New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-11-11

throughout the town today and all
the schools, factories, stores and
banks will be closed.
The local Home Guard will meet
at the town hall today and prepare
for large celebration which will
take place tonight at the kensintg-
ton post office, and the school chill
dren will hold a sing at the Nilby
House square, accompanied by an
orchestra.
War Campaign Ready.
c. W. Stevens announced this
morning that the United War Work
campaign which was to start this
morning will start tomorrow and all
the solicitors will be out bright and
early The slogan in the town is
Give a Days Pay" and all those
VINO will contribut a DAYS paw will
be awarded a button with a ribbon.
The solicitors have been APPOINTED
their districts and are asked to try
to cover their district before tomor
row night SO they can hand in their
report to the committee which will
meet at the Peck library in Ken
sington at 500 O'Clock tomorrow
night. The governor has made an
state
to carry out the slogan and give a,
Gays pay. He also stated that the
least that we can do is comfort the
1lghtlng men in France and whether
the war is over or not the money
contributed will be used for the
wounded men in the base HOSPITALS
Berlin has SO far held a remarlab Bile
record for its generous offerings to-
wards
let's keep Berlin on the par with
other towns in the state and Give a
Days Pay" to help the seven socie
ties who are doing war work in this
country and abroad. Berlin's quota
is $500 SO lets go Over the TOP,
early in the week.
First Official Pistol Maker.
The following interesting articla m
Colonel Simeon North OF Berlin. the
first official pistol maker to the United
states government, is taken from the
MIRROR the monthly publication of
Landers, Frary & Clark:
The condition existing in this coun
try at the close of the War for In
dependence in regard to the need for
firearms was serious England had
suppressed all attempts at their i'm
poftatlon, and previous to the war had
| forbidden their manufacture in the
colonies. one of the first things neces-
Sary Tor the government of the new
made nation to attend to- was the en-
enlargement of the manufa cture of
! arms for defensive purposes Wars
+! with the Indians were not over, trou-
Dies with France came on with sea
tights between French and American
vessels. England impressed our sea-
men, trouble broke out with the Bar
bary States and other nations were
looking at the new United States with
enVlous eyes. She was in danger of
losing all she had won by her long
and costly struggle.
One Of the first men to respond to
this need for small arms was Colonel
S1meon North of Berlin and the rec
ord of his work, though little known
to our people of the present genera
ton, forms one of the most interest
ing narratives of our early history.
Simeon North was native of Ber-
lin, and was of the sixth generation in
descent from John North of Farming
ton, who had come from England in
1885 and settled in Pennington In
1853. A grandson, Thomas, went with
! Richard Seymour and others" to
| Christian Lane, the first settlement
| in the town of Berlin. in 1856. Thorn
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