New Britain herald., 1917-07-09
VETERAN GROCER ID
 SELL OUT INTEREST
F. P. Frisbie Planning to Retire
 From Active Business
HEMINGWAY TO RUN STORE

Senior Partner Has Been In Plainyille 1 For B Years-Disturbed Goes to
 Jail-PlainvilIe Team Loses-Vtsit- ed Camp at Aver, Mass. Negotiations are in progress for the purchase by Willis J. Hemingway of the interests of his partner, Franklin
 P. Frisbie. in the grocery business | which they have conducted in the Newton block on West Min St.. for | a number of years and it is expected 1 that the tax collector will become ] the sole proprietor after next Monday. MT. Frisbie, who is the senior part ner, intends to retire from active busi- ! ness life and he is planning for 2 well earned rest. He will continue to
 make his home in Plainville where he has been a prominent citizen for near 1y half a century.
 The change in the ownership of the store will mark the passing from ac-
 tive busine8 of the towns veteran merchant. MT. FriSbie has been in the grocery business here since 1884 when in partnership with Edward Seymour he opened a store on Whit ing street. MT. Hemingway subse- quently took over MT. Seymour's in- terests and the business was moved to the Newton building in which it has since been conducted.
 The partnership which is about to be terminated has been one in which the most cordial relations have exist ed and the two men will separate their affairs with the most friendly feelings.
 Mr. Frisbie has been prominent ! member of the Congregational church for many years. He has also been ac- tive in the prohibition movement. After his retirement from business he
 proposes to give up his time to rest
 and recreation and will devote part of the summer to short trips about the country.
 "Dynamite'' Jones Here. Permission to transport approxi- | mately 1,5O0 pounds of dynamite l through the streets was given today l by Town Clerk R. c. Usher to E. R. l Jones, representing the Du Pont 1 Powder company. MT. Jones. or "Dy- ! namite" Jones, as he is known to the Z IrdQo, naS 11duc ct COulIdCt WILL tIC 1 Plainville Realty company for the opening of a street through sWampy
 land in the tract which the corpora
 tion is now developing.
 1 Dynamite will be used in blasting 1 the soil. It is figured that the work | can be done cheaper and quicker by
 the use of explosives than by resorting 1 to the ordinary methods of eXcavat-
 ing.
 Disturber Goes to Jail. l Frank German of Hartford, went to l Forestville yesterday looking for 1 work On his return he stopped off ! at Plainville where he acquired a
 flag" of considerable proportions. He went into the Russell block on l Central Square and terrorized the
 women in the various tenements by
 his threats to wreck the building un- less he was supplied with food. Cor
 man had some bologna and he de-
 manded that bread be furnished him. Complaint was made to Constable 1 Cornelius Downing and the disturber l eventually landed in the lock-up. Before Justice E. P. Prior this
 morning he was fined $7 and costs
 for intoxication and $2 for breach of | the peace He was out of funds and
 was taken to jail to work out the as ] sessment
 PIainville Team Loses. 1 The Foresters Baseball team ex-
 perienced it's first defeat of the season | yesterday when the PaWnees of New 1 Britain walked off with one of the
 most wierd games ever staged on a To- 1 cal diamond. The game, which was 1 ,,lo1-od A1len'S field resulted q 1 12 to 10 score.
 1 The Plainville boys seemed to have l lost their bearings completely and l seventeen errors were chalked against | them. The visitors were but little l better and had nearly as many mis-
 plays.
 Next Sunday the Unionville team
 will play here.
 Funeral of Ralph Bates. ] Funeral services for Ralph Howard 1 Bates, the seventeen year old son of 1 Mr. and Mrs. William Bates, who 1 died at thes isolation hospital in 1 Hartford Saturday following a brief
 illness with infantile paralysis, were
 held this afternoon at o'clock at his home in Mountain View Rev. H. 1 $. Still, pastor of the Methodist | church in Forestville, the off1ciat- l ing clergyman.
 | Intermcnt took place in Oak Hill | cemetery, Southington.
 Visited Camp at Aver, Mass. l Town Clerk R. c. Usher and J. H. | Trumbull returned yesterday from
 Laconia, N. H. where they spent the 1 past week. They made the trip by l auto and on return they stopped off | at Aver, Mass, where the government l is engaged in building a huge camp l for the use of the conscription army