The Press., 1914-06-17

There will be a regular meeting
 of Myriad lodge. Daughters of Re-
 bekah this evening.
 Mrs. Hattie Bolieare has sold her
 place at the corner of Westford avenue
 and Grown street to George Frazier.
 Hon. and Mrs. A. IT Miner and
 MT. and Mrs. B. B. Gardner of New London are expected to spend next
 Sunday with Rev. and, Mrs. Buck at the Methodist parsonage.
 Mathewson, catcher for the local ball team, is i'll and it is feared that he has appendicitis. This makes three of the players that are laid up, and it is uncertain whether there will be 8 game Saturday or not. A Holyoke team is booked for Saturday.
 O. Willis Buck spent the week end with his brother, Walter F., at Wes- leyan, taking in part of commence ment program. Walter is to attend the Harvard. Yale boat race in New London on Friday and will remain with friends over Sunday and return home next week.
 About 35 members of the high school went to Forest lake near Palmer for their annual picnic last Saturday. The day was perfect and the occasion proved a very pleasant one. The arrival home was delayed owing to the fact that the evening train was over two hours late out of Palmer, and it was after ten o'clock when the picnic party arrived at this station.
 Methodist Church Notes: Last Sunday was observed as Flag day, the audience room and the vestries being trimmed and the pastor giving an address in the evening suitable to the day. Next Sunday will be ob- served as Children's day. The morn- ing sermon will be especially for the children. and rhe theme be, 'The Charioteer and His Steeds of Black and White" Baptism of children also. The special Sunday school pro- gram will be held at , o'clock, in eluding the annual offering for the Student Aid fund of the board of edu catiln. Tuesday, June 23d the Sun day school picnic will be held at Evergreen Park. Autos will take the first division over about o'clock and then return about 9 30 for the rest of the school. Definite announcements made on Sunday.
 Anybody who hampers with the vault at the Nati mal bank will alarm the town as soon as the new system which is being installed is completed. In addition to this protection by night push buttons will be placed at ad- vantageous positions so that in case of a daylight holdup the alarm could be released. This alarm is in a big metal box on the outside of the bank building and weighs, 96O pounds. A 22 pound hammer when released would cause a commotion for 5 or 20 minutes that would be heard for a mile or more. This system is an ex- pensive one, but the local officials want the best there is in protection, both for their own interests and for the large number of safe deposit boxes rented by the public. The system is used by the large banks in Boston and New York as we'll as the national vaults at Washington, D. O. It is the very latest in electric protection and is installed by the Bankers Electric Protective association, of which J. F. Atwood is the engineer. A copper cable, not quite as large as a lead pencil, with strands the size of silk thread is the main artery of the system, and a clock controls the cur rent SO that it is released in time to open the vault for business in the morning. Once set. even the bank officials could not open without rais- ing the alarm. An electric lining has been placed throughout the in- terior of the vault SO that if an en- trance was attempted at any point the alarm would be released. The makers have been perfecting the system for the past years, and it comes as near absolute protection as it is possible to imagine.