New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1923, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1923. 319 MEN’S SHIRTS Neckband and Collar attached $1.64 Values to $3.00 WEDNESDAY MORNING SPECIALS CANDY DEPARTMENT Vanilla Caramel Nougats ........................37cib. Daggette’s Assorted Chocolates ........... $1.00 lb. box Regular §1.50 Grade BESSE-LELAND’S BARGAIN WEEK Shoe Department Children’s Blk. Patent Suede Panps ... $3.00 Pumps ... Bargain Basement oI . ¢ [ prescer . $1.00 Small Lot Wom- $200 10c 69c Main Floor Women’s Gingham DRESSES $2.00 “ Boys’ Department $1.00 Last of our Boys’ $2.00 Palm Beach Linen and Khaki Knickers $ l ..OO PAIE ey Men’s Furnishings 413 Neckband and Collar attached $1.00 69 Shirts, Wednesday As M. .......eeuvreenneanne C . $3°48 *$6.50 2" $1.50 Boys $1 Sport Blouses, 2 for. . Values to $5.00 Misses and Women’s Pumps $3.00 Values to $8.90 en’s Oxfords. .. Children’s Straw ) 11 |7 B b Women’s Pure Silk Hose ......... Sample Lot of Sweater and Knit Coats, values to $10.00 Men’s $1.00 and $1.45 Nainsook Children’s Union Suits .......co00vuenn Women’s Union Boys’ Bal and Nain- sook Union Suits. .. W, E, CURTIS DIES AT YORK HARBOR New York Man Was Director of Scovill Gompany Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 21.—News was received here last night of the death at York Harbor, Me,, of Wil- liam E. Curtis, 68, a director of the Scovill Manufacturing company. Mr. Curtis was assistant secretary of the treasury under the second Cleveland administration. He had a home at Watertown, Conn.,, at 390 Park avenue, New York city, and a summer home at York Harbor. Death is reported to have been due to a heart attack. William E. Curtis was born in New York June 2, 1855, the son of Judge William E. Curtis; he graduated with an A. B. degree from Trinity college in 1875 and was later awarded the A. M. andy LI, D. degrees from the same institution. He aiso studied law at Columbia University, from which he wds graduated in 1877. . He has practiced, law in New York ever since his admfssion to the bar’in 1877. In 1892 Mr. Curtis was ap- pointed member of the state com- mission by the Syracuse “Anti-Snap- per” convention. The year following he became assistant secretary of the U. 8. Treasury, in which capacity he served for four years. From 1902 to 1905 the former lawyer was a mem- ber of the New York Aqueduct com- missien and was in 1906 a delegate to the democratic national convention. Mr. Curtis was a Fellow of the American Geographical society, a member of the American Bar associ- ation and a trustee of Trinity college. ' His club affiliations included member- ship in the Union, Century, Univer- sity, Manhattan and Tuxedo. The former assistant secretary of the United States Treasury, who be- gan his law practice as a junior mem- ber of the firm of Stearns & Curtis, was sent to England by the govern- ment in the spring.of 1805 to sustain public credit and to deliver $31,000,- 00 of the bonds issued therefor. After sojourning in England and on the continent for three months he re- 39¢ 39¢ signed his position with the Treasury Department and returned to New York to become a member of the firm of Curtis, Mallet, Prevost & Colt, of which he was a senior member. ANNUAL CONFERENCE Epworth Leaguers of New Haven Dis- | trict Will Convene at Camp Grounds First Three Days of Next Month, The annual conference of the Ep- worth League societies of the New Haven district will be held at the Methodist camp meeting grounds near Plainville, the first three days in'Sep- tember. Leonard C. Voke of New Britain will lead the music, Charles A. Cush- man of Windsor will lead the ser- vice and Harry T. Newport of Tor- rington will have charge of athlétics. Sexton Reappointed Coach Of Detroit H. S. District Joseph Sexton of 422 West Main street, a student at the University of Detroit, has been reappointed as coach of the tHIrd district High school of Detroit. Sexton coached the same school in both basketball and football last year and landed his team in sgcond place in the Detroit City League, which includes the High schools in and around Detroit. OPEN BUILDING BIDS 5 The board of public charities will meet in special session this afternoon at 4 o'clock to open bids on the con- struction of a new female and chil- dren's building on the town farm. Sev- eral contractors have taken copies of the specifications. The charity board has $75,000 with which to do the work. Of this amount $10,000 was appropriated out of taxation and the remainder is to be raised through the sale of city's note: IN THE CHINESE ARMY. The length of time which the Chi- nese soldier is expected to do on his clothing and equipment allowance, is | two years; four in part, as follows: Cap, overcoat, six years; raincoat, years; shirt, one year; socks, four years; rice pot, 20 years; blanket, 15 years; straw mattress, 10 years, and moscuito net, 10 years. SLOAN BROS. 185 MAIN ST. Comfortable Feet Make Happy Faces Do you realize what an in- fluence foot comfort has on one’'s disposition? Free, un- hampered feet help to make a joyful disposition which is re- flected in the expression of the face. You will be surprised to see what proper shoes can do for one's happiness, Cantilever Shoes are scien- tifically constructed with con- sideration for the shape of the foot. Turn a Cantilever Shoe sole upwards and note its natural lines. Bend the shoe at the arch and see how it flexes. This allows your arch muscles to exercise and strengthen while they are being heid gently but firmly in a natural arch support. Get a pair of Cantilever Shoes for your aching feet, or if your feet don’t bother you, try a pair and know what genuine comfort is. antilever Shoe for Mpn h/omen 2™ $3.00 Values to $5.00 ing " 25 NATIONAL FLORISTS |3 MEET IN HARTFORD Aunual Convention of Society Is Now On Hartford, Aug. 21. — Nearly one thousand members of the society of American florists and ornamental hor- ticulturists are in Hartford for therr 89th annual convention, which is be- ing held in the state armory. No busi- ness session was held this morning, time being allowed the delegates from all parts of the country to scc the trade exhibit in the assembly room of the armory. Senator Wallace R. Pierson of Cromwell, vice-president of the so- ciety, is responsible for bringing the convention to this city. He attended last year’s convention at Kansas City and arrangements were made there for what is believed to be the largest convention ever held in Hartford. Boys’ $3.50 Pure Wool Bath- Oxfords $1.00 club, will make addresses of welcome. Philip Breitmeyer, former president of the society will make the response and President Irwin Bertermann will then deliver his address. The convention will close Friday when all the delegates and their wives and guests are invited to Senator Pierson's plant in Cromwell. The en- tertainment program includes a golf tournament to be held tomorrow and bowling matches for members of the society and their women guests. FLOOD AND WHALEN BEAT BIRD AND JARVIS 6 UP Shuttle Meadow Tlayers Leading in First Half of Series With Sequin Team In the first round of a home and home challenge series, Val Flood, pro- fessional at the Shuttle Meadow club, and his assistant, Willie Whalen, de- feated Alex Bird, professional at the Sequin (rolf- club in Maple Hill, and Jarvis, champion of the Sequin club, Values to yesterday afternoon at Shuttio Mea- dow. Tlood and Whalen were 6 up at the end of the 18 holes. Flood led the field with 39 going out and finished in 79. Whalen had a 75, Bird §1 and Jarvis 84. The second half of the series will be played Monday over the Sequin course, The afternoon session will be called to order at 2:30 o'clock by Senator Pierson and the invocation will be de- livered by Senate Chaplain A. F. Campbell, pastor of St. Paul's Metho- dist Episcopal church., Governor Templeton, Acting Mayor Thomas J. Conroy and Wallace W. Thomson, president of the Hartford [lorists’ MOLASSES With the delicate, . blended_flavor ‘A delicious “sundae”—a hot 1 ot | butter-scotch sauce, made with B&O, . on vanilla ice 15 minutes to make Tick-Tock Pudding Only a few minutes now, to have a good dessert. Egg, milk, sugar, flavoring, and Minute Tapioca are already mixed in the Tick-Tock package. Just add water according to in- structions. The pudding is all prepared in 15 minutes. Needs no ice to make it “set.” Tick-Tock is to be had in Chocolate Flavor and Cream Flavor. Buy both today. A 15-cent package serves five people. Minute Tapioca Company, Orange, Mass. ick-Toc A Complete Minute Tapxoca Pudding DEATH OF DR. W. R. MILLER Prominent Southington Practitioner Was Visiting Neurologist of New Britain General and other Hospitals (Special to The Herald). Southington, Aug. 21.—Dr. William Radley Miller, age 50 years, died at his home on Meriden avenue yester- day morning after a long illness. He was, one of the most widely known practicing physicians in the state and held many offices in the Hartford county medical world. He was a captain in the medical corps of the U. S. army during the world war and served at many of the |large training camps. He was asso- | ciate medical director of the Aetna | Life Insurance Co., of Hartford, chief neurologist of St. Francis' hospital, Hartford, and visiting neurologist of the Manchester Memorial, New Brit- ain gencral and Meriden city hospitals. He was chairman of the Hartford neurological section of the Hartford County Medical society, chairman of the state medical defense committee and an ex-president of the Hartford County Medical society. Because of his ill health, he was forced to give up his work in Hartford last March and has been confined to his home here ever since. He is sur- vived by his wife, one daughter, Eliza- beth of this town, and his mother, Mrs. John Miller of Albany, N. Y The funeral will be held from his home tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and burial will 'be in Oak Hill cemetery. Ball Game Feature of Third Ward Barbecue At a meeting of the committee in charge of the annual Third Ward Re- publican club outing, held last night, it was voted to have a baseball game in connection with the athletic sports, the third ward team captained by At- torney Alfred Le Witt to play a team of the other five wards headed by Tax Collector Bernadotte Loomis. ‘The event, taking the form of a sheep- barbecue, will be held at Lake Compounc¢e, September 22. Senator James Wadsworth of New York, men- tioned as a 1924 presidential possi- bility, will be the speaker. The committee on automobiles re- ported last night that 50 cars have been offered to transport the party to the Lake and that an effort will be made to secure 50 more. Promi- nent members of the G. O. P. from all parts of the state will be in at- tendance. NEWPORT'S FIRST GAY PERIOD. The decade following the establish- ment of the Navy War College at Newport in 1880 marked that social colony’s period of greatest brilliance and wasteful extravagance. No per- iod since has compared with that time, it is said by those who were present and a part of the exclusive set then. MANY MONEY SAVERS ARE All of our Men’s Wool Bathing Suits at One-H}tlf Price son, Sprawled on Floor—But! 2 One of imaginative mind would sufe fer a distinct shock should he chance ¢ to glance in the door of Mayor A. M, Paonessa's office at City Hall abou 10:30 o'clock this morning and see ' | the mayor standing erect with his left - eye discolored and partly closed, wmw Public Works Commissioner John' i Ohlson whose board has been undes fire by the mayor and from which he has removed two commissioners, sprawled with one hand and one knef on the floor. The scene, however, was not causé by any violence nor did it have am; connection with the municipal fams ily's dispute. Commissioner Ohlsdfy was merely making measurements t¢ some woodwork that the City Hall commission wishes installed; H mayor's black eye is the result of slight accident while he was crank ing his automobile yesterday at Lak Pocotopaug. GRIFFIN ASSUMES POSITION [ Robert Griffin of Camelsville, has taken up his work as laborato: technician with the department of health. Mr. Griffin only recently cony pleted his training in laboratory wo % but has had some practical cxperhn : in public health in the south. QUOTED HERE BELOW. IF YOU WANT THE BEST OF FOOD- STUFFS AT THE LOWEST COST—COME HERE. BEST NO 1 POTATOES 15 LB. PK. ... 49¢c RED RIPE TOMATOES LGE. BASKET. 45¢c LARGE NATIVE SWEET CORN DOZEN ....... 19¢ BEST GRAN,— SUGAR . LEAN SMORED— ..... 12 Lbs. $1.00 SHOULDERS ........ LB. 1lc ROUND—SIRLOIN—PORTERHOUSE— SIEAR .........s LB. 19¢c FRESH GROUND— HAMBURG ceoree. 3 LBS, 258 LEAN BOILING BEEI POT ROASTS .... Lb. PRIME RIB ROASTS .. 5¢ 12¢ 22¢c .. Lb. .. Lb. FRESH PORK TO ROAST ... FRESH CUT PORK CHOPS ... SWIFI'S GOLDEN WEST FOWL .... 20c 22¢ 35¢ cos Lb, Lb. Lb. MOHICAN «m,nm‘ SQUARES ... I THE BEST BREAD ......... 5¢ | Lb. PIES . Ea, FINE LARGE (ASSORTED) . 25¢ FANCY SELECTED— FRESH EGGS .2 MOHICAN CREAMERY— DOZ. 61c [BUTTER .. coveses & LBS.. 89 BEST PURE LARD 2 Lbs. 25C WHOLE MILK CHEL . . w. 29¢C GEM NUT MARGARINE .... Lb. 22¢ OUR DINNER BLEND LISH RRI -\I\P‘AW Tea NEW ELBOW Macaroni LGE. CAN .... 19¢ FRANCO - A,\I'ERECAN Spaghetti 10c MOHICAN Evap. Milk 2 CANS FANCY 17¢ 2 CANS Neo Sugar Corn 23c. 2 LB sy sys 13¢ SWEET JUICY— ORANGES ......... DOZ. 25¢ FRESH ROASTED— PEANUTS ....... QUART 10c 25c | SHORE HADDOCK ... Lb. STEAK COD . Lb. PRUNES. 4 Lbs, 10c 16¢ FRESH LIMA Bl ANS.. SEEDLESS RAISINS .. Lb, 25¢ | 19¢ | FRESH NEWPORT MACKEREL .. 2 Lbs. 2 Qts. 12¢ LGE. ('REE‘\ PEPPERS.2 «15¢ BOSTON BLUEFISH .. Lb, 14c Biock Island SWORD. . Lb. 85¢