'Z*;.'^'-'. i'^Ar i«i:^-,;^ >;^^e'- 'v^ Vi>^VyY:;;^';V-^':.,vv-:I ' :'^^ •;.;'0:^=vr'^%-.•:!; ••:' r K: ..-1' ••• •" •'^ .''i' (. '•'•'• :'• -• :' l-.'f •'•<•••••• ':'•'- •- .r--'-'v.'^'-'-rV''i-'-'-s':- • ' .•••.-••;••• -; /••-i"ft'; ttVf- « 8. el//;,. "•'• A-zX';*""••"•/flij" SPIRIT. «o «'o/i ^>- Fifty-first Year Ayer, Mass., Saturday, February 8/l919 No. 23. Price Four Cents remained over at the hoim- of her wounds, and spoke In one letter of grandparents, Mr. and .Mr.f. George from that direct to a .story in darky sllghto.st loitch. as some .say. "to talk." being among those'who throw the dialect, and follPwInK tluu by assum­ some of -.iu- situiitions as the play de- Pierce, retUmlnr to her home in Lex­ bridges across the Meuse yvhon the r,th Hor soloction.s were artistic und ox- vo!o|j.-.l. .Ml. l-'airchiid was iniroitablo ington oh' Monday niurniiif;. ing tlie character of tho college pro- tronifly well balanced, the first boing Save Your Bread and 6th Marines,' mentioned by Charles fe8.sor. His Ideas on Ibi- "Germ- m lil.v portr.ij.ii of tlio genial club- Gerry Nutting, the elder non of Mr. Parker, were to cross for the attack. a grave, legato measure, and tho sec­ ma:;. .M.-.-.. Kairchlld. in her role of proof" problem and his final render­ ond. In direct contrast, a light, stac­ ANI> MAKE DELICIOUS TOAST ON AN and Mrs. H. L. Nuttlne, of this town, Both the jjqys ore to be advised by ing of tho poem in w-hich the line the "aiiusoii wito." ably supporting returned here from Camp Taylor Ky their relatives here pt the >y,hereabout.s cato action. Mrs. Kelley kindly re­ tho pan of hor husband, the climax Some little bug win get you some sponded to her encore with still an­ (inuUy boing a happy one. Through­ Mpnday eVenlng. He was In tSe ot- 'of the other in'hopes they may nieet. day appeared, were irreslstably fun­ flcers' training school and received his It Is anticipated that thero would be other stylo of playing, the last being a out all tho parts aiwlgnod to Mr. and ny and provoked continual laughter southern melody, very- ' beautiful In -Mrs. J-'airchild they woro true to the discharge after rccelvln)? the rank of "somethlng-d.olng'.' about the time they among his audience. second lieutenant. He is in very good j:aught slglit of-each other. rhythm. character thoy wore impersonating, health,- aside from a throat trouble, A contralto solo by Mrs. Elsie Copp, -Mrs. Alice Bartlett was In flne voice and are to bo congratulated on tho Electric which rocontly confined him to the F^pcr<^ Boy RctqlUs from Franco. Little mother of mine," was sung and much enjoyed In her sPIo, "One manner in which thcy w^ereable to hospital there for nearly three weeks. with much feeling, and called forth Heetlng- hour," with vloUn obligato by produce a purely good comedy without Another of our P«pperell boys has repeated encore, to whicb Mrs. Copp commonness. He went to lawrence on Tuesday tb arrived home safely from service in Mrs. Kelley, and gave as an encore, visit the Hall family, who were form­ responded. Tho selections by Mrs "The parting hour." the applause France—Kay 'Wllloaghby. who went Kelley, violinist, were to many the The net proceeds of the evening er residents here. After a few weeks' across in December; 1917, and has showing her popularity with a Pep­ were not large, a-s this was not the finest part of the evening's program perell audience. vacatTon, In order to recover from his >In.ce been serving as mechanician at During the months which have elapsed point aimed for. but ratbor that the Toaster Illness, he Intends to take up his work the aviation s,tatIoi)s In France. He The concluding number was the entertainment should bo satisfying since her Pepperell friends have heard , TOU^MAY NOT LIKE TOAST UNTIL IT IS JVIADE again In the line of engineering. "- enlisted In the spring of 191T and was her In anything blit sacred music at presentation of the original playlet, both to those who had tho affair In Miss Ethel Hall has recently rej- In training at.jhe. Squantunf aviation this church. It seemed to many that "For he's a Jolly good fellow-," by Mr. charge, and to the people who came ELECTEtCAIjLY--A BREAKFAST NECESSITY celved her degree as registered nurse camp; also, at th^ .naval station, her proficiency had increased to a re­ and Mrs. L. C. Falrchlld. This was to enjoy It. Both of these object.-* from the Lavrence General hospital Btimpkin Island, i Later, he was markable degree, and she was able very cleverly produced, in spite ot the were entirely successful, and the where ihe has been In training for transferred to-the Pcnsacola U. a to cause hecj'lolln to respond to her lack of stage properties and acces­ church will receive the benefit ot the three years. She was graduated In tuival station, where.he was In.train­ sories which might have added to amount of the proceeds. December and has already had one or ing for about three mpnthsi His divi­ • > Ayer Elea:ric Light Co. two coses. It Is expected she will rej- sion .was' sent north -fb- Philadelphia in turn with Mr. Nutting to spend the November, and sailed for France Barry Bnilding Ma4n Street AYER, MASS. last of this week with the NutUng from New Tork'on December 7, 19 IT. famll> and former-friends In town. '.' In France he xomiaenced .bis duties Getting the Most for your Money Misses Marguerite Deware and LUi- as ine'chanlclan at t^e station for the llan Dunton, who have been attending training of gunne':^',and,observers at There's a way to do that in clothes buy­ Ayer Hardware Co. the business college In Nashua, have ^ontchlc-Lacahaii. Ho made an at­ finished the course In stenography'and tempt to be--transferred. Into the ing-—and here's the place; The price you BUILDERS'* HARDWARE typewriting. Northern -Bombing- Squadron, which was sent Into the active warefare, but spend here for a Joseph Attrldge is under treatment was told that understanding the wori: PAIKTS, PARK mPIlEUENTS. KETCHES* FURNISHINGS trom the bono specialist, Dr. MacAusr land, of Boston, for trouble with one he was perfprniing at the station sp > ^ ODTTJERT, SPORTING GOODS, MECHANICS' o^ his knees. The cause Is said to have well he'was as^essen^lal there as else­ TOOLS, ELECTRICAIi' APPIiIANCES been infection froni the tonslis and where. •.•-:'.'I ; Hart Schaffner & Marx defective teeth, In the opinion of the After'rthe armistice was. signed physlclm. -. . he was trarisferreS to the U. S. Autdmbt>ile Tires and Supplies naval station at'the'rport of PaulUac. A message was received here on Prance, from which post he-sailed for Suit or -Overcoat Tuesday- that Private Edward Mc&ord, home Pn January~12J arriving-hero at of the lOlst Infantry, who recently Hoboken about t'welve days later He Mazda Lamps for House and Automobiles returned from overseas and lias been was detained at the Pelham Bay sta­ is as good as a lot more money other places at the U. S. hospital at Parlier Hlir. tion until Friday Pf iast week and ar- -rbecause of the quality you get. All wool Phono Ayer 531 J« PARK STREET Brookline, was granted a furlough In rlved,ln Pepperell bn Saturday morn­ " ' . AYER, MASS. order to accompany his father. Ed­ ing. He win. sjiend ia part of his fif­ materials; made in the best manner; in ward P. McCord, ito Sackvllle, N. B., teen days' furloiigh with his brothers to attend the funeral services.of the In Manchester; .N.H.. and In Boston, stylish suits that waste np fabrics; in models PEPPERELL ^ Hudson, N H , where she Is living with boy's uncle, George McCord, to whom and Is.to report,at'the Pelham Bay for men and young nien. . SycH clothes are Mrs. Jennie Twlss, her address being he was much attached. station ori Februar>-?15, and hopes to 'News Items. - R F. D 2. ,She retains a lUely In­ Dr L. R. Qua was In • Boston on get his discharge soon. economy because they last longer. MIsa Ly;JIa Sullivan returned home terest In Pepperell people and doings business, Tuesday, and through ppor In common with many of the re­ from teaching In 'Wakefield this week, and wishijs to be remembered to all train service was not able to reach turning soldiers, he Speaks of Prance being too much Indisposed to attend her old friends At tho time of the home until afternoon. as a "land of rain-and mud," rubber Your satisfaction is guaranteed in to her duties burning of the Unitarian church she boots .and raincoats Being needed wrote of her grief at the destruction News from Germany.- every day. Mr. Willoughby Is dls.ap- these clothes. If. you don't think - Miss Gladys O'Xcal Is making excel­ of the ancient church, where she had Letters have been received • from polnted In some respects thnt he did lent rccovory from her operation for attended services In >ears past with not g?t Into the tillck of the war, even . , ^ you get it, you get your money back; appendicitis'' at the Massachusetts her father, mother, sisters and broth­ Charles H. barker, who Is In the 2nd Division, Army of Occupatlo'n. He' Is If he was Instrumental In. helping -Oeneraj hospital; last week. , It la'ex-i ers, making a whole pew full. Miss through his .sklli as. mechanician in HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX SUITS AND 0VERc6! • pected that she may be a'blejo'iro to ;(T'rIght speaks with pleasure of a let­ stationed at Nelderbroltbach. In the . the home of ,-li'er slstera'in Norwood Rhine Province, Germany, and has the aviation '-work. He says he never $28 to $38 soon, bfefore gittlnp strong, enough io ter.recently received from Mrs. Edna heard a gun- or'shell from the front OTHER MAKES • (Klttredge)'Clement', and would like lately beerf appointed orderly tp the come home. • '; ' , ' ' . offlcer of his division, which entitles while Ih France, but after peace was $15 to $25 to'have others remember her. declared he took advantage of a' tew R«gijiar.' .'mfeetlngs' of the local him to, many more comforts, - and he Is, biletted In the same quarters, the days'.leave of absence to visit the de­ - Red Gross,branch have been held- on - \Mr. and Mrs. 'Wallace Willoughby, vastated battlefields from Chateau •Wednesday; and; Saturday -afternoo.ns,- .ifbm Leominster, were In towii ,a few house of a Prussian woman. His let­ ter was dated December 31. and al­Thierry up north to the Forest of Ar­ and a. special meeting.-was-held qn hours, last Sunday to sec Kay 'Wil­ loughby, who has lately retunied after though he has received all the let­ gonne, and through all that territory •Ttiesday afternoon of iait_ -week- -A a,year_In the aviation service Jn ters sent from home, apparently, he where the famous battles have been . request TTas forwarded thej^oclety .for France.--They came from Ayer by says he has not yet received his 3x4x3. fought, so soon to* pass Into hlstor>-. . Vproperty bags" to. be fili7jl«he6 - tjie auto with Ralph Willoughby, and re­or Christmas box, from home, but He was also at Paris when the presi­ Fletcher Bros. base bospltal at Camji>.;D'ev4iis.-'wher^' turned tbei;e the same evening- to take thought it might come along later. In dent arrived -at Brest, and remained OPPOSITE DEPOT the~ wounded are now coming in,'and the trolley back home. -: Their three the region ..where he now is, it takes there a few days to witness the event AYER, MASS. thirty of thtse were made oh WednesT children were left with'a reratlve In much longer for mall to reach him—^ of his reception. . - day, .ln-'addItipa\to ,£ luge ambant of Leominster. ' ^ . •; •' . ' ' anywhere from twenty-five to thirty - Speaking of prices, he claimed that sewing'oniti\« refugiee garm'e'nts, for days. everything was high, and fpod was .which titsrentAppeal ls-made,.':that :a. .; J.. A.. Saunders attends 'tie New not too plentlfut'at times. He tells an -':, certalDi humber-may-be-complete'd be- .England .Congress'Iii Tremont. .'i;«mple According to the latest letters, from Incident concernllig a wooden' garage '. ,iore.:.5aarch','i;.i;:; T> "'OC. '•'':,-.\.=- '*• :,j • }•' ".•'.'--oi* f February: 7 and-S, as aidelegate to Joseph Sullivan, who was a wcINknowh which was t«bo b'lillt, althpugh nearly grocery clerk-In towri'before the up- Bevi^oyiJ6>5SMeHin;3i^apl84n,-oa reprMeni;tft.e^N3tlbji^'I.e«gueito.En- all'the buliain,g5i a're of brick or stone. heavaj'. ot :ilia.^Tar, .ii seein's ;very. pj:6>t-^ •The Inrbber wis slitJ'Ued froni-here for the' warship Pennsyl.-»flia».has 'Been '«9i'$^tpPeafc"e^#i^l£(?tfeslilBtft*=TOTt;r able that he and'.P«rk& are not so called, to' the Second','Cfongregatlonal president pf the l^Kuc, Is to address the purpose, but the ship 1-was tor •-aiflfeHW^:.':'; tho congress. very far apairt. as SulUvaj) Is In the pedoed. Later,- the lumber was pro church, Putnam. Conn. ; 28th Infantry, 2nd r>IvIsIon', Army of Miss Emmie Wright, youngest daugh- cured for the purpose there by the Mrs. Laura Herrlg Kelley, who as­Occupation,, stationed In the Rhine payment of $400 per thousand, and teri-of the lato Prescott • interesting: collection of postcards .-in-i Here is the dressy Overcoat in Black or Oxford, with souvenirs w-hich he has been showin;: his friends w-ho called at those places velvet collars, and the attractive Fancy Mixture Overcoats to meet him. in a variety of styles, all stylish and well tailored. Here rice Pine Entertainment. also is the long Storm Coats with large storm collars cut A prophecy mado in these columns two weeks ago. crmcerning the con­ 52 inches long. V cert and entertainment w-hlch w-.is to be held in the Methodist church on We are offering all these coats at prices very much Friday evening, January .11. as an af­ fair of unusual excellent, was fully under their present market values. Basement s'ustained on the date set. Too much praise can hardly be given. rirst.» to Come in and look them over, as that is the only way those whose planning .ind efforts you can gain an idea of the superior values we are offer­ brought the event ro pass, and second­ ly, to everyone -.vho participated In ing. the program. Wjth Mrs, Bartlett. tho Dr>y^:Goods Section chorister at the church, the idea' of a Fancy Mixture Overcoats $15.00 to $28.00 first-class concert originated, and through her persoverance. w-ith some Black Kersey Overcoats $22.00 to $28.00 2500 yards o/ Long f lof h^t 121/2^ a Yard—On Sale assistance from the pastor and others, was well carried out. Every iiumber Oxford Mixture Overcoats $24.00 to $35.00 ^to'day, 2500 yards of long cloth, 32 inches •wide, on the program presented was of ar­ tistic value, and was thoroughly ap­ iiice fine quality 'if or underwear, slightly damaged preciated by the I.-irge audience wMch on the edge; 20c. value, at 12V2^ yard filled the auditorium of the church. -.The opening number was a piano SHEEP-LINED COATS WINTER CAPS and organ duet, one of Chopin's Pepperell Bleached Sheeting at.50^ Yard—12 pieces "Nocturnes." finely rendered by Mrs. Sheep-lined Coats in different lengths, Every kind of Winter Caps in Cloth or of. Piepperell best quality bleached seamless sheet­ Laura Herrlg K.-n«v. as organist, and Miss Lillian nuiitin. pianist, and they made with Moleskin outside and with large Fur; also, a big line of Yarn Toques for ing, "-Sl inclies 'wide; 70c. •value, at 50^ yard responded to .-m '^ncore. Mrs. L. C. fur collars. Just the coat for a man who is Men and Boys. Falrchlld. of thf I'.oston Lyceum, next 45 inch Embroidery Flouncing at 50^ Farcf—About 500 gave a group of i-.-.idings. Her selec­ out-of-doors this time of the year. They tions w-ere v.-ir.'-!. -ilthough in all. her Men's Warm Caps $1.00 $2.50 yards pi 45 inch einbrbidery flouncing, fine lawn manner w-:is ].'• ising and natural. will interest you—better step in and look Mrs. Falrchilil w.i^ particularly happy them over. Men's Heavy Golf Caps $1.00 $2.50 - and voile, i^ large variety of patterns, quality usu- in her deliiio.-ition of boys. Miss Ruth Walker followed with the solo. "O Boys''Heavy Golf Caps 75<^ $1.50 ,' ally sold from' 75c.. to $1.00 yard, at. 50?^ yard promise mo." ;i -• lection w-hich prov-- Short Coats $9.00 to $20.00 ed w-^11 suito.l To 1 or voice, and which Heavy Yarn Toques 75<* $1.50 18 inch Embroidery for Corset Covers at 115^ Yard— was rendoro'i with much expression. Lon(i Coats $20.00 to $35.00 She gracioush responded to an en­ Men's Fur Caps $3.50 $7.50 18 irich fine embroidered cambric, with eyelets, core. suitable foir corset covers; regular 25c. value ' 15^^ yard DRIVING and STORM COATS The ladles' trio. Mrs. Bartlett. Mrs. RUBBER FOOTWEAR Copp and Miss Wood, gave as their Hea'." garments ma'de of Montana Buf­ first selection .'i very modem produc­ We have everything you can possibly tion, dealing wllh the fad which has falo Cloth and Astrakhan Cloth; have large had such sway of late among tho la­ need in the way of Rubber Footwear. We dles partlcul.irly. It was entitled storm collars and are storm and wind proof. "Knitting." and w.as a great hit -with carry the best makes and the very best r " R tho audience. Judging from tho ap­ plause. The encore, of entirely dif­ S25.00 to $35.00 qualities to be found in the country. » White Skirts and Envelope Chemise at ^"L^OO each— ferent class, was "Stars of the sum­ mer night." the unison of the voices Gold Seal Ball Brand Extra good values in envelope chemises and white ' blending finely i" the perfect harmony SWEATERS petticoats,! made of very fine materi&l and nicely of the song. ' J Goodyear Glove ' The appearnnro of L. C. Falrchlld, Hc.v -ibout a good Sweater—we have trimmed with lace hamburg; regular $1.50 ImpersonatPr. was greeted with pleas- Are you acquainted with the above dre .and anticipation. He Is also of them. All kinds and Jsrices . value. Special at $1.00 each the JBoston Lyceum and :hl8.reputation makes? You wall find them here and you as an entertainer had precPded him. Men's $1.50 to $10.00 His flrst selection was taken from one will pay no more for them than you are of the poems of the "North Country." Boys' $1.50 to $5.00 Pf the author, Robert W. Service, who accustomed to pay for the ordinary makes. haa como into prominence throutch hte "Rhymes of a Red Cross rnin," writ­ ten since tho war bepn, as well' as through his former poem* of • 'the Reliable Clothier and A. G. Pollard Co, Klondike region. Mr. Palifchlld fol­ Ayer, / lowed the .selection bjr-an .Imperaona Head-to-Toe Outfitter tlon of a l-'rcnch soldOr, Changing . H. Brown Mass.

:>•*<;? \^ '{>-'>? .xi.v^ij&ii^i^^'jrtf -,/<•«<. PAOZ TWO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919

OlfX I>OULAR AND FXPIT OKItTB author-entertainer, who l:as proved a l-"orgc ^"llIag^^. will be insp4$tor irf machinery at the ^ A't-:*.;: Voted that the town hall be PER YEAR IN ADVANCE favorite with \Vestfore UtUeton Guidon ing in town report. In the treasurer's The many friends of William Bur­ The members of court Granitevllle, New 1919 Ford Tourtng Oar, deUverticl....; ...... Tt>e Westford ^^KaiOMtata report fi'r the Ked Cross please find nett will be pleased lo learn that the P. pt A., held their regular meeting '•*,?*•"*• 'Voted to opproprlate $1600 9$eo.0a Tbe Hwrrard HlUalde on the detdt side the entr.v—Mrs. Wil­ operation which he underwent recent­ on "Thursday night with u large at­ for the oiling of roads with the dis­ Maryell Tpn^. bar, fJrst-claBS bondltlbn, a burgaln tinct unaerstandlnr that It shall be ,;> ?500 tlte Shirley Onwde liams, car. of «"utter children $51: al­ ly for eye trouble,' .was entirely suc­ tendance. used for oil and'not a-'substltule. 1914 Ford Touring: Oar with Winter' Tt^p..;; nie Townsend Tooobi so, on the (li-'lit side civilian relief $51. cessful. Tho slglft Is gradually return­ The members of the local Red Cross .. 9275 • Xbe Brookline (N. H.) Beacon Both shoul : -lave been entered under ing and It Is only a matter of time held their regular meeting on Wed­ Alt. 12.; Voted to pass over this 1914 Touring Oair—joo'dVone.....;";...... :.. Civilian lie i-f. -Mrs. Williams owes article, authorizliigr the overseers to •be HoUla (N. H.) Hom«ate

.".., . 9160 . Kntered %M •eeond-ctast mattsr kt th* as much as possible another sewing ' Art. iV' "Voted that the 8.elcctmen vestofflc* at Ay.er, Hue. she will have no further criticism. Laura Jones, ot Worcester, visited him machine has been loaned lo the Ipcal bo a committee to arrange for aprop- New 1916 Ford Radlaloni..,...... '..... 9I6 andf out old radiato9650r Westtord Branch. Red Cross, over Sunday, Red Cross by the Westford branch, er celebration of- the return of our H. .M. Bartlett, treasurer. Sutttrday, Pcbmary 8, IKIB Mrs. Joseph Bennett, who has been and this proved to be a great help. boys, ' ., ;•; : .•'AqoESsbKiES--;.^'^':-::'.; '\'['^^''"' 111 for several weeks, Is slowly recov­ The Ladles' Aid society of the M. Art, K. Voted.to appropriate $1500 .-\bout Town. WESTFORD ering. . E. church held "a very successful sale for-the purpose of securing- a public Prestolite Tanks, 3 sizes...;V...;.\...!./ 4^.10, 92.25, 92.75 The third farmers' Institute of the Center. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Healy attend­ and entertainment In the church on health nurse for this town. . " • Hassler Shock Absorbers'.. ...;..;...... \..:.'...; 915-per set season under the management of Mid­ Wednesday and Thursday evenings A ne-w ruling from telephone he.-td- ed the funeral of their littlo niece, Art. IB. Voted -to appropriate dlesex-North Agricultural .society will and Thursd^ay afternoon. The entcr- Kelsey, Demountable Ejbcos..;...... 916 pier sei, with your wheels QUarters Is that the central otliie ."hall Clara Lyman, of Dedham. Tuesday. $10,000 for. putting in a piece of per­ be held at the Page street Baptist toliiment on Wednesday evening con­ not be called up to jrivc information Much sympathy Is expressed for the manent road- of either gravel or stone Weed Chains, all sizes...,. .,.•,.;...... IO percent off list pric©' church, Lowell, Wedtiesday, February sisted of a .Victrola concert,"and bn on the Harvard-Ayer road, beginning concerning the no school signal. It mother, Mrs. 'Venla Darling Lyman, 19, beginning at ten o'clock, when Dr. Thursday evening there were read­ at the -Ayer--line. Radiator Covers; best niade...... ;...... -..,-;...-.v..•;... 93,75 congests the service (>n .-i ytormy formerly ot this village, who lost both George M. Twitchell, of Maine, will ings by, Miss Mabel. Kendrlck and vo­ morning and the request comes most­ husband and only child the past year. Art. 16. Voted, to fix the rent of the Mobile Oils, Ught, medium and heavy 5 galk. 94, bring your can speak on "Economic. Industrial and cal, solos by Miss Grace Kendrlck of ly from children. Perhajps this ruling The Ladles' Sewing circle are plan­ town hall for -Harvard-Orange at $2 social conditions as they affect farm­ Lowell. . 'The sale of Ico cream, cake, holds good better In the city -where ning a suppcr, and full Information per night. ', . ' ' ing nnd farm Ufe," At the noon hour home-made candy and fancy articles • .'.: ..•• \:'^,\,A;ptnjL LINE-OP'.; ;••,;,/-'.:•.,••,. •• there arc more calls, hut it applies the will be given later. A benefit party there will be the dinner and the usual was held at all times and-found ready Art. 17. Voted: $7B for Improve­ same In our own community. Is also scheduled to take place before literary fixings. At two o'clock Dr, piirchasers. There was a large num­ ments on the grramraar. school grounds. Tires, Tabes, Ugbt Bulbs, Fuses, Paichea,\ Cement, TSre Kits, Tool Lent commences. Sergt. Ralph 'i'ctton. a grandson of Eleanor-Mellcn will speak on "Health ber In attendance and the sale and Art. .20. Voted $350 for tlio ctSle- Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Knight, who was helps." Prior to Dr, Twltchell's ad­ The services on Sunday afternoon entertalntoent -proved to b'e a great bratloh of the Potirth of Juiy. Boxes, Rplje Rails, Headlight Lenses, Woider-MIst fo'rmerly at Catnp Devens and who dress there will be an Informal dis­ will be held at 4.30 at St. Andrew's social and financial success. Art..2-». Voted to. rescind-tho vote later went to Camp Grant in the of­ cussion on "Should we not have agri­ mission. The vicar, whose sermons Spark plugs Champion X ' 7&t ", . A. 0. T(I^< 90^^ The town reports have been Issued of February i; 1916, whereby 'the ficer's' training camp, has recently re­ cultural colleges and experiment sta­ have caused much favorable comment, and prove'to be" very interesting read­ town authorized Hildreth Bros, to-ex­ - - Shaler VulcMizers and iaverything.Needed in Our tin '•' ceived his discharge and Monday eve­ tions determine by actual farm tests, will preach. tend their woter .pipe down the Bol­ costs as well as production of ttie ing, particularly, as to the report of the ning was the guest of honor at a gath­ Judging by appearances spring has committee oh public safety. ton road to the residences bit F. W. ering at Mr. and Mrs. Knight's home. staple farm crops to help "the farmer already arrived^—the pussy - willows Moses and C..H, Egerton. There, is very Utile interest being Mrs. r"rances B. Prescott. -who was to obtain living prices for his pro­ are turning,Into catkins, the robins are shown In tlie coming town meeting, The other articles were passed over taken -III last week. Is reported as ducts." The place of meeting Is only here,' baseball is being placed, and as' there appears to be no contest for without action. inucli, more comfortable. Her sister, two-mlntites' •n-alk from Merrimack girls are skipping rope. J. any of the towii offices. The following were elected town of­ Mrs. Charles Pickering^ Is- also Im­ square and It Is hoped that there will be a large attendance. Mrs. Walter E, Clough Is rapidly re- ficers: Moderator.-1 Vcar.C.L, Rus­ UTTLUTON; 'MA^; C proved.. .' • ' ; c'overlng at the Lowell General hosr Candlemas day was fittingly observ­ ed -In St. Cathertiie's church last Sun­ sell; town clerk, 3 years, James L. The- reading clircle of the Tadmuck Dr. H. L. McCluskey, of Worcester, pital, where she recently underwent an Garage, 39-3 Telephones, day morning, when two masses were Whitney: selectman, 3 years, John E. House 39-2 clnb will meet with'Mrs. Harold 'W. a one-time scholar In our" schools, has operatloii for appendicitis. celebrated by Rev. J. EixiUe Dupbnt. Maynard; oveVseer. 3 years, . O. . Pw Slldreth next Ttieaflay afternopn. An­ been visiting friends In town and rest­ Miss Mary Merrick, of this village. The ceremony of the blessing of the Willard; assessors. 3 years, Walter E. other Sha.kespearlan play complete In ing from hospital treatment. As state Is spending the week WKli her sister, candles preceded the second mass, Haskell; 2 years,' Arthur H. Turner: 'the afternoon Is. the plan for the af- president of the Y. M. C. A., he gave Mrs. James H. Brown, of Clinton. which was a high mass In honor of school committee.,3 years, C. P. WU­ Engine Wmng^ •temoon. Any-club member -who would an add,ress In Lowell on Tuesday e've- The Abbot Worsted Conipany are the feast of the purification. After lard; 1 year, Arthur N. Calkins; tax ife Interested Is cordially Invited to be nlng In the Interest of Y. M. C. A. planning to run on the forty-clght- the second moss' a meeting of the collector, Isaac. P. Baker; treasurer, present. work! liour schedule, closing on Fridays. " Holy Name society was held. Arthur H. Turner; constables, Wil­ liam Hanna, George Hardy; auditor, Frequent reports of robins seen Mrs. Addle Day Kelzer has been Mrs. John Merrick.received a very William C, -:HaskoH; tree " warden, ... See.us. W6 can fix it ahd save you ti^ie.and trouble. come' in these pleasant winter days. spending a week at the home of her painful Injury to her arm on Wednes­ HARVARD George C, Maynard; highway survey­ ^Isof reported. Is very little frost In brother and sister, Otis and May Day. day while at work In the mills of the Our prices for repair •work 6f this kind are. very liberaL or. Frank -b. • Kyah; cemctery.com- the grdund. \- She has returned.to her home In New A'bbot Worsted Company. Dr. Cyril News Items. rhfesloner, 3 years, John- B." Harlow; . Mrsl • Augustus Prescott observed London, Conn., where her husband, A. Blaney dressed the Injured mexn- We pride ourselves on doing engine reppiirs right. Miss Jessie CameroA Is very sick paric commissioner. 3 •j-ears, George C. her eighty-eighth birthday anniver­ Roy Kelzer, Is employed as machinist be"r. • ' wllh bronchial pneumonia. sary January S3 In comfortable health In making and repairing submarines. Maynard: board of health, 3 years. Dr.; We make i-epairs of all kinds quipkly and efficiently. Mrs. E. J. McLaughlin Is still at the H. B. Royal; trustees of "IVarner lec­ 4Uid goo-l spirits and siirrounded-wlth Robins and bluebirds are reported Letter ftwm Overseas. AU sorts of autos. repaired, lio differenpe wiiat model or all possible comfort that loving rela­ Groton hospital, but Is reported as ture, Florence Ciishman and Herbert seen and heard. Oh for a shot at A letter was received recently from getting along nicely. - Thayer; library trustees, Horace Hil­ tives and friends ean ai^ange In her those charming insplrers with the eye. make. You can absolutely itely Upon repairs made at this pleasant home.; Private John' O'Neil of the Medical Mrs. J. A. Barry- has been visiting dreth, Cordelia H. Putnarn; field driv­ It Is not harmful to the birds and pre­ Department, France. It Is very inter­ ers, Bernard Foss, George Hardy, Fred garage. And the prices are always reasonable. Another-"birthday anniversary was vents thelT becoming as scarce as mos- her relallv'es. tlie Christys, at Worces­ esting and runs as follows, dated Spin- ter, for a few • days. "W^rtingham: fence viewers, . George made pleasant for Mrs.-Dayld/Des- qiiltoes In zero -weather. court, January 2, addressed to his Hardy, Benjamin Priest, Herbert -inond last Sattirday, -who lives at'the The Canning and Evaporating club Gut down your tire expense, Every rhbtorist is aiming A European authority says that father"and mothe:,. Thayer; license question, No 113, Yes south part of the town. ' sHe was;the will meet on Saturday, February 8, 31. . «nest of Mrs. John Connell fot the daj- $3,000,000 Is a conservative estimate Just a few lines, hoping thcy find at the home silk dresses. I thought of how father used to be the In the absence, of the-, town clerk, The teachers at the academy have first up new year's morning, and'how- Boston, this -weiek. Mrs. Harlow has Yes, we plead guilty to "barking up who Is 111 w-ith the prevalent malady. carried on their work wlfb difficulty I used to try and beat him out as I taken an apartment near the school the wrong tree," but as we are barking Miss Georgie Bryant served 'as tow-n this past •week. Principal Rouden- got older. Well, it was a Uttle better and the girls Tvill be with her there at .something about all tho time it clerk at this meeting. biish has had a severe cold and Miss this year Instead of being on the ocean luring the riest of the school year. Cohen was so sick -With a hard cold Isn't surprising that we sometimes They will be home for most of the and a slow old tub, looking out for Grange. YAfES' GARAGE bark where there, is no game. About that she did not return to school until submarines and a life belt around you. week-ends. the only thing that w'o have not bark­ Wednesday! Mrs. Hildreth. the third like we were last year. Mr. and Mrs, George F. Cobb will The local Grange held a mock town AYER, MASS. teacher, carried on extra work with ed at for five years is a cold. So ex­ meeting; at their regular meeting on Maple Street; 'Tel. 157-2 ' Well no.w that the censorship Is not open their slimmer home on Oak hlU characteristic capability. cuse us and we'll start all over again Tuesday cvenlnsr. Although arranged as strict, I can tell you a little of my March 1. Mr. "West Is putting the In­ in the railroad business some other only as a farce there were some ve]->'' Mrs. A. "W-. Hartlord has hten "bit" over here; After getting off-the terior of their house In first-class time, but as government control in timely comments on the A-arlous arti­ housed all this week with a hard cold. boat we stayed In the center of France shape for their .o'ccupa,hcy. the Interest of better efficiency and cles. The various town officers came That interesting document, the an­ after a couple of weeks, then the regi­ Andrew- L. Haskell recently bought serving the public has.closed up some for their share of the ''knocks/' nual town report, has been received ment moved up front, all but one com­ carload of horses at the camp auc­ stations and removed the timetables Dr. Austin Peters Was elected as mod­ by the taxpayers this last week and pany. .Our lieutenant, the sergeant tion sale and has shipped the same to from all the rest, we are liable in erator: Mrs. Eva SammorlSn as town and myself were with them. That's parties in -Vermont. warrants a careful perusal from cover starting a railroad again to meet .with clerk, and Arthur T. West represent­ where I was working in the hospitai to cover. Vital statistics for the year a head-on collision. Stanley Ryan, of Farmington, Me,, ing the board of selectmen, Frank P. di.-:pensary. We were there until Good are hirths 91, marriages 32, deaths 68, spent last week-end with his parents Abbott declined any ofllce, preferring Mrs. Herbert E. Fletcher, after four Friday, when we got orders to move An additional ^lectrlc light has been town. , to be chief orator from the floor, Mr. Business Man, Contractor, Express Man, Parmer, have you years of ideal service as superintend­ up with the regiment, and we started added on Main street near the town which position he admirably filled. ent of the Sunday school at the village the next day (Saturday), and arrived Miss Florence Fisher, of Boston, an ever studied the economy in using a house. James C. Scorgic •was a regular church. West Chelmsford, has declined at the front Easter Monday. It was intimate friend of Miss Prances "Amander" to all articles; I , At the Confrre^a-.ional ch-orch Sun­ further service and George Whilely the Toul front, a quiet sector, or wa.s O'Brion, has tieen a guest for several day mornir.i; a Roosevelt memorial has been elected. The school never until our boys took it. The 26th Divi­ days at the O'Brion hom% on West Important votes carrying large ap­ FOED ONE-TON, WOEM-DBIVE TRUCK service -will tie held ir. unison with was in a more flourishing condition. sion w-as in the line: that's where I Bare hill. propriations called for .a t-tvo-fhirds' many other churches. A- the morning met the Boston and Lov.-ell boys I Homer P.ogers. youngest son of the- vote and were so recorded. Among It does the -rt-ork of several horses quicker and better, and costs less service. "'"Kristian tes-.iin.-ny," with A game of hockey last ^lyurday af­ told you about. late Dr. Howard and Mrs. Rogers, died ome of the articles was one to cover than the price of a good pair, and does not eat its head off ivhen not special music. !.a.-t .-^.ir.iiay the ^ood ternoon between Chelmsfo%-d Center ftver one o^f the ruts on the Ayer road our engineers brought up ammuni­ in Wilmingtitn. Dela., February 2. attendance ::: the m -rnir-.;: was supr-le- and West Chelmsford. w.as w-on by tnd use the same for subway travel. •working, and the price is attractive tion and food, and it was w-hiie on one The Rogers .are well known here, liv­ mented hy an evenir. .-;tt.,-:..:ance of West Chelmsford by the score of 4 to 0. i The article to make the selectmen of these trips I got my flrst citation. ing for some time in the old mill dis­ about fifty. There v.-- honorary members of the Grange so .\ food sale last week Frid.ly e-.-en- The Germans w-ere shelling Aj-'remont. trict. The deceased, W.IS a school boy $550 P. 0. B. Detroit ladies' Aid rr.ecTinK a- that Ihej'' ntight entoy the Grange next inL by the ladies of the Benevolent I-'rench artillery was stationefl there: here and a general favorite with all. Thursday. dances I*.') was lost because the word .-ociety of tho Village church. West our railroad i-an through the town, so Different Styles of Bodies for Your Particular Purpose The accidental death of Mrs. Maud hall" in the article was spelled wltii Otving to sickness ar.d other cause.-= rhelilisford. wits a success In victuals w-e had to w-ait until the sho-A- Webb Thompson, wife of Major Les­ an "e.'' Immediate 'delivery for essential use. Let's talk it over with you. there was a sma'.'.er .-itten.'.anre fur and money. Miss Lottie Snow had j over; it lasted three hf'urs. and during lie Thompson, now with the 76th Divi­ work on the Red Tross relief garments general charge, assisted by Mrs. Ether ,j,at time I held a flrst aid dressing sion in France, caused by the acci­ The wireless outfit proposed to be Wednesday ,-it the lihrary. l.et all who TayU.r. Mrs. Thomas Brown. Mrs. .Vel-I station until everything was quiet— dental discharge of a revolver in the erected neai- soine of our .voung ladles' homes, .and connected with the Sol­ can plan for next w-eek and L-et this son. .Mrs. E. W. .Jordan. Mrs. c. .A. .-^. I w-as busy. .\ w-eek later n-.y ci:.-^;- hands of her only son. aged twelve diers' club in Ayer, was lost, persona", consignment of refugee cirmeiiis com­ Naylor and the Misses Margaret Kei--se\-en articles in th'" ru. of our men got a piece in his heail wr;i hold a meeting In the town hall, .•^Irs. A, W. Bry.ant; chairman of the class, w-as th^ guidinc: spirit in a;l \hf w;trr,i'-t, th- lirst of whloh is to choose i!e got to my dugout all right and 1 j Thf program w-lll be'given In two parts entertainment, -Miss Bernlce E, Sears. NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN, that the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that tho activities and was cheerfully a.'-sistf-d subscriber has been diily appointed ad- .subscriber has been duly appointed ad­ a nio-leralrir. ind the thirty -s-vent; r in iijt and brought In the capt.ain. fix- - \^--men's section: 10.30 a. m., "Cos- Services at the Congregational mlnlsir.itor of the estate not already ad­ ministratrix of the csUte of JOHN by the other men of th- rhur'-h. Tiie and ins' is In see if the t own !%•; • •'. him up and later took htm to the r in- design." MIss Franc B. Han- rhurch at 10.45. Rev. J. C. Kattner ministered of MARY E. FOSTER late df NEYLAND, otherwise called JOHN dinlng-roorti w-as filled to c;[pa^i;\ f'-r raise no.-ley for tiie employu bospi-al. In a few days along comes •<"k: liiOO m,, basket lunch: 1.00 i>, will |.reach. Mr. West and Miss'Bak­ Townsend In the County of,Middlesex, NALON and JOHN NEBLAN, late of- the roast beef sut'per w-ith vei.-f tal'i-« deceased. Intestate, and has taken upon Harvarfl. In the County of Worcester, jiublir ii-alth nurse, .Vrtic]- .1 so ond citation with the aw-ard of m , "Budget. " .Miss Franc B. Han- I er w-u sing. Sunday school af twelve. deceased. Intestate, and has taken up­ of mash-d potat-^ies, squash rind ^-ni.-ns. himself -;r.- r.iwri will (hrlnge tlie nam- of -h- :< -' • 1 other persons Interested In'the i»H- all other persons Interested tn tho es­ iihr of the line. . \ I'i s-Hjnnons tho witnesses, who will • It- of I)ORA L. CHANDLER (late of farm .Xrlicle 21 calls f.i:- ::-.• s-:;- . tate of JOHN SPJRAODE late of Shirley have been on the move since we , 1- r i.]<. t .e wife of the victim and her '."ownsend In said County, deceased. in said County, deceased.. ' xpress Tmlniuck Club. of i.-ird on the north -ide f ''- ' ' e front. Easter, and It srurc feels -; '• now living In South • Boston; Whereas, a certain Instrument pur- •Whcresis, certain Inatruinents pur­ .-tt.rrrig :o:id. It will lie niri*t.'ri \-:. - I'orting to be the last will and tosta- -. have it quiet now. The major \I-- iioc.ner, wife of tho defendant. ii-rt of said deceased has been pre- porting t« b6':tlie'lfl»t trill and tens'- The spea'Ker at I-'ebr.iiri -'^. since the town • .o^ ; . . mcni---and One codicil—of said deceased I: -rg all he ean to get me my Itfave j '.« at thctr forjncr home in •—ated to said Court for probate, by Receiving Station Tuesday nfternoriri sf-,ssro: o' rh,s •lant] to s,.tr;- -.. (I.-MIKNCB L. CHANDLER who prays have been presented to said Court, tor H. Hussey. pastor o' \:: S' r. h. l-h vt.; also,'a young man who Probate,' by SILAS B. HATNE8. who llOw•rr^ •••ills, that letters of administration with the prays that letters testamentary may be Office «f Ivowell. w-ho gav- :i 'b : lour -.'.. dear mother. I gucfs I will V worked with both Spooner v.-lir ahnexed may be issued' to him Issued tb him. the",executor therein with Charlotte I'.ror;-- .' .Mtiir, 20 is desirous Of k: \ . ri i: :' r • w with love to all. and God i:,io 1. hoping to be back soon. rrn in Harvard, where the as- 'eutor being named In said will. ortlclal'bond.. ':' CHAS, H. HARDV,vCentral Ave. i,ous«-. With or without the In - ' •:,,- vlew-ed by Mr. Hussey ar.i • • .rerary Atiifh resulted in Culbert's Vou are hereby cited to appear ftl a You are ISercby cited tb appear at a ^ald to-.M, came into posse--, -i Probate <3otirt,'to be held St Cambridge contemporaries of that p- -.- d •r,ter- t;raiiitr\ilk-. ' ,' i-'ok place. Probate Court, to be held at Cambridge Ayer, Mass. wiien ir bought properly of r',- r. in said County of Middlesex, on the In said County of Middlesex, on the sev­ -woven w-ith equal cle\"ernes- , ..-..e.l. I i:i:-worth I'ork Is'on-^a business M.v- i; .M. Graha.ta, ot. Ayei^. an- iwenty-fourlh day of February A. D, enteenth day of February A.-^ D. 1»1», .sized audlenc- enjoyed tbi- i ;. asant l lienry • Keyes for ftrehouse pa i ^, . '- Miat she has tt complete line l!«lt*. at nine o'clock In the forenoon, at nine o'clock In the forenoon, to show I.v is listening to the r. :- -• . ' • 1- t.i I'anaila for a few.wceks. cause. If any you have, why the same hour's depariure from the r- isetiess t A rticb St.: ine hnts and trimmings, • to show cause. If any you have, why should not be granted. Car due Daily from Fitchburg ait of the times. At the busine-s session the committee to Investigate r! . pu- Mr .,n,i Mrs. Charles T. Brooks and the name should-inot be granted. " . And said petitioner Is hereby dl^ected chaslng of a motor-driven <: ,-,,; '^uoiy. who h.ive been -dopplng at And said petitioner Is hereby directed later the i>resident. Mrs. P.oud -nbush. Towii Mcoilnc. ''K ' to give bublio notice thereof, by pob-' ; . lio?ne of Mr. and Mr». ,J. B, Tork, to Rive public notice thereof, by pub­ llshing this citation once In each week, .' 11.30 A. M, gave a good report of the renr t pr-s. -mine, .Vrtlcio 33-wants u« . rv- lishing this citation once In each week, ,..ie recently secured a cdltaife house n.irv;ird held Its anniiat town meet­ for three successive weeks, In the Shir­ idonts' ctmferenee in linsion .-i .^nded someone flfty dollars worth o- -i. t for three suocesslve weeks, In the ley Orsele, a newspaper published in Freight may'be pipped to Shirley, ,n i.-.weii. where they trill reside In ing on .M.nday. ' ThB ^warrant con­ Townsend Tocsin, a newspaper publish- bv hor. rri 'lenumstratc how to rn.-- .ir-r, . ._ -—ifc t,«emliut«r, FltcbbttrK •.Worcestsiv til- f:tnre. Mr. BfooktJ.stHI retains sisted I.f 'nrni.v-fourajtlcles and were od in said County, the last publication said County, the last publication to t>e The next meeting. Fehninry IK. at ' aj.ide siuss" generally.. Ar , :•;, to be one day, at least, before said one day, at leastlssst,.b«for, .b«fore sold CourtCourt,, and his position as road'man" With the C. disposed ot' as fo'IO'WB: ,"^- Oardnsr. Athol and other plaeja the Congregation.al church w-iil lie in and in some respects ono of r . i.iosr court, and by mailing, {tostpald. or de> by tnslllngtnalllng. postpaid,- Or dellvertodellvertn s a <: .-^argent Sons Corpbratlon .here. ArtKi's 1 and J.. Reports of the llvcring a copy of this citation' to svl copy of thU oiutlori'to all known per­ charge of the Economics and I'onser- important. Is to approprinl^- I'-i as Ya« VetVcaisna kr UrsTtlalaip ia oM vnrioiis -. w:- omccrsweri'accepted known persons Intereatsd In the estate, sons interested In'the estate, fourteen ten »a»«rs. Tke strcalatlMr at tks <•• vatlon committees and will he a snle compensation to t'ne fish ar ..-a me fhief Machinist's Mat«V,^-- Carroll seven days, at least, before said Court. daVs .at least b*f ore said Court. - • »avm .wa ••Mlsk. as*. Crma (|lskt ta and cntcrtanlment. Each member Is warden. The report of Joe w.iii as Furi.nsh of the U, S. D*«troyjer Tuck- An. .-. The sum of tiSfiii was ap­ Witness, Charles J. Mclntlre, Estlftire, Witness. Chartsa J. IfeIntirs,,Es<)ulre, «»ii «£•»•• •»«» tluui VUit.uttm^Mkn First Judge of said Court, t^ls fourth First Judn of said Court, this twenty- styMrly —XT alrsmlalsd tkrMaA tta naked to contribute two articles, one flsh nnd gome warden, oughr -n be , visited his pareota, JJfr.-*»* Mrs. propriated, as recomduciided by the se­ retid hy all who believe In pro-ecting|l day of February In the- year on« tbou- •Igbth day of January IS; the year one wotmmtm ta HarlWni mjSmn, to the fancy table nnd one to the food s. Furbush. recentljr,'-jiirtWratory lectmen, for the current expenses of sand nine hundred and nineteen thousand nine hundred and nineteen our birds agklnst extefmlnatioa. U -table Mrs Mary Balllle Bartlett, the going to Detroit. 'Tiath^^ptti he the year. ---'.-''•^ • 3123 F M. B8TT, Register. it»2 ^ F. V. E4Tr, R«

•^-*^Z'..4A-XS-/^-' ''e< ti.>'WiiigHii>Hi, iji *y.: SATURpAV, FEBRUARY 8, 1919 PAOE THBEE tho Influenza at his home here. >.-Lkln« where she e>t|>ect» t(, fjiend ul>'»L .Sun- ''OMMO.VWK.M.TH Iho'dlscaso In'Ayer, v.-here !;H U em- inonth in vi,-ltiiix ati'.l 'II-' .MAS.S.\<-.-Ill,'- I niuch n,-'.- moi r:: •'in. •'K-rr:i. MlrI.lJH.y,.x, •'. I-rormt.. (;.,ii- -. ployed. ' • . , j vaeatlnn a: ',! ret-teati- I'o t!i.- Ii,-lr--at.|.i ii'-.M .jf kin. We note that Kev, Maurice A Levy, | orville l> r [»'-;,-.in,- ,rir-r- .Martiri. w ' " has iK-'-r-. f w .\i.i,.\'-i: K, pastor of.the Green Av.-:;,:,- I'.ai.ti^:; j,,..,,..,. .^ .,. 1 days' f 1: ' 'jith at li'i ii-'\l.'.:" I.;!. 1:1 church In Brooklyn, N. v., a to-m.-r ; returned to hi.s shii. .,' .-Sunday ;i' West Townsend boif. has ;•.-..n ,all.-d | ,,0 '11, to -the pulpit of the K;:-t Ua; l-I 'I.-- church In Plttslleld. .Mr. Lev.', Av.y.yy 1; !.-.;ri.-i!l.r: . !-. iving 11 Mill , '." itiVe.-f,. 1^ \.'d .,:' not yet made his decision a.-t to \\ 1 . ir-,\-ite:.ii-c 1;', will accept. Mr, Lev.v left Newt.,,; ha... .siM.iit Center-five years ago t-. lil! ins |,re>- I-'arri:tr>' liL-^tltiit<-. Frovi'len... enl pulpit. —i-teil The fariiier-s' iri.sllt it-- tha: w i.^ -i.-ld • l..y the c!i:; ..-.- of I,uh- Mi.13. Gladys Newell, wh" makes .thy liouse was W'..-k. I her.- on Thursilay, .lamiar.v :ie. w;jr -'-ov- \ r tier's hor honlo with her grandnioth».-r. .Mrs. on .-stance wa- •adily : Henry B. Hathaway while attendlnt I Weil atl.-nded an'l |,rr)-.ed a most in­ ..--d in .- tii-s of th' imilv j the high school at- the Center. s|jent teresting', entet-tairiim: and itistl iietiv, ••>'.. as tile : - w-as I nd liy tlte week-end at her home ir. .New institution, I'here were two ses,-;.,ii- elta- Koing ot: at the same time, ',>rie it; Ipswich, N, H. i -.U'l '1'. ;:i- ot the upj,er- hall fot- the iv.eti. Uevut..: tr Ihjo is rt--'jverini; from I'.-ir ,1, >t be- Two more cases of the inlluen,:a an farmin;t tmti farm lllter^-.sts. an-i in • k u :ht* inliut'iiza. Willi reported at the. Bennett home. Irene I'Jire, the lower btill. for tlie women. .;:; st: >- ,. IJoi Firs-. .) i..rty- ;.-:.w Wii.:ro:ii>, spent th. lils; '!, and Stella, The earlier cases are im­ jef-ts connected with th'- horn,-. proving with tho exception of the 111 \\ thoi:s.i In the fort-noon Jorin H, Deartl- niotheV, who Is still quite ill. .Mr .Mi -,. l.ena < ,-s .Mar^-at-et t:ilked upon "Fertilizer.-^. <-r"i^s. r-ita Bennett Is able to be out to do th< Hoyt . of 1^11!;.- H t--;u-:iers in errtinds and at this writing no nurse tions." He oi)ened his 'alk by inf I'.eve re. wei-t- ;',;..-sts of Mrs. had been found to lake the place oi I>ressin;; upon his audience tlte neces !•'. C. Hartwel! We May sity of Improved methods of produc tho day nurse. Mi s E'ini H.i:- have a .small,store, \,:r. within i-v w-a"H tion. of cultlvatiott and of marketin^' and Mi.ss .Mar- J'jrie I*rocto:- we: you will And all tiie goo'i thir.;;,^ that: Frank Stickney is soon to inovi Hy unity of effort only can the lies' home foi- itiid- frotn the cottage on Main street y**ar vjteation f: Tuesdav until uia,y be procureil in a bigster store results be obtained. Speuking of fer and you will surely find the prices of which he has sold to A. G. Stftarns o) Muiuiu}-. lilizers. the old standby Is still barn our goods In proportion to the quality tho Center, into William Ltwrcncc't Tile Woman's clul' v.iil meet w-ith yard manure. Conitnercial fertilizer offered. Wc make a specialty of thu tenement on Elm street. r will suppletneiit the stable manure .Mrs. I-;thel l>r..ut.v on .Monday after­ ordinary needs of a household in, tho Oscar Mudgett lost his dog Sunday but must not be relied upon entirely noon at three o'eloek. wh.-n a musical jirovibion line and a trial will convinc* by poisoning. The dog was a young He emphasized the fact thai prope* entertainment will be given by Mrs. you that our goods are O. K. Wo English hound ahd a great pet In the plowing must be follo\t'ed by consian- Carrie Gilman Edwards, of Auburn- keep a good supply of the products family and much grief Is felt at his cultivation, w-hlch w-lll eradicate witel dale, and Mrs. Reed, of Weston. Non- of the -N'ational Biscuit Company, "on loss. He Wits out only a short lime grass, and conserve moisture In th*" membei;» will be gladly admitted on hau'l at al! limes. on Sunday forenoon and returned soil. Crop one acre weH, then tackU payment of the small entrance fee. 'CanrUM Y^U can't help cutting loose joy'us Till br desperately sick and In the afternoon other fields. Corn, potatoes, grain or It 1s reported that the J. B. Blodg- Ci.Sqrsolito •I reniarks every tinje you flush your Veterinary Shaw" was sent for.but In grass is a good rotation. Our Spocislty Is the HaiKlUnt of tfc« TDlMooe Co. etts. of Groton. who talked of return­ smokespot With Rrince Albert—it hits spite of every effort to save his life I.lmc is not .-V fertilizer, but ll Ulj- ing to Littleton, htive decided In the Vecjr Boba(xo,fim than you ever had in your smokecareer. of disposing of them. lime to the acre, once in five years. policeman. Don't mix conimercial inanures with •J-tiars because it has the qualify. Miss R. M. Graham, of Ayer. an­ barnyard manure. AT STUD Miss Amy Hardy Is boarding at the nounces that she has a complete line home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Hath­ He urged the use of farm machinery iS^>^J^ ^"'^ ^'^ ^^^ youll write it down of spring hats and trimniings. • „ Roistered Poland-China Boar otit of away during the Illness of Oscar Lov- w-herever possible. Buy a tractor. If .jOO-pound and 500-pound sire and dam. }^^y:A-aidnofhiteyava tongue or parch your throatl cring with the Influenza, but expects you can. Don't w.iste your elfort.s on wff." % 'amous cross with Chester (.:• A^d, any work that can be done by machin­ White. Improve your herd; don't breed' to return to the Levering home upon BOXBOROUGH to a scrub. Am, it never will! FOT,. otir exclusive patented process his recovery;- ery. While Mr. Dearth-wits instructing News Items. Mrs, Fred A. Patch, who has been P. H. BABCOCK • >^ cuts put bite and parch, Try it for what ails your tonguel the men In the upper hall Miss Fannie The next meeting of the Grange will In Brookline assisting In caring for Bond w-as giving a talk and demon­ come on valentine night.- The enter­ Telephone 9.4 . Mrs. Edward Patch, her son's wife, •' SS^I!i£3^'^»"*"^'^^'^^ tirt stration on "Child -w-elfare." in the tainment will be a valentine .party, in Harvard Fmlt Farm who Is-'recoverlng from pneumonia! {Harvard, Mass. hmtudort-md-tkttt rfjosr, pmeHeat pound crystal datihomidor ivUh lower and prepared several dainty ai>- charge of Miss Helen Burroughs. It : , 'PP^'''«'st«<'rtopt/uitke<^th^ returned 10 her home here after a petizing dishes, w-hich were sampled is hoped that the meeting will be open three weeks' absence. It J. Reynolds "1^^ Company, Winston.SaIem, N. C by the ladies of the audience and pro­ as there is so little ?tere at present In Harold Petts'is on the sick list with nounced good. the way of amusement for the yottng member. She 'was also a. fielpful <^ GEO. F.. FELCH TOWNSEND : Rev. Joseph McKean -will .take for an altaclf of grippe at his home here. At 12.30 basket luneh and the people to en3oy. Before the enter­ neighbor and friend In sickness. Be­ his subject Sunday morning, "The uni­ -Miss Agnes Coffey and iliss Evelyn Grange furnished hot coffee for all. tainment the officers of the Grange Center. sides her niother the deceased is sur- versal and ncver-falllng test," and In Ensor arc attending the cooking de­ At the opening of the afternoon ses­ who vvcrc unable to be present on in FLORIST ^' Notice Is given that anyone desiring •vlved by a sister, Mrs. Elki King, of the evening the Y. P,-S, C. E. meeting partment ot the do.niestic science sion the audience had greatly in­ slallatlon evening will be Installed. Oesicns a Specialty ^ . articles'-In the town warrant must pre­ this town.' ' will be conducted by Ian Rusk on the taught by the Girls' Economic club creased, from the attendance of the Mr.s. W. H. Furbush entertained her sent some to the Belectrneix not later topic "I win—and what will I?" a at the Center. morning. Georgti, E. Story was the sister and 'husband, Mr, and Mrs. Gage, AYER, MASS, S than -Saturdtiy. February ,8. ' Entertainment. consecration service-. Oscar. Mudgett was called to Ver­ speaker for the' afternoon, He said of Bralntree, over Sunday. .Thesupu'er and entertainment held that a farmer's success depends large­ At the Parent-Teachers' tissoclatlon The regular nionthly business meet­ mont last week to attend the funeral The Llvermore family received thir­ ineeting to be held next Tuesc^ay eve On Wednesday evening In the vestries ly upon si.x propositions—production ing of the Y. P. S. C. E. was/held on of a relative. teen pieces of mall al one time one ning Id the rhlgh school room, It Is of the Congregational church, under of live slock, size of business, crop Tuesday evening.at the home of the George Winchester, from Camp Up­ day this week from their son, Sergt. expected that Miss Ellis, the public the auspices of the L. B. S., was large­ yields, efllclency- of feeding, use of-la­ president, Mrs. Charles Hodgman, and ton, made a brief visit to his parents, \Vtiido Llvermore, now* In France. liealth nurse, •will bp the speaker of ly attended,, ^t supper some "o'f tho bor and diversity. Nearly all- the mon­ besides the regular routine of busi­ Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Winchester of the evening. , -'" :, • tables' were re-s'et 'and the vestries ness It was voted to extend the term ey taken on the farm comes .from the Fred Furbush spent the week-end the Squannacook Inn last Saturday, w-ith friends In Boston. flutosior Hire TT^ll filled at the evening's entertain­ sale of live stock and their products. Throe bf ourvlllage lads had-a nar­ of ser\-Ice of the recently elected of­ having been detailed to escort a spec­ ment. The program consisted of If we compete w-ith western farmers Zenas Lovelace's wife arrived from row escape from drowiBng,''VY'eane3; ficers and committees from six ial car coiitalning nineteen invalided 5- and 7-Passenger Cars pleasing piano duets by Miss Hazel we must adopt their methods and im­ Scotland last week. He was married day, while skating on the river. Rilph months to one year, as the topic cards soldiers from Camp Upton, to a hos­ Copp and Albert G. Seayer, Mrs, Icea prove on them, or we shall be put out while working with the forestry unit "Wilson, •while ;skating , near Black to be purchased are {or that length of pital in Boston. AU these soldiers Cowdrey and Mr, Seaver). a reading, of business. Mr. Story took up each at Ardgay, Scotland, last year, and Prompt and Efficient Serrice with Rock, broke through i{he-Ice and his time. I* was also voted to hold a pub- were mutilated by the war, having finely given by Principal.Prank'.'Alt- of the six propositions in a very capa­ when the unit was sent home his wife companions,- Teddy Lancey and Gharr lie supper and expei-lence social In the lost one or both legs or arms and In Carefnl Brhers man and the closing nuniber.'a laugh-^ ble manner to tho entire satisfaction expected to follow .him as soon as a il6 O'Brien, bravely rushed to his res-, vestries on Wednesday evening of next some of the cases Jill the limbs -n-ere able playlet, "Packing the mi&Ionary and Instruction of his audience. passport could be procured. However, cue., . .,'.-,, .^ . week, followed by the experience so­ injured. barrel," the chars^cters being Imper­ cial, at which each member will give White he -was speaking upstairs sdon after her husband left she was The February:?neetlrig of the fiilrth- sonated- by Mrs. C. .Meade, Mra W. a dollar and reliite their-experience In The regular' monthly business meet­ Miss Franc B. Hancock In a charm­ taken sick with diphtheria and was day_club^wiy!'Jheid-on. TUesdiiy s^t the Seaver, "Mrs. . G. Clarke, . Mrs. • R. earning It, and all Interested In the ing of the Y. P. s." C. E. will be held ing manner was giving a de'monslra- very ill for nine w-eeks In a hospital In E. A. Whitney iom'e bt Mrs. Geoiyie Davis, wltlilMrs. Lancey, Mrs. E. Spencer, Mrs. A, Bliss, work and welfare of the society are Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. tion on clothing to a largo audience of Edinburgh. If was very good news to J. Sawyer, Mrs, H. Miller and Mrs. AYER, MASS. ilrs. 1.. Seaver, Mrs. G. Gates aiid the Invited to contribute wh.itever sum Charles Hodgman. the president. ladies. On designing and cutting i^:iT- her husband to hear that sbe was on .Grace . Wright, hostesses. The after­ ilisses Swimm and Copp. • Albert G. they may earn for that purpose. An ments. colors, combinations, etc. the way over, and he met her In Bos­ noon program was In charge of Mrs. Office Ijandr to Railroad Station- Seaver also rendered pittno solos dur­ entertainment will also be provided Both sections of the institute came ton on Wednesday afternoon. Three Bliss, a Washington and Itlncoln at­ LUNENBURG ing the evening's program. .\ social by tbe social committee and a good together in the upper hall at this time of her brothers Jiave given their lives ask anyone—they all know •Whitney. ternoon. Readings were given by followed. time Is anticipated. Neivs Itema. " an'l witnessed a very interesting corn in the gre.-it war: another is still w-ith Mr^, Heyward, Mrs, Atwood and Mrs. Telephone 53-2 shellinir contest. There w-ere ei'-tht the army, an'i a .-ister is a Red Cross Bliss, and roil call quotations from The caucus at the town hall on .Mon­ Red Cro.s.«. Miss Dorothy Kaddy h,is been con­ contestants, each of w-hom had pro- nurse. •Washington, given by tho members. day evening is likely to prove of con­ flned to her home for a few days with il a half bushel of ears. 35 ibs. by Mrs. Clarence Meade, read a poem on The folloy.-ing statement of the re­ siderable local Interest, and it is ex­ a severe cold. we;-,-ht. results ;is follows: Fiicutrd Town Meotlii^r. "Februarjt" Refreshments were serv. ceipts and expenditures of Townsend pected will bring c.-jt a large attend­ Har!-:.-. -'y itts, 14 oz, si.eiie'i corn: ed by the hostesses. branch of Fitchburg chapter. Red Kenneth Reed is spending a few ance. There are three otTlee.^ which, A: the t'-.wr. ir.ff /r.i.lay tn- days with relatives In Boston and vi­ %V, I-', Tvi.-r, 29 !!>s, 5 oz,: Lewis I.. Piano Tunlno Crpss, from Its organization in May, w-hen combined. i,ay about $1000 per ictt,'d: The Roosevelt memorftil senlce Is 1917, to December 31. 1918, as sub­ cinity. year, and the question of "Who's H:u:iii---tor. •^'.t llis. 4 oz,; \Vil!i,im B WILMOT B. CLEAVES to be observed on S.unday at the morn­ H.i,-. war-'i 29 Ills,: i-'ernald Hrow-n. mitted by the ti-easurer. T. E. Flarity: who'.'" or w-ho will sret these oftiees is n;uilt-:-;iTri :••:• or.' ing ser\-Ice of the Congregational The regular monthly business meet­ Phono 20 HARVARD, MASS. Two lawn partie.s at R. G. Fessenden's being discu.-ssed l,.v the v.)ters of the -'-; It..^, iO oz, an-i TJe\erly i'rice and Si;non I' HaL-er; church with sermon by the pastor on ing, of the Squannicook steamer coni­ $1,445.17. second Red Crcs.s war fund tow-n. There are several j-.iiin,:.' men K.iwMTil K H.JW.^ 2-- S lljs, (acii, G '. Hur:- Pbmoa For Sale and Rent lylj* "Sources of ,dcmoci^acy." By invita pany was held at Engine hall oti ^klon- drive $1.S2T.S0, membership attd re­ in town perfectly capable of tillin,::; the .Tnhn K. i"^*ai-th t!u-n cut lip ha::' a Thf tion of the Methodists, the Congreea day evening, trans.acting the routine \V. HI: newals ST 14. donations and gifts olllce of tow-n clerk, treasurer or tax w ,1 in:;,' ou.i !. H.. '•• tionallsts win worship with the sister luisiitess and the usual roll call. \- FRANK S. BENNETT S202.95. Fitchburg chapter' 25';; re­ collector. Now the questinn is. who I.. I,. K;rhar .• W. 1 ;•::•:•,,• church on the hlll,. when the pastor, Frank Adams and Dr. Rollins, from fund on war fund $45i>.&5. band con­ shall they be?. .Attend th':- caucus on •it" thf Kinn T'liir •;ui thcr e\]da::',' :. Harnvii: ; Succ«»«or to ARTHUR rEN^TBR • Rev. J. O, Long, who Is a w-estcrn Jamaica Plain, were at the .Vdams certs $i>i;tj.95, l-''itchl)urg chapter, re­ -Monday evenin.s ami help (ieci.ie the ; \\y~> ^vnrk o i \\\i' bufoaii it: \<\ the ; man, frpm the slate of Illinois, will farm; Bayberry hill, for the week-end, fund on memberships $3S6.17, ma­ question. : \'int.'if:rs -it" iiu-n-.bor.-ihii), ;•. f:>-f whil ittaking the trip by auto. j Insurance Agent and Broker speak on "An Illinoin's view of Abra­ terial sois An:u- iJooro tiiok 111 • ;datfo:' ham Lincoln." sources $l:>'),02. a total of $0,297.94; Mr. and Mrs. Justiit C. Hodgman, Another meetinrj tvhich is .-tl%va\,- ; .iiul ti-hi ;h.'• ;".-oi)lc' how t.i who have been spendiitjT the winter UJOS street Turnor'a Bldr. At the morning service at the Meth­ expenditures. Second Red Cross war fi-aught with sreat l-.cal interest, an.l : salt iiri.l vrr I odist church the pastor is to preach fund $1.827,S'). materials and supplies -.vith their children in Lewiston. Me., should be largely .-rttende,- i.ecause nf :st!-,ii;nir with j AYER, MASS. have returned to their home here. the tender memories of former friends the second .sermon in his .series, of $1.6S0.tJ2. cost of entert.aintnents had ;usr i^^-t e-. Mrs. P. W. "Christian stewardship"—"The stcw-- $261.34, Fitchl>urs ,chapter, member­ Mr. and Mrs. Xevins. of Worcester, and days gone by. is the annrial meet- A:to;.'o:h.-: in,g of the Old Hon e Week a.^soeia- mincrha ardshlp of life." ship and renewals $702. equipment spent the week-end with Mr. and Airs. aad pro:it;.it ••--w Wa'.ki-r $10.50. Christmas boxes $79.65, home tion. This meetinit will be held in therf- ir.ay Mrs. Etta Rockwood, of South Frank Hamilton, at their iionte on 1 .iii\>^: .1 \.:::\\. l:.rl!:.r';>on service dei)artment $11.80, hospital the lower town hal! on Satiii'lay e\e- Brookline, N. H., came to town the Stevens' hill. I.f.i ruitittf.;;;;- 1, I..--1 .-T .\1 nlng, February S. tt is hoped that • re. I flrst of the week to spend the remain- garment department $2^8.45. surgical Miss Florohce- Boutelle. younger there will lie a large attendance ot the ' VMte.l to ta: •e J4 •' t..f the exte der of the winter with her-daughter, dressing department $5S.50, miscella­ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bou­ School Prizes. .\\var r.tiripii v- , S.I-'." for s;i>ii' t of |... it ; }Sa and half and thus leaves a cash balance of comed. Officers are :•> bo eloctod ar.il their stock of sick list for a few days with stoutach •.nK for tlie .'iw .iriliair . :" of 'io>^ t:i-\ for t -.e l.Lr.irN ; S:;.'oj to dc- Miss ' Gertrude Hlgglns, of the $1,334.33. other business Iran -ictod. Be prt'.<- trouble. the school ;:.i yiUT.s v. t fT:\\ town ..\{M nses th.- <^urrent year: Framlngham Normal school, •with her ent and have .a voi.•^ in planning for hall on last w >•• k Fn :,:...i • .•%•.•;•::;•_-. The to tiiithonze tl... tow;; treasurer to lior. classmates, the Misses Bertha Thomp­ Mrs. Anson Wetherby. from Ayer, a grand celei)ratii :: next sumniGr. son and Gertrude Wing,- as guests, Club Meeting. has been a recent guest at the home of proRTam op.-: '-i! •with: -^inrirz of ;>a- row money i:, laess a r;." t'lr current ex- when we hope "'jur '•oys" from over- CEMETERY spent the week-end and oVor Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Steven Shepherd. triotic :•.>•• 'iirf(ti(.r. of peilses in antir:ip;lt;o; ; of taxes; th:f The Squannlcook Home Economics seas and front ser-, ice in tho state.s > nriiier with Miss HIgglns" parents, Mr. and Mis.s Southw ..•t' I-'ara-y of the taxes should h.. •a'^te.'. accorilini; to club met last week Friday afternoon Miss Marie Lewis, who has been win be home t'^ he!1 the thins alonj;. Mrs. F. S. HIgglns. state aprir';: i.'" toM the .»itory law; the artici' s-... if the tow:; MEMORIALS In the high school room. It was boarding at the Squannlcook Inn, has and have a genuin ' real pood time, of a Brork: ho started itar- would p:i> .an .a "bread-making" afternoon and the removed lo the home of Mr. and Mrs. celebration and re;i lion. "il -.ilary of J5 r.. I which they would be pleased to Interesting Address. mothers of the club members were W. A. Boutwell. denlng wh.i; eipl.t u'ra'ie at the nioderjitiir ' passed oyer; yote | In hor annua: rej Tt Mi.-^s I., Fran- .school and \ :ti.ijnt.iinerj h.im- of the town tr> Kev. A. J, Dyer, the newly-appoint­ guests. Miss Dorothy Stockln, assist­ Mi.ss Evelyn Newton of the Center, ontinue the .\us. j have intending purchasers inspect cea Jones, librarian •t the Hitter Mo- self, worki: tr.lHan hallot s; ed secretary,. bf the Totar At>stlnence ant coiinty agent, was present and who has been day nurse at.the homo aioaB iniw.irU.«i 11. yes 21, no 20. ^ moirlal public libra '. says that 105 by his o'wn voted to arcejit society,, spoke In the Congregational Za.'ve a demonstration en bread-mak­ ot the Bennett family, whero six of .••ntertiii; raillece books wore added io purcha.cen obliged '" " It', th.' :.ank. lo: voted to I maklnff a total of '.>?,*:-. :9 volumes in Mr. Far!r-y : authorize tile PARK STREET union service in the evening. Mr, Dy­ Knight). It w-as gratifying to observe to resi.itn and is III at the .Squannacook •••••; of ir.ollon •' accept i circulation on .laTiti nv 1919^9829 pictur»^s sh ' sums ..f tnor,.-\ er spok<^ of the phenomln'al vlclorr for the Interest taken by each girl in re­ Inn, Mr. Bennett's mother, from • • lis. ,-, iiijr books wore takf n n f fhirinp the year and illu^Tr !" tery ads: \ o',..l nation-wide and constitutional prohi­ sponding to the request to bring a Worcester, is at the home and trying I \^" 'fk .!.>:io and 2957 period c iN makinp the total by the b i\ - exten.d th.e wor'- : Ayer, Mass. bition and said that the victory de­ loaf of her own making and the friend­ to l^^ the work until .-mother day •""ttif.i the circulation K'.T ''• This .«;hows (lulte Via: cl;iV. :.i- • •••.•v..iL and that the se;,.,--. manded radically new methods In tho ly criticism of each loaf by Miss Stock- niirs'- ean be proci;rre, A \\ •z-A\(' her Sunday that the remarkable -v'lctory was a part Sewing club .ind.two of tho members school class, •!, - \\. T.," a real C'lltirch >oii.s r,irm.s, Dwclllucs. I'urnllnrc and >fcr- I."His Weleh from r<-;'perell is vis­ ard '•• . of the world-wide-, movement for civic of that club, Agnes Coffey and Evelyn treat, and ar, • ' - of fun on Wod- .\t the • (•.Tjitile rruary 29. at the pri?.' - \\ : •:• ::phoi- 'he l.adl.s- , Mary Welch. stronj; <'nat:e. She jf-ive ;(:-.^- : • • ^ • n.dh Intt otlie.-r- • . • . humanity. The present work of tho p'lw;'!-! K. Sen\e; from Brooklyn, thoni a caiid,\ ; ii:: It wa.« the tenth ho\-s , ' • "f thesn I'.utro-,i-h> i . • ' • WaAliIncton S|j-e<*t .-WKU. M \*^S. N'. Y,. visited his ; ';i:ents. Mr. and pr;z.^>- 1' n; o'lo dol- society Is to be a cariipaign of con- West. birthday <>r .* • • ' '. their number. y. p.: .M:->. Mrs. G. A. .Seaver l:i^ t week Thursday. Richard Tons, t! I.tr tn ;\% :.i.I o.irned POULTRY WANTED "sclousne^ and to teach the people to ijd thero were ton Mrs. I', li V...t • . The moiithly meeting of the Ladles' boys prosont :»> tw,-, ..• :h-' •••.'^11 nanios appropriate thLl freedom for action Mrs. I.oulse Mcl-".:i ifott of this vU- • pi-y It. After the \V. .Velso- \i.- 1 rowi s. HOAsrr.H,*; and nnoiLKiw Baptist Benevolent society was held ^n candy pullincr '• ' • wy 1 V'\ nnd re- and greater efflclency that the dcstruc- iage, who wllh her - KfjRhter Inci are OI,. were SOUK'S and were 1 ;i Mr.s, W 11 ia roU M.XKKin-; .Mso. I'LIJ.KTS the Baptist vestries bn Wednesday and readings by .Mr^ '>I H i.-J!in!;s s,'iid ' tlon of the llqiior" traffic has been put now at their home in Somer\-lllc, h&s \v)M-^ton. Sho knows ceived •• Last Sitnda 1,. ; th(! attendance was good, twenty par'- what ton-yoar-o" he WOUi. ' ••'•en set.H of In our hands. received 0filcl.1l notification of .the ! !n>ys like and a roal, formerly- {.a-ti : • •" •' O. B. OLSEN taklng of a box lunch at noon. At the 0M-faflhIonephone, Pepperell 59-12 Tho funeral of Mrs, Elva Parker meeting, the first 'Wednesday In Mrs. T,. A ^^^.ston and littlo son List Sunday Ice Was held for him nt his church tn sots or ; • Mii: to Jfifi for King, aged twenty-five,years, who died March, and tho following., committee left town on Sav;:.lay for a visit With Somervllle last Sitnday. He was born N'arlnns k, • h,;. r.«. reqiiirlng a At the Punda-. last • r from pneiimonla last Sunday, nt Grass- of arrangements ..were a'ppolnted; friends in \Visco;,sin. Thcy were tb In tbls village and here his childhood period <^f •. r ."'^ .md p.aid thoro cl.-xy tho annua: t.: -.-.•^ n •^•ptinK- w,,- mere,!;?. H., was held here ot the Mrs. Herman L. Sttektiey, Mrs! Charles be met in Chlrairo on Sunday noon was passed: and as a community a were bov^ . > jri: .u]st a.s capa- held. The .irr ;ai • P'o - 'if -focret-i r> E. D. STONE home of lier mother, Mrs. Elsie Park­ Hodgmttn. Mrs. Abbott Hodgman. Mrs. by her brother vo they would not deep spread grief Is fell at hlg loss, ble as "h - ' >: hoy nnd he bo- ftnd treasurer wfv e:-. •• ;.\ Miss VT:%- er, on Wednesday aftemoon at two JoscplC 'McKean and Mrs. Alden A. mako tho lorn: jo irney entirely alone. Fire Iiunrdnce Agent mingled with pride.that he answered Moved th- .«,.', i.r.">\«' it po. cilia HaKcr Th< ,, •;, . : for this ><^.ir o'clock. Rev. A. I* Struthers, pastor Sherwin, i .^ Her many fri<^nds here aro hoping ahe his country's call and s.tcrlflced his arc as follows M \" }I Kurhush. AntacBobOe aitd Oordwood Ii of tho ConKregatlonol church. In I» flndlnff as rlti'^-^nt weather there W,. A. Boutwell.'proprietor-of the life In the noble cause for whictt so supt.: Simon r. 1 •''••' n.^isf. siijtt.: charge of the services. Mrs. R, Cow­ aa we are onjoyinir horo. LITTLETON BMbcr A. Stopo. TjvwiHliMr brick store," spent Wednesday In Bos­ many of the young and valient died. Miss rrlscllla H !-• r\x\(\ '.Tf:\%.'. drey and-Urs. F. B. HIgglns sang by ton, purchasing his spring stock of ; A, very .Interesting program of the Mr.Vand Mr*; I'arl E; Brown are Mro. O. W. Burro;. iipt. primary request, "Let th'e tower lights be .burn­ hosiery, etc. i monster beneflt given by the Auxiliary off for,tho Snnnv South. Florida being News It**in* dept.; Miss M.ari. .>..>. (M-irdst: ing", and ."Leaning on the everlasting Miss Ruth H,iKer eorp of the Now York fire department, their destination Thoy left town oiT Tho Od • 1 .V u •J will hold a spPcl/U pi.Tn i-*!; M rs. HERE IS A CHANCE arms." Iiiterment was In the family Oscar N, Lovoring has recovered *rir firemen, at the Hlppo'drome, Jan'- Thursday mormn;:, January 30, In- O. 'ft'. BurrouKhs. - llc schools. She was an Industri­ fow daymen a btjslncss trip. aro o\p' • h.- present. At tho pointed the followi ••h.-itor.-- and K oeven-roora coKfttrn with bath and corp oit Brooklyn, Is given the library cai'ds havo b'^'^:i T-^relved from; them ous wonuin and In times past. When In ClOPO o!" • • •'.-.-.c -Tn oyster supper collectors of he chur .nre Mrs. Rtoara ho.nt. firood location. For furth­ The cases of Inflnenza in the Ben­ reading-room and placed on the" read­ from Richmoi :i Va.. so thcy, aro well toym, she wais a WUUntr worker In the will he -. ' . '.vliirh the Odd T-a- A. C. Waltt. Mrs. (• s r ^ish. MiP.« er particula.ra Inquire of nett family arc Improving,, with the ing table on^ their wav, social lite- of tho chu/oh, grange and dies .T; .' wives are Invited. K. W. Mead .Mr.s. r S;o.^^•.. A exception of tho mother, who Is still THOMA.S P. MUI.T.IN, Birthday club, of Which she 'was it Mlns Fannie ' Graves took a-trlp It Is ho; ^ meniher will he meeting-of th- oomm;f vns held on very seriously 111 , Oscar N Levering Is quite III with to Columbii". • >: >. a. few days agro. prcrer.t •• • : ,.• -ii-r notice. January 31 .at tho home ,Mrs. Stee'.e. Room 3, Bank Building, Ajcr.

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FAQE FOXm SAtURpAY, FEBRUARY 8.'Xdl9 ••^t;_-^KV ; '• ? II I I I Tl • OlfE DOIiIiAR AND FOTX CENTS ' Mrs. WllUam Souther is visiting Affer *r^ eloquent dissertation on tered the spacious hall which was ar­ •wherfe h« put tn another call fbr help, tistically decorated with palms, lau­ PKB YEAR m ADTANOB with relatives In CambrldBe and Bos­ tho matter of town roads hy Solcct,- """J «o'o« to the cellar tor a ladder ton, man McKee tho town voted to appro- rel and carnations and stood under an Which he dragged to tho scene .of the •attractive arch, where the ceremony nre on the-Oppoalte side of the road. An AdTortiseiiientfl Appear ta AQ tbe Miss Margaret Bruce i.s entertain­ priute {li'.UOO for roads apd" bridges. Thp meeting then adjourned, after was •per(ormed. FollowinK the re­ As horsao^ed.the.spot the chemical Tea Paper* 'We PnUlali. ing her Groton friend. Miss Clariss.-i Ooburn. In Lakewood. N. J. Her sis­ passing the largest budget In the ception the happy couple left for a engine, arrlveld.'s-Mr,. Lawrence gives town's history; wedding trip to parts unltnown. They tho credlt^toif the'property saved, first •*Tti ta the Pen aqd Pr«» we morUU ter, Mlss~^Ethel Bruce, Is also with her. Article 4. Voted' to raise and ap.- win be at liomo to their friends iiftcr tij Mr..BIdbd tor hto cjulck action, and owe. There have been three flro alarms second to thft'chemical'engine, with­ All w* believe and almott aU we sounded during the past week.. The proprlale $29,560 for support of April 1' at their home on Blossom know," street, Fitchburg. out which ,»nahy huljdlngs would have last one was at George Shattuck's publlo schools; electric light depart­ been destroyed. \- - : '• place In West Oroton when the corn ment— maintenance, Inftome from Mr. nnd Mrs. Nye were especially . Iteme of local Intereat are eollclted favored In the number and value of and muet always be accompanied br burn was totally destroyed. The main sales; note due .November, $1500; In­ ' Warner's Corsets, Bust Prodf, tbe name of the writer, not (or publl- barn to which \\ was attached caught terest on note, $58.13; 3% on cost of their wedding gifts, tokens of love •'•^'\;VAYER, . eatlon. btrt- ae a ruarantee of rood and at one time it looked as if all plant, $980,04; for municipal build­ from their many, friends who extend , fj^' Guaranteed not to Eip or Tear, Calth. and will alwaya be conaldered to them their best wishes for their fu­ •trlctly conSdentlal, 'Kindly mallltem* buildings would go when a second ings, $275; lighting streets, $1350; To tho Editor':-',;., ; •; , -\ They artj the best in quality, fit •eon after the day of occurrence and do alarm was sounded Just as the flre construction, for' Improving trunk ture- happiness and prosperity. net wait unnecessarily. In the retfn'f.V:permlsiIon of Sun­ mr/ie'i department :irrived. They were suc­ line, house connections and extension day .Movies-^'In. the town •bt Ayer we aud v.'orkmanship , Try thim and cessful In ex;in;;uishlng the flames. to house of E. H. Clark, $3260; pub­ 5tS. G. ' have an example of how Important a 'Gueiranteed The regular'weekly drill of V.o. K. you will be greatly pleased Lace Ckaase ot Addxc^ This occurred about 2.30 o'clock Tues- lic library $1450; roads and bridges, change. In public policy can be' mtide ^tist-Probf BubMrlbers wishing the postofflce day afternoon. ,{12,000; flro department — mainte­ 19th regt., M. S. G., was held on Wed­ without any consultation ; of > publlo * . fiont and lace,back models at nance, unexpended balance and $1700; nesday evening, February '•>. at "30 address ot the paper chanced, must -Miss Kutli Blood spent last week­ opinion. But this change Is not neces­ , $2.50» $3.00 &nd l^.50>, •end us. both the old and new address forest fires, $300; hydrant' service— In the town hall, which owing to'the sarily permanent arid can bo revoked It jfiorsGts^ aod also the name et the paper they end with her parents, .Mr, and Mrs, F. Groton, $1260; West Groton, $575; closing of the hall on account of the rec«lr*. . ' ' . .M. Blood. the public wUi; It so. What Anally be­ town Incidentals, $1000; support of epidemic of influenza was the. first drill comes of Suhday will depend entlVelv .Ml.ss Kdlth Carpenter, of Cam- Saturday,'FcUruury ,8, l»lii poor, $1000; district nurse, $1000; held since' January 8. Practice was on what people make o( It. It can be­ bridKc, is boarding at the home ot Mr. ice for drinking fountains, $50; band given In' close order work, manual of come gradually a working 'day like and Mrs. Arthur Wood, Whiting concerts, $300; salary of selectmen, arms and In Individual squad move­ Monday or a wide open holiday like ^ GROTON avenue. $750; board of health, $400; Mpmo- ments; After tho company was dis- Saturday. Or it can, remain' what It rlal day. $100; water for drinking riilssed at 9.15 tho annual meeting of Nemo Corsets Ac?TS Items. • The Ladles' Benevolence society, of has been, a day when business and the Congregational church met In the fountains, $100; care of old burying tho Groton Rifle club was held and the ' Tho fire alurm which so-.ir..!eil .at commercial entcrtainraeht- are re­ church parlor on Wednesday after­ gro'und, $40; caro of clock on Baptist old, oiflcers were reelected. These, of­ stricted and encourogment given to .J.rlS List Saturday evetiih^ was occa- noon to sew for the Red Cross'. There church, $25; tree warden, $200: sup­ ficers are: Capt. Branlgan, pres.: Corp. ;• sloncd by the. 6.30 train frotii Worces­ the best things In IKe,'the things that was a good number present. pression of moths, $1138.60; police Torrey, vice prea; Sergt. Sabine, treas.: are caslly-orowded out oftbe-rest of DON'T BUY INFERIOR IMITATIONS ter to Xaahua, which set fire to the Sergt, Lawrence, sec.; and Sergt, Shaw­ Mrs. William Gleason left town on depiirtment, $1300; new schoolhouse the week; homei life, good reading, 'sras's near'the barn beljnKii'S to Mrs. notes, $3400; salary of treasurer, $165; ns exectitlv.a.'offleer, Tho membership •Ellen A." Barrows^. The nolKhbors,. Wednesday (or Newton, where she thoughtfulness, religion, . YOU CAX GET TIIE GEXUIXE use of park commissioners, revenue of In the •RJ^i'^Iiib Is open to any male We .all knotv "•per(octly well that seeing the blaze, went immediately to win enjoy a vlsltrtvlth her sister, Mrs, over sixteen years of age living In Gro­ David Gibson. playground and $100; interest on these best things are readily pushed her assistance, and the flre was soon notes, $3000; premium on Insurance ton or the surrounding'"towns. 'The NEMO CORSETS extlnjrulshed. Tho annual Washington birthday aside b>s the noisier or more exciting policies, $186.30; town officials, $90fr; club has a flrst .claSs outdoor and "In­ things. Any ' child will choose, the Mrs! M, J, Blood enjoyed having party given by the ladles o( the Uni­ town hall, revenue and $800; Squan­ door range available and anyone de­ AT OUR CORSET DEPARTJn3I^JT tarian church will take place In the movies rather than school 1( given a . .her son with her over the week-end, nacook hall, revenue and $100; re­ siring to Join may. becomo a-member, chance. But we encourage school at­ Albert Blood, of Beverly. town hall on Friday, evening, Febru­ pairs of walls in town hall, $300, upon the payment of one dollar—the For service and full \alue vre recoiumcnd ary 21. Dancing from eight until one. tendance by law, because we think" it Mr. and Mrs-.W. H. Bruce are en­ annual dues—to; Sergt. .Stephen W. Is worth more In the ciid. Newhall's orchestra b( Marlboro wi/l Art 5. "Voted same method as last Sabine, treasurer, Groton. the Nemo Corset Ask to bee the following tertaining for a few weeks Dr, and furnish the music. year for collection of-taxes; I'/i to be Shallwe encourage by law a Sun­ Mrs, Powell, of Jtludson, N. H. allowed collector as salary. day given over to the best things? stjles Mrs. Everett Hudson and daughter To the EUUor:. Miss Augusta Hartweil, an atint of Art. 6, • Voted that the compensa­ Shall we mako It as easy as possible Dorothy returned home on Sunday To the selectmen and citizens of Gro­ (or the grow^lng chlldre'n oC.the com- No, 303 $3.50 Amos Ames.. who took care of Mrs, from a few days' visit In Lawrence. tion of the engineers, forest flre- ^ Ulllan Ames Stevenson In her last wards and onglncmen remain the ton: • • • - . ' munlty to observe Sunday? Shall we No, 309 ^.00 sickness, is III 'wltji'the Influeiiza at Mr. and Mrs, J. B, Blodgett, have same as last year. . . Oh February 3, 1919, at the annual make Sunday Into; a plain holiday, or No. 319 $5.00 Dr.' klboiirn's hospital. ' . moved Into the tenement In Dr, Kll­ town meeting ot' Groton,' my' name, keep It In any sense a holy day?"That bourn's house' on Pleasant street. Art, 7. Voted to authorize the town Is the Issue he(ore the p.eople ;ot Ayer No 322 $5.00 - Mrsl Frank Woods, having been out treasifrer, subject to the approval of absolutely without .my knowi.edge and SarSuuciaei of healtjt for several weeks past, Is "The house on Station avenue now consent, was used upon stickers.as a In' this matter of Sunday movies nt the selectmen, to borrow such sums of the local theatres. - Angus Dun, able to be out of. doors again. occupied by Odber Foikins and family money In anticipation of revenue for candidate for'\.elcctlon to the cointait- Is soon to be repaired and new Im­ the year 1919 as may be necessary for teo on appropriations, thus running If Is .understood -that Joseph ^ar- provements added, and later will be me In opposition to my (rlend and 'Federation House Notes. cellu8,-vrho, has been working at the ctirrent expenses. Occupied by its owner,' Miss Elleif townsmaUj, Moseley Hale. The motion picture play for Satur­ QrotOh Inn. tor sometime, ig soon to Denahy. Art. 8. Voted not to raise and ap- ' open an automobile garage in the I am Informed that 1 was elected by day afternoon .and • evening will be propridte $260 to'purchase a regis­ a vote of 102 to 88,'which (fict I deeply Elsie.Ferguson In "Rose of the world." building known as the .Forbes black­ Thei Alliance- held; r their i;egular tered Holstein bull (or the town (arm. w WE ARE 11'^^^^'^^ 1 ^^^ "^^^ smith; shop on. Station, avenue. meeting at the home o( Mrs. Charles regret. ,, Sunday evening there 'will be' a large B- Ames, Thursday afternoon. There Ar<..9. Votiid, to raise and appro- The arrangement was a political Itaw^renCe Stevenson is sick with the Roosevelt Memorial service at' 7:30 was a good . number • present. The ..'rlate $1000 to build a cement side­ triek, pure and simple, and I cannot o'clock, jphe progratn, haS b'een :ar- Infltienza at the home of his grand­ members were pleasantly entertained walk on the east side of; Hollls street, be a party to It, The matter Is. a rangcd in conjunction With the War father, Amos Ames, Champney street. from Chdmpney street to the cemetery lADIEStlOMEJOlJRNAL by the reading of poems by Mrs. Hen­ small oni In ItseK but it illustrates the Camp Community Servfce. All the .Mrs George Wade ' has returned rietta Chase. . , entrance. ' . methods used In larger matters-;- churches and schools In tbwn. liave; , Iroia Greenfield? where she has been Art. 10. Voted $750 to extend the methods o( which I-do not approve^— •been Invited to -Join in the service. visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Baptist church. Sunday services— Morning at 10.30,' subject. "John the street, lighting system from the end and I am bitterly hurt to find that There will be extra, mijslc by an or-; ^^PAITERNSY% Bartz. . •, • , Baptist and his minlstrj-." Evening at thereof to the house of Nesblt X.. anyone who knows mc and niy record chestra, good singing and aii address 'The meeting of the Community club. seven, subject, "The essential and up- Woods on the Boston road. could have believed that I would up­ by. a well-known, speaker. '•. , hold such methods. which!was held last week Wednesday. to-date message <*• Christianity." ,, Art. 11. Voted to raise and appro­ Tuesday, February 11, will be game MONTHLY STYIE BOOK FREE^ All my II(6rI'ftave tried.to be fair " was at the home of Mrs.. James F; The great spy, picture,..;."Stolen' or­ priate $76,000 to build a new road night.' " • - '. •• Ciilverv instead of.with Mr?. George from Groton to the Ayer line on and square with-friend and (oo alike ders," a two-reel Charlie ChapUn com­ and I am too bl,a to change:my habit, \ Wednesday af 7.30 p, in,, there "will " Culver, as given Iii last wc^k^s Issue. edy, ."The iareman',:' • and Gaumont Falrmers" row, to be paid in notes.of be. an illustrated lieoture free xS' solr , : iS«vcral letters have, recently been $16,000 each year, beginning with this to sacrlflce my self respect or-to :be News makes a' hlg show (or today at turned Into a politician. diers and the ptibirc, commemorating 'received • from. Groton boys who are Proctor's Strand, Ayer. Sunday, Enid year. ' ' Lincoln's birthday, the subject being •with the Headquarters Company, lOlst Therefore,, .Ihei^by and now, do(- Bennett In "Seeking happiness." Sun- The following toWn oflicers were Inatcly and a'bBolutely, d'eclln.e to ac­ "The historj- of the • flag."'• The \et- Geo. B. Turner & Son Engineers, France, saying that they day matinee at.'S.SO; evenings at s\x elected, figures being given only where tiircr will be E. H; Marble of; Worces­ . live been asked to pass In their am- cept such an election or to serve.upon and eight o'clock. there was a contest (or ofllce: Select­ the above comnjlttee. • ter. The school children have been inunltkon, rifles and other equipment. man", assessor and overseer q( the poor To the citizen* o( Groton who voted especially invited; ' . ' aiid expect 'to start (or home soon. It Town Meeting. for tiiree years, Frank A. Torrey; Friday evening; February ' 14. at > is thought they will reach the United town clerk, Appleton H. Torrey; treas­ for me in good-faith I wish to express The annual town meeting held on my sincere appreciation of their good 7.30 the entertainment wIlL be given ^Statea about the first of March. urer. Grant W. Shattuck: school com­ •by the young peop'leof the Le.o'inlnster Mo'nday In the town hall was attend­ mittee, 3 years, Cora L. Farwell. will and their confidence In me and MIsa Elizabeth Gibson has recently ed by a larger number of , Grotcrh's. to thank them most heartily. Baptist church.' ' ' . been visiting with relatives In 'Wor­ James T. Bepnett; trustees of public electorate than for many years' past. Respectfully yours, Miss Elizabeth''Johnson, *-who has cester, , library, 3 years. James T. Bennett, El This large attendance'was probably ien M. Needham; board of health, '. / Chas. Z. Southard. been hostess at the Federatloxi House j^slle Blood, who (or a short time due to the ""agitation over- the road during the past tew months,' left on .was working at the Smith garage, has years, Herbert C. Rockwood; trustee situation and previous to the. meeting Dalrj'mple (und,' 3 years, Garl A, P, West Groton. Tuesday (or, New * YOrk, MIs4 John­ 'accepted a permanent position at the being calledto order the general topic Lawrence; trustee 'f'Luther Blood After three weel^s of closed schools, son expects to leave v4ry soon- for Y, Hostess House, Camp Devens, o( conversation was the part Moseley lecture fund, 3 years, Andrew J. Blood; churches, etc.* the ban has agalmbeen M, C. .^.. lyork In France., The next meeting of the Groton Hale and Richard M. Shaw Intended park c'omijjlssloner, 3 years, George lifted. Schools began .on, Monday. sCiWing school will take, place on Sat­ to take in the meeting, they being gen­ E. Lawrence; collector of taxes, My­ This Is the third-time since last Sep­ To tlie Editor: urday •afternoon, February 8, at two erally considered the prime Instllgators ron P. Swallow; auditors, _A.lmon L. tember that Infltienza-has broken out ^ Permit riio to present In your paper, o'clock. It Is hoped that there will of the movement for better roads. Call, Frederick iv. .Mansur;, (fee .war­ in this part of the^tbwnV as a ,cltlzep o( ^Ayei^ a protest, against I)^a.large attendance. as.there is much The meeting was called to order by den, Shadrach Evans;, electric light There will be an Illustrated lecture moving picture entertainments upon" work to be done (or the little destitute Town Clerk Torrey and Rev. George commissloaer, 3 years, Henry IC. on Sunday evening by Rev. William Sunday In iny of oiir moving picture children of France and' Belgium, M. Howe oftered'prayer. H. W. Whit­ Rlchard»,-i- constables, Patrick W. Ganley: subject, '^Lincoln"; 100 slides. t'heatres. ' "We'tarinot afford for the which has been sadly interfered with ing was chosen moderator and the Kane, Jerome C. Shattuck, Willard P. A large attendance Is desired. sake o( our citizens and especially our by.the prevailing epidemic. various articles In the town warrant "DON'T MOVE,rjOADDTZ;—YOU LOOK SO FUNWYi" Toiles: appropriation committee, five, G. H. Bixby was III (or tn-o or three children to pertnit commercial inter­ The selectmen have called a mass were taken up and disposed of in rou­ Frank L, Blood 200, Harry P. Talnter ests to further encroach upon Sunday tine manner, there being little debate days last week, necessitating his ab- and thereon baii£^ a tale meeting for Tuesday evening, Febru­ 197, Asa H. Thompson 188, George S. /sence (rom the store. by the means of,these entertainments. on any except the uiotlon of William Knapp 188, Chairles Z. Southard 102, ary 11, to choose a committee to plan Mrs. Heaps and daughter, of North I appeal to the men and women of lie's squinting over his reading glasses because they do hot afford tor the ways and means of welcoming Taylor to appropriate 1250 for the Moseley Hale 86; liquor question. No Ayer to maintain thd'high moral tone purchase of a Holstein bull. Mr. Tay­ 119, Tes 61. Adams, -ft-ere recent guests of Mrs. and entertaining the boys on their re­ Mary Doherty. of our public sentiment, which is the distant •vision " turn home from overseas. A large lor stated that while there were many real power in our community life. To attendance is desired. Holstein cattle In the town there was Mrs. R. H. Burgess visited her lov.-er this at the behest o( commer- no registered bull .and that milk w.as To the Editor: friend. Mrs. Alfred Bunn, in Leomin­ ci..\! interests is to injure ourselves and The meeting- of the Current Events almost wholly sold on a quantity basis ster, Wednesday. department of the Wom.-in's club is The town meeting has demonstr.a- ail v,-e hold valuable In our town. and that the town ought to encourage ted that the people of Groton are Robert Bixby was home over Sun­ GLASSES postponed from fnis weel: Tuesday to the milk producers of the town by John P.. Ch.trtee. THE INVISIBLE BIFOCALS Tuesday afternoon. Febru.ir>- 11. The alive to their responsibilities in regard day. He is evidently making good at purchasing a bull (or public use. R. to the roads and it is a source of grat­ his work in Boston as h(^ has heen gathering will be at the home of Mrs. M. Shaw seconded this motion. Mr. Federated Church. ' Charles Earle. ification to mc to know that my mod­ advanced rapidly. McKee for the overseers of the poor, The pastor's Sunday morning sub­ •^ At the meeting of the fchool com­ est efforts -have borne such fruit. 1 Ruth Mellish spent the week-end opposed the motion on the ground that refer to the fact that the town voted ject'W-llI be "Abraham Lincoln." ' Mrs. mittee Tuesday evenings Everett qer- '.he town already owned a Guernsey with her friend. Hazel Ballou, In Shir­ $75,000 to build the Groton-Ayer road- ley, and attended a. dance on Saturday George McCarter will .sing. Sunday F. H. GATHEReOLE rlsh was elected chairman and Steph­ bttll and that the.v doubted the wis­ nnd $12,000 (or general-road appro­ evening. school at twelve o'clock; S. Bassett en Sabine secretary for 1919. dom of changing the breed. Moseley priation. It shows that Grotonians DIclterman, men's class leader: wom­ OPfOMETRIST • Chief of police Dowling of Groton Hale spoke briefly and hoped the mo­ once they realize the true facts are Mrs. Emma Wells,' of Winthrop, was an's class meets (or the regular les­ tion would pass. The motion was de­ in town a week or. two, visiting her and chief of police Beatty of Ayer determined to do a thorough job in a son. At 6.30 the young people's meet­ New Carley Building Main Street ATEB, MASS. with the assistance of the local ofticer feated. liberal manner. sister, Mrs. Murch, and later, her ing will be led by* Dea. Herbert A. friend, Mrs. Jl. H. Burgess. of West Groton made a raid on the A motion to extend the cement side­ Representative Torrey's assurance Pollard; ten minutes will.be devoted to premises of Anthony Roman of West walk on Hollis street was' vigorously Mrs. Talmage Klerstead passed mission study. At 7.30 t'ne congrega­ tie of catsup. Popcorn and apples %VAXTEI»—An experienced Olrl. for to the townspeople .at the meeting, general housework... Anply to .Public Groton and founa a barrel of cider opposed by John l.awrencc on the t'n.at something would surely be done away a shorl time ago -at her home tion will unite at the Federation constituted the refreshments. The Spirit Offlce,. Ayer, Mass. . and a barrel of wine. ground that the residents on Farmers' on the Boston-Littleton road, proves in Medford, the cause of death being House for the Roosevelt memorial entertainment was In charge o( Miss row were entitled to first considera­ heart disease. Mrs. Klerstead 'tvas service. Nellie Callahan, as follows: Piano KINDLING tVOOP FOB SALE—B. F. Miss .Audrey Burkinshaw, of Tep- that the town may get some little ben­ HOUGHTON, -Harvard, .TMatis. ,• Tele- perell, who has been teaching in the tion, as they had to be content with a efit from my job as legislative bell hoy well known here, her husband being solo, Mrs. Christine Dalley; vocal duet, superintendent at.the leatherboard Mid-week service on Thursday eve­ phone 2«-<12. , '••;:' 4ti0« Moors school, h.is been transferred to very unsatisfactory gravel sidewalk. for Town Father McKce. ning at 7.30. ... Mrs. Susie Smith and Mrs. Dalley, ac­ the Boutwell school to fill the vacanc>- Frank A. Toi^rey retorted that some I respectfully call Mr. McKee's at­ mill (or a time, ,Mr. Klerstead and companied by Miss Elsie Ewlhg; readr CAED OF .CTANKS •, time ago he had offered to huild a son Seth survive her, .'Special meetings are being planned Ings, Mrs,. Catherine Brown and Miss caused by the resisnatlon of Mrs. Mar­ tention to the well known saying that for the last two weeks In February, to ion B. Gauthier. Miss Frances D. cement sidewalk on Farmers' row and •'A little child shall lead them." Lee Bixby has .accepted the position Wainwrlght. ,To the many triend* whose'wIlUng that Mr. Lawrence had objected on "rtc held on Tuesday, 'Wednesday and hands gave klndfy help tO our beloved Cop.swell of Ipswich has been elected With the Boston-Littleton road and of farmer at the Sabine farm In Gro­ Thursday evenings. The Back-Log whist party In tho mother.during her long Illness, and to, na teacher in the Moors school. Mrs. the ground that cement would wear the Groton-Ayer road now assured. ton. He expects fo take up hhs duties Unitarian vestry last week Friday air who^e'sympathetic hearts softened Sylvia Hohinson of West Groton will his shoes out. The motion was car­ Groton can ^c^rtainly expect a prom­ as soon as he receives 'his discharge I-ast Sunday morning Chaplain and night was pronounced most success­ our grlet by the message o("floWers, ried. Mrs. Slosser took part In the mom- and by words-0( com(o'rt.'. durlnrf.our. succeed .Mrs. I.ee Blxby. teacher in inent place on the road map. from, the army. Mr. ad.d Mrs. Blxby ful. There were eleven tables and E. recent.bereavement., we give our .grate­ the Tarbeli school, who has resigned. The motion to extend the street In regard to the tojvn election I un­ will occupy a house" nearby and will ir.t: worship, .much to the joy of the A. Hopkins won the highest score. ful thanks. • ." congregation. Chaplain Slosser has The Ladies' Benevolent society of lights on the Hoston road was debated derstand that I received six votes for begin their married life together in Plenty of home-made candy and a MISS LIlbLIAN A. CROciCEB. the ronRrcKatioiial church will hold by Mes.srs. H.Tle, Collier. Dod^e and selectman. I would like to know who Groton. Mrs. Blxby was formerly iiecn vory successful in his .work for good time socially were pleasant .fea­ ;hc 212th Engineers. He is soon to be MB. and MRS. GE0;X CROCKER. a business and sewinR meeting in the liichards an«l was carried, the sixth vote was, as in rr>y pre-elec­ Miss Marian NickeTson. and was, un­ tures o( the evening. Tho wish was Groton, Mass.; February 1', 1819. church i)arlor next Thursday after- The article relating to the Grotor,- tion calculation I only counted on five til very recently; teacher In fhe pri­ .'i.'.signed to a special educational work generally expressed that the commit-, noon at two o'clock. Supper Will he Ayer road on Farmers' row and the votes. Can It be possible thnt the mary grade, Tarbeir school. Mr. nnd .'1* the base hospital. tee (urnish another evening ubject. ment. under the ol •ection ol Mrs. lb for that extra vote. J. F. Pe.i-; present at themectlnig of the King's favor of rehiilldlnK Farmers' row. He up.Tor the leadership of Mrs. Chaftee. Charles I':.'irle. wiU • ^-iven at i-iirht dy was busily, engaged In pa.ssinc | .lohn P.ohlnson keeps on with his Daughters, held with Mrs. Paul Brown called .ittention to the Met that the' o'clock. • stickers outside the rail with Mr ' c leri-al work at Camp Devens. He has .-\ h'jsines.a meeting of the young on Tuesday afternoon. : ro.id u.fs Ir.ivelled liv a larger number ithard's name as a candidate for Articles .lor ,.f Wr.r es er ;s been civen the rank of sergeant p*. ;.:e was held on Tuesday evening Mrs, .Velsor. ..f peo;,:e thrin any other and that .; iiropriation committee in place of ! an.l .'t line social on Friday night!. 1 f Mrs. M major. a week-end ^"uest w I -.vns f'T (proton's benelit to h.ive r I e He neglected to give me one ! ITEMS OF INTEREJST Tvrrell. .Mis .loseph Woodson visited friends LTiiod ro:i.l there as well as -1 m.'ilte- I would have' used It, a.s I think he i Rosewood a'nd mahogany are said ;.'ir Tneetini. ' of the in Pepperell On Tuesday. LITTLETON ..\; the reel iif civic pride. l.wrenee lirocks f,'i\- i,n i.ieal man for the position. With | to be so plentiful In Mexico that some Gr.:nt-e r.ext Ti es-i IV eveninir til e of- "red the I'.irmers' row road. .Mose!e\ Mrs. .Tohn Hobliison has accepte.l There's' great satisfaction re men of his calibre holding ofhce i .Vows Itcnw. cf the" copper mines thero are tim­ fleers for 19K' Wl 11 be inst; lie 1 by H.ile St.lied that he had sent in n j.e. .. - :own there would be less room the iiosition of teacher In the pri- of I; is reported that Mrs. George New- bered with rosewood while mahogany in- using.: toilet g.QO.ds • that I'nst .M.Ister Wi Ian f . White .'ihir- Itition to the co\inty commissioner- to r -loism of town management. in.-iry u-rnde in place, of Mrs. Bixby, Is used as. fuel for the engines. " ley. past maste: of A\ er Grange. ! have the Groton-Llttleton road r ir- 1 good roads and good town resigned, i •orr.\ o will open her store at the Cen­ to- .'IS soon .as sho can put everything K)d gloves arc made o.f sheepskin come ; frpih our store.. - In Mrs f'h.Trles K.i -le who "h .'IS been I pleted and he had no doubt that th- --.'iient we can look forward to Mr, G.iniey attended, church in I roid would he built. He t-ilen in.ob .1. d boom In agriculture In Gro- I'itchhurg on .«iinday and dined w-ith .:: roailine.ss. /' or lambskin, never of kldskln; Irish theih you havjp.the assurance vis,tint: friends .'ind Tt •latives n 'rov- stew is almost unknown In Ireland; id ence fr,r th weeks, h.is re n niollon to appropriate up to %'•" Mosclcy Hale. his friend. <'harles,"Woodbury, who is MIS Thomas Stephens has been In p.1St for tbe town's sh'.'ire of the cost .- The defeated candidate. principal of the Fitchburg high schoo' I'll, irrsford all'the week. Dutch clocks came from Germany: of honest triaterialsand pure turned hotne. seallngrtvax contains no wtct; Baffin The Reii.f C..rp-- heiil an all-d.iy the Groton-Ayer road. P.ev,-, Kn.li. .if Tiiesd.-iy w,-.s a- busy- day at the Ms, Franklin S! Plngry visited her Peabody made a strong plea for Finn bay Is-not a b.ay. chemicaTff. You couldn't get meeting Thurs.bay at the home of .Mrs, Weilding. branch library. Sovtnty-flvc books li- .-htor. Mrs. EunlcSe Bruce, Towns- ers' row and urged the town to t.i'K' were borrowed during the .afternoon ': ilarhor, last wee(. Tho flying -Ush docs not really "fly. anytiiing more wprth while MrKee to .io r.etl Cr.iss work Immediate action. Hepresent.-ntive I A irettv homo wedding was solemn- but raises ItscK (rom the water by an.i fvenini,', -(- .- . • Nir. Alexander'Gregory was called Mr, Irvine, Mrs. Kverett Hudson's ,\, Torrey spoke in favor of the Gr. - 7 1 Wednesday afternpoj,- February means of long fins: It can support anywhere.- / • father, who h.-is been visitinir his son's ton-Ayer road and told of his effnr:- 1 1.30 o'clock when Mabel Clark 'f. Danvers, the flrsf^ of the week Itself In,tho air untll.they become dry. f.amily in Lawren.e '. weeks, to get the Groton-Llttleton roa.i con-, ,1 kinson. daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Kirp. I :l . .:Kh tho death of ^her brother.' when It drops back Into tho'sea. . ha.^ returned to (iroto an •idefln- pleted. He referred to .Moseley Hale s ; .-. I.h nirklnson. .be?am.o-the-'brlde Ttw r.-o iiinrin was sounded frt-.m Hurry J: Smith and taiiilly, ot Bos- COMEJNANDSEE . thr. .-• -r.t'nfk farm on Tuesday' nftcr- To' malte" a' good' i&rasa' polish pilt Ite sVay. attitude In the matter arid stated his . Charles Elmer Nye of Bellows F,alls. 'I.-, visited his parents last Sflnday. a tablespoontul ot powdered chalk In Tho Girl iind P.ov .-'.onts . West belief th.lt nothing could now stop its ; lie wedding ceremony was performed rc.n Thr. call was given. In Groton Horbert Sanderson Was' a recent ins!.;,.i ..f West• Oroton, .and Fred a cup and mix It to a cr^ain with tur­ our display of fine soaps for Oroton rheot altern.i-e wc. i with completb.n. ..: the home ot the bride's'Wint. Mrs. happy recipient of a'letter from his pentine, ,.thc"h add' a teaspoonful .«t 1 The George P. Whitney bf FarnftorB row. Uh.t.d, uh.> waa working, at Iho son Rupert, now .In. a rest cat^p at the\cbmpWion and batli— their leader. Ml.».« Kiizabeih Hi Selectman McKcc told of his n:- }|i.\<...; i.i.i.c, heard.It. and realized at Il4uid a'tti'monla t^hd keep It In a tin. boys meet -with her Situ: ;..•, after- tendance at the State House on behalf p.ev, George M. Howe of the Congre- Liverpool. This wa« the first", time Hair brushes should bocleane^ by: ,e this i-ational church offlclatcd, the double once t'r.r The couple were attended by-H. \\. Franklin Hall; In the Lowell ConrI not to allow .the,wood to'go.Itlto the Webster.-Malddn, as Ijest matt and Miss inp ;it th'<. same (arm., Wr. Lawrence tciurel sets, lotions, hair tonics, • 'tlon .would like to have the m 1 who and that Mr. Hale's action in the mat­ his machln* and hurried cr-CI!izon service, was at A, T. Klm- water; then rinse iri clear cold 'water, ter was a stumbling block to Groi.m s M.irrlet Dickinson of. Jamaica Plain. jumppd irt have been In the I'nited .'Jt.ite er^'ice K. tho (iro ind wa»r;tlie flrst person hall's, Sunday,' .•'"•'.•. skin foods^" combs,. brushes, let the committee know when they good roads. William A. Lawrence M cousln'of the bride, aa"maM of hon­ Twenty-five mem,bers wero present called attention tb the fact thai .Mr or. Little Faith Kimball, .daughtcr to arnvo. none too ioon. a* a-, corn New AOtertlaeatcattt wcro discharged. If parents or friends honso h.Ttl burned to the ground, de- at the mcetingr of the Orange on 'Wed- andthe like. . , ; win send this information It wilt help liale's motion Iott some doubt .is t., of Mr. and Mrs, O^rie. Wtnball of n'esday eventhgr. ' At, the regrular busi­ NonCB-^As successor to. A. «^. K. whether the $50,000 wns to lie -;.. nt l.iitlefon. acted tts'tlne-.^**";''. T?," .strnyint- from llfty to »lxty bushcis of the committee very much In it« work. corn. I'lamos h.ad ciiught pn the side ness meeting thirteen applications tor Agents, I havorlome io .]farm« In Oro­ Flgurc.i nre to he put on the scri'ice regardless of ' whether tho sti-e or bride was bccbmlngly'«p*lf«,d. In White, membership were • redcl'ved. An la- ton, Mass., for ^aie. and other property W' county participated,. C. Z. S. lii.ird georgette crepe with .y.eJI,:.which was of a l.le harn In which hiywaa stored. and bualneis oroDoeitlons, F, E.-OIL- flag o( the town for the number of Mr.s, llriyos and her' ?«'"'«•' '^•'^ tc-cRtIng letter-waa read from Roger men who have been in the service and advocated the Immedhite rebuiMmg tastely fastened with-'Tfr*Mi»tig»r 000 to macadMoIze tho road 'o the or wore pink gcorgwtte cr«^ •^n^ car­ could not .ircnmpllsh "Bttich, as they Buiek Touring C»t; • good Ures, «'n«w well or Rev. C. B, Ames. could not roach thftPB***" without Dallcy was awarded. * box of candy vaxiaown Ayer town lino.. P. M. Shaw sec nded ried pink carnations; I . . ^ ,. , for the highest score, i«uid J>ftvla JUil Inner tubee aiid.an of the toolfc All In Miss R- M. Graham, of Ayer, an­ hU motion. -The motion was c.irrlcd ladders. Mr. UajVrenC* kllWled to the flr«t-cl»»» order. ADAMB' STABLE, nounces that she has a complete line To the strains of ^f^^*^^^'' receded the consolation prUe, a bof> Groton, ll^MM ^ >t3> Mute Stnet ATMf.^OM. by a large mmjorlty. wedding march the br«•'•• W^^y^^'m^ v--"0'>i;'^::^JV;?">"-

S At URDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1919 PAOE FIVK

; During 1818,there wore 433 marled S. Barry, Lyman K. Clark, William ',,;;"'; -PBa^TCBAa,is.ApyASCB' • o'n.licensPs issued in the town by Town Brown, Tliomas F". Mullln and George Clerk Remick and, 400 of these "were H. HIII. Page's Hall E. E. Gray's -jMORaK'^ K'^''8: '.TSBlfKR,. PaklliOie'r soldiers'at the. camp.;. '' . The business pf the meeting was fin­ ished' at 4.30, and the adjournment .'Th^ servIce-a^St.'^Androw's on Sun­ . BubaerltMiri are urged to keep their came at ,6.30, after the .anncuncei:;i-:u •ubicrlpttone pa)d,ia advanoe^ - day mornlng'at 10.30 will .be morning of tho returns. . Theatre prayer and sermon. ' The 'vicar, Kev. ' "The-dali^ labors ot 'the Bee. Angus. Dun, will be,the preacher,, ' Awakevmyaoul'to Industry; Oeorge X. Wllspn the new member Weekly Specials •Who can observe the careful Aat, 'Lillian Curran has resumed here on tho board ot selecthien, was bt^rn Main St,, ATER, MASS. • ; AnU Dotprovtde for future waatt" d'utles at the E, E. Gray Co.'s store, In Salem on January 11, 1891. He re­ after a te>y days' vacation. ON SALE SATURDAY MORNING Saturday, February 8, leie ceived his early education in the gram­ '. The regular meeting of Capt. Geo. mar schools of Ayer and was graduated The House with a Long Reputation V, Barrett camp, S. ot 'V., -will be held with tho class bf 1907 (rom the Ayer Oranges, Fancy California Navels, jx-r do/.o;; 40..V'i'—"Womi»iilio. .Moore, G. M, Craw- of John, Hooley. -Mr. Tarrant has Just He went Into training at HIngham '"The Greatest Thing in Life" (ordi,library trustee, 3 years, Frank J. " beeh released from' the navy aiid soon The Wild Rose troop, of Girl Scouts naval trn,lnlng station. From there he Mr. GrlHlth has -selected the. Maloney; 1 year, Berton Williams; returns to. his- old position in New have elected these offlccrs: Miss Mar- went to the na%-al rifie range (Pr rifle same cast as he alw-ays used in park commissioner, 3 years, John L. ' York, f, He visited' bur annual town Ion-Dwinell, pres.;'Miss Helen Stone, target practice. his past well-known produc­ Kennlson; flsh commissionei,. 3 years, meeting and said It had been foiirteen sec; Miss Betty Cleary, treas. , ; tions. Birth of a Xation, Hearts G, L.' Baker: pound-keeper, John. M, He was then transferred to Bumkin yeara since *he haa been to.one. but of the World and The Great B.e. ©RAY CO, •Mrs. Susan M. Barker spoke before Maloney; liquor question, Xo 264, Yes Island and was In the hospital. In Iso­ when he heard Frank Mullln and John Love. Two-reel Mack Sennett the Shirley Unitarian Alliance Thurs­ 89. . lation, (or six weeks with diphtheria. Main Street Carley's New Block AYEE,- MASS. Maloney, It seemed but • yesterday, as day afternoon., , While he was there most of his com­ comedy and one-reel Vltagraph th'elr vofcST.after all these years seem­ The (ollowlng action was takeiir on Saturday, February 8, "Stoleii or­ panions were sent across for foreign comedy. ed to be jiisf the-same. . - ' • the articles In the warrant, Lyman K. ders," at Proctor's Strand. This Is not service. On leaving Bnmkin Island he TUESDAY—WALLACE REID in his ' Daniel-Stacy,'^Washington street, Clark being elected aa moderator un­ a war picture. Carlyle; Blackw.ell, was selected as expert on accounting latest Paramount pIcture.'-Too who has beefvemployed.as'Jahltor at der, article 1, and_ article 2 calling for Kitty Gordon, Montague X.ove and (or. naval overseas transportation, then Slany SUUIons." Mutt and Jeff Cash Discount Store . the Soldiers' cltib, West street, haa.re-^ the election of the different town o(- June Elvldge in the cast. • "Stolen or- later became translatbr and coder o( cartoon and a Lloyd comedy. signed ,to .[accept,a position In Fitch flcers as given above: ders'.'.>ls a groat spy picture based on secret and confldentlal communica­ WEDNESDAY—NAZIMOVA. the star ": burg. Mir, .Stacy continues to make his Article 3, 'Voted to amend the re­ tions. While at the naval communica­ supreme, triumphs in"Be\'cIa- the lilgDrurj'. Lane melodrama. It Is Now that the timo for gltrlng .la •home here.' janr-Jiacked with action trom .start to port-p( the Arc eiigineers by disapprove tion department he was twice recom­ tlon," seven parts, A gripping over, women aro beginning to think Ing the Item on page.171, "Ayer Water mended for a commission, but falling ' romance of peace and war. •' .:. Miss Ma^y. Joiihs'on',' who has been. flnlsh and In the flnal reel' the action reaSh'crThrhVghest'iirfch o'f'tenslty.-lpepartrae^ to qualify physically, and no waiver be­ Story adapted from Mabel Wag- of something for themselves. Januaiy • .'- ,cpnfiil,e'd'to''her home .ori Washington In this reel comes the escape by Zep- ond'' las'"'t" paragraph on page 170 of the ing permitted by the Bureau of Navi­ nail's novel, "A rosebush of a is one of the best months .In our . street b};.fllnc»s during the past week, pellii," trie" flght In mId-aIr with .the town report. It was voted to accept gation In Washington; Mr. Wilson was thousand years ago.", Latest •. Is now able to tie out combatants (ailing Into the sea and the report as amended. placed on inactive .duty December 31. Path6 News and a two-reel Vlt- CORSET DEPARTMENT ' The CantonJ^ reslaiirant, which - was_ the '-rescue of the .heroine by hydro- Art. 4. Voted to authorize the town He.has been elected to the board of - agraph comedy. opened'Od.^est.lilarnjstr'eet last siimV •Wo have just, roceivod many of the aerppiine'-' Charlie' Chaplin as a flre-' selectinen well qualified to serve. In treasurer, with the approval of,the new Spring-Models lu Royal Worces­ ^ "mer.'an'd. 'op,erttted-^by' a-,Chinese -Arm... 1915 he was democratic candidate for There.win bean advance In the man. "See soine of' Charlie's heroic selectmen, to borrow during the cur­ ter, Bon ton, R. & G. and Nomo. 'was itio'sed- ,'thls.*eek'. until •'fiirther' the house, of representatives, and In admissions for this day. Mat­ wprkl Gauniont News. - rent financial year. In anticipation of Coisots at tho following prices: notice^; 1916 was candidate for the constitur inee, all seats, 15c., war tax Mrs. F. A. Wyman, -who has been the revenue ot said financial year, and The Suffrage Coffee House e paid, therefrom, such stims Of • Main street; 'wWeh'hai been patronized twice served as moderator at our tow-n 25c,, war tax included, . Trith tlie'late Mri Brown, Pleasant money, not to exceed f 30,000, as may $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 by niany,'l6cal';P,eople-and',yIslto^s.diar- meetings. street, has return^ Jo-'Shirley, ^or the be. necessary for the.current expenses THURSDAY—ELSIE FERGUSON in Bon Ton ,. ....- $S.50, $4.00 • .f- lng]the.l,aat>'ear/hai been taken'over rest,of the printer.- , , . ;. ~-; of the town therefore, payable within her latest Paramount picture, :••• l?y the'gbyerniue'nt und 'is tp.'.lfe -run VL & G. • Cltliens of Ayer having funds, to in­ one year from the dates thereof. Boy Disappears. "Under the Greenwood Tree,' ' foi: 'thp; lise of. .wbti'nd^.iioldlers.. It $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 vest are Invited tb I'ook Into the merits Art, 5. It was voted to authorize the Much excitement has been caused in A two-reel Universal comedy is to.'be run under 'the, 8t^;,'of-;tho, oX the'Andover Sayings Bank, of 'An-; town'treasurer, under the direction.of town over the' disappearance of Clar­ and one-reel Path^. Nemo $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00 . • ^WarCaihp Community Se'ryltie, located- dover, ,Siass. The .bank Is paying at the selectmen, at any time between ence A. Nixon, youngest son of Mrs. FRIdAY—COXST.\NCE T.-iLSL-VDGE Pink Modds $1.60; $2.00, $2.50 < -at the Soldiers' cIub.-.West stjreet.'- Allle N. Nixon. He was last seen Tuesday Ip her latest select melodrama, present'time at therate ot 5% per an­ December 15, 1919, and the close of BRASSIERES James'.'B:,ICjjnnlJJSham, .who is coB- num.. Their recent statement,-'which the financial year, to transfer an unex­ morning- when he left his home on "Sauce for the Goose" A two- r fined to his hOnie on Pleasant street, show's a large surplus, will be mailed pended balance from any appropria­ East Main street to go to school. When reel Bin Parsons comedy and Nemo—mado In Short, medium • .. was visited this week by his brothcr- upon request. tion to any other appropriation. he did not return for dinner, as usual, the latest OBlcial War Review-. stout and tall models. In pink : In-law, Albert J. Town, of Philadel- • Art. 6. The following appropriations his mother called.'up the school and SATURDAY—^William Fox will pre­ and white . $1.00-$1.W> The program fpr the coming week ' ,phla. Mr,, Town Is general manager were voted; Support of poOr, unex­ found that he had not been there that sent the two little IJEE KID­ at Page's-hoill Is bf an unusual Inter- Pink. Hodi^ brocaded and pItUn for that dlati^lct' Of. the Aetna -Insur-, pended balance and $1500; reUet of morning, As h'e: did not appear that DIES In a screaming prodtictlon egt-i-Monday, D. W.- Griffith presents 69t3.-70c.> ance Company.' Mr..'Cunningham has soldiers 1350; soldiers' graves JSO; adernoon Rev. J".'R, Chaffee organized "Swat tho Spy." CHARLIE his latest seven-reel production, "The ., been suffering for some time with car-' schools $15,000; school incidentals, ro­ his Boy Scouts Into a searching party CHAPLIN In a two-reel com­ greatest thing In life"; Tuesday, Wal­ ;. -. bupcies. ' • ' tund- o( dog license (ees, receipts o( and covered much o( the territor^- edy; •"Wis Dare'DcvU Queen," lace RelS in hislatest Paramount pic­ Ernest Clark, manager' ot Homer's Holmes house and $3000; superintend­ around Ayer. Tuesday evening the and latest Path& Xew-s. ture, "Too many millions"; Wednes- jewelry store, has been in New'York ent of schools J600; highways and search w-as taken up .by-nearly fitly of d'aj:, the great Nazimova in a seven-- city-during the.-past week, bridges, street rallw.ay.and excise taxes the town citizens, who divided into reel.- de-luxe'tilcturlzatlon, "Revela­ parties and with lanterns sought the Sergt._^ Robert J. Davidson -Wednes- Mrs. - H:. B. l Hartweil. Washlhgton' and $2500; repairs on Main street tion"; Thursday, Elsie Ferguson In her boy. Principal Gleason of the high day^eaT^^^e formal charges on W-hlch H.H. Proctor $3S00'; sidew-aiks $800: street sprink­ - street, who has been ill with heart latest, "Under the Greenwood tree"; he will ^^iourt martialled next week ling $1600; fire department $4000; school and the high school boys con­ AY£B, T&&S8. trouble for the past .week. Is resting Frjday, Constance Talmadge in her for alleged mis.'ippropriation of pa­ Main Street Page Block forest fires $150; library $1300; notes tinued the hunt on -Wednesday, but more comfortably latest melodraina, "Sauce for the tients' funds at the base hospital of $1750; Interest, Interest on bank bal­ absolutely no trace of him has been l"OB .s.i,l.E—^Two now mllch Cows: Xhe Unitarian,Girls* clutf invites' all Spose"; Saturday, the tw:o little Lee seen. which he wa.s custodian. He is ance and $1000; street lighting, unexJ three good business Horses; one good the members.'Of .thV parish-; wit^the,!.r' kiddles In a screaming comedy drama, charged w-ith violation ot three ar­ pended balance of 1918 and $4000; Clarence w-as In the senior class of Traverse Runner Pung. and one 2-horso families ahd,'.all-person's afflllatid'with "Swat the spy," Ch'arlle Chaplin In.a ticles of w-ar—being absent without parks $300: shade trees $100;. hydrants the high school. He w-as about seven­ Sled. ADAMS' STABLE, Groton, Mass. the churcli, to a^covered ;dlsh- supper,' ttvb-reel comedy, "His dare devil leave from December 23 to December Watch 2t22 $1500; sinking fund for the water de­ teen j-eara old. B' (eet 10 Inches iii .queen." ,.' 27; stealing $4214.50 of the patients' followed 6y. a-spclat evening. .Prfday, partment $100; - Fourth of July cele­ height. His hair was brown and he money and passing a check drawn on February :I<,VJSlipper at €;18.- The • Rev. and Mrs. J. 'W. • Thom'as'^ were bration $600; police department $3500;- wore a dark gray overcoat, light brow-n JOBBING the Commonwealth .Trust 'Company, oommltteerdeslres those'.'attending to. cap, blue serge su^t and black- shoes. In Boston,.jMondtiy, In attendance at tow*n Incidentals, "receipts o( town I ajn equipped tO do Ugbt Anto bring In a';c3iSs4^iKEi«)3SJ':!'?^?^^°* Boston, for $100, receiving, $75 in Repairing ^»ie (tmerai ."of-.^clr-son-lnHiii^f L. H. house and district Court, unexpended , On his suit he wore, an Ayer high for their^Vtipptn.^ina'^pJeseiit'at•''thd- change from the Vinal Ta-xi Serv-ice, Tmdcine and Geauxal JobMng; Cess* Merchant, who passca''a'way; last week balance of 1918 and $5500. school 1919 class pin;,also. Boy Scout door. Juvenrlle photos of themselves, Boston, w-hen he had no funds In the pools and Vaolts Cleonod Satistactor- Thursday a(ter an Illness o( spme three pin. same to be returned at th'e close of bank, with intent to defraud, David­ DONE AT STRAND'S MEANS lly and gnarantoed. 3ml7« mont!)8. ' * Under article 6 the moderator was The police have taken the matter up the evening, ^Coffee'win be (urnlshed. son is 25 years old and enlisted Sep­ directed to select a committee 0( five, and have notified .all the surrounding JOHN E. KEEGAN The Ayer Machine Tool Company, a Services win be held at the Baptist tember 22, 1917. Many of the oflicers under w-hose direction the appropria­ towns. People are at loss to know- why "WORK DONE RIGHT branch o( the Reed Prentiss.Co., Wor­ church on Suiiday as usual—preach­ and enlisted men of the base hospitai Tel. 37-3 ATEB, MASS. tion (or the Fourth of July celebration tho boy should leave home as he w-as cester, which has been employing but ing at 10.45; Sunday school at twelve; and medical corps are to testify. Also, be spent. The committee Is as (ol- thought to be In gotlfi health and was ten or^flMe'en men. since the armistice song service at 6.45, with a short ad­ Alfred Smith of Ayer, low-s: L. H.' Cushing, George H, having no trouble either at homo or was signed, soon expects to put out dress at seven, B, Y, P. U, on Tues­ Brown, William J. Pelletler, Thomas F, school. Maj, Charles Quigley, adjutant of day e\-enlng at 7.30. Mid-week meet­ more work. Orders are being received Ryan and Herbert L, Farnsworth. The the l2th division, has been made camp (rom abroad by the 'Worcester Com­ ing on Thursday evening at 7.30. moderator was also directed to select Town Meeting Notts. adjutant. pany and It is expected that some o( The annual high school ball, given a. committee o( nine to act with the .V sentence for five years and dis­ H.R. Strand P.Donlon&6a At a meeting of the new hoard of them wiir be turned over to the Ayer by the senior class, was held In the selectmen and fire engineersr-and to selectmen on Monday evening they or­ honorable discharge was imposed on branch. During the last year eighty- town hall last 'w-eek Friday evening. report w-ithin one month on the desir­ ganized w-Ith John D. Carney, chair­ Trtvate Joseph Gramutas on convic­ AYER MASS. five or ninety, men have been employed The hall .was prettily decorated with ability of purchasing motor fire appa­ OHOICE 'WIESUKKS BE£I< man, and George I.. Wilson, clerk. Po­ tion of attempting to rob the rest.au- at times and the company is now ship­ the class colors. Music w-as (urnlshed ratus and -reorganizing the fire depart­ lice appointment.s were made as fol- rant of Leo Gendrons of Worcester on NATIVE PORK, CHICBLENS, FOlWiS- ping to France twenty large power by Bonnett's orchestra, of Leominster. ment. The committee is as follows: Watch Inspector for Boston and low-s: Patrick J. Beatty, chief: James November 9. He fjred several shots at drills, which, have just been conj- The affair" was In charge o( Gladys George L. Osgood, Harry E. Fisher, IiAMB I. Mills, P. J. Plrbnc. Albert S. Blood. the proprietor. Maine Railroad plet^d. Porter, president of the class, iisslsted I.oring A. Carmen, Charles H. Hardy, James P. Donahue, special officer.'^. I'rovost guards brought Private Tex­ YEGXJTABIiES by the chairmen ot committees as fol- John M. Maloney, Thomas F. Mullin, There was a large attendance at the as Ti-acey back to camp in handcuffs. k'HVlTU low-s: Decorations, Dorothy Remick; Frank S, Pierce, Howard M. Beverly The appropriation made at the town military concert and ball given by col­ He Is alleged to have lieen absent w-ilh- refreshments, Edessn Craw-ford; musiii, and Elwln H. Longley. meeting for 1919 totalled to a little CAXBT A^1> OGABS ored troops at Camp Devens and local more than $52,000; in 1918 the appro­ out leave from the 7 4th infantry since Proctor's Strand Edith McCarthy. There were about colored people In the town hall on The selectmen were directed to pre­ fall. He was arrested hy five police­ TEAS ANI> OOFPEE 300 guests present, many of whom priations were about $46,390. and In Thursday evening. Garfield Hazard pare a schedule of fees for the use of men in Columbus. C. after a severe PROCTOR & Dt'NWHUE, I.<-.-lsees were former members of the high 1917 $47,390. BREAD AND PASTRY was the'- chlet representative of the the town hall, to be collected by the flght. He left the Texas Ranger.^ to school. • This w-ill be the thirty-fir.st year that I'resc:.: tho fi-llowirp: BL'ri'KK, L.\RD, OLiEOStiVKG-ARINE town. The early part of the evening chief of police and paid over to the join the t-'anadian army and was the Ellsha D. Stone has served tho town was pl'Hen" to a concert whiqh was at­ As Is being done In many camp town treasurer, a receipt book to be hero of a bare fist encounter with four as treasurer. .sr.\T).\v. FEURU.^r.Y :> tended by many local people! The en­ cities and towns throughout the coun­ kept by the chief o( police. German soldiers w-honi he heat into try. War Camp Community Service has FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS tertainers were from tho camp. Fol­ Art. 7. -Voted to appropriate the submission and captured. 1:MI) llKXXl-nT. Uu- f;reatc...l Iiu-c arranged for a memorial meeting (or Camp Xotcs. lowing the concert dan^cing- was en- sum.of $100 to pay the premiums on !-tar, in "Sc<»kiiic Happlnew-"." ET««7 Weeik Theodore Roosevelt on Sunday even­ Camp Devens will shortly cease to Joyed until four o'clock'-Friday morn­ tho bonds of the town treasurer and ing at the Federation House, West be a separate army post. Major-Gen­ AllUmco >fcfui4;. .\ Christie un.; R'.iiby Cnr.nc'.ly ing. . • . • collector o( taxes. Main street, at 7,30. There will t>e eral H. P. McCain, now- the camp The Unitarian vc'^^Ty presented a Comedy. On Frifay morning two boys," Oscar Art. S. It was voted to raise and t\Seiits for AGUE OliBOMABGARINB community singing Jed by a national chief. Is to be assigned to other duty busy scene Thursday ^n the occasion Gallant and Peter Beauregard, ,ot appropriate the sum of $100 to be ex­ soiig lender, Mr. BrOw-n, who will come and the camp w-ill pass to the direct of the all-day mvetir.K uf the Woman's MOND.\Y. FEIIRUARY 10 Tho finest and best sn]»tU. Xew Z-ro^] store. The boys took the machine on tion of its demobiliMtion activtlties is Ctaeaper than L)n4 and strcs better It Impossible. A prominent speaker aries of the town offlcjrs the same as pairs of hoys' draw. :,- and four men's Billy West ."•.i:y.c-dy. 'Wednesday and planned to Return to cleared up. After he camp is turned Results last year, with the exception of the shirts wa-s the amount accomplished. their home In Nashua with It. but lost Will be secured. The best part of the over to the admir. -stration of Major- tow-n treasurer, which is to be increas­ Dinner was served ;•: noon and it •was the road and ran out of gasolene. They meeting will be the gathering of the General Clarence I! Edwards, as com­ TL"E.^D.\Y. FEl;ia".\llY» 11 FIRST QCAIilTY WESTTEaiN BEEP a veritabl- ^urpris.* ^r.d the most en­ then walked back to Ayer. where they whole community. The local churchei ed by $100. mander of the 1 opanmcnt of the M.MKJKnY WII.SOV in "M.-irkod joyable lunch tha! ci.uld be served. were caught. One boy, Oscar Gallant,. arc, giving up services to unite in the ..^rt. 10. -S-oted that poll taxes shall Northeast, it will ;)robably be main­ The dishes were Oirds." .T ;.'ro.tt Triangle dr.arr.a, Is already no probation In Nashua, and meeting. It Is hoped that every person be payable on demand; and all other tained In readiness for u.se in connec­ d and exclama- Xew 2-r>('. r.'.liy .\rmstro:.K was ordered returned there. "The oth­ In Ayer will try to be present. taxes .ehall become due and payable tion with unlk-ersa military training tions of slirpiis. • aiid dolis'ht jrreeted October 1, and that'Interest at the rate the uncnve; iiiu-s wliii'h I'isclosed hot P. Donlon & Co. er was placed on probation here. A "bettor service campaign" will be should the necessary legislation be en­ Comedy. of six percent por annum from October ©scalloped iM-Mtr ifs, 1 ik-d beans, mao- Woman's club triombcrs and their undertaken by the 136,000 men and acted. Mead's Block AYER, MASa 1.) be charged on taxes not paid at caroni. slice 1 hn :n, I U'i'iincs. ]>ios, de- WEPXE.'JP.W 1 KPKI'.-MIY 12 f rienjls enjoyed a yery pleasant .even­ women employed In the express busi­ At Camp Devens 250 cavalry horses that time and be added to such taxes; llcious s.'i Vi.i-. ro;]-. rt.iconut cakes, TelopboQe 33 ing, - We(incs;layr when the ' annual ness, for the purpose of raising the were sold on Janu.iry 7 and 8 at an See ImvltcJilue M.\K(i \RIT.\ TISU- and that the tax collector be directed brown br'-;id .^:i d ni.i' \ nthcr thinps. guest night was observed In the town standards of packing, wrapping and average ot $61.*-^. ',10 artillery horses to collect all taxes not abafbd daring There wi;-- ; ' •< !..^ ,t: ,i ,ui ab.iiidance KK In till-. Intcst i-<>ntr : t> prise a campaign of education and ap ari""Pri! M,' short reception by the officers of the peal among express employees slmul- emplnynient of a district nurse, who *with a widespread effort to shnll nN.i do public health work. It The b!T^;'-.-'-^ r.* • ':• ^ "-^ as called at -club. The entertainment •was a play, ing nVl avernt-.- -f S80.30. 50 cavalry THrR.';T>.\'^ 2.10, at ^^)l" ^ ' -,. ,ii • •' .'I The church .\I:Y '.- "Kitty's service flag," which yras coach­ secure the co-operation o( the ship­ n-.-is also voted thnt the board of health horses $llfi3' !-l draught mules was one "f :: '• ciii':' (uestions dis- .M.VK M.\1{.>^H I IIL- Stritln." ed by Mrs, Clara Hill, and was well ping public along i.;..,i tt ta\ the mem- received'. The stage setting was an at­ now packing,or marking rules have the grand .-iverMge being $105.84 for stor>' "f ,1 :.. ;ni-' •Views of nurse, fees so received to be added to bers for fu' N • .\ >l . a:;y work that tractive, old-fashioned Interior, ar­ been adopted for the campaign, but 315 head. (Mi .hni: ary 16 the average lUr.ri: '.\T: O^ •• the appropriation. the nuTiib. r- ;••] :,ot ihemselvos do. ranged by Mrs. Annie Wylle. After express drivers and receiving clerks was $80.70 for 1-5 cavalry horses, Tiivi!at!'0 - '^' . r c' i\cd to tho Val- Srf :::,• :: ' :,: iv :- the play refreshments -were sen-ed by win be Instructed hereafter' to Insist, Ar; 12. It wa? voieil to authorize $105.34 for fio Mrti lery horses. $96.47 .. L:i\' -1 Friday ovcn- the hospitality committee, Mrs. Kate firmly but courteously, that tho rules entip'' i> ir* nM S;ira:o^:. • :• CamD Devens the water commi^-^ioncrs to furnish for 130 drnncht nuiles and $100.75 for nK. I'V'iT'.i' 1, I \ thf Girls' cUib Carrigan, chairman. \ already In force be strictly adhered to. water to the public convenience station KMirl...\v i-o-.r.-'!:-. 20 pnck mules, making a grand aver­ r. .1 •surprise supper to at th*^ s.-iiv. • ^fnh heat and light putler lodge of Masons -will bo held on There are •^'^'''O soldiers coming to II was also received SOUVENIR BOOK ptven. \ • •" llrxnK IK, Monday byenlng at seven o'clock. Ac­ of spring hats and trimmings. * therefor without charge. this tamp next week .and 2600 men are GKOtir.v. .wnr.nsox to attf . • nu' with the Feder- tion' Is to be taken at this meeting on. Other Ayer matter on opposite page. Art. 13. It was voted to appropri­ duo here the litter part of this -w-eek. niiiy." Itcl I!1ites.'*es who on* Conipany have rented th^ former Fed- there vfas a-total of 396 votes cast of th.' • '' orlirlnal photos wcro nuulo nndcr onr from Influcnsa during the epidemic motor trnnxpnr' bus line. ,1, wore: Mrs. E. H. .tr.d roll,i't 11 with .1 n\ 1. - eratlon building on 'West Main street by men and three by.womcn.'There Klneer'- ' which occurred In tho town dtiring the ' The sui>-ilepot quartermaster de-^ H F'roctor. Mrs. Flora tor of wo-- itys, Dtin't in.-s personal sapcnrlalon by tho Albcrtypo They expect to open a show-room there were Ave candidates for selcctinen and Blfrel-.v months of September -and October, partmcnt will "pcn a general depart­ nina HattcrfieUl and Oo. of New York, with Rpeclal permit with iidiowlng.of 1919 Bulck models. five candidates for constables, which Pierce, M II. I.T...- ; r.iiiy r.ir^Mi.s 1918, ment store next week for the use ot :-:u'Id. .Charles C, Kletche^ one Pf our Xycr w-ero the only contests. John D., Car­ Mrs. K ConlO'ly from the 'War Department at Waah- Art, 14. It was voted to appropri­ the entire Cil mr for tho purchase ot ' bbys, who has been with the Ameri­ ney and Douglas C, Smith Were re­ Ington. ate the sum of $100 to erect a suitable siippUes In nrrorrtanco with the new ;rAHY 1.' can Bxpedltlohary Forces In Franco elected as selectmen and the now mem,- \,W .\ d vortl-icmcnts SATriin.w. i:r. fence around that part ot Woodlawrt subsistence pinn ju.st put Into effect. This ta by far tho flncAt oolloctlon for the past'eloVeti months, received ber of tho board Is George L. Wilson- The (front Slirrr> itrtHliK'tion witll cemetery owned by the town. Material for the engineers, .ordnance, • his aischarge^at Camp -Devens last The constables elected were A, A. Fll­ CARD OF THANKS ot pictnrcs of the camp orer nude signal and nie.lieal corps wlllbo ciir- C.VTUKKIM CAI/VKIIT. in Monday.* He Is now at the homp/)f his lebrown, William F. PItigerald. Jolin- Art IB. It was voted to raise and and la o bcantlfnl work of art and rlcdas well as other supplies. , "Ont or IIH- Niclit." Miss Cal­ brother, Wolte'iv iFlotchcr, Oak street. ^l Wanace and David H.. Yoiing. ' appropriate $100 for the care of pub­ , ,APrfiRp our Ainccre'ap. souTCnlr to keep or to send to fricnda. lic dumpa '•.•.- •- . Ten big nmonioblleB'niade two trips We " -' ' vert Is o.'iU'-'! ''i" most cjtpreK- ' The Misses Florence nnd RUth Fpgg, The result of tho ballot'Is as follows, preclnti'• •'•: :iu. kind docdfi ni\d woroR Pt Km«r«on'college aind New England figures being given only where there ' Art.-16. It was vpicd that a;com­ Tuesday with convalaiccnt patients of Bynr, un r-M.ndfd to us In our re- slve movie :,• ' "I thf day. A PRIOR $1.00 r-; nt. <*»pcclAlly to the was a contest: /Selectmen and" over­ mittee ot six be apiJolnfed by tho mod- from the hnse hospital through the cent ll' • •'•'• Conservator^ Of Music, Boston, «rere I imhuK and Foresters for gro.nt stnr i cre.nt play. erator. to-Investigate the needs of a country surrounding the camp. The KtitKhi" '^r • • gtfsst* fott-'the, last week-end at the seers of the poor, three, .John D. their !,>•'»<« ^rf rendered durlnfc the J)le«a» be preeeiit. ', ^ Ir fe:: I ,VJ', fc|it'<|i.^;;i'«ii,>< "•»'•--

PAGE SIX SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919: tree an' I'U cubber you up wid our bes' cloze." bondwrlting was unmistakably that of The feeble eyes of the old man Win Chandler. Myra.knew it at oiice.' were clear enough to see that Lureeuy ttrMnltxitini She bad had several notes from-TVlU ENKlRSEDvlf WllaSflW; wa^ very weak and wviiry. She re­ before fie fell in love with Eili(£''Fingg. plied : .,'BY NBTTIBX NBHAN The envelope'was addressed'to Ella i "I'ou hasn't got n bit o' sense. But, Flagg. •• : , '" . Massachusetts to Help Starv-^ "I,S'*«h>r tim«. roo koow, sumjjlu In byar Is jiluiu wore out, dess 0 sbo held the- missive tip to the light ing Armenians \ r like It ole clock mos' run down. And, . fi—.cSi ™«i»M •till ia thidon «iid tkiao, and dlscerne'd through the thin paper If Wl- tu'n 'em Inside out—" tlim is OujoMoIM, oiuiat ud tnie, tho dainty decoration of a lovely val­ Lureeny felt struugcly weak antl entine. DpiVE STARTS FEBRUARY 9 YPRfi A Uttle printed verse could be pl'oUi. colli. A chill such as she had never ly read: ' , felt before benumbed her by degree.s. A littU'idriM ijibb the bhmt mi Committees of men and women IK ALliary^LincD KS^ So struu;;e did she feel that she called Amid these -wilds I wander in despair, every city and towii in Massachusetts, hor busbuuil. I sish for her, so faithless, yet so fair. outside Boston •will begiii on the week I " 'Louzo, I Is awful col'. I reckon But iMce b tiu rot «t htr tbraiu I»M! Yo strcanis, ya woods, ye breezes teU of February 9 tho task of raising $1,- Tho agonies ot soul for her I toai' I's gwlue ter die right now. In sight '• JSS ^*^ • 600,000, the state's quota of the fund I of Ue promise' Ian'. 'LonrO', et dat is of 130,000,000 to Ije spent by the Amer­ ^^DliveHirf er And > bo^'t cbMk* «f£d>t tha bul line A bit of doggerel verse—yet It set I so, I want you to take dls yere o'ln^e, Myra's heart to i>eatlug.rapidly. ican Committee for Relief in' the Near . DMP iUi th*Mit, hot dtoir hid, [ clpperus to Mtiss' Llnkum, an' tell him Bcbiad hw loft en'i drooiui /id, Win Chandler had sent this valen­ East among starving Armeniaits, Syri­ j to keep It till de longes' day he live, tine to Ella Flagg—whot wonder-work­ ans, Oireeks and Persians. The drive lasts two-weeks." • * , .' •. •;' • iVNNONS were- booming down I und dea give It to dc bes' pusson he Aod pUlsH RiU Uw eomlrtSwT^ ing thing was this. Love which could . Armenians 'haye suffered upspeak- the •s'tUley apd at lntcr%ul.s ! know, an' tell him 'bout de chllluns, . ., ^ Th«.*k>Ue, blS- bridge the loog years ' of ' estrange­ 4ble atrt^clUes at-the hands of-"th» there was the sharp rattle of j un dat I uxed him to befrlen*. you. Asd laDIhier low. which, b hsUdlrliu ment? V Sipplea urow bet vslastiiia. • , Turks during the war. ; Driven from; G musketry. Bodies of soldiers, You've been a good man to me, 'I.on- . Year after year WUl Chandler had With « ehcriahcd Ihoniht tot th» tart u'told their homes into the wlidemess, thou- 60me In blue and some In gray, were 20—" sent a similar message to Ella Flagg— I teoderlr opea Mch y«llow told. saitds are •without food'aiJd clothing. seen In places along the valleys und Here the husky voice broke off and And mn haut fawtl lut « b did boa d*r and EUn had never received it! Still, In . Pitt that la hallowadud iSmwr. ^ There are inore than -4,000,000 to feed, broken ground. But they were uU far Alonzo was alone. I caa aea tbaarea that.wara deap asd bloo. WIU had doggedly sent the valentines. Who could depict the grief and an­ Nothing Iti bet^veen,'but on the days and 40,000 orphans to be' cared for. from the little rain-washed crevice on And ao ara roa-^ ' •tho elde ot the mountain where an old guish of the poor old man its he sat So tboafht.iha last ai aha paaaed aaeh Haa. devoted to the kindly saint Will sent President 'Wlisoa bas issued three negro stood scoimliig the distant that long night through beside the And aamled with a Idaa ber-Talantina. some message to his old syveetheart— proclamations endoralng tbe cam­ scene as well as his half-blind eyes dead form of his wife? In the morn­ and.EUa never got It! paign. One of these says: tvoiild permit. After looking he would ing some other refugees came along Myra Watts might have explained, "I again call upon the i>ebple of thei - return to the farthest end ' of the and helped him to bury ber wrapped but she didn't United States to make eiren^more gen­ crevice. ' carefully In her "store 'clothes." ' J GOCgOOODOQ Today her eyes glowed fiercely as erous contributions than ..they have No. 1—Cartwheel hat with crown of black satin and brim of straw she hid the letters oway in her bureau made heretofore to sustain tiirough; "Is de fiUn' all over ylt, so's we kin Then Alonzo started, on his mission. slightly rolled up on Itself back and front It Is trimmed with an Immense go'long, Lonzo?" Days of misery, anxiety, hunger, cold at home. - the winter i^ontbs those, who, through:, buncl\ of paradise. no fatUt of their own, ha^ve been left - "I reckon hit 11 ntever git done," said "They Ought to be my valentines,'* ' No. 2—Palestine turban of copper-colored tulle, with a. Jeweled sword in a. starving, shelterless ..conditlen^V the old man, nodding his head.to the she defended herself. _"So, TU .keep rt/n through the front The material ts wrapped aroiitid the head Viihd and to help re-estabUsh-these ancient . frightened woman, who crouched 'down •em herel" worn low over the eyes. \ , . and sorely oppressed people in thelt^' Into the: smallest possible space. That night Myra closed the post of­ No. 3—Street turban of French blue taffeta with a wide b^deau of fice'at eight o'clock and started for former homes on a eelf-supportlng ba­ It was np wonder she was afraid,' black straw. Alsatian bow of taffeta at side.. ^ sis."' ••• r"'- ;•'''•• :',':'•• for the war had swept away. the. Inst home. Her way led past the little . No. bonnet tonight so'sT can go down ;the 'valley, bat hlsbleared eyes tle; building, Boston. : ' .;''--'. SPRING FASHIONS bow. for it was obvious that the mil­ to Uncle Benny's funeral tomorrow. 'WCTO fined with tears'he dared not Dr. Charles Wi 'EUot, of' HariOU'tf' liners wotlld • revive It; but- a 'certain I'm much obliged," she called oyer her shed, and his broad chest heaved with College, has" been elected bonorair woman of distinction started a fash­ shoulder as she htu^led Into the house the sobs he held in check.' FkioUy he chairmaa.of the campaign committee Headgear Styles Made Up of ion for it that, the piUlin'ers quickly Myra turned itito the Flagg gate and cleared his throat with a mighty ef­ III,Massachusetts. Among.others who looked upon with envy. :went around the path to the side door. fort and said: Fads of Long Ago^ ;There was a light in the sitting room have accepted appoliitments; on. tba 'll .reckon we might git ober the She canie to Iimch la ti restaurant' YHA WATTS* black , eyes •and ..Myra peeped through the glasS cqinmlttee ire eK-Govemor Samtiel W.. xldge fo' dahk, but we got.ter creep wearing the genuine Alsatian bow, darted busily to and fro as 'panels of the .door befoire she knocked. McCali, Bishop WiUUm liiwrence, ex- . mighty ^ose to de gtilly tell we reach BOBBED HAIR FOR ALL AGES black and immense, placed across the she sorted the mall on St What siie saw there stayed her hand. Mayor James'lx>%aa ot Worcester,' ex- de. timbah. Mebbe we fin' a fahmeh middle ot her head, with a mere apol­ Valentliie's .day. Miyra iad : EUa Flagg was all alone in the Senator W. Mtirray .Crane and. State 'w'afll give ns a bite an' let ns sleep in ogy of a little cloth cap in front of it; been postmistress at LIttleford for rooin. Myra Ijnew that Mrs. Flagg Senator Augustas p. loring. Florentine Coiffure Is No Longer a hees ba'n. Come." , ' It stood upward and outward, and her 12 years, and It was said that she 'was asleep In the adjolijing bedroom. Cablegrams^ are coming' into the Before Him Stood the Tall Forjn. Caprice ot the Extrepiists—Mil­ hair was colled-high behind it. This knew the. handwriting of every man, Ella's fair head was pressed disconso­ With njany groans the woman rose state headquarters of the American and rebuffs passed, but always the liners: Decide ' They Must was the real thing, and her daring woman and childln the vlUoge., And lately into the ctishlons of the soft to her feet, tottering with weakness, Committee for EeUei In the Near East white head and wrinkled face baimted Meet the New Demand. made, her the target of .all eyes. . It gossips whispered that Myra always and her. thin shoulders were heaving for.slnce the sweeping away of her almost daily, teUing of the great suf­ the grounds. He was not allowed to may be that the Alsatian bow in this read messoges on picture postals be­ convulsively. master's family, the destruction of the fering; among the Armenian, Syrian, New York.—Yankee Doodle, who form win be Introduced fOr the eve- fore handing them throligh the wi'ndow plantation,: and the death of their chil­ see the president Clenched in One thin hand was a Greek and Persian refugees,. Food stuck a feather in bis cjip and called Ding. . Let us hope that-it will never to their indignant recipients. dren these two had eoSered .terribly At.last, one,day, worn out by his crumpled envelope and Myra shrewdly and'medical supplies are needed Im-' . It "macaroni," thereby creating a slang appear at the tliester. At the present Outside the ^closed window was an from privation. For the last three sufferings he sank at the foot of a mediately, the messages state.. word for a gayly» difessed man which rate of prices find, the scarcity oi exiwctant crowd pressing close to the days they had lived entirely iipon wild tree Just as the joyous voice of a child has gone over two continents and seats, the addition ot a hundred or so pigeon-holes, watching Myra and her The coining ^campaign is in no wo^ flrtilt. 'But -.they stmggled onward was heard. The boy was none other toward 'Washington, ivihere In their lived in history, could not have felt Alsatian bows .in,the audience tvould .assistant as they poked letters Into connected with tiie appropriation thfln Tad, the Benjamin of his father's simple hearts they believed the good, prouder than the French king who be the straw on the camel's back. the boxes and twisted their'necks lii sisked of Congress by the President, heart. Tad saw the poor old man tbe tender, the human Lincoln wonld put a piece of straw over his head to Charlotte Corday Cap. a vain endeavor to read addresses,- for to handle the big food problem in-Eu­ vainly trying to rise and went to him rope. The foUo-fflng .cablegram was make thent welcofoe; •keep away the rain, and created hats. The Charlotte Corday cap,, inlnus Myra had a most aggravating way of frankly and fearlessly..''Toung as Ifte putting letters Iii with "the addresses Only recently received by the • Amer-. Both the feather and the straw Its bow, has been Introduced for the They had their Sunday garments In was be saw that the old man was in upside down. .. - lean Committee tor' ReUef in the little bundles, and in her bosom care- were trivial incidents lei tke Ufe of South nnd Is taken up by the North. a sad state and asked if he wanted All the time Myra •was sorting the Near East from President Wilson ezn folly wrapped from'injury or contami­ each of these characters (for the It Is made of brilliant dark tulle,' al­ anything. mail ber eyes were ivlstfnlly searching plaining this point as follows: . nation was an orange cypria. Its rich satire on Yankee Doodle was rhymed ways double, but entirely transparent. Tes, yotmg massa, I wants to see for a letter addresed to herself—for colors and beantlfol form had so around a man), but they were the The best One Is in copper tulle, its "The appropriatldn:' asked of Cbn- Slass' Linknm, I done got stunpln Myra Watts had never received a vnl-; chttrmed her that her young mistress, foundation stones of mlUInery. high crown trimmed at the base with • gress for handling food relief la not berry precious fo' he all, but dejr won't a twist of tulle and one of those entlne dtiring ail her 40 years. intended in any -way to take the place •whom she had loved and nursed with let me see him." Women have alwiiys ' pilfered from •the unselfish devotion of a dog, gave men their tricks of apparel, asserts a rococo red roses-^ with gold outer "Humph!" she sniffed linpatlently, ot the subscription being asked for re­ "Well, you come with me," said the •It her. She held it in her hands the fashion •writer. They are snug little petals and leaves which have been as she thrust a large eml>ossed en­ lief and ' rehabilltatloa In the Near lad, with spirit. •night she died and when Lureeny had thieves, women, when It cOmes to pet­ brought Into fashldn' by a well-knOwn velope into a box, "that TImpklns I^5y .Balit" I K6pe"th'af ChlS'BubsSip6?n Aloiizo could scarcely totter to a :nsked if it were not very precious the ty pilfering from those who consider designer ot Individual evening gowns. hns sent a valentine to LIssy Edwards 'wUi not 111 any way bo Interrupted or -dying girl said: place where the boy seated him on a themselves superior beings. After all. The transparent hat Is beyond ques­ -j-I wonder what her ma'd say if she reduced, '"The need Is immediate and bench saying: knew It? And here's one he's sent to very great" • '^es, Lureeny, it' Is precious, very It Is a form of coquetry, aiid woinen tion one ot the smart fashions of the "Walt here a minute. ril bring discovered centuries ago that nothing hour. It means that the coIITure must May Weeks—the impudent young : A number ot Massachusetts women precious. Cousin Godfrey brought it him." puppy—anil here's—one—for Ella—I to me, and he has gone v^here I shall so pleased a man as to do what he come back Into orderliness and loveli­ are anlong the workers who have, Tears streamed do'tvn the old man's did, say what he said, and hold on to ness. The crowns of these hats are wonder V Mura .deftly tucked the sailed or •will sail soon to take' a hand face. He was weak from hunger and his hand socially, financially, pollti- often high and gently manipulated by fancy envelope Into her own privnte in the relief work in Asia Minor. box, and, having finished distributing exposure, and the death of his -wife crily and mentally. A woman might the fingers to give grace, and one ot Three ocean steamships; the Mer- the morning's mall, pushed open the was a great blow. He fumbled In his hate another woman for stealing her the best French hats takes the crown ctirlus and Western Belle, and Pensa- window nnd proceeded to hand ft to KKKKKKKXKX) pocket and brought out the shell, and fashions, but a man would only look of the American doughboy hat as Its cola are already speeding across the the eager girls hnd boys who pressed And Her Thin Shoulders Were Heav­ thinking that the cloth around It was •n-ith more prideful adoration upon a model. Atlantic with cargoes of food, fuel and Into the tiny post offlce. ing Convulsively. too soiled he threw It away, and then woman who fashioned her clothes As brown rules in veiling, so it supplies, valued at approximately $2,- —before blm stood the tali form, with after his. seems to rule in these tulle hats. It The last one to appear at the win­ guessed It might be some old love let­ 500,000 for men, women and children the ruggeS features of his face aglow dow was Ella Flagg, the Iittle milliner Nothing so delighted the French is often in the color that the French ter froA Win Chandler. suffering trom famine, plague and des­ with deep compassion that was part caii "marroij," that chestnut brown whose shop was next door to the post Myra's tough little heart suddenly titution. kings, the great and haughty Bour­ offlce, Ella was a faded blond, with of his nature. The great man, great wliich is soft and becoming. Over melted—was this evening a repetition The cargoes on these relief ships in­ bons, as the fact that thoir women did light blue eyes and a face that once In all things, sat down by Alonzo say­ there smart women wear stockings of of many other endings of St 'Vnlen- clude every article for reUef work, what they did In clothes. They gave had been vivaciously pretty,-but now ing pleasantly: it with black siiiipers. even In eve­ tine's day? Had EUa Flagg hoped from si>oons and needles to two-ton tliem their magnificent brocaded coats was sad and wistful. People had de­ "Well, .uncle, what Is It?" ning dress, and they like it In all the each year that she would receive some motor trucks. Items which wUl bring • with the full skirts, the knee-length cided that Ella Flagg had begun to "Oh, Massa Llnkum, praise de Lord accessories. Over here •we are jusi: message from her absent lover? comfort to the sufferers -are 200 tons waistcoats, the precious lace rultles droop from the moment that WIU dat I done lib to see dls day. Here beginning to grasp its importance. And then the full realization of the coal, 35 two-ton motor trucks, 15 am­ and the. silver and diamond buttons Chandler left LIttleford and went to Is a gif fo' you from Lureeny—my— The milliners behove that in coppei misery she had caused brought a bulances, a large number ot tractors as a guide to their apparel. 'They California. Some wondered whether wife. She died afo' she could gib hit and chestnut, the brown hat will rule dreadful feeling of wretchedness to and thousands of cases ot condensed allowed them to borrow their coiffeurs Eila ever heard from Will, but Myra hei'sef. She say hit am berry precious, in order to have their hair perfumed, the spring season. her heart. and evaporated milk. The inetUcal and she done hab to gib hit to de bes' could have told them that she did "I must tell her," decided Myra sud­ powdered and curled. They saw Hats and Bobbed Hair. outflt Includes kerosene stoves, heat­ pusson libbin'—and she was a chlllin' denly; "1 must ten her about the let­ themselves reflected, ns In mirrors, by The Florentine i olffure Is no longer ers, lamps, towels and soap. On tho fo' death when she gin hit to me fo' ters I have kept back—and when he Western Belle Js 8075 tons of flour, the groups of women surrounding a caprice of the.; i-Ktremlsts; it Is no you." comes after her, I must tell him, too, purchased for $1,600,000, which wiU them. longer a sensational bit ot bravado. Snylng this Alonzo held out his toil- and I must help her get • iready for help save many thousands of "lives. The milliners have not permitted The war has Instated It as a Strong deformed hand with the beautiful her weddlng^t's my punlshmetit!" themselves to be limited by any ono fashion. Women with gray hair wear A short time before his death, for­ shell gleaming In a ray of sunshine Softly she opened the door and went period ot history. They have dipped It bobbed to the nape of the neck or mer President Theodore Roosevelt that filtered through the tree on his inside. with eager, curious hands Into aii the curled under to appear as though It •wrote a letter to the American Com­ "Is de Fitin' All Over Yit?" dark palm. When WIU Chandler came home to ashes and embers of the planet's past were cut. Girls with every shade of mittee for ReUef in the Near East "I thank you for the gift, and she claim EUa Flagg for his hrWe, people soon follow. Never part with It so nnd produced for the modern woman hair wear It. Matrons with' half- saying: who is gone, but I do not feel that I marveled that Myra •Watts appeared as long as you live, and when yon die a Jumble of things that were once grown children adogflt So the mil­ "With all my heart I wish you Ood- deserve it." Ella's maid of .honor, and they could give It to the best person you know." ', worn by her predecessors. liners, after a frantic wringing ot the si>eed in the work of reUef yoti havo "Oh. yes, you do, daddy. Yes, you not understand what had healed the undertaken for the Christians in west- Then she kis.sed the cypria. In thnt It makes for the gayety of a crowd. hands, have decided that they mnst breach between the old friends. ipoinent her eyes closed, and her last do!" said Tad eagerly. em Asia. And partlcnlariy do I wlab Then the homely face ot Lincoln ' ""'^ "obhing up and down ot hats meet this new demand. There must Myra might have told yon that it eigh drifted Into the beautiful shell. you success in your efforts to raise quiveriHi and his eyes suddenly burned. from Babylon to the French trenches, be a large and creotlve Impulse for was a bundle of suppressed letters Now, Lureeny was going to give this $30,000,000 for the maintenance ot tha Only Lincoln's great heart couid un- There Is nothing dull In millinery | iiats that will go with this norentine and valentliies which Ella Plagg had precious thing to her hero, the com­ tens ot thotisands ot Christians and today. It one could get together nil coiffuro. The broad, flat hat ot Nn- burned that memorable night when passionate Lincoln. Who but he was der.stand tlie pathos of this gift nnd other refugees and sufferers, where- the hats worn on the American con- pbs has been brought out nnfl Is Myra made confession of her •wrongdo­ worthy of this gift over which had appreciate ir. It was all the giver ever fotmd \A tbe Caucasus, in Persia, timnt. classify them, and divide them .•oiopf.-d by one young ih^tron whose ing; but she kept her secret, and so swept the pure hreath of ttie maiden ha«]. Ho cmigherl two or three times ' in Palestine, or In the interior ot Ttir- into rhapters. one would be presented fare fiL-uros in half the periodicals of did Ella, and Will Chandler' refused who (lied of a broken heart? Some- lioforo he ooiilil speak. key/' " :t!i a sartorial history of the world. 111" '::i.v. and her side companion, who to listen to her story because he was tlme.s Lureeny put the sh^ll to lier ear "Toll nio aliont yourself nnd where Novelties In Dyed Suede. al-o w,.ars the ancient Italian hair so glod nnd ea'ger to hold Ella In his Tho unofficial representative of tho ' ond the soft !>reath of her yoiint: m]s- yi>ii o.'iirio from." lb ro and there one sees a new mn- • ':'. ; 1 i-Ts tho Florentine velvet hat arms again. Catholic church in America on tho tre.ss .seemed lo l)e .sighing inside. .\lon'/o was n man of fow wonls. fleld committee of tiie American Com­ b':' Ills I;;b> was oven the stron.;rT for •••:,::l attached to an oid shape. . Such ••:.•'. •- irir.irning of two rows of torai And when another valentine day Days tlie poor old couple journeyed mittee for ReUef in tho Near Eaat Is ibi:. as ho :<)!(i nf thoir sufforincv on .- ;!." i:iso when" dyed suede is usod b. came aronnd Myra sorted the mail, on, weary and disappointed that tiio ^OOO^KKKKKK) Walter George Smith, ot Philadelphia, tbiir w.iy tmvani the renliza'iii;i r>f f'.r !,•! ..llnng turban, with its surfaco | ••<\ b,. ad::iiited that the women quickly, dcfUy, and In anotheif spirit way wns so inlerniinable. At iast tlig.v "That Timpkins Boy Has Sent a Val­ an attorney and a graduate of tho. Uni­ tlioir liop-'^- .\s lie fuiishocl. :b" old I .Tr.!-: . I in nn edelweiss design]; i\"^ h.-ivo soen to It that thoy When at last she came to a large cm- renchod n height from which they entine to LIssy Edwards." versity of Pennsylvania. He win join niiin f,:into(l an'l sank to ttie gronii'l. tak.;, •' "i the Swiiw Alps nnd cnplo-d | 1 Oil ill a:i.v typcof hat with tliis bossed envelope postmarked Cali­ conld .see In tho ilistance the goal of tho relief workers in Constantinople.. Kind liands raisod liim. fed him. and •••• n; • latterns used In the lladeim loi b.-ij i|, Ir wi.oi:,or It bo turban or | not—only Myra didn't hove much to fornia, where WIU nnd EUa were liv­ Mioir ofTnrts. tlie city of W.nshinglnn. One ot tho most Interesting phases t'liik bim to a iinspi:ni whore lie ondori -,:,', Kieiit liere you have n Jum- dl' t-no. 'iboy cannot ot course, • say nliout Ella F15gg. Opce they had ing with old Mrs, Flngg, a beautiful Tliey lifith lifted ihoir hands in joy ot the rcUet expedition 'will be that liis (lays in n oomfi^rt he liad never M. . : • plo and nationailtles all in y.iT ll'.: ,.f oxioodlng dignity, hut : heon close friends, but for many years color suffused her dark face. nnd tlitinkfulnoss. It was more beau­ headed by Dr. Oeorge H. Washbura, a known. Ills last words were: "I-Oird -.11.- • (.-ip tilted over the left eye­ tlo-: lin type ot distin- I they had been estranged. tiful than lliey had dreamed. ' "Come out here and live with us," son of tho former president of Roberts g'.i: • iiless M.'iss' Llnkum. and give him the brow . r a eirl. These suede caps nre l.:it whbh Is considered the Kiln's mute, questioning face ap- wrote EUa on the back of the valen­ College, Constantinople.' He wlU sup­ "Oh, 'Lonzo, it is like the new .Torn- ' desire of hees heart." dvod bright pink, horizon blue • and lo.-idii:- tiling by the milliners; nnd pea rod at the post office window. tine they scnt "Win knows bf a Ralem. But I'so too plum tuckered out erintend tbe woric of no less than 15 The orange cypria I.s In the Smith- I'ti.ry rod. Their sole omamcntn- thov , :irry it off with great skill. This Myra nodded cnrtly, banded EUa a splendid position for you, and it is hospitals, for the construction of which Io go on tonight. We'll eat n snack, fi'-ii ;« the perforntlon. is ibo iiiiiaonso hlnck-thrend lace bat newspaper and a letter containing a summer all the time In California." nn' den set liyar fill daylight, nnd der Koninn institution, now with Its mate, .^800,000 win be needed. which wns found In the pocket of n .« irnoone hns Insisted tliat tlfg re­ traiis;,aro!it. with Its^ broad Alsatian circular. Then She tunied her back Myra went, and she says it Is sum-, put on our store cloze nn' go on. What vi li of perfomtod designs OJ) aU our how win-il across the front This Is nnd began to close up the'offlce for the mer all the time In her heart, too, ever The hospitals wtll be scattered yo reckon Mass' Llnkum 'II say?" young Confederate olTlcer. Vt-vr know- throughout 'Turkey•from the Black Sea . Its history or how It came into the oif.tbos cnme through-the-.tise-ol pa- the iiKt tliat will supersede, for. the noon hour. .; -^— since -that night when - she tmbnrdened to tlic Persian border. Bxistinj; xnis- "I dunno, but I reckon he'll be possession of the "best person In the ' o- napkins In the-''W4r; Good sprinu- Iho upturned, mdny pointed, When she was all alone Myra locked it to her friend and brought happiness sfonary hospitals will be utilized as mighty kin', ftpcthully w'en he larti world." I bought, but hardly true: Whatever theairi. :il hat ot silk plosb and velvet the door snd took.Ella's valentine ont to three sorrowing souls. all 'bout us. You lonn hack ngin the (OoprrUtit. ;0I8, Wmitn NawapapM Colon.) tho source, the fashion is here. The with li>< aigrettes.' . - •. of her own box. It was postmarked (Copyrlibt, Ul*. by McClure Neirspaper ^o biisls of budding, wherever poasl- milliners mny have originated It but (CopyriKht. 1915, by tlio McCIore News­ from a town In California and tba Synaicate.) I Eyes Had to Be Blue. the dre.ssmnkers borrowed it ovei paper Syndicate.) . , Whettce the Red In Flag*. ~\ Blae-eycd babies always clnlm n pre­ Several Guesses Allewed. Faint PralM. The actual defenders ofthe red flaf ponderance of admirers. The fact hns "Copper to Remain Fixed,"—Puzzle Night Air Not D'an'oeroUS.'" . Cruel Criticism. Health Improvement In. Braxll. Speaking of doubtful' compliment^ do not know or have forgotten that Jo-it again been empha.slzed—this time hendlinc for gentle reodcrs to solve. There Is still a prejudice - among The famous saying "Bnudl is a vast a subscriber writes: "I wish to offer Mrs. DJer—"Mrs. Blathcr-Skyte read red . was. formerly, the. color of the at Haropstead, England. It was nn- Guess whether It refers to the copper's some against night air. For^that rea­ hospital" is in n fair way to being the following as one of the best exam-' one of her unpubUshed poems at onr church militant nnd^lso of royalty un­ Donnced In the press that the town of­ post, or something else again.—RulTalo son some foolish people ' sleep With outlawed. Yellow fever Is Stamped pies I have ever secnl -An tccompllib-^. club meotlng.'thls afternoon." i Mr. til the epoch when Henry VI, king of ficials had a "bonny blue-eyed baby" Expres.s. their 'windows closed. Nl^t; »lr is out nnd the govfrhmeot has made an ed musician was Invltid by.a friend DJer (smning)—'Xyric, dramatic di­ England, took the tlUe ot king ot for adoption, and straightway 3.''>0 not dnngerous. On the ayewge' it Is dactic'or epic?" Mrs. tljer—"I>jvj>ep- Immense niiproprlstlon for supplying to a church service In order to bear, France. Then ted came to be cousldl would-bc adopter.'^ wrote to scctirc It, more pure thnn that'of tW dajr. In tic I"—Buffalo Express. quinine to the entire commtmtty. To the chorus choir render avsieclal se­ ered as an inimical color Jn Fninwi Pnfortiinstciy it wn.

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SHIRLEY $3,000 to be UhCd with an equal Charles I'« Howard Xnow-les. HOLLIS, N. H. HASSACHUSEtTS COTTON TEXTILES LOSING IN UPHILL amount furnlNhed by tJie state hlnh- Albert IJ-. Ml Hert>ert iUrrch- Valentiites N'owH Items. wuy commlBsion tor the purpose of stead. News Itomtf. FIG6t; SOUTHERN STATES MAKING BIG GAINS rebuilding Liincaster roinl. beginning; Richard Slocomb, aged 4 yt-urx. 'j -Mrs. Gqorgo Krost, who' utiderw-enf near the residence of Anios I^arker lo months. 19 days, son of Xir. n„i\ .Mrn. Ccntcr. an operation at a Nashua hospital lust Longer HoursWIth Less Pay Reason for lUpid Q«*<«th — Forty-elgh* the l.ancaftcr • line. HourJi Law Will Bring Dlaaster John Blocomb, paaaeff awu.v Tjc-i-iluy .Miss I'..I I'.rarlford returned ii-i •week. Is making a most satisfactory atternoon of maInut''rltIon. Art. 6. Voted tha' •••• tuxes f'-r iast Silli;T'l 'titer spending tiie wt recovery. •;.• • •- . '.- > " • . ' .• Miss Ruthi Knowles Is at hoiiK; for 19i!i shall be due ;,:, I-ayable rjot with frj. rn. n lioylston. ,^iie was i HEARTS AND PANELS ..That the prMtljra irblch -MajkweSuwtU baa •njoyed for so muy jttn u the Herbert Cameron has written his a fow 'days; convalescing after an ill­ later than 'ictober 10. .'T.ii all tuxe.-. companieil y little Klizjibeth Hr leadlnc textile itate of the country. U ilowly betas lost to ber, U the lUtenMot aunt, .Mrs. Charles E. Hardy, that he remaining unpaid af.e Ih.? first day ham. of li ston, who is t'l spe.-.'l ino4» by ooe of the Isidlnr cotton •mmviut»Ltmmm tt tho tXMt. The touih, which. ness of two weeks In the ho»iiitai at is with the army of occupation in Ger­ CUT-OtJT MOUNTS •'. u^'to a fnr y«an aco iru.cpoken of coir as. tiia:cotton itatcs bu beui m^ktnc of November, 1919, in ••e.-i shall tie few d.-iys witll her. Northfleld seminary, Wherv she IB a many and is boarding in a German trenModou* ctrldM in the mannfiKtfiif ef'«*M«B ttatsim. charged at the rate of six student. - ' , '•ent per Mrs. I'.alph Thompson, at tho N'-rtii. (am iiy, Manii(aot>u«n throustiout the (tat* Mr tbst thT nwen (or thU cxpwuloa la annum from October 15. : CUT-OUT FIGURES haa been ill tor the p.'ist week, but 1; «u« to the lon« boun of labor In tho soothiobtw*^ •wtth medium mgot. -in North I^avid I>, Llndenberg Is convalencins Art. 0. Voted that the ' David Cliarait, who enlisted as a Carolina. South CaroUna, Ototria, aad.AlaUiak, aueh op^uttr* irarlu dxty boon from pneumonia.. ;. ..f the reported to tie improving. '. •' '• ••'" '•••„• : ' •' ^•' tax collector shall le 1 V; ', lumber-Jack and was scnt to Van- a.ireok." «ald on« niiinnf«« Hmilred t«-iaartc 'bara. It would mean that tbaaa and is at home. He liked out there Southarn mills drald doae thalr teotoaie*. Ar thraa noothi durtnc tho raar aa4 ment the past three weeks. nien. be and hereby is aut.'iorized to at tbe >,'orth. Leanets Pnllingr Cards and is talking of going b.ack, as he •tlu oparata on aaval tersis with- " " borrow from time to ti:ne jn anticipa­ Shirley citizens having surplus funds .Miss Alta Giaves i -!t on Tuesday for thinks it a better country for a younfcf tion of revenue of the municipal year, •'- Polders, to Care for'are asked to consider the Springlield, wlu-re ? ib- is to stay for man to make good. beginning Ji;nuary 1, 1919, an amount merits of tho Andover Savings Bank. several months at Tiiu home of her not exceeding in the aggregate $10.ODD There wlil be a meeting of the Boys' Scenic PulUng Cards 131600.00 »1 Andover, Mass. They pay at present Dister, .Mrs. Cliirenci .- Clark. 2l^00lM« and to give a note or notes of the town and Girls'-club at tlie town hall on dividends at tho rate of 5% per an­ .Miss Vera Bradford, of I-3verett; therefor, payable within one year. Friday evening when Miss Hazard and Box Novelties Meohaoicals num, have a large surplus and their Miss i^ielen IJradford. ot Hoston, and Any debt or debts incur.-ed under this Mr. Carlyle will award the pins earneel next quarter day comes Marclr 19th. Kayinond LJradf'.rd. of Wuterlow-n. s^owu a>ithorlzation to be paid from the rev­ by the boys and girls in canning, gar­ Send for statement. • spent the week-'-iid ;it the home of enue of said municipal year. dening, raising pigs, etc., contest last A LARQE LINE 5,^00,000 :s;M40oe Jlra. George Greenleaf left Monday their parents, .Mi and .M.-S. C. E. Art. 8. Voted that the next annual year. A. W. Smith, school .superin­ morning (or a week'a visit with friends Bradford. town meetiiig I'e held in Shirley Vil­ tendent, will speak to the children Valentines, and Valentine" In Burlington, Vt. Charles K Bolt-j; , librarian of the lage. and their parents, and there wiil be tt The Brotherhood of the Congrega­ Boston Athen;euni, v.-bo has his sum­ social time. The public is cordially Postcards . Art. 9. Voted that the sum of $1,260 tional church win hold Its regular mer home here, htts ju.st completed a invited. 2.«oo.ooo be appropriated for the hydrant serv­ .3JMVH« meeting on next Tuesday evening at- new book, entitled "The founders." ice for the year 1919. Harvey Messer, of Mllford, recently the honie of Walter Knowles. The work comprises portraits of per­ Art. 10. Voted that the sum of sons born abroad who came lo the dismissed (rom the service, has been At the session of the Sunday school $1,20.0 be appropriated for police pro­ colonies in North America before the visiting In town. at the Congregational church last Sun­ tection. year 1701, and represents English. day Miss Sarah S. Stevenson was Mrs. John L. Stark, who with her "2,4410^000' iA*o.M4 Dutch. German. French. Swedish ijnd Ayer Variety Store elqcted as secretary. Art. 11. This article, relative to an family-spends the summer months a' appropriation (or $1,200 for police Bohemian set-tiers, ranging from their bungalow on Pine iilll, and who Sunday will be observed as •Roose­ protection if the town should vote (or Maine to South Carolina. has been seriously III at her home In velt day at the Congregational church. -Opposite ^Railroad.Station \ -license, was passed over. Raymond Farnsworth, at t\'oods- Nitshua, has so far recovered that she Men of the town are most cordially In­ vllle, is steadily improving from his is about to start for California, accom­ 2.000,0001^- vited to be" present. The pastor will Art. 12; Voted that the sum of $150 foookooo recent attack o( double pneumonia. panied by a companion.. .Mr, Stark deliver an address, on the life of Roose­ be appropriated to enforce the liquor will join her in March. velt. It Is earnestly hoped that the law. ' Mr. and Mrs. G. 1.. Snow left on men of the town will respond, as Mr. Art. 13. Relative to an appropria­ Wednesday for Brookline, to spend a The Ladles' Reading and Charitable Gooflheart Is a man capable of hand­ tion (or the extermination of the elm few days, after which' thoy plan to take society met at the ladles' parlor on 17600,0062 ,i,cectoptf ling the subject and will make It worth leaf beetle, was passed over. a trip to Chicago and later to Califor­ Thursday; Friday evening, the Whist nia. club; and the Hed Cross Wednesday tyiAMI while to all who are present. Art. 14. " Voted that the sum o( Arthur C. Annls. radio electrician $70 be appropriated to pay the bonds Miss Margaret Longley, o(- Boston, afterpoon. of the navy, has returned to-his home of the town treasurer and tax-collec­ spent the week-end at the home o( Two unusually handsomo male' her mother, Mrs. Abble Longley. In town. He has been placed on the tor. pheasants have been seen In this vil­ I,20O,00O< - t^eo.000 reserve list for a .period of four years. Art. 15. Relative to an appropria­ Miss Emma Whittaker. has been lage. . An evening school has been- opened tion for band' concerts, was passed spending a few days with Miss Ethel The Woman's club met •with Mrs. by the town In the little brick school- over. M. Holden. Flora C. Hardy, Monday afternoon.,. house on Church street;' The sessions John Farrar, at the North, who re­ Art. 16. Voted that the sum ot Roll call was answered by anecdotes, are.h*eld on Monday, Wednesday and' ceived his discharge (rom military iSoo,oooj ^•00.0 $1,200 be appropriated to sprinkle the the remainder of tho afternoon being Friday evenings, .from seven to nine service iast week, has taken a .posi­ principal streets of the town with dust 3j)ent. In a social time. Lunch was BROSXJN UNB IMI>ICA.Tes JSCKOkSS'IS OOTTOS. CONSUMFTION BT M o'clock.. Miss Martha B. Ellison, day laying oil. tion in Leominster. EOTJIt STATES or BOtJTa.^aOl^iatB ISVSCATBB mcSESABB m tiAB- served by tho hostesses, Mrs, Flora C- teacher at the vlllag'e grammar school, BACKCSETT6. «0 KOUB gtATBS. MtQiW - IKCRBABa OP 141% IN CON- Art, 17. •Voted that the sum o( $350 Word has been received of the ar. Hardy; Mrs, Stella Hardy and Miss Is teacher and principal. Only read­ IA.IL foods contain soma of.the bulldr StmPTION. UASSACRUBarA SHO'WB U% INCKBASB. . be appropriated (or the purchase of a rival this week at Newport News, Va. Agnes Tenney, ing and writing Is taught. ins material for the teeth,' ^Some foods Nothing twtter inuatratea the torpanalen ot a mSl than, cotton consomptlon. Klae- new road grader. of Arthur R, Holden, who has been Ir Mrs. George Hazard and little grand­ The Altrurlan club will meet next service overseas in a forestry unit o' : contain all of them except.-when man tatn yeara, ago Maaaarhnaatta tiaed.l.O«t,Mt kaJaa of. cotton m her.lsAiatrles. Tha Art. 18. 'Voted that the sum of $25 daughter Miriam, arc visiting at Mrs, Thursdaj- afternoOn with Mrs. Walter the 20th Engineers. Ignorantly removes them. The" slttlnK, four laa^lag ali^ hbvr atates of'tha aottth uaad 1.S28.ST1' tialea. a. difference ot be' appropriated (or demonstration Hazard's old homo in Attleboro, Mass. •Ughtlr'.oTCr 2«s;000't>aiea.^V[>uryeai*lJUer; however, we aa-w a change. The south Knowles. The program will be a pa­ screening-, boltlne and reflnlntc ot the work in agriculture, and that Edward John Moulton, at the North, is quite had Jncreaaed her.eooaumvtion to 1.MT.167 or tt% while Uassachuaetta auSend a Curtis Clapp was in town on a busi­ . patent'processed flourswto such-an ex­ triotic one and will be In charge of sick and was removed to the hosplta" aetback decreasing her conaunxption by.Ud.271 bales or a Uttle-over.12^, a net M. Davis be a director to serve in co­ ness trip, Monday. . tent that the bone-bullding nnd other the directors. gain for tha aouth of JTJt. " . . operation with the county agricultural on Wednesday. blo-chemic elements are rcinoved pro­ The cattle of William Jordaii, •Who . Ifaasachaaetta got U back and a Uttle bit more by 1*09 but ATR years later Mrs. Bessie Jacobs is visiting this trustees. Rev. Roscoe Thomas, of Grotor ducing III reality a denatured bread. is in the hospital In Nashua, have been aha dropped behind again. The sooth in t&s meantime had been making big strides week In Rumney, N. H. Art. 19. Vqted that the sum of $200 School, conducted the service at Trin­ This artificial bread lacks tooth build­ Increasing her peroeatagea year by year tmtll IM> whan, she had gained a total of sold, as It was Impossible to get any­ Mrs. C. R. White will open her be appropriated (or the purpose of ob­ ity chapel, Sunday afternoon, .and wil ing qualities. T> l,»n,1» tor the nineteen yean in bala'cabaamptlon or 1UK-. Maaaaehusetta had one to care (or them. dancing school In . Odd Fellows' hall serving April 19 as a day of welcome preach again on Sunday afternoon al mads a gain of barely MH in the casie 'period, a' little Icaa than X% a year. The many friends here in town Of on Saturday-afternoon. February 15, to returning soldiers, sailors and ma­ 3.15, Tha above flgurea are very, algniftcant. They mean the breaking away. of. Charles Emerson, of Mllford, (eel the props which.have kept this state to tba front for so many yeara. MassaehuT at one o'clock. There will be classes rines. Plans are being made for a mcmo- verj- sorry to hoar he has broken •etts.wlli not be able to compete I( these advantages continue. . for all ages. Art. 20: Voted that tho town accept -rlal to be placed i.-. Twnity chape' . Cloth Output. • dowii under the strain of the war Dr. C. A. Fox, Dentist The Ladie.«' circle of tho Congre­ containing, the names of, all men whc .'As cotton consumption meana doth production again we find the same four as a public highway Tolman street and work he has done so cfflclenlly on tho southern states making l>lg gains on MassBCfaosetta. During the last fifteen yeara gational church meet next Wednesday Whitely street, so-called, leading from have been connected with the chapei exemption board. Someone said of Banr Bids. Tat. Cait. Araai. IUM. (rom: lS9d to 1914 . (no later flguras a-vallable) these statea Increased their cloth afternoon at 2.30 o'clock with Mrs. Phcerilx street over property o( the who have been in service in the pres­ him. "He has used everybody white." podocUon'from 1.297.231,718 square yarda to 2,U4.E17,0«7 aq. yarda or 128%. ' I>uring Goodheart at the parsonage. Samson Cordage Work.s to Chapel ent war. The list contains nearly fifty His friends here all wish him a speedy this-same tlme.\ this state gained 4X2.730.710 or M%. Altbough the figures (or re­ Mrs. Baril. assistant at the home street. • The land retiuireJ" for .this names. return to his usual good -health. . The joy pf fe^ng fit -and cent years are not available thero Hkio qtiestlon but what the south baa'contlnued street will be donated by the Samson to make steady Increased gains while this state haa struggled to show any- gain of Dr. Charles J. Peirce, has pur­ The meeting of the Grange on Tues­ At^the Grange mcetln^jj^h^Tuesday ' fresh rewards those who Cordage Works. at all.- chased the Wilbur house on Center day evening was a "Birthday meeting." evening the entertainment 'was in heed the laws of health,, lilassachusetts sells her goods In the same ntarket as the south. If the aouth road. The price paid was $4000. The Art. 21. Voted that the town ac­ The anniversary of the founding of charge of Howard Barnard, deorge . can produce more cloth per week for the sajne money she can undersell thia'atate. house is now occupied by Captains cept as a public highway Chapei Shirley Grange falls on February 12. Kobbins, Ralph Mutszoy, Irving Si­ and keep the halnts r^-* Continued underselling will mean that aae must go out of business. •Which will It Boldoe and Kirk of Camp Devens. street extension, so-called, extending and in connection with this Mrs. Mahel monds and Milton Wright. There beT lapwitli.'^--';' --V':-: -^ Miss Mabel Miner, of Keene, N. H., from Phcenix street easterly by land of Graves read a short paper on the- was an essay read by • Harold ^E, arrived at her home In town on Wed­ St. Anthony's society,' and Samson history of Shirley Grange since it was Hardy on "Needed agricultural legis­ founded. Stories of childhood days Spiders' Strength. nesday (or a few days' visit. Cordage Works on the south, and oth­ lation In New Hampshire," Country's Peat Deposits. er abutters on the north to land o( were told by George F. Buxton, C. E. The amazing strength of spiders Is -Ruth Whltaker, nine years of age. Mrs, Ida F. Durant. aged sixty-one Peat Is so antiseptic and absorbent Kate E. Hazen. on the east, a dis­ Bradford, Mrs. Bessie Buxton, Horace Bhowij In a number of well-antlientl- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. years,, who died at tho home of her that it Is nsed as a dressing, for tance of about 2000 (eet, more or less. C. Harris, William Jubb and Gilbert cated Instances. Thtis we lia.ve nil In­ Whltaker, Chapel street, was taken on daughter^- Mrs, Henry S. StlmSon, -was wounds, and Is an excellent substitute Art. 22. Voted that t'ne sum of Wheaton. The next nieetlng of the stance of a half-Inch spider catching a Thursday to the New England Bap­ taken to Derry, hbr former home, for for medicated cotton. This fact was $1000 be appropriated for the pur­ Gra'nge, in two weeks, is to be"House- two-Inch fish. The spider 'wafo'i the tist hospital In Boston to be treated burial. The (unera'l was held there In pose of grading and making passable keeper's night," and a valentine party. recognized many years ago In Etirope. for malnutrition of the bone. She the Baptist church on February 1, and ground or wolf family. A scientist Tolman, Whitely and Chape! streets. Members are requested to bring a box Lartart Sakef Aar Haadaata Aa Warid. where sphagnum peat Is now exten­ was accompanied by her aunt. Miss was largely attended. She was a came upon It struggling with a Art. 23. Voted that the sum of lunch for this meeting. SoIdETanrwhara. Ial>haker road, from Fredonian street to tall; it had the tall out of the (or her, which will proliably be a daughter. Miss Helen Bradford, to ber of the G. A. R. Besides Mrs. peat deposits In the northern United (irivc-way leading to Samson Cordage water, but tho bead still remained couple of weeks. Ruth's illness will Ralph N. Graves, at an informal jiarty Stiinson she leaves another daughter. States, there are many- square miles Works, "and that a comniittee consist­ underneath. The spider, struggled to require a long p-:-riod of treatment held at their home last .Sat-jrday ove:;- Mrs. (iscar E. Kllsworth, o( MiKord, of sphagnum bog In the- northern ing of M'Hierjitor U. Chester Parsons, pull the flsh np the boink, and the fish when she arrives home in order to ing. After the gU'?sts w-ere a.s.scmbieii and a son. George M. Durant, o( Derry. counties of Minnesota, 'Wisconsin and incoming highway surveyor and they w-ere asked to untangle a maze f struggled desperately to draw the T;egain her normal condition. M.-ircellus J. I*owers was one o( the il>BA2a> ruSA fitSa Michigan that would supply material Charles H. Weare. Jr.. a member of threads w-hich fiii;illy led to English spider Into the pool. For ten minutes • 'The Ladies' circle of the ConKrcR.-i- L^ n yt»«kaqinltlB«t.3if«it.atw»y«Rdbl4c tile board of selectnne;i. be a commit­ representatives who visited Durham suitable for antiseptic applications. It tional church he!i! their monthly so­ w-ainut shells. w-|iich upon beir;; op-f-- the'sclentlst watched this silent and tee t-i exr.e:id saJiie. college this w-eek. SOIDBYDRUGGISTSEVERYWHERE will not be necessary to Incur the ex­ cial, supper and entertainment in the .-d w-ere f'.ilnil t.i contain the .-;:;- deadly flght. Then he hurried away Ensign Harvey M. Powell spent ' pense of deep excavations, for Im­ vestry of the church on Wednesday tiounceir.ent of Ii;-- enu-agentf-r.t. T'r.v for a bottle In which to put the com­ AT:. 24. Voted that SSOO be ;i;ipro- .-Sunday .at ills home here. t. mense quantities of sphagnum cnn be evening. Al)OUt sixty were present to e-.en;ng was spent with riuisi- .r.:.] l-r-,- batants when he captured them. He priatid for the. liurpose of building ce­ Ralph H. Wylie enjoy the festivities of the evening. gressive whist. 1 tefreshnii-tr.s nf Mrs. Charles Spauldlng has'been the t taken from the upper parts of the de­ ment sidewalks, a portion to be bui'.t was gone about half an hour, and on At seven o'clock i very substantial creamf'l chicke:; .co cr'-.im ar;-l c.-ir. iy i.-uest of Mrs. Marccilus Powers a few \ posits. Sphngnum peat Is nlso abund­ lin M.iln street, t omnu-:;cini; ;it I'en- DENTIST his return the end had come. The supper was served -jndor the direotlnn w-ere served. Tnose pres.-r.t were ilays tills week. ant In Maine, and some is found In •amin roti.l and going easter;y ;ind fish was dead and tiie spider wns slow­ of the followins committee: Mrs. Misses V'-.-:,. C;i::;o ,;:,'l Mae BlO'l- George W. Hardy and Miss Rcrtha Xew Tork and Pennsylvania. ip,-rtinn .if. I'hfi-nix stre,..t, w-e . si'le Barry Building Ayer, Mass. ly dragging Its victim away. Minnie .-^lien. .Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. ford, F.'lith 1 ,:-garet ahi! Kiear.i-r Clint'-n w-erc guests of Mrs. Fanni-.- : comniencir.g at Frr.nt street. nr.-l : Coddlngton. Mrs. Hooper. Mi-s. Dun­ l.nngb-y. l-:;- :• ii.-irlcy. .: the grandeur of a flock of the great tmexpeniled hal -.V.l.S f( Tel. SO UTTIiEXON, MASS. has been obtained they take a number CoddinKton: stunts. Secretary Nelson priaicd for pr- To MICHAEL BRADLEY and E.M- whistlers In their wild state. One gov­ accour of hen's eggs, the contents ot which of the base hospital, Camp Devens; i-.ursc. MA COLLIER, of Groton, in tbe Coun­ ernment scientist, attached to the bu-, which have been carefully emptied through reading, .Miss Altie F. Howe; piano lec-tT.er; ty of Middlesex and said Comn-.on- Art. :••.. V. t ter. rean In Washington, says thnt the solo. Miss Ethel Peabody. There wa.« eic ctric wealth; PAHKLVSON ODDY of Little­ a small aperture, and refill the shells be atlthoriKe.i ' sight Is one ot the most Impressive In also a sale of ai)roi.s durinic the even­ tis may ton, in said County of Middlesex; any with spawn. The holes are sealed up lights and th .t nature. As the huge birds rise Into ing. BROOKLINE, N. H. heirs. devLsees or legal representatives and the eggs put under broody hens. he necessary h.iU b on Main the air It seems as if an aerial re­ of JAMES B. EATON, now or former­ The hens are allowed to Incubate the street, from lark : -tetly. gatta were being sailed overhead, the Miss n. M. Gr..r.am. of Ayer. an­ .ietaih lig- News ItcnLs. ly of X.-ushua. in the State of New eggs for a certain number of days, p'ollowing .- the • nounces that she h.is a complete Une t'here w-.a.s < })rr.:.er me.ting -.v..: Hampshire, deceased; and to all whom swans, each with a wing spread of . *-n OT . The mid-.^ when the eggs are again broken and of spring hats and irlmn-.inKS. • ures being it may concern; six or seven feet, moving like yacHs \rthur G. be held or irs-hi;. evening at t:;.- "We ivill pay cash for Apples; their contents put Into water that has a contest Towti l; H. J. home of ' 'ha ; Dut bar. Whereas, a petition has been pre­ tmder full sail. Once the swans are nunn; s- "...-; m.'ii;, been previously warmed by the sun. Town Mcctlnc furnish boxes and truck " them under way, their speed Is amazInK, \-. nite assessor. sented to said Court by MARY MES­ In a very short time the spawn Holden '.• i. w. <; There w.-t. fteen iadies in atten.l- Town meeting v,-is held on Monday ;e;-; TeaS- SENGER, of Boston, In the County ot from place of purchase. » nearly 100 miles an hour, and tliat, 3 yc.^rs. \v.;;iani 1 B'l ance at the i iev' Aid meeting, held hatches, and the young fry aire then In Odd Fellows' ! .11. .N'o special in­ tax roUec- Suffolk ,and said Commonweiilth. and too, with no apparent effort, for Uie urer. Fr. i.-rick W" at the hnme Mrs. Hattb- F. Pierce. kept In pure, fresh water until of suf­ terest was manife-ted; only ns votes .,.er r.f the MARGARI-rr DUFFY of Detroit, in slow motion Is very deceiving. Their tor. I'.alp ; S. Wh.-' Tuesday .M-. h w-..rk was acooTTi- S. H. APPLEMAN ficient size to be put Into the ponds. were cast nut of a registered list of l.riwrence the State of Michigan, to register and endurance Is as surprising as their poor. 3 .M. plishe.l oti th*- I'.eigian refugee gar- At one time a considerable business S29 voters, antl hree women voted v.^rs.er of confirm their title In the (ollowlng de- 10 Commerelol St., Boeton, Slaas. 125, Syi\ Th- ments. The w - rk w-as nearly com- speed, for they nre said to travel 1,000 for school con-imi-'ee out o( a list of .1 I'eirce; scritied land; was done In this style of spawn hatch­ the poor pietc.l at the 1: ,; i^t .ss meeting^" held miles without allgiitlng. twenty-five. Bob.-t H. .1. Holden won C rge r. ing.—All'-Outdoors. school CI at the home >•'. .'.It-, '•harles Punbar A certain parcel of land with the out for the '-itic. of selectman and ,: years. Branch Store • Cam pi-el Friday. buildings thereon, situate partly in said Morton C. I.awrer c w-as elected over­ •West Main St. Ayer, Haas. Thomas . .tve^or Groton and partly in said Littleton, City Within a City. seer of the p--'^r. . nd .lohn E. Adams. l:i:i -; con- Miss .lessh- ,'..' :i,~-.vortli is at th' Making Airplane Invisible. and tre.. bounded and described as follow-si One of the most unusual and Inter­ Fred K. Smith :i '1 George A. Steb- i>.,:-.s 142. . T -^ M: . and .Mrs K'l- Many efforts have been made to st.a'olc; Northw-esterly running on the line of esting parts of New Tork Is that bins were electa- I.s constables; these - .\, .'^teb- -h tt. ai Merrimack. A*BrB-OT*T-S make tho airplane Invisible from the Fred a ditch on land of Michael Bradley; were the only - ••s contested. :t i.litors. Mass. qiinint triangle cut off by Mott street bins 9 northeasterly on land of Emm.a Col­ • INDIOCSTION TABUCTS • earth when if Is soaring through the The electi.i: ' rers were Jeremiah 1 'ornfret; which curves the Bowery In a half Klmer The n... lier: ea.s-terly on iand of Parkinson ether. One idea calls for the use of H. Flynn. Thf-t-. J. Gateiy. W. A. 1.. M.irtha O. STOMACH 6AS6 INDIGESTION moon, commonly knovim as Chinatown. libra t: wii: be gi jo\-e described land is shown Chester I'ars' -> ,:- alive w-ith Mrs. Ihi-r;. \v. K.--- COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHU of the kind Is said to be an airplane in l.ViO nnd today there nre over 6,000 :;, tho afternoon the A P----: . n II plan liled w-ith said petition anil tor. At 1 . . ;., ..\' ning v.-hcn list. SETTS. -Middlesex, ss. Probate Court, •which uses noninflammable celluloid u ;i rant were taken up met rini'-f.' a,i !ioiii-'l.-ir> lines are claimed to bo To the helrs-at-law, next o( kin and In the little trinifble—and nearly three articles in rh- .... -.-!;.I'-rcd Oma for the wings and other parts, and ,i.!i. result: a s ; r 1. • . - • Mrs. K,;%v ,- : ! t-;- i'.rate'l fin the ground as shown ois all other'persons Interested In ihc es­ times ns many scattered and lost j»-lth the f- :• - iir-r aunt, Mrs. Woift •;•' ill during ti-.i- ; -' ^^"' sa.il plan tate o( SARAH A, MORSE late of when flying at a' few hundred feet ele­ throughout the rest of the great City. \ t"d that all officers , r- .• .'"1 e of young Townsend In said County, deceased.. Article ;; Fre-! S 1 The follow-.-.i. ;- . • - •^'oii are hereby cited to npiw.-vr nr vation the apparatus is tjulte invisible, Not only do Its linloonled houses. Its . i.-w to be chosen by: -n- Congregational ..., •Where, a certain Instrument purport­ not require,; peopl-- ri' Cd to the lil t arv Il'i I- ,.f Tlie.i- th" i..-in.i Curt to ho held in Itostoti. ing to be the last will and testament according to reports. A new mnffllng narrow, crooke." o( said deceaslid has been presented .to church. I' dore H. .s.-v.-It ' ' i-i tlie County of SufToilt, on the s»-ven- box on the motor serves to deaden the let bulletin boards make It distinct .-,1 that the reports of .t.l .-.1 the Brown Ill light. :-.• said Court, for Probate, by LEWIS E. Art. 3. V. the f.- ".=;havln---. • • c,.i - 1> tee.ith day of February A. D. ISI'.h at ,rs'ers of the poor, It w-as gratifying MOBSB.who prays that letters testa­ sound. One • advantage of the trans­ from the American city, but nlso it has selectmen, o home V. "Anne's ill'.;- -• i • •' f--. The .-'•.:•- te-i nilock in tho forenoon, to show- mentary may bo Issued to him, the.ex­ t, • auditors and other -i. note Ihc fact Tb.- r.-r- parence . Is thnt observations can be a constitution nnd govemmcnt of Its school cornr-i: to ;h,- • ner hou--.- ;.- ; - ' •- h . aiise. if .-my you h.ive. why tho prnyer ecutor therein named, without giving a ,. ai cepted and adopted. ... nuine surprise. I'le: cat-.\.i-. " • stiretyon hla offlclal bond, tnade In all directions.. . . own. town oOitM rs thni ner hi.ii.- 1 -Is ,,f said petition shnulrt not bn granted. I .priations wcro made I iin.'i w-ns present- The Tou are hereby cited to appear at a Art. <. .M Dun... "I.impy." '.V'-:- .t' . ' le -ra.is. Aii'l unless you appear at FJIU\ Court at probate Court, to' be held at Cambridge s.-hools 16,500, high It \ clock and pic- as follows e':'• ••'• the off 'lie time anil pinco aforesaid your de­ In said County of Middlesex, on tho • ii'iio, superintendent ,: [iresent. Dlreottng Boy Life. Shlps Of Pumlee 8ton«. school tulti- • tur.-. •K\n,\." • M\ '--'t.;.- -: • .. tleld of fault will be recorded, nnd the said lie- seventeenth day of February A. D, 1919, srhool physician JlOO, . -iiert.-iinmcht con- at nine o'clock In the forenoon, to show Many people know that boys in A company has been formed to.btild of "schools .'' Tit. or.^' "The r. t ,- - ' th V,.Idler. • -itiim wiil lie taken as confessed, and !:'in. town poor (2,500, \'lctroia music, ciCuse. If any you have, why the same their teens are active and ; restless. ships of pumice stone. This substatice. transportat.' t Siste.l der the <-'- t;' t \ -K .. Two litfi ^ou will be forever liarred from con­ ahould not be granted, tire department '(700, f;.-freshments were The secret of good leadership Is in •which Is the scum or froth of.the la'va bridges $1'"' song^ diana," •The...; -. ';.. -f-velt — n- testing said petition or any decree en- lAnd said petitioner Is hereby directed r i.iw $200, library »360 . . <-:iIng as a whole ography.^' •to give publit notice thereof, by pub­ enforceniett also ^- ter(-d thereon. turning their activities in a right di­ thrown out during vdlcanic eruptions, , ivmcnt of notes |5()0, . ,; en,toyment (rom lishing this citation once In each week, rection and in comblninjc the three would seem fo be admirably adapted, and dog >.,^ pro\. Mrs. Chit . ':••-• . e-eive.l a cat-i Witness. Charles Thornton Davis. - for three successive weeks. In the , meterles passcd'over, • ,.• merry event w*as Interest $-"" Stan froin her it. i ' - '^ -lltieth iliis-.lh I-:squire. Judge of s.iid Court, this Townaend . Toscln, a newspaper pub- essential elements of play, work and In one respect at nil events, for the ,!:•.. street lights 13,700 , birthday party, as Memorial in th. Monday, st.i'n;. ' he had received twentieth day of January in the year ' . llahed Irr said'County, the laat publi­ worship. Millet's • picture, "The An-purpose Indicated, seeing It is s6 light ••.\ balance of 191S. sal- .King day. Sunday, cation To bo one "day, .at least, before and unexpeni Oniii orders to go -.i ".- - •»'' .rk inini. diately nineteen hundred and nineteen. gelus," with its peasants working In that it floats easily on the surface of -,e warden $100. exter­ .•.-.nth milestone In eald'.Court,, and 'by mailing postpaid, arlea Jl.O"" rem i- from Comniii "- ' ' I'ler. where He Attest with Seal of said Court. or delivering a copy of this citation to the field andthe chnrcii in the back­ the sea. It Is, however, very poront, minating moth- SST4.76, transportation • .-n.-i also received llfer> s.inie time. He All known persons Interested In the es- has been ptaii'-ti- •- St21 CI.ARKNCK C, SMITH, ground, teaches us the relation that ex­ 80 that it soaks up water readily, of library bo-k-- »26, transportation of - k' n- of her birthday many. Saturday -tate, aaven days at least before said mnn-. oxpcctc - OT, Hond .«.treet Oar ten p«per« e»»er a terrHorr in n.ie Kathleen Miner. The Illtle cott... First Judge of said. Court, thla twcnty- with its ball field opposite and tb^ ships; 6ut Jl method has beeii. fotiiia forest fires Sl'"^ caro of common $20, TrUeh therr la » poptit«tl»m o« at Irmm* (ourth day of January-ln the year ona Th - from fire on Incidentals (••'«' and unexpended bal­ Itiith I Coddlngton, Ce- had a narrow es . ' M.OOO people, •»* •" »"K^i.f'*-IfT/ thousand nine hundred and nineteen. church dome towering up a few block* of overcoming the difflculty. The-hull I/cnh -^ - •,ve o'clock. The ance of li>i'' highwaya $5,600; also. -,,-r.thv Milliken, Ele- Tuesday night, aljc • t every week by at leaurt 13,000 people. 3U2 :- P. Ji.-ESTT. Haglater. at^ay Impresses' ns with the connec­ of the pumice stone vessel, after being Ila H" - .int room from -.hitiorie Wolff, Ethel flre started in the f; Oar ratea ol adTeTt'alBJt «re very •>•« tl.OOO to hi reapproprlated froni the anor i"' and had burn- itmrn. taklac our Uracv eirerfatlo^ tb«n BorS .WAKTEB to siell vanilla flavbr- tion which exists, between iiot only completed; is coated all lovfer extenal* , cnie. George Hooper. sparks (rom tho stove 1918 highway approprtation ^ to boloLKno"',.. - hut the quick wken laaerte* In • V^r^ wlMi • Terr . InsT a(t«r aehool 'hour* and tettirdaya; 'work aod worship, bnt.'Ctl&y a» weU.— ly with il kind of black siUea called cd through the floor used In conjunction with the state,an i; i ir.l t:ia Whitney. Ray- aand tl.M foritbattlala that retail for a EverEvere- - ion extinguished •ad ambacHptlOM booka n««a*a to *n 25c each, HUM tioat card (or free Ktontreal Herald. ttiga/ a glassUke substaoce. -ciifh. Earle Weare, Fred work of the firemen n highway commission for: the mainte­ mond I'h' advertlacn tut tketr vmaHal, •sample botUe., 'WAXStrVEUD EXTRACT l-imfrct, Charles Will, the blaze. nance of the malncthrdugh; roads Win, 1^1

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ONE DOUOAK AND Fnmr CENTS .Miss McDonald, the district nurse, tlon. -Tross committee^. Florence E. E^tus. Harlan .i"J Ernest, of, this? Proftfor** jBtrind, Ayer, Sunday, Enid FEB TEAR IN ASVANOS will be (ound at tho homo o( Mrs. E. Kemp, Mrs. H. N. Towcr and Mr». town, the latttM hi-ing at present at jf*nn«tt. In. "Seeking happiness." Sun- P. Nowcli, Main street, after this week Minnie G. Greon. Camp Devens, in the service;.also, five "^^'OfUaee at 3.30; evenings at six Friday, und u telephone is to be in­ I'llgrim training class at tho parson- Bisters, Mrs, Aii'ir; Wood, of Shirley; and.^l^ljtyoldclc, TUa Paper U Sola ky -Mra Julius GTOVT.KO",1 Mrs. Antoin­ FEB) ' stalled. She has forineriy had board ago Tuesday evening at 7.30; subject, • -•, .--''>•;( s-,- ______, FEB. W. A. i>mmmey Kaat Peyperall at the Homestead. "Tht art of questioning." ette 'Welch, MlK.sis Duvothy and Carrip • '.'•' ' ' ' • •.'* Bvackelmaa Droa. Sklxlay Blood, all.of this town. StiUtiirw,:-'v' ., Rev. and Mr.i. I), it. Child were in M.-thodlst church. Sunday morning; 7 and 8 At FtTOHBima'S Bia iMABKBTS a. P. Talater .Orataa There woro\ ir.aii.v (>ejiutiful lioral 7 and 8 town on Tuesday, motoring up from subject, *'An unutilized resource"; /:>lr..>iiij;jklr«. Andrew Walker havo .««a«a( * Oe Utttatam Camm tributes from lovinn relatives and •recBlvM'a letter from thoir son Ray­ their present home in Hudson for u evening, "An ancient wrestler. Sunday O. W. lUIdratk ..TovraaaaA friends. Interment was In Woodlawn mond, saying that ho'Is with the army few hours with friends and at the school ot noon. Prayer meeting on. O. K.P. Ca, Mala atraat.'Ayar cemetery, the bearer.') being her three ot occupitlon" somowhei^o in Germany.' . AT OUE BIO... BUSY, .OHEEEFUL^MAEKByS; home of Mrs, t.'lilld's parents, Mr. and Tuesday .evenlnfr; "FuinUIng tho law." brothers,, Estus, i:rne.'in,',:.tlie'rank of-lieutenant-to cap- nIty Church Workers lylUbe held In J, H. D, - W'liltcomb attended the 8c. lb. Setve with griddle cakes difficulty about the receipt of all9t- famousactloh at Coubelette, where the Brattleboro sale this w-eek, where he • bjin. -i . \ • the" ladles' parlor of the church oii ments, taxes'or Insurance, 26th BattaHoh from New Brunswick Quaker Com Meal 10c pk?. •Worcestctshlrc Soacc, Crown Thursday atternoon, February 13, at had-stock entered, < Mrs."B. J. MUroy. Main street, has All these troubles may be brought covered thfemselves with glory. After brand,'regular 15c. bottle 10c 2.30. Every woman Interested In the Miss Margaret Thacher left, home on Ralston Breakfast Food boon entertaining her two brothers to: the Red Cross Home Sen-lee rep­ twenty-threomonths of service he was Flddcn's Salad Dressing, (eg- Community, church work Is cordially Mohdaiy for California, where she will 19c. pkg. itliis week, 'Wallace and Forrest Dove, resentatives,' who in this town are recommended tor the D, S. O." libb)'"! Pie Apple 15c, package ulorly 15c. and 29c. from Everett. Wash, They have justar- Invited to join, this society. A large Without a.doubt Mr, "McCord has spend three months with friends. • R, & R. Tomato Soup 10c, can attendance is'requested at this meet­ Chester B. Hamilton or Mrs. P. W. 10c. and 20c l>ottIc rlvcd in this country -from France tit­ Flynn", or anyone .may apply to the participated in more real flgMlng than The Thtirsday-evening meeting Mils ter a year In the naval aviation corps. ing, as plana' will be made (or the ninety-nine/percent of the soldiers, week w-as held with John E. Gardner. (uture work. Red Cross headquarters. Market St., FANCY C^VKES ASB PASTRY AT OUR BAKERY COUNTER They enlisted' at Seattle and were Lowell. For all legal matters, Fran­ who have "gone overseas. He was Mrs, Myrtle Northrup Kelrstead transferred to San Francisco, (rom The regular meeting o( the Ladles' cis G, Hayes, a-lawyer, has offered his never severely wounded, but contrac­ died suddenly near her home In Med­ Try Our Famous Occident Bread 9^ and 14^ loaf' •which' port thoy sailed for France, Aid society will, be held at the home services,. The visiting committee In ted the trench'fever, and was granted ford late last -week and was. brought coming first to Charleston, S, C, an'd of Mrs. J, N, Annls,, High street, Wed­ town are Dr, C, G, Heald, Mrs, James a two-months' leave ot absence, and to Littleton on Monday for burial In Kew-Tork, by way of the. Panama nesday atternoon, February 12, at Attrldge, Mrs, Albert Parlter and Miss subsequently received his discharge the Kelrstead family lot at Westlaw'n. UNITED STATES FOOD ADHI>tsfjElA'npN, Uoenae No. G. 23,853 tianal. They arrived back here on the three o'clock. All members and those Marguerite Deware. and returned home. cemetery. Mrs, Kelrstead'was thirty- IT S S. Now- Hampshire last week at interested are invited to be present. The early death of Mr. McCord. at tour years ot age and leaves a hus­ Hoboken, . and were detained for a The relatives of Mrs, Earl Farns­ Ked Cross Notes,, the age of forty-tour years, has been a band, Talmage Kelrstead, and a son fOTf days -at the Pelham Bay station. worth, Ayer, received the news o( the An all day meeting will be held at great shock to his mother and-other, ot eight years, ;. Brockelman Bros: Thcy are now having a flfteen-days* serious Illness o( the little five-year- relatives here In town. .He had a bril­ Sergt. Lester "W, Grifflths, who re­ farloiigli," after which they return to the home of Mrs. E. S. Durant, Wed­ old daughter, Janet, o( pneumonia. At liant future before him' w-hlch he left cently arrived In New' York from the station, expecting to receive their nesday, February 12. Box lunch at 420 Main Street Telephone 2080 Fitchburg, Mass. last reports she was better and In a voluntarily to ser\-e his country. - He France, has bee)n assigned to Camp ^ibcJiorge from the service.- and^tum noon; hot coffee served by hostess. (air 'way to recover, was graduated from the. University ot Merritt. Mrsi Griffiths, upon receiv­ :^me to the State of Washington, There. is plenty of worlc. Business New Brunswick and also from the ing a telegram trom-him, started from ac^sa the. continent, A tow^t caucus "is to 'be held In the meeting at two o'olock. Harvard law school. His early educa­ Laredo, Texas, where she has spent I .Tlie.East'Village club will be enter­ town hall on Tuesday evening at 7,30. The Mt. Lebanon Community asso­ tion and training were-'carefully at­ the early winter with her sister, Mrs, tained .dt BUikcsmere by- Mrs, N..W, Other Pepperell matter on first page. ciates met for Red Cross work •Wed­ HAVE YOU HAD TEE H^UENZA? tended to by bis mother, who waa left Chester Nye, and' reached Littleton on Appleton on Wednesday, Febrtjary 12, nesday at the home of Mrs. Arthur a widow whenthls lad was but seven Hired, Sick and All Bus Down? Keyes, resulting In the accomplish­ Monday, It ,wUl be observed tis a "Lincoln me­ Woman's Club. years of age,' While attending Har­ morial afternoon," with music, read­ ment of a quantity of finished gar­ vard he spent, his vacations with his Rev. Paul G. Favor hgs been ap­ The -•wonderful 'tonic properties of our - • The large ^udlence which gathered ings and quotations from Abraham ments. Lunch was enjoyed at noon, aunt In Winchester, where he Is still pointed assistant,rector of St, Barthol­ at the meetlnB of the Woman's club X4ncoln^, the whole program being o( with cocoa and coffee served by the remembered. •'-'. •'' -^ ' omew Episcopal .church In New "i'ork patriotic; nature. on Tuesday atternoon was very grati­ hostess. Mrs. Bannon, president, read and win take hla. family to that city fying, both to the speaker and the of­ Mr. McCord leaves-a wife In New Syrup Hypophosphites Compound the treasurer's report at the business Brunswick; afsd/a sister, Mrs. Burton in about two- months, . Tlie "West Neighborhood club have ficers of the club. The- business meet­ meeting In, the afternoon, A report FOrd. of Sackvllle,, N.'B.; a-brother, Mrs. Annie C. .Smith has returned Will set right, increase the appetite and make you feel 'well afeain licf^,.holding meetings regularly on ing was postponed until the conclusion was also- given by the seoretarj-. Miss Robert McCord, of ;'OntarIo, Western from a visit of two.weeks with frierids •W^i^csday afternoons at the home of of the program and only a short ?1 p*-bottle Barbara Bancroft. Another all day Canada, and the brother previously in Worcester, and recentiy visited her Mra. I.eon Richardson, and have been musical entertainment offered, so that meetlrig will, be, held with Mrs. Hayes mentioned, Edward McCord, ot this cousins In Arlington Heights. sewlne on the garments (or the the entire time might be devoted to next Wednesday; box lunch. town. His sorrowing mother and rel­ refugees under direction of the Red the address. The opening number was Mrs. Amelia; C, Wakefield has re­ atives have the sympathy of the com­ Tlic Du^aw^ Pharmacy CJrdss society, local branch, and also a solo by Mrs. Copp. who sang, by re­ covered frorti an Illness and Is now quest, "Little mother of mine." and Grunge Xotcs. munity in their affliction. with her sister In Lexington, , •working between meetings, to make up Friday evening, February 14. will , George H,'DuPaw,'Registered PHajifaacist •' at the clOKo, Mrs. Hutchinson ren­ Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Whitcomb spent for the decrease In numbers during lie "Birthday and patriotic night" at dered the patriotic solo, "Vive la the week-end with his mother and his .Telephone Connection EAST PEPPERELL, MASS. the wlt^ter'. Prescott Grange, with the following TOWNSESID ' America." sister's family in Norwell. The families o( Mr. and Mrs. Angell program: Piano selection. Miss Mollie The speaker of the aftemoon. Rev. a,nd Mrs. Charles Goodwin moved on i'r.izer; sketch ot Washington's life. Hurlx>r, Mrs. James r-happel has been spend­ fall meetings, ot the \V. B. M. held ^v:oOD POR SALE^^E. S. HILL. Oro­ William Porter Xiles. occupied the Wednesday (rom the house on Tucker William Blood; selections from the Mrs. Charles Monroe, who has been ing a few days in Boston. In Syracuse a. few weeks ago. - .She ton, Mass, Telephone. 213, 4120 hour and more alio ted him and all street to a tenement on Leighton Vanophone. Miss Sarah Tucker; anec­ visiting her mother, Mrs. Helen War­ The Giri Scouts will meet next w-eek faithfully echoed the principal fea­ could have listened for a longer per­ street, as their former rent has been dotes of W,-tshington. any member of ner, returned to Beverly on Monday. Thursday instead of Wednesday-. tures of the speakers at the meetings iod. Into his talk of an hour and purchased by Mrs. Const-ant Jaglel­ the Grange; singing. "Star Spangled Mrs. Monroe was accompanied by Mrs. adding in her delightful manner the perhaps a quarter, he condensed more Miss Charlotte Pickard is assisting lovicz, of Parker hlli. B.inncr." chorus: sketch oT Lincoln's Warner, who will spend several weeks Impressions .she received and "sum­ Chalmers facts than many would have been able Miss Whitcomb in library work. life.. Lester Lawrence; anecdotes of at the home of her daughter. ming up the wHole briefly In two state­ Timothy I.orden, who has heen to lell in three hours. He was a very William Stapleford, long a sufferer Lincoln, any mem!>er of the Grange; ments: all Holds are ready (or the working with his team at the saw mill rapid speaker find taking for his Mrs. Galen Proctor and little daugh­ from consumption, passed away at the: song, "The long, long trail," Mrs. Grace service and receptive' to the message in Brookline, N, H., moved there tem­ tlieme. "Current events," he showed ter Katherine spent Thursday at Hick­ home of his brother at Littleton Com­ Automobiles Shattuck; reading, George Stewart; pf our missions and missionary work- porarily this week. i-eniarkablo talent in his ability to ory farms. mon on Wednesday. selections on the Vanophone. -Miss er.s and We need to make our contri­ The anxiety of some of the Ameri­ gioan from here and there, and yet Jane Worcester of the Center is a Nj:W AND USE3> C^LBS Sarali Tucker; sketch of St. Valentine's Mr. and' Mrs. Snelling of Lincoln butions to those people In darkness can boys to reach home is forcibly il­ make a connected and comprehen- guest of her aun.t, Mrs. R. B. Adams. life. Wer.del Mes.ior; march of all were Tuesday guost-s of the L. W, more effective than ever before. The lustrated by an anecdote related in ^iv.:- addre-ss, thit^ beinij considered . Shown and Demonstrated at. members to pre.'^ent pifts to St. Valen­ Mrs. Charlie Richards with her lit­ Chases. meeting closed with prayer by Miss one'.of the home letters. One of the ono of the rare i;iftx of those who oc­ tine: son,:^. "America." Grange chorus. tle son Frank Luther were oiit riding Julia S. Conant. young soldiers, probably becoming cupy the lecture piatform. The Pomona Grange will be held -After the entertainment there will be Wednesday. weary o( waiting (or a transport, se­ in Littleton February- 20. There wlil In his introductory remarks he cited a picture gallery, for which each mem­ Mr. Allen, who formerly rfllved in Shattuck's Garage cured a common dory at the port of be an all-day session, which in the Xew Advertlscnients tho condition of the country as it was ber is asked ^o bring a childhood pic­ town, is fliling the position at Knowl­ debarkation, and when dLscovered and afternoon will be open to the public. C, G, HEALD, Dealer at the beginning of the war, to re­ ture of himself or herself. Light re­ rescued was .about fourteen miles out ton farm recently vacated by Charles .\ good program is promised, .\mong CARD OP THANKS fresh the memories of his hearers, freshments will be served and a social East Pepperell, -Mass, to sea, -with nothing but two oars, his Blanchard. the speakers in the afternoon is Chas. 13tf and then brought them along to the time enjoyed. Gardner of the state Grange. 'We wish to thank our neighbors and detormihntion, and for provisions a present day conditions. Ho exhibited Miss Emily Lawrence during last friends for the many acts of kindness little bread and water. He was per­ Patrons are invited to dress in any week visited friends In Gardner, Mris. Henry A. Belcher of Hotel and expressions of sympathy in otir re­ a wonderful familiarity with matters cent bereavement, suaded to return to iand and wait (or of the foreign countries and with the old-fashioned costume, from 1732 to The social feature of this week was Vendome and Mr, and Mrs. A. S. Nye Oscar H. McDonald, , . a larger ship. names of cities and towns in France, 191S. To still further carry out the a progressive wMst party at the home of Dorchester were recent guests of Amos D; Mahony Miss Nye and Mrs. Smith of King St Mr. and Mrs. John H. Blood News was recently received by Mrs. EeU^him and even Germany, which spirit of the evening, in representing of Mr. and Mrs. Bagley, given In ob­ and Family. "ye olden time," patrons may brin.g •W. •%%'. Gillespie of the serious accident are either ;)assed over or avoided by servance of Mrs. Biagley's birthday. The L. W. Chase Is having his automo­ Pepperell, Mass., February'4, 1919,. Sifts to St. Valentine, the products of REGISTERED F-TVTBAT.MBTt which her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Wes­ many. evening was an unusually enjoyable bile all made over and hiost of the their own labor on field or farm or COMMOXWEALTH OF MASSACHU- ley Gillespie, had .suffcre.! at her home In rlosinir he spoke of the methods one, at the close ot which refreshments work Is done by Eliot 'IToung- elsewhere, which he will sell at auc­ were served. Mrs.- Charles Hagar and SEJTTS. Middlesex.'»». Probate' Courtl AND In Erie. Pa. She was using an elec­ of tho presont day and the work of Town meeting w-ill be held next To the helrs-at-law, next ot kin, tion for the benefit of the Grange It Mrs, Bennett won first prizes. Second tric w.ashing m,achine and in some tho many si^cietles who are pouring Mon'day, The ladles of the Baptist creditors, and all other persons inter­ out time and money so that our Amer­ no other token Is convenient, hrin.u' prizes wore awarded to Mrs. Petterson ested In the estate or PETTER B, •v FUNERAL DIRECTOR manner her liand was caught and Just what common cents-^or common church will serve the dinner, MURPHY late of Ayer -in said Ctuhty, ican boys who are coming back to us and -Mr. Josselyn.'. deceased, intestate. .,.. ,.... drawn Into the rolls, injuring it very sense—one may have handy, but in no Ijingdon Prouty Is out of doors and are being kept from vice and degrc- During the noon hour at the Har­ Whereas a petition has beoif present­ badly. r.xse more cents than the member told gainltig dally, althpugh he has not re­ gatinn. And that the American poo­ bor school last Monday Lebn LaFoun- ed to said Court to grant a letter of 40. East Main Street A^ER Mrs. William Shattuck. of North by the years of the Last birthday. gained normil strength, administration on the estate ot said de­ pio had nuK'h to be thankful for m tair. while skatingi fell and broke his Chelmsford. .Mass.. was a visitor in Mrs. Lester W. Grifflths substituted ceased to JULIA A, iEURPHY of Ayer town last 'B-eek. tlio presont crisis that these sam*"' It is hoped to have represented at left leg a little above the ankle. The In the County of Middlesex, without Telephone 116-2 ;ii;'-r-.r;"s' hud accomplished i>o murh the meeting George and Martha Wnsh- acc;dent occu'rred . on a small pond in one of the Forge Village schools giving a surety on her bond. Miss Juliette Gilson. of Nashua, was You are hereby cited to-appear at a iTit' n::v hoys were Co mine back in iiik'ton. Abraham Lincoln and St. V.il. hnle hy breakiiiV _through the ice on Wednesday. a visitor In tow-n last Tii^^sday. Probate Court to be held at Cambridge, n.'ist j:.-'t.'ii:ros. so clean, morally, • :^Tine. Be present and make and ha\-^' There was no wate'r underneath A .Mr. ,-ind Mrs. George H. Kimball and In said County of Middlesex,^ on the J-ohn An"th <"if club mombors ninl I l>l'.-itlis. hark hospital to'liave thfe X-ray ap­ day, when llttle-Mlss Faith daintily same should not be- granted. home of .^:rs. Charh-.i Ditnl-iir 0-; filled the offlce of ring bearer. Oth.ers Ayer, Mass. ruo^: ' The funeral of Mrs. Marjorle plied, and where he will remain diir- And the netitloner Is- hereby directed Weilnf-.;ey place on Hr.llis street. >;:v McDonald w-as -but twenty- h.ir.ce. . •'ln.'t; dreth at her hom'e In. Cambridge. TO BUV—Uor»e, Hen or Cow Manure r. -iiieii m Pepperell and was educateil f- TU erysipelas, but Is now reported 600S SIBLOlk S'fEAK .Me, lb. :\bout her house, although still in ;i carididate. Tbere was n'> eve:iir .' ivory Mrc:ecry.''.of St. John, X. H,. In Groton rather pour liealth. The little boy. , n -ur public .schools, a member of c .nvalescent. . • ' . ' se^^-lce. hhe hlKh school class ol 1914, Her IS ,1 c.eat thl.s wieli'With h'ls brothor. AUo, Srcond-kaBd S-laek PUnklns BESrr SIBIX>iy STEAK BOc. Ib. who has been boarding w-ith her for Uev. Dwiirht K. Mowery. of Ne^v (iordon Mcf'ieerj;, at Ms 'home with -Mrs. Thom'sa N,'Aycra recently re­ (lome time, has been very ill with ty­ i :i, .rriase to Oscar McDonald, of this TO SELty—Green MoontalB l^otatoea at York city, will preach as a candidate (i-'wn, occurred lour-yeara ago, and Mr. .West on Lbver.s;:]ane. _, turned from, hor Cambridge home, phoid fever. I)ut is now out of danger. where she'«pcnt'SBVorardar8. "--- .....Sl.TB. per-bulieV ;-...;,- GOOD ROAST BEEF . ^ S'sc. lb. at the Community church. ,=;unday 1 they have made the^f home •with her Mr and Mrs. Wallace Bryant are Mrs. Amos Rouila has tieen suffering Sunday school at noon, with a speri:il h.arents until rccentljr.tbjejf *stabll«hed er.jnvinc :, visit with MIss Norma Bry­ The groat spy picture, "Stolen or­ S. •W. SABIN'E ' OrotOB, Mass. from .stomach troulile. and her daugh­ Lincoin-Roosevelt service. A confer­ (tbemseivca in tho Boynton cottage on an; from Hailowel'l, Me."-- ders," a two-reel Charlie Chaplin com. •> Sm22 FORES and IJOINS. IiAMB 28o, Iti. ter. Miss Doris, -R-as .sent for from edy. 'JTho fireman," . ahd Gaumont ence of Sunday school workers will t e f^hirley street, where thcy hoped to Mrs A. N. Calklnswith her two chil­ Nashua. She is somewhat improved enjoy many happy 'days with their News makes a^ big show for today at held in the vestry at three o'clock dren arrived home this week after a FOREI^ and liOmS, TcaiUng SOa lb. at last report.-t. little tcn-months-old .datighter HaJcl. Proctor's Strand, Ayerl Sunday, Enid Sunday afternoon. All the newly- weeks visit with-her father in North Our aged townsman. Augustus Shat- .Mrs. McDonald had dot regained her Bennett In "Seeking happiness," Sun­ UsedXIJars elected oincera and teachers are urged AbinKton , --^-'^ " - - . OREASC CHEESE SSc. :p>. tnck, whose lllne.ss was spoken of last to be present. health and strengtH alnco-tho hlrth of day matinee *t 3.30; evenings at six Kriend. of MlsS Harriet Holmes, who If you want a late used car of any week In these columns. Is now reported the child, but therd was no,thought of and eight o'clock. ' ' . make, call, write or phone,'a* I have The Joint business committee of the was a one-time restflent tit our. town BESnr CASE EISGS . moro comfortable and has made a re­ :inything serlous. ttritU-a-te-w-.weeks.be­ several and raay.taye you mooey. 550; dozen Community church has created a as a member of. th«,;Qeorge Cobb markable rally in the Inst few- ,lays. press committee to have ehnrce ,.t the fore the end cai»e,' Sho'iwas natural­ l-'nllcd'Workers, ,.'.".• • A. Il, SMIIiS''.' ly very quiet nrtfl'^ uncomplnirting, al­ housohold. w11 ' . Ol(OTd>r,'.MA8^ 4Sc pock ways pleasant onfl'aigreeahle, a lov- Taft l-'arr.um on Januftty 28 Mrs. and. physician. It seems almost .«nfe This committee wishes to ask the Init was held by, the United 'Workers, ing child, whoso dcpttrinra l« a great Farnum was for several years before to predict that he will celebrate his he.ads or secretaries of the vnrl-u. .ie. at the home of Miss' Ellailjeth 1W. GOOD'CORN 18c. -nan shock and grief to tii« entire famllj her marriace 1 member ot Dr Orcn- nIpot>'-fourth birthday in April. partmcnts to kindly give to their, enrly Thacher on Wednesday' afternoon; In She Ls the first ot « larB* family to In the week any articles for th- i ical fei's party of workers in Labrador, the absence ot the president. Miss 8, dOOD FBAS Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cook returned pa.ss into the Great Beyond, The '': 15& can papers, or pulpit.,In the torn: -h.it Is V.Mentlnes are tof »al« »* '^e Red E. Houfthtoh, the vice president pre­ Am paytns STe. Ib, «iiA'«I»wa>«i< ifor home (rom Philadelphia on Thursday young husband and llttl« daughter, as desired, ns otherwise the COM - i-tee Cros.'- ror^rr.s. sided and led In the; devotloris. She . I • GOOD POUMTHL^r 'x . morning after a week's stay there and well as all tho members ot her Im- EXTRA GOOD COFFEE 30c. Ib. ca:-.r.ot properly perform it~ •! :ties. The cre.T si> picture, 'Stolen or­ then presented Mr», Dexter of Fitch­ In JJew Jersey. modlate famiij, have the sympathy of .\r. church notices lo this pap-- ns' ders- a rwo-recl Charlie Chaplin com. burg, an able enthusiastic speaker of Call cAVio SAPsmarAN, towoii The Pepperell Card & Paper Com­ friends, ,. 538S-M or Pepperell 51-S Orders can 'droand to Ordek be In by Wednesday noon at t! i.:ih- eriy. The dreman," a*d Gaumont charmIng|.pcr«onaHfy, who gave an t • Tlie deceased leaves threo brothers be left with A. A. UaVTREHtCB East pany shut down Wednesday night un­ iishing offlce to receive proper ,-:. n- Nev.s m.ikes a big thOIT for today at address of compelling Interest on the PiippereU, VaM. . til Monday, as work Is alack. njkVfD SAPBRSTAir SttBEDDBd WHEAT l^e. pkff. *

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