New Britain herald., 1922-07-10

of the previous year. Mrs. Foley's room at the Percival school has the best record. On a general average there were 57 children absent every day in the school year
 School Board Meeting.
 The monthly meeting of the school committee will be held in the town hall tomorrow evening at o'clock. Regular routine business will be transacted and it is possible that plans will be made for school accom- modations next year.
 The local authorities do not be- committee will be heard tomorrow night inasmuch as the chairman of this committee is out of town. At the last meeting of the board the exten- sion workers were told to go ahead to secure site which would be suit able for the building of new school. It has been learned that the commit tee has looked over two sites but In both cases the property owners were not willing to sell. Other than this the committee has net made more progress.
 Nuck In Ditch.
 A large Pierce-Arrow truck was crowded off the road late Saturday night. north of the Lincoln bridge on Pennington road. It is said that the truck was attempting to turn out of the way for New Britain trolley car when it went over the small embank- ment into the ditch which was filled with water. wrecking crew from Hartford came to Berlin on Sunday and succeeded in pulling the truck out. No one was injured Tn the ac- cident.
 Outings Are Planned.
 Plans are being made for the an nual joint picnic of the Mems Bible class of the Berlin Congregational church and the Brotherhood of the kensington Congregational church to be held on Saturday of this week at the community house grounds A baseball game will feature the gath ering.
 The employees Of the machine room of the American Paper Goods com pany will hold picnic and outing at Double Beach on Saturday of this week. The entire factory will have an outing on July 29.
 Personals
 Mir and Mrs. William H. Webster are entertaining their daughter from Knoxville, Tenn
 Mir. and Mrs. D. J. Trehy of Ken sington are entertaining Mir. and Mrs Hamilton of Dundee, N. Y
 Miss Adele Murray of Berlin is wis lting with friends in Worcester.
 Howard Hall, Earl Brown, Edward Russell, spent the week -end in East 
 Mir. and Mrs. H. H. Damon spent the weekend at Short Beach.
 Miss Estella R. Goodrich was Il weekend visitor at New London.
 Miss Doris Honiss, Pearl Cashman, Lois Cowles and Edith Prentice will leave Wednesday to attend a house party to be given by Miss Victoria Fiske at West Brookneld, Mass.
 Rev. and Mrs. Fiske with their two children, Victoria and Samuel, left to- lay for West Brookfeld, where Mrs. Fiske and the children will spend the summer months,
 Burnham Williams of Burnside was , visitor in town yesterday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Garner Goodwin left | Berlin yesterday on vacation trip
 Mir. and Mrs, Edgar Carter and | are on an automobile trip to | New York.
 Mrs Lester Deming and children Ire at the shore for q few weeks
 A. W. Nibberts and two daughters 1f New Britain were the week end | quests of Mir. and Mrs. George B. Farter.
 Miss Madeline DeLowry Of Ken ngton is spending two weeks at 
 Miss Marjorie Moore is spending X week at Martha's Vineyard.
 Mrs. Thomas Pagan of Remington. las left for a stay at Grove Beach Willis and Margaret Ronketty have etUrned from a stay in Hartford
 News In Brief
 The board of selectmen will hold heir regular meeting in the office of he town hall this evening
 About % people attended the Sun ay school picnic of the Berlin Con-