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You Need the Hospital:—
. The Hospital Needs Your ,
Help. Give!
The Mary 'A. Bed 0rd '
Nurses’ Home
DRIVE"
, I _ IS UNDER WAY
Is ; The Amount Needed
To pay for the Built
tion. Mr. E. T, Bedlord wil
the sum raised in Norwalk.
ing, now under construc-
match dollar for' dollar
The drive is short, only 10 days to Sept. 25th.
. This is your opportunity to do your share in a
community enterprise which will he of lasting henc-
fit to Norwalk.
Help! Give! Buy Bonds That
' Pay Good Will Dividends!
The drive is being conducted by The ‘Norwallt
Kiwanis Club, which has never failed to put over
what it has set out to accomplish. This drive will he
a success, must he. Remember that! Norwalk has
been divided into districts e a c h under a captain.
Lieutenants have been named by them.
You will receive a call at your home or odice.\
Listen attentively to the reasons for the drive, .
appreciate the necessity for the $80,000 to pay for the
nurses’ home, realize why the hospital must "have this
added unit to he of increased service to you and‘the
community and then GIVE! . .
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' known everywhere as chestnut time.
, .ion about chestnuttlng. but‘ the old-
’ 'timcrs are wntching anxiously. They
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Norwalk Residents Re-
port Seeing Burrs on
. Trees Near Wilton-
, Story of Blight
Is the chestnut coming back in
Connecticut?
Not the Joe Miller kind. but the
sweet succulent ones for roasting and
smiling that used to be so plentiful
here.
3* Several persons have reported this
past week that they have seen tiny
chestnut burrs on the trees out to-
ward Wilton way. and. with tall,
there may be a. chestnut crop.
Twenty years ago this season was
The chestnut groves were many. and
the trees bore well. People went to
the country and brought back .hun-
dreds of nuts.
The chestnut trees grow well. and
were used for framing houses and
for telephone poles. And then came
the mystery.
Just what blight struck the chest-
~nut trees. no one knows, but about
'12 years ago they suddenly ceased to
bear-and hence to reproduce. The
chestnut trees began to die and.
although some giants still stand, they
are dead.
But from some of the roots small
saplings shot up and survived, and
Lit is these that have grown for about
ten yours that are beginning to bear.
['l‘he younger generation has forgot.
wonder whether or not tho’ blight
will strike this first. source crop and
ruin it.
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museum
Fire Chief George Bogardus and
Deputy. Fire Chief Charles A. Voik
of. the local tire department. were
in New York city Monday, when
they attended a session of the New
York Fire School. -
‘ The two icon: tire officials obtain,-
od ideas which they may carry out
in a school that is being planned for
the local tlrcrnen. .
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l Patrolman Poul McGrath starter:
.tiuty as a motorcycle policeman yes-
. thrduy.
The police department will have a
motorcycle squad of three instead of
two. There will be two of the or-
ticers on day duty and one on at
night.
SOLD F OR DE 3T
NEW YORK. Sept. 16 (AP).-—’l‘he
,marble mausoleum of the late Will-
iam Bradley well-known subway
builder and contractor, in Wood-
lawn cemetery. wh ichcost 3250.000.
has been sold to pay dcbta incurred
by his estate. The body has been
transferred to a less pretentious
lgrave.
The mausoleom was. bought. by a
New York roaltor. the price being
reported as $100,000. Constructed
entirely of imported Italian marble
and beautifully decorated, the
mausoleum is considered one of the
'most pretentious in the country. It
is situated on the crest of a knoll
in thescemetery and is surrounded
by a. spacious lot.
0min MASON ,
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ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. Sept. 16.n—
(AP) Dr. Joseph Singer Heletesd.
oldest tree mason in the United
States, possibly the oldest in the
world. died at his home at Breckln-
ridge Sunday night at the age of
one hundred and seven. He had
eighty living descendants. He was
family physician and personal friend
0‘! Henry Clay. He was born in
Lexington. Ky.. March 4 .1818. He
was a member or Breckinridae
lodge. No. 334. A. F. and A. M. '
j Dr. Halstead came to Missouri in
1841 and began practice near
Brecklnridge. where no bought land
from the government at $2.60 an
acre. His wife, who was a niece of
Governor C. A. Wyciii! of Kentucky,
died last April at the use at 96.
Big Crowd Hears
McCormack in Dublin
DUBLIN. Sept. 16.—-John McCor-
mew- two concerts in the Theater
Royal Dublin recently were attend-
ed by the largest audiences ever as.
sembied in the city for similar
events. Not only was every inch or
“available space occupied. but parts
of the building in which no place
had previously been round for the
public were used and sold at high
lprices. _ ‘ ‘
' The governor-general. the presi-
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Norwalk’s Leading Dry Goods Store
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HYATT
Norwalk, Conn.
Printzess Wraps
in Autumn Styles
Starting tomorrow we will place on special dis-
play an assortment of Printzess models in ad-
vance fall and winter styles. Printzess garments
need no _1ntroduction; their superiority in design
and their quality in fabric and tailoring detail
ishwell recognized among smart women every-
w ere.
In all the wanted styles and tabrics.
PRICES RANGE FROM
' $35.75 T0 $100.00
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ALLEGED CRO0K
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Gun F i g ht Follows
Hold-up at R o a d
House in South Sche-
nectady
ALBANY. N. Y.. Sept. 16.——(AP).
Motorcycle Patrolman Frank A.
Quiniivan ot Schenectady and
Ralph J. Abersano of hinmuroncck,
Ner York. alleged holdup man
were killed early yesterday in a gun
battle at Colonic Inn. on the Albany
Schenectady road.
The shooting was the aftermath
at s. hold-up at a road hduse in
South Schenectady. Four men en-
tered the place and robbed twenty
persons or about $700. The proprie-
tor culled Quiniivsn. who was of!
duty. and the patrolman traced the
men to the Colonic Inn. When Quin-
iivan entered the place with revol-
ver drawn he saw {our men seated
at a table and suspected them 0! be.
ing the hold-up gang. Abersuno
pulled his gun and the two engaged
in a duel. about nine: shots being
fired. It is said the other men in the
party did' not ylrticlpete tn the
shootin. Abcrsuno tell first.
2 Years, $20,000 Fine '
For Income Return
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 16.-
(AP) C. J. Castle, rent estate oper-
ator who pleaded guilty to a. charge
of making a. fraudulent income tax
return. was sentenced yesterday to
two years in the work hopes and
lined $20,000 by t-"ederul Judge
Jones. Castle acknowledged having
underrated his 1921 income by
$255,000 and his 1922 income by
$103,000.
- PROOF.
"When I put the coat on for the
first time and buttoned it up. 1
burst the seam down the bacir.’
“Yes, that will show you how wen
our buttons are sewn on."——l\'agel's
Lustige Welt.
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It's the quality behind the price that tells whether or not you re-
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