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TRADING POST OPENING. THE FOOL’S REVENGE AT FOX’S TODAY ted Men Make Plans | At Turner Hall, Big Event annual bazaar of Mattabessett Tribe, I. O. R. M., will open this eve- ning in Turner hall and everything points to a successful outcome. Mayor George A. with a short address, and enter- tainment and dancing will follow. The opening night has been designated “Fraternal Night,” and it that representatives and all lodges will be in attendance. orchestra will furnish the music dancing. The Hy The The drama Tett and for the screen by and will have its resentation at Ifox's he Revens and highly dramatic ts featuring Maude that Irving served Booth, Bar- has been picturized William Fox studios New Britain this afternoon. compelling production in six Gilbert, William first an Fool's as ac members Tudd's for Henry Minstrels composcd of local entertainers will furnish the program and the following selections will be rendered: Opening chorus pany ! (Written espec: 1,.1]!\ fm nm <hn\\) i Ballad,—Oh Promise Me ... | | | | by the entire com- Michael O'Reilly ‘Was Moses When the Light Went Out? i Abe Cohen (A) Don’t Bite Hand That's Feeding You (13) Buck and wing dance. boG0c Bucken and Winger Comic coon song, Alabama Bumble Bee"” Sam J. Johnson Novelty skit entitled—*“I Don't Want to Go to War” Percy and Algy pathetic little poem entitled—*"A Woman in Blac malts Dutch singing specialty Smaltz | M-O-T-H-E-R Michael O'Reilly | Novelty number the entive com- pany B0 S b ao e A medley by the Hy Henry C ter Minstrels quaitet ... .. i Specialty by Uncle Sam as entire company "Where the | | | | A "‘eooLs’ REVENGE " wiLLIAM FOX PRODUCTION by H. Tooker and J. Warner Oland, the Quigley will pry off the I\.‘l i | is expected | of | for, { Tndge {there NEW, BRITAIN FORD PILGRIMS ARE BACK HOME AGAIN Greatest Problem Is Careal Babies | —Expedition Cost $400,000 New York, further activities IFeb. 25.—Henry Ford's n the great war may not deal with how to stop it, but how to relieve some of it: these terrors. Among of and milk Aus- is the the immediate need |)1|I||0_\‘ of Grmany ~-Hungary. Judge who' returned yesterday o’ the this 3en . Lindsey, TFord peace pa announced change of front Dr. cotintry 'y Bdmund von Mach this of the for milk several weeks ago. Judge Lind- scv yesterday confirmed it. “There are millions of babies in the Teutonic countries who must have milk, Lindsey. “Milk must be in this country and shippel for those millions of poor, in- nocent, starving babies. Something, too, must be done for the great num- 'ber of war orphans. T will with Mr. Ford in behalf of the starv- ing babies and parentless children and learn if he cannot do something for them.” “How would vou orphans be cared for?" he was asked “Well,.1 wouldn’t advise that they gave an inkling neecd pur- chased suggest the local. thespian and replete stirring situations and pretty ment that strikes a responsive chord H with its spectator: The play deals NEW YORKER TALK | with a clown, who, seeking revenge on | a wealthy libertine, unknowingly gives e | his only daughter into the hands of the rascal who induced his wife to|Joseph Barondess, Commissioner of leave him . Anson, a clown happily. with il “his wife and his small daughter. until | Randall, a wealthy man begins to pay | attention to Anson’s wife. ~ Randall, his wealth upon Mrs. Anson, eventually tires of the modest which her husband had pro- She declar that she live under the same with her husband’s mother. after the latter has taken up elsewhere the spirit of dis- still manifests itself in Mrs. She deserts her. husband to the horie of Randall. Anson follows her, enters the Ran- | dall home, kills his own wife and chokes Randall into insensibility. An- son escapes punishment and years with senti- | JEWS WILL HEAR » Education, Address Sunday lives Meceting in Synagogue. For the past six months the Jewis { War Relief committee of this city has been making weekly collections at the | homes of all the Jewish families. Each week sixteen collectors cover the eight districts into which the city is; divided and solicit these weekly dona- tions, ranging from five cents to $1.50. | Large sums have been collected in this way and sent to the Central Jew- ish Relief in’ New York which looks after their proper distribution. | On Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock | a mass meeting will be held in the ! local synagogue at the Corner of Elm ! and Chestnut streets at which the lo- ! He changes his name and cal relief committee will render the | modest fortune in the oil report of the past six months’ activ- rom this point of the play, ity. I really the prologue one is The committee has been very for- ried through a series of situations ' tunate in securing as speaker for this that is really remarkable for its dra- oOccasion the Hon. Joseph Barondes: matic Intensity commissioner of education in N An' T07K0, 1w reel comedy, and gey- < York: City Mr. Barondess; who will eral’other exceptional features round Speak in Jewish is powerful orator ont a program of much diversity and and can. describe in a wonderful way refinement that will surely please the the sufferings of the Jews in ‘the most fastidious, sigantic struggle now going on in FEurope, Mr. Barondess will also ! tell of relief work going on in { the country large and: will dwell WILLTIAM GILLETTE L‘mwn\ on the congress question. - | Solomon Ginsberg will act as chair- AT PARSONS’ TONIGHT i Javishes who home vided cannot roof Fven quarte: ent Anson. and cor elapse. - makes a industry. which is w a the man, M. Zucker and M. Robinson will | give a report of the collections, -and | Attorney M. D. Saxe will speak in | Tnglish. As this meeting is arranged | for the purpose of reporting: upon past activities no admission will **be William Gillette brings his famous £ucc herlock Holmes” and + “Secret Service” to the Parsons thea- ! charged nor will any collections bhe | ter, Hartford, tonight and twice on |made. Tt is expected that all who 2turday, closing his stage career. Mr, | sympathize with the Jewish war suf- Gillette was playing “Secret Service | ferers will be present. on tour in California when he received | a telegram from Charles Frohman in- | him that Conan Doyle had €s; Se NOTICE. To Creditors and Noteholders: The First National Bank of Plain- | ville, located at Plainville in the State [ of Connecticut, is closing up its affairs. All stockholders and other creditors of said association are there- fore hereby notified to present their notes or other claims against the as- forming consehted to his making a play about the novelist's famous_detéctive. M Gillette immediately engaged another actor to take Mis part in “Secret Ser and disappeared. When he came back to New York a month later | he handed Mr. Frohman the complet- ed manuscript of the play and it was? produced shortly afterwards—in the |sociation for payment. autumn of 1899—at the Garrick thea- A. A. MacLEOD, te, New" York , [ Cashier. * vice" ! country, argosy. vious occasion vocate was Ford bl stateroom and Hanna the cental the and at sion be adopted by men and women in this 1s h been suggested,” re- plied Judge Linds: must be attended to in native countries.” The judge Ford, who went down the bay weet the lier, As the cutter de the delegates threw into the -air and gave ing cheers.” Gaston business amanager of the was cher leader. Henry Climbs Aboard. Not as nimblf as on a certain did the peace scramble up the ladder. immediately surrounded by who dinned into h of their adventures. listened with a smile on face. glad, said their own Mr. to drew th “three Plantiff, peace had just greeted pre- ad- He his car Mr. his lean “T'm get Plan- mighty Business glad, to Manager tiff “Glad to the peace ord see you back,” returned advocate. conferred in Mr. Plan- until the ship docked. Meantime Dr. Jenkins Llyod issued a statement signed by Judge Mrs. Ben Lindsed. Governor of ‘North Dalkota. Mrs. Fred 3 Holt, R: B, English, R. aston Plantiff }\ml Dr. Jenkins Llovd Tt K of the party admit incoherencies inei- hecause zathe and an expedition, was |n~m\ crudifies to such company thérefore poorly least, they n embattled wide pea e For “The time for has passed. Now in moted a ciples of Ti o discussion Publicity Past. newspaper publicity the harder task of quite conferérice, wise ‘deliberation and high diplomacy has come. Tt is the opinion of the returning mem- bers that something can Dbe The time ts ripe for action. No one can do much, but every one can do somethinig, and they are coming back determined to continue lh(’ir work more earnestly than ever.’ When Mr. Plantiff camé from his stateroom he was ‘asked: “How much” do vou * peace argosy cost thus ? “Well,” mused Mr. Plantiff, should say about $400,000.” “I am happy to get back dear old U. S. A." said Mr. Plantiff. “I for one, appreclate the attitude assumed by Presldent Wilson, and we may all thank him for having kept ce in our own land in spite of the ‘believe ~fhe 5 i to the DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, with the last | eak | Jones | Neeley, | done. | FEBRUARY warlike atmosphere existing. all over the world. “1 do not know Jlans are for the further of peace, but I may safely if he is convinced his aid will result even shortening the war by a day will give the most energetic sup- at his command.” Mr. Ford's promotion say t what he | rort ALARM. the fire department Main te the from the of Beaton's block treet this morning to invest { cause of smoke scen issuing { bricks in the wall of the buildin | vestigation showed that the in the cellar has @ back draught and { the smoke secps through the brick | walls where the mortar has fallen { away. | Chief Dame | was called to on ON ROLLEY CAR. of INJUR z Adolph Gaylor Kensington, the | well known Church street barber, suf- fered a painful injury to. his knee this morning when he fell down in a trol- ley car. Mr. Gaylor was standing { up when the car gave a sudden lurch, | He | in the | | John- throwing him heavily to the floor. to the hospital Officer Theodore removed ambulance by son. was 700,000 GERMANS IN Autumn Assault Now in Progress Paris, London ‘cb. 25, (Dispatch Daily Chroniole.)— | of Verdun, the greatest, certainly, since the Autumn offensives of the Allies in the Champagne and Ar- tois and probably since the second battle of Ypres last Spring continues to develop. A great German offensive has for some time been expected in the west where alone, the French believe a decision can be obtained. Although there were evident ri S in attempt it before the end of winter, it is w understood that the grand staff Berlin was under such pressure economic and dynastic considerations that it could not choose its own time. It is too soon to estimate the effac- tives employed, but the fact that the French staff has noted the presence at the extreme front of men belonging to seven different army corp: is, some 300,000 men, who must picked: troops, makes it probable the whole force numbers three-qua ters of a million or more. Both sides being fully supplied and prepared, the weight of artiliery fire, | now continues since. Monday morning, lis altogether precedent. Tt not Wednesday that {the German effectives were fully d | ployed and utilized. On Wednesday | night the battle front extended on | a line, twenty-five miles lon frowm Meclancourt on the west, halfway he- tween the Mense river and the Ar- gonne, beyond Fromezy on the cast. to The The battle syond was until \ttack The center of the strug na remained between Brabant and Ornes. Here dense masses of men of { the Fifth German army, rank after i rank, in old phalanx, formation, were thrown against the French trenches i above Haumont, in the Caures wood, at Herbebois and north of Ornes. Everywhere, at first, they were i thrown back with terrible loss e cept in’ the wood of Wovrille, a lo- cal name given to the eastern end of the wood of Caures. This was sharp salient in the French line, be- ing a corner on the edge of hills at which the line turns from the east- ward to south southeast. There were then two acute and dar.- gerous I‘rench salients, Caures-Her- bebois and the village of Brabant, left somewhat in the air by the evacua- tion of the group of twenty or thirty cottages called Haumont. These p tions, it may be remarked, were from three to five miles heyvond the outer- most of the permanent fortifications Repulsed. is e was'a 5 In- | furnace | FURIOUS OFFENSIVE. 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Ifurther east, however, at the ond salient all but the south corner } of the wood of Caures has been aban- doned in the face of an .attack by a full German brigade, and due east of aumont the EFrench line beer wn back without any br k to hillside between Ornes_and Herle- bois, where it strongly posted All the Crown Prince can yet in three days for the losses that be numbered in scores of thousand: are two small villages and two woods to the instituting course in any recommende plicable ti¢ science Miss Burridge study of food products be of the work 'in geography study; that food ccsts be the arithmetic Tessons, 1d definitions roods that made and worked int of become Pz sec- | is shov must EDUGATORS TALK ON USEFUL ARTS Vermont Woman Urges Im- portance of Food Products Study CAN dts maple-flavor is syrups, because o always in the ful can and guaranteed Feb. —F important the Education Detroit, Mich., economies formed of the the National me part | . 10c, 25¢ delegates at and larger sizes an discussion of association, department of superintendence, to- day. 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