New Britain herald., 1922-08-11

ton-kasica post last evening. Harry NcKeon and George Hultquist were appointed as delegates. The affair will be held in the Brass City on Sep tember and 9.
 The various sub committees in charge of the events to be staged at the athletic outing on Saturday of next week were read and proved of interest to those present. Progress is reported by all and everything points to August 19, being a big day in the history of Berlin. The prizes for the various events are expected to arrive in town shortly and will be placed on exhibition in one of the local stores.
 A committee reported that the fol- lowing well known men have been asked to act as honorary officials of the day: Major F. L. Wilcox, First selectman George B. Carter, G. E. Prentice, P. c. Hickey. Rev. S. A. Fiske. Rev. J. c. Brennan, R. o. Clark, c. W. Stevens. J. J. Fitzsimons, pr. T. c. .Hodgson. Postma ster w. w. Pagan, Rev. MT Fuller, Rev. Carleton Hazen, Rev. J. Allan Scott, C. F. Lewis. Francis Deming and Dr. R. M.
  Griswold.
 The officials of the meet will be T. J. Trehy of New Haven, referee; w. Lester Deming, of Berlin, clerk of the course; Edward Cowles of Bridgeport assistant clerk of the course; Judge w. F. Mangan, Attorney David Dunn and Martin Welsh, of New Britain, timers and H. A. Griswold of the New Britain Herald, scorer.
 Announcement was made to the ef- feet that the tennis matches to be played will be between the Kensing- ton and Berlin players and not the East Berlin players, s previously an nounced. Arthur Benson is in charge of the tennis matches.
 The meet has caused quite a bit of excitement throughout the state and from present indications it will be the drawing card for a large number of people to Berlin on that day. The events in the afternoon are scheduled to begin at 2 o'clock with the mara thon race from City Hall in New Britain to the community grounds on Berlin street and twice around the track, which is to be built soon. The baseball game between kensington and East Berlin will be staged at 4:30 o'clock as will the tennis matches, The dancing in the evening will wind up the days affair and will be held in the town hall at s o'clock. A large of entries have been received by legion officials from the various posts in the state.
 Registrars in Session
 The registrars for the town of Der lin were in session again this after noon and will be at the office of the' town clerk until o'clock this eve ming The registrars met last week Friday for the same purpose of mak- ing enrolments on the caucus list and there was not a single application made. To a late hour this afternoon no one had put in an appearance for ed and record will be established if no one calls before o'clock this eve ming.
 Digging Machine Is Stuck
 The machine employed by the Dris- coll Construction company, In digging the ditches for the water mains of the fire district is stuck at the foot of Main street near the Beach Swamp road. The machine became stuck yesterday when 1t struck soft spot in the ground, caused by the re- cent rains and sank into the mud for B distance of about three feet. It is not expected that the machine will be put into use again for several days.
 It was learned this morning that he Driscoll company will not be able 10 use the machine in digging along | .he Beach Swamp road from Farm l ngton road to Towers corner, in New { Britain, because of the trolley tracks on the side of the road. The work | which will be done on the west side | ,f the road. will be all by hand, such | IS the Curtis Construction company s doing for the Warrington Are dis rict on Pennington road near the rolley tracks.
 In Serious Condition
 William Lyons. former Remington ,arber, Is reported to be in a serious condition at the Meriden hospital, where he recently underwent an op-