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- Boston Store BLANKETS AND OUTING FLANNELS Cool Weather is on the Way. A Pair of Our Famous “California Blankets” Will Sidetrack the Surly Blasts of Winter. We havfiem at $4.50, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00 and $10.00. Cotton Bmkets From 69c¢ a pair up. The New Outing Flannels Are Ready for You. The Best on the Market at 10c and 15c¢ a yard. White and Colors. Have You Seen the New Motor Weave Automobile Robe, at $6.75 each. The New Cretonnes _Are being cut up in lively Fashion. At 20c to 42¢ a yard. PULLAR & NIVEN PUBLIC NOTICE SLATER’S New York, Boston, Provi- dence, Hartford, Springfield. ‘Will Open the Largest Shoe Store in * Connecticut at 843-845 Main Street, Hartford. OUR OPENING SALE SATURDAY, SEPT. 9TH. Means You Will Save $2.00 to $3.00 on Every Pair of Shoes You Buy New Store. New Styles . New Goods Saturday Morning We will Place on Sale 50,000 Pairs of Men’s, Women's and Chil- dren’s new Fall and Winter Shoes. You can buy New High Grade Footwear at less than you ever saw it marked before. Prices that will scarcely be more than the cost of the leather. ‘We will sell 1,000 pairs of $3.00 and § ladies’ and growing girls' high and low shoes at $2.00. 4. We will sell 1,000 pairs of men’s and boys' "$3.00 and $3.50 shoes at $2.00. We will sell ladies’ extra High Cut Black Hand Sewed $5.00 boots at $3.00. We will sell 565 pairs of men’s $5.00 Fine Bench Made shoes—every pair represents the latest new Fall styles—the new English lasts, some medium and wide toes in Patent Kid, Vici Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Mahogany Calf, in button or lace at $3.00. We will sell Ladies' $5.00 Royal High Cuts—White Calf, Pearl Grey Kid—in charming designs, beautifully made, cov- “gred or leather Louis Heels—Opening Sale ! trial ELECTRICALWEEK' IN HARDWARE GITY New Britain Joins Movement to | Electrify America is to have great | ity-wide electrical celebration this | fall as part of a national movement, | backed by many the industrial | leaders of this country, to electrify | America. During a period of Seven, days, December 2-9, every city in the United States of more than 10,000: population will demonstrate in many | striking ways the business progress it | has made in the last five years. | The movement took on definite shape in New York city this week, | when 1,650 of the leading business men of America accepted appoint- ments to a national directing commit- | | tee. Th men will form an indus- chain, stretching across the continent to manage the celebration | in their local communities, At the head of the executive com- mittee is Gerard Swope, vice president of the Western Electric company. On this directing committee, and back of the undertaking are executives from the General Electric, the Westing- house Electric and the nation’s fore- most electrical companies, which rep- 1csent investments in the United | States of more than four billions of | dollars, The campaign will be directed by | the Society for FElectrical Develop- | ment, the leading electrical organiza- | tion of America, of which J. M. Wake- | man is general manager. The event | will be known as America’s Electrical | Week, and according to the society’s announcements it will he featured: simultaneously everywhere by parades | and pageantry, specfal illuminations, electrical shows and demanstrations of what electricity has done in peace and in war in the last few days. Prominent business men and others in this city, who have been identified with local betterment campaligns will manage the details and the cere- monies of the celebration in New Britain. On this committee are: G. K. Spring, Spring & Buckley Electric Co.; A. G. Kimball, vice president Landers, Frary & Clark, and A, H. executive secretary Cham- ber of Cammerce. The local chairman will call a meet- ing of the city committee at an early date to adopt a complete program for the fall celebration. At the same time every chairman throughout the country will start active wark in | mapping out each city’s plans. It is proposed to interest every person using electric service In the United States in the campaign. Special features suggested for the cclebration include an illuminated rarade of all the electrical driven vehicles owned hereabouts Many cities are planning electrical shows which will provide exhibits af the benefits of electricity in the home, upon the farm, in the factory and in the store, besides demonstrating the rewest appliances of electricity in this ccuntry and abroad. Shopping centers and main streets will be decorated and specially lighted for the accasion, Chambers of commerce and boards of trade have pledged active co-opera- tion with the fraternal orders of the clectrical industries and other com- rercial arganizations to round out an event worthy of the city’s industrial and civic progress. Arrangements will be made to invite and to entertain visitors to the city from the outlying districts and to decorate all the city's icading places of business during the weelk New Britain a of " HOLLANDERS 70th - GRAND FALL OPENING Saturday, Sept. 9 AND still this store is “SEVENTY YEARS YOUNG"— Always up to the last word in Clothing, Hats and Furnish- ings. We're now ready to show suits and overcoats in all the new Fall Models and colorings at $15, $18, $20, $22, $25 and $28 Tou'll be impressed with them. FALL OVERCOATS Introducing many Special values style surprises $15, $18 and $20 $15, $20 and $25 And topmost values in FALL HATS at $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. Derby and Soft. Coat Sweaters, all good. grades and colorings. Special Shaker-Knit garment at $5.00. HOLLANDERS’ 82-84 ASYLUM ST. HARTFORD, CT. YOUNG MEN’S SUITS Special models A A RTFORD Special Attention to Mail and Telephone Orders. Cr. 1000, FALL STYLES IN WOMEN’S SUITS, COATS AND SKIRTS Smart Autumn Suits DISTINCTIVE TYPES IN STRICTLY TAILLEUR AND of the most notable features of autumn fashions. trimming enrich the deep, warm ghades green, plum, taupe, navy and black. cloth, and wool velour. At $2 5.00 to $59.00. FALI SERGE DRESSES WONDERFUL STYLES AND, VALUES, AT e $15.00 and $16.50, New straight line and long coatee effects. Several models ‘with Pouch pockets Wwith embroidery are featured, markable embroidered serge dresses'from $17.50:to $85.00, VE- large collars. and cloth collars. worn high or low. Burgundies, taupes, and greens. $55. New Wool $32.50 and $37.50. \ BOLIVIA AND WOOL LOUR COATS Coats with big collars. Velour FALL DISPLAYS SEMI- DRESSY MODELS The most recent arrivals, showing the smart novel collars, one Can Colors bro Fur be are wns New Bolivia Coats, $45 and Coats, NEW FALL INCLUDE THE V! PRICES ARE YOU ARE INVITED TO Collars, cuffs and of Burgundy, Russian} Fabricszare poplin, broad: Re- WOMEN'SIFALIMSKIRTS Hundredsof new garments. All wanted. materials, Includ- ing watin, charmeuse ‘and taf- feta. Smart poplin and serge dress skirts, $5.95, Dressy Bedford: Cord, Serge | ana Poplin Bkirts, $6.95. ... J Others to $19.75¢ MILLINERY IRY N POPULAR NSPEOT THE DISPLAY EWEST STYLES 7 7and bottom, filling; we will also have liberally filled with Chocolate Walnut Squares, Boston Brown Bread and Baked Beans, Genuine CALIFORNIA RAISIN BREAD. A GOOD AND WHOLESOME SLICE OF GOOD WHOLESOME BREAD, SUCH AS “AUNT DELIA ANY CHILD.—Ask Your Grocer for It. OURSATURDAY SPECIALS FRESH FRUIT PIES, each These pies are made with a rich flaky crust, well baked on top BREAD” WILL DELIGHT 18c a juicy and delicious fresh fruit Mocha and Baltimore Layer Cakes, high grade Pound Cakes, Raised Loaf Cakes, Coffee Cakes, Bath Buns and LEONARD & HERRMANN CO. THEY’RE IN—-NEW FALL SILK PETTI- COATSFROM ................ $298 up Many a woman who wants because she cannot get the qu she cares to pay. These new one’s will sureiy I a new petticoat foregoes the luxury Price $3.00. lity and style she wants at the prico We will sell Ladles’ Royal High Cuts— Havana Brown, Champagne Kid and Ma- hogany Kid Calf, $5.00 value. $3.00. WHEN YOU WAKE 1 ber wants, distinctive styles, We will sell Ladies' Two-Toned Boots— Havana Brown, Blue, Pearl Grey, Dark Grey, and Patent Leather with White tops—Ex- tra High Cuts, Handsome shades for con- servative dressers, Opening Sale Price $3.00. We will sell Men's $6.50 Police, Fireman's and Postmen’s Shoes, double soles with full leather lined, Opening Sale Price $3.95 We will sell Boys' and Girls’ $2.50 school Shoes at $1.50. will sell Boys' at $2.00. We will sell Men's Dr. Whitcomb's fon Comfort Shoes, $6.00 value, at §! > and Girls’ $3.60 School ush- We will sell Men’s $5.50 Storm King Rub- | ber Boots at $3.45. We will sell Men's First Knee Rubber Boots at $3.00. Quality $5.00 We will sell the Biggest Bargains in Con- | Ladies’ $7.50 to $10.00 Extra High , made in the very finest washable combinations of Black and Ivory, Ivory, Grey and White, Ivory and White, Havana Brown, White and Blue and many other color combinations, all covered heels to match Tops and Bottoms, at $5.00. Two or three pairs of shoes for the price of one. Connecticut's largest sale; an op- portunity that comes to shoe buyers about once in a lifetime. Tell your friends and neighbors about this sale. We are going to give such splendid values and at such low prices that all wise, economical people will attend this sale and get the bargains of their lives Watch tae day Saturday. SLATER’S 843-845 Main Strec-, NOTICE The New Britain Wet Wash having _ moved into their newly equipped > building are prepared to do first class work. We solicit your patronage. Satisfaction guaranteed. 38 Union Street. Tel. 583 necticu Cut Boo kid in Cherry and dally papers. Big opening Hartford HATS MWilsons UP DRINK GLASS OF HOT WATER Wash the polsons and toxins from system before putting more food into stomach. \ Says inside-bathing makes any- one look and feel clean, sweet and refreshed. Wash yourself on the inside before Lreakfast like you do on the outside. { This is vastly more important because th in pores do not absorb impuri- tles into the blood, causing illness, while the bowel pores do. For every ounce of food and drink taken into the stomach, nearly an ounce of waste material must be car- ried out of the body. If this waste material is not eliminated day by day quickly ferments and generates poisons, gases and toxins which ars abserbed or sucked into the blood stream, through the Ilymph ducts which should suck only nourishment to sustain the body. A splendid health measure is to | ¢rink, Dbefore breakfast each day, a | glass of real hot water with a tea- spoonful of limestone phosphate in it, which a harmless way to wash these poisons, gases and toxins from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels; thus cleansing, sweetening and freshening the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach A quarter pound of limestone phos- phate costs but very little at the drug store but is sufficient to make anyone | #n enthusiast on inside-bathing. Men and women who are accustomed to wake up with a dull, aching head or nhave furred tongue, bad taste, nasty breath, sallow complexion, others who | have bilious attacks, acid stomach or constipation are assured of pro- nounced improvement in both health and appearance shortly. is cut Pomological society and the Con- necticut Pomological society and the Connecticut Vegetable Growers' as- sociation will be held here. These parate and distinct from the so- s shows. d space for the dairy pro- ducts and dairy exhibits will be re- quired if the entries continue to come in as they are now. 0 that those who visit the grounds need not have a dull moment. There are things of interest yone, from the youngest to oldest, male or female. Boys will admire and parents will wonder at the marvelous display of talent and training of the members of the Columbia Park Boys' band of San Francisco, Cal. These youngsters give a most complete entertainment consisting of band music, singing, Boy Scout demonstration, calisthenics, dances, athletics and pyramids. Led by a major who is only nine years ald they go through paces that are en- tertaining. They will camp at the grounds all week. All the exhibits will be in Monday morning at 10 o’clock. The secretary’s office has literally heen mped with the rush of entries, The vestock will be more numerous than ever. The farm machinery space has to be enlarged and if possible extra room will be provided for the auto- mobile show. Displays of fine arts {and domestic manufacture already re« ceived indicate a superior display that will be of special interest to the ladies. They will also be pleased to tured at night. know that the Connect t extension Every day from the opening of the |service preserving demonstrations will gates until the “good night” set plecc | e given. of fireworks dles out there will be a | A fAne display of floriculture is as- constant succession of entertalnment | sureq and the merchants' building will features. The finest displays of frults, | he the scene of many new attractions. vegetables and livestock will be there The officlal shows of the Connecti- Superintendent Kibbe of the New Britain town farm has a brand of corn that is new to farmers in this section. It is square corn. The corn grows on a square cob. The kernels are large size, averaging about the size of a thumb nail. A good-sized tract of corn on square cobs has been raised and there are no round cobs in the field. The seeds were obtained at the United States Agricultural de- partment. Supt. Kibbe will exhibit some at the State Fair, Berlin, dur- ing the week, September 11 to 16 in- clusive. There is no class of entertainment that furnishes more pleasure and at the same time contains a more liberal amount of education than a country fair. There is no fair that combines these two elements better than does the State fair which will be held at Berlin during the next weck. Open- |} ing Monday morning at 9 o’clock the Connecticut State Agricultural so- ciety will hold forth for the fifty-sec- ond time. The fair will close Sat- urday night. This year the exposition will again be held in the evening as well as during the day. Electrical displays and fireworks will be fea- for the IS GIVED TEMBRANCE. A pleasant surprise was tendered John J. O'Donnell, instructor of draft- ing at the State Trade school, ves terday at the close of the day's ses- sion when Vincent Campbell, a mem- ber of the class, presented to the teacher a handsome smoking set. Mr. O'Donnell, who is leaving the school to accept a place in Waterbury, was deeply touched by the act of the boys and responded, thanking them for | their kindness and appreciation of his efforts. place Bargains at Katten’s Store. Come in, ladies, to A. Katten & Son, 114-116 Asylum street, Hartford, ana get your new fall wearing apparel before the season’s half gone. No economy in putting it off, you know. We have a splendid line of new suits and coats. Styles that will appeal to Ju at prices that are reasonable. We had to do a lot of searching before we find these unusual exciusive Tailored to fit—advt. | | could models. \ Jewish Society Has Pia of Building. primitive state In its refuge, to which all at any hour of the Hebrew Ladies society, tion which has in the stowed cas kindnesses in Through picnics ficient sum of money plans are perfected. At present the society in the movement to sis in New York. the erection of the of refuge: Witkin, Mrs, Anna Greenstein, witz, Mrs. Lena Mrs. Koplow Rebecca N Mrs. will air, Greenberg. The contain rooms for Information through of Mr. merly received letter Mr: this ci a received and of Joseph now has h forces of the kaiser, the outbreak of the w is a or a past and is ass itz, bu WEBER STILL IN WAR. in this by Weber ; residing Austria, speaks of the fortune Weber d since taking up arms with the after | couple | ser hortly the many entirely new and very fetch The season’s popular fabrics are represented, in black, as well as all the newest autumnal shades. The Women’s New Apparel Shop, N s For Erection | plan whereby the city will have a house of worthy regardless of creed may procure day persons night. Working out this worthy cause is the an z plished many acts ef charity and be- innumerable social times the society has realized a suf- which warrants going ahead with the work as soon as isting raise funds for families stricken with infantile paral The following com- mittee has been chosen to formulate proposed Mrs. Deisinger, Mrs, Lena Anna Poverman, Sophia Mrs. L Berman, Mrs. Henrletta Gordon, Mrs. Mrs. Annie Sirot new meeting pur- poses also a library and reading room house Mrs. Hor:- and ilding city friends for. in | de | camy ng. . 165 Main St. MAY BUILD REFUGE HOUSE. left for their native land, and nol having his citizenship papers take] out in this country, Weber was pressed war service. The letter state so far he has escaped the bul and bombs of the allled forces Weber speaks of lack of money| | into that lets Mrs. COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION. | Local Societies Working to Make th Event One Long Remembered. | Local Itallans will celebrate Colur: bus Day this year in a manner tha will more than make up for the cur tailing of the event last year. bigger, better and larger celebratiol | in every way will be held and man: | attractive features will be added, One large committee will have charge of} the details cornected with the day, | It is composed of smaller commit | tees from the various Itallan socleties. | Nicola Basile has been appointed gen- | eral chairman. | Lithuanian hall on Park street will | be use for indoor part of the -exer= | cises as Hanna's Armory is no longer in use and Turner hall has been rented | to another organization for the day. street parade will be held about | noon, and Mayor G. A. Quigley, City | Clerk A. L. Thompson, G. M. Lan= | ders, G. W. Klett and other men prominent in public life will be invit- ed to participate and take part in the at the hall. Dr. Louls Ro- of New York will be the prin= al speaker of the day. He 18 known in this city because of a speech during fhe last presidential Jign. The general committee 18 composed of about thirty members, In the evening a social and dance will held and refreshments will bey ed. | exercise vered