New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1915, Page 7

URDAY ’ Five Days Yet of As this has NO MATTER WHAT YOU WANT, a & you get it while fittings, woodenware, tinware, enamelware, House Wares Sale been the biggest sale in on Ranges, wire sale lasts at a reducod prie brushes, lamps, etc. Will mention a few. AVY ASH CANS, reduced from to $1.839 each. Landers, Frary & Clark's FAMILY SCALES, 24 Ib., 980 kind for 70c each. Guaranteed ELECTRIC SAD TRONS. $1.98 kind tor 5 $1.39 each. Regular 50c size LIQUID VENEER, + bottle, Nitkel mounted FTREPROOF PIE PLATE $1.50 kind for 89%¢ cach QUART i CANS CEDAR OIL for floor mops, 98¢ value ofr 19¢ can. Fifly foot lengths HEAVY CLOTHES LINE, value 29c¢, this sale price but 19¢ a length. DUSTLE! DUST BRUSHES, | O, FLOOR MOPS, the dustless general utility, regular 25c each. ‘WILDOW CLOTHES HAMPERS, with cover, regular $1.10 kind, 89c each. BATH ROOM CABINETS,. metal white enameled $4.50 kind, $3.49. STRONG each, \ CLOTHES BASKETS for wet, wash, 98c value for to 39¢ kind, | Kkind of regular 98c value, 59¢ cach | LONG HANDLIED DUSTL. S FLOOR MOPS, rcgular 3%¢ grade for 25¢ 'h. STRETCHERS, full size adjustable oncs, $1.15 kind 790 I | | CURTAIN | | cach. CLOTHE! 69c. aln | 19c each. regular $1.69 cach, 79¢ 2 Berllh News e e o et et et EXPERT ACCOUNTANT - OF OFFICERS’ BOOKS F. S, Taylor of Springficld Firm Begins Work Today. V)Ill RECOMSEND BETTER METHODS ‘Reported Carrie Bennett Sold Land to R. O. Clark—Annual Meeting of { Berlin Construction Company Next i \‘\'cdncsday—l’ickop Returns. | ¥. S. Taylor, a member of the firm L Walter W. Eaton company, Inc., of | ' Springfield, Mass., - certified public accountants, today took up his work with the special committee appointed a4 the September town meeting to ex- amine the bopks of the Berlin town, Recommendations which he officers. " will make, will be made public at the adjourned annual town meeting to be held Monday evening, March 1. ‘With the continued meeting but a little more' than a week away_ the ex- amining board, composed of ex-Sena- tor Claude W. Stevens, E. W. Mildram and Treasurer Francis Deming of the Berlin Savings Bank, stands prepared to report on the condition of the ac- counts of the treasurer of the schonl committee, the town treasurer and the selectmen in which discrepancies were ] found at the town meeting. ~The committee has been working very diligently in an effort to have its report ready by the first of next month. The members are quite re- - ticent and decHne to state whether or not anything of importance has been uncovered during the investigation. Mr. Taylor comes to the committee highly recommended. He has audited the boo! of such concerns of the | Landers, Frary and Clark ('Unup'«nn',] ?he North and Judd Manufacturing company and the New Britain = Ma- chine company of New Britain and is considered one of the most careful and painstaking accountants in the New Iingland states. Although the examining board was authorized at the town meeting to en- ggze an accountant to assist the mem- bers in going over the boo! : {he pri- mary object of the comaitiee in bringing him here is to have him | make recommendations as to the most modern and practical methods for keeping the books. The committee, like the public in >neral, seems convinced that what- “er mistakeg there were in the town officers’ accounts, were due simply to impractical methods employed. The | integrity of the officers s not ques- « tioned in the least. .Mrs. Hankemeyer to Speak, Mrs, Frances Hankebeyer of New Mexico will speak in the Kensington Congregational church at the Sunday _morning service, Wwhich begins at $10:45. She represents the Congrega- }ional Education society in its work in Lhis least developed part of the United Btates. | Clark, | she would go to California. The Sunday school meets at noon, | revival meetings held and the Christian Endeavor society at 6 o’clock. ‘Washington Meeting. Monday evening the Men's Lyceum meets in the Methodist church. There will be a supper for members and thelr guests at 6:45. Members of the G. A. R. are invited to be present. At 8 o'clock there will be a lecture with stereopticon views, which is open for everybody. The subject is ‘““The Revolutionary Period of American History,” designed as a celebration o ‘Washington‘s Birthday. ! Construction Company Annual, The annual meeting of the Berlin Construction company will be held at the offices in Kensington 024Doary next Wednesday afternoon, February 24. The officers will make reports of the business done during the past year and officers and directors for the coming year will be elected. The much-mooted business depres- sion had little or no effect upon the “Bridge Shop” and few, if any, of its employes have been laid off as a re- sult of it. Among other things, the cencern has been making steel con- struction for big additions to the Union Metallic Cartridge company in Bridgeport ‘and the Winchester peating Arms company in New Haven, both of which firms are rushed with orders from the belligerent powers of Europe. A mammoth coal elevator has just been completed for a firm in Sidney, Australia and four freight cars have been engaged to haul parts of it to the steamship docks. Carrie Bennett Sells Land. The familiar figure of Carrie Ben- rniett was again seen on the strects of Berlin this morning, proving con- clusively that she is no tmissing, as a Hartford evening paper saw fit to peint out Tuesday evening. After a search for several days, Eimer W. Stearns finally located the eccentric old woman in Hartford yes- terday afternoon. On behalf of R, O the Bast Berlin brick manu- facturer, he made an appointment with her for yesterday Subsequently, she came Perlin yesterday afternoon this morning. down and again Mr. Clark cutting down the wood or. that part of the Ledge which is included in the boundaries of the old | Jacobs place, and as he must have the place cleared before the first day of April, he was desirous of purcha ing a nearby strip upon which to leave the logs temperarily. The deal was ciosed this noon at the New Britain Trust company, it is said. Carrie told Herald she owns practically at the present and that most of her real estate is in Granby. She ad- mitted, however, that she holds mort- gages on much property in this town. In fact she took a mortgage .on a Berlin man’s house this morning. She is a shrewd business woman and insisted upon a nnumber of changes in the mortgage agreement before she affixed her signature to it. She told Town Clerk Shaw that, if she could dispose of all her property in the east Whether or not she is interested in the Panama-Pacific exposition, which opens there today, she weuld not state, Methodist Preacher Returns, After an illness of severs weeks, Rev. Kawin M. Pickop, ¥ r of the Kensington Methodist church, has re- turned from the Methodist Episcopal hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y. and will conduct both services at his church tomorrow. Following no land in Berlin of encouraging at the ' local a series Re- | afternoon. | to | reporter that | this department we held, with larger savings and general reductions there, you had better make the most of it during the next five almest tchen range or a small tin pan, gouds $1.59 FR WATER PAILS, 25c¢ Star Fibre, CARPET SWEEPERS, $2.00 guaranteed kind for B ————— L T IYAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DEDIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PROMPT- LY RECEIVING ALD DRY GOODS PURCHASE The membership of the club i$ | made up of hoys in the classes of Rev. Mr. Hazen and Mrs E. P. Dunham, have cver everyth'ng trunks, bith room a uminumware, ca'h. From $1.98 M . 85¢ folding, Bissell’s D OF T church some time ago, Rev, Mr. Pickop suffered a nervous breakdown. His many friends, both in this town and New Britain, will be pleased to learn of the big improvement in his condition. Unable to Preach. Owing to severe bronchial trouble, Rev. Samuel A. Fiske will be unable to preach tomorrow at the Berlin Congregational church. The pastor has been ill for more than a week and it was only under great difficulties that he w able to conduct the ser- vice last Sunday morning. In his stead, Professor E. E. Nourse will deliver a sermon tomorrow, The Junior Endeavor society will meet in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. Lawrence Aspinwall will lead. At 6:30 o'clock in the evening the Senior Christian Endeavor soclety will convene to dis- cuss the topic, “Favorite Chapters of the Bible and Why.” It will be a memory meeting and Mis Elsie Pickett will lead. Art Exhibit Concluded. . Miss Adele Bassett, principal of the Kensington Grammar school, an- nounced today that about thirty dol- lars was realized from the art ex- hibition which was concluded at the school last evening. In compliance with an agreement with the Elson Art company, from which concern the reproductions of masterpieces of architecture, sculptures and paintings, were loaned, the school will purchase pictures for the beautification of the corridors from this company. The features on last night's pro- gram were a song, “Night,” by Grades VI and VII; memory selec- tlons on Washington, by Grade VII: song, “Flag of the Free,” by Grades VI and VII; reading, “Pictures of Washington,” by Lita Cowles; read- ings, “Nathan Hale.” by Rose Kiniry: songs in series by Grades VI and VII: Lincoln’s Getysburg speech, by Robert Ritchie; song, ‘‘Star of Peace,” by Grades VI and VII; recitation, *If,” by Levina O'Connell, Agnes Fagan, May Bollman and Ruth Anderson, and the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” by Grades VI and VII. Boys' Club Mcets. The Boys’ club, which is composed of youths in the Kensington Congrega- tional Sunday school, met last evening at the parsonage and talked over plans for a baseball team. who enjoyed several days of camp life at Hart's pond last summer. They or- ganized about a month ago. Berlin Briefs. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Orsi of Spring- field, Tll, are visiting relatives in Kensington. A number of Berlin young people tendered Alden Lincoln a pleasant surprise party last evening at his home on Farmington road. Mrs. Henry Sage of ridge is recovering from illness. The condition of Martin R. Dunham remains critical and but little hope is held out for his recovery. A doctors’ consultation was held yesterda If you have not reserved your seats at the Lyceum for next week, better do so now.—advt. Worthington her recent Miss Flora Corbatt of Winsted, Conn., is the guest of Mrs. George Griffith of Farmington road, Ken- sington. | INTERESTING TALKS PROISED Paticnt—Washingion'’s Birthday. Representativ of the nda | Schools and Loyal Workers socicties of the Advent Christian churches of Connecticut and. western Massachu- | setts will gather_here Monday for the workers to he held in the Pl ville ¢hurch of that denomination The rastor, Rev. J. W. Denton and the | heads of the local Sunday school and Loval \Workers, have been working for weeks on the arrangements for the session and they expect that the con- vertion will prove most interesting and instructive, O BRUARY CHURCH WORKERS T0 HAVE SESSION HERE Stnday Sehaol and Loyal w(ukers'i Convention at A. C. Church Dclegates From Many Churches in ! Connecticut and M ‘husetis to Attend—Purse for Tuberculosis | annual convention of youthful churca The delegates will be in ses ing a greater part of the mn dur- and day T NEW SOLD KING and KITCHENER KITCHENER REVIEW NEW ARMY - < = there will be speeches by several out- of-town clergymen and prominent church workers among the laymen. Part of the day will be given up- to exercises appropriate for Washing- ton’s birthday and some features of the program will be patriotic in char- acter. There will be a basket lunch and the ladies of the local church have arranged to serve tea and coffee to the visitors, Local people, who are not members of the Advent Christian denomination, who are interested in Sunday school have been invited to attend the ion . Rhetoricals at Rhetorical cxercises were held in the cighth grade of tae Grammar school yesterday afternoon. There were declamations by Donald Free- man, Ferdinand Schmidt and Adel- bert Stephenson, after which there was a debate on the subject: “Re- solved, That Winter Is a More E joyable Season Than Summer.” The affirmative side was represented by Gertrude McGibbon, Olive Rogers and Lena White, while Mary KEdward, Elizabetah Pike and Gertrude Smith supported the negative. The gir brought out some interesting points for each side of the question, but the judges ruled that the argument of the negative contingent entitled them to a decision o Harney Hart acted as chairman and the judges were Miss Inez Gald- win, Carl Edman and Wilbur Tierney. Purse for Consumptive, Employes in the office of the Greist 1 Manufacturing company West Haven have made up a purse of $40 for Thomas McNally of this place, who is a patient at the state sanatorium for tuberculosis patients at Newing- ton., The money has been turned over to James J. McNally, the voung man’s father. McNally was employed School, of office will be open hefwéen the hours of 7:30 and 10 a. m. and 4-and 6:30 p. m. The East Berlin post office will be open from 7:30 to 10.30 in the morning and from 4:20 to 5 in the af- ternoon. The regular hours will be | observed at the Berlin office. Washington's Birthday Matinee. 45 Minutes From Broadway, at the Ly- um. Big Show.—advt. Miss Gertrude North of East Berlin left today for a Mrs. Ralph Nickerson N. J. The Berlin Village Improvement so- ciety will glve a whist social Monday evening in the town hall. visit with her sister, of Elizabeth, IF YOU are going to have any paint- ing or paperhanging done this spring, let me give you a price. D. O. Hultgren, Kensington. 2-15-6dx SIX REASONS Depositing your money in bank makes it absolutely safe from loss by robbers, fire or accident, 1. this With a bank account you can pay your bills by check. The can- celled check is a legal receipt for payment. You cannot be made to pay the bill twice, A check book makes all your money available at any moment, and you are never bothered to make change. f. The bank keeps your records. Every deposit and the amount of your checks are carefully itemized by their expert bookkeeper, so that | you know where you stand at the | end of the month, 5. parly every man nceds to bor- row money at some time. If you arc well known at the bank, through your bank account, casy to get accomodations, Every check you write is an ad- vertisement of your good business habits and solid worth, w h has the cffect of raising you the general esteem of your it is in neighbor Any one of the reasons above is suf- ficient to influence you to open a bank account. NOW is the TIME to BEGIN the PRACTICE of these approved busi- ness methods, and make this bank, YOUR BANK. The First National Bank As Monday is Washington’s birth- day, there will be no sessions at the local schools. The Kensington post | I PLAINVILLE, CONN, Banking hours 9 a, m. to p. DL These pictures were taken on a recent review of new troops in Eng- land by King George and Earl Kitch- ener. Those of “Kitchener's million” who were reviewed enthusiastically cheered their king and military lead- er. They are now either in France or on their way there. in the office of the New Haven con- cern and was well liked by the man- agement and his associates, a fact to which the purse gives ample testi- mony The company has also shown gen- erosity in his case and has assumed full responsibility for the expense of his care. McNally's condition is very un- favorable and there is but little hope for his recovery. The young man has many friends here who Wwill be grieved to learn of the seriousness of his case, At the Churches Sunday. Methodist Rev. L. *. Baker, the evangelist, will preach at the morn- ing service in the Methodist church Sunday, substituting for the pastor, Rev. . B. Thurston, who is at Francis hospital with a fractur thigh. The evening service will be omitted. Bpiscopal—Holy communion will be celebrated in the Church of Our Sav- iour at 8 o'clock in the morning. The morning service will be held at 10:45 | with preaching by the rector, Rev. It H. Burton. Sunday school will begin at 12 o'clock In the evening at 7 o’clock Rev. E. G. Reynolds of 8t. James’ church, Glastonbury, will give the sermon. Congregational—The pastor, Rev. F. L. Grant, will occupy the pulpit at the morning service Sunday. Advent Christian—*“I Go to Prepare a Place for You" will be the subject of the sermon to be given in the Ad- vent Christian church morning by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Denton. The evening sermon will be supplemental to the serics on the “Three Parables of the Recovery of the Lost.” The subject will be A Lo tomorrow World.” The Sunday school classes will meet after the morning service and there will be a young people’s praise and social service at 6 o'clock in the evenir Washington’s Birthday, Postmaster P. J. Prior announced today that the postoffice will close nt 12:30 Monday, Washington's birthday There will be one -city delivery, but the rural carrier will not cover his route. DPatrons of the rural mail ser vice may get their mail,_ however, at the postoffice up to closing time The National bank will observe tha holiday by closing and there will no sessions in the schools. The even- ing school classes, however, will meet as usual, The factories will operate and the stores will be open, the merchants not he including Washington’s birthday in the list of holidays which they ob- serve. Veteran Odd Fellows to Moeet. | The veteran Odd Fellows of Connect- | cut will hold their annual convention Monday in Bridgeport Arrangements have been made for an entertainment and banquet in connection with the | session' and Odd Fellows from all over | the state have arranged to attend. [ Local Odd Fellows, who belong to the veteran's association, and are ell- | gible to atfend the convention are; 1 ; D. Warfleld, A. D. Dresser, R R Roberts, G. 1. Spencer and J. E. Web- ster. Arrange ¥or Concert. Arrangements are being made for a sacred concert to be given in the town hall on Sunday, March 21, | { under the Still Moving On To My Orig- inal Destination. Sat. 9 a. m. to 12 m., and 7 to 9 p. M. New Enghish Troops Cheer JERS CHEERING IRev. J. W. Denton of this place wi gpeak to the Brotherhood of theBri tol Advent Christian church tomorroy afternoon, at 5 o'clock | Newport. N Wall paper it Thompson's ne super-Dreadn advt nia, will he lau The ladies of the Methodist church | gay, Mareh 16 gave a successful food sale yesterday | of Germantown, at the home of Mrs. J. B. Lamb, Whit- | ,y Secretary of 8 ing street, for the benefit of the pas- | christen her. Mish tor, Rev. G. B. Thurston ter of Il I Washingtan’s Birthday Matinee. 45 | ber of the Poor § Minutes From Broadw: at the Ly time | dent of 8 um. Big Show.—advt Miss Kolb is & stil Park seminary, Wl 1.OST—Thursday nighe, pair of gold | Mrs. Kolb are at Reward for return of me Washington ™h tyder’s store. Plainville. | School lane, (Germ 2-18-d3X | who i= eighteen - - he Governor Bru TACK MONTEREY. election Tof (e 3 San Antonio, Tex., Feb., 20.—A m« his ideal she in 4 sage from Villaldama, where the Car- | ponnsvivania anza forces are concentrating pr & aratory to an attack on Monterey, says nearly ten thousand soldiers and a FIND BODY large number of guns are there Ar O vhrook, ! munition is arriving daily from of Richard Dennis border, and it is reported the co day evening i the mand equipped with ammunition | Potter dock whe! for an army of 25,000 men ntern he had beelt — anding on shores $100,000 FALL RIVER FIRE. lived aboard an ab Fall River, Mass.,, Feb. 20.—Dam- | it is suppesed he f@ ages estimated at $100,000 resulted | the plank from dod from a fire in a business block at the & Was rescued from & corner of Fourth and Pleasant streets | Sort early in Janual today. The principal losers were the | relative rviving i Troy store, dry gooc nd Covel and | Dennison of the 38 Osborne, hardware dealers | York Transportatiol HENRY STANTON DEAD. ARR LD A New London, Feb. 20.— Henry . Hartford, Feh. 20 Stanton, a past grand chancellor of [ who today, complel the Connecticut Knights of Pythias | term in the Connect died at his home at an early hour 'ivis | in Wethersfield for fi morning He was a native of ast | port, was arrested & Lyme and for many years was en- | the Springfield, M gaged in the shoe business in this | the me charge city. wanted in Cleveland] - KING - GEORGE snd EARL 2 KING -G f’mg | 1 i p O re’ adl auspices of the Church of Our Lady PRETTY MI | of Mercy. The affair will take the form of a 7 ol ] St. Patrick’s celebration and there WILL CHE will be a lecture as a feature of the program. Rev. H. T. Walsh, who is PE \ making the plans, stated today that the speaker has not as yet.been se- lected. Claims Still Unsettled., Property owners whose trees were killed by gas a few years ago, except of course those who secured verdicts | in the superior court, state that they have not as yet geceived settlements from the Bristol and Plainville Tram- way company and they have no knowl- ! edge as to what is to be done with | | their claims. ] The matter has been taken up with the officers of the company but evi- | dently no plan of settiement has de- | | veloped sufficiently to give any idea | as to what is to be done There is a possibility that the cases will have to be taken to court for adjustment Brief Items , Wall paper sale at Thompson's.— | advt. | & Mr. and Mrs. A. 8 Halladay and % daughter of West Haven are the guests of Mrs. Halladay's parents, b ind Mrs. R. H. Burton If you have not reserved your sea ™, it the Lyceum for next week, bette % do 0 now.—advt