The Press., 1919-09-25
STAFFORD SPRINGS

tai Lake is near completion.
 Victor J. Bissonette has purchased the Pero house on Center street. Mrs. c. L. Dean and son, John, of Cambridge have been guests at Gladi- mere, Crystal Lake.
 MT. and Mrs. c. R. Newton have been entertaining MT. and Mrs. J. D. Ben nett of Newtonville, Mass.
 The town clerk has copies of the public acts on hand for distribution All wishing the same are requested to not received the copies of the game laws as the fish and game commits sioners have not received the same from the printer.
 That the town might be said to be coming is found not only in the fact that new additions are being put onto two of the mills, but in the large num- Ter of houses being built the R. l. w. Co. have started on the building of six new houses, while the Warren Woolen Co. have nearly completed two houses and have broken ground for third on upper Furnace avenue.
 John Lawler, aged 58 years, died at the Johnson hospital early Saturday morning after long illness. He had been in the hospital seven months, having been taken there last Febru- ary when he contracted pneumonia He had worked for Louis Koelsch at Crystal Lake for some time before he was taken ill. The funeral services were held in St. Edwards church Monday morning and the burial was in St. Edwards cemetery He leaves one sister, Mrs. Teresa Walsh of Hart ford.
 Pilgrim Memorial Fund.
 The Ladies' Aid society will serve a supper to the members of the Congre- gational church and parish tomorrow evening at o'clock, at the usual
 price. Rev. Dr. Potter of Hartford will give an address, but no subscrip- tions will be solicited at that time. On Sunday morning at the regular ser vice pr. c. s. Murkland will make a presentation of the aims and objects of the fund and will ask for pledges. Pledge cards will be mailed to the constituents of the church, and it is hoped they will be filled by Sunday and returned then. Everyone con- nected with the Congregational church is earnestly urged to be present at the supper on Friday evening and at the service on Sunday morning.
 Holland county is the second in the state to be visited by the campaign for Connecticut's quota of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund. The effort to raise in this state $66O,oOO of the $5, ,0OO,OO which the Congregationalists of Am erica propose to devote to the old-age support of their ministers began in Windham county on September g. Every church in Windham county has gone lover the top" some raising two ] and three times their quota. The first movement in Holland county was a | conference of the Congregational min isters at the Union church in Rock vile on September 16, with Rev. Wm s. Beard of Hartford, director of the Connecticut campaign. Seventeen out of twenty churches were represented church quotas were gone over and preliminary plans laid. Holland coun- tvs drive really opened with a dinner at the Union church in Rockville, at which some fifty of the pastors and leading laymen of the county heard Rev. Herman F. Swartz of New York executive secretary of the National Commission and Director Board of l Connecticut tell the purpose and plan of the fund and something of the sore need for it in these days of strenuous living conditions. In all the churches l of the county next Sunday the men of the campaign team, assisted by some Connecticut pastors from out side the county, will present the ap- peal of the fund to the people. The ! assignments for churches in this vii cinity are as follows: Stafford Springs, West Stafford and Stafford vile, Rev. Charles s. Murkland, D. D., of Hartford, who will also conduct the followup campaign. Somers, Rev Elwell o. Mead of Cornwall. Holland and Union, Rev. Henry J. Kilbourn, D. D., of Boston. Ellington, Rev. Claude A. Butterield of the Olivet church of Springfield. Somersville, Rev. Marshall Dawson of Storrs. Wilmington, Rev. Leslie B. Briggs of Milford, followed in the intensive cam paign by Dr. Kilbourn. Dr. Murk- land, who speaks on Sunday and con-
 ducts the follow-up campaign in Staff ford Springs, West Stafford and Staff fordville, was formerly the first presi- dent of New Hampshire state college
 He is just back from seventeen months
 of educational service with the Ameri-
 can expeditionary force abroad and is assisting Dean Beard with the state campaign at the Hartford office. Rev.
 Elwell o. Mead, who speaks at Somers,
 is pastor of rare ability. Rev. Henry
 J. Kilbourn, who speaks at Union and
 Poland, is writer and educator of note, who also has recently been in
 service overseas.
 ( tommunicated.)
 Mrs. Lora s. LaMauce of Florida,
 national organizer and lecturer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be the guest of the Holland county union, Oct. 18th to 22d. Mrs. LaMauce is woman of pleasing per- sonality and since 1906 has been con- tinuously on the lecture field, having taken part in most of the important prohibition and suffrage campaigns. She was chosen by the National w. c. T. U. to do pioneer work in Alaska and tells interestingly of her work there. She has spoken in churches, opera houses, court houses, schools, colleges, from automobiles, in the park, on the street, from whiskey barrel and a farmers wagon, in jail, penitentiary, factory and railroad shops. There will doubtless be an opportunity for Stafford people to listen to this gifted woman on one of the above dates, and it is hoped many will avail themselves
 of the privilege