promptly order their supply.
THEEM
by and the chances are that
mv‘ll have no $911.0!
hardly any, if they fail to
BRRlS COAL
A“ ..
”V V Day 01' Night
Our spacious and eas ridin
automobile will . ta 1:
Ma.
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Circe y and Trucking
We
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Semi-Annual ‘
Clearance .
.NOW IN PROGRESS
GOTTLIEB
11 No. Main st. p, Bo. Norwai
3741041239 Suite.
SALE
1 and alarm clocks, which will
sold at reduced prices.
prices.
J08. IROSENFIELD, Prop.
40‘Water Sh, So. Norwalk, Con
Hove just purchased
a large supply of tools, jack~knivel
b1
Bee our window display am
‘ fNorwalII Pawn Shop
We Handle
F Inc Chickens
VVuflna Is to come here.
" Tho best In meats, toe,
Ask your frlen
‘Haies’ Block
WV...— .q...
For people who do not keep theler
A chicken dinner Is worth while If
he chicken is tender and whole.
at the
«Via
North Main Streht
l0|||| PAPERS lllllll
their desire to. determine in
‘ in America concerning
the country’s leading us
' SENllNfl 8 0P|||V||
V the “Arabic" by a Gerann
"in s torpedo, the New Y4
ii." and “World" this moral
editorial «opinions gleaned fnm
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floors or building new.
We are near—just as far as the
Sperry and Barnes’ Hams“
Sperry and Barnes’ Bacon.
Small Picnics ..
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Pure Lard, albs.
Small Genuine Spring Leg of Lamb.
Stew Lamb ..............
Best Heavy Beef from .
Home Dressed Veal
Native Roasting Chickens
~ Fancy Fowl. .. ..
Plate): Corned Beef, beat. beef
Our Meats are of the B est
Gold Medal Butter
Strictly Fresh Eggs”
Oleomargarine
on...
Tel, 583—2.
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k 11.. Hatchet-Bailey Co;
’ HARDWOOD FLOORS l
HARDWOOD FLOORS are mponslble for a lot of the private
dancing which have become so popular lately, for they stand up
well under the strain, are duodess and easily clearedlfor action In
that mail rugs names for covering.
Let us tell you how little they cost. whether for recovering old
We have thick and thin hardwood flooring.
Will you grant us a. brief Intiview to determine whether or not
our service could on some new of yours!
The Hatch f: Bailey Co.
Saturday Prices
...
Everything in Delicatessen, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
CHARNOK’S MARKET
Free Delivery.
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South Not-walk. Conn.
nearest letter-box or telephone.
12 1-21:
. 16c up
Ice ......... u--.-.
Qualiéy.
sea-ac. no
76 N. Main St-
The Beers Meal & Provision Co.
6 North‘Main St, So. Norwalk.
13 Main St... Norwalk.
3: WASHINGTON s'r.
SOUTH NORWALK.
Schulize’ s 3 Sanilary Markets
505 MAIN ST., STAMFORD.
39 MAIN ST.
NORWALK.
\
Fancy Potatoes, 14 lbs, ..
Granulated Sugar, 4 lbs.
Pure Lard
24 ,Cottage Street.
TODAY IN “WALL STREET.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (Wall Street
10:3}11. 1n.)..——Stocks recorded ‘g-|
eral declines at the opening of today‘s
market, the Arabic episode continu'
ing to act as a restraining innuence.
War shares of prominence yielded 1
to 2 points on moderate trading. U:
S. Steel showed underlying strength,
although It declined 21 point on salt,
of 2,500 shares. In the railway .- list
a point lower, the’decline In VPennsyl
vania being associated with the order
V of the commerce commission directing
the company to divorce Its water
lines. Rock Island Railway added
1 3-4 to yesterday's substantial ad-
vance. .,
Lowest prices of the week were re
the
rk
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cordEd during today’ s short session onIV
the Stock Exchange Latest develop-
;ments in the foreign situation; ecupled
.VwitliV the official steamship Arabic
:was not conveyed when attacked, gave
rise to further misgivings. Opening
prices Were only moderately lower,
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A STULL
Union Pacific and Pennsylvania: were '
=Among the representative
noted In Vm‘e- V"connectiut|31’°°mmes receding 1V to V3 points.
d’Thesc losses wore soon increased,
however a selling movement In Unlk
‘ed State Steel, Reading and Union
table l‘BSpOllSlblllly On throughout the list. Steel fell VIO,
r gpmidpm'. Wilson. in {Vow 70 14. a loss of 3 1-2,Reodlng lost 2
' ultimatum to Germ “ y,‘ points at 16.13 i-S and Union. Pacific at
es Pacific provoking general Weakness .
127 1-8 was odtil. Extreme declines
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V East Norwalk.
hem Steel at.274; 6 1‘2 for New York
Air Brake at 116 1-2 and ,9 1-2 for Gen-
eral Motors at 200. ‘
Bonds were weak on a fair volume
of trading.
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Some Bridgeport
Factories are Closed
(Continued From First Panel
5' The'Bridgeport Screw Company an-
nounced a shutdown for an indefinite
period, following demands made up‘
on it by 200 workmen. .
All the employes of the Crawford
Laundry Company were out today.
They had been granted the eight-
hour day. The ‘em'ployes today Insist-
ed upon the “closed shop " ‘
Expected strikes of employee of the
George C. Batchelder Corset Company
and the Crown Corset Company. will
not come today {unless the hundreds
of girls are stalnpeded into action.
The committees from each
have arranged conferences with the
respective managements on Tfie‘sday
and the girls have been asked to re-V
511111an at work and not to preclpltate
trouble.
The six hundred strikers of the
Brynnt Electric Company. who yester-
day demanded a minimum wage of 36
the six thousand ‘gdas employed in the
‘the campaign ton the eight-hour day.
“ Olllcer W. J. Tracey received the r
VVbrought out the fact that the water
nun 0111 011
* 311111 11 1 1111;
A 'Miss'ldary ScuIIey, Organizer for
factory
'mtwbmwdfimr
per Geyser any person W.
ummMmmw
employee. V
The labor union cactus today
stated that they do not intend that
Remm’ gton Arms and Ammunition
Company shall strike if they can pro-
eight hour .day agreement is not being
lived up to. The officers say they
prefer to handle one strike at I time,
and not sanction one, until the grounds
for It are, in their opinion, reason-
able. V
A mass meeting of the girls em-
Ployed in the Warner Brothers Com
pany factory is called for Tuesday
night, when complaints will be aired.
The girls have reported to labor on
ion ofilcers that the company is not
living up to its agreement, in that
thread is not furnished at a whole
sale price, and that floor women are
telling the employes that membership
in the union ls foolish and will cost
them their positions.
At labor headquarters today it was
stated that a misunderstanding had
arisen over statements made bearing
upon a fund held by the American
Fedeiation of Labor for carrying on
Already $50.000has been expended
In the‘ campaign throughout the coun-
my and the executive committee has
In hand $106 000 to be devoted to the
same end. James lloche,1l1e chair?
man of the executive committee, is
one of the Federation omceis who are
here/managing the 911.111 hour more»
meat and the strikes in Bridgeport
to enforce it.
Will VDISlRlCl Willi
IS lllll 0f BlClilllA
Consumers Warned to Boil All:
Water llsed forllrinb I ornate
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The drinking water supplied to the
Fiist District Is In 11 dangerous con-
dition, according 10 a report received
by the commissioners from the State
Laboratory at Middleman 'ilip test
of a sample of the "water showed that
bacteria are ”very high In numbers" I
and organisms of the Colon type are
abundant All consumers are named
in an advertisement; which appears
elsewhere In The Sentinel at the dir’éc-
Tlon of the commissioners. to boil llle
water used for drinking purposes.
Knowledge of the contamination “as
not had until yesterday when Healtli‘
él .
port of the lost. He immediately com- .
mudIcated with the commissioners
with the result that a special meetingl
was held last night. Measures to
remedy the co’nditlons are under no
visement at the present time, and
will be put into use as soon as possible.
An investigation into the trouble will
be commenced at once on order of the,
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commissioners In an effort to locaIeV
the source of It. . l
Inquiry from different“ officials has
shed Is without the protection of a
patrol There is no one who is em.
ployed to look after the body of w nter
11nd prevent nuisances. It is recalled
11.1. the Board of Health last ran ask
ed for an appropriation with which to
make an inspection of the sanitary
conditions at the watershed, but it was
turned down. Today Dr. W. J. Tracey
said that he had fearedi contamina-
is in a thickly populated district.
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American Federation of labor,
Viiips Bridgeport Double
. BRIDGEPORT Aug. 21 .‘——With the
streets down town filled with girls
and men walking to meeting places of
the strikers the girls in the Reining:
ton Arms and Ammunition factory be-
gran to walls out. Miss Mary Scully.
ibrg‘anlzer for the American Eedera-
:tion of Labor, heard- of this and she
rushed to the factory and shooed the
girls hack into the plant, 'echlaiianng
to one group: " "Good: Lord, I can't
have more than one strike at a time.
If you want the eight-hour day (lust
wait until I can emit for you the
right way“
The nomination Company employs
more than five 11.611111111111111. but
how: many were Incllrl'ed to strike is
a week in addition to the 9151.316...-
day, today withdraw the
mlhmtnl
in war stocks were eleven for Bethle- wage demand and substituted for II, a Jday plah granted by me company rev
not known. The grievance In said to
be dissatisfaction with the eight-hour
vent it. pending an inquiry into the; ,
claimSm/adebythegirlsthatthe
two weeks it the eight-hour day Is 1101.1»
granted there
26,000 workers.
land Mrs. In 111g Hnymes sang beautl ‘
(borne onlltlverside avenue at 8:30 and
~tlon, principally because the Watershed »
GAZETTE BLDG.
CHEAPEST PLACE
TRISTRAM ' s HYATT
TH! LEADING DRY GOODS STORE
Money Saving Mid-Summer Sales
ALL OF THE
Ladies’ Tadored suits and Coats
SEASONABLE WEIGHTS, STYLISH MO',DELS
SOME REDUCED TO HALF PRICE.
All of the BATHING SUITS at out prices.~
BARGAINS in dainty lingerie one piece DRESSES.
In Norwalk to Buy Pfeserin
GET] OUR PRICES 0N FRUIT JARS, JELLY GLASSES, STONE CROOKS, ETC.
NORWALX
\,
g Need Necessities
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cenlly.
Miss Scully said later that within
will be strikes in
Bridgeport which will Involve about
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Mrs. William R. Willeite.
Mrs. William R. Willeils, of Skun-
eallcs, N Y., only sister of General
Russell Frost, died at her home there
testerday. General Frost’ left for
Shaneailes last night. Russell Fro:
J1‘., went there this afternoon. A
number of South Norwnlk people will
remember Mrs. Violette as a guest at
General Frost‘s at different limes.
Benjamin Miller.
Benjamin Miller, of tornuall, (lied
very suddenly late yesterday after
‘noon. Mis Millei was formerly \iiss
Susan Jarvis. of this city. The late
\ir. Miller “as well-known locally,
and resided for several years in
Bridgeport. l. V
Funeral of Mrs. Daniel Hanlon.
The funeral of Mrs. Daniel lisnlmil
was very largely attended by relatives
and mourning friends this morning at
St Mary's Church mass being ccie~
:abr ted by Rev. John Clune at 101
o‘cl.ock A mass of beautiful fioral'
tributes showed the high esteem that.
‘lbc deceased had been held among her.
friends. The service uas Impressive;
fully Interment uns In St. Marys
cemetery. The pallbearers were John”
Farrell, Daniel Farrell Thomas lin‘
ray and Birdsall Stevens, and the‘
floworbeurcrs were John Hanlon. Jr..
and William Hanlon, all grandsons of
the deceased. .
‘Puneral of John E. PG".
The funeral of John E. Fell was
largely attended this morning from his
from St. Mary's church 'at 9 o'clock,
where a. requiem mass was sung by
Rev. J. J. lIIchnis.\Mrs. A. F. Rose
rendered the solos, Ave Marie, Face
to Face and Nearer, Guy God to Thee.
as the body was leaving the church 1
The pail bearers were Joseph Rooney,
Frank Rooney. Cornelius Sheehan, F.
Sheehan, John Clune, Charles B.
Smith. Interment Imfamlly plot, St.
Mary’s cemetery. V
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Funeral of Mr. Field.
The funeral of Frederick Holmes
Field will be held tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o‘clock from the late home. Rev.
A. dosinitb, of Brooklyn: former East
Avenue M. E. Chu ch pastor. will or-
flcinte. Rector Frederick A. Coleman
will have charge of services to be held
at Trinity Episcopal Church Volt 3
o'clock. Interment will be in River-
side. . ‘ " .
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w . Funeral of Mr. Wiliett.
The funeral'of Edgar Willett Will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the late home. Interment will be
at the Lodge rooms Sunday,
funeral of our late Brother, F. H.
Field. Per order, N. G . .
' D. B BEACH,
’.‘ Secretary.
N-QRWAL‘K HOSPITAL NOTES.
Conrad Herman, oftllridgeport, was
yesterday. He had been confined for
several months as a result of burns re-
ceived-4111mm riding/on one of the elec
the engines.
Frank Rollins. of Rowayton, was dis-
i a few \weeks.
‘ flchIty and was siiadowgd amidst con-
in West Norwalk cemetery. j {V .V
l‘. O. 0- F.VNOVT|CEV1 , ,
fl‘he members of Butler Lb (2,; No.
97.;1. 0.0. -.,F are requested to meet.
A1134
f22nd., at two o'clock to attend thel
. where Lester was formally arraigned
discharged from the Not-walk Hospihl
H. Kriegew Co.
ADDITIONAL
SILK WAISTS FOR
LINGERIE WAISTS
Besides‘he great many other
fore the arrival of our winter
All the best varieti
Plants.
Bordeaux Mixture, Lime-
D‘cathf” etc.
BRGWER & MALONE
LESTER KEEPS ENGAGEMENT.
Attended Reception Then Taken Away
on Grand Larceny Charge.
STAMFORD, Augkzlr—On condition
that the detectives permit him to at-
tend a’reception, William V. Lester, aV
broker, of 66 Broadway, New York?
cityLVVconsented to waive examination
here, Wednesday, when taken Into cus-
tody for alleged grand larceny.
The charge has wide with the alleg-
ed mlsupproprlatlon of negotiable se-
curlties valued at $36, 000 and owned
by Mrs. Estelle Sayre, a Pougbkeepsie
Widow.
Lester had been living in Darien for
A woman send to be
Madge Yes, an actress, of New York,
occupied apartments in the some,
place. It was said by the detectives!
that ILester had deserted his wife. ,
The detectives afrivdd here a. few
days ago to investigate a very Indefi-
nite clue to the effect that Lester and
the woman were somewhere on the
north shore of Long Island, between
Greenwich and Bridgeport. Chief 01‘
Police Brennan'said was enlisted, and
he did what he could to help locate the
couple. Lester was found without dif.
stantiy until Wednesday night, When
he szs apprehended ‘.
"1 bays arraged to go to a reception
tonight," he said, “If you permit me
to attend it. l’ll go back without
making any fuss "
His requbst was granted, and the
guests at the reception never realized
ed about so Vgally, was being watched
’all the time by two detectives. '
After the reception, Lester and hisl
detective friends entered a taxi and
were driven to a local hotel where
they remained until yesterday noon.
They then departed for Poughkoepsle
at police headquarters.
. amends AGAIN ‘susv.
.‘ EL PASO,'1‘ex Aug. 21.-—— ——Reports
from the south state that the City of
Durango, occupied Aug.13 by a raid-
In‘g party 61 Arr-lets and' Germans
.o
GARDEN, GRASS AND GRAIN SEEDS.
es Tomatoe, Cabbage and Pepper
VALL KINDS OF INSECTICIDES.
of Lead, Heleboro, Paris Green,
20-22 Main St, Norwallt
that the daper lltle brkaVer who danci-
forces aided by a revolt of thaNIlla 1.
We have added to our
V2 PRICE SALE
BARGAINS
- 89¢
. 59¢
a ......
lo‘ Ill
wonderful bargains makes
this the greatest bargain event of the season. Come in
every day this week as the stock must be disposed of be-
stock.
Sulphur Solution, Arsenate
“Slug Shot,” "Bug
illll0PEI|| Willi NEWS
BERLIN, A‘ug 19.——The colonel or
a regiment stationed in the West is-
sues nn appeal for assistance to a
moiber wlo had suffered terribly
through the war. He nine sons and a
son-in—law law went to the front. Five
of the sons rife dead, and three of
them and the son-inlaw are severely
wounded.
ROME, Aug. 19.——Signor Ernest Na-
than-former Mayor of Rome, who re
cently applied for a commission in
the Army, has been appointed to an
infantry regiment at present quarter-
ed in the capital. His position is that
of lnspeEtion-Lieutenant, and he will
look after the supply of food, bedding
and other daily necessities.
LONDON, Augie-Walter Lewis
Emanuel who endemed himself It)
English hearts as the writer for fif-
teen years of a weekly column of bon-
mots entitled “Chafifiri” in Punch, is
dead at‘fiis home hereaged 46. By
profession a lawyer, Mr. Emanuel
abandoned the bar in 1901 to become
a humorous writer. Ills dog books,
such as “A Snob " "A Dog Day" and
“Dogs of War?" Were very popular
both-In England and America.
We are credibly Informed that still
another large property will be put 11p-
On the market this season very near
Stamford by C M Webb, and the gen-
eral office will be in Norwalk.
,NINE PERIBH IN BIG FLOOD.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 21.——Nine persons
are known to have perished All. the .
flood that swept the west and soutir
em parts of St. Louis and some of
1 the s/uburbs yesterday. and two per- .
sons fie missing Nine bodies wares.
found today—one that of a white wo-
men, and eight those of actress. The “
missingiar‘e negroos. ' V .
”M.- ‘
The longest time on record Mr.
troops.;hss been reoccupled by Villa
charges this morning. , .
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torso": from Torrens without a light.
which a swimmer has remained under-V
[water is 6 minutes 29 4-6 seconds;
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