New Britain herald., 1915-07-29

ished. The East Berlin team con sisting of Royal Morse, Sterling Woodward and Milton Gaines, upheld the affirmative while the negativa disput ants from Cromwell were Carl Christensen, Kenneth Noble and EI- ton Butterworth.
 Although the East Berlin boys nu, up a strong argument the team iron, Cromwell delivered their speeches shade better Christensen was ea,a. ciaIly good in the rebuttal and was loudly applauded time and again hv the audience. When the decisio., was announced itmet with the .en- eral approval. Following the debate ice cream and cake was served.
 The discussion proved to be instruc- tive as we'll as interesting and 1t is probable tha another debate will he arranged in the near future as the East Berlin club is desirous of wto- ing away the stain of defeat.
 Many Deeds Filed.
 The real estate business in Berlin has been taking boom in the past week two warranty deeds having been recorded with Town Clerk Francis H Shaw, while third transfer is under way.
 John Carbo, the prominent brick manufacturer in Kensington, has solo land and buildings situated in Kens- ington to his son Joseph J. Carho The property is bounded and de- scribed as follows: North by private road, south by land of John, Carbo, cast ky land of John Carbo and west by highway.
 The. second deed filed with the town clevk records that Mark I. and Nellie w Hou ghtcn, both of this place, have sold a parcel of land with buildings thereon situated in Berlin. to Paul A. Kapitz,c Of Meriden, The property is bounded and described as follows: North on land of Mrs. Ellen Hutch inson, east by land of Mrs. Hutchin- son, south by highway and west by land now or formerly the property of c. w. Peck and contains six acres more or less.
 Emilio Martino. express man at the local depot, has completed a deal with M E. Jacobs whereby he sold some of his land on Pennington road in the rear of the coffin factory. The property is bounded on the north by land of Hotchkiss brothers on the east by property of Joseph Biede- monte, on the south by land of Lollis and Chester MagRano and on tae west by land of the grantee.
 Family in Trouble.
 MT. and Mrs. Richard Slater of East Iserlin, who recently moved here from New Britain, have the sincere sym pathy of the residents or the com ,,,,, ,,;% ;o of nn Tuesday one of their children died and another is reported now to be dying from cholera infantum.
 Soon after removing 10 East Berlin the famiIy's troubles commenced The youngest child, Ruth Irene, soon be- came sick. Although everything pos siDle was done to have the infants life, she passed away on Tuesday. Burial took, place yesterday afternoon in the Wilcox cemetery, East Berlin, Rev E. w Manship of the East Berlin NJ ethodist church officiating
 TX The older child became i'll a few days ago and her condition has been growing steadily worse until now but slight hope is held out TOT her re- covery.
 Making Tenement of Hall
 Willard I. filling, owner of Me- chanics' hall on Worth1ngton ridge, has been making extensive repairs on the building within the past few days. It is the plan of MT. filling to convert the hall into two tenement dwelling. The Changers met there before the new Grange hall on Pennington road was erected.
 To Fill Out Blank.
 Town Clerk Francis H. Shaw will be a busy individual for the next few days filling out a blank with no less than sixteen questions, euch of which will take large amount of time, which has been sent to him by State Tax Commissioner William H. Corbin. The questlons are being sent to every town in the state in order that the commissioners may be
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