are cannot furnish 'you
it” will call us on the
, erroneous
3'.
Welcome. cessation.
smmrwseurooo
gtwllomnnm
i‘he ‘MStardS’isunhaudingsoo
inhuman-131nm; for
11::de of this city
W Cullen, of Wu. n for-
n r resident of this city in: arisitor
it re with friends Saturday“
visitors in Ridgeneld .
Mrs. G. V. Parker and Mrs. F. D
Jennnings, of Quintard avenue, are re-
(:03 cring from attacks of grippe.
1 .Mr. and Mra'John 'l‘. Manning
Stamford, were local visitors over
Sunday.
The twentieth anniversary of the
Woman's Guild, of Trinity Episcopal
church, will be appropriately celebrat-
Vl ed tomorrow evening at 7:45 o’clock.
The Whatsoever Circle of King's
Daughters will meet with Mrs. Hoff-
man, 121 South Main street on Tues-
day afternoon at 2: 30 o ‘clock
WSEI’ll llAVlS
so airs-armor. 8t. . so. Nor-walk.
WEATHER. FORECAST
Format for Howell: and vicinity:
- lists and warmer tonight; -ayTuesd
' filming.“ colder. 2
E A Mill-defined storm area is central
this morning over Michigan. it is
alias river. Another welbdodn-
mm cloudy weather with rlln or
snow in nearly all districts east of the
A very inieresting address was git
ier
itht masses at St. Mar} :4 church The
talk was on the annual report of the
lchurth “1””! “a“ read 13"“ Sunday banks November 10,1915" says the Sixth and Seventh Grades in a Swell;
Rev. J. N. Szabo, pastor of St. Lad-
islaus’ Hungarian Catholic church, is
grist toilet. is .mn new 51..
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3”
Miss Hazel Blake. and Mrs. C. A. hie-e the financial history of any country“
2 demure. of this city, were Saturday
Willem}. s
nonrandom;
v-n-v“
WASiiiNGTOS Jan. 1b. —-‘ Develop
j scent and moth never paralleled in
its the way John Shelton Williams.
. Courtroller of the Currency describes
lin- his annual report to Congress, the.
operation of the national banks underf
ibis lhnrge, during the period from
October 1914 to hovember 1915. the
‘flrsr 3ear under the Federal Reserve
system The report has today one
center: to Congress. '
Mr \lilllams gives a comparative;
statement of the condition of the no i
tionai banks to back up his state
mint. lie shown that net resources:
‘ of the. banks increased in the year 81,-
743 578, 648, that deposits increased!
$2.081:’-30,lti2i and that loans and dis-
. counts increased 89”. «150, 502. Avail-
‘vahlr cash increased in the same per-V2:
! iod $862. 000, 000 and on November
19].), the reporting national banks hau
excess reserves of “91.000000. Ta-‘
bles show the comparathe candition}
of banks in “:95 and 1915.1n Sep-
tenrber 1895 there acre 3,712 report- 2
ing banks with net depOslts of $1, 989.-
300, 000 and loans and discounts of 52;.
050,408, 40‘: while in November 1915.
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r 3esterds3 b3 Father Finn, at alll there were 7,617 reporting banks with 1,319 Gryphon
net deposits of 89.079 471.447. loans
and discounts of 37.233.998.971;
‘The reserve: new by the national
report, ”exceeded D3 3587. 000 .000 the
greatest reserves ever held at any,
time prior to the passage of the h‘ed-‘
eral lieserie act. Loans and dis-r
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""" "n ""‘h ”We The “"1““ "p0“ of counts amounted to more than the to ceileut
Sakhalin!“
.91, mama-am
(habitual.
connection with thesishtdhisof.
are m and
was... to Obey at is". patriotic
and intent on building up their con-
annuities nnd in country.
W of the W Reserve
Staten. Mr. ‘Wiiilunn any! the with-
drawal of reserve funds from. but:
in the large cities, and their W
to Reserve banks has not «used the
predicted “convulsion from which the
whole country would ruler." "The
business and commerce of the United
States" he points until: this etinnec-
lion, "have not contracted. They have
expanded to dimensions never before
reached.”
The report adds that if the Reserve
Act is amended so that all reserves
ultimately to be transferred to re.
serve banks be withdrawn now in
stead of at the end of three years as
the law now provides. there will be
no disturbance or inconvenience to
the national banks, which hold the
funds to be transferred.
illi nruu scroll
ours Niliillilililll
(Continued from Page One.)
we...—
an attractive little folk dance. clever-
ly done by the children of the Sixth?
Grade. The Mock Turtle (Mary Tay
lor, Alice (‘Dorothy Ferguson) and
(Sallie. Crawford) won
much applause for their splendid not
log of a scene from “Alice in Won
deriand" and the children of the
tab Folk Dance showed Alice how
Mock Turtles learned to dance.
Charlotte Thomas, Virginia fier-
hard and hols Hoyt then did some on
\iork on the flying rings;
the parish will be read at the masses tat loans and discounts of all baulrs.l while Sallie l‘rawford. Virginia (lab;
on next Sunday.
w..-
Edward ’J. lrwin. of Meadow stream p
who has been recovering from an oper 5 lug power" of the- United States—Abe danced and
atlon for acute appendicitis, today re-' capital aux-ins, circulation deposits, liumtarian
turned to his duties in the U. M. C.
in 2Brldgeport.
9d disturbance is central over Neva-
“do. The temperatural are generally,
abovofstesslng and rising slowly in the
central Monsters districts. Between
- themem.m
There will be an adjourned meeting lot) 000 an increase
of the board of directors of the Chen: i
her of Commerce this e3' ening, in their
'hcadquartors on Wall street
persons are below free-inc andfall
ippi river north of Oklahoma the tem- J
“ ingrspldly. Thetampmmerebe
l includindg .,national state, savings and
3 private banks and loan and trust com
anies~- -as late as the year .1902." 3
Air. Williams says that the “bank
etc.,—-of ail reporting banks. national
and otherulse with an estimate of the
gflgures for nor: reporting banks,
;umounted in June 1915 to 8253913
in a year :of
‘sbout :1 on. too 000 Savings bani: do
positors increased by 176. 256 during
the year ending last June with total!
deposits of Si 997 .7llo,u|3 an increase.
or 861,1”,163.
however decreased from “it 36
The average deposit!
to! Grandpa Bin-denwlisry Courtenay
hard, Loiolloyt Jenn booster and
Justine Smith also did splendid work
ropes. A Highland Schottiactre by the
Freshmen and Sophomores was well
this was followed by a
Schottiséhe “ admirably
done by the. Juniors and Seniors. ;
The second part of the program
'was a repetition of the Christmas
Play, "The. Greatest Gift."
was a: follows: -
liaonley Children,
The cast .
leter ,. ........... .. . Vera Merrill
«"Mary. Kathleen Klefer
Agnes ..' ........ Gladys Ferguson,
Benny" ........... Frances Denglor
“‘92 “0““ ““5““ 9““, “1"” 0‘ 34:2. 83 while the number of banks Hawker—Amine Blumanthal.
l 10W ”,9 ll “um W’m No. the South Md“! Baptist church
and W and Minnesota.
' macadltdons favor for this vicinity:
Malay weather with mild Meeting of the Christian Endeavor
temperance, followed on Tuesday by league Will be held ‘ 2
clearing and wider.
lwiil meal mint at 7:30 o'docmrTo-f
marrow evening the regular monthly
i .22. W
WEATHER A YEAR A00 The islands of William it Smitl
TODAY.
Temperature: 1.033'31:
39. Cloudy.
' f II 9".— q~nm
of ngintard avenue. will regret
high,
lli NEWS
tmany friends of Earl stovm,iwith a warning to clear out of term
Vpn neuthpnia.
no
seen
no ‘
vent/err was taken.
sue-Ft..—
:uill be rd?seri to hear that he Was
able to sit on his 3eranda for a short
time Meter-rim .llc has been one
increased from. "Jim to 2,.159
2l'nendatlon for legislation is for an
amendment to the Bank law author-
izlng and directing the Department of
sources.
Other recommendations glv on under
-n heading, To Prevent Bank Failure“
.DNPOIO: To prohibit its caldera from deg-ed beautifully t .9 w
lborrowing from their own‘rbanks‘: to '
V'lously ill, but is now somewhat int: prevent you“ to 6".me ”com with'
proved.
. lr‘lank Hamilton. arrested on Sat-ur . loans ‘0 pne individual pm or cor” .
day night by Constable Sill; for drunk partition; . to prevent or limit over- .
lenness. was up before Judas Lock
and this morning. but sentencemas
ruspcnded Hamilton was released
to1 which he did.
lest-mire is seriously ill with pluero-
} Suit has been brought against Mrs.
‘ Agnes A. Grlillths, by Charles A. Com
Th); Nowell: hock conmlny W stock. of Larchmont. on the judgment
OWN-U088 [GROWN 11'0“" that he recovered in New York state. cctcrs for losses sustained by a bank
during which the annual in- pipers have been served by Sheriff through Notation of the bank act.
;Doulens, and attachments have been1
{made Attorney in 0. marrow, is the
Wilmington Como. No 11 l’atriotl6,rawyer for the plaintiff. .
Orde Sons of America, -will have in:
on of officers tomorrow even
still]
ing, ibllowed by a supper.
-_r
Elebtric lights have been strung
abou the Mill Pond. on “19 East Side... 09” in certain speciaujes
ing the pleasure of skating on States Steel opened with the smallest
inc
this flav orite place.
Alipecial session 'waa held y'ester- hour
day £32 members of Progress Forum! , ‘
A ,GRECIAN TROOPS
No. .1, Fraternal Forum League.
class of candidates were initiated.
pa rtment.
:‘t
City Engineer George A. Sheron, Paris ”“0
3"“ Street Foreman Edward Dnflylcruiser Helli I’zmd the destroyer
and Horace Lewis are busy complet- Leon, with a sth-o'ng contingent of
2 lug the inventory of the street 08* troops, have been sent to Samos
NEW YORK. Jan. 10 (Wall Street,
to 30 a m l.~—\'omlna1 gain and loss-
es attended the resumption of trading
fractional gain, but soon fell back.
Selling pressure became more marked
before the expiration of the first half
SENT TO SAMOS'
tit—The
i
l
: Grcck
lto cope with do inaurrection on
{that island said to be due td a
The Endeavor Circle of King‘s lack of foodstuffs. '
Daughters will hold its annual meet-|
log: 3'... Wednesday afternoon at 3 martial law shortly will be pro-
o'clock. at the residence of Mrs. Wil- claimed at Athens. 5 3
' Rumors platelet of an early at-
tack on Saloniki by the Aus-
l
. trisns, Germans and Bulgarians.
AGAINST'ARREST
0, ‘ OUSULS
WON, Jan. 9 :30 a. m.»—
\ l
2 ‘. TheGréelc government. says Rec»
" té‘r’s Athens correspondent, has
' made an energetic protest ‘againSt
he arrest at Myeileno probe: (3 ,
ATHENS, Jan. 9. 9 a. in. via'
‘It2' is generally believed that
man, Austrian and Tdrlrisb @0ch
5 tin!
true approval of the board; to require
cmcers and employees to‘give surety
bonds; to limit direct and indirect
admits: to require certificates of do
. posit to be signed by two directors;
‘to prevent erasures on the books of
a bank; to llmit interest paid on do
i posits; to authorize the establishment
.of branches in the United States; to
:permit branches in Alaska and in
.sular possessions; to authorize min-
imum interest charges, -33hich or-
idlmrily. .might be. usurious~—0n small
loans and to authorise the Conrptrol
let to bring proceedings against dlr
The report renews the Comptroll-
ors recommendations of last year for
other legislation, including the giving
of authority to the Comptroller to
remove directors guilty of persistent
i deletions of the bank not. ‘ .
"Banks.” says Mr. Williams‘ ‘noarly
iaiways are broken. not by bank rob-
bers, who have come. from the out
itoday. Dealings at the outset lacked
laide, not by failure of customers to
in” animation 0: recent 399‘1°%:u°:&‘ uhom they have lent money; but by
lthe tying «up or dissipation of the
“bunks funds through loans to their
own ofllcers and directors. or blue by
direct dotalcations and embezrlements
by trusted officers. if these evils are
i remedied—and they can be remedied,
rif certain simple and'much needed
gamendments can be secured to the
national bank rich-failures among us.
tioual banks can be reduced to a
negligible number, or be absolutely
eliminated."
Mr. Williams shows there wore 14
failures during the 12 months ended
October 31. in the last 50 years. he
says, there were 208 failures attribut-
able to criminal acts. while in
judicious or careless banking »,was re
sponsible for 136 others.
The
space to presenting his side of his
fight with national banks to reveal
the charging of usurious nterest
rates. He gives tables of loans by
banks in different sections to back up
his charge and says that complaints
have come of this practice particular
ly directed against small banks in the
South and Southwest West and
' Northwest. .
“It is time” says the report, “for all
banks of this country to reallse that
the Federal dieserve act was“ framed
the customers of the banks; that one
of the great objects of the law was
to deoentrsliae the money Q. the
.try; to effect.- a more
t'ributlon of capital and
th the old system by whlc . ,
tiy concentrated in a to
lions, there to be 1
The Comptroller's principal recon: I Policeman—«Katherine Adams.
Comptroller. devotes much
nitable ..
Santa Clauswilorollllf. Hirsh.
old had -l)orothy Booth.
\iothcr {awloy-wllelllull Well.
Mrs Cronin—llarrlqt wliswshs
‘ .ius‘tlée to bring suits against usurers frgsgma’s Fair-ya luatlue Smith
by ‘i arms
the Métantr-ollerm 8 i vouch first};
res. “Myth unlit-rt. Erna‘
impair-liner andltllonnh dflltch.
number of atropine added much
the first not. and u
e ‘Vlmown
eliristmah carols.
»;ln the last not of the play,
from the Nativity were effectively
shown. These were
wing girls: ‘
gelsw-Mnrlon Wadsumorth Anne
2 j‘liowelb Sallie Crawford. Mary Van
Adlurgn. Dorothea. .,Sagai Lucille
2- 2Dunrortier. Lorraine Tripler.
Shepherds—«Elena «Baird, Unit iloyt.
and Margaret Lafforty.
L'llar3 and Joseph—Thereine
' and Louise momentum.
~ The uhole presentation showed
dramatic ability on the part of the
performers, older and younger.
The exercises were brought to a
3 fitting close by a group of brief ad~
dresses. Miss Breudllnger, principal
of the school, introduced first the
president of the Hillside Alumnae As-
sociation, .Miss Mary Burnett, who
spoke of the changes in the school
since the time when she had been a
pupil, compared the presentgymna-
slum with thecramped space inthe
Homestead used in those days and
spoke of the pleasure felt by the. as-
sociation in their ability to aid in
Lowman
of their hope that 2euch new hit of
equipment mlglrt help to make better
Hillside girls ‘
Miss Francis, the associate princl
marks by speaking of the associa-
tions generous gift of $1300 toward
the erection of the gymnasium. Miss
Francis showed how“ thirteen" was
thus a lucky number for Hillside,
since it stood for the thirteen hundred
the alumnae for the school.
Miss Brendllnger. then introduced
Hillside‘s illustrious friend and neigh-
bor, Mayor Curl Axel aliarstrom, who
proved his claim to speak at the fes-
tivities by showitig'r-‘that he was not
only a neighbor, but a “parent". hav-
ing had both a son and a daughter at
the school. and that best or all. he
was an “alumnus". being an elected
member of the cris— of Nineteen
teen Twolvel Doctor Harstrom con-
gratulatod the school on its splendid
record, and on its resent achieve
mania. and closed w tit the lines, ‘
* “Though girls may come
lAnd girl! may to. 2
May Hillside go on forever!"
teaching each girl the true meaning
of its motto. Madam. Love; Porter.
Mini: Blandllnger, the principal, closr
2 nestles briefly of
unintan wlth
2 "'l or like the Tents." said Smithers;
‘Jones always hated children small,
four:
Wautiful tableaux representing spousal .\V certitin Thinker, full of Think,
it"s“ by ““2. 10' ihnd so i tool: him to the moi:
2‘0! one large" caldrou full of ml:
1
Wise Men Janel Crau'i‘ord, Julienne
‘ i
the erection of the non buildlnimnltdt
pal, supplemented bliss Burnell's re . -
dollars worth of love and trust felt by .
Three. as well as the mascot of Nine V
alt-am“
mannered”
yore approved. The btmdiu is ex-
oeflentiy equipped for either plays.
feature; concerts 9;" m,- and he-
'ingswdyfrom mamafimm
motley mm a inert desirable mit-
lug place. It all! seat about four hun-
lied people.
The afternoon was made further sn-
eventual-thereon: reorient! no
hour of dancing, after which the
audience dispersed,
, Mucus in
non: expressions of enjoyment of the
afternoon's exercises.
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THE LAUGH OF A CHILD. *
The laugh of a child will make
The holiest day more sacred still.
Strike with hand of fire, 0 weird
musician!
Thy harp strung with
golden hair,
Fill the mat cathtdral aislts \tith r
s3rnphonits‘ sue-ti and dim, ’
Deli toucher of the organ keys, :
Bio“, buglcr blow, until the sill
vcr notes .
Do touth and kiss tilt moonlight
waves,
And charm the lover's wandering
midst the vine-clad hills:
liut know your sweetest strains:
are discords all, '
(.‘orirnared with
happy laugh,
Apollo's
Childhood's,
r
; The laugh that fills. the eyes pith;
light
And every heart with joy.
0 rippling river laughter!
l‘hou art the hlcsscd lioumlaryl
line between the beasts and:
men, 3
\nd eur_3 \vuywurd wave trig:
thine
Dotlr llroun Mtlllt‘ lrctful fiend of;
care
() 1mm“: r: Rustulippcd daughteri
of Joy y, .
\lakc rilmplcs (lrnugil in thy?
checks
”[0 with and hold and "lurify
All the tears of grief.
——Robcrt G. lngcrsoll.
EFFECTIVENESS.
When Smltbers killed his uncle dear
Behind the garden gate.
lie did. not soak that pioneer
.Somewhere float: his starboard ear;
die poisoned him with fine and clear
Corrosive sublimate.
I"
"Yes, my motto is Effectiveness
in slumber or at play.
80 when he heard an urchin bowl '
lie fuck him out behind a wall ,
rAhd chopped him into what you'd will
the rsaiilyho of the about: scene in said 4030“:
eon, stage-rs reu- |
A new local.» .
all humankind should .
bless .,-
filly Wies- of hlfeetivcneas
i hated. front to but.
Anticipated not saw him sink ,1, '
To be a spectre black,
Murder! You wrong me.
' less,
Than uptodaie Effectiveness!
"l‘wss L. be
The style of Brown's suburban cot
‘ Shocked provolone i919“.
And so i simply west end got
A healthy arebrand, very hot.
And kerosene, a drenching lot,
And burned that residence,
Arson? You fill me with distress
l merely used EffectiVeness!
Effectiveness! All, black is white
When in your glass .‘tls seen,
in halo tops King Dynamite,
The mightiest monarch in our sight,
And little children rind delight
In llrmgar. sweetest Queen! ,
Edmlring peoples, come! express
Your reverence for Effectiveness!
,wJohn O'Keefekin blew VYork World
PEACE.
New
(Richard Linthicum. in the
York World )
\Vho pleads for peace while Bel-
gium prostrate lies
while envenomed
shut out the skies
That bend 0"er fair, free France;
while Britain’s sword
Is still for honor drawn and
plighted word:
While yet the wolf has fangs and
strength to leap:
While. one assassin lurks within
. the deep;
And clouds
is yet to save— .
Who pleads fer peace? The
‘ coward and the slave! ~-
If yours {one good" before in
any business position, there‘s an op-
portnnity awaiting you to do it satin.
Use The Sentinel f'Situntione Won ted"
mm
mommytormhm u'
i".
if 1,3
While all that Freedom wrought .
Entrance on Mam St, Fail-field Ave. and Cannon St.
Bridgeport, eon. Monday, Jailuary 10,1915.
Store open Saturdays till 9 p. m.
. 1.. ,
Hints .to
cold folks
Fur mat is grcatcst toe of cold. Woman doesn’t know
it 18 cold when fur coat is herprotector.
N0 cold fingers or chapped hands annoy the woman
whose handh arc snugly warm in her muff.
Warmest underwear is that fine Athena in which wool 7 H
and cotton arc knit togetherin right proportion. Its
excellent fit helps in keeping uric warm. ,2
\Vell-Shod feet don’t get cold half so quickly. New ~
leather is better protection against cold than old. New
hshoes help in keeping feet warm.
llouland $5 blanket keeps one so w arm that windows
may be kept 33cll open to get fresh air all through the 2
“:93 art light, mostly wool good and big. ' h
back
night.
(ln'c of those square gas-heaters with an asbctos
will send forth a lot of warmth in the little. roonr'.‘
j thatit seems impossible to hcat. Circcry too!
Man in it llmvluml m'crcnnt can laugh at the cold. lie's. , ..
wool.
w
warm: Fit lousely»but so war‘mly.- Fine
With as big a collar as a man cares for.
.. The store just sparkles and
smiles with things" to {30] cold weather.
s‘ 5t, ."s
’b'W' ‘nl-2‘ll'
...——T-.vr~———.-(--—~—-i>
‘4-
.. 2., J; . , . a ,‘2 will...
The lidwlahd‘VDry..Goods Co. j '
llulruliimml llllnilllii! ”3%? W%
J W under‘ilre W
0% FEDERAL RESERVE ‘2‘)
MG SYSTM
will be tide rule.
Eff; e111 :3 the viial {lung
era esenve SI]
the credit and‘ibe people have
the confidence in the
Nri'r'roNALBANrcf
c: NATIONAL Arm
. [MMCONNECHCUTZVM£ ,
What Are Your Assoc?
The sole-mile oonduotofhuslns'u and personal nffalrn today classes ‘
i the methods employed very distinctly
Avoid The nanny
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