The Press., 1918-01-24

MT. and Mre. Arthur West of Springfield sshave been visiting his brother, Philo West, and wife, this week.
 MT. and Mrs. J. c. Rishton were the guests of MT and Mrs. Harold Tallman in Worcester for a few days recently.
 MT. and Mrs. Samuel Bates and family moved this week from the New City into the house vacated by " A. Smith.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E. church will serve their usual bean supper in the vestry this Thursday evening. Hostesses: Mrs. Willis Belcher and Mrs. Francis Medbery.
 Methodist Church Notes: The pastors subject for next Sunday morning will be Divinity Revealed. ' In the evening at o'clock Rev. G. q. Scrivener. district superintendent, will preach and hold the fourth quarterly conference after the service.
 A raid was made on the home of Jack Quarti Sunday by a group of state police. A quantity of liquor was siezed. MT. Quarti appeared before the borough court Monday charged with two sales and reputation. He was fined $75 and costs, in all amounting to $9s. by Judge W. H. Heald.
 West Stafford.
 The Curtis sawmill is now in oper. ation on woodlot located north ot E. L. Dimook's
 Frank Williams of Springfield spent the first part of the week with his sister, Mrs Peter Jensen.
 The prayer meeting on Thursday evening will be held at O. D. Glazier'S. After the service there will be a business meeting of the Christian Endeavor society
 MT. and Mrs. George F. Edson and two sons of Putnam have been spend ing a few days with their parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Edson. They were called here by the death and burial of Mrs. G. F. Edson's mother, Mrs Thomas Williams.
 On Tuesday evening our telephone rang and an inquiry was made to ascertain what that bright light WAS in the west. Others had noticed it and the next day some of the children at the school were inquiring about it. About thirty years ago, the writer lived in the north part Uf Stafford, on tLe so called Deacon Leonard place, opposite the home of Myron Leonard. It was in the early evening, when on the way to Stafford Hollow to do some trading, I met Henry COlburn near the Tim Collins place He had been to the post-office and was on the way home, on foot, as I came near he stopped me and said, Do you see that bright light in the west?" answered "Yes. " Well, ,' said he, " everybody is talking about it down to the store. They say that for several evenings a man in Hartford has been going up in a balloon and stays up for an hour or two and then comes down | They think he has got some kind of a new light which he wants 10 advertise. '' The planet Venus was very brilliant at that time, as at present, and low down in the heavens in the early evening, and somehow seemed to disappear almost instantly in setting. It was so good a joke, however, that I hurried home. At that time two women were visiting us told them what MT. Colburn had told me, and they went out to see. They had been watching for few minutes, when one of them said she must go in and get her shawl. She was in the house for few minutes, and when she returned there was no light to be seen. when she said, "Why, what has become of it?" Then the other, who had been watch. ing said "Oh winked at him and he trapped :" c. P. Bradway.