New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1920, Page 10

Deaths and Funerals. ofi(,osgrm'c. fiss Ncliic Cosgrove, daugh rolman and Mrs, Michael J. Cos- ve of 560 Fast Main street, died pectedly 1 night at her home, owing an attack of intluenza. She been ill for about a weel, but her ditlon seemed :mpioved. und thought she was on the rc overy. Her death is mourn rge circle of friends. She -long resident of this city. B parents she leaves three brothers, s Cosgrove, with the r army at Brownsville, Texas; iiel Cesgrove and Jo four sisters, Misses grove, MHarried Cos: grove and Mr: Phe funeral w rning with se 5t. John the ¥ Vincenzo Buccini incenzo Buccini, aged 33 years, yesterday afternoon at his home Washington street, of pneumonia. eonducted a shoe repairing shop this city for several years. Sur- ng are his parents and three thers in Italy, and o brother in eity. The funera] will be held @’clock tomorrow morning at St. *s church. Katherine held Friday s at the church Ira S. Hart. .S. Hart, son of Alfréd D. and e S. Hart died Monday in the ord hospital. He was 26 years )h Cosgrove, | g E | rond police at Providenc ge. Funeral services will be held hrsday at 3 o’clock at Ferry’'s un- king rooms in Hartford. John Edward Hartzell. meral services will be held to- ow evening at 8 o’clock from the frews: and" Doolittle undertaking lors for John Edward Hartzell. . L. B. Giles will officiate. Be- e of the illness of the deceased’s the funeral bas been held over days. Mr. Hartzell, who was e operator in the Stanley s, died a week ago Monday. The ains will be sent to Reading, Pa., interment will be in that city day. Mrs. Michael Grimaila, Anna Grimaila, wife of Mi- Grimaila of 276 Elm street died morning. She leaves only her ‘The funeral will be held at 'clock Friday morning at St. An- Lithuanian chPrch. Luhunta Cheasmond. Luhunta Cheasmond, colored, d 17 years, died this morning at New Britain general hospital. She ded in Clayton and was a native of finia. The body will be shipped irginia tomorrow for burial. Barbara Holmes. he funeral of Barbara Holmes was i this afternoon at 2 o'clock from home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. nk W. Holmes, of Hillcrest: ave- , and interment was in Fairview petery. Mrs, Anna A. Bassett. irs. Anna Amelia Bassett, aged 72 's, died today at the home of Mrs. B. Russell. She was the widow: of stus J. Bassett. Surviving are the owing sons .and daughters: Mrs. B. Russell; George E. Bassett, of ifornia, and Florence A. and J. ald Bassett, of Waterbury. Burial be in Pine Grove cemetery, terbury 'he funeral will be ning at 10 o'clock, A, Cook officiating. held Friday with Rev. A Card of Thanks, ¥e wish to thank Rouillard-Linton | Soldiers, Sallors and Marines’ beiation, Foresters of Ameriea, hders, Frary & Clark Mutual Aid pciation, New Britain Aerie of es, . friends, and neighbors who pathized with us in our sad be- vement in the loss of our beloved and brother. We also thank for beautiful floral tributes sent. Sin- ely, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs, Frad Anderson, Miss Ellen Anderson. CITY ITEMS lends of Irish Freedom whist and ice, Feb. 19. Lynch’s orch.—advt. he railroad committee of the com- council will sit tonight to discuss er service and the remaval of from the streets. veral candidates for the post of erintendent of the board of health interviewed vesterday and meth- eémployed by the board were ex- he dance undgr the New Britain General fses, has been postponed from t Friday night until after Easter. e second of a scries of lectures *“Sex Hygiene” to be given at the M. C. A. banquet hall will be n this evening by Dr. F. N of Boston. The lectures will be gn on every Wednesday 1 the course of six ired. on A. Sprague, who has been fined at his home in Maple Hill the past several days with a se- e attack of the “'fl has resumed *duties with the Nc 3ri uncilm William Wall i of the ordinance com eommon council, las m Atlantic City, whe uperating from dition is V. G. Rox eet complained to the ht that dogs had . arold Smith of Maple street is in- posed with the grip. harles B. Pratt of Park street recovered from an attack of the ip and has resumed his position at P Stanley Wor auspices of Hospital improved s of 770 W Main police, last Seer- | evening j lectures has | 18 of his SEVEN SUSPECTS HELD Men Are Accused 'of Having Stolen $200,000 Worth of Merchandise From Providence Freight Yards. New York. TFeb, 18.—sgven men, suspected of having been” implicated in the robbery of merchandise, valued at §200,000 from thef Providence, R. 1, freight vards during the past year, were taken to police headquarters to- after having been questioned for 12 hours by detectives and Captain William Colby. in charge of the rail- They were last in a house on oklyn, where a case lleged to have been stolen in Providence, was found. The prisoners who are charged with suspicion of larceny, are Joseph Gold- stein, Samuel Kaplan, Willmm Ber- man, Samuel Ticher, Sam Lundin, Ralph Hoff and William Malefsky. All gave Brooklyn as their home ad- dresses. FIVE SAILORS DROWNED All Go Down to Watery Grave When Naval Water Barge Sinks Off Cuban Coast—Two Lost in British Port. Washington, Feb. 18.—Five enlisted men were drowned in the sinking of a naval water barge off the Cuban coast yesterday, the Navy department was advised today, and two others lost their lives in the capsizing of a motor dory from the U. S. S. Hovey last Sunday at Harwich, England. No details of the sinking were given, but Admiral Knapp said a_court of in- quiry would investigate the sinking of the dory. The men lost on the barge were: Scaman Harry T. Clouse, Reading, Pa.; Leo T. Ucheweiz, Cleveland; Harry Sirody, Philadelphia; Fireman Raleigh W. Stover, Pittsburgh, and Lulu Grigdon, Lyndall, Ga. Those lost with the dory were Fire- man Patrick Gill, Boston, and Coxswain Frank D. Moser, Phila- delphia. MARYLAND BEATS SUFFRAGE. By Big Vote Both Houses Defeat Ratification of Amendment, Annapolis, Feb. 18.—The Maryland general assembly - decisively rejected woman suffrage yesterday in the sen- ate, the vote was 18 against nine for ratification; in the house 6 against 36 for ratification Big delegations of suffragists came from Baltimore, headed by Mrs. Don- ald Hooker and the committee on fed- era] relations heard them and women opposed "to the amendment. Mrs. Hooker also had a talk with Governor Ritchie, who told her he could not aid her as the democratic party had in- corporated in its platform a plank op- posing woman suffrage. DR. BROWN TAKES RED CROSS POSITION Bridgeport, Feb. 18.—Announce- ment was made here today by Dr. ‘Walter H. Brown, city health officer for the past three years, that he has accepted appointment as superintend- ent of the Red Cross peace program of establishing health centers in 13 districts, covering practically the en- tire country. Headguarters will be in Washington. COCO-COLA DIVIDEND Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 18.—A dividend of $1.00 a shar of common stock of the Coco-Cola company was declared by the direc- tors here. payable April 2 to stock- holders of record March 13. It was announced that the total business since September 12, 1919, amounted to $10,000,000 of which $1,000,000 was net profit. S. A. Austin of New York was elected io the presidency. Pneumonia and “Flu” Claim 26 Victims During the present month pneu- monia and influenza have claimed 26 victims, the greaier mumber of them being sufferers ‘from pneumonia. While the number is unusually large for the month of February, it is ! no means as large as that of last year, Choral society will rehearse 1t in the club rooms ead of in the Gram- mar school auditor ephen S. ¥ dress under the ausp estinian Restoration on the 500,000 shares | Kenilworth | made | F ary a change in the place fm'l COAL COMING IN 100 Carloads Have Come Into Hart- ford Within the Past 24 Hours—— Hines’ Order Helps State, Hartford, ¥Feb. 18.—One hundred carloads of coal have come into Hartford within the past 24 hours “Get ‘Together” Dance’ An Enjoyable Affair New Britain’s get together dance, held last evening at the Elks' club ‘under the auspices of the mercantile bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, was a great success. It was found necessary to shorten the program of dances to 14 and the dance eclosed shortly after 1 o’clock. Music for according to a statement made today | dancing was furnished by the Alpha at the office of the superintendent of the Hartford division of the New Hav- en railroad. All told, 354 freight cars came in during the same period, | it was stated further, a number de- clared at division headquarters to be not far below normal. This is cited as indicating that the unusually large coal shipments are not holding up foodstuffs and other forms of freight. An order issued by Director Gen. Hines for the protection at New York piers of coal consigned to New Eng- land, as announced by Mr. Hines in a telegram to Governor Holcomb Tues- day night will help Connecticut pub- lic utilities, said Thomas W. Russell, state fuel administrator. But for this order or something equivalent New Haven and Bridge- port trolley lines and some electric light companies would have had to HOTEL BURNS; 3 DEAD Porraine; Providence Hostelry, De- stroyed Early This Morning With Monetary Loss of $200,000. Providence, Feb. 18.—Three guests last their lives in a fire which virtual- ly destroyed the Lorraine hotel here early today. Samuel Warwick of Horrisville was so badly injured jumping from a win- dow that he died later at a hospital. Two bodies, believed to be thase of Lewis B. Kunz of Centerdale and E. F. Robert of Boston, were fgund in the | ruins. The rest of the 78 guests of the ho- tel were driven into the street partly clad and were taken care of in nearby hotels and restaurants. J. V. Jordan, manager of the hotel, is unable to tell the cause of the fire. The property loss is estimated at $200,000. ELECTRICITY A MENACE Is Greatest Single Producing Cause of Yire in United States, Fire Under- writer Declares. New York, Feb. 18.—The greatest single *“producing causes of fire” in the United States are electricity and electrical appliances, Lumm, chief of the federal bureau of fire underwriters, declared today at | the joint conference of that organiza- tion and the fire marshals’ association of North America. Defective insula- tion causes fewer fires than the mi use of appliances, he added. Overheat- ed electric irons, he said, is a common cause of fires. WOULD BUY SHIPYARD. Pennsylvania Congressman Suggests Using Hog Island As Great Terminal. ‘Washington, Feb. 18.—Purchase of the Hog Island shipyard by the State | of Pennsylvania for use as a great shipping terminal was suggested to- ; day by Representative Kdmonds, Pennsylvania, ranking republican member of the house merchant ma- rine committee, who wrote Governor Sproul urging a special session of the state legislature to consider the matter. “The shipping board is ready to listen to proposals for the property,” wrote Mr. Edmonds, who urged te action so that the yard would *not 2o to any railroad or other corpora- tion that would simply use it as an additionul facility to some of its pres- ent facilities.” “RABBIT” MARANVILLE WILD AGAIN BE WITH BRAV Boston, Feb. 18.—*“Rabbit” Maran- ville, star shortstop of the Boston No- tional league baseball club, will con- | tinue to play in a Braves uniform this ason, George W. Grant, president of the club, said tod It had been ru- mored that Maranville was traded. Nineteen of the F reported to have signed 19 tracts, FORESTERS WORKING. Court . of A.. degree team will €0 to Kensington tomorrow evening to confer ees upon class trolley will leave from the endly club rooms at 7:45 and those hing to go should report at the Tooms at 7:30. Charles H. | | the result being 112 to 13. { low of | ones and Maura and ‘of Juan de la (is one of the younge string orchestra. A pair of entertainers from the Palace theater won applause for their skill on the xylophone and a trio of singers from Fox's pleased the aud- ience with their rendition of several comic songs. An elimination dance and a ribbon dance proved popular with those present. BENEFIT CONCERT —_— ‘Will Be Given For Children’s Home Fund in Lyceum Theater On Feb- ruary 29. To aid in increasing the fund for ! the support of the Children’s Home, the United Swedish churches and so- cieties have arranged for a benefit concert to be given at the Lyceum theater on Sunday afternoon, Febru- ary 39. The program will include both voca] and instrumental numbers. The committee in charge reports a good advance sale of tickets and box seats are also being sold. H. E. Christensen of 131 Main street, Phone 1413, is'in charge of this part of the concert. Local Navy Man Is Home With His Bride Ernest Pherson, chief quartermas- ter of the U. S. S. Broome, and wife, formerly Miss Frances Wheeler of Walden, N. Y. are spending their honeymoon with Mr. Pherson’s par- ents at their home in this city. The couple were married on February 1% in New York. Chief Pherson expects to leave shortly on an extended Eu- ropean cruise covering a period of about two years. Upon completion his ship will join the Asiatic fleet and then join Admiral Rodman’s Pacific fleet. THOUGHT HUSBAND DEAD So Mrs. Ries Wedded Again—Then Soldier Husband Came Back and Now Gets Divorce. New York, Feb. 18.=—John C. Ries, an American soldier, who has been of- ficially listed as killed and who later returned from overseas to find his wife had married again, was granted | a decree of absolute divorce today in the Brooklyn supreme court. Ries served with a machine gun company of the 27th division. He was gassed, wounded and left for dead upon the battlefield. Later he was picked up and sent to a haspital. Meantime Mrs. Ries, who was then liv- ing in Easton, Pa., received official no- tice of his death and she subsequently married Harry Holmquist. GIANTS OUTFIELDER, KAUFF, IS OUT ON BAIL TODAY. New York, Feb. 18.—Benjamin Kauff, star fielder of the w York Giants was out on bail today after his arrest yesterday on a charge of grand larceny in connection with the theft of an automobile. Kauff, who until recently was engaged with his haif brother in the automobile ac- cessory business, is alleged to have sold g car, December 15, which had been stolen here a week before. Kauff maintained that he bought the car in question October 25. SPANTSH GOVERNMENT GETS BIG VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. Madrid, Feb. 17, (Havas).—The Spanish government was given a vote of confidence in the Cortes late today, The ef- fect of this victory, however, was called into question by the fact that all Catalonia members and the fol- former Premiers Roman- ballot- Circva left the room befor: ing began. WANT RICE IN COUNCIL. iends of Henry Rice, are urs ing him to become a candidate for the common council from the First Ward, on the republican ticket. He clement in the ward, and enjoys a wide popularity. He is employved at the New Britain Gas Light company. B T L L Y L L ' g@@@@fii@@@@&@@@@-@@@@@@@@#@@###@@@#fi@@fi@@@ 2 Great Palestine Restoration Mass Meeting Tonight, At 8 o’clock, Grammar School Hall SPEAKERS: DR. STEPHEN S. WISE Vice-President Zionist Organization of America AUSPICES Foremost American Qrator New Britain Zionist District Admission Cards Free at S. W. Menus, Morris Cohn, Dr. A. Pinkus, M. C. LeWitt, Crowell Drug Store, Heraid Office, and Headquarters, 434 Main Street RABBI ISAIAH YURMAN of Boston Noted Rabbi and Zionist Leader Loodetadedeototetetetofetotototedeote TotoReteetotoR oot ot o Xt o TR RO P XS THAT'S A PEACH —— TELL T a7 " WHEW — WAZZA MATTER © You GLYS DEAE —BUM) ~ THE BOYS IN THE OTHER CAR START T OQVER AGAIN WHERE He SAYS oBov * AND HOLD 1T— THA'S MEMORIES — z 8 3 SOUPPOSE IF I'D ASK'™_FOorR A ,PROP—HE'D SAY T WAS HiS CNATORAL BrREATH” ENCOURAGING A S BIRD wWiTh A MILLION DOLLAR BREATH™ O TELL MORE _STORIES FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS YOU WANTED ME Yo HELP You WITH Your LESSONS DIDNT YoU @ = WELL, WHAT \$ 1T ) ) nal reports on the sale of tickets | the recent American Legion ball I be made Friday evening, after jich the financial statement will be pared. Indications are that it was financial success. [Friends of Irish Freedom whist and nce, Feb. 19, Lynch’s orch.—advt. Evidently He Forgot'About the Birds! 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