New Britain herald., 1924-07-21
MEMBERS OF CHURCH
 SURPRISE RECTOR parishioners From PlainVille Pay
 Visit to Rev. George Hilton
 AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
Dr, Cook To start Practice Tomorrow -Automobile and trolley collide-- riain,ilie Pioneers swamp North Granby-I'lain,ili file Briefs

risin,ille Pioneers swamp Nortl Granby-Ilain, file Bricfs Rev, and Mrs George Hilton 0 Huntington were pleasantly surprised yesterday when s7 members of th, Episcopal church of Our Saviour wen hy automobile to attend the morninl services In st. Paul's church in Hunt, ington whore Rev, Mir. Hilton is rec tor.
 The day was an ideal one and . basket lu4ch was served on the spa cious lawn in front Of the rcctory Places Of interest were visited by tho party and an enjoyable outing va. held. Rev Mir. Hilton read the his, tory of st, Paul's church which |, one Of the oldest in the state Of Con. necticut, having been built in 400.
 Mir. Hilton was until recently rector Of the Plainville Episcopal church.
 American Legion Meeting
 Brock Barnes past. American Le. zion. will hold one of the most i'm. portant sessions of the summer months In the post rooms on Whit ing street this evening at o'clock when delegates 10 the state depart ment convention in Torrington next month will be elected Several mem. bers of the post are candidates and 8 spirited gathering is forecast. The To- cal post will be allowed two delegate and these, with Commander Harry Fisher, who is department historian will make total Of three delegates.
 A number of other important mat ters are to come up for discussion al the session and many are looking for ward to the reports from the various committees working on the annual carnival which is scheduled to be held next month. Russ Wininger is in charge of the popularity contest and this is being taken up with great deal of interest by the members of the post. William Cunningham is signing up amateur acts which will enter the contest to be staged on different nights of the affair and In all, the carnival will be one of the best ever attempted by Brock Barnes post.
 Starts Practice Tomorrow Dr, George r. Cooke, late of St. Francis hospital. will open his office and start practice here tomorrow. The doctor has his offices fitted out in the east end of Neri's block.
 Auto and Trolley Collide
 This morning about 10:50 o'clock, Bristol and Plainvile trolley car collded with an automobile on West Main street opposite the entrance to the Bristol Mfg. Co. plant. The driv- CT of the automobile, which was a touring car gave his name as John Motyka of 5O6 11th street New York city. In the car with him were his wife and several children. The troll ley had just started from the Plain vile end of the line when several cars came along among them being truck. The Motyka car was following the truck and when the truck came to a stop. Motyka who was in the middle of the street. attempted to drive into the curb but found that he had not enough room. The motorman on the trolley attempted to avoid the coli- sion by applying his brakes, but was too late. The automobile had a rear hub cap smashed and the rear fender damaged.
 Mrs. Motyka became slightly hys- terical over the accident and stepped out of the automobile bearing a child in her arms and started to vent her spleen on the car crew. Her husband ouieted her down, however, and after a short interruption, the New York automobile and trolley car proceeded on their separate ways.
 Swamp North Granby
 The plainNille Pioneers baseball team, representing the junior group Of the Hartford county Y. M. c. A.. swamped the North Grsnby team in a game on Trumbulls field Saturday afternoon by the score of S4 to 3. The locals hit the ball freely and ran wild on the bases and before many innings had progressed, the game turned out to be a farce. The locals once before showed their complete superiority over their opponents of Saturday when they played them in North Granby and won by the score of 42 to 1.
 Game Called on
 St. Mary's team Of this town was scheduled to play the Farmlnglon team yesterday afternoon but Just De- fore the locals started for the valley town. the manager of the Pennington nine called up to cancel the game. He stated that he was unable to collect his players and could not play the local team. This left the team idle | over the weekend.
 Former Resident visiting Here
 Roscoe Detmar of Boston. Mass, ! Uas visitor at the home of Albert | con1on of Whiting street for a few l days, He IS former resident Of where he has large circle | of friends. He is assistant superin- fcndept of the Western Electric Co. m Roston. He was noted for his ability | as baseball player while here.
 PIainyillc Briefs
 Court General Lawton, F. Of A. will hold regular meeting in the post rooms of tho American Legion to- morrow night at 8 o'clock.
 William Cunningham of Park street .nent the weekend on a fishing trip .o Bantam Lake. His catch is re-