The Press., 1920-03-25


 including to te buried in some lother cemetery. Seven lots have been sold during the year. At the present time there are 61 lots under perpetual care and 152 lots under annual care One acre of land has been plOughed and seeded down.
 MT. and Mrs B. P. Cooley are spend ing this week in Atlantic City N. J.
 The Independents were defeated by
 3 score of 34 to 29 in the second game | of their series with the EdgertOns of Rockville, played last evening in Rock | ville Cunningham ShOne brightly for l the local team.
 Mrs. Mary Dunn, 70 years old, wife
 of H. F. Dunn, died yesterday after
 noon at the Johnson hospital where
 she had been taken the previous day. 1 The ody will be taken to her home l in Ashford for burial.
 | It was thought that all arrange ments had been made for starting the l daylight saving next Monday by the 1 mills, schools and lusiness places, but later development leaves the matter 1 at the present time as unsettled 1 W. H. Heald, Rev. c. H. Puffer, C.. | F. Beckwith, J. G. Wightman and R.. 1 H Valentine, attended the republican | state convention at New Haven on Tuesday and Wednesday. w. H. Hall 1 of South Wilmington was elected a ! delegate from this district and w. H. HCald of this OrOugh and R. Leland 1 lE"Cney of SOmerS were elected alter l mates at large delegates to the national repul lican convention. w. H. Hall yas reelected member of the repub- l:can state central committee. Tine annual meeting of the Stafford | Springs Congregational society was hCld last evening. The report of the rtasurcr showed all bills paid and a talanco in the treasury. The follow ;ng officers were elected: Members of the society committee, for three years. C. H. Moore; clerk, Lewis Mclaughlin; treasurer, H. E. Bur- well: lrus, ee of funds, for three years, rstopher Allen; auditors, c. H. Moore, c. E. Tschummi; pledge com mittec, the society committee, R. w. smith, C. E. Brown, c. H. Moore and 7. G. Sanford, William Park, B. P. Cooley, C. F. Chandler; ushers, w. H. iIeald, C. F. Chandler, R. W. Smith, Y. T. Moore, R. A. Tuthill, c. B. Fachummi David Mitchell, J. Kingsley Converse. c Raymond Towne Carl LaShury
 Tie preacher at the service at Grace church this evening is the Rev. p. Y. NorWood, of Berkley Divinity school and formerly Rector of Grace church Parish. MT. Norwood's many friends here will e glad to see and hear him again. Next Sunday is Palm Sunday and services will e Holy com
 mUnion at 9.45 a. m., morning prayer vice at D. m. Next week Icing the
 Holy week, there will be service every evening at 7.30. On Maundy Thurs day there will also e celebration of Holy communion at a. m.. and on Good Friday. Morning prayer and Lit any at 10 a. m. and Devotional ser vice from 1.30 to 3 p. m
 West Stafford
 Mrs Louis Chaffee went with her mother, Mrs. Rice, on Monday to WOr- cester, where she will spend month There will be church supper Fri
 day night from to o'clock, followed ty the one act farce, "Dea. Jerubbels second wife. adults 25 cents chil lren 15 cents.
 There will be a Palm Sunday ser vice, with appropriate message and music, at the Congregational church Sunday morning. Passion week ser vices: Passover night, April 1st Cele- ration of the Lords Supper at 7.3O; GOodFriday afternoon, ? to 3, media tiOn prayer and message. On Easter Sunday there will e special music and
 Eastertide sermon. Wednesday after noon the Mission study circle will
 meet in the parsonage of the Congre- gatiOnal church.
 Stafford
 Thomas Black is recovering from q threatened attack, pneumonia.
 Mrs. Eliza Walden of Windsor is the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. Hough. Linus Putney of Meridith, N. H., spent the week end with his son, Lewis Putney. F. A. Manderson moved yesterday into one of the new cottages on Keefe Plains at the Springs.
 The house now occupied by Edward St. Marie has been sold to Luigi and Margaret Luppi.
 WoIcott chapter, U. D., o. E. s., will give a whist and dance in Memo haIi next Tuesday evening.
 Mrs, Irving N. Hayden returned to her home week ago, after a two-weeks
 stay in the Johnson hospital, where she was operated on for appendicitis. Last week saw the last of the Wight
 man buildings razed to the ground. ! he largest building was built some seventy five years ago by Hannibal A. Converse
 for a foundry, where ploughs, stoves and l all kinds of castings for looms were male He conducted the business for seve,a years and then sold out to John Brown and Ezra Converse, who continued in the same business, making all kinds of cast ] ings and sending them to a consid erable distance. When the civil war broke ou, there was great demand for cotton
 warps and the one story building was
 made into two story one which doubled
 the floor capacity. A company, known
 as the Eagle Co.,, was formed, having as directors and owners Jasper H. Bolton,
 Daniel and Elijah Farm n. The firm made warps for several sattinet mills After the war business was not as good as formerly, the demand being for col
 ored warps, which this company was not idle until into the 7O's, when a man by
 the name of Sheppard bought and com
 menced the manufacture of buggles that sold at abOut fl If y- th rec dollars a niece