New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
Surprise Mum mber-Mrs. E. Ander

Surprise Number-Mrs E. Ander- son.
 Paper, "Pioneer Reminiscenses"- Francis H. Shaw.
 Paper, Resolved. That the Greatest Handicap to Progressive Farmers Are Unprogressive Farmers Wives"- Carl J. Mueller.
 The next meeting of the Grange will be held on Tuesday, October 3 and will be observed as Grangers' Night. Twelve Oranges about the state have been invited to be present and an elaborate program is being prepared
 McMahon Pays Fine.
 Rather than have his case tried be- fore the September term of the su- perior court which opens today at Hartford, P. s. McMahon who was recently found guilty and fined in the local town court on the charge of assaulting one of his employees, Thom- as Smith, vacated his appeal and set tied this morning. The fine imposed on McMahon was $32.37. The case against Mack, who is a chauffeur for McMahon, charged with tampering with state witness, will come up for trial this week.
 Big Shoot Planned.
 The Mattabessett Gun club will hold shoot at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon. Two events of the cup series, which began in August and which will terminate on Thanksgiving Day, will take place. Arthur Reyn- olds, Frank Bassett, Frank McMur- ray and Roy Gibney have each cap tured one event and it expected that an exciting shoot will be held in order to break the tie. A large number of contestant are expected from New Britain.
 Kensington Man Honored. Jacob Bauer of Kensington was yes- terday honored when he was re-elect- l ed a vice president and a member of | the executive committee at the annual reunion of the survivors of the Six ! teenth Connecticut Regiment which 1 was held in the Grand Army Hall in /, Hartford This was the fifty first l anniversary of the organization and l the f1fty-fourth anniversary of the l Battle of Antietam. Ex-Postmas ster l Henry L.. Porter of Hudson street 1 who is also a member of the com pany was present at the reunion. l There are at present 126 survivors of l the regiment about the state. l Shower For Miss O'Conneu. 1 A shower was rendered to Miss Mar ! garet O'Connell of Kensington last | evening in honor of her approaching l wedding to Edward Anderson of New 1 Britain which will take place the early l part of October. There were about l thirty of Miss O'Connells friends 1 present. During the evening games 1 were played and dancing was enjoyed l Numerous gifts were presented to Miss O'Connell. Miss O'ConnelI is one of Kensington's popular young ladies being employed at the Amer ican Paper Goods company Bollok Boy Injured. | George, the eleven-year-old son of ] MT. and Mrs. John Bollok of Kensing- l ton,s received a deep cut on his leg yesterday when he tried to catch 8 1 ride on a truck, and caught his leg ir a wheel of the vehicle. He was car. ried home by the son of Officer Will liam Ritchie, who witnessed the acci- dent, and pr. M. H. Griswold was sum- l moned. The boy will be confined to his home for some days to come, because of his injuries. According to eye wit nesses, the driver of the truck was not at fault.
 Children Inspected.
 Health Officer R. M Griswold, as.
 sisted by pr. Matthew H. Griswold
 this morning completed the inspection
 of children of the different schools