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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESD! Plainville N ND FLU EPIDEMC * THREATENS TOW ‘Health Oer Bull Reports Hid EVERY PIECFE, OF FUR IN OU kP DOWN PRICES. 209 OFT, THERE ARE COATS of raccoc Japanese mink. to all who select furs now. FINL FUR SCARFS of Iynx, R, insky, black, brown, blue Fox, W and Squirrel, YOU WILI: PROFIT LARC Buy yours now. OUR PRICES for $26.95 complete. $3.00 a yard, no matter how high t Berlin News 2 R0OM ADDITION - PLANNED BY BOARD ¥ Definite Action on School (ommittes Problem | WEARABLE, NOW OFFLRED AT A TW LY IN BUYING FURS NOW. IFurs and quoting the specially low FOR $23.78—you have selection for a Dress from Furs Now Within the Reach of All Prices Cut 20% on the Dollar - Regardless of Former Cuts R STOCK, BE IT COAT, SCARI, MU on, Irench seal, Hudson seal, dyed Lvery coat having already been marked down we go still further giving 2065 discount Come sec what you can find and make the saving we offer on your purchase, HANDSOMI; e wonderful accoon, Jap Kol olf, Hudson Seal furs marked prices, We w! ered prices. There are weeks of Wi NTY PER CENT. DISCOUNT FRROM THE ALRVADY MARK- Casts ‘ MRS. SARAH CODLING DIES of Notes ! Bowling the Trumholl | Teague—George Bartett IResigns From Bristol Mills After 19 Years' Service=Other Notes, del ) : gL 3 ¢ the surrounding citfes PF, STOLE ORI OTHER ¥Rt ns have reported many in. uenza cases, and New Britiin s now reported wy having an epidemie, Plainville so far is considered cpoe from any serlous cascs and thoge ro. portad thus fa of a mild re Health Oficer J. N. Bull said today that there is absolutely no cause for |alarm fn this town and with the co- niuskraf, Marmot, Musirat, and Ghtas o Dz & operation of the residents, Plainyille MUFFKS of Wolf, I'ox and other will continue in its usual healthy con- Iy cheap with the 20 per cepnt off ditfon. ere are approximately 20 casss of “Flu* so far, ill take pleasure in showing you The doctars have been kept lLusy vlattending to their patients and mak- Ing an effort to prevent a possible spread of the sickness and have been |successful, No real “I'lu” cases have nter yet in which to wear Ifurs, NOW IS YOUR TIME TO HAVE A NICE DRESS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE FOR LEASTER WEAR. $20.95 *** $23.75 DRESSES MADE TO MEASURE IN ANY STYLE YOU WISH NOWHERE B ALUES Wi CAN ROM A OUR DRI MAKERS AND TAILORS ARE KNOV AS THE BEST 1 FXACTING WOMAN WILL BE PLEASED WITH IFIT AND MAKI, COME TO WOOLEN DRESS GOODS SECTION-—look through our $3.00 a yard, select the one you like and we will make to your mecasure a all materials at hey are priced. Be one of the first a made to fit in the style you want at a price about half you would pay for same Kensington and 60 make use of the class rooms in the hasement, Was To Be Temporary The action of the school commit- tee in placing the children in out- lying districts of Kensington as well | as in the portable building and the basement waus intended as a tempor- ary measure only. The need of the | new building in this regard was out- lined in the annual report of the committee as accepted by the town. Good Time To Build Some members of the committee feel that it is an exceptionally good time to build inasmuch as they feel that indications are that building costs will not be much lower. They ————— also feel that labor is abundant and 2 | that several men will be given em- EXPECT EARLY BRICK SEASON| pioyment. Others are inciined to be- Ttchard Murray Company Plans To Fill Eatire Yard This Season — Tendered Farewell Party — Leave Por Vermont—Briefs. Reports of the finance, teachers and oxtepsion compmittges were heard at the meeting of the school board held in the office of the town clerk last| evening. The report of the extension committee went into detafl in regards to the proposed new addition at the Kengington Grammar school although no definite action was taken. The report of the finance commit- tes phowed that abouyt $31,000 of the appropriation for the year had been cxpended. This leaves the committee with abowt $384,000 for the remainder of the fiseal Bills for $600 for repgir work were approved. ing made by this company fog one of the biggest years in the history of the and kiins at the yards have already !Ile\'v that with the return to nermalcy| Pythias hall for the Berlin may expect a further increase in the school population because of its relation to New Britain. About New Britain Board No action was taken with reference to the action .of the New Rritaln school board on barring outsiders at the Senior High school in that city. Specific action has not been taken by the neighboring board and as a result| the Berlin committee will not know| how to act until definite word is re-| ceived. The brick industry will be busicr this season than any since the end of the war, according to Miss Josephine Murray of the Richard Murray Brick company, Miss Murray, when seen this morning stated that plans are be- company. Miss Murray stated that the boilers been inspected and work will begin ARE NOW OFF | Wilcox avenue this week. heen Teported from the school New Canal Data, Some new history, in regards to the railroads taking over the old canal Hne which ran through this town in YOou THE RING YOU WOND FUL IN STYLL NY MATERIAL IN OUR STOC 1§25, has been compiied by Elsworth N HARTFORD AND THE MOST Sheldon of 53 Lenox Place, New Brit- ain. Mr. Elsworth has some excellent references on the railroads which sy | ceeded the old waterway. Mr. Shel- line of gown materials priced to/ Diesal Th any siceyoaban don gives they following information about the rafiroad lines which follow- ed the former mode of travel by Wool Dress Goods Dept. above boats: nd get best selection in material, hough the old canal itself is be- ready made. assed out of existence a quarter cf a century before I arrived in this eoun- try, I am under the impression that | the data mixed with reference to the rallroads that succeeded it {s some- what incorrect, ‘New York, mick were awarded first prize at the T. A. B. whist lust evening, Mrs, “The New Haven & James Corr, Jr., and Fred Karum Hartford' railroad did not take over were awarded the consolation prizes.| the old canal at the end cf its days of Fast Berlin Items, | usefulness as a waterway, for two per- Mrs. Patrick Holigan, who has | fectly good reasons; one of which was been the guest of relatives in South- | that there was no ‘New York, New ington, has returned to her home on| Haven & Hartford' railroad. The Main street. other reason [ have forgotten. There The regular weekly meeting of the was a ‘New York & New Haven’ rail- Girl Scouts will be hell Thursday road and also a ‘New Haven & Hart- ternoon at the home of Miss Itta | ford' railroad, but the ‘Consolidated,’ awrence, Mrs. E Mother V. Read will entertain the these wing club at her home on junction of had not come into being. “As a matter of fact the canal whs William Dennis has accepted a po- [ not ‘taken over' at all, but a railroad sition in New Britain and commenced | was built upon its own right of way, his new duties Monday morning. |as far as that was feasible, by the There will be the regular weekly |New Haven & Northampton Canal whist and social at the Knights of | Co.: which railroad was operated un- benefit ©f the|der that name as late as 1886, The society two, Village evening. |name of the company and, The regular weekly prayer meeting | the property was obviously Improvement though a rail- will be held at the Methodist chuhch | road, the and locomotives were Friday evening. all marked with the company's in- Mrs. Walter Squires of Cromwell | itials: 'N. H. & N. (. Co.' spent Tuesday with her parents, Mr., “The passenger cars were marked and Mrs. H. L. Bailey, on Main| ‘New Haven & Northampton Com- streot, paay, omitting, if my memory serves Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hart and son, | me rightly, the word ‘canal’ Some- Allen, who have been visiting rela- | time between 1886 and 1800, the New tives in Unionvilte, have returned to | York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- their home in this pla | road company acquired the holdings Mrs. Sianey of New Britain spent | of the old canal company, under a 99 Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. Ray- | year lease and the whole property has mond Dyer, of Savage Hill. A very large crowd attended the masquerade dance held at the Ath- letic hall last evening. Miss Ger- trude Quinn of this place and George Corr of Kensington captured the awards for the prize fox trot. | dated system. “The ‘Hartford, Providence & Fish- Kkill R. R grew out of several short- er lines running in a desultory way | somewhere between these termini in | those days of railroad consolidation. | Its right of way crossed the old canal | at & point midway between the pres- FEINGOLD ELECTED ews CASTORIA yond my personal knowledge, having | which had its beginnings in the con- ! this | word ‘railroad’ did not appear in the | since been absorbed into the Consoli- | " " AY, FEBRUARY 15, 1922 For Infants and Children InUse For Over 30 Years | Always bears £ : the Signature of S | New York Shore Line' hegan at New London and ended at New Haven; the ton & New York Air Line' ran he tween New Haven and Willimantic; and the ‘New Yark, [I'rovidence & fioston’ naver got aAy nearer to fta two terminal cities than New London and Providence reapectively “Another statement to which J would take exception on mathemat leal grounds, is that the Loats made the trip from New Huaven to North. ampton in oue day, At three miles | an hour the captain would have to he ! a most expert helmsman to cover tthe 76.4 miles fn a day witheut working overtime “Another thing, did the chauffeur ) ride on the backs of the horses On the ‘lirte’ they did it differently, for my old fathersin-law used to tell the tory of how he hired out to wark his possage on & canal boat from 1oy to New York and was ign- ed to the task of driving the mules Juicy Fruit, Peppermint and Spearmint are certainly three delightful flavors to choose from. And WRIGLEY'S P-K—the'. new sugar-coated pepper-! mint gum, is also a great’ treat for your sweet tooth.: All are from the Wrigley factories where perfection is the rule. On reaching the Hudson, footsore and weary, he complained that ‘were it not for the honor of the llnnx.l\r; might as well have walked.' | “Until reading the story, T did not know of the various passenger sta- | tions that had graced Plainville. T had always supposed that the imme diate predecessor of the present com- | modious building was constructed from the remnants of Noah's Ark, that had floated down the Pequabuck in time of flood."” ' Bowling Results The “Circle T bowling leggue now entering upon ita 14th week with the machine cnd assembly rooms tied for first place. All teams are playing well, but the office men find it diffi- |cult to separate themselves from the bottom shelf and arc hanging on. The |following is the results of this week's| |rolling at the Wallace-Barnes alleys: is | Assembly Edwards . ... 91 92 Hart . AT a0 [Powers 79 Babich .... | Lemeris 95 10 Save the RTPTERE waanoensy Machine Funk v, 8¢ 18 Good for Wadsworih 76 83 91— voluable penreey CUNP) Ewald 82 260 . AV o Livingston §0 106— 277 premmm:. Granger V. Th 99— 259 Derby Pavano | Seymour Hanny { Eiaier Plainville Briefs clerk's office. | McGar 100 3011 Mrs. Clara Oakes Usher will sing| progressive health boards elsewhers | Safety Switch Guard hall In Hartford tonight. She Since vital statistics are closely re Granger H. 106 99— 2001\ render “The Love Duet.” from %mul to health matters. Births, deaths White W. 76 80— 238 lunfadame Tutterfly." and marriages would be recorded at | Dionne 00 86— 285| mpa Epworth \,;“K".\ held a Valen- | the henl(h.dvpnr(m@nl instead of the | stocking 80 85— 242 HOOE) at the Methodist ohuren |town clerk's office under this system, | Broadwen 85 83— 258 it is explained. parlors last evening. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Cassidy U hder this system it is probable 446 433—1317 438 | Wao held at 9 o'clock this morning that one additional clerk would be re- Mrs. Sarah Codling [trom the Church of Our Lady of Quired for the health department, Mrs. Sarah Codling, aged 67 years, |narcy. Rev, Johm F. Fay, pastor, This it is argued, would not work : died this morning at 3 o'clock at the | mainted. Mrs. Martin Casey sang, Yery great increase in the expenses o {home of her daughters, Mrs. Leon upja jesu" at the offertory and | the board since there is already sn { Loomis and Miss Francis Codling of 'yanec Donahue of Bristol sang, "1 Appropriation for additional clerk Central Square. Mrs. Codling had |Gome to Thee.” hire, |been visiting her daughters since [ | Thanksgiving and was taken ill dur- ppoM NOW ON Mr. W, T. Deter ing her stay here. Her home is in will have for sile Pinnaclerox Jer from the farm of Mr. Henry ! Bridgeport. She was bern in Water- [ville, Conn., and lived in Bristol for e i ¥ {about 30 years. She is survived by he 3 Q husband, Itobert B. Codling now liv- \VITAL STATISTICS ling in Bridgeport, and the two daugh- 4 | ters with whom she lived. George Barlett Leaves | George Bartlett, for the past 19 |years general manager of the Bristol| gealth superintendent Believes Such Mills on West Maln street, has re- | | signed his position in that capacity, (taking effect the latter part of last | |week. Mr. Bartiett has watched the | |growth of the plant during its past | years and continued overseeing its | ANYBODY CAN ENTER DANCE CONTEST AT FOX’S Records Should Be Kept By His Department. t Dr. I'red I'. Lee, superintendent of | | the board of health, favors the in-| | The ehairman of the teachers' com- i 0 ent station and the Kast, Main street progress when the entire plunt closed | ‘ o i statis- ||| mittee reported that the, resignation '™ the e asuTe kb ke g d0on B | erossing; where traces of the old [down for almost a year. No one has L of L"\:‘:];:nfr :l','"‘r:p{":p MONDAY EVE. of Miss Margaret Bartlett had been| ™ = PP G NEW ASSN. LEADER | gitch may stiu be found it one|been named 28 yet to succeed him. | D et abosurgniacy e L S s S accepted and that the had already|, ITIE TAC PAS. four vears, the searches diligently enough. those records now kept in left the teashing force. Mrs. Edith| rick business has not heen a pros- e |"“One of these shorter roads may | perous one, it is claimed, but at pros. | Hewitt of New Britain has been en- i ; e | hAVE been called the ‘Roston & Erie,' |g . e o .| ent there is a great deal of construc-| Newly Organized Vetcran Body Elects | s i 5 3% o 3 - | York and ‘the contractors have been —Alderman Paonessa Speaks to QL HgWRa 8 SUEY ki | Extension Committee Reports vecelving their brick = from Berifn y 5 | to name railroads for points that the | Matters as to changes of desks in|, -~ - Members Urging Co-operation. roads themselves could never hope to —— E————— e e b b iy varie . drly ores| z 4 7 [ reach. Ior instance: the ‘Roston & | i / FERRL O AT S eeed o (NS RITY Of therohuabity of AHE yarts was| Lo Panromeeld wasvelected cot. | bullding committee. The report of }mamlm of the newly organized Ve 3 dge, &1, Rukstil Bbes filled with brick last year but it is Fresh eggs ——advt | ] | l ; erans’ association last evening. The| expected to fill the yards to capa other officers elected are as follows ik cenE, Cand JUmMET | Senfor vice-commander, Edward Hah- ppa IAB A3 gon; junior vice-commander, John the extention committee was the next to be heard. The members reported that the committee had held several meetings CITIZENS! COME! building an maltlonlll heb ens;'g-“knm busy untll the latter part of | Oficer-o -the-day, “”Jr):cp ‘flarm : . ton Grammar school had been ¢ s- September this coming year. color sergeant, Fran M(X\umnfa.‘ ‘c«-ea&:‘; }:ut::fl'nlltel};fh;“l:‘\‘:::lm\;:l:l Tondered Farowell Party. ’T:)lor piz|1;\3'ls. I(ob‘erl l(}l(vssu‘;: .m]a \I\u-; Sl | —TO THE— s nee n y of da- . o [{Ham 7. Jones; buglers, V. alone | o % | tions to meet the need of the 'nwm0,",{-’,’3."'{,""2'"{';3T'?; T of Amarafih land J. Dominfinski, and trustees,| Clean Child’s Bowels with | but is not prepared to make a defi- o B! B Y‘\\,mim“ Hopkins, Dewey Molander| | last evening for Miss Mildred Mels- “California Fig Syrup” - OPEN FORUM —OF THE— Chamber of Commerce nite report until the members have Aoy and J. Ringrose. Raymond C. Frost X iner of Worthington Ridge. About 75 (% 2 ket ;:zo::m::flm(&” ::1:::1:":" {;: people were present. The usual games| W38 appointed as permanent adjutant. | sketc! iwere played and dancing was en- T'he following resolutions were | Ing prepared. . § passed:— joyed. - . Miss Meisner was presented with o| Resolution in favor of the adjusted large number of gifts. She will sailjcompensation Dbill now before con- on Baturday for Paris, I'rance, where |87T€8S, and the represcntatives be notl- ‘whe will stugy art. Red to that effect. On Extehded Trip. Resolution urglng that the Municl- Mr. and Mrs, F. 1.. Bradley of Ken-|Pal Home Service bureau personnel be | sington left last Saturday for an ex-|composed of ex-servicemen or women | tended trip through Vermont. They Who were in the service of the an-(l; will visit Mr. Bradley’s mother, Mrs. [States during the late war, i E. L. Bradley at Brattleboro, whoe Angelo Paonesse, sixth ward alder-| the | man, addressed the maoting last night. | At the pregent time there are five architects preparing plans to be sub- mitted. The plans include a drawing of the proposed building and the es- timated cost of ereeting suych. Of 13 Rooms It is understood that the school committee is considering an addition of 12 rooms, togsther with an audi- torigrn and gymW®asium, for the Ken- aln:xon Grammar school. This\ will ) will make the return trip: with ° ‘ ‘ ,, ::::l lt“x:;:;::bnle;:outerecar;‘(:‘{er‘g] couple and live in Kensington for the | He expressed himself us boing ab-! ® about the tewn. winter. solutely in favor of the soldier bonus | u ec Pupils from Kensington who now Mr. Bradley wiil include in his|leglslation and at lh('inltml' timo (ln-‘ ° attend the Beckiey, the Worthingtoil.|!rip a business transaction at Wor-|cried The attempts of politiclans to} | l.edge and Percival schools will bejcester, Mass. »I‘I\'ry “n‘ll sr'fto;‘:ln belittie Lht; :‘;r‘\lh‘r;‘ ;:I(;:(r:r;:ne;xm:y l'v::a‘ | able to attend the Kensington Gram- | Clinton where they will visi Mrs. [ men who fougt » lato . He o T : B KERS Mar_oghool. The school authoritics | Adcline Babcock who will later visit|urgei the wervloemen of New Wrltain | Hiven u siel child laves the fouily” | —_ p— to organize into one compact body mo | bring iSensington for a few days. claim that there are about 160 chil | Berfin Briefs. d whod belong in the Kensington| little (ongue is conted, or if yous ehild dren i lu )Intless, oroes, feveriah, full of eold, that they might be uble to DR. ALBERT B, MEREDITH, Sccrelary State Board of Education 3 > Py o >, " ] - P ir repronentatives In scheol attending the ubove named| The Parents and Teachers' asso-|pressure upon thel TN AT : A i § 9 D, / , S . , give a teaspoenful (g schools. In addition, there are 80|ciation of the Hubbard school in East the legislative bodles to enact fegisia bl . ; puplls in the portable building at|Beriin will mect tomorrow evening. |tlon favoring thomselves, cleanse the liver and ’bflwlflll. In A few MR. STANLEY H. HOLMEE, SIIpe\ intendent of Schools The mecting of the special tewn| —————— ‘)\nuru you can pes for yourssif !‘\'nw X Fresh eggs. 5lc doz. Russell Bros.[farm committee has been postponed| Borden's miik, 10e can, Russell Bros, |thoroughly it werks, all the constipa: DR.. FRANK Zw](wK' Chairman of Heallh Depm'tmenl tlon poison, sour bile and wasto eut of the bowels and you have a well, piay- ful child again, Millions of mothapa until rext week. §t. Paul's Y. M. T. A. & D. society iwill meet Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. ——advt, MR, FRANK G, VIBBERTS, Chairman of Hezlth and Sanitation Committee Lesp "Oaii- DONTMISS ||| Court Mattancasett, Foresters of HANDSOME CUP |||rornia ¥ig fyrup” handy, Tiey know | MR. E. CLAYTON GOODWIN, Chairman School Accommodations Com- I v 61 oday savea a pin merica, will meet tomorrow eve-| a teaspeonful t y sisk ehild l | THE EST ; | ning. BEST —i’)l‘;{)l;l(‘ERq | :lr;nmrr(nk’.”,nl. ynl\:‘r dr:ggluk for :z_'nl. mittee. 3 T [ The fraternal bowling lcague of| 'ERS uine “California Fig Syrup! wihich i ’ e o R e ATFOXS [ grtios o vaves st wien - Wedneaday, February 15(h—ELKS' CLUB Dinner, $1.00—6:15 P. M, ;‘ ON MONDAY EVE. J mr;;::l. S ey MONDAY EVE. | :g’:"nr:‘:::;lT:finvf“::::;’::v. or you thay