The Press., 1918-12-19


 l Upton last Tuesday where he has beel in service several weeks. t Noah Payrow, 73, father of Mrs. J 3 w Robinson, died in Monson las l week The funeral was held Satur } day
 l Deer are frequently seen near tht Ava Sands farm. One day last week Mrs. Sands saw herd of seven neal the house.
 A band dance will be held in grange hall next Friday evening. The suc- cess of the one held two weeks ago warranted the holding of another.
 Ralph A. Booth has resigned as teacher at the Pinney grammar school to take effect at the close of this term. He is to take position in Springfield.
 Baptist Church Notes: Sunday sic ly the Sunday school with a Christmas sermon. Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, also supper for the children.
 
 Sunday the choir will be assisted by Miss Gladys Roberts, viOlinist, MT. and Mrs. Gilt ert Wagner, Misses Dob son and Puffer. Music-Organ, "Pre- Jude and Pastorale," Manney; anthem, Christmas, Shelley; soprano solo, with violin obligato, "The Christmas Message" Dressler; violin solo, with organ accompaniment; pOstlude, I March" Stern.
 StaffOrdvilIe Mrs. Mary Gibson has purchased an automot iIe of J. H. Mccarthy.
 A son was born to MT. and Mrs. Francis G. Medbery last week Wednes- day at the Johnson hospital.
 Mrs. Everett Clark and two daugh- ters are spending a few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Napoleon Larges
 There will be a Christmas tree and entertainment held in the Methodist church Christmas eve at 7.3O o'clock.
 Mrs. H. R. Gillingham and family have left their home to live with her sister. Miss Anna Ahern, in New York city.
 The weekly prayer meeting will be held this week at the home of Mrs. L. M. Booth, on Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
 Mrs. Frank Belcher and Mrs. Wm. Chandler visited their parents, MT. and Mrs. William Taylor. i'll South Coventry over Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert Barlow of New Britain and Arthur Chandler of New Jersey were home for rief wis it the first of last week.
 M E. Church Notes: The pastors subject for next Sunday morning will be The Social Life of Christ. A very Interesting sermon was listened to last Sunday morning by good sized audience i'll spite of the rain on 'The Centenary ;Hld what the war did for us"
 Mrs. Francis Smith recently re- ceived some letters from her husband, Corporal Smith, which read in part as follows:
 France, Nov. IF.
 1 suppose you will think it strange you haven't heard from me since the letter wrote Nov. 2, but it is the first chance l have had to write and we haven't received any mail for two weeks until to-day. Isn't it great news that the Huns have surrendered and how glad we will all be to come sailing home. Believe me am count ing every day that goes by as day nearer home. I suppose we will have to do a lot of guard duty until peace is signed and then we won't be long getting home. We are ill a small will Iage now, at least it was village be- fore the Huns hit it for a goal, as the buildings are pretty well knocked to pieces by airplane raids and shell fire. 1t sure was some place last week when the war was in full swing, you can tell the world. Believe me it is funny feeling to have a large shell fly over your head, but it is the same as anything else, you get used to it after while. It is as quiet here now as far as gun fire is concerned as Bur ley Hill, but believe me there was plenty of excitement right up till II o'clock Monday morning. 1 am send ing you a Huns helmet and canteen which I picked up near Verdun. Hope you receive it all right. The regiment runs post office and they drive every day now to town with the mail and they also run a canteen and sell cigar cites and cookies You can believe me that the cookies taste mighty good.
 Nov. IS.
 We are still in the same place that sent your last letter from and we have just been issued some rubber cots that are high and fasten to our belts, and we certainly need them as the mud is terrible. So far we have mt had any snow, but this morning the ground was frozen little. And rats here live like wOodchucks do home in holes in the ground. l was in a sector the other day that had been held by the Huns for nearly four years and it is some place. They had some fine dugouts with nice cement work and the inside was fixed up fine, Lut when the Tanks got after them they sure had to give up. You would mt hardly believe your eyes to see the way some of the forests are shot to pieces-not tree left standing. In some of the shell holes you could set the garage at home in and it would cover it up. I will save the rest of the news to tell you when I get home. which hope will be soon and you can te prepared to be eaten out of house and homo Give my repardS tO all the