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Frank B. andegee: Press despatches in all Metropolitan| Replying to newspapers agree that France asks a|Of the 20th instant, received midnight guarantee that America as well as|last night, I have to Britain would regard a German inva-| I do not care, at this time and un- son of France as an act of war and ader present conditions, to express violation of the treaty and <yould|VieWs upon the incoherent ahd kalei- move instantiy regatdless ot the|doscopic statements and rumors Th'o Kind You Bave Always Bought, and which has heen in use for over thirty vyears, has borme the signature of and bas been made under his per- M’ soras supervision since its infancy, ® Aflow 10 9ne to dsceive you in chis, Al Counterfeits, Imitations and * Just-as—goody” are but Experiments hat irifie with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment, What is CASTORIA Castoria is @ harmiess substitute for Castor Oil, Paregori Dr:;ps and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. ’It congtaincs’ neither Opium. Morphing nor other narcotic substance. Its age 1s its guarantee, For more than thirty years it has bee_:n in congtant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulescy, Wmd Colic anc Diarrhoea s allaying Feverishness an'siné th :rflfrpm'; and by reguiating the Stomach and Bowels. aids the assiimilation of Food: giving healthy and matural siecp. The Chitdsen‘s Panacos~Tae Mother’s Friend. cExumE CASTORIA siwavs #53s0 > Signaturs of Fon o B g YT A one story frame house of the bun- galo type is to be erected on Rock street by Vidlentine Reich.” The struc- ture is to be of one story about 20 By 30 feet and will conatn five rooms and bath. ' The interior finish is to be or” hardwood -with floors and door casings. The walls wtil be of plaster. [“The exterior finish is to be in shingles, sides and foof. - 4 Ruby Blinderman hae filed a building application with Fire Marshall How- ard L. Stanton for permision to erect ‘a frame’ garage on Forest street. The dimensions of the structure are 25x30 feet and 14 1-2 feet high. - The roof will be of tar and gravel with plain board ' finish ‘ outside. *fhere will be two large sliding doors for.the accom- odation, of two. cars. ‘D. Louisa Atterbury is to erect a garage on Page street which will be for the accommodation of one car. The building is to be ot rrame construc- tion, 12x18 feet. The roof. will be a hip roof 'and shinglea as will the out- side. A building application has been filed with Fire Marshal Stanton. Contractor Sweeney is progressing rapidly with the preparations for the erection of the garage for Bernard Ring on Chestnut street. . The - old blacksmith shop in the rear of .the carriage shop has been torn down as has part of the barn which also was located in the rear. The ground floor of the main building has been torn out and workmen are engaged in excavating for the ecellar: It js plan- ned to make the additfon in the rear two stories instead or one, giving an additional floor space of nearly 4,300 square feet. ‘W. F. Bailey has recently filed a building application for his garage on Bath street, but the work on the structure is well along. The main and second floors of the building have bhgen torn out and the walls jacked up. Men have been engaged for some time past with the excavation of the cellar and the erection of brick piers on which set the iron posts thaat will hold up the first floor. The masons are now engaged in the reinfofcing of the walls. Plans for several other new dwelling houses in this city and vicinity are being figured by Architects Cudworth and Thompson and will be ready for the building estimates within a short time. During the month of April Tire Marshal Stanton granted 12* building permits, the most that has been granted in a single ,onth for more than two vear: This number lacks one of being as many as were jssued during the previous auarter and the indications are ¢hat the building ac- ivities in this vicinity wil take a ed boom during the coming | months, 2 Work on the clubhouse at Jeweit| City for the Ashland Coton Company is being rushed to completion by Peck, McWilliams Company and the exte- rior work is practically completed and carpenfers are doing some of the in- terior work. en making - round the i B P NEW LONDON. J. A St. Germain hy¥ b~ \o@f the contract for huilding the cot on Ocean avenue for Harald G. Pond. The honee, which will be of frame con- struction, will contain eight rooms and| two baths, and will nave all modern} conveniences, including steam' or hotf water heat. The cost will be $8,000. Plans are beinz prepared by| Architect - Dudley St. €. Donnelly for the proposed Tewish synagozue to be erected on Blinman street. The struc- ture will be 40x8) fee-. and will cost in! the neighborhood of $30.000. The plans| will be ont in about a week. From the nlans of Architect Dudley St. C. Donnelly work has heen started iy 7 ki Pank streat on a building to'be d for C. H. Klinék. Tt will be of two staries b 3 feet, and; will he used for stor noses. The| will he $10.000 a.ad Oliver Wood- | s the contract. Croise will bnild twol es on.Vauxhalt .. and Morgan streets ane 0 cost $4.500 and the oth $£°00 The howaes will be 3 5v37. respectively, and have all} has ctarted work on| b he will Build for him- enburg avenue. Tt will be <23 feet. aranged for fwo! =1l improvements. The! 000, th cost will be $7,000. Minucei frothers have the enn- tract to bnild a cottara on Bilvdenbhurg avenue for Nunzio D'Elia. T will be | of woed. 27x28 feet. maving cix rooms, vith all imrrovemengs, and the cost| which are daily ana ammost hourly printed in the pre S reports concern- ing the processes of open diplomacy now being exemplified at the peace conference, somewhere in France. The entire proceeding is so amaz- ing. and, as it seems to me, outrage- { will be about $4,000. ous, that I feel that it should be dealt| John Torrello & Co. are building| {with in a more formal and official{» frame house for themselves on| {manner than by the sending of tele-|.Tafferson avenue. The house will be! grams by individual senators to vari- | 27; feet in sine, aranged for two families. and all improvements will be The interr nal situation appears|nravided. The cost will be about $5,- —from what we are permitted to kno 000. —s0 grave, and the issues involved are so stupendous, in their present and future bearing: nd consequences tha it has long been and is now perfc obvious t it was the plain duty of the pr nt to have called the sen- ate in special session on the 4th of March last. The -constitution of this country makes the advice and consent of the senate, by a two-thirds vote, a neces- sary condition precedent to the mak- ing of any treaty. The president is apparently en- gaged, behind closed doors, in an at- tempt to negotiate, without the advice or even the knowledge of the senate, an entire series of treaties. So far as we are allowed to have information, these proposed trea- provide not alone for the estab- ishment cf peace with the powers with whom this country has been at war, but they contemplate a new world constitution—a sacred covenant Building Permits. Walter Philbrick, garage, Raymond street. Cost, $2,000. Antonio Arra, frame house, Blyden-| burg avenue. Cost $7,000. A. Holandersky,. canteen, Trumbull street. Cost $300. Nunzio D'Elia. cottage; Blydenburg venue. Cost $4,000. i | i for a set of alliances, contracts, man- datory duties, obligations and. future international entanglements so in inextricably intertwined and commingled with the peace trea- THORNDYKE 2% KEMPTCN 2% Particalarly well adapted ty or treaties, as that we can not for wear with string bow. make peace unless we irrevocably commit this country to the entire presidential programme. If the president desires the advice of the senate in relation to these mo- mentous questions he has the power to convene that body at any time. It does not seem to me to be in line with making the world “safe for de- AC) that questio: which may the fate and destinies of all the of the world for all time uld be settled or even framed by president or by individual sena- T is indeed hard to stand at one side while the stream of li A man or woman condémned to sickness that does not permit him or her to per- In matters of such universal import and tremendov ight it scems to me| form the active duties of dife, to do his that the coun is entitled to the| of her share of the v!otldl work, is & :fit_of the advice of the senators| pathetic figure deserving of sympathy. m ] § states of this republic as Much sickness, pain i he 4 misery 1 ¢l y contemplated by the| result from disordered kidneys and blad- of our constitution and form{ der. Failure of the kidneys to do their work roment properly and filter impurities out of the blood tors cannot consult, advise,| leadstorhcumaticpains,backache, sore muscles, &tiff o swollen joints, puffiness under eyes, float- ing specks, biliousneas, bladder weakness, nerv- ousness, or other symptoms of kiduey trouble. [oley Kidney Pills are effective in removing the cause of the trouble for they, ghthen and invigorate weak ot deranged kidneys and belp them to normal functioning so that the blood streamis purificd snd the cause of disease res 1t neglects { id many of his heads of and bureaus are in for- ative branch of the gov- permitted to assemble. is out of fouch wjth its and the president is out h the coun'ry! the oo Vit F. M. Platte (Brakeman), Sec'y. Switchmas are a expressed | oy 518 Blaine St., Peoria, lIL, writes: " Two the A ue of The | pottles of Foley Kidney Pilis relieved ali symp~ 7 i Aeview, Dby David| tomsof my kidneysnd bladder trouble, sropping - Hill, entitied, TLe Obstruction| the backache and pains, correcting the kiduey |0t Peace. action, ciearing secretions. | gm also free from 1 FRANK ' B. BRANDIGE ey ot e s o] fore my cyes. Foley Kidaey FPills cured, me” The Lee & Osgood Co. The World did not pul ply.—Harvey's Weekly. ish the re- | same week last year. | compilled by The F. W. Dodge Com- 'FRAME HOUSE FOR ROCK STREET | | . g P Nt — ! Felix Mandler, cottage, Briggs street. Free Trial of Pyramid Pile Treate Cost $3,200, % {‘.ml-o:‘.«gemum Camillo Montanori, frame house, =" Events You Ever Asheroft extension. Cost #fit\?oz ; enced. | & J. T, ter, garage, letts av- Yol - sufferi; dreadfu enus, Cost $400. wil i, Shiioing ety John Turello & Co., frame dwelling, Jeérson avenue. Cost $5,000.. Frank Lauerzaff, cottage, Whitlesey avenue. Cost $1,700, Vi o CONNECTICUT BUILDING \ #ND BUSINESS Bank clearings _in the city of Hartford and New Haven for the past week show gains of 15.6 per cent. in the latter city, white mn Springfield there was a decrease of 8.2 per cent. for 'the week. ‘New incorporations tn this state for the past week numbered only seven, with authorized capital stock of $203,- 000. These figures ‘compare with the same number of new companies in.the corresponding week or last year, with $755.000 capital stock, and nine com- panies in 1917, with $277,000 capital. Business troubles that reached the bankruptcy court last week would seem to indicate healthy trade conditions. The three petitions filed had liabilities of $2,519 and assets of $802. Ijpr the like week of the year 1918 ‘there were nine petitions filed, with liabilities of $58.732 and assets of $43,375, and in 1917, four petitions, with liabilities of $24,330 and assets of $7,296. . The week past shows a remarkable volume of real estate transactions. In the Connecticut towns reported in The Commercial Record there were 567 sales by waranty deeds during the week, against 426 for the like week of 1918. During the week the amount of mortgage loans filea for record was 3;.13;4,1‘.’4, compared with $816,714 in 1918, Building operations are looking up., the aggregate amount as indi- cated by permits issued, showing a greater volume of business in the building trades than a year ago, and each week increasing. During the week in New Haven, Bridge- nort, Sartford, Waterbury, Stam- ford. New Britain, New London, West Haven,, Hamden and Strat- ford. 179 permits were granted, for buildings costing $654,828. com- pared with 164 permits a year wago,| for buildings costing $358,265, and; 213 permits in 1917, for buildings; costing $846,722. piles or hemorrhoide. gl'flqw, 8o over You Positively Cannot Afford te Ignore These Remarkable , Pyramids. to any drug store and get a 60-cent box of Pyramid Pile Treatment. Re- lief should come so quickly you will jump for joy. If you are in doubt, send for a free trial paclage by mail. You will then be convinced. - Don’t delay. Taks no substitute, FREE SAMPLE COUPON PYRAMID DRUG COMPANY, 576 Pyramid Building., Marshall, Mich. Kindly send me a Free of Pyramid Pile Treatm plain wrapper, Name BRESEt -iouk iaiion patudeatansihon Cit State M. A. BARBER Machinest and Engineer Steam Engine Repairs GERMAN PRETEXT FOR DECLARATION OF WAR Paris, May 5 (French Wireless Ser- Gas_Attach- EFFICIENT . With or Without ments but Always and ECONOMICAL=— MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs for all makes A. ). Wholey & Co., 12 FERRY STREET Phone £81 odern Plambing sssential in modern houses as to llgphti . We guaran LUMBING orices. Ask us for plans and prices J. . TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street . T. F. BURNS HEATING AND PLUMBING 91 Franklin Street ROBERT J. COCERANE GAS FITTING, PLUMPING, STEAM FITTING Washingior. 8¢., Washington Building Nozwich, Conn. 2 Agent for N. B. Q. Sheet Packing i(RON CASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY vice)—The imaginary invasion of German territory by the French was the pretext for the declaration of wat on France, says Gottleib Von Jagow, Norwich had eleven sales of real es- tate last week to twelve for the same; week last year. The foans for the re-! spective weeks were $6,400 and $2,000. In New London tuere were eleven| sales of realty last week o 14 for the! The loans for| the respective weeks werc $37,413 and| $92,900. BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND! Statistics of building and engineer- ing operations in New England as pany follows: Contracts to May 1st, 1919..$37,619,000 Contracts to May 1st, 1918 646,000 Contracts to May Contracts to May Contracts to May Contracts to May Contracts to May 1 Contracts to May . 59,098, Contracts to May . 46,494,000 Contracts to May . 50,834,000 to May . s to May ontracts to May Contracts to May - 00 Contracts to May 5.. 28,734,000 Contracts to May . 24,366,000 | Contracts to May | Contracts to May 01 Contracts to May 20| Contracts of April, 00 Contracts of April, ,000 Contracts of Anbril, 00 Contracts of April, 00 Contracts 16.711,000 Contracts 11,000 Contracts 18.993.000 Contracts 18,672,000 Contracts 16,015,000 Contracts 19,280,000 Contrac Contrac 14,623,000 Contracts A , Contracts of April, Contracts of April, Contracts of Anril, 9,820,000 Contracts' of April, 10,351,000 Contracts of April, 20,099,000 Contracts of April, 10,875,000 former German minister, in a book which he has just published entitled “The Universal War: Its Causes and Beginning.” The alleged French in- cursions were reported to the German staff by subordinate officers, Von Jagow sajy and the staff communi- ated the information to the govern- ment without attempting to ascertain the facts. = The former foreign minister asserts that before war he was convinced of the necessity of .an cecord with Great Britain and expresses regret that Germany unfavorably received of- fers of an alliance made in 1899. “When the Austro-Hungarian ambas- sador in Berlin communicated to him th etext of the ultimatum to Serbia, Von Jagow says, he thought its terms were too rigorous. He declares he ex- pressed some astonishment that Berlin {had not been informed earlier of the j steps taken at Vienna. Theodor Wolff in the Tageblatt com- menting on Von Jagow's version of the interview he had with the Austrian | amhassador concerning the uitimatum to Serbia, says that after reading it s more at a loss than ‘ever to un- stand why the proposal made by i Sir Edward Grey to call a conference o fambassadors to examine the condi- | tions to besenforced on Serbia was re- jected so categorically by Germany. { WHY JUGOSLAV TROOPS ADVANCE IN CARINTHIA . May 4 (French Wire- iless Service). Jugoslay circles in | Paris the following is given as the rea- !son for the a of the Jugoslav | troops in Carinthia bevond the limits {fixed in_the armistice: The Slovenian population of Carin- thia had been exposed to the exactions Jugoslav the boundar: Authoritles “difier as to whether poker room should be classed as ante-room or a drawing room. a ! an First for skin troubles Delay in the groper treatment of skin treubles is dangerous. Every day spent in trying un- proved remedies may only let the disorder spread and become more and more deeply scated. The value of Resinol Ointment ig dmown, For over twenty yearsithas been used as a sooth- ing, healing remedy for the skin. 1t appied in time, it usu checks the itching and reduces the eruption fight away. But even in stubborn, long-standing cases, it i3 surprising, how quickly this gentle, yet cfiective ointrent brings results. All druggists scll Resinol Ointment. Menwith tender faces find e vick Inther of Resinel Shaving Stick delihi- Fully sootking. lasses That Fit Are Less Expeusive Than Glasses That Misfit. Experience and equipment that insure first-class service at reasonable prices. C. A. SPEAR OPTOMETRIST 218 MAIN STREE T, FRANKLIN SQUARE | THE VAUGHN FQUNDRY (0. Nos. 11 o 25 Ferry Strest WILLIAM C. YOUNG - Successer to STETSON & YOUNG i CARPENTER and BUILDER | Bast work and rmaterials st right | prices by skiled labor. | ®elephons 0 Waest Main MONEY We pay CASH for your old Gold and Silver. Full Market Value | | | | | | { LEE CLE{;G,TE:Jeweler NEAR POST OFFICE I Open Evenings p——— = DR. ALFRED RICHARPS DENTIST Otfice Hours: . m.—1.30 to 5 p. m Wed. and Sat i Room &0y Thaver B il e 299 Residence ter. 1 GEORGE TOURTELLOTT Teacher of Violin Studio, 49 Broadway ICE CREAM PETER COSTANDI, 571, 112 Franklin St. DR. R. J. COLLINS. DENTIST 148 Main Street, Nertwich, Cann, Phone 1173 D.J.Shahan, M.D.. Alice , Building, 321 Main Street. Tel. Special attention to diseases of the STOMACH, BLOOD and LUNGS. Hours: 9-10 a. m.; 2-4 and 7-8 p. m. Phone: 821 office; 821-2 house. aprl0TuThS DENTIST : DR. E J. JONES 'Suite 46 Shannon Building, Take elevator Shetucket Street entrance. Phone WHERE TO DINE BOSTON CAFE AND LUNCH 41 BROADWAY Gives the Best Service EXCELLENT FOOD AND COFFEE For Ladies and Gentlemen CARL S. DEMETER CO. DR.A.J.SINAY DENTIST Rooms 18-19 Alice Building, Norwick Phors 1177-3 WHITESTONE CIGARS Are $4800 Far Thousand J. F. CONANT 11 Franklin St ) /| RE 15 r!sl) al in? THE! uo aavestising medium fn | Zastern Connecticut equal to. The i tetin for business results.,