The Press., 1913-07-30
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 The Congregational church will be closed for the next two Sundays.
 Mrs. E. l.. Cady of Springfield is spending a week at her old home here.
 Miss I. B. Russell's millinery store will be closed Friday evenings dur ing August.
 The Hudson Garage company has taken the agency for the Koehler com- mercial car.
 George O. Cady of Hartford, a former resident, is spending a few days at the Springs House.
 Mrs. Alice Dempsey and two chil- dren, who have been visiting in town, have returned to their home in Bos- ton.
 Miss NJ. A. Goetz, a nurse at the Johnson hospital, has resigned her position and has returned to her home in Boston.
 Peter Gleason, mcdaniel engineer of Pittsburg, Penn, was the guest of his brother, James Gleason of the borough over Sunday.
 The registrars will be in session Friday from 12 m. to 9 p. m., at Burwell's store, for the purpose of receiving names to be added to the csueus enrOllment
 John Lawlor of Crystal Lake fell from loaded wagon he was driving last Saturday, and the wheels passed over him. His hip was badly injured and two ribs were broken. He was attended by pr. Newton.
 The borough is building the extra permanent highway entailed by the state operations on West Main street There has been some discussion rela- tive to the apportionment of the ex- pense, which will be about $30OO. The selectmen have agreed to pay $75O, which is about one-fourth, | their position being that as the town | will stand one-fourth of the total ex- pense of the highway, the borough should care for three-fourths of the extra expense. The borough officials feel that the whole town is benefited by good roads, and they claim it is no more than fair that the town should pay one-half the expense of the extra surface. At the next meet ing of the court of burgesses the mat ter will probably come up.
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 Last Friday the w. O. T. U. execu- tive and other invited workers met with Miss G. A. Washburn. At this conference it was voted that a com- mittee of five from the W. O. T. U. confer with the social service commit tee of the federated churches, this joint committee to be known as the poster committee of Stafford. It was in Paris that the municipal posters warning against alcohol liquors of all sorts originated. These posters were prepared by physicians connected with the municipal government, and were placed in conspicuous positions throughout the city, even upon the outer walls of the Hotel de Vile (City Hall. These posters warn specifically against wine, beer and cider as lead ing to alcoholism as surely as brandy Other countries, notably Germany, England and Denmark, took up that method of propaganda against alcohol. Three years ago the Boston Associated Charities investigated and decided that publicity was the crux of the alcohol problem,-to get the facts to the people. With this in view, a poster committee was appointed to placard in posters throughout the state the cost of alcohol to the community in money, health and efficiency. Post CTS were chosen because posters make alcohol news, and thus carry the edu- cation precisely where it should be carried, into the daily press. The committee wishes to lay emphasis on the fact that primarily the posters are not for drinking men, but for think ing men, for you. Some churches are already putting up bulletin boards outside or space in the vestibule for these posters. Eventually the com- mittee hopes that towns will appro- priate a small sum yearly for posting the health, money and efficiency waste of alcohol. This custom exists in France; also in Germany, in which the Kaiser joins. The mayor of Cam bridge, Mass. has already ordered the linen poster to be placed in all public buildings, and has suggested that the park commissioners be asked to place the posters in all public parks. Whole towns-for instance, Melrose, Mass, have been plastered with posters. They appeal for help in every town to get before the people the facts-that ''alcohol is a narcotic poison, a men, ace to health, an enemy to efficiency that the cost of liquor to the nation in insanity, poverty, crime and disease far outweighs any benefits derived from revenue, business or pleasure that there is a strong connection be- tween alcohol and the social evil; that nothing can be done until people know the facts. '' C.. A. Washburn.