New Britain herald., 1915-03-05

visited the local schools yesterday and l spoke in several rooms, giving the | children some good advice regarding | kindness to animals and birds. She | spoke in d most interesting fashion ! and made a deep impression on her | youthful auditors
 Miss Taft is always a welcome visi- | tor at the schools here. She has an 1 ineXhauStible fund of stories and the children delight in listening to her in one room the visitor was greatly pleased to hear the children repeat some of the interesting things she told them when she spoke in the schools two years ago.
 Miss Taft is touring the state un- der the direction of the Connecticut Humane society She has visited about 1000 schools in the past year and has lectured to over 60,000 children on the treatment to be given to anil ma1s.
 Thought Babe Was Deserted.
 Answering d report that two wom- eh, thought to be colored, had visited house on Broad street owned by George l.. Newton last evening and had abandoned a child on the prem 1ses, First Selectman w J. Johnson and pair of lieutenants visited the place this morning to conduct an investigation.
 For the past two weeks the house had been deserted, Mrs. Walter Bar rows, the tenant, having been in the Hartford hospital during that period
 The selectman had possession of the key during the womans absence.
 The house was found to be open this morning and when d fire was discovered in the kitchen stove. the visitors thought they had a real clew. They entered the rooms stealthilv. ex- pecting every moment to hear the
 walls of the deserted chee-ild The place was gone over thoroughly, how ever, but no signs of human forms
 were encountered. ..
 The selectmen subsequently, had
 talk with neighbors and were advised that Mrs. Barrows had returned homo last evening. She had no key to the house and it is thought her efforts to gain entrance courted suspicion, al- though the theory of child abandon ing could not be explained Efforts of MT Johnson to locate the woman herself were unsuccess- ,ful this morning, although neighbors said she had entered the house less than two minutes before the search. ing party arrived Mrs. Barrows has
 been a town charge and when she went to the hospital, the selectmen 1 advised here that they would not hold
 themselves responsible for the pay
 ment of her rent after her return and that she must seek other quarters. It was thought that she had seen h 1Spc in the house, although a thorough search of all rooms failed to reveal her presence. Brief Items.
 A son was born last evening to MT. and Mrs. l. J. Birnbaum of Broad 1 street.
 Rev. w. P. Kilcoyne of this place
 preached a sermon at the Lenten ser | vices in the Church of the Immacu-
 late Conception, Hartford, last even
 ing. His subject was General | Judgment '
 l- An effort is being made to or ganize a branch of the Woodmen of | the World in Plainvilfe. Representa- ltives of te organization have been
 here for several days attempting to
 interest local people in the order. | There will be Stations of the Cross l this evening at 7:30 in St. Matthews | church in FOrestville.
 l :. Hon. c. w. Pennman of Boston will give an illustrated lecture on "Pythian Knighthood" this evening in orange nall. lie will speak under the auspices of Pythian lodge The Hose company will hold it's March meeting this evening in the fire departments parlors in the town building.
 Mrs. Wallace Bradshaw is seriously i'll at her home in Forestvile. Dr. J. N. Bull was called into consultation on her case Wednesday. She is suf- fering from Bright's disease MT. and Mrs Carl Okenuuist are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter. n