The Press., 1914-02-25
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Stafford.
 Rev. and Mrs. I. P. Booth are con- fined to the house by illness.
 Miss Elizabeth F. Kipp of West Springfield was the guest of Mrs. F. A. Lasbury over Sunday.
 Regular meeting of Stafford Grange next Tuesday evening. Work in the first and second degrees. ..
 Mrs. A. E. Converse of Millers Falls, Mass, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Roberts. It is expected that Rev. MT. Sprague of Jamaica Plains, Mass. will occupy the Universalist pulpit next Sunday. Miss Annie and Herbert Phillips of Springfield were the guests of their parents. MT. and Mrs. Charles Philips, over Sunday and Monday.
 MT. and Mrs. Jerome Orcutt of Bridgeport and Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Pinney were the guests of MT. and Mrs. E. 0. Pinney the first of the week. ... -".
 The members of U. P. o. U. have arranged an attractive program to be given in the Sunday school room of the Universalist church this evening. Supper will be served in the ladies' room from to 8. Supper, 10 cents. Entertainment, 10 cents.
 ". A. Jones of Covina, Gal, who married former Stafford girl, Miss Ohella Cady. is among the many suf- ferers from the heavy rains in that state He is the owner of large or ange groves, and the rains were so heavy as to wash the loose soil from the roots of 800 orange trees, carrying soil and trees into a nearby wash or gully.
 The colonial party held in grange hall last Friday evening was both a social and financial success. The we'll filled tables were decorated with cherry trees, red hatchets being used as favors. Small red hatchets were used as admission tickets. Many of the ladies were in old time costume skirts measuring five yards around being quite numerous, quite the other extreme from the style now worn. The affair reflected much credit on the social committee, Mrs. J. W. Rollinson, Miss Julia Loughheed, J. P. Brown and G. D. Ide.
 Advertised letters in Stafford post office: Mrs. O. H. Haze, Mrs. E. W. Gray, Jennie Morse, Mrs. Elisa Hotch- kiss, Miss Lillian Snowden, Mrs. Jen- nie M Goddard, Miss Grace Stevens, M iss Agnes Snyder, Mrs. Chas. L. Snyder, Miss Melissa Lars, Mrs. David Stevens, Miss Rena Dort, Mrs. Eugene Langenaid, Mrs. Hannah Berry, Mrs. Fred Wright, Marguerite Fitzgerald, Mary Julian, Mrs. R. G. Walker. Miss Mary Galligan, Mrs. Wardman, Adam Michalak, Gustinh0 Bernardo Pochew, Guzef Eusot, Asel Culver, Mrs. Jennie Whitney, Dr. Roger C0Hen, D. D. s., Gustav Kol- odzey, Schuckle Motaor Cycle Oo., B. H. Thomas, MT. Hilton, Judge Hilton, B. A. Thomas, J. A. Stevens, Harry s. Cahoon, Wm. F. Watrous, Schickel Motor Co.,, Louis E. Kennedy.
 Baptist Notes: The Ladies' Aid society will meet for work on Thurs day and will serve supper from to 8. Hostess, Miss Eugenia Thresher and Mrs. M. B. Hatch. The mid- week prayer meeting will be held af. ter the supper. Subject, "Rules for young business men and women. !" Led by Charles Phillips. On Friday evening, at the chapel, a social will be held. The bi-monthly covenant meeting will be held at the chapel on Saturday at 2.8Q p. m. The pastor s wife gives, as latest news of the wet season at Los Angeles, the following item: "The ground is SO soaked the threatened rain is not needed for the present. An engine and seven cars