Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 23, 1918, Page 8

¥ T8 2 T bt YN i % - ul“‘:fl@ Py TR, B Any of Our Best WINTER COATS in store at $10.00 A Few LADIES’ and MISSES’ SUITS Sale Price $5.00 $5.98 WOOL:POPLIN and SERGE SKIRTS Sale Price $3.95 $1.98 and $2.98 VELVET SHAPES Sale Price 25¢ No Refunds ; INTEREST DEVELOPINL, IN ANNUAL DINNER Buccess of Event to Be Held By the Chamber of Commerce is Assured. In| keeping with the recommenda- Hdon of the National and State Coun- cils of Defense the Norwich Cham- ber of Commerce §s holding a patri- |02 otic dinner in place of the usual an- nual| banquet held in former -years The programme will ba purely one of | © o patriotic nature and the will be wholly along suc hlines. The committee in charge has been able AS IMPGRTANT A PURCHASE AS FURNITURE MUST BE RIGHT You live with your furniture, chief decoration of the home. right it is a constant source of pleasure and comfort, but if not of proper quality it disappoints you every day, Come in 2nd see how well we have pro*ected you as to quality. & BURKE FURNISHERS REMODELIN “ Starting Saturday, Feb. 23rd, at 8.30 AM WHILE WE ARE A LITTLE BIT UNTIDY ON ACCOUNT OF THE CARPENTERS WORKING, YDU HAVE TO EXCUSE THE WAY THE STORE LOOKS, BUT WE THINK YOU WILL ENJOY THE IM- PROVEMENTS AS WELL AS OURSELVES WHEN FINISHED. BUT TO MAKE OUR STOCK AS CLEAN AND AS NEW AS POSSIBLE FOR SPRING WE ARE _GOING TO MARK ALL OUR WINTER MERCHANDISE AT QUIGK-SELLING SALE PRICES. Any of Our Best SERGE DRESSES in store at $19.50 PARTY DRESSES Sale Price $10.00 $1.25 WOOL SCARF and TOQUE SETS 79c $2.98 and $3.50 CHILDREN’S TRIMMED| VELVET READY-TO- VELVET and FELT HATS 50c CHILDREN RIBBED VESTS " quantity limited $1.00 and $1.50 No Exchanges No Charges “The Store of Good Values” Here Are Some Wonderful Bargains For You Any of Our Best SILK DRESSES in store . $10.00 Some as low as $5.00 | Some as low as $5.00 | Some as low as $5.00 $5.00 and $5.98 GEORGETTE WAISTS in white and flesh color $1.39 jheld Friday afternoon with ms | Patriotic Thstructor Mabel®E. George Any of Our Best LADIES’ and * MISSES' SUITS in store at $10.00° $3.00 CREPE-DE- | CHINE and fine, sheer BATISTE WAISTS Sale Price $2.00 Special Values in - UNDERMUSLINS Skirts, Gowns, Drawers, Chemise, Etc. $4.00 and $5.00 TRIMMED VELVET WEAR HATS HATS 95¢ No Approvals B. GOTTHELF & CO. 94-100 Main Street, Norwich e a particularly strong aft- His Honor Mayor Aliyn L. ber of the War By ‘ouncol ! phasé of v Holmes, formerly ¥ Surry regiment Imperial Army, Yankee in tha Trenc] e gained !rom active ce covering o period of sixteon ‘o Ome liundrad and twent State Council of Defen whose special topic is tiia LEBANDN WAR BUREAU Has Received Supnly of Shipyard En- roliment Blanks. The Lebanon War Burcau of the Connecticut State Council of Defense | (Panning Hunting! has reccived a supply of enrollment blanks and enrollment pledge cards |} i ted States Shipyard Vol- |£ the: public service reserve. ureau also has corfiplete in- o formation concerning the cnroilment in I Men of all trades use- | in_shipbufiding are wanted. The Lebanon War Bureau 18 ready to zive sto information -10 - persons in- The office of (re war hu- s the local agency of the | olq State Council of Defens ¢ the residence of Kar] 1 *0WER CONSTRUCTION AND SUPPLY COMPANY ENGINEERS = Farm Credit Work. Connecticut is receiving considerable attention nationally as the resuit of the work on: farm credit which Pro- sor Guy €. Smith of the Connecti- cut Agricultural Ccilege has done qur- ing the past few months in coopera- tion with the committee of food sup- ply, Connecticut State Council of De- Mill Repair Work Promptly Attended to IFFICE, ROOM 112, THAYER BLDG. Norwich, Conn. ques- ay LW, for _t Miss M s, rd with deep | LOCAL WOMEN RAISE K| MONEY FOR WAR WORK. L Db Rave Received Acknowledgment of a Check for §$570. The committee bas given due con- A committee of sideration to the fact of its being Lent and has arrangey men from the local ‘council of defense¥has been in- meatiess menu ir | Strumental in raising’ a sum for the fund and has th has also heen re- The nun:ber 1¢ 1 v “them._from Thomas Motley, treasurer of this organiz: , commending splendid showing and thanking them A further 1 for New the sum oi canvass hasi.been made but the committee, com Rebekahs Appoint” Delegates to Stale Assembly—Daughters of . Held Regular Meeting—Other, Hap- penings of the Past Week. — | At thie reguldr medting of Hope Re- Bekar lodge, No. %1, L O. 0. F., held Wednesday evening in Odd Tellows' hall * with' 2 large number in attend- ance the regular order: of- business was transacted avd other matters dis- cussad. The' following délegates iwere appointed for the assembly- to be Jield at Winsted, Conmn:, on April 17, Mrs. Kate M. Tottey, Mrs. lda BEgeleston, Mrs. Tulu B. Paimer and Mrs Grace Willey. = The attindance at the meet- ing was large and following fie bus- iness session a social .wiist was en- joyed. RELIEF CORPS. The regular meeting -of Sedgwick Woman's Reltef corps, No: 16, attendance. The. president, Mrs, nie C. McKee, presided and the re- ports of the treasurer were read nnd accepted. Department general orders, No. 6, were read. ‘The chartsr of the corps has been draped. for Past. De- partment Treasurer Frances A Sacket. read a sketch from The Life of Wa. ington. The meeting closéd in usual form with the singing of:Am: ica and the salute to the flas. ; OWwLS. - The, regu\ar meeting of - Norwich nest,’ No. 1395, O. O. was ‘held ‘on Tuesday e\enlug in O hall with a large number in attendance. Vice President Avthur Alquist. presided in the absence of. the president, Thomas Dougherty. The committee in charge of the whist to be held on March 1, reported arrangements complete and @ large sale of tickets. ~ Other busi- mess was tranacted. FORESTERS. ; Court Sachem, 94, F. of 3. held their regular meeting on Thurs: - ening in_Fores hall with o jaree ber in attendance. The routine 0DD FELLOWS. The regular meeting of ~Shetucket, 1 s held Tuesday ev- tning _with ge number prase The routine business was transicted DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS. Clara Barten: Tent, No. 7, D. of. V. met at the Buckingham = Memorial Tuesday cvening at.7.30 o'clock ;and to order by the president, The. usual rou- iness was transacted. The vere elacted delegates to the department convention: First delegate, M. Florence Robb ccond delegate. o Willey, ernate, Louisa hd alternate, Lou sa At- ry. The meeting closed in_the | ual manner. ; SERGT. ARTHUR GIBBONS In Connecticn Wlth War Film to Be Shown at Benefit Performance. American to realize that this country is really engaged in the world war. This is but the nfilun’kl result of our being located 3,000 miles away .from the firing line. At the present time there is but one way for us to ob- tain a true realzation of the life our boys will soon be leading, and that.is to hear first rand the experiences of one who has faced the Germans across “No Man's Land” and has lv- ed the horrors ef this war day by day. om any interested person. HER SIXTH BIRTHDAY ' Miss Mary Sheridan Entertained Lit- tle Friends at Her Home. heautiful hmhdns glfts. Mherc were games indulged in. All were reluctant to depart. mmley is offered to Tearn ‘t... trade jn our able’ pay Pay ‘will ‘b8 given during the time of appronti The Boston Stofé THE REID & HUGHES CO, Wanted At Once VILLINERY MAKERS Experienced M| Millinery Makers Wanted at Once. Apply I . son at the Millinery Department. BRI N ALSO A GIRL TO LEARN THE TRADE SERGT. ARTHUR' GIBBONS The Connecticut State Couneil of De- fense considers itself -fortunate - in being able to present such a speaker, TO LECTURE TUESDAVl 1t is a difficult thing for the average fancy satins are their-latest. A Yard Wide—The Prices $1.75 and $2.25 THE ADVANCE SPRING MILLINERY PICTURESQUE SILK, SATIN AND STRAW HATS FOR EARLY WEAR Daintiness marks this new millinery—daintiness and a per- fection of style which cannot fail to impress. * The hats are simple in design but with an air of distinction which is cap- tivating. There are those made entirely of satin, some en- : tirely of straw and many cleverly constructed with a com- bination of these materials. Hats this Spring run from small to medium in size, there being a surprisingly large proportion of the medium sizes for the early season. YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THESE RIGHT NOW Sale of Undersilks and Undermuslins TCDAY IS THE LAST DAY Don’t let the cold winds convince you that there is no summer coming. It does seem improbable, but befqre you know it the filmy silks and muslins will be the Be one of the fortunate ones who have a complete i lhe person of Sergeant Arthur| the Davis. theatrs afternoon and evening, h. first of the .. | services to fall of 1914. He with Canada’s first - | heroteally fougnt. in m 100 At the Second Batti» _ | his company had. beer c {rounded by the Germa twice wounded, which resulter capture by the enemy .and his con finement as a prisoner of war at Gies- sen camp, Germany. The extrore de- privation. want and suffering Ser- geant Gibbons was forced -to endurr will be left to his own telling. 'rTh: verity of his wounds can o appreciated when it is realizod lhn( the Germans considered him »f no further use to England or to himsel? and so sent him home to die. With such a handicap it is indeed rernarka- ble that Sergeant Gibbons was able to outlive the inhuman_treatmenr. of h: German captors. How he Is still “do- ing his bit,” though Incapacitated. for further active service. can besi be appreciated by listening to his vivid story. Sergeant Gibbons will tell a wonderful story at the Davis theatre at the two o'clock matinee, and it the regular evening performar§ss at .45 And 8.30 next Tuesday. A war fi'm will be shown in cannec- tion with Sergeant Gibbons' talk. A machine gun battalion cqulpped with Lewis guns 1s shown in sham battle on a training field where all the tranches, bomb-proofs, dugouts and other devices of a modern battle- ground are reproduced in exact detail. The battle opens with part of tI battalion concealed in elaborate tre works and the rest hidden in cleverlv constructed barricades' and bomb- proofs. The men first go throngh the motlons of repelling an attack, then develop a counterattack. They meet their opponents with flre througi 'the trench loopHoles and from their homb- proofs, then surge out of their hid- ing places, charge across the apen ground and pick out shallow shell- holos and other places of gompara- tive safety where they lie stretched out In strategle positions from which they can pour streams of entiiading silk universal. most sought after garments. supply at the low sale prices. CORSET COVERS from___ ... 25¢ o § 1.98 DRAWERS, from . ENVELOPE CHEMISES from.__ 79¢c to $ 7.98 NIGHT ROBES from______.__ 50c LONG SKIRTS from _________ 50c to $10.98 ~* CAMISOLES from _______._. $1.50 to § 4.98 | (/ 7\ KNICKERBOCKERS from __ N | SPECIAL SHOWING OF DAINTY WHITE G0ODS é’g 2 AND THE NEW WAISTINGS . The New Season’s Featured Silks " BEAUTY AND UTILITY COMBINED WITH MODERATE PRICES Wewhtophcespeunlanphmuponfl:epredicuonthl! the plainer silks will lead in popularity. - There will, of - course, be some fancy stripes, plaids and figured silks for va- rious purposes, but the spirit of the times runs to plainness and simplicity. Our Spring Silks are arriving now every day, and we have a charming selection ready for your in- spection. ; PLAIN TAFFETAS, $1.50, $1.75 AND $2.00 A YARD These are all 35 inches wide and we have them in ail the desirable colors and in black. CREPE-DE-CHINE, $1.59 AND $1.79 A YARD - This weave is a hardy perennial, each year proving its claim to being the A large and interesting display of all street anc evening shades is made. The width is 40 inches. SATIN-DE-CHINE, $1.85 A YARD An extraordinary satin, rich in finish, with superb draping qualities, and free from all the adulterants which woaken ordirary satins. Twenty shades are included in our showing, the newer ones mouse, cornstalk, hunter, Persian, swallow, Hague, raspberry, amethyst and banana. This satin is a yard wide. SATIN STRIPE ARMURE, $2 50 A YARD This is a rich heavy silk with soft finish and a decided air of elegance. The color combinations are extremely effective comprising black with navy, black with purple, biack with green, black with Coperhagen, and biack with pea: ceck, The width is 35 inches. SATIN STRIPE TAFFETA, $2.50 A YARD Taffeta possesses an individuality positively unique. stituted for it. * Therefore thic beau tiful Striped Taffeta is a truly exclusive novelty. Al of the new color combinations are in our assortment. MESSALINE, $1.00, $1.50 AND $1.65 A YARD A favorite last season, a favorite the season before that, and a favorite this, a truly enviable popularity, There are three widths—26, 30 and 36-inch, and the colorings are of almost endless variety. At the prices marked you will find ‘it a good, sound investment. FANCY LINING SATINS FROM THE MILLS OF BELDING AND OF SKINNER Some of the prettiest, as well as the best lining satins are produced by these makers, and these new Saa- 3% being butter, saimon, lobster, There is no other silk weave which can be sub- 50c to $ 5.98 to § 1.98 to § 7.98 fire. The men in this attack leave the trenches in groups of thrse, one soldier operating_ the .machine ~ gun, another feeding the ammunition and the third acting s a reservist whose duty it: is, apparente, to take the place of Bfl.he'r of his comrades who may be disabled. One_highly interesting film _shows the Thirteenth Regiment of Engin- cers In'a sham battle where two bat- talions use those weirdest: weapons of modern warfare. poison gas and liqnid fire. The engineers, who have been organized and trained espectally for this kind of work, use gas masks in the sham battle, advance. behind smoke srceens, cut barbed wire bar- ricades while under fire and do many other tricks that are learned by the up-to-dave fighting man. Other army and marine corps scenes picture the soldiers in many different kinds of ‘land fighting as’ well as in The m:ns de- voted to. the ies of the navy are art as well instructive pictures of what the (nited Stutes is prepared to do on the sea. ~The navy reels of the speedy wasps reen at cea and submarines cruis- during maneuy- charge of ad- ission, but the proceeds will go to the war fund of the Conanecticut Council of Defense, under whose aus- pices the benefits are to be heid. The fund is to be used to help to pay Con- necticut's share of the cost of making the films. ‘There will be a speciai entertain- mient of war pictures only .for the school children at four o'clock on_next Tuesday. The- special price of admis- sinon for the children will be ten cents. Admission to the two c'eloci: matinee will be 17 cents and 11 cents and at the evening _entertainments will be 25 cents and 17 cents. May Lose Garden Supervisors Massachusetts and other surroun: ing states are liable to pick up a tho available garden supervisors this year before Conntcticut gets around to hit. any, according to Director 1. J. Baker of the extension service, Connecticu: Agricuitural College, Bar Meeting to Assign Jury Bulm’ts. A bar meeting for asSignment’ of further jury business will be held. at New London on Wednesday, Febriary 27, at 10 a. m. The next short calen- aar session will be heéld at New. Lon- don on Monday, March 4th, at 10 a. m.