New Britain herald., 1916-09-21


 list ito be made and because Of the expected fight on the license ques- ton it is probable that a fair per- ! centage of the owners will submit to examination by the .selectmen. The | liquor dealers and their friends as ! we'll as the prohibition forces and the candidates for office have secured { many names and there will be>a gen. eral rounding up of the eligibles 1 Saturday.
 Pleads for the 'Drys."
 Opening the campaign against the l saloons one of the leaders of the mo- l license contingent today submitted to l the Herald" the following plea with the request that it be printed:
 To the Citizens of Plainville: In l a few days. we vote again on the 1 license question and the writer is wondering if a. majority of votes will ] be cast for licknso and continue the 1 disgraceful and disgusting conditions which prevail in the center of the town every evehing. On Labor Day the citizens were tagged to Help the Boy," and about $50 was raised in this way to. assist in, putting the re- gently organized club for young men and boys orss a.sound financial basis. If the peopTenlaad been even more generous and given ten times as much the money would have been well in vested if for no other reason than keeping fifty or more of our boys off 1he streets three or four evenings in the week But you will help the boys and young men more by voting no license and thus assisting in the good work of cleaning up the center of the town and doing away with the temp taton of the open door of the saloons. If you doubt it join the crowd for an hour or two early in the evening and see how many young men are among the tin pail brigade" Surely some of our voters either never go down town evenings or else they have become so accus- toned to elbowing their way around the corner of Whiting street that they are indifferent and think there is no remedy. And elbowing is not always sufficient force: a man lately trying to make his way to the post office be- tween and 8 came to a bunch of r'en who showed no signs of giving him space to pass them on the walk and it was case of go in the street or butt with the shoulders; he did the Ia tier and got there. I know some one will say that many of these people are waiting for the trolley cars, true, but the patrons of the cars usually make close connection and do not fill the space from Ryder's store around the corner. If it is so disagreea ble for men to get about in the evening, how about women and girls And 1t certainly is not a very inspiring sight for strangers changing cars to be greeted with the signs of four saloons all in a group. Are we going to allow these conditions to continue indef1- ritely? Isn't it possible to arouse a little more interest among the voters would like to see conditions changed not only cast early vote on cleo ton day for no license, but also try and get some of his indifferent neigh bors to do the same and in this way clean out the pest holes?
 WILL U. STANDIT.
 Brief Items
 Sequassen Lodge will have a regu- lar meeting tonight in Odd Fellows hall.
 MT. and Mrs. Percy Cowles of Pennington are receiving congratula- tions on the birth of daughter The child is a granddaughter of First Selectman w. J. Johnson
 A. H. Condell went to Hartford to- cay to serve on the grand jury in the case of Mrs. Archer -Gilligan.