New Britain herald., 1930-08-11
NEW SITE CHOSEN
 FOR FLOWER SHOW Benefit Affair to Be Staged in
 High School Gymnasium MANY ENTRIES EXPECTED
All Plainyille Nine Defeated-Grang- CTS to Gather in Southington-An- nual Trumbuu Excursion Today Slight Automobile Accident.

Miss Mary Drake, chairman of the flower show committee, announced today that the exhibit will be held on August 20 from ? to 10 D. m. in the high school gymnasium instead of the Mastin homestead as original ly planned. This change in sites has been made necessary through the re- cent sale Of the Mastin house hy the town. Work has already been started in tearing down the house in order to make way for the new public library building.
 The committee in charge hopes that every garden in Plainville will be represented by some sort of dis play. The largest exhibitors will be the Garden club of Plainville, the SteCl nurseries of Pennington and Hubbard nurseries of Bristol. Charles Diggle will have charge of dahlids while MT. Burns will take care of gladioli.
 There will be no prizes. It is not intended to make the exhibit com- petltive in any way. Full notice oi the entire program will be announc- ed later in the week. Great interest in the affair is being manifested by the flower lovers Of the town and the affair is expected to be one of the most successful of it's kind ever held in Plainville. The entire receipts realized from the show will be plac- ed in the library fund.
 Grange Picnic
 Attention of Grange members is called to the Central Pomona Grange picnic to be held at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Louis Tolles in Southington tomorrow. Many plans have been made to make this picnic 2 great success. Sports will be provided by adults and children. High Priest of Demeter Charles M. Gardner of Westfeld. Mass. will be the principal speaker.
 The Plainville members are each asked to bring one article of food for the picnic dinner. Members are also requested to bring their own plates, cups and silvervare 10 use at the dinner. Trolleys will be met at the Southington center by autos and members carried to Mir. Tolles' farm lt l5 expected that about 400 will be present. The morning session | will open at the farm at 10 a. m. with a business meeting and Mir. | C. rSt ar'- to1 -o1I ness meeting, there will be a pro- gram of sporting events. A lunch con will be served at noon after which the members will inspect the | Tolles farm. The afternoon pro- gram will consist of sports events and entertainment. There will also | be q business meeting of the execu- tive committee of the state Grange in the afternoon.
 If the weather is unfavorable, the members will adjourn to the pavil- l ion at Lake Compounce.
 Annual Excursion Seven trolley cars carrying em- ! plJyes of the Trumbull Electric Mfg l Go, left this morning at 8 o'clock l for Savin Rock where the nineteenth annual picnic of the company Is | being held. Numerous other em- ployes of the concern made the trip by auto.
 Two Lose Lives | Martin BorzanoNski Of New Brit l ain was killed and two others seri- l ously injured in an automobile acci- dent on the New Britain road late Saturday evening.
 Last night Edward ConlIn 2t ! Chester street. Mountain View. was drowned in Lake PoCotopaug at East Hampton, Full particulars of both accidents can be found on the first page of this issue.
 Get Third Prize
 The Plainville Drum corps cap tured third place for best playing ! in the ancient corps at the 45th an- nual convention Of the Connecticut at Lighthouse Point Saturday. The meet was preceded by a parade in New Haven, nearly so corps from 1 Connecticut being in the line ot march. The local corps made a neat appearance in its new uniforms.
 Locals Are Defeated
 The All Plainville baseball team ran into a lot of hard luck yester- day afternoon in its game against the Maple Ends of Bristol and drop