The Press., 1901-01-10
Mrs. Emory Pierce Is quite Ill.

w. H. Reed was in Hartford yesterday. Miss Hilma Farman is in Hartford for week.
 J.H. Valentine Is in New York for a few days.
 c. B. Gary has returned from busi- ness trip to Boston.
 The evening service will be omitted at Grace church next Sunday. Mrs. B. Healey of Arcola, Ill.,, is with w. E. Hanley for an extended visit. E. s. Farnell of Woonsocket has been stopping in town part of the week.
 Miss Mary I. Newton has resigned as teacher of drawing in the public schools. Mrs. Rose Carpenter of Woonsocket has been the guest of her father, Nelson Gilman.
 O. M. Brown is making important inn provements on the interior of his home on Grant avenue.
 The net proceeds of the recent sale and entertainment, given by the ladies of Grace church, were $170.43.
 Mrs. o. W. Adams and daughter, Miss Christine, of Holyoke, are guests of MT. and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin. The Willing Workers will meet with Mrs. James Mclaughlin on Highland Terrace Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
 Thomas Hayes, employed by the Gen. | tral Vermont railroad, has been i'll with the grip, but is now able to be out again. Miss Gertrude Chace of Hartford was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Burn ham over Sunday, assisting the choir of the Congregational church last Sunday. There will be social at the Congrega- tional church parlor next Wednesday evening. Ladies in charge, Mrs. c. E. Butterfield and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin. Mrs. Mary Fox Of Boston is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Char les Fox, for number of weeks. Salisbury Hyde of Hartford has been the guest of his sister, Mrs. Fox.
 Rev. Edward Larocque of Canada, who Is visiting his brother, Louis Larocque, will officiate at St. Edwards church next Sunday, and will preach in French morn- ing and evening.
 Miss Maude Odell George will close the first term of her dancing school with 8 ''pink party" at Maccabee hall next Tuesday evening. Her scholars and their friends will participate.
 John Mitchell, a prominent busin ess man and president of the Norwich Saw ings society, died last Monday night, af- ter two weeks illness of pneumonia. MT. Mitchell has been at Mashapaug sev- eral seasons, and has many friends in town.
 The stockh olders of the First National
 bank held meeting Tuesday and elected the following directors: Charles L..
 Dean, W. H. Cooley, J. F. Chamberlin, | Christopher Allen, E. c. Dennis, Cyril
 Johnson, M F. Fairman, F. G. Sanford, John Rockwell.
 Diamond Bros. minstrels did not put in appearance last Friday, as advertised.
 Manager Eaton telephoned to Norwich,
 where they played the night before, and found that the minstrels had gone to an- other town. No reason was given for canceling the date here.
 The Current Ey ents club will meet
 with Mrs. w. H. Cooley next Monday evening, with the following program !: l Quotations, Stoddard's Travels, Mrs.
 Lawton Bulwer's ''Last Days of Pom peii," Mss F. Washburn; modern exca-
 vations, Miss G. A. Washburn; current events.
 | The Stafford Springs mineral water
 company has increased its capital stock
 from 5000 to $5O0O, and the stock has nearly all been taken here in town. The
 company has closed a contract for adver-
 Using the water on the elevated cars in New York, and the cards to be used are very attractive in appearance. There was a double wedding Monday Rev. F. J. O'Niel of St. Edwards per.
 forming the ceremonies. William P. Perry was united to Miss Rose Ramsey
 and Louis Ramsey to Miss Delphine
 Gange A reception was held at the home of MT. and Mrs. Ramsey Monday
 evening. All of the young people reside in town.
 q At St. Edwards hall tomorrow even. l ing the Austrian Ober-Ammergau amuse ment company will present "A Tour oi ! the World and the Passion Play," as per formed every year by the peasants o
 Mount Horitz. The whole drama will be
 reproduced with the highest class of nov ing pictures. Besides the evening enter 3 tainment at 8 o'clock, there will be mat inee for the children at 4 o'clock in tht afternoon. Admission, 25 and 35 cents
 children, 10 cents.
 The annual meeting and supper of tht Congregational church, last Thursday
 evening, had large attendance and was
 an enjoyable occasion. It was decided 8 3 to procure individual communion cups
 Ezra T. Converse was elected deacon fol 5 lllo, anu C. II. F6lenGIno was 0lecG0u u0a con for a term of three years. B. P Q Cooley was elected clerk and treasurer 1 and the following were chosen to act witt , the pastor and deacons as church com mittee: Mrs. G. H. Baker, Mrs. c. E : Butterfield, Mrs. J. M. Leach, Mrs. W E. Demond and G. A. Ray.
 Frank Segar, 33, died in the hospital a Hartford Tuesday evening, after long
 illness of locomotor ataxia. Hehad beer i'll about year, and had been in the hos pital since last July. MT. Segar was borl here, and has many friends and acquaint g ances who regret his early decease. H. 9 is son of w. A. Segar, and four broth