The Press., 1911-02-15

BAO0s
 Dainase Dion of St. Ane, Dohaine
 Manitoba. is visiting his brother-in
 law, George Bolisau.
 Miss Jenny Smith of Norwalk i spending a few days with Mrs. Hattie
 Walcott of West Main street.
 The annual collection for tht foreign missionary cause will be takel Sunday morning at the Methodist church.
 F. H. Spelman spent Sunday 1T Manchester and attended the OoDgre gational church. where Rev. H. A. Blake is supplying.
 A meeting for the organization oi the All Stafford Progressive Feder. atlon will be held at the library building this evening.
 A certificate of corporation for the Hudson Motor Oar and Garage com. pany has been filed by the attorney of the company, R. H Fisk
 The office of the electric light com pany will be closed all day next Wed. nesday, Westinghouse birthday. The schools and banks will close, but there will be no general observance of she day
 Wm. Symonds, employed at the Whison store. has bargained for the cottage on Morton street recently CO., oupied by Mrs. Hyde. MT. Symonds is too social by nature u occupy his new purchase as a bachelor residence.
 The ladies of the German club will give an invitation calico ball on Sat- ruday evening. The ladies are to wear a calico apron and furnish a necktie made from the same ol1th LyDoh's orchestra will furnish music Tick sts, 50 cents. -s
 There will be Washington social at the Methodist church next wee k Wednesday evening. Supper will be seI ved at 6 o'clock by Mrs Hodgson, Mrs Royce, Mrs. Siswick and Miss Benton. There will be candy table in charge of Miss Reynolds and Miss Whitaker. A chorus of old-time singers, led by J. ". Dimock, will render a number of selections, and there will be recitations and readings by some of the young people of ma turer years. Prices, supper and enter tainment, 15o; entertainment alone, loo.
 :. A Standard Bearer company, auxi- liary to the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist Epis- oopal church, has recently been or ganized with the foll N ing officers |: Miss Hattie Lee; first vice. Miss Mary Reynolds; sec- ond vice president, Miss Olah Hayes i; secretary, Miss Maude corresponding secretary, Miss Dorothy Fraser; treasurer, Miss Minnie Harwood; program committee, Misses Beatrice Fraser, Bessie Weeks md Mona Rider; pianist, Miss Gladys Armstrong The society plars to hold wo meetings a month, on Saturday fternoons.
 Twenty men gathered last Sunday oon In the ohapel>of the OongreRa- onal church to organize Q class for lscussion of the attitude of Christian y toward present day social prob ms. Dea. J. Carl Converse was lectsd president; R. ". Smith. vice resident; O. H. Demond, secretary acob Wagner. treasurer; Rev. R. O. Ilapp, teacher. After discussion of eVeral courses 1t was decided to use Ieries 8 of the Gospel of the King Iom, published by the American 1u- titute of Social Service, and reco.u. nended by the National Federation of Churches for investigation during 1911. The four general subjects for ihe year are Social Purity, Immigra- 5iop, the Workingman, Dangerous and U Unsanitary Occupations and Oondi- sions Any men in the parish in- ;erested in these subjs sots are cordial y invited to attend.
 A travel lecture on Hawaii, illus rated by 200 fine stereopticon slides, will bs given in the Congregational ,huroh Wednesday. March Sth. prob lbly at ' 45. Definite announcement ,f hour will be made later. The Rev. Rowland B. Dodge, has for five years in the islands md has been featuring in some of the largest churches in New England this ipring. The next parish supper will be served at 6. 15 the same evening. rhe committee appointed to secure a has. by the generosity of ordered the latest model of the Thompson kaleidoscope, cost Ing $25O This machine allows the 1ss of both transparent stereopticon Ilides and opaque photographs or prints. and is the one most widely 1sed In the educational and religious nstitutions in our country. It will oe used at the above lecture, and also 1t some of the Sunday evening ser vices of next month.
 The local high school basketball 'eam were defeated last Saturday by he Monson academy second team by ;he score of 43-S. The local high cam were handicapped by the absence ,f three of their regular men from the cam and also by the length and breadth of the Monson's floor. Sum- nary =
 Stafford High. Monson 2ds. Taylor, If lg, Dewing, Hopper Rogers, If rg, Orankshaw