New Britain herald., 1919-12-18
as No. 20 in the Kensington district,
 Assessors Complete KensinxtOn.

AsSeSsors Complete kensinxtOn.
 Tho board of assessors have com pleted their reassessm ent of the Ken sington property and now are working on East Berlin real estate. They do not expect to spend more than. two weeks there it was announced this morning. As soon as the whole town has been assessed taxpayers will be-! notified of the increase over the aS- Sessment of 1918. It is claimed that tho rssssessa ent oE the town property win mean 75 to 100 per Scant,. increase \ for each taxpayer.
 The program for, the public meeting to be held at Foresters' hall Friday evening has been announced and Is as followss E
 Piano duet, Melody in B, Padsrew- ski, Mrs H. H. Damon and Mrs, S. A. Fiske; welcome on behalf of Emma Willard Hart chapter, D. A. R.. Roger M. Griswold, M. D. songs, bio Pos- sente, Faust and Gounod, August Klein, Theron Hart, accompanists folk songs, victrola; address. Daniel Ra- doms songs, M'appari, Martha, Flo tow, Mrs. M. B. Yaw. Erioh Tesl1e, ac- companist; piano solo. Scherzo in B flat minor, Chopin, Theron Hart; solo and folk songs, victrola; address, A. Rosario Giamio; songs, CD Prologue (Pagliacci Leoncavallo CD Caro Mic Ben. Giordani, MT. Klein; songs Gl La Donna Mobile, Rigoletto, Verdi (s) -Vesti h Giubba, Pagliacci Leon cavallo, MT. Teske.
 "r East Berlin Items -.
 The regular weekly prayer meeting of the Methodist church will be held this evening in the church parlors.
 Cyrus Root of Washington is visiting his daughter. Mrs. Lena Root, over the weekend.
 Fifteen workmen arrived in town for employment with the Connecticut Metal Chemical company, but could not find accommodations. The con- pany provided temporary quarters in the company office until other accom- modatlons can be found.
 Berlin Briefs.
 George Sage is having his orchards pruned. Expert tree surgeons from Hartford are doing the job.
 A touring car was stalled on Berlin street this morning on account of a freeze up. A water pipe had burst, letting out the water unknown to the driver. The engine overloaded and something gave way.
 David Kearney of Portland is spend ing the day here with friends. ~..-
 Kensington Items.
 The expresses are running from 40 minutes to an hour late today due to the extreme cold weather.
 George Baldwin is unloading an- other car of coal.
 Miss Martha Grandstand of New Haven is spending the weekend with Miss Ellen Johnson.
 Mrs. O'Brien Replies.
 Mrs. James OBrien, wife of James O'Brien, who was arraigned before the Berlin court took exception to the ar- ticle as printed in The Herald of last evening. Her letter follows in full:
 Tn regard to the statements on the OfBrien case which appeared in the Berlin News of the New Britain Herald last evening, and which were false, the truth is hereby made known. ,..
 ''Mr. O'Brien has not contributed to the support of his wife since early in September. She had notified him several times since then to do so, but got no result. When all resources failed, his wife, Mrs. O'Brien, placod the case in the hands of the law, and not his mother-in law, as was stated last night, whom this case does not concern. The $7 he had been giving toward his wifes support would not pay her board, say nothing of sup porting the family It was not too much mother-in- Jaw on his part but too much sister in-law and mother in-law on the wife's part, which ha