New Britain herald., 1915-12-20
TheSpring &BuCk|ey Electric Company, Everything Electrical IT. Church Street.
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jured hand and probed the wound, drawing blood. The Englishman's courage slipped rapidly when the claret began to flow and he sank to the floor unconscious. Precipitation showed on the forehead of his Ger man friend his tongue thickened and his throat went dry. His knees began to tremble and before the doctor could come to his assistance he too, went to the Land of Nod.
 First aid treatment brought them to their senses and the men looked at each other sheepishly as they left the office, advancing in the direction of g. barroom where they evidently in tended to give their courage a test in battle with Barleycorn and his allies.
 Plan Brief Shut Downs.
 Pressure of business will make it impossible for some of the local man. ufacturers to close their plants New Years for the annual inventory and the heads of the larger concerns here report that they plan to suspend op- erations for but one day for Christ mas with a shut down of similar length for next weeks holiday
 Some of the smaller factories will close for from three days to a week on December 31st. The Elm Citv Brass and Rivet company will be in- cluded in this number. Sessions Clock shop in Forestville will also nave two weeks shut down in Jan- uary. Many local people are em- ployed in this plant
 Christmas Rush Begins.
 hr,ic ginning at the local postoffice today and the postmaster, P. J. Prior and his staff, started an extremely busy week attending to the delivery of hol- 1day packages. Rural Carrier Morev left the office this morning to make 1 his rounds, his auto piled high with l bundles, and the prospects of a hard | day staring him in the fact.
 Substitute Carrier Cassidy was called into the service and the cleri- cal force was augmented that there might be no unnecessary delay in the handling of the holiday mail The storm last week held up considerable mall and also caused people to delay the sending of their Christmas re- membrances and as a consequence conditions at the postoffice will prob ably be even worse than had been an- 1 .icipated.
 Car Rescues Sleigh.
 A sleigh on which were several tons of metal for the Bristol Brass com 1any was stalled as it struck bare spot on the highway in front of the Newton block on West Main street and it was marooned for some time, a trolley car finally being pressed into service to tow it onto the now
 Five horses were used in an effort o move the outfit but they failed and t was not until several chains used Us tow lines were broken that it was tarted again on it's journey.
 RebeIxahs to Nominate.
 Martha Rebekah lodge vii hold an important meeting tonight in Odd Fellows hall. There will be roll call md nomination of officers for the en- uing term.
 Members who do not respond to . heir names in person are expected to end letters to be read at the meeting
 Brief Items. The Sunday school classes of the 1ethodist church will have their an- ual Christmas tree exercises Thurs ay night in the church parlors. Rev. M. J. Simpson of Cheshire ave the sermon at the Church of Our aviour last evening, exchanging pull it's with the rector, Rev. R. H. Bur ,n. Raymonds Roberts, U. S. N, is ome for a five day furlough. He is ationed at Boston. Mrs. c. H. Sherman and son, Philip, re with MT. Sherman's parents at edford for the week. MT. Sherman i'll join them for the Christmas holi- avs. .... -' | Registrar Levi Newell is confined to is home on Maple street with injuries lstained by a fall on the ice coated dewalk during the storm last week. 7hile his hurts are not regarded as rious they will keep him laid up for veral days. The third degree will be exemplified 7 Sequassen lodge at it's regular eeting Thursday evening. There