New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1921, Page 7

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921 Special Sale of Wicker Furniture Reed Fibre and Porch Chairs SPECIAL SHOWING ON OUR FOURTH FLOOR modern American home. fine tapestry or cretonnes, finishes. Included in this also the celebrated ‘‘Keene' Altogether the largest showing in the state and at pre-war prices. PORCH ROCKERS Chairs and Settees, some with double reed scats and reductions, backs, others with special o our already low prices. gular $2.95 Rockers Regular $5.00 Rockers Regular $6.00 Rockers Regular $6.50 Rockers Regular $7.50 Rockers Regular $11.50 Settees Regular $13.50 Settees CHINESE GRASS FUR ‘will add Regular $14.50 Chairs Regular $14.50 Rockers . Regular $10.50 Chairs ... Regular $10.50 Tiffin Tables Regular $0.00 Tifin Tables .. Rustic Built, of Rugged Strength—We offer the genuine *‘Old Hickory” Chairs, Rockers, and Foot Stools that will stand weather and wear, giving greatest satisfaction for porch and lawn. Old Hickory Chairs at this sale for $4.25, $4.75, $10.75 00 $5.75, $7.50, $8.50, $9.50, Very speclal. OLD HICKORY Breakfast Set consisting of Table with drop leaves and four Chairs in Old Ivory and blue HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. . INISTER APPEARS *IN LOCAL COURT v, Lo, Bell Amaiged Belor dge Griswold Last Evening, BE CAFE HAS BEEN LEASED o Alyano of Kensington Will Con- Run By ph Scholinick—*"Social of the Friday—Berlin 8its. ev. Dr. J. H. Bell of New Haven, hodist clergyman of that city and perly a New Britain clergyman, brought into the town court last ing by Deputy Inspector Ellis on jharge of reckless driving as the It of an accident at the Beckley oad crossing early last winter, case was adjourned until June 14 t John Neary, the gatetender he time, will have an opportunity ontity. r. Neary has been confined to his e since the time of the accident. the time of the accident it imed that Dr. Bell was driving at excesdlve rate of speed on the ly constructed highway. The gates been lowered by Mr. Neary but Bell did not see them his car crashed into them aund jod severe injuries to Mr. Neary was standing nearby walting for Berlin-Middletown train to pass. phn Grobel of Meriden also ap- pgd before Judge Grisweld on a of fishing at the Peat pond day when it was out of season. case was nolled. The cases of all he other men from Meriden who also fishing on Sunday will be d on Thursday night. The game fish warden has requested that ease be tried Thursday inasmuch the party in his case is accused jolating the newly revised law. o state motor vehicle department have one or two cases before e Griswold this evering lor automobile law violations. Grange Notes. ere was a large attendaunce at the ting of the Berlin Grange held in inge hall on Damon's HIill last hing. The members of Burritt Inge from New Britain presented y entitled “The Family ‘Album."” e will be no regular meeting of soclety on May 17 as the mem- will go to visit the Plainville uct Business Formerly was flently Dr. for will to- he Grange sewing soclety t with Mrs. John Molumphy row afternoon. Cafe Changes Hands pseph Scholinick, proprietor and er of the Globe cafe in Kensing- nnounced this morning that he ied Lthe entire building to Peter 0 of Kensington, Mr. Alvano PN the business formerly con- ed by Mr. Scholinick and will ire possession of the place on Ay morning. lithough he has not as vet definite- d Mr. Scholinick is planning " n te . the real estate busid ¥TURE, comprising Ch looks and comfort to your porch, or are Longues, price reductions Note these: Regular $12.00 Regular $13.50 Regular $15.00 Regular ;ll 50 for this sale, $2.50 $4.50 $5.00 $5.95 $10.50 Regular $45.00 indoors . $12.50 $12.50 §16.00 offered now ‘OLD HICKORY” HAS ITS CHARM Old H $17.75. and $8.00. and §1 each. 7 for $69.50. ton. Mr. Aivano has oeen living in Kensington for the, past few years and formerly worked for Mr. Scholin- “Social of Days” The Ladies’ Aid society of the Ber- lin Congregational church will hold a “social of the days” in the ladies’ room of the church on Friday night of this week. The social will be held at 8 o'clock and a large crowd is anticipated. An interestipg program has been arranged by those in charge. A food sale will follow the enter- tainment at 9 o'clock at which time the ladies of the church will place cakes, ice cream and punch for sale. An unique feature to be introduced at the social will be that of having the residents of the town come dress- ed representing a day of the year such as gloomy, sunshine, Christmas, or St. Patrick's Day, Many of the church people have taken an interest in the announcement of the coming social and a large sum is expected o be realized as a result. Newell Dwight Hillis The next to the last of the Newell Dwight Hillis “Better America Lec- tures” yil be given at the community house on Thur y evening of this week at 8 o'clock. B. R. Showalter will present the ecture and will have as his topic “False Views of Equality as Incitements to Social Revolutions.” The publie is cordially invited to at- tend this lecture Sidewalk Writing Many residents of Berlin strect are complaining of writings which for the past day or two have been appear- ing.on the sidewalks of that streel. The writing has been done in white chalk and is notably the work of children although the words used are scarcely fitting to the juvenile mind. | Others complain that the sidewalks have been converted iInto checker boartls with the chalk, sSpecial Town Meeting All is in readiness for the special town meeting to be held in the town | hall tonight at 8 o'clock. First select- man Carter expects that there will | be a large gathering of taxpayers present to discuss the situation which will come up beforg the meeting. Forty Hours Devotion The forty hours devotion will begin at St. Pau's church in Kensington Sunday morning. Berlin Items Troop No. 5, Boy Scouts of Ameri- ca will meet at the Kensington Con- Congregational church Friday eve- at 5 o'clock. The boys are planning on a dog roast. The regular meeting of the Boy scouts of Berlin wil be held at the Congregationa! church Fridaq eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock The weekly T. A. B. whist will be held in T. A. B, hall this evening. The Women's Missionary society of the Berlin Congregational church met with Mrs. F. L. Wilcox this after- noon at 3 o'clock. Mre. John Blake of Berlin street left today for Lynn, Mass., where she will spend the remainder of the week. John Blake of the Blaké and Wood- ruff company, returned last night from New Haven where he saw the Haven-Worcester baseball mame. Helen - Philips, employed at the Dickinson Drug company in New Britain is at the New Britain General hospital where she recently und went an operation for appendici | | | Pieces . Pieces . Pieces Pieces Pieces Pieces Pieces Pieces Pieces rs, Rockers, Settees, Tables. Regular $16.50 Chairs . Regular $16.50 Rockers Regular $19.50 Rockers Sette ickory Tables specially priced at $8.50, Foot Stools for $3.50 YOUI CAN DEPEND ON PROMPTIT.* o New | i has so long been dedicated. of the most desirable of summer suites and pieces for the Chairs, Rockers, Settees, Day Beds, and Chaise Longues, tastefully upholstered in beautiful in design and colorings, contrasting finely with the brown, ivory or natural le we offer our own importation of specially constructed Chinese Grass Furniture, Porch Rockers and one carload of genuine **Old Hickory'’ Lawn and Porch pieces. “KALTEX" FIBRE Rockers, Day Beds, choice of a from Chairs, Settees good variety, our regular and Chaise at substantial Spring markings. $31 $39. Very attractive pieces that $14.50 $14.50 $16.00 7.50 22.50 Settees, Tables $14.00, each. Ferneries at tain the Mothers' club at her home this evening., Mrs. Dellis Lord and daughter of Middletown have been vis ng Mrs. Lord’'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Trevethan, on Wilcox avenue. Ensign Kenneth Noble of the U. S. 8. Pennsylvania is spending a two weeks’' furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Noble. John L. Hubba:d of New Britain has been visiting relatives im town. Nelson Soucle of ' Waterbury has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rich on Wilcox avenue. Mrs. Rose Belden has home after a visit with ‘Westerly, Rhode Island. Misses Rose Nielson, Annie Nielson and Hazel Perry of Beckleys were vis- iting friends in’town Tuesday. A number of the girt friends of Miss Dorothy Sugenhime tendered her a very pleasant birthday surprise social at her home on Wilcox avenue last evening. Games and music were en- joyed and refreshments served. Miss Sugenhime received many handsome and useful gifts, COLLEGE WOMEN TO AID ALMA MATER returned friends in Local ' Mount Holyoke Grads Meet to Plans for Completing $3,000,000 Endowment Fund. Discuss Mount Holyoke college wornen of this city gathered at Shuttle Meadow club last night to inaugurate the month of intensive work by which they mean to ‘complete the $3,000,000 endowment fund they have undertaken to secure for their Alma Mater. More than 40 guests and workers were present at the dinner. Addresses were made by Miss Gertrude Hyde, assistant professor in the art department at Mount Holyoke college, Mrs. H. A. Castle of Plainville and C. F. Bennett of this city. The local gathering was one of over 100 held throughout the country, the occasion marking one of the greatest get-together anniversaries in the his- tory of this noted New England col- lege. The speakers recalled the long service done to the cause of higher edu- cation for women by Mount Holyoke, and its splendid contribution to the life of the nation through the women it has sent out to.the homes, to the churches, to missions, to the professions and to the business world. Of Mount Holyoke's 7,200 living alumnae, 1,500 are serving as teachers, 375 are doing social serv- ice or religious work, 320 are in secre- tarial positions, 200 are engaged in busi- ness, 175 are librarians and 100 are act- ing in administrative lines. | Thirteen alumnae have become presidents of colleges and schools. Iive college: have been founded by Mount Holyoke. As the speakers of the evening point- €d out, Mount Holyoke is [eeling the financia! stress. It is giving to students a college education at two-thirds cost, and cannot increase tuition charges without closing its doors to girls of moderate means, to whaose service it Additional equipment and buildings are needed and the income must be augmented if | the college’s standards are to be main- tained. Town Clerk Arthur Woodruff has registered 265 dogs for year. Lawrence Podlasck of Kensington hag sold the Root farm on Christian Lane to Saul and Baba Pera of New Britain. - Berlin this | Mount Holyoke's alumnae have un- dertaken the task of raising the neces- sary funds, and under an“ individua: quota of $305, have promised to try to complete the task Within the present meonth. i | PLAINVILLE NEWS OLD HOME TOWN ATHLETIC CLUB T0 HOLD SOGIAL TIME | Will Present Program At Grange: Hall Friday Night. CHURCHES ARE T0 RE-UNITE Association Repairs Old Cemetery— ' Bordeau Barbers—Water in Town Now Bet- ter—Forestville News, The members of the Plainville Ath- letic club will present an entertain- ment at the Grange Hall Friday eve. ning of this week which promises to be the banner event of the season. Plans have been progressing for sev- eral weeks and no efforts have been spared to make the program one ot the best ever presented. Mrs. Clara Oakes Usher of Farmington avenue, has had charge of arranging the pro- gram and music lovers can be assured of a treat. Mrs. Usher, widely known as a soprano, will appear on the pro- gram personally and render several vocal solos. A quintet composed of local young men and Mrs. Usher promises to be the feature of the eve- ning. The program is as follows: tet, “Swanee River,” Paul and Jamed Hayer and William Cunningham; “The Garden of Your Heart,” William Hayes; quintet, “Ecstasy,” Mrs. Clara. Oakes 2Usher, the Hayes brothers and William Cun- ningham; “You'll Git Heaps o’ Lick- in’s”” James Haves; duet, “I Live and Love Thee,” Mr. and ‘Mrs. Frank P. Usher; “Rose in the Bud,” V Cunningha “The Unforeseen, Roundelay,” and “Housing,” by Mrs. Clara Oakes Usher; “A Dream,” Paul Hayes: quintet, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia,”" Mrs. Usher and Hayes brothers and William Cunningham; Mrs. Frederick Bullen will act as ac- companist. The program will begin at 8 o'clock. Tickets for the affair have been selling favorably and expecta- tions are that about 200 will attena. All proceeds of the entertainment will be donated towards the welfare of the organization. Church Program Planned. Rev. James M. Tranmer, pastor of the Methodist church, has plans for holding a series of stereopticon lec- turés each Sunday evening during the month of May. These lecturea will be devoted mainly to the subject of Americanization and the slides will be made from actual photographs. They will depict various stages of im- .igration, labor and factory problems confro' sing the manufacturer today. The slides will be secured from an ex- pert painter at New York and are all hand made. Important stages on vi- tal points of interest in this work will be presented®and the series promise to be interesting. On Sunday evening. May f. the sub- ject of the lecture will be, “The Pass- ing of the Melting Pot the Making of An American.” It will commence at 7:30 o'clock. On May 15 there’ will be a reunion of all tha churches in Plainville. The members will congre- gate at the Methodist church where a mass meeting in the interests of Sab- bath day observance will be hela. Martin Kneeland of Hartford will be the principal speaker. Speclal musle will feature the evening and a pro- gram will ba carried out. Sunday evening, May 22, the lec- ture will be on “Christianity 6 and World Democracy,” and on My 29, it will be. ".A Gospel for the Working World." £ Cemetery Fence Repairved. The Old Cemetery on East street has undergone some extensive repairs during the past few days. Tho fence which had fallen to ruins, has been replaced with a new onc¢ and the land itself has been given a thorough cleaninz. The cemetery is one of the oldest in the vicinity and the Plain- ville Cemetery association voted to keep it in shape as a memorial to the Revolutionary soldiers who lie ¥ There are graves which date far back into the early Sixties, many which haxe fallen to dilapidation due to lack of care. The place is vis- ited by many motorists during the summer months as a land mark, and some of the headstcne inscriptions are interesting to read. Bordeau Appointed. Alphonse Bordeau has had the dis- tinction of being appointed to the state board of barber examiners for the next two years. Bordeau conducts barber shop at Central Square and hac served on the hoard of examin- 11 for some time. Water Is Better. The residents of the town are wont to feel that the water supply now being received is by far better than that which came through the pipes last week. Several complaints were received at the water-depart- ment by Superifitendent Joseph N. McKernan regarding the fishy taste. The pumps at Hamlin’s pond are gen- erally started about the first of July and eliminate the bad taste which is found in the reserveir water about that time of the year. This season it was necessary, how- ever, to commence operation on the pumps two months ahead of the reg- ular schedule. The flushing of hy- drants took place Saturday and Sun. ———— PLAINVILLE TRUST CO. Plainville, Conn. Quar- Messrs. William, o* A man has a Bank Account has who Appointed to Board of | WE USE sQl u% EKLESS THE UMBRELLA MAN SAYS IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER HARD WINDSTORM TO"BRING . THIS SPRINGS BUSINESS UP TO LAST YEARS.’ day and the pumps were started yes- terday. ' It is necessary to employ two men at the station and the added ex- pense of two months’ operation with fuel, must be met by the water com- pany. When complaints are received regarding the condition of the water supply, efforts are immediately made to overcome these. Ladies’ Auxiliary Notes. The Women’s auxiliary to -the Brock-Barnes post, American Legion, has issued a notice to all members to the effect that they are urged to leave cotton material suitable for the mak- ing of rag rugs, at the home of Mrs. Thomas Bedford of 120 West Main street, on or before tomorrow. The cloth received will be sent to Hart- ford where it will be made into rugs by the ex-soldiers of that place. School Board Mceting. There will be a meeting this eve- ning of .the Town School committee. Reports of the various officers will be heard and other business matters per- taining to the school activities will be discussed. Trustees’ Meeting. _The trustees of the A. M. E. Zion chur¢h held a meeting at the church parlors last evening. Plans for a ral- ly on May 15 were discussed. It wilh be held at the church. An all day session will take place. Special serv. ices will be observed in the evening. Plans were also discussed for the coming quarter conference to be held at the Plainville church on Mon- day of next week. This will be the last conference and reports will be heard and closed for the term. Marchett-Marchetta Wedding. Frank Marchetti and Miss Geonana Marchetta were married this morning at 8 o’clock at the Church of Out Lady of Mercy. Rev. John E. Fay, pastor of the church, performed the ceremony. Grange Initation. Members of the Plainville Grange enjoyed an entertainment ‘and social time at the hall last evening. The first and second degrees were con- ferred upon a class of candidates. Sev- eral from Burritt Grange in New Britain were among the candidates. Forestville News. The Manross post, W. R. C., will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at the G. A. R. hall. candidates will be initiated and a social timoe will fol- low the work. > The Forestville A. C. will present its mipstrel show at the Firemen's hall, Friday night. It will commence at 8:15 o’clock. The Alpha Jazz or- chestra of New Britain will furnish \ musiec for dancing. The Sunshine circle, held 'a meet- | ing this afternoon at the home of Mrs. i George Truax of Broad place. The regular meeting of the Child Welfare club was held in the kinder- garten rooms of the Academy street school this afternoon. The Laurel class of the Asbury Methodist church will meet at the church parsonage Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The Sessions Clock company base- ball team will clash with the Hart- ford Grays Saturday afternoon at the Wooster Field at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Margaret Hyland of Circle street, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Elizabeth Geraldine, to Thomas A. Tarrant, of Springfield, Mass. There has heen no date set for the wedding. Plainville Briefs. Tha Plainville Athletic club will hold a meeting tomorrow night when all weturns on tickets for the coming entertainment on Friday evening will’ be made. Manager Allan Bailey de- sires a complete report on the prog- ress of the affair. The Ladies’ Adelaide Mitchell, of Canal street. Albert Oakes has been transferred from the Waterbury team to the Han- . over league players, at Pennsylvania. Matthew Lamont and family have moved to Kenney street, Forestville. { TG RENT—X =n- apartment, modern im- | provements. Neri Block, Central Squa:e. Pleinville \ 3.25.17 DATE PROVES AGCEPTABLE July 16 Or 23 Is Satisfactory to Ox- ford-Cambridge Management for # London, May 4.—According to Cap- tain Rudd of the Oxford university track team either July 16 or 23 is acceptable as a date for the Oxford- C‘ambridge vs. Yale-Harvard track meet at Boston. Both these dates | were submitted in a recent re-invita- | i ! ] | Track Meet In United States. ' i i ! ltion sent by the Ame: ties when it was léarned date first suggested was n| from an English standpoi It will be necessary to ¢ the Cambridge athletis according to Captain Rudd selection between July 16 be made. but it is beliey formal acceptance “of will be dispatched" llw& If the trip to made -additional ;at be held witH both Cornell ton but whether both Ox] Cambridge will participate bination or as individual v cannot be stated at this ' Mothe ay Sunda: May 8 is now recognized unives observance of this day brin; ness to the Heart of your someone else’s mother, or ‘motherly old lady, by sendin| greeting card from our largg A. E. 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