The Press., 1905-06-21
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.

ln New Ork TOT lew OayS.
 MT. and Mrs. E. A. Maynard will
 spend a part of their vacation al
 South Berlin and a part at Chatham.
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 Harmony Temple of Honor will ob. serve next Sunday as memorial day. All members are invited to be at the hall at 3 o'clock and bring badge and flowers.
 Charles E. Monroe, the optician will be at the Springs House Friday and Saturday. He will be at the same place Thursday for special ap- pointments only.
 The Young Locals defeated the All Americans last Saturday to 2, the game ending in the eighth inning by a dispute. Wood of the Young To- calls struck out 16 players.
 At the school in Orcuttville, Miss Gertrude L. Avery teacher, the fol lowing pupils have neither been ab- sent nor tardy during the past term Elizabeth Gerth, Emily Gerth, Jen- nie Spellman, Willie Spellman, Ray Irons, Harold Lynch and John Works.
 At the meeting of Harmony Temple of Honor next week Wednesday even- ing the matter of forming a beneficial and social temple will come up. All members are requested to be present. The social temple can be joined by ladies, and any wishing to join are requested to hand their name to some member of the temple.
 Rev. E. A. Burnham, pastor of the Congregational church, has received a call from Plymouth church of Syra- cuse, N. Y. The pastorate is a very desirable one, as the church is report ed to pay salary of $3,OOO per an- mum. MT. Burnham read his resig- nation at the local church Sunday morning, to take effect the 16th of September. During 8 period of about five years the retiring pastor has been a sincere and earnest worker, and Plymouth church is to be congratu- lated on securing him. His friends here find solace for his loss in the thought of the wider and more re- munerative field in which he is called to labor.
 The lunch arranged by Senator Baker of the 35th district at the Hart ford club, in honor of the representa- tives of Holland county, last Thursday afternoon, proved very enjoyable. Nearly all the representatives were present, and in addition Congressman E. Stevens Henry and Ex-Senator Thomas F. Noone of Rockville, Super intendent of the Capitol Wm. B. Sprague, Postmaster H. S. Abel, Gen. George E. Keeney of Somersville, Judge W. H. Heald, L. B. Baker and O. s. Greer of the Rockville Journal. The representatives present were William A. Agard and Charles S.. Hurlburt of Holland, William s. Bish- op of Andover, Myron w. Sperry of Bolton, William O. Robinson of Co., lumbia, pr. Wm. l.. Higgins and An drew Kingsbury of Coventry, Dr. Ed win T. Davis of Ellington, Francis H. Raymond and O. Daniel Way of He- brcn, Lewellyn J. Storrs and Frank W. Willard of Mansfield, Mayro Keen ey and John B. Kibbe of Somers, Freeman F. Patten and John M Larned of Stafford, Levi M. Reed and Willis G. Howard of Union, W. H. Jones of Rockville, and Francis W. Pratt of Willingten. Following the lunch Senator Baker expressed his thanks to the representatives for their hearty cooperation in what had been accomplished for Holland county this session. Freeman F. Patten acted as toastmaster, and in his usual graceful manner introduced the speakers, in- cluding Congressman Henry, Ex-Sena- tor Noone, Dr. Higgins, Dr. Davis, Representatives Way and Kingsbury. Congressman Henry complimented Senator Baker and the representatives on what they had done for Holland county, and expressed his appreciation of the harmony prevailing among the representatives of the county.
 The graduating exercises of the To- cal high school took place at the opera house Friday evening, with a host of relatives and friends in attendance. The stage was prettily decorated in the class colors, green and white. The seven members of the class were George Arthur Colburn, Ralph Henry Converse, Isadore Janet Durham, Ivy Gertrude Eaton, William Henry Ens- minger, Francis Wayland Preston, Jr., and Eva Nora Roberts. That Miss Eaton should have been the only pupil from the borough was rather Rev. B. A. Burnham gave the invocation, after which Will liam Ensminger, the second honor pu- pil, delivered an interesting essay on A few common explosives. Fred Gowing, Ph. D., former superintend- ant of public instruction of New spoke on "The function of the high school" He said in part that the general idea that high schools should turn out finished pro- ducts was all wrong. No graduate could be or know all that their friends wished or hoped. Time and experi- ence, with what they had profited, would be their developer. The func- jion of the school was to lay firm on which to build charac- 'er; to set up high ideals, with an to attain unto them; to cre- ate taste for culture; to form habits ,f doing at the proper time those asks, whether pleasant or otherwise, which are theirs to accomplish. When lime comes to choose vocation their a reault nf their schnol