New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1915, Page 2

uitable Gifts For The Fall Bride A seléct line of Silver Tableware, & ‘l ckard Hand - Painted China. Tuthill’s Rich Cut Glass, also a I selection of Jewelry, suitable for ‘,B_ridesmaids and Ushers. R AW “Wedding Rings made to order. s s Jotme—ry he Porter & Dyson Co. NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 3 MAIN ST. ((fthe! a box of ‘Thanksgiving Candy f tréat of the day, whether going to the game—for the ed with, 1ark 8Brainerd’s DRUG table—for the party, or all day long as the family gather, Chocolates. 80c THE POUND. It’s the Candy Everyone will be STORE 7o Rexall Store I8 MAIN 3 REET City Items 1 \ h11.line of heavy underwear, in- Glastonbiry from 50e to’$3.50. The ay evening. - nnor Co.— apgntine on vi nd ' Duofold. Open Wed- Farrell & b \‘case of .scarlet n./Robérts street was releasel s By the:'hea mon’s Shoe store will be open nesday evening.—advt. meeting of the Catholic Choral | department. in‘will be held thid eyéning in the ‘& B. hall at 8 o'clock. r. and Mrs. John W. Chnpmanl sailed for 'England, Mr. Chap- 's old.home. . he officers cf the tian #Bndeavor union New. Britain last ‘made’ arrangements for a i which' will be held 2 saclal nber 10. udson 'Seal coats, * finest, at ke 'u.‘;-aqvt.. illiatm ‘C. Kranowitz, a student at| York University, will spend the nksgiving recess at his home in ) city. B @dR8ea’ up' ‘'on Thanksgiving awith.ene of our new fall hats, FRENCH DISCHARGED. ‘Who Assaulted Man ! ¢t ,Ticket of Leave. C.French, a foreman in street. department has felt the | ¥y hand of wrath for his actions | it Employe fhomas dministering a beating to Arthur | rdecai.last Saturday morning. onnor Co.—advt. Open The Farrell & hief Foreman Maguire this after- pn. announced that French was dis- TOM CAT DISTURBS ‘PATRICIANS’ SLEEP Kceps Residents at New Britain Club Awake When He Becomes Lone- some on Church Roof. Men wko reside at the New Britain club were Wisturbed in their sleep last night by the yowling of an onery tom cat which was stranded on the roof of St. Mark's church. They were determined that their rest tonight would not be broken on this account and they were right. It won’t. Mr. T. Cat secured a perch on the church: roof in some unaccountable manner and during the wee sma’ hours he made sleep impossible with his feline music. It was cold up on that roof and he was not enjoying it even a little bit. So he protested. His first dislike for his temporary resi- dence was demonstrated by ‘a few week mews. As the night grew colder, the cat grew bolder and he began to yowl in the good old fash- foned way, just as he does when he leads nocturnal concerts on the back fence. New Britain’s elite as repre- sented by those who find shelter be- neath the roof of the New Britain club turned over in bed. It is not on record that they turned simultaneous- ly. But they turned. Another stanza from the roof and they began to toss around between the linen. ‘‘Me-o-ow, me-0-0-ow,” he cried. His appeal was unanswered. Throughout the night he registered his lonesome protest, much to the dissatisfaction of the restless sleepers. ‘When morning dawned, the porters of the club were ordered to get that | cat out of there. They secured ropes {and ladders and while an admiring | audience assisted by making foolish | suggestions Mr. Cat was lowered to terra firma. T ’ ..:Thanksgiving Fresh Herbs for the Turkey Dressing. Sage, Sum- "mer Savory, Thyme, etc. Then for dessert, serve ‘Whitman’s, Belle Meade Sweets, Huyler’s, Page and . Shaw's or Mary Garden Candies. Make out your list fl"-,‘t'oc{:éay,— and we will fill it to your satisfaction. Store Y e Dickinson Drug 169 & 171 Main Street Closed from 1to 6 Thanksgiving Day. DISONING STORY 5 REVIVED AGAN Acid and Sublimate Found in Walls of Dismantled Building About four years ago, a story peared in the local papers that an attempt had been made on the life of a well known young man by a woman with whom he lived. The story had it that poison had been injected into j his food, but he discovered it in the nick of time and did not partake of the doctored food- Nothing was done concerning the attempted poi- soning . and the public interest soon | became diverted to other things. Recent events indieate that there may have been more’to the accusa- tion that at first £ s@pposed. The house in which theflprincipals resided is the property of a local manufac- turing concern and a weak ago the building was sold to a junk dealer, who immediately placed one of his help there to dismantle it. Last Thursday the man, while tearing down the walls of the upper story, noticed a shelf bnuilt inside the walls and close to a beam. Further in- | vestigation showed there were two bottles on the shelf. The man ex- amined the bottles and found they contained poison. When asked where the bottles were® bought, he said, “One was labeled ‘carbolic acid,’ the name of the druggist was missing, but as I remember jt, the address, which was partly legible was about 290 Main street. Both labels on the bot- tles gave me the impression they had been there a long time. The second bottle was also labeled ‘Poison’, but ap- ag I am not a good reader, I could not read the name of the contents.” “What did you do with the bot- tles?” he was asked. “I intended to take them ‘o po- lice station and placed them on the floor. A gang of children were play- ing about and ‘they shook the floor so much that the plaster fell from the ceiling and broke the bottles,” was the reply A visit was made to the house and bits of broken glass were found in the place, designated by the man. One piece was picked up .and upon it was the label “Polson” and in hand writing ‘‘corrosice sublimate.” The lower part of the label showed that the contents were purchased from “Curran, the druggist, 432 Main Street.” Mr. Curran vacated that store nine years ago. The workman also found a piece of paper, yvellowed with age, upon which was written a column of figures and the name of one of the members of the family. An inquisitive friend borrowed this so that he might have it read by his daughter. The daugh- ter was interviewed and admitted see- ing the paper. She said her father requested her to read it, but she could not make sense out of it, so she threw it in the fire. At the time the story appeared, there were several people, who said they doubted the truth of it. Since the news of the finding of the bot- tles has become known many who did not place any credence in the rumor of attempted poisoning now say there may have been something to it after all. CLOSE—ONE DAY FOR THANKSGIVING New Britain Factories Are Busy and a Number are Working Extra Hours —Short Pause For Holiday. ‘With a number of factories working overtime and others on an increased working schedule Thanks- slving this year finds them too busy to consider more than a one day shutdown. This condition is in marked contrast to last years when most of the factories were operating on short time and many men out of work. This situation has not been duplicated in vears.\ It is claimed, too, that work- men are obtaining a higher scale of wages than ever prevailed here be- fore. All these things make for a happy holiday, Little distress in tianitest here and the local charity department testifies to the truth of the si ion. Fewer Thanksgiving ill be given out in the name charity this year because fewer fare in need. Manufacturers generally regard the situation in an optimistic light and j have prepared for busy times. North & Judd, The New Britain Machine Co., the Union Mfg. Co., and the Skinner Chuck Co., all of which have business which has come about through the FKEuropean war, are specially busy and working on over- time schedules. Landers, Frary & Clark, which was badly hit at first by the war, has lately resumed activity and is now engaged on holiday orders and working overtime. The Humason & Beckley branch of Landers is also cngaged on holiday work and is very busy. All branches of the great American Hgrdware corporation are busy and the plant will close only for the day Thanksgiving. The same is true of the Stanley Works, the Stanley Rule & Level Co., Hart & Cooley, the Fafnir Bearing Co., Traut & Hine and the Vulcan Iron Works. In fact, the only factory which will close tomor- row night for the week-end is the American Hosiery Co., and this is an old custom with that prosperous concern. The Stanley Works is work- ing on a fifty-five hour basis and is husy. The Stanley, Rule & Level Co., which has been comparatively quiet local during the summer, is picking up and many ovders are coming in. The company is at present operating on & fifty hour schedule. —Meccano Is a Reai Help to Parents— him to think. ness because every model must structed and fixed up accurately properly. It teaches him order take care of the beautiful Mecoan carefully and in proper order after he has used them. him to invent, because after he has made all the models shown in the book of instructions he can 8o There is no engineering movement which he Ccannot demonstrate and make use of with Meccano. Meccano is engineering; it is been, the means of starting many a bright boy on a prosperous career in what is probably the most important field of experiment and research in modern times—engineering and mechanics. It teaches him patience. be thoroughly and properly: con- and firmly before it and method, because he learns to To the parent studies the welfare and future of the boy, Mec- cano makes an appeal so strong that it must be heard. How many hun- dred thousands of dollars are spent every Christmas, and in fact every day (for every day is some child’s birthday), on toys, often expensive, which are broken in a few days and discarded! % Meccano s more than a pastime—it is a'' great moral force for the train- ing of a boy. No boy who uses Meccano can be a bad boy. The hobby teaches It teaches him thorough- who will work o parts, and to put them away It teaches on designing others for himself. educational; it may be, and has HERBERT L. MILL Hardware 31,000 CASH AWARD GOES TO HARTFORD But Local People Are Also Lucky at Tab’s Fair FROM WATER-B0Y - T0U.S. CAPTAIN | Record of Michael 0’Keefe, Philip- pine Scouf, Visiting Here With the closing festivities of the | in Hanna's | Y. M. T. A. & B. fair armory last night capital and special awards were made. The judges were Hanford L. Curtis of the New Britain | Savings Bank, John Lynch of the New | Britain Trust company, and Gardner Weld of the New Britain National Bank. Out of town agents were pres- ent as follows: Philip Veins, Nor- wich J. J. Fay, Moosup; Lehoullier, Meriden Richard Downey. ‘Wallingford; P. F. Brennan, Norwich D. Maher, Middletown; J. Bliss, New London, and B. Roe, New Haven. $1,000 Goes to Hartford. The cash capital award of $1,000 went to “St.| John's, 66 State street, Hartford.” The main special awards a Kohler & Campbell piano, went to “Yeke,” 317 Elm street. The other cash awards were as follows: Local People Also Win. Awards of $100 each were made to F. J. Halloran; Dominicka Zisi, 186 Spruce street; J. Sayman, 294 Park street, Hartford; *“23 in lucky,” 81 Kibbie street, (Mrs. W. ‘H. Miner), Hartford; Carama Brodeui, North Grosverndale; Harry G. Lugg, Derby, Ct.; “That's the one for me good: no name; Mrs. J. E. Farr, 62 North street; Mrs. P. 8. McMahon, Hotel Bronson; J. F. Moran, Marlboro, Mass.; F. C. Hayes, Bristol, Conn.; Ben Thompson, 49 Sexton street; ‘“Hard Luck,” Bristol, Conn.; “Ma,” 20 Union street; P, F. Evans, Windsor, Conn.; “Dolly,” N. B. Conn.; A. M, Taylor, 28 Jeanette street, Albany, N, Y.; John Cally, Southington, Conn.; ‘Wilber Barley, 128 Grand street. Special Awards. Other special awards besides the piano were as follows: Sacred Heart picture, J. Gaffney, 26 Hart street; 50 books of fair tickets, Mrs. John Sullivan, Wilson street; $5 in gold, Willlam Dorsey, Beaver street; set of Haviland china, John T. O'Brien, 73 Lafayette street; travel- ing bag, Gerald McDonald, West Main; street box of cigars, Catherine Walsh, 46 Sexton street; coffee urn, Jack Shea, 43 Beaver street; $10 in gold, Bddie J. Woods, Engine company No. 1; carving set, Adelphis Beaudoin, Stanley street; electric set, J. Lockton What To Do When Nerves Go Wrong A PHYSICI S ADVICE Men and women who suffer from weak nerves, who tire easily, can't sleep, have brain fag, low vitality, gen- eral weariness, loss of strength, dulled ambition, lack of will power, or any of those symptons that so surely arise from poor, unsteady, unstrung nerves, or nerve force run low, should try cating a little Margo with their mea for a few days and note results. T preparation is the greatest ginger-up stimulant and nerve vitalizer ever known for putting the good old “pep’”, ambition, courage and real vital ener- gy into a tired, run-down and shat- tered nervous system. Here is a test worth trying. The next time you feel tired, blue, or when your nerves are fairly crying out, eat a Margo tablet. Then wait for just ten minutes and note results. Margo seems to go straight to the nerve cells and starts work the minute it reaches them. It brings a ten-minute change from tha awful dull, weak, lazy, don't give-a-hang fecling to brightness, strength, clear headedness and cour- age. It calms and strengthens the nerves of people who get the ‘jumps’” and fidgets, and gives them poise, power and tremendous reserve energy. Margo is absclutely harmless, contains ne dope or habit-forming drugs, and is always safe, casy, pleasant and effi- cient. The Clark and Brainard Co., and many other leading druggists in Walter | Prepar —Made of the best Skeletonized and lines that lend elegance neIrse | » met a pretty Red Cross o Mutuul | | doing duty in the Islands. admiration turned to which in turn ripened into love now when Captain O'Keefe America he and Mrs. O'Keefe must stop off at Philadelphia where they are the guests of Mrs. O'Keefe's par- ents, the father and mother of the former Red Cross nurse. friendship and visits PICKETS TO BE HERE. Union Men to Watch Lyceum Theater Close for Violators of Rule. That the unions of this city are Captain Michael O'Keefe of the Philippine Scouts - accompanied by his wife, is visiting his sister, Mrs. B. J. Connelly of 275 Washington street, and his brother, Officer Den- nis O'Keefe. Captain O'Keefe is in the United States on a furlough and ! this is the first time he has visited bent on carrying out their intention of making the Lyceum theater a place which no union man can attend, Is cvidenced in recent action in having appointed pickets to closely guard the cntrances of the theater tomorrow cvening when a boxing exhibition will New Britain in about six years. He has a high standing in the grmy and it is expectéd that he will' quilify for the major's rank before returning to his 'post on the Islands. 27 Years in_the Army. Captain O'Keefe is well known in this city and during his visit here will doubtless renew many old ac- quaintances. He is 48 years of age and has been in the regular United States armiy for twenty-seven years although he is credited with ove thirty" years’ services inasmuch os part of the time was spent .in the | Philippines where double time is al- i lowed. From Water-boy to Captain. The record of Captain O'Keefe 1s an interesting one. When his broth- er,. Dennis O’Keefe, left lis home in Ireland about three decades ago, he was a boy. Dennis knew nothing of his young brother’s intention ‘'of com- ing over here, but one bright morn- ing, twenty-seven years ago.in ‘May, the door of his home opened .and in walked Michael. The young Irish- man, still in his ’teens, secured a job as water boy in the sewer de- partment. For this service he ceived the munificent pay of §1 pe day. He was dissatisfied and Andy" Burns raised him to. $1.26 to retain his services as knight of the tin dipper. Later he went to work in the trench at $1.76 per day. As soon as the job was finished, however, young O’'Keefe left this city to visit a cousin near Springfield. Rushes to Defense of U. S. The next that his brother knew of him was when he received a letter from Fort Sheriden in the west, stat- ing that Michael had enlisted from Boston for four years’ service. His ca- reer in this country had been an un- usual one. Arriving here in May, he enlisted to defend his adopted country the following October and since that time has been ome of the strongest fighters for the Stars and Stripes. He saw active service during the Spanish- American war, was in China during the Boxer rebellion and fought in the Philippines. He has traveled around the world and by this present trip he will have girdled the globe one and one-half times. His present po- sition as captain of the scouts is a most important one. Enter—Romance. Captain O’Keefe is known in the army as a brave and stalwart soldier. Yet he finds time for other things than the lure of the rifle and can- non. Romance has found its way into his life. While fighting for his adopted country in the Philippines JUST TRY RHEUMA NO CURE, NO PAY That is the Basis on Which Drug- gists Offer this Great Remedy for Rheumatism, Anybody can afford to use Rheuma to get rid of terrible rheumatism, sciatica, or gout, for it is sold by The Clark & Brainerd Co., and other druggists at only 50 cents. It is wonderful how speedily this simple remedy takes hold and how sore muscles lithber up and swolien joints come down to normal. It is be given. Many members of unions are some- what wrought up over the stand taken and some openly expressed themselves as opposed to the drastic steps. From their statements it can be inferred that it is their intention of attending the exhibition tomorrow. CHANCE TOTAKE TIP OF HORACE GREELEY Oklahoma Delegation in Town to Boom the Southwest ‘ Oklahoma, one of the newest and greatest of Uncle Sam’s collection of states, has been brought to New Brit- ain in a Pullman car. At least that is what you may readily believe by ' visiting the demonstration car “Okla-, homa,” now sidetracked ‘at the east end of the passenger station. The car arrived this morning with a party of Oklahoma men in charge and for the next ten days they will endeavor to tell New Britain people something about this wonderful south-western state and what it pro- duces. R. E. Seamans president of the Union Trust company of McAles- ter, Okla., heads the party, the oth- ers being Martin M, Henry, Guy Gold- smid, 8. 8. Balley, L. H. Baer, Roy B. i Wagner and Edward C. Burness. McAlester is a city of 22,000, but less than twenty years ago composed a single log cabin in the middle of the prairie. Today it is a thriving municipality with a splendid business section and as urburban region pos: sessing hundreds of beautiful homes. Next January the United States gov- ernment will open 2,000,000 acres in south-eastern Oklahoma to settlers and land buyers. This is part of the territory owned by the Choctaw na- tion and the government is going to sell the land for the Indians. The development car party is here to ex- plain what the land is good for and how it may be obtained from the government. To ald them in this work the car has been outfitted with the products of the state. These in- clude samples of wheat, corn, oats, cotton, fruit, oil and mineral products. The latter include coal, mineral as- phalt and iron ore. Photographs of the cities and towns of the state and many views of public buildings and homes are also shown. These with maps and other information are at the service of the public. The car will be open for inspection tomorrow at 9 o'clock and will be open every day from that hour until 8 o’clock each evening during the ten day stop. The land will be sold in sections of from 40 to 160 acres and purchas- ers are not required to live on them or to make any special improvements. It will be sold on easy payments and is tax free until the final deed is issued. the best remedy you can find to drive rheumatic poison from the ! system and bring back health to misery-racked bodies. “I had rheumatism for a long while and was not cured until 1 used Rheuma. My advice to those suffer- ing from rheumatism is to use this great remedy, as I believe it will ef- | fect a cure in any case.’—C. B. Lan- | ham, Sattes, W, Va. New Britain, Conn., and vicinity sell it in large boxes—40 tablets to a pack- age—on an absolute guarantee of sat- isfaction, or menay back. Get the genuine in marked package—in guaranteed, the liquid trade- form— | cvents in the life of local Elkdom has | been arranged for tomorrow evening ELKS’ One of the PIG most SUPPER. pleasing social when a suckling pig supper will be given under the auspices of the ener- getic and hustling house committee of the lodge. To Brother “Lu” Styles Jas been entrusted the task of select ing the “porkers” and “Lu” has con- fided in his friends that the boys will | vote to the man that his menu is of the A No, 1 kind. 1 beautifully throughout. — Hand Tailored with al] tl.1e care of “Custom clothes”—Body tracing in 'the thirty-five years of the | church on Thursday . ARG v A e I—Y Thanksgiving Day ations As a proper observance of the spirit of satisfaction and thankfulness, that we feel, because of the prosperity and freedom from strife that exists throughout our land, it is well to clothe ourselves in apparel that be- speaks our happy condition. ; y A most suitable expression of this senti- ment may be made by wearing one of these Horsfall made, ready-for-service FORM FITTING MELTON O’COATS fast color fabrics.— finished and smartness—De- signed to meet every requirement of the best dressed men of this community. Horstulis “Ir PAYS TO RUY CVR KIND” HARTFORD 98-99 ASYL®M ST. Oonnecting with 140 TRUMRULL ST. MUCH BUSINESS AT LONG LABOR SESSION A.F. of L. Against Legislation t6r § Eight Hour Day San Francisco, Nov. 23.—A resoln- tion endorsing legislative methods In obtalning a universal eight hour 1My was defeated by a vote of 8,496 fto 6,396 at the final session of the thir- ty fifth annual convention of - the American Federation of Labor after a heated debate between President Gompers and John Fitzpatrick, pres- ident of the Tllinois State Federation of Labor. The convention then went on rec- ord in favor of economic presswie only to obtain shorter hours. 5 The final sesslon of the labor dele- gates was the stormiest of the cons " vention and did not adjourn unll early today. Victory for Gompers. The vote on the elght hour resolution was a victory for President Gompers, who declared that the go- cialist party was behind the attempt to force the federation to endorse the proposed eight hour day legisia- tion. “Power is gravitating from the balé lot box to the industrial fleld,’” said Compers. ‘That gravitation will go on. I will not trust the fate of labor to politics. I want congress to giv Ll only one freedom to fight out on‘rn economic basis our battles, freedom, to achieve. I want the travail of sacri- fice and the tears of our women if necessary upon which to build labor's ecconomic freedom.” Favor Merchant Marine, The convention went on record in favor of an American merchant mo- rine and refused to take favorable cognizance of naval increases. P In accordance with actiop taken at a previous session, a committee was appointed to survey the problem of unemployment and vagrancy in ‘the Unjted States. A resolution was adopted requiring the federation to give serious atten- tion to organizing labor in Idaho. The convention will meet next year in Baltimore. - Was Long Session. The convention was one of three in federa- pass into the third tion’s history to week . The sessions were prolonged by sev- eral jurisdictional disputes, Action taken included the following: -~ The subject of military prepared- ness was debated at length and a reso. lution protesting against military propaganda in the public schools was voted down A resolution was adopted opposing a large standing army but favoring a small one to be supplemented hy-a citizen soldiery, “democratically ore ganized and controlled.” Seamen’s Act, The federation went on record as opposed to any weakening of the sea- men’s act. Industrial unionism ak opposed toj§ existing craft unionism was rejected, An eight hour day for all govern- ment employes and better pay wfor ; post office clerks were endorsed. Resolutions Adopted. Other resolutions were adopted as)/ | follows: Urging the establishment of a gove ernment bureau of safety; favoring government ownership of tele h lines; urging the creation by cong: of a permanent non-partisan commission; opposing stop watehd speeding in government departments. | appealing to every union wage earne : to contribute one day’s pay to the lief of the Danbury hatters; favorin the introduction in congress of a bil prohibiting enlisted army and nav musicians from entering into compe- tition with civillan musiclans, « Proposed referendum electon of of- ficer of the organization was rejected. President Gompers and all the other officers of the federation were, re-elected, ¢ Annual Thanksgiving exercises will be held at the Swedish Bethany -fternoon at 5§ o'clock. The usual offering will_bs taken, every workingman, being &x. pected to contribute at least a day's pay: