The Press., 1913-06-04
UNION.

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 Ralph V. Towne was week -end guest of friends in Worcester.
 MT. and Mrs. Melvin Booth of Brimfeld attended the Memorial day exercises here.
 MT. and Mrs. Wm. H. Horton of Monson were guests of friends here over Memorial day and returned to their home Saturday afternoon.
 Mrs. l.: M. Reed is i'll this week, but her friends hope to see her better soon, and able to enjoy the nice: new carriage which she recently puf- chased. : 1@tA";
 MT. and Mrs Oliver Hiscox and MT. and Mrs. Albert Hammond of Wood stock Valley were among those from out of town who attended the me- moria1 exercises here.
 The school board has received notice that the summer school t;Dan- bury is necessarily omitted this year. This will doubtless be a disappoint- ment to some of the teachers in this vicinity. 4'"
 Many old friends were glad tos have John w. Corbin with them last Fri day and rejoice that his heafth is i'm proving. Mr. Oorbin. has, taken such a deep iEoerest in, Unions past Me- morial days that the exercises seem hardly complete without his presence. Luther Gardner has a rather re- markable hen which he values very highly. In fact, money couldn't buy that hen for MT. Gardner proposes to retain possession of his pet, even to the day when stern necessity compels him to "shake off this mortal coil. !" Madam Biddy is no spring, chicken - at least, not now. She has passed her. sixteenth birthday, but her teeth are just as sound as they ever were. and she is quite we'll able to attend to all her household duties. Last Monday she laid an egg and is apparently planning to go right on doing her part toward solving the important economic problem of supply and de- mand. '~'t" a-'< - ..'''''s -.'''i
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 Mrs. Fred Aldrich of Uxbridge is visiting her father, E. M. Horton.
 Harry Palmer of Hartford made a week end visit with. friends in tosNn.
 Miss Esther Nelson spent, Sunday with her parents in South Woodstock.
 Florence Marcy of Hartford spent few days the past week at the Marcy homestead.
 MT. and Mrs. Oliver HowlasA of Holland recently visited withf her father, E. M. Horton. * '
 MT. and Mrs. M F. J. Walker. and Amasa Morse of Stafford Springs called on friends in town last Mon day. IT,: .- s~
 Announcements have been received by friends in town of the marriage of Maurice Davis Town to Clara Luella Webster of Southbridge on May 28th. They are spending few weeks in Nova Scotia. / . .... ~4s
 Mrs. George Whitcomb and daugh- ter, Mrs. Ava Hunt and two children of Dodge, also o. Hathaway and J. F. Gage and family of Westville were week end visitors with MT. and Mrs W. Richards. :.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert Hammond of Woodstock Valley, MT. and Mrs. Stephen Tifft and Ransom Tifft of Westford, Rev. MT. Curtiss, J. Cor bin and Miss Goodell of Stafford were among those that attended the Me- morial day exercises at the Oongrega- tional church last Friday.
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 Mrs Lyman Moore has been very ill with a cold and grip ...e Wm. Pickles is confined to the house with severe cold. ,... ;
 James Earle has the contract to shingle the Kinney homestead.
 0. w. Doleberu of Norwich is, ,dc- cupying his camp at Hemlock Island. l
 Miss Mary Ellwood of Hartford was the guest of Miss Frances Walker last 1 week.
 Mrs. Lucy Aldrich of Uxbridge, l Mass, is visiting at E. M. Horton's | and Mrs. O. Walkers.
 Mrs. F. W. Moore of Sturbridge, | Mrs. Abbe and daughter, Dorothy, of | Worcester were in town Sunday. -l
 G. R. Finley, with party of guests from Hartford, opened camp at | Point Pleasant Saturday afternoon i4' L. E. Sibley and family, accom- panied by MT. and Mrs. Grant Foster, were at their camp during Memoir al day and over Sunday. 4~.. r. x
 O. E. Mills of Chicago was before Judge A. M. Heck on Monday for tres passing on private trout brook, the judge making it $1 and costs, amount ing in all to $11.72.
 F. A. Moore, O. A. Pronlx, with their families, and Mrs. O. Walker, Miss Frances Walker and Mrs. HoL linsworth are attending the closing exercises of the legislature in Hartford this week.
 The strawberry market in the larger centers is calling for. .native berries, and already buyers are olt looking up this season g crop Hhe1b'I is every evidence of good local crop to be sold at good prices.
 HOLLAND.
 Mrs. Charles s. Hurlbut is quite