The Press., 1918-04-11
sTAFFoRD sPRINGs.

The week night meeting of the Congregational church will be held in the chapel this evening.
 Miss Gertrude Fraser returned Tueeday after spending few days with relatives in Norwich.
 Wm. McCulloch has been spending a few days in Philadelphia and Atlantic City on business trip.
 Theodore Morrall is home from Philadelphia, Pa, and is spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. B. ?. Cooley.
 The Court Oronoco. F. of A. quarterly meeting will be held this evening. D G. c R. Murphy will be present
 Lnnis St. Germain of Cooper Lane is going out of the milk business and will sell his stock at auction on Saturday, the 20th, at l.. 30 p. m. H
 Mrs. D. l.. Beedy has seld three. tenement house and a single-tenement house on Grove street to s. Katzo- witz & Go. through the Samuel Kuslansky agency.
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church will meet on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs A. 0. Eaton. The April questions will be used.
 Miss Vera Siswiok and roommate, Miss TheodorH Goodwin, of Hilton seminary, N. H., returned to their studies Tuesday after spending their vacation at the home of Miss Siswick.
 Any citizen being desirous of be. coming member of the Order of Elks, to be organized in Rockville. should leave their name at Mccormick s ! Drug Store not later than p. m. on Friday. -. .---:-
 There will be a dance at St Ed. waId's hall on Friday evening, April 18th for the benefit of the Stafford base ball team. Woods orchestra will furnish music. Admission, 35 cents for the men and D cents for the ladies.
 Four trains with fifty two coaches. loaded with draftees, most of them from Illinois and surrounding states, went through this town Friday. One train stopped here few minutes and the Ellis grocery distributed about two bushels of apples. Their destination was Ft. Wright, Fishers Island.
 A military minstrel show with everything from the beginning to the end of a patriotic nature will be given at St. Edwards hall on Friday evening for the benefit of the Stafford American band. The admission will be % cents, with reserved seats 35 cents on sale at Warren's store Woods orchestra of seven pieces will furnish the music for the minstrels and for the dancing to follow the entertainment
 The entry blanks of the Stafford Springs Agricultural society for the eight $I,OO0 purses for the speed classes at the next fair. October 10, II and 12 are being sent out. e., The eight classes will be as follows: Pacers, 2.1O, 2.13. 2.16 and 9 20, for trotters 2.14, IT, 2.20 and 3 25 The entries close May 1. The entrance fec is 3 per cent, payable in three miscellaneous, per cent May ], when horses must be named, per cent June 1. and per cent. July l; 2 per cent to he deducted from money winners.
 The following books have been added to the library and are in circulation: Private Peat, Fl. R Peat; My Adventures as a German Secret Agent, Horst von der Goltz; 1; All in It, Ian Hay; Fighting for Peace. Henry Van Dyke; Speaking of Prussians," I. s. Cobb; Land of Deepening Shadow, D. T. Curtin ; The Cross at the Front, Thomas Tip lady; Why We are at War, Woodrow Wilson,; Fragments > from France, B uoe Bairnsfather; Militant: American and Jesus Christ, A. M. Rihbany 1; United States and Pangermania, Andre Cheradame; Faith, War and Policy, Gilbert Murray; My War Diary, M. K. Washington. Letters and Diary, Alan Seeger; The Oppressed English, Ian Hay; Militarism, Karl Liebknecht; Alsaoe. Lorraine under German Rule, CD Hazen; Challenge of the Persent Crisis H. E. FosdiCk !; Leonard Wood Prophet of Prepared ness I. F. Marcosson; The Unpopular History of the U s by Uncle Sam Himsely Harris Dickson; Political Ideals B A. ". Russell; Army and Navy Information De ". 0. Falls ; The Eyes of the Army and Navy A.. H Munday; How to Fly A. K. Collins; Civios for Coming Americans Peter Roberts; The Churoh and the Man D. W. A. Hankey; The High Cost of Living F. 0. Howe; The Book of Corn Cookery Mrs. M. L.. Wade; The Foes of Our Own House hold Theodore Roosevelt; Equipment for the Farm and the Farmstead Fl. O. RaBsomer; Great Possessions David Grayson; Familiar Ways. M. P. Sherwood; Green Tracts and Up- land Pastures W. P. Eaton; Henry Ford's Own Story R ". Lane; 4 Treasury of War Poetry G. Fl Clarke The Red Flower Henry Van Dyke Love Songs Sara Teasdale; Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis c. B. Davis: The Little Grard, mother of the Russian Revolution. A Blackwell ed. An American in the Making M. E. Ravage