The Press., 1914-05-06
Regular meeting of Eastern Star

| Regular meeting or GasG0Eu S6al
 next week Wednesday evening.
 !! George Braithwaite; was at home
 ever Sunday. He is boss finisher fol
 Channing Smith of Cherry Valley.
 There are still a number of dogs
 in town not licensed, thought to be
 about %. There will be an extra as-
 sessment of one dollar en delinquents.
 New telephones have been placed
 with s. M. Lambert, Staffordville,
 73-S; Willis Belcher, staffordville,
 1-I3, and Martin Goodell, Sta ford
 Street, 32-14.
 MT. and Mrs. Wesley O. Hollister
 of Kent, Ohio have a little daughter,
 Dorothy Northrup, born last Friday -a granddaughter to MT. and Mrs.
 J. Allen Mix of this town.
 If the grounds will pefmiE the local
 team will open the season next Satur- day, when they will meet the Talcott-
 villes. Webber and Mattesen will probably be the battery. Saturday,
 May l 9th the Criterions of Hartford are booked for a game
 Grace Church Notes:s Services for Sunday-Holy Communion at S, Morning prayer and sermon, 10. 45. Evening prayer and address, 2. The annual meeting of the parish will be held in the guild room of the church Thursday at 8 p. m. The Women's Guild is giving party for members of the choir and their frieuds on Sat urtlay evening in Society hall.
 During the play, In Old New Eng land, {" by the Stafford grange, at St. Edwards hall, Thursday evening for the benefit of the hospital, the musical numbers and readings given between the acts at the first production, will be repeated. Salted nuts, homemade candy aud ice cream will be on sale. There will be dancing after the play, with music by Lynch's orchestra.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank L. Page, who have been staying at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Wm. Robbins, at Orcuttville, have gone to Buffalo, N. Y, where MT. Page takes new position as general sales manager of the General Speciality Go. This is an advancement for MT. Page, who has been acting as sales manager of the eastern section for the same con- pany.
 The funeral of John Thomas Fur l ness, who died of Bright's disease last week, was held from his late | home last Thursday afternoon, Rev. P. V. Norwood officiating. Besides his widow and children mentioned | last week, Mir. Furness leaves four brothers and one sister-Charles, Sarah, George and Frank of England and Robert of Rochdale. The burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 Quite a number of horses have been named for the three stake races to be pulled off at the annual fair in October. n the Nutmeg stake, 2.2O pace, the ollowing are entered: John H., wned by F. D. Whiteomb, Spring eld; Vice Crystal, Elm City stables, hartford; Tramp Hur, Elm City tables; Edge Ore. Oscar Benson, forth Haven; Foxy Grandpa, U. S. I dams, Townsend, Mass. i; Fred B. E chauf, Utica, N. Y; Madam O.. Matt t razil, Hartford, Conn. Lottie P. Ienry H. Jennings, Hartford, Conn. :; t lara Walker, Woody Hill Stock farm, r alem, N. Y.; Gunpointer, Woody ill Stock farm, Salem, N. Y; McKenna. Bros, Provi- ence, R. I. In the Congressional T take, 2.2O trot the following entries 7 Iave been made: Proxey Knight, sarros and Annie B., ED. Whitcomb, springfield; John Henry, Elm City tables, Hartford; Meta Gay and Ieilah Morse, Oscar Benson, North Haven; Kittie Moore, D. Greenberg; D. s. Kennedy, Ware, Mass. Dainty Gug, Woody Hill Stock arm, Salem, N. r.; Daisy Above, N. Burns, Ilcon, N. Y.; Edwin E., 5. Matthewson, Danbury, Conn. In he Greleograger stake, 3. 16 pace, the ollowing entries are recorded: John H., F. D. Whitcomb; John R. Hal, Elm City stables, Hartford; Edge On, Oscar Benson, North Haven; Princess Wilkes, Edward E. Bushnell, Hol- Ioke; Flow Boy, Frank O. Blood, Baron O. Folts, F. James, lion, N. Y; Major Byers and Clara Walker, Woody Hill Stock farm, Salem, N. Y; Harvey O., John Mo- 1rath, Central Falls, R. I. Entries in these classes can be made up to June 1 5 for $15, and from June l 5 to Oct. ', for $25, when they close. ! Some good racing seems assured.