The Press., 1914-09-02

Asa Harris.
 & Miss Estella Squier of Willimanti spent a few days recently at Mrs. A G. Sault's.
 Mrs. Joshua Larned returned las Sunday from a week s visit with rels tives in Cleaveland, Ohio.
 Miss Alice Webster is spending tw 3 weeks vacation in Springfield wit MT. and Mrs. George Webster. ] Miss Katheryn Moore and tw friends from Quaker Hill were enter tained by Miss Helen Wightman las 2 week.
 Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lamitu o Worcester, Mass, are spending tw' weeks vacation with MT. and Mrs J. E. Matthew.
 Mrs. o: B. Prince and daughter Marion of Paterson, N. J., were th' guests Of MT. and Mrs. J. N. Sibley for few days recently.
 The first meeting of the season ot the Y. P. c. U., will be held in tht assembly room at the Universalist parsonage next Sunday evening.
 J. E. Matthew, while recently fish ing at Moore's pond in Staffordville, caught 40 pouts and an eel 36 inches long that weighed 4 pounds.
 A corn supper will be served by the members of Stafford grange at "Pas- tors Retreat," Saturday, Sept. 12, to which the public is invited.
 Mrs. Geo. H. Bray returned last Sunday from a fortnight's stay at Block Island. MT. Bray spent Friday and Saturday with her, both being guests of MT. and Mrs Wm. Wood head
 Baptist Church Notes: The pastor was back from his vacation and occupied his pulpit last Sunday The bi-monthly covenant meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon at ?. 30 o'clock at the vestry. A full attendance is urged.
 The popularity of the Frank Patten hOstelry becomes more and more apparent as fall approaches, this being a favorite resort for guests of certain class. After spending the hot summer months at the mountains and shore they return each year in increasing numbers to enjoy the hospitality offered by Frank. He is at present entertaining seven.
 West Stafford
 Mrs. Gerould Shepard is entertain ing her sister, Miss Hosie.
 Edmund Kellogg was with Mrs. Kellogg in Mystic over Sunday.
 Miss Mildred Walkley has entered Huntsinger's business college, Hart ford.
 Mrs. Ann Talbot and Chauncey Wheeler are guests at the Sturtevant home
 w. D. Graves is building for Gerould Shepard a large henhouse, 65 by 25 feet.
 Paul Krol has his new house on Chestnut hill nearly ready for occupancy.
 Miss Esther King of Guilford is visiting her grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. O. W. Burt.
 Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Magill and family will return to their home in Jamaica this week.
 Miss Vera Holmes of Rockville is spending the week with her aunt, Mrs. F. T. Fairfield.
 Mrs. Rosalie Luffier of New London is visiting her sisters Mrs. Ella Lovett and Mrs. Francelia Gold.
 MT. and Mrs. G. M. Barlow and son, Milton, visited Miss Lucy Barber in Warehouse Point last Sunday.
 Misses Esther and Lillian King have been the guests of their cousins, MT. and Mrs Burt Dowden.
 Miss Ruth Ellis, employed in the office of w. H. Hall of South Willing ton, has been home for week s vacation.
 MT and Mrs Ernest Edson of Middletown have been the guests of their parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Edson.
 M. F. Davis and H. A. Glazier, with their families, attended the Davis reunion at Riverside park last Wednesday.
 MT and Mrs. Henry Mckinney have been entertaining their grandchildren, MT and Mrs. Clinton Eldridge, and child of Willington and Harold Mo- Kinney of Thompsonville.
 Mrs. Hattie Pomeroy and Mrs. H. A. Glazier will act as hostesses at the first Ladies' Aid supper of the season, next Tuesday evening. The ladies are requested to meet at ? o'clock to tie a quilt, and supper will be served from 6 to 8 o'clock. An entertain ment will follow. Supper and enter tainment, 5 cents.
 Church Notes: The regular Sunday morning service and the Sunday school have been resumed. Subject for the Thursday evening service will be ''The duty and rewards of work, '' Thess. 3 1-16. Miss Blanche Sturtevant will lead the c. E. con- secration service next Sunday evening, with the topic ''The prayer verse;" First hand yarns of China" will be the subject of lecture by Ralph Gold in the church auditorium Friday evening at 7.45. MT. Gold returned last week from Foochow, China, where he has been teaching electrical engineering in the governmental