at. 250. “continua
CHILDREN 3 BOMBERS. In
Gingham and Quinton
(lath. at Maritime
mules HOUSE DRESSES.
in Percale and Gingw *
hams. at
mo $1.25 Ind 01.49
s K. BANKS
Nor-walk
our“ a...” 5....
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WEATHER FORECAST.
For Norwaik and vicinity: Rain
late tonight and on Thursday; some-
_what cooler tonight; moderate north
'erly winds. Weather conditions: The
’western disturbance now forms a well-
ulefined storm area central over Kan-
.sas. The front edge of the rain ex-
‘tends as far east as Illinois. Rain has
ifbeen general during the last twenty
fifou‘r hours from Montana eastward
3to Michigan and as far south as Kan-
i-sas. The temperatures are lower this
f‘snorning in the northern districts.
“Freezing temperatures were reported
{floor the northern portions of the Up-
'rper Mississippi Valley. Lake Region
and New England.
’ WEATHER A YEAR AGO TODAY:
Temperature: Low. 44; high 63
Partly cloudy. ' .
mercy Adams, of‘Taylor Ave, spent
inesterday lu'Bbelton, on business.
,3 r .
Division No.1 A. O lul will h d
tits regular meeting tomorrow even-
? ins.
The Norwalk Medical Association
1 will hold its regular meeting this eve-
' niug.
, Clarence T. Moore. of Boston, is
3' spending ohe day in Norwalk on busi-
' nose.
Harry Hull, of Bridgeport. spent
last evening in Norwalk, visiting
friends.
William J. Wood. Jr.. of Norwaik.
is sending the day in New York on
business.
Washington Chapter. So. 24. R. A.
M. will hold a stated convocation this
evening.
-..._..
Buckingham Post. No. 12. G. A. IL,
will hold its Weekly meeting Friday
evening.
Cockenoe Haymakers’ Association.
No. 32 1-2. I. O. 'R. M., will hold its
regular meeting tomorrow evening.
Allen Betta. of Norwulk, who has
been ill at his home-for the past Week.
has resumed his duties with lined and
Volk.
N»
The regular business morning of
Court Laurel will the hold this even-
ing at 8 o'clock sharp. and a full at
tendauce is mquestod.
' in the list of officers of the Nor.
walk llird Club, printed yesterday. the
vicmpresldent should have been James
Iriall instead of Mrs. James Hall. and
the treasurer should he Charles (lulu-
tard. instead of Mrs. Charlas‘Qulm
Itsrd.
Mun-I
PR EGBYTERIANB IN CONFERENCE
ATLANTA. flu“ May 14. mBoveral.
important conferences today occupied
the attention of delegates of the
Northern, southern halter! and Assn.
elated Reform Presbyterian Churches.
who are here for 'a joint assembly
"which will convene tomorrow. About
1.500 delegates are scheduled to so
~ :mo the mm«
-. us ten days 7 .
mama n
KODAK
Catalogs
tor 1918
Just received at
’WmP.“ Beers ,3
e soon-H Mam s'r.
'I‘
in Lglmtégrges Cloth }
4°
.1.
Manama Hotel Black $
Base Ball
Goods
TENNIS GOODS.
A Line that is Complete.
Spalding Tennis Balls ..... 25¢ each
Wright and Dltson Tennis Balls ..
3:
i.
Donnelly’s
Stationery Store
16 SOUTH MAIN VSTREET.
David W. Raymond
UNDERTAKER
NIW BED MEN'S. BUIWING;
27 WABHINGTON QT.
rot. allies, loin; ‘nouu‘o. m. ‘
Taxi and Touring
Car to Hire
FOR ALL OCCASIONS.
DAY ON NIGHT.
I‘el. I360- J. VAAST
—
Paper
Hanging
Our Specialty.
PAINTING AND DECORATING.
*ertW.Gorham
38 GREGORY BOULEVARD.
East Norwslk.
”Wino—«WW
Daily Line to N. Y.
Phone 59342.
COUCH .‘HAM’MOCKS.
34.93 to $15.00.
Coal? Delivered ,
Pea Coal
Hot Weather
Necessrtles “
Goods to supply the needs of every home and all are big values.
,HUMMER WINDOW BCREEN8
'18 inches high, Winches
........;....... 216
24 inches high, winches
wide . 25c
28 inches high. 33 inches
wide .......... .2.‘ ......
sonEEN oooas.
Our line of Porch Screens. Porch Chairs. Lawn Mowers and Re. ..
frigerators are the best values to ”be had.
A J. Collins Co
PERFECTION OIL STOVES.
2 Burner. . .
ii .Iilurner, .
Ovens
86.45
. $8.46
. . 980 to 82.50
PORCH HAMMOCKS.
Weewwflememww»
O D. Jackson
Optician
Everythian in the Optical Line
“
‘iilliil’l Iliil ~
wt in u:
. and for which wealthy epicures pay
. makes them vastly superior to any
. the town offices at Wareham in rela-
$6.50 per ton
, $5.00 per ton
‘Wood - Cut and Split - Fire-Place Wood
RAYMOND BROTHERS
. tors, there being only about 600 3“,an vastly improved Is indicated in a state. ‘ C1 isfleid who was employed by V]!
58 WALL STREET
Shoulders
20 North Main St.
Automobile
Insurance
Are you protected against loss of I
your auto by fire?
Do you carry Liability Insurance to
protect your legal liability as owner
and operator of an auto?
Rates and particulars cheerfully
furnished.
J. M. Layton &Co.,luc. I
5 Railroad Ave.
5c
Booth Norwsllt
Eyes Examined Free
cmLoWMM-Mewemow
Enjoy a D’s Outing
"‘ ‘3'” Our Automobiles
Driven by a careful and experienced chauffeur who knows the coun-
try for miles around. Reasonable rates by the hour. day, or week.
OSCAR H. BANKS;
GARAGE. RIVER STREET.
. steal hundreds of bushels of oysters
'- >ter. lxtremeiy low titles have been
-. one of the characteristics of this pecu- .
I: liar winter. some oystsrmen say the I! 33 South Main St. South NOI'WIHII
:j l lowest in 30 years or more. When tic-j ’ .
~ ‘companidl with extreme cold such
.'. tides have proved costly to oystermen' ll
j with beds in shallow water. Outgoing I ‘
-: tides left the 0) stars bare. and so in ~
‘When the water drifts back BIOWIY.’ ’ h V
»: :22; with: i3t.§i‘ifii:‘h‘§§é :3 C 19 am 11 C 8 Sale ..
per lb. l3‘/2r.: I
25 lb. Bag Granulated Sugar $1.15
New Potatoes. quart
Home Rhubarb. bunch
Lettuce. head ’
Pineapples ‘ ‘
5c 1 Bermuda oni’ons, quart
5c 1 Home Asparhguo. ‘
Wax Beans, Spinach, Apples, Oranges, Grape Fruit.
United Grocery Go.
For FREIGHT Only
Freight Propellers
East River, New York (foot at Dover
street). every day (except Sunday) at
Freiam received at Norwulh
up to i p. m. and South Norwalk up
leave Pier '28.
Norwaik Steamboat Company
Arming .l. smith, c. c. Hogomsn,
General Agent.
for UIMNIIIO “WI“ CIII
Fred H. Gauung
Funeral Director,
which will oouthr .
fillies and mm“
Tslsphono M
. fit- so.
mm mach“
lYll/EXAMIN‘ED ”I“
AND GIAGOII GUARANTEED
Open Monday and 3
ounce am
loath Monastic.
I cannot
‘t wifsiwd‘hs hum bit I‘ place
rdsy Ivonims
Auto Supplies
Automobile and Engine
Oils, Palatine, Havelinc.
Mobile Oils, Spark Plugs,
High and Low Tension
Cables. (,‘olumbis No. Six
Batteries. Lucas Paints.
GASOLINE
ITAICIMID OIL
I lives the Most Power Ill d
l’rovcuis lingiuo 'l‘rouii ..
Ono Ions-yo until ill o'clock
Ills South liorwslit Hardware
I Asia Supply company
“I0. 1.. IIMIOII. Ilsa
4! WIIM Sir"!
lull-Mum mnuutltmmu
it
TELEPHONE CALI. 720
IIIR [III .HUUSE
(Grocery Boulevard)
sac-r noswam
Shore dinners mull Kinds of
Sea Food 8onittd to Order
JiIIIII i I’Siiliilll Hill.
“I feel afraid of tbii woman. ‘
is a summer" '“wilhmt. nami- and: in it
'(Tiie Fishing Gazette).
The season’s oyster crop was, in
most sections, the best in years. but
the demand more than kept pace with
the supply. A source of worry to the
oyster connoisseur is the constant
dwindling of the supply of what are
called “wild oysters"-—although it re-
quires a considerable stretch of the
imagination to conceive of an oyster
that is really ,"wild." These untamed
shelillsh, which are in great demand
Absolutely Purl ‘
Absolutely has no substitute
Many mixtures are offered as
substitutes for Royal. No“ other
baking powder is the same in
composition or effectiveness, or
so wholesome and economical;
nor will make such fine food.
high prices, have a flavor for superior
to the domesticated and cultivated bl-
vaive. The tang of the sea, unspoiled
by any contact with civilization.
bivalve reared to edible oysterhood
in an artificial bed.
A statement {has been issued from
Royal is the only Baking Powder made -
tion to the recent oyster fishing sea— froni Royal Grape Cream 0f Tartar
son. iPermits to the extent of 33.000 ' ’ ' ‘
fishermen in the towns for the taking
bushels were sold to the numerous
fishermen in the towns for the taking'
of the shellfish from the Wankinquoah quality that the market remained enforcement of the navigation laws by
and ‘Wareham rivers The Weweatit Isteady and the demand above par. .the Department of Commerce. ._
river this year has been an subsoiute That conditions as to the treatment’ Much of this work, says his to rt.
failure in the production of the on" of sailors in the Chesapeake Bay are was done by A. Lincoln Dryden, '
els sold on permits Nevertheless the meat issued in Washington recently Government to police the bay one
town. selling these oysters at 10 cents by Secretary of Commerce WilliamC. gto cruise among the oystermen along
to the ilsehermen. has cleared some til.edileld the Maryland, Virginia‘and North Gar-
thing like $3 360 from the permits. 139‘! The secretary announced that the olina coasts.
cording to some of the fishermen who piactice ot shapghaiing and iiltreatingi ~
sold their 0) stars to Dodge & Co., of crews by the masters and owners of? When the vacant property grown
Providence, there were about 5000 oyster craft in Maryland waters has} too expensive use a Sentinel Want
bushels taken from the river. ibeen practically ended through a strict: Adv. and sell it.
Governor Fielder is expected to in- >—-——~—v——————-——-—————~—~——
spect the oyster industry in \iaurice , ’
River Cove and Delaware Bay on May ' "
'22. He will be entertained by the. .
uBridgetown Commercial League. ! ,
Long Island Sound oystermen. par-‘
ticuiarly those along the Connecticut ~
shore in the vicinity of New Haven'.
and New London. have bad ice cakes,
- -\‘ ‘\ \‘\.\‘\‘ W‘\.\‘\‘\‘\‘ .xlt\:\:\fl.~:~‘~‘k‘ ‘
at ..-,',U. a, a try-{nun y syn/a" 11.- wand/1U '
R p1‘K- u -‘
Cloak & Suit House
GREAT
danger of freezing.
“‘get caught in the grip of the ice I w
Each incoming ripple adds a .bit to ~
the ice until It becomes a cake of suf-
ficient thickness to have considerable ~ ,
lifting powerfil‘hen as the tide comes . .
in with greater force it lifts the ice: .
cakes to the surface, and with that ‘
cake goes up a batch of oysters torn ’ '
from their beds. ‘ ’
.——— or -——
Spring SUIIS. Coats
..2:;:n.22.“2:‘:.:22.onus: t; and Dresses
‘Wherever wind and tide may take the . W a I 'St S and S k [rt
"truer—New York “Sun " g
‘ Representatives of the chemistry dl~ ‘
'vision of the Department of Agricul
‘ture paid several visits to the oyster - .__...._..._._.....__.._....
wharf on the Potomac river recently. ~ »
to obtain specimens of the oysters .‘
aboard the vessels at the wharf for . ,
examination and analysis to determine ~
whether they contained disease germs '7
or other matter that made them an ‘ ’
suited for human consumption. Sever» -
ai times during the past oyster season
samples of Potomac oysters coming "
from the beds above Biakiaione Island, ‘ "
which were condemned in the season
“of 1912 as being germ ridden. ware .
taken by the department experts.
The time has come when stocks must be lowercdmwhen all N
spring goods must go, regardless of what we can get for thorn. 'i‘here’
is thousands of dollars worth of up to date merchandise here that I‘
must be cleared outma larger stock than ordinarywaud in mskln i ‘
prices for this Mighty Clearante Sale we have not been afraid lift
cut all the profit off and then some more In many cases. Come to this
sale with full confidence that you will get by for the greatest values
possible to secure anywhere and you ll not be disappointed. The w’
aortmenta are ample. the guilds are north). the prices are extraor-‘I
dinnri. it s the one big bargain eroiit of the pontoon.
, Ladies’ "and Misses’ Suits
Further Price 315. Sale Price ..a............... .
Former Price $20, {-3qu Price ......... $12,
Former Price $25. sale Price . '
ken. heard nothing from them. so it is ~ .
supposed that the oysters last season u,
’ ’ k , , ‘y'lIOOtl!!!)hI'lliOl‘lflute. "
log the report of the Government ox- Ii Irormer ”M ”0' HM” I’m" 4 “18. I I I
berth M to conditions as they found Ié hormor Price $40. Solo 1 rice ... . . . . . . . . . . . .. ......... . 520‘ g
(hum on their recent trips to the '
mouth of the rivet aboard the remand
cutter Apache.
According to Dr. Carl ll... Alsburg. ‘
successor to Dr. Harvey ,‘Wiloy as
chief of the National pursuit of Chest. ‘
istry. and in charge of the diosrd oi ' '
d‘ood and Drag inspection. there will ~ .
be no more condemnation of New loo .
racy oysters without due and careful _ ,
:luvastigstlon by the proper authorities ' Lad d M ,S D
of the National Government. This so " ' ‘88 an lsses erge fess
homes has come to Charles It. Bacon. ‘ ’
chief of tits is to, Bureau of stun
diabetics from :Alsburg, whom the
chief prevailed upon to attend the aha
nothoényoutionohtboehattosaihuo— _
stallion “Analgmhfiomiuloumu t
which has sepals session in Norfolk.
The maintenance closed my 8",
and it II
Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats
Former Price 310, Sale Price H. 85‘ a"
. Former l’f'klfi .12'3ulrzl’rltlo ...u....................... 87"
Form!” FYI?“ ‘15.}. 8““? pI’ICH Hun-“Hunun.”Hiya $8i ,
Former Price 57.98. Sale Price...........................
All of out $250 Walsh,
sum and we
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