The Press., 1907-05-15

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 O. T. Jewett has gone to New Yorl for brief visit.
 Wm. Costello of Providence ha been visiting relatives here.
 Dana Gary has sold his house or Wilmington avenue to John Panciera.
 Ex Governor Utter of Rhode Island has been spending few days at th' Springs House.
 MT. and Mrs. George Parizeau arc receiving congratulations on the birtf of daughter Tuesday.
 Mrs. O. D. Walker of Medford, Mass. is the guest of her parents Judge and Mrs. Joel H. Reed.
 Adelbert Needham will receive another carload of horses from the west the last of this week.
 Augustus Roberts was called to Southbridge, Mass. last Saturday tC attend the funeral of a relative.
 Michael O'Halloran has been con- fined to his home the past few days with inflammatory rheumatism.
 Miss Catherine Horrigan has been taken to the House of Mercy hospital in Springfield. She is still quite ill.
 Antonio Ostrowsky and Johanna Janowska were united in marriage at St. Edwards church last Saturday morning.
 Clifford Herring was given a sur prise party Monday evening by six teen of his friends, in honor of his birthday.
 Dr. O. B. Newton, one of the di- rectors of the Backus hospital at Nor wich, attended banquet given by the faculty of the hospital yesterday.
 Miss Agnes O'Neill has returned from New York, and will make her home at St. Edwards rectory with her brother this summer.
 Joseph Fontanella, who went to California three years ago in the hope that the change of climate would benefit his health, has returned, and is cured.
 Miss Catherine O'Brien, Miss Nellie O'Brien, Miss Annie Fitzgerald, Miss Gertrude Hanley and Miss Mary Hynes of Monson have been guests of MT. and Mrs. Timothy O'Grady.
 The Rhode Island worsted mill will be lighted throughout with electricity, about 2OOO lights in all. Seventy eight looms have already been set up and some finishing machinery.
 The stake. races advertised for the Stafford fair did not fill. but the man. agement will see that some good rac- ing events are put in, so that the pro- gram will be up to the usual standard.
 Mrs. J. A. Spellman fell in her home on Main street few days ago and fractured her hip bone just below the joint. Mrs. Spellmna is 81 years of age and her recovery will necessarily be slow.
 Umpire Finn will be-on duty for
  bleachers this year have all been placed on the west side of the grounds, and a new backstop has been constructed back of the oatcher's box.
 The suits of the Stafford Springs Street Railway company against the Middle River Mfg. company and the Eastern Connecticut Realty company were argued together, on 8 defend ants appeal on the appointment of the appraisers, before the supreme court at Hartford yesterday. D. G. Perkins appearing for the defense and B. I. Spook for the plaintiff.
 Owing to the fact that there is no appropriation for Memorial day the program will be simplified somewhat. The outlying cemeteries will probably be visited by detail, rather than by the entire body, in all probability. Rev. H. A. Blake of the Oongrega- tional church will preach the Memo rial sermon the 26th. Attorney M. D. O'Connell will give the Memorial day address at the Stafford Springs cemetery on the afternoon of Memo rial day.
 The Wasbhurn Silk company has started machinery in the German club building, and are advertising for girls. Several girls are already learning. ". M. Turnbull is in charge at the plant Power is furnished by nine horse power gasolene engine. About ten girls will be employed at the plant when it is we'll under way. Machinery will be installed for finish ing the product later, and eventually the entire building will be used by the company in all probability.
 The following from the Connections Transcript, relative to the book re- gently published by Rev. F. J. O'Neill of St. Edwards church, will be of local interest. The book is finding a ready sale. It is published by the N. P. R. system of Stafford Springs, and sells for $2 5O:-
 We have just received an advance copy of "A System of Pew Rent and Church Support. by the Rev. Felix J. O'Neill, a priest of the diocese of Hartford. The book is refreshingly novel, both in plan and execution.
 The edition before us is intended to serve two purposes; it is partly treatise on church support. and partly a highly improved method of credit ing church receipts. In this latter respect there is nothing nearly like it on the market. Though chiefly de- vised for use in the authors own re- markedly easy and effective system of church support, it is also adapted to all the requirements of an ordinary pew book, and for this end the record portion of the volume is furnished