New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1917, Page 6

] WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD HELP THE GOVERNME NT. By carrying small parcels when- éver possible. TOYLAND Hartford's greatest exposttion of ‘toys. Entire sixth floor. OUR RESTAURANT Serves a particularly fine course dihner for 50c. | SAVE YOUR FREE SOUVENIR COUPONS—And Exgimnge Them for Valuable Articles at Souvenir Booth in the Basement =—20th ANNIVERSARY=—= DEPENDABLE FURS AT MONEY-SAVING PRICES—LARGEST AND MOST COMPRE- HENSIVE SHOW ING IN HARTFORD. ‘When you buy furs Mere y ou are assured.of the very newest and absolutely correct styles and a range of selection unequalled any- where in Hartford—and mos t important of all you are sure to save money here whether you b uy the inexpensive or most expensive furs. : N.‘\‘I‘UB.AI:,WILD CAT SET —Large open coller and full size ball muff, specially priced for our Anuiversary Sale, this Extra, long full deep fur, large open collar, full size ball muff finished -with heads and tails, very special at our Anniver- sagy Sale, this set . $18.98 ATURAL RED FOX SET —Made up with large full size open collar and ball mufft, finished with head and tail, specisl Ammiversary Bale Prios, this set ... ceeye... $35.00 NATURAL RED FOX SET— Very fine coloring, one skin open animal collar, barrel muff, lined with good quality satin, special Anniversary Sale Price, this set . . $20.00 NATURAL GRAY FOX SET —Made up with large full size open animal collar and extra ball shaped muff. Very fine in coloring, special Anniversary Sale Price, thig set .... $30.00 SPECIAL LOT OF MUFFS inegluding Kit Coney taupe shades; black French Coney. Some are ball shaped, same shaped and some are with heads and tails. Special Anniversary Sale Price, these muffs at .. . . $5.98 NATURAL MUSKRAT MUFFS—Made . up in ball shape and also barrel shape, lined with good quality =atin. Special Anniversary Sale Price, these muffs at NATURAL MUFFS—=8pecial of very good pelt skins, full size ball shapee, Anniversary BSale Price, these muffs at . cees 814, EXTRA FINE KAMCHAT- KA FOX SET—Very large opéh rug collar and extra size ~halg ball muff trimmed with large brush, claws and head. the skins are of the very finest long deep silky fur. Specially priced for the Anniversary Bale, this set —WISE, SMITH & CO. NATURAL RACCOON SET —Made up with extra size open collar, large ball muff and skins finely matched. Special Anniversary Sale Price, the sot ....... ... $35.00 POIRET FOX SET— Very fine long haired silky fur, open collar and ball muff, decorated with heads and talls, special Ann\ver—.ry Sale Price, the set . $39.00 HANDSOME TAUPE WOLF SET—Good fluffy fur, largo rug collar and full size ball muff, trimmed with heads and tails. Specially priced for the Anniver- sary Sale, this set ..... $57.50 REALLY WONDERFUL SET -OF POIRET FOX—Long silky fur, extra size collar and large ball muff decorated with heads and large brush tails, special Anniversary 8ale Price, this ceee.. $85.00 SPECIAL HUDSON SEAL MUFF—Made of extra heavy skins, half barrel, lined with good quality silk, Special An- niversary Sale Price, this $15.98 NATURAL MUSKRAT COL- LAR—Large open shaped, made of fine deep fur and trimmed with head and tail, special An- niversary Sale Price, this neck- SPECIAL VALUE IN WOLF COLLAR—Made up in large open rug shape, lined Wwith crepe de chine, in taupe, gray and brown shades. Special Anniver- sary Sale Price, this neck- plece .......coccie.0.. $32.50 EXTRA SIZE RUSSIAN WOLF COLLAR—In black only. Made open rug shape and lined with Skinrer Satin. Anniversary Sale Price, this scarf ....$9.98 SPECIAL: VALUE WOLF SCOARFS—Iri brown, taupe and gray. These are made up extra large, finished with heads and tails. Anniversary Sale Price, these neckpieces at $25.00 WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD “CITY ITEMS Your neckwear always at Besse- Leland’s, The Live Store.—advt. A campaign for $12,000 will be waged by the Y. W, C. A. during the ~week December 3 to 9. Moleskin, Fleece-lined, short and long coats. Save $2.00 to $5.00. Besse- Leland’s, of course.—advt. George W. Corbin commandery has contributed $100 toward the purchase of an ambulance to be used in Eu- rope as the gift of the state P. O. S. of A. , Children’s Mackinaws, extra values, ‘at Besse-Leland’s.—advt. Christmas week has been set for a campaign of 10,000 more members for the Red Cross. New Britain branch now has a membership of 15,000, Glastonbury underwear at cut prices at Besse-Leland’s.—advt. George Leghorn, son of Mr. and 'DEN'T BE A Goose ! You caN PURCHASE “When It Comes To Shoes It's Better to Say, ‘I'm Glad I Did’ Than ‘I Wish I Had.'” And What MODERN Says Is So Well anyhow, now's a good tims to begin treating your faet 'as if they belonged to you. If tiley feel cross and discour- aged you can brighten up their Hves® considerably by giving them a comfortable rest in & palr of made-to-please-and- ‘uau,nte‘ed-to-do-lo shoes. MOGERN BOOT SHOP 168 MAIN STREET. TR R | Mrs. M. P. Leghorn of Belvidere, has filed application for a commission in the United States army aviation corps. Flannel Shirts $1.00 to $4.00, all colors, at Besse-Leland's.—advt. Mary Davidson Leventhal, Samuel M. Davidson and Alexander J. Leven. thal have filed articles of incorpora- tion of the Fair Department Store and the S. M. Davidson Co. Each concern is incorporated for $50,000 and the par value of stock is $25. Philo Kalish and Miss Amy Kalish entertained Oscar and Edward Kalish and familles and Charles Kalish of New York over Thanksgiving. More for less at Besse-Leland's. —advt. Benjamin Solomon has leased the store at 123 Hortford avenue to Wil- llam F. O'Connor, executor of the John P. Connor estate, for three years. The lessee is forbidden to use the premises for the sale of grocerles and provisions. For Work Gloves try Besse-Le- land’s. The Live Store.—advt. S. M. Davidson has purchased a strip of land on Chestnut street of L. A. Gladding. Work Gloves 26c, 48c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 at last year's prices at Besse- Leland’s, of course.—advt. Miss Marguerite Cannon, a trained nurse, fell and broke her left arm in front of the New Britain Trust Company late Wednesday afternoon. Harry Kutcher of Pagk street has received from Governor Holcomb a certificate attesting to the fact that he has done his bit during the summer on a farm. Good warm wool underwear, 2- plece and union suits at right prices at Besse-Leland's, The Live Store. —advt. Donald M. Gaffney, a studént 'at Yale, spont Thanksgiving with his parents, Judge and Mrs, B. F. Gaffney of Vine strect. Keep your ears warm with Besse- Leland’s fur inside band caps, 50c, $1, $1.50.—advt. Patrick 8. McMahon, Jr., and George MoMahon, students at St. John's preparatory school, Danvers, Mass., and Misses Noreen and Mar- garet McMahon are home for the holldoys. Iden’s Overcoats at prices. Besse-Leland's, Store.—advt. Lieutenant Edwin N. Lewis, sta- tioned at Camp Upton, N. Y., spent Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. ;and Mrs. B. W, Lewis of Lake street. Our Overcoat prices the same as last year. The reason—we bought the last The year's Live i cloth one year ago. Prices $10 to $36. Besse-Leland's.—advt. FARK COMMITTEE IN NEW HUDDLE Philadelphia Lawyer Needed to i Determine Latest Line-Up | Criticism, scathing and unlimited, was heaped on the Municipal Farm committes at the special meeting of the common council on Wednesday night because of certain peculiarities in the method of keeping acconuts | and even Councilman George M. Lan- ders, himself a member of the com- mittee, took occasion to criticise the commmittee and throw the harpoon | into its auditor, W. B. Rossberg. Councilman Landers said that the method of keeping its accounts was “damnably bungling” and as a mem- ber of the committee he was “heart- | ily ashamed ‘and will take my share of the blame.” Then it was that Alderman Orson F. Curtls, he who started the fireworks of criticism, did | the unexpected. He at once rallied to the defense of Auditor Rossbers. whom he has been criticising, and declared that he should not be made the scapegoat of the committee, that the members as a whole were at faplt for accepting his report in the ficst place. Defends Rossberg, Raps Quigley. Subsequently ~ Alderman Curtis got his fertile brain to work- ing and ‘vesterday issued the follow- ing statement in which he defends Mr. Rossberg to a certain degred, and at- tempts to unravel the apparent mess that has been made of the commit- tee’s work, not neglecting to make certain reflections on Mayor George A. ‘Quigley: Auditor William B. Rossberg, the opparent scapegoat of the municipal farm committee, has his limitations the same as we other mortals. Evi- dently he was not molded for his present position, so please allow me, as one Who has tried to familiarize himself in a limited way with the working of the city management of potato raising, to add something fur- ther to that much discussed subject. Mr. Rossberg did not buy machinery and potatoes alone to start the farm, neither did he hypnotize the board of finance and taxation and the com- mon council to indorse this Colonel Seller’s scheme and furnish funds for it. It is true he fell for accepting a place on this celebrated board of managers along Wwith some others of higher standing in business and social circles. He did not elect him- self auditer of said board; others put him there, but none has been more faithful or worked harder , to further the ends of obey the orders of the directing genlus of this Uto- pian enterprise. ~ As in ‘'Tennyson’s poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” it was not for him to ques- tlon why, but to do or die, and he has been acting under orders since. Not being purchasing agent, business manager or seventh; son of the seventh son he wag not able to record busl/ness transactions until he was informed of them, and consequeptly had to do his bookkeeping in ' ac- cordance with the information and Instructions he received. “He made some errors, but part of those now so apparent. His voting power of the committee was one-ninth, to that extent he is respon- sible. In influence there are others with very much more wet:m. Many things were done by members of the committee or by one of the members Without the approval of the board or sometimes even without the knowledge of more than one or two of its nine members. Mr. Rossberg is not respon- sible for securing the consent of the council for purchasing potatoes in hopes of covering the committee's in- ability to return the appropriation which was known to members of the committee but withheld from the council at that time. He did not or- der a carload of potatoes on his own responsibility, stating he would handle them himself for the people’s benefit only and then welch when they got here, throwing them on to the committee so the city felt impelled to pay for them. He did not manage committee affairs in such a reckless or dxtrava- gant anner that notwithstanding vol- unteer help was used to a large ex- tent, city departments were nearly de- pleted of their working forces at times and most everything was drawn upon to help out. The cost of work- ing the forty-three acres was nearly (uticuraTreatment for Dandrutfand Is falling Hair Really Wonderful On refirini rub_ spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment. Next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. This cleanses the scalp of dandruff and promotes hair health. Sample Each Free by Malil ‘With 32-D. boOK QD the akin, Addross post-oard: +Cuticurs, Dept. 11F, Boston." Sold everywhere, EVERY PIECE O GOODS MUST GO for to make room for our new stock, so get in on this sale before it is too late All our goods that were from $25 to $37.50 must go at sale prices which will be $15.50, $18.50 & $20.00 SUITSand OVERCOATS made to order——We have quite a few uncalled for Suits and Overcoats at Half Price TOM MVRRAY \ —394— Main St. $2,000 more than any known rate in this vicinity, that is the ordinary price per acre for ploughing, ing, working, harvesting and storing ranges from 375 to $120 per acre. The estimates put before the finance board and council in May and sald to be seed, plant- high including machinery was $150 per acre, without, it was about $130 per acre. i “The actual cost without machinery has been over $200 per acre. Weather conditons were not controlled by Mr. Rossberg, and he did not have thirty or forty bushels of potatoes frozen. He did not sell them neither can he force people to pay for them. He did not lose $250 to $350 worth of meed potatoes, consequently he cannot make his report show the money re- ceived tor them. He is not solely re- sponsible for claiming money received for cabbages reduces the cost of rais- ing potatoes. He is not to be alone blamed for using cabbage money which belonged in the city treasury to pay a pressing claim, neither can he compel the mayor to be around the City hall when a payroll is to be signed so workingmen can have their money. Mr. Rossberg is not especial- ly blamed for the loss of $5,000 or $6,000 of good money while the people are urged to go meatless and wheat- less some days each week and will be called upon to pay an extra quarter to one-half mill tax next .year to make up for the municipal barn-building, potato raising and other city man- agement, friends and relatives salar- tes raised and newly created positions. “Three thousand bushels of pota- toes, large and small, have been rais- ed to add to the food supply and $5,000 or $6,000 more and maybe $10,000 than their marketable value has been wasted in doing it. That represents four to flve hundred bar- rels of flour, five to six hundred tons of coal, which someone could have been supplied with. Think of the wasted energy that might have been supplied for more productive propo- sitions. But never mind, this was pa- triotism. Let us wrap the flag around us. oblivious to all else except our own glorious selves. (Signed,) O. F. CURTIS. At the Council Meeting. At the council meeting Wednesday evening a resolution was introduced by the Municipal Farm committee asking that the sum of $1,822.80 be appro- priated for the use of the committee to pay fusther bills, this amount to be in addition to the $2,000 asked by Alderman Curtis at the previous meeting. The Third ward alderman at once asked for an explanation and Judge B. F. Gaffney, acting for the committee, explained that there were certain bills which must be pald which were not included in the orig- inal financial report to the council because they had not been received. Such blills total $299.08 and in addi- tion the committee estimated that it would cost $800 to deliver 8,000 bushels of potatoes. He said the com- mittee also estimated thdt $500 might be needed to care for the potatoes in storage. With this explanation Al- derman Curtis moved an amendment - and the council recommended that the board of finance and taxation give $2,000 more to the farm committee. If this is done it will make an orig- inal appropriation of $16,000, plus two additional appropriations' of $4,000, or a total of $20,000 that has been turned over to the farm commit- tee. This is not all lost, however, for the committee stated that it expects to return to the council almost $16,- 000 or its equivalent. Another resolution was introduced by the farm committee suggesting that the council, inasmuch as it ap- parently did not favor the price fixed by the committee for potatoes, fix the price at $1.75 per bushel delivered. It was explained that if this price is fixed it will mean that the city treas- ury will receive $800 less from the sale of potatoes than it would at the original price. Alderman M. I. Jester moved to adopt the resolution, but Alderman Curtis moved to indefinite- ly postpone. He said he did not wish to unjustly criticise the committee, but he thought that either the coun cil board should take all the responsi- bility for the sale of potatoes or none at all. He then called attention to what he termed certain irreguiarities in the report. For instance, he said that the committee explained that the total cost of 7,485 bushels of potatoes was $13,794.01, or $1.84 per bushel, vet his figures indicate that the total cost is $476.64 more than this amount and he figured it three different ways. He also declared that the bill of $799.35 for police protection should be paid by the farm committee be- cause it was for service which bene- fitted the committee in its work of raising the crop. Landers Also Incensed. Again returning to the financial statement, Alderman Curtis asked Mr. Rossberg about a bill for $117.60 o —————————————— Order of Notice of Hearing. District of Berlin, ss; Probate Court, November 28, A. D. 1917. 3 Estate of John Unterspan late of the town of New Britain, in said district, deceased. Upon the application of Christina Unterspan, Administratrix, praying that a person other than the adminis- tratrix be appointed to sell real estate of sald deceased, as she desires to pur- chase said real estate, as per said ap- plication on file more fully appears, | it is ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at the Pro- bate Office, in New Britain, in said district, on the 5th day of December, ‘A. D. 1917, at 9 o'clock in the fore- noon, and that notice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing this order one time in some newspaper having a circulation in said district, and by posting a copy of this order on the public sign-post in the town of New Britain, in said district, and return make to this Court of the notice given. By order of Court, MORTIMER H. CAMP, Clerk. paid to A. P. Leavitt, a bullding con- tractor who had built potato bins for the committee. Mr. Rossberg ex- plained that in order to get a sub- stantial discount he had paid the bill immediately, taking the money from the fund obtained by the sale of municipal cabbages. In reply the third warder remarked that while the bill was itemized as paid, it was not subtracted from the cabbage fund ac- count. Alderman Curtis also asked about an item concerning a cultiva- tor, and when Mr. Rossberg was un- able to explain Councilman Landers hurled a verbal hand grenade into the proceedings. Said he: “Your honor, I am heartily ashamed, as a member of the farm committee, of the method of bung- ling, damnably bungling, our accounts as the auditor has done. I will not allow our efforts to be wasted by such bungling methods and if Alderman Curtis will consent, I will substitute a motion that a committee consist- ing of the city comptroller, Alder- man May and Alderman Curtis, be named to audit the committee’s ac- counts, this committee ‘to report to the couhcil when réady. I ain ashamed and I will take miy share of the blame. I heartily agree . with those who yery properly criticise.” Alderman Curtis at once objected to making Mr. Rossberg the scapegoat of the committes, for, he said, other members of thd® committee are dt fault for permitting such a report to ¢ pass. He likewise sald’ he did not think the council members should take part in the potato management, else he would agree to the council- man’s recommendation. Likewise, said the third warder, he had read in the papers several weeks ago that the sixth ward councilman had‘made the statement that he did not think the potato matter had ever been brought properly before the council. ¢ “Does the councilman from the sixth think it has been properly pat up now?"” inquired Alderman Curtis with a wink. It was finally voted to refer the entire potato question back to the farm committee. $3.50 HATS $2.25 $2.50 HATS $1.25 SATURDAY AND MONDAY THE LAST DAYS OF FIRE SALE Biggest Bargains in HATS AND CAPS e ROSEBEN HAT SHOP —— $1 Winter Caps 60c $1.50 Winter Caps $1.00