New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1917, Page 7

~Style and “REDFERN” NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1917, ( _ CORSETS Are Synonymous ~— A woman is only as stylish as her corset permits her. “Redfern’? models are in the minutest detail——designing, fabric, daintiness of laceés— the essence of style. A ‘“Redfern” will mould your figure into lines of grace amnd beauty that the French may well envy, for.the Americih woman has the woman most beautiful figure in the warld if she will only carg for it. " week. Spring and .Summer styles. Hours'from 9 a. m. to 6 p. ments for fittings may be made in advance. THE WEEK OF MARCH 19TH, we have set aside as Special Redfern You are cordially invited to inspect the New “Redfern” Corsets in m, Appolnt- Try the “Redfern.” The New Petticoats for Spring: ‘We have just received the latest models in the new Pétticoats for Spring wear in the prettiest styles and all the colorings that are in favor. YOU WILL BE PLEASED WITH the heavy quality Silk Jersecy and all Taffeta Petticoats, made with full flare flounce, with choice of gray, old, reseda, rose, purple, mode, flesh, navy, black and white, and many beautiful chdngeable effects. The value of these is wonderful for $4.95 ea. & - VERY SPECIAL OFFER Silk Petticoats in three different styles. Full flare flounce, with frifls- and . tailored skirts. Shown in all of the Spring shades in plain and changeable effects. Would be THREE DISTINOT MODELS of- fered in excellent grade of Silk Taf- feta, in a large varibty of handsome changeable effects. Don’t pass thesp bx without. examination, they are remarkably good value at this price, $3.95 each. cheap at $4.50. We ask $3.69 each. 1 -HAVING AN AUTOMO! PROMPTLY OEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PU3CHASED OF US. | Berlin News "SPECIAL SERVICES AT SLPAULS prow Evatggat 8 Clck % Honor of St. Patrick - WILL REPAIR DEPOT ROAD hurch : News—Get Together Club to Hold St. Patrick’s Social in Blue & Biath Birday. L 6t. Pdulls parish will hold §t. Pat- k's_exercises tomorrow evening in church at 8 o'clock and Rev. J. C. ‘ ennan has made arrangements to [lave a special lecture -on - Ireland’s on saint. The address of the even- g will. be delivered by a Passionist her from West Hoboken, N. J., and addition there will be a musical’ vice by a special orchestra. 'he following program has been nged by Father Brennan for the vices: P Spangled Banner. leve Me, If All Those Endearing Foupg Charms ........Cornet Solo ations ....... «.. Orchestra ure [ 0la Ireland . soses s ecen e NMedley h' Intermezzo .... ne Back to Erin.............Duet n Borochme ..........Orchestra skeen Lawn .,........Orchestra ediction e ey _INDIANA WORM DRIVE A YEAR TO PAY ... $1,385.00 . $2,100.00 ... $2.750.00 OLD CARRIAGE CO., 314 PARK STREET one, 478-4—1435-2. rchestra .Orchestra eeley’s Garage p r for Overland and Cole Cars. L qn-l for Hire. Storage and irfiig & Specialty., Tel. 1228 o tenément, 11 room house, 847 t1 with corner lot and room buflding. Owner moved it is your chance. ; "Phone 606-3 e DELIVERY FOR NEW BRIPAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON Holy God, We Praise Thy Name. .. «++2.... Congregation Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. .. Morning mass will be conducted at the Sacred Heart church, East Berlin, at 9 o’'clock and at St. Paul's church, Kensington, at 10 o'clock. ) Now that the frost has started to leave the ground the selectmen have turned their thoughts toward the re- pair‘of the town roads for the coming | summer. One of the first to receive much needed attention will be the de- pot road from Farmington road up around the railroad station. First Selectman W. I Alling has ordered 100 tons of crushed stone which will arrive in a short time and then the road will be placed in first class shape for summer travel. Road §uperin- tendent Skinner will have charge of the work as he has decided to sign a contract with the town for another year. At present the road is in a poor condition caused by the melting of snow and ice which has caused several channels to be cut in the bed as the water ran off. With the excep- tion of Farmington road the.remain- der of the town highways appear to be in fairly good shape after the heavy frosts of the past winter. ‘At the Churches. Berlin Congregational church, Rev, S. A. Fiske, ' pastor. Morning wor- ship will' be conducted at 10:46 o'clock with sermon by the pastor: “Trust God, See All, Nor /Be Afraid.” AN departments of the Sunday school will meet at noon. The Junior En- deavor society wiil meet at 3 o’clock. ,| The subject for the Christian En- wvor meeting at 6:30 o'clock will be “The Curse of Cowardice” and the meeting will be led by Miss Fannie Griswold. —_ Kensington' Congregational church, Rev. Carleton Hazen, pastor. Morn- ing worship will be conducted by the pastor at 10:45 o’clock who will speal on “Overcofuing.” The departments of the Sunday school will convene at noon. . The Christian Endeavor will meet at ¢ o’clock and will be in charge of Leroy Siegel. The subject for the meeting will be “The Cursze of Cow- ardice.” Union services will be hela in the church at 7 o’clock/and the ser- mon will be preached by Rev. E. F. Tounsbury. - Kensington Methodist church, Rev. E. Y. Lounsbury, pastor—Morning worship will be held 'at 10:45 o'clock -and will be condudcted ‘by the pastor. Sunday school will be held at 12 o’clock. Evening services will be held in the Congregational church at 7 o’clock. Land Transfer. The following land transfer have been recorded at the town clerk’s of- fice :E. A. More to the Shuttle Mead- ow club incorporated, land in the tcwn of Berlin bounded as follows: north by land of Shuttle Meadow club and E. A. Moore, east by land of E. T —————————— | scBride A. Moore; :south by second parcel of land and west by land -of E. A. Moore. The second parcel is bounded on the north by the first parcel; east by land of E. A. Moore and Shuttle Meadow club; west by Shuttle Mead- ow club and south by land of E. A. Koore and Shuttle Meadow club. A third parcel bounded on the north by land of grantee; east by land con- veyed from grantor to grantee; south by’ land of grantee and west by land of grantor. < St. Patrick’s Social. Members of the Get-Together club of Blue Hills will gather at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson’s this evening where a St. Patrick’s social will be held for the husbands and friends of the organization. An in- teresting program embracing both local and out of town talent will be carried out dfiring the evening at the close of which games will be played. Following the serving of refreshments dancing will be.enjoyed. = The hos- tesses for the evening will be: Mrs. Fred Johnson, Mrs. C. W.. Stevens, Mrs. F. Stevens, Mrs. R. Baldwin, Mrs. R. Moore, Mrs. R. Borrows, Mrs. James Marks, Mrs. Clifford Klease, Mrs. G. W. Beckett, Mrs. G. M. Beckett, Mrs. Henry Rusenburger, Mrs. E. O. Dean, Mrs. Emma Vanta and Miss Edith Johnson. Observes Eighty-Ninth ‘Birthday. F. H. Norton of Kensington today cbserved his eighty-ninth birthday by coing his usugl pdd jobs about the house. Mr. Norton was born in Blue Hills on March 17, 1828 and has spent the greater part of his life in Kensington. He is a member of the old Norton family that dates back to Colonial times and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Norton. Mr. Norton was educated in the schools of the town and after completing his education. went to work on his father’s farm. e married Miss Jane Carter of Southington and in 1876 moved to that town taking his residence on a farm owned by Mrs. Norton. When Mrs. Norton died in 1906 he returned to Kensington and t6ok up 'his residence with his ‘d-lu,h- ter, Mrs. R. M. Griswold. Mr. Norton was made a voter in 1849 and every election day finds him at the polls ready to cast his ballot, He is the oldest voter in Berlin to- day. Mr. Norton took an active in- terest in town affairs and at one time served for three years as selectman and also on the board-of relief. Mr. Norton and William Bulkeley are the only citizens living that signed the petition relating to the separation of Berlin and New Britain in 1850. De- spite his age Mr. Norton is very spry and may be seen walking about the town or doing little jobs about the door yard. He was the reciplent of congratulations from his many friends today. 4 ¥ 3 Berlin Bricfs. Miss Maud McCarroll was tendered a pleasant surprise last evening, the occasion being her seventh birthday. A social was held at the home of Miss Pearl Woods and a very enjoyable evening was spent. The house was decorated in green and white and the favors were in keeping with the eve of St. Patrick. Miss McCarroll re- ceived a number of suitable gifts. Guests were present from Hartford, New Haven and Berlin. ‘W. H. Gibney is again able to be out after his recent illness. Paul Donlin is visiting at the home of Mrs. James Fagan. Word has been \received alt u\; k’s office of the marriage of by ;::m White and Willlam F. on February 16 in Hartford. St Paul's T. AJ aru! I go to Middletown tonight on the T3 o'clock trolley where they will Platavitle VETERAN SUCCUMBS ON 80TH BIRTHDAY William R. Shepard Passes Away At His Home on Park Street INJURY HASTENED HIS END Funeral May Be Held Monday—Fire- ful that such a calamity will be avolded. ¢ Expects Favorable Action. Canvass of many of the members of the lower branch of the legislature made by Representative Willlam /J. Simpson gives rise to the hope that the till which he recently introduced autherizing Plainville to appeint a town plan commission and a bureau of assessment and award will be passed by the generai assembly with- out cpposition. t The committee on cities and. bor- gave & hea: on the measure, has reported favorably on it and the bill is to be put on the house calendar. There are several other measures ahead of it, however, and it may be a few weeks before it is taken up for action. Legislators who have bcen ap- proached concerning their attitude on the bill were favorably impressed RITISH FORGE ON [MEXICAN PLOTS IS PAST SOMME MUD Advances Made on Large Scale Pleases Tommy Atkins — From a Stafr Correspondent of the Associated Press British Headquarters in France, March 16, via London, March 17.—The retreat of the Ger- mans in the Ancre and Somme region continues to give the zest of move- ment to-the war in the west, and & men May Have Military Training— | With the’idea and they could see no | trip nowadays along the everd{extend- Tramp Scat to Jail for Impudence— Expects Favorable Action—Briefs. Willlam R. Shepard, a Civil War veteran, ‘and a well known risident of Plainville for many years, died last night at his home on Park’ street, his passing occurrihg on the eightieth anniversary of his birth.. Mr. Shep- ard: fell and broke his kmee cap sev- eral weeks ago and while he was laid up Wwith the injury ailments incident to advanced age set in. His condition had been critical for a number of days and his death was mot unexpect- ed. Although his health had been satis. factory until his recent accident, Mr, Shepard for a long time had enter- tained a wish to die after he became an octogenarian but he/ frequently ex. pressed the hope that he would live until he passed the eightieth mile- stone in life’s journey. That this wish might be realized he put up a hard fight during the past few days against the ravages of diseases with which he | G. Ward, will preach on the subject, | show the high morale which is in evi- was afflictéd and on the arrival of his birthday anniversary he gave up the battle, pessing away quietly last evening. , g Mr. Shepard came here from the reascn for opposing its adoption. The duties of the commission, which in case the bill passes, cannot be ap- pointed unless a vote in its favor is taken by a town meeting, would be chiefly to establish building lines and to supervise the laying out of streets ‘when property is in course of develop- ment. Church Notices. Episcopal—Rev. J. Russ Judd of ‘Thompsonville, will be the special preacher at the lenten services in the Church of Qur Savior tomorrow eve- ning. . Holy communion will be cele- brated in the morning at 8 ¢’clock and at the 10:45 service, there will be a sermon by the rector, Rev. R. H. Burton. Baptist—Rev. W. S. Sly, superin- tendent of Sunday school work in Connecticut, will preach at the 10:45 service tomorrow morning on the sub- Ject, “The Ministering Master.” Sun- day school will be 12:05. At & o’clock there will be a young people’s service and at 7 o'clock the pastor, Rev, J. “The Work Hindered.” Congregational—Rev. O. W. Barker of Hartford, will occupy the pulpit to- morrow morning. g Advent Christian—Rev. J. W. Den- ing new British lines reveals & picture the like of which has not been seen on this front for more than two years. Substantial progress was made by the allies in the battles of the Sommo last summer and Autumn, but after ths initial forces swept for¥ird the résistance became s0 dogged that ad- vance could be counted almost by feét, if not at ttmes by inches. Re- cently the onward movement has been reckoned in miles, and it is strange te see field fortresses that last year cost thousands of German lives to de- fend, now abandoned within a few hours after the British “heuvies’ have begun to pour out their torrent of high explosives. i Joke While Death Stalks Abroad. It is interesting to stand behind a battery of British howitzers and watch the gun crews in action. The men dence throughout the British army. They whistle and sing and handy grim Jests as they work. As the firing but- ton is pressed the crew jumps back west a number of years ago. For jton, the pastor, *will prea¢h at both | or g moment from the gun carriage, zome time he worked as a florist, operating a greenhouse in the eastern section. He was also employved for a number of years dn the E. N. Pierce lumber yards.. He was prominent in the affairs of the Baptist church for a morning and evening services. The Sunday school and praise and soclal service will be at the usual hours. Brief Items. Miss Mildred Bedford, who is a but leap again to their allotted posts ‘befere the easy acting recoil has re- turned the mammeoth weapon to its original positien. It is easy to dis- tinguish the Scream of a departiig pro- long time and during the past few | teacher in the New . Milford /High | jectile trom one which is being sent years served as sexton. Mr. Shepard wgs in the northern army during the civil war, enlisting in the west when the call o arms was sent out by President Lincoln. was at one time a member of Newton Manross post, G. A. R. He is survived by two daughters one of whom lives in East Bristol, the | gg¢ ynder a writ of attachment for |fare. other in Kansas. Arrangements for the funeral will not be completed un- til the latter is heard from, but it is probable that the services will be held ~ Monday afternoon, Rev. J. G. ‘Ward, pastor of the Baptist church of- ficlating. Interment will be in West cemetery. 7 Tramp Goes to Jail. John Rourke, charged with intoxi- cation and breach of the peace, was fined $7 and costs and sentenced to Jjail for thirty days yesterday when he appeared before Justice Condell, Grand Juror Norton prosecuting. Rourke was arrested Thursday by Constable Marino, after he had cre- ated a disturbance at; a house near Blossom'’s corner because of his dis- school, is spending, the week-end with her parents here. ' . ° > * Deputy Sheriff James McCabe of Southington, is arranging to sell at, to satisfy a judgment rendered over a year ago mgainst the owner. The machine has been held in Cook’s gar- a number of months. Rev. J. R. McDonald celebrated a high mass in The Church of Our Lady of Mercy this morning in observnce of St. Patrick’s Day. A program of Irish music was rendered after the mass. Albert Conlin of Whiting street, ia.| again able to be out after a week's illness. X Carl W. Jones, former secretary of the Trumbull Electric company, has returned from Pinehurst, N. C., where he has been spending a few weeks. His health was much improved by the trip. Vespers will be celebrated in St. Matthews church in Forestville - to- satisfaction with the quality of a sand-‘| morrow evening at 7:30. wich which had beeit given him in re- sponse to his demand for food. Frank Rice also received a thirty day sentence in addition to a $7 fine. He was arrested Thursday night by Constable Marino, who found him in & drunken slumber near the center. Seeks Uncle Sam’s Permission. - Postmaster P. J, Prior has written to his superiors in Washington ask- ing for permission to accept the ap- pointment as a recruiting officer of Willis' J. Hemingway resumed his duties at his store today having.re- covered from his recent illness. T ————————————— Thé “Rural New Yorker,” probably the best agricultural publication in the country, says: “The best and most profitable farming in America today is based on the liberal use of commercial fertilizers, and this will be true more and more in the future.” in return by.the Germans, and the onlooker can watch without difficulty the black' base of a British shell as it travels in a lpng loop toward its He | auction a Thomas Flyer automobile | destination. The forward movement of the Brit- ish on so wide a front has brought into y all the machinery of war- Roads seem to spring up over night in most unexpected places. Rail- ways have audaclously flung them- selves forward regardless of mud and shell holes and with a completeness which even includes most pretentious signposts bearing the names of ¥rench villages which exist now only as geographical remnants. It is also a revelation of the intensely practical side of modern warfare to see a six-inch water main stretchidg itself into territory but recently occupied by the Germans. Littic Matcrial for Roads. Road building has called into play all the ingenuity of ploneer battalions, composed not only of experienced British workmen but of real pioneers from the prairies and mountains of Canada and the far lands of Australia and South Africa. Road material is scarce in the stricken wilderness of No Man’'s Land but the refuse of battle often serves the purpose dur- ing the first hours of a new forwprd mov Broken rifies, bits of clothing, fragments of shells and occasionally a few unexploded shells are used in the foundation of the new ° patchs. The remains of a recently evacuated village bring great joy tc the pioneers for that means a temporary supply at least of much désired broken brick the Home Guard, a position to which | Therefore every farmer who orders| . 4 sionc. he was assigned by the state commis- sion. The postal rules forbid a post- master from holding. other public of- fices, but it is not belleved that the department at Washington will use its regulations® to interfere with the or- ganization of the companies-which are to protect Connecticut in case of war with foreign powers. Appointed to to serve with Mr. Prior as recruiting agents are S. S. Gwillim and E. H. Hills. They will probably begin their duties as soon as the enlistment blanks are received from the legislative com:- mission. / Fire Chief Norton is considering a plan for military training for mem- bers of the hose company in connec- tion with the formation of the guard. In case of internal trouble the serv- ices of the firemen, under the cond!- tions now existing, would be the first requisitioned, and the chiof of the de- partment wants his men prepared in case they should be needed. Armong the members is Willlam Cassidy, a Spanish war veteran, who had actual experience in the. Philippines and who is trained in military maneuvers. He will be delegated by the chief to drill | the firemen. Three Week’s Coal Supply. ‘While Plainville would suffer great- ly from a tie up of the railroads, re- sulting from a strike of the trainmen, the town would not be greatly incon- venienced for a time at least from a scarcity of coal, local dealers re- porting that they have enough anthra- cite in their bins to supply the trade for about three weeks. Nut coal, however, which is in the greatest demand is held by the dealers in small quantities only, and in the event of strike or embargoes or more than a few days’ duration, other sizes of the black diamond would have to be used. Manufacturers admit that they would be seriously handicapped by a strike at this time, and in common witk other residents, they are hope- tend the dance given by the T. Russell corps of that place. Spoeln: -;rvlm- were held at St. zu church, this moraing At 8 num| M. ¥ = I#‘ John Déming enteriainied a of his 1t friends at a birthday party this' afterfioon. ° his fetilizer from S. P. Strople, the hay, flour and feed dealer, 113 Church street, will be in good company. Mr. Sgrople sells A. A. C, Fertilizers and has a valuable pamphlet on the sub- ject which any farmer may have fres for the asking.—advt. WE WANT YOUR ACCOUNT and you will find our facili- ties unsurpassed for render- ing you the maximum in saf- ety and service. Checking account; Letters of Credit; Executors and Administra- tors of Estates; 4% Savings Deposits. Make this your Bank—the Bank of Personal service. Plainville Trust Co. PLAINVILLE, CONN. ] In the meantime the British troops are revelling in the joy of high greund. They arc now on the Somme crest and Bapaume and the country east lies on ‘4 slope that gradually descends all the way to the French bhorder. Qne can but marvel at the fortitude ahd endurance which en- abled men to “stick It” in the muddy depths of the valleys, from which they have now ocmerged. Even the most shallow trenches were impossi~ ble places, and here men dug them- selves in at outposts which marked the low lands like so many graves. Graves they were in truth, for scorcs of the khalki clad soldiers, who held them all through the winter under the pelting fire of their enemy. Watching the Shells Bursting. It 1s possible now to sit in the open on the remnant of a dugout and watch the British shells drop into the German lines, see the shrapnel break with a red flash and a puff of smoke Jjust above the apposing trenches, and note the heavier high explosive shells burst into flames and flying debris. Occasionally a protesting -shell will come from the Germans but the roar of the British guns is S0 great that the noise of the intruder is scarcely noticed. There are black puffs from German shrapnel high in the air.and smaller brown puffs vainly reaching for a score or more of British air- planes hurrying about on their war duties over head. The earth is a continuing mass of shell craters, mast of them overlap- ping or surrounded by, less than a yard of upturned soll. The fresh fallen German dead have mostly been carried away and buried in secluded hollows but now and anon an explod- ing shell unearths bits of skeletons, stray hands, stray feet ' and stray skulls. The shellholes gather a ghastly little battle field refuse half sub- merged in pools of water that are often green but more .often dull with itell tale red. . .. Oneof the problems with which the British are grappling in their drive forward {s how to sufficiently hammer their fGeg With artillery and still keep from plowing the ground ahead of them into another morass with thelr shells. v SUBJECT OF SPEEG F. V. Streeter Upholds UM Sam's Policies Since thie reported international § between Germany and Mexico for § conqueat of Texas, New Mexioo. Arizona, Frederick V. Streeter, tant inspector general c¢f the army, has prepared a patriotic-| cal address dealing with hist reference to this section of the oo try. -Inspector Streeter delivered § address before the members of N Britain couneil, 0. U. A.*M., and" also used it effectually li add the school chfldren. - There is ‘possibly no one in Britain better qualificd to ‘spesk | this matter than Inspector Street) He has long been associated - military affairs and has done ©o erable research work in the Con sional library at Washington rels to the various acquisitions of United States. Inspector Streeter calls that as a boy of five years was _ present when the old marched back to his home town: Vermont after the Mexican .war 1848. As a child these events in oo necticn with tiieir long being muste: out of the federal service were pressed upon him. It is a p coincidence that. Inspector 8 who as a boy watchéd the ‘war, soldiers march home, more a hbIf centyry later, 3 war ve himself, was destined to head parade in celebration of the reti ki mer after doing duty along the ’| can border. United States Pay for In his address, Inspector calls particular attention to sinuations of foreign powers th United States practically stole T New Mexico 'and Arizona from Mexicans. This, he declared t members of New Britain eoun U. A. M, is not 0. The histore :0f his remarks are as follow: “James K. Polk was inat president of the United 4 March 4, 1845, and on July & 184 the legislature of Texas app b annexation bill, passed by the States congress. Thus, by th proval of the people of Texas trict, which had been & province, becamd one of' the ] States of America. In consequien the arbitrary policy of the 3 ruler the Texans had reval 1836 had set up a governmemt. their own. Subsequent events an annexation of Texas lg¢d - to Mexican war.\ - x “On’ February 2, 1848, a t » Peace was signed between .these nations by which all.. the red north of the .Rio Grinde, e with the whoie of New Mexica California,' was ceded to the States. But it must not be underst: as is at present being implied in o places, that the United States this land. This government and paid $15,000,000 for this terr! and all debts due from Mexico. American citizens, amounting, $3,000,000 more, were ssume Therefore the United States ' $18,000,000 for this territory now subject of possivle international cof pitcations. Peace was proclaimed President Polk on July 4, 1848 Inspector Streeles also | wove kis address. his bellefs s to t& valty of ail citizens. He d ‘The result of the Civil war was reunion of tho states, with no no North, no East or West, hut | grand nation. Today one million people, cosmopolitans, 'm up this nation. They have made homes here. They have ecduca their -children here . there can no quastion as te their patrictism & loyalty.” e USED CARS FOR SALE . BALCH'S GARAGE, 203 Eln Srect, corncr 8 "Phone 530 7 passenger Packard, electiic 7 passenger & Hudson, clectric and starter Detainable Touring . Overland Coupe, starter lights . . Cars mechanically perfect, terms, Grace Turner Satterthwalte vs John T. Satterthwaite. : Superior court, State of Conn cut, county of Hartford, the 17th d of March, 1917. Order of Notice. Upon - complaint sald ¢ brought to said court, at Hartford said county, on the first Tuesday April, 1917, and now pending, ing a divorce and custody of m child, it appearing to and heing by the subscribing .authority that ‘whereabouts of the defendant T. Satterthwaite 1s unknown o PIAIRY, oo : ‘Ordered, ghat Hotice of the inst ey, of sald oom uonlu.nq : : 4 osmp shall be &f the t by lishing this order l:'th‘h:‘ New Brita Hersld, a newspaper published - in: New Britain once a week, for two ‘s weeks, commencing on or before March 21, 1917. ) LUCIUS P. FULLER, Mesistant Clerk of said Court. Cash