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N OTICE! After the reading of the meters in September. price of gas will be reduced twenty cents per thousand cubic feet. Pre-payment meters will be adjusted to the net prices. BOYS' CLUB READY FOR BUSINESS NOW i ; Will Start Industrial Classes| Within a Few Days ough club ofMcially tor tho season on Tuesday, tho industrial classes will not be- everal days. Superintendent \all Cook is busy signing up boys a0 classes and as soon as the clasees are filled he will begin holding sessions. Classes which preparing to start within a few days and which it will ba necessary for those intending to jom. to aMliate with at once, in- cluds rubber mending. carpentry, toy making. lettering, clay modeling and clipping, pastel work, electric wiring printing, etc. There are vacancies ‘o- two bos in tho band Must Register Now. For obvious reasons tho athletic teama cannot bo composed of a float- ing membership. Because of this, bovs who intend to get into tho track teams this year, must sign up at the begin ning ot neason A e f the Comets and Eagl will be held with their coach this « ning at 7:30 o'clock TAX REVISION? Semate Finance Al openca variou win May for Secrctary Mellon and Committee arc Scheduled to Have an All Day Session Today. 8. —The whole revision was up for between Seeretary senate finance com- Washington aubject of tax dtscudsion today Mellon and the mittee The it the original suggestions to the house ways and means committes by the treasury secretary. the revised os. timates presented afer the White Hou, x conference last mwnth and the tax sbill the house. Mr. Mellon went before the commit- fes without a prepared glatement but questions on Sept had before made committee as passed by ready o answer specific ady of those subjects. After hoaring the secretary the sen- te committes will begin its ask of ro-writing the house bill AGAINST CHEMICAL WARFARE. I'aper by Sir Edward Thorp Read at Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland t sts against chemical wore ittered in the opening addr at the vieeting of the Rritish associatton bere last night. The address, written ty 8ir Edward Thorp, vresident of was read by Rir A liwing and appealed to sclentific n to employ their nts in means to develop and mer- v mode of warfare which is horrent to the higher nwmanity." More than 2,000 members attended the session Sept. $.—Pro warfare Vo Amsociation not ingk yatu instinets of 2 5 | ANCHOR BRAND CLUB ACTIVE. | The athletic committee of the Anchor Brand Foremen's elub will shortly take up the work of organizing a howling league to be composed of factory teams. | The club is planning a season of un- | usually elaborn wtivities which will include wthletic ocials entertain- | ments and theatricals BRAZIL CELEBRATES Rio Janeiro, Sept day celebrated the DOth her independence Brazil yester anniversary of | BERLEW TO COACH WESLEYAN Middletown & Herman | Terlew, captain of lnst year's Wesl | University football team been wecretary of the College M at Wesleyan. Ho will assist in the football team this fall Conn., Sept syan ha . pointed C.A coaching CLAIMS NEW Minot, N. D lace, catcher sional baseball t RECORD Sept. 8.—Irving Wal for a emi-profe m. established what wihs sald yesterday to be v d for cireling the circuit in 13 claims, the former Archdencon of the tional league local @ new world Wallace mad eclipsin he made by | Interna base econd. record Rochester team WILSON GETS OFFER. New Orloans 8. Johnny Wil- | son, Boston champlon middleweight, | has been made an offer to meet Happy Littleton, southern middieweight, in a 20 round bout at the ball park here Oc tober 10, The offer was made by Pro “~iar Al Pilsbury. Sept NEW BRITAIN GAS LIGHT COMPANY S il bard AT 17 SEEKS WORLD TITLE By Chicazo, youngster at nine, world's swimming That is the long John Weissmuller, N. E Service, Sept. 7.—From a sickly to contender for tho champlonship at A distance jump that boy nautical wonder is a firm until the And that is why plug, pl comes home kid days at him ohnny plug, when phy- suspiciously, k in his sicians looked somebody pushed Weissmuller off a k. Johnny had t ever since—-slowly but surely top rung of water honors. He cxplains his sudden love water a det the fear he had had of to the impromptu ducking. At Johnn bbed off a life-saving it Chic beaches. Then be joined the Illinois Athletic club water squad Recently, at Duluth, throusa The v -rid wds flat 8h th is, he plowed « htaway course | It two much champion to the swam, been of the it previous & vears, he slipped onds. n of these Johnny the time that intere tho fact that Norman Ross swimmer of the isn't races 80 world in mination to conquer | and 50-yard straightaways, “atered in both races and Wei muller beat him both times. Will Johnny some day be champ of them all? He says, Bet!" And his explanation of how he has met success is very simple: “Just keep after it. Try cach time. Keep in training all there is to it."” O’HEARN JOINS ELIS Quarterback the 220 was the “You harder That's ading Candidate for Position on Yale Elcven, Reports to Coach Tad J g Sept. S.—Charley is thought will make followers forget all Kempton and Thorne Murphy in his conduct of the quar- torback’s job at Yale this vear, re- ported to Tad Jones vesterday after- noen and he appeared to be in fine condition O'Hearn made ‘a great in prep school and as freshman quarter- tack at Yale last year proved him- self to be one of the best field gen- open field runners and line plungers seen on Yale Field in many A year. Moreover, he has a cool head for the direction of a team, and Yale has been lacking for v 0 seasons she should be strong this of his presence on the New Haven, O'Hearn, who it ‘ale football about Fido record erals ar because m »Hearn is not the only good quar- 1 this year. ood that Jones highly of Beckett, the old And- quarter who ran the second Yale last year. With the » of Kempton and Murphy, was given much of a but this vear he may play v. if the coaches decide to » Hearn elsewhere in the back- field, where he is eminently quali- fied to play Dr. William Bull came to New Ilaven last night and will take chage ¢ the kickers today. The practice v was light be- of th, consisted mostly over team 2t not ifternoon Tenty for Decorating Co BILLY CROZIER HURT sale, Eddy Awning & vt. Hartford Driver is One of Three Injurcd Track. in Bad Spill at Norwich —Aubrey is suffer- Norwich, Rodney of 3 ing fre und fracture of the left leg just below the knee, William Crozier of Hartford has a broken col- larbone and Edward Connors of Springfield is suffering from an fnjured cap the result M ke of one of the n ¥ a Rod ¢ rushed to the pital, this city. Crozier was able to leave the hospital last evening, and proceed by automobile to his home |in Hartford The crash "y heat of th ed in the second tate pace. purse, $1,000 at the London county fair. In the last mile of the heat Northern Queen, b. m., owned by John Farnum of ston, stumbled and tell urn of the half mile 0 of the five horses fol- lowin hern Queen B on top of Northern Qucen, a were thrown in all directions. and Crozicr were run over Etabell: b. ity Sta Rodney Crozier was owned by the Haven | Elm m New FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS match play exhibition game at the Omaha Country club yesterday. Duncan had a total of Knepper 72, Mitchell 76 and Gaines 80. In the afternoon Duncan and Mitchell | defeated Ralph DPete and Blaine | Young, local amateurs, 2 and 1. Duncan | @isplayed the superior golf, shooting a 68, two under par for the course, Connors was driving Peter Stout, h. owned by H. L. Handy of Spring- field. After the injured had care of the race proceeded with sub- stitute drivers, Estabella wnning first money, second money going to Peter Stout and third to Lester W., b. g., Warman and Draper, Hillgrove, R. 1. been taken THREATE COURT. ACTION. DUNCAN MAKES LOW SCORE. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 8.—George Dun- can and Abe Mitchell, British golf pro- fessionals, defeated Rudolph Knepper of Sioux City. Iowa, State champlon, and Francis Gaines of Omaha, ama- teurs, 3 and 2 in an eighteen hole Johnny Wilson, Middleweight ‘‘Cham- pion’ Will Sue Commission Jersey City, Sept. 8.—Johnny Wilson of Boston, holder of the middleweight pugilistic champlonship belt, was sum- tion. omy. force itself upon you. study it to learn where to go Obeying Instructions HERE TAG, MAKE TUESE SHWOES OouT AND GET TUEM HALF - SOLED YOURSELF USEFUL = TAKE GEE, YA DONT WANTA ©O TUAT DO YA, SURE? uaLF-soven! DON'T YOU UINDERSTARD 7 T WANT THOSE SHOES HALF -~ SoLED! Ne This advertising awaits your pleasure. At your convenience you can DEMPSEY MAY REFEREE Jack Wanted by Kilbane-Frush Bout on Sept, 17, Cleveland, O., Sept. 8.—The pro- moters of the Kilbane-Frush feather- welght championship bout scheduled to take place in this city, S&tember 17, have wired heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey in New York city, asking him to referee the bout. The telegram to Dempsey said that both boxers and the public would be agreeable to his being the third man in the ring. moned to appear before the New Jersey boxing commission today to explain why he did not put up a stiffer bat- tle in his Labor Day match with Bryan Downey, Cleveland claimant of tho title. « The commission ordered Tex Rickard, promoter, to hold up Wilson's $35,000 share of the purse pending the hear- ing. Wilson has let it be known that he intends to bring court action to ob- tain the money in the event the com- mission decides to hold it up perma- nently. Tame swans have been known to live longer than 50 years. 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