The Press., 1917-05-31

has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Wm
 Whitaker.
 l The Glynville baseball team de
 feated the All Rockville team yester
 day morning by score of to 8.
 l The Sabra Trumbull chapter, D
 A R, of Rockville will hold it's Jun
 meeting with Mrs. l.. B. Baker mex
 Wednesday afternoon.
 The next session for the grantinI
 to aliens of first and second naturaIi
 zation papers will be held at the towl
 clerks office, Rockville, next Monday Among those who were here fo
 Memorial day were w. A. segar o
 Westerly, R I, MT. and Mrs. "A. J
 Tilden of Waterbury, MT. and Mrs
 Clarence Wood and daughter of Spring
 field.
 The Monson baseball team defeated
 the Stafford baseball team yesterday
 to 3. The score by innings:
 Monson, 2 O 0 o 0 3 o 3 -t
 Stafford, OOO1.O OOO2 2-:
 Miss Mary O. Miller, 55, died il
 the Johnson hospital yesterday. Mis-
 Miller was a teacher in SoutI
 Wilmington. She was born in Roxbury,
 Mass. She formerly taught here il
 the borough schools.
 Mrs. Susan Puck, 39, died in the Johnson hospital yesterday. Mrs.
 Puck is native of Hungary and moved here and lived on Stafford Street for number of years She is survived by husband and several children. The funeral will be held tomorrow, and the burial will be in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 The Memorial day program was carried opt as planned The weather was fine. In the morning the veterans, accompanied by the Citizens band, visited the outlying cemeteries and decorated the soldiers graves. The cemeteries visited and addresses de. livered were as follows: St. Edward g cemetery; West Stafford, address by Rev. J. W. Ballantine; Sandy Knoll, Stafford Hollow, address by Rev. F. A. Manderson; Staffordville, address by Rev. Lyon. (They were served lunch at staffordville); Stafford Street, address by pr. Batchelder. On the return, at the Johnson hospital, they formed line of march and were escorted to Memorial hall by the militiamen of Go. K, who are stationed in town and by the Citizens band. At Memorial hall they were served dinner by the Woman s Relief corp At two o'clock they formed a line of march, consisting of the G. A. R the militiamen, the Sons of Veterans, the Spanish war veterans and the Boy Scouts and the Citizens band and marched to the Stafford Springs cemetery where the exercises were held and the memorial address was made by Rev. o. J. Aldrich. A very brief outline of the address follows: ''It has been customary for Memorial day speakers to speak to the Grand Army and about the Grand Army in praise of the service rendered to our country in the sixties by the boys in blue. Your speaker this year finds himself surrounded by different circumstances than have surrounded previous speakers. The are evidenced in the floating to-day in the line of march of 4the flags of England and France with our own star spangled banner. We are engaged as allies with these two nations and others in fighting a mighty foreign foe. To-day the United States is participant in the greatest war that the world has ever known. We wish that we could be- lieve that it would soon be over. This we are unable to do. Germany is far from conquered as yet. She has B large army and has the advantages of interior Notifications. Our allies, who have been in the war for years, are depending on us to bring all of our resources into the conflict and
 
 being the circumstances surrounding us on this Memorial day it seems best that instead of talking to or about the Grand Army, that should talk for the Grand Army and say to you the things that I feel the members of the G. A. R would have said to the men and women of to-day. Vel were asking ourselves year ago what the German Americans would do in case of war between America and Germany, would they be pro- German or pro.America in their allegiance? To-day we have every reason to be- lieve that it is almost universally true that every drop of German blood in American citizens acknowledges to this land of democracy and individual freedom. Thank God that this is true, but as said an American editor recently, there are pro- Germans in our country who have never seen Germany and who haven't a drop of German blood in them. l will mention a few such. There is the man who deliberately takes thous- ands of bushels of grain in these days of scarcity and turns it into intoxicants to befuddle mems minds and ruin their bodies and morals. There is the man who sees in the present crisis an opportunity not to serve his country, but to enrich himself, as for example the speculator in food stuffs. If a man cannot in these days conquer the oovBtousness in his own heart, he will hinder in the effort to conquer Germany. There is the man who is idle in these days when there is such need for workers. Every inactive person, rich or poor, is pro-German, an ally of the Kaiser. There is the man who participates, as several did 1oe s,>