New Britain herald., 1917-07-12

officials were bitterly arraigned for their alleged laxity in not providing adequate facilities in case of impend- Ing disaster by fire. Even though their tax would be materially raised majority of townspeople are in fav- or of chemical wagon or some kind or apparatus for combating success fully the menace. Such move as this Is always the general rule follow- ing a fire but interest is allowed to Wane and in due time forgotten
 The occupants of the destroyed house are staying at the homo of l.. w. Gwatkin and this morning told a reporter that they wished to thank the people of Berlin and the New Britain fire department through the columns of the press for the manner in which they turned out and for the Invaluable assistance rendered. School Committee Meeting. A meeting of the school committee was held Tuesday evening in the Town hall. The principal topic for discus sion was the repairs needed at the various schools and the advisa bility Of postponing even necessary work with the hope that labor and material may become cheaper No definite action was taken. After the reading l and acceptance of a few bills the meeting adjourned
 Fair September 10 to 15. At a meeting of the board of direc- tors of the state fair at Berlin several matters of importance came up for l discussion. The most important of these was deciding the date on which the fair will be held this year. 1 After all views were aired it was de- l cided to hold it from September 10 to l 15 inclusive and plans to make this 1 years event the greatest in history are | in the works
 1 For the purpose of holding an au- 1 tomobile show inside a large addition | will be built to the Merchants build l ing. Last year the show was held in l tents.
 I Lawrence F'ranzen Writes Home.
 After an unexplained absence of a year during which time nothing was | either heard or seen of him or no cor | respondence of any kind had been re- l ceived by his parents, Lawrence Fran l zen, Is years of age, has written to his | parents who live in Beckley Quarter l He is in Minneapolis, Minn., and writes | that he is happy and well but intends
 to gratify his desire for travel before
 he comes home
 One day last summer he failed to
 come home at night from his work in 1 the brickyard and his brother, who l had seen him earlier in the day, was
 at loss to explain his absence. When night arrived and he did not
 come home the fears of his parents in l creased and when two or three days | had passed without receiving any word 1 as to his whereabouts the whole l neighborhood joined the search for 1 him.
 The mystery is solved in the letter
 which he has written home. It states 1 that on that warm summer day when
 search was begun for him, he was
 seized with the Wanderlust and joined
 a travelling circus with which he has
 been ever since, touring through many
 of the large cities of the United States
 It also says that he enjoys his work,
 regardless of it's disagreeablc features
 The parents, who had given the lad i up for lost, are greatly pleased to
 learn that the boy is alive and well. Briefs.
 Miss Marjorie Moore is at Mystic ! where she will spend a week.
 A Red Cross meeting was held in
 the schoolhouse in East Berlin this
 afternoon.
 Miss Ethel Goodrich. who is train ing for nurse in the Mary Fletcher , hospital, Middlebury, Vermont, Is wis.,