New Britain herald., 1918-07-25

The anniversary of the Kensington
Methodist chapter of the Epworth
league was celebrated last night in
the kensington Methodist church. A
large number of the members of the
society and church as well as friends
from outside the Methodist sect took
part in the exercises. The dedicatory
service took an important. part in the
program. The local church has soy
eral members in the service which
fact gives the society q double reason
for celebrating by the use of the dedi-
catory service for the men in the serv-
ice. This year in every church where
there is a chapter of the Epworth
a general order was sent out to have
this form of celebration whether there
were men from the church in the
service or not.
Following the dedicatory service
games were played by both the young
and the old and the evening closed
with the singing Of patriotic songs
by all assem- bled.
Communication Regarding Name.
A communication favoring the nam
ing of this town Kensington has been
received. Reasons for the naming of
the town after one of its sections are
set forth with historical dates and
facts collected by the writer. The
communication follows
eff everything German becomes so
obnoxious that the town of Berlin
should be called by another name
would it not be we'll if those upon
whom the responsibility of making a
choice rests should consider seriously
the historical reasons given in a, COM
munication from Miss Susan Peck a
native of Berlin. why the name should
be kensingtOn?
THE territory com prising it was
originally part of Pennington. The
first settlers at Great Swamp organic
ed, in 1905, an ecclesiastical society
known as the second society of Farm
ington. 1t received the name Of Ken
sington in 1922 by act Of the General
Assembly on petition of the inhabi-
tants. In May, 1881, a petition was
presented to the General Assembly,
then sitting in Hartford for Il
now town to be called Kensing-
ton. The petition was not granted,
but the subject was agitated until
1855 when the new town of Berlin
was formed of part of Wethersfield,
Pennington and Middletown. Why
it was given the name of Berlin has
never been satisfactorily explained.
The Conn ecticut State Register in Civ
ing the origin of names of towns in
the state says that 1t was named from
Berlin in Prussia.
Now if a change of name is de-
sirable should it not be to kensing
ton, the name the founders of the
town desired? Let the section known
as Worthington retain its name which
has so much meaning; let Beckley
quarter still be known as Beckley and
give to East Berlin the privilege of
choosing it's own appellation which
might most suitably be Malta bassett.
Would not such an arrangement OF
names satisfy those who would like
the name of Berlin wiped off the map
Of the United States as we'll as those
who cling to the historically endeared
names of the locality? 1t would save
them all.
Massachusetts Cars Collided
Two cars bearing Massachusetts
markers, one driven by Max Robbins
and one by James A. Toohey, collided
on Berlin street this morning. Rob
bins was driving along the street in
a Ford and claims he Signalled that
he was about to turn. After signal
turn and the car driven my Toohey
coming along at moderate rate Of
speed bumped his car on the side. No
serious damage resulted from the