The Press., 1897-05-27
The public library will be closed satur-

yesterday, buying new line of millinery for her trade.
 Dr. F. L. Smith. attended the meeting ford, yesterday.
 The season will open at Crystal Lake Saturday. There will be dancing, boat ing, and the usual attractions. l c. R. Newton is training in Waltham. He is getting in good condition, but will do no racing until after June 1.
 Marcus A. Smith, received a telegram from Montpelier, Vt., yesterday, saying that his brother, Wm. D. Smith, of that city, is dead. MT. Smith has gone to at tend the funeral and before his return will make visit to relatives in Sterling.
 There Is to be a union memorial service at the Methodist church, at 10 45, Sunday morning. Rev. J. I. Bartholomew will preach the sermon, and other clergymen will be present and assist. The Grand Army Post and the w. R. c. will attend the service In a body.
 The dramatic club of the high school presented "His Heroine" and Quits" at South Willington, Tuesday evening, to fair sized audience. The entertain ment was repeated at Grace church, last evening. Both presentations were a suc- cess financially, and the young people are to be congratulated on the excellence of their program.
 The memorial day program to be ob- served Saturday is as follows: Starting from Grand Army hall at 6.30, the first visit will be to the Catholic cemetery {; next to West Stafford; then to Hillside cemetery at Stafford Hollow; next to Staffordville and Stafford Street, return ing to hall for dinner. In the afternoon the line will form about 2 o'clock and march to the Springs cemetery, where the new monument will be dedicated, in addition to the usual exercises. The fol- lowing clergymen have been asked to of ficiate at the different cemeteries: Cath ollie, Rev. R. c. Gragan; West Stafford, Rev. J. A. Solandt; Hillside. Rev. T. c. Druley Staffordville, Rev. c. H. Van | Natter; Stafford Street, Rev. FL. Batch elder; Springs, Rev. T. c. Martin. In the dedication exercises, in connection with the the new monument, the regular grand army service prepared for such oc- casions will be followed. In addition there will be an address by Rev. J. A. So- Iandt and singing by the school children. Music will be furnished by the Citizens Band.
 | Stafford.
 Regular Grange meeting next Tuesday evening.
 Mrs. Brace, of Springfield, is the guest of Mrs. Jacob Glover.
 Glover's bus will leave for West Staff ford Saturday morning at 2 o'clock sharp.
 Mrs. Warren commences her regular ice cream season next Saturday morning, Memorial day.
 MT. and Mrs. E. Henry Hyde, of Hart ford, were at the Governor Hyde home- stead over Sunday.
 Rev. T. c. Druley appears to be in the van as regards early gardens, he having peas in blossom this week.
 Jacob Glover 6 Son change their ad- vertisement in another column to some thing of interest to housekeepers.
 MT. and Mrs. William Dimock, of Son. CTS, spent Sunday with Mrs. Dimock's parents, MT. and Mrs. Augustus St. Marie.
 Subject for the meeting of the Y. P. s. c. E. this evening-"Peace, When to Seek It, and How" All cordially invited. Episcopal services will be held in the town hall next Sunday afternoon at the usual hour, instead of the Sunday follow ing.
 A sure indication that summer is close at hand Is the fact that Mrs. Black will open her ice cream rooms next Saturday, Memorial day.
 Glover's bus will run to the union meeting at the Methodist church at the Springs next Sunday morning, and will leave the corner at 10 o'clock prompt.
 Mrs. Eunice Brown, who has made her home for some time with Mrs. Lydia Wilson, leaves to-day for a weeks visit at Worcester and Cherry Valley, Mass.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist church will hold their regular meeting for work next Wednesday afternoon, and will serve their usual supper from 5. 30 until 2.
 Deacon J. c. Wightman and his sister, Mrs. Mary Denison, were suddenly called to Branford Tuesday to attend the funeral of the wife of Rev. P. G. Wightman, a brother of theirs.
 The Monson Register of last Saturday makes mention of a handsome Goddard carriage purchased by E. D. Cushman of that Ilace. The vehicle was from the es- | fab oF n WI0bkuop
 The Christian Endeavor society of this village sent quite a large delegation to attend the meeting of the Womans' Christian Temperance Union, being held in the Methodist church, at the Springs, to-day.
 From reports received from Mrs. Thos. Mcdonald, who is under treatment at the hospital in Hartford, it is learned that she is getting along nicely, is quite con- fortable and expects to be able to return to her home in about three weeks. | Anyone at all familiar with Wightman's carriage shop for the past hundred years or more would fail to recognize it by it's appearance since it has been repaired. It has left one of the chimneys somewhat crooked, but that is not emblematical of the business done there.
 The Memorial Day services at Hillside cemetery next Saturday will be made more interesting than usual, as Miss M. E. Smiths scholars have in preparation some very pleasing exercises for the oc- casion, among one of which will be the recitation of the poem, "The Blue and The Gray"
 The grammar department of the Pinney Grammar school have in contemplation the holding of a fair in the town hall June IA, and are already making arrangements