New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 9

( ¥riday, Washi Let Us Show We are consta and Weavers' the minute showin: now in spacious qt goods can be seel the many we will See Silkingham. a new and * The Ruffanuff is another new silk beautiful silk ir exquisite checks * that we are showing in all the lat- snd plaids, very Smarl for summer * est and prettiest spring color shades | Somists and gowns. . They are the * -——Will make up into suits and L.,‘,,Z‘ ne Roger Thompson's Silks * dresses that will please exceedingly. which means (he hest. Come see * Best of all they will give beautiful | them. they are heauties * wear . The New Pongees are in all the * New Iancy Satins are shown pretty gzolf shades for summer * isgteful blue and green effects that suits and dresses o rond ave + make such smart little frocks and i pleased to show them and have vou see other new and beautiful * Separate skirts. Just the thing for silks. * spring and summer wearing. MILLINERY DEPARTMENT Moved one floor up, will charm you with its beautiful arrangement and exquisite showing of smart tailorcd and ready-to-wear hats in all 3 the newest shades for immediate wear. There are sailors, pokes, watteaus and mushrooms. Ask first to lo which we are showing in such a splendid range of the best color shades. Big bargain at § Duvet de Laine is a very popular material ate coats: The wi and price is $3.50 y i Tansdowne is one of the best of the silk and wool fabries. Width s 40 inches, and choice $2.00 yard. Checks and Plaids are shown in great variety and separate skirts. Prices ranging from $1.00 on and up to $4.50 yard. AN AUTOMOBILE PROMPTLY HAVING 1 Beriin News IVORCE GRANTED 0 MRS. MARSTON Claimed Hushand Drank and _9nce Fired Shot at Her GIVEN CUSTODY OF CHILD Thrift Stamp Campaign | i | Progressing | —Boys to Chop Wood for Red ain today to complete the |the country—is higher than in the N; ; | bocks for the year. tional Guard ar in the regular army,” Cross—Rank of Berlin Home : LY ‘[ Eost OMmees s h“n;?‘d'rqn' warning against an in < Depictcd. I bemng Washington's birth- |, ciysive peace was echoed by Gov- j day. the Berkin post office was closed | oinor T,owden and Flihu Root. The In the smperior court vesterday Buita) Blwood Marston of Berlin was | Uil 4 o'clock this afternoon. The | ster was to have been one of the s A 2 | Kensington post office was closed ipal o e e vreioik granted a divorce from her husband Skt 2d | principal speakers, but, being unal until 6 o’clock today, and the Berlin : i h o Arthur Marston of Hartford. The |t f R to _attend because of illness, he sen charge entered against Marston by | .vin&S Bank was closed for the em-|, jetter warning the public should be his_wife was that he is a habitual | 4T 92¥- careful not to have its attention dis drinkard Marston was formerly | Shipbuilders Wanted tracted from the intenw\ concentra- rectifier in Hartford, and always One of the representatives of the|tion necessary to win the war by the | jdrank moderately. About three years | shipbuilding concerns was ir. Berlin | discussion about peace that was ap- ago, Tre began to drink heavily, and | vesterday to sign up recruits for ship- | Pearing in some papers M\fleh?" some lost in the fray with 'John Barley- | building purposes. Ho outlined the | gatherings. He pointeq out 2t there corn,” it is claimed. Because of his | plans of the shipbuilders and gave | Were not only no negotiations, but no drinking, his former wife testified, he | was discharged from various posi- tiops which he held from time to|i a few days an agent will be a jme. She also stated on the witness | pvinted in Berlin to receive appli stand that at one time, when he | tions for enlistment in the service. came home under the influence of liquor, he fired a revolver at her. In an attempt to rid him of this habit, | she had him taken to a private san- atorium in Stamford, where he un- jderwent a cousc of treatment for that purpose. This attempt was a failtire, and she was obliged to sepa- frate from him last summer. The other was given legal custody of a ten vear old child born of the mar- iage. The former Mrs. Marston is 2. well known resident of Berlin, and vas married to Marston January 27, 1907, at Astoria, Long Island. Thrift Stamp Campaign. The Thrift Stamp campaign which ras wecently inaugurated in Berlin, is hbeing carricd on with much enthus: asm in Kensington under the leader- Priced from $1.98 to $11.98 RECEIVIN ‘Those in charge are desirous of bring- service as high lief the few his terms to TAFT PRESCRIBES ngton’s Birthday, Store Wil nily rece nz the very latest in the Silk Art, and are ready for you with a most beautiful and up to » of exquisite Silken Fabrics. Our Si jarters on main floor of our new call your particulazr attention to these: each. DRESS GOODS and Wool Poplins NEW ok at the Silk in vard dth is 54 inches. It is all wool, the s ard. is given of two very handsome colors. FOR NEW BRITAIN DRY GOODS PURH DELIVERY ALL Be Open Al You Qur New Silks Here are Some of the Latest building » under daylight advantages of the very best. Among for spring suits or separ- very popular for NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918. | | | | | Day. ) PDesigners, Dyers, 1k department is where the 40 inch width, hades will please Price now s 2 YOU CAN DEPEND ON CHASED OF US. in Congregational church this eve- | ning followed by a social hour. The committee and Rev. S, A. Fiske of have been working all this supper a success, attendance is expected. Home Guard Drill. The Berlin Home Guards drilled last evening at the State Armory on Arch street Because of enlistments and draftin the number of guards in Berlin has been greatly decreased. the church week to mal and a large ing up the roll of those in the guard as possible, and are to get new recruits, Board of Relief The meeting of the Board of Re- W held yesterday afternoon at office of the Tewn Clerk. Very appeals for reduced taxes have anxious ncen received by the board this year, and were but three The board at vester- was in there meeting. several of the young men in Berlin and Kensington. With- | { BULLETS FOR SPIES | But “Whispering Traitors” Are: Worst Peril, He Says i Chicago, Feb. 22.—"“Whispering | traitors” were held up to view as| America’s most insidious enemies by | ex-President Taft, who addressed the | i sia, { past 30 davs to the varioug national | gave full credit to the administration. | stopped fighting in favor of the kind (Of ppeace she admired, finds herself pride of our people to stand up against any such lure and have the Germans know that they cannot lead a moral people like us to give up a moral fight like this.” Bolsheviki Gold-Bricked. Mr. Taft referred to the peace nezo- tiations at Brest-Litovsk and said that the Bolshevi “‘was gold-bricked by William of Hohenzollern and his Pots- dam gang. In painting a picture of the present chaotic conditions in Rus- the former president said that country now was ‘‘a babbling mass of human protoplasm.” Mr. Taft spoke of his trip during the some of iTe army cantonments the conclusions he and gave has formed. “The men whom one met as the re- sult of the selective draft were as fine material for soldiers as the world has ever seen. The average—because they have been taken as a cross section of basis for peace negotiations. Tn hijs letter, which was read at the comven- tion, Mr. Root said: “Let us be warned by poor Russia’s present position. The Bolsheviki were Piainvilie News HAULING W0OB CUT AT CHOPPING EEES: The Hartford Silk Store Teamsters Occupied Carrying Ax Harvest to Its Happy Owners MORE FOR Econgmy Silk Special fer Saturday inch Tub Silks, and figures, suitable for GATHERING MORE 1CE Gang at White Oak Taking Advan- | tage of Cold Snap to Offsct Hole in | Supply Caused by Artificial Makers Quitting. For the past Mond. the Plainville War Burean has conducted few in stripes waists C.5S. MAIL, ORDERS FILLED PROM HI ~ around the land on which the wood | for Saturday only 63e¢ yard. was piled and which prevented the | teamsters from getting at the wood | in order to cart it away. Tt was nec- essary to wait several days for the | water to recede and as soon as this | was done the carting of the Wnodi Shirts began in earnest. Load after load has been taken from the land and MenaiNeEsel o s distributed to those who bought it at ; ; e o e G e el and Madras; soft cuffs, in all si occupied for the past few davs in this quality, for Saturday, 98c each work and there are only a few cords Economy Sale of Men's ki For Satul street and and the new SpF models of seve: plete line of sizes. woodchopping bees at the property | or men’s shirts, regular price Town Clerk Usher. to which all the | 2 yard. Styles residents of the town were invited. SPECIAL Shortly after the bees had been | BCONOMY DRESS GOODS held and the wood piled up ready to | SPECIATL: be transported to the homes of the Wool Storm Serse for purchase a heavy rain set in which ! in two shades of navy blue and caused a deep pond to form in and | black, regular prico 75¢ yard; /' Men's Wool /and oxford, heavy percales $1.25 quality es, regular ular $7.50 value, Slip-Ons in ‘navy, maroon, szreen cablestitch and with sleeves, for Saturday $4.98. 5 of the wood left to be gathered in. The cutting of the wood has relieved many tight situations among the resi- dents and it is not expected that any great suffering will be felt by Hose the lack of coal for the remainder of the winter season. ular $1.50 and $1.65 values but wi Harvesting Tce A perfections, on sale Saturday at $1 Again This winter has been profitable for Economy Sale of Silk Women's pure thread Silk Hose, all colors, reg- ‘White Muslin med; only three dozen; ith very slight im- .00 pair. Economy Sale of Muslin extremely good materials, Skirts Skirts, Lace and Hamburg trim- real value $2.49, for $1.59- on sale Saturday the ice men who have been taking in their supply for distribution next summer. The cold weather caused the ice to fweeze to such a thickness that it was a more difficult job to handle the product than it has been repo h be sold Saturday for 3 for 50c. and the ice was of a fine, clear qual- ity due to the continued cold which was prevalent throughout the season and stayed on the top of the ice that general invitation to the very eloquent about peace ‘without an- nexations or indemnities, and they filled the minds of Russian soldiers and workmen with the idea ta such an extent that they stopped fighting and making munitions, but when they got to Brest-Litovsk they found what the leaders probably knew all along—that Germany had no intention of making y such peace. Would Kecp Baltic Provinces. “She wanted the Baltic provinces of Russia, and she seized and purposes to lcep them; .and Russia, having in a position where for the present she has nothing whatever to say about the kind of peace there-shall be. We must beware of anvthing in the re- ing city delivery was made, Miss Pearl W. Smith is In Bridge- port today attending the annual con- | vention of mail ecarriers for the state of Connecticut. She is the delegate from the Plainville post office. v A. Castlo | has has been the first to amalgamate its parties for the war in such political manner CO-OPERATION VITAL TO ALLIES’ SUCCESS Tho appointment of Far as Plainville fuel administrator been officially approved. ervices appropriate to the Lenten motest degree approaching that. ;Icl:\ oxrn::pw‘d \uu‘tuln(ol:‘:v‘:i:\n;l l:d Congress of National So.ruvire here ! “Of course there have been mis- aptains have been appointed for | yesterday He wurged ‘“the short|takes and shortcomings in the con- | ach, These captains will look after | Shrift of a firing squad” for spies,| duct of the war—it would bo a mir- | he sale in their territory and will | incendiari bomb droppers, and | acle if there were not. Sincere and | 'ty on a house-to-house canvass for | Munition tamperers. His most em- | constructive criticism of executive | he sale of stamps The following | f""l"" warning, however, was quunq‘ conduct is a very useful thing. But| havew offered their services for the | the “whisperers”, who are sowing se- | we all must be careful that neither | ampaign, and more will be appoint- | dition and pro-German propaganda | shortcoming or criticism tends in tho | d within a few da; A. Moore, | behind a barrage of “sh-sh-sh-s. | stightest degree to divert or decrease | J. Fitzsimmons, L. Moffatt, 1. | “Whispering traitors” sald Mr. [ the heartiness with which we all sup- | . Goodrich, T. W rerson, Howard | Taft, “have been the centers through- | port and reinforce the president and | rane, J. M. Taylor, C. Fred John- | out the country of discontent. 1In lit- | his civil and military officers in «'arn‘-; n, Mrs. James Maloney, Miss Be: tle communities you will find that|ing on this war. | ba 1ianford, Mrs. George Clark, | the presenco of two or three who| T peg of you as citizens of this | Feor A. Sullivan 2nd Albin Holm- | have suggestcd reasons why we ought | great republic not to let your minds et not to have gone into the war, Why | he carried from the great work we i Woodehoppers. we did wrong to Germany | have before us.” | Bt Seouts under the| WhY we did wrong toiher in i A plea for unive military serv- | o0 R e tod | She should have kept us out of the e e bRl ) adership of Itev S Lamentation | War, and that has a paralyzing effect 1501 of tho dibioral teniity QR e T T ok il UDOD the enth m of our people. | league. b chop wood. Part of the Wo0m Wil | 1t takes the fine edge off patriotism | Mrs. Thomas J, Preston, Jr. for- | g B e among whom these suggestions are | merly Mrs. Grover Cleveland. who is rom Colonei Jarvis' land. ~ The wood | LIRS, ¥/ s 2 e 0 b 9 e it thich they chop will be placed ?"i The time is coming when all these [ Service Congress, addressed the con- | A% ahe sroceeas mi o Fo ”“;nmo centers of discontent, when we | vention. She said the women of ! Qi om Sl Leve R Will| ay meet disaster, when this devilish | America are not working together o a patriotic. mn,\; Ho‘t only by glv- | o lignity of the Germans shall make | sufficiently to win the war and until | mg to the Red Cross, but also in| y. "y opest o trap for fools among | they do it will never be won. i clping solve the fuel problem. Supper Tonight. by which an inconclusive peace i is to be brought about—that we shall | There will be a suppér at the Ber~Lh=l\e to call on the strength flmlxa dreadful shadow that “Tf they could oniy realize that this 3,000 miles aw: but is altogether war is not | season will be held tonight at 7:30 | Visconnt Milner Urges All Coumtrics | o’clock at the rectory of the IZpisco- { pal church, to Suppress Domestic Discord | A month's mind mass will be ccle- Until War Ts Won | brated tomorrow morning at 8 o’cloclk for the late Mrs. Catherine Warner at | Tondon, Thursday, Fob, 21, Al- St. Matthew's church in Forestville. | lied co-operation and coneentration Rev. James MacDonald of the Church | of all efforts on national salvation of Our Tady of Merey of Plainvilld | are two essentlal conditions for mak- will officiate. g use of the resources of the al Paul Cunningham has entered the | Viscount Milner, member of the war | service of Unclo Sam as an electri- | cabinet, declared in a speech at Ply- | cian in the shipbuilding service and | mouth today. he will be stationed at Hog Jsland, | “There is but cne answer to the Philadelphia. Three members of the | German challen he said, “and { family are now in the service, Cor- - - -~ poral Wiiliam Cunningham being . with the 301st Trench Mortar Bat- Dr, T. Rldgway Johnson te at Camp Devens and James be | ing enlisted as a cook and stationed | Dentist Vir imestown, at | ini RUSSELL BUTLDING, PLAINVILLE. | too near and that it will hit them as D] ¥ - e OFFICE HOURS well as their 1‘)\1](“!“". fh.(‘\‘ w WH.!d hr: i»“""». Wed. id Pl 05 in to8pom i like-minded about this conflict she -~ i added = = | ‘America is simply not used Buy a Lightning Butter | ing serious about anything, o s will take the casualty lists to make | Mixer—Makes two [munds‘ women realize the enormity of Tho‘ S T etiova that te due to tne | Of Butter out of one. On| fact that there is a huse percentase ' Sale a3t A, J. BORDEAU of unassimilated population that can not think or act together.” | Barber Shop. Economy Sale of Handkerchiefs Hor e hast el i In Women's pure Linen Handkerchiefs, fancy col- some places the thickness of the ice orings regu,ar price 25c and 35c, was reported as much as 18 inches clerk at the local office and is repre- | Will sign a Db ! senting Plainville. members of the two party organiza- Earnings of Large Western Plauts | Mrs. Mary Colt of Pine Street suts ;:](in\, in Indiana to attend the meet- e A | :-w(;:(l\v(: Ls’h'ri“hi’,:l'_‘“ Sl’\f‘arl’:”yél‘r::ll:‘ Mr. Greathouse and Mr. Hays were Chicago, Feb. 22.—Statistics pur- terded by D 7. H Frost to issuc the official call this afternoon | porting to show the relation of S E for the assembling of the two state | wages to earnings in the plants of The Plainville Trust compan committees. It is said to be the | Armour & Co., Swift & Co.. and Mor- closed today on account of Was first time the political parties have |ris & Co., were introduced today by ton's Birthday. The local post office | so united. Officials of both organiza- | Attorney Frank P. Walsh, represent- closed at noon and remained closed | tions expressed themselves as beins |ing the emploves, in the packing for the rest of the day. There was |yroug that “the Hoosier state—the | house wage arbitration. The state- no rural delivery and only the morn- | home of the politics of the nation— | ments show that Swift & Co. makes Men's only ten dozen to | regular price $1.0 day 69c dozen. Economy Sa'e ;)wfriMen’sr Handkerchiefs fine quality hemstitched Handkerchiefs, 0 dozen, special price for Satur- each allied nation of a unity of spirit was alrecady formed and froze to Lines to Guarantee Success of ! and purpose, suppression of domestic | such a thickness that it was thought = 5 { discord, and thc concentration of all best by some of the local ice dealer RYEEG 1bw {n EH, efforts on one supreme ohject— | to t Ivantage of the situation| y,4i000000s Ind., Feb. The { national salvation.” 1’ and gather in moro jce for mest sea- | genigeratic and republican parties in | The Allies, he declared, were - som's sale. M. L. Rhodes of New|)ngiana joined hands today officially | ing for their lives and the existen Britain, who had ing of men Aty acsure the success of the next|Of the free nations of we work filling up the ice house at|jineity Loan in the state. rope until peace negotiation: White Oak at the beginning of the *barles A. Greathouse, state chair- | reached. He said there was too muck | lce harvesting season, has how start-|man of the democratic party, and a |talk ahout war aims and President | ed another gang at work and eut- | iember of the Kederal-Aid-to-States | Wilson and Premier Lloyd George ! ting the second crop of the season.|vyoeational Education commission, en- | had made clear the desires of the Al- | The reason for the harvesting of | ered intg an agreement with Will |lies. Germany was not being fought | more ice is due to the announcement | g Hays, state and national republi- | to deprive her of independence or a | of some of the concerns making ar- | .an chairman, and former chairman | fair share of the world’s intercourse | tificial ice that they are to discon-| . (pe te Council of Defense, by | ‘‘alw provided that the same inde- tinue the practice due to the coal|\ihich the active working organiza- | pendence, self determination and | shortage. which means that more|iiong of the two great parties in In- [right to a place in the sun is secured | natural ice will be needed for next| Giuna will meet in Indianapolis on |to all other nations, including tho | Sedsony March 5 and take direct and active | small and the weak, who up to thi Plainville Brief steps toward co-operating in the sale | time heen the victims of Ger- | Walter A. Lathrop is in New Ha- | of Liberty ILoan bonds. Governor | )nan aggression.” H ven today attending the state con- | Goodrich met with the two political —_— - { vention of post office clerks. He is a | chairmen, and he, with the chairmen, PACKING HOUSE PROFITS | The Popular of all weai Specia and which is still to be felt those who are on the outside to any extent and also by the poor unfortunates POLITICAL PARTIES | will not conceal what that answer 6.2 mills on each pound of meats; w lm‘not‘:lowvmll to lay in their winter involves. There are two essential | Morris & Co., four mills, and Armour supply of coal. Some fine weather | conditions for using our great re-]& Co., 4.7 mills. was had during the latter part of JOIN FOR BOND SAI‘E{sourres to the full. Average wages in the plants of January and the carly part of Feh- | “First. More perfect co-ordination | Swift & Co. were given as $849.70 a ruary but the rains of the past few of effort by all the allies. Second,|year for Morris & Co., $823, and Ar- days swelled the streams and ponds | Democrats and Republicans Forget | maintenance within the borders of | mour & Co., $810. Gther statements showed large in- creases in net profits as compared with 1915 and 1916 Wages year increased 57 per cent. last Buying Food Ahead. (New Hav 7 comes Mrs. Terhune with “It wise housewife who buys from Such statements are in- evplicable. The honsewife who burs from day to day, who has no reserve stores to fall back upon is invariabl foreed to pay high prices, the highest of the year. The woman who put up iier preserves last summer in the tning seascn, who made her ketsup, who procured bushels of potatoe 'nips and onio now holds the cn Register.) day te day whip hand >r the high cost of liv- g, Today she who would buy “from day to day will pay double what these vegelables cost last summer. “The habit of buying food in large quantities” isn't an “old-fashioned heresy” by any manner of means i New England, and it will be. Tt iy mefther out of fas nor is it heretical here. We call it thrift, pro vision for the future—the practice of the doctrine which the war savin, stamp campaign s trying to put into the minds of tho American people— and it is oxactly in line with the ad- vice of Mr. Hoover, which advice, be it remembered, is followed by thou- sands and thousands of housewives. Shoe Storc USRNSSR FINAL CLEAN UP SALE lines of Foot- our discontinued women and ties for men, children., Good dependable merchan- dise and we stand back of every pair, no matter what price you pay This is your opportunity to pur- chase footwear at prices that mean a great saving. N "$3.19 $3.59 : Women's Gun Metal and Women's Gun Metal and Viei Patent Colt Button Shoes, with Kid, 8 inch Lace Boots with :lnm o Y:(\al(hm- tops. _ Cuban cloth top: Cuban or spool T Spoo els. Values $5.00 an - % ozien eels. Values heels. Values $4.00 and $4.50. SPATS AT PR. KID BOUDOIRS at $1 19 1.0 | . Regular $1.50 srade. all colors. | F $1.50 grade. all AISHBERG, Ask the Clerk for S. colors. " The Shoém;i'nr 41 Main St., Hartford recn Stamps. & H. G