New Britain herald., 1917-06-28

expected to furnish fifteen men for the regular army and the National Guard and the short quick campaign Is expected to produce the necessary results.
 Travellers Want Temporary Bridge.
 During the past few days great deal of criticism has been heard of the selectmen for not having some kind of a temporary foot bridge across Hart's pond at or near the point where the main highway bridge went down Monday afternoon. Dur ing the day many of the people living south of the pond use the temporary bridge which has been erected for the use of the employees of the Ameri- can Paper Goods company but this bridge is closed after factory hours, as it is located on the company's grounds and forces the travelling public to take round about way or cross the dam. At the present time there is stream of water almAst six inches deep going over the dam and for this reason the crossing is very dangerous. If in crossing the narrow stone work at the top of the dam a person should slip he would be severe ly injured as there is a drop of at least twenty-five feet onto the rocks below. People living along the high way south of the bridge and in the habit of going to New Britain or Ken sington during the evening have been forced to stay at home or take the rounda bout way which delays the trip at least half hour. Citizens com- plain that something should be done to take care of the matter until such time as a decision is reached in re- gard to placing a new structure over the pond. A temporary wooden bridge for foot passengers or several boats would help matters to more or less degree and save the people forced
 to use the bridge great deal of trouble. It is hoped and expected that something will be done in regard
 to the matter within very short time.
 Graduation Tonight.
 Graduation exercises for the class
 of 1917 of the Worthington Grammar
 school will be held tonight in tho Town hall at 8 o'clock. This evenings affair will be tho final on the calendar
 for the school year and tomorrow
 ,,i.l find the school houses of the town
 empty of pupils until the fall term. Due tu the recent smallpox scare the , exercises are a week late this year and for that reason will be made as simple as possible. Dr. A. B. Benson of Yale will deliver the principal ad- dress of the evening and there will also be short talk by Mrs. w. w.. Goddard of New Haven. J. W. Dows, supervisor of schools. Is expected to present the diplomas to the gradua- ting class The exercises are open to the public and an invitation Is ex- tended to the citizens of the town to attend.
 Play Success.
 Civil Service short play pre- sented by the members of the Meri- den Grange under the auspices of the local order in the hall on FArmington | road last evening proved to be one of the most successful events that has taken place in Berlin this sea-
 son. The play takes place in the work room of post office the week following the Christmas holidays and there were many humorous lines There were three acts and all of | them took place in the ofice work room. Following is the cast of char acters:
 l R. F. D. .......... Arthur E.. Owen | Inspector ........ William Ullbrand 1 Postmaster, L. Reynolds ... ............. Arthur C. Yale l Money Order Clerk. ... Reginal Call 1 Steven Audsin
 Simpson Pearv ... B. Earnest Yale Country Boy .... ...... Carl Haven lPostmaster's daughter, octavia ...