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THE WEATHER. CIRCULATION STATEMENT Fair and continued cool tonight; Average dally drcnlatloii of THE Saturday fair with slowly rising tem EVENING HERALD for Q Q ^ Q perature; diminishing...north winds. ■ 'S«^ montli of March was h - lifralii ' STy ■Mt ^ ' Try the Herald’s For Sale Colnmn. Established as a Weekly 1881. The cost Is 10 cents for 20 words PRICE TWO CENTS Established as a Semi-Weekly 1883. MANCHESTER, CONN., W D A T , APRIL 5, 1918. or less. VOL x x x v n . NO 159 Established as a Daily 1914. m m is MAKE SIKHT GAINS r a Fi TMDSANDS TO AIDED OF COUIHHIS S in iB E F i $S00,000’ WORIN OF IR D $200,000 In POSTAL TEIEORAPR CO. BRITISH YIELD TO AHACKS O f GERMANS; FOES $500,000 IN BONDS SUBSCRIBED FOR Bonds Stolen UNDER INVESnOATION
------ri BY N A I N A I K N W S OF C O H S New York, April 3.— More than GET NEARER TO AMIENS AFTER HARD nGHTING $200,000 worth of Liberty Bonds, Forty-Three Concerns, In------« have been stolen in the last few w'eeks in th e. financial district, Enemy Also Manage to Dent French Line— Penetrate Two Villages, But Lose Heavily "B oy and Keep LiberFy Bonds” PRIVATE E .G .M E R S 0 N mostly from careless errand boys, clnding One of Connecticut according to the police. in Attack— Artillery in Violent Duel Between Montdidier and Lassigny en Roi|te to Slogan of Third Drive, DIES OF WAR WOUNDS It is reported that two arrests Probed have been made following the lat Objective of Germans, Amiens— New Assault Near Albert Expected H Which Begins Tom orrow - est theft in which $15,000 worth 1* of bonds, being delivered to Alex PUBLIC OWNERSHIP Loan Workers All Ready to Local Soldier Boy Makes the andre and Burnet, a Wall Street London, April 5.— Violent fight been moved to the front. intrepid courage resisted the shock k firm. Pi-etending to be a member of the atttacking masses, which were I/.' ing raged throughout Thursday The Germans paid heavily for the of the firm, a man claimed the Suspected New Move is Preliminary small amount of ground gained. mowed down by our artillery fire. h Supreme Sacrifice in Start Four Weeks’ Race bonds from the messenger, then to That— AVestern Union Compan afternoon and until a late hour last Despite their efforts, ten times re \ i The massed field gray columns France disappeared. ies Under Examination Already night between the Somme river and were mowed down in heaps by the peated, the Germans succeeded at the Two Years. the Luce Rivulet, the war office re- British and French artillery and the cost of heavy sacrifices in gaining a Washington, April 5.— “ Buy and \ ported today. muddy field of battle over which the few hundred metres of terrain and keep Liberty Bonds.’’ Washington— The first step in occupying the villages of Mallly- To encourage purchasers to re The Germans employed strong men struggled was littered with dead A$K$ MNEtTIClIT taking over the telegraph and cable Ralneval and Morisel. We hold the tain their bonds. Instead of disposing BOUND TO SERVE IN ARMY and wounded. companies of the United States was forces in the renewal of their as neighboring heights.’’ of them, this slogan has been adopt Field Marshal Haig, the British foreshadowed today, it is believed, saults in the mighty Picardy battle commander-ln-chlef, described the ed for the third Liberty loan cam Huge Numbers Used. FOR 030 MORE MEN when the Interstate Commerce Com and pressed home their attacks with renewal of the German attacks In his paign, it was announced today, as Tried Again and Again to Enlist (The Germans must have employ mission formally ordered a sweeping determination. final plans for the drive beginning and Finally Was Successful— 22 official reports last night as follows: ed at least 132,000 troops against investigation into 43 companies. All of the assaults were brilliant tomorrow were completed. Years Old. FOR SPECIAL SERVICE Haig's Report. the French alone as a German divi Net and gross earnings of any of ly repulsed except at one point. Treasury officials warned that the “ The enemy launched a heavy at sion is now estimated to contain - the corporations and the expenditure In the sector of Vlllers-Bretenneux war burden of the country would be Private Ernest G. Anderson of tack Thursday morning on the whole 12',000 bayonets.) of all moneys and the purposes for the British were pressed back a made heavier if those who buy bonds Company M, 102nd. U. S. Infantry, front between the Somme and Avre The Germans made a desperate which they were expended, and any, short distance. They hold the vil sell them immediately and thus de has made the supreme sacrifice. A 50 Photographers and 480 rivers. It was preceded by a vio effort to fight their way into Grlves- other transactions which may give lage. crease their market value. telegram received from Washington lent bombardment. On our right nes, but were Uirown back by the any intimation as to the present (Vlllers-Bretenneux . lies about K. of C. $500,000. late yesterday afternoon by his par Selective Mechanics Want and center the German Infantry were brilliant resistance of the French de- ( value of their property, its cost and nine miles due east of Amiens, the Secretary McAdoo was notified to ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson of repulsed, but on our left the assault fenders. the history of corporations and the British base, which is the immediate day by D. J. Callahan, supreme 97 Pleasant street, stated that he succeeded in pressing back our troops It was significant that the German m ed by Washington acquisition of proparty....POW own.ee objective of the Germans.) treasurer, that the supreme board died March 20 from wounds received for a short distance In the neighbor war office was modest in its claims. * ■I' -.i will be thoroughly North of the Somme the German of directors of the Knights of Col- in action. hood of Hamel. The official report issued In JBqrUn cording to the i in the hB$ voted to subscribe |600,- Thq Telegram. MEN TO BE TRAINED ting In this area Is con- l.iBt night said: ' the third loan This is the The telegram read as folio ‘ OurT J;he continuation of.-.,WL iptlon by any organiza- “ Deeply regret tq inform ceBBes have been won." ' drted. - * is heavy ten and dais of scores of towns have nest G. Anderson, Infantry eleven miles due east of Amiens.) The zone in which the battle storm documents, and other papers «e the afternoon and evening until a late written to Secretary McAdoo to say 480 Men of This State to Go to Parker South of the Hamel sector, where has broker, out afresh lies at the March twentieth from wounds re commission may deem necessary. hour,’’ the official statement said. . they have made as their goal the rec Memorial School and Wentworth the Germans had been heavily shell apex of the German salient. ceived in action.’’ It was signed, Meanwhile the Investigation will be “ Repeated assaults were delivered ord established by Glen Ridge in the McCain, The Adjutant General. Institute, Boston. ing the French positions, the infan Forces Rearranged. carried on by such other means and and the enemy employed strong second campaign. Glen Ridge, with No Details Given. try operations were renewed on a big During the lull In the battle both methods as may be held appropriate forces. All the attacks were re a population of only four thousand, No further details were given, but scale and when the Thursday night sides realigned their forces. The Washington, April 5.— A call for by the commission. pulsed, but the British were press had 1,788 individual purchasers. Its It is thought probable that young report of the French war office was Germans had many shattered divi 400 experienced photographers, who Companies Concerned. ed back a short distance to positions qudta was 8162,000 and the amount Anderson was wounded on March 17, issued It was continuing with un sions to reform and the Allies took will be recruited from among select The Investigation covers the Com east of Vlllers-Bretenneux which of bonds taken, 8800,000. Last min when the Germans raided the Ameri abated violence. occasion to move their reserves closer ive service men In 15 states, was is mercial Cable Company of New York, they held. ute reports from every section of the can sector at Toul. He is the sec Action Violent. to the menaced positions and to sued today by Provost Marshal Gen Postal 1 elegraph-Cable Company, “ North of the Somme river the fc. union proved that in every state the ond Manchester boy to die from The French communique charac strengthen their defensive works. eral Crowder. They will qualify for New York; Commercial-Cable Com German artillery was active during loan workers are on their toes for wounds in France, Sergeant Rdbert terized the action as one of extreme The bad weather which prevailed limited or general military service pany, Massachusetts; Commercial- the night In the districts of Bucquoy the official start of the campaign to G. Glenney, who was with a British violence. It Is In this region that during the period of quietude con and will be assigned to the photo Pacific Cable Company, New York; and the Scarpe river.’’ morrow morning at nine o’clock. regiment, the first having died from the British and French armies Join, tinues and the fighting on Thursday graphic section, air division, signal Commercial-Cable Company, Cuba; (Bucquoy Is ten miles north of These reports showed also that in all wounds last September. and the renewal of the German pres took place under low hanging storm corps at Madison Barracks, Sack- Postal Telegraph-Cable Companies Albert.) probability the first and Second Lib A Plucky Lad. sure confirms the predictions of mili clouds and amid fitful bursts of rain. ett’s Habor, New York. The men of Connecticut; New York, New Jer British and French Yield. erty I^oan drives will bo far out Private Anderson was a plucky tary experts as to the objectives of The aviators were active on both will be mobilized April 15,. sey, Pennsylvannla and Rhode Isl London, April 5.— Heavy German stripped In vigor and scope by the lad and no doubt was In the thick the German high command. sides, despite the mist, and at times E l Other Draftees. and, and the New England Telegraph assaults along a 16 mile front, be third. of the fighting. He tried to enlist 1— The breaking of the Junctionthere were thrilling battles high In At the same time General Crowder Company, Massachusetts. tween the Somme and Avre rivers, several times before he was finally broke the stagnation thatJ^d lasted between the two armies. the sky above the struggling armies. called on draft boards In six states The companies named in the order accepted. When Company G was for several days In the great world 2— The cutting of the Paris-Am- A number of American flyers are to furnish 2,825 white selective ser form the Postal-Telegraph Group. called to the Mexican border, his battle In Picardy. lens-Calals railway. on this front and are taking part In WOULD EQUALIZE R. R. vice men to receive a two months’ The Western Union group has been brother, now Corporal Albin Ander Press advices received from the 3— The capture of Amiens itself.the aerial operations. training course at government ex under appraisement proceedings by son of Company G, enlisted and Er front today said that the fighting was “ From Grivesnes as far north as Both Premier Lloyd George and ■ RATES ON PETROLEUM pense, fitting them to serve In army the commission for the past two and nest tried to get in too. But he continuing with violence. the road between Amiens and Roye Premier Clemenceau have visited the positions requiring knowledge of au one half years, and the fact that the Both the British and French were the Germans attacked with enormous front and both were deeply Impress was rejected on account of not be- tomobile driving and repairing, procedure has been along practical compelled to give some ground in forces, showing a firm determina ed by the courage and calm confi Investigation Bogun by InterstaU* Ing of age. Last June, he register- blacksmithing, carpentry, gunsmlth- ly the same lines as that ordered to the district immediately east and tion to break through our front at dence of the Allied forces from the Commerce Commlssion— Products ■ ed on Registration Day, but after- ing, sheet metal works and other me day Is understood to be Nie reason southeast of Amiens, but the Ger any cost,’’ asid the French war of commanding generals down to the of Petroleum IncIudcMl— ituhw an
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Cotton. MARKET DtREGOLAR An easier tone prevailed at the opening of the cotton market today AND DULL TODAY as a result of rain in Texas overnight. There was rather free selling by some of the commission houses and CIRCLE Speculation Largely Absent Except by Liverpool, which caused opening in ^^>ecialties— Certain Standard declines of three to 13 points. By Shares Fall—Bonds Steady—Quo the end of the first 15 minutes the Tonight! tations. market was about 20 points net low er. Actors Are in Town Rehears Stock Quotations. New York, April 5.— There was ing For Tomorrow fUght’s Marguerite Reported for The Evening Herald pressure against the stock market by Richter & Co., 6 Central Row, The pride and at the opening today, causing de Hartford. 2.30 p. m. prices; Show comfort yoa will tak* tn clines ranging from fractions to At G & W I ...... 108 Clark Am B S u g a r ...... 74 them. about one point all through the list, Am Tel & Tel ...... 100 IN with the lower levels attributed to a Anaconda ...... 63 Vb PARADE STARTS 2 O’CLOCK renewed disposition to wait for fa Am Smelter ...... 761% Am Loco ...... 62 vorable news from the battle front. Am Car F o u n d ry ...... 79 FROM RECREATION CENTER .(! - There was some liquidation of specu A T & S F e ...... 83 lative lines taken on in the last few Balt & Ohio ...... 51 % B R T ...... 40 SEVEN days. Home Guard Companies of Surround Butte & Sup ...... 20 Most of the selling was by room Chile Copper ...... 15 ing Towns to -Vet as Guard of Hon We carry at all times a complete assortraent of these traders who were prominent buyers Col Fuel ...... 3 8 or to Manchester Soldiers. rugs in all sizes. They’re low priced and they’re unusual in the earlier trading yesterday. C & O ...... 56 Can Pac ...... 136 ly durable and good looking. They come in patterns SWANS Steel Common yielded % to 89% Gen Electric ...... 138 % suitable for every room in the house, and ape fast sup and most of the other industrials Kennecott ...... 30 Everything is in readiness for Lehigh Valley ...... 58 planting all other types of medium priced rugs now on Sunshine Comedy and showed fractional losses. Union Camp Devens Day in Manchester to Pacific was lower at 119 and Cen Mexican Pet ...... 93 the market. . “Hearst-Pathe” Mer M Pfd ...... 92'Vb morrow. tral Leather yielded % to 66%. Gen Mer M ...... 25 % This atternoon the Devens actors Come in today ahd let us tell you about them and show eral Motors opened % higher at 119 Miami Copper ...... 28 Second Lieutenant Geo. A. Fearn % who will give (he show at Cheney and then dropped to 118%. Nev Consol C o p p e r...... 18 you some of the very handsome patterns which we have. National Lead ...... 60 Hall tomorrow evening, arrived in The market was dull again soon ' % Tomorrow North Pacific ...... ! . . . . 84 ■ % town. They w-ere lodged at the Edge- from Blast Hartford, Glastonbury, after the opening, but a steadier tone N Y Cent ...... 69 % wood Inn and toii'ght and tomorrow Wethersfield and Manchester in line. developed and some issues made ral Penna ...... 4 4 Harry Morey in morning will rehearse and arrange The Boy Scouts will also march and lies to about one point from the low Repub I & S ...... 78 Reading ...... 81 the stage and decorations at Cheney the 301st Machine Gun Battalion HIS OWN PEOPLE level. There was a general absence Southern Pac ...... 8 2:% will occupy tbe position of honor in G. E. Keith Furniture Co., Inc. of speculative interests except in a St P a u l ...... 4 0 tha parade. 7/„ A Play of “Quid Ireland” couple of specialtie.s. Marine Pre Tex Oil ...... 143 Hung Out Your Flag. The Store That Is Known By The Customers It Keeps. ferred on quiet accumulation rallied Union Pac ...... 119 “Vengeance and the Wom U S Steel ...... 89 The committee in charge of the nearly one point to 92%. Atlantic an” — Vitagraph Comedy U S Steel P f d ...... 109 parade tomorrow asks every resident Gulf & West Indies was in supply Utah, Copper ...... 78 7 s on Main street and especially the Screen News. Chaplin at Westinghouse ...... 40 % selling down over one point to merchants in the south end, to hang the Matinee. Liberty Bonds 3VaS ...... 98. 8 2 PAINTING AND PAPERING 108%. American Telephone and Liberty Bond,s 4s 1 s t ...... 96. 3 4 out flags and decorate their places Telogr; ph yielded % to 99VL> and Liberty Bonds 4s 2 n d ...... 96. <> o Now Is a good time to have that for the parade. little Inside Job done, tbe one you SUNDAY EVENING tjeneral Motors, which opened at 121. Special Since there will be no work at the have been thinking about for We are inclined to believe that the VIVIAN MARTIN IN fell to 118%. There were fraction Cheney mills In the afternoon It Is wme time, 1 will do It RIGHT, Frankfurter Zeltung is given to Best Red Cedar Shingles “THE SUNSET TRAIL” al loi.ses in several of the copper expected that practically the entire slficks. P.onds were steady. boasting wlien it threatens a worse population of the town will be on the A. C. LEHMMAN. In Any Quantity Chaplin Special, Screen U-boat war. That is something Clearing house slatement: Ex streets to cheer Manchester's Own 20 Cooper 8t., ipbone 8R8-8 News. change.i, $0,13,839,271; balances, which it is hard to believe of Ger Quality Lumber and Company, $63,299,511. many.—Ex. MONDAY, TUESDAY Dunce untl Hhow. •Mason Materials GEO. WALSH After tho parade which will he frorii tho Recreation building In the ATTENTION south end to Depot Square and re G. H. Allen turn, tho Devens hoys will he allow Tobacco Growers After Easter Millinery Sale ed to go to their homes. Copy of socHoii No. 4 contained ir I'ii'culur inuiled to t4)hiicco growers OVER 6,600 RECRUITS In tho evening at 8 o'clock, there by tho Htuto ('oiiitcll of Defeiict*—• HEAVY TRUCKING will ho a minstrel show and dance a( ‘'Nothing in tho foregoing instruc. Long Distance Hauls a Speciklty FOR U. S. ARMY IN STATE Cheney hall, Tho Victor Orchestra llon<4 lni|»ONO uny lOKtrictionN whn'tMoi Captain 8(sth Hoy wood. will supply tho music. Tickets wl!' over upon tho making of sinull in* croaso In ncroiigo of stock or cut to* 1 Auto Trucks «nd FuU Equlpmeol he 35 cents and Manchoslor folks luu'co whoro tho inenmso of tiny givtm of Competent Men TMii I n Record for One Year— Hall. Tlicre were 20 men In (his are asked to buy tickets even If they grower does not oxctMul fivo acres, In RnIfNtmeiitN Nince Germuii Of group nnder lileutcnant H, D, Holt, don't go to tho show as tho entire Any grower who desires U > make a G. E. WILLIS Tomorrow morning, shortly heforij r(tcolpts go to tho Munchostor hoys' greuttu' litcrtMise In st-ock or cut to* fensive. Imcco should first apply to tho Conn* 104 Bast Center Street. Pboae OSt noon, the iiuiln body of tlio 301sl fund at Camp Devons. cil for its npin'ovnl." Machimi (Inn Batlllon will arrive a( Tho War Bureau commlttoo In That the Connect lent mnn-powet the railroad station. A local com charge wants evory loyal man, wo This is Your Opportunity tir . 1» steadily growing in fho regular mittee from the W ar ^ u reau will man and child In Manchester to show There is no yiinl ns well e<|ulppo
itet«r«d at the Poat Offlce at Man- topmost peak, so that merely English— the opposition of •heater aa Second Class Mall Matter, every somebody gets his rank from I Senators Chamberlain and Penrose N E P WINTER’S COAL ' * Wilhelm or an underling, Germany to the Smith bill, which would ve i l : n /I r® acquiring something like quire the federal commissioner of | ?***• ^ ^ ***^ ® “ *® I M H €r& ld rT in n n g CoDiP&llY sentiment. Independent of education to devise ways and means to Your Dealer at Once—Prices ® ^ * WnhAnTniiorrntomHohenzollernlsm. The move this I to end adult Illiteracy, Is hardly un- Fixed by Government il^lU Not Svsry ®7®“ ^i[olld^a | Public opinion grows, th e^ ore evl-1 derstandable. Need critics always Vary. dent becomes the fact to Prussian I criticise to show their superiority? By Mail Postpaid. 11‘uyalty and the Pan-Germanists, that Have you ordered your next win 1^00 a year, tl.bo for six months. victory and a heavy Indemnity are ter’s coal yet? If not you should do _i7 Carrier...... Ten cents a week, , . . . Single Copies...... Two cents | the only salvation for autocracy W ARE OF FOREST FIRES so at once If you wish to be sure of For the same feeling Is spreading m s n a tn i/« ® supply. It does not follow that you I abroad In the army, which Is begln- K WARNING SENT OUT I immediate delivery but you Bonth Manchester. |nlng to realize, as the correspondent will be pretty sure of obtaining for a prominent New York dally re- | , enough fuel to carry you through TBliBPHOIfBS marks, that they are the real "sav- State Fortatar toy . There 1, More „ext wlhter If you order now. The |^ch®0®^cJf®^Pei?U?K“ f..®.?:'6« Fatherland.” Deu^r This Veer Beceuee of Cn- Lyiee will he 8yed within the neyt (var Bureau, Ferris Block ...... 489 The standards of valuvalue of the U«1M y Dry Grata. | army have changed, after these four ^ I approved by the state fuel adminis- Special years or so In the field. Their art ord, April 6. Warning Ltator aa applying to Manchester, will homage to rank has been undermin against the danger , of serious losses g „ „ r n all retail dealers In this town, ed. They are as weary of the war by forest «res Is given by Stale For- The price will be no higher than that for as the folks back home, and their ester W O. Pllley In a statement U t present prevailing and may bo a one Idea Is that “ Things must be g ven out today. The statement fol- uttie lower. That being the case lows * I different at home after the war.” , ' I consumers will be safe In placing Tomorrow Conserve Food, Ice and Labor The rank vegetative growth of their orders now for delivery after Without heavy indemnities, things . This is to be a conservation year. Food must be wisely will be different, but disagreeably bas produced a great mass of K prn 15 as the price from that date /purchased and wisely cared for. More than ever the re-' different, unless the army takes | inflammable material In the fields and J jjQt change before the first of Saturday fngerator in your home must be depended upon to protect, This paper has enlisted things into Its own hands. woods throughout the state, and dry October, when It will probably be In- to save the food placed upon its shelves. Think seriously i the government in the For the civil population, of which weather of the past twenty days has creased. of this when you purchase your refrigerator and you will cause of America for the the army will be a part again after produced the Inevitable consequences | Lo^ai dealers have very little coal Horsi6 profit by your purchase for many years to come. ^enod o f the great conflict Is done, has become in the form of grass and brush fires. on hand now and are not receiving divided Into two parties, tjie well- “Just at this season, cleaning up just now there is an embargo fed and ill-fed. The poor have on the farms necessitates much I j^ew Haven road. They can Toddlers Bohn Sjrphon Refrigerators THE NEW LOAN DRIVE. been horribly exploited by the well- brush burning and In many cases In- however, fill orders for Immediate conserve food to the highest degree. The Syphon System The first federal reserve district Uo-do 'Junkers, who have profited by sufficient care Is exercised. Careless- ,pj^g embargo may be 99c produces a rapid circulation of dry air; the specially con Is expected to sell a quarter of a bll- | trade in food and other necessities. | uess with fire seems to be rampant, raised any day and then coal is ex Hon dollars’ worth of structed dram carries off odors along with the meltage; the bonds, and j ^ 0 think we have profiteers In and during the last ten days many pected to come in rapidly. $494,500 of that sum is Manchester s I America. A recent investigation serious fires have occured. one-piece porcelain lining with full rounded comers permits Any purchaser requiring one ton of mstpt, thorough cleansing; the Flaxlinum insulation allotment. The town Is expected, I ^ prominent munitions firm show- Be Careful This Month. or more will be obliged to go to the On Sale that Is, to take and dispose of one gj that its net profits for a year were maintains very low temperature, with minimum ice con- “ It will be from four to six weeks coal office and sign a statement as sumptiom five hundredth of the entire amount 1173 pgr cent, enough to boost its before the new vegetation is suffi-1 to his requirements. This is true We have many styles and sizes on our floor. ' assigned to the district, including stock to unheard of heights, clently far advanced to pet as a | ^j^gtuer his requirements are one at 2:30 most of Connecticut except Fairfield The Allies may not have to in It will be a pleasure to show them to you. I check to the spread of fires and ever ton or one hundred tons. Having couq^y, elude among their peace terms the though showers are frequent once stated his requirements in writ Just received that long Hartford s share is $8,171,000 out I gj^^ g( autocracy with Its taxation j throughout the month of April, a ing it will be unnecessary for him to looked for Victor Record Tomorrow is the Last Day of of the states total of $33,090,000; I without representation and other ty-| sreat deal of damage from fire is in make any further statements but he “Just a Baby’s Prayer New Haven, $5,924,000; New Brit- Lgjjjjjgg evitable unless every precaution is Our Manufacturer’s Piano Sale can order from time to time, or all at Twilight” , and “ On aln, $1,589,000; Waterbury, $3,- taken to prevent It. at once, up to the point of his total the road to Home Sweet a YORK PIANO value $375.00 112,500; New London/ $1,252,000; “ It seems to me that widespread lor $345.00. Judging by a picture of Dr. Hessel- requirements. If he wishes to order Home.” Telephone your and Norwich, $1,251,000. Thej^ I grave which has reached us, we publicity should be given to the ne- Chair and scarf, free delivery everywhere and tuning for his supply from two dealers, he must order. the only cities in Connecticut out- would pity the Boche who got with-1 cesslty for such care as a war one year. Let Mr. Nelson talk this over with you. file a statement of his requirements B boxel ^ Not only are,the Potential I aoove a mimon. militant pastor. timber resources of the state In dan- ^ug -.vg- New England’s percentage of the ------ggr, but the supply of cord wood cut pnntps nf fhAoa rpniiirpniontij hand by members of the local “ loy- total during the last loan campaign | The new bonds will mature in ten and stalked In the woods. Inadequate ^ggj^jy t^e local administrator, i alist” committee and forced to pk- •nroa ton* fltviA If i a a I I « I LU LUO iUCUA U.U1U1U10U atur. ****%* vv/u y a - mmri.r ’ ^ “ year, and bear Interest at 4%' per at best to meet the needs ot another records of all do- i-ade throuBh the streets, kissing the Lr-neiehbor RooWvlll. 1. . . r® ” ' “ Payable winter. Is threatened with destruc- These w ill «as at Intervals, Again he was res- elgned $298 5 0 o \ . Ita s h L - W and Ion to a considerable eitent. Fur- L ^ regularly and any at- sued by the police and taken to the e g ed $_298.500 as share. W i l l i - 15^ reckoned from neat May | thermore. the expense of flghtlng | to obtain an cicese ot coal be- ' “ y hall SATURDAY SPECIALS mantic, $246,000. 9. unnecessary fires and the utlllzatior yond the certified recfulrements will ^ hours later the crowd, There Is no doubt that Manches of men for this purpose is an unne-| ter will raise its share. But wheth- make the buyer liable to heavy pen-1 swelled in proportions, gathered in While Charlie Chaplin is touring cessary drain on the money and man altles. I front of the city hall and demanded FOR THRIFTY BUYERS er New England In general will do the next Liberty loan, we wonder power of the state when It is needed the surrender of the now terrorized 80 remains to be seen. Income and ^ug ^e drawing that half mil- in other directions. man. Mayor Siegel, from the steps $5.00 DRESS SKIRTS ...... $3.93 excess prbfits taxes, the Imposing of ngq dollar salary of his. Ditto for Watch Fires Carefully. of the hall, pleaded with the mob to Pleated Models. which, as we announced at the time Marguerite Clark, Mary Bickford and “ Fires cannot be allowed to burn MOB LYNCHES let the law take its course. In re the bill was being framed, make the ‘Doug” Fairbanks. without restraint, but they can be ply It rushed through a cordon of $2.48 CHILDREN’S HATS ...... $1.98 demand upon corporations and man largely prevented If proper care i SUSRECTED TRAITOR police and after a short search, drag ufacturing concerns a double bur $1.00 “ LUXITE” HOSE FOR LADIES’ .... 75c. a p & ir “ There is nothing that will Im-1 the use of fire is exercised. In m? ged Praeger from his hiding place in den, due very soon. It Is es- Black and Tan. prove a man’s disposition at this I opinion, unnecessary harnlng of all j the basement. . i ■ Umated that..the,six states will have time of the year like a new sult,f’ | kinds should be ^scouroged^iahd* tti^ j-'i’fl^th soajcely a woi^ tki^ LADIES* AND MISSES* sample Suits at R educ«M tt6i»i^ io par as much as $200,060,000 In reads an “ ad” in our contemporary, I enforcen^ei^t of all laws relating to lice Can : Man Claimed mob rushed him tp the scene’ of his such taxes. the Wllllmantic Chronicle. Thus Is I fire should be Insisted on. to Be Loyal Though Genian-Bom. execution. Prospective buyers are urged feed the brute” dethroned. I “ Magistrates and prosecuting ofli TAKE A TIP again to get the bonds out of their dais, in my opinion, should imposr Collinsville, 111., April 5.— After W -l-I'I'l H -H -H -l-H ' 1 'H-M"H"1«H Our Boys* Suits 3 to 16 years are being sold at lower earnings and not disable the banks The Jersey City explosion shows severe penalties In every case of vi- L , ^ ‘ which must make heavy expendi the danger of ‘curiosity’ telephone | olation. W in g been twice reecued from mobs j; j q Command American than the present wholesale prices— You will save $2.00 tures for their patrons, by withdraw calls.”— New York newspaper ad W. H. Houeee-e Opinion. • to $3.00 on each suit if you act promptly. ing savings or even check balances. ger, 45, alleged disloyalist, was tak Troops in Britain vertisement. This doesn’t mean, ■William H. House, chief fire en from the city hall here early to PRICES ARE ...... $3.98 TO $9.50 stern and gentle readers, that Cen warden in Meriden was present wher day by a mob of more than 500 men, DON’TS FOR LAWN-MAKERS. tral has dropped her function of Mr. Filley made his statement, and Don’t burn the dead grass on your forced to kiss the flag, and was then watch and clock regulator for the said that his experiences in Merider lawn. In so doing you waste from hanged to a tree about two miles community. during the past five or six days leads ten to thirty dollars’ worth of good west of the town. Only a few min him to believe that unless the fire fertilizer per acre. utes previously he had protested to Torrington is represented by 27 laws of this state are thoroughly en- the police that he was a loyal citi-' Don’t attempt to patch up the bald casualties, Winsted- by 14 and Man- forced large amounts of valuable spots in the lawn with a rake, spade zen. Chester by one, Ernest G. Anderson, timber will be burned and that valu- Praeger is said to have talked So — unless you intend to sod— or pota whose death was announced on the able natural fertility will be destroy- to fork. Nail a few boards togeth cialism and made disloyal remarks in Evening Herald’s bulletin yesterday, ed from pastures and meadows as er, stud them with nails a couple of a speech recently at Maryville. A hero, every one of them, even if the result of farmers burning over While police from East St. Louis inches long, aflix a handle and per the manner of their deaths or wounds these pastures and meadows, forate the ground you wish to plant. were rushing to the scene Praeger was not spectacular. | “ From reading bulletins from the You can use this contrivance any was strung up to the tree, his feet United States Government, I am sat- where on the lawn, without doing ten feet from the ground. Not a Clergymen in Fairfield county, like I isfled that the equal of $10 to $3 any damage to it or bothering to word was spoken by the mob. It those in every county of New York per acre in fertilizer is destroyed cover your seed after you get them State and twelve counties in nprth- when burning a meadow,” said Mr went about its ghastly work quietly in the ground. ind systematically. One man, ap ern New Jersey organized yesterday House. He told of two recent firee Don’t wait. April Is the ideal parently one of the leaders, said in New York for the third Liberty on Lamentation Mountain, Meriden month of the year to seed or other loan. The organization is “ spe-1 which apparently were caused by after Praeger had been hanged: S e C a . wise improve your lawn. When “ This, my friends, should be a clfically concerned with moral aims,” carelessness. In the first, 100 acres the sun becomes hot the young shoots warning to - all pro-Germans and (Incorporated) says the presiding minister. was burned over, and the second, cannot endure it. other disloyal citizens. We will covered about 1,000 acres with dam Don’t use any seed, but the right not tolerate disloyalty in this coun age estimated at $10 an acre. one. Some seed grows better in one Bristol, according to the Danbury try.” Evening News, leads in Hartford soil, others in another. Get the Coroner Notified. Latest Styles proper seed as well as good seed. n \ <>®« m berty loan w o t a . The coroner at Edwardsville, Mad Don’t plant your seed even now capita with the colors, with 4.8. * ison county, was notified of the Governor McCall of Massachusetts Manchester s quota for the third when the sun is bright. Wait un lynching and took charge of the has offered a prize shield for Loan will be $519,500. Man- til dusk or, better still, until It is body. New England community which ®Ji®8ter’s district to raise this amount In Spring Suits cloudy, and'get the benefit of the When a recent wave of patriotism leads. The period allowed Is not ^^® amounts apportioned to the rain, which is better than any swept over many Illinois towns the announced. |various towns follow: TRICOTINE, POIRET TWILL, SILVERTONE, CHECKS sprinkling can possibly be. In this A ndover...... $ 5,500 miners and others at Maryville or It is reported that Maj. Gen. John Biddle, who recently relinquished his way you give the new seed a better Bolton ...... 7,000 ganized a committee to deal with HAIR-LINE STRIPES, OXFORDS, JERSEYS, TAF chance to germinate quickly. A huge Liberty ball of red, white I H ebron...... 8,500 Praeger. Twice before he had been Post as assistant chief of staff, is go- Don’t disregard the grounds, and blue, which will roll on a gold Manchester...... 25,000 threatened with mob violence, but Great Britain to command our FETAS, MEN’S WEAR SERGE, POPLINS. either. Seeds are as different as had been rescued. tire from Buffalo to New York is South Manchester...... 469,500 General Bartlett, who Is at present the lawns and care should be taken so the Empire State’s way of boosting Despite this arrangement of quo- A mob formed In Maryville had commander of the various American $25.00 $29.50 $37.50 that a patchy effect is not produced. the new loan. Besides the regular I tas for the various towns, the local attempted to capture Praeger, but he forces In the British isles. General Select one type of seed, if your soil custodians, who will be dressed like Liberty Loan committee will concen- escaped and made his way by autoiro- Biddle was assistant to General Bliss Here is one style in Men’s Wear Serge, belted model, will permit, as It will in most in Uncle Sam, buyers of bonds will be tra*e on one drive for the $519,500 bile to Collinsville. Several of the as chief of staff and when General stances. Adapt the lawn to the expected to volunteer and drag the without bothering about the north first mob followed and succeeded In Bliss went to Europe to attend the su- braid and buttons over the hips, flared coat; skirt has house, if possible. raising another crowd in Collinsville. I war council at Versailles be- ball on its way. That’s-one way | and south end apnroprlatlons. came acting chldf of staff. He bas pockets and gathered b e lt ,...... $25.00 Don’t put on too much manure, but to keep the ball rolling. He -^fras captured, compelled to re scatter it lightly, preferably before a move his shoes and stockings, draped been succeeded in that position by Smartly flnished suit of men’s wear serge; coat is box Maj. Gen. Peyton 0. March. rain, which will soak the top covering BAKER IN PARIS. with an American flag and started on plaited below waist, braid trimmings, fancy embroidered thoroughly. The sun must be per As usual the Evening Herald and a march down the main street, while . , Paris, April 5.— Newton D. Baker, collar over self collar, fancy cutaway pockets on skift. mitted to do its work properly. some of its contemporariesvx/AtaiicD with' niLix the *i. the a American ■ « o Secretary .. - of ^rr War, who the voices of the crowd were raised The fuel administrator is going to Comes in Navy, tan, gray, black and white check. One Don’t ask your neighbor, unless same. , service ^ bas scored »a beatucoi uuon its I jj^g jygj. i rgtuj-ned from. Rome_ and in the national anthem. Then he tell each section of the country where he has q fine lawn to show as his the Italian front, held a number ot was rescued by the police and taken It must purchase its coal, all of of the many new styles a t ...... $29.50 handiwork. Get a seed catalog. attack along the entire British (rent, today. to the city hall. which will be^ acceptable If the fuel New Serge suit. Just received, made with white pique which opened the late offensive, an Praeger Claimed Loyalty. can only be obtained.— Ex. i? ticipated that of most of our nelgh- vest-front meets and forms a point, new slip-through “ While I was bom in Germany, I While Scott Nearing declares that GERMANY’S REVOLUTION. >ors by twelve hours or more. Yes- Now that It has been tried the lave been naturalized and I am for I he esteems his Indictment for sedi- belt effect. Jacket lined with peau de cygne; plain -sVir^ The suspicion is rapidly going terday we predicted the new German great wonder Is that anyone could the good old U. S. A.” Praeger de- tion above a college degree, he must with pockets. One of the many new styles a t ___ $^7.5^ abroad among Americans that Prus fcf' attack, which Is announced this have had any opposition to the Idea dared to the police. Early in the admit that it took him a long time sia Is not fighting altogether because morning. ^ Jof saving daylight.— Ex. night the man was again taken In | to get it.__Ex.
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To Walk the local women who will play an ______^ important part in the Liberty Loan Drive soon to start in Manchester. Right Execattve Oommlttee. Chairman, Mrs. Austin Cheney. Vice Chairman, Mrs. W. S. Coburn. S t n i v n i n g . Secretaries, Miss Anna Hyde, Mrs, Wear Ground Hubert A. Cadle. Treasurer,' Mias Grace Rbertson. Church Committee Chairman, Mrs. Gripper Shoes R. La Motte Russell. I Spnng Styles School Committee Chairman, Mrs. F. T. Blish. The Ground Gripper Shoe is always made from the finest quality of leather and is worn in Office Committee Chairman, Mrs. REPARED with the view of supplying you all walks of life, by men and women who want comfort, health and relief from all foot troubles. W . S. Gillam. with the most authentic styles at prices Committee of Interpreters, Chair man, Mrs. Thomas L. Cheney, which give you the utmost in values. A 9 ^ ? Right Shoes the Cure Publicity Committee Chairman, tremendous assortment in every line. Your Mrs. W. B. Rogers. choice on our Helpful, simple “Dollar a Week*” In the treatment and cure of weak feet, weak ankles, flat foot, broken arches, bunions, tender Committee of Bonds Salewomen, heel, sore points, callous and other troubles, the patient must wear the correct shoe. Most of the Mrs. Muller-Thym. plan— NO EXTRAS! deformities are found among civilized races. General Committee. Alvord, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. Frank F A Y A D0LLAH A WEEZ “Ground Gripper” is the Correct Shoe Bartlett. Miss Louise " Beman, Miss Ruth SUITS ...... $16.75 TO $65.00 Bendall, Mrs. F. J. COATS ...... $12.75 TO $75.00 Bengs, Miss Elsie DRESSES...... $7.98 TO $50.00 Actual Cure Ground Gripper Shc«j GROUND GRIPPER Bosco, Mrs. A. ygagiat^G SHOE Burr, Mrs. C. R. SKIRTS ...... $3.98 TO $25.00 Chapman, Miss Helen TRIMMED H A T S ...... $2.98 TO $15.00 Cheney, Miss Edna Our New Shoe Cheney, Miss Elsie S H O E S ...... $4.00 'TO $12.00 Cheney, Mrs. Geo. WAISTS ...... $1.29 TO $12.75 MODIFIED GROUND GRIPPER Cheney, Mrs. J. D. Cheney, Mrs. W, C. This women’s shoe is constructed on the lines of Clark, Miss Jennie the Ground Gripper with the same high grade mate Cook, Miss Jennie Cornell, Miss Hildur Men’s Suits, Topcoats rials and workmanship, uppers and soles light weight Dean, Miss Elizabeth £. W. BURT a Co.. PaUDUes • W riu (or McOlcal Book. ci& HATS, SHOES, FURNISHINGS. Dorey, Mrs. H. Ely, Mrs. Clarence with 11-8 military heel, last medium toe on a dressy stylish design. This shoe will meet the de Farley, Mrs. Qustavus BOYS' AND GIRLS* GARMENTS. mand of women who want a dressy, stylish shoe on the Ground Gripper system. Ferguson, Miss Ruth Many local people have been cured and found relief in wearing Ground Gripper shoes. Come Flood, Mrs. J. W. in and let us give you some local references. BEJWARE OF IMITATIONS. Follgno, Mrs, Tony Foulds, Mrs. Wjm. Jr. Gleason, Mrs. Wm. Glenney, Mrs. Christopher Goldman, Mrs. A. Goldman, Mrs. James Gunn, Mrs. David W. Glenney & Hultman Gorman, Miss Alice Hannon, Mrs. R. F. Harris, Mrs, W. W . * Hemingway, Miss Dorothy Hillsburg, Mrs. Florence B. Hogan, Miss Julia C. M. MURPHEY PRESIDENT Hood, Mrs. J. A. House, Mrs. Charles OF GET TOGETHER CLUB Hutchinson, Miss Mary Hyde, Mrs. W . 8. What kind, of Clothes About 75 Membert Laat Bvo- Juul, Miss Clar« ? ,^ohnsQy^ Mffi. ^^bllip Antnu^y'Jkl , km T7i ■ Your immy footwear reqiiiremetiU ^ f \ eating Lecture bjrfT. lS. Dny. Johnston^ Mta ., Jainei Knapp, Mrs., P. L. strenuous times can be filled by " these famous shoes About 76 nlembers of the Oet To Keershan, Miss Katherine ^ . / gether club attended the annua Larson, Mrs. Peter V A are YOU meeting in Cheney hall last evening Lord, Mrs. Chas. O. First, a shad supper was served un I^ettney, Mrs. B. A. der the direction of G. H. Miller anO Lyman, Miss Froda it was “ some supper,’’ Everybody Mara, Mrs. Henry F. enjoyed It but some were wishing Marlow, Mrs. N, going to wear? the shad had been boneleds. It was May, Mrs. Geo. said that for a time one could have McCann, Miss Eleanor heard a pin fall, so busy were the Miller, Miss Catherine ^ Miller, Miss Rachel I Maybe you haven’t decided what style you’ll pick out; diners picking out the bones. Officers Elected. Mills, Mrs. Hattie The new Queen Quality shoe creations but one thing you’ve undoubtedly made up your mind to During the business session, the Moore, Mrs. D. C. Y. fulfil the desires of the majority of women —the clothes you buy this spring are going to be the following officers were elected: Moore, Mrs. Sarah in the following manner: Murphy, Miss Catherine kind that will giv^ unusually good service. President, Charles M, Murphey. style without gaudy diaplay. First Vice, Edward Ballsieper. Nickerson, Mrs. John W. Dependable leathers. In these days when war taxes, and high cost of every Second Vice, A. Balthasar. Olson, Mrs. Waldemar Harmonious colors. - a Petraitls, Miss thing are affecting all of us, there’s a special reason for Third Vice, Theodore Bidwell. Extreme foot comfort. ! I • Secretary, William Parkis. Platt, Miss Dorothy being ;particular about the quality |you get. There’s Thousands of women in this and other Assistant, Thomas Weir. Pola, Mrs. Luigi more economy in buying right than in buying cheap. Treasurer, Abraham Wilson. Prentice, Mrs. Thomas countries are continually enjoying these I"'-!! Entertainment committee, F. J. Mrs. A. L. Crowell. advantages. Richards, Mrs. N. B. Bendall, Edward F. Taylor and Her Our store is the only place in tmvn where man Montie, Rubinow, Mrs, Wjm. Hart Schaffner & Marx new these famous shoes may be bo’jght. 11 Lecture committee, F, D. Chaney, SendrowskI, Mrs. Peter chairman, with power to choose his Schmidt, Mrs. Karollne spring styles are here associates. Schmidt, Mrs. W m. C. Refreshment committee, G. H. Mil Seaman, Mrs. Earl G. George W. Smith ler, chairman, with power to choose Shearer, Mrs. James Sheldon, Miss Mildred ,;Ht TTar^Ccliafracr&ilErs his associates. Herbert Ingham is the retiring Spencer, Mrs. F. F. president. Taylor, Mrs. Howard The Social Hour. Taylor, Mrs. W . J. The feature of the social houi* was Tournaud, Miss Agnes an illustrated talk by T, H. Day c Treat, Miss Harriet Hartford, on “ A Tramp Through Trotter, Miss Hazel Turkington, Miss Annie Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes and Regal Shoes Florida.” It was an original and in Varca, Miss Mary teresting talk and, one person re ^ : I'. marked that he learned more about Walker, Miss Florence the South than he had ever knowr Walker, Miss Laura before. Following the address, W Ward, Miss Ethel Every Fisherman discovers that he needs something < ] j Washburn, Miss Ella 'teaching in Preston, is spending a for a week’s visit with relatives. C . Cheney made a few remarks, tell in the way of tackle «when he goes over his outfit in the " Wind; Miss Jennie part of her spring vacation in Nen Miss Gertrude Turney of Coventry ing of some of his experiences on a Spring. Bolton Winterbottom, Mrs. John Britain the guest of Miss Mary B. is spending a short timeuat Mrs. J. trip he took through the South some Wolcott, M ^. Frank YOU CAN SUPPLY THOSE LI'TTLE NEEDS HERE. ; Scanlon. M. Sumner’s. time ago. The club orchestra also Misses Elizabeth C. and M. Ell^ Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Loomis and favored with several selections and Rods, Reels, Bait Boxes, Flies, Fish Baskets, LandTng y and Mrs. George Curtis who Sumner were in Hartford . recently Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Loomis of all joined in singing a number of HOOVER SEES HOUS'TON. Nets, Lines, Leaders, Sjnkers, Hooks, Artificial, Bait, llljKpldf^ their farm In South Bolton re- visiting at their grandfather’s, John Westfield, Mass., were guests of their popular songs. The meeting ad Washington, April 4— Following Spinners, Etc. ?) i; ' tintly to New York parties moved A. ConklIrL parents’, Mr. and Mrs. William H. journed about nine o’clock. the several conferences of the agri cultural advisory committee. Food OUR SPECIAL X STRONG STEEL R O D ...... $2,5ft^-|; Tuesday to the Phillips place in An Henry Fryer of Willimantlc has Loomis, the first of the week. Administrator Herbert C. Hoover dover joining the Baptist Church been spending a short time at Mrs. CARD OF THANKS. and Secretary of Agriculture Hous property which they have purchased. E. Jane Finley's. We wish to take this opportunity Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Kneeland of PATROLMEN APPOINTED. of thanking our many friends and ton today went over the various mat Mrs. Charles M. Lee Is In Hartford {last Morris are receiving congratu neighbors for the many expressions ters discussed by the committee. t SOPflf d i i with her daughter Mrs. William H. The April meeting of the board of lations on the birth of a daughter police commissioners was held last of kindness extended to us in our These relate to the exemption of F. T. Blish, Manager. Atkins. Bather Lily on Easter morn at a Tor- night in the police rooms at the Hall bereavement in the death of our be farm labor and the fixing of a price Walter A. Dewey Is spending the fington hospital. This is their third of Records. But little business was loved husband and father. limitation on things used ia success child. Mrs. Kneeland was formerly week with F. D. Finley. transacted. Supernumeraries Crock Charlotte B. Stacy, ful farming including farm Imple- IfiBS Helen Dewey of this pjace. William Fries of Columbia is at ett and Fitzgerald were named 'regu . Winnie A. Reid, mentSf seeds and ' feed. Edward J. White is ill at his home Charles F. Sumners, whose employ lars. It was also voted to have the Effio L. Finney, Waste not. Want not. Buy i Sn Hebron. he has entered. new traffic rules printed for distribu . Lottie B. Ogdon. Miss Josephine Mnthein who is Miss Lavania Fries Is out of town tion. April 5. 1918. Wat Savings Stamp every week
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t 5S,000 men, including reserres, in • TO HCl>>rbu- lElP FEED YOURSELF** the Naval Service. Field Marshals of Mttfor X n o F April 6, 1018— EnUated strength of regu U: lar navy ...... 102,<000 Lieagues— Clarence y--n, Naval reserves ...... 78^000 . - ' % •vR’-. war notadie N. N. V...... 16,000 New York, April 5.— “ He’s only a a bat boy he became a minor, ^ nr'"- iM ie 1ST U K dr Coast guard, reserve offl- busher. He’ll never make good.” U. & DEPT. OF A 6 PICULTURE manager, and a successful , 1 cere, etc...... 14,000 This was the greeting they hand He learned basebaU^sid«.^:^ if' Garden crops suffer from the rav Hopper-dozers.— Many forms of Washington, April 5.— The Con-1 on December 7^—also constitute These are all voluntary enJtist^ ed Clarence Rowland when he sign minors. He became ages of Insect pests from’ the time gress of the United States will to-1 record breaker in Congressional hls- death-dealing devices have been em ments and practically all are made ed to manage the White Sox in the the seed is confined to Mother Earth morrow round out the most event- I tory. In the matter of foreign at of ball players and he learn»d^^W'^^f ployed for grasshoppers and leaf- for the full four-year period allowed winter of 1914. and after it has sprouted until it is , hoppers. They are on the plan of ful year in its history. fairs, the year in Congress was also to handle men. All he nee4^ was by law. It was anything but an encourag the chance to show what his yosm of harvested. Injury is effected by It has broken so many records that made remarkable by the reception of a shield of cloth stretched across a Since the war began the Bureau ing reception. Some fellows would insects of many distinct species, of they defy complete enumeration. It the special missions sent to the Unit- study amounted to. He got It and sled made so that it can be drawn of Navigation of the Navy has put have taken it to heart and flunked made good. A 'Which at least 100 forms are of im has established for the past year a I ed States from time to time by the through the rows either by hand or into commission over 1,000 vessels out. But not Rowland. He didn’t portance in the vegetable garden place unequalled in historic import- Allied governments, That’s Clarence Rowland in a nut- ' by horsepower. Such an instrument of all classes, including battleships, mind being called a busher by the throughout the United States. ance in all American parliamentary President’s Visits, shell. is usually saturated with a sticky submarines, destroyers, t. .insports, big league writers. He was proud In the planting of seeds or setting annals. No other Congress has ever re- . In less than three years Rowland substance, kerosene, or other oil. As hospital ships, patrol vessels, mine of his minor league record and he out the garden, particular attention It has appropriated money by the ceived so many personal visits from piloted the Chicago White Sox to a it is drawn through the field the in la.yers, mine sweepers, submarine had confidence in himself and in should be given to guarding against billions. It has levied taxes by the the President. Five times President world’s championship. He had a sects fiy or hop on it and are destroy chasers, cruisers, colliers, supply Charles Comiskey. insect attack throughout the grow hundreds of millions. It has en- Wilson has gone before Congress as- good ball club to start with, of ed. vessels, converted yachts, gunboats, Today they are calling Clarence ing season. Due care should be tak acted measures of the most revolu- sembled in joint session to address course, but Comiskey’s clubs— good Brushing methods. — Different etc. This has been an immense Rowland, the “ Great Rowland.” He en that the proper location for each tionary and drastic character in it upon war policy and legislation. cldbs, too— had failed to win for methods of brushing insects of more task, as the increase of the personnel is the present King Bee among man crop be selected, that the requisite American history. It has shatter- Beginning with his first war ad him under other managers. Row or less sluggish habits, such as plant- from 55,000 in January of last year agers. But it hasn’t swelled him amount of sunlight and heat be se ed precedents by the score and laid dress in April, he appeared again on land made them win. lice or aphides, are very useful, and to approximately 300,000 at the one bit. Trim, dapper, smiling and cured. and that the soil be not al out new courses reaching far into the 'December 4 to urge a declaration of one of them is a standard remedy present time is composed entirely of quiet-mannered, Clarence Rovdaud Rowland’s tactics on the ball field ready Infested by insects. Attention future of American civilization. war against Austria-Hungary; again against the pea aphis, the most im raw recruit material which has had is just as affable and free from any are versatile. He has a mania should also be given to deep plowing Two “ Sessions.” on January 4 to advocate the new portant drawback to the pea indus to be trained by the small number of thing that resembles chestiness as changing pitchers. He works and pulverizing the soil where neces The last year in Congress may | railroad legislation, and on January try. -It consists in merely batting or regular commissioned officers. The anyone can be. He has personal team on the theory that the fdllow sary. Due care should also be taken properly be divided into two dis- 8 and February 11 he spoke on terms brushing the Insects from the plants result has been excellent. Every ves ity— the kind that wins friends, He who “ mixes ’em up” has the best in regard to the seed, that it may tinct parts— first, that of prompt and of peace. with pine boughs or similar brush, sel afloat has been and is filled to the gets along with players, fans and the chance to win a game of ball. His not be Infested by insects which will unquestioning acquiescence in the The most important of the war preferably on a hot dry day. The maximum complement desired by the newspaper boys without half trying. theory proved up in the 1917 world’s attack the plant after it has made ■Administration’s conduct of the war, legislation enacted by the Congress plant-lice are delicate creatures commanding officer. He s proud of his world’s champions series. Some folks may say that some little growth, such as the bean and, second, that of earnest and vig- may be summed up with the follow- which crawl very slowly, and a few One of the greatest achievements and confident in himself, but he the Giants tossed the edge to the and pea weevils. orous criticism of the war manage- ing laws: The draft law, the esplon- are able to regain access to the plants during America’s first year in the doesn’t show it. And that’s the big Sox. But, just the same, those Sox After these questions have been ment. The former period occupied xge law, the food control law, the and hence die from exposure to the great world war was the creation of answer. had to play ball, and play it well to solved the next problem is the ques the large part of the special session revenue law, the trading with the win. heated earth. the National Army. The man who has Rowland was never a big leaguer. tion of weather, which not only af beginning on April 2, 1917, and sneniy act, the railroad bill and the Cloth covering.— Covering with largely been responsible for the cre He started out as a bat boy for Mike fects the growing crop, but has a de ending on October 6, 1917. The lat war finance bill. Clarence Rowland is a “ busher” cloth is an old remedy against the ation of this great fighting machine Cantillon years ago, when Mike was who bloomed into a famous mana cided influence on the abundance or ter period began immediately on the Draft Jjnw. striped cucumber beetle, when the is Major General Enoch H. Crowder, a chicken, so to speak. And from ger. scarcity of insect foes. reconvening of Congress in Decem The draft law was the first big cucumbers are (|uite small, and for Provost Marshal General of fhe Mechanical Metho ■ AiM. m ,',-,‘'-W’v >'-r^ ''r. ;",v r