New Britain herald., 1923-06-05

rectly in front of the truck. the driv- CT of which in order 10 prevent smashing into the car in front of him. turned into the ditch, where his truck went over on its side. The truck hit the car gancing blow, damaging 1t slightly.
 Automobiles were lined up on both sides of the road and the driver of the Massachusetts car crashed into another truck when he became con- fused at the number of cars. How ever, little damage was done to either
 S88.00O In Taxes,
 To date. Tax Collector Charles F. Lewis has sent to the office of the town clerk s66,oo0 in taxes, which became due beginning May 1. These are town taxes, connected with paying the running expenses of the town. Maintenance of schools will take from two thirds to three-fourths of the to- tai amount. The remainder will be used for other needs of the town. There is still about s24,o00 to come into the hands of the tax collector.
 Town Clerk Arthur Woodruff has also received to date s2, in taxes from residents of the Worthington Fire district. this money being for lights and watermains. There is 8 three mill tax on lights and five mill tax on watermains.
 Foresters Will Meet
 A meeting of Court Mattabessett of the Foresters will be held Thursday
 l,1 Jt ic N pected that about 20 applications for will be received. It isI said that one member of the lodge received about 12 of them.
 Court Mattabessett is the largest court for a town the size of Berlin. It has grown so rapidly during the past year that it has been necessary to abandon the upstairs rooms as a place of meeting and use the large hall to accommodate the members.
 Alexander Bruce Improved
 Alexander Bruce, who suffered badly strained and bruised back some time ago when he was thrown into the back of his wagon after an automobile had collded with it, is to be rapidly improving. He Is now up and around the house, all though he is not yet able to do any work An X-ray picture of his back was taken and 1t was then determined that no bones had been broken, as was at first feared,
 Legion to Meet
 Bolton -Kasca post, American Le- zion, will meet Thursday evening at s o'clock at T. A. B. hall. All mem- bers have been urged to attend this meeting, as there is considerable busi- | ness to be discussed, business which | has been held over from several previous meetings because of the failure of Legion men to attend.
 Memorial Night At Grange
 The Berlin grange will observe Me- moral Night at the han this evening with appropriate entertainment and addresses by the members. Several members have been asked to con | tribute portion of the program and t is expected that there will be an meeting. A large num- 1 Der are planning to attend from Ber- lin and Kensington.
 To Present Entertainment
 The members of the Lo-Hi club of the Berlin Congregational church will present an entertainment in the shurch chapel next Friday evening at 5 o'clock. The entertainment will l consist Of a play and several short | numbers. It is expected that the af- [ fair will be a success.
 Items Of Interest
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Fogliati of | K Sensington have returned from a visit | ,f d few days with relatives in South 
 A dance will be given in Grange nall, Berlin. Saturday evening. by several of the young Italian people ,f the town.
 A meeting of the Ladies' Aid so- ,iety Of the kensington Methodist ,hurch will be held tomorrow after loon at the church.
 The annual meeting of the Wom- tn's Missionary society of the Berlin Congregational church will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at he home of Mrs. smith.
 Miss Caroline Savage, acting super-