The Press., 1918-03-21
Win. E. Benton has resigned his position with the Rhode Island Worsted

held at the library building neX
 Monday evening at 7.sO.
 The week night meeting of tn ] Congregational church. will be hell
 at the home of MT and Mrs. Levi
 Mclaughlin on Highland Terrace thi
 evening.
 MT. and Mrs. W. L Bishop, win
 have been spending the winter witt
 their daughter, Mrs. Lewis McLaugh
 lin, returned Monday to their home ii
 Belchertown. Mass
 Town Tax Collector Murray vii
 be at the Hanley shoe store ever, Thursday from 9 a. III to 3 p. m from March 21st to April 18th to re .oeiVe the town taxes.
 John F. Bailey was fined $2 anc costs and in default of payment wa sentenced to Holland jail by Judge Heald in the borough court. Bailey was charged with intoxication. The two-tenement house known al the 'Chaucey Oroutt" place at Orcutt vile and some household goods will be sold at auction on Saturday p m. The real estate will be sold al 3. 3O.
 A special meeting of Baker chapter, O. E. s will be held Friday The grand officers will be present. There will be initiation and refreshments. Regular meeting of O. E. $ next Wednesday.
 Anon Jefferson was brought before the borough court Monday and charged with letting his dog run loose, for which charges he was fined $1O and costs and $1 and costs respectively, in all amounting to $35 56, by Judge Heald
 Town Fire Warden J. M. Larned has appointed the following district wardens: P. L Roberts, H. A.. Glazier, E. F. Kellogg, N. Hemen- way, F. H. Plumb, F. W. Chaffee, F. l.. Upham, M. W. Leonard, R. B. Hatch and r. Beloher. ..
 Mrs. ". o. Hollister. with her two children from Kent, Ohio, are spend ing a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mix. Mir. Hollister has just received an appointment as scientific assistant of tho U. $. de, partmenr of agriculture; his dutifs will be the investigation of inseo:s work upon cereals and forage and he will be located at West Lafayette, Ind, where Mrs. Hollister and the children will join him later.
 .Joseph Fredette was fined $l4 s9sin the borough court Thursday morning. Mir. Fredette and Mrs. George Benton started an argument over the disposal of the drainage system of their respective yards, when enraged by a cutting remark from Mrs Benton. Mir. Fredette grabbed and scratched. She retaliated, tearing his sweater. Mrs. Benton, Mrs Augusta Pintell and Charles testified Fredette was tho aggressor and used insulting language. Judge Heald found him guilty and fined him $6 aud cost which were paid
 Four teachers in this town have sent in their resignations which are to take effect at the end of this term. Miss Helen E. Linnell, teacher of mathematics in the high school, will take position as mathematIo teache r at Windham high school in Willi- mantio, Miss Hazel c. Comins, teacher of the seventh grade and Miss Edith A. Eddy, teacher of the sixth grade in the borough have taken posftions with the Phelps Publishing Co. of Springfield, Mass, Miss Comins in the filing department and Miss Eddy as stenographer. They will leave for their new positions April l, Miss Ora Rsbideau, the Crow Hill district teacher, has DO definite plans for the future. The school committee are facing hard proposition as the higher salaries for office work make teachers scarce.
 The lecture, "Art in War time, |" by Mrs. E. R Mosely of Westfiold was given Monday evening Ivy the of the Current Events club. Miss W. s Adams, club presi. dent, introduced the speaker. The part artists, soulptors and architects are tax ing in the present crisis is unknown to many and Mrs. Mosely's talk was interesting and informing. The ways in which these talented men and women are directly and indirectly to constructive war work are varied, and hundreds are doing we'll their part. John Singer Sargent's E gift of President Wilson's portrait brought fifty thousand dollars and art exhibitions, where private collections are loaned, have added thousands more. Posters for various purposes have been designed by our leading artists, including James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Ohristy and many others. Mrs. I4add, the sculptor, is now in France studying the art of building up parts of the body injured by warfare. Camoufage was explained in it's three divisions. of earth, air and sea. The former is no new thing as accounts of it's use are recorded ip biblical literature as practioed by the Midianites; in Shakespeare's s Macbeth; in Indian warfare and in the Civil War. Camouhage of air and sea are decidedly modern and are rapidly being made the most of by American artists. Architects are blaming munition plants, cantonment building, ship yards, air plane sheds and making valuable maps. The church was attraotively decorated with laroa flaps of thA allied nation: