The Press., 1913-12-03
MONaON.

0. H. Bradway of West Stafford, Ot.. was with MT. and Mrs. Wm. Jewett for the popular New England holiday.
 Mrs. H. E. Bugbee and son, Harry, entertained family gathering yester- day, including MT. and Mrs. D. P. Smith and Miss Gertrude Winter of North Brookfeld, A. L. Howard, Miss Mary Howard, MT. and Mrs. F. W. Howard of Stafford Springs, Mrs. G. H. Foskit aud Miss Katherine Smith.
 Harold Everett Lynch, the three and a half years old son of MT. and Mrs. John Lynch of Hampden road, was instantly killed Friday afternoon near his home by being run over by a dump cart loaded with gravel. The little boy, with a playmate, was rid ing on the loaded cart and fell off in front of one of the rear wheels, which nassed over his head and shoulders. Associate Medical Examiner Dr. O.. W. Jackson viewed the body and re- ported instant accidental death. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, with burial in Pearl street cemetery.
 Notice will be mailed this week to all property owners of the town that they will be required to destroy the gypsy and browntail moths upon their property before April 1, 1914. This notice is in accordance witt Chapter 381, Act of 1905, and re uuires all towns to destroy eggs, cat erpillars, pupae, nests of the gypsy and brown-tail moths under heavy penalty for failure to comply with th' prov isions of the law. If a property owner fails to destroy such eggs, cater pillars or nests the town is required to do the same, and the cost of tn work according to the value of the land is assessed upon and becomes
 lien on the land. It is importan now, before the infestation of thi section of Massachusetts becomes gen eral, that every property owner co operate with the town in it's work O the highways and public property b doing effective work in destroying fh pests on their premises. Fortuntel Monson is not yet, as far as is known in the gypsy moth area, so that in al probability none will be found local ly. Nests of the brown-tail mot should be carefully cut from the trees collected and burned. The brown tail moths nests will be found prin cipally upon apple, pear and othe fruit trees, usually on small twigs 0 ends of the limbs. The nests vary i size from two to three or four inche long, are of light greyish color an very tough in texturer, being a toug cocoon; one or more leaves are ofte woven into the nests. The nests ar firmly attached at one end. Each nes contains from 15O to 500 small cater pillars waiting to begin their destruc tive work in the early spring. Com mon "worms' nests" have no connec tion whatever with the brown-ta moth, but could we'll be destroyed fc the property owners own good. Dea leaves clinging to the fruit trees d not always imply a brown-tail nest , Last year John P. Herlihy conducte an exhaustive search for brown ta
 nests, and reported finding them i two or three localized areas. On pasture owned by Merrill Stebbin was the principal place of infestation In spite of the careful search to dc stroy all nests in this vicinity, nest are again present there, and it principally in this districit that til work will necessarily be done thi winter. All property owners, how ever, will be held responsible for til presence of nests on their premises i any section of the township.