Phone "55-5 Ibellene 1m 1: ho bet- ter Material used. than we put In our Home Made Can- dles. F. .4. LANE. ”Washington Street. 1c -:- 21.111115? '1. at his home In Danbu John Neugebsuer. the tailor. is In New York today on business. 0.1. Palmer Ia III with the grip at his home In Slmwood avenue. The annual meeting of the Catholic Club will be held this evening. The Sheet Metal Workers Union will hold a regular meeting this cyan- Ill Miss. Mabel F. Spendiove is Ill at her home In Grove street with an at- tack of grip. Harold Clark, manager for Butcher Ferd Hayes, spent yesterday with fri- ends In Darlen The clerks at A. Dickerman A Son 11 annual Inventory; Hanford Smith and family. of Dar. Ion, formerly of Norwalk. are moving today to North Main street A meeting of the onlclal depart 11.111111131111113. The Iueineea Directory will be found on Page 7 today. Nathan E. Peck. of New Haven. for- molly of Norwalk. has been spending a few days in town. ’ Read the advertisement 6! W. 8. :Stu'rtev'ant and see his interesting story about pianos. The Howland Rummage Sale is now under full sway. Read the advertise-4 merit upon page three. The sloop 0.1.. Risley. of Port Jet. ferson. Is In the harbor with a load of oysters for A. H. Merrill. Edmund Power, of Stuart avenue, has started a new saw mili‘plant, hav- ing purchased new apparatus. Charles E. Lockwood is ill of brain trouble. at the Norwaik, Hospital and is said to be in a serious condition. Irene. the daughter of Edward Bar rett of No.8 High Street, who has diphtheria. is rapidly recovering. The moving picture exhibition at the armory, for the benefit of Company F, came to a close Saturday night. If your shaving mug was at Zahn's you will now find it at Pohlman's. Road Mr, Pohlman's advertisement. The Boxmakers' Union will hold a regular meeting tomorrow evening In Mystic Chain hall. Washington street ~Dr. M. S. Rosen, Eye and Ear Spe clailst from Bridgeport. removed his oflice from the Mahackemo Hotel, to 52 North Main St.. So Norwalk. where he can be consulted on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays from 1 o'clock toi p.111. only. A regular meeting of the city of Nor- waik Council will be held at the coun- cil chamber in Wall street this even- ing. Old Well Tent improved Order of the Maccabees, will meet this evening in Knights of Pythias hall. Washing- ton street. Eureka Rebekah Lodge will pays visit to Laurci‘ Rebekah Lodge at Stamford, on Wednesday evening. Members will take the 6:55 train. A little daughter of Mrs Mary Mc- Imughlin. of Prospect avenue is ill 01 diptheria. and the house has been quarantined by Health Ofllcer Tracey The Humphrey gas are light is the nearest approach to daylight. Read more about this light in the advitise- meat of the Coup. Railway and light ins 00m . Colt Encampment No. 31. l. 0. 0. 51, will pay a fraternal visit to Was cussa Encampment, of Stamford, in marrow evening. and will take the train leaving at 8 o'clock. 1‘. special meeting of Grace Church rarish. to act on the resignation of the ltcv. J. McClure Bellom as rector. will be held this evening. Afterward a restry meeting will be held. —-Very few brands of Cigars boll their own like the Imperial Crown. it has beenruld r 10 years and ove1 and Is noiacorfiewd one of the stan dard~brands. 1 ' _ . Colfax Encampment, No. 31. l. O. O. R. will hold a regular meeting tonight, when the R. P. degree will be conferred on three candidates. and all memberes are requested to be present. The D. M‘Read ompariy are sdver tising corsets. ”(min company have special attractions not only in the re ductions of prices Just now. but also in their} conveniences for the fitting. The importantmme of pool between William Kelsler. 115. and Thomas J Keogh, 90. in the semi-final round of tho Putnam Hose company’s tourna- ment. is to be played this evening. The next pool game between William L. Olsen and Frank A. Van Buren In their special series at the Norwaik t'lnb, will be played tomorrow evening The score is now: Van Burch. 200; OI sen. 170. _ _ Col. Samuel Daskam. of East ave- nue. celebrated his 80th birthday Sat- . urday. Colonel Daekam is perfectly balelnd heartfiand looks to be a man of much younger years._ He Is reboot NorwsIk every day. ‘ The Commercial Record in its weak , lyeummsry. states that there were five seleeofreaieetetoin Norwalk. lest oak and the nurtures recorded an- . sued to ram One year ago there museum-ad mortgages of 6050. .sfi‘b a Sparto and - nicipal .In North Main street. when reports on meat of the Norwalk Methodist Church will be held next Wednesday night. James Wood Jr, of New York city. spent Sunday at the home of his fath- or In law, Joseph Cox. on Roton Hill. The Bridge fish market's fresh or- rival today includes roe shad. Read the advertisement elsewhere In this is sue The Boys' Brigade of the South Nor- walk Baptist Church will hold Its reg- ular weekly meeting and drill tomor- row evening at 7: 30 at the church. Dr J. M Coburn and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hallcck and Miss May Q. Smith attended service at the Row- ayton Baptist Church last evening. Lady Jennings lodge. Shepherds of Bethlehem. will hold a regular meeting W nesday evening. in Red Men’ 11 ball. Wa ington street and work the first degree -—Arions Mask Bali tonight Arion Hall. Gentlemen, 500; ladies, 250. Handsome costumes and flrsbclass music The force 01' the South Norwaik mu- iighting plant has installed electric motors In Ex- -Mayor W. B. Hubbell‘s hat shop to re—Inforce the power at the shop. Harry and Percival Wilson, Oscar Squires and Howard Lowndes spent yesterday with friends in Bridgeport. Raymond Bros. are expecting anoth- er cargo of coal in today The ltalian independent Society held hell In Ely avenue and took In several new members After the business the members indulged in refreshments. A Cottage prayer meeting for the members of the South Norwalk Baptist Church will be held tomorrow even- .Ing at 67. Fort street. East Norwaik. Deacon Frederick Lyon will conduct the meeting. The several companies of the N01- walk Fire Department will be held to- morrow night and It insisted that at this meeting the Rev. Lewis K. Moore‘s sermon on the department will come under discussion. It is reported that seve1al members of the Teamster's Union. not in good standing, especially a few who fre- quent the saloons are to be dismissed from the Union at the next meeting. Friday evening. The Salvation Army will hold spec lai meetings every evening this week except tomorrow night at the barracks In South Main street. Captain Red stone In planning to make these meet ings of special interest. The Junior Department of the Y. M. C. A. is planning for a novel and do lightful entertainment Friday evening. The affair will be a colonial social and - those attending will be attired In co ionisi costume. The boys have plan nod also to give an entertainment. ~Montauks vs N. l'. H. 8.. Monday night The Dramatic Circle of the Lamont Club will meet tomorrow evening at 8 oclock In the parlors of the South Norwaik Congregational Church. Ev- ery member In requested to be present At the close of this meeting the Get About Committee or the club will meet. Miss Anna 'l‘. Morphine! the milli- nary department of the Boston Store and Miss Nora E. Ryan. who is in charge of the suit department of the same store and Miss Liaaie Kennedy. of Naugatuck. will start tomorrow (01 Florida where they will spend a month at Palm Beach Louise Lodge. Daughters of Her mean. will meet Wednesday evening with Mrs. Mary Malmo at her home the state convention held here last week will be given Beginning with th first of April the lodge will hold regular meetings in Mystic Chain hall. Washington street. ‘ W .ww. 150. SHEET MUSIC tarantula)! and Monday. In the Sweet Bye end Bye. ‘ The Missionary Man. Little Boy In Blue. Down Where the Cocoanuts Grow. When Kate and 1 Were Coming Though the Rye. Wake Up My Little Dixie Sweetheart. MASKS Wind's liars Stand, WNW 11am 1A J. Collins Is small] a few days ~ store are busily engaged In taking the . a meeting yesterday afternoon In Its . VOTES. never. Th the tri theart Prices could not well be lower—~fro The Suite are from our regular Ito closed. They would not be here If Ih standard of quality and tailoring. Yet you are asked td lpay no more than cheap unreliable Suits are sold for All since In a great range of smart fabrics presents almost unre~ stricted choice. You will be wise If you come without delay. Note the price reduction: . FROM ‘0 AND ".50 DOWN TO “.69. FROM C‘IO'AND 812 DOWN TC 36.69. m GREAT GUAMWR SATNACTWN OR MONEY RACK. ' TheGreatRedTagSale Men’ 9 High-Grade Suite fit very Favorable Spices. New Is the most favorable opportunity offered you to buy good Suite. n1 80 to 10 per cent. under value. cks and from our own factory, new ey did not come up to our high still her e. eothet k FRO FRO "2.50 AND 316 DOWN TO ”.69. ’10 AND .20 DOWN TO ‘11.“. Young Men’s Soils. Young men can find here all the style and quality they demand in these Suits now priced about half. Reductions. FROM “.50 AND 67.50 DOWN TC 63.69. FROM 67 AND 610 DOWN TO $5.60. FROM :12 AND to news TO ease. ‘ ' The sale continues to interest men In need of Overcoats Roofers and Ulsters, Furnishings and Hats and also mothers of boys in search of won- derful values at very small prices. ‘ New ba1gai11s on the Rummage Tables, too Cams tack Bras. Tel. Call. 8M. 1. Nothing that we can't “stand by" comes in- to our store or goes out of it. Our reputation stands behinds everything it“ SOUTH NORWALK. we sell. TAKE OUR OATS FOR EXAMPLE: They‘re carefully screened—all ' the dust. dirt and chaff sifted out. >We don’t want to in- crease the number oi wind broken horses.” Give And we sell it. Valentines NOW READY. , William P. Beers, Bookeellor Stationor. Engraver. NORWALK. cons. Jncxsonvs STUDIO 1! DOW Dl‘OdIICID FINE PHOTOGRAPHS, ' BEAUUFUL WAIFR- COLORS. -—HIGH GRADE WORK ONLY.-- . Our PLATINUM PORTRAITS are the- best productions of the Art. 53 Wall so" Nor-walk. alive toda BUY oars THAT'S CLEAN. your animals wholesome food—they deserve it. MANUEL 'r. HATCH. 49 WALL STREET. MADE-TMRDEll-OIASBBS. Eye Glasses are not worn as an ornament, but they need not be the re- lll- titted Classes are nearly always disfiguring. Perfect fitting ones HOMER B. HOY'I'. REFRACTINO OPTICIAN. Roorn 9 United Bank Buildin ii. Oince ham: 8 to 11: 45; 12: 45 to 6: 30. Saturday SOVOsTMDSI 7-.0 , Special Appointments at convenience of patrons, Jackeon'e Studio. GRASS HOUSES OF THE WICHITAa The finest house ever designed bys red. skin is the grass house of the Wichitas. a tribe that at present live in Southern Oklahoma. They are the only tribe that ever accomplished suc- cessfully the erection of a grass struc~ tut-e. Soon they are fonts and take up their umdrum reaer vetion life in twp room frame shacks. which are being built for them by the government. The guns house. it is . claimpd. is far tram lielng healthful. but It is certainly rtebl are but aboflt' abandon these .. of buildina client 8 will stand. \ city. ‘ Prudent housewives will lay in : come cheaper by the case. At all the A host of extraordinary bargains innit t 1111111 AND GAS FITTING. Tin. Sheet Iron. Copper and Zinc. SC South Main Street. South Norwalk, Conn. Telephone, 137-3. STATISTICAL TESTIMONY. Furnished by the Reading Company to the Coal Strike Commission. PHILADELPHIA leb. 2-8latlstlc- al testimony was presented today by the Reading Company before the An thracite Coal Strike Commission. W. W. Ruley, of this city, who conducts a bureau maintained by the coal carry- Ing companies for collecting statistics NORWALK. TOI. Call “-4. 1 Norwalk, Conn. CHOICE HVDIA CRA YONS. Health by Good Living The new sugar pens are better than even: the only drawback is the scan their winter’s supply, Besides. they Health Brand stores. Don't forget the label. and watch for the new consign- ment of Library Books. WHEN PAT PLAYED .THE LION. "No," said the lion tamer to Patsy Flannigan. “you can’t have a Job he look after the animals out our pet lion died last week. and we' ve kept the skin. so. 1'". give you two pounds a week to dress up as the lion." .. "Two pounds!" echoed Fisnnigahi “Good gracious! Rte theneomuch gold N. In the world! gem-r!" So Patsy d S? the lion and. 'lay down in the cage. he managerie a were opened and the perform- nape commenced , , "mice and gun en." said the keeper "to ehow the aerial death. of these animals. iire will now placeI lion in the cage th the ti ‘ two buckets at the end of a rope run- '- ed the dredge through the chain holes. BUSINESS WOERY CAUSED SUI- ‘ Venezuela to the rejection by the allied ..._._,_.. KING'S HEALTH DEFERO VISIT. concerning the hard coal production. said that the United States govern- ment utilized the data collected by his bureau. He said that his reports were based on the statements furnished monthly by the lailrosd companies. A. C Wilson of Pottsville. land agent in the employ of the company, testified to the amount of taxes paid by the cor- porations in the mining region, PASSING OF THE WELL SWEEPS. Once a Cemmon Feature, They Have Almost Disappeared. (New York Sun). In the course of a twenty-mile walk along country roads In southern Con- necticut there were seen only two well swocps,‘once as common a feature of the landscape there as windmills are In Holland. There were found a num- ber of wells of the o1dlnary kind. with ning on a wheel and one or two wells of the Windlass kind with a bucket at the end of a rope wound 11p on a roller by the turning of acrank. but In most cases the old oaken bucket, In what ever manner it may have been used. has . been supplanted by the chain pump. ~1— __ WRECKINC rue'ro muss ossooa. STAMFORD. Conn. i-‘eb. 2—«A wrecking tug from New York has been sent for to raise a dredge which sank last night in the canal here. / The dredge belongs to the. Randeison Com- pany. of Albany, N. Y. Two of the forward spuda which.wer.e embedded .in the mudbroka off and water enter- All of the c1ew were on board at the time but owing to the deep draught of the dredge and the shsllowness of the water. they got off safely when she sank. ’ LOUIS FOSTER’S TRACIC END. ‘ GOOD GROUND L. 1, Feb. 2—The body of Louis Foster, who had been missing since Friday when he went oystering in Time Bay was found last night near the shore. Louis Foster was a brother of Clarence Foster, who was drowned with Miss Sarah Law. rence last June in Tiana Bay. and for whose alleged m11rde1 Louis A. Dis- brow was tried and acquitted. The wind blew a gale on Friday on the bay. and it Is believed that young Foster's boat was upset and he tried to swim ashore, but perished ....._.... .. ....—...- DE. NEW LONDON Feiuuary ‘——Peter Rasmussen, local manager of the Co- lumbia Towel and Apron Supply Com pany. hanged himself in the ofilce of the concern In this city Sunday night. The body was discovered this morn- ing. Business worry is assigned as the cause for the suicide. The deceased was a native of Sweden. He leaves a widow and one child. ALLIED POWERS’ PROPOSAL. LONDON. February 2——In answer of powers of her proposal to treat on an equality the claims of all nations with out giving the allies preference, has not yet been receiy . nor has any dell- .nite counter proposal been made. ‘It Is not anticipated here that the nego- tiations looking to a compromise. which are now. going on in Washing- (tips will reach a head for at least two ays LONDON. Feb. 2—King Edward and Queen Alexandra were to have gone on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. at Cheteworth. today but their departure was postponed at the lee minute because the king was outer. tag from a feverish cold. His Meaty was planting trees at noon, eomedis— tanee from Windsor Castle and ap- peered then to be In excellent health and spirits. —-—-——__.,.._._... THE IRISHMAN AND THE ARMY MU , General Phil :1 mad at whatslittie incident d'ild h the most. "web. 3.; he said "i do not know. 1m 1.1m mend the any male. ”dowatbe laugh when I think of the._ ”f Them flashers. Don“ t hesitate to bring that boy here as soon at possible. YOUTHO' SUITS (ages 15 to 1..) “.00 to 06.60 Qualities, cut to 63.6.. _ 1‘ », 60.60 to 610.00 Qualities, out to 60.40. g p YOUTHB’ OVERCOATC. ‘ " ‘ $6.00 to 66.50 Ouslitiee out to 63.0., 83.50 to 610.00 Qualities, out to “.49. BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S MIXIOOUITC, , ' 1‘ Formerly Priced “.00 to 63.50, out to 81.40 to $2.50. ' MEN'S SOSOM SHIRTS. , . All of our newest patterns In Colored Shirts, also e lot of pleited boy _ som White Shirts that were formerly priced $1 to 81.50, cut task. '1 iroquois snug fitting Wool Ribbed Underwear, that was reasonably p1iced 82. 00 per garment. cut to 81. 25 - . Many excellent Men' s Suits and Overcoats left at greatly roduopd prices. 1 y . . . , .v—‘I. OPEN MONDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGC ONLY.5 '2 I ‘ Silllllk 81 Pitt. 96 Washington Street. 80. NORWALK. As You Like It Seodleee; 35c don. Caiifornlngead , W LEMONs—zoc sex. need. that. ———.f__.e‘,— NEW MAPLE SUGAR—4.015. EGGS—One case more only of those 250 loge. They have proved to be a good purchase to all. HAMS and SHOULDERS—Now. fresh lots new in. Small Hams, to weigh 9V. to 10 lbs. m RAISING—7o "3.: 3 lbs., 201:. LARGE FAT PRUNES—Bag stock: not so bright no box Prunes. but good. This sale, 10c lb.; 3 Ibe.. 25c. Remem- bar large size; same in boxes sell at . TRY PEANUT BUTTER on Caitln’a 12c lb. Crackers Good. .. oneness—15 for 25¢: HOW CAN .WE SERVE. YOU? OUR DRIED BEEF—duet as good I! can be. and giving every ammo? splendid satisfaction. Any quantity from So up. Try once and you an captivated as a customer for title a ticle. “wt—s" , California only Eye Strain. Only eye strain Indeed but it is responsible or more Headaches. . Nervousness and general Discomfort than you gi a It credit for. If .« your eyes give you the slightest trouble, is it not the best policy. to , find out the cause? Our examination Is very thorough and costs you nothing. If glasses are needed. Proper Glasses. Properly Adjusted, is. our guarantee. 0. B. JACKSON. .IADUR‘I’I OP'HOIAN as WALL eraser. uoawaut. collie. Best Quality Hickory. 01k. Maple Chestnut and Sawed andSplIt. . WA]. "MM and £1. 01111 watches have no superior. Samples of, various grades In stock. , H. S. Reed. 16 South Main Street. F RESH TODAY: Fresh Herring 7c 1b.. Flatilsh, Frost- fisb. Ocean Blues 10c 1b.. Roe Shad. pike, Siscoes. Finnan Haddies‘ and Weakfish 12c lb.: Bluefish. Halibut. Salmon and Steak Cod. Clams and Oys- ters. ' 'R. .1. CU'I‘BILL. West and Waefilnglon Ctr-set adage ' “Yetta. F : Tblearabllu We Guarantee” r, we have just completed Wests with ‘ roadie take all the pupils who
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