New Britain herald., 1930-03-19

joy the program. It was as follows Reading, Mrs. Ruth Lewis; two vo- cal solos, Mrs. Casey; reading, Will liam Barraclough; art exhibition several members, and paper on St. Patrick Mrs. Henry Tyler.
 Following the program lunch boxes prepared by the women were auctioned off to the men.
 On Friday evening the Grange will hold a military whist in Grang hall. Prizes will be awarded the winners and refreshments served, The public is invited.
 The Ladies Auxiliary will meet tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Win field Loomis.
 Central Pomona will meet in East Hampton on the afternoon and eve- ming of April s.
 At the next regular meeting of Plainville Grange the first and sec ond degrees will be conferred on a class of candidates.
 Pr Meeting
 The monthly meeting of the Par ent-Teacher association will be held this evening in the high school audi toriun. Miss Hester E. Crutchcr ot the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene is to be the speaker. Miss CrutChcr, who is an experienced so- cial worker among children in par ticular. will speak on What the Schools Are Doing for the Mental Health of the Child"
 X gymnasium demonstration will be presented by the various gym 1 classes after the meeting.
 Attend Rally X delegation of 25 people from 1 the Advent Christian church wen; to Wallingford last evening to at tend the Loyal Workers rally. Rev l Henry Stone of the WallingforC church observed his 79th birthday anniversary yesterday.
 The I. W. A. of the Advent church will present d play entitle; The Comical Country Cousins" d l I US East Broad street on Friday night.
 Girl Scout Notes The Girl Scouts will meet tomor row evening at 6:S0 o'clock in the high school gymnasium.
 The Girl Scout troop committe. will hold a food sale Friday. Apri 1, in a store on Whiting street.
 school Activities
 The girls in the sixth grades O. the Broad Street school, accom-. panied by their teachers and Prin. cipal Orrin l.. Judd. will visit the Pageant of Progress exposition al thc state armory in Hartford tomor. row afternoon. The trip will b, made through the courtesy of the townspeople.
 i Mr. Judd gives this trip to hi. oldest girls every year and the an. nual event is much looked forwar, to by the pupils. Mr. Judd plans to take some of the older boys on 5 trip to New York later.
 St. Patrick's Party
 The Congregational Young Peo pie will give q St. Patrick's party ! in the parish house tomorrow eve ming at s o'clock to which the mem berS and friends are invited, : small admission will be charged t cover expenses.
 X lively program of games an, i stunts has been plaLnCd
 Ruling Meets Disfa,or
 A communication has been re ceiyed by the Herald from d spokes man for the PlainVile Graded Schoo Alumni association in which it i stated that the playground issue va sidestepped at the special tow meeting held Monday evening. ! The communication is as follows
 Referring to the town meeting of Monday evening last, it is yer interesting to note the ruling of tn chairman of the meeting in regar to the disposal of the matter of til playground.
 The chairman ruled that, a there was no resolution handed t him, q assume previous to tn meeting) it must be tabled.
 On the contrary I would stat that this matter could and shoul have been acted on. one way or tn other, and not sidestep the matte by tablins it.
 Any citizen present could hay written resolution or a motto could have been made from tn floor provided someone was inter csted enough to do so and the mat ter settled one way or the other.
 Tt is evident that there wer some there who seemed to think tn playground q valuable asset to tn town and so stated but did not car to offer resolution or motion [ place it before the meeting.
 The matter of appropriatio could have been taken care of if aC cepted and was unnecessary if rc jeCted. The matter was properl called to the attention of the st lectmcn so that it might be in th call of the meeting and the tow should have decided il one way ( the other relative to future play grounds.
 This work was started and pal for by the Plainville Graded Scho' association as an experiment so ths the town could know if it met wit favor or not but could not an should not be carried on indefinite' by this association.
 The playground has been we