The Press., 1912-07-10
UNION.

UNION. ..-
 Mrs. Mary Dodge is home for {
 few days. ....
 Nellie Lynn was in Holland tht
 first of the week.
 Regular meeting of Mashapaug lake
 grange next Wednesday evening.
 Miss Charlotte Vile of Hartford il with her friend, Miss Florence Marcy
 Mrs. w. Richards entertained friends from Hartford and Warren thG
 Fourth.
 G. Raymond Towne of Norfolk anC
 friend were guests at George Towne't
 last week.
 Mrs. E. H. Barber returned this
 week from a visit in Camden, Me. and Haverhill, Mass.
 Monday and Tuesday were the hot. test days of the season thus far. A fine time to cure hay, but very trying for man and beast.
 l.. M. Reed is cutting the grass on the Gardner place, in past years known as the Calvin Marcy place. This farm is now owned by Judge J.. H. Reed of Stafford Springs.
 Miss Flora Hammond is spending the month of July at R. B. Horton S.. Miss Hammond has had a pleasant and successful year as teacher of do- mestic science in Philadelphia schools
 The first of the series of vesper ser vices will be held at Mt. Ochepetuck next Sunday The speaker will be Rev. c. W. Morrow of Fisk univer- sity, Tennessee. Miss Baldwin will preside at the piano.
 There was promise of an abundance of all kinds of berries, but this con- tinued dry weather is spelling the harvest. Blueberries are quoted at 25c and 29c per box in wholesale Boston markets.
 At the morning service last Sun day, Rev. H. F. Graham had an ex- cellent sermon, taking his text from II Kings 2O:1 "Set thine house in order'O. Three new members were added to the church by letter, after which communion was observed. A church meeting was called after the Sunday school, and was adjourned till next Sunday.
 At recent grange meeting Libra rian Wilkins gave list of the books in the Union library that might be especially helpful to farmers Among them was the book on the raising of swine, the corn book and "Earth's Bounty.' The latter book is most entertaining reading, and it is hoped that the companion book of this set may sometime be added to the library. Bird lovers will find an interesting book in ''The Romance of Bird Life. D It is surprising that there are so many kinds of birds in the world. There are birds with characteristics to be admired and also those to be detested with warm and generous sym pathies that are anxious to care for even more than their own little fami- lies, and there are others, like the cuckoo, that are best satisfied to crowd other birds from their established nests and establish themselves therein.
 A semi-open meeting of Mashapaug lake grange was held in the town hall last Wednesday evening. Forty or more of the patrons and their friends were present to enjoy good time on ! the evening before the Fourth. The following program was carried out | Reading of the Declaration of Inde- pendence by E. G. Walker and R. o. l Barrows. "The use and misuse of | our independence day" was the sub- ject assigned to l.. M. Reed and R. B. Horton. Both gentlemen brought out l many important points and made a strong plea for a: :'sane Fourth. 7" Independence Bell' was we'll I rendered by John Sellers. During the program and later in the evening Star Spangled Banner" Yankee Doodle, "Americai' and other patri- otic songs were sung by the grange and guests, R. B. Horton and Miss Elsie Horton leading with violin andI organ. Just before the refreshments were served several humorous stories were related of personal experiencesI on Fourth of Julys in past years The gentlemen of the grange had sole charge of the refreshments and proved themselves fully "equal to the occa- sion"--ice cream, cakes, nuts, fruit, lemonade being on the menu. This was something of a "dress party" and much fun was occasioned thereby. Space will not allow de- scription of all the fine clothes exhib- ited, but we must mention the fine old lady with cane, the motherly body with the ancient bonnet, the twoi quaint ladies from just across the way, | the worthies from Mashapaug who would have done credit to Barnum in his palmiest days, and the tall, rosy checked, bFaWny armed daInsel with the yellow veil and much9 behoweredl hat.
 : In reply to short article in the Union items of your paper of recent issue, regarding an appeal for larger at our local church ser vices, will you please publish the en- closed article, written by the Rev. Warren W. Wilson, Ph. D., in the Tribune Farmer, New York. In ad- 1ition to the subject of religion, allow me to state that there is a de-