New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1925, Page 2

NEW ISWEDISH BETHANY CHURCH ] HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING | THO G070 JoL Police Say They Caught Mater and Defaney Red Handed {ROB GAS METERS, IVORY | PYRALIN Left-Overs 33159 off Regular [ | Last Year Reported ot ! Annual Mecting AL the gution cting of the Swedish Bet eld last night s were elected il Hjerpe: clerk neial secretary surer, Pridolph Havoll Fridoiph deac John Swa J wrlson, Mrs. s J. Adam. , Miss Ellen \ist, Mrs rold John- T Jdwin Va Paul Niisn THE Peterson vintendent of | DIC]\INQON i L A et e € % 1 ooper 501, an in- There vear, annual me Ving offic chairman, I Sundaquist Ap H lham linson | ATy Hennin rles O, Joh P'hitip Mag )¢ A 1el ors, trom sup DRUG CO., | i 169-171 Main St. | chureh is last year, past and heen, dea Auring the 14 weddings rt of the treas- treasury balance to wneial ropo \ G. E dolph | ng of Rev. | Pinl, Appel and Fri- the reports of the church two| . 1nt ! o| printed & and v outside Dolan yard n L quarter Po- found a Wil son am i o with the and ikar o This lets you do SALE Sale of Suits. + Sale of Overcoats. Qur finest included. VIl ea S CAUSES 8130 DAMAGE estimated at $150 resuft- ed from a blaze that consumed an old shed on Vincent avenue last night. An alarm from Box 418 was sent in but w the fire apparatus arrived, the flamas had enveloped the structure ] it was impossible to save it. The i3 owned | iy William ! TO HAVE PEAYLR WEEK. Prayer week will he ved at Swedish Bethany church next th services at T:45 o'clock W. Gillen, | den, will | also speak 10:30 in n the eve- | found in lieta, d floora of s and ors on the the Dblock property itying in men clatmed that week w $29 .-4 )“ and 30 for others that were $32.50 ! and $35.00. + Drop in! i i'It Pays to Buy Our Kind i and started denied | oy ENTLRTAINED FPRIENDS, rude Dacey entertained | icnda at bridge at her | iing. Urizes were Misses gnea Carlson Margn Baker. T who ! ended were Missea Rose and Mar- guerite (: and Ruth d May C and 0s¢ Baker, ORSFALLS | JJ 99 X mauris \m« lhnloNL ~ s IHH \l TO BILL an, manager of Marty ! s Follies, now playing at the wee theater, has been sued for $50 Pitzpatrick, who claims 1 to furnish two show troupa to a New Year's but that Drohan minutc dismissed the cars | in other ma- for Fitzpat- ‘It pays o buy our kind” 118 money by doing odd Question Auto Markers, L. D. Mc n of 74 Hamilton & irged with opc _Chrlstmas : Sholv)pmg R is Over—New Year’s S Celebration is Here Continued Cold Weather is the Prediction So Insure Your Home Comfort by Using | OLD COMPANY I.EHIGH VALLE} -ANTHRACITE & The Coal That Satisfies UNIVERSAL Coal & Wood Co. 477 West Main St. 'Harry C. Brown, Mgr Tel, : -JSA and ')130 obs, e for 31 on a cha markers on ng INSTALLS of Andree Lodge, 1. g officers were Sandy Bengt- Larson: re- . John E. Holm- seeretary, Algot ‘rank Wallin, ANDREE LODGE ! ting 1 failed to show u €30 of Hart the follo neinl treasy INSTALLS OWN DAUG 1 Roy HTER >atron Sir Knight . oflicers of rooms 1in 1t was the history of the stat a grand royal honor of insta daughter, Cordelia high officc of royal | Court in Masonic Hall last night first time in the grand lodge that Wife Will Join Husband. arged with by Prosccu- G, ‘\U‘?M\A t man’s | INE L to Hart has I own 1o the his lly pleasant oc- grand including the were present. tallation the in miltary presented. iuctress Lottie coronation offi- ple er of th WAITING FOR ; The R S“REMINDERT . New York State Republicans Draft- fng Mcasure To supplant Tiepealeg Mullan-Gagc _ lasted such hocolate u(ikg hefore/” ,\J ta MUST CHANGE PLANS B@f(@:‘éfi (i ‘_J”' lale FREMIUM NO.T) HIGH-GRADE [\l 7mms ot biwiies | g™ RIPATRING ANDi e B REMODELING gl 13 FRANKLIN Q. ~ Tel. 770 choce CLEARINGS AND BALANC I S, Exchanges 1 ingand dr STATEMENT TREASURY | Well Known Theater Magnate | New York city, . SCHMIOT INQUEST S il I Baker&Co.Lid. BRITAIN D 1ERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1925. e T L o e e e A b e A a2 o SN e A AN CONTARAS-WAGNER COURT PINS CRAPE ON CANDY VENDORS (Fontinued From IMirst Page) sion follows “The accused 18 charged, that on the Y5rd day of December, 1924 ll\-l then and there Keep a certain machine, so-called, which used for tho purpose of gaining. “The accused is prosecuted under | Nection 6476 of the General Statutes Connecticut, Revision of 1918, which provides that, ‘Lvery person who shall kecp a billlard which fs used for the purpose gaming, or a slot muchine, so calle which is used for the purposo of a lottery or gaming, shall be fined not mor than two hundred o Marry Treasurce at Palace Monday in New Longon. John 8, Contarus, part owner of the and Miss Minnie the Pal married Monday London, J I"lorida, on a trip and on their it Iober manager and Capitol theater, Wagner, treasur- theater, will be rnoon in New sl for Miami, our weeks' honeymoon return will resid. T d ° wus stre City Items | sso/ an employe of the aind T plant, was ntully injurcd yesterday when a woud struck him In the He wis removed 1o the "“,,‘““‘j! e in general hospital for HUnINgE A CoNned (07bo i esuse of cardm, dice, billlards or other in- strujients according to certain rules, v dol stonmach New B3 treatn noJ to ) nt Dixon left today for Florldu nd the remainder of the win- v there, Willlam H. Hall and E , Lasher will leave in the near fu ture to spend the winter in Florida. Adelard Clement of Commer- clal street and Miss Arselie Moris ctte of 45 Hartford avenue have beon granted a marringe license ‘ The Misses Rose and Esther Wel- are spending the week-end in thing waged upon the issue of the contest.' hie officers found in a store con- ducted by the accused a certain slot machine known as the watic Salesman, This machine, when a nickel is placed in it and the operator pulls a lever which causes a spinning of wheels, produces a | package of mints and possibly slugs “in number from 2 to 20, which slugs are each worth five cents in mor chandise, redcemable in the store where the machine is located, is on the front of the machine a glass-covered opening in which there appears somctimes the word ‘no’ and at other times an even *umeral, which numeral vary ! from 2 to 20. This means that after versity of Vermont to resume his | the pulling of the lever there will be studics in the medical school. | produced from the machine either Alderman John 1Y, Maerz of the |no slugs, or slugs in number from sixth ward s in New York on busi- | 2 to 20, as may be indicated in the ness, | glass window. Before the nickel is Gerstaecker lodge, 1. O, O, 1°, wily | inserted into the machine the opera- [ hold its annual Christmas entertain- | tor knows, provided the machine i5 | ment on Monday evening in I O.|working properly, that he will re- |ceive & package of mints, plus the through A. ‘uumher of slugs indicated in the J. Donahue | glass-covered opening. This opera- | tion is of course a legal one, as there is no chance taken and the gainst Joseph and Helena | operator knows before the nickel is ctly what he is to obtain alleging non-payment of | inserted ¢ for his nickel, and if the operation Ripple, through George W, of the machine ccased at this time Kiett, has hrought suit for $100 |the operation would be a perfectly damages against Joseph Mariwo for | legal But pocording, to & the e g T e testimony introduced, the machine Joseph Verano, member of Engine Co. 2, is confined to his home M(h‘ grip. He forced to leave his duties yes lins Steele has returned to his home ham, Mass, after vis iting Mr. and Mrs. A. I, Nelson and family of Corbin avenue. He will resume his studies at Tufts college on Monday, Mrs. Harold B. Post is ill with grip at her home, 625 Arch street. Joseph A, Menousek of 44 Cot tage place returned to the Uni Ose Citizen's Coal Co., m, has gued J for $42.50 Peter Plazsenski has brought suit for $3,500 Niedz a note. W one, tinuing number of operations, At the completion of the first operation |the machine appears to be in the game col |nickel was introduced in it. with {this exception, that if, for Instance, the word ‘o’ appeared in the glass- covered opening on the first opera- | tion, it may again appear on the | u\t Opr ration or the numerals 2, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 or 20 may n| wwn 'lhu! the operator will con- Hn 1wlly anticlpate that the play aft- iy er the one that he is about to make the sccond and last witness of the | will glve him a large number of His | of rda; HELD IN MIDDLETIJWN (Continued l‘rom Flrst Duge) forenoon session of the inquest, story was largely a repetition play e will be given not only the that told by Dr. Nolan, package of mints but 20 slugs, re- The inquest was to be continued l.mnmwt’ for & dollar’s . worth of merchandise. | “It was also in testimony that the machine could be and was actu- ally played with nickels or with the siugs which had previously been ob- | tained from the machine. By In- eerting thees slugs into the machine machine will not vend mints this afternoon. Beaths e ——— Mrs. Minnic Nichols Mrs. Minnie Nichols of 25 Pros- puet street, Bristol, died last night comes a slot machine, at the New Britain General hospital. purpose of gaming. She was 87 years old and a widow. | “The machine is a very ingenfous- £he leaves a brother Louls Burg of |y contrived piece of mechanism, on Center Mtreet. Arrangements for the | the face of it legal, but according to funeral have not been complet the testimony, as %o the manner in the doubt whatever that by Funerals st Mrs. Karoline Josephine Boell. The funcral of Mrs. Karoline Jos 1ine Boell will be held Monday af noon at 3 o'clock from the lute yme, 214"Maple strect. Rev, M. W.| dian, pastor of St. John's Ger- Lutheran church, wit and interment will be metery. [ : Fresh Youthful Skin Maintained By Cuticura Dajly use of Cuticura Soap, with touches of Cuticura Oint- line much to prevent pore-clogging, blackheads, pimples, roughness and other unwholesome condi- tions of the skin. Largest and most complete GOLDFISH at | ‘ ment when required, will do i | and accessorics in the city Bollerers’ Posy Shop 72 CHURCH STREET Tel. 886 CHAIN SERVICE —and — REPAIR LINKS FREE purchaser of a pair of Tire Chains we will service the chain and furnish repair links for the cross chains, free the entire winter, Put on vour chains. Take off your chains. Mend your cross chains with repair links, Put on new cross chains. No charge for repair link or service—Pleasure, Bal- loon and Pneumatic Truck Type. SAFETY FIRST—B Franklin Sq. Filling Station NOW ho | | & reasonable opportunity has been | glven to the owners of table | to induce the operator to try his luek, and keeps him continuully an- ticipating that the play next followe ing the one le is about to make Will Yesult to him In a flow of slugs which may be worth a dollar of merchandise, “I find the accused gullty he had reason to belleve that the machine in his possession wuas a legalone, T will suspend judgment; but T want it understood that after these ma- chines to remove them, that / por sons found with these machines in their possession will not receive a suspended Judgment, “WILLIAM C. HUNGERIORD, “Judge.” Noble Silent on Tranfers Rumor (epartment refused to either con- |transfers will be made in' the Wwith a view 10 win money or other | |ports that the chief whl transfer a Waco Auto- | is used hy one operator for a con- | jition as it did bhefore tha | slugs, and it i« possible that on one | general shakeup in the form de- tment, It is understood from re- number of men to new stations, the transfers taking effect tomorrow night. No officers will be shifted, according to report, A number of men in the depart- ment have made applieation “to Chlet Noble to be transferred to sta- tions nearer their homes and the |chief is expected to grant these in niost cases At the same time hae is expected to make several changes | that will be for the purpose of in- creasing the efficiency of th = mord g 3 e depart ment, the attitude and work of some of the men in the stations where they are located not being satisfac- tory to Chief Noble, it is understood. 0 PERSONS DIE IN THO FIRES (Continued From First Page) election. The body was found ln a room on the fourth floor, burned be- yond recognition, The woman. is be- lieved to have been Marie Lederer, 25 years old, a medical student at Cornell university, One woman jumped from the roof of an adjolning twa story bullding, but escaped injury when she landed in a snow drift, The second fire was in an East 101 street apartment house occupied by 50 families, Many automobile ~ opportunities are enumerated from time to time in the classified columns, Savings hut only slugs, and there can be no | operating | the machine in this manner it be- | used for the which it was operated, it is designed | Organized 1862 | | For the in earnings for th Deductions Taxes .. Expenses .......... 46,247.63 Net Earnings ........ as | charged, but in view of the fact that | Chlef Willlam J. Noble of the fire | firm or deny today a report that a | of | , | clement weather occasioned by about Gross Earnings WASHINGTON GAMP 15 30 YEARS OLD ( Branch of P. 0, §. of A, fo Cele- brgte on January 9 An increase in membership from |36 charter members to 386, the | present number, 18 the record of progress of Washington Camp, No. | 0, Patriotic QOrder Sons of America, | which will cclebrate its 30th annl- | versary I'ridey evening, January 9, in-0. U, A, M. hall on Main strect, The camp was instituted January 10, 1895, in Booth's hall. The at- tendance at the first meeting was |about 200, composed of visitors from other camps. The 36 charter mem- | bers were initinted by a delegation 1rnrm Camp No, 4 of New Haven. Of these 36 memebrs the names of seven are $till on the records. These are Edward Parker, a member of the local fire department; Loren D, Venfield, former local town clerk; W. W. Marshall, who is cennected | with the Stanley Works; IFred Hat- sing; J. B. Russell, who s living out west; W. B. Ruseecll, who is located in Springfleld and I, B, Vensil. Ed- ward Parker and W. W. Marshall |are past local presidents and also past state presidents. Those mem- | . | bers who were present at that first meeting report that despite the in- | four inches of heavy slush the at- |tendance was large.” The first past president was the late George Wi Corbin, The celebration of the occasion will be in the form of an ‘open {night" for members and their fami- | Bronchitis, Asthma |lles and friends. Walter Falk, a | | member of the First Baptist church [ and all throat troubles. | Builds new strength. Best for Colds quartette, wifl sing seveval bass solos; Charles Jones will entertain with clog dancing numebrs and Miss Signe Peterson will entertain with recitations. Manllus H. Norton will dellver the address of welcome, State officers will be present and |after the entertainment refreshments will be served, The committee 1n charge of the observance consists of C. L. Wilcox, L. E. Carl, C. L. Aus- tin, Gaston Pardee and ¥red Carle, | The officers of the local camp are as follows: President, L. B, Beecher; vice-president, C. T. Austin; master |of forms, Henry Kessner: recorder, C. L. Wilcox; trcasurer, A. L. Thompson; financial secretary, A. H. Johnsen; conductor, Walter Horton, inspector, Charles Jones: gnard, Lothair Slegal; trustee, F. S. Verga- son, NO DANGERGTS DRUGS. GUARANTEED ——— e T—— 65 SCARLET FEVER CASES Although the scarlet fever epi- demic has subsfdéd somewhat in the past week there are still 65 cases under quarantine in this city, and | the end of this period is not yet in sight. The health department expected to™Telease from quarantine about 20 cases in the coming week and others discharged from quarantine will follow, Bank of New Britain 178 Main Street Total Resources, $17,132,825. 61 formation of the depositors of this | bank and all others interested, the statement of its e year 1924 is here shown: $905,808.93 o S8 112:37 71,360.00 $828,448.93 Dividends to Depositors: Y July 1st—23% .. Jan. 1st—23% . 322,573.09 366,083.12 688,656.21 Surplus Earnings for theYear . ... All are ur received. ‘The $139,792.72 ged to save some part of the income habit of thrift—depositing regularly in a Mutual ‘Savings Bank some part of one’s earnings— is most important and a habit you should acquire. This Bank is suggested as a convenient and safe place to make these deposits. Liberal treatment in the matter of interest paid upon deposits is guaranteed. E E. N, Stanley, President Noah Lucas, Treasurer B. Oldershaw H. D. Humphrey E. H. Davison E. Stanley G. W. Traut OFFICERS . H. Davison, Chairman of Board C. F. Smith, Vice President C. B. Oldershaw, Asst. Treas. and Sec, DIRECTORS Smith A. Anderson E. A. Moore Parker Parsons N linor ". McDonough Russell Lucas H. S, Hart THE BANK OF AND FOR THE DEPOSITOR