The Press., 1906-05-30
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

6 Go. is i'll with the grip.
 Dr. Batchelder of Boston was in town the first of the week.
 Pay your borough taxes on or before Friday and save the interest.
 Mir. and Mrs. Sidney Siswick and child of Old Mystic are visiting rela- tives in town.
 Rev. Webster Woodbury will occupy the pulpit at the Congregational church next Sunday.
 Mrs. Thomas E. Williams of Woon- socket, R. L. has been visiting with friends and relatives in town.
 MT. and Mrs. Alfred W. Cravelen of Elgin, Ill.,. were guests of MT. and Mrs. Robert w. Smith over Sunday.
 Miss Edna Lydia Reed and Alonzo Alfred Hainsworth are to be married on Tuesday, June 5th, at 12 o'clock, noon.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert McIntire and daughter of westfield. Mass, are guests of his mother, Mrs. F. E. Mo Intire, of Orcuttville.
 Antony BaIlah has bought of Samuel Rockwell the rear tenement house, next to the Kingsbury monu- mental works, on West Main street.
 Crystal Lake opens to-day Me morial day). In addition to the usual attractions of the resort there will be a ball game in the afternoon and a dance in the evening.
 The social season of the Staff ford Country club will be opened on Saturday. program of tennis and golf events will be prepared. Re- treatments will be served by the ladies. Busses will leave the railroad station at ? 80 p. m.
 Owing to the electric light being off last Thursday evening, Court Oro noco, F. of A, adjourned it's meeting to this week Thursday evening, and all members are requested to be- present to make arrangements for Foresters' memorial day, June 10.
 A company of twenty friends called unexpectedly on Miss Celia Holt Monday evening, in honor of her birthday. A gift-ladened May basket at the front door attracted Miss Holt's attention, while the ladies, cake and ice cream in hand, gained a rear door entrance. Much pleasure followed.
 Owing to a misunderstanding about the team, the Masons who went to Springfield last Tuesday evening walked over from Somers on the re- t1rn trip. As the guests were royalty | entertained in Springfield the walk probably did them good. as it is not considered healthful to retire too soon after a hearty meal without exercise.
 The vaudeville entertainment by John Quigley, the newsboy tenor, and others, given at St. Edwards hall Tuesday evening, will be repeated at St. Edwards hall this Wednesday evening, with a change of program. Admission, 35, 25 and Is cents. The entertainment was not given at Memo rial hall on Monday evening on &C., count of the storm.
 Mrs. s. A. Jacobs, who has taught here for the past Is years, will not return next year, as she has accepted a more lucrative position at Chelsea, Mass. By the excellence of her work, as we'll as the high standard of her personality, Mrs. Jacobs has been a distinct force in the educational pro- gress of the town, and much regret will be felt that she is to leave us.
 An article in June McClure's, by Samuel Hopkins Clark, on Yellow Fever: A Problem Solved" contains quite a description of the work of Rev. Beverly Warner, rector of Trinity church of New Orleans, who last summer hastened back from his vacation to help work against the epi- demiu of yellow fever. He took charge of the district organizations, won the hearts of the ward headers and fought all summer. screening eistsrns and killing the feyer-spread- ing mosquitoes. The article will be read with much interest here, as Rev. MT. Warner was rector of Grace Epis- eopal church in this borough in 1880 and '81.
 Winter Post, No. A, and the Wom- ans Relief Corps attended in body the Sunday morning service at the Methodist church and listened to the annual memorial sermon, delivered by Rev. Thomas lyric. The whiten- ing locks and feeble steps of the old veterans emphasize the fact that this organization is all too rapidly passing from the field of active battles. The military record of the four comrades, John O. Cleaveland, F. A. Adams, 0. ID. Newell and T. P. Needham, who have died since last Memorial day, was read. Appropriate music was given by the choir and the tenor solo by MT. Blackburn, "The Blue and the Gray," was very we'll render ed. MT. Tryie spoke of the Broader patriotism" |" taking his text from Kings II :21-22. In a concise and interesting manner he unfolded the subject from the home love to that broader and unselfsh phase of pro- tection of the nation and helping needy brother, as embraced by human ity. The military record of this country reveals no narrow, selfish in- terests, or seeking to take from an- other their territory. The revolution and the civil war were both wars in defeuse. and the Cuban war was a timely assistance to a needy brother. The quick response to the call revealed the spirit of patriotism, and the emer-