New Britain herald., 1918-02-21

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 Eggs at Six Cents a Dozen and Com- Ilete Chicken Dinner For Sixty Five Cents.
 During the past few days a drive for the sale of Thrift stamps has been conducted in the local schools in charge of Principal Q. l.. Judd and some of the teachers of the school. The drive was held in tho schools only and the stamps were bought up by the children attending the different grades The total amount of stamps sold was 34S all of which were bought by the children and the pupils of Miss Bab- cocks room have the honor of being the purchasers of the largest amount of stamps, for any of the individual rooms. A campaign was started back as far as January &, nd since that time the local schools have purchased a total of 95S stamps, which has ncttcd the sum of S240.76. About 23 per cent of the pupils own one or more of the Thrift stamps, while d total of 29 pupils own one Or more of the War Savings certificates which have been purchased with their own money.
 Beginning next week a drive will be made for selling mem berships in the Junior Red Cross society, which are to be sold to the pupils at the rate of 25 cents each The town of Plain vile is working along with New Bri- tain. N'ewington and Berlin in this drive and the schools of these places are working as one unit as an auxil- liary to the General Red Cross society. The amount of money which the Plainville schools have been called upon to raise is $50 and it will be used largely for purchasing materials for doing work of different kinds in the Junior Red Cross. The money is to be raised partly by contributions and by the giving of entertainments possibly. The Junior Red Cross will be doing work for the General Red Cross society and will be able to assist the society in many ways.
 The pupils of Miss Babcock's room held # food and home made candy sale in their room at 3:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon the proceeds from which are to be used for Junior Red Cross work. The sale was one at which the public was invited in order 10 help the school raise the desired amount of money
 The local schools closed last night and will remain closed until Monday, February 25. Today is the annual visiting day for the local school teachers and tomorrow Washington's birthday at which all the schools throughout the state are closed. The schools have been able to get along far this winter as concerns the coal situation and no time has been lost for this reason, and unless bad weather sets in there is no douht as to the possib bility of keeping the schools open until the regular Easter vaca- ton, Mumps is raging in the schools and has lessened the attendance to g. great extent.
 Letter From Wallace Becl<with
 A letter has been received by Mrs George Beckwith of West Main street from her son Wallace, a sailor on the U. $. $. Bushnell, off the coast of France. The letter reads as follows:
 'U. s. S. Bushnell,
 Jan. i, 1918. Dear Mother:
 Yesterday I wrote you and father a postal in a rather hasty way for I expected there was mail steamer leaving for the states but she has not sailed yet so I am going to write you letter and tell you all that I am all lowed to. We do not have to pay postage on first class mail now. It certainly is a good idea only that we do not have chance enough to do very much writing. It has been forty days since we have heard from the states and you can't ina zine how much I have longed to hear from you, We may be in a bad place but don't 1 worry, the U-boats are more afraid of us than we are of them. The cost l of living is very cheap in this place. ! At least it seems so to us, but I SUD- pose the people here think different, 1 Eggs are only six cents a dozen and | l don't think the lahorers get more |; than fifty cents a day The soldiers ] in this country get only two and a l half cents a day beside their board. !
 We get liberty once or twice a l week and I want to tell you about l the meals we get ashore. They do 1 Tot have restaurants like the Y. <. : but everybody sits at one table and 1 eats all he wishes and when he gets 1 thrnuGh he gets up and someone else ! takes his place. l went into iL place on Sunday night and this is what I l had: First, four plates were set in [ front of me and some chicken stew was brought in one a big turecn. There ! were about ten CT us at this one ta ble and they kept bringing 1 chicken stew until every one had all {! they wanted. When they took that plate away fried chicken was brought Dr. '. Ridgway Johnson