The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-07-05

Edward Fenwick, Charles Collins,
Leonard Colt and Thomas Mckinley
of New London are in camp with
Waldo Lathrop at Crystal Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Helm, Mrs.
and Mrs. George Siswick, Walter
Scott and Edwin Farnell, Jr. have re-
turned from few days at Mashapaug.
The local team will cross bats with
Easthampton Saturday. The battery
for the visitors will be Glynn and
Murphy and the home team will use
Cobb and Reynolds.
The state board of equalization has
made a change in the grand lists of
only two towns in Holland county.
Stafford being raised 100000 and
Wellington $40, 900.
Eddie Collins, the pitcher, has
severed his connection with the local
team. He has been engaged to go to
Leominster and pitch one game a week
and is to receive a salary of 500
month. We are sorry to lose Eddie,
but congratulate him on his success.
The funeral of Thomas Riley was
held from St. Edwards church with
high mass last Thursday morning.
The large attendance and profusion of
floral offerings indicated the regard
felt for the young man, and accentu-
ated the sorrow felt that one with so
promising a future should be called
so early in life. The floral offerings
included Tyre from the employees of
the OrcuttvilIe mill. A feature of
the service at st. Edwards was a solo
by Mrs. Daniel Hanley. The bearers
were Willie Hanley, Joseph Shea,
James Sullivan, Michael Mack and
Timothy Desmond. The burial was
at st. Edwards cemetery.
Stafford.
Mrs. Jane Lavrey is visiting with
relatives in Chaplin.
Miss Addie Wilton is at home for
the summer vacation.
The Mrs. Holmes place will be sold
at auction next Saturday afternoon.
Miss Maggie O'Keefe is spending
few days with relatives in Broad
Brook.
Mrs. Babcock and son, Sumner, of
Chicopee are guests of Mrs. ,Babcock:s
sister, Mrs. J. P. Marvin.
Reuben Burley of Holyoke joined
his wife here and spent the Fourth
with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Pinney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar St. Marie and
family spent the Fourth with Mr.. st.
Marie's sister, Mrs. Dimock, in Som
ers.
The lawn social at the Baptist
church last evening was splendid
success in every way. The weather
was all to be desired and the attend
ance was large.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Baptist church will meet for work
next Wednesday afternoon and serve
their usual supper at As, with Mrs.
Asa Harris and Mrs. Henry Holtham
as hostesses.
The lecture by John J. Lewis in
the Universalist church last week
Wednesday was thoroughly enjoyed
by a good-sized audience, and added
quite a sum of money to the treasury
of the K. o. K. A.
The Amateurs, as the young base
ball team are called, went down to
the Springs last Saturday and defeated
the Young Deweys by score of to
8. This is the first time the Young
Deweys have been defeated this sea-
son.
The Fourth in this village was
quiet enough to satisfy anyone. The
boys perpetrated few old chestnuts
the night before, but aside from that
the day was much the same as any
other week day. Very few strangers
we're in town and only a few we're out
of the village for the day, and the
fireworks in the evening were much
less than usual.
There will be a rummage sale in
the Congregational vestry Monday
afternoon and evening.
Raymond E Miller of Worcester
has come to spend the summer with
his aunt, Mrs. Ezra S. Colburn.
Master Leo W. Hurst of Worcester
came last Monday to stay a few weeks
with his grand aunt, Mrs. Ezra S.
Colburn.
The Epworth League topic for Sun
day evening is 1.-The indwelling
Christ" Col. 2:6-1O. Leader, Mrs.
Lima Bosworth.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Con-
gregational church will serve their
usual supper in the vestry Thursday
evening. Mrs. George Goodell host
ess.
Those who spent the Fourth in this
place from out of town were Mr.. and
Mrs. A. S. West. Jr., at Mrs. Booths,
Garrett Donahue at L. Donahue's and
Misses Eva Brown and Myrtle Brown
at F. A. Browns.
At the Congregational church next
Sunday evening the subject will be
GGTbo NOnorooationa1 Nhurch Ruildino