The Press., 1898-09-01
Aleok Roberts Is to start . meat route

Haven to work for Rev. John D. Coyle. Niles Alice Reed Is to take 6 course at the WilIImantic Normal school, beginning Monday.
 Mrs. w. H. Corbin and son have re- turned from a stay of Q month at Havers- ham, N. J.
 A golf match with e team from Rock vile is expected on the local grounds Saturday. Norbert Bellerose has taken position In Orange. and will move there in the near future.
 Miss Josie Eaton has returned to the borough after spending a number of weeks in Rockville.
 Addison Arnold has gone to Montreal for a firm there.
 The Germans of Rockville and a few from this town enjoyed at picnic at Crys- tai Lake Sunday.
 The public schools will resume sessions next Wednesday with the same corps of teachers as last year.
 Mrs. J. W. Hummell has returned to her home at Windsor after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Noel M. Pease.
 Evening prayer and sermon next Sun- day at 8, at the school house at Buf Cap. Five children are to be baptized at this service.
 Julian JoIdan's Select Concert company has been secured by the management of the opera house as an attra ction for Oc- tober 18th.
 The selectmen will hold the regular monthly meeting Saturday morning at o'clock, instead of Monday, that being Labor Day.
 Erwin Hewlett and sister, Mrs. Emily Burdick, of Brooklyn are visiting their parents, MT. and Mrs. Freeman Hewlett, on East street.
 Mir and Mrs. c. M. COrbin and son of Philadelphia, Mrs. D. P. Corbin of Hart ford, and Mrs. J. W. Corbin of New York stopped over in town on their way to visit their old home in Union. Excursions will be run to Block Island Saturday and Monday. The fare for the round trip Saturday will be $1.50, and tickets will be good until Monday. The round trip Monday will also be $1.50. Advertised letters: Clesste Brissaghel- la, Franirrik Bannek, Mrs. J. F. Eaton,
 Mrs. K. Dennison, Lorenza Larten, Mrs.
 B. Murphy, Mrs. McVeigh, W. M. Leigh,
 Tonon Catterna, Stiff Hasisak, Julian
 Brooks.
 The steamer Block Island will make
 her last regular trip for this season Mon
 day, Sept. 5. No notice has been received
 as to when the train will be discontinued,
 and 1t will be run in all probability until
 after the close of the fair.
 Amos Allen Dean, 35, died suddenly
 Tuesday of cholera morbus. He was only
 i'll few hours. Mir. Dean was an essence
 peddler, and was we'll known in this vi-
 cinity. He leaves a widow and a widowed
 mother. The funeral was held this af- teTnoon.
 Miss Minnie Enright had 8 painful &C., cident Wednesday evening. A piece of a
 wooden tOOthpick got lodged in her throat and medical assistance was re- qulred to remove 1t. Dr. Nichols and Dr. Sullivan were called and in a short time the trouble was over. The Hazardville ball team will cross bats with the Lincoln Athletics on the fair ground Saturday. This will be the last game of the season, in all probabilit
 The local team has been playing good
 ball all the season, and the game Satur- day is sure to be interesting.
 Quite a party from here are spending
 the week at J. H. Segar's Watch Hill
 Farm House, including MT. and Mrs. J.
 F. Chamberlin. Mrs. 0. B. Newton, Mrs. K. H. Pinney, Mrs. F. G. Sanford, Misses Alice and Gertrude Chamberlin and Miss
 Mary I. Newton.
 Rev. R. c. Gragan will attend the cele- bration of the golden jubilee at St. Rose church in Meriden next Sunday. Rev.
 MT. Gragan was brought up in this parish, and will act as one of the deacons of hon.
 or. Rev. 0. Sacquet of Hartford will of- flciate at St. Edwards church Sunday. . Julian Jordan of New York, author of
 "The Song That Reached My Heart, ,' and other popular songs, gave a musicale at the Springs House Tuesday evening. ! Quite e party of the townspeople and } guests of the house enjoyed the enter. ment, which consisted of vocal selections most of them written and composed by MT. Jordan.
 } Quite a crowd gathered at the station last Saturday to see the 2d Mass. boys go $ through, and much sympathy was ex. , pressed for the condition that the young on1 fn %1 tiOns and neglect. William Roberts was on the train and in fair condition, com 3 paratively speaking, but collapsed soor
 after reaching Worcester, and is now iI . the hospital in that city. al (Communicatedl | A very Rppreciative audience. com posed of many well known people from : the Springs and the immediate neighbor hood, assembled In the large parlors o
 the Stafford Inn last week Tuesday even
 ing, at the invitation of the popular host ess, Mrs. J. Kennedy, to witness the pas toral play called Beauty and the Beast, , given by some talented young peopl, from New York and Brooklyn, who art spending che summer at the inn. Int play was staged in very pretty, appro
 priate manner, with footlights, 8 droI ! curtain and many of the accessories whicI ) only professional people think necessaay to a successful performance. Miss Faitf Page as "Beauty" looked lovely in ( classic gown of soft. white material, with , her splendid hair floating over her shoul : ders. Miss Gladys Kennedy made ( , charming picture as Queen of the Fairies
 and MT. Robert Page as the Beast, wht - was afterwards transformed into tn, 3 Prince, looked and acted his dual part tt