New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 7

GIVE BCOKS A THOUGHT FOR GIFTS AND MAKE YOUR SE in Books of every kind, Beginning with Picture Books for the youngest Books suited to the Boy or Girl, the athers and Mothers, up to any age. Books Gifts fail to give satisfaction Now here will you varied chance for choice than here at our Big Book cide on Book ifts at Xmas. LECTIONS HERE. AUTO ROBES AND As a gift to a man or something that the whole when out in the car, what do you think of a Robe have a fine assortment of Plush Robes with or without lining at $6.98 to Silk $11.50 to $24.50 before the war pri How About 13.50 each. ach. Horse Blanket? .98 ch. r use in stable, are $2.9 8, For 3.25, $3.75 With the assortment we have your Gift Choosing should be easy. of either sex, Young Man or Maiden for the are appreciated find a larger or more Department, and cast aside all worry as to what you should STEAMER RUGS family or Steamer Rug? a Plush Robes for use in enclosed cars, Steamer Rugs for $4.98 to $15.00 each. street use we offer good ones at GET A SWEATER FOR BOY’S GIFT We are offering Good Sweaters for the youngsters, at main floor through Book Room, larged Boys’ Department on NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918 | there where other De- give for can enjoy We rubber inter- All at 4.50. our new -en= All Wool Sweaters, strictly so, for 3 to 8 year olds, are found here in | maroon, khaki, e, and oxford. have the Byron style. Some have b elts, range from $2.75 up to $6.00 each. s, we have a ver lation army and coat style, in all the wanted' colors, at $9.50 each. Some Coat Sweaters, 8 to A cotton and wool mixed Sweater at $3.50 is a dandy. XMAS VEILS | suitable for motoring, Chiffon Cloth Vei x1 all color Fine for Gifts. Mesh Vei plain and fancy, with plain border, scroll or chenille dotted, 50c up. Rain Proof Maline, 27 in. width, black, white and colors, pretty for evening scarfs. Very special at 25¢ yard. others There is the Ribbon, and white, we offer yards, in 4 1-2 priced. Some are with sailor have For larger Boys complete show ing in Slip-on, V neck 14, very special at $: collars, pockets, while of 9 to 14 and the regu- $5.00, $6.50 to 50 and $2.98. others XMAS RIBBONS “Dorothy Dainty” 5 inches wide, pink, blue in pretty hair bows and sashes, prices 75¢ yd Red Satin Ribbon inch widths, tying purposes, and very specially Come here for got just the kind designs, for in 3, 4 ana suitable for %ihhons. You'll you want. HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PROMPTLY RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHAS ED OF US. blad received a large rumber of gold- en wedding gifts and were presented with a $50 gold piece by Rev. Dr. Oh- man. The reccption hall was decor- ated with evergresn and yellow chry- santhemums and Mrs. Ohman fur- nished the music for the evening. The guests were Mrs. Brita Lund Ericson, Miss Annie Whalstedt, of Orange, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Williams, Miss Anna M. Johnson, Prof. Henry Bonander, Mr. and Mrs. Allein Mag- nuson, Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg of Hartford, Mi Anna Munk of Mid- dletown, Miss Ister Hellberg, New York city, Harry Ericson, Upsala col- leg=, K nilworth, N. J.; Sergeant Mal- colm Ekstrand, Camp Lakehurst, N. J.; and Albert Carlberg of Portland. _D. A. R. Chapter Meeting. BERLIN NEWS f)LICITORS READY 10 COLLECT MONE nsingfon District Asked to | ' Donate $500 to Red Cross ) VISIT EAGH HOUSE| ™. | day aftzrnon at the hcme of Misses Brandegee of Berlin street. A dinner was served and a very interesting | talk on “Rambles in the Open” was | given by Dr. J. Warjen Harper of | Hartford. Miss Elsie Benson of East Berlin presented the chapter with a music recital. . and Mrs. Otto Youngblad Ob- e Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary 0. A. R. Meeting—Other Brict jitems of News. lAfter working hard during the past P ek preparing for the Christmas roll | Character Social Success. jl campaign, which will be held| The Ladies’ Aid society of the Sec- t week, Mr. Stevens, chairman of | ond Congregational church of Berlin Kensington district, reports that| report that the character sceial and ¢ should be no r on why this| food sale held at the ladies’ church mpaign should not be a big succe parlors last evening was a Succes: e slogan is a “Universal Member-| A short program was delivered by the ip” and all that is needed is a| members of tha Christian Jlndeavor prt and a dollar. Eleven teams| and the music was furni hed by Mrs, ve been appointed to cover the| Damon and Mrs. S. nsington territory and the follow- | D g solicitors will canvass in the ter- | Services at the Kensigton Congre- pry appointed to them by Mr. Stev- | gational church will be held tomor- row morning at 10:45 o'clock and District 1, Blue Hills, Miss Amy | , Norman Peck, Hattie Green- | 1 cker and Grace Isavall; district 2, | Sunday school will be at 12. Miss ockings corner, Mrs. E. J. Stevens ' Elizabeth S. Nebb who has been a d Mrs. C. F. Johnson ict 3, | missionary in Adana, Turkey, will esleyan south, Mr. and Mrs. Carle- | gpeak on “The Living Christ” and a Hazen; district 4, Wesleyan, | collection will be held for the Armen- prth, Albin Holmquist, Bsther All-{jan and Syrian ‘relief. g and Gordon Hotchkiss; district 5,| pMass at the St. Paul's church in Mrs. | geonsington will be celebrated at 10 o'clock. ‘Rev. J. C. Brennan will de- cival, Mrs. C. F. Lewis, By s Ellsworth; district 6, Pond dis ot® J. A. Moore, A. L. Moffett and E 8. Saien Voio | liver the sermon. ) eet, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Upson, | , Services at the First C(’“gregi'""’“' forge Sullivan and John McCabe; &l church in Berlin will be h;d o strict 8, Ledge street, Mr, aad M morrow morning at 10:45. Sunday : school will follow M. Cowles and Henry ( 1 i strict 9, New Britain road, Richard the Christian Endeavor will meet at awn, Dennis Negri, Harry Taylor, 6:30 o'clock. . and Mrs. Louis Goodrich: distr Mass at the Sacred Heart church Farmington avenue, eas Miss Berlin will be celebrated at lix. Ryan and Miss Helen McKeon; 9 o’clock. ptrict 11, Mott's corner, west, Miss The morning worship of puline Bauer. Methodist church in Kensington will The quota for Kensington has been be held at 10:45 o’clock. ed at $500, and it i pected that,K bury will preach the sermon. 100 per cent. membership will be | . 2 . Berlin Briefs. btained in this part of the town. Mr. | fyvens also announced that ther George H. Sage, president of ™. be no factory canva Rev. ' Berlin Construction company, with muel A. Fiske been appointed . his family, will leave today for Or- chairman of the Berlin district ana is in readiness for the campaign | the remainder of the winter. gtart tomorrow afteraoon. A, Weldon, the local florist, is Funeral of Eric Neuberg. | v & his sister in Barnsdale, Ver- The funeral of Eric Anders Neu- | mont, kre, who died at his home in Kens- | Miss Edna Burbee, m yesterday after a long illness | worthington school who has been ill, filll be held tomorrow afternoon from | jg now able to attend to her dutles. [ vt Memorial chanel fn New!| iraril kilby of the T.'S. Army sta- ain. Rev. G. E. Pihl will offici- | . % = St el J 5534 the intermont will be in the | toned at Comp Devens has b & rview cemetery, New Britain. S | Mrs E. Burlington Schurr and Married Half Century. . i : family are suffering with a severe at- and Mrs. Otto Youngblad of | ta0k of influenza. Court, Kensington, celebrated | Fverett & Everett golden wedding anniver: : atel: ; evening at their home, A | 38th U. S. Infantry; recently re- | turned from France, wounded, Spent Ptre number of friends and relative = gre present. A dinner was served , @ three hour furlough with his mother on Berlin street. ich was preceded by the extend- g of congratulations to Mr. and George Dodd of Berlin street who rs. Youngblad, by Rev. Dr. S. G. been traveling out west on bus man, pastor of the Swedish Luth- has returned. B church, and Dr. E. T. Fromen New Britain, Mr, and Mrs. Young- has vy | Private Turner of the nes Have yo_\ir dollars ;-;a.dy.—a—d-v‘r. the sermon and | the | Rev. Louns- | the | mond, Florida, where they will spend | teacher in the ! | { 1 | thought. | known to | deace LOCAL PEOPLE HURT IN TROLLEY SMASH Mrs. William Wall of South Burritt | Street Most Painfully Injured —Others In Car. A trolley accident occurred shortly after 9 p. m. in Hartford oa Thursday night in which several New Britaln people were injured. The was more scrious than The troll New Britain at 8:52 was late and rived at the waiting s on at City Hall square in Hartford at 9:15 p. m. The car started dowa Main street in attempt to rhake up lost time. Ac- cording to the story of one of thoss on the car it was traveling at a rapid rate of speed. Coming along to South green the speed was not checked and before anyane knew what had hap- pened the car had smashed iato a standing trolley from Jordan Lane. The Jordan Lane car, as the story was told, was standing still at the time of the accident. terrific and both trolleys were smash- ed. The New Britain bound trolley was packed with people of Hartford and this city and many were hurt. The Connecticut company” Hartford thi say who the N Brit: be injured but their resi- is unknown: Joseph Martocel, who was removed to the hospital; Thomas Callahan, Nora Galvan, Ag- nes Birmingham and Mrs. William Wall of New Britain. Mrs. Wall lives on outh Burritt reet and had the lower set of teeth knocked from her mouth and the upper set also hurt. ) is still con- fined ta her home. Evelyn Hai- stenographer Britain | ust company, was also on the car. | She was b y shaken up and bru but suffered no serious injuries. : Daniel Shanahan of Southington was also oan the car but escaped painful injury. City Engineer William Hall was on the car. He was not injured although he suffered from bruises and | a general shaking up. The accident occurred in front of the home of Dr. Naylor in Hartford. The injured | were taken to his home and the more seriously hurt were later removed to | the hospital. at fi morning was unable to Have your dolla: i i the little extras There is hardly a man child, who does not occ: woman or onally earn or receive from some dimes and dollars. source extra These little extras should not go easy because they come easy, but should go into interest in this The ordinary | provide a comfortable income for several years in later life. Hereafter, suppose you bank all the little extras and deposit them with us where they will earn compound | interest. an account Strong Bank. received during ufficient to extras lifetime are an THE Plainville Trust Co. PLAINVILLE, CONN. I ! ariver. { with the United States (Army. { Merton J. Lamb, son of Mr. | soldier accident | ey due to leave for | The impact was | office in | people were | | Tt sure was PLAINVILLE NEWS PLAINVILLE FIRM JUING FOR $10,000 Eaton Broth;ars Act in Behalf of Injured Employe SEQUEL T0 AUTO ACCIDENT Defendant Is Tuigi ]’asacueci., Who Is Charged With Running Down James Iee—Private Lamb With Army of Occupation. Through Attorney H. C. Camp, of Southington, Xaton Bros., of this iplace, dealers in feed and grain, have | brought suit against Luigi Pasacuceci for $10,000 in behalf of James Lee, colored, who was injured by an auto- mobile, of which Pasacucci was the Lee is in the employ of Baton Bros., and it will be recalled that he was run down by Pasacucci near Lazy Lane, while carrying a bag of grain on his shoulder, and dragged about 40 feet. injuries at the Now Britain General hospital, the case was brought in the fined $25 to $45. and costs which amounted Writes from France. The following is the first letter re- ceived in Plainville from a Plainville boy who is marching into Germany Private and Mrs. Jobn Lamb, of Broad street, is the who wrote home. As far as Is known, there is not another Plain- ville boy who is with the advanced guard marching into Germany. Lamb is a member of Headquarters Com- pany of the Second U, S. Army div sion, the army which has won renown on the battlefields of France, and is now honored by being sent into Ger- many fi The letter follows: “Dear Mother: I have not been able to mail a letter for about two weeks and can’t now, but I am writing this so that I can send it as soon as I get the chance. “The last mail T got was four days ago, and the last before that was over a week. “The influenza seems to have hit the states hard. here, Yes, T have been receiving New Britain Heralds. “Things are certainly for us now. received the news long before now about Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria. Tt will make a thrilling story some | day to tell you how I got the news. Let me venture a prediction: By the time you get this letter, or else a | time after, Germany will be finished | also, It is possible although not prob- able if th { home by Christmas. That sure would | be a grand and glorious feeling. “I saw Plummer the other day and he gave me some candles, by the light of which T am now writing. i “When T told you about the cooties l T never told you any of the pet names | we call them. Here are some of them | ‘Graybacks,’ ‘shirt-rats,’ ‘seam-squir- rels, and the spots on them we call | service stripes. We love them very much. “You ought to see me in my- tent. T have it fixed up fine. a German barracks and tore it down and now we have the place where we are full of small shacks and fixed ur tents. Outdoor life is sure healthy. “I received your letter wishing me looking fine Tet me tell you how T celebrated. At 3 a. m. T got up and prepared to move. We got on the train and rode most of the day, so that is one birthday T won't forget. ‘“"We esta ing morping at 2 o'clock. Marched unti]l about noon and moved again at 12 p. m., and arrived where I now am, It's sure a great life. you would all go out and look at it, wouldn’t you? This afternoon I saw over one hundred go over all together. In fact, I think I see more airplanes than automobiles. “Last night I saw a battle in the air a long way off. Three planes fell, but I could not tell which they were.” ‘“November 13.—Before I mailed this letter it happened Germany gave up. Today is the first chance T had to mail a letter since, so T am finish- ing up this one to send. T wanted to get one off so vou would know T had come through all right, T don't know when I will be able to write again, because T am with the —ecensored— but T will write as soon as T can and this will let you know I am all right. great when we knew the fighting had stopped. We were lined up for breakfast when the radio ser- geant told us they had orders to ce firing at 11 o’clock—12 o’clock Ger- man time and about 5 in the morning in Connecticut. “The guns roared all morning until about 10:30, then they began to stop and by 11 o'clock all was quiet, “We don’t even see airplanes now, only one with a message once in a while. You will know more about the whole thing from the papers than T can write. “T don't expect to be home by Christmas now, but am looking for- ward to “home again.” T can't im- agine how happy I will be when Y see the shores of the good old U. S. A. rise up out of the water as I did France, and then it will not be long before T will be home aeain to stav, and Y sure will stay for a while. But T am not sorry for the experience T have had. “What kind of a time did you have Southington court and Pasacucci was | It was not so bad over | OFf course, you will have | hort | should be so I might be | ' the day the armistice When Lee recovered from his | “THE THINGS WE SHOULD NOT DEMOBILIZE” SUNDAY EVENING SUBJECT 7:30 TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH was signed? There sure must have been some ex- citement in the old town when the news came. I am looking forward to getting your letters after the armi- stice was signed. “Will close now with love to vou | and father. We captured | a happy birthday only two days late. | blished ourselves nicely in | a billet, spent one day and night and | were called to move again the follow- | “If an airplane flew over Plainville ! “MERTON J. LAME. P. 8.—T will have to learn to speak Dutch pretty soon, I guess.” The Plummer referred to is the son of Dr. Plummer, of Southington, who is also with the Second division. Russell Estate. At probate court this moraing, the report of T. W. O'Connor on the es- tate of the late Mrs. Russell was ac- cepted by Judge George Byington. It is probable that the estate will be di- vided between the two daughters, Mrs. Donald and Mrs. Tracy, which time the court allo Church Items. Congregational church—The regu- Jar morning service will be held at 10:45 and the topic of the sermon ill be “Join.” The Sunday school will meet at the elose of the morning service and the \Christian Endeavor will meet at 6:30. The meeting will be in charge of the missionary com- mittee and the pastor will give an account of the American board meet- ings in Hartford. A. M. E. Zion church—The morn« ing worship and sermon will come at 10:45 o'clock at usual and Sunday school will be at 12:30. There will be evening worship and a sermon au 7:45. Tomorrow is trustees’ Sunday at the church, Baptist church—At 10:45 o'clock the pastor will preach a sermon on “The Effect of Distress.”” At 12:05 p. m. there will be a Sunday school meeting and the Young People will also have their service. The pastor will speak on, “Our Relations to Others” at 7 o'clock. Christmas Roll Call. The committee in charge of the Christmas roll call has issued a notice to the citizens of Plainville regarding the roll call. Their words follow: “The Christmas roll call is in the hands of the ladies of the town. Mrs. B. R. Clark, Mrs. Edwin Hills and Mrs. William Cassidy constitute the general committee and 15 team cap- tains have been appointed. , They in turn have selected their own canvas- sers. Sunday is to be Red Cross day in all the churches. Sunduy is to be banner canvass day. Have your dol- lar ready and be at homee to take membership with the family. | factory canvass will be necessary if | you join at home. Every family will be expeccted to give 100 per cent. Take down your old 1918 Red Cross fllag for the new 1919 flag. It's more important to be a member in 1918 than in 1918. The roll call To pay the increased of cut Company will 20,833,300 additional The Connecticut Company’s employees have been given gives word to the world that Amerl cans will rise to the emergenc peaco as they arose to the eme ne of war. The Red Cross is here to stay. Plainville’s quota is $2,000, the schools have already 50 one dollk memb srships. Plainville s done things by halves, let cur town go over the top, the first of all surround- ing towns. The Red Cross rooms will be open Sunday afternoon o’clock until 5 o’cloc: of from 2 Brief News Items. Miss Anna Laurelton hall and is enza. Kenneth Seymour has been ably discharged from the corps and is now at his home. Wesley Hosford has been dischars- ed from the army at Camp Upton. He returned to his home yesterday. Benjamin Ives of Plerce street, who was a victim of the recent trolley ac- cident in New Britain, has sufficlent- ly recovered to be returned to his home after being laid up with his in- juries at the New Britain General hospital. There are advertised letters at tha local post office for the following peo- ple: Lucy Kenny, A. I". Lindman and Mr. and Mrs. John McKean. Murphy is home from ill with iaflu- honor- aviation Have your dollars read wages employees of The Connecti- require fares in- creased rates of pay during the past eight months that will result in an increase of $1,250,000 in the annual payrolls. Divide $1,250,000 by 6 cents and you find that 20,833,300 addi- tional fares are needed to meet this increased wage cost. And this is only part of the increased cost of conducting its pro- perty that The Connecticut Company must meet. There have been large and progressive increases in the cost of equipment and supplies, the cost of construction, of of repairs, tridges, of paving public streets through which trolley cars run and in the cost of many other features of maintenance and operation. The increass in revenue of The Connecticut Company has not been equal to the increase in cost of conducting its property; in- deed, increase in cost of maintenance and operation has been hun- dreds of thousands of dollars greater than the increase in revenue. Obviously, this condition cannot continue indefinitely. must be as great as expenditure or this property to serve the public efficiently. Income cannot continue THE CONNECTICUT COMPANY.