New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1928, Page 9

Mail Orders Filled For Smart Madame -and Miss Ghe NSEMBLE Is The Thing Featuring the “Granby” $29.50 . A three piece Ensemble—imported mannish Tweeds—Coat —Skirt—Knitted Sweater and tailored Blouse—decidedly smart for Spring. Adopted from famous Parisian couturiers they will please the most exacting. Berlin News . FINANGE BOARD 1S FOR BUYING LAND Recommends Purchase of Tract Near Percival Sctiol PRICE IS FIXED AT $182 Rev. Samuel A, Fiske Speaks at Bible Class Meeting—Children Oatch. Pheasant Alive—Lenten Services This Evening. A sbedlal meeting of the finance | committee was held at the Town hall last evening at*the request of the echool committee to discuss the purchase of a piece of land situated in the rear of the Percival school. The pleco of land in question has a peculiar shap and is formed like the letter V. Although it is not very | large, it is important to the town of Berlin, The land is 56 feet long on one side and 48 fect long on the other. The third side is four feet long. The lind is owned by Mrs. Alice M. Chapinan and at the pres- cnt time is fenced in. The town of | Berlin owns land next to the Per- cival school and this little stretch of land separates it from the Percival school property. The school com- mittee was represented by Professor Stanley Galptn, Daniel Malarney and Robert Graham. Mr. Galpin present- ed the school committee's report to the finance committee and recom- mended that the property be bought from Mrs, Chapman. Mrs. Chapman had the property surveyed a short while ago and is willlng to sell it to the town of Ber- 1in for $152. The school board holds an option on the land which expires March 15. The finance committee voted that it be recommended that the property be bought and with both the school and finanee committees favoring the purchase, it is proPable that a special town meeting will be called within the next two weeks to act on the matter. The finance commit- tee was represented last evening by the following: C. W. Btevens, R. O. Clark, James Fitzsimmons, B. Moore and P. C. Rickey. American Legiou News On Sunday afternoon the members of the Bolton-Kasica post, American Legion, will travel to Windsor to at- tend the meeting of the Hartford County assoclation of the Legion Plans for this trip will be discussed at the meeting of the local post ‘which will be held this evening. It 15 expected that the committee, which was appointed to arrange for the incorporation of the post, will have something to report at to- night's meeting. Lenten Services This Evening Lenten services will be held this evening at 7:30 .o'clock at St. Paul's church, Kensington. Cross will be given. Surprise Party Glven A surpMse party was held last evening in honor of Miss Mildred 8chubert of West Rocky Hill by her sister, Miss Mary Sylvester. Many guests were present and Miss Schu- bert was the recipient of many us ful gifts. Refreshments were served | during the course of the evening. To Hold Meeting The next meeting of the Wednen- day night whist club will be held at the home of Mrs. John Hannon of Worthington ridge. The winners in the games played Wednesday night were Mrs. Francis Whertz and Mrs. Myron Goodrich. Recovers Health Mrs. George Wetz, who has been Stations of the| Other cleverly styled Ensembles—newest fabrics—smartest colorings, that begin as low as $19.75 and range on up to $95.00. New Ensembles—Second Floor Il for the past two weeks, is able to be about. Berlin Farmers' Meeting The Berlin Farmers' club will hofd a meeting at the town hall to- morrow evening. James O. Owen will be the speaker. All members are asked to be present. Discontinue Cuba Parcel Post Postmaster 8. M. Cowles announc- ed today that he hal been notified that no parcel post addressed to Cuba was to be accepted after to- day. United States and Cuba are engage®in a controversy over postal laws at the present time, and until the matter js scttled by congress, no more parcel post will be sent to Cuba, ! Catch Theasant Alive { Children on the way to schaol this | morning noticed a wild pheasant hopping around on the Kilby prop- | erty near Main street in Kensington. | |They chased the bird around and | cornered it under the veranda of a | house. One youngster crawled under | |the veranda and captured the bird. | |Tt was put on exhibition at Ander- son’s store. Woman's Missionary Meeting | The Woman's Missionary society | |of the Berlin Congregational church | |and the W. H. M. L. soclety of the Kensington Methodist church united |this afternoon in a service of prayer | for the missions in the parlor of the Berlin church. 4 The next meeting of the Woman's | Missionary socicty will be held at |the home of Mrs. Robert Deming on | |March 7. An all-day sewing sessien | will be conducted for the benefit of the Madura hospital. The speaker | | will be Mrs. R. A. Dudley of India. { Boys Make Money of Kensington proved to | be wide-awake to their opportuni- | ties as offered by the heavy rain | |storm yesterday The flood under the |rallroad underpass caused many | cars to stall as they attempted to| drive through the dcep water. About 15 boys, armed with heavy cable, stationcd themselves at the bridge. | ir ery time a car would stall the towner was given a proposition by the lads. For the gift of $2.00 the | hoys would attach the wire to the car and draw it out of the water.] They proved to be strict business men, for any owner of a stalled car | |who attempted to bring the price of rescue down, was left flat by the | salvagers. i Emma Hart Chapter Plans are being made by the {Emma Hart Chapter, Daughters of {the American Revolution, to hold its| next meeting at the home of Mrs. Robert Clark on March 16. Speaks in New Dritain Rev. Samuel A. Fiske of the Ber-| 1in Congregational church epoke be- fore the Bible class of the New Britain Y. M. C. A. last evening. He told his listeners that the children | of today are not building their fu- ture lives on a sound foundation. |They look too much to the pleasant things of life and do not look for- ward. He quoted from the Bible and likened the children of today to an carlier race, who bullt their houses | with mud and did not have a sound 'and concrete foundation. Present ! youth builds the earlier years of life |with pleasant and cheerful things but does not groom itself for the im- portant period of his life which is coming in a few years. Fast Berlin Items On next Tuesday evening the Knights of Pythias will entertain| members and their families at their annual banquet at Community hall. An catertainment program follow- Ing the banquet will be rendercd. Dancing _will be enjoyed. The Pythian Sisters will take part in the | pregram. The town road department will coriplete their work of resurfacing Wilcox avenue by tonight. Crushed stone has been laid over the entire street and this has been covered with gravel. The Doys' club will meet tonight | |at 7 o'clock at Commumity hall. An- | | other eeries of tests for the prize cup will be held. E E. V. Read is attending the Frigi- daire convention in New York eity ! The by today. ¢ Dwight Pollard is seriously il at the home of his son, George Pollard. He has been ill for quite some time. The Methodist church choir will hold a rehearsal in the church to- night at 7:30 o'clock. There will be a rehearsal of the cholr at the Methodist church this evening at 7:30 o'clock; all members are expected to be present and at 8:30 o'clock the teachers and officers of the Sunday school will hold their February business meeting. Mrs. Siergrist entertained a number of her friends at a chicken dinner at her home on Berlin avenue, East Berlin on Thureday afternoon. The local Boy Scouts from here will attend a theater party at New Britain this evening. The Lafanso club met last evening at the home of Mrs. Mary Bourgeois on Main street. An illustrated lecture-on Yellow- stone park will be shown at the Methodist church on = next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. GET FREE PASSES 7 Milan, Feb. 24 (UP)—Podesta Belloni announced today that all members of large families would be | given free unlimited passes on local | street lines, as a part of Premier Mussolini’s campaign to increase the birth rate, Your chance of getting 13 cards of one suit in bridge is about one in 6,250,300,800. ; WHEN CHILDREN FREY It fan’t right for thelittle tetstofret and they wouldn't if they felt right. Con. stipation, headache, worms, feverishness, bad breath; any of thesewill make a child fret. need the |tage. He should pieasant * remedy — HOTRIR GRAT'S powptas. They - late the bowels, break up colds, relieve fev- c:‘!'hma,lmhln‘ dis- orders and stomach n..u‘“n, IM"‘" troubles, . ot over 80 years. All vell Mother Sweel g today. Trial ‘guu Proe, Address THE MOTHERGRAY CO, Le Rey, with Patsy Ruth Miller. —SATURDAY— WILLIAM HAINES in “WEST POINT” Love Thrills. 3 A Thousand Laughs. | Being maps which are taken upside Plainville N SAYS APPRAISERS WOULD BE UNFAIR “Experonct” Rttacks Reraluers as Unqualified INFORMATION AVAILABLE Maps and Cards To Be Explatned Tomorrow—Plataville Losss Closo Game—itandard Steel Dofeatod— “Htis Uncle's Niece” Tonight, Chirges that an outside appraisal company, if employed to revalue the tazable property in the town as how suggested, would be biased and would favor the particular individ- uals who were responsible for its being hired are made in & letter ad- dressed/to the taxpayers of Plain- ville by a prominent citizen wko signs himself as “Experience.” He claims that the appraisal companies are putting forward tempting advan- tages which would not really follow from the adoption of revaluation and urges that Plainville citizens, whom he believes could do a fairer job, should carry out the work of revaluation. ‘The letter is as follows: New Britain Herald of February 17, headed “Lower Rates Possible Even With Revaluation Expenses.” No person possessing a proper and true understanding of this “revalu- ation” plan would make such a statement, realizing that the pur- pose of this plan is to put all land (regardless of location or value) on & front foot valuation basis. “Any appraleal company which you might secure to do this work will inform you that there is land and property in Plainville from which you are deriving no taxes. such as railroad property, stores. stock in factorics, etc. They stress the fact that in order to obtain such unpaid taxes, a revaluation by a praisal experts is absolutely neces- |sary. In this way the unsuspecting | citizen’ 1s led to accept a vague plan, the true purpose of which, if ex- posed beforehand, would make it ’impo&&ible for any self-respecting | taxpayer to agree to. | “For the appratsal company 15/ justly looking out for its own in-| terests. Once assured that the con- | tract is awarded to them, they are apt to lean toward the few individ- uals who were politically responsible for giving them the plum. As for the average taxpayer, he is forgot- ten. He must suffer the conse-| quences of the resulting w | valuation and carry another" besides his own. “Regarding the air maps, may T suggest that all please use just a lit- tle thought on this subjcct. These air maps are obviously of no particu. lar value to the average taxpayer, down, it is very difficult for the average man to elearly underetand | them, and he is even unable to pick | ‘out his own land or property. Thus, | |they are positively of little Worfl\.i | Only a few individuals can thorough- | 'ly understand these maps. Why spend $6,000 or $7,000 for something | which you yourself will never get ! any benefit from? | *“A card system!—We can evolve | and install just as good a system for considerably less money if we will| just dig in and do these things our- gelves. If the business men of any | town would devote a little time and | inject some of the smart business methods into town affairs and strive to keep out the invading politiclan | and his ideas, local matters would improve and would be far better taken care of. “You will find that generally it is the man who can afford to pay who has “fixed things up” with the po- litical machine to his own advan- worry about any ! proposed plans! For it will be the honest taxpayer who must pay the ditference. It will be the honest tax- payer who says nothing, yet carrles more than his rightful share of the | load. | | “It i vary evident that no ap-| | praisal company, local or distant, | regardless of efficiency, s as quali- | fied to honestly set a value on your property as some of the Plainville | taxpayers themselves. It your pres-, ent scheme is wrong and you feel | that your assessors have falled in | [ their quty, appoint a commitiee of | honest men who are just in ‘their| | convictions and see if the assessors have given Plainville taxpayers the | square deal, before hiring outside | aid. I your assessors are not willing | to work with the revaluation com- | mittee, then the whole assessment i | illegal and both time and money have been wasted. “Before taking any action on the proposcd revaluation plan, it certain- | ly would be a very wise plan for | a committee to investigate some of , “Under the Plainville news in the there appeared an article which was | | brought the towns fn which ¢ this plan has been put and find out the truthefor themselves. “Whatever we do, let us do it from a standpoint of justice and not selfishness, so that the majority may profit by it and not the few which is generally the case, “Experience.” In regard to the previous article referred to by “Experience,” this had no connection whatever with any- thing which an appraisal company might do. It merely stated that the increase in the grand list this year was sufficient to cover the proposed $11,600 appropriatton without the necessity of raising the tax rate be- yond its present 25 miils. This rate, it levied on the present grand list, would pay the expenses already in the budget and, in addition, for the proposed work of revaluation. The work of the revaluation committee would have no effect until next year. To Explain Revaliiation The committee of seven appointed at the last town meeting have ar- ranged to have a representative of an appraisal company at the office of the John Cook company, next to the post office, tomorrow, from 2 p. m. on into the evening. Aerial maps, work sheets, and record cards will be on display and information will be given to those interested con- cerning the detailed work of an ap- praisal. The committes urges all who are not famillar with this work to take advantage of this opportun- ity to become familiar with it, as the question of a revaluation of the town will be voted upon at the town meeting to be held Monday evening. Plainville Again The Plainville entry in the Farm- ington Valley league gave the Hart- ford Knights of Lithuania another scare last night in a fast basketball game in the Capital City but was finally defeated by a 42-35 score. Plainville took the lead at the start |and was in front for 15 suinutes, but the Knights rallied and had a 19-16 advantage at the half. The isecond half was another close battle but the Hartford team kept its lead. | Jasper and Arburr made 31 points of |the locals’ total. {LaHar was felt badly. |and Urban made some !shots for Hartford. The summary: Hartford K. of L. 8. Shimkus T |Shages, rf ... {Urban, rt | Giratitis, 1f Bennett, It .... 8. Shimkus, ¢ ... R. Mazotas, rg . Roamn Jasper, rt .. Yakubowicz, If ... Holst, ¢ ...vec0e Arburr, rg Smith, g . Weir, 18 Jocboal Blan Totals Referce, “His Uncle’s Nicoe” “His Uncle's Niece,” a three-act comedy, will be presented in the High school auditorfum at 8 o'clock e 1= tonight by {he members of the Con- gregational 'Young People. The play will be followed by dancing from 10 to 12 o'clock, with music by the “Clet Dwellers.” Public Social The Martha Rebekahs will hold another of their public soclals and card parties in Odd Fellows' hall at 8 o'clock Monday night. Refresh- ments will be served. The general public is welcome, Sam Sweig Sned As the result of an automobile ac- cident on Meriden avenue, Southing- ton, on November 18, 1927, Alice M Beahn of Southington, through At- | torney H. C. Camp of that town, has sult for $300 damages against 8am 8. Bweig of Plainville. | Deputy Sheriff Martin H. Horwitz of New Britain sérved the papers. The plaintiff claims ' that a car owned by her and driven by her daughter, Dorothy B. Mitchell, was procecding along the Bouthington |street in back of a truck driven by the defendant. Being desirous of passing the truck, the plaintiff's daughter sounded the horn several times. but the defendant continued along the road in a straight line, failing to change his course. The plaintiff's daughter proceed- ed to drive the car past the defend- ant's truck and, when the pleasure vehicle Was abreast of the other ma- chine, it is alleged that Swelg swerved ‘the truck fo the left side of the road foreing the plaintiff's au- tomobile against an embankment, damaging it extensively, Industrial Bo Standard Steel. The absence of | spectacular | 4 ¢ 43 . 41 eeree 34 Peck Spring . . 323 4“* Sessions Clock 12 (13 Last pight was an eventful one in the Industrial Bowling league, which Irolled three matches at the Becre- |ation alleys. The Standard Steel |team, which was riding along Iserenely in first place, was suddenly dumped and shut out by the fast. climbing Plainville Casting combin- ation, The latter team tcok all four points and cut the Bearing Makers lead to two games. In the third string the winners hit 540. Basso, Chester and Dave were all in great form, while Baker was the enly Standard Steel bowler to pass the 800 mark. The American Legion took the expected four points from the Ses- sions Clock crew but was given a close run in every string. Scores were low. The Businessmen and Peck Spring Co. battled to a draw. The first game was even and went to the Spring Makers when they took the second. Then the Busi- nessmen came back and hit the ex- ceptional and probably record totai of 562 in the last string, thereby winning that and the pinfall. Mur- phy 8r., Valentine, Pompey, Schur, and Cavanaugh all rolled well. Every Businessman was over 100 on the last string. The scorea! Standard Steel Thompson ... 97 105 Wagnet 86 94 Baker 88 93 Nelson . 81 99 Rajune . 109 90 471 481 501—1453 Plainville Casting .. 107 110 104— 321 83 92 107— 282 79 88 111— 278 100 121 10— 3823 103 114 117— 334 528 29 30 33 4 97— 299 93— 273 105— 285 90— 289 Dave . Cooke Eubrek Chester Baeso 72 540—1538 Lawrence Scharr . Bissell Griffin 92 260 292 280 2— 163 4371343 256 250 290 Brooks ... 109 294 . Hoffman .. 93 445—137 Valentine Minella . Warner Murphy, Jr. Murphy, Sr, y 116— 302 101— 298 117— 294 25— 315 562—1603 Hopkins . Dunbar Pompey . Cavanaugh . Schur ....... 92— 274 102— 284 95— 314 94— 308 103— 818 486—1498 A son was born last night to Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Roberts of Pren- tice street. The High school basketball team was defeated in Watertown last night. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thrall of Baltimore, M4., are visiting In town. There will be Lenten services, with Stations of the Cross, at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy this evening. The High school dramatie club is |rehearsing for its forthcoming pro- jduction, “Professor Pep. Carl | Peterson is business manager. A dance will be held tomorrow night at the Jonic club, 43 West | Main street. Musie will ‘be furnish- ed by the Majestic orchestra, which will _ feature Trumpeter Ernest Baket of Cambridge, Maes. The pub- lic is invited. A salmagundi party for members and friends of the Advent Christian the Uklele club at the home of Rev. P. J. Cleveland, 38 East Broad street. i Found—Pocketbook. 10 Tomlinson avenue.—advt. MAY ENDORSE “AL"” SMITH. democratic convention, which con- venes here tonight, probably will en- party presidential candidate, servers belleved today. ob- The Banner Event of e Year Don't Forget the FIREMEN’S ANNUAL BALL WED! A splendid time, SDAY EV! a congenial crowd, ENING, Feb. 20th. tasty decorations. Bill Tassilo's Orchestra of 10 best artists. Your Neighbor will be there. Concert from eight to nine——Dancing till one. At High School, Plainville 116— 307 | Bristol News COUNGIL T0 WOVE AGAINST RAILROAD ¥ill Consider Extra Protection lor Forestville Crossing L. L. PERKINS WILL FILED Palos Council Communion Breakfas( Sunday—Fire Board Meets To- night—Wife Brings Divorce Sali —Auto Breaks Off Fole. Defnite’ steps for additional pro- tection at the rallroad crossing at Central street, Forestville, will be taken at the meeting of the city council on Tuesday evening, March probable that at the same time ef- forts will be made to have the rail- road authorities provide added se- curity at other grade crossings in |the city. This action is the result lof the fatal accident at the Central Street crossing on the night of Feb- ruary S\when two persons were Kkilled outright and four others in- they were riding was | practically demolished, On the day following the accident, | | ensineers from the office of Division | | Engineer R, J. Bleth of Waterbury | jwere on the ground and numerous | measurements and photographs were taken. Superintendent John J. )O'Hanley and Assistant Superintend- |ent James H. Greer were also pres- | |ent looking over the sceme of the | |accident and the claim department | of the “New Haven” road was also | represented in the person of L. P. Argus. Superintendent O’Hanley at |that time, in response to a question Put to him by the writer, stated that | he did not know what the next step | would be although it was probable | {nothing definite would be done until | struck and {mission had been made public. The {accident on the night in question oc- curred at 9:23 p. m. or 23 minutes after the gateman had gone off duty for the night. The crossing is pro- {a.m. and 9 p. m. In addition to the Forestville crossing, it s probable that the sub- again be brought before the meeting member of that body. Several months ago, one person was killed outright at this spot and at that time Mr. Judd insisted that some- !thing be done to safeguard both pedestrians and motorists at this point. After several interviews with raliroad authorities, the matter was shelved temporarily and has since |remained there. | Dolittie’s crossing at the north ,end of the eity is protected by both !flagmen and signal devices and plans are now in the works to put into op- |eration a tentative scheme whereby | {the crossing proper would be nar- rowed on the east side |signal lights replaced where they | would be more clearly visible to both pedestrian and vehicular traffie. It |is belleved, however, by some city |officials that the only solution at this point is the elimination of the crossing entirely and the bullding of lan overhead bridge. out that in the event the tentative !plan s formally accepted by both the city and state officials, the present flagmen will be taken off and traffic ruided strictly by the bhanjo signal arrangement. These, in common |with the automatic signal devices jused to govern the movement of |trains, are very apt to go out of order, according to engineers and in |such cases the taret would flash to red, indicating danger. " It is not known whether railroad {ing on March 6. | Annual Communion Breakfast The annual Comthunion of Palos "f‘,ouncll. No. 35, Knights of Colum- Inquire at |bus, will be observed Sunday morn- |breaking it off. |ing at St. Joseph's church. Mem- |bers will attend the 7:15 o'clock mass, which will be followed by a Manila, P. I, Feb. 24 (UP)—The | Communion breakfast and social | was uninjured. gathering in St. Joseph's guild hal W. B. Woodruff and son of this city dorse Al 8mith of New York for the | ¥ill cater and the following ladies of school basketball §t. Joseph's Guild will serve: Mrs. Homer H. Judd, Mrs. Willlam E. Norton, Sr, Mrs. Willlam McCarthy, | Mrs. W. J. Tracy, Mrs. Jullan Nor- !ton, Mrs. W. J. Slocum, Mrs. W. J. {Malone, Miss Mary McNamara, M| | Margaret Hackett. | The principal speaker of the | morning will be Rev. Father Hubert, |retreat director of the Passionist | monastery at West Springfleld, Mas., | who will take for his subject “Amer- {icanism and Catholicism.” State |Deputy Haggerty of Greenwich will |also deliver an address. | An elaborate entertainment pro- }mm has also been arranged. Among the soloists to take part are James Shea and Edward Buckley of St. Jo- |seph’s Cathedral, Hartford, Joseph | Furey of Hartford and Miss Jo- ;sepmno Mastrobattisto of this city. ‘{s, it was learned today and it is jured when the automobile in which | the report of the public utilities com- | of the council by Homer H. Judd, a | and the| 1t is pointed | Miss Asilda Hebert will also appegr in several readings. 3 The committee in charge of _ar- rangements consists of Joseph L. MacDonald, Donald Brown . apd Richard Lambert, ! Fire Board. Meeting % The regular monthly meeting of the board of fire commissioners will be held at 8 o'clock this evening. At that time it is expected that Corporation Counsel Willlam N. De- Rosier will submit & report on the proposed purchase of the aite for the /mew firehouse at the corner of Farmington avenue and Lewis street, jwhich has been held up because of a clause in an old deed providing that the property may be used at any time for park purposes. It is | possible that plans of the mew fira- house may also be submitted. Perkins Will Filed . The will of the late Anson Q. Per- kins, for many years a prominent business man of the city and former |borough and town official, who died {last week, was filed in the probafe jcourt Thursday afternoon. A _be- quest of $1.000 in cash {s made {to a granddaughter, ‘Miss Marion !Berkeley Dailey and the sum -of $100 is left to the city of Bristol for the proper maintenance of.the Per- kins plot in West cemetery. The bulk of the estate is left to his wife, Mrs. Mary C. A. Perkins, who is also named executrix under a nominal |bond. The amount of the estate {will not be kKnown until a report is jrecelved from the appraisal com- mittee. Peter A. Cawley, praprietor of the Bristol Hardware Co., will sal] frem New York tomorrow morning for a vacation of several weeks in Bermu- da. | Miss Mary C. O'Brien ! Miss Mary C. O'Brien, 47, dfed at her home at 163 Divinity street at 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon fol- lowing a few days’ illness with pneumonia. Miss O'Brien was born in this city and had spent her entire life here. B8he attended the public and high schools and since has resideg with her parents. Surviving are her father, Thomas F. O'Brien; threc sister, Mrs. Eugeéne O’Donnell, Mrs. Raymond Talmadge and Miss Anna O'Brien; three brothers,’ Thomas P,, Willlam and James O'Brien, all of this city. The funeral will be held at St. Joseph's church at 9 o'clock Satur- day morning. Rev. Oliver T.:Mag- nell will celebrate the high mass of | requiem and burial will be in the old | St. Joseph’s cemetery. 3 { Funeral of Mrs. Amelia W. Darrow | The funeral of Mrs. Amelia W. Darrow of 162 South street, who —— —— |tected only between the hours of ¢ |dled Wednesday, was held & -2 {o'clock this afternoon at ber late {home. Rev. Francis T. Cooke, pas- |tor of the First Congregational 103— 294 iJect of Federal street crossing will church, conducted the servicés’ &nd | burial was in West cemetery. Lenten Devotions Lenten services, consisting of the rosary and a sermon, will be held at | 8t. Joseph's church at 7:30. o'clock |this evening. Rev. Edward A. Bax- ter, O. P. of Bt Mary's church, New Haven, will be thé speaker. | _Father Baxter during the World | War was a chaplain with the Amer- |lcan Expeditionary Forces ;ser\'ed on the battle front. He | considered oné of the most gifted orators of the Hartford diocese. L O. O. F. Meeting A meeting of Stephen Terry lodge. . 0. 0. F.. will be held at 8 o'clock his evening in Stephen Terry hall, Files Sult For Divorce Mre. Elizabeth B. 8. Flanders of this city, through her attorney, An- thony J. Rich, has instituted a i- jvorce action against Louis A Flanders, who now resides in Troy: N. Y. The plaintiff charges deser- tion three ycars age. The couple were married Novem- | be? 28, 1919 in New York city and | have one child. The case will be | heard at the March term of the su- | perior court at Hartford. | Auto Crashes Pole An automobile owned and operat- !ed by Richard Kallenbach of Pla {ville was badly damaged at 7 o’clock this morning when it crashed into |a pole near the Asbury Methodist |church on Church avenue, Forest- {ville. Kallenbach was on his way to work at the plant of the Huma- | |church will be given this evening by | officials will be present at the mect- |50n Mfg. Co. and had just started his | car after picking up a fellow em- 1ploye. In closing the door, he lost | control of the car temporarily and it {crashed into a telephone pole, Kallenback was |slightly cut about the hands by broken glass from the windshield but James Doyle, the passenger, Important Game Tonight The Bristol and Meriden high teams will face |each other in an important game tonight at the local high achool gym. a victory for the Bristol boys mean- |ing the clinching of the Central Con- I necticut league championship where- as a defeat will place them in a tie with the boys from the Silver City. Bristol at present is leading the {league with nine victories and no |defeats while the Meriden con- |tingent has suffered but one setback. | Bristol should win tonight's game: handily, however, as only a few wecks ago they traveled to Meriden and humbled the boys of that eity ion their own floor. The hopes of the {locals have risen with the return to {the lineup of “Ruffy” Rao, who for a time was lost to the team on ac- count of ineligibility. 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