New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1915, Page 7

Silk Stockings and Socks Bargains One of the Best Makers Mill Ends. ‘We congratulate ourselves on securing this splendid showing of Hoslery for wonien and men. Though we are not allowed to 'tell manufacturer’s name, you will recognize them when you see them, or by this description. SEAMLESS SILK with lisle thread heels, toes and tops. and- at'reg- ular ‘price well with Buararitee to give satisfaction or new ones given. THESE ARE MILL ENDS that are not strictly perfect in ‘every way. New workers in the mill have to gain their knowledge of knitting, and while new to the work make slight mistak es, do not put on the tops acciirately, d perhaps skip a loop, etc., etc. Things that do not impair looks or wear, but maker’s standard is so high, they are cast out. That is why Yyou get § Shaw, while a third transfer is under Capitol Punishment Should be Abol-| ished.” The East Berlin team: con- sisting’ of Royal Morse, Sterling Woodward and Milton Gaines, upheld the affirmative while the negative disputants from Cromwell were Carl Christensen, Kenneth Noble and ®i- ton Butterworth. Although the East Berlin boys put up a strong argument the team from Cromwell delivered their speeches a shade better. Christénsen wag espo- cially good in the rebuttal and was loudly applauded time and again by | the audience. When the decigion was announced it met with the .jen- | eral approval. Following the debate ice cream and cake was served. The discussion proved to be instruc- tive as well as Interesting and it ig probable tha. another debate will he afrdnged in' the near futuré as the | Bast Berlin' club is desirous of wip- ing away the stain of defeat. Many Deeds Filed. The. real estate business in Beriin | has been taking a boom in the past week two warranty deeds.having been | Plainville News AGE NOT A BAR TO ENTRY IN BUSINESS W. L. Cowles Made Fresh Start at 80—Leit $3,716 to Children Fortune Wiped Out When He Was Old and Feeble—Undaunted He Started Anew—Stephenson Estate recorded with Town Clerk Frincis H. way. John Carbo, the prominent brick manufacturer in Kensington, has scla land and buildings situated in Kenas- ington to his son Joseph J. Carbo. The property is bounded and de- scribed as follows: North by privats road, south by land of John Carbo, east by land of John Carbo and wesu ' by highway. The second déed filed with the town cleck récords that Mark I. and Nellie W. Houghten, both of this place, have sold a parcel of land with bulldiags theéreon situatef in Berlin. o Paul A, Kapitzlio of Meriden, The property is bounded and described as follows: Inventoried—Briefs. That it is possible to make a fresh start on the road to wealth, even though one has practically reached the eightieth milestone in lifé’s jouf- ney, has been demonstrated by Wil- liam L. Cowles, who, practically pen- niless when he joined the ranks of octogenarians, returned to a business career and not only supported himself during the remainder of his life, but left a neat sum to be divided between his son and daughter, when he died a few months ago. The manufacturer’s success during his last days on earth is made apparent in the venerable’ such values as we offer you now. Take note of them. g : North on land of Mrs, Ellen Hutch-: inventory of his estate filed yesterday FOR THE WOMEN we offer a line of lovely color shades, black, tan, white, | navy, green, taupe, bronze, yellow, purple, putty, delft blue, battleship grey, piping rock, lavender, in fact all colors, regular 75c grade, for . 2 39c Pair MEN HAVE CHOICE of black, tan, white, grey, navy; sand, greens, reds, in fact all desirable shades, Some haye black clocking, others are clocked with white’ They are regular 650c quality, priced special T e Puir ,. Ty Y ‘. CEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. *:- 3 i d = OBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU OAN DEPEND. ON BROMBILY. News Bh 8 o B . Yo Y D /EAST BERLIN LOSES DEBATE. Loprels—Feet Bexiin Family in . ~Fmpuble—Kenumgton Residents in . Epmision i New Britain.” . Reasons: for the mysterfous disap- erra of ‘Lawrence Fransen, the | fourteen -yearg old son ot\ka I nsen. of . Beckley, were advanced ay by the boy's father. At 4 clock’ on the morning of July 19, a ‘strange man queke the Fransen fam- iy threatened to put. Lawrence gflm the ‘bars, accuging him' of BY ELSIE ENDICOTT. o OHNKENNEN hadal- - | WAyS timed his” pro- | stealing a valuable pump from his machine on the day previous. Mr. Fransen, said that his son evidently took ‘the stranger's threats serfously ‘iand fearing that he was .to be ar- Fested ran away from home. The man fs described to be rough in ap- pearance 'and very pugnacious look- ing, ‘ According to Mr. f‘ranspn. Law- rence brought a pump homeé on Sun day.night, July 18, and told him that he had found it on the Turnpike road. He thought no more of the incident until ‘he ‘was areused from. slumber at 4 o’clock the next day by a rough looking individual who commenced to question him about the pump. An- tony ¥ransen, one of his sons, hearing the conversation came out from .the houss to make inquirfes. A€ soon as the autoist spied Antomy he went over to him and shaking & finger ufder his nose accused him of stealing the pump. = This aroused the 1 7 | do' nothing of the sort,” the autoist declared that he would return that | ed’ for theft. { man threatened. The father, this morning, declared that he thought his his machine was not secured. Mr. Fransen who conducts a farm in Beckley has not devoted his time But has been traveling about the authoritiées. He says his wife is al- most heartbroken over her boy's dis apearance as she thinks that misfortune has befallen him. is positive that he is drowned. East Berlinites Lose Dcbate. ' The East Beriin Debating She club the¢ East Berlin Methodist church be- fore the debating team wrath. of Franeen and it required all the energles of the father to keep his son from striking the man. ik Lawrence was awakened and the pump was secured and returned to the stranger, But this did not seem to satisfy the autoist, said Mr. Fran- sen. Instead of going on his way he commenced to upbraid the boy accus-- ing him of stealing the pump. Mr. Fransen then declared, that he told his eon to go/into the house. After the youngster had left the man told Mr. Fransen to punish his son. When Mr, Fransen answered that he would well. ‘A, Fiske, pastor of the Rerlin Con- gregational church, Rev. H. W. Till inghurst of Cromwell and £, W, Mil- drum of East Berlin, were unanimous ! in giving the decision to the' Crom- | well lisputants, The declision : ‘ was based on the weight of argument and manor of delivery, Dr. Adolph Benson, a teacher at Yale university, presided at the meet- ; ing, He'gave a short address of wel- come and then announced the respec- tive names of the debaters. The sub- Ject discussed was ‘“Resolved, That afternoon” and have the boy arrest- | S “I' will make it hot | for him,”” Mr. Fransen clained the | boy has run away fearing arrest. The name of the man nor the number of | to its management for the past ‘week, : state and’ keeping in touch with the | eome went .down to defeat last evening iIn | from Crom- ! The three juGges, Rev. Samuel ; ingon, east by land of Mrs. Hutchin- son, south by highway and west by land now or formerly the property of C. W. Peck and contains six acres more or less. Emilio Martino, express man at the local depot, has completed a’ deal with M. E. Jacobs whereby he sold some of ais land on Farmington road in the rear of the coffin factory. 'The property is' bounded on the north hy land of Hotchkiss brothers, on the east by. property of Joseph Biede- monte, on the south by land of Lonis and Chester Magnano and on, the west by land of the grantee. - Family in Trouble, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Slater of East Rerlin, who recently moved here from New Britain, have the sincere sym- pathy of the residents of the com- munity in a double affliction. On Tuzsday one of their cnildren died and ancther is reported now to be dving from cholera infantum. the family’s troubles commenced. { youngest child, Ruth Ifene, soon be- | came sick. Although everything pos- . sivle was done tp have .the infant's life, she passed away on Tuesday. Burial took place yesterday afternoon in the Wilcox cemetery, East Berlin, Rev. E.. W, Manship of the East Berlin ‘Methodist church offictaung. Thé. older child became ill a few days ago and her conditton has been srowing steadily worse until now but slight hope is held out ror overy Making Tenement of Hall, Willard 1. Alling, owner of Me- chanies’ hall on Worthington ridge, has been making extensive repairs on the building within the past few days. It is the plan of Mr. Alling to convert the hall into a two tenement dwelling. The Grangers met there before the new Grange hall on Farmington road wag erected. To Fill Out Blank. Town Clerk Francis H. Shaw will Le a busy individual for the next few days filling out a blank with no less than sixteen questions, each of which will take a large amount of time, { which has been sent to him by State Tax ' Commissioner Willlam M. Corbin. The quesuons are being sent to every ‘town in the state in order that the commissioner may be (Continued on Tenth Page.) RRRRDY see to be just clear conceit, anyway:! Why should I marry any one, whemn I'm perfectly comfortable and happy posalé ‘mpst inoppor-{ here by myself?” * tunely. ‘Such a state- ment might give rise to the supposition that he had proposed to many Women, when the truth of the case 1§ that he had @ merely proposed wany times to one wnm';n.b “And wnat he sees e ‘80 ‘gone ’'in Louise Atwgod beats me,”:the M:ighborl werg fond of declaring. John' wasthinking about his’ pro- "posals as he rested on his porch ene ' yvening, watching through a screen of “ragrant ‘apple blossoms the glint of Louxd-thvrlot:dflml - on. the -.porch aeross the A V“Tll‘lt,flrn one = was about the worst,” he decided between puffs from 2 pipe, “for I've never Beep so scared since, and Louise has never been-quite superior, 1 declare, 1. thought he'd say ‘yes’ long before this. I “iall to see the sense of waiting till ‘the best part of our lives are aver, ‘for ‘marry me she surely will, some ay. Guess it's about time I did - wl,fis Beside just propose. en Ketinen presently ' sauntered ross to ocoupy the comfortable ‘fio surprise. Grass not Lo wn 4n the path ‘between the two o approciate the attractivenses of b S ite the at - of s ntalizing neighbor. 1t’s 8o al tod of Jq:‘,'to suppos ould marry after hav- every day ?Mw’ lite.in “Louise, I've come over to ask you a question,” he stated with.a direc ness that had not chiaracterized his" previous declarations, ‘‘possibly sev- eral questions,” he amended. 5 Louise merely smiled. “‘My first question i{s not a new one, but it is final—will' you marry me, Louise?” “Gracious, who do you expect would dccept such a heartless proposal as that?” “1 did not much expect you would,” smiled John serenely, “but I thought it'safe to try once more, at least. It {en’t lack of ‘heart’ that is the trouble, Louise; You know I've put heart enought into the others to satisfy any woman. I had hoped you would see fit to accept me, some time, still it is {comtnrtnble to have it settled definite- jly. "I hope we can continue to be friends just -the same ” { “We always have been friends,” murmured Louise, with a lack of her customary superiority. “We've been more than friends,” he| corrected; “that is why it is a bit| perilous to drop back upon mere| friendship. - But we are both pretty: sensible, so I guess we’ll make it go.| For some minutes he smoked in; silence. | | “There is ane thing I hope you- will | ohn was old engugh | always do, Louise,” he continued pres-!in you,” agreed Kennen as he rose to l'ently. “I hope you will always feel! {free to ask me when you want help i about the things I've been in the habit] I've never made! any secret of the fact that 1 was | courting you, but gow that that is at %" like- her. ach. “Men | an end I shall not fesl justified in' spoken person.” “l AM GLAD HE DOESN'T COME.” SHE ASSURED HERSELF. | coming over here with the freedom of the past. If you understand why, this will not disturb you—perhaps it will evén be a relief,” he added. 1 “1 trust you will always feel free to| come whenever you-like,” said Louise,’ ignoring' his supposition. ““That's mighty kind and neighborly depart. “And that reminds me, Lou, I've rented the cottage to a woman from Anderly who wishes to get out in the ccuntry for.. the summer—Mrs. Carlton her name is. I hope you'll 8he seems a pleasant- Soon after removirg to Hast Berlin | The | her re- | Pro vealized how tedious the task might planting alone before, and had never I be. ¢ ! in tHe probate court. The appraisal shows that he was worth $3,716 at the time of his death, | The estate, to be sure, is but ordi- ! | nary in size, but when it'is considered ; | that the owner had already passed the three score and ten years usually al- ‘I lotted to man when he started to ac- | cumulate it, its remarkable features | become iapparent. i At one time Mr. Cowles was regard- ed as reasonably wealthy. He was a mechanic of extraordinary skill and a man of, exceptional inventive ability. At the time he was ready to retire he met with business reverses that even- tually wiped out his fortune and when he was nearly eighty years of age he found himself practically penniless and forced to return to work to earn his living. He returned to the manufacturing i ‘business, and although he was old and feeble, he triumphed against the com- | petition of younger men and ma- | chinery more modern than he was ac- customed to use, and his business grew steadily. « The value of his property, | real and personal, was figured by Wil- | llam Fox and Charles R. Clark at nearly $4,000, a tidy sum considering | the circumstances attending its mak- | ing. | 'Mr. Cowles has a son, Clifiton, living | in Springfield, Mass., and a daughter, ! Mrs, Fitch, whose home is in Waukee- | gan, I, | Stephenson Worth $4,000. An Inventory of the estate of F. G. Stephenson, at one time an officer of the Osborne and Stephenson Manu- facturing company, filed with the pro- bate court places a valuation of ap- proximately $4,000 on his holdings. It is almost entirely In personal prop- erty. W. J. Hemingway and A, A, McLeod were the appraisers, Mr. Stephenson was 111 for several months and before his death it is sald he transferred to members of his family much of his property, which is not included in the inventory of his estate, » Exciting Ranaway. Mrs, 'W. J. Simpsen, wife of bne of the town's selectmen, is today re- celving congratulations on her re- markable escape from serious injury or possibly death yesterday afternoon when she played an important part in one of the most exciting runaways that has occurred here in'a long time, That she was not hurt in the least is regarded as almost miraculous. With her husband. Mrs, Simpson ! ONCE REGARDED AS RICH PLAYING HAV( WITH THE PRICI It’s popular melody these da ys There are reductions than ever this week in prices of our'} ture. In the re-arrangement of our stocks finding new pieces that are no longer stock and which we are anxious to move from our We're making special reductions on these piec possibly just the article you desire is included. in ‘and see us. 103 ASTLUM ST left her home yesterday tou trip to tho camp grounde. As she en- tered the carriage in front of her home in the Red Stone Hill district, the horse bolted before Mr. Simpson had a chance to get In the vehicle himself. The animal then started on a mad Aazsh which he continued for almost a1 mile, with Mrs. Simpson clinging desperately to the seat of the carriage. The Lorse galloped et breakneck speed towards the center. narrowly missing other vehicies elmost in its path, while bystanders gazed with fright at what looked like inevitable disaster. At Central Square the horse made a sudden turn to Whiting street and the carriage barely missed going over as the corner was turned. The animal elipper on the pavement at this point and fell but quickly gained its feet and started for the alleyway between the Hotel Ciarenden and the Alderidge block. At the entrance the make a F, D. NEWTON EST. posal In fact, when she came to think . about, and Louise began wondering about it John had always hel, with all the undertakings that hz:dmmn her place a model of attractiveness. “But I am glad he does not come,” ghe assured herself repeatedly, “it is not right to receive so much from him ‘wton" 1 mean to give nothing in re- urn. As the summer passed time did not lgpnr to hang heavily upon the cap- gble hands of John Kennen, for he was-bestowing all these attentions at the little cottage across the réad that he had once lavished upon the unap- preciative Miss Atwood. While Louise laboriously repaired ber broken trellis, John was fashion- ing 3 fine new model for Mrs, Carl- ton’s roses. Long after neat rows of transplanted vegetables were putting out new roots in the cottage garden, Louise shed actual tears of vexation and weariness over the endless task of finishing her own. Louise knew that the mneighbors were noticing. “They think I've been jilted, and I cannot tell them the truth about it,” she said grimly to that in- ner self to whom lonely. pecple com- mune, “Well, haven't you?”’ retorted that VA . Louise shivered a little—the sprinl} night had turned suddenly chilly, and | she: went in and closed the door, | Not once during the weeks that fol-| lowed did she receive a call from het | one-time lover. To be sure, he shouted friendly greetings across the road or waved as he scurried past in his run- “If 1 have, it is my own fault, and I | shall have to endure it,” she said LTS and tndepait t which Bow long it would take time to efface Pride and independence of which peo- that path about which she had so Ple are always complaining! | often fretted. | “Whoever dreamed of John Kennen | She was setting plants in the vege- acting in thls_wa}," pegp]e seemed to table garden-the morning he met the delight in telling her. “We never sup- new renter at the station., { Louise had never done the trams- eved his head, he has always beea so | quiet~never running round with the sirls for lost opportunities,” smiled like most boys.” ell, he is certainly making up i Louise THE FLINT-BR ice wagon, the harness son hors: gnapped and freed. The carriage was point. lirs. Simpson of collapse from her ence. The horse accord in the rear While rural wood park is i Monday, Po located in by the mail man, fact that the the district is net and cannot be rier. seemingly | impertinent other self. | “I expect this is goed fcr that !as the little runabout whissed past with the new neighbor in the place she . once occupled by right of first choice. Louise chanced to be on the front veranda where that extra rocker al- ways flaunted its -emptiness at her the afternoon they brought hon « the runabout slowly, with a limp nZure crumpled up on the seat. ! Somehow she forced herself to re- main behind the blixds while they car- ried him in, and while the doctor ar- rived hurriedly and Mrs. Carlton :bustled about. Somehow she forced herself to listen to neighbors who endlessly repeated how he had un- hesitatingly run his machine into a treacherous ditch ‘o save a child th had started heedlessly to run acro the road in front. No, he was not hurt seriously un- { doctor assured every one. | good care more than anything at | present, and he .was likely to get | that. : less other symptoms developed, the, him. vou. sary,” happily. answered | Novel Industry, | Gyer—Scribbles is engaged in a i novel industry, . | Myer—80? What's he doing? Gyer—Writing a novel, —— - ] Pa’s Little Joke. Little Willie—Say, pa, what strategem ? is a posed an idea of marrying even ent-) Pa—The diamond, my som, 1§ ehe kind of a strata-ge ~ *il she was very near, “Will you come over, where the grass was ali niug to creep in. “Why, Louise, did I sending for [T 'd Jobhn i 2 like this?” orl cheerfully, if weakly, when he' face, ‘There is u'.h!n& lcok Mke that. I just i go to sleep better if you' | and say good-night to me, IMnuu sald she did not » “0,” whispered Loulse, with & | “Why, Lou,” he said, holding unbandaged hand entreatingly. Loulse dropped to her kness “John, gfi ’QI”I“!W [: | ever again ask me to marry o g i “] don’t believe it will be §