The Press., 1911-05-31

Mrs. E. R. Brown and Miss OarolyL
 Brown are at Brookline.
 i Meeting of Red Men Thursday
 evening. Chiefs degree will be
 worked
 Miss Faith Reed has been entertain
 ing her sister, Miss Reed. from West
 BTook6eld, Mass.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bennett of Boston re-
 turned home Monday after a weeks
 visit with Mir. and Mrs. Christopher
 Allen.
 The indications are that the elms
 around town will be pretty generally lsprayed as soon as the man arrives
 who will do the work He is expected
 early in June, but definite date has
 not been fixed.
 Col. W. Fl. Hall has had Q force of
 men at work at the fair grounds grad
 ing around the stables and resurfaoiDg
 the track. The indications are that
 the track will be in the best possible condition for the fall meeting.
 Frederic Faulkner has purchased from the Converse estate the large lot opposite the Hicks property on Highland Terrace The lot has a frontage of 45O feet, and has great possibilities in the matter of land scape Attrastlveness. While MT. Faulkner is not ready to announce his plans at present, he may be depended oD, with his experience, to make 1t one of the most attractive places in town. .....s ....
 The following were visitors here for Memorial day: ". A Segar, Westerly; Mir and Mrs. A. J Tilden. Waterbury; Charles Reynolds, Spring field; John Burr. New York; E. A. Oleaveland, Providence; Mrs. Hannah Bidwell and Miss Etta Bidwell, Springfield; Joseph Shea, Medway Mrs. John Wood. Stonipgton; Miss Bessie Hampston, Blat tone, Mass :; Charles Davis. Warren. Mass Wal ter SOatt, Woonsoc ket; John Heaton, Central Village; Mrs T R Prentice, Turnerville; Michael McCrohan, Providence; ;Mr. and Mrs Fred Sweet Ralph Prouty, Springfield; Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Vining. Springfield; MT. and Mrs. W. R. Rich, Bristol; Miss Annie Mason, Woonsooket; William Crawford, Worcester.
 Four young gentlemen of the town desired to visit Boston on Decoration day The regular train time between Stafford and Boston takes three hours and twenty five minutes. This was too slow for the boys So the owner of local car invited them to ride with him. Surely little side trip from the city hail in Stafford to the city hall in Boston would bs only one small event among the many rides | promised for the holiday. The auto was cleared for action. Hats were locked under the seats and hair glued | on. The boys beat the train by just ten minutes. But the train was Q | local, and their car was an express. Young men of such velocity easily did up all Boston in two hours. Without | breaking any speed laws the happy crowd beat the next train home by ten minutes, and smiled at the O v. boat train south as it rolled in puffing and panting a close second. With She hospital trip, mentioned elsewh here, made by the same car the same night, the vehicle and the driver covered 312 miles Decoration day and night, or about as far as from Stafford to Mon. Ereal, within twenty -four hours. That's going a little bit.
 The Memorial exercises began with the sermon at the Congregational church Sunday morning. Rev. R G Olapp gave an impressive and interest ing address on For the glory of she hag.' There was special music for the occasion by an enlarged choir. This service was attended by members of the post and delegations from the Relief Corps and the sons of veterans Tuesday, Memorial day, there was rain in the early part of the exercises, but it cleared and the greater part of the day was perfect. The exercises were carried out according to program, school children assisting the veterans in the decorative exercises. The ground was covered this year in auto. mobiles, making proceedings less tire- some than in former years. The services of the children not only add. ed grace and variety to the programs, but their work was very much ap- preoiated by the veterans. At Stafford | the school children of Pinney Gram mar school assembled in the square | and followed the band to the oeme. tery, where they formed two lines through which the veterans marched. | Besides usual ceremony by the O. A. R., Rev. A. A. Ross, spoke interest. ingly of the southern G. A. R., which was followed by singing by the school children. At Staffordville the teach CTS and scholars had prepared a com- plete program, which included music, an address by Rev. Marian Jones and the reading of the Gettysburg address. After the dinner served at Grand Army hall by the Relief Corps the procession formed for the march to the Stafford Springs cemetery, where the concluding exercises were held. There were 20 veterans in line and 1t was touching spectacle, taken in conjunction with the thought that all | through the north these small detaoh- ments are all that is left of that army whose vigor gained the victory, and | whose recruits represented the flower I of young manhood of that period. | The procession included the sons of | veterans, Spanish war veterans, school | children and Relief Corps, and was escorted by the Ofkizens' hand. The