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The Hart , SchafEner & Marx styles in Suits and Overcoats for 1921 are here—new colorings, new fashion ideas, new fabrics: Prices one-third lower than those of the Pall of 1920. We can save money for you on Suits and Overcoats. Not on the first price; perhaps, but our clothes are better; they wear longer; they still idok good and styhsh when cheaper suits are in the rag bag.

PRICES FROM $35 TO $45

• OTHER MAKES FROM $18 TO $35

New Fall Hats Truly a superior collection of New Hats showing; the trend of

styles for FaU. They are Quality Hats tha t -wdll do justice to the balance of your New Fall Ouffit.

PRICES FROM $3.00 TO $6.00

Copyright 1921 Hart Schaffner & Marx

Get the Bous Readu lor Staiool This is the time to do it, and this store is the place to do it.

BOYS' SUITS FROM $ 8 . 5 0 TO $ 1 4 . 0 0

BOYS' SHOES FROM $2.50 TO $5;50 .

BOYS' BLOUSES AND SHIRTS 75^ TO $1.50

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BIG, WARM, ROOMY AND COMFORTABLE—WITH THE RIGHT STYLE SWING —THE KIND '

THAT LOOK GOOD, AND ARE GOOD

From the big, burly Ulster, t a the conservative and lighter dress styles, we havfe a -wide range of Overcoats in the most seasonable fabrics. A style for every m a n and young man—^no mat te r w h a t your preference may be as to cut or fabric, you will find it here.

Our stock includes, a grea t variety of models in full belted Ulsters, Ulsterettes, form-fitting coats a n d ' t h e regular conservative style oif Overcoats.

The ne-w prices for this season are GREATLY. REDUCED from those of las t ' season, representing a' saving of from $ 1 0 . 0 0 to $ 2 5 . 0 0 on a garment.

As usual, we are offering such well known and re^-liable makes of good Overcoats and Great Coats a s

A. Shuman ^ Patrick-Duluth NO BETTER IN THE COUNTRY

P R I C E S - $ 2 2 . 5 0 , $ 2 7 . 5 0 , ? 2 9 . 5 0 ^ $ 3 4 . 5 0 , ' $ 3 7 . 5 t f $ 4 2 . 5 0 a.nd $ 4 7 . 5 0

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N'ew-'» Items. Tho Ilack-I.oe chib will hold Its an-

[!"'„'.J!''^"'''"*f'^'"S ball in the town hall ThuraiUay evoning, November tt, J'ool & BriBham'.s famoiiK orchestra will furnish the music-

A pleasant evening w.-is furnished the soldiers at Groton hospital re­cently on what -was called Littleton nlsht. -when Mrs. Gardner W. Proutj-. Bot tOKether a. company of young people in town who like to play samcs .ind H- v. Pronty. S- V. Conant, GeorRe Tooker and .Mr.". .J. D. Christie fur­

nished the conveyance- With Mr«. Prouty and Mrs. V- T- Eaten, who rep­resents fhe Kine's Daughters In help­ing furnish happiness for the soldier

; boys, thcrc were few moro than twenty j to join the party that went to Groton I and sperit a very pleasant evening I under direction ot Mrs. Eversole I Games, danclnp and refreshments con-I stitutod the entertainment, all of i which -was enjoyed by Littleton people j .•\ii well as by soldiers- Thore wlll be {-another ;J.,Ittloton. n f eb t - at Groton ' later and It would help Mrs- Prouty j if some of our people would volun-; teer In the frood cause of entertaln-j ing (or a few hours. Judging from

reports it would not be easy to decide whethor soldlors or entertainers had the better tlme-

Mrs- George Bonnell is spending a week with relatives in Danvers and .Miss Ocenla Bonnell Is assuming re-spon.sibilities In the home during her .ibsenco-

LeRoy Jewett will take a leave ot .-ibsencc for six nioutho- and with his family, will motor to Florida for the wlnter-"Alt Ice-Storm, very desmreiive 'lo

apple trees, went on record Wednes­day night, adding to the discouraging features in orcharding for those whose

A. G. Pollard Co. THE STORE FOR THRIFTY PEOPLE LOWELL, MASS.

Mer^-imack, Palmer and Middle Streets

Corsets for Every Use (iood Oor-set. , unlike other apparel, are not .just. FADS OF.THE .MOMEXT,

They .sliould be the very foundation of good dres.sing and good ta.ste. They should be made to last. They should l)e made comfortable—no matter for what oi-easion they are used.

Seleet your model from the following makes:

NEMO IVY WARNER P. N. PRACTICAL FRONT REDFERN LILY OF FRANCE RENGO BELT FROLASET

TREO SPORT CORSETS Priced $1.00 to $10.00

BANDEAUX AND BRASSIERES What i-s more e.s.sential than the proper bandeau or brassiere'? Our stock includes bandeaux and brasssieros, suitable fov every style of

tipure. slender, medium and full.

Prices 5 9 ^ to $ 4 . 5 0 Third Floor

FLANNELETTE WEAR FOR COMFORT With the cooler days and nights upon ns, we begin to think of warmer

clothing and -(vlierc wc can keep warm during the day it is sometimes difficult to find comfort at night.

No'(v Flannelette NigKtgowns and Pajamas .-ire tbe one things that will help you- Note, these items:

NICE WA.IIM NIGHTGOWNS, in plain whito, pink and white, or blue and white stnpc flannelette, high or V-neck and long sleeves; good full length gowns. Prices $ 1 . 2 5 , ? 1 , 5 0 , ? 1 . 9 8

SHORT FLANNELETTE UNDERSKIRTS, very neatly fini.shed. white and colored- Price . . . . . oo- t

" titfp FLANNELETTE PA.JAMAS, .slip-over and hutton front stvles. Price ^ l . O S PETTICOATS AHK WARM, BUT BLOOMERS ARE WARMER. Bloomers

are coming into their own more and more every dny. and practienlly every womaii wears them, whethor crepe de chine, satin or cotton—but

not any as .sensible and neat as these sateen bloomers, at ? 1 . 9 8 pnir

Jladc of good quality sateen, clastic top and bottom, with vnn dyke edges-

Colors are bUiC- lirown and black-

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fruit crop this year was defeated by the-late frosts of ;thc year 1»21.

Ths • 'Woman's .club will hold tho next resrular meeting next Monday afternoon, when Mlss Margaret Cum­mings of Wolthtim will-glvo tho flrst of a series of talks on current events, and Mrs- Alice .'.'routy will furnish music- , ,

Deacon John "W>.Thacher plea-santly observed his nlri':ty-second birthdaT last week.Criii^iyu^fceii he.was igener-ousii! sUniuaoac.TsSrtaiJfticad^tiii.-^fl'iw-ers, confectionery, lilrthany cakesTantr the pei-sonal congi;atulatlons of friends who- called for a delightful h;ind-shake with the distinguished citizen, who claims for himself perfect health .ind a grateful heart. A niece, Miss Emma I.ocke of Boston, was present to help celebrate the occasion Friday and other friends came on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Estelle MenTiTin ot Hedford was a guest on '.Monday- Dea. Thacher was able and very happy to receive all these atten­tions, which wlll furnish pleasant memories that will .iccompany him as he enters with his usual abund.anoe of hope and good-cheer upon his ninety-third year.

Rev. and Mr.s. Carl G- Horst last Sunday entertained Mr- and Mrs- Her­man Kam of Wollaston and .Mr. and Mrs. John Stoyle of Whitmaii-

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Baptl-st Churcli \o tes . .Vext Sunday our church w-ill coop­

erate with the Baptist churches in our association and state In an evan-Kolistic service. The sermon will be "SVhat ia my life worth?"

The evrry-member canva.'is was taken laxt Sunday, and If you -n-ere not visited by a member of the com­mittee see the collector, George A. Kimball, and MOOth vour disappoint­ment.

The Sunday -"chool officers are do­ing their work In earnest- Superin­tendent of the primary departmont Mr-s- George A, Kimball Is making her department the best in the school. If you have children who are not In the school give them a chance to learn wllh the other chlidren some of the best things in life.

Have you been to church since the new heater has been Installed? If you haven't, come to church next Sund.ay and get warm.

The ('. E, meeting wa.i led by Mr. Goddard last week- There wns a very s.atlsfactory .attendance.

Hev- Mr. liunbar preached ftt thc Old Ladle-s' Home in Ayer last Sun­day afternoon- The church quartet accompanied and sang.

The weather was unfavorable tor a large attendance at the church fair Wedne-sday. but tho .<<alcs were very good, notwithstanding, and the very nne supper was well-nppreclatcd hy all who had the good fortuno to be present. An appreciative audience listened with pleasure to thc musicians and tho clever little reader, Mlss Doris •J'ork, all from Forgo "Vlilage, It Is hoped that the net receipts will amply repay those who worked so hard to help the worthy cause.

The I.Tdlos' .MIsslon.ary society wlll meet with .Mrs- W. H. Brown at three o'olock next week Saturday.

Troop 1 of the Boy Scouta of Amer­ica had a very enjoyable ovoning last Saturd.ay. Games followed tho .ihort business meeting, after which there was a marshmallow to.ast.

NEW FALL SUITS FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN

Young Men's Suits are re ry smart this season, very s-wagger in cut with t h e looser and longer lines, and the lo-wered waist line. They come in single vaA double-breasted models. The fabrics come in neat hair lines, stripes and soiid tones, in blue, bro-wn and gray.

Men's Suits are here in good assor tment in those fine, serviceable -vsrorsteds that the business man has learned to prefer, a s "well a s in the unfinished fabrics iftplfffij.olors and fancy mixtures.- Also, many very heavy tvreed suits in mediuni and dark mixtures for the man Who wants- the good quality and heavy w'eieht;-.^: '"

Prices on Suits are GREATLY REDUCED from those of last year and t h e fabrics are of better quaUty.

PRICES—$19.50, $ 2 5 . 0 0 , $ 2 9 . 5 0 , $ 3 4 . 5 0 and $ 4 2 . 5 0

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Sweaters Now is Sweater Time. You -will certainly need a

sweater these cool fall days. We have a big variety of sweaters in all the popular colors, including'white. They come in the coat or V-neck styles; some with-'a collar and some without.

You will also find here that well-known

Tom Wye Knit Jacket FOR OUTDOOR SPORTS AND GENERAL UTILITY

Men's Work Sweaters $1.50 to $5.00 Men's V-Neck Sweaters. $4.00 to ^ 1 0 . 0 0 Men's Coat Sweaters: v $5.00 to $10.00 Boys' V-Neck Sweaters $2.50 to $7.50

FALL SHIRTS

are ready and we have a big assortment to select from, and the prices are very low for the quality of fabrics compared with those of a year ago.

Percales 9 5 ^ to $1.95 Satin Stripes $2.50 to $4^00 Woven Madras $1.45 to $2.50

WINTER UNDERWEAR

Warm underwear for cold daya.-Underwear prices a t a BIG^REQm^ TION from the price of same goods iast l 'f\ season. We have all the leading mak^i^^!!

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Woodbury ot King street was Iho -scene ot a pretty -wedding last Ratur­day evening, when Mlss Marcki Bow­man Wilcox, daughter of Mrs. Flor­ence B. Wilcox, and Raymond Landon pf .Somervllle wero unitod In marriage by Rcv. Carl G. Horst, who used lho double ring sorvico.

Thc house w.is vory attractU-ely dec­orated by Mlss Cbarlotto Woodbury nnd assistants with autumn |p<ives laurel and chry.santhemums. yellow-prevnlllng-

The bride was gowned In white «atln and georgette and wore a tulle veil fastened with orange blos.«oms-She carried a shower bouquet of sweet pens. Accompanying hcr its maid of honor wftft Mlss Evelyn Woodbury, dressed In light bluo taffeta and car­rying nn arm bouquet of orchid chry­santhemums Tho groom wna attend­ed by Theodoro Coburn of -Woburn-.Mlss Katherlne I'roctor played the

STORE HOURS

Monday and Friday 8 A. M. to 9 P. M.

Saturdays • 8 A. M. to 10 P. M.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays 8 A.M. to 6 P .M.

a t new low prices. Two-piece derby ribbed.- . 8 5 ^ Two-piece wool : . . : . .$1.00 to $3 .00 Union Suits, derby ribbed =,'.

$1.50 to $2;0C!i Union Suits, wool...-;$2.75 to $3.7Si Boys' Union S u i t s . . . . . . 9 0 ^ to S l ;7&

George H.Browi^ Reliable Clothier AYER,, . l ^ i ' '

Lohengrin and Mendelssohn wedding marches.

Only the nearest relatives and a fow of the most Intimate friends at­tended the ceremony and reception that followed. Assisting Mr. and Mrs. Landon In receiving: 'Wero tho parents of the groom and Mr«. WUcbx. Tho bride graduated from Littleton high school and- continued hor- studies ait tho Collego of Secretarial -Science In Boston university. The groom wns In service overseas, a member ot thc 101st engineers, 2eth division. Mr. nnd Mrs. I.,andon worn recipients of many beautiful gifts thnt will ador^i their homo at 100 Qnoonsbury streot. Boston. THo hearty good wishes ot Littleton friends attend them In their wedded life..

T h a t TJacy JLW M a y B e Oae

The Ministers' TTnion Seeka the Oneness in Qood WUI, inA in Practical Oo-operation, of AU thft Petfplei- " '

The closer the friendship of aii our ministers togetherr the closer the fellowship'^of'their churcHies and their congregation!^ w^ll'become.

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WESTFORD Granite WUc.

The Abbot Worsted Company Soc­cer club, defeated the American Wool­on Company t eam of Lawrence in tho second round of the National Clip se­ries at Forgo 'N^lllaBe o n last Satur­day. 2 to 0. . The play w a s rather dif­ficult at times owing to tho high wind that prevailed all through tho contest. This Saturday the local tctim will play tho Methuen club In Methuen In a contest for the state cup. - Mrs. Herbert Crockett has beeh quite Ul for thc past few days, but at l a s t - r e p o r t s was leellng much im­proved. ; . .

T h e -mlUs nnd- shops were closed hero on Friday, Armist ice day.

Many of the overseers ol the Ab­bot Worsted C o m p a n y mill attended the textile exposi t ion that Vvaa held In Boston last week , ' _

M.' J. .Rafferty, of Cambriage, has b e e n - a recent visitor here . •

The new se'wing club m e t hero at Abbot's hall on "Wednesday evening, -«vhen instruction in plain sewing -voa s iven by Mrd. W . W. S a r g e n t .At the closo of the session l ight'refreshments •were served. Mlss Elizabeth East ­m a n assisted wi th the sewing instruc­tion. . , •

Mrs. Auth Sawyer 'Wbodworth •was t h o soloist at the morhlng services of the Methodist church lost Sunday.

Many from here attended the social dance he ld in Westfdrd town hall on last Satur4ay evening.

Business hero appears to boi fairly s o o d a t present.

yorgo \ ' iUnee. The flrst meetlrig of - the Social club

of St. Andrew's miss ion was held on l a s t week Thursday evening -with twenty-three membera present. A s o o d deal of -work wad' accomplished a n d refreshments •were sers-ed, tol­lowed by a social hour.

U r . arid Mrs. Wil l iam Burtiett re­cent ly ' . en joyed a w e e k with their daughter, Mrs. I^aura-JFones, in Wor­cester. .. ^ .

T h e n e w school building, which wil ! accommodate a larige'number oi l .pu-p l l s . Is n o w complete . A ndw--/urT s a c e has been installed which .will m o k e the rooms comfortable through tho coH wc'ather.

T h e sympathy o f . t h e community Is extended to Mr.- and Mrs. William MacDonald in the loss of their infant aon.

accordance with state law. I t Is prob­able that the extra weeks win be mi^de up by. having' one week's vacation at Christmas, instead of two, ani ' tho spring vacation will also bc shortened ono week.

It has also been stated that Inorilcr to make up the week at the Clara M. Shattuck school, which was lost in September by reason ot repairs, thc Christmas vaeation will bo but onc week, the school session commencing January 2 instead of. Januar>- 9.

Mrs. Maude Dow .motored to Wo-burri with Mrs. Lucy Perry last week on Saturday for a week-end visit with her daughter. Mrs. Frederic Morse, arid famliy. Mrs. 'Porry w a s on her way to Somervllle to bring back her sons, Oliver nnd J-ylndsax Perry, and their families, for a 'week-end stay here, all returning on Monday in hcr auto. Oliver Perry and family are ex­pected hero again this week for the l l t h . the holiday.

Mrs. Carrie Davis, with hcr mother, and the two children,- R u t h Pitman and Grace-D.avls, took an auto trip to North Scituate on the holiday of last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Willoughby were recent ly 'v is i ted in their new homo at Leominster, having recently exchanged their property on E x . change .street for a larger house on Pleasant slreet. Mrs. Wil loughby is In rather poor health, as the result of a nervous breakdown.

Community Church Notes. Mbrning service on Sunday at 10.30,

with sermon by the pastor. The dec­orations win bo furnished and ar­ranged by tho Junior Community club. Church school at noon.

Conference of church school of­ficers and teachers In the ladles' par­lor on Tuesday cvoning. November 22, at 7.30. Reports o f ' the state Sunday school convention and the Ayer dis­trict will be glveri.

Regular motion picture service on Friday evening, November 18, at eight o'clock with "Tho courtship of M • es Standish" and a two-reel com­edy.

PEPPERELL jPfews Items.

Mrs. Halbert Dwight Stevens re­cent ly camc from Malone, N. Y., as a delegate from the N e w I'Drk confer-•ence of the missloriar>- society of that c i ty to Providence. R. I. While in this part of New E n g l a n d . s h e paid a visit t o her aunt, Mrs. B m m a Gillespie, South road, and •with her visited hcr other aunt, Mlss Minerva Miller, at thc Oroton hospital.

Poul try thieves visited the premises o l a Ri'Merrill on, Thursday evenlrig of last:.week; t a k i n g d half-dozen of Ihis flnest 'Rhode Island Red pullets. Aboiit this tlriie last year they visited i l lm, taking twelve. Realizing that it •was about time for another call from t h o hen thieves. Mr. Merrlil had made arrangements to better Identify his annual callers, who wlll be given a short time tn which to return the l iens.

Mre. R- H- Lawson spent a tew days tho early part ot this week at Wake­fleld, going on Saturday last.

Mr. and Mrs- C- E. Marchant and children spent the week-end with rel­at ives in Leominster, Mrs. Marchant a n d . t h e children going on Friday to visit her sister, Mrs. Albert Brown, and her small Infant-daughter.

T w o dogs belonging to J- Orln Will­iams, Brookllne street, have recently been killed by shooting by some un­known parties. One of these was a smal l , house dog, rarely, leaving the Ijome. The Incident is regarded as a •warning to look out for hen thieves -which seem to be at large in that section, and to gather in t h e fowls •under lock and key, and keep a •watchful eye In the sriiall hours of the night.

Canal street is now open to tratflc, • •o.t tho risk ot the parties, as the grad­

ing on tho hillside Is nearly completed a n d fliling and graveling will be dono this weck, and the proper railing added. Many t eams and autos from Q r o t o n . w a y took advantage ot thc permission on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Beckett moved Into their n e w rooriis on Pleasant street on Monday. Mr. ^nd Mrs. War­ren, formerly occupying the same, moved last week on Friday into their n e w tenement In the Trenholm house on Tarbeli streot.

Mr. and Xirs. J. B- Pllcher are leav­ing town this •week Saturday for thc west . Their home on Elm stroet Is to be occupied during tho winter by a relative of Mrs. Pilcher's .

Tho many friends of Miss Esther Bobbins ot this town arc glad to hear t h a t she Is enjoying her new duties In Orangeburg. S. C , where she went tho'f lrst of October to take tho po­

s i t ion of music teacher iff the Claflan university. Miss Robblns Writes very Interestingly of tho delights ot the mild climate, roses and other flowers being now In bloom, and ovorythlng l ike summer. There is very little cold weather ever experienced there, and n o snow during thc winter months.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Davis and Mrs. A B. Elkins recently made an auto trip to Barnstcad, N. H-, to call on Mr. and Mrs. P . J. Parkey; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fessenden and Wllllam Bailey, w h o resides with thom. A largo place has boon purchased thero lately on the highest point of that sect ion of tho country, and it Is prov­ing very bencflclal to tho health of two of the members of tho families, •who, were not well Iri Brookline, N.

',, I t , where thcy moved from. Mrs. Julia Fletcher of Ayer, who,

wi th hor daughter. Miss Semira Swan, passed somo weeks last summer at

, the D. ,W. Fletcher place on tho Hollls ' road. left Ayer thc flrst ot the week

for Atlanta, Ga., where they will pass Jhe winter. Mrs. Fletcher was In poor health whllo in town, nnd had previ­ously wintered in Florida.

Tho new drawing teacher for thc publ ic schools is Mlsa Rcginn McNallj ot North Cholmsford, who assumed her duties hero on Wednesday, and is to bo here oach week, hereafter,

'*f}'' o n ' t h e same day. She teaches 'a l so In Harrard schools. ' - Armistice day •was observed In to'wn

, .. -e;, thUi' Friday by a holiday, tho appro-, fc •'n. . -^l*it«-exercises being carried otit in ;, I '•v jtlle achools on Thursday,

* ' '{t- I f i o Pepporcll h igh BChool v « to V. tar* forty w e e k s this year instead of

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Mctlioilist Church Xotcs. 'On Tuesday evening an important

meet ing was held at this church, when tho members of the oflicial board met for - a busihess se-ssion followine a supper. The supper, served at 6-30. was in charge of Mr.s. Andrews, Mis.s Lawrence and Mrs. Presccrtt. Later reports were given from all the church departments, and thcy show-ed the church to be in a flourishing condi­tion, the treasurer reporting all bills p«id to date In full. It was voted to recommend to the trustees of the ohurch to increase the insurance on the ediflce. It^w^s^also voted to ob-scrvo'the last Sunday in November as "visiting day." ' Various committees wero appointed to call on Sunday af­ternoon on every member of the par­ish.

Discussion followed on various branches ot church w-oi'k. The sub­ject' of installing a new pipe organ w a s brought up, and considerable en­thusiasm manifested, and it was also under discussion to fit up a gymnas­ium in the basement of the church. Each matter received- due con.sldera­tion, and may be acted upon in thc future.

On last Sunday morning commun­ion-was observed, and one adult and o n e c h l f d received-the rite of baptism, and the service with short addre.ss by tho pastor, was most impressive.

On Sunday morning there will be the regular preaching ser-vice at 10.45, fo l lowed'by Sunday school at noon. At 6 .30.the Weslayan clas-s-will meet w-Ith the pastor, their leader, in his stud^-, at the Methodist parsonage, and at the same hour the Hope Circle girls will meet with their leader, Mlss McNayr, In the chapel. On Sunday evening there -n-lll be the regular meeting at 7.30, w i th -preach ing by the pastor. ._ ' •

During" the week the meetings will be the regular prayer meet ing on Tuesday evening at 7.30.

The Ladies' Aid society •n-ill meet in their roorns at thc vestry on next Thursday, afternoon at 2.30,

There will-be a meeting of thc Boy Scouts, Troop 2, with their scout­master, Mr. Taylor, on Thursday evening at 7.45 in this vestry.

Friday evening. November 18, will be Epworth League- night.

The members of the ne-w vested choir will meet for rehearsal in the church on Saturday evening, Xovem­ber 19.

Tho groom has been an employco at the Nashua River Paper Co. for somo tlmo past, being formerly a rcsi--dont of Bridgeport, Conn. o

Death. Mrs. Elizabeth J. (Shattuck)

Sprague, ^vlfe of Herbert M. Sprague, Hollls stroet, died at hor home last Sunday afternoon nftcr only three days of illness. Although not in good health sho had been about her horae up to tho Wednesday preceding her death. Sho had been a sufferer from erysipelas for many years, being un­der treatment for the same during tho lifo t lmo ot tho lato Dr. Fletcher-Thc diseaso- had undermined heir health and a sudden cold lost w-cek affected her badly, causing heart dif­flculty and trouble in breathing. Mrs-Sprague had been a resldont hero for over twenty years, coming here with her husband from Connecticut. Sho w-as a native of Plainfleld, N. H-. where her early lifo was passed, and was flfty-two years of ago on her last birthday, in March. Her marriago to Mr- Sprague took placo In 1888 In New York stato, and tho couple re­sided thero for some years. Aftor-wurdd thcy lived in different towns and cities ot Connecticut, their only child dying there in infancy. Ot her immediate family her husband only survlve-s her-

Mrs. Sprague is spoken of by those w h o knew her aa most klndhearted, and helpful to .her neighbors .around her in her health-

Many friends gathered at the home on Tuesday afternoon at. the funeral services, which w-ere conducted by Rev. R. W. Drawbridge. A. E-Spraguc, a relative of Mr- Sprague, attended from Waltham-

Tho Interment was In Woodlaw-n, thfe bearers ' being Adelbert Walker, J. G- Wll ley and Waldo Parker-

Bl i thday Party. Tho little ten-year-old daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bailey. Mildred Gw-endoline, colebrated her birthday anniversary on Saturday. Given per­mission to invite her associates she selected about thirty-flve little girls, and about twenty-live responded to thc invitation. Among them w a s Al­berta Elliott of Brookline, N- H-. w-ho spent the day- Although the high wind made the afternoon not Ao de--slrable for out-door sports, the chil­dren indulged in a few before settling dow-n In the house- Indoors thcy sang some of thoir school songs, and as there were a few of the pupils of elo­cution of Mrs. Attrldge's class present. a very creditable entertainment was given by readings by Katherlne and Ellen Parker, Phyll is Soule, Mildred Bailey and Verna Robbins, which the older people enjoyed as much as the younger ones-

Little -Miss Mildred had many gifts from her friends, by mall and other­wise, and some gifts of money.

Mrs. Ballcy had the assistance of her friend, Mrs. Frances Burke, dur­ing tho games, and in serving the re­freshments of Ice cream, cake, wafers and candy. Ono entertainer should not be omitted, this being "Whlttler Bill," w h o accompanied Mrs- Burke to the party and did his best to sustain an excellent canine reputation- He s.at up and greeted everj-one by shak­ing hands, and show-ed great pleasure in tho .attention he w-a« given, espec­ially at lunch time.

The hours of the party were from threo to flve. nnd shortly after, every child w-as .safely .at her home, with happy recollections of a fine after-noon-

Branoli Allltuioc Mcoliug. Tho meeting- of the Woman's

Branch Aillance of the Unitarian church held at the home of Mrs- Rob­ert Gay o n Thursday of last weok w-as w-cll attended and all w-ere well re­warded by the flne educational ad­dress ot tho afternoon. Mrs- Clara Bancroft Beat ley w.ts the speaker and it was a privilege to listen to her. Her topic. "What religious education should m e a n to us." was treated in the broadest way. and with an elo­quence -ivhich held the closest atlen­tion of all her audience. Mrs. Beat-ley is connected with the work of thc Church ot the Disciples in Boston, and could speak from a thoroughly practlcal standpoint- Her wonderful memory" w-as shown by the many ant quotations frorii the poets and best-known authors. The entire hour of her talk was one of great educational value and appreciated.

The chairman of the Cheerful Let­ter circle. Miss A- M. Jordan, ren­dered a paper on the success the circle are having from the letters and mess;iges sent from Kentucky, where the circle are sending letters and packages. Special acknow-ledgemerit has been recoived for tho leaflets .sent recently from the Communitv Sunday schoolo. Tho sections taken up by the circle are the Pine Mt. and Dirk county, Kentucky.

The committee on the small sale for the .afternoon,, Mry- Heald and Mrs-' Woodward, w-ero successful-

Peppcrcll Man to bo Ordained; The unaniinous call of the New- Old

South church of Boston, extended to Rov. Boynton Merrill September 29, has been formally occepted by him, and"he preached his farewell sernion before his congregation at the Con­gregational church at Putnam, Conn., last .Sunday.

Rev. and Mrs- Merrill aro to remove Immediately to Boston, and his public ordination as the associate pastor of the Boston church, under Dr. George Gordon, the pastor of the same, -n-lll take place with fitting ceremonies on next week Tuesday. On Sunday dele­gates from the Community church ot this town w-ere appointed to attend the same, these being thc pastor. Rev. R. -W- Drawbridge, and the father ot the young preacher, Otis A. Merrill.

This honor for so young a pfeacher Is appreciated by all tho townspeople, ih' this,' the place in which h e was reared, .arid his parents, who repre­sent the patriotic .element on the pa­ternal side, and on the maternal side of his family, one of the best-known old-time families of the town,' have the heartiest congratulations of all. At the same time. It is felt that this distinction Is but his just deserts' in partial acknowledgement for his ser-vicc in ' the last war.

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Thousands Aided by Instruction In Car.e of the Sick, Food Se­

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How the Amerlcnn Red Cross guides thousands of persons to health Is thown In a suiumnr.v of the society's activities In tho health llcld bused upon the annual report for tho last fis­cal year. Through its Nursing Service, Its Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick courses, nutrition classes. First A.lr classes, Lite-Saving clnsses und Health Centers and 1» numerous other n-ajs designed to acquaint masses ol cltlreiis with propor methods ol living, the -'Red Cross carried Its message ol heulth into all parts ol the country.

Thc work ol tho Red Cross during the war in Its traditional fleld ol nurs­ing, furnishing tho military und naval establishments o l the nation with 19,-877 nurses, is well known. And there are to^ay 37,787 nurses registered with the American Red Cross and subject to call In emergency- During the lis-; cal year, 1,551 Rcd Cross nurses were accepted lor assignment to Govern­ment service, 888 by thc Army and Navy and 1,163 by the United States Public Health Service.

In addition to -tlie- nurses enrolled by the Red Cross lor Government serv­ice, thc Ked Cross Itsell employed a total ol 1,848 public health nurses In the United Stntes and Europe. Ky far the greatest number was employed In the United States, 1,257, while 81 were in foreign service.

Home Hygiene and Care ol the Sick classes, giving thorough Instruction in the proper care ol the sick in Instances where the Illness is not so serious a s t o require prolesslonal nursing care, dur­ing the llscal^-ear numbered 5,179: A statist ical . picture, of the Red Cross operations In this field follows: New classes . lormed during

year 5,179 Classes completed during year. 6,299 New students enrolled .101,003

.Students completing c o u r s e . . . . 73,432 What the Eed Cross accomplished

In giving proper Instruction through its Nutrition Service is Indicated by the foUow-lng' table: New classes lonried during

year ^ 142 Classes completed during year . . 186 New students enrolled 2,841 Students completing c o u r s e . . . . 2,013

In addition to.the above, n total ol 22,006 children were given Instruction in the proper selection and prepara­tion ol loods.

Through Its 260 Health Centers, the Red Cross reached 90,252 persons. In these Health Centers, 4.015 health lec­tures' were given and 780 liealth ex­hibits held.

In the United States last year, 75,-432 persons were killed and 8,500,000 Injured In Industrial accidents. To prevent this enormous, -waste the' Red Cross held 5,100 flrst aid clnsses with a total o l 104,000 students enrolled.

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H o m c Wwldlng. Thc marriage of Mi.ss Kflie Louise

Wlnship to Irwln S. Sanborn, both of this town, took place on Sund.ay after­noon at tw-o o'clock at the home of the bride, L.ow-ell street. Rcv. Harry P. Taylor performing thc ceremony In tho presence of nbout thirty of the most intimate friends and the relatives of the bridc- Tho ."ilngle ring -"jcrvice wati performed, thc ring being a very handsome piece of workmanship of w-hlto gold cngr.avcd with orange blossoms-

Tho rooms ot thc home were pret­tily decorated in bluo and white, with streamers and festoons of crepe pnper. and an rirch of tho same colon", with white wedding bell suspended, under which tho couple took their places for tho ceremony, entering thc room to tho strains of tho march from I/ohcn-grln, played by tho sister of thc bride. Miss Aethra Wlnship.

Tho bride was gowned In hlue or­gandie, trimmed w-ith cherries, and carried a bouquet of white chrj-.ian-thcmums. .

Following the ceremony the young couplo received the congratulations of friends nnd thc mother ot tho bride, assisted by (Mrs. A. N. Prescott and Mrs. Lyman Crockett, served lce cream and cake. Thc wedding cake -was cut by tho bride and distributed .as sou­venirs nmong the guests.

The bridal couple took their depart-uro by auto for Worcfcstcr, well-show-ored by confetti and tho proverbial "old shoe for luck," nnd followed also by tho gcst wishes of all their friends. ? r o m Worcester thoy are to take n trip to New Tork, and on their return •will reside on Lowoll street at thc homo of tho bride's mother, Mrs. A. M. Morrison.

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Thc blood becomes overtaxed by too rapid growth; and poisons from the .syi!teni take thc place of strength-giving red corpuscles In the blood. Red corpuscles arc those little rcd particles that swim In blood and give it its color. Gradually that child loses interest In it* play.

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To help overcome conditions of acute distress In flve famine stricken prov­inces of Northern China, where mil­lions of persons were affected by an unprecedented shortage of food, the American Eed Cross during the last fiscal year spfent more than .$1,200,000, $1,000,000 of which was contributed dl-recty by National Headquarters and the remainder by various groupa In­terested In the welfnre 6t China.

Through the wide relief operations thus mnde possible It Is estimated that more than 600,000 famine sufferers were saved from starvation.

To the end that similar prompt re­lief measures by the organization may always be possible the Ked Cross Is asking continued support by the Amer­ican people by universal renewal of membership nt the Annual Red Cross Roll Call. November 11 to 24.

The method ot relief employed by the American Rcd Cro^s In Its opera­tions In China was paHlculnrly effec­tive, for In addition to saving hundreds of thousands of lives It-provlded China with more than 000 miles of permanent roads that are sorely' needed to pre­eent a recurrence of fpmlne. At onc time the Red Cros.s employed 74,000 Chinese workmen, paying them In food for themselves nnd dependents, this food being brought in from Manchuria and elsewhere.

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Mr« .Victor MlUer of Quincy has M ™ " Tl,i^,?"l''''^"°J" ° ' ' ' " mother, Mrs Thlrzji Kesocnden. Mrs. Miller returned to her homo Saturday ac -coraeanled by her mother. frn^Jj^K,""""";' 'Rea Cross roll c a i r Is ; r, "i,^""*"?."?*"" " to November 24. ^^J h S " * " i '=' 1' "* each houso to f« L.^.°. ""erabershlp dues. If anyone is omitted will they pleaso leave their hnm„'X"''r.?*'^«' ' ' ^ ° » Seavor at her homo on Elm streot. •oii*'"'"''? Knight and family have token a furnished houso for the .•win-ter in Littleton, where Mr. Knight Is superintendent of schools.

C. P. Mudgett has . returned Jrom • a two-weeks' visit In 'Vorraont.

Rev. Loroy A. Lyon's subject for his Sunday morning sormon at the M. E. church wlll b e ' "Sheep outside tho fold." In the-evening there vrlll be a

.stereopticon lecture, "F ie ld of the rural, church.' '

' At tho Congregational chu'rch on Sunday morning Rev. A. L. Struthers' subject forth© children's sermon will be "Crusades" and tor the regular sermon "Dcmollahe* walls."

I'-Vcd PowoU .and comrades had a very successful coon hunt laat .Satur­day night when thcy brought homo iive coons and two hedge-hogs. ^ .Mombers of Pranz Waldo ' Miller p.ost, A. L-, are requested to report In uniform at Memorial hall at eleven o'clook thLs Krlday forenoon. _ "•'"".

^uT**®.. b', ^ ' ^' ° ' the Methodist church- held an all-day meeting last week Wednesday for the purpose of tylng_ comforters for the fair to be Dec. 7. Dinner was served at noon. .1.^1^ Anglo Lang, who has boen In the i sew England Baptist ho-spltal for treatment for several weeks, has left the hospitai and gone to Nashua. X H., where she Is thp guest of Mr. and

, Mrs. George-French.

The store of the B. v<t A- D. Fes­senden Co. was broken Into about one oc lock last week Friday morning, /lome 1200 or , $250 worth of cigars cigarettes and overalls being stolen. John J. .Piper, the manager. dLscov-ered the break when opening up the store the next morning. Entrance w a s gained by prying the lock on the front door.

The Middlesex County B u r e a u - u f Agriculture and Home Economics i a v o a motion picture show In tbe Memorial Jjall last week •Wednesday evening. The pictures were of a pleas­ing variety a s well as Instructive.

.Next Thursday ofternoon the Farm Bureau will hold a meet ing la the se­lectmen's room at 2.30. The meeting Is for the purpose of consulting with thft men and women of the town In r«garil t o what shall t o carried on by *he home demonstration agent and t h t cotinty of agriculture agent dur­ing'tha coming year. It la Important to have A jrood attendance of repre­sentative farmers and house-wives at this meeting. •

Ifredcriok Provost of North Leom­inster has recently accepted the po­sition of station agent to (111 t h e ' v a -«ancy made by the death of the late Gcorge Van Etten. Mr. Provost has moved his family here, having pur­chased the -Walter Wilder place on Main street. . Mr. Wilder and family havo moved to Leominster.

• Mlss E v a Steams, whd teaches In Harvard, and Mlss Lou S t e a m s of Kashua, N. H-, Hpcnt the -week-end at their home on Highland street-

Mrs- Hayden Evans and two chi l ­dren are visiting at the home of Mrs. William Heselton- Mrs- Evans will bc remembered as Mias Amy Reiford.

Mrs- E m m a Spencer has returned from a visit tof riends in Bbston and J-owell:

The Country club, . w h i c h waa to have met this week at the home of Mrs- Frank Greenleaf. Is postpone* until next week-

Mr. and Mrs. Irving Seaver kave •loscd their farm and are at their liome on KIm?«treot ior - tha iwi»t»r . •4.

.Araeistioe Day Program. The program In obser\-ft«ce et

Armistice day this Friday will be con­ducted by Franz Waldo Miller post, A. L- The Townsond membera ot the Grand Army and tho local units of the women's auxiliary. A- L-, Sons of Tetcrans, Daughters of -i^oterans, tho school children and other organiza­tions who wish to take part, are In­vited to partlclpate-

The time schedule Is as follows: ll-e«- rirat call. 11.85. Assembly (cach organization to

assemble in the vicinity ot tha common).

l l . U . Adjutant's call (line will bo formed facing north on play­ground at north end ot com­mon).

U-1.''. Presentation of post banner to Franz Waldo Miller post, A. L-

Henry J- Mlllor

HARVARD

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f.o'l'P'" Saturday at the town hull tho feature picture wlll be Contance Bln-atKil," ^^^ magic cup," by K. Lloyd Sheldon. "The magic cup" Is brim-mlng over -with entertainment tor N<fws °"'' ^ ' ' ° '"''^ "' '' l"'*-'" and

,»,*S',?K,? '^? books lately received at the public library are The Gay Cock-tt^r^i Temple Bailey, In Chancery by John Galsworthy, Adole Dorlng at Sv?f.''*"»?-^='l?°''•?'">« 01 P a l o m a ? b y Kyno, Now Era In Amorican Poetry by Louis Untermoycr, and Let 'er n»"^'i„''j: ^^ Y^' Furlong. T h l f lastr o?TifJr 1°,°^ '* ^ s 'o i^ °t the pass ing ? i , l . ^ '' ?*^'! "« auttior Is a great traveler and a Follow of the Royal Geographic society. The library hM again been the recipient ot a large .Ji ?5 books, the gift ot Frank P. Abbott.-

Roland B- Dlxon, of this town." pro­fessor of ethnology, Harvard unlvor-sity, director of Peabody museum, born In -VVorcestor In 187B. wns among tho list of birthdays published in the Boston Traveler ot November 0.

SATUSDAT, HOVEUBSS 12; 1921

H. W . C . Thc regular meeting of the W o m ­

an's club was held In the town hall on Monday afternoon. At the busi­ness meeting Invitations were read for' the president and two members to visit Littleton and West Acton clubs. Mrs. S. B. Haynos road,sOmo Interest­ing articles on curront events- Mlss Scorgic, accompanied by Mrs. Henry H- Gale,,rendered two solos In a very pleasing ' manner- Mr.s- Alico W Cleaves, president, gave out Informa­tion regarding the observance of bet­ter 8D.e«ch week, and also read Gov Cox's proclamation for Armistice day on November 11 . Mlss Agnes Has­sett, of Boston, spoke on "W6man and flnance," a rare treat Indeed for everyone who was privileged to hour hor. . Rofroshmonts woro sorved.

A meoting ot the executlvo board will bo held at Hapgood Memorial hall on Monday nfternoon at (hree o clock. Important business is to bc transacted. Every member is asked to be present.

Applications for membership in the club should be In tho hands o f - t h e corresponding secretary. Mrs. Carolyn Frost, on .or before the second Mon­day In each month.

PLAY,fair with your motor and put tke best there is mto It. You U always get the best out of it in return.

Ihis IS. particularly true of the gasoline you use, " 'Standard Oil' have been thb leaders in the refimng busmess for 50 years, and you can't form a better hafcS man, to till up at Socony pumps and no others. Socony Oasohne msures clean cyHnders, quick starting, smooth-steady pulling, full power aind mileage-always. " Get the Socony habit I" : .

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Acceptance of post banner John H. Batchelder

11.20- star Spangled Banner Townsend Band

11 2-'.. Street parade. Townsend Band, T- E. Flarlty. liand leader; escort, Townsend high scbool, Ralph D. Marshall, commanding; Franz Mlllor post. A- I.-. -Iohn H- Batchelder, com­mander; ^V'omen'a Auxiliary- -\. I.-, Mrs- Kdna W. Bray, presi­dent; members of the CJ. A- R.; Anson D- Fessenden Camp, S-of v.. Frank W. Brown, com­mander; Phoebe Weston F.arm­er Tent- D- of V-, Mlsa Alice M-Day, president; other organiza­tions. (Route of parade. HiKh­land. School and Main streeis. Turnplke road to residence ot W. D. Farrar. Main. Bow. High-'r.iiu btrccts to Memorial tablet in cemetery.)

11..^:. Volley by firing squad. ll-Sfs- Taps-12.0J- Attention- (Organisations will

«tand at attontion two minutes in silent tribute to thoae who gave their lives for Amcric-i-)

12-03- Address Rev- Alfred I.. Struthers

12.10- .America Townsond Band

li .13. Street parade. (Route of pa­rade. Highland stroet to play­ground at n'- th end of com­mon.)

12-20. Recall-In c-ase of rain, thia progr.im will

hc changed to .an indoor obaerv.ince In Momorial hall, beginning promptly a t H - 3 0 a- m-

At 2-30 p- m- there will he a foot­ball g.-xme between Pepperell high school and Townsend high -school at Athletic fleld nnd at eight o'clock a concert In Memorial hall by Town-scnd hand, six selections; this to be followed by dancing. .Music hy tho Townsend orchestra

SOUTH BROOKLINE, N. H.

Xcws llcni-x. Mr. and Mrs. E'dward Pace .tnd lit­

tle daughter Jano nre spondlng a tow d.ays nt "Woodcroft" with Mr. nnd Mrs- E- C. Shattuck.

Mr-' and Mrs. E. C. Fessenden and son arc making nn extended visit with friends In Nowton, Mass. '

Mr- and Mrs. John Fitton, of Gro­ton, havo been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Gilmour.

The Social club's flfth annual ban­quet was hold In tho banquet hall of Daniel academy on Thursday even­ing ot last week. Covers wero laid for flfty; Tho president, Mrs. Elsie Shattuck, In behalf of tho club, galvo a moat cordial welcom6 to all. Oucsts wcro present from Pepporoll, Shlrioy, Groton and Nashua, besides frionds In town. Fred Rockwood acted as toastmaster and tho ofter-dlnner speaking and story-tolUng was very entertaining- Mrs- Attrldge, c locu-tlonlsti- from Pepporoll, w'as ongaged tbr tho evening and her numbers were very pleasing nnd much .appreciated by oil. Th entertainmont closod w'«h singing "America," and nil folt t ^ It was ono ot our most nucco»'. . gatherings.

Mrs- David Marsh, ot Shirloy. w a s a guest of Mrs. .Els ie Shattuck on Thurnday of last week.

News Items.

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Prescott house, opposite the bank,

r p n i ^ b ^ - Z o - ^ ^ ^ ' ^ r o - f - - , ^ , e ^St

glo^n'"l,-T^"'""* » " " ' « ' V t o - t h e Le-gion Jjeld a meet ing at the I-rf><rion rooms on Main s tr ic t last M ^ d S ^ evening. After thc usual b u s t a ^ ^ he evening the mombers v o t e d T i t o I d

tneir meetings at somo other place In the futuro. Said place to be 'dwUed upon at their next meeting hn^''' 1^"^ •'^"' ^^'^o Whiting, who T I ? • ''f," " ' '''eir summer home! JZ'iJ'^^^P: '«'•"'• returned to Boston {or the winter on Monday. Miss IML-

i'e°h'„''M^'"X'i!F ' ' ''° ' -structor in a school In Ohio. . Mr.s- N. H. Guerrler. who holds an •^rft^^t^} position at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, haa recently askod ror a leave ot absence, and will spend the winter In Austin, Texas.- Mra t^uerrler has been a frequent visitor here at the homc of the Misses Tuck­ers at Heald's pond over holidays and week-ends, and has several trieadu and acquaintantes In town.

W . M T U • ^ ^ ? ; " a r m o n returned last week on Friday frora Ipswich, where

l n d ho?bro?ho^r'"'" "^ ^ ' " ^ ' ' " ' P ' ' Th* Ames place oDE Jewett street

v, ^ '^'" P " * '*>« winter in town at •9h".«';^i^-?/ ^£-.2£i.5j?: vraitSr

Chalmer Shattuck, who was ia towa

which he might purchase, was dI««B-• pointed in flinding real estate higher than when ho tormerly lived here ?.L1^,?'^"',J^^' ^''J'^" Shattuck. h« recently aold her place 1» -Vrinchen-s S n i l . " ' • Shattuck returnedThere on l e h7', r " ' ' T l ™»'^'"e' any trade. He had in mind some of the Kast in nhT»ii?f„°'";K^' ' '"' ^»« disappointod in oDtalning them.

-A. vocal aolo by .Mrs. EUiic Coap is to be a part of tho program at the meeting of the Middlesox-Worcesto? Pomona Grange, to be held at Groton November 17. A number ot Proscott Grange patrons aro planning t9 attond-

Hcnrj- Delano and John Marden J^,^ ^^"'^'^^^^ i^X''" '"^ euests of Mr-and Mrs- Frcd O. Parker over Sun­day.

Perley Pierce and wife of Brook­line, N- H-. visited his brother, George W. Pierce, and his wife at Woodsldo m"nffil."/T ^l''' =""* ^rs- Kendall motored hero from Townsend for a call during the day.

Georgo B. Clarke ot this town, su­perintendent ot schools of this district was elected president of the North-west-Mlddlese.x Teachers' a-ssociation hold at Ayer last week-

Mrs- Nellie Harrison of this town is spending the winter at Xewtonvllle and her sistor, Mi-ss Smith, is at pres­ent at Everett-

Miss Margaret Blood entertained -Miss Hattie Kendall from Fitchburg over Sunday.

Mrs. Irene Attrtldge is one of the east In tho play to be given by the Groton Woman's club this week Friday evening, on Guest night. >c*^7' J'>?P«'- Shattuck and Mrs. Maude Hober woro week-end guests at Manchester. N- H-

An evoning frolic to keep All-Hal­loween was held Last week at thc home of .Mr. and Mrs. Loroy Shattuck. about thirty youngsters making things lively tor a whllo. Thero woro typical Halloween games and refreshments, and a general good time, ending up with an auto rido to their homc. given by Adney Gray ot Townsend. who, with Mrs. Gray, came over to assist -Mrs- Shattuck in tho entertainmont of the gay party-

Walter H. Sullivan from Boaton -spent tho weok-end at his homo In town-

Daniel T. Sullivan Is Installing a new. one-pipe heat ing .system at his home on Nashun street.

P. 0.

G. FLETCHER Auctioneer

Townsend Harbor, Mass Write me and I wlll call and make all arrangements for your sale. 4t9*

A flock of wild gocso were aeon on Thursday ot last week going south­ward, but the -weather la still warm for the reason.

- *> ENGRAVED

WEDDINO^IMTAriONS ^"dAMN0UHCEMEHT3. ^Qnif°*', SryiuEi CARD.

and PitidE Lisr.

Exhibition aod Dance AYER TOWN HALL

MONDAY NITE, NOV. 14

See Jimmy Bray and Mae Sheer­an, whirlwind exhibition dancers, ju.st off of Keith's Circuit, and hear Jimmy's Jazz Kings of Syn­copation, also of vaudeville fame, who will play for dancing.

Football Ganif. I.-ast .Saturday afternoon tho P. H. S.

football team played Groton School third team, tho score being 7 to 7. The Popporell boys played a flno game, and except for a misplay which gave' Groton their chanco to scoro, Pepperoll had tho Groton team out­played all though the gamo. Many enthusiastic PeppereU pcoplo attondod tho gamo on tho Oroton School grounds nnd cheered on tho playors. Thpmos Hailoy. acted' aa coach nnd Donald Jacobs as umpire. _• Following is the lineup: Jacklln re., Reagan rt., Dunbar rg.. Lynch rg., Parker c . Hlll Ig., Rogers Ig., Mur­phy It., Culllnan lo., Colbert le-, Gag­non qb-, Tarboll qb-, Ander.son rhb.', Stratton Ihh- Sulllvnn tb-,. Dunbar fb-- Lineup of the Groton tc<»m: Morris

C-, Hurd qb., Robinson tb.. Lawrenco rhb., Tenney ihb., RoberU rg., Drlggs Ig-, •Cu.shlng rt-, Norton It-, Lovejoy re-, Cunnlnghain Ie,

Time, eight and tcn-mlnutc porlodsj touchdowns, Anderson nnd Robinson. Gbals from foucjido-wns, Stratton and Hurd

The manager of tho P. H. S. team, Leo Murphy, hao arrangod a game on Armistice day nt Btjlerlca with thc Howe School team.

Plato and 30 Ocnts $2.25 Pinto nnd 100 Cards 32.73

Oall nt And SCO our line of Samples

TOTINEU'S PUBLIC SPIRIT OFFICE Ayer, Mn.ss.

s i^^«?N53?? 'VLTH OF MASSACnU-SCTTS Middlesex, ss. Probato Court-. 7° I'l-P.""*"* Interested In tho es-nViiel^J}^^^^^ ^F^"^^ WOODS"Ia?o of Pepperell In aald County, deceased:

Wpicrcas, PARKER J. KEMP, the ad-?'e'„".'e'. '"">,°'" ° ' 'ho, e s t a t e ^ ' i a l d So-ceascd. hns presented for allowance Ss ;i^?„°,""'."' h's^Omlnlstratlon u>on

tho estate of said deceased' r.- £",'''•,? hereby cited to nppear at a Tn "."nM*!?","'.'' 'o ^0 held at Cambrldgo L* SS.'-.l^S""'?' J»" 'ho fourteenth day ?S Jio^ember A. D. 1921. at nlno o'clock l^,. V. "'''"2°"-. . '°'"how cause. It any JiiU " V ' •"hy tho samo should not bo allowed.

And flald administrator Is ordered to serve this citation by delivering a copy thereof to,all persons Interested In the •^"iS'S, fourteen days at least beforo eald Court, or by publishing tho same onco In each week, for thrco sueocRslve weeks, in Turner's Public Spirit, a newspaper published In Ayer. tho fast publication to be onc dny nt least be­fore eald Court, and by mailing, post­paid, a copy ot this citation to all known persons Interested In tho estnto "•'ven days at least beforo said Court.

Witness. ae_prgo F. Lawton. Enquire, First Judgo of said Court, this twenty.: ntth day of.Octobor In the year ono thousand nine hundred nnd twenty-one

3t9 F. M. ESTY. Rogister.

Dancing, 8 till 12

AMMUNITION HUNTINC COATS, VESTS AND KNIVES

Also SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND WRITING PAPER

Candy Popcorn Peanuts Soda Ice Cream Books

Tobacco Cigars Cigarettes Pipes

Greeting Cards

B O A R D O F S E L E C T M E N ber ot neglected trees Tho neats of tho brown tall aiotl i

ehould bo cut from tho trees, caretully collected and burned In a s tove or furnaco.

. ^ 1 1 Instructions as to best m e t h o d s of work against the mdt'hs may bo ob^ tained from tho liOcal Superintendent, Georgo C. Maynard, or from the St»tfl' Forester, Stato House, Boston. *

•Work dono b y contractors should be InsiMicted and approved by^ t h e ^ liOcal Superintendent before {>ayment ' for the same Is made ••'"*..<

•JOHN B. MA-TWARD, ' P E R L E Y B E A R D ,

Notice to Property Owners

Eleetrical Supplies store open ?-45-8-00 p. m- dally—Saturday all day

JOHN F. RYAN Main Street ^ New Cariey Block AYER, MASS.

Tou nro hereby required on or be­fore Jannnry 1, 1922, to destroy-the gypsy and brown tall moths on your property In this town. '

This notlflcation Is In accordance with Chaptor 381, Acts of 1905, as amended by Chapter 268, Acts of 1906, which requires cities and towns to do-stroy the eggs, caterplUai-s, pupa: and nests of tho gypsy and brown tall moths under heavy penalty for failure to comply with tho provisions of the la-w.

If a property owner falls to destroy such oggs, caterpillars, pupnj and nests, thoh tlie city or town Is required to destroy tho same, and tho c o s f o t the w o r k In whole or In part accord­ing to tho value of tho land. Is assess­ed upbn and becomes a Hen on the land. (Soo Section 6, Chapter 381, below.) • •

Tho soloctmen aak owners and ten­ants to co-operate with t h e town In Its work on highwaya a n d ^othcr. public grounds-by doing. eftectlve work on' their premises. Citizens who' have, cleaned, thoir premises of tho moths, but find thoir trees endangered by the neglect of ownors of adjoining estates should make complaint to the solect-mon. Tho infestation of a rosidontial neighborhood by the neglect of a ' few wlll n o t be tolerated.

Tho eggs of .the jfypsy moth'sl iouM be destroyed at once -with creosote. Thoy should noyer be .scraped oft the object on which t h e y ar^ laid. Care­ful search ehould be m a d e for gypsy moth egg clusters, n o t - o n l y on trees but also on house -walls, s tone walls, fendcs and In rubbish Iiea))s, etc Trees' In wWch cavities oootir and which Is not desirable to out shoutd havo tho cavities tinned or eomenteO. This is Important. Tho present taii, future, cost of combating this Insect can-be greatly reduced by cuttlngr and burning worthless Krush, hol low trees, etc. A few trcos wel l carod for aro more valuable to the proporty oi^nor and the community than a far^e hum-

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-3t9-Horvard

P. COREY,

Selectmen. * October 21, 1921,

(Chapter 381, Acta ot 1905, a s •mendea^'-.S-. by Chapter 208, Acts ot I80») \ t / f *

An. Act- to Provide lor SimBrcnIsiK *fc»j^" tiypmr iwd Brown W C . a t o * l S * J ^ ^ ^

Section 6. Tho mayor Q* ,-*' - •*-"-*"'*™"-and tho seloctmen of ovory town an on or beforo. tho Ilrst day o t Kovemi In each year, and at auch otber tttaemar-x^ aa ho or they shall see fli, or. aa US55*-M e u t e superintendent m a r order,«eaSS»^'' a notice to bo sont to the o w n e r j?^' owners, oj> tar «a<can bo aseertalnM,

therein. whIeK every parcel of Innd moraia. 1 Infested with said moths; or. ir.a notlflcation appears to bo Imprketlesli then by posting euch notice o™'^ parcels of land, requiring that the caterpillars, pupic and nesta of moths shall bo destroyed within a-spectflod In tho notice. *"^'""^^.,.

Whon, in tho opinion ot the mayef'^ seleotQen, the co«| of deetroylng stfi - - - —— •-—..", ...V ..vaf. VL uuairiiTinK • ?%•• **^«.^«>"'"»> P"P« and nests lands contiguous and held --=^- '-25 it'" ;.z;-.rr..Vi""i'»"*""''.^»"'' " " " under < « • i ownership Itl a oity or town s h a l l . M ? ' eeed ono half of oiio per e e a t . . o t , ^ ' assessed value of u l d lands; th•k^!« f S ^ " L l ^ ' I n P " " " ' " * «" Which .ftjf i eggs, caterpillars, pupn or nests A a i r SS.?; ."^'5?' l '"V *lt designated la M £ ) > r21i^*iA\* • ' " ' ' reoulreraent ahall 4<ot apply to tho remainder ot aald premlves. l^J^S^XSL"'! •*'?St'P«a may deslimnto !,!l''i.5'.fi'"fi'.'"„'"''<"j-*?o'» w o * shall rr-r.SD'iv^"},' ^ " worl fdone under thi» section ahan be subjeot to the approv nl of the state superlntondont. . It the, owner or.owners abali f%li to destroy aach eggs, catorplllnr'> pups. or nesla.fn accordanee with the renulro-,m«nts of the aald notloe;^ then thi cstv or towtt, actlnar by the public oilicer or twsTd of aQoh elty or town doBicnnicis: or appoloted as,aforesaid, shall, s c b -{•c'-to thejiBBroVal ot tho said nunor-lnte«aent::ileittoy- the nnme, and • l n t e * a « n t : i l e s l „ . ?!?-2?9!LS.o.Nai«y ^-upended tlierc-on

. ; - : - - - ' " . " -, ...... tbo _^™--j, -»v»,Jl» #-!cpondod tlierc-on not exoeeainc:On».:l)aif of ono per cent ot the asses8»dJf»luailon ot snld landi vi heretoforeftfecincd in thio section BI i l l be assessed, upon tho said lands. nn« suohatj ainount in addition as shalj be . required shall bo apportioned hi'tw<*ti' i ? " •?i'''.' *"• '""•" »"* the Common-i • wealth-; In nccordance with thp provI.i alons of seetlon four or this net. The amounts to be n«,»ew>d upon private ' «Stale»;*s herein provided iihaU be n« . aessM and collected, and nhall ^c' n'liirii S5.?*'A'""-'"<'^- '" <•'" '"""' ns.-vnner -,nd with thf- frame effect ns IT provided jiv the <J>te ot nss»--:sn-,eiiin toi- fllrfr»t watering.

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life-' •.•l'•^•^;;i;; , ' ; r - ' '> i^ t f

SATURDAY, NOSTEMBER 12, 1921

E'Jf .CROTON

Wows Itcnis. On November 16 u reception Is to

bo given at the. Copley-Plaza,, Boston, by the Frances E.' Willard Settlement lo women who huvo been pioneers und lo -n'omen of achievement. The wom- an'a day pioneers Is to b6 a great suc­cess and a most unlquo and Interest­ing nttalr. Many women ot note are ahrcady on the list. Groton will bo well represchte'd. Jliss Georglanna A. Boutwell, as tho flrst womaii to bo Appointed by tho governor on a stato board, Mlss Xelllo Frank Hlll, as gen­eral manager ot tho Frances E. Will­ard Settlement, and Mlss Elizabeth Sewall Hill, as the organizer of school and home-gardens In Massachusetts,

Mr. ahd "Mrs. John Fitton, who Jiavo boen spending about a woek tn South Brookllne, N. H., with Mr, and Mrs. John Glltnore. returned on Monday evening. Mrs. GUmore, beforo hcr marriage, was Mlss Mildred Dodge of West Grotoh.

Mr, and Mrs. Richard Lawrence of 'Worcester' spent the week-end with Mrs. Lawrence's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Gleason.

Mlss Grace Parmenter returned last •week from a, visit In Wenham. •

An all-day meeting of the -AJllance win be held at the Unitarian church on next week Thursday at ten o'clock-Th« dinner oommlttee are: Mr?. Waters, Mrs. John Gllson. Mrs- L- E. Blood and Mrs. Fred Porter.

• Tho • first entertainment in the Blood-Blgelow free lecture course was given In town hall Monday evening, wheji a large audience were on hand to enjoy tho concert given by tho fol­lowing Redpath artists: Claramond Thompson; 'contralto; Beatrice Phln­ney, harpist; Johannes Warnkc, 'cel­list, and J. Albert Baumgartner. -pianist. The program consisted of harp, 'cello and. piano . solos, vocal solos and thb trU)," "Tho swan," all of which combined to mako the even­ing's entertainment very enjoyable, to the audience. - The next In the -course of entertainments will be a leoturo,In West Groton In Squannacook hal l 'on November I* by George H; Le.Barr. •

Mr. and Sirs. Collins nioved last week Friday from Mrs. M. W. Park­hurst 's houso on Champney street to their new location at the home of Edward -Clark. Mrs. Collins" brother.

Mlsa -Clara E. Sears was in town last Saturday and called on Mrs. Liz­zie W. Davis, being Intorested ,to hear he r relate some of her recollections of the Millerlte religious excitement about 1844 and later years.

Don't, fall to see "Live, wires" wjth Edna Murphy and Johnny Walker Saturday night. November 12, a t town: hall, Groton. It Is a good feature. •

The annual moeting ot tho Groton Ziocal. New England Mllk Producers' association, wlll bo held in the lower Iown hall on Monday evening, Novem­ber l4 , .a t eight o'clock.' It Is hoped that ' there will be a full attendance and a. general discussion cil th<5 prob-lenu now facing dairymen.

Mlss Dorothy -Muhllg spent the week-end In Boston.

Mlss ',Nellie -, McCarthy Spent the week-end In Worcester with her sis­ter, Mrs. Ready.

An unusually large chorus Is re­hearsing now In preparation, for -the jnlnstrcl show -which the Laurence W. Gay post, A. L-, Is to, gi\'C later In tho season.

•Warreii Clough ot Chicago, who Is employed by the Westinghouse Elec­tric Co., has been in town recently-vlsitng his family.

Robert May Is substituting for How­a r i Gllson on the rural frefe delivery route d,iirlng Mr. -Gilson's vacation.

The meeting ot the Prosperity Re-"bekah Iddge of Leominster last Satur­day evening was attended by the fol­lowing Grotoh people: Mrs. Blh-nche Srown, Mlss Mabel' Souther, Mlss Ge­nlcve Harrington and Mr. and Mr^.. j ames Harrington. The Rebekah de­gree, wtis-conferred on a class of can­didates. Special guests present were Mrs. Liniah H. Barritt, president ot the Rebekah assembly, Mrs. Frances 3>ouglas; vice president, and Mrs. May Cloudman, marshal, also Mrs. Cora Oray of Ashburnham, district- deputy-president, and twenty-two members of the Jljary A. Llvermore Iddge -of. Shirley - and a delegation from thc •Vesta lodge ot Ayer. There were also -visitors from Hudson, Pepperell and othor towns. Refreshments ot ice cream i nd cake were served.

Benjamin Wyman of Lancaster, a recent guest of his daiu;hter, Mrs- W-F . Gleason, has gono ' to St- Peters­burg, Fla-, tor thc winter.

Thd first snowstorm ot the season occurred, on November 7.

Miss Jennie Thayer has roturned to Boston to spend the winter.

Heleir-Kennedy was operated upon a t Dr. Kllbourn's hospitai for appen­dicitis on last -iveck Friday.

The Book and Thimble club met last weok Friday at the home ot Mrs. Ellen M; Barrows, having a miscellan­eous program and enjoying their uJsual pleasant, social meeting together. The next meeting will be held two weeks later. When thdj-' will meet at the home ot Mrs. Lucy Belcher and will discuss the important events of thc month of November.

Seven" from the Baptist church ani-three frbm the Congregational church attended the Sunday schoo\, conven­tion held in the Ayer Baptlpt church on last Wieek Friday, and reported an Interesting and helpful meeting, with many usoful suggestions regarding Sunday school work.

Thirty'-nlne ex-service men from the V. 8. contract hospital went to lx)wcll •on last weck Thursd.iy and -wcre en­tertained by thc Lowell -Rotary club.

Mrs. Mary J. Blood and Mlss Emma Blood returned last week from .a visit with relatives In Beverly. Mlss Clar­issa (Coburn was Ml.«s Blood's substl­tuto nt the public library during Ml.ss Blood's vacation-

Mrs. Mayo Call of Popperell. who was operated upon for .appendicitis at Dr. Kilbourn's hospital, Is Improvlng.

The was an alarm for fire In the chlmnoy-of the Thomas Cleary house on MIU street on l.-ust Saturd.ay ovon­ing. Tho fire was soon extingul-<ihcd.

At tho morning -service at thc Con­gregational church thc pnstor preached from the text In Zccharlah where tho prophet plainly seems to refer to tho s-icrlflclal death of Christ. as he refers to hla being "wounded In the- houso ot his friends." This passage w.as explained by references to other pass.oges in tho New Testa­ment, showing Christ's-treatment at tho hands of the most religious nation ot thcso times, as -well as tho disloyal action and words even of his dLoclplcs-Tho sermon closed with a practical application ot thc thought to modern Christians- Tho chiirch -w.as appro­priately decorated for the approach of Armistice day with the country's flag placed near the pulpit and cut flowers' and potted plants with red, white and blue blossoms, tho base of tho plat-, torm being banked with dark red" foliage plants. Gov. Cox's proclama­tion regarding Armistice d.ay w-.-VR road-

Mr. n^d Mrs- S- Warren Sturgis havo taken Mrs- Walcott Howo Johnson's hous* on Commonwealth avcnuo, Boston, for tho wintcf, that they may be close for tho debutante festivities as thcy nro presenting th'elr second daughter." Mlss Jldlth Sturgis. Two years ngo thc fomlly wont from here to .T>resent their daughter, Mlss Susan Sturgis, who -was ono of tho most attractive girls of tho season «nd much entertaining was done In hcr honor, which Is suro to bc re­peated this winter.

The regular November meeting of the Men's Forum will bo hold at tho CWglrcgatlonai vestry on Thursday, November 17.' Suppor will bo sorved a t seven o'clock under the dlre^ctlon of Mr. BUIlngs and Mr. Call. The

- spMker wlll be W. S. Patten, pf Bos­ton, who was ongaged In oxtenslvo

^•ncbicerloB work In Russia before

the revolution His -subject wlll he • Russia undoc the Czar " A glee club from Groton School wlll furnish music

At the Congregational church on Sunday morning It Is expected that a mixed quartet, with violin obligato, win sing "Tho Inner voice-" Even­ing service, solo by Mrs. Marlon Ames, and two selections from Men­delssohn's,oratorios, "If with all your hearts" and "But the Lord is mindful of his own," by the choir. Both sorv­ices will begin promptly at the tolling ot the bell at 10.30 and 7.00 o'clock.

Mr. and Mrsr Howard Patterson, of Boston, aro being congratulated on tho birth ot li daughlcrv-Ruth Esther, Octobor 28.

Thore wlll^ be a bird walk for ilu-glrls ot the Junior Bird club atti-r school on Mnoday atternoon, weath­er pcrmitiing- The next walk -will be­for the boys. . - • - *

At the meeting of the Grange on Tuesday evening the third and fourth degrees were conferred upoi} a class of candidates. Tho third degree was worked'.'by tho ladles' degree staff, Mrs. Orace Bradshaw, master. The regular ; ofilcers worked the fourth degree. The harvest supper' was in charge of Mr. and-M'rs. W. A. Brown and copsliited i.ofi eoftee cake and sandwlchei*-' Returning to the upper hall there wero. Interesting speeches by the visiting patrons from the sur­rounding townn- These were from Ayer. Hollls, Brookllne and' other places.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H- Berry wcre In town recently, staying over night with frlehds.

Charles Dodge of the Groton Inn passed away suddenly Tuesday noon at the age of seventy-eight years. The tuneral services were held on Thurs­day morning at 10.30. and the burial was In Quincy. . ,

The regular meeting of tho W. R-C- wlll be held In Odd Fellows' hall at 2-30 o'clock next Tuesday after­noon. Mrs. Mattld Lord, ot Fitch­burg, will Inspect the corps.

The Mlddlesex-"\Vorcester Pomona Grange will mcot on next Thursday with Groton Grange, beginning at 10.30 in thc forenoon. The oflicers fpr 1922 will be elected at the morn­ing session. The afternoon session wlir be opon to, the public, at which there wlll be an Interesting program of -music and.speaking. The princi­pal speaker will be Richard K. Cg-ndnt, 'state-'Odmri^IssiOner ot public •welfare,

Tho'fltth annual red cross roll call begln.s on November 11 and closes on November 25- • During this time evorj-ohe will have a chance to joln-^ 'Those, who arc already members will' "be' asked to renew their membership, an'd'knany new membbrs arc hoped for. In Groton the Ked Cross Is par­ticularly necessary aa. it pays for "a great part of the transportation of ouri.public health nurse, i 0\n' popula­tion is widely scattered ami the nurse has- p.lten many miles to trayeili '-Vthe Red Cross has made It possible for the nurse to reach a l l - the outlying districts- The question of the dis­abled ex-sorvlce men touches Groton ve,ry closely- There' are about flfty men at Dr- Ayres' hospital a)j[d.-^he Groton Red Cross ha s ' done ' a "great deal duifjog , thc-.ljastryehr to . mako life better for them- This again mffans . mu^b , tranpBorlation and tVahSp<>r£atlon''costs money. Another local -work that the. Red Crpss is do­ing Is-'caWngWr the ttJ'eth of children whose parents cannot afford to do so-The-Red Crosp. has also given local relict of various sorts during the past year., , AU Unls is tor our own town ot G r o t o n . ' - - ' •

"t'nion Sor\-Itc3; ' " L'nion servlcca wecfl, .h^ld at the

Congregational 'church 'on Sunday evening- at'- seven- o'clock In: memory ot the heroes who died in the world war andof the dedication of our In­fluence • toward permanent peace-After the organ prelude and the sing­ing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the congregation, came the invoca­tion 'and the responsive service- The solo. "Christ in Flanders." was sung by Mlss Susan P- HiU, and the an­them, "This l» tho day ot rest," which was sung in the morning, was re­peated by the chplr ip the evening-

Representatives of the l..aurence W. Gay'P0St,-A- L-, were present and s.-i: togethor, rising while 'Commandor Molson paid his tribute to the soldlor dead, -ft-hich ho began, with a brief address on the contrast between.tho -•\rmistlcc day of 191S and that of 1921, and how on thc former occasion every .soldier's thoughl was of his re­lease from wnr and his return honie, while this yoar thc work of the Amer­ican I^ogloii is to provide suitable rest­ing-places for tho bodies of the un­known soldiers which aro being brought back to tlu-ir native land. His addrcs-s clo-sed with the reading ot tho poem. "To tho unknown," written by a former service man- Thc pastor's address had, for its te.\t the passage in Esther. "Wbo knoweth whethor thou art come to the king­dom for such .a timo as this. '" and after picturing thc .scones in those days, compared theni with those through which our nation has pa.ssed since 1014, and toiiohod ' upon the thrilling events which followed our enti-.ance into tho world w.ar. He •pointed out tho Cact that asj Institu­tions of former days, such" as the absoluto and limited monarchies and sl.avery, had p.a.ssed their usofulness. so the institutions of war should now-be superseded by disarmament and thc return of peaco, anrt our nation is now called upon to tnko the load In this important work- .-\- trio, oom­posed of Miss Ruth Gleason and the Mlssos Kn,app. .sang "Peace. 1 lo.ave with yon" nt thc close ot tho service jusl boforc the benediction. The p.as­tor of tho Baptist ohurch. Rev. John W- Parker, w.a.s proventod from boing-prosent b.v his -wife-s illnos-s- Gov-Cox-s proclamation rc^-arding Armi-Ktlro d.-iy was vead nt the ovonin*;- -'ts woll as .at tho morning sorvioo.

and also aided In thc serving ot re­freshments Much thanks Is due tho soldiers at tho hospital foi their kindly iuid valuable assistance Prizes for the best costumes wcro awarded tuj follows: Small folks. Uncle Sam, Thomas Malley; brown butterfly, Ruth Beers; big folks, tabby cats, Murlon Andrews, Elizabeth Shaw; black eaglo, Gertrude Mooney.

A general meetlnft of tho public school teachers was held at thc But­ler school on Tuesduy. The superin­tendent emphasized particularly tho Importance of teaching self-responsi­bility - and courtesy in every grade, and of tho uso of this means In se­curing right conduct und right Judg­ments. Hc spoke also ot the dis­tressing elfects of , continued fault­finding and scolding by teachers, pu­pils nnd parents alike.

The work ot measuring thc pen-niunship In each grade, according to tho Ayres scalo will begin nexl week-

There Wero no aession.s ot the pub­lic schools this week Friday, Armis­tice day- ' Tho following spechil pro­gram was givon on Thursday during the last period by membera ot thc fre-shinon class: .Reading ot- Oov-Co.x'.s proclamation. Robert Allen; es­say, "Why Armistice day Is signtfl-cant." Doroihy Blxby; singing, "The battle hymn ot the republic," school; a talk on "The supremo sacrlflce." a hymn, Rosamond Cross. Illustrated at the piano by Josephine Majenski; recitation. "In Flanders flelds," Eliz­abeth Shaw; so.me remarks on thc slgnlflcance of Armistice day; sing. Ing,' "America, the boautlful," school-

.AVcst Groton. Quite a large party from horo at­

tended the Sunday school convention in -Ayer, last weck Friday- Among the number wero G- H- Blxby, Mrs-C- E- Blxby, Mrs- N. A. .Null, Mrs-Joseph "Woodson, Miss Florenco Woodson, Mrs- Haven Wormwood, Mrs. 'George DeCoater and Mrs. Al­bert Bunn.

The Ladles' Aid society will hold a food sale in-the lower Squannacook hall on Friday afternoon, Noveniber IS, al three o'clock.

Rev. -John Birchall wlll jiroach on Sunday at the Christian Union church. On laat Sunday ho was en­tertained by Mr- and Mrs- N- A- Nutt-

,A11 are cordially Invited to attend tho'- military whlst party on Friday evening, November 18, This party is given under the auspices of the Com­munity club-

Do not forget the lecture by George H- LeBarr in Squannacook hall on Mondai- evening- This is thc second entertainment of tho Blood-Blgelow lebtiire; course-

On Thursday afternoon of last •week the members of the Ladles' Aid society were entertained at the home ot Mrs. Georgel Decoster- After the usual work and business had been atlended to delicious refreshments wero served by the hostess- The next meoting will bo held at Mrs. John Robinson's on Thursday afterrioon. November 17.

Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Decoster were called to ^Vest Acton to attend the funoral -ot a relative on Wednesday-

XoxL Wednesday at Squannacook hall tho feature picture will bo "-Ac­tion." with Hoot Gibson. ' "

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STEVENSON'S MEN'S SHOP Barry Block AYER, MASS.

.•\Illanco Mcctlnc. Tho Allianco of tho l-nitarian

chiirch hold Iholr annual Gontlonion-s night in tho ohiiroh parlors on l.'ist weok Thursd.ay, whon suppor w-is served tin<lor tlio ontiro ch.irKo of the men of tho parish. Frank 1.- IJlood, chairnian of tho suppor oommlttoo. with his otiicient corps of aids, sorvod an oxccptionnlly inviting snppor of cold meats- osoaHoped oystors- b.-ikod beans, fancy pios, rolls and coffoo, .11 6.30 o'olock. Tho tables woro otfoot-Ively docomtod wilh large hoiiriiiots of snowballs and barberries

At eight .o'clock camo tho ontorialn-menL Thoro woro two pi.tno solos by Mrtt, C- Z- Southard, rondorod most artistically- A farce, entitled "Ho"iv the story grow," was also presented undor the direction of Mrs- Harriott I - ItoblnSon. • Tho parts woro woll taken by thc following olght yonng men: Joseph Ilogors, R.ilph Rar-gcnt. Burton Robinson. Robert Jaromb. Charics Murphy, Harry Ailfrey. Au-gtistuR .Harrlman and Archie Mc­Gregor. Thcso eight young mon all took Ahe, p.arts of ladles In the farco. and 1r.4;r costumes and stage work wcro unusually g6od. Mrs. Robinson added three choruses to the farco. "Ain't -iv-c got, fun?" "Peggy O'Noll." and at thc end "Till wo nieet r,gnln." sung by the fljlayers In unison as thoy stood In a seml-clrclo. Those cho­ruses mado a flne ending tor thc farce and thd audlcnco showed their ap­preciation by giving tho boya an cn--'oro and Mrs. Robinson a curtnin call-Tho suppcr,-and the entire evening's nrogram proved vory satlsfnctorv to all.

School Notes. The Halloween party glvon on Fri­

'Iay evening of l^st week wis well attended. Tho town hall was very ircttlly decorated with autumn Icavea <ind pine boughs mingled with tho •>rango and, black decorations. Every­one helped willingly In the docora-'lons and lending of cornstalks and pumpkins. The juniors decorated vory oftoctlvcly tho low6r town - hall

SHIRLEY

Xc\v.s Itoni?, Garland Cambridge Martin, a son

of Henry D. Martin, who was a form­er resident ot Shirley and for many years' superintendent ot the .' amson Cordage Works, and of the Congre­gational Sunday.school. has entered Brown University, Providence, R. I-

Herbert V- Martin, tormerly of this town and overseer ot the spinning for the -Samson Cordage Works, has accepted an important position with the Warren Mfg- CO- ot Warren, R. I.­one of the largest cotton manutaotur-ing plants in Rhode Island-

Shirley post, A- L-, lifeld an Informal meeting in the Legion rooms Monday evening- Commander Moraii was not pre-sont on account of sickness and vice commander WoUs -Ns-tis out of town- The post Is to have Its third annual concert and ball -on Thursday evenins, November 1", in 1.-O. O- F-hall-• -Mrs- Freeman Rouse underwent an operation at the Clinton hospital on Tuesday- Her condition was quito

j soiioiis al first, but later reports aro j '-noouraging-] John .Seymour concludod his work; at <;amp Deven-s recently- Ho has loon employed as carpenter for somo

limo there- Mrs. Seymour has been in poor health for some time nnd on Thursday she went to the Clinton hos­pital for an operation for appendicitis,

rrederck H- Fowler and James L-Hi.lland visited Canton Hebron, Pa-triachs Militant, I- O- O- F-, ill Fltch-bin-, . Monday evening- The occasion was a reception to the encampment.s of I'itehburg, Loominstor, Gardner an.i I'opperoll. Supper was sorved by the I.adios' .-Vuxiliary.

-MI. and Mr-s- Cookson from the Giris" Industrial school a t , Lancaster have takon up tho dulios of cottage masti-r .md mati-on at No. 2 cottago. Industrial school for boys- The va­cancy (lecurrod by tho roslgnallou of .^lr. and .Mi-s. Oako-s who left the tirst of the uook-

-fhe Wonian's Au.\iliai'y ot the .\. 1-. hold an interesting meotin.q at tiio l-ogiou rooms Tuosday evoning. Threo now mombors oame in and ono guosl from tho I.oominster auxilia:">-. He. freshments ot .s<andwichcs, cake and coffeo wor't> sorvod by Mrs.' Lilly, Mrs-Dosniond- Mrs- CTliapman, Mr-s* Colo and ytrf. Westovor- Tho organization being one year old the fourth of Xo­vember Mrs. Westovor made a birth­day cako decorated with rod c.andio.'j.. one ca"nd]c and tho Aniorioan llag. A oommlttoo was namod to provide a <-bri-" tmas oolobr.ation .lt tho noxt meeting whon it is expected more now mombers will bo presont. Sovoral signifiod thoir Intention of attondlng i.no or both days of tho sooond state r-onvontl.-.n to bo hold in Hoston Do-' otnhor 0 -incl 10.

The public sehool.s held patriotic exerrisos Tliurs(]a.v aftornoon in honor of Armtstioo (la>-. There was no sc hool on l-'rlday- roniniandor Geor.i o -Mor.'tn nnd -Tohn Ksiolionis visited the school and s-poko to the children.

Williani Brown is lnlpro^-ing s:ead-ily and has boon out on tho pia-.'-za pieas.'int d.nys.

Jo.'-oph H- McClolIan of I.ynn spont Iho wook-ond with his sist(-r, .Mrs. Kinh I'helps.

A good numbor attondod tho Al­lianoo Thursday nfternoon at tho homo of -Mr-o. G. I.. Snow. Mlss .Mtlo Howe paxe a papor on "Sidelight on my visit to I'lymouth." Mrs- H- A. Bridgman g.avo an account of tho pageant hold at I'lymouth- Refreshment-s wore served hy the hostess-

Much damage Is reported from the Icc storm of Wednesday and Thurs­day- 'Trees, shrubbery .and wires aro brokon In jnnny places.

Announcements havc beoh rccelvod ot thc birth ot a 7 lb. daughter on October, 27 to Mr. nnd Mrs- Ray Vano (Kva Cutler) nt n hospltnl In Phll-.idolphla-

MlRscs Cor.-i Lambert. Lucy Pont­brland and Emily Riohards and Hnr­old Cutler Jire attending the evening clnss ot the*Fitchburg Business col-logc-

Ccnfcr. ' Mrs- Steele -Mackaye and Mlss

Hnzel Mackaye, who havo been spend­ing thc -summor a( their "cottage on Parker road, left on Sunday for Cam­bridge. They mndo the trip in thc lUtomoblle ot .Mrs. Mixckayc's son. James Mackaye, of Cambridge,

Tho Neighborhood club will meet' ->n Tuesday afternoon at tho homo ot Mrs. O. Iy. Snow.

Georgo H. Farmer at Woodsvlllo returned, to thc Clinton, ho^bltal last .Saturday where he underwent an op-

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eratlon tor appendicitis. He is re-i>.>r»cu tu . tie-uoing,">yL'li.

Mrs. Elmer Hubbard and son. Charles, of Princeton wero visitors on Monday at the home ot Mr. and Mrs-John W- Farrar-

Haroj(J B. Blenkhorn at thc Xortli has given up his work in Townsend and h.as taken a position in Milford, coming homo onl>- o\-or the wook-end.

Mr- and Mrs. Kobort H- J- Holdon attendod llio Harvard-l'rineeton foot­ball game at Princoton. X. J., last -Sat­urday, staying In -N'ew Vork ovor Sun­day- »

Mr§!. Lucy l.on?;ley undorwont an oi>oration for appendjoltis at a hos­pital in Boston ou Monday, and is ro­portcd to be recovering nicety from tho operation- Hor husband, Howard M. Longley, spont tho first part of tho week in Boston wilh hOr-

Kennoth Brown of Milford is a vis­itor at the homo of .Mr. and Mrs. Harold B- Blenkhorn at the Xorth-

A truck load from .Shirley Grange are planning to take a trip to Hollls on Friday to attend the Pomona Grange moeting, when Middlesc-x-Worcostor Po:;;et';' ( '""'"IJ" will noich-bor with Hillsboro Pomona Granf^o-

At the noxt nieeting ot Shirloy Orange on Tuo: <i.ay evening, Xovember 15. tho election of officers for 1922 will tako place- 1-ho lecturers' hour will bo given up to a "Pi,g-in-a-bac sale,*' and o\-oryono Is requested to bring a jiarool to bo sold at auction.

-Mrs. Ella Bledman left last .Satur­d.iy for Connecticut, whero she Ls to remain for tho present. Mrs, Abbio Wyman, with whom she has b(-on stayio,g. mo\-od to Aycr this weok to r(-maih for the winter,

Mrs. l-'rances Stlcknoy has been con­flned to hor home on P.arkor road tbis wook with Illne-ss. and Mrs. K. (;. Adams lia-s boon caring for her-

service wlll bo held in the First Con-^mHratlonat t n n r a r l a n cl iurcl i ©unday evening, November 20- A special col­lection will be takon for the benefit ot the King's Daughters. This col­lection for tho King's Daughters will bo a regular feature hereafter at the union Thanksgiving service.

"Morc books In the home" is the slog.an for Children's Book w-ook. which Is boing observed from Novem­ber 13 to 19- Paronts will find sug­gestive helps for rhristma.s gifts at a juvenile book exhibit- which will ho held in tho library reading-room throughout the week and at tho Wom­an's club meeting on Monday-

Mr- and Mrs. A-sa Robbins are mov­ing Into thc Sandor.son tenement over the C. H- Hunt.s- .Mr. Robblns has leased land of E. P. Sheeh.an near the cidermlli .and on it built a good hen­house for tho housing of his poultry.

Jir. and Mrs. Howe of Xewtown de­lightfully entertained .a party of six men of thc neighborhood at dinner one ovening l.ast woek, the occasion being thc host's birthday- .;. ,

Tho accommodation train for Bos­ton, leaving J^ittleton at 11.43 a- m. will loa\-o at 12-12 p. ni., beginning ilonday, Xovombor 14,

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High neck, long sleeves,-ankle length Dutch neck, elbow sleeves, ankle length

Wool Vests and P a n t s . . . , . $ 2 . 0 0 and $ 2 . 3 5

HEAVY WEIGHT COTTON UNION SUITS $ 2 . 0 0 AND $ 2 . 2 5 IliglT neck, long sleeves, ankle length

Dutch neck, clbo"\T sleeves, ankle length

Low- neck, no sleeves, ankle length

Vests and Pants . $ 1 . 0 0 and $ 1 . 2 5

LADIES' MEDIUM WEIGHT UNION SUITS $ 2 . 0 O AND $ 2 . 2 5

Dutch neck, elbo-w sleeves, ankle and knee lengths Low neck, no sleeves, ankle and knee lengths

Vests and Pants . $ 1 . 0 0 and $ 1 . 2 5

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Boys' Heavy Cotton Union Suits $ 1 . 0 0 to $ 1 . 5 0

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Geo. B. Turner & Son Our Store Closes at 12 o'clock noon every Wednesday.

Open Monday, Friday and Saturday Evenings

FinST aUAHTV OAJt RBDUCESD to (IS per cord November 1. Get orders In early or others .will be ahead. GEORGK A. FLOVD, TelOphOIHJ' 17-6, Groton, Masfi. ' 2tl0

NOTICE Having secured a first-class man in

my shop I am now prepared to do all klnda of BIncluaiiitli's "W'ork at rea­sonable prices.

TIIO.MAS BVn'ATER. Groton, Mass,, N^ovomber 10, 19 21.

; LITTLETON

\ c \ v s ItOIIlS-I -Iohn A. Whltoomb Ila--H rotnrnod i from his annual fonr wooks of \-aoa-! Iion and hniitin;^ <-xpedition .-(t South I WolHIeot. I Horborl Itradloy hn-s movod t,-. tho ' I- -1. Hrown pU<-o rooontly boni^ht by : his fathor. .Mbert Hradloy.

11- 1-'. Hume, who .sustained sovoi-f-i injuries In thc ao.cldcnt ho CNperionood I last wook, is comiiiR alonp all rlchl, I and needs only to bc carefnl and tako I Ilfo ea.sy for tho proscnt for oonipk-to j restoration of health-

Tho Congrepatlonal pulpit will bo i oooupiod noxt Sunday mornlnR by Uov-I Oscar J.- Simpson, a young man from j VIrfrlnIa, now .a studcnl In tho senior cla.«s at Boston University school of Theoloffy. He hna had thrcc-ycnrs' experloncc In regul.ar pa-storate.' ono year wltti thc editorial and publicity

I department nf tho Methodist ccntcn-' ary. and two years In Italy under the direction of thc American Board of l-'orolKn mlH-slons- Mr- Slmpsion l."! m.arried and has two children. Rov. Albion Kins, tho candidate last .Sun-d.-xy, proaehed a jtood sermon and was heard with Interest .it thc forum which ho Instituted for a brief period durlnK thc Sunday school hour. Ho wlll prench ncaln In thc Uttleton church in a few Sunday.

Mr. and Mr-s- Wilii.am Dodds nre re-ccivlnR confrratnlatlons on the event of their ffoldcn wcddlnfr anniversary last week Friday. All Rood wishes of their many friends attend Mr. nnd Mre- Dodds-• Mrs. W- I. l,awrcneo Kave a most rofreshlhR and educational address beforo the Woman's Allianco at thc all-day meotinp of tho orRanl^atlon held nt thc home of Mrs. Q. E. Prouty last week Friday.

A state official from thc nivision ot Accounts, State HouBC, la Inspecting tho accounts of "tho town.

The" nnnual union ThanksBlvlnsr

rnitarian N'otes. Sunday will be oKsor\"ed -is Lay­

men's Sunday. Tho sorvice of wor­ship in the morninp: will bo conducted by four laynien. all member.s of the Littleton chapter. V. L. L. The sub-j'.-ct of tho ,'iddross will bo "The lay-ni.'iii's duty to the church." A spcclal oolleotion will be t.aken to help the .'suffering Unitarians In Hungary.

At twelve o'clock tho ohurch school will hold its harvest service. As usual tho school w-lH make Its han-c-sl feift to tho ncody In "Boston- Please send or bring your contribution of fruit .and vegetablos before tho session of the school-

Percy S- Brayton, N'ew England Flold Secretary of the Unitarl.an I.ay-nion's League, wlll speak on "The value of tho loaguo to the church Sun­d-ay ovening rtt sovon o'clock In tho vestry at tho monthly moeting of tbe Littleton chapter, U. L. L. All women as well as men are cordi.ally Invited-

WEST ACTON

Nors Ilrm.". Mrs. S. H. Hurroughs has beon very

siok tho past wcek-iMiarlos Dudley, who h.as boen sick

m.iny months. pa.sscn away .at his homo .'Sunday night- Mr- Dudley wns a. great sufferer, but thc faithful, de­voted ministrations of his wife helped him to boar up through It all. Mr. Dudley camo to Boxborough many yeara .agp nnd engaged In farming until his health failed for such work. Nine yoars ngo the fnmlly moved here whero hc engnged In such work na his health permitted. Funeral ser­vices wcre held at thc home "Wednes­day .afternoon and the body taken to Windsor, Vt,, his native placo, for In­terment-

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New Advcrtlaoincnts

CARD OF THANKS Wo wish to thank most heartily "tbo

members of thc Harvard Flro Depart­mont who worked so tirelessly to chock the flames, and also cach and every one of tho larfre numbor ot other persons who In thc meantime loft no stone unturned until every posslblo thInB was removed from the houso whon our buildlnKS burned to the (srround last Xfonday afternoon. Wo aro astonished at thc quantity of arti­cles that woro navcd and Ilnd It dif­ficult to express sumclentli' our deep Kratltudo for the unccasInK efTorts of all concerned, without which-our loss would have been very mueh moro. nn: and MRS. CHAnT-.BS H. ABBOT.

Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Abbot and" Family.

Harvard, Mass,, November 10, 1921.

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PANOY BRISKET CORJT BKEP . 18« Ib.

BOTTOM ROT.1ND Xa lb. BAOON aao •>.

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Mrs. Maurice Tabbutt <L. Jano Brlggs) of Portland, Mc., who has been 111 with chronic appendicitis, la getting along as woll as can bo ox­pocted. Mrs. Laura BrlgKs hor mother. Is with her at present.'

t h ^ l ^ n n i ' ' " ^ Brlggs ha^ taken over tho mlUlnery business of Mlss R. M. Graham, who Is to bo married In the "f," '"«V'^' ^''"* Brlggs wMIl coS! duct a clearance sale for ono week-commencing this Saturday, nt which the women can save money on many f / ' l f^s that Wlll bo marked rldlcu-'°"»'y 'ow Jn price In order to mako

.way for a new line of stock. •

s t r ie?"wh; Pi*""?""' " ' Washington ?h„ iV ^V° '"'« •'<=«" connected with tho I'cculose Company for a number of jears past. Is now with a manufac-

' J,h»„f company In Boston who make Chemicals and starch products, and expects to move Monday.to 16 Strath-"•oro road. Brookllne. Mr. and Mrs. t.lbbo.n8 have been exceedingly popu­lar while residing In town and wlll be greatly, missed among a largo cir­cle of friends, especially Mrs. Gib­bons, who Is on exceptionally good musician.

Mlss Annio "Shea has moved from •Shirley atreet to the upper tenement in the house owned by Charles J. Wilson, corner ot Fletcher and Maple streets, recently vacated by Charles L. Washburn.

t„7^^ Woman's club wlll celebrate Its twenty-third anniversary on Wednes­day November 16, at Hardy's hafl. Buslnessmeeting at threo o'clock will be followed by spcclal program of readings by .Mrs. Irene T. XttHdge club slnglnff and reception to past presidents Club tea will be sefved by .Mrs. Blanche Whitney, hoate-s..* Na­tional American Speech weok. Novem­ber 6-12, wlll be notable for a drive not for money but for lmp,rovemcnt of your speech. "Better speech for bet­ter Americans."-

Mlss Elizabeth Avory of Harvard, who attends the Ayer schools. Is mak­ing her home with Mlss Lole A Sher­man for tho winter.

Michael Sculley Is at the Carney hospital. South Boston, where he re­cently underwent an operation on his leg that he In-furcd over a year ago-

-Alfred Gendreau .ind .Mls.s Marlon iir!},.'^''^'''' """"'"'ed -Monday by Rcv. WMUlam J- Kelly, pastor of the F-ed-f/.'"11 church, at his residence on Washington street. The young couple are to have rooms at thc residence of Mr and -Mrs, Wllllam T, Fitzgerald at 4 West street-

Wilbur A- Hart, Who has been em­ployed for several months at the offlce

I ot the Ayer News, Jias resigned lo accept a position .is teacher of man­ual training and printing at the State Normal school at Keene, N, H, He begins his new duties November 23.

Mrs. Jennio McLean has been ap­pointed local representative of thf Woman's National Foundation of Washington, D, C,

Thieves broke into Hackett's ga­rage, formerly conducted bv Ford & Lyon on West Main -street n'oar Camp Devens -Monday night- Entrance was gained by prying up a window- They then pried open a door leading Into tho stock-room and were getting tires to load into a new Buick that they had ready to go in in the center of the garage when they were frightened away by the night watchman. They made their escape before the police could be notlfled to head tlv;m off.

Edward E- Backu-s game warden of the lifteenth district, will give an in­formal- talk on "Conservation of flsh and game" at the Board of Trade meeting on next Wednesday evening at eight p- m- The talk wlll be Illus­trated by offlclal lantern slides from the Massachusetts division of fish and game.

Friends of -Mr- and Mr.s. Hugh K-McDougall and daughter. Miss Bea­trice McDougall, who are on their way to China, have received word from them at the Hawaiian islands where they slopped for a short time, Mr-McDougall will be in the service of the Y- -M- C- A- in Tien Tsln-

The poster.s which won prizes re­cently awarded by the Ayer Woman'.s club, have been on exhibition in one of the windows of George H, Brown's clothing store this week,

.Mr-i. Robort F- Murphy ha-f resigned as -secretary of the union fair, her successor being Mrs. Theodore W-Barry-

Jimmy Bray and Mae Sheeran-whirlwlnd exhibition dancers, just off of Keith's circuit, and Jimmy's Jazz Kings of Syncopation, also of vaude­ville fame, will be the features of the dance to be given In the town hall on Monday ovening,

Mrs. Margaret Burns, of Wren­tham, has appealed to the suporior court to have her marriago to Rich­ard Burns, of Wrentham, annulled, because she has recently le.irned that hor first husband, William H. Dorsett, whom she believed killed in France, is still alive. She inarrled Burns on December 20, 1919, but on June 1, last, she mcl Dorson in Nashua, N. H, She immodiately ceased to live with Burns. Mra. Burns was married I to Dorsett in Ayor. July 13. 1911, andi he immedliitely deserted her. she sAys- | ITntil after hor socond marriage she h.id not seen him but once, and tba t ' waa six days -ifter thc wedding- Dor­sett is now living in Montreal-

Mr- and Mrs. Jonathan H. Harwood (Ruth WIstar Fisher), of Littleton and Providence, R. I-, are receiving congratulations on the birth of thoir socond child, who has been jiamed F.llzabcth Sharpies, on November 4,' at the Faulkner hoapltal, Mrs, Har­wood Is tho daughter of Rev. Thomas L Fisher, formerly vicar of St. An­drew's church-

Sudden stopplnp of an automobile l.ist Sundny afternoon on the state road In Lexington, near thc Lincoln

. line, caused a triple collision which resulted In several persons being shaken up. The driver ot tho car which caused thc trouble drove away without making known his identity, whon the first' machine stopped, Charics S- Record, of Leominster, following close behind, stopped his car a few Inchos froni it- A third automobile, driven , by Alhert R-Crconlcaf, of Saleni, crashed into thc rear of Record's car, driving it Into thc first. With Record was his wife and her mother, Mrs, John Corkum, of this town. Mrs, Corkum was at­tended by Dr. James J- Walsh, of Lexington, and lator taken to hor homo suffering from norvous shock.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry C- Jameson and Infant child are st.iying at tho Butter­lleld apartments for .about three weeks. Mr- Jameson Is- engaged in makir,. insurance maps of tho town for the Sanborn Map CO- of New Votk-

Thcro havc been several changes recently in the staff bf tho Feculose ("0- Fred A- Milan, formerly superin­tendent, has been promoted to bc sales manager: Harold Currier, chemist at the plant, has boen promoted fo be superintendent; nnd A. F. Lo.inder, a graduate -C'l the Ma-ssnchusctls Insti­tute of Technology, has taken the po­sition left vacant by '.Mr. Currlor.

Caleb Butler lodge ot Masons wlll - hold a regulnr communlc.ltlon next

Mondny everUng-. Work — Fellow Craft degree.

MIsfl Gretchen WIsmer. who hn-i been hnvlng a vacation In New " 'ork, has returned honio-

Mr-S- Gcorge L. Wilson, who hns been critically 111 nt hcr homc on High -street, is reported to bc Improving,

Herbert J, Webb, a former Jeweler ot A'•^^, wns in town last Saturday.'

' ; V.-lnd Mrs- Robert H- J. Holden attcnhed thc Harv.i'rd-PrincOton game at Princeton last .Saturday-

Daniel H. Dlckln.son of Wn-shlngton afreet hns returned from a visit In-Keene, N. H.

Harbinger lodge, IC. ot P., met Mon­

day evening, conferring tho ranji of

frJ^.^hi'y.E'^^^'"' Dosmond roturned from hla honeymoon lost Baturday ond nm.Hf,'^"!^^ ^^ practice.at hU dental offlco In the B.arry block.

TJio Unitarian, Girls' club held o combination cafeteria suppor ot tho church vostry Mbnday ovoning. The w w J i ^ " i h f^'"'^'' of Mrs. Ralph ? ' ^,y\,^- chairman. Mrs. Frank B. M™"iv„i'f ^^l-: , ' ^ " " ' Fillebrown,' Mrs. Walter Fletcher, Mrs. Frcd Mont- gomery. -Mlss fiello. Murphy,. Mrs. Charics A. .Normand, .Miss Bortha M, Phelps and Mlsa Maude Whitcomb.

••rho public schools aro closed this Friday on. account of tho legal holl! fhT „?"'" '°/"= ««'clsos were held°ln the different schools Thursday aftcr-

The Hillside, which was formerlv Thaver''wlV,^ •''•••. =""» M". Charle^ Thajer, .will again bo under their management •They have returnod to Aycr fVom Mllford, N. H. and are having the houso thoroughly renovat­ed and stoam heat installed. Tho house will be ready for businoss about December 1.

Wallace A. Brown, of Groton whllo driving a Ford along MaS sfrooriast week Friday, lost control of the ma­chine nenr the bank building. Tho car -w-ent across tho sidewalk and struck the pinto glass window, break­ing out the lowner toward .the town null.

• A largo delegation of Ayer and Camp Devens' membors ot Lowell lodge^ot Perfection. 14th degree, Scot­tish RIto Masons, attended a moeting In Lowell lost week Friday ovening A cast Including Rev, F, B. Crandall, Lucius C, Falrchlld. Dr. E. B But­terfleld, Sergt. Leon M. Huntress Capt. Edwin A. Austin, Georgo H ' Leavitt and Milan P. Cole, who playl cd the principal roles, and -Capt. Charles O. Ashton, Sergt, Arthur Brockman, Sorgt- Harry Brotherton. Horatio C. Chase, Daniel W, Fletch­er'' Sergt- John S. Greon, George B, Hatt, Chorles Janies, Sergt. Harry .Most. Charles A, Normand, Georgo L. Csgood, Henry G. Turner, Capt, Thomas H- Veale, Benjamin H, Walk-J."",',^' ^' '^Vhceler and William A-Wright presented the drama of tho fifth degree- The cast was coached by Lucius G- Fairchild- Among oth­ers who atlended were Wllllam- Clif­ton, Capt, Roland T. Fenton, NlchoIa.s Glerons, Georgo F, Knowles. Wllllnm H. Harper, Edwin J. Lyons, Henrv S,. Schemerhorn, Major Harry c" Peavey. Capt, Hardin Sweeney and George H, B, Turner, t,aL^^ delivery of parcel post matter began on .Monday a t . the local post offlce. Such matter will be delivered only on thc morning delivery Per-wwi'^' '"f>,°," """ ""ou'es may choose whether their parcel post matter Is to be delivered or kept at thc postof­ficc to be called for- Those-who de-

(sire that parcel post matter be de­livered must file a written request with thc postmaster for such sorvlce-

,hH'"L''*' ^' ^''^y ^'^ ''csn notified tnat he was the winner of a 200-pound pig recently given away in Groton- Mr- Bray, fearing that he could not handle thc animal success­fully, promptly sold It,

Dennis Gray, of New York, has ptirchased of John E. Gould the Twin Elms ga.soline and service station in Pingryville Mr, Grey.'whose wife is a sister ot Mrs- Edward E- Backus, is to build a garage tor repair work In tho spring.

The committee In charge of the union church fair met In St. Andrew's vicarage on Thursday .evening. Plans wcre discussed and adopted for the fair to be hold next month. , .?''';ni-^"'' *''•''• Robert F. Murphy w ..^''i'L^''''^' evening for Yakima. Wash- They are to make the journey by the Canadian Paclflc trom Mon­treal, and expect to be gone until the early summer, Mr, Murphy makes the trip to buy fruit. .

The-Woman's Reiiet Corps requests that the parents ot Ayer instruct their chlidren regarding the proper treat­ment of the American flag. An in­stance of flagrant disrespect has been reported to this society. From the Dordcra of this townsnip many thou­sands have gone forth to fight hnd die tor tho flag and it would seem hore Indeed that all honor should be accorded it,

JanieA "Wallaco has nioved from the west half of the house owned by Ar­thur E- Dykes on East Main street to tl]c house owned by Joseph P Hamel, corner ot Maple and Fletcher streets, recently vacated by .Morris Oreenbcrg-

The Ayer branch of the Red Cro.ss has appointed the following leaders for its membership roll call, which begins Armistice day and continues until Thanksgiving day: .Mrs. John u. Carney, Mj-s, Kenneth M. Mac­Lennan, James J- McGuane, Thonias X, '^Hliir;, ^^'•" ^i^^"^ B. Crandall, Mrs William Brown, Mrs- Williani E- Murphy, Thonias J- Ryan. The can-i-.iss among thc railroad men %vill be in charge ot Mr. Ryan-

Thc following is- the program given at the high school on Thursday after­noon: Song, "America." school; The day ot the dead." Maeterlinck.

Evolyn Johnson; "Rouge bouqtret '-' Joyce Kilmer, Eva Coughlin; song, America, the boautiful," school; " A

league for peace," Woodroiv "Wilson H.irvey Wilder; song, ".Marseillaise " school; "I have a rendezvous with death." Alan Seegar. Beryl Proctor; ' Alan Seegar." Grantland Rice. Helen Whitney; song, "The Star Spangled Banner," school. Frank Mason, com­mander of Joseph M- Connors post, A. L-, gave an inspiring address.

The election of offlcers of Aycr Grange took place on Wednesd.iy ovoning, resulting as follows; Clar­ence M- Chase, m.; Frank C- Harmon-0-; Mrs- George H- Fenner, loot.; Rob­ert L, Tibbetts, stew.; Richard B Craft, .isst. stew-; Mrs- Harry P- Luf­kin, chap.; Mrs. Arthur M- Winslow tre.is-; Ml-ss -Margaret .M. Eaton, sec ; Harold B- Wentworth. gk.; Mlss Ger­trude M- Rand, Ceres; Mlss Alice A, ,Rand, Pomona; Miss Jessie Mc­Gregor, Flora; Miss Esther O. Wash­burn, I, a- R.; Mrs. Frank B, Harmon, pianist; George H. Fennor, ex, com-3 years- At thc close of the meet­ing the lecturer resigned and the vacancy w.is left unfilled. Tho bnz.iar committee reported that »308.15 was tbe proceeds of thc bazn.ir. It w-as voted to send the lecturer-elect to tbe State Grnnge niceting-

Tho Grange wlll hold a military whist pnrty In Hardy's hnll on Tues­day evening for thc benefit of thc basketball team- Robort L. Tlbbitts and Raymond H- Millor arc the com­mittee. Mrs. Edward E- Sawyor will conduct the playing- Refrc-shmonta will be scrvcd-

Capt- George V. Rarrctt camp, S. ot v., wcro Inspected Thursday cvon­ing by Cl.iyton H- Richardson, ot Leominster, formerly ot Ayer, Rc-tre.shmentfl wero served,

tyrhan C, Spraguo has beon olectod o mombor ot tho class day commit­tee at Boston university law school,

Thcro will be a spcclal Armlstico day program at tho Army "If, M- C, A.. "West Main street, Friday ovoning at 7.30, with an addrcss by Rcv. A. V. Dln\ock, of Groton, followed by a picture, ontitled "Highest law," Thc townspooplo are cordially Invited to attond, Chlldron should be accom­panied by adults,

Tho past matrons ot Ida McKlnley chapter, O, B. S., will havo ijhnrgo ot a largo military whlst party to bc held In Masonic hai r ori Tuesday eve­ning. Docember 6.

The Unitarian Girls' club held an nfternoon whlst on Wednesday at the hoirie of Mrs. Fred Montgomery on Fletcher street. Mrs. Ch,arles Morri­son, won tho high score. 44 'points, nnd received dl.sh and bulbs. Mrs. A. A, Flllebrown, with 11 points re­ceived tho consolation souvenir, a box ot buttons, Tho committeo woro Mrs, Fred Montgomery, Mrs. Horatio C. Chnse, Mrs.- Walter Fletcher and Mrs. Bannister." ; '

SATURDAY, NOVBMB35R 12, 1921.: '•^'r

On -thla woek. Friday, a t nvo min­utes "betoro twolvo o'clock noon, a titilon service In commemoration of Armistice day will be hold in St. An. drew's" church.- Prayers- will bo ot-"Toroa In honor ot tho unknown aoi. aior to tro burled .ot Arlington ot Washington at thot tlmo ond Inter, mission will bo offered tor the sue poss ot tho International conference to be bpened In Washington the ne'it day. An address will be m.-ide bv Rev. Sherrard BllUngs of Groton School, -All ore Invited. ^'^oton

Townsond. treas.; Mrs. -A. L. Struth­ora, Townsend, supt. children's work: Stanley Conant, Littleton.' ftUpt. young people's work; S. B. Haynes. Still Rlyer, supt odult work; Clarenco W. Stetson, chairman flnonco committoe.

iir'^.J'?,'''''? ^ ' "^ole ond Ceorge E Woddls hove opened o variety ..toro

«?reot." ' " ' ^ " ' ' " ° " ' ' ° " ''•'••••'' M^'n

,S'*'C -third onnual Armi-stlce bnll post "A ^ 'L " I ^ til'T •'•• ' """O-" post, A. I*^ In the town hall thiu ™ d a y ovening. Members of the noat and all e.x-8crvIco mon are urged to seo^ Commander Frank R M 1 O ° with regard to participating fn na rade In honor-of .Marshal Fonh ^., Monday. November 14, Tn Boaton ""

o',?o"ck"'f S j l t T r ^ ^ ^ ^ u ^ r "^vl'ff' t

;^?i5^'?'<j^i^"s;;^r£^?'Si league.. The following w^ bo sc'rv"d" Baked beans and brown broad cold ham, mashed potato, escallopt'd o?s tors, . baked macaroni and cdieeae roHs, fruit salad, fancy pL, ^1m\':;

Sti-and Tlieater

>>i>'^^i^uoTn'\rv%,^^,^^'Tr t e t c M j a ^ ^ ^ i A ^ J ' ^ r S S etc- Think what women will do ' ' She may overstep, ahe may trick nien steal money., betray friends v e f h P ' i n ' ; ' " "^'l,-"??Sk t^orc i s a V ^ o t n e s ; and iinselllshnc-ss that belongs onlv tn wonmn- You'll forget he r^^ . °knJ« talk Of '?;',""';;" "''- •• '- -nKth, You'li talk of this drama.

thc^guld^^:' ' ' ° ' " ''°"^<' " ' ••^<>-<"'«

Mnt""','',?' "double feature bHI, Marv ; ,?. ^l'"i?'', ' " "'•'-•««>• ''ebe a" and Two sh^ws^ '",:"»"S'i''OUS paradis"" i " o hhows, 3-30 and 7-30 p. m-

-\iiniial Mwtliig.

;The annual meeting of the I adics-

last TSIS"!; •? ,V " " Washington -street last i uesday afternoon, there beinL- -i good attendance. The iiew OH'KO,-" for y^e ensuing year wcro elected as fol­lows: Mrs, Francis l.ovejov nres -Mrs. I ara E. Hichardson, vice res'-' Mrs- Frank f. Johnaon, -sec • MrV Emma J- Os.good, tre.is,; .Mra- Gorham w'r.^""^^' "r"" <""•'• chairmen fancv

, S committee, Mrs, T- H- Miller-K I I " % r r r ' " r ' . . - ' ' ^ > ' ' ^Vilnan L '•^•eii.\, Mrs. Joseph K- Hart Mrs H..,. M'rs 1v„';°'"""','' P'-o^'-'''"' coinniiue'e; -MI.S \Mlliam J. Kelly, .Mrs- Clara E Rioh.irdaon. Mrs. Janu-s M. Bo -oH oi, t Clarence W. Stetson, Mrs. Sam­uel J, Andrew; cu,stodlan,s, .Mrs James M- Boutwell, Mrs- Frank C- Johnson Mrr '?sihet""?i A '""^"'- •''• Win-"o •; -Mrs Isabel .McGregor; ilowei- eont-p\i '•% ^S,"-'^"'^"^'-' Mrs- Herbert A £"""••"• Pcc«n'ber, Mrs, Charles G, H-ts-sani; Januarj-, .Mr-s. Clara E- Rich-•irdaon; February, Mr-s- Clarence W Stetson; March, .Mrs, Jamos .MBotit: well; April, Mrs, San«iel J. Andr°-w-May, Mrs. John W, Wentworth" June' e^T^'^' '^*' •'^IcGrogor; July. iU^.Tot eph K, Hart; August, Mrs. Charlea C Wood;" September, .Mr.s, I.ester WKiV comb; October, -Mrs- Hoklen C Hil-"

To Uic EUUor: Tho card ot the Ministers' Union

on your front page may r'emind somo Of tho, Aycr people ot the .days whon that union was tormed in 1895 ihero was then, ns I remember It six churches activo In" Ayer- The order of theli- seniority I do not know, but It may possibly havo beon some­thing like- this, namely: Baptist Unitarian, Catholic, . Congrcgatlonlst .Methodist and Episcopalian.

The pastors ot theso churches at that time,-. I. yilnk, wero Rev. s. P Everett. Rev. J, W. Roberts. Rev P, J- Sheedy, who died In April, 1916 Rev, H- F- Hallett, -Rev. A- J- Hull and Rev- Charlea L Slattcry-

Tho call for tho flrst meeting in which the union w a s organized was signed by Aycr pastors. Rev. Fr Sheedy was quite cordial to those who waited upon him, desiring that he iiiight take equal part In the flrst prollinlnary steps- Ho was under­stood to.be friendly and-'favorable to it, but flnally decided that he would rather not put his name down- bn the call- Tho other pastors of the town as above-named all put their signatures on the paper which was published and the flrst meeting as­sembled In the lower town hall ot that day. January 15. 1«J6.

Some ot these pastors soon remov­ed- But it is desiroblo to keop a record of thom all. -Rev. Dr. Slattery, now a loading

rector In New York city,, was then a young man In care ot St- Andrew's church- Rov. H. F. Hallett, of the Congregational church, after com­pleting a pastorale of six vears hero-.served the church in Ashfleld for

still In his fifties and left two sons-Of the L nitarian pastor;; Rev. J. w ,,. Vhl' ' r'T ",? •"•«»!'" record is found at the Unitarian houso in Boston

- For the purpose ot perfecting the record of the union any particulars of the later history of Rev- S- P. Everett then of the Baptist church- and ot Rev- A- J Hall, then of the Methodist church, both highly esteemed, would be gratefully received by thia writer

Revs- Hudson. Holmes and Clark' res dent ministers in town, were al active in the early meeUngs ot thc unlon.

Rev- W- J- Batt Concord Junction, Nov, 5, 1921,

Bontrlds havp received Instructions to open flro on persona seen obout tho Btorchouscs after d a r k . - I t seoms that tho policy trom now On is to shoot flrst ond Inquire afterwords. At any '^hJ-'' '^0 "jiO"-' cut to" town through the railroad yards has lout quite a bit ot Its popularity otter sunset. ..,^^''lf,^'''^*^°"\ae.aentne ot tho de-tached enlisted men's ILst. who came o, i ? ? ,""° '" ' ' '0 Providence reerUlt-, lug district, hus been transfcrrud to­the army base at Boston.

Seyeral,of tho-single attached en­listed men, who have been in. camp "'"CO,, last. February when recruiting activities wero stopped, expect triin« fers that wlll tako' tht", ?^ck to S former duties. All of the married men on the det.iched enlisted men's i ^ L ' l ' " ,".1°"'^' "« returned to the Salf/c*^^??"'"^*' '-'"" --^"^^ «hc

There seems to be a general exocct-ancy that the flrst dlvLslon n o T f o -cated at Camp Dix. m.iy be transferred hero In view ot the fact that poKilblv

K ?^? J ° " ' ° -^o* Jersey post. Also hat the returning troops from Ger.: iiony m.iy be located at this station

dc° °"n',"„^c.*''r ""-'"'"*•' "' ' "^ IndSpo'n: furthr^ " '•'^'-'f-^y * " ' ' Germany, a further ncccs.slty for troons* trv he m.iintained in the Rhinelandrdoes not exist. Therefore, ambitious congress­men .ind othera, are . i t temptlnr to o'^The^ir/o^oT' '? order'«fo reiurn at <'oM,.nt' « •An'frlean soldiers now anm°.r r, , H",'" ? ' '"eso propositions fhi m "robable, but local hjmy au-horltlos do not believe that either of hese movements of troops or even

the preparation therefor, will be at­tempted before next spring, If at all

Georgo L- Tetreault, at onc time

returned to camp, after a three-months' furlough, which he spent In France with his wife. Private Te­treault reports conditions so favorable w„.. ^^i}^^ , '"" ' ' ^'^ present t h a t i t nt^U'.i^ ,reluctance that ho was obliged to leave. He is now one of the permanent guard at thc main en­trance of the eamp, •

r.JJ'"J'"'-°^^ ^- "V" "'c>'. camp sur­geon fpr some time pa-st, has left with his family for Fort Jay, N- Y-, where pftaV " •"'""°"*^'' ' " ""-• P0« hos-

"The number of every automobile en­tering or lea\:ing the camp, .ind also thc time, IS being taken by tho guard

PROCTOR'S Cash Discount Store

NEW LADIES' SWEATERS AU Wool Tuzedo Sweaters, trimmed with white Angora

Fancy Weave Tuxedo Sweaters, plain trimmed ' ^ ^ 4 * 9 8 Short Sleeve Sweaters with wjhite knit vestee and collar *

JEBses'^Coat and Tnxedo Sweaters. ^ 2 ^ 8 ^ ^ ' ^ l Infaiits'and Children's SWeaterB.... 98^ . to I z . S S Ladies Angora Shawl Scarfs, extra long and wide. . . . . . . . .94 .50

LADIES' W O O L HOSE Hither Mxed in brown and' green. $1 .00 and ? 1 . 2 5 pair

Heather Mixed, with docks on side 8 1 1 5 mdr Extra Heavy Wool iMixtnrei ^ l i s s to ^ z S s

HATS AND TAMS Ladies' Velvet and Plnsh Hats . . . . 8169 Dnvetyn and Velvet T a m s . . . . . . . . . . . ; . ' . '.'''.'.''.'.ilJ25"to'll.e9

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Real Kstate Transfers. The following real estate transfers

have been niade recently from this yiclmty: Ayer—Albert M. Phelps et al to -K. H, .Montgomery; Williani U-.Sherwln to C- C- .Stevens. Grotftn— John H- Sheedy et al. tr.s- lo The Groton Farmer-s' and Mechanics' club Uttleton—.Mary E. .Vuttlng to B. P MoGranahan ct ux. Pepperell—John "r, Attrldge to J. L- Sulllvnn; Thomas A Greenleaf et ux. to 'VV. E. Hafeuse ot u-\'.;. Edward F- H.iyes to M- Mav­nard- Shirley—Dominic Bourgeois to S- P- Bourgeois; Leila M- Goodspeed et al- to M. B- D- Lyon- Townsend— John A- c:ofTey to .Mr- Ekola; George A- Jaqulth to V- W- Smith; Charles T. McDormond to J. O. Molsio; Altha C- Wallace to J- M- Brum- H a r v a r d -Sarah .M- Sawyer to Emil Anderson; I'iske Warren to Daniel H- Cameron, .unenburg—Alfred L- Elliott. Jr., to

Wllllam PeltonlemI et ux.. land on Lawton avenue; NathanWI B. FIske to Raymond J. Fiske. land on .Vorthfield road.

at the main gate, and kept as 'a rec­ord at headquarters.

The state departnient ot agriculture has a crew of men busy in loading tor shipment several of thc army trScks which the state purcha.«ed some time

L'nltnriiin Church. Sunday service, 10.15, regular of­

llces and sermon. .Music; "King of e.M-'ih"f ^ i ° " ^ ' ' '"^°^ " ' ' ' ' '"••"lest e.iith and heaven," Hopkins, Mrs. W C, .Sargent, Preacher, Hev, Fi-ank B (.randall, the minister. Subject, "The psychology of religion and religious .ser\-ice3- Church school at tw-clve-, I?K" . ? ' - " ' ' ' V '^^ preacher will deal With the relation of the laws of" re­ligious psychology and tvpical vari-cities of religious services-

The iGi.rls' club held an iuUtition t^"''' U,,"'"".''^"" "'•'" •'•"I'-'-'lay even­ing- Wilson s orchestra furnished mii.sic for the occasion. liefreshnients were served. The committee in charge were Mrs. Horatio C- Chase, chairnian, Mrs- How-ard M- Beverh-and .Ms- Herbert I.. Pansworth-

Thc Alliance rummage sale opened « ednesday afternoon at ?. Pleasant -street the store fornierly oceupied bv the '-Montgomery Hardware Co Th'e aale continued_on Thursday- \ large atock of articles were on s.ile-

The men of the Laymen's league are planning to observe Laymen's .Sunday on .Vovember 20- According to the plan followed In Unitarian churches which have had a Laymen's Sunday, laynien take charge of tho service for the day and the occasion

made a nien'-s rally dav-

Weddlng-P.aymond E. I.apean ol" -Montague

City and Mlss Florence K. McCarthy were married last Saturday afternoon at St. .Mary's church, Uev. George A T4eardon performing the ceremony Harold lyopean, brother of the grooni, was best man and Miss Katherine Ui-poan, sister of the groom, was brides­maid. The wedding march was played by Emmanuel Perrault-

The bride, whose home is in La­conia, X- H-, has been an operatot" at the local teelphone ollice for the p:Lst four year.s. The groom, who was in thc navy during the war, is a clerk at Camp Devens. The young couple rcceivsMl numerous beautiful wedding gifts- After a week's wedding trip to N'cw York, they -a-ill live at ( Maple street-

District Couit. On Monday morning Aniifrlc Ku-

prian of Pepperell was found guiltv of breaking glass at the home of Sim­eon Czarouka in that <own on thc sixth of November- It appeared trom the evidence that Czarou.ka refused to sell liquor to Kuprian and the latter threw a stone through the window of Czarduka's house. The court im­posed a flne of twenty dollars.

Tuesday morning Thomas Bowman, ot Westford. was before t he court for thc larceny of a coat, pair of pants, shocs and belt -from Joseph •Dowling, ot that tow-n."'He'tvstffTomml-not guilty and ordered discharged.

On "\yodnosday morning Oscar Lar-sen, of Shirley, was found guiltv of drunkenness in Shirloy on tho "pro-ceding day and was flnud ten dollars and placed on probation,

On Thursday niorning the contin­ued CISC of Mike Urgar. of Shirley, charged w-ith a sale of liquor in Gro­ton, was before the court- It appear­ed that Crgar acted only as thc agent of the purchaser of the. liquor and the court tound him not guilty- At­torney Fi-jink A. Torrey appeared for the governnient and Attorney Goorge L. Wilson for the defendant-

Obitunry-Nelson Hoot passed .iway at his

homo on -Lawton street l.ist week Sat­urday, and the funeral w.is held from St- Mary's church Monday morning, Hev. Georgo A. Heardon offlciating, .Mrs- Chnrles A. Ixithrop -sang "Plo Jean." The 0- A. R, attended In a body.

The dcce.ised was born in St. Johns, P- "Q-. on December 12, 1S32. Mr-Hoot b.Kl lived in Ayer since ho was a young man- lie w-as a veteran of thc Civil war, serving in Co, I of the 22d Ma-s-vichusetts Voluntoer-s- Mr-Root w-aa .1 member of George S Boutwell post. G- A. H- He was the holdor of the post cane .ia thc oldest resident of tho town.

Thc dece.iflcd leaves one son, Nelson Root ot Fitchburg, and threo daugh-tcr.i, .Mr.";. Annie Church of Kxetcr. N- H-, Mrs- Alice Johnson of Youngs-tow-n, Ohio, and Mrs. Edward T-O'Bricn of I^awton street, with whom Mr- Root made his home- Mr Root's wife died In 1916-

Thc interment was In St- Mnry's cemdtcry. The bearers wcro Charlos '. Cole, James P. nonahuo, Thomns H. Donahue and Thom.as McDonald, all of Aycr.

Federated Churcli Xotes. Special niusic will bo given Sun­

d.iy evening hy a mixed quartet con­sisting of Mrs- W- C- Sargent, so­prano: -Mra- H. L. Brown, alto; Dr-Hopkina, tenor, and E- B- Harlow, bass-

Morning worship at 10-45- Bible school at twelve- Young people's nieeting at 6-15- Evening service at seven o'clock-

Meeting of the Federa club Tues­doy evening w-ith Mra. Walter C- Sar-gent-

J- P- Ramsey, of Lowell, probation ofllcer ot the superior courl, will be the speaker at thc Brotherhood nioeting on Wednesday evening. No­vember 16, The question of orga­nized recreational activities tor the young peoplo of the community will be considered. All the men of the community interested in the matter are cordially invited to attend,

A choir rehearsal will be held thia Saturday evening at 6.4-'>-

Snntlay Scliool Convention. At the Sunday achool convention

held In tho Baptist church on last week Friday there wore about alxty In attendance, thc program being car­ried out substantially aa announcod. The ladles ot tho church served a dinner ot cold meats, salads, baked beans, rolls, pics and coftoe at noon.

Tho nuditorium of tho Army T, M, C. A. on "West Main strcot waa flllod with delegates In tho afternoon at tho showing ot biblical motion pic­tures, Tho chlidren of tho local Sun­day schools, with their trlend-i, also attended,

ITio-tollowlng omcers wero elected: Charles J. Burrlll, pros,; Mrs- Dean, Harvard, flrst vlc<f president and su­perintendent ot education; Horbort A. Pollard, second vlco prealdont nnd su-porlntcndont of flold work; Clarenco W. .Stetson, third vice president and member of state executive commlttco; Mrs. Charles J. Burrlll. rec-sec. and publicity com.; Mrs. F. B.'Nutt, 'We.st Groton, district soc; A. S. Howard,

Severe Storm. The town suffered a severo sleot

storm Wednesday night. Thc storm hnd developed to auch an extent be­tween Ayer and Clinton that thc line that brings electric current to Ayer was broken a few minutes past eight o'clock. At Proctor's Sti-and the flrst evening show had Ju.«t been conclud­ed and the intermission slide been ahown when tho lights went out. Main atreot was in d.arknoss except aa merchanta brought candles and oil lamps Into service- Blodgett'a how-l­ing alley waa tho only apot with full Illumination on thc atreot- An elec­tric light over the ontranoo was a proud advertisement ot their private electric lighting system-

Durlng the night much damage was done to trees by tho accumulated weight of ice- A tree waa down over tho street apposite William Brown's residence on Eaat Main street- A heavy limb toll from .a giant oak be­sldo tho residence of Rev- Frank B-Crandall on Noahua street, ono end ot which was driven through a veran­da root and coiling- Electric current was restored Thursday atternoon.

Camn Dcvcn-t N'cws. Following recent dlfllcultles at tho

remount depot all of that area has bccon declared off bounda for civilians and other unauthorized persons.

Warrant Ofllcer Georgo Cowan, ntter a.month's duty in camp, checking va­rious Items ot governmont property, has relyrncd to his duties at corps area headquartes in Boston.

Prlvato - Lewis E. Foster of tho transportation ofllco hns lott camp tor duty in the ofllce ot the post quarter--ma.stcr at Fort Ethan Allon, 'Vt. Prl-v.ito Foster has but a few days re­maining In which to complete thirty years' service, thereby earning retire­ment,

Sergt. John J. PIgott ot. tho sales commlasary ofllco haa boon transferred to tho armory at Sprlngfleld. This wlll mako tho sergeant's duties rathor congenial, as ho has malntalnctl a homo for his wife and tamlly In that city for a consldcrilble.llme r^ast. \

"As a conspquonco of recent breaSs In thc quartcrma.stcr storehoufies oil

Sergt- Anthony Miller, mess ser­geant of the quartermaster detach-rnent, has returned to camp after a three-weeks' absence sp<-nt with rela­tives in Burlington, Vt. " •

Sergt. Kenneth L. Smith, atter a two-months' leave, returned Monday for a transfer to recruiting duty in Boston, '

M.iJor Joseph Morrow of the 13th Infontry, reported back to camp Mon­day for duty ns comni.mding olflcer relieving Capt. Hardin C- Sweeney. '

Capt- Wallace E- Hackett. formerly with thc 13th Infantry, but now on duty in Boston Harbor, was a camp visitor during the first of the week, ,^L- "W". Berry of Ayer Is renovating the building fornierly used" by the" quar.termaster exchange, preparatory to starting a restaurant, similar to the one operated by him during the sum­mer near the postofflcc-

On Friday,. Armiatice day. all duty but the neces-sary gu.ird and fatigue was suspended- Several of the offlcera and men secured the week-end oft for outside visits.

As a result of the big sale ot sal­vage property held a short time ago, large quantities of material are being taken from the camp daily by the suc­cessful bidders. .

Sergt. William E. Coddington ot the sales commissary oflice. who has near-Ij- completed thirty years of continu­ous service, and therefore iri line for retirement, expects to leave shortly on SxftflTS.'S. months: lea-ite for his home In Columbus. Ohio," rctuhilri jr-to ' iamp next year for hia flnal discharge. Sev­eral, and practically all of the old en­listed men who earn retirement, have to credit a considerable period ot serv­ice In the Philippine Islands and else­where, which service counts double value toward retirement. Sergt. Cod-dington's service record contains but-a month of such time, which is almoat a record, inasmuch o-s most of the so-called "old-timers" .ire retired after twenty or twenty-five years actual service.

Warrant Ollicer John M, GUllgan has been appointed chief storekeeper, replacing Master Sergt. Arthur Brock­man, who has held the position since the departure of Charles Wilson, Seigt- Brockman will continue as as­sistant storekeoper-

A drop gale, after the nature ot those used a t railroad crossings, has been installed across the main high-Way a( the entrance to thc camp-Every car now must como to a- dead stop beforo boing permitted to con­tinue- Fornierly, cach car was oblig­ed to alow down until the guard at the gate was satisfied that the en­trance was not an unauthorized one, but .It present cach car is searched for illegal conlents-

Sergt- Olorf Toolcy of the 3rd Serv­ice Company of the Signal Corpa htis left c.imp for Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. His services thereat ^vill be devoted to the maintenance ot tho post tele­phone .system in use there.

Owing to tho shortage of thc day­light hours now, first call has been •itlvanced to 6-30 In the morning, with breakfast al seven, instead of halt an hour earlier as during the summer. Supper is now served at 5-00 instead of 5-30-

A fleld telephone set, similar to thc one used by the signal corps when on manoeuvres, and also In nctive war­fare, has been installed throughout tho ofllcos of tho camp, with central located In the quartermaster offlce. The entire system w.is placed in working order by thc signal corps men of this camp, and is being oper­ated by them- |

Capt- Thomas H. 'V"c.ilc has closed his dental offlce and left camp on his accumulated leave of two montha.

George M- Callnnan ot tho utilities offlco Is enjoying a week's vacatlon-

Capt- H. C. Sweeney, following his rollof aa commanding offlcer, has bcon detailed and .announced as camp per­sonnel adjutant.

PROCTOR AYER, IVIASS.

Proctor's Strand, Ayer -I^OCTOB & DONAHUE, Lessees

FRIDAY, NOVEMBEE 11—HOLIDAY SPEC?IAL "WHAT WOMEN WILL DO," with ANNA Q. NILSSON EAEL

METCALP and ALLAN FOEEEST, etc. Comedy. Seventh episode of ''Hurricane Hutch."

SATUEDAY, NOVEMBEE 12 TOM MOORE in "Beating the Game." Hall Room Boys' Comedy,

"In Bad Again." Pathe News.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBEE 13—Douhle Feature BiU Two Shows Onlyr-35(> and 7.30 P. M.

LOUISE HUFF in "Dangerous Paradise." MAEY MILES MINTBR in "Peggy Eebels.". "

MONDAY, NOVEMBEE 1 4 "THE STE-fl.LEES," a big special with an all-star cast. Century

Comedy... Pord Educational.

T U E S D A Y ; NOVEMBEE 15

CARMEL MYERS in'^A pihgerous Moment." Comedy. ' " .

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 6 EUGENE O'BRIEN i n " G i l d ^ Lies." bomedy. Pathe News.

THUESDAY, NOVEMBEE 1 7 "THAT GIEL MONTANA," with BLANCHE SWEET, MAHIOW

. HAMILTON and EDWAED PEIL, From the novel by Maral^ Ellis-Byan. Pathe Beview.. Sunshine Comedy.

PEIDAY, NOVEMBEE 1 8 ALICE JOYCE in "The Scarab Eing," from the popular novel by -

Harriet Gayiord. Comedy.. Eighth episode of "Hurricajie HutdL"

SATUEDAY, NOVEMBEE 1 9

EAEL WILLIAMS in "The Silvei Oar." Taken from the noveL

Matinee at 2.00 o'clock ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Evenings at 6.15 and 8.15

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Clearance Sale ONE WEEK, BEGINNING SATURDAY, NOV. 12 I

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FOR S.VLE —No. 1 Hand-ploked Baldwin -Apples. J. P, MOtINT.AJCN. Qroton. Telephone 2<-5. 2tll

F"OU SALE AT LrrrXjETON COM> MON—Two-Story, elate roof, IS-room' House In good rtpair; all modern Im­provements: two ecreenod-ln i>orchee; steam heat; good cellar; separate vegetable cellar; sarage; honhouse: garden: fruit trees, applo, sear and plum. Near ckurch. store, postofflce arid schools- Exceptional opportunity to rent rooms or take boarders, Hoiuo easily converted Into two .tencmentB. MRS. JASms A. B-WINO, Littleton Comraon. Moen. Plione JO. Stll

OORD 'WOOD DEIilVKRBD at »» •ptit cord. Stovo wt>od CIO per cord dellv-ored. G. H. PXEBCE/arotoii. Miw* Telephone ilS-1. StlO

TO. REVT—NA- etx-rootn tonoment, PJ*£?,J2E..'*°"0 o'' »"'o •» barn. H. CS. MoDO'WlSLL. Jorest Street, Ayar atlO*

. FOR SAIJE—Four-foot Wood, $aM cordt sawed, fa.isa Delivered In Ayor. Apply to D. OSMITH, Aytt, or B?'JC QALLANT, Westford ICoad, Ayer.

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NcAV AdvcrtLscmcnt COMMONW.BAI.TH OF MASSACHU-

SKTTS. Middlesex, BS. Probate Court. To thc helrs-at-law, ncxt of kin, and

all other persons Interested in tho es­tate of AtXlsy.O G. COKANT lato of Plalnlleld In tho County of Union nnd State of New Jersey deceased.

Whereas, a petition h.as been pre­sented to said Court, }>y ANNA B. CO-NAN'T with certain papers purporting to bo copies of the last will and testa­ment ot said deceased, and of the pro­bate thereof In eald State ot New Jer­sey duly authenticated, representing thnt nt tho time of his death, eald de-cp-ispd hnd ostate In said County of .Miclcllcsex. on which said will moy op-er.itp and praying that tho copy of said wlll mny bc tiled nnd recorded In the rtcBlstry ot Probate of said Countv of MMaleseJt, and loiters testamentary thf rcon granted to her. "

Vnu arc hereby cited to appear at a Proiiate Court, to be held at Cambridge, In s.ald County ot Middlesex, on the fourteenth day of December A. D. 1921. at nlno o'clock In tho forenoon, to <ihow cause. It any you have,: why thc same sliould not bc granted. •> .

And said petitioner Is hereby dircc­led to glvo public notice thereof, by piiblLihlng thla citation once In each week, for three succciwlvo weeka, In Turner's. Public Spirit, ft newenapcr published In Aycr, tho first publication to he thirty days at least,, before said Court- ;

Witness. George F. T-awton, Rsquire, rirKt Judgo ot snld Court. thl« eighth d.iy of November In the year one thou-s.antl nine, hundred - - " ' - '

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F. M. ESTT, Register.

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CANDT AND OIGABS TEAS AND COFFEOQS BREAD AND PASXHT

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Agtmta for AOME OLKOUAXtGABISi The OacBt and best sateUtato for But

ter. Can be ascd oa (h« taU* EiARD oosspoma*.! ' .

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p. Donion & Co Head's Block ATSB, MASa

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TO RENT—Three Furnished Rooma/ centrally located. Inquire at PXJBUC SPIRIT OFFICB, Aycr. uo"i«-

CARD OF THANKS The undersigned Krafefully acknowN

edge tho kind words and deed« at nelghbora ahd trlendB In our recent bereavement.

Mr. and Urs-. Edward O'Brion, Nolson Root and Family,

Ayer, Mass, November 9, 1921.

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LITTLETON

.Nowa I t em. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan H. Har-

'wood, of Lilttleton and Provldonco, R. IM are receiving congratulations on the birth of their second child, Ellza­both Sharpies Harwood, November 4, a t tho Faulkner hospital, Boston.

meetine;' a t N e w HavonCihJs wCOk as ODO" ot t h e dolegatea of the North Middlesex branch.

The November meeting of the 'Woman's Missionary auxiliary will bc held a t a.30 next 'Wednesday at tho parsonage.

ClotbliiK Emdcncy . The Littleton Clothing Efflclency

- . Group held Us flrst tall meeting at tho homo of their leader. Mra- Agnes Shedd, November flrst. Kollowing

' the resignation ot Mrs. Alfred Bates. .Mrs. Margaret McDonald was chosen soorotary.

The foUowing Is a brief sketch of tho purpose and underlying princl-

'ples . ot this moat, popular project. First-It; Is not mere "dress making-" It Is an educatlonar piece ot work-However, bo It added, that the wom­an • w h o thoroughly mtistcrs. tho course and has time to opply It need never a-sk the services, of a dress­maker; her clothing problem Is solv-

,0d tor all time. When she has a set ot toiindatlon patterns absolutely cor­rect s h e can mako anything that any conservative woman might want to

'make. But why- draft a pattern when you

can buy one? 1. Because a commer­c ia l pattern seldom Ills; 2, cloth Is wtistcd In makins allowance for changes; 3. It has to be tried out once before ono knows whether or not It Is going to bo successful; 4. it noccasitales so much trying on and flttlng.

Women ol Middlesex county who are enrolled In the clothinK elliciency project have recently organized a caunty committee, of which Mrs. Shedd la chairman- This committeo meet s once a month at central places. A t thcso meetings the leaders and soveral mombers of each Kroup are presont and Mrs. Ruth Stevens Reed, assistant s tate homc demonstration agont, fills tho day to ovcrtlowing wi th holpful Instruction and Insplra-Uon.

Tho fol lowing Is an extract trom a letter written by tho commit tee to the H. 'D. A.:

Wo tool that the clothing efllclency work In our county must be continuod tor theso reasons: '

1. It m e e t s a real and universal need as nothing else hns done and w e b.elieve nothing else can do so ef­fectively.

Homo makers cannot go to voca­tional schools; nor could they find in any more dressmaking class tho help this course has brought 'home.

2. The work Is not only educa­tional, but fundamental, and there­fore of permanent value.

3. It Is helping our women to form-habits which make for belter health, of which w e see marked results all over the county.

4. I t U applicable not only to the clothing problems which necessarily occupy a larse place In the thought

' and work ot the average home mak­er, but also to every phase ot her homo -ma ki ng work.

6. I t has been and is training the •wpmen w h o are fol lowing the pre­scribed coarse not only In principles but In habi t s of efflclency In every department ot their work, ot thritt along all lines ot buying and using material material of every kind. .

The women ot one group In Its sec ­on'd year , report a saving ot from twenty-flve to filty percent in. m a ­terial, t ime and money, in their clothing work.

C. Tho mothers among us aj-c giv­ing the valuable training they are now receiving along all these linos to their daughters as well as to friends aad neighbors, and theretore it is growing In ways which cannot be tab­ulated for reports.

T. It is bringing back to many of our women ot all ages, long lost mental alertness.

SHIRLEY

N e w s Items. ' Mrs. Michael Cotter received word

Itist weok ot tho sudden death of hcr brother, J. J. Casey, at h i s home In Superior. Wis- Mr- Casey and wife visited his sister in September. He had. been in'poor health for the post year and had retired from his work, which was that of an engineer on the Omaha division ot the Great North­ern railroad. Tho tuneral took place at his home on Sunday.

The Item in last week's paper, which read George W. Hume had been tound guilty ot reckless driving of an aiitomoblle. should have been Gcorge W. Horn.

Mlss Esther Amsden, a former sto-nographor In tho ofllcc ot thc Samson Cordage Works, is employed in tho Boston oHlce ot that concern. Mlss .Amsden and her mother are living in North Ablngton for the winter.

The strong wind of laat Saturday morning blew the express trucks at the depot onto the tracks, where an early morning train hit theni, caus­ing somo damage. Thc wind contin­ued throughout the day, scattering leaves and branches ot trees-

Mrs- Eudora Burnham and hor daughters, Winnie and Marlon, en­tertained a party ot triends and rela­tives a t their summer home over the week-ond. The guests of honor wcre Mr. and Mrs- Wallace A- Ripley and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C- Annls- There were s ixteen present and a flno t ime i s reported. The two couples lett Sund.iy atternoon for thcir respective hbmcs-

Many have Inquired durine tho past week why they did not hear n.nything about the state eloction. for-gbttlngr that Massachusetts had adop­ted the alternate year plan—all state ollicers being electod for two years.

Harry E. Hamel. of Manchester, N. H., WSIS a week-end guest at the home ot Mr. nnd Mrs- Walter Knowles-

A very small number attended thc social dance held on last Saturd.'ty by the local post- Tho socond one will bc hold this week and it is hoped a good number wlll attond-

A daughtor was bbrn on Tuesday morning to Mr- and Mrs. Pred Co-b'um.

" The Ilrst degree was conferred on four candidates at the meeting ot Fredonian lodge, 1. O- O- F-. last week. Tho socond will bc conferred on November 17.

Eighteen parents nnd friends of the freshmen .it Fitchburg high school a t tended' the cLisses nnd exercises of freshmen hlght last week Friday evening. After attending regular classes lunch was served In tho homo rooms and thc parents had an oppor-

, tunlty to consult with the teachers If thore w a s any need. In tho assembly room tho children sang under tho leadership of Gullym Miles. Princi­pal Woodbury, Mrs- Judson Cro-ss and Mrs. S. M. Nathan made earnest a p ­peals for closer co-operation between Iiarents and teachers, and between

homo and tho sohool. Thcso mctit-Ings are a great holp In many ways as paronts who could not visit school a t Its regular session can In this w a y got an Insight into their dally work. If parents would visit tho public sohools during tho regular work and

. talk 'with tho teachers much misun­derstanding would bo saved.

BOXBOROUGH News Itcnvs

Chauncy B. Robblns went Tuesday to the Massachusetts Geiieral hospital.

Mrs. Ada Durkoo Is at hcr brothor Edwin's In Acton for awhile.

Mrs, Lewis W. Rlchard.son Is .seri­ously 111. Mrs- Ferguson has como to

•help care for her. Mrs. 'V . H. Furbush has returned

h o m e from her visit ond hcr sister, Mrs. Clark, Is her guest.

Mrs. Hibbard Graves has been sick In bed three •weeks.

Miss Mary Hagor has gone to Clin­ton and Ixsomlnstor. She plans to attend tho Woman's Boarcl annual

Boxborough A.- A. On N o v e m b e r 2 lho subscribers in-.

terested In t h e Athletic llcld met at tho n e w t o w n hall , liev- C. N. Bur­rows, temporary chairman, and Ml-ss Hazel Morso, tempontry secretiiry. and It w a s voted to orBanizc as thc Boxborough Athlet ic association. Tho following otncers'wcre electod by bal­lot: Rov. C N . Burrows, president; G. Wendell Burroughs , vice iiresident; Mrs. G. -vr. U v e r m o r o , secretar-v; Mrs-R. E . 'Whitcomb, treasurer; Burpee C. Steele, Albert Sargont and G. Wnl­do Llvermore. , Tho trustees were appointed ;i com­mittee to invest igate flelds and riport at a meet ing Monday. Novemlior 7. The .associat ion met Monday cviiiin!,' and after discussion of committ ic 's repdrt on fldlds. It wns voted that tho commlttco add two additional nieni-bers to the ir number and further in­vestigate flelds and report at a mfct-ing to be helil at the town hall this Sautrdfty ovening.

All subscribers a r c .-usked to attend as it is important to decide on the Held as soon as possible. Thc aniount subscribed to the fleld at present is $803.

RED GROSS GIVES ANNUAL BUDGET

^ $19,361,657 Ajlotted for Cur­

rent Program of Relief and Service.

MILUOI S FOR VETERAN AID

Medical Aid for European Chil­dren Will Cost $6,000,-

000 This Year.

FAVOR CONTINUING FIGHT ON E U R O P E A N CORN B O R E R

Continuance of tho government's light against tho European corn borer along tho present l ines w a s unani­mous ly favored b y representatives ot important agricultural associations and stato commiss ioners ot agricul­ture andL entomologis ts a l the hearings held by tho Federal Horticulture board. United States Department of Agriculture a t Washington October 11-Decidod opposit ion w a s expressed to the proposal t o abandon the quaran­tine ot Infested areas and wage the campaign on a regional basis.

After the conclusion ot the hearing a resolution w a s adopted by the state representatives attending the hearing authorizing. Commissioner of Agricul­ture Gilbert, of Massachusetts, to a p ­point a .committee ot flve members roprosentini? the Infested ' areas to draw up recommendat ions and present them to Secretary of Agriculture Wal­lace. I t 'was also voted as being tho sense of tho delegates that the Fed­eral government shoirid appropriate $276,000 for conducting the work against tho borer In the various states affected. Assurances wero given by delegates f rom most of the states that g o v e m m e n t m o n e y spent in their s tates would bo matched by an equal amount of s ta te funds for the work.

T h e board indicated that It was in substantial agreement on the plan to continuo t h c quarantine of the Euro­pean c o m borer along the present lines, thc quarantine to be extended to inc ludo- the new areas of infesta­tion; and that it would recommend such act ion to Secretary Wallace, to­gether wi th the. recommendation thai congress bo asked for funds adequate to administer such quarantine. Thc experts of the- Bureau ot Entomology Indicated t h a t such quarantine con­trol of a l l k n o w n aretis ot Infestation could probably be adequately taken care of on an appropriation o t $275,-000, the s a m e amount that was pro­vided for the current fiscal year.

The hearing was called by the board as a result of now Intestallons of the pest recently found a long the southern shore '.of I-aJte Erie and e.xtending westward to within sixty miles ot the Indiana border. With the pest so mcnacoly near the country's corn belt. the board w a s forced by lack of funds to consider tho tibandonment ot its present m e t h o d of quarantining in­fested areas and resort to a regional system. Under this method the move­ment of -poss ib le carriers of the pest would bo permitted within the re­gion, but not to place outside of 11. This, however , met w i l h opposition from all fact ions present at the hear­ing.

A m o n g t h e organizations represent­ed at the hear ing were: The .American Farm Bureau federation, tho State Grange of Connecticut, the Grain Dealers' association, the National Tan­ners' as.socIatlon. the Boston Market Gardeners' associat ion, and the -Nonh-c a s t e m Seedsmen's association- Com­missioners of agriculture of Massarhu--setts, Connecticut and Maine wor. also present, and in addition omch.l :ir-d other representatives from the -- tatos ot Connecticut, Indiana, Maine. Mniy-land, Massachusetts . Michigan, Missis-slppi. N o w Hampshire , N e w .Icrsi>-, New Tork. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. T h e . states of l l l iniis, Missouri and R h o d e Is land were rep-rcsented by letter.

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Wusliliiifton.-^Kxpendltures totalling ?10,3tjl,657 for carrying through Us proKrum of relief and' services in the United Stuten and overseas are out­lined In fhe budget ot the Amerlcnn lied Croijs for the current liscul ycar-TLls total is more than. .$5,000,000 low­er tliun tUe expenditure during the last liscul yeur, when the disburse-ment-s reached $24,492,741, it is an­nounced at National Headfiuarters in u statement calling attention to the necessity of continued Buiiiiurt of the organization by i-esponso to the -An­nual Roll Cull, November 11 to 24, it the vital work ot the society Is to be effectively currfbd oa,

Outstunding among thc Items of the domestic budget is the appropriation of $3,660,2,'i8 for work In behalf of the disabled ex-servlce man and hla family- This appropriation represents the amount alloted to this work from National Headquarters only and does not take Iuto consideration the mil­lions being spent ,In cliuptenj for re­lief oi the WorUI War veteran. It is In the cimpter that thc grcuter uiuouut ts spent In meeting this obli­gation ot the Red Cross, the announce­ment continues, as munlfested by flg­ures of the Uscal year 19'20-1021 when the total was approximately $9,000;-000, ot which $2,092,094 represented the disbursement ot National Head­quarters Willie the remainder vyas the chapters' contribution to this fleld of Red Cross service.

Vast Work for Disabled Chici! among the sub-dlvislons ot

the appropriation for work with vet­erans is thut whicil concerns itself with assistance to disabled men and tyomen iii government hospitals. This item of $1,790,000, an increase of more than $500,000 over the appropriation for the same work In last year's bud­get, will provide those personal serv­ices for the disabled and their families which are Indispensable to supplement those provided by the government. The director of the •\''eteraas' Bureau has recently expressed his desire that the Red Cross should continue and extend these "humanizing, services." Other items of the appropriation for veterans' relief are proportionately In­creased. .Ajn additional appropriation of $469,600 lias been made for Red Cross work in connection with regu­lar Army and Navy hospitals and with the regular Army and Nuvy.

For disaster reljef, the Red Cross has set aside for the current twelve months an appropriation of .$.")4;i,976, virtually doubling the appropriation for the same purpose for the lisoul year 1920-1921.

More thnn $2,000,000 is provided for ser\ ice and assistance to the 3,600 Red Gross ch.ipters by the national organization-

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other items of the domestic budget include $498,546 for miscellaneous ac­tivities. Including contributions re­stricted for special purposes and $768,-600 for management. Each ot theso items represents large reductions over similar appropriations ot the previous year-

Froni a fund of $10,000,000, $5,000,-000 of which was contributed through the European Reiiet Councll campaign and $5,000,000 allotted by the Bed Cro-s-s for child welfare work In Europe, there remains $8,765,108 still available, ol which It is estimated that $6,000,000 Will be required for this work during the current year. For Red Cross participation in the Joint effort to relieve famine condi­tions iu Russia, for flnal work In the China faming, for Junior Red Cross and other overseas activities Including the closing of the old general relief progrnm in Europe .$4,978,000 Is mndo avaiiubie-

In announcing the national budget, thc Red Cross makes it clear thnt the figures do not Include chapter ex­penditures or place nny cash estimate on the Invaluable -service of volun­teers In chapters.

CARRYING ON SERVICE FOR DISABLED V E T E R A A S OF THE WORLD W^. 1 THAT IS COSTING $10,000,000 A YEAR, THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IS HELPING FULFILL THIS NATION'S OBLIGATION TO ITS DEFENDERS. HELP THE RED CROSS CONTINUE THIS WORK BY ANSWERING THE ANNUAL ROLL CALL^ NOVEMBER 11-24, 1921.

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Following a meeting in Chicago, Ootober 14, 1921, ol the presidents of nearly all t i e leading railroads in the country, Mr. Thomas de Witt Cuy­ler, Chairman ot Ihe Association ot Railway Execut ives , made the tollow­lng s tatement:

At a meet ing ot the Association ot Railway Execut ives today, it waa de­termined by tbe railroads ot the TTnl­ted States , to seek to bring about a reduction lu rates, and as a means to that end to seek a reduction iu present railroad wages which have compelled maintenance ot the present rates.

Au application will be made Imme­diately to the United States RaUroad Labor Board lor a reduction In wages ot train sorvice employees sufflcient to remove the remainder ot the increases made by the Labor Board's decision of July 20, 1920 (which would involve a further reduction of approximately ten per cent ) , and tor a reduction in the wages ot all other classes ot railroad labor to the going rate tor such labor lu several, territories where the car­riers operate.

f e w Instead of for the eight" month* Aurlng^w^leh the wage laoreases were in effect, the labor cost, oU'Sn annual basis, would havo boon largely in ex­cess ot 13,900,000,000—an Increase slnco tho government took charge of railroad, wages in the Adamson Act, ot approximately ?2,450,000,000 an­nually.

Iu the light o f these flgures. It is manifest th*t the recent reduction of wages authorized by the iSbor Board estimated at from 10 to 12 per cent in no sense meets or solves the prob­lem ot labor costs and in no way makes It possible.for the railroads to afford a ^eduction in their revenues.

Thousands of Rates Already Reduced Indeed, daring the past year there

have been between four aad flvo thou­sand individual reductions in Ireight rates; On sonie railroads the reduc­tions In rates haye amounted to more than the reductions in wages so far made, and on taariy other railroi«ls the reduoUons In.wages allowed no net re­turn o n , operations, but " merely pro­vided agalust'the further accumulation of a deficit. .

The point is often made that agri­culture and other industries are also suffering the same immediate dimcul. t ies as the railroads, why, therefore' do not the railroads take their medi­cine like anybody else? The answer liea lu sevoral facts:

1. The railroads were not permit­ted, as were, other industries, to make chargos during the years ot prosperity,-making possible the accumulation of a surplus to'Ude them over the pres­ent extreme adversity. According to the reports o t the Interstate Com­merce Commission, the rate of return on property investmen* ot tho rail­roads of the United States for the past several years has been as fol­lows:

RATE OF RETURN EARNED BY RAILROADS OF T H E UNITED

STATES ON THEIR PROP­ERTY INVESTMENT. .

SAT.0RPAy, NO.VEKgWBE 12, 1921

HOLLIS. N^m

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 (fiscal year) . . . 1916 (calendar year) 1917 1918 1919 1920

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derstanding that cbncurrently with such reduction In wages the beneflt of the reduction thus dbtained shall, with the concurrence ot the Interstate Com­merce Commission, be passed ou to the public iu the reduction ot existing railroad'rates, except in so far as this reduction shall have been made In the meantime.

The managements have decided up­on this course lu -view of their real­ization eft the fact that the wheels of Industrial activity have been slowed dcBm to a point which brings depres­sion and distress to the entire public, and that something must be done to start them again in opteratlon.

The situation which confronts the railroads Is extremely critical. The railroaids in 1920 realized a net rail­way operating Income ot about $62,-OQO.OOO, upon a property investment ot over ?19,000,000,000, and even this amount of 62 miUions included back mall pay for prior years received trom the government ot approximately $64,-000,000, thus showing, when the opera­tions ot that year alone are considered an actual deficit before making any allowance lor either interest or divi­dends.

The year ended In serious depres­sion in ^11 branches ot industry, and In marked reduction of the market de­mand for aud the prices ot basic com-

^ i ^ 2 ' „ ' ; t ^ ' i i ^ ° - £ . J l i L ' j : ! ' L - ! ! ' ' ' ° ' ^ ^ I govern "other"'i'ln

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2.46% . . . . 0.32%

It will thus be noted that during the years when other industries were making very large profits, when the prices ot tarm products and the wages ot labor were soaring to unheard-of heights, the earnings upon railroad Investment in the United States were' held within very narrow limits and that they have during the past four years progressively declined.

Roads Handicapped More Than Other Business

2. The railroads are responsible to the pnbllc for. providing adequate transportaltion. Their charges are lim­ited by public authority, and they are in very large respects (notably for la­bor) compelled to spend money on a basis fixed by public authority. The margin within which they are permit­ted to earn a return upon their Invest­ment or to offer inducements to at­tract new capital tor extensions . and betterments is extremely limited However much the railroads might desire, theretore, to reduce their charges in times of Repression, it will be perceived that the limitations sur­rounding their action do not permit them to give effect to broad and elas­tic policies^which might very properly .. - i l , .„_ ^j business

News ItctoD. Thoro was a good attendance at the

community aing l a s t , week Friday mght. Beside the chorus- s ing thcro waa^a piano solo by Mrs. Harry D. Vordor; vocal solo, Mrs. Evelyn Brown Parker; and a recitation by Mr.< Sar­g e n t s Blstor, Mlss Sargont, ot Nashua, Who responded to two encores by short selections. . Tho next sine will OQ a part ot the "entertainment at the next church aujfpcr some time the flrst of December. _ .

Charlea Colburn was a Bolmont vis­itor Sunday.

Mrs. Ellon H. l^oveJoy'ims closed her apartment in the village and is visiting her sister, Mrs. . Elizabeth woroostor. before go ing to Cambrldgo tor tho winter. •

At a meeting of tho Red Cross last week it waa voted to pay for tho school lunches and to give twcnty-flvo dollars, to the fund for community alnging.-^ The Woman'a club w i l l ' m e e t with Mlsa M. Louise Stratton next •Wednes­day.

At the meeting of the Ladles' Read­ing and Charitable society, lost week a letter waa-read from Mfs. May T. Worcester, w h o had been elected pres­ident of the society, - resigning tho omce. Mrs.. Emerson, vlco president, wlll act as president tor the present.

Mlsa E m m a Van Dyke writes from St. Petersburg, Fla., that they arc very pleasantly located for'the winter. She also speaks of tho.-great damage done by the storm there two weeks ago. . ' .

M18.S Hazel LK)ugec, who lias been at home for two weeks sullerlnf; trom an attack of the mumps, has returned to her teaching In Antrim.

Dr. William E. Bouchor of Hartford waa tho suest of Rodney T. Hardy ot Ar l ln^on at hla bungalow from last' week Thursday until Sunday. Mr. Hardy s son, Rodney C . and thrco m e n d s , Seton Droppus, James Noble and Boynton Wilson, came up from Cainbridge Saturday and camped over night on Birch hlll, returning to Cam­bridge with Dr. Boucher and Mr Hardy Sunday afternoon.

Alfred-P. Eaton of Manchester spent the week-end with his mother Mrs R. S. Eaton.

Mrs. Augusta Sweetser of Xashua ^^•as-in town for the d.iy, November 3.

Mrs. Georgo W. Hardy was a week­end visitor In Boston'and Lynn.

The local chapter of the D. A. R \vlll meet with Mrs. William Canavan this Saturday afternoon.

Lawrence Hardy, son .of ifr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy, Is 111 with typhoid fever. I t i s a light caso and the young man Is doing well.

Misa Addie Eastman went to Bel­mont, Mass., Sunday for a two-weeks' visit with her sister. Mrs. Walter L. Frost, and family.

Mrs. John L. Woods passod away on October 29 after a short Illness from heart dlseaae at the age of 77 years, 4 months, 11 days. She leaves beside her husband..a daughter, Mra. C. F. Mead, of Concord; three sons, John v. , of Ardmore. Pa. , G. Her­man, of Hudson, and Winfred H., o f Worcester, Mass.; also, flve grand­children. Mrs. Woods was the aister of the late Hon. Daniel W. Hayden. She leavca also two brothers, Samuel F. and David N. Hayden, of this town. The funeral was held from tho home on Tuesday. Novcinber firat. 'Thero-was-a large attendance of rela­tives and friends and many beautiful floral offerinjrs. Mrs. Woods was laid

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Roads Forced to Defer Maintenance Work

In this situation a policy of the most rigid economy and ot postponing and cutting to the bone the upkeep of the properties was adopted by the rail­roads. This was at the price of ne­glecting and for the time deterring work which must hereafter and in the near future be done and paid for. This is Illustrated by the faot that, as of September 15, 1921, over 16 per cent or 374,431 In number, of the freight cars ot the carriers were iu bad order and needing repairs, as against a nor­mal ot bad order cars ot not more than 160,000, as is further illustrated by the deterred and inadequate main­tenance ot other e<iulpment and ot roadway and structures.

Even under those conditions, and with this large bill charged up against the tuture,—which must soon be pro­vided tor and paid if the carriers are to perform successfully their transpor­tation duties,—the result of operations for the flrst eight mouths of this year, the latest available figures, has been at a rate of net railway operating in­come, before providing for Interest or dividends, amounting to only 2.6 per cent, per annum on the valuation ol the_ carrier properties made by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the recent rate case, an amount not sufl3clent to pay the Interest on their outstanding bonds.

Roads' Earnings Far Below Reason-' --. abie Return

It ts manifest, from this showing, that the rate of return of 5% or 6 per cent for the flrst two yoars after March 1, 1920, flxed in the Transporta­tion Act as a minimum reasonable re­turn upon railroad investment, hat not been even approximated—much less reached; and that the presenl high rates accordingly are not due tc any statutory guarantee ot earnings, tor there" Is no such guarantee.

In analyzing tho ' expenses whicl have largely brought about this sit­uation. It becomes evident that by tai the largest contributing cause Is th« labor cost. •

Today the railroads pay out to laboi approximately GOc on the dollar thej receive for transportation services whereas In 191G, 40c on the dollai went to labor.

On the flrst day ot January, 1917 when the government took charge ol wages through the Adanreon Act, thj lafbor cost of tho railroads had noi exceeded the sum of about »l,468,00e,-600 annually. In 1920, >vhon govern mental authority mado the last wag( increase, tho labor cost of the rail roads was about $3.S98,O0Q/)00 anniial ly . or. It continued throughout ,th

It has been urged upon the railroads that a reduction IU rates will stimu­late traflJo and-that Increased traffic win protect the carriers from the loss Incident to a reduction iu rates. The railroad managements cannot disguise from thenrselves that this suggestion Is merely conjectural and that an ad­verse result of the experiment would be disastrous not only to the rail­roads, but to the public, whose su­preme need is adequate transporta­tion. Consequently the railroad man­agements cannot feel Justified in plac­ing these instrumentalities, so essen­tial to the public welfare, at the haz-ard of such an experiment based sole­ly upon such a conjecture.

Farmers Especlairy Need Lower Rates. It is evident, however, that cilstlns

transportation charges bear in many casea a disproportionate relationship to the prices at which commodities can be sold in the raarlcet and that cxistins labor and other costs of transportation thus Impose upon industry and asriculture generally a burden greater than they should bear. This is especially truo of agriculture. The railroad manacements are feollnB sensitive to and sj-mpathctio with tho distressinf- situation and de­sire to do everything to assist In reliev­ing it that Is compatible with their duty to furnish the transportation which the public musl have.

Clipping. , The following cl ipping' was taken from The Washington Evening Post and will be of Interest to tho m a n y friends of Dr. Fox, who-have known him since early boyhood;, when, he with his mother, spent their .summers at Mrs. Fox' cottage here, whicli is now owned by Miss Lotta Clark of Boston:

Dr. William Henry PoM eyo spec Y'. vviiiiaiii nenry !• ox. .eyo spec- "' r i tcnourg; Mr. and Mrs. Allii Ialist. and a lifelong residfeflt of W a s h - Morse, of Peterboro, and Mrs. Leon

At the moment railroads in many cases are paying 40c. an hour for unskilled labor when similar labor Is working along­side, the ralh-oads aiid can easily be ob­tained by them at 20c. an hour. The railroads of the country paid In 1920 a total of considerably over >1.300,000.000 to unskilled labor alone. However desirable It may be to pay this or that .schedule of wages, it Is obvious that it cannot ba paid out of railroad earnings unless tho industries which use the railroads are capablo of meeting such chnrges.

The railroads, and through them the pcojjic generally, arc also hampered In their efforts to economize by a schedule ot working rules and conditions now in force as a heritage from tho period of Federal control and upheld by tho Rail­road Lobor Board. These conditions are expensive, uneconomic nnd unnecessary from thc point of >1ew of railroad opera­tion and oxtrcmcly burdensotne upon tho public which paya the bill. Thia sched­ule of wages and of working condltiona prevent the railroads from dealing equitably with their labor costs In ao­cordanco with rapidly changing condi­tions and the great variety of local con­siderations which ought to control wages in different j>axts of thc country. The rail­roads nre seeking to have these rules and working conditions abrogated.

The-rallroadn will seek a reduction In wages now proposed by flrst requesting the sanction of thc Itailroad Labor Board. The railroads will proceed with all.iwssl-blo dispatch, .ind na eoon as th« Railroad Labor Board ahall havc glvon Its assent to the reduction of wages tho goneral. reduction in rates will l>c put Into effect.

ington, died at his home, 182S Jettef-Hpn place, Thursday, November 3, after a short illness.

Dr. Fox would have celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday had he lived until .N'ovcmber IS. He was the son of John L. Fox, a surgeon of. the United States navy, and Mrs. El iza­beth Amory Morris Fox.

Hi.s early education was at St. -Mark's Sohool at Southboro, Mass., and ho received preparatory training at the Do Voau.x college. Suspension Bridgo. .N'. Y. He attended the Yale Shellk-UI Sclentiflc school and took the natur.al hi.story courso at Yale. He received hi.s ilegrce of ^ . D. at Co­lumbian—now George Wtishlngton— university in 1884. .-Vtterward he spent two years in the Xew 'York Post ­graduate School and at the Manhattan K.ve and Far hospital.

Dr. Fox was one of tho founders of the Episcopal Kyo. Ear and Throat hospitai of this city and one of Its senior eye surgeons sinco its founda­tion In 1S97. He was its executive oflicer from 1907 to 1920.

Xatural history was one of hia fa­vorite studies. .A.ftor completing the couise at Yale, he was elected a pres­ident of the Yale Society ot National History. His flne collection of birds is now owned by Jonathan Dwight of Xew York and his spider collection was purchased Ijy Cornell university.

He held membersiilp in the Nuttall OrnitholoRlcvl club in the American Orn.lthologlsts' union. In tho Ento­mological society of this city. In the Medical .society of this city. In tho Ophthalmologlcal society and the So­ciety of Ophthalmologists and Otolo­gists of this city, and w.^s also a fel­low of the American Medical associa­tion. For more than twenty years he waa historian of the K. F. R. aociety here. In 1889 he niiirried Mlss Mal-veno B. Ewlng of Xashvllle, Tenn.

Funer.al services will bc conducted at the family residence on Jefferson place this Saturday afternoon .at two o'clock. Intermont will be at thc home of hl.s wife in Nashville, Tenn.

'-^Mr. and Mro John Roblchaud, of w e s t Proton, \iire in town this week while Roy t-)iurM),i and Charles Smith, of FItchbur/;, w i r e at C B Emerson's lajBt Sunday, • • • '•;' '

Announcement has been made of the annual meeting of the Hillsboro County Farm Bureau in Mllford on November 10. All members are urg­ed to to'p'resont and help further a work which has obtained a strong foothold, in tho country and which ia receiving more consideration from tho administration In Waahlngton than in former, years. Co-operation la aurcly coming; all that Is necessary ia to pull together.

Katherlne Warren spent tho week­end with h e r p a r e n t s At the Center.

Mrs. Sherman haa preaented the town with a largo map of Hlllsboro county. ' •

A mill has been put up on thc Tar­bcll lot and cutt ing the timber will commence next week under the di­rection of Gcorge Whlttler.

Several persona from this town at­tended tho motion picture show pre­sented in the town hall in Townsend on last Wednesday evening under the auspices of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics.

Tho windstorm of laat Saturday caused considerable damage In this town, blowing over telephone poles and uprooting trees. Tho flrst snow or tho season fell here Monday.

Tho old fence in front of the house of Mrs. Sarah TarbeU has bcon torn "own and the lawn has beon graded, which adda greatly to the appearance of this flno place.

Hunters are otit* in force this fall and already aeveral raccoons have been ahot. Stanley F lagg and J a m e s , Bell are the expert coon hunters of N A S H O B A G A E A G E this locality, having bagged several ' x^^^^t^-ac flne speolmena thla fall.

It Is atated on good authority that the regular morning passenger train will be restored in the very near fu­ture, instead ot the combination freight and passenger train. Lack of patronage brought this chango of feeling toward tho public.

It Is said tlmt Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mliler, who have been living at the -Mary Chllds house, wi l l . occupy the Fred Jackson farm house for the winter.

Mabel Wheeler, of New Ipswich spent the week-end with Miss Mlnnlo Collins.

.Mrs. Strout. who haa beon vialting her brother. J. O. Reed, has returned to her home in Townsend Harbor.

Mrs. Bertha Thrunc and grand­daughter, Etta Crowell, arc at Fred Hill's for the winter. ^ Mr. and Mra. H. S. Sutherland, of l i w r e n c e , Mass., has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Eaton.

Florence-Mavia, of Sheboygan, Wia Jl,^° il.f'P,^}°y^'^ ^y ^os^'" Babson, tho statistician, spent tho wook-end with Dorothy Heald at W. I. Heald's.

Mr. and Mra. Nelson Caulkins, of Rutland, Mass., spent Sunday a t the Heald farm and brought up with them two purebred registered Hol­stein calves for Benjamin Reed, who has also added two others to h i s ' stock and has also purchased a horse I of Orvan Billot. . '

Harlan N. Hill, general rural mail carrier, is on a week's vacation.

A daughter waa born to Mr. and Mra. Elmer Robblns on Monday even­ing ot the home of Mrs. Robbina' par­ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E . Emerson, with whom they are staying tor the winter.

Guests last Sunday at the Maples •"'ere G. F. Morrill, the photographer, of Fitchburg, and Mlss Nellie Bidwell of the same city; Frank Harper and Fred , Reardon, of Billerica, Mass Walter Burke, of Billerica, who haa been boarding at this place, has re­turned home. Mr. and Mrs. N. R Blaney, of Marblehead, vlalted for a few days last week at thia farm.

Sunday visitors at the Adams farm were Miss Bertha Farnsworth and Mlss Amelia Hall, of Fitchburg; Mr. and Mrs. George Adams and aori Bruce, of Lcomlnater; E m m a Buler of Fltchbtirg; Mr. and Mra. Allle

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ara FVIchi-<rf—GrecirvlH«r.—^Mr.-Hud-Mrs. Newton motored up from Fitch­burg, and Mlas Harriet Kalaer re­turned with them to Fitchburg for a few days' vlalt.

Mrs. Annie Churchill and two sons, George and Edward, have been visit­ing relatives In Newton, Mass.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tarbeil. of Townsend. and Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge Farrar. of Greenville, wcre at C C Barnes' last Sunday.

Clarence Beck, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. John Beck, who has been threat­ened with pneumonia at the Beck farm, ia very much improved in health and ablo to be out again.

Tracy Eaton attended a meeting of the Farm Bureau In Milford last Sat­urday.

Mrs. John Dow, who formerly lived here and still owns the Dow farm above Stanley Flagg's, has passed through a.succcsaful operation In the hospitai in Claremont, where she is now resting comfortably.

BROOKLINE, N. H. News Itcnw.

Miss Katherine Fenneily from Med­fleld has been a recent guest of MTs. Florence Barnaby.

Rev. Raymond Elliott will observe Armistice Sunday at the M. E. church on Sunday. His subject will be "Llm-itators of armaments." There will be Sund.ay echool at the same time and the prayer meeting every Friday even­ing.

Mrs. Hazel Davis recently enter­tained Mrs. Gilpatrlck of Wilton.

Mlss Mary Dodge Is at her home in Bradford.

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'Watching the garden grd'w Is a flne outdoor sport these evenings.' '•"

The nrmy worm seems to bo In fa­vor of universal military education.

"Early to bed nnd c a h y to rise" has outlived Its usefulness. Everything Is up.

Bolshevik propagandists In France nre now being dealt with Sevcrly, Frnnce not hnvlng forgotten its expe­rience ivl th.the commtine In 18T1.

The resentment toward money in politics Is likely to deprive tho tired baslness man ot a favorito form of di­version.

France Is going to follow our ex­ample and deport undesirables, i f ev­ery nation did thnt, where would the undesirables bo dumped?

Judicial opinion Is inclined to the theory thnt it Is a landlord's prIvileBC to make himself ns unpopular ae hc chooses. ' '

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News Itcin.s. The Synthetic minstrel show givon

In the town hall laat week Friday evening pleased a larse and appreci­ative audience and once ngain prov­ed that this town Is ahle to produce shows on a par wilh towns a good deal larger. After the entertainment dancing and a social good time fol­lowed. Music for thc dancing •was furni.shed by a trio composed of Min­nio Collins as pianist. Samuel H. Da­vis, drum section, and Ijoula M. Smith, banjo and mandolin. Sand­wiches, doughnuts and coffco wero sold. Tho proceeds wero. given to Fruitdale Grange.

At the Parent-Teacher association meeting," held In tho schoolhouse Inst week Friday afternoon, Rov. C. I'". Hlll Crathern gavo an able talk on tho Gary system of conducting schoola. If wns voted to havo a den­tal clinic as most of tho children's teeth need attontion.

•Work on the state road In Sunny •Valley is progressinpr. and when fln­lshed will be ono of the best roads In town.

Tho Congregational church la b e ­ing palntod under thc direction of Alexander McLaln nnd when finished win mako an imposing looking bljild-Inp. To brighten up tho insldo a largo attendance la desired e a c h Sunday by the pastor.

J. O. Rcod has presented soveral flno photographs to tho No. 6 s choo l of Governor Brown. Ex-Gov. Koyes , -now senator, Senator Georgo Mosea and Congrcsaman Sherman B u r ­roughs. Mr. Rccd has also In h i s possession a flno picture of Dr. J o h n ­son, w h o built tho parsonage a t t h e Center, and who occupied w h a t la now tho library for nn ofllce.

A. A. Hall is having extensive re­pairs made In hla homc.

Mrs. E m m a Dunbar has had run­ning- water instnlled in hcr homc.

Mrs. Ella Rockwood Is spending a few days In Wilton.

Helen Rockwood has been .1 recent visitor In Boaton.

John Andrews has returned from his visit to Lowcll.

The third and fourth decrees wcrc conferred on a larpo claas In the Granpe on Wcdnc-sday evening.

Mlss Helen Rockwood had the mis­fortune to lose his dog, Texas, when he fell from a woodpile antl broke his back last week.

Mrs. Elvlna Eddy, who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. Myr­tlo Rockwood, haa gono to N.ishua to spend the winter with her daughter. Mrs. Mlnnlo Hooker.

On next Wednesday under the di­rection, of tho Piirent Teachers' asso­ciation Dr. B. W. Butterfleld, com­missioner ot education in Now Hamp­shire, will speak In thc academy building. His subject wlll bc "Brook­lino school probloma." The teachers, •with their acholars, will demonstrate aomo of their newer teaching mothods. At tho closo of the meet ing Dr. But­terfleld will bo glad to anirwer, all questions and criticisms put to him. Everyone wlll bo welcomed. Come and .'Show your interest in your schools.

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On moderate da/s, so nn- little tots to dress in, with-morous upon «he calendar out that expensive prac-nLS"??v*S? .^^3" tioe of opening windows iionnd Oak Pipeless Par- - later to cool off an ovcr-??-"lt i'spers?s, rapidly the, heated house. ehill, from all roonuj, iprith a trifle of any fuei Users highly praise this trait whieh pro'vides OMH-fortably warm rooma for

In bitter weather, too, they find that comparatively lit­tle fuel _ quickly sends a genially moist warmth into every nook. '

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sinccro thanks to tho relatlvos, kind nolKhhors and friends for tho (ympa-thlcs, assistance and beautiful flortil offerlnKR in our recent .b(yeaven)ent.

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Serviee an^ «i»»llty considered, it is, 'waihout ,Vi«stMn, fli« graatest possible value.

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•Jfews Itcnu. " ' Arrangomenta aro nearly complete

for thoannuai concort and ball of Bea­con lodge,. I. O. O. F., at trcscott hall on the evening of November 18. A Hne concert iprogram by Brlgham & PooIe'B orchestra, -eight pieces, la to 1)0 given from eight to nino and danc­ing until intermisaion, at which time ll real old-time turkey supper w^th all tho "flxins" la advertised to bo served by tho committee from AComa Rebok­ah lodge. After this danCIng will con­tinue until two o'clock. Tho Hoor di­rector ia R. P. Maxwell -with Ix>uls ehattuck, Arthur Robblns,' Archibald Pike, Benjamin Brooks, Chester Shat­tiick and Charles Marchant assistants.

At tho. last meeting of tho Mon's club It was voted that a committee be appointed to undertake the expendi­ture of from $500 to $600 voted for Improvements on the baaeball grounds acting in conjunction with the play­ground commission. Permission of Ihe proper, authorities has been graht-

• od and tho work of levelling the land has already been commenced under the direction of D. J. O'Brien. De­pressions arc being Hlled and the work of removing the stonii wall begun. Plans include also the building of bleachers and the introduction of sult-siblo necessities, Including the town •(vater to that part of the grounds. Thc committee are E. A. Gasnon, X. S. Wood, "A.'F. Parker, J. E. Attridge tind C. A. Dean.

Wllllam Lewis of Worce.ster visited over the week-end with his cousin, lilncoln Johnson and wife, .Main St.

Th© regular meeting of the Wom-,an';3 Missionary society will be held at th'o i o m o of Mrs. A. .\. Pelton on Wed­neaday, November 10. ut three o'elock.

.Reports from the recent annual meet­ing at Ayer will be given and readings from the study book on "Western in­fluenco bn Ea;stern education."

Bovoriy O'Brien ia recovering trom the ner\'0U8 shock which she received List September at tho time of the. auto accident in Maine. She has been kept tiujet by aidvico of the pKj-slcIan, but It is thought that she soon will bo able to • resume her studies in elocution

.without detriment to hcr health, as she Is very interested still in hcr atud-

..Je? in dancing and reading and anxious . to resiime thd same. , Frederic .Milan, who haa lately been •acting as superintendent at tho Fecu-loso_oompany a t Ayer. has been pro-

• moteJ'-.to the poaition ot sales man­ager and will take up his rcsl.dencc at

1 Ayer,-having rooms a t the MacGregor residence on Waahlngton street.'

•At . tho regular meoting of Acoma Rebekah lodge on Tuesdiiy evening,

• after the business session, there was a short entertainment, under tho man­agement of the entertainment com-xnlttcc, consisting of readings by Mlss Flynn and various amusing games. Among, thoae who attended the Rer

•.bekah meeting In I.eomlnster S.itur­day evening were Mrs. Arthur Rob-

• bins and Mrs. C. E. Marchant. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Richardson

started'for a wintor south on Tuesday going- to St. Petersburg, ,Fla. They travelled in. company with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Parker and Mlss Mabel, from Dunstable.

utes. The Apache, which 'waa dam­aged at tho • bow, carried about 65 pasaengets, all of whom received a bad scaro, the collision oc^prrlng about 2.30 In the-morning, when all were in thoir stateruoma and most had retired. Mr, Shattuck gavo high pralso to tho efllclent work of the Glducestcr who. responded to the wireless and picked up so many of the Palmer's crow.

The meetijjg of the E:ist Village club wau postponed on Wednc^ay, owing to tho storm, and the same ar­rangements will bo made for next week a t tho samo place, thi home of Mrs. W. B. Chaphian.

Mrs. Mayo Cull returned home tills week from the,Groton ho.-iiiital and la stopping with Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Sherwood, her parenta.

Mlss Molly. Frazer apent two days in town this week, going from heve to Boston on Wednesday and e.vin-iting to leavo for her six months' trHininK courso a t the Bellevue hospital, Xew York, on Thursday.-

The body of Mrs. iJiu'r.a (KimbaU; Dudley, wife of l^rank H. Dudley, hotli former residents here, was brouglu t" PeppereU from Natick on Monday, lur dc;ath, from aiibetes, occurring tlu-ie ori thefirccedlrig Saturdny. Mrs. Dud­ley was tho daughter of Mr. and Mr.s. W. E. KImoall and was 37 years of age. Sho is survived by her husband, the parents above mentioned, one sif­ter livmg iu Groton, Mrs. Elsie Dodge, and a younger slater, Nettie Kimball, living in Boston. Also, by one broth­er, Paul Klmbail, now of Natick, who was in the navy during the late. war. Burial was in thu family lot in the Walton cemetery.-

Other Pepperell matter 2 -and 3. on paKes

Ollpplng. . Tho following account t.iken from a recent Worcester paper eoncerni^ one of our well-known Pepperell High BChool boys and wlll ibe ot interest:

The Holy Cross Debating team. which wlll meet Fordham college at New York soon, was announced yes­terday at the college. • Members in­clude the following: Captain, Francia A. Drumm, 1922, East Pepperell; John E. Carrol. 1923, Providence, R. I.;' George F. Shea. 1922, Slmsbury, Ct.; also; two altcmatea The team was picked by the following board of judges: Rev. John M. Fox. S.J.; Rev.' Charics L.. KimbaU, a J.; Jamea Kel­ley, Francis MuUlgan and Joseph Din-, oen. Thc choice of judges wus made-after debates botween the B. J. F. de­bating society and the Phllomathic debating society. . A debate wlll bc held with Provi­

dence collego early in February and' engagements are pending with Can-isius college of Buftalo. N. Y.. Bos-tort university and Boston college.

Intcr-clOss debates have been ar­ranged and the Holy Cross faculty re­gard the prospects as bri&'ht for a ijig ycar'ln debating. •

aummer home here. Hpent S.unday at Sqtiannacook. Inn.

Mrs. Mary Welch, who has beon for several months with her daughter, •Mrs. Robert Brown of Mt. AireyT N. C, has returned to her home here. Hcr llttio now granddaughte, born in Octor bor, has been named, Monica Alice Brown.

MiSij Avon} Sawlor and her mother havo returned from an auto trip to Boston whero they spent a few daya lost week.

Mra. Carrie Williams, who has been visiting Mrs. George Adama, has re­turned to her home in Wlnchendon.

Miss May Ireland of tho Squanna­cook Inn visitod in Boston for the day Tuesday.'

Throe bt thc.Tumbur boys with their brother-ln-laWi Jiarl Welch, left here last week to go to Florida-by auto, hoping to get work In the section re­cently devastated by the hurricane, 'i'hey had readied New York last Fri­day, where they spent the night at the home of relatives and are continu­ing their Journey at once.

-Mrs. William W. Web.ster of West Croton visited relatives in town last week.

.Mr. .and Mr.s. K. Ii. Brayton from l'ioviden<-e. It. I., s^ent the week-end at tiu- home of ilrs. Oeorge Adania.

Mv. and Mrs. Samuel Wilson, who I'i-rt-iuly i>urclui.sed the Austin house. Jia\e tuken posses.sion of their new hoMu-. their hou.sehoId goods ha\'ing arrived l;ust week Friday by auto.

.Mr.s. I'red Prescott has been called to Athol by the iline.s.s of one of her relatives.

Gcorge Willard of Brookline and Ralph Willard of Helmont apent the week-end ia town.

Mr.s. Graco Cerow- and daughter of Somerville are spendm:? a few daj-s wltll Mr.s. Maria i*iper.

Poppcrcll Branch A. K. C. The annual membership canvass

for tho Pepperell branch, Red Cro.ss. has been under consideration. The drive is from November 11 to 24, in-sive, and as in former years thc en tire town is to be canvassed- The

-I captain appointed to have full charge The regular meeting of the Wom-i of the work is Charles H. Jewett and

an's club wlll be" bn i'uesday, Novcm- | thc asslstajnts to take up the work in her 16, at tho vestry ot the Commun- I tho different sections.of the town are: ity chureh at 2.45. i t is Neighborhood ' Edwin I>. Walker, Charles A. McGraw day and In'vitatlons have been extend­ed to the d u b s of Littleton, Harvard, Ayer, Shirley, Fitchburg, Grotom and Wesiordi - The speaker Is to be Miss Elizabeth Hendry, new home demon­strator of the home economics of the Coonty Bureau, the progr.im being In charge of the homo economics Com­mittee, Mrs. Louise Richardson, chair­man, with Mrs. Alice Bartlett, Mrs. I.,ottie Sylvester, Mr.s. Florence Cook nnd Mrs. Mary C. Morgan. Club tea will be served by a committee of which Mrs. P ; J. Hayes Is chairman, with Mrs. Annis and Mrs. Sanders.

A committee composed of C. H. Miller, J. A. Saunders and Waldo Spauldlng were recently appointed as local members of an emergency com­mittee at the tlmo of tho threatened railroad strike. The committee wiil be • retained as a permanent one to <leal with future emergencies, or take action, if needed on fuel or food sup­plies. At the time of the war Mr. Baunders was a member of tlie Mass­achusetts Fuel administratio}!, Mr. Spauldlng -was chairman of the food administration, and Mrs. Miller was chairman of one of the Ioc.ll Liberty loan drives.

Ralph Greeley from Brookline, N. H ; . has taken the Jewett hou.'e off Main atreet, formerly occupied by Mr. Seaver. and Is to move here aoon with his f.imily. He Is employed at the Nashua River papermllls on the re­pair force.

A hunter for phe.isants, Carroll Robbins, in a half-holiday from the ahop on Tuosday. w.is not successful aa to game, but was rewarded during •Ilia stroll in the woods by coming across .1 patch of Mayflowers, some of which he gathered in fuH bloom, as flne as the spring blojssoms. We shall hear of apple blossoms next unless another anowatorm interferes like the one on M^ii^ay morning.

A meeting of the Hope Circle girls wa.'i held .it tho home of Maynie :ind Doris Blood, Groton streot. on Monday ovening, especially intended to cele-tirate tho birthday of thc latter. A short business meeting was held as usual, and the reat of thc timo given up to games and a general happy tlmo. Mlss Dori.s had several nice gifts, and many good wishes for hajipy returns of the day. There wore lire refreshments, in particular, a deco-

'ratcd birthday cake. The noxt meet­ing of the circle will be on November 19, when a rehenr.sal witl take place at the church for singing at the ser­vice on Sund.iy ei'cnlng. November 20. when tho girls Tnade their firat ap­pearance In vestments at that sorvice. Mi.ss McNayr. loader of the circlo. is nttending to the work of tho crarmont-moking. and It will bo duo to her efllciency that the work will ho ac­complished on time.

On the occasion of his 'H.-i. birth­day H. N. Towcr was treated tn a sur­prise by his family. Whilo nt a din­ner party at thc home of C. H. Jewett. arranged by Mrs. Maltman. .i mcs-sage w.ia received from hia home that hia son Sydney atid wife had motored up from Lowoll. Ho-stcning homc Mr. and Mrs. Tower wore greeted by nhout fifteen ot their relatives who came to­gethor to surprise Mr. Towor and help celebrate. As birthday c.ikos nnd icc cream In quantity wcro provided hy thc ones In the secret, thcro was noth­ing for Mr. nnd Mr.s. Tower to do hut receive the congratulatlonos of rela-tivea and friends and extend to the surprisers the cordl.il wolcome of which thcy nlre.idy folt a.s.aurcd.

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bancroft h.ivc rented the tenement in thc B.mcroft house, Rlvor street, and will probably remove here .about December 1, If the rcivairs are completed at thc rp9ms now being fitted up for their use .is n homo bakery In tho Lawrence block. At present both Lloyd .ind Verner Bancroft arc employed In n blg.bak-cry In Lynn.

The Pago farm on Townsend strcot hn« been purchased- by Jamea Ewlng •of Littleton, who la to tako possession with his son, Kent Ewlng, nnd family, as soon as occupancy can bo given by the parties. A certain part of the furnishings are conveyed with the houso and the sale includes- tho double tenement houae on the opposite lido of the street.

Warden Elmer E. Sh.ittuck, juat re­turning from Jacksonville, Fla., from tho flcaslon of the prison congress, wna ono of the pa.s!scngers on thc Clyde lino steamer Apache, which run down nnd sunk the flvo-mnsted schooner on Capo Hcnlopen on tho Delaware const early Monday morning. Only n brief message ho-i been received hero In tcwn, but Mr. Shattuck regarded it on a: very trying experience to .seo thc grfSif schooner sink in about flvo mln-

Albert F . Parker, Edward H. Bliss and their work will be sub-dlvlded in tho town. Every former member and all who feel an interest in thc work are invited to join this year as Red Cross members. Aside from sustaining tho organization the town is benefit­ted oa forty percent of amounts col­lected come back to the society for local use.

Last year tho sum ot JlOO was voted by the Red Cross for our distriot nursing association and other minor matters for local help received atten­tion. Thc ciuse is a worthy o:io and with the efflclency of those present­ing it there can be no dotibt of its success.

<Y-ater.. The Dorcas cl.-uss held tlieir meet­

ing at the home of .Mrs. Margaret Wilson Tue.sday afternoon.

Mrs. McCloud of Worot-ster has been visiting liei* cousin. Mrs. .Iohn .\nthony.

Miss Mabel I*. Warner of Soniervill.o has been -spending a few days in town.

The Girl Scouts made -$22.70 from their traveling food sale la.st Saturday afternoon.

destroyed. Thc houae waa complete­ly remodelled this past season at a cost of JIO,000, with all of modern Improvomehts. The men oh tho Ab­bot estate had been working on ap­ples in the apple houso, using an oil heater to heat tho rcom. Thoy loft at noon nnd supposed thcy turned the light mit, but upon returning at the ••io.~e of thb lunch hour were unablo to make an entrance to tho building on account ot flre and amoke. Tho flro department wua called and thcy made a quick response. Clinton and Lancaater' wcre also called and both rcaponded.' The only water supply waa a well, the water in which lasted about ten minutes, after which tho flremen could only look on helpless and watch the building burn. A strong west wind fanned the flames and the barn was down in twenty mintrtcs. Everyone worked with all speed and the furniture was all sav­ed. The loss wlll reach the $20,000 mark and is fairly well Insured. About 5O0 boxes of apples wcre roast­ed. Only thc direction of the wind saved tho loss of the buildings of the F. P. and M. P. Abbot farm, which ia vory close, to the Dr. Abbot place.

The family are completely upset over this loss and could not say for a certainty as to rebuilding although it is very possible that they will do so. The light snow helped to avert serious brusli Hres a-s embers were carried a long way into the surround­ing woodlots. Men were stationed about to promptly put out all flres.

Dr. Abbot and family are extended the heartfelt .sympathy of the towns­people for their serious loss.

HOLHS, N. H. News Items.

Mr.s. Eva Marsh and Mr. and Mrs George Woodward of Federal Hill Milford. was in town Sunda.v callin.K on friends.

William B. Simonds has gaino.l so much that hc is able to got to tho barn every day with the a-.-l of crutches.

At a meeting of the society It. Id on Tuesday night It was voted to o.tll i:.v Charles Hill Crathern to be pastnr .,t tho Congregational church. Thechuii ii voted so to do last week.

Tho local W. It. C. held its regalur meeting Tuesday evening and hail as Its guests the families of Its mombois and thc S. of -V. and their families. A very pleasant socal evening was rii-Joycd by all with dancing and gamos. Itcfreshments were served.

Harry D. Verder has been .spoiuliiiK two weeks in Worcester. Ma.ss. Dur­ing his absence Mrs. 'Verder and chil­dren aro visiting her parent.s. Mr. and Mrs. WilUam R. Simonds.

Mrs. Mercian Spaulding roturiu-d l.ist Siiturday from .i two weeks' visit with hcr son, Frcd Sp.mlding and fam­ily, in Athol. Ma.s.s. Mrs. Spauldini; is keeping house for Bertram I.ooko while Mrs. I^ockc is away.

Misa Florence Muzzey is visiting her sister in Boston this week.

Mra. Charics P. Brown is visitins fronds in Penacook this •week,

Mrs. Alwyn Cirlcton went to Mt. •Vernon btst week Thuraday for a fow d.iys' vlalt at Mr. Carleton's home.

Tho Boy Scouts held their regular meeting in G. A. R. hall last week Fri­day. At thc meeting beforo fwo new Scouts wcrc added to their numhor, •RoKCT Cummings .md Franklin Wor­cester.

Mrs. Bertram T.ockc with hor grnnd-dauKhtcr, Miss Rheta l.ocko, nnd George Cleasby aro spending the week with friends In Taunton. Mnss.

Tho Girl Scouts are beginning to practice basketb.ill. They will hold their rccular meeting next Monday night.

Among those who attendod tho Now Kngland Frnlt Show nt Concord woro Mr. and Mrs. Charlea E. Hardy, Mr. .md Mrs. Harold B. Hardy. Mr. and. Mrs. FrancLs I.ovejoy. M. and Mrs. James Walsh, Ml.ss Doris Ixivojoy. Munroo Hurd, Mrs. C. P. Brown. Mr. and Mm. Charics Woodin nnd ('. J. Bell. Chas. K. Hardy nnd son took firat prizo for box of Wagner apples, sec­ond prize for 50 apples of .samo var­iety, also prlzea for plates of Gravin-Rtlncs, Wa^rncrs .ind Jonathans. Thoro was a flne exhibit by the Boys' and Glrla' club, HollLs cluh being nmong tho number.

Election of offlccra at tho Grango ncxt Tuesday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hardy at­tended tho banquet of thc New I' ng-land Hortlcoltural and Fruit Show at Concord held In the new pariah honso, Friday evening, November 4. Ralph B. Hltacl, president of N. H. stato college; wns toastniaatcr and thorp wcro many flne apeakera from all oVcr the state.

Harbor. Miss Blanche B.ildwin of .Maiden

and Miss l.s,ii)el Ewens of Reading spent tho week-end with Mrs. Eliza­beth Baldu-in. They niotored up in Miss Eweri's new car.

On Saturday evening the ladies of the As You Like It club and their families met at eight o'clock and went together to surprise ^Slr. and ^Irs. N. G. Proctor, w-ho. are to go to New York soon for tlie winter. The even­ing was very pleasantly .spent with music and whist. Mrs, Beimett won the highest score of tlle ladles and Mr. Grey for the men.

Julius Paanenon of Fitchburg has nioved into Charles BJorklund's place. Mr. and Mrs. Bjorklund arc .at present in Fitchburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Lew Croucli and daughter May closod their aiimnier home here last woek. They give their flrat program' lor this sea.son in Chi­cago this week, Thev expect to spend the winter traveling through the south, Thcy havo a 21 »-eek.s' con­tract.

Lew t;rouch. jr., iti employed in Ashburnham.

Week-end guests at .Mrs. Charles Hagar's are Charles Mann and Dr. Charles McJJerniid of Boston and Mr. and .Mrs. William Smith of Cambridge.

Tho organization of a new Grange in Dunstable on Wedneaday evening attracted visitors from the patrons of this village. G, A, I'roctor, Haymond P.igelow, I.yman Cook. Mrs. .\. G. I'roctor, .Mrs.Minnio Knisht and l-"l.sie r.ichardson attended.

Bigelow's sawmill will ctmiplete tiie sawing on the Bumstead lot this week. The mill will be nioved to West Towii-aond.'

.Mi.ss .Myi-tio Orey or UrocKton IS at home for the iioliday.

Tlle high wind on .Saturday jiUt many telephonoa out of t'omnii.s.sion. It wtis reiiorted that six poles wi-rc down.

Major Jones, who underwent an op­ertttion at iUirbank hospital htst wt-ei; l-'ridtiy, is reported cnmforttil>]o.

Mrs. Htirrit-t Strotit litis roturnod frotn ;t visit with her brothor t .t .M;i-son. .v. H.

Good progress is lacing made on tho electrie lighting. Polos tire being set on Main street.

A number frohi tiiis village attend­od neighbors' day at Hollis Grange on Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. .•\danis nioved this weok from Hickory farm t.i tlieir oid home. Edge-wood.

Still River. Rev. and .Mrs. William Gussman

and Mrs, "Tenney went to his son's farin in Roxbury. Vt., Monday to be away the rest of the intjiith, and for the next • three Sundajs tile Baptist church will be clo.sod.

A bad sleet storni on Wednesday evening waa bad for the attendance of the supper and .sociable in the ves­try, but there were about seventy nt supper. Mlss Mary Ward of Lancas­ter entertained with several readings and Misa Elvira Scorgle sang, and every number was applauded and extra readlng.s and songs given. Just bofore the entertainmein waa to begiii the electric lights went out. I^ortu-natoly one .gentleman prosont had a lanlorn which w.is lighted, and an­other lantern and two lamps were brought In from neighboring houses in order to get enough light to con­tinue.

Miss Mary Cummlng of New- Tork is the guost of Mrs, Mabel Sprague.

The ice storm of Wednesday night did great damage to many apple trees, breaking off many large limbs.

Mr, Parmenter is closing out his business at the atore .and is soiling the stock on hand, by auction and. wo understand will aoon leavo town,

W. B. Haakell had a carload of cider apples come from Maino this week.

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•Wcwt.' Dr. H &. Boynton haa been enjoy­

ing a brfcf vacation on a hunting trip with on anto party to Colebrook. N, H.', and Mra. Boynton's slater and lit­tle danghter, ' Mra. Hollingsworth. from Sprlngfleld, Is visiting her.

Mrs. I t . H. Willard, who In stopping with hcr mother, Mra O. A. Soaver. spent Tuesday in Belmont. • o

Mrs. Hattie Blood, who has been ns-slating a t tho,hom(». of Mr. and Mrs Chnrles Jenkins, hna returned to hci homc on-the cross, road.

Mr. Ashley of Boston, who haa r

LITTLETON Xt'w.-i Itonis,

Mis.s Hope' Klotrhor >\ioui last woek-t-m! with Miss Boulah KimbaU at Xo%v London, t^onn.

Mlss Florence l^irtlotl was in town last week Saturday.

The Nakraft greeting- cards liavo ar­rived at the Bandbox. St-c ad. next weok. *

Hon. c;harlos W. Tobey of Man­chester. X. H., wa.s j?rceted by a lar^o and approeiiitive juidlcnce last Tues­riay evening;, who wore most onthusi­astic over the vory -wide-awake, stim­ulating address that hart the approved forward look. His subject was "The real business of livinp'' or "What are vou here for and ^vhat are \ ou do­ing?"

Mrs. C. K. Houffhton and hor younp: son, liichard Web-ster, have arri\ od home from tlie hospital.

Miss Mary Kimball spont tho wook-end in KraminRham. and attondod a reunion of her class at Normal achool.

Mr. ftnd Mrs. \S'. K. Conant and Mr. and Mrs. K. S. KimbaU are attendinp tho national ConKregational confer­ence at Xow London. Conn., and the Kimballs are improving tbe oppor­tunity to soe much of their daviKhtor. •wlio is In the woman's collepe of thnt city.

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News Hems, At a special mooting of tho (Irango

on Wedne.sday ovening tho first nnd aocond degrees woro worked on a olass of candidates to tho numbor of flftoon. On noxl Tuosday ovoning tho tiiird and fourtli dogroos will be con­ferred. It is cxpootod th.il the Indies' degree team from Ayor will work tho third degree.

Services will bc resumed at tho white churcii on Sunday morning nt the uaual hour.

At the mooting of thc L'nitarian Men's club on last Sunday evening thc inembers and Invited guests had thc pleasure of listening to Rov. Ar­thur L. Wcntherly. of Roallndalo. who was a passenger aboard thc Ford peace ship, which crossed to Sweden In nn effort to open peace terms with the warring nations during tho war. Ho was extremely Interesting In hla nersonal narr.itlve of this novel voy­age.

A baby girl was horn on Sunday morning to Mr, nnd Mrs. Wnltcr Hazard. • Thc Warner lecture commlttco in­vites tho public to a vagabond Jour­ney around the world with Harry A. (••"ranck on Friday cvcniijg. November 18. Don't mlss.it.

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Firo. ; One of thc worst fires of recent

veara occurrcd .on,/.tonday tifternoon 'Vhcn thc bpnutltiil summer homo of .•5r, and Mra. Charlea H. Abbot \vas

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Center. At the William K. Frost school the

following pupilK are on the honor list for the months of September and October: Roger Hlldreth. Jean Bell, grade 8; Everett Mlllls, Jardlne Davis, grade 7; Elizabeth Carver, Retty Proscott, Angle Parfltt, grade 6, Many others are following closely.

The memb;.'rs of the W. C. T, U, held a most successful and attractive gathering last Saturday evening at the Congregational church. An ex­cellent supper was aerved at 6.30 in the dining room in charge of M rs. i-'red K. Myer and a group of assist­ants. There were about sixty pres­ent, including members and their husbands and guests. Attractive place carda were of red, w^ite and blue. l.ater. in the churclr room, an excellent program was given, Mrs. Charles H. Wright, the president, pre­sided and Introduced the speakers, who were Rev. William E. Ander­son, ^Irs. Hamiiton, county president, who gave a comprehensive sketch of the county work, Mrs. .-i-lta Hollis told of thc work of the White Ribbon lioutie at AVer. There wore violin solos by Mr. Carr, vocal solos l>y .Mrs. Ijlanoy and Mr. i31air and- read­ings by Mrs. W. R. Taylor. The pro­gram closed with the singing of "America." Miss Edith A. Wriglit, ac­companist.

Word comes to Westford of tlio deatli of Williani O. I'atten at his homo in Worcester, agod seventy-nine yoars. He was born in West­ford. lho son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Patten. Tho family- homestoad was on tho Forge Village road, tho build­ings having boon destroyed by flre many years ago. The remaining memlier of this family is Mrs. Sarah J. Conant. of Littleton. Mr. Patten leaves two sons.

At the Tadmuck club on Tuesday afternoon in Library h.ill the pro­gram consisted of threo travel tales by niombers of the club, Mis.s Eli­nor Cameron gave an interesting de­scription of journeylngs in Spain and Egypt and exhibited many interest­ing souvonir.s. Miss Kuth Tuttle de­scribed a trip to Niag.ira I-'alls. Mon­treal and Quebec, and Mrs. L. ^V. Wheelor sketched .in automobile trip to Colorado, outlining routs, outfit and many points of interest in .ind about Denver, iliss May E. Day and .Mrs. Clarence Hildreth presonted children's book week and notice was given of the clothing efllciency class in Lowoll on Thursday of this week. The next nieeting of the club will be at the Congregational church, in ch.arge of the household economics comniittee. Speaker, Mrs. Arthur B, {Hixby, whose subject wiil be 'Spots and renovation." Club tea with Mrs. Williani C. Roudenbush as hostess.

Armistice Sunday at tho Congrega­tional church laat Sund.iy was very successfully observed. There w.is apecial music in charge of Mrs. Col­burn and the decorations of autumn leavos. bitter aweet berries, chrysan­themums and flags, w-aa most efTec­tive. An .almost capacity audienqo flllod tho ohurch and aeats were re­served for the l.egion membors nt the front of tho church. .Mr, Blair, an ovorsoaa m.in himself, presented .1 good message. Another good audi­ence was out in tho evening and tho full choir waa flnoly aupplemented by the young people's orchestr.i, as fol­lows; Misa Klinor Colburn, organ; Misa Marlon Flotchor, violin; Gordon Seavey. cornet: Carl Anderson, olari-not; Eric Anderson, trombone, and I.awrenoe Ingalls. cornet.

Mra. William R. Carver vory pleas­antly entertained the mombors of tho La<lics' Alliance at her homo on Wed­neaday for an all-day moeting. In-clonient wo.ither did not doter soven-teon from attending. A bountiful so­cial luncheon at noon waa enjoyed. Sewing was the ordor of the day and in tho afternoon Misa Alice Howard gave readings of after-war conditions in Denmark,

N'otwithstandlng two snowajorma up to November 0, onc rcaident re­ports gathering eighteen dandelion blossoms ono rocont sunny day.

Mrs. Robert Elliott como-up'from Lowoll on Tueaday afternoon to at­tend the Tadmuck club meeting and bringing with hor aa a guest, Mra. Edith Normington Rccd.

Thc Ladles' Aid waa. entertained for an nil-day acwing mooting nt tho home ot .Mrs, A. H. Sutherland on Thurad.iy.

Rov. .John H. Blalr will occupy tho pulpit again Suhday for both serv­ices at tho . Congregational church. Mr, Blalr was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mra. Frcd H. Myer thla la.st woek,

Tho.so who arc, thinking of making that best of all Christmaa gift to a child—a good book—are Invited to vlalt tho llbrnry during children's hook week. November 13-19, nnd see 'hero the mnny attractlvo booka for i-'hlldren on exhibition. Llata of .In-oroating nnd worth whllo books will 10 given lo those desiring them-also. 'Nothing la more Important tb young

people than an early lovo .of books. Don't buy Just anything you can get get for him. Buy him the beat thero Is."

lawronce Ingalls leads tho young people's meeting on Sunday evening. "What wo owe to our parents" wlll be the -toplo.

Al>out Town. At a , lurK.oly attended meoting of

Mlddlesox-Nbrth Poraona Grange, held In Lowoll last week Friday, the following- ofllcors wero electod for 1922: T. Emory Sinith, Billerica, m.; Clyde Prescott, Westford, 0.; Mrs. Grace Naylor, West Chelmsford, lect.; Sarah K. Mooney, Lowcll, atow.; Lil­lian Snow, l^-ngaboro, asst. stew.; Mrs. Flint, Tyngsboro, chap.; Norman Poavoy, Dracut, treas.; Lulu Hutch­ins, Billerica, sec; Mrs. Maud Gage, Blllerlca,. Pomona; Eva McMaster, Chelmsford, Ceres; M^a.' Whitley, Dracut, Flora; Mra. McDowell, Burl­ington, I, a a.; Charlea Wright, Burl­ington, Bk.; Harry Dorson, Tewks­bury, cx. com,; Mrs. Brown. Dracut. pianist. Among those preaent in the afternoon was Mrs, illnnio Knight, of Townsend Harbor, secretar}- for many years of Middlesex-Worceater I'omona Grange. At tho noxt meet­ing in December the lecturer's hour in the forenoon will consider "Some Grango problems." This la ample notice for everyone to prepare their thoughts In the order In which they occur on thla aubject.

Amos Polley has a gasoline engine sot up transacting business sawing wood in his woodlot on the Rocky Hill road.

Tuesday morning was the coldest yet so far as heard from—18° above zero. Some iirecinots have not wired us yet. but enough has come in by wireless to know that water got bad­ly frost-bitten and exposed potatoes got badiy swollen eyes.

Mi-B. Lucy Keyes will celebrate her ninetieth birthday on November 18. It Is given to but few to reach such an advanced age. Next week we shall hope to have a little sketch of Mrs. Keyea for our column.

Dr. Charles K. Spauldlng, of Fitch­burg, the presiding elder of this dis­triot, visited tho Weat Chelmsford M. E. church laat Sunday evening and ofliciated at the communion service. He had just returned from a trip to London..

Mra. Bertha Preacott Benjamin, formerly of Westford. has been hon­ored by being elected lecturer of the Reading Grange, which has a big membership of over 300.

At tho next meeting of the Grange. November 17. the annual election ot officers will take place.

Donald M. Cameron and Graham R. Whldden. formerly of Westford. are candidates for offlce under the new city charter of Lowell.

The parsonage and barn of the Baptist church at South Chelmstord was consumed by flre on Tuesday morning about one o'clook. Rcv. Mr. Nlckerson and family escaped with the usual loses of a night flre. The flre originated in the barn. The loss is unknown, but is covered by Insur­ance,

First P.lrlsh churoh (Unitarian) Sunday service at four p. m. Preach­er, Rcv. Frank B, Crandall. Subject, "The psychology ot religion and re­ligious ^services. On Sunday the preacher will deal with the relation of the 1.1W8 of religious psychology and typical varieties of religious ser­vices.

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S|)ocial Town Meeting. The special town meeting adver­

tised by legal warrants and other lit­erature got harnessed up for action .Monday evening at the eighth hour of the evening. Hon. Herbert E. Fletcher was unanimously elected as moderator. The lower hall of the town house was well filled in part by those who intended to prevent .-gome-thing and they succeeded by a close vote.

Article 2. To choo.se the modera­tor for a year. Unanimous without deiiato or recount.

Art. 3. To see if the town will in­struct the assessors to m.ake a new valuation to be effective the ensuing year. This same proposition got an ntnrniative nod at last annual meeting but we are informed did not get a new valuation, but seemed to get a rise in values;, but since the taxpayers got tlieir risen tax bills they decided by a clo.se vote that they didn't want .any more arises in their tax bilis on w-hich a new valuation might Iiring.

Art. 4. To see If the town will appropriate J2314..')9 to pay debts of 19*20, It was so voted and we paid our debt in less than two minutes' worth ot time.

Art. 5. To see if the town will appropriate somebody's money for moth work. Voted to dismiss the article out of our minds, thinking be­cause the state, dear aunt, that she is. being one of Uncle Samuel's older children, has unanimously comc for­ward and offered so much worth of moth bu^ extermination.

Art. 6. To see If the town will authorize the aelectmen to Investl-gnte nnd report at thc ncxt annual meeting a list of unnamed roads and streets nnd suitable names therefore. Fverybody voted for this because everybody w-ishes to know wherein a township of 19.000 acres and 100 miles of ronds Just what the legal name of thc part of the town where they resido.

Art, 7, To see if the town will ap­propriate money for school purposes. It was voted to lay this article on thc table until the state, dear mother of thc distressed, gets out from undar the tabic and shows hor hand na to how much she Is going to put In our stocking for Christmaa or sooner if she can flgure out our due.

Art. R. To sec if thc town will authorize thc transfer of nbout H.-IOO of monoy appropriated for tak­ing caro of snow on the roads, being the unexpended balnncc ot an appro­priation ot J2000. Tho meeting most emphatically refused to swap and emphatically refused to change Ita action In an attempt nt reconsidera­tion. How nicely this tallies with the advice ot thc govornor nnd othors, thcrc being 300,000 out of work in Massachusetts, and that it Is up to thc cities and towns to provido for the unemployed. 'Wc feel pr"bud, yes oroud, thnt our action Increases thc number ot unemployed. Wo have got tho roads, got tho need ot repairing, got tho monoy. It hath beon wisely said ot old, "With all thy getting get wisdom." Mr. Moderator, wo movo an amendment to thnt with nil thy getting. Get your bnck up.

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M. J. MAULT 3m52 East Poppcrcll, Ma-w.

Used Cars FOR SALE

1918 CHALMERS ROADSTER

Has .iii.st been overhauled, bargain.

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SKVKUAIi SEOOND-HANI) 0AU8 IN GOOD OONDITION AT

RKASONABIiE PRICKS

Customer.s interested sec

RJi . & W. H. Hackett Telephones

Pepperell 113-3-' Ayer 8256