The Press., 1919-05-01
Q O o ASHFORD WestfOrd

HI Everett Barlow is driving new G M. c. truck.
 Thirteen deer were seen at ont time feeding on the plains at Barlow's mill.
 l Mrs. Ruth Buck of Hartford spen Sunday with her father and family here.
 Mrs. R. B. Tifft is in Springfield this week with her brother, Charles Reynolds.
 Mrs. GlendOla SpOoner spent the week with her daughter, Mrs. Math ews, at Storrs.
 Mrs. Clarence Buck and little son of Hartford spent the weekend with her father H. c. Barlow. l Mrs. A. O. Griggs returned home Saturday after spending several weeks in Woodstock Valley. caring for the sick.
 l Mrs. Marshal Lawton and daughter Caroline, returned to their home in | Warrenville Sunday. having spent sev- eral weeks with Mrs. John Scar borough. who is on the sick list Several of our citizens are working on the highway leading from this will lage to Warrenville which has been very bad for long time and almost unfit for travel George Shattuck, foreman for George Buck, has charge of the work and it is to be done free by our public spirited citizens.
 Arthur Voorhis, who lives in the neighboring town of Eastford, had an experience Sunday night which he will not soon forget. Having bought a new horse he took his time to test home in the short hours of Monday morning, reaching near F. c. Chism's house his buggy was upset and the horse ran away leaving MT. Voorhis in the road with basket of broken eggs. It being a cold morning MT. V. started a fire in a dry bush heap which was soon raging through the pine woods belonging to George Myers of Union. At day break the fire was seen by neighbors who rushed to the fire and soon had it under con- trol A buggy was left by the road side which was taken by Fire Warden c. H. Barlow, assisted by constable Barlow and held until MT. V. called for it. The horse was located Mon day night in Ashford. MT. Voorhis's mother settled for him by paying for the men who were called to extinguish the fire which amounted to $30.
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 UNION
 There will te service at the church next Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Leffingwell, Jr. and family of Stafford Street spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. R. B. Horton.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Palmer, with friends from Hartford, were at the Inn on Marcy Hill with relatives the first of the week.
 The many friends of Fred Horsman will be glad to learn that he has ar rived home safely after a years ser vice in France. At the time of his discharge he had the rank of Battalion Sergeant Major.
 Larger towns have had the pleas ure of greeting overseas soldiers and Union boys seem very modest in mak ing any demonstration or telling of their past in the war in France but on Monday evening at the town hall there will be two overseas soldiers with us to give personal description of what they saw of the war in the real fighting end of it. Everyone is invited.
 Rock Meadow
 MT. and Mrs. Oscar Willis spent Sunday with Mrs. Della Fuller in West Stafford.
 Irving Goodell of Mansfield was the guest of his cousin, Adelbert Agard, night. Mrs. Abiel Town, visited one day last week with Mrs. Eva Flynn in Wales l Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bradway and l his brother, Elmer Bradway, of Eos ket Mills were the guests Sunday of | George Bradway and family. Mrs. Leon Booth and her mother, Mrs. Rider, also her brother, Thurber Rider, went to Springfield Monday to | attend the parade of the returned soldiers.
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 SOMERS Dwight Thompson has been visiting l