The Press., 1919-06-05

pointments are as follows: Rockville
 and Ellington, John w. Watkins; Gov
 entry, Albert B. Harmon; Wilmington, William o. Eldredge; Stafford, Thos.
 J. Hayes; Columbia, T. G. Tucker
 Alfred Abbey has been re-appointed
 deputy jailer of the Holland County
 Jail for a period of four years. William and John Sullivan were
 home from Boston over the weekend.
 Walter G. Bruce of Amherst was home Memorial day.
 Regular communication of Ionic
 lodge next Tuesday evening
 Miss Sophie Brown of Naugatuck
 was with Mrs. B. R. Brown last week,
 Frank Webber and family of Mont. vile visited relatives in town over
 Memorial day.
 Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Cooley have ar
 rived home from Atlantic City, N. J., and Buffalo, N. Y.
 Beginning to-day the stores of the afternoon until September 18th, in elusive.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Brooks of Springfield have been guests of his sisters, Mrs. Frank Orcutt and Mrs. w. A. Comins.
 A benefit dance for the Stafford
 Baseball club will be given tomorrow evening at Red Mems hall Admis- sion, 30 cents.
 Albert Palshaw of the 18th division, arrived home last week after twelve months in France, nine of them as a l dispatch rider.
 l Miss Celia Holt spent the weekend l with Mrs. F. D. Haywood in Spring field and Miss Royce was with her parents in Wales.
 l The regular meeting of the Woman's S Christian Temperance Union will be held in the Congregational church next Wednesday at o'clock. | Miss Sarah Alden received her friends Wednesday afternoon at the Leach home on Edgewood street. Mrs. Leach entertained in honor of Miss Alden's seventy-ninth birthday anniversary.
 l Guests at the Whitaker home on Grown street over the weekend were 1 Miss Maud Weeks and Mrs. Philip | Shaw of Providence, R. l., and Mrs Merrill Converse and daughter, Cert | rude, of Torrington.
 ! The barber shops of the borough ! are to adopt a schedule of shorter l hours beginning Monday. They will close Monday and Tuesday at 7, l Wednesday at 7.30, Thursday at noon, Friday at 7.30 and Saturday at 10 o'clock.
 ! Ozf>Friday evening at 8 o'clock in the Congregational church Rev. c. B. Hesselgrave of South Manchester will give an illustrated lecture entitled
 Campaigning with the Yankee Divis-
 ion" MT. Hesselgrave has been on leave of absence from his South Man l chester church for Y M C. A. work in France and has only lately returned
 so that this lecture promises to be a great treat of first hand information. l It is under the auspices of the Rock vile c. B. Union which is to hold it's quarterly meeting with the local so-
 ciety and gives this chance to every one to attend.
 Mrs. Frederick J. Thorna of West
 Main street is the woman to whom
 credit should be given for the "Wel-
 come Home" sign in front of the Con-
 verse block on Main street. She
 raised the money by popular subscrip-
 tion. The sign was painted by Peter
 Reynolds and put in place by D. J.
 Stephens. Electric lighting will be furnished free for two months by the Rockville -Willimantic Lighting Com pany. Although there has been con- l siderable talk about what ought to be
 done, Mrs. Thorna is the first person to d0 r1 xxyal
 coming the returning service men.
 A fire, claimed to have been started
 by the 4.19 train out of Stafford, broke
 out Saturday evening in an ice house owned by the Perry Ice Co., of New London, at State Line, and burned the
 building to the ground. The extent of
 the damage to the ice, of which there
 was from 1000 to 5000 tons, intended
 for use in Norwich, is not yet determ- ined. The fire was first noticed at 6.25 when smoke and flames were Ob- served in the west end of the building. The Monson fire department arrived on the scene with hand extinguishers in time to save the new building, but otherwise there was no means of com batting the flames.
 The members of the local w. c. T. U. who did not attend the county con- vention at Ellington last week missed an enjoyable outing. The perfect May day, the beautiful church and hospi- tality of the ladies will remain a | pleasant memory. The speakers of the afternoon were Mrs. Mary B. Will son and Mrs. L. K. Fuller of this state, and Mrs. T. w. Howard of Toledo, O. The county banner for largest in l crease of membership was awarded to | the Ellington union, and Mrs. Wilson reported that Holland was the first l county in the state to raise it's quota for the Jubilee fund" These officers were elected: President, Mrs. B. c. Plumb; vice-president, Miss Mary Kimball; secretary, Mrs. Ida Matth ews: treasurer, Mrs. Helen Alden. The annual meeting and social of the Current Events club was held Monday evening. The following off, cers were elected for the coming year: Miss I. B. Russell, president; Mrs. c. B. Pinney and Mrs. B. A. Chapman, vice-presidents; Mrs. T. F. Mullen, recording secretary; Mrs. w. H. Reed, corresponding secretary; Mrs. c. H. Moore, treasurer; Mrs. F. H. Spelman, auditor. Miss Marjorie Morse sang Don't Hurry" by Sanderson, accom- panied by Miss Charlotte Beckwith. Miss Edith Cushman gave a most in teresting account of two months study and observation of physio- -therapy and occupational-therapy in the Walter Reed and St. Elizabeth hospitals in Washington, D. c. Miss Cushman was able to tell of the wonderful work the reconstruction aids are doing in the m m oro,lc hocnitolc in tho IInitod