New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1915, Page 7

WHITE SHOES AT VERY LOW BEST TIME i ‘White Shoes to PRICES Wear with her Summer Gowns. NOW TO BUY THEM Hvery woman and girl, these days, must have at least one. pair of Just now we are affering some wonderful values in White Canvas Dress Pumps, ~well in quality, style and fit. and White Rubber Soled Outing Shoes that will please you Best of all the prices are most satisfactory. Read along, note the offerings as mentioned here, they must be seen to be fully appreciated. Colenial P cial value, $1.50 ‘White Low Slioes of Canvas with black piping. priced only $2.00 pair. They are the season’s very best bargains. g WMpPs of white Canvas, with white heels, An extra spe- Regular $3.00 value, White Lace Boots with rubber soles such as all wamen want, spe- clally good ones - Adele Pumps of wi desirable, at only $1.75 3 ‘White values, $2.50 to at $32.50 pair. $3.50 pair. v ite Canvas with white heels, very stylish and Pumps of plain canvas or piped with black. Extra special | Sneaker Pumps of white Canvas with rubber soles, the acme - of camfort, special White Rubber Soled Oxfords, good ones too, for womien, value for $1.25. pair. For children at 85¢ and 95c pair. 's \White Buck and Canvas Ankle Tics and Button Boots are Children also offered now 5% E AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU GAN DEP: CEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF TUS. for. $1.50pair. at extra special prices, , and special END ON PROMPTLY RE- on his' part to have wviolated the law. _He had an electric light on his extinguished until he was arrested by the officers. C. P. Weldon, an employe of the New Departure ‘Manufacturing com- " | pany, Bristol, also entered a plea of guilty. evening at 8:50 o’clock in Kensington. . He said that this was his first offense ‘and that he had never been arrested | Jat any time before. It was:proven | that he had not intentionally passed | through this town with the rear Mght | out. His lamp, he said, is an oil onc i and it probably - was ' extinguishéd : from the jarring of the machine on * the rought roads. i He was arrested on-Saturday | ma- | chine and he was unaware that it was ; | predicament when one of the court that his gas tank guddenly went “dead” and it became n cessary for him to light the oil lamps on his machine. He was further placed in a th, lamps refused to burn. He Wa: also discharged on payment of the officers’ fees. Town Lose Case. Although James Marcaratto, of Bast Berlin, was found guilty of harbor- ing an unlicensed, dog and fined . $5 without: casts hy~.Judge .George - G. Griswold, the townilost eight-six cents through the case because of the larze number of witnesses introduced. In- | question asked by L ! ney if the dog had not been at her | “Beg /your pardon, no, | juke and'Prosecutor came to house, hungry and eat and Bo'away. No my dog.” "~ Under the questioning of Prose-~ cutor William H.'Gibney the man ad- mitted that the ¢anine had been stay- ing at his home for nearly a year. It has been at his residence ever since Antonio Simeoni, who was a watchman- at the old stone. quarry, left for Europe. - It was recalled that Simeoni had been arrested about a year ago for.not licensing the same dog. i Two of his friends were introduced by him at witfiesses. Both said that Marcaratté was not the owner of the canine. ‘As Judge Griswold was about to ! give his decision on the case, Macar- 1 atto’s wife arose and said she wished to say something. It took her about | fifteen minutes te say her few wards, She said that the_dog came to her house and “hugged” her until her sympathies for ‘the poor hunsry ani. mal weré so .moved that she gave. it something ' to €at.. In answer to a Prosecutor Gib- home for nearly a year she answered, that’s my fight hand,” holding her hand up in the air. “The dog used to come around and ‘hug’ me until I give him supper,” she said. Asked if he had any more witness- es Macaratto offered to bring all his fellow employes to court. He said, “If you want I bring all quarry job here.” Judge the found man Griswold which he willingly paid up. His wife became quite impertinent before court was adjourned. She seemed to take the ‘procsedings as a Gibney" repri- manded her by saying that if she was not careful she would be arrested for contempt of cdurt. With this warn- ing her radiant smile suddenly disap- reared. Celebrates Eighty-first Birthday. Mrs, Carric E. Jones, of Hudson street, where she resides with her | brother, Postmaster Henry L. Porter, celebratcd her eighty-tirst birthday oil | i first vice-president yesterday cfgernoon. 1 nonor of the cccasion Postmaster and Mrs. Porter gae a scclal at their home, to which sixteen of Mrs, Jones” friends were ! invited. Rofreshments were served. During the day Mrs. Jones ywas the | recipient of ‘many large and handsome | bouquets of flowers. About forty of . her friends remembered her i pestal cards. Mrs, Jones is the widow of the late { F. D. Jones, a well known farmer in Berlin, who died four years ago. She She attended an born on July 26, 1834. the local schools and RBerlin Congregational churcn. and assist in ‘household duties. , She is very bopular with her neigh- bors. © Meet for First Time in 35 Years, Separating in South Meriden thirty-five years ago, William Luby, or the -Berlin Veterans’ association, pleasantly surprised friend, John Little, zcquaintances with him Mr. Luby and Mr. Little were partners in busi wher called to renew an guilty’ and fined him $5 without costs, * with | is a native of this town, having been | academy. | Mrs, Jones ig an ardenf member of the In spite of her advanced uge she is quite' agile and is able to be around ! She can read and write without difficulty. yesterday was old | e — ¢ o ot WESTWOOD PARK T0 i GET R.E.D. SERVIGE | Postal Department Onders Exten- | sion of Carrier’s Route 'D. R, HOSES NEW SUBSTITUTE | | Hartford Man to Succeedl Frank O. Suit ! Thomp:on—Minello Brings Halpern — Drunk Had | Against Wooddén Leg—John Cafferty Dead Notice of the extension of the route of the rural letter carrier to include the district known as Westwood park, l | beginning August 1, has been receiv- | ed by Postmaster Prior from Wash- | ington and. residents of that section | will now be given an opportunity to arrange for the; delivery of mall, 'to their homes. This improvement in | the service has been sought for a long time but it was held back by the postal depariment owing to the poor condition of tho passways used as en- trances io the district. ! Acting under instructions from the annual lown ineeting the selectmen some time ago built a highway from White's crocsing to a point near the | Blectric field, making Westwood park more accessible to vehicles and & ! ! favorabie report 6n the advisability of ' having the carrier make regular calls to the houses in that locality was then presented by the postmaster. | There are twenty-two houses in the section that is to be served. The occupants heretofore have been call- ing at the posioffices in either New | Britain cr Plainille for their mail | | and for the past few years they have been exerting every effort to get the district included in the rural car- rier's route. } Carrier Morey has been instructed ! , to call on thé residents of the patk during the n:xt few days to advise them of the acw order and to learn | whether they Wish the services. Postmaster Prior also ‘annousced today the selection of Danicl R. Moses i of Hartford as substitute city carrier to succead Frank -O. Thompson, re- cently resigned. Mr. Moses was se- cond on the :ist of eligibles, Robert Lathrop of New Britain, the leader having declined to accept the place as substitute. He is now located in| Boston. The new appointee will be expected to muke his home in Plain- ville as his services may be required at any time, when only a short notice can be given him. The vacation season at the office will start Saturday, when Miss Edith Fireless Cook at Less Than $18.00, $22.00 and $25.00 Cookers . 12.5( Here’s a great chance to get one of the Wo of the age—at less than cost. of our hine of Calorics at tigures that are less than cost. We have only a few left and you s quickly in order to secure the best ones. We also are selhng 8 Electric Fireless € stoves for $10 each. These formerly sold THE FLINT- BR 103 ASYLUM ST 50 TRU time was held by the plaintiff. Minello-also claims that Halpern has the time the defendaht owned the | store. Papers in the suit have been filed | Mrs. John Cassidy, Ms with the town clerk and tne property | sidy and Migs Anna “a which Halpern bought from Minello has been attached. Runaway Horse Falls, Casciello, end a mua dash morning when he slipped and fell on the pavement in fromt of the Hotel Clarendon, was unhurt. the freight depot, where he wagon to which he was attached. A. Ellis starts on her fifteen-day leave of absence. Miss Ella D. Smith, sub- e is away. itute clerk, will take her place, whi'e | Drunk Had Woouen Leg. Officer Philip Marine found the [inert form of a man on the railroad is survived by four James, William and He tol; | refused to pay for googds sent to the | all of this place. market in the former’s name but at | sicters, Mrs. Mrs. John den; Mrs, Henry this’ place. Local Friends News of the received with a by local friends of His The animal was galloping | his family. at top speed at th time and while he | that he was o | elia several feet on the pavement, he | steamer Eastland, the Chicago The horse had started his dash from | he lost his life. had A runaway horse, owned by Andrew | Churchill, formerly ¢ this | gtven in the Herald The young man Kere, broken his harness, escaping from the | his relatives ih 1d them that he was Young Churel His father, Rev. at one time was pastor dist church here. - We offer the b v cluding the officers who made the ar- | rest six witnesses appeared for the state. Marcaratto in his defense had his wife and three of his friends ap- for ten vears at one time, selling | res from house to house around the | state. When they dissorved partner- chip thirty-five years ago, neither had Minello Sues Halpern. | tracks near the passenger station yes- The business affairs of Alfred Hal- | terday afternoon. The man was help- pern, which it was thought were w‘ iessly drunk and was In- the path of straightened out after attachments on | 80 engine that was used in switching Misstonaries Life of missionaries ar heathen in the Far Bast Misging his car to Berlin.and not wanting to be late for, ilg work at the power tion, Jam. '‘arro, a’ New. o L AR jaimates 8ist ] Birthday—Meet| For | Wive automobilists, from New . Brit- , Hartford, Bristol and East' Ber- . arrested Saturday night by Dep- Sheriff James Clark and” Con- st John J, Hackett, for driving rough the town without displaying their machines, were all dis- by Judge George G. Griswold e Berlin town court this morn- upon payment of the officers' ars in New Britain, was the be arraigned. 4 ‘BY WILL SEAT. TEPHEN, HACKETT ‘was a bachelor 38 old, ard ‘a car- trade. always little curiosity as to old bachelors' and The query of “Why don’t they get married?” is always a live one, old - maids. 2 The reason.- Ste- hen didn’t get married was because e was always a little too late.: When ‘had come across a° woman he felt he could love 'he disrovered- that meone else was loving her and had |4 the promise of her hand in marriage. Charles. Bence, agent for the Buick He pleaded guilty to a rear lght on his machine ‘but said that it was ynintentional Britain Italian, secured a bicycle and } was raising the @dust through Kens:! the ! ington when heé ‘wds nabbed by officers. The man'had no lights on his bicycle. ' In court this morning Carro pleaded not guilty. It was proven that the man was not cognizant thav he had disobeyed the law and was discharged on payment of the officers’ fees. Adolph Valentine, aged twenty- eight years, a resident of East Ber- lin, pleaded guilty of not displaying lights on his bicycle after “supdow:. ‘| He was arrested at 9:45 o'clock in Kensington Saturday night. The man has lived in East Berlin but a very short period and it could easily. be the laws. Charles Griffin, of Hartford, en- only one head ligh!. He explained to seen that he was not acquainted with | tered a plea of guilty of operating al| car on Saturday night in Berlin with | | man on complaint. i P i i pear for him. He also offered to bring over all the emploves from the Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock company, where he is employed to testify in his behalf. Sheriff Clark, the first witness the state, said that he arrested He found ' the dog, which was a collie, under the table in Marcaratto’s home. .~ Officer Andrew Lawrence of East Berlin, tes- the | tified that he had accompanied Sher- iff Clark when the arrest. was made. | Dwight E. Pollard and Charles S. Northrup, both residents of East Ber- lin, said that they had seen the ca- . nine around Macaratto’s home, Given a chance to speak in his own defense, Macaratto hegan in an ex- _cited manner. and in .a broken Eng- lis to .disclaim the ownership of the dog. He said, “All he does is follow me around. 1 never kept no dog. _Dog hungry, chase away, the dog for - seen or heard of each other since that time until yesterday. The meeting was peculiar. It hap- pened that Mr. Little was paying a i visit in New Britain when he over- heard two men in cenversation men- tion the local veteran's name. - His cnsiosity was aroused and after a few inquiries he took the next car to Berlin and the two friends u\let again. Baraca Class Nominates Officers,. An important meeting of the Bar- i aca class of the Kensington Methodist church' was held last evening. ' Offi- ers to be elecged on August 30 were i nominated" as follows: | For president, Robert Isaacson and | A. L. Moffatt; for vice president, i Merle Hotchkiss; for secretary, Wes- ley Dickinson and George Alling; for tréasurer, A. Holmquist, F. F. Han- (Continued on Tenth Page.) think there'd be any fuss raised it we got a foot or two over on to her line.” “What sort of a woman is ghe?” tea a techy. “D'ye think I'd better this suit?” 2 lon’t think it would de~any good. The widder has sued you because you was workin' . for me. You see, we don't agree. “But why didn’t you say so?” “1 forgot to. believes in sprinklin’ and I believe in immersion, and we can never agree as fo which saves the most souls.” } __*¥ou'd better cut the water out en- coffee, but she's a leetle - see-her about irely and be neighbors!” advised Ste- phen as he started off to call on the You see the widder | | but .with a woman, and especially a| ‘She always pays back. borrowed| Ak /“If it was a man suing me for that dead apple tree I'd tell him.to go to,| widow, it’s different. You'll get beat- en because Deacon Hardy is the right party to sue. | “You will have to show that a dead! apple tree bears apples. You will be! asked ‘if you don’t quarrel with your| neighbors. You will be asked if your g;acgued husband was not glad to . The widow was speechless with sur- prise and anger. i “And worst of all, ma’am—worst of al for- you, you will be asked your age! Yes, ma’am, they will ask it, and you must answer or go to jail for con y tempt. I take it that you are under dead apple trees, sprinkling, lawsuits and getting married. Think it over, widow—think it over. I am a fair- minded man and will not take advan- tage of you.” 3 With that he walked out of the house. The widow first shed tears of I! | . the Central Meat Market were re- leased following the sale of the store to John E, Conlon, have brought by complicated by a suit brought by | Judge W. J. Malone of Bristol { James Minello. The action is fo- $500 and is wade returnable before the September term of the court of common pleas. \ Halpern’s troubles dated from tha time he took the market and a house i and lot on Whiting street in exchange for some property he had in New Britain. His creditors have been af- ter him since »nd he has been involv- ed in 'a number of actions of litiga- | tion. | | . A few days after the market was | transferred to Halpern it was closed by sheriffs to satisfy creditors who had brought suit. Minello now claims that | Halpern.should be held responsible for the rent of the store, during the time ) ! tor | | cars. When picked up it was found {that he had a wooden teg, which vroved of little assistance in his i efforts to navigate. Thne man Wwas iocked up. This morning he gave nls name as John McGrath and said his home is in Mount Carmel. He arranged to have triends in New Britain come to his regcuc should the court impose a fine ing before Justice A. H. Condell late today. Death of John Cafferty, John Cafferty died last night at his home cn Bank street, after an illness ¢f several days. Hec suivered from a paralytic shock and for some time his condition had been critical. His at 9 o'clock from the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Interment will be in 8t. Joseph’s ccmetery, the market was his. The lease at the . He was forty-five yvears of age and against him, He will be given a hear- | funeral will be held tomorrow morning | ercises. Thi | dress. ple tree, and anyhow Deacon™ Hardy | s the man we ought to have sued.” It thus.came abcut that Mr, Hackett heard no more of the suit For two weeks he heard no more of the widow | either. Then he got an idea started off fishing. It was also an easy day for Mrs. Nixon and she con- cluded to visit a friend a mile away. To shorten the distance she made a one day and a rail fence a sliver caught her dress in such a way as to hold her fast as if she had been nailed down. The carpenter heard her cries for help from where he was angling and he hastened to her aid and began: “I suppose you have thought over QoeTnalvalool Mrs, Nixon decided to return home, | thinking. She k?t but mot to think. She kept saying to | “thcught it over. : alm | herself that she wouldn't give the car-|that Mr. Hackett would call penter’s words one -single minute’s | didn’t, . consideration, and then she sat down | :nd t?au:ht over them for two long ' ghe was out for a row on 8 ours! 4 He was & queer man, was her con | o 1 clusion. | liked him. (him to call, but if he did call \(out across the flelds, and in climbing wasn’t going to turn him outdoors., ‘S8he neither liked nor dis-' She wasn't going to -:k she| A couple of weeks again went by. | Buch villagers as had got to kncw Mr. | Hackett were saying that he was a very nice man. The widow expressed no opinion. She had been to the postoffice, half a mile away, one afternoon, when It Rev. P. E. Shoem Kidder and Rey. H. M. | be the preachers at in interesting addresses ; Methodist camp noon by Mr. and Mrs. Geo mann, who for a worked in China in Christianity, ary day at the camp afternoon was given u sion of missions !n far i bers of foreign mil several churches in the the zroun’as to p morning Rev. gave an interesting night some phases of will be taken up by K erts, who is scheduled to e U (Continued on R at The next she saw of | with another woman. and the other overboard and struggled This left Mrs. Nizon yell when along came a boat. “It's a high dam, observed. oo e swn 5 Ly .Y less and drifting slo :m high dam. She was “0, 1 shall be drowned!”™ “No one that's gone s kett had come over to|widow. {40, and I am sure that your neighbors what I said the éther day?” sudden thunder storm came up. She|escaped death. t to work ‘at his i d; She was at home, and he introduced himself: “If I could find the right 8| soft of a woman I'd get married,” he sald. “8ir!” she gasped. “l am an even-tempered ‘and a lov- ing man.” “gir(” “I've got money enough in the bank to buy ‘a little home, and it's time I| ;| settled down and took some comfort. I know _you will exguge m: when 1 say I'am pleased with your lgoks.” “8ir, dre you crazy!” the widow demanded. A “No, ma'am. ~ I'm just speaking 'a word: in"advance, as it were,’’ “Yo!': are most impudent, sir, do, and what a sensation it will create Wwhen you have to swear to 43 or 44.” The ‘widow NixXon turned pale and sat down. ‘ | “You believe in sprinkling instead of immersion,” continued the carpen- ter. “What will folks say if you take me 1ntlo.cgurt. me believing the same?” | sl 3 “And later on do you want folks to say ‘that“you sued me before I would ‘marry you? They always get things mixed .up, you know.. You can never make anybcd/ believe that you sued| me for a dead.apple tree,” “*Sir, . what.is all this talk!” demand- ed the woman as she suddenly found her voice. | “We are talking about line fences; { laughed. STEPHEN HACKET. Then she smiled. Then she Then she went down to the lawyer she had employed and said she guessed she would, withdraw the suit. | -“I think-it’s better,” he replied. “We can’t prove anything but a.dead-ap- anger. “No, sir,” was the huffy reply. “Been too busy putting up currant| jell, eh? Better think it over. It's a vital question for bcth of us. You'll never find another man to agree with you more heartily than I do that; sprinkling a convert beats immersion all hollow. . We may differ about Dan’l in the lion's:den, but we never shall about sprinkling.” Aln’'t you going to get me loose?” she aeked. “Certainly 1 am. I don’t expect a woman ‘caught fast on a rail fence is going to give much thought to matri- mony, but think it over when you get pome. I might walk away and refuse to do a thing till you had =aid yes to me, but I'm a fair-minded man, Mrs, Nixon—a- fair-minded man.” thought shz could beat. it, but was forced to u&rehu ia the porch | of a church. e thunder Wwas rolling, the lightning flashing and the rain descending in sheets when' Mr.- Hack- ett came running up the steps to grasp | her arm. | “You must get home, even if you et drenched! The. spire of this urch may be struck by. lightning! Come on, and after you have got into dry clothes think it over,. 1 am a fair- minded man and will take no advan tage of a woman in a thunder storm | “As he threw her into the gate of her knocked it into a cocked hat | flames followed and consum church. ? The widow. Nizon #" P e “0, save me, “I shall casions savi Mr. Hackett!” you, but thought it over?” “I] have—I have.” “Haven't 1 said to you @ that I was & man?” L “You have—you havel® “pnd I shall T s ight take ad: migl bat | home a thunderbolt hit the spire and{.