The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-09-20
Stafford.

ku6Sb VI In ISS I14AA JULIUS
A girl baby was born to Mr.. an
Mrs. George Hassett last Friday.
Mrs. Emily Thompson returned yes
terday from q three-weeks' visit il
Mount Vernon and Brooklyn, N. Y.
Elias Stanton from the soldiers
home at Noroton is making a severa
days visit with his two sisters, Mrs
CLARA Cummings and Mrs. Lucy Wads
worth.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Bap
fist church will meet for work mex
week Wednesday afternoon and serv'
their usual supper at 5. As, with Mrs
Carlos Green and Mrs. Mary Green a
hostesses.
The Y. P. @. U. of the Universal
ist society are preparing an entertain
ment, which will include a play en-
titled, "An Old Time Husking Bee,
which will be given in Memoria
hall some time next month.
A. D. Brown has purchased the OLE
Rogers farm on the Chaffee POND
road of Mrs. Cook of Lynn, Mass
Mr.. Brown intends to have a steam
saw mill on the place about the frs
of October and will cut off the timber
After nearly twenty years employ
ment with the Phoenix Wooden com
pany James A. johnson has resigned
his position as ovreseer of the weav'
ing department., and will retire from
active service the first of October. II
is expected that J. W. Robinson OF
the Springs will fill the position made
vacant by Mr.. Johnson's resignation,
and the Phoneix company is to be con-
graduated in being able to secure sc
an overseer to fill the
position. Mr.. Johnson has purchased
the handsome residence of A. H.
and as soon as Mr.. Simonds
can find a satisfactory home to move
into Mr.. and Mrs. johnson will take
possession and make their future
home at this place.
West Stafford.
Mrs. May Gardner is a guest at
Chase's.
Miss Mabel Graves recently enjoyed
an automobile trip to Boston.
Miss Ruth E. Munro has returned
to her studies at Smith college.
LIE. Dimock picked twelve bushels
of tomatoes from his vines one day
last week.
F. A. Sturtevant has moved his
portable mill to the Graves lot, near
Forestville.
Mr.. Phillips, traveller for a Bos-
ton furniture house. was a guest at F.
r. Washburn's last week.
Sunday, Rev. H. T. Barnard of Toll
land preached here in exchange with
Rev. E. N. Munro. The church was
most exquisitely trimmed with dab
las, a gift of E. H. Holmes.
Miss Minnie Eddy is a guest at
Ralph Browns. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown also entertained over Sunday
Miss Eva Brown, Miss Smith and
Royce of Springfield.
The presentation of "The Sweet
Family" Friday evening drew good
audience. The actors were heartily
,heered and many times were called
pack for encores. The play was con-
idered to be the best acted here for
ome time.
St@MOrdvllle.
Clarence Ormsby has recently re-
;uned from Maine.
Mrs. Angie Washburn of Barkham-
ted visited friends at S. B. Amadon' s
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bowden visit
I'd friends in Hartford and Springfield
asst week.
Mrs. Mary West and Mrs. J.
visited friends in Union
asst Friday.
Mrs. Arson Barlow and Miss Ida
Wilson spent Friday with their sister,
Mrs Malcolm Cole.
George N. Ormsby, who has been
n Old Mystic for several months, has
to Staffordville.
The music committee of the Con-
church has sent for the
lew evening hymn books.
Miss Idabelle Bowden and grand
mother have returned from a visit
With relatives in Worcester.
Mrs. J. L. Washburn and Mrs. E.
". Preble visited their sisters grave,
Mrs. Augusta Bliss, in Longmeadow
asst Thursday.
The subject for next Sunday morn
ng's sermon in the Methodist church,
Z The death which Balaam wished to
iie," Deut. % 10.
Mrs. Sarah Potter visited her broth
IT. William Lilley, of Holland last
week, who fell from a building and
s seriously injured.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist church will serve a peach
upper Thursday evening. Price for
ADULTS, 15c; children, 1Oc. All are
invited.
Next Sunday morning at the Con-
church the subject will be
The third commandment, why do
7ou swear?'' In the evening "The
,reat red plague of drunkenness, why
10 we not control it?"
G. W. Miller, who broke his leg
n the Phoenix Wooden Co.'S mill at
dydeville August I'd, sat up last
Friday for the first time. Mr.. Miller
s doing we'll, and with the aid of
,rutches he will soon be about.
Robert Belcher, a young man
living in this town has been missing
rom his home since Sept. 13, when