New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1918, Page 9

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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1918. IVORY ENAMEL, WALNUT, MAHOGAN 3 Special Chamber Suites in Our North Window, Value $95.00. Your Choice at Only = $79.00 We Bought Everything in Large Quantities Before the Advance. We Plunged Recklessly---We Won. You Get the Benefit HE WHITIAL Recs B.C. PORTER SONS CLEARFLAR RUGS phasize incorrect conditions as it sometimes the case. He related an lincident of Douglas Fairbanks meet- | ng with the Mexican ambassador in i M E A i New York and to the r telling . ’ " " i Fairbanks that he liked his work, ete,, but that most of it only por- e trayed the bandit side of life, where there is another kind of a Mexico boretary of South America In- | pousias agrecd to” climinate mueh of > : his capers when making similar pics N tures the future llaHO[lal Y' M' C' A' Comm][tee ! u.\(h. ll‘;uu":; :«.n! that in South Am- =i | erica there are 500 newspapers which ‘harles D. Hurrey, a member of International committee of the Y. C. A. delivered a strong address the work the association is doing the war and in other countrics, at b 34th anniversary of the New Brit- | Y..M. C. A. last cvening. Mr. |Pe cxtended to these mor rrey”’ was presented to the assem- Haguses: DI oy ge by President . M. Wightman, | Jouching on the war, the speaker 6 presided at the exercises. At the | faid that the time has arrived (fn‘ all set of his remarks, Mr. Hurrey, | {0 et together and live Christian 4 it was dangerous to talk in such | Ives. He scored the idle rich for iods as these, for many times re- | their abits and VH‘(I a tribute to the Pk made is heard in Washington | Pvor who are striving hard to get f often in the Eiffel tower in Paris, | ahead. i ce, so for this reason he was go- Speaking of the associations In to be very careful what he said. | O'her countries, the speaker said that fteP explaining the conditions in |iN most civilized countries in the h America where he is stationed, | lArger cities, these associations will Hurrey spoke on the need of unity | ¢ found. They are looked upon by bng all countries, for no country 2 stand alone. He said that as long America can keep 3,000 miles of | er between it and enemies it was right, but the time arrived when United States was forced to take | 1" TOKlc arms in defense. He told of the | structures wili be founl. degful advantages of the tel Elurvey sald that She potk of ne and telegraph and the import- p they play in the great world con- | in France has been of such servic Mr. Hurrey also commented on | that the government of France ha “movies” which, he said, are a |itsued an appeal for 1,000 men to be Rt thing when they do not em- sides innumerable other publications United States annually thousands of young men to receive education here. Wil creeds striving to instruct young men in the puth of Christianity. In Buenos Aires, there is building that cos 000, The Nerchants of - Every City and Town In the Country Start Today with renewed interest to ~ encourage the purchase of Thrift Stamps in their stores. New Britain’s Merchants Are " Going to Do Their Part Will You Help? Buy One Today Take One in Change - A Thrift Stamp Given Away with Every Pur- chase of $10.00. War Savings Committee RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION re of much value to the country. be- | South America is also sending to the | He urged that the hand of fellowship | institution | 1000 to erect. Tn Shanghai. China and | Japan, elegant Y. M. C. A M. C. A. at the battlefields | sent there at once to take up asso- | { manner in which privile: ciation work, France to pay the ex- rense of erecting the association Luilding. He has received wonder- ful letters from Y. M. C. A. who are on the Italian frontier. The speaker rald the time has arrived with most soldiers that they want to know their God. and the nearer you come to the battlefront the lass signs onc sees of an atheist. In Latin America, the association centers its fight on three of the perils CHARLES D, HURREY. to young men, impurity, alcoholism and gambling. In conclusion he ! urged his auditors to assist tho for- cigners in every way possible. The meeting was opened by an or- | gan recital after which President Wightman made brief remar nd T1e called on Rev. Henry W. Maier to { offer prayer. A hymn followed and | Rev. W. F. Cook gave a scripture ! reading. Report of Secretary Denton. Acting Secretary J. William Den- { ton of the assoclation prescnted the annual report, as follows: | ““Mr. President, Fellow-Members and Friends: ““While there never has been any reasonable doubt concerning the ralue of the Y. M. C, A. in its wide field of activities, the year 1917-1918 has brought our association work to the front in a way hitherto un- dreamed. “We have come to think, speak and act on a much larger s2ale than ever | | before. The fact that the Y. M. C., A. iz everywhere spoken of in connec- | tion with big things amo world events is sufficient evidence of its value in the world's great program. “We are glad and ju proud that our local association has in every re- | spect contributed its portion in the auota of events which make world history in the present unparalieled ! i crisi i already contributed three men for Y. M. C. A. war work, and the =zame | number for the U. 8. Army and Navy At the present time, Mr. Barnes, our general secretary., is at Camp Jack- son, 8. C., where he is emploved a ssistant secretary. having supervi- on over 13 buildings and 70 secre- taries, | “Over 200 from our membership { have entered the various departments | of U. S. military service and several have taken up the Y. M. (!, A. branch | of war work and are rendering excel- lent service, “One from our Honor Roll has a [ star placed against his name, having | | rendered his full service and laid | down his life for his country and the | world. “In spite of the inroads which have | been made upon our membership, we | { have kept our enrollment well filled | and our total registration stands | practically where it did hefore the ; (8 outbreak of the war. While we have | { conformed to the requests of the gov- ernment in matters of conservation, | the privileges of the membership have not been curtailed in any appre- ciable degree. 'We have rendered a good pro- of activities with satisfactory The success of our associa- | tion is due to the splendid spirit of | loyalty and co-operation which ob- tains in our board of directors, em- ! f§ oyed staff. our membership and among our friends. 3esides our regular association | ities. we have opened the use of ; our building with its privileges to all uniformed men in U. & % serviee, free of charge, and S ery generous have heen used spealks tself. “Our F 1s0 been rep- | resented by active commit nextion with the various cam- paigns for war work purposes. and our building frequentiy used by com- mittees and orzanizations for mect ings of public inlerest om our emploved staff we have “In two combined campaigns fm" “Then, too, the wide openings and r work purposes—the first with the | large opportunities often prove a | {end be convinced. What the ensuing vear will bring -upward of $70,000 was raised for | hoy must be restrained, guided and | ed Cr the second with the K. of | source of temptation from which a Y. M, C. A. war work purposes. For!suarded. This we are attempting to our Jocal association work we closed | ¢o. There is a tremendous demand the year. March &1, with a good bal. | i0r the “Big Brother” spirit and any ince in the tr ury { investment made in this direction Activities. will bring inestimable returns. “The summer activities in conmec- Physical Department. tion with our association were un- ‘Onr physical department contin- usually large during the past season. U€f to be the center of attraction More and more the privilege of a | Put few associations in the smaller {€ood shower and an exhilarating | cities can boast as active sical plunge after a hot lay in a close, ; départment and as cfficient iffy office, a factory or store, or |director as ours, the hot, dusty street, is being ap-| “Figures tell only a small part of | itcciated. | the story but the following are in- .ast seafon our capacity to care ; teresting. for men was testoed to the limit and {Total attendance ............ 54,868 the daily attendance at our building | Number of gym class . was the largest in the history of the ;-Attendance in gvm classes ...16,46 association. The fact that we rented | Number of baths taken 53,70 | 2 . = jover the counter more than 1,000 | Number on athletic teams ... 217 | tewels in one week. shows that, at Tazught to swim ............. 1868 Jeast, a part of our city is determined “A comparison of these figures {to keep clean. with those of last vear will reveal Boys' Department. { that although the tota] attendance is Our Boys' department iz a place little under that of last year, vet of conmstant activity. Though three |ihe number of gymnasium classes and cifierent men have served as secre- | {ileir attendance is considerably high- taries and there have been many | er Never was our physical depart- changes in tants, vet our mem- { ment as busy in its class activities bership has gradually increased and !a2s it has been through the past sea- } our boys” work is in a healthy con- | fon cQition. Social Activities. “The boy problem is one of thef “The need of social activity and the wreatest and gravest problems which | value of wholesome social entertain- {“We have to solve. This particular ' mient can never be overlooked nor period. of time is a time of boys’' op- | under-estimated, not even in these 1 Portunity Boys are being asked to cays of extreme conservation The toke men's places and do men’s work. | very tensity of the commercial and Te bring the boy up to where he can | political situation into which we are the vision from a man's angle | {nrust makes relaxing recreation all to exercise mature judgment is the more essential mall task and requires careful “As a proof of the wholesome, so- ideration and attention ! ¢iai contagion which prevails in our { our cducational "ot the men to appeals which are made ¢ Way { climate seems to agroe with Mrs. Si- “Acting Gen'l Secy asrociation, we cordially invite the, monds much better n in India. men and boys of our city to visit n:-'l The Coming Yea Educational Department. forth, no one is sufficiently wise (o tell. That it will be filled with splen- hard during the past year as in our | 4iS opportunities for service, there is Tducational department 2o idoubs ““The war conditions —general un.| 'Our association has slresdy:isimE , sharp competition and close ap. | Mitted itself through our board of di- ation to business, overtime and | Fectors to a definite policy of foreign the heavy enlistments—have made it | €Xtension work, having accepted: its necessary for us to curtail in a very | apPortionment for the International large degree, for the present at least, | Y- M. C. A's program of foreign e o service, which is already oversub- ribed. However, our committee' on Religious Work. finance will cheerfully accept any At no point have we been hit as; ‘In our religious work we have not | further contribution whi¢h anyone been without apparent results. Our | may feel like making after the clo Bible study suppers with regular | of the evening address. speakers (for the most part from New Britain is already well lo- the local clergy) and our Sunday aft-| cated on the map and has already ernoon meetings have been a success. | §one over the top several times in the “In the choice of speakers for the! Various campaigns which have been Sunday meetings we have endeavored | made, but here is an opportunity to to bring before our men a variety of | o Wwell over into Some Man's Land ! thought and“topics of stirring inter-| Who knows nothing of the thoroughly { est in these stirring times. The regu-' Christian spirit of the Y M. C.A In larity of attendance, the deep inter- our program for the coming vear we est, careful attention, expressed ap- ' shall endeavor to put on anything preciation and the definite responses| Which is necessary and will in any tend toward the uplift and de~ are a sufficient testimonial to the Velopment of our brother man value of these services. ‘We take this opportunity to ex- d i tend a worthy tribute to our board of Horeiien Work. | directors, who cheerfully give their 2. J. Simonds, who was men-| valuable time to the interests of our tioned in the last annual survey asi association. We also desire to ex- our special representative in the War | press our sincere appreciation for the { Zone, on account of the ill-health of | good-will of the community, the { Mrs. Simonds, has found it necessary i kindly co-operation of the churches to leave India. and the press, which contribue in no “At first, he expected to return to small way to the success of our as- this country, but is temporarily 1o- ' sociation. cated in China, with the possibility of ‘Respestfully submitted remaining there permanently, as the! “J. Wm. DENTON, BANKRUPTCY SALE For the Benefit of All Creditors--the Entire Jewelry Stock 820,000.00 Of the Reed Jewelry Co, must be sold within the next 10 days on the premises of thg concern. Each and every article in this tremendous stock-to be offered to the public at 50 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. NOTICE. Special attention is called to the fact that this concern’s complete stock has price tickets on each article, with the selling price quoted in plain figures so that the pr_ospective purchaser can save time by merely noting the regular selling price and paying one-half for article selected. = A deposit will hold any selection for the duration of sale. A FEW OF THE BARGAINS TO BE HAD AT THIS SALE. WATCHES. 17 Jewel Complete Hamilton Watches. Regu- lar price $25.00. Bankruptcy Sale Price .. $12.50 15 Jewel Complete Waltham Watches. Regular Price $20.00. Bankruptcy Sale Price 7 Jewel Complete Waltham and Elgin. Regular Price $16.00. Bankruptcy Sale Price . ... $ 8.00 Ladies’ 15 Jewel Bracelet Watches. Regular Price $25.00. Bankruptcy Sale Price ... $12.50 All other high grade Watches in all sizes ranging in prices from $8.00 up to $75.00 will be sold at 50 cents on the dollar. DIAMONDS All Diamond Rings in stock from $10.00 up to $800.00 to be sold at 50 cents on the dollar. Every Diamond is guaranteed as to quality and celor and is mounted only in solid 14-Karat Gold. JEWELRY Of every description will be sold at 50 cents on the dollar. SILVERWARE All standard makes—Rogers, Community and | others—in individual pieces and handsome 26-piece chests to be sold at 50 cents on the dollar. SALE NOW IN PROGRESS! STOREQLENEVERY NiGiT The articles sold at this sale guaranteed to be absolutely as represented to the public and are being sold at this price by order of the Receiver in charge of this concern appointed by the United States Bank- ruptey Court. EED JEWELRY CO. 164 MAIN STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN.

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