“ mm- ., H ..
. LUMTANIA. MAURETANIA
outs-r4 Btenmehlp Co.’ a mesnlncent
Mating pnlecee, reaching all points of
I urope. Clyde Line. Mallory Line.
Ron Mail Steam Packet Co and Se-
“ouch Line, reaching all count to
Wt! and South America. with the
j'lBet‘fqudn Steamship Co.’ I direct net»
thee in Bermuda ilest accommoda-
tions and best rates. Ask for circu
rn,
TAYLOR & GOLDEN
‘3 ‘ Insurance of All Kinde
. ~ nap Eaten-Town, Country and Chore
' ‘ Telephone 1230
Upetllre Over the South Norwaik
‘13 Trust Co., 07.91 Washington 81.,
Bouth Norwaik, Conn.
PUBLIC BTENOGRAPHER
Electrical Wiring
Fine Line of Elec-
trical Supplies
Charles Buck, Jr.
, Adam:
51 MAIN ST. NORWALK
Telephone: OM00. 001: hem. 21-8.
*
The regular meeting of the Barten-
ders‘ Union was held yesterday morn-
log in the Central Labor Lyceum.
David Hancock, of Dauhury. has
been visiting his brother, Samuel ll.
Hancock. of Lowe street._
Calvin Paddock, of Springfield,
l'i'iiissachusctts. has been spending a
few days with friends lti ’l‘lte Nor-
walks.
linion will hold
The Cigar lilaivera'
its monthly business tneetitu. this eve-
ning in the Labor Lyceum in Washing
ton street.
Miss Zita Ft’etlcy
her home in .\iuple street,
with her aunt.
in New liritaiu. .
Mr. and .‘Ii‘h. ll ll. ileudtiz‘ks have
moved iroiti New
‘ Ilcndricks‘ parental home
i T‘littisville avenue.
The members of (‘et.ri Frances 50-
clitl Club will be entertained this own
hint: 'by Mrs. George Miller,
"nohls street, liast Norwaik.
at No ‘
iiart icy.
moor oi the
llaptist Church. has
:1 few days with his
New York.
liev. llniph (l,
South Norwaik
been spending:
parents in Yonkers.
There were seventeen suing of real
estate in The .\'oiy'aiks. last week.
with mottuages oi Khalid. For the
first, week ltt .\larrh. iiill. titerh were
fourteen sales oi’ property. and lllOl'l‘
. gages‘oi‘ $22.l;’:l. '
The case of Eduard .\lcldlwee. .lr..
against Vincent Dept», of Westport. is
scheduled for trial in the ("ourt ot‘
‘ Common Pleas. itt Bridgeport, tomor~
row. Attorney John (‘uueo represents
the del’etttlant, and Attorney John J.
IWfllsh the ltlaittiii‘t‘.
linens Tribe of Red Hen held its
' usual successlnl weekly tlante at the
. Wigwam. in Washington street on Sat-
urday evening. Quite a crowd of lov-
ers of this pastime gathered together
about the camp fire. and enjoyed the
evening's pleasures immensely.
" The South Norwaik Board of Coutr
w cllmen will itold an adjourned regular
,, meeting tomorrow evening in the
‘ ocouncii chamber, in Washington street.
. ht which time the. hearing on the pto
poped lay— cttt of Bayview avenue will
.‘ ,itqueld and other ltttportant business
transacted.
Harry C. Low, of Clay street. South
Norwaik has resigned his position in
the Auditorium and has secured one
in the Pleasant Hour Theater. Harry
is" that illustrated song singer of sonic
little reputation. and his friends are
ever pleased to follow him, wherever
he appears as melody-maker. Harry
has sung in every moving picture
house In the town now and if any
, more op‘en he will no doubt give them
., u. try. but at present he in an satisfied
with his position, as the Bandy Bro-
thers, managing the theater, are with
him. Several! times Harry, known to
. his friends as the “warmer" has left
1 town to sing in other places, but at-
I he has returned. Hurry has
It: In town a total of ‘ 48 weeks.
he Eagle Restaurant
> : Thet'e the Piece to Dine
a.
ithis evening.
hits returned to-
after :1 visit I
Mrs. William. '1‘. tl'lll ien.l
{cor Lodge,
York city lit \ll'S. i
’ l
ot‘ Roy-i
' blemishes
The Metropolitan Orchestra of Non
walk will hold a regular rehearsal
Lawrence, of
iii .\'ew
lsuacs
Y orit
i'hut'les ii}.
street, spent Saturday
citv on business
The .\lorw ulk Hospital directms are
scheduled to hold a regular meeting
tetnorrow evening.
‘llarnguri Society, .\'o. 634, of Nor-
waik, will meet this evening for reg-
ular monthly business .
l
t
w_-__...._._
lie lit ltl his head ltig‘t this snicker (lid, i
l-‘ot he u is ill; itt up totlnte;
Always smoking Supreme t‘ourt ( lgai‘sl
'l'iit- ilueut in “Nutmeg" State, I
(ll Rt. (lo rue. \\‘eltoute Sil‘illl
.\'o ulll litltl :1 lean
lur meeting totnottow evening. 1
_... I
i
Sons. ,
:viil
n... -. .... L... ,
(‘ntltolic l tttott (Imouutil No. iti.‘
KtilullIi-t oi L‘olttuibtin, will hold :1 reu-
ttlnr meeting, iottiorrow owning.
Pride ot‘ i‘onrt .\'arruk I‘ircie,
.\tll, (‘outpzttiiona of the Forest \iiil‘l
hold a regular meeting tomorrow ("T—l
ning. ':
'lhe .\'otnall; ilontd of Trude direc 5
lots will hold it teunlnt business meet l
the in the Norwaik (‘lty council rooms i
totnorrow evening. l
lie in the ltathots along the Soundi
ix fast tiisappenting.1)te fog oi Fti’ i
day niuht and the thawing tempera-z,
ture of Saturday morning aided inater- 2
tally.
Joseph H. llrown, .lr., is moving his
plumbing business from the basement f
of the Odd Fellows building to ltifiir
new shop itt the rear of his residence
in ’l‘tiler avenue
The Nmuaik Italian Citizens Club
held a generiil good time yesterday
afternoon. in Foresters‘ ilnli itt .\'or-
walk. Refreshments were served and
a general social time enjoyed.
The Cnvpettters‘ Union is scheduled
to hold'n meeting tomorrow evening.
it is probable that something further
with reference to the increase in pay
that is asked will be discussed at the
seamen
Levi Bnrdick is having his lunch
wagon rebuilt. and expects to occupy
it shortly. The vehicle was almost
completely; wrecked when the railroad
company's water tower fell on it sev-
eral weeks ago.
~~A frequent mistake is to gauge our
business by what we can sell. Just
remember. the better standard is what
we can buy right. Manual T. Hatch.
The Sixth Company Coast Artillery
Corps will hold n'regular drill tomor-
row evening. Memories of the turkey
dinner of last week will probably be
recalled. for it was one of the most
successful ever held.
IRHJKIES
Met-eh Worst Month for This Trou-
vble—How to Remove Eeeily.
There‘s a reason why nearly every-
body freckles in March. but happily
there is also a cure for these ugly
and no one need stay
freckled. ‘
simply get one ounce of othine.
double strength. “from F. H. Butter,
and ‘epply 11 Indoor it at night, had
in the morning You will see that even
the worst freckles have begun to die-
appear. while the light one: hove m
tuned entirely. Now is the auto to rid
hunter. , and
No. i
l The Balance being paid in small sums of
.336 “Vindex Special" Eldredge Sewing
fer-If not removed .
ELDREDGE
ROTARY
SeWingMachine
JUST RECEIVEDXANOTHER LOT OF SEWING
MACHINES
Join Our (lo-operative Club
AND PLACE AN ELDREDGE ROTARY SEWING MA-
CHINE IN YOUR HOME NOW. THOUSANDS OF WO-
MEN USE IT. \NHY‘NOT‘YOU? THE PRICE CAN NO
LONGER STAND IN THE qWAY—WE'LL GLADLY
PLACE ONE IN YOUR HOME
For a SMALL DEPOSIT
$1 a Week.
There is no better Sewing Machine than the Eldredge
Rotary. It is made by one of the oldest and largest family
sewing machine manufacturers in the world.
‘ i
i
The Eldredge has an automatic tension and sews the
thickest to the thinnest material and requires no regulating.
Remember. you have to regulate the tenéion on all other
machines except the Eldredge.
An expert sewing machine man will be here from the fac-
tory for this sale and ”will pleased to show you the many other
improvements. even though you do not want to buy a machine.
You doubtless feel the lack of a high class Sewing May
chine, but do not feel able to pay the whole sum at one time.
. We've adopted the newest and most satisfactory method
of purchasing machines—a method that enables you to buy the
finest machine on the market and. pay for it in payments so
small that they are not missed and almost before you are aware
of it the machine is paid for. .,
Our club plan not; only pr0vides a convenient system for
payments. but gives you lower prices than you would ordinar-
ily pay. One dollar makes you a member of the club and en-
titles you to choose any machine in our stock. The machine
is sent to you immediately and you pay us one dollar a week
until its purchase price is paid. Could anything be - easier,
more! simple or more convenient? We shall be pleased to go
over any detail with you at any time. or to assist you in a se-
lection of a machine.
$25 “Paveaway”Eldredge sewing Machine
Sale price $14. 98
Machine—Sale price $19. 97
$45 “The Eldredge V” Sewing Machine-
Sale price $25. 00
$60 Iniprbved Eldredge Rotary Sewing
' ‘ Machine-Sale price $36
‘ to keep a doilair over night. for the
Ill BISIII
It In. IVER
tutu Sililiil
'Ilr. Leavenworth Recall: the
ulnar at 1335, Which caused
the Brand Riots
SIIlI Fill ill SilliW
Mill Illliilllilli IlliSlll
No Railroads or Telegraph; and
Inhabitants Without Food
o
Seveptyseven years is u long time
to gavbuck. but George Leavenworth.
of Seymour, Conn, whose memory is
still keen despite his age, recalls the
hard winter of 1835, when navigation
was closed by ice front New York to
Boston and a horse attached to a
sleigh was driven by way of Long is-
land Sound from New York to the
Massachusetts metropolis.
In a letter to the New York Herald
.\ir, Letivenworflt writes:
‘ “SEYMOUR, Conn, March 6, 1912.«-~
Who was the man who drove a horse
attached to a. sleigh up through Long
island Sound on the ice from New
York to Boston? [tend an account of
ten the man‘ a name and also the. name
of the horse.
"1ite man was a prominent New
York citizen, and. if I remember right
ly. proprietor at one of the leading ho~
tels on Broadway. The weather condi-
peatcd in seventy-live years.
"The snow commenced about :1 it
ill. on the morning at December 10,,
ihlifi. There was no wind to drift it,
but it came down thick anti fast thof
lilth. Hill and lflth. and about kunseti
the lL'th turned to rain. and I it just:
poured l‘or two and onehult‘ hours It,E
stapled snddenh and cleared up ill‘
tittiiti} cold. and the tesuit was a
trust on the snow two feet thick and;
'thc snow was seven feet.
Recalls Great FIre in New York.
“The big fire in New York started
the next day. December lit. Theflrew
men were handicapped by the intense;
cold. As fast a“ they run water Into
the hose it would freeze and burst the:
hose. before they could get it to the
lire. ln IINH than one week Long is-
land Sound was closed with ice and re-
mained so for more than three months.-
There was no open water between the;
island and the (‘onnet tlcnt show, and
the. only think that passed through it:
was the man with horse and sleigh.
He returned by the old stage road
from Boston to New York.
"Many persons drove across the
:Sound, but only one drove the length
of it. The furthers of the section de~;
pended upon local mills for their;
breadstttffs_ but they were all frozeuf
up. Not a wheel turned and we had;
to pound corn in mortars to piece out."
the bread. The coldest day of the,
winter was in the month of February.i
on a Friday, and for years was refer-
red to as the cold Friday. The, news
items gleaned firom papers in the New
England states and the state of New
York stated that twenty stage. drivers
were frozen to death on their sentt
that day.
"It was continuous sleigblng untili
April 20,'nnd the snow was still in
evidence the middle of May. Not a
thing could be planted till the first of
June, which made crops late. Another
misfortune came in the form of heavy
front early in September, which caught
almost all the corn before the kernels
glazed. and that your the United
States did not raise breadstuifs enough
to feed our peOple. Well do I remem-
ber the bread imported from Italy,
which had and in it.
"How conditions have changed.
Then we had nothing west of~the Mis-
sissippi River, and there was much
wild country this side of that stream.
'West of it was called the Great Ameri-
can Desert. where now millions of
bushels of grain are raised each year
and millions of cattle roam the plains
to feed the people all the way to the
Atitintie coast.
' Telle of Bread Riotl.
“So wide’apread were the etfects of
this storm it was partly the cause of
the‘creat panic of 1837. when banks
on every hand were going to 1118068..
It wen a common remark. ‘1 don't dare
hank they be broke in the morning!
Then followed the breed plate in New
York. Flour wu locked up and the
holder allied .016 e bone! for it.
, “Sitting men. antenna anxious to
.
Esuin:
‘Fltch,
MONDAWWRGR at; 19th . ‘ .
Some of the
streets with whatever tools come to
hand htoke in the dome of the hous~
es where flour was stored, tumbled itI
into the street and bid every one to!
help himself. The speculators then
canto out and said: 'Yon can have iii
at $8 a barrel.‘ The reply they got.
was "l‘o ... wltlt you. We have all i
the flour we want‘ i
“Thole is no probability of another.
y{winter like that, and yet if we should
the trip at the time. but haw forgot ‘get another storm like that of 1835 it South Norwaik
'would be a calamity very much to be
idreuded. Bear ltt mind this was before
the days of railroads. telegraphs, tole- i
phones. automobiles and electric
lights. but of the taliow dip and the
.tinder box. i remember also this was
tiong at the time have not been I‘V'lllii‘ year that the friction match an-
;pearcd, made by
Thomas Snndiord in
a house still standing in the town of
Beacon Falls. They were put up in
,tnper boxes. one hundred in a box and
sold for ten cents.
"GEORGF l.iv‘\\'iJNWv()RTil. "
FAT PROFIT ON AN EGG
Nearly 200 Per Cent. Advance on One
That Came From Tennessee.
The New York Times of Sunday
Assistant District Attorney William
A. De Ford, who has been leading the
investigation before Magistrate Mur-
phy into the high cost of butter and
eggs, received a lettcrt‘rom It. ii.
of Norwaik, t?oun.,'who lnclos-
ed in his letter two clippings from
.\‘oxwuik papers commenting on the
price of eggs
111 one of these W. H. Byington of
:Norwnilt is credited with buying a
dozen '.stri_ttiy fresh" eggs on Feb. 3
paying 50 cents for them. l'pon re-
ceipt.» of the 0333 he noticed some
writing on one of them and found that
it. said:
"The. purchaser of this egg is re-
quested to communicate with J. L
Thomason, Reudyvlile. Tenn."
Mr. Bylngton telephoned to his gro
ccr and was told that the eggs came
from a firm at Stamford, Conn,
that he had paid 47 cents a dozen for
them. Mr. ByingtOn then wrote to
Thompson and received this reply: i
"in reply to yours of February the
5th, will say that. I sold the eggs in-
cluding the one which here my name
and address on about Dec. 10, 1911. I
received 17 cents a dozen for them
which we think is a high price here,
but I expect those eggs cost you 26 or
30 cents per dozen If it is not too
lunch trouble write and tell me what
they cost you per dozen." i
Mr. De Fat-d has not been able to
figure out just who got the profit on
the ens
MAN AND WIFE SUFFOCATE.
Bridgeport Couple Victims of Dense
Smoke at Fire in Their Home.
BRIDGEPORT, March l1.~Mr. and!
Mrs Patrick Gill were suffocated to
death yesterday in a fire at their home
on. Ives street. The fire started on the
first floor in the rear of their home
and the smoke communicated to the3
upper floor w_here the couple were
alleep. When the firemen arrived,
they broke into the house and foundI
the two dead. The lower part of the
house was burned with a loss
01, 500. An overheated stove in thei
kitchen is supposed to have stat-teal
the fire.
FLIEs WITHOUT wmos MADE
_, BY COLD.
Some naturalists wo have been to
the Antarctic and the higher regions
of the Alps, have noticed die- without!
tingle—flies that look more like ante.
Wendel-In; whether Bold had anything
to; do with this wingleu condition.
if took wuptt tutti hatched and
wot-tr. Milli! hot M limit” Work to
do. Wives and ‘
- flu
in nu ioehox 10: III hour-I.
MINTZ’S A
CLEAN-UP SALE
The sale everybody is talking about
we offer for
TONIGHT
05.00 SILK WAI8T8 ............................................ 08°
01.25 ALL LINEN WA|8T8 ........... .. . . .’ ..................... 70c
WANDSOCWAIBTB..... ...... ......................... "300
26g WINDOW SHADES ....... . ........................ 10c
012.00 SUITS ............................................ . . . . $7.08
03.00 SILK SKIRTS ......................................... 01.00
60: BOYS' BLOUSES .......................................... 300
256 LADlfis' UNDERWEAR ................................ . 196
25: BOYB' UNDERWEAR .. ................................. .. 11o
10¢: SUMMER VESTS ...................... l. .................... 50
500 AND 090 UMBRELLAS ....... .. ............................ 398
and .
Big Bargains
The Reed 8t Voik
Electrical Co.
The Only Fully Equipped
ELECTRICAL SHOP
In the Town
AUTO SUPPLIED
Phone 805—50 South Main Street
Music Hell Block
DAVID w. RAYMOND
Funeral Director and Embaimer
19 North Main Street, South Norwaik
Reeldence, '5 Wlehington street.
Telephone at office, 336-2.
Telephone of bottle. «8.
1
Mrs. Hennessey is a. levelheaded
woman. Site does all her buying at
M. L. Rosen’s. where she gets the
best goods at the lowest prices in the
lines FURNITURE, CARPETS. BED-
DING, RANGES, STOVES and
CROCKERY.
M. L. Rosco, 15 Ely Av.
South Norwaik
Fcnwic 1 Optical Co.
IGiYPTOK
WSW BI FOCAZ
EYES EXAMINED FREE
AND GLASSES GUARANTEED
Open Monday and'Satut-day evenings
UNITED BANK BUILDING.
Bomb Norwaik
Hotel Mahackemb
‘J. R. CONNOR. Mgr.
SERVICE AND CUISINE UP TO DAT!
RATES 02 PER DAY AND UPWARI
SUNDAY DINNERS 75c
Banquets a Specialty
TEL- GALL ”I
i
EASTER TOUR
VIA.
Savannah Line
to the most Picturesque City of the
South .
Maren Ito-April 7. 1912
NEW YORK To SAVANNAH
and Return
Including auto tour of Savannah and
2 1-2 days' hotel accommodation.
Ask us for particulars.
J. M. LAYTON 8: Co.
Agents
{6 Railroad Ave. South Nomelk. OI.
Darragh Brothers
GROCERS
. Washington Street
Bridge
Norwalk Chronicler