New Britain herald., 1929-03-11

The Women's Aid society viii
meet at ) o'clock Wednesday after.
noon at the home Of Mrs. Cora
Honiss and Mrs. Arthur Benson or
Hudson street.
The Mems Bible class will hold
a regular meeting in the Community
house at 8 o'clock Wednesday night
Motion pictures on Alaska will be
shown. Mr.. Fiske will speak or
Mysticism" at the prayer meeting
Thursday evening. making an effort
to define its right and wrong uses
as an approach to religion.
! A ST. Patrick's day supper will be
held by the Woman's Aid society
at $50 o'clock Friday evening. An
entertainment will be held in the
chapel directly afterwards. Mrs
Anna Molumphy is in charge Of the
event.
The regular meetings Of the Cub
Scouts and Boy Scouts will be held
Friday evening in charge Of Scout
master Emil o. shjerden.
To Set Tax Rate
/ The board of finance will hold an
important meeting in the town hall
4 at 7:15 o'clock this evening. when it
will discuss and probably set the tax
! rate for the present year. Predic-
| tons that the rate will range any
where from ~ Il mills to its
present 16 mills or slightly above
are being made.
At 8 o'clock the special commit
: tee which Is considering the cree
4 ton of a new school building will
1 meet in the town hall. This will
also be an important session. and il
/ is likely that final plans for the i'm
mediate school program of the town
/ will be made.
schools Reopen
The local public schools Opened
! this morning after a weeks vaca-
ton. The Berlin schools arc on the
| eight week plan by which one week
of vacation follows each term Of
sight weeks
! Women Voters to Meet
The kcnSington League Of Women
Voters will hold its regular monthly
meeting in Legion hall tomorrow
| night at O'clock.
/ Ibs,tngs Of SAieties
The knights Of Pythias will meet
munity han.
At 5 O'Clock tonight the Modern
Woodmen will hold their regular
meeting in Athletic hall.
! A card party will be held in Com
munity hall at 5 o'clock under the
auspices Of the Py'hian Sisters.
ltcfrcshment Committee
The rcfreshment committee OF
Berlin Grange will meet at s o'clock
! tonight az the home Of Mrs. Howard
Skinner TO arrange for refreshments
az the noAt Gange meeting. In ad-
dition TO Ms Skinner. who is chair
man. the committee consists Of Mrs
Grace Ncn'res. Virginia Bushnell
Mrs. George Tryou. and II. Russell
| Dickinson.
Notes
The Berlin public library vii! he
open this evening for The weekly On
| change Of books.
The Wednesday Afternoon club
viii meet Wednesday afternoon At
! the home of Mrs Ada Watkins Of
/ Nov Britain. Mrs. William Whit
ham of Berlin will assist Mrs. Wat
! kns.
Personals
Mrs. Harold Lee Judd in enter
tanning Mrs. Joseph Fee AZ her home
on Worlhineton ridge. She gave IL
/ luncheon this noon in honor Of her
| guest.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Montgomery
! have returned to their homo on
/ Hudson street after few weeks
spent at Cocoanut Grove. Florida.
| Mrs. William Scott is entertaining
her cousin. Mrs Waldo Warner of
New Haven for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Perry Of
Southport. 4. L. and Ernest Merrill
Of New Iok City were the week
end guests OF Prof. and Mrs. Stanley
l.. Galpin.
Depot lunch Raidcd
Constable Frank Brown and
three state policemen railed the
Depot lunch in kensington late Sat
urday night and arrested the pro-
prietor. Peter Avano on a charge Of
having gambling devices in his
posse ssion. The raiders found sew
eral punchboards about the place.
also two gallons of hard cider
which is alleged to be of high al
coholic content. Avano will be tried
tomorrow night.
Movies Of Alaska
Motion pictures showing in six
reels the story Of Kodiak bear
hunting trip to Alaska will be shown
at the Berlin community house
Wednesday evening by Johnstone
Vance. Mr.. Vance will tell the story
Of the trip while showing the pic
lures. The lecture will be under tho
auspices of the Berlin Mems
Bible class and will start at 5
o'clock.
Last Berlin Items
The ladies of Sacred Heart
cuurcH VIII nOlu 1000 sale al the
home of Mrs. William Brown next
Friday afternoon from 3 to )
o'clock.
Sessions were resumed at The
Hubbard school this morning after
weeks vacation.
The annual pledge campaign OF
the Methodist church was held yes
tcrday afternoon. all members of tho
church being called upon during the
day. Those people not at home Will
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