The Press., 1916-04-12
MoNSoN.

Miss Ruby Smith has taken posi- tion as teacher in school in Colrain.
 Harry Hannon has taken a position with J. G. Carew on Harrison avenue.
 Fred Welsh has succeeded Harry Neville as clerk at the Gilmore house.
 Miss Thelma and Miss Esther Northfield Tuesday.
 O. P. Bradway of West Stafford has installed a new water wheel at the Martin shop. now owned by G. 0. Flynt.
 Edward Carlstrom goes to Cole brook, N. H., the first of the week where he will be employed as a carpenter.
 Frank Rees has leased the G. H Foskit house on Bridge street and will occupy it about the middle of the month.
 Justing G. Carew, who was been i'll at his home on Harrison avenue for over a week, has so far recovered as to be able to be down stairs. Harry Hannon has returned from a sojourn in Maine and has moved his family into the so called Bates house now owned by James Constantine, on Pleasant street.
 Henry Franklin Dewing, for the past seven years principal of Monson academy, has resigned his position and at the close of the school year will go into business in Boston. Festus Cooley of North Monson comes to the front with good report from his hens for the months of | February and March, the sum totaling 1870 eggs laid by thirty hens in those two months.
 Patrick Kennedy of Milford, formerly of Monson, died suddenly from heart disease in Worcester. Wednesday morning. He was born in Monson and had lived here nearly all of his life. The body was brought here Wednesday night and the funeral took place from the home of his sister, Mrs. Thomas Crowley, this morning. Burial took place in the. Pearl street cemetery.
 The paper on which the Register is printed costs so much that it seems almost sinful. Ink has also rig in price and the chances of making over six or seven thousand dollars the com ing year seem a little remote. The only place where stability in price seems to prevail is on a tub of suds, which can still be procured for 5 cents, we are told. The dye used in coloring the malt beverages is manu- faotured in New Orleans.
 Superintendent of Schools Wheeler has leased the Norcross lot on State street for playground purposes for another year. This lot has been leased as a playground for school children the past two years and has proved so satisfactory that it has become indis- pensable. The boys are already arranging for long series of baseball games. The Foresters of America used the field last year for town base- ball, and they will arrange with MT. Wheeler for it's use this summer.
 The North Monson mill property has changed hands, George O. Flynt. its owner for many years having ex- changed it for real estate in Spring field. Ensign Morse and his associates, the present owners, propose to build a factory for the manufacture of auto- mobile bodies and will employ at least fifty men when ready to begin operation. The property includes the water privilege and the land between the highway and railroad. A factory building will be erected and the dam rebuilt. This will again flow the land which was formerly covered by the North Monson pond, but which has been dry since the dam washed out several years ago. The development of the property is to be begun at once
 The annual business meeting of the Current Events club was held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. S F. Cushman instead of with Ms. G. A. Andrews as scheduled, and the follow ing officers were elected for the com. ing year: President, Miss Hattie F. Cushman; vice president. Miss Adelaide O. Wingare; secretary, Mrs. 0. w. Jackson; treasurer, Mrs. G. c. Flynt. Following the business meet