New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1916. NORTHERN ILLINOIS IN GRIP OF FLOOD Score of Cities and Villages Inun- dated—No Loss of Lie Jan. 21.— IOUR JANUARY INVENTORY SALE | e are overstocked in several different lines and must reduce our stock before taking inventory, therefore, we e going to give you a chance that you seldom ever hav e and it will pay you to come in and look us over before buying elsewhere. OAK DINING TABLES Quarter Sawed Oak Dining Tables, Regular $27.95. Now Quarter Sawed Oak Dining Tables, Regular $26.75. . Now ...... Quarter Sawed Oak Dining Tables, Regular $24.50. Now Quarter Sawed Oak Dining Tables, Regular $21.50. Now SERVING TABLES Mahogany Serving Tables, Regular $23.50. Now Early English Serving Tables, Regular $18.50. Now Early English Serving Tables, Regular $17.50. Now .. COUCHES Couches, Regular $10.50. Couches, Regular .$9.50. Couches. Regular $11.50. Couches, Regular $14.50. <2 ESTABLISHED 1886 <2 Globe Clothing House Rivers through- Ilinois, swollen by rain which fell almost continuously through the night today, overflowed their banks and inundated a score of cities and villages. No loss of life was reported, but the property dam- age was estimated at several hundred | thousand dollars. All through the valley of the Des Plaines, the water spread out over | the surrounding country reaching its maximum at Joliet, where a large sec- tion of the city was inundated and several villages flooded with five feet of water. Report Much Damage. | Aurora and Elgin, on the Iox. | River and intermediate towns at St. | Charles, Batavia and Geneva report- ed high water and much damage. Southeastern Iowa ‘and the ex- treme northern and western Missourt were in the rain belt, which came up from Texas. Chicago, out northern ... $15.98 $13.98 ... 512,98 The World’s Best Clothing Made by Hart, Schaffner & Marx Are Included in Our 30th $8.98 $7.98 mitation Leather and Velour mitation Leather and Velour mitation Leather and Velour mitation Leather and Velour mitation Leather and Velour Dressing Tables Birdseye Maple Dressing Table with heavy plate Fancy Rockers, Oak and ahogany Rockers, with Spanish Leather, Regular $21.50. lahogany Rockers, with Spanish Leather, Regular $16.50. Now Couches, Regular $18.50. e Mahogany Now e, $15.98 ... $12.98 ahogany Rockers with Spanish Leather, Regular $8.00. Now Dak or Mahogany Rockers PDak or Mahogany Rockers Dak;or Mahogany Rockers, , solid seats, Regular $5.50. , solid seats, Regular $5.75. solid seats, Regular $4.75. RUGS Dx12°Tap Brussels Rugs, R Dx12 Tap Brussels Rugs, R Dx12 Tap Brussels Rugs, R Dx12 Axminster Rugs, Reg. Dx12 Axminster Rugs, Reg. $11.98 ..$12.48 ..$14.98 .. $17.50 .. $19.98 eg. $14.98, Now eg. $16.75. Now eg. $18.50. Now $25.00. Now .. $29.00. Now .. 12 Art Loom Wilton Rugs, Reg. $39.69. Now $32.50 Px12 Wilton Rugs, Reg. $29.50. Now $19.98 b7x54 Axminster Rugs, Reg. $2.75. Now .... $1.98 ARRY ALEX , | City Items | he water department pay roll for past week was $207.33. 25 to $30 suits or overcoats, $18.50, [Wilson's.—advt. . D will hight Penfield camp, Sons of Veter- hold an important meeting | overcoat at Wilson' 0 cash.—advt. Besse-Leland’s. ¥ suit or s, | 50 and $18. 1.00 Shirts 65c at davt. ! feorge W. Betz of 106 Cherry street | Il be given a hearing by the secre- | v of state on January 25 for a | lation of the automobile laws. Betz | driving a car while under the | of elghteen years | Sale ends the 29th sse-Leland Co.—advt. pur Inventory his month. F rs. John Hyland of Smalley eet has recovered from an attack grip. Dur entire bmen’s High Bse-Leland’s. dvt. forty candidates will be initiated | the meeting of New Britain lodge, | al Order of Moose, tonight. ‘fowds are attending our Shoe | e. ' New shoes added to the sale | bry day. Sale ends tomorrow night shoes. Besse-Leland Co.—advt. Max Spinner of 94 Pleasant street, hployed as a baker at 566 East eet, suffered the loss of one of thumbs in a dough mixing ma- ine yesterday afternoon. He was to the local hospital for treat- nt. rs. Lawrence Meehan of = 324 lashington street is able to be out jter 2 two weeks’ illness. [INext week last week of our Inven- ry Sale. Besse-Leland Co.—advt. Miss Alice Fitzgerald has returned her work at the New Britain Ma- hine company after a brief illne: The Boy Scouts of Trinity M. B. hurch will hold ‘a meeting tonight 7:15 o'clock. Mrs. Emma Johnson and daughter, uth, have returned to this city after h absence of two years. They have ben living in North Dakota. The College club will meet Monday ght at the home of Miss Mary inlock on Chestnut street. The new Valkyria lodge, of V., will be installed this eve- District Deputy Miss Alma | of Hartford | Dr. C. W. is ill at the his brother-in-law, Henry Bristol M trom ng Harvard stock of Men's Shoes $1.35 up Now is the and | at | time. | officers of Lee home Wilcox and Mrs will celeb anniversary street, Johannes G. Sand- ate their silver wed- at their home, 61 | Sunday. { The annual meeting of St. Matthew's goung People’s society will be held his evening at 8 o'clock. All mem- érs are expected to be present. Pficers for the year will be elected. The entertainment committee of lehuda Talevi, I. O. B, B., will hold a pecial meeting at Miller's furniture Etore at 8 o’clock this evening to per- lect arrangements for the benefit to pe given for the Jewish war relief | Woodruff club. | Theron Hart and Miss Lillian Eubanks | asi FIT RECITAL TONIGHT. Event at South Church Under Auspices of Woodruff Club, A piano recital of much interest to rausic lovers will be given this even- ing at the South Congregational church under the auspices of the The pianist will be of New York, a soprano soloist, will st. The program follows: onata in E minor Allegro Moderato Andante Alla Mennetto Finale—Molto Allegro Mr. Hart. (a.)—Prelude (b.)—A Spirit Flower Campbell-Tipton (c.)—Life's Morning Star (d.)—An Open Secret Miss Eubank (a.)—Tarantella SSN Lipot (b.)—Quartette from ‘Rigoletto” (Paraphrase) .. Verdi-Liszt Mr. Hart. Aria—T1 est doux il est bon, from “Herodiade” Massenet Miss Eubanks. (a.)—Liebesfrend (01d Vienna Wallz ... Fritz Kreisler (b.)—Solitude ... Cyril Scott (c.)—Nocturne ,for the left hand alone) . Scriabine (d.)—Rigandon Raff Mr. Hart. Aria—Liete Signor, from * Hugenots” ... Miss Eubanks. (a.)—Etude in D flat ... (b.)—Triumphal march . Woodman Les Meyerbeer .. Heller Grieg BRINGS DIVORCE ACTION. 1 Tmck Pursues Local Carpenter—In- temperance and Cruelty Named. Til luck is on the trail of Louis H. Wilcox, the latest misfortune which has overtaken him being a sult for di- vorce brought by his wife Helen C. Wilcox of Waterbury, in which she al- leges that Wilcox habitual drunk- ard and is guilty of intolerable cruei- ty. Yesterday marked the first day that Wilcox was able to work for several months, having sustained injuries by falling at the new building of the Union Manufacturing company the day before Thanksgiving, and as he quit for the day, he vas confronted by Deputy Sheriff Stockwell armed with the papers in the suit. The couple were married on Sep- tember 4, 1910, and have two children Louis H., aged three years, and Cath- erine, aged two years, and the plain- tiff asks for custody of both. Attor ney James H. Lynch of Waterbury counsel for the plaintiff. The writ is urnable in the superior court in ¢ Haven on the first Tuesday in February. CLAN DOUGLAS CONCERT. Elaborate plans for the concert at Hann rmory, Friday night, Janu- ary 28, are being made by Clan Doug- |las, 0. S. C. The Kendail Concert company of Boston will furnish the program. A Highland pipe band is to be engaged and Miss Goldie of Hart- ford will give exhibitions of the High- und. land fiing and the famous Scottish sword dance. l | $85 was Now Now Now STANLEY MEMORIAL ANNUAL MEETING Reports of Pastor and Various Offic Show the Church Has Had Successful Year. The annual meeting of the Stanley Memorial church was held last night. The exercises opened with a church supper at 6:45 o'clock, at the expira- | tion of which the business meeting was held. Rev. J. E. Rees, the pastor, presided and his report showed he had preached at seventy services during the year, officiated at thirteen wed- dings, twenty-four baptisms and nine funerals. There were twenty-four communicants received into the church, twenty-two by confession of faith and two by letter and four mem- bers were lost by removal, making a net gain in the membership of twen. ty. The treasurer’s report showed the receipts were $1,185.20 and the ex- penditures amounted to $1,180.30, leaving a balance of $5. The sum of iven for mis 'y purposes. The Ladies’ Aid society had a partic. ularly prosperous turning $215 into the church treasury. The Junior WHY PAY MORE; w 30¢ | ior 230 o 100 0 L10 i 230 ss 196 hunch mc 40¢ SPECIALS Mohican Greamery BUTTER, Large Galifornia ORANGES, Cape Cod CRANBERRIES Laigs Galifornia LEMONS, large Sweet TANGERINES, Fancy Baldwin APPLES, Grisp Native CELERY, 1 pk Potfatoes 2 qts Onions for mirror, Regular $17.50 Now .. $11.98 Mahogany with 3 mir- rors, Regular $29.50. Now . . $19.93 Mahogany, with mirror, Regular $19.75. Now ......... $14.98 Come in and take a pound of our tea and cof- fee Tea, Reg. 50c Ib. 23c b Coffee, Regular 35c Ib., Now .. 19c 1b 371-373 MAIN ST mplete Housefurnishing Store Ch: n Endeavor society membership of thirty at present. The report of Oscar A. Marsh, Sun- day hool superintendent showed that organization had its most successful vear since the founding of the church. The membership has gained sixteen per cent. The treasury has a balance of $36.24 and during the year school has given $47.22 for n ary and other benevolent purpc Officers for the ensuing year elected as follows: Sunday school superintendent—Os- car A. Marsh. Primary superintendent—Mrs. J. Rees. Assistant primary superintendent— Mrs. Lillie Spenser. Clerk of the church—Arthur Knapp. - Treasurer—John Dixon. Deaconess Mrs. O. Mrs. A. R. Knapp The standing committee is com- prised of the pastor, the deacons and James A. Serice and Louis Cadwell. were E. H. Marsh and JOKE PROVES FATAL. Waterbury, Jan. 21.—*"I took some ; of Daddy’s pills, Mamma,” three year old Chester Fray of Elliott avenue, told his mother at 1v o’clock this morning, thinking he had played joke on his father. The pills con- tained 1-6th of a grain of poison each and the boy died three hours later. He had swallowed 27 of them. Fresh York State EGGS, Moh. Bread Flour .....1-8 bbl sack Moh. Tomato a Old Dutch Cleanser . Sunbeam Green Asparagus Stalks ......No. 214 can pkg SENEKA BRAND SAUERKRAUT ..Irg can POTASH OR LYE . RED ALASKA SALMON ..1-1b tall can YELLOW COR! MEAL Gold Leaf Stringless BEANS, Extra Fancy FANCY TABLE PRUNES ..large can GRANULA doz 35[: 88c .3 cans 25C 23c 9c 9¢ 8c 17¢c smws 13¢C a3 c .ams 2D¢C Joliet Engulfed. Joliet, Ills, Jan. 21.—The worst flood since 1902 engulfed Joliet today. Water ran five feet deep in the streets. Nearly a thousand persons were driven from their homes. Rockdale, a manufacturing reported six feet of water on 1 level and business suspended. ‘Whole Valley Inundated. In the business section little damage was done aside from flooded base- ments. Every available | and fireman was put on flood duty and scores of volunteers aided in the | rescue work. town the ton and much damage was and throughout the adjoining county. Probable Great Flood. Aurora, Ills, Jan. 21—At 11:15 o'clock today warning of a probable great flood, which was liable to sweep away thousands of homes and buildings and cripple water supplies of cities along the Fox river was flashed by telephone and telegraph through the Fox river valley to peo- ple living near the river's edge. Al- ready six of the seven artesian wells which supply Aurora have been its banks. One small well in operation, but which any minute can supply the city for about five hours more. The main jumping station of the Aurora Water which is and is on the river bank. air pump there has been put out operation and there would be prac- tically no water pressure to fight fire should it break out in the city At Mooseheart, national headquar- ters of the Loyal Order of Moose anil seat of its industrial school and home for orphans, basements of many buildings have been flooded. An ar- | tificial lake north of the school is pouring over a dam north of the school and there is but an ing ravine protecting the institutions. Hundreds of men are working fr tically to direct the water of lake toward the river through ravine and a small creek Dams May Break. Warnings that dams at North Au- rora and St. Charles, Tll, may go out have been bulletined. Dams at Genoxw and avia are being watched and strengthened. The river was up eight feet and a half at 11:15 and still rising.” The b the the ROMAN RESTAURANT 56 LAFAYETTE ST. Special Dinner Served night from 8 to 12 P, | Music, Cabaret-75 Cents 5 Best Pure LARD, Meadowbrook Cheese ...Ib Swift’s Premium Oleo . .. D) 2 s L0 21c 25c¢ 16¢ 18c 18c 16¢ BONELESS ROLLS BOSTON CHOICE STEWING FOWL RIB ROAST BEEF LEAN ROASTING PORK RIB OR LOIN LAMB CHOPS FRESH HA STEAK FANCY SLICED BACON 1-1b LIVER 1% -1b BACON policeman | The river rose six feet at Wilming- i done there | cut | off by the river which is running over | may go out | department is just north of the city | of | interven- | iof was en i had Mayor Quigles 1];0:”‘(] matter. | meeting of the common council Wed- Saturday I | | count he i the SUGAR, Annual Sale Come in now if you wish to buy Ladies’ High Cut Tan Shoes, button or lace were $3.50, $4 and $4.50, now $2.50 S TR TR RN SR TP T IO TSI S MR % AXE DESCENDING ON THE SAFETY BOARD (Continued from t Page.) demoralize the departments under them because if they had no respect for the mayor, as authority, the po- licemen and firemen would have no | respect for them. In an interview in a morning paper, Mayor Quigley is made to say thar Councilman O. F. Curtis is trying to create dissention in the republican party. The councilman was asked to reply to this today but all be would say was ‘“How about Quigley? New Men Already Selected? It can be said without a great deal exaggeration that Mayor Quigley ded a week or more ago to s the entire safety board. Hs aged over the Malone matter and was on the point of swinging the axe when prevailed upon by cooler heads not to do so. In fact, it is said that Mayor Quigley already knows whom he intends to appoint in the places of the three present commissioners. Not until late yesterday afternoon decided what he regard to the safety He was not at . the had de tismi would do in nesday night and did not hear Chair- man Healey's speech. On that ac- without evidence until Herald 3 E — oz B 5 Ibs in late it has spread to Hartford legality consists in the neglect to have the way Another Commissioner is that f to be put in the oleomar- er says. Housckeepers Hartford, Persons ning with Healey's city papas. A complete account of riend lly little talk to M1 the FRAUDULENT TRICKS WORKED IN STATE Selling Oleomargarine From Dress Su Cases—Also Coloring Stuff. reached missioner Ja Dairy F. garine to housekeepers suit cases without taking notice | conditions which The practice is declared quite general Bridgeport 1 Waterbury covered coloring stt garine so ¢ of genuine butter. lly worked at boarding ho The federal regulations dress suit c; as to indicate its contents fraudulent such coloring ar Pure Food n Reports and Cc H. Staetmueller t many people throughout the state from of the law prescri and The se marked in suc trick wt Stadtmueller has of seling bottles it the : This trick is give ppeara ga stringent The state law requires that eve thing marg every description shall contain a sign which states that it contnais the imi- tion ne a in or of butter the delivery imitations of 3¢c | SATURDAY 33c | 9 TO 11 A. M—HOUR SALE—9 TO 11 A. M. _ STEAKS—Short, Sirloin, Porterhouse ‘ Round ONIONS—Large Fancy Red SOAP—Good Laund ; LEGS OF YOUNG LAMB FORES OF YOUNG LAMB LEAN FRESH PORK LOINS 12 to 11 ave . .Jh 15(: FRESH or SMOKED SHOULDERS 6 to 8 average 1b 12V2¢ CHOICE SHOULDER ROAST BEEF . ..1b 1 6C NATIVE VEAL ROAST HE MOHICA NM “MoreforaDollarThana Dollar Can Buy Elsewhere” ARKET he to it o m< hat are making a practice of selling oleomar dres the be of > i1 h a rich dis- of nee gen- he inst ory- leo- of