‘ corned About Neigh-
‘bor’s“Shingle”--
._ Called for Jury Duty.
Evidently the recent \high winds
ve loosened the Darien Town
Mat the White Bridge so that it.
gs in a rather precarious posi-
tion. The next strong wind is likely
do blow it down as at present it
apparently by one nail.
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‘ A number of Rowayton residents
tended the performance of Mrs.
Flake in "The Two Rivals" at the
Regent theatre last evening. Among
ashefn were Mrs. Wendell P. Mllllgan
And Mrs. Norman Taylor.
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~Charies E. Beofield. summer resi-
dent of Rowayton avenue. who
pent the week-end as the guest of
_ ptain and Mrs. Andrew Mills, left
. terday for Miami. Florida. where
expects to stay several weeks.
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.. The Cosmopolitan Quartette. com-
prised of Dr. Charles Cattsneo. tenor;
. Viiiam Morton. baritone: Karl J.
(ellstab. tenor; and Robert 1. Park-
“’ .bass. sang last evening at the Da-
hlen‘ Presbyterian church. The quar-
tette entertained the men's club.
held a meeting and social
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4—“All the popular Magazines on
link at. Allen's Drug Store."-—Adv.
O O C
. Deodate Davenport of Rowayton
"avenue has been summoned to serve
1 juryman in the Superior Court.
dgeport. which opened yesterday.
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Edward McGowan of Norwalk
fine the guestpof Mrs. Mary A.
Barclay yesterday at her home.
Rowayton avenue.
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Friends of Mrs. Hiram Morciy.
Cgoekett street are glad to see her
flbout again after her recent illness.
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’Tho Ladies' Aid of the Rowayton
ifBaptist church are meeting at the
.. one of Mrs. Henrietta Raymond.
igaymond street. this afternoon.
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LTomorrow the members of the
edood Will society will meet at the
shone of Mrs. Edgar Raymond. now-
[yton avenue. at 2:30.
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now A Sunday school social will be
also] in the Baptist church. Satur-
’s.y. February twenty—sixth.
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. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Cambeil of
Met Norwaik entertained Captain.
find Mrs. Frank R. Stevens. Roway-
We Are Our" Own Whole.
Balers and Retailers of
QUALITY GROCERIES
A. F‘. Beckmann Co
Inc. .
. Washington St. Phone 3565
South Norwalk
Sperry & Barnes
Hams—Bacons
s’rmv'rm FRESH
, Native Eggs
MODERN MARKET
P. E. Fairchild. Prop.
15 NORTH MAIN ST.
More . Beautiful
g Better Performance
. Lower Price
A » On Display
AAro-u Kill-ill
RIB. Ave. '80 Norwslli
Phone 689
La Grippe Pill
colds. La Grippe. some forms
neuralgia. Contains no opiates
1' ed Drug Store
Geo. E. Cook. Prop.
59 Washington Street
South liorwalk. Conn.
Rev. Francis E. Hadadorn. a Catho-
l'o priest attached to the stuff of
the Kansas City cathedral. has dis-
appeared and fears are ‘ expressed
for his safety. He answered a felt»
phone call late one night. purport-
ing to come from a parishioner.
went out ‘to visit the person who
had called and has not been seen
since. Pieces of his jewelry were
later found in an alley.
ton avenue. at their home. recent-
ly.
Miss Mary Holtzman, Rowayton
avenue. started on her new duties.
Monday an operator with the South-
ern New England Telephone com-
pany. Washington street.
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Wesely G. Woc‘d. Roton avenue.
named. with thirteen others on the
charter revision committee, by
Mayor Robins at a. recent meeting.
Mr. Wood will represent the fifth
ward. ‘
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A Washington‘s birthday party
will be held in the South Norwaik
Baptist churcl. next Monday eve-
ning. Miss Lola Baxter. Roton ave-
nue. and Miss Emily Stevens. Mc-
Kinley place. will entertain the
guests with a skit and song en.
titled. "Dost Thou Love Me Sister
Ruth.”
Allie Ferris is confined to his
home on Rowayton avenue with a
severe cold.
The north-east wind. rain and
snow combined, have caused vn-
usually high tides for the past few
days.
O
I
Allen Marks. who spent several
days last week in Waterbury. was
obliged to leave his automobile in
t‘at_town over the weck~eud be-
cause of' the impassable condition
of the roads.
l D
The mllkmen who supply Boway~
ten are deserving of consider-obit
credit.‘ They haven't missed a day
despite clogged roads. Their good
service has been greatly appreciat
ed in homes where there are babies
and invalids.
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A new business has been started
in Rowayton. a home laundry con-
ducted by Alfred Macintosh on Ito-
wnyton avenue.
noun SEEN
AS OLD BEDLAM
BY JOURNALIST
‘mgggtsCl’Y’Y IWYRobErEtgs:
Former Bridgeport
Writer, On Return.
“Florida is just Bedlam let loose
—a mad country." says William W.
Roberts. a former Bridgeport news-
paper man and now publicity man.
ager for a hospital drive being car-
ried on by the American Cities in
West Palm Beach. Florida. “The
values have gone up so rapidly.
Some men have money and others
who are after it sufler. Trains are
never less than five hours late on a
three-hundred-mile trip. There are
uniformed mail men at the post of-
fice in Palm Beach and. West Palm
Beach. There is no chance of get-
ting any to work more than a day at
a. time. as the government wags
would not keep them for a break-
fast meal."
Even fruit. for which Florida is
supposedly noted. is far below the
quality offered in this vicinity at
lowest prices. according to Mr. Rob-
erts. In‘a letter written to Mrs.
Roberts in Bridgeport. he tells a tale
of sickness. hard-times. expensive
living conditions and scarcity for the
citizensof moderate means of many
of the small luxuries of life. hectic
existence. and disappointment in the
climate,
FAVORITE FAILS.
NEW YORK. Feb. 17.-—The fair
grounds race meeting at New Or-
leans closed yesterday with the win-
ning of the Mardi Gras handicap by
J. L. Burttschell's Lounger in a
drive from John '1‘. D.
' J Collins Co
'20 North Main Street.
South Nor-walk
Phone 747
' COMPLETE noose
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RADIO
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
MlLLINERY DEPT
VERY BUSY AT
C. & K. PLANT
Girls Didn’t Win Their
Game But the Finan-
cial Receipts * Were
Splendid.
The Millinery department of the
Crofut and Knapp Hat Company is
in t e midst of a very busy season.
Arthur stack, superintendent of this
department reports that prospects
show a very good season. Much
now help has been added to the
force in the past week. New em-
ployee are: ,
Miss Ruth Decker. Rowayton
Miss Alice C. Geoffrey. Stratford.
Miss L. Richl. East Norwalk.
Miss Mary Culp. New York City.
Miss E. Beers and Mrs. May of
South Norwalk.
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Well, They Got the Money.
Just because they had an unusually
large delegation of meters from the
offices and factory, the Crofut a
Knapp girls' basketball team lost to
the Norwnlk Ali-Stars by the close
score of 10-7, at a game played
in Community linll. last night.
Although the girls were forced to
their first dct‘rnt, tho- at least have
the consolation that the game and
dnnce were a financial success, and
new uniforms are assured.
Many At Catholic Club.
As usual. the Crofut and Knapp
fiat Company was very largely repre-
sented at the annual Lincoln day
banquet of the Norwalk Catholic
Club at the Royal James fun. last
Thursday evening. Nearly 25 L'Yl-
ciala and employee of the company
were seen at the affair.
New Stockroom Finished.
The new panama and straw body
hat stockroom in the wing of the
fourth floor is completed, and will
be put into use.
Buyers Visit Shop.
The early Spring season always
finds‘many visitors and buyers at
the factory. Among the ~ seen at the
factory the past few days wore:
Louis White of Smith-Collin. Inc..
New York City.
David I-Iertzstein and Louis Gold-
berg of the Herbel Hat Company.
New'York City.
Mrs. Carol Moore. New York City
wales omces.
Nick Carter and Harry Chalk. mil.
linery salesman for the company.
Coach McNamara.
Thomas McNamara of the order
department has been appointed as-
sistant basketball coach of the C. &
K. Girls‘ basketball team. Arthur
Stock is the coach of the team.
The many friends of Robert E.
Howard. assistant superintendent of
the straw hat aspen. lent. are plou-
sed to see him at his duties again.
after being c-rflncd to his home
for several days by illness.
Miss Ethel Amreln. Elton Court.
has accepted a position ln'iho office
of the millincry department. Miss
Ainrcln graduated from the Nor-nail:
High School several weeks; ago.
Philip April. presid‘ut of
Monte Christie Corporation, Rah»
way. N. J.. was a business visitor
at the factory yesterday.
illr
Arthur Stack. superintendent of
the millinery department, spent the
week-end at his home in Brooklyn.
N. Y.
The lining and trimming depart-
ments were especially Well ri'pri'scili.
"d at the C. S: K. basketball game
and dance at "ommunlty Hail last
evening. Miss Margot-w "align and
Miss Louise Doll are the fox-claldies
of these departments.
John Smith. drlwr of the C. S;
K. truck has resumed his duties after
my
Ganna Walska rides to her hotel in
Paris, where she went. she insists.
to prove she can sing. not to dl.
vorce Harold F. McCormick.
Judge Pickett Upsets
Liquor Case Conviction
_..
That the sanctity of a man's home
must be preserved even in
Search for liquor is the opinion
handed down the other day by
Judge Pickett of the New iiawu
County Court of Common Pleas ,in
the case of Frank Daurio of that
city. charged with a liquor law ‘1...
lotion.
It was alleged authorities who on-
tered his home and arrested him
did not have a search warrant prop.
erly issued by the prosecuting :Jt-
torncy of New Haven. Llaurlo was
convicted in the city court, but up.
peulcd the case. and it was pulled in
the common pleas court.
illC
Westport Beach Case
Before Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Errors “ill
be called upon to decide whether the
town of Westport .thc state of Con-
necticut. or William A. Borden owns
a. piece of beach property on the
0
state library building on March ..
Judge Nickersou has given a de-
lines of Borden's property.
has appealed the decision,
clerk of the Supreme Court for this
Judicial district.
l
Suggest Ethan Allen
For Artillery Range
A‘illl is now before the Commit-
tee of Military Affairs of the House
of Representatives which provides
for the purchase by the government
of an artillery range at Fort Ethan
Allen. Vi.. to he used by artillery
units of the National Guards. Con-
necticut. it is said. would find it
more. economical to send its artil-
lcrymcn there for training than to
Virginia or Pennsylvania.
Paper and bead exported from the
United States during i925 were va-
823,135 in 1924. an increase of 2
per cent. according to the Dcpart~
ment of Commerce.
noes.
Miss M -:rrt Nelson. millinery
designer. spent the week-0nd at her
home in Long island.
'The many friends of Harold Rem
manager of the order du-partmei
vere sorry to hear of the death .
his .er. Znimon Reed of Georr
town. last "liursdny. Mr. Reed u!
being confined to his home in Cen-
lost his mother about a. month a}:
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Poise. Theatre Bldg.
Phone 1925 ‘
food at 324.334.5139. as against 323.. -.
$100,000 AI AN
AUCTION SALE
First Book Ever Print.
' ed Fr 0 m Movablt
Type -- The Cuban
berg Bible.
One copy of the bible sold at auc-
tion in New York recently for $106.-
000.
Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach was the
purchaser.
The bible is a copy of the fern.
ous "Gutenberg Bible." the first
book ever printed from movable
type.
it is one of the
the world. ' ,
Although the copy sold last night
was printed about forty ylears be.
fore the discovery of America. while
Columbus was still a small boy play.
ing in the streets of Genoa. its pag.
es are as fresh and clean as if they
had come only recently from the
publisher. Y
The book is in two volumes. each
fifteen by ten and three-eights inch-
es. bound about 1700 A. D. in plain
brown salf. new slightly worn. Al-
though the Gutenberg Bible was
the earliest book printed. it is con-
sidered by collectors one of the
most beautiful.
Dr. Seymour do Riccl. one of the
foremost authorities on Gutenberg
and Caxton. said of the Melk copy
in a special pamphlet issued by the
Anderson Galleries: "The quiet dig-
nity of those twelve hounded and
odd pages of dark and shapely type.
the deep black of the ink. the
broadness of the margins. the glos-
sy crispness of the paper may have
been equaled. but they have not been
surpassed. and in its very cradle the
printer's art. thanks to the Guten-
berg Bible. shines forth indeed as
an art as much and more than as a
craft." \
So far as is know about 300 cc-
pies of this first printed Bible were
issued. Some forty-five copies have
rarest books in
survived. of which more than twen-
‘ty are imperfect. Only four other
’copies and two single volumes are
still in private hands: one of these
is imperfect. and two others are
promised to public libraries. The
Gutenberg Bible is said to be four
times as scarce as the first folio of
i
Sound in the town of \Vestport. j iiayence. Germany.
when it convenes in Hartford at ll'lo: ? srrngsburg, where he acquired some
iiiayence in 1444.
cision which defines the bouui‘laryicinted himself with Johannes F‘ust.
Bordon i who financed the printing establish—
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tial avennt. for three days by ill» ‘
mmwfi‘iVZ-‘mmmn—‘smumm
. Shakespeare.
Gutenberg printed his Bibles
between 1460 and 1455. Following
the expulsion of his family from
he went to
technical skill before returning to
There he asso-
ment in which Gutenberg issued the
The case is one of twelve on the I first printed Bibles. The Gutenberg-
dockct prepared by Lucius l’. Full”. 1 lr'ust partnership was dissolved in
1455.
in his descriptive catalogues of
the Melk copy of the Bible. Dr. Ric-
Ll continues; “The copy has been
carefully rubricated throughout by
a contemporary iiiumlnator. doubt-
less in the publisher's own shop.
Home of the larger initials are ex-
tended far into the lower margins
by colored flowery scrolls and leaves.
which in some isotopes have been
shaved by the N349?“ kill“. The
less important initials we printed
In red. blue. or green. on back-
ground of a different color. and are
certainly by.tho same hand as the
a,
yr: . 1 ,-'--I
come with each
Made of best
stamped with
chechet edge.
rudiments ‘
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1926.’
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M e HYATT
N orwalk’s Leading Dry Goods Store
' .
Norwalk, Conn.
Mattress Covers
A great aid to good housekeeping—Keeps mattress clean and neat. Cost
you less than you would pay for the material.
RENEWS THE OLD MATTRESS—
PROTECTS THE NEW MATTRESS—
.KEEPS MATTRESS IN SHAPE-—
' ALSO CLEAN IN THE SANITARY WAY
Single or Twin size $1.59—% size $1.75—Full size $1.89 and $2.75
SPECIAL
IRONING BOARD PAD AND COVER
20 New Trains For
Westchester Riders
Twenty new trains for commut-
ers. including express and local scr-
vlce. have been announced for the
New York, \Vestcliester and Boston
Railway by Levcreti S. Miller. its
president. The increased schedule
will be effective when the roads
new trunk llnc extension to Mamar-
oneck opens. expected to be about
March 1. Other suburbs to be bene-
fited by the service or Larchmont
Gardens. Larchmont. New llochelle.
I-‘inc Brook. Pelhamwood. Mount
Vernon and all stations south of
Mount. Vernon to Morris Park.
iiunts Point and Harlem Itivcr sta-
tion. at 133d Street.
Few Contagious
Cases In N orwalk
Norwalk stands well towards the
bottom of the list of cities, submit-
ted ‘by the State Department of
Health. reporting contagious disvusea
during the pu.-t week. One case of
scarlet fever was reported one case
of diphtheria and five cases of
measles were llSlClI. The entire list
of communicable diseases contained
a less number of cases than that of
the previous wcek {outlio entire
state.
The Pullman company has grant-
ed‘on increase in wages to its 12.-
000 porters and maids amounting to
8 per cent. on straight time. with
additional pay when trains are de-
layed.
designer of the celebrated engrav-
ed initials in the i457 l’salter is-
sued from the sore press two years
later.
"The Gutenberg Bible is also
known as the ‘forty-two line Bible.
because it is printed in double
columns of forty-two lines each."
Thoughtfully Observe
Lent, Bishop Pleads
L‘rglng his hearers to think things
out and disregard urgings of others
and suggestions in the newspapers.
Rt. Rev. 15. C. Acheson. "u‘ffrngan
Mshon of Connecticut, advocated a
thoughtful as well as a pious Loni
in an address in Bridgeport the other
day.
“Don't let anyone sell you an idea.
Think it out for yourself. Think out
the question of the Eighteenth
amendment. Do not do as the people
on the street tell you: as the news-
Scliultze’s Thursday Specials
papers tell you and do not this
as they tell you that cicry hi,»
school boy carries :1 flask and Hr:
every girl is rotten. Think ail t‘m‘
things out and think what we. our"
to do in a great country in l“t
Nu" 'mic age." R‘ "fin Acheson il.‘
clarod at the opening of his arl.i:'r»‘
on "The Brush Around the Mullw: '
Bush."
"We. are living in :1 diffv‘rrnt hr
The time has come to do som-
thinking. Are we doing as we won‘t
have others do? instead of lull-clot
about a pious Lent i would mil)”
we would think things out; fool; :t
ourselves and remedy the mistake:
..
he declared.
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Corned Spare Ribs . . .
Corned Pigs Feet ..
Smoked Shoulders .
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