New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 30

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929. Girl Scout News [ HERLIN NENS 2| At the meeting of the New Brit- | | tionat, lain Girl Scout councll which was| (Continued From Page 13) | it o e Uy I held Wednesday of this week it was | i New Voted to adjourn the meeting until |joyed skating. It was a common ;l\e“ England -Cll!ll 5 _ Wednesday, January 30, at 10| sight last night to see the boys skat- | Man Dies in Maine o'clock. ing up and down Main street. Trees| Portland, Me., Jan. 18 UP—John and wires were ice coated. No acci- | § Morris, 81, who introduced New George H. Dyson spoke to the |40 . 81, o soonts who are working .on tock. |J°DtE Were reported. gland clams to the west, died at was known as the originator of the} New England Clam Bake building at the Chicago World Fair in 1892. A carload of clams and hundreds of | barrels of lobsters were shipped daily to the building and dispensed. | 'He was born in Bangor in 184§ | His widow and two sons survive. | |be ehown at the Methodist church. | The Wesleyans will be in charge of ithe service. The public is invited !to attend. The pictures are educa- SHORTESTRALWAY OBSERVES SUBBATH Dickens’ Office Boy ; Wholesale 13 | The Stamp Eatire Six Cars of Due West of Quality “The Fastest Growing Hardware Store in the City” Music has a prominent place in student activities at Girard college, | { Equipment Suspends for Day | Due West, & C., Jan. 13 (P—This town, of about 500 population situ- ated in the Piedmont section of South Carolina, has two boasts. It is the seat of one of the oldest col- leges in the south and headquarters of & four mile railway, one of the | shortest in the world. Not but once in its 21 years of cxistence has a train been run over the railway on Sunday. That once was a life and death matter. One Sunday in 1915 a young woman's tife hung in the b: nce from an acute illness. 1t necessary to rush her to a hospital in C N. C. The only way to do it was to tuke her over the West railway 1 Donalds, the railway's terminus there mal E railway line. dent of the raily church when the ur; came and after being it was a was attending | nt summos ssured that | jon for the train to run 1 last time on Sunday. tten in the charter of the railway that no tr run on the Sabbath, ) explains, “but it is in our hearts.” “Our’ refe West, the majority members of the Associated Reform- od Presbyterian church. | The entire equipment of this bri hut official railroad consists of one flat car, one passenger coach, on combination passenger and freight coach and {wo engines. KILLED BY TROLLEY WAITING IN AUTO Man Dies and Three Companions Hurt in Brockton, Mass., Crash Brockton, Mass,, Jan. 18 (UP)— While sitting in their disabled auto- mobile, awaiting the arrival of a wrecking crew, onc young man was | killed and three companions seri- ously injured when the machine was demolished by a trolley car neur the Easton line early today. Nathan Caplin, 26, is dead. Fr:mkl Stone, 27, received a fracture of nm] left leg and other injuries; Miss| Marion Albanys, 21, se: broken | ribs and severe cuts, and Miss Alice Callahan, 21, fractured pelvis and severe cuts on the head and arm The three who were injured were reported in a serious condition at| Brockton hospital. Al vietims of | the accident were well known here, | having participated in amateur the- | «trical productions. | The two couples were driving to|of the church on Tuesday evening, | South Easton when their car skid- ded on the v road and swerved on- | 1o the car tracks. It was found that . wheel had been damaged and | Stone went to a house and telephon- «d to a garage for a wrecking crew. It was after he had returned to | the car, while the four were await- | ing the arrival of the garagemen, that the trolley car, oOperated by Frank Costello of Rockland and en | route from Brockton to Taunton, | crashed into the automobile. The trolley car was traveling at iigh speed and the automobile wa hurled 200 feet. The motorman told | police that a demse fog prevented him from seeing the car in time to .void the accident. A free municipal school of bee- | jurics were bruises about the body. | :eeping has been established in | I3uenos Aires, Argentina, i Skating Schedule Skating Anywhere Today POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “It looks like Ma's sisters never can think of anything to write except to tell her how good their husbands are to ‘em.” (Copyr iz For Sale Modern Five Room Bungalow ‘h- nd at table | on, Jan. 18 ®P—Frederic Ed , Who once was office boy for Charles Dickens and who long h been a familiar figure in the grounds of the Temple, where he | was a gateman for many years, 18 $1 years old. Dickens ecalled him “Chummy, nd he has Leen “Chummy” ever nee. Hore is his story in his own words: “My father,” he said, “had a friend who was employed by the firm of hookbinders that worked tor Dickens. “One day in 1583 it came to his knowledge that an crrand boy was wanted at the offices of ‘All the Year Round,’ the paper Dickens founded. Later it changed its name to ‘Housshold Words.' 'n to the corner of t, where the offices started on my du- tr stood, and soon e From Dickens. '63 to '65 1 worked for 1 didn't have much to do with him, I used to fetch his bran- dy and take letters to his publishers or proofs to his secretary, Mr. Wills, who lived in Regent's Parn terrace.” 0 The Temple iz the famous enclo- sure where the Crusaders gathered 1 the Middle Ages LECTURE ON INDIA Professor from College in Bombay to Speak at Annual Meeting of First Congregational Church Men’s Club Professo nelius, var's Colle Joseph Chelladurai Cor- A. A, formerly of Da- of Commerce in Bom- present engaged in grad- ate study in economics at Colum- bia university, will give a stereopti- con address entitled, “Some Price- less Gems of India,” illustrated with 100 slides at the annual meeting of the st Congregational church men's assoclation which will be ob- served at ladies’ night in the chapel January His pictures and address tell of changing conditions in the Orent nd particularly in India. He will nswer questions relating to orien- al civilization, Ghandi, the place of women in his native country, and Miss Mayo's book “Mother Inde.” KNOCKED DOWN BY TRUCK While Arthur C. Kramer of Lin- wood avenue, Newington, was giving directions to an autoist en route to New Haven Tuesday night at 6 o'clock, a light de ed by Joseph Crowley and driven by ward Woods, 19 years old, of Brook street, struck Kramer and cnogked him down. His only in- According to information filed at the motor vehicle department, Kra- mer had just left a trolley car wlhen the autoist asked directions, AUCTION SALE Consisting of beds, burcaus, chairs, stoves, kitchenware and c . the property of one Mrs. Thorngren, will be sold at Public Auction at my warehouse, T4 Greenwood street, New Britain, Conn,, on the 26th day of January 1629, at 2:30 o'clock p. mi., to sati a lien thercon charges. said charges previous to day A P. MAR AUCTION SALE of Unclaimed Freight Pursuant to the Terms of Contract of Interstate effective New York, Hartford Railroad, Auction on their in the Uniform Bill the ion contained Lading, described by Commerce Comn March 15th, 1922 New Haven will sell at Public s at Freight Station onn, at 1 p. 2 16029) for il charges the following: rlond o to American sh or cert!- | POLLY AND HER PALS price m Agent g COMMERCIAL COMPANY INSURANCE REAL ESTATE nhflw«w al. cooor livery truck, own- | r storage and other ibject to payment of Hammer Handles | Hamrmer to be 4 on or be- anuary 25th, finder merit badge about “Precious | and Semi-Precious Stones” ‘The | girls must know something about | the formations and value of these before they can complete thelr work | on this badge. { Drum corps lessons will begin Wednesday, January 30, in the Girl | icout office with the following | »dule: ife—Miss Ruth Gibney, instruc- or, 4:30-5:30. Drum—Mr. Charles Spring, In-| tructor, 6:30 to 7:30. | Bugle: Charles Abell, 1in-| structor, 7:30 to 8:30. It possible it is planned to alter- | uate lessons with drill having each | one every other week. ! Examinations in merit badges are | as_follows: Needlewoman and dressmaker— | Saturday, January 19, at the home |of Miss Nettic Cooley, 368 Park | street, between 10 and 11 o’clock Laundress merit badge—Wednas |day, January 23, at the Union | Laundry, 4:30; examiner Mr. John | Bjorklund. | Citizen merit badge—Monday, | February 4, with Mrs. Amy C. Guil- | | ford, after school at the senior high | | school. | | Journalist—To later. The schedule s not yet complet as some edaminers have not y been secured. | | _— | | Funeral of Justice | | Braley Set for Sunday | Boston, Jan. 18 (UP)—Funer services will be held Sunday after noon for Justice Henry King Bra ley, senior member of the Massachu- setts supreme court, who died at his | | Brighton home yesterday in his| 79th year. | | He had been a fudge for nearly | |38 years and had sat on the su- preme bench for 26 years. Justice Braley was born in Ro-| chester on March 17, 1850, son of | | samuel Tripp and Mary A. (King) Braley. After attending Pierce and | Rochester academies he taught | school two years and, at the age of | 21, began the study of law in the office of Hosea Kingman in Roches- ter. In October, 1873, he was admitted to the bar. Subsequently he served as city solicitor and mayor of Fall® River. He was the democratic can- didate for attorney-general in 1885, | Ibeing defeated, however. Judge Braley was nominated for {a position on the supreme bench #n | 1902 by Governor Winthrop Murray | Crane. He filled the vacancy cre- ated by the elevation of Chief Jus- tice Oliver Wendell Holmes to the' (United States supreme court. | be announced Military Honors for Spanish War Veteran | The funeral of Peter T. Higgins of Hartford will be held at the home of his brother, Thomas J. Higgins of 30 Wilson street, Saturday morn= ing at 8:30 o'clock and at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 9 o'clock When a requiem mass | will be sung. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Members of A. G. Hammond camp, U. B W. V., will pay their last re- spects to Comrade Higgins in an assembly which will be held Fatur- | day morning at 8:30 o'clock at th home on Wilson street. ; | The casket will be draped with |the American flag and military hon. ors will be accorded him. Pall bear- ers will bc members of A. G. Ham- mond camp. APPROVE BILL Rome, Jan. 18 (A—At the sug- gestion of Premier Mussolini the council of ministers at its session vesterday approved a bill favoring increased rewards and further ad- vantages for heads of large families and tending to prevent concentra- tion of population in large cities, time of sale ‘ning at the usual hour at Community {will be held in Sacred Heart Church} practicing every evening. The Fife and Drum Corps re hearsel scheduled for last evening was called off at the last minutes due to the illness of Peter McCrann, the instructor. The Boys' Club will meet this eve- hall. ‘The library wil be open this eve- | ning for a short while for the ex- change of books. The ladies of St. Gabriel's Epis- copal church will entertain with a whist in the church social rooms this cevning at 8 o'clock. On Monday evening a whist social at 8 o'clock. The ladies of the church will be hostesses for the oc- casion. Refreshments will be served. The Parent-Teacher association meeting will be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Hubbard school. L. V. Clark, assistant man- ager of the New Britain division of the Connecticut Light & Power Co., will be the speaker of the evening. Many facts concderning electricity lit- tle understood by the average lay- man will be explained by Mr. Clark. This is the first meeting of the or- ganization this semester. | The Stanley Chemical bowling league will roll again this evening on the home alleys. The boys are Several of the women associated in the work of the 4-H club will be the guests of the Kiwanis club at the Hotel Bond in Hartford next Thurs- day. Among those to make the trip from the East Berlin area will be Mrs. George Dalbey, Mrs. Arthur Lawrence and Mrs. Archer Walsh. Next Sunday evening a sct of slides on “Our Southern States” will AN'EW Redfern Step-in that outlines figures with a new slender beauty. 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