New Britain herald., 1921-12-01

carriers refusing to make special rates
for conventions. New England pas
senger association reported that er-
fective at once, conventions desiring
to avail themselves of reduced rates
by making application to the New
England Passenger association. 4o3
South Station, Boston, Mass, arrange
ments could be made,
New Chairman
At one Of the recent mercantile
meetings the directors for the COM
ing year were elected as follows; A..
A. Mills, G. II. Dyson, l.. A. Sprague,
D. Mcmillan, f. O. Rackliffe, Steve
Robb, NJ. H. Johnson, W. c. Kran-
owitz, H. C. Wilson, j. A. Erickson,
f. E. Klosowski, d. S. SegaI1, G. W.
Buckley Samuel, Schneider, David S.
Manning.
Immediately upon election a meet
ing of these new directors was held
at which time E. j. Porter was
elected chairman of the Mercantile
Bureau for the coming year; this Of
fee automatically making him first
vice president of the chamber of com
merce. Early in November Mr. Porter
entertained the directors at dinner at
the New Britain club, and the direC-
tors are very enthusiastic and expect
to show results very soon.
Early Christmas shopping
Posters will be distributed to the
merchant members of the chamber at
a very early date, on which will state
SHOP Early Before Christmas" 1t is
hoped that these will prove beneficial
to the merchants and stimulate early
shopping on the part of the public in
order to assist the merchants and
clerks in the stores during the last
days of the usual rush.
Monthly Dinners
At one of the recent meetings OF
the Mercantile Bureau recommended
ton was made to the chamber board
of directors that monthly member
ship dinners be held.
Traffic Bureau Notes
At a recent meeting of the traffic
bureau a committee was appointed to
nominate a new chairman. f. *. Burr
of the Skinner Chuck Co. was nomin-
ated by this committee and elected
chairman for the coming year. By viz
tue of holding this office, Mr.. Burr,
automatically becomes third vice
president of the chamber of COM
merce.
Executive Committee
The traffic bureau also elected
very efficient executive committee as
follows Chairman, w. L. Bell, f. P.
Usher, L. S. Cowles, P. j. Gatfney and
A. p. Marsh.
New Members.
At the last meeting of the board of
directors the following applications
for membership in the Chamber of
Commerce were approved: DR.. j. w,
Bush, Frank Nair, The Connecticut
Street Railway company. and an ad-
ditional membership for the CONNER
cial Trust company.
Red Cross.
The Chamber of Commerce assist
ed the local chapter of the American
Red Cross by distributing several
hundred Red Cross posters.
Day Nursery.
At a recent meeting of the newly
appointed Day Nursery committee,
Mrs. Frank j. O'Brien, superintend-
ent, made report of the activities of
the Day Nursery for the past year,
which showed that this is one of the
most successful organizations in the
city. Twenty-Five thousand five hun
dred and thirty children alone have
been taken care of by the Day Nurs-
cry, in the three short years of it's
existence. The new Day Nursery COM
mittee is as follows: Mrs. J. H. Kirk
ham, chairlady; Mrs. f. w Pelton,
Noah Lucas, E. NJ. Wightman, Mrs
p. F. King, Mrs. Isaac Russell, Miss
Ann Copley and Mrs. f. j. O'Brien.
Junior Achievement
Several meetings have been held in
the Chamber rooms of the Junior
Achievement council. O. H. Benson
of the Eastern States league at
Springfield, giving lectures to the va
rious groups in the city. This work
is progressing and through the en-
thusiastic efforts of the club leaders
results are being shown.
Boost New Britain.
A plan to advertise the city will be
taken by the Chamber by way OF dis
tributing plates to all the automobile
drivers at cost price, with the name
of the city across it, This will he
attached to the car The opinions of
the people are asked on this plan and
they may be forwarded to the Com