New Britain herald., 1918-06-08

county conventions Will also De chosen.
 William H. Webster. chairman of the republican town committee, will be in charge of the meeting.
 New Railroad Rates.
 The commuters of Berlin using the railroad daily will be hit by the new railroad regulations quite hard. There Is a large number of commuters in the town using this means of travel some of them several times a day. The new regulations call for an in- crease on all lines to three cents a ni1le. Under this ruling all those going to the factories in Meriden will be assessed 30 cents, while those going to New Britain will pay nine cents. The former charge for tickets tC New Britain was six cents.
 Picnic Tomorrow.
 Tomorrow morning at o'clock the employees of the American Paper Goods Go. will meet at the factory to go on their first annual picnic. A large number of the young people have signed up to attend and a gay time is anticipated. The picnic will be in the form of a basket lunch which will be furnished by the young women who will attend, the young men having secured the use of the Matta bassett Fishing Association bun galow as their share of the arrange ments.
 The party will remain at the res ervoir the entire day and will return in the evening. During the afternoon, swimming, boating and dancing will o1yo o;o nic Miss Anna AIberts is head of the com mittee on arrangemen and by a vote of those. attending, l.. Gouler Williams will lead the assault of the dish washing. brigade. As special feature, the committee has secured the services of August Alberts who will entertain with jig dancing.
 Franklin Boardman Home
 Franklin Boardman of Berlin street, who was struck by an automo- bile several weeks, ago has returned to his home here. Boardman was dis charged from the hospital after seven weeks of treatment there for a broken leg. He was returning to his home after attending scout meet ing in New Britain. and was alight- inG from the trolley when he was run down. For the present he will be unable to leave his home without crutcheS.
 Ventrcs-Bcnjamin Tonight. Ava Ventres of this town will meet F. Iven Kid Benjamin, the French Whirlwind, of Plainville tonight in a handicap wrestling match in Plain vile. The gym run by the "l<id" in Plainville will be the scene of the match. This is the second time that the two have met, the last meeting ending in an easy victory for Ventres. The agreement signed by the two wrestlers is that Ventres must throw his opponent three times within a half hour or be declared the loser of the match. If Ventres succeeds in doing this he will receive one-half the gate receipts, if not he receives nothing, and forfeits $15 to Benja- min. A large number of the local friends of Ventres are planning to at tend the match. In addition to this tout. there will be several others, but the Ventres- Benj njamin fray is adver- tised as the headliner.
 Children's Day.
 Children's Day will be celebrated in the Kensington Methodist church to- morrow. In the morning at 10:45 m.. there will be regular preach ing service by the pastor, c. F. Lounsberry. The baptismal service will be used, and there will be spe- cial music by the church choir Sum day school will convene at the regu- lar time. '.+s-@ .-.- IT. the evening the Children's Day