NellieRider. of East Norwalk.
s pdsitlon in Tc'rrihgton.
Smith and Frederick Smith, of
. are visiting their niece. Mrs.
.. 'Hommedieu, Henry street.
it. nhers. William Lockwood. of
NW Bhfen, will spend Memorial Day
wilh E. E. Gotham, First avenue:
’iWilIiam Gilbert has resigned his posi
‘ ’ with Lounsbury, Mathewson &
. , factory, and will work for his
fatbu..Bradley Gilbert, the cobbler on
the Washington street bridge.
Daniel li'Hommedieu has purchased
new computing scale. manufactured.
in Dayton, Ohio. This' is the only scale
~‘ of'thehindintowm, and not only tells
‘ earshot weight but the price as well
. Rev.F. S. Ainsworth will preach in
Britalield. Mass, Sunday. The mom
. inqeeavioe in the Advent, church in
I, Vanandt avenue willbe ill charge of
~_ ,Tghee Evenden and the evening service
inch‘argeof S. W. Veisor.
Edmund Trounson,WM1-. and Mrs.
Arthur N. Paddock. Miss Sadie Randall.
"Edna Ainsworth, Mrs. FrankSey-
I pour, Thomas Lent and Robert Thomp-
son are attending the Epworth League
Wtion' in Bridgeport, today, repre-
Beating the East avenue society. Mr.
Smith will return in time to conduct the
service tonight. I
DARIEN AND NOROTON.
iThe selectmen met Tuesday, and sel-L have been visiting relatives
place, hn‘ving wheeled here from Brook-E
looted the following jurors: George
Bates, William W. Ballard, Michael C.
Brodrick, Newton H. Crofoot, Jamesfl
fillerrigan, HiramH. Draper,GeorgeW.
.. Iowlur, George Gregory, Thaddeus
Hoyt, Andrew J. Herman, Smith 0.
Healer, William Inngdon, Richard
. 319mm,, David W. Matherx Dennis
Monahan, Charles Millspough, William
H. Nash, George T. Philcox, William
"Kalahari, Charles W. Raymond, Thomas
.. 13". Riley. Clarence E Smfield” W
n. scoseld, William Schieldknecllt.
JohnH. SelleCk, Frederick Shaw, Wil-
liam Stevens, Alexander Stevens, James
Waring, Frederick Waterbury, and
meal S. Wood.
. The town is excited again over a mysn
terlous disappearance. The party this
time being Frank Hindley. son of Tax
Joollsctor Joseph Hindley, who was last
seen about the depot Tuesday morning
. at 8 o'clock. Frank had been attending
' school in South Norwalk, and was given
85 to purchase a twenty trip ticket and
asohool book. Frank went around and
paid up some of his debts, and then dis-
appeared. Heis snpposedtobeinNew
. York city with a friend.
lies Ethel Clock has recovered from
an attack of the measles.
The Congregational church will hold
a sociable tonight at the home of Select-
man Alex. Mackey.
The ladies of the Methodist church
held a sociable last night at the home of
George Kemp. in Noroton, and quite a
. sum was realized from the sale of ice
cream and cake.
Newton If. Crofoot. Clarence Crcfoot,
Helen Schildnecht. Mamie Lindslcy,
“blue Hayter and Rev. 8. A. Sands are
reprbsenting the Epworth League here
at the district convention, in Bridgeport,
George Crofcot has accepted aposltion
with the Consolidated railroad company,
in Stamford.
George Cook has purchased a new
* Columbia bicycle.
Hrs. E. H. Palmer, who has spent the
. winter‘ at the home of George H. Tilly,
" has gone to Glastonbury.
Two more earloads ‘of rails. making
seven in all. arrived yesterday for con-
tractors White and. Crosby.
Rev. S. A. Sande Is preaching excell-
ent moan, filling the Methodist church
at every service.
Prank Tucker had a large number of
new lobster pots carted to Scotch Cove,
yesterday, and Is now engaged placing
them in position.
Ire. George W. Fowler is able once
more to ride out.
Sande 3. Bishop iserectlng s new burn
for Mrs. J. D. Wood.
Jacob Killer has so far recovered from
III! e-Ilant's attack as to be about
We. ‘
~ The trustees of the Presbyterian
church held their annual meeting Tues
day night. Frederick W. Bruggerhoif
. wu elected president.
I“ A. Shaw, who has been conflu-
ed‘tothehoussssveralwesks vvitbpneu-
mumwhtositupashcrt time
each day.
than: on the trolley extension is now
.5
‘ is
‘ mwummtnmw
sssarlysineatweek.
Ouecftbemest elegsutivsidsnceson
Uollender’sPolutisthatbeiugccastruct-
edby Edwin Trowbl’idsoi whohes for
several years rented~ the property on
which his tum isbeing erected.
undatleugtli determined totreethiin-
selfandfamilytosmcre permuuentas
[wellas‘srtistic home. ‘ ‘
‘ WILTON. ‘
“A memorial meeting will be held in
the Congregational church chapel,
today, at 7:40p. m. Thetopiccf
the meeting is governmental authority
in this country.
' A handsome flag will be raised at the
Center school, Memorial Day. , Address-
es willbe made by the Rev. W. D.
Hart, the Rev. Mr. Hooker, ,R. H.
Fitch, P. S. Ackerman, G. W. Ogden,
Daniel Hogan and veterans of the town.
It is hoped that a large number will be
out in honor of the occasion.
George E. Stitt is'visiting the F01-
lOl‘n’S.
The Country club met with David
ogdcn' last night. MissA E. Carpenter
won the ladies’ prize and David Lam-
bert, the gentleman’s A very pleasant
time was enjoyed by all present.
The sociable at Cannons last night
was well attended. Georgetown sent
quite a large delegation.
Miss Elizabeth Raymond will enter.
tain the Crescent club and friends on
Friday afternoon.
Miss Sallie Middlebrook has a new
. wheel.
The funeral of little Thomas Nolan
took place yesterday from the Catholic
cemetery. Much sympathy is expressed
for the. parents of, the little fellow. as
he was well liked by everybody.
Robert Wesson, of Whitlock’s school,
returns to New York today.
'ROWAYTON.
Miss Carrie Potty, Smith Petty mid
iyn.
C. L. Ogden had another carload of
lumber sent dovvn this week from Ran-
dall's mill in East Norwulk, the Trum-
i’vay company doing the carting.
The Baptist Christian Endeavor so—
ciable at the residence ed Mr. and Mrs.
John Sharer, last night, was attended
by about forty people, ahda pleasant
time had, with music ind games.
Wes Wt -_.,
E. E. Gorbam has an attractive adv cr-
tisement in today' s Sentinel and it
brings to mind an attractIVe line of wall
papers. Give him a call and you will be
{delighted with his stock.
'\,;r
:market, all at the right prices.
Half price sales always please, that is
when the goods offered are satisfactory.
This is the case with the Boston store,
Norwulk. They will inaugurate a half
price sale tomorrow and their goods are
sure to satisfy. They will give away
a ladies' bicycle Friday night. Read
about it and the great sale in their new
advertisement in today's Sentinel. Sat
urday, . Memorial Day, this popular
store will be closed.
Telling Oysisn' Apes.
It is just as easy to tell the age of an
oyster by looking at its shellns it is to
ascertain the age of a horse by examin-v
ingliis teeth, or a tree by inspecting
the circles revealed by the are or saw
when it is laid low. When the oyster
is six months old it is as big as a dime.
When one year old it will cover a half
dollar, and when two years old will be
about the circumference of one of U ii
ole Sam's depreciated dollars.
The oyster, unlike the crab, is not
obliged to seek new quarters or build a
new house every time he grows up.
preciably. The bivalvc's habitation
grows with him, he furnishing the
building material. The extension that
he puts onto his house are clearly marl-
ed byawcll defined ridge, as swims
from an illustration taken from life of a
former denisen of Lynn Haven, who
was almost completing the fifth year of
peaceful iexistence when ruthlessly
brought into the upper world by the
oystermsn's tongs.
Oysters are esteemed to be at their
best when between four and live years
of age, and the planters endeavor to
protect the beds for that length of
time. Conscientious uystermcnflthat
ii, men who are not Inclined to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg—always
return to thcbeds oysters that are too
young, but in case a patriarch is brought
up, over whose shell the tides of eight
or twelve winters and summers have
ebbed and flowed, lie is sent to market,
where he is put at the bottom of the
heap and sold with his younger and
more luscious companions. Such an
oyster gets into the soup eventually.-
Ncw York Journal.
Says at? Em
person by his outside appearance. A
shabby old cost may enwrsp a news-
paper publisher, while s men wearing
shighplughstsndspcrtlngegohl
heddedcauemsybe a ”Wt sub.
We, \
Richard Hammel, of Heliport, L. I...
in this
It comprises '
the most desirable wall coverings on the '
"fiNever judge a I
INFLUENCE OF TIIE IIIOII SCIIOOL
lielikrsryflieleflosfelbymh Prla-‘
tips! Feeie’s Questions.
What the influence of a High School
is from its literary side is indicated by
the following. On Monday Principal
Foote asked the pupils of the High
School just before dismissal to write on
aslinof paper the titles of any books
readby them for several months past.
,In addition tothe requirements of the
school course it is evident that time has
been improved outside. The following
books appeared on the papers handed in.
Some of these standard works appeared
on as many as a dozen lists: '
Hale's A Man without a Country.
Coilin’s Boys of '76., ,
Coilin’s Building the Nation;-
Cciiln’s Boy of '61. '
Austin’s Standish of Standish.
Tennyson’s Enoch Arden.
Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans.
Cooper‘s The Deer-slayer.
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare.
Longfellow’s Evangeline.
Alcott’s Little Man.
Alcott's Little Woman.
Torn Brown’s Schoolduys.
Toni Brown’s Signal Boys.
Henty’s Held Fast for England.
Henty's The Reign of Terror.
Beautiful Joe.
Black Beauty.
Stoddard’s Battle of New York.
A World of Girls.
Queen Bess.
Timothy’s Quest.
Electricity and Its Uses.
Electric Toy Making for Aiiiatcnrs.
Wonders of the Sea.
Vassar Girls Abroad.
Eliot's Silas ‘Murner.
Tom Sawyer.
Huckleberry Finn.
Scott's Ivanhoe.
Last Days of Pompeii.
Life of Joan of Arc.
Six Girls.
The Story of the Crusade '5.
Ben Bur. ‘13‘ “ ~
Hawthorne’e'l‘he Scarlet Letter.
Hawthorue’s House of Seven Gables.
Huwthomo's Wonder Book.
Bird’s Christmas Carol.
Holmes‘s Elsie Vonner. ‘
Kingsle'y's Westward Ho.
Our Boys in Blue.
Life of Lincoln.
Life of Grant;
Life of General Sherman.
Life of James Garfi aid.
Battlefield and Prison Pen.
Children of the Abbey.
Dunn's TWO Years Before the Maui.
Dana's Lucille.
Dicken's Little Dorrit.
Dicken's Curiosity Shop.
Dickcn's Tale of Two Cities.
A Prisoner of leads.
Adam Bede.
Great Expectations.
David Copperfield.
Sartor Reenrtus.
Correspondence of Carlyle and Emer-
son.
Holmes‘s Autocrut of the Breakfast
Table.
Holmes's Profession at the Breakfast
Table.
Life of Napoleon.
Looking Backward.
In the Days of Bruce.
Holland's Seven Oaks.
Holland's Bitter Sweet.
Strickland's Life of Queen Elizabeth.
Visitor—Johnny, do you ever got any
good marks at school? Jobnny—Y’yes'm,
but I can't show 'em.
you are thirsty a glass of
Williams’ Root Beer, sos sarkliug
and full of life, touches t c ri
spot. You can drink all you all
without harm. Bel made from
choicest roots and her s,it sidsdiges-
tion sndpromoteshcalth. Dcu’tbeiu»
duccdtosccc an otherkindcalled
“justug " usiston having
snore elves.“ N
The [annual business‘meetliig of the
Broad River Prostestant Union Church
society was held in the chapel last night.
Joules Lycelt‘ was appointed chairman.
The reports of the secretary and tree.
surer were read and accepted. The
election of officers for the ensuing your
resulted as follows: Trustees. George
W. Knapp. James Lycett, George C.
Comatock, W. E. Stiles and Charles
Britto; secretary of society and Sunday
school, W. E. Stiles; treasurer of society
and Sunday school, George C. Com-
stock; superintendent of Sunday school,
George W. Knapp; assistant superinten-
tendent, James Lycett; librarian, Frank
Lycett; organist, Miss Delia Mills; assis-
tant organist, Mrs. Thomas Gest. A
committee of three, Charles Britta, W.
E. Stiles and George C. Comstock, was
appointed to revise and remodel the by-
laws, especially in regard to the admit-
tance of members.
Josiah Kellogg's horse, which: was
taken seriously‘sick a few days ago, died »
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Hurry. Hendrick is sick with a
severe attack of rhematism.
George Wilbur Hodges will soon be in
. his glory. Yesterday he picked his first
strawberries of the season.
Harold Wilson has recovered from a
recent illness.
A wheelman collided with a team
driven by G. Edwin Conistock, last ov-
oning, but no serious damage was done.
Connecticut Patents.
The following were issued May 26,
1896. List furnished from. offices of A.
M. Wooster, patent lawyer and solicitor
, Bridgeport, Conn:
W. A. Bell), New Hu'vcn, piano; .I. P.
‘Lavingo, New Haven, hair clipper; .F
H. Richards, Hartford, two bicycle,
spring wheels for vehicles: G. E Adams,
New Britain, claspt A. F. Chaliiplin,
Waterbury. connlcting rod; J. H.
l’ilkiugton, Waterbury, ganuout sup-
perish; G. E. tBrush, Banbury, lilacbine
or uncing name is L H, Nash
South Nonvnlk wi‘i't'c! motor: (i. B11
Woodmil’. “ Winsted; ' spend changing
mechanism.
DESIGN.
W. H. Her-,bst Hartford, sled.
TRADE MARK: “
’ Heublih & Bro. .Hiu‘rtiord, remedy. for
coughs, colds, etc.i
Hobbs (of the film of Bobbs & Nobbs)
—Why dill you counterm and your order
for those fountain pens? NUIIIIh-TIIB
agent took down my order with a loud
"Boo Ami,
ob,
Bon Ami,
whence
comes
thy magic
power,
thirty
Bon
Ami
The Modern Cleaner windows
cleaned
in just
one half
an hour.”
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be”: "(II nI-‘riil'hklliisirneiscb mllummnu
humidity even! . Jincail It'.tnocloc to
hm "'0 will I ”hill” Ilse mummmnml”
sliroritn some n as sin
n elect a In bei- ad Ibo illstrlc mmrrlmlllw In
serve for he sinwmlitug breo years. nml
othernMrsIanbs ensuing your: IIIsotulny
«tax to most the. necessarily, ext moses nib:
|| cilia do dell.
district. node ,v en mu:-
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lest. nicest
Wash Suits!
Stripe linen suits, cutaway jackets trimmed with small buttons, full skirt, price
02 5o.
Grass linen suits, trimmed with white soutucbe braid avcry stylish Suit, pric
$2. 75.
While P. K. suit, full skirt blazer jacket, trimmed with white pcarlbutlons, pr
$35
0.
' Black and while check duck suits, blazer jackets, sailor collars, trimmed wi
white inserting, $3.75. '3!
Linen crash suits, corded seams, trimmed with while pearl buttons and straps,
the newest and most desirable suit for summer wear, price (6 50.
Dark blue duck suits, tiimmcd with braid and small buttons price $53.00
Separate Skirts!
White P. K. skirts, an. 25.
G ass linen skirts, iii. 25.
lack and white check skirts, s: 75.
I men crash skirts, 8r. :5.
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ggifl, Collector of {rum under
and by urine of u certain tax warrant.
illilyi-wcutml and signed by proper flll-
thority and directed tolhi unllersigiiml
' couluiiuidlughim to levy and collect of
MARY F. Bonn,
and other persons named in the rate book
on the list to said warrant annexed. their
several proportions of the sum total are
therein stated, said sum being is tax or
assessment laid upon the assessment list
mode In 180:! by the Inhabitants of the
town of Norwalk, regularly and legally
assembled, to wit. on the 2th II: .ly of De-
cember, A. I)., 1993, met for the purpose
of providing for the indebtedness of said
town, levies upon the following described
real estate of said
MARY F. Born,
situated in town of Norwalk, at Five Mi.e
lilver, so called, being 4 rod» w his in front
and rear and 10 rods in depth, with build-
lugs thereon standing and bollmlul north
erly b land of Manuel I". Delminbrmiu.
easterly and southerly by ilriftway l i-
hlgbwa and westeri by him! of the t" -
tatc of .lizabeill A. .\ illspangh, deceased.
Andlsballsellat Public Auction, on
the premises herciuliefore deer-,ribcd on
the 3|st day of July, A. D. IHOII, at 10
o'clock forenoon. so much thereof as will
raise the sum of 8d. 00 that being the propel-
tlon of the suillMIiry F. Bond of the sum
total In said list. together with the charges
oilev , sale, etc.
y om. II. SI”. JOHN.
Tax Collector. List of IHIKI.
Dated at Norwalk. May :7, A. D. ms.
was 34 ll
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Tail Collector’s Sale.
\OllCr.Is hereby given that the un-
L. (ll'l’tllflllld, l l‘Illector of Taxes, under
and by virtue of a certain tax warrant,
duly executed and signed by proper nu-
lbority and directed to the undersigned,
commanding him to levy and collect of
MARI F. Bonn
and other persons named In the rate book,
on the list to said warrant annexed, their
several proportions of the min total m4
therein stated. sold sum bellig u I or
assessment laid upon the assessment tliut
made In law: b the Inhabitants of the
town of Norms k, regularly and legally
assembled. to wit, on the let day of Marc! I.
. I)., Ibo-I, met for the purpose of
providing Ior the Indebtedness of said
town, levies upon the following described
real estate of said
MARI I". BOND, -
situated in the town of Norwnllt, at Five
\Ills River. so called, being 4 rolls wide in
front and tear and I0 rods In depth, with
buildln s thereon standing and bounded
nortber ry by land of Manuel F. llelnm
brads: easterly end southerly by drif M
or bi gbvvsy and westerlyh v [and e the
estate of Elizabeth A. Millspnngb Ils—
ceased.
Andishsllsell at Public Anctlo , on
the premises bminbefors IIescriI . on
the Iiist day of July, A. I). Imp, at I0: lb
0 'cloek forenoon, so much thereof as will
raise the sum of six It!” dollars, that
lining the proportion of the said nary If
ad of the sum total in said list, togeth-
er with the charges 0 Us“? Ie. etc.
at .10 IIN,
Tax Collector, List of ma.
Dated at Norwslk. May '17. A. D. ,lm.
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