New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
FLAG DEDICATION
 SERVICE TOMORROW
Church Of Our Lady Of Mercy Has
 AS Boys in Service
NEW P0ST0FFICE RULES

After the First of the Month People Having Mail Delivered at Their Homes in the Town Cannot Get the Same Service at the Office.
 Final preparations have been made for the flag dedication exercises which will take place tomorrow mnlediately after the 10:30 o'clock mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Up to noon today the service flag had not 1 arrived, but the pastor Rev. Ii. T. 1 Walsh is confident that it will be here 1 for the exercises tom orrow. A special 1 mass will be sung and the choir will ! take part Several vocal as we'll as ] instrum ental solos will also be ren- 1 dered. The violinists who will render special selections are Miss Pauline 1 Farrar, Eugene LaVassar and John 1 Fitzgerald, all of whom are from this ] town. The following will render vocal l solos: John Kilduff and John Burns, l both of New Britain; James Donahue. 1 of Bristol and Miss Josephine Prior, 1 of this town. After the various selec- l tions have been rendered the choir and l the congregati ton will sing patriotic 1 songs.
 l The service flag will be carried into ! the church by four children of the 1 parish-Gertrude Lyman, Mildred l samns, Evelyn Hanley and Bettie Gal 1 agauger. There will also be two l flower r-bearers-Antoinette and fon- l nee Brunelle. The flag will be raised by a soldier and a sailor home on
 furlough.
 week it was to have A stars and one
 cross, but since then additional men
 have entered the service and five 1 more names and stars have been add
 ed to the honor roll of the church. ' War Savings Stamps Notes.
 Yesterday was a record breaking
 day i'll the War Savings Stamps
 campaign. Over 2,5oo subscribers ap- peared at the postoffice and pur- 1 chased stamps This is the largest 1 number of subscribers that have yet
 appeared and the committee on War ] Savings Stamps feels that Plainville
 may vet hit it's quota.
 New Postoffice Orders.
 Notices have been placed at the stamp window at the local postoffice
 to the effect that and after July
 1st no more mail will be delivered to 1 persons having the benefit of the city ] delivery. The people having the car 1 riers coming to their home are re-
 quested to heed the postmaster's re-
 quest and not call for mail at the of-
 flee. This order will not apply how
 ever, if people are expecting very i'm
 portant letters Tho order will not apply to those people who are In the 1 Rural Free Delivery district.
 Potato Plants Being Stolen
 Several of the townspeople are
 making complaints today of raids
 which were made on their potato fields during the past two nights. The l people mostly affected those on
 the western section of the town. but a few complaints have been received from the lower part of Whiting
 street The people claim that potato
 plants are being pulled np and that
 the plants that are not destroyed are trampled on by the miscreants. Last 1 evening a woman on Broad street
 heard loud talking about her home
 and on going out to the trouble
 discovered that four men were loot
 ing her garden. She imm ediately mo- tifed the authorities.
 Ball Game Tomorrow.
 Tomorrow afternoon the Rockwell l Drake baseball team will play the
 Emerald Athletic club of New Brit
 ain at the Rockwell-Drake field. This is the second time the Emeralds have been in town and good game Is l promised by the local manager. 1 Church Notices.
 Congregational church-The regu- lar morning service will be held at
 1O:45 o'clock The text of the ser
 mon will be: And They Came to the
 Other Side of the Sea-" Sunday
 school will meet at noon and the ! Christian Endeavor meeting will be
 held at o'clock. The topic for the 1 meeting will be: "The Power of the l Cross in Africa" The leader of the 1 meeting will be Miss Marjorie Fisher. yxTYrIAT TyT1 CETAFC