The Press., 1919-10-09
The Benefits of Registration,

It is surprising but true that a great many ex-service men do not seem to realize the importance of having their discharge papers recorded. The time may come when the town, the state or federal government will have some gift to bestow on the boys who were in the service, or the boys themselves will have reason to seek some benefit from the government for their work. To prove his right to such benefit of gift written proof of his service is necessary. There is where the dis charge paper comes in. But in mov- about from place to place a discharge is very easily lost If the discharge papers have been recorded in the book for that special purpose which is at the town clerks office duplicate copy could be made out and would be fully as official as the original one The l boys who have been in the service seem to want to forget all about it, but l in such case their parents or rela- l tives or good friends of the ex-service | man should take it upon themselves to | do this for the boys and some day per haps the boys will have reason to be very grateful to them.
 There will be an open meeting of the Strazza post in the club rooms | Thursday evening for the purpose of electing delegates to be sent to the state convention to be held in Hart ford.
 1 The annual convention of the Tol- land County Sunday School associ-
 ation will be held in the Rockville
 Baptist church on Friday. The morn
 ing session opens at 10.45 with ad-
 dresses as follows: What Our Young
 People May De-" by Mrs. Cora Downs Stevens of Canaan, and "The Sunday
 School Outlook" by Oscar A. Phelps president of the Conn. s. s. associ-
 ation. There will be basket lunch
 at noon and the ladies of the church will serve coffee. At the afternoon
 session, beginning at 2.15, besides talks and discussions on the methods lof conducting the Sunday school ir the various divisions there will be al Iaddress on "A Training Class in Every lSchool: A Training School in Every ICommunity," by Wallace l. Woodin O. Hartford, and an address on "Tht
 Work and Spirit of the Sunday Schoo Teacher" by Prof. A. J. w. Myers lHartford School of Religious Peda Igogy. The business period will b, lheld at 3.30. At the supper at 5.4!
 there will be brief table talks. Rev Percy B. Thomas of Rockville will ac as toastmaster. The evening session will open at 2 o'clock with a demon
 stration of Sunday school session
 conducted by Wallace I. Woodin o
 Hartford, general secretary of thu
 state field workers. The session vii
 close with an address, "Is Religion
 Taught or Caught" by Rev. Fredericl
 F. Voorhies.
 The Press:-
 The Stafford old home week shoul,
 not pass without all the facts relatin,
 to Dr. Robert Stanton, for many year
 a resident of Stafford, and who elaine,
 to be one hundred and sixteen years o age before he died. I think he died il
 1916 and Aholiab Johnson, Sr was ex
 ecutor of his will He came iron
 Boston and left Boston he claimed be
 cause he feared his connection witt ) the buccaneer Capt. Kidd would b. found out and his neck stretched, a
 he claimed to have sailed with Capt Kidd and acted as his surgeon Dr
 Stanton's word was the only proof o
 the statement. He was reckoned to b.
 a very skillful physician and surgeon He and William Patten who lived il
 West Stafford in a house situated ol the north side of the main highway a
 the west end of the village pr. Stan ton lived on the east side of the roa leading past the Johnson memoria hospital to Furnace Hollow, and jus = south of the road leading up the hil from that road past the Johnson
 house situated on the west side o Stafford Street. He and William Pat ten married sisters, and after Dl Stanton was one hundred years ol Patten was taken very sick and cam nigh unto death, and he greatly de sired that Dr. Stanton should com
 and see him, so a neighbor got tn only one-horse buggy in town and go Dr. Stanton into it with his saddl bags and took him to Patterns house = and when he had examined him, h 2 doled out of his saddle bag the med 8 cines he prescribed for him to takt :, and said to him, Brother Bill, yo take this medicine, it may do yo ; some good, but if it don't it will Xxi