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NEW BRITAIN 1914, PLAINVILLE NEWS |5 i The jost office had mail, handling more packages and a greater volume of mail than in previous year. The work was handled }Milr’n-nth_ however, and af 12 esterday everv package ve cived at the oflice had been delivered with exception special deliv eries. Assistant Postmaster Graham made these deliveries yvesterday after- noon. The Plunville Trast company paid out a larger amount in Christmas club checks this year than in any vew j since the organization of the club. The amount was $12,000. Many local people are members of Christmas clubs in New Britain and Bristol Will Try to Enlist Alfred Brunelle of White's Crossing will take the examination for enlist- ment in the United States Army within a couple of days and if he pas the tests, expects to leave Plainville with Nelson Morgan who is | here on recriiting duty. Brumelle will be examined in New Britain Bricr Ttems Harrier Hopkins and of New York city, and Gordon Hopkins Mary. of Plaintield d spend the holidays as the yunests of Mr ind Mrs. Charles 1 Hopkins of Wost Main strect Andrew Biggerstaftf has rveturned his home in Scheneetady, N. Y. after spending the holidays with friends DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMSER 26, » iger- Vedder E)man y UCCESSOR IR S R R D R R G R B specintens of fateloteeleieletalalorsy a vecord rush MRS. C. £. ROEDLER DIES SUDDENLY HERE Stricken WithAHeart Failure as She Waits for Car | BURIAL IN NEW JERSEY at TO €SO HILLS & CO. any Our January Garment Sale | Isthe | Big 1 Event 5 nd g Euds Sale. lverything he sold atl cost p stock. Come in and o to out May | the benefit of the bargains. They will J. BIRNBAUM Pal- 1 o'clock noon, At the of All Millinery At Half Price FOR THESE DAYS AFTER XMAS. SAT.-27th MION-29th TUES.-30th A Deceased Is Survived by Husband os and Five Children—Interment Will SELECT. Hat, Be Held Tomorrow in Hollywood IT MAKES NO MATTER WHAT YOU L'rame, Flowers, Feathers, or anything connected with Milline is you for these Three Days at Just Half of its marked price. This is an oppor- tunity that is given but once a year so make the most of it. Bear in mind it makes no difference how reduction been made on any Hat for sale you get it at half that price; for instance. if a Hat has been reduced from $8.00 to $1.00 you et it half that; it it has been veduced from $12.00 to §8.00 you get it for half that and so on all through the Millinery Dept. offerings for the threes days mentioned, Saturday Monday and-Tuesday, December 27th, 20th and 30th. Be sure to improve this opportunity of getting u New Hat, or hats at just Half price Special Values Also Offered in Our Women’s Wear Section, For the Same Three Days REDUCTIONS have been made on everything to before we take inventory January Divst. chance to make according to the Cemetery, Irvington, N. J. S Hopkins and Mrs daughter, Lrving M and N 5. Roedler, ol Roedler, Murs, William with at evening and dicd a fow She was 60 rears old and leaves. sides her husband, five children sons and a daughter in Newark. and LwWo sons Walter and Rtoedler, of Plainville. The body be sent to Lrvington, N. J.. tomor tor ‘burial. Intorment will Hollywood cemciery in that town. Mes. Roedler was waiting for a trolley car at the corner of, East street. and ‘Woodford avenue when she be- came suddenly ill. She wont to the home of Mrs. Haines few doors away on East strect and was admitted by Mrs. Mfaines, who sent her son for i at Dr. J. N. Bull. Dr. Bull hurried to|i the home. Lut when he arrived Mrs Reedler dead. Dr. Bull pro nounced death due o valvular dis- of the heart. Mrs. Roedler was subject to severc hearl attacks some time and became suddeniy at frequent intervals wife stricken 0 o'clock last minutes later. be- two N. J Justas will oW Clara has already R reduction big a just was heart disease tor here Hayden Vt.. speut Plainville, Mrs, Catherine Camervon son, spent the holiday as of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Whiting street There will be West with Pawling friends in Morris of be in Christmas and her the guests SPECIAL PRICE MBrnh reduce stock as much as possible The price cutting has been sharp and deeisive, + giving savings from $5.00 to $10.00 on a Suit you sclect, quality. meeting of all members of the American Legion post the Town hall on Monday 0 o'clock. Al Legionnaires Dy exeeutive com a a even EVERY GARMENT IS STYLISH AND UP-TO-DATE. Suits of y 1 the best and most favored materials, in all the season’s most wanted eolorings, are now priced at $27.50 up to $85.00 cach. Reduced from $42.50 up to $110.00. COATS OF THE WARM LUXURIOUS KINDS are offered in every tevial that is fahionable, stylish, drvessy zarments for every ocecasion, some with large convertible collurs of self material, others fur trimmed. Couts for $24.75 to $145.00 each. Reduced from $35.00 up to $225.00 DRESSES, BLOUSES AND OTHER WEAR ave all at radical mark ® i downs. Pay a visit to our Women's wear Section, one floor up, and see the bargain feast we offer. are requested the mittee to attend W \pha String Hin's best, al ma - case fou i opkins—Palmer. Ao The engagement of Miss Stella Palmer, daughter of Mrs. Mary mer, of South Main str New Brit- | make good New Yeur's gifts ain, and Douglas Hopkins, son of M NOTICE. and Mrs. Charles 1% Hopkins, of West wife, Mrs, F. D. Hanna. having | Main street, Plainville, has been my bed and board without just | nounced. The weddinz will or provocation. is no longer cn- | place next September. titled to credit in my name and | Mr. 1Topkins is employved hereby warn all persons from (rusting Bristol Brass company. Hec or harbaring her on my account, as I | known Jocally, partly through his war | will no longer hold myself responsible | record. He served throughout thej for debts of her contracting | war with Company D, 102d Intantrv, F. D. HANNA { and spent several months in Germaa | Plainville, Conn.. Dec. 26, 1919 prison camps. 1Tis bride-to-be is em- | WANTIED—Young man ployed by the American Hosiery shop work., Apply at company in New Britain. & Door Co Disturbance on Train, ® ke dRededobodotedod et %, fizV HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND’ ON ALD DRY GOODS PURCHASED O} US, £ RECEIVING %@@@@#@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@#@@@@@@@@@@@@ < BERLIN NEWS ‘DURANDA’ BREAD 1§ HERO OF WAR WEDS NOT VERY POPULAR But Beggars Gan't Be Choosers flN EHRISTMAS []AY and Petrograd People Must Eat Helsingfors, only PROMPTLY My loftt an take the all by is W residents here were Frances, fromer i Wednesday visiting friends in town afternoon. . William Bunce_of Jersey Uity spent Christmas with his family. Mr. Bunce veturned to New Jersey this morning. Rev. Leon Ellswoith and wife are visiting with her paremts in New York state over the holidays . V. Read and family spent Chuist- mas with her . mothor, Mrs. E. G. the for gencral In justice to yourself, note extraordinary offerings GERMAN GOVT. HAS IFour men, unusual quantity of { liquor and a game were the elements responsible for a near free- for-all fight on the midnight “dinky," Christmas ~ Eve. The four men boarded the. train in Hartford and an poker and Mrs. ¢, C. Webster and of Hartford ahd M. and Mrs, Finlund, Dec. 26, —The E. Honiss and daughters of Berlin St Che 3ristol 0r\§lle YentQTakes Miss Carter | v 8 His Bride GROOM WAS WITH YD BOYS spent Christmas at the “Honiss Home- stead” with TT 4. Honiss and family, Berlin, Briefs. William . Dunham of street entertained a number friends at his home Christmas. George B, Christmas with Hudson of his and family Mr. and Mrs. Carter spenf, Ray- bread the majority of the' resi- dents of Petrograd have been able to obtain for months has been the so- called “duranda,” made from flax- seed skins from which the oil been pressed, M. Saponen, a Potro- grad art dealer who recently succeed- ed in escaping from Bolshovist Rus- sia to Finland, who discloses this sit- has | { started played cards on their way to They had more than a speaking oc- (uaintance with John Barleycorn fore leaving Hartford When train left New BDritain one of the to lizht a cigarette, the coach was not a smoker. Ilix companions remonstrated, and from their talk other pussongers gathered be the men although | Capitalists MEAGRE FINANGES B Establish ~ Foreign Accounts to Beat Taxes WHY EGGS ARE { If the dealer furnishes | one or flock more with | chickens ar | numb | re from sttings inderstanding raised in incre this purebred years the 1o ner witl urebroe that thy stock. Is shoule uation says the bread is highly irri- tating and causes stomach- trouble. M. Saponen expressed the opinion that, if the Allied blocknde continued the worst months for Bolshevist Ru sia would be March and April. e Simsbury, former residents here were fstited that, though unemployment was visiting in town with friends Christ- [ general in Petrograd, it was Qifficul mas day. | o hire workmen owing to their wealk- Richard (. Bartlelt and daughter | ened condition and apathy. The pro- left this morning for Tariffville after | Pertied class, who are not allowed spending the heliday with friends in | f00d rations, get nothing cxcept what town. they manage to buy surreptitious selling their furniture and other sessions. tering Petrograd mond Catlin of New Britain. purebred Mrs, Morris K. Woodruff is enter- taining her mother Mrs. John Blake: lee of Ncrth Haven over the holidays. William J. Siebert and son of ”.‘u‘..;_u..\..‘. “”\”.:‘,”.‘ g Zuchan improiement imine oy MUY Leak of $120,000,000 Between Farmer and Consumer that the men had been cjccted from the Hartford station for smoking. He insisted that he must and it required the combined cfforts of his three companions to restrain him. | In the excitement the cards were | trampled upon the floor and the fol- | lowers of the greal American gamd were forced to discontinue their amusement. Snow Holiday Exercises Held Gabriel’s Children Will Have at Churches Berlin, Dee. 23 has deserted the bitter savs the St. smolke wrerts n tho higher prices for his poultry, because its lavger increased egg pIo The dealer Areater amount and poultry and eggs he Associtttions for The Poultry Shippers' a a fertil of pouliry su creat each a comment on Program This Evening—Other News decline in value of the German mark O o by ality luction profits th Numberless cases arve oceurring do Items of Interest, in ~ better handle: Poultrymen, ssociation 14 better ¢ n h arganizationyy the shippers view i which the German sellers not nl- Ger abroad Orville S, Ventres and Miss Zepyrona, Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Carter were united in marriage yesterday afternoon by Rev. Samuel A. Fiske, pastor of the Ber lin Congresational church. Both young people ave very well known in town and have a host of friends. ATr. Ventres recently returned from overseas where he served with the 1024 infantry, Since his return ho as been working for the Union Man- ufacturing company of New Britain: Mrs. Ventres, prior to her marriage, was employed in the office of tho Stanley Rule & Level company in New. Britain. Childven Out All the children in town are out in low payment of their wares many but establish accounts Dec. 26.—High fault Washington prices of | Plow Used. which are exempt from {axation, de- | intrEeling clares the paper. Mo the damage of | of ¢ggs arc not eatively the confidence among broader The Connecticul company first time this winter, sent plow over the local line carly day worning. The drifts in open places were rather high and walking was bad in the conter of the town The plow came through about 1:30 o'clock Christmas morning Corning—Beebe. The wedding of daughter Mos. Bristol, and Havold I Mv. and Mrs. M Church street. Plainville, for a the snow vester : by pos the producer. “The man who sells the P of business, and tend ding the the German rate of exchange. con- | Ve Hartford the hol- of over Blla Fompkins : cgss has the remedy in his own hands. | own friends in town ses has Y ) §i and value, 1 tinues Vorwaerts, the his prices visited iday. German brld and begsgar | in prevention of profits by his losses. T is extensively and Moscow in the countr continued nen. - “No one may more than 5,000 rubles. When people haye nothing more with which they may trade they must join ,the com- munist party in order to set work That is difficult, however, for _ the bourgeoisic. All the educated péople try to move into the country where conditions atre better.” practiced \ loss of 0,000,000 a year in qual- as well M. Sapo- legally possess i sells rags in the v markel at caniention 1t 1l a the he- and that i \nd ind bring that luncl of man in & markel the consume: up the ) ity tween is the ! price this loss eat-for into ntormedialc seller of aricultire he Christmas office has not let up entirely, a large quantity of parcel post a riving «t the local office this morning for distribution. holiday ro-ae rush at the what the moneys he can eet ignores experts may be employed to aid post DG | rarmer i sol « \ es (o ge foreis ypportuniti t reign item W Wl least, back Lol problen e public try into Germany and (her of erws. 1he suve | o the -mark Capitalists who find tax profitable refer to the German nomic crisis with a shrug of the shoul ders and lay the blame to the govern and financial politics. Vorwaerts that German raise tends 10 crente s-guarter ' nmemory Miss Gladys evasion \lice Beebe, Corning, Corning, took Items, Beebe, fa wife of Mr. Kensington Archie Hoyt and spent Christmas with Leroy Gibney. Mr. and Mrs. Charles . e e 801 to 1. partEarlie mer of of o mere e m therehy md evmour and Mrs. handier the ezgs, (h | son of fay to increas huve Specialis partment 5 and Force, AL the consum = vidin of @ the United States de ment The and beti the b it Lewis and oo of & advocate pa 3 force today sliding down hill. Galpin's hill on the East Berlin road was a popular spot this morning, a of children trying out their Christmas sleds. The surface new throng | of the | tamily are entertaining relatives at their home iday Those visiting Mrs. Robert Liddell of Bridgeport and Mrs. Chiales Barnes of Southington. friends and over the hol- are Mr. and Last March, foreigners. who “up (o that time had enjoyed spocial privi- loges, became the objects of persecu- tion, declared M. Saponen. This grad- uaily increased until June when for- it the home the bride afternoon. Rev. Ernest | the Bristol Congregational performed the ceremony ol vesterday Wismer. oastor of chureh, Among fai b with for t {leathe ing especially has been sold abroad and trans- place rices less than in Germany no other object than L producer’s fortunc duce small nd to o a preminm 1t costs that dirty unless the o lean, fres the farmer more (o pro it product kind of cges than it does rotten inferion suticient price is a nutritio prices he g be sakes severul and country hill has an icy coating so that sleds taxed ik Maple Hil} where it will not “Ior their own legal g their milting a thett of prices upward,” the “Through. pressure those present were Aiss Fidith Abhol of Blmwood, bridesmaid, and Robert MeLaughlin of Rosendale, N. Y., hest man. Misses Ruth Mather of Bristol and Dorothy Seymom this town were flower bearers. A number of friends and relatives of the couple attended. Affor the ceremony the couple lett on a shorl wedding (vip and upon their veturn will reside ou Church street, Plainville Inventories Next W Many Jocal men, tactor Thomas Hanford, a student at Pratt make fast speed on the way down. | Institute is spending the holidays with "Fhe old-time “‘double-ripper” was | his parents notideably conspicuous by its absence | Miss Carolyn Roberts of Middletown everyone preferring to ride alone.|is spending the week-end in Damon’s hill was a mecca for the | with friends. youngsters as well but due to the The trains are continuing to run olfl heavy automobile traffic, efforts were | schedule due {o the heavy exodus of made to have the children transfer | holiday their activities to Galpin’'s hill where traffie v as not so heavy Christmas Exercises. efzners, especially the Fnglish, were attacked wholesale. “The Germans after ovsk conference could liked. but a change j German revolution. llcmats were badly June 1 all of other foreigners.” Theve has been litile ‘Petrograd since July stated. when pavents were ordered to take all meals in the communal cal- ing houses. Thix order has not yvet ‘been extended to Moscow Owing fo the clesing shops and other places large numbers of women, were physically able went into {he munition works and other factorles The remainder were shut.off from livelilood and were forced to shift for themselves as best they could What police protection Petrog 1 | enjoys is given by women, sald M Saponen, and conlinued ‘A year ago every person Jaw unto himself, the authorities {doing little to suppyess lawlessness, { but since spring the police and militia, made ‘up of women from the Baltic | provinces. have been trying to keep ovder. In Moscow theve is a regular militia. the members of which are often, themselves, arrested by sol- [ing and dry goods dealers and they Ghons A say they will have (o stock their stores GRS S Although burglars caugli with vew orders as a vesull of the el R o e grad ave promptly esecuted holidav rush. DeRing Lbat s onets hey b nale, Bolshevists, robberies TTHe enlays' hwhott supplied S thet{l POY List mnuchilongar 0D el bLOL IBLCE can gonaii] Cie quent Christmas exceeded expecta- | NIys that However it will pay him Wines and vodka tions in sules this year, despite tha [ ly retwrn w frametminjsaih docality able at exorbitant prices. high cost of living., The demand for ! The on the condition tha Asked if the Bolshevists were turkeys, chickens, and other members | centl Do entinui ahd & ing any sighs of factional division, M. | of the feathered (ribes in some end the Lreeding Saponen sald that none would admit | exceeded the supply and lite Wednes. | say P publicly that there was not unanimity. | day night the butehers had in | loast Will not malky tie the guality ror Good Quality that i ducement, he exertion to better Better Pricy Some thou wders capitalists and com- by driving sund the Brest-lit- . do a they came with the The German dip- treated and after Germans shared the fate are v produce dealers cliim tood paper on % is impossible for them to buy « on ! w svaded quality basis ompetitors pay a flat rate. Nev many firms throughout the \re buying on (e quality basis i lizing n therahy ©that the dealers and town = the th churges e the rate V] Wil Brideeport A Monday exchange onds ecan be bought and ihe by German wa i Switzerland fox loan hought 1 ties those who many must ultimately given 18 i it the mavk will pisc el and that the marvk will ris e will be idle during the first few days The purcHaser of war luay of the new year. The majority per cent inste: the faetories in this vieinity will shut JYCHtIACI) down on January 1. 2 and 3 for the b L annual inventory and repairs o ma P, chinery. Included in fhis number are it the local faotories, and many in New wiih Britain and Bristol. The out of fown shops cmploy many local men Christmas Business Heavy. The Christmas business this year es- both the amount Ves fo wher ten marks | ¢ in that G will make (e e home guests. Cradle Notes. A son, Volney Clhamberlain, was born to Mr. apd Mrs. Harold . Slack Bhe annual Christmas exercises of their home in Berlin on Docembe: Si. Gabriel's church in Iast Berlin . Motlier and child are doing nicely will be held this evening Athletic \ son, Bernardino, was born to Mr hall. The entire Sunday school will nd Mrs. Paul Cavbona at their home end in a hody. The children of {in Kensington, December 18 the school will give recitations, fol A son, Antonio, was born to lowed by the singing of Christmas | and Mrs. Arnaldo Veronesi at rols by the Sunday school. The | home in Berlin on December 32 school Christmas tree will be dressed Teouise Spindler. n a galaxy of colored lights and tin- i The funeral of Mrs. Louise Spind Isel.Y Presents will distributed to | ler, aged 78, was held from her late the children afte exercises | home in Kensington Wednesday after- Realty Transfer, noon. Infernfent was in Fairview Dennis Negri of Kensington hus | cemetery in New Britain sold to John Magxili of New Britgin | Town Meeting. piece of land on the Beach Swafap | All the voters in the town of Ber- oad /lin have been requested to keep in E East Berlin Items. ! mind the town meeting called for De- | Marjorie Demorve, daughler of My. | cember 30 for the purpose of estab- nd Mrs. John Demare is spending the | lishing & fire district in Berlin, and to holidays itk her parvents. She at- | take action on other matters perti- ends bourding school at Nicolet, (fan- | nent to comé before the meeting. All fula. the details concerning the proposed Miss Florence Carns returned to | flve district have been worked out by kewcod, N. J., this morning to re- | those intevested in the matter and ime her duties as recreation eecre- | an explanation of the proposal will be ity of the Y. W. C. A..after spend- | given bcefore the ‘meeting next Tues p ents, Mr, | day evening. the holidays with her . Another town meeting d Mre. Theodore Carns, Villiam Brown and family in the near future to take action on mstmas with relatives in the motion of the school board to 4, Mass. raige the pay of the teachers §$350 for WMrs. Flowaid Durnett and daughter the ensuing year. i is yuanti- ¢ S - home life in Sueh M. Saponen et rofit operations necessita band| us judicio vealize he hein now how to v f st ke fort to ity 4 whom on tho declares found fou Hoods then muke five per cent The newspaper means musi the countries statement painstakingly or §0,000.000 100,000,000 perfumes, soups o ple from ey diterent Whenever Jethod riabl millinery employing (hose who of standard and of huyit Ui son whereve: he exportation of ta 1 that s vapidly concludes while the spending warks for norks worth and nodes have ar rived The lntente the paper must vealize that it s encouragin ] German international illicit cost of Gierman cconomic zovernm 10,000,000 2 W inereased peu 8 is g and fat rench 0 by the dealer the quality vicinity anging shows produe be the of poultry tablished a record foi i by offering pr and the number of sales made, cording to local merchants. The mand for Christmas gifts deploted the stocks in several Plainville establish- wents and yesterday morning the custonmeal doing late shopping had « limited variety from which to choose The demand for practical and useful s was advantageous to locul eloth [ A mays for demonstration was de- R the Chy tpade Rre d farmers who order to distribut among the products them up the faam® flocks. This metl tlock 1he An entire Some dealers haye pure & bred males sell wrade o in ABOUT. My pent [ Daie Christiou Patns THINGS TO WORRY Mr. and Bridgeport Mo improved the rom se vaviety to the substitution I od Band ancing Craze is on the Wanc. dondon Jazz Proprietors Fear st " 0 Llowd Ly hatching egxgs Purebred brec geade pure wccomplished ot : can ondon, Yoo = -Jazz band pro ARGy, 1 ! ’ E from purebred stock. prictors sloomy now Rl Ay cost frord ing pens, in by st Petro- the fre- an {he aversgs more are o ! lert nigh ne e vinit et the men he sends out o dinner very gloomy rendrts. | pnynish a PRt N with s the stocks shall laid during ble are stll obtain- good as in West | large dancing halls attenda v in ce is not so S focle will be called t h flock t show the suburbs, but the spen = Spring- Irgolayy nolidary proprietors of that the five years. cusor distribu cases 1s with wide market spendin hey avail eraze will last br locul | Ie