The Press., 1913-12-31

Regular meeting of W. R. 0. next
 week Wednesday.
 Charles G. Ellis, who has been con. fined to his home by illness, is able to
 be out again.
 William, Rudolph and Miss Irene
 Theising were Christmas guests of
 relatives in Pittsfield, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Lucius Smith and
 sons, Kenneth and Harold, of Talcott-
 vile have been spending a few days
 at the Smith home on Highland Ter
 race.
 Mrs O. R. Newton and her niece,
 Miss Frances Newton, will go to Newtonville, Mass. this week to be the guests of Mrs. Newton's parents,
 MT. and Mrs. Fayette Bennett.
 Thomas Fitzpatrick, who has won considerable publicity on his aerial work on steeples and stacks, is at work painting a stack for Smith & Cooley. MT. Fitzpatrick recently gilded ball on a staff for the American Optical works in Southbridge, 22O feet in the air.
 Ell. Newman, chauffeur for George o. Fenton of Orange, Mass, wins check for $ 100 in the upkeep contest conducted each year by the Winton Auto company. Newman drove a Winton 6, 1910 model, IA, 900 miles, and his repair expense was but $4. 31. The Winton company gives out 26 of these prizes and MT. Newman is one of the four Bay State men to get one.
 Wm. Simonds, who has been em- ployed in the Whiton store for a number of years, has taken a position with the Charles Lincoln O. of Hart ford, wholesale dealers in tea, coffee and spices. MT. Simonds is a stirring, industrious young man, and he has lot of local friends who wish him suc- cess in his new field. His place in the Whiton grocery is taken by John Bartlett
 Readers of The Press get 53 papers this year, instead of g, the usual There were B Wednesdays in 1913. Leap year gives two days over the 52 weeks and other years cue day over. Thus it happens that once in long term of years there is an extra publication day. In view of the loyal support awarded the home paper, the publisher is gratified to put in the extra number as often as the year for it cones around.
 A L Howard, who has conducted a dry goo.ls store in the bank build ing, has sold his stock an1 good will to F. W. 6 M. A. Howard MT. the proprietor, has been in the dry goods business for the past eighteen years and has built up a yooI trade by his thorough business methods, and has won the respect of the public and his business associates !, by his strict integrity. Of the new firm Miss M A. Howard has been with her father since the business vas established The new member If the firm, Fred W. Howard, has ]cen a valued employe at The Press ltfice for twenty years He will continue his connection with The Press for the present, giving mp
 part of his time to his new business.
 Mrs. Caroline Sharp Chapman, 52, i fife of Harvey Chapman, died at the ] lesson hospital in Springfield last ( of heart failure. Mrs Chap I an resided here for a time and has | lany local friends and acquaintances 8 Irs. Chapman was born in Marion, S B., but since her marriage in 1885 t ad lived in the east, being in Pal h ler, Stafford Springs and Springfield. ' During the early years of her life frs. Chapman was an active and en- { husiastic worker in the church aud . Il the Woman's Christina Temperance Union. Up to the last ] , years, ow- ng to ill health, she retired from hese activities. However, she was member of the Springfield society f the Women's Christian Temperance { JniOn. It was a cause of sorrow to 1 Ter that she was unable to engage ill he more active work of the cause. 'esides her husband, she leaves three Mrs. Ethel c. Howard of s Outh Hadley, Miss Christine F. [ 'hapman of Wellesley, Miss Pearl ihapman, a son, Ernest H. Chapman, ] t home; also her mother, Mrs. M. !. Sharp, a sister, Miss Leah M. harp, and a brother, Charles Sharp f Laclede, Mo. The funeral was cid from her late home, 138 Bay treet, Springfield, yesterday afternoon t ? p. m., and the burial was in the Dak Grove cemetery in tIat city.