The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-02

several boxes of 'Fruit-a- -tives', I feel that the great benefit have derived 1 justifes me in pronouncing them a remedy of true and exceptional merit''.
 r. OTIS M. BRYANT. ! 6Ocsa box, for $2.5O, trial size 25c. At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited. OGDENSBURG, N. Y.
 FLASHES Priority rights have been ordered by the Interstate Commerce Com mission to be accorded the shipment of coal for the United States navy The mines concerned in the order are those served by the B. & O.. P. C. & P., East Broadtop and Cambria & Indiana Railroads
 The United States has attached the plant of the A. J. Bates Shoe com pany at Webster, Mass, in the sum of $150,000.
 Complete annihila'tion of the So- viet forces by WrangeI troops in the region of A1eXandrovSk according to an official statement. 10000 prison CTS were taken together with enor- mous amounts of war material.
 Annie MacSwiney, wife of the Lord Mayor who is now on the fiftieth day of his hunger strike declares that she has the opinion of Sir Thomas Moore, noted specialist after thorough examination, that the Lord Mayor is not being fed any food.
 Germany has at last reduced her standing army to 150,00O men ac- d;nu In terms Inf the a 9rr11iS- tice.
 Maryland has been passed by West Virginia in population growth, West Virginia's growth having been 19.9 per cent during the last ten years. The population is now given at l. 463.610.
 Reduction in prices have been an nounced by the flares Motors, Inc, which is the operating company for shc Locomobi1e and Mercer Auto mobile companies. Standard Loco mobile cars according to the an- nouncemen have been reduced s1,35O from their former price and Mercer cars of standard pattern have been reduced $1,000 from their former price
 Bandits yesterday afternoon in New York slugged the cashier of the American Cigar O., and obtained $9,00O which he was carrying to pay off employees
 Declaring that for the present the League of Nations is faulty, Legation Counsellor von Prittwitz declares that at the proper time Germany will de- Fmand changes to suit her ideas and that she be admitted to membership. Prof. Friedrich William Foerster. for president of republic.
 The U. 6. destroyer Kane struck a mine near Riga, Latvia, and damaged her starboard engines. She is pro- ceedfug to Riga without assistance.
 Two hundred fifty thousand dollars worth of cocaine and heroin were seiz- ed yesterday when internal revenue agents raided the Aberdeen Chemica Company at '51 Liberty street, New York city.
 Two concrete barges were sunk of Bridgeport harbor yesterday after noon. They were barges Nos. 114 ant 120 of the Q. s. Inland Waterway, service and were en route to New Ha ven, each carrying 4S0 tons of pis tron- They were in tow of the gov ernment steam cana1er Rock1and. On barge lies a couple of miles east O Bridgeport light, the other beini beached on the west bank inside tn IL ,pTODaDie that DOll can be raised and their cargoes sal vaged-
 The Bridgeport Board of Educatio declares that it must have s15,OoO a once for additional teachers to tn teaching staff. The appropriation ha already been expended and in the ex tremity the board appeals to tn Board of Apportionment for help. Tn matter will be considered next Mon dav afternoon They will also ask fo S6o,000 to complete the annex to tn Mckinley school on Hollister avenue
 Brandegee's defeat will be brougt about by the women'S vote is the ez pressed opinion of Prof. Irwin Fisher of Yale. head of the Pro League Independent Voters.
 For the lack of a hall in which hold meeting the speech by Unite States Senator William E. Borah Idaho in Bridgeport, has been car celled. He will. however. speak Hartford and New Haven
 Attachments against the American British Manufacturing Company Bridgeport now total $5,20 ,000. Or . attachment for S2.500,000 was filed the town clerks office in Bridgepo yesterday.
 The Republican National campais vigorously denies Democratic sto that Senator Borah has abandon, his speaking campaign for Senat Harding
 Alderman Thomas Mccormick h
 been named by Mayor Clifford B. w
 son to represent the Eighth distri