they were seriously hampered in their
spring work by a shortage of lanes.
‘g‘Somefiii than cuirt-ssoi 1‘2: opinion,
i that all except the Lib pressing work;
' funds ought to be pcstpoued until
.I' Biospflnsplowiug and planting.
2 “glint the teams with! he used upon
1 hints. it is probable that some peo-
ple have horses which :hey might be
GZEAST;
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willing to use intarm work if they
knew how badly may are needed. The
Farm Bureau is receiving frequent ap-
plications for horses.
trunnion
_ . _ .‘ uyunuuuu
- . in the local churches last aven- Men Attaining 21 on June 5
2 ‘ " Will Be Registered Along
ti
' 14'. L. Grant, «Belts Place, has lair-E Plain of Year Ago
9” a posititm at Wilson’s Point Ship.
Mb" Storage, Plant. ' the registration of men who will attain
I the age of 21 years on June 5th. next.
wflrs. Leo Davis was in Hartford on have been received by the local board.
Wadnosday attending a, meeting of The men who have reached the age
mutant John Keogh was i
' «rt; on business yesterdai".
,. Eire district commissioners willi
‘ as usual next Monday evening. l
m
’s
Anticipatory instructions regarding
of 21 since June 5, 1917. will be. re-
flieChild Welfare W‘ quired to register and each board
' throughout the state has been asked;
No meeting of the Women’s Auxil- to assume charge or the registration
in; of Christ Church was held yestcrj in its 0WD diStNCl
fly, it being Ascension Day. . ‘ A member of the draft board will be
. ; chief registrar and he will be,
> V 4 assisted by a number of clerks whoses
j A number of East Mrwalk 980919 services will be voluntary. '
on planning to attend the play to be
given at the High School this evening.
mulled. ‘illc‘liclor‘s Hall."
No information is forthcoming from‘
the Provost Marshal Genoa] as to
i this expected that this will be decid-'
ed by the conforees of the House and
Senate committee who are at present
wot-him: out. legislation to govern the
new registration. ‘ - I
William ll. Graig, Jr., of Edits ave-
nue. formerly a brakeman on the New
Haven road, has taken a position as
engineer at the22«‘Wilson’s Point lShip
Lumber Storage Plant. '. yestcrday that in his opinion the mat-
. ter was still uncertain as to the date
to be set for regisrutlon. 2
nuuuunl’,
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day evening, the 13th. All ladies who i
desire to do this work, whether mom. J‘
“‘bcrs of the church or not are invited A" Thievery cases to Re“
.to attend and he!» along this good ccive Federal Attentiou-—:
work. ifairfield County in Initia-j
twe » .s a as:
Lieutenant John Keogh who was
home on a brief furlough from Camp
nevens on innsincss returned to the
lump last evening after having com-
’ meted his business, which was of
legal nature.
Red Cross work is being done this
Eugene Scufield, of Fort street, has
received :1 letter from his son, F‘ranlt
Beoficld. who was one otthc drnftcd
men from this city, and who is now
2 “Somewhere in France,’.' with his in‘
' fantry company. Frank reports him-
self as being well and happy and wish-
‘es to be remembered to his many
friends locally,
'u
l2‘zlil‘i'icld county is taking an iniiiu‘
MVP in the War Gurdcu work through-
out the state {did brought before the
state meeting of gurdcn supervisors
and rcprcscutntivcs of garden interests
hold at Hartford ycstcrday under the
anapices of the State Council of De-
fense, the qucsion of protection from
. thievery. .
_ it is the bclief. that hereaftcr ull
cascs of garden theft will be proccsu-
ted in the fcdcrul‘ rather than in local
courts, as the production of food is cs-
scntiully under icdcral control;
To warn all persons that gardens
arc bcing raised under United States
direction. signs arc being printed
which will be distributed to all grow-
ers and conspicuously posted on the
cultivated ground.
. 1‘
ChristopbczyFav. the local buteher,
has received a. letter from his brother
‘ .Frank, who is in the engineering
corps, in whicbrhc gives much infor-
mation of interest to local people.
There is a spirit of confidence in sol-
‘lllers' letters of late that with this
“next drive of” the Allies that tho war
”will end. The soldiers do not wish, ~~._.~.._._,
file and of the war any morc grenilpRAILROAD FIRES ,
flan do the people of this country but ‘
they "arte determined to kcop right at CAUSE TROUBLE 5
331‘ the Helllsh l-iun until ho has re-, NEW HAVEN, May 10.-—Evcrv rc-
.sourcu that the police has was being:
inrnedto his master, the. Devil."
:used today to assist the officials of
the New Yorw. New Haven 6': Hart-
iond Raiimda in trying to find the
cause of the tires which destroyed the
old Union Station. Wednesday, and
the headquarters' shops in the rail-
road yard yesterday. Every police of~
flcer who could be spared was loaned
i
, Sparks from the chimney at their
)dnnt set fire to the shingles on the
roof of Goldstein \Bros, for dyeing es-
:ub'ilahment on East avenue near the
York, ..'cw Haven & Hartford
Railroad station at 6:40 last evening
A member or the local board said ,
i
Charles Mather has returned to town
after spending the winter in Florida.
Miss Elia Bates of Gracie street has
been entertaining Miss Bessie Robin-
son of Greenwich.
Miss Addie Whitney of Brookside
avenue has been entertaining fiirs. Em»
cllne Leonard of Stamford.
Clarence E. scotleld‘s men have com-
pleted repairs at the home of Mrs.
Henry Scoflcld on the Post Road.
Lieut. William Ziegler of Collender’s
Point, Noroton, now of the. U. S. Ord-
nance Department, is stationed in
Washington.
A new motorcycle of HarlcyDavid-
son make was stolen a few days ago,
from the Sterling Garage 0n the up
per Post Road.
The Harlem Fire Department has‘
bought a handsome new flag which,
floats from the staff at the top of the:
building. ,
Clarence E. Scoficld has been advls-l
ed of the safe arrival in France of his,
son, Clarence E. Seo'ficld. who is with.
i the National Army.
improvements have
George E. Heuion's,
und
(in
chairs
been made
,whothar 0" not men will file “191? house on the Post Road which is ocfiey will be practiced. it is hoped and
gouestionnalres when they register but copied by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. (tough.,expccted the results will bc creditablc‘
Mrs. M. Kelsey, who has been spendfi
ing the winter at Mount Vcrnou. N. Y..l
has been in town looking after her
property on Gracey street.
Mrs. Herbert Ruscoc. Mrs. W. 1.
Austin, rMs. 'l‘. N. Collian and Mrs.
William Staffers attendcd the Red
Cross convention at Hart ford. \Vcdncsl
day, of rcprcscmutivcs of thc Noroton
Heights auxiliary.
Stanley (‘. Whitney and Merwin
Smith, as dclcguics to last wcck's con-
vention of tho county Y. M. C. A., are
trying to work out a plan by which a
: rural l'. M. 'l‘. A. may bu cstublishcd
in this town.
,Iumcs .\. Sexton, onc of the four
sons of i’. (l. Scxiou, superintendent
of liccwuyditt l-‘ul'm, all of whom are
in war service, is now all (‘orncll Uni-
versity, pursuing studios in conucclion
with lln- ll‘.'i:llil\ii.'.-tt‘l“.ll‘t'. ll“ “'32 a
sllliivllt in (‘olumbiu whom he entered
t‘ c stryicc lusi full.
'i‘llurc irl considcrublc complaint in
town ovcr lhc pricc of broad. Al-
though tho gowrumcni lms ilxcd a
pricc of 1 cents for u pound loci, and
thorourc some plat-cs wllcrc it maybe
bought for lcs‘.‘ thuu Illis, othcr dcal
01's arc charging it cools and 12
cunts u lcul’, :lud cvcn l5 cents is
changed for the product of poo llrldgc-
port baker. 3
Floyd W. Tl'lggs. cartoonist for the
Christian Scicucu Monitor, has leased
his bountiful home, on tho old King's
Highway, and tukcn '(l libusc in Stam-
ford, filly. 'i‘rigg‘s has not‘bccn"in town
mutll'fct' tho post your. Ilo rculcd his
llomc lust summcr to city pooplc. and
more back for it short llmc in tho full.
in! the scarcity of foul mode it occur»
car) for him to leuvo und lzlkc a hour
cd apartment in tho city.
Thu board of finance, Tucsdny nlghl,
uppropriatod $425 for tho work on tho
druin undcr the railroad bridge. and,
$300 for shifting the sldcwulk mid curhl
at the corncr of thc Post Road and .
Railroad uvcnue. where the triangular
pic-cc was reccntly bought from G. M.
V, Schlichtlng to rcmcdy a bad condi-
tion, and $l75 for Niminallng a an
gcr corner on the Post roud near St.
Luke‘s church. itcynrding tllc luttcr,
thcrc huvo‘bccu so many accidents
that, it has been clulcd illut William (I.
Strangward, whose home is udiuccui,
has a room in constant readiness to re-
ceive injured pcoplc. ,‘
some rcsidcuts of the town were dis-
appolnicd‘ihut. on the recent oilicinl
“clean-up days,“ the. town authorities
mm ms
2 a Wisconsin motor, speed 3?.- milcs an!
‘and equip for and at the expense of;
TORNADO SWEEPS
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needs on mechanical in order to
reach tire more spefldily. Noroton
Heights Lima 2 pug“, u(‘(:n.._c unt‘
pros-sure is not sufficient. and tho cm»
my in that section wall cquip ii< twof
Militias filehc town fill only granitic:
emchassis and a pumpie purist Feats-r, I
the committee feels, needs a mu!
how, and chamical, as the itl‘erlti‘un‘i
there is also low. in view at these find- i
logs, the committee advocated buying:
hour, and equipping it with a Great
Northern pump, with a capacity of AM, u
gallons an hour~each of the three;
companies to be supplied with this.
equipment. The two Noroton corn-i
panics see mto be satisfied with this,,
but, as stated,‘the Daricn company is
not, and the board a: finish”). thinks:
the whole scheme too expensive. 4. i
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U. s. STEEL" TO
BUILD BIGGEST
or GUN PLANTS
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of war, the United States Steel Cor-
poration has undertaken to mostruct‘
*9.
the government, upon a site to be 10.;
caled in the. interior of the country,'
a plant for the manufacture of ‘can-_
non and projectiles of large sizes and .'
in great quantities, and to operate th
same. when finished. ' .
“At best. the time required will ex? '
tend over a colloids-rank) period and 9
the cost wiii'be large; but the work',
will progress with all practicable
speed and economy in ihc use of mou»
to the comnmtec, - l ,
"The. work will be in zinc immediate:
('illllift‘ of u committee Mlll‘fiifitin‘: of Hi
vice-president and the comptroller of
the corporation and tight others
(picsldt-uts or vice-preddcnts) of the'
various manufacturing subsidiary coxu-‘
panics, and all selcctcd because of
tlicir education, cxpcricncc and pccu-I
liar fitness. This committee will lint-p.
in close touch with ihc building and
operating orgzulizaiiou which is being:
iormcd, and with thc otticcrs of tho
Steel corporation and with the war do .
partmcnt. Ofliccrs of the corporation
and of tho subsidiary companies will
receive no coinpcnsuliou for their ser-
vices. :
“Accurate books of accounts will
bc kcpt which. with oil ricords, tllcs?
and oillcl' documonts ‘tlllti pupcrs, will
lw opcu and subject to chill“ nation by:
government-- officials or other properly
appointed roprcselualircs. (lcucml
plans arc being rapidly prepared :md.
Will soon be rcudy for cxmulnmiou
by tho oi'duaucc dcpurlmcnt. or other,
burcuu. and win-n approval th con;
llorution “ill be illicit '41 two hand in"
construction and npcration. holding “-5
soil" i-cspouslhlo for flu» i‘ultloul prr-r
formancc of the duty imposcd by ihci
terms of the contract. . .
"’l‘hc corporation, to ccnscqucuce In".
tho magnitude of its bosincss, musc-
of which, dircctly or indircctly. is in
aid of the military ,ucccssltios of tin-
government um] its allies, lmd lldpcd
to avoid the. moms“? «‘lfvcmrsaging in.
work of the kind now entered upon;
but was pcrsuadcd by the war depart?
mm that it \vus iuuwratiwly rcquir-}
" * " “Spring Suilsior‘;
ILLINOIS AND [0 MC“ andYoullg Men -
$15.00to $25.00
COPYRIGHT
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tallied minor injurics. A farmer, it»!
siding near Nashua, in, was killed. 9.
Al Eldridge. in, nine miles back;
from tho Mississippi, near l)avcupor1.;
a scorc of pcrsons wcrc injured, one,
probably family, when the tornado,
wrcckod the northern part of the little ,
town. Only mvugcr details had been,
rccoivcd up to at late hour from doc»;
. . ,
Clothing Co.
: l " d' ill hll from not" .
girdoi'llmtomddfi‘forth: iilélurcd. 6 N. M“ St, 50. ma“
Summarizution of reports at the ,
Chicago weather bureau indicated,
Suits .
Coats
Charge Accounts Opened
Special Sale of Women’s
Suits and Coats
L.
‘ Tomorrow, Sizturday, May .11th
«cloth place cnfsalcflcriy-scvtn Suits ml
fifty-nine [Coats at alruluri‘mn idprite that i...‘:-.
olicrsflrcal noteyisavlrg opportunliicszk; i
- x $10 to $32.50
$7.98 to $24.50
JACO Y’S
Charge Accounts Opened
J
TIRE} SALE
,SECONDS ,.
All Sizes in Stock
VAAST BROS-GARAbE
17 CHESTNUT ST. SOUTH NORWALK.
TEL. 1360. ' ‘ TEL. 2011.2
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to the detectiVe bureau, and it was un. did not remove ashes, aux has been the
derstood that the federal and state 1111- custom for the past few years. Tin
, _ . gthorities are giving asislauce. No calls and other rubbish was carted
orwalk. Chief .Bogardus responded; theory for either tire is advanced by away, but the selecimen drew the line
Indturned in the alarm from the quay.“ officials. If there are any clues to DOS. at ashes. The primary reason for this
of the Mayflower building. The iiilbledincendiarism they are not "men“ was a scarcity of labor, for member.
«2 , . 3 one . 2l9rs of the highway depart". oat. went
““939 W13: I; was CT‘flmeio to d thne.‘ While conditions {or handling has—i on strike about that time [or increased
3001‘ . 811101! e t0 DOSbl Y $ an 0 , sengers are being adjusted at the tem.i wages As the state council of defense
byresultedwin a hole about 3 or 4 feet, porary station the loss of so much has “We“ all ‘0'”‘9 “0‘ m encroach
ignore being burned in the roof. ‘5 Property and material in the railroad “Po“ the hibm‘ market by undertaking
and the alarm was sent in to the Cen-
‘lml Station on Franklin street, South-
NORWALK GARDEN WORK
o—u—u—
Iliad}. St. John hasreturnod to her
home on ‘nowaybon avenue, otter
Winston winter in Hartford.
that the storm followed a path two
miles wide through the central sec
tions of the two states and that prop...
crty loss totalling thousands of dol-l
tars had been wrought. to buildings;
particularly in rural districts.
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E YOU HAVE ANY .16an
CALL 111’
mm & STEINBERG
Tel: 440.
. Hundreds of head of livestock were ALSO AUTOMOBILES 'BOUGH’I
reported killed. Crop damage. due.
both to high Wind and torrential calm:
was reported to have‘béen very heavy. ,
LiQUOR DRlVE ON CONGRESS. !
sow mm EXCHANGE).
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my uonwm
WASHINGTON, May 10.—-—W. G. Cal?
derwood oi Minneapolis. campaign
manager of the National DryCFedera- ,
tion, opened 'lloadquarters here today
for a sixty ddy drive on Congress to
abolish the liquor (radio as a war
m‘eaaun. ' ' "My: ‘ »
According to Mrfi‘calderwood, the.
Federation has units in 2.997 coun-
ties, all of which are pledgedto bring
presure on their respective congress--
men during the next two months, the
complexion of Congress, he said. is
dry.
Had federal prohibition been in
force in the United States last year,‘
Mr. Calderwood‘ asserted, the fuel
famine wouldhave been avterted and,
six hundred thousand tons or ship'2
ping released. Ho said that 3,000,000,-"
000 pounds or food and aqmillion tons
of coal were wasted last year in the
Every Person
should have a knowledge of
BO0KKEEPING
Financial failures, both per-
sonal and business, are ~fre-
quentlydue to an ignorance of
preventable conditions that
properly-inept accounts Would
reveal. _
The truth of this statement
has been certified to, by every
bank in South Norwalk.
uncut rusnrss
REDUCTION SALE
.............$I:l.95;jh
..r.......... $12.98
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; On All Women’s and Misses’ Suits. Coats a
$25TSuits reduced to ....
. $39‘Sllits reduced to . . ..
2 £1300an11de ....
Slfifloats-reduocdto..,.. WWW-.3995
Aflflatsteduoedfirom. .........98cauduo~
Chocks me P ARIS MILL-inns! ‘
33 So. Main St. SoiNorwaIk -
..____.. __.a-_...
Ladies’ Blouses
VOILE LINGERIE moms in satin stripes-and cross
bar,‘fanoy trimmed with lace and tucks, assormd styles, if
2 .. ‘ ass—2.00 r 2
TAILORED ‘BLOUSES in lawn and pique ciao—acne -;;
warm SILK BLOUSES $235 '-
: wan-n CREPE on cams BLOUSES ....... sane—sacs
. warn: opossum CREPE auctions 55.50—45.75
nutcr-
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clear to make what it regards “as an
excessive appropriation for fire ap-
paratus, which. in its opinion. does not
supply the needs of the town.",Against
this is the report of the‘ committee of
liquor business. He added that 52,080}
090 bushels as grain grown here were
shipped to European breweries and ,2
distillera. ,
, COHEGE
Offers apThorough “Course in
1.11. MALLETTE ‘
eleven appointed F ruary i, which,
has been considering be their assigned
to it for the intervening three montha,§
in which tenmemhera‘of the commits,
toe agreed, and which.
‘ ' l difficult to obtain, there will be no per—
, _ ‘ manent. paving done in Barton this.
5 .. _ . , year. For this reason, it was 903-
k , . l sible to let the dissatisfied Laborers go
, , . . 3
:Garden Associat‘o _ complaint, for it is coal in communi-
, l n for the 1918 sea ,ties much larger than this for house-'
son at the. uptown court room on Wall. holders to be obliged to pay private
John C. Huflington, the artist, is now street last evening, failed in its effort contractors fcr this service. '
meme fashion at 8.0th Point if 13m” 0“ firefighting appargtus. The
2 Warm weather continues‘ 85361169 Of chairman Arthur 0- Wheel- board of finance has refused to make
. 2 2 ' ,cr. ‘who is confined to his home by ill-, an appropriation for more than $8,000,
’noss. . ' maintaining that, “after being advised
Thesecretnry, Mrs. Robert F. Cotter,
lug into consideration the practical im-
attire Palace Theatre in South among the pupils of the various' money. because of the abnormal con-
“ .. , vidted with relatives in no schools, in a most energetic and elli- dltions existing. it mat see ”5 way
too, today. cient manner. "
While generous responses have been
”realm! W the past week. to enterprise, it is apparent even this
2 ' early in the‘campaign, that more will
, e 2mmn mad Cross Auxiliary be needed. Not necessarily at 01196.:
. .nk Mr Wm on ROWBYmh but as the $09!! ‘WOI'k 398! on. 5
2316.000 {or the~2-three.lectione"of the.
_____ _ repair and other Shop is causing much highway work which is not absolutely
New Supervioor ls Introduce to the on without granting their demands. So
,oocnpying his home at Cedar Gate. -, tovget preliminary business out of the' The chief topic for _ discussion in
by disinterested experts in tire ap-
. presided an introduced B. E. Callahan,
Memorandums to make their made to the letters sent out in influ-
" hamyatternoon from 2 an- "A" “Item“! “8 lifted town
; inconvenience to the maintenance de- essential. for this reason and because
,partment. materials are also high in price and
Members and Begin. Work far as the removal of ashes is con‘
The initial meeting of the Norwalk corned, residents have no reason for
. May and clear the decks for a permanfl town now is the special town meeting
' £5 0‘99““ that bathing 1““ $0011 ent organization, through the enforced ' to be held next Monday night. to u“
paratus, adequate protection can be ob-
, tallied for about $8,000; after 6150 tak-
_ the new supervisor, who has started,
Alias Dorothy_Kenton, who is appenr- theinitial work of getting members, possibility 30f the town borrowing
Wancdwith shoots of green due ential citizens asking for financial sup-
ihc, emedinxlv warm weather that Port for this most womr and patriot-
fao’ltr‘mlsucx j ' snow“ om Mme Manes. when
‘ " ‘. nuanced momentum?
if adopted. ‘
would require an expenditure of about i
Bookkeeping
Isa WASHING”! 8r. . soara’nonwnz;
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.2 ton ammonium:
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route dun .
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