New Britain herald., 1925-06-01

the Memorial Day celebration for the Bcckley district. this affair being held Ii Friday afternoon last. The exercises were largely attended and were held at the Beckley, cemetery. The program was as follows. Civil Creed, by the school children; flag salute; America" by the school; What the Flag Means" Ernestine DeSiloni: "Gettysburg Address,; flag song, grammar grades; "Hurrah For the Flag" primary grades; Me morial Day" a composition, Martha Walter; America The Beautiful" |" grammar grades; Hats Off" by the school; address Of the day, Frank L.. Wilcox; "tsar Spangled Banner" by the school benediction, Rev. sam uc A. Fiske.
 Memorial Day Observance
 Memorial Day was fittingly ob- served in Berlin on Saturday morn ing. It being Kensington's turn to arrage the exercises. the affair was held at the kcnsington Congrcga- tional church. A parade was held, the line moving shortly after g o'clock under the direction of George Greene, marshal of the day.
 The lino of march took the parade to the kensington Congrega- tional church, short service being hehi at the soldiers monument Nearly every organization in the town was represented in line. Three of the veterans of the Civil war were present. The address of the day at the church was delivered by Attorney William J. Mulligan of Hartford, an able speaker,
 About 400 people were present at the church. Appropriate exercises were hold, one 0 fthc features being a male quartet. which rendered seV- rral selections in the course Of the morning. Opening remarks were made by Edward Ripple of the New
 
 Accepts New Position
 Gustav Iindquist has resigned his position with Arthur Webster and has accepted a position with F.. F. Honiss Berlin grocer. Mir. Lindquist began his new duties today.
 Had Illegal Icnscs
 ]. R. Miller of = Roberts street, New Britain, was summoned into the Berlin town court for driving a car equipped with improper lenses He was arrested by Officer Orville Ventrcs yesterday on the turnpike He will appear in court tomorrow night.
 Son Born Yesterday.
 A son was born yesterday 10 Mir. and Mrs. J. A. Anthony Of Kensng- ion, MT and Mrs. Anthony are well known in town and make their home on the Farming on road. just west Of Upson'G Corner.
 Better Mailing Week.
 Better Mailing Week" began to- dav and will continue until Sunday, June [ During that time the post office forces at both the k"nsinston and Berlin post offices Will make ef- forts 10 educate the general public in the proper mailing of letters and packages.
 Postmaster Sidney NJ. Towlcs of Kensington issued the following statement today:
 "Dou you know
 That cI.0Oo.ooo etters wen; 10 the dead letter office last year"
 That Sl Of them were from Kens- ington?
 That 100000 letters go into the mails every year in perfectly Hlank cnvelopes?"
 That SIP, ,oOo in postage stamps were found In misdirected en- velopes?
 "That S3.OOO.OOO in checks, etc., never reached the intended owners?
 That it cost Uncle Sam $1,740,O coo last year to look up addresses on misdirected mail. Of which 2oo,O00,- 900 pieces were letters?
 That many people in Kensington mail their letters with no return ad- dress. no stamps and even with no forwarding address on the en- yPlopes?
 And do you know
 That all this trouble and vast amount of money could be saved and the dead letter office abolished if each piece of mail was properly wrapped and had return address