New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1918, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SHOP WHERE SHOPPING IS EASY AND THAT IS HERE Where the Departments of the most wanted goods are located on our Big Main Floor. Where Why not shop then where shopping plete. Where stocks are the largest Prices are lowest for dependable is casiest? and most com- merchandise. Seasonable Clothes for the Boys THAT PLEAS This and enlarged rectly t Very handy. Overcoats for are offered of bo; grey and green and Exceptionally $6.98 to $18.00 each. ture uede Coats, Officers’ style: 3 to 10 year style, for 3 to regular hi 12 All of them suspender regular price waist department is on Main Floor di- Book , the very newest, for olds, Tams to match, $2.00 each. Corduroy Suits, made 8 year $6.00 value, for $5.00 each. S| ts, collar on and neck- s re o3 Samson Waists, 6 to 14, the best 7 IN STYLE THAT PLE newly locoted Norfolk Suits, made s from 8 to 1 Department. siz SE IN PRICE zo0d stylish ones, of attractive mixed cloths in e Values offered are of exceptional 3 to 10 year old in plain blue and brown mix- priced from worth at $7 Juvenile ts effects in Aviation and and Wz priced $9.48. ive on 3 in olds, middy and to 14 years Same old price, Collar on choice of 89¢ each. Little Beauty vear sizes, give buy at to 14 inch, at ra values, on the market, special 85c. and Middy model: 1 fancy from $6.00 to $9.48 each. Oliver Twist Suits with Corduroy st of Pique, are very priced $4 Boys' Blouses, rs, white and some color style, white 8, $8.50, $9.98. in the ever popular 5, in plain color: Priced to 8 year old boys 50. neckband style, 6 75¢ ecach. 6 to 16, and with colors, Waists, in 3 to 13 you last chance to and 65¢ cach. Fverytihng here that Boys need. AUTOMOBILE PROMPTLY R HAVING AN | BERLIN NWS N JWN BUBGET FOR EW YEA&B_UMP!LE[] eotmen and Finance Committee Announce Estimates lor 1919 SCTOR'S AUTO WRECKED J. E. Martin of New Britain ‘omes to Grief Under Kensington Railroad Bridge—George Super- Aut Victim of Spanish Influenza. Arthur L. following vearly T day Theasurer today the own issued United States Food Adminis- tration License Number G—08535. | Fresh Caught Haddock b 1 OC Sliced Blue Fish '* 20c Cod Steaks 1b 25¢ Sliced Halibut ™ 32¢ Herring ST 0c Flounders 10 Sa]mon to boil or fry 1b 25C Bloater Mackerel I 32¢ Fresh Smelt: b25¢ Finnan Haddies ™ 18¢ Fresh Clams " 23c Solid Meat oli ea o 33(: Oysters Well Mixed : el X . 26c f ‘White Pea Bcans 2 Ibs 31(: Salt Pork ' Red Kidvey Beans '* 16¢ Yellow Eve Beans ' 16¢ Plate Corned c Native Cabbage '* 4c Fresh Parsnips 21 11¢ #Fancy Carrots 2" 1lc Yellow Turnips ' 4c¢ ( Native Spinach % 35¢ Best Com- 5 3 c ,pound 2 Ibs ;Special Eggs 500 1% Ib |:n< 49¢ 1l Guaranteed doz | Crisco Wood- | DELIVERY ICEIVING ALL FOR NEW DRY GOODS | veport, of disbursements, ending Sep- tember 12, and the following budget is recommended for the coming year | by the board of selectmen and the | finance committee: ! Disbursements i up to Sent. 12, Budget for 1919 0.00 1918 Auditor: 0.00 $ £ essors ... 3 250.00 Board of Relief 15.00 Registrars 160.00 | sa of | selectmen | Town dlerk, fees and supplies Town Treasurer, | 800.00 | 200.00 400.00 rsonal tax enroliment | Rate bhook | Arilitary | enroliment | Tax colle | commi vden. . rden e maters | Road material | Repair town road State roads Repair bide | Town ] committee Alms house board Alms house, and repai Outside poor Insane poor ‘ State tax | Military t | County tax | Taxes town { Middletown | Interest on bonds Interest Loans Town Bonds | Insurance .... Electric TLights Town Hall Kensington Berlin : IBast Berlin Telephones Printing Town pe: Librars tions Veteran ciation Return Rirths Deaths o ! Rent of Vot- ing Places Town Office; Bonds Police { Dog damage Lane Construc tion Co. State Guide Indexing ords | Pe | 700.00 80.00 700.00 500.00 5,000.00 600.00 2,900.00 24,944,123 27,400.00 8.46 360.00 supplies 94.44 661.22 24 150.00 3,100.00 600.00 500.00 . 2,960.00 on 1,276.31 2,000.00 10.00 00 .00 50.00 350.00 100.00 100.00 Asso- 10.00 of and 50 e 30.00 1350.00 Boards 100.00 Rec- 'k for pecial Tax jBerlin War Bureau |Emergency | Board Fund i 400.00 1,100.00 Past Bills New Bridge Ac- count Due : 10, n wings nk 14,000.00 Highways Bridges Town Orders { Clerk of F | Board Balance and 9,700.00 Court 200.00 .00 BRITAIN YOU PURCHASED OF | have 50.00 | 500.00 | 300.00 | 30.00 | .00 | 10.00 | 00 | 1,000.00 | 5.00 | 500,00 | CAN DEP U Hand 4,146.29 Red Cross Circle. The Kensington branch of the Red Cross desires more articles to com- plete its “linen shower. Anyone hav- ing sheets or towels to re will leave with Miss week or at the rooms of the Red Cross Thursday afternoon. Dr. Martin’s Auto Wrecked. Dr. J. E. Martin, a New physician was severly shaken up but escaped serious injury when the tomobile which he was driving badly wrecked last night it the Jarge holes in the concrete under the railroad bridge. complaints have been sent in to something done about repairs but as yet the town officials have not done anything. Rural Carrier The United S | Commission has ination ftor rural who wish to the County of Hartford, their examination at Hartford, and New Britain on No- vember 23, to fill the positions of a rural carrier at Warehouse Point, | Broad Brook, Glastonbury, Kensing- i ton, Simsbury, Suffield and vacancies that may later occur. The examina- | tions will be open to all male and fe- male citizens who will meet the re- | auirements. Applications may be at- tained from the above mentioned of- fices, pa au- uck road Several ixaminations. es Civil nnounced an e mail carrie T attain the position will for take Windsor Locks, The Farmer's Side. To the Editor of the Herald: Will you kindly give | your paper to correct ments by Mr. Seibert in the Herald, {of Oct. 19. in which he places re- sponsibility for advancing milk | prices upon the produc | Holt. Mr. Seibert evidently d in bringing | this statement before the consumers and public, as at the mecting Producers Oct. 17, no such action Mr. Seibert ims took 1 general milk situation was but on a recommendation by | very careful adviser Mr. Holt, make any change in the {milk at the present time, of the epidemic and great | for milk caused thereby, when the Producers arc mal | at a decided lo: every | present was agreeable to nd the milk situation unless the [ nticipating | the farmers, week or two me space several state in the as & our not to price of on demand d even ng milk farme. the request remains the dealers themsely advance in advance the ahead and not only for the amount increased by the farmers but 3% cent or 1 cent extra per. qt. | for their own little raise | Mr. Seiberts | the Farmers and | tion is unfounded and s | serves place the Pro in unfavorable position before the public And Ar, Seibert's statement that tne prices set by the producers and tailers last winter was final is also leading, no stated time could t at that time, that said | could remain on account of the | increasing cost of production. I ask Mr. Seibert why cows are going to the I why farms in past years that { duced from 125 to 150 quarts | milk daily arc now producing 50 to | 75 qu r day. livery farmer can j tell y. One reason the | grain bill takes all the milk biil, and | if the herd doesn’t glve enough milk | to buy suMcilent grain to make the | cows glve moro 1 they cither no without or are sold {o the Butcher. Another reason is the responsibility an price by price a charges against Producers associa- unf 10 ucer: m I be ev so many and pro- | iteher % Ten Men Scheduled to Go to Camp { ber | on PLAINILLE NEWS INFLUENZA REDUCES g DRAFT CONTINGENT Not With Today’s Quota CHEERS REPLACE TEARS| All Miembers of Red Cross gible to ! Vote for New Officers—Charchey | of | Resume Activitios Fune Private Munn, Another d contingent town this morning and the the embryo soldiers was T'he usual sadn though there were who realized the hoys were taking were downcast, for this quota wa and death in one case kept the num- who actually were able to 8o down to 58. Joseph William Grace of Bristol, who was to h left for camp this morning, died at his home Mond from influenza. Har Bradley and Otio L. Johnson, both | left this spirit of excellent lacking al- relatives which the their spirits number called but sickness ss was some b and The 68 step ve bed | was | to | were local board and asked for an examin- | examination | he w. Majorie Moore during the | i Connecticut | Panied the men to the train. Britain i | Cros was | Servicae | m- | meeting. hose | | duced on the farm. account | | balance on the i | but en the custom in the past | { fireman, it | with re- | prices | of whom reported at Grange hall yes- day ‘and seemed in ect health, reported to the draft board this morning as seriously ill from in- fluenza. Paul Cunningham and Con- rad Doty of thistown are both sick in | and have ben for 1 as In connection with departure of the | men this morning there was an ex- ample of patriotism probably equalled in the town. David was examined soveral months jected. He tried sever list but each time ure. He then decided malke himself physically fit if possible. Last night he heard that several men sick and could not go this Immediately he went to the per: se irbe go and 1 times met with fail- that he would mornin ation. He request was granted, his showed him O. K. and told to report this morning. At the station he was the most cheer- ful man in the crowd and kept up the spirits of the crowd until the train pulled out at 8:41 bound w rd to- ward Bristol and Waterbur When the train was leaving one local young woman, who was but recently mar- ried, fainted. A color om Company Guard, T, accoms | Annual Red Cross Mecting. The annual of the Plain- ville chapter of the American Red will be held in Grange hall at o'clock Friday evening. The pur- of the meeting is to elect off s for the coming vear and to hear > reports of the present officers for > vear just past. The people of the town who scribed to the Red Cross, and, became members of the local branch, should remember that they are ex- pected to b present at the annual There re some 900 mem- be in this town who have a vote in choosing the officers. Several sur- prises are expected when the reports are read as the local chapter has done a far greater amount of work than most of the people know of. There has heen little feeling against the local chapter which will easily be removed by reading the fol- lowing: “Several meeting 8 sub- thus times the last within of getting men to work on the farms. No help, and the result i shortage in the quantity of dairy feeds pro- 1T 15 by of past I have herd cows and months I w the men be: son above 10 the service. I with me who cow, harness a hor: My wife and daugh n Go 1 Shours a day on my four farm a times in left entirely drafted and vears of age have a young can not milk a plow. or mow er with P {o assist them what we can. This is only of the general run of the today and because of the and physical impossibility, and small returns, even shouid milk my herd 35 per cent. No class of men by herd 35 per cent. No class of men in the country work or try any harder | to solve the problem and 't the 1t side of the ledger the alone only in ng my is also now fellow T a. doing nple ‘mers financial without succe Who today wor only the farmer we are glad to this time wa or nd <0 s 18 hours per day, d family, do it, our little of ¢ and strif tions, just his wife & effort in without livir Ple ng unless vac: L deal 1 square understand milk dealers happens to be A in that’s where the farmers got hurned out of $1,000 worth of milk down this w this season. But that's the farmers’ One of the the busine salary and farn and as nothing Sincerely. ALEXANDER Berlin Briefs, AMarrint Kensington M Kensington rald i attack of has influenza eriti- general am not the it cis in certs loss incidents connected this man has a his fingers at hehind the worked good the spaps £l hides the farmer and usual for BRUCE Paul home Dr, home IS confined his wit Vinenza i in R in John itz sever i Sevor Mr. Grah, Griswold At his out iin aflter A pneumonia Buckley wttack of Collins and hav end rocovered from a eport to his daughter, visit John O’Counell has opened up the OCTOBER un- | § ~1 29, 1918, Up the Habit. HARTFORD C.5. HILLS & CO. Save All the Pcach Stones, Pits and Shells, the Government eds Them. quality crepe de chine, These choice under:; exacting you arve, the n are very We offer a charming collection of ore you will appreci dainty Lingerie, SKIRTS, > CHEMIS much lower than they could be bought for to including all PEIRROTTS, SHORT CHEMIS E! the lat rments are trimmed tastefully with embroide te the neat hand work. Thc " NEW STOCK OF CREPE DE CHINE Fall Models of superior lac and ribbons, and the more are: CAMISOLE AY. AND TAJAMAS In this lot rabie number: FOR $1.00—R FOR § are the favorite ular $1.50 )—Regular $2.50 and ron In THE makes of $3.00 Values. $4.00—Regular Lady, sizes, ail si Special Sale of Discontinuedv M;)_&elé POPULAR GRADE: “American There is a complete assortment of and $2.00 Values. Or CORSETS “Mada me but not Liyra,” “Frolacet” and other es in any one style. de- FOR $2.00—Regular $3.00 and $4.00 Values. FOR $3.00—Regular $3.50 and $4.50 Values. $8.50 Values. $5.00 to Despite the searcity customers. been gotien together for the is now at its best. Prices There are Cloths, 36 oblong shapes; Doilic prices possible. are 45 and Tray Cloths, to the very ving season. very tempting. inche: Scarfs, ‘ea Napkins, Luncheon Sets, large & It 18x36, of Linens we were able to secure adequate ‘We wish to call attention ortment 18x45 quantities to of decorative Table Linens, that have is not too soon to think of this occasion. ana 18 Pillow Madeira Hand Embroidered Linens fill the needs of our Selection Ovals in Cases; all A variety of sizes, the very lowest SATIN MESSALINE, 9 yard. DRE VELUTINA, sale, $1.50 yard. months there have been men leaving this town to enter the service. When the local chapter did not equip these men with Red Cross comfort kits, ete. their relatives blamed the local chap- ter. This was all the more so since the chapte in nearby towns were giving the articles to their men en- tering the service. The local chapter was simply conforming to orders from national headquarters stating no men should be equipped before they reached their destinations. The local chapter W ing to obey the rules from national officers and was not trying to withhold anything from the local boys. Although this state- ment is rather late, it may serve to cler up the misunderstanding. Funeral of Private Munn. Plainville witnessed its third mil- ftary funeral this morning when Pri- vate Dewey Munn, who died at Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, FI. early military honors. A requiem high mass was celebrated at 9:30 in the church of Our Lady of Mercy by Rev. J. T. MacDonald The bearers were six men from Company M, Connect- icut State Guard which is a Bristol company. A guard of honor and a body sguard from Company I com- manded by Lieut. Du s also present at the funeral. William Munn, a brother of the dead soldier, who is in the navy, was able {o obtain a short furlough and ived in time for the funeral. The services at the grave in St. Joseph's cemetery we the usual military customs and wer most impressive. A volley was fired over the grave and taps was sounded as the casket was being lowered into the grave. A. C. Church Conference. The ference ground today Advent Christian church was held at the local starting with the ing invocation 10 o’clock. Be the epidemic of influenza was so pre- valent the call for the meeting stated that routine business only would carried on. Takes Place of Dead Relative. Among the draftees who left this was Raymond D. Currie of E Last week a tele- received telling of the death of his brother-in-law, Private umes Macildowie, whe was killed in action in France. Despte the sad news young Currie, true to A ican spirit, stated that he was ready to go and if need be meet the fate of his brother-in-law, which, in his estima- con- wuse be morning Broad gram we reet. Sunday morning. was buried with full | camp | open- | value $2.00, for this sale, | real value $2.00, for this l yard. tion, is the most glorious man can die. Opportunity to Be Made. on the 1 ist o come voters will have will be day se. until on but ter n when the in Grange 1 S%p m. take place on November men have from The & registrars will presented PRINCESS 50 and §2 death to on b 9 t 5, a Fri- a. m. ate election will Thus f o hem- Herman Carlson Home Again. The many friends of Herman Carl- | be glad to learn recovering from son wi 1 rapidly :k tracted at camp Upton brother- his O'Hara, of terda taken The ban on holding mee while threatened the size of who died inffuenza. from fter he pneumonia which in (@ the Private later at Carlson -law, ew ontracting the epidemic of town has and the church services will b om day which W morrow nouncement Ward. October the church th J. G 30 he their Two airplanes ps about macl now night n on, meeting s postponed, will e held to- night dev of even othe nes services on Pla 0 p. o and were h direction, Percy Miller has r for the Adams Express Co. a position Machine Unable ated Co. to Press authority volutior nd th to men letariat n. tio show t made by me with in New The of the according to votion will be Our 1 ing. irches Sunday. wille wil Briefs. T vesterda from the the is | severe | he while vis A the now con- t malady. Church Mectings Resumed., influenza been regular ra, llowed i hurs- Baptists, an the pastor, an- Re held dy of Merey at res northe SATIN sale price $2.19 yard. Y BROS. If purchased today would cost $7.50. | not w The last opportunity which the men | those eligible be- | in | ing | rthur | camp | returned ves- | York where he was ngs of any | ed | Special Sale P}ices on Silks and Velvets and CHARMEUS HIFFON VELOUR for $5.95 Nilkolai mier, W Lenine, the Bolshevik Pre- 1s unable to save men he did h executed by the Peters com- mission, The red ow has from Mos- a monster, which Lenine and other members of the cen- tral government cannot control, terror spread become WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE. The following have planned togo tor London Friday to attend the State Chamber of Commerce confer- ence: E. W. Pelton, W. A. House, A. Mills, W, . Attwood, D. McMillan, I". H. Johnson, William Cowlishaw, Ernest W. Christ, Joseph M. Hal- loran, J. C. Loom and L. A. gue, The New Britain delega- ion will leave in automobiles F morning at 9:30 o‘clock in order to reach New London in time for regis tration before noon. n FROM ARMY TO NAVY. Private Bugene Doherty is spending furlough at his home on Lawlor Private Doherty is awaiting transfer papers from the army to He went to camp with a crement reral months ago been transferred several he ent to a gas tory in the south and has been th the gas unit for about a month. probably the first local draftee transfer from the army has Recently was 10 receive to the 1 ed over this town | st i led in a southwesternly New Britain, the signed as driver to accept Britain | GRIP, Blaze Torch Stockholim, ( (¢ between commissions = entra ha hat i ce to the d accor By the The )et. elayed) the il s t is and local become the 1o rdi to brought here by travellers. M. Peter to suppres: , h co! ead of the unter His o counter n Sovi s0 seriou predominant hip of the pro- information commis revolutions, of re- h 188 or- s as on has hecome more powerful than the na tional council by an amateur on il Although board of wnish steamer Cornwell Cider Milly photo shows an Inglish vessel the | When tow- Iinglish the v subr el of commiss marine wa immediately aries. op Even { nearest of said Limitation of Claims. At a Court of Probate holden at New Britain, within and for the Dis- trict of Berlin, in the County of Hart- ford and State of Connecticut, on the 22nd day of October, A. D., 1918 Present, Bernard F. Gaffney, Judge. on Esq., of Britain, as nk ithin motion Myron N D. Stockwell \dministrator Milewski, lato said district decree that limited for to exhib t the same to the directs that pub- n of this order by ad- per publi and having ¢ and the p N and 1id estate \d strator and lic notic give vertisin news it in said in saic culation ing a post distr thereof on Town of the place last dwelt Certified copy 1 in said whe from ¢ MORTIMER CAPTURED U-BOAT BEING TOWED TO PORT The battle which ensued réstited 1o steamer being the vietor, with Hun boat badly damaged. ()l nderwood & Underwood,