New Britain herald., 1917-09-21

Hold First Meeting.
 The East Berlin Book club held it's first meeting of the season last ing as hostess. During the evening carried out. One of the most inter- esting essays was given by Miss Emily Brandegee of Warrington Ridge. Miss Brandegee read a paper on "Old Fashioned Gardens" Plans for the ensuing year were discussed follow ing which refreshments were served.
 Mrs. Flora Kent.
 Following a lingering illness of sev- eral weeks, Mrs. Flora Kent, aged 68 years of Kensington, died yesterday afternoon at the New Britain Gen eral hospital. Mrs. Kent had been at the hospital for the past three weeks suffering from heart trouble.
 Mrs. Kent was one of Kensington's s most respected residents and the news of her death was received with keen regret by her numrous friends. She took an active part in church affairs and was an ardent member of the Kensington Congregational church.
 Besides her husband, Oliver Kent, she leaves one son, Frank E. Kent of Hartford, and one sister, Mrs. Ellen C. Blinn of New Britain. The funeral will take place on Saturday morning. Interment will be in the cemetery at Stockings Corner, and Rev. Carleton Hagen of the kensington Congrega- tional church will officiate.
 Compensation Case Continued.
 The compensation case of Joseph r1-+ r. DDr~ lin Construction company, which came up for a hearing before Compensa- tion Commissioner George B. Chan dler at Hartford yesterday was con- tinued for medical evidence. Kingo had his right hand and wrist cut off some time ago at the Construction company plant. The Aetna Life In- surance company is the insurer for the construction concern and it was necessary to continue the case as Kingo is one of Kenesington's best known Italian residets, cOducting a grocery store on Pennington road. Morse Given Heavy Sentence. Arthur E. Morse, former piano player in a New Britain movie pie ture house, was sentenced to state prison for not less than two years and for not more than five years by Judge William $. Case in the superior court, Hartford, yesterday. Morse, who is forty years of age, was bound over from Newington on the charge of indecent assault on a nine-year-old l local girl Morse is alleged to have attacked the girl while she and her 1 a pasture for a COW.
 Use Less White Bread.
 Town Clerk Francis H. Shaw has received letter from Robert Scoville, [ federal food commissioner at Hart 1 ford, urging the local official to use l his influence in getting the people of 1 Berlin to use no white bread on I Wednesdays and Thursdays A cam | paign to abolish the use of white
 bread on these two days will be car ried on in every town and city in the
 state The letter to Town Clerk Shaw follows:
 At a meeting of the Federal Food I administrators of the several New | England states, it was decided to ! recommend to their respective states the adoption of the plan to observe 1 Wednesdays and Thursdays as days 1 in which no white bread should be l used. It is hoped that this practice 1 will be observed by householders, ho- | tels, restaurants, lunch rooms and ] clubs as a voluntary offering toward | the solution of the food proglem. ''It is manifest that if we are to send to our allies in Europe the