New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1918, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918, YOU SAVE, NCT SPEND, when you buy Thrift Stamps. Show your love for Your Country by buying Thrift Stamp: They, and the War Savings Stamps will help the United States win the war. Do Your Bit. Little Folks’ Smart Spring Coats in Newest and Prettiest Styles YIND THEM IN “BABYLAND QUARTERS. ONE FLOOR UP, JUST EAST OF THE SUIT DEPART- MENT, WHERE WE ARE OFFERING FINEST AND LARGEST LINE OF WEARABLES FOR INFANTS AND LITTLE TOTS, TO BE FOUND IN THE OITY. SPRING COATS attention to today. Made of Serge in tan, and all the leading shades, also Silk Poplin and Plain Silk Coats in the daintlest of colorings, as rose, gold, old blue and navy, in suit- able models for boys and girls, from $2.98 on and up to $15.00 each. VERY DRESSY HATS TO MATCH COATS, for the girls, are shown in straw and satln and for the boy in black, white, navy, also wash hats, ATl in the newest and most YOU WILL EW SPACIOUS AND HATS are the particular things we want to call black and white, navy, peacock blue, such one to six years of age, priced from attractive stvles. Come early for first comers There are Muslin Bonnets in all sizes. plain and trimmed that will glva a plquant touch to the little wearer's face. THE NEW SLIP-ON SWEATERS in 3, 4 and 6 vear sizes ars shown in dainty pink and light blue. Just the thing for the coming Spring Davs, are all wool and priced at $2.00 cach. Pay a visit to “Babyland” in its new quarters, onc floor up. get best cholce. HAVING AN AUTOMOBIIE DELIVERY FOR PROMPTLY RECEIVING ALL NEW BRITATN DRY YOU CAN DEPEND GOODS PURCHASED OF US. ON LIKE TH to the neighbors. The boy does mot respect the fact that the prices of hens has advanced somefvhat in re- cent vears, and disposed of the last five for $2. “The man from whom the chickens were stolen claims that no one should buy chickens from a voung boy. when he knows, as he must have known, that the chickens were stolen. -Any future purchases of this kind will be treated in an- other way Water Under Bridge. WANTS MORE ' Be;m{v;s ) 2 RLIN T0 BERLIN | BY WAY OF FRANCE Ouflmtjcut Town Sendjng LaS[ | are camplaining about the conditions | Quota Oi Fh‘st Drai[ ! of walking under the railroad bridge 14 Maj. Gen. Cronkhite ican Troops in France, At Atlantic Port, Feb. —Major Gen. Cronkhite, commandant of Camp Lee, Potersburg, Va., who & been making a tour of ohservation of fighting in France; Lleut.-Col. C, I¢ Kilbourne, who has been Major-Gen- era] Wood's aide and wau partly { blinded in-an explosion: O. C. Hayne of Pittsburgh, and M. Durn of Ph delphia, who have heen serving with the Red Cross on the Ttalian front, were among the passergers aboard French steamer which arrived here today. “‘All that we need is some more men just like them,” said Major-General Cronkhite, in commenting on the splendid condition in which he found the American soldiers serving over- seas. after there has been a thaw. Today, MDBYE, MR KAISER there is any melting on the tracks above, those passing under the bridge ve Husky Young Americans to Be were treated to a shower bath. There s much agitation in past to secure some relief from the railroad to pre- { vent th but so far nothing has been | done. Samething in the form of a pan to catch the water should be pro- vided, and in this way protect those who must of necessity pass under the bridge ( Guests of Citizens Tomorrow Night —-“P‘md Man” Gets Up and Walks | YEGGMEN GET $1,200. During Impromptu Wake. Blow Open Safe of Furniture Firm in Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Feb. 25.—Burglars last night blew open the large safe in T.ee Bros. Furniture Co., and away with $1,200 in cash and a $50 Liberty Bond, contained therein, Burglar tools were left behind, al- though there was no evidence of haste on the part of the safe blowers, who used blankets from the store to deaden the noise of the explosion. Fntrance was gained through a sec- ond story window, and escape was made without observation. > To Speak at Keene: Rev. S. A, Tiske, who was recently appointed as a four minute speaker to fill the vacancy left by the resigna- Buih1 oalabragion which will tion of L. P. Slade, will speak at | Keeney's theater in New Britain to- nderwl the local young men Who | i to entrain at Plainville, Wednes- » morning for Camp Devens. The | air which will be held in the Ber- | Grange hall will begin with a hioper for the draftees at 7 o’clock. ollowing the supper, an entertain- ent will be given, which will consist speaking by several of the prom- ant Anen of the town. The Berlin berty Chorus, which was to sing in sw Britain, has canceled that e ppment to take part in the exer- ses on that night. Preceding the | lebration the St. Paul’s drum corps | /Umber camp. 1] parade. The committee is plan- | & fCW Wee ng to give the young men some- | ing which will be long remembered | L t"¥ line of a farewell celebration. | o Bioss who will g0 Weanesaay are: | t the N Anthony W. Buckley, Kensington: | and . society which was held yes- ochetto Secondo, ~ Kensington: | t=rday afternoon new members seppe Nadaline, Kensington: | Were elected and five applications for nk A, Brandegee, Berlin; George Membership were received. The comn- Finslow, Kensington. | mittee who w in of the PeadiAfan Waika! dances held recently that Onlookers were treated to R OtRs and | at ®f an unusual spectacle Sl et Joung man believed to be dead 2rosc | {“nfuvorable reporis wert i ';‘“‘f’d‘ peaenie ';f?"»'” hae committeé appointed wisrove his autemoblle into the the advisability of vaway of Albert Nortons home in 3 ' | members of the 4 rlin, yesterday afternoon, he noticed . e The onittoe 115 e lhAvied! that! doisfie a sitting posture in a wagon, the up of John Kelly, P. I are being taken to keep New Fng- of 2 man apparently sleeping. | ¢ o0 ~O00 o L RS SRR e o R ing over to the wagon, he attempted E B Crowe. It was voted to co arouse him, but his efforts were in continue IS v [ them as mambers of an advisory coms n. AsBelieving h'e fhnd'rrlfl Z-:?::{r:w im"%fl which will be referred to by 4 man, he sent for s the hoard of directors in matters of 6 in turn sent for Dr. Hudson. importance which may come up in walting for the doctor to s hich i gericl e, the interested group were dis r measures. ssing several matters including | rial for the ‘deceased” when thes Biked around and saw him staring at | em. After things quieted down, feh was no shart time n investi- jon was conducted with the dis- e, that the man’s home was in Lt and for some time he had and had | Berlin will pay tribute tomorrow ght to her sons Wwho go forth to ght the battle of democracy, in a be Berlin Briefs, I. Dodge is cntertaining Mr. and Mrs. Willard and his sister, Miss Alic Dodge, at the parsonage in Berlin. Miss Edith Mather of the Hubbard school faculty spent Sunday in Lyme. Loiselle, Elmer Austin and (. Adams spent Sunday at their homes. All three are in the navy Frank Macelli and Paul Kingo Sl soon on a visit to a Malne They will be gone for Dodge, ~FEdward — —~ ED OF RAISING CHECKS. Bridgeport, Feb. 25.—Harry nick of Cleveland, Ohio, arrested on complaint of the American bankers' ‘association was arraigned in the city court charged with fraudulently ni- tering checks, one drawn on the Cieveland Bank and Trust Co. for M. T. A. & B. Society. mecting of the Y. M. State bank for $300, which it s al- leged were raised from $4 and $3 re- spectivels. would fight State. extradition from this HOPE IN COAL STTUATION. ¥. H. Johnston of this city, a mem- ber of the National Chamber of Com- e by merce, returned late last week to investi. | \Vashingtén where he had e | conferences with members of society who ar | Administrator Garfleld’s officinl fam- he t soon e some- when dance is season is over from e several gate are in is made King, Daniei motives are causing delays. With a pectad MAJOR BESSE MARRIES. The announcement of the marriag of Major Arthur I. Besse, U. S to Miss Pass of Syracuse, N. Y., w INVESTIGATE TROLLEY CO. Mayor Quigley today received a re- I ply from General Manager J. K. Pun- i derford of thoc Connecticut company referring to his complaint concerning the service here. After setting forth the difficult encountered because of the scarcity of labor and the high | cost of materials, the railroad man | assured the mayor that he will have | conditions investigated here. A., will major. The wedding took the home of the bride. Major Besse is the son of L. W. Besse of Spring- field, Mass., of the firm of Besse-Le- land Major Besse spends his sum- mers at Oak Bluffs, Ma and knows local people who also stop at resort subjects to such fits, \several other occasions been in S of being burried alive. When 5 dootor arrived there was nothing da but to Teturn home. Who Bought the Hens? rominent citizen has a grievance | p!tn fellow oitizen, over the pur- | George Edward Anderson of Hart- ievance ford and Miss Minnie Oslund of 46 :D ;\;!flv;;:;;br'n;; grplul\-c}?asing ?Brldrn strest were married at 4:30 ¢ which he knows are stolen | o'clock Saturday afternoon at the is ecoop. He claims that his | home of the bride's parents. Jollow- Dbas a manin for stealing chickens, | ing a wedding trip, the couple will selling them, his last sale being | make thelr home in Hagtford. the DENTAL SOCTETY CLINIC, The second of the three dinners and clinics planned by the New Brit- ain Dental soclety is to be held at 6 c’clock next Thursday evening at the New Britain club on West Main street. The principal speaker of the evening will be Dr. Seunot of Boston, ANDERSON—OSLUND. [ raiille's Last Quota of First Praises Amer- | A | tianal | and Plainville were present and games got | evening at which a number of friends Wate- | $400, and another on the Pittsburgh | Watenick announced he | Fuel | steps | weather and scarcity of railroad loco- | mild weather some relief can he ex- | be of intetest to local friends of the | place at | Plainville News} SEVEN CALLED TO SERVE UNCLE 5AM. Drait Leaves Wednesday |FAREWELL THIS EVENING Home Guard to Give New National | Army Men TRousing Send-off a.l‘ | Masonic Temple—Gifts for FEvery Soldier. The official published by Local Board, Division No. 2. the many Plainville men who leave next Wednesday as the last per cent. of the quota included in the first draft. The men will be stationed | at Camp Devens, Aver, Mass. They | are Grover C. Schmitt, Harold T. | Corning., Edward . Barrows, Domi- | nick Reale, Domenicantino Voli. | Giovanni Sabino. and Leland . Hart, | all of Plainville and Steve Grondick of | Forestvillee They have already re- | ceived the instruction cards from the | aistrict board which contain all the | necessary Information for the trip. Tt expected they will leave Plainville about 10 o'clock, boarding the train whieh leaves Milford at 6:20 o'clock | and which passes through Waterbury and Bristol to take on draftees be- fore it gots lo this town. All the {1ocal men who are included in the | draft are well known. Corning leav- | ing a responsible position with the | New Departure Mfg. Co. of Bristol, Leland Hart leaves a well established and well paying ice business and Edward Barrows has been emploved as a clerk at the local express office. Tonight a farewell banquet will he | given in honor of the men by the | members of Plainville Home Guard Company I. The affair is to be gi in the Masonic Temple at 7:30 o'clock at which all the members of the | Home Guard are to be present with the draftees. Captain John H. Trum- bull of the Home Guard is in charge of the event and has secured a num- ber of speakers for the evening. Bx- Mayor Cray of Bristol is one of the! speakers on the list, well as First Lieutenant Peter Duffy and Second Lieutenant Stanley S. Gwillim. The | men who are leaving will be presented | with wrist watches and Knitted woolen socks and will be further cquipped with the necessary wearing | apparel by the local order of the Red Cross society. Death of Hiram Hiram Bower, aged many years a resident of died at the State Sanatorium wich, where he was confined past few weeks, yesterda born in Glens Falls, N 15, 1845, and leaves a Westfield, a son ir danghter in Hartford will be held Tuesday afternoon 2 o'clock from the undertaking parlors | of the W. A. Balley Undertaking Co. | Rev. B. G. Gillette of the Congrega- | church will officiate and burial in the West cemefery in list the includes | will | 15 | i is Brower. 73 vears for Plainville in Nor- far the He was on August wife and son in Chicago and 2 The funcral at | will be Tlainvill Miss Brown s Anna Brown was hostess at a Washington’s Birthday party which was given at her home on Washington street Jast Friday night. A number of her friends. from Forestville, Bristol Entertains, a general good time was enjoved. Vocal and musical | sclections were rendered and during the evening five hundrnflyvms played. | Mrs. Nellic Ackerman o won the first prize Party For Mrs. Warren. A colonial surprise party was given | in honor of Mrs. Chloe Warren at her | home on Canal strect last Saturday werc. played and Forestville | from Plainville and out of town were present. A supper was served and games were played after which a social was held. The guests enjayed | themselves during a part of the even- | ing by playing five hundred. The first won by Mrs. Haywood of | aterbury. All the guests were in | colonial costumes. | of the parish who have given up their | fing The Hartford Silk Store MATL ~C.S.HIL Y s ORDF FILLED PROMPTLY “Store will be open for Business as usual Mond The New Sprin Dresses, G Keeping in mind the fact that BEaster wil tions early to meet the demand for Spring Gai A Very Large Assortment TEN MODELS in stouts ranging from SZF A8 date models, and in the fashionable mat®é. Street and Afte We have an unusually large rangs of Dresses ifif models and the fashionable colors for this season’s 150 New Spring Coats in in Gaberdine, Coats in Triceti n Bolivia, Coats in Velour. of sizes and in the Choicest Ci in Ser Co Poplin, Coat complete line Coat ats Coatsg in In a oriyg that New Separate Skirts Dress Skirts will be extremely popular, and manufacturers have adapted to the present vogue for this season, hoth in Wool A secured Mmaterials that are specially and Silk Fabrics. New Waists Being Received Every Day Lines of Cotton in the most New from and Waists—Voile and Batiste, complete line of sizes Georgette and Si Rev. James St. Mat- after 0 o’clock by MacDonald of Plainville at thew’s church in Forestvil which a sermon appropriat the | Lenten scason was preached Fa- | ther Kavanaugh of West Hartford. | Private Peter Skinner, who is sta- tioned at Camp Upton, . I., has re- turned following a visis at the home of his parents. | 1 the Our next Sat- Captain high | sol- who countr, 8 o'clock will be and evening at to FLORIZEL 102 (Continued From First Page). Mass bhe Church Friday urday mass will diers and are in the On Monday high ma brated f w celebrated at of Jady of Mercy at 5 and 7 o'clock. On morning at 8 o'clock a bhe celebrated for the sailors of the parish service of their morning at of requiem the soldiers | portions, the Florizel's commander, 5 Martin, yesterday sought to round Cape Race his New on from here to Halifax and 2 his position | on the jagged rock Broad Cove on the cast side of the island, north The region of rescue were not avail- tho post [ able. One wireless m ige said the ofiice for the following: Miss Alice : steamer was rapidly breaking up and erald. John Quinlan. Miss Bar- | nothing more was heard until resc Marsh, Michacl Joseph Lovett | jurties reached the scene. The Jameg Rodney. i ported bhoats could >d cxpressed doubts if could be saved. | that the ship was going el that her after for the of e “lorizel ilors of l'the cape and means lives in the war. -2, Advertised letters aro at 1 bz ira o and not be us and TIEUT. MANNING, HERE. any on Reports came later and decks were submerged “Queen of the Fleet, of the Gl 10 picces Naval Officer Rose From Rottom Iadder to Gold Braid. Lieutenant U. vesterday renewing acquaintances af- ter The TFlorizel, J. | foundland boats owned by N., was in this city | New York, Newfoundland and Ha | fax Steamship Co.. known us the Red thig | Cross line. She built in 1909 at ® | Glasgow with a sloped sheathed bow Wis uncle, | yeinforced by concrete. She had been 45 Union | used in the sealing trade and this Manning ' winter had done eroic service an of Main street. Tieutenant Manning ice breaker in New York "bor has been in service for 27 vears, r Among the passengers who embarked from the rating. of enlisted man.!at St, Johns, was John S. Munn, man During his connection with the gov-|aging director of the line, and his ernment he has traveled to practically | three year old daughter, six cadets of every part of the world, With the ex-| the Royal Flving Gorps, Major Mi ception of Sweden and Norway. At|chael Su n, commander of the present he is on one of the largest| Newfoundland Itield Battery and u battleships of United few prominent Newfoundland ) queen Commander was James Manning, was an 5 absence of city. He was the guest of James - W. Manning of street and a cousin, Frank T vears from the States en- | gaged in convoying troops to the bat- | ness men. tlefields in France. Among those on whom he vesterday was Sister Boniface ! Mary's parochial school, with whom | he secured his early education in this | city. busi- called of St.| Survivors Jo! and Identificd Feb. 5.—The Dea 5 St ns coustal steamer Prospero was rep. - 2 with WILEL BLOW UP ICE JAM. | | before noon as on her way her | the survivers. The | names of Plainville Briefs. | Harold Hemingway of the | U. S. is visiting at the home of | his parents on North Washington street for a few days. Private Peter N. Prior has returned | to camp Upton, L. I.. after spending a few days at the home of his mother on (tanal street The condition of Mrs. Mary Colt of Pine street is considered serious by i Dr. L. H. Frost, who is attending her. She suffered a stroke of apoplexy last week and on account of her advanced | age her rccovery is doubtful, i Ve celebrated Sailor S. na | | | i !Z pers were Sunday Dr. T. Ridgway Johnson Dentist 1 RUSSELL BUTLDING, PLAINVILLE. OFFICE HOURS | Mon., Wed. and Fri,, 9 a. m. to 8 p- m. | Buy a Lightning Butteri Mixer—Makes two pounds | | of Butter out of one. On| |Sale at A. J. BORDEAU| | Barber Shop. [ | == | M. LEO PRIOR, | | Undertaker and Embalmer, 58 Pierce Street, i Phone calls:— Day 90 § Nights 29-2 | cued, so far as known, and the identi Redding. fied dead are probably be used to break a great ice | Survivors—Passengers, John jam that is forming in Redding Glen, ; Vi crew, Captain W. J. Martin Johns; Chief Officer James, Wirele Operator Cecil G. Carter. New Yorl Identified dead—Passengers, Fred Butler, St. Johns, N. F.; FEd- ! ward Froude, St. Johns: Corporal ! FredsSnow, Royal Flying Corps. and probably cannot be Reports up to noon showed defin- ed. The ice and torrent created |itely that 22 persons had been taken | the thaw make a scene never be- | from the wreek and indicated 18 fore witnessed there. | others earlier reported still clinging B to the wreckage, also had been saved Feb. —Dynamite will | Kiel t where a branch of the Aspetuck river | < been diverted from its course by | the ice damage. A stream at the in danger and threatens to do serious | bridge crossing this outh end of the glen by | NN [0 Popular = RESOUE = At Atlantic Port, American steamer arriving here to- day brought 17 members of the crew of the Danish steamship Tranquebar, who were picked up at sea. There had been no previous report of the loss of the Tranquebar, a f 3,453 tons gros: 17 AT SEA, Feb. 25.——An vessel o 4o CALLED TO SERVICE. Georze F. Leghorn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Leghorn of Belvi- | dere. received -notification this morn- | ing to report in Washington, D. C. | at his carliest convenience to the United States aviation corps in which he enlisted while a student in the Catholic University November He plans to Jeave here Wednesda e ———— | $o%aaq Watch tomorrow's paper for the Connors Halloran Announcement. AISHBERG, P Ask the Chlerk for morning | uninhabited | board | [ FFebruary | 1l i ilk. Hundreds of models to choose | PROBE i New MITCHEL, WAR CHES York, Feb. : The Jury will to county srand hear evidence in re- lation the collection and distribu- doliar fusion fund the re-election of Mayor Mitchell st fall. District Attorney Swann an- neunced today that a special jury will be impanelled March 18 for the purpose. It said that probably would proceeded tion of the million fo was ve men be against SIEGE Lordon, Feh ceived in Amsterds Central News, report a state has been proclaimed in con- of events in Poland at Cznot Lodz and . Vioclavel estern IN POLISH TOWN! erlin m as advices forward- cquence | tochowa | tant mpo towns in v Poland CITY ITEMS 3argain vt Dr. week se-Leland’s.- and Mrs. John Kelley of Brook- Iyn, N. Y. were the week-end {of Mrs. Kelly’s mother, Mrs i Lincoln Court The raoms of branch the | daily :from 2 " doing a large e guests Coffey the T Red to st street This branéch amount of work and all women interested in helpir n /this { sTeat undertaking are cordia nvited | to come to the rooms and participatc Store: open advt schoo tonight. 1 | st Leland’ | Alderman | Tremont | birthday | Miss | street Britain thumb amput - advt. Angelo street at his obs home Norah Luca has returned hospital from whérd vin H former s3rd Notl i Charles mont, | brate M | collego spent | parents, Mr i sett Luddy week-e Mrs 1 with Simon Gertrude he he and Ludd stre at our and Co Sherifft M auction to the stock Pliskoski of o'clock tomorrow Buar Deputy D. Stockwelt satisfy a writ and fixture: 6 Smit morn- will of execution ne at 10 A street ir William, w Mr. and Glen Harold 2 183 son to Reinke of reet Karasaviez Be arrested at his home for cre breach ¢ | Joseph was of non ating Shoe Store Advance fShowing ———0 (RN New Spring Shoes! PASHION'S FAVORIT! IN MILADY'S FOOTWEAR here are Greys, Browns and Mahogany colors. Many hand- some combinations with cloth and buck for col- ared pings High top- heel with plain dress wear and Mil heels on the Walking Boo A handsome boot for dr wear is our All-G Kid, $- meh lace with plain toe and leather Louis heel. Speciaily priced at §6.00, The Shoeman Main St., Hartford H. Green Stamps. toes 4 &