The Press., 1919-01-30

ord of your achievements in Lorraine before Chalons and on the Ourcq. On the occasion of my leaving the divis- ion ] wish to recall to you your ser vices since that time and to express to you my appreciation of the unfail- ing courage and cheerfulness with which you have met and overcome the difficult tasks which have confronted you. After leaving the region of Chateau Thierry you had scarcely been assembled in your new area when you were ordered to advance by hard night marches to participate in the attack of the St. Mihiel salient. In this first great operation of the Ameri- can army you were instructed to at tack in center of the fourth army corps and to deliver the main blow in the direction of the heights overlook ing the Nadine River In the battle that followed you took every objective in accordance with the plan of the army commander. You advanced fourteen kilOmeters in twenty-eight hours. You pushed forward advance elements five kilometers farther, or nineteen kilometers beyond your original starting point. You took more than a thousand prisoners from nine enemy divisions. You captured seven villages and forty-twO square kilometers of territory. You siezed large supplies of food, clothing. am munition. guns and engineering ma terial. Worn though you were by ceaseless campaigning since February, you then moved to Verdun region to participate in the great blow which your countries armies have struck west of the Mouse. You took Hill 288, ChatilliOn and broke sQuarely across the powerful kriemhilde Stellung, clearing the way for the advance be- yond St. Georges and the Landres-et St. Georges. Marching and fighting day and night you thrust through the advancing lines of the forward edge of the first army. You drove the enemy across the Mouse. you captured the heights dominating the river be- fore Sedan and reached in the enemy lines the fartherest point attained by any American troops. Since Septem- her 12th you have taken over 1900 prisoners. you have freed 25 French villages, you have recovered over 15O square kilometers of French territory, you have captured great supplies of enemy munitions and material. What ever may come in the future, the men of this division well have the proud consciousness that they have thus far fought wherever the American flag has flown most gloriously in this war. In the determining tattle beforeChal- ons, in the lOody drive from Chateau Thierry to the Vesle, in plotting out of the St. Mihiel salient and in the ad- vance to Sedan you have played a splendid and leading part. You have proved to the world in no mean meas ure that our country can defend it's own.
 StafiOrdville
 Phillip Hery is quite ill with pneu- monia.
 Everett Ryder is ill with influenza at his home in Hydeville.
 Bert Carpenter has accepted en- ployment in the New City mill.
 Alonzo Carpenter was the guest of relatives in Springfield on Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. c. J, Clark and family of Ellington were the guests of Mrs. Etta Durham on Sunday,
 Mrs. Rose Silk and Mrs. Leon Cooley and son, Joseph, and Ernest Cooley were in Springfield last Sunday.
 Mrs. Hertert Barlow of New Brit ain and Mrs. Jana Jaquith of South Coventry are with their sister, Mrs. Wm. Chandler, in Hydeville, who fs seriously ill with pneumonia
 nct. J I v oH DCCh COIllIHCu tO his home with a severe cold few days last week and over Sunday, but he is recovering and able to be out again and expects to preach next Sun day morning and evening"
 At the fourth quarterly conference, held in the Methodist church last Sun day with Rev. G. G. Scrivener district superintendent, presiding, the follow ing officers were elected: Stewards, B. Y. Fiske, H. Bosworth, G. w. Mil Ter, Grant Hammer, c. F. Williams, Chas. Webster, Mrs H. Bosworth, Mrs. l.. M. Booth, Mrs. Etta Durham, Mrs. Jane Carpenter. Mrs. J. H. Me Carthy, Mrs. F. G. Medbery, Mrs. E. M. Mathews and Mrs. G. w. Miller :; committee on benevolences, Miss Irene Belcher, Mrs. G. w. Miller, Mrs. Lima Booth, MT. and Mrs. H. Bosworth :; auditing, Mrs, Medbery and Mrs. Booth; church records, Mrs. L. Booth md MT. Miller; estimating minister al support, the board of stewards
 enevolence treasurer, Miss Irene Belcher; committee on Sunday schools, MT. Miller and Mr. Williams i; tracts, Mrs. F. Medbery, Berther Bel cher and Arlene Hanna; temperance, G. w. Miller, G. Hanna, H. Bosworth i; education, Mrs. Medbery: parsonage and furniture, the Ladies' Aid society i; recording steward, MT. RishtOn; dis trict steward, MT. Miller; communion steward, Mrs. Herbert Bosworth; re- serve delegates, MT. Lyon and MT. Fiske; alternate, B. G. Phelps. It was unanimously requested by both societies that the pastor be returned 'or another year.
 HOLLAND