The Press., 1901-12-26
west stafford.


 West Stafford we desire your patronage We will commence to take orders for de- livery Dec. 30. Barlow Bros.
 Mrs. John Pease has been spending 3 week with old acquaintances and friends. Mrs. Alice Buck and daughter, Daisy, are spending the holidays with Mir. and Mrs. Henry Mckinney. The Christmas exercises given by the children of the Sunday school on Tuesday evening, were much enjoyed by large audience.
 Family gatherings and home Christmas trees were held at the home of Francis Sturtevant, Charles Slater, Charles Root and James Armstrong on Christmas day.
 In the grammar grade of the Center school, Miss Carolyn Nef teacher, the following pupils were neither absent nor tardy Ruth Ellis, Mabel Graves and Gladys Preston.
 Next Sunday will occur the annual election of officers and teachers of the Sunday school. Come and exercise your lEduCulS0 66 tO WnOAA JOU WAAA AshsO " run the school next year.
 On next Tuesday evening Q New Years supper will be served in the church vestry from o'clock to all who will come and partake. At 8 o'clock will be the roll- call of the members of the church, also of former members. Present members are especially asked to be there and respond to their names. After the roll-eall a people of the community are cordially in- vited to come, and by their presence aid in making this pleasant and helpful gathering.
 They are very busy at the c. P. Brad way machine works. New water wheels have recently been sold to the following parties. Some have been installed and others are being built: Hawkins com- pany of South Boston, 9; Verd Mont Mills company, Ludlow, Vt, 9; George Dalrymple, Fair Haven, Vt; F. 0. Slade & Son, Oakdale; J. M. Tatem, Eastford; H. c. Williams, Middle Haddam; House Paper company, Haddam Neck; J. D. Moffltt, Scotland; Heimann < Lichten, Monson; Bevin Bros. Bell company. East Hampton M. Pollock's thread mill st Conantville, Mansfield Otis company, Ware, baby wheel of one horse power. Bradway wheel regulators have been sold to the following parties A. R. Gibbony Co., Keadsville, Penn.; Mattatuck com- pany, Waterbury Warren Featherbone company, Three Oaks, Mich.; c. E. Ly- man, Beckett, Mass. Litchfield electric light and power company. There seems to be large amount of work in sight, and 1t Is difficult to secure sufficient help. SOMERs.
 Miss Amelia E. Wood has been spend- ing a week with relatives In New Haven. Mrs. Mabel Niles of New York City is visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. Ev- erett Russell.
 Mics Susan c. Pease of Springfield spent Christmas with her friend, Miss Mabelle B. Avery.
 Miss Etta Billings of Springfield is spending few days with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Andrew Billings.
 Dr. and Mrs. Phillips and children of Philadelphia are spending the holidays with Mir. and Mrs. Charles Gager.
 Robert Bartlett of Wesleyan university and Miss Gertrude Bartlett of Moneon. academy are home for the holidays.
 Mrs. Grace Chapman and children and Mahlon Gowdy and children, all of Prov idence, R. l., spent the holidays with MT. and Mrs. Myron Gowdy.
 Amos Bridge of Hazardville has bought of Joseph Dimock 8 tract of pine wood- land lying south of MT. Dimock's house and the West cemetery, near the main road towards Somersville.
 ! Mrs. Frances Sunderland of Somersville will entertain large company Christmas. It will include William Williamson and family and Casper Pownall and family of Hartford, MT. and Mrs. Harry Pownall of Stafford Springs, the Palmers of Man. chester, and her son, William Sunderland and family of Somersville.
 The assessors have finished their work. The grand list for the town of Somers, which amounts to $6O5, ,4S9, is divided in the different classes of property as fol- lows: Dwelling houses, $224, $50; acres of land, 19,3s7; value $224 $50; mills and manufactories, $83. .52O; horses and mules, 405; value, $15 ,4O5; neat cattle, 1243; value, S20, ,378; coaches, carriages, $3386 watches and jewelly, $4OO; pianos and musical instruments, $1915; house. hold furniture, $1550; amount employed in merchandise and trade, $38, TOO; mon- ey on hand exceeding $1OO, $24,OOO; 10 per cent. additions to the lists of those who failed to give them in before the first of November, $4691. There was some thing of 8 falling on this years grand list from the fact that the bonds and stocks are now returned direct to the state.
 The naked body of man was found Sunday on the farm of Francis Pease, on the Hall Hill road, about two miles north of the center. It was in a piece of woods about half a mile from the road and his tclothes were strewn all the way between. By the tracks in the snow the man had Apparently jumped the fence from the road and started of on 8 run, tearing of his clothes as he went, but finished the trip at a slower rate. At the end he had scraped the snow from the ground. lain down and apparently frozen to death. The man was identified on Tuesday as William O. Saunders, AS, of Wolcott Hill, Wethersfeld, who was employed by the Sigourney tool company of Hartford. It is evident from the facts of the case that he wandered away while demented, dis