THE PRESS An institution Which Worics THE PRESS Wj# J? '}%.". For Community Ad- plr. A Home Town - \ vancement^ ' , Home Town THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE TOWN OF ENFIELD, CONN FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 34. THOMPSONYILLE, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1925 PRICE $2.00 A YEAR—SINGLE COPY 5c S&r |PLAYERS READY PROVIDE FOR iSi FOR PRODUCTION Improvement In Carpet 3S Foreclose US! 182 CHILDREN FOR XMAS FUND To File Motion Tomorrow Asking That Trustee At Annual Community Final Rehearsal Will Be Is Now Assured Be Named For Hartford ancl Springfield Street Celebration To Be Held Held This Evening For j Railway Bonds—Action Proposes To Disclose In the Higgins' School Comedy to be Present­ Remember Local Plant of the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. Auditorium, Thursday ed Tomorrow and Sat­ All the Facts Connected With the Company. Is Certain To Operate More Hours and With Afternoon, the 24th. urday Evenings. HAT 182 children are being provided with a real Kid­ Increased Force After the Holidays—Concern What is considered the final steps The final meeting of the general dies Christmas, who would in the dissolution of the Hartford & Study and Act The final dress rehearsal will be T To Begin Filling New Orders After January 1. "4-: committee in charge of the Commun­ held this evening by the Enfield be otherwise deprived of even Springfield Street Railway Company the remotest semblence of this will be taken tomorrow when a mo­ ity Christmas Celebration for the Players for the production of the N this issue there will be dependent children of the town will holiday festivity, if the earn­ Substantial improvement in the op­ tion," which was filed ' yesterday in found . the volume of the c6medy, "The Whole Town's Talk­ est effort that is made annual­ New Haven, asking that a trustee for Christmas advertising of the be held next Monday evening in the ly by the organizations of the eration of the local carpet plant of HEAD OF BIG ;0 the $600,000 issue of bonds of the I ing," which opens tomorrow evening j the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Com- progressive merchants of this Knights of Columbus home on Pearl in Wawel Hall. The play will also town, had not been inaugurat­ company be appointed, will be heard. community. These Ads should ed. When planning your Christ­ jpany is authoritively assured immed- The hearing will be in the Superior street. At this meeting the final re­ be given on Saturday afternoon at not only be read "but studied, ports of all the sub-committees will mas giving let a small contri­ i iately following the holiday inventory CARPET CONCERN Court and the motion, which is by a for in addition to being an evi­ a matinee that is especially for the bution to this worthy cause be creditor of the company, will ask for dence of the unusual prepara­ be received, and any details left un­ children, and also Saturday evening. your first thought. It will af­ taking period. This information was the appointment of Charles Walter tion which the local business done in preparation for the depend­ Most of the proceeds of this produc­ ford you more real satisfaction j elicited this week from a dependable' DIES IN YONKERS Ives of New Haven as trustee. It is men have made for the Christ- ent children's Christmas celebration tion will be devoted to providing the than any other gift giving en­ j official source connected with the loc- I also suggested in the motion that in­ , mas business, there is also a will be. given attention. extra funds that are required for the deavor you may engage in no i al branch of this concern. The com-' asmuch as the bonds were signed by determination on the part of According to tentative reports from Community Christmas celebration matter how precious the assoc­ | pany has many good sized orders on Reuben Borland, Presi­ A. Chamberlain, state controller, the local store keepers to prove the sub-committees there is very this year. iation, for it is the highest its books which are to be filled at the Deputy State Treasurer Thomas H. that there is a big advantage little of the work which has not been The play is an especially amusing form of that greatest of human j local plant. Many of these are the dent of Alex. Smith & Judd be directed to appear in court in home trading because of the given attention. The actual number comedy which sparkhs rr'r-. b-'-'it virtues—charity. i;he financial I result of the successful fall showing. Sons Co., Is Victim Of with the mortgage bond given by the exceptional opportunities that of children listed up is 182, and these sayings and amusing situations. The secretary of the committee, who !ln keeping with a policy that is gen- company, so that the court "will are being offered by the mer­ will be invited to be present, through scene of it is laid in Sandusky, Ohio, has been appointed to be the jeral among the larger industries, the Stroke of Apoplexy— have full knowledge of all the facts chants of the community. The a card distribution system, each child and is in three acts. It is being di­ recipient of all contributions, is i filling of these was held in abeyance connected with the Hartford and advertisements should be care­ being required to present the card rected by John L. Sullivan, with A. William J. Hughes. I pending the taking of the annual in- Began As Bobbin Boy. j ventory. Springfield StreetRailway Co. fully read—thoroughly studied previously received at the door of the " W. Colton as stage manager, and The motion sets out that the com­ —and promptly and sensibly Higgins' School Auditorium, on the George M. Moore, head usher. Mus­ | Most of the bigger industrial con- Local followers of the carpet trade pany went into receivership on No­ acted upon. > afternoon of the 24th, when the event ic will be furnished by the Volunteer r th i vember 8, 1918, and that on July 1, takes place. Orchestra, under the direction of iSSu,'2"»K £ S t!L S "ment» •»this week of the<"«» death —- at Yon- 1901, it was authorized to issue bonds Following, the meeting Monday Denslow King. The following is the GREYS MANAGER [inventory taking approaches. Many to the amount of $600,000, and se­ night the members of the general cast of characters: jof the orders taken at t'ie fall show- kers, N. Y., of Reuben Borland, head cured it with a mortgage on its prop­ committee will meet Wednesday ev­ Henry Simmons, a manufacturer, jing were taken with this condition, of the Alexander Smith & Sons Car- erty to State Treasurer Henry H. WOMAN'S CLUB ening in the Higgins School Auditor­ Frank R. Bohman; Harriet Simmons, INDIGNANT OVER ihL *?' eX-eiPt tile cus^Tary num_ ret Company. Many of the em- Gallup, who it is said, upon issuance bei of special orders which are reg- , . ,, , , , . , , ium to mark the gifts and decorate his wife, Lucille Becker; Ethel Sim­ ployes f the local plant who have turned them over to the American the Christmas tree which is a spec­ mons, their daughter, Pauline Miller; lularly received, most of the pending °- Loan and Trust Co. of Boston. HEAR MRS. GADD tacular feature of this annual event. Chester Binney, Simmons' partner, THE LOCKS GAME (orders are for the Spring trade. This times, recall Mr. Borland very dis- "Henry H. Gallup," continued „the Returns will also be made at the "Ted" Sullivan; Letty Lythe, a mo­ I will require, according to the official worked in the Smith plant at various assurance, that production on them tinctly. Mr. Borland was 57 years of motion, "treasurer of the state of meeting Monday night of the contri­ tion picture star, Florence Cormier; a e Connecticut, and as trustee for said ON CIVIC ACTIVITY butions from the various organiza­ Donald Swift, ex-pugilist, now a mo­ Expresses Himself In is speeded up after the first of the & and was unmarried. His death bondholders, failed in his duty as year in order to insure delivery on was sudden being caused by a stroke tions who annually finance the cele­ tion picture director, Edwin Young; of treasurer for the state of Connecti­ bration. There have been a number Roger Shields, a young Chicago No Uncertain Terms time. For this reason the local plant apoplexy. cut and as trustee for said bondhold­ Other Interesting Top­ of individual contributions each year blood, Gabriel Pare; Lila Wilson and will be required to increase its out-' Articles written about Mr. Borland ers when he sent out of the state of from charitably disposed people who Sally Otis, friends of Ethel, Eleanor Over Conditions Under put considerable beyond the present usually have borne some such cap- Connecticut the bonds of said com­ ics Are Also Discussejl desire to contribute to the affair. Wilkie and Mildred Young; Annie, a Which the Game Was quantity after January 1st. tion as "From Bobbin Boy to $100,- pany without performing the acts re­ These contributions are being receiv­ maid, Anna Farr; Sadie Bloom, a This will undoubtedly mean an in- 000 a Year." Of recent years his quired of him as treasurer of the At the Monthly Meet­ ed this year as usual by William J. dancing teacher, Gertrude Stafford; crease in the working force, and the salary was said to have exceeded that Played Last Sunday. running of the several departments s?m- He did indeed begin as a bob- state of Connecticut and as trustee Hughes, who is the financial secre­ taxi driver, Edward Lawless, Mrs.