The Press., 1913-05-14
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it his personal attention.
 Miss May Needham has taken DO,
 sition as bookkeeper at Meekins, Pack.
 ard & Wheat's in Springfield.
 Miss Anna L. Webb of Worcester
 has been appointed teacher in the
 public schools in the Mum district.
 Gertrude Pease, who has been visit.
 ing friends on Pease avenue, has re.
 turned to her home in Stafford
 Springs.
 Albert schubach, son of MT. and
 Mrs. George Schubach of South Main
 street, is confined to his home with diphtheria. The house has been
 quarantined.
 The latest case of diphtheria report. ed to the board of health is the
 daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Fred Wal.
 lace on Chestnut street. The house
 has been quarantined.
 Another case of diththeria has been
 reported to the board of health, Miss
 Catherine O'Brien, daughter of MT.
 and Mrs. William O'Brien of Pleasant
 street, having the disease. The
 house has been quarantined.
 Miss Ada J. Gage, 56, died at hel
 home on Green street Wednesday
 morning at 4.45 o'clock of brain
 fever. Miss Gage had been confined
 to her home for the past 10 days. She
 was born in Monson February 24, 1857, and had always made her home
 there. She was the daughter of Rufus
 l.. and Mary J. Gage. She leaves,
 besides her mother, nephew, Arthur
 Royce, with whom she lived. The funeral was held at her late home Fri day afternoon at 3. 80 o'clock. Rev. Abram Conklin of the Universalist church conducted the services. Burial was in the No. cemetery. ~
 The incorporators of the Monson Savings bank had their annual meet ing Wednesday and elected officers as follows: President, B. D. Cushman i; vice. e-presidents, O. M. Gage, A. D. Ellis; clerk, W. l.. Ricketts; trus- tees, A. D. Norcross, l.. O. Flynt, Dr. P. W. Soule, E. D. Cushman, O. M. Gage, R. P. Cushman, Rufus Fay, G. 0. Flynt, O. A. Bradway, A. D. Ellis, o. O. McCray, Dr. 0. W. Jackson, w. L. Ricketts; board of in- vestment, E. D. Cushman, A. D. Nor cross, o. M. Gage, l.. o. Flynt; audi tors, A. D. Norcross, R. P. Cushman, Rufus Fay; treasurer, O. A. Brad way.
 The diphtheria epidemic in town has reached rather alarming propor- tions, there being at present cases in all sections of the town. The health officials have been very careful of but regardless of this new cases are being reported nearly every day. pr. J. V. Boyd of Springfield, a member of the state board of health, has been in town to look over condi- tions. He, with MT. Ricketts, chair man of the local board. of health, were at the various quarantined houses endeavoring, if possible, to locate the cause of the contagion. It was at first thought that something was wrong with the conditions at the State street school, but the children who have been i'll with the disease are found to have attended practically all the schools in the center of the town, Mechanic street, State street, Green street and No. 8. All the school buildings have been fumigated, with the exception of the Green street school, and the officials will attend to the fumigating of this building inn The state board found that the epidemic could hardly be from the milk used. It was found that in the different families visited by the disease the milk used was from various places, practically all the milkmen having one or more custom ers on their route, with diphtheria in the family. Children not attend ing school and adults have also been affected
 J. W. Rane, state forester, makes the following statement: "I have just returned from a trip over the state and have never seen the tent so numerous generally. They are largely found on wild cherry and neglected apple trees. If every will organize a volun- teer gang, many of these tents could be destroyed at once. The larvae or leave their tents about o'clock in the morning and return to camp about o'clock in the after noon; hence they may be destroyed by removing tent and all early or late in the day. When the nests are still small they are easily removed by hand. Put on some old gloves and tackle them, crushing them on the ground. Some use burning torches, but these injure the trees more or less. The nests high up can be reached with swab on the end of it. Spraying with arsenical poisons will also destroy them, but the former methods are quick and effective. With every day's delay, however, the larvae get larger and eat more vegetation, hence the earlier the better. Here is a call to the Boy Scouts, and even to