New Britain herald., 1914-04-20
CITY DELIVERY TO
 START ON JUNE z
Official Notice Received by Post
 master ?. J. Prior.
ARRANGE TO NUMBER HOUSES
Two Carriers and One Substitute Will Be Appointed Soon-Fire Chief Nor tons Mother Dying-Hibernian Hold Open Meeting-Other Matters.

Hold Open Meeting-Other Matters.
 Official notice of the intention of the postal department to establish city delivery service in connection with the local post office was received today by Postmaster F. J. Prior. The order gives Aprif 22nd as the date for the inauguration of the service. week later than early reports indicated.
 According to information sent to the postmaster the establishment of the service is contingent upon the towns acceptance of a system of house num- bering and the placing of mail recep- tacles on every building located in the area to be covered by the carriers.
 MT. Prior has been advised that blanks for applications for permission to take the examination for carrier ap- pointments will be forwarded to him at once and a date will soon be set for tests for those seeking the positions. There will be two regular carriers and one substitute appointed as soon as the service is started. A list of eligibles
 will be made from the names of ap-
 p!icants who pass the examinations
 and the selections will be from those
 who stand highest.
 Four mail boxes will be in use here. One will be located at Blossoms cor, her, one at the corner of Broad and Whiting streets, one at Central Square and one near c. H. Calor's factory on Forestville avenue.
 Patrons who are to be served must provide some sort of a mail recep- tacle or have a slot cut in their front doors for the carriers use. Postmaster Prior expects that one of the departments inspectors will be here within a few days to complete ar engagements for the inauguration of [ the service and to give definite l answer to M. E. Rogers proposition for the leasing of the first floor in his l building on Whiting street for post office quarters.
 l Selectman Johnson has taken up the matter of house numbering with a 1 Springfield firm which makes a spec 1 ialty of this business and before the date set for the establishment of city ] delivery, it is probable that this re- quirement will be attended to. | Fire Chiefs Mother Dying. 1 Mrs. Esther l.. Norton, widow of l Andrew J. Norton, and one of the | towns we'll known old residents is 1 dying at her home on West Main street. Mrs Norton recently under went an operation for cancer, which l benefited her but temporarily For the past few days she has been in a
 critical condition.
 l Since yesterday she has been sink | ing rapidly and her death is consid- cred a matter of but short time. Mrs.
 Norton is the mother of Minton A..
 Norton, chief of the fire department. 1 Taken to Cambridge.
 Detectives representing the police 1 department of Cambridge, Mass, came
 here Saturday for John Cunning, aged 1 19 and Frank Seybolt, aged IA, who
 were arrested Wednesday for freight
 hopping The young men are want l ed in that city for burglaries. l Seybolt has been locked up here | since his arrest, while Cunning has been in the Hartford jail, working out 1 a ten-day sentence. As the Cam l bridge authorities were anxious to l bring both of the young men back l together, Justice B. F. Prior accom- l panied the detectives to Hartford and arranged to have Cummings sentence reduced to two days.
 I Neither of the prisoners objected to returning with the officers and extra dition papers were not necessary. Gets Life Use of Property. l. Mrs. Alice Taylor will receive the l life use of the estate of her father, John Hird, whose will has been ad-
 mitted to probate by Judge George R. Byington. After Mrs. Taylor's death
 the property is to be, divided among
 MT. Hird's other children or their heirs.
 l The heirs signed waivers of hear
 ing and the application for admission of the will was granted without the taking of testimony Rebekahs to Entertain.
 Martha Rebekah lodge at it's regu-
 Literary society will be held tomorrow