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i . W MSO Co. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1017, Up to and Including September 14th, Store Closes Fridays at Noon. There Is Much Here at “Babyland” to Interest the Many Mothers You know what a bother it is to make, the fuss and worry it causes to try to get the right touch to the garments for your little .tots wear. Why try then to make them? when you cezn find all the things you need at our Infants’ Dept, and at moderate cost, with all the worry of making eliminated. WE HAVE EVERYTHING A MOTHER CAN WANT-—From the first wear for the new born babe through all the sizes for boy or girl up te six years. Put aside your worries regarding your little ones clothing, come here to Babyland” and supply yourself with all needed things. You will be surprised at the moderate prices asked and the quality and dainti- ness of the garments we offer. attention to here. COLORED Little Wash on year sizes, plain colors, stripes, and Empire and French styles | plaids, with white trimm: fully good values $2.98 each. « N8 FROCKS i es in two to six | POPLIN Very pretty on med with rose, I ing, and wonder- for 69¢ ming. sized two to six at $1.25 to $3.50. up to blue or tan. Middy dresses with dark blue trim- Fine in meke and quality, Have a look at the special things we call DRESSES - es of white trim- Also years with prices SOME SOILED DRESSES FOR LESS THAN COST—In a big stock like ours, garments can't help but get mussed, tumbled and soiled. We have gathered together all we could find, pretty dresses of Persian. lawn Batiste, Organdie, Dotted Swiss, Linen, etc., etc., offering choice at less than cost. The size range is'from two to five years. HOT WEATHER GLOVES—We have just received a shipment of the famous ‘‘Niagara’ Silk Gloves, two clasp style in wh ite with double finger tips. They are a very special value at this low price, 59¢ pair. We Offer “Kayser’s” Silk Gloves, two clasp style in black and white, with self or contr: $1.15 pair. SWIM WINGS—Make water as safe as They are filled with a vegetable compound that makes it im: asting stitching. Extremely the wearer to sink. A Geat Thing for Either Children or Adults, For sale in our Dept, for $1.50 pair. HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE PROMPTLY RECEIVING DELIVERY ALL DRY GOODS g00od qualities for 59¢ to land—no inflation—no cork. possible for Auto FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PU RCHASED OF US. Beriin News GEORGE MALINO IS PAINFULLY BURNED Was Fixing Motorcycle - When ™ Sparks Ignited Clothing ENWRAPPED 1IN FLAMES JLice Destroy Farmers' Potato Plants n M=—Save the Laurel—T. A. B. Drum L Corps Festival—At the Churches— ¢ & Many at the Shore. As a result of his clothes catching on fire Thursday while he was trying to start his motorcycle, George Malina | lies at his home suffering from pain- ful burns about the arms and legs. I will be ten days or two weeks be- fore he will be able to be up and eround again. Coming home from work Thursday evening he decided to take a trip on his motorcycle but could not get the engine started. After some time fussing around the machine his steady efforts prevailed and the motor started hymming. In some manner or other Malina’'s trousers had become satur- ated with gasoline and when the en- gine warmed up a spark from some unknown source faund its way to the saturated cloth. Maline was sud- denly enveloped in flames. Losing his presence of mind and in- stead of getting a blanket, rug or some ‘'other article to wrap araund his legs he began to fight the fire with his 1pads. It was a long chance but he finally won and succeeded in putting out the flames. His efforts cost him severe burns on the arms, legs and hands, He was taken to the home of Dr. Griswold where his wounds were dressed and bandaged. The Tight lex eapd the right arm were the wdrst al- though the other arm and leg was hot immune from the effects of the blaze. Lice Raise Havoc. Potato bugs are bad enough but Yce are ten times worse. This seems ta be the opinion of a fair share of the farmers of the community al- though few report that their crops of Connecticut and which is on the verge of extinction has been sent to both the Berlin and Kensington post- offices. The appeal is in the nature of a picture, cncased in glass. It shows a bouquet of laurels at one side and at the other side a little above the flowers the following message Is printed on a birch bark parchment: Save the laurel; it is the state flow- er of Connecticut. If gathered at all it shodld be cut with a sharp knife and a small quan- tity only taken from one place. . Dis- courage the use of'it for winter dec- oration. Spare the laurel or this beautiful native shrub will be unknown to fu- ture generations. The plea was issued by the field Garden club, At the Churches. Berlin Congregational church, Rev. S. A. Fiske, pastor—Morning worship will be held in the church at 10:45. Rev. B. B. Hibbard of East Berlin will officiate. All departmefits of the Sunday school will convene at noon. The Christian Endeavor meeting will be held at 6:30 o’'clock. “St. Paul's church, Rev. J. C. Bren- nan, pastor.—Tomorrow being the first Sunday in the month service will be held at St. Paul's church, Kensing- ton, at 9 and at the Sacred Heart church, East Berlin, at 10 o'clock. Kensington Congregational church, Rev. Carleton Hazen, pastor—Morning Fair- 10:45 with Rev, William F. English of Hartford in the pulpit. Sunday school will be held at the usual hour and the Christian Endeavor meeting will take place at 6 o'clock. Kensington Methodist church, Rev. { B. F. Lounsbury, pastor.—There will be no services tomorrow ‘at this church on account of the camp meeting which will be held in Plainville. T. A. B. Drum Corps Festival. A lawn festival will be held by St. Paul's T. A. and B. Drum’Corps Friday evening, August 10. The af- fair will take place in parish hall Proceeds from the festival will go towards helping to pay for the new ! suits which were bought recently. As the drum corps have offered their services free of charge at differeat times it is expected that the people will reciprocate and a large crowd is expected. Brief Items. A daughter was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Cesario De Pietro of Berlin. Miss Elsie Benson of East Berlin is visiting at Madison. Mr. J. B. Fields is at the Crags, Estes park, Colorado. have not been touched or injured in the least by the pests. One farmer stated this morning that two-thirds of his potato plants, which about a month ago looked very promising, had been destroyed by plant lice. - He further stated that he had been able to combat successfully with the potato bugs but owing to prevalence of the other destroyers and hig ignorance of their tactics they had goflten the best of him. He also as- serted that they were thicker this vear that never before and that in former vears little attention had been paid to them. ‘According to his statements the pests only destroy potato plants that are located on high ground and do not touch thase planted on flat and Yow ground.’ All other crops such as eorn, oats, and all of the garden pro- a are progressing rapidly and larZe return will probably be the gen- eral rule. | Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Morgan and Miss Sarah Morgan of East Berlin | are’ spending thelr vacation at West- | brook. | Mrs. H. C. Schumway, who recently came here from Chicago, IIL, is mov- ing into the Katherine North place on Berlin street. Miss Margaret Porter of New Brit- ain is visiting Miss Virginia Walsh of East Berlin. Postmaster and Mrs. Goodrich wilt spend Sunday with their daughter, Bertha, at Indian Neck. They make the trip_by auto. { Mrs. H. R. Clark and son Robert of East Berlin are spending the month of August at Westbrook. A mew American flag has been re- ceived at the Berlin post office. It was sent by the government. Miss Florence Clark of Hast Ber- lin has gone to Atlantic City for a [ Save the Laurel. An earnest appeal for the conser- vatioh of the laurel, the state flower few weeks. James Harris and family of Worth- ington Ridge have moved to Hartford. service will be held at the usual time, | will | Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis of East Berlin are spending the week-end at Clinton beach. = Mrs. Terry of Fairfield is visiting | her aunt, Mrs. T. W. Perkins, of Worthington Ridge. Misses Ruth and Avis Robbin, gs of East Berlin are spending a we. Westbrook. AL Mrs. J. E. Smith and_Miss Bertha Goodrich are sojourning at . Indian Neck for a few days. Miss Holister of Worthington Ridge left yesterday for Niantic where she will spend the next two weeks. G. F. Dodd spent yesterday at the shore. Jeanette Honiss days at Madison. Miss Elizabeth Wilcox ford for a few days. Miss Hazel Vile is at Madison for the week. is spending a few is at Guil- AS SHE IS SPOKE. { You Cannot Alwa Sometimes Tell Just What French Words Mean. (Chicago Tribune.) Baron Albert de Viviey will the First regiment, Illinois artillery, to “parlez vou Blen! Tres bien! Yet ah, messieu how it is difficult Don't imagine that the French learned in high school or cclicge will profit vou in France or tha make yourself understond I talking English with Fren To illustrate: If you say ) “More of the you | don’t get any. A negative is iripellied To get it you must say, ““Again the coal.” | Corcorde?’) he looks puzzled., You must say, “Where finds itself the place de la Comcorde.” And it is a tough job to understand the real French of reai France. a wagon labelled ‘*‘confections.” means ready-made, clothes, but would Yyou have guessed? Yonder a notica proclaims, “For sale, 25 reformed horses.” O cryptic! To a Frenchman, however, it is wonderfully clear—25 condemned army horses formed again into the civil estate. At a subway en- trance you read: ‘“Because of the grand afiluence, Messieurs the voy- agers are prayed to make tail.”” Queer notice! Think it over. The English for ‘“queue” is “tail” But the French call a line of people outside a ticket office a ‘‘queue” and so do we. This unlocks the mystery. ‘Because of the great crowd. passen- gers will please stand in line.” Ten thousand such riddles strew the French language and we rejoice to know that the First regiment, Illi- nois artillery is getting genuine French. Grammar and dictionary French, classroom stvle, leads to nothing but woe. One morning an American women Kkeeping house s Paris wanted salt pork. She opened her dictionary. For “pork’ it gave “cochon™ and ‘“porc.”” She chose “cochon” For “salt” or “salted” it gave ‘‘sale.’” She failed to note tne accent. With entire confldence she visited the butcher, looked him stern- ly in the eye and said to him ‘“Sale cochon!” hich unfortunately means ‘You dirty pig!"” [f our boys escape such mishaps it | will be thanks to the conversational | method of instruction. Go it du Vi | vier! When Frenchmen ask your p | pils they will answer “Off a baron.” coal” | | i A Pertinent Question. (Syracuse Post-Standard.) How long are we going to keep up the farce of calling a certain city somewhere between Connecticut *‘An Atlantic Port?” Buy an Indlana truck.—advt. | | socn to be called.under draft have been invited to attend and | small | boys on the | | 1€ Plainville News BOYS IN KHAKI T0 Methodists to Pay diers at Big Meeting EXPECT DELINQUENTS T0 PAY Many Methodists Churches to Send Delegations to Camp Meeting To- morrow—Physical Examination For —Draft Eligibles Next Saturday. Tribute to Methodists in the elghty- six churches of that denomination in this district who have enlisted in the service of their country or who have been selected for the army in the draft will be paid in fitting manner tomorrow afternoon at the - camp grounds when a big patriotic meetinz | will be held as onme of the | features of the annual camp meeting which has been in session for the past week. Arrangements for the meeting have been in progress for i several days and the afficers expect the attendance will represent the largest crowd ever camp grounds. Heads of many of the churches have already notified the officials that | they will send large delegations here for the meeting and it is expected that there will be few Methodist parishes not represented.’ All the Methodists now in the service and those who are the selective is believed there will army of khaki clad grounds to take part Rev. B. A. Dent, be in the meetin: D.D., dist churches in this district, who is also in charge of the camp meeting has perfected a plan whereby a roll of honor will be established in each church for the young men who are serving their country, His plan will be announced in de- tail in connection with tomorrow's big gathering and it is expected that it will create considerable enthusiasm. Many of the churches in this locality have decided to omit services tomor- Tow and the members will attend the exercises at the camp grounds. In the morning there will Love Feast conducted by Rev. Smith of Parkville, meeting there will be a number of patriotic addresses. What is expected to prove a big feature of the program will be a 'speech by Rev. Frank Rhines, the preacher cartoonist, has been assisting in evangelist work at the grounds quring the week. The formal closing of the camp meeting will take place Monday morn- ing at 9 o'clock. According to the officers in charge this year's meeting has been a most gratifying success and if the weather is favorable tomorrow the crowds which will attend the services will probably bring the total attendance for the session up to record-breaking proportions Many Will Settle. Convinced of the sincerity of the tax collector in his announcement of the plan to sell building lots and be a AT At the afternoon number of land owners who have teach | vou ! of | ‘““Where is the place de la | Here comes | That | in been delinquent in the matter settling the bills sent to them have { decided to pay up to prevent disposal | of their holdings at public auction. In most cases the taxes due are less than $10 but the property owners in question will have to pay nearly double the amount of their bill be- cause of the expenses entailed in pre- | paring to sell their places at auction. Besides the twenty-nine accounts which the tax collector has arranged to close by selling the property on October 6 there are the names of a number of other taxpayers on | spond to the bills sent to them and | their land too, will be sold within a | few months unless they settle. Final Game Sunday. The Foresters' baseball team will sing its swan song tomorrow after- | noon when it assembles at Allen’ field to meet the Adams Express com- pany nine of Hartford. , It will be the last game of the season for the local club as the members have agreed to disband at its conclusion The war has made inroads on the enlisted in the service and the others decided to quit rather than have the SERVICE * % ¥ , public prompt and efficient service. We therefore hope that you will give us the op- | portunity to serve you in your particular needs by do- ing your Banking through this institution. ¥ % Plainville Trust Co. PLAINVILLE, CONN, * BE ON HONOR ROLL Tribute to Sol-' closing | assembled at the of = New | Haven, superintendent of the Metho- | who | of | the ! | town books who hav efailed to re- | team, several of the best men having | It has always been the aim | of this Bank to render to its | depositors and to the general | MILLIONS OF FEET O TO BE USED IN This raft of Oregon pine logs, 800 feet long and 52 feet wide, contain- ing lumber to be used in building the cantonments for the new -army, Iis towed 1,000 miles from an interior point on the Columbia river, in Ore- gon, via the Pacific ocean, to San Diego, Cal. There it is transformed into lumber for the use of the United States army and distributed through- out the southwest. These rafts are floated Gown _the ocean during the months of July, August and September, when the Pa- cific is as placid as a mill pond. Each raft contains from 4,000,000 to 6,000,- 000 feet of lumber. The logs are from 80 to 100 feet in length and LUMBER NEW ARMY CAMPS F | | ) | week, every boy has made a bes measure as much as four feet in di- ameter. 3 The raft draws twenty-four feet of water and stands twelve feet over the surface. It is held together by sixty-four chains of one and one-half ‘inch tested steel links, which are wrapped around its circumference, ! while longitudinally it contains an immense chain of links measuring two and® one-fourth miles. The lat- ter is the tow chain by which' ths enormous raft, as long as three aver- age city blocks, is dragged through the ocean to its destination by a sturdy but insignificant ocean going tug. Over 200 tons of iron are used in the chains that hold these together. H reputation of fur- of inferior the exhibition Foresters get nishing an quality. Examine Eligibles Saturday. Members of the exempton -board for this district today expressed the opinion that the three hundred young men from Plainville Berlin and Southington, who are to first appear | for physical examination in connec- tion with the filling of the draft quota of four hundred, will not have to pre- sent themselves before the doctors until next Saturday. Notices ordering them to appear | for examination will be sent out not | later than Tuesday and it is now con- sidered likely that the physicians will | other property on which taxes have | be asked to give up Saturday for the | | not been paid for several years ,a | work of ascertaining what registrants | are physically fit. | It is not expected that there will be { any difficulty in getting men to serve as clerks for the doctors. The fac- tories operate but a half day on Sat- urdays and many men it is thought will be willing to volunteer their ser: ices for the afternoon at least. . S. Gwillim has been authorized to ré- cruit the clerks and men over thirty- one or under thirty-one who are willing to serve in that capacity | should notify him. At least twenty ! | clerical assistants will be needed. Tennis Tournament Progresses. The annual tennis tournament of the Plainville Lawn club is progress- ing towards its conclusion in a satisfac- | tory manner. There is considerable enthusiasm among the members and | rivalry among them is keen. The first series of games will be finished next week and before the end of the | month it is expected the final match will be played. The winner of the tournament will | secure possession for one year of the | cup offered by J. H. Trumbuil, his | nearest oppnent getting F. T. Wheel- er’s runner-up trophy Brief Items. Mrs. W. A. Goodell returned today | from Gutherie, Oklahoma, where she has been visiting her parents for several weeks. A. J. Bordeau will enter the Hart- ford hospital tomorrow for a.minor operation. Michael J. Fitzgerald has been ap- pointed by the selectmen to succeed Henry Orvis as superintendent of highway construction. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brandt of De- troit, Mich., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Crowley of East Main street. Rev. J. W. his father, Rev. | Brooklyn, N. Y. i is entertaining of Denton Joshua Denton Parting Advice. (The Monroe (N. C.) Journal.) Can think of better advice to a soldier than that which a TUnion county father gave to his son on tell- you "\ The opinion of the printer who put | Kerensky's Fivst® Lesson. (Cleveland Leader.) In the early days of the revolution in Russia the young man who is now the head of the government told for- eigners as well as his that if he could not govern without violence he would not govern at all. in the doctrine. beloved of socialists and anarchists such as abound in’Pe- trograd, that there was no need of authority in the physical sense where the right appeals were made to the better nature of men and women. Now the same Kerensky has had the provisional government, which is entirely under his control, restors capital punishment, which was en- thusiastically abolished at the begin- ning of the new era of democracy. So far the use of the death penalty is to be restricted to the army and the navy, and the government ex- plains its apostasy, as its socialistic doctrinaires must call its action, as the result of absolute necessity, and only a temporary measure, to .end when the nation’s life is no longer at stake. A The surprising fact is not that the death penalty is to be used in trying to save the army and the country be- hind it, but that men of even ordinary intelligence should ever have im- agined that anything less would be effective when the cause of disobed- ience and running away from the grim duty of soldiers in war was often the fear of death at the hands of the enemy. It was absurd to sup- pose that a penalty less dangerous than the peril which drove men to the violation of army laws would be sufficient to obtain the results sought. The Evening at Home. The greeting. The inquiry as to what is wrong. The unspeakable condition of the gas pressure. The dinner. The apologies and deprecations. The assurance that all is superb. The ablution of the tableware 50-50. The review of the day. | The pewspaper. The suggestion of the movies. The examination of the photoplay* column. The decision to stay at home. The hope that nobody comes. The book. The refusal to read aloud. ! The cigar ashes on the rug. ! The removal of the collar and the search for house slippers. The bell. i The scramble for the collar. i The delivered package. The return to comfort. | | Dickens int agate type. | The yawn. | The avowal of ‘fatigue The apple. The rattling window. The clock. I ing him good-by at the depot the oth- er day as the Bickett battery left? In seriousness and sadness, the old man said: ‘“‘Good-by; give the Germans hell and remember your ma.” It s a soldier’s business to fight, and the first part of the sentence summed up his duty. And the last part, “re- | member your ma’ is more than a volume. The soldier boy = who re- | | | | The darkness. The conversation. | The silence. | —KANSAS CITY STAR. | Limiting a Sentiment. ! (Washington Star.) “Do you have any difficulty in mak- ing your boy fond of his home " “I don’t want him to be too fond of members his mother will céme home clear if he comes back at all. his home,” replied Mrs. Corntossel. “Joss is no slacker.” rafts | own people | | He was then a thoroughgoing believer | EQUAL SWIMMAGE AT CHILDREN'S HoM Boys Go to Pond and Your Ladies in the Tubs “In hot weather boys can swimming as much as they like, girls have to stay home and paddle the bathtub”, explained one little | at the Children's Home, disdain citing one more limitation imposed:§ the weaker sex, The girls toss 4 heads and say they don’t care, but boys know better! - Meorning and ternoon during the hot days of New Britain may be| | dry town so far as swimming' faci| | ties go, but trust the.boys-to find ! swimming hole somewlere! AMost of the lads of-the Home h learned to swim like: ducks, and ! older boys are training the youn; ones in all sorts of fancy stunts | swimming and diving. With the me | cury hovering around the hundi mark garden-work in the hot sun out of the question, and the one id in every boy's head was to make f| the water, and submerge like a sul marine as long as possible. Nothi | but meal-time ‘affected this schedul ! the matrons found that unerring stinct brought every Jlast boy inj sight when the dinner bell rang. | At the Babies' House on Arch st the little tots have been giving a nef inmitation of a flock of cunning Ke pies of late. Luckily there are wi verandas on this house so that | babies could play happily out of ran| | of the sun. Dauring the hot stu | nights when it was hard for the chj | dren to sleep indoors in their lit! | cribs, they were all put to sleep “sm-mgbem-, ingenously arranged the back verandas. A fine raspberry patch at Rackl is yielding quantities of bla white Dberries at preseq] e are enough so that all ¢l | houses can be supplied and still hi ! enough left over to make raspbe: ! jam. The little ones are all ve ‘ proud to “do their bit” this year {.lending a hand in the canning proc | though jam-making has always | strong attractions for them anywi Next year there may be strawbes | jam too, for a friend of the home | lives in Meriden has_ offered the bo i five hundred strawberry plants to | out soon, and they have a fine sp | picked out for the bed. | A new little black calf has arri | at the Heights, and has been pro! | christened “Nellie” so that her { can be painsiakingly printed on card and tacked over her stall pre | soon. Nellie is a prime favorite wil | the children, who go out and sit ul | der the tree with her.so that she not get lonesome. The Childre Home cows' are sleek and well for by the older boys. Perhaps it having so much milk to drink thi makes the children’s faces so smoof and plump. 1 A miniature Plattsburgh train camp is perched on the very summ of Rackliffe Heights. It consists of | tents carefully constructed out of Wl | quilts, burlap and what not.- A bi is warranted to sweep across the | when it can not be found anywhes | else. The fellow with the bi tent is always general. It is a g place to fly kites too; according to boys. If the embryo soldiers have an for beauty they can ' take an all around view from their camp as sigh ly as Walnut Hill Park affords, Brist Farmington, Hartford capitol, the ri er valley down as far as Cromwell Berlin church spire, Meriden peak ani the Southington hills form the ou | boundaries, and a fine outlook of th city itself lies nearer. At night city lights show up most companion| ably, and the hoys feel sorry for peoj ple that cannot take in a view lik that by moonlight. for the pond. | A FINE RECORD. Tribute to Employee Who Has | mained at One Post Forty-eight Yea In )a special dispatch from Ne Britdin last Thursday the story . | the fidelity of an employe of thd Russell-Erwin Manufacturing com. pany of that city is told,* The em. ploye, John M. Ryan, has entered o the forty-ninth year of his conne tion with that corporation. For forty: elght years he has not been late single day at his work and, except when sick or absent on vacation with the permission of his employers, he has not absented himself in all thag time from work. Mr. Bryan is an expert lockmaker. On one occasion, by his skill and mechanical ability. he frustrated the purpose of another employe who, when leaving the con- cern’s employ, tried to embarrass th company and injure its business. The record of this faithful employe’s recs| ord of honest, devoted service is A reccerd of which any workman shouldy be proud. There was- something contemptid mean in the attempt to embavrass i company by a man who had been on its pay roll and who had enjoyed the benefits of its prosperity. He showed a heartless indifference to his fellow employes. If his purpose had suc- ceeded the company would have stood the loss of business which its success might have involved. The sufferers would have been the other working- men in the factory, who might have been thrown out of work. But he did not care for that. That is not | the only instance in the state whers workmen have been exposed to the danger of loss of work by the selfish conduct of fellow workmen. The instance of the faithful em- ploye, who for nearly half a century has made the success of the business 4f his employers his personal con- cern, is worthy of note, and the man is to DPe highly commended. It is of special interest to an industrial com- munity like New Britain, whose man. moth manufacturing enterprises have been developed by & combination of. the business abilities of those 1In charge of the managément and the skill and fidelity of the employes.

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