The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-04-26
Marc Hatob is confined to the hons.

Mrs. Charles Phillips has been Wis
iting friends in Lowell, Mass.
Wolcott lodge will hold dance il
Memorial hall Friday evening.
Miss Ella Jones of Collinsville i
keeping house for her uncle, A. H
Simonds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Merritt o
Springfield were recent guests at tn
home of Jarvis Hatch.
The final interment of Mrs. J. A
Simonds took place at 2 O'Clock las
Saturday in the Stafford Springs Gem
etery.
The annual meeting of the Hill
side Cemetery association will b
held in the town hall Saturday, May
9th, at p. m.
The "King Arthur" ball club went
down to the Springs Saturday and
were badly defeated by the Springs
high school nine.
There we're special services in both
churches Easter, with large congre'
cations. The arrangement of flowers
in both the Baptist and Universalist
churches was unusually fine.
VIM. Cardinal, who has been the
painter at the Wightman carriage
shops for a number of years, has
moved his family back to Malone, N.
Y, and his tenement is now occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Mooney of Wales.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Bap-
fist church will meet for work next
Wednesday afternoon and will serve
their usual supper at $40, with Mrs.
Mary Green and Mrs. Carlos Green
as hostesses.
Mrs. F. P. Batchelder is seriously
i'll at her houme on Massachusetts av.
eune, Boston. Mr.. Batchelder is the
elder son of Rev and Mrs. F. l..
Batchelder, is a native of Stafford and
highly respected.
A gang of Is Italian laborers ar
rived in the village Monday, and are
quartered in the old VIM. Rogers
house on the Chaffee pond road. They
are here for the purpose of laying the
eight inch water main from Corpe's
pond to the Riverside mill, and work
was commenced yesterday.
P. J. Michigan & Co., the concrete
walk men, are doing considerable
work in the village. E. @. and E.
H. Pinney have had new walks laid,
also work has been done for E. E.
Warren, G. E. Burke, F. L. Upham,
the new Universalist parsonage, the
school house and some others.
Rev George W. Sheppard preached
Thursday night at the Passion week
service in the Congregational church
at the Springs. He also officiated at
the funeral of Fred Thompson in Stat.
ordville Sunday, and the same after
noon preached before the Odd Eel
lows at their lodge room in the
Springs.
valley Farm at Memorial hall
last evening drew a good audience,
and those who attended are enthusi-
astic in their praise of the entertain
ment. While the Universalist young
people have long been noted for the
excellence of their plays and for the
superior manner in which they have
been presented, still the play of
Valley Farm must rank among the
very best. It will be repeated again
this evening, and there should not be
an empty seat in the hall.
stamOrdv1le.
There will be mass at st. Joseph e
chapel at 9.15 Sunday morning.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Pagan last Thursday.
Mr.. Browning of Jersey City has
bought Mrs. Arthur Brewers farm.
Mrs. VIM. S. Clayton and Mrs.
Fred Bowden are visiting in Worces-
ter and vicinity.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Congregational church will serve a
hash supper in the vestry Thursday
evening.
Rev. F. W. Gray and family moved
to Putnam last week, where he will
begin his labors as pastor of the Meth.
odist church there.
Rev. Mr.. Adams of the Hartford
Theological seminary preached in the
Congregational church last Sunday
morning and evening.
The Epworth League topic for Sun
day evening in the M. E. church will
be prayer for missions and mission
aries," John II 1921; Acts 10 : 1-3
Leader, Mrs. M. H. West.
George N. Ormsby has sold his fur
niture and has gone to Old Mystic tt
live. Clarence Ormsby is employed
at W. S. Clayton's. Raymond Orms
by is boarding at Frank Belcher's.
Rev. John Thompson of South Som
erset could not get here last Sunday
to attend to his duties at the Meth
odist church, but it is expected thai
he will move here this week with hit
family and preach Sunday morning.
Fred G. Thompson, AZ, died at hil
home Saturday morning after an i'll
ness of six weeks. The funeral ser
vices we're held Sunday afternoon al
l O'Clock. Rev. G. W. Sheppard
officiated. The interment was in thu
Staffordville cemetery.
West Stafford.
Miss Hattie Smith has been a guess
of friends in Springfield.
Nora Patten of Springfield spent
Sunday at her home here.
Mrs. Belva Wilbur is visiting friends
in Thompsonville and Springfield.
Miss G.. May Colburn is employed
in the family of her uncle, W. P.