New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 2

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1922, e e e e e e e e e e e v—— | SAYS GIRLS CARRIED H. S. FLASKS; IF IT'S IN THE DRUG LINE We have it in stock, can get it. or it isn't on the market. In our Pr scription Department, no expense is spared to sccure dr and chemicals of the highest standard of quality. The Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 Main Street KNOX HATS Knox Hat prices on both Soft Felts and Derbies set a new standard of hat valucs this $7.00 Ok Hartford H| on numerous oc “It Pays To Buy Our Kind” 3 “HERBIE” JOHNSON : LOSES LONG FIGHT Popular Member of Dancing Team Passes Away After Illness of a Year. Herbert A. Johnson, age 33 years, a well known black face comedian and clog dancer, died abeut 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home at 267 High street, after an iliness of more than a year. The end me after a brave fight and his many friends will mourn his passing. When he was first taken ill, he went to a hospital and had been seeking re- covery in various institutions about the state. [‘or the past few months, however, the fight has become hope less and he was removed to his home. He himself realized that the end was near, and he directed the ar- rangements for his funeral, even fo the selection of his own pall hearer: TPollowers of amateur mpinstrels will remember the team of “Holden and Johnson,"” soft and hard shoe danc- ers, and they will often recall the pleasure with which they viewed “Herbie' 'in his role of end man. His performances in this city and other cities in the state gained for him and his partner so much popualrity, that they were in demand eontinually He was employed in the sales de- partment of the Russell and IErwin Manufacturing company up to the time of his being stricken, and he was held in high regard by the offi the concern : He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Selander of this ) one daughter, Lois, age about three; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, and one brother, Edward, a veteran of the world war, and one sister, Esther. He was a member of the New Britain lodge, Toyal Or Moose, and the Mutual Ald ®on of the Russell and Erwin Co. Mfg. AUTO COLLISION, Touring Car Driven by Dr. Marsh Hits Truck of Sinskie Brothers. A touring car driven by Dr. M. L. Marsh collided with a truck owned hy the Sinskie hrothers about 8 o'clock Jast evening at West Main and Wash- ington streets. The truek was turn- ing the corner coming into West Main etreet when Dr. Marsh, driving on West Main street, ared the cor- ner. The left front wheel of Dr Marsh's car struck the rear end of the fruck The touring car wnffered a broken windshield, a damaged fend- er and wheel, and the front axie sprung. The truck was not damaged No one was injure Just as sure as two and two equa four—a good cook and Baker's Certi- fled Flavoring Extracts will produce perfect desserts.- west | VICE PROBE IN Committee of Parents, Aftey Hearing Evidence, Ave In Favor of an Inquiry. St Mo., Miller, president Jlice commissioners, Lrerred with Cha the Alliance, and Becker of the I two of committee prrents pointed to inves s char the existence of viee clubs at the sehool. Miller also conferred with committoc representative citizons, including several ofticials of the hourd of religions organizations, His origin- | charge—that there existed in Sol- dan organizations of and membership in - which was through violation of the moral code was made at a4 mecting of the Roard of Religious Organizations last Thurs- day night. Evidence Shown. Yesterday Cunliff said Miller had presented evidence which, although “second hand,” warranted in investi- gation of conditions at the Iligh school. Miller made public a letter from the other committee of citizens to Governor le, stating that they also were sfied that a thorough investigation should he made, Cunliff said Miller brought to hi home a stock of papers a foot thick and that he and Judge Becker went over most of them, but not all, be- cause there was not time. Cunliff id that virtually all of the evidence s “second hand” in that Miller's in- formants had been told of conditions hy other persons. It consisted, Cun- Jiff said, of affidavits, letters and in- terview Miller also supplied a number of names of boy and girl students alleged to be involved. The charges, Cunliff said, included: That the boy and girl students at Soldan had participated in parties where they became intoxicated. By 1 Drunk. That hoy , intoxicated, have asions, been found on tie streets by the police and tuken home i *ad of to the city hospital, as is usual with adults. That Soldan hoys and isited a certain house in ial district, “We will sift the evidence down,” Cunliff declared. “If we go thor- oughly into it all, it will take us two ye ¢ i Louis, March 15, —Vietor J the hoard of vesterdny Cunlift, y High school Patrons Judge William - Dee St. Louis court of ap- the members of po. con- fdent of Soldan of the ap- 8 of of another of girls gained hoys Fou studce! girls the have resi- Miller's friends said e had submitted onl of the evidence in his p They de- clared Miller had additional evidence, more startling than that which he had disclosed. terday a part ssion. . TREMAINE Toledo, O., March Terry Mar- tin of Providence, R. 1., New England bantamweight champion, and Carl Tremaine, of Cleveland, have heen matched to fight 12 rounds here March 24, it was announced here to- day. The fighters will weigh in at 118 pounds at 3 o RORS SELECTED. spncisco, March 15.—With six accepted temporarily, attorneys for state and defense today resumed their efforts to fill the remaining six seats in the jury box for the third trial of Roscoe Arbuckle, on a man- slaughter ch e growing out of the dcath of M Virginia Rappe, Spring time means vou new life and energy. | through Iilino T ST. LOUIS SCHOOL - | Educator q | Asserts Small Towns Are | Illinois Woman More Immoral Than Cities. Chicago, Mareh 15.—"Conditions among the young people in the small towns are far worse than those in the city, sald Mrs, Julin M. Kennedy, who attended the Health Conference in the (Congress hotel yester “They are g0 bad as to be almost in- deseribable,” As liducational Su- pervisor in the Social Hygiene dis visions of the state department of public health Mrs, Kennedy travels all g Partics. “In drinking, for instance,” she added, “a short time ags [ found a group of High school girls, every onc of whom had a small flask tied about her neck and carried inside the bosom of her Inanother school, only i few days ago, four pupils were expelled for being drunk in school. They had been drinking lemon extract. ‘White Dy Adress, mule’ can he every small town, wnid than in Ch gotten in much casicr Auto Peril. “Automobiles which ed them to the ontskirts of the town, motion pic- tures, other factors, played their part in creating these conditions in the sn town," she said. In such places there seemed to be fewer re- straints about young people, and girls as young as 14 and 13 were found in these conditions, “l am not a reformer,” she went on. "I have a daughter of 17 and 1 want her to have a good time. 1 am not against dancing; I'm not against drinking in modetation; I like to see girls dressed to look pretty. But if 1 ever thought that my daugh- ter had been canght in that condition 1 don't know what 1 wonld do. Parents Blamed. Much of the blame for conditions Mrs. Kennedy placed on parents. She argued that young people nowadays must be told the truth about life and themselves, be : atiempts to keep them in ignor: have faiied and often resulted in their getting dis- torted ideas, with resultant bad men- tal effect MRS, MONTGOMERY SPEAKS Delivers Prominent Baptist Leader Interesting Lecture—Supper Is Suc- cess Beyond Anticipations. Although less than 175 people were expected at the supper and entertain- ment given bv the Brotherhood of the Iirst Baptist church last evening, more than 200 people partook of the repast. At least 500 attended the | mu program and address in the | church auditorium later in the eve- ning. Miss Alice Hilis rendered several selections on a harp, which were re- ceived with considerable applause. The add was by Mrs. Helen Rarrett Montgomery of Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Montgomery is president of the northern Baplist conference: Her talk was strictly on dénomin: tionalism™ and contained considerable information of interest to others pres- ent as well as Baptists, Much inter- est was shown in her explanation of the plans of the inter-church world movement tilm ' engine, life; life means health means rosy cheeks angd a good appetite. If you feel all vun down and have no appetite, you need a good, reliable spring tonic. We have just the tonic for you; it will send the new blood pulsing through your veings and give Don’t drag yoursell come in today and buy a bottle of our tonic. We fill prescriptions carefully. Come {o US James V , inventor of the steam suffered from chronic head- ache. health; around any longer, but for it, The Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN STREET ‘| Twenty Men and Boys Would Learn SureRelief ESTION B P —— JOURNALISM CLASS To Write News—=Second Session To- morrow Afternoon, The second session of the journalism at the Y. M. (. A, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Tor the benefit of those who | arrived late yesterday and for new- comers, a special half hour session will be held prior to the opening of the class. The beginhers' period starting at 4 o'clock. i Last Thursday 15 men and boys at- tended the class, six more, including | the entire staff of the Boys Club | News, intend starting tomorrow. No'| effort is being made to teach the class | members to become actual newspa- | per reporters, nor is there any intrn-} tion of teaching grammar or punctu- | ation, except as an incidental feature, The object of ;the class is to teach straight news writing for publication, with the idea in mind of eliminating the necessity in newspaper offices of re-writing ticles written by college graduates and professional people, which seldom arrives in printable form. class in POLITICAL CALENDAR sl Thursday, March 16: Last day for applications to be made voters, turday, March 27 to file petitions of for G. O, P. primaries. March 26 and 27: and city clers in make voters, March 31: Republican prima- ries, April tion, Last day andidacy Selectmen sesslon to 11: Annual city elec- Events This Week: Quigley Rally, Thursday Night, Skritulsky's hall, Saturday Night: Democrat town corimittee meets at head- rters in Booth's block, at § lock. ENGINEERS IN CONVENTION Application of Mechanics of the Hu- man Heart To Industrial Problems Among Topics. The annual state section meeting of the Connecticut secti American So- ciety of Mechanical Ingineers, will be held in New Haven next Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock. A large dele- gation from New Britain is planning to be present. The program will be as follows: 6:15—Assembly, top floor, Hotel 0-—Dinner, ballroom, informal dre; A. W. Honywill, Jr., ¢ rman, Connecticut state section, presiding. 7:40—Roll call of branches; an- nouncements, . 8:00— Heart Power, J. J. Callahan, 4 e ——————————————— v ——— et m——— New Vict i ’x\ronmvm. The Employes Representa- tion Bervice, New York city. 8:830—How Poor, James E. Bennett, company, New lLondon, Conn. 9:00—The Human Element in In- dustry—Dean Dexter 8. Kimbuall, president of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. A prize will be presented by Chair- man Honywill to the branch having the largest representation, the New | Haven branch being debarred from | this competition; also to the Connecti- cut member coming the greatest dis- tance to this meeting. WITH THE HARDINGS Presidential Party Making Two Days’ Stay At St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Fla,, March 15. (By Assocjated Press)—Arriving here ear- Jy today by train from Palm Begeh, President Harding and his party plan- ned to make a final two days' stay here before leaving Jriday on the re- turn trip to Washington. The presi- dent wound up his houseboat cruise at Palm Beach yesterday, putting in a day of golf and other recreation Out today Cutie—Medley Fox Trot (from “The Blue Kitten') Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Lonesome Hours—Fox Trot Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Virginia Blues—Fox Trot The Benson Orchestra of Chicago Venetian Love Boat—Fox Trot : The Bensen Orchestra of Chicago My Mammy Knows—Fox Trot The Benson Orchestra of Chicago Angel Child—Fox Trot The Benson Orchestra of Chicago Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes—Fox Trot The Benson Orchestra of Chicago In Bluebird Land—Fox Trot The Benson Orchestra of Chicago Cradle Songs _Emmett’s Lullaby Lullaby from Erminie His Lullaby A May Morning 64695, I7IZ|7 7448 88118, 4509 Serenades—bright, cheerful, love songs Lo, Here the Gentle Lark 64267, 74608, 88073, 45115 641 Serenata 64399, 88079, 95038 Violin Selections that live 74330, 74283, 16051 Cavatina (Raff) Meditation from “Thais” 64197, 17385 Traumerei Famous Coloratura Songs Polonaise from “Mignon” Shadow Song from “Dinorah” Mad Scene from “Lucia” Memory Songs Carry Me Back to Old Virginay Silver Threads Among the Gold When You and | Were Young Maggie 74182, 74135, 35306, 74341 74489, 74653, 88296, 45006 88298, 74532, 55047 74420, 18195 74527, 17474, 64260, 16786 Any dealer in Victor products will gladly play any music you wish to hear. 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