The Press., 1908-01-08
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 Harry E. oady of New York hal
 been visiting friends in town thil
 week. EeaA4
 Miss Beatrice Hampston has taken
 position with O. E. Monroe, the
 opticiAn at Springfield.
 There will be 8 social at the Con;
 gregational chapel next Wednesday
 evening, Mrs. Christopher Allen and
 Mrs. ". H. Cooley, hostesses.
 The night school opened Tuesday
 evening with 26 present. Consider
 ing the weather the number is large,
 and there are others who will join
 later. Much interest is manifested.
 Prof. Dunheld will act As principal of the school, and the regular assistants are Charles H. Demond, Mrs. F. F.
 Dunfeld, Miss Jennie Hewett and Miss Helen Leach. In addition there are quite a number of substitute teach CTS. Sessions are 50 be held three evenings each week.
 Amenity and the J. F. whist clubs held 6 joint meeting in Society hall last evening The meeting was ar ranged in honor of the 3Oth annivers- ary of MT. and Mrs. H. O. Butterfield, and was termed Q Butterfly" whist MT. and Mrs. Butterfield were present. ed with a dinner set. Refreshments were served. and music by J. P. Wagner was a feature. There were eight tables for whist. Mrs. Louis Helm and E. Frank Eugley won first prizes. while Mrs. Morse and George Siswick took the consolation offerings.
 Greenock Ian. one of the best known hotels in the Berkshires. burn ed to the ground Tuesday, and the loss is estimated at SIS, 900 or $1OO,- 900, with an insurance of $37, 500 The fire was caused from a defective chimney. Local interest is felt in the hotel owing to the. fact that H O. Savage, formerly at the Springs House. is the manager. The hotel was doing a good business and plans had been made Go enlarge it. At meeting of the stockholders held since the fire it was voted to rebuild.
 A creditors petition has been filed in the district court of the United States against the Wsshburn Silk company of South Coventry. It is alleged that the company owes $1O0.- -1 hAk sk s1 ha petitioning creditors, who live in Coventry, are: Eugene A. Tracy, $29; William o. Latimer, $38O; {; Samuel D. Hall, $20O. The company has two mills in South Coventry and a branch mill in Stafford Springs. The company is comprised of Henry K. Washburn and his son, Walter, and has been in existence but about two years, although for-many years MT. Washburn has been in the silk throw ing business at South Coventry. The employees are creditors for three weeks back pay which aggregates some $1, 900. E. A.. Tracy of South Coventry has a mortgage on real estate and machinery for $16,O0a.1 and John Wood also has mortgage for $3OOO MismanaRement is given as the cause of the failure.
 There is one Stafford product that meets with ready sale, even in the midst of rumors of hard times. It is the new book and booklet recently written by Rev Felix J. O'Neill, pastor of St. Edwards church. The works deal with ohurch-going, church. support and crediting church accounts Within seven months, and without much advertising, the little vest pocket sermon, entitled "Does Christ Say Go To Ohurch ?" has run through three editions of 10000 each. A new and enlarged fourth edition con sisting of 100. 900 copies will appear this week. Some are shipped from Stafford. some from New York and some from Hartford Clergymen from every state in the union order copies for distribution among their flocks. Their use is not confined to the authors own denomination. His arguments for church going and church support have equal weight for all, and his book has been adopted and praised by several Christian bodies. So has his pew book, or system of orediting church acoounzs.
 The Rev. R. M. D. Adams, who, with the beginning of the year, as- stunned the rectorship of Grace church, was born in Newbury. Mass. in 1876, fitted for college at Drummer academy, from whence he entered Harvard and finished his three years at the Episco- pal Theological school at Cambridge in 1900. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Lawrence at Trinity church, Boston. June 10. 1900. going immedi- ately to Lancaster, N. H., where he acted as curate, being raised to the order of the priesthood by Bishop Niles of New Hampshire at St. Paul's Lancaster, as soon as he reached the required age. While curate at Lancaster he had charge of the mission at Groveton, and was successful in pushing the work toward the erection of the church recently built there. During this time he was also in charge of the missions at Stark. Jefferson Meadows, and part of the care of the mission at Lost Nation deVolved upon him. He also the mission at Stratford. In order to be nearer home and to benefit by opportunities for study in Boston, he accepted the call to be- come curAte of All Saints. Dorchester, where he remained nearly three years Iu 1905 he accepted a call to become rector of the Church of Our Saviour, Milford, N. H. This parish was ex- tremely large, territorially, including