The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-06-27
MONHAN.

Hampden avenue to Frank johnson.
H. M. Graves and family of Chi
cago, ILL.,, are visiting Monson rela-
tives
i M. M. Brown is travelling with
Lucier's minstrels during the summer
4 season. -.
i Carl Rand is home from Williams
college and Miss Frieda Rand is home
from Mt. Holyoke. .....
j William Corish caught an eel in
the Ellis pond last Saturday evening
weighing six pounds.
Fred Leavitt and Irving Crosby
went fishing in Wales Monday, and
returned with 1873 nice trout.
A fine young heifer belonging to
Paul Possardt recently strayed on the
railroad and was killed by the cars.
Joseph Fahey is suffering from a
severely sprained ankle, caused by
being thrown from his carriage. He
i was driving on the Stafford road, and
/ in turning a corner the wheels of the
carriage struck the roots of a tree,
throwing him out. The injury is a
severe one.
/ Court Monsoon, F. of A, elected
officers at the meeting Thursday even
i ing, as follows: O. r., E. j. Lyons !;
8. @. R., R. E. Green; R. s., Ralph
Darling; 8. W., Frank Particle; j.
W, Frank Patterson; s. B., Edw.
Madelle; J. B., James Fitzgerald /;
lecturer, F. J. Sullivan. Two candi-
dates were initiated and eight appli-
i cations for membership were received.
Glass day exercises of the class of
'O6, Monson academy, were held Mon
day, the 18th, on the lawn in front of
the academy building. At 6.45
O'Clock the exercises of planting the
class ivy were held, after which the
regular class program was carried out
as follows: Address of welcome, by
the class president, Harry Oldfield !;
prophecy, Carl n. Homer; ivy essay,
Miss Marion CLARK; class history,
Miss Mary Pendergast; will, Miss
Kathleen Nye; sermon, Edward A.
Hanley; statistics, Harold A. Briggs; ;
presentations, Miss Blanche Ritter !;
prophecies, Miss Kenia M. Crane !;
class song, Miss Elizabeth Cornell.
VIM. Foley went down to South
Manchester to the ball game the 10th
inst Another hotel man was tell
ing Mr.. Foley about Breckenridge.
The man said: sit was over at Will
limantic. The score was to in
favor of the thread people in the ninth
inning. Three men got on bases,
and Brock came to bat. He hit it.
They had a man out two hours and a
half looking for the ball. and finally
located it in Hartford - Soon after
hearing this story, Mr.. Foley says
that Breckenridge came to bat and
knocked it clear outside the grounds,
the ball striking on the roof of a
house. The local landlord admits
that after seeing the welt Brock gave
Turkey that he began to believe the
Willimantic- Hartford story.
At the bear party the 10Th William
Holdridge offioiated as toastmaster,
some very appropriate remarks being
also made by Omar Broadway and Fred
and Harry Beckwith, with shotgun,
rifle and revolver accompaniment.
The two Beckwith dogs, which started
the chase from the Beckwith door
yard, also played an important part
| in the entertainment. Animated by
| their music the bear danced up tree
about a quarter mile away, where
Fred saluted him with a charge of
bird shot, in the vicinity of Edison
Walkers. Such an indignity was of
course exasperating. The bear hus-
tied down and Fred retreated under
the barbed wire fence, receiving an
ugly scratch on the head. Bruin
scorned the fence and turned his at
tention to the dogs, sending one of
them careening off like a rubber ball,
and taking q choice tid-bit from the
breast of the other. Through the
choicest selections of rural scenery he
took his way northward, followed by
his admirers, who gave him the clos
ing ovation near the Holdridge plan
| tation.
The attendance at the Children 8
day concert Sunday, 18th, at the State
Line Sunday school was 63, which,
considering the weather, was good.
Rev. N. M. Pratt was in attendance.
The school is now a year old, and
since it's organization 116 different
persons, including visitors, have been
present. The average attendance for
1905 was "a. To the present time
in 1906, 20. An organ has recently
been purchased by the school, to re-
place musical instrument lent by one
of the members. A library of about
one hundred books has been a recent
addition, for which thanks are due to
the Congregational Sunday school. A
vote of thanks to the town is also on
record for the use of school house and
grounds. There is but little change
in the board of officers for the coming
year, viz: Superintendent, George
H. Davis; treasurer, Ernest E. Stacy
librarian, Mrs. F. A. Wood secretary
and Organist. Mrs. E. B. Jewett; as
sistants in case of absence or necessity
I-superintendent, f. A. Wood; Ii
brarian, Mrs. F. L. Wright; secre-
tary, F. H. Broadway. The school is
under the immediate direction of Rev.
A. B. Clifford, while Rev. N. M.
Pratt, who has outside charges in
other parts of the town, occasionally
exchanges with Mr.. Clifford and ad-
dresses the school. The school is
thoroughly union, and a cordial invi-
tation is extended to all to drop in at
anU kiuno