New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1919, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALDS AN ADDED ATTRACTION TO HOUSEWARES SALE TWENTIETH CENTURY COOKING SCHOOL Miss Robinson is a science. She demonstrates our eyes. A lecture every afternoon of the com- being prepared De ing week at 2:13 Myrtie Ethelyn Robinson, sraduate of the Boston as she lec fore p. m. different menu each day. school of DOWN STATRS. Demonstrator. domestic lectures. The entire menu of a meal Monday’s Menu, 2:15 P. M. Malt Breakfast Food Tuna Salad Pe Doesn't that sound good? Beech Chocolate Fish Fritters anut Butter Loaf with Oscar's Sauce Jaffee Come in and sec the d also sample the different courses, The domonstrations a and all women of Hartford and- vicinity are invited Housewares Bectlon -Nut Bacon Gingerbread ishes prepared. re entirely free Down stairs. HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN D"?P RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. DEPRESSION HITS GONSTRUCTION G0. ” BERLIN NEWS | Beginning Monday, Factory Will 6o on Eight Hour Schedule Other Local Concerns Have Not as Yet Made Any Oh: *s in Working Time—Nazie Iome on ! “Wins Lawsuit. Owing to the recent cancellation of war contracts and the difficulty in securing steel, the Berlin Construc- tion company will change the sche- dule of working hours for its em- ployees starting next Monday with an s-hr day and half day Saturday. The tory during the past two vears has y working 10 hours six days a three nights overtime. officials of the number of week and slso, the concerrt 1 tsmen have been laid off. This is the first local factory to managir report that a hange its time schedule since the o ion of hostilities with Germany. 1. American Paper Goods company, fthough doing a large percentage of overnment work, has still maintained » same working hours by its em- loyees. At the G. E. Prentice Mfg., |, orders received still re- nained uncancelled and the factory will run on the same schedule aman Nazie on Furlough of the U. § recently re- waters, s ! 1 at the home Kensington. Sea- ned at New Or- en in foreign waters nonths and, being on a | expy He also the opportunity of visiting France, Scotland and Ire- while convoying transports ar zone, he has aking their attacks. witnessed Receives 10 Pound Pickerel George Bragg of East Berlin, is in receipt of a pickerel weighing exactly The pickerel was caught Pl N. Y., by and was ) poui rela- hipped Hull At St. Naza Word 7 en recelv friends Privat William Flull, wh is with 16 White Enlisted Sta 301st St ldore T tating that his regi- ment h rrived at t Nazaire, France will probably be shipped ly date. Private Hull ing duty throughout France but never hag the opportunity fo get on the firing line. In his letter, Private Hull also stated that he is well and during the past few weeks he has come in contact with a num- ber of other Berlin boys, who are nce to he sent back Corporal Turner Speaks. wnile attending the East Berlin Village Improvement society fair, Which ciosed last evening at the Ath- | William Turner of Co. I, who recent- ! pear. Kidney and Dodge, the local Furlough | letic hall at Ea Berlin, rporal ly returned from France, was called upon to deliver a talk on the war. Corporal Turner at first declined and stated that he didn’t have much to but after a little coaxing he gave a very interesting talk, relating his ex- periences 1 the trenches, where he wag stationed for over 13 months The Wesleyan Glee club failed Lo ap- |at their roams at th audeville actors, gave a comedy act. Max Sugenheim, the local station master, was the feature comedian of the evening. Dancing followed the performance. Board of Relief to Meet. The hoard of relief held its first | meeting this afternoon at the Rerlin Pown. hall. All members of the board | are requested to meet again next Tuesday at the town clerk’s office. Mrs, Maloney Wins Suit. [ The case of Max Henkin, of Farm- | ington, suing Mrs. Annie E. Maloney of Kensington, to recover commission | on a real estate deal, which took | place over six months 2go, came up | | yesterday at the court of common pleas at Hartford. Judge Markham awarded a decision in favor of Mrs. | Maloney. Attorney H. H. Henry Hartford appeared for the defenda Attorney Williams of Hartford pearad for the plaintiff. Berlin Village Improvement. The Berlin Village Improvement so-| Of the church, sty will hold a military whist and| ale on Tuesday evening at the Berlin; Grange hall instead of Monday eve- ning as was previously announce The eipts will be turned towards| village improvements. The sale of| tickets has been very successful and| the committee in charge repart that| @ very pleasing program is assured. | At the Churches, Services at the Kensington Con-| gregational church will be held at [10:4 nunday school will be at 12 anai the Christian Endeavor will meet atf o'clock. Services at the Berlin Congix tional church will be held at 10:45; Sunday school will be at and the| Christian ndeavor will omit the | meeting for tomorrow ecvening. Rev uel A ke, pastor of e church, announces that Rev. H. B. Schauffler il > the speaker at the Roosevelt memoria rvices which are held to- morrow evenin at 7:30 o'clock iE ice at the Kensington Methadist church will be conducted by Itev. Lounshury tomorrow morn-| { i it 10:45 Sunday school will fol-| the sermon. Mass at 8t. Paul's church wiil be at! Sunday school will fol-! o'clock lass at the Sacred Heart chu 1 2 will be celebrated at 9 { o'clock. Rev. J. C. Brennan will de- liver the sermon Services at the Bast Berlin Episco- pal church will be conducted by a visiting preacher from Middietown tomorrow morning at 10:45 o'clock Berlin Briefs. “Smoky John” has returned to town after being up in the Maine lumt camp: k 1 has gone to work at Mer- win's brick yard. The aew postoffice at Kensington| is completed and Postmaster William W. Fagan will move as soon as the| building has been approved by the! postofiice inspectors from \\Ew\hvvu:—‘l ton Henry Fagan. who has been spend- ing a visit at his home in Kensington. has returned to Newark, N, J | The Iensington Boy Scouts held their regular meeting last evening at their rooms at the Kensington Congregational church parlors. Scout- master L. E. Goodrich gave an inter- esting lecture. Julian Hall is out again after heiag confined at his home on Hudson street with a severe attack of influenza. case of Mantaa North, who arraigned this morning before Judge Dickenson at the Hartford police court on the charge of violating the trappe. law., was contiaued till a date, as the state game warden stated that he wanted to fully inves- tigate the case. The T. B. Fife and Drum corps will hold a rehearsal Monday evening parish LA members are requested to be p | ent. e Triaagle club of the American Paper Goods company report that the social and dance given last evening af the Berlin Grange hall was a big suc- The social will be repeated on | next Thursday evening FOR HIS ABSENT SO Rev. H. A. Cook, of Topeka, Kansas, to Have Charge of Parish Work at Trinity Church. Rev. H. A. Cook, of Topeka, Kansas, s i will come New Britain late next month to take charge of the parish work of Trinity M, E. church while { his son, Rev. Warren F. Cook, pastor absent with an Amer- REV. W. F. COOK. jcan speaking mission to the soldiers in France and Germany The father has reccived a leave of ahsence for a year and, with Mrs. Cook, will come to New Britain to care for their grand- children Rev. Warren T7. Cook will leave about April 1 with about 50 other well-known speakers. Their purpose will be to enthuse the Americans abroad and deliver a message of cheer from the folks at home, who realize but cannot appreciate the disadvan- tages under which they are living. Rev, Mr. Cook expeets to he ahsent for six months First class sanitary Red Cross bar- bershop open at $0 Beaver street. Joseph Bian advi. MILLINERY-—The store of the late M. Seibert, 57 Church street will open Saturday, Feb. 8, for the d posal of the large stock of high- class millinery, ‘state M. Seibert, 57 Church St. 2-6-3d " PLAINV SNEAK THIEF TAR COAT FROM SOLDI fPassports, Discharge Papers ani $40 Stolen From John Turner 8 | i | | MAY ARREST MISCREANT Thief Leaves Some of His Own Clothes in Room. Leaving Valuable Clue—Firce Department Gets Call— Other News Ttems, John Tur) police that while he was at work ye veported to the terday afternoon someone entered his room in the Hotel Clarendon and stole his overcoat valued at $40 and his ports and discharge papers from Canadian Ixpeditionary Forces Turner attaches more importance to the theft of the papers than to the loss of the overcoat, and he is of the opin ion that the man who sfole the papers may use them in an attempt to de- fraud the public using them to falsify his identity He said this morning that he had a clue to the identity of the thief, who left some articles of his own wearing apparel in the room. Turner thinks that the thief may be in Hartford, where he might have sccured employ- ment. The police are investigating the matte: Fire Department Called Out, The fire department was called out about 11:30 o’clock yesterday morning 1o extinguish a blaze on the Southing- ton road It was a brush fire and was extinguished without difficulty and with little damage. Lamb Writes Letter. Merton Lamb has written to his father, John Lamb of Broad street, telling him of the way in which the army of oceupation crossed the Rhine. He s that, with all due regard for the newspaper stories, they certainly did not cross the river with bands playing. Lamb drove an ambulance on several of the hig battle fronts in France and has had some exciting ex- His letter follows ederbieder, Germany Jan. 15, 1919, periences. Dear Irather: This has been a great day for me so I am celebrating by writing a let- ter. This is what made it great: this morning I received a lot of mail and got pald for three months. I | still have Dec. pay coming £o vou see how we et paid. Well money is about useless a- a snowball over here, nyway, just now. Right after dinner I went to Neu- wied and sent one hundred dollars home through the Y. M. C. A. so you can look for a check any time and if you look long enough you might see me some d The clippings about the army of oc- cupation were verv interesting. I see that we crossed the Rhine with bands playing. Perhaps some of them dia but let me tell you how we erosscaiit On the last stretch of a twenty- five mile hike, about six o'clock, when it was nice and dark, so tired we could hardly walk. we crossed the Rhine. John asked if my shoes were worn out. Yes for about half the march T walked with holes in my shoes the mud ws NOTICE. The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Plainville having received a petition fom the Connecticut Com- | pany to relocate and reconstruct cer tain pole lines on Fast Main Street, Railroad Ave., and Pine Street, as per plans now on file in the Town | < Office Notice iz hereby given that there | will be a public hearing upon this | matter, Friday Evening, February 14, 1919, in the Selectmen’s Office. Plainville, February 7, 1919, WM JOHNSON., H. CALOR, FREDERICK the army of Occupation, stationed at | states that during the big drive at During the p vears the nville Trust Company has been building a business large enough for every demand. vet keepidg in mind the needs of the smallest business. It is eauipped to take care of the banking requirements of large enter- prises as well the checking ac- count and needs of the household. One is entitled to the same careful consideration given the other and at this strong bank every little detail s important 9.00 a, m. to 3:¢0 p. m. 9:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. Saturdays, 7:00 p. m. to 9:00 P. m. Saturdays THE Plainville Trust Co, WEST MAIN AND PIERCE sys, PLAINVILLE, OT, {‘incorporated in the 76th division and | Seminary in Hartford to take up his sending are all g there yet': will be abj more I don'f 7. ? The papers & v that we af leave to Parig) They probably arg nothing like that Army, Ir 4 seven given here we would af are.not suffering but we ting a lot of things that are I am net very parti self, all T want is to get back. Don’t send me any more paper envelopes as I can get all I want now. We are not in Coblenz but in the towns around there. I live in the wilds of Neiderbieder myself. .1 never knew anything about Pres- ident Wilson cating with the oceupa.- tion army. 1 thought he ate in ?«‘rnnvo, I doubt if he would have en- joved monkey meat very well. That Is what we had for supper Christmas. The dinner was fair. ’ Yes, T get the Literary Digest right along now and enjoy it very much, We get a lot of magazines from vari- ous sources now. I am looking for ward to a great time when I return, hearing the news, seeing the changes and telling about the war. T hear that there is a “First Over, First Back” movement on foot over in the States. If you hear of any such thing tell them they have my vote in favor of it. Your loving son, MERTON. Church Notices, Congregational church—The Tegu- lar morning service will be held at { 10:45 o'clock with a sermon by the pasior. The men of the congregation wiil be invited to meet for an infor- mal discussion of the life of Theodore Roosevelt immwllnrfl_v after the serv. ic The offering at the meeting of Sunday school will be for Thorns. by Institute in Alabama. The Young People’s meeting will be held at 6:30: leader, Harold Newell. The topic will be: “I Will; What Will I?” Special { music will be provided. Episcopal church—The morning servics and scrmon will take place at 10:45. The Sunday school will meet at 12 o’clock. Baptist church—10:45 a. m. The subject of the pastor's sermon will be “Putting Things in the Right Place." 12:05, Sunday school. The Young People’s service will be held at 6 p. m. The evening service will he held at 7 o'clock. Subject, “The Supreme Duty.” Zion church—Morning worship and sermon at 10:45. Sun- day school will meet at 12:30. Eve- ning worship snd sermon at 5:30 Brief Ttems. James Cunningham is spending a furlougk at his home on Maple street. He is stationed at Philadelphia with the U. 8. S. Minnesota. Bar Judd Wadsworth, Robert Touhey, and Wilson Ellis will return to their ships tomorrow evening. NOTICE—AIl kinds of sheet metal repairing, furnaces, gutters, lead- ers, stove repairs, roofing, eto. Prices right. Tel. 228-2. W. H. Met- calf, New Britain. 2-5-5d WANTED-—A well located rent with all improvements, in Plainville, by a young couple. Address Box 16X Herald 2-3-5- CAPT POWERS WRITES., Local Man With Engineers, Patrol Work in Germany. Friends of Captain Cedric Powers, who is with the 301st Engineers, are in receipt of a letter informing them that he at the present time with Doing Boppard, Germany. Captain Powers St. Mihiel, the 301st Engineers were were put in the front line {renches. Although his company suffered nu- merous casualties they were succes: ful in reaching their objectives. Captain Powers reports that at the present time his company is doing police and patrol duty at Boppord, hut are expecting to move further into Germany, aciing under orders issued by the ¥French government. He also states that he is unaware when he will be sent home but he expects to be listed among those due for an early return. FRANK EGAN APPOINT; PREFECT IN Frank FEgan, son of Mrs. Ellen Egan of 54 Tremont street, will report at 6 | o'clock this afternoon to St. Thomas’ | duties as prefect. He has been on a short vacation at his home for the | past few days, and now was to have returned goon to St. Bernard's Semi- nary in Rochester, N. Y., to complete his course in preparation for ordina- tion to the priesthood. His appoint- | ment to be prefect at St. Thomas's Seminary was made by Right Rev. | Bishop John J. Nilan with the ap- proval of Rev, John T. Winters, pas- tor of St. Mary's church in this city. The appointment to the Hartford school is the last atep, prior to ordina- | tion, and he will fill one of the placea left vacant by the ordination of Rev, James Wilson and Rev. Warren Roche of this city, both of whom were pre- World War. fighting. fects in the school. These Maps are Complete in every de- tail and will make a valuable souvenir of The Parents of Boys in the Service Over There should have one of these Maps when the boy comes home so they can be shown the exact places where they did their While they last they can be procured at the Herald Office for 20c EFACH