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- CHURCH ANNOUNCE MENTS II
CONGREGATIONAL.
CONGREGATIONAL. C0NGREGATIUNAlA
First Congregational Church
REV. JAMES L. GORDON, D. D., Minister.
REV. WILMER P. JOHNSTON, Assistant.
QUESTION DRAWER

VOESllON DNAWEN
DR.. Gordon will conduct
a Question Drawer on
Thursday evening. Octo-
Der 3, at 8 o'clock, and
will answer the following
questions:
1. Is there not danger IN sending
rich men to the Senate?
2. Will the war end this year?
3. How can young women receive
their friends in homes where
there are no parlors?
4. Should a dentist reveal the Sc
crets Of the dental chair?
5. Is hate ever justffiable?
6. What is the Spanish influenza
Z. II coffee is injurious, why doei
nature supply the bean?
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Dr.Gordon's Subjects:
Sunday, IL AM,
"Who Is Henry Ford?"
Sunday, 8 PM,
"Number 600" Rev.,
1918 1.-THE Kaiser
In Prophecy"
10th and G NV.

Great "Endeavor" Meeting at
$50 Sunday Evening.
E@Printed notes of DR.. Cor
don's sermon on Roosevelt and
the Kaiser" will be distributed
THE CHURCH OF
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8. What is your impression of the SUNDAY
evangelistic campaign-six months after.
8. Will not the imitation of prices and cost Of
labor precipitate a crisis?
10. Does good man need to be converted?
II. Are the morals of young women properly
protected in war time?
Il. Is it Christian to hold "sittings" whel
folks are standing?
10. When will Washington be normal again7
THE STRANGER.
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Church of the Epiphany at, q ss ST.

Church of the Epiphany i = ss St.
REV. RANDOLPH H. McKIM, D. D., Rector.
Rev. Percy Foster Hall. Assistant Minister.
Services: and II am. and pm.
The rector will preach morning and evening.
At IL am, subject,
.SOME MORAL GAINS BY THE WAR"
A. 0 p "CHR1sT's LOVING CALL"
Organ recital, 7:30 pm.
DAILY intercession for wartime, II m.
RED CROSS AUX, Mon, Tues, Wed,
Thurs.-9:30-2. "
SOCIAL GATHERINGS.
For men in uniform and all war work
ers. We'd, PM Song service and social
hour, Friday, pm. Music, games, refresh
ments, Sat-, 7:45 pm. Weekly entertain
ment and dance for men in uniform.
A HEARTY WELCOME FOR ALL.
Sunday schools and Bible classes reopen
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SPIRITUALISTS.

SOCIETY TEMPLE HALI.-MAETING 507 G.
St NV, this Sunday evening at 8 O'Clock.
Rev. G. Lyal Arthan. noted platform and
test medium. gives short lecture on Spirit
ualism and its philosophy. Much time given
to spirit messages. Concludes service by an
studios in the Hail.
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Church of the Covenant,

18th and n Sta.
ND ruapIEs woOD MINISTER
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER %.
OAK Evervpir,,s Bible class Miss Mabel
Thurston, teacher. Subject: "A
Girls Own Faith
1000 All-Comers' Bible class. jadge WIN: !.
Norris. speaker. Subject: The
Teacher and the Book
100 Regular service Dr. s Wood preae Sess
or Subject: Some Responsible
ties and Privileges Of Today"
$40 c. E. .'Tea Supper" Free to all men
in uniform.
7:15 War speaker Mrs. Vernon Kellogg. in
charge of special relief work in Bel
GUM Topic: 'Belgium's Message
to America
7:45 Preliminary musical service.
500 Regular service. DR.. Wood breaches
Subject ''Certainties in Religion.
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(.+~.1 (soUTHERN ASSEMBLY,.
NS1llId1 18th and Irving SITS. NV.
Rev. JAMES II. TAYLOR, d. D. Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at II am. 8. s.:
$50 am. Bible cls ises, $3.50 am. Social
hour for all young people and men IN uni
form & pm. c. E., pm. Address by Mr..
Ralph c. Norton, recently returned from Bel
GUM trenches, at pm. Address to young
people by Mrs. Norton, pm. The public
10 invited
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PRESBYTERIAN.

THE NORTONS.
MR.. AND MRS. RALPH C. NORTON
OF the British Allied Soldiers Evangellstlc
CORPS will speak tomorrow of their remark
able work in the Belgian Army, at the FOL
lowing times and places:
II 90 AM
MRS. NORTON,
Fourth Presbyterian Church,
18th AND FAIRMONT.
MR.. NORTON,
Luther Memorial Church,
14th AND N NV.
800 PM
MRS. NORTON,
New York Ave. Presbyterian.
MR.. NORTON,
Central Presbyterian Church.
THEY HAVE LATELY BEEN RECEIVED
BY THE KING AND QUEEN-OF BELGIUM
AND WILL TELL THE STORY OF TH l11is
THRILLING EXPERIENCES At III
FRONT, WHERE THEY ANNEXED AN
ENTIRE DIVISION OF THE BELGIAN
ARMY,
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Emmanuel Baptist c 1s'h ST.. AN AND
nev. COVE GRIFFITH JOHNSON, D. D..
Pastor.
mn. RALLY SUNDAY,
9:3O-Bible School Rally.
STH fen sI NEW d Pss to p breaches r. on
o:V-Community Rally. Sermon on ''WAR
AND SIN" Song service led by MI.
Percy s. Foster - i
GOOLYoung Peoples Rally.
Temple Baptist ion = a ma, s s.s; NV:
Preaching. II am, "Vaiuing Citizensbin ;,
eop Pm The Wronsness of wrong Bible
ssa1o, y;so am. c. E.. Z pm. Strangers
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MRS. ROTH,
sEANcE, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, SPIN.
Advice daily. 1917 o St NV
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL.

'The Gift of the South to the National CAPITAL"
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CONGREGATIONAL.
EPISCOPAL,

THE CHURCH OF THE STRANGER.
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r. Z. METHODIST EPISCOPAL
TANNING CHURCH-sth and SITS. NV.
LuCIUS C, CLARK, D. D.. Pastor.
HOO a.m.-Holy COMMUNION. ,,, ovrp
GEN. ALLENBY'S GREAT VIC
TORY BATTLEFIELD IN PAL
ESTINE.'
a.30 am-Sunday school.
700 pm-Epworth League.
900 Neutrality-suspicious. hour.
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Unity Spiritualist Church

Concordia Hall. Sth and f SITS. NV. 80 =. a.
Lecture and spirit messages by Dr. Zsida
Brown Hates. This church Is auxiliary to
the national association. All searciiers of
truth invited. Seats free.
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IEIInl6B SUNDAY. 1:10 Pm, "JESUs
Esaehtng e IAfs Als md Hl1eafhe." We'd
nao6ay, n an, 1hdtnG Hem Center. -
Cumbefl1nd, Apt Is. All welcome, 1882
Mass. ave. All welcome.
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First PRESBYTERIAN Church

John Marshall place-h st. NV.
One and half squares north of Penna. ave.
REV JSO. BRITAIN CLARK, DID,, Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor, morning at IL;
evening at g. Special welcome to soldiers at
the Y. p. g. C. E. services at Z.
Seats free. ACQUISITIONS provided in sew
eral pews for deaf persons,
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Gunton- T emple e streets '4 na,t HSD R
REV. DOUGLAS PUTNAM BRINE. u. y.
9:45 a.m.-Sunday school.
IL 100 a.m.-Worship and sermon.
Thursday, Pm, services in the church.
STRANGERS WELCOME.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-20

ton of every man is noted up to date Where a man is sick or wounded and the orderly has no record of his whereabouts, mail for him is endorsed "sick" or wounded" giving the date. The letter then goes to the central post office at Tours which is furnished by the hospital with the names of all those under treatment, identified by the designation of the unit to which they belong. The central office is in formed also of every remoNel of a soldier from one hospital to another when in hospital long enough to es- tablish an address. A perfect card system is employed to keep track of all who are in hospitals, and there is no delay in the delivery of mail unless it is that of a wounded soldier in transit or so slightly wounded as to be discharged before a letter could reach him.
 The central office at Tours is in the same building and associated with the central record division of the adju- tant generals office where is kept d card-indeX record, up to date, of the whereabouts of eN cry man in the scr vice, whether fighting at the front, on detached duty or in the hospital or wherever ne may De. The mODlle post offices which arc in charge of twenty seven men, the equivalent to d post office for 30,000 people, keep right along with the troops and the mail for each company is received with the rations at the kitchen and distributed at the company headquarters by the mail orderly. The postal service ex- tends right into the fighting trenches. The central post office at Tours is clearing house for any mail that can not be disposed of promptly. One hundred and fifty men arc employed constantly for nothing but search of addresses, and the superintendent of this office is furnished daily with a record of the location of troops.
 It is estimated that a million let ters per day arrive in France for members of the American Expedition ary Forces. There is also a large volume of mail for soldiers-ahout d third as much as that from home mailed locally in France. In dispatch ing mail from the United States letters
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would be some further delay, but in none of these cases is the delay great. The hospital authorities are required to notify central post office as well as his company commander imme- diately on the arrival of the soldier there for treatment. and mail is sent to him at once. There is no delay whatever in mail sent home by or for the wounded man. It is only that addressed to him that may be slightly delayed prior to his permanent loca- ton.
 Only two causes of delay have oC- cured at the port of authorization in this country. One is the posting of tho letter just too late to make the transport, when l week might pass before another sailing. The remedy for this does not lie with the postal service. The other is the 1imita- tons placed upon ocean trapsporta- ton facilities and lack of information as 10 the destination of the ships. Un- less the military port officer at the American port of authorization knows that an outgoing steamer is to land at a French port organized 10 handle tho mail it cannot be sent by this 5I6t1lIGl, tLS SDG lllS It pc DOullu 1Of a port where there is no American post office and no postal employees to handle the mail. This difficulty has just been cured by a War De- partment order which directs that this information be furnished the mili- tary post officer.
 One of the most puzzling things to the public has been the frequent occurrence, both as to mail delivered in France and mail received in this country, of letter of later date being received before one mailed per haps a week or more earlier One explanation of this is that the post master at the port of embarkatlon has been assigned by the war department a, definite limited space for mail, and when the amount of mail has eN- ceeded this, the excess has had to he held over until the next steamer. If there were, say, two thousand bags ready for shipment and the post master was notified that only eight hundred bags could be handled the
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surplus, twelve hundred bags, would have to lie over, being included in the mail accommodating for the next steamer. Such an excess of mail might occur several times and some of the bags missing the first mail might also be among those left over from the second. This situation will be remedied by an order from the war department that, upon proper notice in advance from the postal officer at the port of authorization as to the number of sacks to be handled, the entire volume shall be cleaned up at each sailing.
 The possible delay that would be unavoidable, though unusual, in the transportation of letter from New York to a divisional post office at the front in France might be q days-one day in distributing in New York ; seven days on account of just missing a boat; three days on account of shortage of freight cars for carload transportation from the port of de- barkation in France; seven days on account of secret troop movements. and, in case of severe fighting, a hold up of trains carrying mail of perhaps three days. This exceptional delay would increase the normal time of from two to three weeks for the de- livery of mail, to from five to six weeks Normally it takes from two to three days to deliver letter at the front after it's arrival at a French port.
 Delay that has occurred in the de- livery in the United States of soldiers letters mailed in France is sometimes due in a slight extent to the censor ship. Usually the delay from this cause is not great, but there have been cases. under exceptional circum- stances. where it has been as much as three weeks. A cause of delays in mail coming this way is that the civilian postal officials to whom this mail is delivered at the French nort have had but one port of embarlzation for all mail. The dispatching of mail is therefore limited to the sailing lime of steamers from that port, whereas steamers are sailing from other ports which also might carry mail. The
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ments in the United States to see that mail addressed to him at the canton ment is properly endorsed for for warding to France. It is equally inn portant for the soldier to notify his correspond ents immediately upon his assignment to a definite unit in France.
 Delays in the delivery of mail which cannot be avoided are liable to occur at any time during a period of great activity and secret movement of troops Where the success of a troop movement on the front depends upon secrecy mail cannot be sent to members of a mobile force until they are established at the selected desti- nation. Whatever delay is involved in this, whether 24 hours or several days, must be accepted as a military necessity The same is true when shipments cf supplies, munitions, fresh meat, etc, are such as to make an extraordinary demand upon trans ports Such delays, however, are but for d few days at most. When a divisional post office is moved in connection with a big troop movc- mont great secrecy has to be excrcis-
 
 authorities, is permitted concerning the secret troop movement until the troops haEo been located perma- nently enough to permit sending of mail Under these conditions a weeks delay ir the delivery of mail is possible.
 Every care is taken in expediting the mail for wounded men in hospi- tals. The only delay in the delivery of such mail is that which is abso- lutely unavoidable. A wounded man may be sent from one hospital to an- other and even to several before reaching a permanent base hospital, and if detained a day of two at each of the hospitals through which he passes in transit his mail will be de- layed until he is at a hospital long enough for it to reach him. If he should be but slightly wounded, not being at the hospital long enough to get his mail, and then should he as signed to 9, neT organization, there
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reason for restriction to one port is that the military authorities regarded it as inadvisable to furnish the civilian postal authorities, to whom the mail is turned over at the port of em- barkation, with the sailing dates of vessels from other ports. This matter has been adjusted now so that the postal officials may take advantage of the opportunity afforded by sailings from other ports for the dispatch of mail.
 A complete postal system cores bonding to that in the United States is now in operation in France with a central post office located at Tours This service in France, except the dis tribution and dispatch of mails to the United States, is entirely under mili tary control. the director and assist ant directors being commissioned army officers and the entire force being d part of the military service.
 Nearly all of these officers and sol diers detailed to this work are men formerly employed in the postal ser vice of the United States, former rail- way mail clerks being employed in the handling of mail on postal trains, and others acting as distributors, etc. France IS divided lllLO LIlI6S pOSldl u1S- tricts, each district in charge of an army officer who was formerly a postal official; and these districts are under the supervision of the director a the central post office at Tours, Iieutanant Colonel T. D. Howe. Per manent post offices are established at numerous points, and mobile post offices are right at the front and move with a division to which they are at tached They are frequently under fire. The commanding officer of each company or military establishment is required to detail from his company mail orderly especially selected for the purpose of receiving 3nd handling mail Wherever possible man with former postal expereince is drawn from the ranks for this purpose. Every mail orderly is required to keep an accurate record of officers and men attached to or formerly attached to his unit and to keep record of changed addresses, 1hlS reoofd IS alphabetically arranged and the loca-
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are sent to certain ports and other classes of mail to another, so that ! letters may be in no way interfered with by mail of less importance. Warehouses have been built at ports of debarkation for sorting bags of mail as they are received from the United States. On approximately 1000 miles of railroads in France, American railway mail service is now in operation, and regular postal cars in charge of American soldiers acting as railway mail clerks are sent through form the port of debarkation daily to certain points where perma- nent post offices are esta blished. Sol diers in the military postal service have been placed at all important junction points on these lines to act as transfer clerks. When boats arrive, full carloads of bags of through mail made up in Chicago and New York addressed to companies and batteries arc sent to destinations in France in charge of a guard who returns to the port in about three days
 Under military control all changesa of mobile post offices are hasheG in code to the mail distributing points The frequent military necessity for withholding this information when 1nC SeTNlCC was under CIVIL control sometimes resulted in a delay of as much as three weeks, but with the in- formation immediately available as it now generally is to the military post offices, there is seldom occasion for delay A very material saving of time in the delivery of mail will be accomplished also by an order having the approval of General Pershiag un- der which the postal officers in masasss United States have been furnisheYGln. der the seal of absolute secrecy, with a directory of the location of ali troops in France and all who are ona way. With this information the pos. tai authorities will be able to distri bute and sack for delivery at its proper destination much mail which has heretofore gone in bulk havine to be sorted and distributed on it's arrival in France.
 It is believed that by making military information and military
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New Britain herald., 1918-09-20

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New Britain herald., 1918-09-20

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HIS, W hich Is woeful- H z8 Nnere are other reasons for
Evening star., 1918-08-01
Beautiful Fur Coats


In the August Sale at 2O%
BeloD Regular.
$3.50 Hudson Seal coats-Fu1l belted;
40 inches long; 7-inch collar: g. S201
pelts; 40 inches long: full belted: collar
II inches deep. August Sale S28(
Price, gov
$s75 Hudson Seal Coats inches
long; deep collar and cuffs Of <160
natural skunk Aug. Sale Price, %HoV
$500 Hudson Seal coats-3o inches
long; full beltea, collar and cuffs of
natural skunk. Aug. Sale S1An
Price. $67V
sl7s Leopard Cat coat-3o inches
long; belt and shawl collar; fiounce
sui.s s.1a pl,nsl Of nutria- AaE' $140
Sis Leopard Cat coat-2o inches
long; shawl collar: hounce cuffs of
Hudson Seal. Aug. Sale S1A0
Price, $ATV
s15o Natural MusIsrat Coat s12O
As in. long. Aug. Sale Price.
$18S MusIrat Coat-36 inches long;
taupe dyed; shawl collar and cuffs Of
dyed raccoon. Aug. Sale S1AQ
Price. VITO
sl7s Muskrat coat-40 inches $40
long. Aug. Sale Price,
S150 Musl<rat coat-30 inches long:
novelty spot style. Shawl collar ana
cuffs Of Hudson Seal Aug. Sale S120
Price, SASV
szzs Nutria coat-4O inches long
cuffs and sailor collar of Hudson e1pN
Seal Aug. Sale Price, SAoV
$3.50 Hudson Seal Coafs-30 inches
long: taupe squirrel collar and cuffs;
full belted. Aug. Sale <9OA
Price. $sVV
$1Ie Dyed Marmot Motor coats-40
inches long: shawl collar, cuffs and S22
belt. Aug. Sale Price, Soo
$500 Natural WalIaby coat-Shawl
collar and cuffs of black dyed raccoon
fur; full flare back, belted across e1en
front Aug. Sale Price, %AvV
Evening star., 1918-08-01
LEAGUE FOR MASONIC
WAR SERVICE FORMED
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED fteso.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, August L.
Subject to the approval OF tho war
Department and the sanction OF the
higher Masonic bodies Of the country,
the entire resources Of the Masonic
bodies throughout the world Will DC
used to assist soldiers and sailors dis
abled on the battlefelds Of Europe.
under u movement launched hero last
aight at meeting OF representatives
Of every branch of Masonry. The War
League for Masonic Service was ten
tatively formed.
The efforts of the fraternity would
be to assist disabled men in making
them self-sustaining before, during
or after vocational training given by
the government. Tentative plans
call for the use of Masonic employ
ment and research bureaus. hospitals
and buildings and funds. thus utiliz-
ing a complete organization whicn
would be ready at the first request
for help. n..
Masons in this country will be asked
to devote time and efforts In the
work. Details will be communicated
Immediately to branches throughout
the United States and Canada and
through their heads to affiliated bod
les in Europe.
A chain Of leagues would be formed
to which any enlisted man with hon
orable discharge can apply for en-
ployment commensurate with his
qualifications.
Ii sanctioned by the government.
representatives of the league may be
stationed in Europe, SO the benefit OF
the organization will begin as soon
as the man is discharged from the
hospital. No fees will be charged, the
funds to come from Masons. the gov
ernment or private subscription.
Evening star., 1918-08-01
AMERICAN BANKERS S LETTER
SHOWS RUSSIAN CONDITIONS

The Russian branch of tho Ma
the evacuation Of Petrograd, has
taken up temporary quarters At
V6logda-
On the stan Of the National City
Bank is John Fuller OF Indianapolis.
He has Just managed to get out .
letter to his father. who lives In
Washington. through tho agency of
a French ofiicer who left Russia by
way of Thurman. Mr.. Fuller. writing
late last May. gives q fair indication
Of affairs in vologda.
1.-THE Germans, through the agency
of the Finnish white, guards, are be-
coming active again." he says. The
Firms have cut US OF from Murman
by taking the way stations, and 1t
seems that they are cutting of the
way to ArchangeI. leaving us only
one way out II we have to leave for
Transsiberia, and this will be denied
US IL they isolate Petrograd:
Representatives of all the allied
countries are huddled up here
French, English. Italian. Siamese,
Chinese. Japanese, Belgian-most OF
them living in their own cars at the
tion of the town.
"Burri Of the Y. M. c. A. was taken
over by the consulate at Moscow this
week. On the other hand, many Of
our. chaps who were employed at
Petrograd, Moscow. Vologda and
other points in Russia have gone
into Y. NJ c. A.. work to be useful.
"This organization has been God
send in time of trouble. In all the
turmoil and doubt and fear and riot
the 'Y' goes on about its business of
being the good American samaritan
to all who need help, SO that one
takes the added pride in being an
American.
"Somc of us thought we were work.