' . shiny - NORWALK '- GAZETTE. fl II ' PRICE SALES—— I Before 'our Stock Taking Time we Want To Close ‘ Out ' Broken Lots of" Suits and Overcoats ‘ 1 Q MEN’S FINE _ Elo ing. umis ings 1 ANDHATS! At Greatlv Reduced Prices:- BOY’S FINE Clo mg. urnis ings AND HATS! SEE OUR WINDOWS.’ EOE-7 LOW PRlCESi EVERYTHING GUARANTEED. W A. BENEDECT & COMPANY, SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. Manufacturers of Fine Clothing. Absolutely Independent. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 22. 1894. Enrnnun AT run Pos'r 0112101, In Nonwanx as A Newsmrnn. , SOUTH NORWALK. Lincoln Council met last evening and transacted routine business —Tam O’Shanter’ 69c at O Brian’s. Clifford E.‘Adams entertained the Independent Social club last night. ‘ Jimmy” O’Brien, the Washington street hatter, is having a large holiday trfldeo ' A pleasant-stag whist party assem- bled at the residence of George F. ing. Luther Wright is busily engaged painting and repairing the wagons be- longing to the great Barnum & Baily circus. —A full line of winter caps at O’Brien’ 8. Ellis Howard, of Woodward avenue, was given a surprise party last evening. Dancing was enjoyed until an eary hour this morning. Refreshments were served. Officer Gladstone arrested William Gerry, yesterday afternoon, for an assault on his wife. When brought be- fore Justice Barrett the case was con- tinued for a week. At a meeting of the directors of the Farmers’ Feed company in Jersey City on Thursday, eleven members of the ‘ board tipped the scales at 2199 pounds. Among those on the scales were E. A. Woodward of this city and John D. Kimmey of Norwalk. —The finest line and latest style of 82 Derby hats at O’ Brien’ s. George S. Gregory and Chief Voll- mer have received the reward of $100 from the state, for the capture of horse thief George E. Maltby, Jr., who stole a horse and carriage from liveryman Andrew Ure of New Haven. on October 12th, last. The order for the money was received yesterday, which with the $1 that Ure paid Mr. Gregory, the lat- ter and the Chief will have an oppor- tunity to purchase themselves a nice Christmas present. please copy. —A close rolled steel rod umbrella from O’Brien’s will make a nice Xmas present. The Tramway company is getting everything in readiness for an active campaign in the spring. They; have abandoned their proposed route to New Canaan and will extend their Belden avenue line up Riv erside avenue through Broad River to Silver Mine. The tracks to Gregory’ s point will be com- pleted and then work will commence at Five Mile River to extend the tracks to the town of Darien, where it will connect with the Stamford road which will be completed to that town, thus making direct communication between N orwalk and Stamford. Bearse on Fairfield avenue, last even- New Haven papers” i. Waldo Parsons was given a pleasant surprise party by about sixieen of his ' South Norwalk friends, at his home at Brookslde last evening. Dancing was indulged in until ten o’clock when a fine collation was served and was after- wards again continued until midnight. Among those present were the Misses Ethel Keep, Eva Ferris, Annie Smith,’ Beulah Jarvis Susie Smith, Flora Sherwood, Adella Star,- Olive Star rEnd Masters Charles Graves. Dwightli ep, Willard Wadhams, Edward Smith, Raymond Comstock, Frank Layton and Frank Sherman. ’ —Ladies’ French felt hats, $1, at 01101 Annual Town Business Meeting. The inhabitants oi the Town of Norwalk are hereby notified and warned that a town meet- ing will be held in the Town House in said Norwalk, on Thursday, the 27th day of Decem- ber, 1894, at ajo’clock in the afternoon for the following purposes, to wit: To hear the an- nual reports; to lay the state and Town taxes. including the support of schools and the care _of highways; to—make the annual appropria- tion for the support of schools for the current year; to make the annual appropriation for the care and repairs of the highways for the Current year: to take such action as the meet ing shall deem advisable. and make any neces- sary appropriation in the matter of continu- ing to date thegeneral indei of tholand records also to take action upon the following commu- nication. “The "Norwalk” chapter of the Daughters “of the American Revolution respoc tfully re- “quest permission of the Town of Norw'alh to “erect. at the intersection of East avenue and ‘the 01d Saugatuck road, a granite tablet to “mark the locality of the earliest settlement ‘of Norwalk. They further request that the “Town of Norwalk will accept this tablet. and “properly provide for its perpetual maintain- ‘ance and protection. Signed. Mary E. M. Hill, Regent of Norwalk Chapter of D. A. R. Esther B. Noble, Vice Regent. Jennie May D. Steven's. Chairman-cf Committee of D. A. R. on Eastavenue tablet. Dated at Norwalk December 21, 1894. OSCAR W. RAYMOND. ‘ EPHRAIM THOMES. SAMUEL DASKAM. Sglqctmen of the Town of Norwalk. Just the shoes for winter. y. ..37 Wall Street, Norwalk Conn... Our stock of slippers is large and prices low. You will he surprised to see what nice Slippers you can get for from 50c to $2. One word about the narrow toe h1g1 button shoe at $1.69 very stylish. Then the lot I/ici kid shoes, special, at $2. Sumo shoe sold in Dunhury at $4. A Our prize kid shoe, ladies, at $2. Makes a nice present; 5 styles. - A A 1 Ludi’cs worm shocs. Our nice school shoes for young ladies at $1.75, heavy sole patent leather lips , for walking or skaling, make a nicc present.- Our misscs’ and children’s hcuoy kid shoe, douhlc' solo, $1 and $1.25. eflrc nice looking combined with great wear. The youth’s shoes, 11 to 2, 70c; 3 to 5 1-2 80c. [i will pay you to look at these. ' 7 ()ur cork sole shoes at $2 are very nice. Then we have u very nice hluchcr, douhlc sole; Wicc dress or work shoes at $2. Either of these will make u nic'cprcs- ent. ‘ We have the nicest gcnl’ s opera loo, culf, Goodyear wch‘ shoes at $3. ‘Ocry nice style. Look at our men’ s congress shoes at $1. Our 89c men’ 5 shoes are a wonder I The little ladies shoe for the children ; nice style; solid. Fine kid extension sole 5 lo 8, 75c; 8 to 10 1-2 ,85c, ° This is u very nice line, and will hear in speclion. Ask anyone, about the Knox- Ern-y‘lll Shoes; youth’s and hoy’ 5 at $1. sound $1.75. More dry feel” more hard “Knox” than - . (my shoe known. 11 lo 2 $1. r E BOSTON. sronr GORNER MAIN AND WALL STREETS, NORWALK. We consider it our pleasant duty to thank the shopping public of Norwalk and vicinity for their generous response to our holiday announcement, and we wish our many patrons a . MERRY CHRISTMAS. Although our sales for the past ten days have been far in excess of past seasons there are many choice articles left. py the receiver and twice happy him who gives. for presents in every department. tractive Holiday Goods. ' Tokens of friendship and love which make hap- Thousand and one articles'suitable Every counter, all the shelves are laden, with at- But the culmination of all our efforts is our BOOK DEPARTMENT Happily for our customers we’ve been fortunate in securing through a prominent publishing house the balance of their standard. works, comprising the best and most ‘ popular editions at about 40 per' cent. less than the same goods were a month ago. In the lot will be found the works of Washington Irving, George Eliot, Charles Dick-. ens, Lord McCauley, John Ruskin, Chas. Lamb, Longfellow, Emerson Byron and all the other poets. The prominent novelist A. Curran Doyle, the historical works of Oibbon, Plutarch, J ose17hus and all the other great writers. Also a fine assortment of choice reading for boys and girls including the works of Mayne Reid, Hans Christian Anderson, Ballantync et al. mSpeCial priciest on School Supplies. . . . -.
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