The Press., 1919-12-11
James T. Buckley of the new firm of

James T. Buckley of the new firm of Lee & Buckley has taken the John Arnold house on Furnace avenue for
 the winter.
 , There will be a special convOcatiOn of Orient chapter, R. A. M., on Friday evening, at 730. Work, P. and M. B. M. degrees
 Superintendent A. B. Handy expects to move into his new home on East street about the first of next month. | The house he will vacate will be taken | by G. c. Lane of the Lane variety store. The Independent basketball team went to Willimantic last evening to oppose team of that place. Perhaps | the cOldness of the evening had lot 1 to do with their being defeated by a score of 39 to 20.
 On next Monday night Bentley Ball | will give a lecture recital called a Song-a-logue of America, in the Com ique theatre. The songs will be illus
 trative of the various phases in Am
 erican history, showing the Indian, the negro, the cowboy, the civil war, etc. MT. Ball is baritone singer. | The proceeds will be used for buying Columbia records for the public schools.
 West Stafford Louis Demars is critically i'll with pneumonia at the Johnson hospital Eugene Neff of Rockville, who has been having serious trouble with ul- l cers in the stomach, is so far re-
 covered as to be able to visit his sis
 ter, Mrs. George Ellithorpe. | F. R. Dixon of the Hartford Theo-
 logical Seminary and Kennedy school
 of missions gave helpful sermon last
 Sunday morning on 'The Friendship
 of Jesus" His subject next Sunday will | e How Christ becomes real"
 MT. Dixon was accompanied by MT. and Mrs. Norman Dixon and Ralph Huffer
 Asahel Adams, 75, died of heart l failure Monday morning at o'clock
 at MT. Dennison's in Somers where he had been visiting aweek. MT. Adams
 was a school teacher in his younger
 days and for the past four years has
 made his home with his niece, Mrs.
 Hert ert Glazier Of genial old New | England stock he made many friends
 by whom he will be greatly missed. | The Masonic funeral will be held at
 the Glazier home Thursday at o'clock
 Puffer. Burial at Hillside. l Stafford
 l | Mrs. J. G. Wightman has been quite l ill, Tut is now better.
 i Miss Harriet Weir is receiving treat ment at the Johnson hospital. | Michael Cunningham and family of l Hydeville moved to the Springs last | week.
 Rev. F. A. Manderson is not to i change his residence to the Springs as | stated last week.
 Mrs. J. R. MacGregor has been ill
 with bronchitis and was under the doctors care the past week.
 Captain Edward Gunnon of New Bedford is spending the winter with
 his sister, Miss Sarah Gunnon.
 Mrs. Emily Thompson has gone tC
 NOrthfield, Mass, to spend a few weeks
 with her son, Rev. G. L. Thompson. II Clarence James Lasbury and wife o1 Woonsocket, R. l., formerly of Staf- ford, spent Thanksgiving with their parents, MT. and Mrs. Robert Mellor of Union street, Rockville. l Regular meeting of Stafford Grange
 next Tuesday evening. The lecturers hour will be as follows: Roll-call, re- sponded to by quotations from the
 ritual; Nourishing Supper Dishes, by 1 four sisters; What Constitutes an l Ideal Christmas Celebration.
 Anyone wishing to renew their mem bershlp or become new member in g | book club should hand their names tc l Mrs. w. H. Webster or Mrs F. A. Las
 bury not later than Dec. 20th, if a new club is formed, as seems likely, to
 take the place of the one now expiring l 1t is probable that the books will be | exchanged once in two weeks.
 Bentley Ball, we'll known baritone
 singer, will give an entertainment in Memorial hall Tuesday night. Part of
 the proceeds will be used to buy Columbia records for the Pinney
 school The entertainment will be the
 same as is to be given at the COmique theatre on Monday evening, and a part
 of the proceeds will be used to help the Staffordville school to buy their | grafanOla.
 | At the annual meeting of Wolcott
 Lodge, F. & A. M., held last Thursday l evening, the following officers were
 elected: w. M., J. M Larned s. w.,
 H. B. Pinney; J. w., Asa Harris; s. D., | G. D. lde; J. D., James Lewis; secre-
 tary, Raymond Park; treasurer, Wm.
 Durham; w. S., George Lord; J. S.,
 F. A. Lasbury; chaplain, Rev. F. A. Manderson; trustees, c. B. Pinney, | Russell Colburn. The officers will be installed at a special communication l next Thursday evening"
 Baptist Church Notes: Thursday the cottage prayer meeting will be held at the home of Raleigh Hatch. Friday evening it will be conducted at
 the home of Deacon Ava Brown, at 7.30. Sunday will be day for the family. It is hoped that all families of | the church will be represented on that day. During the morning service the Christian service flag will be hoisted Subjects will be as follows: Morn i ing, Salvation for the Family"
 Evening, 'The Chief Mission." Tues day evening, December 18th, the La dies Missionary society will hold a Christmas sale and supper in the , church vestry, beginning at o'clock 1 The B. Y. P. U. will be conducted next | week by Miss Mabel Colburn. Sub | ject, Home Missions and Democracy" StaffOrdviIle Amos Putnam of Springfield was the guest of MT. and Mrs. Fred Sanger over Sunday.
 Harry Phelps of East Hartford has