The Press., 1912-03-27
There will be a regular meeting Of


Winter post next Tuesday evening.
Mrs. John Bolieau has been quit
i'll, but is showing some Improvement
Edward Jacobsen is able to be OF
the street and is making a good re
covery.
stafford lodge of United Workmer
has voted to consolidate with Rock
vile lodge. -.
At the regular meeting of the For
esters on Thursday evening there viii
be an initiation.
1t was 80 years ago to-day tina
the big Stafford food made havoc
through the valley.
The Girls club of the Congrega
tional church will meet with Miss
Lucy Alden next Tuesday night.
Robert Smith returned from New
York the first of the week, where he
went to attend a reunion of Worcester
academy.
The German band of seven pieces
that has been making music on the
street to-day has been engaged to play
at the Comique theatre this evening.
The United States civil service ex-
animation for rural free delivery car
riers in Tolland county will be held
at the high school building at 9 a.
m. Saturday,
The Easter ball of the Girls Joy
club the evening of April 9Th is an
event anticipated with pleasurable
interest by those planning to attend.
Lynch's orchestra will furnish music.
Fred Close is at Hartford hospital
and is in a critical condition. He
fell and pulled a kettle of boiling
water off the stove in such a way that
the contents was scattered on his arm
and body, burning him very badly.
Thomas Waterman of Hartford was
a guest of his uncle, g. P. Buskirk,
Sunday and assisted in the Congrega-
tional choir in the evening. Mr..
Waterman has a fine tenor voice and
is chorister of one Of the Thompson
vile churches.
The closing out of the Wood lawn
milk business gives J. Allen Mix a
chance for vacation. Mr.. Mix has
been with the business Fl years. His
health is not good and he plans to
take rest. He is not able at present
to announce his plans for the future.
The hike of the Boy Scouts to Eli
thorpe Farm was postponed till Fri
day of this week on account of condi-
ton of ground. The boys are to meet
at the post Office at sharp p. m. If
weather is doubtful, a notice will be
placed in the morning on the bulletin
board of Congregational church.
About 20 friends of Mrs. John
Heaton made her a surprise visit
Tuesday evening at her home on Edge
wood. In behalf of the company
Miss Margaret Mullins presented Mrs.
Heaton with some silver spoons. Mrs.
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where her husband is employed in the
Somerset mill.
Preparations are completed for the
banquet of the Stafford Business Men s
tomorrow evening. No
detail of arrangement has been neg
lected and the indications are all
favorable for very instructive and
occasion. The banquet is
booked for 8 O'Clock and the sale of
tickets is completed.
The union teacher training class
met this week in the Congregational
chapel, and in the absence of Miss
Dibble, who was detained by a cold,
Mr.. Clapp, by her request, led the
Miss Dibble plans to
give an extra evening to the class to
make up for this absence. The next
is chapters %, 20 Of Pat
tee
The Stafford friends of Mrs S. B.
Bishop will regret to learn of her
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at Woodstock. Mrs. Bishop under
went an operation a year ago, and
since last July her condition has been
almost hopeless. Her sons, Rev. DR..
E. W. Bishop of Grand Rapids, Mich. :,
and Sherman B. Bishop of Providence,
are with her.
"The earthly life of Christi will
be shown Friday night by over 100
slides representing mas
terpieces of art and Palestinian seem
cry, in the Congregational church,
under the auspices of the Sunday
school, by Rev. David L. Yale of En-
field. The lecturer is widely known
as photographer and maker of slides
and has had an abundant experience,
enabling him to point out clearly the
of his slides. Tickets at
the nominal price of 15c may be Sc
cured from Wolf Patrol of Boy Scouts
or at the door.
A free lecture on Bird-life will be
given next week Wednesday at 100
p. m. in the Congregational church,
under the auspices of the Christian
Endeavor society. There will be 100
slides, described by Harold Pierce of
the senior class of Clark college, Wor-
cester. Mr.. Pierce is especially fitted
to present this subject by reason of
his employment for two summers with
the Worthington society for Protection
of Bird Life, Shawnee-on-Delaware,
Pa, and his special studies with Prof.
Hodge of CLARK college in biology.
An interest will attach to the lecture
also in that Mr.. Pierce is Stafford
Springs boy.
BOWLING.
Monday evening -Manufacturers 2, In
dependents l.
Manufacturers
Meyers, SO 88 So 25s
Park, 70 "a 78- 23O
Smith, SO SO 10 241