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New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
CANADIANS TAKE TRAVELLERS
Win Village and Prepare To Hold It
 Under Attack

With the Canadian Forces in France, Aug. 15. CBy the Canadian Press) s)-The Canadians captured the village of Parvillers today in an op- eration which enabled them to straightcn out their line in that sec tor. A number of machine guns and prisoners were taken. The latest re- port was that our troops were holding the village and endorsements have gone in there in support against the strong post the enemy has in the Vi cinity.
 Enemy artillery activity indicates a stiffening of resistance Hostile air craft have been considerably strength ened in the whole of this -Amiens- Montdidier front.
 Some 34 enemy divisions have been engaged, including Il fresh divisions and two tired divisions from the enemy reserve. The enemy has used up every battalion of two of the four divisions holding his line in front of the Canadians, those be- ing the 79th and the l18th.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
Hun Artillery Strafes British.

With the British Army in Framed Aug 16. (By the Associated Press 10:30 a. m.-The enemy artillery wal active last night from one end of thI British front to the other. The ad tivity was especially marked along th| Somme battle front in the Essarts secI tor and in the region of La Bassee, od the northern front, where there wal heavy gas bombardment. TherI was no development of activity 'by thu enemy infantry anywhere, however
 All along the Somme front the Brit ish are continuing slight forward movem ents to gain advantages of DO. siti@n. It was in movements of thi. kind that Dammery and Parvillers came yesterday into British hands.
 The situation north of the Ancre has not yet clarified, the enemy's in tentions being obscure. There are no further reports of widespread withdrawals in this region, although the enemy seems to have abandoned several of his small forward positions. On the other hand, British patrols that crossed the Ancre last night were fired upon and forced to return,
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
French Surrounding Rove,

Paris, Aug. 16.-Roye is being held in a Eise-llke grip by the French. Stubborn resistance by the Germans is being crushed by the French, who slowly are encircling the town.
 The French advance at Villers-lns- Rove makes the fall of Rove inevit- able it IS believed by military men. FoSSeSSloh of the town by French troops would make necessary a rec tification of the German lines ana .1n enemy retreat to the Nesle- -Noyon would be probable
 me Germans are clinging desper- ately to range of hills east of Rit,a court They also are stubbornlv de- lending the Lassigny- Disc canal inc loss of which would entail the evscI,- ation of Noyon.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16

of his fighting spirit He enlisted July 21, 1917, in Company l. He has brother William in one of the machine gun companies. They are sons of MT. and Mrs. Eugene Jones'
 Private William Anderson of Com pany l. 102d is another casualty. He was severely wounded in action on July 22." Private Anderson is I9 years old having been born March 10, 1899. He is the son of MT. and Mrs. Magnus Anderson of 369 Main street. He enlisted February -, 1917. At that time he was employed at Lan- der5, t'rary * Clark's.
 Corp. Daniel II. Reurdon of 392 Park street was slightly wounded i'll action" on July s. His. mother. Mrs. Howard MulOncy of 392 Park street is in receipt of g letter in which Corp. Reardon describes his wounds lie was struck with shrapnCI
 Private Edmund Toomey was a victim of mustard gas Today his parents, Mir. and Mr.. James J. Too mey of 10 Smith street. received a letter in which he told Of his casual
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New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
Offensive Passes From Kaiser

London, Aug. 15.-The withdra.w- als on the western front by the Ger mans in the past few days it is be- heVed here, indicate the enemy in- tends to abandon the offensive.
 Military observers say there is every indication the Germans intend to stand on their present line. There is possibility, however, that they may fall back to the Divette, a small trib- utary of the Disc and which joins 1t south of Noyon. The French now hold all the high ground in that re- zion.
 It is said the British are so close to Chaulnes that the enemy cannot use the town. Almost all the rail conn munications in the Peronne region have been rendered useless by the AL lies.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
Coal for New England.

Washington, Aug. 16.---In the cam paign to speed up movement of coal to New England to meet the prOspec- tive shortage next winter, the shipping board today began issuing semi-Week- ly announcements of port perform ances. Norfolk and Newport News for the half week ending August 12 led among loading ports, handling 12 ships at an average of 34 hours and A minutes in port. The average in port of T ships unloading at Boston, was 116 hours and 20 minutes.
 Production Managers Named.
 The fuel administration announced today the appointment of 2S produce ton managers, one for each of the coal producing districts of the Coun- try.
 Each manager will have charge of the campaign for increased production in his dictrict and to him the produc- ton committees being formed at the majority of the bituminOus mines will report. Each production committee will consist of six members three rep resentng the mine management and three representing the workers.
 In cases where a mine is failing to produce the maximum tonnage it will be up to the production committee to ascertain the cause and institute inn provement. Each week the committee will post a list of the names of the men who have been absent who have worked short hours or who have load ed less than a fair amount of coal and the reasons will be set forth as to whether in sach particular case the blame lies with the company or with the workers
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
COSSACkS HIT HARD
 ON DON RIVER BANK
Bitter Enemies Of Teutons Only
 Days March From Zaragin
REJECT BREST-LITOVSK PACT
Populace of Murman Coast Weeps in
 Joy at Arrival of British Forces BoIs1cviI<i Claim Victory in Ar
 chaneci Region Where Allies Are.

Amsterdam, Aug. 16.-The Don Cossacks have cleared the left bank of the Don of their opponents and are marching victoriously on Zaragin, from which they are only one days march distant, says an official state ment issued by, the Don Cossack staff and received here from Kiev.
 The newspapers at kiev report that the Cossacks from the northern Don region have entered the government of Veronesh.
 dispatch to the Cologne Zeitung from Kiev says the Don and kuban governments and the leaders in the adjoining regions have entered nego- tiations looking to the establishment of joint central government
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
British Greeted With Tears of Joy.

London, Aug. 16.--The population Of the Murmansk region received with joy the British force that landed there recently, according to an Al lied diplomat. who has arrived in London from Petrograd
 "Old men and women wept with tears of joy, crying: At last Russia, win be saved. bel said. The peasants, Workmen and arstocracy know Germany is their enemy Many men in Petrograd who held high po- sitions in the old Russian army have told me that they know now that the only real friends of Russia are the AL lieS''
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
 1. F. $ C.
 5OO,d Receives OT 100000 A

Landers, Frary Ss Clark
 ceipt of two contracts for w
 ials and the aggregate valil9
 is reported to be in the neis bl of half a million dollars bnl tract calls for the manutacH 500,000 bayonets and the 0theN 2,O00,000 army mess knives. prices for the knives is 10A each, the lowest the governmea ever obtained.
 Work on these contracts w done in the local plant and also tMeriden Cutlery branch, which recently purchased by Landers, & Clark when it appeared that contract would be placed witt New Britain firm.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
PORTA MISSING
He Gets New Furniture and Ships It Away With That of Young ScnctrO'S


 Numerous inquiries are being made as to the whereabouts Of Fred Porta, lately of Seymour avenue. The furniture firm of Siegel x Birnbaum want to know where he is so that they can recover some furniture they sold him or the price for the same. Constable George D. Stark has at tached wages due Porta. It is believed that POrta and Frank J. Senetro, who disappeared last week, worked on similar plans. Porta bought a, bill of furniture and it was delivered last week and the next day it was re- moved by an expressman and freight ed out of town. Shipment was made from the Newington freight yard Porta left a lot of used house fur nshings in his house on Seymour avenue.
 According to report Senetro got bill of groceries to the value of $38.31 the day before he disappeared and the eatables were shipped away with the furniture.
 Porta is q father-in-law of Sene- tro.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
ROIShcyiki Claim Victory

London. NUS. 16.-Tho Bolshevik government in an official statement claims the capture Of positions in the -Archangel district where there are Allied troops, and says their adver- saries have abandoned the fighting near Omega. according to Reuter- dispatch from Moscow.
 A series of successes, which appar- entIy are of minor importance, also are claimed in operations against the CzechO-Slovaks.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16

probably the first New Britain soldier to be officially recorded as having been wounded on two different occasions.
 On May l. Mrs Mary Jones of 90 LaWlOr street received a telegram stat ing that it was then officially reported
 that her son was slightly wounded in action" on April p. That was the date of the Seicheprey fight. Yester- day Mrs. Jones received an official tel egram telling her that Private Jones was severely wounded in action, July P. The department has no further Private Jones, appar- ently made full recovery and lost none
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16

Washington, Aug. 16-The French mission, headed by Albert Metin, who died of apoplexy soon after. arriving at Pacific port last night. is en route to Australia to discuss war time ques- t1ons with officials there at the special invitation of the Australian govern ment. The visitors passed through Washington recently and during the long journey across the continent stopped at several middle western and western cities.
 When here M. Metin apparently was in robust health and officials of the French embassy and the French war missions were shocked by news of his death.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
SERVICES AT GRAVE
 OF LIEUT. ROOSEVELT
Bishop Brent and Rev Charles $. Mcfarland Of1ciate at Quen-
 tin's Resting Place.

Paris, Aug. Religious services beside the grave Of Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt, near the spot where he fell to his death in an air combat last month. were held here today by Bishop Brent, of the Protestant Epis- copal church, and the Rev. Charles $. Macfarland, Of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America
 Dispatches from the American Ifront during the advance to the Vesle reported that Lieut.. Roosevelt had been buried near Chamery. to the east of Eere- ep~Tard encis.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
CORP GARDNER C. WELD
 WAS WOUNDED IN HAND

In letters received today from Corp. Gardner C. Weld of the 101st Ma chine Gun Battalion, who was report ed severely wounded on July P, he tells of their going over the top and of his wound, He is at present in q base hospital receiving, as he says. the best and finest of care" The wound he received is in the hand, presumably the left one.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
SONietS NuZzle Telegraph.

London, Aug. 16.-The Soviet gov ernment, says a Russian wireless m essage, has issued an order that correspondence to foreign countries must not be accepted for some time to come except for the Ukraine and Germany localities in German occu- patton and for war prisoners"
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
ENCIR
 HUN BEIN0
ALBERT METIN DIES
 ON VISIT TO U. s. A.
Head of French Economic Missiur Suffers Stroke of Apoplcxy and
 Fails to Rally.

A Pacific Port, Aug. 16.-Albert Aletin, head of the French economic mission in the United States, former minister of labor in France and min ister of blockade, died here at mid night last night from a stroke of apOpleXy.
 M. Metin was stricken early in the evening, shortly after his arrival here with the mission of which Gen. Paul Gerald Pau, noted French military leader was joint head.
 Physicians who attended N Metin stscribed the stroke to exhaustion brought on by his journey to this city. He was found lying unconscious on the floor of his apartment. He died without regaining consciousness.
 Gen: Pau said the body would be returned to France at once for burial
 M. Metin, who was 49 years old, is survived by a widow and two small children, now in France.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
PLEASE SEND S1O"
Easy Money Artist Will Probably Run

tivitics.
 Disclosures through the medium of the Herald of the opera tions of some unknown easy money artist has re- suited in the presentation of the facts 10 the federal authorities. Today Po- lice Captain Thomas w. Grace was in consultation with department of jus tice men and he submitted the infor- nation at hand. Yesterday after noon Mrs. I. Kolodney of Broad street received a telegram from Hobo5en, N. J., containing a request to forward $10 by telegraph. Mrs. Kolodneys sons name was signed to the teie- gram.
 Apparently the sender of the tele- grams has a list of New Britain sol diers in the service and he is taking q chance by sending out the teIe- a lounger in the vicinity Of the port of authorization and he strikes up ac- Quantance with soldiers about to go across and obtains tho names in that way. Because rovcral instances of receipt of such telegrams have como to the notice Of the police it is be- lieved that the operator is getting a neat sum of money.
 In view of the fact that the gov has taken over the telegraph and telephone lines 1t is believed that the person carrying on this scheme can be prosecuted under a statute for fraudulent use of wires, just the same as if he were using the mails for that purpose.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
PLANE BANDS ON TRAIN.
 KILLS FOUR PASSENGER ERS.

Marseilles, France, Aug. 16 Clay -as)--An airplane returning from a flight because of engine trouble to- day fell upon tram car about to leave the station. Four persons ir the car were killed and several others injured. The two aviators in the ma chine were burned severely.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
N. B. TRUST ADMITTED
 TO RESERVE SYSTEM
Local Banking Institution Receives Official Notification of Action
 in Washington.

Washington, Aug. 16.-State insti- tutions admitted today to the federal reserve system include the following, with the resources of each:
 New Britain (Conn.) Trust com Dany, $G,186,0O0.
 Westfield (N. J) Trust company, $2.10O, 1000.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
Jones, Anderson, Reardon and
 Donovan Wounded in Action SECOND TIME FOR JONES
Anderson Only t9 Years Old but Puts Tp Nan-Sizr Batt1c-COrp. Reartion Hit with ShrapncI-Corp. Donovan's Nerves Affected

That Company E and I soldiers have been in the thick of the fighting in France and that they possess their full share of fighting spirit and pluck IS confirmed today. Private Eugene w. Jones of Company I, 102d Infantry is
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
FIRE DESTROYS WAR PLANTS.
Loss al Stoughton, Mass, Woolen Mills
 Estimated at $4OO,OOO.

Stoughton, Mass, Aug. 16.-Fire of undetermined origin today destroyed three of the mills of the French and Ward WOoIen CO. engaged on gov ernment work and a large stock of cloth for army uniforms.
 The loss vas estirnated at 500, 900.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
JOffc Leaves For Berlin.

Amsterdam, Aug. 16.-Adolph Jof- fe, the Russian am ba ssador to Berlin has left Moscow and was expected to arrive in Berlin Thursday. according to the VoSsische Zeitung of Berlin.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16
Enemy Leaving Lys Salient.

London, Thursday, Aug. 15.-Fu ther slight enemy withdrawals frol the Lys salient were announced London today. The enemy has evaol ated the village of Vieux Berquil south of Morris, and has retired bd tween one and two miles on a fror of nine miles.
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16

\ communication was received from Washington today by officials of the New Britain Trust company containing the information that that institution has qualified for adnis- system
New Britain herald., 1918-08-16

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New Britain herald., 1918-08-16

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
LATE STATE NEWS

Miss Stella Durham of Windsor, who
was thought to have been fatally injured
in an automobile accident has been pro-
nounced out of danger at the Caremont,
N. H., hospital. One arm had to be
amputated, as it vas torn from the socket
in the accident.
While working in the upright moulder
in the casket shop in Lunenburg last
week, Abby Parker had his left hand
badly aceerated, so that all the fingers
and thumb had to be amputated, leaving
only the palm of the hand. He has a
wife and two little daughters.
Ebert S. Brigham, state commissioner
of agriculture, has been appointed a
member of the standing committee on
bovine tuberculosis eradication of the
United States Livestock association, be-
ing the only member appointed from
New England. The association has it's
headquarters in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gildea of Keene,
n. H., 20and IS. were convicted in Bel
lows Falls last week of shopifting and
were sentenced 70 five months ia the
house of correction. 1t was June 10 that
the Gildeas came to Bellows Falls and
stole articles alleged. Last March they
were convicted of similar offense in
the R. H. White and Filene stores in
Boston and were on probation.
Seymour brothers job printing estab-
lishment in Middlebury has been con-
solidated with the Middlebury Register
and the two concerns will hereafter be
carried on under one management. The
Seymours learned their trade in The
Register office and we've employed there
many years. Nelson Seymour was for
years foreman of The Register Job office
and Edward Seymour was at one time
manager and editor of The Register.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
CELEBRATE THE FOURTH.
Vermont Committee of Public
Safety Asks it.

The council of national defense re-
quests the state and district committees
of public safety in this state and county
unities of the Woman's committee, TO
make plans now for the proper observ-
ance of the 4th of July, which will in
clude every member of every community
in the state!
America is for the first time fighting
shoulder to shoulder with nations of Eu-
rope and Asia in the cause of liberty
and justice and it is fitting that our day
of independence should be made day
for the expression of the unity of pur-
pose which is welding nations together
in the present struggle.
Our citizens of foreign extraction have
petitioned the president for an oppor-
tunity to manifest on the 4th of July
their loyalty to the United States and
he cause for which it is fighting. In
reponse to this petition the president
asks all citizens of Amer ca to join with
them in commemorating this as univer-
sal not only to national freedom but of
universal freedom. The council of ma
tional defense urge that each district
committee in this state provide for cell
ebration on the 4th of July which will
fulfill this purpose.
In recent letter President Wilson
states:
81 would say that 1 should be very
sorry to see the 4th of July celebrations
omitted this year Of all years, but at the
same time l think they should take the
simplest and most dignified form and
it would be in the public interest and
eminently in good taste to make them
as inexpensive as possible"
As these holidays can be properly and
fittingly observed without use of fire
works, and as fire preventative meas.
ure and in the interests of our govern.
ment, this day should be observed with
out the use of fireworks.
Each district committee should take
upon itself the responsibility of arrang-
ing for the observance of the 4th of July
as suggested.
Leighton p. Slack, chairman.
Joseph @. brown, secretary.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
Funeral of George w. Harlow

The funeral of George W. Harlow was
held Wednesday afternoon at his home
on Harlow hill. The service was con-
Quoted by the Rev. Lemuel Davis ct
Derby, who officiated at the funeral OF
Mrs. Harlow in January. 1915, when Mr..
Davis was pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church in Stowe. The bearers
were three sons of the deceased, Earl c.,
Herbert E., and Lewis j. Harlow, and
grandson, Roy b. Robinson of the military
mechanics school at Burlington, Mem
bers of H. II. Smith Post and Woman's
Relief Corps, G. A. R., were among
those present. Among the floral tributes
a beautiful wreath of Easter lilies and
smilax was from che neighbors of Stowe
Forks, spray of carnations from the
Women's Relief Corps, so carnations the
number of Mr. Harlow's years from the
family. The burial was in the West
Branch cemetery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
coconuts Make Good Mock pe,rIs

The coconuts of the Malay PENN.
sula sometimes produce pearls that
are highly priced by the natives, says
the Family Herald. The stones are
not unlike the pearls Of the mollusks,
and are similar in composition to the
oyster pearls, having calcium carbon
ate and a little organic matter.
The mollusk pearl comes into exist
ence by the efforts Of the oyster to dis
pose of irritating particles that have
entered the shell; but the coconut
could have no cause for producing
these concretions, which, while they
have great similarity to pearl are not
pearls. These concretions form Just
beneath the stem, and a pure white
pearl brings a high price, as IL is sup
posed by the natives to possess some
kind OF a charm. Cases have been
known where the coconut pearl has
been sold as a mOllusk product but
such instances are rare.