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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
PEASANTS SAY AID WILL REACH
 THEM TOO LATE

Semayenkena, Russia Sept. 7-(By the A. P.) - Desolation is written large on the rolling prairies which little village in the heart of the fam inc region of the Volga- Cattle and horses have. cropped the sparse herb age until the very grass roots have blow across the waste raise great clouds of dust from the parched fields
 The winter wheat must be sowed soon, but nowhere has there been any preparation for the fall seeding. It is the general practice for the farmers to SOW their wheat by Sept. IS, but that date will find the fields lying fallow for their are no horses to blow the ground and the people are unable to secure seed for the next harvest. So the fields are not made ready to receive the seed, and the country lies stark and gray withered by the drought. The leaves that still cling to the trees are gray and even the peasants look gray, being clad mostly dn khaki uniforms and grain sacks and wearing sandals made of birch bark.
 This village formerly had a popu- lation of 1000 but 40 per cent of the people have left. Deaths from hun- ger have been numerous the peas l figures available. Cholera has no, | been epidemic here or in other viii 1ages of Sanara province, but there ] have been a few scattered cases. IT 1 the city of Samara, and in other | crowded centers, however, hygenit l conditions have been bad because o
 the influx of great numbers of refu- gees.
 Peasants nere are pessinistic owe the coming of relief. They say tha: aid will reach them too late. Pure | rye bread costs 5000 rubles- pound | while meat costs 5000 rubles pc ! pound and only few of the wealth,
 people are able to buy.
 Everywhere the Associated Pres
 correspondent has travelled througl Samara province he has seen ragged
 women and children gathered il
 groups discussing the famine Foot
 is thes ole topic of conversation. Tn
 men are busy hauling loads of tre l starving cows and horses.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
SILVER BEACH NOTES

Miss Ida E. Berner of New Britain, Ct, spent the week end at the Kelly Kottage, Silver Beach. Milford.
 Frank J. Nolan of Westf1eld, N. J., was a week end visitor calling on his brother at the River Pirates Cottage, Silver Beach, Milford.
 Miss Billy Bengston of New Bri- tain, Ct, stopped at the Kelly Kot- taEe, Silver Beach. Milford, over the holidays.
 Misses Isabelle Haines and Ceci1e Barron were visitors from Bridgeport to the River Pirates Cottage. where they were entertained by John J. Grif- fin and John J. Solon-
 The attendance at the River Pirates Roll Call on Sunday was 100 per cent Those present for the week end were, James H. Broderick, John J. Solon, Walter J. Gerritv, William H. Nolan, Jr. Arthur O. Gromberg, John J. Griffin George Day, Harry Donne1ly, James Automotive Lee, Andrew c. Curren. Among the visitors to the River Pirates Cottage were Miss Mary Bannon, MT. and Mrs. Frank Cook and daughter. George P. Farley and Edw. J. Donohue.
 George P. Farley. who has been spending part of his vacation at the River Pirates Cottage has returned to his work in New ork- While al the beach. George went a fishing and after several hours a la Isaac Wal. ton. brought home A fish-the bis ones biting the rope and getting away
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
OUGHT TO PUT "CAP" GLENNON
 IN THIS GAME

Riverhead, N. Y, Sept Flour men in this town have been playing dominoes every day for 2s years and they say it will taken at least ten more years to 0etermine which pair of them excels in the game
 George W. Cooper, who is 94 years old and never felt more chipper, is the senior of the quarter. He always op- poses Zophar M. Woodruff S4 years old They select their partners from two comparative youngsters, Howard sanford, 72, and Ellsworth Benjamin, 69.
 MT. Cooper used to be a bank pres 1dent and the grey-haired group gath cred in his office for their game every afternoon, but business began to in terfere with domiHoes, so he gave up banking about ten years ago. Since then the game has gone in tfre of flee of a. mill and MT. Cooper, who also was once a farmer and then county sheriff, takes little time of now and then to attend the directors meetings at the bank.
 Sometimes when the younger dom- ino warriors pause and argue, he says .Nome on. no stalling in this game We haven't many more years to play;''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
1 WAS A NERVOUS BANKRUPT
 WEAK, WORN AND AL IN"
was too weak to work; too nervous to think and my
 business going to ruin.

Until was a complete physical and mentalwreck with financial ruin staring me in the face, I never realized that the system manufactured only so much nerve force every twenty-four hours, and that if through worry, overwork, excitement, grief, or constant nervous strain, or other excesses, you used up your nerve force faster than it was made, that m time you were bound to become nervous bankrupt, just like a man who continually spends more money than k makes isbouDd, in time, to become financial bankrupt.
 knew was fast losing my old time strength end endurance and that was getting extreme b nervous. but did not attach much inpor- lance to it until one day found that was suffering terrible toFtures from an awful de- vitalizing weakness that put my nerves all on edge. The slightest thing completely upset me. had duh heavy aching pain in the lower back part Of my head, and sometimes a very disagreeable sense of fulTfess in the front and top of my head. I could not sleep wen at night A continuous round of thoughts would chase enc another through my brain would often find myself in state of profuse pergpiratdon, which was very weakening. Sometimes sui 1ercd from heart palpitation and indigestion with . hoGible nightmare, and think I was aDd extreme neIvousness and weakness became 70 alarming was afra i'd was going to die, and often thought of committing suicide.
 The above is hypothetical case, which a physiGan says is typical of thousands. It is alarming to think how very few people really have strong nerves nowadays, and how many hundIelis of thousands suffer from exhaustion
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
ALDERMEN
 HEAR PETITION
 ON WADE STREET

A meeting of the board of Alder men held in the City Hall last even presiding dealt mostly with routine matters of minor importance, all though one or two arguments arose lover street extensions and building hines. Property owners on Wade fstreet turned out in force to support Ia. measure for the extension of that for so feet so as to f1nake connection with Laurel avenue fand thus save a mile walk for resi- dents of the Brooklawn section who about route. The spokesman for the delegation pointed out that the cost would be comparatively slight while khe increase in fire and police pro- tection to the neighborhood would be Ia great asset.
 John Carlson of Pequonnock street .spoke in favor of petition to dis tcontinue the building line on that kend of the street and claims that at tpresent the building line makes his Ipiece of ground too small to be prac- fical. Other property owners object led vigorously on the grounds that they had built their houses on the that it would injure the value of their property if the line were dis Icontfnued in favor of one individual.
 A motion by Alderman Lyons of the Fourth district in favor of tabling the report of the Board of Appraisal an relation to the damages in connec- ftiDn with the widening of Broad St, was defeated and the report accept ed, with members dissenting.
 A great many minor petitions were heard and referred to the proper
 committees. The Mayor pointed out 4hat the advice of the city attorney should be obtained before the fire committee of the Board acted on a
 number of petitions for the installa- Hion of gasoline pumps on the streets as the legislature at it's last session
 passed a ruling placing the granting Of such permission in the hand of the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
RUM WORTH
 MILLION TAKEN
 AT HVER PIERS

New York, Sep. Roy A. Haynes, Federal prohibition commits SioneT. was here tod,y for confer ence with local enfCcement officials at which plans for reorganization of the New York bureaI and a concert ed drive against booleggers were to be discussed.
 Particular aHtentio was to be given. it was understo cd, to ways and means of breaking ID liquor snug gling by water.
 A round Up of allged smugglers, heralded with the arrival here re- gently of a wing f1Quadron" from Washington headed b, E. c. Yellow ley, was inausurated last night with the arerst of an uptwn hotel man who gave the name O John Walton deliver to a federal agent a large quantity of liquor iron a. vessel off Asbury Park, N. J.
 Fifteen thousand caSS of w'hiskey, valued at s1,ooO,oOo, vere seized at North River piers yestrday-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
LIKE STRAW HITS
 IN ZERO LAND
(RY I. N. i.)

Los Angeles, Sept. 7-In a shelter ed bay on the bleak shreline of the Straits of Magellan nembers of colony of naked Patgon1ans are wearing American strav hats with the temperature hoverng below the freezing point, accordiE to Captain K A Ahlin. of the feighter West Nots, in port here wit: a cargo of coffee and hides from South Amert- can ports.
 It was when the stemer stopped recently in a bay on tn north shore of the Straits of Magelln for favor able weather conditionsthat colony of the naked PatagoniaB came to the ship in dugouts. Captah Ahlin stat ed. Despite the chill ail and snow on he ground, he said. ma, women and children hadn't a stito of apparel on them, but didn't seen to mind the weather. One woman at in a boat half full of water ant nursed two babies in the freezing atmosphere, just as if they were comfortably clothed.
 Gifts of clothing wee thrown to the natives, but these Fere spurned. All the visitors seemed to want was tobacco. Finally the captain and members of the crew fug up some straw hats and tossed them over board. These were easrly grabbed, and when the steamer Tt the natives headed back to shore gafbed in straw hats.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
EXPENDITURES HAVE INCREASED
 337 PER GENT.

Commencing today The Times prdnts a summary of the findings and recommendations based on the results of the investigation or ths ne Thomas R. Lil1. consulting account ant of the Bureau of Municipal Re- search of New York. The summary is preceded by a statement Of the
 The first instal1ment of the sum mary deals with the expenditures from taxes and bond funds and the increases in the members of the Po- cut that the city has appropriated for the year ending March 51st, 1922, the largest sum in it's history ana shows an increase in expenditures during the last II years of over 337 per cent, while for the correspond ing period population has increased but 40 per cent It also shows an in- crease of 16.4 per cent. in the mum ber of policemen and s3 per cent in the number of firemen.
 Foreward
 The following summary of findings and recommendations is taken from a report of a study of the financial con dttton of the City of Bridgeport re consulting accountant of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York
 This report Is the result of an ex- animation made of the affairs of the
  of the causes of the rapid increase in governm enta1 expense and some or the avoidabIe causes not related to the growth in population Any citizen who will compare his bills for the last few years will realize l the importance of finding out how his money is spent. Increased assess | ment values with increased tax rates mean increased living expenses. The facts are startling and if it were l I&o hat is | situation would be discourag1ng | However, the report points out th' | remedies and some of them are nm mediately available if the citizens Q feet.
 There is no invisible agency wh1cf l will give us a better government, how l ever much we deside it. Our cit, | government is our personal affair ant l a part of our life, and its bettermen | can only be brought about by our owl efforts.
 The detailed reports from whicl in the offices of the Chamber of Com | merce and may be examined by any one interested
 FINDINGS
 Expenditures From Taxes 1 For the year ending March Sl 1922, the city has appropriated tn l largest sum in it's history. Notwith standing the fact that the tax rate fo 1922 is lower than 1921, the total ap | propriationS are greater.
 | Bridgeport's expenditures have in | creased 337.7 per cent in the II year from 1911 to 1922, while the popula tion has increased but 40.7 per cent
 The per capita expenditures in creased from s17.57 in 1911 to S53.2 in 1921, or 203 per cent.
 Its tax rate increased from s1-7 | per s1OO of valuation in 1912 ito S2.S per S10O in 1922, or 6S per cent.
 The assessed value of the real am personal property increased from ss9, S34. sol in 1910 to s244,925,794 i 1920, or s172.64 per cent
 If the tax rate increases as fast il the next ten years as it has in tn past, the tax rate will be $4.S6 pc s1OO of valuation in 1932.
 The appropriations by years are a
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
URGE OBSERVANCE OF LAW.

New Orleans. Sept. 7.-Scrupu1ous observance of national and local pro- hibition laws in spirit and letter was urged on the 400 druggists gathered here for the national convention of the American Pharmaceutical Asso- citation today by President Charles Herbert Packard in his annual ad- dress.
 MT. Packard praised the effects of the prohibition law and recommend ed adoption resolutions opposing the use of alcohol as a beverage. IT. respective of the druggists views of the law, loyalty to the governm ent should come first. the speaker de- clared.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
TURKE RETIRE SLOWLY.

Greek General Headquarters in Asia Minor, Sept 7.-(By The Asso- cfated Press.)-Turkish Nationalist forces have been driven from new positions they occupied on Sept 1, but have retired slowly, defending every inch of the ground.
 On Tuesday night the Turks launched wild attacks and succeeded temporarily in re-occupytng their lost positions, but later were again driven out.
 Unomcia1 estimates place the Turk fsh losses at 12.o00 killed and wound ed. The Greek losses are unknown, but are said to be heavy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07

of the nerVo-vftai huid. Their nerve ceffs aFe very much like the cells of a storage battery fn electric car, in which the electricity has run low that the can hardly move- In such cases unless they do something quickly to in- crease the supply of nervovital duid so as to furnish increased power to the nerves, they are likely to go all to pieces at any moment and suffer indescIibabhe tortures. Most remarkable results are usually obtained by these unfortu- nate sufferers from the free administration of Nuxated Iron-two tablets three times a day after meals. This valuable product contains the principal chemical constituent of active living nerve force in a form which most nearly resembles that in the nerve and brain celis of man
 It also contains organic iron like the iron in your blood and like the iron in,spinach, lenfils and apples This form of iron win not bIacken nor injure the teeth nor upset the stomach It is an entirely different thing from metallic iron which people e1snally take. Nuxated Iron may therefore be termed both a. blood and a nerve food, as 1t feeds strength giving iron to your blood and the principal chemical ingredient of active. living nerve force to your brain and nerve cells.
 Over four million people are using Nuxated Iron annually, and from the remarkably oene- ficial results which it has produced, the manu- facturers feel SO certainof it's efficacy that they guarantee satisfactory results to every pur chaser or they will refund your money. Beware of substitutes look for the word NuxAaed" o0 every package.
 After using Nuxated Iron we shall be pleased to have you write us what it does for you for publication. Your name will be withheld
 Euxated Iron for the blood and nerves is sold tJy all druggists
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
CUTLER LODGE
 IS TO HOLD
 FIRST SESSION

Our first official meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, Septem- Der 7th, 1921, at S:3O o'clock prompt in our own lodge rooms, K. of P. hall, Main and Cannon streets.
 Fall activities will commence on that evening with the nomination and election of your officers.
 Final arrangements will be made for our institution which takes place very shortly.
 You can help a great deal by hav- ing a 100 per cent. attendance at this meeting.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
IIZZ:Sl31l;ls

Motor Vehicle department.
 A letter of thanks was read from the Red Cross, acknowledging the contribution of $1,00O made to the fund for the relief of the flood suf- ferers of Pueblo. Another letter read by City Clerk Robinson was from the widow of the late Frank Miller, thanking the Board for its expression of sympathy at the time of her hus- bands death.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
New Principal Is
 Delightfully."- Surprised

Miss Jennie Fitzroy, principal of the Huntington Road school, replac- ing Miss Mary Ford, retired, was pleasantly surprised when school com menced this morning.
 The Huntington Road Parent Teachers association presented Miss Fitzroy with a handsome basket of .gIadjolas hnd larkspur as a welcome and congratulation. The presentation was made by Master Jerry Holmes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
12 WOUNDED BY BOMB.

Milan, Sept. Ten women and two men were seriously wounded when a bomb was exploded today upon a crowded pier at the fashion able seaside resort of Vararze.
 Vararze is in the department of Liguria upon the Mediterranean
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
WEIR FINED $25

Alleged to have been drunk and to have created a disturbance ait HarTi- son park Sunday night, William J. Weir, of SIS Park avenue was fined S25 and costs in the Milford Town court yesterday morning.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07

Total .... $45, 5,6S9, ,SS2.S3 An indicative of the way in which expenditures have grown in Bridge port, the number of f1remen and po- lice employed is pertinent.
 Number of Men in Department
 Percentage
 1911 1921 of Increase Policemen 112 296 164 per cent Bremen 142 260 s3 per cent. Expenditures From Bond Funds In addition to the expenditures made from taxes, the city has spent large sums received from the sale of bonds or other evidences of debt as follows:
 For fiscal year ended
 March 31. 1912.... $ oo,oo0.00 For fiscal year ended
 March 31, 1913. 11s, 100000 March s1, 1s14 10000. co March si, 1sd5, 5,... fz5 ,ooo. DO For fiscal year ended
 March S1, 1sds,. I ,2T5 900 % For scad year ended
 March 31, 1917.... 2,275, ,ooo.o For fiscal year ended
 March si, 1s1s. 2,575 100000 For fiscal year ended
 March si, 1s1s... 100000 co March si, 1s2o. -. .2,os5,ooo.oo For nine months end
 ing Dec. 21, 192o... 1,42s, 100000 Total ............. s12,4ss,ooo.oo
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
LINER CUTS WHALE IN TWO.

London, Sept, 7-Ths White Star liner Ceramic rammed z wLale when two hundred miles iron tm English Channel cutting it compaetey in half.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07

The tusks of the African elephant sometimes weigh as much as 100 pounds each and reach length of eight or nine feet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-29

A. A. Turner of the Dublin Methodist
church. Roy Heacock, Ross Kramer,
Alvin HORNED, Raleigh Huddleston,
Dwight Steifel, Forrest Baker, Amos
Danner, and James Trent
Ladies Aid society which furnish
ed the dinner yesterday. changed the
menu for Tuesday, offering the work
ers a chicken dinner in celebration Of
the rapid progress.
The meeting opened last evening
with a crowded house, Rev Harry Box
singing solo, Have You Forgotten
God" DR. Bulgin took for his text
Second Timothy 2-15. He said: "Sev-
en- principles are fundamental in ap-
preaching God, namely: justification,
Ia change of state; repentance, a
change of mind; conversion, a change
of life; regeneration, which is God s
act in bringing a lost soul to Christ;
adoption after regeneration; sancti-
fication and holiness. The honor
guests last evening were the members
of the X. of P. lodge and the Ameri-
can Legion. Jacksonburg sent large
delegation and Rev Milligan, a mem
Der of the delegation, gave the opening
prayer.
DR.. Bulgin addressed a number of
remarks to the X. of P. stating that
he admired the stand taken by the
order on many moral questions, es-
peCially the temperance reform move
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-29

after he was surrounded in the Ar
gonne
For four days his command, the
First battalion. 30Sth infantry 77th
division, had lain under fire, cut off
from aid. without food or fresh water
All but 67 men had been killed or
wounded.
Blindfolded and under the protec-
tion of a white flag, a German soldier
stumbled into the American strong
point
Surrender. he cried, 'in the name
of humanity" And he told how from
the German trenches the agonized
cries of the American wounded could
be heard. But Col. Whittleseys mes
sage to the enemy was not that he
would lay down his arms.
you go to hell" he said
A few hours later American re-
serves attacked all along the line.
The Germans were pushed back, and
the little band of survivors saved.
On his return to the United States
he was voted the congressional medal
of honor, the most coveted American
decoration for heroism, and few
months after the armistice the German
officer who called on him to surren-
der made a public statement eXtolling
the courage and dogged determination
of his former foe.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-29

Washington. A represe tentative of the
Friends is at the Washington confer
ence and through him, the board car
Ties on its work.
All Over u, S,
The members of the executive com.
mittee of the Five Year Meeting of
the Friends of America, are scattered
all over the country, and large mum
ber are expected to be present from
the following list of persons at the
seml-ahnual meeting in Richmond
Wednesday.
Allen ID. Hole. chairman: Earlhan,
college; Walter c. Woodward. secre.
tary. Richmond Robert f. Pretlow
Seattle, Wash; Mary Mendenhall
Hobbs, n. c.; Rufus NJ. Jones, Haver
ford Pa; Miles White, Jr.. Baltimore
Nd; George H. Moore, Georgetown
IL; Ellison r. Purdy, Minneapolis
Mimi; David NJ. Edwards. Earlham
college; S. Edgar Nicholson, Rich
mond; Wilbur X. Thomas. Philadel
phla, Pa; Paul J. Furnas, New York
n: y; Alvin T. Coate, indianapolis
Albert S. Rogers, Toronto Ont, Can.
Carolena M. Wood, Mt KiscO. n. y
Lewis w. Mcfarland, High Point, n
G.; stephen M. Hadley. Oskaloosa
Iowa; John NJ. Newlin, Lawrence
Kas.; Joseph John Mills, Pasadena
Calf; Levi T. Pennington. Newberg
Oregon; NJ. S. Kenworthy. Whining
ton, Ohio: Ora w. Carroll, Centra
City, Neb.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-11-29

ment Character is worth more
than money" was one especially inn
pressive statement. Announcement
was made that Odd Fellows and Red
Men will be honor guests tonight.
Tonght's Subject
The subject tonight, for the first
tabernacle service, will be a lecture
on Theology, Bibliology, Anthropol-
ogy, Soteriology and Eschatology," by
DR.. Bulgin. The choir will be installed
in their new quarters, with the same
piano accompaniment as in the Meth
odist church and although accommoda-
tions for twice as large a crowd as
before will be found in the new build
ing, it is expected that it will be we'll
filled even on the first night.
Seats for the choir are placed on
the three foot wide steps rising in a
series of seven from the front, thus
making it possible for the congrega.
tion to see all members of the choir
The piano is placed at the south of
the rostrum on a platform especially
constructed for il.
The width of the building made