The Press., 1912-11-13
UNION.

AAAAOA DOSu0 AS W1OH 4I4SuUS in Providence.
 # Lewis Scranton spent few days at his home the past week..
 The summer cottages on Marcy
 Hill" are closed for the winter.
 Albert slade of southbridge visited his daughter; Mrs: L. Miller, recent ly.
 7 Wm. Myers of Woodstock visited his daughter, Mrs. H. Graham, the first of the week. T
 Regular meeting. of Mashapaug Lake grange next Wednesday evening. Roll-call~ answered by Thanksgiving quotations. s-' ,..-..'
 The Ceres program at the grange. meeting last week was very interest ing. The discussion on corn culture brought out many important points. 's. The cottage meeting at Mrs. E. H. Barber's last Sunday evening was well attended. A meeting was ap- pointed for the same place next Sun day at $40 p. m. MT. Graham's s subject is to be How to make life the most joyous. '' x .
 R. Harlow Back, who practiced law in Stafford Springs during 1898, was elected d judge of the superior court for the state of Washington upon Nov. 5th. He was born in Union, May 2Sth, 1865, at Mashapaug. He is the son of MT. and Mrs. Roscius Back, now of Southbridge. Harlow, as he is known in Union, was edu- ISated in the common schools of his native town, in the Hitchcock free academy of Brimfiold, Mass. and in tI1e Boston university law school, where he received the degree of l.. l.. B., in 1889. He practiced law in Boston from ! 8e9 to 1898; in Stafford Springs in l898-9; in Athol, Mass. i, from 1899 to 1908, and in Van couver, Washington, from 1903 to date, except during a little over one year in 19UG and 7, when he had a law office In Torrlngton. He was corporation counsel and city attorney of Vancouver, Wash, his adopted city, in 1908. He was nominated up- on the non-partisan judiciary ticket of Clarke, county for judge of the superior court at the direct primaries held Sept. 10th, last, and then re- ceived nearly as many votes as his four competitors combined. At the election Nov. 9th he was Overwhelm ingly elected such judge over the other candidate.
 The following items of premiums were awarded at the Mashapaug Lake grange fair at Union October 2Oth Edwin Heck, potatoes, lst. Olin Willis, Delaware potatoes, 1st; Harold Towne, double yielder, 1st. Corn Nelson Horton, 1st; Edwin B. Towne, 1st; Harold Towne, special; Mary Sedlak, 1st; Inez Booth, 1st; May land Heck, pop corn, lst; Annie sed- lak, special. Beans g. Edwin Heck, yellow wax, 1st; Nelson Horton, early refugee, cranberry, field bean, speckled eye wax, 2d; Mayland Heck, mammoth cranberry, 1st; George Agard, string beans, 1st; soldier beans, lst; cranberry pole, 1st. Squash - Harold Towne, delicious, list; Hubbard, 3d; Nelson Horton, summer, special premium; Hubbard, s2d; Edwin Heck, Hubbard, 3d; Ed. win Towne, horticultural, 1st; sum. mer, special; George Agard, 1st; o. 70. Willis, mammoth, special, Pump. kins-Andie RizneF, mammoth, 1st {; Edmund Towne, 1st; Harold Towne, speoiali Nellie Lyon, 1st; Nelson Horton, 2d. Cabbage Harold Booth, lst; Edwin Heck, 1st; Edmund Towne, 2d. Turnips-Andie Rizner, 3 varieties, 1st; Claude Booth, white egg turnip, special; Nelson Horton, white egg, special; Violet Viegaska, 1st. Apples Violet Viegaska, New Jersey, special; Olin Willis, special northern spy, special. Beets-Elme1 Booth, 1st, Carrots Nelson Horton, 1st; Peanuts Nelson Horton, 1st. Chickens-Nellie Lynn, three coops of chickens, 1st on each. Yoke o1 steers Joseph Tyler, 1st; hiefer, 1st. Yarn ball = Fairman Howard, 1st. Doll dressed by Nellie Lynn, 12 years, 2d. Eggs laid by bullet matched last May, Nellie Lynn, 1st. Cake Mary Agard, 6 years, 1st Mable Heck, 15 years, 3 cakes, 1st Elise Horton, 3d; Julia Heck, years old, waters, 1st. Flowers = Fairman Howard, 2d. Apron-Mabel Heck, 1st; outline quilt = Elsie Horton, special. Embroidered waist-Elsi Horton, special.
 Mashapaug.
 Fred A. Moore is running a new Ford touring car. -.:
 Mrs. P. o. Hollingworth is in Prov idence for an extended visit.
 MT. and Mrs. Raymond Hathaway are now at home to their friends in the Cummings place. "
 
 Miss Blanche soule has returned tc Ter home in Stafford after a visit with her. sister, Mrs. H.. R. Howard. a. Miss Frances Walker, went to Springfield last week to attend the wedding of a Northfield seminary classmate. ...
 ., Mrs. O.. H. Walker returned home Monday from three-weeks' outing with friends and relatives in Spring field, 4Wareho use Point and Hartford.
 Mrs. Jarvis Hatch of Stafford and Mrs. Marble of Illinois were driving about town the first of the week, view. ing old familiar scenes and calling on acquaintances. MT. and Mrs. Hatch began their first housekeeping in the