The Press., 1921-12-08

apaug school, while the regular teach CT, Mrs. Hubbell, is absent on account of illness of her little daughters with scarlet fever
 Lambert Ferry and family moved the first of the week from the lake to the Paul place. The house has been extensively made over in the interior. The changes in the residence of H. R. Howard, which have been going on for many months, are also finished
 An addition to the state forest at Union has been acquired by state Forester A. F. Hawes, from G. Ray mond Towne and Mrs Elvira Snow The new tract comprises about seven ty-eight acres, making the total of state owned land at this place about BPS acres.
 Andrew Anderson, chopper, from Coventry, who is working on the Jack
 son lot, cut his foot quite badly last Monday Mr. Anderson and two other choppers came up from Coventry, via Stafford Springs, Tuesday, November 30 So far as reported, they were the | first ones to enter Union from the
 west, after the trees began to fall A | s three and one-half hours coming from
 Stafford Springs to the mai%bOx cor ner, near the Red school-house. They had to chop their way through. Mr.
 Anderson went back, for some dis
 tance, after the luggage and other men left the car, to see that the driver
 and car went safely over the worst of the return trip to Stafford.
 
 paug Lake grange, last Tuesday even | ing, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Master, H. R: Howard; O., Raymond Hathaway; L., Mrs. H. A. Coolidge; S. Paul Rizner Assistant s., Ralph Bradway; chap, Mrs. Mary Horton; treas, George Heck; sec, Nelson Horton G. K, Ar cha Walker; Pomona, Mrs. Archa ] Walker; Flora, Mrs Lizzie Richards; Ceres, Miss Nellie Burleson; L. A. S., Mrs. H. R. Howard The Grange voted to change the time of regular meeting to the first and third Fridays of each month, as Friday evening seems to be more convenient for some of the pa irons.
 This town surely came in for her share of damage from the ice-storm. To put it very mildly the loss to or chard and forest will mount high into. the thousands. This does not take into account the painful loss of cher ished shade trees that the owners have loved as dear friends. There was an ice-storm in February or March 1898- twenty-three years agO-which did more damage than any ice-storm then hut TO with the storm of last week. The weight of ice was something tremen- dous. An apple twig cut from tree, last Wednesday morning, measured 9 inches long and had short fruit spurs. It was covered with AZ lbs. of ice. The ice at the base of the twig measured 8 inches across and tapered to inches at the tip. A spray of fresh charlie blossoms, 5 inches long, was coated with ice. The weight was 1 lb. oz. A grass blade 31a inches long, coated with ice, weighed Oz. A hardhack, smaller than a match, and measuring II inches in length, had a coating of ice weigh ing 1 F lbs. At this writing, December G. we are still cut off from telephone service, although gangs of repair men have been at work for a week trying to put the lines in order.
 The ravages of the ice-storm cut Union off-from telephone and mail ser vice, so no full report of Red Cross roll-call was sent to The Press, last week The town was divided into five districts, (not three) and, under the efficient leadership of Mrs. H. A. Coolidge, the solicitors carried out the work as in former years. "The juris- | diction of Stafford chapter A. R. C., covers the town of Stafford and Un- ion" Union has realized this fact, in | former years, only as she had the ! privilege of carrying out her part of | the rOll-call and turning her mite" ! over to the larger and richer town. | As 50% of the money received from I returns is expended in | the local chapter, why may not the \ smaller town, also, receive some prac- | tical benefit from this 50%6? The Red \ Cross is a glorious work, and it has ! heen touching and refreshing to see 4 the fine spirit shown by the givers. A I worker has a good opportuni- ty to study human nature. The most I cheerful givers are sometimes found | in most unexpected places. So far as we know, the report of 51 for Unions | was correct.
 Rock Meadow
 Harold Booth. was in Worcester re- gently.
 Miss Della Heck of Southbridge was home over Thanksgiving.
 Mrs. Grace Stanton and two sons of \ Brimfeld have returned home after spending some time at George Brad | ways
 The ice storm of last week cut off the telephone service here and the mail carrier was unable to come for several days. Many trees were badly | broken and school was closed until Thursday.