New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1923, Page 11

I'rhe general store little e and wife, Judah Hart and wife, Elijah | With upwards of 200 having heen re. * moved by death and other causes, I ' [63TH ANNIVERSARY (Continued from Firat Page) Ce——— across the ‘ocean, although it Is whis- were inclined to be somewhat lukewarm in thelr attitude towards the welfare of pered, the supplicants ofttimes the King, All about were farms and forests. The General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut had just created the soclety or parish of New Britaly, Reo- ple were summoned to church by the; sound of a drum beat on the country voads and residents were taxed for the support of the church, \ 40 Houses in New Britain Within the limits of the parish ot New Britain were 40 scattered houses, & blacksmith shop, a tavern or two, n tannery and here and there a primi- 4Com- modious barns dotted the landscape and gave a scene of prosperity to the of a dwelling tive sawmill and grist mill, picture. A portion house served as a general store, Off to the north a cluster of houses was known as “Stanley Quarter.” To group Half a mile to the east was East street, then a rude country road, barery passable, e —— the southwest was another known as “Hart Quarter.” CREAM FOR CATARRH i "OPENS UP NOSTRILS Tells How To Get Quick Relief from Head-Colds, . It's Splendid! In one minute your clogged nos- trils_will open; the air passages of your head will clear and you breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, blowing, headache, dryness. No struggling for breath at- night, your cold or catarrh wiil be gone. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream b Balm from your druggist now. Apply school house on East street gave that | thoroughfare the dignity of being| called the center of the scattered | hamlet, | Main Street a Country Lane ' Bome dlstance to the west, situated | In what was almost a wilderness, one ! or two lsolated houses marked the| site of what today is the city's Main | street, At was In a military age when the | little parish was formed and the con- gregation consisted in a large part of | men with such titles as “captain," “colopel’ 'and the “train band for drill, and later they bade boodbye to their loved | ones at this same meeting house and nsigns” Holdiers of met at the church marches, and years can marched away to the tune of the fife! and drum to fight for freedom. Antedates Battlo of Lexington, | The country was indeed young| when the Iirst Eccleslastical Soclety | of New Britaln was formed, Five years before that date Braddock, in the wilds of Pennsylvania, went down to defeat and Washington won hiy fivst milltary laurels. Two or threc years afterwards, General Wolf cap- tured the province of Quebec and added another empire to the British | crown. Seventeen years to a day| after the meeting house opened, the battle of Lzxington was fought, and some of the same farmers who wor- skipped in this little building in' the woods, probably helped to fire the “shot heard 'round the world.” But Connecticut was doing its own governing, thus the legalizing of the soclety by the general assembly. The year the church was founded was the “factory age." Arkwright, Har- | greaves and Watt were busy in the mother country working on those re- markable inventions which years later harnessed machinery to the forces ot nature and helped make New Britain the “Hardware City of the World.” All the artlcles in use were home- made. Fire places and foot stoves provided heat and cooking was done in iron Kettles suspended by swing- ing cranes over log fires. Spinning wheels provided the | homespun clothing and light was pro- | vided from rude tallow dips. 'The nore modern tallow candie and the Miss Muriel Sharp, 24; of New York city, who has sued Clen-| dennin J. Ryan, alleging breach of contract. She says Ryan agreed to pay her §500 a month for rental of one room in her apartment. Ryan is a well known horseman and a son of Thomas F. Ryan, famous Wall Street financier. eign shores to enjoy religious lih(-rty; con. The widow of Captain Stephen and only the rudest of roughly hewn | Lee lived at the corner of Smalley and planks formed the seats or benches Fast streets with her son Josiah. |Hart, Jr, Moses Andrews and wife, | William = Paterson, Widow Hannah | toot, John Kelly and wife Joseph | Woodruft and wife, Simeon Woodruft land wite, Jedediah Gaodrich. and |Wife Nathan Booth and wife, and | Ladwick Hotchkiss and wife, | The ministers, in order | were; Itey, John Smalley, Itev, Newton: Bkinner, Rev, Henry Jones, | Rev, Jonathan Cogawell, | Dwight M, Seward, ey, Chester 8, (lyman, Rev, Charles 8§ Sherman, Ebénezer R, Andrews, Rev, Horace Winslow, ey, rin, Rev. John Henry Denison, Rev, Klias Huntington Richardson, Re |George Stockton Biurroughs, LI.D,; itev, Willlam Burnet Wright, D, D,; George Henry Sandwell, Rev, Russell Thaddeus Hall, D, R, and | Rev, Henry William Maler, | The church has occupied three ’mllu incltuding Its present location, The second location was on the site of the Old Ellthu Burritt school, from location, Fifteen years ago the edifice {en the ecorner of Main and Church {streets was eplarged to accommodate what {8 eaid to be one of the most | efficlently constructed Sunday school rcoms in the state, “Sky Pilot” Among Cowbhoys, Rev, Henry W. Maier the present minister, was born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., August 8, 1866, and was edu- cated in the Sencca Falls High school, He attributes considerable of his |early education to five years' experi- |ence in a grocery store following his graduation from high school. lLater he entered Hamilton college and af- terward went to Syracuse university, graduating in 1893 from the Auburn |Theological seminary. His first |charge was at Oak’s Corners, near the town of Phelps, New York, where on April 19, 1893, he was ordained to |1he ministry, 135 years to after the memorable first meeting in the New Britain meeting house. In 1891 he went west as a Sunday school missionary in South Dakota and Wyoming, where he spent five months riding the prairies. He tells many thrilling stories of his experi- ences as a “Sky Pilot” among the cowboys and Indians in that period. He did not see any serious Indian named, | Rev, | Lava|ette Per. | which place it removed to its present | the day| Misslonary offerings last year hy this church amounted to over §12,000, The ehurch now supports a number of misslonaries including Mrs, Laura T, Beeley, home missionary; Rev, and Mrs, A, D, Heininger of slen, China, and Rev and Mrs, L Weheinberg of North Carolina, Last week a reception was held for Miss Clara. Labaree, who will leave in August for India, as a missionary, Howard Arnold Walter, a First {chureh missionary died in India, Mr, Maler has served overseas with the (RRed Cross during the World War., He |18 ehaplain of the New Britain Rotary |elub, a trustee of the Hartford Theo- logical seminary for the past' 14 [ycars, has heen active in official cir- cles In the state Congregational con- |ference and a member of the execu- tive board of the J'ederation of Churches and is a member of Cen- tennial lodge, A, 1", and A, M, K, MAY HAVE REAL CLUE, Sleuths Checking Up Wilson's Ac- count of Wall Street Bombing. Los Angeles, April 19.-~Checking on various angles of the statement of Herbert Wilson, convicted murderer, that he provided the explosive for the homb exploded in Wall street, New York, September 16, 1920, was planned today by William J. Burns chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice. After talking to Wilson yesterday, Burns declared the prisoner's story “logical." “We intend to check up on every bit of information Wilson has given us,” Mr. Burns said. “I consider it of too great impor- tance to neglect any angle.” Saved 92 ) { AYEAR IS ROUTE Mail Fliers Have Big Schedule Laid Out for Them Henry Ford has no intention of going Into the market to borrow money, This statement the automo- blle manufacturer made yesterday in a telegram sent by him in Detroit to The Wall Street Journal in answer to an inquiry as to how his cash bal- ances stood following his recent ac- quisition of coa! properties, timber lands, water power sites and other in- vestments, His cash balances, Mr. id still exceeded $200,000,000, yet we have no thought of horrowing any money."” Asked about his plans for the de- velopment of his coal properties, Mr, Ford sald he was urging the advisa- bility, of putting in coking ovens with a view to doing the same things he has done in Detroit. In Detroit he has taken advantage of numerous by- products of coal and coke, thus in- creasing their worth and greatly de- fraying the aggregate cost of his coal. The gas drawn off from the coal is used to supply gas and lighting for cities and other by-products are sold for motor fuel and other commodities. Mr, Ford's old friend, Harvey Fire-" stone, has held consultations with the automobile man with regard to the in- stallation of a coking plant in Akron, 0., and, so Mr, Ford said, has shown a willingness to put in a coking plant in Akron, which would serye citizens of that place with cheap coke and gas, the same as used in Detroit, Mr, Ford said the first step he has taken in connection with developing his coal distribution was to let con- tracts for doubling the River Rouge coking ovens. Contracts for the steel have been let and construction will begin soon. “When these are finish- ed,” Mr. Ford said, “we will double the coking ovens again.” a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It penetrates through every air passage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and relief comes instantly. It's just flne. Don't stay stuffed- up with a cold or nasty catarrh—Re- lief enmes so quickly. ASPIRIN Say “Bayer” and Insist! Bast street Lad- blacksmith neighbors, in the pews. | "arther south on achiovements of -the future. | TFor 52 years the Rev. John Smalley | Wick Hotchkiss had a Pewster Sign of Prosperity. preached: to this congregation und for|Shop, Wwhile his nearest In the homes of the prosperous, |10 years more was pastor emcritus,|J05€ph Smith, Sr, anr Jr, kept a pewter dishes were considered the|making a total of 62 years the first taVern. : : : acme of luxury, There was no post-| pastor remained with his congrega- | Other prominent first families who cfiice, no stage coaches and even|ticn, It was under his gurdanca ana|lived in the neighborhood include the postboy had not yet arrived, The | teaching that those hardy settiers laid | I'homas Stanley, Danlvlr Hart, John Bible and, a few religlous hooks in|tho foundation for the greater N&y C'ark. Danlel Dewey, Noah Stanle the homes'comprised the entire “pub- | Britain. It was the Norths, the Harts|* th and Elijah Hart, Moses An- lic Jibrary.” = Yale college had been | the Stanleys, the Lces, the Judds and | 4rews —Urlah —Judd and Nathan in existence for years, and John|the Smiths, and other old familics who | D00t Nathan Booth cleared a for- .Smalley, a graduate of that institu-| werc among this little group, of whom | ¢t il 1746 and built a home where tion of learning, Vs ordained the stonghton said, "Gol sitted a nlo‘”"} ShaLt }2‘.‘“"” oW BALHA pastor of the New Britain church. | yurion that He might sent chosen | J05PR Kilbourn and Eiijah Hart The first building on Smalley park, | yrains into the wilierness selected the site of the meeting house as it is known now, was built at great | 2 3 | on instructions from the county court. sterifice. and eavily self impased, A hinged board, which swung down | A" survevor was sent by the court to | when not in use, served as a com- lay out the site and a committ o taxes by the settlers. A long ridge| . ‘" |14 a committee ap pole flx'}:‘,nded 80 feet from nf)rthdfaj EDUBIOTBRELS | rointed by the court drove the first south and the steep roof inclined to At an address dellvered at the | stakes. Ground was deeded for the 150th anniversary of the church, Hon. | church site and roadways by Benja- the front and rear. A douhble door, el the principal entrance, opened toward | Charles Elliott Mitchell, said, "It is min Judd, Dr. Isaac Lec and Josiah Smalley street on the east. A single | Probably safe to say that every large| Lee. The building was erected by the door opened on the north and an.|industrial company which has . be- residents themselves, committees being other on the south. The pulpit was| COMme permancntly established in New |¢ppointed to do various portions of celvated and attached to the western | Britain, has had the benefit, in ajthe work. Tor 15 vears there was no wall and had a sounding hoard ahoye | 8reater or less degree, of the origina- plaster on the inside of the building. it to carry the sermon to those in the | Ve and managing capacity of the| Original Members of Socicty, pews, Twb stairways led up, one on|Men and sons of men who worshipped | The original members of the so- ultra modern kerosene lamps were fights, these having ceased with the | Lattle of Wounded Knee in 1890, under Sitting Bull but arrived soon enough after the battle to see the! burned villages and the warlike Sioux | tribes. | One of the most amusing incidents | |he tells is that of the trial of four white men for the murder of eight| Stoux Indians. The white men had | gone out and deliberately shot down | the Indians without provocation. During the hearing before the court, which was a mere formality, the men | were so unimpressed with the serious- | ness of their offense that they con- | tinued playing poker in the court room all during the trial. Saratoga Springs was Rev. Maier's next charge after leaving Oak’s Cor- Iners, from which place he eventually went to the Unfon Presbyterian | church at Schenectady, where he re- malned for six years, coming to New Dritain 16 years ago. | Metro Pictures Present When he went to Schenectady !hr-,i ‘ The World's Most Perilous congregation had no place to worship. | i 4 Camera Expedition He was instrumental in securing a Mr. and’ Mrs. Martin Johnson's $70,000 church building, and increas- “Trailing African Most adults will be toothless in another 200 years, according to a dental expert, who says children to- day eat too many biscuits, cakes, potatoes and other starchy foods. [t e Have Your Eyes Examined § Frank E. Goodwin § Eyesight Specialist 327 Main St. . 1905 AT LYCEUM cd the congregation from 76 members| pDennis Kane of St. John, N. B, ciety on. April 19, 1758, were: Rer. to over 400, Unlese you gee the name “Bayer" on package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer prescribed by physicians over twenty- two years and proved safe by millions fott Colds Todthache Farache Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin’ only. ' Each unbroken package con- Headache Iumbago taing proper divections. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayen Manufacture of Monoacetica- cidester of Salicylicacid. - STOP!! Every winter you have one of those either side. - The pulpit doors were locked with woodén buttons. On. either side. of the meeting house, extending from the front en- trance to the pulpit were the box | here.” Son Among those who were active the community of New Britain, which had less than 300 people, was Deacon ‘ Lusk and wife, Samuel Richards and me larly Citizens. in product pews, in which the men faced the| minister while the wo:nen sat with their backs to the pulpit. There was| no belfry, nor hell. Worshippers were| summoned to meeting every Sabbath | day by the sound of drum beats along the country roads. There were no clocks to tick off the passing minutes, and the congrega-| tion cared Iittle how slowly the graing of sand trickled through the hour glass which stood alongside the Bible on the pulpit. Two hours was not long for a service and five or ten minute prayers were things undreamed of. There was no heat, save the religious ardor of those who sailed from for- Anthony Judd, and Stephen Lee, who were active in tie church at Kens- ington or Great Swamp. These men died before the socicty was organized, but Deacon Judd's son, Benjamin, aged 83, and he patriarch of the parish, lived on East street with his scn, James, age 37, who was manager of Judd’'s mills. Uriah, another broth- er, age 41, lived at East Main and Stanley streets, while Nathan, aged 85, had his home at the corner of East Main and Ilast strects, On East street, at some distance north of Benjamin Judd’s home, lived Major John Paterson, the first dea- (John Smalley, pastor; Major John | Paterson and wife, Thomas Richards jand wife, William Smith and wife, Ebenezer Smith and wife, Thomas e, tuth Kilborn, Experience, wife of Jonathan Gris- Iwold; Ruth, wife of Robert Woodruff; Mary, wife of Daniel Kilborn; Widow Hannah Seymour, Widow Mary An- {drews, Widow Anna Booth, Widow | Elizabeth Lee, Benjamin Judd and | wife Joseph Smith, Rebekah, wife of | baniel Dewey; Hannah wife of Gideon | Griswold; Martha, wife of Samuel Goodrich Joseph Smith, Jr., apd wife; Jedediah Smith and wife, Joshia Lee and wife, Isaac Lee and wife, Stephen Lee James Judd, Uriah Judd and wife, Nathan Judd and wife, Phineas Judd and wife, John Judd and wife, Joshua Mather and wife, Elijah Hart Noah Stanley, Comes To New Britain When he came to New Britain there were 796 members in the congrega- tion. Today there are close to 1,400, calls him Hero, ahd what better name for a dog that saved 92 lives? Hero carried a line to the Fthie, caught in a terrific storm, after men had failed to reach the ship. Wild Animals” the days when “Conversation Circulation” statements were the basis on which the advertiser bought space, the advertising solicitor who put up his story in the most pleasing manner general- ly got the business. In case the advertiser questioned The Audit Bureau of Circulations was started eight years ago by a nucleus of the leading advertisers, agents, newspaper, magazine, farm papers, and trade paper publish- ers. Today it has a membership of 1,800. The purpose of the bureau is to make fair and impar- tial audits of circulation records ““Conversation Circulation” . PALACE 4 BIG DAYS STARTING NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT terribla colds which hang on for weeks and weeks—break it up at the start with Williams’ Syrup of White Pine, Honey and Tar. You will be amazed how quickly this fine old-fashioned remedy will stop that dry tickle in the throat, loosen up that congested-condition and re- lieve the hacking cough. A day’suse will usually break up any ordinary cold if taken in time. For twenty years thousands of people o stdidered tis relief-bringing prep- aration a household necessity. Easy to take and pleasant to the taste. Don't ac- cept a substitute. Prepared in the laborataries of Williams &CarletonCompany, Hartford, Connecticut, and for sale at grocery and general storea, FRECKLES Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots. and it is now accepted as the Standard Authority among space buyers throughout the United States and Canada. g the figures he might possibly go to the newspaper office and look over the circulation records with his own auditors. But neither he nor his auditors know the intrica- cies of newspaper circulation rec- ords or the possibilities for jug- gling figures. Every Publisher-Member of the Bureau is required to make semi- annual statements setting forth the actual net paid circulation. Once a vear the Bureau sends an auditor to the office of each pub- lisher to check and if necessary correct his circulation statements. Circulation differences and argu- ments caused ‘bitter battles be- tween many newspapers. Ingen- jous schemes were used by un- scrupulous publishers to put up the appearance of a larger circulation than they had. The prevalence of these practices brought out the necessity for a reputable agency to audit and report on circulation matters. Study the A. B. C. reports of the publications you are considering and it will not be necessary to argue about competitive circula- tion. There’s no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as Othine—double strength—is guar- anteed to remove these homely spols. Simply get an ounce of Othine— | double strength—from any druggist | and apply a little of it night and morning and'you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. Tt is seldom that more than an ounce ig needed to completely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength Othine as this is sold under guarantee of money back if it fails to remove freckles. The HERALD is a members of the A. B. C. and would be pleased to submit a copy of the latest circulation report. OVER 9,000 DISTRIB UTED DAILY The HERALD has by far the LARGEST CIRCULATION of any New Britain Newspaper. Carl Laemmle nts HA. SNOW'S S ——————e— Kerrs FaxSeeo Emuision 8 NOTHING LIKE IT ON EARTH!—A Thrilling Motion Picture Record of Man’s Two Years’ Battle With Wild Animals in the ! 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