New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1916, Page 2

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATUKDAY, MAY 6, 1916. NO DIRT--NO DAMAGE In wiring an old dirt or muss. The flo are not damaged in a can be brightened an trician’s visit. Every operating with us gua house there is no noise, ors, walis and ceilings ny way, and any home d improved by the elec- electrical contractor co- rantees satisfaction. THIS CUSTOMER SATISFIED One of our custo mers whose home was recently wired said, “I had always- thought wiring ruined the dec orations and required tearing up the upstairs floor. But in my home, the work was all done and the fixtures comp small openings made from an upstairs closet letely concealed the in the ceilings. Not a thing suffered the slightest damage; even the household routine was undisturbed.” Wire your own h ome and you will be as well satisfied. Ask us to tell you more about our great house wiring offer, which closes in a short time. TheUnitedElectric Light & Water Co. HONE P30 I Jiiundred Men's Societ; d its mont meeting in Vega onday night and all members ed to attend. egree team of the Ladies’ v, A. O. H., will meet tomor- rning at 10 o'clock in Electric al dissolution of the firm of & O’Connor was made yester- | Thomas F. Farrell and Angus es of Boston, the firm being d in the same location by rell Clothing company, rears old of 'S BEEN A CE WARM EAUTIFUL DAY are open until 10 this g. ything for men and men except their shoes [ilson's “Eleetricity for Everything.” 'PHONE 230 625 West Main street, is suffering with a badly split finger received last | night while playing in 'a new house on Harrison street. A he ron radia- tor fell on the boy's fing. 1 | An enjoyable dance was held in | Booth’s hall last evening by employes of the Corbin Cabinet Lock company office. CONVENE. Lecturers | Listen to and Messages From the Spirit World. e twenty-nin'th annual Spiritual- ! ist convention is being held today and | will be continued tomorrow in Unity | nan, Hartford, | ling of New Britain people attendirg. | This afternoon the business meeting !was held and this evening Rev. J. C. I”. Grumbine of Cleveland, Ohio, will speak on “The New Psvchology” There will also communion with the spirits Tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock therc { will be a conference in Odd Fellows Temple and in the afternoon Rev. Mr Grumbine will speak on “The Spirit World—Where and What It Is.” 1In the evening Rev. Mary S. Vanderbilt will act as message bearer, after de- livering a lecture. BELL:ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage | proves it. 25¢ at all druggists. with a goodly sprink- be Place ito Getthe Latest Books of the Day of Publication e e e ckinson's Girculating Library 169 and 17 /1 Main Street Open from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Holidays and Sundays Excepted | TRAINING SCHOOLTO | f | | | was authorized to add three members | | liverea | BE CONTINUED HERE, Instruction of Religious Teachers Will Be Held Again The annual meeting of the Hartford County District No. 2, Sunday school ssociation was held rinity Metho- ! dist Episcopal church yesterday after- noon and evening. In this distri there ave twenty-three schools resenting churches in this city lin, st Berlin, Kensington and > { ington and delegates were present | from each school. Rev. Elmer 1. | | | | REV. E. T. THIENES. Thienes, assistant pastor of the First Church of Christ, presided. Rev. Mr. Thienes was reelected secretary, and Miss Isabel Stanley was re-elected ele- mentary secretary. The afternoon se: sectional conferences, Oscar Phelps of | Hartford being in charge of.the adult classes, and Mrs. Lucy Stock Chapin of Hartford, conducting the elemen- tary classes. Professor Edward P, 8 John of Hartford, delivered a very in- teresting address on “Principles and | Plans for the Intermediates and Sen- iors.” At 6:15 o'clock,a supper was served and the evening session menced at 7:15 o’clock. The convention authorized the city board to make plans for the con- tinuance of the New Britain Training School for Religious Teachers next season. The old board was ior! opencd with | com- re-elected and it to its personnel. The present are Professor E. E. Nourse of Berlin, president; L. P. Slade, Rev. Dr. G. W. C. Hill, Miss Bertha Shel- | don, Mrs Marcus \White, F. R. Gil- patric and Rev. T. Thienes It was| decided to offe: ourses in first and second year work during the next school ye There will be two sem- esters; the first starting October 3 and | ending Decsember 19. A rally will be | held January 9 and the regular work of the second semester will com- mence Ja 16 and terminate April 3. Theft t ¥ r of the school, which H closed recently, was a decided success | and plans are being made to have the work of next year even more success ful The address of the evening w by Robert Darling, pre of the State Sunday hool association, on the s “Possibiliti sponsibilities of the Sunday Teacher.” The convention | with a praver service. members at School closed | BALDWIN CHAIR MAN, DUNN SECRETARY City Hall Commission Chooses Old Of- ficers—Coal Bids Received—An- nual Statement Presented. Carlisle H n chairman Baldwin was again William G. organization chose and EUHI!H secretary at the meeting of the city hall commission yesterday afternoon. Monthly bills | tons. | business it will be difficult to fill or- i | | | | were approved and hids for the coal pply were received. No decision reached on this matter, action be- ing put over for two weeks as some of the dealers are uncertain whether they can deliver the goods. The com- | mission buys between 300 and 400 The dealers fear that owing to the congested condition of the freight Secretary W. G. Dunn made his an- nual report. The receipts from all sources were $20,816 , divided as follow 3alance April 1, 1915, $2,- \ppropriation from city, $ and heating Lyceum th : miscellancous, s, interest, $ clectric light $712.68; rintendent, $1,200; cleaning. ; rent of T $60; insur s fuel, | su- il i repairs, ,347.67; new con- artage, $102; inciden- total, $19,482.73, leav- lance of $1,334.14. It was decided to have some need- ed repairs made about the building. POLICEMA But Supcrnumerary Mercure Did Not Intend to Do It. Supernumerary Officer Horace V. Mercure of 470 Arch street accident- ally discharged his service revolver Jast evening while attempting to clean it. The bullet struck Mrs. Mercure in the index finger, inflicting a painful wound. Dr. Harry A. Elcock dressed the wound. Indications are {hat in addition to . the policemen how fo shoot 1t they should be siven a course in how to care for their firearms, | | gar assertion. to $14,076.05, compared office in the past twenty-five years will be seen in the comparative figures of The Great American Lawn Mower We are show- ing most com- plete line of Mowers in the city. Our stock con- tains the best makes. Prices range from $3 to $13. ALSO LAWN ROLLERS both Solid and Water filled from $10.00 to $12.00. ALL KINDS OF SPRAY PUMPS SCOLULIONS FOR SPRAYING Pyrox Arsenate of Lead. The Abbe Hardware Co. 279 MAIN STREET. SAYS WOMAN “TRIMMED" HIM. Swallowing his manly pride, Ny no Donini, Who conducts a store | at 239 North strect, hustled down to | police headquarters this morning admitted to Sergeant T. M. Hertir that he has just been “trimmed™ by a woman. He declared that Mrs, Vie- toria Gasperino, who lives in the sanme building, had splintered a block £ wood over his he He exhibited bump the siz cgg to prove h MAYOR REAPPQ TQV OLD COMMISSIONERS Peter D. Curran, Charies G. Miller | P and Morris D. Saxe Arc Retained 5 a On the Charity Board. s tr Mayor Quigley last night announced ! g — the r S CHAMPIONED. he thirty- third congress al church in the United States closed last night after a meeting of four days. Prepar- | ation of defence of home and coun- try against unjust ageression, ag the violatios of national integ the principals of christian hur was earnestly championed by speak at the closing sessi ippointment of Peter . Curran, Miller and of PREPA\ Norfolk, o p: Charles G. Morris 1. Saxe | as members The the charity commis- sion. action was anticipated. | Commissioner Curran is a former | Waterbury man, coming here to man- | W the purchased from the late Dennis Rior- { dan. Commissioner Miller is a mem- | | ber the firm of Miller Olson, conducting a number of grocery stores in the city, and Mr. Saxe is well known as an attorney. All three have | proved valuable members of tre charity commission. The commission planned to make trip to the town home late this | ernoon and with Mayor Quigley cide upon a location for the new barn. The commission will Tuesday evening for organiz I will receive the annual repo age dryzoods bysiness which he The receipts at the post office for n the past month show a gain of $1,3 38 over the corresponding month last | year. The total receipts amounted with §12,- The rapid growth of the local h a 703.67. iy meet | b; 1890 of $25,786.74 compared with over on and 000 n **What’s this here red, white and blue sign on the deor, Oliver? Su’thin new, ain’t it P ““Signs of the times, Uncle. That’s the SOCONY Kerosene sign.”’ “Hey?” “No. Kerosene—SOCONY. That’s the name of the Standard Oil Com- pany of New York’s best kerosene. I sell it.” “Well now, you don’t tell me! What'll they be doing next? Years ago, ile was ile. We did’nt ask for no name. We took what we got.” ““And got what you deserved. people know better nowadays. But My Land on Center street owned by Hanna property Britai | main there nove vill storage purpo: ing in opposition to the proposed c General Burleson in Washington, D, C. sking that the suspension of the rule through his previous efforts, Homer The Clothes Fit Their Sur- roundings As Weil As They Fit You Horsfall, Ready for Service Clothes, the product of our ewn designing room and our own workroom, embody all the intimate per- sonal first hand touches of custom-tailored garments. Many of the designs of the woolens shown are those for which we have EXCLUSIVE sale in this city and they are carried by many custom tailors at prices 509 higher than our own. See these superior clothes. - Hovstulls T PAYS TO BUY OUR KIND 03-99 ASYLUM ST. 140 TRUMBULL ST Connecting with HARTFORD. BUYS PROPERTY. CIRCUS COMING FACTORY TO TOWN. Stz Advance Man in City Looking Over 8 Show. t Purchased by | Ground for Warm weather must be stay for one of the surest harbingers of summer has already arrived, t | advance man of a circus. Cook s Wilson's wild animal show in rings will exhibit here on June location of this show is not settled The advance man t the sites in Belvidere tentschler's park Like all well regulated circuses one will have a street parade and the” press agent assures the public { show is absolutely the “greatest earth.” ary and Clark. June Landers, F ¥ urchased the t and Clark yesterday Cent Landers, y on A is located hetween Brady Elec- wide street The New Work this pencer Douglass. his property e - and the having a deep yard and Moulding the buildings on ric comp: a ontage ny N Planing ‘cupies one c lot. The 1 and also at woodworking concern will 1 until June 1 when it will elsewhere and the new owners take over the premises for | on PLAN FOR BANQUET. A number of speakers have secured for the banquet which be held in connection with the Swed- ish Singers' convention to held here next month Among those ex-»* pected to respond are Mayor Quig- lev, Judge G. B. Carlson of Middle- | town, Rev. S. G. Ohman, Rev, Dr. S G. Youngert of Hartford, FErnest Francke of Pittsburgh, Pa., president of the Eastern division of the singing societies, Joel Mossberg of Chicago T11., president of the national society and G. K. Johnson of New York, edi- tor of the Northern Star. CHANC Landers is tak- in the matter deliveries of v, and anges a letter to Postmaster LANDERS OPPOSE To been is to Mayor George M an active interest f changing the rural 12il in Kensington and this ci e has written ‘hich has been granted until June assisted Delaney and | of Stamford | Postmaster W' F. 8. Cummings rade permanent ¥ customers know that, while SOCONY is all kerosene, all kero- sene isn’t SOCONY. Ther{]know the Standard Oil Company of New York wouldn’t put it's name—SOCONY — on a product unless it was the best. SOCONY is clean-burning, econ- omical, pure. When you ask for SOCONY,you always are sure what you’re getting.” ‘‘And do folks really ask SOCONY?" “You said something. So far as this store is concerned, there’s no such word as kerosene. It's been replaced absolutely by SOCONY.” ““Well, well! DI’ll hdve tc remember SOCONY after this, I vow.” for STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK PRINCIPAL OFFICES: NEW YORK BUFFALO ALBANY BOSTON We recommend the following oil burning devices as the best of their kind: New Perfection Oil Cookstoves and Water Heaters, Perfection Smok eless Oil Heaters, Rayo Lamps and Lanterns. ) ] STANDARD DILCO Y