The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-04-26
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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Engine 329 passed through here &
few days ago looking as good as new,
She has been repaired and painted,
and is apparently as good as when she
dived into the stream here few
weeks ago.
High School Notes.-The high
school ball team are putting in hard
practice this week preliminary to the
Monson academy game to be played
in Monson, on Flynt's park. Saturday
of this week, The opening game was
arranged to be played on the home
grounds, but owing to some misun-
derstanding between Managers Col
burn and Faulkner the game is to be
played in Monson, thus making the
opening of the home games scheduled
with Connecticut "Aggies" on the
week following. The admission fee
is fixed at 15c, and sc for ladies, the
school students and faculty being ad-
mitted free of charge. Until the
town team makes use of the agricul-
tural park grounds the high school
games will be played there. How
ever, as soon as the town team takes
possession of the grounds the high
school games will be played on Pros
pect and Rowland street campus, in
the rear of the school building. The
annual high school speaking contest
of the high schools of eastern Conneo-
ticnt is to be held at Willimantic the
9th of May. Prof. E. A. Maynard
is planning to send two speakers from
the local high school to take part in
the contest. The high school Cora
Gle" is out. This copy is late, its
lateness being no fault of the editors,
but due to sickness. This copy is
very neat and contains halftone cuts
of the new commercial rooms.
There was an error in the remedy
for spotted fever in The Press last
week. We give below the entire
clipping from the Springfield Union !:
A Springfield woman, who had ex-
perience with case of "spotted few
er," or cerebro-spinal meningitis, in
her family five years ago, which
yielded to simple treatment when the
patient seemed to be in the very last
stages of the disease, offers this rem
edy to the public for what it is worth.
The treatment, which in the case of
her little daughter proved effective,
consists simply of the use of olive oil,
administered internally, and bathing
the spine with camphorated oil. She
has great faith in this treatment, al
though she does not undertake to
guarantee that it will prove as sue
cessful in other cases as it did in that
of her daughter. This woman was
living in Stafford Springs at the time
her daughter, then seven years old.
was taken i'll. The sickness, which
developed one Tuesday morning, was
at first thought to be a simple all
ment, and the mother doctored the
child for it. Late in the afternoon
the child complained of severe pains
in the feet, which we're drawn up as
if by cramps, and doctor was called
in, who pronounced it case of cere-
bro-spinal meningitis. The doctor
said there was no hope for the child,
but hs prescribed the usual treatment.
The treatment was administered dur
ing the ensuing days, but the child
grew worse, and on Saturday morn
ing she had convulsions. Then the
mother determined to try a home
made remedy, reasoning that if it did
not do the child good, it could not
do any harm. She bathed the child s
back along the spinal column with
camphorated oil and also admins
tered teaspoonful of olive oil inter
nally. This treatment was repeated
once an hour for several hours, until
a noticeable improvement was shown.
When the doctor called again he was
surprised at the change in the pa
TENTS condition, and on being told
by the mother what she had done,
advised her to continue the treatment
No other medicine was used but the
sweet oil and the camphorated oil,
and the child completely recovered.
She is to-day perfectly healthy, and
without any of the defects which u.s.
ually attend those who recover from
cerebro-spinal meningitis. The facts
in this case, the mother says, are we'll
known to many people in Stafford
Springs, including the child's school
teacher, who took deep interest in
the case. The mother does not pre-
tend to a knowledge of medicine, and
does not know on what scientific
grounds to account for the efficacy of
this treatment, but she is convinced
that it saved her daughters life, and
she considers it her duty to make the
facts public at this time, when the
disease is becoming epidemic in many
places, in the hope that it may be the
means of accomplishing other cures.