The Press., 1918-05-02

1 following work was done by the locs branch of the :. Red OEoss: TU hemlets. IA sweaters, IA pairs .
 socks, 24 hoepital shirts. I 5 pajam
 suits, 1851 surgical dressings.
 Louis Putney has sold his place O
 the Monson road to John Wytas. Tn place consists of two or three acre
 of land and a small house built D,
 Mir. Putney few years ago. H
 with his son, Lewis, left last Tuesda.
 for Meridetl, N. H., where he ha
 been employed the past winter.
 First -class Seaman Arthur Frenci
 is spending ten days with friends Since his enlistment several months ago he has been to France twice anf visited Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. While conveying troups two sub marines were sighted and fired upor i and not seen again. He likes the new life very much and seems con vinced the navy is the place for him. He is one of the youngest to enlist from the town being but IT years old when enlisting year ago. He is on the U s. s. Pueblo.
 Miss Margaret Costello, J. E. G ifford, County Farm Bureau agent and assistant MT. Sheldon, held meeting in grange hall last Thursday afternoon in the interest of the by and club work. One hundred and twenty three children were present and; several adults. Cards were distributed among the children to be filled out, giving them the choice of several activies in club work. It is expected Miss Costello willgive demonstration in cheese making at an early date in grange hall
 Staffordville. -'
 Piano tuning and expert piano player work Formerly with Sedgwick X Casey, Hartford. Chas s. Cady. Box 8S Staf- fordvllle. fl
 A son was born to MT. and Mrs. Angelo Muzio last Friday.
 Rev. Clras. c. Fogg of Hampton is. in town for few days this week. ::
 Mrs. Martha Goodwill visited relatives in Monson a few days last week.
 Phelps & Cunningham have pur- chased a new Ford auto delivery truck. .r s >>t <
 c. +. Williams has accepted po- sition as night watchman in the Hydeville mill
 Miss Bertha Agnsten of Morrow is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Geo. Meyer, this week.
 Mrs. Cora Gold of Hydeville visited her brother, Carlos Chaffee, in Vest Stafford over Sunday. .
 Rev. Chas. H. Shauok of Hartford visited at the home of MT. and Mrs. E. E Phelps over Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. E. J. Roberts of CSioopee Falls were the guests of local relatives over Sunday. .
 Mrs. Mike Petz was taken to the Johnson hospital last Thursday aud HhQ du Op6AhbiUu Ou T KbUnyS
 Little Alice Sharp returned home the first of last week after successful operation for appendicitis in the Hart- ford hospital ..-..@. 4
 A daughter, Ethel Angeline, was. born to MT. and Mrs. Arthur Bosworth1 last week Thursday in the Johnson hospital. Congratulations. z4s
 Miss Pansy Neff, who has been1 visiting her sister. Mrs Fred Sanger. for several weeks, returned to- her home in Eastford on Tuesday.
 selah Walbridge of Go. K 82s Int: Camp Upton, Long Island. N. Y.ji visited his parents, MT. and Mrs. Robert Walbridge, over Sunday.
 Earl Bowdep had the misfortune to be thrown from his motorcycle while riding around aeurve last Sun. day and badly sprained his knee.
 Methodist Church Notes: The new pastor, Rev. MT. yon Deck, preached a very interesting sermon last Sunday evening. He did not arrive in town in time to preach Sunday morning as his auto broke down. He. then came by trolley. He will preaoh next Sunday morning and Sunday evening Rev. G. G. sorivener will preach and hold business meeting afGer the ser. vice. The usual bean supper will be served in the vestry Thursday even ing. ..........- ..@.
 Some months ago as woIkmen were engaged in repairing the Russell house on Stafford Street, now owned by Henry Fisk, paper pamphlet and hand writing was found concealedei in the ceiling consisting of memorial on the death and burial of Washington, 8 sermon printed after the Revolutionary war, delivered in Stafford. presumably by Dr. John from the text WhoHO is wise will observe these things; even they shall understand the loving Kindness of the Lord. ;, Psalms 1OT: 43, and the manuscript containing several autographs of the Lyon family who occupied this house during the 3O's and 40's. A closing portion of this sermon is applicable to our time.
 "The present of that nation (France) is very lamentable: They are in: volved in all the horrors of $ civil war, attended with war with all the nations around them. How these violent struggles will term iRate God only knows. To him as the great iis- poser of events we ought devoutly to rec ommend the cause of liberty, beseeoh. ing him to quiet the turbulent spirits of mankind and break the powers of oppression and overrule the present tumults and wars in the nations of Europe, in snbservienoy to his own glory; the advancement, of the cause and kinOdnun of fhk. Tlivfna Rad ooa11sar.