The Press., 1904-12-14

Durham; Olorinda Gsyser, 13, Jennie Hummer; Ruth Ketchum, IA. AnBie Wobbecke Susan Crowfoot. 15. Maud Beard Sally Brown, Is, Mamie Lord i; Mehitable Jones, 16, Eva Taylor 1; Dorcas Doolittle. IT. Alice Greaves ; Luther Brown. 4, Frank A. Lasbury !; David Shocks, 9, William Wobbecke; :; Billy Crowfoot, 10, William Ingham ; Obadiah Buzzard, 10, Stewart Nye Stephen Tucker, 13, Fred J. Glover ; Jeremiah Jenkins, IA, Henry O. Fiske ; Bobby O'Lee, I5, John Brown; Sam uel Snooks, Is. Ralph Booth; Sim Dipsey, 16, William P. Lasbury. visitofs-Mrs. Dipsey, Mrs. H. O.. Fiske; Miranda Dipsey. Margaret Glover; Mrs. Snooks, Mrs. F. A. Lasbury. Scene 1, examination of teachers; Scene 2, first day of school ; scene 3, closing exercises of the term. After the play there will be social. when handkerchiefs and homemade candy will be for sale. The enter tainment is for the benefit of the piano fund Admission, 25c; chil- dren, 15c.
 T wish to express my sincere thanks to all neigbbors and friends for their many acts of kindness during the illness at the time of the death of my wifa-
 J. Fl. MCCARTHY.
 Two children were baptized in the Nj. E. church last Sunday monrnig.
 There will be a Christmas enter tainment and tree in Methodist church Dec. 26th.
 Helen Donahue is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ernest Washburn, in Blackstone
 Mrs. Mary Heck has been spending a few days with her granddaughter, Mrs. Allen S. West, Jr., in Worcester. The annual fair of the Epworth League will be held in the Methodist church vestry Monday and Tuesday evenings Fancy and useful articles. homemade candy and ice cream will be on sale, and each evening the farce, "My Jeremiah" will be pre- scented with the following cast: Jere- miah Stacker, hen-pecked husband, Ed. Harrington; Mrs. Matilda Stacker, his wife, Nellie Dugdale; Mrs. Mary McDonough, boarding house keeper, Edna Melbourne; Cicero Whitaker. a colored boy, Horation West; Thomas Tubb, a boarder and a loafer. Archie Thompson Admission, 10 cents.
 Our community was greatly shocked, when on Saturday morning Mrs. J. H. Mccarthy passed out from earth's activities into the world beyond the grave. Mrs. Mccarthy had been ill for some three months and over, and every hope was entertained for her recovery. Certainly an honored and faithful friend has fallen. and we find our lives not just what they were without her presence among us. Liv- ing in this, community all her life she was able to draw to herself host of friends, who gathered on Monday afternoon of this week to look upon her lace TOT the lASb 6IIl6s duu JO IOA- low her body to its last resting place in the Staffordville cemetery, where. amid the falling tear and snow, she was laid to rest to await that great resurrection day. She has taken an active part in all enterprises of the Methodist Episcopal church in this place, and her death will mean a great loss to this church. She passed to her reward a true follower of sthe Nazarene Mrs Mccarthy was born in Staffordville August Is, 1861.
 West Stafford.
 Nellie Holmes has accepted a posi- tion in Monson.
 Several attended the grange fair at Stafford Hollow last week.
 Miss Florence Barlow, Edith Taylor, Blanche Barlow and Master Mahlon Holmes of Westford visited relatives here last week.