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The ancient town of Woodbury wants clectriciights. Miss Clara smith, of the Green, is visit- ing friends in Yonkers. Miss Sadie Lewis has returned from a visit to Plainfield, N J. Three or four weddings will take place in New Canaan, Thanksgiving day. Bishop Williams is reported to be se- riously ill at his home in Middletown. This has been a great year for water— iii everything except votes on prohibition. A party of young boroughites go to at- tend an “old fashioned” party in High Ridge, to-nigbt, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Merrilhof Win- sted, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Wilson, on Arch street. The members of Company D will hold a sociable at the Armory on Wednesday evening, December 20th. An effort is being made to organize a Society of Christian Endeavor in the Bap- tist church at Five Mile River. The firm of Banks & Snyder, dry goods dealers, South Norwa k, has been dis- solved. Mr. Snyder retiring. Official Republican majority in Pennsyl- vania, 60,926. What’s the matter with high license and John Wanamaker? Baltimore is the scene of a notable oeu- tennial, that of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States. The Y.P S. C. E. of the South Nor- waik Baptist church will give a supper and entertainment next Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Osborne celebra- ted their tenth wedding anniversary at their home in East Norwalk, last evening. —-—On and after the 215st inst. go to the old stand of E. Quintard & Son’s for bar- gains in furniture. See advertising'coiumns. Selectman Daskam is working his level best to have an electric bell placed at the railroad crossing on .tbe New Canaan road. Concord Division, S. of T., held an in- teresting entertainment, last evening. De- spite the storm there wasia fair attend- ance. The West avenue whist club “turns the trump” for the firét time this season on Friday eve:ing, at the residence of Mr. Wm. A. Curtis. It is expected that the dedicatory exer. cises of the new Congregational church at South Norwalk, will commence on Sunday, Dec. 15th The attempt to get ups religious was out in Kansas was a pitiable failure. Neither side seemed to have religion. enough to fight about. t Henry J. Pointer, ex-mayor of Newark, N. J ., was married last Wednesday in that city. He is eighty-nine years old, while his bride is twenty-six. At the home of the bride, in East Nor- wslk, Rev. C. M. Pegg on Wednesday evening made Fred Benedict and Miss May Allen man and wife. Frank W, Hyatt, of Brooklyn, formerly of Norwalk, now the largest safety pin manufacturer in the United States, was in town Thursday. The Rev. F. E. Hopkins, of the Con- gregational church, New Canaan, who has been visiting the Paris Expom'tion, arrived home Thursday evening. Mrs. Robert McQuhae, of South Nor. walk, died at the home of her parents, in New York, on Tuesday last, of typhoid pneumonia. The school teachers’ strike at Lynn is different from the orthodox, old-fashioned sort, in which the birch in the striker’s hand did all the mischief. It costs over $35,000,000 a year to run the city of New York. No wonder every other Gothamite- you meet is a born politician with a page] craving for pap. The engagement is announced of Mr. William Beers, of New York, formerly of Norwalk, and a son of the late Isaac S. Beers, to a wealthy lady of Philadelphia. President Harrison’s message to con- gress will be put in type-written copies atthe White House. and not printed at the government printing office as hereto. fore. An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. NORWALK, CONNI, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889. Two DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 47 . Senator Platt returned home, Saturday, from his trip to the Pacific coast. He will go to Washington in a few days to be present at the opening of congress on Dec. 2d. There is a great deal of interest in the results to be attained by the successful ap- peal from the will of the iateilaptain John Brooks, which was decided some time ago by the Supreme court of this state. . -—Marcus I. Finley has sold out his clothing establishment on Park Row and returned to his former positron at the great ready-made clothing house, corner of Fulton and Nassau streets, New York. The Simonds Manufacturing company is to leave Norwalk in the Spring. What is being done by our Board of Trade or any one of our citizens towards their re- tention or in efforts to secure any other manufactory to take its place '3 Mr. Dudley P. Ely, who for nearly twenty years has held the position of pres- ident of the Norwalk Gas Light Com- sany, has sold his stock and is to retire from the company, His stock has been purchased by E. J. and Eben Hill. Rev. Mr. Torrey, of the Baptist church. will address the next meeting of the Bridgeport Christian Endeavor Union on the topic: “Work for Associate Mem- bers.” The meeting will beheld Dec. 2, at the First Baptist church. John T. Hayes is the editor of a paper called the N-undime, which dropped into the Norwalk newspaper arena. this week. It is published in the interest of St. Mary’s church fair, which opens at the Opera House, next Friday evening. Counsellors Curtis Thompson of this city and Hurlbutt of Norwalk, worked hard in the interests of their client, Angeline E. Ferry, to break the will of Sally Ann Par. trick of Westpor t. The jury. however, did not consider the evidence sufiiceut. and after being out an hour returned a verdict sustaining the will. —Bfidgeport Standard. The South Norwalk fire department fair at Music Hall, last. week, was a gratifying success. There was a large attendance every evening. The fair closed Monday evening. Ticket No. 910, held by Frank H . Baxter, drew the handsome bedroom suit. That was a delightful treat at Hillside last Friday evening when Miss Gallaway gave her lecture on the “Romance of Chivalry.” This week Friday evening at the same time and place she is to give her second lecture on the “Ethics of Conr- tesy.” The concert given by St. Paul’s church choir, under the direction of Mrs. N. L. Huntington in the Opera House, Monday evening, was a grand success. The reci tations by Mr. Burdett were heartily en- joyed as was also the musical part of the programme. I hear that genial Sam Fesscnden’s broken limb is not healing properly after all. and that he is coming down from Stamford fora course of expert surgical treatment at one of the York hospitals. Everybody who knows the Nutmeg State politician will be sorry to learn that his injury has proved so severe.—Howard, in New York Press. . :I‘he oyster crop in Quambaug Cove, near Mystic Bridge, is a total failure. About 5,000 bushels of seed were planted in the spring and a good share of them are dead. The trouble is laid to a cab- bage-like plant which entirely covers the bed in its growth. Captain George Bartlett and wife of Guilford have just returned from New York city, where. they went to celebrate the sixty-eighth anniversary of their mar- riage. Mr. Bartlett entered his ninety- second year October 24, and his wife is in her eighty-ninth. A birthday surprise party was given to Miss Emma Mann, at her home in Wilton, Tuesday evening, The weather was un- propitious, but it did not prevent quite a number of Miss Mann’s Norwalk friends from being present and participating in the happy occasion. . A new teacher in a Middletown’ school has instituted a new code of discipline, which deserves the attention of the state humane society. She punished an unruly boy by placing cayenne pepper on his tongue; but her favorite chastisement was to confine the boys in the closet and turn on the steam from the radiator. -—-Betts &. Farrington have a novelty in the way of pitted Olives. Try them. The annual meeting of the Shepaug, Litchfield & Northern Railroad company was held at Litchfield, Wednesday. The officers elected are, President, George D. Chapman : vice-president, Harold Clem- ons; secretary, W. J. Brown; assistant secretary, W. L. Ransom; treasurer, C. H. Coit; superintendent, Alexander Mc- Neil. General Managcr Stevenson is authority for the statement that a new train will be put on the Hausatouic main line next sea- son, from New Milford, which will arrive in Bridgeport, about 8 a. m. This will al- low business men along the line of the route an hour more at home in the'morn- ing and will also give them ample time to rush New York by 10 a, m. The handicap billiard tournament at the rooms of the Norwalk Club began Monday night. In the opening games E. H.‘ Par- ker boat J. H. Lee; L. C. Green heat C- W. Many; Royal Adams beat Thomas S. Morison. The tournament will be con- tinued each evening during this week. Col. Sceiy G. Blakeman, 17th Conn, Vols., is spoken of for Department Com- mander of Connecticut, and George I. Buxton as Senior Vice-Commander. The Southern part of our state has not thus been honored heretofore, and is deemed entitled to it. Invrtations for the sociable given by Pioneer Hook and Ladder company, on Thanksgiving night, are being issued. Everything, so far as arrangements have been completed, points to this sociable being the most successful and enjoyable of any that the company have given here— tofore. Compulsory notification of the presence of contagious disease, in order that healthy children or adults may not be unw1ttingiy exposed. and that proper measures of isolation and disinfection may be cm- ploycd by the health authorities, is now demanded in all municipalities that keep abreast of the times. The craze for-’chrysanthcmum exhibi- tions has led the editor of the Arizona Homer to announce that he will hold a jimson weed exhibition in his back yard in a few days. He says he’ll be darned if he is going to take a back seat when it comes to getting prizes for weeds, and he allows that the jimson weeds in his yard will lay over anything in the country. A large number of tickets of Company F’s minstvels to be held in the Opera House, Thursday evening, December 5th, have been sold. The price is only 50 cents to any part of the house. Charts will be opened at Hale’s drug store, up. town, and Plaisted’s drug store, South Norwalk, where the tickets may be ex- changed for reserved seat coupons. Horse-car driver Schuyler Taylor is re- ported as having eloped with the wife of Irving Taylor, a blacksmith, and every-. thing points to the truth of the report. Taylor leaves his wife and four children in destitute circumstances. For some time he had been allowing his wife the munificent sum of $8 per week for house— hold expenses, out of a salary of $12 per week. “Did:yon ever study the human laugh as an index to human character i” asks a Chicago philosopher. “It is an infallible test, my boy. Did you ever know a man who simpercd and giggled like a girl who wasn’t a sneak in his heart ? And, on the contrary, did you ever know a fellow who laughed squarely out with a good, honest roar who wasn’t the prince of good fellows ?” __ _ Ansom'a Swank—This is going to be a cold winter. When George Washington Gilbert. the only true and genuine hermit in Fairfield'county, with hundreds of tes- timonials from respectable citizens, goes barefooted until November lst, a mild winter can he looked for. If he dons his shoes October lst, it is of blizzards to come. As he began to wear shoes about that time this year the Ridge-r field Press has taken in its thermometer and is putting weather strips on its back door. Senator Farwell, of Illinois, has thor- oughly committed himself to the scheme of free internutionalcommerce. He makes no restrictions whatever. He said to the delegates: “We must offer to you our ex. ports as cheaply as others do; and to that end I will favor such legislation as will bring about this result, even to the extent of uninterrupted trade between all the countries of this hemisphere.” If a ma- jority of our statesmen are of Senator Farwell’s mind there should be no reason why the Pan-American Congress may not be a glorious and complete success. —The rush has already commenced at Readman’s for holiday pictures. Come early and you won’t get left. Thomas M. Clarke, a prominent and well-known citizen of Winsted, died on Thursday on board the incoming steamer from Liver 001, on which he was return- ing from urope, where had been for a couple of months seeking relief from a serious ailment. The remains were brought to Winsted and will be interred to-day. Mr. Clarke was about 00 years old and was founder and for a long time editor of the Winsted Herald, For some years past he had been engaged in manu- facturing in Winsted. He was prominent in all public undertakings in Winsted and wielded a powerfulinfiuencc in the politics of the county—Record. One of the Pioneer boys received aletter a few days ago from Matthew Nesbitt, who left Norwalk for the west a short time since:for the benefit of his health. The letter states that he had a very narrow escape from injury in a railroad accident shortly afterlleaving Chicago for Pueblo. The train, on which he was a passenger, was din-oiled and two or three of- its cars were turned upside down. One man in the seatfishead of Mr. Nesbitt had several ribs broken, and a man in s seat rear of him had his leg broken. Fortunately , Matt. onlyreceivod a shaking up. ' her appearance. Rev. Dr. Noble and wife have engaged board at Mrs. Sylvester VanHoosear’s. on ‘West aVenue, for the winter. They do not expect to occupy the Congregational parsonage till after April next. The Doctor expects to preach to the people of his new charge the first Sunday in Jan- nary. “Uncle Bill” James, despite the perver- sity of the electric wires on the roof. has s'uccacded in putting the best roof ever known in this section of the country on the GAZETTE building. Mr. James is without doubt the oldest roofer in the 'state, having worked at the roofing busi- ness-37 years ago. Dr. W. Fletcher Hall, chief consulting physician of the ‘Polypathic Medical Institute-of Boston, was seen in Milford yesterday undoubtedly on a professional visit to Mr. Wm. M. Merwin, who We understand is improving quite rapidly mider treatment by the Polypathic system. He returned to Boston on the midnight train. Ex-borough clerk Perry has certainly done himself credit in the clear. distinct and entirely honest method adopted by him in preparing the annual borough re- port of receipts and expenditures for this year, for the public. It is true his method uses up a whole page of a paper instead of two colums as heretofore, with its ad- ditional cost of course, but it is worth the difiercnce. The reminiscences of Andersonville prison life were given last Friday evening before the G. A R. boys and a full house, with thrilling effect. The Opera Home was uncomfortably chilly and many caught severe colds in consequi nee, in 5 all were determined to hear the eloquent speaker to the end of his two hours’ ad- dress. The venerable Rev. S. B. S. Bis- sell was an interested listener. —Great bargains in furniture. Trustee ’5 sale of J. B. Ells’ stock, commencing November 20th. When Nellie Biy started on her tour round the world the other day, a man- reportcr was sent to the dock to describe This is the horse report- .ar’emsion 9f..h.ar..d.rsss:.- There were three buttons up on the upper quarter of the left chest and another lonely trio of big buttons down on the left side of the waist band. There was a close- fitting slab of plaid cloth down the front of the upper section of the garment and then the skirt end was plain blue cloth with a sort of festoony tail of plaid cloth again on the nether side. The suit of James Cody of Oyster Bay, L. 1., against Frank P. Dudgeon for $10, 000 damages for causing the death of Kitty Cody, the plaintiff’s daughter, will not come to trial. A settlement was reach- ed a few days ago, Dudgeon agreeing to pay $3,000 to Mr. Cody and $1,500 to Col Townsend, who was Mr. Cody’s legal ad viscr in the matter. Dudgeon is still un— der $10,000 bonds for trial, charged with causing Miss Cody’s death, but in view of the settlement with the dead girl’s fath- er it is thought that some of the import- ant witnesses for the state will be missing at the trial. Dudgeon is quite well known among the sporting fraternity hereabouts. —See advertising columns for trustee’s sale of furniture Rev. E. R. Brown, rector of St. John’s Episcopal church in New Milford, has resulting in aberration of the mind. Fall- ing off in his congregation and a conse- quent reduction of salary is supposed to have been one of the causes. He con- ducted services in his church as usual last Sunday, and beyond a little hesitation in speech nothing unusual was noticed about him. On Monday, without waiting for breakfast, he boarded a train before daylight and paid his fare to Middletown to consult Bishop Williams. The Bishop immediately saw that he was not in his right mind and told him to go home at once and prepare to retire from all work. He returned home on Tuesday accom- panied bya nephew, and that night his mental condition became alarming. The following is copied from the New York Journal, but it lacks confirmation : The death of Blanche Douglass, which occurred in Chicago last week, will prob- ably prove the last act in the sensational Jennie Cramer tragedy at New Haven eight years ago. The scene was laid in a low brothel in the most sinful quarter of Chicago. Blanche Douglass, the notori- ous witness in the Malley trial, died after suffering most horrible torture in body and mind. Before she died the woman tried to tell what she knew about the Jennie Cramer murder, but she could not speak, and her secret was buried with her in the Potter’s Field. During 'the trial Blanche Douglass had falsely given evi- dence as to her New York connections. Her record was exposed, and then the whole story of her relations with Walter Malley came out. She was arrested for perjury and taken back to New Haven. After her release she went to New 1 ork, and began a wild, mad career of dissipa- tion. She went to: Chicago under the assumed name of Jessie Hilton, and re- vealed her identity to the mistress of ‘tho low resort yrhora she lived in degradation. / been attacked with nervous prostration, l Now that Colonel Cockerill, of the New York World, has denied that he has bought the New York Mail and Express and Colonel Arkell, of Judge, has denied that he has bought the New York Press, it seems to be a fitting time for us to state that one of the hungricst of our standing candidates for local ofilce has not bought a year’s subscription to the nxzn'r'rn since he became a voter. although he is inter- ested enough in its contents to bother a near neighbor’s life out of him, borrowing his paper every week The skeleton of a woman was found at New Haven Tuesday by workmen while digging a cellar. The bones were about two feet below the surface and had prob- ably lain there for 30 years. The medical examiner says the woman was about 20 years old and had probably been murdered, as marks evrdcntiy made by the point of a knife were found. Another skeleton of a woman was found two weeks ago at New Haven which had also been buried wveral years. It was in a similar position and also bore evidence of murder. Coro- ner Mix says he does not believe an inves- tigation into these cases would be a proper expenditure of public money, as it would be a despairing case to attempt to find the guilty persons. He will, however, give attention to all clews that may be present- ed. Others advocate a thorough search for the history of the two wumcn. An old [udian occupied the place where the bodies were found about 30 years ago, and it is thought he may have had a hand in the crime. Another theory is that the women were camp followers at the time of the couscript camp at Grapevine point. ——Reuil advertisement of trustee’s sale 0." furniture. About 4 o’clock Monday afternoon the large bani belonging to Charles Reinson, i-- East Norm lk, was discovered to be on fire. The fire spread rapidly on ac- q-ount of the strong wind, and win a very short time the structure was enhloped in flames, the sparks of which we're driven upon Mr. Rcmson’s residence, on the op- site side of the road, which was saved from catching fire by the people ’round about organizing themselves into a bucket brigade. Timmy-flower Hook & Ladder ‘0. and Volunteer Hose 00., as soon as be news of the confiagration reached them, immediately started with their ap- paratus to render what assistance they could, but their efforts were of no avail as the fire had gained too much headway before their arrival The loss must be heavy, but at present cannot be approxi- mately stated. The barn, contained among other things, which were consumed, a quantity of straw, which had been care- fully bundled for use in filling mattresses ; about sixty tons of hay ; a fine colt valued at $500, a horse, a cow, a bull, and a hay press, which Mr. Remson had hired for baleiug up the hay preparatory to selling it. The barn and its contents were fully insured. -—-There are many ways by which mer- chants may call. attention to what they have to sell, out in the most instances brief words with weight of meaning go farthest. Thus, the word Bank implies notes discounted, money loaned, drafts forwarded and checks cashed, without the form of words to tell the whole story. When a retail firm gains the confidence of the people, the do not need to go on the street to pub ish what they have to offer, but a word or two by way of a hint is all sufficient. But, while this is strictly true, what would a live com- munity like this think, were the space in newspapers silent as to what a dry goods firm, which caters to all the ladies, has in hand that everybody. wants It certainly would conclude that sucks firm had grown cold it its reticence, and that reticence was an invitation to go elsewhere to trade. According to the record W. B. Hall & Co. have made many declarations in print, but never one that could not be more than substantiated by the facts. High sounding words are well enough, but they invariably tend to the real injury of the parties using them unless the subject matter upon which they are based proves them. Now in the case of W. B. Hall & Co. with a $35,000 stock of dress silks, a $10,000 array of seal and seal garments, and nobody knows how many thousand dollars worth of generifl dry goods, must in justice to themslves. speak of them with emphasis, for the reason that truth will stand the test of the strongest de- scriptive adjectives. Shoppers often are heard to say, “If we had only known this or that. etc.” Now, lV. B. Hall & 00., understanding the theory of this go right into the columns of the papers an announce what they have to offer. It is a wise bus- iness method and the facts brought forward in the shape of the goods which impelled them to speak have always been fully sup- rted. Presently, in view of the approach- ing holiday season, an array of new truths’ as to silk and other dress goods, and all else proper for winter will be touched upon by the press in this firm’s behalf, and readers may rely on every word as meaning just what it purports. Thanksgiving is coming towards us space. There is a satisfaction to be enjoyed in connection with that day through the assurance that all that could be done for the comfort of one’s self and those dependent, and the needy poor as well, has been performed,—that the preliminary steps to make ready for winter have been taken. This great firm have been for weeks preparing for the merging of autumn into winter, and since the equinoctial storm have had their agents at all centres where bargains _are to. be had to make not only Thanksgivmg but the holiday season suc- ceeding it. one of the brightest—filling their store with the most complete » variety of chances to obtain noveltiésv as well as sub- stantials in their line. ' Insersoll in Indiana. Indianayoz‘i Journal: Colonel Robert G. Ingersolé an i four or five friends were chatting pleasantly, when a Journal rc— porter joined the group. “Oh, come, now,” said the colonel, bis smooth round face beaming like the harvest moon, "i don’t want to be interviewed about the- election. That is like asking a corporal about a battle; go to the general—go to General Harrison. I haven’t really been taking any note of afiairs. I supposed everything was all right and I went to sleep. Now a i-rcat many things seem to have gone wrong. Here the colonel tried: to turn the tables on the reporter and iii- terview the intchiewcr, when the subject of prohibition came up. “Prohibition is a troublesome question in Iowa as everywhere else,” said the Colonel. “Peo— ple in that State appear to be thoroughly dissatisfied with the working of the law yet it doesn’t interfere to any great extent with drinking. A house in which liquor is sold can be torn down, but in the little city of Council Bluffs there are sixty places where liquor is to be bad, and a. still greater number in Des Moines. The. sale of liquor goes on in Kansas. There are eighty-four places in Leavenworth where a man can get a drink. They had it in the hotel where I stopped, and in other places one could look in any time in the day and sec fifty men standing up againstabar. I hadn’t been in Topeka an hour before twenty-five or thirty men asked me if i didn't want something to drink, and they were nearly all of them intoxicated. I asked one of them how it was possible to get liquor when there was such a stringent law. ‘Why,’ said he ‘l’tl (hie) tell you ; thirty of us have bought a barrel of (bio) whiskey, rented a room. and each of us has a (bio) key. Doncbcr see?’ I suppose all the other men I had met were operating the samewhiskcy joint, and each was afraid that some one else would get more than his share of the contents of that barrel.” With this thc'fiolonel reiterated his de— termination not to be interviewed, and started toward the United States circuit court room. where he was to deliver an argument. Companion Pictures. . Another handsome reminder of the con- tinue enterprise of The Youtlt’s Companion. the favorite family paper, has come to us in. the form of a Colored Announcement (la rd, printed in fourteen colors. It is folded in- the centre, and has on either cover compan— ion pictures. Spring is represented by a beautiful maid- en who is returning through the fields, her hands filled with trailling arbutus—that del— icate spring flower which grows so plentifully in'many localities. On the c0mpanion page, the farmer’s daughters is pictured coming through the harvested grain. carrying a well- filled pitcher and basket. The bearer 'of the noon-day lunch is a welcome sight to the hungry reapers The interior of the card contains an array of authors and articles for the coming volume unsurpassed by any papers. ' ' This beautiful Card is only an indication of the great enterprise of The Companion which has made it a National Family Paper, with more'tlian 430,000 subscribers. Nowhere can there be obtained so much en— tertainment and instruction for so little money (only $1.75 a year), If you subscribe now you will receive the paper free to Jan. 1, 1890, and for a full year from that date. The publishers offer to send specimen co ice and this Colored An- nouncement Ca free. Address The Youth’s Companion, Boston, Mass. Little Helps. Clothes that have been sprinkled will not mildew for days, even in summer, if kept away‘from the fire. Use asilver spoon when cooking mush- r00ms. The silver will be blackened if any injurious quality is present. Air the house thoroughly every day, even “though'the rain comes dowu in torrents or « the snow beats in drifts.” ‘ Do not be deceived by agents who have a "superior furniture polish” for sale. Use linseed oil ; there is nothing better. Be ashamed to iron a limp shirt bosom! Men do not so much care for a polished shirt front as they do for a stifl one. It is a good idea for a tall woman to have her kitchen table and ironing board a little higher than ordinary. It will save many a backache. , Use great care in serving food ,for the table as the smallest spatter of grease or gravy changes the appearance and spoils an otherwise pretty dish. Glasses and dishes wipe to perfecton when washed in very hot water. Use a dish mop, soapshaker one an iron dishwasher. These also expedite the labor, as very hot water can be used. A few years ago a fashionable table was so piled with dishes that it was impossible to see one’s vis-a-vis without peeping under the heavily laden silver and glass ware. Now a table is considered vulger when not laid in a low simple manner. When decanters and carafes become so discolored inside that shot or fine coals will not cleanse them, fill the bottle with finely cho ped potato skins, coak tightly and let the ttle stand for three days, when the skins will ferment. Turn out and rinse. The bottle will be as bright and clean as when new.— Good Housekeeping. There are about 170 building associations in New Jersey. 156 of these have 37,730 shareholders holding 204,053 shares ; net assets were $9,849,517.46, nearly $60,000 to an association. Nearly two-thirds of the members stowage-workers. over one- fifth are borrowers, and over sixty per cent. of the latter are workingmen. The. profits of 142 associat'geus"gvver9’af81,706,649 and average of $12.01 “for-$50,764 paid in dues—23.7 per cent. for average time (2% years) the shares have run, about 95 per cent. a year. For 110 associations the in- cidental ex uses averaged 0353 annually. The format on of ’s building assoc' lotion league is a itsted in this state—Hermon Building .em.
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