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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Look Out for Cupid
 On That Diamond!

o, there are a lot of unmarried players for interested ladies to watch out for this season.
 Free for all-and visiting girls not barred.
 Billy West wouldn't give the names of the married ones. He was afraid someone might get them mixed with the unattached, and he wanted no lady to go ahead and get herself a broken heart.
 Personally, he said, being mar ried, he himself was utterly neg lected. The ladies passed him right up at the gate. But he was used to that.
 These are the baseball players, Billy said, who could be picked on from a matrimonial standpoint:
 Neun, first baseman, who is said to be fine "catch"; Whitehall, Cox and Stewart-all guaranteed not to throw the breakfast fruit; Sumpter Clark, outfield, in practice enough to catch rolling pin on a home run in his direction, and Jake Miller, centerfield, accustomed to being shied at and able to match wits with any feminine apartment dish twirler.
 Rick Woodward, vice president of the baseball association, will be seen myriad days of the season walking about with spick and span new baseball togs, the effect being to conjure the little balls and bats to get out and raise the almighty dickens when the enemy gets to bat tie.
 W. D. Smith, president, it is whispered, is making out a guessing schedule so that he will have some sort of reply to make when he IS consulted as to which team is bound to win an approaching game.
 1Heic oilly olie odu IHiHS eo chronicle about the Redwood s1t- uation. Some utterly crool human being has cut down all the trees where the kids used to climb up and develop dormant monkey mus cles watching wild issues of the game and roofing like thunder for home spunk.
 I don't want to be mean, but
 Whoever he is, he ought to be made to go to the swamps and lug some grown trees in on his back and made to plant them, every root intact, and to water them, and to pray over them, in the name of just ordinary boyhood.
 Billy West didn't know who had cut the trees-but he was mad, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15

among the famous personages he has painted and sketched being these: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun, Mrs. Archibald Freer, Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of Secretary Mel lon; Mrs. James Furze, John W. Weeks, Secretary of War; Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Sec retary of the Navy; Col. T. Mayhew Wainwright, Assistant Secretary of War; Master Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. John Borden, who, in 1929, was co-chairman with Mrs. Potter almer for the Chicago Bal Fan tastique, which was given for charity.
 The picture of Mrs. Borden, who is the wife of the famous yachts man and polo player, was painted last November, after MT. Lamar $ successful summer in Lake Forest, where he had 35 commissions among the most prominent people.
 In Palm Beach, where Mir. and Mrs. Lamar go each winter, the painter, who IS said to have accom- plished in three years what 1t takes many artists 20 years to attain, made the portraits of Charles Alexander, III, of New York and Fittsburg; MT. and Mrs. Alfrel Kay, MT. Frederick Byers, presi- dent of the Golf Association of America, and numerous other well known Americans, among them Mrs. A. J. Trexel Biddlisson and the granddaughter of Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan of New York.
 Most of the young artists work has been done in Washington, Chi eago, Pittsburg, Minneapolis, South Newport, Palm Beach and New York. He hopes to paint in the south eventually, Mrs. Lamar told me. He maintains his studio in the National Arts club, New York, as we'll as at the Everglades club at Palm Beach.
 These two, on whom Birmingham has so much claim, left Thursday to visit in Aiken, $. C. Here they will be guests at the Kaufman es- tate before returning to New York, where Mir. Lamar is to make the portrait of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's niece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Spring and Baseball,
 o Goody, Are Here!-

Pitch the Easter bonnet on the high shelf!
 Banish the fluffy-ruffles and the uneven skirt.
 Reach out for the sport suit and the hobby hat.
 Get your hair permanently waved.
 Take seat in the open street car-and kindly pawss the chewing gum,
 For, this week, along with the Housewives Exhibit and the dedica- tion of the Masonic Temple, the BASEBALL SEASON is tearing down upon us Friday like pleasant earthquake, and it will just natu- rally shiver the timbers of happi- ness all around us and leave us high and dry for trouble.
 After the appearance of MT. Tyrus w. Cobb in town-the so- c:ety column is allowed to call a man MT. and not just "Skinny-legs" CT something-the old burg went wild.
 It got batty-basebal batty.
 It furna1ed up with the sky radiant happy conviction that Spring HAD CAME AT LAST; and that the old soul had just naturally thrown away his umber-ell, and was daring to slosh around the Rick wood fields without his macintosh, neckpiece and goloshes.
 Hurrahing and Skipper" were many hearts over these atmospheric item&
 For while it's nice to have the rain sluice you once in awhile, when it downpours on you daily, you fi- naliy get to feeling like piece of wet wash hanging Imply on the line, with even your thoughts damp and sneezing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Som of (1larkS Is
 a Newspaper Nam

Birmingham folk found in Dr. and Mrs. s. H. Clark of Chicago, guests who had much to give, in an artistic way, to the city.
 Dr. Clark, who was here for the Axis club series Of 'ectures, left a finer conception of dramatic t to those who heard nim; and being fortunate enough to hear .FIf Win ter Comes" 1 am never to forget the climaetic sentences and intona- ton when Dr. Clark whispered the closing words to his audience.
 "Beloved-beloveJ beloved"
 He spoke for the hero who, after tragedies that make one old, at last found the haven of his sweetheart s arms-never again to be desolate through separation from her.
 Clever tones again were those of the heroine when Dr. Clark having described her as having re- moved her glove and thrust hel ilttle hand into that of the man she loved--she sank It deeply and breathed, much like tired chile ];
 "There!"
 A little thrill ran over the audi ence at Dr. Clark's extremely nat ural interpretation. He fingered upon that word, "Theren'
 Dr. Clark read eff Winter Comes" ike Louis Graveure sang - with his whole soul.
 It is interesting that Barrett, son of MT. and Mrs. Clark. is q newspaper man, now being in Der in. He has had number of ar tjcles in the New York papers and l~agazines, and is having an int,i- esting stay abroad.
 Mrs. Clark confided that she had fallen in love with Birmingham.
 A pleasing feature of the visit here was the opportunity the Clarks had-and enjoyed-of re newing acquaintance with many Birmingham boys and girls who have attended the University of Chicago, where Dr. Clark is head of the department Of dramatics.
 Mrs. Clark, as well as her huc- band, is intellectual, talks well, and keeps up with modern artistic and literary affairs and progress. She is very handsome woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Famed Artist Here;
 Wife IBirlnlinghann Girl

We have had two famous folk with us this week.
 One is our own Lucy Armes- sister of Miss Ethel Armes and Edmund Armes-and the other her nationally famed artist husband, who is Julian Lamar.
 I met the two of them the night when MT. and Mrs. Angus Fay Tor assembled a few friends to meet Dr. and Mrs. $. H. Clark of Chicago, and was told that nGmer- ous men of Birmingham were 50 anxious to greet the young, bat d. ready famed, portrait painter that they actually quit work and went to attend an afternoon Country club tea at which Mrs. Edmund Armes was hostess a day or so pre- viously for the two guests.
 Mir. Lamar has many relatives in the south and in Alabolna. He was born in Augusta, Ga, and is the nephew of Mrs. Tom Barrett of that city. He is also the step son of the late May. Gen. w. F. Duvall, commander of the Philip pines during the years 1309-i1.
 The artist has had every advan- tage of intellectual association and travel, and has studied in Paris, Florence, and Munich abroad and in Philadelphia in this ooun- try. He entered West Point after the age of 21, having been ap- pointed through competitive exam nations, and graduated in Tune, 1918, cadet captain.
 Numerous press sketches and pamphlets show how successful this distinguished young visitor is,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
This Is Big Week on
 Feminine Calendar

The police are already beginning to "study about" some of the work they may have to do this week. Not rude, rough work like man handling political arguer and winning the case with billy.
 But sort of first -aid-to-the in- jured service, more than likely.
 For they'll have three specific things to watch out For:
 Firstly: To see that Tuesday of this week-which is the long antici- pated "Ladies' Day" at the new Ma sonic temple-there is no fire alarm stampede when the Masons let the temple goat loose to graze and tear around the premises look ing for fresh candidates.
 Secondly: If there should hap pen to be no goat, the police may have to keep the crowds from hang ing me and take the case up with Charles Geohegan. He was the one who promised that the goat should be here-not land who said he had private information by wireless grapevine that the goat would see the ladies!
 Thirdly: The police wifi have to watch out that when free samples are given away daily at the House. wives exhibit, no one is killed in the forward rush.
 I have been designated by Mrs Brenton Fisk to say that if folks want to be the best, Birmingham citizens possible; it's up to them not only to get to the exhibit, which the League of Women Voters is putting on at great club effort, but to re- member the brands of goods that are exhibited there, and to purchase them in future, since all the articles shown are manufactured by actual Magic City concerns.
 That means Birmingham's money Will be kept at home, and that the town can thus be developed faster and more of its people, in this wise, given employment.
 The show is for men as we'll as women, and fun will reign for five days-from Tuesday through Sat urday night of this week.
 W. V. M. Robertson is to set the ball rolling with stirring address at the opening Tuesday morning at g o'clock, and during the afternoon session-at 3 o'clock-W. Carson Adams, famous for always collect ing the money to support the Mercy Home, will talk about the big flair" and its ideals ana results.
 Over the WSY radio, Chapline Hodges will tell everybody from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
All Hands and Cook
 Present at Big Show

Society, clubwomen, business folk, housewives and men who are "baching" will join the great in- ward rush to the Housewives ex- hibit-which is to be staged at 17OO Second avenue-across from the Jefferson theatre.
 The exhibit is the biggest event Birmingham women put on during the entire season, and literally thousands of persons attend, drink coffee, eat hot biscuits, listen to radio music, win prizes, get irec, go home and sleep, and get up the next morning and go back again.
 Charming Mrs. J. H. Doughty is chairman, and she is one hustler and one broad-minded citizen. It is due to her efforts that nearly all of the 55 booths are present at the show.
 Therefore, she's privileged to an nounce what she thinks, that, ''The Birmingham manufacturers are just the most wonderful folks in the world! They've been lovely. And Eve so greatly enjoyed working with them for what we Leaguers know, is the advancement of our town"
 Mrs. Doughty is assisted by Mrs. Frederick B. Dodge, who is in charge of registering the visitors and the distribution of prizes, with Mrs. John Burr Glass and Mrs. c. s. Simmons. Mrs. F. c. Englehardt directs publicity, assisted by Mrs. Neil R. Wallace and Mrs. Brenton Fisk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15

members will be hostesses to the public throngs.
 Mrs. J. M. Hankins, president of the League, will receive on open ing day, Tuesday, assisted by Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. R. E. Hogan of Ems ley, Mrs. H. Mearns, Mrs. Charles J. Sharp, Mrs. A. J. Grefenkamp, Mrs. Ernest LaPointe, Mrs. E. l.. Higdon, Mrs. Hubert Scruggs, Mrs. Victor Randolph, Mrs. John Foster, Mrs. J. M. Meadow, Mrs. c. B. Jaynes, Mrs. R. A. Clayton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15

metly Dorothy Roden Davis, and her mother, Nifs. Charles Da1.s- :, ho is lovely Mrs Jack Bowron's oter, is well represented ln that new household.
 For she has done the 5lessede-s thing ginsble-giysn he young people nine exquisite hand-mad. pillows
 Talk about some folks being lucky!
 Go ahead and get jealous and everything else. I already am. and know you cant help bu be.
 For pil,ows actually make house, md with them, your heart can feel at ease that their olor gives artistic value and cosIness; and that they will brighten most any dull corner in way to give whole-souled satisfaction. The Grays home $ two-story, and how pleasing its angles and it's retired exciusiveness as you ap- proach to catch your first glimpse of it through pine trees, the fret work branches so clearly outlined against the buff color of the build. ing. The structure IS 20 feet back from the street, on Essex Road, and stands at the top of zlope, with blinds a soft, dull blae.
 There is just q teriace-no porch
 and high Italian windows. h. side the walls are deep cream ID tint, while blue and gold tones pre- vail in the color scheme, brightly accentuated in gloriously large and comfortable oriental rug. Thf hangings tone in.
 In the sun parlor many gay tints a'e shown, built around q founda- ton background of gray.
 There are eight rooms, which in clude dining apartment, sun parlor, breakfast and living rooms-all of these on the first floor. Upstairs are three bedrooms and sum mery porch. The guest room is all in lavender, and several pretty lights make the house radiantly at tractive of night times
 A particular pet thing of the living room is a sink a-mile-down overstuffed coach, soft as a fairy bed and of deep blue velour. Alice Marings couch is also fas- clnatingly comfortable, emphasiz. ing pastel and oriental shades.
 Mrs. lray said she was indebted to Louis Schillinger, Birmingham artist, for the yard which he planned along forma, lines. It las many bright and da~k green clumps of hedge and shrubs.
 The back yard is another matter. his includes very important as S { to the now home. IIe'e .Flash,.' police dog, and so far a ne's pei sonally concerned, nc doesn't care rap whether anybody ever plants any crocuses in his pet sleeping place in the corner of the fence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15

Canada to goodness knows where all, that the exhibit is going on; that it's a shame they can't be here {; that they're missing something; how the exhibit pays, and what 1t meant to this Magic City last year.
 Right along, with this heavy stuff, he will relate a sob story of how one man, who could hardly pay his booth-bill at the show last year, made $16,000 out of his product he exhibited. Which went to show some folks were willing ic support e-manufacturers if they only could learn about them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Perky Flowers to Grow
 Out Al Garber HI0nne!

Mrs. Al Garber has room enough on the terrace of her new home 70 plant 50 varieties of flowers!
 This is the most wonderful thing she has just discovered about that new home of hers out on Clairmont avenue, at Thirty-sixth street.
 She thought she could get only a dozen or two in, even with master full trying.
 But the landscape gardener dis covered the trick.
 You see," said the new house owner, Eve been used to 80 acres where I could plant everything on earth I took a notion to. And on one lot-when you have house on it, too-your landscape space is just too dispritingly small for words. You have to curb your am bition for old-fashioned gardens and terraces and walks, and settle down to just how many inches of earth you can have per seed-or brsh."
 What an entertaining converse tionalist Mrs. Garber IS! There IS always some surprisingly bright ex- perience or story hidden around the bend of her words.
 Before her marriage to the new president of the Southern club she was Helen Eubank, and il is or tine 8o-acre Eubank property that the new Country club is to be erected, and golf links built.
 The interior walls of her own house are of cream and the drap- eries are of figured linen to tone with them. Mos, of the furnj .ure is mahogany, it's dull red being con. 5idered in all the interior arrange nents.
 You'll see Mrs. Garber lott of days now, digging Tn her own gar den, being fully equipped, with ali sorts of spades and rakes and hoes the gift of a most thoughtful husband-her big sun hat conceal ing a pretty head, whose ideas will give pleasure to hundreds of folk who pass. Mrs. Garber loves roses and perennials, md all the Haunt ing, perfumed flowers that love so tc grow when someone is kind enough to care, each year come hurrying through the soil to build for her little magic spots of earth. of earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Lots of ,Wor1len
 BuYing Season Passes

Now, after Tyrus w. had en- trained thenceward, more than 800 women walked to the realization that Birmingham baseball season passes were being sold for one dollar a throw; and, all week, they've been rushing downtown drug stores and headquarters to tuck the little pasteboard pieces in their purses.
 Thus, the chatter that husbands have been hearing morningly, lunchly and dinnerly runs:
 "Well, I've just saved us lot of money, darling! I've bought up all the Tuesdays and Fridays there are. Les see," counting on pink fingers like eenie, meeny, miny, "that means I can go 10 whole Tuesdays and Fridays for-oh, you figure 1t! But you can see it's just a mere nothing at all And"
 One thousand women are about to own such season tickets, Billy West said this week, which guaran- tees that Birmingham will keep it's record of attracting the largest at tendance of ladies in the entire cir cuit of the Southern league. Billy is secretary of the baseball asso- citation.
 The ticket sale also means
 That therell be numerous box parties of men and women-as well as just women by themselves.
 That the grandstand won't look like black-crow assemblage, a prize fight ring-or simple male convention.
 And
 All sorts of little feminine "Whoo-ees" and 70, mercys" and gurgles in high or medium falsetto tones will punctuate the basso pro- fundo and tenor choruses of wild men who shout out laundering de- mands during the games like
 Collar 'im"
 "Crack the son-of- guns backw
 "Whadda yu mean-lettin' that baby git by yu like that!
 Remember you ain't a-playin' ping pong on the parlor sofy! You're a-playin' baseball!'
 "That wont git us no pennant! I'll say it WON'T! Not as anybody could notice it"
 And so on and ever thusly, punc- tuated with shorts and indignant in- formations to assembled audiences round about, the unconscious mem bers of which arc also engaged iii issuing orders and advice to profes- sionals.
 What fun it's going to be-always is! How disheveled you look when it's over. How you feel like you'd been pulled through a bung-hole How you rave that if Pete, the hard hitter, "had just picked up his feet and dusted, then"
 And wasn't that a peacherino of home-hit! And you're hungry as bear. You could eat chop suey out of business.
 And ain't it good to be alive and able to understand baseball. So much nicer than playing authors!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
Henry Gray House
 All Among the Pines

Now the young Henry Grays c.-ose Italian archiLeotur, as the style of building nearest their hearts.
 Mrs. Gray, you know, was for
New Britain herald., 1923-06-20

pastor Of the A, ", y, Zion church
ofFieiated and burial VAS IN West
cemetery,
Veterans Fund Chesk
Myren Il, Rogers, chairman Of the
drive for funds for the camp for the
disabled veterans has mailed the last
contributions received IN rlaiRyllle,
The total amount received in the
canvass Of the town amounted 90 APP
nFoximately t4h0 and this sum will
be equal. in proportion, 10 the other
towns and cities in the state and larg,
or than some, Mr.. Rogers stated that
the support which he received
was magnificent and he wished.
In the name of the committee. 10
thank all those who helped 10 make IL
a success.
Huys Restaurant
william korogoki OF PlainVille has
purchased the restaurant on Center
street, Southington. owned by Nick
Pntsuratis Of that town, lie will take
possession Immediately, He has con-
Quoted restaurant In PlantsNille for
n number OF years.
Flushing Hy,lrantS
Employees of the Piainyille Water
Co. are flushing the hydrants about
the town all this week. The east side
Is being taken care OF at the present
time. and the west side will be done
Friday and Saturday
Legion society Circus.
The society circus under the au-
spices OF Brock Barnes post. Amer.
lean Legion, which will open up on
the town lot al the corner OF Whit
ing and Maple streets Saturday and
continue all next week closing the
following Saturday. will equal in
and brilliancy. some of
the biggest circus shows on the road
throughout the country. Plans have
been perfected for the erection OF
the tents and sideshows and all will
he in readiness by Friday night. The
members of the post will be present
every evening with saws and ham,
mers to erect the booths and rafters,
and the immense tent. much larger
han that used last year, will be put
IN place throughout the week. The
list of circus acts which have been
booked and which will be presented.
are among the best thrillers avail
,ble. Most of them have appeared
At various seasons with the big time
shows and the 40 funny clowns will
De sure to keep the large crowds in
1 gale of laughter throughout the
.ntire performance. All the acts will
De seen by those attending as great
pains were taken to have them aerial.
New Britain herald., 1923-06-20

At A Court of Probate held at New Brit
ain within and for the Probate District OF
Berlin, in the County OF Hartford and state
of Connecticut, on the 18th day of June.
A. D., 1928.
Present, Bernard F. Gaffney, Judge.
Upon the exhibition to this court OF the
agreement whereby William Cowishaw,
Guardian OF the person of Mildred sumner,
minor of the first part gives In adoption
to Carrie S. Mckay and Luther Mckay OF
said New Britain, of the Second Part a
minor male child under the age of fourteen
years to Wit About 10 years, months of
age, residing in the Town of New Britain.
to become theirs by adoption: It is
ordered: That hearing upon said agree
ment be had at the Probate ONCE In said
New Britain, on the 25th day Of June, A,
n, 1923, at Q o'clock. in the forenoon; and
that notice be given to all persons inter-
ested to appear at said hearing and show
cause, II any they have. why said agree
ment should not be approved, by publish
ing a copy of this order in The New Britain
Herald. a newspaper having circulation
In said district, and by posting copy of
this order on the public sign post of the
Town of New Britain, in the County of
Hartford. in the state OF Connecticut, near
est to the place OF residence of said child.
at least six days before the day herein he
fore assigned by this court for said hearing.
BERNARD F. GAFFNEY.
Judge.