The Press., 1901-12-19
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 All departments of the Pinney Gram mar school closed Tuesday for the holi- day vacation of two weeks. Sessions will be resumed the day after New Years.
 "The history of the Christmas festival'' will be Pastor Williams' subject Sunday morning, and in the evening. by special request, the subject will be. ''If be lift ed up from the earth will draw all men unto me-"
 Walter Jones has had so many induce ments offered him to remain with the firln at Skaneateles, N. Y., where he Is now employed, that he has decided not to &C., cept the position of boss dyer at the War | ren mill in the Springs.
 Elwin Phelps has resigned his position as boss finisher in the Riverside mill, and Frank Cogswell, who held the same posi- tion in the Warren mill at the Springs for some eleven or twelve years, is expected to take his place.
 Miss Alice Whiton left for Willimantic last evening, and in company with her sister, Addie, will go to Hartford to at l tend the wedding of her cousin, Miss Clara Whiton, which occurs the day after Christmas. Miss Clara Whiton is quite we'll known in this village, where she has often been the guest of her cousins.
 Just as an illustration of the phenome- nal wheather we have been having-Sat- urday the ice on the pond was about six or seven inches thick, and number of fishermen were fishing through the ice. Sunday the pond was as clear of ice as it Is in July, but before Monday noon the entire surface of the pond was frozen over again.
 It came as 8 great shock of surprise to nearly everybody in the village last Saturday to learn of the death of Mrs. Jane Ferry, which occurred the day be- fore. Only very few even knew that she was i'll, as she had been in the place only few days before in her usual good health and spirits. She attended church at West Stafford the previous Sunday even- ing and day or two after was taken vi- olently i'll with pneumonia, dying on Fri | day. The deceased was the daughter of | MI. and Mrs Pardon Davis, and was born in the house where she died sixty one years ago, and where, with the ex- ception of short time in Staffordville, l soon after her marriage, she has always lived. Mrs. Ferry was an attendant at the Universalist church in this village, l where she had host of friends and was held in high esteem by the entire com- munity. Besides her husband, we think that the deceased leaves no relatives nearer than cousins. The funeral was held from her late home Monday after noon, with burial in the Stafford Springs cemetery. Rev. A. J. Patterson of Rox- bury, Mass, who supplied the pulpit of the Universalist church on Sunday, ofic- lated at the funeral services. l stafEordville.
 The schools closed for the Christmas vacation Tuesday afternoon.
 Garrett Donahue, who has been i'll for several weeks, is much better.
 The Christmas service at St. Joseph's chapel will be held at g in the morning.
 There will be a Christmas tree and Sum- day school concert at the Congregational church Christmas eve.
 | Mrs. John Booth has as her guest 8 for mer school teacher in the primary depart ment here. Before her marriage she was Miss Rose Gardner, of Wales. \ feet during the storm of Saturday night and Sunday, and the water has been pour- ing over the dam since Monday morning. I Grant Hammer, a weaver in Peel and McCarthy's mill, was severely injured by 8 flying shuttle, which struck him over one eye, infiicting a gash which required several stitches to close. Dr. F. B. New ton attended him.
 Report of the intermediate school taught by Miss May Colburn. Whole number of scholars 15, average attendance 12.5. Scholars neither absent nor tardy, Leila Bowden, Helen Donahue, Agnes Donahue, Maude Smith and Fred Taylor. Absent one day Paul Keenan.
 | West Stafford.
 Our new merchants arrived in town this week.
 Miss Alice L.. Graves will spend the holidays with friends in Springfield and Hartford.
 \ The annual meeting of the Second Ec- clesiastical society will be held on Friday | R,,n l. 'l Mrs. George s. Aver of Hartford and Mrs. Philo c. Atwood of Willimantic are l spending few days with their mother,
 Mrs. Janete Newell.
 ! Next Sabbath will be observed as Christmas Sunday. Special music will
 be rendered by the choir and the sermon
 will be appropriate for the day. There should be large attendance. . Our annual Christmas festival will be given on Christmas eve, at 30, in the vestry of the church. We can assure the public that the program will fully sustain the reputation the Sunday school has gained of furnishing splendid entertain. ments. Come early If you want seat. 'l The Center schools closed fourteen weeks' term of school yesterday for va. cation of two weeks. In the primary de. partment the following pupils were per. feet in attendance: Maggie Deloge, Elmer Deloge, Eva Smart, Donalda Young alb. sent one day, Eva Demars, Mabel Holmes Alice Roberts, Eric Ramsey, Thomas Root. Number of pupils registered, 30; average attendance, 25.
 Mrs. Jane Ferry, wife of Joseph Ferry died last Friday. Mrs. Ferry was daugh ter of Pardon Davis, and was born in the house where she died, and where she had lived nearly all her life. She had kind