The Press., 1921-04-14
ITNION.
Mrs. Anson Reed of Putnam. is g

tives at Stafford Springs last week..
 Mrs. Lucy Aldrich of Uxbridge spent a few days last week with her father, D. M. Horton.
 c. F. Gage, accompanied by his family, visited his father, Foster Gage, at Westville, last Sunday.
 John Sedlak recently purchased a large young horse from the Needham stables at Stafford Springs.
 Mrs. Arthur Gage and children vis- ited her sister, Miss Mary Scranton, at Stafford Springs last Tuesday. ..
 There will be public dance at. the town hall on Saturday evening. kle- cak's orchestra of Staffordville will furnish the music.
 E. D. Lynch and family; also Mrs. R. Cashion and family of Manchester called on MT. and Mrs. Sands the first of the week.
 Mrs. Hattie Philips and her niece, Miss Louise Burnham, -Southbr1dge were at the Burnham cottage the first of the week.
 Friends of Allen w. Sterry, former ly teacher at Mashapaug, may be in terested to know that he is principal OO~NO~~-O Lake, New Jersey.
 Mrs. Charles s. Rindge has sold. her farm in the southeast part of Union to Mrs. Lillian Lewis of West Wood stock, who is moving her household goods to her recently purchased home.
 Miss Violet Veigaska has returned to New Jersey. Also Philip Herey and family, and John Veigaska and family, of Staffordville, have gone to New Jersey to live, after spending few days with friends here.
 R. c. Barrows has sold his regis tered yearling Devon bull to Giltner Brothers of Eminence, Kentucky, breeders and exporters of high class registered cattle, horses and swine. Giltner Brothers purchased four other young bulls from Devon breeders, in the New. England states, and the five animals are to be shipped from Ken lucky to the Hawaiian Islands, via. San Francisco
 There is to te service at the church next Sunday. morning at eleven o'clock, followed ty Sunday school. There seems to be an unusual interest throughout the town, in the prospect, of having a resident pastor, and it is hoped that every one will e present to meet Rev. Henry A. Coolidge. MT. Coolidge has, with his family, spent the winter in Fort Collins, Colorado, but he formerly preached in N. H. and in Mass.
 There will be a roast heef supper and social at the town hall next We'd nesday evening. under the auspices of the Ladies Benevolent association. It will be "Gentlem9n's night" and the following will act as hosts: Paul Rizner, Nelson Horton and Raymond The entertainment will be in charge of H. R Howard and the principal feature will be a short farce entitled "A Difference in Clocks" to I e presented ty Miss Julia Heck and Wayland Heck. The charge for the supper will e 25 cents for adults, and 15 cents for children under 12 years. Ladies are invited to bring cake
 As the smoke clears away on Mon day morning, at this time of the year, there is a general checking up of re- ports from the fire lookout station, on Mt. Ochepetuck, of the fires the pre- vious Sunday This national and state fire lookout is proving of won derful value, and Mrs. H. M. Lawson, who has charge of the station, is han ding the management and system of aid to fire infested districts, with credit to herself and the State of Con- necticut. More that ever are the vardens of Connecticut attempting to seek the cause of the many Saturday afternoon and too numerous to men ion, Sunday fires, this year. tt seems reasonable toUstate, that on the ordinary week day very few fires Oc- ;ur, but when the general public is ct loose to roam the woods on week ends, fire trouble begins, speaking in general, the local man does not cause any fire trouble. In fact so far as known in Union during the past decade but one local man started a ire that resulted in calling out the ire fighters, and this man left town within twenty-four hours after the ire started, and has never returned. Just what would happen to man caught in the act of starting fire, either through carelessness or will fully, by man who had worked on a not fire line, would depend largely on the available supply of cart stakes, or the ability of the victim in cross cOun- try country running. We can all feel sorry for the property owner of fire swept wood lot, and also feel that righteous indignation and wrath heap ed upon the wrong dOer, but not every man can have that terrible hate, the fire fighter has for the individual who Tipped cigarette into the dry grass along the road side and was the cause of Just a brush fire" Have you ever been on a forest fire line, ahead 0f the blaze, with all the heat of hades let loose, seemingly, and smoke thick enough to cut? Out there where water, even to drink is hundreds of yards away, and the loss of one man in the line is dire calamity. Our lats off to these men who buck the business end of raging forest fire, with nothing in the way of equipment out a shovel or hoe, and the acquir- ed knowledge Gndividually) of com 1ating the fiery elements. There is nothing attractive about ire lighting Il the woods, nothing that draws one ntO trying it, because of the love of he work, but there is a determined l effort at work to get the cause of a ire, and we all hope that the trial l udge, before which the victim is ! brought for hearing, will have been on he fire line just long enough to be | blind, only to the full extent of the 1 aw, in such cases, made and provided. l To our visitors from out of town | turing 1920, and so far in 1921, we | lave only the best word to speak, for | ve have not suffered from any fish ,rman or hunter for nearly two sea- ons, and you have earned our high st esteem. We thank you for your houghtfulness, and may it continue, ven unto the third and fourth genera ion.
 Rock Meadow.