New Britain herald., 1926-05-20
.l5O GUESTS ATTEND
 NEIGHBORS' NIGHT
Grange Celebration Success
 With Varied Program
BUSINESSMEN DEFEATED
All-Stars Win By 2-f Count-Class of 50 To Receive First Commun- ion-Social At Congregational Church-BriefS,

Church-BTiefs.
 The "Neighbors' Night held by l Plainville Grange was a great sue cess, visitors numbering almost 15O being present from Bristol Har- winton, Southington. Collinsvillc, West Hartford. Plymouth. Litch- 1 field. Cromwell. Berlin and New Britain Oranges. The program was [ furnished by six of the above Oranges and was as follows: Vocal solo by Glenn Sperry, Bristol Grange,
 Reading by Mrs. William Jayne
 Southington Grange
 A sketch, "A Balloon Seller" West Hartford Grange.
 Vocal selection with guitar accom-
 paniment Harwinton Grange. Reading by Lester Goodsoll, Bristol ! Grange.
 Play, "Elizabeths Young Man.
 Plymouth Grange.
 Violin solo by Hunter Kilbourne, 1 Southington Grange
 Mock wedding by Harwinton Grange l Play, "A Cheerful Caller" Collins
 vile Grange.
 Piano solo hy Sister Banning, West
 Hartford Grange.
 Reading. Sister Bessie Case. Collins
 vile Grange.
 Plainville Grange was honored by having Deputy F. B. Adams of Ser lin and State Grange Secretary Ard | Weldon of Plymouth present as well jas the masters of six subordinate l Oranges. A supper was served 10 I215 members and guests by an eff cicnt committee under the chair Imanship of Mrs. Cappa Corning. Dancing followed the program. mu- sic being provided by the Litchf1eld Grange orchestra under the direc- ton of Mrs. Bessie Dickinson, as- sisted by Messrs. Sperry and Good sell of Bristol.
 It was announced that the third and fourth degrees would be work ed in Bristol on Friday night.
 Businessmen Defeated.
 The Businessmen lost their first regular baseball game of the sea son when they were nosed out by Cheetham's All-Stars in close pitchers battle last evening at the high school field. The Businessmen got to R. Minella for a run in the first inning. but after that he held them scoreless. The All-Stars tied the count in the fourth and put over the winning run in the fifth. The game was called on account of dark hess at the end of the sixth inning. The feature of the contest was the spectacular non-hitting of John Murphy.
 The linoups were as follows: Busi- .nessmen, Bill Downham C. Bill Gun bingham D. Baker 1b. Champion 2b, Ralph ThralI ss. Harry LaBonne 3b, Matteo If, G. Cunningham of, John Murphy If. All-Stars, Berty c, R. Minella D. French 1b. DiMarco 2b. Solomon ss, Funsy 3b, Carpenter If, Carucci cf T. Mineila If Businessmen .... i h Q Q 0-f All-Stars ........ q q 0 1 1 x-2
 Tmpire-Bill Gleason.
 Walt Lathrop has been released by the management of the Business men for failure to report last night. Bill Cunningham has been signed as q regular. The next practice will be Monday evening in preparation for the game Wednesday night with the Standard Steel team.
 Slight Fire At Factory
 There was slight fire about 5:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Standard Steel X Bearings, Inc The blaze broke out about one of the machines in the forge shop. but it was put out without calling the fire department. Practically no dam age was done.
 Ernest Thornc
 Word has been received here of the death of Ernest Thorne in Syra- cuse, N. Y. Mir Thorne formerly lived in Plainville on Elm court and was employed as a foreman at the Bristol Mfg. Go. He made many friends while here. For the past IiF' lllOllNllo llN lltlAl lltFll dllillI NlAll paralysis of the spine. He leaves his wife and one son, Robert. Burial was in Syracuse.
 Ym-Yum Club
 The Yum-Yum club met at the home of Mrs. Annie Brown Tues day and played "500." Prizes were | won by Mrs. Vance, Mrs. Coe and ] Mrs. Gilbert. Mrs. Brown, in be- half of the club, presented Mrs. | Vance with a hand painted cake | plate. A dainty lunch was served | by the hostess.
 Farewell Party
 A party was given at the home of | Mir. and Mrs. Louis W. Higgins of 66 1 East street last evening in honor of |