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Ayer, Mass., Saturday, November 611915 No, 9. Price Four Cents

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Telephone 86-4

AYER, MASS.

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PEPPERELL About T<)\m.

Tho L. K. C. Alliance .(Jranr-h of tho F i r s t pari.sh will hokl an a l l -day meet­inK In tho Unitar ian c h u r c h on Fr iduy, Novombor 12, a t 10.30 o'clock. Busi-no«H meet ing in thc nxorninj;. Box lunch a t twelve o*.clock. In the af ter­nooh a t two o'clock will bo held a neighborhood meeting. Rev. Palfry Perk ins , of Brighton, will b o . the speaker . Members of o u r local Alli­ance a re par t icu la r ly urged to be present .

T h e Center Bird club o f thc J u n i o r Audubon class will meet a t Mrs. AtJ-dlKon Woodward ' s on Monday af ter­noon, Xovember 8. a t four o'clock. T h e bobolink is the bird to bo studied.

T h e XII olub of the Unitarj:in chu rch wili hold a cos tume dance , in Central hall . F r idav evening. Novem­be r 12. Music by Uobbins ' orches t ra , two pieces. Thoso coming wi thout co.-rtume will be fined a small amount . A prize will be given the lady anil gcrit coming in the best cos tume.

T h e Ladles ' aid of t h e M. E. church will serve a chicken pie suppe r Wed­nesday evening. N'ovember 17. fro:n 5.30 to 7.30 o'cloclt.

Mrs. J . K. F a r m e r and sistor. Mrs. H. IJ. Felton. of W a l t h a m . mut'-red to iv.fiijf-rell Tuesilay nnd sj»eiU ihe day Willi Mrs, . . \V. (;i:ii.j. ;inil d a u u b -ter.s.

Miss Kdith .M. I.nwrf-nc- fif Hrook­line. N. il . . sj.t-ni iho wi-ek-eiid in I 'epperell at her 'jld h-.m*-.

Harold and Kenn^-th Whittc-murc f>f N'ashua, e'lmiii:,' Wednesday to a t tend the hun te r s ' dance, w i r e ;,Mie-;ts of th*-MiHxes Harr ie t te and Marion Clapp.

Lewis It. l ierry c)f W a l t h a m motor­ed to Pepperel l .Saturday spending the week-end with Mrs, Clapp and daugh­ters .

Mrs. Adelaide Tarbeil i.s assist ing at the homo of Wal ter 11. Dnd^o fnr a few weeks in Ciroton in the absence of Mrs. Dodge.

Miss Marion K. Clapp i.- convales­cing from an a t tack of tonsilitis and a slight nervous break<lown.

J o h n Mcl*artlan<l. who underwent a .slight operat ion at his home Siin­day, is much improved.

Mr. and Mrs. Uobert .Shorwood on-joyed a visit from tht-ir son Waltor of Bos*ton over Sunday.

HOLLIS, N. H.

Abou t Town. Waldo A. Flag;,' and William W.

Worces te r were in Mason on a hui.t-ing t r ip on last Sa turday.

Mrs. Perley A. I-und. who hns ]if*en qui te ill, is m u r h liPtI«T. It was fear-c<l at first tha t it was an a t t ack of appendlci t ip.

Mrs. Kdith t Mason i Danseieriu of Pepperel l was in town the first of the woek.

T h o j r rammar school was in ses­sion on last S;iturday, makin-.: up for one day dtiring the week that th^y had to enable, the teacher . Miss Cer-t r u d o Hession. to atterid the weddini; of he r b ro ther .

A littlo .Hon was welcomed into the honno of Mr. and Mrs. F rank Scott on last week Fr iday evenini;. It has hoon named Barnard P^irl. Mother and child a re doing nicely.

Rober t Ladd and s is ter Lena were a t home with the i r pa ren i s . .Mr. and Mrs. Georgo A. I-^dd, on Sunday.

A r t h u r Halo and wife, from Wate r -town. Mass.. motored to town on las-t Sunday and spent the day with his pa ren t s . Mr. and Mrs. George F. Hale .

Harold Gue th ing h a s purcha.sed m o r e cowa and is going into the milk buslnwtt* more extensively. Ocorgo Rulo has boon hired to work on tho fa rm.

F lora Ord has re turned homo from W a l t h a m , Mass., where sho h a s been a t work in tho W a U h a m watch fac­tory.

Edward Hills and family and F r a n k H a r d y expect to leavo for Flor ida on November 11. U Is said t ha t thoy ex­pect to t ake tip a pieco of govorn­mont land to u'ork. Mr. Hill 's aun t teachen school whoro they a ro going.

II in reported tha t A r t h u r St rong is p lanning on spending tho win ter In Flor ldal

J a m e s Oikle and wife, who have lived At Worces te r p lace for a fow m o n t h s , a ro p lanning on moving hack to Aycr soon.

Wil l iam W. ^Worcester is dr iv ing a now Overland.

J o h n Rheubleskl , whoso homo was on t h e old O'Xeil p lace on Lovo lane, died t h e r e about six o'clock on Wed­nesday morn ing . Hf had been In poor

hea l lh for some l ime and for the last seven weeks was confined to his bed, tstking very little nour i shment . He came to this town m a n y years ago and was employed by J a m e s Hills, living nea r Mr. Hills' hou.se a t th is t ime. He and his wife b rought uj) qui te a !ar;;e family of chi ldren and h e was a very hard working man. and w o r k ­ed most of the t ime of late y e a r s on hi.s • farm and some for Worces t e r Bros. He leaves a widow and two mar r ied d a u g h t e r s who Uve in P e p ­perell . and t h r e e sons, two of whom. Wal t e r and John , made the i r h o m e with the i r parent.s. The funeral was held on F r iday morning in N'ashua from a Polish Church, and the bur ia l was in the Polish cemetery. He was .seventy-four years of .'igo.

Miss Ka te Weeks re turned to W a r ­ren the past week af ter several weeks

j s[)ent in town at her i»rofossion; I Quite an extensive arnount of ca r -1 j>entering is to be <lone in tho nea r I fu ture a t fJeorge O. Frost & Sons' on ; the Nashua road. A con t rac to r from I I-owell is to have the work in chargt-{and br ing his workmen with h im. I W a t e r m a n , t h e humoris t , will a p -J pear a t tho town hall on Tuesday eve-! ning. Novembor 9, under the ausp ices I of Avabm Uebekah lod^e. 1, O. O. F-j He is to pr '-sent the nionolo^'ue " W h a t j happened at t h e hott-l,"' al.so a coUec-Ition of sketches , sorii^'s and bits nf

ori:-'in;il wit skillfully wovtn tr,i;i-ther that have iivovon a most inlt-restinK f-vcnin^'s ent'-r tain nu-nt in otlier placrs . H'" h;is eicht '-ntirely differ­ent iinj'x-rsr.nations and four cornplete chanu^es of i-...,.tun:e. It is hn],o,\ and exp'-<t.-.l tha t thf-rt' will be a full housf. MS evervoiif will w.'int to have n ;,'ot.d laugh an»l a re sure to enjr>y if thfy come.

The schools in the Ci-x\Xor pract iced a lire <lrin on Thur.sday nuirnin;,'. The bt-n r ang at ten 'i 'clock and the scholars fi uickly trot in line and marched out of thf schoolhouse. This is a nood pract ice ft.r it would prt;ve very In-nelicial tti them in cas'* «jf lire. and \s j)racticefl regular ly in many places.

Mrs. A'lelaiiie I. Bean, ft irmerly of I't pperell . who nassed away last week while visiting her .sister. Mrs. S;irah Baker, in Milford, was known by mnny in this town, as s.he wa.s a very fr'Hjuent visitt)r in tn>vn when her sis­ter and family lived here.

F r a n k Proctor , a sut^imer res ident of this town, addressed the Ctin.ure-ia-ti'>nal ehurch in Lit t leton, Mass.. last Sunday looming . The subject of his address was .about the same as he dt--livered to the Hollis citizens a few weeks auo on the a p p o r t i o n m e n t in cont r ibu t ions to missions.

Mrs. Uuth (Walsh ) Wonds. of Gro­tem. has named IHT little son Kugene Kmerson WCKKIS.

On F r iday eveninc. November 12. the high school basketbal l team (>i)ens the season with t h e Hancock hii-'h school, which will be the lirst k-a^'uc trame in town.

HARVARD

Nows I(<»ni.s. A tair rr-prosentini,' tho .' ovon -i^os

of wom^n will lif hcil in Iho town h.lll on Kriday. Docomlior 3. umler thf. anspiooH of thf' Woman ' s Honcvo-lont .society nf tho C;nnirrci,'ation.il chiir( h. Thoro will bo liooths to rop-roKont tho noods nf tho Infant, sohool-Kirl. swoothoart . Iirldo. wifo. mothor and Krandmother . Suppor will bc .served at six and seven and an o.n-to r t a lnmen t will be Kivon at olRht o'clock.

The .s.alo Klvon by the ladios nf thc l ' n i t a r i an society last weok re tn rned verv KratifylnK resul t s for thoso In CharKO. u p w a r d s of $120 bolnK realiz­ed. Thc cntflrlnlnmont was varied. Thcro were (iKiirc dances by Mlss Grace Morse, Master Will iam KlnK and his s is ter Kvelyn. a doll 's house with dolls of (generations Konc and dolls of modern t imes was a very In­terestlnK. fea ture of tho day.

Mr. Boyd Is takinK his annna l va ­cation \vith Mr. and Mrs. GoorKo .M.iy­nard. As cus tomary with him hc spends most of his waklnK m o m e n t s with dOK and 'Kuii In se.irch of fea th­ered KAm'c.

Tho Y. P . .S. C. K. s ave a Hal low­een .supper and social a t tho town hal l on last week Krlday ovenlnR. Mrs. W a r r e n Wil lard, In charRC of t h c s u p ­per, served salads, scal lopM flsh, fancy cakes and pastr ies . Mlss Annie Reed had tho e n t e r t a i n m e n t In c h a r g e and BtaKCd tho following: P i ano duc t . Misses E the l -Rcld and Helen 'Whlt­noy; readlnKS. Ml.«s F l a n d e r s and Mlss Mabel Crande l l ; scene 1, act 6, f rom "Macbe th , " was r iven with Mr. Wes t a s Macbeth , Jessie Cameron . Pr lscl l la Shorcii and Ca ther ine Russell a s

witches, and "Hectiito." .Mrs. Royal, appor t ions Lloyd KiiKlos, Loona Gu-brleUon a n d Andrew Haskell. Fol­lowinK th i s Mlsa Madeliiio I ' a rker ren­dered a vocal soio utul for an after­piece a pan tomime , "Caroline call­ers." a very ca tchy ploco. Halloween Kames were enjoyed unlil ten o'clock.

Guests a t Misa Kmily Hili lrelh's for over .Sunday were .Me.s.frs Alcott and Bruce Flwcll .

Thfi movinK pic tures are KrowInK In favor with H a r v a r d audiences. Mr. Dadmun IH showinK. besides rcRUlar reels, .some Kood slides of his forclun tr ips .and sf>mo local slid*..*! takon dur ­inK his s u m m o r «tay hero in town.

Mr. and ' Mrs. EdKarton enjoyed a visit from thei r daush t e r , Mlss Bea-t r i c e EdKarton. who is 'a t Laselle, over last Sunday.

Xewton Hacon, of Willi.ams colleKe. Is a KuesL at Dr. Royal 's thi."* week:

Mrs. Eli W. Hosmer left on ' Wed­nesday tor a s ix-weeks ' visit with hc r daUKhter, Mr.s. Herber t Sawyer, In LaGranKC. 111.

Tho llrst l ' n i ta r ian social and sup ­per for th i s season will bo Klven at the town hall on' F r iday eveninK. No­vember 12. - Supper as us.ual a t six and seven o'clock. The en t e r t a inmen t will be in charKe of Miss Evolyn Fa rnswor th and will be K'ven a l elKht o'clock.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Branson have c losed . the i r house on the Li t t le­ton road and will reside for the win­ter a t Mr. Corey's farm on the Oak hlll road.

Mrs. Carr ie W. 'Hus.scy diied this week F r iday morninK. T h e funeral will bo held on Sunday af ternoon at 2.S0 o'clock a t the home of W. T. BaKstor.

Still Ulvcr. Rev. F . A. McDonald, a reprosonta-

tivo of tho Anti-Saloon loaK'ie. Kave a very InterestlnK addre.ss a t the union t empe rance meetinK in the Baplist chu rch on last Sunday eveninK- Ow­inK to the bad condition of the road between Still River and Harva rd oaused by buildlnK the s ta to road thoro,,were but- two present from t l a r -vard,

Kred W. Batoman and si.ster r e t u r n ­ed from the i r s tay in East Jaffrey on Tuesday.

Mrs. j onn io Willard and Miss J a n e M. Read a t tended the W o m a n ' s ForeiKn, Mission meotinK of the W a ­chuset t Baptist association in Ayor on Thursday. Miss Iiead went from the meetinK to visit friends In Gardner .

The I..adles' .Mission circle met with Mr.s. William B. Haskoll on last week Frid.ay .afternoon. Tho old board of oincers were re-elected for tho com­inK vear. and it was planned for each member to try and earn one dollar for mi.s.slon work. EnouKh patch work was cul to be sent to Indians In tho we-M for them to m.ake a quilt.

-Mrs. Morse has visiled her sisters in Worce.ster a fow days this week.

Mrs. Ju i i a Koves has been visitinK with .Mr. a n d .Mr.s. W. li. Haskoll this week.

TOWNSBND

i rur lmr. .Mr.s. .Vnvos l.-ft tho Groton liospiUii

Thur.sdav 'afu-rnooii f<ir her home, .^achem vill.i. AllhouKh it will be ynif timf boforo she is able to wnlii. .Mrs. N'l.yos lioro tlie j ou rn -y wull and oxp.-rioncori no set liack.

Stil lman .\nilorson siiont .'-'umlay ax his home in Dorchester .

.Mr. -•imi .Mrs. i lalph Blako, :iocom-ijaiiiod bv .Miss .Mvra .Morris. Mttoniiod the .M, .v, (' ar.il Tufts fooilial! Kame on Saturday at .Modford.

Thc neiKhbors at tb.- fain- and vi-oinitv Iiaid their compl iments lo .Mr. nnd .Mrs. John KriOWlton Weilnosday evenins in the form ..f a serenade.

.Miss Hester Burd.-It. acci .mpaniod by a friend, r e lu rned W.dnes . iay from Brooklyn. N. Y.. whoro sho has lio.-n visiting for a week.

.Miss Arlino Clarko was a mid-week Kue.sl of Miss Dorothy Sniith.

The As You Like It cluli was pleas­antlv en ter ta ined a l Walnut «rove by .Mrs." C. A. .«mith. assisted by lier (lauKhter. Mi.ss Dorothy Smilh.

Mrs. Abbie Lewis Bruco, v,hn al ono tlmo was a teachor al tho Capo, was a recont Kuest of hor old schiiolmas-ter, -Mrs. Jenn ie Soarle.

Howard Doran and Gilman Conanl . Whatever the i r success in himtlnK last Thursday , re turned humo with .M.ivllower blossoms.

(•lifton Bake of Wollasiun l.s a KUest of his bro ther . B. C. Blako. al Hickory farm.

Mrs. Rcavv and ohildron aro visit­inK in Host.in and vicinity.

Mr and Mrs. NuttinK of I.eomin­stor and Mr. and Mrs, Walker tit SterllnK were fue.sts at Glenwood la.s-l .Sunday.

Misa Mar\- Doran of KitchburK is a KUost of lior brothor. L<.ren'/-o Dor­an. at DluKlewood.

Mr. and Mrs. C^olcord of Molroso were Ktiesis a t Soven IMnos on Tuos­day.

.Mr and Mrs. T h o m a s Keefe moved thetr household Koods lo Worcoslor this weok and Chris t lebrook is au;.iii f.ir .s;\le.

On lasl Sa turday oVeninK the Social club eave a Halloween par ty at the parish buildlnK. Hotween seventy and elKhty Kuesls woro present a l.arKc p r C o r t l o n of them JolnlnK ' ^ e .KObUn march tha t opened the e v e n l n s » fun. Ins t rumenta l musie. sonKs and r ead ­inKs fallowed by halloweon slunt.s m a d e a p r o s r a m varied and fuU of Jollity.

Corner. AccordInK to ofllcial P"»<"<'''''• "J"

de rs t h e rura l route fn.m the. olTlcc will bo chanKod as follows; <;"" ;" '^"J-Ins November K.. instead of Jhe ca r ­r ier comlnK to t h e ollb <; wi h the ma collected on Townsen.l hill ho will tu rn a t Dobson's corn.-r and no to Brookllne street , then " " " , ; ' " ' ' „7° up DIxon bill and re lurn hf/"'^f J-"' InK to tho i-tllce. On the ' - ' i ' " ' ' ""'"V*; Instead of ro i r ac lns " " ' " ^ 7 ; . ? " a n d will drive w.st to c^''^^ ' ^ " ' r ' ' \ vos t h e n tu rn f. ri«ht «"<' ' ' " ^ , " ^ ^ ^ V h ^ ^°^rTotn^:'.'';-t.;sic;''^a,'d"'co',i;c ^ I S ^ a l . l b b ^ ^ . ' ^ e ^ ^ ^ ^ o

&i„TM^..r:^5^?-: -^'i^J^it^^^ii'n^l^^t.Sun day -morninK Mr. s t ru thers- subjgct will bo "A m a n . by "•••,.«75:?, ° ' ? , ? ' l c In t h e evening the c K, '""'<= * ' " , J^^ • T a s k , t h a t a rc wt,.tinK for thc

1 Varsity Six Hundred Overeoats The right Overcoat for a Young Man this Fall is one of the new Hart, Schaffner & Marx Varsity Six Hundred

models; there.are a number of them; all good, snappy, live designs. ;

PRICES $16.50, $18.00, $20.00, $22 .00 OTHER MAKES $10.00, $12.50, $15.'0O, $18.'00

Varsity Fifty Five Suits Don't fail to call in and see our Varsity Fifty Five models in Suits. ..We have them-in Glen Urquharts, Tarr-

tans and Checks for the Young Men, and more subdued shades and patterns for older men.. HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX $18.00, $20.00, $22.00, $24.00 OTHER MAKES $10.00, $12.00, $15.00, $18 .00

GUYER HATS WALKOVER and CROSSETT SHOES

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Bros. Opposite Depot

AYER - MASS. chu rch of Chr i s t . " Leader. Albert Cowiand. Th i s Is ConVooratlon serv­ice.

SHIBLEY Center . ;j

J o h n H. p-arrar a t the .North has a po.sition with G. H . .Has.sam at .\yor. His place In t h e mill has been taken by his faiher , H e n r y l-'arrar.

F r a n c e s Sargent a t the .Norrh, who was th rea tened wi th typhoid fovor and hea r t t rouble , Is recoverlnK from he r illness.

.Matron's Aid society will meet ..n Tuesday af ternoon, November 9. at tho home of Mrs. -A. W. Wood at Woodsvil le.

The secretary 's repor t a t the meet ing of Shir ley Granye on Tuesdav eveninK showed t h e Grange lo be in excellenl condi t ion and tho averaKe a t l endance very good. T h e p r o g r a m for the lec t u r c r ' s h o u r w a s n o t car r ied out as had been p lanned , bu t t h e proKram neve t lhc lcss proved to bo vei'y pleas­InK, consisting of Honga by t h e young men and ladles of the GranKe. At te r t h e business meetlnK. Kames and danc ing wero In form wilh .Mrs. Ora Adams . Mrs. Ger t rude Fa rnswor th and Mrs. Bessie B u i t o n lakin.K tu rns a t the piano.

The San Franc isco , a river of Brazil. is 1-100 miles In length, and was so cal led ' because It -was discovered on the feast day of St. Francis .

Xew Adver t i sements .

Extra .Fine GRANULATED SUQAR 4^^^ lb. Limit. 12 pounds; "X-hen purchasod

wilh J2 o rder ; flour and sugar ex­cepted. Xo dealers supplie.l.

Beauty Evaporated Milk 10c. size 7 d Kopular ')0. value 3 c

Uneeda Biscuit, per packaf-'i' 4c

Baker's Cocoa, 2'2c. (;aii 1 7 d . \niericsin .Sardines, in Oil. Sc. can 1! i/,<:

.-\Ia.sku I ' ink .Salmon. Idc. cati «',<;<•. •Mataroni o r .SiuiKliettl. 10c. pkg. Tc.

Sonr Mlxtyl l*ickl(.s o r Chow. 10c. j a r 7'/(.c.

P ickl ing Spit«, reK. "c. pkg . I'Ae. Wlii te o r Cider l>iirc Vinegar

10c. bott le Tc-Doublc Dip .Matclii-s, 5c. box ita.

iiakInK Soda, larKo 5c. pkg. :)('. O. K. I ' l i rc Coc'cxi 20c. can I'ir.

lOo. can 'iv.

Flake WMte Flour ? e . 7 5 bbl. Small bag 4 0 < ; large bag 8 0 <

Best Teas 2 9 < lb Best Cofifee 1 9 < lb Choice Blend Ceylon Tea,

Oolong or English Breakfast. 25<J lb

60-OpallV6 GROCERY STORES COMPANY

Merchants' Row Ayer

IXX)K T O u s

when your au to b r e a k s down, won't run proper ly , or you mee t Awlth an accident , for we will m a k e - t h e ne­cessary r epa i r s (lulckly a n d reason­ably. • Eve ry one, no m a t t e r how careful a dr iver he niay bo; la bound lo have a b reakdown some t ime , and when t h a t t ime comes, r o m o m b e r o u r number—1B7-2, Aycr.

YATES* GARAGE Alfred Yates, Pyop;

Maple Street Aynv ]KM)I,

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FOR MEN AND BOYS

Dressing well means wearing correct clothes—clothes that ' are suited to your particular needs. ' \

Good clothes are not of necessity expensive clothes. Evenv- > all our moderate priced garments are correct in style and they< . - v* are well tailored. -'s-'

Good tailoring is as essential to good.clothes as in goo,d fabrics. -; ^ -^^ ' —both must be good. . , '.",^.?^'!^

Try one of our handsomenew Fa// SuiVs or Overcoats ancf"' ^you will at once appreciate just what we mean when we say

CLOTHES FOR MEN WHO CARE

We want you to see and know about our correct as well as good clothes.

HANDSOME FALL SUITS ^ 1 0 , $12, $15, $18, $20 and $ 2 ^

Underwear Every kind of Underwear for Fall and

coming Winter for Men and Boys.

Double-breasted Fleece 50^ lieavy Derby Ribbed 50i?J Heavy Cotton and Wool 50^ Wright's Health Underwear 75^, 95^ I<amous Glastonbury Wool Underwear

$1.00 to $1.50 Boys' Fleece Boys' Wool Men's Union Suits Boys' Union Suits

2 5 ^ and 29<J 50d

$1.00 to $3^00 50^ to $1.25

Fine quality of Derby Ribbed Shirts and Drawers. A regular $1.00 value, bought at a sacrifice jSrice—seUing at a sac­rifice price. Good weight—fine quality of yarn and well made.

WORTH $1.00 FOR 6 5 ^ A GARMENT

Sweaters This is the Sweater Season and our

stock of Sweaters is now at its best. We ' carry only the best makes of Sweaters for Men, Women and Chiidren.

Coat Sweaters in all colors—some with collar, some without, as you may desire. -

Have you seen the latest thing in Sweaters—the new Red Sox Sweaters for men. It has something new in way of a collar that has taken the popular fancy. Come in and look over our stock of Sweaters.

MEN'S SWEATERS $1.00, $2.00, $3,00 ' $4.00, $5.00, $6.00, $6.54V; 7^0<I^ '

BOYS' SWEATERS 98^ , $1.'S»0, $ZM^, Vv!

WOMEN'S SWEATERS ."l

$3.00, $4;00, $5.00, $6 .06

MISSES' AND CHILDRBU'S SWEATERS \ •*

50^, 98$^, 1 .50 and $2 .00

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Mackinaw Coats Mackinaw Coats are as popular as ever. We have an unusually good assort­

ment in desirable plaids and plain colors. Some are cut Norfolk style iand s.orAe plain—all have a belt. We carry the jtistly famous Patrick Mackinaw, one of fhe best known of all Mackinaws.

MHN'S MACKINAW COATS

BOYS' MACKINAW COATS

$5.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00f ^10.00 and. $ $4.00» $5 .00 iifkd

Store Open on Mohday, F'riday and Saturday Evenings Geo. H. BEQWft;!

frnm PAOB TWO S A T U E D A Y , N O V E i M B E E 6 , 1 9 1 B

O N E D O L I I A B AND FEPTY C E N T S P E U Y E A K XV ADVANCE

G E O I I G E : II . .U. TL'nXKH, r u b l U h r r JUII.N II. TL'K.NHH, BcUtor

Wo publ l sb tlio fQlIon-Ing P a p e r s : Tu rne r ' s Pub l i c .Spirit, A jc r , Mass . Tbo Groton t a n d m o r k T b e PeppereU Cliir l«n-Ad»crtlscr Tbo Li t t le ton Guidon The Westford Ward.sman T b e H a r v u r d HUIslde Tbo Sblrley Orac le The To»-nscnd Tocsin Tbo Brookl lne (N. H.) .Beacon Tbe HoUls (N. H.) Homes t ead

Kotercd all secosa-clasa mat te r a t the poitotllce a t Ayer, Maa»..

Suttirdit.v, November 0, 191.1,

WESTFOED

f e n l e r . .Mrs. Iv.'tn L. Kcnnoy- re turnet l to

hc-r home, in Ari in^ton the lirst p a r t ot xhe weel< after a weeic*« visit with ht-r .niother. Mrs. Liliian Luniiiert .

.Mr. unci MrM. H: S. Stiles a re ncw-oiimt-rK to tKWn. havinK rntivetl into t!ie cot tage house on Uejiot s t ree t ttwr.tHl iiy Mlss Mary Morin.

.Mrs. Helen K. l'"ro.st tell one t l iy Ihi.s week. get t ing bruisetl ai.tl , Ki'.,-ti<en-uj>, esj>ecially one a r m .

"With tho increasetl husint^s.s a t the local e,\chanj;e Mrs. Isles has an atl-tlititjn.'tl he lper a t the switchtio.artl. Mr.s. .lohn Mclnto.sh, of I ' a r k e r Vil­laKe. is the new askislaiit.

A j/iihlic pay stati ' in h a s been in-••talli-ii at Hrook-<i(ie s tat ion ' b y t h c tt-lt-phone ct>mpany. which llils <'L need that has lieen felt ftir a lonn t imo.

.Mrs. Mary K. Heywood's t e lephone , has been changed to a pr ivate li/ie. C9. • Dr. .anrl Mrs. \V. H. l iennet t wero ' rect-ntly in town, callitiK tin old friends. Dr. i:»-nnett, who is r e m e m -bereil a s f.ne nf Westftirti 's fo rmer jihvsiciaiis. is tiow locateti in Ilytlo I 'ark.

Ilev., .and Mrs. DavitI \V;iIlat-t- a re a t Pre.stiue Is!". Mf., wh*-re Mr- Wallace has been inviteil t<i preach the a n n i ­versary sermon on .^umlay a t the i r fif.tleih anniversary celebration. This was Mr. Wallace's former pa.ftoratc bfftiro ctimInK tt, Westford. T h c church , bnililinn there was dcstroyi^tl by lire and has been entirely rt^built .-tnti th is celebration retb-tiicates the r.ew buildin*.'.

Amtmc the decorat ions a t the Con-;:rt-^'ation;il-ehurch bantjuet on Tues ­tlay evening were a nurnber t,f v.ases of beautiful yellow chry'santhemurris con t r ibu ted by .Mrs. I.ucy .M. Keyes, who is past eiKhty-ftiur yt-ars old. had raLsed these flowers herself and had been c.arofitlly tentlins; t hem for th i s occ.asi'pii. .Mrs.' Koyes wa lks the dist.anctf ot ovi-r a milo to church oxx all S'lindays th.it the. w e a t h e r Is not toil st'.rrny, which is a p re t ty iixofid recorti ft.r a wt-rnan *if her years .

Mr. anil Mrs. I'lckerin*;. whti have been Jiving' for sevenil rnt>nlhs iu i-lenr.v 11. K«-y.s* tt-neinent in tht- .dd .academy builtUriL'. have movt-il frtim there .

A sm.all iittrt-able cotl.-iu'*-. owned by Janit-M Scott, was tnov.-d tri.tn l.ind on Wil l iam K- (Irffn's i.iaee up t.vt-r Westforii lull to l.uid near -Arthur F..

commi t t ee p r e t t y well, b u t n o t to i h c l r limit. After th i s pa r t of t h e i i rogram had been a t t ended to 1.. \V. Whee le r in t roduced t h e ever popu la r t c i s t -mas ter , J o h n I*. Wright , who fulfllled his par t to the sa t i s tae t ion of a l l . A duet by Mrs. Colliurn tintl .Mrs. \V. L. Woods "On the moonli t s t r e a m " was lirst enjoyed, a f te r which I 'rinciiial William C. I touflenbush was intrti-ducetl aiid Kave an euj i i jable talk tin his recent e^tenhive western t r ip, con-llninK his a t ld ress t " wha t he te rmed as tht. " P i k e s i't.ak rt-j:ii>n," includinK famous t,Id i ' ikes I 'eak. f'.dtiratlti KprinKS. Manitt iu. t : a rden of ahe Gods. Cave of "the Wintls. etc. .•>lr. Ktiu-d e n b u s h ' s ta lk was much enjo.ved initl was a ck'iir present . i t ion of sonn- of t h e wonders ami beau t ies of this rcKion.

A musica l selection by .Mrs. Col­burn . Klinor Colburii . .Miss'.Mc.Master. .Miss .Sutherland and .Mrs, Wootis was next enjoyed, a f t e r which Kev. .1. C. Alvord, of Li t t le ton, was ll i troducetl and told of ;i tramijiiiK t r ip of over a thoUKind miles ihrouKh jiittturesiiue I ta ly t a k e n by himself and Mrs. Al-vor<I In t h e s u m m e r tif i y i 4 , and its In te r rup t ion by t h e Kritit war . Uoth. Its Horlou.-; antl amuslnK p h a s e s were most .skillfully d e l i n e a t i d by Mr. Al­vord.

A deliKhtful so lo .—When t h c hear t is younK." by .Mrs. Woods, was n<'.\t Klven, a f te r wl-.ich liev. Williain hi. Anderson, t h c la.st spe. iker of t h e e v . -ning, was introduci-d and Kavt> d •-scrlption, exper ience anti anect lo te tif pas tora l cxperie-nce.s in his nat ive West VlrKlnla, presented wi th Kenu­ine s o u t h e r n Ilavor. .Mrs. Co lburn Kavo t h e closinK ;nu.';ical n u m b e r In excellent vt.-jce. .Miss .May Atwood was tho a c c o m p a n i s t of t h e eveninK. T h e commi t t ee in cha rite o t t h e ban­quet wer* Mi.ss L. Ii. . \ twood . Mrs. .S. L. Taylor . .Mrs. D. I.. CreiK. Mrs . A. If. l i u r n h a m , Mr-s. A. K. Uav, Mi:;.-i id i E. LeiKhton, .Mis. S. li. Wat.sti-i ai:d Mrs. L. W. Whee le r . The eomin i i ; "" to r the e n t o r t a i n m e n t .were .Mr. Wal­lace; Mr, Houtlcnbu.sh, .\Iis.H .Mi;-. At-wofjd, Mr. Kaftor . -Jtilin I'. \\"ri':ht and L- KV. Whee le r - Ab..iii nfty dol­lars was real ized f roni t ' r . " "\< nt.

women, or suffraKe vpte., re£Ultcd a s follows: No 5C, Yes 01. It Is seen by t h e vote on the-suffniKC question In th i s prec inc t tha t t he male mind was .about evenly divided on this Im­por tan t quest ion.

Mrs. J o h n H o r a n and son Harold , of Charlest t iwn, w i t h .Mr. nnd Mrs. T h o m a s Klynn imd son Vincent, ot Tewksbury . were a u t o Kucsls here r e ­cently. .• '

.Many from here a t t e n d e d Iho hlRh school dance in Westford t,n KritUiy eveninK tif last week and repo i t a very enjoyable time-

Two btiwIiuK t e a m s of this villarto. th.at a r e classllied a s "Hanson ' s Hus t l e r s " and "Ha l l ' s Heave r s . " play­ed a ma tch Kame at the KlttredKe iille>'s in L o w e U o n last Saturiljiv eve­ninK antl t he Htis t lers tr immotl the i r opponen t s to the tune of l.'iUl to 1257. Those two t eams w'ill meet aKain a t t ho salllo place on .'Saturday evonlnK. when the Heavers hope to tiirn the tables . The wlnnliiK t eam In this se­r ies wiW then bowl wi th a l eam com­jiosed of We.stford bowlers for the town championsh ip . It is iieodloss tti -say tha t Ihe l a t t e r ser ies will p rove to be the mtist excitlnK. tor when West­fortl and Granl tovl l le . meet in any b ranch of sport tho Kaliery Is a lways suro of Ketting the i r money 's worth.

The ".Machinists" antl "LcdKemen" a r e .scheduled lor a Kame of football he re .Saturday afterno.in and tho Kamo proml-ses to be Inti-rislinK from s ta r t lo linish. .N'o hard or fast rules aro MpeclJlod for this Kame. tind a s H a r r y Har t ford , of Westfortl . Is ent i rely neut ra l , he has been the u n a n i m o u s choice for referee. T h e Kame will bo calletl at twt>. o'clock, .but it is on--tirei;.' bt-,\<mtl us to -sjiv how or when it vWlI linish- A IarKe crowd t>f i(.(.t.-rs will be riKht t h e r e on the side ]int-^ to cheer the i r frivt-rites.

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Alxiut T o w n . -Miss E l l a WriKli;. ^^!l•l has li.-t n

SpendlnK t h e s u m n i ' j - ; . u tumn tlays at he r summor-autui r i r i l io i ie at Drook-side on t h e ' L o w e l l :- : id. re turnet l t.. he r w in t e r h o m e in c;"-. elanil . u h i o . lasl .Sunday.

Miss M a r y L-aw ar.il .Mrs. Stt-vt-ns. of Xa.shua. were visiturs Wetliiesday a l Mlss Kmily Kletcher 's a a d at the Old Oaken Bucke t .

T h e Iioston antl .Mair." ra i l road oli-st-rvetl Suntlay relaying new rai ls frum l i rooks ide . to- sh" lu idKe a; Stony Brook, and on Suntlay it is expected to comple te the joli xo Westford.

Pojicorn ;^rtiwn i-n the .^ttiny lirotik Valley h.as some s t a lks wi th ftiur ears . A f a rmer of lar;.'e exper ience in ra is­inK popetirn .s^iys: "Thret . t.-irs on ti sinKle s ta lk was thc l imit ." Thn- ' - or four s ta lks show ftiiir t-ars antl tinc-promi-'?cti live, whitjh was mort- than could thr ive . .

At the election on Tuestlay .McCall polled 22t7 votes. WaLsh IL'S.. Harry 119. CoolidKe 2:i0. Sena to r Kimbal l 2.'iS. J i u r k i - 1 1 1 . y e s f o r s u f f r a ; ; e DIS, no IHl. T h e I^rtniksitlt- iirt-cinct of-flct-rs were Htiii^thton G. tisirotitl. J a m e s H. O' l i r ien. Char le s S. Kti-wards , Henr.v W. t>"Hri"n.

Wal lace . Wootiartl. of Hyde I ' a rk . .'I ftirmer rt-sitit,-nt in lowii at tht- .V-aii-nasset t f.'irm. h a s !it-.-ii pt-r.i mbulaliuK

tlay ia.st week, tht? town for oltl frieiidshiiis. n cha rye of tho 1 T h e next mii-tini; 'if West Che lms-

I ford GraiiK" wiil tie held on Thnrsi lay a conference, tti ' t-veni.MK. .N'oi'einbt-r 11.. .'it Histor ic

for a sevsi.ii) of j hall. Then- \\'i!I in- nn iMfnrrn.il

of tht? L'irst Darisli i:i tio- v the churcl l oa Mi'ifliiy .v.-.-i;;ht o'clock. .\ll ii,;< n st id par ish :tr" iiivitetl.

Tht- L.'idit'.-' .sJcwi.iL,' circle and lir.'uich -Mliance i f Ih" l-'irst I'.irish Ull! met-t ni'.xt 'i'linrsda.\' .'tftt-rnoon at i.il). .^iilijt-ct lur t-ons-jif-ratitin. " I . ib-

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\ 111 '.-ii .ill whti have | '1 tlie best shtiwinj; j tiiwr-*s histor>'.

inK im-n of Corrip-'i n.i- .\, n. t-nL'in"i rs fr..rn Wasii-, -'ire t-ncanipt-ii tippositi- , •1.!! s fi.r .'I W"i-ks Wurk ', in cnnm-etion with the [ ..ii.rlt xn map iiiakiii'.ir tif

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llis week. Ilildrt-th. Mrs. S. Ii.

l'l. K. Amesbury. .Mrs. W, I'letchi-r antl .Miss .lulia H.

J-'lt-ti h . r wt-re in attt-ntiance at the Ayer Woman ' s club on Weilne.stlay af-territitih. it bt-ini; reciprocity tlay. .Mrs. Watson antl .Miss I'lt-tcher ct,niributt.tl a piano tluet.

.1. Ht-rbert Fletcher recently shot a fi.x. t h " animal beinK a line specimen of his kind.

T a d m u c k Club. T h e n-KUlar m"etinK of the Tad­

muck club touk idacf- Tuesday af te r ­noon. The sTierikt-r t.f the af ternoon was Mrs. Geore" ' •. . lenkins. of Whit ­man, who Ka^'" n sjilt-ntUtl adt l ress tin " T h e movlnK I ' t u r e problem-" .Mrs. J e n k i n s ' aim wis no Keneral censure of the piipiil.ir "movies." reooKnl7-inK in thi-m a ni ' . ' l i tn inslitiition uf pleas­ur", mstr 111 tiiri antl en te r t a inmen t ,

il.-spuke more c.'tre In I'f pictures, espt-cially 'ill" A rt-cent burt-:iu -1 classetl a IarKC nilm-ider t h ree h t # n s Kood.

"Ctitinablt—tintl it is to ss with their subt le In-votinK people that .Mrs. ke the Interost tif par ­ti nd KuartUann. Klven of t h e a u t u m n

mee t i ne of the s t a t e Kederat ion mee l ­iiiK in Beverlv. S'utict- was also Kiven

• by t h e music commit tee calllnK a t ­ten t ion to t h " concerts o t real mer i t t o bo Klven at Symphony hal l . Boston. durinK t h e comiHK season.

Special notice is Kiven of tho noxt meet lnK under the direction of the c o m m i t t e e on intlustrial nntl social cond i t ions , Mrs. Alfrod W. Har t fo rd , c h a i r m a n . This moeilnB will t a k e p lace on. .Vovember 11 In t h c ConKre­Katlonal c h u r c h nl elKht o'clock, when J a m e x Ramsey , probat lnn omcer . of LoweJl, •will (tlve an nddroBs. Mr. n a m s e y Is a vital , h u m a n i t a r i a n wpeakcr a n d thc m e m b c r a ot the club a n d t h e i r Ktie«tB, par t i cu la r ly the Kentlemen, a r e csVecInlly Invitod.

C h n r c h B a n q n c t , T h e e leventh annua l c h u r c h ban ­

q u e t took place a t t h c Con(fre.-?atlonal c h u r c h on Tucuday cvenlnK. ; DInnf r w a s nerved a t ««vcn o'clock to | fully ISO persons , ' t ax lne t h c eftorts of thc

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.Mrs. H. \'. H i l d r - t h . .Vow that the constitttti.ii ' . il titm-iid-

m e n t s hav.? al! l.i-cn si'ii1.-nc"d •-serviee or t "rtipurtirx" idiiiit 'o:. '.\.l! some kill'! cr i -a tur" v. itti t..''nt> "i ht-tidliu'lit i-xp!tiin uti ttn- .i iniiiii n.ii-iu r"!;itinK to ttix.itiun \...'. i' i- nii-.'itit li.\' "ta.xini^' iiicomi'S i..." '!iri..i-ii frtini prolit.rt.\'. '" AVli... ,. f !;"ard uf ;i ri in-comtr t h a i wa- n..- .ii-fnt-ii fruni p rup-«.-rty of somt. k.i..l'.' Wi. lit tir much -if intanKibl" pt. ;,. : t-., Imt in fact t h e i e is no such tri;n~ tts intanKible . proti-e r ty an.\' iii'.r" t han ttiert- is stii-.h a thinK tts ini'itiKilile sunsh ine , wiien with a iTiirrur tlii- sunsh ine ctin 1..

j m a d e to skip a round the room, it is but .a iiroiiiictiun of the tanKild" siiti .'tnti mi r ror . Stm-ks tind bonils a r " no l"ss t.inKible than t h a t whicii they ri-prt-sent. '1'he \ ittil i iuestion for tin answer is " Is tht-ri- a l inancial ptissi-bility tif an income nut liHsetl on iirop­erty'. '" If so t h e wr i t e r is anximi^ to KO into the income bus iness at unci and on a world-witle scale .

, \ t the eli.ction Tues i lay Hon, c,'; is, A. Kimbal l tif Li t t le ton was hiitii man leatllnK the head of t h e ticket ;. vmes antl his op'ponenl by Hi it..i - n t y .

T h e r e Is illncs.1 of t h " n . • . t " of in­fantile para lys is a t the h, ••,. uf Kben I'rt.scott.

I'tifjic VIllUKC . T h e incinbors of t h e ehoir of St. .•\ndrow's mi.ssion went to Leoiffflistcr la.st Sunday to t ake p.irt in the serv­ices held a t SI. -Mark's c h u r c h . Thc . member s wore the i r new ves tments tmtl caps for t'ne Ilrst t ime .

.Mr. and -Mr.s. Wi l l iam Kelley, of I'ine hill, havo welcomt-tl a little son intu the i r ht.me- _

.Miss l ihot la Ki lmlns te r . who has li.-en visitinK her s is ter . Mrs. Fretl .Vaylor. durinK the past w e e k , has re­turned to he r home In I 'rovldeiico.

.Mr. anil .Mrs. Wi l l i am Burne t t a re spendinK this week .as KUests of re la­tives in Char l ton and Worces ter .

Caniert*n schtiol \vas closetl tin last week Fr iday in o r d e r tha t the t each­ers miKht tittentl t he convention in lioston-

.Mr. tmd .Mrs. .Vrituld Byam. of I>tiw-ell. who have sjient t h e s u m m e r and early fall at Lincoln cuttai te. have re­turnetl home.

Joseph Bannis ter , who has been seriously Ut tit his home , is improvinK and frientis will be jileased to learn he is about once more- Lewis Oane, of Groton, N. H.. is staying- with .Mr. liannititer for the present .

The Ladies ' Si-winK circle heltl an all- t lay. sc-ssion last week Thu'rstlay. They met as usual in I tecreat ion hall on this week Thuisd-iy.

The manv frientis- of .Marshall Brown, of Lit t leton, will be sorry to learn uf his recenl tii-cident. While .Mr. Bruwn was milkinK t-uws h " was kickeil and trarniib-d iijiun liy an an i ­mal he was milking.

A "t!o-tti-chiircli Sunday" camiitiimi Is liei.iK coitducteil at St. . \ndrew ' s mission by thtt vietir. i:"V- Vv'illistun .M. I'oi'd- The servici-s beKan wilh last Suntlay and v.-ere luniluctt-d iiy Iti-v. Sher ra rd I;il!iit-s. of Gurtun St-hiiul. The se.ilinK cai i tui ty ol 111" cliajiel was Itix.-d lu its ulmust tmtl a verv ititi-rt-stinK si-rnimi mi Al! Stiint.s' diiv was pri-ached. Tilt- cainjiaittn will cunt inue fur live Sundays . .Mr. Ford will Jireach oti Sunday t if t i rnunn a t 4.:',ii. till .Vuvi-rnber 11. I t ' v . |.;ndicott I'eal>i'il,\. I.f Grotun Schuui. will uc-cujiv til" jiulpit. Iti-v. T h u m a s 1.. l-'isliir. a furnii-r victir oi St. .-Smlrew's Illlt nuw r.-ctur of St. .Mtirk's . h u r c h . I.t-uuitr.stii'. will iiritich on Novemlier . ' l , .A fui'ilia! invittitiiiu is extcmled. I.. "., "t'vui.c tu attt-iid l!it-sc st-rvict.s.

.Mtsti I tus" r ial i i i i iv . uf Grotun. htu! charK" "i xhf V, I'. S. C. K. on Thu r s -dav "V'-niiiK- liniitui c lub drill tmd otlier Ltv miiastics was the work dmi".

Th" jjupils of Ctimeron .school wiil r i v " an i-xhibitiun tif fulk dancinK in t h " near future unde r the tlirection of .Mi,-- I-Mith -M. Foster . ,

,MI'.\.S"V

<;ranltevllle. On Krlday evcti;

Prof. Bur ton L I. illUHtrated l ec tun tho HonrchllKhf procla ' lve ttutlit-i,'., Klven in the inti-t" tintl I'rof, liiicitw'"

. . f l a s t Wl t k ..I UUli ; ; , - i ve h i s

1" salotin undt-r IarKe antl aji-

r h e It-clurt- was f j i r i i h i l i i l i u n

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l i t a t lK i t i c I ' l i r t i c i . " t i l " I i i n - i w i l l - i l i | i I ' a v l o W.'I. iH-r I n i j i .

T i l t

l.t:: "aVn. - 'Iv ih*' -"U-t: iun for v..uii;r !.<• o f i r i v . . - * i L : , , : i ' i K - t . . f Xi:-ii-' ,: f a i r ;.n.l no-, Ihl !* UiXXo: , 1;, SUlortro \.;,nu Jonkins 1.<•.-(.' cntM. iK'i<l,<'r«

N"t i r<* wiiM

f i l e d h i s s l l l . j i - c t i n f t i U l t l e s s s t \ l e The iUnstrat i i ! s-oms were wtil n-ceivt-il tmtl tht- whule affair [in...".! t. bit tleejily if.t i-l "st im; tintl liiL'lllv in struct ive.

The men-.lit-ri uf the Ladies ' .Vid MI ciety of tbt- ,M. i-:, chu rch iir" nm makinK the iirejiartitory pl.-ms f..?- ;i experit-nt-e social to In- ht Itl in t !i church on Wt-tlin-stltiy evtr . i i . j .V. vember 10.

.Mr. and Mrs. Char le s .lully tm.I Mr. tmtl .Mrs. GiurKO Scholleltl. of f ruv i -tlence. K. 1. visitetl manv of tl.i-ir oltl frientis antl acqualn t t inces ht-ri- List .SuntLay. coniinK over tht- roatl in .Mr. Jo l ly ' s tourinK car . .\lrs. Scholit-ld antl Mr. Jol lv w'ere former resitlt-ntM of th is VillaKO. where .Mrs., Scholield may bo rt-memlicretl bv he r maidt-n namo tif .Miss .It-nni" Rtiblnson. "Ch.arlie" Jol ly romains t h e same Jovial fellow ns h e was whon a boy here , nnd r e m a r k e d before lenvlnK his t r i ends horo for tht- homowart l t r ip to Providence th.at they Intentleil to KOt home sonie i lmo if the mach ine ncted na tu r a l , but not to mis take I h c m Xor Joy r iders , for the i r s was s imply a Jo l ly jiarty-

Tiiosday beinK election day the polls wore oponoti h e r e a t 6--10 in tht- morn­inK nnd closed fit fonr in t h e af ter­noon. Tho followinK election otncers were In charjfe a t I ' reclnct 2: Albort n. Wall , w n i l a m H. l ieebe. H a m m e t t D. WrlKht. J o s e p h Wal l . FollowinK Is t h c vfltc for g o v e r n o r In I 'rocinct 2: Wal sh BG, McCaU 50. The votes for

ar t - form, known iis niiino-opi-ra, "Th" tliimb Kirl o :

!iv .\iilii-r. in which some of lost iiiiirti a r t i s t s of the day •ar jointlv with Mile. Anna

111" Inciiniliarable. and all tial Itussian Baliel dancera. i.-itl coinpitny t,f more tliitii

p.-iili!". has lii-eii chosen for tli" ink' rii'tforniance of the approticli-(ijierti setisiiii in Iioston. Monday.

reojieriinK of Boston 's beautlfu] upi-ra hoime for the winter season the reorKanlzed Boston Grand t ipera i.'omiiany. this year IncludlnK nlso the world famous Pavlowa Imperial H.al-let company. Is beinK awaltet) with the Itet-nest interest and enlhusiasm as It is now fullv realized Boston will hear this year the most notable and "Ist n-KiilHhed opera company ever assembleil unrivalled in opera a r t i s t s , orchestra . rhorus . ballet, scenic productions, cos­tumes antl jiropertles.

"The dumb Klrl ot Por t l c l , ' to be KIV-. n Mondav and Thursday evenlnics of the (Irst week. Will brlnK hack /.i-na-rello, lhe tenor favori te of past sea­vi.ns Felice I.yne. n remarkab le color-iituiti and Michailoff, a Bussian lenor, while .Mile. Pavlowa will mime the iliinib Klrl, her company asslstliiK-

Wllli "1,'Amore dt-l in- Ite ( The love of three kliiKs'i on Tuesday eve­ninir, l--eTi:ii;-Kmiian:i. tenor. and 1 iil-;i Villiiii), dramat ic soprano, who .V"'it"d lull's ill the orlKlnal perforni--, will be heard, -with Haklanoff. itiiss'liin linrilotie; Mardones. basso. .Itlll MM", I'-Uira l .-veronl. -Mile. I 'av-!,,w:i tind ciiniptmv will presfUl "l-.ly-si'iii l-'ii-'ds" frcm Gliick's "Drfec.

\-i old t,|ii-ra. but one destined luoiis" lhe Kre.-itcHl Interest of the sea­son "Madnma Butterl ly." will be lit-iird Wednesday eveninK nnd Salurtlay af-li-rnoon. Special Interesi al lnches to llle opera from lb" facl Ihe lltle role w-lll be i.-iki-n bv lilt- llrsl opera sInKer of her race, .Mine. TamakI Mliirn. a lapanese jirlma donna. BIccardo Mar­tin Thomas Chalmers., . \nanlan. Mile. I-;il-/-alieih Caniiibell, will also be heard. Mile. I'avlowa and eompnny will Klve ".-tnuwilakes" from T s c h a i k o w s k y "

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A v o r y plenKaht "at h o m e " wan K I V -en by Mr. a n d Mr«. JUlchard Orc-nfcll In D o r c h t H t t T la.ft S a t u r d a y ovcninK-MrH. G r e n f e l l Is a «lHtcr o£ Mrn. H. \V. B r o c k e l m a n , a n d w i t h h e r h u s b a n d h a s r e c e n t l y u r r l v o d h o m o f r o m t h o i r h o n e y m o o n trlj), Thi? e v e n i n u p r o v e d t o be o n e of KiiecluPi i lKnll lcut icc f r o m 11 Koclal Htandijolnt a s t h u t d a y wan t h c t w e n t i e t h a n n i v e r s a r y of t h c m a r ­rlaKe of .Mr. a n d .Mrs. H e n r y W. B r o c k e l m a n , w h o w o r e pre.sent O t h ­e r s f r o m .Shirley w e r e .Ml.s--i U h e t a L e n n o x , a n i e c e o f M r s . G r e n f e l l , a n d C h e s t e r P h e l j i s .

C h a r l e s W. .Marshal l p i c k e d f r o m h i s Harden o n .Monday a r o s e In ful l b l o o m a n d a l s o s o m e r i p e s t r a w b e r r i e s w i t h b u n c h e n of Kreen o n e s s t i l l o n t h o v i n e s .

A m o s .Marlen .'ind f a m i l y h a s m o v e d Into t h e A d a m s h o u s e o n C h a p o l s t r e e t r e c e n t l y j i u r c h a s e d by .Josojih Ca-savoy.

.Mlss .MarKaret .S, Mas'on -sjient t h e •week e n d a n d o v e r .Sunday a t h e r h o m e In W l n c h e s t e r -

Ml.s-s H a z e l I t i lKy les pj ient t h e w e e k ­e n d a n d o v e r .Sunday a t h e r h o m e In H o x b u r y .

-Ml.ss I l a z e l H a l l o u s p e n t t h e l a t t e r p a r t of las t w e e k In l i o s t o n - . • MLss M a r l o n - M o r l a r t y s j ient t h e w e e k - e n d a n d S u n d a y at h e r h o m e In D a n v e r s . • W i l l i e ItolKor a n d J o s e j i h K. O i o n e t v i s i t e d In W a t e r b u r y , Co i in . . last w c e j : .

F e l l c l e n G l o n e t v i s i t e d r e l a t i v e s In L o w e l l . last S u n d a y .

T h e .N'onaicoicus C a m p - l i r e G i r l s ho ld a H a l l o w e e n p a r t y l a s t w o e k F r i ­d a y even inK a t t h e h o m e of t h e i r s u a r d l a n , .Mrs. D a v i d l i i p d e n b e r K .

• J .aricustor r o a d . G a m e s w e r o jdavod a n d r e f r e s h m i - n t s s e r v e d .

At t h e hiKh s c h o o l a s . s e m b l v h e l d o h last, w e e k ' l - ' r l d a y a f t e r n o o n t h e f o l -Jo',vinK j iroKram -was Klven: I ' i ano s o l o . .Mllda B a d s t U b n e r ; <lcbate . " T h e t o w n Is a b e t t o r j i laco f o r a colloKo t h a n i s a o i l y ." IConneth IxinKloy ani l K d n a H o l d o n , a l l l , : l l u t h Ua.v anrt H a r r y A n n l s , noK-: I h e a l l l r m a t l v e s i d e winninK-

A IIal lo\vo(-n Jiarty w a s Klvon by MlK-i Ko.'-a U u c k h o j i i i iit l h o H o l i d a y h o u s e las t .Saturday evonii iK. D a n c ­InK- K a m e s a n d m u s i c Woro t h e c h i e f foaiur«-s of t h e even inK. I t o f r e s h -mi- i i ts WOIO .served a n d a b o u t for ty Kuosti! wei'o j in-sont .

.Mrs. •Walter K n o w l e s a r r i v e d h o m e U s t w e e k f r o m a v i s i t of t w o w e e k s w i t h r e l a t i v e s in D o r c h e s t e r a n d I ' r o v i d e n c e -

T h e m o n t h l v s o c l a l o f t h o C. p;. s o ­c i e t y w a s h e l d las t .Monday evonlnK In t h e v e s t r y of t h e ConKreKat lona l c h u r c h . G a m e s , m u s i c a n d r e f r e s h ­m e n t s w o r e e n j o y e d b y a l l . ThoKO In charKO of t h o ( - n t e r t a l n m e n t of t h e evenlriK w e r e Mrs- C o l l y e r , ( J ladys A n n l s , .Mr. D e a r d e n , U u t h W o o d m a n ,

' I .e.stcr . J a m e s a n d N i n a H o l b r o o k ,

T h o L a d l e s ' c i r c l e h o l d t h e i r n e x t moot lnK a t t h e h o m o o f .Mrs. H e r b o r t I - a w r e n c e o n W e d n e s d a v . a f t e r n o o n . .N'ovember 10 , a t t h r e o o ' c l o c k . .Mrs. ICdlth \ \ ' a s h b u r n wi l l b e j irosont arid Klve a ta lk o n " T h e s o u t h e r n m o u n ­t a i n e e r . "

U e c l j i r o e l t y d a y wi l l b e o b s e r v e d by .. t h e A l t r u r l a n c l u b In t h e v e s t r y of t h e

ConKroK:it ional c h u r c h o n Thursday- . N o v e m b e r I I . T h e j iroKram wil l be f u r n i s h o d by t h e v l s l t lnK c l u b s .

T h e I -adios ' A i d o f t h e Cnlvor'si i l ist c h u r c h wil l ho ld a fooil sfile o n W e d ­n e s i l a y a f t f - rnoon , . N o v e m b e r 10, in t h e i r v e s l r y a t f o u r o ' c l o c k .

M i s s H l a n c h e W e l U h a s accoj i tod a Jiosit ion ill t h e c h i l d r e n ' s doj iar ln io i i t .'iL tho- .New Y o r k p u b l l c l ibrary . .Sho w a s f o r m o r l y l i b r a r i a n in Lancas t ' - r . a n d wil l c o m m o i i c o h o r n o w d u l i o s nexfx. wook-

.Mrs. l l ' -nry ! . D-MIKO had l h o Minn of so-.-tnly ( lo l lars l;ik(-n frnni lo-r li.'iridbaK a l l icr h c i n o t h e lirsl of i ln-wo(-k by a n I n d u s t r i a l s c h o o l lci\^. w h o w.'is ()i) j iaroIc .'ind w a s workini , ' for Ml'. liiidiTf on Ihl- jirf-rnlsi-s. H(- w a s l a t e r cauKht In l*'itchburK a n d a b o u i Ilfty-liv(- (loll.'irs of t h o m o n e y roC(i\--(-red. - H e waw t h e n r e t u r n e d to th(-Mchool.

T h e H r o l h o r h o o d of t h e ConKn-Ka-t i o n a l c h u r c h wil l h o l d i l s tirst n i o c t -iriK of t h e s(ras(in nex t Tuosda.\^ (-voii-IriK in Ibc* c l u i r c b v o s t r y . .Siijijo-r wil l bo sorviMl at G.-'IO o ' c l o c k . A l eiKht o ' c l o c k a n a d d r e s s wi l l bo Kivi-n bv K o v . .Mr. Giiblo, o f KitchburK. d n t b o s u b j o c t • ' A c h i e v e m e n t , " w h i c h j i r o m -IsoM to be of m o r o th.an usu.-il iiii(-r-e s t a n d t h e j iub l i c is m o s t c o t d l a l h ' i n v i t o d ,

A c b i c k e n - j i i o .sujiju-r w a s si-rvcd lc. . t h o I„-i(lirs' c i r c l e in l l i c f-iin'Aroxxa-

tiorial c h u r c h on W e d n e s d a y i-vonliiK w i t h a l.arKo n u m b o r j irosont . Tin-suj j j ier wa.s 1" ch.'irKO of .Mrs- Ib-rborl L a w r e n c e . ' c h a l r n i a n , .Mrs. c i i i i rb - s Gr(ronlcaf. Mrs . . \UKi i s tus C r a m , .Mrs. H.ardlriK . lami-s . .Mrs. i-'r.ink I'ark. Mrs . C h a r l o s .Miner .-111(1 .Mr.-<. W i l ­l i a m Wilbur'. '1'hc. w a i t e r s W(ro Klairu- I .ove . I tut i i Wooi lrrmn. \ ' i r -Klnla .McKlroy a n d Cora J a m e s , 'Those in ch.'irKo of l h e e n l o r t a l n m o n t w<.'r(( Kov. G. F.. W o o d m a n a n d Mrs. N e l l l o H o l b r o o k . T h e jiroKrarn r e n ­i i ered W.IS a s f o l l o w s : t i u a r t e t . Mrs . H a r r y Col lyor . Kov. a n d .Mr.s. G. K. W o o d m a n . Albort D o a r d o n . a c c o m j i a -nioi l by -Miss A n n i e H o l b r o o k ; r e a d -InK. .Mi-s^ A l t i o H o w e ; voc.-il s o l o , .Miss A r i l n e W i l b u r : s e l e c t i o n , i j u a r t e t ; readinK. .Mrs. ' I 'homas H; izon: s e l e c ­t i o n , (jirartel.

T h e w o r k cornmltt i 'O of t h e I 'nl -vors; i l l s t c h u r c h wi l l h o l d a j iound p a r t y n e x t T u e s d a y e v e n i n K In t h e i r vo«tr>' a t elKht o ' c l o c k . A d m i s s i o n w i l l b e a jiounil o f a n y t h l n K not u n d e r t h e v a l u o of l ive c o n t s . All a r e w e l ­c o m e ,

.Mr. a n d .Mrs. F r a n k B r o c k e l m a n n r o ((njoylriK a lon-il .a.vs' v a o a t i o n in L.anc; ister .

IC. It. S m i t h h a s m o v e i i to F i t c h ­burK. ftnd t a k e n uj) h i s r e s i d e n c e in B r l K h a m P a r k .

In t h e A y e r c o l u m n w wi l l i,.t f o u n d a n o t i c e of a c o n c o r t Klven b y t h e U n i t a r i a n A l l i a n c e a t PaifO ha l l , A y e r ,

- T h u r s d a y even inK. N p v e m b e r 11, *

K I w t l o n D a y , K I c c t l o n d a y In S h i r l e y w.as q u i e t

as u s u a l wlt f i n o t h l n s o u t of t h o o r d i ­n a r y laklnf f p l a c e ; 256 v o t e s w o r e cirrt o u t o f n dul.v rcKls t crcd l i s t o f .')35 — 6 2 v o t e s b e i n g c a s t In P r e c i n c t A a n d 194 v o t e s In P r e c i n c t B. J-'or s o v o r n o r M c C a l l l e d W a l s h b y 29

v o t e s rind w o m a n suffraRO wn« o v o r -w h o l m l n B l y d e f e a t e d b y a m a j o r i t y of 1 2 6 . T h e e l e c t i o n ofllcori) In I ' roc inc t

- A w o r e G e o r g e F- B u x t o n , w a r d e n , nsiilHted b y A r t h u r H. J u b h , W i l l i a m P . M c C o r m l c k , W l l U a m K, B a r n a r d . J o h n H . S t l e k n e y , W c s l o y W , C o m -Ktock nntl W . A . L . C r o c k e t t . In P r o c l n c t U J e r e m i a h II , F l v n n w a s wardei^ , nMlRtod b y A r t h u r O. D u n n , J o h n H. F l y n n , JORcph H . M c C I e l l a n . L o o n D . MudKOtt, A s a A . A d a m s , M o r t o n K. L a w r e n c e , R o d e r i c k E , CaHavoy , M i c h a e l O i o n e t , T h o m n H J. Q a t o l y a n d W a l t e r K n o w l c n . T h e f o l ­l o w i n K l» t h e v o t o In d e t a i l :

a o v e r n o r , McCall 136, W n l « h 106; >Il*ut. (fov., Cooliaste 146, B a r r y 84 ; «ec -

rutury, I .auKiry H4, . G r o s v e n o r 77-treaaurer , Hurrl l l Hi. B o w l e s 7»-a u d i t o r , Cook 115, .Morse 7 1 : attorni-y Koircral. .Vttwill 152; D o n a h u e CV-c o u n c l l l o r , Mull lKau 140. M c X a l l v Si s e n a t o r , Marchand 157. DunlKar'i 7:i ciiUiity corntnlssloiioi-, Cutt l i iK 111' '. ' . '•°"."°'' *'*• eouri ly i r e a s u r e r .Ilayiloii H J , Kcc fo 05; sheriff , F a l r b a l r n ilii. IJonovan ';S; land a r n e n d m e n l . Yos i;:'. .NO «:J: su.ffraKo arrietrdnient, .No 17s. ICS ili: t a x a t i o n arnondrnoni , 'i'es 1:;;, .No 4;i. .

C e n t e r . -Mr.s-. r a t t l e SarKent a n d t h r e e c h i l ­

d r e n . Lola , V i n a a n d K a y m o n d . w h o h a v o l i een StaylnK f o r s e v o r a l w e e k s a t t h e h o m e of .Mr. a n d .Mrs. JI. W. Carey', h a v e Korie to H a v e r h U I for a s h o r t v i s i t Willi r e l a t i v e s , b u t wi l l r e ­l u r n aiialri l a tor to t h o h o m e of .Mr. a n i l .Mr.s. C a r e y .

.Ml':<. Hl i ss Go,ss. w h o h a s boon c a r -ln« for .Mrs, .Mary J e n k i n s on I 'arker r:oad, h a s Klvon u p h e r j io s i t i on a n d Kono to FItchburK- H e r p l a c e h a s beon t a k e n by .Mrs. .Nelson, o f FJtcl iburK.

.Ml.ss K u l h .M, G i a v o s s p e n t tho v . -eek-end w i t h f r i e n d s irr P o j i p o r e l l .

M l s s K m m a H u b b a r d , o f FI tchburK -Normal s c h o o l , .spent t h e w e e k - e n d a t t h e h o m e o ( Mr. a n d .Mrs. J o h n W F a r r a r o n H u z e n r o a d .

T h e n e x t roKular inoi. i iu;; . „ f t h e G i r l s ' SewInK Kullil o f T r i n i t y chajrel wi l l b e h e l d o n .Sa turday . l i iorno.' .n . N o v e m b e r e, a t t h e h o m e of :Mr.s. w , !•;, H a r n a r d , I ' a r k e r r o a d ,

K u s s e l l A l d r e d , of C o n c o r d JutiC-t l o n , s p e n t t h e w e e k - e n d a t t h o h o m e of .Mr, a n d .Mrs. C. K. H r a d f o r d .

T h e roKular m o e l l u K o f t h e .Ma-i r o n s ' A i d s o c i e t y w a s h o l d las l w e o k a t ih.o h o m e of .Mrs. H e n r v F a r r a r at t h e N o r t h .

.Miss H a r r i o t H r i d K m a n . o f H r o o k ­l ine . s p e n t t h e wook-en<j w i t h h e r m o t h e r a t t h e i r s u m m e r h o m e on C e n ­i er r o a d . .Ml.ss H r i d K m a n . i l so e n t o r -la ini -d l ive f r i e n d s f r o m ' H r o o k l i n e o v e r t h e w e e k - e n d — . M i - s s e s F r a n c l s k a S h a c h t . : D o r i s .Veal, KdWIira K i l l i c d K e . .Miriam H u s s e y , JCllzabeth S u l h e i i a n d ,

Mlsa V e r a B r a d f o r d , of K m e r s o n ColloKO of -Oratory, s j i e n t S a t u r d a y a n d Sunda.v, w i th her . j i a r e n t s . .Mr. ani l .Mrs. C. K. Hradfori l .

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Vermont Butter and Oheese

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T o thc h e l r s - a t - l a w , nc^t Of k i n a n d a l l Other p e r s o n s Intereated In t h c e s ­t a t e of MAHV JANK COOPRR l a t c of T o w n s e n d In said County , d e c e a a e d .

W h e r e a s , n cer ta in I n s t r u m e n t p u r -Port lnK 10 he the las l w i l l a n d t e s t a ­m e n t of sa id deceased h a s b e e n p r e ­s e n t e d to said ( 'ourt. for P r o b a t e by W I U . I A M A. (^(lOI'KIt W'ho p r a y s t h a t l e t t e r s t e s t a m e n t a r y m a y be laatied t o hl in , t h e t ixccu ior there in n a m e d , w i t h ­out frlvlnf; a s u r e t y on h i s official b o n d .

You a r e hereby c i ted to a p p e a r a t a P r o b a t e Court , to he held a l C a m b r l d K e In sa id C o u n t y of -MIddleaex, o n t l i e s e v e n t e e n t h d a y of .November A . D laif i . a t n i n e o 'cUck In the f o r e n o o n to s h o w c a u s e . If any you h a v o , w h y tho s a m e s h o u l d nol lie Kranted.

And sa id pe t i t i oner is horoby d i r e c ­ted to Klve publ lc not i ce t h e r e o f tiv p u b l l s h l n i ; Ihla c l l a l l o n o n c e I n ' e a c n w e e k , for t h r e e s u c c e s s i v e ' w e e k a sn Turner 'a P u b l l c Splr l l , a ' n e w s p i p e r p u b l i s h e d In Ayer , the laat p u b l i c a t i o n tn be nno day , at l eas t , b e f o r e s a i d Court , a n d by mal l inK poatpald . o r d e - -lIverlnK a c o p y of Ihla c i t a t i o n ' t o a l l k n o w n p e r s o n s Interes ted In t h e e s t a t e s e v e n d a y s at l e a s t beforo s a i d C o u r t '

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O N E pOI i I iAR -AND FtPrK <3ENTS P E K Y E A R I N A D V A N C E

CEORGE H. B . TURNEIl , Pab lUker : ' JOUS H. TURNBR, Edi to r

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Subscribers are u rged to keep their subscript ions paid In advance.

Sa iurday , N o v e m b e r 6, 1915.

Mrs . WlUlam A. Lawrence . Mrs. HIII, of Ayer . will give a t a lk oti h e r r e -recen t visit to California.

Mrs. Wil l iam I ' u tnam, Ml.ss Ada Jones . Mrs. Wi lbur Tyrre l l . Mrs. T h e o p h l l u s Smith and Mrs. W a l l a c e Brown a t t ended the mee t ing of thc Woij ian 's c lub In Ayer on Wednesday a f te rnoon . Mrs. Smith read a paper on " T h e l a n d m a r k s of Gro ton . " It was b i r t h d a y and rijclproclty day with tho Ayer club.

Rcv. G. M. Howe, Harvey AVoods. Dea. and Mrs. A. -M. S h a t t u c k . Mlss Jess ie Sha t tuck , .Mlss Lillian K n a p p . Mrs. Marsha l l Swallow, W. F. Gleason, Mrs. G. ^V. Sha t tuck and Kuest, Mlss Annie P . Rllcy, .Mr. and Mrs. Krank D. Lewis of the ConKreKatlonal r h u r c h a t t e n d e d tho Middlesex l 'n lon A.s,socl-a t lon of ConKregatlonal c h u r c h e s held wi th t h e chu rch In Ashby on Wednes ­day .

T h e Boy Scouts were Invited by thc .scouts of L u n e n b u r g to a soclaJ held by t h e m In t h e Congregat iona l chu rch last week P r lday evening. Several of t h e G r o t o n scouts a t t e n d e d . T h e y en-Joyed tho evenirig very m u c h a n d a p ­prec ia ted t h e ext ra t r e a t of pos tum and sandwiches . T h e Lunenbur.'Jr boys showed themselves to be t r u e scouts In ever>' way and gave a Ilne en te r ­t a i n m e n t . T h e Groton scou ts w e r e car r ied o v e r by David E. M u r p h y In hla a u t o and all of t h e m wish ' to ex­press t h e i r t h a n k s to h im for h i s k ind­ness.

T h e a n n u a l flremen's concer t and ball win be held on the even ing of J a n u a r y 21. Poole 's o i chcs t r a , of Bos­ton, will furnish the mus-lc. T h e da t e ia given t h u s ear ly t h a t t h e r e m a y be no conflict with o the r s .

T h e flrst soclal of t h e season .at the Congrega t iona l c h u r c h will b e held In t h e lower rooms of thc c h u r c h on T h u r s d a y evening. N o v e m b e r 11-S u p p e r a t thc usual hour , followed liy a n e n t e r t a i n m e n t . In the afternoon t h e l ad le s will mee t in t h e chu rch par­lor for sewing on special work.

Miss A n n i e P. Rllev. R. N.. of Bos­ton, f o rmer l y o u r district nur.se, is v is i t ing Mrs . Gran t Shat iuck .

Mrs . S a r a h Wood, mother of A r t h u r A. Wood , accompanied hcr son. Henry Sander son , one dav lai^t week on his r e t u r n to his home in Westlleld after a visit to his relatives here . Westlleld Is n ine ty miles from <".roton and the a u t o In wh ich they made the t r ip went t h r o u g h without a s top. It s eems a r e m a r k a b l y Ions r ide tor a Woman in he r eighty-tifth year , hut Mrs. Wood m a d e it all r ight .

In t h e Ayer co lumns will bo found a no t ice of <a concert given by the U n i t a r i a n Alliance a t Papre hal l . .-\ycr, T h u r s d a y evening. November 11. *

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NCTVS I t ems . Mlss L e n a B recken r idge of Chicopee

TOW re tu rned h o m e las t Sa tu rday eve­ning from Lake Sunapee . X. H.. whero she h a s been s p e n d i n g t h e s u m m e r .

Las t Sa tu rday a f t e rnoon E. S. Clark post W a s Inspected -by E. G. Tarbel l of T h o m a s A. P a r k e r post, Peppere l l . T h e r e w e r e seven of t h e old boys in blue p r e s e n t and the In­spection p.assed off well with" a .so-.clally p leasant t ime. D u r i n g Sa tu r ­day forenoon J a m e s Moore, of Li t t le ­ton, a m e m b e r of the" post , who was a t the inspection, a n d C. « . Be r ry went to Peppere l l to' m a k e a call on the i r sick, comrade , Calvin P . L a w ­rence.

Mrs. H. L. Doyle, of Boston, h a s been visit ing h e r p a r e n t s . Mr. and

-Mrs. H. X. Jewe t t . of t h e Brown Loaf ne ighborhood for a week or more . Last week Wednesday Mr. Doyle, a c ­companied by Mrs. McMorrow a n d h e r son Wil l iam and t h e i r fr iend. Mrs.

-Kelley. i a m e up by a u t o to spend the afternoon .at .Mr. a n d Mrs. H . X. Jewel l ' s .

There was an ini t ia t ion at the mee t ­ing of the Odd ' F e l l o w s on Monday evening and a large; a t t e n d a n c e .

T h e game at Gro lon School th i s Sa turday af ternbon ia be tween Clinton high and Groton 2d.

Mi-s. W. H. Tyrrel l en te r t a ined her ' two sisters and a n e p h e w from Brook­line the la t ter pa r t of las t week.

Groton School won over Springfield J4 to 0 i n t h e l r game played he re on last Sa turday af ternoon.

E . H. Hlgley and C. H. Ber ry of E . S. Clark post go to Peppere l l on Xo- ' v e m b e r 10 to inspect the T h o m a s A. Pa rke r - post.

On Tuesday evening. Xovember 9, t h e r e will be an ini t ia t ion of eleven m e m b e r s a t Grotori Grange , the first a n d second degrees be ing conferred.

The village i m p r o v e m e n t .section of the Womans club mee t s wi th Mrs. F . F. Woods on Monday af ternoon, Xo­ven ibe r 8, a t 3.30 oclock.

Beg inn ing on Sunday . Xovember 7, it is p lanned to hold a ser ies of vesper services in t h e V n l t a r l a n meet ing-Yiouse a t flve o'clock, to which the public is cordially invi ted. These -services will probably be held the first Sunday in each m o n t h unti l a f te r Eas te r . There will be spocial music .and an address by t h e pastor , P . H. Cressi: The music will be directed by 3Iiss Lowe, organist , a n d on Xovem­ber '7 will consist of vocal music by a t r io of Groton ladies a n d "cello music by Mlss .Har tshorn of Clinion, .

A. liltle before noon Wednesday T h o m a s Gils«n. fell from the roof of h i s house while he and two o ther men were shingling. . \ b o a r d save way a n d .Jlr. Gilson fell to t h e g round . He was taken into t h e house unconscious and a doctor called- It was found he had cracked, possibly two. but cer­ta inly one rib. T h e r e s eems to be as y e l no indication but w h a t he will get J . juried to iho tune ot • H o m e sweet

. a long all r ight, a l t h o u g h It was much i j ^ ^ ^ g - . jy,g^. .^n vouched they never of a fall, especially for a man ot sev- I j^^^j ^ m o r e enjoyable t ime. The af-enty-b1.\ years. : f^j^ ^v^^ under the mana^ 'einent of

T h e .Vovember m e e t i n g ot the Gro- [Wi l l iam Halpin of L i i i l e f .n and -Mif " ton Bird club falls on the evening I Mary Bradley ot Lowell-i.f M o n d a v . .Vovember 15. and will j probablv itf held in the lower town ; RiiP'b^t I liurt'ii. hall as"u.'^iial. . \ U h o u g h no speaker : Grea l huerei ' t is itfiaxx shown has Vet been secured It is hoped tha t both the morn ing and eve iung serv a p a p e r can be a n n o u n c e d in the next at the liap',i.-<i chu rch i«,jue dav m o r n i n g t h e sel

T h o town meet ing on Tu.-sday was j choi r w e r e of est.eeial inxt-r cal led lo order l.y A- H. Tower, lown I p r e s e n l . In . c le rk , and wa.s l.ir.-ely a t t e n d e d . Vot­ing be'.'an at 7.1.> and closed al 4.3S. T h e total v.iie was 4 10 and was ea.st a s follows:

C.overti.i'.-. Mcl'all LT:". Wa:.-h 1-". v Hell' K')v., i-oo!idue Jl'l. Harry IIC; i,e <.l,<ei •,.-!. 1-••.•• -s.:',.;,i.\ . - a

, secre tary , l-a:iKt:y -IT. (Itosv.-nor ll-V: i,,. as.s's'..ri! ::: ;!>• .--x-:c;s.-s by ;.-.'-treasur.-r. Hurrin :r. ' . Howies 11''— m e m b e r s ••i <'.iinji i-:i.-wil.l. a biiy.-auditcir, <'ooK :;i.'.. .Morse 111: ^'-'-oraeyi whi'h :•' (,.;:.! leted u n d e r the Keneral. Attw::: Ji:'.. iJonabM- l'J>: ^ „ ' " ' . . • , , , - • • ,.f Mr T - e k e r The!Hl^^-counenior, M.UHu'aa i'lii. McNally n , ; i mana- 'e . e.. - t ^' • ' , . ; , ; , • \ , ^,,,.:.. senator . Mar-hatul -4>. ln;niKan 11> - i "•'• '^ " ' '• ' l ' ' ; ' ' V , / ' \ ' , V, ,n • ' '•'v-.-ountv e..Tnni:.-.si,,ner. Cult ing 23S. mobiles m t u n - f.-r t n - in..i n m - . • . ^ 6'e'on'nor I'rJ: c a n t y t r easur - r . Hayden | ice. .-\ o r d i a l ,:;vi;ati-'n is ext'-Oi.- -. ,,, iiH Keefe I"'.; sheriff. Fair t 'a i rn ii-. 1 U i,, enj-.\" th.- r:ill\- iui\' exerci.-' s. """"Vir , . ; : " ynii^;U"^^::':^;n:^.t. ' N S T h e suhjeet "i the " - n n n . w-.r-b, , .

Y - !"I taxation am-i ,dm-:u . Yes j will be •The Inrdshlli -if C h n s . . . ..m-numion ; .stunday schcol a l tweive with rally dav exercises; even ing subject will" be "The haun ted house and its

Good singing, an interest-

wi th thc mos t noted, cu l tured and In­fluential cit izens of our c o m m o n ­weal th . T h e i r addresses w e r e devoid of noisy" h a r a n g u e or of any b i t t e r denuncia t ion of the an t l s . They d i s ­cussed the quest ion of women vo t ing from the i r Viewpoint, each giving h i s or he r r easons in a calm, e a r n e s t m a n n e r . One leading point held by Mr. W a l k e r was t ha t the vole for which so m a n y women a r e woiTcing Is he r s by r ight . It is bu t Just t h a i they have It. Mrs. Klliott, who Is t h e d a u g h t e r of Ju l i a Ward Howe, h a d Imbibed h e r Ideas from earl iest r e ­m e m b r a n c e . They were for m o t h e r s belief and t each ing and they werc now very s t rongly her own. The p u b ­l ic-in a t t e n d a n c e seemed to feel it a privilege and p leasure to see and h e a r such d is t inguished speaker.s. w h e t h e r they agreed with them or o therwise .

Surpr i se P a r t y . A suri'ri.so pa r ty was held a t the

h o m e of Lawrence Duftey last Sat­u r d a v evening in honor of Mr. and M r s . ' J o h n Lund, who werc recently mar r ied , Mrs. Lund was formerly Mlss Agnes Duffey of th is town. The young couple were presen ted with a very p re t ty Morris cha i r in behalf of t h e i r , manv friends who assembled the re . Joseph Wainwr igh t , o t Lit t le­ton, m a d e the presenta t ion and was hear t l lv app lauded by all p resent . -Mr. and Mrs. Lund, a l t hough l akcn by grea t surpr i se , responded in eloquent words and t h a n k e d thei r f r iends tor the i r though t fu lness and k indness . The even ing was spent in s inging and danc ing . .Mr. Wainv.-right a lso fur­nished excelle'nt music on the accorde ­on and banjo for the dancing. .-\t mid­n ight a l ight lunch was served-F r i e n d s were present from .^yer. Lit­t leton, F o r g e Village, Granitevi l le , Wellesley, l i rookl ine and Lowell . Ax an ear ly hou r in the morn ing the p a n y c a m e to a close and a s the gues is de-

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ing the other , Henry W. Whi t ing w a s , chosen as modera to r . The ar t ic le lo j v.ite tha i a surveyor o t roads be voted . for a t the next a n n u a l tQwn meet ing ( wns indefinitely postponed- i

The re was an unusua l ly largo a t ­t e n d a n c e at the mee t ing ot the W. I i . | C. on Tuesdav a t t e r n o o n . get t ing readv for inspection. T h e r e will be a | special meei ing of t h e corps al two o'clo'ck on .Monday nf tornoon to con­t inue the work p r e p a r a t o r y lo Ins-pec-t lon.

.Messrs. Scotl and B r e c k e n r i d g e of Chicopee row, a t tended thc fruit show in Boston last week.

The tirst meet ing of the sewing school will be held In the town hall on Sa turdav a f le rnoon . Xovember 13. f rom 2 tb 3.30, All gir ls of six yenrs of age and older a r e asked to come.

.-\ son was l iorn lo Mr- and Mrs. Stephen Sabine on Wednesday , Xo­vember 3.

.Mrs. Marv Katon, who h a s been he lp ing -Mrs. K n a p p in houBckeeiiing, h a s gone to work for Mr.s. Powers , of i 'owderl iouse road .

T h e villago Improvemen t section of t h e Woman ' s c lub will hold a food Rale in i 'dd Fellows' hall on F r iday af ternoon, November 12, at th ree o'clock.

Mrs. Lua Nul l ing h a s had a tele­p h o n e Installed, call G8-2,

Rev. P- H- Cre-'isey. of the Fi rs t P a r i s h Uni tar ian c h u r c h , will ex­c h a n g e with Key. D. n. Child, of P e p p e r e l l on Sunday.

Communion will be observed on S u n d a y a t the Congregat ional chu rch a t t ho m o r n i n g servlco. C. K. In the oven ing a t se^i-en o'clock.

T h o funera l of WlUIam A, Xorcut t , of Dorches te r , was held on Tuesday. H c waa a civil w a r ve te ran and a m e m b e r of t h e G. A. R- He was em­ployed a t t h e c o u r l house In Boston fo r twen ty , years , a n d a t thc J me of

"hla funcrnl . In r e c o g n i t i o n of his long a n d fai thful s en ' i ce , t ho '«.»« " '«»}« c o u r t house and ci ty ha l l * < ^ " » ; ' > * ' ' -m a s t . H e was a cous in of Johi t Con-

Zh\ml Mis., ^ - o l ' l o . M ' ,<r^"''hTsfS th la town, t h e l a t t e r a t t e n d i n g h i s fu­n e r a l on Tuesday .

T h e Al l iance w i l l -mee t o " T h u r s d a y fttternoon, N o v e m b e r 11, a t 2.30 wi th

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m e s s a g e ing subject . ^ ^ N'clghlKirlMKMl Clul).

The m e m b e r s of t h e Neiul club and thei r families of l l f ty- three met a t res idence on F r i d a y e\ 29, to ce lebra te Ha rooms were appropr la wi th bund le s of cornst:. each corner and ify'-' vellow ma te r i a l s i r -v "sides of t h e room Upon the se fes'-m a n y and tiny Ma-

inil'er rini.'in

'.):,-, ' 'ctober .«, .-n. The 1;, ,U-cor.ated s .standing in ^ of red and

' : - h e d from the ;;, to t h e ceilinir-s w . r e fastened ra ts , the j iroverb­

ial Hal loween (r-.-iture not to 1 ted, -\ booth of corns ta lks wa venlent ly arranire tune teller.

T o t h c Ct l i tor : T h o u g h I do not wish to occupy

your co lumns with a pr iva te c o n t r o ­versy, I hope tha t you wilUal low me some space to set . s t ra ight the fac ts which t h r o u g h mis informat ion a n d mi sunde r s t and ing . have been sadly, bu t a s 1 believe unintent ional ly , pe r ­ver ted in t h e le t te r signed by J o s e p h (barter in y o u r issue of October 30.

T h a t I sho t a cat which I found In a t r ap a b o u t the t ime Mr. C a r t e r ' s ca t d i s a p p e a r e d is entirely t r u e — t h a t I k n e w tha t this cat was Mr. Car te r ' s , or w a s told b>' a compan ion t h a t " t h e cat belongs to Mr, C a r t e r a n d had be t t e r not be ki l led" Is a b ­solutely u n t r u e I did not k n o w to w h o m It belonged, if to anybody . I had no companion with me and h a d been told by nobody previous to t h a t t ime any th ing abou t the ownersh ip of the cat.

The s t a t e m e n t m a d e in Mr. C a r t e r ' s I d l e r r e g a r d i n g the law in its bear.-ing on t h e m a t t e r is hard ly neces ­sary to discuss a t length. Whi le t h e law as it now s tands accords to w a n ­der ing ca t s no protect ion w h a t e v e r , and the re fo re ju.stifles me in de s t roy ­ing them on my own land. I recognize t h a t a legal r ight does not a l w a y s m a k e a m o r a l one. Xo legal r i g h t or combina t ion of legal r ights would justify me in s tabbing my ne ighbo r in the back , a s I have been accused of doing in th i s case. But it o u g h t to be c lear ly understood, before pas s ­ing cr\'er the legal aspect of t h e m a t ­ter, t h a t so far from t ak ing the l aw irito my own hands in th i s ma t t e r , I havo. o b s e r v e d ' t h e law to the tuUes.t extent possible. P e r h a p s It is n e e d ­less to point out that , were a cat l i­cense law now in operat ion. Inc idents such as th i s could not well occur , since all l icensed cals would be d i s ­t inguished and protected by col lars o r tags in the same m a n n e r as l icensed dogs a r e now dist inguished. At p r e s ­ent, a ne ighbor ' s jiet cat wande r ing a t large canno t be dis t inguished f rom the m a n y wild or half-wild c r e a t u r e s which a re c la imed by no one.

There can be no doubt t ha t con t ro l of these w a n d e r e r s is absolutely in ­dispensable to the protect ion of b i rd s on any given area . If all a t t e m p t s ' in th is direct ion be given up, work for the protec t ion and increase of birds mus l be given up at the s a m e Ume. It is not only useless, but posl­tivelv cruel t o make every eftort to attra 'ci b i rds to a locality where t h e y will be ru thless ly destroyed by t h e i r var ious enemies . Of theso t h e r e a r e of c o u r s e many besides cats, but t h e la i ter a r e aiifortun,alely a m o n g t h c wor,si- Xow in order to m a k e s o m e effort lo reduce the n u m b e r ot b i rd enemies in the woods 1 have found it neces.sarv t rom time to t ime to set t r aps as be ing the only method of secur ing this object. Inevitably s o m e cals a r c caugh t which a r e w a n d e r i n g at a di-slance from anv houses. .Most of these a r e doubtless s t ray or ••trarnp ca ts . " I have ahvays hojied t h a t ne ighbors ' pe t cats would nol rove so far from home as to be t a k e n in these trai ls , which are not sel, it should be needless lo say. with any desire of ca t ch ing Ihem.

As t'l t h e iK'Unty m.'itter. I have tu-ver a d v o c a t e d ' a general bounty on ca ts in connection with the cat li­cense bill or otherwise. The ijrovi-sion in the license bill was exact ly similar to tha t embodied in the Liw relative to dou- licensing, which jir-.-vides for c n i p e n s t i t i o n of the of­licers d-leirated by law to a t i end t.. the <!:si..is:il of unlicensed a n i m a l s . (i:i mv lan.l in Kast (Iroton I have , on t h - o lhe r han.l . ofl'.re.l small fees t-r th>- men in my ernid-iv for t h e i i - - t iuct ion of the various enemies of hir 'ls. c<-rtain hawks and owls, s'li'ir.ks, foxes, iarire snak- s , we.'is-is. r.'il s'lliirrels, and tinally <.'its. I in-eliided the last nam. d becaiis. tinu- tl iere were a n ' l m h . r :iniinals stra.\inu' :iboi:t. some fif t he rn liavinn k i t t -n s under the old bu l ld -

; inu-s. and I could not a lways loca to and disi.i,se of them myself- II w a s not my intention to in terfere wi th n-i-'ni.-.rs' pets by this means , nioi y, inr ny 1 know no such jiets w.-rc '•V'lr in fact molested unde r this s>'s-

- t -m.

1 hojie I have said cnoiiKh lo d e m ­ons t r a t - t ha t I have not acted in

' this m a t t e r as the let ter whicii .Mr. 1 Car ter sent you would suiigcst. I

wish to second most heart i ly all t h a t .Mr. Ca r t e r says about himself a s .a neighbor and to exjiress my very r e a l regrel tha t he should have been so far led a s t r a v as lo believe tha t 1 would intent ional ly do h im an in ­jure . Noth ing was in tact f o r t h . r from mv though t s—1 have tr ied t.. i reat all mv neighbors wilh fa i rness and imjiarl ial i ty, and I onlv ask t h e m lo do the s a m e with me. 1 now a s k

,„iit. , them to keep thei r eats, s-i far a s ,-,,„. possible, oft the lands which 1

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V W i l l 1 W i l l

Mlsa Josle Galney ia a guest of he r sisler, Mrs, J a m e s Fal len , while con­valescing from an Injury. It Is u. ider-stood" t h a t she Is still unable to walk without ass is tance.

Miss Uose Fa l len , nurse a t the Tewksbury t r a in ing school, has spent several days a t h e r home this week,

Mlss l iuth Bixby en ter ta ined a young friend from (3rolon over thc Hal loween.

Mlss Ethe l itobinson of F l t chburg spent t h e week-eu.l with .Mlss .Mildred Dodge.

Mrs; Georgo Dodge wilh her two Ilttle daugh te r s . Lucille .and H.achel, visited with he r mother , -Mrs. Beverly of Ayer, over the week-end.

R a y m o n d Sleeper, who for several years haa been enijdoyed as clerk in thu Blxby-Webber store, ia t ak ing a mon th ' s vacat ion, , not having fully re­covered from a recent Ulness. Ho will theri engage In a different occupation,

Leo Bixby h a s entered the employ ot Blxby-Webber Co.

Ki rkwood Lawrence , employed in Bostoh. spen t the week-end al his home. . „

Rev. J . P . Trowbr idge w'as called to Xor th Roches te r on Monda.v to a t ­tend t h e funeral of a greatly valued friend a n d forriier par ishioner .

Rev, and Mrs. Trowbr idge , Mr, and Mrs. G. H. Blxby and -Mrs. E. K- Har ­r ington, going by au to , a t t ended the chu rch conference Jn .-"ishby on Wed­nesday. They r epo r t a delightful r i d e a delicious d inner .and an in teres t ing meet ing .

Mrs, J . L. Blxby Is repor ted 111: E l io t t Blood Is ill with a r h e u m a t i c

t roub le and h a s suffered intense pain-Mrs. J . L. Xu.tting visited hero this

week. . She is m a k i n g p repa ra t i ons for a wintfir 's s tay with a sister In w e s t e r n Xew York.

Mlss Helen MacCheric spent the week-end a l he r home.

F r a n k Downs is building a small houso on hla Townsend Hlll road lot. Th is road, so designated by t h e water commiss ioners , is general ly known as Mill s t reet .

A Mr- Green, an electrician, it is undorstood, h a s rented the Lyn-iall farm, recenty vacated by Daniel Lud­den,

Mr, and Mrs. T h o m a s McMahon have removed from lower Main s t reet and now reside In F i t chburg .

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wr igh t will oc­cupy the cot tage vacated by Mr. .Mc­Mahon. .

Mr. and Mrs. Jones , newcomers in town, now bo,arding with M r s . C . G. Har r ing ton , a r e to move into the col­lage vacated by Mr. Wright .

Mr. Boislalt, b r o l h e r of Fred Boislalt, is occupying with his family one of the houses recent ly vacant on the Townsend road.

Mrs, Xu t te r h a s joined her hus ­band, one of t h e workmen at the lea therboard mill and Is board ing al .Mrs, It, H, Burgess ' ,

Mr, and Mrs. Char les Blood have moved from tho J. H, H u n k i n s place to Vose into the hmise recently vaca­ted by .Matthew Itobinson.

Thc Gun club memberH aro looking forward to an especially p leasant meet ing on Fr iday evening wilh an oyster suppe r as an appet iz ing feature .

Thc L. A. society met wilh Mrs. I-'. E. Har r ing ton on Thur sday af ler ­noon. twelvo memliers and the jiastor being Jiresent, and .Mrs. . \ nd rew I'.lood as guest. In work, with the usual business rout ine and social in­t e r c o u r s e the af ternoon pa.ssed hap-j.ilv and the dainty ahd delicious re­f reshments served by the hostess were thorou.irhly enjoyed-

.Mrs. W. .M. Kendal l , goinu- on Thursd:iy. is enjoying lhe Ga rdne r fair.

West Groton s t a n d s sonu-'-vhat s tunned under the force of a t hunde r -clan from oui of a c l ea r sky whicii s t ruck t h - village on Wednesday in the shape of :in ordei from the posi-otlice d<-i.artin-nt d iscont inuing its rura l route. Hereaf ter , all in West Grot.-11 :ind . \ . . r ih Shirley, who h;ive <;i'.,•..•.I the j.rivilege of free .lelivery. will : . - . - ive their mail fr..m the (Ir.i-t..n post-rtlic.-. dt-Uvered !'.\' a (;r..>lon ea r r i ' r . .-r—ixf'X il thems.-Ives. This .,:'d.-:' L:--.-- ir.;-. effect oil N(.vember 1'.. S:r.'- th.- l.--'inr.in;; of 11. F. 11. here i'.-:irly tw- Iv.' \ - a r s axxo .\!r. Siiaul.iiiiu-lias hV-r: :;;.- s.-l-- car r ie r . This ..i.lf-r

.i.s, of Co:;;---. I.'I' ..n.- .if in:iny siinil.tr ..I'.I.-rs t i l l" .L'h-ut the Country in j .ur -su:ine.- "i •:--" I'olic.v' ..f the pre-^.n; .-. i.;ir;ni.';" ii..:o:!s. ••sy.stenriUi.' -f

iix t h a t 1 ;icienc>. f t h e s e i

J l l l l

I for I h e w i t c h v f , . : - [ i rv ing to m a k e bir.l s;inctuaries. t h u s recognizing that a bir.l j irotector h a «

A verv successful pr<.L-ram was car- as much r ight t.i earry on his w o r k rled oin- First in . . rder c a m - the a l .mg this hue

- r ^ - r a^irot*^os\f ci iv;;;;:;:; ^-ra-^s'^,;:";; .-^ai.^bas . o , . . -

i S n p i x r iiral I j i tcr t i i i i inu 'nt . I 'I'i:-' H,ir.ow.'.-;i supjier an.l -n;ei--

ta.i.;;i--:it ^iven undor the anspir-.-• ..f •;,.' '". K. socie ' . ' was a nxost success­ful affair. Th.- sujiper was exc-lleiit :in<l t;il.Ies wel- reset for a large num­ber. The e n t . r ' a i n m e n t j i rogram was varied and i r . ; : es t ing th roughou t . .\ glL.stlv t!-.:'..r. t lashed up and down

i t h e aisb s to • .- sh iver ing delight of I the chil.l i . :: — was it merely a coin-1 cidence t i n ; .b-hn Hough was missing

t rom tlie .i;;.li. nce^.' K, F. Richar . l -son. n Ljentl.man of e igh ty- three years, nu.st of Miss Alice Dawborn. en;-r;:iir.e(i with vocal selections In a r. u'.-irkablv well preserved ba.s-s voice. Th- :iiijireciati.in of tho audience was -hown bv t h . i r hea r ty ajiplause. Iteadimts bv .Mrs. K. J- Stevens, of Xorth Sh i r l - \ . werc a mosl interest ­ing ;in.l j.bi.siiig f ea tu re of the jiro­gram. Her s. lections were liumf.r..us anil sprightlv and exceptionally well given. The sh;l.lo^v play, read by Mlss Kdith Wriu'ht. and i l lustrated by lui-Tner..:is J.layer- in j iantomlme, were ex. i-e.lingly w:;ehes an.l

moles ta t ion i ,),,.r^. f a r m e r ; ' ^ "ii.-.il.iw. .

•en by ll- ' '

•,'er: irhfists, ;.' black cat

gfiblins, all were

t ho duck ing t o m a r v games- Blood-curdl ini : stories were told by ta lenied member were both h a r r o w i n g and amusing, D a n c i n s ot the Virginia reel and oth­er o ld- t ime dances to t ho m':si. of tho p iano were great ly enjoyed. Ke­f reshments , a m o n g which was the t imo - honored ond old - fasbboied p u m p k i n pie, were s.-rved and enjoy-

T h r e e cheers were given for the commi t t ee who had j i lanned and worked for this jileasant pa r t y and all felt t ha t t h a n k s were du<= for the Interes t ing pianis ts who added so much to the occasion.

At t h e close a-nd j i recedlng the last Rood-nlghts came the cus tomary club song and then the .Velghborhood club 's Halloween for lUla wn;; over.

Br i l l ian t Speaking. T h o suffrage meet ing of Monday

even ing—the i r last Groton rally of the dampalgn—wjts given a l a rge a t t end­ance , the town hall being closely lin­ed by men and women suffragists, a n i l s and neut ra l s . Tho s p e a k e r s were Hon, Jolseph A. Wfilker and Mra. Maud Ell iot t Howe, who a ro classed

the con t r a ry Is resented, I a m glad to s late in conc lus ion

that a t t e r I had jiresented tac ts a s outl ined above to .Mr- Car te r he r e c ­ognized thft! he had beeri m i s i n f o r m ­ed and he and I a r e again g o o d friends- William P- W h a r t o n .

West f i roton. Mis-s Henr ie t ta Child of Borea . K y . .

visiled lasl week with .Mr.s- W i l l i a m Dawborn-

K. F. Richardson h a s r e tu rned t o his home in South , \c ton, a f t e r - s p e m l ­ing the week-end as the guest of MiK5< .Mce Dawborn-

Mrs. Aden Ful ler of Bellows F a l l s . Vt.. with her soiiV. Itoland and I r v ­ing, was a recent guest at tho h o m e of ber mother , Mrs. .\. L. H a r r i n g t o n .

Mrs. Marv Turner , a two w e e k s ' guest of .Mrs. Wm. K i m b a l l , - r e t u r n e d to her hohie In Gardner on T u e s d a y .

Mr. and . .Mrs. Henry Lynda l l of Itosllnd;ile a ro guests of ^Irs. C, K. Blood.

.Mrs. .Mary Beverly of Ayor h.ns spent tho week wlih he r d a u g h t e r . .Mrs. Dodge..

l-;velyn I'-two sha-i' • • W h i l e . ' Shirley !,:! lin solos ..: and under cellent an Ruth Itiv! a n i f . s ; •

\, . j : reci tat ion very cutely • Kva Hallett . an a u t u m n

• li ird-llke tones of Utile ;., • r a series of jokes by

;:')boes'^—e.ne somewha t • . . tber a "Trace-y" the

the linely rendered vlo-William Tracey, and "over

;,n.i t h rough it a l l " the ex-oinjianlmont work of Mlss \, all served to round out

-Mible evening.

UTTLETON Xcw9 I t ems .

A bonotit concert for the Choral so­ciety wili be given in the l.iwn hall on Tuesday evening, December 14, Ar t i s t s of the evening will be MLss Xina F'letcher, violinist; I'rof, John Craig Kelley, accompanis t ; Mrs, Helen P r a t t Kelley, lyric soprano soloist, and .Mlss Grace Marlon Caulkins, cont ra l ­to. Look for posters regardln: ; price of t ickets , etc.

B a r b a r a Priest , d a u g h t e r ot Mr. and Mrs. F, B. Priest , was t aken lo Gro­lon hospi ta l on Tuesday for an opera­tion for appendici i is , and a t latest re­jiorts was doing well. The case prov­ed to bo serious, but was t aken In t ime to secure good results. Mrs. PrlQst r emained with her d a u g h t e r until convalescence was assured .

The en te r t a inmen t a t tho Congre­ga t iona l vestry, consist ing of .Miss S h u m w a y ' s t ravel talk .and piano se­lections by Mrs. Char les K. Hough­ton, Xovember 10. will begin a t 7.46. T h e r e will be a soci.al half h o u r a t the conclusion when h o m e - m a d e can­dy will bo on sale.

T h e Bapli.st ladies will have a ha r -v.est suppe r Fr iday evening, Xovember 19, fpllow-ed by a sale of vegetables .

Mlsa Ka the r lne Kimbal l Is a t home from Simmons tor the week-end .

Leo LeBean han vacated Elber t H, F lagg ' s house and moved Into the Whl t t lo r h o u s e

J u d g o Leland h a s sold his f.arm In Xewtown to Mr. P a c k a r d of Groton. who will t ake possession t h c iniddle of th i s month .

Mrs, F , Hill a t t ended t h e funeral of he r a u n t In Haverh i l l on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Sweetzer and son. of South Por t land, spent Sunday with Supt, Hill .

Mrs, Hill spent Sunday with a sis­ter In Turner , -JIo,

Mr. and Mrs, X, B, Conant took Rev. and Mrs, J , C. Alvord as au to gues ts to t h e Congregat iona l church s u p p e r in W'csttord on Tuesday even­ing, when Mr. Alvord gavc a toast on one of his European t ramj i ing trijls. A fine l ime and excellent banquet wero repor ted,

Mlss Annie Hi ldre th is en te r t a in ing a niece.

T h e r e wore twent.v from Litt leton tha t a t t ended the fall conference at the Union .\.ssociation ot Congrega­tlorial churches In th i s d is t r ic t held In . \ shby on Wednesday, Two persons who had jilanned to go In the Jitney bus re lu rned home when the spr ing of thc au lo broke, and passengers were tr.ansterrcd to Individual cars. The re was a good, live p r o g r a m and the hospital i ty of the Ashby people was most cour teous and kindly. Dur­ing t h e noon recess m a n y of the visi­tors were escorted i h r o u g h the public l ib rary and the l i t t le h is tor ical build­ing nea r the church .

Miss Ethe l X. Shumway , of Dor­chester , will give he r very interes-ting and ins t ruct ive talk on t h e t r ip she m a d e with the Chris t ian Endeavore r s a r o u n d the world in tho Steamer Cleveland. Stops were m a d e on the wav a t Madeira, Gibra l ta r , Maples, Egypt , India. B u r m a . J a v a , Borneo, I 'h i l lpplno Islands, China , ,lapan, Hawai ian Is lands and San Francisco-Miss Shumway is a very easy .-ind pleasing speaker , and alw-ays wins the comple te symjiathy of h e r a i teni ive audience- Several people who have hea rd this lec ture a r e hop ing lo come lo Litt iet ' in and hoar -Mlss Shumway again next week. For t h e benelit ot the Congregat ional club a small ad­mission fee' will bc charged-

The calholic mi-ssion will serve a suppe r a t pojiular jiricc in conneciion with the i r fair on .Saturday evening of th i s week, 6.30-'j o'clock. All roads lead to the fair at t h e town hall- j

F. K. I 'r iest wenl Tuesd:iy -mornin;; | to Phi lade lphia on a business Iriji. ,

The following Is the resul t s of the j Jirincijial coiilests voted '.n election day:

flovernor, McCall 1?,J, Walsh ill: lieut. gov., Coolidge 110, Barry > . suffrage amendment. N.i 1-4. Yes .0; secretarv, l-angtry H't. (liosveiior .'.:!: t reasurer . Burrill US, I'.owl.s -'.>: au.li-t.ir, I'.iok 117. Morsi' -•..': a t to rney gen-real .Mtwill l-'il. lionaliu.- 4'.': s-nator, Kimball I't't, Burke !•;: i "p res -n la t iv -Hall K-H.

n;irl.:u'a Priest is a; Dr. . \ y , r ' s hos­j.ital in Gr..;..n, n..t t he Or.it.m h.is­pital as was previously reii. .rte.l.

H.lu-h .McU.iiiald was ch..sen a m e m b e r of the executive b..:u'.! ;ii the annua l electl 'in " t G r a n g e otlicers ..ii ^\'. .Inesday e\'.'nilig,

.\ f . imilv,has m.iveil int.. the Whi l -ti.-r h..use ..n King street , but re-jM-at.-.l inquir ies have failed lo result iu ge t t ing the name-

Thi r teen member s of the Crochet club surpr ised Miss Cora Uavis at the l a l t e r ' s home Thur sday af ternoon and Jiresented the h..stess with a hand­some table cloth as a wedding gitt-l i e f r e shmen t s and an informal social followed the j i re-entat ion and acccpt-anco-

" G r a n d p a T h a c h e r " rounded Sfi vears of his hapjiy useful lite Thurs ­ilav and enjoved many manife.slallons of" genu ine fr iendship in way of a b i r thdav c a k e jiost card shower , con-feclione'rv, calls, elc. Best wishes for the now year, g r andpa from us all.

Tho l 'n i ted W o r k e r s held a very in teres i ing meet ing T h u r s d a y after­noon at the home of Mrs. J o h n H. Kimbal l . King street . T h e subjecl of miss ionary work In India w.as dis­cussed In Us vari . ius j ihases by Mrs. Fs ten Mlss El izabeth Houghton , Miss .Miriam Conant , .Miss .lulia Conanl . .Miss .M, H- Kimbal l and Mlss I-. A, Sanderson, who hud the p rogram In cha rgo and lead in the devotion-

Mrs II I. Kobblns. who has been spending a few m o n t h s with relatives in lown. Joined her husband in New York last Thursday .

F C Har twel l and C. W. Per ry arc in Colebrook, X. H.. on a hun t for deer . •

Mr and -Mrs. F- C- Har twel l arid . ' w ! P e r r y were week-end guests In

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Geo. B. Turner & Son the Xewtown distr ict school and af­t e rwards t a u g h t in the j i r imary school ot tho union building. She lilled the position to r abou t ter. years and we believe t h a t she , enjoyed the di.stlnc-tion ot meot ing the approva l and winning the highest praise of every­body, .She was one of the most thorough, j ia inslaking. j iatlent, elll­cienl and denial t eachers t ha t ever graceil a school room in this lown and when he r resignation was tendered some tifteen years .ago the leaching f.jrce in j iar t icular and Lit t leton soci-et,\' in genera l -sustained an unsj ieaka-lile loss.

Her deep-sea ted inierest in all tha ; makes tor individual, church , social and civic w e l f a r e he r nobility ot c h a r a c t e r anrl beauty of j iersonality rnade an. impression on all who knew her and he r sweet memory will be a last ing benedict ion lo e \ e rybody who.se griod ffirtune b rought him or her int.. touch wi th -Miss Xewhall . Slu- k f l us lo ca re f..r her ait.;'d j iarents wh.. were then in feeble hea l th and ha\'.^-s in .e ji.asseil on. N.i near re la t ives survive her . but a host of fri.-nds cb.-rish her iiieni.iry and ni.jiirn for (IIU- of the best of w.inien.

WHAT IS A p o t ; x D ? It is • erestlng to recall Just now

when i:- ..-lishmen a r e all being In­vited : . - i rn the i r sovereigns Into soldiers •; ,1 It Is less t h a n a hund red years s ; . . the gold coin known as the s.-,-:.ii.n was declared to be of the v , ; : - "t twen ty shillings. T h c proclan-. 'K.n dec la r ing th i s to be Its price I M. tit was Isaued on .luly 5. 1R17, I- ; i<i9 pieces In va lue of twen­ty shii. . L., "lo bc called the sover­eign, -.v. -e ordered to be coined out of a I. . 1 - , ! of gold, bu t by 1550 thcy were i-i^-ed ,as of t ho va lue of twenty-four - ,; : ngs. and by 1652 thoy wero passi . IS being of t h e value of t h i r ty shlllii ; . Bv the Cblnagc Act of 18T0 the w. :;;ht of the sovereign was fixed a I U ' lLT i i " g ra ins t roy.

During the f ive-months ' siege of I'aris in 1S70-71. t h r e e million le t te r s were sent out Of t h e city by bal loon.

Hil lsboro, X. H.

.Sudden Dea th . The news of tho dea th of Mlss Joso­

ph ino Xewhal l ot Stow c-imc as a

shock to I-lttlP'O" P<^oP'? ' " r „ ? w F r i d a y morning . The .<=hl d ren of her

school looked «;«"<'<';'"« y'°'^„''',^'! t e a c h e r as the t ime for thO rnorning ses-.lon app roached and llnally went t o h e r homo to Inquire Into the mys­tery of he r absence, when to their g rea t surpr i se nnd so r row they s,aw ^ho body of thoi r beloved teacher ly-ng p ros t r a t e on hor doors tops . Death

h"ad como suddenly f r " ' " "^e „'""'"> i-tlrttt^iexv and even h e r housekeeper h l r n S t b e c o m V a c n - m l n t e d with the ""-"^-ZlxVl^rslr^'lc'er^^r rield at her

r m \ r ; f^n^l a - t ^ J o n g ^ ' - ' t h C - r a n d ^ ? r s * F r e d H o s m e r of th i s town.

Mls<i Xewhal l « a » horn sixty-one y e a r s ago and t h r o u g h o u t the greater p a r t of he r life h a s m a d e her horne In Stow When h y o u n g woman she c a m e to' Li t t le ton, a s teacher , (irst In

How to Ix'sscn M<itor .\c( Idents

It is h u m a n n a l u r e a lways lo sym­pathize with sufferer, and the accejit­ed .and t ime-honored course to seek u jiunish t h e one who causes the suffer­ing; consequent ly il is n.atural in a l -temjit lng to cojie with the new prob­lems b r o u g h t about by the t r e m e n ­dously Increased road Ir.afTic due lo the widespread use of motor vehicles, t ha t it Is the motoris t who is the sub­ject of jirojiosed rules and l.aws. I^'it

! if the fiiiesllon Is viewed from a more i modern jioint of view, t ha t of p reven­

tion r a t h e r t h a n pun i shment , would It not be well to consider wha t can be done to save t h e j iedestrlan, who is the pa r t y chiefly injured In motor mishaps , from puttin.g his lite in dan­gor?

T h e sugges t ions of the Highway Commission for holding up t h e li­censes of h.abltual d r inke r s unli l they sign t h e jilodge, of -securing a jiledge from hab i tua l sjieeders .and of sus­pending licenses tor longer j i e r lo l s in the cases of those who dr ive a t ex­t r e m e speed or while unde r the in­fluence of llrjuor. a re all good. Uut

j they do not go t a r enough. T h o hii-I bitual d r i n k e r and the man who con-

st.antly dr ives In .a reckless fashion ought not to have licenses umler any c i r cums tances ; they a r e .a positive meii.aco to the communi ty- As tor more v igorous jirosecution of ajijieal­ed cases by dis tr ic t a t to rneys , most of the cases nol jirossed a r e merely tor ovorsjioodlng wi thout partlcul.arly dange rous c i rcumstances . Hut they should, of course, be prosocutcd a s Is a n y o t h e r form of cr ime,

A llat speed limit o t twenty-l lvo miles an h o u r w-ould do moro h a r m t h a n good, Whllo It would give the police a weapon by which they could persecu te tho g rea t bulk of mildly offending motor is ts , previous exper i ­ence h a s dcmonstr-atcd tha t llat speed l imits do not s top thc man who Is de­t e rmined to drive a t a'n excessive ra te , for he is not caugh t In t h c t r a p . On thc o t h e r hand , rais ing the limit five miles above t h c existing vory sa t i s ­factory p r i m a facie l imit w o u l d be taken by t h e m.ajorlty of dr ivers , who aro now content to drive a t unde r twenty miles, a s a pe rmi t to speed up. In tho dis t r ic ts where most people a r e In danger , the ro would bo a h ighe r ave rage speed and more .accidents, for. a s a m a t t e r of f.act. It Is In city s t ree ts t h a t most of the acc iden ts h a p ­pen. In thc first six m o n t h s of th i s yoar t h e r e were eight time..? a s m a n y acc iden t s In city s t ree t s a s In count ry roads , w h i c h Indicates t h a t speed alono Is not the vital factor In the s i tuat ion;

Ono t i l ing t h a t Is required Is thc

educat ion of the public lo t ake caro of itself when it walks in dan.gerous places. And tho s t reets , there is no gainsaying, a re dangerous . Tho pedes­t r ian may have a s much r ight in tho stroet a s the mo to r car, but If the two come toge the r the jiedestrlan is the one tha t suffers. This being so, it is reasonable to t ry to prevent the pc-deslriaji from placing himself In a dangerous position. In some of the Western and Southern cities the re a r e laws agains l so-called " jay-walking ." and peojile who cross the s t ree ts a t o ther than the regu la r crossings a r e liable to ar res t . Almost everywhere it is the custom to put yp signs di rect ­ing motor is ts to drive carefully nea r schoolhouses. Th i s is right, but such warn ings ought lo be sujiplemonted by Inslrctions to the school childron on the greal danger s of playing in the streets and roads . .-Vnd older people should be rnade to realize tha t it Is now more dan.i.-er.iiis to s;.-p wi thout l..oking into a much travi-lled road­way than t.i s tep carelessly ujion a r a i l r . a d tr.ack.

Preventive- iiie.asures would g.i a long way toward reducing the number of accidents . I.et the s tale on the ono hand keep out of motor vehicles people who an- nol lilted to dr ive them iiy reason of atldictlon to Ilquor or a congeiiit.al recklessness, and on the othi-r hand instruct the jniblic on the danger s of the highways, in which a hundrei l thousand or more motor vehicles In daily use jiroduce a con­dition wblch Is nol comjiarable with any former condit ion ot traffic. Theso two movements toge ther ought m.a-lerlally to diminish the loss ot Ilfe .and the Injuries which a re mount ing to a l a r m i n g propor t ions .as the motor trainc goes on increasing. [Boston Transcr ip t .

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A. V. T a r b o l l , o t M a n c h e s t e r , X . H , . v i s i t o d h i s f a t h e r , P e t e r T a r b e l l , l a s t w e e k .

-Mr, a n d M r s . H . S. C l a r k h a v e r e ­t u r n e d t r o m a v i s i t w i t h t h e i r d a u g h ­t e r . .Mrs, E l l B l a k e , a t B r o w n l l e l d , M c ,

-Mrs, J , W . T h o m a s a n d M r s . A l t a H , H o l l l s a t t e n d e d t h e s t a t e c o n f e r ­e n c e of B a p t i s t c h u r c h e s In B o s t o n l a s t w e e k a s d e l e g a t e s f r o m t h e l o c a l B a p t i s t c h u r c h . R e v , J . W^ T h o m a s a l s o a t t e n d e d t h o c o n f e r e n c e .

A l f r e d E . O l k l e , d. g. c . m a d e a n of l ic la l v i s i t t o P r o g r o s - s i v c l o d g e . K . 1 - . in M a y n a r d a t t h e l a s t r o g u l a r m e o t i n g of t h e l o d g e . H e w a s a c ­c o m p a n i e d b y t h e f o l l o w i n g m e m b e r s of H a r b i n g e r l o d g e : J a m e s K i n g , O, H a r t w e l l K i d d e r , C h e s t e r P , P e r r l n , A l t o n E , W a s h b u r n , W a l t o r C, W l n s ­l o w a n d C h a r i c s H a r r i s .

F . I ' a r k e r D u n b r a c k , a t o r m e r w e l l -k n o w n A y e r r e s i d e n t , l o f t l a s t S u n d a y f o r J e r s e y C i t y , X . J „ w h o r e h e h a s a p o s i t i o n a s f o r e m a n In t h e m a c h i n e s h o p of t h e S t a n d a r d W a t c h C o m ­j i a n y . M r . D u n b r a c k h a s b e e n f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s a n i n s t r u c t o r in t h e m a n u a l t r a i n i n g d e p a r t m e n t of t h e . V e w t o n h i g h s c h o o l ,

A r t h u r M. W l n s l o w h a s m o v e d i n t o his: n e w h o u s e o n W a s h i n g t o n s t r e o t .

D r , L i v e r p o o l , w h o h a s h a d a n of­l ice in t h e B a r r y b l o c k f o r s e v e r a l m o n t h s , l e f t t o w n l a s t w o o k . H i s r o o m s w i l l b e o c c u p i e d b y D r . Ra l i>h H . W y l i e , w h o h a s h a d a n ofTiec In a n o t h e r p a r t of t h e b l o c k .

.Mrs. J o h n W . C o r k u m Is r e c o v e r i n g f r o m a s u r g i c a l o p e r a t i o n f o r a g r o w t h o n t h e f o r e h e a d , p e r f o r m e d b y D r . B . H . H o p k i n s l a s t w e e k .

C h a r l e s W . M a s o n a n d C h a r l e s E . S h o r w l n c o n c l u d e d t h e i r d u t i e s a s j u r o r s i n t h e s u p e r i o r c r i m i n a l c o u r t l a s t w-eek.

M r s . E . A . C o o l e y , of S o u t h D e e r -Held , h a s r e t u r n e d f r o m a v i s i t w i t h h e r b r o t h e r . R e v . J , S, S t r o n g ,

E u g e n e F l a g g h a s r e t u r n e d h o m e f r o m a v i s i t w i t h h i s g r a n d p a r e n t s , .Mr. a n d M r s . J . W . O i k l e , in H o l l i s , .V- H .

R i c h a r d E . K e l l y , f o r m e r l y of . \ y e r , a n d f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s j i a s t a r e s i d e n t o f B o s l o n , v i s i t e d r e l a t i v e s a n d f r i e n d s in t o w n l a s t S u n d a y .

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T h e s h a r j i w i n d a n d r a i n s t o r m o n T u e s d a y m o r n i n g d i d m o r e o r l e s s . l a m a g e . T h e e l e c t r i c p o w e r w a s p u t ' . u t of < - o m m i s s i o n t e m j i o r a r i l y a n d t h e t e l e j i h o n e s e r v i c e s u f f e r e d s o m e ­w h a t o w i n g t o c r o s s e d w i r ( s . T h e r e war. n o s e r i o u s d a m a g e r e p c i r l e d . T h o w i n . i b l e w w i t h t e r r i l i c f o r c e fo r a : l i . i r t l i m e a n d it b e c a m e s o i l t t rk t h a t : i i a n y w e r e ol.!i^,•ed b . u s e k e r o s e n e i a m j . s f . .r l i g h l i n g j m r j i o s e s in j i l a c e 'tt e l ( - c t r i c l i g h t s w h i c h c o u l d n o t be • ised f ' . r l a c k of j i . iwer . Hiu-h w i n d s i - r e v a i l e . i a l ! d a y . i

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.Mr. a n d .Mr.s. H o w a r d A. W h i t e a n d S..11 H o w a r d , of F i t c h b u r g , s j i e n t l a s t .s.'un<lay w i t h h i s p a r e n t s . M r . a n d M r s . H o w a r d B. W h i t e , Mr.s. W h i t e a n d s o n s t a y i n g u n t i l W e d n e s d a y .

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M i s s S u s a n M. T u r n e r , o t F i t c h b u r g , a dau . i , -h le r o t E u g e n e A. T u r n e r , of I . . .Weil , f o r m o r l v a r e s i d e n t of t h i s t . -wn , a n d g e n e r a l s e c r e t a r y t o r t h e i - ' i t c h b n r g A s s o c i . a t e d C h a r i t i e s f o r t h e p a s t n i n e y e . a r s n n d c h i e f .s .alarled e x ­e c u t i v e o l l l c i a l of t h a t o r g a n i z a t i o n , h a s t e n d e r e d h e r r e s i g n a t i o n t o b e ­c o m e e f f e c t i v e o n D e c e m b e r 1. .Mlss T u r n e r r e s i g n s t o a c c e j i t a p o s i t i o n a s d i s t r i c i s u p e r i n t e n d e n t f o r t h e M a s s a -«.-huseit.s .Soc ie ty f o r t h e P r e v e n t i o n of C r u c l l . v t o C h i l d r e n , o n e t h a t o f f e r s a n o j i j i o r t u n l t y f o r a b i g g e r w o r k .and a s u b s t a n t i a l i n c r e a s e in s i i l a r y . S h e wi l l h .avo c h . a r g e of t h e w o r k of t h e s o c i e t y o n C a j i e C o d w i t h h e a d i i u a r ­t e r s in H y a n n i s , a n d t h e d u t i e s of h e r n e w J i o s i t i o n w i l l ,also r e q u i r e s o m e a t ­t e n l i o n t o g e n e r . a l c h a r i t a b l e w o r k In t h a t d i s t r i c t - M l s s T u r n e r l o t t h e r e a b o u t n i n e y e n r s a g o t o t a k e uj j h c r r e s i d e n c e In F l t c h b u r g .

.Miss A m y L o u g e o wi l l a c c o m p a n y .Mr- a n d M r s , F r o d S a v a g o o t H a r v a r d , .Mlsa M a r y H a g e r of W o s t A c t o n a n d .Mr.s. C a r r i e X o u r s e of S t i l l R i v o r t o S a n D i e g o . C a l . , e x p e c t i n g t o s t a r t f r o m h e r e o n X o v o m b o r 13 a n d r e ­m a i n f o r t h o w i n t e r . .

D o n ' t m i s s t h o " B l u e b i r d s " o f B o s ­t o n , w h o w i l l a p p e a r a t P a g e h a l l o n T h u r s d . a v e v e n i n g , X o v e m b e r 1 1 , a t e i g h t o ' c l o c k . M l s s H e l e n S m i t h Is m e e t i n g w i t h g r e a t a p p r o v a l In h e r fo lk a n d m o d e r n G r e e k d a n c l n - j f r o m t h o c r i t i c s In t h a t a r t a n d ha , s b e e n finely p a t r o n i z e d b y t h e p u b l l c In h e r s k i l l e d p r o f e s s i o n , H e l e n B a r r , b e ­s i d e s h e r . w o n d e r f u l s o p r a n o v o i c e . Is n n a c c o m p l i s h e d p i a n i s t , a n d h e r p i a n o n u m b o r s a l w . a y s a r o u s e e n t h u s i ­a s m .

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b u s i n e s s m e e t i n g p i a n o s o l o s w e r e r e n d e r e d b y M l s a M a d o l i n W h i t n e y a n d M l s s ' M a r l o n F l a g g , o f U t t l e t o n g a v e a fino a d d r e s s u p o n " W h a t t h e - M e d l t e r r o a n a h o r e h a s b e q u e a t h e d u s , ' a v e r y I n t e r e s t i n g a n d I n s t r u c t i v e p a p e r . D u r i n g t h e a o c l a l h o u r d a i n t y r e f r e s h m e n t s w e r e s e r v e d . T h e m e m ­b e r s a r o c o r d i a l l y I n v i t e d t o a t t e n d a n e i g h b o r h o o d r n e e t i n g In t h c U n i t a r i ­a n c h u r c h In P e p p e r e l l o n F r i d a y a f t e r n o o n , X o v e m b e r 12 , a t t w o o ' c l o c k . R e \ ' , P a l f r y P e r k i n s , of B r i g h t o n , w i l l b e t h o s p e a k e r .

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T h e q u a r t e r l y o f l i c la l c o n f e r e n c e of t h e .M. E . c h u r c h w i l l m e e t a t t h e c h u r c h h e r e S u n d a y e v e n i n g , X o v e m ­b e r 7, a t s i x o ' c lock . " T h e r e w i l l b e a m e e t i n g f o r t h e m e m b e r s of t h e c h u r c h a t s e v e n p . m . , w h e n t h e fu l l m a t t e r o f f e d e r a t i o n w i l l b e d iscu-ssed-Al l m e m b e r s a r e r e q u e s t e d t o b e p r e s ­o n t , D r , D o a n of W o r c e s t e r wi l l p r e ­s i d e a t b o t h m e e t i n g s .

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A v o r y j i l e a s a n t H a l l o w e e n j i a r t y w a s g i v e n l a s t S a t u r d a y a t t e r n o o n t r o m f o u r t o s e v e n o ' c l o c k by T h e o ­d o r e B a r r y t o H f t e e n of h i s y o u i m f r i e n d s . ' T h o s e p r e s e n t w e r e E v e l y n J o h n s o n , H e l e n W h i t n e y , H i l d a , M a r ­g a r e t a n d P r i s c i l l a O s g o o d , C l e o B a k ­er , Luc.v- B a r r . v , R o g e r J o h n s o n , J a m e s T r a i j u a l r , J u n i o r S a n d e r s o n , H o w , a r d -Mar t in , F r e d e r i c k T h a y e r , A r t h u r B a k e r , T h e o d o r e a n d A l e x a n d e r B a r ­ry . T h e c h i l d r e n p l a y e d H a l l o w e e n g . ames . S u p p o r w a s s e r v e d , a t i'.it) o ' c l o c k . T h e l i t t l e p e o p l e ,iU w o r d c a p s a n d , in t h e i r j i r e t t y c o s t u m e s m a d o a n i n t e r e s t i n g p i c l u r e a s t h e y I iosed f o r t h e . a r t i s t , a n d e a c h r e c e i v e d a c o p y t h u s r e c e i v i n g a j i l e a s a n t s o u ­v e n i r o t l h e o c c a s i o i i -

T h e W- R- C. h e l d a v e r v s u c c e s s f u l s a l e a n d s u p j i e r in H a r d y ' s h a l l l a s t w e e k F r i d a y a f t e r n o o n . T h e r o w e r e t h e u s u a l t a b l e s , M r s . E . E . S a v / y e r a n d M r s . J . L . K e n n l s o n s o l d a j i r o n s . M r s . J u l i e t A l l e n a n d M r s . \ \ ' a t o r m a n c a n d y , M r s . A l i c o C r a w f o r d .and M r s , J e s s i e C r a w f o r d h a d c h a r g e of t h e f a n c y l a b l e a n . l -Miss M a r y . lohns . r f i o t t h e m y s t o r y t a b l e . T h e l i ne h a r v e s t . s u p p e r w a s s e r v e d by M r s . J , \\*. W a t e r m a n , M r s . .Mary B e v e r l y , .Mrs. B. . M u r p h y , .Mr.s, \Y, L . P r e b l e , M r s . L. .-\- I ' o r t e r . A j i l e a s a n t e n t e r t a i n ­m e n t w a s h e l d in t h e e \ ' e n i n g g i v e n by S h i r l e y m e m b e r s . I I i n c l u d e d a r e a d i n g b y M r s . W e l l s , p j a n o s o l o b y M l s s t J l a d y s I ' h e l j i s a n d ^ ' v . f c a l s o l o s by M r s . K u b y l- 'e lch S m i t h .

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•S ta t e e l e c t i o n d a y on Tiioscl . iy p a s s ­e d off In t h e u s u a l otilet m a n n e r , a l ­t h o u g h t h e r e w o r o m a n y con to .« t s f o r offlce antl t h r o e a n u - i n l m e i i t K t o t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n t o b e v"to*i f o r i n c l u d i n g t h e v o t e on s u f f r a g e , t h o r o wa-s n o h e a v i o i v u l e c a s t t l i a n in p r e v i o u s y e a r s In p r o p o r t i o n t o t h e t o t a l r e p l s -t r a t l o n . T h e d e m o c r a t s c a r r i e d t h o t o w n f o r u ' o v e r n o r b y a r a t h e r c l o s e m a r g i n , t h o t l R u r c s b o i n p 24-1 f o r W a l s h a n d .':'••. f o r M c C a l l . a d o m o -firatlc p l u r a l i > "t IT. T h o r o | ) u b l l c a n s . h o w e v e r , c a r r . " I t h o r e s t of t h o t i c k e t . A c o n t e s t I h ; r a t t r a c t e d m u c h l o c a l i n t b r e s t w a s M u t l i e t w e e n S e n a t o r C h a r l e s A. K i m ' - a l l . r e p u b l i c a n , of L i t t l e t o n , a n d i- 'ir-i^-rick W . B u r k e , of L y n n , h i s o p p o n o i r fo r r e - e l e c t i o n in t h o , R e v e n t h Mld i l i ' - ' ox d i s t r i c t . S e n ­a t o r K i t n b a l l roco iv . .11 t h o h i . ch ly H a t -t c r l n j f v o t o of 260

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M r s . A n n a T h e r e s a R y a n , w i f o of Thfima.H I-'. I t y a n . d i o d a t h e r h o m o on P e a r l s l r o o t I.-ist S,aturda. \- . a f te r a lonK illne-ss. D o a t h wa.s d u e t o l e u k e m i a . .Mrs. I t y a n wa.s b o r n in L i t t l o F a l l s . .V. V., J u l y 2 5 . isr,i. L a t o r . .'-ho m a r r i e d a n d s e t t l e d in W o b u r n . T h o f.-imiiy c a m e h e r e t o l ivo f r o m t h a t c i l y t w e n l y y e a r s .aRo l a s t . \ p r i l a n d h a v e m a d o t h i s t o w n t h e i r - h o m e s i n c e t h a t t i t i jo .

Mr.s. K y a n h a d b e e n s i c k . s i n c e in-x J u l y a n d a l l h o u s h s h e • |m i ) rov<- l s o m e w h a t f r o m t i m o t o t i m e h e r ci-n-diii(*n c o n t i n u e d t o b o s e r i o u s . .sii.-Ir-avos h o r h u s b a n d . T h o m a s I-'. U \ r i n . nnd o i t rh t c h i l d r o n , T h o m a s .1 . . J o h n I ' . S K - p h o n J . , r o t o r J . , .M. C e r o i d , nu'i .Misses A n n a . M a y a n d . M a r g a r o t K y a n ,

T h e f u n o r a l t o o k p l a c o o n .Mond.iy m o i n i n u ' w i l h s o r v i c o s a t S t . M a r y ' s c h u r c b a l t on o ' c l o c k , w h i c h w o r e p e r f o r m e d l.y K e v . F. H . H o u s i o n . w h o a l s o p . - r f o r m e d t h e c o m m i t l a l s e r v i c e In .St. .Mary 's c o m c t c r y , w h < i ' ' t h c I n t e r m e n t tr tok p l a c e : T h o b e a r e r s w e r o f o u r s o n s o t t h e d e c e a s e i i

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T h e I n c r e a s e a l o n e , s i n c e t h e t a k i n K of t h e l a s t c e n s u s in Ai<ril, 1910 , h a s b e o n m<.ro t h a n t h e e n t i r e p o p u l a t i o n of t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s in l i i lO , w h e n t h o c e n s u s s h o w e d 7,2.'59.SS1.

Il is i n s i r u c i i v e a t t h i s t i m e t o t a k e a c r o s s - s . - c : i o n of t h e w o r l d ' s p o p u l a ­t i o n in lol .a i i . in t o t h e n u m e r i c a l - s t r e n g t h of . \ n u r i c a . T h e U n i t e d S t a t e s h a s Iwic . - a s m a n y i n h a b i t a n t s a s a l l .Sou th -Vni. r i r . i , o r G r e a t B r i t ­a i n , o r A u s t r i a - H . i n i . - a r y . o r J a p a n , fifty p e r c e n t m o r e t h a n ( J e r m a n y a n d t w o n t y i ) c r c c n t f e w e r t h a n K u r o p e a n K u s s i a . S e v e n t y p o r c o i i i . f t h e p e o ­pb- of a l l . . V o r t h A m e r i c a a r e in t h o Uni to i l S t a t e s .

Hu i Un-re is m o r e t h a n t h o p o w e r of n u m b < - r s i.. t i i i u ro u p o n In c o n s l d ­e r inK t h e pr<-!-ent K r e a t n o s s a n d t h e f u t u r e pos i t i . . ; i ..f . - \ m e r i c a a m o n g t h o n a t i o n s of t h o w o r l d . A c o h e r e n t ma.ss . w i t h a h i s h a v e r a K e of e d u c a ­t i o n , w i t h i i r o d u c t i v e a b i l i t y , w e l l d e ­v e l o p e d , w i t h i n d u s t r y a n a t i o r t a l c h a r a c t e r i s t i c a n d t e m p e r a n c e a n a ­t i o n a l v i r t u e , t h e p e o p l e of t h c U n i t e d S t a t e s a r e c o n q u e r I n K n o t b v m i R h t of

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PAOE SIX S A T U R D A Y , N O V E M B E E 6, 1 9 1 5

TOWNSEND

Center. At tho ConKreKatlonal church Sun­

dav mornlnB Mrs. L. U. Clement yave u vcr>- InterstlnK report of the Sunday school convention recently held in Ljnn. which .sho attended.

Sund.-iy evenlnB a-union service was held al the ConKreKatlonal church. I^conard Ilartin'. a rei>re8entatlve of Anti-saloon leaKue of this state, was tho .speaker of the eveninK-

Miss Haze l Wickham of FitchburK fcpent .Sunday in town. beinK the guest of ilr.s. Herbert Stearns.

Clarence .Morse and' Arthur liayx-m xn s]ient the week-end at their rv-spective homes in town.

'fhe dance Kiven by the "Bis Three " on Kriday night of last week wa- well attended. On Krlday. Uecember ,'.. a stcond social dance will be siven un-tltr the same allspices.

,\. Kood nuniber attended thc Hal­loween social Klven by the C. H. last week Friday night. Those piesent wire invited to visit the Witch's cav-<rn. havo their fortune told and buy home-made candy. The evohluK wa.s ^JJont in playinK sames and a Keneral social time.

On M',)uday evonlnK. a fow youiiK jitopie were entertained at the h.jinie of .Mn*. Arthur Cortland. The even­inK was spent in playlns Kames and r<frc."h:nent!; were scr\'ed b." the hostess.

Wedne-sday eveninK .it the M. E. chu'rch the Dorcas-class held a b.aked heail and -salad supper and entertain­ment with tho followinK in the cast: Itoy Cowdrey, Wilbur Scales, Hattie Mlsner. Ella Wilson and E.sther Scales. Pantomimic performance, "And the lamp went out,'* Esther-Scales.

On Wednesday pver twonty from the CunKreKational 'church were con-Aoyed by auios to the church confer­ence he-id at .\shby. .K very heliiful and interestins; meet ins is reporlod. The sprinK c.inference will be held In Sshlrley.

Mr. and Mrs. .Mbert S. H.ward left this week Ki-ida>- noon for Hawaii, where they will spen.l the •nmter wii'n their oldost .son Lewis.-•who resides there with his famll.v. Mr. and Mrs. Howard KO from here to s.m l-'rancisco , by rail, thon lea\e ;h..-re Xovember 1" and aro due t.i land at their destination on Xovember -I- if all goes well. Mrs. Howard was born in Hawaii and they will land in the town in which she lived. Their yon Lewis is enploycd as chemist on a largo sURar lilantallon which Is owned hv his uncle. The many friend.s of Mr. and Mrs. Howard w-lsh them : ^er^• pleasant journey and safe, re turn in the sprinK-

Goldcn Wedding. On Tuesday, November 2. during

thc '-afternoon and eveninK. many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Thoma.s Cope­land visited them at their home on Townsend hlll to help celebrate the flftleth anniversary of their weddinK-The home was prettily decorated -with autumn leaves. Kreen and laurel- The * bi-ide" was attired in a KOwn of the same shade as her weddinK Kown of fifty years ago. which was a steel gray and she wore pink rosebuds in her hair.'

During the afternoon the coui>le were presented w-ith a very nice Bible from Mr. Copeland's Sunday school class. George L. Whitcomb pre.sented tho Biblo which bore this inscription. "To Thomas J. and Elizabeth Cope­land, 1S65-1S15" and a tivo dollar sold piece was alSQ, presented at the same time. Mrs. Leander Jefts presented Mrs. Coi>eland with eighteen dollars in K.>ld from her lady friends- Mrs. L. C Cloment presented the bride •n-lth a bridal bou<iuel of pale pink And white carnations. Edward >Iorso presented Mr. and Mrs. Copelar^d wilh a weddinK cike bearin.%- the dales. "lS65-19ir.," and a bouquet of e'ixl llowors. Theso were presented in I.e-half of the Town.send Hlll Improve­ment societ.\'. of which Mr. Morse Is the president.

Refreshments were served by three of the four daughters of tho bridal couple. Mrs. Elizabeth (C.»i»eland) Hanford gave the following original poem:

^yhen the golden sun Is sett ing -On this golden wedding day. Bathing oarih and sky in beauty With his last departing ray. How our memory wanders backward ThrouKh thc vista of the years.

- Days of sunshine, days of shadow, _Brlclit wtth laughter, dim with tcars-

• Friends arc thronging the old home­stead

With their hearts so tru.- and kin.I. Wishing joy for years before us, Happy thoughts for y.-ars behind; No mere gift or earthly treasure Can their Ihoughlful love repay. When the golden sun Is setting On this golden wedding day.

• Children flock back to the home n<-,«t Hallowed s;.ot of childhood hours. When- a careful, lovinK mother. Strew.-.l our vouthful way with llo-.v^-rs We will lurn back old time co-.irses To Hf.'s morning, if we may. When the golden sun Is setting on this golden wedding day.

Then o'^r father's forehead clufterc-d lAjckii as hlack as raven's w-lng. And his heart beat strong and slt-ad> With Ihl- fullness of the spring; Mother's !;air was brown and shining. * oft browit ii.-ssos now are grey. Wlicn the u-ol.i.-n sun Is setting f. n this goldf-n wi-dding day.

and a t ter roll call and current events Mrs. Mary Heath pave a most inter­esting and instructive pajiei' 'on "The Ch.autauqua movement." The ne-\t meeting will be an open meeting at the Uaptist vestries at ~.ii) o'clock, on .Monday evening, .N'ovember 15. with an address b.v supet Intendent of schools. Herman C. Knight, of Town­senil.

1-". H. Ormsby and family, who have spent fhe summer at tlu-lr cotta);e in Jo-sselynvllle. returned Tue-sday by auto to their home in \\'inthrot>-

Herbert McXayr of Hollls. X. H.. has been a recont guest at tho home ..f his brother, Gilbert .Mc.N'ayr, of Josselynville-

George A- '.Seaver is en.loyin.g a week's vacation from his dutios as clerk at W. A- Boutwell's store-

James Kint; of -losselynvllle is on the sick list this week suffering from bronchial asthma-

Mrs. Robert Kaddy and her daugh­ter. Mr-s- Kostor Hamilton, have beeii visiting in Groton-

Mrs. Louis Welch visited friends in %Vost Acton on Tuesday, taking the trip by aiuo.

Miss Mabel Simonds. wli'> has been at the tea room here for the past two weeks, has returned to Somervlllo-

The "All Iteady" Sunday scho'ol class met on last Saturday afternoon at the home of their teacher. Mlss .\lice Seaver., At the business maet-ing-tile foIlo'.vinK oilicers werc elected: Doris Tenney. pros.; Janet Clark. V- p.; Lucy Iteynoids, s e c ; Gertrude Hamll­lon, a.sst. s e c ; Xanc.\' Kichards. treas. A social and refreshments followed the business meoting and the iiarry adjourned until the lasl Saturday In N.jvomber.

Mr. and -Mrs. K. -H. Wiiiard and little- daughter Martha and .Mr. and Mr.s. S- W. Tyler,-of Dorchester, were in town on an auto trip Idst .Sunday.

Mrs. Herman W. Law-rence has :e-turned from a week's visit with ;e!,i-tlves in Ashby.

Abram W'hite, of Rindg visited his sister, Mrs. Jusii:; man, la.st w-eek.

.-\Knes Wilson.' of Wall;: iast. Sunday at the hf.m- --: ents. Mr. and Mrs. Ei::.-~; (

Mrs. George Ball an-.! have been spending a town, returned on .M. hoine In Concord.

George -Uoebuck. cii.-i Hosmer, with his fair.i Xev.- York last .s.iturii; C',»itage for tho winter.

Mrs. George . \dams has returned from a so\'eral weeks' visit with her daughter, Mrs. E- R- Eraylon. of Providence. R. I.

' Rev. .loseph MacKoan sjient Wed­nesday and Thursday of last week at the state Baptist convention in Bos­ton.

Mi.ss Moore, who has been visiling her sister, Mrs. Elbridge Sanders, has returned to Cambridge,

George Ellis, of Btiston; spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Anna Ellis.

C. S. Hosmer and family have ro­turned to their home, in Xew York eity for the winter.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Patch enter­tained a party of four young people from Boston and vicinity at their home In Josseiyn\'ilie for the week­end. These guests were Harold Lunt of Maiden, Benjamin Skinner of Lynn, Mlss Margaret Biodicr of Boston, and Miss Blanche Brenenstuhl .it Dor­chester.

The Ladies' Literary and Social cir­cle n^et on last week Friday at the home of Mrs. Charles B. Stickney to study the life of Eugene Field. Eight mombors were present and cur­rent events, an account of Field's life and poems were read b.v the dlft'ereni j^(?ciners. At the close of the pro­g'ram. dainty refroshmonts wore serv-f'd by the hostess and a good time en­joyed hy all. The next meeting will bo" heia' at the home of Mrs. Charles I'atch, thc topic being "Mexico City."

cellent soloist. In their trio work thero Is no predomlhrtnce of ono part over another, all being blondod t.. make a beautiful whole. For this second con­cert of the lyceum course we may ex­pect work of a high oi^der. ^

gin. "What thon." he ask-d. "Is Its orlKln'/" Likely it may hav- been causiMl by glacial -leti.ui pi'ovioiis to the Ico aKC, although i cindltLilis aro peculiar, and the prof,-ssor:-) of H u -\-ard and Welleslej-, as w.-ll .is I'r..f.

The voung people's meeting of the ' '" 'r '"".,, ' ; '" ''.^ J.'"' «omewli:it ni.sstl--eh on t.he Ilnst Sunday "vd- Uu- \ - s h a p e d vUliey m ihe

hackbone -l r - . k man.v feet lii;;h.i on the east ihi;: on the west, cr-.s-j-ed by depressi..; •; an.l dammed by

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Halloween Sodal. At the Baptist vestries on Friday

evening of last week a most success­ful and enjoyable H.alloweon social was hold under the ,aus[)ices of the Y. P. S. C. E., with al.out eighty presont. The rooms wore rirottily docorated with yellow and black and many large and small pumpkins gave the touch of H;tllowoon to the dec-•irations. The candy tablo, decorated with black cals on crepe paper, was wel! .supplied with dainty candles and the mystery tablo was decorated with black and yellow paper tvith jack-o'-lanterns. They wero i,reslded over by the .Mi.s.ses Gladys Rawson and .Marlon Boutelle. attirod as the wierd sisters, and tho goods on both tables were soon disposed of. At eight o'cloek a very Interesting program was given. Refreshments consisting of doughnuts, gingerbread and hot coffee were served and Halloween games w-ero enjoyed, in the peanut hunt the prize, a box of candy, wis won by Mrs. Mundy, and the priz- in the do'ughnut eating contest, a l.-v of Crackerjack--), was won by ('l.--:-r Davis. About three dollars w. :• olil-ed to the treasury from ih-- . t!-

s-iiring g o n e with m g has . f-rilun ,

'-iimm.i's t.f-auty. too. has pass-d And we r.urney toward Ihe sunset WHh ih. autumn time at last; But our fears and all our troubles We mav cast on Him alway Whrn til- golden sun Is setting On this ^-ilden w-dding day.

\nd how l.-a-,illful is autumn. With ii« liaz.- and pensive air. With Its Klow arol glint of leafage And its ywfft peace everywhere. And the Co.! who rules the autumn Still will in;.!, us on our way. When thf- itold-n sun Is setting On this gol.l-n wedding day-

In the evening abnut thirty friends from the Mill cathoroii at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Copeland- In behalf of the Townsend Hlll Improvemeiit noclcty Mr. Mor-se presented the coup­le with a twentv dollar gold piece and Mrs. Elizabeth (Copeland) H.artford presented them with a twenty dollar KOld piece from lheir children.'

\fr . and Mr.s. Copeland were mar­ried In West Roxburv at the home of somo friends df tho bride. They have lived In Townsend for thirty-eight

LITTLETON

.Mrs, I a lillle Wallace

' 'hio homo the has. V. Flagg of iuls.a FlaKg went

yearB and during this time have re- ^uft^ ^ver Sunday

News Items. Littleton relatives

surprised to loarn Flagg's death in h-(irst of this week, I this town and .Miss I to the Middle West as s.ion as they could after hearing the sad news. .Mr. Flagg will visit Chicago beforo re­turiiing home. It Is only a few months since Mr. and Mrs. Wallace FlagK visited relatives hero and with Mr. and Mr.s. Chas. Flagg enjoyed .an auto trip up into Xew Hampshire and tho health of the deceased seemed good at that time.

Goorge Bonnell has moved int.. his new house- on Uussell street am: .\r-thur Barteaux has moved into iho F. C. Hartwell house vacated by the Bonnells. Mr. Barteaux will work for .Mr. Hartwell.

Mrs. Show-e is moving Into thc tene. mont where the Armstrong fam.lly has been living.

Mr-H- G. M. Lovejoy and Julien Lovejov spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. r . S. Whitcomb. .

Warren Hartwell -was at home from

I'nltarlan chure of each month takes uji t h e subject of thc j i reat war-In an at tempt fo un­derstand the aiiirtl of the.se times. Sunday evening at li-vi-i K. B. Priest will give the address and If possible war pictures will be shown.

The Wonitin's club will observe Iiresldont's day on .Mond.ay a'.'ternot.n-Xovember ». The address of the day will be on "Iinniigration." by Mi-ss Wilcox- Music will be furnished by Mrs, Young and Eliot. T.iuiig. piano and clai Inet. and vocal music by .Mrs. Hartwell . -Mrs. Hager- and .Mrs. Houghton. Tea will bo served by -Mrs. Hopkins.

Governor Walsh stopiiod in town a short time Tuesday noon on his way to Fltchburg. his home town, whore he cast his vote.

The William Handle.vs moved from Plngreyvllle to .\:llngton the middle of the week. •

Tho ladles of the Ayer Unitarian Alliance have Invited the mombers of Littleton Alliance to a cor.cort by the Bluebirds of Boston in Page hall on Thursday evening, N'lVeir.ber 11, at eight o'clock,

Toseph A. Harwood. ..f Lunenhurg, spent the week-end .aid .Sunday with his home people.

•Mrs. Ballar.l. ...' I-exingion. was a recent guost of lier sistor. Mrs. .Vinella Wakelield. at .Miss Marshall's.

Misses Hatch and Wentworth. of Exeter. -V. H.. have been visiting Mrs. Emma .\bb.>tt at t!io Blos.soms.

.Mrs. .\iinio Smith returned homo l;ist woek .an.i Is making cfoistant Im-[jri.veinenl. .Mlss Hannah Willis con­tinues to gain and will soon l.e homo;

James F. Sloore has bought tlio .Al­bert Smith buildings ;ind lanti on Foster street.

The receipts from the Unitarian f;ilr of last wooil i-'riday come fl-.s- t.. the $ii)t) mark. There was a iin.- .lisplay .if wares and a demand for nil kinds. -Xllhi.ugh the number ..f |.:itr.ins from outside the society sf-rii. i uiuisuall.v sniall the treasury did n"X suffer. .*n excellent suppor w;i,- >.-lved al six o'clock and in the ••v-'iing'an ent - r -t;..inment consisting' --f iro'.d music by S. P. O'hianyoun an.l .i f;ii'co by some I.f tho old-timers furnish.-.! a L'.md laugh as a litting ci-nclusi.ju to .the annual kalo-

Senator Charlos -\ . Kimball is re­ceiving man.v congralul;ili..ns ..n his re-election- He realizes that without the loval suppfirt of his many friends his pluralty. which was 1-515. would have been impossible, and has grate­fully acknowledged the generosity and courtes%- of tho.se who have thus ex­pressed' their lovalty and Increasing confldence in his. ability to represent the .seventh senatorial district of Mid­dlesex county.

Mr.s. L. B. Caulkins, with her .son. Rev. H. L. Caulkins; attended the funeral services of .Mrs. Caulkln.s' sis­ter. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Willard, of Bo.s­ton. in the Baptist church, Leomin­ster, Tue.sday afternoon.

Mrs. Maud K. Caulkln.s. Mrs. Ev­erett Kimball, Mrs. Hiram .«auler. Mr.s. William H. Brown and Mrs. Lucv J. Dodge attended tho annual basket and campaign meeting of the Woman's Ml.sslon.ar>' societies of the Wachu.sett Baptist a.ssociation on Thursday ih thc Baptist church in Ayer. A varied and intoresilnsr pro-Ki-am w-as provided.

Hon. Frank A. Patch was chosen moderator of tho town meeting on Tuo-sdav. Tho warrant was read by C. F. Watts, town clerk, but on ac­count of a misundorstaniling the art i­cles were not sulliciently explained, .Jinother w-arrant is oul for a sijeci.il lown meoting on Thursiiay evetiing, Xovember II . at eight o'clock. This Is for the pcrpose ..f c.nsidering th.. advisability of extending the town water s.vstem X'l the now houses of the Conanl, H.iught.in Company.

J. M. Hartwell, local agent, received a carload of Ford automobiles the tirst of this woek. Uev. O. J. Fai r ­lield was the purchase of one Ciir.

In tho .\yor colufnns will bo found a notice of a concert given by the I 'nltarlan .-llllance a t PaKo hall. . \ycr. Thursday c-veninK. .Vovember 11. "

Granse. At the Grange meeting on Wednes­

day evening occurred the annual elec­tion of otllcers. which was as follows:

'r'rank H. Hlll, ni.: Ivo Russell, o.i Mrs. r,r»ce Cash, lec: .\ugusta Smith, sec ; E. H. Higelfiw. tr-as ; Mrs. Charles

I . \ . Kimball, chap.. Kog-r -\ . Priest. stow.: ' ' larenc- Crosby, asst. .stew.: Mrs. Clarence Crosby. 1. a. s.; James NeaKle. g. k.; Nellie Callahan. Ceres; Miss Itach-l Cornwi-ll, I'omona: Mrs. Pluma I'rane. Flora.

.A di.scu.ssion follow-d the election i-.-i:;iriling the advis-abillty of having municipal markfi or other means of I.ringing prfulucer ami consumer of farm products nearer together, and

{ doing .away with the middlemen. V. I T. E.sten lod In tho discu.sslon and was

followed by G. , \ . Cook .and several other m-mbers who coniributed in­tere.sting remarks rn tho subject. Hon, F. A. Patch discussed the grad­ing and making of a c-mont circle around the fountain al the depot sriuare. which will not be undertaken until spring. -Mr. Patch also reported that the eommllleo which he repre­sents will give a drama sometime dur­ing the winter.

deposit of gravel .iri •-. bears comparl.soii '.vr'. -country yet observed •-,

Prof, jlarton expects a inoilel of the valley, eventually lo clear ui mystery. He bollev.-s course of ages the vuil--solid eartli.

The homeward cour-. old Iiarvard roa'd, which closed to th.e publlc. h lifty .years been In dftu-. towards I'lngreyvllle pointed to Brown Loaf example of drumlln.

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News Items.

Simon H a g e r and lii,- sisi-r M..r^ atlendod the funeral "f -Mi.-'.s J.i-scphino Xov.'hall In Slow l.ist .Sundav afternoon- Miss Newhall ha.l been a li-'acher for many years and ..lo- of her lirst schools was' hore li) .N'... i nnd her pupils at that time havo ever h-M her in loving remembrance.

Word was received h-re Tuesday morning of the sudden ik-:!lh .of Mr.-i. Alile Wetherbee Raymond iii Somer­ville from Jineumonla. .- he was th-oldest daughter of the Iat.- Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Wetherbe.-. ..f this tov.n. and a sister of M. L. \V.-lhel'bee. .-iin-other death of recenl .l;iie was .Mrs. Myra Stevens, of Woburn. She was the third daughter of -Mr. ;ind Mrs, Granville Whitcomb, '.tnd spent all hor younger days here, fti lln- four sis­ters so well remembered by the old­er residents, only one. .Mrs. Carrie iff'oele. iii,iw in ,Golumbn~, * 'hio, is liv­ing.

Mrs. Amas.a Ric):i: . ;iway,at her home o n .M ing afler a short llli,.'-ninotj'-oiio yetirs old. 1:- I" riago she was Huldab I Vermont g-irl. All her 1 marriage w.as spent .• most devoted wife an.! would often tell of h-r life when weaving .and some of her dutios. Ii---r last days wore made ploasant by tl.e c.'tre and iove f»f a largo num:i-.r of children, gnir.dchiplron and even great-grand-chiidren. who gathered at the h.iine on Wedne-sday afternoon to pay tiu-ir last loving tr ibute to her- Rov. I-". H. Vlets oinclated and Mrs. Evange­line Hull, of West A.clon, .--nng threo solocllons.

Tho Viets famiiv m'oved to their now- homo in Waltham on Thursday. Rov. William J. Batt. of Concord .Iunction. will - prcttch on Sunday.

The aulo truck owned by -Mr. Shee­han, of Harvard, caught lire Tuesday near the Kimball farm oh the state, road and although helii came prompt­ly to the rescue the machine was bad­ly wrecked.

Friends of Mary- Sheehan, of Charlestown, received wedding cake and cards announcing her m a r r i a g e to J. J. -Molloy, of P-iston, carly In the week.

Arthur Whitcomb, -f West Acton, has bought a piece of land here and Is having It put in condition to get out an tipple orch.ard.

I'wo new names, Wallace Cunning­ham and Hobart lirown, were added to tho list of .auto owners this %veek.

.-\.sa Frost visited his daughter in l-'ramingham l-a-s-t Sunday and enjoyed a long auto ride.

Miss Bernice Cunningham returned this weok from a vacation sjient in the White Mounlains.

I-"rank Grout, of Framingham. was a visitor at the IJraman f.arm lasl week, and thus week George Braman. an ollicer at Lyman school, is speml­ing his vtication there,

.Mr. and ilr.s. Ernest Hall and daughter, of Fitchburg. were week­end guosis of Mrs. E. L. Barteaux.

-Mrs. Frank Dodge recently spent a few davs in Waverley. She entertain­ed Mrs. .Marshall, of Somorvllle, over Sunday.

Mrs. Samu-! Moss, of 'Waltham, has como to spend [.art of the wintor wfth her mother, .\Irs. Porter.

Tho vote here Tuesday was as fol­lows; McCall 30, Walsh 29; suffraKC .N'o 34, Y'es i i .

Mis-ses Xellie and Mabel Phllbrick have been at homo, takinK a .short va­cation from their work- Both an-graduate nurses.

Burpee Steele Is laking a busines-urso of study at liurdett college. Anothor little daughter, the sev­

enth, was made welcome at tho Flerra homo l.T-stweek.

tin Wedne.s<lay evening the ordor of Odd FeIlow.*t In West Aclfm celebrated Its twenty-llfth anniversary, and those goins from hore report a fine time. The Standlsh male tpiartet. of Bos­ton, furnished music and was much enjoyed. Cake and Ico crenm woro served.

Mr.s. Joseph Poland entertained a friend from Rosllndale tho first of the week.

Th- following fln- program was given in tho afternoon; \'Qcal du.-t. -Mr, Page and Mr- Merriam. South An-ton; vocal solo.s, M.-. Morrlai.i m ' ' .Mr. Pago: , skotch, "Ho-.v the -i-.iy >;rew," Somorvllle Grjinge; i". ' iin'-t--Miss Dorothy Carpenter, Lynn: ~..iig. .Miss Cousln.s. Lineoln; plan... .luf.t, .MLsses Titcomb and Pierc-: i.ical duet, -Misses IJaulit ;ind Perrv: -i;etch. "Ima Cook," Misses Uracil.•:; a»'l ."dilis; ],iano solo, Mi-. V.'el.l- i : soirg. M.r.' Pierce. Lincoln; r e ad i : - .lanies Tuttle, Acion; vocal solo. .Mi Tiiylor. Concird; vocal duet. .Mis-.s Haulit and .Miles; reading'. Miss i'ai'penter, I.\.in. The lai-^te number p: . s-iil en-;.».\ »al evel.v number an.!-: li.-wed ll by ixftierotts apiilaus-. 'I-he r<-;...!liig of

w;is !>• visitors

Granges. to dinner, llie usual

.Miss C;iri»enter w-tis so K..., recalled four time-s. .Ma were present from oih.-i .\!..r.- than 200 sat down whieh W a s about t.wif.,-luimber on . such o.ccaslons

Ai;c'rio.\.s litis li. Forbush. auctl -.-r, wil! sell

by auction on Thursdav :noi-,iiing. Xo­vember II. at S.ao o'clock, a,ll thc per-wuial i.r.ip-ny ot . \ . H. Carli-ld: also. on S;itiirday :if lei-noou, Xoveniber 1", ; . : li.r.f) n-clock. In stow. Ilv.' -•••tock. IH.iniiig tools, aiitffiues. etc- belonging ;o the estat.- of J-'t,». Iiird.

<-,(-orgf; <,'ool:. auciloneer, will sell by i-:-l'lic auclion on, Saturday afternoon. .N-.ivei:ibei- '1. at 12.lb) o'clock, all the :.-i-soiial property belonging to the lal.--s'lleiliiall II. Jewell in Littleton.

COi.D.S ij() .\<)T i.i:,\VK wii, i . i . \(; i ,v Recause a cold Is stubborn Is no renson

v!!.\• \-ou yjiould be. Insi-.afI of "wearing" it out g!-l sure reli-f b.v laking Dr. King's New l>isco,-,'er.v. Iiaii.g-ruus bron-i-lifa! aiifl lung ailments ofien follow a colli wbicb has been n-gle'cted at the be-•.riniii.ig. .\s your l>odv_ faillifully balls '.riiiiiing. ,\s your body faithfully battles I h.is.. cold geims no betier aid can be -.tr.'en than tbe useof ll'iis i-f-in-dy. Its 'iierll bas b»-eii l--^tefl by old and voung. ;;.-! a boltle loday. .'.Oc ami JI.UO.

New Advertisements.

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COMMONWKAI.TH OF MASSACHC-^KTTS. Middlesex, us. Probate Court.

To the hei i«-a I-law, next of kin. cieditor.s, and all other persons inter­ested in the estate of KVA G. GIISON late of Townsend in said County. Oe-ceased. Intestate.

Whereas a petition lias heen pre­sented to said Court to ^rant a letter ot administration un the e.state of said d.-ceased lo J IKNNIK F. Wi':.«TOX of Sonierville in the Counly of Middlesex, without Kivin;^ a Burety on her bond.

Vou art- hereby cited to appear at r. I'robate Court to bc held at (,'anii»rlOR'', in said i 'ounty of Midrlles^-x. on tjie twenty-fourth day of Novcnil)er A. D. lyi.'). at nine o'clock in th-* fort-noon. ii> .• how cau.'-e if any you Iia\'e, why tile ^;ame should not l)e granted.

Ar.fl tlie pt'lit.ioner Is liereby directed to ;?ive jjublic notice thereof, by pun-li.'jhlnK' this citation once in each wet-K, for tlireie .successive wi-eks, in Turner's. I'ubllc Spirit, a newspaper i)ubljsh»*d In .\yt-r. the. last publication to be oni.-daV. at least, before snid »'ouit.

WitneF«. Charles J. Mclntin-. I's'iuir-^. First JudKe of aald Court, this third day of November in tht^ y^-ar one thousand nine liundn-d and flfttren.

?,if* \\. K. KOGKUS. llej;l.«ter.

Administratrix's Sale

Every Style in Fine Stationery that is both New and Good is reflected in this Admirable Winting

. Paper

•We carry a large assortinent of this paper in 25<> boxes

WILLIAM BROWN .DEUGGIST

Main Street Ayer, Mass.

Dempsey's Studio First-class Portrait 'Work

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FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS Carley's Block - Ayer, Mass.

SHIRLEY GASH MARKET

Cart in Ayer Tuesday and Saturday

You have heard your neighbor tell about what nice

Beef, Pork, Lamb, Ham, Fresh and Smoked Shoulders, Poultry;

also, Fresh Vegetables

we carry in stock. Have you found out for yourself? We are awaiting your order. Have the team call.

CHAS. A. McCABTHY Proprietor.

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sided In the Kimc house on Townscnrt hill, where thcy .iro now Uvinp. Thoy have clRht clhldrcn. four sonx .ind four daushters ; the oUlesrt Is Thonv-xs. Jr., of this town. . ^. ,

Tho many friends of thi." <lf-. r old couplo wlnh them many morr yenrs of happy wedded life.

•West. Tho Ladles' Study .club held Us reK­

ular fortnightly meetini? at thc read-InfC-room on Monday eveninp with nineteen present, threo (tuests bclnff ^tertalned

Edwin Esten of Tufts w.is i t home Tuesday .and cast his llrMt vote.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Prouty .ind son of Somcri'lllo spent Sunday with their home people here.

Thc lyceum entertainment on Tuo.i-day evening will be a concert Klven by thc OUvette trio, accompanied hore by Allda DonnoII White, a dramatic reader, who is also a soprano soloist of note; Since their organisation thc Olivette, trio have rapidly achieved

.success and are now acknowlcderod as T»,o nrnirram was In I one of tho forcniost instrumental

S i S ^ ' S r i l r , E ' / I^eSrpr^Sen"l?r"os. While each member la an ex-

f;coloKl<wl Trip. Twenty-nine I.Utlcton people and

throe Westford peoplo joined Prof. Hirton .ind his cl.iss of ne.irly '^fty from Cambridse last Saturday after­noon in an excursion to Tophet swamp. The company entered thc woods by tho old wood road between C. .1. .McEnnLs' bulldlnKS and P. C. Edwards' cottaKe. "The Ledges." The party had not progressed far when thc professor by thc aid of his whistle called tho people around him and pointed to the deposit of gravel and sand at the mouth ot the swamp. This, he believes, was oncc ledge ex­tendlnK east to thc hlll beside thc I«ictart road. Taking a chip of rock ho said; "This Is a specimen of mica schist and the lodge along which thc sides of which wc pass is of the same composition."

J-'urthor on ho called at tent ion to depressions forming an angle with thc lodge Instead ot runninK parajlel to It. "This." he continued, "Is evidence that the valley or deep swamp in this back bono of ledge was not caused.by. ero­sion." Thc bottom of tho irwamp Prof. Barton has nc^-er been able to sound, although he has Inserted a pole straight down to a' depth of 20 to 30 feet from the surface. At the farther end of this V-shaped vall.cy Is a lonK island. endinK in rock, and the only thing o f t h e kind in thc swamp. Aa tho party approached the farther end of tho valley, which is by far the deeper. Prof. Barton pointed to re­peated cvidenco against erosive orl-

Camp-Flrc Girls I-:iitcrtaln. Last Saturd.iy evening the m.iny

friends of tho Tokataw.in famp-flre Girls gathered at the hospltablo homo of Mr. and .Mrs. GeorKO Burroushs for the usual Halloween pranks. Al­though thc night '.VIS cold and windy thoso who risked their lives to take bho "ghost w.ilk" woro rewarded l.y seeing .1 fov; vi^it..rs and oven shook hands with one After a few ghost stories wero x.id l.y tho open lire the usual Hallow.-, ri u-rimos wore pl.iyed by all. The tiiii*--honored contests of eating douchn-i's hung on a string and a crack.-r ;.nd .ipple race between tho boys an.i ;,'irls caused much merri­ment. AU (leji:\rted at an early hour. feelinK sure thnt the Camp-fire Olrls had mastere.i tho art of entortalnlnK-

In spite ••i !ho f.ict that thc girls are soon t.. i-se ibclr guardian. Mlss Marlon Vi.;-.. they arc planning to make the r ..ning winter a busj" ono. Those wh.. h.-ivo already become "woodgath.; . rs" are hoping to be­come "(ire-Ill ikers" hefore long. At

By virtue of .1 license granted to me by the I'robato Court for the County of Middle.sex and Commonwealth of Mas.sachusottK on thc eighteenth day of October A. IJ. 1915. will be sold at I'ublic Auction on the premises lirst iioroinafter doscribed in the Town of Sliirley in said County and Common­wealth, on Monday, N'ovember 8. 101.->. a t twelve o'cloek M., the fol­lowing deserUtod roal estate, viz;

A certain farm consisting of SI acros. more or loss, with buildings theroon. situated in said Shirloy. and being all and the same promises con­veyed by Clark A. Batchelder. Ad­ministrator of the estate of Lyman Eaton to .lennie A. Dodson by deed dated March Id. 1S91, and recorded with Middlesex Soutb District Doods. riook 20.'51. Page 59.

.-\lso a eortain other tract of land situated in the southeasterly part of said Shirley, containing about 13 H acres and being all and tho samo premises conveyed by Charles F. Worcester. Administrator ot tho es­tate of John L. Farnsworth to .lon­nie .K. Byr.im, by deed, dated Novem­ber 1, 1911. and recorded with said Deeds. Book 3650, I'age 135.

Torms ,it sale. 3t7

IDA L. WILSON. Adminl.stratrix of the estate of Jennie

A. Byram. •

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LSHERWINIGO AYER. MASS.

DEALERS IN

Groceries Hardware Paints, Etc.

AMMUNITION

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Always a Good Supply of Staple

Goods on Hand

CUTFLOWERS, PLANTS, FLORAL

DESIGNS, ETC. HAR-DT

ORNAMENTAL TREES,

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H. Huebner Florist

Groton, Slass.

Greenhouses near Groton School

Piano Tunino TUNING AND REPAIRING

PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO

J. F. Chaffin Co. Tel. S46-W Fitehburs, Mass.

PlanoVf Piano Players* VIetrolaa and a Foil Line of Record% Hnale and

Unalcal Inatmmenta

CHOCOLATES

Ono p o u n d hox

KOU SALE—J^x. greatly reduced prices 2 new Express and 1 new Dem­ocrat Wagon. 1 new Canopy Surrey, 1 cheap second-hand Surrey. 1 Truck Wagon, low wheels, Plowa. Cultivators, Harrows, Wheelbarrows and Farming TooKs Of aM kinds; ICxpress. Driving and Team Harneitscs, Whips and ilorse Ooods. F. B. FELCH, Carriage. Har­ness and Implement Dealer. Telephone 14 6-2. Ayer. Mass.

WHY XOT SEE

Thomas F. Mullin TIIE KE.AL ESTATE AGEXT

In Regard to InTcstmeut?

Room 3 Bank Bldg. Aycr

E. D. STONE Fire Insurance Agent

Automobile and Cordwood Insaranc«>

Esther A. Stone, TTpemritlng

Pago's Block Ayer, -Maaa.

F. EABLAMS GILSON

Dental OfHce and Boosu I .adr Assdstaat Sml

Page's Block Ayer, Mass. Telephones—As-er t06-t Grotbn 5S-4

2 9 <

. i lnp Mrs. B. O. Steele

.cond t.alk In her series. rinp "EmerKcnclcs .and

their ncxf n win Klve 111. tho suhjcrt babies."

Pomonn (;nin;:(». On Thi:r' , . . October 28, the meet­

lnR of th.. n.iroiiRh Pomona OranKC was held li. r<.. The meeting w.-ia of unusu.ll II •• rost .l.s tho Middlesex Central I' .iK.na had been Invited to furnish t)i. .n tcr ta tnment for the fif-

-ion. After the business ;he morning Deputy Sher-..n, 'Tot-eat nres." as Mrs. •f< name was on the pro-nnablo to bc present, a

Ayer Variety Store

Piano Tuning REPAHUNG, KEGOTiATINO

WILMOT B. OLKAVBS Phone 20 HARVARD, MASS.

Graduate N. B. C. of Mualc, Boston Ten years with Aeolian Co.. New Tork

PIANOS FOR SAIiE lylS*

HOTEL LENOX L U X U R Y

live Ponltry Wanted Send for Quotations

A GOOD ASSORTMENT

— OF —

HORSES FOR SALE

ternoon ^ meetint' i; man sin.k Ladd. wh gram, w.i D. Salmon, 3d, sang two solos and Ma 'la Steele played ft piano eolo.

— AT —

Whitney's Stable AYER. MASS.

G. B. SCHULTZ Tel. 24-3 Harvard. Mass.

WOlow Dale Nnrsery HENEY W. EOBBINS

Dealer in Fruit Trees, Grapo Vines, Strawberry Plants, Shrubbery, , Evoreireeiis, Etc.

Tcl. 78-4 . ATER, MASS.

^ GEO. F-. F F L C H • F L O R I S T .^

A y E: M. Vl A S S

BOYUSTON AND EXETER STREETS

B O S T O N

One block from C o p l e y S q . and

Publ ic Library. C o n v e n i e n t t o

S h o p p i n g and T h e a t r e D i s t r i c t

Al l . Outs ide R o o m s ; E x c e l l e n t

Cuis ine .

Single Rooma $2, with Bath 92.50 and m ttoubl* " $2.50, " " 53.50 " *'

(OtxxS Oaiagea — 2 minutea* walk)

L. C. PRIOR, MANAam Two minuter from Back Bay Sution

Ten. minutes from Notth Station

Chas. Bartz Is Prcpnrcd to do

Electrical Work In all its brancfae*

ATER, HA8&

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WV^^^WM''^^^'f. [•f-i:'i'!^.-'K*j^M';0f^jf.>}.i!.»,*.'^^ti^

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Wish to call your atten­tion to their stock of

GEMETERY MEMORlflLS

which they would be pleas­ed to have intending pur­chasers inspect and obtain prices.

Ayer, Mass.

N . fl. 8 ^ £ ^ ^ E R 1 JON i^^^^'^'^^'^^^^i^^ S A T U E D A Y / NOVEMBJBE 6, 1916

Ask for What You

Want FRED PAWLING

FEANK S. BENNETT Successor to ABTHUR FENNBR

Insurance Agent and Broker Blaln Street Turner's Bldg.

ATER, MASS. %Hmm G. it. Stone, Pnblle Trpenriter

Speedwell Farm Pasteurized

CEEAM BUTTEE

FANCY CHEESES

Wo carry in stock the following lirst-cia.ss cheeses:

Camembert Pineapple

Swiss Eoquefort

Parmesan (Italian)

Eoquefort and American Pull Cream (AmericRn;

No. 1 Young America

• Chiley Cheese Club

Gifford Cream Cheese

Mullin Bros 9 Page's Block AYER

Union Cash Market Ayer, Mass.

LOOK OVEK THESE PRICE.S

BKST SKIX BACK HA.MS ior. Ih.

I$K:ST SIRLOIX STE..VK ;i()c. Ib.

I . . \MB CHOPS, ItIB -iof. 11).

H<>.\ST I'OHK IOc. II).

HACOX Ific. lb.

FANCY P E . \ S .» can.s 23t-.

titXiD \\-.\X BKANS 8c. can

\ . \X CAMP'S MII.K Sc. <.an

V.VX C.\MI>'S SOUl'S 2 for lot:

V.VX C.VMP'S BE.VXS, larso l.jc. can

V.\X C A M P S C.VTSUP, InrRC 10c. I)Oltlc

: (Copyright, ISIS. by.W. o . Chapman.)

• The new girl In the pattern depart­ment was EO pathetically tired. Tom Roberts watched her furtively all that first day of her arrival, as ahe stood at the t l g h desk next to his own wearily sorting and checking tire pat­terns-for the Ladles' Fashion Realm company.

The other young men watched her less secretly, in fact, winks and nudges were thick in the pattern de­partment that morning. For the new girl was undeniably a beanty. The other girls had noticed that fact too.

She was hardly more than eighteen, and there was an air of breeding about her which more than one girl Instinc­tively resented. Lucy Whitman was, in fact, bom to better things than this six-dollar position. Her father had been a small shopkeeper, with ambi­tions for his children. When he died Lucy had to get a position, and the only one .which offered was that of waitress in a restaurant. S h e stood that life for two months. But it was impossible for a girl of her appear­ance to endure It longer. Besides, the proprietor was angry that she refused to make up to his customers. A pretty girl meant Increased trade, and be saw no harm In her accepting the cheap badinage ot the clerks who fre­quented his place.

Lucy had always resolved to study stenography, but when she got home she was too fatigued to do anything more than slip into bed and tall asleep exhausted. It she had been like the rest of them . . . but her timid man­ner repelled the class of men who came into her life, and instinctively • ' .e recoiled from the advances ot the kind who would have made life at least uncompanloned.

The work in the pattern department was terrible. Tom Rogers, at twenty-two, had been there four years. His

BEST CREr\MERY BUTTER 29c. lb.

FANCT COOKIES 10c. lb.

GOOD COFFEE l«c. Ib.

B R E A D FLOUR 8.V. biiK

Union Cash Market Haln Stre«t, Ayer, Uass.

A Nioe Aaaortment of

Democrat Wagons

CONCORD

BUGGIES

Carriages, Butcher

Carts Harnesses

A GOOD ASSORTMENT AND AT ALL PRICES

CALIi AND SEB T H B U

Carriage Eepairing: iu All Its Branches Fromptly

Done AXJBO, HORS^BHOEINa A N D O S N -

BRAI4 BLiACKSiaTHINa

FREDERICK WHITNEY A T m . - ICAMU

T h e drcnlat lon of our ten papets ta ten timea Utrcer than tbat of any other paper clrculatlnir In the tan towna.

She Could Hard ly Manage to T i e Up the Str ing.

wages had crept up trom eight dollars to twelve. All day, from eight to six, he stood at his high desk. He would unfasten a huge bundle of the paper patterns, check off the number of each one In a book, shitting them alcng the desk until he came to the end; then he would fasten them together and get another bundle.

It waa less the labor than the soul-searing monotony of the thing. Mil­lions of patterns must have passed through his hands In those four years, and the supply was' quite inexhaust­ible. And Lucy was Just beginning where he was now.

The thought of those endless pat­terns had become a nightmare. Stol­idly the young man had stuck to his poat, hoping for better things.

He had wanted to become a sales­man. Devoe, the sales manager, to whom he had had a letter of introduc­tion, had told him frankly the pros­pects.

"Now and then we try out new men on the road," he said. "You'd better ge t in at the bottom, and seme day, when you have learned the business, your chance will come. You won't be forgotten."

That was four years ago, and since I then nothing had happened. On De- ! voe's raro visits to the department Tom had turned his eyes In dumb In­quiry upon him. But Devce had never noticed him, had never spoken.

Tom watched the girl day after day. The young men In (he dcpartmont had left her alone. Thcy realized that she was not a "sport," as they termed It. Not for them a girl who couldn't talk and Joko nnd give them a good time when thcy took her oiit, and flirt with them, and kis'g them at parting.

Tom and Lucy had exchanged greet­ings each morning. Once he had helped her with hcr sorting. Bnt he never ventured to speak to her other-, wise until that night when sho stayed behind to flnish up her bundle.

She was white from the striain of the loot standing; hor hands shook over her work. She could hardly man­age to tlo up the string.

When she put on her hat Tom real­ized thiil she was crying. . And a iQiShl.v ra~e niled his heart at the

thought of the pattern factory that was grinding away their lives and tak­ing toll of their vouth.

He went up to •1,, giVi. "Miss Whit­man, he said unsteadily, "you—you aren't fit for this job. it's taking your life away."

•She looked at him with wild alarm. "I've got to," she said in panickv tones. "You won t teil the foreman? For my sake—you won't teii him. I know I'm slow, but i m doiug my best. I'U make good. I—"

He caught her by the hands. "YotS don't think—?" he began. "You don't think—?" The idea was preposterous. "Did you think I wanted to make It harder for you?" he asked.

His arms were about her, and she was weeping upon his shoulder. Her helplessness stirred him deeply. He kept his arm tenderly around her as they walked to the elevator.

" r am going to see you to your home, Lucy," he said.

That was the beginning of their real acquaintance. But In the factory they continued to appear as strangers". This love that had come to them was too sweet, too intimate tor public knowl­edge.

It had been the simplest thing In the world. There never was any for­mal declaration. That night, as they parted, she raised her lips to his. more like a sister than a sweetheart. On Sundays he tcok her on a trolley into the country. And they began to dream about the future.

The irony of that bit into Tom's soul. Suppose hp managed to get fit-teen dollars a week ultimately! There was no promoUon out of thc pattern department. It was a blind alley; the only man who got more than fltteen was the foreir.an, and his wage was twenty-three. Boys cau:t Into the fac­tory and drifted cut to other jcbs. Girls entered, to marry, or . well, they disappeared after a time, Ste the youLs men did. Tom had been there longer than any other.

At last Le told Lucy frankly ol his fears.

"There's nothing to it at all." he said. "And I don't Imow what to do. I guess I'm not lit for anything else, except a laborer's Job maybe I came from a country town, end- my folks never amounted to much there. 1 had a letter to Dcvoe. He put me where I am. rin Juat one of the wastage, Lucy."

".N'o!" she cried. " Y o u are worth all of them put together, dear. And you are gcing to succeed. 1 Unow you are."

"I wil l!" he said, with clenched hands.

But how? At twenty-two he was as helpless in the heart of this grinding civilization of commerce as a savage might be. He saw rich inen every­where, men who rode in automobiles, who stood. In evoning dress, at the theater entrances. How did they get their chances? And why couldn't lie?" "Say. Rogers, did you hear Brown is going to leave?" asked oce ol lhe men at the factory one day. "Got a ten-thousand-dollar Job with the Women's Cloak and Skirt people. Devoe's pretty mad at losing him. I guess, but everybody in his department is look­ing for Brown's Job."

Ten thousand dollars a year! Tom felt a surge of disgust within him. He could have done as well as Brown. And ho knew the business from the bottom up. He had not been there four years for nothing! And Devoe had lied to him. . . ,

During the lunch hour he went inlo Devoe's oflice. passing the swing door that separated the factory from the s.-iles department tor tho first time in his life. Ho was burning all over with anger against the man.

He walked past the otllce boy, straight into tho room whero Devoe was seated alone, his feet on the table, looking cut of the window.

"You haven't told me the truth!" he heard himself crying in fury. "You told me four years ago there would be a chance fer me. When's It coming off? Why d o n t you give me Mr. Brown's place?"

Devoe tobk down his feet and a flush of anger, which crept over his face, was succeeded by amusement as he looked at the despairing flgure be­fore him.

"My dear boy, who are you ? I don't know you from Adam," he said.

Tom thought he was lying. "1 brought you a letter four years ago, and you said you wouldn't forget me, and thnt you tried out new men on the road," said Tom.

Devoe was Interested. "Want a chance on thc road, eh?" he 'asked. "Well, you might have had It several times. Why In thunder didn't you re­mind me? Think I've got time to waste on every Jako that brings me a letter?"

"Well, I want Itj" answered Tom hotly.

"Think you could sell patterns to the ladies' eh? Got a nice suit? Oot a smile? Know how to Jelly 'em along? Say, If you've waited four years for this, and allowing that you've got a forcofulness about you. I don't know as 1 won't give you a chance. Not Brown's Job at present, young man. But if twrrty per, and a commission looks all ri.clit lo yeu for a starter, you can come hack this aft­ernoon and III talk It over with you."

And Tom found hlmseif back In the empty pattern department. His head was whirling. Twenty and a commis­s ion! What f.ilps ho would make! Presently he saw Lucy at his side.

• "Tom! What is it. dear?" she cried, amazed at his Iccli. and clinging to blm.

"It'»—It's—the fne! of thia, Lucyi" he answered huskily. "I'm going on the road. ' Put on your hat and let's get out of here. I want to get a mar­rlase l icense before the hi;ro,-.u closes."

iHOLLIS, N. H. N'cwH It(>niH.

A 8on was born ti> .Mr. and Mrs. Frunk .Scott last wi-<-k Kriaay niKht.

Mrs. Porloy Lund haM been qultr- ill with an att;uk of appcndlcltlH. but is m u c h improved nt present.

.M-i.ss Hazel .Marshall went a.v a didi-(-•;\tc fnun tho Holllu V. r s. c. 1;. to the tlMrtlcth annual <''<iiv<-mii)n of tho .N"t-w Hampshire .St.-ii.- <• |-;. fn ion ht-ld In Concord on Oc.,!,,., j , -j(j .,„,] 31. She will eiv( Wedneaday cvcnlnK vembor 10.

Thc Gr.injte held .Intt on Tuesday ev<-i. was prt-.st-nt.and Ins;.

'tho Kfcond degre"-. fourth decrees will i thc llrst, meeting ii election of odlcers -.' the ne.xt meeting. Tue.sday evening Piano solo," -Mis.s . readings, Charles V»';: Baker; piano solo. .\ Joy.

A man from or.-manufacturing comp wa.s in town-on MOD-with him^., a powerf engine mounted on

I-p.irt at th I.'.XIIVJ: on X(j -

• M-;,'ular rncct--: Tho deputy '•••'I till- work of i'i.- tliini and

'"• «iven until I'li-xniief, T h e

' i k e place at '- iiroiiram on

•" -'IS . fol low.s; • nice H o l m e . s ; I*- and Phopnlx

• !-illhin Lovc-

•' xixe larfjcst • in America

Ile l)rouKht ' ii'-inical • Mro i"r .-ind .s;ient

t h e foreiioon deir'in-'.i.,tin« Its uso.s to the town engine.:

.'The W. .}{. C. will i:,ii,| a spocial moet ins on Monda-- .N-.vember 8. to prepare for i n s p e c . .. which will C'une on Tuesday, .v.'. .mber i).

La.st Sunday Henr-. L.^Ue and farn­ily talked with his - .•; ,,];,] ^ife at S.m Francl.sco, Cal ..^er the tele­phone. .Mr. Leslie. J.-, .has char;;e of tho , operatinK and n lint-nance dc-p.-irtmont of the -.Km^iir,in Telephone .Uld TelOfc-raph Comp . at the exoo-..-•itlon.

Mr.s. George W". H,!j. her knoe b.v a fall l.i-' Iy recovering.

Frank Hardy will • ward Hlll.s and family the winter.

Mrs. Frank B. Quinc.v. v.ho has beon vi.siting in Worcester. .Mas.-:., hus 1 oturned liome.

Mrs. .-Vgnette • H. Ken.lrir-k. of Hrookline. Mass., mother <.r '.Mrs. riiarlo.s .1. Hills, died verv Mirt<Ienlv la--. Tuesday night after a sh.r; ill", ii-ss. .She was sixty-live years i.f a-_-e.

Mrs. Oeorge Morrill, who was re­ported Iiuite il! last week, is Inipr.jv-i n s .

wh.'l injured .-••l;. i:; rupid-

• .mpany Kd-. l-'ioridu for

BROOKLINE, N. H. N'cws Items.

Mrs. O. D. Fesaenden and aau-.;hter Blanche were visitor.s in Bostoi-. last week Monday.

-Ml. and .Mrs. Charle.s Wilkins have moved from Main street to Hi,i;h street into a house the.v formerly-oc­cupied.

Last week Mrs. Charles Stickney ontortainod Mrs. Alice Cole, of Bos-, ton. Whilo here Mrs. Cijle callod on hor cou.sin. Alb.»rt I'ierce. whom she hud not seen for over thirtv years.

Quite .a serious flre broke out on the town lol lust Sunduy mornins,' and but for the prompt w.irk o f t h e men who turned out to ll;.'ht it much dam-a«:o inis,-ht huve rosnlt.-.l us the wind was blowing hard a; ilie time.

iMi.ss .Mada N'.vo, who has lieen visit­inK her uuni and uncle. Mr. and .Mrs. .-MphiL Hull, for the past two weeks, hus returned to her home in . \ew York,

I-"reemun Wrisht went t.. JP.stoii last week Thursduy uiul visited iii.s sister, .Mrs. Bertha Seelev, t.ir'f^n couple of duys. — i.<4

M i l o i ' f .rter w a s t h e s;uest las t S.it­urday of Lester iiill ut his home :n I'opi»erell.

Mrs. c;ruce Cumpboli went t.i ('nnx-bri'diie last weok Thursduy ami spent tho duy visiting frionds.

Wilfred Soucy hus been in .Vushua the past tlireo weeks doi.ni,' military dnty with his compunv durin;; the strike.

Mrs. l-'dwurd I'.-irker entertained tho .Sunbonnets on lust week Friduy, r.f which sho is a member, ".ut her

; snmmer residence here. .Mrs, 1-:, L. i l iudley. uis<j a member, cume up from j hor Cambrldsre h.une for thc occasion.

.Mrs. Henry Hall, of Ayor. spont la.- t weok Thnrsday in town, \'isi:inK frion.is itnd rolatites,

Tlic roof of the Con2ro'.'at:..nul church is br-in.;; shinKled by Wiili im .Matthews und Kldorus Shattuck.

Edward I.ance\- has moved his fam­ily to Bond street for the winter months in order thut the children may be nearer their schools.

A vory pleusant.and enjoyable moot­ing of Brookline Grungo took place on last week Wednesday evening with Deputy und .Mrs. Arthur Vuughn pres­ent. A lunch with hot coffee wu.s serv­ed by tho secretary, Mrs. Hattio r ierco, and hor assistants, after which the following program was given: Duot. Grace and Alice Whitcoml); ro.udins. Mr.s. George Cady: vocal se­lection. Delbert Porter; reading, Edna Hall; piano and cornet, Grace Whit­comb and Starr Barnaby; essay. Clara Russoll. lecturer. The last number was a, farco entltlod "The pull back." tho cast being, made up of the follow­ing membcr.s: Mrs. Delia Hall. .Mrs, Hatt io Plerco. Mrs. Victor Maxwell, Mrs. Edna Hall, .Miss Blanche Hall and JIrs, George Cady. After the on-tcrtalnmont both Jlr. and Mrs, Vaughn gave a. short, address anrt .Mr, Vaughn also made a few reniarks in regard to the work, it being fall in­spection,

Tho Methodist church fair on Tues­.lay ovening was a success in every way, and especially pleasing was tho Onti-rtulnment In thc form of un old folks' concort, Thc ladles, In their (luulnt poke bonnets and thc old lace sh.uwls an.l silk Kowns of their grand­mothers uTiti Kroat - grandmothers, m a d e a iiirtnro that was rare and pleasing. The r.reclan scarf drill and tableaux by tho elcht young woinen under the direction of Mlss Blanche Hall, were remarkably well executed The .singlUK of Mr.s. George Brackett! of Tow-nsond. thc readings of Miss Leonora Hradley and tho original poem of Mr.s, M,T.ry BarborWere dc-llghtftll. Much of the suecesa of thc entertainmont Is duo to thc efforts of .Mr.s. 'William Boutelle.

•had charge of thc stables at the old trotting park grounds whon horse trotting was at its he!,;ht In Iht« vi-cinlty Tho decease.l is survived bv

-M," '•• ,"'"',' "''- '-'• -' "•' ••< \YII<lor. u n.ituo of Lunenburg. a.nd three duuf-liters. Two of iiis comrades of

• ! ; ! , ' ! . ' / ' " ' • ' ; , ' , ' ' • ' , "* ' " '•'• ' - > • " " " " " ' i < liarles B, Longley. ur- now llvitig in Lunenburs,-,

The dinner by tho J,;-.dies' .Sewing eliel.- .01 lust week Friduv noon wus the b,..t ijutroiilze.l of unv in u lons,-timi', an unusually lurae number at-tomlin;,', muny comin'-' from the further points in town by untomobllcs .•uui electric cars. ,v very uppetlzinf; dtnner w-us served to which all did amjile justice,

llev, HowardA, BridKman. of Bos­ton, w-ho was expected to occupv the pulpit at the ConirroKatlonul ehurch last .Sunda}-. was unablo to bo hore and Itev, p.obert A, Br.vant delivered u lino sermon upon "Tho Christ in prison,"-

On last week Thursduy afternoon the Junior Epworth league held a spocial meeting, and for entertain­ment Kave u line Halloween program. .Gordon and .Stanley Brown. Lee San-dcr.'ion. Kenneth Cox and Harold Eastman presented tho first .scene from Dickens' "ChriBtmas carol " Dorothy Barter gavo seloctlons on the piano and other members had short iiudln^'s. the whole comblnli,;,- to form un i.iterestlng program.

On lust week Friday afternoon the hiKh school improvement league KUVI-a very enjoyable program in wi i ch Halloween exercises were a special fo.utui-o. Tho junior class had chaivco and the fun began by the reading cf 'Itis I-:iriott of sophomore prophecies. written by DwiKht .MuKovern. Five Kirls. ImpersonatinK fairies, y-ive a cortume drill. Frances Harley as 'lUcen. with Elizabeth Warren. Bea­trice .'vnd .Mildred .Archibald and Hazel '.Martin a.'; attendants: four hoys represented Kho.Y.s, Willard Adams. Dwight MaKovern, .Maurice Cass and William Wolfe: .Mice UeCoff. piani.st. Doroth.v Cass then Kave the witch scene from Macbeth, assisted by Mar­Karet Grant and Vest ..\lexandcr For a closing feature pers'.nal prophecies were distributed by the witches" lo every teacher and pupil which were vory .apt and created much merri­ment. .Many friends and patrons iif the school witnessed this entert-iin-mcnt and enjoyed it very much.

On Friday evening of last weok the Boy Scouts gave their lirst public cn-t'ltainm.-nt before an audience which lillcd the vestry of the ConKregatlonal church, ".K strenuous afternooh" wai thc plu.v. in which even.- member had a p.-irt, and it was given with a snap and vim which won the approval of everyone present, and many expressed tho .hone tha: the scouts will give an­other in the near future and charKO at least small admls.slon, -Xo admis­sion fee was charged at this, their llr,st venture, and all the remunera­tion received w,u.s from tho sale of home-mado candy and other delica­cies by tho Camp-tiro Girls and a vol-untury offering. This did very well and tiio scouts are ver.v Krateful for this uddition to iheir treasury, but we hope for moro next time. Tho scouts of Lunenlnir.K were -very glad to welcome a brotherly organization, the Boy Scouts of Groton, as their KUCSIS,

.•\nother old landmark is to bo de­molished and very koon the old Perrln mill will become a thin:.- of tho past, as tho selectmen have givon A. W. Kockwood, superintendent of thc town farm, jiermission to tear it down and use tile material in building a woodshe.l ut the almshouse,

I Soco:i.l-hand clothinK need never be .thrown uway or ,~oId to the ragman, Th»-re .UIO .ulwa\s needy ones in every community who are very thankful for any of these castoff , Kurments, The relief committee of the Womun's club will Kl.udly receive any such clothinK which they will repair and use in re-lievlnK the wants of families in dis-tros.j. .\ny contributions of this kind may b.- l.-ft with .Mr.s. S, H. P'rancis at tho c.-r.t.-r.

Busk.-nail teams met for pr.actice at thi- t-i'.vn hall .-:i Tues.lay eveninK, f>n Sa::iri;u,\- '-y. nxnix the I , A, A, Iirst to.'im wil! ].lnv rh*- .tS'halom C.unoe clnb ;in.l t'n'- L .\. .\.•'s-c.nd leam wil! pl;iy an :ili-.-ta!- lean . from Fitchburr'.

,\t the meetinK .'if t'n- s.-lectmon on last .S.it i:r(l;ty evenin.L; i.'-rmission was Kranted tiie .N'. I-:. T. .-v T. Comiiuny to 1 sot two adilition.il poles 'in -.Mulpus road for exteitdin,;; tho. line. It was ] also voted to g i \ . ;. heurin.K on S,at-nrday evening. .Vovember H, to thc municipal IlKht boar.l .in thoir peti­tions tor leave to orocl ]>oles and wirt-s on ("r.iss street from I'ro.s-iioct slre(-t to 'he residence of C, A, Cross; on Towr..- street. Geradino streel. Crocker nt.nixe. Wilder avonue and Barrett str.-.-t.

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• Sa tu rday , N o v e m b e r G, 1915.

necess i ta ted h i s d r o p p i n g his s tud ies a t t h e Agr i cu l tu ra l college t h e r e , a n d enjoyed moe t ing his fo rmer c lass ­ma tes .

Mrs. C. A. Conan t went to w'ashln.g-ton. D. C . last week tor an extended visit wi th f r iends .

Mlss E m m a Wi l loughby came from W o r c e s t e r t h i s week to spend a few days wi th Mrs . X," W. Tarbell a t Woodside co t t age . She was formerly a res ident h e r e .

PEPPERELL N o n a I t e m s .

A. H . Gi lber t went to Suncook. X, H., last week T h u r s d a y to visit a t his old h o m e for the day.

Supt . A. R. Paul l is out w i t h a new Studebaker tour ing car .

Mlss Margare t Blood en t e r t a ined -Mlss Henr ie t t a Wilkinson, of X a s h u a .

N. H., a niece of .Mrs. J . R. S h a i t u c k , a few days la.si week.

El len Miller, of P a r k s t reet , .spent several days recent ly vis i l ing fr iends In Mllton a n d Milford, X. H,

Mr. a n d Mr.s, Elgin S, Gren. iche and Mrs. Roso Davis, night ope ra to r a t the t e l ephone offlce in Grolon. enjoyed an a u t o m o b i l e r ide to Lowell on Mon­day.

Mrs. E l la P'i tzpatrick and niece. Ml.ss Ethe l Cobb, from .Melrose High­l a n d s . w e r e gues is a t the home of .Mr. and Mrs, A, II. l i aymond from F r i d a v to Monday,

Mrs, M. J, Dowling, of Worces te r , a former res ident here . w;is in town over Sunday, the guesl of he r niece. Mr.s, D r u m m .

T h c P h e l p s a u t o logging t ruck ot, Aycr Is ag.iin r u n n i n g IhLs way. T h e t r ips a re mostly on the back rnad to Groton. a s t h e lol being cui from Is on tha t road, n e a r the old Gust in place by t h e pond .

T h e h a r v e s t s u p p e r to be .served a l P r e s c o t t G r a n g e on the evening ot XoV'ember 12, is to be in c h a r g e of l h e u n m a r r i e d m e m b e r s of l h e s,ame. T h i s is- acco rd ing to t h e decision t.t t h c ones aj ipointed to j udge he tween t h e two ,sides of the mar r i ed and un­mar r i ed p a t r o n s when an ent'-rt.-i in-m e n t was given l.-ist siirnnu-r. The losing side were to have full chnrge pf th is harve.-it .•^uiiiier, .if whieh Lloyd Hancroft is cha i rman ,

Mrs, r ieorge Tiu-ker was in r)-*rry, N . H.. .a few fl.'ivs lust week. l-;--l)diig h e r son. Kaymond Tucker , nnd wife, who have lalely moved therf . -'.-t .set­tled in thei r new home,

Mrs. F . A. L-twrenoe sjienr \\"erlnf-s-day with her si.ster, .Mrs. \Vhe'-U r. in Nashua , .

T h e Ready Worke r s ' e;r(-;i- .ti Acoma Kebekah lodge heir] :h ' ir tlr.st meet ing fit t he fall se.ason "n T h u r s ­day evening. Uctober US. at the home of .Mrs. Krank Farley, It w,-is per­h a p s n<jt general ly unders tood tha t t h e mee t ing would occur, as the a t ­tend.ance was smal ler t han usual . The meet ing will be repea led on T h u r s d a y evening, X o v e m b e r 11. at the s,'ime place. Mrs. Far ley 's , when it is hoi)ed more ladies will come.

Mrs, F r a n k Marstrm, who is b e r o m -Ing nicely established on O.ak hill in he r new home, the Mention cott.age. with h c r chi ldren .has demons t r a t ed tha t .an old-f.ashioned homes tead r a n bc m a d e a most des i rable hab i t a t ion . Al though t h e houso Is fairly well shel tered It possesses one of the finest views to the nor thwes t . The Inler lor has been remodelled to suit the tas te of the preseni occupan t s and lown water and a b.athroom .a<lded. The children have a line p layground free from danger , and tho Oak hlll school­room is Jusl across t h e s t ree t , a s nea r a s In a cily and m u c h m o r e desirable . Li t t le Anlt.a Is a l r e a d y enrolled .as a pupi l , .and Stewart , t he flve-year-old. Is somet imes pe rmi t t ed to visit. Mr. Mars ton Is ablo to spend every w e e k ­end the re and Is expected on F r i d a y of th i s week. All toge ther thcy feel th&t t h e two-year l imit t hcy set for t h e occupancy of the house is likely lo p rove pleasant a s well a s hea l th fu l .

Mr. and Mrs, J, A. Donnel ly went to Newtonvi l le by nuto to spend S u n ­d a y wi th Mr. Donnelly 's sister. Miss Sal ly MacKinnon.

Mrs . Quincy Cole, of Bedford , was t h o Kuest of Mr.s. W a l t e r J e w e t t and d a u s h t e r , Mrs. Alice Spencer , a t t he i r h o m o on Townsend s t ree t last week, a n d l a t e r a t Woodslde wi th Mrs. Q e o r s e P i e r ce .

Mrs . J . R. Sha t tuck , from Concord, a n d Mrs . ..M. A. Cu thbe r t son , from F i t c h b u r g , were in town on T h u r s d a y a f tornoon of las t week , coming to a t ­tend t h o las t sad r i t e s for Mrs. L. H. B e a n , t h e i r f o r m e r fr iend and ne igh­bor .

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Miss Bessie F a r l e y was at her h o m e over S u n d a y f rom Xewton Canter .

Mrs. J o h n Martiti ami d a u g h t e r E s t h e r spen t last Siii'-irdtiv in X a s h u a . X. H.

George P a t t e r s o n , of Merr imack. X. H,, was t h e gues t of his d a u g h t e r . Mrs. A lbe r l H a r r i s , the tirst of th i s week. He expects lo s ta r t on .Satur­day for Or lando , Fla., where he has spent four consecut ive winters , Mr, I ' a t t e r son is seventy-nine y e a r s of age. a ve le ran of the civil war . and nol ex l remely s i rong . but he gives all the credi t for h is fairly good hea l lh for one of "hi.s years to his win te rs in the sou th . He will m a k e the journey alone

W o r k m e n h.ave been excavat ing for the addi t ion to the Peppere l l card shop th i s week. Thc addi t ion is to run a t r ight angles from t h e r ea r of the n o r t h end o t the factory, t oward thc s p u r t r ack . The gravel t aken out of t hc bank proved of very good qual ity for road bui ld ing and h a s been used in dirferent p a n s of the lown by the h ighway surveyor.

The Amer ican Bo.x Company have pu rchased from H. A. I ' a r k e r the g rowth of p ines on the lol ad jo in ing the Goodnow e s t a t e . They intend to c o m m e n c e work very soon of fell Ing and loading on lo the cars to be lakcn to the i r factory In .Vashua.

Mrs, Mary F i tzpa l r i ck Is in W o r ccs ter wi th he r daugh te r . .Mrs. Myron .Murph.v. who recent ly had a sl ight a t tack of appendic i i i s .

. lohn i-'rossard re tu rned h o m e on Fr iday of iast week, his business call­ing him f a r t h e r wesl t han was ant ic i paled,

-Mrs. A r t h u r Bar t le t t and twn litlie d a u g h t e r s , wilh .Miss Delia 'I'.N'eal lo assist, went lo Ga rdne r Tuesday for a week 's visit a l the home of Mrs. Bar t le t t ' s pa ren t s ,

Mr, and .Mrs, Ingal ls K i t t r e d g e wenl to C a m b r i d g e lasl Sunday to spend the day wi th the i r son, Oscar Ki t t r edge . and wite . Miss Edna Kit­t r edge a c c o m p a n i e d them ii.art way.

Rurnor s t h a i a teticher by the name of .Miss Keefe had jierished iji t he lire a t St. J o h n ' s school. Peabod.v, last week were very dis()uieting to . t he many friends he re in !..wn ot^'a Miss H.-l.-n Ke...fe, wh-i '.v.is "iir ass is tant in the h igh school I',.oT-10. Inves t iga­tion showed, h'W.rver, tha t she was safe and t<-,-ir-h;nu- m Koxbury, and t h e n a m - of the te. icher who was fatally l.nrned was jirobably Miss Mary K-'-f'-, a d is tant r - l a l lve .

Miss .\---n.-s Hayward , a ss i s t an t ax the hiu-h srh... .l , was called lo Han­cock, X. H., on l-'riday of la.sl we.-k by the new-s ot the illness ,if he r mother , who reside.^ the re . .-\s t h e iilness s e e n v d of a ser ious n a t u r e . Miss Hay­ward ' s sister a nurse in t r a in ing al a Koston hospi ta l , w,-is sent for and arrive.l in t ime to all.iw Mlss Hav­wanl t.. r e tu rn to he r school liu'i.-s here on .\lon<lay,

Kena D.-ivis, t e a c h e r a l the ,\I:iin s treet srhool , en te r t a ined her |..-ir-ents, .Mr, and .Mrs, Davis, of s.mford, .Me., and younge r sister, Kuth Davis, on Fri i lay 'of last week. .\v -impanied by Miss D a v i s they wen' from here to Worces te r for the W.-.'K-'-nd, where thev h.ave a son a ' •if Worces te r Po ly technic school

T h e P a u g u s r 'anii .- ' :.- Girls hel.l a ce remonia l meetini : at the i r room at the res idence of -M.' - I I?, l-ewis, F r i ­day. October 2t' rh ree new m e m ­hers . Doris Durant , .Marguerite Drury and .Marion Thomiison. Joined at this meet ing. At the lasl ceremonia l meet ing Kleanor and .Mae Hildreth and Kdith I 'tilmer j o ined , ,mak ing the n\iml>er of the circle sixteen. All the c h a r t e r m e m b e r s of the C'ami>-'ire, with the exception of Zilpha Wood-wor th , who was absent dur ing the s u m m e r , received a local honor bead for doing Red Cross work at the I) A, R, c h a p t e r house dur ing the sum­mer .

Lieut . K e n n e t h Blood an.l Mrs, Rlood. from For t Preble , near I 'or t­land. Me., who have been visiting his pa ren t s , Mr. ahd Mrs, S, Thompson Blood, of Concord, drove here last week to spend a few days with his g r a n d p a r e n t s . .Mr. nnd Mr.s, I., I", | Blood, and a u n t . Miss Margare t , ]

K a t h l e e n Kouse has resumed her s tudies at. t he Lowoll Husiness college, s t a r t i ng In Monday. N<ivember 1. • Leslie Rccd. from Hosirm. was at the h o m e of his mfilher. Mrs, M, K, Uecd. over Sunday .

Mrs. Wli l lam H. Beers a t t ended the g r a n d council (Ire of t h e Chelsea Camp-flro Girls held in tha t city on Wednesd.ay. T h e pastor of thc .Meth­odist chu rch the re has given much t h o u g h t to this movement and has

P a u l lodge of Aycr, and Lawrenoe Morgan, past mas te r of the s a m e lodge, a t t ended by invi ta t ion the pub­­llc Installat ion and b a n q u e t of Wi lder lodge, F . and A. M., a t Leomins te r on last Monday evening.

A record on hay m a k i n g h a s been establ ished by WHlard Smith , who rer sides on the East Gro ton road. H e asse r t s hc llnlshed hay ing October 30, having commenced J u n e 25, all duo to the "(inc Xew Eng land wea the r . "

Tho P e n n e m a q u a n Cttmp-Hre Circle held a council liro with the i r gua rd ian , Mrs. Beers, on P'riday evening. Octo­ber 29. Two member s , nol ab le lo a t ­tend the regu la r ini t iat ion, were init i-a t e d ' t o the r ank of " w o o d - g a t h e r e r s , " receiving thei r rings,

J . L. Clark and family, from Xash­ua, N. H.. moved here recent ly from th.eir f a rm on the Duns tab le road and a r e living on Crescent street , nea r the i r son, Har ry Ciark. foreman on the Boston miik car r u n n i n g from th i s place.

Oh Thur.sday. October 28. d a u g h t e r s wer© welcomed a t t h e h o m e s of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hacke t t , High streel , and Mr. and Mrs. T i m o t h y Biood. T a r ­bell s i reet .

Rev. Robe r t E, Blsbee. a former pas tor of t h e Methodist church in th i s town, when h e d iv ided ' his a t tent ion between his pastoral . dut ies and p r e a c h i n g socialism t h r o u g h o u t the s ta te , m a k e s a public s l a t e m e n t in the Boston American, date of October 29, lo suppor t Governor \Valsh for r e ­election. The preface sj ieaks of his being a close s tudent of political con­dit ions for twenly years . Mr. Bisbee gives, in the ha l t - co lumn of reasons, his chief purpose the desire to check the tendencies of the republ ican p a r t y and several t imes uses the t e r m " in­visible gove rnmen i . " which he cla ims should be abol ished. H e . admi t s it may occasion some c o m m e n t t h a t he. a. Methodist minis te r and a prohib i ­tionist, should favor Walsh , but s t a n d s firm by his decision. Mr. Bisbee Is now In a conference In Connecticut .

Mrs. Ju l i a J o h n s o n h a s clo.sed he r s u m m o r homo on Oak hill and re­turned to he r home in Litt le Kock, Ark, , going into Bost.jn by au to on Tuesday,

Miss Marga re t Park c a m e t rom the W a l t h a m ho.spital, whero she is a nurse , last Saiurday. to a.ssist in car ­ing for Miss Anne Jewell , who recenl ­ly re lu rned from a Boston hosiiital. whero she went tor i r e a t m e n l for hcr throat ,

Mr, and Mrs, Baker , of Swampscot t . were week-end guests a t the home rif Char les K. Boynton. Heald street .

G. Dana Bancrofl . who has been in r a the r jioor hea l th d u r i n g the s u m ­mer, is much improved and able to gel out each day and a l t end lo some of his farm work.

Mrs, J o h n L, Boynlon. pres idenl ot the Woman ' s club. Mrs.-.V. P. Wrigh t . Mrs. J . O. Bennet t . .Mrs. C. .M. Gage •and Mrs. George Pierce a t tended the meet ing of the W o m a n ' s club in Ayer on Wednesday, which was reciprocity day. Mrs. Dennett and Mrs. Gage rendered a piano duet du r ing the pro­gram.

The Ladie.s' Benevolent socieiy will seri'C a chicken-jiie sujijier a t the Congrcgation.T.1 vestry on Thurst lay evening. November I I . at fi.:!0 o'clock. The commit tee a re Mrs, Wil l iam Jewet t , -Mrs. .Matthew Uane. Mrs. Albert P a r k e r and .Mrs. Bur ton H u m p h r e y .

Mrs. Ernes t .Melindy re turned Ihls week af ter sjiending t h e .summer al he r old home in Cushing. -Me.

The Ge.irgo Keyes famiiy have re­moved to a j i a r tments in Boston for t h - winter to give the i laughter .Mary addition.al educat ional advan tages . Their h.iuse on the hill is to be cl.ised th i s week f.ir the winter.

.Mrs F r a n k C n a n t has bi-en sjien.l­ing this week at lo r old home in Barns t -ad , X. H.

Leslie I 'a rker has t . ( -n In I.aeonia, .N', H., this week, visiting his sister, wh.i is t- . iching there,

.\rrs. .-Mice (McCormack i Oulton m.ived here from I-"itchb»rK with h - r two children last we.-k into Mrs, 1-;, .\, Haywar . i ' s t enemen t on Crescent street . She is in .somewhat be t te r heal th than when she left town af ter the . leath .if her husband ab.iut two years tigo,

H.iwar<l Willoughby. of Lexington, was in town for a few. hou r s Wednes­day lo.iking after his goods, which a re stored here, .Mrs, Willoughby is improving from the effects of lhe shock she had a few weeks ago. |

Mrs. Laura H- r r lg Kelley, well-known in town, came to Groton last week as a member of the . \ r l lng ton .Musical club, which furnished en le r -tainiTi-nt at a recejition given by Mrs. Jan-.es A. Bailey, ,lr., on t h e old Ayer r..ad.

Itev and Mrs. D. R- Child, -Mis-s l.illibri.lge and . i thers went int.. B.JS-t..n on We.ln-silay for the day by aulo,

Mrs Char les Taft, as llrst d i rec t ress of the Village Aid s.ici-ty. has a p -pointe.i as the six assi.sianl d i rec t ress -..s Mrs Gustaf Anderson. Oak hill , Mrs Leon Kiehardson, Miss Clar.a M. Shat tuck . Mrs. K. F. H a r m o n , Mrs. W F. Dennen and Mrs, T. F, G r a h a m .\nvone wishing lo con t r ibu t e ar t ic les ;,f c lothing an.i a n y t h i n g else useful for the work ot t h e society are r r -, nested to leave t h e same w t h -Mrs. Freder ic P a r k e r , Mill .street.

Tho Pepperel l F a r m e r s ' and Me­chanics ' clu'b will hold a meei .ng in the reg i s t ra r s ' room at the town house on Monday evening. November 8 -.1 7 " s Klection of oincers for the ensuing .year will t ake place.

A hedge of Barbaris^ vulgar is ^has

t h e h o m o of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dar­ling, F o s t e r s t ree t . Thcy expect to s t a r t for tho sou th thc last of the week, going to Or lando. Fla., where Mr. T u r n e r h a s a l r eady .sjient eight win te r s for his hea l th . I t was a t th is p laco tha t .Mr, and Mrs. Dar l ing visit­od t h e m a few winters ago , -and recall t ho resor t with p leasure . Mr. und Mrs. Allan Harker called on Mr. Tur ­ner , whi le hc was in town, a s thcy havo near ly decided t.i go lo Orlando .also. I t Is an Inland l.iwn. such a s the phyaician h a s recommended for Mr, I ' a r k e r ' s hea l th , and the conditions soom favorable .

Mrs. Marga re t Davis enter ta ined he r uncle . E d w a r d Whalen . and fam­ily a t her home- on Xttshua s t ree l over Sunday. . They came from Roxbury by au to .

Lloyd Banc ro f t has taken the agency for t h e Saxon-Six a u t o and h a s been giving demonst ra t ions to several In lown,

Mr, and Mrs. Char ies H. Miller sjient tho week-e'nd at the home of Dr, Percy Miller in Harwich, Cape Cod,

As Jirevlously announced thc school board will hold a jiublic meet ing at tho High School building on Fr iday. X o v e m b e r 12, a t eight p. m. This meet ing ' -is for t h e considerat ion of school p r o b l e m s and -p l ans for the do­ve lopmen t of o u r syslem of ins t ruc­tion.

was also k indly and helpful. It seems fairly safe to asser t they will meet here aga in next fall. T h e club also say tha t t hey have had a decided ad ­van tage by the excellent roads lead­ing out of town, both toward Groton and Duns tab le , a l lowing the free use of au tomobi les .

The reason of the club leaving the Belcher town ground . It is understood, was t h r o u g h no fault of the spor t there , bu t because of a letter received from cer ta in par t ies in Belchertown ask ing t h e m to hun t eisewherc. T h e club a f t e rward received a second let­ter with moro than 200 signers, whose aggrega te a c r e a g e was more t h a n 12,000 acres , request ing the club lo meet t h e r e a s usual,^ bul a r r a n g e ­ments had a l r eady been made a t P e p ­perell. and it is more than Ilkely. be ­cause of the i r complete satisfaction, they will r e t u r n here for ano the r year . It Is s ta ted t h a t Belchertown loses someth ing , over $1000 by the change .

A ne<lKe' .It t,.. -- , T^r-been j . lantcd this week ">•,^•. ' ' ' " bell at his residence on Main s t ree t

Charlea Jewet t haa been m o ^ ' ^ ^ I h . ^ w e e k from the old Dennen place and expects to bc set t led in his new p C r c h a ^ , T h o M.a»les, next week,

Wlllla P e r r y was In lown the first of the w c e k / c l a l m l n g to havo come ?ro.^ 500 miles boyond Winnipeg, .Manitoba. „ ,

Mrs. S J, Bake r and Mlsa E d n a Bean from Milford, X. H,. were guesta in lown a l Mrs. E. E. H a n d -ley's on .Saturday.

In teres i In the exlenslon school seri'lcc. M. A. C . Is increas ing a m o n g the fa rmers and hou9ekecpcr.s In th i s locality, and the claaa bids fair to be tho largest and best In this section of iBCoCOunto-. R '» ' 0 c o m m e n c e on Monday. Xovember 29.

.Mrs. Leland Hopkins , from G a r d ­ner, made a nylng call on many of her friends In town on Wednesday .

Tho ball gamo on W e d n e s d a y af te r -

Fox H u n t F in i shed . T h e Xew Eng land Fox H u n t Was

b r o u g h t lo a close last .Siiturday af lcr­noon a t t e r a week 's sport , with a showing of seventeen petts . The m e m b e r s of t h e club, were Joined in mos t of t h e dr ives by some of the local h u n t s m e n , some of whom Joined t h e c lub before the week was over. -

T h e w e a t h e r of the week was Hne, bu t on most of the days not frosty enough to suit t he hunters . On Wed­nesday t h c d a y grow hot too quick, the sun dry ing t h e gr.ass and m a k i n g it bad to r t h e ha rd -work ing hounds . Thur.sday m o r n i n g the a i r was cold and slill and a whi te frosl covered the g round which m a d e a dampnes s tha t held t h e scent . This made ea.sy work tor t h e h o u n d s and mosl of the hun t ­e r s had l ively-sport .

( F o r five out of the six days there were t r o m fifty to seventy-five hun te r s in the field, and no "kid-gloved" h u n t ­ers in the lot. They es t imate they would have had tully twenty-t lve foxes if they had cap tu red all that werc scented out bv t h e h o u n d s or shot a t . The club werc genera l ly out before dayl ight and a s they were con­veyed lo the scene of the hun t in au tos . twenty-flve being available, the h o u n d s were east Off early every m o r n i n g for t h e drive. This differ­ence was par t icular ly noted, whereas former ly thc hun te r s and hounds pro­ceeded to thc desired g rounds on foot. t hc hun t of last week was compassed In far easier fashion. This was par t ly t h r o u g h the klndnes.s ot local hun t e r s who placed t h e i r cars a t the disposal of a s manv a s could crowd into them. Somo o t the club also b r o u g h t the i r own a u t o s a long and procla im the day of the long, h a r d t r amp over. • The 'f i rs t fox on Monday was shot by A. B, Edward.s. of Woonsocket . K. 1,, a l 0,45 in t h e morning, Wi lh him were Mr, Wai l ing , j iresident of the club, and E. L. Tarbeli , of this lown. who routed out the animal , which was nul hounded . H. H, Clarke', ot Som­erville. b rough t down a second late in tho af ternoon, tho drive m a d e by a hound of F. X. Rule, Hollls. .Vo oth­e r s w e r e ' t a k e n , a l though il was evi­dent t h a i some o f . t h e dr ives benelit­ted someone, as shots were heard In the advance of the dr ives a l a dis­tance In the a t t e rnoon the main Jiartv ran into a herd of deer on the road' to Townsend. no less than five being a t one t ime in front of the hounds(gj,

Tuesfffe- no jielts were got by any m e m b e r o t ^ h e club, . 'ilthough some Jieculiar incidents occurred, AV, A, K e m p was r e tu rn ing home, walking on Ptirk s treet , when a fox dar ted oul in front of him from the side of the road, .Mr, Kemji th inks he wounded him, but he got away, Laler , Kriiesl Melendv, dr iv ing on the Brooklirie road, had two a p p e a r to him, badly bewildered bv the hounds evidently. He got them both, t h o u g h one was only recovered la ler ns it gol into the brush , , ,,,

On Wednesdav four foxes were kill­ed bu t nol all by the club, Mr, Allen, of Shrewsbury , was the luckiest man in the crowd, bringing down the tirst fox nnd tak ing the double jiol of $13,50, He had half decided to go h o m e that morning, but remained for a n o t h e r dav ' s sport with this result, \ sharp seven-hound dr ive look place in the vicinily of Hogg hill in the af­ternoon and the f requent discharues made the phace reve rbe ra te a s though t r ench war fa re was going on. i-'rank Bennet t shot on- here , and a work­man assist ing the t ree warden gol an ­other , Dr, Koark, of W a i l h a m . in hi.s a u t o with Dr Osg.iod of Lexington, S. M. .N'okes of this town and .Mr, Smith of Wai lham. had two good shots , eajituring one.

On Thursday two pelts werc taken by in-mt.ers of the club and Roy .Vut­ting- c.-ijitured one on hla way lo his nork a t the j iumplng s ta t ion,

f m Friday the hounds m a d e several good drives, but one ran over the N'ew Hampsh i r e line, and was given up. The greatest exci tement of the xlay was occasioned hy a Ford car, dt^ivcn bv IO. .M, Stillman, of Blackstone. t u rn ing tur t le The accident , which was the nnly one of the meet , h a p ­pened not far from the Ryan place on the Townsend H a r b o r road. A aharji bend In the road and a sleep bank waa the cause of the disaster . .Mr, Stillman was for tuna te ly a lone Just for the time .and was pinned un ­de rnea th t b - '-ar, but In such a m a n ­ner a s to esi ijie Injury, His erica for he lp brought Dr. Heald. who with J . A. Wiley in his runabout , was nea r the scene. Mr Walling and compan ions were nearby and the signal " c o m e " was blown l.y thc to rmer . THe car waa soon lifted and Mr. Sti l lman pluckily jiulled himself toge ther . He was given first aid by Dr. Heald, bandaged and driven back to the hotel , llis ear was not d a m a g e d be­yond a broken windshield and mud­guard . As Mr. Sti l lman Is s o m e w h a t elderly th - shock Is l ikely to t rouble h im for some t ime.

On S.iturday. the cloalng day of the meet, f. w-r hun te r s were In thc field, bul three jiclta were added to the number Many of t h e club went home at noon and by n ight nol one Of

Sunday .School Classes Meet. On Thur.sday evening, October 28| a

mosl enjoyable social was held a t t h e home of Mr. and Mrs, Otis Merri l l , Oak hlll s t ree t . The guests en t e r t a in ­ed were the bible classes of Mr. Mer-. rill and Mlss Clara M. Shat tuck of t h e Congregat ional Sunday school. T h e houso was br ight with Ilghts and a u t u m n llower-s and the host and his wife. assLstcd by Mlss Sha t tuck . gave ever>' one a most cordial welcome. Thc m e m b e r s of each clas.s. with hus ­band dr wife, swelled the n u m b e r lo nearly seventy people.

J u d g i n g from the bril l iancy of t h e conver.sation whe.re all popular sub­jects . Were discussed, not for fe i t ing the grea t quest ion of woman suffrage, it waa a company ot which one would be p roud to bo a member . A facl ot unusua l in teres t should bo ment ioned. Six ladles, all m e m b e r s of Mr. Mer­rill 's class, had reached or passed t h e four-score milestone. T h e years a p ­peared not to have lessened thei r In­terest In modern quest ions to which they proved t h e m s e l v c ' keenly al ive.

A bount i ful collation had been p r o ­vided, proving tha t each woman " looketh well lo the ways of h e r household ."

As t h e hou r s passed conversat ion did not s lacken, but grew ajiace. ow­ing no doubt to the-good th ings ea ten and the delicious coffee served.

Svhilc Mr. Merril l 's cla,ss w i thd rew lo a l tend to thc election of class of­ficers. Mi.ss .Shattuck's class ga the red near the piano, where wiyi Mrs, Lewis as pianis t they .sang again thc "old songs," Soon the o lher claas Joined the grouj) and r e m a r k s were made by the pastor . Kev, J, B, Lewis, George H, Sh.'ittuck, .Sund.'iy school sujierin­tendent . and Mr, .Merrill, He closed by a s su r ing them tha t " t he la tch s t r ing would cont inue , lo be oul ." A line w.as per formed and the .guests, circled a r o u n d the big ch imney s ing­ing "Auld L a n g Syne," At a lale h o u r the gues is took the i r dej iar ture by autos , ca r r i ages and on toot with the sense of a n o t h e r very pleasant mee t ­ing of friends.

or iginated a splendid outl ine tor rank noon on the Townaend g r o u n d s be ­tween tho Townsend and Peppere l l teama rcaulted in a acoro of 18 to 0, in favor of t h e Peppere l l s . T h e t eam waa .carrier! to Townsend In D u r a n t ' s au to hy For res t Winch and by J o h n Beaulleu in his au to . F r ed Benne t t

Init iation a s well aa admlsaion to the circle. T h e work waa exemplified a t th i s mee t ing .

T h e t e a c h e r s of t h c p r i m a r y depart,-m e n t of t h c Congregat ional Sunday school gavc a Hal loween p a r t y to t h e i r c lasses on last S a t u r d a y af te r ­noon In tijc veat ry which was well a t ­tended by a v c r y jolly l i t t le crowd.

irallowo<Mi Fest ivi t ies . Thc P e n n e m a q u a n Camji-fire circle

observed All Hallow eve on last S a t u r ­day evening a t the Meihodist j iarson­age. Ten m e m b e r s were jiresefit wi th as m a n y ma le guesis . The rooms were t r immed with festoons of orange and black, T h c lunch t.ables, which held ;i line a s s o r t m e n t of salads and s,and-wiches, pumjikin pies, doughnu t s and nuts , which wero served wilh hot co t -fee, were also appropr ia te ly decora ted . Fes loons of paper sur rounded t h e while c loth bear ing lilting emblems of witches, black eats and bats . T h e r e were centerp ieces of jack-o ' - l .anterns adorned with bi t lersweel . a wierd ef­fecl being given by the light ot candles only. The jihice cards, made by a m e m b e r of t h e circle, bore black ca ts and e.ach (-ontained a c o n u n d r u m . Preceding the sujijier the jiarty in­dulged in .a "ghost walk." the young ladies wea r ing m a s k s .-md dressed a s sjiooks. The march led th rough ce r ­tiiln jiiirts of the house, oul of doors , circling the pine grove and r e tu rn ing to l ake the places assigned them at the tab les w h - n there was ;i genera l unmask ing . The many games adaj i ­ted l<i the occasion caused mui-h m e r ­r iment , the scene in which two, bl ind-f.ilded, endeavor to t reat each o the r to c rackers , being j ierhaps most a m u s ­ing, T h c evening w.as much enjoye<l.

T h e sujiper and dance at flaV. Hill hali was aiso somewhat in the c h a r ­.acler of an observance of Hal loween, .K lino ch lcken-p le supjier was served on F r iday evening, October 29, and w.as voled a success by all j iresent. Near ly 100 peojile sat down lo the a b u n d a n t l y supplied tables and m a n y werc set a second time. The en t i r e hall was decorated with an a u t u m n a l a r r a y of bri l l iant oak leaves, a lde r .and b i t te rsweet berr ies and j a c k - o ' -lantern.s. After thc sujiper Kobblns ' o r ches t r a furnished music for d a n c ­ing which was indulged in by a la rge Jiarty of young and old.

T h e F o r w a r d club held a Hal loween social .at the Congregat ional vcs i ry on F r i d a y evening, October 29. T h e walls of the veslry were adorned wi th d rap ings of crepe ' j iaper bear ing a p ­propr i a t e symbols and wierd emblems , .Miss Tucker , thc social leader ot t h e club, was assisted by Mrs, I-,ewis In t h e decora t ions and dur ing t h e evening by Doris and Kenne th Duranr . Olive Lowis and Anna Peabody. The young folks indulged in many of the g a m e s and spo r t s pecul iar to All Hallow eve. thei r r e f r e shmen t s being apples which they first secured from a lub ot wa­ter In thc genera l ly approved fashion, A business meet ing of the cluh tol low­ed t h e social, A commit tee was elect­ed to decora t e the church dur ing Xo­vember . They also voted to form a vo lun tee r choir of young jieople to sing a t the Sunday evening services.

I jargely Atteiulwl. Tho a d d r e s s on "The Idle ch i ld ."

given bv Rev. Franc la Webs te r be­fore t ho Woman ' a club on Tuesday af te rnoon w.as not only very In teres t ­ing bu t w a s pract ical doctr ine . T h e r e were m a n y of the ladies present who havo t ho rough ly believed in t h e theory hc advanced for many years past . Mr. Webs te r was e m p h a t i c on tho point of occupat ion of some sort for ohi ldrcn . Ho waa not too m u c h In .sympathy with the present child l abor law, o r with Ka non-prac t ica l e lementa . Be t te r have a hea l thy child, ho main ta ined , a t work in a factory t h a n lounging abou t the a t rce t s Ho also cltwl m a n y of the o ld- t lmo res t r ic t ions which made voung peoplo subject to thei r elders, saying t h a t even these had •»-••••

c lnct A was J o h n O. Benne t t ; clerk. Addison Woodward . At precinct B t h o pres iding ofllcer was L. G. Rob­bins; clerk, E d g a r Blake.. The polls wero closed a t 4.30 p . m.

All t he ladles who were Interested In the second a m e n d m e n t on the suf-frago question ma in ta ined t h e re­quired dis tance of 150 feet from the polls, which was carefully measured off and no b a n n e r s wero visible even outsldo the lines, a s In somo o the r cities and towns, whero many suffrage jilckets were jiosted. ,

The member s of tho anti-suffrage association held an Impromptu recep­tion a l Boslon h e a d q u a r t e r s - w h e n r e ­tu rns began to ar r ive , tho guest of honor being Mrs, 'Vezin. campaign manager , Tho w o r k e r s In the equal suffrage associat ion presen t an un­daunted t ron t and claim the i r victory only postponed and pledged t h e m ­selves for renewed effort. One of the best known speaken* declared, " the women of thts s t a to have conducted a clean campaign . Suffrage thr ives on setbacks,- and the fight will go on."

The result o t the voto in lown was as follows:

Governor. McCall 287, Walsh 181: In 1914, thc vote was McCall 207, Walsh 205; lieut. gov.. Coolidge 302, Barry 1C8; secretary. I j ingt ry 304. Grosvenor 161; treasurer . Burrlll 303. Bowles 1C3; audi­tor, Cook 301, Morse 164; a t torney gen­eral, -Attwlll 304. Donahue l 5 l ; coun­cillor. Mulligan-286. McNally 102: sena­tor, Dunlgan 168, Marchand 288: rep-rcaentative, Joseph A. Saunders 372; county commlssfoner. Cut t ing 282. O'Connell 134; county t reasurer . Hay­den 299. Kcefe 1B2; sheriff, Falrbalrn 203. Donovan 152; land amendment, • 'es 250. No 99; suffrage amendment. No idil. Yes 145; taxat ion amendment, Yes 254, No S5.

Tho reSlection o t Joseph A. Saun­ders; ropresenta t lve , by so large a vole, shows the apprec ia t ion of the townsmen for the good work he has dono dur ing the year of his te rm of olhce and tha t they a r e satisfied with tho representa t ion .

Ilulloweon FesUvltlCH. Thero were several quiet Halloween

demonst ra t lona a t var ious homes about town and thc small boy wilh his Jack-o ' - l an tc rn was In evidence on thc street af ler darkne.s.s came.

A gay Halloween hou.se par ty ga th ­ered with Miss KIHe Winshlp on Sat­u rday evening by invitaiion. The guesis were met by a ghostly garbed a,ssembly before, they reached the resi­dence and escorted into it with all due rites and mystic ceremonies . The rooms were decora ted wilh orange iind black jiajier. ajiprojiriiitely adorn­ed w i th - the festive Jack-o ' - l an te rn lo smilo approva l on the gayeties. The guests were Clara and Florence Odell, Alice Law.siin, Ed i th Dow, Helen Ha r ­r iman, Doris Boulia, Douglass Dew.are. J a m e s Dunn. Leo Odell . Clifford Shat ­tuck. A r t h u r McMurray. Ra lph Wil­loughby and Kalph Shai tuck ,

Mrs, AVInshiji was .assisted as ma­tron of the occasion bv .Mrs. Dow and Mrs, Pil lsbury. and ref reshments of ice c ream, cake, g r apes and candy wero .served. All t h e regulat ion g.ames and j i ranks ot All Halloween eve were indulged in, such as jieanut hunts , bobbing for apples , eat ing apples a,nd doughnirts from a suspended s t r ing with hands a t the back. At midnight some of the courageous girls even tried the mi r ro r :ind candle le.st to seo thei r fu ture husbanils , bul no re­jiort is given on this.

Clipping. MIs^ Bilker, d a u g h t e r of K. H,

Baker , has jiassed many s u m m e r s in town at the h o m e of her fa iher on Keye.s' hill and lho following clipjilng taken from tho Boston Herald, dale of Xovember i, will be of inierest :

"One of the most e laborate debu­tan te functions of the early sea.son was the dance given last evening by .Mrs. Ezra H, Kaker, in her home, 117 f 'ommonweal lh avenue , in honor of her g r anddaugh te r , Mi.ss f le r tn ide Uaker, the d a u g h t e r of Fzra H. Bilk­er of SS r i i m m o n w e a l t h avenue and Mi.ss Elizabeth Haker, the d:iiiKhter of .Mr. and .Mrs. A r t h u r l'~aker of Hrookline. The gu-s l s were received by .Mrs, I!ak<-r and the debumntes , both of whom were dressed in white, .Mis.-i G- r t ru i l - ca r ry ing red roses and Mi.ss EliZiibeth pink and whi t - roses.

"The ushers were fourteen in num­ber, all Harvard unde rgn idua te s .

"A dinner was given for the ushers before the dance by .Miss Isabelle Keye.s. an aun t of .Miss Gertru. ie Kaker at her home on Commonweal th avenue ."

a t t a c k s , va ry ing In the severity, and last win te r was ill for some mon ths a n d a t tho Gro ton hospi ta i toliowlng ono of them.

Ho was a f ami l i a r figure on our s t r e e t s up to a s h o r t t ime ago. and wi th his favori to g r e y h o u n d was fond of long t r a m p s a b o u t town and In tho count ry boforo his h e a l t h became 80 m u c h Impai red . On Sunday even­ing ho suffered a n a t t a c k from which ho never rall ied. He was a person of i>ronounced a n d somet imes jie­cu l i a r views, s o m e w h a t eccentr ic In his way.s. but h a d a la rge circle of fr iends In town In pas t years with whom ho was v e r y popula r . JIo was u n m a r r i e d and h i s re la t ives , so far aa Is known, con.sist of two bro thers . Alber t Mansfield of .Salem. Ohio, and Georgo Mijn.stield of PjnUman. 111., and a s is ler w'ho lives In Xashua . X. H.. who is in such feeblo hea l th t h a t she has not heen notilled, a t th i s t ime, of h e r - b r o t h e r ' s d e a t h .

A message received from the bro th- , e r s ' of the deceased a n n o u n c e s the i r p robab l e a r r iva l on F r i d a y a t t e rnoon , i t is unders tood t h a t services, which will be pr ivate , will be held on Satur­d a y af ternoon, a n d bur l a i will be In Lowell.

T h e body of R a y Augus t a Lewis, only d a u g h t e r o t Mr. and Mrs, Char les Lewis, former ly of th i s town, was b r o u g h t hero by hc r p a r o n t s on the evening t ra in , Wednesday , from thei r h o m e in T o w n s h e n d . Vt. The deceas­ed was a nat ive of this town and was th i r ty - two yea r s of age . She lived wi th he r pa ren i s , Mr. a n d Mrs. I^cwis. In town for m a n y years , the i r last res idence be tore t h e i r r emova l to •Ver­mont , being on t h e f a rm near t h e oid F l e t c h e r place, Jus l over the Hollis lino.

H e r dea th occu r r ed In Townshend on Sunday , and services wero held t he ro on Wednesday , T h e In te rment was In Wal ton c e m e t e r y on Thursday morn ing . Rev. J . B, Lewis offlclatlng a t tho commi t t a l service a t the grave.

Beverly W. Marsha l l , who formerly resided in town, died a t his home at Nor th Che lms to rd . Monday. Xovem­be r 1. a t eight p . m. H i s dea th was very sudden, occu r r i ng a f l e r his usual day ' s w o r k al t h e mills of the Silesia Wors ted Co.. a t X o r l h Chelmstord . w h e r e he had been employed tor more t h a n ten years .

Mr, Marshal l w.as a na t ive of York counly . New Brun.swlck. the da te of his b i r th being May 1. 1805, mak ing h im but flftv ye.ars of age . He came to Grani tevi l le abot i t t h i r ty years ago and t rom the re lo Peppere l l . F o r a n u m b e r of .veats he acted as agent for t h e Metrojiolitan I n s u r a n c e company in th i s town. He left Pejijierell shor t ­ly a f te r the d e a l h of his first .wife, who was Miss Millie McCormack, He .was-mar r ied a l Methuen some t ime l a l e r lo Miss M a r t h a Hoyt of that place, 'who surv ives h im. Hia o ther re la t ives a r e an a u n t In I..awrence and an uncle. J o h n .S. Marshal l , of this town.

Services were held a l h is late home on Thur.sd.ay. X o v e m h e r 4. a t one o'clock p. m.. .and the r e m a i n s were conveyed h e r e by au lo h e a r s e la le r In lho a f l e rnoon for i n t e r m e n t al his iot in Woodliiwn c e m e t e r y beside his first wife. Tho p.astor from Xor th Chelm.s­ford accomjianied the re la t ives lo th i s lown and giive t h e commi t t a l ser\-ice a l t h e grave,

T h o m.any beaut i fu l lloral t r ibu tes bo th from reli i t lves and fr iends and from his w o r k m a t e s spoke o t the es­teem and affection in which the de­ceased was hold. Flciwcrs were as follows:

Pillow, from wife ; sp r ay chrysanthe­mums. Mr, and Mrs, Hoyt. Methuen: sjiray carna t ions . Mr. and Mrs, John S. ,\larsliii!l: wreiith. .Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ingham. Methuen: mound, Mr, and .Mr.s, Chiirles Whilebeiid and .\rnold Whlle-h-ad; sjiiiiy wheiit, Mr, and i l r s , Her-l, .rt I.-I.,.'' M.-ibu.-n; sjirjiys ehr.vsiin-themums. Mr, and Mrs. Fred I)-Uoelin and family .if l . i iwrenc-. .lohn W. Hovi ana famiiv of Xorlh Chelmsford. .Mi. iind .Mrs. .Mli-rt Metcalf, Mr, and .Mis. Cr-i-n-, Mry. ( ' r i ick-t t and fiunily; sjiriivs ra r riiiltons. Mi-, and .Mrs. Uiin-doljiii Hoyl atlll family of .Methuen. cousins of .Methuen. Mr. and Mra. Pel- r Picki-n of M.-tbuen. Mr. and .Mrs. i ! -o ig - 11- InlTliiun. Mr. and Mrs, Jnmes Hui-hitiiiui. .Mr. and .Mrs. Xewtnan r*rr-s-f-otl and Mis. F . .\, I.awrence,

In Eurojie t h e .average he ight of land above t h e se.a is 39 feet. In .-\sia it Is 3IS9 feet.

New .-\<IvcrtlsemenLs

thei r nome at noon a n a oy n ign i noi one M. " : • ; - • " „ , ^ spoke ot the lack of the visitors w.a» left a t ' h e N e w P r e s - 1 val^ue. He ai»o . p , . , , „ ^^^_ cott but the ve teran , .Major Taylor . . ^hoc«cntmis^m^i^^^ ^^^^_^^^^^^ ^^^^

or h i s , h o m e In Woburn o n . who lefi Mondav

The elub c la ims thc mee t the grea t ­est in the anna l s of the club. T h e total of foxes wero not a s many a s tho (irst vear t h e club went to Belchertown. b u t su rpasses every o th ­er year They also c la im t h c oppor ­tunities for en joyment a t Peppere l l exceed those a t Be lcher town a n d speak in t e rms o t ' p r a l s o of the i r good

took a par ty of t h e high school glrla • quarters and the flne a c c o m m o d a t i o n s over In hla 4uto to wi tness t h e game , ^nd »<rvlcc a t . tho N e w Presco t t .

Mr. and Mrs, A, D. T u m o r , of ' Their reception by t h e townspeople a

Cliurt'li X<iH's. .-\l the Congregat ional church on

Sunday the ii:islor. Kev. J . H- Lewi.s. will Jireach. Communion will be ob­served ill t he close of thc morning sen-ice.

.-\ delegalion of twonly- lwo Jieolile from the church he re a t tended the .as­sociation of Congregat ional churches held at .\shliy on Wedne.sday. The local Jiastor read a jiajier on "Pas to r ­al visitiition."

The s tanding commi l i ee of the Con­gregational c h u r c h meet th is Frlda>-evening with George II. Shat tuck.

Al the .Methodist church the pas­tor, Kev, W, H. Beers , will jireach in tho morn ing on the theme. "Comc with us ," C o m m u n i o n will be ob-ser\*cd a t t h e close of the service. In tho evening a t seven o'clock the pas­tor will speak on the subject . ".K de­cision, a r e tu rn , a victory,"

The E p w o r t h league service will be held a t six o'clock, .Miss Carr ie Syl­vester, leiider. T h e subjecl . " . \ p roph­et 's g rea l i)romlse lo y<iulh,"

Tho J u n i o r league will meet at th ree o'clock as usual .

The re la a promis ing growth In the member sh ip of t h e Sunday .school, t he cnadle roll and h o m e dej iar tment be­ing especially noted,

Kev, P, H, Cressey of Groton will preach in the Uni ta r ian church on Sunday morn ing in exchange with the paslor . Rev. D. R. Child.

At tho mee t ing last Sunday evening In tho Uni tar ian vest ry the Babbidge Guild w.aa reorganized with tho elec­tion of Clifford Balley, pres . ; .Mlss Helen Wiley, s e c : Mlsa I rene Whi t ­comb, t reas . P lana for tho winler were made and a Neighborhood meet­ing a r r anged for Sunday. November 14, a t seven p . m. Thla meet ing will bo In cha rgo ot I rene Whi t comb and Clifford Balley.

At tho mee t ing of the Flra t I»ariah Mon'a club last Tueaday cvonlng. P r in ­cipal W h l t m a r s h of tho high school, gave a very In teres t ing addre.ss on "Communi ty civics." After a vote of t h a n k s was given .Mr. W h l t m a r s h thc club enjoyed r e f r e shmen t s and a so­cial hour . ^ ^ ^ •

Dea Uis. Wil l iam H. Mansfleld. a druggist In

town for aboti t twen ty - two years, and ono o t t ho old"e»t m e r c h a n t s on t h c street , died a t h i s t 'ooms on P rospec t s t ree t T h u r s d a y morn ing , November A iMr, Mansflcld h a s been In po6r hea l th for t h r e e yea r s o r more , hav­ing t h e n h a d a n a t t a c k . Induced by indigestion, which had t h e after-effect

T h e Commoinvi 'ull l i of ,\fji,s.siiclius<-tLs.

l.v HOAKD O F GAS AXD ELKCTHIC LIGHT C i.MMISSlOXEft.S.

Hoston. Noveniber 1. 191,",, On the Jl.-titi.in <if the Shirley l-Hec-

tr ic I'omii.in.v for -ijijiroval of ,an Is­sue of one hundri-d .and .si.\ty-tive ( 1G5) ,shiires of common .and one hun­dred iind sev*-nty-one <171> sha^e^: of Jireferred stm-k of t h e Jiar value of fifty dol lars ($50) each, the proceeds of which a r e tu be aiiplic<l to tho pay­ment of the c o m p a n y ' s oulstiintling promisijory no tes .and to extensions ot -its p lan l and r e m o d e l i n g Its present electr ic light s ta t ion , t h e HoanI will give a h e a r i n g to t h e par t ies inter­ested at Its olllce. 803 Ford Hulldlng .at 15 .- \shburton P lace . Hoston. on Mondiiy, llie flftecntli d a y of Xovem­b e r en ren t . a t t w o o'clock in the af­te rnoon .

And the pe t i t i one r is required to givo notice of sa l i l hea r ing by publ ica­tion hereof in the ".Shirl-y Or.acle." .a newsj iaper publ i shed in the town of Shirley, onco each week for two suc­cessive week.s jirlor to s-aid t ime of hear ing .

By o r d e r of the Board. R. G. T O B E V . Clerk,

A t rue copy. At tes t : 2w9 R, G, T O B E V . Clerk.

20% Discount AT T H E

did no t know the va lue of money its formorly. The moct lng was largely a t t e n d e d , t h e h o u r being del.ayed un ­til 3.30 to m a k e It poaalble tor the t e a c h e r s to at tcntL

E lec t ion R e t u r n s . Tuesday , N o v e m b e r 2, was a very

qulot day In spite of the fact t h a t m u c h Intores t had been aroused on b o t h t h o pr inc ipa l t ickets . Tho polls w e r e opened a t bo th proclncts a t 6.30 . . . - .« . - . „ ,. - ^ .. . i . .

jn. T h e preeldlnsr olllcer a t p r e - of a sUght shock. He ha»1»ad o the r

Red Front Store

on nil goodfi Rclcctod from o n r enui-loguo f rom n o w unt i l Dcccmlwr !•'>.

Ixjavo you r o r d e r s ea r ly and mnko s u r e to ge t t l i cm for Cl i r ls tmas.

Alexander Odett Main St. E n s t Peppere l l , Mass.