The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-09-19
MONsON.

on Pearl street.
Peter Mccormack has bought the
Tobey farm from Frank Cherries, ant
will take possession at once.
s. O. Bradway's farm in the Peast
district has been sold to f. A. Davis
of Ludlow, through the j. ]. Lynch
agency.
Miss Mamie L. Cossaboom of Digby
N. s., has been elected teacher of the
Main street school in place of Miss
Jessie Young, resigned.
William E. Hynes has gone tc
North Dakota, where he will make
his future home. Mr.. Hynes gradu.
ated from Monson academy in the
class of 1906.
The gravel sidewalk on East State
street has been completed, except fol
top dressing of crushed stone, which
will be put on as soon as the stone
crusher is in operation.
Miss Grace M Shaw of Monson and
Charles A. Showers of Southbridge
were married at the home of the bride
on Wales street Sept. 9th by Rev. A.
B. Clifford. The ceremony was pri-
vate.
Joanna, 81, wife of Hugh McQuaid
died at her home in South Monson
Tuesday, Sept. 18th. She leaves one
son, Francis, and one daughter, Eliza
beth. The funeral was held from
st. Patrick's church.
There is a strip of highway between
Palmer and Wilbraham, which runs
through corner of the town of Mon
son, which has been much complained
of by Automobiles. It has been
rough, and at one point there is a
large stone in the road which has been
terror to drivers of automobiles. So
many complaints have been received
from them that the selectmen decided
to remove the cause of the trouble, and
it has been done.
The resignation of Rev. N. Miller
Pratt, pastor of the Congregational
church, was received Sept. 9th with
much regret. Mr.. Pratt was called
to the passionate in April, 1901, and
was installed May 30 of that year.
He has been very much liked by his
congregation and by the townspeople
generally. He was born in Montpelier,
Vt, and graduated from the Univer-
sity of Vermont in 1898 and from the
Union Theological Seminary in New
York three years later. He then
became pastor of Bethany mission in
New York, remaining there four
years, until called to Monsoon. He
will go to Cleveland, o.
An unusually pleasant wedding oc-
Cured at 3. 80 Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
M. Tucker on Granite street, when
their daughter, Mabel Florence, was
married to John M. FITZGERALD of
Cambridge. The house decorations
were of great beauty, asters being used
in profusion. The wedding party
entered the parlor to music played by
J. s. r. Coy of Spencer. The party
was led by the ushers, George e.
Tucker of Houghton, Mich, brother
of the bride, and J. Harold Fitz-
Gerald, brother of the groom. They
were followed by the groom and best
man, the latter being Harold Y.
Currey of Evanston, Ill. The
flower girls came next, and were
Misses Marion and Hilda wilkins of
Chicago, nieces of the bride, Miss
Charity FITZGERALD of Boston and
Miss Frances Bellows of Boston. The
maid of honor, Miss Marion L. Tuck
er, sister of the bride, followed the
flower girls, and was in turn followed
by the bride, on the arm of her faith
er. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. N. Miller Pratt. The BRIDES
dress was of white lace. She carried
a bouquet of bride roses, and wore
her mothers bridal veil. The maid
of honor wore pink eolienne, and
carried white asters. Mr.. and Mrs
FitGzerald left in an automobile,
amid showers of confetti. The we'd
ding gifts were very numerous and of
great beauty and value. Guests were
present from Chicago, Boston, Gam
bridge, Lincoln, Springfield, Allston,
Longmeadow, Holyoke. Wallingford
and Warren. Mr.. and Mrs. Fitz-
Gerald will be at home at IA Frank
lin street, Allston, after October 1.
The sporting topic of the past week
has been the game of ball between
Monson and West Warren. It was
not realized that West Warren had
SO strong team, in fact there are
quite a number of the recent corners
to town who did not known that there
was such a town on the map. For
the benefit of the many who never
heard of West Warren it is we'll
enough to state that it occupies six
or seven acres of land between Ware
and Warren proper. It's principal
claim to distinction previous to last
Saturday was that it held the world
together in that vicinity, and for that
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a deep hole would be in the same To-
cation. It is the Siberia of Thorn
dixie, and those of the Indian village
who, for political or other crimes,
have become obnoxious to the regular
authorities, are banished to West War
rem for terms varying in length from
six months to life. Mr.. Sugrue, the
manager of the West Warren ball
team, is a refugee from Thorndike,
and it must be admitted that he
knows his business. Through the
efforts of Mr.. Sugrue the hamlet of
West Warren is raised from the dis
tinction of being better than hole in
the ground to the proud honor of hav-
ing an undafaaka6 baseball taam