New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1924, Page 2

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY,§, 1024, | vocal selections by Vincent Ringrose jand Irancis Egan, accompanied by 'SINGE‘} OF OLDEST SONG 7 THE NEW 1924 AUTOMOBILE BLUE BOOK IS HERE Why not plan that vacation trip now? Stationery Dept. THE DICKINSON Drug Co. 169-171 Main St. Special Offering of SPRING'S SMARTEST Coats and Suits | FOR WOMI: c At Special Prics Formerly § Now. . Forn Now Formerl Now. ’ne AND UPWwARD 00D KE? /S FOR BOYS OR GIRLS | WHO WANT TO PLAY MARBLES| WILL BE AWARDED PRIZE/ 'i"ri;) to / Atlantic City For B"st Shooter in ] New Britain— Mavor Approves of Tournament Described Yestcrda,v Magor A. M wlified approval of the “Ring- marble tournament which is to be d in thisgcity under the auspices the “Herald” and the Junior jevement Foundation to determine s the best Loy or girl marbic yer in"New Britain. He issucd this to W. W. T. Squirc " May 8 1924, w. i . Director, Achievement Ay Junior City. “Dear Poundation, Sire— inaugurated by IFoundation rald” to en- player of movement Junior Achicvement Ngw Britain Hi champion marble in the National Marble Tournament at Atlantic wrty approval and en- the and the ter the this city Shootir v, has my h sement. “I hope Loys and girls whg are eligible to part will enter the contest to determine who shall repre- t this city in the nationdl tourn ment, The contest will give some, Loy or girl an opportunity -to bring honor to his or her home town by partici- pating in, and [ hope winning, the National Champi “Resy A WA, M. Paonessa, “Mayor, the take Peculiar _reactions were cvident | about town list evening after the first imouncement of the plan for the | tournament had been made. The: were mainly evident among the older folks who declared that the playing | | of marbles was a lost art, that the present generation avould have -to be | | shown, and some parents announced that they’ would immediately proceed to their homes in order to”instruct “Johnny" or “Benny™ or “Sally” so that the youngstet could enter and possibly win out over all*of the other | | youngsters of the city andyget a week's SUITS Formerly ""’"“" $29 75 ° ;| Herald office, addres .\\l) l PWARD HORSFALLS| 93-99 Msulum Strect Hartford. “It Pays To Buy Our Kind” Voice Culture Special Attention te Beginners James D. Donahue EAR TRAINING SIGHT READING 81 Sefton Drive Phone 127413 Room 318-319 Booth's Bleck Trainee of Yale University ——-———_—.—_——_E Little Eye Troubles ncglected today become the big eye troubles tomorrow esamined by espert My Specialty— Comfortable Vision Frank E. Goodwin Lyesight Specialist s MAIN SIL Phone 1905 Have your e Mother’s Day SUNDAY, MAY 117 REM ) SEND BOLQ W FLOWERS POTTED PLANT FROM THE 29 436 MAIN ST Tel. 3304, The finest, store diest baby chicks bred, Selected from heavy laying flocks. Al varieties. Place orders early. RACKLIFFE BROS.Inc. Pgrk and Bigelow Streets ON SAT., MAY 10th at 2 P. M. We Will Give a — DEMONSTRATION — of a wonderful Reboring Tool, At Our Modern Service Station The Public ié Cordially Invited to Attend Harry Starkie Automotive Service Co. PHONL 295 287 ELM £T. trip to Atlantic City where he or she | would do battle in the’ national tour- | nament for the honor of New Britain, The tournament is open®to any boy | or girl under 15 years of age who will | sign an entry blank (one appears in tonight's paper) and hand it in to the sed to the Marble Editor, or hand it in to W. W. T. Squire in the Americanization Bureau | | room at the old Burritt school. Next as possible after the | entries close, a series of preliminary | tournaments will be held in various parts of the elty. Then there will fol- | low a city championship tournament | played by the winners of the prelimin- | ar® amairs, The winner of the city | event will he declared city champion | and’ will be presented with a medal as will the “runner-up.”” The cham- { pion will be allowed to pick a com- ,-mlon and will be sent to Atlantie City for the week of June 1 to 7, where he or she will compete against the marble champs of 60 other cities for the championship of the United | States, So, hoys and girls, wi know the game of “ringe send in your entry if you « marble at all, The details of the game | will come easy after the rules are | published tomorrow night jn this pa- | er. PSfiere 18 a chance to win a fine va- cation in one of Atlantic City's big | | notels at no post te you., Fill in the | | Mank, because we are going to limit | the entries to 506, and hand it in quickly. The whole town wants & | ntative in the sational tournas | week, as soon her you or not, n shoot a | \ Watch for the rulds of “ringer” as| published in tomorrow's Herald, WYSTERIOUS MYSTERY OF |+ MISSING MISSIVES SOLVED 300 Letters Sent Third Class, Vail 1‘(.: Reach Destination On [ Time | An incident which bhappens in the best regulated post offices, has oc- curred to bring on a mildly embar- rassing situation between the mer- chants of New, Britain, the Chamber of Commerce, the post office and Everyman's Bible Class, t Bunday Merchants' Sun- y" at Everym Bible class and a committee of Chamber of Com- merce directors consisting of George H. Dyson, chairman; A. A. Mills, chairman of the mercantil bureau, and B. J. Porter, former chairman of the mercantile burean, drew up a form letter inviting the merchants of the city to the meeting. -Two hun- dved letfers were sent out by the Chamber of Commeree on Bible class stationery. They were put into the post office between 5 and 8 o'clock Friday evening, and were not deliv- ered unthl yesterday aud this morning, several days after the Sunday in ques- | tion had passed. Messrs, Dyson and Dorter upon Postm M. E. Erwin and | Superintendent of Mails Js B G this morning and a conference between the four men developed the fact that the letters were sent out as third clds mail under a cent | stamp; that they were mailed during one of the first few days of the month when the postal department is swamp- ed with third class mail and that on this particular, occasion tons of third class mail flowed into the post of: fice. at the same time The Chamber of Commerce men agreed that,no blame could be at- tached to the post office whatever, that minety-nine times out of a hun- dred lefters under a one cent stamp would bg delivered within 24 hours Lut that on some occasions this is en- tirely an impossibility. The postal officials point out that | to Yassure delivery at once, letters | should he sent first class, but that if | the attention of some one in the of- 18 called to an important batch of third cl tetters when mailed, they too will receive all possible at- tention. | Third ctass tetters, dllecaled ana turned oyt on a duplicating machige | in batehes of 20 or more are gener: Iy sonceded to be advertising circue jare and no post office in the country is enabled, according to information | the Chamber of Cotnme "has received, to Puarantee immediate delivery, called er ames one fice committes chreest, may and B tor permits issued for buiiding oper totalling $575,884. classified as follows: ings, $211,600; ing the Ladded, complaints Inve spe | plumbing fobs permits and made cluding work in 162 old buildings and |in 97 nm\th,mm N . | follow, of Rhodes strec pested this Andrew Hegan on charges of assault | and breach of the peace, Bteel and Bearings, Ine., Hlows fagy. st and booked them for appearance | JU]LDWG PERMITh FOR APRIL TOTAL $375,384 Ten (s Added During Past Month—Curtin and Tormay File Reports c Gil- Tor- Building Inspector Jolin Plumbing Ins; ctrical Inspector Cyril J. rtin have presented their the month of April. The building inspector ector I’ reports reports 185 tions The 109 frame build- 4,048; brick buildinga® 56 altcrations, $30,236. Dus month 124 tenements wer two o S built, tigated 161 were and in- ctions mad 191 inspections. placed dur- Sixty-one perggts were |.un.mgs and 14 tests ater, 93 four month, of plumbing were were made by w approved, permits were Star of Good Wil lodwe, Nb, 9, O . of B., will hold its regular mécting on Monday eveuing at the dr. O, A. M. hall on Wungerford court. A} special social feature of this meeting ' will be the “Old Song ' contest when | the members will sing the oldest song niRe | in Connecticut, e plumbing inspector issued 61 work. permits and made total of 332 fixtures were ing the issued for work in new 4 40 for work in old structur A Amerienn esspools were removed and eight de- | fects were folind and remedied. eleftrical inspector issued 126 2 spections, in- ROTARIANS WlLL EAT SHAD toh Clark-4a be Host at East Berlin This Eveniug—Father and Son Day May 22, Members of club and their wives will the New Britain Rotary motor to st Berlin tms evening to eat a shad | ¥ dinner with Rob Clark at the Metho- dist church, Mr. Clark, one of the members of the Rotary, 18 giving the dinner, and according fo the weekly Rotary letter, plans to donate all the hones to the starving cats of Bast Berlin, The men and their wives will meet at the Burritt lptel at 6:30 o'clock. Dinner will be served at 7 in Berlin, Dancing in a nearby hall will “I"ather and Son™ ns, Members of the usual dollar and May 22 will be day for the Rotar club will pay their this money will be given to the Ladies Aid of the East Berlin chureh, The music committee will provide a musi- cal program at the dinner. Adolph Matulis of New Britain and of Plainville Ar- With Fists, Frank Scheible rested Following Battle (Special to The Herald), Plainville, May 8.—Adolph Matulis N Britain, and F'rank Scheible of Plainville were ar- morning by Policeman The men, who are cmployes of tfle Standard became em- brofled in un argument over the work at Wpe factory and words led to with the result that the po- | | NHeeman was called into stop the af- | He placed both men under are in the local ru)lvu court Saturday., Blind binxels “to Give Concert, Next Week John and Mary McCay, blind musi- a recital at the' Y. M, T. A, and B, hall at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, May 14. A matinee performance will given for the children on Tuesday af- I ternoon, May 13 at 4 o'clock. Mr. McKay is a baritone singer and nis sister, a soprano. They have been appearing before the public in con- certs for the past 25 years and in that time have gained an enviable tion throughout the state, CREW 1S RESCUED Norfolk, Va., N 8.—Th masted schooner . R. Covin o York, went ashore during a fog ear- four- be | reputa- New | 1y today 14 miles north of Bodies Is- | Coast guard the North Carolina Devil Hill rescued land, men at Km crew, they know. The person /singing thge oldest song will receive a prize. will also be a prize for the pe singing the next oldest song. The membership contest hetween the Red and Blue teams will positively end at this meeting and the ncuneed, 2 OFFER VALUABLE PRIZES American Legion Members in Mem- bership Drive Offer n Watch g and A, L. Rings as Reward. One ‘member of the American Le- gion in Connecticut has a chance to carn a beautiful gold Elgin watch with the Legion insignia on it,” and seven members, one in each district can: earn handsome rings -bearing the Legion insig- some tinie during this and next The state department of the Legion has offered these prizes to'those who bring in the greats est number of new members during the membership drive, which began Monday and ends May 19, 1d The watch will be given to the member who signs up the most new members in the state, while one ring will be given in each district to the member securing the most new men bers. The winner of the watch will not be entitled to a ring as the winner in his district. The prizes wil \mo convention at Torrington, 1 at the and be award August 28, winners an- Teeth Stains | ML SCH0L OFCHS Bleached Out | New Safe Way, ¢ goodbye to dully yellow, stained | l-.m For a new harmless treatment | ~Bleachodent Combination—bleaches | 1ay, May 6 in the school kindel awdy the stains and makes teeth flash- | garten. /I'he speaker of the even- { ing “white—often in just three min-|iN8. Was Harry Erwin of i utes, Treatmefit consists of a mild safe | He talked on the vajue of the liquid, which curdjes and softens the ents and Teachers' —assoclation I stains=and a new kind of _paste,|40d on the American spirit of: the ¢ which gently removes the softened S¢100l ’ stains, Bleachodent Combination keeps | The following officers were elected { teeth white by preventing the forma- | 'OF the ensuing vear: ition of mew stains. Does not affect ident—James O'Brien. {enamel as its mild _ingredients are -President—Walter Kosswig. lly combined ™ act on surface| %ecretary and ins—not on the enamel itself. Only | Anna Rosenberg. a safe, mild preparation like Bleacho.| Executive Committee—Mrs, Walter dent Combination should be used on | Kos8wig, Mrs. Grace Coholan, Mrs, children’s teeth which are naturally | Harry Koplowitz, Mrs David Smyth. soft and sensative. and which are| The musical program consisted of { especially subject to stains and decay. | Finie for the gums. Get Bleachodent Combination today, for few cents at all good druggists. Pavents and ~Teachers' Association Holds Annual Meeting and Enjoys < Program of Speaking and Music, The Parents and Teachers' associn- tion of .the §malley school met Tues Three Chickens Poisoned | Tremont Street Man Says Michael Bartleuckl of 101 Tremont street thinks that some of his neigh- bors-have taken an aversion to his chickens, for when he left home this morning they were all well and hap py, but enfeturning at noon he found three of them dead. He claims that they were poisoned and asked the po- lice to investigate. Bulk BOYS, DRI\ NAIL INTO TIRE. They .sa\' that it can't be done, but according to a report made to the po- lice by Mrs. Hughes of 151 Oak street, a small boy in her neighborhood suc- ceeded in driving a_pail ipto one of the tires of her automobile yesterday afternoon. Park & Bigelow Sts. Your Victrola is new with every new Victor Record : for each Victor Record you buy brings fresh entertainment. Thousands of selections are listed in the Victor Record catalogs and new Victor Records are announced every week. No less than three operatic singers of the highest rank— . . Ponselle, Fle ta and group of Victor artists. Newington. ; Treasurer—>Miss - You are sure of fresh, mination—More seeds for your money Rackliffe Bros. Co., Inc. Mr, O'Brien, the new president, Re- freshments were served at the close of the meetig. ENCE IN 1926 Washington, May 8.—The governing "hoard of the Pan-American union has voted that the first Pan-American conference of journalists shall be held in Washington during April 1926, wcretary Hughes as chairman of the hoard authorized to fix the axact date fér the opening of the confer- ence which was ‘authorized by ‘the m‘lh Pan-American conference at ! santiago, and to appoint the neces. ary committees to arrange details, PANAMA STATIONS FOR U. §. 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