New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1923, Page 7

Big Underpricing the Secret of Our 'February Furniture Sales Success | ; For Every Looker Becomes a Buyer The young newly weds contemplating housekeeping will find this thelr big opportunity to fit ont thel Il r home with good Everything in our big fumiture soction, three mamuoth floors, during this sale, Every one needing, or thi nn and see by comparison, with regular TEA WAGONS Reduced from $26,00 to $10.50, ¥rom $39.50 to $25.00, From $35.00 to $20.00, From $42.00 to $35.00. SECRETARY One large Colonial Becretary, regular price $126.00 Reduced to $100.00, price $3175.0 Walaut Dining Suite, ten-pleces, MAHOGANY Secretary, reg. price $69.50, Reduced for this sale—8$59.50. Desks reduced from $07.50 to $82.50, From $59.50 to $&1.50, Day arms, less ‘than $600 can match it for quality Our sale price but $325.00, Three-Plece Suite, figured and plain velour, reg- ular price $300, for $175.00, Targe Davenport, wing and club chalr, tapestry and velour, $300 value—8$175.00, NESTED TABLES Special chance to get a decorated nest of ta- bles, formerly priced $45.00, for $38.75. Berlin News GRANGE WILL HAVE PATRIOTIC PROGRAM Rev. Raymond Gilman of New Britain to Make Address 70 DISCUSS BRONZE TABLET Foresters Initiate Candidates—No Le- gion Meeting—Many Il With Grip —Junior Minstrel Show Progressing —Other Items of Interest. Berlin grange will hold a patriotic meeting next Tuesday evening in the grange hall on Damon’s hill, the pro- gram being in chargh of Mrs. George Ventres, the iecturer, The principal speaker will be Rev. Raymond Gilman, pastor of the Stan- ley Memorial church, New. Britain. He will speak on “The Spirit of Am- crica.” Mr. Gilman spent several years in the Near East and his talk with reference to that situation prom- ises to be interesting. Other parts of the program will in- clude readings, recitations and songs by members. . The program will be held following the regular meeting and has been con- fined to members of the organization. The meeting s scheduled for § o'clock. % Want Bronze Tablet Members of Bolton-Kasica post, American Legion, are discussing among themselves the removal of the honor roll from in front of the town hall. The members are of the opinion that a bronze tablet should be erected on the monument at the corner of Farmington avenue and that the roll should be torn down. However, If it should be impractical for a tablet to be erected, they say that the honor roll should remain, as they feel that the Berlin and Kensington men who served in the war should be remem- bered, The next meeting of the post which is to be held March 8, will be devoted to a discussion of the affair, as the men feel that some action should be decoration, Combination Mahogany Suite, sample was $425.00, for $275.00, ination Walnut, ten-plece sulte, reduced from offergd DINING ROOM SUITES Eight Plece, Golden Oak, Nuffet, Table with six foot extension, six chairs with leather seats, $150 value—8§100.00, Jacobean Oak Suite, 9 pleces with polychrome Buffet, table, server and six chalrs with tapestry seats. Half price at $200,00, American Walnut Suite, nine pleces, R $359.00 for $310,00, ten - pleces, 0 to $315.00, L regular Bale price $269,00, Solid Mahogany Suite, nine-pleces, regular value $376.00, Sale price $320,00, All other Dining Spites reduced, LIVING ROOM ITES enport, Wing and Club Chalrs, taupe color mohalir covered, or taken. No meeting was held last evening, Foresters Meet The Foresters held a meeting last evening, at which, four candidates were initiated by the new degree team. 7¥ive applications for member- ship were received. The attendance was the best in some time, according to members of the organization, 7 Meceting Abandoned The open meeting which Kasica post, American Legion, planning for next week has abandoned, according to the post commander, James E. Corr, this morning. There would not be time enough to get speakers and to make other arrangements, Mr. Corr stated. Minstrels Progressing. Plans for the minstrel show to be given by the junior committee of the Worthington Communlty Center asso- ciation are progressing, rapidly, ac- cording to reports this morning. Re- hearsals are held regularly and those taking part are showing an excep- tional interest in the affairs. The next rehearsal will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garner Goodwi next Tuesday evening. If plans materialize the performance will be held on the evening of March 23 at Grange hall, music being fur- nished by an orchestra composed of the young people of the town. Many Are Il ' Berlin people are hard hit by the grip this winter, as there are many residents who have it, either in a mnd,[ Boiton- was been form or in a form thaj necessitates their staying in bed. This morning five teachers in Ber- 1in schools notified the superintendent of their inability to be present at classes. The superintendent has been hard pressed for substitute teachers during the past few weeks, and in some instances has had to fill vacan- cies himself. Auto Stalls On Track. An automobile truck owned by the American Paper Goods Co. became stalled while crossing the car tracks lwssl of the railroad .bridge on the Farmington road this morning and i the trolley reaching New'Britain at 10:20 o'clock was held up for somne ‘time while the driver vainly attempt- ed to start his truck. Finally a truck owned by the Hart Sand Co. came to the rescue and man- aged to tow the stalled vehicle out of the way of the trolley car. Road Widened. { _ Bnow was cleared yesterday from | Berlin street in front of the residenc jof George Prentice, making the ros much wider at that place, It is now | possible for a truck to pase a trol- ley car at that spot without any trouble. Items Of Interest, Mrs. Robeft Deming is ill at her home {n Berlin, Lawrence Southard of Hudson street is recovering from an attack of the grip. . - Miss Helen DeLong of Berlin street is recovering from an attack of the grip. p : Miss Betty Showalter, daughter of Superintendent of Schools and Mrs. B. R. Showalter, is recovering from a severe attack of the grip. The Kensington school was closed ,&]{\ls morning hecause of lack of heat. |.Schoo] was in session this aftgrnoon, however. Miss Ruth Post of the Berlin Sav- ings bank is ill at her home in Hart- ford with the grip. East Berlin Items. East Berlin members of the Boy Scouts will attend a meeting of their | troop in. Berlin this evenipg at 7| o'clock. £ The library will be open this even- ing from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock for the exchange of books. Mrs. Jarvis Dowd has returned to her home on Cottage street after spending the past three weeks in In- dianapolis, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. James MacPherson are confined to their home by illness. The meeting of the Willing Work- ers, which was to have been held this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Walter Werdelin, has been postponed until Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Oscar Denson is confined to his home on Grove street by fliness. of furniture in the near future should buy now, sale prices, how you can save, furniture at lower prices than will come their way again for quite s now at radical price red Read ODD CHAIRS Roduced to 810,80 from $22.50 to $30 is . sale price for cane fire. side chairs and rockers with antique finished frames, ’ PULLMAN BED Davenport, velour covered with full size spring and mattress, Regular price $175 for $135,00, i CHATR To match above dav- enport, reduced from $55.00 to 872,00, Arm chdir, was'$72.50 for $61.50, THREE - PIECE Pullman Bed, daven-' port suite, loose spring cughions, covered in Beautiful tapestry, Reg. price $287.00 for $225. egular floor price looks. Henry Bailey is confined to his home on Main street by illness, . At the Sunday morning service at the Methodist church Professor Chan- ter of Middletown will administer holy communion. At the evening service there will be an illustrated lecture on the Philippines with col- ored pictures. NThe next rehearsal of the Black and White minstrels will be held at the home of Mrs. Frank Cobey on Wileox avenue Tuesday evening at § o'clock. SOUTHINGTON NEWS Maud Johnson Resigns From High School Staff—Chimney Pircs—Item: of Interest. The school board met in session Wednesday evening and received and acceptéd the resignation of Mise Maud Johnson, a teacher at Lewis High school. Miss Jolinson has beer the center of a storm between herself and the pupils of her class over sub. jects relating to the Ku Klux Kian and the result of the three weeks' ar- gument was the teachers’ resignation to the board. The chemical squad was called out twice yesterday afternoon to ex- tinguish chimney fires. Shortly after noon, a fire occurred at the residence of Ma:. Charles Kilbourne on Vermont aver®: and late yesterday afternoon, an :Wrm sounded for a fire at the home of Thomas Moran on Summitt street. Both were extinguished With- out any damage, William Lynch, for years a mem- ber of the United States navy, has re- turned here to take up his residence, tringing with him, his bride, a New- port girl. He has taken a position in the office of Peck Stow and Wilcox Co. Strictly fresh eggs, 6ic doz, 2 duz. $1.00. Russell Bros.—advt. HONEYMOON IN CAVE, London, IFeb. 16 (By Associated Press)—Bitter fighting Is in progress in the Arigna Mountains, of County Cavan, where General Bofin, the Ir- regular leader and his bride are spending their honeymoon in a cave, from which the bridegroom directs the operations of the rebel band against the Iree State troops, says an BEvening News' dispatch from Bel- st today. The Free Staters are gradually closing in on Bofin and his followers. The Irregulars are known to have lost two of their men killed and 17 wounded, while 16 of Bofin's men, attempting to fight their way through, were captured and taken to Sligo. tdoors and the skin — 3 Don’t torege the pleasure o3 outdoor lite becanse the #un and.wind coarsen and roughen vour skin 1. regular use «f Resinol Svap and Ointment is almost sure to offset these efects Resinol Soap rids the pores of dust end oil and Resinol Ointment soothes the chapped and roughened skin Sold by aul droggists. Resinol Plainville News SIYEAR OLG BOY || KILLED BY TRUCK Robert Hatlield Crusbed Under Wheels When He Jumps DRNVER UNAWARE 0F 1t Post Ofice Force Radly Crippled by Sickness—shoe Repair Shop 1s At. tachod—Christian Endeavor Social Tonight—Plaiville Bricfs, In an attempt to jump off a moving truck on which he was stealing a ride. Robert Hatfleld, six-yeur-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Hatfield of Laurel street, fell under the rpear wheel and was killed, The driver, of the truck, apparently unaware of the aceldent, drove on, The boy, In company with a num- Ler of others about his own WEe, was jon his way to schoo! about 1 o'clock, [when they hitched to the back of the truck which was standing befors a store at the corner of East and Hroad streets. 'When the vehicle was about cpposite the undertaking parlors of W. A, Balley & Co. the lad, sitting on the side of the truck with his legs swinging clear, made w jump for the road. His feet slid from under him and his little body landed just ahead of the rear wheel, The wheel passed over his abdomen, crushing the Mfe out of him. Mr, Halley, who was standing inside his store, was a witness of the accl- dent and immediately rushed out to the boy's side. A little girl who was passing by when the accident oc- curred, was trying to lift Robert from he ground, and Mr. Bailey, seizng the child hurried with him to the office of Dr. J. N. Bull, but he was dead before medical aid could be given him\ Dr. C. W. Moody, coroner, was no- tified of the accident, and he inter- ‘fewed a number of witnesses of the \ffair, They stated thatsthe truck elonged to E. 8. Kibbe, wholesale rrocer of Hartford, and the driver sroceeded to a store a little way up iroad street and there stopped to un- cad some goods. His actions showed lainly that he was unaware of the ccident and Dr, Moody stated this 10rning that he would not hold-him esponsible in any way. The body was turned over to W, A. ailey & Co. for burial and the aneral will be held from the under- aking parlors Saturday afternoon 2:30 o'clock and temporary burial wi e in the vault in Fairview cemete Jew DBritain, Re Charles 3 Wyckoff, pastor of the Congregational church will officiate, Four Sick at Post Office. The post office force is badly srippled today owing to the illness of cne clerk and three carriers, Those vho are off duty are: Clerk Frank W. Hohbein, and Carriers Clinton Morse of the rural route and his sub- stitute, Gordan Morse, and Henry Bryant, als6 of the rural route. At the present time, Postmaster James C. Usher stated this morning, the mail has been extraordinary heavy and if conditions remain the same, it will be necessary to have only one delivery during the day, until the walks and roads of the town become better cleared, To Attend Conference, Wednesday, February 21, Post- niaster James Usher, ant Post- master James Graham, Clerk Hohbein and Carriers Gordon Hartshome and Pearl Smith, will attend the postal conference in Hartford. Pogtmaster General Work will be there, Only one mail carrier service will be had that day. Holiday Thursday. Thursday, the usual holiday hours will be observed at the post office. There will be no eity or rural de- liveries, the stamp window and the registry window will be open from 8 to 11 o'clock in the morning, no money orders will be issued, but all mails will be despatched as usual. On that day Postmaster Usher will} attend the postmasters’ convention lnj the Hotel Bond in Hartford, and the riers will attend the convention of ers in Hartford. i Shop Is Attached, A long standing argument between Irank Reale of Main street, a barber, and Paulo Dugo, shoe man, came to a head yesterday when Constable . W. Furrey placed an attachment on the latter's repair shop on Whiting street for $475, which Reale claims the other owes him. Reale wishes to marry Dugo's daughter, but Dugo has objected. Rteale, some time ago furnished a flat, and invited his future parents-in-law to live with himi. They took up their residence with him and then the ob- jectioMs to the marriage were raised Now, Reale, is suing to recover on his furniture. The peace of-the com- nunity has been interrupted several times because of the arguments which ensued between the two principals, but it is thought that this latest move will be settled amicably. ian Endeavor society will social of the year in the | congregational church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. All members of the church are cordially invited to attend. e COMMUNITY THEATER Plainville, Conn. Friday, February 16. The Chrisf hold the first Rezular Weekly Community Dance Individual Lessons by Compe- tent Instructors from 8 to 9 p. m. G. & O. New Britain String Orchestra Miss Nellie Perontine, Hostess | \{MV‘HM | il W f LT —p——— .-mm.lrlni[l (i, SOk i pala Z:ur whole ing is found in every cup of de- licious LIPTON'S TEA Largest Salein the World An entertainment will be furnished and a lunch will be served, This social 18 a result of a recent member- ship attendance contest held by the soclety, Lenten Services, Lenten services will be held this evening at the charch of Our Lady of Mercy, consisting of the Stations of the Cross and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Bervices will be- gin at 7:30 o'clock. A speclal collection for the Negro and Indian missions will be taken up at all the masses on Sunday. Bowling Notes, % The recently formed American Le- glon team will roll the Forestville post team on the Recreation Center allays this evening. he Trumbull Electric team will play a return match with the Standard Steel & Bearing Co. team on the Ideal allcys in the near future, At the Community. Although it has been the intention of the management of the Commun- ity theater to stop dancing during Lent, the many requests for the weekly Friday night dances have been so urgent that it has been decided to hold them as usual. It is an as- sured fact that the young people of Plainville and the' surrounding towns have been experiencing much innocent pleasure in the home-like surround- irgs at the theater and great care has been exercised by the manager to pro- tect the place morally and physically. Tonight, the G. and O. orchestra will play a return engagement at the the- ater and efforts are.being made to en- gage the group permanently. Plainville Briefs, { Miss Kittie Fldridge of Mountain | w is a patient at the Hartford hos- pital. Joseph N. McKernan, president of the Plainville Chamber of Commerce, is confined to his home on West Main street with an attack of the grip. There will be a third anniversary requiem mass at the church of Out Lady of Mercy, Monday morning at 8 o'clock, for the repose of the soul of the late: Mrs. Edward McGrath and Mrs. Robert Crosby, daughters of| Heny David of East street, ! The C. N, E. trains have been d verted through New Britain bec: of the impassibility of the through the country. Brock-Barnes Post, American Le- gion, will meet in the post rooms Monday edening. Pythian Lodge, K. of P., will hold a regular meeting in I. O O. F. hall this evening. The board of relief will be in ses- sioh in the selectmn’s offices in the town hall between the hours of 1:30 and 5 o'clock, ¢ i e line Pure lard, 2 1bs. 25c. Russell Bros. —advt. POLES IN CLASHES Trouble With' Lithuanians in Neutral Zones Results in Wounding of Sev- |§ eral on Both Sides, Warsaw, Feb, 16.—Clashes between Polish troops and Lithuanian regulars have occurred at several places dur- ing the occupation of the neutral zone allotted to Poland by the coun- cil of ambassadors. Twelve Polish soldiers were wound- | ed, while the Lithuanians left several |8 wounded on the field before they were forced to retreat. No loss of life | is reported. H The greater part of the southern area and an important section of the center zone given to Poland is now |§ under Polish administration. The Lithuanian. Strictly fresh eggs, 5 $1.00. Russell Bros.—advt, - “ask tor Hor *, The ORIGINAL A\ Malted: Milk: For Infants, Invalids & Children . The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. QuickLunchat Home OfficeaFountains. 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