New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

The service on the electrified di- vision of the New Haven road from
 Middletown to Berlin was very poor
 this morning and the first trip was
 omitted Passengers who planned to leave Middletown as early as G;30 o'clock did not arrive in Berlin until after 8 o'clock. The trains on the main line from Hartford to New Ha- ven were operating anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes late, although this was not blamed onto the storm inasmuch as train over this line have been op- erating on late schedules for the past several. weeks.
 condftfons under the railroad bridEe at, Kensington are anything but pleasant where huge snowdrifts have formed and at that spot traffic was practically blocked this morning. Sev- eral automobiles ventured from New Britain through Berlin to Meriden and other cities. but many of them became stalled in the snow so that 1t was necessary to have other cars come to pull them out.
 Passage on the roads in the rural section of the town is still an impos- sibility and it is mot expected that these roads will be in an even fairly good condition for travelling for at least another week.
 Berlin people experienced little diff ficulty with the telephone service as this line of business was not inter- fered with by the storm. In some of the remote sections trees had been felled by the force of the wind.
 At two different times many of the homes were in darkness for a stretch of time when the electric power failed and in many instances it was neces- sary to go into the attic and bring down the old lamps that were used when grandma was a girl.
 The storm, however, has proven delight to the hundreds of school chil- dren who this week are enjoying their annual Christmas vacation and at last will be given an opportunity to use the brand new sleds that Santa Claus gave them for Christmas. Still oth- CTS are disappointed to think that skating is spoiled after Santa had brought them new skates.
 oStpOhC ACSIOi NIeetUl&.
 The meeting of Bottom Kasica post, l American Legion, scheduled for last evening was not held because of the storm. Lawrence Southard, in charge ,f the arrangements, stated this morning that the meeting will be held | 'ome evening next week the exact date 0 be announced later.
 Community Council Meeting.
 A meeting of the Worthington 1 center association council l md standing committees will be held | ,n Thursday evening, January 4, at i ':15 o'clock at the community house | ,n Berlin street.
 The standing committees include | he following: House and grounds, so- 'ial. program, membership, junior and | Reports will be heard from | III committees and the social program or the coming spring and summer | eason will be discussed. The meet | ng will be open to the public and ] large attendance is expected.
 The Worthington Community asso- iation is one of the few in Connec- icut and the officers of the organiza- ion are doing their utmost to make his association the best of it's kind in he state.
 Busiest of Years
 Postmaster w. w Pagan of the Sensington post office stated this morning that three times as much business was done at his office during he Christmas rush than at any other ime since the office has been estab- ished. The work was all accom- ,lished without any outside or extra assistance such as is needed in the arger cities and the local force was ble to cope with the situation, hay ng the mail delivery cleaned up at fight so that there was practically no lail left over until morning.
 MT. Pagan is assisted at the office y Miss Margaret Flynn, money order Jerk; e Charles Williams, village de- very. and Hiram Hurlburt, rural arrier The mail was exceedingly eavy and both MT. Williams and MT. Iurlburt were required to leave the flee with extra loads.
 MT. Pagan could not give an esti- nate of the number of letters and ards which passed through the office xcept to say that it was well into the