New Britain herald., 1919-04-07

West
 met at the Roch"ell-Drake field yes l terday afternoon. The East Ends We're composed of youths nrino;na11,, ! from Mountain View and thov n,aI1,od away with tn" game to the tuno of
 13 to 3. Cambridge did the twir1in,r for the West Ends and Ea1handinn 1 occupied the mound for the ,.irtors 1 X small crowd of youthful fans wifi { messed the slaughter.
 PlainvillC Has Show. The first show Plainvillc has b.d
 for years was presented in Grange 1 hall on Saturday night bv the Abbott brothers assisted by Miss Sidney. These three persons have traveIcd i nearly the entire globe giving their 1 performance everywhere They shov- ed the reporter passports and recom- mcndatiOns from several foreign
 countries One was signed bv q Chi
 nesc official and referred to the en- l tertainers as "heap big devils. but r good devils" They included one ] signed by an Indian chiertain, one bv
 Korean over beyond Siberia. and even several signed by Russian off cials. The entertainers had an Eng fish passport furnished them which was good tor three years, and thcv r. ing the war by stopping at every camp to give the soldiers a little fun The entertainers played to a small
 crowd in this town but regardless of
 the size the crowd made up by it's en-
 thusiasm N1r. Abbott performed a
 feat more difficult than ono recently
 performed from the National Bank
 building in New Britain, when a. per
 former got out of trdit-jacket
 He allowed two local men to strap
 him into the jacket and it was strap
 ped so tightly that he could scarcely
 breath. He was free in just 20 sec
 onds. Miss Sidney who accompanies
 the men was born in Australia. She is clever on her feet and very agile. She is also adept at psychic power. With exact concentration upon the ] part of a person in the audience she ! read the question in their mind and l answered ten out of 12 asked. One l question which interested everyone in l answerinc was whether or not the 1 League of Nations would be adopted 1 and President Wilson return home 1 victorious. The answer was that the l league is inevitable and will be adopt
 ed and President Wilson will return 1 home after strengthening out many ! l'iuuulGd a1alfS,
 Miss Sidney gained her greatest 1 lame when she was said to have pre-
 dicted the sinking of the steamer Iii 1 tanic giving the exact spot and time 1 of it's fate She also predicted several l other important matters but says she 1 has never even had an intimation as l to the way the war would result 1 Brief Items. 1 Mrs A. G. Smith and daughter, ] Mrs Bruce Gilbert of Pierce street have returned to their home after a visit with relatives in Charleston, 1 Me ss
 l The banquet of the New Britain l group of the Epworth league which was held Friday evening at the Methodist Episcopal church, was a ] tremendous success. About 135 people attended from surrounding towns. An interesting address on conditions in Armenia was given by Yale stu tated country.
 Albert ConlOn of Whiting street celebrated his 26th birthday last Fri day with thcater party and supper in Hartford. MT. Conlon recently returned to his home after serving for more than two years in the avia- tion section of the signal corps, sta toned in Texas
 Joseph Dorazio and Charles Pin cock have returned from @ trip to New York.
 The Brotherhood class of the Con gregatiOnal church met yesterday morning and held an interesting dis cussion of the life and career of David Lloyd George, led by Charles H. Newton.
 The third of a series of union serv- ices was held at the Church of Our Saviour last evening and was marked by large attendance from the Con sregational, Episcopal and Metho- dist churches. Rev Samuel COlladay,
 rector of Christ church of Hartford preached a fOrceful ana eloquent ser
 mon.
 Lenten devotons were held last
 evening at the Church of Our Lady of
 Mercy.
 Charles Cafferty of this town and
 Agnes Mary J. Kumm of New Brit
 ain were granted marriage license
 in that city Saturday evening. MT.
 Cafferty is 50 years old and a native
 of PlainvilIe and has been employed
 at the railroad station in New Brit
 ain for some time. Mrs Kumm is a