The Press., 1914-04-29
POLAND.

pleurlsy.
 !, Antonette Horrichick is ill with the scarlet fever.
 A son was born Wednesday to MT. and Mrs. Augustus F. Ridder.
 Miss Gertrude Tobin of New York is stopping at the Steele house.
 Mrs. L. Ernest Hall was i'll last week with an attack of pleurisy.
 The Bluebirds met for their regu- lar meeting with Mrs Samuel Simp- son.
 Rev. J. H. Wood of Mapleville, R. l., called on friends in town, Satur- day.
 The Union Mission Study class will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harry R. Bartlett.
 Mrs. Fred Nutland and son, Harry, of Rockville were the guests of her sister, Mrs. Myron G. Sparrow, Fri day.
 The Hilton house, purchased by Miss Edna Pretat of Waterbury, is being extensively repaired outside and in.
 Mrs. I. Tilden Jewett, who has been to the Hartford hospital for an oper- ation for appendicitis, returned home Saturday.
 Miss Elizabeth Agard, who has been spending the winter in N. Y. with her sister, Mrs. Henry Sofford has re- turned home.
 Mrs. John H. Steele attended the district stewards meeting atWilliman- tic Monday as a delegate from the Lee Methodist church of this place.
 The Wide-Awake club met Saturday morning with Alice Hall. The regu- lar camp fire meeting was held Satnr- day afternoon with Mrs. l.. Ernest Hall.
 The chimney of the Lee Methodist church caught fire Sunday, but with speedy work of near neighbors it was put out without causing any damage to the church.
 George H.. Morton has sold his farm known as the John Champlain place, to Stephan Rigner of N. Y. 1 The Morton's will occupy the 0. Ed ward Meacham tenement.
 Herbert K. Job, state orinthologist of Conn.,, will give lecture at the town hall Friday evening, May 9th, under the auspices of the Holland grange. Everyone is cordially vel come. The grange confeTed the third and fourth degree on Tuesday even- ing. The degree team of Vernon were present to do the degree work. A supper was served at the close
 MT. and Mrs. Alfred Dodge of Mor- risville, Vt., who have been spending the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Wm. Ayers, returned to Vermont We'd nesday. They will spend a short time with their daughter, Miss Clara Dodge in Barre, Vt., and then go to keeping house in Morrisville. MT. Dodge has rented his farm, but will live close to it so as to have an oversight of the work.
 A venison supper will be given Wed nesday evening in the town hall by the Ladies' Aid of the Lee Metho- dist church. William L. Ayers do- mated the venison for the supper. Last week he shot two deer which were devastating his field of young rye. One of the deer he distributed among fifteen different people, and the other was given to the M. E. church for the supper.
 Mrs. Alice Lamphear Doyle, wife of Philip Doyle, died Wednesday morning at o'clock of pneumonia after weeks illness. She was born in Chaplin March 25, 1851, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jedediah Lamphear. She was married to MT. Doyle forty | years ago and has lived practically all of her married life in Holland. She leaves, besides her husband, a step mother and two brothers, Rev. Walter E. Lamphear of Hartford. and George Lamphear of Chaplin, and four sisters, Mrs. Eliza Russ and Mrs. Ellen Russ and Miss Mabel Lamphear of Chaplin, and Mrs. Cora TrOwbridge of Willi- mantle. The funeral was held Friday afternoon at 80 o'clock at the home in Holland. Rev. J. H. Wood of Mapleville, R. l., former pastor of the Lee Methodist church officiated. He spoke in a feeling manner of the cheery disposition of the deceased and of her helpful ways. The burial was in the north cemetery. , Editor of The Press: A few weeks ago noticed in the Rockville letter of the Springfield Sunday Republican, the following paragraph: "It is pos- sible that Rockville may have an ag- ricultural college for boys as we'll as the Sykes manual training school some time in the future, as Holland county has legacy of $120, 900 for this object, which must remain on in- terest for 25 years The bequest was left by Radcliffe Hicks of Holland for the purpose of founding and maintain J ing an agricultural college for the boys of Holland county. The legacy , has now been on interest for about 16 J years. The trustees are given wide | IL H.