The Press., 1913-08-27

Of Springfield are guests or Mlsse ss Hester and Florence Walbridge.
 William Gaskin, son of the pastor n will have charge of the service at tn
 Universalist church next Sunday. @ Mrs. Eliza Dugdale and daughter
 Nellie, are the guests of Mrs. FaJ s Keefe of Madison, Me-, for several weeks. -..s
 Miss Rachel and Frederick Glover
 are spending their vacation with friends in Blackstone, Providence and Woodstock.
 Mrs. Eva Lewis, who was operated
 on at the Hartford hospital last Mon-
 day night for appendicitis, is making
 good recovery.
 Arthur E. Pottle and Miss Ida B.
 Taylor were married last Sunday at the Universalist parsonage by Rev.
 William B. Gaskin.
 Mrs. Wm. Woodhead and three sons have joined MT. Woodhead at Block Island, after spending several weeks with MT. and Mrs. George H. Bray.
 Regular meeting of Stafford grange next Tuesday evening. Each member is requested to respond to the roll-call by relating some vacation experience.
 MT. and Mrs. John Andrew and. daughter, Ruth, were called to Low ell, Mass, the first of the week to at-i tend the funeral of Mrs. Andrews :. mother. ->|--.'. ..-'- .
 Edwin o. Pinney has been appoint ed by Gov. Baldwin a member of the commission to inquire into the advis ability of establishing a reformatory for women.
 Mrs. Jennie Harris, Mrs. M. B. Hatch. Mrs. w. H. Webster, Misses Lottie Hatch, Minnie Hunt, Arlene Hewlett were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Todd at Quaker Hill last Friday. + Miss Ethel Robinson is attending teachers institute this week at Massa- chusetts state normal school at Salem, Mass. She will teach the commercial course in that school the coming year. . -*>~ .* ...,
 Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. Wightman of this town and Misses Mildred and Mae MacCallum of Talcottville have occu- pied Twin Oaks Cottage" at Quaker l Hill the past week.
 The members of the Ladies' Circle ! of the Universalist church will meet | for work next Wednesday afternoon. | At o'clock the regular monthly sup per will be served. HOstesses, Mrs. ! Myron Leonard, Mrs. H. Ramsden, Miss Hannah Black.
 Staffordville 1
 There will be mass at St. JOseph's I chapel on Sunday at 8 a. m. ...=..
 Mrs. Mary Heck is the guest of Mrs. Matt Heck in Union this week,
 Mrs. Lima Booth is the guest. of Mrs. William F. Peel in Nashua, N. H., this week.
 Misses Bertha Ensminger and Isa- belle Colburn are guests of friends in Worcester and vicinity. v"
 Mrs. Charles Smith and son, Ernest, attended camp meeting at Willimantic last Thursday.
 Mrs. Sarah Potter and nephew, Charlie Williams, attended old home day at Holland last Saturday. 4.,. ,,'.
 William Chandler and daughter, Mildred, spent few days with rela tives in North Ashford last week.
 Herbert A. Bosworth returned to his work Monday morning in the Hydeville mill, after being confined to his home by illness for few days.
 MT. and Mrs. Jerry Wilson and daughter, Mrs. E. Harrington, and three children are spending two weeks with MT. and Mrs. l.. Wilson in Ash ford.
 MT. and Mrs. Ezra s. Colburn, Merton l.. Thompson, Mrs. Sarah Potter and Charles Williams attended old home day celebration at Holland, Mass, last Saturday.
 The mid-week prayer service will be held in M. E. church auditorium on Wednesday evening. The pastors subject will be ''The blessedness of longing.'' The pastors theme for next Sunday morning will be "Life s ways. ;
 A lawn party will be held at the home of James Roberts, which is known as the Perry Amadon place, on Thursday evening of this week. The party will be in charge of the Ep- worth League of the Methodist church. Ice cream and candy will be for sale.
 For the past three months Rev. MT. Hamilton's Sunday school class, the Knights of Methodism, have been holding Bible question contest. Ro- land Belcher has been declared the winner, he having attained the high est percentage of correct answers. The prize is book.
 Rev. Wilfred D. Hamilton, whose resignation was to take effect Sept. 1st, will remain here until Sept. 18th, to accommodate the district l superintendent and the church. Af- ter brief vacation he is to enter Gar rett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill. the oldest Methodist theological semi nary in this country. r.
 Otto Serno, 59, who has lived inl one of Mrs. Vaill's tenements for some time, was found dead in bed Sunday evening. MT. Serno has been in poor health for many months. He came from Germany and had no relatives in this part of the country. Medical