The Press., 1916-03-29
MoNsoN.

| Joseph AVella mas eDtereu the em
 ploy of ". N. Flynt & Sons.
 | Charles M Day is ill with diph
 theria at his home on the East Hill | road.
 Miss Julia Wheeler is at home from
 the University of Vermont for the
 spring vacarion.
 Miss Olivia is substituting as Ii.
 brarian at the Monson free library
 until Miss Maude Sweet assumes her
 duties April 10.
 The interior of the station of the c. V. R. R. is undergoing a trans
 formation, force of workmen putting the waiting rooms into good condition
 by general repairing and painting the woodwork.
 MT. and Mrs. E. P. Hynes of Wash ington street are receiving congratu- lations upan the birth of their first grandchild, daughter, Mary Helen,
 having been horn on Sunday, March 19, to MT. and Mrs. William E. Hynes
 at Pulley, N. D. .s- Earnest E. Stacy, son of MT. and
 Mrs. James L. Stacy of South Mon-
 son, and Miss Henrietta Douty, daugh-
 ter of MT. and Mrs Edward F. Douty
 of Shumway hill, Fiskdale, were
 married at the Sturbridge Congre.
 gational church parsonage Tuesday,
 lot ha
 formed by Rev. William A. White, pastor of the Congregational church of Sturbridge. After their wedding trip. MT. and Mrs. Stacy will make their home with MT. Stacy's parents in South Monson.
 Monson friends are interested in the recent announcement by MT. and Mrs. Charles A. Wright of 45 Bay street, Springfield, of the marriage engage ment of their daughter, Miss Evelyn Justina Wright and Ralph A. Rathbun formerly of this town. Miss Wright is one of Springfield's popular young women and has been interested in Kindergarten work. MT. Rathbun is the youngest son of Mrs. Bell Rath- bun of Pease avenue, was born in Monson and educated Tn the public schools and the academy. He left town to enter the Chioopee national bank, going thence to the Union trust company where he remained several years, resigning his position to associ- ate himself with the Maynard Coal Go. of which he is also the manager
 People living in the vicinity of the railroad station will be glad to know that the building known as the "old cigar shop" '" for many years occupied as a tenement house will, it is ex- pected, in du etime be torn down. For a long time it has been considered fire trap and the sanitary conditions have been very bad Upon investi. gation the state inspector found con- ditions so unfavorable that the families were ordered to vacate and all have found homes in other tenenemts. In years past the old building housed at different times two thriving industries, the first of which conducted by the late Nelson F. Rogers, a brother of Jacob Rogers of North Monson, was for the manufacture of women's Shaker hoods. y These ''hoods" or were made of palm leaf and much of the work was done by women at their homes, the palm leaf being left with them by "a distributor and collected when the braid ing was done, and taken to the shop for completion. Later on the late Charles Fuller, a son of Warren Fuller, one of the towns prominent business men who died many years ago, used the building for the manufacture of cigars and employed quite force of men. After a time MT. Fuller re- moved to Springfield and in company with others continued very success fully the business which had it's in- oeption in the building which has | since been known as "the old cigar | shop" An attempt was made several years after MT. Fuller pooata tsev l again start the making of hats in a | small way, but the venture was un- successful and was soon given up.
 Miss Miranda L. Chapin, who, until two and half years ago was for many years respected resident of the town, died at her home in Spring field last Friday, the 25th. Although for some time, ,sher health had not been of the best her last illness was of short duration. Miss Chapin was born in Ware house Point, Conn.,, 62 years ago and was the daughter of