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NORWALK GAZETTE
INORWAJKmGAZE’ITI-L
OTruth above all things.’
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1896.
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Entered in the Post Office as a Newspaper
Arbor Day in the School.
’I‘o-day is Arbor Day and in the pub-
lic schools has a practical value scarce-
ly to be measured by the mere result
of planting trees in the school yards.
That is a good thing in itself, but it
is a still better thing if it impresses up-
On children a personal It. terest in trees
- and a sense of their beauty and their
value.
City children have had lit le opportu-
nity for the cultiVation of this sense,
and country children have been too
generally brought up with no thought
at all about trees except as potential
firewood. We can already see the ef-
fect of the annual recurrence of Arbor
Day in the country as well as in the
towns, in an- awakened recognition (f
the useful functions of shade trees and
of groves and forests, as well as of their
importance as an adornment to the hat-
itations of man.
In every neighborhood we find pr 0-
ple noticing and talking about such fine
old trees as survive among them, W1 h
an interest and a pride not felt before,
and the impulse to plant otherItrees
that shall grow up to be a pleasure and
pride to those who come after shows
itself everywhere stronger year by year.
All this is good for the community,
morally and materially. Evenzthe sen-
timental side of it is useful,§_for it is
through the interest t-huszawakemd
that the larger problems of practical
forestry and arboriculture will eventual-
ly be grappled with. The carelessness
about trees has been one of the natural
faults of a new country. We had so
many forests to clear away in the be'
ginning, that we came to look upon
trees only as obstacles to be removed,»
and not as a necessary part of the econ;
omy of nature that it was {our} duty to
treat with consideration. I
We, have reached a point: now where
we are compelled to recognize the mis-
takes of those who went before us and
to take some thought for those who are
to come after. This thought for pos-
terity is one of the essentialllnotes of
civilization, and those who are charged
with the education of our youth are
doing well in not only planting trees in
the school yards, but planting in the
minds of our future citizens the seeds
of an intelligent regard for man’s bene-
ficient friends of the garden, the field
and the forest. I
I An Evening With Browning.
The young lady s‘udents of Miss
Baird’s seminary were last night treated.
to a very delightful evening with the
Brownings. Miss Patton gave an even-
ing’s'lecture and reading of exceeding
interest. She classed Browning as the
first English poet after Shakespeare,
and his wife as pre-eminent among
women poets. In originality and del-
icacy of thought, exquisite refinement
of expression and musical harmony of
her rhythm she was unquestignably
unexcelled, among the women poets of
the world. “But then,” the fair lect-
urer naively remarked, “the coming
woman had not come.”
A Safety Check.
Wm. H. Campbell of No. 23 Union
Square, N. Y., Wldely known for his
originality in railroad printing, has
brought out a safety check book ingen-
iously devised to abolish the raising of
checks, drafts, etc. The device is a
simple, effective and inexpensive means
of protection against fraud that Will
commend itself to any pract1cal mind
at a glance. It obviates the use of the
punching machine and makes unneces-
sary the employment of chemically pre-
pared papers. Send for the illustrated
circular of samples which he is sending
to all applicants.
Mr. Campbell is a son-in-law of A. G
Bette of this city who has samples of
the check-book.
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Kicked by a Horse.
You may have noticed that “Tommy”
Gregory is going lame. The cause of
it? He was engaged in clipping a horse
belonging to “Will” Lockwood. yester-
day, when the animal dealt him‘ severe
kick above the knee. The wound while
severe was no: of a serious nature.
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Base Ball.
The National Bass Ball League sea-
son opened yesterday. The results
were: Washington, 6; New York, 3;
Brooklyn, 6; Baltimore, 5. Boston, 7;
Philadelphia. 3. Pittsburgh, 9; Cin-
cinnati, 1. St Louis, 5; Cleveland, 2.
,. Chicago, 4; Louisville, 2.
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wAdvertise in the GAZETTE.
-o')liged to vis't as excise man.
ANCIENT'NORWALKé-Con.
on Washington street, near the office of
Riym 1nd Bros.
I asked about the Rev. EdWin Hall,
the compiler of 1b a History of Norwalk.
‘Miss Betts said she always knew him
for he taught school in Norwalk before
he was ordained as a minister; a man
of high integrity; his sermons were
“sound” and he'lived what he preached.
Miss Betts’ sister. Susan, taught school
in the district school when very young,
as an assistant. She Was so much liked
as a teacher that she had two thirds of
the pupils in the town in her classes;
and, with the advice of friends, she
opened 11. prints school which she con-
ducted very successfully f)!‘ many
years To her belongs the‘ honor of
starting the first Sunday school in Nor-
walk, in 1817, in company with Theo-
dosia Rogers and Sally Phillips The
meeting house was not heated so the
scholars met 1n Miss Betts’ school room.
The children Were taught Scripture
text and the Catechism; the hours for
Sunday school was between church ser-
vices at 1 to 2 o’clock.-
I asked Miss Betts to tell me of her own
only school days. The school house,
she said was on the hill opposite her
house and she began attending school
there very young. She cannot remem-
ber when she could not read, and she
wrote with case at five years old. He;-
first teacher Was Miss Polly Beers, a lit-
tle, fat woman Without any conspicuous
characterist'cs. .Miss Bette smiled And
said, “I don’t believe she ,knew enough
to teach school nowadays.” The teXt
‘books were Webster’s Spelling Book,
Child’ I .structor, American Preceptor,
and Morse’s Geography without an at-
las, and which was chiefly deVoted to
the eastern and western hemispheres.
An amusing incident of her school days
was connected w.th the cupola which
adorned the top of the building.
It held no use Whatever, but a small
aperture in the ceiling gave access to
is interior, and the children liked to
c ‘imb into it when Miss Beers was nor
by
One day little Sally Ann Jennings
had climbed into the cupoln and Miss
Beers-came in unexpectedly, prevent-
ing her from getting down. Whenever
Sally Ann tried to get out Miss Beers
poked her back with a long pole which
stood near her desk. In the middle of
the afternoon the small prisoner made
a desperate leap for freedom, when the
teacher’s back was turned, and got off
the door and ran as hard as she could
for home; she never returned to the
schOol
Fifty years later Miss Bette met her
former playmate, then Mrs. Brady, in a
dry goods shop and they laughed to-
gether over this escapade.
“The parties she attended when a
girl generally assembled at 4 o’clock in
the afternoon and broke up at 10 o’clock,
never at 11 for that would have been
shocking. The favorite amusements
were kissing games and forfeits of vari-_
ous kinds. “The young men liked
that,” Miss Betts remarked naively.
Cards were almost never seen among
nice peOple. In her father’s mind they
were associated with the tavern he was
1 inleD.
Miss Betts was sixteen she happened
to visit a family who were in the midst
tJa game of cards. She was asked to
join them but she refuel, saying she
had never touched a card in. her life.
They urged her to fill a place at the
table, at least, and she reluctantly com‘
plied. Going home a terrific thunder
storm overtook her and she trembled
lest she be struck dead for the sin of
card-playing.
Many years later when both her par-
ents were dead, there ere city board-
ers at the house. A young man of the
party started a game of cards in the
parlor while Miss Betts was out. When
she returned and found the party play-
ing (ads she felt cold with horror as
she remembered her father’s aversion
of cards and here they were sitting in
use wry room where her pious father
used to pray. She fifelt as if a saloon
had been opened in the old house, she
said. Culling the young man aside she
kindly asked him to keep the cards in
his room if he wished to play and told
him her parents would almostrlse in
their graVes if they ,- -uld know of this;
and the pleasent, «.111 young fellow
apologized and rip-.11 sctl not to trouble
her wrth them age...
Of course the Enpire dresses with
short Waists and scant skins prevailed
during the girlhood of Miss B he. The
materials 11 at were silks, Fr«. non prints,
and gingnains; a prevalent fashion even
for Winter was a white embroidered
muslin frock with along outer coat of
silk. which Was unfastened. from the
waist down. Physicians used to call
this “muslin consumption” attir' .
The dear old lady was Very patient
and sweet‘With all my questions and
greedy listening to her talk, and her
niece Was very kind about helping to
call up the stories of the past.
I came away feeling as it I had real-
ized a fancy that once crossed my brain,
that it would be pleasant now and then
' to leave the present for a visit in the
veritable past as one may visit another
town.
We bade Miss Betta farewell and
entering the carriage awaiting us drove
up France Street past the tablet mark-
ing the place of the Battle of the Rocks
Within sight of Blue Mountain on which
the first settlers paused to view their
promised land in the valley of the Nor-
walk 243 years ago. Thence. we re-
turned to South Norwalk down the his-
toric read, East avenue past the site oil
the first settlement marked by the
Founders stone and the Down Town
burial ground, where the early settlers
sleep,full of a spirit of interest 'and rev-
erence for Norwalk of the olden time.
HERE AND THERE.
To-day is Arbor day.
out a tree?
Did you set
There is a falling. off in the demand
for snow shovels.
Several lads were in swimming in the
creek, yesterday.
The Daughters of Erin sociable will
take place this evening.
Rev. W. S. Rafter will preach ‘in
Grace church next Sunday.
An adjourned meeting of the City
ecuncil Will be held this evening.
Three tramps slept in the dungeon at
the Smith street station house, last night. '
Mrs. Johnson of Newtown paid a visit
to the County Children’ s Home, yester-
day.
—Call in Saturdav and save money
on Groceries at N. Y. Store.
.Pl oe'iix Engine company held‘an en-
j -yable sociable at the Athet term last
evening.
Mr. Stewart 131.1111“ and his sister
Frances visited friends in Stamford
last evening.
The bids for the repairs on the town
roads will be opened at the Selectmen’s
ofiice, to-morrow.
Mzss Amanda Smith, of Franklin ave-
nue is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frances
Bristow, in Br0oklyn.
Afew trys were set out in Arbor
Park, at the junction of North avenue
and Main street. to- lay.
Strawhats were very much in evi-
dence to- day, and thermometers regis-
tered 97 degrees above zero.
A base ball game will be played be-
tween the Norwalks and Winnipauks
to-morrow afternoon.
Judge Cowell of Waterbury, yester-
day, sentenced a wife beater to :four
months’in jail and to pay a fine of $150.
It is on Sunday, April 24th not April
3lst, that Buckingham Post, G. A. R.
will attend memorial servicesat Grace
church.
The J. T Prowitt Company has a
gang of men at work at Collenders
Point, painting “inside and out” the
Collender buildings. -
A bright eyed boy has been born'to
Mr. and Mrs. William Bishop. This
makes a great uncle of W. F. Bishop,
Esq, of Belden avenue.
N. W. Benedict’s horse ran away yes—
terday afternoon on Wall street. It
was stopped by Expressman Lincoln
before any damage was done.
Harry Leopold the tonsorial artist has
opened on Main street What can. be
called a parlor barber shop. The ap-
pointmonts of the place are complete.
Mrs. Milo H. Parsons attended the
D. A. R. meeting yesterday at the home
of Miss Sallie Bette, and extended an
invitation to the members to meet at
her home, the third. week in May.
—The N. Y Daily Morning World,
one cent, at my store.
vour house, nine cents per week. JOHN
T. HAYES, 5 Main street.
A civ1l service exiimination for posi-
tions in the United States Postal ser-
vice WIllbe held at the post-office in
this city, Saturday June 6th.
Selectman, Selleck is credited with
saying that his will pay no more bills to
the health officer for the posting of
“measles” cards. An order has been
drawn for the health officer’s bill.
Town Clerk Herbert R. Smith will
start for Tennessee next Monday with
strong hopes of finding a cool wave
and perhaps sleighing.
Councilman Charles F. Tristram and
Robert A. Dix Will leave on June 20th
fora sojourn in Europe. Mr. Tristram
anticipates reneWed energy and health
by reason of the trip.
——Best creamerv butter, 21c per lb; 5
lbs. 101' $1.00. N. Y. Stine.
St. John’s Lodge, F. d: A. M.con~
ferred the second degree on Selectman
Frank H. Merrill last'night. He now
reels free to learn how to ride a bicycle.
P. Slattery and wife are in South
Fordham, N. J., to-day, in attendance
at the funeral of John Reiner, a relative.
The interment was in St. Raymond’s
cemetery, West Fa: ms.
HOpe Hose company will hold a
smoker to night. It Will in aqway com-
memorate the second anniversary of
the reorganization of the company.
Hope Hose boys are not only first-class
firemen but bang-up entertainers.
John Conley has taken the agency for
the Eureka Broom Holder. It isthe
tidiest and best device for holding a
broom, aside from a woman’s hands, in
the mirket. It works automatically
or d cannot get. out of order.
Delivered to.
Mrs. LeGrand C. Bettsreturned from
Washington, D. C. last evening.
.John F. Wilson is under arrest for
being intoxicated and John Convery is
“in limbo” on the charge of being a
vagrant. Both will be introduced to
Judge Hubbell, this afternoon.
See adv. building lot forsale.
George Humphrey of Bridgeport,
aged about three years, died at the
Children’s Home last night. The boy
was attacked with the measles which
developed pneumonia. The cause of
death was meningitis.
-—Bnrtlnt: Pears, 3lb. can only 100.
N. Y. Store.
Mention was made in these columns
the other dry of the birth of a child to
Mr. and Mrs. Frances McLoughlin of
this city. Announcement of the arrival
of the little strager was followed by a
check from its uncle for $700
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FROM BUSY NEW ENGLAND.
Mrs. Bowman Ames, of Blanchard,
Me., has shot a. large deer and trapped
five foxes near her home this winter
without aid from anyone.
The horses which are used on the
Kennebeck ice fields are so accustomed
to dropping through the ice that they
don’t seem to mind it.
A‘ woman in South Kingston, R. I.,
- who is just 20 years old, is the mother
of six children. ,Two pairs of twins
were born to her before she was 16. '
One woman in a. town near Bang-or,
Me, is being laughed at because she re-
cently w cut to a. drug store and asked
for some of that “Monroe doctm 1n’ ”
Several young people of Eastbrook,
Me, have organized a. dramatic club,
and will give entertainments to raise
money for a. hearse, the town under-
taker not having one.
SOME LOG CA_BIN NOTES.
DE man What sings dc loudest in
church throws his head so fur back dat
he can’t see de collection basket when
it comes crlong.
SOME folks ls so fond er huntin’ trou—
ble dat dey can’t enjoy a. mess er honey
I'O’ thml. 111 what mighter happened ef
dc bee had stung’ em.
DE road for Ilcabcn is so narrow that
some folks done come ter dc conclusion
dat dey ain’t room enough fo’ two at a.
time.
SOME folks spend half dc day Vvaitin’
for do train, when dey might er took
do big road an’ beat it by six hours.
WHEN you heah a. man sayin’ dat dis
is a hardworld, ten chances ter one he’s
broke his leg tryin’ ter fly, when he
orter been walkin’.—Frank L. Stanton,
in Chicago Times-Herald.
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Itching
If there is one thing more than
another which gratifics us, it is the
great volume of hearty thanks which
come from grateful parents for the
cures Hood’s Sarsapal‘illa has cffcctcd ,
upon their children. The agony of
despair turns to unspeakable joy as
mothers and fathers scc drcadful sores
and eruptions gradually yield to the
potent pu11fy 1110' pow or of this great
medicine, and b1 W'llt boys and 2111s
given perfect health. Read this:
“When my baby was four weeks old,
‘scrofulous eczema broke out on his body.
He became literally covered with
So res
When six months old the breaking out
healed on his body, but his head,face and
arms were a terrible sight. I passed many
sleepless nights holding his little hands
to keep him from scratching his face. I
cannot tell What he suffered with the sores.
One doctor attended him a year without
avail. No one thought he w ould ever get
well. He, was almost a year old when I
commenced to giV 6 him Hood’s Sarsapa-
rilla. He soon grew so much better that
Cured
I was able to rest at night. Gradually-the
sores on his head and arms healed, the
burning and itching cgased, and he slept
better.. In 2 months he looked like an-
other child, gained strength, was cured.
I recommend all'persons afflicted with
eczema or any ékin disease to take Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I feel assured that it will
do wonders for others. I cannot praise
it too highly for what it has done for my
poor little sufferer. It is hardlto believe
he is the same child, he is now such a
big, hearty, fat boy, a very picture of
health. If more people would give Hood’s
Sarsaparilla to their children, there would
not be so many poor, delicate little ones. ”
Mus. AGNES C. BAILEY, Box 91, McVey-
town, Pennsylvania.
This and other similar cures prove that
Hood’s.
Sarsaparilla
' Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 31.
Be sure to get Hood’s and only Hood’s.» It is
prepared only by C. I. Hoocl&Co.. Lowell, Mass.
care all Liver Ills and
‘ HOOd S Pills Sick Headache. 25 cents.
Chilton Paint
r
Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. Ail shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making them uniform and
even. Compare the size of cans and
weight with the cheaper makes. You
get an honest gallon. Give it a trial and
you will be convinced. I
H. H. WILLIAMS
17 Main. St.
IIEIIE’S 101111 1111111111.
A fine building lot on Wilton avc—
unit. If you intend to build, look at
this before purchasing. V
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
WM. 1-1. avmcron,’
lleal Estate" and Insurance,
Room I, Gazette B’l’d.
HOYT’S THEATRE
One Merry Week. Commencing
Monday, Apr. 1 3
DAILY DIME MATIIEES Dffllllllfl WEDNESDAY
NOW_THE BIGGEST AND BESI‘.
BlCE’S COMEDIANS
BEADED BY
THOS. F. STRATTON. '
Same Grand Band and Orchestra. All New
Plays.
Monday Eve’g, Too- Much Married.
Prices, - 10. 2'0: and 30 Cents,
Seats now on sale at Plaisted’ 3 drug store
and Pinneo s stationery store.
SPECIAL OPENING
__.OF_—
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lMI-LLINERY
Wednesday & Thursday,.lpril I546
Consisting of Trimmed Hats andevery
thing in the Millinery Line
Ladies will Please 11116111 11111 Invitation
FAWCETT’S
3 I74 TER STREET, JVOR WA. LR
Norwalk Opera House
Ellinwood’s IIerr’y Players!
SPECIAL RETURN DATE .
WEEK OF APRIL 20th
Mr. Dave Seymour;
Miss Lettle Sheppard.
and Miss Corinne Le Vaunt.‘
OPENING PLAY,
MONDAY IIIGIIT, DIAIADIID DIDK!
Ladies Admission to Reserved Seats. 100.
Gentlemen’ “ " 15c.
Secure Tickets at Weed’s or Tomlinson’s Drug
o.res
“ Mr. Potter of Texas” and ‘She ” positive-
ly produced at this engagement, ”
PRICES. - ICC. 200. and 300
£01: 541311.
FOR SALE—Now is the time to buy an
Eddyrefrigerator. none better. So. Noa-
WALK HARDWARE (:0.
WANTED.
WANNTEDTSplendid chance to take the
(ivil service Examinations soon in this
city. Information about all government po-
sin ns.salur1es,etr. tree 01’ NATIONAL Cor.-
BESPONDENCE Insurers, Wash” D. U. ’tw
AN'I‘ED—Bicyele riders to know that
we hate the W verly , the best wheel on
earth. SO. Nonwanx HARDWARE Co.
PERSONAL.
OULTRN netting lower than ever before
at the b0.‘1\0RW.LLK Hanpwann Co.
1'0 BENT.
0 RENT—From May lst, a five-room cot-
_ tags. with ham room and stabling if de-
Sl!'ed. Ad301n1ng res-nience of Walter F. Fitch
on Westport avenue. Rent, $7.00 per month.
A1 D111 on the prem1ses. all-4t
LOST.
CST—0n April 7. a large black cat, answers
to the name of Jetty- Reward if 1etu1ned
to No. 3 Berkeley street. 1115. St
Mau-
enjoyed on a Rambler.
I WHEELIHG DELIGHT is beyond measure the greatest when
There is, in itself, a pleasure
in knowing that one is mounted on absolutely the
best Bicycle in the world. That’s the comfort of
flAflBLEfl ridinO‘. Of
course, like all good things, it
costs more than the mediocre article, and is worth
l'IlC re.
However, we keep in
wheels,
stock a line of lower-priced
such as the Gales, Ideal, Slorrmer and Gotham.
All good and’reliable wheels.
THE J. T. PR’OWITT CO.,
45 MAIN STREET,
NORWALK, CONN.
' OLSEN BROS-
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Our display of new Tan Shoes and Oxford for the spring
of ’96 beats anything ever shown in town for novelties, liber-
ality and splendor.
They dazzle and bewilder
you, and you will be the worst
disappointed person in town it you don’t come in and exam-
ine our shoes, Whether you wish to buy or not.
as usual, 'rHE LOWEST, at
The prices
OLSEN BROS.’
WHITE SHOE STORE
3 GAZETTE "BUILDING, NORWALK.
YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING
PLAISTED’S COUGH REMEDY
AND unconnnnn ITS USE
Get a Bottle at once. 25.3 and 50' Cents.
ALL DRUGGISTS.
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Norwalk Chronicler