New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 15

NOTICE IS POSTED FOR TOWN MEETING Less Than $100,000 Expected to Cover School Gost Newington, Feb, 18—First Select- man James C. Gilbert today posted notices for the special town meeting: to be held in the Grange hall Thurs- There are only two items of business to come up, the most important be- ing the appropriation to cover the | day evening, February 23. cost of erecting a school building a the center to afford additional space The second natter to come before the meeting Wil be the acceptance and harden- for achool purposes. ing of Marvis strect. The finance and school school proposition in tion has not been set but it is ex- | less than The cost of the building Wil probably be taken care of by a Permission for the is- slance of such bonds will be sought pected to be somewhat $100,000. bond issue. at the next session of the legislature, In the meantime, some temporary means will probably bg made in or- der to cover the amount. The board of selectmen will hold a hearing immediately preceding the town meeting on the acceptance and All resi- dents on that street Pave signified their desire of being assessed a cer- to be determined by the sclectmen, for the hardening of hardening of Marvia strect. tain amount, the street. HARTFORD MAN GETS A NEW ROCKEFELLER DIME boards have been working together on the an effort to | evolve a plea for financing the pro- | ject. The amount of the appropria- | Civil War Veteran Preseated with “Lone Thin” Coln by Magnate. Ormond Beach, Fla., Feb. 18 UP— One of the famous John D. Rocke- Seller dimes, usually given to chil- dren and younger folk, has been presented by the oil magnate to e man nearly his own age, Private George Maxur, 81, of Hartford, Conn,, who interviewed the famous millionaire as he started on a golf- ing round yesterday with General Adelbert Ames, 91, of Lowell, Mass, Private Maxur, introduced to Mr. Rockefeller and General Ames, re- called that the general was the oldest living general officer of the clvil war, and that started the age trio to reminiscing. + Private Maxur remarked upon the agility of General Ames, to which Mr. Rockefeller interposed: *Look at me. I'm a spring chicken com- pared to him.” He doffed his cap iand all smiled broadly. General Ames. related some of his experiences of the war and told ‘of his first trip to this state during the war between the states. “After arriving at Jacksonville,” he said, “I received orders to as- . | sume command of the state.” “Yes, and you've tried to com- mand it_ever since,” John D. re- torted while a small crowd laughed loudly. PLAINVILLE NEWS (Continued from Page Scven) t jat 8 a. m. Wednesday with the i' Wall Street Briefs , “R. G. Dun & Co.. reports 530 MARGIN GALLS HIT | STOCK FIfiURE° mmercial fallures in the United &urthu woek, -against €6 last week and 484 a year ago.. GREYBULL IS RUN BY WOMAN AND ENOYS IT Miss Elizaboth Wiley Has Been Mayoress Four Years—Suc- cessfully Fought Klan Greybull, Wyo., Feb. 18 (UP)— has been bossed by a Greybull ‘woman for four years and likes it. " When Miss' Elizabeth Wiley 'an- nounced she would run for mayor of the town on an aati-klan ticket the town smiled. economic administration. clean-up began. election & government inspector de- drink. Mayoress Wiley the water tested pure again. The city was spending “$350 & month more than it was receiving in taxes, Mias Wilcy sold one the city teams and discontinued unnec- cssary jobs. The next move was to install water meters at the refinery and found being delivered for $12. She stopped this. been “converted.” Flaming crosses were burned. Miss Wiley took the stump and de- died the klan and promised an She won overwhelmingly and her The day after her clared the town's city water unfit to ordered the pumps repaired, built a new pit and $200 worth of water a month was Still there were some who had not Rucmnu'y Price Movement' Is Gontined Today New York, Feb. 18 UM—The re- actionary price movement in the stock market, which reached con- siderable violence to the last hour of trading yesterday, Was resumed at the opening today. Overnight margin calls apparently had brought in fresh liquidation. Early declines Midland Steel Products preferred, Radio Corporation, Freeport Texas and Johns Manville, The early decline was an orderly one. Trading was in relatively small volume which was construed as an indication of the absence of any extensive forced liquidation. Short- covering also acted as a buffer to absorb the selling stocks. common and General Motors re- celved fairly good support, showing only fractional recessions. Freeport Texas extended its opening decline to 3 points by touching €8, as com- pared with® high of 1093 earlier in the year. Texas Gulf Sulphur, which reached & peak of 80 6-8 a few weeks ago, rcacted 1 point over- night to 68%. More than a score issues dipped a point or so in the first half hour, the list including Montgomery Ward, International Ce- ment, Mack Trucks, Pullman, Rey- nolds Tobacco B, International Nickel and Westinghouse Electric, foreign exchanges opened steady, 9:16. THE MARKET AT 11:30 A. M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) |PUTNAM & Members Now York & Havtjord Sanck Bschanges co 31 WEST MAIN ST NEW BRITAIN . TEL 2040 HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAI ROW TELEPHONE 3-114) re————————— e R We Offer: Alabama Power Co. $5 Cumulative Preferred Price $97.50 Per Share of 1 t0 3% points were recorded by | Thomson, Tem & WLr U. 8. Steel | 55 West Main Street New Britain Phome 258 Members of New York and Hartford Stock Exchange Edward L. Newmarker, Manager We Offer:-L Pheenix (Fire) Insurance Co. Price on Application with sterling cables quoted at $4.57 It 1s reported that Mrs. James T. Powell of Robbins avenue, Maple Hill, is improved and it is possible that she may leave the New Britain General hospital today and return to attack of the grippe. Last year, how- blessing and distribution of ashes. At 7:30 p, m. there will be rosary. | benediction of the Blessed Bacra-| ment, and distribution of blessed ashes, On Friday at 7:30 p. m. there will |be the way of the cross and bene- diction of the Blessed Sacrament. Lenten devotions, after this week. will be held every Sunday and Fri- day evening at 7:30 o'clock. The ladies of the parish are plan- ning a St. Patrick's entertalnment and dance in the high school for| March 17. High Low Closc 7% 146% 147 605 — 6% 108 85% 171 % ever, sho defeated an effort to change the right of way for the Yel- | What was to have been the second ; anklin & Hardinge, | 10Wstone highway, which would cut §1-year-old Chicago millionaire cnd Miss Anne Livingstone, 30, Tulsa, | Off @ §00d part of Greybull. Okla., divorcee (above) seemis to have becn called off. 'A prenuptial| Then her remaining opponents dinner was given by Hardinge, the minister cngaged, the wedding supper | capitulated. arranged, and all, that. There scemed to he no hitch. Yet when Miss | Today they are asking her to seek Livingstone was asked to sign a paper waiving claim to the wealth of her | reelection in May. And—she may prospective husband for $300,000 to be paid upon his death, she refused. | 49 it. she 3 Thus ends this chapter. DEMOCRATIC CLUB NEW ORGANAZATION 70 Cllarter Members on Roll— < “Curtn s President Al Che & Dye Am Ag Che pd American Can Am Loco .... Am Sumatra . Am 8Sm & Re Am Sugar ... Am Tobacco . Am Woolen . Anaconda Cop Atchison .... {Balt & Ohio. !Beth Steel Calif Pet .. Cer De Pusco Ches & Ohio CRI& Pac EDDY BROTHERS &G Members Hartford Stock Exchange 107% 108 B53 55% NEW BRITAIN "m'm NERIBEN 171 Burrilt Hotel Bldg. WCMTWM Colony Bidg' 6% 6% Miss Gertrude Fieber of Frederick street is about again after having been confined to her home with an attack on the grippe. 300 SEEKING FRANCHISE | AS AMERICAN CITIZENS Naturalization Court in March May Sit ov:': ’Dlms::: Period, EBELMWS ‘FM RMKED e BY DYNAMITE BLAST The next session of the naturaliza- | One Killed and Several Cut by Fiy- tion court may extend for three days, according to information re- ing Glass When 100 Pounds Explodes. ceived today. There are about 300 candidates for citizenship, who will scek admission and it may be neces- Bellows Falls, Vt., Feb, 15 (P— The village of Bellows Falls was thaken today by the explosion of sary to continue the court session for three days, making the longest 100 pounds of dynamite in a shanty | Mr. Curtin was city electrical in- jon the bank of the Connecticut|spector for several yorrs and was of its kind ever held in the city. Tt is expeoted that the court will con- river. One man war killed, several & candldate for councilman in the persons were cut by flying glass venc on March 1 and March 2 and, if neccasary, on March 3. and a large number of windows were blown out. 3 Thomas M. Spellman, representa- tive of the government, will be in New Britain on Tuesday and Fri- day of next week'to examine can- didates for admission to citizenship. William J. O'Brien of North Wal- pole, N. H., who had charge of the dynamite, was blown to picces. The explosive was part of a supply being 4 3 |used in power development work by b e [ He made the tentative announce- ment of the court session dates yes- the Sherman Construction Company. ‘What cayged the terday. Known. All the windows in the Moore qnd Thompson paper mill 150 feet dis- | tant, were broken, as were many in the Hudson Bag Compary's-mill, the municipal building and the Hotel | Windham. Several construction em- ployes who were in & bunkhouse 200 feet from the shanty were badly | shaken up but escaped serious injury. 2213 54% 183% 109 57Y% 4% 623 106 57 KA 23% 127% 66 34% 17 50 184 67% 664 3% 126 132% 207% 7T% %% 623, 83% 226 683, 80% 7% 33 FACES DEPORTATION Honolulu, T. H., Feb. 18 (UP)— ! Au Yin Hong, Chinese motion pic- ture actress, po| sullrh' known as the ,"l)r]enlal Billi¢ Burke,”" received | orders herc today that she faces de- portation back to China. Miss Au had been dotained several wéeks | cprviier Corp pending an examination by physi- <o ®E VOP o cians to determine if ahe was suffer- | oo oo 037t berculosis. i ing from tu Consol Gas 1281 ‘Corn Prod 66% Dav Chem ... 36% Dodge Bros A 17% Erie RR ..... 50% Fam Players .11¢ | Flefschmann -.. 67% Freeport Tex . 70 Genl Asphalt . 73% Genl Elec .....126% Genl Motors ..133 We Offer and Recommend: 50 Shares Landers, Frary & Clark 70 Shares Stanley Works 50 Shares Amencan Hardware Prince & Whitely Established 1878, Members New York, Chicago and Cleveland Stock Exchanges. Burritt Bldg.—69 West Main St.—Tel. 5405 Donald R. Hart, Mgr. 1third ward at the [He has been acf st city election. ive in democratic 1 years, The club, with a membership of nearly 70 men signed up at its or- ganization meeting, has elected the Tollowing officers to serve with Pres- ident Curtin: Jack Putterman, sec- Iretary wrence Samorajezyk, finan- ml retary; John F. Mehan, casurer. A membership commit- | |‘ e will be appointed and plans will be made for weekly socials in the pre-clection period. Lawrence P. Mangan has been named chairman | of a committee on rules, ted by " Irank 1. Conlon, T. C. Cavanaugh, Dr. A L. Avitable and John I, Mee- han, It is planned to conduct the new organization along lines similar to the Hardware City Democratic club which played an important role in clection of A. M. I'aonessa as mayor in 1 - To Rent—35 Room tenement., Peter Susco, Diamond 8t., Plainville, | Phone, Plainville 397.—advt. Deaths Carl E. Nyborg Carl E. Nyborg, 66 years old, died |late yesterday afternoon at his home | 51 Harvard strect, following a lin- |Glidden ...... 21% gering Hliness. He was widely known | Hudson Motors 79% (among the Swedish people of the|Int Comb, Eng 46% city during the 40 years he lived |Int Cement ... 63 | here, Int Niekel . 86 Born in Sweden, he came to New Int Harves . Britain from his native home about | Int Paper 1888. He became interested in fra- ) Ken Cop ternal affairs shortly after his ar. |Mack Truck .. 98 rival and for years he was a mem- | Marland Oil .. 33% Mrs. Holloway of Murray-|ber of the Kronan Sick Benefit so- | Mo Kan & Tex 34 trect »d the members of {ciety, and One Hundred Men's so-|Mont Ward ..137 rer bridge club Thursday afternoon !clety Svea. He was affillated with | National Lead 128 The prizes were awarded to Mrs. |the First Lutheran church. He was (N Y Central ..156% Waters and Mrs, M. L. Stoddard. employed at North & Judd Co. pre- ([N Y N H & H 60% A daughter was born at New Brit- vious to his death. North Amer... 60 ain General hospital to M Surviving him are four sons, Ar-{North Pacific.. 93 Henry Zicgler of 53 Hill thur, Harold, Oscar and Elmer, a|Pack Mot Car 56% hasketball player; two daughters,|Pan Am Pet B 38% Miss Mildred Nyborg and Mrs. Al-|Phillips Pet .. 36% bert Troch of Terryville; a grand-|Plerce Arrow.. 11 son, and a sister, Mrs. William Carl- | Pullman 80% son of Forestville. Radio Corp... 87% The funeral will be held Monday | Remington Rd 28% morning at 2 o'clock at Erwin cha- |Sears Roebuck 847% pel. Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahlquist, pas- |8inclair Ofl 1% tor of the First Lutheran church. |Std Ol N J . 37% | will officiate. Burial will be'in Fair- {8td Ol N Y ., 28% view cemetery. Stewart Warner 781 Studebaker 608 Texas Co ..... 50% Tex Gulf Sulph 69 Tim Rol Bear .1167% Funerals [« | ] Cyril J. Curtin, former city elec- trical inspector, was elect unanimous vote to be the ident of the New Britain I club, organized last night party’s headquarters in building. Clty Items We offer a few shares of New York Water Service Corp. Six Per Cent Preferred $10,000 SUIT SETTLED ‘The $10,000 action of Ida Horwitz and Nettie Rotstein against A. H. Mirante and Elvira Mirante has been settled out of court. The plaintiffs sued to recover on a bond. explosion is nol TOMASSO SUES FOR $4,000 Suit for $4,000 damages has been brought by Angelo Tomasso through 8. @. Casale, against the Elaine Realty Co. Property of the defend- ant'in Milford was attached. CIRCULATION . should be the first consideration when considering placing an adver- tisement in a newspaper. The Herald prints and . 14,000 Feb. 1S UP—The 1S not y come, in the opin- ion of Ambassador Howard of Great Britain, for complete disarmament ! in the hope of permanent world peace. In an address here yesterday he declared that both Great Britain and the United States are justified in maintaining navies of sufficient strength to protect their interest. However, he said, in spitc of reports of ill-fecling, the two nations con- tinue to draw closer in the bonds of amity. YWashington, distributes daily, over . A MATTER OF INCOME Do you hold securities yielding less than nine per “cent? If you could receive your money back, would you be willing to place it where it would return nine per cent? Then, come and see me. It's worth looki into— No obligations—to you or to me. Iexplain, you decide. - ou have no securities it is time !Kou got some— Start with a good one—I will show you how— 34 years selling securities yielding over nine per cent, and not a single penny lost to any in- vestor, is the record of the organization. H. B. Giles Hotel Burritt Tel. 3310 CYRIL J. CURTIN {Union Pac ., 180% Union Carbide 136% United Fruit . 137% U 8 Ind Al . 106% U 8 Rubber ... 51% U 8 Steel - 140% Wabash Ry 52% West Elec . 91 Willys Over .. 18% Woolworth .. 178% Wright Aero .. T4% LOCAL STOCKS (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) Crawford Hargrove Funeral services for Crawford Hargrove of Willow street, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the funeral home of B. C. Porter Sons, 19 Court street. Rev. Dixon .M. Brown, pastor of A. M. E. Zion church, will officiate. Burial will !be In Fairview cemetery. 105% 51% 139% ! 91 18% 177 “ Burritt Mutual Savings Bank Willlam Regalis Funeral services for William ‘Re- galis of 36 Seymourt strect will be held Monday morping at 9 o'clock at 8t. Andrew’'s church. Burial wili be in St. Mary's cemetery. Ify Insurance Stocks. Bid Asked ! Aetna Casualty .... . 925 Aetna Life Ins Co 8§60 Aetna Fire . 820 Automobile Ins 400 Hartford Fire 830 National Fire 090 | Phoenix Fire 850 ‘Travelers Ins Co . 1715 Connecticut General . .. 1890 Manufacturing S(nck!‘ Am Hardware ... Am Hosiery . Beaton & Cadwell .. Bige-Htd Cpt Co com Frank Thompson The funeral of Frank Thompson of Windsor, a former resident of this city and Kensington, will be aeld Monday at the funeral pariors of M. J. Kenney & Co. at 563 Main street at 9:45 o'clock and at St | Mary's church at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in 8t. Mary's cemetery. “Like a Snowball”— A Savings Account ing two members of the senate to'trolley cars collided on Farmington here at this Mutual Sav- ings Bank is like a snow- ball---the further you roll it, the bigger your “roll.” Why not start your Sav- ings today ? of vital “I am a Contractor Contracts and specifications are importance That's why I rent a Safe De- posit Box at this Bank. They wnll be glad to fix one up for you too." Only lc a day. to me. Mrs. Catherine O'Brien The funeral of Mrs. Catherine O’Brien, a resident of this city for 55 years, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Ferguson, of Newark, N. 1., will be held at the |home of her granddaughter, 8. Witkin of 52 Monroe street, Mon- . day morning at 7:30 o'clock and st 'St. Mary's church at 8 o'clock. ' Burial will be in 8t. Mary's ceme- tery. Joseph A, Haffe l'!DmAKIR 1633-2 Opposite. S Mary's Chareh Residence 17 lt—-v ~.—1038-3 NOW THAT SPRING FLOWERS ARE NERE—TELEGRAPE . TUEN! BOLLERER'S POSY SHOP A3 W. Maln St, Pret. -“-M {“The Telegraph Fieriet Mrs. -~~=gmmmam | Hfd Elec Light . Billings & Spencer com Billings & Spencer pfd .. Bristol Brass .. Colt's Orms .... Eagle Lock Fafnir Bearing Co Hart & Cooley . Landers, I N B Machine .. N B Machine pfd .....100 Niles-Be-Pond com 37 North & Judd . Peck, Stowe & Wil Russell Mfg Co ex Bcovill MIgCO ........ Standard Screw . 107 Stanley Works ... Torringten oC com Unijon Mtg Co .. Public Utllitics uocu. Conn. Elec 8ervice .... 92 Conn Lt & Pow pfd ex 112 18 . 70 .178 .450 . 95 NBGas ... ... Southern N E Tel . Conn Power WHITE HOUSE BREAKFAST Washington, Feb. 18 UP—8enators he was driving plunged through a and 432 house were“en('e on Avon mountain early to- months of 1937. mixed today at the White House day: and members of ‘the the-early morning meal along with 12 members of the house. Those present werc Senator Bruce, demo- crat, Maryland; S8enator Johnson, republican, California; Representa- tives Snell, of New York, Burton, of Ohio, Williams of Illinois, Michener, of Michigan, Ransley. of Pennsyl- vania, Ramseyer, of Iowa, Luce and Frothingham, of Massachusetts, Beers and Campbell, of Pennsyl- vania, Mrs. Catherine Langley, of | Kentucky, republicans, and Bank- | head, of Alabama, democrat. 1SKIDS THROUGH FENCE ON AYON NOUNTAIN ROAD' One Man Injured—Three Women and Man Hurt tn Hartford Car Accident. lartford, Feb. 18 UM was seriously injured when the car thfee women and & man sus- — One man ;eup hers, avenue in front of the cathedral shortly after 7 o'clock. A truck driver was hurt when his machine crashed into a trolley car on Farm- ington avenue, Albert West of Collinsville skid- ded off the Avon mountain road while driving aleng toward Hart- ford, crashed through & femce and after being thrown from his car was found lying in the snow uncon- scious by a passerby who tele- phoned the state police. He was_brought to St. Francis hospital, where he is in a serious |condition with fractured ribs and poulhly other injuries. p In all cases the accidents were attributabie to the slippery condi- tion of the roads and trolley tracks. caused by the early merning fall of; soft wet snow. AIR GARAGE BUSY San Antonlo, Tex., Feb. 18 (P— !The “air garage” at Duncan Pield,’ has lots of business now. 1t completely rcbuilt 123 airplanes motors in the last six’ Brisle” | breakiast, President Coolidge ask-|tained minor injuries when two READ HERALD m“ 3