New Britain herald., 1917-07-03
FOUR OF FAMILY IN
 WAR ON AUTOCRACY
All Members Of Third Generation
 Now in the Service
TWO ALREADY IN FRANCE
Lamb Family Doing It's Bit for the Country-Deny Attempt is Being Made to Raise Bail for Girls As sailant-Other Items.

sailant-Other Items.
 Four members of the Lamb fam lily and the only living representatives of the third generation are now in the service of Uncle Sam. All are regularly enlisted in different branch es of the service and two are already in France.
 The record of the Lamb family Is one that is probably unequalled, at least in this section, and indicates that the young men bearing the name propose to do their bit in the fight for humanity.
 The last of the third generation to enlist successfully passed the required examination yesterday when Merton J. Lamb, son of MT. and Mrs. John E. Lamb of this place, went to Hart ford to appear before the recruiting officers for enlistment in the medical corps of the regular army. The young man expects to be called for service Friday.
 MT. Lamb is 21 years of age. He is an alumnus of the Plainville Cram mar school New Britain High school and Genesee Wesleyan seminary and has been mp1oyed in the factory of the Empire Electric and Manufactur- ing company of which his father is the head He enlisted in the local company Of the Home guard when it was first organized and had the honor of being chosen for color bear CT.
 His brother Harold l.. Lamb, aged Is years. who was also a member of the Home guard, is enlisted in the naval reserve and is expecting a call for service at any time. He was graduated from the Plainville Cram 1 mar school and also attended the New Britain High school and Gen esee Wesleyan. He proposes to re- l turn to college after the war He, l too, Is employed in his fathers fac 1 tory.
 William L. Lamb, son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph F. Lamb of New Brit l ain, Is member of the American | Field Ambulance corps and Is now l at the front in France. He Is an ! alumnus of the New Britain High ! school and also attended Syracuse 1 university.
 The fourth member of the genera l tion in the service is F. Herbert
 Lamb. aged IT years. who belongs
 to the field ambulance, Royal Army
 Medical corps, and Is now at the l front in France.
 1 Benjamin Lamb of 2 Crown street, | Is grandfather of the first three Deny Raising Bail. l Local Italians, who it has been re- 1 ported, have been making an effort
 to raise $10,000 to furnish as bail l to liberate James French from the 1 county jail where he Is held awaitin g
 trial before the Septemb Der term of | the Superior court on the charge of l assault with intent to murder, deny
 that they are taking any steps to
 bring about the young mans re- 1 lease. They confess that such a move
 would not be popular and they argue
 that his release should not be permit
 ted under any circumstances
 Miss Margaret Farrar, French's
 victim, was reported this morning al
 the St. Francis hospital to be some
 what improved. A successful opera.
 tion for the removal of the bullet:
 which lodged in her neck and ches
 was performed yesterday afternoon
 and barring complications, the sur
 geons now anticipate her recovery. l WOTk on War FTODlcmS.
 Lewis V. H. Judson left yesterda,
 for Washington, D. C., where he ha,
 accepted position in the laborator.
 at the bureau of standards. This de
 partment is now working on man 1 phy ysical problems in connection witt
 the war. s
 MT. Judson was recently graduate, with honors from Clark university il
 Worcester.
 Neighborhood Demonstrations. , Following the demonstration ol
 canning given in the Town hall yes terday afternoon by Mrs. Julian Deal of Hartford, arrangements wer completed for a number of neighbor hood demonstrations to be held Fri day afternoon. Among the meeting planned for are one at the home o Mrs. Elmore Clark on West Broa [ street, Miss Elizabeth Scoville i charge of the demonstration; one a the home of Mrs. W. S. Eaton on Yves } Main street, Miss Ruth Erbe presid
 ing; one with the Misses Rooney O. 1 Crown street with Mrs. H. s. Stillma . as demonstrator and one, with Mrs Hezekiah Baker demonstrating, at tn home of Mrs. John Baker on Pear 3 street. The demonstration at MT. Eaton's home is particularly for tn | young ladies of the town. There wi = also be a demonstration at the hom of Miss Helen Anderson on Cam r l street. i Yesterdays meeting was pro l 1 nounced a splendid success. MT! : Deane gave a practical lecture on tn . canning of strawberries and pea! s l There were over a hundred women i v l attendance and each secured con l l siderable valua ble information. Mr. y Deane is expected to come here agai
 next month.
 t It is also planned to have demon . strations for the children and ther