The Press., 1905-06-07

The Germans held a picnic at Ev- ergreen park on Sunday.
 Mrs. Mattie Scott of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. Carrie Stevens.
 Mrs. Wm. Smith is visiting her brother at West Winfield, N. Y.
 One of the favorite driving horses of Dr. O. B. Newton died Monday.
 Mayor and Mrs. Fyster of Rockville visited friends in town last Sunday.
 Children's day will be observed at the Congregational church next Sum- day.
 Dr. John Hassett of Lee, Mass. was the guest of relatives over Sun- day.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Stretch of Meriden is the guest of her son, Dr. James Stretch.
 Grant Foster is spending a vaca- tion of one week with MT. and Mrs. D. W. Foskett at Foskett's Mills.
 MT. and Mrs. Harvey Ellis of War rer were guests of MT. and Mrs. J. J. Ellis, Friday.
 Richard Murray reports catching 8 two pound trout and several weighing pound in Roaring Brook yesterday.
 Mrs. Emma Fuller of New London and Mrs. F. B. Newton of New York are guests of Dr. and Mrs. O. B. Newton.
 wauseon lodge, I. O. O. F., will work the second degree tomorrow evening. A good attendance is de- sired
 A. L. Howard, S. F. Pease and L. H. Stevens are attending the meeting of the Grand Temple of Honor at New London.
 Catherine, the five-years-o daugh ter of MT. and Mrs. Michael Hassett, has been quite i'll, but is now more comfortable.
 The rain Monday night and yester. day did vast amount of good. The drouth was becoming a serious matter from an agricultural standpoint.
 Some of the young people of Grant avenue and vicinity have organized a tennis club, and are building a court in the rear of the Meyer place.
 Mrs. Lyman Cushman is to occupy her cottage on Hicks avenue. Mrs. Hampston is to take the house vacated by MT. Coombs on the same avenue.
 The engine of the boat train blew out f1ue near Orcutts this morning, blocking the track for an hour or more. The Block Island was delayed about 40 minutes.
 Wm. Connolly was before the bor- ough court Monday morning, charged with drunkenness and resisting an officer. Judge Heald gave him six months in the house of correction at Holland.
 New subscribers for telephones are Miss Caroline Brown, TIP, of the borough, and s. B. Amadon, resi- dence. of Staffordville, 12-3. A gang of 17 men arrived in town Mon- day and are repairing the Westford line.
 The school house at Crow Hill was burned last Thursday evening. The same night the rural free delivery mail box of F. L. Richardson was torn from its post and carried away. Two men were seen around the place Thursday in an intoxicated condition, and they are suspected in both cases. The school house had recently been repaired inside and out, and was in frst-class condition. The school was we'll equipped with supplies, and nothing was saved. The school com- mittee have made arrangements for continuing the school at the residence of F. L. Richardson.
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 Mrs. s. H. Ellery and child of Brimfield are guests of MT. and Mrs. Cyril Johnson.
 Special communication of Wolcott lodge. F. 6 A. M, Thursday evening Work, E. A. degree.
 The annual collection for foreign missions will be taken at the Baptist church next Sunday morning.
 Topic of the Y. P. O. U. meeting next Sunday evening will be "Loy- alty: to home, friends, church, Christ and God"
 NJ. J. Coughlin has resigned his position at Thompsonville, and is now employed at Monson, where he expects to move his family tomorrow.
 Thomas O. Marvin, one of the managers of a large publicity bureau of Boston, visited his brother, Rev. J. P. Marvin, at the parsonage last Monday.
 There was an entertainment in the old town hall Monday evening, con- sisting of so-called moving pictures, etc., that drew an audience of as many as twenty people.
 Mir. and Mrs. G. F. Beard of Hyde vile announce the marriage engage ment of their daughter, Miss Maud Louise, to Robert Lawton Furness of Stafford Springs. The wedding will take place at high noon, June 18th, at the home of the bride.
 Glover's bus took a load of the young people of the Universalist so- ciety up to Palmer last Wednesday evening to witness the presentation of the play, "The Valley Farm"
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Bap- tist church will meet for work next Wednesday afternoon and serve their usual supper at 5.45, with Mrs. Oscar Sanford and Mrs. Henry Thresher as hostesses.
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