The Press., 1918-09-12
STAFFORD SPRINGS


 Word has been received of the safe ar rival of Arthur l. Frazier over seas.
 .. ohn Hopkins has returned to Wor- cestrr after spynding vocation in town. Mrs. John Peters has been spending a vacation with friends in Worcester aud Westboro. Mass.
 The regular meetings of F. of A. will be resumed this evening. Im- portant business.
 w. R. c. meeting next Wednesday A full attendance is desired. There will be initiation.
 Regular meeting of Myriad Rebekah lodge next Wednesday evening All officers are requested to be present for | rehearsal.
 John F. Osborn, formerly with the Packard Motor Co of Springfield has opened a garage at l.. D. Gary's stable on Furnace avenue. Joseph Bertram has taken a position with him.
 The Red Men will hold the irst dance of the season at Red Mems hall, Satur- day evening, Sept. 2l. They also will have dancing during fair week and will run series of dances during the winter months.
 Stafford people were grieved by reading in Sundays papers that Sec ond Lieutenant Walter Buck. sta- toned at Kelly Field, Texas, was in stantly killed on Saturday, when his plane, which was flying in a forma- ton unit, fell a distance of 4OOO feet. Walter Buck was son of Rev. w.. P. Buck, now of New London, but re- gently pastor of the local Methodist church. He was married last May to young lady he met in Texas.
 The infant welfare work that Is being carried on in the state is more necessary in all the other towns in the state than in Stafford, according to the state health officers report for 1917, provided Stafs ford s 1918 record is as good as 1917 The average death rate per 1000, of in fants under year old, for all the towns in the state in 1917 was about 93 In towns of over 5000 inhabitants Stafford $ rate, SIT, was the lowest in the state The nearest one to it was Manchester, AS. The town with the highest rate was West Hartford, at 1898 which in. cluded foundlng institution. The next highest was Branford, at l66.6. The state health department in it's report state, that if towns rate is over 5 per 1OO( there is need of infant welfare work
 The following books of fiction have been added to the public library and will be ready for circulation Friday: The amazing interlude, Mary, Roberts Rinehart; A daughter of the land, G. StrattOn Porter; The earthquake, Arthur Train; The girl in his house, H. MacGrath; A village in Picardy Ruth Gaines; King Spruce, Holman Day; Miss Pim's camOufiage, Lady Stanley; His second wife, E. Poole; Sonia, s. McKenna; The girl who cOuldn't-get-OVer-it, A. s. Barry Kitty Canary, K. l.. BOsher; The hap piest time of their lives, A. D. Miller The rough road, w. J. Locke; Why not? Margaret Widdemer; The en- chanted barn, G. l.. Lutz; Flower of the Chapdelaines, G. w.. Cable; The little red house in the hollow, A. B Hall.
 The Committee on information anC Research, of the local War Bureau. hal been instructed by the State Council O Defense to prepare a military history O all men from this town who are in any branch of the service, including al branches of the Army, the Navy, thu Red Cross, etc. As the most logical way to prepare this history, the committee re quests that the parents, families, or re a tives of men in the service furnish 8 soon as possible correct answers to tn questions given below. These question are to be copied and answered upon card or sheet of paper and handed in Fitzpatrick's news store The cOmmitte wishes to. impress upon those concerne' the importance of this work and the ne cessity of it's being attended to immedi ately. The card for filling out may b obtained at Fitzpatrick news room Questions
 l. Full Name?
 2. Identification Number, if any2
 5. Date of Birth I(year, month an
 day)?
 4. Place of Birth Country, section
 city or tOWn)?
 g. Enlisted (year, month and day)?. 6. Commissioned (year, month an day)? Rank Company? Reg
 ment or Ship (giving old name an
 new name)?
 z. Branch of Service?
 8. Promotions and changes in branc r. .. of service Rank. Company
 ,: Regiment or help? From To
 9. Date of Discharge Reason? c 10. Military address E Il. Home address? 12.. Voter?-
 13. Wife's maiden name Date of ma
 riageP Piace2
 IA. Name of relatives (street addres city and state, kin)?
 l5. Occupation in civil life? Church Is. FTaternal Orders
 IT. Casualties Date Killed or Wound
 ed Person notified ? Address
 Date)?
 In case of changes in answers to Il above questions after same. have bet handed in it is requested that the COT L, Al