The Press., 1914-09-16

Miss BecKWlGn WILL nave ht
 milliery opening on Saturday. Peter Greenwood of Waltham i
 renewing old acquaintances in town. ] Howard Needham has gone to tn
 Riverview school in Poughkeepsie
 N. Y.
 Soiski 6 Sexcik are to open a stor
 in the Kuslansky block on West Mai street.
 Mrs. T. R. Prentice of Amston the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs Louis Helm.
 Miss Emma Wildey of Soutl Orange, and Mrs. Fred Chase o Newark are guests of MT. and Mrs Fred WiIdey.
 Miss Allana Mix, who has spen the summer with her sister, Mrs. w O. Hollister in Kent, Ohio, ha' returned home
 The new high tension power line from Palmer is completed and we arc now using electric current direct from the Deerfield valley.
 A skunk joined Frederic Faulkner $ pigs at breakfast this morning and ate with them socially. MT. Faulkner will not disturb the animal and he will probably become a regular boarder
 A meeting of the county board of the A. O. H., was held here last Sun- day. pr. John E. Hassett of Rock . vile was elected president of the board and Leo J. Kelley of the same city was elected secretary.
 Sunday school rally day will be observed at the Congregational church next Sunday. The morning service will be devoted to that purpose, and an address to children and young people will be given by the pastor.
 A change of time in the Central Vermont went into effect this week. Trains going north now go at 6. 5 a. m 10. AS a. m., 4.30 p m 7.O4 p. m. For the south at CA a. m., 1925 a. m., POI p. m., 7.35 p. m
 Major Charles B. Pinney of Gov. Baldwin's staff has returned from a trip to Baltimore for the Star Span gled Banner celebration. The first company governor s foot guard carried off the parading honors in the great para,les of Friday and Saturday.
 Challenge to the Stafford Baseball association, from the independents. We will play with the following line up: Ash, Webber, Dupree, Green, Mullins, Derosier, Cote, Buck, Hendan, Quinn All local but pitcher If satisfactory let us know tonight
 Mrs. o. H. Meyers gave a miscellan- eous shower at her home on East Main street last Saturday evening in honor of her friend, Miss Lillian Warren who is to be united in marriage this afternoon to William Charles Mac kenzie of Florence, Mass. It will be a quiet home affair, and Rev. W. P. Buck will officiate.
 A petition has been presented the court of burgesses asking for a sewer on Furnace avenue. It is probable that a survey will be made this fall and the matter presented for action by the voters next spring. The most feasible plan seems to be to enter the stream below the Johnson mill dam md lay pipe in the bed of the river IS far as the big stream. This would give an opportunity to connect the pipes already entering the stream and do away with the present conditions. During dry weather there is so little water from the Johnson dam to the big stream there is more or less odor.
 FAIR NOTES.
 The premium lists will be out the last of this week.
 Rooms at the. Springs house are already being engaged for fair days, Oct. 12, 13 and IA.
 A local man who saw the auto polo act at Toronto, Can, recently says it is a thriller. This big and expensive attraction will be supplemented by the usual number of good platform act.
 The racing officials for the great Stafford fair are as follows: Starter, L. Seidler, Plainfield, N. J.. judges, P. B. Leonard, Rockville, H. 0. Wheeler, Stafford Springs, Fisk Rogers, Monson; timers, Dr. G. L. Nichols, Hoboken, N. J., Austin Witt, Stafford, Frank Whitcomb, Spring field; clerk, M. O'Halloran.
 All athletic events, with exception of high school relay, will be for local competitors only. A feature will be the relay race between teams repre- senting the mills in town = each man running a quarter. There will be team trophy to be held by the win ners for one year, also individual medals for first and second teams. Entries for all events will be open until the time of race. Every town boy has chance for a prize, and is urged to enter. The bigger the field, the better the fun.
 l.. E. Dimock has been exhibiting the past week at the Connecticut fair in Hartford a few specimens of the many varieties of vegetables grown by himself. Nineteen varieties placed on exhibition won prizes amounting to $16.25. MT. Dimock will exhibit at the Stafford fair in October 200 varieties of vegetables grown this season by himself, to include 80 varieties of potatoes. MT. Dimocks fine exhibition at the Stafford fail always attracts much attention. It ls proposed this year to place the vege table exhibit in the building formerly