The Press., 1905-12-20
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

vacation.
 The children's Christmas eve ser.
 vice and Christmas tree will be held
 Sunday evening at Grace church, be-
 ginning at 6 o'clock.
 A new lot of books have been added
 to the public library. and will be
 ready for circulation tomorrow. The
 list will be published later
 Dana Gary and Frederic Faulkner
 have leased the fishing rights in the
 Moore reservoir, belonging to the
 Stafford Springs Aqueduct company.
 A Masonic social will be held at
 Ionic hall next week Friday evening.
 Lynch's orchestra will furnish music
 These socials in the past have always
 been much enjoyed.
 H. A. Manning & Go. of Spring
 field, who are to issue the directory
 of Stafford and surrounding towns,
 have commenced to canvass for the
 names. MT. Manning and E. M. Dickinson are at work now, and w. A Beaman will be here in few days
 The Christmas tree exercises at the Congregational church will be held m Monday evening in the audience room. The cantata. "Tha Manager Throne" will be rendered by the choir. There will be Christmas music at both services ou Sunday, but the usual concert by the Sunday school will be omitted.
 There promises to be a return of the old-time interest in the annual assembly of the Stafford Country club to be held at the Springs House Mon- day evening, Jan. 1st. number of the parties who have recently become identified with the towns interests will be present as guests of the club, and the occasion will serve to intro duce them to Stafford people. Hell mold's full orchestra ot Willimantic will furnish music and Landlord Scott will cater.
 The annual meeting of the alumni of the Stafford high school will be held at the Springs House next week Wednesday evening. Active mem bers tgraduates) only will receive cards, as the secretary has no complete list of associate members, but both are invited. The fun will begin at o'clock with supper, followed by toasts by some of the more prominent entertainers, roll-call, business meet ing and an hour of general sociabiI- ity. Good music will be in attend ance. The evening promises to be one of jollity from start to finish and a large attendance is hoped for, as the success of the association depends on the interest being widespread and enthusiastic. The expense will not be over soc a member.
 The prospects are very bright for increasing the output of the Stafford Springs Mineral Water company. Their new carbonator works finely and is labor saver. The Henry J. Perkins company of Springfield have taken the New England agency and are going to push the sale of the water. The New York Health Journal and Beauty magazine, in the | December number, contains a report | of an analysis at the laboratories con. nected with the magazine of the water, and states that the most search | ing chemical test fails to reveal the | slightest trace of any impurities in the water. The report also states that the analysis proves that the wa ter has decided curative value in all | diseases of a uric acid diathesis.
 An engineer in the employ of MT Young, the largest stockholder of the Rockville and Stafford electric light plants, was here last week looking over the feasibility of running a line from Rockville and bring a current here for the night service and the uti- lization of the Stafford plant for day service for motors and lights for Rock ville and Stafford. At present the local plant is ideal during the day while the large amount of water used by the mills is going to waste over the dam. We have had so many promises for an improvement in the service that any reports are skeptical- ly received, but it is hoped that we of this generation will live to see some of them fulfilled. The local at present is in the hands of a receiver, and the improvements, if made as suggested. would probably be made by the Rockville company.
 Frank Ledoyt, 67, who moved from here to Hartford in June. 1904, died at his home at 26 Beach street in Hartford Monday, shortly before noon, of locomotor ataxia. He has been in poor health for a number of years Mr. Ledoyt was a native of Stafford He was the son of Horatio and Philens Harvey Ledoyt. His early life was spent in Stafford, and he afterwards lived in Holyoke, Mass. and Ilion, N. r., going from the last named place to Hartford nearly fifty years ago, where he lived for thirty years, and then came back to Stafford, remaining here for sixteen years. MT. Ledoyt was a tool-maker by trade, and both he and his father were for long time at the works of the Pope company and the Weed manufacturing company. He had been out of business for the past thir- teen years. He leaves a wife, whom he married thirty-six years ago, one daughter. Mrs. Thomas Briton. and two sisters, Mrs. Leverett Rhodes and Mrs. Danforth Converse, all of Hart ford. The funeral will be held at ?. 80 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the house, where the services will be conducted by Rev. Ernest deF. Miel, rector of Trinity church, which MT. r.ni.,.rA aksouana nI,o hr,r;nl rrill ln l