New Britain herald., 1915-07-13

and recomm endations as the citizens
may wish to make.
Inc committee which is inyestigat-
ing and going over the town records.
consists OF Claude w. Stevens. Fran
els Deming and 3. w. Mildrum. The
adlourned town meeting will be held
IN august and hot time is expected
Cuts Wires On Piano.
The young people of the town who
attend the Saturday night dances in
Beckley were treated to a little per-
Torrance that was not advertised FOR
the dance last Saturday night. The
music for dancing is furnished to the
terpsichoreans by Mr. and Mrs Frank
Stevens of Beck1ey. the former play
ing the violin, accompanied by his
wife on the piano
When 1t was time for the dance to
start Stevens suddenly discovered that
ne had grievance against the man
ageT, ohm CODY 1t appears that
stevens and his wife played for the
The dance at the hall on Fourth Of
July night. Contrary to Stevens ex-
pectations collection was made
among the dancers and he was not
paid for his services.
Stevens arrived at the hall on Sat-
urday evening and commenced to give
vent to his feelings to the manager
It Is said that fiery discussion took
place between CODY and Stevens The
argument was abruptly ended when
| CODY ordered Stevens to quit the hall
and to take his piano with him.
| roller was secured by stevens and
the piano was pushed from the dance
nall to a corridor. But this was not
/ suff1eient for CODY and he ordered
stevens to take the piano from his
premises or he would have it thrown
out into the street
MOI being able to move it out into
the road as demanded and then again
/ not wishing to leave the piano in the
! uui,ufng as 1t would be put into use
/ ~ tne dancers Stevens thought out
i pecuAar Plan to hinder them from
hins use OF II. He secured pair
1 OF pliers and cut all the wires IN
the piano. Then accom- nan;ad nv
his wife he left the hall amid tn taays
/ ana boots of the crowd which had
/ come to dance
4 The dance, however was not ~.
i CT commission as a violin was sec,,r-
ed. : l'
i AHtoists Collide In Becl.,ev
/ col iiedulns towards Hartford
ana one coming from the opposite d.
4 rectlon met in head on collision IN
Beckley quarter early last evenine
I None of the occupants in either car
i was injured although both automo-
biles were considerably damaged.
/ Because the new turnpike road is
# closed while the new bridge is bein .
4 erected it is necessary for traffic to
4 go over the Beckley road Between
the honne of r. n. Bacon and, L. r..
Beckley there is sharp turn A
4 large barn stands on the corner and
! it is impossible for autoists to see one
= another appros. ching
One of the automo biler in the col
1ision last night was Pennsylvania
s car and the other had Connecticut
license. There were fur people in
each car but their .names could NOT
be ascertained
After making a few slight repairs
/ both went on their way. It is the
opinion OF spectators that the acct
dent was unavoidable.
Piece Of Steel in Eye
4 While working at the American
I Paper Goods factory yeeterday Ray
1 mond Watkins met with J, painful al
/ though not serious accident when a
piece IT steel hit him ir the eye He
was attended by Or. M. x. Griswo1d
Epworth League Social.
Elaborate plans are being conaplet-
ed for the ice cream festival and So