The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-09-10

II A. ID. Brown is in New York on a
business trip.
| Mrs. Frank Spellman is visiting at
Auburndale, Mass.
il Mrs. Andrew Sawyer is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Benton.
Clarence Walker of Boston visited
friends here over Sunday.
j Mrs. e. @. Dennis who has been
quite i'll, is more comfortable.
Joseph Stuhlbach has returned from
q business trip to New York city.
Mrs. Henry Brooks of Springfield
is the guest of Mrs. W. P. Bidwell.
Lawyer Sheehan of Newburg, N.
Y, has been in the borough for few
days
Mrs. N. P. Belden is the guest of
Mrs. Samuel Rockwell on Stafford
Street.
Mrs. Anna Walkley and daughter,
Mildred, are visiting friends in Spring
field.
| DIR. A. o. Comins has spent a part
of the week in Hartford attending the
races.
Ralph Lee and Hubert Blackburn
were camping at Crystal lake over
Sunday.
Miss Mabel Buck has returned to
her duties at Towards store after q
vacation.
William Benton has been able to be
out some this week, but he is still far
from well.
Nelson Towne sold farm in West
ford yesterday to Manuel Glass of
Hoboken, N. J.
Mrs. Michael Mullins and children
are visiting Providence, Pawtucket
and Crescent park.
Lyman Cushman is comfortable at
the hospital in Norwich, with good
chance for recovery.
There will be no preaching service
at the Methodist church next Sunday
or the Sunday following.
VIM. Wyning had his hand badly
cut last evening by the bursting of a
soda bottle which he was holding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Espeg and
daughter, Miss Elsie of Mystic, were
the guests of friends in town over
Sunday.
Mrs. George Smith and children of
Springfield has been visiting her cous-
in, Mrs. Michael Mullins, the past
week.
At meeting of the court of bur-
gesses, held Tuesday evening, @. G.
Ellis was appointed acting highway
commissioner. II
s. N. Richmond has sold his farm
in the north east part of the town to
John Matteson and will move to
Chicopee, Mass, to live.
Miss B. w. Stevens of Providence,
formerly teacher of music in the pub
lie schools, has been the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. John Smiledge.
The dye house at the Central mill
is in operation. The balance of the
factory will be started as soon as need
ed stock can be secured, probably early
next week.
Three handsome monuments have
recently been added at the Stafford
Springs cemetery, on lots of Mrs. M.
D. Harris, DR.. @. B. Newton and E.
F. Engley.
The Winter W. R. g. meeting next
Wednesday will be in the evening at
7.30, sharp. A full attendance is re-
quested, as there will be initiation,
Also preparing for inspection.
Mrs. Frank Cardinal has been called |
to st. Ours, Canada, by the death of
her father, DIR. Samuel David. The |
doctor has been here many times, and |
has number of local acquaintance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Rawitser have
returned to New York after visit at
the Rawitser homestead here. Her
man Rawitser spends part of each
week here with his family, who are
also at the homestead.
Schools resumed work Wednesday,
with large attendance in all the
rooms. The high school is too small |
for the number of students, and sew
eral have to be seated in another |
room. Another room that is too
small is the laboratory.
Albert Walker, who has been en-
ployed at Three Rivers, has resigned
his position at that place and will go
to Akron, Ohio, where he will take
up the study of law in the office of his
uncle. Mr.. Walker is visiting his |
parents here before leaving for the
west.
The annual meeting of the Retail /
Merchants Protective association Tues
day evening did not have a very large
attendance on account of number of |
other meetings the same night, and
an adjournment was made until next
Tuesday evening at the same place,
in the hopes of having larger atten-
dance. .
A collection of ferns, presented by
Miss Ellora Mix, is attracting consid-
cradle attention at the library. There
are "a different varieties, and they
are pressed and mounted on cardboard,
with their names. The young lady
gained her knowledge of these plants
from book in the library, "How to
Know the Ferns
Miss Leila Foster has accepted a
position as teacher in Converse COL
lege, Spartanburg, s. @. Miss Emma
Denham of Westboro, Mass, a for
mer resident of the borough, has ac-
cepted an appointment as teacher of
violin in the same school. The young
ladies will go next week Saturday.
DIR. Smi tn was called to attend twoI
cases of fractured bones yesterday, one
a fracture of the upper part of thigh
bone, sustained by Frank Walton,
while working for Demond & Fisk,
at Moose Meadow. The other, a son