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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
By Phil Moore

His hands were like lead weights on her shoulders. "You won't like 1t. It's bad news"
 ''I can bear anything except to hear that you are ill.,
 "Oh, I'm not i'll, I'm strong as iron. That's the devil of it.'' He let her go Ada, I've been in hell for four days. And the worst of it is-'
 ''Tel1 me, Seth.''
 His face twisted. You've got to live with a blind man for the rest of your married life," he said.
 She stood staring at him with pity and amazement and sorrow. But through the rock one tiny spark glow ed. She flung her arms about him and cuddled him close "If only you love mel" she breathed.
 He kissed her cheek. "How you take it!" he said, and there was a note of courage in his voice. What blessed, wonderful woman you arei Love you? I always have and always will. But will you love me-when I'm-when I'm"
 "Morei More!" she whispered And she knew that he believed her.
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out to greet the new arrival.
 Don't know who you are, honey, but it's all right; every ones here but one," and she ushered Rita into the drawing room admidst multitude of gay colors and laughing, chatting young folks.
 Soon the orchestra began and Rita was claimed by a tall youth whose costume represented that of old man Winter
 Seems almost appropriate" he re- marked when they had circled the room once or twice, "that Winter should dance with charming Spring, doesn't ft?"
 Rita sensed little affectation in his voice and she reta1iated with a differ ent one.
 tsIt shore do," she answered in South ern accents; then turned the conver- sation to something else.
 The third dance found Rita sitting in a little palm-fringed alcove with her
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
The w heels of Fate

Three years.' Rita's voice had a melancholy hollowness as she spoke.
 "It is not good to brood so much," Minnie reminded her, always trying in one way or another to bring the fresh ness back into Rita's beautiful face.
 In the midst of her little reverie that followed the telephone bell tinkled and Rita lifted the receiver languidly.
 I've everything arranged, and oh, goodness! we'll have a wonderful time. Rita. What are you figuring on wearing?" she heard Madge Tender sons voice ask in her sprightly, en- thusiastic way.
 "Why-er-I-was"- Rita had no reason she would like to offer for de- clinfng. She had intended to invent one in time. for not for all the world would she allow her girl friends to think she had been so weak" as they would call it.
 Just wear that Call of Spring gown costume you told me you had got
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17

"As many as you want?" dared Ste phana. trying to keep up the pace he had set.
 Did you mean that I can have as many dances as I want?" he asked again when they reached the broad ma hogany stairway in the house.
 "Yes-every one that you want" she said, and something in her big, gray eyes made him catch his breath. his heart bounding in his breast as he stood watching her mount the stairs.
 He dressed very carefully. and then dropped into the wide winged chair be- fore the fire in his room. He was in love at last, foolishly, boyishly in love with little Stephana Strong. Then wrath like, out of the dancing flames, came the face of Anne Rodgers, and he knew that he could not ask the girl he loved to marry him. He and Anne had
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
The Call of the Hills

open doorway. q was sent to take this girl away, Brockford," he said. "A half dozen fellows are ready to en- gage you in due1s because you have kept her overtime."
 Phil stood watching the girls s1en- der figure move across the ballroom by her young host. He turned then, broke a little sprig of arbutus and sat down on the bench they had just va cated, thinking of his own lost youth. Marie Lester was the embodiment of the springtime and joy of life. She was to marry Wilton Dillingham;, a good example of a club and society man. Women choose strange mates, unused Phil, looking down at the dawn-pink arbutus flowers. Something long dormant, stirred in his heart.
 He seemed to see an old house on a high hill and girl with wind-b1own hair playing in the meadow with a crowd of little children. She had been to him the Madonna of his boyfsh dreams. The scene faded and he saw
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17

His eyes singled out one of them at once. The full, mature figure of Anne Rodgers set her apart from the young girls on the ice.
 T am sorry you have been dfsillu- sioned," said Stephana, timidly touch ing the sleeve of his rough gray coat, ''but I think you are very brave to still have faith
 He caught up their skates and hung them over his broad shoulder. "We must be getting along or we will be late for dinner and the big dance that marks the end of our good times here. How many dances am I to have?" he asked as they raced up the long, snowy path to the Atkins country place. For three days Mayfeld had forgotten that he was over twenty-one and had entered into the dancing and outdoor sports with the zest of boy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
By Joella Johnson

like the sweep of bird on wide pin ions from the sky. And with inner ent mother love, she wanted to protect what she knew to be hers by divine right.
 It was at the dinner table that Mrs. Atkins announced the engagement of Annabel King and Bruce Stewart. ''I am a matchmaker, she said, happily. Has anybody else any romantic news?"
 How about you, Jim?" asked Anne Rodgers across the table. Isn't it about time that your engagement was being announced?"
 Stephana, sweet in a silver gown with Mayfield's blush roses on her breast, looked at him where he sat next to her. She sawthe full flush that mounted to his forehead ard the trembling of his strong mouth. It was
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17

T was at the Dillinghams dinner
 dance at the Country Club that
 Phil Brockford first saw Marie Lester, pale slip of girl in white. who reminded him of the picture of a saint. her golden hair making a halo above her pretty face. She sat facing him at a small table in the- same al- cove. >r9'W F s
 Are you looking at the girl with Wilton Dillingham;" asked Margaret Miller, who was Phil's dinner partner. "Yes,V she reminds me of a wild flower in early spring. delicate and fragile. Do you know herr"
 Yes; she is Marie Lester, wi1ton's 1ance. The Dillinghams> are giving this affair to show her off, fancy"
 "She was not in the receiving line" 'No; she Is bit difficult for her mother-in-law to be, hear. She does not care for society"
 Where did Wilton meet herr"
 "I have not heard officially" laughed Margaret. "bute=tn a roundabout way
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last year and didn't wear. Of course, I'll know my guests anyhow, so it won't make any difference"
 She ended the conversation with a merry giggle and-Rita found she had accepted the invitation scarcely know ing 1t.
 Two weeks later Minnie was bending over Rita, giving to her fresh, dainty Call of Spring" gown the last, finger ing touches that make for perfection.
 You >are wonderful-Miss Rita. simply wonderful'-she enthused, clapping her small, shapely hands with delight.
 Just before she entered the waiting cab Minnie handed her the little green silk mask. Above all, be sure and keep 1t on," she heard Minnie call out as she drove off
 As the cab stopped before the pala- tial- home of Madge Henderson in the suburbs, an hour later, the door was swung open and Madge herself ran
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uncertain expression on her face. And you shall go, of course," she added in a persuading tone.
 "No, I think not, Minnie" Rita re- turned between dainty little bites of the crisp, brown toast. You know how I feel about social affairs
 She stopped short. Of course, Min nie knew; every one knew of her broken engagement, and how she had done it because of her family's mis- judgment. Hal had been one of the finest young man in the world, and Rita had always thought so; but her father, knowing of little scandal that hung over his head in club centers, had tabooed the affair and made life miserable for Rita until she had brok- en the engagement. And Rita had put faith in the explanation Hal had suf- fered not to give, and let him go away
 "Ah!" Minnie interrupted her train of thought, "but that little affair was so long ago, Miss Rita"-
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MT. Brockford, Miss Lester? He has been admiring you all through din ner."
 When it came his time to claim her for a dance, Phil whir1ed her around the big ballroom once and then led the way out on an upper porch, screened in and hung with vines and great clus- ters of trailing arbutus.
 "I wonder where the Di1linghams bought this arbutus. It makes me homesick for my little stone lodge in the mountains"
 "I brought it," answered the girl, land 1t makes me homesick, too."
 eff you love the mountains, we have one strong bond of sympathy between us," he old her.
 "1 was borE in the mountains"
 About eighteen years ago?"
 "A woman who tells her age will tell anything" laughed Marie. "I am old CT perhaps than I look"
 Wilton Dillingham; appeared in the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17

I have understood that she is home product, right out of the country"
 Phil Brockford looked interested. "I would like very much to meet her if you can manage it."
 "All right" agreed Margaret, "but I am sorry for Wilton if she comes un- der the magic of the much-adored Phil" -
 "It isn't fair, Margaret, to f1atter a man who is getting pretty close to 30.
 Don't you know that nothing will appeal to that girl as much as the at tention of a sophisticated man of the world like you? I was young, too once upon time," said Margaret, land know"
 You are still young!" Don't" cried Margaret, sharply. "I am 30 today"
 When they were ready to begin dancing Margaret took Phil to the ta- ble where Wilton Dillingham; and Ma rie Lester still sat, talking earnestly. May present the famous bachelor,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
TIA wALwoRTH fingered the

- TIA wALwORTH fingered the note she had received in the = early mail a trife demurely. Her large brown eyes sparkled for a moment, then duly roved over the high walls of her exquisite boudoir. She heaved a little sigh, reread the in vitation, then walked to her dressing table at the other end of the room.
 I'm MppsEsktliing mtselfsover it," she murmured half aloud; 'it oughtn't be so, but I cant help 1t love him yet"
 Tn a moment the maid appeared in the doorway with a tray of steaming hot breakfast, and Rita, brushing away the tears that rolled perilously near her silky fringed eyelids. arose and smiled brightly.
 Got an invitation to Madge's par ty," Rita proffered by way of acknowl- edging the maids watchful care at her side. "So!" Minnie answered. then looked at Rita for moment with an
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17

Just then the clock struck 12.
 Masks off, masks off, Madge cried. as she swung through the various rooms and railways of her home.
 When the gallant "Old Man Winter withdrew the little green silk mask from Rita's face he stifed an exclama- tion- aghast:
 'Rita-it's you-its you-Rita." He touched her gown lovingly to fortify the reality of his vision
 Rita sat dumb-stricken for full minute.
 'Hal," she said, Imply, you're back, I know-all-and please forgive"
 But before she finished his arms were about her and her head had nestled down into the folds of his white cotton-trimmed suit.
 "Oh, I say there, none of that-this party is for aIl,' Madge sang out jov- ially when she encountered them be- hind the spreading palm.
 But Madge didn't understand.
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as though Anne had lashed him with whip.
 Courage was born of the moment T know you will all be happily sur prised," said Stephana, little breath lessly, "to learn that Jim Mayf1eld and I are in love in the old-fashioned way and we are going to be married in the spring." Anne Rogers score had at. last been settled.
 There was only blur of faces, dim. flowers and f1ickering candle light un- til the sudden pressure of Mayfeld's hand over hers made her look at him. There was such radiance in his glance that her own heart seemed to rise ex- ulting to meet his. Sweetheart" he said brokenly. T love you so.' And in the confusion of laughter and con- gratu1ations nobody knew that they plighted their troth right there.
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~F course." she said in answer to his question. T believe in
 love at first sight. All young people do until they are disillusioned. May my Waterloo be far distant!" laughed pretty stephana Strong as she stood with Jim Mayfeld by the big bon fire lighted on the bank of wide pond where the other members of their merry house party were still skating in the early twilight.
 The man, her senior by fifteen years, looked at her glowing face, rosy in the light from the Black Jack logs, and sighed a little. She was the very tn- carnation of youth.
 q believe in love at first sight. too although I have had disillusionment about love in general" There was g deeting look of bitterness in his face as he turned and looked at the skaters
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
NORTH FRANKLIN

Mrs. Fred Jordan of Willimantic was a Jecent guest of her brother, T.
 Miss Lydia Johnson is spending February With relatives in Norwich.
 Mrs. Frank Redwood and daugh- ter Florence and Mrs. Fred Race att tended the Social Corner gathering at Franklin Hall. W-illimantic. We'd nesday.
 spent Wednesday and Thursday with Miss Ella Rocbwood.
 Miss Martha Manning and Miss Hazel Swift Of Norwich were guests of Miss Millie Ward Thursday.
 Miss Minnie Bergman has returned to her home in New York after spending the past month with Mrs. R. M Harding.
 Mrs. John Brazzil was called to GreeneviIle Wednesday on account of the death of her brother, Bernard McMann.
 Mss Faith Gager has returned, af- ter two. weeks visit with friends in Jewett City.
 Mrs. William Tate was called to Hartford Saturday to attend the fu- neral Of her brother in-law.
 Fred S. Armstrong was a Norwich visitor Tuesday.
 Mrs. A. R. Race spent Wednesday with friends in Greeneville.
 George BecBwith of Norwich spent Thursday with Frank Redwood, Jr
 Harold Capshaw was called tc Portsmouth, Va, Monday to attend the funeral of his father. Rev. B. P Capshaw.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
WILLIMANTIC


 of church school at noon. sEpworth League meets at 6.sO. followed by evening service at ' o'clock.
 Albert A. Latham, e5, died Friday at the home of his daughter. Mrs. l.. NJ. Lewis. Of 46 Lebanon avenue. He was a native of Ledyard. born Nov. 26, 1925. He is survived by five daughters: two sons and eleven grandchildren.
 . Virginia, the two year old daughter of MT and Mrs. .Sebas:iano Catalano died Friday at the ehone of her par ents on Mansfield avenue. Death was due to pneumonia. Besides her par ents she is survived by three broth CTS and a sister.
 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth GavoII died Friday at her home onschestnut Hill, death being due to heart trouble She the daughter of, latham and Rather inc Hull. Gelap. The silent cop at the corner of North and Valley streets was added l to those cops alreadv out of comm is- i sion because of dan.1.se done by pass ing automobiles. The authorities are endeaVoring to find the culprit and l bring him to terms. There has been much carelessness shown on the part l CT aulonloDlu5tS passing through this city and they seem to think that all l they have to do is to break up city property and the city officials will appropriate more money to purchase new equipment. The authorities are 1 tired of putting up with this kind of 1 nuisance and every means possible will be used to catch some driver al l this work to use him as an example 1 for those other motorists who have been doing this trick in the past. $.
 Plans are being discussed relative to building Q receiving vault at St l Jcseph's cemetery. Work on this vault is expected. to be started before summer
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
DANIELSOR AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Several hundred mill operatives of tf.s tv are having an enforced va eaton as the result of tine blocking of' transportation lines over which varn anu other supplies on which manufacturing concerns of this city depend for all or part Of their sup plses of yarn.
 Many operatives at the plant of the Manhasset company and at the mill of. the Waterman Worsted company are having free time at the week end and some of them will not get back to work before Tuesday morning. by which time it is expected that ire ghts will have delivered a new supply of yarn here.
 Fridays storm added to the difH- culties of the transportation compan- ies, but the snow. which came down heavily throughout the forenoon and until nearly 1 o'clock suddenly ceased kanJ clearing weather followed. so Ethat the railroads will not be- in any lsworse predicament than has been 1.-the case for the past ten days. 1 The complete blockade of the Put Enam- Chepachet route has been one factor that has contributed material l ly to the pred4canent that local man ufacturers are facing. Big motor | trucks daily bring great. quantities i of yarn overland from New Bedford and Fall River via this route, which now is so badly drifted that there i isn't a remote. chance of getting 9 1 loaded truck over it. One mill alone in Putnam depends upon trucks that come over this route transporting nearly 150,00O pounds of yarn each week to Putnam.
 | While Fridays storm made difficult 1 travelng over main highways that were just becoming really .passable after days of effort following last weeks big storm, the railroads were not greatly troubled by the latest l snow fall.
 In railroad circles Friday afternoon
 it was stated that special effort was being made to restore freight service
 to normal Sidings were being clear
 ed and cars moved off them and there were indications that a great deal o1
 freight that has been stalled will bt
 moving with regularity the first o1
 the week.
 Boston paper called attention Friday
 to a recent announcement that {
 black Spanish hen, owned by lame!
 Blanchard of Dayville, died some
 weeks ago. This hen, upwards of B
 years of age, was reputed to be th' oldest in the United States She be
 gan laying along about '89, and C
 had one of her first eggs for break
 fast this morning. I think" remark the contributor, who evidently is sui
 fering from indigestion.
 As a precaution against the sprea of influenza and grip, which has bee epidemic here for the past two weeks
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14

Bayer's Aspirin Tablets. 4Oc size =
 Special 24e.
 Wampole's Cod Liver O1-Speeiai see. Father Johns Medicine, small size
 Special 47c.
 Musified Cocoanut Oil-SpeciaI 39e. Borden's Matted Milk, 35c a pound. Kolynos' Tooth Paste-Saie price Pie. Pebecco's Tooth Paste-Sale price 35e. Woodbury's Facial Cream, 25c size
 Sale price 19c. Palmolive Cream-SAle price 35c. Hind's Honey and Almond Cream =
 Sale price 35e.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
CANTERBURY GREEN

There was no church service Sun day on account Of the bad travelling. Rev. Mr. Humphrey oficiated at the funeral of waiter Eurdick at his hrne at F o'clock. In spite of the deep snow several from. the Green attend ed the funeral. Mir. Burdick was a faithful attendant at the church ser vices and his loss will be deeply felt.
 Mrs. Burdick and children who have been ill also have nearly re- covered. The family is moving this week into the, house with Mrs. Bur dicks 8 bother, Mrs. Kenyon.
 The mails here as elsewhere have been greatly delayed this. week. Mrs. Sackett, the rural mail carrier. be- ing unable to hire a horse for day, covered part of his route with hand s.ed.
 Ray MoHtt Is moving into the Bradford tenement, over the old
 Miss Ruth Davis is home from Plaindeld High school i'll with meas les. .>
 Miss Elise Hawes returned to Bos- ton Monday often spending a week at her home.
 Ralph Brown is not yet able to re- turn to his work at Storrs. Roger Brown is also home for a few days after spending wAek at Yale in- firmary, i'll with in1denza.
 Several of the members of the Hart family have the prevailing distemper
 Mrs. Dorothy Bennett attended the state teachers meeting in Hart ford the end of this week. Charles H. Barker, first officer O the Old Dominion steamship Princes Anne, which was stranded recently off Rockaway Beach. N. \, is ; brother of William o. Barker of thi' ; place. Mrs Barker was one of tn i two officers to remain upon the al most submerged vessel until ordered l to leave by her owners
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
Children Cry
 FOR FLETcHER'S C A s ITO RIA
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE

Owing to weather conditions on Feb s, 1920, and the small number of bids received TOT Federal Aid Project No. 4 new bids will be received at the office of the State Highway Commissioner, State Capitol. fourth floor. west end, until ? D. m., March 15, 1920. for the same sections of road as follows:
 HARTF'OEtD-NEW LONDON Trunk Line, Federal Aid Project No. f.
 This work consists of the necessary grading. culvert construction and sur facing necessary to the satisfactory completion Of concrete highway IS (elghteent feet in width and S22 miles London. For bidding purposes. the work has been divided into four sec tions as follows:
 ,No.s l., Towns of Glastonbury and Marlboro, 41.550 feet in length.
 No 9 Towns of Marlboro. Hebron and Colchester. S9,0S0 feet in length. No 3. Towns of Colchester and Salem, fl ,S00 feet in length.
 NO. 4. Towns of Salem, MontTf1ie and Waterford. 47.715 feet in length. Plans and specifications may be seen at the offices Of Division Engineers Charles F. Taylor' lS1 Main Main street Thayer Bldg, Norwich. Conn. Salso at the office of the Highway Commission ] CT in Hartford.
 [ for any one or .nlore, or s] of the i sections, and may make bids condi- j lID4laf on receiving one or more of the ] cdntracts. In the event or any one l contractor being awarded the four cons 1! tracts he must give reasonable assur- 1 ance of his financial ability and ex- 1 periencas 50 tliat the work may he l completed in. the time which will be | soecifed by the Highway Commission
 CT as 9 result Of his study of the bids
 Each bid. whether for one or more i sections, must state the time which the contractor estimates for the duration of the job. These estimates Of time 1 will be used in determining the date Of
 tra ctor must also subrRit proof of his | abiiitH to construct and complete this work. such proof to be in the form ef l references to work already done an1 ] evidence as to his financial standing. A certified check or surety company ! bond for one-third the amount Of the | bid must accompany each proposal un- less the contractor shall have filed . bond. Tn case. of failure or refusal on i the part! of. the bidder to enter into contract within the set period. he shall forfeit to the State, a part of. the de7 nostt which shall be equal to the diff ference between the total bid of the
 defAnlting bidder and the total bid of contract is finallv executed The amount of this forfeit shall he taken
 from the suret.- company's annual or bid bond or cert fled check accom- papyinE the pFop1Sal.
 Contractors will nay particular at tention to -he information contained in the specifications and the requirements noted in the nronosal fnrm which is a part of the .spacifica tions. l The successfuls con tra cter shall star. work within a period. of ter, G01s days after the date of orders to do so with !
 sufficient force of men and enuiomert tol-co-nofete--th the contract within tho
 time limit.
 c. J. PENNFTT. STATE HIGHWAY CONFESSED EE
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
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