New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1918, Page 7

o 7. KAISER AWAY." BUY LIBERTY BONDS. The Attention of the Amateur Located on the main floor, a choice there of Came; s in all sizes including Eastman Called to Our Camera Dept. steps from the street, you will have odaks and Kodak Juniors, priced from $2.75 on and up to $23.50 cach. VERY PRI PECIAL—We of CELERITAS DEVELOPING Our price while quantity lasts 15¢ pkg 7 FOR THE AS fortunate in obtaining a goodly lot POWDERS for paper (6 for 75¢.) KING to every plates and flms. purchaser of photographic sup- plies, a copy of “The Amateur Photographer’'s Weekly”, the Journal that teaches how to take good DEVELOPIN The best wear, Blucher zood Calt Lace dress invisible eyelets, $1.00, $5.00, pair. Tan onc For Shoes, wear, Best Boys’ AN PROMPTLY suaranteed. "t and Wear. soles we offer Lace Shoes for 2.75 pair. Bals with Lace Shoes. good wearing $2.00, $3.50, $4.00 Boy Scout Shoes, tan. black, best foot coverings made (« Sneakers, brown and ones of extra good qualty. AUTOMOBITE DELIVERY RICEIVING Beriin News rative Association of officer association clected. The follow- | Blue Hills Schoolhouse, e of Accused Town—Matthew night's Kensington well known here friends his sister on some and srn in Poland, this country his first action. ves other ten Hackett-Malley John which the defense, afternoon Berlin court room something will he alveady twice. It Jomas Malley operative NSINGTON MEN GOING T0 SLOCUM lia Cheasting and Stephen Paul ~“ Sullivan Leave May 1 AGKETT-MALLEY TRIAL so Comes Up This Afternoon With | Reported Out M Colored TInerement, men have been for division Slocum on ! hey are Salia Creastine and Stepnen ! aul Sullivan, both residents of Ken- entrain on at the camp with Bristol, Southington, Thirty-two in increment, and group of local draftees to Fort Slocum. two the vary battle , and the account of whose death Herald, Brown to Go to Camp Brown of this town will Devens on contingent board was the only that of the today, as for about Asspciation [a) were chosen: Whitman; association listed in the . Brown s where he was assigned | the Aero squadron. He landed in ! France December ocean he was near the ill-fated it two days before it was sunk. | In part he writes: | “We have { been feleased from an eight-day quarantine, placed on us | as a precautionary measure due to the | fact that we had been exposed to scar- | let fever by the treatment of two scar- | and during tha time we had the best time of our army were sorry to have it lifted for we were having our meals cavried ! and didn’t have t¢ dishes. One lad here plays a mouth-organ, and some of ths cancerts we have would put the efforts choruses in the shade. Painvilic Farmington, The de- | will town to creditable of Berlin. Local Boy. who was of the Liberty vears behind the times. It's some joh in into a private home when yvou're look- ing for a barber time. came when after he went enlisted in Compan; time was the largest company in leaves no | sister, Kensington hov a chance to look | days sooner days after it oc- from the thunder in the big guns must \irplanes are flying all them on trials, be quite busy others on bu next of colored for local colored se- called for examination | about two i wils given by the French remarks that there in civilian clothc 3 Ronds Progressins e ds Progressi Plainville percentage other section The coating heavy crushed stone the main road to- faster than was fir spring by Selectman Tackett y djourned was illness WANTED g mason jobbing. H. J <ensington, Conn 4-3-tf the he unpaid June remaining charged at the rate of 9 per cent. ‘F[ed McEnroe, Be sure to ask for a copy. bring their photos for us fo print. us and see how pleased you will be. CHIFFON CLOTH At Our Lace Dept.—For Waist Dresses, sleeves, etc.. we offer a zood Chiffon Cloth, 42 inches wida, black, white and all colors, very special at $1.25 yard. Georgette Crepe Cloth in 40 inch width, black, white and colors, specially priced at $1.65 yard. Embroidered Flouncing, Swiss inc wide, with ruffle for hildren's dresses at 59¢ yard. New Plaid Ribbons, just reccived, some lovely ones, 5 1-4 inches wide in the following clans: Royal Stewart, Gordon, MacGrezor & MacKenzie. Ask for them. New Trimmings for Summer cot- ton dresses. Copenhagen, tau, and old rose. Special 29¢ yard. NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. Berlin was held from May Is to dircct the 'lowing piae President, Col. €. May 11th, 3 to 6 o’clock: president. A. K. Web- " hall, Saturday, May busine treasurer, Francis Dem- day, May 16th, manager, ! o'clock; Beckley directors consisting | Berlin, Guaines’ store Maleolm Witter- 25th. 1:30 to 7 and J. T. Molum- Jepsen's store, Friday, st in the work. 8:30, and every Tuesday evening dur- now ready to be- | ing the month of immediately, and awith ; 7:30 o'clock. officers and hoard of CHARLES I, doubtless accomplish to decrease the costs of staples used by farmers thréugh huy- ing in carload lots meeting of the as ation will be held in May Wilson Saw Tus nia. | received from tertninment i formerly of this American Fxpe- Hall on May §—Varied Program. France. He en- On May S in auditorium, the school will offer tainment for the ior Red Cross Corps June 23 into the service trained at Fort While cros sing “Phe the time, and | days of Indian W chiefest maiden tableau vivant The program in The Spirit of Niagara Falls. seem about 200 | Cathea Vibberts; a store vou are | Fntr act-— unless you are town, because there |is a Lily", “Keep of light at night, and | Burnin ‘And a door and walk | Rolling Along™, Mila". second letter from | The Spirit of re two days after | Shonse Foreword, occurred., I didn't have : Knitting, snipping, wround the town, but of pillows, war pretty well battered us we didn’t arrive two The Tuscania was beside | Shepherdess Dance and T read | The Minuet, Norwegian Folk Dancing ove March. Waskowitz: Wilson's Addr Peter Santi, closed by telling in the “Zone of is Tombari | Stamps, Bertha progressing even | { thought. Several | F | of the town ar once over” !TV.; “I and chorus, Nominatior oiled by the .«‘-r{ i and decorating, | | “Tabs” will be and personal | vanced to that 1917 are hereby ' fice of vice-president will be duc the | pames of two m 1918. Al} taxes | zation have been 1st will be | tioned--those inville N ERIC HEBQUIST OF BRISTOL KILLED Hero of War Had Wide Acquaint- ance in Plainville jiPa ews| NERVOUS SICH HEADACHES “FRUIT-A-TIVES The First Day He Tried Them. Brought Reljef With Colored Troops—Three Se For Fort | MR. C. E. BESWICK | brother, | Compuny 0 Caroline Ave., Ogdenshurz, T sultered a great deal for thiree or four years with ache and D, he resided Had to take iwo to four scidlitz powders every other ried doctors — nothing did me good until I Pruit-a-tives’, or 1 was relieved (! “ruit LiverTablets. > first day 1 nsed Ferasters am always people of the great things * have done for me. Plainwille I have many friends in Ogdenshurg recommendation® E. BESWICK. Edmead, Jr. 50c. a hox, 6 for $2.50, trial size 2 At all dealers or VES Limited, Bighth street Long Tsland Ward Tut- Wednesday afternoon Memorial Iipiscopal officiated. the history afternoon Mountain at the fol- s to sociely asks Saturday, Berlin Town e leaving gSRARtE gl Wodnesday post office, Kensington. work which will be done and discissec Hart'd Corne: G o connected Ball Game Tomorrow. afternoon the season | Allen’s field at 3 o'clock. Independents The game was scheduled | Tomorrow played at smalley School Pupils W Harttord. postponement was The trial of Inspection. Inspection Gramma pupils of drunkenness s <cheduled tonrorrow afternoon Plainville | suspended entertainment s dramatization, pirit of Sacrifice,” {ago response is descriptive of the sac rifice of the ancients out of town comyj one from be present, one from It Is probable that a review- Congregational thful spirit who Character vation and plague, threatencd committee fered. The response illustrative | work of the pupils !s( hools in response | Plainville to war's demands. state Of John ago response. Time Indian rule. Place: Characters { in the days of | i | Indian chief. Joseph | | | | | | Abrahamson, administrator, be empowered to sell wiissionary committee application medicine man, Peter 2 braves and Al applicatior pupils from grades BEllGation determine amp and trench a “Over There”, “Somewhere in forenoon, Down, Allemand Episcopal time and place of h Sacrifice- Today’s re- temperance certificates of the chiefest of Plainville, Kamarinskiai, | in said Distric matter of Monntain BYINGTON “Prayer for the while service Louisa Lombari; Sxtracts sses, Kings and Koplow!tz Wentiand. Charles Levine and Original Compositions Earned My Thrift “A Conve Little Boy and a ! Krechevsky; Parade expensive, THRIFY js the very The practice of is the opposite of INDUL(G INDEPEND- solo, “Sim- | Plainville pils from grade TV. ple Aven,” David ymond Onwin; the Spirit of '76 ail and I Aling and a few helpers, | insky: Songs of yad from the chapel fo the Sav- continued, | THRINT STABS NOMINA to the office of vice-president tomorrow contentment, indepcnd- {one of the largest Swedish public | tions in the country, has purchased 30 [ account Through (he I the meeting which will be j o'clack in the afternoon e | enlistment of James to the Town of | 5 the society, Thomas Plzinville Trust Co. ILLE, CONN Hours 9 a. saturdays 9:00 a. w, o 1 telephone of Henry Melinroe ‘H”Il i i Plainville. MERIDEN SOLDIERS IN THICK OF FIGHT | One Killed, Four Wounded; Members of Co. L., 102d—New Haven Men o Also Wounded. Meriden boys have been in the thick of the fighting In France with a result the casualty list of today con- tains the name of one killed and four slightly wounded. The honor list: Killed. Private Henry LaCroix, Company L, 102d U. S. Infantry. Slightly Wounded. Lieuf. Samuel A. Tyler, Company L, 102d U. S. Infantry. Corp. George W. Marble, Company L, 102d U. S. Infantry. Pvt. Charles E. Delesdernier, Com- pany L, 102d U. S Infantry Pvt. Lawrence C. Dewey, Company L, 102d U. % Infantry Another Connecticut boy, Mechanic Charles O. Theisse of Thompsonville, is listed among the slightly wounded Lieut. Joseph Parks and I'vi. Fdward lightly Jacques of New Haven were wounded The Connecticut soldiers have borne the brunt of hard drives by the Ger- mans and accounts cabled over tell of the fine fighting qualities they are displaying CONNECTICUT IN LEAD | | | “Nutmeg Sate” Setting Pace for New | ‘[m the three hoys would get- the sile | | England in Sale of War Sav and ahrite Stamps. Hartford, April 2 Sale of War Savings and Thrift Stamps in Connec- tleut now amount o more than $3,000,000, according to figures an- { nounced today at the oflice of the staie director of War Savings. Of this amount, $2,881,000 has been sold through the medium of the various post offices, and ‘the remainder through the banks. Figures compiled by the state di- rector show that Connecticut's™ per capita sales are in excess of $2.2 placing this state in the lead among all the commonwealths of New [ng- land. Figures sent out from Washing- ton show that Mainc is second in per capita sales and New Tampshire third. Bridgeport is now leading the tofal sales of the larger cities with a figure slightly in excess of $405,000 FIRE THREATENS, Fire Pighters Work nd Hard on Hartford Avenue, ast 2 he fire in Edward Was's barn on Hartford avenue, yesterday afternoon, : | threatened the destruction of adjoin- ing frame houses. At one time four houszes were burning. The firemen handled every onc of the fires with their usual skill and with slight dam- age to the adjoining places. Assistant | Chief Noble directed. the men. The fire almost completely destroyed Wi { barn, owing to the delay in calling the department. It had gained great headway when they arrived Sparks carricd quite a way The damage was about $1,000 and the property dat risk was lned at §15,000. Callinun red Prelle injured his thumb while clearing away debris, { His finger was torn by a nail The firemen were called to the Hotel Washington this morning. An awning was burned. HART KS APPOINTMEN Will Take Police Licutena cy Next Week. Police Sergeant William C. Hart will take the civil - service examinations next Tuesday cvening for appointment as lieutevani of police. Acting-Lieu- tenant Samucl Bammforth will also take the examination. The latter wiil probably receive the appointment, as the civil service rules permit the selection of the appointes fram the threc standing highest. It was pretty well understood that Act- ing-Lieutenant Bamforth would be the only candidate. Chairman King, of the police comniission, advised Captain Grace to remind the sergeants that Friday was the last day for filing ap- plications. The contest for the placa may upset oviginal calculations CITY ITEMS if vou bring your anama Hat row, you'll get better satisfaction. Conn. Hat Co.—adyvt A Red Cross benefit dance will be given at Bardeck's hall tonight by the members of the Austrian Singing society Joe Bodeski of 63 Booth street is reported missing from home. A. D. S. fraternity of this city will give a dance May 3 in Booth's hall. ANl girls who are inetrested in the study of nature, are asked to meet at the Y. W. C. A. Sunday afternoon at 2:30 to go on a walk for the study of am Schurr, nature with B, Burlingl curator of the Institute. The fire department was called to (he corney of Lincoln and West Main streets this morning for grass fire that threatened a barn near hy John McGrath, of Camp Devens, is | epending a short rarlough at his home | on Lawlor street \ cantata hax heen prepared by the | pupils of the Lincoln Street school | which will be presented at the Gram- mar school auditorium, Tuesday even- ing. The proceesds from the sale of tickets will o to the Junior Red C'ross The Svea Publishing Co., of Wo cester, Mass., publishers o ih: Svey, the “Scandinavia,” another Swedish periodi and will in the future be the only Swedish publication in New England, Joseph iultgren will con- tinue to act as New Rritain corres- pondent of the paper in which capa- ty he has acted for the past 17 vears, Carl Carlson has heen the local rep- 1d ‘l'osun\iuhe of the “Scandinavia,” $100,000 OVER TOP " ON LIBERTY BONDS | Factory Workman Refuses to Buy | And Quits His Job “Over the top and the best of Tuck,” was Chairman A. J. Sloper's an- nouncement this morning, when re- perting the result of the Liberty Bond sales to date. The amount reported tc Boston last night was $1,699,150. The sale yesterday—DLiberty day—wag $544,900 New Britain is entitled to one of the honor flags for having ex- ceeded its quota apportionment for the three issues, and Chairman Slopei lias addrvessed a letter to the author- ities in Boston, directing them to send the flag with the three bars designaf- in; the patriotic response of the eil- i7ens the purchases in the three (ries of bond issues. He expects the tiag will be delivered by May 4, when the bond sales will close. and at that time there will probably be some cer- cimony in connection with the raising of it al the municipal flag pole at Central Park. Today the Boy Scouts are conducts ing their ‘campaign for the sale of hends. They were out hustling, brigit nd early. A group of them visited the police and fire headquarte {3 (rcouragement to go on with the work., Prosecuting Attorney Klett had a straw-drawing contest to see whish of the bond he was réady 10" take \. Aisenberg, treasurer of Clourt SpingZa, Foresters of .Ameri was ordered to buy a $100 bond by the court last night Four Swedish lodges meeting in Vega hall have purchused honds e the value. of $4.500. Andree lodgey Odd “Feltows, Vega - socisly egn lodge and Valkyria lodge, O. of Vi are the societies, Bond ‘sales at the Stanley Works to date amount to $112.,000 or $8,000 less than theé goa] set. The factory will go “‘over the top.” Sales at Landers, ¥Frary & Clark's . amounted fo $30.000, and the factory total to date is $167,000 A Iy was held vesterday and Vice President Searle presided, President Charles F, Smith spoke and an address in Polish was given by Principal A. S. Andrulewicz. A man to man canvass followed. A work«< man_ in one department refused ta Luy a bond and he was appealed td with' all manner of arguments, ex« cepting force. Finally he was |:i\'r>1 an ultimatum to huy or ‘‘zet out.’ If he would not buy the workmen said they would not work with himy He settled the matter by asking fo his time, and quitting his job. H will probably leave town Of the 1,000 emploves at the Stan< ley Rule and Level Co. 739 have subscribed for bonds of the third se- ries, 'The amount taken is $51,100, the ayerage being in excess of $50 for every operative. Department 2, has an average of $133 per man, Al- most évery one of the subscribers to this series purchased of previous sues. The amount of subscriptions taken in the first series by Staniey Rule and Level employves was $41.- 830, an average of $38 per capita. In the second issue the amount was $£29 per workman, the total being $31.150 St. Mary's Ladies A. & B. 50+ ciety has purchased a $100 bond vesterday RATS AS BIG AS DOGS IN TRE CHES Maple Street Boy Says the Rats Play Baseball, Using Hjs Hend as Howe Plate, Following are several letters pe- ceived From Leonard Gleed of Maple street, ‘serving in [France with the Canadian . forces Fepruary 2, 191§ Dear Mother: | am expecting to get leave to England in two or three weeks,” for 1 had to wait 21 months for my first leave. I have not got the parcels yet that you sent me. [ suppose you read a lot in the papers about the Canadians. Well, mum, they just can't be beaten and Fritz says they are the flercest men he is up agaihst. We give him h— when he stands and fights ‘but he generally beats it when he sees the Canucks coming. e sayvs we don’t fight for our country, but fight te kill and pick up souvenirs and you can bet your life the dead are all rolled over and searched. | guess you'd call it & rotten job, I'll have to stop now as I'm writing to Alice today too. Your loving son, LEONARD, Dear. Sis Alice You say that it's cold over there, well, it's cold here too. It has been snowing today and tonight I have to go on outpost from 1 to 3 ‘oclock. [ am siill doing gas guard duty and am in a pretty good dugouf, but the rats (some as big at dogs) bother me all night. They play baseball on me and use my head for home plate till T slam one of them on the jaw and send him crashing against the wall. Then the game stops for * awhile. T'm telling you this becausa I know how vou love rats lL.ove from Len March 21, 1918, France My Dear Mother: Received your welcome letter dated February 23 Am keeping well and cheerful and hope to see you next Christmas. i speak very little French, don’t seel much civilization ‘anz when 1 do & don’t take muech interest in thel language. Thus far I haven't seoMl any New Britain boys tor they a miles awny from wme. We are goinj to get hlue chevrons on our rig arms. 1 think one will be for e vear ofiiservice. | wilbimet i 'm an old tim r now, you know. Your ever loving som, 4 LEON.