New Britain herald., 1924-11-11

the legion state depnrtments coming to Bristol after the memorial dedica- ton in Berlin.
 Exposition and Fashion Pageant Plans are rapidly maturing for the Merchants Exposition and Faah- ion Papeant tv be staged under tho auspices of the Chamber of Corns merce in the new Malone block, Post Office court, the week of De- cember 1-e, Indications point to this being one of the biggest sf- fairs of It's type attempted in Bris- tol in many years.
 At a meeting of the directors the plan was endorsed and the direc- tors authorized President Hughes to appoint a committee to assist the secretary. This committee consists of the four directors representing the merchandising and trade group. George F. Bookings. Paul M. Hub bard, Franklin L. Muzzy and Peter A. Cawley,. and Director William A Hayes of the welfare group.
 This committee of five met yester- day and endorsed the plan and con- mittees to handle the exposition will be appointed today.
 The committee has engaged the entire floor of the block for the week of Dec. 1-6. The exposition and fashion pageant will run every night of that week, with q style show a feature each evening.
 There will be 20 booths, and the requests for space already received indicate the success of the affair. These booths will be limited to ner- chants as the number Is SO small that an industrial section cannot ba staged at this time.
 The program for the week will in- clude not only the fashion shows to be staged each night, but special fea- lures introducing many novelties. There will be five orchestras at lesst, including the two local musical units. One will introduce for the first time to Bristol New York city aggre- gation of syncopators.
 One of the features will be pops ularity contest in which many BYis- tol young ladies will have . part. Valuable prizes, purchased locally, will be awarded to the fortunate la dies selected for the gifts by popu- lar vote.
 The fashion show will introduce manikins that will wear the seasons latest vogues and will display mer. chandise of great appeal.
 Murrone Sues For Divorce.
 Divorce proceedings have been brought by Vito Murrone, an em- ploye of the city of Bristol, against Annina Decrisantis of Bari, Italy. He claims she was guilty of improper conduct between January and Oc- tober 10, 1923, and names Leonardo DiNola of Italy as correspondent. Tha Murrones were married in 1919 and have one daughter. Murrone came to the United States in 1921 with the intention of sending for his family as soon as his financial condition would permit. Word reached Murs rome that his wife had proved iin- faithful, and when he wrote her about the matter she admitted her guilt and gave as her excuse that ''the devil had possessed her" The plaintiff, through Nair and Nair, of New Britain, Is asking for divorce and custody of the child. Pumping Station Starts Work. Due to the continued drought which has lowered the water sup ply in all the reservoirs in this To- cality, the pumping station of the New Britain water department which was completed in the Staf- ford district of this city last winter at cost of several thousand dol lars, was put into operation for the first time yesterday. The pumping station is now pumping several mill lion gallons of spring water daily in to New Britain's water mains, thus preventing further depletion of the reservoir supply.
 The pumping station, which Is To. cated just north of Pennington av- enue at what is known as the White bridge" was completed last winter after several months of work. It is one of the most elaborate pumping stations in the east and takes the place of an emergency reservoir for New Britain's water supply.
 It was located in the Stafford dis trict on account of the prevalence Of a large number of springs in that locality and on account of its prox- unity to the trunk line watex main leading from the New Britain reser- voir in Whigville to New Britain.
 Armistice Day was observed in . splendid manner today by the schools of the city, which conducted meritorious program s, bringing home a deep realization of the world war to the children.