New Britain herald., 1918-06-12
Disagreement With Troops Re-
 suits in Change Of Management JITNEYS YS. DIN KEY s
Automobile Owners Compete With Director r-GcncraI McAdOO - Demo- crats Choose Delegates to Conven- tiOnS at Hartford.

LdChGy, W IlO 1etS been in charge of the local troop of Boy Scouts, has resigned his post NIT. Lackey has been scoutmaster for about a year and succeeded Scoutmas- ter Bonney, who helped to form the Scouts. The reason given for his resig nation is not very clear, excepting that Mr. Lackey feels that he has been un- justly treated by the Scouts and has been unable to control the troop fer the past few months. The troop differs in the reason given for resignation by saying that they were forced to do all the work and had no head for the troop. Ii is possible that MT. Lackey will take Troop of New Britain MT. Lackey feels that he will be able to care for the New Britain troop much better and improve the troop more than he ever could the local troop. Mr. Lackey handed his resignation in few days ago to Scoutmaster Johnson, of the New Britain council, who came to Plainville last evening and made the announcem ent to the Plainville troop that he was looking for a scout master who will take MT Lackey's post For the time being, Roy Acre, who has been the assistant scOutmas- ter for the past two years, will have charge of the troop.
 ,yitneyS yS. Trains.
 Jitnevs appear to have come into existence again and will make a big drive against the new passenger rates which became effective Monday. Yes terday afternoon four jitneys came to town bearing the signs "Hartford' and Bristol While some of the ]o cal men who have automobiles will probably start to run in competition against the trains Saturday, the Brls- tol men will beat them. The price from Plainville to Hartford in the jit- neys will be 25 cents, and from Bristol the rates will be 35 cents, which will undoubtedly injure the trains for few weeks. While no one about town really knows who the people from Bristol are who arc running the jit- neys it is the general opinion that the Lyon Jitney Service Co. is the owner. Five jitney cars were in operation this morning.
 The Bristol and Plainvile Tramway Go. has made arrangements to meet the heavy morning traffic by running two extra trolley cars on the 6:2o and GAO trips The company reports that a much larger traffic is being noted by the crews of the trolleys. Up to the present time the Connecticut Co. has not made any special arrangements to m eet the extra demand.
 Democratic Caucus.
 The annual democratic caucus was held last evening at o'clock iii Grange hall. The purpose of the eau GUS was to nominate delegates to att tend the annual convention which will ibe held in Hartford June 26 and 21. The delegates nominated were: Stat' John Murphy and William J. Foran; congressional convention, Postmaster Peter J. Prior. w. L. Caf- ferty: senatorial convention, Albert Dresser, Edward Prior, J. T. Mccarthy Giles C. Buell.; county convention, Alfred D. Cady, John F. Wade, Jr The following were elected to the democratic town committee. Harry A. Murphy, Alfred D. Cady, John F. Wade, Jr., William L. Cafferty and William J. Foran.
 H. A. Castle acted as chairman and William l. Cafferty as secretary.
 Randall Fined.
 Fred Randall of Westfteld who was arrested Monday night by Officer ! Philip Marine for drunkenness was l given a hearing late yesterday after i noon before Justice A. H. Condell. 1 He was fined s5 and cost which he ! paid
 Republican Caucus.
 The annual republican caucus will 1 be held tonight at o'clock in Grange 1 hall. The purpose of the caucus is to 1 elect delegates to the state, congress 1 sional and sensatorial convention, also !
 +tn o1 iro VI town committee. 1
 Brief Items.
 The local schools were closed this | morning because of the severe rain l storm.
 The local post office officials will 1 make another house to house canvass i for Thrift and War saving stamps. The clerks did good work before and raised several hundred dollars and ! will make big drive to try and reach l at least one half of Plainville's quota.
 Court General Lawton, F. of A.. h cid it's monthly meeting last evening in Grange hall.
 Two more names have been added to the honor roll of the church of Our Lady of Mercy. They are Raym ond Prior, army, and Augustine Prior, navy.
 All stores will close Wed. afternoon ] except Jas. Simpsons and c. w. Hird, who will close on Thursday afternoon. -advt.
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