The Press., 1907-06-19


 Dr. James Stretch will leave to-day for an auto trip to Meriden, return ing Friday.
 Mrs. ". A. Oomins and Miss Grace Oomins are visiting Dr. J. B. Oomins at Springfield.
 Dr. Frank B. Mitchell of New York is Q guest of his sister, Mrs. G. Percival Bard.
 Miss May Colburn of State Line was the guest of Miss Agnes Fitz- patrick over Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. John Crane are re- ceiving congratulations on the birth of daughter Sunday.
 Daniel Breen and family will return from Mt. Vernon, N. Y.. to town about July 1st and make their home here.
 The annual picnic of the Oongrega- tional Sunday school will be held at Evergreen park Thursday of next week.
 Miss Dora Depo spent last week in Indian Orchard.
 Wm. Park and Raymond are visit ing friends in Boston.
 Henry Grundy has moved to his new home in the Sullivan house.
 Miss Hattie Wiers of New York is the guest of Miss Gertrude Wight man.
 Mrs. Wm. Ferry of Southbridge has been the guest of Mrs. J. M. Dim- mock.
 MT. and Mrs. Adelbert Jencks have begun housekeeping in a house be- longing to I. Russell Jencks.
 Stafford grange, No. 55, will hold an invitation dance in Memorial hall, Friday evening. Music by Orcutt's orchestra.
 Mrs. Martha F. Dwight and Mrs. Nella R. Weston have returned from a weeks visit with Mrs. David Ruby of Norwich.
 Mrs. O. H. Champlain of East Hartford has returned to her home after an extended stay with her daugh- ter, Mrs. H. A. Hersey.
 MT. and Mrs. Reuben Burley of Holyoke were in town for the gradu- ation, their grandson, Harold Pinney, being one of the graduates.
 nAa TTn;-o-,ol:rA ou-lo~, .oboo1 hoe appointed a picnic committee to make all arrangements for the annual picnic, to be held probably before June 80.
 Mrs. Kate Findeisen, Miss Lena Wobbecke and John Findeisen of Springfield were in town during the past week to attend the graduating exercises.
 The Y. P. O. U. will meet in the assembly room Sunday at 6. 80 p. m. Topic, "Home missions, Atlanta and the southland Leader, Miss Alice Durham.
 A stated communication of Wolcott lodge, F. & A. M., will be held Thursday evening. Work, M. M. A full attendance is desired, as this is the last communication until Septem- Der.
 A business meeting and social of the Y. P. O. U. will be held in the assembly room Thursday evening. Refreshments will be served. All members cordially invited. Business session at 8 o'clock.
 Considerable moving has been caused by the sale and removal of the A. Fl. Preble house. Herman Wagner has moved to the tenement vacated by Alex Barrows., who has moved to the Ava Brown tenement.
 Next Sunday the annual missionary collection for the Universalist general convention will be taken in the Uni versalist Sunday school. Pupils who cannot be present are asked to send their contributions to the superinten- dent or pastor.
 Mir and Mrs. N. A. Kinnicutt of Boston and Miss Esther l.. Shea of Cleveland have been the guests of Miss Gertrude Rockwell at Sunny Hillside farm. Miss Rockwell expects Mrs. Fanny Page of Brooklyn, N. r., the last of the week to be her guest for two months.
 wolcott lodge, F. & A. M., will observe St. Johns day, Sunday. A special communication of the lodge will be called at 2.3O p. m., sharp, after which the lodge will repair to Memorial hall, where appropriate exercises will be held and an address given. Ionic lodge has been invited to unite with Wolcott lodge on this occasion. and the families and friends of Masons are invited to attend the services at the Hollow at 3 p. m.
 Baptist Church Notes: Christian Endeavor meeting this evening at 7.3O.-The Ladies' Aid society will meet for work Thursday afternoon and serve the usual bean supper at 6 o'clock. Hotsesses, Mrs. Henry Thresher, Mrs. George Jenkins. Nearly $60 was pledged toward the Connecticut Baptist convention fund to restore the losses caused by the de. falcation of W. F. Walker. Regular services will be held next Sunday in the chapel. Preston of West Stafford has charge of the work on the interior of the church.
 Herbert Wightman and Marc Hatch | narrowly escaped serious injury last Saturday. While driving down Bap- | tist hill the horse became unmanage- 1 able, throwing the occupants of the team against the iron railing in front | of the Riverside woolen mill with ! such force as tO yranoh the iron hara