New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1916, Page 7

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1916. HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE (Phone Number Charter 5200) (Mail Orders {UP TO AND INCLUDING SEPT. 8TH, We will Close Fr cfully Iilled; idays at Noomn. Every Woman’s Attention Called “POLAR CUBS REAL BEARS Piainvilie News| OLD MAN VIGTIM OF AVICIOUS ASSAULT Samuel Sylvester Severely Beaten Makes Complaint to Prosecutor Elm City Baseball Team Has Little Trouble in Winning From Home Nine in Exciting Game on Allen to These Bargains in Shoes There will be a rush for these fine coverings for feminine feet, and it behooveth you, if you wish to share in the great values offered, to make haste here Monday morning and get fitted before the best of the lots are gone. There will be weeks yet in which to wear and enjoy Pumps and Colonials, or the white and colored kid Boots that are offered at these mark downs. REDUCED TO $1.75 a pair, you will find Gray Kid Pumps and Colonials, Ivory Kid Pumps, with Louis and Cuban heels, and hand turned soles. Kinds that were priced $5.50 to $6.50, for $4.75 pair REDUCED TO $3.98 a pair, we give you your pick of a lot of Gray Suede, White Buck and Col- ored Kid Boots in broken sizes of regular $5.00 to $7.00 qualities. Long as they last at $8.98 pair. REDUCED TO $3.00 PATR—In this lot there are fine Patent Colt and Dull Calf Pumps with gray tops, that have been priced at $4.00 to $5.00. Your Choice at $3.00 pair. Special Sale of the Best Tennis Racquets In our Automobile Department, entrance through Housewares section or from Temple street. There are great bargains in Tennis Racquets of the Wright and Ditson or the E. Kent makes, which you know, mean the best. Note the Reductions.—All $1.26 Racquets for 98c each. The Racquets for $1.35 each. The $2.00 Racquets for $1.75 each. The Racquets for $2.50 each. All others at a discount of Ten per cent. lot of Children's Racquets for 75c ea. $1.50 $3.00 One Field—Old Resident Il Alleging that he was viciously saulted early this morning while de- livering milk at a house on Whiting | | street just south of Broad street, Sam- | uel Sylvester, an old man, made com- plaint today to Prosecuting Attorney Stanley W Gwillim charging the | crime against Virgile Marinelli, an | employe of the Rockwell-Drake com- pany. Marinelli is a young man and is reputed to be ugly when crossed. From the story told by Sylvester, who was badly cut about the face, he had | stopped to deliver milk at a house | opposite the African M. E. church and made inquiry regarding a certain family. A young woman living in the house informed the old man that the family he was seeking dwelt on the second floor and having delivered the milk Sylvester was returning to the street when accosted by Marinelli who was sitting on the stairs. Sylves- ter alleges that he simply made a remark about the weather and was passing along on his business when Marinelli suddenly leaped upon him, as- FOR GOLF PLAYERS we offer St. for $1.85. The $2.00 kind for $1.75. Clubs for $2.19 each. Repainted Golf Balls 81c each. PROMPTLY RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS | Bigelow Beriln NCW | years later he moved to Southington, | Andrew’s Golf Clubs, Regular $2.50 Wright and Ditson $1.60 kind, DELIVERY FOR. NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PURCHASED OF U8 streets, New Britain. Two | CONFIRM GOODRICH & LOCAL POSTMASTE Will Assume Office on Arrival of His Gommission A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT Dr, Convention With Open Mind—Gun Club’; Loses Titl—Grangers Banquet, A. B. Ridge received Acting inaster General F. E. Fr nomination for the Berlin postmaster- been confirmed by hold that August sent ing from ship has and years Griswold Successful Goodrich he will from immediately ington and will assum 1ageiving his the will not be for he held having been appointed d's second be local Goadrict until Clev in la. office 1899, where he remained for seven years. In 1909 he started a wholesale flower | tusiness in the Hardware City but| forced to give it up in 1911, be-| cause of ill-health. He returned here | #nd since has been a tiller of the sofl. | A few months ago, when it became | | known that Postmaster H. L. Porter | would not receive a reappointment, | | Mr. Goodrich announced himself a| cendidate. The announcement was well received and was endorsed by | many tawnspeople. The salary was | $1,500 a year until two months ago, | when it was reduced $100, on ac- ccunt of a falling off in the husinc Dr. Gréeswold's Statement, In response anpeals of many ad- Vocate Dr. R. M. Ciriswold, representative from this town in the last legislature, | bhas sent following communica- | tion to the Herald: | | | who causes, was Will Go to Republican he Kensington, Conn., Shoot—Walker August 21, 1916. Tditor Herald: Dear Sir—Anticipating the possible action of the republican caucus to he| held in Berlin next Thursday evening, | Assistant Post- | and that following the usual prece- | razier, that his| dent, T would he elected the first dele- | . | gate to the republican state conven- | tion, to be held in New Haven, Sep- | tember 5 and 6, T have been recently visited by a delegation from saeme In favor of universal suffrage, who have asked me if T would support the in- troduction of a plank in the republi- can platform, favoring such a meas- wvre.. My reply was, and my positian | will be, that if T go to New Haven as a delegate, T go to represent what T | believe to be the sentiments of a ma- of Worthington word Saturday n- First the senate position four Mr, Gaodrich his bond to Wash- e the office upon which will commission, next few days. new to it from administration. A, B. GOODRICH. jority of the members of the republi- can party, and not my own individual preferences, in the same way as when representative, I supported those measures which T had good reason to believe were favored by a great ma- jority of the people of Berlin, ir- respective of party, for, when I be- came the representative of this town, I ceased to be a party man, so far as the interests of the town were con- cerned. At that time one petition was pre- sented to me signed by about fifty| names, a majority of whom were| neither voters nor taxpayers, asking| me to vote for suffrage. Another pe- | titlon signed by three times as many | people, most of whom were voters,! and all of whom were taxpayers,| asked me to oppose suffrage. Irre- spective of what my personal views might me, I supported the measures which I believed the very large ma- jority of my constituents were in favor of. “I have also been recently viewed in a somewhat official w to my probable action in reference to the contest for governor between Hol- inter- Alv sovdrich pproval ways 1 of here for a number nd with his mother he con- | farm comb, Healey and Blakesley, and my | reply to this inquiry is that following the usual precendent the delegates from Berlin always g0 to a state con- | y vention uninstructed and unpledged, | B. Good- y .t it is always the privilege of the | Hill, June 24, :\'OIGTS at a caucus to express a pref- | ved his education in, ...... tor 5 particular cadidate, and there and in Hart-| pon" gucn expression is made, it | died when he Was In| (o0 ¢4 me morally incumbent on the | part of the delegates to act in oc- | | cordance with that expression of sen- Mr, the He of years ’)r\l"fl democrat, fon meets with ny townspeople, ma friends. A. Rocky until he was about | | helll at the Fair reasons for voting for someone else. I went to the last state convention ex- pecting to vote for Webster for gov- ernor. I found soon after I began to get in touch with things that the current was so strong for Holcomb, that I made up my mind he wouid be nominated | on either the first and voted for him. or second ballot, { cuting Attorney | day afternoon, This time, as always before, I am not promised, pledged, tied up, obli- | { gated nor mortgaged to any man or | measure, | political New and I have no personal or “ax to grind” and if I go to Haven as chairman of the Berlin delegation, it will be to act for what I believe to be the interests vublican party. and not the in- terests of any particular man, or in the interests of any particular meas- ure. ROGER M. GRISWOLD. Shoot Successful. Considerable interest was manifest- ed by the members of the Mattabes- sett Gun club Saturday afternoon, when the first contest of the series was grounds. Several members of the New Britain Gun club participated and the event proved one | of the most enjoyable outings in the history of the club. The first twenty- i five target event was won by Arthur Reynolds, with Willlam Jones and Joseph Diehl one point behind. In the second cvent, Edward McMurray was awarded first place and Arthur | Hull, second. Afterward an excellent luncheon was served by John A. Hart, proprie- tor of the Kilby House, who is one of the club’s new members. By way of proving that his talents in the sport- | ing line are not limited to expert handling of fireams, Mr. Hart entered a half mile run with “Ed” McMurray ana e Tores BT Rl catee S o by McMurray. Among the interested spectators, was the seceretary of the | Berlin Agricultural society, who tried to arrange a repetition for the fair, | played | the St. Paul’s drum corps and for the | past_two | corps, | Walker won the title at but up to the present, his efforts have proven unsuccessful, To Furnish Supper The War of Roses had its sequel among the members of the Grange, the first six months of the year and | as a result, the men will,furnish a anquet to the women on Wednesday evening in the grange hall. In Jan- uary, the grange was divided into two factions, the women, known as the 'White Roses” and the men as the “Red.” A contest was started to see Which could raise the largest amount for the building fund tertainments and card tournaments were neld and upon the expiration of the contest july 1, the women garnered the larger im. The banquet will start at 8§ o’clock s and all members of the grange are cordially invited to attend, Autoists’ Troubles. Motorists traveling through this town still have their troubles as evi- denced by two minor accidents Worthington Ridge yesterday Tes terday afternoon, a small Ford col- on | society [ which will be held i | Moore returned from their | was made | Mohawk Trail, dragging him down. The assault fol- lowed and was resulting badly for the old man when the young woman interfered. It was necessary for Syl- vester to seek the aid of a physician, Dr. Lawrence H. Frost attending him. Complaint was later made to Prose- Gwillim and it 1s expected that Marinelli will be in court tomorrow to answer to the charge of assault. Polar Bear Cubs Winners. The Polar Bear Cubs, representing the C. Gilbert company of New Haven and comprising one of the speediest ball teams.that has honored Plainville with its appearance this season met and defeated the fast Foresters outfit on Allen fleld yester- the score being 5 to 2 Haven players, comprising a number of Yale students, were ac- companied by a large delegation of rooters. The Elm City crowd travelled in the company’s auto trucks and they made things lively at the field. It was one of the best games on the local diamond this vear and was witnessed by a large crowd. Cunninghan the home nine apable Anner to his credit The New was on the mound for and he performed in a | having 14 strikeouts The Polar Bears cured but six hits, but the clouts made by the FElm Cityites came in sequence and fatted the score to win- ning proportions. Plainville secured five hits. Pattel for New Haven had twelve strikeouts. The score INVILLE. Nelson, Conlon, Evald, Cassidy, of raised hoods seen in town, can taken as a proof. ) Loses Championship. 3 Major Clarence Walker, leader of vears baton champion of the United States, lost his title at the state field day at Rockville, Satur- day. According to members of the he performed admirably, but | judges awarded the decision to | Meriden. Major | a national meet in Hoboken two years ago and | held it ever since. the Major Burke of Although the local corps failed to | receive a prize at the meet, neverthe- | Jess it received much applause from | those in attendance. Briefs, At a meeting of St. Paul's T. A. B. vesterday morning, Henry Fagan and Frank McKeon were chos- en delegates to the state convention, Torrington, Au- gust 28 and 29. A considerable amount of routine budlness was also Pily | | transacted. Miss Virginia Walsh has returned to her home in East Berlin after a visit with relatives in Boston. Mrs. William Tyons of Kensington is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Edward | Collins of Rocky Hill Gaines of East Berlin is en- Mr. and Mrs. J. Gaines of Cherles M. Warner and Mr Charles W. Warner are guests of M James Garrity at Pine Grove. James J. Fitzsimons and B. P. vacations vestterday. Town Clerk Francis Shaw has re- turned from a visit with relatives in Commington, Ma The return trip | by tomobile over the | ingto | spent the week-end in Waterbury. The Hartfon d Silk Store Established 1832. Store Closes Fridays at Noon. Agents C. S. Hills & Co. s Patterns “The Store of Superior Values.” Open Saturday Evenings Until 9 P. M. HARTFORD The Clearance of ! Summer Goods Continues In the next two or three weeks everything in the line of strictly summer merchandise must be closed out. It is almost unnecessary for us to remind you that there are bargains to be had in all depart- ments. OUR MAIL ORDFR SERVICE. Customers are tinding that the service rendered by our Mail Or- der Department is of inestimable value. It is eflicient, prompt and reliable. {mported Dress Velutina We have just received an importation of the Genuine Imported the name of which is stamped on the selvedge of every yard which Velutina English make, is so popular for fall and winter Tk The reliable suits, coats and skirts. . colors are absolutely fast, and it will not spot with water. There will be a limited supply of these goods, in no way sufficient to meet the demand, so that it will be to your advantage not only to delay the matter of securing a length suitable for coat, suit or skirt. The new fall colors are Havana & African brown, walrus, damson, beet root, hague, olive, Russian green, two shades of navy and black. There are two widths, 26 and 44 inches. This shipment may be the only one that we may receive, owing to conditions brought about by the European war. " Deliveries of New Fall Waists In the last few appreciated by many ladies who days we have received This information will be The prices are no higher several shipments of new Waists. have been waiting for the newer fall models. than you wlil pay for left-overs of the summer stock at the other stores. Lingerie Waists for $1.98 The most prominent Waist manufacturers are now deliver- ing to us the new fall models in Lingerie Waists in voile and or- gandy. They are especially smart and of extra quality. | Prior, 3b . Skelly, cf.. N Cunningham, 1b. Wadsworth, c... Cunningham, p. . - [ | ol onocoo »loroos o 3 3 S R N Shean, 2b Duggan, If. King, ss. Dougherty, Spencer, cf Richey Denehy, Dubrill, Patten, HoorHooRoOp coroocoocoof p- 0Old Resident Tl | Plainville. | cer’s cousin, Mrs Crepe de Chine Waists for $2.98 and $3.98 By placing our orders very early we are in a posftion to show two remarkaby smart tailored models in Crepe 4e Chine Waists, and un- usually good values for the above prices. Toth last year in a swim from Charles ton bridge to Boston light and retu Toth, using the trudgeon stroke, aif ing. The Boston man had reached point seven miles off Brant rock Massachusetts bay about 8:20 yestel day morning, when Captain Durke his trainer, and two oarsmen in Toth'| | pilot boat said they saw the fin of shark cutting the water close to thi swimmer. They shouted a warnin; and Toth dove, coming up on the othel side of the pilot boat, to be helped ou] of the water by his assistants. T. Sullivan, father of Toth's opponent who was in the Toth pilot boat, sai he, too, saw a dark object in the wal ter. Toth using the trudgeon stroke, di the seventeen miles in fourteen hour| and twenty-two minutes. Sulltvan kept on to within seven yesterday by automobile and spent several hours with Robert J. Holmes ang daughter, former residents of Mr. Holmes served several terms as a member of the local board of selectmen. Martha Rebekah lodge will hold its regular meeting this evening. Lewlis S. Mills of Bast Main street is | attending lectures at the Connecticut | Agricultural college at Storrs. | The Misses Geneva and Esther Ken- | nedy of Glastonbury are guests of their aunt, Mrs. Charles Roberts of | West Main street. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Spenced | spent the week-end with Mrs. Spen- Elmer Stoughton, of | ‘Windsor, W. F. Eaton and family of West Main street spent Sunday at Orange, Morris Corning, an old resident of Church street, is reported seriously ill at his home with plenro-pneumonia Southington. Mrs. Charles Queen Sonty evening, at the , was received with much sor here where she was well known. husband died about two years ago. Notes. Miss Bessie Cranley of East Main street is spending her vacation in New Hampshire. Died in 1th of Johnson home on Saturday street at W Her \ their gues | tour over the Mohawk trail, | garet Christie | Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Hastings | have returned from a tour of the Ad- irondacks. Mrs. Steven Leonard has returned home from the New Britain general hospital, where she underwent an op- | eration. | Mrs. M. G. Belden of Broad street | | Mr. and Mrs. James Gribben and | Miss Charlotte Payne, who have been pending the summer with Dr. and | Mrs. C. W. Moody, have left today for | their home in Cleveland, Ohio. i Mr. and Mrs, James Eaton and Mr. | and Mrs. F. B. Frisbie went to Avon GIRL COULD NOT WORK How She Was Relieved from Pain by Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Taunton, Mass.—“‘T had pains in both sides and when my periods came I had to stay at home from work and suf- fer a long time. One day a woman came to our house and asked my mother why I was suffering. Mother told her that I suf- | fered every month and she said, ‘Why don’t you buy a | bottle of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? ’ My mother bought it and the next month I was so well that I worked all the month without staying at home a day. Iam in good health now and have told lots of | girls about it.”’—Miss CLARICE MORIN, | 22 Russell Street, Taunton, Mass. Thousands of girls suffer in silence every month rather than consult a phy- | this state. | street gave a dinner {at Savin Rock Saturday and report a i over Charles Toth of Boston last night | was in the | tablished { record, teen miles of Nantasket Beach, whe; his trainers declded that the tide wal too unfavorable for him to keep on. Both men took nourishment fre quently during the race and appar: ently were in good condition whed hey left the water. Rich of Bicycle party last Friday of ther brother, | the occasion being his birthc Games and refreshments were enjoved and Mr. Morse received severable valuable presents. Mrs. Augustus honor Morse, evening in Philip 1V Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Warfield had as ona week-end automobile Miss Mar- Lang ot A RECORD FOR LANGER. Swims Fast Mile—Vollmer and Ca Fail to Finish. and Albert A number of the local members of the Veteran Odd Fellows' association attended the annual outing and dinner Ocean Park, Cal, Aug. 21.—Lud Langer of the Los Angeles Athletig club won the national mile swimming] championship here yesterday, estab. lishing what local officials declared to be a new world’s new record off twenty-three minutes eleven secon for the distance. Norman Ross of the Olymplo clab of San Francisco finished second in twenty-three minutes twenty-two sec- onds. Herbert Volmer of the New York Athletic club took the lead-at| the start, but the pace he set was 0ol fast and he quit after swimming 220 vards. Ted Cann of the same club alwo became exhausted and did not finish. most enjoyable time. J. Frank Vinal of Madison was the week-end guest of Mr, anq Mrs. John McKee of Park street. Miss Tda Morway of street visited over Sunday sister in Rockville. Washington with her SHARK GOES AFTER TOTH. Boston Swimmer Has Narrow Fscape —Sullivan Covers 25 Miles. Boston, Aug. 21.—Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell was declared the winner afe s Infnnta ...a lnvnlldg HORLICK’S in an attempted swimming race be- tween Race Point, Provincetown, and Nantasket Beach. Toth was taken from the water by his trainers when a shark circled about him after he had covered seventeen and a half miles in a little more than fourteen hours. Sullivan kept on for twenty-five miles, and his followers claimed he water twenty hours and even minutes Is said that Sullivan has es- a new American endurance beating the mark of fifteen hours and forty-seven minutes, set by THE ORIGINAL Rich milk, malted For infants, invalids. ” Tving twenty Pure nutrition, upbuilding ] Offici, Invigorates nursing motherulndtha‘gex More nutritious than tea, coffee, ete. Instantly prepared. Requires no cooking. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price THE POPULAR SHOE STORE We Are Solving the Footwear Question Daily People know of the goodness of our Shoes and we draw the trade with Our LaFrance and Red Cross Shoes for Women. | lided with a motoreycle and the latter | came out socond best. The machine was slightly bent, but fortunately the | rider escapod infury, Last evening | about 7 o'clock, an automobile driven by Eugene Johnson of Ney, Britain turned down Fiannery's hill, A ma- chine, sald to be owned In Hartford, crashed into Mr, Johnsou's automo- | mgain yesierday. Indignetion run. rich then opened a grocery store in|for a certain candidate, und after ar- blle and did constdcrable damage to | rampant and It is probabis the next Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine e, Sidney Oldershaw block, now |riving on the fleld, and looking things tho rear end. represetative will be instruc 941 M st H 'f d % alopes ‘ matier to the atteea o1 Co., Lynn, Mass. (confidential) for free | ali ol. nartion pccupled by the Rackliffe Brothers' : over for an hour or two have changed There were alco n other | bring the matter to the attentio £} 2 ' & eorany at the corner of Park and |my mind, and found gnod political troubles, number | the legisiaty it ] advice which will prove helpful. | ASK THE CLERK FOR S, & H. GREEN STAMPS Our Elite Shoes for men. Our Everwear Shoe for Girls and Boys. Sold exclusively by There is one advertised Ictter at the | Berlin post office for Miss Ruth Swan. n and Selleck have trans- Lot 28 at Treasure Fields to DiMonno, ‘The Connecticut company furnished its local patrons with clesed car: years He first came to | n 1881 and the following vear opened the grocery store now conducted by James Woodruff, He remained there until 1895, when he recelved the appointment as post- | master. In 1899, he was ousted in | favor of Henry L. Porter, appointed by Prestdent Roosevelt. Mr, Good- old sician. If girls who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, | headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion would take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, a safe and pure remedy made from roots and herbs, much suffering might be avoided. | timent, or to decline to serve, I have been a delegat> to a great | many political conventions, probably to more than any man in Berlin, and I never went to one either instructed or pledged to any particular candidate, I have sometimes gone to a conven- tion with my mind made up to voto Jord ferred Luca numbor of mostly it the i MAAAAA/NA Gt . e,