New Britain herald., 1916-06-10

l Built for the use of every settler i A church, the first erected on the l land,
 | Others built stores, and thus New l Britain grew Along religious and commercial lines. In unity it prospered many years And left the town of Pennington to be 1 A part of Berlin. then a larger town And older: then half a century passed And it became incorporated as
 A town and borough, under it's own rule.
 A watch house then was built, much work was done In order to improve and beautify The town to make it larger, and the pride
 Of every we'll respecting citizen Although the town grew rapidly, tt No large supply of water for it's use. The wells and springs were used, but
 could not keep
 The towns folk we'll supplied with all that they
 Had need of. so the town purchased
 a grant
 Of meadow from the town of South
 ington.
 Of this good grant a useful lake was
 made,
 Tn order to insure to all the folks, An adequate supply of water for Their wants, and for protection
 against fire.
 Anon the town increased until it was Full large enough a city to become. A mayor was elected by the folks, Frederick T. Stanley, and he served
 them well.
 From time to time the industries in-
 creased
 And new vacations came into the
 lives
 Of many. Along the busy streets Small factories arose as if by magic, Always developing their resources Until their fame was known through
 out the state.
 Good schools. the hope of every land,
 were built
 Good institutions, too, were built and
 fourished.
 fair administrations cities Tn wealth and prestige; thus New Britain grew. And so today 'tis famed for three
 great things;
 Religion, education. the first two Show to the world New Britain's
 worthiness;
 While manufacturing in which it
 leads,
 Shows clearly what ambitious men
 can do, To make their city famed throughout
 the world. Class Prophecy.
 (Mildred Christine Ahlstrom and
 Kenneth Edgar Relyea.)
 It was the twelfth of June, 1926. The committee for the Tenth Annual ! of the class of 1916 had just | adjourned for the day. The replies 1 to our invitations were coming in | fast; we had heard from everyone. They were all loyal to the class and | were almost all coming to the ban l quet. While opening the replies, it ] occurred to us what a splendid idea 1 it would be to collect all the little 1 bits of gossip. Wit and news which l every letter contained, have a little l booklet made and sent to each mem 1 Der of our class. No sooner said ! than done; we took each reply as it i came and the following is the result 1
 We found that quite a few of our classmates had remained in New Brit ain. The first response to our letter came by telephone from Emma Perry who is now the mayors stenographer
 The first letter was from Harold Seaburg, now a rising young phy- 1 sician. He told a story about our class woman-hater, Judson, who Is a man. Upon taking out a life insurance policy in 1923, Judson came to Seaburg to be examined. In the course of the examination, Dr. Sea burg asked, You don't dissipate or drink, do you?' Judson looked a bit frightened and replied, hesitatingly Well I sometimes chew little gum"
 The children of Pennington are lucky to have Martina Liegey as school teacher. "Keck" Parker who is paying teller at the Pennington , bank, tells us that one day Martina came to draw her salary. The money which Parker gave her was dirty torn and ragged. So in apolo- glzing for it's condition, he said T hope you are not afraid of mi crobes, Miss Liegey' "No," answer ed Martina, 'no microbe could live on my salary"
 AS an authoress, Lena Morrill, ranks very high. Her book. entitled Phil 1 osophy of Modern Slang caused a great sensation by this statement: Do not consider a person polished just because you can see his finish"
 In her letter, Anna Brown enclosed small booklet entitled How to do ] dyeing and put on patches.' Never 1 having thought Anna was so proficient in those domestic arts, I opened and l