The Press., 1917-11-29

The Daughters of Pocohontas will
 hold a dance at Red Mems hall Thanksgiving night. Music by Wood T orchestra
 John Quinn, IT,, who is in the service and is stationed at Burlington, Vt. as a cloth inspector, is home for Thanksgiving.
 MT. and Mrs L. B. Baker and Frank H. Baker go to New York to. day and will leave for St. Petersburg. Fla, tomorrow.
 Dogs have been let loose at night and MT Butterf1eld states that he will kill all dogs without collar, whether in the daytime or at night. ~
 The annual thank offering meeting of the Woman's Home missionary society of the Methodist church will be held with Mrs. B. T. Eaton next Wednesday at o'clock.
 Wm Kuslansky, who works in Hart ford, was taken i'll with diphtheria Thursday and was taken to the Hart for disolation hospital. He is now resting quite comfortably.
 The Royal Consular agency of Italy, in Hartford. has sold for the estate of Fiamagu Giuseppe a building lot on Brandon Heights to Charles Guaroo and Giuseppe Tabornini through the Samuel Kuslansky agency.
 A touch of nature assures us that winter is here and heavy coats and furs will take the place of the bright and light frooks. The snow has come in abundance and rather early this time and it promises a white Thanks giving.
 The December meeting of the Missionary society of the Congre- gational church will be held at 8 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. E F. Leach. The hostess will give au account of the recent "Jubilee meeting'' of the Home Missionary society, which she attended in Boston.
 Mrs, Benjamin P. Cooley gave luncheon Thursday at which her sister in law, Miss Margaret E. Cooley, was the guest of honor. Covers were laid for twelve and yellow was the predomiuating color, punches of yell low roses being used as favors. A gift shower followed in honor of Miss Cooley's marriage engagement to Dr. Claude B. Tschummi. The wedding will take place Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Cooley home on East Main street.
 The amount raised in the local campaign for the national K of O. war fund was reported Wednesday morning to have reached $2OO. There will be a vigorous campaign for the rest of this week. The work under taken by the K. of O. in the war camps is similar to that of the Y. NJ. O. A. and the efforts of both organi- cations are much appreciated by the boys in camp and the amount of good done is beyond question. It is hoped that the local K of O. drive of $500 will be exceeded.
 Chief of Police Buckley of Ware wishes to give Seth Sohofield and hls son, George, due credit for their assistance in the capture of Claude Taylor. He says that they were of great assistance to the police in tracking and locating the horse that Taylor last used. Seth and George were the first ones to arrive. at the farm and guarded the doors with their guns until the police arrived The chances are that Taylor would not have been captured that night if it had not been for Seth and his son, Taylor stated after his capture that he had intended to break into the Hall store at South Wilmington the night of his capture.
 Methodist Church Notes: This week Wednesday. evening aE 30 a union Thanksgiving service will be held with sermon by Rev. L Rees. Cottage prayer meetings are heinz held this week on other evenings except Thursday. Cottage meetings held this week and last have been preliminary to two weeks of evaugelistic services to be held at the church next week, beginning Tuesday. Everyone is in- vii ed to the services On the follow .. ing week the sermons will be preached by Rev H. ". Hook, pastor of Grace Methodist church in Haverhill, Mass Good results are expected to come from these meetings.