The Press., 1914-12-30

of Terryville spent the past week with w. E. Hanley.
 Francis Fitzpatrick has gone to New Haven to work in one of the large manufacturing enterprises there. r The annual meeting of the Stafford Business Mems association will be held at the club rooms next Monday evening.
 Michael Dawson, who was operated on for appendicitis at the Johnson hospital, was discharged yesterday. He has recovered nicely.
 MT. and Mrs James Shepard, Jr. helped to celebrate the .gulden we'd ding of their parents in Fitchburg, Mass, on Christmas day.
 MT. and Mrs. F. A. Bartlett and daughter, Lois, were guests ot her parents, MT. and Mrs, J P. Wagner, over Christmas and Sunday.
 Miss Celia Holt and company ot school girls gave an entertainment at the town farm Monday which seemed to please the inmates.
 The Ladies Auxiliary and A. o. H. will hold whist and social or ] Friday evening at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. Next Sunday the A. o. H. officers will be installed by the county presi dent, Dr. J. E. Hassett.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a "Mothers" meet ing" next Wednesday in the West 1 Stafford church at 3 o'clock. A special invitation is extended to mothers with young children. Attendants will be present to entertain the little ones while tine mothers enjoy th' meeting under the direction of Mrs F. z. Fairfield.
 The announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Ella Hast l ings Lewis of Rochester, N. Y., tt Harold Crane of this town, who ii now in the Springfield office of Bod we'll & Go bond dealers Miss Lewis has taught in the Amherst public schools for the past two years and i graduate of the Bridgewater norma school. Miss Lewis and MT. Cram were entertained at the home of Mrs O. D. Hunt in Amherst on Christina day.
 The following is the annual stor, from Frederic Faulkner's pig depart ment On January l, 1914, h. bought one brood SOW and thre, shoats, paying for same $2l, $11, $1' and $7, total of $49. His othe expenses were as follows: Mea $24. 30, mixed feed $28. 90, servic $1, skim milk for pigs $1.2O, killing $3, total of $1O7. 40. On Decembe 10 he sold dressed meat at $64. 5 He has the fat SOW valued at $3O He sold 8 spring pigs at $40 and 1C fall pigs at $40, total of STA. 5 leaving a profit of $66.75. No ac count is made of the labor of tendin or of gathering swill. No account i made of increased value of fiftee cords of manure worth double or equa to twelve cords at $2. 50, $3O gain
 The community Christmas tre exercises last Friday evening in spit of the very cold night called out
 large number of people to listen to tn impressive and pleasing program. Tn exercises opened with a tableau Herald Angel, in the belfry of tn Congregational church, during whic F. G. Lynch rendered cornet sole "Hark the Angels Sing '' This WE followed by distant chorus of fiftee voices located on the top of the post office building who sang 70 Littl Town of Bethlehem. '' Eli Hall an Miss Hall of Rockville gave a cornt duet from the steps of the Eaton dru store. A quartet, consisting of Mrs T. F. Mullen, Miss Helen Butterfield J. Carl Converse and R. W. Elli' stationed at an open window in tE upper story of the Baker block, san "Holy Night. '' Santa Claus, in personated by Michael 'Hallorar in an old sleigh drawn by whit mule, driven by J. R. Parkhurst costume, circulated around the squa1 before the exercises began and di tributed candy among the children all drew up near the tree, and MT. Parl hurst read a selection, entitled "Sant Claus and his automobile. " The prt gram was completed by a gatherin around the tree and the singing ( several hymns accompanied by | G. Lynch with tie cornet, with 4 E. Waite as leader. The civic con
 mittee of the Current Events clu1 Mrs. E. E. Penny, Mrs E F. Leac and Mrs. E. 0. Mathews, who he charge of the carrying out of the @:
 ercises, are to be congratulated on u
 success. The Current Events clr assumed the expenses and the con
 mittee, which met with hearty e
 operation, are very grateful to a
 who assisted and aided with tean
 and efforts. The tree. was given
 Ellis 6 Eaton and Wm. Wynings ga
 his services of the decorating al
 wiring the same. The electric liz
 company gave the power for tl
 lights. The tree was handsome ol with over three hundred lights al
 an illuminated star at the to
 "Merry Christmas" in large whi
 letters was on one side. The lar
 illuminated pictures of the "Birth
 Christ" on the billboard near b
 which were placed there and illun
 mated by O. B. Gary, added much
 the significance of the occasion.