The Press., 1919-04-03

l
 Our Spring line of Coats, Suits
 Capes, Dolmans, Dresses, Waists, etc
 are ready for your inspection. )
 Wasserman.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS
 Louis St. Germain has sold his farm
 in Cooper Lane to Louis BruZzi.
 The Current Events club will mee
 Monday evening. Miss Allen of Long
 meadow will speak on Current Lit
 erature" and give her opinion on thu
 question, Which produces the greatel
 literature peace or war? Missst Al
 berta Eaton will sing. The commit
 tee: Miss E. Valentine, Mrs. ". H
 Reed, Miss M McCulloeh and Mrs e Rumbelow
 MT. and Mrs. Neverson Hemenway
 of Orcuttville had for weekend guests
 their nieces, Mrs. J E. Cummings an6
 Miss Blanche Ramsdell of Hartford
 and Mrs. H. J. Ramsdell of London. derry, Vt. MT. Hemenway's sister Della Cummings, who has been spend. ing the winter with him, will return tc Londonderry with her daughter, Mrs H. J. Ramsdell.
 l Tomorrow evening the senior class of the high school will be rewarded for it's four years of hard work by starting on it's trip to New York. The l party leaves Stafford on the 7.1O train for New London, where they will embark on the City of New York; at 10 o'clock. After an all nights trip on the Sound they will reach New York at 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Headquarters will be established at the Woodstock Hotel The chaperones will be Principal A. B. Handy and Simons and Ida Campo, former mem- bers of the class, and Miss Mary Bal lantine will accompany the party. making 34 in all. Over half of tNE members of the class plan to remain after the return of the others next. Tuesday night. The rest of the party is as follows: Irene Belcher Esther Brodersen, Ruth Chapin, Barbara Chapin, Agnes Cunningham, Alice Fa- gan, Hilda Fitzpatrick, Arlene Hanna, Katherine Hassett, Molly Kuslansky, Alice McLagan, Katherine Murray, Gwyneth Rees, Dorothy Rob9fss Elizabeth Schreier, Mae Simons, Dor orx&y eStevens, Doris Sxflivan, Mary Sullivan, Florina Tonon, Bessie Wal-s ton, Hildreth Whitaker, Florence Schofield, William Comins, Clayton George, Richard Glazier, Ronald Mitchell, Albert Hajosy, Earl Jacob sen.
 During the past year the local war bureau has repeadly requested the parents or relatives of men in the ser vice to furnish certain information, statistics, etc. regarding them. The bureau has endeavored to impress up- on the persons concerned the import ance and necessity of this work, not only to the town and state, but to the toys themselves for purposes ofidenti- fication, etc. To facilitate the matter the State Council of Defense issued question cards, and several notices have appeared in the column of The Press to the effect that these cards could be obtained at Fitzpatrick's news store. Through negligence, how ever, upon the part of those con- cerned, only a very small percentage of the cards has been handed in. This week letter was received from the state requesting immediately the names of all Stafford men who were in certain divisions, and the bureau was consequently unable to supply the information. How this will affect the boys who are in these divisions the bureau is unable to state, but should it have any bearing upon their homecoming or other matters which mean a great deal to the boys those people who have failed to comply with the request can alone be held re- sponsible. The war bureau cannot be expected to make a house-to-house canvass for such information, and the cooperation of the people of the town is necessary to obtain results. The state officials are especially particu- lar at this time about securing the names of the boys from this town who are in the 26th division, and all per- sons who are able to submit such names are requested to immediately notify Bernard L. Mullins, chairman of the committee on research and in formation.
 Heimbach, Germany, March g, 1919. To The Press:
 For some time past I've been wait ing for a good opportunity to give to my Stafford friends through The Press some of the experiences I've had since leaving the States last July. We made long crossing, seventeen days, but the weather was fine most of the time though when we were up north in the iceberg zone, it was something of problem to keep warm on deck at night, with only two blankets for 8 covering. We laid over in Halifax harbor for day and had a good op- portunity to see some of the results of the big explosion. The hilisides lead ing back from the waterfront were swept clear, as if by a gigantic broom. You see the same thing to-day all over northern France, but on vastly big ger scale. Imagine Stafford Springs without single house fit for human occupation; your ball field in the park with shell holes so close together that you couldn't set Ford down between them; your trees without limbs, with their tops shot away; your hillsides honey ey-combed with dugouts and