The Press., 1908-07-08
The Village Hin school closed last

J. n. ToDtn or RassAic, N. Iss iE
 visiting relatives in town, e
 Timothy Desmond has been spend .
 ing a few days at Meriden.
 Joseph ". Chandler is quite i'll at
 his home on Westford avenue.
 Charles Moore and Francis Barton are at Laurel Camp for a vacation. MT. and Mrs. Charles E. Butterfield are at their cottage at Crystal Lake. Miss Lizzie Tobin of Holyoke has been the guest of Miss Rose Hanley. Mrs. Fred Wildey and children are spending vacation at BAlsam Lake, NY.
 Edward Mebel of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the guest of MT. and Mrs. Haskell Aronson.
 Mrs. Newell DelphiA is seriously i'll at her home in the north part of the town.
 Miss Teresa and Miss Mary Clark of Collinsville have been guests of Mrs. Rafftery.
 Dr. J. B. Oomins. wife and daugh- ter of Springfield have been spending a few days in town.
 Miss Florence Smith is in Boston attending . three weeks session of 8 summer musical school.
 Miss Mary I. Newton left yesterday for trip to Nova Scotia with a party of friends from Ellington
 Mrs. Daniel Sullivan and dangh- ter, Miss Dorothy, have returned to New London after a vacation at Crys- tai Lake.
 Rev. Thomas lyric will exchange pulpits with Rev. W. s. McIntire of the Methodist church ih Rockville next Sunday.
 Miss Margaret M. O'Oonnell of Colchester was the guest 8 part of last week of her brother, Lawyer M D. O'Connell.
 O. O. Anderson will not engage in she livery business locally again for the present, owing to the difficulty of securing a location.
 Friends of Rev. K. W. Bishop of Chicago will be pleased to learn that he is to occupy the local OongregA- tional pulpit August 9th.
 Work is being pushed on the re- pairs of the Rockwell block at the corner of Main street and Wilmington md Aa lx, Rr,r occupancy.
 Work on the blasting and excava- ting for the new Converse block has been resumed, and steady progress is being made. The contract for the new block has not yet been made.
 There was 8 good showing of the members of the Country club present the afternoon and evening of July 4th. Golf. tennis, lunch and fire- works were features of a very enjoy able day.
 A son of Samuel Jackson of Spring. field. who is visiting in town, out his foot quite badly on broken glass while in bathing at Crystal Lake last Sunday. He was attended by Dr. O. B. Newton.
 Wales will celebrate told home' day Saturday, August ~ RNpdnENl 4A1gnr3 9d. zthsas 'w
 the "Old Baptist ohHlet5.N Ssvefk1 from this town will go to Wales on these dates.
 Burpee W. R. O. of Rockville have invited Winter W. R. O. to visit them on the afternoon of July 18th. They will leave here on the o'clock car. There will be no W. R. O. meeting next Wednesday.
 Judge Joel H. Reed presented @ suit of clothes and a complete outfit to Harry Stebbins, in recognition of the latter's work st the fire last Sat urday evening. The suit that Steb- bins had on at the fire was badly burned.
 The trollies were taxed to their utmost capacity the evenings of We'd nesday. Thursday and Friday of last week by local people anxious to at tend the celebration at Rockville. Saturday, the 4th. was another big day the cars being taxed to their capacity during most of the day.
 The picnic of the Methodist Sunday school yesterday was largely attend ed. from 1T5 to 200 people being present during the day. The facilities for having 8 good time at Crystal Lake were abundant. and they were eargerly patronizsd by all. Boating. bathing and playing games kept every body Lusy and cheerful.
 Dr. Bard's horse ran from the Country club the evening of the 4th, being frightened by a fire cracker or something of that nature. The horse ran down High street and finally stopped in Anderson's barn, leaving the wagon on Furance avenue. The wagon and harness were badly but the horse was not in jured.
 Ward. catcher for the Rookvilles, has returned to his home in Middle town, and stated in an interview last evening In the Hartford Times that the Rockville baseball team had practically disbanded. Tn the sport ing items of the Hartford Oourant this morning was a notice of a meet ing of the Rockville association for this evening". at which 1t is thought that plans for reorganization may be discussed It is hoped that nothing will happen to Rockville, as Stafford cannot play alone.
 Grace Church Notes: The Sunday school and parish picnic will be held EIaa- l