The Press., 1918-04-04
POLAND.

all our kind neighbOrs and friends for their many acts of kindness during our recent bereavement. Mir. and Mrs. William J. Bowler and Family
 The Thrift Stamp club will meet Wednesday evening with Dr, and Mrs Samuel Simpson.
 The meeting of the Congregational church will be hell Thursday even. ing with William A. Agard.
 ]: Sumner Simpson of Yale college is spending his vacation with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Simpson.
 The prayer meeting of the Lee M. K. church will be held Thursday evening with Mrs. F Ernest Hall.
 Nelson Bowers, a senior in the Rock file high school, has been with his classmates on visit to New York.
 The Junior Red Cross of the Hicks memorial school will give an enter tainment in the town ball. Saturday evening. The admission will be 10 cents or more. ...
 The White school or Model sochol, taught by Miss Mary Lynch. are having their vacation this week. Miss Lynch will spend the time in Danbury and New York. '* Charles S. Hurlbnt, town health officer for Holland, attended the meet ing of the health officers of Hartord,- M iddlesex and Holland counties at the Hotel Garde Tuesday of last week. vt Ihe New England conference will meek in Providence April IT. Rev. sWms Barber. will attend and the lay delegates appointed are MT. and Mrs Ivan Wilcox and alternates, Mrs. John H.. Steele and Mrs. R. Ernest Hall.
 The Connecticut State Council of Defense has scheduled victory rally for Holland to be held in the town hall Friday evening: April 5. The first speaker will be Rev. E. T. Matheson of rockville, who will speak on the topic Necessary condi- tions of. victory . A woman from Hartford will also speak OH the topic, '.Woman's part in victory. " The last address will be on the topic, "Viotory or servitude. ''
 The State Council of Defense has ordered survey of the crops raised in Holland county ill the yeur 191T. and the prospective crops for 1918. Oscar A. Leonard is chairman cf tue committee and has appointed as his helpers William R. Ludlow. Harry R. Bartlett, John U.- Steele Abial L. Metoalf, Lafayette R Ladd, Cornell Green, Jr.; Samuel Johnson, Clayton Reed, Fred GeIring, UhaIles WoohomOrka, Charles & Hurlbnt, Rubert Vest. There ltas not been an Agricultural census taken in Holland since 1845.
 79 The Ladies society of the Congre- gational church gave a supper in the town hall Thursday evening from 6 to (. 30 o'clock, after which program consisting of patriotic music aud an address by Allen Bean of Rockville. He portrayed in very vivid manner his life in France AS all ambulance driver and the narrow escapes he had. He has a number of relics which he showed to very appreciative audience. Mir. Bean expects to be called to an aviation school at any time. After training for an aviator he will return to France in that capacity.
 After an illness of one week with bronchial pneumonia, Mrs. Emily A, Brown, aged 91 years. passed away al E5.30 o'clock Friday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm l. Bowler. She was the widow of the late John A. Brown and native of Wilmington. Her early life was spent there from where she went to Stafford ! from thence to Holland where she has lived for the past thirty years How
 ever the greater part of her years were spent just over the line in Wilmington on what is now known as the old
 John Brown place. Mrs Brown was kind, gentle woman and always had smile for everyone. There were three children, John Elliott, Margaret D, and Winnifred H. She is survived by the last two, Mrs. Margaret Bowler, Winnifred H. Brown, brother, Wm. q D. Ruby, and ten grandchildren, ! John, Ruby, Willie. Athena, Rutt ) and Raymond Bowler, May, Elliott and Arlene Brown, also" Raymond I Brown who is in the service of Uncle
 Sam at Camp Greene, N. 0. The : funeral services were held at Ter latt } home Sunday afternoon at 15 p. , m. Rev. Charles Puffer of Stafford