The Press., 1897-07-01
Miss L. s. Cady Is visiting relatives in

Mrs. Charles Holt and Miss Celia Holt are in Hampden, Mass, for a few days.
 Episcopal services In the school house, at Buff Cap, next Sunday at 3 p. m.
 Col. A. Wood, of West Winfield, N. Y., Is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. w. H. Smith.
 Stephen Ford, of Prospect street, ad- vertises his household furniture for sale at auction Saturday, at 10 a. m.
 Miss c. M. Chaffee, who teaches in Thompsonville, Is with her sister, Mrs. A. w. Kingsbury, for the summer.
 Rev. J. D. Gilliland, of Hilton, N. Y., preached at Grace church last Sunday. He has been the guest of Rev. J. D. Mar tin.
 Notices relative to statute governing the discharge of fireworks have been is- sued. The firing of cannon fire-crackers in the streets will not be allowed.
 At the regular meeting of the Stafford Gun club last Thursday afternoon for shooting the leading scores were as fol- lows: Dr. Eaton IS, Joe Brown IS, John Foster 16, Frank Newton 16, Otis Chap man 16.
 Mrs. T. M. Pease and two children. of Utica, N. Y., have been the guests of Charles Gary and wife. MT. Pease Is at present superintendent of the Skendanoa cotton mills of Utica. He Is we'll known in town, as he went to the war in Go. l, 18th regiment Connecticut volunteers.
 Stafford.
 Grange meeting next Tuesday evening.
 George Chaffee, of New London, made short visit here Monday.
 Miss Della St. Marie will spend the Fourth with friends in Ware.
 MT. and Mrs. E. H. Pinney returned from their Maine fishing trip last Friday.
 Willis Hunt, of Chicago, was a guest of his uncle, Martin Hunt, the latter part of last week.
 Regular meeting of the Mission Band at the Baptist church chapel Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
 Quite a number from the Baptist church attended the Sunday school convention at Wilmington Wednesday.
 Mrs. Morgan, of Northampton is a guest of her sister, Ms. Futile, at the Governor Hyde homestead.
 Subject for the meeting of the Y. P. $. c. E. this evening" How to get patience, and why" Missionary meeting. All are welcome.
 w. H. Dunbar, of Hydeville, has enter ed in two of the bicycle races at Palmer, Monday July 5th-the two-mile handicap and the novice race.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. Henry Hyde, of Hart ford, were guests of Mrs. Hyde's mother, Mrs. Futile, at the Governor Hyde home stead, over Sunday.
 The services next Sunday morning in the Universalist church will be appropri- ate to the day. The sermon will consider "The True Glory of America" F. K. Briggs, formerly professor in the Utica School of Music, was a guest of his sisters, Mrs. Will Durham, of Hydeville, and Mrs. Russell ColbuIn, last week. Mrs. Thomas Mcdonald, who has been undergoing treatment in the hospital at Hartford, returned to her home Sunday, and appears to be In a fair way for recov- cry.
 The regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid society will be held next Wednesday af- ternoon in the Baptist church parlors, when they will meet for work, and will serve their usual supper from 5.3O to 7.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. E. Dwight attended the graduation exercises of the Normal school at Willimantic last Thursday. Their granddaughter, Miss Grace Dwight, was one of the young lady graduates, and has been retained as a teacher for next year.
 A quite novel sight was witnessed one day last week, when two of Staffordville's young ladies, not being quite suited with the condition of the road near Hydeville for bicycle riding, provided themselves with hoes and made the necessary repairs unaided.
 The band has secured an engagement to play for a Fourth-of-July celebration at Ellington. The day will be celebrated on Monday. From all indications the Hollow will be very much of a deserted village on that day. Glover's bus will take the band to Ellington, and will leave here early in the morning.
 At a school meeting held Monday even. ing the following officers were chosen Committee, w. A. Durham, E. c. Pinney Charles Smith, with w. A. Durham as chairman clerk and treasurer, k. H Pinney; collector, w. P. Lashury. Ii was voted to lay tax of one per cent. which Is considered sufficient to meet al requiI ements for the coming year. Az the present force of teachers have giver such general satisfaction there will prob ably be no change made among them.
 Children's Sunday at the Universalis church last Sabbath was observed in al interesting and entertaining manner, th' children acquiting themselves in a way that reflected much credit both upor themselves and their teachers. One O the most pleasing features of all services at this church is the excellence of thu instrumental music and singing, which fl 80 much enjoyed by all attending. Th' floral decorations were a sight we'll wortl seeing, consisting of a mass of laure blossoms banked at the back of the pull pit platform, surrounded by ferns and { great abundance of roses. The pasto preached to the children on "Gentleman Illness, ," and the address was well received not only by the children, but by the olde ones as we'll.
 A large crowd assembled at the bal grounds to witness the second defeat O the Colts by the picked nine Saturday ai ternoon. The Colts played a strong game the running catch by O'Neil in right field the brilliant work of Keefe and Simond on bases, and the heavy batting of Morri winning the plaudits of the crowd. Tn l Colts led up to the third inning. when. b