The Press., 1909-11-03


 on a business trip.
 The Foresters will have an oper meeting next Tuesday evening.
 Mrs Frank Spelman has been a guest of relatives in Worcester.
 Mrs George Felton and two of the children have returned from visit tC Barre, Mass
 Mrs. Ida Maguire started for Lot Angeles. Gal last Saturday. where she will spend the winter.
 The Stevens photo studio is now open in the Roberts block. Furnace avenue, in rooms formerly occupied by W. S. Martin.
 The Gem moving picture theatre. Smith 6 Lassord proprietors, will be moved from the Sena block to Eaton 's hall about the 18th of this month.
 The plant of the Beckwith Card Go. was recently equipped to run by electricity. An electric motor has also been installed at the Mattesen wood yard.
 The O. T. McCue family have re- turned to their home in Hartford for the winter, after summering at Wood lawn They express strong desire to return here in the spring.
 The first social of the season will -be held at the Oongregational church next Wednesday evening. Supper at 6. 15 o'clock, with Mrs J. M Leach and Mrs. H. s. Abel hostesses.
 Congregational Church Notes: Sum- day morning service, with the com. munion, at 10 30. The evening ser vice at z o'clock will be wholly music, and only music of the late Dudley Buck will be used The choir will be assisted by Mrs T. F. Mul- len.
 The Knights of Columbus will present the drama. "A Celebrated Oase,'' at St Edwards hall some time in December. This drama was presented here abont fifteen years ago by an excellent cast, and as near as possible the cast will be the same this time.
 The French club will hold 8 fair at their hall on Wilmington avenue three nights, opening Thanksgiving evening Girls between the ages of 9 and 12 years are requested to call at the store of P Brousseau for books if they wish to canvass in the "doll contest. ''
 Antonio Pra. 31, died last night. The funeral will be held at St. Ed wards church tomorrow morning Besides his mother, Mrs. Charles Pra. and one brother, Louis Pra, who re- side here. he leaves one brother, Angelo, of Mystic. aud one sister who resides on Village Hill.
 The senior class of the high school gave Hallowe 'en party Monday even- ing to the teachers and under classes The assembly hall was used for the merry making and a jolly time is re- ported Glass 1910 have in prepara tion 8 play "Valley Farm" which will be given to swell the " Washing ton trip" fund.
 The quartet from Norwich, Mrs. Charles T. Bard, Mrs. Fred Young, Louis Wheeler, Walter F. Lester. under the direction of Frederick W. Lester, will give a secular concert in the Congregational church Tuesday evening, Nov. 16th. This quartet gave so much pleasure when they sang here two years ago that their is eagerly anticipated.
 At the annual mee ting of the Wom- ans Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church the following off cers were elected: President, Mrs. Frank Orcutt; vice. presidents, Mrs. E. K. Taft, Mrs G. A. Grant, Mrs F. F. Patten; secretary, Mrs. A. 0. Eaton; treasurer, Mrs. Taft; corre- spending secretary, Miss F. B Wash burn; solicitor for Missionary Friend. Mrs. 0. F. Hodgson.
 Mrs. Mary A Orcutt. wife of Weston Orcutt of Rockville, was 8 recent guest of her nieces. Mrs 0 L. Palmer and Mrs. Wm. B. Brown Mrs Orcutt. who is 90 years of age. we'll retains her faculties and is very active for one of her years When she was a girl 13 years of age she lived in this village, and Erastus and Elisha Kingsbury had just started a mill where the Rhode Island Worsted Go plant is now located. She handed in the first warp and buried the first cut of cloth woven in the mill Rufus Stebbins was boss weaver at the time. Mrs. Orcutt was a sister of James Willis, father of Mrs Palmer and Mira. Brown.
 At the meeting of the county com missioners at the Springs House last Saturday, liquor licenses were granted to Adelbert Needham at the Springs House, NH. McCarthy at the Stafford House, Frank Mogle at his hotel on Wilmington avenue, Timothy Grady and James Sullivan at their former locations on Main street. These five licenses and druggist licenses granted to the Eaton and Jacobsen pharmacies were all that the commissioners acted upon. Remonstrances were filed against granting license to Bernardo & Pierola and to Domenico Tonon. The commissioners will hold hearing on these two remonstrances at Society hall next Monday at 30 p m. Newell Delphia has applied for a license at Oady's block, Stafford Hol- low.
 W. N. Flynt & Oo. have finished their work maoadamizing in the borough. A strip of mscadsm be- tween Main street and the railroad station is being put in by the borough,