The Press., 1905-11-15
MONsON.
Robert O. Pease has joined the U s. cavalry.

s. cavalry.
 Jesse Leonard of Willimantic is visiting relatives in Monson.
 Mrs. Emery Prentiss has returned from a weeks visit to her sister at Stafford Springs.
 The marriage intentions are an- nounced of James Dunn of Palmer and Miss Mary Barry.
 Horace Bumstead, whose foot was torn in the hopper at the cider mill recently, is able to be out.
 Mrs. M. D. Jewett, who fell from three story window in the Hartford city hospital two weeks ago without breaking any bones, is recovering from the shock in a Springfield hos pital.
 A. D. Ellis is putting new gravel roof on the weave shed of the Beach mill. MT. Ellis now has his new residenoein closed, and an idea can be gained of how it will appear. The new home will be an ornament to the site, which is an ideal one.
 The family of F. H. Johnson, where there has been case of diph- theria, has been released from quar- antine. There has been but one fatal case of diphtheria in Monson this year. The typhoid fever cases are doing we'll, none of them having ter minated fatally.
 At the meeting of the directors of the Springfield & Eastern Street Rail way company, Saturday night, Gen. eral Manager A. J. Purinton resigned. The Springfield street railway assumed control and management of the Spring field 6 Eastern, Monday, with Gen. eral Manager H. 0. Page of Spring field in charge, and F. s. Hunnewell as superintendent. The books and accounts were transferred Wednesday to Springfield, and the general office in Palmer will be discontinued.
 The removal from Palmer of A. J. Purinton, who has for five years been general manager of the electric rail road company and also of the Central Massachusetts Electric company, will create a vacancy in the latter com pany. Frank N. Carpenter, for four years head book keeper for both com panies, has been appointed superin- tendent, and will begin his duties in that capacity the first of next week. MT. Carpenter has been a we'll known business man in Palmer for many years, and the appointment will be very pleasing to the public. The company of which he will take charge furnishes light for the towns of Pal mer, Monson, Warren and Wilbraham, and power for the electric road.
 Henry Hall, a we'll known Monson resident, died while going to the polls Tuesday morning. He has been living with George Hopkins in the south part of the town, and started to walk to the village about 9 o'clock to vote. For a long time he has suffered from organic heart trouble. MT. Hopkins, therefore, suggested that MT. Hall wait and ride into the village with him, but MT. Hall thought he would prefer to walk part way. He started, expecting MT. Hopkins to overtake him. MT. Hop kins started a little later, and when part way to the village found Hall lying upon his face in the road. He was dead. The body was viewed by Associate Medical Examiner Jackson, who found death was due to heart disease.
 Miss Fannie Louise Barnes, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. S. B. Barnes of Westfeld, and pr. Elwyn W. Capen of this town were married Wednesday afternoon at the home of the bride. The rooms were attractively decorated with laurel, ferns, palms and crhys- anthemums. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. T. W. Davison of Springfield, former pastor of both bride and groom. As the bride and groom entered the parlor Miss Blanche Upham of Springfield played the Lohengrin wedding march, assisted by w. l.. Southland of Springfield with the violin. Miss Dorothy Southland was flower girl. The bride wore gown of white messaline silk trimmed with Irish point lace and chiffon, and IL. T. followed the ceremony, with 0. E. Hubbard as caterer. The bride is a graduate of Birmingham normal school and has been teacher in Vest field and in Beckett The groom is a graduate of Boston university medical school, and is now located here, where the young couple will be at home to their friends after Dec. 1.