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NORWALK
Edward
New York.
S. Austen spent Friday in
Mrs. Alfrtd ll. Large entertained
the Friday Afternoon Club at her
home Friday.
A spetizd meeting of the Mother‘s
Club has been 1-l.a ‘ed for today at :5
p. m. at t‘ to Methodst Church.
A chimney fire Friday, about 2: “0
p. tu.. called the firemen to 31111111315
' Darien Inn, and a little work with tire
extinguishers soon subdued tit-'-
blaze.
Mrs. Grover C. Raymond of the
Mg“;
.13. David Hartford
“this confined to ht- -r home
. .a- attack of the grip.
with
fitting is fine again on the
mum pond. The rain spoiled
lie skating for yesterday.
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‘l‘he flag pole in front of tl:1f1'.v.r's
'3“: store. Washington street bridge.
, Inn blown down yesterday by the.
'1 Clans winds.
‘ .Iiaa Alice Gri n.
; :Nevard, entertained
[Wadi Friday evening.
yav'euinx was passed.
of Gregory
several
A social
. communications from Earl L'Hom-
’lnodieu, who is in Franc-e, are expect-
- 0‘ Why. The latest mail boat “(‘ht-
' Into" arrived in New York this morn-
r“
, a» delivery wagon, which broke
' dun with John '1‘. llyrnes, the local
In.“ carrier, is still shuttling in the lot
when: avenue. where the accident
centred. It rather look" as though it
will become a familiar landmark
t, ‘ ' ' h' ' ' -
5 The 11.11.1111; ll;'nd Sit'in'i) “1.11
meet tomorrow evening at the home
M 'I'hefi's'a l‘odzeln_., of Third street,
' "tot regular work. There. yt'ill be elee
[36?! of ultimate end Litter business
was come up. All tneinbcts are
gar-Sim to be present.
. lira. Robert E.'.'Mot'1"i_son.5of Van
Zant. R'i'reet. tutertuined a number of
friends Friday evening. Refresh-
ments were. served and :1 soeial even
hug wag cnjmed. '. Antoni; Jttu' guests
‘ 111%7erg‘1nlth t‘lf'r-t Milton El
1 wood, Mina m'ijvqrett Butklev, Mrs.
_. Samuel Wriv‘hl MritiiMary; Wright,-
Us. Fagerstrom, Mrs. B. Thomas
In. E. B. Robertson, Mrs. C. Pierce,
“-8219. Taylor. Mrs. Leslie Gorlmm,
Int. Lyman Gotham and Mrs. F.
Campbell.
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Fr.“
1
it
A horse and wagon belonging to
Hoary Harris, a. grocer 011 First street,
. I“ dragged nlong'tlte street for 111-011-
t1 beet. Saturday, when tht1 front
(3f Wizlfit‘ld.
1i.» 1111' several d'tg's,
'ered.
East
"tights. and her daughter Lilli-1.11. who
have both bern Suffering 1111111. ttnsili-
lid..1 now treat-
The Ju: tiol' l.;11_ (((( .1 11 11.1 .‘vl=lll(1.i.~‘1
(hut'th rtsutnttl its sm‘sions, nt'ttr
1 long rest. lt‘lltlil)‘
siderable numb-.r oi' the
this encouraged the supet'ittl1'11d'“11l,
.‘tirs. C. E. Sisson, by their p‘.‘\ r“ll('t‘.
:1
nib-rutmit. 11rd 11 com
boys and
_ Miss Louise Lamar of Jamaica, 1..
1., “ho l:'. '1011' visiting in Nor'titztn, is
delighting many friends with her sing-
ing: and i; fortunate1 in having a beau.
tiful mire of great promise,
Clifton. the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Gainer of the Post Road
when suit to Cantrell's crmet'y 11:11
evening last week, stepped backward
into an open halchtvfly, falling into
the cellar upon some boxes and har-
l'l‘ls‘, but us the full Wu: not great. he
was not seriously injured.
'l‘lte retently- -0121111i21.l Darien Mus
i.'l1l%~o(i11l y tnjnyttl its first “'(Hllll at
11 it' .1t tbt Mill.o.li.t (l111r.l111n"l‘httts
when :1. 11112.11 number of
friend: partlei
(mines, music.
so
11.13' evening.
the Sill?! "<
gated in :1 HM Social
and refreshments were enjoyed
ll-tl(ll that it is planned to have more
affairs of a shuns-r.- kind.
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:"ltl lltt 'l‘
$1,200,000 1:01}ch LOCOMOTIVES
About it) of the most powerful lot-11-
titotites 111111' put into cott1111i:"lott by
the. \‘1111 llm'tii rdzt'tl‘ will soon in in-
:1tall1.tl. lt is announced that the road
has presented specifications and :hlit‘l
for price on ill Santa Fe locomotives,
audit is '11x11dqtmlthat a pontrnet will
soon be placed for tltc engines. 11 is
said then will cost, in tho“ neighborv
hood of $30, 000 each. 5
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CANAA AAN
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(Ne-Hf
5 Aime Ravenellv,
Rev. John ii. Stapleton of St. Aloy-
sius‘ Church read the annual report
lot“ the parish at Loth nits—11;; on bun
day. It was the best year yet as far
at donation were concerned. Father
‘Etapletou 1‘1-1102‘! '-d that the parish
numbered Elb'lul 1,001) persons. Thtre.
were 45 baptisms, 10 deaths andb
marriages during the year.
the threeyear-old.
son of Mr. Ravenelle, employed on thet
t'onstrtti't'nn pork fer the new (lathe-l;
lit' ‘llUlTll. \\li') has taken to the:
Stamford Hospital l:1~t “nick, to lit-i
operated upon for appenlicitis, died!
at that institutiui about midnight,
Tuesday The rttnains \vtre interred.
itt thot Catholic (‘thlt ry at Spring—
dale.
Charles, jr.. the young son of Mr.
71d (‘. l". Meade, 1'1-'11hbr11l1’d his
fourth birthday anniversary Sunday]
Tllt' gathering included, besides hisl
permits, sister and grandfather Hoym
\‘upt. and Mrs. Edwin (‘outon of the
Town F1: '.'111 and cl1ild1‘1n.1\fiss Mary
.\l"ad,(.t1rtrutle and Elise flartown
and liuris Macanit-y, The beautifully
decorated birth day eako'was an int-
ptu'tant feature of the celebration.
.‘-l 1's
TEUTONIC PRESSURE RE-
SULTS IN ANOTHER GAIN
bUrvuAY, ’l‘OIVIV' OF VA-
DENI BEING TAKEN.
l (Continutd from first page.)
Strong attacks were made yes-
lnihd/ Lvy Kuwait anl it: :man-
ian troops on the recently cap-
tut'cd Teutonic pogitions. north of
the Schutza Valley on he North-
crn Ru. nunian front Today 5 of-
tidal annomtc extent says these
attacks were repulsed.
THE SOUTH NORWALK EVEummeu-wx .
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Janus; 31
Sale
1 Started with a resolute
' all our big stock of Fall and Winter Goods, even
if we have to a'inost give them away.
“IE.“
it} 11cc
(ii
determination to scatter
Charge Ace
1. nib" {Ti eneti
Company in London.
The grave of Captain Sclous
lies' in the vcldt under the shadow
of a. tamarind tree, where a few
ied beside him.
“Comparative calm continued.
to prevail," says today's German
official report from the Russo-
Galician front.
Greek 1115' 6
Team today sent
Wilson an appeal saying:
ants of Nashville
The Rhineland members of the
German Central Party have de-.
clated,a1'.ot‘din-:r to Reuters Arn-
stttdant co: rcspondctttithai there
must now be no more talk of
peace, but lliut' ‘ w; purse extort
the peace which the enemy would
not negotiate."
The dispatch quotes the Vor—
waerts as saying tharthe Entente
r1“.)ly 1'11 for from 11:11: a peace(
offer, and that it is indeed a
"new declaration of war,” with
boundless war aims.
11 the other side cannot believe
it possible to a ‘tan t‘tcse aims
but by making a parade of un-
SWerving certainty of victory 'and
making extravagant demands.
Even those ;
"In the name of Christianity
and humanity, we rcspcctful‘y
lash friendly intervention of this
mowerful republic on behalf of
'starving Gretce. All we 11"11'11 "
,to be allowed to pursue cur peace-
ful course. We demand that our
kinsmrn shon‘d not be all owed to
die ftof'n starvation."
The king of Bavaria has sent
a telegram 'M the German ert
peror congratulating him on hi
recent proclamfion..accordinz to
:111 Amsterdam di'oatch to RCH'
‘tcr’s. The' 111112 telegraphél thn1
:the emperors strong word“. tr
the Ger p people at the arm-
gm ":3? of our enemies find a
lively echo' in all hearts. He 05ch
t
l
of h s faithful comrades are bur-l
to Presidentp
'we haVe nothing like th1s super—'
iority and that5 victory Idepcnd':
on obtaining. It is always possi
ble for the Germans to place in'
the wast the floating balance 0 5
strategic reserves wh ch they'
used aganict Romania and. if in
1917 we only employ against the
enemy a slight superiority o"
1force nothinq better than a sliahi
success can reasonably be antici-
“Id 1’
aThe writer declares that there
is a crying need for more men
and that there has been a great
remissness in the creation of new
div siom rlon r the ‘in's c.
Kitchencrs original conceptzon.
Further successes have been
won by the Teutonic forces both-
along the Russian ,frontie: o.
Moldavia and on the Sercth line: .
to the southeast. German army.
headquarters announced today“
At the junction of the Buzeu and
Scrcth rivers Bulgarian . troops
captured a monastery and :Tur-
kish trcoops took the town of ME—
halea by storm, capturing 403 of
the garrison, the rest of whom
were drowned in the Sercth
The following official commu-n -
they believe they can intimidago nemamn that? ‘the‘ Bavarg'mrnication» h'aé‘ been issutd by the
Germany and her allies. Any
deed or any word now which
would tend to shake the will to
defend Germany wmdd be a
.crimc against the people}
Accot'din'r m 1‘"? Berlin Lolml
Anzei12'cr.P1"nce lt‘i'iedt'n'lt Sigi-
mt' 11d nrd Prime l'ricdrich Karl
sons of Prince Friedrich of Prus-
..'1 have _n"1evl 1:511 0'
191111'rct'ns. Prince Friedrich Sims-
1:1 wt
will continttc "the fight which
was forenrl upon us" in order to
enforce peace.
5 The Berlin Vosslsche Zeitunv
says that in order to safeguard
the food supply the Prussian
ministry has created a war e an-
army board in each province. The
iboards cons'st of government of.
ficials and farmers whose duty it
Italian War Office:
“Our seaplancs bombarded
Prosccim and the fortifications ct
Tricst on Jan. 11. Damage was
done to the enemy’s works and
the machines returned safely in
the face of a fierce fire from the
enemy's anti-aircraft batteries.
On the same night two enemy
scaplanes made a fruitless exCur»
wheel of a taxi belonging to O‘Con
net's garage became extricateddn the
moi of the grocery wagon. The
floater! in front of Mr. ~Harris' store,
‘h'whlch the horse was fastened, is
minus several feet of its tip as the re-
-.nlt of the accident. No one was in-
-|‘ .ivm'aMdM v
The stt :11!in
ntezit in the. condition
Irving. is reported.
I:rnuncl is 25 years old, and his.
improve-l ""1'7'57-"5' '5‘“ VA‘VA‘ \""1'.1.T::r. Th“
.-‘.1u1:il "T“ CON ""1" ’1F il‘"'t“t'1“1'.r\r
I The mir' t of the ‘?t' A" 1"1 N“ '
Year s Dav gilded the sc my sid' -
Miss Jeanct Beysel and Miss Loretti‘ "5' politics V'i‘drh has hero
Rabbitt of New \otk utte guei' is of‘ "'"‘*""lf“”150't'7i'1tl1°: col 1'1111'
inernttutng
of Miss
P"
is to encomage agricultural pro- sion against Grado Cervignano.
duCtion and supnlv labor. horses One of hem was hit by our anti-
and mach nerv. The boards hatter aircraft guns and obliged to land.
no power, however. to requisition The aviators were made prison-
orocdc fat distribution or as 3 ds ers '
to production. Germany has notified Holland
Th3 T‘m‘” ““HNV “055°99‘35” that Belgian workmen deported
dent ma'ntains that. the prolonga-
jurod. The auto came up First street
and was headed east when it became
mangled with the wagon. The auto
' hm. going, dragging the wagon and
.f the horse with it. The rope which
Installed the animal to the flagpole
'3! broken by the strain. By the. time
11m brakes had taken effect, the rig
"u on the opposite side of the street
and moored against. a large. tree.
UWAYTG
mew—nav— .
> M.M‘~ /' '1’ -‘\—. “'
. . ‘1 Rev. Henry l9. Anderson, pastor of
‘lhe Rowayton Baptist Church, preach-
cl. in the' Danbury Baptist Church,
Tammy. in exchange with the pastor.
Ba! A. H. Bolttwell.
(John McCormack, the Irish tenor of
Meneke Park, Darien, who still is a.
“fish citizen, last week in Philadel-
fi-an American ctzen.
"file annual meeting of the Bible
may Class of the M E. Sunday
.. 001 will be held this evening at the
he or Miss Ruth Themes. 11. is
i“not! that each member will show
' interest by attending the meeting.
:he special meetings at the Baptist
' h commenced yesterday. There
a good attendance consider-tug
anther. Rev. A. H. Boutwell, o;
' ,_n11, preached at both services,
ill conduct the service at the
hiyeryvevenhtg this Week, .ex-.
Molar. at 7 :45 o'clock. All are
—
., 'mvsn nastoeur om.
' m
'metnberdtitnm
(or;
1th, declared his intention of becom-‘
Miss Julie. Rabbitt for a week or so
1eccntly.
Lewis Rnscoe. us getter" l agent 01
the Columbia insurance li..o uill open
an office in Stamford. limit” the l'll‘sl' _
.1f the month.
‘ "Frank Webber of
1
lspem the weekend at the home o.l
: Mrs. James 'I‘outttiet and other friends
5011 Cur ter sti ect.
I The lted Star Auto Line, C. A. Sanr‘
lntis manager. contemplates issuing :1
jnew timetable the fifteenth of the
‘ month.
A number of automobile owners and.
natage proprietors are attending the
nttomobile Show in Madison Square
Llarden. New York, this week.
.__b.
'7, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
William Nichols, South Main street.
Misses Edit‘h‘and Rose Chrystal re-
turned from a visit to their aunt in
Brooklyn, Monday, Mrs. Chrystol and
infant son, Morris, remaining for a
time.
‘ Mrs. Adam Heerdt was operated up
.on the Stamford Hospital Monday
night to which. place she was remov-
ed e. few hours previous. her throat
being affected. '
5 Ernest Brown,- who came on from
Atlantic City for a brief visit here last
week- returned on Saturday. He ex-
pects to return to New Canaan in
about a month.
Jan. 154113113, 5, The pupils of Cent; School con- continued to mean“
had money for 21111111 111111;:- to the 1“," “a,“
e'tnory ,‘ their alum
Mantaroneck;
1
Mrs. Mary Frances Grupe, celebra1-'
.111 her 92nd brithday on Sunday, 1.11.. l
50f the press and toda' 1'5. views
l n )crs, al 1101'. 51h p11'1ti'ttr the its
'131 r";td r1f noltti r..l comment
at ound in 1131i. (.15th t'evistw C'
2111c past and fortca at of the f-
ttttc Lea dot” of IlllJl't‘. organiza-
'tions, such a". the Zemsky Sovuz.
'whosc patriotic work in the face
of great difficultier has ga‘n‘l'
.the warm support and ElpDreti‘
ition of the cuttntr'v'.1tt1.ite in '-
pressing the conviction that thv
'1tcr11'15 :1 19"" 1" i' UNin are “-1“
lbevond repair or'so bad as they
have been-painted. ' ‘
- The newspapers find another
1" on fif LT‘,"",~" '1'(\~\1n the Au'er‘
rely 1., the An‘crci .311 no a 11-"
Ho. 1:11.011 on what they tern it"
iorecision and dignity a" contras
ed with noun itc mmli i123 film
ml to h' (l : il'tvml' 1 1111311?1 13.0
g "' Ccntral Powers.
The La tsannc Switzerland
Gazette savs that the population
of Switzerland has decreased as
one consequence of the war. Ac-
cording "1 the. paper, both mar-
riages and birth“. arc._rnuch few
111', 4 feet which irattrihtttes to
the increased cost of livin‘z.
panics advancin'r toward Str"
vina v' are repulsed. " save todaV. 1'
German official report from the
Macedonian fr0"' :1 11
‘ “Thu-rp- “ypn orhltnf’v‘rrrnflnv IF
the. re'rtnn of emotive" savs to-
day’s French officn 111101111?-
ment. “The ni-eht £11 quietly
on the remainder of front. "
Captain Frederic >'Courtcncv
.Selous, the author 1215'; hunter.
1whose death in acti in East
Africa was announced op 11111.6 .
‘iell while leading amattack on
inohebebo and data gibwounh- dad
9' is
“Fast of +51:- Corntt hostile com "1
ton of the war. “as the result 0
the fart-doomed fa1lure. of th“5
neacc' 'thrmw upon all the Al-
lies the dutv of makint1r greater
eFf'orts in order to deserve vi"
tory He savg that Germany dir‘
not. Mr t for a 1'1-Div to her Dea e
o‘l‘cr. bu+ initiat'd measures a
month ago to expand her supply
of men and mtmit' 0115.
“We ought '11 see.
pondcnt writes. “clearlv enough
now that our effort". on l‘t‘d "
UeCially on the western front,
have n“t been adcT'ate to sew"
'1 divi'ion or eve" to deserv-a 11 “
Referrin'z t1 the i'noutation
'rth :1 tendencv h Craven—
tion.“ that the Writish ha 11': "-
"::prmEnt~ n“ (4 ~ {"1”an 5°11!”
..ther {:1 obctt' re “'9 “sue" ‘h'"‘
‘o illuminate them. It onvht t"
be known and admitted that th-
1feat national st'mqtbs do nn‘
"mt-ass the real value of fivht‘ntv
«rmiew. “’0 :11! might to count i"
“nvrwefswmd 611111: in ord'r'tn 3‘-
lcertain our .Qhances of victory.
‘rtd u'he" we count in this 1m"
“16" the fi'rt'res dmndle to ""1?“
'1 d' fierent total. Th~ truth 05 tb”
situatinn' '11 t‘w west is that Ger
many has 128 divisions onuose’
to us. and tint the mtmbe— 0
French. British and Belgian dis
'visions is not1 such as to prom»
ice :1 decisioni in an offensive war
“The offensive devolves on m:
in order that we. may evict the
enemy from the territories of our
allies, and such an we'rsive
aéahst modem mum; of defense,
,demands a great superioritv in
runs, infantry and all other mod
machinery Before
’the cortex '
000.000 men 1n Frencc and th",
French have on-n 1:103. he saw“
strength particularly in heavy,
'from the. province of Antwerp
will be given the option of re-
turning to thc'r homes in Bel-
gium and,1'f unable to find we
'there. of removing: to Holland or
returning to Germany. The mili»
5tary governor assured the fugi-
'tives that if they returned they
would not be, drafted for forced
.labor for Germany. The German
'communicntion explains that
these assurances were given un-
der quite different cirCumstanccc
from the nrcsfmt and under the
cxoutafim that the war would
be a matter of months (\an. but
that Germany has decided to
ackowledrre and respect them.
The Alli-as occupied the Island
of Seriqo 0'1 “hdnesdav.
Serioo i" the eouthevnmost of
the princiml of the Ionian Ts-
lands belr'n'r’tw to Greece. It i"
in the Medi’rerrenean off th°
southern evirenitv of Morm 5‘
number nF- other Greek insula'j
Dossessiom have been occupied
bv the Allie-11. suooose'ilv on at:—
connt of the establishment of
baees for hnvile submarines.
In the cnmee of a violent en-
gaqem-ent vesferdav 11*“ the K"-
istno rive-'- n11 the Norfhom D"-
5mani'n frfifif the Ru'nanian‘
flay-ow howl: ‘heir 01111011111111: "1'
vp—ct (.65 m§lo\ f‘vf Fascia“ ‘lfnrv
Office announced today. Tell-f
fnn;c ”flu-Ire mryhnact of Va"-
shani were remtlgéd' bv the R115».
Siam. who tom”!!! heavy losses;
on theilt moments. Field “in“!
shill von Mockenrm’s army. has}
"‘3’“ a. {Iv-“Mr advance towel",
G’lata.
withdraw tow-"wk. the north in
th- viciniw of “ideal.
The stat-mutt saw that the
citation on the Russo-Gaming
and Caucasian. ‘ fronts
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