New Britain herald., 1923-12-12

mas.
 Owing to the limited time the
 Bristol X Plainville Electric company
 has let this contract to the Fred T.
 l'eys company of Springfield. The
 men Of this company are busily en-
 gagged on the work now and the plans
 are to have the lights in operation by
 Saturday night of this week.
 These lights will be of the orna-
 mental standard type. They will be bracket fixtures that will be attached
 To the steel poles now in permanent
 position along Main street and carry
 ing supporting and guy wires for the
 trolley wires
 The light fixtures will be of the [ HoraluS type. late improvement
 upon the old forms of White Way
 h&tures. Through the local public
 utilities company an arrangement
 was made with the General Electric company whereby the lights were bor-
 roWed from another city for this temporary installation. ] The installation for the shoppine days previous to Christmas will mean that Main street will have 16.ooo ad- ditlonal candle power to brighten the | way.
 Commissioner Dunl,am Speaks state Insurance Commissioner ! Howard r. Dunham of Hartford was the guest of the members of the Bris- lol real estate board yesterday at i their meeting for December, held in the Elks club. This was a luncheon event followed bv business meeting 1 ana an address by the commissioner. owing to the coming of the insurance commissioner an invitation had been extended to the life insurance agents Of the city to be present. and this branch Of the business was repre- scented.
 President Harry s. Beale presided al the business meeting. One of the reports presented was that Of the Building and Loan Association com mittee, reporting that the state had granted papers so that the association could start business very shortly.
 Commissioner Dunham gave a very interesting talk 10 the men. em- phaSing the value of character and in- tegrity in the conduct of this business He referred 10 conventions and meet lhss he bad recently attended citing The matters considered Of great inn portance at such meetings.
 The commissioner was very com punentary in his remarks regarding brlstol. He referred to the snirit of progress that appears to aetuate this community and commended the men present Tor the atmosphere of the ciiN Commissioner Durham con- sldered the organization of the Bristol tesl Estate board fine thing for the people Of Bristol, for he stated that In all lines or business the com munlty spirit Of getting together. meeting with other men and discuss Ing problems jointly was the mans way or accomplishing results.
 The commissioner emphasized very strongly tho good results that may he expected from cooperative tsetitng or problems, and stated it was pleasure to speak to representation group such as he addressed at the December meeting of the Bristol Real Estate board.
 Boy Scout Annual
 Invitations are being sent ont today 10 the members Of the Bristol Council bop scouts Of America. to troop com. HHtteehen and to various others con. necteu with the Boy Scout work in btlstol to attend the annual meeting ot the Bristol council Monday evening peeehoer l7 al si0n o'clock in Ar. canum hall At this meeting inc members Of the council will have an opportunity Of meeting the now scout executive Arthur Breckbill. who will hake few remarks upon the pro. posed work in scouting during the next six months.
 me speaker at this meeting will he Kay Wyland. connected with the general nan at New York city. Mir. "E'hhd IS considered one Of the finest opponents Of scouting in the East and will give most inspiring talk,
 me committee aims to make this meeting brief. but very interesting ono. While there will be annual rcs rorts. these will be offered in sucb 'orm that the major part Of the even. Ing may be given 10 discussion os the future scout program in RristoI and talk by the guest Of the evening
 lhose interested in scouting will he welcome at this meeting Of Decen,be, ., and in the event that they desira 70 near this noted scouting expert 'peak. they are urged 10 get in toucl Nlth Scout Executive Breckb;li apd notify him or their intention of al. ending.
 Corporation Fund Attached
 Attachment was made today on ac. 'ounts Of the Clayton Brothers 1pc it the Bristol National bank and tha 51stol Trust company by Attornay fober J. Stack for the sainiou Coal ind Trucking company. 10 satisfs hills mounting to s1,5n0. Papers in the .ase were served by Deputy shcria Joseph w. Harding. Tho amounts ire mainly for unpaid transportation .hargcs. guarantced by the trucking onccrn.
 Library MakeS Gain
 Total expenses of the public library or the fiscal year ending pecap,I,or
 amount 10 s13.s14.2a as against for the preceding year. As he receipts have been much greater ban the year before. the library .ss made substantial gain on the psratious of the year.
 t.rangr Honor~ Mo4sI
 Walter F. Wood Of this citr "a. Onorcd by tle Central Pomona range yesterday in wetbersnetd bv is election to tho oHice or steward. ic was recently chosen as master Of hc local grange
 BurliBgton Wins Two
 The Burlington quintets were st1c- essfui in their contests last night at 'gd Nfrnfs hafg a1g5rs4 4f.r rsx..