The Press., 1912-08-28

Mildred, have returned to their home in Burlington, Vt., after spending a few days with Rev. and Mrs. 1. E. Booth.
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 Louis Festi and family spent Sun day with friends in Monson.
 MT. and Mrs Martin Brown have been spending week at the shore. MT. and Mrs. W. V. Odell were the guests of local relatives over Sunday.
 Mrs. Grant Hammer is spending her vacation with relatives in Blackstone and Worcester.
 Mrs. James Swift has been enter taining her sister, Mrs. Sortell, of Greenwich, Mass.
 Louis West and daughter, Dora, ef Pittsfeld, Mass. made a brief visit in town last week.
 MT. and Mrs. James Putnam and family moved to Pittsfield, Mass. :, last week Tuesday. ...
 Mrs. Ella Bass of South Framing ham, Mass, has been the guest of Mrs. Fred Bowden.
 Mrs. Young of Rockville is em- ployed in the Garland mill and board ing with Mrs. B. Phelps.
 Miss Mabel Heck of Union has been spending few days with her grand mother, Mrs. Mary Heck. :"
 Mrs. 0. G. Fogg is entertaining Mrs. Howard Barber and two daugh- ters of Rockville on the Island. '
 The Sunbeam Circle meets with Florence White at Hydeville on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. :
 Miss Mary Bradway recently under went a successful operation for ap-, pendicitis in a South Birmingham, Mass, hospital. :...
 Mrs. Annie Brown, Miss Violet Brown and Miss Marion Derby. of Springfield are guests of MT. and Mrs. Philo West. iaq
 MT. and Mrs. Clarence Bradway of South Birmingham, Mass. are re- ceiving congratulations on the birth of a son August 20. -, ..,..,.si -.
 The iron bridge that was former ay. at Spring street in the borough lIas been placed over the stream lbeldw the Garland mill by W. D. Graves. i
 Misses Pearl, Arlene and Blanche hov1oo ofHo1. a visit of four weeks with their aunt; Mrs. W. V. Odell, in Blackstone, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Richard M. Brewer and three children, Heen, Clifton and Vivian, of East Hartford are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Julius Brown ing for few days. .'
 Among those who attended the Will limantic camp meeting from here last week were MT. and Mrs. H. G. Dun ham, Rev. and Mrs. w, D. Hamilton and O. F. Williams.
 Young Ladies' Helpful Circle vii hold a lawn party on Thursday even- ing at 7.45 o'clock on the Methodist parsonage lawn. Ice cream, candy and peanuts will be sold. ~~@: <.
 Ernest Cooley, Mrs. w. E. Be1cker and little son, Norman, and daughter, Hazel, visited Mrs. F. A. Brown, in Monson last Sunday, making the trip in MT. Cooley's autotnobi1e.' " A
 The young people of the Cocsnngrlse6a-l tional church will give a farce en- titled My Lord in Livery in the vestry of the church Thursday even ing, Sept. 9th, at 7.45. Cast of characters will be given next week. l Ice cream will be on sale. Admis- sion: Adults, 15c; children, 1Oc. T
 Those who attended old home day at Holland from here were O. F. Will Hams, MT. and Mrs. E.. s. iColburn, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thompson and son, Merton Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Myron w. Leonard, Mrs. Emily Bur dick, Mrs. Nettie Symonds, Mrs. Mil dred E. Royce and Mrs. Vim. symonds.
 Rev. Ernest F. Neumann, IT,, of New Britain will preach in the M. B. church next Sunday morning. In the evening the Epworth League will hold a rally. The pastor will speak on Enthusiasm. '' Rev. MT. Neu- mann will also speak. A large at tendance is desired for both these services.
 Congregational Church Notes: On account of the absence of the deac6ns this coming Sunday the celebration of the communion will be postponed. tn- til Sunday, Sept 8. Services as usual next Sunday. Y. P. 0. E., con secration meeting has for subject ''The Christian virtue: Hopefulness, Rom. 5:1-5; 8:24-29. Leader, Miss Maude Smith. Prayer meeting Wbd- ensday evening. Subject, "Man IT, reclaimably religious" Acts 17: 1O-31. ,. ....->>= ?.
 Last weeks lecture at the Congre- gational church by Joel Hatheway of Boston School of Commerce was a great treat and we'll attended. Mr. Hathaway presented a realistic picture of conditions in the Philippines at the advent of the first six hundred teach CTS from U. s. A. The rotten floors, the pigs, the lizards and the .centi- pedes. The twelve text books in Spanish provided for fifty aristocrat boys seated in the fore front of mob of unruly comrades, none of whom knew Spanish; the amusing diversities1 of school life and (incidentally) the great skill and ingenuity required and found in the teacher before cosmos could be reduced from a bowling chaos, were all told with such a de- lightful sense of appreciation and humor that the audience was highly entertained as we'll as enlightened.