The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-04-03
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Lawyer M. ID. O'Connell spent East0
at his old home In Colchester.
Miss Huntley OF Boston is visiting
friends In town for few days.
| Charles Rock and family returned Mon
day from short visit In Providence.
James McCrohan of Thompsonville, Il
spending the Easter vacation in town.
Mrs. f. B. Sword of Bondville Is thu
guest Of her cousin, Miss Mena Adams.
Miss Lucy Chapman of Mystic has beer
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J. FL. Reed.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. M. Brown and son
Allen, are spending few days in Boston
Miss Lillian A. Benton was home from
Willimantic to spend the Easter vacation
The civil case of Bates vs. Ellis comes
up for trial at Lawyer O'Connell's office
to-day.
Miss Clara Chaffee Of Thompsonville is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. w. Kings
bury.
Rev. and Mrs. j. 8. Wadsworth OF
Brockton are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R.
w. Ellis.
Missl Whalen, the music teacher, has
been granted vacation Of two weeks by
the school board.
r. +. Patten has gone to Schenectady
N. r, to continue the building opera
lions planned last fall. ii
Several of the young people will attend
the matinee production of .sFlorodora''
at Springfield Saturday afternoon.
Pearly Williams of Pittsfield has taken
position as boss carder at the Faulkner
mill In place Of VIM. s. Morrill,, resigned.
Miss Virginia Chapman of Springfield
business school, and friend, Miss Beth
Sackett, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Otis Chapman.
The Warren Wooden company are put
ting In new water wheel to furnish pow
or for the weave room. w. d. Graves
has charge Of the work.
Merrill Converse cut his hand badly at
the store Of g. 81. Baker & Co. yesterday
with broken glass. 1t required several
stitches to close the wound. s.
Thomas Hanlon, charged with being an
unruly and incorrigible child, was SEN
fenced by Judge Parkess to the state
school at Meriden this morning.
Quite delegation from the Methodist
church will attend the annual session of
the New England Southern conference at
Rockville next Sunday. The bus will
leave the church at Z a. m.
The April term of the superior court
will open with a short calendar next Tues
day. The cases of John Smiledge vs.
John Thayer and Adelbert Needham VS..
Mr.. Barrows of Hartford are assigned for
this term.
There has been considerable annoyance
on High street by number of
large-sized boys peeping in windows at
night. 1t is said that this morbid curl
osity will receive an abrupt check If the
practice Is continued.
Charles johnson has been disabled for
over a week by an injury to his finger
which he sustained by getting it caught
N the gear to a Jumper at Smith & Cool
sy's plant. The injury Is improving, but
ne has not yet been able to resume his
iuties.
The regular meeting of the Current
Events club will be held next Monday
evening. The night of the meeting was
changed to Tuesday evening las 1t was ex-
pected that the Tufts college glee club
concert would be held Monday, but as
the Tufts concert date has been cancelled
the club will meet on Monday night as
usual.
The annual meeting of Orient chapter,
No. 40, was held Wednesday evening and
the following officers were elected: M.
E. H. P, Charles B. Pinney; K, 81. s.
Abel; s.. L. F. Eaton; g. of H., David
Bissett; P. s., e.. G. Parkess; R. A. c.,
]. M. Lord; secretary, R. M. Fisk; treas
urer, G. s. Baker; trustees, G. G. Par
kess, j. A. Mix, A. Adams.
At a meeting of the school board Mon
day afternoon, 1t was decided to close the
schools July I'd. AS week is gained
during the Easter vacation, this will give
80 weeks of school instead of SO, the regu-
lar length of the school year. Secretary
Hynes of the state board of education,
who was In town on business, relative to
his work, was present at the meeting of
the committee.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Metho-
dist church held their annual meeting
yesterday afternoon and elected officers
as follows: President, Mis-. J. j. Clark !;
vice president, Mrs. A. g. Eaton; secre-
tary and treasurer, Mrs. E. K. Taft
parish committee, Mrs. e. g. Ellis, Mrs
A. F. Taft executive committee, Mrs.
J. 81. Reed, Mrs. J. ]. Elton and Miss
Carrie Eaton solicitor of membership,
Miss Florence B. Washburn; collectress,
Miss Ivy G. Eaton. It was voted to have
the annual May supper as usual.
The business mems association Tues
day evening voted to hire the rooms re-
Gently occupied by J. M. Horniss adjoin-
ing the present quarters In Warren's
block. Christopher Allen, W. II. Cooley
and G. F. Harwood were appointed COM
mittee to renovate and furnish the same.
The additional room will probably be fit
ted up for reading and reception room
for the use of the members. The assocl-
alton, with the additional room, will oc-
cupy the whole of the west part of the
upper story Of the building.
The firemen's fair opened Tuesday
evening with large attendance, and a
good crowd enjoyed the program last
evening. The attraetively decorated
booths are doing brisk business each