The Press., 1917-06-07

Mrs. Leonard B. Baker is spending a few days in New. York. ~ - -
 Miss c. "A. -Washburn has returned home after spending the winter in Florida and the past few weeks ir New Jersey.
 Mir. and Mrs. Sawyer have just re. turned from a visit to Maine. MT. Sawyer was called there by the i'll. ness of his mother.
 The graduation exercises of the St. Edwards parish school will be held Friday evening, June 22d, in St. Edwards hall. There will be an entertainment by the school children and Woods orchestra will furnish the music.
 The Worn Doorstep, by Margaret Sherwood, has been presented to the library by Mrs. O. B. Pinney. The Country Gentleman will now be found at the library each week, the gift of Morgan E. Eaton. Golden Lads, by Arthur Gleason, has been presented by Mrs. G. P. Bard.
 The Italian Cooperative club is to move their store from the block on Furnace avenue bought by c. H. Baker & Go. to the store in the Baker block on Main street now occupied by the express office. The express com- pany has not decided as yet where they will locate their office.
 Miss Ethel Richardson of South Wilmington and F. l. Ruby were mar ried Monday night in Union by the Rev. MT. Williams. The young couple are we'll known here. Miss Richardson has lived here for the past year and MT. Ruby has lived here most of his life. They will make their home in town.
 A petition was sent in to the board of burgesses requesting that the lower part of Furnace avenue be improved as the conditions of the road and crossings in wet weather are bad. People crossing on the road often have to wade in mud two or three inches deep. The burgesses took the matter up Tuesday evening and decided to fix the street in the near future.
 Much sympathy is felt for MT. and Mrs. James Long of Grant avenue who received word on Monday of the death of their youngest son, Joseph, who was killed in France in battle on May 16. The young man was 21 years of age and had been in service for IS months. He enlisted as a member of the Gordon Highlanders and had heen promoted and was a message dispatcher in the trenches.
 About fifty members of the Sabra Trumbull Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of Rockville met at the home of Mrs. Leonard B Baker yesterday afternoon. At the business meeting the chapter voted to buy a Liberty Loan Bond and took subscriptions for the maintenance for a year of a little orphan in France The officers elected for the coming year were: Honorary Regent, Mrs. Cyrus Jackson; Regent, Miss Ruth Talcott; Vice. Regent, Mrs. Walter H. Robinson; Recording Secretary, Mrs. ". H. Skinner; Corresponding Score tary, Mrs. L. E. Hale; Treasurer, Miss Grace E. Harwood; Registrar, Mrs. Lyman Tingier; Historian, Mrs. Jessie T. Favor; Chaplain, Mrs. H. B. Murless; Auditor, Arthur T. Bis sell. Principal Howe of the Rock vile high school gave an able and timely address on "Our Oldest Friend.' ' France was the friend re- ferred to, and the debt we have owed her for a hundred and forty years was described. Three things France gen. erously contributed to the American colonies during the Revolutionary war: Munitions, men and money. Few people realize to what extent the finest young French men, implements of war and money poured into our ports. At Yorktown alone of the if. teen thousand troops in action, nine thousand were the pick of the young men of France. Now the opportunity to reciprooate has come and the re- sponse will doubtless be what it should. The hostesses for the afternoon were Miss Ruth Taloott, Miss Alice Max we'll, Mrs. T. Mcknight, Mrs. O. F. Harwood, Miss Dorothy Oroutt, Mrs. Olin Keeney, Mrs. Christopher Allen, Mrs. G. E. Sykes and Mrs F. F PaEten