The Press., 1918-02-28

Walter c Bruce of the Massach usett
 agricultural college at Amherst il home and is waiting to be called intt the United States service. MT. Bruce will probably be assigned a position
 in the amount division in the quarter uaaster's corp.
 Rookville's best basketball team, the Rovers, have guaranteed to play the s. Y. M. 0. team Friday evening in the Y. NJ. c. hall. The Rovers seldom play away from home and indications are that they will appear with a strong line u Stafford will play Argenta, Levene, Murray, Eaton and Calchera. There has been some talk of a match between the high school and the club teams, but the scholars do not seem very entb usiastio. Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.
 Dear Friend:
 I received your most welcome letter and was very glad to hear from you and also glad that you got my letter alright. You don't know how nice it is to get letter from you once in a while. am getting so I like the army pretty we'll and am having good luck after all. passed my examination for horse-shoeing and I am to be a Blacksmith sergeant I have charge of sixteen men working under me. All the boys in my company aIe sur prised to see how nice I am getting along. worked awful hand for three weeks before the examination and had a wild mule and in orler to shoe him I had to put him in the stalks and shoe him alone and Ee kicked me once on the arm, but, I stayed with him just the same ami did good job of it. I will close till I hear from you again. With love t1 all the folks.
 Frederick F. Bohsquet.
 Corpl. Allen D, Bean of Rockville gave very inspiring and interesting talk Monday evening in the assembly room of the -high school Corpl Bean was an ambulance driver and had many thrilling adventures while on duty. Previous to gong to France he was student at Wesleyan college. Midlletown when he and a group of college friends decided to go lover there. '' They arriSed in France ill May, 1914, and were Hetaincsi but shortly before going into active ser vice. He gave very vivid description of two of his comrades whD were severely wounded while on duty and the spirit with which tLe American b3ys fight lover there. " Corpl. Bean has enlisted in the aviation corp and expects to be called soon After the talk he had many souvenirs to show, among them being a gas mask, a helmet, German and French bullets, shells, a German nand granade and several other things. Proceeding Oorpl. Beans talk, two members Of the faculty, Misses O'Connor and Linnell, sang a vocal duet, "Tenting Tonight. '' Following his talk the school chorus sang "When the Flag Goes By. y" Twenty dollars were collected in a contribution box for the benefit of the Red Gross.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Methodist Episcopal church served a supper on the evening of Washington s birthday for a benfit to the Red Cross. It was patronized by about 15O people. The Help a Bit class sold aalted nuts and popeorns balls. The entertainment after the supper consisted of piano duets by Dorothy Stevens and Doris Parkhurst and by Mildred and Beatrice Siswiok; solos by Edward Pepler and Miss Alberta l.. Eaton with Miss Vera Kaddy as aocompanist, and two sketches, "A Colonial Wooing," and '"Ehe Making of the Flag " Tue first of these, written by Miss Church of Rock ville, was presented by Miss Church. and Miss Keeney. The second was a poem telling the story of the making of the first American flag, illustrated with .tableaux. This poem, which was also written by Miss Church, was read by Mrs. Aldrioh. Betsy Ross was i'm. personated by Mrs. Geo. Frazier, niece of Betsy Ross by Miss Marion Lee, three friends of Betsy's by Mrs. Perry, Miss Eddy and Miss Reynolds, George Washington by Louis Stevens The tableaux were arranged by Miss ChurCh, and both sketches reflected much credit upon her. for tue audience was we'll pleased with them
 The following was under the Putnam head in Mondays issue of the Nor wiOh Bulletin. Although the spelling of name is wrong Cyril is said to be the son of F. H. Fermier of Moose Meadow, whose post-oftice address is Stafford Springs: Considerably behind schedule, but hurrying tc catch up, Cyril Fournier, registered man in this district, appeared at the office of the local board Saturday morning to fill out a questionnaire that has been chasing him around the country since January 8. Tbt questionnaire, sent out and returned many times, is somewhere over here now, but new one was made out fol FOurnier, who claims Stafford Spring. as his home; he has taken hi. physical examination and passed anG will go to Camp Devens Wednesday. Fournier is a carefree soldier o1 fortune, anxious to get into service, He already has had some war ex. perience, having been hostler or the big freighter Canadian when sht was torpedoed a few months ago while returning from France to this country, after delivering a load o1