The Press., 1901-06-20
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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 Mrs. J. J. Ellis is visiting Mrs. Au- gustine Ellis in Hartford.
 John Hanley of Holy Cross college Is home for the summer vacation.
 Frank E. Eastman has gone to Boston to make his home with his brother.
 The engagement Is announced of Miss Myrnie Washburn and Ernest K. Taft.
 The high school had their annual pie nic at Forest Lake, Palmer, yesterday.
 Mrs. s. A. Jacobs, Miss L. S. Cady and Miss F. Whalen are at Mayland park for a week.
 Miss Grace Harwood attended the con- mencement at Abbots, Andover, Mass. this week.
 Mrs. G. H. Baker and F. H. Baker are visiting MT. and Mrs. J. Carl Converse at Oneonto, N. Y.
 Miss Grace Burwell of Westfield, Mass, was in town over Sunday, the guest of Mrs. w. w. Burwell.
  M. A. Talbot of Norwich are guests of MT. and Mrs. Otis Chapman.
 Mrs. s. A. Bagnali was the guest of Mrs. E. K. Taft over Sunday. Mrs. Bag nall was on her way from Washington to visit her son at St. Albans, Vt.
 Mrs. J. H. Valentine returned last Fri day from a sanitarium at Dansville, N. Y., where she has been since last Novem- Der, very much improved in health.
 SamuelF. Jarvis, Jr., we'll known here, died at his home in New York last Fri day. He was member of the law firm of Reed, Simpson, Thatcher. & Barnum. His death was caused by nervous troubles brought on by overwork. He was about 35 years of age. 0. D. Walker, who has been in town @ few days, returned to Boston Tuesday to continue his duties with the Edison illu- minating company. MT. Walker was grad uated from Tufts last week, and MT. and Mrs. A. w. Walker and Msss Alberta at- tended the commencement exercises. Henry bio, who has been running a general store at the upper end of Main street, has sold out to Napoleon Pero. MT. bio has been in business several years, and has been gradually increasing his stock as the business grew, until he was occupying two of the stores In the block. There was an alarm of fire Monday evening little before 10 o'clock. MT. Leno, who lives in the upper story of the Foster block, tipped over kerosene lamp. The blaze was seen on the street and seemed so dangerous that an alarm was given at once. The department re- sponded promptly, but the nrs was under control and it was not necessary to turn the watee on. The curtains were burned in tbo room where the fire occurred, but tke damage was slight.
 The following sixteen pupils were suc- cessful in passing the entrance examina- tion to the high school last week: Dora Perreault, Amos Bolieau, Peter Sullivan, Robert Wright. Horatio West, Charles Peel, Lizzie Giltrop, Willie Phelps, Ralph Converse, William Ensminger, Harriet Druley, Isadore Durham, George Col. burn, Matthew o. Keefe, Ruth Leonard, Norman Russell. Twenty-one tried fo1 the entrance examination. A class oi about ten will enter from the grammar school, so the entrance class to the high school next year will be about 25. The Lincoln Athletic club will hold ar exhibition at it's hall on West-Main-st Saturday, the 29th.> The star attraction will be 10-round bout between AustiI Rice of New London and Michael Sulli van of this town. Rice is fast man, anG gives 8 good account of himself wherever he appears. Sullivan is a local favorite and can be counted on to do his best. I khe is able to stay with Rice for the 1( rounds the meeting will prove the mos interesting of any held by the associa tfon. Gilman Whiton of this town il matched for a Ground exhibition witt Anthony Jacobsen of Willington. Franl Silk will act as referee and John Mans field as time-keeper. Admission will b, one dollar.