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Clinton.—The annual roll call of the Congregational church will be held at the church parlors Dec. 30. Wallingford—The annual inspection of the state property at the Company i K armory will take place Monday af- ! ternoon, Feb. 14, Middletown.—Major Edward T. Ly- ons,“siate treasurer of the A. O. H., and well known in this city, is to spend some time in the south. Waterbury.—Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson of James street wore at home to friends on their golden wedding anniversary. Watertown.—The Christmas tree ex- ercises will be held Christmas night, when the community tree will be set up on the Watertown Athletic associa- tion fleld. Collinsville~ “The report of G. F. Sutherland, the official tester of the Connecticut Herd Inepection associa- tion, No. 6, for the second month of tne associstion has been issued. Essex--The 14th annual meeting of the Past Masters' association of the Seventh Masonic district will be held at Mount Olive lodge, No. 32, A. F. and A. M., Saturday, Jan. 1, 1916. Hartford—Miss Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, will be the chief speaker at a meeting to be held by the army at the Majestic theatre Sunday afternoon, Jan. 9. Hartford—Judge L. P. Waldo Mar- vin announced yesterday that the din- ner of the Yale Alumni association of Hartford, of which he is president, will be Neld at the Hartford club Feb. 11 Bristol.—Malcolm G. Humphreys, or- ganist and choirmaster of All Saints’ church, Waterbury, has accepted an offer from Trinity Episcopal church, Bristol, and he will begin his duties there Ieb. 1. Suffield—Rev. E. Campion Acheson, suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, was at St. Paul's mission, Windsor Locks, Sunday morning, and at Calvary church, Suffield, in the evening. Hartford—Willlam B. Edwards of this city has made the suggestion that 100,000 “colored people of the United States contribute $1 each _toward a fund to make secure the work which was founded by Dr. Booker T. Wash- ington. Hartford.—After a search of 31 years, the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company has located a lost beneficiary, a widow, missing to the company since 1884, in the little town of Coldwater, Miss, and has paid her surance the under her husband's Local society was deeply interested Monday night in the wedding of Dr. Clifton Mather Cooley, one of the city’s leading physicians, and Miss Ethel Woodruff Stone, daugh- ter of Mrs. Alice Woodruff Stone, of No. 51 Walnut street. Several hundred guests were in attendance. Haddam.—The Haddam Road school district took steps last week for the collection of the tax of six mills laid at the meeting last fall. This is the first tax laid in the district in_20 years and will yield about $200. The money will be used to repair and paint the schoolhouse on the Haddam road. Hartford—The will of Eliza T. Smith, widow of Charles Boardman Smith, one of the founders of the Smith-Worthington company, which was filed recently in the probate court, shows that about $21,000 was bequeathed to Hartford charities and philanthropic institutions. Bristol.—Elmer E. Neal of Bristol has been engaged as works manager of the new Marlin Arms corporation of New Haven, which is said to have a $10,000,000 contract with the British government to make machine gun parts. Mr. Neal was formerly super- intendent of the New Departure Man- ufacturing company. Waterbury.—Michael Enright of 1092 South Main street, who shipped from Quebec, Canada, last October on board YOU HAVE USE FOR A RESIDENCE TELEPHONE O you want your grocer, your butcher, your baker or your doctor? All of them have telephones—many of them several lines—because the most convenient way for you to buy is by telephone. N case of illness, fire, or any of those domestic emergencies against which you can never fully protect yourself, a telephone provides you’wit.h the quickest means of obtaining' help. In addition to its emergency value the telephone is a source of comfort and conyenience to the entire household. The Southern New England Telephone Company the steamer Virginia with a cargo of horses for the allies, is dead. His death occurred from illness in _St. Nazalre, France, last month, and En- right's wife was informed of this Sat- urday by letter. Torrington. — Several Torrington clergymen attended the meeting of the Torrington-Winsted Ministers' associa- tion held In the First Congregational church, Winsted, Monday morning. Rev. E. W. Snow, pastor of the Second Congregational church, Winsted, read an essay on The Modern Challenge of the World to Christianity. Neéw Haven.—The next meeting of the New Haven eection, Council of Jewish Women, will be held in Temple Mishkan Israel at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, Jan. 3. The speaker of the afternoon will be Dr. Stephen J. Ma- her. His subject will be Sunlight in the Home. There will be a paper on Orthodox Jewish Customs at Death by Mrs. Email Mendel. BAKER'S CHOP HOUSE, LONDON, IS TO CLOSE. Oldest and Best Known of London, Dec. 21 existence of more than two centuries, Bakers chop house in Change _Alley, just around the corner from the Royal Ex- change and the Bank of England, is to close. The lease has expired, and the oldest and best known of the old Lon- don eating houses to keep to its tradi- tions passes away this week. Baker's ls quite as picturesque as Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, but, uniike the Cheese, which has for some years been a mere show place for tourists, it_has kept its old-time. atmosphere. No records seem to exist to show the year when Baker's came into being, but it was probably built soon after the great fire of 1666. Tradition says the original Baker had formerly been head-waiter at Lloyd's coffee house, near by, which later developed Into the marine insurance institution known as Lloyd's. In the days of the South Sea Bubble, Baker's was thronged with speculators, as Change Alley was then the very center of stock trading i London. Another distinction of Baker's is that it was within its rooms that the Lon- don_Missionary society was conceived. In November, 1794, a body of eminent non-conformist clergymen met at Ba- ker’s, where, according to a temporary record, they “united in prayer and de- liberation on behalf of millions of their race suffering from sin and debased by idolotry.” The upshot was the forma- tion of the greatest of the British for- eign missionary eocleties. Perhaps 150: years have passed, since 2 mmeber of the Baker family has been an owner. But the successive proprie- tors adhered to the old-fashioned rooms and old-fashioned English wait- ers. The ground floor specialized in chops and steaks, cooked on the open grill near by, and the joint, steak, pud- ding or Irish stew were the features of the upper floor. Baker’s has -always been faithful to willow ware and pew- ter., Old customers also_observed. the historic tip of a penny to the waiter and a_penny to the cook; to leave more branded the giver as an inter- loper, and his extra _pennies, while pocketed,” did not gain him any special attention. Speaking of Preparedn In lieu of cloture in the Senate the Democrats are at liberty to adopt gas masks.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. - | WHAT NAVY MUST ggfi_flii ‘Washington, Dec. 21.—The American navy should be ‘“equal to the. most powerful maintained by any other ma- tion of the world” not later than 1925 in the opinion of the navy general board headed by Admiral Dewey. The annual report of the board, made public tonight, discloses that this naval policy was formulated by the body in July last in answer to the fol- lowing _ propositions propounded by Secretary Daniels when the adminis- tration reached its decision to enter upon a campaign of national prepared- ness: “What the navy must be In the fu- ture in order to sand upon an equal- ity with the most efficient and most practically serviceable.” The board’s conclusions follow: “The navy of the = United States should ultimately be equal % the most powerful maintained by any other na- tion of the world. It should be grad- ually increased to this polnt by such a rate of development year hy year as may be permitted by the facilities of the country, but the ‘limit above “de: fined should be attained not later than 1925 At the same time the -board -present- ed a building program for 1917 in compliance with the secretary’s request for “a program formulated in the most definite terms, planned for a consistent and progressive development of (his great defensive arm of the nation.” Details of the board’s reply are not revealed, as subsequently in October of this year the secretary zsked the board to prepare “a building program for the navy that will continue over a period of five vears with an expen- diture of about $100,000.000 each yegr for five years on new construction only.” The administration plan for the construction of sixteen capital ships within five years is founded on the board’s answer. - At the same time the board again developed its idea of the place the American navy should hold in the world—in the following language: Convincing Reasons from Present War. The general board believes that the course of the present war in Europe affords convincing reasons for modify- ing the opinion which it has express- cd for the past 11 < to che proper size of the navy. A navy in firm control of, the seas the out- is the prime to actual fense funct inv from invasion cf the nav s det#chments our a sufficiently stion of our from in previous consider si present due el strances tes. Our t to give on board's proposal that seven of the s teen new ships. f superdread- naughts and three battle cruisers, be authorized in 1916. Secretsry Daniels recommended conzress, how to ever, that only two dreadnaughts and two battle cruisers be authorized at this time. Under the baard's plan th total expendituge for the fi cluding 00,000 for the aviation ser- vice and $11.000,000 for reserve ammu- nition and material would be $499,- 876,000, the last prepriations for which would be made i ; the sec- retary’s recommendations call for a total” expenditure of the last appropriations sho: eing for 1921, and increases being made over the board's estimates for submarines Navy General Board Decides It Should Ultimately. be Equal to the Most Powerful Maintained by Any Other Nation _in the World, and That Rate of Development Year by Year Should be Such That the Standard tained Not Later Than 1925, Would be At- 4 and. reserve ammunition., The board program contemplates the buflding of thirteen fleet auxiliariés while the sec. retary recommends only six. The bogrd highly corameénds the pro- posal to establish a continuing dbulld- ing policy for the navy, sa: it wi stabilize the warship buil indus- try in the country anA tend to reduce contract prices, for new ships. The board reviews'fhe course pf ‘the Buropean war so far as it inyolved nayal actionis, to reach this conclusion: ‘As to types of ships, the battleship is still the principal reliance of navies, as it has-been in the past.” Because of the great naval super- fority of the entente allies, the report says, their control of the . seas has ever been seriously chall and ‘they have securely held the objec- tive of all naval effort.” Naval war- fare has been confined, by reason of this superiority, it states, to “a_double series of minor incidents.” In the first group it places German commerce raiders “which have finally been des- troved or driven frém the seas by systematic pursuit,” and in the sec- ond, the activities of German-subma- rines, first against allied warships, where the “high score obtained” is as- serted to have been due to surprise attack, not to “inherent combatant superiority,” and second. against mercial vessels of the allies. .Of this campaign the report say: Submarine Form of Attack. fter six months of war the sub- arine form of attack drew renewed attention by its direction against hos- tile commerce. American public at- tention was redoubled toward thié side of the war owing to the humanitarian interests_involved, and to the Aipio- matic questions which —were raised thereby. To hastily formed public oninfon, it seemed that submarines were accomplishing zreat military re- because little else of importance ccurred in the maritime war to at- tract public attention. Yet at the pres- ent time. when the allies have fearned in great measure how to protect their commerce, they learned a feow montt ¢ to . protect their avies from the submarine menace, it rent that the submarine is not rument fitted to dominate naval wre. It appears from British re- turns that the first eizht months of t submarine rfare against Pritish mmerce resulted nt vessels ‘and 1 Fritish merchant tonnage lost tly in exeess of one-half : the total loss under all flags 000 tons. In the same otal arrivals and depart- sh ports averaged from to 1,400 per wee or nearly 50,- in all. Allied commerce is con- tinuing under a loss in no way vl “Tk ubmarine s a most useful whose importance - will- no 1crease, but at present there evidence that it will become su- the loss of 183 trawlers. The rs. The report discusses it length the on of battle druisers and ns for scouting Wwerk: but nst an exaggerated value d upon the battle crulse. tokes up the question of pe: nd finds that any smaller force 00 officers, 67.000 bluejackets 400 marines would be fnade~ te for the in 1917 even on a ~ footing. The ships then in com- eion and the shore statlons would minimum of 74700 bluefackets, ates, in time of war. Proper Flow of Promotion. Turning to the question of congested lower grades which confront navy of- ficers undef the present system, the board urges that congress establish the number of officers in any grade én the basis of the total number of offi- cers in the navy and not by providing for a fixed number in each grade ex cept the lower ones. Additianal legis. lation should be sought, it says, to se- cure a proper flow of prometion for all officers or the efficiency of the service nerally will suffer. BOY-ED AND VON PAPEN INTERESTED IN NEWSPAPER STORIES ABOUT THEMSELVES Captains Boy-Ed and Von Papen, former naval and military attaches of the German embassy in Washington, respectively, will sail for Germany via Tolland on Dec. 21 or 28, according to latest reports. In the meantime they .are Intensely interested in the the request by the United States.-In the picture, snapped in. New York. Captain Boy-Ed is seen devouring.a newspaper article accusing him’ of ob- taining a naval report intended. only for Ires:dent Wilson and- high ~ can .naval officiels.. - The, story later denied in Washington and.by: developments following their recall at'two German officers. ! Few Words - ~ That Mean Much Suggestions sure to bring pleasure to your friends if your purchases . -are made where your dollars will secure quality at small cost. 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