New Britain herald., 1917-09-20

E. field director, were listened to. Each speaker told of the nationwide drive which will be made next week to raise "A million dollars for a mill lion books for a million soldiers.'' The local council is very enthusias- tic regarding the movement and meeting will be held at the home of the local director Rev. R. H. Burton on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. At this time plans for the campaign will be formulated. Each town having free library has been assigned a certain allotment ac- cording to it's population. Plainvilles allotment is understood to be in the neighborhood of $150 and it is not expected that any difficulty will be experienced in raising this sum and endorsing the project.
 Pioneer Resident Passes Away. Mrs. Sarah M. Tyler, for many years a resident of this town passed away at her home on Park street last evening. Death was due to heart fail- ure. Up to a few hours of her death she was apparently enjoying the best of health and news of her death came as a shock to the community.
 Mrs. Tyler was born in Waterbury in 1850 and was 67 years of age. She and her husband removed to Plain vile about twenty-five years ago. Mrs Tyler since her advent here made a large number of friends here and was we'll and favorably known in the community.
 She is survived by her husband a son. Harry. two daughters, Mrs. Henry Hitchcock of Syracuse and l a brother William Collins of Brook lyn.
 The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the home, with Rev. Ward, pastor of the Baptist church officiating. Interment will be in West Cemetery. Allan Bailey has charge of the funeral arrangements.
 Enlists in Regular Army.
 Frank Cassidy of Canal street today enlisted as a member of the regular army at New Haven. He will be sent to Fort Slocum immediately for training and expects to reach the shores of France before next spring.
 Cassidy, who has had a number of years of training in railroad activi- ties signed as member of the en- gineer corps and is of the opinion that
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 Make Voters Saturday.
 Voters will be made Saturday at the town hall by the selectmen and the town clerk. Up to date 1S0 have handed their names to the registrars and expressed their desire to have voice at the coming election. It is expected that only about half of those who have handed in their names will have the necessary qualifications.
 Some "Spuds."
 A display which is attracting no little attention has been placed in the window of Bordeaus barber shop. It consists of four of this years potatoes of enormous size, the largest one weighing 32 ounces. They were raised by Constable Henry David who is cer- tainly the potato king, at least on small scale.
 Hart to Lead Democrats.
 At democratic caucus held last evening in the town hall and at which the faithful few' were presented, William Hart was honored by being unanimously chosen as the party's standard bearer for the coming cleo tion. The rest of the ticket is prac- tically the same as it was last year.
 Little enthusiasm was manifest in the caucus or the coming election of officers for the coming year and the session was devoid of contests and dissension.
 Hart opposed Johnson last year for the first selectmanship and a close battle ensued, the latter winning out by a narrow margin. This year also the vote is expected to be close The fact that a large number of men have handed in their names and wish to be made some voters may have some bearing on the final returns.
 War Bulletin Erected.
 An official war bulletin has been erected continuous to the post office by the local town council of the Con- necticut state council of defense On it will be found news of importance pertaining to military matters throughout the state.
 Plainville Briefs
 Percival Miller has accepted a po- sition as clerk in Byington's drug store.
 The marriage of James Driscoll of this town to Miss Mary Ford of Cor bin avenue of New Britain has been announced. The wedding will take place October 2 at the home of the mother of the bride.