m . 13.111111. 1.118. on
snow ears
. $2.00
$3.00
PANAMA nus
, $5.00
to
$10.00
Come Get One and reel
Comfortable
JOSEPH DAVIS
85 Washington Street
.IOUTH NORWALK
WHE‘I‘E PYROTIN IVORY
The Du Barry’Pattern
' :1 Special Sale
If yon: want. to add to your set,
coins in _now. Combs, Brushes,
Mir:0rs,- Button Hooks, Jewel
Cases, Trays, Etc.
PONTY’S
:gVictrola Shop
§outh Norwalk
wasrnEa FORECAST
'Forecast for Norwalk and vicinity:
Generally fair fonight and Wednes-
day; cooler tonight, moderate shifting
winds. A trough shaped depression ex-
tends horn the Canadian maritime
provinces southeastward to the Ohio,
valley. It is cansing unsettled show-
ei'y weather over northeastern dis-
tricts. A area of high pressure over
lies the lake region, attended by fair
and coolweather. A depression of
large area and considerable energy is
central over South Dakota and is caus-
ing showers and thunderstorms in the
'Plain states and the Mississippi Val-
ley. Rain has occuried during the last
twenty- -fotir hours from Maine south
westward to the Middle Mississippi'
valley ad thence northwestwhrd to the
‘ Northern Plain states. No decided
"changes in temperature have occurred
{storing the last twenty-four hours.
j 'wEA'raER A YEAR 1100
.. TODAY. ,
High, .19.
‘ ' 'l‘cmperature : low,
5‘2. Rain.
Cdy News
b‘tdendshlp Association No.7 will
"’meet this evening with Mrs. F. J.
Bradbtéry . inayview avenue.
' Old fen Lodge, 'No. 18, r. and A. 11.
meets his evening to confer the Fel~
lowcral’t degree.
The monthly kneeling of the Nov-
Walk Building. Loan and Investment Railroad Administration lieadquartersi
dissociation is being held today.
.New London; William ll 81.
' line, have arrived at
‘ grounds switch. near the Muller Mills.
a 1-
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HARTFORD, May 21.~—Deflnite
planslfor the formation and main-
tenance of war emergency organiza-
tions for Connecticut communities
similar to those in operation in
Bridgeport and New Haven, have
been evolved by a special committee
appointed by the Connecticut State
Council of Defense.
this character are deemed necessary
in certain large industrial centers to
cope‘efliciently and instantly with any
disaster that might arise while the
nation is at war.
The special committee was appoint‘
ed in compliance 1w;1h a vote passed
at a meeting“ of the defense council
held April 26, at which time the New
Haven and Br'idgepo1t emergent-1 01
Jfiganimions were explained. This com-
mittee met at the State (‘apitol Halt
ford with C C. Elwell of New Haven
as chairman. There was a. full dis-
cussion ot the subject 01 we: emer
gency organizations and it was final-
ly voted to adopt the New Haven
plan Modifications 11"e1e recommend
ed to tacceptance by other C: ties and
it was decided that a definite disas~
ter relief plan substantially 1he one,
adopted by Bridgepmt, be added to
the New Haven plan. When the. com
111i11ee’s moon was submitted to the
defence c'ountil it was adopted. The
119.11 step 11ill b: the adoption of the
uniform plan 01' organization by (Olli-
of pteparedness against castastrflophe
Itlembeis 01 the spot 111i committt-e
were appointed as iepxescntina com-
11.1111ities that hill ewe-1.111111 organiz-
ations already in existenw or wheie
1'111'11 organizations shoull be content-
.pi.1.1'd 'l‘he 10111111.i'-1111111en and the
1m r’es they represent are: C. t‘. 1')
well (hairman, New Haven: tleoiui
l. W,arren Iii dgt port William 11
Allen Notwiczh
Qlllglt), New Britain: ll. t‘.Ch:1ppell
John
Hartford; i". J. Lyon, Waterbury. and
E. E. Scovill, Stamford.
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The Woman’s Relief Corps, No 30
Buckingham Post, will hald :1 sewing
meeting all day tomorrow :11" l'l‘di
Men's Halt. Norwalk. All 1115mbers
are requested to attend and 1aku
luncheon.
Four of the seven carloads of 10 inch
iron pipe for the new water main to he
laid in Main street from Broad street
to the Winnipauk end of the trolley
the old Fair
and Contractor Alfred Brown of 32
Burrltt avenue. with a large force of
’men, will begin unloading and laying
_ the pipe tomorrow morning.
RAILROAD OFFICIAL REMOVED.
WASHINGTON, May 2i.—-4C. W.
Huntington of New York has been re-
moved by Director General McAdoo as
president of the Virginia Railway, for
disobedience of the Railroad Adminis-
traton's orders for mantenance and im
provement of his 1'.oad ..l 11.1'11'1111: of
Norfolk Vu..l1as been appoinltd l'c'Jl-
eiai dhectoi of the road
The Virginian is :1 coal
road running from Deep
Va.. to Norfolk. Va.
Huntington is the that raihoad pres-
ideal to be recov ed by Director (tom ra‘.
McAdoo. but it was hinted t.~..1_1 :11
carrying
Water. \V'.
that similai action might be taken‘
against othei executives who do not‘
Organizations of-
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MEL. MUST UNITE
By‘MICHAEL J. MICKEY,
Manager loduotrl 1 Department, NI-
tlonol Auoolat on of Manufactur-
en, New York.
Business in 1918 is to be war. it
will primarily be war against a well
prepared enemy’wltho‘ut our borders.
We must not permit it to be we:
within our borders; as It will be if the
bickerings, misunderstandings and so—
.clal unconsciousness are not effective-
ly and constructhely dealt with by
those who are directly concerned with
American industry.
The National industrial Conserva-
tlon Movement will continue to exert
every possible and legitimate energy
at the command of Its writers, public
speakers, printed literature, moving
1 picture films, co-operatlng chambers of
d_11'on1111ercc, boards of trade, religious,
lcivic, social and patriotic bodies. to
lspread the gospel of industrial co-oper-
‘ntlon.
i Celtatn agencies abroad in this land
iare constantly seeking, creating and
iselzlng upon e1ery possible form of
lexcuse and opportunity to sow the
seeds of dissatisfaction, discontent and
‘unrest in our industrial world. These
1| munities in speoj‘ll need of such ti’lle l agencies thrive on 111lsrepresehtution,
exuggcratlonhud agitation of destruo
five varieties.
Must Combat “lama."
They preach hair brnlned
class hatred and sedition.
'l‘o defeat them is not only an impor-
iatlve work for our national St. fetv, but
In patriotic duty incumbent upon c1'1'11v
thoughtful American It cannot be
ldone by the occasional denouncing of
‘ "isms, "
such 11111101111] enemies. thus affording
Ithcm the notoriety by \\hl1h they
ltht"l1e, but must be cmnbatod in the
lpublic interest by a ‘carefully worktd
lout campaign to present the i111pu|1i.1l
l 1ru1h on the Industrial social and eco-
1 llOllllC problems at stake.
\1' age earners must be made to more
fully appreciate that their interest in
A111crl"cu11 industry is mutual with that
of our wage payers so far as our in-
dustriul prosperity is concerned.
Wage payers who do not r1 ntlze the
value of cultivating the 11111111111 ele-
ment In their plants must likewise be
shown the necessity for them to liter.
ally interpret and practically apply the
lesson of cooperation.
it must also be recognized by our
public officials anti communities in
general that 11 healthy industrial at-
mosphere is only possible when friend-
l_v relations rather than class antago-
nisms are fostered by law and public
print.
it shall continue to be the purpose
of our work on a national scale to dip-
lomatically 11nd truthfully cn rect the
misinformation and spirit of thought-
lessuess which has so frequently led
the public into acts of reprlsal that
are lnlmlcal to 1hclr own interests as"
well as to the interests of the 1111111111
trial institutions upon which our 1111'
11011111 welfare as well usour individ-
ual comfort and convenience is so de-
pendent. ~
The patriotic importance of this
work must be evident to oil careful oh:
servers of events at this time. in its
re latleu to our future industrial dov cl?
opmcnt the intrinsic mine of a better
‘ understanding all round cannot be
5 overestimated.
Spread the Truth.
. We will dedicate our energies to the
. sprouting of the truth, the 1111 tlkt‘lllll"
Routine business was transacted at co- operate well with the federal man- ‘of puhllt thought and the lillhllt s.
sense of mutual interest 11nd 1csponsl ]
1he meeting of Progress Forum, No.1.
'1‘. F. L. and Colfax Encampment, No.
31,1..0. . ..
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The annual meeting and election of
agement
The complaint against Mr Hunting-l
ton was that he failed to comply with
suggestions and orders of the ’Railroad
Administration, insisting on technictli:
bitity.
'room In this country for plotiteerin
011 the pnlt of so tolled Capital or so'
called Labor.
Our truth will also l111olve a further
officers of Mlzpah Circle, Of the King's ties 1n1 0l\ cd and consulting at it-ngthf extension of the campaign to protect
Daughters 0f the South 1N01walk Bap- with the road' s counsel before ("1111' mid conserve the lives, limbs and gen ,
‘1is1 chutch will be held this evening
at the church... "
'.l
‘The_‘ladies of the First Congrega-
' tionalgchurchwtil meet tomorrow at?
' ternoon at 2 o'clock at the church at
which time the matter of forming an
auxiliary to the Norwalk Chapter of
' "the Red Cross will be under considera-
tion. Surgical dressings will be made
‘_ :at this time.
i Tofii‘fliihu _
l ‘ from: now
To Be Thrifty
‘ “Save and Buy for
' j- l , ‘Victory”
WAR savnvos
. STAMPS
f, ’1 FOR SALE AT
. The Central 1
True loom
‘u- 2):» . :oVM‘-..--. c.
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lug out instiuctlons.
l The action against Mr. Huntingmn
removes him as executive c1111? \of the‘
road. but leaves him as head (if the
1"'all11ay c01p01at1on which is iequired
to pay his salary out of corporate
funds furnished by the government as.
compensation for use of the road, 1;.
ther than out of operating funds.
Mr. Young, the new manager, is giv-
en full authority to manage the road
even to the extent of changing the per»:
sonnel of operating officers. '
BOSTON GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE.
BOSTON.
holding a telephone receiver and the
other clutching a 32~callbre revolver.
Miss Nellie Lipsett, age 19, was found
dead in bed lastl'night from a bullet
% wound in her head. Miss Lipsett‘s sis-
; ier IRuth, made the discovery when she
{returned from work. Telephone rec
ords show that a call from the Lipsett
apartment came in several nous before
Miss Lipsett‘s body was found. The
name of the person whom she called
is sought by the police in their efforts
to find a'motlve for the girl's death.
The police and the medical Examiner
said they were convinced that Miss
Lipsett committed suicide. '
_TWO GENERALS' PROMOTED
WASHINGTON, May 21.—‘ Nomina-
tion of Major-General March, Acting
ODE!“ Monthly Eve-nu. '.
' inas.7toB.P,.,M.", ,
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1
a general by brevet, was flat by Press
identhTbllh to the Senate.
May 2L—With one hand?
cuter 0151111, to'b'ea mu general, and .-
ziot General Bliss, Chief of 8111mm be]
oral health of 11 age earners, the rent;-
sorptlou by industty of jobless war-
_-._..—.—_
l
,expioded French hand grenade was
found in a package checked at a boot-'
black stand in the Connecticut Mutual
building yesterday. The package was
left there by a stranger. For some rea-
son the owner of the stand became sus-
picious and an investigation found'
the grenade and a pair of wooden shoes.
Detectives are in charge of the case l
BOOTBLACK HoLos GIANT 1
The grenade has killing power within
a 200 foot radius.
\\e believe there is no mmu
lriors 11nd such of our soldiers who'
i may be pattlullv crippled in 0111' mlli- ‘
tu1y service, the nuiintennuce of our
armed forces in the field and comforts
of our home staying citizens as well
as our hravc'allics. '(lur industries
1 must likewise do their full and ltupor- ‘
New York.
0011111 11111111 WITH THE
t
Railroads and Manufacturers
Learning to Eliminate Waste, to:
eluding Drainage of Man Power.
——.‘.
Confronted by the necessity of util-
izing ev'ety possible trutflc‘fuc‘lllty for
11a1'u1ate1'iul,tl1e railroads are going
to the scrap heap for additional equip-
ment. 'lhcy are patching 11p discmded
locomotives and engines 25 years old
have been rebuilt and made "better
than when they were new." 4
No doubt the railroad scrap heap in
the largest of ‘all American scrap
heaps and by that token the one from
which most material can be‘ salvaged.
But the conditions of railroad waste
and extravagance in the name of ef-
ficiency equally characterize all Amer-
ican industry. and the new railroad
policy of reclamation is important on
an example and a precedent.
What the garbage poll is as an in-
dex of household thrifoessness the
scrap heap is as a monument to waste-
ful methods of manufacture. But the
greatest of all wastes. progreulvo
manufacturers now realize. lies in the
careless 1111111111111, 11‘ of? I .
111111 share in the financing of our war 3
operations. — industrial , Conservation, .1
lNDUSTRIAL SCRAP HEAP‘
Aro'
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HARTFORD, May 21.—An un-
llvlng at 24 Cross street,
tured a “junk horse and wagon."
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Let Us Send You for The Acouoflcon For
10 Dayo' Free "Trial The Don!
If you willwrito no that you are chat-gun repaid. tlnlnltrumeut for
hard of hearing and will try tho to dayo' free trial without devout.
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73 South Main Street.
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p Restoration.
'16 Years in m. by appointment clot Dentures
the Practice of ’
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High class a» fully Done
Oentistrylg‘ Work, Etc” Skil-
L. Enron left his horse on Knight
FRENCH HAND GRENADE‘ street, while in the quest of more junk,
ithls morning and the animal started
{on a run until Robert Worthy, a lad
mat}: a
1 plucky stop and drove to the uptown
police station, where he informed 01n—
cer Frank Raymond that he had cap-
ter complimenting the boy on his good
work, the once: notified “remand
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Gold and Porcelain
All kinds of Artifi-
Tomorrow’s Prosperity
is today’s economy. What you avoid spending tirelessly now
you will enjoy three-fold in later life.
Open :1 Savings Account at $1.00 or more at 4 per cent.
compound interest in this convenient bank and save all the
money you can. then as tihie advances you will know what it: is
to be financially independent. Don’t delay—begin TODAY.
THE PEOPLES
TRUST COMP
of South Norwnlkfionn.
tingle-a..- I. .
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Our finest
suits fall
in price-
1
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down go their prices.
There are none finer—but that doesn’t hinder 1131'
Due moment from clearing them out and cutting their;
prices! ‘ '
1 None 011001 1110111' in richness of effect or in fines!
ness of tailoring or in worthiness of fabric-but ’tisi
time to sell them, even at a reduction.
So—out they go; with a big saving to the 11 011mm
'1th chooses! ”‘ ~ ~ .'
,, Rarely-finescrges and galjardincs and tricofi
tines; some beautiful silk taffeta. ) “'
Rich navy and deep black and handsome fans
‘nud stvlish rookie and other colors 1n favor.
“\l any finished with handsome braiding.
. Those that were $50 $55
, $60 and $65-—
$42.50.
$52.50.
More. prices and cold tvpo cannot tell the merit
.of the saving or more than hint at the beauty of each.
individual suit. Come and sec!
Hhose that were $70 $75
and $85—— '
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Second floor. ;.. .
Black silks . ‘
for service ,
at low cost ‘
'A 11111 block ttaffc in silk of chiffon finish -$l. 35
_v ard.
It is soft and beautiful, yet it 1s firm and durable.
Thirty-five inches 11 1111', adaptable to many uses, ap-
.propriate for mom occasions~ $1.35
Satin of luster and strength and nice neigqbt
:115035 inches 11 ide—r $1.50.
llarely-lmndsomc satin of 40-inch width, special
11veigl1t and fincness— 1' $2.25
Crepe meteor, black as 111iduigbt, with subdued!-
{and Splendid luster, 40 inches wide— $2
Crepe de chine, soft and light but with remarks
lablc strength, c001 and delighting, 40 inches ,widee— ,
$1.50
Waterproof Shanghai duck, especially for Sum-
mer s cool and grateful waists; makes comfort—insur-i
ting sleeves and bodice for Summer dress—a ‘yard
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