New Britain herald., 1921-06-16
TRIAL TONIGHT FOR
 ALLEGED ASSAULT
Joseph Edmund Of Mountain View
 on Defense STRUCK LAD IS CHARGE
Cook Garage Changes Hands-Miss Agnes Hoffman to Marry New Brit ain Man-Lodges to Meet This Week-Other Items of Interest.


 ain Man-Lodges to Meet This Week-Other Items of Interest. Joseph Edmund of Mountain View, prominent local contractor, will be arraigned in the PlainVille Town court tonight at o'clock on charges
 of alleged assault. Justice. Meritt O. Ryder will hear the case while Grand Juror Stanley s. Gwillim will prosecute. MT. Edmund has se- cured Lawyer F. B. Hungerford of New Britain to appear for him. Edmund is charged with assault ing Leon Falkowski, aged 16 years, of Mountain View. The assault is said to have taken place at Whites crossing last evening. Edmund claims to have been driving down the street with his team and the | FalkowSki lad, with several other youngsters, commenced throwing stones at him. Some of the stones struck the horse and MT. Edmund as we'll, he says. He warned the lads to stop and instead they continued. Edmund became enraged and stop ping his team, chased the boys and caught young Falkowski. He is al- legged to have thrashed the lad severely The boys father sought aid through the mintous of the law and Edmund was ordered to appear | in the court tonight.
 | Another story concerning the as- sault is to the effect that Edmund had owed the Falkowsl<i boy some money for work he had done for him and the boy called on him to | collect it. He was refused and be- came impertinent Edmund him. fsafat that he struck the youngster does not augur we'll for him, it is said FaIkowski is employed at the Trum- bull Electric manufacturing com pany.
 | Cook Garage Changes Hands The Cook garage on East Main St. Joseph Healey and Dennis IIerlehy of Bristol, have purchased the business and leased the place for a period of five years with an option of continu- ing for five more. MT. Healey was formerly manager of the Princess theater in Bristol, and is we'll known locally. MT. Herlehy was foreman at the Bristol Brass and is well acquainted with the automobile business. Some slight changes may be made in the garage and it will probably be opened under the same name as at present. The garage is in an excellent location, being on the main highway between New Britain and Meriden. MT. Cook has made no definite plans for the future but will not enter the garage business again.
 Hoffman-kilbourne Wedding The wedding of Miss Agnes Hoff- man of Bridgeport to John Kilbourne of New Britain, was held this after noon at 3 o'clock at the home of the | bride in that city. Miss Hoffman is we'll known locally, being a former resident here. She lived with Mrs. L. M. Lauridsen of Queen street for some four years, having moved from | Plainville about a year ago.
 | Pageant Saturday Afternoon. l Plans are progressing rapidly for the first pageant and supper of the | the local Girls club of the Hartford County Y. w. c. A. It will be held at Ushers Grove at o'clock Satur- day afternoon and a pleasing pro- gram has been arranged for. Miss | Pauline Phelps is coaching the pageant and Mrs. Fred l.. Benzon and Mrs. Howard Smith are assisting with | the dancing. The affair is open to 1 the public and a slight admission fee
 will be charged. Ice cream and
 other articles will be on sale. The entrance to the grove is on Farming | ton avenue.
 TO Leave for Canada.
 Acquilla H., Condell and Stanley S. l GWillim plan to leave the end of this
 week for a short trip to Ontario, Can
 ada, and other important fishing grounds. They will be absent about | a week. MT. Gwillim and Mr Con- dell had generally spent their summer
 vacations at the Thousand Islands, | however, MT. Condell is certain that
 larger fish can be sured at Canada, 1 therefore the change. They will not | disclose the exact latitude and longi-
 tude of the fishing places to be visited.
 ARTESIAN WELLS DUG, any depth any
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