The Press., 1892-07-28
lights have been pnt into the

opera house, and are to be put into the Congregational church.
 Letters remaining in the office at Stafford Springs July 29: George Bur. pee, Kate Bealley, Wm. Burley, Jl., Miss c. H. Brown, Miss Myrtle V. Castle, Mrs Francis Chevalier, Bert Chase, Miss Ida Fairfield, Alexander Gammah, N. W. Grannis, Treas, c. A. Hill, Mrs. Charles Harvey, J. R. Jencks, Hattie Lemire.
 pr. Watts has an immense blade taken from sword fish which he helped to capture off Block Island this month.
 For a sprig of that beautiful but very rare flower in New England-rho- dodendron, fianked by cluster of water lilies, we most heartily thank MT. Owen Eastman.
 About 300 people from Monson at tended the Unirersalist picnic at Ever. green Park Tuesday. Boating, games and dancing were indulged in. Music was furnished by Browns orchestra.
 Personals.
 Mrs. E. l.. Burr and her son John are visiting at Everett, Mass.
 MT. John Wilkin of New York is visit ing at MT. M. Howland's.
 Robert H. Fisk of Worcester spent Sunday with his parents.
 70. P. Hodgson and family are spend ing the summer at their cottage at Nj antic.
 Rev. E. R. Brown, with family, is spending his vacation at Brooklyn, Conn. and no services are held at Grace church during his absence.
 Mrs. J. F. Brown, who has been vis- iting her parents (Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Royce) on Village Hill, started this morn ing for her home at Wasco, Ills.
 Miss Celia Holt starts this week fol Saratoga Springs, making the journey by Hudson river boat, and accompanied by New York friends.
 MT. Wm. l.. Wood of Hartford is a guest at the Hicks cottage on Highland Terrace.
 The families of Warren Shaw, Myron Pike and Frank Thompson from Monson are camping out at Evergreen Park fo1 two weeks.
 There are not as many as usual oi Stafford people among the cottagers now at the Willimantic camp ground. Mrs. w. w. Ellis and Mrs. M. s. Smith are all we hear of Dr. Eaton of Monson is also there.
 StaffOrIvilIe.
 (CorrespOndence)
 MT. Beard, of Staffordville, will hold a meeting at Mir. Larned's, on Stafford Street, next Sunday afternoon, at five o'clock.
 Rockville, arc in town.
 Miss Sarah Agard, who has been teaching in Minneapolis, is spending hel vacation at home.
 The floral decorations at the Congre- gational church each Sabbath are ter- tainly worthy of mention. Much credit is due the committee, consisting of MT. Philo West and few of the ladies, fol their painstaking efforts to make the tastefully remodeled church even more with beautiful plants and flow CTS.
 Stafford Hollow.
 It is a singular circumstance that the carpenters are using the same moulding tools in repairing Mrs. Bottum's house at Stafford Street that were used by Isaac McNary in building 1t nearly or quite seventy years ago. They had long been owned by MT. Oscar Sanford, who had never had any use for them, and never expected to have.
 Mrs. G. P. Chapman and children oi East Orange, N. J., are at her fathers J. c. Wightman's.
 West Stafford.
 Church services will be held in the vestry next Sabbath.
 Mayland Park.
 Among those who have sought rest ano comfort at Mayland Park this week from Stafford we get the names of w. P. Bid we'll and w. H. Webster and families who have as guest Capt. R. w. Roberts of East Hartford. Judge ChamberliI and family will occupy the Hope cottage for some time. Mrs. G. H. Baker anG family will have Cliff cottage next week and Rev. c. H.. Puffer, of Stoughton Mass, Clcarview. The following have al some time during the week been guests at The Mayfower, or at some of the cot tages: Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Mcleod MT. and Mrs. E. c. Dennis, David Bis sett and wife and Miss Bissett, Nellie Converse and brother, Lettie Meyer ant brother, Albert and Alice Walker, Bertha Heald, Misses Kate and Fannie Bliss, Jo seph Clark and wife, Thomas Whitaker Miss E.. c. Baker, Miss Josie D. Hewitt MT. and Mrs. w. H. Cooley, Miss Margi' Cooley, Bennie Cooley, Willie Cooley Ray l.. Mcleod, F. B. Newton, D. F McCarthy, c. R. Newton, Howard E Cooley, Ned Mcleod, M. H. Kinney Miss Mattie A. Kinney, all of Staffort Springs; Charming M. Wells, Alber Wells, H. c. Cady, Mabel Chapin, Mrs N. N. Jackson, Mrs. Chenie P. Harring ton, Geo. W. Woods, Mir. and Mrs. W E. Eccleston, Herbert Eccleston, MT and Mrs. R. A. Beckwith, Mir. and Mrs O. s. Chamberlin, Mrs. James Andrews Miss Flora D. Jaynes, Southbridge; Mis- Phila E. Ferry, Chicago, Ill. Miss Elm ma Lamphear, Wales, Mass. William Ferry. Lambert Ferry, Holland, Mass. Miss Grace M. Kinney, Springfield MI and Mrs. James E. Hopkins, MT. an Mrs. F. W. Wight, Miss Pearl N. Wight Fiskdale, Mass. Miss Blanch Ramsden Gilbertville; Mr. and Mrs. Asa Harris MT. and Mrs. A. E. Morse, Stafford; MI and Mrs. Marshall l.. Frost, Long Island Mrs. Ellen M. Williams, G. c. Williams West Woodstock Aston D. Kimball Worcester; H. F. Newton, Providence c. c. Keep, Miss Pearl Beckwith, MoI son.
 Fishing in the lake is unusually good Those who % for bass have good Success