New Britain herald., 1917-10-03

given this evening at a farewell ban quet and entertainment at Grange hall on Pennington road. Prior to the en- tertainment and speechmaking a bounteous dinner will be served to the prospective soldiers and their par ents.
 At o'clock a parade will be held. The procession, which will consist of the Berlin Home Guard and the Tabs Drum Corps, will march from the Town Hall down Worthington Ridge and Pennington avenue to the hall.
 A toastmaster for the occasion has not been secured, but will be one of Berlin's prominent citizens. Rev. J. c. Brennan of St. Pauls church and Rev. E. F. Dodge of East Berlin will be the principal speakers Vocal se- lections will be given by Mrs. Walms- ley of East Berlin and Walter E. Hart of Kensington.
 The committee in charge has sue ceeded in locating the 12 men who are to leave and all will be present A money belt will be given to every drafted man. The commit tee has spared no time or effort in trying to make the affair a success and it is hoped that ever! one in the town will turn out to give the boys a rousing farewell
 Collected $13O at Fair.
 The report which has been made to the general committee at Hartford by the local Food for France" commit tee shows that gratifying work was accomplished at the recent Berlin fair. The local women succeeded In collecting s130. This money goes for buying food for the wounded soldiers in the French hospitals. The commit tee this morning issued a statem ent thanking the people of Berlin and also the many people from all over Con- necticut who attended the State Fair and generously contributed.
 The following committee had charge of the work here: Berlin, Mrs. Chas. w. Jarvis and Miss Elizabeth P. Will cox; Kensington, Mrs. Charles F. Lewis, Mrs. c. Fred Johnson, Miss Marjorie Moore and Mrs. James Ma loney; East Berlin, Mrs. Ernest w. Mildrum and Mrs. R. O. Clark.
 Final Report Made.
 A final report made to Treasurer James J. Fitzsimons of the Library campaign fund this morning indicates z. week. This money will be used for supplying books and literature to the soldiers in this country and France. The town was divided into three dis 1 tricts during the campaign, and each l responded in the following manner: l Kensington, s14O.44; Berlin and ! Beckley, s109.65; East Berlin, $32.70. Town Meeting October 10. l The town meeting which was ad- 1 journed Monday will be held on We'd nesday evening, October 10, at the Town hall at 8 o'clock Besides 1 transacting business of a routine na- 1 ture, two members of the finance board will be chosen. as the terms of James J. Fitzsimons and Ernest w. i Mildrum expire. Both will undoubt- ,edly be reelected.
 Acorns to Re-organize. ] Although many of their star players have enlisted in some branch of the
 national service, the Acorn football team will re-organize tomorrow even
 ing at meeting to be held at 7:3O
 o'clock in Kingo's pool parlors. Dur
 ing the past few seasons the Acorns
 gained an enviable reputation about
 the state for having a speedy eleven. Faii' to Close Tonight
 St. PauTs parish fair will be brought to close this evening at Tabs hall 1 with the drawing of prizes. Due to a misunderstanding the entertainment
 program which was to have been fur
 nished by P. S. McMahon, proprietor 1 of Keeney's theater, New Britain, was