The Press., 1898-12-22

U. O. c. 0. meeting next Monday even- ing.
 Harmony Temple of Honor meeting next Wednesday evening.
 Miss Teresa Clark is home from Ware for the Christmas holidays.
 Regular communication of Ionic Lodge, F. A. M., next Tuesday evening.
 Edward Clark of the Third Connecticut Volunteers is home on furlough.
 Lincoln Athletic club will give a social dance in their hall Saturday evening, December 3lst.
 The Bun Cap school will have Christi mas tree next Saturday at 8 p. m. Carols will be sung, and Rev. Mir. Martin will speak. All are scordially invited. On Christmas day there will be holy com munion and sermon at the school house at 8 p. m.
 The fishing at Crystal Lake will i'm prove. Five thousand fish were placed in the lake Tuesday. The varieties are rainbow trout, lake trout, and land-locked salmon. If they live and do well consld- | OA@OAg AaAA VIII Oo uhu Wlbu Llchh The fish were received from the state hatchery by c. F. Beck with,
 | The special train for Willimantic next Saturday evening for those who wish to witness Koster & BIal's "Gayest MaEbat- tan" will leave Palmer at $ 10 p. m., Mon- son at 5.IS. Stafford at 5.45, West Will linRton at 657, and South Wilmington at 8.01, arriving in wilIimantic at 8.3O The fare for the round trip from Palmer and Monson will be 91, and from Stafford 80 cents. Tickets for the attraotion sell from e5 Oents to el, and can be procured of station agents. "Gayest Manhattan has been playing to crowded houses in Hartford the first three evenings of this week, and the newspapers speak in the highest terms of the production. The indications arc that the spe0ial train will receive liberal patronage.
 The Christmas exercises at the Metho dist Eplocopal church will be held on Sat urday evening at 2 o'clock. The young people of the Sunday school have in prep aration . cantata, ''Santa Claus Fri umph." The youngsters plan for Santa'i coming, but the aunts, unnles and Mother 0rundy, who are of a materialIstic turr Of mind, oppose the whole idea. How these obstructionists were banished by Count Zoo and the Queertown band, ant Santa makes his triumphant appearance are the materials for an interesting pro gram. A Christmas tree in full bearing will have prominent place A box fol the less fortunate ones of the church wil be filled, As usual. Anything contributed either clothing, provisions pr money, will be wisely used. The Sunday services will he appropriate to the day, ga.
 GRACE CHURoH NOTES. s.-The Sunday schooI ChristmAs festival will be held or Christmas Eve (saturday). At7 o'clocl there will be choral evening prayer in thu church, with cAtechising, and 6 brief ad dress by the rector, and the singing O carols, old and new, the church choir as sistIng, to be followed by the speaking of pleOes by the children, the lighting O the tree and the distribution of gifts which will take place in the basement The offering will be for the ''Cot Fund. The carols to be sung will be as follows i, I.swhat Child fs This T" ... 1T Ffel "Good Christian Men Reloice," old Germa |. "A Carol for Chrtstmas Eve" Traditions | sNo KingB of orient AIe," old Tun : "it Came Upon the Midnight Clear
 An are cordially invited.....The service , on Christfnas day will be as follows: 7.3 { a. m., Holy communion; 10.45, mornIn , prayer, holy communion, and sermon; : p. m., evening prayer and sermon. Tn
 offering at the second service will b
 for the Factory Mortgage Fund" Tn
 order of music at this service will be s follows:
 PrOces.lOnal. Hymn 4O, 70 come. all Ye Fa,tl 8I full" Readin venite. Dr. BoyC Te Deum. !. L. HopkiT
 introlt, Anthem. "BehOld, I Bring You GOo T1dinRB, Clal
 Kyrie. Toul Gloria Tibi. Gounc h Hymn, ssChrf stians Awake" old English Tur
 ofertory, bass solo, "Christmas Morn," Goune - BurBum Corda, Garre Rncharistao Hymn, pr. Cow Gloria ln Kxoeisaa. H old 0haz MmmC DfmNEEfm. GreSpFfa | nnceaa10nnf Hymn B1 MondeinsOh