The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1912-03-20
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

house on Prospect street of Henry Nc
Kinney.
F. ]. Chambers residence has been
connected with the telephone ex-
change, IL 8.
]. Hawley Larned is home for a
vacation from his duties as instructor
at Lafayette college, Easton, Penn.
The annual meeting of the ecclesi-
astical society of the Congregational
church will be held Friday evening
at O'Clock.
The Girls joy club will hold their
annual Easter ball Monday evening,
April 9Th. Lynch's orchestra will
furnish music.
Miss Ella Stone of North Brook
field, Mass, former resident and
school teacher, was the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. G. E. Brown over Sunday.
Rev. R. NJ D. Adams of Grace
church has resigned and will go to
North Brookfield, Mass, May LIST to
become rector of Christ Memorial
church in that town.
Mis- Bessie Duncan of Monson has
takea a position in the millinery
store of Miss Beckwith. Miss Duncan
has had two years experience with
Charles E. Lynch of Springfield.
The L. A, A o. H, will hold
their annual concert and ball at st.
Edwards hall May Sd. No pains
will be spared to make this one of
the enjoyable events of the opening
spring season
The grand officers and a delegation
from Mayfiower lodge, Daughters of
Rebekah, at Rockville will be here
April 10th and see that Myriad chap
ter, recently formed, is properly or
ganized and launched.
Miss Christine F. Chapman of
Springfield, a former resident, has
been awarded a senior Durant scholar
ship at Wellesley college for excep-
tional ability shown in her studies
throughout her college course.
A horse owned by John Sena ran
from the freight depot Monday fore
noon. attached to an express wagon
loaded with beer. Kegs were distri-
buted along the route up to Anthony
Adams store, where the horse cleared
from the wagon and ran to the barn.
The wagon was damaged, but the
horse was unhurt.
The republican caucus to choose
delegates to the republican state con-
vention and congressional district con-
yention, to be held in New Haven
April q and IL, will be held at the
town hall Wednesday evening of next
week at O'Clock. A town commit
tee for the ensuing two years will
also be chosen at this caucus.
Mrs. Lena Cossaboom, 50, wife of
V. Ralph Cossaboom, died last Thurs
day at her home in Springfield. Mrs.
COssaboom will be remembered here
as Miss Lena Lego. Her husband,
two daughters and a son survive her,
also two brothers, Henry Lego and
Peter Lego of Greenwich Village.
4IkC I0uCEdA W Us llCAu
Mrs. Hannah Greenhalgh, rs, died
at the home of her son, Charles
Curnan, Monday of weakness incident
to old age. She had been in failing
health for a year. Besides her son,
she leaves a sister, Mrs Edward
Marten of South Monsoon. She had
been a respected resident of the
borough for the past so years. The
funeral will be held from her late
home this afternoon.
Mrs. Helen E. Converse, aged ~,
widow of Major J. H. Converse of
Windsor Locks, who was killed at the
battle of Cold Harbor during the civil
war, died Sunday morning at her
home in the Brown Thomson build
ing, Hartford. She had been i'll for
two weeks. She leaves one brother,
Erasmus Fuller of st. Adams, VT
The funeral will be held this MORN
ing at 10 O'Clock. The burial will
be in Windsor Locks.
A certificate of organization of the
E. D. Tufts Co. shows the officers as
follows: President and treasurer, E.
ID. Tufts; secretary, Robert H. Fisk
directors, the preceding officers and
Mrs. Lucretia Tufts. The company
is organized to conduct bowling
alleys, with a charter privilege of
issuing $50, 900 stock. This gives
the company a chance to conduct
alleys in other places if it seems de-
sirable. Three Thousand dollars
have been paid in and the interest of
p. E. Bard of Palmer in the local
alleys has been purchased.
Congregational Church Notes.:
There will be a meeting of the church
committee Thursday evening at $50.
The topic for the mid-week meeting
att. 30 is 1.-The happy life as Jesus
saw it. The happy life of overcom-
ing love-" Mt. 5, Cor. ID. As Fri
day was so stormy, the PASTORS class
will hold its first meeting in the
chapel this next Friday from 7.15 to
8. This six-weeks' course of expla-
nation and discussion of the meaning
of church membership is meant es-
pecially for young people who have
not yet Joined the church, but it is
open to all who are interested. The
subject this week is Becoming a
Christian. - The B. M. H. and Wolf
Patrol Boy Scouts are asked to meet
at the parsonage at sos. The sub
ject of the mems class next Sunday
will be 1.-THE work of the Y. M. G.
A" Last Sunday the pastor preached
in the morning ON Making bricks
without straw" Elk. 5:11, IA; in
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