New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1918, Page 20

Economy Sale of Millinery Special for Saturday---at Goldenblum’s ion of values and amazing choice in Trimmed and red Hats—a sale that saves you money =nd conclusively ites that Goldenblumn’s Millinery values are the greatest in Come in and see! TRIMMED MAN OF ALL WORK | | i | | Y. M. G. A. HUSTLER Day in France Too Short New York, April 19. “Some hustling!"" That's what it takes to attend to the needs of our American troops over. seas, according to a letter just re- ceived from a Y. M. C. A. worker in F¥rance. At home the writer, the Rev. Shep- herd Knaepp, 1s pastor of the Central Church of Worcester, Mass. He was formerly assistant pastor of the Brick is a graduate of Columbia university and of Yale Divinity school. But is 1 of my life. Even bungling as we do, we can’'t help feeling that everything we do for these soldier boys of ours is worth while. “T sometimes sell a thousand francs’ worth of goods a day, and that means ‘some hustling.’ Your pastor is devel oping into a fairly decent salesman, i | for I fill in often at the post exchar ‘Former Worcester Pastor Finds ' and, of course, have my regular hours on duty there with the others. One of our difficulties has been to keep on hand a sufficiently large supply of small change, so much so that copper sous have haunted our dreams. More- over, to have a man hand in a twenty | dollar bill, in purchasing fifteen cents’ { worth of chocolate, and ask for e change in French money makes a rather knotty problem for our ama- teur counter-jumpers. “Sunday has beem our busiest day, as the men are miuch freer, so we have the post exchange open right through from 12 o'clock to the hour ot service in the evening. Presbyterian Church of New York. He ' A Day's Work in France. “Some days here it seems as though we had to ereate the whole universe orm which, toward evening, culmi- nated in a high wind. It was my turn to sleep in the tent on guard, and an- other of the secretaries and I were just trying to settle down to some soft of rest (all our clothes on) when rip! tear! crack! the wind burst in at the further end, and we, with the use of one little ver ready’ light could see the whole thing apparently | i caving in and coming our way. It did | not take us long to get out, you may believe. As we had, earlier in the eve- ning, taken all the precautions I could think of In driving stakes in tighter, and ajdust® the ropes, there was nothing furthcr to do, especlally as the storm was L this time a8 bad as I ever saw. At tio first streak of dawn I was up, and soon had all the help I needed. To my relief I found that all our exchange store (hun- dreds of francs’ worth) had not yet been exposed to the rain, and that the breakags was confined to bottles and a few chairs.” Day’s Trade at Hut. Another secretary writes of the can- teen sales: “The sales for the day will run over | trom Oregon and California.” 6000 francs, that 1s, $1,000 to $1,200. ' HOME GUARD OFFICERS I can well belleve that there were over | 500 men in the line at one time. | “We rocelved yosterday our con- | sienment of fifty boxes of apples from | the International Apple Shippers’ As- soclation of America, which they are sending for free distribution among the enlisted men. We have not count- T ( ed noses nor apples, but we shall try to devise some method so that cvery man gets a taste. The apples come MUSR SUPPLY WATER Hartford, April 19.—The public utilitles commission has acceded to the petition of former Benator Wal- ter M. Wright and Walton Griswold of Essex for relief from the neglect of the Gullford-Chester Water Co .to | hHaniel J. Sullivan maintain service connections and sup- | Guiirord ply them with water. In its finding | ¢, Request of Six Granted Ry N Emergency Board, Hartford, April 10.—Six iuard officers have been relie: their commands at their own e military emergency board accepted the resignations gt ¢ George 13, Westerberg, Sout] ; Company, first military distriot) | tain Charles H. Ramage, Mo! | Company, third distriot; First Joseph P. Kling, H. Company, second district; Second nee King, same company it. Charles 1. Fadient . fonrth district own request F of M €on sccond district, has ferred to (he reserve. the commission says it 18 the AUty Of | smmeecen the company to repair and maintain its sorvice Dipes to the curb line of | T z THE A the property of the complainants. R » = ANDF Electric cleaners, $1 day. Tel. 2079, —advt, SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESD he preaching over there In Flanders? A OVer again from the beginning before He is not. Here’'s why he isn't we could get a dinner cooked, or per- He's a member of the ‘“broom . form any other ordinary occupation . 2 Bargaln | squad” in the Y. M. C. A. hut. He's |©of daily life. Tven the mailing of a a salesman in the post exchange—- a | letter means taking it to one partiou- “fairly decent one,” he admits, in u | 1ar place, and climbing several flights I ables | place where sometimes the sales are Of stairs to the room where it is given 1$1,200 a day. He attends to getting 10 the censor. ~ Oh, how simple the | supplies there on time. Sometimes he | ©0ld life seems, as 1 look back on it, where the people in the stores tallk carries bundles of wood on his back W b R to the hut, when there isn’t any other 1nglish, and the plumber comes wit to $5.98. $2 98 way of getting it there. He sees that Fedsonable promptness when you send Economy Sale .. . supplics reach the post exchange on {0F him, and the main part of the TABLE NO. 2—Beautiful time. Sometimes he cooks, so that Minor machinery of life seems to run gy . te e itself. the boys may have their hot cocoa and sandwiches and soup just when “Most of my days are made up of a | to $6.50. $3 98 they need them most queer miscellany of occupations. Some Economy Sale . . . | There are times when he has to Of the things that I happen to call to n e T et in” in mind from the doings of this past All our Wigher Priced N e e e week, for instance, are golng after immed Hats Reduced in jences and comforts for our Ameri- | Wood, which we have to transport (SEVENTH FLOOR) TABLE NO. 1—Beautiful Trimmed Hats Worth up : MONSTRATION (Sixth Floor) [ ] L) Five-quart genuine Wear Fver Te HARTF Kettl Trimmed Hats, Worth wup >, for T Al soldie You have to do that ourselves; conferring with the quar- | EIoportioniilon Ihis Blhrce Ry | A - things If you arve | termaster, with the chief engineer Days’ Sale and a thousand other things If you are | Daysinatc, .0 O A, worker in France just - about the electric lights, and several F ; . v, B oy, inisters known | times with the commandant and the ! rna’e | : : now. [ducators and ministers known & Comnndant uhileign’s trimmed Hats Rfiduced to Ha" P”ce for This Al over the United States, and busi. | mayor about a building for the offi- ness men whose services at home are | Cer's club; arranging with a sergeant SaIE | worth @ five-fizure salary a year, are | in the barracks nearby to help us in | acting as porters and chefs and roust- | the disposition of our swill; shopping SUPPLIES—LARGEST STOCKS AND LOW, | abouts for our soldiers in France. in the town for lights, and grates for PRICES IN HARTFY “Having . } , | the stove, and mats; writing and tele- S SELORD: [ Heuing (the BRes of My Lite graphing to Paris for more worke He writes of his miscellany of duties | and another automobile; drawing | H as follow. checks and paying bills. | “This busy life! Up soon after | “Much of my work Is of a humdrum . six, breakfast (from the men’s mess) | order, such as problems of carpen- | | over by 7:15 o'clock, and then steadi- | try and paint and plumbing; for our 1y on the job till 10 o’clock at night, | hut is still incomplete, and, indeed, | with not more than half an hour out | roof, walls, floor and windows were | for dinner, and the same for supper. | all that existed when we opened our | The result is that the days go by like | doors to the soldier public. | lightning, and 1 am having the time “A few days ago we had a severe MILLINERY Home-lovers, boarding house managers and hotel proprietors are notified that we are ready todns oF - upholstery floor with the finest colleotion of Rugs money can buy in this country, both domestic an Oriental. A broad statement and as true as it is broad. Also, having in mind the new store opening, vem few if any houses bought so early or so generously as we did, and our well-known poliey of quick read cash being an important factor, every foot of the new stocks on our upholstery floor is owned by us at figure far under present market value. What this means to our s it is easy to guess Come here today—tomorrow—and see our collection of Rugs. on from which it is impossibi 188 MAIN STREET, NEW BRITAIN. for a person to choose any but a floor covering of real worth and dignity at an actual money-saving. Branch Store 863 Main St.,, Hartford (Over Harvey & Lewis’ Store. ) / Whittall's Famous Rugs THE RUB BEAUTIFUL FOR THE TASTEFUL, COMIPORTABLE HOME. $7.25 $8.25 6x9 Anglo Persian, Price $9.75 Royal Worcester, Price ..... $11 75 = | 36x63 Anglo Indian, Price ....... $13.25 e R 36x63 Anglo Persian, Price ....... $16.00 AR e, ING OUT OF | =~ H& 1-6x7-6 Anglo Indian, Price ...... $27.25 9x12 Anglo Indian, USINESS Spring Draperies Whitta!! Body Brussels Rugs 1-6x7-6 Anglo Persian, Price ...... $32 50 9x12 Anglo Persian, Price . i i 4 §-3x10 Body Bruss srice ; .$87.50 WE fe?l yery much lndebt,ed t,o the pllbll? of Ngw We plan to make this upholstery floor the happy 4,.x|\_; :‘{(,L];v' ]‘;y»”\‘q:‘,ls. p'-nlw“( $39.50 Britain for the enthusiastic manner in which they took advantage of our Going Out of Whnt “ ]—Ean rRu“n‘ers; Business Sale. We are attempting to run an honest ] | damask—the finest of all are In the new store at the | sale. Our success of the past week has demonstrated SN AOS W B coin 2-4x0 Roval Woreester, price . 31448 to us that it pays. b 2-8x9 Anglo Persian, price Sonsaiei v, T TABLE LAMPS Domestic and Imported Cretonmnes. Anglo Persian, price . cve... HHOHE Quality productions from America’s most famous Mat Sizes makers. They will be sacrificed at prices ranging from $3 °40 . $ 1 8 '85 ELECTRIC FLAT IRONS 1 Save some poor soul hours of drudgery by taking advantage of this wonder- Orlental Rugs Come Fflrward Scrims. 22 1-2x36 Anglo Persian, price ful opportunity. Any one who has a home wired for electricity should not fail : IN A COLLECTION FEATURING THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF PERSIAN AND CHINESE FLOOR to take this last opportunity to buy one at pre-war prices. COVERINGS ! SALE PRICE $2.69 to $3.79 ERECTORS, ELECTRICAL TRAINS AND A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF OTHER TOYS COLUMBIA BATTERIES 34c 27x54 Royal Worcester, Price ...ew. 6x9 Royal Worcester, Price $43.75 $58.50 $64.25 $72.25 $86.00 $70.50 $79.50 $94.50 27x45 Anglo Indian, Price .....ee. x54 Anglo Indian, Price ) 8-3x10-6 Royal Worcester, Price .. §-3x10-6 Anglo Indian, Price hunti ground for the home beautifiers, whether they're looking for inexpensive muslin or richest Sunfast Overdraperies. Tapestries and Damask for upholstering Orlental rug makers take pride far above our understanding in the hewuty of handiwork, that it shall be enduring no less than beautiful, and that is its great recommendation when a room is subs jected to hard usage. Purchased by us before war conditions forced the prices up Mosul, size 2-1x5-8, price ... 875.00 Mosul, size 2-3x6-8, price .o .. $985.00 | Mosul, size 2-9x5-3, price ...$95.00 } Mosul, size 2-4x10-10, price ...$125.00 i Daghestan, size Daghestan, size Daghestan, size Kazak, slze 3-11x9-2, price Veteienn s 108N | OB SE Kazak, size .. $125.00 | Daghestan, size 2-ix4.9. price ceenen. . SO0 .. $100.00 Daghestan, size ¢ $125.00 $125.00 Daghe 5 $185.00 Kazak, size 2-7x5-10, price ... $95.00 Kazak, sizes 3-2x5-5, price 822750 | Chinesc # Kazak, size 5-1x7, price ... . .. $150.00 | Chinese, [ { Kazak, size 5-2x11, price ... $175.00 , Chinese Cabistan, size 4, price ... $85.00 Chinese, 0. 1. Cooley, Prop. Kazak, size 3x8-5, price Kazak, 4-3x11-6, Price .. Kazak, 4-7x8-8, price .... Daghests Daghest: bistan, size 3x4-5, price 6 Main St., Near Park St. b o e e bistan, 4-3x5-9, price SO 50.00 Chinese, Chinese, Cabistan, 3-7x9-8, price ....... NSRS 125100 Cabistan, size 3-11x6-3, price ...... . $90.00 | Afghan, size 7-7x10-3 Afghan $100.00 | Afghan, size 7-10x10 $100.00 Mahal, size 10-7X13-6 PN priCest s ceer... $125.00 Hamid e 8-4X12, price , size 3-4x6-1, price ..., <. $65.00 3-1x6-10, pr 10x10-9 5-11, price . $625.00 $390.00 $575.00, $500.00 $2.000.00 Dricetie -t .t cev. $19.50 Asia Minor, size £-1x11-10, price 25.00 = h, size 8-8x11-6, price $19.50 Kirmanshah, size & price $125.00 P'ersian Lelihan, 12 7, price