The Press., 1917-03-22
Mrs-1Allan Mir ia ill nt her homs.

Mrs. J. Allan Mix is i'll at her home
 Meeting of Winter post, G A. R..
 Saturday at 2 30 p. ID. A son was born to MT. anl Mrs. Jack Cuati, March lth. .a
 Louis Pra has sold his property or
 Gold street to Miohell Chiuatti. Il Mrs. Joseph Tessar visited her sister
 in Morrow the last part of last week. i On March sth a daughter was born
 to MT. and Mrs. Matthew Costenella | The Red Men will hold their
 banquet at the Springs house March
 %.
 Ionic lodge will hold banquet at
 tine Springs house on Tuesday evening,
 April l7.
 The Hudson garage received car
 load of Fords this week. They have
 also received three new Dodge cars
 Grace Church Notes: The preacher
 for the next Wednesday evening ser
 vice is Rev Manning Bennett of South
 Manchester.
 Miss Marjorie Eatou, teacher of the grammar sch sol, is planning to take her class into Hartford one day of the Easter vacation to show them the capital buildings and the workings of the legislature
 Mrs Albert Rolman, who has been tue guest of her sister, Mrs Andrew WhItou. returned to her home yester. day. Mrs Christopher Allen accom- panied her to Rhode Island aud will visit her sisters in East Greenwich
 The surveyors for the Central Yer mont railway are surveying this sec ti0n of the road now This is to comply with an act passed by con- gress and the object of the act is to get the valuation of the railroads of the country.
 Fire Warden Johu NJ. Larned has appointed the following as deputy fire wardsns for the town: O. B. Gary, P. L. Roberts, H 4 Glszier, D. P. Kellogg, NJ F. Davis, F H. Plumb, F. W. Chaffee, M W. Leonard, F L. Upham, R B. Hatch and Frank Belcher
 Euos Penny atten1ed the one hundredth anniversary of the Hamp- ton lodge, A F. & A. NJ, Saturday, held in the auditorium in Springfield. Mir Penny acted as chaplain in. the degree work. There were about SIX hundred at the dinner which was served in the auditorium
 There were forty nine members and guests present at the Current Events club Monday evening. Read ings from Mary Robert Rinehart's ''Through Glszier Park" were given by Mrs. Auders Jacobsen. Mrs L Rees wrote a paper on Banff which | was read by Miss Theodosia Rees. Mrs. | c. E Brown described the Canadian Rockies Songs by Miss Frances Newton, accompanied by Miss Mary l. Newton. and duets by Misses Ruth Burwell and Nancy Fisk and Ruth and Betty Piuney were en- joyed. Mrs G. P. Bard and Mrs. O. R Newton were hostesses. It was voted to have a bird lecture free to ihe public in April.
 The briefs of both sides of the over the reported disoon- iuuation of the interurban service Dookr;IIa ard Eask ua-kFor5 | we're filed at the office of the public utilities commission at Hartford on Tuesday. The Connecticut Company n it's brief alleges that it no longer yves duty to the public to continue inc interurban and that the public utilities commission no longer has authority to require such operation, IS the company is not now a liceusee of the New Haven of the tracks used The brief of those opposed to the dis alleges that the utilities has a right to order the of the service and that the service is public necessity, as it was conceded at the hearing that the present facilities of the trolley line are strained and are at present ina1e- luate to deal with the additional bur len of the interurban traffic Al though the two lines are paralled in ! general sense, at points they are sep arated by such distance that the troll ley line could not fairly be regarded IS a substitute for the interurban ser. rice in the case of several villages now served by the latter.