New Britain herald., 1914-04-18
P1ainVille News
P1ainVille News TWO MORE SPEAKERS | FOR COMING BANQUET State President Johnston and ". (.
 Norris VIII Be H;re.
 OYER ONE HUNDRED TICKETS SOLD

OYER ONE HUNDRED TICKETS SOLD Business Mems President Will Be Only Local Speakcr-Await Reply From
 Congressman Lonergan-Round-up up of Freight Hopping Vagrants. Frank H. Johnston of New Britain,
 president of the State Business Mems association and w. c. Norris of Willi-
 nlantic, head of the organization s
 "boosting" committee, have notified
 Chairman S. s. Gwillim of their ac-
 ceptance of the invitation to speak at the annual banquet of the Business and Improvement association in the Town hall on Thursday, April 30th. The committee of arrangements has also been advised that Rev. Sherrod Soule of Hartford, will give an ad- dress. A definite answer to the fnvi- ts.tion extended to Congressman Lonergan to be the guest of honor is yet to be heard from. Arrangements for the affair are pro- greSsing most satisfactorily according l to an announcement made by the com mittee today. Tickets have been in 1 the hands of the members for nearly 1 a week and more than one hundred l have already been sold The demand | is greatly encouraging to the conn.,
 mittee and indicates that the attend 1 ance will be as large as at any pre- | -o:% Il, 1>s,J l being taxed.
 l It has been decided to have a
 shorter after-dinner program this year than usual. The list of speakers will be smaller and President S. $. Gwillim will be the only local man to respond to toast. The post prandial
 exercises at some of the other ban quets have been too long in the com-
 nittee's opinion and this year an l effort will be made to have the pro- 1 gram concluded by midnight.
 l While Congressman Lonergan has I promised to attend if he can arrange to be away from Washington on the l 30th, it is not a certainty that he will l be here, and the committee is now angling for another prominent speaker l to take his place. The committee l hopes to make a selection early next
 
 | week.
 Fox's orchestra has been engaged to
 furnish music while the courses are l being served and a chorus of eighteen lccal singers will lead in rendering l popular songs. The chorus is holding
 rehearsals regularly and the singing 1 is expected to be one of the entertain ing features of the affair. Over 8 score of useful souvenirs have been
 secured and each diner will receive a number of pleasant reminders of the
 banquet. ..r
 Roundup of Vagrants.
 The local police and railroad detec-
 tives last evening made a roundup of "freight-hopping'' vagrants and as 1 a result quartet of the knights of l the road appeared in court today. 1 Detectives Mahoney and Ryan | caught trio of weary willies" on ! a freight train, bound for Hartford.
 which was sidetracked here. The of-
 ficers caught them as they got off the
 train to get some of the kinks out | of their limbs which resulted from holding to a cramped position on the 1 bumpers while the train was running | from Waterbury to Plainville. The 1 prisoners were turned over to Deputy
 Sheriff Hart who locked them up In court this morning before Jus 1 ttce F. P. Prior they gave their names 1 as Frank Riley, George Baker and
 John Shea. They were typical tramps
 and made the usual pleas for lenien- l cy. Prosecutor Norton told the court i that it is time an example was made
 of "freight-hoppers' and he recom- mended jail sentence. Justice Prior
 "sent them up'' for twenty days. A jail sentence of thirty days was meted out to another "vag," John 1 Boyle, by name, who appeared in l court this afternoon, also on the l charge of trespassing on railroad 1 property. Boyle was arrested about l 1. o'clock this morning by Officer l Marino, who found him sleeping off a