The Press., 1902-05-29
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


 Ethel. F. Kreisel.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 The schools will be closed tomorrow.
 F. H. Baker visited relatives in Spring field over Sunday.
 Lawyer O'Connell has gone to Colches ter to spend Memorial day.
 There are 21 men now working on ths new reservoir at Stafford Street.
 Banks will close all day tomorrow, and business places will close at Il a. m.
 Miss Esther Warren has returned from a short visit with friends in Springfield.
 MT. Lindsey of Portland, Oregon, Is the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. H. Valentine.
 Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin goes to-day to visit her parents at Holyoke for week.
 Regular meeting of Winter W. R. O., No. %, next Wednesday evening at 7.3O o'clock.
 Mrs. s. A. Jacobs will spend Memorial day and Sunday with her parents in Hol- liston, Mass.
 Miss Evelyn Trull of Woburn, Mass was the guest of Miss Alice Flagg at the Springs house, over Sunday.
 Walter Scott, superintendent of the Stafford Worsted company, will go this evening to Woonsocket for few days.
 Miss Frances Rice goes to her home in Berlin, Mass, to-day for a few days and to attend the wedding of her sister next week.
 Rudolph Nothnick fell from bicycle Sunday on Prospect street and was quite badly hurt. His injuries are not consid- cred dangerous and he will soon be able to resume his duties.
 The body of B. w. Aldrich of South Coventry will be brought here for burial this afternoon. MT. Aldrich was former resident of this town, and the burial will be in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 Friends of George Ellis, who were in Springfield Monday, called on him at the House of Mercy hospital. He is getting along nicely, and will come to his home here for a short time as soon as he is able. Daniel Sullivan, "The Reeler," who published "Spun Yarns," once more comes into the public eye as an author. His new book is a collection of short stories, the title of which is, "Stories of Long Ago" The book is now in the hands of the printer, and will soon be on sale.
 party of ladies chartered Gary Bros wagonette last Saturday and went to Rockville, taking the trolley from there to South Manchester, where they were the guests of Miss M. F. Berton. Miss Berton will spend two months in Germany | and France this summer studying the | languages of the two countries.
 The mills will close for Memorial Day | The Stafford worsted plant will shut | down this evening for the rest of the | week, giving the employees Friday and Saturday of. The worsted mill has been running until o'clock three evenings | this week to make up part of the time | that will be lost by the shutdown. Rev. Charles Baker of Springfield, a | native of Stafford, and whose early home was on the farm near Moose Meadow | owned by the late John Marsh, is to be | the orator at the Memorial day exercises in Monson this year. MT. Baker will be | remembered by the veterans of this town | as member of the Stafford company in oeH teers.
 The four-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. A. D. Rounds was bitten in four places by dog last Sunday. The wounds were painful, but are not considered dan- gerous. The child was playing on the veranda of her grandfather's place at Staf- ford Street when the accident occurred. |, The dog was owned by Joseph Jarvais. Dr. c. $. Newton attended to the injuries of the child. The farmers are marketing their annu- al clip Of wool. It is not generally SUD- posed that much wool In grown in this l vicinity, but the local manufacturers buy quite lot every spring. The wool brings from ten 10 twenty cents pound, accord ing to quality and color. The product l from black sheep is not popular, and does not bring as high a price as good white wool. The Stafford Worsted con- pany has bought quite quantity of the local clip the past week.
 The program for Memorial Day Is much ' the same as usual. The Citizens band will furnish music. 'Busses will leave $ the hall at a. m. and decorate the Cath $ ollie cemetery at 7 30 a. m.; West Staf- ford at S30; Hillside at 1000; Stafford. Y, vile at HOO; Stafford Street at 1900. A , collation. will be served by the R.C. at o'clock in c. A. R. hall, after which , the procession will form and march to the Stafford Springs cemetery. The speaker of the afternoon will be Rev. J. F. Marvin, pastor of the Universalist C church at the Hollow. g Dr. Daniel Sullivan, a successful and popular physician in this town for nearly i've years, Is to locate in New London next week. After graduating from New , York university and Bellevue hospital medical college in 1897, Dr. Sullivan To- cated here. During the time he spent in 2 Stafford he built up 8 large practice, which he sold to Dr. James Stretch. Since leaving here he has been abroad, and has studied at St. Vincent's hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dub- I lin, and Kings college and hospital, Lon- P don. With the thorough equipment he ( has from these schools, combined with IS the experience of several years of active @ practice, the doctor Is in a. position to do