Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 21, 1910, Page 12

WINDHAM COUNTY. CENTRAL VILLAGE Auto Party—$5 Gold Piece Won by Edith Eyers—Religious Interests— Personals. Henry Northrup has been entertain- &% his mother, 'Mrs. Benjamin Nor- {hrup, and brother, Willlam, of Nor- wich. Amasa Taber of Centerville, R. I, visiteq loecal friends Wednesday. Mr. Taber was formerly a business man in gown. Fle will leave soon for the west, where his daughter lives. Mrs. Robert Loring spent Monday In Providence. Friends of Mrs. Cosmer Young are porry to learn of her illness at her heme in Fanielson. Appendicitis is feared. Ctrester Burdick has finished work for the Phainfield Woolenr company and has moved to Moosup, where he i= to be employed by the American Woolen company. Misg Helen Marthews=on., a pupil at Miss Butts school, at Norwich, has heen at her home here this week on aeccount of ilmess. E. A. Kenne was a visitor here the past week. Fis home is in Vermont, but he was at one time a local resi- aent. Harold Francis, who was injured on the school gwounds, is improving. Lawrence Parker has been entertain- ing his brother, who is a sailor on a battdeship. Mrs. Ramage Injured. Mrs. A. T. Ramage of Moosup has been visiting her son, Jack Capwell. Saturday while cutting kindling wood at her e, near Moosup pond, she was cut about the eye. A physician was called to dress the gash. Henry Lavallee has been ill. Sermons by Father and Son. George Benedict of Hartford preach- od here Suday. His father,Rev. George Bemediet, preached at the Plainfleld <h E Berber of Exeter, R. I, vis- ited his sister, Miss Phebe Barber, on Sunday. James Wicex has been spending soveral daws with his sister, Miss Em- ily WHoeex in Norwiech. Mrs. Sarsh Clarke, who lives on the Green Hollow road, has been taken to the Day-Kimball hospital. where a sur- sfcal operation wag performed. | My, and Mrs. Hiorns and | litthe son heve been in Pawtucket, R.| I, attending the funeral of Hiorn's father. Netbaniei P. Thompson has been | spending several days in Nerwich and | attending the reunion of the 21st regi- | ment. | Mrs. | Mr. and Mrs. William Craig and M Drern of Danlelson visit- ed cousin, Mrs. Hverett Rich- mond, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Barber spent Sunday with relatives in Portertown. Bdward H. Lillibridge, Mrs. E. H. A Town Clerk Sessions L. Ademg ang Miss Hattle Stark took an aute trip te Hope Valiey, R. I, Sun- day, to wisit Mr. Lillibridge's sister end his daughter, Miss Edna Lilli- bridge, who is spending a few weeks at_her aunt's home. ‘Weazren Hopking of Providence spent Sunday at his home. Augustus Mathewson of Fall River, Mass., spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mathewson. Miss Dorothy Atweod of Farmington hag been visiting her grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. P. A, Mathewson. Weon D. A. R. Prize. Edith Eyers won the five dollar gold | plece offered as a prize for a revolu- tlonery paper by the members of the | Rebecea Avery chapter. | ~ Paward Smith of Groton has been | visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Esec | Smith. | Miss Annie Wood, who is in the New Haven hospital nurses’ training school, :a;flboen visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred on. Evil Doers Punished. Deputy Sheriff George Bliven arrest. ed two men, who, with three others, had been engaged In a disturbance in Piminfleld Monday. Tuesday morning at the trial one paid his fine, while the other was taken to Brooklyn jail. He was a resident of Plainfield. A Guest of Mrs. Kinney. Mrs. Bdward H. Lilldbridge was in Hartford Saturday attending the re- union of regents and members of for- mer councils as a guest of Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, honorary state regent of the D. A. R. Miss Dorothy Burleson of Jewett City will spend today (Saturday) and Sun- day with a school friend, Miss Helen Methewson. State Policeman Fred Mitchell has been visiting his family. Mrs. Lydia Spicer is visiting for an indefinite time at the home of her son, Fdward, while her daughter-in-law is | in Boston caring for her son, Harry, who s ill with diphtheria. Mrs. Everett Hiscox and Mrs. M. E. | Wilson of Jewett City, Mrs. Addison | Tourtelotte and Mrs. Logue of East | Thompson, Mrs. Fred Swift and Mrs. | Bugeni® Rose of Willimantic were vis- | itons hrere Wednesday. SOUTH_WILLINGTON Clarence E. Essex Joins Uriel Lodge— Plans for County W. C. T. U. Con- vention. Clarence E. Bssex, who returned to his ship, U, 8. 8. Boston, at Ports- mouth, N. H, Monday, will take with him pl memories of his recep- tion_at Urlel lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M., the Saturday evening previ- ous, when he became a full fledged member. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Matthews of ‘Willington ' Hill are soen to move to tsis viljage, | Miss Gertrude Janes was home from Chester over Sunday. W. C. T. U. Convention. Because of a conflict of dates be- tween the Pomona grange and the an- nual gonvention of the Woman’s Chris- tian Temperance wumion of Tolland county, the latter has changed the . in the The attendance the Sunday &chool, exclustve of visitors, was 55; not the largest, but gratifying and en- eouraging. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES. SRS | Mieses Fismerelda Macdonald, {Keenan and Jennie EAST WOODSTOCK. 8ale of Elm Tree Farm—Miss Hartig to Address Missionary Auxiliary. William Jackson and family are movi from the Darling cottage to the old store dbuilding owned by V. T. ‘Wetherell. It is rumore® that Elm Tree farm Bas been sold to Mrs. Mary Medbury f Putnam_and her brother, Henry e of Boston. rs. Alfred Briggs and daughter, MWaith, of Pomfret, were at Roscee Alton’s Sunday aftermoon. Mrs. Lymean May is critically il with heart trouble and Tuesday morn- ing was stricken with paralysis. She is 86 years of age and recovery is doubttul. ‘Mre. Blizabeth White has returned 1 weeks’ visit with relatives in_Worcest. Holden and Oxferd. = cfty misstonary. will addreas Lol p. m. the ladles’ auxiliary at the church. May 25, at 2.30 will take the place megtisg in Turner has charge of the programme. A] social hour is to follow in the chap- el. \ WAUREGAN Obituary Notes—Accident — Teamster for 47 Years. The Tuneral of Mrs. Charles Lucle was attended Monday, with burial in Sacreq Heart cemetery. Rev. Lemere of Montreal, Canada, officiated. Fifty-five of the 62 years of her life were spent in Wauregan. Nicel Fiere, who underwent an op- eration a few days since by a Nor- wich surgeon, is rapidly improving. Joseph Rock, who was serdously in- jured while running the company’s power saw, ciausing concussion of the brain, is improving, and will soon be able to attend to his duties. Rev. Elldott Ford Talmadge, state dclegate, ond Arthur E. Mott, local delegate, are attending the world’s Sun- dn_\'( school convention in Washington Rey. Clarence Barber of Danielson will occupy Mr. Talmadge's pulpit on Sunday. Services at 12.46 instead of usnal hour. James Riley of Allen Hfll has been engaged to run the Wauregan com- pany’s ice téam the coming season. The company has one James Riley who has been in its employ as team- ster 47 years, and is still at it. The body of Charles Bedford, former ly a resident of this vollage, was brought here for burial Tuesday last. Joseph Bedard of Norwich and Miss Tena Warner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs* Joseph, were married in Sacred Heart church Sunday by Rev. U. O. Bellerose. The Butler brothers have bought the Cox farm on Allen Hill Frederick Messier has entered the employ of a plumbing concern in Paw- tucket. THOMPSON Grange Entertainment Postponed Be- cause of Death of Oscar Robinson— Social Notes. Mr. and Mrs, C. C. the funeral Tuesday. 'Mrs. Whittemore is in Worcester this week. Mz, and Mrs. Addeman of Provi- dence have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Elllott. The railroad bridge at Spinney’s crossing reached completion this week. Plerce attended of a relative in Putnam A party from town attended the D. A. R. concert in Putnam Tues- day night. Milkton Snyder of Worces- ter and Mies Eunice Allbright of Bos- ton, who took part in the programme, were entertained here. Miss f£llen D. Dlarnad of this place was a speake; also. . The Thimble club met Thursday aft- ernoon with Mrs. C. C. Pierce. The B. Y. P. U. meeting Sunday -ve“’nlng was led by Mrs. Winthrop Bal- lard. Miss Elizabeth Eddy entertained Anna Carmody of the Willimantie schools over Sunday. Mms. Jameg Munyan celebrated a birthday last Saturday. Mrs. E. S. Fletcher was In Boston one day last week. Specimens of brown-tailed moths were displayed at the library and post- office last week through the kindness of Richard Barton. Schuyler Davis of Providence was a recent guest of his niece, Mrs. F. M. Knight. Measleg and chicken pox are preva- lent among the childen. Over twenty cases of the former were reported at the children’'s home last week. The Sunday morning service was conducted by Captain Withee in his usual quiet pleasing manner. Miss Edna Hall sang a solo, A Dream of Paradise. Sudden Death. Oscar Robinson died early Wednes- day morming of heart disease. He was 70 years old and & lifelong resident of Thompson. He weas prominent in Quinnatisset Grange and for this rea- son their entertainment planned for this week has been indefinitely post- poned Preparations are under way for the observance of children’s day, June 12, at the Congregational church. CHAPLIN. Address by Governor W. E. Clark— Eastford Pastor to Give Memorial Day Address. Governor Walter E. Clark of Alaska, who hag been visiting his mother, Mrs. Emily J. Rose, gave an address at the Congregutional church last Sunday morning. It wes a clean cut and up to date address, and was listened to with much interest by a good sized congregation. Governor and Mrs. Clark expect to return to Alaska early in June. Thomas G. Brown post, G. A. R., will observe Memorial day with patriotic exercises. Rev. J. B. King of Eastford will be the speaker. The Ladies’ Aid society has pointed tire church vestry and added new lamps which maeke a decided Improvement. The society has introduced a new feat- ure in their ineetings of late, having had four birthday meetings with dif- ferent members of the society, which were very enjoyable. NORTH STERLING. Annual Roll Call at Church—Masonic Burial. The eleventh annual roll call of this church was held Friday, May 20 The pastor was glad to greet all the mem- bers and friends of the church, since it will be the last time he will meet them on such an occasion. George 1. Strong has been enter- taining his two brothers the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Cleaver spent Sunday in Danielson. A number were at the annual church cleaning last Saturdey afternoon. The funeral of Russell Hill dargely attended last Friday. It was in charge of Moriah lodge, F. and A. M., of Danielson, of which Mr. Hill was a member. ABINGTON Meeting of lel.tl’ Benevolent Society. The Ladies’ Benevolent society met at Library hall Thursday afternoon. Several from here attended the Weeks-Sanderson wedding at Putnam on Wednesday of last week. ‘Miss Jessie Dennis of Providence has been at her summer home here for sev- eral days. Mrs. G. W. Fuller and Miss Alice La- ahz\m ‘were Putnam visitors on,’l‘hurs- ay. Darwin Horton has moved from the Demnis farm to the hafise with Mrs. Emily Botham. Miss Alice Peat enertained Miss Al- len of West Willington over Sunday. STERLING Plans Being Made for Children’s Day. Mrs. Irving Anderson and Miss Ida Carpenter spent Wednesday with triends in Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. Emory of Willimantic were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Belanger last week. Mrs. Roy Thomas and little son, Wes- ley. visited friends in Boston recently. May haskets are popular. The committee on music and litera- ture met on Tuasday evening to ar- day coneert. was | relatives in Stafford . Roger Porter No., hall Wednesday Harl E. James and George Noel, while fishing In James’ pond one day last ‘week, caught three fine pickerel which weighed respectively 11-2 and 1 1b., and 10 oz. K The attendance at the Thursday even- ing prayer meeting has greatly In- creased in the last few months, there belng 25 persent at the Baptist church last Thursday evening. Miss Alice C. Tripp of Providence, R. I, spent Sunday as the guest of Mrs. Ellen D. Mathewson. David Mathewson started Monday morning fo ‘Washington, D. C., for several days’ business trip. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Mathewson, Rev. B. C. Bugbee and Miss Alice C. Tripp enjoyed an automobile ride Monday. POMFRET CENTER Mrs. Courtland Hoppin and family are at Courtlands for the summer. Dr. Joseph Floppin plans for a Eu- ropean trip soon Friends of M M. A. Stanton are pileased to see her dgain able to walk out of doors. Joseph Scott visited Worcester Sat- urday. Miss Beatrice Brown is improving rapidly. ~ TOLLAND COUNTY. i S10RRS. Captain Kerrick Tells of Coast De fenses—Rev. O. D. Fisher Leaves for New Pastorate—Grange Meeting. The Faculty Scientific club held a meeting on Thursday, May 12. Drs. Thom and Dox and Mr. Grant dis- cussed the problems connected with the making of Roquefort cheese. At a special meeting of the Mans- field grange, No. 64, held Monday eve- ning, the third and fourth degrees were conferred on two candidates. Tuesday evening the grange visited Natchaug grange of Chaplin and fur- nished the programme. On Wednesday evening, Capt. Harri- son S. Kenick of Fort Wright gave a talk in the college hall on the subject of the coast defences of the United States, especially those in the New London artillery district. Captain and Mrs. Kerrick visited Dr. Thom while in Storrs. The house being erected for Joseph King by the Hawkins Bros. is near- ing completion. It is ready for the interior finishing. Mrs. Frederic dren have been visiting in Norw Stoneburn and chil- pending the week Mrs. A. T. Thomas has returned from St. Joseph’s hospitagl much im- proved in health. Rev. O. D. Fisher has gone to his new parish in South Windham. GURLEYVILLE Sunday School Preparing for Chil- dren’s Day Concert—Visitors of the Week. Rev. E_F. Smith and daughter, Miss Ida Smith, are the guests of relatives 1\!71 ;’mokl_\‘n, N. Y., and@ Montclair, Henry Dunham from Mansfield Cen- ter spent Sunday at his home here. At the meeting of the Sunday school board, Sunday. a committee was ap- pointed to prepare for a Children’'s day concert. Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Wood have a son, born Saturday evening, May 14. G. W. LeValley and Mrs. E L. Smith spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Young in Windham. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Yeomans have been entertaining their cousin, E, P. Hanks, from New Jersey Mrs’ Anna Rowley has been the guest of her sister, ‘Mrs. H. E. Si- monds, the past qveek. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Swift from At- woodville were callers at Mrs. Arvilla Dunham’s Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Wrana spent Sunday in South Willington. Meeting of Ladies’ Aid Seciety—Recent Visitors. Rev. Mr. Marquot of Vernon occu- pied the pulpit Sunday in exchange with Rev. James Roberts. Several from Bolton attended a meeting of Bast Central Pomona grange held in Coventry Wednesday. The Ladies” Aid society met with Miss Annie M. Alvord Thursday after- noon. Guests at Herbert W. Howell's the first of the week were Miss Jennie M. Cordys and Ray Goff of New lL.ondon and Miss Edith M. Howell of South Manchester. Rev. and Mre. Lyman Warner of Salisbury are visiting their niece, Miss A. M. Alvord. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Sumner have moved from Mr. Sumner’s mother's house, where they have resided since coming from Rockville, to the brick house at the center. Miss Viola Upton, David Clark and nephew of Mansfield have been visit- ing Mrs. William E. Clark. Relatives from New York are visiting at Andrew Bl Maneggia's. SOUTH COVENTRY. 25th Annual Convention of County W. €. T. U—Many Hear Rev. R. C. Miller. The 25th annual convention of the Tolland county W. C. T. U. will be held in the Methodist church Thurs- day, March 26, opening with devotion- al service at 9.45. A basket lunch will be served. Irving Boynton of New Haven spent last week end with his mother on Ripley hill. F. K. Day of New Britain visited his mother on Tuesday of this week. Rev. Rennetis C. Miller lectured last Sund, morning and evening on Civic Reform. The lectures were well at- tended and enjoyed. At the Methodist church in the evening several vocal numbers were rendered by Rev. E. F. Avery and Mrs. Ann Ledoyt, in addi- tion to the solo by Mr. Miller, SPRING HILL Nearly $20 Cleared from Strawberry Festival—State Road Progressing. The strawberry festival was largely attended Wednesday evening, Nearly $20 was taken in. The proceeds go to- wards the Sunday school convention fund. The senior class of the C. A. C. heiped to entertain by their college ngs. The state road that is being built has a good start. The big steam shov- el is in operation and a sight to see. Rev. Mr. Curtiss has been the guest of Edgar Storrs this past week. The mission band will meet at Miss May Lauremson’s Saturday. Mrs. Dan Flaherty has returned home. Mrs. C. E. Hayens Miss Josephine Amidon and Miss Lillian Havens, all of Norwich, were the guests of Mrs. B. M. Sears this week. TURNERVILLE. TOLLAND COUNTY Local Masons Attend Norwich Meeting. #rs. T. R. Prentice and daughter returned Monday from a visit with Springs. and Hawley Wibite at- tended the Masomic meeting in Nor- s ’ the Lewis Rathbone is boarding at W. E._Jaquith’s. Mrs. D. F. Jaquith returned Sunday from a week’s visit with relatives in Coventry. Mrs. Porter of Jones street called at her nephew’s, J. H. White's, Monday. CoLUMBIA Sixty-three Dog Licenses Issued—Rev. Sherrod Soule to Speak—Little- Wright Wedding Announcements. Sixty-three dog licenses have been issued by the town clerk thus far this season. The Lebanon baseball nine came here last Saturday afternoon and de- feated the local nine, 22 to 9. Mrs. Raymond Hunt of Faston, Pa., spent several days with relatives in town recently. Mr. Seymour of New York was with the family of Fred A. Hunt over Sun- day. Mr. Seymour expecis to return later as one of the summer visitors. William A. Collins, Jr., was with the family of his father-in-law, Rev. Jas- per P. Harvey, of Chester, Mass., over Sunday. Mrs. Edith Little and her friends, Mrs. Sterry and son and Miss Avery, all of Willimantic, spent Sunday with Mrs., Little’'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard B, Clarke. The visit was in honor of Mr. Clarke’s 76th birthday. Delegates to Congregational Confer- ence. Deacon Wiltiam A. Collins, Mrs. Howard Rice and Miss Mildred TLa- tham have been chosen delegates from the Columbia Congregational church to the spring conference of Congrega- tional churches in Tolland county, to be held at Vernon on Tuesday of next week. Rev. Sherrod Soule of Hartford is expected to be present next Sunday at the morning church service and speak in the interest of miesions and mission work. He is superintendent of the Connecticut ilome Missionary society. Mrs, W. H. Harris has been spend- ing several days with friends in New Haven. Little-Wright Marriage. Announcements have been received of the marriage of Leon G. Little and Miss ILouise Whittlesey Wright at Friday Harbor, Wask, on Tuesday, May 3. Both are residents of Friday Harbor and will reside there for the present. The groom Is a native of Columbia where his boyhood days were spent. He is now a licensed pharmacis WILLINGTON Pastor’s Favorite Hymns Sung at Baptist Church—Plans for Rell Call Rev. Austin Gardner's topic Sun- day morning at the Congregational church was The Eyes Opened, found- ed on John 9:7. At the Baptist ciiurch in the after- nnon Rev. Karl Darrow preached from Exodus. The favorite hymns of the pastor were used—Coronation, Jerus- alem the Golden, and Jesus Still Lead On. The third, is not as familiar to us here as the other two. Next Sun- day the selections are by Mrs. Elmer J. Mathews, and are—The Son of God Goes Forth to War, We May Not Climb the Heavenly Steeps and Weary of Earth and Laden With My Sin. There was a business meeting at the 72-Year-old Lady Wins Silver Medal by Oratorical Ability—Improvement Society Laying Walk. The matrons’ silvi medal contest which was held at the Dunn’s Corners church Tuesday evening by the Ocean View W. C. T. U. was a cess. There were 12 contestal oratorical and six musical. Of the six oratorical contestants three of the ja- dies were over 70 years old, the medal going to Mrs. Jennie Smith, who was 72. Mrs. John Austin won the medal for singing. The church was crowded to its doors, many coming from Westerly, Niantic, and Quonocontaug. A silver collection was taken which netted a good sum to the treasury. New Board Walk. The Weekapaug Improvément socie- ty is having a new board walk laid which Will be a great benefit (o the place. K Personal News. Mrs. Hapgood of Hartford was in this place one day last week looking after her cottage, which she has rented for the season to Mrs. Cottrell of Westerly. Mrs. Abbie Langworthy is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Willlam F. Saunders at Pleasant View. Mrs. Lydia Collins is .the guest of relatives at Watch Hill. Walter Dwelley of New York city ds the guest of his wife, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs, E. B, Lang- worthy. RICHMOND Strawberry Festival-——Medal Contest on May 24—Personal Mention. The Ladies’ Aid society connected with the Baptist church at Shannock served a strawberry supper in the <hurch Wednesday evening. An enter- talnment was given consisting of reci- tations, readings, solos and songs by the quartette, Mrs. Mattie Kenyon, Mrs. Ernest Barber, Willlam Brown- ing and Arthur Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. James Matteson have returned to Kenyon to live, after an absence of several months spent in Maine and Connecticut. Mrs. A. P. Briggs has home from a visit with Mrs, Marchant at West Kingston. Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Dawley of Ken- yon spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. B. B. Moore. At the Shannock church Tuesday evening, May 24th, the Clark’s Mills W. C. T. U. will hold a medal contest, when six ladies will recite, There will be speclal music and singing by Mr. Browning of Westerly and others. Mrs. Albert Hoyle spent Sunday with friends at Usquepaug. Clifford Hathaway and John Phillips of Wakefield spent Friday with Mrs. returned Frank G. H. Phillips. Mrs. B. B, Moore spent Tuesday aft- ernoon with Miss Lizzie Kenyon. Mrs. W. N. Reynolds is on the sick list. ARCADIA Barber-Bateman Marriage on the 28th ~—Mills Shut Down. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Battey of An- thony, R, I., were guests Friday of Ira Hadfleld and family. close of the Sunday school when a Mr. and Mrs. George Andrews and committee was appointed to confer | Jaughter were guests of Benjamin with the South Willington school in | Sreldon Sunday. regard to an outing. The committee The announcement ig made of the consits of Rev., Mr. Darrow, Superin- tended Bartlett, Mrs. Brown and Sec- retary Pratt. Deacon and Mrs. W. F. Brackett from South Willington and Deacon and Mrs. Gilbert Adimon of Westford were among the attendants at the Baptist church in the afternoon. At the close of the service a business meeting was called. Deacon Pratt was in the chair. Arrangements were made from the an- nual roll call which calls on June 14 this year. Mrs. Charles H. Brown was named to have charge of the dinner and supper arrangements, to choose her assistants. Plans were made for special invitations, for music, for an address by Rev, Dr. A. B. Coates of Hartford, after the roll call in the evening, the whole to close with the observance of the Lord’s Supper. STAFFORDVILLE on Birthday—Honors Walter R. Agard. Surprised for Migs G. Gladys Preston of West Stafford was the guest of Mrs. L. M. Booth recently. Frank A. Peck and Dwight J. Peck of Monson were at E. S. Colburn’s last Sunday. Mrs. Sarah West has been visiting her daughters, Mrs. Emma Converse and Mrs. Phoebe Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corbin and daughter have recently moved from wedding of Howard Clark Barber, for- merly of this place, and Miss Mabel Grace Bateman of Hamilton, N. Y,, to take place at Hamilton Saturday, May 28th. T. H. Barber went to Providence on Tuesday. The mills here discentinued opera- tions indefinitely Saturday. Mrs. Ruth De Rosier is i11. Miss Genava Hadfield visited her shs- ter, Mrs. Walter Plerce of Arkwright, R. I, Tuesday:. HOPKINTON. Arbor Day Exercises in the Schools. Several visitors were present and enjoyed the Arbor day exercises giv- en with ability by public school pupils last week Friday mornimg. Mr. and Mrs. J. Willlam Bliven of New London were callers at the home of Deacon Roger W. Lewis on Sunday afternoon. Showers Sunday aftsrnoon prevent- ed services in the First Day Baptist church, Mrs. Harry A. Spencer of Hope Val- ley and Miss Sarah . Haskell of Southbeid Muass., called on friends here Saturday. Ten yeans ago Miss Haskell was a popular teacher in the local school. She now teaches infYthe Moses Brown school in Providehce. Her father was for several years pas- tor of the Baptist church in Hope Val- Wales, Mass., to the boarding heouse|ley, but is now engaged in farming at Hydeville vacated b~ Mr. and Mrs. | and market gardening near South- H., G. Dunham. bridge. About forty friends of Robert Taylor Miss Zoe 1. Kenyon of Waesterly gave him a birthday surprise spent Sunday at the home of her week Friday night. Refreshments | mother, Mrs. Harriet C. Kenyon. were served. Dancing and soclal — amusement were enjoyed. Walter R. Agard, who has spent his summer vacations with local relatives, has been elected president of the Am- herst high school deébating society, at which school he is a junior and pr dent of his class. Miss M. L. Woodberry of New York vill speak on Tuesday evening at the Congregational church on The Impor- tant Aspects of Western Frontier Life. STAFFORD. Items Chiefly Personal—Visitors. Miss Hattie A. Converse of Glendale, North Wilbraham, Mass., was the guest of Mrs. Maranda Johnson a few days last week. Mrs, George Park and daughter Louisa of Dexter, Me., have been the guests of Mrs. William Park. They returned to their home Friday and were accompanied by Miss Mabel Park, who will spend the summer in Dexter. Miss Florence Chapman of Orange, N. J., is the guest of her cousin, Mies Lottie Hatch. Mrs. Emily M. Goodell, who has been ill, is much detter. Mrs. Eva M. Bugbee returned Friday from two weeks’ visit with friends in New London. Mr. and Mrs. James Glastonbury were guests Thomas Park over Sunday. Park of East of Mrs, Fish and Game Club Distributes Fin- gerling Trout. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Hills and the daughter Laura spent Sunday in West- chester. Miss Retha Milton returned to East Hartford last Saturday. Mrs. J. R. Gilbert has been appointed delegate to the Tolland county confer- ence to be held at Vernon next week. The Wellesway Fishing and Game club has liberated 1,000 trout in the two streams which they control. Mrs. Mary Dodge spent several days the past week with friends in South- ‘bridge. M. A. Marcy returned home last Sat- urday to Hartford. Mrs. Marion Goodell is caring for her sister, Mrs. L. M. Reed, who has ‘been ill for several days. Mrs. L. Miller spent several day with fri Stafford Springs th Deposits of mica exist at the Big Bend of the Columbia river, and some beautiful specimens have been roceived from the deposits mnear Tete Juan Cache, north of Revelstoke, but in neither have developments of any mo- ment been made. 3 . The Rain Tree. A tree known as the rain tree—Pithe- collobjum Saman—is found in the drier parts of South America, This tree grows to the height of 60 feet, and its leaves have the peculiar property of condensing the molsture from the at~ mosphere. So coplous is this condensa- tion that a continual shower falls from: the leaves and branches until the sur- rounding soll is converted ihto a ver~ itable marsh. Places that would other- wise be barrem desert are by this means covered with the most luxuriant forests. ’ oy ‘The Art of Being Happy. ! “Cheerfulness,” says Ruskin, “is as matural to the heart of man in strong health as glow to his cheek, and wherever there is habitual glooms there must be either bad air, unwhole- some food, impropexly severe labor o erring habits of life.” If children were taught that one of the great life due ties 18 to unfold the fun-loving side of their nature, the humorous side, there wounld not be so many suicides, s many unhappy, discordant, miserable .people, so many failures in the world, ~—Success Magazine. I , As a Steadlly Flowing Current, Tt seems to me that to be quiet and to be active, or rather, to be quietly active, constantly going on with untir« ing energy, and yet so softly as scarcely to be perceptible, this secemms to me to be an approach toward per- fection. And this lesson we learm from Nature, which is unceasingly and wyet imperceptibly changing —Froms the Memoirs of Anne J. Clough. A Slangy Bungalow. Tt doesn’t take long for curremé | slang to find itz way into the namew of summer cottages and bungalows. A tiny but artisticailly arranged cottage for a family to summer in is called “A Cottage of Some Class,” and a neat! plate in migsion wood above the leaded glass door proclaims it to all who pass or enter, Need of Companionship. Companionship is the one thing in the world which is absolutely essen< tial to happiness. The human heartl needs fellowship more than anything else—fellowship which is elevated ahd enduring, stronger and pures than itself and centered in that which death cannot change-—Henry Van Dyke. History Told by Eciipses. Many eclipses are noticed in the records of all ages. Astronomers cam determine nccurately ' when eclipses must have occurred and the eclipse records are proving valuable to his. torical students as a means of deter- mining the dates of important events, Guarding Against Black Sheep. There is at the kaiser's Berlin pal. ace an Oberhofmeisterin, a lady who bas been desoribed as a court cham« beriath in petticoats, who has to make personal acquaintance with every lady before she attends & court. For Retaining Youth, I am quite sure that one secret of youth is to keep up with determined and steady hand ome’'s own tone, to avoid rutg and narrowing clrcles. —¥ W. Ware, Knocking Hubby. “My husband thinks he is very ecos nomical,” said t's2 blue-eyed woman. ““He saves everything. One drawer of his desk is devoted to time tables, and be hag some that are three years old.* ‘The Army of ‘Constipation {Is Growing Smaller Every Day. | CARTER’'S LITTLE ;l.IVER PILLS are Bilious - ness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Sallow Skin. SMALL PILL, 'SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE GENUTNE must bear signature: P S = ———————y dreaded task, newest meth Why Ha;\}e an 0vei'iiééted Kitchen in Summer? When the sultry days come and the coal range makes the kitchen almost unbearable and cooking a ut out the range fire and try the of cooking in New Per, ot weather—use a IO, Oil Cook-stove What a contrast! The kitchen no longer is stifling hot, the work is now done with comfort, and the housewife is not worn out with the heat. N She saves her strength, keeps her health and is better able to enjoy the summer. * The New Perfection does everything that other stove can do—all the fam- ily cooking, baking, washing and iron- ing. No smoke, no dust, no odor. Heat is applied directly and not wasted. A turn, and the flame is out. Perfection stove has = with shelf for keeping plates and d bot, drop shelves for the coffee nt or saucepans, and nickeled towel racks, It has t:mxdu-blu- enamel cbinn.g". 1'1?{‘. el finish, with the bright blue of chimneys, makes the stove very attractive and lnvites clean- liness. Made with |, 2 and 3 burners the 2 and 3-burner stoves can be with or without C: