The Press., 1903-09-17
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Bridgeton, Me.
Miss Margaret Cooley is visiting
her school friend, Miss Nina Atwood,
at Auburn, Me.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. g..
M. Lawton at Worcester over Sunday
James Clark will sell at auction
next Tuesday, at p. M, the house
hold goods at his home ON West Main
street.
At the regular communication of
Ionic lodge, f. & A. M, next Tues
day evening, the work will be in the
E. A. degree.
Miss Margaret and Master John
Rafftery found some ripe wild straw
berries the first of the week near St.
Edwards cemetery.
The Young American athletic club
will hold social dance at their club
room on Westford avenue October 9Th,
the last evening of the fair. .-.
Next Sunday morning Harmony
Temple of Honor will attend the SER
vices at the Congregational church,
and Rev. E. A. Burnham will preach
temperance sermon. The following
Sunday they will go to the M. E.
church at Staffordville, and the first
Sunday in October to the Congrega-
tional church at West Stafford. The
members are requested to meet at the
hall next Sunday at 10 a. M, and
bring badges and white gloves. Four
candidates will be initiated next We'd
nesday evening, and an oyster supper
will follow the initiation.
The local ball team defeated the
West Ends of Rockville in loosely
contested game on the fair grounds
last Saturday by a score of II to 10.
The game was not started until about
4. 80, owing to the inability of the
players to arrive sooner. The regular
catcher, Mccarthy, was unable to play
owing to illness, and Roach was sub
stituted, doing good work. A feature
of the game was one-handed catch
by A. Jaiquith in right field. The
game was called at the end of the 9Th
inning ON account of darkness. The
score by innings:
Stafford, 3 o B. o O 4 O Ill
Rockville, 3O4 zoos 3 90
Owing to the difficulty experienced
in securing locations in the town of
Wales, the Hartford and Worcester
street railway company has decided
to leave that town out of it's route,
and will build to the Connecticut line
direct through the town of Holland.
The company has not been able to ar
range satisfactory terms with a num-
ber of Wales men for right of way
over private lands, and will abandon
that part of the proposed route. This.
it is said, will give better and more
direct line with fewer grades. The
company would have begun the con-
struction of the work month ago but
for the trouble experienced at Wales,
and now that a decision has been
reached to leave that town out a new
survey will begin at once in the town
of Holland, and it is thought that
the construction work will begin be-
fore many weeks. The route as now
planned is this: From Worcester
through Leicester, little of Oxford,
Charlton, Sturbridge, East Brimfeld
fUifh from, fhic 10
Brimfeld, and eventually to Palmer.
connecting with the Springfield and
Eastern system), Holland and on
through Stafford Springs and Rock
vile, connecting with the Hartford,
Manchester and Rockville line. The
leaving out of Wales is the only
change in the original plan. Spring
field Republican.
Nathan Washburn, 85, died at his
home in Fox Village Sunday after
noon at 80 of a complication of dis
eases incident to old age, after an ill
ness of several weeks duration. The
deceased was a man of marked abil-
ity, and in this age of remarkable
progress along mechanical lines was
for years prominent figure. Posses
sing an inventive genius in a marked
degree, he also had the courage and
determination necessary for the pro-
mitigation of vast enterprises. With
his other qualifications nature en-
dowed him with magnificent ply
sique, which withstood a busy career
of long term of years. In fact,
when he returned to his native town
five years ago, at the age of 80, he
had the erect carriage and apparent
vitality of men many years his Junior,
and was full of plans for the future
Nathan Washburn was born in Stat
ford April %, 1918. His father was
farmer, and the subject of this sketch
spent his boyhood like other farmers
boys of the period, with liberal al
lowance of work and some schooling.
After his twentieth year he put in
two years carpentering, but his sue
cess really commenced when he went
to work in w. A. Wheeler's iron foun-
dry at Worcester. In about one year
he bought out L. G. Ormsby, and as
sociated himself with cousin, Angus
tus Washburn. who had recently start
ed an iron foundry at Fitchburg.
From this time the manufacture of
iron and steel and their products en-
gagged his attention, and his name is
connected with some notable advances
in the industry. Probably no inven-
tion of his brought him more fame
than that of the Washburn chilled car
wheel, which he patented in 1849.
Up to this time the car wheels had
been more or less defective, and in
studying the problem Mr.. Washburn
evolved car wheel which did away