New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

the Woman,s Home Missionary so- cietyg which is being held at Water bury today. At the afternoons ses. sion Mrs. Pickop read a paper which was warmly received by the mem bers Mrs. Pickop is the secretary of the organization.
 No Excitement Over War.
 As far as. is known no local Ital- .ians have returned to assist their mother country in the strife which it has just entered Although the news of the declaration Of war on the part of Italy has been received with marked enthusiasm no further action has been taken by Italians living In Berlin.
 Dennis Negri, a grocer on Farming ton road, said that although the Italians peruse the daily papers with a great deal of interest and rejoice at Italy's victories that is as far as they go. None of them has ex pressed the. desire to return to Italy.
 Make Final Arrangements.
 At the Memorial committee meet ing held last evening at the home of A. H. Bushnell of Pennington road final arrangements were perfected for the proper observance of Memorial day The following announcements have been given out today by the chairman of the Memorial day com mittee of the Sons of Veterans. pr. George P. Durham:
 So far as known, all sons and grandsona will be invited to partici- pate in the exercises of the day by acting as escort to the Grand Army.
 fSm :, r, overlooked or not invited, will that one communicate with the chairman at once that his name may be added to the roster of our association. Through the kindness of the a.l- | tom obile owners of Berlin ample pro- vision has been made for. the trans portation of the Veterans and to con- vey them to the various exercises. Sunday they will attend services at the First Congregations church in Kensington. On Memorial day the Veterans will visit Beckley in the | morning and East Berlin in the after noon for the regular memorial day service.
 Tt is hoped that all sons and grandsons will be in line on that day to assist in the performances of that sacred duty of placing floral tributes upon the graves of deceased s.conf- rade ..GEoRGE F. DUNHAM, 1 Chairman Memorial Day Com 7.
 mittee. Sons of Veterans. Fundgate seldcn school. Y
 As result of an epidemic of scar let fever breaking out in the Selden school in Beckley, pr. George P. Dun ham has fumigated the upper room of the school. A week ago Monday, Ber11ice Krah, aged nine years, bes came afflicted with the disease. This week another pupil of the school, Ruth Errngren, aged ten years, be- came sick with scarlet fever
 The strictest precautions are being talk kena by the faculty and the health officer to keep the disease from spreading among the other pupils of the school.
 Baker Mysteriously Injured. A great deal of mystery surrounds John Baker, the proprietor of the Nutmeg house in Kensin gton. It was said by many about the town this
 morning that a fight tok place at his cafe on Saturday. Others say that he was accidentally hurt. Whatever did happen to him could not be ascer- tained When called up by Herald reporter today, MT Baker at once be- canaos very excited and denied being injured However, he did say that. there was fight at his place of busi-s ness Saturday night He was asked why he wore bandage on his head