New Britain herald., 1917-04-06
Re8imental Chaplain and Military
 Census Taker Coming Here
COY. HOLCOMB MAY ATTEND

Banquet to Be Served on April B.
 Preparedness and Loyalty to the
 Flag the Sentiment of the After
 Dinner Speeches.
 With the selection of at least two
 of the speakers who are expected to
 enliven the post prandial program,
 President J. H. Trumbull advised the
 directors of the Business and Im-
 provement association at their April
 meeting last evening that the plaAs
 for the annual banquet to be held in the Town hall on April 25 are de-
 veloping in most satisfactory fashion.
 Interest in the arrangements indicates
 that there will be large attendance
 and that the banquet will be recorded
 in the annals of the organization as
 one of its big successes.
 Preparedness and loyalty to the flag
 during the conflict in which the coun- try is about to enter will be the theme
 of. the after dinner speeches and the
 banquet will have a number of attend ing features of patriotic character.
 The men who will give the principal
 addresses were selected not only for
 their oratorical powers but for their particular fitness to preach the doc
 urine of patriotism. Rev. Irving Berg of Hartford, who is to respond to a toast, is chaplain of the First Infantry of Connecticut. He was with the troops at Nogales and is greatly inter- ested in military affairs. Another speaker will be Robert T. Butler, also of Hartford. MT. Butler had charge of the state military census recently completed. He is rated as an excel lent speaker.
 While the toastmaster has not as yet been secured it is likely that Rev. w. A. Goodell, pastor of the Meth odist church, will be invited to serve in that capacity.
 An effort will be made to get Gov- ernor Holcomb to attend as the guest of honor. Plainville regards His Ex- cellency almost as native son and his presence at public affair in Plainville is desired for personal req sons as well as for the office he rep resents.
 To make the banquet take on a mill itary complexion the committee is considering a plan of having a divi- sion of the Plainville unit of the Home guard attend in uniform. Old Glory will be prominent in the decorations.
 There will be other features to remind
 the diners of their country and the
 duty they owe it in these critical
 times.
 N Drop Pavement Plan., Owing to the probable increase
 in the appropriation for the addition
 to the Broad street schoolhouse, the directors of the association, have prac- tically decided against recommending plan for the town cooperating with the Connecticut company and the highway commissioner in the exten-.I sion of the permanent pavement area. The state and trolley company is to lay stretch of amiesite during the summer from the center to the noint on Whiting street where the trolley tracks turn from the highway to the Connecticut company's property. The town decided against contributing to have the pavement extend from curb to curb, owing to the cost, but the Business Mems association took up consideration of the suggestion that the pavement be made the full width Of the highway from the center to Broad street, the money for the ad- ditional expense to be taken from the town treasury.
 The scheme was considered prac- ticable until it was learned that more 1 money will have to be spent for the schoolhouse addition than was origin ally planned. If the town increases the appropriation to $19,OO0. as is gen. erally expected, the directors believe
 the pavement improvement will have to be put off this year.
 Want Double Track Extended. Manager Beardsley of the Connec-
 tlcut company has received the peti-
 ton of Plaihvillc commuters for the completion of the stretch of double
 tracks between Plainville and New
 Britain. He proposes to send it to
 the New Haven office, suggesting him.
 self that an appropriation for the
 work be made
 From the Trumbull factory to the
 Electric field there is but a single
 track and for the improvement of the
 service and the safety of the public
 local commuters believe the company
 should take steps to have the work
 done this year.
 Poverty has been offered by the officials as the companys excuse for failing to make this much desired improvement. There is hope enter
 tained here, however. that the com muters petition and the recommen- dalton of the local manager may bring results.
 'America, Here's My Son. Accompanied by his mother, Wal ter Forshaw of Mountain View called at the post office today to make ap- plication for enlistment in the navy. The boy is under age and the con- sent of his parents is necessary be-