The Press., 1922-04-27
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Providence, R. I. Mrs. J. H. Valentine and daughter, Miss Elinor Valentine, have returned home after spending several months at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
 David Rissett had 8 slight shock while out walking Sunday afternoon with William Preble. lie was able to 1 get home with Mir Preble's assistance and is now recovering and resting comfortably.
 Miss Agnes Gerard of this town and Charles Hitchcock of Hartford were | united in marriage at St. Edwards s church Wednesday morning by Rev. F.. J. O'Neill. After brief wedding trip they will make their home in Hartford.
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 A public supper and card party will te held in Grange hall Friday evening, May 5.
 There will te a dance at Memorial hall on Saturday evening with music by Woods orchestra.
 Mir and Mrs. John J. Leonard of Red Bank, N. J., have been the guests of MT. and Mrs. R. H. Pinney.
 Wolcott chapter, o. B. S., will hold progressive whist party tomorrow night at the Masonic hall. Mrs. Henriette Webster and daugh- ter, Alice, spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. DimmOck, of Merrows.
 Mrs. J. B. HOugh has been spending few days in Bozrah and Norwich. MT. Hough joined her for the week end.
 Regular meeting of Stafford Grange next Tuesday evening. During the | lecture hour poems will be read by Mrs. J. P. Brown and Miss Mabel Booth.
 The funeral service of Mrs. Philena Preble was held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of her grand daughter, Miss Harriette L. Weir, Rev. C. H. Puffer officiating. Mrs. Gill ert Wagner sang two favorite selections, Rock of Ages and Shall we Meet Beyond the River" The interment was in Hillside cemetery
 StaffOrdville
 Walter Sears has purchased a new automobile.
 MT. and Mrs. Albertus Walker are quite ill at their home.
 Rev. and Mrs. VonDeck visited rela- tives in Bolton last Friday.
 Hiram Walbridge has purchased a new Studebaker automobile.
 William F. Jewett was the guest of relatives in MOnson, Mass, over Sun day.
 William Batchelder of East Milton Mass, visited local relatives one daN last week.
 w. B. Belcher has painted his resi- dence and has made many other i'm proyements.
 Mrs. B. G. Phelps and Miss Nellie Pagan visited relatives in Hartford last Thursday.
 Jack Wallach spent the weekend with relatives in Willington, making the trip in his automobile.
 Mrs Benedict Schwanda and infant son, Theodore, returned from the Johnson hospital last week.
 Louis West and daughter, Miss Dora West. of Leominster, Mass, were the guests of local relatives for the weekend.
 AIr. and Mrs. Charles Hathaway of Newton Highland, Mass, have arrived at their lngolow here to spend d number of months.
 Mir. and Mrs. Edwin PrageI and two sons, who have been visiting friends in New York, returned to their home last Thursday night.
 Mir and Mrs. Willis Belcher and family were the guests of MT. and Mrs. Myron Lyon and family in North Windham last Sunday.
 Mrs. Frances Waldman of New York City is spending a number of weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Benedict Schwanda and family.
 The Epworth League topic for next Sunday evening will he Growing a Character The. Soil" Mark 4: 2-9 Leader, Mrs. H. A. Bosworth.
 Mrs. Whitman Green, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sawtelle, in Greenwich, Mass, for few months, arrived in town Sunday to spend some time with her daughter, Mrs. James Swift
 MT. and Mrs. Martin Brown and daughter, Bessie, Mrs. James Swift, Mrs. Clarence White and son, Edgar, and MT. Sparrow were guests of Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Sawtelle in Greenwich, Mass, last Sunday.
 Misses Angela and Lillian Gilling- ham, May Gordon, Charles Hashage and Dudley Marks of New York and Thomas Gilligham of Stafford Springs and Mrs. Bessie Cook were the guests of Mr and Mrs. Alfred Burroughs and Mrs. Caroline Gillingham last Sunday.
 Much sympathy is expressed for Mrs c. Gillingham, whose home was burned to the ground last week Mon day evening. She had already moved her furniture and other valuable be- lOngings into the house and expected to occupy it soon. There was no in surance on the furniture and clothing, but small insurance on the house.
 Mrs. Florence Bates, 33, wife of Sanford o. Bates, died at the Johnson Memorial hospital last Friday night at eleven o'clock, after being in the hospital two weeks and one day for treatment for kidney trouble. She was the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. AL burtus H. Walker and was born Au- gust 5th, 1889 in Sturbridge, Mass. She married Louis West September 17th 1904. They separated and were divorced and she was united in mar riage to Sanford o. Bates, May 29, 1915. She is survived by her husband, and three daughters, Misses Jessie and Mabel West of Staffordville and Miss Dora West of Leominster, Mass, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Walker of this place, and two brothers, Robert Walker of Rockville and Alburtus J. Walker and twin sister, Mrs. Albert Locke, of Staffordville. The funeral was held at the Congregational church last Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. J. M. VonDeck officiated. Mrs, c. White sang Gathering Home" Face l tn Eacen and "Reantifnl Isle of