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Joseph Davis
‘ 85 Washington Street
South Norwalk.
WEATHER IOREOAET
Forecast for .\'orwalk and vicinity;
, Fair and warmer tonight; Friday pro-
liably rain and warmer. A well defin-
cd area of low phssure is central this
morning orer lowa. Unsettled weath-
cr with some snow was reported from
the Upper Mississippi Valley end the." hers. l
northern portion of the Lake region,"‘
but pleasant weather preVIlls generally *‘
in other districts east of the Rocky
Mountains. The temperatures are
higher in the southern districts. but.
are somewhat lower along the north-
ern border from Montana to Michilm.
WEATHER A YEAR AGO
TODAY.
Temperature: High. 35; low,
25. Fair. .
City News
George C. Comatock, the weli~
known fruit. specialist, is very ill at
the Norwelk Hospital, and his condi-
tion was unchanged this morning.
The Ladlee' Auxiliary of the United
o". city tor doing good and yet will
could lnix fiction with truth so nicely
m OFFICE in short notice that one could swallou
WES NOT EXIST it without the slightest quail.
Councilman Volk made a lesolutiou
(Continued from Penn Pa
—.... h u" that the supplies be sold, and Moors
was to the efiect that "You can fool seconded it. Councilman Eldridge
I“ 01 the people some of the time, you wanted to know if it were so that
”can fool some of the people all of the’ these supplies including the horses
time. but you m’t fool all oi the poo-t were to be sold so that the money do
ple all oi the time." hired from the sale could pay or the
He accused he mayor oi attempting balance of 81,100 due on the City Serr-
to throw dust into the eyes of the poo». ice Truck. Mayor Donovan said it
Me when be arraigned the previous ad- couldn't be done and that such talk
ministration, but that this didn't foot. was some more of the previous admin
'them. The drst thing that the admin istrstion “moonshine." He said that
listration did was to muddle the no, the money due would be paid if sonic
.count', and that the main trouble yu‘ one were charitable enough to (it; so.
:that the present administration didn't. The ”WNW“ V” peel"!-
!have bookkeeper-s. not that they didn't; Councilman Moore replied to Mdyor
know how, because it was easy. but} Donovan and said that it was true
that they suffered from disinclinstion.i that he had been one of the absentee:
He said that he would be delighted to. from the meeting referred to by Mayor
hear what the gentleman who alerted! Donovan and that he had another cn
the resolution calling for a sale of the! gagement and that as he had gone to
items (Councilman Voik). considered .Kthe basket ball game. all of which Was
the benefits would be from the sale of his business. He slid that as he had
this equipment of the police. from this said in the letter to “Captain or Lieu
“slap in the face" to the volunteers! tenant" Lockwood as he had said be-
He said that he would like to hear the: fore that he was in favor of the sun.
good points. He said that he believed. iiiary policc, and that he thought that
that altogether Norwalk had about 600‘ they were a fine body. He said that
of her sons in the service and that1 only the officers were entitled to carry
there were 179 volunteers since thex pistols and that only the oflicers car-
war was declared, and 183 at Devensfl ried them and that these pistols could
He was not certain as to the figures,: be had many time. He said that he is
but these were practically the num-gsfill in the dark as to the legality 0?
the auxiliary police because the cor-
He advised Mayor Donovan to readgporation counsel had not given any
Section 63 of the charter where heiopinion on them He said that he war
would find plenty of authority for theI sorry that after he had been so wide-
mayor to swear in auxiliary police. He! ly advertised that he only brought
said that the board of estimate con-”eleven people that night, but that he
curred with the council on the matter was glad that the mayor had been one
of the police and that he didn't know'of thous- who came to hear or see him.
as either the former council or theiHe said that he was also sorry that
board of estimate had any reason to . when the ofllcers of the Home Guard
feel ashamed of them yet. come to the mayor and asked him for
He moved that it. vote of thaL'Zs be the use of the weapons during thctlme
extcnded to the auxiliary police. and that they were called out to protect
the duration of the war.. This waafbcrn danger at that time, that the
not acted upon. Then Councilman mayor l-ud refused to allow those olii~
Murphy moved that the two items, one, cent. who were responsible men, the
. of the fire apparatus and the other tn. . use of the guns. He “lied 1' the 00"
lrevolvers and equipment of the aunib poration council would be good enough
liary police, be separated which was to give by 'the next meeting a written
)‘donc. lopinion of the legality of the auxiliary
The horses Were then considered as police.
[ordered sold after the hearing had; Mr. Quinlan wanted to know if Mr.
lbecn opened and no one appeared to! Moore had not asked the attorney gcn~
sprak either ingfavor or against thelerai. about the standing of the auxil-
salc. The supplibsttnd so forth wentziary police and further said that he
! through the same prohedurc. The hear-l save answers 10 if“! 0'3“" "Id “*0"
ing then opened on the matter of the' liked to have the questions put in
that they be asked to remain duringzthis city from danger and there had‘
Spanish War Veterans. McKinley sale of the auxiliary police revolversl writing. This latter was in response
Camp, will meet this evening and all;and equipmvnt and Councilman El-lto a remark made by Mr. Moore that
members "-3 requested to be prenenLi dridge moved that it be laid on the tn.I tht' opinion 01 the. COTPOHIHOII CNN"
Attorney Jesse T. Dunbar. who ro-
signed his commission in the United.
States Army, has taken up his work
again in the iirm’s new oilices in the
Town Hall.
An adjourned meeting of the direc-
tors of the Nurwaik Hospital Associa-
' tion will be held in the Norwnlk Club,
on Saturday atternoon. February 15,
pt 4 o‘clock.
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A Newtown avenue car was damag-
ed yesterday. afternoon on Mill Hill
when one of Stephen Hoyt's large
trucks from New Canaan backed into
it when it was stalled becauée of en-
gine trouble. A window in: the. front
of the trolley was broken.
The meeting of the Friday After-
noon Clubvto have been held tomor-
row afternoon at the home of Mrs. M.
It. McCausland, has been postponed
until Friday afternoon. the 22nd. at
3:th o'clock.when it will be held at
lire. McCausland's home. '
ible indefinitely, this motion was we had been asked sometime ago regard-
|ondcd. it was passed and the up. ing the standing of the auxiliary
)lfllflif was quite ioud.. . lwlice. ,
“Alla! Aha! Bethe-lighted!" ngor‘ Mr. Moore stated that, he had
Donovan yelled in the direction of written the attorney general and that
5 51.313”.- Carl A. Harntrom, who wag tho inttcr had rcferrcd him to the cor-
.at one side of the room and 'who upl Porflllfln “WM!"-
plauded when the motion was carried.l ‘ Maynr Donovan altcmlllf‘d l0 lflk" 7'
and also in the direction of ExSu-eet bitc off of Mr. Moore who-n in his most
Commissioner Wadhnms who was also‘ terrifying manner, he wanted to ltnow
present. "i like to see a man applaud if he had been pricing 3 motor vehicle
‘gllis own illegal acts." {to be used as a patrol wagon by the
' This brought much more applause'police. Mr. Moore said that be but!
and Mayor Donovan turned to whe‘al not. Mayor Donovan thcn wanted to
.‘zfr. Wadham ant and said that ho had: know if he pod not been at the Max-
. proof that he, Mr. Wadhams. while. wcll agency asking about this and Mr.
. holding office as street commfsgionpr‘ Mt-orc «aid that ho had never been in
had entered into contracts,and tied
the city up for money when he had all; that it was true» that the Maxwell man
" :olutely no business to a so. Mr.‘ had come to him, but‘hh his own ac
lil’adhams wanted to know if mlficord anti not because tic, Mr. Moore
icalled for an answer, when Mr. Mm,‘ had nskcd him either dirrt-tly or in-
lphy rage and paid that y“. bettnfdvdircctly to call. and that when the
that the mayor was out of ordcr,l Maxwell ngt-nt asked him if he wanlc-J
‘which brought another laugh and '0 "W “W“ ‘3 machine and h" h!"
‘ calmed things down somewhat. isaid that he could not consider such a
Mayor Donovan said that of course“ ””“g until ””7" was an appropriation
I in the matter of the pistols, then- was: for if.
The postponed meeting at the K. of; no‘more standing where fair play wasl John B. McMahon nrttsc and naked
(3.. No. 16. was held ‘1‘“ evening in' considered a)", if someone had gone! for the floor and mid that be had at-
tlrst mlllt they hart- had in three year
is hailed by them as their savior.
sponsihiiity oi the 773:: 1;Istrict, wo-l'c
thcn read and later passed. 3
The matter of the building inspector
camc tip and Mr. Murphy wantcd to
know if Mr. Quinlan had an opium.
that he was asked for at the last'meci-
ling as to whether or not “was proper
lto have proceeded to the election-of
the building inspector at the last ment-
ing. It was then said that it would
have been improper to have proceeded
to the election of a new building in-
spector because the building inspector
was a de facto othcer.
The ordinance under which he was
appointed was an illegal one and un-l
til it ncw ordinance is exacted provid-'
ing for such oillce it will be improper
to proceed to the election of | builo
ing inspector. ‘
Mayor Donovan announced that Mr.
Finch would be out of office on the
mm of this month, by saying that hv‘
wanted to go on record as saying that
in had ruled that Dr. Finch was not an
officer of this city after the 20th of
February. Also that he held and
ruled that until an ordinance is exact-
ed, there can be no action taken
towards voting for a building inspecf-
or in any way.
The mot-ting tllcn adjourned. ’
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HEALTH OF SOLDIERS
IN NATIONAL CAMPS,
' (Continued from First rage).
Mcnsirs tollcllPd
with the
the
ext rnozdinnrv
lllch :spo'u l
record of
side the doors of the place. lit! Rudd-20'9" per lhotlstlnd {M the nfltionul.
army camps, 115.51: for Hilin‘lll‘
guard camps and 52.56 for the regu-’
lar army. in this casc llcvcnris not
so fortunate. .3113 he an the damn:-
rccorded against it, wllilc the stain of
Collnccticut gets off with 5.9. I
\‘cllcrcnl dlsczltcs show about the
..iliZ(‘ novel-lions. although tltc rec-
ord for Camp Dcvcns is lower than
that of the national army camps in
gcllcrnl and oniv about half that of
the rcgular army. '
The high figures for military as
compared with civil life. are undoub-
tedly due in part to the more rigid
rules regarding inspection and rcporlv
their club rooms on We“ avenuefland illched me money from athPndCd ii number of meetings and that
tumor-teamed. ChildrtnG'etFirst
Milkin'l'hreeYcars m- American
_ ,-
These repertrinted French childlen given up by the Germans or left
behind by them in districts recaptured by the French are receiving 'hv;
money. Mrs. Taylor of the Civilian Committee of the American l-‘und for
French Wounded. who bus charge of the work in the district of llluancour'.
Routine business was disposed of. The other's pocket. and that it was wrong
large service flag, hearing over 130. and was done by a man who knew it
"“3 that the Knights intend to pro-f was wrong and that he didn't care
sent to the church arrived last even-' what university he was graduated
. Ing- 'rom.. He further said there was no
line authorizing the expediture of the
~ money
r'————— d Councilman Murphy rose and said
that he arose to a point of order anti
that if the mayor wanted to speak to
put the president oi the council in the
chair and for him. Mayor Donovan. to
get down on the tloor and speak like
anyone elne.
if
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: ”WI“ 3" I U Councilman Eldridge said that when
lot-walk. Conn. f so made his motion he didn‘t question
a l he legality of it:
Mayor Donovan said that when the
by had to purchase revolvers for the
'cnm‘cticut Light 6 Power Company
:nd for the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Comps”. it was a
treaty pass and he brought in his far-
i
1. mm“ first)”: ofa groom order for 82.50
' —— «r c mght have been given t if
. tans-shellfi- m. mop °'
. er had not been upended.
. ”.an
He ahsoseid that be couldnndop-
itsuduressstie-ea from tnsnrst
'“Msomatsussu-stotao
ridiculousintbeshort’esttl-eeteay
heeueutnimnsamh
. WhWflMWNmmHugasasmbm-mnw
Mom-class‘s! unnumhmflhmm
whisk-evil. final-Hitydlthmmm
‘ing of diseasc in army ramps.
:1“) W35 >ll'lll‘k by ”I? divergence 0'1 The figurpg for [hp I‘lnprican (x.
:opinlon between corporation t-ounsels.ipedilionsry force‘s abroad do not till
Land that be thought that some stepelhr mtériallv from those l", ”m”
should be taken to have the chanfllarmy camps, with the exception of
lmeaslell. in which case the figures for
interprctcd so that succeeding admin-”he troops abroad are much iowvr
istrations could follow in the steps oi 'ln- the cases of other diseases to:
preceding administrations in a lpxagiwhich there are comparative stalls
manner . ties the figures do not difier lzl'l‘all}
‘ till the army camps from those to
He mentioned several things re lporied for Connecticut. 9
garding the charter. opinions on which TM "file's death rate for 08091“
differed with each corporation coun- Db" 13;? :glgo'amfigr;z'flail-8i!"
been exceeded that there was a pro-‘being 15.9. A- summary of the re:
vision which stated that any city oil-‘90" foil"!!—
cial who exceeded the appropriations Mortality “mm'W-D'“'”b" ‘
be ma m. more a... mo. m n 3523}. 1.21.". .‘f’.’ .. °' .. ‘ . ° . .".' l’f’T::::::"‘lf’.°.
necessary. a prison sentence imposed. Average death rate for December
He said that if it war true that 20 in last five years ............... 15,8
30. per cent more "m. the SW“! Annual death ratc. 1918 ......... 16.1
lions called for had been imposed then mm“ "0'" communicable “'9‘
. eases ........................ 277
some steps by this administration Per wt. of total deaths ........ 11.0
should be tslten to bring theta to an Deaths under one war ,,,,,,,,, :52
pm", '0', their actions. Rate per thousand births ...... ,, 84
‘ He said that he served notice that i
if the council did not take I‘m. t'o
have the charter interpreted so Mt.
the tax m '0'" be ' f TORRING'I'ON. it'cb. 14.~—l"red!tlc't
pay W m 1'. Bone. enemy sllrn, who registered
illegal expenditures 0'“ he would " last week was arrested today and
one of six to do it for lb... '
. taken tellertlord on a charge of was
Tue resolutions. both Waring
HOAMING ENEMY ALIEN
ARIIOTID.
gating his mill bv visiting. other
stiles and towns at will. Brno was
employed in untold work in the Tar-
. lig.‘¢a. , “
dormer casts- dim ”wastage-nurse.
L r
‘ the State Council's
.i‘ifl! Jr m *n».
Fans
s. it is supplied with American
an ‘
ronav at was. ems-r
WALL STREET, 10:30 a. m.—Spc
cial issues such as Distillers' Scroll
ties, General Motors and Sumatra 'l'o
bacco averaged l'point gains at the
dull opening of today's Stock Mar-
ket, but immediately reacted ml the
heavy tone displayed by other shares
of the same class, notably Maxwell
Motors. Texas Company and General
Electric. Steels and coppers were
fractionally lower and Canadian Pa—
cific was heaviest oi the rails at a loss
of 1 1-2 pofhts. Liberty Bonds were
lower. '
WALL STREET. Noon—Offerings
broadened later, shippings and vari‘
ous equipments being added to the
list of reactionary stocks. The motor
group suffered most. General Motors
showing an extreme decline oi 5 points
and Maxwell Common and Second Pre-
ferred 2 to a points. u. 8'. Steel yield-
ed a point, oils 1 to 2 and minor spe-
clslties as much. Canadian Pacific
continued to feature the rails losini.’
almost 3 points. Bonds were feature
less except for .n new minimum for
Libertv 4's at 96.14, the Second 4's sell-
ing at 94.92 to 94.70 and the 3 ms at
7.64 to 97.52.
WALL STREET, 1:30 p. m.—-Rails
and shippings led the substantial im-
provement shown during the mid-ses-
alon. Union Pacific gained 4 pointii n
restoration of the ten per cent. di.’i-
dcnd rate and Atlantic Gulf roar-.1 it"
points. 115. Steel and other nciivc
industrials strengthened materially.
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HQWILKND'g
borne. on Main at. W Ave, Cannon
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Ire to be bought at .
I
. mean.
price.
each season with clear s
ly won’t carry,
BtOCk 0 V e I." a
Sometimes, he
may wish he
had—butinthe
main it pays to
keep merchan-
than fresh and .
new: and, that
man only be done by season-end ;:
tolearaways. .'
This is the season-end clear- ;
:away of Kuppenheimer clothes
{—e the man who gets in on
it shakes a good investment.
l Overcoafs and suits “j '
tWinter weight, many alludes .
Correct sensible styles
Choice of them all—
, a, _.
, . lfnln floor. rear. :"
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Not one _
extra penny! ,
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SOUTH NORWALK CLUB NOMINA-
TIONS. '
The nominating committee of the
South Norwaik Club has reported the
following nominations which will be;
acted upon at the meeting of the clab'
next month:
President—Samuel 1.. Aller.
V'ice-Prcsident——l)r. Everett
Jones.
Secretary and Treasurer----Elhirt W.
Fitch.
E.‘
Directory—Matthew Corbett, Elmer
Hendricks, J. Edward Slater, Frank
J, Finnegan. Charles H. Pearce. A. N.;
Therinuit. David W. Raymond. Georgej
L. Woodward. i
Council—Stephen S. Jarvis. Maurice
H. Nutting. Fred H. Quintard. William:
Miller. Eugene S. Lafiin. Edward f-‘.:
Smith'. EverettllE. Lowndes, Samuelf
s. Velsor, William 0. McLean. Oliver;
B. Weed. Sylvester M. Decker, Arthur!
Waldron. g j
Auditors—A. Dwight Keep and \Vll-l
llatn Miller. , |
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“9L “9. 5“” that If appropriation ma'lfttle higher than that of the lltuitn SPEAKERS FOR
WAR RALLIES?
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your machine.
club, you pay ,
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judgment ' 7 "fl
will lead a man to buy an overcoat or a suit now—don
Fuppenheimer fancy suits and excellent overcoats
Clothes are costing more each:
week; they are going to keep on.
costing more. Good clothes, .Wc
Such clothes as these Kupp’eno
heimer clothes are sure to cost’,
more next season. Actually, they ’dé
cost us more to buy now than when;
we bought them. 'And it may; _ ~
seem silly‘ to sell them at a lowety’
But a wise store-kee or ends;
ks if he.
can. He is not led astray by that
thought or the knowledge that,
prices are going higher. He simpol
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If you buy a servings. ..
machine through meme
bership in the How,- 7
land club, you pay ex-i
actly the cash price 01
u.
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No membership fee.
' no intereét charge, no
ducs,—no addition 01
any sort to the regular
price of the machinelré
When you join th
one dollar.
That dollar is applied on the price of your‘matl
. chine. The balance you pay in small sums at stated
(intervals. The total price is either $45 or- $60, no;
:cording to style of machine chosen. And that is the
iprice, if you pay the entire sum at once. ;
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Be prompt to apply for membership; ntunber‘ it
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‘ Third floor. ’
national problems. assures the people:
of another interesting evening.
The woman speaker for the second
rally has not yet been assigned. and
announcenfent of this fact :will he?
made later. as soon as Mrs. James!
6. Gregory. of Norwalk. who is looltv'
ing ef‘tdr the wom‘an'e side 01 the ral-
lies. has completed her @rranlomentn.
The first rally will be held) u'a'or
assignments. in
the Palace theatre. on Tuesday even-
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theatre on Tuesday evening. l-‘ebruu
ary 26th. at the same hour. in the
event of the «evooetlon of the Fuel
Administration's order closing then-
NEXT DRAFT CALL TO BE lN MAY fl: ”1" l'zlll .i i".l'.r:., .3, .‘3
OR JUNE, HOUSE HEARS. “"3351
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lTHE ROWLAND DRY GOODS COMPANY:
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bent. of 's'll.
Representatives Declare Second Move- chairman of tin: All “my (‘cznmii _
moot Will Not Be Made at Once.
WASHINUTUJ'. ll. (2. 1i.-
Stutelncnts marl? by two nurtured,-
tivvs in the ”olive yesterday in n diil-l
t nil.
The date of me seminal l.l
said there was no net-d for lune-l ..
octhm on the meal-urt- as the sec ,
draft would not be made for some t
ll
cusoion on the uncalled alien slacker “’0'" specifically ““9“ by ileum
ins Fcbmrr "In. at elsm O'clock. bill were to the effect that there would “live l"1000-0! “minim t‘umafl
and the second rally in the Regent not be ‘ "do“ draft for the National the Foreign Mlairs Committee,
Army until next May or June. ‘ ‘
The measure which precipitated the my or June.
rel-am was drops“ to request of
Ideclared the draft would be made . ”
Movements of urea to omelet!“
"VI 0' MM I“ of “I!" being the State Department while treaty first draft. beginning onpfeb. 2i!
permitted to rentals open for regular
,bastnqu on manners. thelrat rally
willie MIMI lion's theatre. and it!
sensed rally lam hell.
anaconda-forth sane memosmplmdmithiutne
thetofeotepeiiiugsabiestsoieu-hsi-lilg or. days. as originally
Isl-Isis
tor-d- Ifluy advise-betwillenmdeverlntol
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