New Britain herald., 1916-08-12
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public attention for several weeks, ! has now become but a memory and the h4ed of the politicaS5enthusiast ] is turning to the fall campaign in which ss agree, republicans and 1 democrAeA. alike that it will be some | campaig4l.Ft Of first importance in this city is the election of Ernest N. Humphrey. as chairman of the repub- lican town committee succeed E Clayton Goodwin, who held that office as R. R. Healey's successor during the spring cfNlpatgu. Inasmuch as Mayor Quigley-- is the Header of the 1 republican party in NewsBritain it is l presumed that the chairmanship of MT. Humphrey will be far more con- 1 genial to bis honor than was that of 1 MT. Goodwin. The latter was an avowed opponent of hesmayor, while MT. Hum phrey, if not dose personal friend, is so near to it that it am cunts to almost the same. But withal,, it is said bN the republicans. that Mr. 4fumphrey's election by. the town l committee was entirely unsolicited on his part and unan'imoas. on the part of >the> commifee. They know their lead CT to be a StaVnch republican, a hard worker and a good mixer and they have confidence in his abilitN~to do | New Britain this fall MT. Hum phrey ! is by no means a new conner in poli- stics for he has taken part in many a hot campaign and battle. His most famous political bout was for, the l mayoralty nomination six or seven | years ago when Orson F. Curtis, he 1 of the "duellO" aspirations during the l past campaign, defeated him at the l republican caucus, But MT. Hum l phrey is no doubt the man to lead the G. O. P. here and hardly a bet ter choice could have been made.
 On September Senator Harding, Senator Brandegee and Senator Me- Lean, the latter candidate for re- | election, as well as the. state nominees, will attend the Third Ward Republi- can club outing at Lake CompOunce. 1 With such an array of political Celeb- | raties present, this should prove not only one of the biggest events of the campaign here, but also the biggest | republican lovefeaSt yet held. AL 1 though Justice Hughes may do some stumping throughout the east it is not 1 believed by the shrewd politicians that he will bother much with Connecticut 1 and certainly not with New Britain 1
 
 will hold primaries for the nomina- l tion of delegates to the state conven- tion at New Haven on September 4 and when state officers will be nom- 1 mated. New Britain has six dele gates and although by the primary ] system anyone is eligible, the old l machine is still in good working or l der and already the slate has been ] named by the powers that be. They | are said to be E. N. Humphrey, Ar i thur N. Rutherford, John A. Ander- l son, M. Irving Jester, Edwin w. Schultz and Richarl Covert. These are undoubtedly the men who will be named and unless there is con- l test the polling place will be open at 1 headquarters from f until o'clock and the primary will be a mere for mality. In case there should be con- tests for the position of delegate, then the primaries will have to be in the wards Indications are, however, that there will be no contests and the men who go to New Haven will be hand picked.
 With the democrats there is nothing doing as yet. The state central com- mittee will meet shortly to make plans for the state and county con- ventions and then it will be that &C., tivity will begin at home.
 
 An article was printed last week l relating to the presence of sleuths in a local dry goods store to detect | thleVlng on the part of employees since the guilty ones have been ap- prehended and the sleuths have taken the1r departure, a good story is going the rounds of the stores much to the embarrassment of a fair young lady
 clerk who was the innocent victim
 0alo clerk is most accommodating "hd When an interested customer in qu1fed about certain piece of lingerie ana the quality thereof she remarked,
 ""n actlon to suit the words, See, us Just like mine" A day or so later
 when It became nOised about the store
 that the inquis1tive customer was a
 male detective in disguise, the reason TOT the unfortunate girls blushes can < pc readily imagined.
 Because of the unusual1v damn season, in the woods and fields there IS an exceptionally heavy growth of fungus of the toadstool and rn1sh-
 room variety. The real. tasty and
 edlble mushroom does not appear
 until the latter part of this month and early September, but the woods and fields are now thick with other varieties. There are all kinds, some poisonous and some not but owing to the fact that great many people
 particularly foreigners, are gather ing all kinds of these fungi for the table it would not be surprising if
 the season showed 8 large number
 of toadstOol poisonings. Already one case has been reported, but for / tunately it was not fatal. There is one variety of white mushroom that is said to be deadly poison, in fact it is said to equal the bite of a rattle! snake in it's deadliness and has much