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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, W'l’:DN‘K:bUA‘Y, “_gmwm_fitws ' WAR DECLARED ON ROCKWELL-DRAKE 1 200 Machinists Meet in New Brit- ain VYote Against Working i’LANT RE-OPENS TOMORROW What m P Y : Ew YEAR § invented th Employes Insist Concern Violatea | | automaton 2 Who concei Agreement of Labor Board—Boys | § . " —Influcnza During December., o | YOU'S 77\\7["”_{ THE HEARTFELT I ,mu‘fln Micchinists union at § .. 1919 BRINGS PEACE AND PROSPERITY TO iy rmm_m” hail on Church street, & are nOt gOlng & night voted unani- THE WORLD. R e e oo | s o 2 | until the company recognizes the de- 4 tO mlSS the' mands of mion and lives up to the award of ir department dated OUR NEW YEAR’S GIFT , S ST f - second agreemer which was accepted by CHOICE AT COST Bl episode OF OUR BIG STOCK company docs nat liva up o an avard of the ment, des fact that the com- OUR GREAT JAN. COST SALE begins Thursday pany accepted its terms when it was Serial at first presented to the official morning, the 2nd, when (barring a few makers’ restric- The town of Plainville is much con- tions) we give you pick of our entire stock of merchan- cerned over the trouble, as it is gon- lIOUDINI crally heard that the company wil] not dise 2t cost. That means a lot to the thriftily inclined, AeatE folany Heman s oot AR . 99 TR and who is not, in these days of high costs. Look to your 1,1.(13-..«. but will close its factory if ne- Mastermlnd 7 personal and household needs and hasten to take advan- . ':Jv.."»]«:”L\f;‘:{‘;»‘:;';:-.Il‘@;f“ful;il\..l:nmr‘;\{f MORE THRILLING THAN THE FIRST. tage at cost prices. (0 Rt FArs et e g e thought it would reach the present st s e ones o § MARY PICKFORD: in M'LISS notice that its gover: ment contract for ht wning r . chine gun work had been cancelled Bret-Harte’s Famous Story - = and work was to be stopped immedi- HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU DEPEND ON PROMPTLY ately. This contract was a large one T r v ; RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. | and was running over one-half of the THURS.—FRI.—SAT. EW VAUDEVILLE - Vhen the company received > " B . - this notice, the men ir R TR P s 5 . rge of the — —— — — plant conferred and decided that = = = — = - we were ordered to St. Paul; that is| er, is out again after an attack of | there was but one solution to the | purning of the town hall, has been| LYCEUM MIDNIGHT FROLIC. OBSERVE HOLIDAY HOURS) BERL]N ths I.m the Arras front. Tater we were | double pneumonia. problem, it is claimed, and that samo | revived ain by several of the i — In observation of ti holiday, T i i | | again transferred to the Metz front, Erwin Whitman of the United States | 18Nt they di rged 99 employes. mer members of the club, and a Crowd Attends Theater to Hold Old | the Main street stores, banks 55 you 6o Inatil Have sden aiares||lare ationad ob That started trouble and the next! ketball team has been formed to pliy . . mp A Tpton e 5 | R aees SO e L Ares s Year On Its Way. | nearly all business offices will | proportion of France; in fact, moro! spending a short furlough at his | 02 members of the union left their { out of town teams oa floors in sur ‘ | than' the rest ofithe Berlin boya, Atfer | nome fn Kensineton places in sympathetic strike with thelr | rounding towns, there belng no hall e iduigheltrolict | A ertisea aurs ar ‘ fellow-cmployes who had dis- | in Plainville large enough to play in ) A o d & 1 reaching the Metz sector I always rode 3 been t Suvensiel i e s XTI & et A. A. Weldon has returned from e ey e = ¢ to occur last night at the Tyceum | around on a motorcyele until it was charged. The.con stated that it | The team, supposedly representi ‘9 : o) £ ey GHRRRE B el ;r’i‘o'::j‘;‘" where he been visiting | could not retain the men in its em- { the Boxs' club, is really ‘t*(-“nb\]f‘:m‘i s 7!\!‘1\:w- atire t'rm»l a large attendance Ent i ons ool i w0 b s ploy when the contracts were can-|an independent team as the club is|and the house was crowded from the | motorcycle. After doing so much | Charles Rich returned after a | celled. ctically nan-exister | e, ol v e Gl e S |ty ERn] B SR 5 G| ERD T SR SRR e, iLtiel Tactony) elosedithen for ann el R i L nenla Inultding 8 T ongibarore i holcloaln e | taiting ‘ i i i {fuoulinmechnom Slasatn S ixece) ve i TIRer Sl ooall ooRbo b il copen || LS O SRR o ol oot S R i e oo o u e G e, TanolcaTetin e gs A8 () Gl I Be[’lm S[]]die[‘ DlSGOVeI‘ed They e letter from Mr. Lewis and. twa | Monday after oberving the | ;% SRl LSRG el SOl S T e e T e s S e [ Loty o ave a holiday | from Colonel Jarvis, | : actory ‘was trying to break their ; i people n o I am now in charge of a rvepair | ranks and held the meeting with in the rain wilting for the blg eve L 4 rear's Eve enter S as el t : : postofiice, witit Although the crowd was nois ~ 0 motorcycles. A foew of these were ;<\nr kl;:,v J'L“’S'l”'-':m?li which iz Quinn, whe ol e if the trouble His alater Miss Midred slightly damaged during the last raid | & S gy Ll iscopali might possibly affect tl other-ma- | is substituting in his ab HIS T AVEL IN F ANGE:“““ Torry made. We hadn’t received | church in Hast Berlin. chinists in New Britain, replied that e ‘““\"”‘“’]“"’* plgven ey L Jerry - veived | ¢ ? > erision, the larger part of those in R S R any pay for three maonths until the | George Dillon of the Re. | e did not know. The union is de- . v and Bdaa San e the beginning of the performance an iy Naval termined, however, to remain away ders ttendance disapproved of the shot day before Thanksgiving and then | serves, stationed 'at Staten Island, is| t© oG b IDn S S Haven are visith latives in prom the gallery and hy midnight they paid us up to date and mine| a guest of friends in Kensington. from the Rockwell-Drake plant. this town | audience had settled down to an | amounted to about 800 francs, but that | oty E LT e i cacchotinnuenza, : The schools in Plainville opened for | yoymient of the program. The “boy = i *t do us any good, as we were in| _ CO'& S ey New ealth icer J. N. Bu reports | the winter term yesterday but closed | ol i - Burglarized by Boys—Berlin Man .'x“d:n;;;:n] where we' couldn't spend | YOTK city today to resume his studies | that there were 78 cases of Spanish | upmaleeiad (ot I Fnces Middletown Court—Wet | any of it. Also, T received a letter | 2 the New York University after | influenza in Plaiaville during the e e e e i R day stat- | SPending the Christmas holiday at his | month of December. Very few deafhs Q“;‘: - D SRRl ““ S | ing that he was ill._‘Well, T hope that | 1oMe in Kensington. S e Deany, ald was dancing bebind the footllzhis Pasquale Gianotta of the Signal | Ne is better now. 'T haven't heard or Corps in France has written some of | Seen anvthing of Matt since I've been his experiences to his parents in Ken. | Over here. I guess he's around Paris ' army, stationed at Camp Devens, is SRA s i the ollboing etto | somewhere in charge of some hos- France, Dec. 1, 1918. pital Dear Mother and Da i ‘Well, T haven't any more paper, SO | nop ga7.r IMve room RottarcNetore A new series of war savings stamps | voung women who are soon to gradu- §§*Well, it's a long time since I wrote | I am going to close this letter, hoping | =", ¢ "0 0 ™ orcentiouss, 1,600 iha, s placed on sale at the postoffice i ate from the local hospital at the 1 ) You last but I really didm’t have that it finds you all well and wishing | % Sate 018, Jerey Vendrils 110057, The new stemps are shout| ol last nighe w0 time. Things have been going pretty | You a Merry Christmas and a Happy | MR S e e S e B e e s e e e . fast here the last couple of months | New Year. Also, here's hoping that T | "y g S5 blue, with ‘a picture of Benjamin A e R S 'Jnd we had all we could do to keep | get home hefore this letter does ] Franklia They mature : Bungalow at Peat Works Entered and | today for the haliday. { | James J. Graham and Wesley | Cavanaugh are spending the holiday in New Haven. from influenza and pneumonia, there| Kenneth Diters is critically fun at | | ) Pavement Causes Auto Smashup. | were no cases of contaglous diseases | his home on West Main street ! ' ] | It was reported this morning that j Fenn Nourse of the United States | reported during the month, and in fact, there were few cases of con-| | seriously ill at his home in Berlin, | tagious diseases during 1918 | KRUPPER 'TO GRADUATES. suffering with scarlet fever 1 War Savings Stamps. A supper was tendered the 16 as weli & ! SRR in 1924 as the 16 who are soon to receive di up with the Huns. Well, it's all over “Your loving son, | LYCEUM TH Boys’ Club Revived. plomas. The exer e to he now and I, for one, thank the Lord “PASQUALE." } The Plainville Boys' club The bill which has pleased large pnich the gymnasium of 1 came out of it safe and sound. We | Boys Burglarize Bungalow discontinued its activities after the| Y. S bave been doing some moving around | It was reported this morning at|?udiences at the Lyceum since Mon- Ly 3 ) e ice being over here. First we | police headquarters in Meriden that a | day will be shown for the last time :A(r!;cllc up north with the llfix'il,lI and | number of small bays had smashed ¥. The vaudeville bill is headed WILSON SEES RELEASED TROOPS in July we were transferred south and | a window in the Kippling bungalow | po wa pay Sllis Island.’ . there we made our first big drive | near the Peat works and climbea Into | U7 - D8V at Ellis Island.” It is one toward Metz. tho house, taking small pieces of fur- | ©f the best sketches shown in a local From there we went to Verdun. ! niture and causing damage amounting | playhouse in some time. The other | That is where we finished the Ger-|to about $50. The boys, 'it was re-|two acts on the bill are Baby Gladys tns. Why they ran so fast that we | ported, took the old state road toward had to chase them in automobile | Meriden and the police were put on ; 3 trucks and wagons and in fact any- | their trail but no arrests have been | Picture is “His Birthright” with Se: thing that we could ride in, but we | made. Jt is the opinfon that these | Sue Hayakawa. licked them good and they won't start | youngsters were the cause of all the The second episode of “The Master any more fights for a long time to | petty burglaries which have recent- | Mysteryy’ with Houdini will be on the come. We are now near Dizon for a | been committed in this commun- | Program for the last three days of fest and I hope that they will be | ity. the week. Houdini is seen Teleasing sending us back home soon and T'm Kulas Finod $5 himself from a strait-jack nd | t s to Italy as it is | John Kulas of Hast Berlin, charged | the serial is full of life from start to | only seven day from - France | With breach of the peace and drunk- | finish. Mary Pickford in “M'liss” is | and two days to Rome but I guess | enness, was fined $5 and Costs hy | the feature picture for the last three that they won’t let me off that long | Judge J. Donahoe yesterday morn- | days of the week. Three acts of high | 8 Il have to let it go: I would | ing at the Middletown police court. } class vaudeville have also been booked rather come home anyway. I have | Judge Donahoe was lenient with tke | 8nd the program promises to be one bad a ghod time over here as it is used as he stated that this was his [ of the best of the season and I don’t care about going travel- | first offen: Kulas, it was testified, | ling around any more just now. Started an argument in Jurzak’s sa- | Things were preity hot for us for a | loon and refused to get out of the | while around Grandpree and down | Place When told to do so by the pro- | wround Metz. prietor. Kulas claimed to be em- “When we were ecight kilometers | Ploved as a laborer at the East Ber- Metz—T'1l never forget that|lin Brick company. ) e were ordered to take a AUCOsSmAch D A = o The automobile of Albin Holmauist v the name of Tricourt. The 5 skidded on the wet pavement and roaring of our big guns and Jer e e ; sma into a small truck belonging rowing over cast iron was something "o 1 "peod the local gardener, in | flerce, while the airplanes were front of Jepson's confectionery store \ping bombs as big as barrels last nix he accident occurrea round us. Dll tell vou it wasn't any | wpen Holmquist was roundiag th & Iun, but it's over now and Germany | corner near the store and the fact & ig finished for good. We started from | (hat he had no chains was the causo the States the 27th of May and landed | of the mishap. The occupants of both In Liverpool June 8, and from there | cars esc aped 1 injury. We must have gone ¥ up into Berlin Briefs, Sgotland, as the sun didn’t go down All the local factories will re-open WHBEL about 11 o'clock and it tomorrew after remaining closed for #Bining again about 2 o'clock in the | the past three days taking inventory Morning. Well, from there we went 7 condition of Mrs. Robert t0 Dover and then to (Cal Thompson, who has been seriously ill “The second day—or night, rather— | at her home in Kensington, is im- We|got our first touch of war, Jerry | proving. K ~f&the over and dropped about two tons Miss Marjorie Moore, who has been N B[RO i oners of war in Germany, but had 4 S of /bombs. Of course, this s exag- ‘ ill at her home in Kensington, suf- | %S d President Wilson, in one of the{ been released since the signing of the . s 3 et charge S werated, but it scemed like two tons, | fering with a severe attack of infiu- g, o P— R American ATMY Automobiles, re- | armistice. The boys told him of t iothensuigian st Spi e o r(‘lmmT’A [ and Cummins and Seaham. The anyway. The next place we stopped | ¢ is slowly recovering. 4 e P i ceived in one of the French village l ment ac &% Was Lart and Neleles and from here W. W. Whitham, the local garden- : some doughbo¥s Who had been pris- b many whil U ison camps