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NEW BRITAIN DAILY THANKSGIVING LINENS Are a Fitting Accompaniment for a Perfect Dinner Of utmost importance. are cloths and napkins offered by us to enhance and glori- fy your table. Exquisite linens importéd direct from foreign lands for years and years have earned us the enviable reputation of being the “linen center” of Connec- ticut. IRISH DAMASK CLOTHS AND NAPKINS (All Linen) IRISH DAMASK CLOTHS AND NAPKINS (All Linen) 70x70 Cloth ................ $4.50 each 70x88 Cloth ................ $6.00 each 70x106 Cloth ............... $7.00 each 22x22 Napkins to match .. $6.00 doz. $6.00 each . $7.50 each .ovo. $8.50 each 0 doz. 70x70 Cloth . 70x80 Cloth . 70x106 Cloth ... 22x22 Napkins to match ..... $7. Missionary s Advent Christian church will meet all-day sewing meeting tomc the home of Mrs. Gertrude Coombs, Blac avenue, New Britain. This will be the last meeting before s falr on December 3 are urged to veel prayer me d at o'clock tomorrow Baptist church. The Missionary of the Baptist church will hold its reguiar monthly meeting tomorrow after- | noon at § o'clock at the home of | A. Temple on Broad street. | 7:45 o'clock tomorrow even- the regular mid-week pra ting at the Plainville M. will be held. The Epwoi will be in char Notes Three cases of scarlet fever have been reported in ¥ , but all es for the ! WLl 0% ons st Main street weres | the firs are |10 ning at the In Place ater Broad st Mr. Morse's cousin beck, in Terryville James M. Prior family house and lot !to Christodophoulos this afternoor has sold a on 1 Pine street | stores offices & front of the bu ing is already well along. IRISH SATIN DAMASK CLOTHS AND NAPKINS (Lustrous—all Linen) 72x72 Cloth .... . $7.00 each 72x90 Cloth .... . $8.50 each 72x108 Cloth ... veven.. $10.50 each 22 inch Napkins to match $8.00 doz. “OUR LEADER!” CLOTHS AND NAPKINS (Extra fine quality Irish linen) Choice of handsome patterns 72x70 Cloth ................ $9.00 each 12x90 Glothe i e e .. $11.00 each 72x108 Cloth .... e $13.50 each Large collection of extra long, all linen 22 RPN U0 R s LI AL : e 24x24 Napki Sl & Table Cloths, 3 vard, 3 1-2 vard, 4 yard, 24x24 Napkins to match $12.50 doz 4 1-2 and 5 yard lengths, all at special Zahary, pro- Palace of Sweets, through tor of the r was made Girl Reserves Meeting Thare bhe a Girl Reserves at evening 1 the hold a Miss Luchini of the | social tonight o'clock in 1. O. will be in ic is cordial school age | in i nts will be will ting of George & church parlors. New Y. W. CLA charge, Al girls of high |are cordiaily invited. Temco Bowlinz leaders in the Ter met with rev week's games, but the af Southington w Britain first floor. Washing- —advt. modern HEMSTITCHED CLOTHS AND NAPKINS SPECIAL ! All Linen Irish Dgunasl}', handsome pat- 54x54, all linen Hemstitched Lunch terns, at extra special prices. Cloths, handsome patterns, regular $6.50. 66x66 Cloth ...... $4.19 each 66x86 Cloth ... 20 1-2 inch Nap specially All finer H. S. specially priced. prices. . $6.50 each DAMASK, $1.00 YARD = Sl B Bleached and unbleached, priced at $1.00 yard. Cloth and Napkins | were re- She Pardon C. Rickey |1ing at the Town hall, Judge George |G. Griswold discharged from the Hliness — Emerson docket the case of William Curtis of Home of Mrs, After Long Case Completes Testimony. sale Fisher are of Thomas erlin TY DANCE ATHLETIC GIRLS' CLU; HALL Thursday Lvening, Nov. 18, 1926 Mid Nite Sons' Orchestra Tickets at Door. long | - HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1926. . . ecorge F. Cook and the bhoy re- PIa'n”’IIe News moved to the New Britain General hospital to have the arm X-rayed. He was then taken to his home. Treiber's Pen Second The pen of white rocks which was entered in the Storrs egg-laying contest by G. A. Treiber of Plain- ville is in second place in its breed, ST RM according to the bulletin covering |the results of the first week. Mr. el F | Treiber, a comparative newcomer . |among local poultrymen, entered his charles MCKel'Ilafl Stmck m‘mm. in competition with those from all over New England and from : . many other sections of the country, Head by Flymg Debl‘ls |some entrles being attracted from |even as far as Oregon by the an- nual contest conducted by the Con- | A Massachusetts pen leads the | white and buft rock class with 45 | Jall-Breaker Given Jsil Sentence— | °EEY lald during the initial week | while that of Mr. Treiber 15 second Boy Breaks Arm—Many Meetngis with 31 ! Steel Trusses Scheduled for the Week—Temco| . = Bowling—Piainville Briefs. 1t on V this morning; the: Charles McKernan of 11 Norton|five in number and were eracted in place was injured by flylng debris|spite of an accilent Saturday and {during the storm yesterday &fter-|tha con lay. The brick | noon, being lacerated about the|work for the theater walls will now head. McKernan, who is a_foreman pa hagyn the and at the Standard Steel & Bearins Inc., was standing in the yard mear the factory when something, Jjust | what 1s not known, was blown off | the roof by the wind and struck him {across the temple, inflicting a se- | vere cut. As the wind-blown object was whisked away again immediate- |1y, he did not find out what had hit | him. He was treated by Dr. Law rence H. Frost. | The storm did considerable dam-| age to property about the town, the high wind being responsible for| most of this. A portion of the tin| $ i roof on the Newton block of West|®d to maintaln their on {over the Lobsters, who were forc | Main strect was wrenched loose by | SaEP ey pons) | into a deadlock by the ®Bullheads. ton str | the gale, and the unsupported bricks "0 % ¢ R |along the cornice were showered on| PR | the sidewalk from time to time. No!''&" SC°F | passersby were struck, but the walk| | & % Py Crah | was unsafe for travel for some time |y Ctf, | during the storm. | Z S 11 1 of Stamford | _ The large signboard erected by th 3 ! | Trumbull Electric Co. next to its fac- | {tory was also bowled over by the'n rifin . | wind. Windows in many houses were | 1o lorc blown in or smashed by flying debris. | g/ 1in o Branches were torn from trees and | qrar 5 | blown about the streets. The rain |y j\ingston | was driven into a solid sheet which | | drenched all who ventured forth into | |1t. The intensity of the storm w equalled only by the suddenness with | A. Dionne which it broke, and considerable in- | Reicker { convenience resuited. Automobile -, idy | traftic was necessar slowed up, | | but the enforced carefulness prevent- | ed accident | Lipski Gives Delightful Pregram at State Normal School Hall ailed Crabs Johnson ..... 98 Hemingway Bepich slation gi Dionn £ et ot s Sdwards [ Now Britain, was sentenced to days in the county jail last night by Justice M. O. Ryder. Lipski, origi- nally arrested with three companions last June, escaped from the | with two of them by dropped by Constable the course of a viol the prisoners. He was recog {a Hartford street Monday afternoon by Callen and rearrested. T sevelt's tlexibilit Bullheads That of breaking | dropped. but he was touna & L Stoekhotders (o Meet. o Eann A special € ' holders of tion will be Goorge | vember 3 Shine, who rem his com- | voted to s ; nions fled lockup, was given | $150.000 and this propos: 0 days for aiding the break. Lipski, brought "“"’r“ the sto two encores in | R R e their approval. p = ST T P T st Mectings o ihe Week Ptars ana T and | | This was explained today by The nisn Jenlid et ey “Daffodil Gold.” mention tor Foran, who said that Shine|0f Our Saviour w should ic work the man who had for lar mecting at 1d who had teached through | TOW afterneon in the 1 bars and unlocked the door. g Doniesiiind eooihy i e it Vb ene Baptist church are holding their an- sponsible for the break, t nual Christmas fair this afternoon lities being satisfied to sentence Lip- |and evening in the church parlors |ski on the other ch regular meetin of the Le- | Boy Breaks 2 gion okl Raymond Peplow, 11, son of Mr, | TOW evening at Legion hall. Tt will and Mrs, John Peplow of South|be followed by a public whist. = |Canal streot, fractured his right| The Woman's Home and Foreign Community Theatre while playing about the lumber piles | on the location of the Sequas- sen Corporation block. In attempt- ing to mp from a pile he lost his balance and fell head first. striking PLAINVILL on the arm which he flung to protect | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17(h — him The bone was eet by Dr.| | Noah Deers, Moran, Tonise Dresser in “PADLOCKED” document of our blooded modern | | oppression and | | white lights to | | ber, as, in totall pherd anged by 1o | Wil f the most striking w \a‘ s ch of the peace xication. Tuesday, cctors recent American group Frank La Forge, sevelt gave 5 mad ) will be " Modernize YOUR HOME with new sidewalls of Wealfertoes CTANED-JHIRRAES applied right over the old siding. Makes your home warmer in winter, cooler in @ summer and up- | keep cost is less. Phone or write for esti- mate. The low cost as compared with painting . will surprise you A. MATSON & CO. Farmington Ave.. Plainville Telephone 35-114 '1s invited to attend. The library rooms will he open on | afternoon and evening for the Truly & flaming exchange of books. || times—ot o warm The Community cltb will meet this || miss who resents ing at § o'clock in Commu Kakex ol Broadsay:a hall. Action will be taken regard- || " {ing next week’s meeting as it Is the evening before Thanksgiving and it is thought th.t it will he postponed. | An entertainment program has been rranged. The Soclal Five will meet Mrs. Charles Fiske tomorrow {noon. | Mrs. Mildred Harrington | visitor to New Britain tod A card club to be know the “sothack elub” has been proposed by everal men int d in the forma- tion of such an organization for a winter tournament. There are at the present time however two evenings a week being vsed by two ¢ organizations for whist parties im\\\' club would be solely for m el Sale of FANCY WORK || CHINA APRONS MISSES HELEN & MILDRED FISHER Maple Street with | | | after- was a Week Days from 6 Saturdays from vl Bristel News WATER COM. VOTES MAIN EXTENSIONS Over Two Miles of New Piping! Are Authorized FINANCE BOARD ~ KILLED Mayor Wade Casts Deciding Ballot Against Project—Aged Resident's | Arm Broken by Automobile— Three Fires on Record. More than two miles o main extensions we ard of water col regular monthly n water voted by the missioners at it ting, ie extensions favor upon were as follows 2.850 fe £ elg on| Farmington 1 of to Mine Broo 4,85 way Manor as follows Columbus avenue from avenu 1t fest .on M from n ave feet on Dorothy road to Barbara on Tolland road ara road it was of § om Co . 690 ngton main exten- end - presen wood stro also , which runs west- | Sdgewood corner ition ar | property led for the highway 4 not to lay the mai a long ¢ it was dect t that time, A p 500 feet extens from 1o Oakland s Hearings e held also received for non ¥ on was on all of petitions at the next eting of the board on D Louria w Bills rendered fy October, $5.130, more. th vear, Bills for s Aid follo ch was $1,0 2 n for the same month last s for | ormal preci- ford Water hes E: 1 T ation for Hartford station was No. 4 reservoir, deficit in r 1. 1925 at 3 incl mption of water ir ity during the month of Octo- laily cor gallons, which was than for Octo- chemists 12 showed eria were no ob in 10 new installed and 4 $7.934.09 were approved and ordered paid Council Votes Down ¥inance Board the Herald ye for Mayo to cast the d services were was 1 Wade proposed amen cossary iding ment to providing for a Councilmen Hom Hough 'and E. H. Merrill stood op- Councilmen It A. Hayes oted in favor « | next speaker, | o'clock this morning. Judge 8. Russell Mink, who pre- ented the proposed amendment ih shalf of the Chamber of Com- merce, who sponsored it, pointed out that it was simply an effort on the part of interested citizens to accomplish a saving for the city, also that Bristol was the only elty of any size which did not have a finance board. He also mentioned that the proposed board would mot become operative until 1928, Thomas A. Tracy spoke objecting to the amendment on the grounds | that it was only a step toward the blishment of a bureaucratic goy- ernment. Elmer E. Stockton also spoke on the disadvantages of such a hoard, as did City Auditor Walter L. (’roqr‘h. Judge Epaphroditus Peck, the was in favor of it and he was followed by former Council- man John L. Donnelly. Mr. Donnel- Iy asked the council “it they were £oing to put in the waste basket the city charter or the proposed amend- ment.” A letter was then read from Charles T. Treadway, president of the Bristol National Bank, in which he favored the appointment of a fi- > hoard. During the taking of a vote, each 1an was asked to give his | opinion at the same time. Couneil- man Hough stated that he did not sce the need of enlarging the pree- ent city finance board. Hayes favor- T on the grounds that the more ance received by the counefl Merrill believed the pres- clty charter covered everything 1an Crumb believed that the nosed amendment was the result L very sincere effort on the part imber of men to be of help to He resented the inuendoes thers was a sinister pur- 4 this proposed amend- 1cilman Anderson looked Upon it as more helpful to the city council. _Mayor John F. Wade, who breke the existing tie by voting against the n sur stated that he was told it ha not vote for it. he vould take away from the peeple the privileze of voting upon. it. He resentad this highly, He also stat that he did not thoroughly under- it and conld not ses the nace it's going to the legislature. ther or not the sponsers of posed amendment will ask 1% referred to the legls- lature was unknown this morning. Tar Box Catches Fire. A large tar box, in which work- n at the Dutler house were heat- & far, caught on fire at 9:45 this morning and cast a heavy cloud of ke over the center of tha city. tge crowd roshed to the scene. helieving that a large conflagration In progress. Chemicals were used in extinguishing the blaze by Squad A and Engine Company No. 1. Arm Broken. Dewey Stevens, of Laurel street 1 aged resident of the elty, sus- d a broken arm when he wi struck by an automobile while cross- & the street near his home early evening. While it is understood iat the driver stopped. no report had been made by him up to 9o m Mr. Stevens was tha victim of a similar action almost two years ago in almost the same location and had Fire in Cellar. Three pieces of apparatus were callsd out last evening for a fire in the basement of a three family house on Meadow street, owned by the Sons of Italy, and which. for,a time presented dangerous aspect. he biaze started from .some unde- termined cause in the cellar.and had ined considerable heggdway before it was noticed. Prampt. ‘action by men from the central fire station nd FEngine Company No. 1, exting.- uished the blaze before it had mawu- aged to break through the partitions and the floor. Damage is estimated bont 100, To Mcet in Unionville. ~ next regular meeting of the stol Lodge of Elks will be held in Unionville tomorrow evening in ac- cordance with the custom of holding one thering a year in that towh. of members in the local ide in Tnionville, which com der the jurisdiction of Bris- tol. A ss of candidates will be initiated and a vaudeville program has been arranged. 1. 0. O. F. Meeting. The regular meeting of Pequa- k Lodge, I. O. O. F., will be held 1t 8 o'clock this evening in Arcanum Teachers To Hold Party. Teachers in the city school will holl a party this evening at .8 o'clock in the South Side school. ‘A program, consisting of recitations by Daniel Greer and selections by the Arcadia Quartet, has been arrang- ed tor. There will also be dancing and refreshments will be served. W. C. T. U. Meeting. The Women's Christian Temper- ance Union will hold a meeting at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the basement of the public library. Mothers' Club. g of the Mothers’ club of the Prospect Methodist church will be held at 8 o'clock this evening at the home of Mrs. J. D. Brown, (Continued on Page 16) A BIE PACKAGE . | were swollen by the torrent and the ieting in the station which make the BerIIn News | usual floods that have accompanied | place an eyesore to the community. levery serious rainfall this year = Mrs. Katherine B. Morrison, wife were felt. The underpass at the of Roderick H. Morrison, died yes- station followed its old custom of ' terday afternoon following a filling up after the first half hour | illne home of her daugh- TREE [‘R”SHES AUT“>: steady rain and the water ter, Mrs. Pardon C. Rickey of reached a new high water mark, |\Worthington Ridge. The funeral being nearly six feet deep in the !will be held Thursday at 2 o'clock, AS FAL[ [iALE R[]ARS center during the heaviest ‘fall. Rey. Samuel A. Fiske, pastor of the Traffic was detoured through the Berlin Congrega‘lonal church, offi- back road to Kensington. { ciating. | Numerous small limbs Mrs. Morrison was a resident of : ported as having blown down and | this town for five vears, moving £ | outlying sections of the town. Sev- |leaves her husband and daughter Imm-y Car Is Wrecked ~ [erat windows were blown in by the [She was a prominent member of ] | wind and shingle roofs suffered Ithe Berlin Congregational church — | from the storm. A chimney in the and of the local group of Canoni- | Worthinston district collapsed and |cus chapter of the Sunshine so- Discharges Alleged Speeder What They're Dolng 3 At the regular weekly session of | The I the Kensington Birs. Roderick H. Morrison Dics at 1y, porjin town court held last eve- Mcthodist church will give a one act play at the church parlors this evening at 8 o'clock. The cast of characters includes seven young South Manchester. Curtls was ar- 12dies of the congregation. Vocal raigned on the charge of speeding |$010s Will be glven by Mrs. Frank Yesterday's storm wreaked havoc [HAVIng been arrested by Ofticer | 560 'f.mf‘:”o,f,,.”;,‘,',”nm' potanen when it vislted Berlin yestorday |Ocorge Kanupka early Menday (o= U5 b P : e afternoon. Crippling the light and | morning. The drl\flj appeared ufi"_ Mr. and Mrs. Will phone service and making many of |der his own recognizance, no bonds| ' Fo # R the highways impassible because of [Raving been placed for his presence | Wy ) issors are in fallen trees, it was one of the most (i court. g R A e e damaging storms fhat has over| Samuel Hook ot this town, |5 the tomn ball completing th visited this town. Several accidents (charged ~with drunkenness and | Sl e were reported and property damage [breach of the peace was granted & | gy o jine no lights available mounted high as the wind and rain jcontinuance until next weclk. here Inst night most of the local “)W_ yuined late crops and blew in win- | Casc Finishes ulatlon r.tired ez 1y. Late in the dows. | The case of the estate afternoon the lighting service went The storm was responsible for a |Emerson against the town of e e AR e, scrious accldent that occurred on |ended yesterday after three days of gy grors B2 W00 B0, 100 B COCH the Berlin turnpike between this /testimony at the erior court i fyipkiing system was in vogue, candles town and Hartford yesterday after- |Hartford. Judge Nickerson heard lais goma oil lamps being put into noon, in which two men were in- the case, the ecstate being reprosent- luce 1o thoss so fortunats te have jured and thelr car demolished. The (o by Joseph F. Berry of Hartford |tham. One of the large trees in the men were Charles Litman and Har- japg the town being represented by 'grove was blown over by the force ry Litman, father and son, of Wes ndge Bernard T. Gaffney through lof the storm, carrying down with it terly, Rhode Island, who is son, Donald Gaffney. Decision lsome of the electric light iwires. travelling towards New Haven When \yqq reserved until a later date by [People did not venture far from a large tree by the road side blew |j,q¢0 Nickerson. home last evening fearing to con- over and descended on their €ar, |” yoea) residents to go on the wit- nect with wires which might be entting the machine in half. The | tanidl yestevany incluasa Jame octupants of the car escaped death mons, Theodore Sava Frec ights of Pythias met last by inches as the trunk of the tree o o, 1y, Mildrum and Frank [nlght at Community hall. A number crashed through the roof just behind | GBS0 B T T T siea o [of applications for membership were the drivers ; ’wlv.\' were x:l’\_;’n muel Emerson for the estate that |received and preparatory action was first aid at a nearby station e o prop- |taken. and were later taken to Hartford |the present Sl -“,_“fi_"“ | pr';‘,,, mesting will be held {n th hospital where it was found that |CIty Is exorbitant and a claii €08 & |y it " ireh tomérrow evening they were suffering from numerous |reduction. Yesterday's session Bad\p ) G S gipner to be held early and lncerations about the [been called from an adjourned ses- | AECWIRE the S They said that the car [sion last Thursday when nume | The Ladies' Afd society of the was uninsured and is a total loss. |other local officlals testified for hoth {ye oy oi "o “Ciil hold a supper A large limb of one of the giant [sides of the question. The feature |, "y, "cpyreh pagement tomorrow maples that line Berlin |of the trial was testimony offered b¥ lovoyingat 6:50 o'cle . The public blown oft at about 4 o'clock Williard T. Alling, former chairman | day afternoon. It landcd a {of the board of reliet at the time of | S Dighway and stemmed traffic for a |the assessment to the effect t short while until it was dragged to jamount was exorbitant and the side of the roadway where not levied the charge on the estate, now completely blocks the fire hy- [leaving the business to the other two || Th drant. Local residents feel that it |members of the board, although | ghould be removed as the hvdrant chairman of the hoard at that time. | is the only one in that locality and | Setback Postponed | in case of fre, a serious situation | ‘As a result of the weather last would develop. evening the earde lay unshuffled on | Another tree 18 reported to have |(he tables that were scheduled to | been blown over by the tempest On (graze the efforts of the Blue Hills | lannagan's Hill in Kensington near |goipaclc team and the American | the Haines estate, lying across the |no oo cioaq company's aggregation. | FRECKLB road and completely blocking traffic |y¢ jq jmprohabie that the match will AND for a time. IRtesidents of that sec- |+ FOTERG 0 B By eve- tion were prevented from reaching | 't PEST SHL AR o Pas run their homes until the trunk of the ([T 10 BEEE B0 enuse of treo was sawed Into short lensths |0 Y ET S Fenl BEERSE | and removed from the RIEhWay. |1 ce gor the matches being marked | One car 1 reported to have crashed | ¢ 188 07 0 into the tree, being unable to slfll‘_‘ Reports of an East Berlin team because of the slippery condition of |\ N ouont foy Into the hearts of the hillas it desce ards the |\ "rlue Hilllans who aver that the | recumbent tree. No serious damage i 2 il was done to the machine outside of | 0T teams, U AR e e e an wini- | the mmen from the mountaina. That shield but it necessitated a half | the eastern squad might prove 2 hour's steady work to remove the | fark horse has been scoffed at by | machine from the debris as a limb | 138t Year's champions who state that had become jammed under the au- | °!l the dark horses brought up so tomobile. | far have turned out to be spot! 1 All three districts were without SUOTELHEIN aaiil Siatl Shasn light service from 4 o'clock until | washed out by the superior card nearly 9 o'clock last evening. | playing of the Blue Hills team, Candles were brought into service in Tmprovenients For Station most homes and reports of liv The railroad station has reccived wires being brought down by the |a much needed improvement by way wind Kept most of the residents | of new light fixtures for the waiting close to thefr homes. Telephone | room. The old fixtures have boen eervice was crippled and was still | removed and more modern and a uncertaln at noon today, many lines | sreater number of hanging fixtures seing out of order because of fallen |have been installed. The new globes wires suffered in East Berlin. tend to bring out stronger than ever Streams and ponds in this vielnity | the present deplorable conditions ex- . QL, NERE COMES AT POSTMAN WITH HIS FRIENDS Wrong Place I DONT7 KANOW= ( YOUTAKE & (| DOVOLTHINK LCOK AT IT. j |7'S FOR Ls ¢ T DON'T KAOW = THE NAME IS OBLITERATED ! By BLOSSER THEN IT CANT BE FOR US=OUR NAME IS ' Megoosey!!

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