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R DQJ%UUT’U“L mnSr artford's Shopoin: NEW BRITAIN DAILY (ente Rugs, Carpets and Lino- leuins at February Ciear- ance Prices Mean &Xx @ LS ra Big Money Savings SPRING THINGS NI NEW LINOLE NOT BE TEWARD BETTER T~ YVE ax12 for £39.50 Royal value, for Roval x13-6, 2129.850, 3ody le Roya Mahal cind, were sale price Wilto & for $59.5 Linoleum 2,000 yvards " price $ Price gula Clearance CHANGIES YED. M FORESIGHTED SAVINGS SUCH ENEFIT Axmins teet .50, Axminsten inches $4.95 ea Wilton price Brussels regularly $12.50 o Larchmont 0 nugs, Inlaid IN A A\ WORN RUG FOR THIZ KITCE AND PLAN AHEAD AS TOLD OF BY TISM. OR CARPET TO N \ Royal Ix10-6, sale price $27.30 Roval Wilton feet, would £145.00, Rody foot Ru of < car- regularn price § wandy £6.50 regulat sized Rrussels regular Rugs, ed size, pri Seamless ax12 ary sale Colonial Rag regularly sold sized Tur $59.50 riced regular ea price Rug L OBt regular $8 inches. cach February ized 6x0 fcet, vegular price $12, vight yard solid colors the square yd Linoleum, 5 and $2.50 $1.45 sq. Our only Axminster regularly Rugs. cost sale price $9 regularly at o $15.00 each price $15.00. fou through [HOME WILL SOON BE IN ORDER. NEW BE FLOOR OR BATH ROOM. LITTLE, REPLACED, WY REAPING NOTE THEM— tugs priced each sized $35.00, ed 9x15 vou regularly 8.50. Rugs, 9x12 $65.00, in an Rugs sized $65.00, Fehru- 27x54 $1. tugs, priced od at si 1o price 98 $7.50 ecach. to Special the back. February MAVING SIVING ~ BERLIN NEWS LIEUT. BENSON WiL * BE BAGK HOME 00 He Has Been Sent of Debarkation IS ADJOURNED \gricultural V'rites That to Port MEETING of N IV Members Society T and Cannot Attend Meeting—D. A. R. Pageant Pleases—Ttems of In- terest. Mr, Berlin and Mrs. Sven Benson of Kast are in receipt of a letter from eir son, Lieut. Arthur Benson, who France for over eighteen that for has been in months, stating he has received orders to leave an embarkation point and expects to sail for the nited States at an early date. Socicty Meeting Adjourned. Owing to the illness of a number of of the Connecticut Agri- the membe cultu society, the annual have been held last eve- the Berlin Town hall, was ad- 30 Col M president of the society, meeting, which was to ning at yurned for days. @ Jar- vis, vice was ne of the members that did not an- swer the roll call as he was out of Wi D. A. R. Pageant a Suocess. members of Emma Hart Wil- lard chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ¢ Revolution, report that the pa- and musical program which rendered evening at the Be tional church was a suc- appreciative audience was nt and an enjovable evening was by all. Petty Officer Golen Homie. ‘hief Officer Joseph merly the U foreign wate arrived at where ican reant s last ongre An Petty of was Golen, Paterson, s for over his home he will furlough. Chief Golen time is stationed in a station at New York brother to Seaman Golen, who i on the which has been 11 Scouts Losc, % S, in has street, hich months n Hudson pend At the 1 service e Robert Rijndym Atlantic a short present v is a Paul ransport cross the times. Boy Berlin Boy down Scout defeat baskethall last even- the Berlin town hall before the team representing the Fafnir 1l Bearing company of New Britain the of 15-13. Captain How- Hall and Larry Austin of the team were the stars of the and much credit due to The local team is scheduled to the Tigers of Kensington next ning at the Town hall. Tt { the Tigers i1 defeated am went to is neet Mo will lay evening of tha first game Scouts the season he To Hold Cosgrove of Meriden chairman of the program mittee of the Ridgeway club which recently organized, announces that the club will hold a social in the Social. james ave- com- was { Grange N { reception ceipts of the social Sergeant ber | deep AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN D! ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF the Tuesday will be the society All members of | he present at is to be held Cosgrove next The re turned in equipment club Meriden evening rendered and room of hall on next musical by the dancing the club next the \ionday program members of will follow are urged to meeting which home of James evening 8 o'clock. will club the the at be owards new which the is needed in new ooms. Sergeant Ventres Writes, IPollowing is a | received from Harold Dale Ventres, a mem- of Company E, 102d U. S. Infan- who has been in Ifrance for over months and has wounded and sed on two ‘Clemacy, Dear Mother ‘Just a few all well Am well school, for some pretty hard tod: thing unusual here, and [ have just returned from taking a little wallk around the town and along the canal which runs through here. The coun- try around here would be pretty, in my estimation, if the would only shine a little hit. [t's always muddy here, especially around this part of the country, which is noted for its mud-holes. I went to church | this morning and the sermon was sure | fine one. I don't know what happened me, but somehow I got to France and have through these battles 1 have reformed and got onto myself. T have cut out a lot of bad habits, such as swearing stc., and there are a lot of other fel- (ows that have done the same thing. On the whole, I think I have been a fairly good while I been here “During the past few months I this observation and sniping, it is interesting, and able a map, read a map, make map, read a compass and able to travel by compass, which is all fine dope, as we say over here. These bits tter try in 18 heen occasions: France, Jan. 12; 1919 lines wishing that you and are getting along | and still at the observ- where 1 will probably time. 44 raining but that isn't are fine, ation remain any- sun has to since been 1 boy have took be- to a up cause orient am a ! of knowledge are a fine thing to know | i | { | | | | | | | | | | | you in civilian tfe. I ing days over, so-why little more knowledge that in future life? Another studying hard is how range-finder. Also have on etc., and and practice. : haven't guess that my not get will help thing that I use fight- are a am 1o aj instructions | patrols, range target Say, | practice mail and | any received any in this town, haven't received of last June. Be ome time to wait for wages, if that's what At present I coming. I 200 have been thing, I 30, since 1 another pay lieve me, your hard-earned you would call seven months’ borrowed a little You that I since the h that's it have pay have over s0 doing fine. 1 have practically all over France on than 40 francs, which I consider | a pretty small traveling expense. You can that T haven't been much money away. Just till 1 get home and T'll get myself a job and get good money, and I am willing to work, vou can bet on that that yvou and dad can on me. Besides. Orville Ventres and home in the near franc see am been less easily see throwing wait So you depend see always we have Sergeant John—they'll future Well 1 to write much more sure do that I you. How's Mevervone at home, anyway? I know some of my when T get there I have changed arriving here haven’t time but I from along I won't friends much paper could hear getiing bet that life-long You can that in appearance since Send my best regards more or vish, et "PEND ON PROMPTLY [ o little Grace that he will up by the to all and Frnest. T suppose be big enough to beat time 1 1ome. Love Your HAROLD IDIALE { A Boys Join Navy, Pip M son VENTR Joseph Pipki, of Buckl U. S. regular N seaman and a is at his home in call. * Pipki John Pipki Var Navy is well known at the P. & New Britain. Samucel A. Cowle Mrs. Edward J \ on of and Mrs. eniisted an appren- present J the tice in t time ng Seaman the reg the past two years and here. Hc employed »in company Becelkley brother has been await of in his is a who for F. Cor in son of Mr. and Cowles, of Northamp who has heen for th enlisted in O a resident of th he i Navy and employed Britain town the tanley two years lar U. 8. call. He Works. at awaiting his is the New Church Notes, Services at the Berlin Congrega- tional church tomorrow morning will be conducted at 10:45. Sunday school will be at 12 and the Christian deavor will meet at 6:30 o’clock Mass St. Paul's church celebrated ag 10 o'clock Brennan will deliver the se Sunday schcol will follow. Services at the Kensington Metho- dist church will be conducted at 10:45. Rev. Lounsbury will deliver the sermon and Sunday school will follow. At the church 10: En- < will Rev. J mon be (o] and Kensington the Congregational services will be held at 5 Rev. Carleton Hazene will preach and Sunday sc hool will be at 12 Christian Endeavor w 1 meet at 30 o'clock All members society are urged to be present. Berlin Briefs, Misses Josephine and Adele ray have returned from fheir with relatives at Haverstraw, York A o’cloc of Mur- visit New large and social Berlin pices crowd held attended the dance last evening at the Grange hall, under the aus- of the Triangle club of the American Paper Goods company- Mrs. Henry Suprenant, who been seriously ill at the New hospital is slowly recovering pects to return to her home pins Hill in the early part weel Thres arniy unite ha Britain and on of is ex- Gal- next trucks of the air serv- stationed at the Mineola field passed through the town fter making a trip to Camp Devens. Miss Marjoric Turner of Fast Ber lin will entertain her Sunday school class this afternoon at her b on Cottage street. A number from East Berlin attend- ed the group meeting of the Epworth League at Middletown evening. ice today home last to Make Those Famous Salva- tion Army ext Sunday New York American tell why the Salvaticn Army made such a hit with American sol- diers abroad. Recipes for those fa- mous coughnuts, cakes, pies, biscuits and evervthing else which were al- ways ready in abundance for the hungry’ doughboy will printed in next Sunday’s American. Order now from your newsdealer.—advt. D ] If you see man encased a strait-jacket dangling from the end of a rope from the top of the Nation- al Bauvk building Monday at 12:15 don’'t get scaved, it will be the great Lmther doing the Houdini act. Then see his wonderful teat at the Lyccum and hear him lectur How Doughnuts. N will be in ¥ H | § | man | me | the | HERALD PLAINVIL) ‘ JATER RATES - SETTLED IN M | | | | | i Propased Increase Will Noti ~ Before Utilities CommisSie R EAST DRIVE 0P4 S, Gwillim in Charge of Campaig) \Npk V75 at Factor Slace—strike Not Officially Settled—Other News items, up in regard on hy- wn of Plain- Water nefore stion which came The | Plainville to drants v from pany will { bublic utilities { originaily | appointed has been John report town quc time ago in in by Plainvill be conimission committee ter rair- his regular an increase the rates rented the « the o Com- the was 101 argued s pianned. Tae gate the ma working steadily Trumbull will to invest ¢ By wirel Washingtony Hugh C. Walls hassador to Fre aused by the 1 Graves Sharp. Mt of Mr. Wilgo old Copyright wood. and ( malke the be decide of findings which will calied March to the town W expenses meeting some timc the tax rate The Plainville contends that receipts and for ment by which the operate on a paying plan suggested was that Plainville, which now each hydrant, grant the company to have the to $25. Opposition to tion resulted in another “flat” or unmetered rates increased, thus putting the each individual Mr. Trumbull statement the reveal his would not the matter make in on for Company friend its arrange- can tirst of for the 1ter its exceed asks some Underwood company The town pays $15 ition of basis the hG Thomas, a Plainville tigate labor conciliator, to some time and a settlement Washington to report the department of Quinn, the head union in New was g0 to inves. attempt to returned ‘to findings to and John F. of the Machinists’ Britain said that the then placed entirely in hands of the government. The 1ation now can only be described deadlocked rate conditions to He hi labor increased Lfols this wh would sugges- the be on in reby burden matter the sit as when asked for a on question, declined to he to to meeting. that regard comes findings, saying say anything in until the time report the Church Notices, Congregational church lar morning service will held at 10:45.© The topic for the sermon by the pastor will be, “Two Sons and a Father The Sunday school will the the morning The organized Rroth- class meet topic The be his 1t regu- Holiday Obscrvances, office n he post was i afternoon ton's thday Company w | that in observan The the only f bi Rockwel meet at close of o ysed holiday The service, newly will better erhood will “A returning ome.” ed to meeting will be will | closed for the day he Plain- Ae and the 1 communit e S be pite for our at invit- boys All attend he the hovs 1 1 our cordially Young People's held at 6:30 m “In Lumber Camps meecting 1 be in on Sature men i he closed evening N t! some was open on vning to p. he topic e Min and fact for 2t the i whi o s G i nstitution the The 1 the missiona committee Episcopal church Mornin ice and il be ' The school towr ry b serv- 10:45 19 rary will ape enin old Up. sermion f Tee Tarvest inda will meet The 'eloc : Adver like a the reve istiar Mory church 5. Sunday Workers' ing 1t wenther not come at 7 o' of ng lock to Thomas F fre ; 1 he the e Plainvillc uDon m. « Th Turning at 12:05 m be neces: Plainville by in 131 etion the praying Itman Waterbury pealker. bii pastor's price wtist chu theme Heart Young Peop At T m 1 Confidence Zion church. \Women's Morning worship and ser 15 Sunda at Evening worshp mon R Robert H rec- the ( on will h will Sunda 45 a he that to dweil be to d of the hool X vill has never heen necessary al dealers weather memory of 2 daily harvest Relief N 6 p the p for fay A A rally »- mon the Plain- | 12:30 Near East at 7:45 McLeod tle of company will as preach fund and will contributions. Plainvill expected to give approximatels per cent. of the amount subseribed the United War Work campaign There are about 4,000,000 tians Jews living in Minor, the Caucasus. Armeni and | Northern Tgypt, 466,000 phans, and all are Tt is hoped that local { spond as liberally as in the past, and circumstances will worthy cause Strike Not to “und Drive, Gwillim ha talke | campaign | Relier Fund | Plainville Trust treasurer of the Stanley pointed een a at 0 o char for the A. A vill the : hurch the Burton of tor of Savior. act in evening. gladly g St Brief Ifems receive ief Items, 0 to Walter to Haines and Walton, N be employved af those entertainment to be given Altar society was held last evening at the home of Miss Aana Gra The music commitie arranged the program will be rendered by well bers of the par from New be music Paul | they Louis v ave zone will A part in the where rehearsal the Ladies’ e who will take and Asin Persi s of them desperate need. people will 1 they have liberall, permit o e eE n Several solos mem- known Briiain. The Al 3 is e known done their this) as and by wel singe fair will nature af- patriotic Officially Over. seems that the tendeney of the Rockwell-Drake to disregard the striking of the plant, as no being taken by either side in troversy. Men are being most daily, but they ar returned soldiers and e Frank P. has returned hospital in New been several It | officials tory Priar W om of st Main Raphael's the street fac- cm- £ Haven days. at is where he has ployes action is s the con- hired in principally sailors L. R James Graham week-er New Haven. the in sper of 1l as the guest e d Martha rehearsal drili Monday evening at 8 o'c sharp in . O. O. F. hall DEPTH BOMBS EFFECTIVI Undersea Explosives Wrecked Many Rebekah for officer lodge will hold a guard team and German Undersca Prowlers. London, | in the opinion of many gaged in submarine chasing. chief factor in checking the submarine campaign. The nearly two and the depth charges Previous that dragged about effort other Feb. 22.—Depth charges en- the ofticers were C T During German war had gone on s been Soted for ' trawlers mind | I n and used futile the past ten years the fo 2 years before were Plainville Trust Company has s A e building a business large enough mines to equally on ca vet les an the every demand, keeping in of smallest dangerous and take of needs bus of the 1t banking iness devices. is equipped to care the But - for solved the perfected depth charges arranged that they could timed explosion at any desired depth the problem of the which fighting h suffici drop these charges and get out danger zone. The mortality the submarine chasers immediately dropped and the seas became very un- for the sensitive underseas craft One of the novel devices adopted by the British for the co-ordination the efforts of trawlers and submarines has divulged. A ne by requirements large enter- be prises as well as the checking ac- { count and needs of the household. small chasers were the submarine could of among One is entitled to the same careful | Trawlers wit ent speed consideration given the other e and at this strong bank every little detail is important. . 9.00 a 100 to p. m. 00 safe 9:00 to 12 m. = Saturday of 7:00 to 9 THE © £ ! Plainville Trust Co. | WEST MAIN AND PIERCE PLAINVILLE, CT. m )0 p. m. Saturdays trawler aible with ight- sub- at- just been would and by ol marine tack prised Germans prepare to give fight. drag a submar a communication When the trawler U-boat, the British slip cable and before submerge maintain telephone a German vould German boat could its ihe or strike submarines the sur- | 100k the could not | i posts, but their Lrd because of the terrific sound Immediately quickly orders the BB kT, has been= constantly in Bolshevik ter- for ihe past year He planned of Yaroslav Jdast-July, which threatened the the Working ritory the capturc movement the raging of escaping al the ou over- after the explosion lights to the confusion with a companion life-raft, it being in| launch the boats in ti the raft was slippe the side. It turned upside dow finally righted and He with othe! found themselves afloat. Almost ir mediately the ship went down n than five minutes after the fir explosion The officer did not Lord Kitchener on deck, and it is opinfon that, only one hatchwd open, the only men who reach deck were those who went th Although much confused, trying to open a number hatchways while trying to read and found them all batten and all went throw government for time and was pui down by the Bol- <heviki at great cost of life and sup~| T plies. | the lashings of a Although the Bolsheviki put a high to price on Savinkoff’s head, he man- sea aged to escape them through various disguises and and left Russia way coming from Viadivostok by sea. His nearly every had many ano added er of Moscow as her | vhich 1 1e of L c Possible terrifi and over subterfuges but of Siberia, directly to Fra activities extended into section of Russia and he narrow escapes. Of all the | prominent social revolutionists iave heen pitted agains Bolshe- vik regime, Savinkoff is said (o be the most feared by I.enine and Trotzky figured prominently as one of the most dreaded inder the im- perial regime. ! Marie Spiridonova and scores of | { other anti-Bols} fac- | Th heroic thin | f which the Bo | while by ance | more who as the was the recalls | 4 | He | terrorists other e deck down raft drifted during with the gale f; which time maj men were washed from the rz died and rolled into t enter. The raft th members of 1ev tions have done work w ive hours. the past nine months the R nerrectioael o in ki, others hev members of the R u so the mittee ontic 1ssian com- | net in the was t the e tossed through an in a and say, L Bols have rocl issinn new \or- | reet rched on an island oughly scoffed at the suggesti Kitchener I te sure the Hampsh mo; vd been | <nown | in newspapers. 1 and not torpedoed with JAPAN'S UNEMPLOYED 1200,000 ACRES WILL BE CULTIVATE Special Committee is Named to Look Into Labor Conditions Throughout|One of World's Largest Farms Wi All Mechanical Fquipment the Island of Nippon. i ot For Work. labor Jan. 1 Associated Tokio (Correspondence ‘Whes from I'he Falls, Mont harvested Feb. 22.- tall the | of the warld's largest farms eompri red 200,000 of Indial with Montana and Wyoming. ¢ due about 33,000 acres been plowed an remainder it is ar cultivated during ti the Press. Great question is receiving wide attention | will he 10Xt or The of government in Japan imperial relief works committee to deal problem to the firm that does home office has establis ing about acres a in big lands of this the unemployment tract cessation of favored on of holding 10 labor Japan do war work. A | jrrigated the ground meetings discon- land have and the will be summer. located on the and Fort Peck reservation| and the Wing River res Wyoming To make thi corporation wit organiged la Campbel, cohceived th policy freedom not tend tent, and that, to orgainze unions promising the Arbitration Meanwhile a seeded, nounced coming The Blackfeet in Moatana ervatian in land productive | $2,000,000 capital Co., | Spring Thomas . | North farmer, of the thousands Indian lands in Montan: He lacked capita approval and assist of the interior Franklin B. Lane, and J. P. Morgar and other leading New York bankers] The corporation was then farmed witl} | several of bankers as members [of the boa directors and Mr tion, the | Campbell as president it, Bunji On this huge farm in E e Instead foi over which lessen in permission land Crov not seem establishment court. radical and by as as of a Labor interesting = Matsukata Dock in distributing 000,000 profits at the e vear ailotted three-fourts his workment and other employ against been taken was of the who, has step K when D. D cultivatiag president Kawasaki Tt of Kobe, about kota nd of the of Wyoming obtained the the secretary acres the | and but has to s as one-fourth t the company. Mr tsukata graduate of Yale and the son of Marquis Matsukata, one of the four ramaining lder of the empire Japan's one uaikai, 1 wzuki directors of is a e eldest Genro Statexmen these d of labor organ as sent horse tractors large wil ca quantities i purchased. I {all 52 of t hines are now -th | property of the corporation, and th for last summer was acre a minute for th one day 1,880) d broken organize the farm mits, with its| buildings 10t arge proside to a Labor Congress ope. He is pledged t | immigration of society regards vital kai has 0 work pabhle of turning laborers sod wer the his | of as one se mac Japan 30,000 promoted in question The Yuai ind | impor has heen ance to i plowing record thay time turned a ahout members more working were is proposed 5.000 by Tokio American el Unitarian Mission acres It into | own modernly to acre LAUNCH CEMENT SHIP. each Have group of permanent equipped and in charge of a { competent farm manager. I farm | separately managed. Con- of the land on have heen ex- through e Bxpects to Large Fleet Ready by Spring. be A for term agreements with the Secretary lane Many actically will | tracts | long ecuted s apr O (6 the ‘leasing which the is expected Mail.)—The Comafran | has just been t goverame launched on Seine, the of of first vhat acres all well of similar land exist in the Pacific Colorado, to be a large fleet N of states cement ships to be oo this spring England dard type placement the of the fact all in construction of their duced in French-built launched in France from stan- as as in mainly Th of and that o carry coal steps are land to steps have being taken t the returain thus far invite soldiers o open oldiers, taken to settle ships about 1 are 000 French of tons dis- proud maierial 1 this fleet been in are on Montana the to the uncultivat of cement The Comafran down used a sed 2d land the first unit new pro- | N I is the was nece SIGNS OF PROGRESS the note Tele- orga- 22.—Amid is sounded a to n throughout Vladivosto detail. The construction framew | smallest | | al from the battle | {l steel the | revolution in Siberia s serap | of progress Government felds. launched time | graph agen Omsk reports vessal tor the omplished this t of agency und to neces- stem this has cement was first, been | nization of sor to he Siber yas been by of has i exploring AS with a ship of caNnet ministers Many French ship- { sary and called conference in building experts had expressed fears | Tomsk to consider it thousand of mishaps, but nothing untoward oc- | rubles have been »<<izned for the Sen~ curred. ‘ferencs. & he be tonnage. a rty