The Press., 1918-01-24

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 John Rodney of Holyoke; Mass. !, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mir. and Mrs. William DelIigan.
 There will be a meeting for surgical dressings on Friday at p. m., in the Current Events room in the library building.
 Miss Agnes GarVais and Mrs. Alexander c ilman and son. Bernard, are visiting their sister, Mrs. Arthur Dahms. in New Haven.
 Regular meeting of Court Oronoco, F. of A this evening Deputy Murphy and staff will install tue officers. There will be refreshments and a smoker. sa
 R s McCulloch of Salem, Ohio and John MoCulloob of Mt. Vernon, N Y., were guests of their parents, MT and Mrs. Wm. McOulloch. for the week .end. ' ...
 Treffley Ducharme was before the Rockville police court on Saturday charged with intoxication and breach of the peace and was fined $20 and costs of $1O IS. In default of pay. ment he was taken to Holland jail for thirty days. -..- ...e
 January 3Oth will be Shovel Tag. day and all the coal shovels will be decorated with tag. Tags have been distributed among the school children so there will be a tag attached to shovels at home. Volunteer children will also go about in homes and factories to tag the coal shoyels. Have your shovel ready and they won't molest you bit. -.--z:.
 The fourth quarterly conference of the Methodist church will be held in the church parlor on Saturday even. ing at 7.45. The district super intendent, Rev. c. G. ScTivener, will preach at the Sunday morning service. In the evening the monthly union service with the people of the Congregational church will be held and the sermon will be preached by Rev. l. Rees. All of the serv ices are being held in the Vestry and parlOEI for the present. to save coal. .*< ~..
 The annual meeting of the Johnson memorial hospital aid society was held Tuesday afternoon. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs I Julia Johnson;7 first vioe-president, Miss Mary Ballantine; second vice. president, Mrs E. O. Pinuey; third vice. president, Mrs. Christopher A lieu secretary and treasurer, Mrs. H. A. Pownall; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin. The oom- mittees will be appointed by the president. Tea was served by Mrs. Lincoln Luce, Mrs. B. P. Cooley and Mrs. 0. B. Tsohummi.
 In complying with Fuel Adminis- trator Garfield's order, all the manu- facturing plants and places of business were closed Friday and Saturday. The Cyril Johnson Woolen Go: on account of working on government orders, by special permit, started in full on Monday morning. The Rhode Island Worsted Go which has also received government order started. on Tuesday morning. Tie other mills were idle until Wednesday morning On Monday all places of business, with the exception of the food stores, ! the drug stores and banks, were closed all day. '-" ,.~"7 Miss Florence Washburn and MYs. Anders Jacobsen read their papers at ! the postponed meeting of the Current 1 Events club last week. The regular meeting Monday evening was held l with Mrs. G P. Bard, Mrs. Rumbe- ! law assisting az hostess. The large number present enjoyed the meeting in the home, which was the former custom when the club was first organ. ized. Mrs. E. A. Chapman read a paper on Swiss Home Life and Miss Eleanor Valentine one on Around Lake Leman. "The Lake of Poetry an Song" Miss Frances Newton sang two soprano solos accompanied by Miss Mary I. Newton. n The next luOpGIuk WIAA UO tIlGoC WOCAb GEOG1 Monday night when the club play wilr be given. ,.. c P. Hodgson has received news of the t-deRth of his brother, Thomas G. l Hodgson, 72, at his home in Occur d I Aler,, Idaho, on Jan. T. :, Those who kueW him in Stafford Springs will remember him as an enthusiastio Pro. hibitionist and fearless and .aggres: sive. prosecuting agent, member of the Methodist church and 8 loyal supporter of the Temple of Honor. He left here for the Dalls, Oregon in E1SS7, afterwards studying for the ministry, was ordained and received his first appointments in 1891, serving several churches and preaching occasionally until shortly before his illness. Besides his widow, Sarah White, he leaves a son, Thomas ,Hodgson, of Spokane, <, Wash. a daughter, Mrs. Frank Weeks, of -Coeur'd Alene, and four Rrap1chil- dren. also sister, Mrs. Wolfe, at Los Angeles, Gal EEother. Nathan in1 SOmsTsville, au'fi Charles HoR1gs0Bs of this place. -..:. :.:' :>.Y >... 5:s< :.
 Grace Church Notes Next Sunday is the day upon which the war gom- mission of the Episcopal church has asked the church to make an offering of five hundred thousand dollars to equip and otherwise provide for the work of her olGaplains in the war. The government provides certain number of chaplains, but the number is very inadequate. Therefore the Episcopal church has placed in every training camp one or more volunteer Claplains to minister fo the man oF