The Press., 1918-01-10
The regular meeting of the W. C

The annual business meeting of thu
 Hospital Aid society will he held mex Tuesday afternoon. A large attendanc, is desired
 Miss Mabelle Meyers retuEned Tues
 day evening after spending severn
 weeks with her brother, Fred Meyers,
 In Fabyan.
 Anyone wishing copy of the Con. Fnecticut state manual and register for 1917 or a copy of the general acts of 1917 can obtain them at the town |Clerk's office H
 Grace Church Notes: The services next Sunday will be as follows: 10 q m. Holy communion; 10. 30 a.
 b., morning prayer and sermon; 12 6'clook, Sunday school; m.. evening service. There will be g theeting of the vestry after the even.
 ing service
 The last of the present series o1 Tercentenary lectures at the Congre' Rational church was postponed until next Sunday evening. The subject will be 'tThe Pilgrims in the Wilder .ness," presenting the life of the Plymouth colony and will be illus, tEated by about 40 colored slides.
 The new school building at Oroutt. vile has been completed and was put in use Monday for the first time, It is the first school building to be built direotly from the plans of the state board of education. The new build ing is forty by thirty.two feet with a height of twelve feet between floor and ceiling. It is one-story structure with pleasing appearance and g colonial entrance.
 There will be meeting of all who are interested in evening school in the assembly room of tue high school, Monday evening at 2. 30 All aliens desirious of learning the English language and all who are applying for citizenship papers should attend. All others who would like to take up any school studies may attend Course will be arranged according to the demand. Those of all ages. both sexes, and any nationality will be admitted to these classes
 Regular meeting of Myriad Rsbekah lodge next Wednesday evening, The D. D. G. M. and suite will be present to install the officers for the ensuing term. All Rebekahs are invited to be present. Supper will be served at 6. 30 0 clock. The officers to be installed are as follows: N.G., Andrea Ward i; V. G.. Hetta Ellithorpe; R S, Ethel Whitaker; F. &. Mary Smith i; R. 8. N. G., Estella Bartlett; l.. s. N. e Dorothy Fraser: W. Grace Griffiths; 0. Marion Lee; o. G., Margaret Reister; I. G.. Agnes Holmes; Chaplain, Hattie Barnes; R. s. v. G., Eva Wagner; l. s ". O.. Frieda Schmidt.
 The annual meeting of the Sunday school board of the Methodist Epis. copal church was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs Freeman F Patten on Monday evening. The annual reports were read and officers for the new year were elected as follows: :: Superintendent, F F Patten; assist ant Superintendent, R. W. Ellis; superin rintendents of home department, Mies Florence WasIburn and Miss Doris PaFkhnrst; superintendents of cratic roll, Miss Ethel Whitaker and Miss Edith Adams; superintendent of primary department, Miss Edith G. Oushman; secretary and treasurer, Louis H. Stevens; librarian, Percy Parkhurst
 On Sunday evening at $. 45 an illustrated sermon lecture on ''David, Israel's Greatest King,'' will be de- liveTed by the pastor Fifty splendid. ly oolored lantern slides will be shown.
 An alarm was rung in yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock. A fire had started in the cellar of c. P: Hodgson's home on East Main street The fire had caught on the ceiling, when Joseph Braun, next door noticed the blaze. He secured hose and ran to Harvey Barret's house and connected it. He then crawled into the cellar on his hands and knees and lying fiat with a smoke ar0nni him he played the hose on tho tlaz3 unlil the fire department arrived and assisted in 1t. The fire hnrue three holes into the f11r above The damage was slight. hut had it not been for the ooolness of MT. Braun MT. Hodgson would have had badly damaged house.
 Mrs. Maria A. Cushman, 77, died Monday morning at 3 o'clock after a short illness of pneumonia Mrs. Cush- man was born in Wales in 1941. She, with her parents, moved to this town when she was eight years old anl has lived here ever since She was to Lyman Cushman in 1857 by the Rev. F. L Batchelder in Stafford. She has been a life l1ng and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church of this town. She was the last of her family and is survied by her only daughter, Miss Edith Cushman, teacher of the kinder garten department of the borough school. The funeral was heldPWednes. day at o'clock at her home, Rev. O. J. A1drich officiating, assisted by Rev. Thomas lyric of Hazardville The burial will be in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 The Stafford high quintet were badly defeated by Cathedral high Tuesday night on Chicopee hall floor by the score of 34 to 13 Cathedral passed all around the local boys and 4 s,,