New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1916, Page 10

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1916. City Items i Sheriff James t again after th the grip. Special Hoosier Cabinet sale hn A. Andrews & Co.—advt. Dr. and Mrs. Willilam M. Stock- Il of Shelton are the gue: af Dr @ckwell's parents, Sheriff and Mrs. D. Stockwell of West Main street. Children’s rubbers 33 imon’s Shoe Sale.—advt. 8. H. Wood, the optician, who I8 Dbeen ill is improving and ex- ts to be at his office within a f Clark is able to be a few day illness at cents, A daughter has been born to Mr. Fate of o, Caripaign on Western Front | May Depend on Present Fighting Mrs, I. Glickman of Springfield. ! . Glickman was Miss Grace Ken- il v of this eity. he Boy Scouts of the Trinity M. . church will meet this evening 80 o’clock. The tree committee will hold geting this evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Frank J. Porter, who left ime weeks ago for San Antonia, Bxas, has left there for Californi ¥. J. Wachter of Landers, Frary Clark will address the salesman- ip class at the Y. M. C. A. esday evening. His subject will be nowing Your Goods. C. J. Hart is visiting friends oston. | Wallace A. Chappelle, baggage er at the depot, is again at work er his recent illness. Mrs. Dennis McCarthy is reported | riously ill at St. Francis’ hospital. | Constable Fred Winkle has recover- from his sickness and is able to | about town again. | J. P. Rutherford of New York wili | Hdress a meeting here Sunday after- | bon on the subject “How Militarism | 1l Be Forever Destroyed.” | The neighborhood prayer meeting | nned for this evening at the home W. H. Watrous of Francis street | i1t not be held on account of ths | geting of the Stanley School Parents hd Teachers’ association. Harry B. Christensen is expected return from Chicago tomorrow. He | hderwent a successful throat oper- fion while there. The Woman's Guild of St. Mark’s hurch held a food sale at the home Mrs. J. B, Cooper of Vine street this | ternoon from 2 until 5 o’clock. Spring shirts and neckwear at Tho thley-Babcock Co.—advt. Rev. Dr. E. B. Cross, pastor of th: t Baptist church, delivered an ad s at the meeting of the Women’: ome Missionary society, this after- foon at 3:30 o'clock. New Britain Choral Society T sal Monday night instead of Weo day Booth's hall 7:30 sharp.—adv Through Harry P. Roche, Joseph smante has brought suit agains jeter Denuzze for $50. Property Dwight Court has been attached by Constable Fred Winkle. The writ returnable before the city court o be fourth Monday of this month. tomorrow [ in at Lehane lecture, m. 10c.—advt. . and Mrs. Charles Boyle ave tomorrow for a visit to Charles- m, S. C. Rev. G. E. Pihl, pastor of the Swed- Bethany church, is spending W flavs out of town. It is expect- B 'he will announce his decision re- ding the call to the Cromwell Christian Orphanage on his will ! The Holy Family Circle of St. ary’s church will hold a patriotic thist in the school hall next Wednes- ay afternoon. TC ATTEND CONVENTION. This city will be represented at e coming convention in New York bn March 4 and 5 which will take | eps to form a new Irish soclety for he purpose of aiding Ireland in its fforts for Home Rule, and other measures which will benefit the Irish ace. Those atending from city will be Judge John Walsh, Thomas J. Bmith, John F, Meehan and John T. O'Brien. ROOT ON SWIMMING TEAM. The swimming team of the Massa- husetts Institute of Technology, of thich Burritt A. Root of this city is member, defeated the team from Harvard university Wednesday eve- | Mng. M. I. T., won first place in | 1 but two events. “The Busy Little Store” I NATIVE EGGS next | i | | | _SCEN The black line on the accompany- ing map shows the approximate posi- tion of the battle front in France, where heavy fighting has been going on The objective of the French drive last September, when the Cham- pagne offensive was also in progress, ind of the constant fighting since is the range of hills northeast of Neu- ville, beginning with hill 140 and run- ning to the southeast. Once in pos- session of these, General Joffre would command the plain to the eastward, force the evacuation of Lens, with the loss of the railway, and perhaps even compel the Germans to abandon T.ille as a result of the breaking c” the Artois front. Crown Prince Rupert of Bavaria commands the German 4roops in this sector of the battle front, Homer A. Curtiss Alling, president of the club, sided. The menu consisted of salmon, French fried potatoes, hot roast beef. chops, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, pie and coffee. At the close of the supper and fol- pre- { lowing the remarks by Senator Klett | journed to the bowling alleys i the | spent. Above is a_photograph of Homer A. Curtiss, former president and treas- urer of the Meriden Cutlery company, | who has been engaged by Landers, | Frary & Clark to become associated with the managemént of the cutlery business of the local concern. Mr. | Curtiss is considered as one of the highest authorities on cutlery in the | country, having been with the Meri- den concern for half a century. The officials of Landers, Frary & Clark were pleased to be able to secure a man of his knowledge and wide ex- perience. Pure Lard, 12c 1b. —advt. Berlin News. Page.) Russell Bros. (Continued From Ninth cipal of the XKensington Grammar school, will be chaperon. George Tryon, who had of pneumonia, is now out and is convalescing. Mrs. C. W. Nichols and family of the Turnpike road have taken up their residence in Kensington. Henry Nemo has resumed his duties at the Construction company after a week’s illness with grip. Charles Deming has resigned his position as draughtsman with the Berlin Construction company, The announcement of ment of Miss Annie Brindley of New Milford to Emerson Blake Bushnell of Danbury has been made. Mr. Bush- nell formerly lived in East Berlin and is well known here. an attack of danger Native Eggs, 33c dz. Russell Bros. —advt. WARD CLUB SOCIAL. the egage- | and Mayor Quigley, the gatherings ad- where remainder of the evening was There was a keen contest for the prizes and considering that the majority of the bowlers were out of practice some good scores were made. The first prize, a pound glass of to- bacco, went to E. W. Church; second vrize, Smokerroll set, to A. F. Svensk; third prize, pack of cards, to Fred Eppler; fourth prize, pipe to A. Behnke; fifth price, dancing darkie, to Thomas Gibson; booby prize, a niniature goat, to Registrar William cigler. 12¢ Pure Lard, 1b. Russell —advt. Bros. | beara POLITICAL EDITOR HERO, Paris, Feb. 18, 10:10 a. m.—Andre Tardieu, political editor of the Temps, who joined the army as a Teservist, passed through various promotions to the Tank of captain and was cited in the orders of the day, has again been cited for gallantry in leading his com- pany under a violent bombardment of heavy artillery to an attack upon a ‘trench momentarily lost, which he succeeded in reoccupying after a struggle of several hours with hand grenades. CATTI QUARANTINE RESUMED. Chicago, Feb. 18.—The Illino: tate of livestock commissioners to- day issued an order that all cattle, sheep and swine of the grade known feeders, removed from the Union Stock Yards to points in Illinois shall be held in quarantine for twenty-one days. The order was the result of the return of the foot and mouth | epidemic, Old Glory Piercing the Darkness as Sol Sleeps | city GYPSY BANDS ARE CAUSING TROUBLE Police Arc Watching Resorts And If It Ts Illegal Arrests Will Follow. Three gangs of gypsies have lately taken up their headquarters in this and are causing the police some | anxiety inasmuch as they are charged | with formation palm reading, which is a di tinet ion of the state statutes. s vet the police have no definite in- that they ave engaged in but the place is being carefully watched and should they be discovered violating the law prosecu- tion will follow. One_of the gypsy gangs has taken up guarters on Broad street. Anoth- er is located on Washington street and the third party on Lafayette viol this busine: is | street, The owner of the property now oc- cupied by one of the gangs came to the police station today in an at- tempt to have them ejected. He e plained that he rented his store to a barber for $15 per month, The bar- ber has sub-rented the store to the gypsies for $20 until March 1. 1t is said that a local constable who has become interested in the case in- asmuch as he wishes to eject the gypsies for his client played the Sherlock Holmes stunt sterday and succeeded in getting his fortune told by the alleged palmists. Whether he .\\'ill make use of this information is not known. The gypsies declare they persmiths. Pure Lard, 12c¢ Ib. —advt. are cop- Russell Bros. EARLY MORNING FIRE. The fire department was called out at 7:07 o'clock this morning to the house on Putnam street occupied by the Grabeck family. There was a mall blaze in the clapboards but the mage was slight. The firemen were surprised to get the call from box 48 when, in order to ring that box, a box on Oak street had to be passed. NOTABLES ARE ARRESTED. Two men, claiming to be scions of distinguished famil were arrested this morning for being intoxicated. One, an umbrella mender named John Casey, sald he had just arnived from Paris and owns a castle in Tipperary, Ireland. The other, William Daley, claims to come from Troy, and de- clares he is none other than the fa- mous jockey, “Father Bill” Daley. Native Eggs, 33c dz. Russell Bros. —advt. NEWINGTON GRANGE. The Newington Grange will meet February 22, Washington’s birthday, at the hall in Newington and will observe ‘“Washington Night.” Old- time costumes are to be worn. Fol- lowing a short business meeting there will be music and dancing open patrons, their families and friends. MEETING POSTPONED. Owing to the inability of President N. Humphrey of the board of rublic works to attend, the meeting of the estimate committee of the board of public works scheduled for this évening has been postponed until rext wednesday evening. The com- mittee in the meantime will complete its report. Native Eggs, 33c dz. Russell Bros. —advt. RECEPTION TONIGHT. The members of the junior choir of st nval banquet which will be the Parish hall this evening. tertainment will follow the banquet at which addresses will be given by Rev. John E. Fay and Professor F. F. Harmon. held An en- TABLET SERVICE HELD, A tablet service for the late Louis J. Muller and William J. Keegan was held last evening at the meeting of the New Britain lodge of Elks, Fred M. Hewitt rendered vocal solos. The committee in charge of the annual banquet reported that arrangements are being made for holding a suc- cessful affair, Mary’s church will enjoy the an- | in | Delivery Guaranteed 10— New Britain Herald Subscribers THE HERALD has completed arrangements with the Western Union Telegraph Co. Whereby THE HERALD is able to GUARANTEE DELIVERY EVERY NIGHT to carrier subscribers in all parts of New Britain. No regular subscriber of THE HERALD ever need miss a single copy. If the carrier boy misses you, just call up on the telephone “Western Union” And tell them that your HERALD did not come. That's all you need to do. A Western Union mes- senger boy will rush a copy of THE HERALD to you at once. TRERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THIS SER- VICE. It is merely in line with the policy of THE HERALD TO SERVE THE PUBLIC TO THE BEST OF ITS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL WAYS. THE HERALD PAYS THE BILL. The Point is that you want to have your Herald every night and we intend that you shall have it. In order to guarantee delivery we have adopted this method. After six o’clock when you miss your paper, “Call Western Union” AN ENGA 1 T PUZZLE, | Parent Who First Denies It, Changes | Her Mind Suddenly. Following on the heels of the de- | nial by Mrs. Wininger of Barnesdaye that the report of her son’s engage- ment to Miss Mae Callahan was erroneous, comes a change of heart cn her part, in which she states to the Herald through a signed state- | ment that her reasons for the objec- !tions was due to the fact that she was not acquainted with the engage- ment. Russell Wininger also has informed {this paper that the first announce- | ment of the engagements is correct. TURNERS TO PARTICIPATE. A meeting of the New Britain Tur- ner society was held last evening and a report was received from the com- | mittee on arrangements for the Turn- |fest in Hartford next June, stating |that many of the local members would attend. The committee on the recent masquerade has not completed its report as yet, but partial returns indicate a profit. Native Bggs, 33c dz. —advt. Russell Bros. NEW CARD CLUB FORMED. Local lovers of the game made | famous by Hoyle's book of rules, have |formed a permanent organization with the intention of becoming more | proficient in the game of ‘“Skat.” |The following officers have been | cnosen: President, Charles F. Dehm: | secrétary, Dr. C. P. Wacker; treas- | urer, George Froeba. Meetings will | be held on the first and third Fridays of each month, Lehane, Turn hall, tomorrow night. —advt. Native Eggs, 33¢ dz. Russell Bros. —advt. Events Tonight “The Blindness of Virtue,” Lyceum | theater. High class Fox's theater. photo plays, Vaudeville and Keeney's theater, moving pictures, New Britain lodge, meets in Judd's hall, L. 0. 0. M, L. D. Penfield camp, 8. of V., meets in G. A, R. hall, Stella Rebekah meets in Jr. O, lodge, 1. O. . A. M. hall, 0. -Fi Valkyria Vega hall. lodge, O. of V., meets in Admiral Schley lodge, O. D. meets at 187 Arch street. H, § Parents’ and Teachers' meets in Stanley school, Pure Lard, —advt. association 12¢ Ib. Russell Bros. HALIFAX ARMED CAMP. Dr. John Purney, who returned last night from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he attended the funeral eof his brother-in-law, reports that the Canadian city is an armed camp and thousands of troops are seén on the streets at all times of the day and night. Recruits are béing drilled, new men are constantly arfving and oth« ers are departing for the front most every day. At present the Sixty- fourth and Eighty-fifth regiments are {quartered there. Native Eggs, 33c dz. Russell —advt. Bros. THE USUAL BIG SATURDAY SALE AT THE GREAT WESTERN MARKET THE QUALITY STORE OF LOW PRICES Fresh Lean Small Pork Loins . .. Fresh Lean Small Fresh Shoulders Fresh Lean Lamb Legs Choicest Cuts of Beef and Fresh Cut Hamburg Smoked Shoulders . . cesees 1 I Liver and 1 Ib Bacon ... Heavy Cuts of Salt Pork . . Strip of Bacon Fowl at Co: 13%¢ | 3 French Peas. Spinach. . 20¢ peck st. 3 qts Turnips. . 10¢ Pillsbury Best Flour cans Evaporated Imported Itallan Pure Olive Oil. Imported Italian Pure Olive Oil Imported Italian Pure Olive Oil. Toreno Salamey..40c b .. 19¢ 1 peck Potatoes 35¢ $1.05 bag Tea 26c $2.25 a gallon .$1.15 14 gallon ......B58c quart Italian Peppers. . 18c can Sauer Kraut..10c a quart .20c peck Eggs. .27c doz and 2 s Carrots . ... 10c Large can of Tomatoes. . 10¢ can Milk 20c and ™ can Kale Republicans of the First Enjoy Sup- per and Bowling. Corn. .10c can Beans. . 10c can Pears. . 10¢c can Large 25¢ can of Peaches..18c Pineapple. . 13¢ can Apricots Pears vev....10c can Corned ‘Beef 6c b and upwards Beef Liver, Pig’s Liver and Lamb Plucks | 33| About 40 members of the First SPECIAL ON SUGAR FOR SATURDAY ALl strictly Iresh, only 8 or 4 days old. & Russell Bros. 8 301 MAIN STREET | Ward Republican club enjoyed a sup- per at Bardeck’'s hall last evening which was followed by bowling at Nelson's alleys. It was not planned as a political rally and little time was spent in speech making although Senator G. W. Klett and Mayor G, A. Quigley made brief remarks at the close of the supper, congratulating the club on the good work it is do- ward. Mayor Quigley urged above all the need of harmony in the re- publican party and spoke strongly in ing for the republicans in the first " A patriotic movement for the dis- play of the American flag at night through the medium of electricity is gaining headway in the largest cities and towns. Although the movement had its beginning in the casually ex- pressed wish of a Cleveland, O., man- ufacturer only a few weeks ago, over favor of working for party success at the polls rather than the success of the individual. Attorney B. W. 1,000 flags illuminated with electric lights have been erected up to the present time, and it is expected that | the total will reach more than 25,000 | by the Fourth of July. where the movement greatest impetus, electric flags in In Toledo, has gained ity there are over 300 use at the present time, including the courthouse, thi Newsboys' club and many churches factories and other public buildings. The picture shows the flag over the Toledo courthouse. Native Eggs, —advt. 33c dz. Russell Bros. 5 1bs Sugar 25¢ and 1 Ib High Grade Gold Mine Flour (a Good Bread Flour) . . Gold Medal Flour 63 MAIN STREET. Coffee TEL. 30¢ . 98¢ bag . $1.05 bag Just Arrived—A large supply of Fancy Chinaware, In order to introduce the Quality of Our Goods we are giving away this Fancy Chinaware with every Purchase of Groceries and Meats. 1053. FRANK MAIETTA, PROP,