New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1928, Page 9

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Fur Coats Offered at Prices That We Cannot Hope to Duplicate Later in the Season IT IS NEARING THE END OF The unusual fine qualities. The smartness of the varied styles. And the low prices now offered. All go to make this sale memorable, You can choose from our large collection of fine fur garments, with the assurance that, in your purchase, you are getting quality, style and DON S IT value that is unequalled. RACCOON COATS, each ....... MUSKRAT COATS, T A R S S e BEAVER COATS, Unusual Quality, each ... NORTHERN SEAL, BACH i ohs ve e ninqismiainasielniniasininies HUDSON SEAL, Dged Muskrat, each ...... You will better realize how they excel in quality, style and lower cost OTHER FUR COATS, PRICOA FTOM 2o cniannoneoinsiinesne Berlin News DEMOCRATS WANT 70 BE RECOGNIZED Will Name Candidates for Relief and Assessors Boards FULL TICKET PROMISED % Chase Retire From $chool Board — Father and Son Coale to May Be On Opposing Tickets— Grange Caraival. Criticism of the republican party e holding the upper hand on all tiree places on the board of reliet ald the board of assessors was ex- plessed today by leaders of the danocratic party. Contrary to the cwtom of other places the major- it} party has refused the democrats a place on the boards. The party has decided to nomiv- at a man for each position, but as it appears to be certain defeat 1or him it is unlikely that willing candidates will be found. Raymond Dyer, third sele wili probably be the party's candi- dite for firsl selectman at the cau- s in Leglon hall Monday night wd it is possible that Joseph Carbo will be nominated for second sclect- nan. There is much support as- sired Phillp Fagan if he wishes to wn for office. 1f Carbo #hould be nominated and fhe republican party decides to sup- jort his father, John Carbo, for the epublican nomination for first se- lectman, @ father and son battle would be in progress. Most of the Carbo family is registered with the democratic party. 1t is expected that the three dem- ocratic constables will again be mominated. They arc John Hackett and William Riclife of Berlin, and John Lewis of East Berlin. To Support Thoms Daniel M. Malarney and James Fitzsimmons, Berlin's dele the democratic state con Haven will support W Thoms for governor and Augustine |Lonergan for senator. Assurance that they will support George Le Witt of New Britain for secretary of state was expressed today by Mr. Malarney. i The convention is being held in {New Haven. Charles G. Morris of ‘Newtown and New Haven is run- ning for governor against Thoms and there are several candidates running for semator against Loner- gan. Committecs Named Officers were elected, committees named, and plans for the Grange carnival on September 27, 28 and 29 were discussed at a meeting of the carnival committee at Grange hall last night. Charles Weldon named treagurer, Joseph Wilson, Jr. was named secretary, Louis A. Grif- fith and Paul Giana were appointed chairmen of the entertainment com- mittee, Harold Ventres was named chairman of the advertising booths, James B. Ellsworth was placed m charge of the wheel committee, and the Ladies' Sewing society will take charge of refreshments. Opening night will be amateur night and all local performers who wish to take purt lLave been asked to give their names to Secretary Wilson before Scptember 22. On the second night Meriden Grange will present an entertainmént. There will be dancing each night. Not a Candidate Continued absence from the town has made it necessary for 8. Chase |the change., | ball team man, 1 521500 ,$325.00 $12500 ,$2980 [ - $125.00 COME SEE THESE COATS $59.50,, Coale, president of the Berlin school board, to retire from the board when his term expires on October 1. Mr. Coale has done much valu- able work while a member of the board during his five years of serv-| ice. 1In resigning he states that| since he could not give the time to| the place and he is anxious that someone who could, take his place that the schools will benefit by Again 'on New Britain Team Stephen (Jumbo) Gnasdow, husky guard on the All-New Britain foot- for the past two years has been again engaged to play with that team in its contests this year, In the games last year he s a tower of strength in the line. The opening game will be on Sep- tember probably against the Naval e team or the Stonewalls of Holyoke, Mass. Two Games Over Week-End Two games will be played by the Kensington A, C. baseball team dur- ing the week-end, The first will be against the Windsor Locks team in that town tomorrow afternoon and the second will be against the Ranger A. C. tram in Kensington Sunday afternoon. The Ranger-Kensington game will be the second of the series. The first resulted in a victory for the New Britain nine. The Rangers will be the home team although the | game will be played in Kensington. | Neighbors' Night Members of Berlin Grange will present a number on the program at Neighbors’ night in Bouthington tonight. This is one of the first series of social activities which will open what is expected to be an ac- tive fall season. To Complete Budgei The budget of town expenses will probably be completed at a meeting of the town finance committee in the town hall tonight. Within the next two weeks a public meeting is to be held at which the budget will || be read. sSchool Board Meets The regular monthly meeting of the school board will be held tonight at the home of President 8. Chase Coale on Worthington Ridge. Rou- tine matters are to be brought un. Reports of the attendance and other matiers incident to fchool opening| will be made. Real Estate News Mary #. Coakley and James F. Coakley has sold the old Coakley Windsor. The property is on street and measures 60 by 3 The decd Was filed with Town Clerk Arthur Woodruff. Another deed concerning the| transfer of property of Walter E. Hart of Berlin to Lawrence C. Por- ter of Cedar Grove, N. J., was filed with Town Clerk Woodruff today. Marriage License Issucd Town Clerk Arthur Woodruft to- 1y issued a marriage license to Fred Wilson and Mrs. Lillian Gardi- ner, both colored, of Clayworth Brick Co. Negotiating For' Game Rev. Vernon L. Philips is negotiat- ing for a game for the Triangles which is to be played tomorrow aft- ernoon. Although he has not re- ceived word from a Waterbury team which he has in mind he will have a decision from its management in time to inform the members by tele- phone tonight. Marriage At Community H Miss th Westman of 120 Franklin square and Carl E. Ander- son of Collinsville will be married tomorrow afternoon at Community hall. Mr. Anderson is well known in Collinsville and Miss Westman is a member of one of New Britain's well known familics. She is em- ployed at the Stanley Works. Church School Outing The church school of the Ken- sington Congregational chirch will hold an outing on the Benedict- Phillips recreation field tomorrow afternoon. A ball game will be OUR BIG MID-SUMMER FUR SALE. "T MIS! .. $24850 ., $435.00 | be servea at 4: played and it is expected to be called about 2:30 o'clock. The smal- .. $4350 w0 918750 w $1250.00 ler children will games, A dog and corn roast picnic sup- per together with all the fixings will o'clock. All who attend will be treated to ic cream at the expense of the school. The | church school will reopen Sunday, | September 9, after o period of in- activity during the sumnrer. Rally | day will be observed and classes | will be reorganized. Pegonals Mr. and Mrs, George Senning of Kensington have returned from Hampton Beach, N. Y., where they spent several days. r Mr. and Mrs, Ernest W. Mildrum of ast Berlin and Miss Ruth Ga'- pin of Worthington ridge are Narragansett Picr for a short ti Miss Virginia Sngenhime is enter- taining Miss A Fitsgibbons Middletown at her home on Wilcox avenue, Patsy Sisti, owner of the A. E.| F. barber shop in Kensington, has | received a letter from his lLrother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jo- scph Bisti who are in Italy. They | left for Rome where they will try | to\gain an audience with the Pope. | They expect to visit Paris before they return home. Miss Helen Hodgson, daughter of Dr. T. C. Hodgson and Mrs, Hodg- son of Worthington ridge has enter- «d Meriden High school where she expects to complete her studies She was in the Senior High school in| New Britain last year. Miss Bessie Wilcox of New York | has returned to her home after | spending & vacation with her cousin, | Miss Elizabeth P. Wilson of Worth- | ington ridge. East Berlin Items farewell surprise party was | honor of Miss Virginia be entered with | A given in Walsh last evening at Community hall by more than 50 friends. There | was an interesting and enjoyable | of games and novelty Miss Walsh was presepted with a gift, the presentation being made by Miss Betty Pratt. Refresh- ments were served, Friends were present from Hartford, New Britain, | Middletown, Cromwell, East Hamp- ton and Kensington. Miss Walsh loaves Monday for the Methodist hospital in Brooklyn to go Into raining. Miss Hope Demore is confined to her heme on Main strect by iliness. The Wesleyans of the Methodist church will hold a group birthday soctal and party In the soclal rooms of the church Monday evening Sep- tember 24. A supper will be served at 6:30 o'clock. All members whose Lirthdays fall within the mecond quarter of the year are invited to the event. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Carns are expected home today from Bridge- ton, N. J., where they have been h t | Charles A visiting relatives for the week. They will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Carna-and family, Miss Betty Pratt and a party of friends from Middletown will spend the week-gnd at Cornfield Point. The library will be open for . short time this evening for the ex- change of books. A winter of .activity is being planned for the Fife and Drum corps. The corps will participate in 2 few more outdoor events before the approach of winter. A prise contest is being arelnged the details of which will be announced after the next meeting. The Methodist church will hold a rehearsal in the church this eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock. The first fall meeting of the Parents-Teachers associatien will be held the latter part of the present month and will be in the nature of & reception to the teachers. There is one new member of the staff this year. The first whist party of the season will be held Monday evening at 8t. Gabriel's Episcopal church. R freshments will be served following the playing. The republican caucas will be held Monday evening at the Town hall. {| There is unusual interest in the cau- cas this year as thrce men are out for the position of selectman. Run- ning in opposition to Selectman George B. Carter are Leon Hall, and John Carbe. Sentiment here is largely in favor of the present in- cumbent. Mrs. Irene Archilli is improving after a serious operation performed at the Grace hospital in New Haven yesterda The trophy awards for the County Y tennis champlonships in the sin- gles and doubles tournament will he made in the near future. A special meeting is to be called of representa- tives of the contending areas and a banquet will be arranged according to a statement made this morning. The presentations to be made at this function. Night school, $6: day school. $15 a mon‘h. All books and supplie: free. Connecticut Business College, New Britain.—advt. FLIGHTS NEARLY OVER siust Start Soon if Westhound As Otherwise Weather Will Not Be Favorable, Bureau Announces. Parts. Sept. 7 (UP)—Any west- {bound transatlantic flight this ye must start within a week, the ernment metcorological service ported today. The announcement said that the westward flying season would end on September 15, after which al- most continuous contrary winds would be met by airplanes Final preparations were speed up hy several aviators, Diendonne Costes sald if he were unable to start before next W nesday he would postpone his at- tempt until #pring. Louis Couduret, gov- whose previous attempt lasted only 12 minutes, has | sent his plane to the factory overhauling. rt Acosta, who planned to fly across with Miss Mabel Boll, insist- ed he must awalt instructions trom Levine, owner of his plane, before starting. Levine is in mid-Atlantic on his way to New York, Jean Assolant and Rene Lefevre, whose flight ended at Casablanea, Morocco, will return from there and will be ordered on active duty with their regiment. for Prisoners and Deserter Are Captured Again New York. Sept. 7 (UP) — Two escaped army prisoners and a de. serter who tried to ald them in a get-away were again in detention today and recovering from exposure suffered when a canoe in which the escape was undertaken turned over off Coney Island. Jack McKenzie and Raymond Bow, the prisoners, slipped off of the army transport Grantupon the eve of its departure for California where they face sentences In the Alcatraz prison. Jack Russell pro- vided a canoe as the means of es- cape. After the craft upset the three men were in icy water for nine hours before they were rescued, resuscitated and taken to the disci- plinary barracks at Governor's Is- land, <PLAINVILLE® —TONIGHT— Set the World Talking “HALF A BRIDE" With Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper A Big show! ~SATURDAY— TIM McCOY In “RIDERS OF THE DARK" FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS " the glass Plainville News R, SIGRALLIGHTS BROKEN BY 4 BOYS Youngsters Pay lor Dangerous Practice—Others Stoned School DISCUSS SEWER QUESTION C. of C. Directors Also Hear Zonipg Rules Have Been Drafted—Wil- lam Leach Missing—Arrest Fol- low Accident—First Scout Meeting The dangerous “sport” of stoning and breaking the lenses in the signal lights along the Highland division of the New Haven rallroad brought four boys into the grasp of the law last night and the quartet were lucky to escape by the settlement of the damages out of court, Sylvester Zima of Forestville avenue ,father of three of the boys, also paid. for | depredations on railroaa property, being technically charged with tres- passing although he had taken three | railroad ties for use as veranda posts lon his home. Zima's charge was nolled upon paynment of costs, which came to $12.50. The railroad authorities {were extremely lenient with all five, | being content to receive compensa- [tion for the property stolen and broken. Zima settled for the ties by | paying & His sons and their | companion admitted breaking ten lenses in the signal lights and es- | caped by paying $7.50 without being brought into formal court. Justice William Cunningham was on the bench, and Grand Ju | Charles F. Conlon prosccuted. The {boys were traced and apprehendcd by Constable George Schubert., | Broke School Windows | The stoning of glass panes has Leconie epidemic here during the jpast wecks, and Constable Schubert has been busy with numerous com- | plaints. Beven boys ranging in age from 11 to 14 years were rounded |up by him yesterday for smashing windows and screens in the tool- liouse at the Linden street school. The breakage was done in August, but the matter was not brought to il attention of the school depart- :ent until Schubert notified Chair- | man Joseph T. McCarthy of the | #chool committee, | Schubert then ran down the group | of youngsters, who confessed. They said they had used stones ahout cight inches In diameter, and these huge missiles had not only broken and torn the screening | away but had also smashed in the | sushes of the windows, Superintendent Leon C. Staples s as lenient with this group as the ad was with the Zima boys, asking that the matter be kept ont of court. Iie agreed to take $1.75 |from the father of each boy, this Larely covering the cost of re- {placing the windows. Constahle | Sehubert will give the boys' parents | until the first of next week to reim- burse the school department. | Schubert has several further com- | Plaints of & stmilar nature, scores of ! panes in local factory windows hav- ing been smashed by accurately aiming young vandals during recent wee He is determined to stop the practice. Sewer Question Discussed The decade-old question of sewage {came before the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night and was given considerable discus- | sion after a report made by Chair- |man F. L. Benzon of the sewers and |sidewalks committee. Mr. Benzon said his committee had been work- |ing to determine the status of the | East Main and West Main atreets | sewer, which were installed in 1596 hut are now Inadequate for the load |they carry and would be useless in a latge system, the pipe being too small. Users of the present sewer | have believed that they might con- |tinue to use it if a general system were installed, but the chamber [ committee has learned that they ean be made to connect up with' the newer and better system, if and when laid. The present sewer em - ties into the Pequabuck river, an- other disadvantageous feature. as state laws now will not permit this stream pollution, The committee also reported it was working on the laying of more stdewalks along Broad street, where school children are forced to use the highway in rainy weather and have to dodge the numerous passing auto- mobiles, Draft Zoning Rules TLeon C. Rtaples reported that fhe public utilities committee had drafted a proposal for zoning the [town and had formulated rules and | restrictions on bufldings. The com- mittee has been held wp by the va- cation period, however, and it has w LET ME 7AKE A RIDE ON BEPPO,WILL Yo, FRECKLES 2 not met to take any definite action on this proposal. Douglas MacDonald, vice principal of the high school, was admitted to membership in the chamber. Wam of Fake Collector The merchants commiittee report- d the receipt of a warning from the Stgte Chamber of Commerce and passed along to both merchants and townspeople a message of cau- tion. A man named W. R. Osborne is said to be operating out of Hart- ford, posing as a collection agency. His practice is 1o sccure the task of collecting old bills for merchants and, atter a while, to decamp with as much of his collections as he can. Both merchants and public were advised to have nothing to do with collectors of this type. The public was again against house-to-house vendors being said that their “barg: were not all they appeared. Reappointed Traflic Ofticer David Kouffman has been reap- peointed traffic officer for the new school year and is again at hi at Broad and Whiting streets. Nu- {merous mothers have brought thelr jchildren down to this dangerous in- tersection to help them eross the highway and Kauffman is anxiou: to |save them this inconvenience spreading the knowledge that he is again at his post to watch out for the youngsters on their way to and from school. Boy Scout Meting A mecting of Boy Scout Troop 1 will be held at the Plainville M E, church at 7:30 o'clock this evening. As it is the first one of the season, all members are urged to be pres- ent. warned it ns" Legion Outing Members of the local America Legion post and ausiliary unit invited to attend the first outin and field day to be held tomoryow at the Legion forest in B isted. Fleld sports will be enjoyed during the afternoon, starting at 3 | o'clock. A basket lunch will be eat- en at & o'clock. The regular mecting of Brock | Barnes unit will be held at § o'clock | Tuesday night in Legion hall Arrested After Accident George Florio of 77 Booth street, { New Britain, driver of a truck own- ed by the National Sausage Co. of w Britaln, was arrested about 30 o'clock this morning hy Traffic Officer David Kauffman and Con- able George Kchubert on a charge of reckless driving. The arrest followed a collision at the corner of Whiting and Rroad streets at 6:40 o'clock when 17l | truck hit a_car owned and drgen by Clifton Johnson of Whiting street. the highway it could he ¥lorio was in the middle of the road when the cars came together. Johnson told the policemen that he was proceeding east on Whiting sireet and started to tun into Broad street. He made a wide turn to give Florio, who was coming up Broad street towards Whiting ~len | of room, whea Florio's truck struck the left rear fender on Florio claimed that he was well over to the curb, but the marks of the wheel tracks showed othcrwise, the officers thought. After an inves- tigation, Florio was ordered to Ipear in the town court Monday | night before Justice William Cun- ningham. Willlam Leach Missing William H. Leach of West Main strect has been missing for two days, | Constable George Schubert was noti- fied last nieht, and the information was relayed to the New Britain po- lice, as it was though Leach might have gone to a place in that city. Leach is 59 years of age, is 5 feet, 11 inches in height, and has gray hair, a mustache, and brown eyes | He left home wearing a blue suit and very narrow shoes. Just hefore he disappeared he had received a check. Notes Mrs. H. J. Sticher has returned to her home in Moorastown, N. J £pending the week with her mother, Mrs. Lindsay, and her sister, Mrs. H. B. Weldon of Mountain View The South Ends will meot at Hart's corner at 2 o'clock totaorrow |afternoon for the first foothall gath- |ering of the season. Al of last year's men and any new candidates who wish to try out arc askad to re- port. Betty Parkinson of Rroad has accepted a position as telephone operator at the Walla Bar | Corp. in Bristol. { Mis. A A. MacLeod and a group |of friends left today for a trip to | northern Massachusctis and New Hampshire, | The tase of Donald Fresman of Whiting street, who figured in an automobile accident a fortnight ago, | will be heard in court tonight, hav- ing been postponed when it came np originally. The stewardess bo | deemer's A. M. E hold a lawn party and social this levening at the home of Mrs Anthony Campbell of Hart's cor 23 Hough strect—4 room tene- | ment for gent. Mrs. Allderige street e of the Re- n church will vt Night achool. $6: day school, $15 |2 month. AN hooks and suppli i free. Connecticut Business Colloge. New Britain.—advt. Tag Gets a Ride You KEEP richam- | From the wheel tracks on | seen that | his car. | atter | os | VES TCAR=TELL AIM T 60 NOW, Bristol News BOY, IS VICTIN OF TRAGIC DEATH (Jugular Vein Cut While Listen- ing to Phonograph | WHOLE FAMILY IS PRESENT Bristol Delegates At Democratic Conmvention—Elks to Hold Clam Bake On Sept. 23—Teams to Play For City Championship. Mystery surrounds the deuth of Eugene Johnson, five-year-old son {of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Johnsor of 94 Valley strect, who died at th Bristol hospital lust night from wound in his throat. Medical aminer lice offic u who investigated the death, believe that the injury was caused by a sharp tool which had 1 left on top of a record which was being played on a phonograph. The boy's father was endeavoring to repair an old phonograph in his home and had succeeded in getting the machine to operate satisfac- torily. Members of the family were interested onlookers, Eugene stand- |ing a few fect away from the ma- chine. A few minutes later the father, hearing a peculiar noise from Eugene’s lips, turned to find the boy slumped in a chair with blood streaming from his throat. He at | tempted, with the aid of other mem- bers of the household, to stop the | flow of blood while awaiting the ar- |rival of Dr. Paul A. Park. The | physician, upon arrival, noted the | boy's jugular vein had been cut and ‘)w rushed him to the Bristol hos- | pital. The youth died shortly after val at the Dr. Arthur medical cxaminer for Bristol, was then called in, and pronounced it a case of accidental death. The wound in |the boy's neck was a ragged one, sueh as would have been made by a tool. A search of the room, how- cver, falled to reveal the weapon which caused the fatal injury. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were prostrated by the accident. Funeral |arrangements had not bheen com- pleted this morning. To Attend Convention Local delegates, who will the democratic state which opens in New Haven this eve- | ning. include Joseph K. Dutton, chairman of the democratic town commlittee; John Donnelly, Robert Callaghan, Charity Commissloner Willizm 1. Smithwick, {1ey. James Jennings, Council ar £ attend n Willism A, Hayes, Thomas P. | O'Brien, and Hilary 8. Driscoll. ANl of the delegates are uninstructed. Firemen's Outing The annual outing of the reguiar and volunteer fire departments will e held at Lake Compounce tomor- |row atternoon. In the morning the I hoard of fire commisstoners will ‘in- | spect the varions firehouses in the city. A barbey dinner will be served at 1:30 p. m. and in the | afternoon there will be a program of £po Funcral of Mrs. Minnie Whelan The funeral of Mrs. Minnie Whe- lan of 49 Morriman street was held |at St. Joseph’s church at 8 o'clock this morning. Rev. Oliver T. Mag- quiem and hurial was in the old §t. Joseph's cemetery. P. 0. S. of A. Mecting A mecting of Camp No. 16, P. O. of A. will be held at 8 o'clock this evening in Arcanum hall. 1. 0. 0. F. Meeting Stephen Terry lodge, 1. 0. 0, F., at § o'clock this evening in Stephen Terry hall. Building Permits A building permit was issued yes- terday by Works Oscar Anderson to Adelard Chahot to crect a three story house on Locust street to cost $12.000. A permit was also issued to the Standard Oil company of New York |0 erect A sign at §8 Riverside av- enue to cost $100. | ks Clambake | At a meeting of the Bristol lodge of Elkn last evening, it was decided to hold the annual clambake for {members at Judd's Bungalow on | Fall Mountain at 11 a. m,, ay | September 23 After the bake, & ball game between the married and |single members of the lodge \\uke place. will Attachment Filed An attachment for $750 in favor |of Anthony H. Kaschak. local rcal estate man, and against Ralvatore Monello, was filed yesterday in the office of the city clerk. The wnt, {which is returnable in the court of |common plcas at Hartford in Oc- 1 Ex- | rthur 8. Brackett and po- | convention, | Michael Reil- | nell celebrated the high mass of re- | | will hold its regular weekly meeting | Superintendent of Public | s played at Mussy next afternoon between the New ture nine and the Maple End Arrangements for the series complcted en Thursday afterneen a meeting attendpd by Raymend Casey for the Maple Ends and J seph Carroll. All three games will be Muzzy fleld because of accommodations. Reeel, divided on & basis ef 69 per oomt the winners and 40 per ceat teo losers. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 10 RESUME ACTIVITIES Traic Men Wil Meet Tomighter Sccretary 10 be Guest 8¢ Governors' Lanchean, The executive committes of the fic bureau of the chamber of commerce will meet this evening té plan a docket for the next regular meeting of the bureau. The buresu will meet Monday evening at 6:18 o'clock at the Burritt hotel. Thursday forenoon at 10 e'eleck | the directors of the Mercantile | bureau ‘will meet. Becretary Ralph H. Benson has | recelved an invitation from Governer | Iruller of Massachusetts to attend & {luncheon Monday, Beptember 1Y, 88 Governor Fuller's guest. It will be the occasion of Governors' day at the Eastern States expoaition at Springficld when all New England governors are expected to be pres. | ent, The recent questionnaire the subject of permanent Saturday night | closing will be discussed at the mer- cantile meeting Thursday, PROMISES THIRTY YOTES Grandmother Brings to Neevet Headquarters List of Relatives Who Favor Californian Washington, Eept. 7 UP—An cighty year old Florida grandmother brought to republican headquarters today a promise of thirty votes for Herbert Hoover among her children grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She is Mra. Jessle 8, Goode, eof Melbourne, and she said 52 yoars of tcpuplican campalgning in that state had not discouraged hee. In uddition she told them a son-in-law, normally a demeerat, would support the republican tieket. Mrs. Goode was one of & number of republican women workers who submitted optimistic reports te the Hoover nanagers. Democratic as well as republican farm and rural women in Tennessee and South Da- | kota ' were described actively working for Hoover by ‘Mrs. Beulah 0. Hughes and Mrs. Paul E. Rew. { man, republican national eommit. | teewomen for the two states, “I can speak for the garmers’ wives,” said Mrs. Hughes. ‘“They | want education for their children |and the highest possible standard of livihg intheir homes, and they will vote for Hoover because they be- lieve he will put the farmers on their feet.” “Democratic as well as republican women are working for Hoover throughout South Dakota,” said Mrs. Rewman, ‘because their faith {in his ability -outweighs their inter. | est in any campaign issue.” State Police Asked to Hunt for Seminarians Northfield, Mass., Sept. 7 (P— te police at Shelburne Falls were asked today to search for twe girls |who disappeared from Neorthfield |seminary on Wednesday night. The |giria are Marian Mullen, 18, of Brooklyn, and Mary Shatleigh, 14, of Buffalo. \ They were roommates last year but were assigned to different der- mitories upon their arrival at the {school for the fall term on Tuesday. They were seén leaving the campus |together on Wednesday night dress- led in everyday clothes. The Mullen girl was wearing & -reen trench |coat and her companion & blue raincoat. Bchool authorities said they did {not believe the girls met with foul |play but were staying away trem |the achool on a lark. It was learn- led that the girls had net returned to their homes. The police have been given complete descriptions of the girls. sl KILLS MOSQUITOES New York, Sept. T (UP)—Desth sentence has been pronounced and nightly is being carried out by elec- |trocution at the home of Mrs. Gone- ‘vieve Williams at Whitestone, L. I. Bhe has installed an electric ray, invented by L. A. La Costs eof | Cleveland, which draws the meosqui- toes within its range and thea Rille them. A suction fan gathers up the |dead mosquitoes. One night's execution was ene quart of mosquitoes. VALOW IS WAAT YoU SAY

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