The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-09-17
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


is the guest of Smith Page.
Louis Helm has assumed the man
agement of the opera house.
M. f. Brown, the baker. has new
attractive low-down, short-turn cart.
@. f. HARDWOOD has placed a tele-
phone in his residence. His number
is 92-22.
M. +. Moore, general manager of
the Flynt granite quarry at Monson,
was in town yesterday on business.
Witnesses have been subpoenaed in
the we'll known horse case of Gary VS..
Schofeld, which is expected to be
tried at Rockville to-day.
The premium lists for the agricul-
tural fair have been issued, and can
be secured at the offices of @. b. Gary
and E. @. Dennis, or at The Press
office.
Miss Eugenia Lee left this week to
take up her studies at Vassar. Miss
Cora Burwell has returned TO Mt. Hol-
yoke. Charles Demond is to return to
Williams.
There will be no service at the
Methodist church Sunday. The fol-
lowing Sunday it is possible that the
pastor may have returned, as the letter
reports from him are quite encourag-
ing.
May NJ. Weeks, Is, died at the hos
/. pital at Hartford Monday morning of
sdiphtheria, after a short illness. She
was daughter of Fred Weeks of this
town, and had resided with her aunt
in Hartford, Mrs Hattie S. Kings
bury.
d. ]. Mccarthy has resigned as clerk
at the Springs House, and is succeeded
by E. @. Leary of Springfield. Mr..
Mccarthy will take a vacation of
about one week, after which he will
return to his studies at the Yale law
school.
A petrified tree stump weighing $40
pounds is ON exhibition in the win
dows of G. H. Baker 6 Co. This
curiosity is the property of w. E.
Demond, and was removed from the
Spring Hill coal mine of Nova Scotia
at depth of 1900 feet.
Owing to other business engage
ments that demand his attention, @.
G.. Ellis refuses to act as highway
commissioner. The borough commit
tee ON highways, A. W. Kingsbury
and Anthony Adams, are in charge of
the work now in progress ON the high |
ways.
Plans are being made to show upI
the Gagnon selective telephone device
at the annual fair. Instruments are
being made, and what is known as
the pole change system will be used.
By this system everything is rung
from the central Office, but the indi-
vidual call is used.
Wednesday evening, the second
night of the annual fair, the firemen
will have a ball at the opera house.
Lynch's orchestra will furnish music,
and Prof. Fields will act as prompter.
Thursday night the Young American
athletic club will have a dance at
their hall ON westford avenue, with
the same music.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Boston says that President Shaw
of the trolley syndicate and of the
Boston & Worcester trolley line is con-
fident that within two years a through
Boston and New York electric service
will be running, with parlOr and
sleeping and dining cars and all the
modern conveniences. The Hartford
and Worcester road is included in the
plan.
Harmon McIntire was slightly in
jured at the plant of the Stafford
worsted company Tuesday. He was
assisting John Siswick in putting on
a belt, which Topped in some way and
knocked him down. His glasses were
broken and the PARTICLES cut his face.
1t was at first feared that his eyes
were injured by the glass, but an ex-
animation by DIR. Bard, who was call
ed to attend the case, showed that
such was not the fact.
The annual meeting of the Retail
Merchants Protective association was
held Tuesday evening, and the follow
ing officers were chosen: President, J.
M. Leach; vice-president, d. Robert
son; secretary and treasurer, o. M.
Brown; claims committee, W. E.
Hanley and ]. NJ. Leach; banquet
committee, W. E. Hanley, w. E. De-
mond, G.. S. Baker, d. Robertson and
+. E. Fitzpatrick. 1t was decided not
to appoint an excursion committee.
The attraction at the opera house
next Tuesday evening will be Morgan
& Hoyt's moving pictures, represent
ing trip around the world, with a
side trip to the moon. The pictures
are up-to-date, and will show the fu-
neral services of Pope Leo XIII and the
placing of the triple crown ON the {
head of Plus X. Howe's ladies' band |
is with the attraction again this sea-
son, and there are several good vaude-
Vile artists, including G. Theodore {
Girard, Willie Kelly with the bowery '
song sheet and several others. This =,
entertainment was quite popular when {
it appeared here last season, and it I
will undoubtedly play to good house {
next Tuesday evening.
The theatrical season opened at the
opera house with the presentation of
"The Village Grocer" Monday even
ing. There was a good attendance.
The entertainment pleased those who
like that kind of "a show, but there
were some who do not enthuse much
over it. Mr.. Christie, the leading