The Press., 1913-04-30
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Mir. and Mrs. Frederic Faulkner have been in New York few days.
 Mrs. James Walker and Miss Grace E. Harwood of Rockville were at the Harwood home over Sunday.
 On Friday morning a daughter was born to Mir and Mrs. William Slater at the Johnson Memorial hospital.
 E. R. Marsdale is unable to attend to his duties as flagman on account of sickness. Jeremiah Armstrong is talk. ing his place.
 Mrs. Catherine Hicks has returned from New York, having been obliged to postpone her visit to Atlantic City because of ill health.
 ''Oyer the Pass,' by Frederic Pal mer, and "The Red Lane," by Hol- man Day, have been presented to the library by Mrs. ". R. Morse
 There will be a meeting of the Congregational church committee af- ter the mid-week meeting tomorrow evening. A full attendance is de- sired.
 Miss Katherine Riley, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Michael Riley, and Martin Corish of Monson will be married at St. Edwards church next Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.
 At the Current Events club meeting Monday night a paper on the status of women from barbaric times to the present was read by the president, Mrs. G. Percival Bard. Conditions. especially in England, which led women to struggle for the elective franchise, were reviewed and a non- partisan summary of the various factions as they stand to-day was given. At the business meeting one new member was elected, and the club apportionment for the General Federation Sarah Platt Decker" en- dOwment fund was pledged. Mrs. Bard and Miss Mary Ballantine will represent the club at the state feder- ation meeting at South Manchester, May g, B, 24. Attractive post cards were sent each club member from Miss Elinor Valentine, who is on the Pacific coast.
 The customary festivities will be held at the annual May day dinner at the Methodist church tomorrow, be ginning with the chicken-pie dinner served from 5. 80 till p. m. There will be sales of useful articles, home made candy and cut flowers. From ' to 8 o'clock, in the parlor, a reception will be given to the new pastor, Rev. Walter Perley Buck, and his family. This should be a delightful social hour for all the church people and friends. At 8 o'clock a short musical program will be given; the girls choir will sing, Mrs. T. F. Mullen will assist in other songs and Miss Elsie Teal will give a piano solo The cute little Sunbonnet Babies and Overall Boys, with some of their Mother Goose friends, will entertain for another half hour. Price of din- ner, including entertainment, 35c; entertainment alone, 15c.
 The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader of Sept. 27th has full account of a Wagnerian festival to be given there in honor of Richard Wagner's one hundredth birthday anniversary, May fifth and sixth. The Metropolitan Opera Co. of New York will furnish the soloists. Frederick Stock, direc- tor of the Theodore Thomas orchestra, will conduct the festival and his or chestra will furnish the instrumental music Twenty-six of Cleveland s most capable soloists have been chosen to sing the difficult music in the scene where Parsifal is tempted by the flower maidens, and their pictures are published. Stafford friends of Miss Margaret Converse, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Louis Converse, will learn with pleasure that she is one of those selected. Miss Converse was heard several times during her visit here last summer, and Stafford friends feel that the honor is we'll merited.