a low Assortment
“0138' moses
mam
.....,_
Favors
16 80. Main St.
‘ ”UTE NOBWALK.
' 703 m. WON.
Ki BANKS
w we’en Novelties
’Cards and
DONNELLY’S
in News
of
of
style.
Prices $15 to $35.
y Saturday.
‘ 7 Tuesday at 3 o'clock.
at 3 o'clock. There will
Mica with, this social._
, as thrown to the ground.
l in “The Narrow Trail."
1’0 attend.
next month.
s‘ Markets.
'15 and an extra car at 2:50.
Theatre today. See the
",' 10-part production at 7
Might.
.~ 25 Cents
g
. Bertha Tuttlc and Miss Elinore
.t of Stamford. were visitors in
, . vor Circle of the King's Daugh:
will meet at the Home. for the
Hartford police have re
” a
Lady Wazhlngtstn Lodge will
'Hallowe'en social on Thursday
lament of songs and dialogues
worth Paxton of Flax Hill road.
ed a broklen arm last week. He
'ployed at the Nash Engineering
3 stated convocation of Butler
net Tuesday evening in Ms-
Temple. South Main street. the
Freedom degree will be worked.
, fllérch Masons are cordially in-
“ the bills for the personal tax due
year, have been malltd, and the
V In to be closed up before Decembexc
"The personal ta is about the only
in the high cost of living during
put few' years that has not ad-
., still being at the same figure.
. and it should he attended to with»; ,Yem" day w” observed as Liberty
3 Loan Sunday in Norwalk churches, and
were delivered by
local ministers, At the Norwalk Con-
gregational church, Rev. E. F. Mcfire-
sor took as the topic fora powerful
sermon. “The Bands of Liberty." Rev.
Albert .R. Beebe of the Norwalk M. E.
church preached on the subject of "The
l'nitcd States and the World War."
there trill be agatherlng at the
e for the Aged. on Westport ave
tomorrow. Tuesday ant-moon at it
- k, to hear reports from t'ncle
Refreshments will be .
ed by Kind Word Circle. and at
time the home will be thrown open
inspection. The public ls cordially
. to attend. A special car will
from the Boston store. Norwalk,
E HONOR SYSTEM
coiioiis "End cows
Our Compound Svrun
White Pine and Tar ,
Norwalk
W‘-' e
The supply of pay envelopes adver-
lapel—every point makes a point of '
The colors, patterns and waves all carry out the idea of get
i ting away from the commonplace. ' , .
Rogers 8: Stevens
A m l . mince our new company of special Pall suits
for men who want clothing with all the insignia of pronounced
\
The curve of the back, the curve of the front, the curve of the
Individual style.
So. Norwa‘k
W. C. T. U. DELEGATES NAMED
rising the Liberty Loan has been re- -
There‘will be a regular meeting this
evening of Our llrothers‘ Lodge. No. 10.
M 0' a 19“; ”“3““ ”0‘15“ "m" l. o. 0. F., in the lodge rooms 9:: Wall
car, license number Conn. 36088.
portal
cted.
be an
crty Loan a vertisemenls.
Mass.
National
well as all the wives,
at 8 o'clock.
pat rtotlc sermons
o'clock. in the
spec-
_ and will be‘
taken.
this year. ' '
ceivcd and may be secured by apply.
ing to the publicity committee.
street. Routine business will be trans
The Woman's Liberty Loan head-
quarters at 68 Wall street. were oili-
cially opened this morning. The front
;of the buildi§g is well posted with Lib-
EXvMayor and Mrs. Carl A. Harstroln
of Prospect avenue. and Mr. and :irs.
- Sid in jumping ofl 0' a trolley Edgar G. Murphy of Main street re
_turned home today from an enjoyable
. ' lace today and tomorrow, Wm. automobile trip to Boston and Ayer.
Dr. William l.. “'eed of Norwalk.
will be in New York city Tuesday.
Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday, at-
tending the annual convention 0‘ the
Dental "Association. which
will be held in the Hotel Astor.
The ladies' Auxiliary of iht Elks. as
mothegs and
daughters of the members .rill meet
his evening for the purpose of dis-
cussing {he Liberty Loan project. The
session will be held at the Elks Home
A special meeting of the uptown fire
. companies will be he‘dtonight at 7:15
Main street quarters. .
Some action in regard to the Liberty
Loan parade scheduled for Wednesday
The members of the
department will come,prepare.d to par-
ticipate in the street parade which will
precede the opening of the annual fair
in the Town Assembly Hall, in Wall
street tonight. All preparations for the
annual event here have been’complet-
ed. and it is expected that the affair '
‘ . I Powell Corporation will be bigger and grander than-ever.
You can buy bonds in three ways.
1. 357 full payment in cash.
2. By subscribing on the Govern-
. meat partial payment plan.
2 per cent. at the time of sub.
scription.
18 per cent. on November 15th. _
40 per cent. on December 15th.
40 percent. on January 15th,
1918.
3. By subscribing on the Bank
partial payment plan.
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bond
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foryouanddslivoritwhsnyou
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forfutbwla.
Selected From Eight Counties in tho '0 “'0’“ 0“-
State to Attend National con.
i vention
MIDDLETOWN, Oct. 20.-—Wlth the
clectlon of delegates and alternates
to the national convention the annual
state convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union of Con-
lo-
necticut closed its sessions here
day. The 'dclegates and alternates
by counties follow:
Hartford: Mrs. Gertrude Shepherd.
1
er Near Massiges.
The following interesting story of
film! work B'France is given by
Earl L'Hemmedteu? son of Mr. and
Mrs. John R. L'Hommedleu. of East
ism-walk, who wrote it recently for
the New York Sun: .
Our present sector is very quiet.
'.'.'c have but three cars on duty
through )he 'twentyefour hours. One
does a twenty-four hour trick at the
1' ostedi sec-ours. from which it carries
lo the perary hospital wounded who
have been brought to the post in
stxelclters from the trenches. The
two others do egch a twelve-hour
shift at the primary hospital. curry-
ing men either to a convalescent hos-
pital fitted up in a chateau or to the
evacuathn hospital located on the
railway.
On account of his lack of activity
we were hard put .10 find occupation.
Walks to batteries r to once used
trenches and dugoiit "for we are‘on
ground reconqu-ered by the battle of
the Marne. soon pallcd: soccer games
with regiments rest;ng up for a couple
of weeks before going back to their
_. fight days in the trenches were stup-
iv-‘d because many of our
disabled by dislocated kne.
i bows.
nen were
and el
There were always our cars
We wsshed them. we
roiled them; we ground valves. put in
new piston rin'gs. even took down
son"? of the motors. But there are
tfifty of us and not ‘all are mechanics.
’Our chief of section came to our
old by obtaining permission for. us to
act as brancsrdiers (-Itl'l-lcllct'\bt‘ttf-
t'l‘l) behind the lines. So four of us
L'o up to the next to the last postc-
de-secours. less ttTan a thousandysrds.
from the baches, every four days and
carry, rwounded or escort sick men
gfrUfJ this pm to the last ‘DOhl. a dis~
tsnce of a mile and a half. It is this
last post that our ambulances serve.
New Britain; Alternate, Mrs. E: B. One of 0mm" took “H up to the
Kendrick, Hartford. 'post, some eight miles from'our vil-
New Haven: 'Mrs. Alta 5. Downs. lags. It is one of a hundred or more
x", Haven; alternate, Mrs. Char- caves and caverns tunnellcd into a
lotte Clark, Anionic.
,Fairfieldf Mrs. Charlotte Bloss.
Bridgeport: alternate, Mrs. Henry
Schofleld. Stamford.
! thchfieltl' Mrs. w. A‘. Maitland,
Torrington; alternate, Mrs. Mary Goo
don, Plymouth.
nilddlesex: Mrs. Hattie Newton.
Durham alternate, Mrs. Elsie John-
son. Moddus. '
’Wlndham: Mrs. Elisa K. Fuller.
Scotland; alternate, Mrs. Mary A. (lair
lup, Scotland.
. New “London: Mrs, Addie nsndht.
Groton; alternate. Mrs. J. J. Field.
Norwich.
' Tolland: Mrs. E J. Holman, South
Willington; alternate. not named.
STUMPS OFFICERS
AND INTERPRETER.
Speechless Drafter Is Finally Oct to
Peeling Potatoes. _ ‘
f‘AMP DEVENS. AYE'R. Mass, Oct.
22.—l)epot Brigade were
o ccrs
stumped when they bu into a new
problem. that of trying 0 order a man
who neither speaks nor understands
any language in the reportory of all
camp Interpreters. A few grimy‘pa-
ports in the man's coat pocket indicated
that his name in George, Mactale. and
that he comes from Jeweit City.
I The officers tried to make sofne head-
way with the man but could do noth-
ing. They called on all the available
interpreters. but none could aid. Final-
ly. in desperation. they put him peel-
ing potatoes after wasting some time‘
showing him what they wanted by
means of gestures. He did not have
any papers from the draft board.
ravmc To avsar muLwav
STRIKE.
BOSTON. Oct. 22.—A final confer-
ence between officials of the Boston &
Maine railroad and/representatives of
the, freight yard and station employes
was held this forenoon in an effort to
avert a strike of about 5.000 employee
called for today. ”Ninety-seven per
cent of the men voted in favor of the
Iiiil‘ikf‘. the entire force demands for a
wage increase of seventy-five cents a
day and an eight hour day.
-¢-
RECRUITING STAFF TAKES
nouns , '
xrzw lI‘AVES, Oct. zi—The local
rccrult'gtg staff of the regular army.
station has taken 81.800 In Liberty
Bonds. Major Mercer in command,
stated today. Recruiting was again
brisk today) Tonight the staffs of the
British and American recruiting sta-
tions here will Join in a rally on the
Central Green. I ' ‘
uusrctauobvluxc 8:1"er
nurnon‘mnr. ‘ Oct. 22,—A strike
of} musicians of three local theatres of
thermal-con that has been in ef-
fect since Labor Dav. 'F' settled to-
day. both sides saying “that 'ts satisv
ram agree-In" had been men
39s. Thousand“ return to wots‘to'
:. ‘lfl
Olly. Mots-ck hum
liong. rather steep hill. These shelter
'places (nbrls. they are called) give
the bill a mining town aspect.
I Two Kinds of Shelters.
. There are two main types of abris.
For one a long. wide trench. usually
30 by B by 6 feet, is dog. In which are
set up corrugated iron plates. These
come in the shape of quarter (Rinses
and bolt together to form a semi-
fillinse. ‘ They are :very strong and
i hear
wit and bags logs and earth from
an "effic‘ent protection against shells
,of medium calibre. ,
t. The other main type is a tunnel,
usually with berths on the sides and
having rooms opening off from it. In
llength it varies from the simple hole
in the ground to the mile long sys-
tem which directly connects the sup-
porting trenches with the narrow
gauge railway supply bases. This
type, In reenforced with wood uprights
and horizontal cross pieces of Iron.
The Illumination for these ebris and
‘tunnels is supplied by ucetiylne lamps
or. if the sire of the. camp warrants
.it. a dynamo gasolene motor unit.
'Heating is by individual cylinder
stoves. . .
We four fellows arrived at the post
at 10 in the morning. i Was Immedi-
intely assigned to forty-eight hours
duty at the next to the last post, with
a French brancardler. We rode there
on a horse drawn, narrow gouge rnil-
way car. The car. use: to .Nry
wounded. was short and stubby and
bad Just room for two bruncards‘
(stretchersl. My partner and i put
ton our steel helmet? slung our gal
masks across our shoulders and start-
ed on. . ‘-
_ The' local front is known as La
Main. A relief map would quickly
show you Why: l-‘lve hills stretch out
lrom a plain. like the four fingers
and thumb of an outstretched hand.
The poste-de-secours .to which we
were going is dug into the index. the
centre bill; it is an a thousand
gyards from the boches
5 left, is known as 4
ll’romontory. It wit
.that the French launched their Chain~
pagne offensive in 1915.
On‘ the .way from the Prornontoire
to the index 'we passed over shell
torn ground, past hills tunnelled with
abris and (milled with‘ bafieries;
past gray-esr'both French and Ger-
man. We skirted what were in 1915.
the French first line trenches. Across
a field we saw the ruin of a stone
house and the outline of a 'wooden
barn. it was “Chunk" ,latec till». I
turned that here was a village. Now
there was absolutely nothing but
incurred and littered ground. Both
’sldes had helped to demolish it. Both
' had fought up to. through and past It.
iThls was the famous battleground‘of
Alasslges. .
Relics of the cattle:
; , The hidex is a much tunnclh’d hill
like the. Promontory. but its caves
land tunnels are for men and not. an
at La Promontoire. for supplies. A
command of men is sIWays on reserve
here. The ,base and of course the top
Is in plain view 0 the booties. l was
told nut to linger. but to keep moving.
l‘wn when on the slope, and always
to be in sliding distance of a bomb-
.lroof in case the bocbos. began to
l'drop them in." ' _
My first duty was 2.740" two sick
soldiers to the last . it was late
hr the filament: the general 0 t
'wss broken only by the occasion to
ratvtat-tat of It mltraillenso. Lorene.
my mites brsacaulu W. and .
l
lekedsptbennsofsurcbm
MINI“!
tiiliitllN it‘ll! ill‘iliiiit' 1le A
minimal uu mucus
New York Sun Reporter, Now an Ambulance Driver in
France, Tells of 48 Hours of Duty as Stretcher Bear-
-cross fields We saved half a mile of
Itho mile and a half. and it was better
and when further re—cnforced ,
' brick to his lines.
'..'u- game then. and the. star shells and.
him that in returning he lost his way.
life crawled along the white. chalky
FURNACE
At least one man has been it an-
who could live ten minutes without
breathing. Even he would find it
difficult and unhealthful to live con-
tinually in the close, stuffy. vitiatcd
air contained by many houses in;
wintér.
It is just as important to have at .
house ventilated properly ;.5 to have
it heated. A warm air furnace does
both, and that is its advantage over
other types of heaters. <1 t. r
furnaces have stood in the front
rank for several generationag
i... at...“
...
walking at that. We left the road
just where ,a small graveyard had
been laid out in 1915. The Hench
had buried both their own men not
the boches here; the French lay und
or white or gray crosses, with .a tin
cocarde of the tricolor; the bocbes
under plain black crosses lach
cross bore the name, regiment. class
and date of death of the soldier, if
possible, otherwise the plain tribute
“Mort pour la France." . . b .
From the graveyard the path first SHE
crossed a stream. then went straight 1"“ 8“)
across the battlefield of Massiges.
Soldiersuere washing clothes in the ‘
stream. while the bottom was littered
with hand grenades. looking like so
nanybeer battles. ' In the gathering
duskwe had to pick our way around
shell holes, small crater formations
varying in depth and circumference
front 3 feet to 15 and iiivariably full of
water. and through shrapnel torn
barbed wire entanglements and to
leap trenches or where they were too
NASH
tanglements to where he thought
squad was.
Corner North» Mainland” West Sts.
.srXM—Fouo
exploded shells and through the out; Later, looking lhl'OIISh the perks-
..;.: cope, i turned it away over to tho
pad of its arc and was gradually
But in the shell hole he picked out ”infill"! It W'k ‘0 centre when War
wide to jump in and then crawl up« was aboche patrol squad. He crawled denly a “be” “019- “'"h ”ix men in
the other side.
. In The First Line Trenches. ter an hour or so stumbled on his own‘listening post in No Man’s Land.
We left our sick at La l’romonioirc.I squad. With half of his men he re-
where they were given hot coffee and! turned to get those boches.
bouillion, and later they were senttcouldn't find them;
‘39“! by Our-ambulance to the hos- find the shell hole. A big “Whizzing’” 5600“"-
pltai. had come along and
For our return to the post the starsl muted all trace of
iron out. but there was practically no
moon. As my
French and _boche were lighting up'n.ud.
the front to our right, and even our:
path norm“. 1.59, stills from thei
trenches. At this section of the front
urtJlery work, though the mitt'ailing
machines. barked out from under the
star shells. '
The next day the Colonel of the
regiment then in Elder“: gave us per-
mission to go out to the first line
"failures. At tilt ssection of the front,
the distance between the first line of
the French and that of the boches
varies from ten to fifty or sixty yards.
As we walked through the communi-
cation trenches, past machine guns
placed at strategic. points, past e'n-
.lrances to thirty foot nuns wher‘e re-
cnforccments sleep and eat. we could
hear the boches moving around and
he couldn't evonlwounded man into
how they borrowed er.‘l.('ull€l'l'l andldmv’" c‘" was busy elsewhere.
_ entmncliing tools from each other and '
aswapped chocolate for tobacco.
the lines have remained in the same lhiit trip down to
boche In the dust lines of a quiet sec-
tor. lt is done. ofcourle. without the
knowledge of the oflcers.
It is a great illustration of the truth
of the Allies' declaration, as best ex.
tions. ‘
Night at the Front.
away quickly and noisttet. ., and him it sprang "“9 View. it was a FRI-W"
That afternoon brancauliers from
Bill he‘the first line brought a seriously
the postede-
He had grabbed a boeha
abgolutely '9'. hand grenade as it fell into his trench
hole, men and in an effort to throw it out and over
equipment. All- had been swallowediibe Damp” bPl'ON’ ll exploded. He
walked star shells. both‘ up in a bigger crater of chalk andwu just too late, it exploded in bid
, lhand. injuring him terribly. it w-
lio told us stories of cooperation be: “P to “I 10 carry him to La, Promon-
[wem French and German outpostsdmue on a stretcher. for the hope
i don't believe i ha‘Ve ever duo
in much real muscle aching work which
quiet sections, as in Lorraine, where. carried with it such responsibility as
_ the paste-de-
position for more than a your. they-Roman demanded. We two Amerlv
may.» agreements not to gnjpe each cans, with our two French brancas-
other for a certain number of days. die”, carried the stretcher. And ilit
This corroborated stories 1 had beent'ras hard for one. how about tbr
told before of the intercourse whichl‘VO‘mded than. He never. complained
springs up between the poilo and the' 503,!” tense and Quiet. with only a
ldeep llgh when we got out of step
and rocked the stretcher or laid the
stretcher down to change our poll-
pressed by President Wilson, that we That "ill". 0"? in!!! night at the In.
killing; afiagflflytgmgg 1; only are not making war against the Gen ('9‘: We Climbed the hill. The mom:
trenches, we didn't talk- and our mans but against the Hohensollerns. Y“ “RUTH! by clouds and thou
lulde kept impressing on us the need The men know this and show it in “hem Mt few stars. But the s”
for quiet Wllilflx- their conversations about the bochea B On”. both French and German. help-
He is a wonderful chap that guide and In their treatment 0 prisoners. 9“ “I to get over the trenthes nut!
He was a Wide only in the sense that That same day, the 0nd of our around the shell holes. They "nu‘
two days at the index. Notmanand l “P thins! rather too we",
walked up the hill through a long.
deep "5nd winding communicating
trench. - We were in search of an ob-
servation post of the artillery.
There are two posts of observation
there. One is dug into the hill and
has a periscope; the other is a nar-
row steel rectangle standing on end
in a curve of the trench. Each is
Just large enough to permit a man to
stand upright as he_looks out through
a narrow slit. We, had'the good luck
his Colonel had entrusted our sight»'
seeing. and incidentally our safety. to
him. for they-have not yetbegun per-
sonally conducted tours through the
trenches. He. Is a chasseur, and the
chasicurs are acknowledged to be the
best troops of France. .
ills special work is “doing night
latrol Work in No Man's Land.
lie and his small squad ofmenm
he is n corporal-«guard the suppers
who dig mines. sink shafts and erect
barbed ‘wire entanglements: they
fight noiseless hand to hind built"
for the possession of shell holes
which the enemy. engaged in the
some kind of work. have fortified. He
snipcs boche patrols and tries to pre-
vent the encnty from repairing the}:
entanglements. which shrapnel fire
the day before had laid low.
firstdnty is to warn his first line of,
any sudden attack or of a coming gas.
wave.
He told us some wonderlal‘storles.‘
stories which we knew to be ‘true
from having heard them 't'rtl‘i‘u 'olfiers
the enemy and he (an
it at pleasure,
heads to the boches.
the dull flash,
hear the
tcry.
this ’o'rderly had already got in com- “917-
muntcation with the artillery head-I
miles in the rear. As we came up the direction 0! Rhe
fourth battery." Less than half 3:3wamp. .
minute later he had received the an-,
Davis and Frederick Palmer.
.Tho Chauucur's Adventure. [bang and much smoke among the
member was. established in a shell. SH” looking through his 3‘33”"
hop. in No Man-g Land. They had: the officer observed the explosion of
{OI-“fled the crater to some degree'°‘°h shell and corrected each shot. It
with sand bags and had placed (trim! look but” two “ho” to at “If exact.
chine gun in position. They werelfiange-- en meters beyond, their.
soon in communication with their first; Sam-i, ight. ”em” mete" ‘0 the
line ‘by'telephone. But they had come!r 3“" we“ the “’"wm'" “is“
Out. with insufficient supplies. 80‘3“” i“ all ""9 fired.
when night fell this chap crawled" The otllcer kindly allowed us to use
his glasses. The French trenches
a chance.
wounded men.
looked desolate.
signalling rockets and 'the over pres, swamp.
nedo exploding M" him so mmedlsce nothing to fire at. but the ofllcerummer we had to go.
lines and his datalrom the observa- scion. died 0n the way down.
lion balloons. ’
ground. aroundeshell holes, past un-
”'Reduso
Bedhead Front-Laos
M _
, s'rou'r FIGURES
Ilsh lti J‘s :
a...» mama.
; k- but. fully Iowa. 3
'L'hJiJ‘imtu by mm is. ,','
_ "mm and. sac-read“ ,5;
For no
crest of the hill is in easy view 1
drop shells as
sent three or four shells over our
We could not)
projectlb
whiz: over us. then later hear the two
explosions, one as the projectile land.
ed.>the other as it left the gun. The.
order in which we heard the night 0! ~
Ithe projectile. Its explosion on land-
m be at the latter as. an artillery of- 3 lag and finally the explosion at the
floor has directing the fire of the bat-WWI. well illustrated the speed of the
- . .. . . ,. 'projectile. and also Indicated that t-‘v'n
By means of a portable telephonelwen’ much nearer the booties than our
We stayed up on the hill,about an
ever “Shot fired" from the. batery.‘hour. The next day was Sunday. I
and having read like incidents in [Monti we heard the shell swish over our] crawled out of my bunk to find that
communiquea and the articleivof it H i heads. making a whirring. whirling" mass was being said, in the operating
' .path for itself before it landed with a mom just beyond. After a French
lb h 00 d i f t f .greak‘fast of hotdcttflee. to which the
. cc cs, 7 yar s a ran o us. ' mer cans adde an ,omelette, Inn
A 9“"0' ”my “' "W“ he “a“ “i and. chocolate, we left the index for
La Promofttoirc. We listed to leave.
but we had to give the other fellohs
We went down with the railway
can! in winch Were two severely
it was a fine day. al-
though hardly beautiful in that de-
molished land. where the very grand
. hil‘ ‘ But the trees were
H .w rath new th ; . here are just below the crest of a cyblossoming out and grass and daisies
e as er at at part c“ the boches are on the crest. in Mgr-owing around and over the. pieces
We could set? b93000 “1;!“ broken shell. One of the wounded
_ French trenches over No Man's Lan Ewan in horrible pain and every hun-
ent possibility 0' a She" or trench "W land over the boches. We were able t0? dred feet or so asked us how much
The other
had ills artillery map 0! ”i? bochc man, whom wen-shad (bought, “new-
Away back of us a French battery
But this artiJery firing was for only
quarters which directed theftlre of a{‘ minute 0" 30- The" 4|" Was ill”?
pm hi. , ”all"? 0' seventy-M98 about twain" 10" distant cannonading in tho
" hits. the occasional
orderly was repeating the officer's',""'Hm't‘u'tm 01' a mitrnilleuse and
order: an". the third mm o; tho/Jim night sounds from bush and
/.
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