The Press., 1914-11-25

\ Regular meeting of Baker chapte
 Eastern Star this evening.
 l Harold W, Penny of Dartmouth Ii
 home for the Thanksgiving recess. 1 Michael w. Dawson yas operatet
 on at the Johnson hospitals yesterda!
 afternoon for appendicitis. The Manufacturers won three point from the Clerks in the bowling con test last evening ,'.@ ..t :
 Philip Barton of Willsboro, N. Y.. and Miss Norma Barton of the Bostol art school are guests at the. iWildey home. e...-. .,....
 The civic. committee of the Current Events club has taken up plans fol the community Christmas tree and is working hard to make it success. Mrs. Edward R. Marsdale who now lives in New London has been awarded compensation insurance on tie death of her son who was lost at sea off Long Island few months ago. 4-...~.. 4Thoren Swain of Warren, veteran commercial traveller, died last week. MT. Swain has been coming here for 40 years or more and has a number of local friends and aequaintances.
 Miss Hannah Anderson,59, died at New York Monday night following an operation for appendicitis. The body will be brought here and the burial will be in St. Edwards cemetery to- morrow morning., She was a former resident. of this town and leaves. a sister here, Miss Ann Anderson. s.. She also leaves a brother in@Ireland r The Opportunity club of the Congre- gational church will hold Mother Goose fair at the chapel Friday even ing and Saturday afternoon of next week. Attractive booths and the club members in costume. will make a pretty sight. Cake. ice cream, home made candy, fancy articles, etc., will be on sale. At one booth will be sold distinctive novelties from the Baker handic~aft shop in Springfield. There will be no admission fee.
 HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
 ,&The senior class will have a public dance fnr the benefit of the Washing ton fund in St. Edwards s hall Dec. II. |. The students at the high school will issue a school paper commencing with the December number An import ant feature will be an alumni column. would he appreciated.
 The prospects for fast bask ketball team are very good. Practice is being held three days week Although the schedule is not fully. completed the following teams will be played: Rockville high, Glastonbury, East Hartford, Palmer, Ware and probably several others. H.
 The characters chosen for the senior play, '.The time of his life," are as follows: Bob Grey, John Fletcher; Mrs. Bob Grey, Miss Hattie Cooper; Tom, Garter, Mrs Grey's brother. Bernard Mullins; Mrs. Peter Wy confbe, parsonage, 7" Miss Mary Reynolds Peter Wycombe, a 'pessi mist, '', with a digestion, Kingsley Converse Dorothy Landon, secretly engaged to Tom Garter, Miss Hattie Lee; James Landon, Sr., Dorothy',s father, of a peppery disposition, Cyril QaWson; Uncle Tom, an old colored butler from the south, David Shep- hertf;y Officer Hogan of the Twenty second Street police station, Alexander Papp. E Rehearsals will begin i'm, mediately after the Thanksgiving recess. The proceeds will be added to the Washington trip' fund. ..:..-.<-..:., . Stafford. ...
 a. Doris Murray is i'll with rheumatic fever.
 Miss Helen Wightman is home from Northfeld for the Thanksgiving recess.
 Chas Dimmick is in Westfield where he is working at his trade of painter and paper hanger. - "*
 MT. and Mrs Robert Campbell of Westfeld are the guests of MI. and Mrs. J, ". Rollinson
 T Mrs. Reuben Burley is suffering from severe attack of grip. Mrs Albert Crosier is caring for her.
 Mrs Frank Medbury returned from the Johnson. hospital last Friday where she had been under treatment the past two weeks. ....-
 At the regular meeting of Stafford grange next Tuesday evening the secretary and treasurer's reports will be read and the election of officers held.
 Miss Margaret Glover returned last Monday from Boston where she has been taking a two months course in a large millinery establishment Miss Rachel Glover spent Saturday and Sunday with her.
 The Ladies' Circle of the Universa- : list church will meet for work next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock. The regular monthly supper will be served. Hostesses: Mrs Russell Col burn, Mrs. Wm. Durham, Mrs. Alice Dimmick.
 : w.. $. ,Walbridge has bought store out of town and will move from StaffoEdg.iu about two weeks On Saturday at 1s30 D. m., he will sell at auction his personal property con- sisting' of horse, wagons, and house. hold furniture
 - Frequent rehearsals are being held for the play "The Foul Tip,t'' which will be presented in memorial hall in