The Press., 1919-04-03
Edward Riester spent Sunday

| EQWarQ R1eSler spent sunday II
 Willimantic.
 MT. and Mrs. Vaughan Brown o
 Monson have been visiting relatives il
 town.
 The regular meeting of the Busi
 ness Mems club will be held next
 Monday evening.
 The postponed meeting of the Wom-
 ans Foreign Missionary society of the
 Methodist church will be held next
 Wednesday afternoon at o'clock al
 the home of Mrs A. c. Eaton. | In the borough court Saturday
 morning Stanley Wood and Patrick
 Howard. veterans of the road, were
 on trial for drunkenness Both were
 discharged on their agreement to
 leave town.
 The directors of the Stafford Golf Co.,, at meeting Saturday evening elected the following officers: Presi- dent. Richard M. Fisk; vice-president A. I. Mitchell: secretary and treas urer, c. B. Tschummi; greens com- mittee, H. B. Pinney, J. H. Valentine, Lincoln Luce; captain of team, Wm. Park.
 The plans for the jubilee fund of the Womans Christian Temperance Union are we'll under way, the following heads of committees having been ap- pointed: Mrs. A. M. Cady, Mrs. F. l.. Smith, Mrs. H. Alden, Mrs. W. A. Bruce, Mrs. G. M. Amidon, Mrs. F. z. Fairfield. This fund is to be used by the organization in enlarging it's de- partments for enforcement of prohi- bition laws, AmericaniZation, women in industry, child welfare, moral edu- cation and agitation. The amount to 1 e raised ty the local union is $25O, or an average of $5 per member. This is national movement, Georgia al ready having gone over the top and planning to double it's quota. Mrs. D. D. Livingston. national chairman, is doing splendid preparatory work in New England, one union ill Rutland, Vt. of seventy members, pledging SS40. Meriden has already raised $7O0 of it's $1,000 pledge. Waterbury, Hartford, Bridgeport and other cities are having good success. Hartford and Litchfield counties each will raise $4,000. and the unions of Holland county are already making arrange ments for an extra effort.
 Red Cross Notes.
 Announcement will be made on the Red Cross bulletin board of confer renee in Hartford next Wednesday. Plan to hear some of the divisional leaders who will speak there.
 The New York headquarters have sent direct to Stafford to be made 26O grey outing flannel petticoats and 14O white canton flannel nightgowns. When finished they will be returned to New York. In Poland: -Four years of isolation and German occu- patton with ruthless requisitioning and cessation of imports have swept the country nearly bare of food, cloth ing and drugs" There are no new textiles, clothes or shoes to be had and the people generally are in rags. Ser Dia is one vast rag-bag; there is not l whole suit of clothes among the poor and middle class and the so- called rich" are tattered because cloth is scarce, even at exorbitant prices. Thread is fifteen francs ($3. .O0) a spool when it is to be had at all, and cloth of any sort is ten and .welve dollars yard. Flannel is an unknown guarantity. In Siberia, with an unusual cold climate, the con ditions are even worse. These are the reasons why the Red Cross has been asking for used clothing and why you are asked to take up your needles time speed on ugly garments that have the beauty of familiarity to the peasants of Europe. Your sense of beauty probably rebels at making them. Let it rebel, but never doubt the absolute rightness of line and col or and fabrics for their destined pur- pose. Give one afternoon a week in Red Cross rooms, or make a garment at home. Remember these peoples have not the "makings' we have and until definite arrangements of the Allied governments are made the Red Cross must do what it can to relieve suffering.