The Press., 1908-05-06
Fred Close is ill with bronchitis.

Mrs. Amanda Washburn of Orcutt. vile is on the sick list.
 W. J. Hanley is in Boston on a
 business and pleasure trip.
 Miss Mary Squires has taken a position in the Robertson store.
 Michael Corcoran has the founda. tion in for a new house on Center street.
 The marriage intentions of Joseph Mullen and Miss Annie Mellon are announced.
 Charles E. Monroe, eye specialist of Springfield. will be at the Springs House next Tuesday.
 Mrs. Samuel Burrans of Allston, Mass is visiting Mrs. Daniel N. Browne of Church street.
 Mrs. O. B. Newton has been quite i'll at her home on East Main street, but is now more comfortable.
 Joseph starky of Brooklyn. N. Y. wno is to open a barber shop at the Hollow, has been visiting local friends this week.
 Rev. D. ". James of Ellington will occupy the local Congregational church pulpit Sunday, in exchange with Rev. H A. Blake.
 Henry E. Newton has hired the tenement on Grant avenue vacated by Miss Hopkinson. and will move his family here from Monson.
 There are two cases of scarlet fever in the Palanok family. The house near the fair grounds, where they reside, has been quarantined.
 Vim. Park, John G. wightman. H. Is. Abel, Fred Wildey and Lewis Mclaughlin are attending the repub. lican state convention at Hartford.
 The Stafford Cornet band will give a concert and social this week Thurs day evening at St. Edwards hall. Woods full orchestra will assist the band Tickets, 25 cents each.
 The electric road did an active business last Sunday A half-hour schedule was in force during the busy part of the day. The company will continue to give a half hour service Sunday afternoons.
 There are probably at present only abont 20 unlicensed dogs in town. The last two days in April and the first day of May Town Clerk Fisk wrote licenses for about 200. His best single days work was 85. It was a busy interval.
 Thursday evening, May IA, the Mastodon minstrels of Rockville, un- der the direction of Max J. Smith, with John N. Keeney as interlocutor and accompanied by Stein's orchestra, will give a minstrel performance and social at St. Edwards hall. Tickets, 35 and 25 cents.
 At the Congregational chapel this evening at 8 o'clock the play. "Who Is to Win Him" will be given by O. H. Moore, O. R. Newton. O. F. Chandler, Mrs O. H. Meyers, Jr., Miss Margaret Cooley, Miss Mabel Meyers, Miss Mary Wildey and Miss Frances Alden. Admission, 1 5 cents. Cake and ice cream, 10 cents.
 Over 200 boys and girls of St. Ed wards school celebrated Arbor day last Friday in a manner that was fully up to our presidents wishes. Head sd by the American flag and a tree ga:ly trimmed with the national | colors, the children marched to che | where they planted the select white oak with elaborate cere- monies.
 Miss Della Gagne and Paul Garvais were united in marriage at St. Ed wards church Tuesday morning by Rev. F. J. O'Neill. David Gagne acted as best man and Miss Albena as bridemaid A dinner fol- lowed the ceremony at the home of the bride. and there was a dance in the evening at the home of the groom The newly married couple will make their home at Stafford Street.
 Stafford friends of Mrs. Ethel Harmon Wood, a former teacher in the local high school, learn with regret of the death of Mr. Wood at Mass The burial took place last Friday in Springfield MT. and Mrs. Wood were graduates of Tufts college and were married in Sep tember. 1906, going directly to West Virginia, where MT. Wood had an excellent position as oivil engineer. developed after a severe attack of pneumonia, and many changes of climate proved of no bene- it.
 Thursday evening. May 21, a rol- licking novelty in the shape of barn irolic will be given by young and old folks at St. Edwards hall. The place will be converted into a great barn, with realistic furnishings. The 'rolickers must be dressed in real rustic attire, whether elegant or and six prizes will be awarded to the three couples affording the most merriment by quaintness of yarb and action. The three winning pairs must represent old age, middle age and childhood. Outdoor and in. ioor farming life will be depicted. A nay now to slide on and a load of nay to ride on, the harvesters' male quartet and the haymakers' orchestra or kha daucars will ruraIv Furx,;.h ~ |