New Britain herald., 1928-04-20
NEVER GIVE UP l DRYLEADER URGES
Congressman UpshaW Addresses 1 Pupils of High School
CAPTURE SIX FOOT SNAKE
Boys Bring In Huge Reptile-H. $. Baseball Team Opens Season To- u0E0w-Sinloa Smith Dies EuDeral of Mrs. Morgan-Briefs.

Let nothing discourage you Eever give up." was the motto which Congressman William D. Upshaw of Georgia. nationally famed dry lead CT. impressed upon pupils of the Plainvtlle High school and eighth grade in brief address in the school auditorium this morning. This is the motto of his own life. he told | them, and he had the students rise 1 and repeat the words after him. ''r1ucae and Purpose" was the title Of his talk. He told how, as q boy. he had broken hts back and been 1 confined to hts bed for seven years but had refused to be discouraged. Instead he managed to earn enough l money to take him 10 college at Sl l years of age, He has been a mem 1 years and has been extremely active in the campaign for strict enforce ment Of the Volstead act.
 He urged his hearers to be enthu siastic about life. He also stressed decent morals and spoke against the use of intoxicating liquors and cigar cites.
 Congressman Cpshaw was accom- panied by Superintendent Vining of the Connecticut Anti-S Saloon League snd by John Sloan of New Britain. Capture Huge Snake. N A "black racer" snake six feet and one inch in length was captured by a group of grammar school boys and brought into town for exhibition Another reptile believed to be fully as large escaped. The two were ' found in . tree, and tho boys beat one into tnsensibility. tied a scarf around its neck. and carried 1t home by means of this and its tail. swung between two boys. Although they believed it to be dead. the snake was still alive when they brought , it into town.
 The group included Bob Bailey, Sanford Birnbaum. Russell Smith, Joe Gnazzo, Patsy Berardy. and others. Young Bailey took posses sion of the reptile and 1t is at his home at present.
 Simon Smith Dies.
 Simon Henry smith, son of the late Henry and Elizabeth Smith oi Waterbury. died early today at hi: home. 73 East Main street. He wal born on April 12, 1857. in Hease- Cassel, Germany. He came to thi. country when two years of age, re siding in Waterbury and the vicinit! most of his life.
 MT. Smith is survived by his wife and two sisters. Mrs. Christine Loucks and Mrs. Catherine Browr : of Waterbury. A daughter died 1T 1913.
 Funeral services will be held a l:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon a his late home. Rev. Arthur A. Ball 6 pastor of the Plainville NJ. E. churcl t officiating. Burial will be in th' Q family plot in Middlebury.
 H. 6. Season to Open. Il The Plainville High school base
 ball team will open its season to \ morrow afternoon when it meets tn
 Lewis High school nine of Southing
 ton at 3 o'clock at the local school
 field. The prospects for a success
 full season are bright, as most of tn
 veterans of last years winning min
 are still in the school. and the boy
 hope to start with victory owe
 their old Southington enemies. Coac
 Myron Gallup has had only 1S play ! CTS on his squad. but most of 1t
 experienced and the boys are yer hopeful.
 | Edmund Tolli has been electe
 captain of the team. He plays thir
 base. The manager is William Wet | CT.
 Decision Against Dorazto.
 4 decision against Frank Dorazi
 of Plainville has been rendered b
 Judge M. D. Saxe of the New Brit
 ain city court in tho suit brouEf