The Press., 1905-06-21
Miss Eugenia Lee is home from


 J. R. Parkhurst has hired the Fen. ton house on East Main street.
 Joseph Stuhlbach, the jeweler, is in New York on a business trip.
 George E. Johnson has been visit, ing his sister in Hillstown the past week.
 Mrs. H. E. Newton and son, Ed. ward, of Woods Hole are visiting rel atives in town.
 , George Siswick, who has been quite ill, is steadily gaining and able to be up and around the house.
 The picnic of the Congregational Sunday school will be held at Ever green park next week Thursday.
 Carl Slater of Stafford Street has been quite i'll with inflammatory rheumatism, but is now more comfort able.
 Miss Elizabeth Whitaker has re- turned home from a ten days visit with friends in Hartford and Hills town.
 A union service will be held at the M. E. church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Preaching by Rev. E. A. Burnham.
 Dominica Tonon is constructing 8 refrigerator in the basement of his Furnace avenue block. The refriger- ator will have a storage capacity for 1900 pounds of ice.
 The Fabyan Woolen comapny has placed the contract for building the new storehouse to replace the one recently burned with Contractor Ed. Burke. It will be built of galvanized iron.
 Bernard Ward is at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Donohue, at Fox Village. MT. Ward is a gate tender at grade crossing at New Britain, and received severe electric shock in that city from a wet plank that had become charged with electricity from the third rail. Ward was unconscious for time and later was brought here. At present he is still suffering from the effects, but Dr. c. B. Newton, who is attending him, hopes for his ultimate recovery.
 Rev. Wm. Morrall was in New York city last week and attended the graduation of his son, Charles MOr- rall, from Columbia college. Mrs. Wm. Morrall attended the commence ment exercises at Ingleside seminary, New Milford, where her daughter, Miss Marguerite Morrall, received the highest honor awarded by this school the white pansy diamond pin. This honor is bestowed by vote of the school in connection with standing in scholarship.
 Stafford high school defeated the Palmer Juniors at Palmer Saturday in an interesting game. The feature of the game was catch by Beckwith. But one hit was made off from Con- verse, and that in the ninth inning.
 The score follows:-
 S. H. S., O1OO 3OO1 -5 Juniors, OOOOO OOOO 1-1 Struck out, by Converse 15, by Barber s. First base on balls, off Converse ?, off Barber 1. Hit by pitcher, Thompson Time, 1.45. Umpire, Moore.
 The Photo Studio in Johnson's Block Is now open every day for appointments w. $ Martin.
 The village will appreciate c. A. Whiton's ice cream wagon.
 The Universalist Sunday school ex- poets to hold it's annual picnic at Crystal Lake next week Thursday.
 Mrs. Charles Davis of Warren Mass, has been a guest for several days of her sister, Mrs. John Devlin.
 Children's day will be observed at the Universalist church next Sunday by a children's concert in the morn ing.
 The ladies of the Baptist society will have an ice cream sale on the evening of July 4th in the church chapel.
 MT. and Mrs. W. A. King of Willi- mantle were guests of Mrs. Kings pa rents, MT. and Mrs. A. D Cady, over Sunday.
 The marriage of Miss Iver May Colburn to Francis Henry Moseley of Springfield will occur next week Wednesday.
 There will be special communica- tion of Wolcott lodge, F. & A. M., to- morrow evening, with work in the M. M. degree.
 MT. and Mrs F. G. Snow of New ark, N. J., are stopping at Black $ hotel MT Snow has taken the posi- tion of painter at the Wightman car riage shops.
 Remember the lecture at the Uni- versalist church next week Wednesday evening by John J. Lewis, "That Reminds Me,'' for the benefit of Knights of King Arthur. Tickets, 2Oc; children, 15c.
 There has been a gang of 15 tele- phone men stopping at Blacks hotel for the past week setting poles for a line between here and Union. They are using the old poles of the Mer- chants line as far as possible. An other force of men is expected ill Q few days to string the wires and put in the instruments.
 Rev. J. P. Marvin is attending the semi-centennial of Tufts college to. day, when Dr. A. J. Patterson is tC receive the honorary degree of D. D. from Tufts, and Mrs. Jane l.. Platter. son, his wife, is to get the degree ot Doctor of Letters. Both are most worthy of these honors, and their many Stafford friends will be more than pleased to learn of their well deserved recognition.
 On account of sickness during the term the several departments of the