New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 3

Boston Store OUTING FLANNEL Night Gowns For Ladies and Children. For Ladies we have com- mon and extra sizes in white and colored, in several differ- ent styles, from 75¢ to $1.39. Children’s in colors, sizes 4 to 14 years, at 59c each. Bungalow Aprons in ex- tensive variety of styles, de- sirable patterns, from 75c to $1.50 each. OUTING FLANNELS Checks, stripes and grey, 27 inches wide; 15¢ & yard. White, 27 inch, 15¢ and 25c. White, 36 inch, 17c. McCall Patterns 10c, 15¢ and 20c. Magazines 10c. Book of Fashions 25¢, with a 15¢ Pattern Free. PULLAR & NIVEN Sunshine Society. ¥ave you had a kindness shown 1 Fass it on. "Twss not meant for you alone. Pass it on. Let it travel down the Years, Let it~wipe other’s tears, Hsaven the deed appears. Pass it on. an- Tl in Hotto—Gocd cheer, Flower—Coreopsis. Colors—Gold and white. The first meeting of the season was 'held Monday afternoon. The reports of the Sunshine work was very en- couraging, numerous calls upon sick members and shut-ing exceeding all former records as well as a total of 335 oranges sent to hospital, proving that the various committees have not been idle during the summer months. For the use of those desiring such service we have one wheel chair, six pairs of crutches and five air cushions idle at the present time. Our Lafayette committee reports a busy time, 60 garments having found their way to needy cases. The State Sunshine Convention will hold its annual one-day session at the Methodist church in Waterbury on Thursday next. Lunch will be served at 40 cents per person. Those desir- ing to attend will leave on the 8:07 trolley from the cented. Mrs. H. L. Thompson was appointed delegate from the local society with Mrs. Geo. Loomis as alternate. It was voted to hold the next state convention here and an invitation to that effect will be extended at the coming Waterbury session. The society earnestly calls for con- tributions of chairs for its use. If you have such no longer of service to you will you kindly communicate with the president, 'Phone 1105, and arrangements will be made to call for them. Scarcely any one but will be able to spare at least one upon careful investigation. We hope for a generous response. i EASY TO GET, EASY TO KEEP— USE “DIGESTONEINE” AND WIN quick relief from heartburn, sour, gassy stomach, dizziness and other indigestion ills. Tone your entire system, stir up your appetite by fol- lowing the lead of thousands— “The Key to Reliof” I have never taken anything that gave me such quick relief, and I have spent hundreds of dollars with other remedies, have been bothered over five years with what was pronounced Eastritis. 1 ate food that L knew would raise gas on my stomach, so to my surprise after having taken the dose of your ‘'Digestoneine’” I had no distress whatever. JAMES W. STOKES, Gallatine, Mo. Your fault if you suffer Digestoneine MUST salify of mony backs For proass sce City Drug Store, New Brit- ain, Ct—The Economy N. E. Drug Co, Bristol, Ct. ra1i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. COUNCIL WILL PAY FIREMEN IN ARMY Men in Service to Get Jobs Back | 0n Return The common council, at its monthly meeting last night, went on record as being in favor of holding open po- sitions for all regular firemen who are drafted or who volunteer for fed- eral service and also to pay such men the difference between their army pay and their pay while in the city's em- ploy. Other routine business of a formal nature was transacted, includ- ing the appropriation of $220 to cover the expenses of the city’s cele- bration in honor of its devarting sol- diers today and on October 4. Public Works Report. The board of public works report- ed as follows: That dead trees on the east side of Central park and in front of 77 Winthrop street be cut down; that concrete walks he laid on both sides of Norden street from Arch to Linwood streets on or before October 15; that Santi Puzzo be given permission to connect property on north side of Belden street east of the brook at Day street, with the Bel- den street sewer, on payment of money to the sewer fund to tho amount named by the board of com- pensation and assessment; that the board of water commissioners extend the Derby street water main 300 feet northerly from the present terminus and an agreement be made so that the city may not be liable for accept- ance of the street; that permission be given to the Connecticut Light & Power company to set one 40-foot pole on the south side of Park street between No. 481 and No. 483, under | to withdraw j abatement of interest on sewer | ments totalling $30.19; the supervision of the city engineer and electrical superintendent; that one partly dead tree in front of No. 139 Lake street be cut down; that concrete walks be laid on the west side of Cherry street between Ellis and Ash on or before November 1; that the water main in McClintock street be extended northerly to Mag- nolia street, provided the usual bond is furnished; that the sewer in Bur- ritt street be extended north to West Main street and the necessary man- holes and catch basins be built at an estimated cost of $525; that concrete walks be laid on both sides of West street from Oak to Tremont streets on or before October 15; that notifi- cation be made to have flag sidewalks repaired where needed on or before November 15; that the Connecticut Light & Power company be given per- mission to place on thirty-foot pole and to relocate two other poles on north side of Hart street, west of Lincoln, under direction of city en- gineer and electrical superintendent; that the comptroller be instructed to draw his order on the treasurer for $9,600 in favor of the National Spring Bed company and charge the amount to the street department appropria- tion, in payment for land bought to eliminate Lake street grade crossing; that the previous resolution whereby $16,000 to purchase land and do other work on Lake street be rescinded. It was voted to change the date of side- walk repairs from November 15 to November 1. Petitions Received. Petitions were received as follows: W. W. Leland for a light in front of No. 777 Hart street; W. W. Leland for sprinkling of Hart street between Corbin avenue and Lincoln street; Joseph Meizkowski for a con- crete gutter on west side of Booth street and Broad street, also for crosswalks on Booth and Broad streets; H. Zevin for a concrete walk on east side of Lawlor street between No. 97 and Na. 129, all re- ferred to the board of public works; from B. Dobrowalski, by Lawyer Henry Nowicki, for compensation for damage done to crops in his yard at No. 10 Clinto street ta the amount of $150, resulting, he says, from overflow of Clinton street reser- voir in July; John Jackson, through Lawyer E. J. Danberg, petitioned for another hearing on his claim for damages, he recently having been turned down by the claims cammittee, referred to claims committee; Adolf Greulich petitioned for removal of a dead tree in front of his property at No. 140 Whiting street, referred to thei board of public works; the Edwin Ellis estate petitioned for abatement of in- terest on the street improvement as- sessment laid February &, 1907, amounting to $47 and a lien of fifty cents, referred to the mayor and alder- men. Mrs. Tracy Must Pay. vor and aldermen report- That abatement of in- | favor The accompanying pictures show the fortified island of Oskald, in the Baltic sea, one of the Russian for- tresses which the German fleet will have to subdue or capture, and the (FORTIFIED ISLANDS ASSIST RUSSIA IN DEFENSE OF THE BALTIC SEA Baltic, an the Rus- the Swed- Aland islands, also in the important group held by sians. The latter are near ish coast and it has been some Swedes consider their possesion by Russia a menace to the safety of their own country. Russia’s ficet in said that | the Baltic is theoretically strong, but it is more than overmatched by the power which Germany able to send against it, since the Kiel canal assures Germany uninterrupted com- munication between the North sea and the Baltic sea. and had told of repeated and vain protests to the school board.. *“Due either to the inattention of ths red tape of the school board nothing ha been done.” said the third ward al- derman, who moved that the city en- gineer investigate conditions and take the matter up with the school board i facts warrant such action. There was also considerable discussion rela- | tive to the overflow from the high pressure reservoir onto.Clinton street. property and the third ward alder- man’s motion to have the claims com- mittee and water board conduct joint investigation was passed. petition for a fire alarm box at the corner of Lake street and . LennoX Place was referred to the fire board. | Mrs. Minnie I Cornwell's petition | abate a bill of $6.60 for a side- | Ak on Chestnut street was passed favorably. A report to ahate $32,-! 883 in back taxes was accepted. A | bill of $1,299.65 from M. I. Jester for fire department coal was ordered paid as was an order for $5.000 for subway bonds and $2,890 for interest. | Action of the comptroller in paying ! the E. U. Thompson company bills | of $344.52 for repainting city hall | was ratifled. | The proposed ordinances relating to | the firemen’s pension fund, regarding | illuminated signs being extinguished | at 10 instead of 11:30 p. m. and also providing that no ordinance shall be operative until published were adopt- ed. An extension of time until Novem- | ber was granted the building code revision committee. The fireboard’s recommendatio: that any regular fireman drafted or volunteering be given his job back on his return and also the difference in pay between army rates and city rates was passed on the motion of Alderman Curt This recommenda- tion also provides that any firemen in the federal service shall rececive the benefit of any possible increases in | pay and also that their period of | army Servi be credited in their on the pension lists, Alderman Curtis thought this only a very small way for the city to show its apprecia~ of its employes who so pa- ly respond to the call of their country. Turing di a| Al to put ‘ussion on the board of | resolution in reference ' to ordering all sidewalks rcpaired by November 1, Alderman Curtis called attention to the deplorable condition | terest and lien be made on an old ssment for taxes on property | now owned by Charlotte Rackliffe, pravided that principal is paid on or | hefore Jan 1.. 1918; that petition of Felix Kasprow, et al, for abatment of part of assessment for street sprinkling on Oak street from Lasalle Allen, be granted: that leave to be given to Mary E. Tracy, who asked abatement of taxes on her property used for the municipal tarm; | that leave to withdraw be given in the | petitian of George K. Macauley for ! sess- that charge against Edward Cornwall estate for laying sidewalk be abated. The charge wasc $6.66. The finance comn§ttee reported that in the matter of the sprinking of Oak street in the 1917 season, a number of property owners have paid the assessment in full and the street was sprinkled only about five- sevenths of the season, so recom- mendation is made to reimburse those who have paid, to the amount of two-sevenths of the assessments. The report was adopted. School Board Red Tave. In reference to the petition of August Voight, seeking relief from surface water which drains onto his I | | | | | | { man 0. South Main street property, Alder- F. Curtis said that Mr. Voight | keep its wal | where, of the sidewalk on West Main street near Emmons Place, said he thinks the city ought to he compvelled to | in repair just the same individus as private Would Inve: A petition from the Stamford com- | mon council asking co-operation in an 2 tion to get a governiment inves- tigation concerning the high price of hard coal was received and such co- i operation authorized. “If any s going to take place it O\x"ht to begin right here, when we are paying more for coal than else- Alderman May said. The resignation of Councilman | Gardner C. Weld of the third ward, now with the colors, was accepted and on motion of Alderman Curtis the clerk was instructed to advise Mr. Weld of its appreciation and good wishes. The resignation of Al- derman W. J. McCabe from the fifth ward was received and Alderman Curtis asked that action be deferred ! until the next meeting as, he said, | one influential member of the coun- cil lives in one ward and represents another and if he has the right to do that any council member has that right and Alderman McCabe might not have to resign. He was appar- ently referring to Councilman George M. Landers and Mayor Quigley, in a tigate Coal Prices. | park. to avoid any internal rupture in the council. Alderman Stadler said that a council member does not have to resign because he moves to a differ- ent ward and urged that Mr. McCabe be given a chance to reconsider his resignation. On a vote the council voted ten to six in favor of accept- ing Alderman McCabe’s resignation. Mayor Quigley brought in a request from the food committee asking per- mission to erect a Hoover food sign, 10x25 feet, on the north end of tha It was granted. KAROLYI PLANNING DRIVE FOR PEACE Will Agitate for End of War, Hungarians Told Copenhagen, Sept. 20.—Count Michael Karolyi, president of the Hungarian Independence Party, ac- cording to a Budapest dispatch, an- nouncéd at a meeting Monday that he would agitate for an early peace be- tween the warring countries. He said he had been invited to par- ticipate in a peace conference at Berne on October 15, and would lcave for Switzerland, desplte tne violent at- | tacks which probably would be di- rected against him. The new Hungarian government paper Deilyi Hirlap, says that a new party composed of adherents of Count Count Andrassy, and M. has been formed, under the leadership of Dr. Aleander Wekerie, the Hungarian premier. The party, it is understood, will favor peace with- out annexations, Admits Inroads by Wilson. Amsterdam, Sept. 20.—Organized demonstrations of loyaley to the | German Emperor, accompanied by | protests against President Wilson’'s “attempt to drive a between the Emperor and the people,” con- tinue to be prominenty advertised in the German press. The Cologne Gazette in an editomal even admits that enemy diplomats have already achieved some success in jeopardizing German national unity. It complains that a large section of the German people is so infatuated with a change in the constitution that it ceases to perceive how unjustified are “dictators” like President Wilson, Lloyd George, and Kerensky in preaching frecdom o other nations and how the German politician does the enemy’s work “in catching the ball thus thrown to him.” Austria’s reply to Pope Benedict's \WOMAN FARMER AND OLD DCBBIN FORM AN EFFECTIVE COMBINATION Sasiiae READY _FOR “Get up, Dobbin!” We'll hear it in feminine accents. And Dobbin will “get up,” too, you bet! Behind the lady's voice will be the strong wom- tribute to Mr. Landers, urged the an’s determination to do her bit for bad taken the matter up with him | council not to question his right and | her country, even if that bit lies in FALL the plowed field. More and more women are taking the places of men in the nation’s industries. The farm i not. the last place to feel their in- fluence. The lady in the picture is getting ready for fall plowing. peace proposals, says the Wianer Al- | fine itself to a detalled discui gemeine Zeitung, the Pope’s suggestions. the Papal Nuncio at Vienna on Thurs- HARTFORD Sensational Selling of Ladies Leather Handbags and Purse MANUFACTURERS S e of the AMPLE S greatest values AT PRICES. A FRACTE we have cver OXN OF REG offered in new high-grade leather shopping bags and purses for women. » The samples of one of our leading manufacturers. There are silk, velvet, vachette The former contiin purse and mirror. and purses. and other leather hand We Have Divided Them into LOT 1. The ces of No. regular pri- those in this lof if sold in the rezular way would run as high as $3.00. Our sale price 79¢. These lots are, of are gone we can get no Three Lots 2 LOT No. The regular pri- 1 ces of the hand bags | and purses of this ‘ lot would range | from $3.00 to $7.00. Our special price 98c. i course, limited in quan more at the same prices. No. 3. regular ces of the bags and pur this lot would 7 as high {44 Our special p $2.95. tity and when t LOT The “LEONARD and HERRMAN 165 MAIN OW BEING Sll()“ N— Lo CO. 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The present supply - Super-Sixes s to to son of materials then, Hudsors, too. more. iy been fairly accurate index of quality, material costs, pricc is not a true indi- Fifty-one cars advance of buile neaterlals contracted last Since then material costs almost doubled. When that sup- is exhausted. must cost By prompt buying you can save the difference between what a Hudson Super-Six now costs and what it must certainly have to cost when its price Is in- a fluenced by market. of the ‘When of the how popula always other cars. 25 per Hud- from year. have with others. It car. daily use. itself as the is the former ¢l could be hought at $200 to 39 less than the Super-Siy, no of them had sales cqual o thd Hudson. been Almost 40,000 the presen eaper ¢ That she r the Super-Six compared is ocasy as It imagine how much more pop lar 1t will be now that there no such price advantage. & Hudson Super-Six has made self the wanted car as compai largest selling fi are It has cstablishe lifo-time car. 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