New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
Pla1nV1lle News CAN'T GET TEACHER
 TO FILL VACANCY
School Board Finds Competent
 Instructors Are Scarce
MINISTRIES TO ENTERTAIN
Hartford Man Arrested for Drunken ness-Wife to Oppose Removal of RusscII's COnservatOr-HearR Report of w. c. T, U. Convention.

of w. c. T. U. Convention.
 Owing to a scarcity of competent teachers trained for higher grades the school board is having considerable difficulty in filling the vacancy in it's force in the local schools caused by the resignation of Miss E. Mildred Bedford at the close of the fall term. The seventh grade which was in charge of Miss Bedford is at present taught by Mrs. Helen Dunn of South i1gton, substitute instructor, and while her services are entirely satls- factory she has notified the commit tee that she will have to leave in a few days.
 Rev. R. H. Burton, the chairman, and his associates on the board are anxious to get a permanent teacher for the room. It is one of the most important grades in the school and the board wants to keep it up to the standard. Negotiations have been oEened with a number of prospective teac achers but the board has been un- able to fill the vacancy either because the candidates are without the neces- sary qualifications or because they have not been trained for upper grades.
 Teachers agencies and school com mittees in other places who have been consulted have advised the board that there is pronounced scarcity in com- potent instructors and they can offer but few suggestions regarding the filling of the vacancy here. y- The eighth grade is now in charge of Miss Ellen Hubbell of Bristol, who tn toly D1 S. Eleanor Pease, assistant principal for number of years. She is giving entire satisfaction and will probably serve as assistant to Principal Judd in addition to teaching her own grade. Went to Sleep in Car. Albert Anderson of Hartford, was found in an intoxicated condition in one of the cars in the freight yard this morning by Railroad Officer Charles Grace and was arrested. An derson came here looking for work at thetransfer station.
 He was so drunk that Officer Grace refused to permit him to go to the cffice and he ordered him off the rail road premises. Some time later he was advised that the man was asleep in one of the cars and he took him to
 
 Anderson will be tried this evening.
 Oppose Conservator'S Removal.
 Arguments against the removal of a conservator from Thomas G. Rus sell will be presented in the probate court Monday afternoon by Judge w. F. Mangan of New Britain, counsel for the young mans wife. Judge By ington will give a hearing at that time on the application of Mrs. Rose Russell, who has asked the court to relieve her of her responsibilities as conservator for her son.
 When the matter was originally brought before the court, Judge Man gan explained that his client had no objection to the removal of her moth ed some disinterested party to serve in her place.
 RusselPs mother claims her physi- cal condition makes it necessary for her to resign and anyway she be- lieves the young man is now capable of attending to his own business af- fairs. His wife, however, believes that she should be protected by the appointment of another conservator should his mothers resignation be &C., cepted.
 The matter came before the court last Friday but at Judge Mangan's re- quest the hearing was postponed until Monday. At the time he said that he didn't have an opportunity to in-