New Britain herald., 1917-12-01

A year ago the first snow fall Of note
occurred on December IL, while on
December IA there was fall of four
inches.
Christmas is now less than month
away. In a few days the stores will
be taking on their holiday aspect, the
clerks will be overworked and so will
the family pocketbook. Meanwhile,
don't forget to do your Christmas
shopping early. and it might also aid
Uncle Sam, and incidentally the boys
abroad, If people made an effort to
get their Christmas packages mailed
earlier than usual, thus, to certain
extent, preventing so great a conges-
ton of the mails
Never more popular have been the
Christmas clubs at the several local
banks than this year. Those pennies.
nickles, dimes and other coins which
people have been paying in all year
will come out in a lump sum and will
come in mighty handy. If not for the
purchase of Christmas presents they
will surely be handy for the purchase
of coal or sugar.
AS long as there is telephone service
there will perforce be complaints
about the service rendered. No Oper-
ator can be perfect and no service into
which the human element enters can
be perfect, but all telephone criticism
should not he directed at the manage
ment or operatives of the telephone
companies, for there are still in our
midst the telephone hogs, VIZ: Sub
scribers, or telephone grafters. who
seem to conduct their use of the
phone on the assumption that it has
been installed for their private and
individual use alone. Particularly Is
this true of party lines, and almost
every party line has it's telephone hog
When a person has to wait five min |
utes to obtain the use Of phone |
there is no just cause for compliant A
wait Of ten minutes while annoying,
is ofttimes> permissible: but when the
telephone hog using the wire con- |
tinues to use it for fifteen twenty !
thirty minutes or more, then patlence
ceases to be a virtue. Inc more SO
since in these prolonged talks the
conversation is almost invariably OF
the nonsensical variety. backyard
gossip or alleged jolly. Such people
seem to have no regard for the rlgnts
of others and do not realize that the
phones are not for their particular
use, but are for the use OF all sub
scribers Possibly many of these
phone hogs do not realize their exact
status-but a word to the wise, etc.
This Thanksgiving there was a
marked decrease In the number IT
greetings postcards re-
ceived and sent out at the local post
office 1t now costs two cents to mail
such a card and apparently, the erst-
while seasons greetings advocate has
either dispensed with his greetings or
has added another cent to the postage
and sent a letter, which, by the way,
is always more to be desired than a
card: for, after all, q postcard Is but !
a bald headed letter.
From the Herald Of a quarter of a
century ago:
November 26-Dr. Bunnell, chair
man of the board Of health, states
that there are eight cases Of typhoid
fever and typhoid malaria in the
vicinity Of High street. There were
six realty transfers in the city last
week. Owing to inability to get
Italian labor there are only few men
at work laying the rails for the new
electric railway at the West Main
street terminus.
November 27-Sunday.
November 28-The semi-centennial
celebration of the South iConRreea-
tional church was held yesterday. |