New Britain herald., 1917-01-25


 Main St., where he is introducing this remedy to the New Britain public. her daughter she leaves four grand
 children.
 The fueral will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock from Mar chants undertaking rooms in Hart ford. Interment will be in Avon. Town Meeting Approves. Without the usual display of verbal
 pyrotechnics, the voters at a special town meeting held last evening, passed
 resolution making the members of
 the school board and First Selectman
 Johnson a committee to award the l contracts for the construction of
 four room addition to the Broad street
 schoolhouse and to supervise it's
 erection. The addition is to be built at cost of not more than s17,000 in accordance with a resolution adopted
 at special town meeting held a few weeks ago.
 The voters at the time failed to au- thorize any particular set of officials to make the necessary contracts and l a call for another meeting to complete the original resolution was necessary. About twenty-five were present at the meeting. No opposition to the ap- l pointment of a committee developed although the voters annexed an
 school board do the work making the 1 first selectman a member of the cdn = mittee.
 1 Brewer Tntcrtains. i Celebrating the second anniversary 1 of the inception of the Plainville auto 1 express Hopkins and company of 1 Hartford entertained the men con-
 nected with the business and other guests at the Southington Inn last
 evening. After doing justice to a splendid dinner served by Mine Host Downing, the guests enjoyed speeches and songs.
 Remarks were made by Manager Edward Dugan, who served as toast 1 master; F. B. Orr of New Haven; J. J.
 Kimmel and B. J. Chichester of Plain ville Besides MT. Kimmel and Mir Chichester, the following from Plain
 ville were present: William Cunning
 ham, David Carlson, Jackson Mckee,
 B. J. Mcclure and Wilson Ellis. Members of the office force of the Hopkins Brewery were also present,
 The Plainville Auto express does
 much of thetrucking for the brewery
 and last nights banquet was in ap-
 preclation of the service given.
 Days Will Sustained.
 After hearing which lasted near1,-
 two days, a jury in the superior court
 yesterday gave a verdict against the
 appeal of Mrs. Martha Buys of this
 place from the action of the Bristol
 probate court In accepting the will of
 her brother, William J. Day. The jury
 was out but ten minutes before reach
 Ing decision.
 Mrs. Buys appeal was based on the contention that Day, because of con- tinued drinking activities was not capable Of making a will at the time the document was drawn. Yesterday a number of witnesses were heard in support of the will and they declared
 that Day was competent in t~cir opinion.
 By the terms of the will, Mrs. Mary F. Wakefield of Bristol. Days mother in-law. will have the life use of his
 estate after a few bequests are de- ducted, the property to go to his brothers at her death. Mrs Buys name was omitted from the will. The estate is believed to be worth about
 $2O.000
 The fact that Day. despite his periodical sprees, was ahle to build up a business worth S20.0oO Tn ten years. although he started with practically nothing, was an important -actor in convincing the jury that he was com petent to make will.
 Simpson Sale1no's Conservation. Judge George R. RNirgton this rorning appointed William J. Simp- son, conservator over Joseph Salerno, who is a patient in the Connecticut Hospital for Insane at Middletown. Srlerno was committed to the insti- tuition by the superior court before which he was to be tried in DeCem- Ter for the murder of his wife, alien ists, who examined him. having de- clared him to be mentally unbalanced. There is nearly s100 on deposit in hanks in Salerno's name and the ap- no 'ntment of MT. Simpson as COnSer- vator was made to permit of the