New Britain herald., 1928-11-21
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CHOSEN AS MASTER
 FOR FOURTH TIME Charles H. Curtis Continued n
 Office by GranSts MATAoslAN BOUND OVER

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 ernor and Wife to Observe Anni- versary-Two Weddings Yesterday
 Episcopal Church Fair-Briefs.
 Charles H. Curtis, master of
 Plainville Grange for the past three years, was elected for . fourth 1 term at the annual meeting of the
 Grange in its hall last night. MT. Curtis three years in office have been
 years of prosperity for the ocal
 Patrons of Husbandry, and his re-
 election was taken as both . tribute
 to his past work and means of as-
 surfing another year and growth on
 the part of the Grange.
 Other 1929 officers chosen last
 night were as follows: Overseer.
 Irving Gridley: lecturer. Mrs.
 Charles Weldon: steward. Floyd
 Stillman: assistant steward, Win
 field Loomis: chaplain. Mrs. Anna Moves; treasurer. Mrs. s. E. Carpen- ter: secretary. Mrs. Harold l.. New
 ell; gate keeper, William Smith;
 Ceres, Miss Geneva Distin: Pomona.
 Miss Irma Mautner; Flora, Mrs.
 Priscilla Moves: lady-assistant stew
 ard. Mrs. Winfield Loomis; member
 of executive committee for three years. Irving Carter.
 Mir. and Mrs. Charles H. Curtis
 were elected as delegates to the
 State Grange meeting in Bridgeport.
 Mrs. Curtis is state lecturer. II Mrs. H. P. Lowrey have a read ing. Mrs. Curtis reported on her trip to Washington, D. C., where the
 National Grange meeting was held
 last week. MT. Curtis, who accom-.
 panied her, enlarged upon her state.
 menta The single members served ] refreshments.
 The next meeting will be held or
 December 1 and will be a Neighbor', Night.
 Mantaosian Bound Over
 Finding probable cause in tn, ! case of Charles Mataosian of Wilco,
 street. New Britain, charged witi J criminal negligence and rockies: [ driving in connection with the deat. of Arnold Burkhardt of Southingtor on the ville-Southington high. way on the night of October 12 r Justice M. o. Ryder bound the New Britain man over to the Decembc, term of the superior court after 2 , hearing in the town hall last evening , Mataosian was released under bond
 of $1,O00.
 . Grand Juror Charles r. Conlor introduced seven witnesses for thu
 state in building up a chain of evi dence against Mataosin. His frs :. three were Paul Gill. Malcolm Gi, and Robert Curran, who had beer , with Burkhardt on the night he wa; killed. They testified they Nert bound from Southington to Bristo : when the gasoline supply had failed : Burkhardt had gotten out of the cal z and gone around to the rear tt , draw some gas from the tank, ant as he did so Mataosian's car struc! , him and crushed him between tht |. 1.-two automobiles.
 ], Clifford Lee of Southington told the court that he had passed Burk' , hardt's stalled car just before ths , accident, the prosecutor using this evidence to show that there wa; , room to pass Burkhardt's machin.
 without hitting 1t.
 , Constable George Schubert tole what he had learned from the var!
 ous people who were involved in tn; ,accident. He gave measurement; of the scene of the fatality. sayini the stalled machine had been acros : the road from an electric light. 4' , feet and il inches away. and tha . Ithe right wheels were Is inches of : the cement pavement. He said there } would have been room for Matao , sian to pass unless third car ha' ? been coming in the opposite direc | Ition Mataosian, he added, hal < claimed there was such third cal and that it had blinded him. Judge 5 William F. Mangan of New Britain icounsel for Mataosian, asked f , Burkhardt could have driven fur , ther off the road. and Schubert sai' r i he was in front of drivewa! , where he could have pulled ovei , seven feet more.
 Joseph Dalena. who conducts z garage just south of the acciden scene, said he saw the cars up tn. .. road and went up with his wrecker He did not see the reported third car. Dalena had the tail light O i, Burkhardt's car and answered nu merous questions in connection witt .H pr,AuHvrII CuANCE