The Press., 1909-02-24
W. R. O. meeting next wedpesdav

6 Cooley, is confined to his home by illness.
 There will be a meeting of the G A. R. Post at their hall next Tuesday evening.
 Miss Glover Converse has beer spending 8 few days with friends ir Springfield.
 Miss Della Hogan, who has beer on the sick list, has returned to hel work again.
 Miss Susan Cheney of New Haver spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs J. Allen Mix
 A party of Masons went to Rock vile last evening, by invitation oi the lodge there.
 Mir. and Mrs Henry Brooks oi Springfield were guests over Sunday of W. P. Bidwell.
 Rev. H. A. Blake will conduct service at the Orcuttville schoolhouse next Sunday at 3 p. m.
 Michael O'Halloran resumed his duties with c. H. Baker & Go. yes terday, after 8 short illness.
 Mrs NJ. H. Hewitt is i'll with the grip. Miss Jennie Hewitt, who has also been i'll, has recovered.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles s. Phelps of Greenfield, Mass, are the guests of MT. and Mrs ". H. Cooley.
 Miss Edith Brucker. teacher at Grow Hill, has been spending a few days at her home in Collinsville.
 Mrs. s. A. Jacobs ot Chelsea, Mass. for IA years Q teacher in the local school, has been a guest in town.
 Mrs Carlos L. Tilden and daugh- ters, Miss Jennie and Miss Bessie, of Springfield have been visiting friends in town. -s
 The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary society will meet with Mrs. 0. G. Ellis Saturday afternoon at 8 30. .~-
 Telephones have been placed as fol lows: W. P. Pease. 38-23; A. M. Graves, s-3; A. E. Snow, 36-2; Domenico Tonon, 6-3.
 The Warren Woolen company has made an addition to the office force, Miss K E. Zulkha of Rockville hay ing taken position as stenographer.
 Prof. Charles Morrall, who has been spehding few days at his home here, returned to Black Hall to-day. He was ill when he came home, but has recovered.
 G. s. Baker, president of the Staf- ford Business Mems association, and E. K. Taft, the secretary, attended the banquet given by the Rockville association last Friday evening.
 Every seat was filled and many stood during the presentation of the "Village Post offioe" by the Young Peoples Auxiliary at the vestry of the Methodist church last evening. The performance was interesting and very amusing. A fine supper was served st o'clock by the Ladies' Aid and it was largely patronized.
 Some criticism has been made of the Gem theatre, relative to fire pro tection. A committee composed of J. R. Parkhurst, Judge Heald and David Bissett have examined the place, and lind that the danger is reduced to 8 minimum. The machine itself, from which there might be danger, is lined with asbestos and every precaution taken. Exits have been prepared in the rear, and the front doors swing both ways. Examination is invited by any who may be interested.
 Thomas Hassett, s9, died at his home at Stafford Village yesterday afternoon, after an illness of about one year of a complication of diseases. MT. Hassett was one of the first Irish settlers to locate here, and like the pioneers who followed him proved a very valuable citizen. Honest, and with much capacity for hard work, he bought home and lived to enjoy it for many years He was first em- ployed by Colonel Foster on the farm, aud later worked in the foundry at the Hollow. His wife died many years ago, but he leaves five William H. of Worcester, John O. and Thomas of Rockville, George of Bennington, Vt and Patrick of this town. The funeral will be held from St. Ed wards tomorrow at 9 30.
 The attraction at St. Edwards hall on Tuesday, March 2, will be ''The Devil" an adaptation from a Hun- garian drama, ''Der Teufel, '' written by Fereno Molnar, and which has been the great theatrical sensation of | Europe since it's first production. An insidiously agreeable fellow is this devil of Molnar's; not the gentleman clothed in red. with cloven hoof aud horns, whom past generations have been taught to believe held sway over the abode of those who had sinned | and passed to another world, but 8 | gentleman of polish, fashionably | dressed. we'll hammered, witty, cynir | cal, epigrammatic and altogether lika- ble. That his ideas are measured in | badness does not take away one parti; ole of his charm, nor does it lend fear to his companionship. When he talks he has something to say, and 8 purpose in saying 1t. He has that air of savoir faire that the devil, of | all beings, must certainly possess. In the play he brings together two young persons whom in the past had l loved and parted. Marriage has separated them, but Che devil, with insidious cunning, so arranges the situation that they meet, to find that their love, which they had both con- scientiously believed to be dead, had only slumbered during their six years