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THE FAEMER: JULY 10, 1913 i Depend Upon This Store For Your Las! Minute Vacation Needs " "There are two or three-points to consider in pre " parinjr for vacation THE STORE, ITS KIND OF GOODS AND PRICES. You can save time, money and worry by buying everything here. "We never1 wait to be asked; to re duce a price. "We initiate low prices. The best goods obtainable are here in great assortment. ' We never sacrifice quality to make a low pricebut neith er do we use quality as an excuse for a high price. These "things you know, by experience. A FEW SUGGESTIONS AlUOur Class A Clothes Reduced For Quick Sale Come and see them Black Suits, Blue Serge ' Suits, Fancy Mixtures, Stripes, Grays, Browns, etc., etc., in Norfolk, English,' Conservative and other models all reduced. r . , , , ; : r : LOT A LOTB Jl 2, $13.50 and SI 5 Stilts and a few that wct high-, er, are now .............. 15. 1J50, $18 and - a, few $20 Suits, now. 1 . . . LOT C -sOyrrr. $.16,450 LOTD 1S).50 TOP COATS RegrJarly $1S to $25. NOW . 1227-1229 MAIN Stratfield Hotel Building ; LORDS TRY IN VAIN TO BLOCK HOME RULE BILL London, July 10. When the heme role bill comes up for the second time In the House of Lords on July 14 the Marqute of Landsdowne, . lnsteod- of asking the House to reject it, -will move that "the House declines further to consider the hill until it has been '- submitted to the country," . The adoption of this motion will not. however, take the bill out of the scope . at the Parliament act which' provides that if the bill is not passed by the Lords It te to be regarded as having been rejected and will therefore be ! come a law automatically when it has been adopted three -times -by the House of Commons. : Litchfield County XTewa Death by Drowning. The body of the man who found Friday morning in three feet of water at the brook near Newell's mill in Thomaston, has been Identified as Joseph Cottdta. Cotton was about ; 45 years old. He had been work ins as a farm hand. Bequests by Will. - - The will of the late Mary H. Hunt ha been filed for probate in New Mil. ford. Among the' bequests are: $1, 000 to. St. John's church. New Milford; 11.000 to St. Andrew's, Marbledale, and 1100 to Rev. J. F. Plumb. The residuary legatees are J. H. Morehouse and sister, Mrs. Sylvester ScoviDe. A rough appraisal of the' estate, to $7,- 00. Pastor Will Stay. -The resignation of3 Rev. Stephen Heaoock, as pastor of the Advent Christian Church of New Milford, which was tendered two months ago. was not accepted, and the urgent request of his parishioners. Mr. Hea cock has withdrawn it. Losses by. Fire. ' Fire of unknown origin was discov ered about 2 a. m. -Monday in a barn belonging to Antonio Billino on the West "Norfolk road. The flames set 4Sre to a small yhouse adjoining and ventoally -to the large redouble house, one-half ' of which was occupied by Billino and family. All the buildings were owned by Billino and the loss is totfri. . Insurance on the barn was $250. on the small dwelling $80, on the double house $2,000 and $800 pn the furniture. Found In Shepaug River. The body of Rev. A. J. Steenwall, a Swedish Lutheran clergyman, - was found in the Sheepaug ' ' river, near -Washington, this state, on Sunday. Mr. Steenwall had been preaching to the Swedish Lutheran - congregation In Washington for some time. Great Jnly Clearance Sale t 5 a Dillon & Co., 1105 Main street in untrimmed hats, trimmed dress hats, flowers, trimmings, etc. Sun rises tomorrow ......... 4;29 a. m. Sun sets today 7:27 P. m. High water , 4:14 p. ra. Moon sets 1139 p. m, Low water . 11:04 p. m. TTTE PRjarTTTEST FACTE nfl the most beautiful bands are ot ten disfigured by an unsightly wart. It can easily be removed in a fw daya without pain by trt Cyrus' Wart Remover, for sale only at The Cyrus Pharmacy, 23 air Bel a aveniM and 1S6 Cannon Bt- CXESireAST. TFtE BOAS'. BEST. HATB OnsFanta not to Injure the skta Castantly removes- Stove Polish. Rust. Grease. Ink. Faint and Dirt. - For the hand or dothiDC Large Can la Mats, Manufactured by Wm. R. Winn. 3 etxatford Ave. SCALP SPFCTALIST , Special Treatment for .-Oily Hair Manicuring HARRIET K. SHERWOOD, 412 Security Building. Kilt Main Si. Phone 1373. 3 27 tt "H '"11 a d!l mL STREET FIVE SOLDIERS BURHEO TO DEATH III FOREST BLAZE San Francisco, July 10 rFTve soldiers were burned to death and a half doz en llttie hamlets and towns at the foot of Mount Tamalpais await their salvation or destruction today while the fire which has swept the mountain for three ." days is reaching towards the plains and vineyards to the north and the Mulr woods national , park on the south. Every available soldier from the San Francisco Presldo and -. Fort Winnela Scott on this side: of the bay and Forts Baker, and Barry across tne Golden Oate is fighting the fire-side by side with civilians, and sailors from United States war , vessels. Probably 6,000 men are on the fire lines. . seeking to beat back or wear down a blaze which broke out with increasing fury , late yesterday, and extended early this morning over a ten mile sweep. , 1 Captain ; Charles P. Plunkett, com manding the Cruiser South Dakota, reached the camp of his men from the Mill "Valley station, the upper border of the fire in Cascade Canyon, early today, took a look at the fire and marched; them back again. Captain 'It would take all the people in Cal ifornia to put out-that fire, i Let it burn out, I have expert gun pointers among my men, worth" $25,000 apiece to' the government. I am not. going to risk their lives." - HOPE ABANDONED OF RECOVERING WARSHIP PLANS Washington. July 10. -Officials of the . Navy Department virtually " have abandoned hope of . recovering .the electric wiring plans of the dread nought -Pennsylvania, which were stol en from the Navy Department last March. - Secret' agents of the-govern ment have run down clue after clue wtthouAvaiK Stecretary Daniels now lsrt5th opinion- thiat-. the" plans never will "be recovered , nor the culprit brought' to Justice. The strange disappearance of the plans caused a' sensations in naval cir cles. The loss was not made known officially for . nearly a month, .-when Mr. Daniels Issued a formal statement and- declared that the matter had been placed In the hands of the depart ment of justice. There was much speculation as to the t identity of the person who took the 'plans and his reason for so doing.' It has been intimated that an agent for some foreign naval power made off -with the drawings. , . Amother theory is that some visitor passing through the navy department during the hours that it Is open - to the pubMc took them and when a hue and cry was raised feared to-re-tnrn them. , BEWARE OF MAN WITH FRAUDULENT MONEY ORDERS Postmaster W.H. Marigold has been warned to be on the lookout for stolen money . orders, a number of : which have :- been cashed in Buffalo ,botel3. The orders numbered, from 853-''to 1,000 were stolen from Gaylord, Va., and were cashed in Buffalo on July 5th. The man cashing them Is de scribed as: Height, 5 feet, 10 inches; age, 35 or 40; reddish hair; sandy mustache; weight about 1 6 0; several gold teeth. Wore brown suits, panama hat and white vest. Speaks with southern dialect. With a steam cooker an entire meal can be cooked over one burner of the gas range. B Suit Sale Starts June 10 T BUT LTFORD BROS. -i TR"J Y East Side or West End X PLEW'S FIENDISH MURDER PLANS ARE DISCLOSED Coroner Mix Details Gruesome Schemes of Faithless Wife and Paramour Holds Widow of Slain Man As Accessory to Homicide in Report of Inquest New Haven, Conn.. July 10 James Plew of Mttddlebury and Mrs. Bessie J. Wakefield of Bristol, are held crim inally responsible by Coroner Eli Mix for the death of William O. Wakefield, tne woman's husband, in his finding in the case filed today. The coroner finds the death wounds were inflicted by Plew and that Mrs. Wakefield was an accessory to the commission of the crime. Wakefield's body was found in a strip of woods in Cheshire on June 28. He had been shot and stabbed and strangled to ' death, the coroner says. Plew and Mrs. Wakefield were arrested subsequently, the woman having con fessed to the Bristol police and to the coroner that she had plotted with Plew to get Wakefield out of the way, so that they might live together. The finding tells of the, finding of the body of Wakefield, who was about 40 years old, in the woods of Cheshire, the -investigation which . followed , and continues: . "Deceased at -the time of his death resided with his wife and children at Bristol, Conn. About - two years ago iris wife formed the ajoquaintance of one James Plew of Middlebury, Conn., becaxne intimate with him-, and be cause of this intimacy the. wife and her husband did not live happily and! Plew and Mrs. Wakefield resolved to get rid of htm. For about six months past they plotted. and planned to acoom plish this, one plan beings to push" him Into Lake Com pounce, another to put a rope about his neck and hang him to a beam In a shed adjoining his home, thinking in either case, when found, it would be thought he had committed suicide. Finally It was agreed between them that Sunday night, June 23, 113 toe was to be mur dered and gotten rid of and that, there after, all .going well, Plew and the de ceased's wife could live together. 'In anticipation of this, on Satur day, June 21, 1013, Plew purchased a bottle-of chloroform in Waterbury and a 23 calibre, seven chamber revolver and a box of cartridges. The following morning,- Sunday June 22, 1913, going to the Wakefield home, he had a con versation with Mrs. Wakefield and it was then arranged she was to leave the door . leading to their ' aipartemients open; that her husband and herself should he in bed; that the bed room should be lighted and that Plew should come there and make away with her nusnana. . , In pursuance of this, agreement ten o'clock p. m... . Plew entered the bed room, having inr ims pocket a handker chief saturated with chloroform and the revolver purchased at Waterbury. Finding Wakefield undressed and up on the bed, he accused him of talking about him and of trying to Injure his. Plow's child, who was being cared for at the Wakefield home, and then with hie hands he endeavored to strangle him, pressing the saturated chloro formed ! handkerchife to his mouth and noaa, As they struggled upon the bed Plew requested Mrs. Wakefield who was in the room to get him string to tie about her husband's neck Being unable to chloroform Wakefield and apparently being afraid to dis charge his revolver for the reason that the report might be heard by tenants upon the f loor above, Plew -allowed Wakefield to get up from the bed and led htm to believe his anger had -sub sided, and that he desired to be friend ly with him. .'- - "Some time thereafter, about eleven p. m., Plew requested Wakefield to take a walk with him, during which they would talk over past differences. He also stated he desired him to meet a man who had an automobile, giving a fictitious name of a person he de; sired him to meet Wakefield con senting, they left the house and walk ing out of Bristol they talked over their dlsagreements,Plew in the mean time looking for an advantageous place where he could murder Wakei field and dispose of his body. "Arriving upon the highway leading from Milldale to Cheshire Junction and proceeding upon said highway, Plew saw a cart path leading into a piece of woods located in the town of Cheshire. . Informing Wakefield that he had been told that path was a short cut back to Bristol, they walked to gether for a distance down said path and to a place about 600 feet from the highway, whereupon Plew, having loaded his revolver with six tbuttets, d lscharged the same into Wakefield body. This not causing his death. Plew took from his pocket a jack knife and opening the large blade stabbed Wakefield in the left chest, This failing to kill Wakeffeld he then unlaced his shoes and tying the long shoe laces together fastened them tightly about the neck of Wakefield and tied him to. a tree stump, which was about two and one half feet from the ground. At this time it was about four a. m. the -morning of June 23, 1913. Plew waited about! the woods. going from time to ttme to Wakefield to ascertain if he were dead, and -at last observing he was lying prone up on his face concluded he was dead and returned to Milldale, where he took a trolley-car to Bristol and went at once to the Wakefield home, where he Informed, Mrs. Wakefield of what he had done and where her'husTSand was, cautioning her to say nothing about it, and stating that he did not think the body would be found for some time and that he believed if found, it would be unrecognlzacbsie, an mat tne authorities would think was a case of suicide. continuing the finding says that wnne at tne Wakefield home Plew and Mrs. Wakefield heard reports of Wfeke- neia oemg seen on the streets Bristol. Plew started for Middlebury witn ;MM. -wakemeld and the children. Flew stopping off at the Cheshire woods and going to the place where he had . left .Wakefield and finding the body still there. Subsequently he rejoined Mrs. Wakefield at Cheshire Junction' and they went on to Middle bury. v .At; Middlebury they gave out that -iWakefleld had left home and ad vanced the suicide theory. The discovery of the body is then described toegther with the blood etaln eJ inife. blood marked handker- chief and "two bunches of hair from the head of Wakefield." i The finding concludes: "An autopsy performed upon the boay ot aeceased disclosed death was due to hemorrhage caused by said bul let wounds and said stab wounds and from strangulation. "On July 1, 1913, Plew was appre hended by the authorities and Mrs. Wakefield also was taken into custody. "I find that William O. Wakefield's death was due to hemorrhage produc ed by pistol shot wounds, and a stab wound, and by strangulation, all be ing caused by James Plew: and that said James flew is criminally respon sible for his said death. "I also find that Bessie. J. Wakefield. the wife of said William O. Wakefield was an accessory m the commission of said crime; and that said Bessie J. Wakefield is also criminally respon sible for the death of said William O. Wakefield." (utscher and Kolzer Go On Park Board Philip L. - Holzer was named to auc ceed De Ver H. Warner, who resign ed from the Board of Park Commis sioners and Louis Kutscher, Jr., was named on the same board to succeed Frederick Sailer, deceased, at an ad journed meeting last night at which Mayor Wilson presided. Mr. Holzer's term is until 191 and Mr. Kutscher's until 1921. The election of both was unanimous and their names will be presented to the Common Council for confirmation at the next meeting on August 2. Mr. Kutscher Is a Democrat and native of New York but has lived In Bridgeport most of his life. He was educated in he public schools of this city. He is president of the American Bank & Trust Company and of the Home Brewing Company, formerly the Hartmann Brewing Company. He is vice-president of the Algonojuin club and a lieutenant in the Second Com pany of Governor's Foot Guards. He is a 32nd degree Mason, member of the Pyramid temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In 1895 he rep resented the old 5th ward in the Com mon Council. - . Mr. . Holzer is a Republican. In 189 he represented the 5th district in the board of aldermen and In ls7 was elected ' president of that body. In 1898 he was appointed a fire com missioner and In 1899 was elected pres ident of the -board. In 1906 he ; was chosen senator from the 21st , district. He is a past president of the Republi can club and for a number of years was a member of the Republican town committee from the 5th district. Mr. Holzer is a native of Bridge port and received ' his education in this city. After leaving a private school he. went with the firm- of.;J, and G. A. Staples in the insurance busi ness. Later he entered the Connec ticut National bank. After 12 years he resigned his position in the hank to become a member of the firm of the James- .Staples Company, bankers and insurance brokers. Mr. Holzer is a director and treas urer of the Masonic Temple associa tion, a director of the Mountain Grove Cemetery association', and a director of the Holzer-Cabot Electric Company of Brookllne, Mass. He is a member of the-Brooklawn,- Algonquin and Sea side clubs, past president of the State Association of Fire Insurance Under writers, a past commander of .Hamil ton Commandery, Knights Templar anda past potentate of Pyramid Tem ple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Untimely Demise Of Harry E. Beers Taken seriously 111 about a week ago with tubercular meningitis Harry E, Beers of Long Hill failed to rally from the attack of the disease and died at the Bridgeport hospital at 10 o'clock last night. The young man had been In failing health for some months and gave up his position at the Challenge Cutlery company's plant last January In an effort to recover from his ill ness. He was not taken ' dangerously ill until last Friday morning when he had to be, removed to the hospital Dr. W. Arthur . LaField and Dr. C. N. Haskell, assisted by the house physl clans, did all In their power to save the young man's life but their efforts were in vain, and ne passea away following a sinking spell last night Harry E. Beers was 21 years of age and although born in Roanoke, Va., spent the greater portion of his life in Long Hill and Bridgeport. He at tended the Bridgeport High school and was elected to the Alphjt Delta Sigma fraternity. On leaving school he ac cepted a position with the Challenge Cutlery company and adbanced rapid ly until he was forced to resign on account of bis failing health. Mr. Beers was well known among the younger people of BTdlgeport and was universally esteemed for his quiet but jovial disposition". He made many friends who will feel his loss with a genuine and sincere pang or sorrow. His death seems the more sad on account of his early years. With ev ery promise of a bright future before him he was cut off from friends and relatives who loved and respected him and who will deeply mourn his un timely demise He is survived by three brothers. Clarence P. Beers, city editor of the Sunday Post; Qdffors W. Beers of New York city,- and Le Grand G. Beers of the Locomobile company. OBITUARY Following an attack of intestinal trouble, Benjamin Naylor, father of E. J. Naylor, manager of the -F. W. Wool worth five and ten cent, store in this city, died last evening at the Bridgeport hospital at the age of 80 years.1 Mr. Naylor was taken to the hospital Tuesday but failed to respond to medical treatment. He was well known in Windsor Locks, where he resided for some time, and also In this city. Ellison Auto Fire & Repair Co.' 371 Fairfield Ave. If you are looking for the best buy in a motorcycle, step in and inspect the new models of the Pope a motor cycle that has proven under all con ditions of service by thousands of own ers its principles of construction are absolutely correct. The most satisfactory tire repair work at most reasonable prices Is done by us. Tire expense is a very im portant item therefore it is well to keep this in mind when your tires are in need of repairs. Retreading, sectional and tube work a speciality, A call will convince yo ' Until a short time ago, scarcely one person in a thousand had ever tasted a really good soda cracker as it came fresh and crisp ; from the oven. How everybody can know and enjoy the crisp goodness of fresh baked soda crackers with out going to the baker's oven. TTneeda Biscuit bring the bak ery to you. A food to live on. Stamina for work ers. Strength for the delicate. Give them to the little folks. Five cents. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY SENATOR REED AIDS CUPID 111 SWIFT WEDDING Washington, July 10. Colleagues of Senator Reed of Missouri are twitting him today over the record he has es tablished as an aid to cupid, for it just became known . that the senator fig ured in that capacity in an eleventh hour romance. The beneficiaries of his aictlvity left today for Atlantic City to begin their honeymoon. Senator Bee d Was in his office late in the afternoon when he received a telephone message from Miss Candace B. Kern of Kansas City, a long time friend of his and Mrs. Reed, who an nounced that she desired to be mar ried at once to w. L. MacDonald, a retired Chicago capitalist. The pair desired to have the ceremony per formed at once so that they might leave for the seashore immediately, but they discovered that the marriage license bureau was closed. Senator Reed immediately hunted up a mar riage license, clerk, carried, him off to the city hall for the document, pro' vided for the attendance, of a clergy man and telephoned to Mrs. Heed that there was to be a wedding in the Reed home, i This program took time and when it was completed the bridal pair found they 1 had .missed their, train. There fore they remained until today as guests of the. Senator and Mrs. Reed. NEWTOWN Newtown, July 10. Mrs. 'Jerry Lynch and son, Harold, returned to their home in Bridgeport! alter a ten! days visit with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Corbett of Queen street, ' Mr. George Lund grin of Cemetery avenue has been confined to his home for several days with a severe attack of rheumatism. . Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Brinton autoed to New Milford Wednesday on a busi ness trip. Miss Adeline Hurd accom panied them and will remain for a visit with her aunt, Mrs. Whitney. Miss Mary O'Dea spent Tuesday In Danbury, visiting friends there. Mrs. Nelle . Tucker of the Sandy Hook post office force- spent Wednes dayn Bridgeport. Boulevard Notes. At the, pleasant home of Miss Peck recent guests were:- Drs. Smith and Paterson of Bridgeport; Mr. George Penant of - Waterbury. Vacation guests are: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pat erson, Miss Jane Smith of Bridgeport, and Misses Mary and Nan Penant of Waterbury. At Mrs. Nolan's is Miss Cecelia Allen of . Bridgeport for an in definite stay. .. , ',. '' W. A. Canfleld took . a new fashion ed" joy ride Wednesday in quest of a valuable cow which strayed from the pasture lot after milking ime the night before, ,. Inquiries by telephone in all directions failed to. reveal the whereabouts of the animal who took a walk on quiet roads as yet undis turbed by wires of any kind and en joyed her freedom until Blrdsey Glov "5 'i , , , : We asked the young lady across the way if she was alarmed over the feminization of the schools and she said not at all and in fact she didn't see why the girls didn't need to be educated jugt as much as the boys. er captured her near his farm :n North Newtown to await an Inquirer or possible advertisement. Master John Mahoney noticed the strange beast late Tuesday and gave first in formation of the direction taken by bossy. Mr. and Mrs. Canfleld are grateful for its recovery in safety. The small house on the farm of Edward S. Lovell on Queen street is being remodeled and enlarged and is now taking on the appearance of pretty bungalow. . When completed Mr. and Mrs. W. Carter will occupy it, and remain here permanently, hav ing already moved their household effects from West Stock bridge, Mass, their former home. Richard 'Sheppard of Dodgingtown died at his home about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. . Mr. Sheppard suffered a shock some time ago but recovered . somewhat until he was stricken again Sunday, death result ing. The funeral will be held Satur day from his home. ' South Center District. Visitors from Bridgeport are Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Greenman at the home of their son, H. M. Greenman; James Peck at Mr. and Mrs. John ,R. Peck's Miss May Rogers of New Haven , at Mr. and. Mrs. Herbert Wright's. Miss Sadie Clark of Bridgeport and JfJss May' Sullivan of -Stratford, are visiting their aunt. Miss Clark at Mr, Oscar Pitzschler's, on Sugar street. Martin A. Corbett of the firm of Corbect & Crowe of Sandy Hook made a business trip to Bridgeport Wednes day. ; - ' v The Board of Education met Mon day evening, ,and after each member reported his findings in. the recent examinations for . entrance to . High School,, disclosed . the fact "that four teen out of, fifty passed uncondition ally. A number have second chance failing only in one or two studies. They will be given opportunity to prove themselves capable at a later date, probably Saturday, July 28. OVER BILLION STAMPS COUNTED Washington, . July 10. -Post office inspectors have just completed .count ing more than one billion postage stamps in the bureau of engraving and printing., In exact figures the number that pahed under the hands of the busy officers was 1,323,198,508. The stamps have, a face value of $30,642, 121.73 and they constitute the reserve supply ordered some time ago by Post, master General Burleson. The inspectors descended, on the bureau without warning with the in tentjpn of testing thoroughly the checking 1 system employed between the department and the bureau. At the expiration of eight days' work the officers discovered that the count tal lied exactly with .the department's record.' '-i .''. " ' Foulard." frocks for young 'girls are being made with two-tiered skirts. Challis makes admirable dresses for children to wear on cool summer days. Cutaway effects are promised again for fall coats, but may be longer. WOMAIl SVIIlDLBi BAITS UIIDERTAKEffS i Asks Loan sPendtaAid jnstment' of Insurance on fFather, Whose End Is ' - Near . been visited, wJthdni :Khm pnst fewkrty' by a woman who is attempting a r.U-v- er swindling-game. The-game whloh. is oalcu!erted ' to catch, the most wary bu sir.ee s mil, t3iu far- ?hm-yielded the woman but little return however.. The woman's scheme Is to cail on jr- " undertaker and represent that tw father Is dying In AlteSiy - or son- - other distant point, he makes , e4 tensive inquiries concerning the cost of having the body (prepared, for btrrlal and sent to Bridgeport and the proDr able cost of a funeral here. To bait, the undertaker, on, : she also, represents that ehe has an insurance policy on ! her father for an amfflir b-abmxt enouirh ' to cover the- cost of the, funeral. ' The woman is not partkyjlarly good looking and her dress and manner are anything but that of a woman in af fluent circumstances. All this of course is caluculated to aid her in her, plan 1 to swindle the undertaker. After having told her story the -woman represents that she Is entirely-without funds and asks for a small loan, $10 or $15, to pay for telegrams and other lKtle things which she explains will be necessary until ehe can col lect her Insurance. The woman has called on several of , the prominent undertakers httt It Is not believed that she has been successful in obtaining an advance .from any of them. One undertaker on whom she called yesterday questioned her at length. She told him she had a eon and gave the name of her son as the same as that of her father. ,"How is it," - asked the andertaker, "that your father and your son have the same name?" "Oh, , you see," glibly answered the woman, "i married a man who had the same name as my own, and thn we named our son 'efter my "father." "Well madam," said the undertaker, . "X will be glad to be of any service to you that I can In a business way,; but, I cannot see my way clear "tO) make yom any advance, so don't" wki for it." ' , The woman -however osASr she . would 1 not think of employing an undertaker; who wouldn't trust her wfeth a few 5rA- tars and left the p4ace apparently very j indignant that her veracity should be! questioned. - Since then she has called m a rrcm- f her of other undertakers but she has ' yet to find anyone wining to advance', the sum she asked for, on the strength j of her story. 1 " ESTON The regular meeting of Easton ' grange, No. 149, was held at the grange : hall at the centre on Tuesday evening. 1 As it was "Patriotic Night" the Messrs. William Loper, WIHard S. Gillette. Ar thur Et Wheeler and Arthur tates had charge of the program which vms as follows: . A piano solo by M rs. 1. Arthur Sherwood; remarks by Mr. J. HL Blakeman of Stratford, "My t'.x periences When I Was a Union Fol- dler at Gettysburg; a vocal solo- by j Mrs. Clarence B. Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hawkins and eon, Mr. Albert E, Hakwins, In com- , pany with Mr. K. F. Lackman, motir- ed to Lake" Mahopae, N. Y., where they were the guests ofMr. and Mrs. Clark . Long. The CMisses McVey end Carney of New Tork are visiting for a few days , at the home of their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Gordon of Sport Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wakeman of Jump Htn have' been entertaining at their home Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kit-er and daughter. Miss Evelyn King 'ot Lee, Mass. Miss . Ruth Wakeman has retwmd ' to her home at Jump Hill from a visit of a few days as guest of Miss Bthel Laeey of New Rochelle. Mrs. .Edward. Banks who has bscn an invalid' for sometime at the bomi of her daughter, Mrs. William Hall nn Sport Hill was taken to ailddletown . sanatorium for treatment on Wednes day by Selectman J. Arthur Sherwoo l in his automobile. Miss Esther Wakeman is spend Its -a few days 'in Lee and SpringfH-Id. Mass. John Tyler of South Norwalk 5i . spending a few days as guest of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Tyler. Misses Lillian F. Andrews and Kv elvn Gilbert spent Tuesday in Brid re port and were entertained ovor Tuck- dav night at tne nome vi .vi. . b .-i i Mrs. Dwlght Sharpe of John St. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ferry are m tertalnlng friends from out of town at their home for a few days. Mr. and -Mrs. William Loper wri guests, over the week end of relatives in Port Jefferson, L. I. Miss Ella Holley of Stratford spending a few days as guest of ?T-. and Mrs. George Gregory on Fport Hill. ' Mrs. Betay Sherwood has been en tertaining for a few days at her home her sister, -Mrs. Sarah Duitcomb. Mr.; William Manson of . Bri'Jireport, spent the holiday and week end wif'i his family who are spending several days at the ' home of Mr. and Mn. James Tyler. Royal Blrgess of Bridgeport hn been spending a few days at the h-.-ri of the Marsh brothers on Sport TT : 1 ' . WfHlam Cooke of Shelton. a fi? mer teacher at the academy, hajg Vi spending a few days as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie H. Wheeler near tti-s Center. Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker Sherwo,-1. have been entertaining at their horn? on Sport Mill, Mrs. Frances S. Fm!;'n of Bridgeport. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Beers and tw o children Misses Helen . Beers an-1 Eleanor Beers of Providence, R. I. a: spending a few weeks with Mr. an i Mrs. George Beers of Sport Hill. Joseph Garnett of New Haven wt a guest on Monday at Maple Rta Dalry Farm. Where it fw impossible to get. i", food can be kept cool by placing i- in a large crock and setting the crock in a basin of water. THE COURTIAND SCHOOL, Inc. 431 WASHINGTON AVrrSTTE Before deciding on a school for yo'ir daughter, examine carefully tht Courtland School booklet for 1913-14. to be found at all book stores. Tki principal will be glad to corrcspoti'l; with parents who may desire fur- -r lofcirmJ" Hon- PI 8 i