The Press., 1901-08-15
Miss Pearl Arnold is quite Ill at her

The Faulkner mill dam Is being re-
paired.
i Miss F. A. Smith Is visiting friends In
Willimantic.
Regular meeting of Winter w. R. G.
Friday evening.
Gary Bros. have added several new
horses to their livery.
/ r. HI. Moulton, who has been seriously
Ill, Is able to be out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Bidwell are spend
ing few days at Mashapaug.
Victor Bissenette and Mise Kate Ward
are to be united In marriage the 28th.
Miss Gertrude Barlow left Monday for
the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo.
Miss Kate Huntley of Oneida, N. Y, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. w. Fl. Smith.
Miss Ethel Hoodwalker of New York
is the guest of her friend, Miss Cora Bur-
we'll.
Richard Ellis, accompanied by Mrs.
Ellis, Is spending vacation at Crystal
lake.
P. H. Presbrey of Middletown has been
the guest of Mrs. Geo. o. Cleaveland this
week.
Benjamin and Samuel Eldredge of Chi
cago, ILL.,, were guests this week of Mrs.
John F. Hyde.
Paul MARCEL of Willimantic has been
visiting his brother, Henry MARCEL, on
Stafford Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. FL. M. Crawford leave
Saturday for short vacation In Boston
and Providence.
The family of Peter Shahan remove to
Pawtucket, K. l., this week, where Mr..
Shahan Is now located.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Glover and son,
Ernest, of Brockton, Mass, are guests
of Mr. and Mrs. II. G. Holt.
Mass was observed at st. Edwards
church at and Z O'Clock this morning in
honor of the feast of the assumption.
Miss Mary Quinlan, bookkeeper at
IChapmans hardware store, Is to take a
vacation of one week, beginning Monday.
Mrs. Mary E. Freemen of Northboro,
Mass, has been hired as assistant teacher
in the high school to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Miss Web
ster.
Pietro Panciera's buildings are being
repainted, and his beautiful green fields,
reclaimed from swamp, are a credit to
any man and an object lesson to our ma
tive farmers.
Mrs. w. B. Robinson and child, who
have been the guests of her parents, Mr..
J and Mrs. F. J. Chandler, the past two
! months, returns to her home In New
Haven to-day.
At Grace church next Sunday there will
be holy communion at 7.3O a. NJ, and
morning prayer, litany and sermon at
1915. Evening service will be omitted
until further notice.
!, DR.. G. B. Newton has returned from a
trip through the west. He went by the
southern route, thence up the Pacific
coast, returning by the way of the yell
llowstone Park and Buffalo.
An excursion by the Willimantic
Christian Endeavor Union will be run to
Watch Hill and Block Island Saturday.
Tickets for the round trip will be $1.25,
and for fifty cents extra the tickets will
be good until Monday.
Business is quite lively at the Springs
House. Among the new summer arrivals
are the following: A. g. Hoyt, Mrs. M.
Slattery, Philadelphia; Mrs. Clapp, North
ampton; Miss Shaw, Newton; Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Bowers, East Berlin, M. A..
Cutler, Providence.
The Hawks, a ball team composed of
young players, went down to South Will
lington Saturday to play the Tigers, a
team they understood to be composed OF
young players. They found on arrival
that they were to play the older players
of the South Wilmington nine. They were
not surprised at the result Of the game.
, A young man of Staffordville drove q
team from Crystal lake last Saturday
, evening to his home. He did not hire
the team, and it caused the two young
men who reside In the Springs and die
cate and recover the rig. 1t would have
= been cheaper for the Staffordville man L
he had hired instead of borrowed.
r Two Stafford young men recently hat
I an exciting experience in Boston. They
? we're In company with Prof. T. F. Jordan
9 two evenings, and the professor lost 800
D In some way. MIR. Jordan had the young
men arrested, suspecting that they hat
0 taken the money. When the case cam'
up In court the two young men had NJ
r difficulty In proving their innocence, ant
8 the judge reprimanded the professor fo
Q beginning proceedings.
A call was issued the last of last weel
4 for town meeting for Wednesday after
n noon, to see If the town would not TAX
q advantage of the state appropriation TO
good roads. Only two persons were pres
ent and no action was taken. To-day L
the last day for making application, 81
Stafford will have to be one of the few
!, towns not receiving the benefit of tn
$3.50, 900 appropriated by the last legisla
g ture for roads. II more extensive no
tice had been given there might hav
p been larger attendance.
!. W. E. Hanley has received a package
8 by express which he never ordered. HI
Z; does not know where 1t came from or VIII
!; sent 1t. The contents Of the box excite
!; as much curiosity as its origin. Care
fully wrapped in excelsior was an article
). the use for which nobody has been abl
) to explain. Mr.. Hanley never saw any
d thing like it. and does not know what