at the United States court“herc
. «Judge Ray holds that the
"ine‘bodse, Knights 0: Pvtltlas.
, 6 right to increase the assess-
mm at an insiired'momher.
hur v. H. Smith, of Montgomery
‘ _ unty refused to pay an Increase. He
a policy hearing date of Oct. 26‘
title. tor es. 000 and calling tor a
f onthly assessment of :3. In 1902 he
directed to Pay $4.30 and did so.
January his assessment was rule.
it o $14.70 and his tender of the orig
ineliamount was refused.
, sludge Ray decides that the supreme
dodge must accept the original prem-
‘Ium.
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8~quhin ton and No ..
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III-«ItWest at. Franklin School. '
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17-West A e and Cedar St.
ls—Jiigh 8o ooi, West Ave.
21— West at. and Taylor Ave.
23-IXEIY Ave and Lows
24—«Chestnut and Hour Ste.
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Liza—Lexington Ave. and Austin Bt.
7a-v-Weet and Elm Grove Ste.
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32-x(M) Electsiom Works. State at.
34~XS ring an Cla‘XIBts
ath Ste.
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I1 «Fairlield Ave. and Cedar St.
I2—«Taylor Ave and South hst.
43~Woodward Ave. and Meadow 8t.
iovllurrltt and Quinlard Avon. and Wot.»
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51~~Golden Hill St. and Elmwood A"
sz—Washington St. Brio ge.
ilk—Freight yard and Ann St" privato
iii—Norwalk Loch 00., pri vat e,
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(M) Master box. from which the nuns
her of any box can be sounded.
One stroke at 12 noon and l p. m..
standard time. 1-
One stroke at odd times, teetinc at
line open. 1-
Twr: strokes after an alarm. lire out. ro-
calls department,
'l‘hlee slow strokes, water to be shut
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At 12: 05 p. In. each Wednesday. 3 b0!
ulied for test.
Ire alarms tor an district also re
solved by telephone.
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EAST NORWALK FIRE ALARM BOXI!
Fire headquarters. (to Van Zant Street
Telephone 170
l—Fltch School (private)
fi—Marvln School (private.
212~Eusi Wasliln ton and art Ste.
2iI—Van Zendt S. and Osborn Ave. ,
216~East Ave and Rowan St.
217—Winll old d.St
ass—Fort and Charl 5 Stats
224—East Ave. and itchS
225—St. John St. and Edlle Ave.
Ritz—Seaview Ave. and First St.
335~—Boulevard and Second st.
330MCove Ave. and Fifth St.
Ital—Boulevard and Blackstone 8t. :Tei.
ail—Keyser St. and Pine HIIIAve. Tel.
342~Keyser St and Duck Pond rd. ('1' oi.
343-Shore Haven (Te l. )
A telephone message to Electric Station
(706) between the hours of 6 p. In. an
6 a m. Iving location of tire. an alarm
will be 3 van 0. nearest box
Private boxes will only be pulled for
lire on premises where located.
Second alarms are only to be given by
the chief or acting chief upon his arrival
at the tire.
Special Sign-I
1—One blast a
open.
1—One blast at 8
3.90 m. utstandard time.
—1—-Two blasts. re
ea
11 llv-Twenty two, at lit a. In. no morn
ing session of public chooim
ll- Il—J‘wcntv- -two, at 1 :80 p ,no at»
rm ion session of public schmooi.
11,111‘tlll" Ten blasts quickly calls the
entire department
NORWALK FIRE ALARM!
lfi—Cornor 0! Main and Wall Streets.
ill—Below Avenue and Union Place.
22wSprIng Hill and Kellogg Street.
liv—Uuion Park.
lit—West Avenue and Berkeley Street.
27——Franklin Avenue and Lyrics Place.
fit—Gas house. (Private box).
az—West Avenue and Merwin Street.
33—Iiarbor Avenue and Orchard Street.
Iii—Chapel Street and Harbor Avenue.
36~West Avenue. near the armory.
till—Stevens Street and Elm Crest.
Il~Cruss Street and Wilton avenue.
t2~ Main street and North Avenue.
43- Frnnce Street.
til-Grand Street and Tindall Lane.
{Ev-Main and Catherine Streets.
v Canaan Road and Fair Street.
-5i~ Chestnut Street. near Summer St.
Eli—Main Street and Union Avenue.
02~-OII The Green.
till-«East Avenue and Lincoln Avenue.
ill—East Avenue and Dcekam Lane.
ROWAYTON FIRE ALARM DIITRICTD
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odd times. testing or line .
NOTES .
(The Fishing Gazette.)
The first shipment of 1912 blue
point oysters to Europe from Bayviile,
L. 0.. was made on last Saturday. The
stock is placed In cold storage on
board lust steamsliips sailing from
New York. ,
; Announcing that there will be no
phenomenal set on the natural beds
of! Bridgepoitstrntlord (Conn) the
“Standard" or Bridgeport says pres-
ent Indications are that the oyster set
In that region will~be no heavier than
lust year, and. In spots, tlie‘set seems
somewhat light. There is ,qulte It dilut-
terhig of ‘yoar-oids and there will
probably be work for the natural grow.
ors for some time this full Later the
prospects may change although, (it
peruse, the oysteis have finished
spawning and the set Is already at-
tached to shells, pebbles and other
objects. All the set there will be In
there now, but appearances are some-
times deceptive.
A [repent Inspection of Gieiit South
Bur, says the Piittlicguc. L. 1.. ‘Ad-
vuuce " shows that this summer tlicte'
was the largest goheial oyster set
that has matured since the old time
days when the bay was In Its prime.
No matter where the tongs were put
over, wherever there were pysters or
shells for the set to cling to. dozens of
the little spat were found on every
oyster shell. The protein ore plant
ifiil too and especially the halfsheli
Broohliuvcn, L. l.. and chairman of the
Great South Bay committee, and a
few baymcn and others inspected the
the young oysters transplanted In the
and vigorous condition.
sand eight hundred bushels of seed
oysters were planted last spring, as
4 against a little more than 5,000 busil-
els planted In the spring oi 10
Among the beds inspected were the
Reef, Jackson, Porgic. ‘Bar, South
Great Bed, Point Bed, Sand Shoal,
.South East, Overton's and Swan
Creek. The buy to now free from the
entanglement oi any losses and any-
one. says the Brookliu ‘."l‘lmes’ not
ul‘IuId lo \v0ik and complying with the
rules and regulations of the icon
E board and oi" the (neat South Bay Oys-
ternien‘s Association, (on take the
!shellllsh liom the public beds and
minke from $4 to $5 a tiny while the
lseason lasts The portion of the buy
that is free belongs to the town of
Brooklluven, and extends from Buy-
Iport to Smith's Point containing up-
{wards of 20. 000 acres of iii‘hbcluss oys-
tel bottoms
. All up and down Long Island Sound
tithe oyster season of 191243 Is t'uirly
under way. Lancul't Bros. started
ltheir plant Monday. Stevens 'Bros.
jstai'ted their remodeled plant at City
tl’oint Tuesday. With these two plants
going, all the New Haven conuectlons'
with the oyster business got their son-
isous actual BlIII'L Tuesday saw the
Irisvriucotsr overs-It *
size. .
Charles J. Odell, chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the town oi"
{public oyster beds Saturday and found 3
spring of excellent growth and III line;
Twenty thou-1
Gives ,Ceior, tuslré to Faded
an Gray Hair—Dandruff ‘
Quickly Removed
For generations Sage and Sulphur
have been used for hair and scalp
troubles. Almost everyone knows the
value of such a combination for keep.
log the hair a good even color, for our-
Iug dandruff, Itching scalp and falling
hair, and for promoting the growth of
the hair. Years ago the only way to
get a Hair Tonic of this kind was to
make It In the home, which was trou-
blesome and not always satisfactory.
Nowadays, almost any up-to-date driig~
gist can supply his patrons with a
u'eady~'to-use product, skilfully prepar-
ed in perfectly equipped laboratories.
An Ideal preparation of this sort
is WYeth‘s Sage and Sulphur Hair
iltemedy, in which Sage and Sulphur
’ure combined with other valuable rem.
'edies for scalp troubles and thin, weak
lhair that is losing Its col0I or coming
out. After using this remedy fora
few days, you will notice the color
gradually coming back, your scalp will
feel better. the dandruff will soon be
lgonc. and in less than a month’s time
there will he a wonderful difference
in your hair.
Don‘t neglect your hair it It Is full
{of dandruff, losing Its color or com-
.ing out. Get a fifty cont bottle oi
Wyeth‘s Sage and Sulphur lrom your
druggist, and see what a few days'
treatment will do for you. All drug-
;gists soil It, under guarantee that
‘the money will be refunded If the
remedy Is out exactly as represented.
Special agent, Stillsou-I’owcll Corpor-
atlon.
lent name given the Virginia oyster
by State and Federal experts, who
have pronounced the Virginia shell-
,fish as pure as any anywhere. Nor-
(l’olk dealers assert that all needed now
:Is cooler weather. With that they
expect to have heavy demands. Nat-
luiul Ioclt beds are now Open. Indica-
lions at this time point to a big year
for the Virginia oyster
i Oyster tougiug in Crosspeake Bay
:begnu in real earnest Monday. W.
MCI). Lee, Fish and Oyster (‘ommis-
sioner for Viiginin was III Richmond
that tiny, and he Is quoted as soiliig:
“The crop this your will be the best
,Ilie state has had, The Oysters will
inot only he plentiful. but they are
better tasted, larger. liner flavor and
more plentiful i have never seen bet—
iter. They can't be better. that is all
there Is to the matter. They are fat,
they the plump, and oil such a llnvor
that it makes me think I am wasting
time when i get out of sight of the
lll'lttll who curb the oysters. Unless
the unexpected happens I think this
will be the banner year tor the oyster
men and those who are Identified with
:the industry. The toiigeis and the
iz—gignione Ave. to N r. Iv. a. e a film Garland of shipments of oysteraipianter and all others are observing
I3~Hickory Bluff and Bell Island.
ll—«Plne Point and Roton Point.
21— —Long Island Sound to McKinIe
3—-”( antral." McKl nloy St. to
22-— Pennoyer St. to Cross St.
23~Cross St to Railroad.
34—— Rullrond to Brxolglde.
W de
lS—Whlte Bridge north tto Brookside. ‘
16~—Whlte Bridge E. to L. 1. Sound.
I7—~White Bria e Sou no.
Ono stroke 0 the tire ball at odd times
Indicates testing.
Two strokes or lire bell, thus. 1 1. Ire
II out
Four stI-olitesu of are bell, thus. 14-1-1
to
water to be on
“A third or more alarms Indicate eerie!»
MAILS/
Norwalk Postofllce
Mails Deenstooed
8:80 a. Ire-10
a 18 a. m.-—Danbury division.
0. s a. m.—West and South Nomik.
0 to e m.——~E set all
12:
12
i
I
1
Ii.
8t.
canon
: West and Bo. New
00 m. w~New fork and West .
46 p. In. -~Itlest and South Norwelk.
Ii p. m.«-Danbury divieio
Ii p. m..-Pointe west 01° atsmtcrd. I.»
tore only.
0 pin tin—West and South Norwelk.
00 p. Inn-cannon Btetl on. Danburym
Wonllt
no pl. m.»—Enet. West and Bo. Norwelk.
08:0 9. m.-Eaet. West and So Nowell.
undeye end Hglideys.
Last nielul closes atli
Sunday collection at 8: 80;: In.
Malls Receive
:00 e. rim-«All direotl one.
:1
:2
:2
n. m.-—Bouth No
0 $“gi‘t'i‘iiux‘hivii‘ifi? N“ "u
.thn.—:-East, West and so. Nomit.
. meet
‘3'” m.-—~!0est and death No rwelh.
s 00 p. tit—New York. Brooklyn and mu
rw.nlir
1:80 p. In.- «East, West and Bo. Nome“.
"I“
e. tin—Eu: West” and 80.10 malt.
0."!er Window open tromii on II
II. 8. ADAME.“ Postmaster.
IOUTHkNGRWAl-K FOOT OFHOI
:, South Moment Postofflce
MAIL. ARRIVI "IDM'
Intern! points-6:88 1.00. 10.80 I. a.
It” 8.18.0:00 this
WOIQ‘I‘I} oiling-’3? p no. '10:» s. is.
.66 ’ . ZI‘I
"innit? Io.'iii's.&°.’.no.’sra
Ii. rigs . .
"‘Jdii’kfuto .9,”
Val” ‘ ' durum
8 with?! ‘
Tin
.‘the New Haven plants.
‘out of New Haven. For the rest of
the season lIom two to three carioads‘
,‘will go out daily Each our contains
ii, 500 gallons of oysters. They go to
points In the Northwest.
about 300 oyster opener-s at work In
Their aver.
age is 20 gallons a day per men. Lao
or III the season a force 50 per cent
iiarger will be at the work and
men will" have Increased their aver-
age per day to a considerable extent.
Th big New Haven plants now work-
ers; Laueralt, Stevens and Mansfield.
with about 50 openers each; Lane
with 25, and Hamilton and McNeil
with 10 each. A lair-sized fleet
busy bringing oysters Into port. Those
being ‘sold this tall are brought here
from Narragansett Bay. Providence
and Greenport.,l.. i.
F. Mansfield & sons are making ox-
tenslve improvements to their whorl
property in Quinnlpinc avenue, Fair
Haven, Coma, to accommodate in-
creasing business. Some months ago
the firm purchased the Tattle proper-
tiy, about iii) feet wide. on Quinniplac
River, and have built 188 test of nddi
tIoncl wliarlage. They are now deep-
ening the channel to a width ol 100
feet along in trout of 350 feet of
whoriage. giving a depth oi 10 feet
at low water. This has been uecee
sary to accommodate loaded steamers'w
at the whart
Discussing the oyster situation for
try and especially in Virginia and
Maryland“ has been and continues
rather slow liar the time of year be
during early September. However.
cooler Weather will unquestionably
housings demands upon Virginia
and Maryland oyster dealers. who are
fully prepared to meet them , with ”an
abundance of no choice oysters as
grow anywhere In the United states.
'1‘ The nouns! demand for Virgini" eve
There are ‘
log are Rowe's. with about 100 open-‘
is'
cause oi'the extremely warm weather
the laws, and there has been very lit-
tle trouble. Of course, there are de-
predations at times, but the men on-
gaged in it are taking very dangerous
risks. They ul‘et-aiight. and made to
,teei the heavy hand of the law, and
zone dose generally serves to break
,them. ll (10 not anticipate any very
Eserioue trouble this your, {or the best'
the,
planters and the tongers are aiding In
icurnying out the laws for their own
protection."
The oystermeu in Providence. R. l..
are much disappointed over the 1912
set of spate It the “Tribune" of that
city is correct in its views. It is not
expected, says the some authority.
that large shipments cl oysters‘ will
be made hetero October. It seems
most of the planters had large expec-
tations of a line set, and went to great
expense to plant thousands oi bushfi
ole oi shells In the hope of securing a
good catch when the spawning new
son was on. The changeable weather
had much to do with the situation. and
the cold spell In early August ruined
all chances of getting It decent sit on
the shells. «
The oyster out this year, says the
”New Haven, (toms, “Register." In to
shells already taken from the beds.
Oyster growing In one of New flav-
en's largest industries and the set is
’watched as eagerly as are the advance
crop reports in the West. .Whlle it Is
a little early to determine definitely
191 on both sides of Chesapeake Bay. how large this year's harvest or eye
the "Virginian Pilot" recently said the torn Is to he. the tact the oystermen
oyster business throughout the coun» are getting ready tor a banner year.
is evident. ,
The Bayville, L. 1., ”News" says all
at the Long island oyster houses are
doing a rushing business, much largo
er than at the some time last year.
The oysters are considered very good
for so early in the sateen.
, At Chester. Pa.,.=tlio oyster season
or 1912 did not really begin until the
first part at this track lie the oyster
dealers were not all" , r ,.
quality or tile ,nceuztit stock.
Well endey‘
[lititlil Tilt HAIR
be a good one, its judged from the ,
Cousin! IN! u
Jflfnd ”enjoinincwcwyork
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applauded by the best dressed New lorkers.
Suits and Overcoats‘
From $18.00 up
5
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Mark Cross Gloves and Leather Goods
Crofut 81 Knapp Hats
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., resections
Telephone Connection men can!”
3}} —! . "‘ ' . , r-
of that city, was on with a mail. The The serum in to prevent unscrupul-
agitation to sell oysters by the horn 0"! merchants Imposing upon the
dress. instead of by the quart. to meet;- while and militias money by selling
mg with success In Chester Con- too much water with the oysters.
neiehi'ious oyster dealers Who want When 8010 by the hundred, the local
to give their patrons a square deal dealers urns. this Imposition would
have signified their Intention of lends be Impossible. ‘ on it. Dow the mad of the firm,”
the their old to the movement. end It W - ‘ M" signed a. president at the Franklin,
4 Orin! oi the deal rs post “your: *l’rv e needed so Indians. North minke gym“ and
, tapes It.
now a 60., AssiaNltD.
Viios'rou, soot. Sir—"The Stock or»
ohungc firm or Stephen R. Dow It Coin-
pnny assigned today for the benefit at
its oteiiitors. At the some time Stophu
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