New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1915, Page 10

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N’S HO 223 MAIN STREET ibbons, Neckwear, lldren s Coats and Trimmings best in Miflmery at the lowest prices. We must reduce stock. Whatever i st. We will save you dollars in the long run. ME OF RELIABLE MILLINERY p, No. 8, P. O. 8. & regula.r meet in G. A l be called y. m. After on the members 126 train for Mer- oy the even_ . On Friday e smbers, upon in- licants were re- 4 ; I)‘ evening aof this intiation"\iwill be mber will be ee has made ar- refreshments.. A Tequested. D. of P., will ning at 7:30 o’clock . meeting there will ~of Ma acha.p- @, S, will be held F fay 13. Officers @t 7:15 p. m.” ) 8. W. V. liary, Spanish War announce that tne S T Petticoats, and $2.98 36-in: t Gowns, value. To- 79¢ value. ing at 7:30 o'clock in G. A. R. hall, . street, Tuesday evening, May 11. weekly afternoon whists have been discontinued for the summer. ‘Worthy Temple, Pythian Sisters, Worthy temple, No. 18, Pythian Sisters, will hold their regular meet-" ing Friday evening, May 14, at 8 o’clock, in the ‘O,.U. A. M. hall, 277 | Main street. There will be a re-] hearsal of the drill team and all mem- bers are requested to be present. Auxiliary 1,'Sons of Veterans, Auxiliary 1, Sons of Veterans, will hold its regular mesting Friday even- Y. M. T. A. & B. Society. Twelve candidates were initiated at ‘the meeting of the Y. M. T. A, & B. society 'yesterday and four applica- tions for membership were received. It was announced that $45 had been cleared on the recent drama. - A com- mittee was authorized to plan for the annual memorial exercises. Ladies’ Auxiliary, A. O. H, A regular meétinig of thé Ladles’ auxiliary, A. O. H,, will be held in Eagles’ hall, Tuesday evening, May 11. All members are requested to attend as matters of importance will be dis- cussed, ! New Britain Temple. Theré will be a meeting of New Britain temple, L. G. E., at the home of Mrs. F, S. Wooding, 242 Main Unity Rebekah Lodge. A regular meeting of Unity Re-; bekah lodge, I. O. O. F., will be held tonight at O. U. A. M. hall. Reports will be made by delegates to the Re- bekah State association and the noble grand will give a report from the Odd Fellows' home at Groton, Court Prosperity, F. of A, Court Prosperity, F. of A., will meet in O. U. A. M. hall tonight. Mattabessett Tribe, A meeting of Mattabessett tribe, I. O. R. M., will be held in Judd’s hall tonight. Harmony Lodge. A special train has been chartered by Harmony lodge, A. F. & A. M., for & trip to Meriden Wednesday evening to visit ‘Center lodge. The party will leave at 7 o'clock. Lady Wallace Lodge. Lady Wallace lodge, No, 24, D. O. 8., will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday in St. Jean Baptiste hall. There will be a rehearsal of the play after the lodge is closed. Sunshine Society. The Sunshine society will nmreet Tuesday . afternoon at 3:00 olclock at the Y. W. C. A, With the Elks. The officers of New Britain lodge, No. 957, B. P. O. E,, will go to Tor- rington tomorrow night to put antlers on candidates for' admission to Elk- dom. Exalted Ruler'James H. Cur- tin will lead the charge. It is expect- ed that about twenty-five local Elks will accompany the officers. The trip will be made in automobiles. Phenix Guard Club. The Phenix Guard club will give a social and dance in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall on Hungerford court on Wed- “BUSY LITTLE STORE” 45 NEW LAID Connecticut EGGS 1.00 Russell Bros. nesday evening .of this week. Go music will be furnished and refresh- ments will be served in the lower hall during the evening. A. 3 Spencer, A. Heisler and A. E. ‘Hurl- | but is the committee in charge of the | arrangements. Loyal Order of Moose. The attendance at the meeting held in Judd’s hall on Friday evening, May 7, was the largest and most enthusi- astic ‘held by the Moose in a long time. The committee in charge has se- cured a very natty uniform for the: parade dn the 19th and request all the brothers to place’their’orders at as early a date as possible, as the committee will have to get the uni- forms at least two weeks before the 19th. THRe brothers can leave their names with any of the commu.tee, or with the. steward at the club’ rooms. There will be a prize for the lodge having the largest number in line, as: well as for the best appearance. The Hartford lodge is working. hard to make it the best fraternal parade ever held in Hartford. All atnletes, whether members of the A. A, U. or not, wishing to enter the field events can secure application blanks at the Moose club rooms at 242 Main street. The entries will close on June 12. There will be prizes given for ail events, handicaps open to all regular athletes, including 100-yard dash, 440- yard dash, 880-yard dash, 1-mile run, 8-mile run, high jump, broad jump, hammer throwing, sack race scratch, 1-mile relay handicap. The closed events for Moose are 100-yard dash scratch, 880-yard dash, 50-yard dash for the heavyweights, 200 pounds or over. Hop, step and jump, and special events for all other fraternal orders. One-mile relay: Some of the prizes to be awarded are as follows: First place, 14k gold medal; 2nd place, 10-year gold filled medal; 8rd, bronze medals for Moosc events. Relay prize will be a silver loving cup. Club scoring most points, silver cups; individual scoring most points, cups, etc. Dictator P. J. Scheyd attended thiy State Board of Governor’ meeting held in Meriden May 9, and they are making final arrangeemnts to make this a big day for all. They are to give prizes for the best appearing marching club in line, as well as for the best floats, etc. Our whist and dance held on Apiil 80 was a great success, socially as well as finacially, and we have to thank a]l our friends for helping us to make it such, Our baseball committee reports. it is ready for the opening of the fra- ternal league on May 15. We have a good strong team and will be sure to make the other teams sit up and take notice. We elected one candidate and received two new applications. The degree work will be conferred on a large number of candidates at the next meeting. The house committee has made 2 number of alteratiens in the club which the members appreciate very much, £ Court Columba, The assembly .and dance which Court Columba, No. 21, Daughters of Castile plans to give tomorrow even- ing, promises to be one of the best zocial functions given in the city this season. Lynch's orchestra will fur- nish the music for entertainment and dancing. There will be a meeting of the convention committee held in New Electric building tonight at 8 o'clock. The state convention will be held here, Tuesday, June 1. Court Columba is planning for a big celebration at that time. This is the first time the con- vention has been held In New Britain since the society was started, eight years ago. Daughters of Liberty. The state/ convention of Daughters of Liberty will be held at Hartford, Tuesday, May 11. All ex-councilors and associate councilors are eligible to attend. Stanley Relief Corps. Stanley Women's, Relief Corps will omit the regular meeting on May 12 on account of the department conven- tion to be held in the First Baptist church, Hartford, May 12 and 13. Doric Council, R. and S. M., The regular meeting of Doric Coun- cil, R. and S. M,, will be held. Friday evening instead of Wednesday this week. The royal and seiect master cdegree will be conferred. Light re- ireshments will be served. ‘Washington L. Morgan Lorge, Washington L. Morgan lodge, No. 301 MAIN STREET. i1, K. of P, will hold their regular meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in Vega hall. The entertain- ment committee are requested to be present as matters pertaining to the summer outing will come up; the propoded visit to Asbury Park in July, when the D. O. K. K. will hold their imperial annual session, to which all Knights of Pythias are in- vited to participate in the different events, Harmony Lodge, A, F. & A. M. At a special meeting of Harmony lodge, A. F. & A. M., to be held to- night ‘thé second degree will be con- ferred and final arrangements will be made for going to Meriden Wednes- day night. Center 1odge of that city has in- vited the local Masons down to work the degree and a special train has been chartered to convey the 150 men who agreed to go down there. AMERICANS SCORE LIFE-BOAT FIASCO Afidavits of U. §. Passengers St- arcd by Consu ate at Quzcns{owa. Queenstown, May 9, via London, May 10, 1:67 a. m.—Affidavits made by Miss Jessie Taft Smith of Braceville, Ohig, Dr. Howard L. Fisher. Major F. Warren Pearl and Robert Rankin of New York, are the only permanent records of the Lusitania disaster ob- tained by the United States consulate heré. All are brief and none reflects seriously upon the behavior of the Lusitania’s crew except what some witnesses consider the life-boat fiasco. The affidavits of Miss Smith and Mr. Rankin were cabled tonight to Secre- tary of State Bryan, while those of Major Pearl and Dr. Fisher were sent to Ambassador Page at London. Beginning at noon today at Consul Frost’s orders, the bodies of the iden- tified Americans, covered with the Stars and Stripes were removed from scattered morgues and placed side by side in the Cunard Line offices on the water front. Crowds Pay Respects. As they were carried through the streets by British sailors the crowds uncovered. Cheap brown coffins contained the bodies of Charles Frohman, Isaac F. Trumbull of Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Henry D. MacDona of New York, Charles H. Stevens of Atlantic City, Dr. F. 8. Pearson of New York, D. Walker of New York, Dr. Pearson’s secretary; Mrs. McBride, Hugh Comp- ton, 17 years old; C. T. Brodrick of Boston; Herbert Ellis of New York and Mrs. Spillman of Detroit. Mr. Frohman’s secretary arrived today to take charge of his employer’s body. One of the survivors tonight iden- tified the body of Mrs. R. D. Shymer of New York, the .xmerican widow of an English nobleman, who subsequent- ly married an American and had been living in New York. She was on her way to London, and her name prob- ably will be added to the list of American dead. Bury Bodies Today. A whole company of British sol- diers today completed tne digging of toree huge graves, each: 30 by 20 feet, in which the 140-o0dd identified dead will be buried tomorrow. The moving of bodies up the hill to the cemetery will begin at 9:30 a. m., and continue until 10:30 p. m. Mounted police, soldiers and civilians will participate. There will be a joint service, clergy- men of all creeds joining’ in saying prayers. Many bodies of children and little babies still lie in the morgues. It is probable these little ones will be piaced in a grave together. Not a single body was brought in today from the spot where the Lusi- tania disappeared. Arrested for Fkpionage. Lindell T. Bates, son of Lindon W. Bates of New York, vice chairman of the American commission for the re- lief of Belgium, was arrested at Kinsale yesterday on a charge of espionage while searching for the body of his brother, Lindon W. Bates, Jr., who {s believed to have perished on the Lusitania. Newton B. Knox, an \American ‘mining engineer, who was with Mr. Bates, was taken into custody at the same time, " Th sergeant who made the arrests accused them of being officers of a German submarine. After being taken before!a captain they were detained at the barracks a half hour until United States Consul Frost at Queens- town vouched for them. Their search of the coast revealed no rrace of the body of ‘L. ‘W, Bates, Jr. Mrs. Watson Dead. The body of Mrs. Anthony Watson of New York, has been added to the list of identified American dead, while the name of John Williams, nine years cld, has been included in the list of survivors. ‘Willlam Webb, the representative of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, wanted to send out a tug last night to continue the search for Mr. Vanderbilt’'s body, but the admiralty and Cunard Line officials discouraged the plan and' it was abandoned. There is no indica- tion when ‘the search for bodies will be resumed. ARRESTED THIS NOON. Joseph Foley, who drives a wagon for the Andrews Swift company, was arrested by Traffic Officer Theodore Johnson at noon today. The officer arrested Foley after he had refused to give the traffic signals and had turned around him on the wrong side. When ordered to turn in the right manner Foley declined. The arrest followed. GERMANS FLEE ITALY, Berne, Switzerland, May 10, via Paris, 3:40 p. m.—It is estimated that 10,000 Germans from Italy crossed the Swiss frontier Saturday and Sunday. Four thousand arriver at Lugano alone. also | company with the Journal company 6 109 0'Clock--MONDAY EVENING SPECIALS-- STEAKS Fine Granulated Sugar ...41-21bs SPECIALS FOR TUESDAY Meadowbrook Cheese ... s 19¢) Short, Sirloin, Porterhouse and. 25c¢ ‘With 10c¢ Purchase at Grocery Dept Round Best Pure Crisco for Cooking .. .pail ZOCI FOREQUARTERS WINTER LAMB ... .Ib 1 1 c RIB OR LOIN LAMB CHOPS .........Ib 18C FRESH HAMBUR.G STEAK .. 12:c FAT SALT b 16¢ Fancy,Maine. ... Pomtoes 2 15-1b pks 27c SPECIALS FOR TUESDAY: Mohlc,gn Cocoa .."% ib fin l7c PORK . FRESH PORK CHOPS FANCY' CORNED SPARE RIBS FRESH SLICED BEEF LIVER .. Fresh Nati res| alvepk 15C POT ROAST Fancy Ripe Pineapples 2 for Native Green Spinach Asparagus bch 15C Fresh Ripe Radishes, 3 hehs e ' e Ruiins . -Epkes 1DC Soda - +...101s 10€ Pumpkin. gal can 20C BROTHER MAY AVENGE DEATH OF TRUMBULL (Continued From First Page.) i the company had been selected for the voyage, but he was busy with home trade and Isaac agreed to substitute for him. { He was thirty-two years of age and was at one time a resident of Plain- | ville. He was foreman of the machine i room in the Trumbull factory here some years ago. He subsequently ! started in the electric supplies busi- ness for himself, erecting a plant in Bantam. He later went to Bridgeport organizing the company to manufac- ture the Trumbull cycle car. The firm has been doing a big business, He is survived by his widow and a daughter Priscilla, aged thirteen years. He also leaves his parents, M». and Mrs. Hugh Trumbull of Maple street ant'six brothers, Albert and Frank of Bridgeport, George of Ban- tam, James of Saranac, N. Y., and John H. and Henry of Plainville. He was afilliated with several fraternal | noon. and social organizations in Bridgeport and during his short stay in that place became a very prominent citizen. ORGANIZER MOORE HAS PORTLAND JOB Chamber of Commerce Secretaryship Proves More. Attractive Than Or- Ganizing Work. W. B. Moore, organizer the New Britain Chamber of Commerce, was a visitor in the city today on his way to Danbury, where he organize a Civic bureau tonight and an Industrial bureau tomorrow night. The Danbury Chamber of Commerce was organized by Mr. Moore with a membership. of one thousand and an income of $12.000. The hustling organizer has given up his contracts with cities in all parts of Connecticut to take the secretary- ! ship of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. A flattering offer was made him and he is now working on Portland’s problems. The chamber | there has 1,300 members and an in- come of $24,000. Mcetings for This Week. The following meetings of the Cham- ber of Commerce have been arranged for this week: Meeting of directars of Mercantile bureau at 10 o’clock Tuesday morn- ing. Meeting of the publicity committee at 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Meeting of the directors of the civic bureau at 8 ao’clock Friday night. A meeting of the credit bureau was held at 10 o’clock this morning. of WINCHESTER R.ECALLEI!. Describes ‘“Trade Discounts” Made to | Barnes’ Paper. Syracuse, May 10.—At the opening of court in the Barnes-Roosevelt libel suit here today, Charles M. ‘Winchester, general manager of the J. B. Lyon company of Albany, was recalled. He said he had not been able to produce the mass of ledger entries of the account of the Lyon | at Albany as called for in his sub- poena. The witness then testified re- garding numerous volumes of public documents and books, come bearing will ¢ L__ Ctty Items D. of C. whist and dance New Elec. tric hall Tuesday evening.—advt. Kenneth Hartman has been made assistant scout master of Troop No. 7, New Britain Boy Scouts. The new shape cap is found ex- clusively at Wilson’s, City hall.—advt. You will do better at Wilson's.— advt. Detective Sergeant Bamforth ar- rested Eric Johnson in Slapski and Kata's Main street saloon’ this after- He is charged with drunken- ness and breach of the peace. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Patterson wiil leave Thursday for Amherst, N. H,, after visiting with. Mr. Patterson’s sister, Mre, William Daijgle, of this city, for the last two months, A re- ception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Pat- terson "will be held' tonight at thHe {home of Mrs, Daigle on Fairview streei. A. G. Cohen is in New York on a business trip. WORKING GIRLS, Over fifty delegates from this city are in attendance at the state con- vention of the Working Girls’ club in session in Bristol today. The club held a theater party Saturday night at the Lyceum presenting L. J. Fuller with a pen knife as a testimonial, Mr. Fuller gave the club valuable assist- ance in preparing for the play which it recently presented. What'’s In the Cup? The flavour may be agreeable, but appetite isn’t the only thing to be considered. The average cup of coffee contains about 2 1-2 grains of caffeine, a powerful drug which isa frequent cause of indigestion, constipation, nervousness, heart trouble and other ills. Some persons are strong enough to use coffee for a time without apparent harm, but repeated doses of its subtle, cumulative drug, caffeme sooner or later affects even the strong man or woman, Any coffee drinker will benefit from a change to INSTANT POSTUM This pure food-drink has a snappy tan very like the Old Gov't Javas, but it contains no ca%eine, nor any other harmful ingredient. It is made of selected wheat, a little wholesome molasses and is pure, invig- orating anu delicious. And Instant Postum is so easy to make. Put a level teaspoonful in a cup, add hot water, and sugar and cream to taste, * The convenience of Instant Postum is seen at a the imprint of the Journal company and others that the Lyon company. All Mr. Winchester swore, were print- ed by the Lyon concern. The witness also testified in detail about what he described as “Trade discounts,” and what John M. Bowers, chief counsel for Colonel Roosevelt , glance. Sold in 30c and 50c¢ tins. Some prefer Pos- tum Cereal—the original form—which must be well boiled, 15¢ and 25¢ pkgs. Grocers sell both kinds, the flavour is equally de- licious and the cost per cup is about the same, called “commissions.” Mr. Ivins ob- jected to thé use of the word “com- mission.” “There’s a Reason” for POSTUM -

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