New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1917, Page 2

CANDY FOR CHRISTMAS ‘Of course. It wouldn't be Christ- Mas without it. Our spectal boxes of (Ghristmas candy are a delight to the l8¥o and a joy to the palate. Some for the kiddies, some for the bigger olks nnh the finest of all for the one d only girl. _Get your supply early nd avold the fush sure to come later. —THE— iokinson Drug Go. 169-171 Main Stre CITY ITEMS i Your neckwear always at Wilson's. advt. Goobdness of Aunt Delia's Bread.— avt. f Kitson's dancing school Bungalow fonight. Beginners from 7:30 to. 8:30. ~advt The lecture in the Current Events fourt by Col, C. W. Burpee of Hart- for St. Mary’'s Sodality will be p this week on Thursday evening Istead of Dec. 5, the “original date. \Your neckwear always at Wilson's. dvt. i 'Mrs. Thomas Naughton and daugh- Ruth have returned from a week's Bay with relatives in Bridgeport. 2“- ennedy’'s dancing school tonight. dvt. Ird Qur Christmas club starts Decem- 22nd. We pay interest. Com- cfal Trust Co.—advt. our neckwear always-at Wilson’s. dadavt. | LETTERS FRON FRANGE frivato O'Dell and Sergeant Queenin o ¢ ‘Write of Life in “The Big Adven- :inn‘"—()vfr Soon, Says Former. nteresting letters from the boys in France continue to arrive, the raets below being taken from letters Fitten by ‘Private Willlam F. O'Dell - Sorerroe: I, 102nd Regt, and by irgeant Raymond J. Queenin of Com- jany 12, 102nd Resgt., respectively. “All of the lads in my company jughit from - ene to four Liberty Pnds,” writes Private O'Dell, ' who ds that “as the boys who are fight- ~buy them it seems as though the jiks at home ought to also. He also prites of seeing a newspaper cartoon J°rance entitled “The Watch on the hine” in which the Kalser is deplct- € as gazing over the sea and declar- that the Liberty Loan campaign buld fail. In this connection the ng soldiet writes that the Kalser tung on that deal and according Ry MR, EVERYMAN | You wear a cravat every y. Every one you talk to tices your tie. “Well selected neckwear of pod quality is just as im- ortant as good shoes. It’s fbout the only place a man s to show a bit of color. Every man needs neck- This-_ store has - ‘always alized the importance of better neckwear and featured t We control the: sale locally bf Welch-Margetson cravats nade in London; England. eys and Lockwood of New ork and C. Stern & Mayer bf New York. These folks manufacture excellent goods nd know their business horoughly. Our New York Commis- Bionaire Mr. Julius. Acker- an looks after our neck- ear interests so that we are hble to show you exclusive deas of distinction and value.: Nowhere will you find etter ties. These are some of ‘the teasons why you should insist bn getting your neckwear ays at 1) { Wilson's | o $50. - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALK TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917, e S CHOICE — FTS for CHRISTMAS UR stock is now complete and we invite your inspection of our very fine line of choice platinum and gold jewelry, American and Swiss watches, sterling silver of the latest patterns, and a very fine selection of Cordova Leather Goods. The “quality of our goods is just as represented and we will stand back of every article we sell. Call and see us. | ' The Porter & Dyson Co. 54 Main Street New Britain, Conn. to reports is getting stung on all his latest deals.’”” Continuing he writes: “We've all got our rooms hired in the Kaiser's Palace for Christmas. 1 got the first hall robom facing the main corridor.” He also remarks upon the ease with which some of the more fortunate soldlers are picking up the French language. In conclusion he asks to be remembered to all his old friends and sends word that he will see them on Easter Sunday all dressed | up in his new Haster suit. Sergeant Queenin, writing on No- vember 11, saya: “Just a few lines to let you know [ am safe and well. Arrived in ——— vesterday morning and are now at a | ‘rest camp’ in the south of —- and expect to leave before night for ——. We had a-good trip across the with only a little stormy weather. T was not sick and am feeling fine now. Everything seems very strange here and the railway trains are all so small. The cars have compartments with little staterooms and side doors. The houses too, are mostly small and of red brick. I'll tell you all about | the trip when I get back. [ want a | letter from everybody soon for it Is very lonesome over here, even among so many of the soldiers, so a letter is like finding a gold mine. There are all kinds of snldiers at this camp, even a few German prisoners.” SOOUTS TO HELP. Will Do Their Part to Help Sale of Saving Certificates. The Boy Scouts of America been asked to take a most important part in forwarding the plan of the government in issuing the War Sav- ings certificates that was inaugurated on December 3rd. The boy scouts are not going to sell these stamps. They have a more impartant work to Boys have EVENTS TONIGHT theater, superior photo theater, high class’ photo dram; theater, pictures. Keeney's moving vaudeville and W. L. Morgan lodge, K. of P, meets in Vega hall. Isabella Circle, N. D. 166 Main strect. I, meets at Trumbull Colony, U. O. P. . meets at 242 Main street. Central Labor Union meets at 34 Church street. lodge, N. E U. A. M. hall. Britain 15 0. New meets in Jr. . Calumet club meets at 53 Church | street. Clan Douglas, O. 8. C. Main street. meets at 277 Leading Star lodge, S. of B. meets in Electric hall. R. New Britain council, . meets in Judd's hall. Daly council, of C. meets in Hanna's hall. BAKING COMMISSION APPOINTED Prominent Manufacturers Named by | Administrator Hoover. Food Administrator Herbert Hoov- er, in line with President Wiison's proclamation of November 7, placing the baking indust under the direct | jurisdiction of the IFood Administra- tion, effective December 10, has ap- perform for Uncle Sam. They are going to make speeches and arouse the widest possible interest and in- formation in this plan. The treasury department has natified the Boy Scouts of America that it will get out for their special use a booklet of in- stguctions to guide them in carrying out their part and will co-operate in every way to make the work effi- clent. Special four minute orations will be prepared for the scouts, and on Saturdays and school-day after- noons and evenings when it will not interfere with their school work the scouts will address gatherings from definitely organized centers, such as post offices, theaters ” movie houses, gavernment and city buildings and public parks and squares in behalf of the war loan method of ralsing funds through savings. = pointed a committee of the cracker industry to draft the vegulations gov- erning the contro] of the industry and to serve In an advisory capacity. Tt consists of R. E. Tomlinson, president. of National Biscuit Company, New York; Brooks Morgan, president of Independent Cracker Bakers' Associn- tion, Atlanta, Georgia: and John IT Treasurer Loose-Wiles Biscuit ny, Kansas City, Missour:. "he commlittee has already several meetings in Washington formulated baking rezulations cerning the conservation of wheat flour, sugar and shortening. When these vitally necessary first steps of conservation shall have been com- held and con- i for i bountiful pieted the committee will dire:t attention to further constructive work in the production and shipping of the greatest possible quantity of crackar The local scouts plan to do theiry ;,,,qycts, which by reason of their part in the work ‘s they did in the recent Liberty Loan canipaign. PATRIOTIC SERVICE. ‘Washington, Dec. 4.—Commissioner of Education, P. P. Claxton, has asked all achools, public and private, to help | make Sunday, Dec. 9, designated by the national council of women as “Community Music Day” a day of gen- uine patriotic service. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES COOLEY & TROUP, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS 6 Main Street. ———————————————— A nutritive value in concentrated form and unusual keeplng qualities give them a high place in war time and the industry a conspicuous positicn in war work ARMY OFFICER. Complaint Made That He Talked Sus- piciously On Train. Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 4.—J. Mor- timer Bronk, New York importer of rubber goods, taken from a train here vesterday by a deputy United States marshal on complaint of fellow pa sengers that he “talked suspiciousl was identifled at Camp Wadsworth by military officers as a captain In the Forty-seventh New York infantry during the Spanish war. He was promptly released and went on to New York. FROM HOSPITAL BOARD. Acknowledgment foyr for Thanksgiving Day. Tho following has been recelved from the Woman's Hospital Board: Further Gifts ‘A more grateful and cheerful nu ber of people, hard work, despite illness and anywhere than were the inmates of the New Britain General llospita! on Thanksgiving Day! The truth of the epigram applied: “Boomerang Kind- ness and Kin¥inesg will come back to bless you™ made itsclf manifest every- where. Givers and receivers alike, were glad of heart when the blessings in the shape of substantial gifts began to make their appearance at the base- ment of our hospital. Trurks. pri- vate automobiles, business cars, gro- cers’ wagons, deliveries on feot 15r i two days turned the basement of that institution into vest I'estival something like a Har Bazar. The children i our schools, the churches, the mer- chants, the home-makers in New Britain, Berlin, Newington, Plairville, Bristol, evervbody evervwhere was busy and cager to do his “Bit” and a “bigger'” and ‘“‘better bit than ever” odr hospital. And this co-opmra- tive-reciprocity spirit of giving and receiving brought about the most Hospital Thanksgiving Do- nation Day since its inception. De- spite the rightful claims that the war makes upon the resources, finan- cial and otherwise of every family, firm, individual and committee found- cd by the citizens for the purpase of rendering concentrated assigtanco where most needed, one hundred ana five inmates were remembered gener- ously at the Hospital on Thankcgivinz day. Flowers and cheer ahounded everywhere. Truly giving inspires giving. 1t may be well to explain here if not already known to the read- er, that Hospital Thanksgiving Day Collections do not cover the nceds only of this particular a althongh these would naturally be rece gratitude. Our All Round Thankagiv- ing Donation Party for the Hospital, as it might be termed, is practically a Harvest I"estival Contribution Parly, and helps to fill the coffers and cup- boards and Dhins of this Imstitution, thus providing for its inmates throuzh the winter. Making notations of donors, counting and assorting con- tributions, storing supplies kept a number of persons pleasantly busy for several days. Typewritten lists have been carefully prepared of all con- tributors and their contributions ‘o be kept on file at the office of the Hospital for reference. But unless hv special request the names will not be published in the newspapers, as even a slight oversight might lead to dis- | satisfaction. A classified and verified | list of donations is printed below (o give practical reason for the pro- found gratitude felt by the inmates of | our Hospital and those who were ac- | tively engaged in this Hosptal Don tion Campalgn. “With grateful acknowledgement, “Women's Hospital Board, ew Britain General Hospital, ‘Per ELISE TRAUT, Chairman.” Keeping the Quality Up LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE, the World-Famous Cure for Colds and Grip, is now 30c¢ per box. On account of the advance in the price of the six different Medicinal, Concentrated Ex- tracts and Chemicals contained in LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE, it was necessary to increase the price to the Druggist. It has stood the test for a Quarter of a Century Tt g used by every Civilized Nation. could not have been found | ved with ! | prevent the | Marshal 'FIRES THREE SHOTS | AT BENEFACTOR | Mrs. Jennie Ferry, 62, Is Now in Jail Tor ‘Her Deed Stafford Springs—>Mrs. Jennie Ferry 62, wife of Joseph Ferry, 82, fired three shots from a revolver at Oro F. Ballou while he was scated at the sup- per table in his home in West Staf- ford, and where Mr. and Mrs. Ferry are being cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Ballou. Two of the shots took effect, making slisht wounds, one bullet en- tering Ballou's right arm and after entering several inches dropped to the floor. The other hullet grazed his head. The third bullet buried itself in the ceiling of the room. Mahlon Avery, brother 'of Daniel Avery, a nearby neighbor, was making | @ short call at the Ballou home when the shooting took place. He forced the woman onto a couch apd wrested the smoking weapon from her grasp. A call was set to this place for help. Chief of Police Hayes, Officer Helm and Medical Examiner G. P. Bard re- ! sponded. Ballou was trailed by the | blood spots on the ground to the Ful- | ler home nearby, where he had run | for safety. Medical aid was given him) Mrs. Ferry was hrought here by au- tomobile to the detention room. Her grievance against Ballou and his wife is belleved to be based in the fact that having deeded her farm, claimed by her to be worth more than $3,000, | to Mr. Ballou last July for a life's care for herself and husband, she regrets her action, claiming ill treatment, lack of suitable food and clothing, etc., but her statement is said to be without substantiation. The neighbors say that she, is *“queer and unbalanced.” 1In an inter- view with the woman while she sat in a cell, she denied any knowledge of | having shot Ballou. She speaks of the local hospital, where she went for treatment some time ago, as an “‘abat- toir” and calls Mr. Ballou a ‘“butcher | without mercy.” There is a likelihood of the woman being committed to an ! institution, but the disposition of her | case will rest with Prosecuting Attor- | | ney M. D. O'Connell. SWEPT BY FLAMES ! Five Buildings Are Destroyed As Result ol Incendiary Fire New York, Dec. ship-repairing plant of the Mo Dock and Repair company, which ex- { tends along the South Brooklyn wa- terfront from Iifty-fifih to Sixticth streets and covers several acres back of the waterfront, was threatened with destruction at midnight night by a fire which is thought likely to be of incendiary origin. ings were destroyed. | While the /flames, which were dis- | covered at 10:10 o'clock in the car- penter shop, spread from building to | building, eight large vessels, soma | formerly in the German mecrchant | service, which were being refitted for | the use of the United States Rovern- | ment, were moved out into the bay | Dby tugs to escape the fire danger. ! Because this plant has heen om- ployed exclusively on government work of great importance since this country entered the war, it has been heavily guarded. One company of soldiers has been quartered in the vards and kept constantly on duty. Guards have been kept busy scouring the dlstrict back of the Morse yards for enemy aliens. Motor boats have | been kept continually patrolling to prevent incendiary attempts from thc watey/side. Atlempts to plant bombs ! in this yard have been reported prev. iously. | After sweeping through the carpen- ter shop, the blaze spread to several wooden buildings, which had been crected to shelter the soldiers guard- ing the plant. The fire next attacked the restaurant, where the several hun- dred employes were fed. As fire-fight- ing apparatus began to arrive in re- | sponse to four alarms, the pattern | and joining shop and the three-story machine shop of brick took fire. The fire department, which was under the direction of Deputy TFire Chief John O’Hg hegan to concen- trate on saving a brick storage house 150 feet long by 75 feet in width where several thousand gallons of oil were stored. A score of streams of water were kept pouring over the walls to prevent the flames from hurn- { ing bulldings less than 100 feet aw. from heating the oil inside the stor- age warehouse to the combustion point. At midnight the ! reached the plers, to buildings on land. Three fireboats arrived and landed numerous lines of hose to fight back the flames and | piers from being de- | 4.—The great | | Dry | blaze had not and was confined stroyed. Tools of all kinds, and other movable saved in quantities by the soldiers on duty, aided by members of the Second Naval Battallon. who were hurried to the scene by Lieut. (fom- mander J. T. King, from their ' ar- mory at the. foot of Fifty-second street, Brooklyn.. A number of sol- diers from Fort Hamilton, who were returning to their barracks, assisted in saving property. After receiving reports that an ex- plosion had been heard in the carpen- ter shop before the fire started, Fire | Brophy and United States Marshal James M. Power ordered that all of the 1.800 employes of the plant who had remained on the property should he held there until they had heen questioned. ship's rigging. property was / last | Five build- | USEFUL XMAS AT MILLS’ HARDWARE 'STORE H.L MILLS GIFTS Hardware 336Main Stree STEIN-BLOCH and MORSEDOCKPLANT | EVENRNG CLOTHES HORSFALL-MADE [ Are products of the supreme efforts of mas- ter tailors—creations of formal dress worthy of the men for whom they are designed— for the best American manhood. The wearer of these evening clothes has the ease of manner and self-confidence necessary to make him appear at his best in any compan; KNOX SILK HATS | America’s Standard. HENRY HEATH SILK HATS London’s Favorite, Horsfall Dress Boots and Oxfords Cuff’ Links, Dress Ties, Dress Waistcoats. Torstalls T PAYS TO BUY OUR KIND 00-S8 ASYLMNL &Y. comesng v 140 TAVMNBULL %) BARTFCED g ! Name ........ Age s Address ...... Parents’ Name When Enlist@ In Army or Navy In What Branch ...... edeceoaes Nearest of Kin (r No Parents) (Fill This Out and Reti™ to From New Britain Patriots Enlisted in the Nation’s Service. Editor of The Herald) . Private Ingraham, one, of the guards, arrested F. Christiansen, 27 years old, of 320 Sixtieth street, who was found in Fifty-eighth street near the Morse docks. Private Ingraham said that the man had been acting suspiciously. He was locked up in the Fourth avenue police station. The Morse docks were declared a government reservation in September, and thirty-nine saloons near it were closed by the War Department. County Judge Roy of Brooklyn declared this action illegal when it was brought be- fore him in an injunction proceeding, but the appellate court a few days, ago sustained the War Department, holding that the dry dock doing gov- ernment work was in the same class as an army training camp. BARBERS WANTED. Bgston, Dec. 4—Wheelwrights and barbers are particularly needed by the quartermaster’s department of the de- partment of the Northeast. Lieut. | J. F. Havlin, in charge of recruiting, said: ““We cannot get any wheel- wrights. What is the matter with this trade? We want harness. ani saddle repairers, tailors, hat repajr- ers, but above all barbers who can cut halr well” IS ACCEPTABLE. Washington, Dec. 4.—August Phil- llps, named to succeed Chevalier W. . F. C. van Rappart, as Netherlands minister to this country, has been pro- nounced acceptable to the United States and will arrive in January. e a prominent international lawver and for many vears has been in cha of the legal matters of the big Du oil interests in the East Indies and elsewhere. Mr. van Rappart will leave for Hol- land” as soon as his successor - ar- rives. He will be entrusted with im- portant duties in the ministry of for- cign affalrs at The lague. is