New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1919, Page 7

MODERN BOOT SHOP BOUGHT oOoOUmT The Entire Floor Stock 0Of The I VNN, Makers of the Highest Grade Ladies’ Footwear Consisting of the Newest Spring Styles in OXFORDS, PUMPS AND COLONIALS Wil Be Placed on SALE Commencing SATURDAY Refrigerators which save Ice and Food. and which have a complete circulation of pure cold dry air are the kinds that we are putting into the best homes. Let us put the Best in your home. B. C. PORTER SONS ‘ Exclusive Agen for BOHN SYPHO BALDWIN, and EDDY. Ladies” hand turn Pat. Colt, brown kid and black kid Oxfords and Pumps with extra long vamps and high French heels. Special Values to $8.00, Ladies’ Newest Patent Kid Glaze Kid, high throat Pumps and fancy Colonials. Ladies’ rravana Brown Kid Oxfords, military Special and French heels, Pat. Colt Gun Metal and Vici Kid Oxfords, high $ 5 2 9 5 and low heels, Special [o— Great Valyes. $ 3 L4 9! Values to $9.00. Advance Showing of K@ossShoe For Spring - -~ b eyt NECESSITY There was a time when silk shirts were considercd a jusary. But ihey aren’t any more. Newest Military Heel Oxford, ex- tra long vamp. Combination last AA Well dressed always strive to improve their dppearance. Shirts of silk offer them a better standard of appearance and quality. Onoce they try them nothing else will do. men Black Kid High Heel Oxfords, fea- tured with the RED CROSS Arch fit. We're specializing on silk shirts this Spring. Somec very fine weaves and patterns here at W. L. Douglas Men’s Cordo Calf Oxfords $6.00 in all siyles e | MODERN BOOT SHOP W YORK ARTIST PAINTING PICTURE 168 MAIN STREET ous summer weeks. The armisgtice was sigied, the government ° work came to a standstill—but the dormi- tory is here and to stay—and we find | that girls are girls the world over. | gy scouts, of which & whether they happen to be doing | ip the ¥ 'w. O A. live most of th » government ~work or professlonal| .ogpam of werk and play out-of- at the train and see them to their de work—and the attractive and comfort- doors when the weather co-operates |tinations. ceing them to t}\ur des ble rooms in our dormitory have been | wiry tnem, {tinations, is often a sort of Chinese| tnnual Statements SHOW EXGEl- | ana e ammins e % vers maps o |, 0%, memuirehip = vour ago nas e e lent Work Being Garried on e i i 3 . the ame he congenial one. [swere lost chiefly due to removals from he name t . W. C. A FILLING BIG PLAGE IN GITY are eighty ciety to jnvestigate homes of runaway and bays, and to meet strangers BILLION IN INCOME TAXES. Louisville, Ky., April 17.—More | than $1,100,000,000 has been collect- ed as the first instalment of income tax payments, due one month ago, it was disclosed by Danjel C. Roper, internal revenue commissioner, in an address here yesterday before the southern wholesale dry goods asso- ciation. $80,000,000 GUN COMPANY. The Winchester Will Déal in’ Rifles, Cannon and Other Firearms. Hartford, April 17.—~A certificate for a’ $30,000,000 corporatiod Thas ! been filed with the secretary ‘df state. | The title s the Winchester company, Ernest L. Ipsen Delegated to Make Portrait of ¥, H. Davison of of “Besides the sixty or more girls 'somn. With the addition of 447 new !t ¢ least something to who have lived at the dormitory members, ouy membership at present Work on, and letter B means | The annual business meeting of the f. W. C. A. was.held last evening it the association building. The fol- owing directors were elected to serve | rom 1919 to.1922: Mre. Philip B. Stanley, Mrs. Charles 3. Parsons, Mis. Willlam F. Brooks, Mre. Arthur Kimbell, Miss E. R. Zastman, Miss F. B. Andrews and Viss Mabel Wessels. Secretary’s Report. The general secretary of the organ zation, Miss Emma Zanzinger, mitted the following report for past year: “Parhaps it is those organizations which have turned out hundreds of parments, and have taken care of wounded soldiers, and have done work more tangibly connccted with the nfferings of the war, that have seem- ¥d of most value during the past vear —~our local organizations so ry far »ehind the lines have had to nore quietly, and undoubts more patience and faith, since we did 20t have the excitemont to keep us teyed up. At one of our récent Y. W. ¢\ A. sonferences it was suggested that whatever in our assoclation had out- grown its usefulness, must be aban- 3oned, In order that we may truly be wide-awake and allve and growing. I'nough it discouraged us somewhat, ‘here were some phases Of our Wor hat had to be abandoned to find new vays of expression. This was so with >ur educational work, where classes wore replaced by clubs, especially for the younger girls. Aids in Housing Problem. “Then too, we found other needs wising—and immedlately transferred sur enecgles to meet those needs. A year ago, the housing yproblem for roung women loomed large. With reung women pouring into the citles o do goverament work, New Rritain )eo, began 1o Wonder whode the stran- gers were to llve. The ¥, W. (. A wgs ready to solve the problem, and he new dormitery accommodating 57 szl was the result of several strent- the | bave placed since last Septemhpr girls and young women homes in variou and are outsid rooms. In oyr transient TOooY we have accommodated for a night or more, over a hundred Juests during the past year. Junch Room Popalar, g “Our lunch room, which, owinz to the tremendous cost of food could not avold a deficit last year, was miracu- two weeks in p parts of the ci vate e ¢ food and help problerns t with us, and though the cafe- teria is a great {mprovement our old lunch room,—we hope to con- tinue to improve, and make it what everybody wants it to be. To feed istantly called upon to find | upon | is 1017. The total attendance of girls lcoming to the building ror one thi |or anaother connected with the Y. W.| . and now that the pool is oxen again, is 1600 or more per week, rep- resenting at least 475 individuals, and | trily active membership. With the weekly entertainments and d ir ness girls given ¢y g, fhis number incr | ably, ana a {the near Blue Trian betore in the Other Work Done. “Qur work is not confined to ford cour e fr Icalled upon by ay evi Aga consider- membe > promises t le better known than cver city. Hun- quently Endorsed hungry people without demanding too | nuch from their purses one of the biggest and most unpleasant jobs on | 1s have learned, | this universe some of —but In spite of th peased the hunger of ing within . we hayo few by the past seven months ap- v physical department, prevented as good a been. However, the ep. closing of the swimming three months for repairs and the suv- g of fucl, caused our total entries o the 1 to be only 100 less than - the previous year. his vear 20,—and irls ic and the pool for 204 the swimming classes | num at 1 t swim one kind or mare. The Y. team which lias never bec lose y game in the pas v plaved eight games this seasan, and en April 29th, plays the plonship game with the Hartford. Recreations Offered. “Tennis, on our OWn courl, and Likes, long and shert Within & radiys of iwelve miles of New Britain, &f. forded wholeseme recreation for all kinds of physieal constitutions c per of strok basketbali ihe | statis- | This City. The campaign which has been con- ducted cal favoring the and in e, and those in ch: have cxtended their heartiest s to the public of the ci ¢ spirit the solicitors secured the sighatures of 10.215 r 1blic warded Lithuanian national council point will that Local awalting which More Bread” and use Angelus Flour ‘ Thompsus Milling Co., Lockpaet. N. ¥ 1 Bold by i Jerry Albanese, Park St. i i H {Herron a visitor here and help them make connections. {tunity to than operation and the willing LITHUANIAN DRIVE i Campaign Lithuanians to list is nation-wide and cured promises for support from land and the 1 fident of the ces tween Russia MACHINE GUNNERS HERE. Sergeant Russell Nelson of the 101st ) Machine Gun Battallon is spending a few days in this eity before returning i to Camp with Hosiery Co. te Bon and friends are und. caving the elty come to arrange with the them eet and ot con- | Wl AL the annual Y| vectors of the American Hostery com: bany in Februry, a committee sisting of Francis:R. Cooley of Har | ford, J. Frederick Talcott of | York, and Martin K. Pasco of Britain was appointed to re want to take this oppo i e meny o e etes | portrait of President 1. H. those who have helo- W. Davison e our Y. and hum under ice trait room. with the company). The po is to he placed in the directors ) meeting of the dis | Con- | of Conmecticut, Royal Arcanum, held in Hartford Elliot of this city was chosen Grand ' Sentry. gent was read preceding the election of officers and a ne : bers w secure a . (who has completed 50 years of serv- ' After careful investigation and amination of the work of {of prominent artists, the { commissioned Ernest L. Ipsen of New York city to paint the portrait i and arranged to have the work done in New Britain. The artist, accom- { panied by his wife, is staying at the Shuttle Meadow club while engaged with the wor Although & man, M 5 We are always m;)h a number committee for Freedom of State is by 10,215 Residents of comparatively young Ipsen has already achieved and has been honored with membership in the National Academy of Design, and is also a life member of the National Arts clyb. The former honor is especially conferred omly on those of artistic achievement. Mr. Ipsen numbers among his patrons many notable people of New York. Boston and other sections of the country. The portrait of Mr. Davison which now approaches completion is con- dered by those who have seen it, a very gratifying success. t during the past weelk lo- seeur independen the establishm of a re- that state has come to a rge of the cam- by signatures of Lithus shown. During the ek dents of this city. of names has been for- to Washington, D. C., to the nd from France. LOCAL DRAFTEE WINS ! COMMISSION IN FRANCE. Walter O. Cook, a local draftee, who | has been in France a number of months, has heen commissioned a second lleutenant In machine gun in. fantry, according to advices received in this city, and has been assigned to a branch of the army sStationgd at Grandecourt, France. \ Farp several months past, Cook has been acting first sergeant of his com. pany, having won promotion after | reaching Frane He was a member of the 801st machine sun battalion at | Camp Devens. be cabled to Lithuanians are the outcome of tie drive having se- nited States feel con- sation of troubles be- d Lithuanla. Devens. Sergeant anie outfit vesterday. John ot also wis [to be lodated in New Havedl:: Win- | chester Bennett, R. Earle Andersom and Clyde R. Yates, all of that cligy the Incorporators. The T the company will start wikl :1? 1 to 754,000 »aid in. ¥ The purpose of the buy, sell, distribute and deal in every varfety of rifles,” guns, cannon and gain of 49 mem- | other firearms and ‘simila¥- instru- 5 noted. | ments, and in caps, cartridges, etc. FRED ELLIOT ELECTED. At the meeting of Grand Counei] this afternoon, Fred A report of the grand re- Sometimes it’s’ fan to blow your own horn. We are exclusive agents for Knox and Dobbs Hats. With these Hats to work with there is just noth- ing to it.. We have never had as many shapes to show you —we have never sold as many and pleased s0 many men.. Selling Hats is the King of in- door sports at this store, Omeng $3.50, $5 and $6. [Wilson's