The Press., 1916-01-12
Stafford.


Losr-A Black Hand Bag. Finder
will be rewarded by returning to Mrs
George Lord.
Rev. L. B. Curtis was taken to the
hospital last Thursday suffering with
pneumonia.
Miss Mabel Booth has returned
from few days visit with friends
in Springfield.
Mrs. Joseph Depeau, who was taken
to the hospital last week ill with
pneumonia, is reported as comfortable.
Miss Julia Loughheed has been
entertaining her cousin, Miss Lillian
Park of East Glastonbury. the past
week.
Miss Margaret Keefe of Windsor,
who has been i'll at the home of her
parents a few days, is again able to
be out.
Topic for Y. P. @. u, next Sun
day, How Christianity went to the
Moslem World. I" Leader, Herbert
Plumb.
Miss Lizzie Cunningham is ill
at her home at Hydeville with
diphtheria in a light form, aud the
home is quarantined.
Rev. I. P. Booth, ]. P. Brown,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Robinson and
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lasbury are at
tending the state grange meeting in
Hartford.
Baptist Church Notes: The Ladies'
Aid society meets for work Thursday
afternoon and will serve supper from
q to 8 O'Clock. This is the ann ual
meeting. Hostesses: Mrs. j. B.
Hough, Mrs. A. Harris.
The regular meeting and install
lation of officers of Stafford grange
will take place at grange hall next
Tuesday evening at s O'Clock. Supper
will be served from 6 to 8 O'Clock to
patrons and their families. Deputy
Walter E. Price of Warehouse Point
will act as installing officer, Mrs.
Price as marshall and Miss Lough-
heed as assistant mashall. The install
lation will be open to the public.
The famous Suwanee River quartet
will give a concert in Memorial hall
next Wednesday evening, under the
auspices of the Pinney grammar
school This quartet is said to be the
best negro quartet in America. 1t
= Of Tnh n
CAN'T, who was born and reared in
the south and who is q master
interpreter of the songs, melodies and
folk lore of the southern negro.
Associated with him is a group of
men whose voices combine with his
in wonderful harmony. Their pro-
gram consists of instrumental music,
plantation melodies, camp-meeting
songs, recitals and humorous stunts.
This is the second entertainment
given by the school and it is the
earnest desire of the pupils and
teachers that the public cooperate
with them in procuring q musical
instrument for the school. Tickets
will go on sale Thursday at II. +.
Cady's store. Admission, 20 and 80
cents. Dancing will follow the enter.
tainment, with music by the Tech
meal high school of Springfield.
Martin E. Lombard, 81, died early
Friday morning at his home, No. 10,
East street, Hartford, after a stroke
Is ~
Wednesday and remained unconscious
until his death. He was born in
Stafford, August Is, 1854, son of
wyman @. Lombard and Sophroni
Cummings lombard. He began bust
ness when a young man, first in
Stafford, and later going to Hart
ford, where, in 1876, he opened
meat and grocery store on Albany
avenue. His business partner was
Arthur NJ. Cady. The firm of Cady
& Lombard continued business until
1909. Since that year. Mr.. LON bard
had not been we'll, and had spent his
time in looking after his real estate
holdings. He married Miss Mary s.
Leonard of Stafford, in 1885. Be-
sides his wife, he leaves two children,
wyman @. Lombard and Miss Grace
NJ. Lombard; one granddaughte
Doris N. Lombard, all OF Hartford,
and three sisters, Mrs. ". d. Miller
of Troy, VT, and Mrs. III. d. Miller
and Mrs. Alice Lombard of Westfield.
VT The fuperal was held at I O'Clock
Monday afternoon at his home. Rev.
DIR. John Coleman Adams, pastor of
the Church of the Redeemer, offioiated.
The body was brought to Stafford
Springs ON Monday and placed in the
tomb of the Stafford Springs cemetery
and will be inferred in the same
cemetery later.
TOLLAND.