The Press., 1918-11-14


 I All members of the Modern Wood men of America are requested to meet at Society hall next Wednesday at p. m.
 Aleck Fontanella has been granted a license and with the Brighenti brothers have opened a saloon in the Stafford Hotel.
 Sergeant Major Arthur J. Taylor, coast artillery, Camp Eustis, Va, is the title of the new promotion con- ferred upon one of the two soldier sons of Phileas Taylor, sexton of St. Edwards church.
 At the Current Events meeting next Monday evening Miss Allen of Long meadow will give a lecture on The Silver Lining of the War Cloud. Committee: Mrs. c. F. Beckwith, Mrs. R. H. Valentine and Mrs. c. R. Newton.
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary society Cf Norwich district will hold a meeting n the Methodist church on Monday, tesinning at Il q. In. The afternoon session will begin at l.2O ID. Tn. After the transaction of busl- ness in the afternoon the principal address of the' day will be given by Miss Jessie Marriott who has recently returned from China. All of the meetings will le open to the public Everyone interested in Christian mis- sions and in the spread of righteous ness are especially invited to hear Miss Marriott.
 Edward Pepler, aged 30, died sud denly at his home on Brown avenue late Saturday afternoon. While stand ing on the porch, preparatory to ent- ering the house, he fell to the floor. He was dead when the doctor arrived. Mr Pepler was master mechanic in the Rhode Island mill, having taken that position upon the death of Rob ert Kaddy. Since his recent marriage he has been living in the Helm house. He made many true friends during the short time that he had been Ill town. He leaves tesides his wife, a mother in Somersworth, N. H. The funeral services were held at his mothers home at 2 o'clock Monday | afternoon.
 St. Edwards Church Notes: The service flag at St. Edwards church contains 11O blue stars and gold This number includes all soldier parishioners within the parish lines | which extend outside the borough. The Gold stars are for George Partek, Walter BOusquet, Edward Swift and Agostino Strazza, who died at their posts of duty. These four truly Am erican Joys had in their veins the | food of four races. Their fathers ere Slavish, French, Irish and ltal- ian. And the four blOOds were equal 1 lv anxious to le poured out for Old 1 Glory ill it's struggle to obtain free dom for the rest of the world. The highest ambition of the soldier is to !.c killed in action for the flag he fol- | 'ONS- Ills SlOIS VI do UCAAAOU |O "AAA VI and granted to only one. Though death at all posts of duty is equally | glorious in itself, yet the poetry ot falling on the firing line is what the patriot covets above all things else in war. Of the four dead soldiers of St Edwards parish this glory was re- served for the toy born in Italy. But ChristoforO Colombo, too, was born in Italy. Yes, Strazza and he were good Americans. A good citizen, Strazza was also a good church member, like his patron, the great St. Augustine Before sailing for France he asked his pastor to reserve his regular seal in church till his return, God permit ting. A gold star now holds the sit ting sacred for one year, and a tiny flag shows the colors the occupant died for. we'll filled church at tended the memorial high mass sung this morning by the pastor, Rev. Feli2 J. O'Nein, for AgostinO Strazza, tho only soldier of this place, in this war to obtain the glory of falling for tho flag that has made the whole world free.