The Press., 1917-11-22
POLAND.

Mrs. Bessie s. Morton is spending the winter with Mrs. Wm. Barber.
 The Red Cross will meet Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs l.. K. Hall
 The Girls Patriotic club will m eet Friday afternoon with Mrs. Lewis B. Price. ~~
 Prayer meeting of the Lee M. E church will be led Thursday evening by Frank P. Mack.
 Miss Sadie Willard of Rockville was the week end guest of MT. and Mrs. Frank T. Newoomb,
 MT. and Mrs. Emery Clough of New Britain were the week -end guests of their parents, MT. and Mrs. Earl Clough... ..
 MT. and Mrs. I. Tilden Jewett have been taking few.days' vacation visiting Springfield and the camp at Plattsburg.
 Ularences Lock, who has been spend. ing several weeks with Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Barber, lras returned to his home in Wellesley, Mass.
 On Sunday, Nov. II, at Holland, Miss Annie Belle Smith, daughter of Ohas. E. Smith, was married to Rufus w. Reed of Coventry, by Rev. B. F.. Case. .,."
 A Christmas box was sent last week by the ladies to Gordon Christopher who; is somewhere in France. He is the first soldier~to go to France from this place. .,.:%' .>, :>- .... 5 The Foreign Missionary society of the Lee M. E. church received banners Thursday for the best attendance at the District Missionary meeting at Willimantic. .~.>
 There was patriotic service in the Congregational Sunday school Sunday. Special music was sung and Theodore Taylor spoke in a very; fine manner "Your Flag and My Flag
 Mrs. A. c. Barber gave an interest ing address Sunday morning at a union service in the Lee M. E. church. Mrs. Barber is superintend ent of the Jubilee work for New England and comes from Bedding, Mass. The Foreign, Missionary society of the Congregational church. will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Edwin s. .Agard. Reports will be given by the delegates from the meeting of the 5Oth anniversary of he Woman's Missionary society, held in Boston last week.
 E. O.. Halliday, who has purchased the farms known as the Joslyn farm, Edgerton farm and Morton farm, is fallow ing up the fields ready for early spring planting of oats, barley, corn, etc. He has seven men cutting spool birohes and is planning to raise pigs on an extensive scale.
 I~The Ladies' Aid of the Lee M. B.. church which met with MT. and Mrs. John M. Bowers Friday evening, was we'll attended, being the.largest society of the year, over eleven dollars being taken in. Mrs. A. G. Barber, of the New England division of, the jubilee work, spoke on temperance and the mission work as she had personally seen it in her travels.
 The following officers have been elected in the Foreign Missionary society of the Lee Methodist church: {: President, Mrs. Lorenzo R. Sparrow; vice. president, Mrs. Myron G. Spar row; secretary, Mrs I. Tilden Jewett; 1; treasurer, Mrs. Ivan Wilcox. The following officers were elected in the Home Missionary society: President, Mrs. L. E. Hall; vice.president, Mrs I T. Jewett; secretary, Mrs. Bessie s. Morton; treasurer, Mrs. John H. Steel. # Holland (west side)
 The Model school gained the town banner for October, having an aver age attendance of 99.26. This school contributed money for three Christmas bags for the men in the trenches.
 MT. and Mrs. R. E. Doyle enter tained. a party of sixteen young guests from the Model school in honor of their son EIdred's twelfth birthday anniversary which occurred on NoVem- Der 12. kGames were. played. a num-