New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1924, Page 3

et i eaerevene ety e~ | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JUN Liig e M FINED $200 AND COSTS LOREN D. PENFIELD GRINS AT PA TIME “Keep Busy” His Advice on 84th Anniversary of Birth L. D. Penficld is a psychologist: He probably has ncver laid claing to such distinction under that particular title, 1n fact he has just grown into psychology automatically. He says the way to stay young is to young and refuse to becoine old. ‘ 16, 1924. ng SI. MARY'S SCHOOL 31 CANDIDATES IN MINNESOTA PRIMARY o oot oo e Fite Contests Tnvolved in Todag's! watrvurs, comn Voting GRADUATING CLASS Waterbury, Conn.,, June 16.—Ed- ward Milkun, 19, of 144 Grand street, Seymour, was fined $200 and costs in city court here this morning on arges of assault with a dangerous St. Paul, Minn,, June 16.—Five con- | yopnon and t of an automobile, tests involving 51 candidates, 1t 1 that the youth had on Minnesota interest t to the arty canc 1y made s two attempts to automobile of William Mar- the and that when \ese contests were fo d to prevent the second at- ought to know, he has been doing it for 84 years. Yesterday was his 84th | au scnatorial nominatio "MET empt the youth pointed a revolver at anniversary. He is also a philoso- | abor and republican guber aimed by the police that pher, and says the proper way to| associate and { justice of the st Mil) pu he trig and that keep young is to keep busy., He be- supreme court, For the farmer-labor |, m exploded except lieves that men like machine grow | iotialsnoniingLon st I8 g 15 a rim fire one in a center rusty when they stand idle. | ator Magnus Johr predict And Mr. Penfield does not stand | il m ng Milkun denied that idle. Soldier, politician, mechanic, | Thr sought the repul 1 made any attempt to steal painter, contractor, artist he is as| | Mear atori g ton—Oscar |y, ing He stated that al- active at 4 as many men 30 years ' Hallam, former e colrt t A rried a revolver at the younger. True, like many successful | loa;” Ole: Bageng, » L1t o ting with Martin on men, the former town clerk is re- | Phomas D, Bl oW iropressnbting trect here he did not take it tired. 1In fact he retires every once | LMttt sl g s pocket. He claimed that a in awhile, but like the time-worn AECIMANARE A TIRCCIIRE S DONKEN 1 of about automobile kews joke about the family clock, when he | ime in t A I his person had heen present- strikes he keeps on working. Ouberns or/alicang] wore ple to hi a brother-in-law and He Can't Stop. | ML ais meking il ~ | that in turn intended to pre- “Yes, T have decided to stop work- sl kL el £ locksmith, It was ing and take a rest,” he says fre- | BRICIANMENEATA DaTHE R OnS cloiod court that he had never been quently and the next time a visitor i b et et ' ; NN calls he finds him in overalls, with | ? s e ———— paint can and brush in hand, all set cfbient ! o D GREB VS, MOODY for his “last job.” But the last job, | Uhoto By Johusou & Peterson, |qates were Theodore Chr 5 Watert Con June 16.—Harry like tomorrow, never comes. His < g . . 5 . Kl t I 3 Gr weig champion, L 160 168t And for 1hat reason therd'a | Rev. Peter J. Coffey of Hartford will deliver the commencement address Sunday afternoon at graduation exercises for St. Mary Kranyiin 3 1 Ayl 2 i dadedd] PPy ‘. l,”,:,:,"”.'\(f"“-;:,’, always just one more ahcad. | Parochial school. Father Coffey is a graduate of St. Mary’s school and before taking up his studies for the priesthood was for i odois S 12 4 bout at the When a Herald reporter called to | al years an altar boy at St. Mary's chureh. A Governor | in | Waterbury 1 park tonight interview Mr. Penfield upon his 83rd | fivudacdive 2 . A R , - Rl ke ol : Moody ¥ k t Lou Bogash and birthday anniversary a year ago, he | st worthy patron, has gone twice | Mr q Mrs. Mar resides wi g tpointed Jock Malone within the arrived before the 6 o'clock whisties | throngh the offices, of Sta rl A Froderick €. St 1 ERROR IN R. R TIMETABLE 0,000 CONTRIBUTION SR g st few weeks and is expected to blew and found it necessary to wait | G, A, It., and was a « Marsha 1 ns at Holye The type whic priv ¥ 1 \ "o . champlon a good battle until Mr. Penfield came home from | G. A. It intepnational encan M vl who oll fables of the New Haven railroad, | £+ M: €0 A War Fund Trustees Give . B Olaon A W hestat W — work, Just before he reached §4 Mr. | Pittshurgh in 1894, e has o T Y A e e iy o American Hospital in Paris L : Ll RELIGIOUS CEREMONY Penfleld revarnished a dining room | ored by the camp of Sons o Mly history through e AL ; . 3 bt S it : Fune el o) sulte for the same reporter. When | Veterans, wha have named their ar- | ' orn in Am ad’s coaches, is g old a Tanisd ghe Amarbng Bos | Tauis i Aston In ok sbaeak ) e ol i he was 82 he painted his own home | ganization “L.. 1. Penfield camp | day yesterday Mr, D worn, which account vpo- } e IPRebed @ Rulsctiis | Bbwes s X : e o e S e At 659 Stanley street, where he lives [is a member of the Connectiont So- | tertained « yeceived graphical error . AR L INEL OB LSt piEcuY Dl AN 1 s o siihesat ot 1 1ie oty I ch bR oritat with his only daughter and her hus- | clety Sons of the Amerlean Itevolu. | lations, gifts and flowers R R [ deughi bbb il ool 8 BRI Sl RUHL L ) snetructed basilics 8¢ hand, Mr, and Mrs. W. Warren W. tion, of the Army and Na ub; of {uge he entertained friends : o \ A Yo foh's Chiriatian aaoeiation foe |4t 8¢ ¢ Gelhastikin Testardas. Tt Marshall, the Trumbull Colony, No. 173 United [ most midnight last night, a t e, Sbanbiy Rt L inart] SN L b e M otig LA i bl ¥ bullg by the; Franciibn Mr. Penfleld s a pairter. He|oOrder of Pilgrim Fathers, of Wash- | morning, t and chipper as an | Which New B ! N ol o SRR Tan DAL NI frastad i BB it learned his trade as a boy and |ington Camp, No. 9, Patriotic Ovder |early robin, he said folt no ill of- train No. 126 is g Jeavi V. M.« taries John A. G N W peak- | ¢ ARy nt ‘»‘{'”‘";‘: learned it thoroughly. Tf there i8!S8ons of America; Winthrop ¢ il SIS e o1y | for Hartf { Tesniiag i 8 1 nring the R AR At Al e fourth (‘"""‘A h anything to be done in the way of > 3 hould be 4:10 p. n 8 differe var and the armi 1 bservance of Flag Duy vill 1 tlons of wk were unearthed painting, “The General” as he is af- of three pied ra unti New Britain lodge o ring the excavations for the new fectionately called, has done it, He 6 causc I finc MISS JUNKUNZ SHOWERED ne on Washing iing can and has painted scenes to adorn nown It 1s bk [} i v A ellane & ver was given in past ars in tions s parlor walls in this elty with as lit- time tables i P re will i ) Miss irances Junkunz of ox 1 to patriotic org HARVARD TEAM IVES, tle difficulty as he finds in white- corrected with lead A 174 Pleasant strect, Saturday evening ) 1 and 1 New York, June 16.—The Harvard washing a back fence. In his own, error d 1 ' v M Ralph Janswick the Girl S nd | base ! squad which will be on Yale home on the dining room walls hang v among or Dwight A 30 friends Other I ¢ 1 D ifternoon for the two striking painting, one of a water- letter,” only o b ¥ t. Diano clions were t flag, Esteemed ) with Yale, arrived melon halved and one-half sliced and 1, o that it io <y erved, Miss idiey T. Holm Kiks' t 1 A ven break tomorrow will the other of a negro boy looking rors in time table 1 ' e hride of | hute t flag, Inner G 1 Stanley kR rival teams to New York hungrily over a garden fence fo rare Clel on J 8 ). Tracesk on Saturday for the play-off. . where a luscious green melon be 1o be picked, when he was only 73 years old and only his reputation for veracity con- vinces visitors to the home that they are not the work of a professional artist, Descendant of Early Settlers Loren Dwight Menfleld is a native #on in every sense of the word, His great-grandfather was a resident of what at that time was part of Great Swamp and fought under Captain Curtis and Colonel Enos with the Connecticut troops during the Revo- lutiomary war. Loren D, Penfield, the great.grandson and himself a great- grandfather today proudly hoasts of heing one of an unbroken line of eight generations born in America, begin- ning with the parents of lis great- grandparents, Nathaniel and Lydia (Barnes) Penfield and ending with Marshall Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs Frederick . Stevens, grandson of Mras, Marshall, Loren Penfield went 16 school in Neow Britain until he was 12 years old, when he entered the employ of Ius- sell & Erwin, where he became a me ehanie and eventually a foreman When 21 years of age he entered the U, & army, enlisting Decomber 11 1561, in company A, 18th Connecti cut infantry, and served as headquar- ter's clerk under General RButier at the siege of New Orleans and under General Banks at the siege of Port Hudson, When a call was made for volunteers for the historical “Forlorn hope” at the siege of oPrt Hudeon Mr. Penfield was one af the 1,000 men who voluntesred. Of the 1,000, 250 were from the Connecticut regiment and Mr. Penfield 18 tha only living surviver from New RBritain, Me aleo s the only Iiving surviver of pany A Mr. Penfierd General Sheridan valley and participated in #tanding battles as Winehester er'a hill and Cedar Creek, He we through war without serateh. “There wasn't a 1tehel Iy 1at made that could hit me ar com P under also in the 8 ch out Fish the entire ways knew it,” he savs, After the war he served one year in the offi of the U, & provost marshal at Hart ford. 1In 1866 he engaged at his trade of house painting employing from 10 to 16 men and many a ap did job of graining 11l 10 b #ome of New @ences, is the work of his hands s seen o Britain's finest old resi #killed did he become that he did many jobs %o d te that it mecessary for him to have specis brushes made to his order in It Kium and some ese he still uses Drafted in P In the army he was a volunteer | in politica he was drafted. He wgs Clected somewhat to his surprine as town clerk in 1882, when he w ®ven at the cavevs., He served terms as town elerk, and one term as elerk of the Beriin probate court er which he was reelected town clerk, serving in that capacity for a number He was the first New Firit pin tawn clerk 16 use a typewriter for A not of years municipal recorde Always a frpublican Mr. Penfield is a republican an has voted for all the republican presi- dents since he first cast a vote for Lincoln. Fraternally he has a ree ©rd which equale for its remarkahle Reatures his Jife history. He is a past Master of Harmony lodge, A. ¥. and A. M., Giddings chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Dorie Counci! Royal and Select Masons; Washington Comman- dery, Knights Templars, and paraded with the Commandery in this city a few weeks ago. He belongs to Sphinx Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Hartford, has taken all the de- grees in Scottish Rites Masonry, is a member of Norwieh 2%na Aepree Masons, of Martha chapter O Ger of Eastern Star, in which be is CONBROIY These paintings he did | ' JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO. | ; “THE BIG FURNITURE STORE” FOUR GENERATIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTRY Former Town Clerk and Mrs, L. D. Penfield, Mrs, W. W, Marshall, Mis, Fredervick €, Stevens and Marshall Stevens (-3 ) 1 Danghters of Liberty; 1ally 1 No. s an fain Counect No. 8, Or Now | 1 American Meg cs, I8 a “Heep Buey” He Say | Starts Tomorrow treasure of the Baltimore Build r | & A the oldest membere of ¥ PH i Ve to it T b " z ) i . bl B R ks o We want to make a clean sweep on this sale. We want to sell every Piano at once and have reduced price to Hian of (h Sinday [ A ‘ b h the point where buying is irresistible. First come, first served. Tomorrow our store will be jammed with Nite & o f : Sl eager buyers swappingup these bargains, so he here early. In 1866 Mr. Pefield was ma ! v old v, he ®a 1 thCatHe. Wo WoNue v his | 3 %, | Bl . ' 2 ' e il by Don’t Miss It not & m, y h nd . oo i This Is Your Chance! Don iss It! Mr, and Mrs 1 had twe chi \ et SRR il Art [ a® pas g U Mis. Marshgll w & « at t Ruth Marsh " of \ w Park o« § 1 Marsha } ) " . ' » nd y f wider tr. I (., who ol a Kia A tdaught ' 1 8 old Iuth Marsk ' ter of I ——————— ;(;(“ Larger Hall for | G, 0. . Women's Meeting GORSETS BARRED IN ‘ Tk LATEST STYLES: e Are as Dead 25 Are Oid Time oo v e heid Hoop Skirts i J—— THIS BEAUTIFUL PIANO ONLY $175.00 e : ; : LIRS S NEW PLAYER PIANO ONLA kbbb S Siids Players Slightly Used Player Pianos Slightly Used as low as e $150 $175 $250 $275 i 1 o o § Act Quickly, For at These Prices, T'hey o e i, e ot Will Go Fast; Be Here Early Tomorrow! e Olympic & MEADOW s vy v We Believe You'll Never Get An Opportunity Like This Again being attra as parti nis or " ‘ ~ | JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO. events, ORE” Foliow body, 1t “THE BIG FURNITURE short. clinging ore des . - ¢ " ter oI 1 y ool &8 1 it i e TELEPHONE 72 132 MAIN STREET hygienic. Echweizer of 155 Curtis street, |