The Press., 1918-07-11
Mra E.W. smith i, .. MaplewOOd,

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 Miss Ireue Ashton of Rockville wa with the Misses Ballantine over Sun day.
 Miss Bessie Hyde of Hartford ha been a guest of her aunt. Mrs. J. H Fox.
 O. B. Pinney and family are a their Crystal Lake camp for the sum mer.
 Miss Mildred Hanley of East Hart ford has been spending a few days il town.
 Frank Webber, the local telegraph operator, is spending a few days il Yantio.
 Miss Alice Ward is visiting hel grandparents at South Hadley, Mass. this week.
 Mrs. James Mclaughlin is a gues of MT. and Mrs J. V. Squier 1T Windsor Looks.
 Miss Marian Jones is spending ter days with Mrs. John Melbourne il Medway. Mass.
 Anthony Neto of this place hal taken a position in Newport, N. J., and left here Friday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Charles Jacobsen and family spent Sunday at the home o1 his brother in Norwich.
 Miss Helen Fletcher visited at the home of Miss Alice Garden in Indian Orchard, Mass, over Sunday.
 Mrs. Mary Durkee of South Man chester. has returned to Stafford and ii assisting in the Wildey home.
 Master Niles Heermans is spending two weeks with friends in his father former parish in West Haven.
 Paul Genholt took a party of young men through the Mohawk Trail and ! the Berkshire hills on Sunday.
 Michael Mullins has resigned ar fireman of the local fire department after twenty six years of service.
 Mrs George Rumbelow and sons, Harry and Jack, are at her old home in Cobourg, Ontario, for the summer.
 Walter G. Bruce applied for enlist ment in the veterinary corps insteRd of the veteran" corps as printed last week.
 M;ss CtIara Tu1oxF and M;ss Toborne Foster of Brooklyn, N. Y, are spend ing two weeks with Mir. and Mrs. Ed. Mann.
 Miss Eva Fletcher, who has reoov- cred from a long illness following measles, is again at work in the wor- sted mill.
 Regular meeting of the Rebekah next Wednesday evening. The Re- bekahs are having a picnic at Crystal Lake to-day.
 Leo Fletcher has enlisted in the naval aviation corps and will go into training in Philadelphia, Pa.. on the 22d of this month.
 Mrs. Mae Chandler Rounds is with her parents. MT. and Mrs. F. J. Chandler, but expects to join MT. Rounds in St. Paul. Minn.. later.
 Charles Farra of South Willington was before the borough court last Saturday charged with assaulting Peter Louohnoo He was fined $5 and costs.
 Lieutenant 0. A. Tinker left here Wednelay evening to report at New York after having spent 8 few days in town. He expects soon to start for France.
 tion caused all but one of the people assembled for the Community Inde- pendenoe day celebration at Hyde park Thursday evening to sourry for about to begin. The "but one" re- fers to John Sena who seems had a hunoh that it would rain and sat near a large box which he used as a shelter while it rained thus saving himself the trouble of seeking cover. The rain permitting the exercises soon started with a fine concert by the Italian band under the able leadership of Prof. B Sbraocia Rev. l.. Rees presided and introduced Rev. Eric D. Lindh of the Central Congregational church of South Manchester who ex- plained the Kaiser's dreams and showed the result of such dreams in former times. He told just what the two sides of this war stood for and exhorted the people to stand behind their government till the end. After another selection by the band Vinoin- 20 Solimene of the Italian Congrega- tionsl church of Hartford addressed the Italian people in their own lang uage. Then he gave a summary of his speech in English in which he said he told his people to stand by the Allies in this great struggle. L. E. Dimook gave his original essay, Stand by Your Colors Till the Boys Come Home" which really means ''stand behind your country till the end. The celebration closed after more greatly enjoyed selections by the band.