The Press., 1900-06-21
Miss Rose Kearns of Monson is visiting

friends in town.
 A. Hanson of Boston Is the gueet this week of Carl Adams.
 John Hanley is home from Holy Cross for the summer vacation.
 Dr. 0. H. David will remove to the upper part of Browns new block as soon as finished.
 A. l.. Mayrand has opened 8 pool room at the stand In Bucks block, formerly oc- cupied by A. E. Gregory.
 Miss Alice Reed and Miss Blanche Cleaveland graduate this week from the Willimantic Normal school.
 Miss Margaret Cooley graduated from Bradford academy this week. MT. and Mrs. W. H. Cooley attended the con- mencement exercises.
 Wauseon lodge of Odd Fellows, at the annual meeting held Tuesday evening, elected the following officers N. G., L.. G. Beard; V. G., Ernest Moore; secreta- ry, A. B Converse; treasurer, c. l.. John- son.
 The annual school meeting of district No. will be held at the Borough hall, next Wednesday evening. The district debt will be the principal business before the meeting as the town consolidation of districts takes effect July 1.
 F. NJ. Pratt has resigned his position as ticket agent and telegraph operator at the railroad station and will take more lucrative position as travelling salesman for the Uncasville Manufacturing compa- ny of Montville. MT. Pratt will start for Chicago next Wednesday. Miss Marga- ret Sullivan will take the position at the station made vacant by the resignation. MT. Pratt has made many friends in town who will regret his departure.
 The annual picnic of the Congregation al Sunday school will be held at Ever green park next Tuesday, If pleasant, otherwise Wednesday, the busses leaving the church at o'clock sharp. Various efforts have been put forward to make this picnic even more of 8 success than last years, which has been remembered with delight by all. After lunch the fol- lowing athletic contests will take place, with Dr. c. L. Nichols, Dr. L. F. Eaton and c. R. Newton as judges: Target shooting, quoits, boxing. wrestling, stand ing broad jump, hop, skip and jump, run ming high jump, lifting contest, bean-bag contest, doughnut race, 50-yard dash, three-legged race, 50-yard walk, potato race, tug-of-war between teams explained by J. M. Leach and J. H. Valentine. These events will be open to all who in- scribe their names under the events which will be posted that morning on the grounds. The day will close with ball | 70 ho+ tho nofoioo /Conf RichnnN and the Buttercups (Capt. Converse). Following is the personnel of the hines Daisies-Bishop Leach, Lawton, Meyers Sanford, Burwell, Adams, Cooley, Mo. Laughlin; Buttercups-Convers Smith Newton, Eaton, Butterfield, Chandler Ray, Heald, Valentine; umpire, Dr. G l.. Nichols; scorers, J. M. Larned, M. P J. Walker; constable, A. w. Kingsbury coronor, rDr. 0. B. Newton; mascots the ladies.
 Miss Edith Lenore Blssett, daughter O MT. and Mrs. David Bissett, was united in marriage yesterday to Richard Marcus Fisk. The ceremony was performed b, Rev. T. D. Martin, Jr., of the Episcopa church, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, 8 the home of the bride. The bridal couple stood under floral horseshoe, with { bank of green and flowers as back ground. Miss Lettitia Meyers acted a! maid of honor, and Robert Fisk, brothe of the groom, acted as best man. Th' bride wore white silk, trimmed witt mouseline de soie, and carried daisies anC maidenhair ferns. The maid of honol wore yellow silk muslin and carried but tercups and maidenhair ferns. The brida chorus from Lohengrin was played by Miss Gertrude I. Butterfield, cousin o the bride. None but relatives and inti mate friends were present at the cere. mony. A lunch followed the ceremony after which the bridal couple entered { hack, evidently with the idea of starting out on their wedding tour. Friends O the groom stopped the hack before i had gone far, with the idea of taking ou the horses and drawing the hack by hand The bridal couple left the hack and wen back home. Nothing more was seen O MT. and Mrs. Fisk by the general public last evening. A big crowd assembled a the station to see them off, but they dit not take the train. A report was circu lated that they had got through the line with single team and were on their wa, to Palmer. As a matter of fact, the. took carriage drive and then returned to their home for the night. The popu larity of the couple needs no better evi dence than the large number of peopl who turned out to make 1t pleasant fo them. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk have host o friends, and they all unite in good wishes Both the contracting parties are native of the town. They have lived here al their life, and deserve the esteem felt fo them and merit the happiness which
 bound to be theirs. They will be a home after August 1st at Morton street II The commencement exercises of tn Stafford high school were held Monda, and Tuesday evenings at the opera house The class numbered eleven, nine girls an
 two boys, which, though smaller tha some years, is fair average for thi school. The small percentage of bo lgraduates Is to be deplored. This fact i
 noted all over the country and may
 accounted for in part that the late bus
 ness dep pression necessitated the leavin of school by many. The graduates class
 flied in courses as follows: Classical
 Miss Mary Adelaide Smith; Latin scien
 tific, Charles Harrison Demond, Eva Ma Sears, Eugenia Converse Lee, Mary File
 Fitzpatrick; English, James Joseph Dor
 ahue, Florence Geneveve Chapman, Bel
 tha Emma Lyon, Minnie Josephin OHalloran, Harriet Geneveve Werner
 and Addie Melissa Whiton. At the clas
 day exercises Monday evening Miss Flol
 ence Chapman gave an accurate and 1T teresting history of the class, reviewin its work, pleasures and sorrows. Tn class oration on ''This wonderful centu [ ry," by James J. Donahue, was brlm-fu , of stirring thought and earnest appeal fo . the betterment of mankind. Miss Addi M. Whiton, with remarkable propheti insight, caused much merriment wit many bright class hits. Miss Bertha E Lyon gave with pleasing manner the clas
 essay on ''The poor of our large cities, } attributing much to the abomniable swea shop system. Miss Mary E. Fitzpatric gave the prophecy on the prophet, whic
 proved an unusually well written and CT
 tertaining paper. The class will, dul , signed and sealed, was drawn up and req by Miss Eugenia c. Lee, who, with extrs } traordinary capability, gave to those bee fitted to receive treasures of untold valu,