Evening sentinel, Monday, August 24, 1925 · page 1

 

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FIRST

WITH THE

NEWS

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The Weather

Fair tonight and Tuesday, little "
change in temperature. "

nigh ride—1:24 A. 31., 1:47 r. at. '5

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1870

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Entered as second-clue matter at the post office at
50.,Norwaik. Conn. under the Act of March I, 1879

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SOUTH NORWALK, ”GONNA ' MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1925.

 

 
 
 

 

NAN ANO‘ WIFE

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HURT lN CRASH 1
ON WILTON ROAO

Judge Li g ht Holds
Mortimer Carr of Sil-
vermine Avenue on
Drunk Charge

COLLIDE _ HEAD-ON

fer. and Mrs. Frizell of
Georgetown Treated
In Norwaik Hospital
'After Smash-up

U Two persons were injured at 10:45
', o’clock Saturday night near the Nor-
: walk-Wilton line on the Danbury
road in an automobile accident. Mor.
‘ timer Carr of Silvcrmine avenue. this
city. alleged to have operated his car
3. while under the influence of liquor.
‘ crashed into a touring car owned
,' and operated by Iver Frizeli of
. Georget0wn. Frizzeli and his wife;
who was in the seat with him were
badly injured.

Mr. Frizzell,‘suffcring deep cuts in
the right leg, was taken to the Nor-
waik hospital where he was attend-

 

 

hcspital for deep lacerations of the
right leg.
-- Carr. going toward Norwalk, is
alleged to have crashed head on in-
to the Frizell car, which was going
in the opposite direction. Both cars
were bady smashed. .
Nelson M. White, of North Mam
street, took Mr. and Mrs. Frizell to
the hospital. Carr escaped injury.
Carr was held under a $200 bond
by. Judge Freeman Light. He was
released upon payment by Clinton
K. Hunter of 136 Main street. The
‘case will come up in the First Dis-
trict court Saturday. Both cars were
removed to Disbrow's garage in Wil-

ton .

50 POST OFFICE
WORKERS ENJOY
FINE OLANRARE

Ball Game Called After
One Inning Which
Lasts Nearly 2 Hours
—-—Cahill Honored

. About 50 post office employee of
" the first and second districts attend-
ed the annual clambake at Albin's
“ . Grove. Westport. yesterday. The
. base ball game between the married
' men and the single was called at the
’end of the first inning which lasted
: and hou‘ and three quarters. \Vm.
Rowe said that the game was to be
~ continued next year. Postmaster
Byington of the up-town office on
: behalf of the empioyes presented
William Cahiil with a traveling bag
.' ,filled with necessities for his trip to
Detroit. where the National Letter
CarrJers Convention is to be held
‘ the second week in September. Ca-
hill will represent the state of Con-
l necticut at the convention. Cahlll
' was chosen as delegate in recogni-
- lion of his past: services.

‘ The Weather

\

Fair tonight; Tuesday. fair, fol-
lowed by increasing cloudiness.

Conditions: An unusually high
pressure area for the season of the
year is central over the eastern por-
tion of the lake region andp. trough
of low‘pressure extends from New
Mexico northeastward to Manitoba.

Another area of high pressure is
central over the north Pacific coast.
Unscttled weather with local show-
(‘rs prevails on the south Atlantic
and Gulf coasts and between the
Mississippi River and the Rocky
Mountains.

The greatest amount of rain re-
ported during the last 24 hours was
2.96 inches at Jacksonville, Fla.
Pleasant weather continues east of
the Mississippi River as far south as
Georgia. The temperature is rising
in the northern districts from Mon-
tana eastward to Maine.

Conditions favor for this vicinity:

 

 

 

 

 

e.d.by_ Dr. William J. Trace M s. .M
Frizeil was treated in e Norwaih Mi

 

Lost (Grave Halts
Payment of Gold

 

Local Mills Claim Ancestry to John Mills, Ship-

builder, Who Died in America, Though

Burial Place Is Unknown—Money in Vaults
Of Bank of England

 

Chief

New Dry

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

John A. Foster, who has beeh ap-
po‘lled director of the dry forces
in the New York territory.

 

 

New York may have its Brown-
ings and its Mary Louise Spas. but
Norwalk has its million heirs and
heiresses~and they are real ones.

What would you do if someone
suddenly announced that you were
the heir to an estate valued at sev-
eral millionst of dollars in gold
which had lain idle in a vault in the
Bank of England for nearly a bun-
dred years. and waited only a
claimant?

Sounds like a fairy tale. doesn't
it?

Yet just such a situation centers
in Norwalk and one of the heirs is
Charles F. Mills, president of the
People’s Trust company. Washing-
ton street. .

Another is Mrs. lda Mills Sherer.
wife of the late Judge Sherer of
Darlen.

Today. with a special meeting of
the heirs called for this afternoon.
the whole affair is coming to light.

More Than $3,000,000
'All the heirs figure in an estate
which 86 years ago amounted to the
equivalent of $3,000,000 and which
by this time is considerably more.

Some of the beneficiaries are on-
thusiastic and hopeful while others
are skeptical.

“Yes, it is true that such an es-

 

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McMahon Wants

Residents to

TWO HURT AS'
CAR HITS TRUCK
NEAR DARIEN

James Cavanagh, Jr.,
Of'Spring Hill Ave.
Crashes Into Dis-
abled Vehicle

Frank Baze of 11 Water street,
Stamford. and John Dunmore, 11
Rose Park. Stamford, both colored.
were injured as the resait of an au-
tomobile accident 4:25 o'clock Sun-
day morning in Barton. James Cav-
anagh 11'. of Spring Hill avenue, this
city, operating a truck-owned by H.
C. Roulston. New York city truckers,
crashed into the Stamford car, which
is alleged to have been parked in
the middle of the Turnpike near the
Daricn mud flats. ‘

Unable to see the automobile in
front of him. Cavanagh, going to-
ward New York from Waterbury.
smashed into the rear end of the car.
damaging it; considerably. Baze and
Dunmore, two of the lit members in
the light touring car, sustained in-
juries. They were taken to the Nor-
walk hospital where they were at.
tended by Dr. David A. Bryce of
Daficn. Xd'ay pictures taken this
morning. Dr. Bryce said, show scv.
ral broken ribs sustained by Baze.
Dunmorc had a deep wound over the
right eye.

It is understood that the colored
party had hit a telegraph pole on
the Post road before the truck crash-
ed into it. Cavanagh said this morn.
ing that the car had apparently beef!
damaged before he hit it. The car
had no lights when it was stalled in
the middle of the road.

The matter will be settled out at
court.

VAN ZANT ST.
BOY MISSING

Francis Pcden. a 16 year old boy.
left his home at 36 Van Zant street.
Saturday noon. Since that time he
has not been seen. The matter was
reported to the police by the boy's
parents, who describe him as be-

 

 

 

 

ing five feet eight inches in height.
weight about 140 pounds, dark hair

Fair weather with cool nighis, fol. and dark eyes. and wearing a brown

lowed. by mun: ”MIMI-1,...
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unit within. nu.- cen. ,

Fifth District

Pay for Sewers

William A. McMahon. member of
the Board of Estimate, in a letter

addressed to the Editor of The Eve-
ning Sentinel today, cr'llicizes the
action of the Common Council in
granting permision to residents of
East Rocks Road to build a. sewer
which will connect with the Fourth
District scwer system. His letter
follows:

Editor. The Eucnlng Sentinel,

With your kind permission ]
would like to make myself under-
stood by the Citizens of the City of
Norwalk in regard to the statement
which I made at the Council meet-
ing on Thursday evening.

There was a petition brought be-
fore the Council by a paid attorney
asking permission for several resi~
dents of East Rocks Road. whose
property is in the Fifth Taxing Dis-
trict. to build a sewer at their own
expense and connect the same with
the Fourth District sewer system.
After I heard the petition read I
asked permission of the mayor and
the Council to be heard on the mat-
ter as I thought any citizen and tax
payer had that right. but one of the
Councilmen jumped to his feet and
objected to “THIS MAN” speaking
on the subject, stating that the
Councilmen knew their own busi-
ness without any interference.

He did not know what I was go-
ing to say. but evidently he must
have had his mind made up in ad-
vance and wanted to railroad the
matter through and attempted to
shut me out in an insulting way from
being heard. But thanks to the
Mayor and the other members of the
Council who could not see it that
way, I was talk by ’the Mayor to
proceed with whatever I had to say.

I asked the Councilmen present if
they knew that the residents asking
for permission to connect with the
sewer were outside of the Fourth
Taxing district. and. inasmuch as
the sewer system was one of the

trict, on which First Taxing district
residents are now paying interest on
$110,000 of bonds which they owe
for their seWer system. I thought it
would be no more than right that a
fair chance should be imposed on
any of the residents outside the
Fourth district, who Wished to use
the sewer system. which is being
paid for and maintained by the
Fourth district. '

After I made my statement the
Street Committeeman arose and
stated that it would be a charitable
act to let the petitioners connect
with the sewer. and he made a mo-
tion that the request be granted and
the vote was carried giving them the
right to connect tree of charge.
Now presumably those people were

 

 

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utilities of the Fourth Taxing dis-.

 

Claim Three Million English Estate

 

WILTON BEATS
DANBURY 1N
FIRST 0F SERIES

Record Crowd Attends
Game in Hot City——
Intergcity Contest
Goes Into 10 Innings

SCORE 10 T0 5

Miller Knocks Homer
With Three on Base
In Final Frame ———
Smith Does Well

The Wilton team beat Danhury’
yesterday at. the Triangle Stu-Gt
Grounds, Danbury.

Both teams toiled; both teams re.

iolced; both teams were in sorrow at
different stages of the game, but the
Wiltons left Danbury rejoicing. due
on because Miller. slugging backstop
of the Farmers. drove the ball to
deep left center for a home run with
the bases full in the tenth inning.
The final score was: Wilton. 10;
Danpur’y, 6. v

The game was played before

 

 

 

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ilrgut..orewd«dl-«tl}e season. ltfllyd‘f- .

500 fans. A large percentage from
Norwalk were on hand to witness as
good a game as one would care to
see. '

Mike Morgan. portslde slab artist.
was assigned to pitch for the Hat-
ters and was generous with his pass-
ports to the initial sack. Smith

. pitched for Wilton and got away to

a bad start. In the opening frame

three hits were made off his deliery.

but he held the Danburians to six
hits in the remaining nine innings.
In the first Danbury scored two
runs. Blake doubled to left and
went to third when Smith threw
wide to catch him off second: Hold-
en singled and Blake scored; Fitz-

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DISCUSS HEALTH
OP CHILDREN 1N
iOCAl. SCHOOLS

Those Who Are Enter-
ing Classes for First
Time Will Have Med-
ical Examination

 

 

 

Further immunization against di-
sease for school children of Norwalk
was stressed at a meeting Saturday
night in the Norwalk high school, at
which Superintendent John Lund.
Dr. Robert E. Pordue, Dr. William
J. Tracey and Dr. George Fawcett
attended. Discussing the health sit-
uation here and the conditions in the
schools, it was recommended to
guard scanitation rigidly, and to of-
fer the schools" nurses all cooperation
in their work. This year will mark
the entrance of another schOO‘l
nurse. Herctoforo the health situa-
tion has been left to one person. Dra
Tracey. Perdue, and Fawcett were
unanimous in their approval of the
use of anti-toxin and protection
against diphtheria.

Cards will be sent out to thehomes
of children entering school for the
first time. A brief history of their
health will be required. New eli-
tranis will also be obliged to un-
dergo a medical examination. Exist-
ing unsanitary cmditions were
brought up at the meeting. and a
vote was taken to investigate these
matters further. . .

Superintendent Lund said this
morning that the committee will is-
sue a formal announcement soon.
Despite dissenting opinions regarding
the injection of anti-toxin. it is ex-
pected that the authorities will
make every effort possible to advo-
cate its application.

 

110; FIRST PHOIOGRAPH

BELFAST. Aug. Zia-(AP) Jo;
seph McSwenney of Donegal. who
claims to have seen 116, birthdays.
and who the oldest living Irish-
man. has been'photographed for the
first time. He was "taken" beside
his wife. 80 years old.

McSwenney, who says he was born

. in .1809. stili_avpesrl to be vigorous
and is keen of wit. 1 ‘

 

 

Antoine Mourre flop) and Georges
Kirsch (bottom\.' two French veter-
ans seriously wounded in the World
War when their planes ‘were shot
down. will soon make an attempt to
fly across the Atlantic Ocean from
New York to Paris.

ARRESTED, HE
TRIES TO TRIP
THE POLICEMAN

Rudolph Stoltz, Driver
Of City Garbage
Truck, Gets Drunk——
Is Fined $125

Rudolph Stoltz of 24 Spring street
who drives a garbage \truck for the
City had a voyage of misadventure

Saturday evening that cost him $125
before “finis” was written to the
story.

First he looked on the wine while
it was red, and then proceeded to
drive his truck. His progressives
somewhat erratic, and as he carecn-
ed over to the left of the road near
the junction of Van Zandt street and
Osborn avenue, a car driven by
Stephen Vedas got in the way.

After Vadas ha'd tried to convince
Stoltz that he had no business on the
left hand side of the road. officer
John Roberts was called. Noting the
man's condition. Roberts told him
he was under arrest for operating
a motor vehicle while under the in-
fluence of liquor.

This was bad enough, but Stoltz
began to make it worse. Being ar-
rested \vas no new thing for him, the
police say. and he tried to trip Rob-
erts. The officer. however, had ex-
perienced the same sort of attack
once before when arresting Stoltz,
and although Roberts was thrown to
the. ground. he took Stoltz with him.
Moreover, as Stoltz found himself
the under dog when they fell, the
fight ended abruptly. ‘

Roberts finally got Stoltz to the
station. and this morning the truck
driver was fined $100 for the intoxi-
cation chargc. and an extra. ’25 for
resisting an officer. Stoltz, who has
a large family. was unable to pay
the fine. but friends paid it for him.
and they will be reimbursed each
week as Stoltz dra'wa his 1183’-

 

 

 

 

DRUNK—FINED 810. .

William Fagan of 21 Hoyt street
was fined :10 and costs in the up.
town court this morning on charges
of being drunk last week. When ar-
rested by Officer Conrad J. Miller he
was lying helpless in the street. He
pleaded guilty. .

 

CONGRATULATIONS.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sexton of 18
Newtown Terrace announce the

 

. home. _

birth of a daughter. Margaret May.
Vector-m morning at the Salon

OYSTERIIIEN
D E N Y BA N
0N BIYALYES

Astonished at Report
Local Growth Is Un-
der Suspicion B e -
cause of Pollution

NO ORDERS

Shipping As Usual, Is
Information at Office
Of L o c a l Oyster
Company

A report published in The Bridge-
port Telegram this morning that

the “fate of the Nor-walk Oyster in-
dustry rests in the hands of the
State Board of Health. which be-
cause of the pollution of local wat-
ers has placed oysters under suspi-
cion," was the cause of amazement
among oystermen here today.

"It is all news to us,” was the
only w" they answered queries re-

 

 

 

~ garding it. They emphatically stat-

cd they had received no word . to
stop shipping oysters, as the story in
the mitigation newspaper. set. forth.
State Health Commissioner Stan-
ley H. Osborn was in "conference
with local natural oyster growers
and City Health Officer Robert Per-
due last Thursday. At thatiime no
intimation of pollution in nearb!
watersfims heard. .
“All wrong—nothing to it." was
the word at the office of one of the
largest oyster companies here today.
"We are shipping as usual."
“Everything is satisfactory." laid
a member of a state board interest-
on in fisheries today. “Some grounds
were to be tested. but no ulnar!
could have been received as yet."
The story as printed in the Bridge-
port Telegram follows:
"NORWALK. Aug. 2‘3.—(Special)
The fate of the Not-walk ayster in-

 

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LATE NEWS |

LIQUOR KILLS 4

NEW YORK, Aug. lit—(AP). One
woman and three men died from
poison bootleg liquor today at Belle-
vue . hospital, within four hours.
Police believed the city was again
being flooded with poisonous liquor,
causing a revival of conditions which
resulted in the deaths of more than
a score of persons several months

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BANKRUI’TS

BRIDGEPOBT, Aug. 24. —- (AP).
Robert J. Caddwell, Stamford, and
the Simondctti Company, Inc., New
York, today filed application in
Superior Court hero for foreclosure
of judgment licns in two Judgments
against property of Citizen Borglum,
Stanford sculptor. Tito licns total
$5,215.75.

 

ANOTHER ROLE IN ONE

TORBINGTON, Aug. 24.—- (AP).
Another hole in one, the third this
year on the links of the Green-
woods Country Club. was made yes-
terday by F. W. Boss, of Torr-ing-
ton. The feat was performed at the
number three hole, a distance of
140 yards.

18 HURT IN RIOT

CALCUTI‘A; British India, Aug.
24.—-(AP). Eighteen persons were
inpured in serious rioting between
Hindus and Moslems at. 'I‘ittagurh.
near here today. The Mcsiems al-
lege that. the Hindus were carrying
an idol in a procession and played
music as the procession passed a
mosque. .

mas amn‘ omen
\VATEBBUBY. Aug. zit—(AP).
Max Bruder, 27, of Scynmur, died
at Waterbury hospital early this
morning as a result of injuries rc-
cel'ved when an automobile in which
he wad riding collided with another
machine on the Southford-Southbur;

road about midnight Saturday.

 

 

 

MINIMUM SALARY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—-—(AP)A
move to have Congress fix 81,500 as

t the minimum yearly salary for gov-

ernment employee will be launched
at the eighth general convention of
thenational federation of federal

 

employee to be held in Bolton. Sep-
temberj. ‘ ‘

 

FOURTEEN PAGES
I.

 

 

Producers

The New State Lhwl'

David Esterson Predicts Picture House Here-y ‘ .
Will Have No Films to Show Within Few
Days—Albert Hamilton Is More Optimistic
~Thinks Settlement Will Be Reached l:

 

 

MARVIN BEACH
WATER SPORTS ,
ORAN CROWDS

Robert Uhie and Mira
Pugh Capture Great-

est Number of Points
-—The Results

 

 

‘ EVENING DANCE

 

Improvement Associa-
tion Has Big Day——
Specmlty Dances on
Lawn—Parade
The Marvin Beach Water Sports.

under the auspices of the Marvin

Benoit Improvement Association,

drew large crowds to the beach
Saturday afternoon.

 

The Boy's prize for the greatest .

number of individual points was won
by Robert Uhie, with Phillip Wil-

cox second. ,The similar prize for
girls was captured by Miss Mira
Pugh with Frances Keogh second.

Following the sports in the after-
noon.‘ to which the public was ad-
mitted. there was an evening pro-
gramincluding a dance on the
lawn, with‘specialty dances present-
ed by Florie Fay, Elizabeth Fay,
and Frances Armstrong. Miss Kath-
erine Vaasf presented a solo dance
which‘ was well received.

Vaast‘s orchestra played through-
out the evening, and several vocal

 

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BEGIN REPAYING
OF EAST AVENUE;
TRAFFIC ROUTE

The repaving of East avenue was
started this morning.

According to the Highway de-
partment, work will push ahead full
blast this week' ,the contracts for
the job having been signed by
Mayor Thomas Robins.

The machinery of the Waterbury
Construction company has been on
the job for a week, but work was
held up due to the failure of the
State Highway department to de-
liver the contracts to the mayor last
week.

Work will begin at the north end
of East avenue. and a one-way traf-
fice rule will be enforced so that
machines can travel only south
while the roadway is being torn up.

,Machines travelling along the
shore route will be relayed through
South Norwalk instead of being al-
lowed to continue through Norwalk
during the construction of the high~
way. "

 

 

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PRICE THREE CENTS? ,

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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To Fight

 

No more movies within a few days.;- ‘
This was the prediction of Davldw ‘
Estorson. owner of the Regent and.
Palace Theatres this morning. .
“At the meeting in the Hotel
Garde. New Haven, yesterday." _Mr.‘
Esterson said. “the motion picturé“;
theatre owners of Connecticut wet-0,5;
notified that the producers, both the g5 .
big five and the independent mend ‘
would fight the new state tax.
“Their plan will be to refuse to,
issue any more films in Connectibut.

even if the exhibitor takes on his
shoulders the new taxation. The
producers are to meet in New York
tomorrow, and they state that this
will be their decision there. , .
"With no films to show. we calf“
just close up shop. The people will;
be deprived of amusement, and the:
theatre owners will be out of pocket:
“I suggested at the meeting yes-‘1
terday that the theatre owners:
bring in films nozn Boston and New:
York. pay tax ,and then share it:
among the various exhibitors. ' but;
the producers say that they will lb;
sue only to' one man under that:
plan. and he must return his film a);
soon as he is through with it."’ “r":
Unless the producers recsde from;
the stand they have taken‘. Nor-f, ,
walk will return to straight vaude-g
ville shows. or a revival of the ten»;
twenty-thirty shows. ’ ,W?
Albert Hamliton..managcr oil tit
Rialto Theater, took a more options. .
tic View of the matter.
“The producers warn us that at
their meeting in New York tomor-
row they will refuse to issue films in‘
Connecticut that pay the new film
tax of $10 on the first reel and 85»-
on the remaining reels of a film. . '
“However, we have films until
Wednesday. and I feel sure some set." ’
ilement will be made before that ..
time. We shall get around it some--
how, and have moving pictures.
"The contention of the producer!
is that if they once pay this tax in.
Connecticut, it willset a. precedent
for all other States, which will fol-‘
low suit." ,
Mr. Hamilton is going to New Ha.-
ven tomorrow. where, at the Hotel
Cards. at a last minute meeting of
executive board of the Association of

zone:

to

bevaeune-e

 

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lNiUNCllON T0 in
STOP ERECTION
~ 0F GAS TANKS

An injunction was placed againstZ
James McNer‘ny of 95 Connecticut‘
avenue by Judge Freeman Light this ‘
morning. restraining him from erect; .
ing a wholesale gasoline station at
the corner of School and Jefferson
streets. ' I
'The residents of the district.;.fivho
are represented by John J. Farrell:
protested and were granted the in-‘v
junction until the first Tuesday in

 

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CRULLERS YOU'LL LIKE. .
Mulligan’s Home-made Crullerev'
are the kind you'll like—because
they are made from the best of ma-
terials and cooked in Crisco. They"

 

are tasty. wholesome and always just
the same. Stores all over this vieillr
ity have them for saie.-—Adv. '

 
 
 

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day.

bargain stores.

 

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SUBURBAN DAY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH.

Last year—1924—the publiCm 'ed their ap- ii
promotion of the unusual bargains offered by the
merchants of South Norwalk on this annual bargain

This year—‘1925— the merchants who are mark- '
ing their merchandise for SUBURBAN DAY will -
display white and green cards in their windows".

A full list of Suburban Day merchants will be ‘
published in this space Tuesday, Wednesday and ‘
Thursday.-—Watch that list for the Suburban Day ‘