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.'Gillette Safety Hlades' . 50<*—91.00

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Knife Sharpeners .Screw Drivers Xail Files '• -Tweezers Eleetric Flashlights

75^—92.25 Electric Irons ?3 .00 - -?3 .50 Electric Toasters

$2.7'5—?5.00 Electric Stoves' 9 8 . 5 0

Electric Fixtures iat Reduced Prices

We Do All Kinds of Electric Wiring . ., Headquarters for MAZDA LAJWPS

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LITTLETON. N e w s Items.

For the benefit of those who may not have seen la.st week's paper we repeat a n announcement of that Issue. JWr.-and Mrs. W. JC Tenncy.-wIIl be a t ihome on Tuesiday evenlnjf. October 20.

• and win be happy to receive friends f rom seven to ten o'clock.

As a party of young people return­ed Monday night from a C. E. meet­lns: Whitney Caulkins. one of the tirst to notice the flre that was making

" l a p i d headway in Charles Yapp's -'Woods In Xe'svtown. notilled the owner and the tire department was called into immediate action. The tire had not covei-e<l a large area before it w-as checked by the large crew of elllclent working. Here again was a threaten­ing blaze attributed to hunters. - The Odd Fel lows will hold a dance this week Saturday night in the town hall.

There was a good number of people a t the auction of household goods of the late Mrs. Delia Parker and arti­c les brought good prices. This will n e a t l y help her Uttle son along.

Every day there are large quanti­t i e s of apples carried- to the local c ider mil ls to be converted into cider and vinegar.

Three w-eeks ago there, appeared in a. Sew Hampshire paper jin item of congratulations on the birth of-a son. the ir first child after tw-elve years of married life, but Mr. and Mrs. Fred iReed. of Littleton Common, are re­ce iv ing congratulations on the birth of a seven-pound son that arrived on Saturday. October 10. their first child af ter flfteen years of married Ufe. The Ijlrth w-as on the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Reed's mother, Mrs. •Reed's father and her brother. Moth­er and son are doing w-ell.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nugent have moved Into the tenement recently va­cated by- William Piper and tamlly.

Littleton hunters took advantage of the opening of the season on Monday and brought home some splendid

-pheasants and other game. Frank, the Italian living In the old

Manning house, was adjudged Insane and committed to Worcester from the court In Aycr last week Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ashworth l iave closed their house and placed the ir furniture In storage for the win­ter. Mrs. Ash-R-orth has gone to Bos­ton to spend the season .with her inother.

Irving Feyler, of Lowell, spent the -n-eek-end with former neighbors and friends at the Common.

William Crockett; of South Berwick, Me., w-ho ow-ns the Johnson estate, has heen In tow-n for a few days adding m a n y Improvements, to the place.

On October 12 a son was b o m to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Leary.

B o m o n October 5, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. 'Vernon Prior, to whom t h e name ot Dorothy Louise has been given.

The Unitarian church sent Its usual erood number ot delegates to the con­lerence . held In MUford. N. H. , . on

' Thursday. Mrs. Katherlne Lane was the guest

of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Tenney, t h i s week.

James Nixon. Jr.. w-as brought home from Groton hospital on Wednesday and Is reported doing well.

Mlss Evelyn KImlMlI, of Drldge-•watcr •^'ormal school, spent- Sunday and Monday at home.

Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hubbard enter­tained .is Sabbath and holiday guests Mkm Alice Stedman, secretary of the Baptist Woman's Board o t Missions, and Mlss Grace Stedman, a teacher, both of Cambridge.

MI(» Lucy Adams ."rpent last Sunday •with Mrs. Mattio K. Priest.

The L.adles' Circle of the Baptist church held the flrst meeting o t the fall at the vestry oii Wednesday after noon.

The Baptist society will hold the annual fair In the vestry on Thursday. October 22, beginning at three o'clock: The attractions •will be fruit and vege-tables. aprons. Japanese goods, candy, dairy lunch, ice cream and cake. A good entertainment w-ill be given in the evening. .

Karl Thayer Spear, of Littleton, and Dorothy Gardiner, of Xewton. were united in marriage on Friday. Octol>er 16. Mr. Spear is the. Junior member of the Littleton Unit Brick Company. Upon their return from the wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Spear w-lll reside for the present in the Merri­field bungalow.-

The wells have' become dry and •many people in the outlying districts are greatly inconvenienced thereby.

Supt. F. H. Hill and family w'ent to their Portland home for the week-end and the holiday. Miss Eleanor re­mained with relatives for a visit.

Supt. Hi l l attended the school su­perintendents' meeting in Worcester on Friday.

On October 21, from tw-eleve o'clook noon to ten In the evening will be the last meeting for the registration of voters.

.Mrs. Charles W. Hbughton and daughter. Mrs. William L. Pickard. have been visiting Mrs. James Hough­ton and daughter. Mlss Mabelle Houghton. In Albany, N. Y.

Helen and Betty Gordon, of New­ton, have been visiting their grand­parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Brow-n.

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Brown w-cre married fifty years ago Thursday and Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Brow-n were mar­ried tw-enty-two years on the same date.

Mrs. Summer, who has been visit­ing her daughter,- Mrs. E. C. Jones, of King street, returned to her home in Quaker Town, Pa.. last week.

Mrs. E. C. Jones entertained her friend; Miss Motfitt. of Quaker Town, a teacher of expression In Bridgew-a­ter Normal school, over Sunday and the holiday.

Mrs. Clarence Green was a gue.<rt of Dea. and Miss Thacher this week.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hartwell and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Proctor enJoj-ed an auto trip to MUford, N. H.. Sunday, where they were delightfully enter­tained by Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Turner. The occasion w-as a quiet observance ot Mr. Hartwell's and Mrs. Proctor's birthday.

Mlss Florence 'Whitcomb enjoyed a-pleasant surprise party given by half a dozen friends on her birthday, Oc­tober 6.

Miss Lucy Houghton has entertain­ed a friend at her home this last w-eek;

Charics F. Flagg and daughter. Miss Marlon, returned Saturday from An­dover, where they spent Last week.'

Sirs. Thomas Steiphens has been touring through picturesque N e w Hampshire In company with her niece and husband. Dr. Hopkins, of Jaftrey, N. H.

Supt. A.. R. Paull, of Pepperell, preached another thoughtful sormon that was greatly appreciated by the Congregational society last Sunday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Paull.

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon, of Auburn­dale, were recent guests of hlg sister, Mrs. Carrie O. Leland.

Mrs. E . N. Robinson and daughter Ruth are spending two weeks in New York city.

Mrs. Nellie F. Jrfhn.son's seventieth birthday received pleasant recognition otf Friday, October 16. by the King's Daughters and other friends who Join­ed In giving her a postcard shower.

; Fall Styles Ready • It's always a pleasure to us to announce the opening of a new season in Men's Styles. So many of our cus­

tomers take a lively interest in seeing the new fabrics; the new designs in the garments;-the new fashions; .we're always glad-when things are ready. •

Hart, Schaffner and Marx NEW FALL STYLES ARE HERE

Special' Values in Suits and Overcoats a t . . . . . . . . , $16.50, $18.00. $20.00, $22.00 .and $24.00 Other Good Makes , . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . ; . ,$10.00, $12.00 and $15.00'

' • • > . . ' CALL AND SEE THEM We also have a Complete Line of Hats, Caps, Shoes and Furnishings

Opposi te Depot

AYER - MASS. Mrs. Johnson h a s been conflncd to her room for two years and Is very grater ful for every attention that tend-s to-relieve the monotony' of her helpless condition.

.Mrs.' Susan Smith has been con­nected with town water recently, and Mrs. Abby Tuttle will have her house connected soon.

The number ot electric, light sub­scribers has. Increased now- to nlnety-slx. Connections have been made re­cently or w-UI.be made In the Imme­diate future to the buildings of H." J. Couper, C. V. F lagg , W. G. Brown, Ijars Anderson, Goodw-ln .Warner, Thomas Slannlon, E. A. Strout faxm, Strout cottage, P. O. Robinson, C. A. HartweU.- B. H . Prieat, J. H. Haidy, Jr.. W. A. Munson, Harwood farm, S. B. Hubbard, flve Italian bungalow-s and Coughlin Brothers in Newtown, and Charles L. Smith, ot King street.

. Misses Elizabeth and Mar>- Ryan , of Roxbury, w-ere In tow-n a. week ago, coming In a l i a n d s o m e limousine driv­en by a competent chauffeur. '"

illss' Annie' Barteaux, -of Bernard-ston, has been spending a couple of w-eeks with friends ahd relatives In Littleton 'arid Acton.

The elghtj'-fourth annual meeting of the Middlesex Union assoclatloii of Congregational churches w-lll be held in Acton on Wednesday. October 21.

Dea. and Mrs. F. S. Kimball were delegates chosen to represent the Lit tieton church a t the examination and installation of the new pastor of tbe Pepperell Congregational church on Wednesday.

Henry Works Is In training for the army at Fort Slocum, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. . F, H. HIU, G. A, Cook and Mrs. C. A. Kimball attend­ed the Westford Grange on Thursday evening and the. gentlemen took part In the d e l a t e between Littleton and Westford Granges on the subject , of woman suffrage. Littleton debated on the afflrmatlve side of the question, v . T Esten. who w-ould ably have sup ported the local team, had duties that demanded his presence here, and Mrs. C. A. KImbaU read his arguments.

Mr. Holbrook. of JYeat Virginia., is spending tw-o w-eeks with his slater. Mrs. Henrj- F. Works.

- Mrs. Sherman Jew-ett is again on the sick list. Her son's wife has been caring for her tor several days.

Mrs. A. si . Hendley enjoyed the at­tentions of her many friends on Wed­nesday, her eighty-second birthday. Callers, postcards and other toke'ns of affectionate regard furnished our genial friend with much food for pleasant reflection. '

Sirs. P. S. Whitcomb w-as visited by her children and grandchildren over Sunday and Monday.

Mr. and-Mrs. Charles Hinton have moved back to Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bradlee en­tertained friends at their home over Sunday Jind Monday.

Mrs. Annie C. Smith is conlined in total darkness In East Concord street Homeopathic ho.spltal,, Boston, where for ten da>-s or more she must remain in this deplorable condition.

Suppor and E^tcrtnliuncnt. The flrst of the social events in the

Congregational club calendar for the new year took place on Wednesday evening w-hen the men's supper served in the vestry attracted some over a hundred who came with good appe­tites and sat down to a supper that was universally pronounced first-class In quality, quantity and ser\-ice. Cold meats, mashed potato, creamed car­rots. I>eets. rolls, fancy pies, coffee and fruit were the easentials In the menu. After the wants of the Inner man had been iiatlsfled the audience listened with Intense appreciation to a musical and. Uterary pi'ogram, a brilliant piano duet by Mis* Helen Bradlee and Laura Chase,' finely reh-dered selections by the orchestra. Miss Sears on the violin. Mlss Laurlce Flagg, 'cello, and Mlss . Olive Flagg, piano. The musicians kindly respond­ed with encores to the enthusiastic applause received.

Mrs. E m m a K. Lemley. alw-ays a most welcome visitor and speaker, presented In graphic and picturesque language some experiences In her re­cent, trip abroad. . The ocean voyage, the Journey through Scotland, glimp­ses ot country life In France and Ger­many, attempt to enter Austria when word .was received of the declaration of war In that countr.v, and thc long watt , and suspense In Switzerland were all narrated with faithful regard to the interests of Mrs. Lemley's audi­ence. Humor and pathos w-ere inter­mingled. Every moiwent of her brief talk was occupied with most enter­taining eplsod-cs presented In Mrs. Lemlej-'s Inimitable manner. The exienlng -was o n e of marked sociability and may well be placed on record as an all-'round success.

TOWNSEND. Center. , '

Rev. and Mrs. Sylvester P. It.iUin-son, of. Plalnfield. are In tow n :hi.« week.

The subject of Rev. A. L. Struther.s' sermon on Sunday morning will he

m his name." There will be a union service &t the M. E. church in the evening. Don't forget the .Con?re?a-tional asjoclatlon convention In A.r-ton next Wednesday.

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For Men and Youths

Men. -who kno\y and .demand, the best, who want their money's worth all the tirne always come to this store for their clothes. These men know this store as a'Quality Store, a store where good goods are sold and where you get honest -value for the money paid. •'

The price you pay is governed by the quality of the fabrics-and the trimmings. "The tailoring and the style are always of the best andjhclude many lines of suits from A. Shuman S X c , of Boston.

We have never shown such handsome garments as we are now showing for the coming season. The quality of fabric shown, at the prices asked, is superior to anjrthing shown for several sea­sons. No advance in prices at this store.

Suits for the Young Man Our line of Snappy Clothes for the Young Fellow is larger and better than

usual. Our clothes are worn by the dressy young fellow— the best dressers.in tpwn. They have all the new style features, such as close fitting coats with long, soft roll col­lar, patch pockets and cuffs. The vests are high cut and the trousers close fitting and with turn-up at bottom. We ask the young men to step in and look over our handsome garments that .we have taken such pains to provide, for them.

MEN'S SUITS— $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $18.00, $50.00, $22.00 YOUNG MEN'S SUITS— $8.47. $10.00, $12.00, $15.00, $18.00, $20.00

Suits Made to Measure For those who desire their clothes made to measure we have a very, extensive

line of sample fabrics in the New Fall Designs. The suit is made to your measure and ejcactly as you want it made. A good fit is guaranteed of no sale. Come in and look over samples.

MADE-TO-MEASURE SUITS-^15.00 to $35.00

SWEATERS It is now Sweater Time. You will certainly heed a

Sweater for these cool fall days. We are offering a special bargain for one week in Men's Coat Sweaters. It is an All Worsted Sweater and comes in Crimson, Gray and. Navy. It is a new lot of ,30 Sweaters, that has always sold, for $6.00 and is a good value a£ that price. We are now offering this

$6.00 Sweater for $ 6 . 0 0

Also, a brand new thing in Ladies' Sweaters. It is a soft Angora finish in the new colors. A really beautiful gar­ment. Come in and look at it. We know it will please you.

$6.00 Value for $5.00

Plenty of other kinds of Sweaters for Men and Boys; also, Women and Children in all grades and all colors. ' '

MEN'S SWEATERS—50c..'$1.00, $2.00. $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 BOYS' SWEATERS—98c.. $1.50 and $2.50 LADIES' SWEATERS—$3.00. $4.00 and $5.00 '•

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PAOl TWO S A T U B D A 7 , OOTOBEB 1 7 , 1914 O N E DOLXiAR AND FOTS CENTS

P E R T E A B I N ADVANCE

OEOROE! B . B. TURNER, PnblUher JOHN - H. TURNER. Editor

W e xmbUdi tbe following Papers: T o m e r ' s Pnblio Spirit, Ayer, Maas. T b e Groton Ijandmark H i e PeppereU Ctarion-AdTcrtlaer T b e l i t t l e t o n Gnldon T b e Westford Wardsman T b e Harrard .Hillside Tfae Shirley Oracle T b e Tonmsend Tocsin-T h e Brookllne (N. H.) Beacon, T h e Hollls (N. 'H. ) Homestead

Entered aa lecond-class matter at the ' postofflce at Ayer, Mass. ,

Saturday, October 17, 1914.

WESTFORD. Center.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Wright, of Quincy, and son LlVlnerston, were guests In town 'from Saturday until Tuesday, coming In their auto. Sun­day, with H. L. Wright, they made a trip out through towns In t h e . C o n ­necticut River valley, beautiful In Its autumn coloring) the mi leage for the day being 183. • -

The home of Miss Nell ie Fletcher Is having new painting continuing the white with green blinds so appropri­ate to Its colonial style of archltec-ture. Harry Prescott la alSimnivlng' painting done at b i s pleasant home on Depot street. •. .

Inadvertantly omitted from the names of the ladles In the Titania or­chestra, who plaj-ed so delightfully for the.Tadntuck club last week, .was that of Mlss Mary B . Raynes, . who Is

. Its conductor. . MUses Julia knd Marlon Hall have

been renewing Westford associations recently, being the guesta of Mls.-j Mabel Drew on Boston, road.

John P. W r l g h f has been having a vacat ion of ten days, and. with hts family, has been enjoying the beau­tiful autumn weather ' at. the log cabin • on Prospect bill, and at the same t ime supervising- some repairs at his own home.

The holiday passed'with no special obser^'ance to make It different from other days, aside from no sessions at school and holiday schedule for the electric cars. The beautiful weather rha<le it Ideal for outings and some of the camp owners enjoj'ed Sunday and Monday at oamp. The R. F. D. men covered their regular routes, that day.

• Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jaques. of Maiden, were guests at Wil l iam Suth­erland's for Sunday and Monday.

Warren E. Carkln Is out In a new automobile and learning Its manage­ment. He has. disposed of his horse and buggj'.

At the Congregational church . las t Sunday rally day w a s observed and a special program of Grenfel's mission work in Labrador w a s given. At the evening ser\-ice Walter Chase, of the Lowell C. E. 'Dnlo'n, 'was the special Kpeaker. There •was a good attend­ance, morning ahd evening. Suhday e%'eTilng there will be a special praise Ker\-Ice with music by the young peo­ple's choir.

George T. Day has not been well for the last two weeks, being confined to the house.

Up to Thursday ot th i s .week 126 hunter's licenses for the open season

'6n game had tJiSgifTssae'a ana"^prob-ably the number .will reach 150. While the sound of their guns have been plenty we have not heard of any special results of the local nlmrods. Some land owners bave posted their land against hunting and trespassing.

An electric light wire about oppo­site. William R. Carver's rtKldence be­came defective on Wednesday evening from rubbing against a tree limb and wore off, setting Are to the tree. This was attended to by A. H. Sutherland and others, and later by the com­pany's men from Lowell. This hap-' I,ened in the early evening, and the several families below that point who enjoy electric lights <is a usual thing found condltlo'ns for the rest of that evening rather trj'lng.

Principal Roudenbush of the acad­emy, with commendable public spirit is planning another entertainment course for the fall and winter season. If the required amount of tickets can be sold for the first of the entertain­ments the closing one will be given to the public free. Westford ha.s no reKUlar lyceum as Littleton. Concord and some other towns have, and an effort of this kind .should meet with a hearty support from .the commu­nity.

rntcresllnc Hl.stor)-. An interesting sketch of our local

postoffice. which Is somewhat . unique in it.s hi.story. has recently i^en pub­lished, and with a few correction.? from Capt. S. H. Fletcher it Is here Kiven a.s of intere.st to many readers of this column;

The recent retirement of Capt. Sherman H. F'lftcher as postmaster at Westford. in favor of John H. Kletcher, calls attention to a most in­teresting fact. The town has had a postotfice for 110 years and during a greater portion of the time a Fletch­er has been the postmaster. Father, sr,n and grandson of two families Ijearing the samo namf-. itiit not re­lated, have alternately filled the office according to the part^- in power, for the two famille.s have represented oppo.slng political Interests. Indeed, for a time a third family seemed likely to Inherit the office, for the lir.st postmaster In 1804 was S<iulre Jf'hn' Abbot, who was succeeded l,y his son. John W. P. Abbot, the fath­er of the pre.sent Ablal J. Abbot, In 1S3I.

In HSa came S.-imtiel Fletcher, enindfather of Capt. Fletch'r. who wa.s succeeded hy his sun, .Sherman D. Kletcher. In lS4;i. Four years lat-<-r David C. IJiitterfleld was appointed postma.ster./Serving three years, when .Samuel Fletcher again came into of­fice. His term was four years and he was succeeded by John IJ. Fletcher, grandfather .of our present new post­master. Back came Sherman D. Kletcher a year later, serving until 18C6, when Krancis Fletcher, another son of John B. Fletcher, was appoint­ed and after him. his father had It for one year. Sherman D. Fletcher served from 1869 to 1885. when John M. Fletcher, father of the present poBtma.stcr. had a term. The four appointments since then have been Sherman H. Fletcher, April 22, 18»9; Jobn M. Kletcher. June 23. 18&.'!-Sherman H. Kletcher. July 10. 1897; John H. Kletcher. July 29. 19H.

Capt. ' Kletcher'K family have held the office flfty-six years In all their terms of office, being thc following number of years: Samuel Kletcher 14 years. Sherman D. Kletcher 21

years. Sherman H.. Kletcher 21 years.

About Town. Some Baldwin apples on the Tad­

muck Brook farm measured twelve inches in circumference, and some on the Old Oaken Bucket farm meas-

sured 11H Inches. Of courae these were not the largest, those arc re­served until somebody elae reports something larger, then look out for .those reserved ones. . "

The next meetings of the board of registrars w I U . b e held on Monday evening, October 19, at Healy's hall, GranltevlHe: Wednesday evening. Oc­tober 21. at Abbot's hall. Forge Vll-lage; Saturday afternoon, from twelve at noon until ten In the evening, Oc­tober 24, a t town hall, Westford Cen­ter.

George Howard, from. Bound Brook, , • ,i- '" '^'•s'tlng at the home of S. L. Taylor.

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Taylor attend­ed the baseball game In the world series In Boston and saw the Braves defeat the Athletics.

The community supper at the West Chelmsford church was held on Tues­day evening and was largely attended by town and out-of-town people. It was in charge of Mrs: O. C. Johnson with nine on her committee. The after-dinner speakers .were George B. Dean, of Worcester, district superin­tendent; Rev. C. E. Spalding, of Dor­chester: James P. yi&msey, ot Low­ell, probation offlcer; Rev. Earl Ker­nahan. of' Graniteville. The toast-master .was Rev. E. Lees, pastor of the church. - The music was as fol­lows: • 'Violin solos, Mlss Miriam Spalding, of Dorchester, and Miss Belle Llbbej', soprano, of Lowell.

Clipping. - 'We qijote the following from the CoQgregatlonallst, as It will Interest many. Westford'people who kiiew Mr. Cram as a boy when his father-had charge of the Unitarian church here:

Ralph Adanis Cram has come to be an' Important flgure In American architecture both In his designs, for buildings and in his teaching throiigh the spoken and written word. He h o w

.occupies . an Influential position a s head of the department of architec­ture at tho Massachusetts Institute of Technology; ^ Under the title "The ministry of art," he has gathered eight publlc addresses which s u m up In an Interesting way his. O'wn strongly held beliefs and Ideals. His theories are founded on his religious beliefs, which are those of an extreme scc-ramentarian protestant episcopacy. He 'would deny ecclesiastical gothic to all worshippers who do not make the sacrifice of the mass the center of their service. He would refund build­ing, in a religious spirit by t a U n g up the promlclal and, a s many of us think, decadent English perpendicular style where It 'was left off under the Influence of the renaissance, which Mr. Cram, does not love. Mr. Cram' has .built many churches and other public buildings In this spirit and must be reckoned with a s a force In art and In religious thinking. His en­thusiasm, knowledge and p o w e r . of expression make these addresses'not­able and they will do something, we hope, to spread a deeper feeling for the worth and meaning of art In the life of the patlon.

Highly Honored. Few people In this and surround­

ing towns -that attend the million-dollar exposition at Mechanics' Bldg., Boston, think for a moment that .one of the prominent musical organlza tlons at the exposition Is handled by a young lady bom In a neighboring town. The subject of this sketch. Miss Eleanor Louise Schworer, now lead­ing the famous ladies' orchestra at the above exposition, was born in Pepperell. the daughter of Louis and EInora Prescott Schworer.. The latter is well remembered by resi­dents of this town as passing her younger days here, and was the daugh­ter of Nathan Pollard Prescott. Mlsa Schworer -attended school here when four years old, and her parents moved to Haverhill. At an early age she commenced the study of the violin under Ernest K. Hoyt. conductor of Haverhiirs famous Pentucket orches­tra. After graduating from the Cur­rier grammar .school and also the Haverhill high school, in the last In-.s-titutlon, .she with tbree other grad­uates received honorable mention, not having been, tard.v or ab.sent during the four years, this out of a class of ninet>'^slx graduates.

She commenced advanced violin In­struction with Jacques Hoffman, flrst vlollnl.st of the Boston Symphony or­chestra , 'remaining four years. She studied one year with Adolp Baak. first violin of the same orchestra and one year with Henr>' Fridler, of the above organization, completing her studies. She took special In.struction in orchestration with Prof. Lewis, of Bo.ston.

As a lady orchestra leader she has furnLshed and led orchestras at the big electric exposition. Worcester, Haverhill exposition, Portland expo­sition, and also toured the sbuth and southwest as concert mistress of Bos­ton's famous Commonwealth orches­tra. In 1911 and 1912 she toured the provinces at one. of the highest sal­aries ever paid a lady for the work in hand. The late B. K. Keith, through hLs Portland agent, secured her signa­ture to a contract for two years to do solo work, delighting some of the largest audiences of music-lovers throughout the Keith circuit.

Signor Tomas of the Cuban munici­pal band, the big feature at the ex­position, paid the young lady a high compliment for her musical ability and artistic man'ner In handling her orchestra. Many patrons of the ex­position regret her stay in Boston Is limited, as she has been secured by the director of the Fadettes. incom­parably the finest lady orchestra in the world, ^to flll a six-months' en-fcaKement in the we.st commencing on Xovember 2, and including fifteen lady musicians.

Dollghlcd. Dellshted—that thc word over thc

new name christened by V. T. E. It shows brains In hewing out^a name so much more fitting personality than the one under which bu.sine.*w ha.s b' '-n c.arried on under the firm nani-^ of truth and talk—only regret that Webster, tho fellow who got up the dictionary, couldn't have hewn out a word more expressive of delight than delighted, but. as he has not we most df-liKht ourselves with delighted.

V. T. E. charges "Lucky-bug .Tay­lor," whose front name Is Sariiuel, with dodging the Is.suc to wit: "Has labor unions had anything to do with the Increase In wages;- also, and do brain workers organize?" Why, Brother 'V. T. E. we passed that point of attack long ago. Where arc you. In Xew Zealand, absent-rhlndedly looking over the ruins of social ism? Why we decided that wages Increased by the law of evolution and general rise of everything by said law. Be­cause of a better and more expensive civilization and all this long, long be­fore there was such a development as labor unions. This being thus and' so Just how much . labor unions have added outside that universal law we have no means of knowing, but It is safe to affirm that whatever Increases they have forced it has not been pro­portionate to the fireworks displayed nnd "brain workers." the word "fra­ternal" explains the motive of nearly all. except the beef .trust and oil trust, and they have both been w i p e d ' o u t pf nominal existence Vy- the present

adlmlnlstratlon, which' Is knocklnc all kinds of " toge ther we stand."- But oil and beef and o t h e r " t o g e t h e r we stand" go soaring just the same. . That Is our attitude on labor unions

—they have probably by a vast-out­lay of friction gained a point In wages but not near enough to pay for lost t ime and powder.

Now, as 'V. T. E . has done a vast amount of shouting for government management we have been trying to show up the'financial mismanagement by government. Postal savings banks, paylnif two percent Interest artd run­ning behind (948,000 In thirty months, while private banks pay four percent and don't .run behind. Millions are appropriated by congress every year for "military posts" and the plain peo­ple are deceived by the title, expect­ing they are for military drill, but nothing Is taught there but landscape gardening. New York state borrows JIOO.000,000 for roads, payable In fifty-year bonds—$25,000,000 la graft­ed to start off with and It I s n o reply to say that" It Is the republican and democrat parties'that take turns at It. The government of N e w York state as a business enterprise Is building, and It Is very much unlike private enter-prlze doing business to allow one-fourth of the building money to be consumed-.without one pretence at "for value received." The said roads are being built so "oorly (by reports) that they -n'lll have to be built two and one-half t imes before the bonds mature.

But what matters Iti wc have got the wealth of all doing business. Now V. T. E. give u s a straight shot at the remedy, and what socialism stands fqr. S. Zu Taylor.

The Range that Makes Cooking Easfy

Forge 'Village, T h e , mills of the Abbot Worsted

Company were closed on Columbus day.

Cameron school closed on last week Friday for a short recess, opening on Tuesday morning.

Miss Ethel Jones and Miss. Leah Pugh, of Worcester, were , guests of relatives here, over the week-end. -

The Ladles' Sewing Circle- held their regular meet ing -in Recreation hall on Thursday afternoon. • Mrs. David Lord and daughter. Miss Marlon, went to South.Framlng­ham last Monday to be present at the graduation exercises and reception of the nurses at South Framlngham hos­pital. Mlss Eva Lord, of this village, was one of the' graduates.

The- members of the John Edwards hose company were called out on last Tuesday night to extinguish a, brush fire on the land at the pond owned by Mlss M. Gage, of Lowell. The flre was soon under control and damage only slight. '

Miss Sarah Precious and Miss Pris­cilla Bennett were guests of Mr. and Mrs. August Mj'ers, of Dorchester, over the holiday. '

Miss Edith P. Precious has been a recent visitor at the home of her sis­ter. Mrs. Michael Keefe, of Townsend Harbor.

Ernest Mountain was taken to the Lowell General hospital on Tuesday night by Dr. 'C. A. Blaney and Im­mediately operated on for appendl-clti&

Mr. and Mrs. James Sullivan enter­tained company from Lawrence on Wednesday.

Graniteville. Fred : Longbottom. of Arlington

Heights, has been the guest for the past few da>« of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Defoe. Incidentally the two Freds have taken advantage of the gooa weather for a very. a.uceossful hunt­ing trip.

Columbus day was passed heis without any special observance, aside from the dL-jpIay of Old Glorj-. A tew took In the world series game in Bos­ton while others contented themselves with taking a trip to Merrimack square. Lowell, and getting the re­turns by wire. - Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Defoe, of Bev­

erly, have been recent visitors here. Krank P. Hawkes. of Melrose, has

been a recent visitor at the home of his parents,' Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Hawkes.

Thomas Horan,- of Charlestown, has been a recent visitor here.

The members of Cameron Circle. C. K. of A., held a well attended and In­tere.sting meeting In their rooms on last Tue.sday evening. Much bu.siness of importance was transacted and the report of the auditing committee as submitted for the quarter jus: ended shows the circle to be on a sound financial basLs.

At a meeting of the democratic town committee held in Westford on last week Krlday evening the follow­ing officers were duly elected; K. G. Sullivan, chairman: Edward Riney, s e c : J. A. Healy. trea.s.. all of Gran­iteville. It is expected that this com­mittee will make arrangement.s for a deniocratic rally to l>e held here- in the near future.

During the first part of the wt-ek many of the local hunters scoured the woods In search of game, hut not many of them were .successful.

Joe Wall, auctioneer, will continue the sale at the Luce estate In West­ford Center this Saturday afternoon.

Work of repairing .and making al­terations at the boarding house of the Abimt Wor.'^ted Company on Broad­way is now progre.sslng rapidly. P. Henry Harrington has the contract. The grounds are also to be fixed up. new walks laid out and a border hedRC placed in front. This work, when completed, will add greatly to the appearance of this portion of the street.

The fine weather of the past few weeks has been apiireclated, but the majority of the people are hoping for .a (food rain.

New .\dvcrtl.scmcnls.

Pianolas, P i a n o and VIclrolaa For .Sale

WILMOT B. CLEAVES Piano Tuning $2.00

Tone and . \cl lon ftegnlntlng

Phone 20 HARVARD, MAS.S. Graduate K. E. C. of Music, Bonton Ten years with Aeolian Co., New -i'ork

Retail and Wholesa le AT

DVXPHY'S XCNCH Thc famous "Smax" Pics; also the

Freshest and Best Bread and Cake to be bought In Boston. Give us a trial.

JAMES H. DtWPHY. Itf Manager of Dunph>''s Lunch

Live Poultry Wanted Any number of Fowl, Roasters and

Broilers for market. Alsi?. any kind of Pullets. Drop mc a postal or tele­phone and team will call. Telephone Pepperell B9-12... a

O. B . OTLSEN Townsend Harbor, Maaa.

3uy Good Things Glenwood Banges are the product of New England's largest and best known foundry. Theyare designed by makfersof life-long experience. They weigh more, are put-to­gether better and bam less fuel than most ranges. The castings are "wonderfully

smooth and easy to keep clean. -

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Owing to their sturdy con­struction and fine work­manship, they will stand hard usage, do better work anid last much longer' than the ordinary kind.

They are handsom^ con­venient and mechanically right—no modem features lacking. Smooth cast, Col­onial design, plain finish, compact s t ruc ture , big roomy ovens, ea§y.work­ing grates and countless other features.

They certainly do "Make Cookingand Baking Easy"

Call and see them

J. J. Barry a Co., Ayer

PLAIN AKD DECOBATED DISHES 5c. and 7c. Sauce Dishes 4<J and 5 ^ "c, 8c., 10c. Bakers and Platters..,. O^, 7^, 8< 10c. Oatmeals ,'. 8<J IOc, 121/20., 15c. Plates._^ 8<J, IO5*, 1 2 ^ 15c. Round Xappies. 10<J 89e. Cake and Berry Sets 00^

GLASS WARE $1.49 Puneh Bowls $1 ,19 10c. Punch Cups and Spoon Holders . . . 8<J .39c. Berry Bowls 29<*

ALUMDTDM WARE .$1.80, .$2.40 Coffee Pots ? 1 . 5 0 , ?2 .00 $2..30 to $2.85 Teapots. • ?2 .00 to ^2.43 ,60c., 75c., .$1.20 Pans 50<*, 07^, ?1 .00

ENAMELED WARE .30c. Cups 20<^ 45c. 3-quart Teapots. : 35(t^ 10c. Bread Pans. 8 ^ 18c. Milk Pans •.. 10^ . 35c. "Water Pails. 20<J

AU White 25c. to 45c. Wa.sh Basins, Kettles, Pudding

and Sauce Pans, Pie Plates 2 0 ^ to 35<J

MISCELLANEOUS 7c., 10c. Yello.w Bowls 5< , 8<J 5c., 10c. Glazed Flower Pots 4 ^ , 8<J 38c. Lamps, complete .- 2 7 ^ 35c. Dairy Pails 2 7 ^

AYER VARIETY STORE TRY

Houghton 's Apple Box

Press F O R PRESSING T H E BOTTOMS

ONTO BUSHEL B O X E S AFTER YOU HAVE FILLED THEM

WTH F R U I T

It takes but a moment to press and nail them on with this machine. Will handle the eastern or western box.

Sent anywhere on receipt of price, $3.90. 3m2

Manufactured by

S. H. Houghton Harvard, Mass.

Grajce the

Faco •Wo cor­

dially InTlte you to como in 00 that w o m a y ox-plain more fully h o w much care and at­tention we 'Will give to bettering your eye-• ight .

H. J. Webb BEGISTTERE^ OPTOMETRIST

Main Street, Arer, Maaa.

PORTRAITS This Studio niakes a specialty of Copying and En­

larging in Crayon, Water Colors, Pastels, Sepias or Oil Painting of any size from any-size Photograph or Tintype; also. Framing done in an artistic manner. Portraits made in Black and White or Sepia.

It is none too early to have those Christmas Photo­graphs of yourself made NOW.

THE DEMPSEY STUDIO Over Postoffice Telephone Connection AYEE, MASS.

Millinery Model and Tailored Hats

Mrs. Jennie T. Ryan 2 6 MAIN STEEET AYEE, MASS.

Terms Cash Telephone 148-12

KOH HAl.B—Near Harvard Center. 13-vear-oId Chestnut Woodlot mixe.l with White Pine, 18 acre*. Inquire of ED. F. HOUaiJTO.V. Harvard, Mati. !it5»

Dou You Want To Sell YOUE FAEM OE VILLAGE PLACE?

Breck's Fall Catalogue is Now Being Made Ont

One or two words on a postal and we will call and write up H description of your property.

Bliss Farm Agency E. P. HAEEIMAN, Mgr.

69 East Main Street , AYEE, MASS.

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S A T U E D A Y , O O T O B E E 1 7 , 1914

SHIELEY. Newa Items.

Oeorgo F. Harrla" right hnnd »llp-iped while t ightening a nut near a pul­ley the latter part of last week .while a t . his 'work In t h e . mill of F. D.

•:. Weeks and gave him a gash on the hack ot that hand an Inch and a "half long and very deep. His hand was dre«sed by Dr. Lilly, who took one Btltch to close the wound. Mr. Harrla, however,- lost no time from his work through the accident.

The Ladles"^ Circle.of tbeCongrega-tlonal church held a meeting In the ladles' parlor of the church on Wed­nesday afternoon and spent thc time

• rolling bandages for mission hospitals. Mrs. I-ane and daughter Edna, of

East Boston, spent the llrst ot the w e e k . a t the home of Mr. and Mra. C. R, White.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Freeman and little daughter, df Maiden, spent

- Sunday and Columbus day with Mr. ond Mrs. Albe Annls.

A good game of football was played last .Saturday afternoon on the

* grounds of the Industrial school be­tween ' the Shirley team and the boys'

. t eam of the school, the school team being defeated by a score of H to 13.

Kalph Livingstone . spent Sunday and Monday at his home In Green-

.vllle, N. H..', ., , John Flynn spent Sunday and Mon­

day at the home of his brother, P. J. FJynn, of Boston.

Mrs. Fasette, with young son Barry, of Providence, R. I., are visitors a t the home of her sister, Mr. and Mra.

. Charles J. Stebblns. - • • A number from this town attended the world series baseball games In Boston the llrst of the week. .. Mr. Oliver, of the Industrial sohool.

h a s pufchasefd for a home the resi­dence of the late Henry.T. Balcom on Main street and will occupy the same "When vacated by the George H. B. Clark' family. ' ' • . " • A daughter, Barbara Eastman, was •horn oh October 7 to Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin (Felch) Smith, of Plainneld. N. J. Both are former well-known residents o f this town.

Selectman Thomas D. Morln, deal-• e r In jewelry and household furniture,

h a s accepted a position with thc El­dredge Jewelry Company, of Provi­dence. . Mr.'and Mrs. Morln will con­t inue to reside In town.-. Mr. Morln Is sel l ing out his stock, of goods.

Mr. .-ind Mrs. George W. Balch move Into their new home this Saturday. T h e new home Is an Ideal residence •with all modern Improvements and •without doubt Is a valuable addition to the town.

Mrs. Samuel Anderson, whose hus-hahd died last week, left town the flrst of t h e - w e e k In company wifh •her sons, Harry and Archibald, for •Brooklyn, X. Y., the home of her sons, where she will reside.

Mrs. M. E. Fuller and daughter, Mlss M. .M. Fuller. .of Wellesley., have rented the Hazen cottage on Har%'ard road recently Vacated by Rev. Wlllls­ton Si. Ford.

Mlss Altle Howe and Mrs. Helen W. McCoy attended the meeting of the Past Noble Grand.s* Association of Rebekahs at Ashby last week Friday.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Harris, of Westminster, on Sunday. G, A. Harris is a son of G. F, Harris, of this town.

George Holden has been conllncd to -h i s home the past tew weeks with eclatlc rheumatism, but Is Improving,

, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Babb spent a few days last week with relatives In Short Fall.s. N. H.

The Altrurlan club holds Its regular jneetInK next Thursday afternoon In their club rooms, the speaker of the afternoon being Mrs, Mar>* Cushing Palmer, on the report of the biennial. I t is most earnestly requested that eyery member attend this meeting.

The flre department was called out on Monday for a brush lire In the rear of the residence of Arthur N. Hersom, and were called out again on Tue'jdaj' for a bru>:h fire on the southerly sieie of Phcenix road. Both Hres wer.?

. <iulckly extinguished with no damage. ilar>' A. Livermore Rebekah lodge

' are planning to hold a dance In Odd Fellow.s' hall. Hallowe'en nlght.^

The Church Debt society of .St. An-, thony's church held its Ilrst meeting

•of the .season on Tue.sday evening at the home of .Mrs. John H. Logue.

. twenty-live . members being present. Refre.shments were ."served and the usual entertainment features enjoyed. T h e next meetini; will be held with Mrs. Fred S. Urown at the Brook.slde.

The annual harve.st sale, supper and entertainment at the L'nlversiilist church this week was well attend­ed. Siijiper w.as ser\'ed at seven

'. o'clock under the direction of the fol-- . lowing committee: Mrs. John K. L.

Hazen. Mrs. H. <>, Peasley. Mrs. Sand-Jin. JIr.s. .Sylvia White. .Mrs. Charles Peter.s(n and Mr. and Mrs. John H. (Win. Goods remaining unsold were disposed of at aucllon. J. Edwin Pom-'fret nssumlng the ,role of auctioneer.

There will be another meeting for those desirous o f organizing a choral eoclety at the Altrurian club rooms on Tuesday evenin? at elKht" o'clock. All fifteen years of age and over are Invited to attend this meeting.

Mrs. Elmer H. Allen has been <ap-jpolnted a member of three natlon.al •committees for the coming year In the D . A. R.

Mrs. Sadie Rockwood, of Luneh-Vburg, was a guest oh Tuesday at the h o m e of her mother. Mrs. Charles Dyke.

Thomas White left town List Sat-•urday morning for a brief vl.sit to N e w .Haven. Conn., and N'ew ITork city, returning homo on Tuesday eve­ning.

Mr.*. Henry W. Brockelman Is spending, a few days at th« Brockel-mxin hom«stead in Lancaatcr.

The Matrons' Aid society met on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Mary E. Dyke. The meeting was an Inter­est ing one and -much endo'ed. During b, social hour lunch was sen-ed. The meet ing adjourned to meet on Octo­ber 27 with Mrs. N'orman R. Graves, •when they will bc..entertalned by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson.

Thonvos D. Morln. jeweler and liousehold furniture dealer, of this •town, wishes to announce to his cus­tomers and friends that he Is retiring from business and -will sell his entire etock at cost. The store will be open from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m„ until the en­tire stock-Is sold. •

taglous disease he forwarded to the' State Board of Health within a period of ten daya two cultures and. both were returned; negative. Dr. Rice,, of Fltchburg, was also called Into the caae and after consultations had been held It was decided as a last resort of saving the child's life to send It to the ' Brighton hospital for- special treatment. . • . .

The sudden and unexpected death was a surprise to the local physicians wlio did everything that waa possible from a professional standpoint to save the life of the llttie one. Burial was In Lowell on" Monday. ' •

Center. " .' Miss Ruth M. Graves, of Royalston,

spent the week-end and holiday with .her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N'orman R. Graves.

The Shirley "Center Cam-p-flre Girls he d a ceremonial meeting on last Saturday evening with Mlss Ethel M. Holden.

»!.•*'''•,.,""'' ^"•''- Gforge Hachez. of the village, moved Tnto the tenement over the Center store last week. Mr, nnd Mrs. Hachez are employed by Mrs. Grace E; Wlnslow. taking ' the places of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson.

The Girls' Sewing Guild were pleas­antly entertained last. Saturday after­noon by Mrs. TayJxjr and Mrs. Walan­ta. The next meeting will be held on Saturday," October '24, at the home' of JIrs. M. W.- Longley.

Mlss Christine G. Longley, of the Worcester School of Domestic Sci­ence, spent the week-end and holiday at the home of her mother, Mrs. M. W. Longley.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. "Bolton, of Brookllne, spent thc week-end at their ».u.mmer home on Center road.

Forrest B. WJng. of Roxbury, spent the holiday at the home of his grand­parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Adams.

A party of twelve from Shirley Orange went to Boxborough In Bal­lou H truck last week Friday evening, where the third nnd fourth degrees were worked by Boxborough Grange. Those who went were Mr. .and-Mrs A. A. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bradford. Mlss Carrie Bradford. Mr. J.",*?,. '™' ^': ^ - Graves. Earl Graves. Vt llllam ' Thompson. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Ralph Graves, Arthur R Holden.

Shirley Grange has been Invited to neighbor with Littleton .Grange on Wednesday 'evening. October 21. • The .program Is to be furnished jointly by Shirley and Aycr Granges.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E.' Goodspeed and family, of Wollaston, .<fpent the week­end at their .summer home on Center road.

Mr. and Mr.s. Edward Carey and daughter Grace, of Fltchburg, were guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Carey.

Clarence Clark, of N'ashua, N'. S wa.s a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N'. R. Graves over the holiday.'

Mrs. Abbie Bradley, who has been away on a visit of several weeks, has returned to the home of her'sister, Mr.s. Charles Longley.

T h e . remainder of Great .road be­tween the home' of Oscar Haradon and the Lunenburg line has been sur­veyed and staked out. and It Ls re­ported that the contract for building the road has already been as.slgned. This section will make the state road complete. It Is expected that the'sec­tion which wa-s flnLshed recently will be open to travel by thc end of this week.

Rev. Wllllston M. Ford,, who has been spending a few days at W. E, Barnard's, has gone tb hLs new home in Ayer.

An article by MLss Helen M. Wlns­low. dealing with the modern prob­lems of women appeared In l.ast Sun­day's Issue of the Boston Post.

.MLss Elsie Kirby jammed her thumb quite seriously In the automo­bile one day la.st week, the .services of a physician being neceiwary to dress It.

The balloon Bostori, of the AerO •club of .N'ew Emtland. landed last week Friday In Wood.svllle on the land of Captain Blair, near the home of WUIlam Wllklns. The balloon .started from Crompton park. Worces­ter, and was piloted bv J. J. 'V'an Valkenburg. pre-sident of the Aero club, accompanied by J. Walter Flagg vice president, and E. S. Irwln, a Worcester ne\rapaper man. They had a line trip, covering the twenty-six miles between Worcester and Shirley in one hour and llftv-llve minutes landing In Woodsvi'.Io at 3.50 In the afternoon.- The party was taken back to Worcester hy Harry B. Pulslfer. of Foster street. Worcester, who reached Wood.svllle three minutes after the landing. The balloon hag and tackle were takon to Ayer by Wlllfam Wll­klns to be .sent by train to Worcester.

There will be a meeting for discus­sion of equal suffrage, at Mrs. Grace l-Z. Winslow's residence on Wednesdav evening, October 21. Mrs. Wenonk P.nkham. of Colorado, will make the chief address and there will be some tine music. Men as well as women are invited, and as ."Mrs. Pinkham is one of the best .speakers In the state the meeting is sure to be well worth while.

LOST—Passbook No. 12433. F i n d e r / n i i m i r>1/ nnrttt i . . ^ . . , —

pi«,.e._r,turn.to.NORTH .MIDD,.,.:HI.:.X SHjRLEY GASH MARKET .• •VVINGS BANK, Ayer, Mass. Tuten, Treasurer. S. T.

3t WAKTKD flOOO FIRST JIOHTG.IOE

—Farm In PeppereU. Assessed for 11900; w i n pay six percent. Addresa A. B.. Public Spirit Omce, Ayer.

A GOOD ASSORTMENT

-OF —

HORSES FOR SALE

- A T — '

Whitney's Stable AYER, MASS.

Telephone 29-3 3m5«

FURTHER NOTIGE Everything pertaining' to the bur­ial of an adult, which includes services for ^ 4 8 . 5 0 and one hack for bearers or family, outside box delivered to cemetery, improved, .slumber couches, embalming, nice flower stands, door wreath or crepe, chairs, pedestals at church, truclc, hearse and attendants.aud all other necessary arrangements to complete gpod - work and I guarantee to.please all patrons.

Anyone wishing further iti-formation please call af my store. Main Street, Ayer, JIass. Tele­phone 39-2. Able assistants; night or day.

L. B.Tuttle . Funeral Director

Main Street Ayer, Mass.

Wc nro AecntS' for tlio Famous

DEAKE'S OAKE -^ and carpy the foIlQwinc Tarictlcs In

. stock

Citron Marble Baisin Plain-

Fniit Lady Nut Sponge

Don't work yourself to death bak­ing when you have flrst-claas cake at your market.

MEATS OP ALL VARIETIES — ALSO —

FEESH VEGETABLES OP ALL KINDS

CHAS. A. McCAn-niY, Proprlelop.

PAGE THBZE

n buying groceries Is what everyone Is looking for In these times of the high cost of living. Wc carry, a full line of small groceries, Including the products of the National Biscuit Co' and are the agents for the celebrated Oeresota and Gold Medal Flours the best, for the money—all of which we. handle .at very low prices. One trial will' convince you that we sell as low as anyone. There Is no oues-tlofi but that you will get your money's worth here.

Olil Specteltjr U tho HandUng of the Very Best

Vermont Butter and Cheese

EAST MAIN STEEET GROCERY JAMES E . GRIFFIN, Proprietor

East Blaln Street Aycr, Maia.

Registration of Voters

«,«3LMiIOXWEALTH OF MASSACHU­SETTS. Middlesex, sa. Probat* Court.

To all persons Intereated In the es­tate of ADRON WI-VSHIP Ute of Townsend In said County, deceased

U hereas RICHARD McELLlGOTT the administrator of the estate of said deceased, has presented for allowance, the account of his administration upon the e.state of said deceased. "

'OU are hereby cited to appear at a '"bate Court, to be held at Cambridge

'•" '"'? County, on ihe twenty-sixth d.ay of October A. D. 1914. at nine oclock In the forenoon, to ahow cause. If any you have, why the same should not be allowed.

And said administrator Is ordered to .serve this citation by dellverInK a copv thereof to all persons Interested In th'e estate fourteen days at least before .•!ald Court, or by publlshlns the same once In each week, for three successive weeks, In Turner's Publlc Spirit a newspaper publlsh'ed In Ayer. fhe asi publication to be one day at least be­fore aald Court, and by mailing, post-Cnn^v..,* *"*"*• ".'• '•"« citation to all known persons Interested In the estate seven days at leaat before aald rouri.

W. E. ROGERS.' Register

^.i'JP^'MONWKALTH OF MASSACHf-.->l-/rTfe \s orcester. ss. Probate Court. .,11 „ , h . - *"•" "' ""'• " " t of kin and .111 other persons Interested In the e s . • ate of J ( 5 H X C. THOMPSO.N" a e of Harvard. In said County, deceased.

Whereas, a certain Instrument pur-" ng to be the last will and lesta-

Dcath. Annie Cutler, the sUtecn-months-

old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Louis '.Cutler, died .at the Manachuset ts

Homeopathic hospital at Brighton *arly Monday morning from the ef­fects of paralysis of the lamyx. Tho infant wan taken to ihe hoapltal only t h e day previous, Sunday evening, and ]lved only four, hours'after being ad­m i t t e d . Dr. Thomas E. Ully, the at­tending physician, had been treating

• t h e child for a week or more, and to eradicate any prevailing Idea that the

Intorwtlng Serrlces. A very pleasing musical sorvice w.as

neld on last Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. Grace Winslow. with a large attendance. An excellent pro­gram was given, consisting of selec­tions by trio, organ, piano and violin: jocal selection, Mlss Christine G. Longley; pianoforte selections. .Mrs. M. A. Brldgman; violin selectlona. .Mr, LePrade; organ and piano duet. .Mrs. Grace Wlnslbw and Harold T. Shat tuck; pla.no selections, Mr. Shattuck vocal -selections, Mr. LePrade Itev Percy Linden read from the bible and gave a short address. Rev. Howard ?•;. is.?™?" spoke a few words and >i 1 iY,"'"'"Jr explained the purpose-In holding these services. The sea--Ices are absolutely noh-scotarlan and ^^Lj^^li at mjch a n hour a-s not to ^h.tr^S * *'."* ^"^ "t the regular ^J"';^*'_»en-Ic«i. They will, bo held every Sunday evening at Hve o'clock ^" l . evcryone . no matter to what dc-?.hT ""*'*?" .*'"''' belong Is welcome. ^»? •?'."*'5*' programs are excellent l'"* '' >« hoped that everyone will at-if^ lll^ services and keep them as successful as they have been during thc past few weeks.

er, the executrix therein named, with­out giving a surety on her official bon,! I. £"."•;? berehy cited to appear at a 'robate Court, to be held at Worcester. hlrrt''l.V°„","'>i' °' J^'orcestcr. on the

third (lay of November. A, D 1914 i t nine o'clock In the forenoon.' to sho'w cause, If any you have, why the .sam.-should not bc granted. . •

.\nil said petitioner la herebv dlr,-c-,"; . ,i'°...*''^'*.i.'?"''".'= "°tlce thefeof. l,v publl.shlng this citation once In each week, for three successive weeks, in h.. Harvard Hillside, a newspaper p u "

llshed In Ayer, the-last publication to be one day, at least, before aald Court, .and hy mailing, poatpald, or deliver­ing a cony of this citation to all known persona Interested In the eatate seven (lays at least before aald Court

Witness. William T. Forbea. E3<iulre Judge of said Court, this ninth day of October In the year one thouaand nine hundred and fourteen. 31S HARRV. H. ATWOOD. Reglater.

Tho Board of Registrars of Voters •will be In session In the Selectmen's Room. Town Hall Building, for the purpose of registering voters and cor­recting the list of voters,

Thnrsday, Sept. 17, '7.30 to 9.30 p. m. Saturday, October 10, 7.30 to 9.30 p. m. Saturday, October 21, 12 m. to 10 p. m.

Registration will close at 10 p. m., Saiurday. Ootobcr 2-J, and rio names will be added to the voting list after that'date until after the next election, except the names of voters examined as to their qualifications between the preceaing SOth day of April and the close of registration, or to correct a clerical error or mistake.

Persoas wishing to register should bring a tax bill or a notice from the collector ot taxes to show that they have been assessed for the year 1914.

N'aturalized citizens wishing to reg­ister must show their certificate of naturalization.

PETER B. MURPHV, FRAXK J. MALOXEY, LOUIS H. CUSHING, GUY B. REMICK.

^tl Registrars ot Voters.

SfORTGAGEE'S SALE OF

R E A L E S T A T E

Al'CTIOSrS .•n'*1?Z*"" Morgan, auctioneer, will J,,!:.,!.!'.- P'fjonal property, household rurnliurc and farming toola at the resi­dence of the late Freeman U Rohblna. ?,liP""V.'''''''' "' one o'clock on Sat­urday afternoon. October 17.

Otis H. Forbuah, auctioneer, will sell by auctlbn thc real estate and houac-hold goods At 63 Barrett Mill road, near the railroad atatlon. at Reformatory, on Friday morning, • N'ovember 6, at nine o'clock.

Perhaps the greatest feat of micro­scopic engraving w.as accomplished by a Jewish farmer In Alberta, who pre­pared an addresa of welcome to the Duke of.Connaught. The address waa Inscribed In Hebrew on a grain ot wheat and contained no fewer than 300 letters. So flne was the lettering that . . — a microscope was necessary to

child died from the effects of a con- read the Inscription with any ease.

The Commonwcalrh of Hns8aehusctt.s

In iioord of Gaa and Electric light ConunlsfUonors

Boston. Mass., October 9. 1914. On the petition of the Shirley Elec­

tric Company for the approval of an Issuo ot additional common stock to the amount of six thousand dollars (16,000) to pay th» cost ot oxten-slons of Its plant, the Board will give a hearing to. t h e . parties Intereeted at Its ofllce, 603 Ford Building at 15 Ashburton Place, Boston, on Wodnctt-dart tho twcnty-clght day of October current, a t ten-thirty o'clook In tho forenoon.

And the petitioner is rc(julred -to give notice of mid hearing by pub­lication hereof in the "Shirley Oracle." a newapaper published In thc town of Shirley, once e^ch week for two sue­ceaslve weeks prior to said time of hearing; '

Per order of the Board, (Signed) R. o . T O B P : V ,

Clerk. A true copy. Attest:

(Signed)' R. o . TOBEV. Clerk.

W H X NOT S E B

Thomas R Mullin .THB RBAZt ESTATE AGENT

l a . t t c c a r d to InTestment?

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By virtue of and pursuant to a power of sale contained In a certain mortgage given by Laura E. Lawson to Albert Leighton, dated March 23, 1899, and recorded In the Middlesex .«outh District Deeds, Book 2726, Pago 17, and duly ass igned.to tho subscrib­ed by Charles Leighton, as Executor of the will of said Albert Leighton, and for breach of conditions ot said mortgage deed and for the purpose of foreclosing the sam«, will be sold at the offlce of Francis G. Hayes, Es­quire. East Pepperell, on Saturday thc twenty-fourth day of October, A. D. 1914, at s ix o'clock p. m., all and singular tho premises conveyed by a certain mortgage deed, sold property being described a s fol lows:

A certain parcal of land with thc buildings thereon situated In tho EaaUrly part of said Pepperell on the Southerly side of Holl ls Street and b o u n d s and described as follows, namely:

Beginning at the Xortheast eornor of the premlsea at land of John Marshall; thence Southerly by said Marshall's land about two Hundred and six (206) feet to land ot Mosce B. Palmer; th3nc». Westerly by said Palmer's land about one hundred and elsTen ( I U ) feet to land of Thomaa w . Feeney; thence. Northerly by said F o e n e y s land about ons hundred and twelve (112) feet to a s u k s and stone; thence Northwesterly by said Feeney's land about thirty-seven (37) feet to .Illd HoIUs Street; thence, Eaaterly by said Hollls Street about seventy I'O) feet to the point o f beginning

•Terms of sale—Cash. Other terms ;•> be announced at the t ime and place of sale.

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AUaUSTUS LOVEJOT Insurance Agent and Broker

na« of -PiaaeTtr -plaMd la KOOI

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Hartford Resideat Gets Quick ReUcf From Uso of Mayr Remedy . .

Mrs. S. E, Johnson ot ( 1 Whltmore street, Hartford, Conn., waa a victim of stomach and digestive disorders, attended by much pain. She auflered from pains In the side and other dis­comforts.

She tooK Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy and found quick relief. In writing of her experience sho said:

"The pain lett me the next day af--ter taking the remedy. It'a simply wonderful bow It relieved m e ; and you may be sure .1 shall tell every one who has stomach trouble aboat It."

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Because of the remarkable success of this remedy there are many Imita­tors, so be cautious. B« sure It's M A T R ' a Oo to William Brown's drug store, Ayer, and ask *l>out the wonderful reaulta It has been accom­plishing In cases they know about— or send to OeoiYe FL Uayr, Mtk. ChemUt. 164.1S6 WhtUac St.. Chle»-go. III., for free book on atomaeh ai l ­ments and m^ny grateful letter* t r o u people who have been raatofed. Amr druggist ean tell you ita wondsrf01 r e -sulia.

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O N E VOVItAR A N D F U T T CENTS FER YEAR I N ADVANCE

A n Advertlsementa Appear In AU tho Ten Papers W e Publish

lte«rt Of local Interest are »ol'»»«; and must always be accompanied py " e nime of the writer, not 'of. Publi­cation, but a» a guarantee of good Ul th . and win always be con.Idered strictly confldential. Kindly mall Items soon after the day ot occurrence and do not Walt unnecessarily.

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TiB to the Pen and Pre«» we mortals

we believe and almost all we know" • . ,

Saturday, October It, 1914.

GBOTON. • News Items.

• pne ot the season's debutantes Is to be Elizabeth Peabody, daughter of Kev. and Mrs. Endicott Peabody of Groton School. Cards for the dance at which she will m a k e her bow to society are now Issued. The event Is scheduled tor October 30, and many Bostoh society girls plan to come to Groton.

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The marriage of Miss Mary l a w -rence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John LauTence, of Groton a o d -Nahant, and Stephen Webb Sabine, son of Dr. and Mrs. George K. Sabine, of Brookllne, will be solemnized on November 14 In Groton. i t will be a church affair. Mr. and Mrs., Lawrence and their family, who have spent the summer at Nahant, .have returned to their h o m e here. - .

The next meet ing ot the Woman's club, will be held in the town' hall on October 23, at thr^e o'clock. It Is an open and free meet lne to all. The eminent Mrs. .£.ucla Amed Mead, of Boston and the World Peace Foun-

. datlon, win give the address. The cal­endars w in be distributed. to aU who h a y e . p a i d dues, for "1914-15. . Caiit. Palmer Is storing his goods In the ,George S. Prescott house. He luLSnot decided, a s .j-et to take the house permanently. Mrs. Derby, who was housekeeper tpr Mr. Prescott, will go. to her sister's In Fltchburg.

There was- qulte^ 3; bad forest flre at Harry Nutting's the first of the week

T h e paper mill at Primus shut down last week Thursday -night. ,

The Frederic F. Smith family lett town permanently last Saturday. Their household goods were moved in a n auto v a n . .

The llterarj' section of the Woman's club win meet with Mrs. Henrietta M. Chase on ' the afternoon of Novem­ber 7. The studies will be continued the same as last year. The play, Henrj- thc Sixth, will also be taken up.

Eldredge Smith, superintendent ot schools, has been making a number of changes In the h igh school.

We understand that Mrs. A. B. Far-well Is verj- busj- at work on hand-painted china and thalt her annual sale of th'ose articles wil l be held early In Uece'mber. .

Groton School and Lawrence acad­emy play football th is Saturday after­noon. V

C. M. M. Mason's ten-daj-s' furlough expired at midnight on Fridaj-. • He left for the U: S. S. Elaine at Brook­lyn navy jard on Friday morning.

The flrst ot the season's supper and entertainments at the Baptist church will be held on Thursday evening, Oc­tober 22.

Dr. Goble, F. W. Chase, A. H. Ma­son and Frank jbllbert were among those who attended: the world series game in Boston on Monday.

The first regular meeting of the Junior Bird club will be held In the

. Boy Scouts hall on Friday afternoon. November 6. at 3.4 5. All children w-ho have written compositions ori bird life are requested to bring them.

The extremely dry season of late has caused a numlier of wells In tow-n to go drj-.

The ladles of the Baptist society have chosen offlcers as follows: Mrs. A. B. Fam-ell. pres.: Mrs. A. B. Holmes, v. p.; Mlss Annie Floyd. Mrs. Marcia Parkhurst, Mrs. Herbert Rock­w-ood. Mrs, Maria Sawj^r. Mlss Brida Holmes, board of dlrectre.sses.

Mrs. James Law-rence ha.s sold the woodlot on her place. The men w-lth the portable saw- mill, who come from Harrlsvllle. Conn., are already on the Brounds ready to liesrln work.

There w-cre many of thc tc.nchcrs and other j-oung people home for the holidays.

A grandson et Eber Woods, an old-timer in Groton, was in tow-r. on Tues­daj-.

Miss Lf'na L. Tuttle arrived from Brookllne. X. H., at the home of her hrother, Arthur C. Tuttle. la.st week F"rida\- cvenlnp and remained until over Columbus da>-. attending church on Sunday. Miss Tuttle Is thc gram­mar school teacher In thc new-l>--bullt. up-to-date schoolhouse fitted up with all the modern arrangements and conveniences in Brookline. N. H.

The Groton Woman's club opened most auspiciously on Friday afternoon of last w-eck. one ot the most beauti­ful of October days. A pka.sing pro-Rram was carried out as follow.s: Piano duct. Mrs. Ardelle T. Warren and Mlss Clarissa Cohurn: vocal .solo. Miss Irene Tj-rrell: vocal solo. Miss Hazel Gibson; afternoon tea: current events. Mrs. Frank D. Lew-is: report of State Federation.- Mrs. F. F. Woods, Seven active and one association mem­bers w-ere admitted. Miss Boutwell's address will he published in next w-eek's Issue,

Xotice w.-i.i Riven la.st Sunday morn­ing af the Congregational church re­questing all the mcmlK-rs of the con-Krecatlon who w-Ish to contribute to the work of thc American Red Cross socletj" to put their ofrcrln<?s In an envelope marked "For the Red Cross socletj-." this offering to be put In the boxes when thc regular collection Is taken. Thc gift will he forwarded at oncc to aid the society In its great and humane w-ork.

In the Baptist church on Sunday morning the pastor will .preach In the morning on "How to maintain apd de­velop spiritual life." At seven In the evening there will bc a bright, evan­gelistic service w-lth .special subject, "The pale green horse and Its rider." This subject will be postponed If the weather should prove unfavorable.

The annual meeting of 'the Groton Bird club fpr election of offlcers w-lll be held In lower town hall on Monday evening, October 19. at eight o'clock.

Wc«t firoton. Mrs. R. W. Bliss, with her daugh­

ters, Ethel and Llda. and sons. Robert and Cadwell, spent Friday In Boston, going by auto. In the attcrnoon thej-enjoj-ed the play "Widow by proxy" at the Castle Square theatre.

Mrs. A. -F. Cottrell, of Tiverton, R. I., and her friend. Mrs. Boj-d. have been guests this week at the home of Mrs. A. I* Harrlnsrton. They left on

her sister, Mrs, Austin, and a niece. Mlss Ruth Austin, ot New York. The guests, accompanied bj- their hostess,' spent .Thursday afternoon In Boston.

Mrs. Woolaver, of Nova Scotia, w-ho l ias been for some weeks w-lth her son, G. I. Woolaver, left on Thursdaj-. Mrs. G. I.' Woolaver accompanied her to Boston.

Rev. and . Mrs. Trowbridge . have spent the week In Ro.chester as 'guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gerrlsh, and have greatly- enjoyed .meeting many triends, former parishioners ot Mr. Trow-bridge. „

Mlss Hazel Thompson Is a guest ot her aunt, Mrs. W. P. Lane. Mrs. Lane also entertained her sister, Mrs. M. J, Shepley, over the w-eek-end.

David Thompson, ot Mattapan, w-as In town this' week.

Miss Grace Blxbj-. of Lincoln, was a week-end visitor at her home.

Clifford Blxbj-, of New ITork, .spent Thursdaj- at the home ot b is parents, leaving on Friday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. John Liacos, with their two children and brother, Wll-llkm Liacos. returned this week from a visit to Bennington. N. H.

Mr. and Mrs. D. M. .Sheplej-, J. T. Shepley, E l m e r . Small and David IThompson motored to Boston Tues­day and ispent the day In the cltj-.

• Mr. and Mrs. George Stracher. of Philadelphia, recent guests of Mrs. G H. Blxby, are now camping, at Thomp­son's mills. Intending to stay several weeks. Mrfe. Stracher, formerly Miss Florida Shespley, bas many, relatives aiid friends In the village.

George R, Bliss, ot Center Rutland, •yt., spent t h e week-end and Colum­bus day' at the home of his uncle, R. W. Bliss. •

Dorothy Thompson ha? entered Groton hospital where. It Is under­stood,, she- underwent surgical treat­ment .on Thursdaj-.

Mr. .and Mrs. O'Connell moved, re­cently to Henniker, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Malley and family, have moved to t'he vacated house. Mr^. Mallej-'s 'sister, Mrs. Warren Seems, Is wi th . her. ,' - ,

The next regular meeting o t the Vil­lage Improj-ement socletj- will be held on Tuesday evening In charge ot the lookout committee, A. W. Lamb,-chairman.

Al len . Sedley and family, of Dor­chester, - -were, at their summer home for the recent holiday, coming by auto. , •

B o m In' Groton hospital on Octo ber 2, a daughter to Mr- and' Mrs. R. E. AUen. Mother, and daughter re­turned home on Thursday atternoon

. \ Successful Hnnt. ; The Gun club hunt on Mondaj- was

pronounced a great success. About flftj- members participated in the con­test and the number of their furred and • feathered victims reached ap-proximatelj- 125.. Thc game consisted of jack rabbit, coonie rabbit, part­ridge, pheasant, graj' and red squirrel,-haw-k. flj-lng squirrel and w-oodeock. The side captained by Fred Reid won with 3200 points against 3125 gained bj- their opponents under E. F. Sleep­er. The losing side, however, received an additional 250 points, the game be­ing brought In too late to- receive credit In (h.e contest. But for this accident vlctorj- would have been scored by thc other side. . \n oj-ster supper fol]ow-ed the .strenuous daj- In the fields, to w-hich the huntsmen did ample justice. The Gun club, start­ing In November, 1912, w-ith tw-elve charter members, has now- fifty-three members In good standing and six w-alting for enrollment. Its main ob­ject is soclabllltj-.

Prizes - iuordcd. The school garden prizes have been

aw-arded lo West Groton pupils as fol­lows: The Ga.rdiner silver cup .is again held bj- the Tarbell school. This cup is to be the property of the school which shall hold it for three succes­sive J-ears. This is the second- >-ear. Each pupil engaged in the 'West Gro ton work w-as allowed 225 points, in the Scout garden 275 points and to these-w-ere added points tor Individual w-ork w-hlch gained for the holders the various.prizes offered by Amherst Agricultural college. For highest achievement w-as awarded a gold pin in a four-leaf clover design w-lth four H's. sj-mbollzing heart, head, hand and health, the four necessities, for successful w-ork. Pins were won by Gregory- Smith. Will iam Fallon, William Clark, high school freshmen, Erving Kezar. Bernard Cronin, James Fallon, Han-cy Law-rence of the gramr mar school and Homer Harrington ot the Intermediate.

As all the work w-as Con.sldcred good, buttons, the reward of good w-ork. w-ere bestow-ed upon .nil others Grant Harrington. Doris Wright, Ed­ward Webber, Isabel Bixby. Vivian Boutelle. Robert McCann. Richard Kezar. Roger Reid. Virginia Harring­ton. Evelyn Hallett. Charlotte Pierce. Zaid.a Sej-more. WlUlam Trapej-. George Woolaver and Victor Duquette, the la-st named for the excellency of a w-cathcr chart of his manufacture.

Ribbons for lirdlvldual work were awarded as follows: Er\-Ing Seaver. 2 blue ribbons, 275 points; Bernard Cronin. 1 blue, 1 red. 350; James Fal­lon, 1 red, 375, 2d prize at Clinton fair for be.>rt three squashes; Harvey Law-rence. 1 red, 5 w-hlte. 575, Ist prize. Groton. for best collection, and 2d on squashes at Clinton: Edward Webber. 1 w-hlte. 250; Homer Harring­ton. 1 red. 1 white . 300; Isabel Blxby and Vivian Boutelle, oach 2 red rib­bons. w-Ith 325 points each; Richard Keezar. 2 red, 375; Roger Reid, 1 red. 375: Evelyn Hallett, 1 blue, 300: Robert McCann, 1 blue. 1 white. 325, Roger Reid obtained second prize. .75 cents, on best collection.

During the' night of October 14 some one made a friendly call at the garage of S. iS. Farnsworth on ,Oak hlll and took a motorcycle belonging to Jerome Callahan and a new- Ford touring car, the .property of Mr. Farnsw-orth. . The Invaders left the motorcj-cle at the foot of the hlll, but 80 tar no clue has been found a s to the location of the car. The police throughout the state have been noti­fied. It would seem to be only a mat­ter of a few weeks at least w-hen the Intruders will be apprehended.

JIrs. Carrie Hussey of Littleton was In tow-n on Thursday staying at her farm property on Oak hlll.

Mlss Elmira Jewett of-Gardner Is caring for Mrs. Martha Savage at her •home w-ith Mrs'.,, George Kavanagh. Mlss Jewett formerly lived here In tow-n.

Returns from apple shipments are not very promising for our farmers. Good trult . has returned from fifty cents to one dollar' per barrel on ex-, portatlon. - Some farmers are shaking the apples and putting: them Into Cider w'hlch saves expense In picking and barrels. . ' Harry W. Crooker has closed his summer residence on Oak hlll and gone, to his winter residence at New­tonvllle.

Arthur W. Brown Is home with his aunt, Mlss Helen Barnard, and moth­er for a few daj's.

Cellar work on the new Bromfield house Is progressing. H. D. Stone, who has the entire contract. Is to have the house completed on February 1.

• Frederic Haskell, a son -of Ferdi­nand Haskell, of Jacksonville, Fla.. who lived- here some twentj--flve j-ears. ago, w-as married to Miss Helen Hask­ell, of Beverlj-, Mondaj-, October 12, and they arrived In toj^-n on Tuesday for a w e e k ' s visit w-lth Mrs. Edith Haskell at the old home place. It Is Mr. Haskell's first visit to Han-ard. ^ h e y win reside In Jacksonville, Fla.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip O. Dickson Is spending this week Iri a vacation visit with Charles Clarke and family at Tufta ' college, expecting tp return home on Monday.

Miss L. W. Dj-ar and her sister, Mrs. Mary. Sherman, w-ere very much pleased on Thursday to receive a day's visit trom their nephew-, Arthur Dyar. with his -wife and five little girls; also, •their-sister, Mrs. Addle Djar. all of Lowell, w-ho come up by auto to spend the day- here.

Allan Brooks has been on the sick list for a few days, but was able to resume his work on Fridaj-. -

On Thursday ot this week Miss Sears. entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Pratt Alcptt at "The Pergolas," and afterward'they w-ere taken to"FruI t -lands." Mr. Alcott ts a grandson of A. Bronson Alcott.

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Crqsslej-. torm­erlj- residents here, but now- of Lud­low-. Vt„ w-lth their son and w-Ife, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crosslej-, passed through tow-n on Wednesday In their auto, stopping at the Henry Crossley home and calling on triends. They have been through the White Moun­tains and are en route to Ludlow-.

' Mrs. F. C. Gallaher. w-lth her chil­dren, of Flushing, X. v.. Is-spending a tew- daj-s here w-ith her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Wetherbee.

The birds in the Hapgood collection at the Memoriai building have been treated to a chemical bath this w-eek. an expert In this work from the Thay­er estate. Lancaster, having charge of the Work.

Mlss Gladj-s HIgglns. Miss Josephine Disney, ot Worcester, and Miss W i t -son, of -Boston, w-ere guests over the holidays w-lth Miss lola Bemls at the Henry Crossley farm.

F. W. Moses and family left here on-Mondaj- en. route by auto to .De­troit. Mich.

Albert H, Bigelow- was taken to the Clinton hospital on • la.st Saturday, w-herc he underw-ent an operation for appendicitis, everj-thing attending be­ing very successful and Mr. Bigelow- is doing fine w-Ith the prospects of being home again In about tw-o w-eeks.

There will be a dance given for the beneflt of the Bromfield Baseball club In the town hall on Friday evening, October 23. .Mu.>ilo by Eddy's orchestra. Refreshments,

December 4—"Public health today and tomorrow-." Illustrated. I'rof. Wil­liam T. Sedgwick; M. 1. T.

January 1—Reading. "The peaceful valley." Phldelah Rice.

January- 22—-.'Personal remlnlvcences of a bird man," Illustrated. Karl L. Ovlngton. .

February "19—Concert. rilKrIm male quartet; Allda Dow-nell White, reader.

Socletj- Muiuigcrs EntcrtalnwI. On last Saturday Ml.ss Sears gave a

luncheon at "The Pergolas" to the managers of the Society for the Pres­ervation of Xew- England Antiauitics. They came from Boston on the 11.15 train to Aj-er and w-erc taken to Har­vard in a motorbus belonging .to the Busch Auto Tours Co, A number drove over the" road from Boston In their ow-n motors, Atter luncheon the guests w-ere taken to "Frultlands" where thej- made a careful inspe<-:ion of the old house. .The society, of w-hich thc follow-lng list of names are managers, is a very large one and Is composed of 1500 members: Mr, and Mr.x. C. K, Bolton, Mr, and Mrs, W-al­do Lincoln, Mr, and Mrs. Harold Jef­ferson Coolidge. Mr, and Mrs. Russell Gray, Mr, and JIrs. Dwight M, Proutj'^. Mr.s. Xathaniel Thajcr, Mrs. Charles K. Cummings. Mi.ss Helen F, Kimball, .Mrs, F. E. Chadwlck of Xewport, R. I,, and Mr.s. Abba Gould Wool.son of .Maine,

Thursday. Mrs. A. W. Ijamb Is entertaining on th i s Saturday e%-enlns a t e ight

HAKVARD. News I tems . .

Ernest Calkins Is visiting his broth­er. Arthur Calkins, fpr a tew daj-s.

Guests a t - M i s s Ellen Mongovln's home this w-eek are Miss Loretta Des­mond and Mlss Anna G. Cotter, of Boston.

Mlss Flora Oake-s, second prlmarj-teacher, has \-isltlng here w-lth her this week her sister, Mlss Alice Oakes, of North Adams.

Mlss Alice- Chadwlck, teacher at Bromfield school, visited with rela­tives In Edgrarton for over the holl-daj-s. She Incidentally discovered that the summer and winter schedule of boats were not the same, which ac­counts for her absence trom her du­ties on Tuesday. .

A long and most Interesting article w-Ith flne Illustrations h a s como o.ut In The Book N e w s Monthly, a magazine published In Philadelphia, about "Frultlands." It Is of Interest to noto the Important place given to It In lit­erary circles. In this article It says: "The restoration of Frul t lands which has recently taken 'p lace Is In thc lit­erary annals of this country and an event of moment."

There Is to be a musical and- Charles Dickens' recital, given b y Prof. GII-"bert Buxton of Montreal, wi th selec­tions from "A Christmas carol" and "Pickwick Papers" a t t h e town hall

Fruit and Poultry Exhibit. Harvard Grange is to hold an

open fruit and poultrj- exhibit at the town hall on Tuoiday afternoon and evening. October 20. .Miss Clara En­dicott Sears has donated $25 in ppe-miums for apples to ite divided as fol­lows: Best plate exhibit, not less than four varieties, six apples to a plate; first. $10; .second. $7; third, $5; fourth, J3, Kdgar W, Cottle has giv­en $S for the U-xt looking and best packed box of one bushel, any varletj-of apples; lirst, J5; second, »3, D. Chauncey Urewer has given J25 to be awarded in thc poultry exhibit and divided as follows: Best R, I. Red Pul­let. $.3: .s<-cond, $2; best Barred Rock pullet, J3; second, $2; best White Rock pullet. %Z-, second, $2; best •White Wyandotte pullet. $3; .second. $2; best cockerel of anj- of the above breeds. Jl each.

In view- of the large premiums of­fered It is hoped all of the people ot Harvard will u k e special interest In exhibits and make a good showing. Entries should be sent In to thc com­mittee as soon as possible so that proper space may be provided for the entries.- Arrangements may bc made w-lth any of the committee. H. A. Thayer. I>. H. SIcad, Gus B. Schultz or R. A. Reed.

An entertainment is to be given In the evening at eight o'clock with music by the orchestra. MLss Dadmun. violin; Mlss Chadw-lck. piano; Mr. Bodwell. flute, and Mr. West, clari­net. Everj-thlng free, entries of ex­hibits limited to citizens of Harvard only.

Church Notes. Non-church-goers are cordially In­

vited to the ser\-lces of the Unitarian church, which denomination has frankly and openly freed Itself from bondage to ancient dogma, signing of creeds, deltylnjr ot human beings, etc., and admits to full membership upon signing the ooclcty^s simple constltil-tlon. In this spirit of liberty, but also In re^-erence and earnestness, we conduct our services o t worship at 10.45 on Sundaj-. mornings. Art and beauty will minister to . j -ou In the music, w-hlch Is In charge of a former member of the Lotus male quartet of Boston.' Come-and be j)enefltted with us. This Sunday Mlss Elvira Scorgie win again be the soloist-

A school for the "teaching of a free religion, with the emphasis upon thc praj-erful development ot one's own conscience and reason. Instead of up­on a readj--made revelation from anj' source outside. Is held each Sunday at tw-elve o'clock and i s ot course eager to w-elcome new-comers. One juvenile class has this tall, grown so as to re­quire two teachers. T h e r e are sep­arate classes for men -and women, the former discussing .present day prob­lems of our American democracy..

The meeting for men last Sunday evening was attended by twenty-six. The vote of, thanks extended the speaker w-as, according to the expres­sions heard In private, much mpre than a formajltj-. A committee con­sisting of H. H: Putnaih. A. S. Bran­son and A. S. .Richards was appointed to' arrange a program for another meeting on Sunday evening, Novem­ber 1.

A children's parade will b e ' a fea^ ture of the' sale to be given in the town hall on October 29, by the la­dles of the Unitarian society. The parade w-IU start at four oc lock and proniises to be-w^ell worth Seeing. The committee. Mrs. Bodwell. Mrs. H. H. Gale and Mrs. H . H . Putnam. Vil l be glad to furnish suggestions as to cos­tumes' and w-lll gladlj- help the moth­ers make preparations for their chil­dren.

At the Congregational church on Sundaj- morning the usual serv-ice for public w-orshIp will be held. The pas­tor will be In charge, taking aa his subject "Passed dividends." Special music Is arranged for this service. Miss Blanche Dadmun will render the Bach-Gounod first prelude, solo for violin w-lth organ accompaniment, a .beauti ful solo and w-ell w-orth an effort to hear. Mr. West will, by re­quest, sing Hamilton Gray's "Dream of paradise," Mlss Dadinun plajirig the violin obllgato part and Mlss Pol­lard organ accompaniment. ; ,

The bible school w-lll meet at tw-elve o'clock. The passage for study Is the Incident In the garden of Gethsemane. Here Is the problem of evil, ot sorrow and pain. Here, too. Is the remedy for sorrow- and pain as taught by the words and• example of the Xazarene. There i s no problem more vital, no answer more satisfying.

The C. E. society holds Its praj-er meeting In the parlor of the church at seven o'clock. The subject for Sundaj- evening Is to be "A saloonless nation—w'hj- ndt-^how-?" Mlss L. W, Dj-ar has charge.

On last Sunday morning an Invita­tion trom the Pepperell church for this church to be "represented at an Installing council on Wednesday. Oc­tober 14. w-as accepted and Mlss S. A. DaMs w-as chosen delegate.

A few- Interested friends gathered at the parsonage on Monday evening and Inaugurated the Monday class re-Tcrred to last w-eck. After a period of informal discussion ll w-as decided to take a broad survej- of American historj- as a background upon w-hich to w-ork out details of literature, economics and government. A dls-cu.ssion of live topics of the day will also have a part in each program. It is. understood that several not present last Monday are interested and an in­vitation is extended to these as well as all others to come on Monday nighi. Work will begin at 7,30 o'clock.

At its regular meeting held on Tues­day afternoon the Woman's Benevo­lent society heard the rep.ort of its executive committee concerning the activities during thc coming sea.son. The annual fair w-lU be held on the afternoon and evening of December 3. with the usual supper and entertain­ment in connection thercw-lth. An old tolk concert will bf held w-lth H. A. Thayer, as manager and conductor. It has been decided to have no sup­per in connection w-lth this concert. On the evening of Februarj- 26. the annual men's supper will be given, follow-ed bj- an entertainment under the direction of Rev. H. B. Mason. All of the above will be held In the tow-n hall.

In addition to these events under the auspices of the W. B. S.. there •n-lll be a supper and entertainment under the management of the Y. P. S. C. E, early -in Xovember, particulars of which will be noted later.

nKYBaMAaS.

Thrifty women never leave their change—nor their tH,^ Green Stamps—on the counter

Special Sale

Boston Maid House Dresses

Made from light, medium and dark Percales, in High and-Low Neck, Long and Short Sleeve Styles.

Regular price of these Dresses $1.00. Sale Price 7 9 ^ , .Sizes'34 to'46

CHILDBEN'S HATS New stock of Latest Styles in Corduroy and

Velvet, popular colors. 50<J and $1 .00

SWEATEES Por Uen, .Women and Children

Slade from fine and heavyweight -wool yarns in the Shakerknit and Pine Rib; colors, IJark Brown, Maroon, Navy, Cardinal, Dark-Green, Golden Brown and Gray.

Children!s—91.00, $1 .50 , $ 2 . 2 5 and ?3 .98 .. Men's and Women'»—?2.25, $ 2 . 5 0 , ^ . 5 0 and ?5.00.

Oet the S. & H. Green Stamp Discount on All Yonr Pall Furcbases Such as Blankets, Puffs and Comfortables, Underwear, Gloves, Out-"

ing Flannels, Dress Goods, Etc. Large and well assorted stock on hand

W WE ARE 1 1 ^ ^ ^ " ' ^ 1 ' "' ' " ^

lADIEStlOMEjOllRNAL i ^ P A T T E R N S / ^

MONTHLY STYLE BOOK FREE

B. Turner &

lioctnro Conrs*. The trustees of thc Witrncr Lec­

ture Fund announce thc following course of free lectures to bc given at the town hall tor the season ot 1914-15, this belngr the twenty-fourth course:

October 30—"Mexico." illuntrated, F, I. Monnen.

November 13 — "Our w-l!d animal neljthbore." llluntrated. Ernest M. Baynes.

Still River. Mr.s. How-ard D. Stone entertained

the Birthday club on Thursday in honor of her flfMcth birthday. There w-cre cle%-en members of the club and tw-o guests present. Mrs. Moore, of Mlllburj-, and Mrs. Jcseph Whitney.

Last Saturday Mlss Blanche Willard gave a sunset p a r t y to thc young la-tiles ot thc vlliage.

Ruth Willard and tw-o of her girl friends from the Fltchburg Xormal echool w-cre at her home from Friday until Tuesday.

•JIIss Edna Robinson has been visit­ing in Andover.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barbour, of Auburndale. came up In their auto on Thursday, taking dinner w-lth Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Haynes, and on their return they took Mrs. Julia Keyes, a cousin, back w-Ith them for a week's visit.

Mrs. Scales entertained her cousins. Mr. and Mrs. Keith, of Brockton, and Others over thc holiday.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stone, of Wal­tham, w-ere guests of his brother, Eltsha D, Stone, over Sunday.

Mlss Flora Murchle Is much Im­proved from her Illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther Willard enter­tained the Goddu family of Win-cheater ove-r the holiday.

Mlss E m m a Raj-mond, of Boston, waa thc guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Stone bn Sunday and Monday.

Mrs. Anna H. Flanders entertained the Birthday club on Monday attcr­noon.

Mrs- Coding, of Xewport. X. H.. w-as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sprague a- few days Last week.

John Sprague. of Shirley Is visiting •his son Frank Sprague.

F. W. Bateman and sister Eliza have beren In East Jaffrey. X. H., the •paMt week.

Curtain Scrims anfl Muslins A good dependable line of Curtain Muslins in Stripes and

Figures at tZYi^ per yard Scrim ih Ecru and White in a variety of patterns at

IZVz^ to 39<j per yard. Ready-made Sash Curtains 2 5 ^ per pair

Cotton Challie A very Suitable Covering for Bed Quilts at only..'.. 5<J per yard

Cotton Wadding, Cotton Batting, Silkolene in pretty dark and light shades for covering Puffs, Shelf Draperies, Etc.

Cretonne and Art Ticking for Covering Cushions, Draperies, Etc.

Berkshire Underwear Fleeeed-lined Underwear for cold weather 2 5 ^ and 50<[t

Linenwear Hosiery Anyone who has ever worn the Linen-wear Hose, know that the

all linen toe and heel are sure to give satisfaction. Medium and heavyweight... 2 5 ^ pair

Fall Fashion Quarterly on sale 25<J

M. L.. BROWN THE CASH DISCOUNT STORE

Page's Block AYER, MASS.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Fairchild ex­pect to close their Still River summer home on Saturday of this week and return to their home In Rutherford, N. J.

HOLLIS, N. H. About Town.

Thc C. E. will hold a Hallowe'en social on Friday evening. October 30.

George E. Jluzzey spent a few- days In Boston this w-eek.

Out-of-tow-n guests w-lth Mr. and Mrs. John L. Woods on Sunday w-cre Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wooda and Beatrice Woods ot Hudson, , Wlnfred H. Woods of Clinton, Mass., Leland Woods and George Fessenden of Tow-nsend, Mass.

Mrs. • Emerson PInco returned to her ow-n home on Sunday, after spend­ing: the week at her mother's since her return from St.. Joseph's hospital.

Maxwell Burbank and wife, Mlss Burbank and Mr. and Mrs. Hodgman of Concord. Mass., motored to tow'n Sunday and were guests at Hayden Bros.

Fred Hlll and w-lfc and Charles.Hill and family of Andover, Mass., enjoyed an auto trip to town on Sunday and called on relatives and triends.

Charles Colburn ot New York was In town the past w-eek on business.

Four men from out of town were In town on Wednesday to appraise the Rebecca Richardson estate.

Wm T. MacMaster-was called out on Saturday with his Ford auto to convey firemen and chemicals, to a brush flre near John Hogan s, and again on Wednesday to a flre near the Marshall place. Both flres fortunately

were gotten under control ih quick time, as It was flrst feared they might prove very dteastrlous on account of everything so dry.

Jicw AdTertlsements.

Auction Sale •OF —

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE — AXD —

FARMING TOOLS At GEO. W. WOODWAnD'S F A R M

En.st Part of Gmton, on

Saturday, October 17 AT 1 P. M.

Including Mahogany Tables. Clock, .Mirrors and Bureau and several pieces of Antique Furniture', Wagon, Caj-ts, Sleds, PIow-s. Horse Rake. Etc.,

Sale positive, rain or shine. Plenty of room under cover.

GEORGE T. LITTLE, Adm.

S. B. Taft Auctioneer

FOR SALE—I have 500 Cords of Wood In lots to suit purchasers, cut stove length or four feet. Will deliver within flve miles of lot. WILLIAM "Vj BIXBY, West Groton. Mass. 3t5

PAINT SHOP TO LET—In Groton. Apply to THOMAS BYWATER. GrotOn, Mass. 2tS

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SATURDAY, OOTOBEE 17, 1914 ONE DOUiAR A N D F I F T r CENTS

P E R Y E A R IN ADVANOB '•

OEOROB U.. B. TURNER. PabUsher JO BM H. TURNER, EUIitor

"The dally labors of the Bee, Awake my soul to Industry: Who can observe the careful Ant. And not provide for future want'/"

Subscribers are urged to keep, their BubEcrlptlons paid In advance.

Saturday, October 17, 1014.

AYEE, News Items.

, • The local police, assisted by out-of-town Offlcera, raided the Globe hote l .and the Xew Union house for Intoxi­cating liquors about one o'clock last Sunday morning: /The offlcers raiding the GIot>e hotel, w-ere John H. Logue and Thomaa C. Burrlll of Shi'Irley.'and: Chief-Beatty, A. A. Flllcbrdwn, d'ep^ uty sheriff,.and John'-M. Wallace, con­stable, of Ayer. Those In the 'search­ing paJTty at the Xew' Union house were Offlcers James I. STIIIs and James

- H. O'Connell ot Ayer, and Chlet Dow--Ilng and Officer Fletcher of Groto'n. A s m a i r quantity of whiskey and sev-

. eral empty bog les were found In both places. • , •

Sir., and Mrs. Frank Whitcher a t ­tended' the.-wedding on Saturday, Oc­tober 10, of Mrs. Whiteher's sister. Miss Lena L. Dub6, to Walter A. Bur­leigh at her home In South Berwick,

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The .Woman's Alliance will , hold a soclal atternoon,with Mrs. Herbert L. Farnsworth on Thursday, October 22, at .2.30 o'clock.

Mlss' Helen Richardson, of Roslln­dale, w-as a week-end and over Sunday guest Of Mrs. George H. B. Turner.

The annual sale of the Unitarian . Social Gathering w-III. be held a t the

Unitarian veatry on Tuesday after­noon, October 27, a t four o'plock; Fancy articles, food, aprons, flowers, Ice cream and cake will l>e on sale. In the • ei-enlng a musical entertain­ment win be given and a comedy, "Aunt Susan," a t eight o'clock.

Mrs. C. E. Gouldlng, of Lowell, as ­sisted Mr». Ryan In her nillllnery. opening last^-eek.

. ,A regular convocation, of Bancroft Royal Arch chapter ot Masons,w-lll be held on Tuesday Evening, Odtober 20, at 7.30 o'clQck.

Mr.' and Mrs. Charles F. Bruce, of Worcester. tormer;y of Ayer. have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Blgelow.

Mrs; R. A.'Webber has been visiting her son, George S. Webber, at West Grofon.

Mlss Alice .AVlnsIow, w-ho has been visiting her brother, Harver W. Wlns-,low-, has returned to her home In Lyme, X. H.

Michael J. Carey, Joseph Foley ahd John Ryan attended the MIddliesex

. convention of the A. O. H. ^ t Xew--. ton Ia.st Sunday.

' The following names were added to the voting list at thc. meeting of the board of registrars last Saturday even-. ing: Frank Harmon, Earl H. Farns­worth. "Waldo E, Winslow-, Henry M, Chamberlain, The next and flnal meeting prior to thc state election w-lll be held on. Saturday. October 2i; from tw-elve at noon until ten In fhe evening, continuously.

Another change of time took place In the Bo.-<ton and Maine train sched­ules beginning last Monday.- Train Xo; 63, formerly leaving Boston w:eck days at 4.15 p. m,, for South Acton, w-as extended to Ayer, arriving here at 5,49. Train Xo. 67. formerly leav­ing Bo-ston week days at-5.14 p. m, for Aycr. was discontinued betw-een South Acton and A.ver. Train Xo. 23. form­erly leaving Bcston week days a^ 5,09 p, m„ for Greenfleld. makes a regular stop at West Acton and stops to leave pa.ssengers from Boston at Boxbor­ough, Train .Vo, 323. formerly leav­ing Ayer week days at 6.35 p. m, for Greenville. :x. H., leaves at 6.17 p, m., (connecting with train leaving Boston 5.09 p. m.) and Is scheduled trom six­teen to eighteen minutes earlier at all regular stops due at Greenville at 7.17 p. m.

Roger Wallace, 2^4-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. J. M, Wallace, We.st h-.reet. fell off a team while visiting his grandfather. Daniel Wetherbee, on .Monday noon and cut a gash In his forehead over the eye. He Is doing nicely.

Thc Unitarian church will open on Sunday and services will be held In thc auditorium at 10,45 In the morn­ing, condifttcd by Rev, R. Shaw Bar­ron.

There w-lll bc a service at St. An­drew-'s church on Sunday morning at 10.4 5 as usual. On Tuesday, October 20. the twenty-flfth anniversary of the first-.service held In Ayer will bc com­memorated with a special service at seven o'clock In tho evening, at w-hlch the first vicar of St. Andrew-'s, Wlillam G. Thayer. D. D.. head' mas­ter of St. Mark's school, will preach. The service w-lll be followed by the annual parish meeting and a recep­tion held In thc lower town hall. A special car for Forge Village w-lll leave at ten o'clock.

Frank Feather, who was at one time thc manager of the local tele­phone exchange, being succeeded by Mr. Vall, the present manager, has been made manager ot the exchange at Keene. X. H. For-several months Mr. Feather bas been aisslstant man­ager of the Worcester exchange. He assumed his new duties on .Monday.

The feature for the moving picture show this .Saturday evening w-lll be "The gamblers." In Hve reels. "A midnight quest." In two reels w-Ill be another, great picture. Don't forget the matinee at three o'clock. Thc evening exhibition Is at the usual time, eight o'clock. "Love, luck and gaso­lene." a great comedy In three reels, will be shown on Wednesday evening. October 21. John Bunny and LUllan Walker, thc king and queen of com­edy. w-III take the principal parts. Pictures at eight sharp.

Rev. J. w. Thomas, of thc Baptist church, will preach at thc usual 10.45 morning ser\'Icc on Sunday. The sub­ject win bc "Our hope." Sunday school w-III bc held at twelvo w-Ith re­hearsal for the annual har\-cst con­cert. There will bc a young people's chorus at seven In the evening and a short address by thc piistor.

The hunters w-crc out In full force on Monday morning, the law- being off on pheasants and other birds after that date. A good deal of disap­pointment prevailed on Wednesday when It was learned that Governor Walsh ordered hunting stopped until

• a drenching rain falls. The reason given by the executive for this action Is that flres arc likely to occur from the discharge ot, the flrearms an/i In the present dry condlUon ot the for­est sueh fires are likely to prove dis­astrous. Guy B. Remick. town clerk, has Issued over 200 hunting l icenses this season.

The recent dry weather w-as the longest continued of any In recent years. Xo rain of any amount had fallen.. In several weeks and many wells are reported drying up In the outskirts of Ayer tind nearby towns w-here the forced water Is not In use. Qur splendid water supply In the town water limits still furnishes an abun­dance o t . flrst-class water for which We are thankful. The' woods and roads are the driest In >vars. Rain came on Friday morning to break the long drouth which has lasted for flfty-thre« days.

There will be a meeting at the .civic gj-mnaslum Tuesday evening at seven o'clock to see If there Is sufflclent In­terest to warrant the opening of the gj-mnaslum for the . coming winter. All who may be Interested, m e n and boys alike, are Invited t o attend and give their views.' It Is proposed to open the g)-mnaslum Xovember, 1, If a siifflclent number are interested,

Monday, Columbus day, passed off quietly. Many observed the holiday by a. trip to Bostoh to s e e the world series game between the Boston Xa-tlonals and Philadelphia Americans. • i?l''*,,V°"5^''^" °''"'''' club will meet

with M,Ias Grace Murphy on Wednes­'day evening, October 21.

Dr. Ralph H. WyUe, dentist, has purchased the new house of Fred

.Hoamer at the corner of N'orwood avenue and High 'street, and it Is be­ing put in order by being painted and japered . It has all the modern con­veniences. Dr.- WyUe expects to' be able to mo\-e into his new quarters In three or four weeks.'

Ephjiem Oilman, moved his family to Xashua last w-eek, although he Is still In business here. .

Howard B; White, president of the First Xatlonal bank, left last Saturday for Richmond, "Va., where he attend­ed the annual convention of the American Bankers'- association. The convention opened on Monday and closed on ^rlday of th i s week. Mr. White Is expected home sometime next w-eek.

The Grand lodge offlcers w-lll visit Easter lodge, .X. E. O. P., at the next regular meeting, Friday evening, Oc­tober 23. The attendance of all mem­bers Is earnestly requested. Rfefresh-menls w-III be sen-edJ

Calvin Blood has an apple tree In his orchard that he considers worthy of mention In regard to Its bearing qualities. This year he picked thir­teen barrels from this tree w-hich looks l ike a \-^ry good yield even In ah apple year when there is such a great abundance of the fruit. ' The original tree which Mr. . Blood se t out •was known as a Red Cheek Pljiplri. t.atcr, through skillful grafting by Mr. Blood it w-as transttormed into a Baldwin ap­ple tree. It anyone can beat this rec­ord let us hear about It. .

MiEs Alice Eudora Chapman w-as In tow-n on Tuesday making arrange-menus for the grand pageant play she Is to give In town hall on Xovember 19 and 20. She was entertained by .Mrs. W. Edward JIurphy.

i l l s s Rebecca B. Cary, of Boston, was entertained by Mrs, W.'E. Murphy Ihls week.

In the account ot the W. C. T. U. picnic In last , w-eek's Issue an error was made In giving the-winner of/the guessing contest. Mrs. Hattle E. Rob­bins. guessed the correct number of acorns on a plate, instead bf Mr.s. Jo­sephine Hatch.

The Unitarian Social Gathering met With the pr^.sldent. Mrs. Lyman Clark, Tuesday, and completed the arrange­ments for the sale and supper w-hlch Is .o come on October 27. There Is to bc an entertainment in the evening.

A large and appreciative audience listened with close attention to the lecture ot Dr. Charles Fleischer on "The civic w-oman" Thursday evening ,n the tow-n hall. The speaker w-as in­troduced by Mtss S. Adelaide Blood, the president of thc Woman's club, •jndcr who.se auspices thc lecture w.-is Biven, Quite a delegation of Uidies came from Shirley to attend the lec­ture.

concerned. " A' protest w-as made against the action o f the school board at a meeting last w-eek Thursday eve­ning when a confei^nce w-as held be­tween the members of the committee and the parentsr having children going to the school there. After giving the matter a g o o d deal of thought It was decided to restore thc school to Its former location. As a rcsult of this action the committee have hired a new teacher, Miss Anna M. Thompson, ot the Fltohburg Xormal school, who win assIM in the Washington street building. Mlss Thompson Is taking a four-years'- course. Mlss Margaret A. Walsh, w b o has taught, tbe Shirley street school, w-lll still have charge' under the new regulations.

Struck by an Electric. The milk w-agon ow-ned and oper­

ated by Thomas H. Griffln, of Har­vard, was struck by an Ayer bound eleetric car on the Lowell and Fitch­burg street railway at Flanagan's crbsslng at about seven o'clock this w-eek Friday morning. The wheels of the w-agon were smashed, b u t ' tbe body, save for several panes of broken glass, w-as left (n good shape. Se%--eral cans of milk was spilled and oth er . cans w-ere so badly dented-by the force ot fhe Collision a s to make them unfltfor further use. Mr. GrIfBn, see­ing that a collision was sure to occur, jumped and thereby escaped Injury-. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Bush was in the wagon when th« impact came and received the full force ot th© collision.' • When the wagon' stop ped atter being tipped over oh ' Its side young Bush w a s pulled out from under the w-reckasre. Strange to eay he escaped serious Injury.

The horse w-as knocked down but was not injured. Mr. Grifflp. atter leaving his broken w-agon at TVIieel-cr's blacksmith shop' for repairs, pro­cured another wagon, and resumed his route. The collision occurred as , Mr.-Griffln attempted to cross the electric road crossing near the Flanagan house .on Oentral avenue. Both the milk teaih and the electric car were coming toward Ayer at the time with Mr. Griffln a short distance ahead. The w-agon had nearly :clearcd the on­coming car when It was struck In the rear. .

fendant's counsel tailed to shake M# J^i^»" -ift^'-^***"^ ,'" ^"y essential point. Mr. Kane also stated that he s a w and Identlfled the defendant late? at the Ayer police staUon. """'. '^'?'^

Lawrence Bergqulst testifled to facts already covered In the former printed story of the- crime. The rest ot the evidence submitted tailed to s h o w an>-thlng o f Importance In re­gard to the case. The defence called one witness, Mrs; Joseph lanello and recalled L.aw-rence Bergqulst.

Al l the witnesses for the govern­ment-wpre bound over to appear be­fore the^ grand jury. Most of them turnlshed sureties.

After the testimony was -flnlshed J u d g e Atwood gave a summary of the evidence as presented, ending by or­dering the defendant held without w.J.i . '"' ""^ November.session of the i l lddlesex grand jury. He waa com­mitted to the East Cambridge Jail Silas Smith, state offlcer, waa at the trial In addition td thc otheT ofllcerl representing thegovernment. Michael Langlano o f Boston and- Placldo

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The Sucxiessful Bidder

Br ESTHER VANDEVEER-

Annual Inspection. The joint annual Inspection of - the

Fltchburg division of the Boston and Maine railroad by officials of the old Fltchburg railroad corporation and the Boston, and i l a l n e ' w a s made on Monday and Tuesday, the party t r a v e l ing In a special train and visiting here on Monday morning for a tew min­utes. Among those making up the party were E. K. Turner, former chief engineer of the' Fltchburg -railroad, and P. W. Bateman. - who served as consulting engineers for the Eltchburg railroad corporation; G. K. Foster, treasurer of the Fltchburg railroad: J. P. Canty, supervisor ot bridges, and buildings on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine, Supt. Frank H. Flynn of the Fltchburg division. Asst. Roadmastcr Robert Park of the Fitchburg division and other minor offlcials, chiefly assistant roadmasteri In charge of the various sections o; the division. . ;

The annual Inspection trip, is for the purpose of noting the va'rious Im­provements made during the past yea.-by the Boston and Maine, lessee ot the old Fltchburg road, checklnr them up, and arranging that proper allow-ance shall be made for them U the accounts betw-een the two roads.

SHIELEY. N e w s Items.

The junior cl.a«s offlcers of the high school have been elected as follows-Chester Hooper, ;>res,: Th^ml^ B U ? ! •U-las ^' '*-"" '^"^'on. »«c. and

HalUe Knickerbocker, of Worces-ter, paid a visit the flrst of the w ^ to his father. Rev. C. A. KnlckerlSTk-

MIss Mary Gleason. of Southbridge a school teacher, visited her-parents Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Gleason, this W'eek* . , t.

District Court. The ^continued case ot Alfonso Co.'-

Rally day will bc held at thc .M. E, church Sunday. Sunday school at ten o'clock, preaching at eleven and seven o'clock In the evening. A short pro­gram will be g-Iven In the Sunday school. The school will march In a body from the Sunday school rooms :o the church ser\-|ce to hear Rev, Guy Carpenter, of Brazil. Indiana, preach. He Is now a student In Bos­ton university. His subject will be "Sunday school work a divine task." Mr, Carpenter comes w-ith a mes.sage based on experience. His father Is superintendent of the largest Sunday school in the world, having an enroll­ment of over 4200. He w-UI preach m thc evening on "The inner work­ings of a large Sunday school."

Thc workmen who have been re­pairing the Iron overhead bridge com­pleted their work Ia.st w-eek Fridav after about four weeks' time. From here they went to Marlboro, X. H. to repair an Iron bridge in that vi­cinity. Thc men .say that thc exten­.slve repairs made on the bridge will last as' long as the bridge Itself.

The tannery w-III he closed for four w-ceks In order to put In new- boilers. During that t ime , the flre alarms which are operated by steam from that place w-lll be sounded from the whistle at Phelp.s' mill. A tapper w-ill be placed there as a temporary ar­rangement which w-lll .sound the strokes from the flre alarm boxes. The w-histle w-ill then be blown by a man In charge, giving thc correct number of strokes a s Indicated by the tapper. This s>Tstem will go into ef­fect this Saturday evening. Two men. w-orklng twelve hours each, will be stationed In thc mill boiler room for this work.

K. H. Bliss, of Pepperell. real estate agent, formerly In thc same bu.siness here, was In town this week Krlday.

The Har\'ard Shakers have had an offer for their property and If they should sell It Is said they will occupy the Rural home, which Is situated In Ayer and was the home of thc Xorth family a number of years ago. when there were four families and they were prosperous. The families consl,stcd ot the Church, the South, the Kast and the Xorth tamlly.

Mrs. Josle Morgan, w-ho hnd her furniture stored In the barn of her ;?.'"T*'" '•'^'dcnee. had It removed to \val tham on Thursday In on auto truck. She will make her home In that place with her .sister, Mrs. Wor­rick.

The house on Central avenue that was built by Louis Lapolnte for Frank W. Balcom Is nearing completion and he has started moving In.

The following letters remained un­called for at the Ayer postofflce for thc week ending October 12:. .Mrs, Fnin.t Brown, T. J. Courtney, X. -Wason .4 Son, Rev. J. A. Sheridan.

School to bc Reopened. The school committee "has decided

to reopen the Shirley .street primary school which was recently closed. The committee In removing the school two w-ceks ago to th<; Washlngfton street building «tated that the action was taken to relieve crowded condi­tions In the dow-n tow-n school which has before been explained In this pa­per. Such action the committe© said would bc for the best Interests of all

lura, ot Ayer, who Is charged with murder In the flrst degree In causlix the death of Salvatore Pulsella en Sunday, October 4. was heard before Judge Warren A. Atwood on Tueeday morning. The government w-as repre­sented by Frank P. O'DonneU, of Marlboro, assistant attorney of Mid­dlesex county, and Atty. Frank M. Zottoh. of Boston. looked after the Interests of the defendant, A very-large crow-d. overflow-Ins the qourt room and out Into the corridors, w-as on hand to w-Itness the tr ial .of the case.. •

The government had tw-enty-six w-ltncsses, but not all w-ere heard. Dr. Frank S. Bulkeley. medical examine*, was the flrst witness for the common­wealth. He described the w-ounds on the murdered man's body and the general appearance of the remains, both before and after performing the autopsj- on the body. In which w-ork he w-as assisted by Dr. Herbert B Priest.

Thomas F. Xoonan, of •\Ve.st Groton, told of his finding the body on the Tow-nsend bridge, so-called, and ot notifying the police. Mr. Xoonan said that he s a w no living person in the vicinity of the murder at the time. He gave a general description of the body as It appeared to him when he first discovered it. Chief Beatty testi­fied that he had arrested Collura while at work for Daniel Xey-lan at North Littleton as a section hand, .ind of talks he and State Offlcer Fred Flynn. of Law-rence. had w-lth him at the Ayer police station, where on b«-l", „-*f'""' *'*^ "'*' defendant had 5342,16 on his person. Collura. .ac­cording ,to Flynn, steadfastly adhered to the statement that the last he ,saw of the dead man on the day of thc murder w-as about eight o'clock In tho morning, when he left Pulsella at thc Ayer railroad station.

Collura admitted being In West Groton that day. but saw nothing ot Pulsella, He said that he left West Groton before flve o'clock and arrived in Ayer about 6,30. He weht over the highw-ay betw-een the tw-o towns he said because he felt .afraid to go on thc railroad because ot thc trains. He heard no shots. H e stated furth­er to Offlcer Fl)-nn. according to the Iatters testimony, that he was born and lived In thc town of Aragona, Sicily, but did not know Pulsella there. The tirst that he knew of him was three month.s ago. when they met In Ayer, Asked by the offlcer how much money Pul.sella had,'Collura re­plied: "How do I know. I did not ask him." The defendant said he loaned the dead man flve dollars .some time ago in order that the latter might make up a stated siim to .send to his family In Italy, Indicating that the latter had not much money at that time.

In answer to the accu.<«tlon of four 91 J l? countrymen at West Groton tnat he w a s seen there with Pulsella on the day of the-murder the defend­ant said that such statements wore

W'hen Collura was taken to the m f " f '**.f ""' crime and thc offlcers I '"*" . 'he defendant's shoes that ho '"f n bad on to the footprints Collura raid that the shoes that he then wore were not the ones that he had worn on the fatal day. .Jf?«1''H. ^ - Kane, of We.<it Grnton; n ^ i .,'' ,*o. «*elng both Collura and I uisella In that place on thc afternoon ilJ^t"/Ha^^^''- H e said th.it he saw inem flrst at an Italian shantv and l . ! ? " ^ . ^ ' t*™ « ^ ' n and had quite a ^ i . i . r i " ' •''f™- They said that thev wf> . 5 , " " "'^ section In Ayer and 7^^.LS,°'PJ ' o '••a"« 'here- ^'r- Kane fZ.JS**' ''>em to walk to Aver hv the

Center. Fourteen members of thc Shirley

Grange attended the working of the third and fourth degrees at Lunen­burg on Wedneaday ev-enlng.

Miss Annie Costern, of Boston, was a guest at the home ot Mrs, Grace E Wlnslow over the holiday.

George Holden has been very III with sciatic rheumatism, but is now able to be about again.

Miss Carrie Bradford Is In Boston for a few daj-s visiting her sister. Mlss Vera Bradford, and Miss Evelyn Ben­jamin. * Miss Eleanor Kyme, who has beeri In the employ of Mrs. Grace E. Wlns­low, Is -vlsitlns- in- Lunsnbu'rje for a short time.

The Matrons' Aid soeiety held a pleasant meeUng on -Tuesday after­noon at the home of Mrs. Charles Dyke at the village.

A t the next meeting of the Shirley Grange on Tuesday evening, October 20, the program announced tor this date, the third and fourth degrees will not be .given, but a special pro­gram will be prepared b>' the lecturer.

,Mr. Parson, ot Grotdn School, will conduct the service at Trinity chapel on Sunday afternoon' at 3.15 o'clock. Sunday- school classes w-lll meet after the ser\-ice.

Scr-i-Ices w-III be held at the First Parish church on Sunday morning at l i : i 5 . w h e n Rev. Percy Lvndon, of Bo.stOn w-III preach. Mr. Lyndon. Mrs. Louis J. Farnsw-orth. Miss Agnes M. Holden and Mrs. Kate E, Hazen at­tended the ninety-seventh session of the Xorth Middlesex Conference at the Unitarian church In MUford, .V. H.. on Thursday. Mr. Lyndon attended the Installation of thc Rev. E. P Daniels, the minister of the church, Wednesday evening.

BOXBOEOUGH. X e w s Items.

Mr. and Mrs. "SV. H. Furbush an­nounce the marriage of their daugh­ter Edith to Philip B. Litchlield of Sc.tuatc at Concord. Thursda.v. Octo­ber 8. Thc ceremony was performed by Rev, Mr. Tewksbury in the morn-ng and Mr. and Mrs. Litchfleld lett

Immediately for an auto trip. An obstinate fire In the woods in

the -southern - part of the town near the' Fleurra home has given the flre warden a good deal of trouble the past week. A good rain seems to bc the only means of putting it entirely out.

Mrs. Michael Griffln pas.sed away Wednesday afternoon. She has been a great sufferer since she was thrown from a carriage In carly summer and death came as. a blessed relief from pain. She leaves a husband, four daughters and a little boy, who have the sympathy of the townspeople In their bereavement. •

Our quiet community was shocked last week Friday evening to learn of the sudden death of little Helen, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon B. Hager. from diphtheria. Al­though s h e was not very- w-ell the day before It w-as not considered a serious lllnc-ss even w-hen the doctor was call­ed Friday morning. Helen was a beautiful child, beloved by evei-j'one and she will be missed not only by the Immediate tamlly but by all the neighborhood.

Schools have been closed this week on account of the case of diphtheria, as the committee thought best to take all precaution possible against thc spread ot the disease.

The grange conferred the third and fourth degrees on a small class l.-i.st w-eek Friday evening. We had tw-elvc visitors from Shirley Grange. Among them were past ma.stcr. Charles E, Bradford, with his w-Ife and daughter,

. T h e supper committee gave us the 'flrst oyster supper ot thc season as a close to tho program.

Irj'lng^ Clark was recently called to Hopklnton by thc sudden death of his father.

Mr. Barteau's sister and her son from Wakefleld are visitors here this week. •

The E4rl of Attesborongh, a W t c h peer of tbe British realm,' then about fifty years of age, had three sons, aU fine, manly fellows, and he, did nbt worry abotit baring a direct successor to tbe tltlft, The youngest ot these boys. Alan Bedwood, was desperately In love with Lady Oladys Fellowes, second dausbter of tbe Duke of Arrao-ton. T h e estates were contiguous, and the young penons 'of tbe two families' were thrown a great deal together. Tbe love affair between Alan and Gladys, aged respectlveiy twenty and •eTenteen,-was a s natural a s the mat­ing of a pair of birds.

'Unfortunately both the earl's and the duke's estates were In -a bad flnandat Condition. Tbe'fonner 'wished h i s e l d -est son and the . latter. 'wished bis d a o g b t e n to marry wealth. A s for tbe y'onngier sons, they were isupposed to shift for tbemselrea. T b e duke ab­solutely ' forbade any tmlon between Gladys and Alan. and. Indeed, sucb a marriage, w a s n e x t to Imp<»slble. for there w a s no Income on either side.

Alan concluded to go t o America, and bis father gave him enough inoney to get there and bare left aife'vr hnndred pounds to keep him till be . toald begin to earn a living. It w a s a sad par|b-ing between'hiin and Gladys, both be­ing" sensible that • they, must drift apart Alan took passage on a sail ship and after a month on the oceaii reached America. H e . never wrote a. line to any one after his arrival, and In due time be seemed lost to bis. family and former associates. :

Five years after be left 'En^laiid'tbe Crimean; w a r came on. a.n3 bis' n e x t o'lder -brother, who w a s an - officer .in the British army, went there with U s regiment and died .of disease In the trenches before SebastopoL During the war tbe oldest brother broke bis neck in a fall from bis horse whi le fox bunt-

'Ing. Tbis left Alan heir t o . t h e title. Inquiries were made In America for bim. but nothing conld be learned from him. Bnt a record w a s found of the deatb of an Alan or Allen.Redwood in .New Tork who bad come-from some­where else and lived alone, and papers

.were executed to show that tbe direct beb: to the title of Eari of Attesbor­ongh w a s dead. A cousin wbo w a s next of kin took possession of the title and estates, but found the finances In' sucb poor-condiUon tbat be inherited an empty honor.

The Crimean war took a great many ablebodled men from the British isles, a number of Trbom left-famil ies be­hind tbeml. In' the country in which the Attesborougbs and A n a n t o n s lived were so many destitute families from this and other causes tbat ' in order to relieve them a; fair to end with a masked ball was held on the duke's estate nnder his patronage- Elrery-thlng was doiie to get money. Includ­ing the offering of the partnership for the first' dance of five prominent un­married ladles, ono of whom w a s Gladys,, the duke's second daughter. An auction was to be held before the' ball for this privilege, the money ac­cruing to go into the general ftmd of the fak.

On the day ot the foir the dnke's bouse and grounds were o[>ened to alL The affair was a sort of fete cbam-petre during the day, and at evening guests c a m e In masks and fancy cos­tumes for tbe b a l l . When all w a s ready for tbe auction tbe lady pf high­est rank with whom tbe privilege to dance first was to be auctioned stood on a dais and the bidding began. A goodly sum was realized, and tbe oth­ers took their turns. Lastly Lady Gladys stood np before the assembly.

A rich cotto'n spinner who bad learn­ed of the duke's necessities and bad loaned him money started the bidding witb £100. This man. MacCormacki was trying to put tbe duke under sucb obligaUoDS that he would consent to give bim Lady Gladys In marriage. A man In tbe garb of nn American miner —woolen shirt sombrero and boots to bis knees—raised the cotton spinner's bid £100. Tbe cotton spinner went up a hundred more, and It waa not long before these two were climbing over each otber a hundred ponnds at a time till the miner raised tbe other £1,000. At the price It would cost £5.000. OP (25,000, to dance tbe first dance wi tb tbe lady. Since tbe cotton spbmer bad. not much hope of getting her In mor. riago be retired from tbe contest, and the privilege was knocked down to tbe miner.

Closing Out Sale OF MY ENTIRE STOCK OF

Harness Collars

Blankets and All Other Horse Goods

L.K-BairkeF Harness Store

Hardy's Bldg. Central Ave, Anto Bobes ATEB, MASS,

.»."*'''{? REWARD'will be paid tor In-1-?;!?„ "*"V ' . I " ^ " ' lead to the coS^ f„?i-^„°J^ "*.® person who broke the lock on Oavis well on Shirley Road. Ayer. LOUIS^J.. P A P I N E A U . ' 4t4'

, POE THE BUILDEE

andCarpenter we'oan supply the beat qualities of . , . " ' ' -""

HAEDWAE^ at prices that will s a v e you money. •Why have tlih© wasted arid work half done with worn out tools or an In­sufllcient supply w h e n you can get ev-erythlng needed here so reasonably?

l.G.t)win©ll Fine groceries and Hardwara

Agent for IjaTonralno, the Perfect » - Coffee

AYEB, MASS.

Ayer to New York A N D KETOKN F O R

Via Boston to Providence by rail; Providence to N e w Tork on Colonial • Line Steamers, Concord and Lexing­ton..

Boats leave Providence dally,' in­cluding Sunday, at 7 P. IT., a:rrivlng at New York about 7 A. M. Return­ing, leave New York dally, including Sunday, at S.OO P. M., arriving a t Providence about 6 A. M.

These steamers are equipped with all the modern Improvements, and al l staterooms ere outside rooms. The cuisine Is a L a Carte and under the supervision of capable stewards and competent chefs..

The line offers to the public an ex­ceptional opportunity to visit N e w \orl(, including a. healthful coast sail at a very low price.

OnCffiETS F R O H A-^ER Ono Way $3.21 Round Trip j g i a Round Trip from Bos ton ' $5.09

Children over flve years ha l f fare

'For Tickets Apply to

P.DONLONiGO. AGENTS

Mead's Block AlHEaEl, MASS.

h» i._?^'.i' 7^ nearer and they would . ? l^. ."''*^" to «o astray. That was ?Lf°« -"*: '30™In"th? ' i ;^ ;ern^n . rigid cross examination by the

A dc-

hollday guests at -Walnut farm Mrs. Irving Clark . recentiv . enter­

tained her uncle from Brookllne and While here he found seventy-four xarletles of mushrooms, one of which S1L?'*"7 '","• " 0 exhibited them In Horticultural hall, Boston, In connce-tltfn with a club to which he belongs.

MiM Alice Chandler of Lanca-stcr and a party of friends visited thc ll brary last Saturday. . ^ Mrs. Arthur Xelson entertained her mother, Mrs. Moore, of Greenwood, over Sund.iy.

Mrs. Sarah Warren of Littleton "0W-. visit ing her niccc. Mr.s. C. T. Wetherbee. spent Wednesday with her cousin, Mrs. Louisa Priest Both la­dles are In their ninety-first year and al though neighbors In childhood have rarely i-een each other since. Both are remarkably well and active a:nd their descriptions of events and con­ditions existing more than eighty years ago most Interesting.

Wil l iam McLeod of Easton was a week-end guest of Mrs. John Cob­lelgh. H e Is the eldest son ot the g in w e remember as Persis Wether-^ bee.

Cries were now heatd,-';?*0nmaakr' Mr. and Mrs. 'Walter Carey werc^ nnd-the successful bidder "advanced to. "''"•' . — . - tho front of the d.ils and removed hla

face covering. "Lady Gladys started. "Astrangerr "Who Is be?" "Give your namer* These were somo of the cries ttat

camo from all parts of tbe room. T h e stranger, turning, faced the crowd and said:

"I am Alan Redwood, earl jof Attea-borongh."

Old friends gathered round the new­comer to bear his story. H e bad reaeb-ed America shortly before gold i n u discovered in California aad bad mada the journey there" across tha great •American desert and the Boclqr moun­tains. He had taken some gooda with bim and sold them at a great proflt The proceeds be bad tUTcirted ta min­ing property and had become very rich.

Tbe duke was now glad eaoogb to-glre his daughter to ber fonner enitor, who cleared hts estate ot UM tBdebteO-ness and bavl plenty orer. ,

Thermos Bottles

•Yon need one for auto trips this fall.

Y o n need ono for

yoiur

yODUf hunting trips this faU.

THEEMOS LUNOH SETS

fcdwin Braman spent Sunday Fltchburg. "

In'

: For. thc person wbo car­ries his meals .

Special. Sets For tho boy or gilri w b o carries their Innch t o adxwL

DMA i l l l l AYER

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PAOX BIZ S A T U B D A Y , OOTOBEB 1 7 , 1914

TOWNSEND. Center,

The death ot Edith Annie, ten-months-old daughter of'Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Brown, of Leominster, formerly ot this tow-n, occurred In that city on last Saturday morning. Funeral services were held from thc home last Sunday afternooii at two o'clock, and the-remains brought to Townsend for burial In the family lot,

Mr. and Mrs. John Sears, of Rock­port, are at ,W. L. Bruce's this week,

George Davis has accepted a posi­tion at the Wentworth Training school. Bcston. where he W'as former­ly a student.

AI Richards. William Bu.-ih and Le­ander Jefts have had their houses wired for electricity.

Miss Gertrude Uockwood, ot Bev--erly, was at home over Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Fessenden. are enjoying an auto trip to 'Keene and Boston.

Mrs. E. T. Hall, of Milford. N. H., Is a guest a t W. F. Rockwood's, visit­ing Miss. Lizzie Whitcomb. • Mr. anil Mrs. Charics Smith, accom­panied by Francis and Charlotte Struthers, enjoyed an auto trip to Fairhaven recently, -where Miss Hat­tle Snilth and Miss Margaret Struth­ers are teaching school.

The E; A. Sapulding Rebekah lodge were cntertaliied by the Ashby Re­bekahs nt Ashby last week and had a most enjoyable time.

Special Tou'n Meeting. . Onlv thlrty-slx voters w-erc present

at' the special town meeting, last Sat­urday afternoon and but llttie Interest was taken In the question ot the -new schoolhouse at West-Townsend. The meeting was called to order by G. A. Wilder, town clerk, at two o'clock, and not .more than sixty w-ere present at any tlnie. T. E.- Flarlty was-chosen moderator,

A. S. Howard explained to the vot-. ers the' proposed plans for .building the schoolhouse and the plans were on exhibition.

Under Article 3. J. W. Eastman stated that there being so few present no one w-ould w-lsh to Involve the town In expending so large a sum and oftered t h e following motion: "That the subject of new school building be referred back' to the committee with instructions to ask for bids from three contractors for the erection of any

-new- bulldlng'or buildings the commit­tee «ftiy.-t?commend; also, to see If the land oii which the committee rec­ommends a new building cannot be 'secured by eminent domain at !t less price than Is named by the party ow-ning thc lot now- chosen. T h e com­mittee Is further Instructed to- report to the town what It w-ould cost to re­pair and make an extension to the present school building . at -West Tow-nsend to compl>-w-ith the require­ments for school purposes and to re­port to the town at the next annual tow-n meeting." The motion was car-

. rled by a rising vote, 38 in favor of • postponing action, to 10 against It.

Under article 5 it w a s voted td In­stall the fire escape at Seminary hall. ' Under Article G the.se lcctmen were authorized to execute In behalf of thc town a contract with the Fltchburg Gas & Electric Light Company pro­viding for street l ighting and thc lighting of public buildings upon such terms as may to the selectmen eeem proper, providing that such contract shall be made for a period not to ex­ceed ten years. This motion carried the follow-lng amendment: Providing that the prices shall be relatl,\-ely the same as given to other towns.

Under Article 7 the town Instructed the tax collector to proceed forthwith to collect bv legal process all unpaid taxes tor thc years 1909 and 1910. and to submit to the assessors on or before October 17, a list .<<how-lng the names, of all persons from whom taxes are due for the year 1912. In­dicating the amount due from each person, and after October 17, to col­lect by legal process all taxes then remaining unpaid for the year 1912.

Bv Its action the tow-n al.so voted to a'ccept from Mrs. Flora Graham of Greenville. Mrs. M. S. n. Leadbetter and Mrs, C-ithcrlne C, Noyes of Townsend. the sum.s of $100.

Joint KxliHiItlon. The Grange and publlc schools held

a Joint exhibition of fruit and vi-se-tables Monday night at Odd FelUiws' hall and the display and the inten-st of the .school children wa.s very gr:ni-fylng, I'rlzcs were awarded as fol­low.*

rotatoes—West Vlllasi-, minor grailes, Ravmond Ilobtjlns, Wallaci', Uoljl)ins, Oscar Jalwi".on: uyn.-'- Kni.les. Ni'.cy Iteed, Hichard l.i-sn-i' :inil .lames Smlt:.. Center, minor gr.'iil.-s. Kvi-lyn WriKhi. liachael KniKlu. .Vana MlssInK-; upii.-i Krades, William .1. Uomlna, s<-cor..i prize no n-lme on, Klecia Bullivar; I'.fiKer Wt-tlii^rbec of ..Ilie Harbor le-ceived a blue ribbon,'

Tomatoes — i-lialk's - Karly ,U-we!, ratiierine .Salemln. Irene .Moulton arn! Howard KnlKlit; Livingston's Beaiuj', Alice Sanders.

Field corn—Uichard Towers. Jolin McLean: Golden Bantam, Agnes H.illi.«-sev. Hazel Uichardson, .\rthur Wil­liams, I'oiicorn. Irene lionneti.

(.-anots—.Mice Sanders, l.siher Nel­son. .\rvlt Johnson.

lieots—Alice Sanders. Irene liennett, Marshall Higgins,

I'umpklns—Janet Clarke, Alice i-an-ders, Klorcnce HIgglns.

Siiuashcs — Iioston Marrow. .Mice Sanders: GreKories. Janet Clarke, Uov Brown, George Way; rjeliclous. Chester WrlKht: Hubbard. Jant-t Clarke: Tur­ban, John McIX!an. Itobert Elliott: Iro­quois. .Vrlhur Williams, Alice slanders receive'd first on cabhaire. citron, caiill-llower, apples, turnips and Corey's sweet corn and received the handsome achievement button given by ihe stale for the best general illsplay: also, ev­ery pupil who has a garden will re­ceive a button containing lhe letter II provided hy tho stale.

Cooking—l.llllan Stewarl, 1st for mufflns. 2d on sponge cake, ilarjorle Heselton. 2d on layer cake. lia'.tel nomlna 1st. NIta Ttotjers I'd on tarts. Italph Marshall, brown bread: Lois Wilder, biscuits and cake: I'.uth Kus­sell 2d for brownies. S(iuash pies. Italph Carrlngton. Tlain cake. Wilner Marshall. Minerva Felch, Needlework, .losephinc I*helps.

The Grangers h-id- a fine exhibit. Eilgar Campbell receiving the blue ribbon for his display which covered one 'whole table, ahd other prizes awarded were as follow-s:

James "Nixon 1st on 'potatoes, and also prizes for apples: K K,- Campbell 1st, H, C. Knight 2d, Albert Scales ."id on Baldwins; I-l K. Campbell. W, P.. Cowdrey. Mcintosh Kcds; Hnbbard-stons. George I* *I-;astman 1st. K. K, Campbell 2d: sfiiiashes. S. M. Farrar 1st, K. Campbell 2d; apple Jelly. Kslhcr Scales.

There were many visitors both af­ternoon and ev-enlng.

vegetables a s w-ell as cooking, plants,' etc., which did great credit to the children. The collection w a s taken to the Center 'on Monday, to the Grange exhibit In connection w l t h t h e work of the schools there.

T w o alarms for flre were sounded on Tuesday, one for a brush flre In the vicinity ot John Clark's In Jos-selynvllle, which required prompt at­tention, and the other a false alarm tor a fire at Thomas Smith's, which w a s the burning over-of a pasture by Mr. Smith and his men. Owing to the extremely dry state o.f the countr>-and the scarcity of water any fire oc­casions considerable anxiety- in the village.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry W. Saw-telle are enjoying a w-cck's vacation w-Ith rela­tives in Be^-erly. '

John Powers has been confined to his h o m e by Illness' for several days th i s '\veek.

The Ladles' Study club w-Hl meet at the. readlhg'-room on Monday evening, the meeting- being In charge of Mrs. Mar>-- Heath on the topic "The dis­co vcr.v of Mexico.'-'

Mrs. Clara Klrby has been spending a few days with Dr. Clara A. War­ren since closing the club hou.se at Vinton pond.

Clarence E, Streeter has been spending a few days with relatives In Boston, and vicinity..

Herman W. Lawrence has been on the sick li.st, suffering from a severe cold tor a few days this week.

Mlss Inez McElllgott. of Somerville. Is visiting at the home of Mr. and­Mrs. Charles E, Patch.

A .son weighing S?i pounds was. born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hodgriian on Thursday morning. Oc­tober S, and h.as been named Francis Kellogg Hodgman, Mrs; William Webster Is caring for the mother and babe, who arc both doing 'well.

An auction of the goods of the late Mrs. Maria Bennett was held at- the Bennett homestead In '. JosseI.vnvllle last Saturday afternoon and .was la^gel>•- atteiided.

.The Ladles' Whist club met at the reading-room, for their first meeting of the season last w-eck Thursday af­ternoon -n'lth three tables full.

J a m e s D&dds, of Keene. X. H., has been spending a few days with his wi te and little daughter, who are stopping with Mr and Mrs. A. J. Man­chester, of Josselynville, and the MLsses Conway,''t\-ho have been there for several - weeks, -have -returned to their home In Salem.

Mr. Carter and tamlly have moved Into the. hew Wyman house on thc John Davis -place on Bayberry hill.

Mr. and Mrs, William Sullivan, 'who have been vLsltlng friends in town for several weeks, started on Tuesday evening for their home in Los Angeles, Cal.

Miss Agnes Walte has been on the sick list, suftcrlng from a severe cold and throat trouble.

Mlss Moore, of Cambridge, has re-.turned to her home after a visit w-lth Mrs. Elbrldge Sanders. , Mr. and JIrs. George Upton have

been spciidlng a fciv days with friends in Boston and vicinity. . Mrs. Alexander Reed has returned from L>-ndjonvillc. Vt.. where she has spent several months with her daugh­ter. Mrs. Fred Dw-lnell.

Mrs. Frank Wheeler has been quite 111 for the past week at her home on the Ashby road and Mrs. Martin Wheeler, of Fltchburg. Is assisting In caring for her.

-Mrs. Herman Lawrence .spent Tues­day W'lth her parents at her home in Mason, N. H.

The Townsend tea room closed on Wednesday after a very' successful season, ^liss Simonds will return to her home in Fitchburg for the winter.

Loins Welch has been spentling a fow da.vs in Boston and vicinity thi.-: week,

Mi.- -* Bertha Reed, teacher of the intermediate grade, spent the holiday at her home in Heading, and MLss Blalsdell. primary teacher, -visited relatives In Brplntree.

The patrons ot the Greenville branch are rejoicing that the time of the evening train has been changed back to the former -schedule, return­ing at 6.45 instead of 7.02.

visit to friends and relatives In town on Monday.

Quite a ministerial company gath­ered at the Congregational parsonage the home of Rev. and Mrs. Robert A. Bryant on Sunday after church. There were Dev. Dr. Brldgman ot Boston, Rev. Dr. James Chalmers o t , Fltch­burg, Rev. C. W. Lobmla Ot Leomin­ster and Rev. Dr. Roberts ot Brook­llne, w-Ith his wife, his son and daugh­ter.

Mr.' and Mrs. Charles Rooney and llttie daughter Frances Louise of Worceater visited 3Ir, and Mrs. Geo, A, Paige on Sunday, returning to Worcester on Monday evening.

A large numbej of the mighty nlm­rods of the town were out bright jxnd carly on Monday morning to get all the law allowed them of pheasants and other game and they succeeded In getting If too, a number of them bringing home their tw-o pheasants Und several partridges,

A special town meeting Is appoint­ed for M o n d a y evening, October 19, at eight o'clock. The -warrant con­tains seven articles and are In regard to raising and appropriating monoy to be used in the purchasing of a plant tor distributing electricity for municipal and domestic uses.' In re­gard to borrowing money and the purchasing of the electric l ighting sys­tem, of. Leominster. Article 4 relates to the laying out of a road trom Pros­pect street to Towne street, Articles 5 and 6 In regard to' hiring .an ad­ditional teacher tor the Center school. Article 7 to sec if the town will vote to maintain a street light at or near the Whalom flre station.

Rev. W. H. Beers, who has charge of the Morgan Memoriai work at Athol. will 'be the speaker at thc MOhodlst church on Monday even­ing at the fall meeting of thc circuit of Epworth leagues, Including Fitch­burg, Leominster and Lunenburg. ' It Is hoped there will' be a large attend­ance. •

Mrs. Lucy E. J o n e s ' returned on Tuesday from a very pleasant visit w-lth friends In Nashua, Lowell and Pepperell.

B. G. Karramore on Chestnut street ha.s had his house wired for electric Ilghts. . . Forest and brush fires have kept Warden James . S, Gllchrest and a corps of assistants very busy for near­ly a week. Several, times they have been out all night and on coming home In thc early morrilng. hours would change«'-horses and go out again. ^ Fires occurred on sprout land near Shirley reservoir in the north part of the tciv-n; back of M, D, Pills­bury; near Baker station, and on the West Townsend road, on land ow-ncd by T. J. Coftey. In some cases the damage,w-as slight, but where good-sized chestnut "trees .were burned It w-as more disastro'us and Ls not yet estimated.

y o m FALL. COLD XKKDS .\TTEX-TIOX

No use to fuss and try to wear It.out. It will, wear you out Instead, Take Dr. .King's New IJiscovery, relief fol­low-s quickly. It checks your cold and soothes your cought away. Pleasant, antiseptic • and healing. Children like It. Get a SOc. bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and keep Jt- In the house. "Our family cough' and cold doctor,", writes Lewis Chamberlain." Manches.ter. Ohio. Money back' If not satisfied, but It nearly always helps^

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COLLECTOR'S NOTICE — OF —

Sale of Real Estate

Ayer. Mass., October 14,-1914. The owners and. occupants o t the

following described parcels of ' real estate, situated In the tow-n of Ayer, In' the County ot ' Middlesex, In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the publlc, are hereby notified' that t'he taxes thereon severally as­ses.sed tor th'e years hereinafter speci­fied, according to the list committed to me as Collector ot Taxes tor said Ayer by the As,sessors of Taxes, remain unpaid, and that the smallest undivided p a r t o f said land sufllclent to satisfy said taxes, w-lth Interest and all legal costs and charges, or the whole ot said land. If no person offers to take an undivided part thereof, will be offered for sale by t>u'bllc auc­tion at the Selectmen's Room. Tow-n House, In Ayer, on Saturday, the four­teenth day ot Xovember, 191-1, a t ten o'clock A. M., for the payment ot said taxes w-Ith Interest, costs and .charges thereon unless the same shall be previously discharged:

Tlic Heirs o t -Ella E. Crawford A lot of land w-lth buildings thereon

situated on southerly side of Fletcher Street and iiounded by land of Moses P. Palmer, Third Street, land of Os­car E. Carlson and Fletcher. Street;

Tax 1912 ' " - $24.17 Tax 1913 526.00

ELI W. C A R L E Y , Collector. Of Taxes for thc Town ot

Ayer tor the years 1912-13. 3t6

K.\(;l\K—F.)ur Horse I'i.wer. b'.irr.s kerosene. In first-class or<ler, easy to run, does not affect in.-Jurance. mus: be moved as warn the room; for sal-cheap. Apply at I'ublic Spirit ^'Ifice. Aycr. Mass.

Holiday Guests. .-Vmong the guests in town for thc

holiday were Mr. and Mrs. George Wri.i?h: and son Richard from Win-thrup. and Miss Lena Thompson from .Norwood at J. F. Thompson's; Mr. and .Mrs. George Willard, of Brook­llne, .Mass,, at Mrs, Maria Willard's: .Mlss Grace Thompson, ot Dover, X. H,, and Miss Mabel Thompson, of I)os!on, wilh their mother, Mrs, Charies Patch; James Bell, of Sud-ijury. with hLs farnlly at tiielr home on -Main .street; Mr. and Mrs. E, R, r.rayton, of Providence. R. I., with Mr. and Mrs. George Adams; Mlss .\nnabelle Troupe, of Quincy, with her sister, Mrs, Alden A. Sherwin; MLss . \gnes Wilson, of WaUham. with her i>iirents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G, Wilson; Frank Hamilton, of Webster, with hLs mother. Mrs. Augustus Stev-ens. of Stevens' bill; Mr, and Mrs, El­well, of Medford, at the home of Mlss M. Elinor Tower.

Printing THAT IS DISTINCTIVE

w sm

West. • On Friday- afternoon ot List w-eek

the public nchobis gave nn exhibit of their work In gardening nnd cooking. Quite a number of visitors w-cre pres­ent and the vegetables show-n by the children dcsK-rs'Cs special .mention, Mlss Alice Sanders had "thc largest ex-

.hlblt of a variety of vegetables. Mlss Janet Clark had- a fine collection of squashes the largest weighing twentv pounda and George Ways exhUiltf-d one irelghing twelve pounds

LUNENBURG. News Iloms.

P.ev. How-ard A. Brldgman ot Bos­ton occupied the pulpit In the Con­gregational church on Sunday morn­ing. He gave a short sermon tor the children upon the text, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great rich­es," and presented thc subject In so charming a manner that he complete­ly wrtn thc hearts ot al l the little peo­ple. ,so much so that 'when he came to the sermon for thc grown ups upon

The mesjiage the w-ar brings to the churches,-' the children gave undivid­ed attention and not one seemed to think thc service long or wearisome. Only ten weeks ago that same day Mr. Brldgman. with many others, was In Paris, on his w a y to attend the peace conference In Sw-Itzerland, but w-as held up by the breaking out ot thc w-ar and the very serious condi­tions attending It. The situation as viewed by those advocates ot peace was certainly not very, encouraging.

On Sunday evening the C. E. so­ciety was led by John H. Gllchrest and the subject was "Next steps for our society." It w a s one In which nearly everj-one w-as Interested an-.l had some suggestion .to make, as a definite object to w-ork- for. . A more careful consideration of thc pledge.

Registration day Saturday, October 21 from tw-elve m. to ten p. m. This will be the last chance tor registra­tion this year.

The numb(;r of new automobiles In town Is again Increased by one, Chas. .S, Alexander appearing with a new l lco touring car.

Selctrtman John Wooldredge Is tak­ing a vacation among triends. and scenes out ot town.

Mrs, George A. Paige. Mrs. Joseph Powell and Mlss Elsie PoweH visited friends In Worcester last week.

Jesse Hayden of the Worcester ho«-

E can make your Print­ing what it should be and ought to be—that is what

our experience counts for. With up-to-date presses and material, and facilities for turning out everything in the line of Printing— black or colors—^you will get your work when you want it and as you want it.

Send your orders to

H. S. Turner Phone 10.">-2 Ayer, Mass.

Printing WITH GOOD SERVICE

LAM50N€?IIUBBAIS>| I jf lk H A T S

FOR SA1£ BV GEORGE H. BROWN,

Ayer, Mass.

F. EARLAND GILSON Dental Office and Rooms

0 K . R A L P H H. W Y L I E . R A Y M O X D . B . CARTER, D. M. D.

A-ssoclate Assistant Dentists Lady Assistant - 3m3

Page's Block Ayer, Mass.

WATER SUPPLY FROM .

DRILLED OR DRIVEN WELLS FOR

TOWNS . VILLAGES

FACTORIES RESIDENCES

- AND:FARMS If you don't liave us, drill your

well we both lose money. A post­card will bring you prompit atten­tion. 3m3

D. O. HAMILTON Contractor for

-ARTESIAN' A N D DRH'TEN" WELLS

46 Cherry St. MaJden, Mass.

WE ARE RECEIVING D I R E C T F R O M

PROVIDENCE

E. D., STONE Fire Insurance Agent

Automobllo and Cordwood Insurance 'Esther A. Stone, Typewriting

P a g o ' s ' B l o c k Ayer, Mass.'

of th,e same quality as iri past years

Fresti Fisti EVERY

FRIDAY No Old-Stock Carried Over

- _ , There w a s a fine display ot potatoes by m o s ; , all tho children and sundry other Pi'='l corps of nurses paid a flying

COMMONWEALTH OK MASSACHC-SKTTS, Mlddlcsoi, ss. Probate Court.

TO thc hclrs-,-n-l.-iw and all other persons Intorcslc-.l in the cst.ite of •AURA I. IIICHAUD.S latc Of Towns-end In said County, ilcceased.

Whereas, I-;, AI.O.S'ZO m.OOD ad-minlslrator of thc estate of said de-ceased has presented to said Courl his petition for license to sell at private sale. In accordance with thc offer n.im ed In said pelillon. or upon such t>rms as may bc adJudKcd best, thc real es­tate of said deceased, for the purpose of distribution.

You are hereby cited to appear at a Probate Court, to he held nt CambrldKe In said County of Middlesex, on the second day of .N'ovember A, 1), ISU, at rtlne o'clock In the forenoon, to show cause. If any you- have, why the same should not bc Kranted.

And said pelltloner Is onlcri-d to serve this citation by delivering a conv thereof to all persons Intcrcstoil. who ean bc found within the (;onimon-w-calth; fourteen days, at least, before said Conrt. and If ,-iny one can not lie so found, by publlshlnir thc same onr.-In each w-ck, for three sncct^sslvc weeks. In Turner's I'ubllc Snlrlt, newspaper published In Aycr, the last publication to bc one day, at least* be­fore said Court,

Witness, Charics J, Mclntlrc. I-;«qn!rc First Judge of said Court, this thir-. •eenth day of October In the year one thousand nine hundred and fourlpr-n.

3t6 W. !•:. ROOKRS.' ncgUtor.

Good Custom Xailorea Clotnes should cost no more tlian ttie average man can afforcl to pay for t k e m . W k e n w e take y o u r c o r r e c t measure and send y o u r o r a e r to our f a m o u s G k i c a g o tailors,

Ed. V, Pnce ^ Co, y o u g e t t k e v e r y l a t e s t s t y l e , pure woolens, unsurpassed workmanskip, indi­v i d u a l i t y and tke maximum of satisfac­tion at a moderate cost. W^c invite you to inspect our 500 e x c l u s i v e P r i c e woolens n o w w^kile tke' line is complete.

GEOBOE H. BROWN'

Olothier

Main Street Ayer, Masa.

ON G U A R D Am vetmctf ogotef CHppe.hf.!^ " ema, BitmehllU, Cold t i tha Head. : Catarrh and Pneaaonla. Mcrrj a lerloia lllnen ier.'nj iziA o ttrnple eM that eoa asi 0"=^^ egalnst ts eatrylng idlh u<Ki a ptiekel ef. . .

COLD TABlrCTS JUdwiidoB tttacis ol Grippe, lofloeaa,

BronchltU, Cold in ih«. Head, Citiiih Md rBCTmonii. Stop •bua.bwt before thtyd* veloD Into seriou iUows. ^ -, , . . . ^ t S p thc cold »nd you .top tie riik of •!<*. Best Jiilh lu dangert aod eiP™". , Rc»»" c3dT»bl«U»rSji ooit reliable and convor Sent remedy. They prerent and ewe coWa, rtSielereAh eba iRooa .c^t }* .^^^^ noptoma of Grippe, Inaoenia and Vataao-Bia. Thirty tableta in a package, ajc

For Sale by

WM. BEOWN, Druggist Ayer

L. SHERWIN I CO. AVER. MASS.

Dealers In

Harlow & Parsons Tel 130 Provisions Ayer

BOSTON TAILOEING CO.

H. Fish, Prop. W'e do Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing

Jind Dyeing at l o w e s t Prices Suits Sponged and Pressed 50c, Overcoats Sponged and Pressed SOc.

Cleaned and Pres.scd 7Sc. Trousers Pressed 15c.

Cleaned and Pressed 25c. Ladles' Suits Sponged and Pressed

. 75c. Cleaned and Pressed $1.00

Call and look over the four hun­dred X e w FaXl Patterns and exclusive styles shown. 3m2

Groceries Hardware Paints, Etc.

Wc Endeavor to Keep

FiRST-GLASS GROGERIES TP.Y OUR

Butter, Cheese Tea and Coffee

Also, Honey in Comb

of

TO REXT '1* OROTOX—Center of tft-trn extremely attractive House of nine • rooma bealdea bathroom., large Shed with set tuba, town water, hot water heat, almoat new kitchen range «hich can go'With houae, barn room J!l, horae or auto If dealred; also, land fnr Irarden. Very reasonable terms for Permanent tenant. Address BOX 255. Sr?ton. M»»i. 61!tf

COMMONWKALTH OK MASSACHU-SKTTS. Middlesex, ss. Trobate Court,

To the helrs-at-law and all other persons Interested In thc estate of MARGAKKT B. DONOVAN late of Townsend In said-County, deceased.

Whereas. JKHBMIAJl DONOVAN ad­ministrator of 'the estate of said de­ceased has presented to said Court hla petition for license to sell at private Bale. In accordance with the offer nam­ed In said petition, or upon such terms as may b» adjudged best, the real es­tate of aald deceased, for the purposa of distribution.

•you are hereby cited to appear at a Probata Court, to ba held at CambrldKe. In said County of Middlesex, on thc twenty-ssTcnth day of October A. i>, 1914, at nine o'clook In tha forenoon, to ahow oausa. If any you bave. why tha sama should not ba granted.

And said petitioner la ordered to aarra tbia citation by delivering a copy thereof to all parsons Intarested. who can ba found wltbln tha Common­wealth, fourtaan days, at leaat, before aald Court, and If any ona can not ba ao found, by publlahing tha sama once la each weak; for three auccassira weeks. In' Turner's Publle Spirit, a nawapapa'r published In Ayar, the laat publication ta ba ona day. at least, be­fore aald Court. ' „ .

•Wltnaaa. Cbarlaa J. Mclntlre. Eaqulre. Flrat Judge of said Court, this thirtieth day of Saptember In the year ona thouaand nine hundred and fourteen.

3t4 W. K. ROGERS. Register.

: 5 c

We Sell the Popular -Line

JOHNSON'S EDUOATOE

Crackers, Bran, Etc.

T R Y OUR .SPKCIAIi

Ono Pound Box Chocolates for

CUTFLOWERS. PLANTS. FLORAL DESIGN'S, ETC. H A R D Y

ORNAMENTAL T R E E S . S H R U B S A N D

V I N E S

H.Huebner Florist

Groton, Hoss .

Greenhouses near Grotori School

Piano Tunino TUNING A N D R B P A I R I N G PROMPTLY ATTKNDED TO

J. F. Chaffin Co. Tcl. 846 W Fitchbnrg, Ma«i. Or orders can be left at the Omec

of HUNTLEY S. TURNER, Aycr. Telephone 105-2. 3 m l

TO LET—A House, 11 rooms, hot and cold water, bathroom, furnace Ijeot. centrally located, froin October 1. In-oulre of FRANK S. BENNETT, .Jv-r. Mass. * "

JAMESON'S PAEM AaENCY SELLS FAEMS

Efdlroad Square Nashua, N. H. ' HOLLIS Farm, sold to Bottlo estate,

consisting ot 25 acres choice land lo­cated In the well-known fruit section of the town, largo set handsome farm buildings nicely located on main road, iy, mileo to depot, 7 miles to Nashua, near neighbors, schools and lake. This Is one of the best farm bargains In the town. No reasonable ofter refused.

AMHERST Farm, stock and tools Included, 60 acres, 20 tillage, some fruit, 200 cords top wood ready for , market, 8-room house, . 2 piazzas, maple shade, near big lake, barn for 10.head. A bargain for some ono to step right Into, only $3300, part cash.

Fruit and Poultry place, 2 acres, 50 voung fruit trees, blackberries, straw­berries, curranU, 35 grape vines, new 8-room house, ample barp. High land, line view overlooking Nashua. Lowell , Haverhill ana Westford. Cost 13,000. sale price $2300. This Is a bargain.

TO LET—^Tenement of four rooms. S minutes from Main Street. Ayer. In­quire of FRANK S. BENNE'TT, Ayer. Mass. I "

s-^?*!;

Wish to call your atten­tion to their stock of

;CEMETERY MEMORIALS

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

Ayer, Mass.

S A T U R D A Y , . O C T O B E R 1 7 , 1914

HOLLIS, N. H,

PRANK S. BENNETT - Suoceasor- toAhTHUR FENNER

Insurance Agent and. Broker Main Street T a m e r ' s BIdg.

A T E R , aCASS. MUs G. M. Stone, Pnblle Typewriter

About Town. , The flrst meeting of th6 Hollls Wo­man's club for the season w a s held on last week 'Wednesday afterndon In Orange hall. Mrs. Leonard Lawrence gave t w o piano solos and Qeorge H. Brown, of Ayer, gave a very flne lec-tMre on a trip to Panama. H e gave a brief sketch of the effort to construct a canal Iri 1&70, and the later surveys-and. attempts. • A brief description of the canal. Its locks, gates and general construction was followed by a short summary as to the probable effect on the future of the United States. Club tea was sen-ed by Miss Tenney and Mrs. McEnnls. The next meet ing of the club will be held at the the home Octobl^ Yf. ^- "'"•'"'. "" Wednesday,

for*.'? ^ " ' ^ Goodwin' was at home ror the week-end and Columbus day, w e e l ^ J ^ " " . ' ! B.-^Newton spent the ^u^hrn? , !MaS," """"' 1» South Ash-

a: C , w a s In town on Tuesday visiting the Golden Cross members.

LITTLETON.

• M l s s Clara Smith' and Mrs. F lora

?rTd^.''^'"^ '" *"«<"-1 ° » ' S t week

.n^'"; . ,S!J*. .""-J- Shattuck, of Hud-

-Mrs. Eugene «Shattuck, returned to

. .Try

Mullin Bros F O R P R O M P T ATTENTION

Telepbone 82-6

W e have a splendid line' of

O U V E S

PICKTES

BACON

SAIiMON

T O N G r E

SARDINES

A liBrge Assortznent of

CRACKERS ANI> COOKIES; F A N C T C H E E S E

also.

In fact everything needed for lunches or picnics a t this season of the year.

Mul l in Bros 9 Page's Block A T E R , MASS.

i u t o ' *"""" °" '^'" w w k T^™!? by

, . , ^ 2 ' . ? ® ? , ' ^ * ' ' * Kimball has. moved

i^le^/rtSf."*".^"'* '~'«^" <"> s c 9 . ^ s p ° ? ^ ? 1 S ^ » S k Y n * 5 . ^ i l ! f a at his home..

William Verder, <?f Worcester, vtelt-ed at the Verder home a few da™ recently. T^i..

Charlie Bell, who has b ^ n having an aUack of muscular rheumatism. Is gaining: slowly. '

M I M Daisy Woods, who teaches school in' Amherst, was at homo with her parents for the week-end ahd holiday.' . , • Mrs.. George A. Ladd, who has been w«»Sl' '°?^^^^ hospital tor several m?, A*'.-'**'^"'*i'.'"""« 'ast Saturday much Improved In health.

fic^^ ?^?'^S.„'^t'»'' •'« " s ' s t i n g at e n t l a d d ' s home for the prcs-

MI«s Ida Clement was a recent visit-

Fran*,^ S ^ ^ e S . " " ' ^ ' ^'^ ^"^ ^'"-Harvey Powers, who was at home

Tuc^daj^" '=o"»se, returned on

Arthur W. Lund; of Hudson, spent Vr^l^^xS.nT'"^ J"^T P*~'"«' Mr- and Mrs. William H. Ltfnd.

Mrs. Norman Bennett has been en­tertaining friends from Bo.ston for a few days the past week. • Sylvester Coleman has been rather poorly of late, having an attack of shingles.

Union Cash Market Ayer, lylass.

LOOK OVER T H E S E PRICES

F L O C R

. Pt iTATOES

SSc. and 80c. bag

20c. Pk . 75c. Bashcl

PICKLING ONIONS 15c. Pock

SIRLOIN STEAK 25c. lb

ROAST P O R K 18c. Ib

S.Aiyr SALMON 10c. lb

CABBAGE I c lb

P L . \ I N COOKIES 10c. Jb

COMPOUND LARD, 10 lb Lot $1.15

SNIDER'S CATSUP 22c. bottle

SNIDER'S TOMATO SOUP 3 can,s aJSc.

P U F F E D RICE 10c. Pkg.

P U F F E D W H E . I T 8c. Pkg .

Q U A K E R OATS, I.argc Size 22c.

MINCE ME. \T 8c. Package

News Itcnis. Mr. Jambard won second money at

the horse race held In Nashua on Columbus day. The first pr i ze -was flfty dollars and the second prize was twenty-flve dollars.

Sirs. Frank Twlss was operated Up­on for the removal of a cataract on one eye last week Friday. The opcr-fttlon w a s performed by Dr. Nutter of Nashua, and her attending physician. Di\ Hazard. The operation waa suc­cessful and the patient Is doing nicely.

Mlss Ruth Goodwin, who Is attend­ing the Salem Normal school, and Daniel Goodwin, from Durham col­lege, were week-end guests of 'Mrs. Henry Goodwin.

Frederick Swain and a friend from Somerville spent Columbus day with Mrs. Henry Goodwin.

Mlsa Annie Newton went to her home In Ashburnham to spend Co­lumbus day.

-Mrs. Andrew Jewett was very kind­ly remembered this la.st week by tho members of the W. C. T. U,. who sCiit her flowers and fruit.

.•>i:ss Annie Boj-nton, from Swamp­scott, -Mass... waa a visitor In Hoi.Is this week, calling on old friends. She Jl's, Ju»t returned, from a trip to thc Wnlte Mountains.

Mrs. Reed entertained thc two sis­ters. Misses Southwick, over Colum­bus day. •

Mrs. George Ladd returned home from St. Joseph's hospital last week Friday. Mrs. Ladd's operation was quite complicated, but very success­ful. Dr. Wallace, of Nashua, was her physician.

News I tems. Roland Houghton has entered the

Br>'arit & Stratton CommCTclal School of Boston, where Mlss Gladys Wood­bury and Stanley Conant' are also students.

Dr. arfd Mrs. Benjamin P. Merrill, of Trenton, N. J., announce the birth of a son.'

A s o n . was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reed on Saturday, October 10.

Parents and pupils as well as other friends are sorry to learn that Miss Marloni Brown's health is somewhat Impaired, necc8«ltatlng a substitute In her place here this season'. ' Mrs. Grayd;on, the well-known teacher of piano In Ayer, will take that place and has engaged a room at Mre. Harry Hume 9 for the purpose, '

The West End library has had splendid patronage thus far and If the need, continues to assert Itself this center of distribution will continue.

Connections were put In for electric lights In Charles Smith's h o m e on King street last week.

Seventy-flve licenses have "beeti Is­sued by the t o w n clerk to hunters this season. This Is about twenty-flve more than usual. Doubtless there Is much disappointment among the hunters with ,the governor's decree; but he must be praised rather than censured for his action since there are so many flrcs In the woods,, many e\-ldently caused by hunters' careless­ness.

^ -Wednesday evening, dctober -21. will be observed as neighbors' night at the Grange.

Rev. O. J. Falrfleld was In Wilton. N. H„ Wednesday, lo assist.In the or­d inat ion'and Installation of Edward P. Daniels a s minister of the Unitar­ian church there and at Milford, N. H.

The lyceum begins late this year, the opening concert being on Novem­ber 10, but the program for the sea­son Is believed to be exceptional high quality.

The e\'enlng ' meeting at the Uni­tarian church Sunday at seven o'clock Will be a reading by Rev. O. J. Falr­fleld from one ' of the present day authors o f note, "G. B. S." a s he Is known In England, George Bernard Shaw, the brilllanf, but egotistical Plaj-wrlght and essa>4st. ."^""^"=*' , While t h e ' t o w n celebrated Its bi­

centennial In August, it was known that the exact date of incorporation waa November 2, 1714. The First Congregiational society (Unitarian) which as bne of the flrst parishes dates Its beginning with the incor­poration of the to'wn, plans to obser\'e Its two hundredth anniversary on the flrst Sunday In November. In addi­tion to the usual morning ser\'lce there will be a n evening service of welcome to alL Among the speakers expected In the e^•enlng are Rev. W. a .orr I. Nichols of Deerfleld and Rev. Isaac ' fectly F . Porter of Sherburn " " " ministers.

KMrt"R,l^?"°" ^ - ^ ' ° « » and Mrs, Eliza Bradlee were voted In as mem­bers of the club. The names of XlrL Annie Dodge Hubbard, MTssDor^ihy Priest. MUs Evelyn RochesTer H^ne^ and Mrs. Martha W. Jones were p ? ^ posed for membership and will be vot­ed on at the. next meeting.

Reports .'Of the last two meetings held In the spring were read by t h i recording secretarj-.- Mrs. P io ,4 M! Klinball. Prayer w a s offered by the club chaplain, Mrs. C. A. Hosmer; The president gave a brief, enthusiastic address touching upon the history of the club, which covers a period of sei-.enteen years, and the Importance of such an organization In the home and the community. In tender sym­pathy she referred to tho loss sustain­ed recently by thc club through the ^ S ' V . ' K " " " ' * mcmberK, and In riicm-•. ory of them read a very appropriate

MIsa Eunice ,Priest , one- of Little­t o n s talented young singers, sang with pleasing effect "Llllra," wh^ch was accompanied at the piano by Mrs Gertrude F. Houghton, and was reJ cclved with enthusiasm.

Mlss Julia S. Conant, substituting for her sister. Mrs..A. M. Parker, read three poenLB, "An autumn landscape" ^J^";^<* Street, "A picture of Orto-ber" by Helen Hunt Jackson, aitd Am^erlca for me" by Rev. Henry Van

Mrs . 'Susan M, Barker, of Ayer gave a. condensed but faithful and In­teresting report, of the state federation meeting at Worcester and thc nation-al blenntel meeUng at Chicago,' for which a rising vote of thankrw-as ex­tended^ the speaker. Miss Priest favored ^the audience with another solo, "The birth of dawn,"

An Invitation to the H a n a r d Wo­m a n s club on October. 19 was read and. the-quartet which will furnish a number.In the program, and Mrs A

,^,'^"''®'' •^"•^ chosen delegates Iti addition to the. president.

,yacatlon notes were given by Sirs, Elizabeth .Pi:octor, Mrs. Alice Whit­comb. Mrs. Gertrude Houghton and Miss E m m a E. Tenney. and many pic­tures w ^ e shown on the rellectoscope managed by Rev. O, J. Falrfleld. The flrst three speakers gave many Inter­esting pictures of and pleasing de­scriptions of picturesque Vermont, Adirondack, Hudson river and Berk­shire regions, and the last speaker presented the attractions of Plainflcld and scenes on delightful trips to the Berkshires and Northampton, and the country near Concord, N. H.

"ITie season opened with a large at­tendance and conditions favor a suc­cessful >-ear. The program offers many attractions. Presidents' day a lways a much anticipated feature will be observed on October 26.

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BROOKLINE; N. H. News Items,

Brookllne Grange will hold their fair on October 20. afternoon and evening. An old-fashloncd "boiled dinner" will bc served from six to eight o'clock. Everyone Is Invited to contribute to the exhibition hall.

George Betterley and familv arc with .Mr. and Mrs. Charics Ruswell who are In a feeble condition.

Mrs, Maude Dow, Mrs, F P Ken­nedy, of Pepperell. and MLs.? Jennie Hagstrom. of New York city, have heen recent guests In town.

Wedding bells chimed merrily on 'l« ?''.'i"'''l': ev'ening at thc home of

she was united In marriage to P. J. r'arkey.

The Misses Jennie and Anne Svlvcn were guests over the holiday of thc George Xye family.

Mr, and Mrs, Henry Hall were Sun­day guests of his brother. Alpha A, Hall, and family.

Rally day will bc ob.served at thc .Methodist church on Sundav. A nne concei-t will be given In the evening. A cordial Invitation Is extended to all to be present.

•Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P., Hussell .•tre contemplating a trip to the Pa­cific coa.st for their autumn outlnc.

The many friends of Jfrs, Lucretia M.'jrtln congratulate her upon winning a live-dollar-prize In tho picturo con­test of the Boston Traveler,

Prof, Fred Fessenden and hl.s fath­er. James Fessenden, enjoyed Colum-I ' ^ l ^5' '" x-'*"® ' "^o- returning to their UPJI f In -Newton. Mas,<i„ on .Monday f I? 1 . . ^ <'o'"Uff Fessenden took them

catch nt the lake, one of thc nnny tribe weighing almo.n three, pounds.

Sir. and Mrs. Pcrley L, Pierce were guests of his brother, George Pierce, at Pepperell, last week. Thc occa-f ' ° " .was the brother's seventieth birthday anniversary.

One cool morning lasl week as Mrs. H. i . Pierce w a s walking Up Mason road she heard, ns she thought, a young chick peeping.. Looking around sho found a week-old partridge In thc « r e c t opposite Frank Klldufs , shiv­ering with . the cold and peeping very loud. She, very humanely picked up the young bird' and took It home to feed and warm It.

Clarence Bartlett was called to New Brunswick the first of last week by the Illness of his father. Later In the week a telegram came fhat h e had passed away. M ~ home' this week.

Arthur B. . Dickey, of -Manchester,

afternoons and evenings 0—......0 day after toihorrow and continuing at least until new years. This Is In the nature of a n experiment to see If an additional day of opening will add to the library's usefulness. As on •Wed­nesdays the library will open a t 1.30 for the .special convenience of school children. Through the kind co-oper­ation of Mrs. A. W. Knowlton a branch library has been placed In her home for the convenience of those living near the station, and In its first m o n t h s use eighty-eight books were taken out, which Is a record that speaks well, both for the taste of the people at the .station and for the pop­ularity of the librarian.

The committee from the Littleton Choral society met with Mrs. G. W Prouty on Tuesday evening and plan­ned for a musical entertainment and a dance, with refreshments, etc.. In the town hall on Friday evening, No­vember 6. As the Choral society Is holding no meetings at present this

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announcement Is made through these columns.

Many visitors were In town for the week-end and t h e holiday. The Kim­ball camps and the Drew camps at Lake Warren were occupied. At thc former were Walter Jackson of the Berger Manufacturing Company. Bos­ton, and party, and at the latter were the regular summer camper.s.

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MORTGAGEE'S '^AXE OP

REAL ESTATE IN GROTON, MASS.

Committees Appointed.

, . ,J'l l°°"?"3",'®^ ° ' arrangements for ^h?„^^""^' i?'"" ^*- "'^ Congregational chtirch on December 9, met Monday and appolhted committees as follow.s:

Entertainment—Mrs. Goldsmith Cr,. Fred K^l'mh»n''\""'^ Sal^dersTi. Mr.:,. nr^nHmi.^^"' ' ' Eugene nohblns, .\, .Ma"{r'"K. i;SPl"'- ""• - «°"''' ^"•-

Samples—Mrs, Charics K, Houtrhton

K![ l,i?,-"M s. "^.'-rW^ilr '^"•^''» "• ^ rsr s -'«--Mi 1-. H, Hlll. .Mrs, Thomas Stephen'^ Mr« M';^ ," '^ P,"'^rnynt''"- - f ' ^ - ' ^ v l ^ n ' ; . .Mr?""X11.'eV'5?od^l't?''n{'us'"''??r''a';.^'

Candy —Mlss Marlon Flagg Mlv. M ' N f ' ' K i J ' " ' ^ f " ; ^ " " » Ben ' s - lAv-Samlor^on"' •'"^'^^cr. Ml, , Gertru.U

Ice cream—Mrs, W. K. Conant Mr. ilV'i- \ '•7."'^5' -X'"' FT.tnk*GriKo'r:: Mrs. (,. .\. Cook. Mlss Blla Peabodv Mr,. Jc,s,.e DodKc. Mrs. George H Kim. Work J Miriam Conant. Mrs H I T ' .

I.unch—MrM. K , m e r , > ^ . ^ l . c r , ^ ^ ; S i i 7 , . ? ^ r ' i i L b ^

W, (,anncy, Ml8» Susie Rob-O, .Mrs, bins u-nH'il"?.'.'"T*".",';V""' Merriam. Mr*. ^Mlllam I'lck.ird. Mlss Florence iluni!

.Spwlnl Town Meeting. At tho .special town meeting la.sl

Saturday night George A, Cook w.-i.- chosen as moderator and (Illed thc of­fice very acceptably. An appropria­tion of ?900 was voted for connection" on tho new electric light extension. Town water extensions were voted for Goldsmith street . is far .LS D G Houghton's residence, on to Plngre}-\'lllc. and Harvard road to .*!,£.• .?h«ehan's, provided the water nn«f l '« '" ""* '•'''" ' "^ districts guar-

By virtue of a power of sale con­tained In a mortgage deed given by Frederick A. Sherwin and Bessie E. A. Sherwin, his wife, in her own right, of Groton, In the County ot Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachu.setts, to Frank D. Lewis of said'Groton, dated October 12th, 1907, and recorded with Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds In Book •3331, Page 595, and for breach of conditions therein contained and for fhe purpose of foreclosing the same, will be sold at publlc auction on the premises hereinafter described, on Sattmlay, November 14, 1014, at two o'.clock In the afternoon, all and sin­gular the premises conveyed by said mortgage deed, and therein described as follows:

, A certain parcel of land with thc buildings thereort situated In Groton Center on the northwesterly side of Station avenue and bounded as fol­lows:

Beginning at a stone bound at said avenue and at land of the Worcester, Xashua and Rochester Railroad Com­pany; thence northeasterly by said avenue sixty-two (62) feet to a stake and stones: thence northwesterly by land of Mary 'W. Shattuck one hun­dred and thirty-five (135) feet to laiid of William A. Lawrence; thence southwesterly by .said Lawrence land sixty-two (62) feet to land of said RalIro.ad Company; thence south­easterly by land of said Railroad Company one hundred and thirty-seven (137) feet to thc point of be­ginning, and subject to the conditions contained In a deed, from Marj- w . Shattuck , to Henrj- M. Adams, re­corded with said Middlesex Deeds, book 2354, page 524.

Terms made known at time and place of sale. 3(5

"MOSES P. PALMER, Assignee of said Mortgage,

Groton. Mass., October 13, 1914.

PARLOR

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antee five percent of the co.st of con­struction for the next ten years, and iJi '^•S;£?.'"°" ""'^'' •'>'''"' ^o'<'<' to Doug­las wnitoomb's tenement house how 1-11 . * * ®° "' consstructlon on Riis-?«.f„"•"*',•, " ^'^'* furthermore voted x , l , f *'^*" "°'<'''' Issued Inside of ,i Mf»r . t . " ' " J ° " °^ '•e<il estate figure c r ^ - i .K '*1'°^'^ provision.-! would In-U r ^ . , I J ® " '••'''« "^n or fifteen d<.l-nr^o.^. i* thousand, but "water at .irv Th.nv ? «^''''ent'y the motto of .xomo. i n i n k It over.

Woman's a n b !

to^thit^nlf.^. 'he Woman'..! cl»l. m.t

talnm;.^.™".*"!- P'-e^-loU-" to thc enter-

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t en t io? V! ! , '" huslness n-celv.d a;-r t S r ^ X ^elesrates were cho,«cn u. m a n ^ ^ . K " V ^ " * " <« Harvard Wo­man s club. Misses Margaret Thach-'

tietpn In. said County, deceased" nortln''J'?n'h*. «£"«'" InJtrumen, p„r-

of said deceased has been prc-

, „ „ „ H - . f °"7'-\^"o'^ MTddl^ScxT'on'1i^? lourin day of NovRmber A n lo i i nt ^au'-e^ff'^fL'" ' " l 'o"«nobn°- t^Vhow a 'So]"i;c»s;!aS.''eT "" "•« '--l ^ S " ! ' '•'^"P"'" '"-""o'-' '>• - -for ihV^'.",'""'",<'" once In each week,

n said Conn?i a n««-«PaP.*r publl.he.l {,» »» _}-ounty. the last publication tn ind bv m r „ f ' " " ' • "efofe satd Cour," a conv ?f"' l".* P?.«'P»'''. or dellvcrln<r " SPPy of thin citation to all known

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MAKINO OUT BILLS •cem« to be the bert *cconipli«h-ment of some plnmben. They ar« very particular to havo tbem large enough, though they haven't shown any excessive real in the work they are supposed to repre­sent.

WB AEE PHTBEENT We oan do real pldmbing work better thanwe ean make ont bill*. Try our ability the next job yoa h*ve.

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'TIil> Poper !• Sold by W . A. Urummey K " « «'ePP"»" Kate E. Haien ' • •*"" '"• 11. P. T a i n t e r . . . . «">«»" Conant * Co Utt leton Common C. W. Hildreth T««n.end J.. SherwlB Jt Co; Ayer

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serves as a continuous receipt.

Chance at Addrenn Subscribers wishing the postofflv

•addreJs of the paper changed, must ? e n d " s both the old and new address Ind a^so the name ot the paper they receive'. ' ;

Saturdiiy, October 17, 191:1.

PEPPERELL. Aljout Town. • Dr. and Mrs. Xelson S. Wood -went to Springilcld on last Saturday- by auto, spending Sunday and th.e holi­day at the home of Dr. Wood's par-enia. ' ; ' Ralph La'ft'son. the younger son of 11. H. La\vson. c a m e liust Saturday xo visit his parents and sister. He has added several Inches in stature .since his la.st visit which • w a s nearly two years ago. He Is evidently in good favor wi th the New England Tele­phone and Telegraph Co., a s he is now occupying the position of wire chief at West Hartford, Conn.

Mlss Edna Tarliell . ' assistant clerk at the postofflce, has been enjoying a vacation . w i t h , friends at Xorthlleld and other-cKles. -.. '

Mrs. E r n e s t ' Xash and daughter, from Chelsea, were guests at Ashmont farm with Mr. and Mr.s. O. >L Xash last week. Mr. Xash came up for Sunday and thc holiday.

Miss Xellle Everson, who has been spending a few weeks In town, the guest of her sister. Mrs. C. S. Deij-ham, returned to her home In W al-tham this week.

Mrs. Arthur T. Wilson, of Brighton, Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. ^N. « . Lurit,

C. H. Miller has the contract to re­build the. Cranford Inn In Hollls . which was destroyed by lire about two years ago.

Mrs.. Maria Mason Is the guest of her brother, H. A.' Wright, on Towns-end street. JIrs. Mason will be i^-membered by many as a former resi­dent In town with her husband, living-on the place which is still called the Mason place on thc street of-the same name.

The rriany hunters In town took, ad­vantage of the open season on. pheas­ants and the holiday and were early In the fleld. The best hunting grounds 'Were soon covered and too well cov­ered. It Is claimed by some, a s not a bird appeared. Two. predictions are made—one, that the pheasant will be exterminated, and another that they will take refuge from the sportsman in the deeper wood and so escape,

Howard Denham, frdm Lowell, was at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Denham, over Columbus

. day. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Willoughby

and children came from Leominster on Saturday to sijend Sunday and the holiday with relatives In town.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bartz motor­ed from' Aver on Sunday, bringing their little daughter for a first visit with her relatives In town.

Mrs, Robert Carr and daughter, of Berk Vt,. are visiting at the home of Mr. and -Mrs, Rufus .Merrill, the par­ents of Mrs. Carr,

Several property owners In the vi­cinity of Oak hlll and Heald's pond, fearing lire from hunters in this ex­ceedingly dry time, have posted their land against hunting and trespa.'tslng. These include S, S. Blood. A. A, Shat­tuck, Edmund Blood, E, E. Shattuek. Mlss M. E. Tucker and C. G. Tucker, Thev have no good water supply and the precaution is vcrj- neces.sary,

Mrs. Porter R. Stratton and .son .Al­'bert visited an aged friend at Woods Village on Monday.

Mlss Carrie Sylvester has accepted a position In the Champion Interna­tional offlce, taking Mlss Ethel Drown's place.

Station Agent HarrLs attended the ball game at Fenway park. Boston. Monday.

Mr, and Mr.s, Lincoln Johnson re­turned from a visit in Lynn on Mon­day evening.

Mr. and Mrs, L>-man Robbins, of Pleasant street, went to Maynard to visit Mrs, Bobbins' brother. Wilbur Hill, over Sunday and the holiday, re­turning on Monday evening.

James W. Attridge. of Prospect street, intends to<makc his home in Brighton, moving this week. All his family are already living there.

.Mrs. John Coffey visited relative.'; In Ayer over Sunday and Monday, re­turning home on thc evening train,

Mr.s, George Carter spent several da>'s in Lowell iast week visiting friends.

Leon Whitcomb. is acting ".s fore­man for Mr. Greenhalge on the Page farm and removed his family Lost week into the new tenement house there,

Bert Glldden .ind family have mov­ed from West street Into the small cottage on Shattuck street near George Adams' place.

Austin K. Paiill was invited to oc­cupy thc pulpit of the Congregational church at Littleton on . last Sunday, this being the second Sunday within a

ccntiv groduated from the Waltham Traliilng school as nurse. She left towii on Wednesday, going to Cam­bridge, where she will take up her duties as nurse on Saturday under the District Xurse assoclatldn'.

Prentice Blood, of -Concord Junc­tion, was the guest of his 'grandpar­ents. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Blood, over Sunday and the holiday. He was ac­companied by a friend,-Mr. Leftlng-well, of Boston, a former schoolmate. Mr. Blood has recently returned from Washington, D. C . where he passed a dv l l service exatrilnatlon. receiving honorable mention, but falling In an a]>pointment a s there w.ere so many ajipllcants, both from West Point and Annapolis military schools.

Mrs, Andrew P. Kemp and a lady friend visiting her went to Xashua on last Saturday and from there to Bos­ton shopping. They spent Sunday and the ho l iday-wi th relatives In Cam­bridge, returning on Monday evening.

Frank Mahoney c a m e from Middle­boro to spend Sunday and the holi­day In town.

Mr. and Mrs. R-ussell Shattuck. of ^Vllrcester.. were guests at the home of A. A.' Shattuck over thc holiday.

Among . those attending the • ball game at Boston on Tuesday were I>roy Shattuck,' E. L. Tarbell and Grant Palmer.

Mlss Jennie Morrison, who will be remembered as living In .town a s ' a g l r t . l a t er going to Hollls, has decid­ed- to gain an' education and Is at present working her way through Bates college at Lewlston. Me.

Work on the gravelling, of the road beglhning at the Dunstable line will soon-be commenced, it Is, understood, .as the: state appropriation , has been given according to the article in the town warrant appropriating $500 to­ward It,

Mlss Edna Klttredge was a guest of relatives In Ayer over Sunday and the holiday.

Mary Adele Boynton.came from Mt. Ida school at Xewton to .spend the holiday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Boynton, Park street.

Thomas Parker . and family, of X'ashua, - were receiit visitors at the home df his brother Chester on Townsend street.

Mrs. P. F. SulUvan entertained Mlss Helen Keefe, of Roxbur.v. and Mlss Mdrly Gilhooley, of Fltchburg Xormal school,' over the holiday.

Mlss Hope Davison. ,pt Boston, was at her receritly purchased home, the Winn place, on Tbwnsend street for the week-end and the holiday. She was accompanied by a friend. Mlss Marston. who has but recently re­turned, from Germany and England. She had some unusual experiences, al­though she crossed Into Great Brltaln-In time to avoid any unpleasantness from the elfects- or~t1ie war. MISs Davison returned to her duties as teacher In Boston, not to Waltham as w a s at llrst understood by error, at the time .her purchase occurred.

Albert Plllsburj' w a s at home from the: Agricultural college In . Durham,. X. H., over. Sunday and the holiday.

Little Luther TarbeU has so far re­covered from his recent operation for appendicitis a s to be able to be brought home • on Tuesday from the hospital In Groton.

Mlss Annah P. Blood came home from her school In X e w York city to spend the week-end and holiday with her parents and sister.

Mr. and Mrs., Eugene Fletcher are spending this week with relatives In Boston and suburbs.

Miss Carrie Shattuck had a short vacation from her duties as teacher In Merrimack. X. H.. for the week­end and Sunday, which she spent with her mother, Mr.s. W. A. Parker,

Mr.s, Joseph Attridge has been the guest of Mlss Blanche Fessenden In liroukline. X, H,. this week.

Mrs, Burgess and son, of Xashua. were the guests of Asa -Burgess on Shellleld street on Wedne.sday.

George Mahoney was In town on la.st week Friday for the day. He Is closely contined to his work as meat cutter in the store which is managed by the offlcers of thc state sanatorium ih Middleboro, and returned that evening.

Mrs. Dena (Graham) Byrnes, with her little son. was at the home of her parents in lown from Friday until Tuesday of this week.

Peter McParttlen and son Frank went to Lowell last Saturday for the day,

Edgar Shattuck. of Xewton i o w e r FalLs. was the guest of his sister. Mrs. Charies Baker, on Heald street, over the holiday.

The residence of Samuel S. Blood on Oak hill Is closed for the winter T>s the family have gone back to Xew York.

Dr. and Mrs. Frank L, Dow and little (laughter, of Worcester, were guesus at the home of Dr. F. W. Love­joy during the week-end and the holi­day. Mrs, Dow remained until Thursday before returning.

Mrs. Ellery Davis returned this week from a four-weeks' visit In Xew Hampshire, staying? at Bristol. X. H,. with her daughter, and later with rel­atives In Concord.

A daughter w a s b o m to Mr, and .Mrs. William Hanna on the Dun.stable road, on Tuesday, October 13.

Mr.s. E, C. Farnham Is spending a few days with Mrs. S, E, Patch on .Vashua street.

Karf Xewhall. from Boston univer­sity, .spent Sunday and the holiday with his parenU on Townsend street.

The engineers and. several of the firemen went to Xashua. Tuesday eve­ning, the occasion being their annual dinner and theatre party.

The annual harvest supper will be served by the L. S. C. of the Unitarian church on Thursday, October 22, at 6.20 o'clock at Central hall. This Is the first affair to be held by the ladles since the recent remodeling of their rooms and much Is expected from thc

llged to come home as he was suffer­ing Intensely and had a high fever frofn the wound. He Is now gaining and probably past any danger.

Robert Marshall of Lawrerice has been visit ing the past week at • the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall on Franklin street. This la the first time he has been In town to visit them- and his daughter Leta, who Uves with them.

The Xashua' River Paper Co.'s plant at- Holl lngsworth has been shut down for more than a week; causing very low water In the river here. The two old dams, built decades ago. were plainly seen at t imes and were some­thing of a c\irloslty.

The all-day meeting of the L, S, C, held on Friday of last week at thc Cnitarian parsonage was a most pleas­ant occasion and largely attended, more than thirty belrig present at box lunch. - A good amount ot work waa accomplished and much amusement was created durlrig the afternoon .by the various members who had beeh earning their "dollar" of experience m(?ney, recounting . the manner of earning. Some of the methods .were very original and unlQUe. ,

Acoma Rebekah Iodg(; arc Invited to visit the Rebekah lodge In Towns-end on Friday evening.. October 23. The members of this lodge are to fur­nish the entertainment. Al l . desiring conveyance are requested f.0 notify Lincoln Johnson as etirly next week as. possible.

Sir. and Mrs, J. A, Fros-sard spent Sunday and the 'holiday with their daughter In Somer%'Ille. Mrs. Fros­sard remained there until Thursday^

Mlss Minnie Spragg, formerly liv­ing here-In town as nurse, went to her home In Cambridge last Saturday from-the Groton hospital, where she has been recovering from an opera­tion for appendicitis.

At the .Columbus day races In Xash­ua. of the horses -entered from this section, Justice, driven by Amos Ma--honey, won llrst money In thc 2.-40 cl-ass, Red Pepper df West Groton be­ing second; The HolUs entry. Little Bert.' wone" first In the 2.30 cldss.

Mrs. Amos Mahoney and little son. her guest. Mlss Kitty O'Hare. an(l .Mrs. George Mahoney went to Xashua In Bennett's auto to attend the races on Coluinbus day.

Mrs. Sarah PAtch entertained the first of the week her two grandnlecea, Elsie Shattuck of Francestown, X. H.. and Jessie of Groton: a l so / Deacon and Mrs. Ansel Shattuck of Groton. and Mrs, James Mitchell of WllUams-yiUe. ,and her brother. Mark Shattuck. from Groton.

Mrs. E. E, Handley entertained over the holiday her nephew. Harold Stev­ens, of Salem, and-his bride of a few weeks, who was formerly Mlss Bea­trice RusseU. of Danvers.

Of all the-pheasarits captured In tow-n the past w-eek by the hunters, some just for the sport, some for eat­ing and some to be mounted,. It re­mained for George Jay to accomplish Tuesday the solltarj' feat of catehing dne alive. He was driving from his home at Mr. McDonald's on- the Xash­ua -road toward George Shattuck's. He (jame suddenly upon a group of Hve or six pheasants In the brush by the roadside. Jumping froin the car­riage with a heavy grain sack In his. hand he succeeded in capturing a fine .male pheasant, whose - legs had be­come entangled In the brush. The bird seems to take kindly to captivity In a chicken run on Mr. McDonald's place and has been much admired by numerous spectators for the fine col­oring of his plumage. Mr. Jay has written the state game oommls.sioner stat ing the circumstances and hopes to receive permit to keep It.

Mrs, Charles Goff returned on Tues­day evening from a visit with her sis­ter in Hlllsboro. X. H,

The edict of Governor Walsh which appeared In the Boston papers on Wednesday morning, suspending the open season for upland game until further notice, w.is hailed with favor bv all property owners and the fire­men, If not by the hunters. The pro­clamation w a s Tissued In view of the extreme drouth and the fact that for­est fires Increased 500 percent on Oc­tober 12. the first day of the hunting season. On thc other hand there were 5000 more hunter's licenses granted this year than last.

Misses Molly and Evelyn Flood, of Cambridge, were guests over Sunday and the holiday with their friend. Miss Kitty Murray, who Is at home from' Auburndale for a few w<;eks,

Mr. and Mrs, ,F, W. Lane, of Fiteh­burg. and H. I, Whipple were In town on We(3nesday to attend the in,stalla-tlon services ot the- new pastor of the Congregational church. Rev. John B, LewLs,

William Davis died at his home on Xashua street Thursday night at twelve o'clock, after a lingering Ill­ness,

Mrs. John Frazer has returned from a four-week.s' visit with her grand­daughter, Mr.s. Edward Duffey. at Put­nam. Conn. Mr, and Mrs, Duffey ac­companied her home and spent a few d a » in town this week.

and the fol lowing committees were appointed: Poster campaign, Rev. D. R. Child. Mrs. X. W. Appleton. Chas. Marshall, MlBS H. L. Lawrence, E. F. Harmon; Mrs. M, M. Pond; the "GOT to-church Sunday"- committee, Geo. H. Shattuck. Mrs. J. L. Boynton. L. T. Wilson, Mrs. E. B. Heald, JIrs. D. E. Weston and Mrs. James Dunn.

Preceding the meeting a supp(;r was served by: the L. B. S. In the vestry. About one hundred and fifty vartdok tit a flne harvest supper, the commit­tee being Mrs, F. S. Bancroft. Mrs. Gustav Anderson. Mrs. Thlbault.

Grunge Xotes . Prescott Grange met In Grange hall

un Friday evening, October 9. After the business meet lng'there was a llt­erarj- program In .. charge of Muriel Jloblnson and Lena McGrath which was much enjoyed, being as follows: I'lano solo, Molly Frazer:, vocal se ­lections. E. M : Stewart and O. M. Xash: reading, George Stewart: farce, "I'eter," with the following cast' of characters: Ellen Miller, Lena Mc­Grath and George Jay'.

In the lower hall was a line exhibit ot fruit and vegetables by many of the meml>ers In charge of O. M. Xash and Walter Shattuck.. The Individual exhlblt-of Mr. Xash w a s the largest, consisting of 53 varieties. Charics M. r.lood was .second with 47. varieties, If longer notice had been given for, preparation'It would • no doubt have beeir a much larger exhibit.-

The next meeting will be on thc evening of October 23. • The subject will be "Community work." R e v . . D . K. Child will be the speaker.

.\ class Is sijon to be taken Into the Gninge.' Those wish ing- to join are re(iuested to get their applications In as earl.v as possible. •

Among those who visited the HoUls Grange on Tuesday evening, which was their neighbors' night, were Mrs. P. J. McDonald. Mrs. George Tucker,. Muriel Robinson, George Jay, Mr. and Mrs. w a i t e r Shattuck, Mrs; Shepard­son, Mrs. Perr>'. LUllan Holmes. Jes­sie Flynn. E l l e n . Miller. P.alph and George Shattuck apd Ernest Hazard.. They report a flne evening.

Some of the Grange members are planning to attend the Pomona In .Ayer on October 22;

Good Water Supply. The value of thc abundant supply

of pure water In this, town In this time of protracted drouth, cannot be overestimated. When we read and hear of towns where citizens a r e all depending on a few wells, other'wel ls either falling entirely or condemned because thev are so low, and ot farm­er.s - hauling wat(vr from streams or driving stock there, and where build­ings have been burned to the ground becau.se of an Inadequate water sup-; ply. we cannot be t(io thankful for our town water s>-stem. Also, from another standpoint, a recently ex­pressed.statement by one df our lead­ing physicians was ver>- emphatic. He says that formerly, at this season ot the year 'when springs were low ?ind weather - conditions unfavorable, It was no uncommon thing for h im to have eight or ten fever cases at one time. Today, under the s a m e condi­tions, he has no cases of fever or epidemic which he attributes to the fine, wholesome drinking water. A^"* this fact Is becoming more and more generally recognized as the number of water patrons show.

J O S E P H A. SACXDERS, O F P E P P E R E I i L

Republican Candidate for -Representative^ i2 th Middlesex 'District—•rowns of Ashby. Dunstable. Groton, Pepperell. Shirley, 'Townsend and Tyngsboro. -

Unanimously endorsed by the Republican Town Committee of I'ep-

^"^ "Charles S. Denham. Chairman Charles'B. Taft ' Fred D. Bennett Leon P Richardson Horatio X, Tower - Leroy A. Shattuck , P . J . H a y e s Edgar W, Blake

few weeks that he has preached there Percy J. Benedict returned from a-l •rpp'oP'j3'"' f "ij^c' .Imprwements. 'The

business trip to Sprlngfleld on Mon- — • • —' day evening.

Mrs, Harriet Behron.<» recently re­turned to Law-rence. where she haf been engaged as. nurse since resign­ing at the Xashua Emergency hospi­tal. She has been with her slster-ln-law. Mrs. Charics ^Bartz. In Ayer. for a few days following the time of the latter leaving Groton htjspltal.

Dr. Raymond Carter, of, this town, who has been associated for some months past with Dr. Gllson at his dental rooms In Ayer, hos accepted the position of Instructor In operative dentlstr>- In Harvard university dental echool. He entered upon his new du­ties this week, going on Tuesda>'».

Joseph Surprenant secured a ' v e r y handsome male pheasant on Tuesday. which he proposes to have mounted

, by E. A. Gllson. He also had other trophies, a pheasant, partridge and

. other game. Dean Peabody and a friend, from

• Boston, were guests o%''er the holiday wi th Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis.

Mlas Margaret Park has been a re­cent guest at the home of Mlss Ann Jewell , visltln'g over Sunday also with Mil" Margaret Blood. ' She has re-

supper-will be fdllowed by "A musical courtship." a s .entertainrrient. That the supper and . the evening generally •w-IIl prove a success Is assured by the committee, w h o are Rev. and Mrs. Child, Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs, Addison Woodward. -Mr. and Mrs, James Dunn and Mr.-and Mrs. John Frossard.

Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Drawbridge of Belmont, who c a m e to attend the In­stallation service of Rev. J. B. Lewis on Wednesday, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H, X. Tower.

Mrs. Leroy Shattuok has -just finish­ed her work of taking the school cen-. sus.

A. G. Pike has been taking a vaca­tion from his duties In thc offlce ot the Pepperell Card and Paper Co.-. en­joying the hunting In this vicinity.

Gerrj- Xuttlng, who has been de­tained at home for the past week with

Wedding. A ver>' pretty wedding took place

Wednesday, October 14, at St, Jos­eph's church, the contracting parties l>elng Thomas Gardner of Dunstable and MLss Ethel Drown of this town. The bride looked very charming, be­ing handsomely gowned In white silk messaline. draped with shadow lace and carried a bouquet of bride's roses. She was attended by her sister. Mlss Mabel Drown, as bridesmaid, who was gowned In pink silk messaline ..with embroidered lace overdress and car­ried blush roses.

After the ceremony' the bridal party returned to their future home at 9 Franklin street, where a reception was held. There were present only the Immediate families of thc bride and groom and a few of the most In-.tlmate friends. These Included the young ladles from the offlce of the Champion International card shop. where the bride has b e e n . employed for the past six years as stenographer.

Refreshments were served the guests by the brlde^s Uttle sister, Mad-.elyn, and her three little cousins, Dorothy and Mildred Drown, and Mary SUney.

The h ippy couple left by auto and will visit Boston .tnd other cltle*. On their return they will reside a t the home already fltted up for them on Franklin street.

The bride has always lived In town and has many friends here, which was demonstrated by the many beautiful presents. Including cut glas.s, china and many useful gifts.

f o r e s t Fires. Alarms for forest'f lres have been

pbundant the past few days. The alarm on Friday afternoon of last U'cek -was for the recurrence of the Pre near the South road which was started on October S. The smoulder­ing flames had worked their way Into a grow-th of pines w-here the carpet of needles w-as from three to four inches thick and could be apparently con­quered only to reappear some feet aw-ay. On Monday afternoon, when the wind shitted and blew- a gale, the flames .spread through the meadow In a new direction and an alarm was rung in as extra men were needed to prevent Its reaching the h o m e of •Thomas Wood. iFlremen and volun­teers put In some strenuous work here tor hours, and through some, miscal­culation or forgetfulness food that was promised them early In the after­noon failed to arrive. Some' of the men. It Is claimed, worked from six o'clock In the morning until six at night with no food and Insufficient w-ater to drink.

On last Saturday afternoon an alarm w-as rung in from box 46 on the Hollls road. It .was first reported to be the buildings of George Robbins. as no foreat flre alarm w a s given. Later It proved that the four o'clock train had evidently started- a flre In the lower part of the Robbins field which spread rapidly, causing some alarm for the buildings before the force became large enough to get It under control,

Monday afternoon tw-o fires were discovered within a few rods of each other near the Gll.son farm on Shirley street on land belonging to Dr, Love-Joy. It Is supposed they were started hy hunters, as two had been seen and heard In that locality. The telephone was used by A. A. Gllson to notify G, G. Tarbell. fire warden, and later Engineer Shattuek. Dr. Lovejoy se­cured some extinguishers from the engine house and In spite ot the high wind which was blowing the flre was checked before doing serious dam­age or reaching the buildings on the farm of James DuAn. w-hlch lay In Its path. Tw-o men w-ere left, however, to guard It during the night, and at about two o'clock on Tuesday morn­ing the flre had broken out and was gaining on them so' that a. second alarm, was rung In from box 38.

On ' Monday afternoon, whi le the wind was blowing the hardest, clouds of smoke were seen rolling up In thc cast part of the town. The rumor spread that It w-as Xokes" Icehouse, but It proved to be farther south and over the town Une In Groton. being small growth on land belonging to Lawrence Brooks. It started near the railroad tra'ck and w a s evidently, set by a spark frorii a train.

Several smaller -flres have been found In different localities and con­trolled by prompt action. It seems probable that these larger fires will not be wholly subdued until we have a rain. . .

Invocation Itev. P, P.. Stratton

Scripture Lesson Hev. G..A. Gordon, Lancaster

Sermon Rev. D. .\,- Xewton, Reading

O Where are Kings and Empires Xow? Prayer of .Installation

Rev. Silas P. Cobk. Plttsfleld Muslo ' ' - . . .

Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Drawbridge CharKe to the People

Rev. R. W. Drawbridge, Belmont CharKe to the Pastor

Rev, G, A. Tewksbury, Concord Welcome to A.ssoclatlon

Rev. George M, Howe, Groton Welcome to Town

Rev. Dudley P., Child Ye Servants of God Benediction

P.ev, J, -B. Lewis Organ IV)stlude

Pastors and delegates from twenty-four of the neighboring to%vns re­sponded.

The meeting of the Knights of King Arthur will be held In the ladles' par-.' lor on Friday evening at seven o'clock..

Rev. F. J. Hale of Revere w-lll give . an Illustrated lecture In the church on Monday evening, October '26.. The --subject will be. "Camps and tramps among the White Mountains."

News Items. • Friday. (Jctober 9, the L, S, C, Al­

liance branch held Its monthly meet­ing a t . the home of Mrs, D, It. Child, .\ large number of members were present In the morning and the usual box lunch served at noon was enjoyed. The meeting was called to order by President Woodward at two o'clock. Reports and Items of buslnesa fol­lowed the ritual exercise, atter which much amusement and Interest was ex­cited by the experiences of thc wo: men In earning their dollars—J43.08 being gathered In with several mem­bers yet to report.

These lovely sunny days are cnjoy-e-J by all. but the terrible drought and d(;st to many is a sad drawback.

Harold Haye.s. who graduated from the Pepperell high school In 1912. Is taking a busine.ss cour.se at the Bry­ant & Stratton Commercial School of Boston.

H. E. Frost, of McLean hospital. Is enjoying a two-weeks' vacation with his family on Sheffleld atreet,

Mrs.' L. R, Farr and two children start Saturday for Proctorsville. Vt,. after spending the summer with Mrs. Farr's mother, Mrs. H. E. Frost.

Edgar Frost successfully passed the examinations for a wireless telegraph operator at the Charlestown navy yard la.st week and r(>celved a second-class license to operate.

T h e ' Woman's , club will meet at Saunders' hall. "Tuesday. October 20. There will be a half hour talk on "Woman's suffrage," followed by a thimble par^y and roll call with quo­tations. Please bring sewing. Light refreshments will be served by the Hospitality committee.

CongixWtlonal Notes. Rally day was observed last Sun­

day. There was an especially large-and gratifying attendance at Sunday school, where an attractive program was carried out under the direction of Supt, George H. Shattuck. The vari­ous classes marched through the aisles with banners and song: several selections were rendered by a young people's choir, led by Mlss Fanny Tower: there was a roll call ot classes and the pastor organized a young men's class.

An oftcrlrig of thlrty-flve dollars was taken on Peace Sunday and sent td the Xatlonal Red Cross society.

The pastor, the clerk, the Sunday school superintendent, Mrs. Sarah.! Robert W. Leslie's, Lamb, Dea. Marshal Meriam arid Dea.-' John W. Pierce will represent the church as' offlcial delegates at thc an­nual meeting of the Middlesex Union assoclatlori to be held- next Wednesday at Acton. Others also will attend and aniong them, E. F. Harmon, who will atJt as moderator.

X<>xt Sunday evening at seven o'clock Rev. J. B. Lewis will give a stereoptlcon lecture entitled. "The American board In Japan." Illustrated by 75 colored slides. The lecture will be repeated Monday night at Oak hlll.

Methodist Noteo. Federation Meeting and Supper.

The annual meeting of the Church Federation In town w'.i» held at the Congregational church Thursday eve­ning, October 8, Rev. P. R. Stratton presiding. Offlcers for the coming year were elected as follows: Rev. P.

biood" poisoning Tn his hand, returned R. Stratton. pres.: Rev. J": B. Lewis, to Boston Thursday. He received a'.vice-pres,: Rev. D. R. Child, sec. and severe wound In h i s hand while act ing treas.: directors, for Congregational as voluhteer at the forest flre, Octo- society. Otis Merrill. Mrs. H. X. Tow-ber 3. It was carefully dressed and er: Methodist society. D. E. Weston, on Monday he returned to his school. Mrs. Geo. W. Pierce: Unitarian socle-but by Thursday, October 8, blood :y. E. W. Blake. X. S. Shattuck. poisoning had set Ire and he was ob-- Discussion ot future work followed

Installation Scr»'Icc.' A well attended council called to

Install Rev. -John Beavens Lewis as pastor of the Congregational churdh met at the church Wednesday.- . Rei'. Oeo, M. Howe of Groton was chosen m6d<srator and Rev. Frederick W. TIngley of Acton as scribe. The action of the church was reviewed and ap-proved and so were the theological 1 -xt^c use of the' plumbllne;" will be belief and experience of Mr. Lewis, and after due deliberation It was unanimously voted to Install the can­didate. A l noon the ladles of the church served a bountiful dinner. The Installation »er\'lce took place at two o'clock and the following program was carried out: Organ.Prelude . . _ .

*• Mrs. Edward L, Tarbell Violin Obllgato '

MUs Helen Lovejoy Music—Hold Thou My Hard " Mrs, R. H. BUss Minutes of the Council

the subject 'next Sunday morning, At seven In the evening there will

be a praise service and preachliig tip-on t h e subject. "Did Christ deal with all Inquirers In the same way?

The bright hour service of the E p ­worth leigne will be -held at six o'c'"dk. S?Sject. "A nation without a saloon, how and when?' Leader. Mrs. John Marshall.

A service for prayer and worship win be held on Tuesday evening a l 7.30 o'clock.

HOLLIS. N. H..

. \bout Town. The dry weather has made a grijat

scarcity of water In town and many people who have been- depending on the town well had to go elsewhere as the well was pumped dry during the week,

Charles J. Miller and force of men commenced work 'on the new building this week.

The W. R, C. held Its regular meet­ing on "Tuesday atternoon. Quite a large attendance were on hand and the ritualistic work of the order was performed, preparatory for inspection, which comes at the next meeting in Xovember. The Inspector Is to be Mrs. Hoyt trom Xa.shua and lunch ot cookies, cakes, sandwiches and hot chocolate Is to be served by Hollls ladles. Arrangements were also made at this rneeting for the W. R. C. to furnish the dinner at the tall ele<;tion, us is'their usual custom. Mlss E m m a Van Dyke presided at the piano dur­ing the afternoon on account of the absence ot the musician, i lrs . Flor­ence Ladd, who had Ju.st recently re­turned from the hospital. , Tuesday evening was neighbor's

night at the grange and many Xash­ua gr,angers were present coming •mostly in auto trucks. Others were present from illlford, Brookllne, Hud­son and Pepperell. In the vicinity ot 275 people In all. A most Interesting program was given by Xashua Grangre and a bountiful.supper served by Hol­Us Grange, under the dlrfctlon of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wllshire with as­sistants.

A spfecial grange meeting Is called for Saturd-ay evening. O c t o b e r ! " , to receive applications and rehearse de­gree work. At the next meeting on Tuesday evening, October 20, It Is planned to work the llrst degree on the new candidates;

Fred Hayden of Marlboro, Mass,, spent the week-end and holiday with relatives In town.

Guy Stlmson and wife ot MUford were guests at George H, Stimson's on Sunday.

John L. Woods lost a valuable Jer­sey-cow last week. Death was caused by being ,choked by ' an apple. Dr. Davis was called and with other help­ers tried hard to relieve the animal, but with no avail an(l she was relieved of her sufterlng on Saturday.

Wm. Murray, wife and daughter Marlon and Mrs. Charles Ladd. of Worcester, Mass.. were guests at C. F. Mead's on Friday and Saturday, coming In an auto.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bourlet, jr., from Concord, spent a few days at Charles W. Smith's, recently.

Myron Smith was at home with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Smith, for the week-end and hoUday.

A still flre alarm •n-as sent In on Tuesday morning about 3.30 o'clock caused by a log camp burning, near Robert W. Leslie's. The camp w-as owned by Dr. Payne and others f r o m -Boston. It had been used as a sport- , Ing resort by themselves. The cause of the fire Is not known. Some of the occupants had been there, but return­ed bn that day. Mrs. 'Lemuel Lewis had been there during thc.day. getting the camp ready to be closed-for the season and was verj- careful before leaving to see e'ver>'thlng was attend­ed to. but sometime during the night It took flre and was first discovered by. Mr. Leslie, forest fire warden, -tester J. Hayden responded to the call, but tliere was no need of a general alarm as It was soon under control.

Mr. and Mrs. Waldo A. Flagg en­tertained a friend from Newton, Mass., for the week-end and holiday.

Weather forecasts are less success­ful in the west ot Scotland than else­where.

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