New Britain herald., 1923-07-10
PdinmM Nelus
AUTO THEFT CASE
 HEARD IN COURT Paul Corimer of RumiOrd, Me-, Bound Over to High Court CRASH ON WHITING STREET

Department of Health Lctter--T. E.
 NJ. Co. Closed Down-Sunday Fire
 on East Main street-Temperance Legion Outing-Briefs.
 Paul Corimer, who claims Rumford. Me, as his home, was bound over to the September term of the superior court under bonds of s2,0O0 by Justice
 E. P. Prior in the town court last evening, on the charge of theft of an automobile. He is alleged to have taken a Ford from Gridleys Garage in Plainville on May 20, and was cap tured in Augusta, Me, after several weeks tracing by Policeman E. w. Furrey and members of the state police.
 He was brought back to Plainville by State Policeman Clifford N Cor gas. The state policeman stated that the trip was one of the worst jour- neys he had ever undertaken. The country he had to travel over to se- cure the automobile was as wild as could be found anywhere. Part of the journey had to be made in stage coach. The automobile was recovered, and was brought back to | Plainville along with the, prisoner. It is the property of Alfred Beaumont of West Haven. Grand Juror Will | liam Foran presented the facts for the state and recommended that Gorimer be bound over, fixing the bond at s2,OOO. His recommendations were accepted.
 Smashcs Milk Wagon. An automobile containing a man and three women crashed into a milk wagon owned and driven by Carl Oqust on Whiting street about half way to Hart's Corners last evening about o'clock. The wagon was badly smashed and the bottles and cans of milk were almost all broken and the milk spilled all over the ground. The horse drawing the wagon was knocked to the ground from the force of the impact but was not badly injured. Mr. Oquist sus- tained a severe shaking up but was not hurt
 Officer E. w. Furrey was notified of the crash and after an investiga- ton, he arrested the driver of the automobile on the charge of reck- less driving. He will be tried in the town court this evening.
 Letter of Commentator.
 Miss Eliza beth E. Heineman, vis- iting nurse for Plainville, is in re- ceipt of a letter of commendation on the recent baby clinic held in the Community theater, from pr. How ard Lanpher, director of child hy- giene in the state department Of health. In it, the doctor praises the work of the local Red Cross in hav- ing the large number of children | present The letter is as follows: Dear Miss Heineman:
 T am sending you under separate cover the examination forms as made out for the children present at the Well Baby Conference held in Plain- vile, June 22.-As you look over the cards certain defects will be found, but I wish to call to your attention the card of the young girl whose record shows that she weighs 17 pounds and 14 ounces at 1 h years. Either the weight was recorded wrong or else she is certainly under weight
 II wish also to call to your atten- tion the fact that IS children were without birth certificates. l have looked for the birth records of these children in our files and find that the birth returns have never been made for them, four of the children hav- ing been born during 1922 and nine during 1923. The matter of birth returns for these children will be taken up with the local registrar the bureau of vital statistics.
 "I wish to offer my congratula- tions on the number of children which you had at the conference and of the type of children. It shows that you must have put in some advance work.
 "Of the 69 children present, 2s were infants and Al were children. Twenty-Five of them were found hav- ing defects worthy of mention. divided as follows: Tonsils, 1; navel hernia, 6; bow legs, 1; aenemia, 1; phymoses, 10; adherent foreskin. 6. These children especially will need rc'' u.nrk
 "Please feel free to call on the bu- re .- ...u ot any kind at any time.
 Sincerely,
 HOWARD A, LANPHER,
 Director, s
 Bureau of Child Hygiene" (
 Trumbull Factory Closed. ( The Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co. is closed this week for annual inven- $ ory. This is the custom which has l been followed for many years, usu- 2 tlly- about this time. The employees Ire allowed a weeks vacation and most of them have taken this oppor- C unity to spend a few days at the ,hore or in the country. l
 Roof Takes Fire. t The fire department was called out t Sunday afternoon to the home of t ,arl Cottrell on Neal Court where I ively blaze on the roof was in prog i ,ress. The firemen quickly extin- V ,uished the blaze and only nominal t Iamage was done.
 Claim of Snow. g Several excited residents of Plain a file were recounting a tale of c ight snowfall this morning about Q :3O o'clock. They stated that at T hat time. the flakes were falling as a hickly and as evenly as they do in vinter. This is regarded as phe- g omenon by residents of Plainville. 0 sked several times if they were sure s