New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1917, Page 11

I of 988 in mmbmhlp durlng the year | T Gity ltems | ng girls gun metal lace shoes, * Jéw heels, $2.95, were $3.50 at Besse-.| aland's—advt. “The singers;who are entertaining in the grill room at Hotel Nelson willap- Pear every evening beginning '. 0. ~—advt. ‘¢ iBring your panama hat’to, clean, new, avoid the rush. Conn. Hat Co. readvt. j ah Harris A, Bryan, who has spending a furlough at his home his city, has returned to his ship l’,’mmnh waters. ‘omen’s Havana brown and black /lace shoes, colored kid tops $8.95, ‘regular price $5,60 at Besse-Leland’s. nnis Hogan, assistantsclerk at the el Beloin, was taken to the hos- $al last night for an operation. AMembers of the Y. W. C. A. gym- lalum classes will have a picnic to- ow night, the scheduled ' meet- .place being at the Black Rock pue bridge at 6:16 o'clock. Bach 18 expected to bring d h. Coffée will be provide fomen’s grey suede shoes were $7, price $4.95 at Besse-Leland's. vt. Wi ong iresident Flavel 8. Luther af Trin- college was the principa¥ speaker he annual banquet of the . wchool mcil held in the Y. M.!C. A, last ning. There were about 100 teach- present, President Howard Demp- WE of the council acted as toastmas- iffen’s tan cordo Oxfords with fibre r soles $2.95, were $3.50. Besse- Sind’'s.—advt. ‘ Z -g, t Garrison, in charge ting work at.the Hartford omce. deliver a talk on the work at theater this evening. dge Willlam F. Mangan of Bas- street. who is {ll with- pneumonia, ed & very comfortable night and &’ condition, is improved today. Julie B. Norton has returned Danbury, where she attended state bouncil meeting of the Daughters of Liberty. . “Men’s gun metal Oxfords, En‘lh'h $2.96 at Besse-Leland’s.—advt. ZAntlony Eleme Donato, giving this as hid home address, was fined 2§ and costs by Judge Edward L. 14 in Hartford police court ves- ay for carrying a concealed weap- on, ‘afully loaded revolver. Misses Elizabeth and Anna Regan of Falr Haven, Vt.. are the guests of fisy Mary Regan of Washington A8 r. and Mrs. Albert Grauer of Wor- r, Mass., formerly of this city, visiting local friends. M¥n’s lace and button high shoes 66 at Besse-Leland's—advt. AGED RESIDENT DEAD. Rhobe Corbin Snow Would Have % Been 79 Next Month. }&n. Rhobe Corbin Snow, of - 85 liis street, wife of the late Leverett snovn died this afternoon at 1:50 ‘ck. Mrs. Snow had been in fail- health for several months. Death the result of a complication of pases due to old age. The deceased 8 born in Union, Conn., June 29, , the daughter of Hermon Corbin Calista Knowlton Corbin. Snow leaves two daughters, Ida A. Snow and Mrs; Robert B. fsay; a son-in-law Robert B. Lind- iand two two grandsoms, Robert d Raymond C. Lindsay; a sister and Mrs. B. Young, all of this city; and nd brother-in-law, Mr. and Villlam Horton of Monson, e Snow had been a resident of tain for twenty-three, years a prominent member of the ‘Pongregational church. Funeral ements will be announced later, FOR CLASSIFICATION. Apply Doherty. -Aclerk. 988 IN PAST YEAR M Records for Membership in Connecticat Excelled in 19(6 New Haven, May 18.—A met gain 1916 was réeported to the grand.lodge of Connecticut, Independent Order of 0dd Fellows, which held its annual session here today. Commen on this gain, the grand master, !t‘fngm_ ry Monroe of ‘this city in his address, sald it was ths largést in the Nistory of the order in the ‘Connectifut jur- isdiction. Theé Rebekah bramch ' of | the order, he miid, wag doing .“spien. did work” . and ;much . interest Was being manifested in. all. the ° lodgei: Two Rebekah lodges were instituted during the year, one at Windsor and ong at Hartford. The observance of Grand Master's Day at the Odd Fellows home at Fairview, Groton, celebrating the 98th anniversary of the order, was re- ferred to by the grand master. The total membership in Connecti- cut January 1, 1917, was 25,283, ac- cording to the report of the grand secretaty, Willlam S. Hutchinson, of New Haven. The number of subord- inate lodges is ninety-one, two-lodges having been merged during the year. ‘The total membership in the Rebekah branch of the order was given as 9,403, a net gain-for the.year of 365;: with sixty-one lodges. e total as- sets of the subordinate lodged were given as $970,568. & net gain for the year of $33,692: while the to- tal funds of the Rebekali lodges were given as $42,873.69, a net gain of $170.69 during the year. In making a report of the finances of the grand lodge, Sidney W. Chal- lenger of Bridgeport, grand treasur- er, sald: 4 “There has beén a small decrease in the funds due to various causes | but the receipts show a slight ‘in- crease.” Total recelpu including bal- ance from the previous year were given as $11,190.84, jwith “expendi-. tures of $6,635. 87, 1 g & balance of $4,565.17. Other reports present- ed included those of the d - rep- resentatives and committeé ‘on _ cor- | respondence and lexhltupn. LOSS OF GEMS EXAGGERATED Mrs. Ingersoll, Daughter of Semator Bulkley, Valued Missing Jewelry at #8000, Not $60,000, as Reported. ‘Hartford, May 16.—Mrs. John A. Ingersoll of New York, daughter of Sepator and Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkley, visitinig> her: parents here, declimed to- day to discuss her loss of jewelry. Printed reports fromt New York were that the sum involved was $60,000 but Senator Bulkley, speaking for Mrs. Ingersoll, said the loss would not reach above $5.000. “The reported amount is all- hum- bug,” said the tor. ‘He added that the taxicab .in' which Mrs. Ingersoll left her jewel ¢ase in riding from her home, no 565 Park avenue, New York to the Grand Central stdtion, .was owned by a concern which she usual- ly 'patronized and she expected to secure her' jewels. 1. R. 10 FIGHT ANIWAY -l Actepts Gov. Whitman’s Invitation to mmn‘m In State ' Serwice If He Can't Go to France. Albany, May 16.—At the conclu- sion of a two hours conference today with Governor Whitman, Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt announced that he would accept the governor’s offer of a major general's commission in the state ‘service if the federal army - bill was passed withoutttile provision to permit him to-go to ¥ pe with an expeditionary foree.- »: + - TENDERED KITCHEN SHOWER. Miss Beulah Strong was tendered a kitg! shower at the home of Miss Grace dy, 392 Chestnut street last evening. Vocal selections were rendered by the Misses Emlly Kuhns dnd May Wedlake and plano seléc- tions by the Misses Wedlake, Petts and Johnson. Miss Strong was the recipient of many useful gifts. JOIN COAST PATROL SERVICE. Simon J. Fitzharris Allen Erickson’ and' James ‘Maher have made appli- cation for places in the United States coast patrol service, and Mr. Fitz- harris has been notified of his ac- ceptance. He enters the service as a first class machinist, and will be located in Brooklyn navy yard. for.a short time after he’ reports. MILL RESUME WORK. Lawrence, May 16.—The Wood and ‘Washington mills of - the American ‘Woolen company closed yesterday by a strike of firemen who decl they were not satisfied with the apportion- ment of a recent wage incréase, re- sumed operations today. Officers of the company said firemen had been employed to take the places of the strikers and that not mére than 1,000 operatives were out. MAY INORFASE EXPRESS RATES New York, May 16. —R‘vnorg that the principal express companies were aboft to file with the Interstate Com- merce Commission an application for an increase in rates were met by a statement from the executive office of the Adams Express company that the rates of the eompnme‘s ‘were now being analyzed, in connection with the ; cont ‘of canducting: business. | on This photograph of the late J'ouph H. Choate, famous lawyer and’ stites- man, who has just died at his New York home at the agé of eighty-five, is probably the last ever made of Mr: Choate. It was '“snapped’ , as , he rode with Arthur J. Balfour after welcoming the English statesmean 'to New York. In spite of his advanced agé Mr. Choate acted as active head of the reception committee. He is seen, at. Mght of picture. : e e S LS S DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs, Martin A. Rodin, The funeral ‘of Mrs, Ida Peterson Rodin, wife of- Martin A. Rodin of 16 Commercial street, was held at 2 o'clock ' this afternoon from _the Swedish Lutheran church with Rev: Dr. Sven G. Ohman, pastor, officiating. The bearers were Carl A. Carlson, M. Peterson, Azel Lofgren, Carl Miller, John Magnuson and Andrew Johnson. John Olson and A]bért, s0n were, thé flower - rs. ~ ‘Was in Fairview cemetetry. Mrs. Rebeoca Chaven, The funeral of Mrs, Rebecca Cha- ven, aged 60, who died at New Britain General hospital yesterday, was held this afternoonfrom her home at 214 Arch street with Rabbi Elias Rosen- berg officiating. Burial was in Beth Alom cemetery. PAPER MILLS CLOSED. " 8t. Johns, N. 8., May 16.—Inabili to obtain steamers to transport thi product to England has resuilted in a decision of -Lord Northcliffe and his associates to shut down their large paper mills at Grand Falls. The sin- gle steamer . hitherto allowed the eom- pany has been commandeered by the government. “STAMP THEM OUT” VROOMAN DEMANDS; PEOPLE MUST EAT L 5 Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, is a leading ‘advocate of the repression of speculation in foodstuffs, “The time has come for the government to take decisive ac- \ton to check the upward trehd, The people will brook no delay,” Mr. Vroo- man said, “in stamping out theg ac- tivities of these economic parasites, these aisldyal food gamblers, who are fattening and battening in every city in this land on the food necessities of the poor,” Mr. Vrooman is famous as an cconomiu well as an & W a* T. U. CONVENTION. Oounty Anmul Held at People’s Chyrch Today. The ,thirty-fourth annual . conven- tion ‘of the"W. O. T. U. of Hartford county was held at - the People's church, this city, today. Following are tho officers re-elected for the com- | ing year. President—Mrs. Mary E. Wethersfield. ;/ Vice: presideist—Miss Elfubethi- H-' tts, Warehbuse Point. Corresponding secretary—Miss Ger- trude V. Shepherd, New Britain. Recording secretary—Mrs. Clara 8. Lee, Hartford. Treasurer—Mrs: Ira Chaffee, Mill- dale. Delegate to natignal convention— xtu. Gertrude V. Shepherd of this Y. Alternate—Mrs. E. B. Kendrlék ot Hn.rtford i 1t _was voted to endorse the Blan- toh-Kenyon' bill for national® prohibi- tion as a war measure. ' The sum of. $26 was raised by the convention for the purchase of an electric fan for the hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas. There werp forty-four prize —essays written for the department of scien- tific temperance instruction by . the High school pupils. CROWN LANDS TAKEN Property of Ozar Confiscated By Peo- \ ple, Larger in Extent Than Ger- mymdmehermm Petrograd, Msy 16.—The ' crown lands in Siberia, which the new pro- visional government has confiscated from the.imperia] family and turned over to the te, include almost the whole of the provinces of Altal and Nerchinsk, embracing a territory larger than Germany and probably richer than Germny in its natural resources. Since the-eighteenth century; these lands have been the personal proper- ty of the Russian emperors, who be- ing oceupied with other matters, have paid little attention to' their develop- ment. Both provinces are fich in minerals, including gold, iron, zinc and lead. ' Included in these crown lands also are the coal fields .of Kuz- netsk, which are said by experts to be among the richest in Europe. The Altai region includes also thousan of acres of undeveloped farm land high fertility. The opening of these lands Is ex- pected to simplify the agrarian prob- lem and facilitate the work of econ- omic adjustment after the war. Wells, URGES PORTUGUESE TO FARM. Boston, May 16.—The Portuguese consulate here has asked Portuguese residents of this state to devote their energies to farm work this summer. The consulate is listing all men willing to do this work, with the idea of mak- .| In& their servlces available for farm- ers on call. SELL PRODUCTS BELOW COST. Mexico City, May 16.—Thé Mexican Mercantile Alllance, composed - of We Offer Al Wool Blue Richter& \ | MEMBERS NEW YORK s'l-oox EXCHANGE. Serge Suits for. Boys, Size 60 $18, at $5.00. U.5. STEEL GLIMES AND SHORTS COVER Advance in Rubles Results Good Market ‘Wall Street—aA let-up in the pres- sure against rails and tractions and an advance in rubles caused a general covering of shorts in the, foremoon. U. 8. Steel led the ad 1 1-2 to 118. steel and iron group. ments * was {rregular.’ were well maintatned. Were heavy. Low priced ralls and = specialties were taken in hand after mid-day, coppers also moving forward on a| Steel added a sub-| ° stantial fraction to its gain of the morning -and equipments .moved to general demand. higher levels. Closing—The market was almost buoyantly active in the last hour on steel’s additional advance 120%, its highest price of the year. Meanwhile independent shares rose' 2 to 7 points, Superior Steel featuring that Among specialties the move~ Sugars lost more ground, Alcohol reacted almost 2 points and Pullman as much. Gains of 1 to 2 points in General E Central Leather, Baldwin Loc U. 8. Rubber and Mexican Petroleum Rails also dis- played greater firmness. Bonds, in- cluding United States governments, Russell Mfg. Co. ... 106 Standagd Screw Com, . 353 Stanley Rule & Level . . .uo Stanley Works Traut & Hine Union Mtg. Co. 98 Niles, Bem-a'. Pmd. 160 Scovill Mtg. Co. .......600 —_— OOfiNGIIa MEETS TONIGHT. Tising » Residents of Stanley Quarter, With Message particularly those of the Many Recommendations. tion, are indignant at the At the meeting . of the ~common |the board of finance and 't c, | council tomight Mayor G. A. Quigley renting the Shipman schodl ¥ otive, | will read his annual message, Which |¢o o 3 Lynch for the pui contains a large number of recom- | erecting a large bill board. The | ' mendations. The water commissioners u;l r.nlill f;?"l‘l ':‘. per 7?:;. will also broach their Whigville tun- everal of the citizens, nel plan to the .council and the city | known their disapproval af '.hh farming project will come in for cop- |and one prominent restdent th siderable discussion, as well as other | noon stated that if Mr. | routine business. the board of finance and taxatl -If the council sees fit to accept the | there was no objection to hia ¢ ‘Tecommendation of the board of 'a Dbill board there it was becaus finance and taxation and authorizes | opinion had not -been an appropriation of $16,000 for a |Chamberjain, chairman of the mpnicipal farm ‘the meeting will be |'board, was visited -today &y | adjournod -until Friday night when | gruntled property owners. and another meeting will be held and ac-'| have expressed a determination tion taken. Inasmuch as it will not | pealing to. the mayor. over The closing was strong. Sales were es- timated at 760,000 shares. New* York Stock Exchange quota- tions ( furnished by Richter & Go., of the New -York (3 e, Representcd by E. %“Mdy. May 16, 1917 High Am Beet Sugar .. 91 Alaska ‘Gola - 63% Am Ag Chem .... Am Car & Fdy Co. 67% Ay Caniiiy. gioi 4% Am Can pfd .....106 Am Loco ........ 69 Am Smelting . .1001¢ Am Sugar . .110 Am Tel & Tel....121 Anaconda Cop ... 79 A T 8 Fe Ry Co..100 Baldwin Loco . B8 . 693 ceesees BOX L1834y Butte Superior ... 43% Canadian Pacific .160% Central Ieather .. 86% Ches & Ohio ..... 57y Chino Copper .... 543 ©Chi Mil & St Paul. 72% Col P &I ....... 50%", Cons Gas ........107% Crucible Steel .... 68% Del & Hudson ....116% - 18% . 23% .. 35% General Electric .157 Goodrich Rub ... 51 Great Nor pfd ....104 Gt 'Nor Ore Cetfs. 32% Illinois Central ..100% Inspiration Interborough 9 % Interboro pfd 53% Kansas City so 19% Kennecott Cop 45% Lack Steel . Lehigh Val . Max Mot com . Mex' Petrol . Natl Lead . N Y Air Brake ..142 N ¥.C & Hud 883% Nev Cons . NYNHG& N Y Ont'& West ., 21% Nor Pac .......,.101 Norf & West <-120% Penn R R . 521 Peoples Gas 8% Pressed Stecl Clr “ 73 Ray Cons . 2.% BORY «cotecnnens Union Pad- ... United Fruit Utah Cop ... U S Rub Co . U s Steel ... U S Steel pfd ...117% Westinghouse .... 49% ‘Western, Union ... 92% Willys Overland .. 28 LOGAL STOGK MARKGT (Furnished by Richter & Co.), - There was a firmer tendency in American Brass and Scovill Manufac- turing company today, 301 being bid for the former, with sales at 303 and prominent Mexican business men, be- | 303, and 601 being bid for the latter. 91%. Close 80% CAREFUJ. ) MANAGEMENT OF YOUR { BANKING BUSINESS - 8 g Have You Ever Considered How The Successful Men of Today Attamed Their Financial Independance? Success in business is due, in large degree, o mmt‘\of your banking bu An account with this bank assures aheolute sa £ money—also careful and m ttht‘i,;twt:rthe details of your banking 1 = 3 THE CoMMERcIALTRUST (@ ALL KINDS OF e JOB PRINTING First Class Work at Eastern Weekly PubL (.| 53 CHURCH ST. JOHN P. KEOGH 68 BROAD ST.. NEW YORK. Member of Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York. ! 120% 111% 49% 923 27% gan early in May their efforts to re-| Below are the closing quotations: duce the high cost of living in this capital. The alliance is bringing in train-loads of food and other neces- sitles from the surrounding country and ‘selling these praducts at cost. The prices it is sald will be maintained far_below the prices w(ad in tl;e ar markets | 4 American Brass American Hardware Billings & Spencer . Bristol Brass Colt’s Arms .. Landers, Frary —Stocks, Bonds and Curb Securities— | NEW BRITAIN Om 166 MAIN ST, F. T. IMIU‘,% TEL, 1013. Prlnuwlnb Ru!flhlm