The Press., 1912-10-09

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 1 Miss Mary Chandler was at home over Sunday from her school duties
 in New Britain.
 Miss Annette Washburn attended
 her class reunion at Mount Holyoke college Monday.
 Adelbert Needham, Jr., who is em- ployed in a bank in Boston, is home for the annual fair.
 The democrats will hold their pro- bate convention at the Springs House this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 A Halloween social and dance will be given at Society hall Oct. 31st by Iona council, Degree of Pocahontas.
 The Progressives will hold a rally in town the 25th. It has not yet been determined who the speakers will be.
 Mrs James Mclaughlin has re- turned after an eleven-weeks' visit with friends in Palmer and Windsor Looks.
 Mrs. W. H. Smith is visiting her sister, Mrs. Huntley, in Oneida, N. Y., and before returning home will spend some time with her brother in West Winfield.
 MT. and Mrs. A. I. Mitchell are entertaining MT. Mitchell's brother and wife, MT. and Mrs. c. L. Mitch ell, and sons, Ssrdie and Gramme, of Tayport, Scotland.
 F. E. Fitzpatrick and J. H. Valen- tine have received this week 25O0 fingerling trout from the state hatch cry. They were liberated in Roaring brook and it's tributaries. -.. The annual convention of the Tol- land County Sunday School associa- tion will be held in the local Metho- dist church Wednesday, Oct. 23d, Ills a. m. p. ID. Several good speakers are on the program, which will be published next week.
 The first meeting for study of the missionary society of the Congrega- tional church will be held at the par sonage Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The first chapter of 'The Conserva- tion of American Ideals'' will be dis cussed. All ladies of the parish in- vited.
 The local manufacturing plants will close Friday and Saturday for the fair. The banks will close Thursday and Friday afternoons. The schools will close Thursday noon for the rest of the week. The merchants will pretty generally close Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons, open ing Saturday evening.
 Frank J. Day and Miss Mary Boughton were united in marriage in St. Edwards church Tuesday morning, Rev. F. J. O'Nein performing the ceremony. Harry Day, a brother of the groom, was best man and Miss Eva Huden was maid of honor. After a wedding trip MT. and Mrs. Day will make their home here.
 The annual meeting of the Ladies Aid society of the Congregational church was held at the chapel yester- day afternoon. The following off, cers were elected: Mrs. F. H. Spell man, president; Mrs. H. s. Abel and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin, vice. presi- dents; Mrs. Christopher Allen, sec- retary and treasurer; Miss Margaret E. Cooley and Mrs. O. E. Butterfield, solicitors; Miss Millie Royce, col. lector; Mrs. T. F. Mullen, Mrs. O. | H. Meyers, IT,, and Mrs. O. R. New ton, entertainment committee. It was voted to hold rummage sale in and to push the ''waste paper campaign" this winter, in order to have a shipment in the spring.
 Iona council, No. 29, Degree of Pocahontas, was instituted in Society hall last Thursday night by Mrs. Mary Doolittle, great Pocahontas of Connecticut, and Miss Margaret Ives, great keeper of records of Connecticut and other great chiefs Eighty mem- bers were present from Rockville and the degree work was performed by the team from that town The local council starts with fifty members. Meetings will be held in Society hall on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. The following officers were raised to their stations: Miss Rose Parizeau, Pocahontas; Miss Rose Vezie, Winona; Miss Mary Mullins, prophecies; Miss Florence Dupre, chief of records; Mrs. Carrie Jenkins collector of wampum; Mrs. Margaret Smith, keeper of wampum.
 Congregational Church Notes: Rev. George A. Andrews of Monson will preach in exchange with the pastor next Sunday morning. The Thursday evening meeting will be held as usual. Topic, "Things no Christian can do. l" Delegates will be chosen for the Tol- land county conference of Congrega- tional churches, which will meet next Tuesday at North Coventry. The meeting of the B. M. H. and Boy Scouts has been postponed one week. The old folks service of Sunday was very successful and much appreciated Mir. Waite was ably assisted by the large volunteer choir and an orchestra composed of Messrs. Fred J. Lynch, David W. Barry. Livano Cini, Robert Lazzarine and Tony Poly. The mems class provided for the service and transportation.
 The members of the Currents Events club were given a splendid op- portunity to hear a gifted woman at their meeting Monday evening. Mrs. Eva Macdonald Valesh is thoroughly in touch with current events at home and abroad, and is best known as the editor of the magazine, ''The Ameri- can Club Woman" She is at the head of or director in many of the national organized interests for women