New Britain herald., 1927-04-02

guess that the driver was color blind and mistook the amber for the red.
 But he was not color-blind, and that affliction would not be likely 70 cause confusion between those particular hues.
 You give up? We knew you would.
 Now just why did the driver stop his car?
 He didn't.
 The car stopped itself. It had run out Of gas.
 Wednesday nights military man cuvers in the Hartford state armorE undoubtedly called to the minds Of many local citizens a sham battle fought in Walnut Hill park few years ago by two units Of local Ma tional Guards.
 Notice Of the coming battle was published in the newspaper and there was large crowd on hand to watch. About 50 per cent Of the audience was composed of small boys, bubbline over with the anticl- patton of witnessing q real battle.
 One Of the companies marched down to the Hart street side of tho park and then hid in the shrubhery waiting a chance 10 advance on the opposing unit. "Ye small boy" spied them in their hiding place and run ming with all the speed they could put into their lower eNtremltles, ln- formed the opposing leader just i where the "crcmy' was stationed. Then they hastcned back to tell the members Of the hidden army as much as they knew Of the plans of the other unit. And so it was until the two armies met on the field Of battle. There was much shooting and charging. Each time the sol diers advanced a number of boys advanced with them. on top ot them and sometimes in front of them. 1 When a man dropped, there was a rush to see 1T he was really dead or just making out And the small l boys were not the only ones run ming There were many GroWnup men racing up and down the field with the soldiers, Truly it was q big day for boys of New Britain but a terrible one for the soldiers. ! There Is existing in the southern states and especially in Maryland, a small publication which has en- dured the years of scorn and hard ship since 1522 and which this year comes from the presses more 1 popular than ever before with a circulation which is steadily in- crcasing and spreading throughou; these United States of ours. We mean the HagcrstoWn Almanac.
 Hagerstown, lying high in the mills of western Maryland, has lit- tie else but it's Almanac and its canning factories to bring 1t into the limelght and while is canning factories might falter and occa- sionally fail. its Almanac goes on forever.
 Of course We are skcptical con.
 corning the weather prophecies embodied in the booklet. Many people are and yet host of Mary. flanders, some of them prominent
 men in social and political circles
 of the state and county. swear by
 the Almanac over the weather
 forecasts issued by the UniteC
 States observatorics, The high spo
 of the AlmanaC's career seems tC
 he phophccy of snow for thu
 Fourth of July. a phenomenon
 which, enthusiasts claim, wa
 realized in the hills about th'
 town.
 Or that point there is mucl
 doubt, the question never havin'
 been definitely settled but of in
 date Of President Tatt's inaugura
 ton, all shadow of doubt has becl
 removed. The papers foretold
 clear day and the Almanac sai
 stormy" in phlcgmatic tone
 which would not be denied. Ii wor , red the visitors 10 the inaugura llDli tNtltlSFS fOllSl'iti 'lb4t tll' : wanted to make the trip and ye
 there was the Almanac prophecy , ing stormy weather The paper ho-ho'd and ha-ha'd and scoCfed q the booklets predictions and tn Almanac just kept it's counsel an stuck to it's guns. How many ( ) you folks were in Washington tn : day Taft was inauguratod? Ecmcm : Der that blizzard? Well. the Alma 5 mac won it's host of followers 0 5 the one storm.
 : The Uagcrstown Almanac wa l first printed in 1922 by John Grr = Der, dead for three-quarterS Of | century. Two yearly editions wei
 put out. one in English and one : German. Later the German cditio . was dropped - the World W5 q came on and hysterical anti-Gc. | man propaganda made the prin
 ing of the German issue unproii
 able. Grubnr's descendants no - carry on the Almanac. - The wood cuts which a1orn 1T " pages today even as they did II v first day the booklet was issue ' were probably also created by u
 author. If this is so Gvubar, as - wood cut artist, was q fine publisl :, CT.
 " The weather prophecies wc 7, first made up by Charles Flack, n blacksmith of the town, known z, his day as the "blacksmith astron l. mer." Flack passed along his "; " and his place was taken by tI
 Rev. w. N. Kopenhaver, a Lut
 eran minister of Macungie, Pen r. sylvania, who still gives out |
 forecasts with a hand which wa n CTS only occasionally and then Ne
 slightly.
 10 Interesting is the note that R