The Press., 1905-05-24
B. P. Cooley is in Maine on fish.

ing trip.
 Miss Nettie Morse is guest of Mrs. M. H. Kinney, Mashapaug.
 Miss Lillian Benton has just re- turned from visiting friends in Spring field and Holyoke.
 Igpazio La Rosa and party of 25 or 30 friends went to Monson Sunday to celebrate an anniversary.
 The largest shipment of fruit jars ever received in town came to H.. Chapman 6 Go. recently. It was a big car-lod lot, and contained 240O dozen jars.
 Frank Judson has taken position as boss finisher at a mill in Glen vile. The position with the Forest vile company has been taken by John McCauley of Putnam.
 Engine 329, which recently went off the bank into the channel of the stream near Smith & Cooley's, again left the rails near the same place Mon- day. The engine was replaced on the iron with but little damage.
 Rev. E. A. Burnham, Mrs. J. w.. Robinson, Miss Margaret Cooley and Morris Demond attended the Holland county conference of Congregational churches at Holland to-day. Rev. MT. Burnham will deliver one of the addresses.
 The First National bank has set out a bed of salvias and trimmed the grass on the plot near the bank build ing. Every effort is being made to make the surroundings correspond with the tone adopted at the time the new and artistic iron fence was placed in position.
 A bus will leave the railroad sta l.tion at 6. 80 tomorrow evening to ac- commodate those who wish to attend the chicken pie supper and reception at Moose Meadow, if a sufficient num- ber wish to attend. Those desiring to go will please notify J. R. Park hurst by 4 p. m.
  missing by her husband from her home, also $1OO in money. She left here Saturday forenoon on the 10 o'clock train. She told her husband she was going to consult physician. Bolieau recently moved here from West Stafford, and is no connection of the local family of the same name.
 The Woman's Foreign and Home Missionary societies of the Methodist church will meet on Friday afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. Charles Hodgson. This will be the annual thanks offering meeting of the Foreign Missionary society, and the envelopes which have been distributed for this offering will be received at this time.
 Officers here for the past few days have been on the lookout for the bur- glars who broke into the post office at Chaplin. Two men, thought to be the guilty ones, passed through Vest | ford Monday. An attempt was made to arrest them, but they drew revolvers and discouraged the plan. Notifica- tion was sent to this town to look out for them, but nothing has been seen of men answering the description.
 District Deputy Hall of the 9th dis trict and several of the grand officers made an inspection of the local lodge @E hn grand officers present were: Grand Master Asa P. Fitch of Hartford, Grand Chaplain W. H. Maine of Hart ford, Grand Junior Warden E! E. Fuller of Holland, Grand Senior Stew ard, W. Justin Holden of Norwich and Wilbur s. Comstock, district deputy of Middlesex county. Delegations were present from Uriel and Wolcott lodges, and there were visiting brethren from other places. Supper was served at 6 o'clock. Next the work of the M. M. degree was put on. Following the work ice cream, cake and cigars were served, and there were a few short addresses. The occasion was one of the plesantest in the his tory of the lodge, and there were about 125 present.
 The memorial services will open Sunday forenoon at the Congrega- tional church with a sermon by Rev. E. A. Burnham. Delegations from the post and the corps will attend this service in a body. On Monday memorial exercises will be held in the schools. On Tuesday the usual program will be followed in the dec- oration of the outside cemeteries, the Citizens band furnishing music. Af- ter the lunch in the G. A. R. head quarters the procession will form about ? o'clock and will march to the Staf ford Springs cemetery, where the ad- dress of the day will be by Rev. J. H. Newland of Willimantic. The com. mittees for the various cemeteries are West Stafford, Henry Mckinney and Francis Patten; Hillside, O. W. San. ford; Staffordville, George Moore Stafford Street, Wm. H. Black; Staf ford Village, Philip Ensminger; St. Edwards, John Brosnan and Johr Mccarthy; Springs, A. L. Howard J. W. Witt, John s. Arnold.
 High School Notes. team me Windham high school of Will'mantit on the high school athletic field o1 Saturday and defeated them in fas game 12-9, in spite of many error caused by the rough infeld. Th' game was fast from beginning to end the feature of it being the "sticl work" of the local boys, they getting 15 hits off Snow's delivery. Con verse, the local twirler, pitched su perb game, holding his opponents t. five hits and striking out 10 of tn Windhamites. Catches by Bolieal