The Press., 1909-07-28
Patrick Lyons of Springfield visited

friends In town over sunday.
 Thomas Hayes, delegate. and Wm Delligan, alternate, will represent the local firemen at the convention to be held at New London August 10 and II.
 The Stafford Aqueduct company has decided that garden hose can bt used but one hour daily, between the hours of 6 and p. m. Water II getting low and the other regulations relative to waste, etc, will be rigidly enforced.
 s 0. F. Beokwith recently caught 3 bass at Crystal Lake weighing A pounds. and O. E. Butterf1eld has also had good luck. Reports from the lake this week are to the effect that there is not much doing in the fishing department.
 Stafford.
 Miss Elsie V. Grundy is visiting at Hyde Park, Mass.
 Regular meeting of Stafford grange next Tuesday evening.
 Miss Ruth Converse, who has been quite i'll, is steadily improving.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Pero visited in Worcester the first of the week.
 Mrs. Winnifred Douglas of Mystic is the guest of Mrs. Wm. Walbridge.
 There will be no services at the Universalist church Sundays, August 1 and 8.
 Miss Florence little of Williman- tic is spending few days with Mrs. Joseph Depeau.
 MT. and Mrs Charles Edson of Toledo, O., are the guests of Mrs. Eliza Holbrook.
 Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wightman and Miss Helen are enjo ying vacation at Masbapaug lake.
 Baptist Church Note: Covenant meeting Saturday at 3 D. m Com munion follows the Sunday morning service.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert F. Mcintyre and daughter, Berniee, of Westfield, Mass are visiting MT. and Mrs. F. A. Lasbury.
 Mrs. Lima Brown, Miss Annie Brown and Miss Louisa Wobbecke were the guests of friends in Wester ly, R. over Sunday.
 The Misses Florence and Ethel Lathrop of Brooklyn. N. Y., and Miss Alice Marshall of New York city are guests of MT. and Mrs, Henry Grundy.
 Staffordville.
 Mrs. Carrie Goodwill of Springfield is the guest of MT. and Mrs. Wm. Ferry.
 Miss Alice Cole of Boston is the guest of her friend, Miss Marg aret Pagan.
 Miss Eva Brown of Springfield is spending a weeks vacation at her home here.
 Miss May Luton of Hartford has been spending few weeks with her aunt, Mrs. John Fagan.
 Over 50 people from this place at tended the annual excursion to Watch Hill and Block Island last Saturday.
 MT. and Mrs Grant Hammer were guests of her brother, Frank S. Bow den, and family in Hartford over Sun day.
 The young ladies of the Oongre gational church will hold an ice cream social Thursday evening on the church grounds.
 MT. Callahan of New Haven and Miss O'Halloran of Stafford Springs were the guests of Miss A. Tobin during the week.
 T. M. Lyon has his grocery store and post office in the house vacated by M. H. West. Mr. Lyon expects to have his new store built soon.
 Mrs. F. I. Hulett and daughter, Gladys, of Providence, R. I, have been spending a few days with hel uncle, Robert Giltrop, and family.
 Matthew Mcdonald of the Interna. tional Silver company and James J. Tobin of the Meriden Woolen com pany spent Sunday at the home of MT. Tobin's father, William Tobin.
 Mrs. James Putnam and family of West Swanzey, N. H., arrived ir town Saturday and joined MT. Put. nam, who is employed as machinist in the Garland mill, and have moved into Mrs Andrews house.
 Congregational Church Notes Rev. H. M. Lawson will preach al 1O.4 next Sunday morning. Sun day school after morning service. The Junior Christian Endeavor society will meet in the vestry Friday after noon at 3 o'clock.
 Methodist Church Notes: The usual mid-week prayer meeting this evening. Sunday morning preaching by the pastor, and Sunday evening the Epworth League service. Topic, "The nearness of extremity to oppor tunity." Leader, Mrs. l.. Bosworth. MT. and Mrs. William A. Thompson and son, Merton, spent Sunday in Holland. They also visited the lead mine in Sturbridge, which is being excavated. This mine was abandoned sixty years ago, but parties have re- gently begun working it. They have mined quite a quantity of the ore and are now waiting for machinery to extract the graphite, which they claim is found in paying quantity.
 West Stafford.
 Miss Mabel Graves is spending the week with relatives at Crescent Beach.