculated position OF the
moon In the sky and It's real position
shown by the Greenwich observations.
The deviation has lately been growing
In q serious manner. The error lust
year was more than twelve times as
large as the error twenty years ago.
and the average annual Increase dur.
Ing the two decades has amounted to
half a second OF arc In longitude. The
reason that astronomers have failed
In getting exact results from calcula.
tions based on the dynamical laws Of
gravItation is possibly the existence
Of some attractive force that they have
not yet discovered, although the result
may also be- affected by the true shape
Of the earth. which still awaits &C.
curate determination.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
EXPLOSIONS CAUSED BY DUST
Investigation Has Proved That Grain
10 by No Means the Only Do.
struetlvs Agent

When the bureau Of chemistry q
the United States department Of ayr.
culture started investigations with the
object Of reducing fires and explosions
caused by dust In the grain elevators
and mills II was not long before the
experts realized these fres and eIpls-
sions were by no means confined to
the grain business. These dust.explo-
sion investigations are having Q wide
influence. which has extended to many
Industries. Aluminium dust. starch
and even Ash meal. by.product Of
fish canneries, have all been found
susceptible TO the conditions which
produce disastrous explosions.
The latest development goes 70
prove that the mysterious blew
sacks" so well known to Hremen are In
some cases caused by dust. With the
knowledge OF this fact as guide
many fatal accidents may be avoided.
The fremen OF America hnd the mat
ter OF sufficient importance to war.
rant their cooperation with the de-
partment Of agriculture In q study Of
preventive methods
The subject was taken up by the
National Firemen's association at
their twenty.second annual convention
at Peoria, III. Engineers engaged In
the dust.explosion investigations rep
resented the department Of agriculture
at the meeting
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
EYE HAS GREAT SENSlTlvlTY
Wonderful Human Organ Capable sf
Adapting Itself to Any Possible
circumstances

On entering q dark room after Q
stay In the outside daylight the eye
at once begins to Increase In sensi.
tivlty. Al first this increase appears 10
be slow, but after Ave minutes the In
crease Is quite rapid. the eye acquir.
Ing a sensltivity several hundred tines
It's initial value. After 10 min.
utes' sojourn In the dark the sensitlv'
ity stlll Increases, but more slowly
than before, and after t5 minutes Or
an hour the maximum sensltivity 10
reached. The final sensltlvlty varies
slightly with different people. but In
fully adapted condition the eye is eas.
Ily 5000 or 10000 times more sensitive
than II was at the beginning.
These facts are obtained from Q
study Of the sensItivensss Of the eye
In the dark made by SelIg Hecht Of
Creighton university. Omaha. and pub
llshed In the Journal Of General
Physiology. Mr.. Hechts study goes
fo show that the increased sensitive.
ness Is due 10 reversible photochem.
icnl reaction within the retIns. involv-
ing a photosensitIve substance and its
two products Of decomposition.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
LONG A PLACE OF WORSHIP
Before the Christian Gre Remsss hsss
orsd Their Gods on the MsvN.
tain Of Monssrrst.

Monserrnt, the famous shrine In the
spanish province ~ Barcelona. Illus.
traies the effect which high mountains
nave on men. When you climb TO the
'"p of high mountain you feel wor-
Sh.p'ul aud nj peace with the universe.
NohS"rrnt II an outlying spur of the
fIrcnnccs which stands all aions.
sp''hu'dly dominating a rich plain. Il
" one of the most ancient aud famous
W catholic shrines. According 10
legend mnny centuries ago an Image
oi uhe virgin WIS found at the top u
u'e mountain, and II was impossible U
move the Image Thus Il was shown
70 men That they should build u shrine
on Monscrrat.
W medieval times II was a shrias u
uheScelled heouiy and splendov. An
emperor cnme here 10 knerl and TO
cover The great byzantine church with
s",u' queen wnfked up the noun.
'a'n barefoot The great and the
'ehtnrh ~ all the Christian world
t'r'd t",n'r'd Mt Monserrat Its greatness
.''ne % !" mn end In the nineteenth cen.
w's "h'n the French sacked the
ments.
sow The church has been rebuilt
aao u', "ners free lodging to the pilgrims
VINO come there stlll. but the fame
%u' w sl'ehuor OF the place have shrunk.
~, Monserrat viii always be a shrine.
ne'or. Nv, Christ the Romans had q ten.
~, re VI venus there and before that
, ,ao,e than likely ssvases worshipsd
",,, v eous on the mountain top.
worship verltably grows In he 80
Of Monserrat
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
CARRY INSIGNIA OF HONOR
War Department Has Decided rh,,
Planes Shall Retain Distinguishing
Marks Earned In War.

Buddy back on the farm Is roln, N
get nm awful shock one NJ thc,. d,y.
when he looks skywRrd during mII
In the blowing A plare Is going to
appear overhead and he viii Instantly
recognize the insignia painted on the
rnselnge of the stellar aero saundron
that worked for his dlyIslon nt ia.
t'ne They were hocing their vny
through the Argonne. In the Ilom.
sector, Frederick ]. pnrlc SAYS, "The
decision Of the war department To re.
tain The distinguishing insignia will In
any event make the Identification ~
the planes easy for civilians Mora
AMI more the army planes Ms they
are--arc undertaking long flights. They
appear Unexpectedly over cities fnr
away from their stations and mnny a
farmer these days sees rnrpnntunn
propelled beetle settle down IN his
back pasture. when mn army plnn.
comes flying by or lands near Ms. we
VIII soon look for the insignia. Ius,
a. everybody once looked for the state
automobile license ,ag when the tour.
lists dust covered auto passed When
tho pedestrian sees n plane decorated
with the painting Of kicking mule. n
s'lhouetted, scythe.swlnglng skeleton
or witch a.strnddlc n broomstick, he
may wonder what battle record the In.
slsn's stands for He may guess
rightly that the tiny winged elephant
on a plane II n sarcastic commentary
on the planes speed, but he probably
would like to know whether This plane
e from a burden.bearer squadron that
hauled tons OF bombs over the line,
TO drop them on German railway juno.
tions.~
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
Deadly Wsapon of Warfare.

An invention by a French wireless
engineer. NJ. Dunoyer. will completely
change the character Of naval war.
fare. II Its claims are fulfilled. says
the London Mail. II consists Of what
he calls an 'electric safety lock" The
mechanism to direct the course Of q
torpedo and secure Its explosion
against an enemy wnrship can no
worked not only by wireless waves
Of the right length. but also by n
proper sequence Of Morse signals. Any
error In the right sequence Of dots
and dashes would run the mechanism
down to zero again and render the
torpedo harmless. Each torpedo
launched would have Its own key ~.
Quence Of dots and dashes, and so the
enemy would be unable to tsmpsr
with II
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
THE WOOL SITUATION

On the matter Of wool, the Farm
Bureau statement says:
"The main facts bearing on the
present wool market are;
First; money stringency;
Second; difficulties in transporta-
tion both Of raw woods to the mills
and finished products to the retailers.
According to the Bureau Of Mar
kets the mills of the United States
consumed 66,900,000 pounds of wool
during April 1920 as compared with
45,O0O,OO0 during the corresponding
month last year.
"There is no over supply Of fine
wools and prices for these grades
should be as high as last year.
Farm Bureaus in Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota are
shipping their wool to the National
Wool Warehouse and Storage Co. at
Chicago and they propose to hold
their wool until they receive fair
price.
"If any Farm Bureau in Kentucky
wants to ship their wool to Chicago.
this Office will furnish you with full
particulars as to the method Of pro-
cedure and will explain how you can
obtain loans from your banks, on
this wool while in storage. at Chica-
Co."
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
4 CENTURY OF Anthracite
Flst Ton Of Hard Coal Reached the
City Of Philadelphia Just One
hundred Years AGO.

An even hundred years have elapsed
since one William Wurts, a Phlladel.
phla merchant, drove his team Of
mules with the first ton Of anthracite
through the spring freshets and bog
land to the banks Of the Delaware
river and hoated the new fuel down
the river to Philadelphia on a pine
log raft.
But he experienced no little diffi.
Guilty In that first anthracite year Of
1870 In overcoming the popular objec
tion that the coal was Extremely slow
Of lighting" Pine log RATS foated
only S85 tons Of anthracite that year
But II fetched a price Of ST. ton
and could be delivered freight-on.raft
Philadelphia at $3-a fact that was
freely advertised 10 attract additional
capital. for. Of course. there was no
profteering In those days.
Spring freshets and bog land and
slow inhammabllity no longer worry
operators. Silk shirts for miners are
. bigger nuisance. But production In
q hundred years has jumped TO So
100000 tons, and could this year sur
pass the 100 mlllion-ton mark which
was almost reached In 1917.
Reading. Wilkesbarre, - LehIgh,
Maueh Chunk-these names are
spoken one thousand times hourly in
the Industrial world today, simply be-
cause there lay up In the hills OF Penn.
sylvania a hard, black substance, one
ton Of which sly old william wurts
steered on a raft down the Delaware
to Philadelphia. just one hundred
years agO.-Wall Street Journal.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
Historic Hovss q Factory.

Apparatus for the manufacture Of
insecticide soon will be Installed In the
old Billop house at Tottenvllle. head.
quarters Of General Howe during the
British occupation Of Staten Island In
l776 and since then q place OF historic
Interest. Announcement OF the sale
Of the property was made yesterday.
and with II came the news that the old
house will be converted Into q fac.
tory.
All efforts TO have the state pur.
chase the house and preserve II and
It's dungeon and secret underground
passageway as relies Of the wsr for
Independence were unsuccessful. -
New York Times.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
No Time for intsrruptlsn.

However deplorable the fact may
he. playing two.handed plnochls at
81 cents n hand In one Of the favorlte
diversions Of commuters between this
city, New York. Atlantic City. Cape
May and other commercial ouports Of
Philadelphia. One man. who carries
his pleasures A. well a. his worries
home from work. was playing pi.
nochle In his library the other eve
ming with crony. when the butler
entered and handed him q tsisgrsn.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
Many Words In Small spaoe

A wonderful example Of microscop.
ic writing is the work of a Canadian.
who succeeded In trnnscrihng Fran.
coils Copce's novel NJ "Henriette.".
containing over 1900 words. on the
back Of nm ordinary cabinet photo
graph
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
Marry In Haste,

Al q tea n number OF Indies were di~
cusslng the best age at which TO marry.
Some chnmpionel thirty years, some
.wenty-eIght, some twenty.seven. Then
Miss Elsie DE Wolfe. who has so bril-.
liantly succeeded In so many fields.
laughed and said:
The best nre to marry ls Win.
you're still ino young To- know bcii,t.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06
He returned II unopened. "Tll look at

He returned II unopened. "I'll look at
II later"
But the messenger Ia waiting. sir"
the butler respectfully demonstrated.
The financier read the telegram. II
said: "Struck s.0onbarrel gusher to-
day. Everything fine"
"Confound you, Thomas. why did
you spoil my gamer he cried.
He didn't care nearly 10 much
about the fortune he had made. as
about the 25 cents he wns In danger
OF Observation-Disclosures Public Ledger.
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06

! Henry "auersa
l.
oR Gmutsr Jntnnal
! louisville
I Ans 10. isao.
hrs' ny Gene and politicians ny and fll, but n. s.
Son OF the youth Of ths country goes On forever.
our rural aehOs In the dragged into ~
hr' OF local politics. and 10 sfns both arti.s
Joined hands at tho last and pAs.sd la
Which Will go long oard schools out Of II.
political game.
O
n'' '''' voter ssl:lss q .ssasI 4 ssesa r.
'' In the Presidential next November. uss s9@1
Wy h' election Of strong 70 the County Edusaon
S!.1t :. ~ GSLHs. cakNtL
wv ''''' ''''" board vii select D 'ap'ra-
t'nd.t and keep both school. IRE. fro.
Ckel1h "A, Schh,lc ~ ~~"e1'"'
MA A0Jeasn4~>
The Crittenden press., 1920-07-06

Foreign Advert ing Repre ,h'a'iy-
THE AMERICAN PRESS ass >LNrlo|
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
PUTNAM
lcontinusd from Paas sixl

ship of the Quinebaug Valley Basket ball League. which is made up of number of high school teams in this part of the state, including Putnams
 Nathan Chase, s6, for nearly sixty years a resident of the town of Thompson, is dead at his home there. Mir. Chase was a native of North bridge Mass. He served in the Civii war as a member of Connecticut regiment of volunteers. Until week ago Mir. Chase was in the best Of alth. but a sudden and severe at tack of pneumonia could not be with stood, bysa man of. his advanced years.
 From West Woodstock comes a wal that poultry buyers have been cheat ing farmers and farmers wives in that sectionv-giving short weight reports on poultry they bought and taking more fowl than they agreed to when permitted to select from the coops. One woman had more than S20 worth nf laying hens and bullets stolen al- most before her eyes.
 Rev. W. H. Bath. of Norwich, dis trict superintendent, will be at the Methodist church in West Thompson this (Saturday) afternoon to hold the fourth quarterly conference.
 At an informal gathering held by the Women's Missionary society of the Congregational church at the home of Mrs. D. c. Morse tea sent direct from China was served to the sixty in at tendance.
 The grade on Grove street, near King street, proved difficult for big motor trucks to negotiate Friday aft ernoon, when the wheeling out there was very poor.
 Jasper Holmes has purchased from Everett Reynolds a dwelling on Grand View. MT. Reynolds has purchased . site on Grand View from Miss Min nie Nuttal1 and plans to build home in the spring.
 Miss Elsie Diamond was in Boston Friday on business trip.
 4 tractor show is one of the special things that will call farmers to this city next week.
 The No 1 Company of the fire de- partment is now completely reorganiz- ed. Philias Cloutier is foreman of tho company.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24

Rev William Ganley of West Groton Mass. will occupy the pulpit at tbA Congregational church as a candidate. Sunday. The c. B. meeting at will be led by Mrs. Ell H. Hiscox.
 Rev. J. B. Aldrich's Sunday morn ing subject at the Methodist churcb will be based on the text, Romans S:33. Miss Annie SouIe leads Ep- worth league at 6 Preaching services at.7.
 Rev. Nj, D. FuliS's Sunday mornng subject at the Baptist church to the Junhsrs is The House You Live In; ! and to the seniors. Good Cheer. c. D.. meeting at 6:15. At [ Yesper service, during which Miss Doris AIyott will sing solo. Prelude, The American Cotton Crop and the American Ffhy- sique. The subject of the evening sermon will be Snow like Wool.
 Pachaug has reason to be proud Of the amount it has raised for the Near East fund. Fifty dollars has been added to Griswold's fund by the eff forts Of that part of the town. The supper and entertainment Wednesday night was a great success and brought in $35.50. This was given under the diection of a committee from the c. B. society and Sunday school The musical programme given by Jewett C&y entertainers proved most popular. MT. and Mrs. F. D. Bal1ou and Mrs. L. G. Buckingham sang and Miss Doris Myott played a violin solo. Mrs. Ballou and Miss Ethel Thompson were the accompanists. Mrs. Edward Geer is< one of the best of readers and her humorous selection pleased her audience nightly.
 There were recitations by Misses Frances and Ethel Roode. Miss Gladys Wilkinson and Miss Frances Montgomery. Mrs. V" E No9tsomery and Harold Geer were in charge the solicitation.
 The adjourned annual meeting of the Baptist church was held Wednes= day evening. Rev. M D. Fuller, pre- sided. Charles T. Armstong and Chas. F. Gardner were elected deacons. The trustees elected for one year A. M. Brown; for three years, Chales T. Armstrong;; clerk J. E. Philips; treas urer, A. M. Clarke; auditor, D. L. Phillips; collector, Miss May Blake; 1 deaconesses, Mrs. G. H. Prior, Miss Ida Foster, Mrs. D. c. Wilcox, Mrs. NJ. E. G. Wilson. A vote of thinks was given the etiring officers, who had so conscientiously fulfilled their duties.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E. church was enLeFIa1IeQ dI pIA6 LOAAS VI Mrs. R. w. Robertson on Mathewson street, Thursday afternoon. After the business meeting refreshments were served by the hostess, asssited by Miss Vienna and Fornetta Coburton. Homer L. Lee of Webster, Mass, was a guest at T. E. Lees Friday. He attended the funeral services of Herbert T. Miller in Norwich.
 Miss Ida Foster, regent of Anne Brewster Tanning chapter, D. A. R., i was in Hartford Thursday to attend meeting of regents and treasurers of the chapter of the state.
 Borough residents who attended the dance given at the Elks home by the Ladies of Columbus in Norwich were Misses Margaret ad Annie Driscon. Nora and May R. Driscoll, Alice and Katherine Barnett, Jennie Bake, Dive Stafford, John and Frank Driscoll, Herbert Gray, John Blake IT,. John Barry and Theodoe Pigeon.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
yoLUNTCWN

Alexander Tanner. census enumer- ator for the town of Voluntown was in the village Friday and Saturday.
 William A. Mcclure, Wilfred Mar shall and Peter Magrey were in Bos- ton Monday and Tuesday. returning home Tuesday evening. Messrs Mo Guire and Marshall returned with new automobiles
 Mondays heavy snowfall was fol- lowed by a severe cold wave, the ther- mometer registering p degrees below zero Tuesday morning. Early pedes- trians found the weather something like the old fashioned winters all have
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
PLAINFIELD \

Louise Lynch, Blanche Sa1vas, L. Salvas, Annie Alexander, Ralph Crocker were at a dance in Jewett City Thursday evening.
 The final game of the big match game between Moosup and Plainfeld was played Thursday evening at the Plainfield bowling alleys. About four hundred were at the alleys from this village and Moosup. There was such a crowd that they had to close No. and alleys. so the spectators could stand along those alleys to see the game. Moosup defeated Plainf1eld, six strings out of the ten. They played five strings here and five in Moosup last week. The lineup and scores for the game follow:
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24

and the team making the highest az gregate score will be declared the win ner, and represent the regiment in the state match.
 The conditions are as follows:
 Rifes-22 cal. as issued by state.
 Dtstance-50 feet.
 Target-As furnished by state.
 Number Of shots = 20 (10 prone, nve kneeling and five sitting). No sighting or artificial rests will be permitted. Each competitor will use four targets Give shots on each) Number of men on team-10.
 The six highest scores to count. The two lowest men will be dropped each week and be substituted by two new men. Men so drunped may bA used
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
heard about,

heard about.
 Royal Scranton visited friends in Danielson during the week.
 Dr. 1G. H. Jennings of Jewett City was visitor in the village Wednes- day.
 Mrs. Phillip Boucher of Woonsock- ct, R. l., was. a weekend guest at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Philip Lemoine.
 Miss Dorothy Scranton and Miss Ethel LewIs are guests of Mrs. Edward Anderson at her home in Providence, R. I. Mrs. Anderson was formerly Miss Dora Miner and was for several years a resident of this village.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank w. Burton were visitors to Nnrwich Saturday last
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
LISBON

Although there was a small attend ance at Newent church Sunday be- cause of the extreme cold prohibition day was observed with a stirring ser mon by the pastor Rev. W. J. Rey- holds.
 Walter A. Hyde completed his work as census enumerator the early part of this week
 The temperature Tuesday morning was from to Is degrees below zero, at different places about town. s William and Jesse Phillips captured a red fox on R. R. Barber's farm last week making five that they have taken this eaaSnn-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
STATE GUARD COMPANIES
 TO TEST RIFLE SKILL

Col E. T. Kirkland, commanding he Third Infantry, Connecticut State Suzrd. has issued orders for the dis rict and state indoor rifle matches to De held in accordance with general Order No. Il issued by the military lmerEency board on Dec. 22. The hoot begins on Jan 25 and will end March 13. each company in the regi- neut shooting against every other company, the winning team to rep- assent the regiment in the state match litfons follow:
 Each company in the regiment viii soot against every other company
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
later if desired.

4dteI IT ueSIteu-
 A Prize-To the team making the highest aggregate score will be award ed the Col Kirkland Cup. to be held for one year.
 Company commanders will super wise the shooting and see that the conditions are fully complied with and that the rank, full name and position of each competitor is plain " written on each score card.
 Matches will be shot on regular drill nights and score cards mailed to Capt. A. P. Woodward, A. I. s. A. F. Danielson, Conn, on the day follow ing the match.
 Matches will be shot as follows: Week of Jan 18th to 31St-Co. 4
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
nd B-co Land H-co q and n

and B-Co. I and H-Co. c. and D.
 Week of Feb. 1st to 7th-Co. A and Cleo. C. and I-Co. E and D.
 Week of Feb. 8th-Co. A and D. Co. B and Cleo. H and c. Week of Feb. 18th to 21st-Co. c and H-Co. B and .G-Co. D and L. Week of Feb. 22nd to 2Sth-Co. A and Geo. GB and H-Co. c and L. Week of Feb 18th. te March sth- Co. A and H-Co. D and Cleo. B and Week of March 7th to lsth-Co. A and I-Co. c and Geo. D and H.