The Press., 1922-06-01

Information or address tags will bt
 furnished for packages to be sent b!
 parcel post
 l South Wilmington
 The G. Hall, Jr. Co.'S plant was clos
 ed down last Friday night, resuminl
 labor on Wednesday morning.
 The regular meeting of Clima1 Ichapter, U. D., order Eastern Star, vii
 be held Wednesday evening at 7.3O.
 George Nichols, and daughter, Jean
 cite, of Groton, visited at the home Ot
 his brother, William Nichols on Memo
 rial day.
 Regular communication of Uric
 lodge, A. F. and A. M., next Saturday
 evening at 7.3O o'clock. Work on the
 M. M. degree.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Safranek o1 South Windham were visitors in town on Memorial day at the home of MT Safranek's parents.
 Mrs. Charles WOchOmurka, who was operated on at the Johnson hospital Stafford Springs, last week was rest ing quite comfortably at this writing ! MT. and Mrs. William Ladr have l fitted out the large piazza in the front | of their house as an ice cream parlOr | making very appropriate change, business being formerly done in the store at the rear.
 In some unaccOuntable manner se- were damage was done to the little green plot in front of the mill on last Saturday evening about g o'clock, a touring car going north left the mid dle of the state highway, running on to the side walk and going directly over the green, tearing up the sod, and breaking down a lot of the hedge. This green has just been fixed up, to beautify the town along with other improvements. The person who was driving the car must have lost their head or were not capable of driving. it is reported that their number had been taken at the time by an eye witness.
 On Friday afternoon the schools of WillingtOn held their first field day at South Wilmington. The pupils of the South Wilmington primary school started the program with folk dances and a May pole dance. These were followed by camps physical exercis- es, participated ill by groups of pupils from each district-A fifty and one hundred yard dash, relay race, potato and sack races, jumping, baseball throw and shot put made up the sports of the afternoon. The points made by each school were kept by MT. Greer, a state supervisor, who finally declared the Daleville school, the winner of the contest.
 The district institute of the Holland county Sunday school association will be held in Memorial church on Friday June 9. The afternoon session will begin at 2.30 o'clock with the follow ing program, Mrs. B. J. Mathews president, presiding: 2.SO, period of worship, Rev. G. B. Richter; E40, Realizing our Educational objective in the life of the individual and church. Rev. w. T. Thayer; 3.1O, rOunI table. Our sumner program. The s'lmmer sessions of the schools, The Connecti- cut summer school, The church vaca- tion school, Making our plans for the fall, children's week and it's results State force; 4.3O, divisional confer ences,- (A) The children's division, No. 1, Our standard, No. 2, The wOr- ship period, No. 3, Teaching lesson, Leader, Mrs. Lucy Stock Chapin. (B) The young peoples division, 1, older boys, 2, older girls, Leader, Mrs. Cora Downes Stevens. co General confer ences, Leader, w. I. WOOdin; 5.30 ad- journment; 600, supper served by la dies of the entertaining church. Even ing session, Mrs. E. J. Mathews, presi- dent presiding; z o'clock Worship pe- riOd; 1, Demonstration, 2, Offering, Rev. w. T. Thayer; 7.45, The institu- tiOnal period, The teacher at work with the class, Mrs. Cora DOwnes Stevens; 8.30, business; reports, Mrs. J. R. Edwards, district secretary, Mrs. IsadOre Durham, county treasurer; ; music; address, 8.45, Educational Evangelism, Wallace I. WOOdin; clos ing prayer.
 The following will be of interest to the boys of the Y. M. c. A. throughout the three counties, Hartford, Holland and Windham: Minutes of Camp Woodstock committee meeting at Camp Woodstock, May 27. Upon ar irving at the camp site at Il a. m., the members of the committee in com pany with the camp directors took tour of inspection to help in proper ly planning the layout of the camp. After a fine lunch in the pine grove, the business meeting was called to order by acting chairman, B. T. Thienes. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved and the election of permanent officers fol- lowed. R. w. Boys of Pomfret was elected chairman; J. R. Edwards of South Wilmington, vice chairman; G. J. Gordon, Hazardville, vice chairman B. P Hardy, Rockville, secretary; J. A. Wiley, Hartford, treasurer A mo- tion was carried to continue the com mittee on incorporation, and to ex- tend it's duties to cover the drawing up of a constitution, if in it's judg- ment, the same is necessary. During the tour of inspection some of the committee saw possibilities of con- verting the barn into a dining hall, providing that it was properly clean ed and repaired. Discussion follow ed in this connection which ended in the appointing of a committee of three to further investigate, and if in their judgment it's use was impracticable they were authorized to purchase a dining tent. The same committee was authorized to secure labor to properly \ clean camp and to be in charge of re- pairs where same are needed. The committee appointed by Chairman Boys is as follows: MT. Corbett, chair man; c. E. Dean and A. H. Williams
 Suggestions regarding the set-up oi
 camp were given by MT. Desmond
 His experience, first in boys camps
 and second in landscape architecture
 make his suggestions of specific value to the committee and we greatly ap
 preciate his services. The committed authorized the purchase of the follow ing: 5 12x14 scout tents at $20 each kitchen euuinment (as listed by D. T