The Press., 1912-10-02
Stafford.

Miss Annie Brown has accepted 3
 position as stenographer at Sufield. Mrs. Abbie Childs has been spend- 1 ing several days at Mrs. Emily M.
 Goodell's.
 MT. and Mrs. Alfred Baldwin of Goffs Falls, N. H., were the guests of
 Mrs. Ellen Needham last week.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Grundy were
 in Hyde Park, Mass, last week to at tend the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. Elizabeth Firth.
 Miss Elsie Gaskin has returned to her duties as librarian at Derry, N., H., after spending a week with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Wm. B. Gas kin.
 The informal reception given by Rev. and Mrs. Wm. E. Gaskin at the Universalist parsonage Monday even ing was largely attended and most enjoyable affair.
 The social committee of Stafford grange has engaged Lynch's orchestra and Memorial hall for their annual Thanksgiving dance. Arrangements are also being made for the Halloween party that has been so much enjoyed the past two years.
 .,, Baptist Notes: Subject for the mid-week service, Missionary bold ness," Acts 4: l3 and 23-3l. Leader, Mrs. Black. A temperance rally will be held at this church at 7.3O next Sunday night, the churches of Stafford vile and this village uniting. Lay men and pastors will speak, and special music is planned. All are cor dially invited. The ladies of the church and congregation will serve their annual harvest supper on Oct. l7th.
 Staffordville
 Miss Bertha Belcher was the guest of relatives in South Coventry Sun day.
 Mrs. Ernest Moore of New Jersey was the guest of local relatives last week.
 Miss Ida Smith is the guest of her brother and wife, MT. and Mrs. Chas. Smith.
 Mrs. 0. Hill and Mrs. T. M. Lyon were recently guests of relatives in Plainville.
 John Farnum of Worcester and Miss Jennie Lilley of Willimantic were in town last Saturday.
 Rev. w. D. Hamilton is expecting to return to his local field of labor about the middle of October. spending few weeks with her par ents, MT. and Mrs. Jerry Wilson.
 MT. and Mrs. Lewis Shepard and family moved last Saturday into the house vacated by Wm. Converse.
 Congregational Church Notes: Rally day for Sunday school next This will follow the morn ing service, which will be shortened.
 There will be stereopticon pictures and talk on rural sports and recre ations by Miss Freeman, Thursday, 8 p. m., at the Congregational church. Free.
 A supper will be given by the ladies of the Congregational church followed by social games with Miss Freeman. Hostesses, Mrs. Arthur Smith, Mrs. Clarence White.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Methodist church will serve their usual supper in the vestry next Tues day evening, instead of Thursday, on account of the fair. Hostesses, Mrs Durham and Mrs. Chandler.
 Methodist church Notes: The pray CT meeting subject for Friday evening will be: ''The Supreme Test of a High Purpose. Leader, Mrs. Han ner. Rev. Dr. Booth will preach next Sunday morning at the usual hour. Sunday evening there will be a union temperance service at the There will be a sale and entertainment in the vestry October 24th.
 At the temperance rally Sunday p. m. the speakers were the ministers, MT. Gaskin and MT. Curtiss and the two laymen, J. H. Melbourne and J. R. Parkhurst. The financial loss to a town curtailed by the license vote was touched upon and the bettered conditions following no-license were but the emphasis was laid upon the responsibility of the voter. The loss of manhood, the degradation and misery, as we'll as the crime at- tendant upon the sale of intoxicants, come back to the man who by his vote or by his refusal to vote allows such a state of affairs to exist. The ques- tion of right or>wrong comes home to the voter.
 All Staffordville was out last Sat- urday afternoon, and enough others from all parts of the town, to make a crowd of about 500, at the exhibi- tion and fair of the boys and girls garden club. Something was doing all the afternoon to make things live ly. About 35 boys and girls made exhibits of what they had raised dur ing the summer, under the supervis- ion of F. H. Plumb, and several of our substantial, representative farmer citizens made special exhibits of pro- duce in which they are particularly and successful. The CO., education of mind and hand, working has been brought close home to these young school children, and that the scheme is success goes with out saying, if results, as shown, count. The children proved they could take written instructions, and in their gardens carry out simple experiments pertaining to various crops and soils. This year interest," was centeEed on experiments with potatoes, although entries of nearly every kind of vege- table that can be raised in this lati-