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Flag Will ‘Fly From the Highest Point in the Shire Town—Someé Population, Figures GREENFIELD, May 5—Flags are fly ing from nearly every house in Green field and this week the Greenfield Wom an's Club voted to raise money and to place a flag on Poet’s Seat, the highest point of land in town. The club is irectly interested in the project on a liens of the land being a public park and from the fact that they raised the money necessary to purchase Temple Woods, which adjoin the park roper. . p + an, indication of , Greenfield's growth facts compiled in the local directory show that the estimated popu lation April 15 was 14,458 and that last year at this time there were ten while in 195 there were but 12, people living here. A continual shift is meanifestes, in a’ be et proportion of the population, as new names added tna 1355 names taken out of the directory by the canvassers who visit every house. New houses are being built to supply the tenement shortage, and out of about 2500 houses only 4 were found vacant and these were mostly undesirable ones or those being held for sales and not for rental pur poses. The Selectmen have been notified by the attorney general that the curfew law adopted by this town at its annual March meeting has been approved and that the law may become effective at once. “The ‘Board ‘has decided to begin the enforcement of ‘this law Monday night at 9 o’clock, when the‘signal will be given by a blast of the fire whistle. ‘The law as adopted by the town for bids any person under 15 years of age to be on the streets unaccompanied to pati ents or some older person after 9 o'clock “between April 1 and Sept 30, and after $ o'clock between, Oct 1 and March 31, . . .Peter I. Lawton, the local agent for the Children’s Society here for the last two years, succeeding Roy Stockwell, now with the American Ambulance Corps in France, has resigned and will take up the practice of law in Boston. Mr Lawton has already moved his fam ily out of town, Harry Gortner, son of C. F. Gortner of Shattucket,’has volunteered for serv ice with .43. other. Dartmouth - students in the American Ambulance Corps in France, and_it is expected that he will sail from New York on the French liner .D’Espagne -sometimes today. «His party consists of two units of 22 men each, which gives his college the honor of being the first to send two units of ambulance. men.at one time, a Mr Gortner is a Greenfield High School graduate in the class of 1915 and is a member of the freshman class at Dartmouth, « .While in high school he was a star athlete, participating in all branches of sport, and at college was a member of the freshman football team, and he is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. , Word was received this week that Rev G. Glenn Atkins, DD, a former pastor of the Second Congregational Church here and now pastor of the Central Con gregational Church in Providence, had accepted a call from the First Congre gational Church in Detroit. Dr Atkins formerly filled the pulpit of that church. At one time, after leaving Greenfield, he held a pastorate in Burlington, VI. Next week marks the centennial ob servance of the Second Congregational Church of Greenfield and special ser vices will be held there during the wek beginning tomorrow. The church was organized Jan 15, 1817, with 48 members who left the First Church at Nashs Mills to establish one on the site of the present structure in order that they might be nearer the center of the town. The present building was erected in 1868, and the sermon of dedication was preached by Rev Samuel H. Lee, of Springfield, who will again deliveran ce in the building Wednesday eve ning. Hiram D. Phillips, the engineer from the State Highway Commission in charge of building the Mohawk Trail from Charlemont to the top of the Hoosac Mountain, has been promoted from assistant division engineer to that of engineer of special work with the rating of division engineer. He has opened an office in the Sheldon Building and has several assistants. He is prominent in Masonic circles here and his promotion is very pleasing to his friends who regard it as justly earned. Elwin Long of Northfield has gone to Boston to take up his duties with the Harvard Red Cross unit and he wil work under the direction of Dr Cushing of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. John Phelps and Clarence Steadler have passed their examinations for the Offi cers’ Reserve Corps and are awaiting their appointment.
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Boston Sunday Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, May 06, 1917
Page 130
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Thomas B.
