The Press., 1913-05-14
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Mrs. w. H. Cooley has a new Cadillac touring car.
 Regular meeting of Baker chapter, Eastern Star, this evening.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin were in Belchertown, Mass, over Sunday.
 Edward Jacobsen, the mail carrier, has bought Ford touring car of the Hudson garage.
 Henry J. Bolieau went to the St. Francis hospital at Hartford on Tues day for an operation.
 Under the supervision of the Austin Organ company. the chimes on the Congregational church organ have been improved according to the latest method by adding softer hammers.
 Regular meeting of Myriad Rebekah lodge next Wednesday evening, with initiation. Supper at 6.3O. An in- vitation has been extended to May flower Rebekah lodge of Rockville to be present. ....-... ....-.- .-e
 The twenty eighth annual conven- tion of the Holland County Woman s Christian Temperance Union will be held in the Episcopal church on We'd nesday, May 2Sth, morning and after noon. All members are delegates to this meeting, providing their own basket lunch. The program will be given next week. The public are cordially invited.
 P. Alphonse Daigle, 5s, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Dennis Girard, on High street Sunday. He came here from Providence about two months ago to visit his sisters, and was taken ill very soon after his arrival. The funeral was held at St. Edwards church Tuesday morn- ing at 9 o'clock. The burial was in St. Edwards cemetery. He leaves a widow and several sons and daughters in Providence and two sisters in this borough, Mrs. Dennis Girard and Mrs. John Comfort.
 At the annual meeting of the Cur rent Events club Monday evening the following officers were elected: Miss Mary Ballantine, president; Mrs. G. Percival Bard, first president; Mrs. O. R. Newton, second vice-presi- dent; Miss A. D. Washburn, record ing secretary; Mrs. E. F. Leach, cor responding secretary; Mrs. O. H. Meyers, IT,, treasurer; Mrs. F. G. Sanford, auditor. Mrs. Christopher Allen, Miss I. B. Russell and Mrs. O. F. Beckwith were appointed a mem- bership committee for the coming year. Miss Mary Ballantine, Mrs. O. E. Butterfield and Miss Mary I. Newton are preparing the program on South America for next seasons study.
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 It was a happy coincidence that on Mothers Sunday the w. O. T. U. conducted the service at Orcuttville. After the praise and devotional service a vocal duet was rendered, and then Mrs. Walter P. Buck gave an helpful address, showing and comparing con- ditions here and elsewhere, and urging the women of Stafford to arouse them selves to their duty and privilege as voters. We welcome to Stafford this practical worker. Attention was called to Kansas, the state which is the geographical center of our coun- try, is the meeting place of two great reforms, prohi bition and woman suffrage, the focalizing point, as far as these two great reforms are con- eemed, of true progressive democratic republication. The prohibition states are on same line and east of Kansas; the suffrage states, plus the territory of Alaska, are west of Kansas. An article was read on the history, make up and effects of cider. Attention was called to health versus prevailing sickness, and the proper and scientific cooking of vegetables, food and medi- cine for the same price. The meeting was something different than usual and most helpful