The Press., 1906-05-09

Lord God planted garden. In thu evening "Why is so much evil per mitted ?"
 This evening the Christian En deavor subject at the Congregations vestry is Among the wheat or tn tares, where am I?' This is con seoration meeting and roll-cal
 The Epworth League prayer meet ing will be held in the M E. churcI at 6.15 Sunday evening. Topic Investing our lives.'' At 2 o'clocl there will be praise and preaching service.
 The woods caught fire on Moss hil last Wednesday by sparks from tho stove pipe that extends out of the cabin where Mir. and Mrs. Ryan live Mrs. R. was alone, but her husband and another man heard her cry "Fire!'' They worked vigorously and saved the cabin and woods.
 The conference of Congregations churches of Holland county will meet with the Congregational church oi this place tomorrow. Morning session opens at 1O.3O a. m. Afternoon session at 1. 30 p. m. This gives all who wish ample time to return home, if living near. Delegates from a dis tance will be entertained over night on applying to the committee, and such will do a favor if they will write Rev. G. 0. Fogg of Stafford. vile before the conference sits. General subject, "How to increase church attendance. Also at II. .3O 8. m. Rev. Isaac Pier son, field seore. tary of New England of the American Tract society, will give full details o1 lis work.
 West Stafford.
 Mrs. H. s. Witter of Hartford is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. A. Newell
 Miss Lillian Collins has returned from 8 weeks visit with her parents in Springfield.
 MT. and Mrs. James Harries of Westfield have been the guests of their sister, Mrs Edwin L. Dimock.
 Dea. D. J. Glaizer and Milo A. Gold have been chosen as delegates to the conference of Congregational churches, which meets at Stafford vile on Thursday.
 The Ladies' Aid society will meet next week Wednesday afternoon and evening. Supper will be served as usual, followed by an entertainment. Hostesses, Mrs. Belva Wilbur and Mrs. George Ellithorpe.
 The Christian Endeavor society will hold a peanut social in the church vestry on Friday evening. A pleas ing literary and musical program has been prepared and this will be follow ed by "pesnut' games. Ice cream, lemonade, peanuts, peanut sandwiches and peanut candy will be for sale. Admission, 10 cents. Doors open at 7.3O. The social committee guaran- tee a pleasant evening to all who attend.
 UNION.
 E. w. Upham and Willard Richards visited friends in Holland last Thurs day.
 Willie Cunningham of Oxford spent the Sabbath with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Cunningham.
 Miss Bertha Scranton spent the Sab bath with her sister. Blanche Scrau- ton. at Staffordville.
 MT. and Mrs. Milo Walker and Amasa Morse of Stafford Springs call ed on friends in town last Thursday.
 Mashapaug.
 School in district No. 4 was closed Friday on account of Arbor day. Miss Hayden visited schools at South bridge.
 Very little planting done here as yet. Alex Bouvia has a large field of potatoes planted, and R. Back has been planting potatoes this week
 The surveyors who are to run the state line out between Connecticut and Massachusetts are to stop with George Crawford, and cover from here the territory between Ratchet pond and the Stafford line.
 Rev. Clinton E. Bromley, who was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mashapaug in 1899.19O1, has recently been transferred from the Wyoming conference to the East Maine conference, and appointed to the church at Lubec, Washington county, Maine, Lubeo is a flourish ing little town on the extreme eastern and of the Maine coast line, and the is gratifying to both him and his friends.
 Chaffee Bros. have had several men at work planting pine seed the past week. Three or four seed are placed in hills about five to six feet apart, and next year, if all seeds come up, all but one sprout are to be trans planted. Since State Forester Hawes set out several acres of seeding pines on the state land near the center of Union, and parties found out the cost of seedlings and manner of setting put, also the fact that lands set out to pines, after six years, are exempt from taxation for twenty years, many people are becoming interested in Union land as future investment. It is reported from good authority that a certain tract of nearly 100 acres, which 40 years ago was a cleared pasture, has in the past few years been cut over, the owners of the and receiving almost $1OO per acre rom parties who bought to cut it off
 Rock Meadow.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert Heck of l.s