New Britain herald., 1917-05-25

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 Flag Exercises Tomorrow.
 Tomorrow afternoon East Berliu will enter the ranks of patriotic towns When public exercises will be held in connection with the flag raising at the soldiers monument. Plans of tho Sons Of Veterans and Veterans for Memorial Day services which were to have been held Sunday have been changed so that all the exercises will be held on Saturday afternoon. Tho event will start with . street parade which will form at the railroad sta tion at 2:30 o'clock. The parade will be led by St. Paul's T. A. B. drum corps and will march from the sta ton up Main street to Kelsey corner and then counter march back to the soldiers monument.
 Among the various organizations which have signified their intention to take part are: the Veterans, SonS of Veterans. Home Guard. Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts and the various school children. At the monument, impress sive exercises will be held and the principal address will be delivered by the Rev. MT. Dodge. pastor of the East Berlin Methodist church. Mir. Dodge was to have had charge of the exercises Sunday afternoon and will deliver his speech Saturday rather than Sunday. Other pastors who will take part are: Rev. J.. c. Brennan, pastor of St. Paul's church. and Rev S. A. Fiske, pastor of the Berlin Con- gregational church. It is expected that several recitations will be given nh AveaY1 vxyf1 patriotic songs.
 A fne new 8x12 flag has been pur- chased by public subscription and this will be raised to the top of the fifty foot flag pole which was erected yes- terday. The flag pole has steel base which extends upward for thirty feet and is then bolted to g. wooden pole which extends twenty-seven feet high CT. R. o. Clark is in charge Of the exercises. More donations arc neces- sary to complete the celebration plans and these will be received by the va rious members who have been taking subscriptions.
 Captain e. c. Beckett of tho local unit of the Home Guard wishes 1t un- derstood by all members of the com pany that the meeting place for the guard is at the Town hall. All mem bers intending to take part should be at the Town hall at 1:16 o'clock sharp and, after the roll call, the company will march to East Berlin where they will take their place in line. There is a possibility that the uniforms may arrive before that time and, if by chance they are on hand they will be ! worn for the first time.
 Going to Naval Academy. Kenneth Hill Noble. son of MT. and Mrs. William c. Noble of East Berlin, has received word that he has passed the entrance examinations to the 1 United States Naval Academy at An- i napolis. He received his appointment from Senator Frank B. Brandegee and 1 when the examination results were l posted his mark was found to be the l highest. MT. Noble graduated from I the Middletown High school last June 1 and since that time he has been work ing at the Aetna Life Insurance com pany in Hartford. He expects to be l>called to Annapolis within few days
 to take the physical examination.
 Sons of vetersns Meet.
 The regular meeting of the Sons oi
 Veterans Association was held at tho
 home of Philip Pagan last evening
 As all of the committee in charS(
 of the hag fund was not on hand f
 was decided to wait until next wesl to settle up the accounts. A vot, passed thanking tho various organixa tiOns and societies for the part the.
 took in the lag raising exercises las H .s4 Y 2 f r