The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-09-28
Robert Knowlton has enlisted in the

Robert Knowlton has enlisted In the
heavy artillery.
Alvia Smith Of Vermont has taken a
position at the Springs Heuse.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet In
the chapel of the Congregational church
Friday afternoon at four O'Clock.
Dana Gary took third money in the 8
with Mamie B. He made one heat In
2.24.
In the mixed foursome matches at the
golf grounds last Saturday the best four
scores were, Miss Grace Mead and j. FL.
Valentine, 70; Mrs. G. Allen and F. g.
Sanford, 70; Miss Gertrude Butter6eld
and J. Gail Converse, rs; Mrs. L. Nc
Laughlin and E. H. Pinney. "a. In the
ladies' tournament the past week the first
rounds have resulted as follows Miss
Clara Baker defeated Mrs. A. Needham,
1 up; Miss Sadie Comins defaulted to
Mrs. E. H. Pinney; Mrs. F. q. Sanford
defaulted to Mrs. FL. F. Cady. In the
second rounds Miss Clara Baker defeated
Mrs. E. H. Pinney, 2 up; Mrs. L. Nc
Laughlin defeated Miss Gertrude Butter
field, up; Mrs. H. F. Cady defeated
Mrs. 9. Allen, up. In the third rounds
Miss Clara Baker defeated Miss Grace
Mead, up. Miss Baker drew bye, SO
will be in the final round. The tourna-
ment for the men, for the cup, will be
started the week after the fair. The
week will be devoted to qualification
rounds. The eight best medal scores
will qualify for the final, which will be
played the week after. In the final, SO
holes will be played, 10 in the morning
and 10 In the afternoon.
The extreme low water Is becoming
serious problem for mill owners.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas johnson of Mon
son spent Sunday with friends in the vii
lage. ....
Miss Annie Braithwaite of Boston is
spending a two-weeks' vacation at her
home.
Subject for the meeting of the Y. P. s.
G. E. this observation-disclosures Band"
All cordially invited.
Miss Effie Blackwell, one of the teach
ers at the Pinney school, had her father
with her as guest last Saturday.
Mrs. O. T. Hulett and Mrs. Huldah
Wakefield attended the Westfield Baptist
association at Springfield last week.
E. G. Pinney is enjoying a ten-days'
pleasure trip with friends at Lexington,
Louisville and other points In Kentucky.
singular freak in nature can be no.
ticed in the yard Of Jacob Glover. 1t Is a
pear tree now in blossom for the second
time this year.
The Mission band of the Baptist church
will hold meeting Saturday afternoon
at o'clock. After the meeting there
will be social, to which all the young
people are invited.
Joseph Dorsey, who removed from here
some months ago, has returned with his
family and is occupying one of the COM
pany tenements in the 'long house, at
the foot of the hill.
| Lathrop Clark of Providence, a brother
of the late DR.. Clark, was guest of Mr..
and Mrs. A. H. Weaver over Sunday.
Few people who noticed Mr.. Clark about
the streets during his stay here would
have little idea that he was in his 85th
year yet ouch is the fact.
The merry go-round, which has fur
nished SO much amusement for the young
people during the past ten days, leaves US
this week for the Springs, where 1t will
be set up on the park for use during the
fair. Mr.. Burns will be pleased to see
all the many friends he made during his
stay here, and Mr.. Butterfield will be par
ticularly pleased to see the girls.
Martin Hunt has purchased of the
Beebe estate building lot of 118 feet
front just east and adjoining the Rev. F.
L. Batchelder place. The lot runs back
to Mr.. Batchelder's line. It is the inten-
ton of Mr.. Hunt to at once commence
the erection Of Involvement house on
this lot, to be occupied by his family and
that of his son-in-law, Thomas Black.
There is still another party contemplating
building in the spring, and taking this In
connection with what has been built this
summer, it makes old Stafford Hollow a
long ways from finished village.
Next week Wednesday, the second day
of the fair, If pleasant, this will practi
cally be a deserted village. Glover's bus
will run as in former years and will fur.
nish transportation for all who wish te
attend the fair of all fairs, and that fair Ii
the Stafford fair. The articles that have
been appearing in the Springfield Repub
lican for the past week or two from thu
pen of the Rockville correspondent, in re
gard to our fair, would even make Franz
Ledoyt's mule laugh, particularly whei
the Stafford fair. Ananias wasn't in it
, for instance. They speak of the Rock
vile fair poultry exhibit of four hundred
} entries as being the largest ever seen IL
, eastern Connecticut. That Is rich, whel
, you stop to consider that the Stafford fai
, had over eleven hundred entries last year
and with the strong probability that evel
, this number will be greatly exceeds
, this year.
} Quite a number of important changes
will occur in our village this fall, tn
most important of which will be the pei
manent removal of the Beebe family t
Los Angeles, California, which will occu
' about the first of November. They wi
be accompanied to their new home
q Miss Chella Cady, who goes with tn
9 hope that a stay of some length in Cal
9 fornia may be of benefit to her health
G The removal Of one of Stafford's oldes
: families, one that has been so closel
identified with the interests of the towr