New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1916, Page 3

. taurant. - lock of the New York hospital and a | / NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST continued to imagine that he was a very sick man. “The troubles with that he refused to take a vacation and worked too hard,” said Dr. Griswold. “He often took work home with him at night.” Brewster was a member of the Knickerbocker Field club of Brook- 1yn, a veteran member of the Twenty- third Regiment, and a Spanish-Amer- ican War veteran. His parents, who reside in President street, Brooklyn, also survive him. FRATERNAL NEWS Catholic Women's Benevolent Tegion. The Catholic Women's Benevolent Legion will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at St. Mar: school hall. Plans will be discussed for an outing. Boston Store e Wednesday Morning SPECIAL For This Week Vill Be 20 Pieces 36-inch Percale Stanley Woman’s Relief Corps. . L Stanley Woman’s Rellef Corps will in a Variety of hold its regular meeting Wednesday at the usual time and place. Daughters of America. Martha Washington council, D. of will hold its regular meeting this 0. U. A. M. hall at 8 Styles and Col- Al evening in Jr. o'clock. orings AT 71/p c AYARD Just the Right Thing House Dresses New Britain Council No. 8 O. U. A, On Wednesday night a party of for | members will visit Excelsior council OF | of Waterbury to witness the new tab- leau team. The trip will be made by automobiles. At the regular meeting Thursday night the social committee will report on the lamb roast planned for next month. Store Closes at 12:15 on Washington Camp, P. O. S. of A. Washington camp No. 9, P. O. S. of A., will meet Thursday evening, August 24, in G A. R. hall. All mem- bers interested in tarpet bowling are requested to be present. Wednesdays. PULLAR & NIVEN DIVES NINE STORIES T0 END HIS LIFE; Lace Merchant Believed Himself | Victim of Incurable Disease A. O. H. State Field Day. Tomorrow the A. O. H. state field day will be held in Middletown and a large delegation from this city ac- companied by the Philharmonic band, will attend. Prior to arting, there will be a parade here, consisting of the local A. O. H., the Tierney Cadets, the Red Cross nurses, and the Bris- tol and Forestville delegations. The party will be conveyed to Middletown by special traln and all persons de- sirous of golng may have accommoda- tions. At a meeting of W. A. Harty Branch, yesterday, thres candidates were initiated and flve applications were received. Chamberlain Council Jr. O. TU. Chamberlain council, No. Jriso" A. M., held its regular meeting Saturday evening at Jr. O. U. A. M. hall on Hungerford court. The com- mittee for re-organizing the degree | team reported the progress made and lL is expected that in a short time the council will turn out a crack team. The state convention in Bridgeport, Sept. 256—26, was dis- | cussed and it was decided that e though a delegation is going to at tend, it will not be large enough to allow for the chartering of a speclal train, as was first anticipated. Letters were read from the varlous members at the front and they were received with a great deal of inter- est. A. M. New York, Aug. 21.—Edmund J. en Brewster, manager of the New York office of the Kirsch Manufacturing company at 200 Fifth avenue, commit- ter sulcide yesterday by throwing him- self from a window of his private office on the eleventh floor of the Fifth avenue building. He dropped nine stories to the roof of a second-story extension in an in- terior court, where his body lodged on a steel netting above a corner of the glass dome of the Fifth avenue res- He was dead when Dr. Hal- Cadets to Drill. The final drill of the Tierney Cadets prior to their participation in the A. O. H. parade In Middletown tomorrow, will be held this evening at 7 an office window. o’clock at the Landers playground. Brewster imagined he had an in- | The cadets will assemble tomorrow curable illness, 1t was said, and de- | morning at 7:45 a. m. at the play- stroyed himself in a fit of despond- | €round where tickets will be distrib- ency. | uted. It is expected that over 150 The suicide wa will be in line. and 1 = +1,806 Caton avenue, Brooklyn. Since last November he had been Eastern representative of the Kirsch Manufac- | turing company, of Sturgls, Mich makers of laces. For many years ho- fore that he had been manager of the lace and curtain department of the H. B. Claflin company. | A sealed letter and three messages | telegraph blanks were on Brewster’s desk. One of the ges, addressed to his wife, read After thinking it all over again, his is the only way. Forgive me Good-bye. BD.” Another of the me was ad- dressed to his physician, Dr. W. C. Griswold, 78 Prospect Park, West . Brooklyn, requesting him to notify | Mrs. Brewster and “help her out.”” The third was addressed to C. W. Kirsch at the Hotel McAlpin. Brewster advised e s iian te S rooured him tolgo o thejoffice tmmediately. il cfive'memberalot the lodge After writing these Brewster at | “°pUS WETIEES O (¢ 00 g I cel 12:30 o'clock rang the automatic mes- senger call in his office connected with the Western Union Telegraph branch office at Fifth avenue and Twenty- second street ¥ Messenger John Punt, who respond- ed, found the door open and the of- fice empty. The boy notified Nicholas Rosen, superintendent of the build- Ing, who made a search and finally 1aw the body from the office window. On the sill of the window from which Brewster had jumped were \many fresh lead pencil mar nd the police said Brewster apparently had stood at the window drawing with his pencil while he walted for an answer to his call. When he had heard the boy in the hall approaching the of- fice, the police thought, Brewster made his leap. On the desk with the tele- grams was $1 to pay the messenger. Dr. Griswold told Mrs. Brewster of the refused to believe her hust killed himself. Before jumping to his death Brew- | ster had removed his coat, collar and | scarf. His body was taken to the West | Twentieth street s ng the | arrival of Coroner Fef Dr. 111 last policeman got onto the roof through s forty-five years old ed with his wife and a son at | Phenix Lodge, I. O. O. F. Phenix lodg: 2, I. 0. O.F., are { reminded that there will be a meeting on Wednesday night of this week in Junior O. T M. hall on Hunger- fora court. Any other Odd cordially invited to attend. Members are looking forward to the picnic to be held jointly between Hart- ford lodge and Phenix on the third Sunday in September at the Riverside club grounds, Station 7, Windsor. The dinner will be served in three " different cours during the day. A ball game between the Phenix and Hartford lodges will be played pro- vided the players do not overload their stomachs; also foot races. uoits and other sports will be indulged in during the day. Full particulars will be given later. on ages from the a bhox of Easy Way to Get Rid of Itching Don’t worry any more ahout that jtching skin-trouble. Just get & jar of Tesinol ointment and a cake of resinol moap at any drug store. With the resinol soap and warm water bathe the affected parts thor- oughly, until they are | free from crusts and the skin is softened. Dry very gently, spread on a thin layer of the resino! oint- ment, and cover with a light bandage— if necessary to protect the clothing. This should be dome twice a day. Usually the (Iistressing itching and burning stop with the first treatment, and the skin soon becomes clear and healthy again. suic Jerg | Griswold said Prewster had been | Spring, which had been fol- Choosing Your Shampoo Soap If you select a soap that contains et el %o Tright's | soothing, healing properties like the eaial hatites ek he was | Tesinol balsams in resinol soap, you 7 oractically eured of this and was ap- | are not likely to have trouble with : S omplote roomvere, | dandruff, loss of hair or itching scalp. sician, although Brewster | 1deal for the youngsters® heads. ago parently of @aid the phy Fellows are various kinds of articles donated by members of the lodge were sent to two | members who are serving their flag | and our flag on the border. Another consignment will be sent later. Mem- | bers of Hartford lodge, No. were | present 1 Wednesday night and { were roy entertained. ANGELL SENTENGED FOR PEAGE ACTIVITY Reported fo Have Been Givenll Term at Hard Lahor Iy 21.—According to the Overseas News Agency, an Italian rewspaper has published a report that the English writer, Norman Angell, has been sentenced to eighteen 1months at hard labor after having l'een under arrest for several months, because he declined to take part in the war. Berlin, Aug. Pocket Boxes of 12 Bottles of 24 Bottles of 100 The trade-mark “Aspirin”’ (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) is a guarantee that the “:onc- aceticacidester of salicylicacid i these tabletsis of the reliable Bayer manufacture, This report says Mr. Angell’s plea, that he had conscientious objections to war service was overruled by an i‘nglish court. policy of the United States was rad cally reformed. Launches Propaganda After leaving America in his youth, | the publicist spent many years in France, ten of them in charge of Lorq Northcliffe’s interests in Paris, where | he served as manager of the Paris edition of The Daily Mail. After writing “The Great Illusion,” which cxpressed the keynote of his whole ttitude toward international rela- tions. he moved to London to talke charge of the propaganda which the book had set in mation. His idea that the futility of war was more serious basis for condem n than its cruelty won to his sup- rort many scientific men who had been repelled hitherto by what they regarded as the sickly sentimentality of the peace movement. Many Nor- United States, and has since vis man Angell clubs were formed in here several times. He was in England, one of the first at Cambridge York for six weeks last winter, w University. Among the prominent he delivered several lectures on i mwen in the central z national affairs, before various peace | London were A. J. societies. Before the Women's Peace | Richard Garton, and ty, November 11, 191 he con-|whose interests had demned the preparedness agitation in | largely military the United States, and predicted a war| The movement spread to the Conti- with Japan unless the intérnational! nent, and gained wide popularity even Ralph Norman Angell Lane, known also by his pen name of Norman An- gell, has long been identified with the international peace movement, and he has been especially prominent since the publication of his book: “The Great Illusion,” which sought to| demonstrate scientifically the futility | of war. Since the opening of the| Furopean war in 1914 Mr. Angell has | been unsparing in his wholesale | criticism of the conditions which led | o the fina] tragedy and has lectured | extensively on the nature of the peace | o follow the war, but the uncon- firmed report of h imprisonment | irom Berlin is the first intimation that | his views have led him into aiffi- culty with the English authorities Mr. Angell his yauth in gainst War, spent Lord formerly Esher, been Fan IWNesw at 491 MAIN ST, BERT’S VARNISHES will be carried in stock; also a of the latest uesigns in WALL PAPERS. Be Sure To ~NALI, AT ROWILE retail. A PERSONAL WORD:—“We invite all our old CROWLEY L.._.o. 6 TO 9 0’CLOCK —MONDAY EVENING— STEAKS fii‘fi’éé’ s 1b 18O LARD e 21bs @O cC SUGAR .. 51bs $39cC TUESDAY Mom‘& AN 33c Mohican Pork 1 8C and Beans can Ab N. B. C. Uneed - ZOC needa Native Roasting Biscuits . 2 pkg: Veal b ZZC Good Laundry e Soap Best Skinned Back Hams .1 20c Fresh Conn. EGGS, doz. Lean Rump Roasts .. . Fancy Sliced Bacon Sour, Sweet or Mixed Pickles " in Germany, wher German edition of “The Tilusion” were sold in a week In a letter written when on to America and dated May 22 Mr. Angell cutlined his position the beginning of the present briefly as follows: e futility of self stop war, and which justifies the a war will it is very that ung: never e 10,000 copies of a Great visit 1915, after war of teful task in which T happen to be engaged that barren; conquest men It is not enough power should be realize that barrennes their rational moments they guided necessarily their hut what they believe to be their terests are by it it may be is Jjust “However necessary have big armaments, ry those armaments to are ngell then insisted that American public the barrenness importance of gaining of international policy in such ters as sea power, sea law, ccor, and economic pressure as sanction for international treatie: DAY of canquest and definite CrowleyBros.,Inc. 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High, Sq uare, short and long sleeves. neck The Women’s New Apparel Shop— No. 165 Main St. There is no bread quite like “AUNT DELIA’S BREAD?”; it has a fineness and taste quite its own —vour grocer has it.— SPECIAL FOR This TUESDAY Fresh Fruit Pi.,, juicy and well baked (top and bottom) cach 18¢ Parkerhouse Rolls, per doz Don’t fail to try a loaf of Hoffmann’s Genuine CAL- IFORNIA RAISIN BREAD, prepared from a price formula, filled with tender and juicy “Sun Maid” Raisins. When ordering from your dealer say “Hoffmann’s” Ic a word each day pays for a classified adv. in the Herald You get results. That’s what vou want. RENIER, PICKHARDT & DUNN 127 MAIN STREET. OPPOSITE ARCH. TELEPHONE 317-2 FOR Wednesday Morning AT 39c¢—One lot of 50c¢ )ig‘ht Gowns, at 29¢ each. AT 7‘)c—()ne lot of erlped Blousefl formerly and $1.50, af 79¢. $1.00 02 AT $2.50—Ome lot of Striped Mohair Skirts, original price 35.00, now $2.50. One Lot ALL LINEN Initial Handkerchiefs, at 5¢ ea.