The Press., 1919-09-25
UNION

Nelson Horton was with relatives in Monson last week.
 Miss Mary Scranton of Southbridge was home for the weekend.
 Mr. and Mrs. Earle Bowden ofHyde- vile were at Michael Puteck's for the week end
 Miss Elizabeth Allen of Hartford spent the weekend with friends at the Marcy homestead
 Mrs. R. B. Horton visited her daugh- ter, Mrs. Henry Leffingwell, at Orcutt- vile the past week.
 MT. and Mrs. George Gage of Hart ford and J. Gage of Rocky Hill were recent guests of Charles F. Gage.
 Miss Florence Barrows went to New London last Monday to begin her work in the chemistry department of the Woman's college.
 Thomas Harmon, Jr. has purchased the Ava Sands steam sawmill which has been located on the Mashapaug Farms lot north of the Bigelow road.
 Mir. and Mrs. D. J. Brown of North Adams, Mrs. w. B. Brown and son, Willard of Springfield, Lieut.. Henry Reeves, Mrs. Reeves and daughter, IL. C. BarrOWS this week.
 At the business meeting to be held on election day, Monday, October 6, at l p. m., the following will come before the voters: To see if the town will vote to discontinue the road from Matt Heck's corner to the school-house in district No. 3, and vote to sell the schOOl-hOuse in district No. 6.
 Rev. and Mrs. John Pierce of Plym- outh, Mass, recently stopped to call on old friends here while on an auto trip from Hazardville to Southbridge Mrs. Pierce lived here most of the time until she was married, and as Miss Belle Weld was we'll known as a teacher in Union and adjoining towns. Rev. MT. Pierce was for time pastor of the M. B. church at Mashapaug. They have a married daughter living in SOuthbridge, a son who is principal of high school on Cape Cod, and a daughter who recently graduated from SkldmOre college and is now just entering upon the life of teacher.
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 Miss Grace Hiscock is with her sister, MrS. GeOrge BradWay.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert Bradway of Brimfield visited at George Bradways on Sunday.
 There was a large attendance from this vicinity to the Eastern States ex- position at Springfield last week.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Robertson Ida Heck), of Monson are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter
 Miss Mary Bradway, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Ella Bass, was taken ill and an ambulance from the Springfield hospital came after her.
 MT. and Mrs. David Gaudette and two children and Charlie Heck went to Springfield to the fair and stayed over night, Saturday, with MT. and Mrs. Edwin Oliver of Thompsonville.
 Over thirty of the friends of Bessie Dillingham; Cook made her surprise visit last Friday night at her home in Wales, Mass. They gave her a very handsome rocker. Matt Heck made the presentation speech, to which her husband, Edgar Cook, responded. Re- treatments were served and there was a general good time.
 Lucinda Towne passed away very suddenly at the Old Ladies Home in Worcester, Mass, on Sept. 15, at the age of 101 years, months and days She was born in Thompson and later moved to Union with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Towne. She was the last of twelve children. At the age of 17 she went to Southbridge, Mass where she learned the dressmakers | trade which she followed for a great many years in Worcester, Hartford Bridgeport and Richmond, Va. She has been at Worcester for the past six years, where she had the best ot care. The funeral service was held al the home on Wednesday afternoon MyrOn Heck went to Worcester Thurs day for the body. The burial was in the family lot in the old cemetery al Union Center. Her nearest relatives are nephews and nieces and one sis ter-in-law, Mrs. Abial Towne.