The Press., 1919-05-15
Joseph Fontanella has purchased 8 new Buick touring car.


 new Buick touring car.
 Michael O'Halloran is spending a few days in New York.
 Thomas Clark of Mansfield visited friends in town Sunday.
 Mrs. William Wood was a guest of her son, Clarence, at Springfield over Sunday.
 J. Belanger and family have moved into the house of Lawrence Hansen on Benton street.
 Mrs. Etta Bidwell Behrendt of Springfield spent the weekend with Miss Hazel Comins.
 Carl Lasbury, formerly of Spring field, has moved into the Royce house on West Main street.
 The l.. A. A. o. H. will give ''Vic- tory" dance at St. Edwards hall, Thursday evening, May 29.
 Glastonbury lodge, I. o. o. F., will visit Wauseon lodge next Tuesday evening and work the second degree. There will be refreshments.
 Zephyra Bolieau has moved into the Dupree house on Furnace avenue. John Cote has taken the tenement on Benton street vacated by him.
 Miss Lucia Giacomini and Enrico Dal Plan were married in St. Ed wards church yesterday morning at 8 o'clock by Rev. Felix J. O'Neill. They were attended by Miss Melvina sister of the bride, and Bellante.
 Owing to the illness of Miss Page the instructor, the classes in Home Care of the Sick will be omitted this week. Miss Page is not seriously ill and may be expected next week as usual. When you have finished read ing your magazine put one-cent stamp on the cover and mail it. Gen. Pershing has cabled concerning the shortage of reading material for our men overseas. The bulk of magazine matter has fallen from ten tons a month to two tons. Books which may be left at the library and magazines are wanted. Gen. Pershing says "that men of the A. E. F. need inter esting reading matter as never be- fore"
 Miss Allen of LongmeadOw gave a lecture at the Current Events club evening on present conditions. The story of the purposes, com promises, disaffections and which shaped the peace terms, as now of fered, was interesting. Mrs. T. F. Mullen, Mrs. c. H. Moore, Mrs. L. G. Luce and Mrs. c. B. Tschummi sang Greeting to Spring (Strauss and Flu sive Love (Dobinson) and were heart fly encored. Miss Ethel Moore was the accompanist The club voted to study "Government with Current Events and Current Literature" next season. The Mrs. F. F. Patten, Miss G. s. Beckwith and Miss Mabel Meyers, will begin at once preparing the year book. The hostesses for the evening were Miss Mary I. Newton, Miss w. S. Adams and Mrs. H. B. Burwell.
 Next week the local Methodist Epis- copal church will undertake to secure pledges for $11 ,520 as it's share toward the large sum that the denomination expects to raise during a period of five yaars for mission work at home aEd abroad and for reconstruction work in Europe. For mission work at home and abroad the church will raise $S0,0O0,0O0, and for reconstruc- tiOn work, where war ragged so ter rifically for four years, it will raise $25, 100000. The entire world has been carefully surveyed and definite plans have been made for building new churches, schools, colleges, hos pitals, etc., and the support of hun dreds of new workers. Never before has a Christian church made such thorough plans and far-reaching plans for the advancement of the Kingdom of God and every Methodist in Ameri- ca will be asked to help in carrying them out. The financial campaign is not the whole of the Centenary cele- bratiOn, but it is the continuation of it. In the Stafford Springs church the Centenary has been well advertised. In addition to the distribution of lit erature and addresses by the pastor and minute men, stirring speeches have been made here by Rev. Ernest Lyman Mills of Boston, Rev. J. I. who is at the head of the movement in New England and the resident bishop, Edwin H. Hughes.
 The thirty-fourth annual conven- tion of the Woman's Christian Tenn perance Union of Holland county will be held on Tuesday, May, 27, at the church, Ellington, with the following program: 9.45 a. m., praise service; 10 a. m., devotional exercises, Mrs. J. T. Carter; minutes of last convention; report of treas urer; appointment of committees 10.30 a. m., greetings from the church, Rev. J. T. Carter; greetings from our hostesses, Miss Mary Kimball; re- SpOnse, Mrs. B. J. Holman; music: 10.45 a. m., roll-call, officers and super reports of local unions nf rfc. Periodicals, Mrs. Annie Preston; Our Boys and Girls, Mrs. Lillian Smith; Medical Temperance, Miss Kimball; music; medal contest, Mrs. G. M. Soldiers and Sailors, Mrs. E. J. Holman; II a. m., address, Temper ance teaching in the Sunday Schools, Mrs. Maize B. Clark; business; 12 m., prayer, Mrs. L. K. Fuller; ton union; 1.15 D. m., music; prayer, Mrs. Mary B. Wilson; reading of report of credential com mittee; report of nominating com election of officers; music; pers, Mrs. L. K. Fuller; music; ad- Mrs. Wilson; collection music; un- HIioICu DuSluSSS, IepOII Ol COlIlIilt- tee on county; banner presentation; report of committee on courtesies; reading of minutes; music; benedic- ton.
 Big Mass Meeting for Formation of
 Service Club.
 A mass meeting for the formation of service club will be held Friday evening at 7.30 at the Springs House. Every man in this district, who has been in the United States military service during the present war, is cor dially invited and expected to attend. The purpose of the meeting will be to unite in some sort of society, all ex- service men in this vicinity, and to elect commander. Although the exact figures are not available, it is known that there are about 200 men from Stafford alone who have been in tho Sorvico From tboco and thoca in