The Press., 1906-05-30

Mrs S. Abrams is to reopen the Lonsdale bakery in the Foster stone block.
 Mrs. Joseph Washburn is ill at her home near Orcuttville of a nervous trouble.
 Lafayette Richardson is quite ill, having had a hemorrhage of the stomach.
 Miss Ethel Gary is in Hartford to attend the wedding of Miss lola Simonds.
 Charles Mitchell of Norwich, has been the guest of his daughter, Mrs. G. P. Bard.
 Wm. Gary of Philadelphia is in town, and will spend few days at Crystal Lake.
 The banks and places of business throughout the town will close all day tomorrow.
 Mrs. Daniel Sullivan and Miss Mary Fitzpatrick of Baltic, are home for Memorial day.
 That Methodist lawn party is to be held in front of the church on the evening of June 18th.
 Adelbert Needham is having live ly business. He sold 25 horses last week. Yesterday he sold five head. }
 Two children in the family of Mir. and Mrs. John Stevens on West Main street have been i'll with pneumonia.
 The rain Sunday and Monday was just what was needed. There has been lot of dry weather and vegeta- tion was beginning to suffer.
 Prof. Maynard of the high school has been granted two days leave of absence next week to go to Boston and receive his masters degree from Bos- ton university.
 Patriotic exercises were held in the lower grades of the public schools yes terday forenoon and in the high school in the afternoon. Several of the Grand Army veterans attended the ex- ercises.
 Rev. H. A. Blake, the new pastor of the Congregational church, will not come here until the third or fourth Sunday in June, as the repairs at the parsonage will not be com- pleted for a number of weeks.
 The work of connecting the local system with the plant in Rockville is being pushed as fast as possible, and it is only matter of short time before we shall have a day and night electric service, and we are promised an improved service, which will be very welcome. The lights go out for long and short periods almost every night.
 The Stafford Springs Mineral Water company has received the silver medal awarded by the St. Louis exposition. The medal is a very handsome one. The dies were engraved and the medals struck by the U. S. govern ment mint at Philadelphia. The design is by Adolph A. Weinman, and was approved by J Q. A. Ward. Daniel O. French and Augustus St. l Gaudens. The designs on both sides of tke medal are artistic, and the | company is to be congratulated on re- ceiving it.
 Stafford.
 E. H. Pinney has new ten-horse power Maxwell runabout.
 Stated communication of Wolcott lodge. No. 60, A. F. 6 A. M. Thurs day night.
 The annual meeting of the Hillside cemetery association will be held June 9th at 8 p. m.
 Rev. and Mrs. F. L. Batchelder re- turned from Boston to their summer home on Monday
 Lincoln Luce of Niantic and Ernest Loomis of East Lyme spent Sunday at William Parks.
 Subject for Y. P. S. O. E. at Bap- tist chapel for tomorrow evening will be Faith: what it is, what it does. " Conservation meeting.
 Subject for the Y. P. O. U. for next Sunday evening will "The called and the ohosen-who are they? Are they exempt from trouble ?'
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Bap- tist church will meet for work next week Wednesday afternoon and serve their usual supper at 6 o'clock.
 A very pleasant evening was spent at the ice cream social held by the grange in their hall last Friday even- ing. There were selections from W. A. Abbott's phonograph, while whist was being played.
 Miss E. Taylor, teacher in the Pinney Grammar school, has resigned her position here, to take effect at the close of the school year. Miss Taylor will teach in the public schools in Springfield.
 Regular meeting of the Stafford grange, No. 55, will be held next Tuesday evening, June 5th. The evening will be observed as children's evening, ana the slsters are all re- quested to bring cake, etc.
 Mrs. l.. D. Smith of New London, Miss Alice Smith ard MT. Thompson of Hartford Theological seminary and Druggist O. E. Blodgett of Portland have been visiting at Arthur L. Blod- gett's, in honor of their mother's sgd birthday.
 StanordVille.
 William Chandler is employed in Wales.
 Miss Eva Brown of Springfield was with her parents over Sunday.
 The Bible class of the M. E. church will be omitted for few months.
 Alonzo and Bert Carpenter of Mon