New Britain herald., 1916-01-14

1 years ago. He conducted a black
 smith shop at the Wooding place on | the Pennington road and had his | home on the F. G. Roche farm. He 1 has been i'll for many years with 1 Gropsy and Brights disease and death was attributed to these causes. MT.
 Muhpry was 61 years old While a citizen in this town he made many friends, who will regret to hear of his demise. He is survived by a wife and two daughters, Nellie and Mary The funeral will be held from his home in Bridgeport tomorrow morn ing at 8:30 o'clock and from St. Marys Roman Catholic church at o'clock with a solemn high mass In terment will take place in St. MichaeIs cemetery, Bridgeport Court Mattabessett, F. of A., of which the deceased was a member will hold a special meeting tonight to take action on his death.
 Wins Prize.
 Miss Edith Mather, teacher in the Hubbard school East Berlin recently received letter from Theodora Bunce, aged 12, former pupil who now lives in Jersey City. Miss Bunce is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Will Il.
 Berlin until shortly before Thanks giving. In the letter Miss Bunce
 tells of winning a prize for a compo-
 sition. The letter follows
 l Dear Miss Mather:
 Two. days after we arrived here l Gertrude and I went to school. Moth CT went with Us and Mr. Shepard | put Gertrude in the second grade and me in the eighth grade on trial and I have managed to stay there so far. Monticello avenue, which is part of the shopping district, had an exhi 1 bition week and MT. Shepard offered | five dollar a three dollar and @ ;>wo 1 dollar prize for the best descriptions l of any of the windows. | took the l five dollar prize and will enclose a
 copy of the description
 l Miss Bunce attends School No. 2 in
 Jersey City. Miss Mather prizes :he 1 letter highly and is extremely pleased
 that former pupil has attained such
 proficiency in essay work that she was
 able to carry off a prize in co,npe-
 tition with so many city pupils. Miss | Mather has notified Superintendent | DoWs of the letter and the latter eX-
 pressed his pleasure and will bring | the matter to the attention of the 1 school board.
 1 The essay follows:
 THE WINDOW BEAUTIFUL"
 (RolIe's.)
 As I was walking along Monticello
 Avenue one evening during the t'Ex-
 hibition Week." my attention was at-
 tracted by a number of my school
 mates around Roles window I
 went across the street to examine their interest. Such a beautiful picture
 met my vision that I stayed to study it's beauty, and this is what I found: First of all came the pink window, | with its myriads of butterflies hover
 ing over the magnificent bride cake in
 the centre. It was covered with a l fancy white icing, while in the centre | blossomed a beautiful white rose. Up among the butterflies glowed an 1 electric heart that shed soft mellow
 light which harmonized with the l pink hangings forming the back 1 ground. This represented the fairy l genius who presides over the bakery
 and the delectable goodies to eat Around the cake and beneath all i these beautiful decorations were many
 dainty little cakes which formed 1 rainbow carpet.
 Just across from this was it's sis ter window, decorated in yellow. Tn ! this was an enormous twist loaf, the l largest I had ever seen, and it's com 1 panion rye loaf of the same dimen- 1 sons; while in the centre reposed a (Continued On Eighth Page.)