New Britain herald., 1921-04-26
AAWKlLLE NEWS DECISION RESERVED ON BUILDING LINE Whiting Street Building Line
 Meeting Adjourned LEGION HOLDS BANQUET

State Guards Hold Rcunion-CIean-
 Up Campaign Today-Sewer Work
 May Progress Soon-Ladics' Auxil-
 iafy Mecting-Itcms.
 The meeting held last night at the Town Hall for the purpose of estab- fishing building line on Whiting street was adjourned until next week Monday. This decision was reached after Selectman William J. Johnson presented the fact that the street line. which was recently made out by Jo- seph N. McKernan, could not be ac- cepted unless approved by the three selectmen. The selectmen will there fore hold a formal meeting some time this week.
 There was a large delegation of property owners at the meeting, espe- cially those who would be affected most by the new building lines. The Russell estate, which is situated near Central Square, was represented by C. Tracey of Bristol The Economy Grocery store is in this building and the establishing of a new line would necessarily mean the moving of the entire place back some six or seven feet. This would be at the expense of tho town. MT. Tracey, however, is planning to build structure adjoin- ing the Economy store in the near futuro and did not swish to go ahead with the project until the building line was definitely settled.
 Tho property owners were disap- pointed when confronted with the fact that the meeting would have to be postponed as many of them ex- pected a settlement last night. The matter has been long discussed and been the bone of contention for some time. with little or nothing dona about it.
 Legion Banquet
 More than 125 ex-service men gathered at the Grange hall last night and enjoyed a banquet, en- tertainment and social under the auspices of Brock-Barnes post. An appropriate program of musical numbers was carried out. Thomas J. Bannigan of Hartford, state ad- jutant, gave a short talk on the good cause of the American Legion. Commanded Harold Corning of the local. post, gave an address of well come Miss Helen Brock, state sec retary of the Ladies' Auxiliaries to
  Piano selections were rendered by Miss. F. Hemmingway. A quartet of five girls favored with solos. They were: Catherine Cunningham, Flor ence Schwenk. Loise Freeman, Lil- Han Rich and Elizabeth Parkinson. ,Gustave Ewald gave violin selec- tions assisted by his sister at the piano.
 A banquet was served on the ground floor of the hall, after which was enjoyed. This was the first gathering of ex-service men in the town under the post auspices and proved a success. Several. new mem bers are expected to enroll in the social times will be held in the near future.
 State Guards Reunion.
 Company I, State Guard, held an enjoyable banquet at the Elm Tree Inn at Pennington last night. More than 50 members participated in the event. The men left the Town hall at o'clock. making the trip in auto mobiles. Senator Jonh H. Trumbull, former captain of the guards. acted as toastmaster. Speeches were made by V. Senator Trumbull Stanley s. Gwillim, Lewis l.. Brastow, William Cassidy and Frank T. Wheeler. Oliver Robertson entertained during the evening with Scotch songs. R. C. Graves rendered several violin selections and Raymond Curry gave piano solos. Minton~ Norton enter tained with after dinner stories.
 The. following officers were re- elected: President, Senator John H. Trumbull; vic-president. Peter Duffy; l second vice-president, Stanley S. i Gwillim and secretary and treasurer l Ralph Seymour.
 Forty Hours Devotion |
 Starting Sunday morning at the | Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Forty | Hours Devotion will commence at l high mass at 10 o'clock. They will | come to an end Thursday morning | at 7:3O o'clock with a high mass. f During that time. confessions will be | heard in French. Italian, Polish and | English. Visiting priests will hear these. On Sunday morning, the Rev. Father Carter of Hartford will prob ably attend and conduct the services.
 Cleanup Today
 Today the town received it's annual cleanup. There were three teams in | service, at the expense of the town.