The Press., 1913-11-26

been i'll with appendicitis, is mucl more comfortable.
 The Thanksgiving service will be held at St. Edward s church to-mor row morning at 8 o'clock.
 Miss Margaret Russell of Wallom Lake, R. l., and Mrs. B. T. Russell of Springfield have been visiting rela tives in town.
 A daughter (virginia) was born or Tuesday morning at the Johnson Me. morial hospital to MT. and Mrs. Rich ard H. Valentine.
 The Boys club is proving attrac- tive and many are enjoying it's advan- tages. A four-t team bowling league among the boys has been formed.
 An attachment has been filed on the Main street site of the old stone block, owned by Miss Olive Foster, by the New England Construction Go. The attachment is the result of difference of opinion on the work recently done, and a consequent inability of the owner and the company to come to a settlement.
 At a recent family gathering at M. P. J. Walkers there were present, be- sides Eld. Amasa Morse, who is here for the winter, MT. and Mrs. Nathan Morse of Akron, O., Mrs. s. B. Morse of Montague, Mass. Mrs. Mary Ed son of Springfield and the Misses Alice and Ruth Walker from Brooklyn, N Y.
 R. M. Fisk won the turkey offered by the Tufts alleys for the five high est strings in candles. The scores were 125, 124, 122, 121, IA; total of 6O6. The game between the War rens and Clerks has been postponed from tonight until Friday night The Crescents and Merchants will bowl tomorrow night.
 Stafford.
 The epidemic of chicken pox that has been prevalent during the last month seems to be subsiding.
 Mrs. J. G. Mitchell and three sons of Saybrook are the guests of Mrs. Inez Lasbury for Thanksgiving.
 Rev. and Mrs. Wm. E. Gaskin are spending the week with their son, Ivan Gaskin, in Dorchester, Mass.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Bap- tist church will hold a handkerchief sale and supper Thursday, Dec. II.
 Asel Abbott of Monson, resident of this village many years ago, spent several days at Blacks hotel last week.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert Thresher of Dayton, Ohio, are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Henry o. Thresher at Still brook Farm.
 I. Russell Jencks had the misfor- tune to lose a nice COW recently. It fell off a bank wall and broke it's back and neck.
 George H. Colburn and family of Burlington, Vt., and Clifford Colburn of Chicopee, Mass. are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Russell Oolburn.
 Mrs. Rose Tracy, who has been with Mrs. W. T. Jones since her oper- ation last spring, has gone to Florida, where she will spend the winter with friends.
 The first free lecture of the season under the auspices of the H. P. U. will be given Dec. 6 in Memorial hall by L. B. Wickersham. Subject, ''Day dreams. ;
 Mrs. Sarah Black will soon dispose of large part of her household goods at auction, moving the remainder to the Johnson tenement, where she will make her home.
 Regular meeting of Stafford grange next Tuesday evening. The annual business meeting and election of offic- CTS will be held at that time and a full attendance is desired.
 Stuart Nye of Ashland, Mass. has been the guest of Mrs. Betsy Adams of Stafford Street for a few days. He returned to his home Tuesday, accom-. panied by Mrs. Adams, who will spend the winter there.
 The Ladies' Circle of the Univer, salist church will meet for work next Wednesday afternoon. The regular monthly supper will be served at o'clock. Hostesses, Mrs. Wm. Dun ham, Mrs Russell Oolburn and Mrs Alice Dimmick.
 Many are looking forward to the annual Thanksgiving dance under th' auspices of Stafford grange, to be heli in Memorial hall Thanksgiving night The fact that Lynch's orchestra ha been engaged is guarantee of goot music, and good weather is, all tha is required to make the affair a sue cess, as it always has been in thu past.
 Baptist Notes: At the union ser vice last Friday night, in observanc of "home mission week, "Charles Ed ward Prior of the Security company o Hartford spoke on his favorite theme "The Italians. '' His coming to ou town was a happy anticipation an event to all. He spoke out of tn fullness of his sympathy for the son of Italy, and from an experience o many years of devoted service for then