The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-09-10
Miss Margie Mullins is visiting

Miss Margie Mullins is visiting
friends in Putnam.
Florence, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Otis, is i'll with diphtheria-
Miss Margaret Sullivan of Eas
Greenwich has been at her home 70
visit.
Miss Annie McNally of Webster
was the guest of Miss Mary Muller
over Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Fox of Worcester and
Mrs. Rose CASTOR of Brooklyn art
guests of Mrs. J. III. Fox.
VIM. Lee, who has been spending
a short vacation in town, has returned
to his duties ut Skaneateles, N. Y.
Miss Ella Brown of Indian Orchard
has returned to her home, after visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Warren.
There will be meeting of Wauseor
lodge of Odd Fellows this evening, and
the initiatory degree will be worked.
The mills are now on the regular
winter schedule of working hours,
the half holiday being discontinued
last Saturday.
Mrs. B. f. Taylor leaves Crescent
Beach to-day and will visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sidman, at Oil City, Penn.
before returning to her home here.
The registrars will be in session al
H. s. Abel's store next Thursday,
from a. m. to o p. m, for the pur-
pose of receiving names to be added to
the list of voters.
Frank Carpenter has a ITS forty
dollar note that is attracting favorable
notice among those interested in
curios. The number is lost, but
otherwise the note is in good state
of preservation. s...
The Lincoln athletic club will hold
a social dance at their hall ON West
Main street Saturday evening. Music
will be furnished by Lynch's orches-
ira, with Prof. Fields as prompter.
The floor directors are p. Mccarthy
and J. Sullivan. and admission is so
cents.
There was no local celebration of
Labor day, and many went out of
town to find amusement. A number
went to Monson to see the field day
sports and ball game on Flynt's park.
others went to Hartford to the races
and few saw the Rockville-Willi-
mantle game at Willimantic.
News relative to the condition of
Rev. @. s. Davis is more encouraging
this week. The physicians at the
hospital find that his spine is not in
jured, and with rest and recuperation
he will recover. He has returned to
his camp at Lake Winnipesaukee,
where he will remain for the present.
John Tobin, superintendent of the
Algonquin mills at Passaic, N. j., has
been visiting friends in the borough
this week. Mr.. Tebin has been anus
ing himself fishing at the Staffordville
reservoir during his vacation, and was
fortunate enough to land one pickerel
weighing four pounds among the many
that he has taken. ..-
The IL year old son of Harris Rob-
enovitz was severely kicked in the left
side by horse late last Friday even
ing. The father had returned from
q trip to Hartford, and the boy was
in unhitching the horse. DIR.
Smith, who was called to attend the
case, at first feared internal injuries,
but the boy is steadily improving and
will soon be all right again.
Charles E. Willis was before Judge
Parkess of the borough court Tuesday,
charged with assault on his brother,
John Willis. He was fined 81 and
costs, or an alternative of 80 days at
Tolland. He was put on probation for
30 days under Probation Officer Til
den, which will give him a chance to
pay his fine and avoid imprisonment.
Lawyer NJ. D. O'Connell conducted
the prosecution.
The management of the Stafford
Springs fair association announces
that the vaudeville program for the
annual fair, Oct. 6, and 8, will
eclipse anything ever previously
shown. While this is saying a good
deal, still if the plans now under
materialize, it is safe to
say that every attendant will get the
worth from this feature alone,
TO say nothing of the many other
events and exhibits which
are always found at the leading fair
Of northern Connecticut.
The season at the opera house will
open next Monday evening with "The
Village Grocer, an up-to-date rural
comedy. AS this is the first attraction
Of the season there will undoubtedly
be a large attendance. This play
should not be COMPOUNDED with Peck s
Bad Boy" A feature of the program
will be the four Hermans in trick
bicycling. Other specialties will be
between the acts. "The
Village Grocer was written by Will
liam w. Lapoint, and Kathryn Bray
nam is booked for the leading part.
Tickets are ON sale at Abel's at %, 30
md 80 cents. The company carries a
band of IA pieces, which, with the
members attired as Rubes, will be a
feature of the street parade.
The first meeting of the Springfield
,oard of directors of the Springfield
soard of trade for the fall season was
leld in the board of trade rooms last
The meeting was well at
ended and enthusiastic. The princi-
,al matter under consideration was
he petition of Hampden and Stafford
springs, Ct, for an extension of the
springfield street railway company's
racks to these places, and the petition
vas favorably considered. A COM
nittee, consisting of President w. W.
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