New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1926, Page 11

e e———————————— HUNDREDS BATTLE FLAMING FORESTS Plymonth, Mass., District Ray- aded by Fires fire, appa ¢ incen swept over four square forest ary miles of woodland yesterday, and early last | vited to take part in the swimming are miles meet which will be held at the Y. pine | W. C. A. on Baturday night was wi o Miles state tion, The southwest wind abating and swinging westward, but hur »wn forestry men and firemen were fighting the flames. Five separate fires started within a mile of each other on the Ply- in four sq Standish GIRL SCOUT NEWS The executive committes of the New Britaln Girl Scout council held the monthly meeting at the Girl Scout office which was follow- ed by a meeting of the camp com- mittee, The following members were present: Mrs., Leon A. Sprague, Mrs, Charles Chase, Mrs. L. P. Slade, Miss Florence An- | drews, Miss Elizabeth Beye and Miss Lois 8. S8haw. All Girl Scouts of New Britain troops who are swimmers are in. VALE LIBRARY 15 MELK COPY OWNER Is Given Famous Bible in Memory of Mrs, Harkness university was recelving the congrat- ulations of book lovers today follow- Ing announcement that Mrs, Edward afternoon, April 24, at 2 o'clock. There will be swimming races, obstacle races, relay races (3 from each church) exhibition of diving, and Red Cross life saving competition. Prizes will be given for each ovent, The pool | mouth Middleboro turnplke during | will be open for practice, free of | afternoon and withix Three were cont the other two soon jolned. ton Sea, a pond, w the samo lled, but out of 1 summer camp near The fires started a mile and west of Plymouth, then spread about t Grassy a ha quickly m one to a com- the eastern po but the other d, past Little 1 Great Sound ponds, (Plymou supply’ and, toward Co P a fow e b rvation mpany men to help department T of trusties werc controlled, rned on name, Catholic Paper?nmmcnts On Burial of Chapman T C 1 Hartford hap- man, who w I for the mur Skelly of N S Benedict Franels I tin's the ce THe ( sue, pri asking t ndent of its is- editor i York was pointing newspape his mat correspon parent lic theolo for his ap- man Catho- READ HIERALD CLASSIFIED ADS TOR YOUR WANTS — Your Grant Ready- to-Wear with its rematkable values —always, is a paradise for thrifty apparel shoppers. | ord City Court Observes offices in the Leland block. charge, to all girls entered in the | meet on Saturday, April 17, 8 p. m, and Wednesday, April 21, at 4 [ p. m. All glrls entering the meét register in person at the Y. A. not later than Wednes. lay, April 21, The swimming in- structor will be at the practice pe- riods to explain the kinds of races to the that are scheduled. e home nursing and first ald class, which has had a most ine structive course under the direc- tion of Maude E. Travers at | 1c New Britain General hospital, | have passed their examination with he following marks: Harriet Alee 96, Dorothy Bentley 93, Jeanette Clark 98, Gertrude Erleson 97, Lillian dis 100, Ruth Gibney 100, Florence Gooby 88, 72, Clarabelle Hol A Leopold 98, Helen Pa I 96, Bernice Pinkus 9 Eunice Rickert 92, Mildred Sam- uelson 88, Mabel Spring 82, Kath- erine WackEr 85, Irens Winger 98. Second class work and troop programs will be the work taken up at a meeting Monday, April 19, 7:30 p. m., at the Girl Scout of- All captains and lieutenants are urged to attend. Troop 2. of the Center church, was in charge of the troop com- e, chalrman, Mrs. L. P. Slade, the meeting Thursday. Second class record cards will be \Wie for captalns next week. Call at the scout office for the number needed, also a sample copy of the second s booklet, Scouts working for second class want to purchase a copy of Greco Marjorie will 8. Harkness of New York city {presented to the {nstitution t copy of the Gutenberg Bible, The gift s made in memory of Mrs, Stephen V. Harkness, who died on March 27, last, and who herself gave Yale the memorial quadrangle, and $3,000,000 for general endowment, The Gutenberg's Bible, charac- terized as the bright particular jow- el of the great libraries, gives to the Yale llbrary the honor of pos- sessing one of the world's s. The volume pre sity was recently City for $1086,000, five coples are known to exist and hardly more than twenty of these ire in perfect condition. The copy which comes to Yale {s in faultless state. ymour de Ricel, ographer, re on this volume a; eral freshness and cleanl most remarkable; every leaf is sound 1 genuine; neither the printed book nor the ve @ monastic binding has been ¢ mended or repaired in the sl st degree.” The Melk copy takes its name from a small town in lower Austria e in a Benedictine monastery > book remalned from its publica- tion until its recent purchase from the monks by a British book seller for transportation to America. The Melk copy will be placed in the rare book room in the new Ster- ling memorlal library to be begun next July. rarest nted to the in New Only forty- distingutshed commented | Suffered so much ‘ from varicose ulcers Wants everyone to know II Resinol healed them —_—— Nashua, N, H, May 18:—“] would like to ask you to tell the people what a wonderful relief | there is for varicose ulcers in Res- “Leland Block” Day John A. 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