The Press., 1913-02-19

| VOSSkIA Van Arsdale of Hartford.
 Mrs. E. R. Brown is at home for $ few days from Naugatuck, where she is spending few months with Miss E. Sophie Brown.
 Mrs. James Bolieau is expected home this week from the Hartford hospital, where she has been five weeks for an operation. a.
 o. P. Buskirk is dangerously ill at his home on Grant avenue of diabetes, and there is doubt that he lives through the day. He was taken ill early this morning.
 Rev. c. H. Puffer has resigned as pastor of the Universalist church at Salem, Mass. to take effect immedi- ately. He preached at Universalist church at Reading, Penn., last Sum- day.
 Rehearsals for the minstrel show for the benefit of the Boys club are in progress. The company will in- clude two quartets, one from the high school and another composed of local young men. There will be 30 in the circle, including eight ladies.
 Mrs. Clara Cleaveland Walker 70, died in Dorchester, Mass, Sunday. The deceased was daughter of Orange Cleaveland and Lucinda Alden Oleave- land and spent her early years in Stafford Springs. She was born in Holland and was united in marriage to George Walker of Boston in 1870. The funeral was held at Dorchester yesterday and the body was brought to this town to-day for burial in the Stafford Springs cemetery. There will be a service at the grave.
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 Herbert Phillips has gone to Spring field, where he has taken a position,
 Miss Louise Richmond of Philadel- phia has been the guest of Mrs. E. R. Perry this week.
 Mrs. Higgins of Springfield is spending week with her sister, Miss Louise Macgreggour, at Pasture Land.
 Mrs. Albert Crosier and daughter, Miss Ava, and Miss Eva Murray have gone to Springfield, where they ex- pect to secure employment.
 MT. and Mrs. George H. Lord are in Hartford to-day, where Mir. Lord will give short address on poultry before the Connecticut Poultry asso- citation.
 Miss Lucy Mathews of Hartford, formerly of Stafford, while alighting from street car in Hartford recent ly, had the misfortune to fall and break her right wrist.
 The third Lenten inter-church ser vice at the Universalist church Fri day night, 7.3O. The sermon by Rev. J. ". Ballantine. Topic, "How Christ awakened the sense of sin.' An offering will be received at this service to defray necessary expenses. A good congregation was present at the Baptist church last Friday night | to listen to fine sermon by Rev. R. G. Clapp.
 Universalist Church Notes Third | Sunday in Lent. Subject of sermon, "The way of training for Christian service" " Young Peoples Christian Union devotional meeting usually I held at o'clock will be changed next Sunday to 4, to accommodate the visitor from the young peoples state Miss Edna N. Harris of Meriden, Topic of the meeting, St. Matthias.
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 MT. and Mrs. Charles Smith have accepted positions in the Garland mill
 Mrs. G. H. Snow and two children are visiting relatives in Oxford, Mass.
 Mrs. Charles White is entertaining her nieces, Misses Gregory of Willi- mantic.
 Services will be held at St. Jo- seph's chapel next Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
 H. M. Tollman of Boston visited | MT. and Mrs. John Rishton over the weekend last week. ..,.
 Congregational ladies' supper in the vestry Thursday of this week. Adults, 1Oc; children, sc.
 Mrs. Grant Hanna and niece, Miss Arlene Hanna, have been spending of days with relatives in Wor- cester.
 Earl Bowden caught a pickerel three pounds and two ounces last Saturday in the reservoir, the largest caught this season.
 The third in the Lenten services will be held in the Methodist church Friday evening at 7. 30 o'clock. Dr. Horton of the M. B. church, Stafford Springs, will preach. Subject, "The supremacy of Christ. ;
 Congregational Church Notes: Last Sundays sermon was on Christ's in the wilderness and the modern Lenten observance. It was preached by the pastor, who has been suffering from grip at her home in Hartford and who returned last Fri day. The Lenten service Friday even ing showed gain in attendance, Rev. 1. W. E. Gaskin giving fine sermon on '' The saving of lost soul." Next Sunday evenings meeting will be a union of Epworth League and Chris tian Endeavor. Subject, Mission ary service" " Matt. 1O:7-11.
 Methodist Church Notes: The nastOr'S sermon On EGTho little rod