New Britain herald., 1915-10-18

Saturday afternoon and if the volume of noise, which emanated from the building showed their satisfaction, they had some time" The day was spent in dancing and athletic events. The potato race for the boys was q thrilling affair, James Garrity, being the winner by inches over Robert Pagan. In the whales eye" game for girls Rose Kiniry finished first and Stella Kasiska was second. The feature of the day was dash for boys three years and under. It was won by James Sullivan. Prizes were awarded to all the winners.
 The Altar society has charge of to- nights program and it has arranged musical entertainment by the chill dren which will no doubt be very pleasing.
 Tomorrow night St. Pauls T. A. B. society will present a musical pro- gram of exceptional merit Artists from New Britain and Meriden will appear and an excellent entertain ment is assured. They will be ac- companied by a large crowd of friends from their own cities and the capacity of the hall will be taxed. The program follows:
 Selections ........ Meriden Quartet Solo =. Edward
 J. N. Lardner of New Britain Songs ........... Meriden Quartet Solo ........
 .. Urban Callahan of New Britain Solo .............. ...........
 =. Thomas O'Brien of New Britain Selections /. ......... Meriden Quartet
 The drawing of the season tickets will be held tomorrow evening. The general drawing will be held on We'd nesday night with the following com mittee in charge: w. J. IGtchie, w. J. Dooley, w. w. Pagan and J. A. Moore.
 Ducks Intoxicated
 Now is the time for all good house wives to put in their supply of winter jelly. A certain Kensington women was following out this edict Satur- day, making some delicious apple jelly and thereby hangs a tale. Ot course she had no use for the cores, so what more natural than to throw them out in the yard? She did. Soon there was a great commotion there and rushing to the window she saw | all of her geese and ganders rolling about terra firma and emitting blood curdling yells. You have seen Al Leech put on his drunk sketch in | vaudeville, but never even in his palmiest days did he perform as did i those bipeds. They staggered, rolled
 danced on then dropped as if lifeless l The housewife was in a quandry. The most efficient way of sobering an 1 intoxicated man is by the water cure" so she decided to try it on the 1 ducks. She picked them up one by one and held their heads in pail l of aqua pura. They gasped and l struggled but soon quilted down. They 1 were placed on the ground and in a l short time were able to take their I daily swim. Needless to say the l cores where the ducks can get them 1 Kensington Wins.
 The Kensington football team start ed it's season with victory over a
 fast Hardware City team yesterday l afternoon on the railroad field. The
 game was close and exciting and thE
 ball was continually in midfield ex-
 cept for a few minutes in the second
 period when the home boys suoa;eed- ed in pushing across their opponents goal line, making six points. The teams were evenly matched and th@ game was well played. Butler Roche refereed in an efficient manner.
 Berlin Congrega tionaI Church.
 The Hartford Branch of the Wom- ans Board of Missions will hold