New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1917, Page 9

“NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1917. Buy Your Linens Of Us In South Annex You will get better value here, and choice of a bigger showing than at any other store in the state, and bettcr than you will find in most stores of New York and Boston. We are told that daily, and it is because we im- ‘port all our linens “OLD BLEACH” famed for quality Have just received a new importa- Silky qualities in round thread 80 easy to draw. are surprised. when they see our full line of all widths. stantly being told tried every store in town, and find the same answer, * ‘We. offer .15-inch (Other widths 18-i 24-in. 27-in,, 36-i 54-in., 63-in., 72-in.;) and 90-in, at $3.25 yard. All the others at pro- portionate. prices. direct. LINENS are and durability. LINE:! Customers broider on. We are that they con- have * 45c¢ and 50c, also $1.00 per yard. ‘we are out of it.” for. 45c. yard in., 20-in., 22-i , * grades and color n., 40-in., 45-in., are now full and of all kinds. “HEATHER” WHITE WAISTING , the very best makes, of this very popular brand. round thread weaves so easy to em- When we sell you these waistings you get all pure flax. price for the yard wide is 25c, 39c, In the favorite Our 58c, 65c, 75c to LINEN SUITINGS for skirts, suits, coats, etc.,-are shown by us in all shades, the lines complete, come make choice while showing is at its best. This is headquarters for Linens HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PROMPTLY REOCEIVING Berlin News FALS 10 APPEAR AND FORFEIT BOND Held for Assault' Committed on Steven Stelamve Last Yleek ALL DRY GOODS PU3ICHASED OF US. to the Town hall. .Mr. Mildruin con- siders that'he was fortunate in re- covering his .property, and gave his personal thanks to the men that as- sisted him {n the chase. Guard Holds First Drill. Sixty-four . enthusiastic men an: swered the call of the Home Guard last night and appeared in the Town hall at 8. o'tlock for their first drill. The men present with military ex: perience were called upon to step for- ward, and after eight or ten had been . selected -the company was broken up into-squads of six or eight men. The drill masters weré appointed from the men that had military experience, and 'they' took charge of the squads and GHAMWTE IS RELEASED \Inn Caught Stealing Tire From Rear of E. W. Mildrum’s Automobile— Sixty-four Men Attend First Guard . Drill—Briefs. - John Pretteiri, who was held under $50 bonds for appearance at teday’s session of the town court, failed to arrive at the appointed time and his ‘bond was declared forfeited by Judge George G. Griswold. Pretteiri was in court last Tuesday for assault com- mitted on Stevens Stelanove but the complaining witness was unable to weppear being confined te the hospital with a bad attack of blood poison. The assault occurred last week when the two men got into an argument over a pool game and then went out- side to settle the question. Pretteiri came much enraged and before anything could be done to prevent him, he caught Stelanove’s hand in Bhis teeth and inflicted considerable damage to that member. Since that time Stelanove has been confined to the hospital and his hand is still in a serious condition. Joseph Chabowte, who was arrested | on March 11 and later committed to ¢he Middletown asylum, has been re- Jeased from that institution and sent dack to Massachusetts. Chabowte was acting in a strange manner and when arrested appeared to be insane, and _when his condition did not improve after a week's confinement in the town jail he was committed to Middle- | gown. He gave his address as Palmer, | Mass., a e was sent by the authorities. His ,actions for the past week or two have feen such that his release was or- dered. Caught Stealing Auto Tire. . 'W. Mildrum, who left his auto- | mobile in front of Galpin's house while he attended the meeting of the HMeme Guard last night, caught a man | teking a tire from the rear of his machine and, after giving chase, re- oevered the tire, but the man escaped. Mr. Mildrum was making his way up the road from the Town hall when he noticed the rear light on his machine gppeared to be out and on at inter- vals, and as he drew closer a man epne up the road with ‘an auto tire over his shoulder. Upon being ordered to drop the tire. the man made for the sidewalk and started to run and it is.to this address nm:i put them through the various drills first ' given "the raw recruits. Every man present went at the work with a dash and if the good work keeps up it will only be a short time before the locals will be a crack company. It was voted by the members to hold drill every night for the time! being, and it is expected that a goodly num- ber will attend. The recruiting ‘station was open at 7 o'clock last night and long before the hour for the drill arrived there were fourteen new men added to the unit. The men who joined last night are W. M. Fowler, T. F. Cashman, H. W. Nourse, H. E. Taylor, H. E. Gould, R. C. Nourse, E. F. Nourse, . C. Shephard, G. W. Miller, ‘é Crane, H. C. Bartram, A. W. Hal R. Carter and W C. Mansfield. The addition of these men brings the total number in the unit up to sixty-seven. and with the transfer of two men from the New Britain company there will be sixty-nine men in the local company. The recruiting office will be open again tonight at 7 o'clock. Dr. M. H. Griswold was on hand {1ast night and put about thirty of the men through the medical exami- nation, but whether there were any rejectipns is not known. Col. Charles M. Jajvis addressed the men and told them that the matter of officers would rest entirely with the men and that they would be appointed by the Hart- ford headquarters on the local rec- ommendations. Discuss Current Events. Members of the Berlin Literary so- clety gathered at the home of Bryan H. Atwater last evening where a dis- cussion_of current events was taken up. Mr. Atwater had charge of the program and was assisted by Mrs. E. W. Mildrum, who read a paper on the Red Cross. Miss Caroline Savage also read an interesting paper on general topics of the day, as did Mr. Atwater. J. T. Hart gave an interest- ing account of the submarine and this i was followed by a paper by Grorge Dodd on the Home Guard. In order to illustrate his paper, Mr. Dodd had a number of the men who beleng to the Home Guard go through a short drill, and they gave a very interest- ing demonstration. Berlin Briefs. The selectmen met yesterday and drew up bills. The teachers held their monthly meeting in the Worthington Gram- mar school this afternoon. Miss Mary Nelson left thic after- noon for a visit in Philadelphia. Miss Helen Jones has returned to Wellesley college after spending the Taster vacation with her parents. Geoige L. Nasi has enlisted in the towards the south. Mr. Mildrum's calls brought several of the guard into action and the man was chased down the road and, after running several hundred yards, he dropped the tire 4n order to make better progress. The chase was continued after the tire was drqpped, but the stranger became lost in the darkness when he reached the Jarvis place, and the party returned United States navy as an electrician. Miss Adele Murray has returned gom a ten days’ trip to Savannah, a. The monthly meeting of the school board will be held tonight. Miss Loretta Alling has returned to ‘Wellesley college after spending a few dsys-with her.parents, PREFER T0 REMAIN IN GERMAN PRISON |Naturalized English Have No De- sire to Return to Homes London, April 10.—~Lord Newton in the house of lords, caused surprise by stating that many British prisoners at Ruhleben, Germany, had ho desire to return to England. It is now learned that there are about 800 of these prisoners, British subjects, who openly profess sympathy with the German cause. The reason for this large nuinber of pro-German British, according to statements made here, is'that they arc almost all Germans, born and bred, who acquired British national- ization either in England or in some of the colonies, in order to escape lability to military service in Ger- many. Most of them left Germany specially for this purpose, and after residing on English soil for the min- imum period requisite to naturaliza- tion, théy returned to the Father- land and résumed thefr ordinary life. The interned prisoners also include their sons and grandsons. There are also natives of Austria, Germar Switzerland, and Russia, who simi- larly acquired British citizenship. There was much indignation among these psuedo-British at the outbreak of the war when they suddeny found themselves interned as were out-and- out Englishmen. There were many protests, but the police replied that they had sheltered themselves from military service under their alleged British nationality and must take the consequences. . At first they were carefully distributed among the pure- ly British prisoners for observation and espionage . purposes. The Eng- lishmen countered with a boycott which eventually resulted in the sep- aration of the two elements. ‘Whenever one of the pro-Germans asked for leav the officer of the day would say “What regiment do you wish to join?” «In the end about 300 volunteers for the German army vere obtained from the camp. MAY CLOSE EXCHANGE. Mexico City, April 10.—Members of the Bolsa de Valores-or Stock Ex- change, of Mexico City, have held a meeting and determined that unless trading is more brisk in the next few weeks, the exchange will be placed in liquidation. Much of the trading on the exchange is in oil shares. An Invitation to Women. Women are invited to visit the labo- ratory of the Lydia E. Pinkham Med- icine Co. at Lynn, Mass., and see for themselves. with what accuracy, skill and cleanliness this wonderfuul rem. edy for women’s ailments is pre- pared. Over 350,000 pounds of roots and herbs are used annually in mak- ing this famous medicine. The great bins of herbs, the huge tanks filled with the medicine ready to be hottled, and the bottling room where it is put up and labelled for the market, can- not help but impress them with the reliability of this good, old-fashioned root and herb remedy, which for the past forty years has been so success- ful in the home treatment of female s, Plainviile News APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOL NOW $19,300, Committee Authorized to Spend That Sum on Pmposed Addition AMBULANGE FOR GUARD Non-Commissioncd Officers to Be Se- . lected Without Regard to Social Position—Hope Holcomb Will At- tend Banquet.—Briefs. Accepting the report of the spegial committee regarding the impractica- bility of spending $17,000 to erect a four room addition to the Broad street school house, the voters at a special town meeting last evening adopted a resolution” increasing the appropria- tion of $19,500 and authorizing their representatives to nake contracts at a sum not in excess of this figure. The committee had no difficulty in con- vincing the meeting of the necessity for making an additional appropria- tion and the session proved to be noth- ing more than a formality, the voters acting without much discussion. Less than twenty-five of the electors were in attendance. 5 The committee reported that the bids submitted by contractors indi- cated that it would cost in the neigh- borhood of $19,000 to erect a suitable addition and if members were forced | to keep within ‘the $17,000 appropria- tion made last January, there would have to _be eliminated from the plans some features that are highly desir- able. Since receiving the bids they had instructed architects to make some changes- in the specifications which might reduce the cost to some extent but saving of any considerable amount can not be accomplished without sac- rificing some features which they re- garded as essential to satisfactory work. Bidders had refused to submit fig- ures for the entire contract and the committee proposes to award three contracts in connection with work, one for the building, another for the heating and a third for the plumbing., Chairman A, L. Rogers was instruct- ed to arrange with Architect M. J. Unkelbach for the changing of the heating plans to reduce the cost. Be- fore the end of the week the commit- tee expects to have revised figures and by Saturday the members hope to be in a position to award the contract and to make provisions for the begin- ning of the work. 8. S. Gwillim served as chairman of the meeting, Joseph N. McKernan act- ing as clerk. 142 in Home Guard. Five additional recruits who report- ed last evening to take the oath in the Home Guard brought the number of men enlisted in the Plainville unit up to 142, making necessary but eight more volunteers to complete the com- pany. Captain Trumbull is anxious to have 150 men in the local unit and when that number is reached enroll- ment will be closed. Uniforms and other equipment will be secured for but 100. It is desired, however, that the reserve shall be composed of at least 50 men. Captain Trumbull stated this morn-. ing that he has not yet selected the non-commissioned officers for the unit. ‘With Lieutenants Duffy and Gwillim he proposes to choose from the ranks men of experience and adaptibility to serve as sergeants and corporals. Tent- ative selectinos, he admitted, have already been made but the commis- sioned leaders wish to give more time to observation before the choice is definitely made. The entire company has been or- dered to report at the Town hall to- night at 8 o’clock to be formally mus- tered into the service. Captain Trumbull plans to continue squad drills for the present, a division reported each night for instruction, He has not definitely decided as to when the first company_ drill will be called. Ambulance for Medical Corps. ‘Organization of the medical corps which is to be a part of the local Home Guard unit has been completed and the members are now supplied with their equipment, including knap- sacks, first aid kit, etc. In addition the corps has two stretchers and W. A. Bailey, one of the members, has ‘agreed to give the use of a new auto ambulance which he has ordered. The Plainville corps was formed by Dr. L. H. Frost and Gage Kent with the approval of Chairman B. M. Holden of the state Home Guard commission, and it is likely that they will be officers. George commissioned to serve as its The other members are: Sevmour, George A. Case, Wesley Kavanaugh, William Brokaw, Dwight G. Clark, James J. Graham, W. A. Bailey, Stephen Henry Bonney, . Change Trolley Stations. The management of the Connecticut company, acting in conjunction with the Business and Improvement asso- ciation, making arrangements to change the trolley stations at the cen- ter. Because of the danger from autos the cars will be stopped on Whiting street, at a point almost in front of Collins’ lunch room, the next station, the next station South to be at Maple street. The placing of a silent officer at the center makes it necessary for autoists to take a wide turn at Whiting street corner and by changing the stopping place of the trolley cars it is believed that the danger will be greatly min- imized. Want Flag Pole Erected. Officials have explained that the ab- Edward _Lackay, Roger Freeman, Dietzko and were crippled by Germany's or- FELT LIKE A NEW/ PERSON After Taking Only One Box Of “Fruit-a-tives” BEasr Suip HarBoUR, It is with great pleasure that I wnte~ to tell you of the wonderful benefits 1 ! have received from taking ‘“Fruit-a- tives”. For years, I was a dreadful sufferer from Constipation and Head- ackes, and 1 was miserabic in every way. | Nothing in the way of medicines seemed | to help me. Then I finally tried “Fruit-a-tives” and the effect was splendid. After taking one box, I feel like 2 new person, to have relief from | Outside of its general utility a Desk, whether itis flat, roll or typewriter, should | be just as attractive as the Furniture you. would have in your home. Standard Desks measure up to this requirement in every, particular ‘and for proof of our assertion we invite you to see those sickening Headaches”. Mzrs. MARTHA DEWOLFE. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25¢, - At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruite a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N,Y. ! DEFIED KAISER IN DOVE FOR ENGINES When the government seized the glant German ship Vaterland at Ho- boken, N. J., ingly, undamaged, it-was found that, seem- the engines of the vessel were unlike. those of others der when diplomatic relations were severed. If upon a further examina- tion it is found that the engines of the Vaterland, the world’s biggest ship, have been tampered with, it is believed that Captain Hans Ruser knew noth- ing about it. She was his “baby,” the apple of his eye, and it is understgod that when orders were sent out cripple the German ships he issued his own instructions to the men on the Vaterland and that none of them ‘When the cs linder heads were be- ing taken from the engines of some of the vessels and shaft connections of other's dropped over the side. Captain Ruser is said to have given strict or- ders that no man lay a harmful hand on his charge. sence of the Stars and Stripes from the Town hall is due to the difficulty encountered in attempting to get the flag on the pole on the building. It is a hazardous task to raise the flag and the officials believe some other arrangement should be made for the town’s displaying of Ola Glory. It has been suggested that a pole be placed on the soldiers’ monument plot at the center, the town flying a flag at this point. The pole could be placed in position at little or no ex- pense and the officials are seriously considering the adoption of the idea. Local Boys Accepted. Three Plainville boys were accepted in the navy yesterday and orders were ————————————— A NEW BRITAIN WOMAN'S EXPERIENGE Can you doubt the evidence of this New Britain woman? You can verify New Britain endorse- ment. : Read this: Mrs. A, Remington, New Britain, say: “Five vears ago the doctor said that 1 would have to undergo an operation if the medicine he gave me didn’t cure me of in- flammation of the bladder, from which I suffered torments. .After his medi- cine had failed, T tried other reme- dies but got no help. The pains in my back were fearful and at times I couldn’t turn over in bed. For a week at a time I could hardiy get around and wouldn't dare leave the house. The agony when passing the kidney secretions was terrible. The first box | of Doan’s Kidney Pills gave me r 488 Arch St., the new line just received. They’re beauties. THE FLINT-BRICE 40 _SRAMSBULL 8T ¢ AARITFORD sent out from the Hartford recruit- ing office to have them report imme- ' diately for service. The boys who will don thb blue in Uncle Sfam's service are = Alexander Nichol, Robert FForshaw and Clarence Hemingway. Both Forshaw and Hemingway have brothers already serving as seamen. v Hope Holcomb Will Attend. 2 Members of the committee in charge of the annual banquet of the, Business and Improvement associa- tion to be held in the Town hall on April 25 are hopeful that Governor M. H. Holcomb will find it possible to attend the gathering. An invita- tion has been extended to him and while he has not given a definite ac- ceptance because of the pressure of | his duties as the state’s chief executive he has promised to be present if pos- : sible. Arrangements for the affair are progressing satisfactorily and the committee looks for a most success- ful anniversary celebration. The speakers thus far selected are Rev. Irving Berg of Hartford. former chaplain of the First Connecticut In- fantry and Robert T. Butler, also of Hartford, Mr. Butler was in charge of the military census recently taken throughout the state. The toastmas- ter will likely be named tomorrow. THE CURRAN DRY GOODS C0. Our Great Anmversary Sale EXTRA SPECIAL FOR WEDNESDAY ° Lace Edged Scrim ! Special 9 8 c Fancy Curtains. at, a pair Full Size Crochet Bed Spreads. Special at. . .. Bleached Turkish Towels, Special o, IOC Bleached Table Damask Special 2 5 at,yvaed . ... ..... c! Woemen’s Gingham House“ Dresses. Extra ! Special at . 69(: | Women’s Overall Aprons, €x- ! tra large size, ! Special at ... ... 39(:; Bleached Bed Sheets, good | cotton. | Special at ....... 690 Women’s Fine Swiss Hand-. kerchiefs, embroid- 5c | ered corners. Special New Fancy Striped Linen,: finished Skirting. 39 c Special at ... ... Boys’ Wool Knee 3,9 c $1.00 and $1.25 Leather Hand | lief and or seven boxes cured me. Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't | simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that cured Mrs. Remington. Foster-Mil- burn-Co., Props., Buffalo, Ny Y, —— Pants. Special at Bags. i Special at . . 590 i ing. Special at, yd. 5C ) 36-in. Long Cloth. Fancy Celored Border Cur- | tain Scrim. 9 c Bleached Cotton Towel- Special at, yd. . .. 9c Special, yd, . Brief Items. Martha Rebekah lodge will give| publiz whist tomorrow evening Odd Fellows hall James McCusker has returned fro to his .home in Providence. Graham, who has b the Baster holidays with here, has returned to Ba Harry c)\endln" James Heary has returned to Phi adelphia after spending a visit wif friends here, A number of Plainville “white ril§ boners’ went to Plantsville this aftel noon to attend the meeting of the C. T. U. of that place. FOR SALE—Two family house Mountain View, near trolley, pj tically new. Little money require Owner leaving town. Address Housd Box 10, Herald. 4-9- Mak& Winter V| Automolnle Stm'tm : Startmg &nghtmg , g:7> tery —- UR auto- mobile is much harder to start in cold weather than in ..warm. Your battery must be in good con- dition for satisfactory :» winter service. Don’t start your battery on its winter’s work without luvln. it in good order. » We make no charge for inspecting your bat- tery and telling you its: exact condition. You can zassure yourself . of a sure start every time by egumpimg your car with an ‘‘Exide’’ Batter A. G HAWKER _ Service Station Rew Britain Bristoi | ———The Popu'ar Shoe SHOre ey Top Notch Styies Why stop below the top when the smartest Spring styles are within reach. Beneath their good. looks is good service. Good news for the man who wants good shoes at.a reason- able price. The leathers are Dull Calf, Vici Kid, Patent Colt and the new shdes in tan, cordo and mahogany. High and low cut styles in many new shapes and patterns. PRICES $3.00 to $8.00. AISHBER ——THE SHOEMAN—— 941 Main St. Hartford Ask the Clerk for S.&H Green Stamps easy