New Britain herald., 1926-12-14
BERLIN NEWS
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a Christmas party to be held next Tuesday evening at their hall on Pennington avenue. It will be chill dren's night at the organizations regular meeting. with Santa Claus to distribute the gifts to the members children. Each Granger is request ed to bring gift to the tree. Santa Claus Letters
 Each collection of mail from local boxes brings bunch of Santa Claus letters into the local post offices. Two children have blasted tradition and used postal cards but for the most part the requests are cased in carefully lettered envelopes Those who would Ii / for real effect ex- pertinent with ink to an alarming degree. Some of the letters are stamped and some trust in the mail department enough to forego the stamp. In either case the postmas- ters assure the youngsters that the letters will be shipped to the north pole on the first outgoing mail and that the special service between this place and the home of the patron saint Is so efficient that 1t takes but one day for the missives to reach Santa.
 East Berlin Items
 The children Of the Hubbard school have raised s10 for the Con- necticut State Aid society. This money was forwarded to headquart- CTS yesterday by Miss Mabel Barnes, principal of the school.
 The Hubbard school will close next Wednesday afternoon, Decem- Der 22, at S:30 o'clock and not Thursday afternoon as previously announced.
 The prayer meeting of the Metho- dist church will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The service will be over in time to permit those wishing to attend the meeting of the Community club to do so.
 The whist party to be held at St. Gabriers Episcopal church social rooms next Friday evening will be in charge of Mrs. Max Sugenhime and Miss Dorothy Sugenhime.
 Joseph Kenefal opened a store this morning at the old Athletic Hall building. This makes the fourth grocery store in the town.
 At the meeting of the Epworth league last evening, eleven new members were admitted into the or ganization. The meeting last eve- ming was well attended.
 The Parents-Teachers' association will meet tonight at o'clock In the Hubbard school. The public is in- vited to attend. Rev. A. L. Burgreen will give the address of the evening. Refreshments will be served.
 The Girls Club will meet Thurs da.' evening at Community hall at 8 o'clock. There will be only the one class for the young and older girls.
 The Fife and Drum corps will mt et in the basemen. of Community hall Thursday evening for their reg ular weekly rehearsal.
 The Christmas tree exercises by the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters will be held at Con- munity hall Monday evening, De- cember 20.
 Mrs. G. F. Dalbey will entertain the members of the Lafanso at her home Thursday evening.
 The report recently given out about the new highway to be con- structcd from the flats over the old School House hill to Kelsey corner. will probably be an established fact it is said. The cost of obtaining the property about Kelsey corner is said to be too high. It was the original plan of the highway department to cut a "oad through just beyond the McCrum residence, but owing to the high cos. of this, it is likely to be discarded in favor of the straight away highway so that traffic would be routed on the outside of the town. This would mean that the present road through East Berlin would not be rebuilt
 E. S. Morgan Estate $13,O6f
 The estate of the late Edgar s. Morgan of East Berlin is valued at SIS, 3,061.66, according to an inven- tory filed today in the probate court by the appraisers Ernest w. Mildrum and Oscar Benson, both of East Berlin.
 Itemized, the estate is as follows: Two story dwelling house, with land,
 on Cottage street, East Berlin
 $4,000.