for business is just
taking, loner sure,
steady step towards
the front.
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ESTABLISHED 1870
Entered at the South Norwallt Post-office
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SOUTH NORWALK. CONN. ultrasonic FEBRUARY 10.1512
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Big Undertaking for the Purpose of Raising Funds to Secure
New Building Passed Oil in a Blaze of Glory, and All ,
Connected With It Are Pleased ‘
lNNISN NENNNNIINNS, WNN
ENlERlNINMENl 80
Several Hundred People Attend
Afternoon —— Pretty Waitresses
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Rallying to the support of their in
dies and to the cause for Which they
stand, over five hundred men and wo-
men attended the Cute Chantani,
which was given at the State Armory,
last night. under the auspices of the
Home Chapter of the King's Daugh-
ters and Sons for the benefit of the.
“aural for the Aged. And. as a dircc‘t
result of this demonstration, the
movement has taken on a new lease
of life and the success of the project,
assured since the beginning by reason
ot‘ the moral support of the town, has
now become an accepted fact, the lib-
eral patronage of last night having
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One oitlle Most Successful and
Enjoyable Events of the Season
Held Last Night
ENEEN
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Despite the many other attractions
last night. a large ’crowd gathered to-
the joys and fun attending the twonty-
eighth annual prize waltz and ball giv-
wnlk Fire Police.
ed up in every way to tile usual high
1 standard and has been entered upon
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among the most successful social af-
fairs conducted by the organization in
u NNNSNiiiY all
i” iiiiiNNlN ANN EVEN“. ‘“neuteractors...
i in every sense of the word. The fire
8“ tho Salulagundi Party in the; men were prcsut in their natt3 blue
uniforms and proved themselves oncei
Represented Different Nations
more hosts worth3 in over,» respect to
i ‘thoir reputation.
[lollger' s orchestra furnished
ex-
proven bo30nd doubt as to “hat the
people think and believe.
Newr in the iilstorv of this historic
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with luiisb decorations; throbbing ”m“ present appreciated m”
with Interest and ringing with the evidenced by the “A“. that
shouts and laughter of a happy goth while the music was in the air
The program included twenty slit
bring. the Armor3 presented a scene
lust owning whlth was a revolution to
dances among which was the Paul
even the most experienced guests pres
Jones, which is the rage at the pro.
0 ti ue
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Newllauen Railroad Company ta“-
fllalrjng Surveys tor Two
Tracks Also
SurveyOrs Sent to New Canaan b3
the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad, are busy making sur-
veys this week that indicate that the
road is intending to extend the New
(lanaan branch to connect with the
Danbury branch at Cannon Station.
The surveyors are stopping at the
Birdsull House. New Canaan and have
engaged offices iii the basement
where they are busy with maps and
charts. They will probabl3 be there
several days. The3 made a survey of
the territory towards Cannon Station
and. while the3 are at libert3 to give
no information concerning their work. 188
it is taken that the surrey can mean.
_ nothing else than the contemplated
extension of the New Canaan branch;
of which there have been rumors for
some time. _
While there it is said, the curve?-
ors will go over the ground necessary
for double tracking the Branch road
and also make surveys with a view to
eliminating grade crossings. .
it is believed that an extension of
the Branch road and the building or
the trolley line to Norwalk would at
Once increase New Canaan's popula.
tion b3’ several thousand and make
land and lots worth from- ten to
twenty-five per cent more than at
“present.
zr‘lllrlnssoolu Ellis '
‘BRIoGEPonT. Feb. 10. «Mary Bak
,el‘. 17 years old and Pauline Reck,15
years of age were before Judge Carl
Foster ilv'bity court yesterday morn
mg on charges of being incorrigible.
_,One year of. probation was the jung
moot. meted out. The girls left their
gnomes February 4 and later were
. " walk and Stamford.
lit was supposed that they had gone to
. . New York Wthpy Were picked up
‘ in the west Elli! yesterday by Detec-
: Lack of fill;
‘ ,,,auciai suppo
’ of their returning me.
9 Bill“ NNNNNNTNNNNS 1
an oil rnoolrloll.
at the, cause .
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00"" To ”OFWALK‘? made a happy selection for floor man
user. Mr. Bouillon assisted by his
Norwalk is to have a new menu aides wOrltcd diligently .tiu‘oughom
factoring concern; a Mo Burn, bf New the cloning. and n appearances count-
York cit3, having purchased a factory on for anything, they succeeded ad-'
site in Jennings place upon which he mmmy in their important function
will erect a brown in which he ill-i It was not until the wee hours of
tends to manufacture Swedish lron.’ the morning that the merry makers-
The deal was put through by Johui wended their respective WI” “0019'
8. Lawrence. of South Main street: ward Their pulse of the affair was
and the property purchased from All-r generous my merited in even way.
drew Crossmau Much of the credit for the success
According to the informal!” 890W" of the evening is due to the commit-
ed in South Norwalk this morning“, tee in charge who were as follows:
Mr. Burns ”will erect his plant in General committee—~Perclo Will-
units, starting with the first two in the mott F J_ Buckley, )dwurd Finnegan.
gathering which were nppreriutlve of
the foresight thus sown b3 teir hos
pliable hosts.
spring, just as early as it is possible Fred Williams Richard Dean. J_' H.
to break ground. it is not known: Sheldon
how mun3 men will be employed by1 Floor Committee-J H. Sheldon.
the new concern but the number of! Chairman Fred Williams Wm. Calla
:9). lplo3oes will of course depend large i hall. Percie Wiilmott.
'l_\' upon the volume of business done. Refreshment Committm~fied Ben-
J is the business increases so will the‘» ger- Richard Dean.
599°" be ”“19””39“ ““9 more men 9”" Printing CommitteewJ. ll. Schnub.
Bil-88d Edward Finnegan.
Reception Committee—Tue entire
Company.
The prize waltz was won by Will.
lam Callahan and Miss Taft, both of
lllillflAillAll PliKEIl
PLAYER SK'PS Bonn Bridgeport. The Judges were E. W.
Clark. Edward J. Fisherty and John
, In connection with the cases of Ste- Stadler.
phen Matusz and Mlklos Ccajkos. upon
whom body vurlts were served by Depu
ty Sheriff D. Louis Ladrlgan. recently.
in a civil suit brought against them
by. Andre Kiss: of Lexington avenue.
far having fieeced him out 01'3de in ‘
a Hungarian poker game. it developed
this morning that Ccaklos had skippodi
his bond which was posted by Louis
Nynry, to the amount of $400. The
sheriff has not yet been able to appre-
hend Joseph Arva, another Hungarian.
for whom belies a writ and who is
wanted on the same charge as theoth-
or two men. .
The case grow 'out of a friendly
game of Hungarian poker played by
Kiss and the other three men on Sat-
'lll day evening and Sunday morning,
during which time Kiss dropped his
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STAMFORD. Feb. 10.——-i\frs. James
Roosevelt Shanley and Mrs. Adele G.
Buckn‘am. of Greenwich, both appeared
befOre Judge of Probate Char-lbs D
Lockwood today to press petitions for
allowances of 815.000 each pending
settlement of the ‘Estate of Mr. Shan-
1433. The hearing promised to be a
protracted one.
Mrs. Shanley made her claim as the
widow, and Mrs. Bucknam as the
guardian of her three children by mar-
rings with Mr. Shanley. A year ago
roll of use. Upon reflection Mr. Kiss 9°99 “‘9 9““;“1‘3‘ “9:" 3”.“ a,”
decided that he had been maimed and “"9““ .9999 “c
took the matter up with his attorney, , :
iJohn-Keogh, who has brought a civil
suit against the men.
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~MONDAY'NIGHT. .
. Armory. state championship game“-
Stamford vs. Norwalk; High School
vs. Yale Scientific. Basketball. moo.
lug.
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H Advertise ill-The:
by... American torn
gether at Anion Hall to participate in.
on by the members of the South Non.
The affair measur!
the annals of the company as being’
out out f
t. . u y u , , .
:3 will-if]? 23;; 2:33:11)“: in“ 9:11: sent time. The musicians suffered
s ' mo 9 a long before these dances were con,
of this sort; an elusive and intangible
_ _ cluded
in the course of the evening rev
In John “H. Sheldon. the companyi
lat which ,timotbe mutter or serum
, prepare all availa‘le transports in or-
der to resist the landing of the rebel"
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Great Banquet Served in the
Headquarters of the Wash-
ington Street Bridge
ElNNNNNlE ENIENINNMENI
PRNNNAN l8 PNES‘ENIEN
Sam. Livingston, Former Mins-
trel, Can Play Ascordeon
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iceiiout music for dancing throughout sixteenth annual b““8““ “9 “1° 993‘ belongs to Victor H. Dana.
ithc evening and that feature. added to 9‘9' W“ ““3 unanimous verdict 0‘ ably assisted b3 a large number of
4 the good qualities of the floor made ”"3 130 "WWW“ and West“ 0‘ "1° 0“ members or the club in his decorating,
That “nlz'ii‘m “1 ““9"““99 N ”‘9 affair i and the work was pleasing to the eye
was he” “I “’9 01““ quarters “0"“! 0‘5 when In readiness for the dance.
the Washington bridge, last night. As;
entertainers this club has a reputa-‘
iiou that would be impossible for any?
numbers made up of all the popular other ‘0 HP!“ and 89" 0'11 equal. A" pad in threes of graduated size from
steel of its llbernlity in providing
for those present after all had spent
an hour in disposing of the good
things offered. it can be lrutbfuii3,
i stated that there was enough food left
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overtones mouse
“Importation
The board of director! of the No‘rl‘,
N walk Oyster Growers Assocnitiou held
. a meeting last evening at President to.
P. Hulbort' ll home. in Quinmrd avenli‘o.
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pollution was discussed informally.
Engineer Charles N Wood. of Nor-
. walk, was a guest at the meeting and
u a result of the conference Mr. Wood
Iwas instructed to investigate the mat.-
ter thoroughly and report in detail to
[the association Just what the condi-
ltlons in The Nor-walks are and how
they can best and most economically
be battered.
The members of the assocsition do.
not intend to thrust anything upon that
public until they themselves know just“
exactly what can be done. The federal
law specifically tells them what they
must do and they are trying to figure
out how they can follow out the letter
add spirit of the law in the best and
most practical manner.
cuisines Still"!!!
on soul on lollAA
LONDON. Feb. lO.-—-A fleet of rev-
olutionary warships was sighted off
the port of Shun Hal Kwan, situated
on the railroad line from setting, this
morning, according to a nerve agency
dispatch received here from Tish Tutu.
Urgent ordersbave been issued by the
commander}; of the imperial troops to
forces.
At the Russian concession in Shun
Hal Kwan extraordinary precautions
have been fallen.
It is reported that Premier Yuan.
Sill Kai is about to leave Peking for
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bourbon. ti. wt. not 10 —-um,
Margaret flamenco. the proteins of the
l’was located was in the center of the
’ suspended high above the heads of that,
the
. pleasing features in the decoration.
ttnose who were so fortunate as to be Kay.
' venirs that they took with them to re 091“” dainty
. lows:
The Roman catholic :8th of the
late Edwin Hurley. the railroad mil‘ .. '
-lionaire. has indicated to her friends
consultation Indie
always wrong; who
knows .it wholly. in
chaos to act. and“
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WEATHER FORECAST
Fair, continued cold Sunday.
limit ultra
i liltitllilil urn
Spores of, the Members and Their
friends Al The Town
Assembly Hall
Successful to a degree that even
the committee had not hoped for was
the. Valentine dance or the Nutmeg
Club, last evening. The affair was
held in the TOWn Assembly Ilall, in
Wall street, and there was an atten-
dance ot nearly two hundred and
fifty. o
Financially successful the social
side of the dance was the some on-
Joyabie “Nutmeg spirit." which makes
pleasing functions despite all unfav-
orable conditions. But last evening
the weather was fine. the floor lathe
best of condition and bent of all the
music. Spiedel's orchestra of Bridge,
port, was superb. '
Originality and individualiu was
manifested in the decorations for
which the greater part of the credit
He was‘
NAN BEING lNNEN NNNE iN
N-NNNNEN. WIN] IS
NEW HAVEN. Feb. 10. -Thomas S.
Haley, secretan and treasurer of the;
jlven was killed and William B War-
; nor. secretary of the ‘D. ’l‘. Weicb Coal
com any is help held b the olice
Being a valentine dance hearts p g y p
were everywhere in e.videnc Hour
at the direction of Coroner Ell Mix.
from the rafters of the hull they drOp- which occurred on Congress avenue
, :near the west River bridge last night
the large to the small. hot. alone about 615 oclock Haley was and'
were hearts in the decorations, for! Warner is among the moat prominent,
\utmeg Club banners and American. residents in West Haven. Haley lived
flags played important parts :at 106 Elm street and Warner lives
The date upon which the orchestra .at 5 41 Washington avenue. There
hall and was a beautiful piece of doc-i was no me witness to the accident
oratlve art. There was a large ring;
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orchestra and from this streamers of' .. .3 . ,< ,.
white amoral! utensil-Qt to all moi.-
tic! of “mi sizeo‘ were hung; “mat P“"
n and the streamers disappear 9
ed into the marine of “In“ and (emsi Mrs Eugene J. o council entertain
which added much to the beauty 0t ed at bridge and whist from 3 until
the place, Around the base of the, 5 o‘clock. yesterday afternoon, at her
dais was green crepe paper with red home in West avenue. There were
hearts neatly placed about {three tables of bridge and two of
The huge Christmas banner of the whist. Atthe conclusion of the games
club was hung on one 33d. 0! the my honors were awarded in bridge to the
and many were attracted by its mu, Wfollovins Mrs heror Monteomerv.
siV’e beauty The other and smaller first M”- E- ‘H‘l‘bfli 9000““ and
banners were amped at various points Miss Florence Haviland. third. Mrs.
in the hall and each added to the, Mortimer Lee secured the consolation
} in whlst the honors wont to Mrs. Clif-
The programs were beautiful and ‘0"! REM!" ”1d MYS- 0901’“ D MG
During the afternoon a buffet
lunch was served. and at 5 oclock
refreshments were serv-
mind them of one of the best 01% ed to guests who called at the con-
daneea. The programs were heart-i clusion of the games. There were
shaped and of red light cardboard {several guests from out-of- town and
Gold lettering added to their attrac “"1038 them was Miss Gertrude Mc-
tlveness and compliments were heard Gill. sister or hire. 0"COnnell. who as
emu—cu
present were so pleased with the sen
‘on all sides for this seemingly entail:i stated in receiving the guests
.part of the event
The Nutmeg Club is now in its
eighth your and Is noted throughodt: Locolrtz'ivgunnnsl:§:onnv
the town and surrounding towns for!
i The bursting of'a due in the boiler
its dances. Therefore there were‘
many outof~town guests present last
of the locomotive attached to train
275. due in South Norwalk at 8: 50
evening. fromproekhn. New York.
Tarrytowu, Bridgeport, New Haven,
{o'clock and in charge of Conductor
Baltimore and Engineer Marley, held
Stamford and The Norwalks.
The credit for the club‘s success be-
i up that train for half an hour and de-
la yed traffic all along the west bound
longs to the following committee——
Chairman Victor H. Dunn, Aides _ Wii-.
,trsoks for some little time this morn-
ing. The flue-burst just as the train
llam‘ J. Rider, Thomas J. West. Jr.
Thomas '1'. Logic and Anson F. Keeler.
was rounding the curve to .approach
the Weshingtoa street bridge and the
.The other. committees were as fol.
“ waiter flooded the tracks, ruohlns
down. to the street in formats.
PresidentHoueph A: Ashwell.
moor Manager—Robert «ll. Steven-
son. 9 The train was stalled there for
Aides-4V. Enid; Tubes and Will about twenty minutes until the Win-
iam Wellnlts.
. , , _ stud express, due in South Norwalk
.v .. a r , ' , at 9:10 o'clock, oamaaiong and shov-
oAr-lletloonulloll
, Commit-Ell Bl FINE
Wraparound. new. Feb. 10.--
station, where the cars were later de-
tacked and shoved onto the Windfall
express by the Danbury train which
ran into the siding about that time
The express continued down the line
with a double train. , ., .
Tnehlsebled locomotive wast then
_. to the truism «yard. from
ssh-nee one will be taken to New Ha-
. you this afternoon Nobody was in-
Sacred Heart. nost- the enormous
.' Armory, state chamolonship isimo~
Stamford vs. Norwalkt' High School
wrsr run MAN’S w
iii no rIN in
rumour itillii
Thomas S. Haley, Secretary and Treasurer of the Wire Noville-V,‘
ty Company, Died in the New Haven liospital From '
His injuries Early Last Evening
Driver is Supposed to~liave Sought to Prevent Machine Frillll
Skidding Across the Road and Crashing lnto Bridge Railing
l Wire Noveit3 (ompauy. of West tin“ i that something happened."
as a result of an aptomobile accident: ordered him held until the ectopic».
with u Niiilill ,
Hill) lliiiliii non nut
and all that Warner, who will am
the automobile, could tell about Win
Warner was locked up at polio.
headquarters in this city last
about 11 o'clock. No charge was pic--
ferred against him, but Coroner Mix?
tion of the investigation. The one
oner secured his freedom about an
hour after being locked up. nudism
ball of 51,,000 which won W
by err-Senator Charles Grew”
West Haven.
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astronaut .;
not ululnn littl':
Personal Tax Collector Paid}.
Says “They're Coming AM. ,.
and No More Warrants M
Needed.
Hauling a few of the deduction“?
of the personal \‘tax evadors into,
court seems to have had an effective
result in Westport us. since then. the
remaining members of the :‘grand;
old guard" have been seeking Poo
sonal Tax Collector S. A. Purdy negro
rate of five .or more a day and prac-
tically no names now adorn t
debtors' side of the ledger..
No more warrants will be issued Till
til after Monday Collector Partly is
considered to have made a record
which should prove an excellentlellm
to other receivers in the state .
8888818“ Will.
IIWE8'I'I8ITE 8888.
New YORK. Feb. 10.~Districtflht
tomey Whitman took a hand today :i
the case of Foulke Brandt, the forms
valet to him-timer L. Schiff, who all
serving a thirty years’ ‘sentencafljf
state‘ 3 prison for burglary, by; prepare
lug evidence to be submitted -
Grand Jury. The Quad Jury wil
.vestlgate the case. Mr. Whitman .
with a view to determining if gro'
exist for indictments charging _
spiracy and subdrdinatiou of per]
iln addition Brandt's case is air
before two courts. ' The issunuc ..
writ of habeas corpus yesterday
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ed the disabled train to the railroad. Justice Gerard will bring the prisoners
before the Supreme Court here next
Tuesday. The write was issued upon
representations by Martin Auberth.
described in the papers as Brandt!
next friend-A These. were
Brandt‘s commitment was illegal
cause it did not follow props
visited. inasmuch as Brandt plead
guilty to more serious charges th
he was guilty of.
Norwalk Chronicler