New Britain herald., 1918-02-22
PdainViaae News
HAULING WOOD CUT
 AT CROPPING BEES

GATHERING MORE ICE Gang at White Oak Taking Advan-
 tase of Cold Snap to Offset Hole in
 Supply Caused by Artificial Makers
 Quitting.
 For the past few Mondays the Plainville War Bureau has conducted woodchopping bees at the property on Pennington avenue owned by Town Clerk Usher, to which all the residents of the town were invited.
 Shortly after the bees had been held and the wood piled up ready to be transported to the homes of the purchasers, a heavy rain set in which caused a deep pond to form in and around the land on which the wood was piled and which prevented the teamsters from getting at the wood in order to cart it away. It was nec- essary to wait several days for the water to recede and as soon as this was done the carting of the wood began in earnest Load after load has been taken from the land and distributed to those who bought it at a very low price. Teams have been occupied for the past few days in this work and there are only a few cords of the wood left to be gathered in. The cutting of the wood has relieved
 many tight situations among the resi-
 dents and it is not expected that any great suffering will be felt by
 the lack of coal for the remainder of the winter season.
 Harvesting Ice Again This winter has been profitable for the ice men who have been taking in their supply for distribution next summer. The cold weather caused l the ice to fneeze to such a thickness that it was a more difficult job to handle the product than it has been for the past several winters In some places the thickness of the ice was reported as much as IS inches and the ice was of a fine, clear quail 1ty due to the continued cold which was prevalent throughout the season and which is still to be felt by those l who are on the outside to any extent l and also by the poor unfortunates 1 who neglected to lay in their winter ] supply Of coal. Some fine weather 1 was had during the latter part of ! January and the early part of Feb l ruary but the rains of the past few l days sweled the streams and ponds 1 and stayed on the top of the ice that 1 was already formed and froze to such a thickness that it was thought l best by some of the local ice dealers to take advantage of the situation ana gather in more ice for next sea- sons sale M. L. Rhodes of New Britain, who had a gang of men at work filling up the ice house at White Oak at the beginning of the ice harvesting season, naS how start ed another gang at work and is cut ting the second crop of the season. The reason for the harvesting of 1 more ice Is due to the announcement l of some of the concerns making ar tificial ice that they are to discon- tinue the practice due to the coal shortage. which means that more natural ice will be needed for next season.
 PIainvilIe Briefs. )
 Walter A. Lathrop is in New Ha- ven today attending the state con- vention of post office clerks. He is a clerk at the local office and is repre- senting PlainviIle.
 Mrs. Mary Colt of Pine street suf- fered slight stroke of apoplexy last night at her home. She is being at tended by Dr. l.. H. Frost
 The Plainville Trust company was closed today on account of Washing tons Birthday. The local post office closed at noon and remained closed for the rest of the day. There was no rural delivery and only the morn- ing city delivery was made.
 Miss Pearl ". Smith is in Bridge port today attending the annual con- venton of mail carriers for the state of Connecticut. She is the delegate from the Plainville post office.
 The appointment of Harry A. Castle as Plainvi1le fuel administrator has been officially approved.
 Services appropriate to the Lenten season will be held tonight at 7:30 i o'clock at the rectory Of the Episco- pal church.
 A months mind mass will be cele- brated tomorrow morning at o'clock for the late Mrs. Catherine Warner at St. Matthew's church in Forestville ! Rev. James Macdonald of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy of Plainvills will officiate.
 Paul Cunnin gham has entered the service of Uncle Sam as an electri- { elan in the shipbuilding service and 1 ] he will be stationed at Hog Island, 1 Philadelphia. Three members of the family are now in the service, Cor poral William Cunningham being with the 301st Trench Mortar Bat