New Britain herald., 1924-07-02
BLAZE IS STARTED
 BY FIRECRACKER
Early Discovery Of Fire Prob,
 ably Saves Dwelling House
ARRESTED FOR PLAINVILLE
Piain,iile Grange Meets-TO Vote an Episcdpai Iieeior-Irumhuli Closing Chamber of Commerce Meeiing- Tiainyilie Bricfs,


 Piain,ilie Bricfs,
 \ freeraeker thrown onto The roof
 of the dwelling house occupied by the
 Ponzl family in the rear of Inc Neri
 block caused lively blaze shortly after II o'clock last evening. hut the l fire was seen in time to send in an alarm for Plainvillo Host Co, No, 1. and the fire was eXilnguished with slight damage. Plainvillo police arc
 making an investigation Of the matter in an effort to ascertain who was re- sponsibe for the affair,
 | \ woman living nearby discovered | inc fire and sent out cry which caused the fire alarm to be sounded. | The Ire company responded in short order and ostinguishod the blaze with out much delay. The family was sleeping and were awakened by the excitement, but they did not know | that the place was anre until they | arose 10 sec what was going on. IL was said this morning that somc- one in the yard Of the Neri block had l llt n anu IhI lHIonH " into the air. IL failed to explode and landed on the roof. Evidently the fuse was slowly burning because after some time elapsed, the roof was seen to be | afire. The quick action of the person who sent in inc alarm and the quick response Of the fire department with the resultant extinguishing Of the fire, doubtlessly saved the building and prevented probable serious injury to those in the house. Arrests will proba by be made in the case before much time is up,
 Arrested For rlainNillc
 Moses bohemian of New Britain was notified yesterday afternoon by po- i liccman Patrick J. O'Mara Of the New 1 Britain police department detective | bureau. to be in the plainNille police court Wednesday evening to answer 10 a charge of reckless driving lodged 1 against him here. His trial will be held this evening at T;30 o'clock in the local police court.
 PlainviIs Grange Meets
 painvile Grange observed Patriotic Night at the regular meeting in Grange hall last evening. A program in charge of Past Lecturer Helen Phelps was presented and consisted of music. recitations and a short talk on pra ctical patriotism. the subject being Wanted Women Voters to Note." Tho next regular meeting of the Grange which was scheduled to be held Tues day evening. July 16, will be omitted because of the summer month and va cations which will be in force at that time. The meeting next following will be held on Anugust , at the home of Lydia Butler on Pennington avenue and in connection with this, a picnic will be held.
 To Vote on Rector
 The nominating committee Of the ; Episcopal Church of Our Saviour at z the meeting held Monday evening, se- lected several names of ministers and wrote each Of them a letter relative l to calling them to Planvlle. The / committee will report on the answers i to the parish meeting wkich will be | held on Thursday evening, July 10, a for the selection of one of them to be- t come rector of the local church. The name selected will then be forwarded 10 the bishop for his approval. "
 C. of C. to Meet n The July meeting of the PlainviIle C Chamber of Commerce will be held C 1t the chamber headquarters Thurs n lay evening at s o'clock and report s' will be had from the committee ap- c pointed to look into the matter of sc-
 G.i.I F,. hn tiers of the town. The committee has U rad the permission of the Connecticut u 70. 10 use Electric Field for this year Ia md steps will probably be taken to a ret in touch with the organizations in ha town who are interested in the natter in order that cooperation will e had in getting the field into shape tl o use this year. tl A suggestion that is a good one has yt cen made by many throughout the d' own that an athletic association be tr ormed with all those who would like 'u , see baseball kept alive in Plainville in ecoming members for certain mem- cc ership fee each year. This would Of amount 10 one dollar and pI ,any would likely join to keep ath- bN tics alive in Plainville. GU In this manner, the matter of q Ni cid and the expense attached to get = ng it into shape, would be easily . ,kep care of and a head would be iven to the project and the use of the I cid could be scheduled so that there ould be no confusion or arguments bout dates of playing. The Chamber [ Commerce cannot be expected to - rry on this work or finance the = roiect, and in the minds of many the ork of that body is finished upon curing the permission to use the cid. The members of the various ans in the town with a great deal of operation would aid great deal in C ,tting the field into shape by donat- . F their services to fix up diamond. he report of the Chamber Of Com N cree committee will be watched with terest by many.
 Trumbull Closing b The Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co. will il ose down after the days work to- b orrow for 10 days This has been the n ,licy of the factory for many years n Id serves two purposes, one to give n e employees a vacation and the other b make repairs to the boilers and her equipment which could not be me while the factory Is running. A rge number of the employees are aiming to spend the week out of wn.
 To Hay DoubleIieader r The eye group baseball team will iy double header on Friday with q game in the morning and another