New Britain herald., 1927-09-19

supervision of DR., Cyril II. Haas who
was sent out by the board in 1910.
Before the war the hospital served
200 men and $50 women patients
yearly, with about 3,40Q patients
cared for in the dispensary.
In 1915 the work was taken over
by the Turkish government but DR..
Haas and the American missionary
head nurse were kept in charge.
Four years later the Near East Re-
lief took over this hospital but in
1921 it came back again to the d.
rect care of the American board.
The year just passed showed rec
ord Of 525 patients; 1857 new dis
pensary visitors and q total OF H.
4S9 treatments. The majority OF
these thus ministered to were Turks
from villages. OF which there are
$50 near Adana alone. The village
sick OF these many small towns are
the people most neglected under or
binary circumstances and the help
of the hospital is greatly appreciat-
ed by them. Miss Honiss's first fur
Tough will come due In 1884.
Vacuum Cleaner Stolen
Local police were notified by a
New Britain vacuum cleaner sales
man Saturday that cleaner which
he had left in his car while he
called on client In kansington had
been stolen. The robbery occurred
in Kensington In daylight and con-
siderable mystery surrounds the cir
cumstances. The police are puzzled
as to how the heavy vacuum cleaner
could have been lifted out OF the
car, which was parked on a main
street and carried away without
some pedestrian having seen the
theft.
Sportsmen's Licenses
Town Clerk Arthur L. Woodruff
today reported that the years total
Of fishing and hunting licenses re-
suited as follows: II hunting IL
censes; IS fishing licenses and II
combination hunting and fishing IL
censes. The town clerk said that
the next two weeks would see big
advance in the~issue Of hunting IL
censes, the game season opening on
October 1.
Realty Transactions
The Bodwell Realty Co. OF New
Britain has sold to Augusta NJ. Ehr-
Ter, lots 103 and 1o4 located at the
Berlin fair ground property.
The Bodwell Realty Co. has sold
lot 81 at the fair ground subdi-
vision to Amelia Fenske. Other
sales OF the company include lot IS
to Frank and Mary E. Parkinson,
and lots At, 4s and 200 to John l..
Larson and August Swenson. All
the deeds covering the transactions
were received by Town Clerk Wood
ruff today.
Field Day Successful
A large crowd was present at the
Community field day
which was held at Benedict-Phillips
recreation field Saturday afternoon
and evening. Races. games and
baseball constituted the afternoons
sports and a roast corn and hot
dog" supper was served at $50
o'clock. Representative Claude w.
Stevens spoke briefly on his Euro
ended with a large bonfire at
relics. The days celebration was
pean trip and exhibited several war
o'clock The recreational program
of the Kensington Congregational
church received the proceeds which
were gratifying to the committee in
charge.
Mrs. Cynythia A. Woodward
The funeral of Mrs. Cynthia A.
Woodward of oxford, Mass, for
mer resident of Berlin, was held
yesterday afternoon at her home in
Oxford. Burial took place this after
noon at about 2:30 O'Clock in the
Maple cemetery, Berlin. Several
local residents attended the funeral
in Oxford and the committal serv-
ices at the grave this afternoon
were largely attended by former
friends of Mrs. Woodward.
Sclectman's Meeting
The regular weekly meeting Of the
board of selectmen will be held this
evening at s o'clock in the office Of
the town clerk at the Town hall.
Routine business will betra n "a cted