New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1917, Page 9

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BRWN READY POR HM‘;K [> Y Clt) Crlcbmsficktfp An.lnst ~Tough Proposition This Evening— Jledn and Bergin in Semi-Final. ,mw Haven, May 28.—The chrtain Will be rung down upon the New Haven boxifig season tonight at the ‘Wall street ice rink when the Arena A: C. stages what is generally con- w about the most inviting card the Beachmorit Flash. This pair is carded to ga 18 $138' pounds. to:a decision, Afid ‘the very utmost. in .action is ed“for. Both have trained hard ind both are fit, ¥ And if there is a great deal of in- r in the star bout there ‘s just ‘much in the semi-final affair of 12 nds which brings the agsressive 3 X Bergen of this city inte: sotion esain with the clew: - ing Medar of New -~ York. r t has fought Medar upon’ three umom and the last time making h & ‘showing that he was given a iw in ten rounds. Had it gone'a Qd@sen Tounds tbat night Bergen would doubt -have won, and the baut to- ht was u.rnnnd to ' settle n.ll omor "‘Il give Joe Cnrrle. logked’ sp good 'beating Frink au a Week ago, a chince to even Nis séore with’ Bobby Wansen. - The Jatter stapped Joe in short order the Jast_tima tney meet, but' tonight it a8 Jikely -another story will bs told. The pair lave agreed to make 130 at 3 o'tlock ,and it looks like & vmrrwhm Tattla betwesh them. .. ‘Dave Fitzgerald will rfifmc and Frank Smith of The Register hold the Awatol, .and Hugh Rorty will do the announcing. A large crowd of out- of-towners will attend. and.the big mah of fans from New Haven will Ppropadbly spell another record house. . ODAIMS CHAMPIONSHIP. ‘Worcester, Mass., Jhy $8~—With ten successive victories to its credit’ the Holy Cross baseball team layse wvalid claim to thg intercoll is est college inflelder 1ins and ' Jack Barry, qbly Cropl man: Dugan has been ofle«dp ‘contract by five major league clubs. If Dugan ‘has anything st “as g00d in view he would do ‘we! stay iy from profeasional baseball, es- jally at this time. Life and sal- Ts are none too rosy the bDig minors, ‘are worse off than ever. Professional baseball never /hel@ out a worse prospect for the ngsu man ;hm n does right now. T¢ “football is played- éompetitively at the Naval academy next fall the i team wiit be led -by Earnest: H. von Heimberg of Wisconsin, who has been “to succeed Thomas G, Fishar of Maryland. The latter will be lndum«l next month and will have no chance to act as captain. Football wlll not be played in competition with ofher teams, however, until the war NEW LEAGUE IS RUMOR wmmmnfifl_u American Association—Meet to Call Off Serieg With International. Chicago, May 26.—Existence :of & plot to wreck the American Associa- tion and form a third major league was revealed at a special meeting of the association here Saturday, The meeting ‘was ® for’ formally cancelling .the inter-league seriex of forty-eight games with the clubs of the International league. The vote for the cancellgtion was unani- mous. ' The plan to disrupt the association was outlined in a statement issued by Thomas J. Hickey, president of the organization. ‘While declining to mention the names of persons alleged to be back of the movement, Hickey s8id that a meeting of the association club owners would be called in the immediate future and “all members will act in concert to defeat such dis- ruption efforts.” Joe Tinker, president and manager of the Columbuas club, said he under- stood the plan fap the formation of a third major league included - disrup- tion of both the American Association and International league. The; four leading cities in each organization were to be selected to make up the new league, he said, The club owners pledged themselves ta reduce the salaries of high priced players twenty-five to fifty per cent. Players refusing accept the reduc- tion will be released, it was an- | nounced. Probably a dozén men will be asked to accept a eut salary. DORGIN LEADS SWATTERS Gms&fiqmammm mu«rmmu-m ~—Hammond snd Smith Bat Hard. Hartford, May 38.—The first list of batting averages of the Eastern league finds Dug Smith,. the Bridgeport southpaw, at the , summit . with. an average of .571, although Doc Dur. 'sin, the powerful slugger of Bpring- ‘fleld, who was once a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and last season perched on the initial sack for the Newark Internationals, is the real leader. The Green Sox first baseman, who bids w to rank foremost ,among the first basemen in the'league, is wielding his bat in lusty style, as .he maintains an average of . Many pitchers sre holding places ne: the top of the list and Walter Ha mond, also of the Green Sox family, follows Durgin, batting-at a clip of .429. » i Dowd, the New London capfaifi, who started off last season With & tendency to be the clean-up kid, is off again this season to the same start, as he holds an average of .412 and follaws the Springfiald keystono sacker. Springfleld and New London are the only two clubs who carry .400 hitters that play regularly. The .300 column shines with the name of ‘Jud | tory. Daley, as the leader. The veteran of the Lawrence outfieM is slugging his war club for .395 and follows Durgin in number of hits made. Durgin has smashed out nineteen hits, while Daley has seventeen to his credit, al- though he has faced pitchers twice more than has the Green Sox batsman, GOOD VALUES el =~E I SWEETEEARTSOAP CLOTHES PINS M KELLOGG’S WHEAT BISCUITS ..pkg 12¢ PRUNES, 40-50’s pound 16¢ 11b BIG 98c COMBINATION . 51bs Granylated Sugar ............ 38¢c 16c ~ 30 STAMPSFREE ........... 98¢ Y DOUBLE, TIP SEEDLESS RAISINS pkx 15¢ BORAX, 20 Mule Te‘m ....pkg 12¢ 8 Stamps with 1 pkg ARP the . purpose of| NEW BRITAIN DAILY "HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1017. South..Congregational Church. The Boy 8couts will me-t tonight at 7 o’clack. There will be a meeting of Tourists’ club Thursday at o’clock. On Thursday evening the new form of the church night sérvice will be followed for the second time.. The first hour from 7:30 will-be given to worship and work; the second .to6 study, Devotion, Red Cross sewing and first aiq classes constitute the pro- gram. There is a large amount of Red Cross work that the men can do. If the men of the church will volun- teer for this work, the women will bg free to attend to the sewing. Partici- Pation in both the Red Cross ‘work and the first aid classes is not neces- sary. One may choose either, or both, The Red Cross wark will continue while ‘the first aid classes. are In session. The cradie 2oll of the Sunday school and the Foreign Missiongry cradle rall will join forces at 'a social to be held on Friday at 3 o'clock, = All mothers of children under faur are re- quested to come and to bring the chil- dren with them. An ‘informal pro- ‘gram will be arranged. All friends of little children are cordh\ly invited to attend. A meeting of the Wide World club will be held Friday at 4:30 p. m. Trinity Methodist Church. A business and social meeting of the Phflfthu class will be held tonight at 45'0’clock. Miss Jessie E. Arbuckle, eunefinumdcnz of the Deaconess home at New Haven, will speak. The W. H. M. S. and the Qneen Esther circle and all others are invited to attend. The quarterly conference and official board meeting ‘will be held in the church tonight at 8 o'clock. TPuesday at 2:30 o’clock the ‘Women's Home Missionary society will meet to sew with Mrs. W. 8. Talmadge at 72 Grand street. The annual memorial service of the Grand Army of the Republic is to be Reld Tuesday evening at 8 a'clock. The apsakers are to be 8. H, Holmes, A, J. Sloper and W, F. Cook. Other ministers are to participats, J. C. Beebe and spectal singérs will have charge of the muslc. \ “God's care for the !udeuu" will be the subject of the church night services Thureday evening' at 7:45 o'clock. Bay Scout meeting ‘will be held on Friday at' 7 p. m Choir rehearsal will be held Satur- day at 7:30 o'elock. An entertainment and social will be siven the members of the Home de. partment of the Bunday school Satur- day -at 8 o'clock. Every member is urged to be present, Dr. T. E. Reeks will give the follow- ing talks on public heaith at & series of ‘union meetings of the Philathea and Baraca classes during the S8undays of June and the first Sunday of July, 12:16 p. m. June 3—What constitutes a modern board of health? June 10—The makeup of the New Britain board of health? ' June 17—The work of the labora- 4:30 June 24—A taik on ‘germ life. July 1—~—Municipal control of dis- ease. ‘The ];romm following list of topics and leaders for the month ef ‘June: i Looking toward vacation. June 3—The patriotic pessibiliti of vacation. Leaders: Lawrencs Doo- little, Evalyn Bigelow. June 10—Vacation reading. Lead- ers: Daris Waters, Harry Bradbury. June 17—Making a two weeks vaca- tion count. Leaders: Olive Odenwaldt, Harry Gooby. June 24—The opportunitids for liv- ing a Christian life during vacation. Leaders: Elma Hart, Raymond Brad- bury. . First Congregational Church. Thé Philathea class will work on surgical ' dressings tonight at 7:80 o'clock. A meeting of the standing commit- LUNCH BISCUIT BOSS tee will be held at the parsonage to- night. The Girl Scouts will meet Wednes day at § o'clock. t Troop 4 of the Boy Seouts will meet Wednesday evening at 7:16 o'clock. The Bible class for Armenian wo- men will be held Thursday afternocon at 3:30 o'clock. Mid-week services will Thursday at 7:45 p. m. A meeting s held every Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the interests of the Red Cross and surgical dress- ings committee. An all day sewing meeting in the. interests of the Red Cross will be held in the church on Friday. Choir rehearsal will be.held Satur- day at 7 o’clock. The following young men of the church are 'in the service of the na- tion: Rodman Chamberlain, Company E; Maurice H. Pease, Plattsburg, N, Y. Hazne Hinman, Plattsburg, N. Y. Edmond §. Felt, Portamouth, N. H Joseph W. Albiston, Madison, N. Y.; William' A. Dennis, U. 8. Navy; Clar- . Frederick H, Walter - 8. Andres, Coast Defense; Newton Lock-. wood, Coast Defense. be held First Baptist Church. A meeting of the Freestone club will be held in the chapel this evening at 7:45 o'clock. The Scouts will meet Tuesday night committes of the- Young People's soclety submits the |, in uniform to attend the patriotic services at the Methodist ' church. They will also meet Wednesday at 1:80 o'clock to march in the parade. Regular meeting will be held Friday night. Church night service will be held Thursday at 7:45 p. m. The class in Biblical Literature will meet from 8:30 until 9:3¢ o’clock. All young women and girls of the church are invited to join the class in Red Cross work. The olass mests Thursday from 5:45 to 7:45 o'clock. An important meetinig of the Men’s. Brotherhood will be held in the chapel Friday evening at 8 a'clock. All members are urged to be present as™Business of interest and importance to every member is to come bhefore the meeting. Plans for the outing will be announced and a sociat hour will follow. Bridgeport, May - 28.—Bridgeport batted Powers hard and timely here yesterday and had no trouble defeat- ing Springfield, 6 to 3, in a game that was marred by continual wrangling. Manager Paul Krichell was ordered off the grounds in the seventh inning, when he protested one of Umpire Mc- Gauley’s decisions. The batting of Zinn featured. He knocked the ball over the right fleld fence and also made a double. The score: r. Springflela . 020100000—8 ¢ Bridgeport 20210100—8 10 3 Batteries—Powers ‘and Reco; Gin- gras and Krichell and Donnolly, h e ATHLETE DROPS DEAD. Bridgeport, . May 28.—Bridgeport won the Southwestern Connecticut school track meet Saturday afternoon with 70 points. Stamford came {n second, with 18, and Westport third, with 9. George Cuneo of Bridgeport idhd of heart disease during the high ump- { Father Kelly Speaks. Rev. Charles Kelly of New Haven, a native of this city, was the speaker at the exercises of the crowning of the statue of the Blessed Virgin un- der the auspices of the Children of Mary of 8t. Mary's church yesterday. Members of the Immaculate Concep- tion Guild and the Junior Sodality ‘were in attnedance. i TO' CONTINUE ATHLETICS. Columbus, Ohfo, May 28.—Action was taken at a meeting here Satur- day night of the.representatives of fifteen Ohio colleges to retain all branches of athletics during the war irrespective of the lowered registration due to enlistments. A move to per- mit freshmen to take part in varsity athletics was defeated. WHITE 80X RELEASE TWO, Chicago, May 28.m-Jack ro\lrnl'r. outflelder, and Zeb Terry, infleld were released to the Los Angeles cluh of the Pacific Coast league Saturday by the Chicago Americans. ALIENS MUST WORK ON FARMS. ‘Washington, May 28.—Foreign la- borers brought to the United States under relaxed regulations to relieve the labor situafion in the southern | state, will be arrested and deported it they engage in any other kind of work. New rules suspending the 1. literacy test and the contractilabor law apply only to aliens seeking agri- cultural employment. . AIM ‘TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS. ‘Washington, May 28.—A safety sur- .| vey of the country’s navy yards and arsenals and other government estab- | ushments where employment 18 con- sidered most hazardous is being'made by, the neéw federal employes com- pensation commission in co-operation with the various executive depart- ments, with a view to reducing if pol.lbl‘ tho number of accidents m PAS'I'OR RESIGNS - Rev. F. 6 Dillingham l—v- Pulpit at Universalist Chupch. Afier Four Years® Service—May Move to West. Rév. F. 8. Dillingham, for the past four years pastor of the Universalist church in this city, completed his labors as far as New Britain is con. cerned last night. It is expected he will go west, probably to California. His *successor has not .bgen chosen. Rev. Mr. Dillingham has had charge of the Universalist.church In Waterbury ever since he severed his connection with the Universalist church in Bridgeport, in which city he was located for twenty-five years jor more. He has been coming to New Britain to conduct evdning serv- ices after caring. for his Waterbury floek in the morning. It is probable that a younger man #ill be chosen to fill the vacamcy. Dr. Dillingham preached his vale- dictory sermon last evening. Other speakers were Dr. Gray of Stamford and Rev. Theodare M. Fischer of New Haven. "y Among fi\o choir numbers at the services last ‘night was the randulon of “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” b; B. E. Hallett, the organist lnd Miss Ethel Olson, soloiat. Rev. Dr. John Coleman Ad-mu of Hartford will preach next ~ Sunday. Rev. Mr. Fischer and Charles G. Lin- coln will also speak. ' NEW BRITAIN MOTHERS PLEASED AND HAPPY No More Fear of Baby Colic. The crusade against bahy celic and food trouble in this section has had o happy result, The astonishing achisvements of Mre, Winglow's Soothing Syrup which has beon mo widely recommended seems beyond bellef to the many thenkful and pleased mothers, for practically every baby has besn cured or benefitted by ita use. + Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup Is the long looked for bleasing that has sprung into instant popularity with almost ‘:‘v:rv mother, results dllmnt from aims to get rid of baby colic and in- digestion by nuumldu the aclds, VeTCcol [ ind m‘-adflvc 1ittle stomachs, and mlnd you it does all this without a particle of ‘dope” or a drop of gl- cohol. Good, honorable druggists: recome mend Mrs. Winslow's Scothing Syrup to all mothers with bables that have colic, indigestion, poor assimilation of tood constipation or teething troubles. Mothers do not fail to test this now famous prescription, Go to your diuggist and 'get a twenty-five. cent bottle today and make baby well gnd happy. For sale in New Britalh by Seltzer's Prescription Pharmacy. SUFFERING CATS! GIVE THIS MAN THE GOLD MEDAL Let folks step on your fest hereaft- er; wear shoes a sise smaller if you like, for corns will never again send electric: sparks of pain through you. according to this Cincianati authority. He says that a few drops of a drug calied freezone, applied directly upon a tender, aching ocorn\instantly re- lloves soreness, and esoon the entire corp, root and all, lifts right out. This drug is a sticky ether com- pound, but dries at once and simply shrivels up the edrn without inflam- ing or even irritating the surrounding tiwu .. It .is claimed that & querter of an ounce of freezone obtained at any drug store will cost very little byt is sufiicient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one’s feet. Cut this out, especially if you are & ‘woman reader who wears high heele DRIVES AGONY FROM JOINTS AND MUSCLES “Neutrone Prescription 99" Makes You Feel Fine and Comfortable All the afugsists are selling “‘Neu- trone Presoription 99" these days be- cause already dosens of suffering and ‘weary people here in this country have lurned that there is nothing in this ‘wide world that will do as much good to sore, tired, inflamed joints and mus- cles as “Neutrone Prescription Take “Neytrone Prescription 9! today! You will find rolhf. and after two or three doses all rheumatic troubles will fade away. It's a pe- hing and stimulating liquid, is “Neutrone Prescription 99", and won- derfully soothing and effective. And a week’'s trestment for only “c' It's the finest prescription you ever saw to tone up the stomech and kidneys. It absolutely removes the causes. Mall orders filled; no extra m lnlldll everywh % ere. "BOOM FOR SUPPUILDERS, Activity Saown in Yards All Aloog Portland, Me., May 28~A revival of wooden shipbuilding in Maine has been brought about by the war. Many of the old shipyards along the coast from Kittery to Eastport have re- sumed a semblance of old-time ac- tivity and some of the larger yards are utilizing every avallable foot of space to increase their output. However, the plan of Major Gen- eral George W. to build steel vessels in which to csrry food to the allies is strongly by muny of the old-time had been dubioug of the oriyt posal for wooden bottoms. They had expressed the belief that the ‘off: shore traffic shaujd be handled by a vast flest of standardized iron steam- ers, ‘which they claimed could ‘be construectad mare chesply and mors quickly' than weoden eraft. A state committee will co-operate wn he federal board and -of the work - wrymm.n bas been h it co-operation ‘b .w-“bm«m W"UME NATIONAL B May 28.—The mitt ” public safety Has ap) memorial day¥ - iontl service” as tor “Urge ers Qualified to J once,” says the appeal. “To tho cannot serve in’ the rankm, ot speakers counsel conservatiom, ! non’ntg? to mention the A lcozt 'Perry, pitcher for m 4 club, of ;the southern league; nounced by the M- NM elub last nm Last year, more than forty-five dollars were transferred by Western Union Telegraph with Safety, Spud a.nd‘ Economy. ’ WESTERN UNION RIS E THE WESTEM UNION TELEGRIP“,'W Our present great hdusewiring offer will positively be withdnwn after May: 3ist. Uptotlm»;dmwu ia'u.»m a ma- - terial reduction in cost, "12 ‘months to ' pay, and the equivalent of *4 ' months’ lighting bills towards the: eott of wiring, also Free Mazda Lamps All of these ‘specisl inducements willbe” wlthdnvm after May 31st. +. Thete is but little time oft in'which to decide this question. *Bhone - us for details-and an estimate of “Cost,” which will place you under no oblmtion. Do: it today. Owners of 483 Old Houses and tene- ments since March for Eleectric Service. * ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT Ist have: Qoqtrlmd 10hanw 1 tiai o et ———— THE UNITED ELECTRIC LIGHT & WATER CO. 94 West Main St Prope! tracty throu| the étocks o owners may and pick out fixtyres from any one of the following also\ugn con- Electrical contractors in New Britain. Spring & Buckley Barry & Bamforth * Butler Electric Co. Cooley & Troup Dolan Ehc Co. The Electric Shop A. V. Dixon F. H. Mulvihill T. W. Hinchliffe 'A. Shymsky -

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