New Britain herald., 1919-08-25

poets nlS dlScnarSe m the near lulufe. Clinton Pascce and family of New Britain were the guests of William H. Nye over Sunday.
 Berlin Items.
 Mrs B. A. Haviland who has been visiting with MT. and Mrs. A. B. Good rich has returned to her home in SouthingtOn.
 MT. and Mrs. $. A, Hart and daugh-, ter who have been visiting with MT. and Mrs. J. A. Blake during the sum- mer, left yesterday for Lynn, Mass, where they will be gone for few weeks.
 Earl Brown, Lawrence Austin and William Chambers left yesterday for Lake Pocotopaug in East Hampton, where they will spend the week.
 Lucius Taylor and daughter spent Sunday at their cottage at Indian Neck
 MT. and Mrs. A. H. Bushnell with their son and daughter spent the. day yesterday at Indian Neck.
 MT. and Mrs. $. J. Golen and daugh- ter Mary visiting with friends and relatives at Clinton, Mass.
 Mrs. H. N. Galpin and daughter Ruth will leave tomorrow for liar wichport, Mass, where they plan to SpcHu tue next three WoGRS at the Snow inn in that town.
 Mrs. Frank Woods accompanied by Miss Maude Leclair returned yester- day from Provincctown, Mass, where they have been spending their vaca- ton.
 Garner Goodwin and wife have re- turned from West Haven where they spent the weekend with relatives
 A number of local young people were entertained by MT. and Mrs Gar field Gibney on a motorboat trip down the Connecticut yesterday. Those making the trip were MT. and Mrs. Garfield and two children, Henry Hubbard, George Jester, Jack Whitta- ker, George Mccarthy, Donald Smith, Ruth Austin, Marian Gibney, Etta Jester and Hattie Miller.
 MT. and Mrs. Niles Anderson spent the weekend at Savin Rock
 Bids Open for New Carrier
 Postmaster A. E. Goodrich an- nounced this morning that bids had been opened for the messenger mail service in Berlin. Any resident of the town can bid for the position. The position requires the carrying of the mails between the post office and the railroad station, amounting to five tflpS ct udy. -AAel Tfdnck, the pres ent carrier. has resigned the position, which he has held for some time. All bids should be mailed to the Berlin post office
 Auto Tears Down Fence.
 Saturday aftern oon Timothy Dehan, of East Berlin, accidentally ran into a fence near the Wood ward home- stead, tearing it away for distance of 30 feet and breaking down the posts. MT. Dehan took his eyes from the road for an instant to right a bottle of water in the bottom of the car which had fallen and in that in stant the machine turned from the road and crashed into the fence. Mr. Dehan was not injured, but the right front wheel of the machine was torn com pletely off.
 Memorial Design to Be Passed Upon
 A meeting of the general commit tee on the memorial is called for to- morrow evening at 8 o'clock at Elan nery's on the turnpike. The sub committee on the selection of the de- sign has inspected and passed upon all of the designs submitted to thom by the different concerns and is now ready to submit it's choice to the gen. eral committee for final survey and inspection. If the choice of the sub committee passes the general com nittee it may be possible to have the memorial 4elebration before next year. It is very important that every member of the general committee be