The Press., 1920-05-27

A1Q SOC1eLy lelQ Lle1r annual DuS1n6SS meeting. The following officers were chosen: President, Mrs. Hattie Char ter; vice president, Jennie Neff; sec retary and treasurer, Cora Dimock 1; directors, Mrs. Nettie Curtis, Bessie Richardson, Jessie Sullivan. Several new members were added to the list.
 UNION.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Royce of Long. meadow were in town last Saturday.
 The horse which Paul Putek purchased in Worcester is making good recovery from it's injury.
 MT. and Mrs. c. Raymond Towne of Stafford Springs were recent guests of Mrs. E. H. Barber.
 Michael Putek and John Sedlak are working for Turner Brothers at their mill in Charlton, Mass.
 Those who are watching for flowers for Memorial Day get an accurate idea of the lateness of the spring. Some plants which are usually past blooming at this time, are now beginning to show mere buds.
 Mrs. Lyman Moore, who is with her daughter, in Worcester is somewhat n ore comfortable than she la be n She is able to sit up some, to read, and to do light hand work. On May 9th, a little party of friends celebrated her birthday.
 Memorial day will be observed on Monday. Following an established custom, the school children have heen invited to gather flowers for the deco ration of the graves of soldiers, and will leave the flowers at the town hall, the headquarters of the commit tee for the day. Woods band of Staff ford will furnish music. The line of march will form at II o'clock and pro- ceed to the Center cemeteries, to dec crate graves, returning to the monu- ment at the town hall for short cer emony, and then disbanding for the lunch hour. Basket picnic plan will be the order for all except the speaker of the day and the band, who will be served in the hall. The afternoon ex ercises will take place in the church. Rev. P. s. Collins of North Ashford will be the speaker and will be pre- ceeded by program of selections and recitations by the children of the schools of the town, together with a special program of music. The church exercises will begin promptly at 13O, and all are cordially invited to fall into line of march in the morning, to assist the few remaining comrades of Corbin post in paying tribute to the Grand Army of the Dead.
 HOLLAND.
 her home by illness.
 Miss Shell, a teacher in South Afri- ca, is the guest of Mrs. Samuel Simp- son.
 MT. and Mrs. Nutland and children of Rockville, were the guests Sunday of MT. and Mrs. Myron G. Sparrow.
 Rev. George Reynolds of Hartford preached in the Federated church Sun day and will preach next Sunday also.
 Mrs. Bessie Morton, who has been at the Hartford hospital, for an oper atiOn for goitre, returned home Mon day.
 Miss Lucinda Agard, who has been librarian at the Atlanta, Ga, univer- sity through the year, is expected home Friday.
 The Sunday school institute, which was to have been held in the Congre- gational church in June, will not meet until September.
 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick s. Carpenter of Hartford are spending a two-weeks' vacation with their parents, Judge and Mrs. Edwin s. Agard.
 Miss Grace B. Clough, who has been employed in New York for some time as filing clerk, has had to return home on account of ill health.
 David Winchester and family were called recently to attend the funeral of Mr. Winchester's sister, Mrs. Esther Gillett, of Southwick, Mass.
 Mrs. Edwin S. Agard and Mrs. c. Hubbard West were appointed Sunday to attend the conference of Congrega- tional churches at Talcottville on Tuesday.
 L.. w. Eley of Plainfield, sheared sheep in Holland last week. He does the work by motor power. When he was shearing Myron G. Sparrow's flock, he took only three and one-half minutes to shear one sheep.
 Sunday will be observed as Memo rial day Some of the members of the Burpee post, Sons of Veterans and World War Veterans from Rockville, will be present to take part in the exercises After the exercises on the Green to the unknown dead, the visi- tors will be served with lunch by Mrs. Samuel Simpsons Sunday school class.
 The Kings Heralds under the direc- tion of their leader, Miss Helen Luhr- sen, gave very nice May Pole" play Saturday evening in the church par lors. Besides the play the program consisted of vocal and instrumental music, on the piano and violin, and recitations. Attractive May baskets, filled with food, etc., were for sale. A beautiful May basket containing a pound of candy was presented to Miss Luhrsen by the young people.
 A special meeting of Holland Grange WdS uCiu l uCSoay CFCutAe Go AuohC PlCP- arations for the class of candidates that will be initiated next Tuesday.
 Miss Minnie Helen Hicks of New York, whose summer home is in Holland, has offered $2O in prize money for the pupils of the schools of Holland. Some of the money will be used as prizes for the most perfect paper in arithmetic from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and some for the most perfect paper in his- tory from the third, fourth and fifth grade on historical facts. The remaind- CT of the money will be used for prizes for the field day sports which will be held June l2 on the green.
 ASHFORD
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