The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-11-05

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been spending few days in New
York.
! A new low-down cart for the Wood
lawn dairy is being used by Milkm IN
J. A. Mix.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Jacobsen are
receiving congratulations on the birth
of a son yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Hill of Mans
field Center have been spending q
week with their daughter, Mrs. Clay
ton Lyon.
Arthur Schofield, who recently pur-
chased the Kelly blacksmith shop, is
moving here with his family from
Westford.
There will be social at the Meth
odist church next Wednesday, with
supper at O'Clock, and an entertain
ment after the supper hour. Hostess
es, Mrs. A. G.. Eaton and Mrs. W. g..
Ellis.
stanor,I.
Mrs. Walter Ellis is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Ferry, at Southbridge.
A girl baby was born to Rev. and
Mrs. George w. Sheppard last Friday.
John Colburn of Enfield was guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cyril Johnosn yester-
day and to-day,
There will be stated communica-
tion of Wolcott lodge, No. 60, F. & A.
NJ, Thursday evening, Nov. 9Th.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Chaffee of
New London, former residents of this
village, were calling on friends here
Monday.
1t will be pleasant news to Mrs. Ellen
Weston's many friends to learn that
she is expected home from the hospital
in New Haven to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Lasbury expect
to rent their pleasant home on the
hill, and will remove to the tenement
in the Needham block.
Peter Bariteau opened his pool
rooms in the Needham block Satur-
day evening, and it makes pleasant
place to spend few hours.
| Mrs. A. H Preble has returned
from the Backus hospital at Norwich,
where she has been undergoing an op-
Grafton for the removal of a cancer.
ND. Skinner and Albert Washburn
of Woodstock, former residents of the
town, are stopping at Blacks hotel
for few days looking after property
| interests
The Ladies' Aid society of the Bap-
fist church will meet for work next
Wednesday afternoon and will serve
their usual supper at 5.45, with Miss
M. Eugenia Thresher and Mrs. Oscar
Sanford as hostesses.
| The Mission Circle of the Baptist
church will hold an apple social and
supper in the chapel on Friday even
ing. Price of supper, 10 cents for
| adults, 10 cents for children. There
will also be for sale few useful and
fancy articles.
One of the most useful and conven-
lent things to have in your pocket is
memorandum calendar, issued by
the Firemen's Fund Insurance COM
pany of California. The calendar in
cludes a serviceable rubber eraser.
G.. ID. Ide of Hydeville, the agent of
the company, has them.
Bible day will be observed by the
Baptist Sunday school next Sunday.
In place of the usual order of exereis-
es during the Sunday school hour, the
children will recite verses, and hymns
appropriate to the occasion will be
sung. An Offering will be taken for
the Bible work of the denomination.
In riding down to the Springs early
Sunday mornings for the papers, many
times unusual things are to be seen,
and when we remember how few
years ago it was when we held the
Sabbath with such reverence and awe,
soon forgotten. While the pictorial
illustration of the Garden of Eden,
seen one morning a few weeks ago,
was. perhaps, the most worthy of
note, there have been a number of
other happenings since then only
little less worthy of mention. Last
Sunday morning could have been seen
man industriously at work shing-
ling a house.
The following from Tuesdays
Springfield Republican will be of in
terest to people in this vicinity ::
"Susan Belden of Stafford, Ct., has
filed bill of complaint against Mon
roe E. Carew of Monson, to restrain
him from transferring certain notes
now in his possession as the payee of
the same. The plaintiff sets forth
that on October % she began an &C
ton against the defendant in breach
Oswald Possardt and Charles F. Han
cock, all of Monson, are trustees of
the goods of the defendant, and SER
vice has been made upon them and
upon the defendant. 1t is also set
forth that the defendant is the payee
in three promisory notes given by the
trustees. The plaintiff prays that the
defendant be restrained from indorsing,
negotiating or transferring these
notes, or from assigning or foreclosing
the mortgages by which the notes are
secured.'' ....
There was a Halloween party at
one of our most popular houses Sat
urday evening, and it goes without say
ing that the young people got all
there was to be had out of an even
ing's enjoyment Jack o lanterns,
made from pumpkins they were
good pumpkins, too were placed here
and there, outside of the house, well
coming the visitor to the inside, where