New Britain herald., 1918-11-05
THRONG AT FUNERAL
 0F M. LEO PRIOR Business Men Pay Last Respects
 to Deceased Undertaken CELEBRATION POSTPONED

But the Old Town Will Shout Tomor.
 row Night at Austrja's Surrender ! All Candidates for Election Getting Friends Out.
 1 The funeral Of Matthew Leo Prior, 1 whose death occurred at his home o.1 Pierce street Sunday afternoon, was 1 held this morning from the home at 1 o'clock and from the church of Our Lady of Mercy at 9:30. The church 1 was crowded with many friends. A l requiem high mass was sung by Rev Father Laflin, who also read the com initial services. The floral offerings were beautiful and numerous. The local firemen, the F'oresters, the busi- ness men, the retail stores, and other organizations had beautiful floral tokens. The casket was banked with flowers and an automobile was neces- sary to carry them to the grave. Mir. Prior was formerly manager of Prior's store on West Main street and as a mark of respect to him several of the store keepers closed their stores and attended the services. The
  Harry Graham, Stephen Roper. FranK Prior, Joseph Glynn and Henry Myers; the flower bearers were John and Lawrence Graham, Burial was in the family plot In St. Joseph's ceme- tery.
 War Celebration Postponed. Because of the nclement weather of last evening the celebration which was to have been held in honor of the surrender of Austria Hungary was postponed and will be held tomorrow evening instead. Despite the delay there will be no lack of enthusiasm and the celebration will be a large one. The Philharmonic band of New Britain will furnish music. street parade will be held. Company I, Connecticut State Guard. will be pres ent in the parade in uniform. The local Italian society will also be in line and all lodges and fraternities are requested to have a. representa- tien in the parade, The principal streets in the town will be traversed, the following being the probable line of march: Start Pierce street, to
 West Main. to Washington, to Broad, to Whiting, to Maple, to East. to East Main and back to Central Square. where the public celebration will be held. There will be several speakers whose names have not beeu made public. One or two of tho speakers will be Italians who will speak In their native tongue. Red fire and a bonfire on Railroad avenue will furnish light for the celebration.
 No Auction of Tires.
 Because of the enormous amount of other work to be done by the committee In charge of the United War Workers campaign, the proposal to have a large auction of old tires has been abandoned and the com mittee will depend upon those who were to donate tires to give that amount more in cash. The work m connection with carrying on a cam paign of this kind successfully is enormous and Is not easily conceived 1 ky the general public. The house to house canvass will be difficult piece of work and tho general public can lend material assistance by going to the bank on Saturday, Nov. 9, and giving subscriptions voluntarily. On 1 every street there are red arrows with
 the words "to the bank" on them. 1 The undivided support of tho town ! Is needed to make the coming cam : paign 8 success.
 Voters Laugh at Speed Laws, , The fact that today Is election day l Is easily seen Tn the center of the | town as the autom piles of the var 1 ious parties whirI through the place 1 at a non-laN limit of speed The Vot- l ing in the morning was very heavy l and up to noon there were almost 300
 votes cast. The total for the entire 1 town election was about 3So the diff 1 ference in the interest being seen in
 a comparison of these figures. If the 1 leaders can do 1t in a legitimate way
 every voter in town will have had a 1 chance to vote before the polls close l at o'clock. Plainville is naturally 1 interested in all of the election but l the part that is being watched with 1 interest is the outcome of the Con
 dell-Wade contest. Because of the
 natural large republican majority in
 the town, it is expected that this
 election will show the same results
 IS former elections with a republican ! victory. The democrats however are
 perfectly confident in the outcome of
 this election.
 Rockwell Drake Adjustment.
 For some time there had been col
 siderable internal trouble in tho
 Rockwell llDrake factory which will be 1 cleared up by the statement of the
 award Of the arbitrator appointed by 1 the Secretary of War. The | digest of the entire statement Is as | follows;
 The regular working time for
 each full week shall consist of forty
 eight hours and overtime shall be | at the rate of time and one-half.
 Sundays and holidays shall be double | time. By mutual agreement tho 1 working time in weeks shall be l heightened SO to provide half