The Press., 1907-01-02
HOME NEWS.

Is IS reported that Rudolf Noehnlol has bargained for Kreisel's shoe store
 Jeremiah McCrohan of Providence R. l., has been in town part of thu week.
 Mrs. E. T. Russell's millinery stor, will be closed Friday evenings fol the next three months.
 The annual meeting and supper ot the Congregational church will bt held tomorrow evening.
 Lawyer D. J. Mccarthy is to oper an office in Rockville. and expects tC become located by next week.
 The public schools will open next Monday. The schools of St. Edwards will open tomorrow morning.
 The Crescent basketball team go tC Storrs Saturday afternoon to play the first team of the Connecticut Agricul. tural college.
 A. l.. Howard, Silas Clark, Louis Stevens, Stephen Pease, Charles Cur. nan and John Mahan attended the annual meeting of Select Templars at Ansonia yesterday.
 Owing to the death of Chief Justice Torrance, Judge Joel H. Reed has been called to sit on the supreme court bench during the term at Hart ford and New Haven.
 The annual statement of the Staf- GnufnnS honE shnxuS hoo1kh hu, condition. There is an increase of 5000 in the surplus since last year, and the total assets amount to $1, 1,021, . SIS 2S.
 the Hartford electric light company, to supply Stafford and Rockville, will soon be furnished. as the men have begun the stringing of the wires from Hartford.
 O. w. Blakeslee & Son, who are building the electric road between here and Crystal Lake, have taken the contract to build the balance of the distance between the lake and Rockville.
 Mrs Dominica Tonon was taken to Springfield last Saturday evening to be operated on for an acute case of appendicitis. The operation was per formed that night and the latest re- port is that her recovery seems assured.
 Work on the Rhode Island worsted plant is being pushed as fast as ad- verse conditions Will permit. The new drying house is nearly completed and a new so foot smokestack has been placed. The glaizers have com- pleted their part of the contract.
 The annual meeting of the Business Mems association was held last even- ing and the following officers elected President, Christopher Allen; vice. presidents, Adolph Pfeiffer and Dr. F. l.. Eaton; secretary, ". H. Heald; treasurer, Charles H. Meyers, Jr. The club voted to have ladies' night.
 The Congregational Sunday school has elected the following officers: Su- perintendent, Charles F. Chandler assistant superintendent, B. l. Coo ley; secretary and treasurer, Harold F Pierce; executive committee, J. H. | Valentine, Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin, | Mrs. O. E. Butterfield and Mrs. W. E. Demond.
 The ladies of the Country club will meet at the Springs House Saturday afternoon at o'clock for whist The hostesses will be Miss Margaret Cooley, Miss Kate Lord and Miss Mabel Meyers. The number attend ing this Saturday afternoon will de- termine whether or not the afternoon meetings will be continued.
 The talk on the "Prison Fresco" at the Congregational chapel Friday evening at s o'clock promises to be very interesting, and it is hoped that the attendance will be large. Miss | Cowles is an able artist and has been very successful in her work among the prisoners of this state. The purpose is a worthy one, and though there is no admission fee an offering will be l taken.
 Mrs. Margaret Grundy, 64, wife of Fergus Grundy, died at her home | at Stafford Street last week Thursday, after long illness. She leaves two sons, James and Henry of this town, and daughter, Mrs. Mabel Williams, of Lebanon. The funeral was held from the home of her son, Henry | Grundy, at the Hollow, Saturday af- ternoon at 3 o'clock Rev. A. B. Todd officiated The burial was at | Stafford Street.
 A jolly party enjoyed the annual Golf club assembly at the Springs House last evening. Fay's orchestra | of Rockville furnished excellent mu- sic. Refreshments were served at in- termission in the south parlors. | Among che snssts were Miss Hall of | Monson, Miss Miller of Warren. Miss Saunders of Southbridge, Miss De- mond of Denver, Col, Misses Bond of Bondville and E. Clark of Providence, A. O. Cordner of Springfield and P. B. Simons of Boston
 Thomas McCrohan, 42, died early Sunday morning at his home on Prospect street, after an illness of about one year of 8 pulmonary trouble. The immediate cause of his death was hemorrhage. He leaves besides his mother. Mrs. John Mo Crohan, one sister, Mrs. Mary Mo. Carthy, and three brothers, Dennis and Jeremiah of Providence and James of Thompsonville. The funer- al was held from St. Edwards church Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, and the burial was in St. Edwards ceme-