The Press., 1898-11-17
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 E. l.. Burr has been in New York on a business trip this week.
 Mrs. Adelbert Needham is attending the horse show in New York.
 Henry M Bartlett of Willlmantic has been a guest at the Springs House part of the week.
 Superintendent Scott of the Stafford Worsted company was at Woonsocket, R. l., over Sunday.
 Rev. S. GrifRths of Sterling, Conn.,, with his son, Winfield S, was the guest of his brother over last Sunday.
 Attorney Danahey was called to Tol- land last Thursday to defend Richard Kaylor, who was charged with illegal liquor selling.
 Mrs. George Lawton has gone to hel old home in Woonsocket, and will re. main until after Thanksgiving. MT. Lawton will spend Thanksgiving there.
 Those who desire can get their Thanks. giving dinner at the Springs House this year. There will be no advance on the regular price of fifty cents for the dinner, but Landlord Segar reserves the privilege of making all the improvements on the menu that his experience and skill sug- gests.
 The town meeting Monday afternoon was attended by over sixty voters. E. C.. Pinney acted as moderator. A tax of 90 mills was voted on list next to be made. Three hundred dollars was appropriated to the Stafford Library association for the purchase of books and the distribu- tion of the same. One hundred dollars was voted for the observance of Memorial day. The farm of Eugene D. Ellis 1T West Stafford was changed from schoo district No. IT to No. 13. The clause IT the warning in regard to the manner o repairing the roads for the next three years, was acted upon by passing the fol lowing
 Resolved, That from and after Apri 1st, 1899, the highways in the town, out side the borough of Stafford Springs shall be under the care and supervision oi Ns ney, Myron w. Leonard and Daniel L. Ellis, and they are hereby authorized tC act in the matter of the care of said high ways in such manner as they shall deem best for the interest of the town, anC their acts shall be valid as agents of tho town in all matters pertaining to the re pair and maintenance of said highway and the selectmen are directed to honO all orders drawn by said committee, or the town, for labor, materials or suppliet used or consumed in the care and main tenance of the highways in said town a. aforesaid, provided that said eommitte, shall not enter upon. or contract for, O begin any work (the regular repairs upol the highways excepted), nor order, con tract for, nor purchase any article O property involving the expenditure O more than five hundred dollars, withou the same shall have been directed and al appropriation therefor made by the lega voters of the town at a regularly warned meeting. And the sum total of all sum expended, contracted for, or by said com mittee obligated, shall not exceed th sum of five thousand dollars in an, one year. And the term of service O said committee shall be for the period O three years, or until April 1, 1909. Tn selectmen of the town shall have car and maintenance of all bridges in tn town, excepting such as are known al sluices or culverts said sluices and cul verts shall be under the care and main tenanee of the aforesaid road highwa committee, and shall be included in an maintained under the provisions and ez penditures provided for the highway"
 The last two names of the road commit tee are members of the present board c selectmen. A step in the right dlrectio has been taken toward the betterment o our highway. When those having charg of the highways are changed every year it is almost impossible for any plan o modernizing the roads to be carrie out, as each newly elected board Is yer likely to undo any permanent improve ments which had been introduced O started by the previous board. It is ez pected that the plan to be adopted Apr 1st, next, will be one of great advantag to the town. It was voted that the sC lectmen be instructed to bring the matte of consolidating the school districts the town before the voters, at tn next annual town meeting, for action ul on. The following minor town officer were appointed by the selectmen: ?Oun keepers, Lyme2 Cushman, G. c. Parkes D. J. Glazier; sealer of weights, JacC Glover; sealer of leather, E. C. Dennis wood measurers, J. W. Witt, A. s. Eatol E. E. Butterfisld, E. H. Pinney, E. Truesdell, H. c. Holt, E. J. Worthin ton, Charles Gary; public weighers, 0. Pinney, E. 0. Dennis, s. B. AmRdo E. o. Truesdell, Charles Gary, ". Demond; haywards, Lyman Cushma H. W. Davis, Geo. O. Cleaveland; se tons, c. F. Eager, w. J. Thresher, H. GlazIer, John Kane, Frank Convers Wilbur Holmes, George Cooley, M. Gold, Homer Lord.