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NUTS PEANUTS [un—— Salted ALMONDS Salted PECANS WALNUTS The Dickinson Drug Co. Are you-- Making “the Old Suit” struggle to keep up your appearance, RIGHT NOW is the time to put A stop to such mistaken ccons omy-—for RIGHT HERE is the place to get a smart new suit that will B | help you to pug your best foot forward — at a price which puts no strain on your pocketbook. HORSFALL CLOTHCRAFT SUITS sombining good style Il'ld durability $27 .. $35 “It Pays to buy Our Kind.” City Items Radio sets and supplies at Monm“ —advt. “What is-God Doing in Europe will be the subject of a free lecture to be given by I. N. Syme of Brook- lyn, N. Y., Sunday afternoon at 3| o'clock at Turner hall, under the aus- | pices of the I. B. 8. A. The publlc m‘ eordially invited. | Victrolas and records at C. L. Pierce & Co.—advt. Mrs. John Norlin has returned tol her home in Sycamore, IIl, after| spending several weeks with her| mother, Mrs. Mary Gahnberg, of| Broadview street, Maple Hill. Whiteman’s Orchestra in Mr, Gal- lagher and Mr, Shean. Victor record, No. 19007. C. L. Pierce and Co.—advt. To make the desserts you like, best= taste better, flavor them with Baker's Certified Flavoring' Extracts. At all &ood grocers.—advt. ONE DEAD, 11 IN HOSPITAL IN STRANGE POISON CASE | Mysterious Gas That ]m-ld!‘-s Battle Michigan, Homes Fills Hospital. Battle Creek, Mich., Feb. 16.—Wil- lam Edinger, 26, is dead, and eleven others are in hospitals last night, vic- Greek. | names of other than an expert can readily de covering the | The ed the | umehe |ease and could pursue |line, pointing the w. { teresting matter. | advice of the prophet Isiah, will of one who was aged as well as | sick: sired continued peace, has the follow- |8 | therefore make this my Last Will & | the early wills were probated in | JTames Boswell, published, | unedited form as fololws: tims of a mysterious gas that invaded two homes here yesterday. The cor-| oner’s office, health officers and phy- sicians announce® they had been un. | able to determine the nature of the | gas or its origin, | Edinger was overcome by the gas when he went to the basement of the| home of Will Norton, to attend a fur- nrace. His body was found at the foot of a stairway an bour later. Norton, Mrs. Norton and_their child, and Frank Sager and Mrs. Jennie Haynes, roomers, werc taken to a hospital in a serious condition. Harry Hillinger, his wife and four children were found unconscious in their homes about a half block from | the Norton house a short time later, | 210M° o NEW AIR SPEED RECORD London, England—A German mono- lane completed a flight from sro)don. England, aerodrome to Rot- | terdam, Holland, eight minutes, DR. C. W. VIVIAN Tooth Extractions Oral Surgery Dental X-Rays 52 MAIN ST. Phone 703 | estate | richard smith and In three hours and |} 9 care | kyndes of my | beed clos and hates [ they are to haue thes | geue them to be deuided | coulte and a shepe he has NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1923, STORICAL WEALTH INPROBATE COURT Old Records Throw ,Light on Connecticut of Early Days ex (By James Shepard.) The records of the probate court for the district of Hartford contain a information congurns NE vast amount of ing the life and death history of our early inhabitants. The said history | gives us their various . names, the/ their ohildren and of the| men whe marvied their daughters, We learmy of their poverty and wealth, the industries which they pursued, | what land they ewned, the demestic animals which they had and above all | of their religion, their love for Ged,| the minister and the church This wealth of information was for a long time practically “hidden under a bushel.” All the world could net have access to a single copy and ne mo teet hav to t Y for 2.0 cipher such ancient manuscripts, At length the bushel was removed and ight now shines ferth upon the| wo The late Charles Willlam Manwaring, of Hartford, labored dil- gently for several rs iu compiling “A Digest of the IZarly Connecticut| Probate Records” in three volumes, | years from 1635 to 1750, | hav two first volumes of about 700 pages each were published in 1004, Before Mr., Manwaring had complet- compilation of the third vol- was stricken with a fatal dis- his work only with much difficulty and suff But with marvelous energy and fail fulness he persevered in his hegoic work and passed away on Aug. 19, 1905, “the day following the comple~ tion of his great compilation.” The third volume of 794 pages was prepared and publshed in 1906, un- der the supervision of other hands. “This d¥gest is a pioncer work in its v to wfiat may| be done in other parts of the state and in sister states, in the way of put- ting their ancient and valuable rec- ords into a form that will foreverin- sure against their loss or destruction.” I have examined the first volume of the said digest, page by page from beginning to exgl and find much in- William Wellman | was'sick unto death and following the “Set thine house in order for thou shalt die and rot live,” He made a will contain- ing the following preamble: #Whereas, I William Wellman of Kennelworth, being sick and weake of body but of perfect memory, as my duty is at all time to command and commit my soule to God, as also to set my house in order in reference to my outward estate with which God hath betrusted mee, in token of my love to #hd care of my wife and chil- dren * * * as my last will an testa- ment.” 2 The asbjoined geambletis from the her and [ Simon Smith senior of Haddam, being aged and being sensabell of my mortalyty, and at thos time being vis- ited with sickness, does give my body to the dust in hopes of a Glorias res- erection, make this my Last Will and Testament."” The will of an n"f-d ‘man who de- ing preamble: “In the name of God, I John Pratt of Hartford, being grown | in years and at present laboring under some weakness of body, am Willing to set my Temporal affayres, that when 1 am gathered to my fatherspeace may be continued in my family Doa | Tesament.” | B The numerous wills containingmat- | § ter of similar nature to that found in i the foregoing preambles, indicate that | it was the general practice to defer the making of a will just as long as it was deemed safe to do so. As a rule a short time after the making of them, a few weeks, or months, Eight years is the longest time nof wl for a will to run before it was pro- bated, These will appear to have been the first and only wiil madé by the testatar. A clause revoking a former will is of very rare occurence. A rare example of interesting or- tthography is found in the will of, which was purposely Mr. Manwaring, in an -EIENEE]ElEIE]EIIEIIEEIE!HIEIE]E!E]E]@EE]E]E@@@fi@]@@@@@@@@@@ by September 24: 1660. i ic. mes buswell ofe wethe theres| feld felenge my selefe ve-ry ele thenkes it is my du ty ha uenge my ri te sen ses and re sense to sete my that god haue geuen me in| orderé and thes is my wele i haue| givene my uncell and ante and io nathane smethe my foure catetele ate | good mane wrytes i land more ouerre i haue giuen theme, my tou yonge marese'more ouerc ®ies is my wele i haue geuen my cos sen ri richard smethe and my cos sene fosephe sun | smethe ale my land in nawbuck n cous sene mr richard shale haue h halefe ofe my lote nuexth good mane honceslote onere 1 haueguene my cus sen richard smethe my ould mare and her coult and ‘my ould coue and my vonge scege i had ofe fohne ate i cotr 'n"oi hade heme e iohn addames Va a wethere shepe i give hime and my house ale soc more ougre i makemy cos sene| Thomas edwardes ¢ ouere serese to prouid for my worabell buryable ife ite ples god fore there them ale more W in con sederacyo and payenes i geue were renge clos and and shoes and ue ate nawhuk heuyes alyke i to hothe auer this is my wele § Thomas edwardes my them booth | aleredy in her keepenge & thes i geue hem fre ly be seyd others chere ges he have bene oute one me these my estate most paye moste pay these i leue in the handes ofe my 2 cus| sene richard smethe & ale soee 1‘E] make my sos sene richard smethe my towe yvonger hogs i b ivke more ate guen toe Next Week Starting Monday CAS-TORIA’ hUulorOnriovm Al-ouhln -od and receyue ale my dates, New York New strangler” three negroes, two of whom, according Eross, where It Detalls of Rarrated by Leon Singleten, & ml"-' also arvesied yesterday, according to the pelice, His capture was followed *{by the arvests of the l‘rfinyleunr| girl and Mps. Singleten. A fourth | negre is sought. | As alleged to have been ranlcmd’ by Singleton and later by the Peany-| ‘leulher girl, she enticed Louis Roth-| stein, an insurance man, to the roof | of a bullding in the negro quarter off | seckeetore toe® pay ale my dfl...t olumbus Cirele. Singleton and MWs| ‘companion stepped from a hiding | place, heat Rothstein down, drew up | [his neektie, fefloed him, with the girl, fled te an automebile helow, where Mrs, Ringleton waited for them WA Tfew doors away the JIrocess was lf‘p?llhl, the vietim, in this instance having been Samuel Kearns, another | insurance agent The bodies were found the | morning Arvest of | JAMES BUSWELL Themas Edwardes fehard smith Junr. CKTIE STRANGLING MYSTERY NOW SOLY Police Relieve -m’ COLLEGE NTRIKE ENDS, Havana, Feb, 16~—8tudents at the University of Havana have returned to their class rooms after being on York, Ieb, 14-=A nnuue strike for five weeks in an .-nunnn mystery which for to enforce their .demands for admin- nths has baffled this city's best d- istrative and pedagogic reforms, The | ives was belioved last night to | order by the students federation to @ been solved in the arrest end the strike followed suspension of nine professors against whom charges fessod were preferred by the studenty and both committed | formation of a students' assembly for perpetrators | & voice in the government of the uni- versity, Negroes, Man and Two Women, / “ Clears Up Murders, of he police, have wo roof murders, money, netted the )7, Reatrice Pennyfeather, & ne- charged with homicides, lured | ettt ento vietims to the dark housetops | HUNGER KILLS 180,000 three others dispatched them | Righ, Latvia.—Official soviet figures looted their clothes, it was ree pyblished here, show 180,000 died d in her confession alleged to|from hunger between September 1 © been made yesterday and November 15 in the Ukraine and the crimes have been'Volga territory alone, ATTORNEY ALLING IS IN WRONG WITH LABOR MEN New Haven Tyades Councll Demand His Resignation FromgFduca- tion Board, New Haven, Feb, 16.—Members of | the New Haven Trade council last night voted fo present to Mayor Fits- Gerald a resolution requesting the re. moval of State's Attorney A, A. Alling a8 & member of the board of educa- tion, The action grew out of the deel- sion of the beard two weeks ago to | revoke a permit granted to the foun- oil to held a meeting in a school building at which Bert M, Jowell, head of the Rallway Employes de- partment of the American Federation of Labor was scheduled to addregs striking shopmen. The counell last night declared that | Mr, Alling had given an “inadequate and discourteous” answer when re- quested to explain the agtion of the board, and added ithat Mr., Alling's “general open hostilities to organized labor” had been a contributing fac- tor in the action, It was.charged that Mr, Alling had #oerced “the other members of the hoard to revoke the permit for the use of the hall" A committee will meet today to present the resolution to Mayor Fitz- Gerald, Patrick ¥, O'Meara, head of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, | and Ira N. Ornburn, president of the New Haven Trades councll, are mem- bers of the committee, MACKAY & WALLIN The Firniture and Drapery 43 MAIN ST. Shop Opposite Hungerford Court EDS'and BEDDING AllReducedfor Saturday Jhm WWM 2-inch continuous pillars with oval filling tubes. Here's $10.95 a bed tha's well worth $13.50, Specially Priced For Satupday Simmon’s Fabric Spring—cxtra well made—fin- ished in two coats colored enamel. Special Price Here For Saturday 1. . $5075 Stearns & Foster Felt Matttress, imperial roll edges—a mattress you'll’ be proud th own—and. a sure cure for that tired fecling, Delivered to your door for a special crib with | on sale Saturday a COTTON “LA\KI‘T? Specially priced for urday. Full double bed Cribs—A large selection to ‘choose from. ‘16 (u s Y We havey sliding side. el \'\m h 8-Piece Walnut Dining Suite here t only Headquarters for KIRSCH FLAT RODS Single, double, triple—all sizes in stock. MARQU TTE CURTAINS Made of a good quality .material—hemstitched size. Regulnr $2.08. Three-quartor or single bed size. Saturday Regular $2.69. Saturday ... . Pair $2.25 Single bed and cot size. Regular $2.25 a.nd $1.69. Saturday $l u95 and $ l o49 Pair COMIFORTABLI 53.49 29 c Full size—filled with good quality new cotton. Reg. $3.98. Saturday .. Brenlin Window Shades Made and Estimates Given on All Work. Phone 873-12 for Saturday and finished with a neat lace edge. Regular $1.25. Saturday RUFFLED CURTAINS ¥ Two extra values Pair $ l 00 s l Pair and 31050 Pair CRETONNES Beautiful. selection in light .and dark effects, Yard' to 750 _Ymi = Hung to Order. Call Our Shade EE@EEE@E@E@E@EEE@@EEE}E E@E@EEE@EEE@E@EE QUALITY Assortment &/ SALE OF 600 NEW SPRING ATS S & $4.98 Our Usual Price Would Be $5.98 to $7.50 New hats—just made this week—every one cai'pfully ordere combination possible of style, shape, color and trimming. Th charming model in every instance. Among them: Hats of the new Tegal straw with flattering crepe and silk i'acings in becoming effects. § feathers. All the New Shades For Sprmg HATS OF THE BETTER KIND g sy s. COMPANY IEEEEEEEEEEE LINTON BROTHERS —Presen MAIN ST, d to insure the most modish e vrestlt is an altogether Straw cloth” hats trimmed with soft velvet poppies, bright colored fruit or burnt EASTERN MILLINERY POPULAR e "PRICES O oiolooo] O . Cast of Broadway' Principals perma- l.llo“'clulunldhnllm Do Kellogg 's Bran with ll!l Mh“‘mu:!‘ confuse a fl’.’i -y Kellogg b’“nehd. for it at your restaurant! Consistently Fair Prices NO RIDICULOUS CUT PRICES—NO WIGH PRICES— BUT ALWAYS A LOW FAIR PRICK | OIL COMPOUND WAMPOLES COD LIV COMPOUND PINKHAM'S VEGETAD GLYCO THYMOLINE . SQUIBB'S MINERAL 016 SCOTT'S EMU LNION DRYCO \IIl:K LAXATIVE ASi REXAL ORDERI NuUJOL CASTORIA LAVORIS NOS TOOTH PAST! KENZO TOOTH PASTE RED PEPPER RUB ... STUFFED DATES s 49¢ rouma Spec Inll; selectod Hnllonll alnlm. stnflr(l with nutritious .Imomls and ' OPEKO COFF SYMOND'S PURF . SYMOND'S RURE BAKING CHOCOLA'T SYMOND'S PUFK TRACT VANILL. r\. XTRACT LEMON . ORANGE \IAIL\IALAI SATURDAY CANDY—39¢ 1 MATAN CHOCOLATES—SP) Uy CHOCOLATE BITTER SWEETS—SPECIAL ... CLARK & BRAINERD DRUG STORE 181 MAIN STREET® HARTFORD Presenting ' An Attractive Showing of DRESSES For Miss and Matron Specially Priced at $14.75 The materials are Canton Crepe, Taffeta, Eponge and Novelty Fabrics in many smart slmdes. All sizes Renier, Pickhardt & Dumn 127 MAIN STREET PHONE 1409-2 OPPOSITE ARCH STREET At 1, FormerPrice Coats, Both Dress and Sport Coats HEAVY SUITS FOR SMALL BOYS AT 1-3 OFF OF FORMER PRICE CHILDREN’S WINTER HATS At 50c—Hats which were up to $2.50. At $2.00—Hats which were up to $5.00. |For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Advts, -y NEW BRITAIN HOME TOWN F OLLIES 35—NEW BRITAIN GIRLS—35

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