New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 11

Financial AP STREET STOCK ) ANGE REPORTS Il Street.—Trading in stocks to- linrited almost to special is- notably olls, motors and low rells. Assoclated oil rose 6 8, Mexican Pet. 23, and Ameri- nseed and Amarlcln Agricul leal 1 to 2%, Chicago Pneuma 0l rose 3% . Pressed Steel Car 2, Ate Steel 4 and Continental United Fruit and several of the a8 galned 1 to 3. New Orleans, and Mexico featured the ralls, 4 points, and Loutsville and “Me, Texas Pacific and Denver 1o Grande pfd. led the others at of 1 to 2 points. Heaviness of rrade ralls caused some {rreg- wt the close. Hales approxie 760,000 shares —— rk Stock Exchange quota- bished by Richter & Co., of the New York Stook High. Phal Mfg. . 35% assesce 389 32y 328 & Fdy 124% 124% 134% & Lther 4% % 9 otive: 83 | 83 83 elt & Rof 4014 9% 40y Ret com 93 % 03% 83 % matra Tob 8134 0% 1y & Tel.. 00% 9% 99% bacco ...119% 119% 110% oolen .... 87" 67 67 da Cop.. 30% 190% Y% p &S P82 82% 82% - ’ N_ti n-yers Notice hoard of Rellet of the City of Pritain hereby give notice that 1ll meet at their office In the 1l at 10 o'clock a. m. to 12 m. L) February 1, 1921 Ind 1o the duties pertaining to olntment. Also on February , 11th and 15th from 2 p. m to and every evening, except Sun- om 7:30 p. m., to 9:00 p. m. and including Febtuary 15, Close. 5% Low. ELL A t9 21st s the last day on ‘application for Raellef can be 7:30 p. m. to 9:00 p, m. o give notice that we will meet of Asssasors on February 0 a. m. WILLIAM SOHAEFER, SWILLIAM MIDDLEMASS, “ JOHN CONLIN, Board of Rellef, At Guif & Wt I Baldwin Loco .. Balti & Ohio... Beth Steel B ... Brkn Rap Tran Can Pacific . Central Lther Chi Mil & Chi Rk Isl & P Chile Copper Consol Gas .... Corn Prds Ref.. Crucible Steel L Cuba Cane Sugar 2 Endicott Johns'n 6 Brie ...... . Erie 1st Pld . Gaston, W & W Genl Electric ..128% Genl Motors ... 15 Goodrich (BF Co 40% l(.t Northern prd 79'% Inspiration Cop. 35 l Interbor Conm.... 4% Interbor Con p{d 13 | Int Nickel ..... 15% Int Paper ....: 61% Kolly Spfid Tire 47% Kennecott Cop . 20 Maxwell Motor.. 0% Mex Petroleum..1593% | Midvale Steel .. 313 Missouri Pac 19% N Y Central... 72% NYNHH... 21% Norfolk & Wst.101 Nor Pacific ... 87% Paro Ol 36 iPan Am F & D. 6% Penh R R 1% Plerde Arrow .. 26% Pitts Coal .... 61 Pressed Stl Car 9 , Ray Con Cop... 137% | Reading 843 67 Royal D, N Y.. 66% Sinclaim O1l Ref 241 So Paclific 98 3% Southern Ry 23y Studsbkr Co. 59 Texas Co ...... 44 Tex & Pacific.. 21% Tobbaco Prod... 56 Trancon Ofl ... 10% Unlon Pae ....120 United Fruit .., 109 United Retall Co 56% U & Food Prod. 26 U 8 Indus Alco 70% U 8 Steel ..... 83% U 8 Steel pfd..110% Utah Copper 57% Va Car Chem.. 36% Willys Overld .. 8% LOCAL STOCK MARKET TODAY Bid Hfd Bleo Lt ... <188 Southern N E Tel ....102 Am Hardware 137 Am Hoslery . Am Brass ... ' Bristol Brass . Billings and Spehcer Colt's Arms Kagle Lock ..... Landers, ¥ and C N B Machine ..... Niles-Be-Pond com North and Judd Peck, Stow and Wilcox Stanley Works .... Standard Serew com ...200 Bcovill Mfg Co ......300 Traut and Hine . .. 30 Unfon Mfg Co .. vee 88 % 625 133 2 ’lhv- pub}er' 5 1583 31% 19% 728 21% 101 8614 4 Asked 123 105 90 86 55 40 54 63 35 76 60 42 63 225 325 35 50 Hartford-Connecticut Trust Corapany Main and Pearl Streets, Hartford, Conn. tal $1,250,000, Safe Deposit Boxes, $5 and upwards, Settlement of Estates, Wills drawn without chnrge Foreign Exchange to all parts of the world. GENERAL BANKING OF CREDIT Bank by mail. It is safe and saves time. Su-plus Funds, &200000000 I""CJ _,flE’ TAIN Lo Laket PLAINVILLE NEWS (Continued from Seventh Page.) o'clock in the evening. Miss Carrie Stewart will be the leader, Her sub- ject will “ be, ‘“The Handshake >f Neighbors.” There will be a cottage prayer meeting Thursday evening, at the home of Mrs. John E. Lamb of 67 Broad street. Advent Christian row morning Rev. will have as a .luln'ort. “God Speaking Through Men.” The Sunday school | will meet at 12:45. At 6 o'clock the lnynl Workers' service will. be held land at 7 the pastor will speak upon f “When Blinded BEyes are The mid-week prayer meet- will be church—Tomor- Gearge E. Tyler Opened.” ing conducted by the pastor held on Thursday evening. Plainville Baptist church-—Saturday evening at 7:45 Rev. H. D. Coe of | Bristol, will give a chalk talk on “The Heart's Great Question.” 10:45 a. m. the pastor's theme will be “A Graci- ous Invitation.” 12:05 m. Sunday school.” 6 p, m. Young People's serv- fce. 7 p. m. Rev. H. D. Coe, of Bristol, will preach. Forestville Notes Mrs Sadie Lindsay of Garden street has been moved to the Hartford hos- pital for treatment. Edwin N, Derhet of Bristol has ac- cepted a position as barber in Robert Metcalf's place on Central street. There wag a grass fire last evening on the hill ‘West of the Bristol Brass. There was little damage. The place was evidently ignited by boys. More than 40 local emploves of the Bristol Brass company have been laid off. Some of the departments have gone on three days a week schedule 1 with an eight hour day, it is said. The Sesstons Clock company is also slack- ening up a trifie on orders. Senator Trumbull Active During the recent meetings of the houses of the legislature at Hartford, Senator John Trumbull has taken | some active parts and brought for- | ard many bills. His last one was the byll for the Hartley Corparation hich will afid in dojng charitable work throughout the state The trust fund will be used extensively for gen- eral welfare purposes and will reach into the million dollar mark. Mrs. ,Helen Hartley Jenkins, will be the donor of the sum and is a daughter of the late Marcellus Hartley who 'was the prineipal figure in the build- ing of the Unhion Metallc and Reming- | ton Arms companies in Bridgeport. Senator Trumbull introduced the bill in the senate after conferring with Commissioner R. B. Stoeckel. Sena- ator Trumbull also introduced the bill for a tax of one cent upon every gal- lon of gasoliné sold, which money will go iInto the treasury of the state, if the bill is accepted.. His bill asking for an appropriation of $600,000 for the Home for Crippled Children at Newington, of which he is director, was referred to a committee for further action. This is Senator Trum- bull's first term in the legislature and its promises to be a busy one for him, To! Briefs L. W. Beebe 14 Canal street, has gone to his former home in Cannan, Conn., to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mra. Newton Beebe. Mrs. Beebe was formerly Mary Clark of Plainville. Mrs. Luther Haines of Mountain | View has returned to her home after treatment at\the Hartford hospital. | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kiatt of 20 Broad street, Are receiving congratu- lations on the birth of a boy, born vesterday. The W. C. T. U. held a meeting vesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Dresser of Church and Main streets, Miss Heineman, nurse here, did not give a report as had been planned. CLEARING HOUSE REPORT. Exehanges . . $609,969.105 Balances 58,643,688 ST S Income 7 to 8 Per Cent. Security, Mortgage on Necessities. Peribd of Investment, One to Twenty Years Denominations $100, $500 or $1,000 ! In periods of business readjustment well managed public utilities have always shown great stability. Because they supply absolutely necessary services to their respective commum- ties, their earnings, even under adverse circum- stances, are exceptionally uniform. We recommend and offer for investment bonds secured by mortgage on substantial and prosperous public utilities in important com- munities. If you wish a safe lnvestment, yield- ing a steady, liberal income write for our Feb- ruary circular. ! | police he FORMER CLERGYMAN OPENS NEW AGENCY Frederick W, Keese Will Furnish Do- mestic Employes and \lso Clerks for Stores. Frederick W. Keese, pastor of the German Baptist church on Elm street, until a throat affliction compelled him to give up the ministry, and later with the employment office at the New Britain Machine company, has opened a private employnient agency at No. 103 West Main street, in the Children’s Home office. Mr. Keese will attempt to find em- ployment and employes for all seek- ing positions or help as domestic ser- vants and also for clerks in stores. Ie will not, however, attempt to secure factory employment, This agency will specialize in high grade cooks, general housework em- ployes, children’s nurses and those who do plain sewing. MORBIDITY REPORT Health Department Figures Show 2,372 Cases of Reportable Diseases During Calendar Year. Figures compiled by Health Superin- tendent J. R. Harris for the calendar year of 1920, show the following di eases reported and ddaths therefrom: Reported Deaths Anthrax Cerbrospinal meningitis Diphtheria Influenza Measles Pneumonia Scarlet Fever Tuberculosis Typhoid Social diseases Total NEW ROAD RUMOR. Rep. Rutherford Has Not Intro- duced Bill to Build Highway. Representative Arthur N. Ruther- ford, when asked today about the rumor of the proposed road to the Berlin turnpike, said that there was absolutely nothing tp it. Yesterday was the last day in which bills would be accepted at the I‘egislature, and if the road were to be built new it would have to pass as an emergency meas- ure under the suspension of the rules. Representative Rutherford explained. The proposed road as discussed by the New Britain chamber of commerce would be from South street, New Britain, to Beckeley Quarter. “CANFIELD HOUSE” BURNED Once Famous Gambling Joint on 44th Street in New York Partly Destroyed Today. New York, Jan. 29.—Fire early to- day partly destroyed the building at 5 East 44th street, once ocempied by Richard A. Canfield, the gambler. Firemen had to use a battering ram to break through the massive mahog- any doors put up by Canfield, valued at several thousand dollars. Much of the antique furniture and art treas- ures once owned by Canfleld and the wood-carved ceiling, said to have cost him $100,000 at the time it was made, were destroyed. The firm headed by Chas. E. Brick- ley, former Harvard football star, had just taken offices in the building. HIGHWAYMEN SENTENCED. Three New Haven Yourig Men Admit They Held Up Old Man. ven, Jan. 29.—Cyril Bom- ster, 19; Charles S. Humphrey, 26, and Meyer Humphrey, 18, pleaded guilty in superior court here yesterday to charges of highway robbery. Charles Humphrey was sentenced by Judge Webb to the state prison for one to three years and the other two were given indeterminate sentences in the state reformatory. The trio held up Burton S. Bradley, aged 79, and robbed him of $400 on a lonely road in North Guilford. Bom- ster was Bradley's chauffeur and ad- mitted to the police later that he planned the holdup. ADMITS MURDER CONFESSION FALSE New York, Jan. 2 -James Brown, the negro, who Thursday night told the slew Miss Ream Constance Hoxie, seventeen, in her father’'s apart- ment, 72 West Eighty-ninth street, last February, has admitted his ‘’con- fession’’ was a fake. CITY ITEMS Fighting 69th Regiment band, Ly- ceum, Sunday afternoon next. Get tickets now, C. L. Pierce & Co.—advt. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ward and e e R e e e s e R e family of Buffalo, N. Y., are visiting ' at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Henry Donnelly of Lincoln street. New Britain Bird Store MONDAY IS THE LAST DAY That we are giving out tickets, All tickets must be returned by February 15. After this date the prizes will be awarded. NEW BRITAIN BIRD STOR COUNCIL CHANGES MEET WITH FAVOR of Charter Revision Commit- - Lajority tee Members See Advantage in Smal- ler Membership. Considerable and con last duction of a council would be cut from a body of 30 to one of 18 members, at the first meet- ing of the charter revision committee. No vote was en in the matter. Those who opposed the project were Councilmen M. T. Kerwin man F. R. Gilpatric. Those in favor were Mayor O. F. M. Paones: John Gill Nurczak, R ES R sentatives Richard Covert and A. D Rutherford and Judge John H. Kirk- ham, corporation counsel. Alderman PPaonessa felt with a sals of would be wise. argument pro evening from the intro- whereby the resulted measure and Paulin Hall, Reprn- about $200 cach, | and Alder- | § Curtis, Aldermen A. | that 2 body of 12 men | Among the measures approved, ten- | tatively, were the appointment of a board of purchase that would have the power to name a purchasing agent for | the city; the increasing of the number on the park commission from three to five members; the increasing of’sewer assessments Mayor O. F. Curtis was elected chair- man of the committee and Councilman Edward Peterson was named secretry. VOTE SEEMS UNLIKELY. No Action” on Fordney Emergency Tariff Bill Will Be Taken. ‘Washington, Jan. 29.—Hope that the : Fordney emergency tariff bill would come to a vote in the senate at this session had been practically abandoned by proponents today when the measure came up for' what was generally be- lieved to be its final day of debate in that body. With appropriation meas- ures crowding for passage, leaders were | understood to have definitely decided to put aside the farmer relief measure and take up the money bills when the senate convenes Monday. That the bill could be brought before the senate again was admitted by proponents to be doubtful in view of the opposition which has prevented action thus far. FOR TRADE WITH RUSSIA. Los Angeles, Jan. 29.—Certificates of incorporation of the Washington I3. Vanderlip syndicate, composed of a number of Los Angeles capitalists :md‘ businessmen for the purpose of trade | with Russia and developing land in m.n country was filed today in the Angeles county clerk’s * office. capital of the syndicate, the certificate & $100,000. Thc &) N & -~ (7] Member New York Stock S 31 WEST MAIN STREET, NEW B STANLEY R. EDDY, Mgr. L D. JUDD JUDD & £2 WEST MAIN 8T., NEW BRITAIN, CON Investments, Local Stocks We Quote American Hardware, 138 Bid, according tol JOHN P. 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