New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-06
$4,000 BLOCK H.
Be ERECTED HEN
Neri Brothers Plan to Have New
Business and Recreation Building
WILL HAVE SIX STORES

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News Items.
Plainville will have valuable adj
tltlon to its business center sometime
IN the near future, as Ncri Brothers,
OF New Britain, who conduct the con-
1ectlonery store Oh Central square, are
planning the erection Of a large bust
ness block, TO be built at an estimated
cost of $4,000.
The building will be two stories
high and the ground floor will be di-
N1dcd into six stores. \ room con-
tanning bowling alleys, so constructed
that 1t may be converted into dance
nall, will be feature of the building.
\ m odern billiard and pool parlor will
be installed.
a report that Neri Brothers have
Peen requested to reserve the upper
moor of the proposed structure for
public hall has not yet been estab-
ilshed as a fact They feel, however,
that it is the duty Of the town of
f1ainville to provide public hall and
do not consider the proposition favor
aoIN. 1t is expected that the second
floor of the building will be used for
tenem ents.
Neri Brothers have been in the
fruit and confectionery business in
New Britain and Plainville for num-
Der of years and their Plainvlle es-
tablishm ent Is the most m odern of all
local stores.
Local Thieves Suspected.
The recent RockWell-Drake bur
glary, which took place early last Sat
urday m orning, while supposed by the
police to have been committed by an
organized gang OF outside thieves who
used an autOm Obile in making their
getaway, is now thought to have been
the work Of local youths who were
acquainted with the layout Of the
scene of the burglary.
Comparison Of the case with the
Neri burglary points strongly to this
conclusion and the police are now in
clined to scout the theory that pro
fessional burglars from outside the
town pulled the trick. officer Marino
reports that progress is being made
on the case and it is not i'm possible
that arrests may be made in PlainVille
for the crime.
Mrs. Josephine PettinatO.
The funeral of Mrs. Josephine Pet
tinato was held this morning at
o'clock at the Church of Our Lady
of Mercy. Rev. John f. Fay celc-
brated a requiem high mass and
James Donahue sang Ave Maria"
Miss Mae Mccain, of Bristol, sang
Face to Face" Burial was in St
Joseph's cemetery.
Docs Mot Fake place
The Plainville Boys Club basketball
team went to Terryville last evening
to meet the five representing the Ter
ryVille High school in the Lyceum in
that town. Their opponents, however,
failed to put in an appearance and the
local boys returned home. They are
now wondering if they had established
reputation before they went to
TerryVille
GWiIIin Resigns.
Mrs. Marie T. Bssell, state director
of War Savings, has accepted the
resignation Of Stanley S. Gwillim as
local chairman of the War Savings
committee and has appointed in his
place J. \. McKernan, who will as
sumo charge of the work during 1919.
In retiring from this position, Mr..
Gwillm wishes to thank all who have
assisted him during the past year in
the splendid results obtained in Plain
VILE on the sale of War Savings
Stamps and desires to express his APP
probation for the splendid support
given to the local committee by the