The Press., 1904-10-12

officers for the ensuing year. Sup
per served from 6 to O'Clock, zoe.
Hostesses, Mrs. Laura Holmes and
Mrs. Charles Kellogg.
TOLLAND.
Mr.. and Mrs j. P. Root are spend
ing few days in Wethersfield.
George r. Field was seriously in
jured Saturday evening by the fall of
COW.
The Ladies Aid society of the M.
E. church will meet with Mrs. Allen
on Wednesday afternoon and evening.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will give harvest supper in
the church parlors on Friday evening.
First table at O'Clock. Price 10
cents.
Rev. w. B. Ronald, who has been
spending the summer here, left on
Saturday for Hartford, where he will
pursue a course in the theological
seminary the coming year.
There will be no preaching service
at the Congregational church till o.
tober 80, as Rev. Ell. T. Barnard is
taking his vacation. Sunday school
and evening services will be held as
usual.
At the annual town meeting the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Select
men, Oscar A. Leonard, Frank A.
Newcomb, Lauritz Hansen; assessors,
John H. Young, John H. P. Rounds,
Charles FL. Hurlburt; board of relief,
Henry III. Doyle, VIM. Ayers, Henry
M. Hansen; constables, Nathan O.
Ward, Edgar S. Edgerton; grand
jurors, Frank Luperson, John Rounds,
Frank W. Gardiner, James Fl. Usher,
George W. Lansing, Lauritz Hansen ;
auditors, David A. Brown, VIM. A.
Agard; registrars of voters, Edwin s.
Agard, John S. Usher; agent town
deposit fund, Frank T. Newcomb /;
collector, Nathan o. Ward; directors
town library, David A. Brown, An
drew j. Mccormick school visitors,
Nathan o. Ward, George P. Field.
From another correspondent
There will be no more dances at
town hall, Tolland, at present on &C
count of repairs on the hall.
ASHFORD.
WestfOrd.
Dan. Leigh has moved to the David
Chism house and is in the employ of
E. A. Buck & Co.
Mrs. Fannie Brown of Providence
made very welcome visit with old
friends here recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bennett of
Woodstock visited his sister, Mrs.
F. B. Converse, over Sunday.
Frank Bennett has finished work
for E. A. Buck 6 Co., and is soon to
move away. Edward Wilbur is now
foreman.
Andrew Smith has been working
for the telegraph company. He has
returned and is to start his cider mill
this week.
Mrs. A. Kinney has returned home
after long and pleasant visit with
her daughter, Mrs. w. I'll. Reed, of
Stafford Springs.
Hunting is very good this season,
excepting for quail. DIR. Converse
and Jaquith Bros. take the lead in
shooting duck, having brought in
some fine birds.
Mrs. VIM. Case and Jaquith broth
ers have sold their farms to Bohe-
mians, through V. Horkey of East
Wilmington. Mr.. Horkey has sold a
good many farms in this vicinity and
good prices are paid for them.
Warrenville.
Mrs. M. A. III. Oady is enjoying a
new Kelsey furnace, recently put in.
Rev. and Mrs 1. P. Mathewson and
Miss Mabel have returned to their
home in Hopk linton, r. I.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Sidebottom of
Pawtucket, r. l.. were the guests last
week of Mrs. M. s. Louks and family.
sOMERs.
Mrs. L. o. Pease has been visiting
friends in Amherst.
Miss Emily Pease from Ellington
is visiting friends in town.
Mrs Ann S. Lee has gone to visit
friends in Springfield, Palmer and
Boston.
Mrs. Marcia Davis and family re-
move to their new home in Spring
field this week.
S. W. Pease from Quartzite, Ari-
IONA, is visiting at his sisters in
town, Mrs. w. O. Pease.
Rev. Mr.. Rowland from Tolland,
recently from Germany, preached in
the Congregational church ON Sunday.
The engagement of Raymond T.
Lee, son of J. O. Lee, and Miss Addie
Brown of Dolgesville, N. Y, is an
nounced.
Mrs. G. @. Ward and daughter,
Amelia, Mrs. Horace Sykes and others
of the @. E. society attended the con-
vention at Hartford last week.
Mrs. Martha Baker Stebbins and
granddaughter, Hazel Stebbins, of
Palmer we're guests Friday of Mrs.
Daniel Avery. She and Mrs. Stebbins
we're schoolmates and had not met for
over half a century.
At a business meeting held after
the service Sunday, it was unani-
mously voted to recommend to the
ecclesiastical society to try and secure
the services of Rev. Mr.. Root from
Northampton to preach in the Congre-
gational church