New Britain herald., 1915-01-13

Butler, Francis Polgrosek and Czcs- lava Czajkowska, Giovanni Solicit ard Rosina DeLuca, Angelo Orsi and
 Margaret Joss. Horace H. Fitzgerald and Selina Maria Hart, ICnrico Polo and Adele Brochetto, Charles H. Steb-
 bins and Setta May Knight, Charles
 w. Cowdry and Mary kanpka. Christian F. Zwick and Wilhelmina Schmidt, Tony Simeono and Elizabeth Santemiro, C. l.. Steinman and Bessie kane John Adam Smizer and Dorothy Caroline Rice. William C. Hart and Mrs. Laura Forest. Harold W. Upson and Lulah E.. Alling. Leslie A. Gra- ham and Lydia R. LOvejOy, Filippo Rami and Adele Mantovani LaRue w. Bastan and Anna Batdorf, John A. Sullivan and Irene Dunn, Edward J. Woods and Mary Hasson. Stanley E Rowley and Anastasia M. Siecun- ski, James Richard Kane and Mary 10. Griffin. Henry Albert. and Matilda Eaumann, John Piersanti and Glenn e1,tine Fasdelli. Vincent Storing and Matilda Racher. Vincenzo Rosato and Paulina Candolfa, Warren w. Upson and Marjorie T. Bennett, James Ros- sitto and Vincenza Conmarita, Charles T. Schur and Katherine
 
 selina Connege, Tony Forlini and Maria Teresa Simioni. Joseph Greco and Silvina Elsi Casalinso. Marvin M. Kelly and Helena c. Marks.
 Patroncsses Named.
 The following officers and commit tee members of the Berlin Red Cross branch will be the patrOnesses at the concert of the Trinity Musical clubs which is to be given in the Town hall in Berlin Friday night for the bene- fit of the Red Cross: Mrs. Sidney M Crwles. Miss Marjorie Moore, Miss Elizabeth Wilcox, Mrs. George P. Durham, Mrs. J. c. Lincoln, Mrs
 Thomas Pagan, Miss Nora OBrien, Mrs. William Morgan. Mrs. c. J.. Carrie Bauer.
 Those in charge of the concert are
 making efforts to sell a large number uf tickets and. providing the weather is favorable. the hall will, undoubted- lr be well filled.
 Trees StOlcn
 While walking about his farm yes- tcrday William Bulkeley, Berlin S vencrable patriarch, was surprised and chagrined to find that a number
 of lis choicest pines had been cut down and carried off. probably by Christmas tree hunters. Mir. Bull<e- ley was very proud of some of the trees which were carried off. In some instances, some of the most heautful of them had been mutilated by the axes of miscreants who seemed
 to have made it a. point to cut off the top branches of them
 "Thc Good Old Times" Regarding "the good old times that we are so frequently reminded
 of local people would probably be in terested in an old grocers account
 book which Sidney M. Cowles of Ken
 sington has found in his attic
 The book was issued to Mr. Cowles father Edward Cowles hy Samuel Jpson, the owner of the villags store on January &, 1S56 and records the purchase of many groceries. some of which were sold at prices which would be considered eXorbitant at 1 the present timc Among the items in the book is one for d half gallon of | kerosene oil at SPA per gallon. Five 1 pounds of sugar brought sixty-three | cents: eight pounds of codfsh thirty 1 four cents: half pound of rasins
 thirteen cents: and a box of matches, eight cents Mr. COwles notes with interest records of the sale of a pound each of redwood and logwoOd at six and three cents a pound. respectively These articles were used by the house. | wives to color the cotton cloth with which dresses were made and to color