New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1917, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1917. Watch for the Announcement of Our. Re-opening When We Will Hold a Big Fire Sale To Dispose of All Goods Damaged By Smoke and Water. There Will Be Bargains Galore, All Over the Store, for Every Dept. HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE PROMPTLY RECEIVING Had Its Loss DELIVERY FOR NEW ALL DRY GOODS BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PURCHASED OF CURRENT EVENTS CLUB SCHEDULE Hieetings for the Rest of the Year! Announced by Mrs. Wickwire - SUNDAY AT THE CHURGHES Doy Scéuts Given Mecting Place on the Colonel Jarvis Farm — Coldest Weather So Far—Relief Board Mectings. who has bs of Mrs. Elizabeth Wickwire charge of the Cur both Berlin and East Berlin has picted her sehedule for the remai ncetings of the 1917 season ahd un- less something happens revent will carry them through as arranged. Thé club meetings attract a great deal of attention from the ladies and they Jiave shown an unusual amount of in- terest in the events of the day not only in this country but abroad. Many lively discussions have been carried on ter the regular meetings and all have greatly benefited by the many ppints that have been brought out. Following are the dates and places of meeting for the Berlin Clubs ebruary at the home of Mrs. JFarvis, February 19, at the home of Mrs. 1Tonis: March Deraing. March 19, at the home of Mrs. Wil- cox. April 2, Clark. The following dated and places of’ for East Berlin have been i 5, at the home of Mrs. F. at the home of Mrs. E. L. 9, at the home of Mrs. 23, at the home of Mrs. March 9, at the home of Mrs. Hodg- son. March Hazen. 6, at the home of Mrs. Nelson. 29, at the home of Mrs. Ciark. At the Churches. Ierlin Congregational church, Rev. S. A. Fiske, pastor. Morning worship -t 10 o’clock W be conducted by +he pastor who 11 preach on “The Gospel of the Second Chance.” All departments of the Sunday school will cunvene at noon. The members of the unior Chr: n Endeavor will meet at 2%, at the home of Mrs. 3 o’clock. “Visions and Duties” will be the: subject of the Christian En- deavor meeting at 6:30 o'clock and Harvey Nourse will be the leader. St. Paul's church, Rev. J. C. Bren- nan, pastor. Mass will be celebrated | at the Sacred Heart church, East Ber- lin, at 10 o'clock and at St. Paul's church, Kensington, at 9 o’clock. Kensington Congregational church, Rev. Carleton Hazen, pastor. Morning worship will be conducted by the pas- tor at 10:45 o’clock who will preach on “The Open Door.” Members of the Sunday school, departments will meet at noon. *Visions and Tasks”, will be the subject of the Christian Endeavor meeting at 6 o’clock. This topic has been taken because tomorrow is Christian Endeavor decision day. The leader will be Miss Anna Gerymski. Tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock union | services for the Kensington Methodist and the Kensington Congregational church will be held ig the latter place of worship. Rev. E, F. Lounsbury of the Methodist churh will address the meeting. This is the first of the series of union meetings which will be held between the two churches and will last just as long as the necessary interest is shown. < Kensington Methadist Episcopal church, Rev. E. F. Lounsbury, pastor. Morning worship will'be conducted by the pastor at 10:45 o’clock. Sunday school will be conducted at 12 o’clock. Evening services will be. conducted at the Congregational church and will be in the form of union services. Clubrooms for Boys. Through the kindness of —Colonel Charies M. Jarvis the Boy Scouts of Berlin have been given the use of some fine club rooms on the colonel’s prop- erty. The boys will be allowed to as- semble here under the supervision of Rev, S. A. F e who will have charge of the meeting. Included with this offer is the use of the bowling alleys which will give the boys plenty of practice for the championship games which are to be played between teams from the three districts of Kensington, Berlin and East Berlin. No doubt the Boy Scouts of Berlin are now far bet- ter off for rooms than any other troop of scouts in the state. The lo- cal troop is one of the fastest growing in this section and is now tied with the leads in the campaign for new mem- bers which is being conducted in this section. In fact the troop is growing so0 fast that plans are now under to form a new troop in the Kensing- ton district which will mean that the i Berlin troop will be divided. Coldest Night So Far. The cold wave which struck section of the country night before last forced the mercury down to ten below zero last night which is the coldest weather that has been regi: tered in this section so far this win- ter. mometer but a little above the zero within the next twenty-four hour: The trains were not much affected by | the cold wave as they were all run- ning close to the schedwle this morn- ing. Although there were no cases of frozen ears or noses about the town any length of time have taken the necessary precautions against receiv- | ing the same. ; Board of Rellef Meetings. The members of the board of relief will hold their sessions on February 8, 15 and 21. At this weok’'s meeting of the board no one appeared to pro- test against the amount that they had been assessed for, whieh would in- dicate that the assessors had donc 1 their work with unusual care. this | This morning found the ther- | mark and from all indications there | will be little chances of a warm 'spell those that have occasion to stay out | Berlin Briefs Miss Ellen Flanagan has been taken to the Hartford hospital for treat- ment. The condition of Julius Woodruff who feil on the ice last Saturday night is slightly improved. The churches of East Berlin will meet at the usual time Sunday, The children of the Worthington Grammar school held a skating party this afternoon. The Boy Scouts met this afternoon at 2 o’clock. HERE’S ALEXANDER AGAIN, Champion Heart Breaker of tery Lane in Limelight. Alexander Zueski is some popular with the women, has winning ways and is no ‘“‘dead one,” even if he does live on Cemetery Lane, according to complaints received at police head- quarters. Thursday night Mary Zef- eski of the same Cemetery Lane ad- dress as Alexander calls home com- plained that she gave him $22 under the supposition that there would be a wedding soon with her as the blushing bride. She wanted the $22 back as she understood that Alexander's love had cooled and he had another girl on Broad street. She was told that the police department is no collection agency and that there could be no ac- tion unless she brought a charge of theft. Last night Rosie Murzen of 29 Cem- etery Lane, friend of Mary and also a boarder at the same place with her and where Alexander formerly called home, paid a visit to police head- quarters. . She accused Alexander of having broken open the trunk in her room, appropriating $13 and leaving the city. According to her story, she did not loan the money. Now the po- lice are on Alexander’s trail but have been unable to find him. They have been led to believe that he has left the city. Ceme- ThatCaused Itchingand Burn- ing and Loss of Sleep at Cost of $1.00. ‘‘My neck and ears were covered with freer} blisters. I thought I would go rantic with the pain which was terrible. Then the blisters turned into sore eruptions which were red and inflamed, and itched and burned so that when I scratched the blood came. I could not sleep or eat. *‘I tried all kinds of oint- N ments, salves, etc., butwith no effect, and I stood the pain for twelve months. Then I used Cuticura Soap and Qintment, and found relief after twenty- four hours, and two cakes of Cuticura SoaP and one box of Ointment healed me.” (Signed) Maurice Levinsky, 796 Pembroke St., Bridgeport, Conn. Cuticura Soap an &?flmem are not only wonderful healers but wonderful reventives of skin and scalp troubles if used exclusively. The Soap, for daily use in the toilet, cleanses and puri- fies, the Ointment soothes and heaP i For Free Sample Each Return Mail address post-card: “éuticnn, Dept. R, Boston.”” Sold everywhere. Plainvilie ws ORDERS RELEASE OF CARELESS SMOKER { Trucker, - Accused of ~Starting | Fire, Not Criminally Responsible MANY CARS 1IN DANGER Stanley Works and Hanson Brothers Lose Shipments in Freight Fire—Blaze Probably Started Yard by Cigarette—No Hydrants Nearby. Unable to get sufficient evidence to warrant prosccution on the charge of criminal carelessness, Grand Juror AL A. Norton last evening ordered the release of James Sheriden, a trucker at the transfer station, who is be- lieved to have been responsible for the fire yesterday afternoon which destroyed a freight car and its con- tents, causing considerable monetary damage, and threatened to communi- cate to other cars in the yards con- taining valuable shipments. Con- signments of high explosives® which | were on the sidetrack at the trans- fer station .were in danger for a time from the flames and had it not been for quick work on the part of the switching crew and the efficiency shown in the fire drill of the em- ployes, a serious conflagration might have resulted. ‘While Sheriden confessed to have been ‘stealing” a smoke in the car and to have surreptitiously thrown a lighted cigarette amcng bales of scrap celluloid when the checker in charge of the gang with which he was working detected him violating lhe] rules, no positive evidence could be secured to prove that the blaze had its inception from this source. Neither was there anything to show that the man delibérately caused the fire. Prosecutor Norton decided that the case would be one for the civil rather than the criminal courts and he ordered the release of the pris- oner after investigating the circum- stances attending the fire. Sheriden has no property and the only satis- faction the railroad officials to get from him was to discharge him. He had no objection to this proceeding and he left town. Sheridens with some other truckers was engaged in filling the car. As celluloid scrap was among the goods being transferred the men were or- dered to refrdin from smoking. The foreman of the gang discovered Sher- iden puffing on a cigarette while the work was in progress and he or- dered him to stop. The “butt’ was thrown away and in a few minutes flames were seen shooting from the door of the car. During the past few weeks the trans- fer station employes have been prac- ticing a fire drill for emergencies of this character and when the alarm was sounded the truckers quickly re- moved the “bridges” placed between the platform and the car and closed the doors to prevent the flames from communicating to the contents. 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NEW BRITAIN WENT 10 CANADA AND FOUND RELIE \Remariable Tribute To “Fruit-a-tives™ ‘The Great Fruit Medicine. MISS RHAPSTOC 270 'Wisconsin St., Kenosha, Wis. ] Jan. 16th, 1916. & had Calarsh for thirty-nine years, and I doctored with a great many doctors and took all the patent medi- cines that Theard of. Atlast,Iwentto Canada and saw ““ Fruit-a-tives ’’ adver- tised. XIcommenced taking themin1914, and kept right on for a year and my Catarrh was entirely relicved. Thank God for the relief as it is an awful disease to have. The *Fruit-a-tives” have helped me in other ways, also. Now, if you want to publish this, you may doso for it is nothing but the truth, and the whole truth?, MATTIE RHAPSTOCK, Sold by all dealers at 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c.— or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, New-York, vards at the time and in a few min- utes all were \ready for removal to a place of safdty. The switcher! was pressed into ser- vice and the engine was attached to the burning car. By that time flames were shooting high into the air and three other cars nearby were on fire. The car in which the blaze orig- inally started was hauled out of the vard and onto the main line, the witcher taking it nearly to the spile”” ‘bridge. The fire department was called out but the car had been taken so far from a hydrant that nothing could be done to save it. Besides the cel- luloid it contained shipments from Charles Hanson’s factory and boxes of hinges sent out by the Stanley Works of New Britain. All were de- stroved. The otker cars to which the blaze had communicated were saved before much damage was caused. In one of them was a baby carriage con- signed to John A. Andrews Co. of Nev Britain, which was damaged. Railroad Officer Charles Grace made an investigation and after Sher- iden confessed to having carelessly thrown the cigarette in the car he turned him over to Constable Philip Marino who placed him under ar- rest. .The police were unable to find any evidence to show that the man had intentionally started the blaze. Neither could they be certain that that it was the cigarette which ig- nited the celluloid and they permitted to prisoner to go. Sheriden paid Officer Marino $2 as a fee for his arrest and after collect- ing the wages due him he made Hhis farewell ‘how to the railroad officialy and left town. / No Hydrants Handy. Yesterday's fire served to emphasize to the railroad officials that they per- haps as well as their employes are sometimes careless in failing to pro- vide protection for their property. The mearest hydrant to the freight vards in which goods, valued at thou- sands of dollars are kept every day, is at Neal's court and in case of a serious fire among the cars or at the passenger station the fire department would be practically powerless. Last fall Fire Chief Mg A. Norton made arrangements with the company for the installation of two hydrants in the yards. The hydrants and nec- essary pipe have been here, it iz un- derstood, for sometime but thd rail- road has vet to have them placed in position. The danger to which their cars were exposed vesterday will probably cause them to order the immediate installation of the hydrants. Sunday in Churches. Advent Christian—Rev. George E. Tyler, former pastor of the Advent Christian church in Bristel, will preach at the local A. C. church to- morrow morning and evening. In the morning at 10:45 he will preach on “The Power Of Jesus’ Name.” Sun- day school will be held at noon and in the evening at 6:15 the young peo- ple will hold a praise and social serv- ice. Mr. Tyler will preach on the subject, “From Every Land They Come” at 7 o’clock. Episcopal—Rev. R. R. Parker of Hartford will be the preacher at the morning service in the Church of Our Saviour. Baptist—Preaching by the pastor, Rev. J. G. Ward on ““Good Stewards” at 10:45 in the morping; Sunday school at 12:05; young people’s serv- ice at 6 o'clos sermon at 7 o'clock on the subject, “Hindrances Over- come.” Congregational-—The services to- morrow morning will be conducted by Rev. O. W. Barker of Hartford. Horse Left in Cold. . Complaints were made to the police this morning regarding an Italian liv- ing on South Washington street, who, it is claimed, allowed his horse to re- main out in the cold, without a \picked up a brindle bull dog, —FOX’S- ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY VERY FRI, SAT. and SU Beginning Feb.9th, 10th and 11th, MRS. VERNON CASILE THE BEST DRESSED—BEST KNOWN WOMATL IN AMERICA B p In the Patriotic Serial THE HIT OF THE PRESENT SEASON ' PATRIA is a serial of surprising appeal. Even episode holds absorbing interest. Its action is swif} compelling. Its storyis gripping and thrillin PATRIA is alive with romance and adventu PATRIA carries women and men of society 0 stirring events. Each moment is a thrill. PA shows life in its most engrossing phases, and, too, sounds a true note of patriotism. PATRIA. is Ame] iean. - And in this great American serial is a gre American woman, Mrs. Vernon Castle. Know from ocean to ocean, famed for her grace and cha and personality, recognized as the best gow woman on this continent, Mrs. Castle gives PATRIA an attractiveness no other woman could in part to this serial supreme. Don’t miss one episode ¢ PATRIA. Show Continuous Every Sat, 2:15-11. . Sunday Night—First Show 5:30, Second 8. Sat. Matinees 5¢ to Children. other hospital supplies will opdg ‘workroom for volunteer workers Monday morning Feb. 5, at 169 blanket or other protection from the zero weather, last night. While the mercury hovered from six to ten degrees below the zero mark, | street. it was alleged, the animal was given | Mrs. E, H. Cooper has Kindl; no shelter and was in danger of | fered a room with evemy equid freezing to death. Constable Down- | for the work, and ladies who hax ing was investigating the complaint | cently taken the course of lesson during the day. | der the direction of an experi The attention of the police was |nurse will be present every morni| called to the complaint after one of | give help or suggestions. The the Italian’s neighbors had searched | will be open also in the afternod in vain for a humane agent for a I‘ there is a preference expressed number of hours. Since F. B. Newton ; that time—Will all who can heg and George S. Babcock surrendered ;this work of preparedness, intern their shields a few years ago Plain- |al and national, send their na: ville has been without a humane | Mrs, H. B. Humason, 201 Vine agent, the state society for some un-; Tel. 1874, or Mrs. G, S. Talcot known reason failing to make any lo- | Franklin Square, Tel. 140. | BULLDING BUSINESS B Brief Items. Samuel Pratt of Forestville avenue yesterday entertained his brother, Representative John Pratt of Har-: winton and his wife. i Constable Marino Since December 1 Fifty-Two Pe this morning which was roaming about the streets. The | Tave Been Tssucd, Aggregatin animal wore a tagless collar. It hus‘! | white markings on, its neck and a| Jstimated Cost of $153,365. white tipped tail. The dog will be held for a few days in the hope that & imilloel claimedl by iTa8 owner | Inspector A. N. Rutherford has # Rev. J. W. Denton, pastor of the | fifty-two permits for new buildin| Advent Christlan church, left today |additions and two permits to mo for Boston where he will spend several | j,yi1qings days attending a religious convention. | ¢ Since December 1, 1916, B The total estimated cost of new buildings and additions is gk e e building inspector’'s record For Mnl‘:ing Surgical D.rossinr for $153,365. The largest single p War Relief Committee. | w for the erection of a factory The local War Relief Committee for | tion at Landers, Frary & Clark's the making of surgical dressings and ' estimated cost being $350,000. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. $800 Worth of Potatoes from One Ton Fertilizer Sm-uwu’- Name and Address on Application) . To yield big crops yearly the soil must be kept- rich and fertile, and the food the crops take away restored. Lowell Animal Fertilizers are right be- cause they are made of BONE, BLOOD, MEAT and h{%h grade chemicals—natural plant foods, See the nearest Lowell agent and write us for | booklet, “ Producing Profitable Products.” For aleby C. W. LINES & CO. LOL ANIMAL' FERTILIZERS