tit Norwalk Congrega-
tonal Pastor Will Leave
on ’l‘h’ursday Morning For
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ndered by the Choir of .
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. A cougreghtion that combined 0th
congregations oi tlte Episcopai,tthc
Methodist, the Baptist and the (‘on
Igrogation churches downtown gather—
‘ ed at the South Norwalk Congrega-
tion church inst evI-nina in II union
service to bid iarewoli to Rev. John
Btapleton. pastor of the church who
leaves South Norwalk on Thursday
' morning. the 3rd to take up $.11. C.
A work in Du army camps down
south.
The sender: was of u purely patri-
otic natutc including the music which
was helped out by It bflltfl guard-tie
from the American Band and the tire
grout is given below.
it was with regret that Mr. Staple
ton was forced ll announcc that Rev
F. A. Coleman. of Tfldlly. Church
was unahlc ill be present that chn
ing but tho: while he could not he
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POUGHKEEPSIE. N. 12, Dec. "..1 «-
Seven tires, one of whioh caused thn
death of than Matilda Wescott used
“in a board' In: house. have market)
during
which the mercury has not risen
above twelve degrees below zero in
Phuxhkcepsie. -
Mn hydrants hampered the fire
rush domeWhat.
Delivery of cool was delayed when
some truekmen refused to take out
their teams Coal dealers reported
- the supply was nuttioient to tide over
°be mu cold period.
‘ This lowut temperature was 23 do
"recs below zero :It Wspplnger's Fails
' only today
BlNCilAMTON. N. Y.. 080.31—
i‘i damage to the extent
0,000 partly destrbyed two in-
.aurcnce blocks early today One we
man trapped on tlr top floor of a
iour- story block was rescued by fire-
men on iccrovc Ircd extension ladders.
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Bl'lI‘FALO. N. Y., Dec. 9.1.»l'irc to
day burned the Woolworth Five and
Ten Cent Store in Man uIIeI-l and
spread through the block to Pearl
siren on the nest and (‘ourt ctrcet
on the south. 'l'lltI loin]. iosr was
$125,000.
ELECTRIC ENGINEER
a...
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TERRIBLY SHOCKED
Engineer Morley. of train No. 50
‘ leaving Grand Central Depot at 9:15
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a m.. climbed on top of his his elec
tric engim to repair the panagraph
nut in some way he came in contact
with the overhead tension wires
charged with 24,009 volts and he was
nstantl, knocked to the ground, hli
hotly is severely burned and chances
Ire even tor his recovery. The acci-
, dent happened at Mt. Vernon. N. Y.
R. a G. CORSET co.
mspnns_EMrLorEEs
The it. it t}. Corset Company has
issued notices to their employee that
the company has taken out insurance
on their lives in amounts pro lon-
ste to their length of service w in the
many. The insurance becomes el-
isotlvo number 31st at mldnlttln.
with the
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British Legations and U. S.
Consulate Leveled
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 31. —Gualc-
IIIulu I‘IIy tapitnl of the little t'WIIn
IrII tttm-ricnn republic oi Guatc’msla.
in. turn butt in ruins in a series at
InrtlIIIunkca beginning (‘hmtmas day
and i‘ilillilliltlilltl last night In violent
tilltlt'lirl “hit-h completed the work of
destruction, A cubicgrnm to the navy,
department. today llald 125,000 people
were in the sli’vt‘lfi without shelter
and that 00 number were killed by
failing malls.
Naval vessels in Central American
waters have been ordered to tho
aim-itch ci:y Iorcndcr all possible as
III-lance.
Ruins 80de Description.
Following is athc brief dispatch
which brouuht’tiu- news of Inc (‘3'
tuntt'ophc: ,
"Bad coriilqunno _\'I'~lr'l‘di|\' lIIIiBII
ea In work of when. iI‘IcryIlIinI: in
mills and bcynud criiultm no It rc-
“ill of last night'. shot-it. Ono lIun—I
Jred and lerlly'Illl't‘ thousand people
are in the I-iri-IIIII. l'IIzts or the coun»
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LONDON. l)ec.. "1.~«One of mu forts
at Kronstadt the naval base near
Petrograd. has been blown up by an
extremely violent explosion. accord
‘ng to a l'otrograd dispatch to “The
Times."
Tin-III are no details.
SOLDIER IIIES
AT CAMP GORDON
George Lester Gurney James. twen~
ty—two years old. died at 3 o'clock
vesterday morning at the hospital at
Camp Gordon. Atlanta. Georgia, oi
alum-pneumonia. from which he had
been ill for some little time. Private
'ames was the son of Mr and Mrs.
w C James of Rowsvton. He was
“it? ovthe drafted men who were tak-
on to Camp Devens having leit Row-
ayton in October for Camp Devon’s.
and having been transferred .to
Georgia_ about a month ago.
He was born in Rowayton and had
.11 vcd there all of his life.
Besides bi. pfll‘e‘illil'llt" is survived
by two sisters, Mrs. .i. Henry Wehrle
and .Mrs. William J. Saabye, r. HI?
had been cmplovcd while in c vii life
1! IE .l. lfcnr'y Wehric Buick
money. Mr. and Mrs. James and
Mrs. Wehrle are now at Camp GOD
the body to be brought to Norwallt.
whero'it will be interred.
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SAY U. S. OWNS
R. R-, REFUSE
TO PAY FAREI
NEW LONDON, Dec. 31.—-TWelve
men' of the Stamford Coast Artillery
Company which ht stationed at Fort
Wright arrived here on an afternoon
“rain without having pdld any fare
from‘ their homes note you the
way back to the fort. hey made
the claim. that the road,” now gov-
" .mt
Rubber Co.—People in
Town Thought There lied
Been Dynamite Explo-
anon. '
THRIFT-WILL”; Doc. 31 .\It caplo
Ision llttl Friday evening that was
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hfnrd by everyone. and uhith was
believed to have been an explosion.
hot dynamite in mine nearby town.
was lcurntd 00an Io lIaII been the
explosion of It lam obserlation ‘-bsl
loop that will lit-inn filled with hydttvf
gen gas preparatory In. iliulilllil It}
flight yesterday.
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‘Usual Custom Will Be 0b-
served Tonight and Nb
Are invited to Participate'
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\\ I.IIIiI night services will lM.‘ hold us
I’ unni tonight in local churches and
I III public :IIrI invited to attend any of.
IlIr-III and participate in the service. '
In the Hunt .ivcnuc M. E. church the
II-qul \l’IItIIh night sonlcc will be
ltt'lli with a preaching service from 9
liliill ill o'cluc.k and a weird hour vvilI
lIII IIIIJoycIl from iii until ll. with light
'II-IreTIIhmIInII Alll’yt‘d. The final hour
ulll be 0m- oi praise and inner and II
cordial invitation is extended to all
who may wish to attend.
At Inc First I.“ E ciuxrch the Watch
\lL'li' I't‘i‘b'ltt‘ will start iti S M 9:10
tll“ll wiill :a recess in the IIcrvleo at
which time “refreshments will be sortv
IId shot which Rev. Fairbanks
will deliver a sermon and II consecra-
Ion suffice as the old year goes out ,-
and the New Year comes in.
Al the Knight Street A. M. E.’
church this evening there will also Mi
a wntc ll night serIlce starting III 9: till I
A soul: and praise service will he ’IciI'I
before the preaching service. I
.\ union act-vice will be held at tth
Rownytonliupiirit church this evening!
which villi also be a notch night nerv-
icc An aIInuuncequt of this is K'V
cn under thII heading of "i'lownyton
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CRITICAIJ COAL
summon ram.
WASHINGTON. Dec. :Il.~—lmmedi-
,ntc action by the railroads to relieve
the critical coal shortage. particularly
in New England and other sections
sufforing from the cold way-I. was
being considered today by Director-
General \icAdoo and members of tire
railroad war board.
Plans designed to brine about a
speedy movement of fuel into the at
teen-Ii areas were being p'orfnctml
(II-cater use of the water route" intn
New England from Hampton Roadu
pr'V‘bIbiv will be made.
in addition to effect“! I treat
movement of cool, the treatment It”
Iiabot- nuostions will be one of the chicft
railroad problems to be dealt with hv
thr-Dlrectorflensral.1£esdst of the
railroad broiherboods have been sum
aimed to confer with the Director
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“Miami Thursday regurdin‘ relations .
on IIulIiic‘infortnnlion in revised regtt
road administration.
,IJ'I'IILI'I‘. RELIEF FROM
COLD PRansnn lm'rtv
; AFTER THE NEW YEA?
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 31.~Little re
lief before Tussdav or iiiietlllesduI
from the bitter cold wave tbot hat
swept out of the west to the Ninth
Coast was promised by the Weathov
Bureau. Records for low tedious
tures in New England and-Now York
were lowered yesterday,” extrew
cold was reported from- tbouxbont
the South. "
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and Transportation is
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yaw lORKLDec. lily-Nothing it)
indicate a moderation of Hill intense
fluid that has hold the city in its trip
.for the past two days greeted shiver-
in}; Van Yorkers this morning.
Not
n thirty years has tho city. accustom»
1 'll 20 wi‘vl'e wIInthcronffi-red I! it'did
'I III 10;.
lit i.
I titty.
M ii :.I m. thermomcloru rcuillcred
Irvrn docrcca below zero. while re
.‘Iorir from outlying districts showed
poor Icvnperaturss by new al
gran. Directly «indirectly a cold
0. IIIIIIIrtlIx remitted in re’en known
lc‘uilt". .
'lhc city's millions are loop to face
Villll II cool faminc that makes th-I
outlook III-n more l‘l‘lt‘t‘n'iic‘fl. Rivers
and llll hut-bot Ilpsgod Milt ice- made
‘0 difficult to bring coal and food into
the c ity. " "_‘
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0l'.l:l preparing III-solar again
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Those Who Quit Camp
Await Court-Martial Re-
suits With Anxious Dread
CAMP DEVENS. Ayer, Mass. Dec.
3i «i esterday was a peculiar Sand”
Ind in It peculiar frame of mind the
Ioitiiers here went through it. Behind
them was Christmas and its festivities.
while before is New lesr's Day, on
xhich only It ievv will get home. And
uttering over the camp and seeming-
'.v sinking into their feelings. mental
. Ind physical; is the. coldest streak of
veathor that has dashed into New
'lngland in many years. with no break
‘0: its IItrsnglo hold until Tuesday. Just
o muss up the picture a bit in the
unions dread wit which minty are
.Ivraltiog the court martinis now under
or as It result of titer Cbrlstms de-
parlors without permission.
.lt. aimost's'eenled as if a New Year
doom boll Isettled over the camp.
"here was pothinn doing. and nobody
ranted anything doing. Through the
oxen snow. across» the bare. bleak
Iides oi the hills, few brown figuresI
Iouid be seen. Men stayed in their
'Iarracim talking_ or Writing whiloa
on lucky thouin‘nd got. tustde the Y.
i C A. auditorium to hear the Boo
”m symphony give a program varied
Inough to anti the trained and an
mined in symphonic music. A wind
0-01» a hollow whistle played luuu'
rlous and men ital tunes on the huge
'l'P formed byte blast breaking and
uncformins barracks bills. it‘
might hove been Tostt's "Good-.by'f .
'IENSO ._
TO BE RELAXED
wasmxoroivw ,chI 31 Foam
loll In several phones of the voluntary
ensorshio obssri'ad byl American
Iew apapors since the training of the
Iar III announced by the Committee
I Public information in ed rapids
aiions effective. . ..
Requests that plume
aItdlng to til-talc“ m of line
Ililcers ‘l'cos. individu s units in expedi
‘ionsry tending to reveal the
death! of American merchant Illipr
Ind stews um: snbmarflos and
Elvis: “motion resolution or!
loch. repair and construction work
jtsvs been wit .estlrsly. it Is
“toloinwl ., I
M I} mat. wall: alto our: own mun
III 1.0mm a: am
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Arrest of Moo on Similar
l The savings of lb! Wool. 6r Coli-
luscticut’ in savior» banks and trust
.‘contpsniea having savings deport-
Inn-nut. amounted on Oct 1 to “00,-.
305. 91131. in 1916 the almost was'
337.531.105.15. an increase this year
i of 121. “um.“
Theat- tighten were includnd in the
report Which [innit continua-tour Cmcmwmm‘hI
Everett 1 Sturges has just submit-j if
ted to (to; Holcomb for the year cud-l
‘iog tit-.0 it The report refers to the;
‘cnndimn of savings banks. counter
ciul hanks, trustwompttuies. building
and loan associations. Morris l'lsnm
companies and moraine investment
companies crmtlns under the furiadch
Iroutiaus as Birth Pass.)
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Bhutto today only one-quarter all
a toll may be purchased in Norwsllt
until further authority from the full
administrator of the State of Con-
ncciicut. Tito notice follows: ’
Slew YORK. Dec. 31 ~l‘edersl an}.
lclals, who arrested Paul llennia. fore-
oftho Bliss plant. on the charge.
of tampering with United sum navy
torpedoes are now seeking powerful;
German spies. said to be at the head‘
of s Menuhin-wide conspiracy it was;
Iyesterday that the minds
Hoot to« lg to a.d them in expos-
Iing the plot.
llennlg was arrested Saturday. of-
pnni diet-est had been handed
down in Brooklyn charging him with'
linlurisg the Kyroacoplc steering pans
{of torpedoes so that shrn tired their
co'ulsc. in some cases so greatly that
gthe’y would return in It wide circle
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Connecticut State Council of Defense,
in (Ho-operation E811 . ‘1
State Capitol. ,
Hartford. Conn SWINDBOR, Dec 31-Fll'e of suspi-
Rules for the retail distribution of cious origin “It evening at 7 o’clock
anthracite coal in tho State of Con- totally destroyed a tobacco shod lions
nominating a large quantity of tobacco located
I l—~No rciull cool tis'nlt'r doing in oak lllll nesriy opposite theIWi
business in Norwolk in the State orator Fire District slandpips. and
Connecticut shall make any delivery _ Iboul'hltlll thrown to another shot!
.- 31,000 feet away. The burned Iliad
belonged to 1.. ll. Benet-tho. who less»
oil it during the past year to Josephc
insulin. who rs tobacco int sunl-
mor on Mr. iled'ortba’s land. The shed
which was damaged belonged to Wih
iiam ii. Filler. How the tire started
is a mystery. It was discovered by
Charles Caesar, who lives nearby and
no one was son in or near the shed
yesterday. in fact it was too cold for
.any to work there.
BIG TRUCK SIDE .
SWIPES AUTOMOBILE
Edward Muller. driving a Packard
Itruclt and trailer. sideswipsd the su-
ftomobile or mm to Baton. of on:
city. while Mr. Bates was driving
along Confisctlent avenue. at Yale
held avenue, towards this almond
after ripping one door or and II-
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ticials Silent on Disaster
SCIKAN'TCN, Pa... Dec. 31.— my
miners are reported killed by a gay
explosion in the Cadet-Wood Mine of
v
the Penn . stun Coal Company. near faring the top kept right on his war
Throop. at six miles from this towards Stamford. arr. Rates with
city Company odiciais are silent tied the local police. who in turn notl
and informaIIOn a "one. At. noon
fled the Stamford authorities. who ar-
seventeeu bodies. some dead at! rested Muller when he use that
some alive, were reported taken from yand held him under do 01
the mine. ~ for trial in this city. Mr. Bates
made an ctfortoi'o get out of the way
LOWER CALIFORNIA .0... 0.. «gimme ammo:
coining towar and e his
MAY LEAVE MEXICO car into a snowhsnk. That didn't
stop Muller, however. who kept right
on hip way instead of stopping!“
was before Judge Valiant-git in the
towut'o'wn city court this afternoons,
woman mom
NEW MYEAR QUIEer
NW YORK. Dec. 31,—“er New
Your will be welcomed in New York
uterine mum of femur yosrs that
has s‘tsdti t‘zs celebrated on event of
sax E'MNCISCO, Dec. :it .—Fieid-
lag J. Stilson. a Los Angels: capitalist
announced here today be had been ad-
vised that he was appointed “diflo
matic representative at Washington
at norm-nor Esteban Cantu. of Lower
Californid. "i believe." he said. ' this;
fore-hath" the- secession of lower-
California from Mexico. 0
Mr. S llson refused to discuss his
.announc meat further than to say hi
wastosasot here today sparse-d
rapruenutiva of ants and aspect htcrnstionsl lotsrbst: except that to
to receive (ruthl- of lint the war promises to plus
his now I ‘ stamp ol moderatios on the convivial
Clerk's wiring hunter'a ilecnso' tr the "his“.
Hotels and Minamoto will enter
”
tsin inst as many guests III in times
Willi WORK APPRECIATID. of peace. but the menu sands in most
fnatnncel olsr nothing tut does not
ROME, Sunday. Dec 30. lelev‘n hour the stamp of the food administra- .
Helena today telegraphed to thoI Rodl tov'a approval. and the high prices pro
Cross committee at Genoa. in tho. tailing for wines and the one o'clock’
name of the king as wall so hoMf' closing order indicates that the New
on entree-loo of appreciation of its; Year‘s feasts will be limit in less
work in opening s content then. ‘i'bo l‘wm womb! ‘
. Watt-it parties and cotsrtsinmsntsi
Insane says all classes'of tho peo-
manual totbeitchtoas aas’ forssldimandrslimhsvsloonan.
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Parades, Occupy tiundsy
in Russia
Germany has struck her first
strong blow on the western frtlitt
since the heralding of a great
one-naive and the British have held
it in check. The attack, which rc-
suiied' In heat'y fighting, was mode
on It short front on the sou
end of the school before CI!
The fighting continues. I,
The attack W
in British trenc cs, 1%
ejected' in part by counter-attach.
The German thrust was on about
of more than two miiew between
Msrcoiug and La Butane
Inguinst positions Ivllie the
I'nitcd sullen Fuel Administration: {have held since the
(.‘onnectlcut. $3 m._ ”I“!!!
B Thomas W. Russell. ‘ :Dfl'l‘ge More 11"“ :52... General Bf“: it 5118c I
state Administrator. I Firemen Safer Frozen.
held for no gain. but on either end
of the assaulting front they enter-
ed the British front line. The
British counterotttacksd drove the
Germans front part of these posi-
d-tions and resulted also in the em.
‘ture _of sonic prisoner-Ii... Berlin
I-laitns front line positious'aud "s
"few hundred" prisoners were
red "I
n . ,
. agit: Germans also have board he. I
tive at other points along {lie line;
5..
In the center the Germans wen '
but. their local attack' In the Yproll .‘ ,
sector and their raids northeast of
Verdun
Thcsd" cfl’orts follow upon heavy
German fire In these three. sectors
«Cambrai, Ypres and WW. ‘
and may be forerunners of deter
mined attacks.
10 In the; Itoliafltlt theater titers” -
een on y art cry activi attic
the northern front Gorgon15‘
planes again have raided .131de
much damage beingdons tumou-
tains and buildings by inecnfi '
mhombs Three per-sorta were '
not] three wounded II
Another advance along
Sabina road, north’ot Jordan
has been made by the BMW!
forces to Palestine. Against ‘
born Turkish resistance the
lab progressed three miles and.
ture'd Birch. ancient Pecorthy‘
.tbree other towns. Progrdss,
was made between the Nablus
and the Medtiemnesueoas't’.
u
in Peirograd Sunday the / d”
was given over to pesos a]
tions. marked by parade. of
shevili followers. Members of ' ' ,
German and Austrian peace delve
gallons were spectators of the peg -
rades. The heads' of. the damn"
and Austrian delegations to the.
rcst-Litovsk conference, Dr. volt
Kneltltnsnn and Count
are
“capitals. Dolsyedd who:
Brest. Litovsk mange" that arm
brought no 3010303ch
returning to their respective '
matron-sent t,” t l cpmcnttivea ohm; and
c on ra
of the peace t "mmilnm mm
cttlty' In the preliminary settlement
of the question concerning German
rctimnicnt from occupied’ Rumisn
territory in order to give the in»
habitsttta opportunity to decide
their future fort I .
Norwalk Chronicler