The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-08
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


spending several days at Block Island.
Joseph Speed of Lawrence, Mass, has
been the guest of his brother, John Speed.
VIM. Robbins of Orcuttville picked an
apple blossom from one of his trees this
week.
The Lincoln Athletic Club is to have a
dance at the clubs rooms next Saturday
evening.
The families of c. g. Ellis and Burt T.
Eaton have returned from their outing at
Pleasure Beach.
Nineteen tickets were sold from the To-
cal station for the excursion to Saratoga
which left Tuesday forenoon.
John Foster caught a black bass at
Mashapaug Tuesday which weighed four
and one-half pounds. This beats the
record for this year.
William H. Heald Is taking vacation
at Block Island and vicinity. George
Siswiek is attending to his duties at the
bank during his absence
Hugh Black of Moose Meadow was
brought to the station Tuesday morning,
and was taken to Norwich on the o'crk
train, being now in the hospital. Mr..
Black was suffering with appendicitis.
Through Agent Shahan the Metropoli-
tan life Insurance company has paid the
claim of Elizabeth Dean accruing by the
death of her husband, Amos A Dean.
This is the third claim paid in town by
this company during the last four weeks.
The German friends of Mr.. and Mrs
George Fagg paid them visit Saturday
evening in honor of their golden wedding
anniversary. Owing to the Illness of Mrs
FaPg the program was short, consisting
of songs and the presentation of valua-
BILE souvenir for the occasion.
Labor day passed quietly In town, and
was not generally observed Quite a
party went to Springfield to the bicycle
races, but, with C. R. Newton out of It,
the enthusiasm of former years was lack
ing. Crystal Lake and Mashapaug each
drew few visitors from the town for the
day.
been ordered to Middletown, Penn, with
the probability of going to Cuba this fall
for garrison duty. The boys will go to
the island at more favorable time than
the I'd Massachusetts,. The weather will
be cool and dry, and the liability to dis
ease much less. Quite number of the
Stafford boys are enrolled In this regI-
ment, and most of them had a 24-hours'
furlough the first of the week to enable
them to visit their homes before starting
for Middletown.
Mrs. Lillia Underwood, 40, widow Of
Albert Underwood, died at her home
Tuesday, at 1915 a. M, after an illness
of six weeks of bilious fever. Mrs. I'm.
derwood has been a resident OF the town
for the past 10 years, and has won the re-
spect of all who know her for her chris
tian character and sterling worth. She
leaves three daughters, Maud, Bessie and
Helen, all of whom reside In town. Her
father and mother survive her, also two
brothers and two sisters. The brothers
are H. E. Aeker of Monson and Walker
1. Acker of West Sutton. OF tEesisters
Mrs. E. P. Robbins resides in Worcester
and Miss Julia Acker at Keene, N. H
The funeral will be held from her late
residence at $50 this afternoon, Rev. j
L. Bartholomew, pastor of the Methodist
church, Of which the deceased was val
ued member, officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wheeler were in
iured In an accident on the highway neal
w. j. Williams house leading to Furnace
avenue last Sunday afternoon. The acct
dent was caused by the breaking of th,
strap that held up the breeching, in tn,
steepest part of the hill. Mr.. Wheeler
held the horse up quickly after the break
and she commenced kicking. Mrs. Wheel
or started to get out and fell between thu
wheels, but quickly extricated hersel
from her dangerous position. Mr.. Wheel
er then got out, but in some way wa
badly hurt. He was either kicked by tn,
horse or got caught some way In the wag
on. His knee and the lower part of hii
leg received the injury, and he has beer
laid up all the week. Mrs. Wheeler wal
considerably bruised, but was not SO bad
ly hurt as Mr.. Wheeler James ELI
and one or two other men came to tn,
rescue, unhitched the horse and got Mr.
Wheeler home. The dash was broker
and the front of the carriage badly marred
Considering the place where the acciden
occurred, Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler wer
fortunate that they were not badly hurt.
The weather last Saturday afternoo
was rather warm for ball playing, but tn
game between the Lincolns and the Haz
ardvillee was started about 4. 10. The al
tendance was small. D. J. McCarth
acted as umpire, and filed the position t
the satisfaction of players and audience
The visiting team was handicapped by
poor catcher, who was put in owing to a
injury that the regular catcher receive
before he arrived here. The regula
catcher tried to fill his position, but CAV
it up after the first inning. Conley {
the Staffords pitched good game, an
had good support. Marsdale made
phenomenal catch In left field. The gam
was interesting throughout, and at til
end of the eighth inning the score stood
to in favor of the Stafrords. In tn
ninth inning the Staffords made thre
scores and shut the visitors out in the
half. The Staffords made four twO-bas
hits and the Hazardvilles one. The Ha,
ardvilles made two three-base hits. Coz
ley struck out 2 men and Carson struc
out the same number. The score by h
nings:
Htaffords, O041 O001 So
Hazardvilles, O1OOO11 90