New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1926, Page 2

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LeWitt’s UPSTAIRS JEWELRY SHOP Room 4 299 Main Street New Phone 3100 | the {1th | DRY RAIDERS ARE Two Agents, Missing Week Buried in Shallow Grave Edwardsville, 111, ‘hree Itallfans who several months ago rented a 200 acre son county authorities investigating tract near oe lake are sought by Madi- slaying of Constable Ohmer Hockett, 38, and his assistant, John Ralk . whose bodics were found sterday in a shallow grave on the land | A ghastly sc of brutal murder the two officers by moonshiners | who thwarted a raid is pictured by | officials in charge of the investiga | tion, The offi who disappeared Jan- iry 20 when they started out from Edwardsville on a liquor ruid, are believed by authorities to have been captured by moonshiners and tor. tured for six days with their hands tied behind them with bailing wire Lefore they were slain as their cap- tors abandoncd their rendezvou This theory Is substantiated by the | finding of fresh hlood on the bodies, Coroner Baer said the blood and the condition of tho bodics indicates the men were slain Thursday afternoon or night In an abandoned farm ho! the grave, a squad of federal prohi- bition agents who found the hodies found vats containing nearly 100,000 gallons of whiskey mash. They also found parts of two stills. The house, | by bullets, |e d batt near wve evidence of a pitch- between the moonshiners land the officers preceding the cap- It is thought the officers might have raided the place in the absence of the moonshiners and were cap- tured after a fight when the moon- shiners returned. That hoth officers were shot and | killed while they were helplessly | bound is indicated, authorities say, | by the fact that each was shot un- er the left ey ) z his brain wol Faces of the victims > powder burned. Hockett's skull was crushed and it was evident he had been beaten rad with a sharp instru- nt. There were no marks of vio- 1ca on Balke's hody. learned last night that Deimling had obtained fro tdwardsville real estate office the |names and descriptions of three | talians who had rented the tract [ The land is known as the “Island nd is the center of a locality whick the past ten years has heen the | scenc of a number of baffling mur- | ders and mystery cases. The grave in which the hodies were found was in a clump of bush |and was abont four feet deep | Hockett's hody was on top of that of | Balke. Both hodies fully | clothed with hands tied behind the | backs with bailing wire, | No suspects hs heen | An inqutst will get und were arrested | ler way today | —_— - | New ¢ state grew nearly 47 s of potatocs in 1 DRIVE YOURSELF— NEW CARS TO RENT DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE You-Drive Auto Renting Co. Cor. Seymonr and Eim SMOKE PIPE NEW BRITAIN SHEETMETAL WORKS k. ). SON S0, lel. 57 REPAIRS X GOOBY Mair 396 St NOTICE! Passengers ' for turope should hook passage now if intending to visit Europe during June and July. hooked to for June Geo. A. Quigiey Steamship Tickets W08 MAIN STREET Some bhoats capacity Special Sunday Dinner $1.00 Served from 12 M. to 8 P M. RELISHILS Qlives Pic vith Rie FOLLOWING Min SODA SHOPPE BRUTALLY SLAIN its windows shattered | the bullet penetrat- | 05 West Main Street NEW BRITA GIRL PRODIGY OF NINE Daughter of Austrian Tallor ¥ | ishea Regular Elementary Course in Three Years, | 6 UP—Ruth, nine of a tallor born Austria, enrolled in the John High school in Brooklyn yesterday, Mer teachers consider her the outstanding child prodi thig country. 11w praduated last from the eler sel \ d the ourse when New York, Fe years old daughter in Erlcoson one of gies in | The ¢ s veok | ool with | standard n three was Six onors elementary years, starting vare old | she CORK LFG A LINK s N HIS DIVORCE. i | Plaintiii Says Wife Kept His From Him i Bridgepor o cork leg of George F. Harrington, a rofessor of botany in a college in York city, taken by his wife | when she left him in 1922, figured | to some extent in the events which | led to his action for diverce, it de- veloped yesterday when Judge Leonard Nickerson placed the Harrington divorce cuse on the un- | contested 1ist. Recently Mr. Harrington on a sidewalk on 424 street, New | York, broke an artificial leg. His substitute cork limb, he found, had | been taken to Greenwich by his| wife when she left him in October, | 1922, Until he could obtain it, he, would be obliged to walk onj| crutches. Mr. Harrington informed his | wife that he wanted his leg, but she would not let him in her res dence to get it. He communicated with Green- | wich lawyers. The wife was pre- | vailed upon to place her husband's leg out on the front porch where le could get it Mr. Harrington got it, but did not want to put it on out-of-doors. He asked if he could come into the house. Mrs. Hairington said “no." He again called up Greenwich law- | yers, and for him was arranged the rivilege of temporarily entering | is wife's homo to adjust the arti- | cial member. { Harrington in snit for divorce | 1 . deserted him re married on June 2, 101 and have two children. Mrs. Har- | rington did not file an auswer to | her hus | [ - The oW falling { which is $500 less than last year. i | | PERMITS AWATTED Dry Agents and Others Lookin(,lé | lor Court’s Ruling 6 (P — Pro- others today deefsion of in test suits ates district Teb. nd Philadelphia, hibition offi in the United § esterday on the question of prohibition depart and enfore: supervision, regu nee of permits plan argued court the ment's without lations for to make judicial the issy An imp ment S e 1l cxperts, in- | ad, father ught dir ¢ e the prohibitio b n broad o right of the prohib il aleohol per December 31 of requiring hold- | (pplications for renew- was laid down by | Lincoln C. And as ing ers to brought comy con by ny the nd Broken Water Main in Hartford Causes Flood " 1 broken ter main on tlooded several st ts in 1 of the \ Many i and completely flow of which t secti vests rnoon flood or than thiee BUDGET HEARINGS | “We Delleve that a trained stafl of | effectively 1t} [ been ! camp, DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY memorlal and the memortal together in one liko Spanish war memo- vlal on lers' and sallors' wmonument in Contral park. Councilman Rodman W, Cham- birlain says he knows that the senti. ment of the World war veterans fs Pruning Committee 10 LIMIt S’ mmmerior ot ot e big [TV | enough Appropriations Named for the names of the vet- World war would be ar putting o COME T0 AN END erans in hoth wars Tke T. Hills sald that the requests |ed appropriation {s considerably smaller than the amounts asked for in other eitles President Hall s desirous of ascertaining ment of the veterans in relative to a has been of the opinion tha memorial advisable, that the for very modest Maya President W Hearings on the annual hudgets or city departments was completed the board of finance and taxation t night and it timated that 500,000 must be eliminated from the prosent tax rate % mills is to be retained, The board appointed u pruning commit- tee which will {or appropriations mendations at the board ol finance and taxation at a ui next week of the eliminations of requested ap propriutions The New Brifain Institute seeks 8.6 id that the the he was sentl- city by las ] the requests memorial be a joint said way He $16,000 survey the requests roqueat nd muke recom ponessa appointed Hall, George P. Bacon and Joseph F. mbers. of the pruning committoe Mr, Searle who has serv- ippropri- | °d the committee for several for u tofal |¥ears could not serve this year bes 18 in of the pressure to the | committee wili mect at 7 o'cle Monday evening and will present @ report to the entire board on Thursday, Before adjournment, the [voted to recommend to the council that 100 D from the st lighway account to the street fund. A resolution was wdopted appropriating $211,209 to the following accounts: General gov- administration, sajaries nment, admin. $3.500; inter. (expense debt), 0,909; state aid to widows, $800, This money has been recelved In ex- cess of the estimated income for the year, 1 ation of last year of $40,000, In this 1 cluded an fiem of building whicl mately $3,000 according Jun. Marcus White, the State Normal in the interosts told of the In the facllities of 1 Iy by school ehildren. Mr. Bun stated that the walls of the building badly in need, of repairs and other parts of the build- ing will ha on to. In an- swer to a question by Chairman kd ward Hall, he stated that the 1l could probably et along with 000, Mr. Hall stated that he would not like to see the library above all other fnstitutions curt Chairman Hall asked ranch | tibraries, but Mr. Bun sta that | they were unable to m ange- | ments for these. Principal Whote stated that the library is curiously serving the young more than the old, One-third of the bhooks taken out are by children who are constantly demanding more material which will make their school work more casy. | askin of business, rs to M. prinetpal sehool, appea librax ing demands institute rep will ¢ hoard common espoc e crnment, $£6,000; goneral gov ition, ineldentals, and discount to he ist st WARNS SHIPPING ' Coast Guard Destroyer Takes Place ofDrifting Tightship O Nan- tucket Shoals, New London, Feb, 6 () — Dan- rous Nantucket shoals, which « left unguarded when the lightship was torn from its moor- during the storm Thursday, marked for shipping last by the coast guard destroyer which was under orders local base, and went into the shoals to warn the work more an the school board,” Mr. White said. “The demand books is larger than the the city.” librarians can hand} for | Ings wers night Browth of Charitics, Superintendent John Doyl charity board asked for a total of 90,800, He asked for $13,000 for 1e town home, $300 less than last year, but $2,500 instead of $800 fs being asked repairs. According to the commissioners, the lome is badly in repairs He s ment costs for ho: from the position shipping. oyer Friccson from the waus ordered into serve today 1o mark the Pollock Rip the lightship which guards, » shoals having also been torn in Thur: | Advices at local guard today reported | th: lightship was | d Haven, while sel was miles for loose the storm reeeived headquarters the ntucket in harbor at \ ¥ the Pollock Rip v t easily at anchor, a fe thwest of Horse shoals. destroyers will act as light: | <hips until relieved by regular ves- sels. Radlo messages were sent out from the lacal headquarters to both eraft advicsing them to broad. the characteristics of the light sound signals that they wili shipping of their po- the respective shoals. the charity depa has no way of coas ylums but ked each r for this pos: $4,500 hosy ric for Is and tubere Stone asked if there is any ing the name of the to cause of the idea of charity it carries. Clerk Frank water departmen king for $350.300 planning work, ay of ¢h n home ng- now J. O'Brien of the explained that in the board is! amount of new cast and use to notif a grea sitions off War Memorial o he | transferred | {Chicago were expected | the natlenal clay court tournament, | Dailey; New York, have been renom- 6, 1926. DFLEGATES NEET 10 TALK TENNIS Rules and Tonrnaments Will Be Decided Today Now York, Feb. 8 (M-Delegates from every scctlon of the country wore gathered here today for the | annual meeting of the United States Lawn Tennis assoctation to elect of- fleer ward championship tourna- ments and discuss amendments to [ the by-laws, Although representatives of west« ern clubs brought with them Kkeen antlelpation of winning one or more |of the important net fixtures away !trom the cast, observers saw but | slight hope of a change in the sched- ule which prevailed last year. Under agreement made when the new stadium at Forest Hills was built four years ngo, the West Side |elub will retain the men's single mplonship, while the Cerr town Cricket club of Philadelphia ‘was expected to again be awarded the Davis Cup challenge round. The men's national doubles cvent wag elated to remaln in the | east, but some doubt prevalled as to whether the women's singles chan- pionship would agan be staged at the West Side club, St. Louls or to receive which for several years has been played in the middle west. Itecommendations to the associa- tion included a request to send men's and women's teams-to France and England next summer, and a men's team to Australla next win- csident Jones W. Mersereau, New York; Secretary Harry 8. Knox, Chicago, and Treasurer Louls | tnated. Samuel H. Collum of Phila- delphla has been nominated vice: president in place of R. Clifford Black of Philadelphia. NON-SUPPORT CASE 1§ DISMISSED BY JUDGE Testimony Shows that Mr. Tresky Is Injured Party—Does Family Cooking and Washing Max Tresky of 180 Hartford ave- nue, accused of non-support, was ! discharged In court this morning after almost twa hours were con- sumed in hearing evidence and tak- ing testimony. Judge Hungerford |was on the bench, and Attorney | | Harry Ginsberg acted as prosceuting | attorne Prosccuting Attorney Joseph G. | Woods and Assistant Wllliam M. | Greenstein were disdualified to act | in the case. | Mrs. Tresky alleged that her hus- | | band beat her and abused her, fail- | ed to provide her with sufficient | ! food and clothing, and otherwise did | not treat her in the manner in which she felt a true and loving husband should. | Nelghbors said they saw Mr. Tres- Local Marine Makes Good On Battleship Oklahoma W ington, Feh. 6—By making cveral hits on the bull's-cye at ranges from 200 to 600 yards, LeRoy Frederick Berg, of New Britain, has qualificd 1 expert rifleman in the Marine corps, according to a target practice bulletin issucd at Ma headquarters here. He led an cxpert rifleman’s al and an Increase of pay. LeRoy is about 20 years native of New Britain, and lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John 18, 180 Curtis sivect, New Britain, fore he joined the Marine corps Hartford about 16 months ago. v he joined the Marine detach- nt of the U. 8. & Oklahoma, one of the vessels of the Pacific fleet. It is customary for each Marine to shoot on the rifle range at year, where, after scveral man is given an of the varions marksmanship A few weeks ago the Marines of the Oklahoma shot on the at Camp Lewis, Wash, the Brit- » qualifying as expert riflema resumed his dutics on Oklahoma, which aro, ( chairman on the 18" memoria Alderman W. 1L Judd, the special com Spanish plained t monument Delbert K \ppTOT The men v tr to Willow the design is th of the special approved by 1] w. of which were Judd said that the nim {hat the memorial ear for § The me of i - ind Architeet city. The $15,000 h ar veters o desig prepar Perry ion on orial it Brook park and unanimous choie and has Hammond tatives AL G rehite or Alderman old, a sEnres huilt lore Johnson il commander ¢ who was cial committes m rected once a jceted ted ta vs' practic ch opportunity to qualify for one grades, aving ene memorial ¢ Worll to having ra New 1in proposed memor Epantsh ported at & alif " Wartime Spy Accused of Murder | | [ | n Broad street | capitol gre mile and a c it t into the ds, also flow- | into the Thirty pas Transvaal veries NORTH & JUDD PLANT WILL OPERATE AS USUAL MONDAY, FEB. 8 BOTH FACTORY AND FOUNDRY Willlam J Americ 1 confidential nous spy for it during the t for Col. n war House, is now in p shows | geant in the ro military ceently | ky hanging clothing out on the line; children of Mr. Tresky by a former warriago testified that their step- mother stayefl in bed in the fore- noon, failing to make breakfast and often passing the noonday meals and remaining in her bed until 2 p. m. | The husband was compelled to do | most of the cooking. | Mrs. Tresky was the owner of a diamond ring valued at $1,000 given | lier by her first husband from whom sho is divorced. Prior to her second marriage she pawned the ring for | $300. There was a total of 336 duc ! on it at the wn shop. She thought her new husband should redeem the ring. He sald he did not have the 0. Thus began a family squab- | ble. Peopls who have known the | husband for years, testified to his | | peccefulness, i Judge Hungerford listened to wit- | nesses on both sides at considerable Hlength and then suddenly declded in or of the husband, discharging | the defendant and stating that he would not issue an order for support. | FOOTBALL REFORMS | | | | ‘Professional League Meeting Today ‘ Grange To Seck Franchise Tn the | Organization | | Detroit, ¥cb. & (P —Several re- |form movements are echeduled to be launched here today when rep- resentatives of the member clubs of e National Professional Football league begin thieir semi-annual | meeting. { A rule calling for all clubs to | refrain from signing collegiate play- | |ers until elght months after they | |have been graduated is prepared for submission to the leagne members. | question of limiting or abolish- ng exhibition games and tours will | he discussed and some action on | his matter is expected. | | | A request for the franchise of the | Chicago Cardinals, the team recent- | iy heavily fined for allowing four high school boys to play in a game agalnst Milwaukee. It is intimated | that if Grange does not get a fran- | |chise in the league next season he | vill sign with New York. | Boston, St. Louls and Racine, Wis. |are expected to apply for franchises | {in the league for the next seagon Many of the games to be played next fall will be scheduled at the meet- ing and upon the games scheduled will depend largely action on the question whether or not the leagne { Wil be split into an eastern and | |weetern divislon. Tt the split is | le a champlonship playoff be. | tween the leaders of the two divi- slons is contemplated. MASS FOR FATHFER DALY The first anniversary of the death {of Rev. Patrick Daly, former pas- tor of St. Joseph's church, will be observed with a solemn high mase at St. Joseph’s church, morning at 10 o'clock. {Daly wiil be dead a year Monday and the mass will be offered for the | trua bllls against Monday | Father | HORE TROUBLE ARISES OVER SWISS POSITION Russia’s Demand for Apology Ree sults tn Outbreak at Mecting. Geneva, ¥eb. 8 (® - The de- mand of Russia that Switzerlana offer an apology to the soviet as recompenso for the assassination of its envoy, M. Varovsky, at Laus- anne in May, 1923, and as a con. dition to Tussia sending delegates to the proposed disarmament con. ferenco has culminated in dis. turbances between the fascist vigi lance committes and supporters of the Russlan stand. The troubls occurred last night at a meeting of protest against Switzerland and humillating her selif by offering an apology. Pro- sovict manifestations created a dis. turbance. in the gallery and the fasclsts rushed upstairs and be. labored them with walking sticks, cjected them from the building and put them in the hands of the police. After this the meeting was con- tinued and a resolution was adopt. | ed declaring that the government should scrupulously safeguard Swias honor in its negotlations with the Russians. There {s considerable criticism heard of France, which country, t is asserted, has expressed itself in favor of holding the proposed eon. ference on French soll, somewhere near Geneva, if the soviet govern- ment adheres to itd declination to be represented at a gathering Switzerland. Advices recelved here from Berne, the capital, are to the ef. fect that the negotiations with thy Moscow government have been vire tually ended becauss of the in- sistence of a formal apology from Switzerland. TRY ALL CASES IN COURT, IS ORDER Sargent Warns Prosecutors Not to Talk Too Much Washington, Feb, 6.—Attorney General Sargent denied last night he had issued a “gag rule” against United States district attorneys and marshals, instructing them to “try their cases in court and not in the press,” but admitted he thought these officials “should stick strictly to their offictal knituing.” The report that the attorney gen- eral had mailed letterh to fleld offi- clals of the department of justice ordering them to be silent was cir- culated during . the day and was brought, to Mr. Sargent's ‘attention, *I have sent no &uch rule or in- structions to marshals and district attorneys,” he replied. “Of course, T think it a mighty good rule for them to stick strictly to their offi- cial knitting and that the courts are the real places to try their cases. Don't you think s0? I have always tried to inculcate that idea in the minds of any folks who may ask my ideas on the matter.” “You feel that the marshels and district attorneys should cite their cases in court rather than in the newspapers?” he was asked. “That's not only the way T feél about, it, it's the way I talk about | " he answered. “Dut there has been no gag rule jssued that I know anything about.” United States Dietrict Attorney Emory R. Buckner of New York, who declined to comment on the supposed “'gag rule,” declined alse <t night to comment on Mr. Sar- gent's {ntimation that It was a good rule to stick to “offictal knitting." RIFLE CLUB SHOOT Three Strings to Be Shot Beginning Next Wednesday Under New Ar- rangement—Two Teams Entered. The New Britain Rifle club \\'HI“ shoot the national indoor match in three strings on Wednesday, Feb. 10, the second string on Thursday, Feb. 11, and the third etring on Thurs- day, Ifeb. This ar will be operated on a | gifferent plan, the club having en- " 0 | tered two teams, which permits 20 men to shoot, any one or all of whom may qualify for percentage medals, the five highest on each | team to determine the standing of | the elub. Find True Bill for Murder Against Marshalt Philadelphla, Feb. 6 (M—Less than three hours sufficed yesterday to destroy hopes of temporary free- dom for David L. Marshall, con- | fessed slayer of Anna May Dietrich Red Grange i8 expected to make | anq to make certain his trial under | charges of murder or manslaughter. Judge Howard A. Davis, tn quar- ter sessions.court, rejected Mar- shall's plea for rclease under ball on a writ of habeas corpus, and 21 minutes later the grand jury founc the defendant, charging him with murder fn the first and second degrees and with manslaughter. Twa bills were re- turned, one charglng murder and the other voluntary and involun- tary manslaughter, ELKS NOMINATE OFFICERS, w Britain lodge, Neo. #57, B. P. O. E.. Thursday evening nominated officers as follows: Esteemed ruler, Thomas H. Gibson; esteemed Jead- ing knight, John F. Gill; esteemed loyal knight, Stanley J. Traceski; es- teemed lecturing knight, Clifforda W. Cowles; seerctary, Richard C Brown; treasurer, Clarence L. * Plerce; tyler, William Doyle; repre- sentative to grand lodge, Dudley T. Holmes; alternate, Thomas F. Jack- son. The social which was to have been held by the members living in | the second ward, has besn postponed until the next meeting. A lodge of parishioners by Rev. John Donohue, pastor of the church. sorrow will be held in memory of Judge W. Klett at the next meeting. in | T T TSI ST WO STILLMAN AND WIFE REUNITED (Continued From Mirst Page) marriage on October 18, 1034, the estranged father and mother for the first time saw each other after the hectlc days of thelr divorce fight. Last night as they sat at dinner hefore they salled Mra. Stillman, wearing the brilllant yellow bane dana kerchlef on her head that ehe has taken a fancy to aince her life In the Canadlan woods, satd: “We are doing this because Alex and his brothers, Guy and Bud and lils slster Anne are such fine scouts. We owe our children 8o much, Jimmy and 1. We formed a corpor- wtion 20 years ago, and our children, Alex here and the rest are preferred stockholders. To Mclp Her Husband Mrs. 8tillman the American says has promised to do everything in her power to aid her hushand te re- habllitate himself in the world of | finance and soclety. | “Jimmy 1is growing old," the American quotes Mrs. Stillman as saying recently to a friend. “He is no longer James A, Stlliman, the great banker, the great institution. He has become human, 1 like him }m. 1 haven't liked him for years, I've an {dea he really wants to re- build his life. Perhaps I ought to put on fhe harness again and travel double!" i -~ | Marrled In 1001 New York, Feb. 6 () — Anne iUrquhart Potter, brilllant soclety girl, and James A, Stillman, young banker, were marrled in 1901 and |had four children, when in 1931 |thelr romance crumbled in the di- vorce court. Mr. Btillman, then president of the National City bank and a power in the financial world, charged bhis wife with infidelity and denied the paternity of her youngest child, Guy, then an infant. Fred Beau- vais, a Canadian Tndfan guide, who had taught woodcraft to older Btill- tman children, was named cores- pondent, Mrs. Stillman in turn charged her husband with improper relations with Florence Leeds, a chorus girl, and asserted that he was the father of a son born to the latter, The hearings opened 'm April, 1922. Five | months later a referee found that Guy was the legitimate son of the | banker and that no allegations of in- | fidelity had been proved against Mrs. Stillman, Mr. Stillman, the referee tound, had been gullty as his wife charged, Stillman lost an ap- peal. A "confession letter” Stillman’s evidence, | Early this winter it developed that | Mrs. Stiliman had started a divorce | sult. figured in Texans Join to. Develop State’s Dormant Riches Dallas, Feb. 6 (M-~The hidden wealth of Texas soon is to be re- vealed a new adventure into the field of tate development. Five hundred.public apirited citi- zens have organized as the Soclety ifor the Sclentific Development of | the Natural Resources of Texas with a view of unlocking, by sclentific |exploration, the mecret of the state's | undeveloped riches. In addition to the well known agricultural and horticultural erope, and the products of mine and oil twell, there is development afoot in stranger fields, A great bed of fossilized flah in West Texas may soon give the coun- try its only natural supply of ich- thyol, an ofl used in medicines. A rubber plant growing wild in South- west Texas {s being manufactured into rubber. Another plant makes a valuable wasx. The state has one of the largest sulphur mines in the {world, In the mountains of the gouthwest is sald to be unlimited jwealth in quicksilver. The society has a program for bullding a fund of $5,000,000 at the rate of $1,000,000 a year to expend !in collecting sclentlfic information on these natural resources and mak- |ing it available to the public. Warns of Acute Shortage Of Horses for Farm Work Ames, JYowa, Feb. 6 (A— The | United States {s approaching an actual shortage of horses for farm fand other work, in the opinion of Dean C. F. Curtiss of lowa Btate college, who views this as “one of- he most disturbing conditions now nfronting American agriculture.”, As a remedy, Dean Curtiss sugs !zests a government subsidy, deelar-. Iing that to subsidize the horse in- dustry for a ten year perfod *“‘woul probably cost less than the price of {a single battls ship.” . | He sald there are five mlillion {fewer horses in the United States fthan ten vears ago, whila the need |is greater, | STELLA REBEKAH LODGE | At the meeting of Stella Rebekah ilodge, No. 11, last evening, it was ivoled to invite the officers of the | Rebekal State assembly March 19th, The entertainment in the evening is to be in charge of Mrs. Harlow Coons, the new chairman of the en-’ [tertalnment copimittee. Mrs. Jen- \nie Steele Wwas appointed chairman iof the sewing circle, meetings to bo !held Tuesdays in future, the date of ithe first meeting is to be announced |later. FAFNIR M. A. ELECTION | The tellowing officers were elect- ed at the annual meeting of the | Fafnir Mutual Atd assoclation taet night: President, Gordon Fly; vice- | president. John Wolf; gecretary and treasurer, Irnest Wheeler; direc. !tors, James F. Havlick and Samuel | Nortli. The by-laws were amanded so that any member leaving the employ of th+ concern may eéntinue in the society by the payment of duee, REPORTS CLOTHES STOLEN Btella Bula of Middletown re- ported to the pollce department last evening that clothing belonging to her had been taken at the New Rritain railroad station, by a girl she maid was Edith Hawley ef Forestville or Plainville. Halr can be made to grow én bald spots 4t the roots are still ative, N