The Press., 1919-01-09
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS

| l few weeks in Boston.
 Bernard Hanley has taken posi-
 ton i'll the post-office.
 | Regular meeting of Myriad Rebekaf
 lodge next Wednesday evening. Court Oronoco, F. of A. meeting this I evening" Election of officers. Deputy | Murphy will attend.
 IsaEmond Tschummi of Broadbrook
 the week end in town.
 ] Miss Alma Zelz of Norwich spent { few days in the borough last week with Miss FlOrina Dupre.
 1 David Shepherd has returned te I New York, where he is taking a denta
 course, after his Christmas vacation 1 The annual meeting of the corpOr | atOrs of the Stafford Library assOci
 ation will be held at the library build 1 ng next Monday at D. m.
 l w. M. Symonds, the new proprietor 1 Of the Ellis grocery, has moved his
 .amily here from Hartford and has 1 ,aken the Fitzpatrick cottage on West l Main street. recently vacated by Mrs ! |. oseph Mullen.
 The funeral of Mrs. Annie Deane | fife of R. K. Deane. who owns the spring Manor farm at Mansfield De- l Ing. The services were held in St ! Edwards church and the burial was l i'll St. Edwards cemetery.
 All of Connecticut's 16S war bur- eaus have been informed ty the Con- necticut State Council of Defense to advise the council immediately if a German trophy is desired. The de- fense council has been informed that the ordnance department is planning to ring to this country large num- CT of captured German trophies, and
 that it will he possible to obtain some
 for Connecticut. The local war bur
 eau has applied for one of the tro- phies.
 The annual church supper and busi- ness meeting was held at the Con- gregational church Thursday evening" Supper was served at 615 with the ladies on the church committee as hostesses. Following the roll call the reports of the various church organi- zations were given. These were very satisfactory, showing the past year to have been one of unusual prosperity and the banner year for benevoleE ces, notwithstanding the many outside obligations. The following officers are now serving the church: Deacons, G. w. Amidon, J. P. Wagner and J. w. Robinson, just elected for three years i;
 church committee, the pastor, deacOns, clerk, president of Y. P. s. c. E., Sun day school superintendent, Mrs. c. B.
 Butterfield, Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin,
 Mrs. F. H. Spelman and Mrs. George
 Rumbelow, clerk and treasurer, Chas.
 F. Chandler; committee on benevo-
 fences, Miss Elinor Valentine, B. c.
 DeBorde, Miss Matilda McCullOch and | lowing officers elected by the Sunday
 school were ratified by the church: |: Superintendent, Chas. H. Moore as- sistant superintendent, J. P. Wagner {; secretary and treasurer, Miss Mabel G. Meyers; executive committee, Miss Matilda McCulloch, Miss Mary Ballan- tina and IT Valentine
 The following letter was received by Mrs D. E. Greene from her hus- Land:
 Somewhere in France, Dec. l, 1918.
 am well and hope you are all the same at home. Just at present l am at the greatest resort in France. Say, don't I wish you were here with me. l tell you it's great place. We are on a sevenda days furlough before we gC home. You ought to see the hotel we
 are staying in, and good old Uncle Sam is paying for everything. We get three square meals a day and 8 | fine bed to sleep in at night. There ] is some of the finest scenery here you 1 ever saw, right in the Alps noun tains. A little railway takes you tC | the top if you wish to go; also there is lake and motor boats to ride ill and you ought to see the Y. M. c. A. l the best in the world. It used to be l the Casino, a big gambling house ano
 it was turned into a Y. M. c. A. They
 have band concerts, dancing, moving l pictures and vaudeville. Well, we car
 only stay here seven days, so we do { lot of travelling around to see the sights. I must tell you about the 1 dinner we had on Thanks giving day l We had lamb meat, mashed potatoes
 cabbage and carrots, with beer fol coffee. I tell you it was some feed
 the best I had since I landed 1T
 France There are 100 men in this
 hotel and 16 men sleep in one room We all make our own beds. We'll,
 wish I could hear from home more often. Somehow the mails are awful
 slow. All the boys are glad that they
 are going home. When I see the gool 1 old U. s. A. I never want to leave il
 again. France is 100 years behind tht
 time. I see by the papers that they
 are mastering out the boys ill thu
 States. They must be glad to ge
 home, but we will all be home soon I Let you were surprised to hear tht
 war was over. We knew that thu
 Germans could not last much longer 1 When the armistice was signed every
 tody said we will go home now, thanl
 God, but we are still here, but not fol
 long. We are taking it pretty eas,
 now. The gong is ringing for supper
 so I must go down. I will close, hop