New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918 ALL THATS STRICTLY CHRISTMAS TO BE' CLOSED If you have forgotten someone, or felt you couldn’t add to your gift list, the reduced prices on strictly C nr‘ifmnt goods, will give you a chance REGARDLESS to do as you wished. Visit Our Down Stairs Department left-overs at big Christmas thing that is stric around and see what vou can THOSE WONDER OFFERS FOR WOMEN I AND MISSES IN SUIT ROOM GOOD TILL WEDNESDAY There are still two days (Monday and Tuesday) in which Tverything is new and up-to- Not bought for sale purposes, but regular stock which we wish to New TYear's Come see the garments. There Are Sults in all the most favored materials and popular color- All at big price reductions. feminine wear at date. reduce before store will be closed. ings. Some plain, taking make mark downs Throughout tly Christmas also at a Mark Down. find. and decided price savings. inventory, Wednesday, Seeing is believing. some fur trimmed. for both women and misses. Good Selection inx Coats at the most pleasing mark nicely made garments from which mother or daughter choice in material that button high, also fur trimmed Coats. or color. Styles belted and plain. to know real value. Other Offerings include Blouses, Dresses, Furs, Smocks, big Suit Room. one floor up, is a regular harvest field for That is you, of course. buyer. selection Big crush collars You must see, 1 | | i | | 1 | ! i 1 | from the i store, any- | browse the Come, to melect Day, when Sizes downs. Warm can make easy ask the price fact, our thrifty in the ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF T PROMPTLY BERLIN NEWS JEW POST OFFICE TO BE READY BY FEB. [ ensington Will Have New Build- ing Within Few Weeks 0CTOR’S MACHINE WRECKED 'ord Physician and Wife Have to Walk Two Miles to Take Trolley | | Held Today— | Car—Two Funerals | | i Brief Items of News. E. F. Kilby in town today ith full plans for the new post office | hilding, which the street from the spot | arrived is to be erected di- etly acr fore Peretta’s cobbler shop uated. Mr. Kilby has received all | ders from the Post Office depart- ent in Washington to erect a build- g at least 30 by 24 feet which will | obably be completed in onth. N, H. Minor has been secured contractor and if there is no delay out getting lumber the building will occupied by February 1, he says. »stmaster Willlam W. Fagan has re- ived orders to make all preparations | an immediate change. Dr. Hennig’s Auto Wrecked. Oywing to the bad condition estfield road, Dr. J. T fe, of Hartford, had iles to nearest car tomobile was badly struck the deep mud ruts in the ad, breaking an axle and sending e automobile down a five-foot bank & occupants. escaped all injury other bn receiving a severe shaking wup. Hennig was formerly of Middle- vn and was on his way to that eiiy | visit relatives when the acciden il him Funcral of Irene Haz The funeral of Irene Fen ed 15 o died at her home rlin F ’ afternoon afts s with as held this | oon at Rov, Sam- | iske officiz and interment | mete Besides rvived by three was about one of the Hennig and to walk two line, as their damaged when | Hazen, . Bters and a Funeral of Mrs. he funeral of M d 46, who died her home Ensington Saturday afternoon af ilimess of three days with influe held this morning from the pd Heart church. Rev. Lucyan Boj- jwski officiated and the interment | s in the Sacred Heart cemetery, | w Britain. Mrs. Nicksa was a new dent in the town and is survived % husband and five children, three i ghters and two sons. 1 At the Churches. t the Methodist church in t 1in yesterday morning a very in- esting lecture oa the subject of ew Year's Resolutions” was deliv- ledsby Rev. Leon Ellsworth, former- pastor of the Methodist church in ringfleld. . Also a short talk was en to the younger Sunday school barles Nicksa. “harles Ni in | | made y\v | a severe attack of influenza is improv- | ing. | tr | serves, | her latest plav, is Dbeing plaaned which will be pre- k) ceded by a supper on New Year's evo. | Maes at St. Paul's church on New Year's day will be held at 8 o’cloc . Confessions will bo heard on Thurs- day afterncon and evening _Mass at the Sacred Heart chureh in 2 on New Year's will be wducted at 10 o'clock. At the Episcopal church in Fast Berlin yesterday evening the Young People's class decided to have a New at the home of one of | Tip. made by the county Y. M. C. A. boys of East Berlin was pn Friday when a party of sevea boys, under the leadership of Benjamin Tennyson, visited the Royal Typewriter company of Hartford, went through the capitol, explored the state library ad wound up at the M. C. A., where the boys had lunch eon before returning to their homes. Berlin Briefs. William Boardman and family cently reported suffering with a vere attack of influenza are slighily | mpravin | Ralph Carter who has been confia- ed at his home on Berlin street with The first trip re- so- Box rents at the Ber are now due. Jomes Corr and family have moved from Christian Lane and will take up | | their new residence in the vicinity of American Paper Guoods campany. ouis Burdick of the Naval re. serves, stationed at Brooklyn, is a short furlough at his home in Kensingtoa. James McCarthy of the Naval re- stationed at Boston, is friends in Berlin. spending ort 1 postofiice | furlough with hi -aman Victor Kaminski of the Wadsworth, stationed at Vir- is speunding a seven day fur- at his home in I Berlia, | is the first furlough that Seaman | Kaminski has had in the past three months as he was d¢ ing duty in for- cign waters Rob Q, De: friends in Ken, Liberty ing in preparation for the ball on New Year's eve afternoon Foresters’ guest of | only rgeant William McKeon, who has been spending a three-day furlough at his home in Kensington, has re- turned 1o his post at Camp Devens. He expects to receive his discharge at n early date. Raymond Fale and family their home on Meriden av influenza Mr. and Mrs. George Dunbar Meriden avenue have returned their stay in Boston. Miss L. A. Wilber, the local autlor- | , has gone to New York city where “Whisperihg Hearts,” are ill at | nue with of from | is now ruaning. Louis May: formerly connected with the Conneceticut Brick company, was in town to day on business. FOR SALE—Five room cottage, store and barn, greenhouss, 1,600 Ibs. horse, 7 years old. Jerry Vendrilla, MILK DEALER WARNED. On Saturday a hearing was given Louis Dworin in the office of the board of h:alth on the charge of keeping an ibsanitary dairy. Notice was given Mr. Dworin that his license will he suspended or revoked if he does not comply with the order given him and place the dairy in a sanitary condition. Another local milk dealer will be given a hearing on the sses. A New Year's e\n(erl&inment‘same charge tomorrow. { club band will | bovs ! while, to thelr headquarters on Bast | I no money orders | the following program for the Central [ March . BOYS’ CLUB BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Open-Air Program Is Arranged for Tomorrow at Central Park from 7:30 to 9 P. M. On Tuesday evening, December 31, the New Britain Boys’ hold a concert at the Christmas tree Park Should the weather stormy, band’ will play but one or two selec- tions at the tree and will then adjourn to the auditorium of the Grammar school where the remainder of the program will be carried out. The pro- gram will last until 9 o’clock and the will then march, playing the | at 7:30 o'clock, in Central be the ain street, where their leader, Mr. | Parsons, wiil lead them in a second concert. Mr. Parsons will give a short speech in the form of a resume of the year's work and refreshments will be served. The parents of the boys and their friends are cordially invited. Bandmaster Parsons has prepared | Park concert: America Standard Bearar ... Silent Night | .+ Jgv to the World On\z ard, Christian Soldiers . Think of Me Carol .. Adeste Fidelis Carol . Ihrk the Herald Angels Sing Waltz . . «+... Condora Chorus.Keep the Home Fires Burning Chorus . Hail Columbia ! Hymn ... . Eventide | WMarch Victory | Carol .. Anthem Choru: Waltz . Spangled Banner RESTAURANTS NOTIFIED TO OBSERVY ORDINANCES Restaurant owners have roceived | the final Warning from the board of | health concerning the city ordinances ich requires milk to be handled in sealed bottles. The ordinance which was passed ‘and sent to the owners as a waruing reads as foliows: “No hotel, restaurant, or other place where milk or cream is sold or offered for sale to be drunk on the premises shall handle milk or cream other than in led bottles.” TUp to the present time the ordinance has not been en- | forced because the difficuities in ship- | ping has made it hard for the milk dealers to secure the bottles se LETTERS FROM FRANCE. The mayor has received cards and letters from in France. Private Poter member of Company 1, 102nd 1. Infantry, has written interestingiyv. Fred Alderidge, formerly & New Brit- ain man and now a member of the photo section of the signal corps, has written to the mayor from France. He remarked in his letter that he met many New Britain boys while on his way to the front. Martin Gill, U. N., has just returned from overseas and wrote to the mayor from Ne port, R. I., whare he is now stationed. He told the mayor in his letter of the agreeable surprise he received upon walking into a Y. M. C. A. building at the naval base and seeing posted on the bulletin board a telegram from the city of New Britain wishing the boys in the service a Merry Christmas and 2 Happy New Year. sveral over Cook, a the Dboys i enter | churen ! drunkenn { pneumo 1 army PLAINVILLE NEWS STRIKE SITUATION STILL UNCHANGED Factory Is Glosrfld Until Thursday to Take Inventory MRS. FRED CASTLE DEAD | Tuneral Held This John E. Fay Afternoon—Rev. Assumes Charge of Local Pastorate—New Year's Plans —Brief News Ttems. It was rumored yester compromise was to be effected to sot- tle the situation at the Rockwell- Drake factory, where a “sympathetic strike” is in progress to protect | against the discharge of more than 100 emploves of the plant last Thurs- d:u The government cancelled the orders for I\gnl Browning machine guns and the officials immediately stopped all work on the contracts and discharged the men working on them. The officials of the company expacted the strikers to return to work, but thus far their expeotations have not been realized. The factory is being picketed by the strike sympathizers who deciare that they will let no one the factory te take their jobs, and that no compromise will be made. They also protest that the terms of the recent government wage award were to remain in effect for six months after the end of the war. The men who went out on strike state that as they left the factory, the su- perintendent told them that they were discharged The factory has been ordered closed until Thursday, the reazon given as the annval inven- tory. Mrs Fred S. Castle. Mrs. May M. Castle, wife of Fred Castlo, died Saturday at her home at White’s Crossing. She was about 51 vears old. She leaves besides her hus- band, a son, Ralph, and a daughter, Mrs. Ella Brown. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Erwin Memorial chapel in New Britain and Uurial was in Fairview cemetery. Priest Begins Dutles. Rev. John E. Fay took charge of his duties as pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy today. He preach- ed his farewell sermon at St. Mary's in New BRBritaia vyesterday With the coming of Father routine will take placée at Heretofore there has mass at the church on the future there will be two masses at $ o'clock and the otheér at 10 o'clock. On Wednesday morning, New Year's d. there will be wmasses at 0 and m. Friday wil] be the first. Friday the month, and there will . m. and 7 & m. morning Fay a new the church. been but one Suaday, hut in New Year's day will be observed in the usual manaer in Plainville. The stores will bo closed all ¢ nd the Plainville Trust corapany will also observe the holi The shops Will not be op fice will close at 12 o'clock noon and will be issued. 7The all closed for taking ia- will not be open on that factories ventory ¢ are William Connor Arrested. Willlam Connor, better known as “Major Gilfeath was arrested b Officer Marino Saturday night for . He was fined §7 and costs by Justice A. H. Condell, his previous bad ord being brought into consideration by Frosecutor Gwillim. Harold Corning Safe, Letters have been roceived from Harold Corning who leit here with a drgft contingent several months ago. The last time he was heard from was on October 21 and great anxiety was felt for his safety. Iie writes that he was in the thick of the fighting but thanks his lucky stars that he came out sate and sound. Ho was with the 77th division and on the day the ar- mistice was signed was in the front line enches and the division waas 3 torward. Miss Mildred Coombs has recovered !rom an attack of influenza and will resume her duties in on Thursday. Miss Martha, Hird been substititting during Miss Coombs’ ahsenge Har Charle Fisher, Clarence Nelson left Saturday for New York clity to remain over the holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott and family of t Main street removed to Waterbury today. George Barrows has recovered from a severc attack of influenza, a; a and has resumed as a clerk the Central Gondale. and duties Market. Up-to-date books reading this winter. 49c at Ryder's Advt in for your 60c books now Stationery Store. “CITY ITEMS Coxswain Bdward Carrier of the U. 8. 8. Mohican is spending a six day furiough at his home here. Tonight, 7:30 to 9 p, heavy two-piece all wool underw Id in moest stores for $3.00 a pic tonight, 2 pieces . Besse-Leland’s-—advt. The total amount of thrift and war savings stamps sold, in eity hail from March 16, 1918 to December 30, 1918 is $2,498.17. The sale of these stamps was in charge of Miss Jean Cochrane in the office of the city clerk. Alexandra lodge, No. 24, Daughters of 8t. George, will hold their regular business meeting in Turner hall Wed- nesgday afternoon at 3 go'clock. At this time there will he- Christmas ex- ercises for the members children. Engine companies 1 and 2 and the m.. genuine regulation barber | The postof- | the post office | has | home | I Hook & Ladder company were called ' out Saturdy evening for a slight fire { at the New Britain General hospital. i Some defective wiring caused some of { the clapboards to ignite and damage ! to the extent of $10 resulted. Thue | same companies were notified by tele- | phone vesterday morning of a blaze y in an ash can in the rear of the Rog- | ers block &t 65 Church street } A slight explosion occurred at the | plant of the New Britain Gas Light | company on Meadow street early yes- | erday morning. Inv igation dis | closed that the cause was due to coal s in one of the coal holes. | Corporal John Maerz and James ! Tyran are home from Camp Spar- tanburg, North Carolina. Both were members of the regiment band which is soon to make a tour of the north- | ern states. In civilian life both men { were members of the PhiTharmonic band of this efty. Lieut. Francis P. McDonough, { tioned at Camp Devens, | 2 New Year's leave home in this city. Tonight, 7:30 to 9 p. m., negligee shirts for $1.00. land’'s.—advt. sta- of absence at his Besse-Te- STATE FUNDS FOR Special Compensation Insurance as Reconsmlcuon Measure Richmond, Va., Dac. 28.-—FExten- sion of workmen's compensation and exclusiva state insurance funds to | cover ail persons gainfully emploved; the adoption «f health insurance laws to safeguard workers and thelr fam- ilies agamst slcknest the establish- ment of speeial protections for the safety and health and wages of wo- men workers; and provisions for aft- er-war vocationat training for chil- dren, wers among legislative meas- ures of labor reconstruction suggested for immediate action by Commission- or Eoval Meeker of the United States Bureau of Labor Statisties; John A. Lapp, director of investigations of the Ohlo Commission on Old Age and Hezlth Insurance; Mary Van Kleeck, direector of the Women in Industry Division of the United States Depart- ment of Labor; and Lucile Eaves, di- rector of the research department of the Women’s Educational and Indus- trial Union of Bostcn, at the conclud- ing sesslon Saturday of the twelfth annual meeting of the American As- sociation for Labor Legislation. 'The firet step in the future develop- ment of workmen’s compensation, ac- cording to Mr. Meeker, i3 to secure its adoption in the ten states that have not vet acted whieh, with the striking exception of North Dakota and Mi uri, are all in the South. He advocated broadening compensation laws to cover all workers, especialy railroad employees who are still al- most wholly at the mercy of anti- quated empleyers' llability iaws, and urged +the universal adoption of ex- olusive stnte insurance funds, better medical care, larger cash payments, and & shorter wsiting perfod wher- ever these are not up to the highest stanlards. “I think this Association has no ‘more important function to perform,” he said, “than the enlight- | enment of the minds of the people generally on the necessity for includ- ing all emplcyes under compensation Jaws and the econsmy and Indispensa- bility of s.a exclualve state fund.” Mr. Lapp declared that social health insurance in the United States has already advanced into the realm of practical polities. ‘‘Most searching inquires into its merits “are being made by officlal commission in eight states, and by public spirited bodies,” he said. “In one state, New York, n. comprehensive bill, including maternity benefits, being pressed for passageé At the next session of the legislature with the powerful backing of the State Federation of LaborsOr- ganized labor in most great indus- trial states is demanding health in- surance.” The object under health insurance ‘as well as der compensation insur- ance according to Mr. Lapp, is to re- habilitate the man and protect his family against suffering and destitu- tion. ‘“We cannot do less in fairness {to the disabled persons and to society,” he sald. ‘“The tost argument against gocial insuramce is plainly a Instead of costing millions it will, through better organization, { bugaboo. is spending | two $1.00 ( § INSURANCE URGED | | ! save millions which are now being paid for the care of sickness. ‘Pre- | i vention vs. Insurance’ is a subtle op- | position argument made either in | ignorance or instncerity. It is a bait { to lure the unwary away from health | health protection. Insurance and pre- | | vention are not: antagonistic and | { neither can take the place of the | other. The paternalistic argument has been used againat every good | measure that has been proposed in this country for the last fifty years. | The kind of company that this argu- ment has . been keeping does not cause | right-thinking men to put much con- fidence in it.” Speaking of the war-time advent of | @ women into industry, Miss Van Kleeck declared that labor recon- | struction will not demand the with- drawal of women from suitable occu- pations but will require action to es- tabiish wages on the basis of occu- | | pation and not on the basis of sex, | while avolding the danger that women will remain in gertain indus- | iriés or be introduced into new ones at a lower wage scale than is paid to | men. “This and other problems of women in Industry,” she sald, ‘“‘were familiar before the war but are aoc- centuated in the period of reconstru tion. Women worjcers should be pro- tected against dangers to health from insanitary working conditions and hazardous occupations, inadequate opportunities for training and limited chances to be advanced to more re- sponsible work in many industries, and the dangers to health involved in { insurance by setting up a program of | ¥ C. S. HILLS & HARTFORD CO. Partyand Evening DRESSES We Would Make Misses’ Special Mention of Our New Stock of Women's PARTY AND EVENING DRESSES For which there is at present quite a demand and Many Bocial Events are taking place, now that the armistice has been signed and the American army is returning homse. These Dresses are shown in Net, Taffeta and Satin in new and very charming models. The colors are pale blue, orchid, nile, flesh and pink. Two Extremely Good Values For $29.75 and $39.00 Prior to Inventory Clearances BOXED JEWELRY SEVERAL AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES NUMBERS IN STRAP PURSES AND HAND BAGS MARKED DOWN. STRICTLY HOLIDAY STATIONERY SPECIALLY PRICED TO CLOSE. OUR HOLI!;AY STOOK OF IVORY GREATLY TO INVENTORY. THRIFT AND WAR SAVING STAMPS ON MAIL ORDER OFFICE. UNDERPRICED SALE DRIVE WILL CLOSE DEC. long ‘hours and employment at night. | was discussed by Miss Eaves, These conditions and the payment of | said that all states should a distinetly lower wage in women's | to take advantage of federal oceupations than in men's work have fance in establishing gontinua always been a check upon the ren- |schools and short-time courses dering of the most eficient service by |,\outhrui army, enlisted for women workers.” | benind the lines, should be The néed of checking the !:lrr:a‘)hz@d promptly,” she added, exodus of children from the s:'lmol}turned to the school rooms pass for room into workshops stimulated by |full-time training needed to abnormal war conditions and attended | them for good citizenship by much shifting and demoralization, | tional efficien and Christmas b Now ‘Commercial| Trust Co. who “Our service demob- “and re- the prepare voca- T Sz