The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-04-21

ladies and gentlemen interested in the
golf club was held last evening in G. A.
r. hall. Hon. j. Carl Converse presided.
A constitution was adopted and officers
elected. The club will be called THE
Stafford Country Club" and its object is
''The playing and advancement of golf
lawn tennis and any other athletic or So
cial pastime which the judgment Of a ma
jority of the club may determine" The
following gentlemen were elected as the
board of governors: Christopher Allen,
J. III. Valentine, J. M. Leach, F. F. Pat
ten, J. Carl Converse, DIR. Il. Louis Mich
OILS, Charles B. Pinney, VIM. FL. Corbin
and Benjamin P. Cooley. At meeting
of the board of governors, held after the
meeting, the following officers of the club
were elected: President, Christopher AL.
len; vice prerident, j. Fl. Valentine; sec.
rotary, VIM. H. Corbin; treasurer, Chas
B. Pinney; assistant treasurer, B. p
Cooley. Over sixty ladies and gentlemen
have signified their desire to join the
club, and any others who desire to joir
may hand their names to any member Of
the board of governors.
Stafford.
For Sale-A Good Secondhand Pi.
ano. Price 800. Prof. T. F. Jordan
library building.
A. d. Brown of Holyoke, was guest
this week of Mr.. and Mrs A. D. Cady.
Mrs. Lydia Duncklee of Willimantic. il
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ed. Wilton.
Harry A. Ledoyt has gone to Norwich
where he has taken position in a ma
chine shop.
Miss Edna Goodell has had as guests
the past week Mrs. Chapman and daugh
ter of the borough.
Subject for the meeting of the Y. p. s
G. E. this evening =" Lessons From Great
Missionaries. All cordially invited.
Mrs. Frank Smith of Hydeville, who
has been away for medical treatment, has
returned to her home much improved IL
health.
Tax-Collector Lasbury will be at the
town hall next Tuesday from 8 a. m. to
p. M, and will be pleased to receive any
number of callers at that time.
There will be the usual Episcopal ser
vice in the town hall next Sunday after.
noon at 8 O'Clock. Rector Martin ex
tends special invitation to the cyclists.
The past week has been rather rain,
and not just prime weather for carriag'
selling, still J. G. Wightman has man
aged to dispose of nine new jobs inside o
week.
The Italian road gang, for building thu
macadam road, arrived at their quarter
Tuesday, and yesterday work was re
sumed on the unfinished section left owe
from last fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. g. Beebe and Mrs
Mary Beebe were expecting to make
start from California, on their homewar,
trip last Tuesday. They will make sew
eral short stops on the way, reaching her
about May LIST. $3.50.
Evan Jenkins will leave here for Eng
land in few days. He will sail fron
New York on the Germanic, Of the Whit
Star line, April 9th, and will make hi
home for the summer with niece a
Brighton Beach, England.
It appears that Mr.. Willis, who ha
been at Hydeville for some time rebuild
ing the barn on the Willis place, is
member of the Massachusetts state mill
tia at Worcester, and Tuesday he receives
orders to report Immediately for duty
which he did.
Simon Taylor moved his household
goods and family from this place to thei
new home at Spencer, Mass, on Monda,
last. They will be greatly missed in tn
village, especially by the Baptist society
where Miss Annie Taylor has oficiate
as organist for the past seven month.
The pupils in Miss Smiths room of tn
Pinney Grammar school are to give a
entertainment in the vestry of the Cor
gregational church al Staffordville mex
Thursday evening, the proceeds to b
equally divided between the school an
the Ladies' Aid society of that church.
1t will be remembered that few week
ago we spoke of the death of Franci
Cady of Springfield, and of his espresso
desire to leave what estate he possesse
at the time of his death to the town {
Stafford. 1t has been learned that h
carried out his intention in as far that h
left it all to the Universalist church soc
ETY. of this village. Various rumors ar
in circulation as to the amount of proper
ty left by him, some placing it as high a
100000, which is probably far in exces
of what the amount really is.
Charles E. Gibbs, brother of Mrs. AL
ner Needham, and for many years a fol
mer resident of this village, will be we
remembered by our older residents, I
whom the following clipping from til
Orange Mass Enterprise of April 1911
will be of interest:
G. E. Gibbs, who has been with til
Rodney Hunt company for thirty year.
severed his connection with that estal
lishment yesterday, and 1t will be ma
ter of regret to everyone to learn that b
position with the company has been a
J important one, and he has long been col
sidered one Of the prominent men Of tt
town.
A pleasant event was the social gait
ering at Charles Packard's, Hydevill
last Saturday evening. Some sixtee
couples from this village attended ar
passed most enjoyable evening. Gam
of many kinds were played and dancin
with music from new piano recent
purchased by Mr.. Packard, was high
enjoyed by the young people. The eve
ing was pleasant, and the walk hon
must have been extremely So One your
gentleman attended the party who liv
some three or four miles north of tn
village, and If it took him as proportio
ally long to walk home as it did some
the couples to walk the half-mile her
he must still be walking.