The Press., 1910-04-27

Z0O TG&4m &6 6n0 pCHyoK moOeA0S Sunday evening the two local church ss will be closed and the people will attend the. service at the Baptist church at the Hollow. Rev. w. 5, McIntire will preach. The bus will leave the Congregational church al 6 30 D. m. The Ladies' Aid society of the M E church recently held q business meeting and reelected the following officers: President, Mrs. H. G. Dunham; vise-presidsnt, Mrs. J. H. McOarthy; secretary and treas urer. Mrs. 0. Hammer; solicitor, Mrs. G. ". Miller: collector, Mrs. Mo- Oarthy; assistant. Mrs. Miller. The ladies will hold their salad supper May 18th, and will have foe cream sales through the warm weather. The receipts will be used to repair the church and parsonage.
 West Stafford.
 Mrs. Henry Pease entertained friends from Springfield Patriots day.
 George Ladd has his new colt nicely broken, and anticipates fine rides in the near future.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Bartlett of Somers were guests of Mrs. Martin Chase Thursday.
 Miss Lizzie Buck, with Q friend. spent Sunday with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. H. L.. Buck.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Billings are re- ceiving congratulations on the birth of daughter Monday evening.
 Mrs. Shaw and two children Alice and Alden, of Westboro, Mass, are guests of Mir. and Mrs. Brown Marble.
 MT. and Mrs. D. F. Winter of the Springs have rented the tenement up. stairs in the house with Henry Greaves.
 The young people enjoyed 8 dance In Sturtevant's hall Saturday even- ing, 8 large party coming by auto from Somers.
 Mir. and Mrs. Gustin Brown Marble celebrated their 5Oth wedding anni- versary yesterday. They held open house during the afternoon and even- ing, and many friends and relatives attended the reception. A large delegation, composed of mem bers of Winter post and W. R. O., came over from the Springs and presented the couple with a nice easy chair in the evening. There were many other presents, including a substantial purse of gold. Mrs. Marble was Miss liar. riet Hisoox, and they were united in marriage April 26, 1860, at Stafford Springs by Rev. Charles Morse. Two daughters were born to the couple, Dora M. and Mary R. Miss Dora married W. D. Shaw of Westboro, Mass. and they have four children Harriet. Rufus. Alden and Alice. Miss Mary married Charles A. Armi- tage of Wilson. The daughters, with their husbands and the grandchildren, were all present at the celebration. Refreshments were served, and the event proved 8 very enjoyable one for MT. and Mrs. Marble as we'll as the guests.
 Mrs. Ballantine, wife of the Rev. John Winthrop Ballantine, died at her late home Sunday night after a long and painful illness. Mrs. Bal lantine was born in Watertown, Mass. and for several years taught in the fine schools of Newton and public schools in the suburbs of Boston. She was musioslly trained and had sung in the Handel and Hayden choral so- oiety in Boston and elsewhere. In the two and 8 half years Mrs. Ballan- tine has been in our midst she has on. dsared herself to all those with whom she has come In contact, by her cheer full manner and helpfulness in all the activities of the church. Her interest was especially centered in the young people of the community. among whom she was greatly loved and esteemed. She organized the Thursday Afternoon club for the young ladies, of which she was chaperon for the past two summers. Mrs, Ballantine leaves, besides her husband, two daughters, Mary and Margaret, and an aunt. Mrs. Hannah Horne, who at ninety years of age is deeply stirred over the heavy loss, as she has made her home with this niece for the past 26 years The funeral will be today at 2 30 p. m. at the church, preceded by a prayer at the house, Rev. Dr. Rockwell Har- mon Potter of the First Congregation al church of Hartford officiating. The bearers will be six young men of the parish. Burial in West Stafford cemetery.
 Yes, like the fragrance that wanders
 in freshness,
 When the flowers that it came from
 are closed up and gone; So will she be to this earth's weary
 dwellers, V ~-- Only remembered by what she has
 done.
 Not herself, but the truth that in life
 she has spoken,
 Not herself. but the seed that in life
 she has sown
 Shall pass on to age, all about her
 forgotten
 Save the truth she has spoken, the
 things she has done.
 ROCKVILLE.
 Ozro B. Usher, whose body was at- taohed in a suit for damages recently