New Britain herald., 1926-01-09

By The Associated Press Moscow--Russlan girls are wear ing skirts that look like Scotch kilties, in length, The high cost of dress material Is given as ono req son. Whether there are two others Is not stated,
 Chicago --- American girls think legs were meant to be seen and so they are going 10 follow the Paris mode and wear skirts three inches shorter in the spring the National Shoe Retailer Association has been informed, No forecast las been given as 10 summer
 Dundee -- Use of intoEicHnts as civic functions has been prohibited by the town council following the examples Of Glasgow and Aberdeen.
 New York-Pussyfoot Johnson, back from abroad. is going 10 at tend a sudden death dinner on the anniversary of the dawn of prohbi- ton. King Alcohol will be given mock funeral.
 Rheims have invaded an immense champagne cellar, but the damage is much less than when the Germans and Tanks made wartime invasion. Now the bottles only need relabelllng.
 New York--Only two Of seven houses build by Vanderbilts in the heart of Fifth avenue are left in the hands of the family. The buyer of two of them is Benjamin Winter, who immigrated from Poland 20 years ago. One Of his purchases is opposite and the other next door to the scene Of the recent Vanderbilt wedding which Mrs, Irving Berlin did not attend.
 Indtanapols-Pie crusts on dining cars must be kept an inch apart with filling, the Pennsylvania rail. road has decreed.
 New York -- There's hope for white collar employees Of railroads Wall street hears many of the large systems are blaming wage advances for clerks when earnings justify.
 Leningrad -- 4 nifty Bolshevik compliment has failed to register in Persia. A match was substituted for a sword in the Persian coat of arms on match boxes. The entire ship ment has been returned.
 pallas--The stag line is to be abolished at sorority dances. The pan-hellenic congress has decided to curtail the number of unpartner- cd males at such affairs.
 Cambridge, Mass. Bootleggers have been so busy visiting Harvard dormitories that hereafter they are u bS al EDbCl lOl U
 New York--An uncle of the pres ident. pr. C. W. Coolidge of Bristol, N. H., has won a third prize at a poultry show. The breed was Plymouth Rock, of course.
 New Haven-Yale university in- lited to send swimming team to Honolulu this summer.
 Milford-Thomas II. Hope, 93, artist and musician, dies in Devon home.
 New Haven-James r. Boozang, 75, who as a messenger boy in Washington, conveyed news of Lin- coln's assassination to various news papers. dead.
 New Haven-Sixty candidates for Yale freshman hockey team report at Woodbridge rink.
 New Haven-Sale of Semon ice cream plant to Eastern Dairies, Inc completed.
 New Haven-Fire Marshal NJ. j. Flemlng places Adaskin company fire loss at sS5.000 in revised esti- mates
 stamford-Ten members of police force called as witnesses in trial o! 90 men on gambling charges.
 Middletown --- William C, Kupfer of Durham, arrested in connection with death Of Joseph Skibo, hit by one automobile and run over by an other.
 Stamford-Thomas Kelly in hos pital after reporting that holdur men beat him over head and robbed him.
 Rockville-Chamber of Commerce urges retention of American Express agency in Rockville, which is expect cd to be discontinued
 Hartford-MerFer of R. c. Bent and Company of Hartford and Denis O'Brien and Sons of Niddletown building contrasting firms announc. cd.
 Hartford--Su7remc court of error, hears three cases. g eases taken uI in four day session.
 Norwich --- JosanA Res 'te. 7n missing after fro destroys home ot