New Britain herald., 1920-09-11
Pool Room and Bar Soon to Be .. Living Apartments
BUSY BEES HAVE SOCIAL TIME
Sewing Circle Meets at Homo of Catherine Hogan-BasebaH Game Scheduled For Tomorrow-Churcll Notices-Town Clerks Report.

The old Colonial Inn on East Main street will undergo considerable changes within short time. This Inn is almost a hundred years ald. The present owners. Mrs. Mary and Basso karageorge plan to have the pool room and cafe turned into apart ments The pool tables and bar have already been sold, but still re- main on the premises. Plans provide four rooms and a kitchen The en- tire place will then be conducted as a rooming house. There are now 22 rooms being used for this purpose and with the addition, a first class srooming house will be made of it. The Plainville Engineering and Sup ply company has been awarded the contract to rebuild the place and operations will probably commence within a week. Expectations are that a month will be taken to complete the alterations.
 The history of the old Colonial Inn brings one back as far as the year, 1925 when Deacon Roderick Stanley was proprietor. The building was then only about one and half stories high. It was known as a famous road house for travellers at that time. The house was built when the old canal was dug. Traces of this canal are almost gone now but some sec
 tions of it can still be seen in back of the Inn and portions of it run
 under the building. At the death of
 Deacon Stanley, some 70 or more years ago, his son. Henry D. Stanley took over the place and ran it for several years. Ii was later sold to the late F. A. Tinker some time be- for 1869. This was before the town
 of Plainville was organized. Mrs.
 Tinker still lives and is enjoying health despite the fact that she is more than so years old. She resides on East Main street. The Inn changed hands several times after that, and finally was sold to Mrs
 Martha Officer. Mrs. Officer conduct ed it as a rooming house, later selling it to the present owners. Mrs. Of
 ficer moved 10 Hartford and is living there now.
 The Colonial is a large building and set a little distance from the
 street. The Plainville Trust company
 purchased a tract of land about 55
 feet. frontage next to the Inn that
 was the property of Mir and Mrs. ndT dseoTSeI Wlp1 the intention. of
 building some time in the near fu-
 ture. The Airdome theater rented
 the tract for motion picture house and erected one there.
 Baseball Tomorrow.
 The baseball fans of Plainville will
 have an opportunity to witness a fast game of baseball tomorrow afternoon, when the PlainvilIe Athletic club, will cross bats for the second time with the Peck. Stow & Wilcox team of Southingtoh. This is the second game of series of three that is being played between the two teams. The T>locals were victorious in the last game by the score of 5 to 4. The game will be played at Aliens field commencing at 3:15 o'clock. The Iine- up of both teams follow:
 Southington-M. Welch Ib Jack
 Welch of, Jim WeIch If, Mullins 2b. Higgins If. Mcdonald 3b, Galiette ss, Gaynor c. Hyland D.
 Plainville A. C.-Johnson ss Dur
 ham 2b, Cassidy of, Farrell If, Win niger 1b, Dunnigan If, Griffin 3b,