New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1923, Page 12

NEW HAVEN TO HAVE ROTARY CONFERENCE Four New Britain Delegates (o Attend Meeting Next Woek The New Britain Rotary club will sond four delegates, who have not as vet been numed, to attend the an- nual spring conference of Rotary clubs of the 30th distriet to be held in New Haven on Thursday and Friday of About 600 delegates from western be in neat week all over Connecticut and Massachusetts are expected to altendance In addition to the four delegates number of New Britain Rotar plan to attend one of the day ses- glons. Leon A. Sprague, president of the club here, will be ope of the speakers on the program. New England has become a hot-bed Rotary » joth is one of » and eflicient of the districts ational cir- cuif Connecticut it has 12 1 there are five from west- two from Vermont, of the most ent elub ern Massachusetts, making a total of 18 for the dis- trict. The Connecticut list comprises Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbu Britain, New | lon, Norwicl iden, Wallingford, Greenwich,; Tor- rington, Winsted, Willimantic and New Haven, while the Massachusetts clubs include Springfield, North Adams, Pittstield, Holyoke and Tur- ners Falls, Rutland and Burlington io yepresenting Vermont. Governor Stone will preside at most of the conclave sessions. Na- than B. Stone, president of the Stone Accounting and Secretarial School, Ine., is general district secretary the convention. Irville A Connecticut company is president of the New Haven Rotary club and will formally welcome the delegates at the opening session next week Thurs- day. Few district conferences have been able to assure the presence of the in- ternational president, Ray Havens, who has just telegraphed that, with Mrs. Havens, he will attend the ses- sion on both days. As a jewelled setting for the bus- in banquet and social sessions of the conference, Yale has placed its buildings and grounds at the disposal of the visiting Rotarians, the roster of the New Haven club including as| Tonorary members President James R. Angell and Chief Justice Taft and, as| active members, Prof. Willilam Lyon Thelps, Pr Henry W. Farnam, Prof. William R. Vance and Pif. George Dahl. SAYS SHORE LINE WILL RUN BY JULY Sperry Announces Plan for focit ana dance witroliow. " oniy| Operating Old Trolley Route New Haven, March 7.—The Shore Line trolley between here and the Connecticut river will be rebuilt and in op n again by the first of July, according to the pl of A. William Sperry of the Sperry Engin- cering company, who has taken over the franchise of the old road Work on ving the tracks in the sections where they were pulled up when the former company went into a’ receivership will bo started just as soon as the ice breaks up sufficiently to permit ging opera- tions to go on. This is expected to be within a week or eo. The company, accerding to Mr. Sperry, today, will operate the line with a long double truck car of the new type which can be controlled and operated safely by one man. Orders for five of the new style cars are now in and within a few days orders for other additional cars of a different type will be placed. Bight cars are expected to be on hand for the reopening of the road. The company will not reopen the power house at brook but will instead purct » its power from the Connecticut company. Agreement for the power has already been made and it the Connecticut company installing new machinery and avenue power Pl:ml and that will be completed long before the Shore Line is ready for reopen- ing. . Corporation Gounsel Says They . |the part of the commissioners as to The running schedules are nnl{ yet made up but it is stated will for the start be on an hourly basls, with| [etxra ecars run In bhetween during! | the summer as noed arised, The wir- [ing of the road will all have to’ be | done over agaln, the heavy copper| | wires having been taken down and| | sold when the old company failed, | Long stretch of rails will also have to be replaced and many other miles | now under cover dug up. The whole | thing ean be accomplished in about | three months, Mr. Sperry figures, AGE NO BARRIER 10 GALLMEN OVER 45 Are Eligible to Regular Force | Corporation Counsel John H. Kirk- tham has advised the board of fire |commissioners that present ordinances {fixing the age for admission to the permanent fire fighting force will not stand in the way of admitting call- men who have passed the age limit {who were in the call force prior to {1912, The opinion was read last night by Clerk John E. R, Keevers, There has been some question on |whether a man now in the call force |who wishes to be promoted to the | permangnt force under the two pla- | toon pilan, but who is beyond 45 vears of age, is eligible I"ollowing is Judge Kirkham's opin- “Answering your inquiry, T will| state that section 128, chapter 3, of | |the ordinances, 1920 edition (in which | there has been no change since) was |adopted as section 127A by the com- {mon council, May 15, 1012, being |litem 31, volume 9 of the proceedings | lof the common council. | “Any member of the fire depart- |ment at that time (1912) is not af- |tected by the rule, and therefore is | not prevented by this ordinance from | promotion to the permanent force af- | |ter he has passed the age of forty- five years.” HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Thomas McCabe was appointed chairman of the photograph commit-| | tee and Dominic Naples chairmen of | the promenade committee, it was an- | nounced at the Senior High school today. Those serving with McCabe on | the photograph committee are Eliza- | beth Burr, Robert Holloran, Dorothy | Hale and Elizabeth Grace. Those on | the promenade committee are Ruth| Hart, James Reynolds, Louise Skelly | and Harold Weir. A dance will be held in connection | | with the coming game with the Gil-| bert High school basketball team.| | Dancing will be from 3:45 o'clock un- | till 5 o'clock. | The meeting of the Senior club will be held in the auditorium | of the Senior High school Friday eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock. Plans for or- | ganization will be developed, and a| | | seniors will be admitted to the meet- ing. | The championship cups will be sent | to Meriden to be resilvered soon, it| | was announced today. | Dick Gormen of the freshman team leads the league in scoring points a | cording to latest averages released by the athletic authorities today. HARDING ENJOYING TRIP Ormond Beach, Fia., March 7.— More leisurely cruising down . Flori- da's east coast inland waterway and anothér round of golf were contem- plated by President Harding today as| he began the sccond day of his va- cation in the Peninsula state. The course over which the golf game | would be played was undecided early | today, according to advices from the| “Pioneer”, the houseboat on which the president and Mrs. Harding are taking the cruise. | | MADE TO HARDING. Washington, M ~—During the two years of the Harding adminis- tration ending March 4, almost 100,- 000 employecs have been separated from the government service, accord- ling to a tabulation made at the di- rection of President Harding and| given out today at the White House. | YALE . HARVARD, New Haven, March T7.—Yale and Harvard clash tonight here in the de-| cisive hockey game between the two universities. Yale defeated the Crim- son at Boston Jast Saturday and pre- Stocking Up Member of Rum Fleet Weighed down with a cargo of assorted wet goods, the ships ) the rum-fleet sail daily from Nassau in the Bahama Islands for America: Here is a schooner in Nassau harbor stocked ils wet cargo and ready to sail for “somewhere in America,” Boys “Earning Way Through, | have complained to Miss Mary Curtin, | i "pe started shortl it i o » starte y and it is ex- | secretary of the Chamber of Com-|pocteq that it will have a long mem- | taries of the Chamber of Commerges yadies Auxiliary. They outlined the | send solicitors throughout the country | dances by Misses McCrann and Con- » Native women on the wharves of Nassau in the “Bootleggers’ Haven” of the Bahama Islands are shown here carrying cases of liquor to the booze fleet about to start for thirsty America, viously Harvard won from the blue|Steubenville Chamber of Commerce here. All seats for the match in|in his letter states that there never the arena tonight were reported sold | was such a concern as the “Busine k out, » Boulevard Publishing Co.” publishers | of the “Ladies' Home Companion” in th MADE CLEAN UP HERE | Auxiiary 10 . 0. 1. MAY FORM JUNIOR BRANCH HERE | | Plans for a junior branch of the " i |Ladies' Auxiliary to_the A. O. H,, COllege Needed NO Edthflthll ‘\\':rc(‘;armuln!ed last nikht at & meet- A e |ing of Rev. W. A. Harty branch and | A o ... (the auxiliary last night in Judd's hall Several residents of New Britain 1% votn“iect™ "Nho junior branch merce that in October of last year| e chip list of girls between the ages they subscribed for magazines from |of 15 and 16 years, solicitors who sa;d they were young Philip Mc!\"con presided at the men earning their way through col-| gathering and introduced as the eve- lege, but as yet not a single copy of | ning's speakers, Mrs, M. T. Crean, the magazine have been received by 'gtate president of the Ladies Auxn-' the subscribers, Upon receiving complaints Miss| pev.' W, A. Harty branch and Mrs. Curtin_immediately wrote the secre- | james O'Brien, president of the in East Liverpool, Ohio and Steuben- | plan for a junior brarch and asked ville, Ohio, supposedly the publish-| for co-operation to make the move- ing towns of the magazines. ment a success. In response to her letters Miss Cur-| A highly entertaining program was tin received word this morning from (carried out as follows: Solos by H. B, Barth, secretary of the East Misses Mary Hughes and Carrie Dor- rpool chamber stating that the|sey; clog dancing by Edward Con- “Woman's Home Journal” company | nelly; vocal specialties by Willlam in that town went into bankruptey on | Scheyd, Merritt Humason and Cor- October 24, 1922, The secretary fur-|nelius Lynch; piano numbers by ther states that the company was a James O'Brien and Donald McCrann; fraud and was exposed on that date. |recitations by Robert M. Murray, The object of the company was to|James Bonney and Albert Seymour; to have women subscribe to the above! nelly and Misses Grace and Kehoe. mentioned magazine and pay 99 cents!A Gallagher and Shean number was to the solicitor and the magazine \\'as’prrs(-mml by Misses Grace and Ke- to be sent monthly. hoe and was well received. It has been learned that the money| After the meeting refreshments was accepted but the magazines were | were served by a committee of the never forwarded. C. O. Haines of thel.adies Auxi Block Island Mackerel, Ib. 18¢ mapvock ... . 12€ | Birs A 38¢ cov steak ... o, 18€ | Hovsoems ... . 15¢ w. 18¢ :}“l\"ll"llflil{l-‘fifl Lb. 24c w. 12¢ | samon . 25¢ HUS .. M8 | B T A0 seaws ... 24€ | srEar ... 10 200 WHITE Fis . 1h, B2C | Cravs o pine 28€ savrcon ...t 40C | N snEnn . o 22€ M il T FRESH OPENED OYSTERS Pint 35c Pink Salmon ......2 Cans 27c MED. SALT MACKEREL Finnan Haddie Smo. Boneless Herring. . Lb, 18¢ American Sardines . .6 Cans 25¢ st bty mssimebed ot Mk Joaiod it et o\ ol od ok THE BEST WHIPPED CREAM BREAD . B¢ CAKFE Each 350 Canned Food Week SPECIAL DEMONSTEATION AND SALE ALL THIS WEEK To Those Who Missed Them OUR WEDNESDAY SPECIAL PRICES WILL PREVAIL ALL DAY THURSDAY AT THE HOURS STATED IN ADVERTISE- MENT COVERING SAME. liary, President Robert M. Murray of | | Friday Evening ‘March 9th at Besse-Leland’s Show Starting Promptly At Eight O’clock We Invite the Women of New Britain and Vicinity to attend our first style show Fri- day evening, March 9th. DOORS CLOSE PROMPTLY AT 8 0’CLOCK. From our active mailing list we have already sent out invitations and we regret to state our atten- tion has been called to many er- rors on the part of our distribut- ing agent. “This we regret and we now extend a cordial invitatien to EVERY WOMAN IN NEW BRITAIN AND VICINITY to at- tend PROVIDED our store will accommodate all those desirous of attending. As our chair space is limited admission will be by ticket. By applying in person at the store on our 3rd floor to Mr. Wuchert you may secure ONE ticket up to the limit of our capacity. While our store is the largest in New Britain yet the Public must realize we have to co-oper- ate with the Police and Fire De- partments and the ordinances of the City of New Britain. * On account of limited space no children will be admitted. Besse-Leland’s Doors open at 7:30 P. M. Concert precedes style show