New Britain herald., 1924-10-14

and4 burial will belin St. Thomas church. Southlngton.
 Caucuses Tonight.
 The republican and democratic caucuses win be held this evening at o'clock in the town hall on Pierce street. The republican ses- sion will be held in the court room and the democratic in tho library room. Both parties will choose candidates for representative. jus. tices Of the peace and judge of pro bate.
 The republican caucus Is expected to be fiery session with three men seeking the nomination for repre-. sentative and at least two going for the nomination for judge of the pro- bate. J. J. Kimmel, Frank Smith and s. P. Williams are out for rep. resentative while 1t Is reported au. thoritativcly that NJ. o. Ryder wil, have stiff opposition for judge Of probate.
 It has also developed that the democratic caucus will have q sur prise to spring this evening when the nominations for justice of the peace are called for. It is said in some quarters that movement Is on foot to dump one of the candi- dates who has held the office of justice of the peace because of his leaning towards things republican and this is predicted will lose some votes for the democrats at the elec- tion. Fred Powers will be nomi- mated for representative and it if probable that the republican nom inee. for judge of probate will be endorsed.
 FoEmcr Resident Dies.
 Word has been received here of the death in Bridgeport of Mrs. Ru- dolph Gendron. formerly Miss Lu- cille Propson of Plainville. Death came to her yesterday morning. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon in Bridgeport.
 Boxing Tournament.
 A boxing tournament to be con- ducted under the auspices of the Conn. A. A. U. will be held tomor- row night In the Community theater Some of the best boys in the state will take part, among them being John Pilkington, brother of Charlie Pilkington; Noah Kaplan, brother of Kid" Kaplan of Meriden; Arthur D. Champlain of Wallingford, cham pion of the 110-pound class in the tournament held in New Haven last year.
 There will be & total of 10 bouts on the card each one being star bout and Louis (Kid) Kaplan will be the third man in the ring.
 The judges of the fights will be Italian Jack Herman, who has met some of the best heavyweights in the country including Luis Angel Firpo at present of Plainville; Joseph Car. roll of Bristol and James McNeil of Southington. The card is the big gest to be staged in this section of the state and has boys entered from Southington, Meriden, New Britain Bristol, South Manchester and Plain lville.
 Attending Convention
 Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Ward Jeff this morning for New Haven where they will attend the three day Bap. tist state convention which is being held at Calvary Baptist church.
 Returns From Hospital
 James E. Thomas who has beer a patient at the Hartford hospita for the last seven weeks, has return. ed to his home on Pennington ave nue where he is slowly recuperating
 Grange Fair Notes
 Plainville Grange will hold the annual fair in Grange hall, Thurs day and Friday of this week. Fancy work, food, fruit, vegetables and home made candy will be sold and a play will be presented each eve. ming followed by dancing.
 The play on Thursday evening is expected to be the feature of the fair. Entitled, 'The Fruit of His Folly" it Is a melodrama of the old school. The cast of characters is as follows: Jack Cunning, victim of his oun foIIy. Howard Martin: PercN Ogden, a true friend, Winfield Loo mis; Alice Brandon. society pet Lima Weldon; Melinda Jane Boggs from Juniperville, Vt., Mrs. s. B. Car penter; Sarah. Boggs, Hiram's bet, ter half, Mrs. Morris Corning; Hi' ram Boggs, owner of Cowslip Farm Morris Hart: bellboy at the Tremon' hotel, Charles Weldon; Henry, the hired man, Charles Weldon, and Polly Flinders, a black diamond Bessie Loomis Hart.
 Monthly Union Service
 Subject to the call of the Ep' worth league of the M. E. church, 2 meeting of the Young Peoples so' cieties of the Protestant churches was held last evening in the M. E church parlors to consider if it wa' possible to have the various Young Peoples societies better understand
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