The Press., 1918-08-22

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 NoFICE. - Beginning next Saturday all College Ices Will he t5e, Banana Roy as 2Oc Plain Ice Cream le and lOc $ plate. F. l. iasiztaa~
 Mrs. Charles W. Conins is spend ing the week in Brimield. Mass.
 Mf ses Nellie Quinley and Marian Lee are spending the week at Stony Creek. BranfOrd
 There will te band concert in Hyde park next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
 Carl Mullins of Camp Upton. N. Y., is now corporal at headquarters, tst Battalion. 152d Depot brigade.
 Mrs. Alexander Gilman and son. Bernard are spending two weeks with her sister. Mrs, Arthur Dahms, in- Poughkeepsie. N. '.
 Mrs. s, S. Taylor and son. Rex worth. of West Newton. Mass. are spending the week at the home of Louis Fl. Stevens on High street.
 The seIectmen hold their last meet ing for the fiscal year on Saturday. the 31st. and request that all bills against the town be handed in on or before that date.
 Nnlkmen have advanced the price of milk to IF l-2 cents a quart. The scarcity of milk and high cost of grain and hay Is the reason given. Many farmers and milkmen are sell ing their cows because it does not pay to keep them.
 Clarence F.. Chamberlin of Willi- mantle is acting operator in the local telegraph office. R. s. Flint left here Tuesday morning. Mir. Chamberlin does not expect to remain here, but is filling the position until a new ap- pOintment is made.
 Private Frank Plumridge of Hart ford. who was located here with com pany K while doing duty here guard ing bridges last year. was wounded July 2Oth. in France. and lost one leg which was cut off just above the knee. He wrote to his parents of his Injury and stated that he killed two Germans before they got him.
 Miss Gertrude I. Butterfeld is home for a few weeks Miss Butterfield is working for the government as Red Cross nurse With headquarters in Birmingham. Ala. she travels through the states of Georgia. Alabama and mp to Michigan. establishing Red Cross chapters. and seeing that the wives of soldiers are not in need.
 The Mae Edwards players arrived here Monday for a week at St. Ed wards hall. On Monday evening they opened with The Love Trail" The company is giving the best of satisfaction. drawing large houses every night Besides their fine act ing the vaudeville between the acts is making Liz hits. The advance sale is large every day. The tickets are on sale at J. F. Warrens every day until 6 o'clock.
 The Italian band gave a concert Thursday evening in the new grand stand in Hyde park. There was a large crowd on the park grounds and when it is realized that because of the way the grand stand is built the people of the eastern part of the town can hear the music perfectly while still at home the players may be sure that not few people were listening with much pleasure to the sweet strains of Italian melody that seems to come to them from afar.
 The Central Vermont Co. is putting up a wire fence on the south side of the railroad track from Spring street to the wall near the Stafford worsted Co.'S plant. Some of the occupants of the stores along this section have been in the habit of loading and un- loading their supplies across the track to the basements, They will be somewhat disconnected by the fence. The railroad officials state that the practice of backing across the track is dangerous and that repeated warn ing failed to stop the same so the setting up of the fence was resorted to.