The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1908-09-16
The yp n RI will meet Sunday

The Y. P. O. U. will meet Sunday
at 6 p. m Members are requested tt
note the hour. The topic is ".Hov
shall we strengthen our church thii
year ?" Leader, Miss Mae MAGICAL
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Baptist Church Notes: There viii
be a meeting of the Ecclesiastical so
ciety Friday at 7.15 p. m Mex
Sunday the evening service will be
omitted on account of Mr.. Tanning
lecture.
There is to be lecture in Memorial
hall Sunday evening by Hon. Michael
J. Tanning of Philadelphia. Topic,
"The SALOON: What shall we do with
it?" Mr.. Tanning has been tenn
peranoe orator for thirty-three years.
A large chorus of school children, as
sisted by F. A. Lasbury, cornetist,
will sing.
Miss Mary Milligan, As, died last
Thursday evening after several weeks
illness of splenitis. She is survived
by two sisters, Mrs Robert Giltrop OF
Staffordville and Mrs. Walsh of New
York. The funeral was largely at
tended at St. Ewdard's church Satur-
day morning at 9 O'Clock, when high
mass of requiem was celebrated by
Rev. George ]. Donahue. Burial was
Staffordville.
Remember the mass meeting at Me-
mortal Hall Sunday evening at 7.30.
E. M. chamberlain has put tele-
phone in his house. His number is
Ia.
Mr.. and Mrs. g. W. Miller have
been spending few days with rela-
tives in Union.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horatio West have
commenced housekeeping in one of
John Rockwell's tenements.
A. L. johnson of the Indian Or.
chard fire department has been guest
recently at the home of F. A. Brown.
The Ladies' Ala society of the
Methodist church will serve their
usual bean super Thursday evening in
the vestry. Hostesses, Mrs. Harland
Durham and Mrs. William Chandler.
Raymond, the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Smith, died last week
Tuesday of cholera infantum. The
funeral was held at their home Thurs
day afternoon, Rev. H. M. Vail
officiating.
As Peter Dion of Brimfield, Mass ),
was driving across the ellsworth
bridge recently his horse stumbled and
fell under the railing into the brook
and was drowned. The buggy caught
against the railing and stayed there.
Congregational Church Notes: Sun
day school at IL O'Clock. The Junior
Christian Endeavor society will meet
directly after school at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs E. Phelps. Subject,
How one sin leads to another. ;"
Leader, Myrtle Phelps.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Blodgett of
Portland, Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Wood
of Hartford, Mrs. Albert Peck and
two daughters of New London and
Miss Stella Puffer of Amherst have
been visiting at Arthur L. Blodgett's
Maple Hill Farm at the Village.
Edith, 81, wife of Thomas Odell of
West Stoughton, Mass, former resi-
lent, died Monday morning in the
springfield hospital. She had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Samusl J.
Mellen of Agawam, and was taken to
the hospital about . week ago. She
leaves, besides her sister, her husband
and one son. The body will be
brought to Staffordville to-day for the
funeral and burial.
West Stafford.
DO not miss the opportunity TO hear
NJ. j. Tanning at Memorial Hall Sunday
evening.
Mrs. Harry Pownall was in Hart
ford yesterday.
Ralph Gold returned to his studies
in Worcester Tech yesterday.
Miss Mollie Keller of Hartford and
Miss Bertha Keeler of Wilton have
been guests at the parsonge.
Miss Margaret Ballantine is in
Northampton taking her final exami
n
Mr.. and Mrs. La Vergne Dimook
are receiving congratulate ons on the
birth of a daughter, Edith Margaret.
Rev. Henry Fairbank of the Mara
phi mission. India, will occupy the
pulpit at the Congregational church
next Sunday.