The Press., 1905-11-15

Mrs. J. M. Leach has been visiting in Boston.
 Alfred Siswick and Elmer Wheeler spent Sunday in Hartford.
 A party of g went to Wilmington Hill last evening to attend the social at the Baptist church. Hot oysters were served and the visitors speak very highly of their entertainments. The weather was little cool for the return trip, but no complaint is heard. Stafford.
 Willie A. Brown was in town over Sunday.
 Wm. Schmidt and Frank Dimmock are working in Monson.
 Everett Clarke has resigned his po- sition in the Phoenix mill. 1 Henry Flagg and Herman Schmidt have accepted positions in Holyoke.
 MT. and Mrs. P. G. Gordon were the guests of Mrs. M. F. Dwight over Sunday. - H. O.. Fiske and the Misses Mac Callum have been visiting friends in Rockville.
 Emory Sands, Arthur Connors and Jarvis Cady have been coon hunting in Baltic.
 Wm. Webster has sold his saving machine to the Gagnon brothers on the street.
 Mrs. Charles Smith and her daugh- ter, Miss Mary Smith, were in Spring field last Saturday.
 Daniel O'Keefe, accompanied by his mother, has been visiting rela- tives in Hartford.
 Fred Sault has accepted position as overseer in the weave room in the Hope mill at Staffordville.
 Mrs. Wm. Walbridge, who has been visiting relatives in Hartford the past week, has returned home.
 The men who have purchased the Riverside woolen mill were in town last week, and have hired most of the old help.
 Subject of the Christian Endeavor meeting Thursday evening will be ''The dangers of indulgence. Lead CT, Lester Waterman.
 Mrs. H. Rathbun and son have gone to Byfeld, Mass. to spend the winter. where MT. Rathbun is employed at the Byfield woolen mill.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist church will meet for work next Wednesday afternoon, and serve their usual supper at 5. 45.
 The reading room is open Tuesday and Thursday evenings. A large number of the latest and best period icals and magazines can be found on the tables.
 Topic of the sermon at the Univer- salist church next Sunday morning will be "Have you ever experienced religion?" Evening subject, "A worthy young woman.''
 Regular meeting of Stafford grange, No. 55, Tuesday evening, Nov. 21st. Work in the first and second degrees Lecturers hour: Song by grange duet, Mrs. Cady and MT. Lasbury 7; readings, Mrs. Ingham, MT. Ide and Mrs. Holbrook; song by grange.
 "The Old Fashioned Husking Bee'' that was given in Memorial hall last Friday3 evening by the Y. P. c. U. of the Universalist church drew a large house. The play was very we'll given, and the young people cleared about seventy two dollars after all expenses were paid.
 Rev. Dr. I. P. Booth, who repre- sented the Universalist Sunday school at the meeting of the Connecticut Sunday School association in Hart ford the past week, gave an interest ing report of the work accomplished at the meeting, and spoke in high praise of the various addresses that were given.
 The annual meeting of the Baptist Ecclesiastical society was held in the chapel last Wednesday evening, and the following officers were elected for year: Secretary, George Jenkins treasurer, Henry o. Thresher; finan- eial secretary, Hugh M. Jenkins; par ish committee, Carlos Green, Herbert O. Thresher and Oscar N. Colburn.