The Press., 1917-12-13

s< 8 E. of A this evening. Important ! business.
 F Carl Lindner has enlisted in the ] quaEtermaster corps and left this moEn' 3 ing for Fort Slooum. ;!
 There will be a regular meeting oi the Knights of Columbus Tuesday night at Red Mems hall : ; Frank Engley of Wallingford is spending a few days with his parents, Mr and Mus. E F. Engley. T
 Albert j. Pelshaw has enlisted ain the regular army. He has no ;tef definite post assigned to him as yet.
 Mfr and Mrs. o. R 7 Newton were in Hartford for the week -end, the guests of Mir. and Mrs Lockett.
 Mr. and Mrs. R. ". ssmithssPent the first of the week in New York and Philadelphia. They returned home yesterday ~-
 Wm Kuslansky. who was in the Hartf nd isolated hospital " ith case of iiphtheIia, has recovered and is ulw home 's %.> '-.>..e'.~ ',
 O. F. Bsllou, who was shot in tho arm by Mrs Ferry, has been released from the Johnson hospital and has re' turned home
 It is reportel that William L Tuthill, who recently had his foot amputated i'm St. Francis hospital, Waterbury, is doing we'll, ;|
 MT and MT" W. L Bishop of BelchertoWn, Mass, are with thei' daughter, Mrs. Lewis. Mclaughlin, for the rest of the winter. : ,s,.
 Herman Ladish~ has moved from his farm in the north part of the town to Miss HoIt's cottage on Grant avehue, recently occupied by pr. J P. aanley.
 The game which was scheduled for tomorrow wnight-Windham high vs. Stafford high-is postponed until We'd ueeday, when Stafford. will play in Wlllimantic ..:
 George Palanck of the U. S s, Connecticut is home on furlough. He arrived in town Monday and will leave tomorrow for Virginia where his ship is docked. ''-~@.' .-
 At the annual meeting of the Savings Bank Assooiation of Con. nectieut, held at New Haven on Tues- day, O. F. Harwood was elected On the executive committed. ::'T
 Gordon Charter and Arthur ~Rqbi.. novitz have enlisted, Mr.. Charter in. the aviation corps and MT, Rabiuovitz| in the quartermaster corps. They are now at Fort .Slocum. -: .,,g.-
 The members of Ionic lodge, F. & A M, have been invited to attend the service at the Methodist church tn.morrow evening, when Rev, H. W. Hook will address them. The mem bers will meet at Ionic hall at LOO p ID. and march to the church.
 Work has been started on the mail ing of the new draft questionta ireB by the exepmtion board for this dis trict and they will be ready to mail by the end of the week.
 Judge John E Fisk. Attorney D.. J McCarthy and Attorney M.r D O'Connell of Stafford Springs have been appointed the legal advisory board for local exemption board, No. ,| 23 The following Stafford men have been appointed associate members :: Judge Joel H Reed, Robert H, Fisk. Willis H Reed, J. Carl Converse and Fl R WlRhtman. 3'' ..
 The rally. Sunday evening was al real war rally. and a large numbeE1 gathered at the Comique theatEes "rhe Rev.F. J O'Neill gave, the in.: vocation Chairman Freeman F. Patten then introduced Charles Phelps of Rockville, a well-knowu and pop1 lar speaker who has. often pleased a Stafford audience. MT Phelps gave a short but enerRetio speech sum- ming up tha'' bits'' we ought to do to win this war The chairman then in troduced Sergeant Arthur c ibbOna. was with the first Cana,lian troops who reached the trenches in the early. part of. tue war He gave g. very interesting and most thrilling, sccount of some of his adventures while in the service, He was one nfe five who4 came back after his company made a charge on the ,Ypres salient and at another charge he was: one of two who were ever able to return to their own trench. He was taken prisoner at a battle when wounded and gave a comparatively short account of the atrocities praotised by the despotic German milifarists. After - having undergone unimaginable torture. he was exchanged and the n sent home to Canada He certainly gave us a vivid idea of warfare and made us feel that if we give up everything possible we could not begin to do what the boys are doing over there. The Rev. L. Rees gave the benediction The liberty chorus and audience sang the Star Spangled Banner" and My Country, Iris. of Thee" Bernard Mullins sang ''Over Thefe'' with. the chorus assisting. A E Waite direct ed the music ...,s s...,-.E. -~,s
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