New Britain herald., 1922-08-12

years ago, a wooden shack which was razed to make room for a lunch cart which in turn made way for the pres ent brick structure. It was only a few weeks ago that the old buildings at the railroad crossing. west side, were razed to make room for the new block being constructed.
 Looking up West Main street 1t is not much of a stretch of memory to recall when pr. Cremins residence stood on the site of Fox's theater building. and on the opposite corner. where Is now the Professional build ing, the old Judd homestead (now moved to the rear and facing West Main streeO was located. Also 1t is but comparatively recently that the post office building supplanted a resi- dence at the corner of High street and West Main, while the First Bap- tist church took the place of another residence which was moved around onto High street and Is now the par sonage. Before these changes the post office was for years where Fitch and Jones store Is and the old iron railing out in front used to be fav- orite lounsing place for the young men.s Under the post office, with an entrance down flight of stone steps from in front. vogelsang conducted his barber shop and it was a peculiar sight then to see the conspicuous barber pole in front of the federal post office.
 The Chamber of Commerce rightly insists on Honesty in Advertising by merchants. Political parties, or party officials might do well to copy. In this offense both republicans and democrats are equal offenders. A few weeks ago the republicans had an outing and made great capital in ad- was to be the speaker. Those who bought tickets, expecting to hear his talk, were disappointed because he did not even appear, though he did send his regrets. Last week the democrats had their outing after hav- ing advertised extensively and posi- lively that Senator Pat Harrison was to be on hand and speak. Not only did not the genial Pat appear, but also the committee did not take the trouble to apologize for his absence Political parties or clubs cannot af- ford to make such a hallabaloo over their events and then have them fliv- yer out. People get disgusted with that sort of thing.
 A good story is going the rounds in which the dilatory measures of either former Mayor O. F. Curtis or an employe of the city clerks office are responsible. An out of town pa- per recently published list of cit- zens who were reported in the tax collectors office as not having paid their taxes. The ex-mayor's name was on the list. He might have been in- dignant, since he held receipts for his taxes paid up while in office, 1t is said, had he not stopped to think that he himself might be partly at fault When he paid his taxes he asked an attache of the city clerks office to hold up recording the fact for few days. Either he forgot to release the recording, or the clerk forgot it. But in that connection, would 1t not have been a good joke on some newspa- perman had he gone through the files at the time and published story about the mayor not paying his taxes, after which hizzoner could have come back with a loud huzzah and display his receipted bills, thereby making little of the energetic newspaperman? There's no harm in wondering why, i,~ u,l,, delay in recording the. fact
 New Britain is the hardware manu- featuring center of the United States. It has the largest cutlery manufac- turing concern in the world. It was the birthplace of the father of the present world peace" movement F;lihu Burritt. But with these and many more facts to commend it, doesn't it seem strange that New Britainite. visiting in a distant place, is greeted with "Oh, New Britain why isn't that where Harold Sohwarm the bogus prince, comes from?" Such is fame. ..
 The Observer has been asked, in an unsigned note, to find records show ing lowest temperature ever record ed. Cannot say positively, but in 1911 Lamerlingh Onnes in laboratory test, liquifed helium and. attained temperature of 271.3 degrees Centi- grade.
 A glance at some of the local young woman brings the observation that