The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-10-25
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

j. H8wley I6rned was nome from
CLARK college, Worcester, over Sun
day.
Mrs. Hannibal Alden and daughter,
Frances, are in New York visiting
friends.
Miss Mollie Barton of Palmer was
the guest over Sunday of Mrs. James
Mclaughlin.
Miss Ella Harris is the guest of
Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Burnham at Sy-
racuse, N. Y.
W. Fl. Upham of Dudley, Mass,
was the guest of his cousin, J. M.
Larned, over Sunday.
Miss Mabel Foster has resumed her
duties in the dry goods store of A. L.
Howard after long vacation.
The burning of the trestle at Gov
entry delayed freight and passenger
traffic materially on the @. V. last
Thursday.
The "Two Orphans company,
which played here last week, went
broke in South Manchester. There
were signs of financial embarrass-
ment when the company was here.
@. G. Harrington, the real estate
agent, leaves this week for Los An
geles, Gal. He will 60 by the way
of Montreal, Chicago and Milwaukee.
Arriving in Los Angeles he will en-
gage in the real estate business in
that city.
About 80 members of Foresters at
tended the funeral of Owen Silk, Sun
day. The line of march was formed
near the residence of W. D. Heald,
and the members proceeded from there
to the church, thence to the cemetery,
next returning to the hall.
Mrs. Anna Paul, Sc, widow of
Peter Paul, was found dead in her
bed at Monson Monday morning at
the home of her son, Dennis, where
she was visiting. Mrs. Paul had
been in ill health, but her condition
was not considered serious. Her hus-
band was killed some time ago by the
accidental caving in of a gravel bank,
but she has two surviving sons and a
daughter. The daughter is Mrs.
Freeman of this town, Peter of South
bridge and Dennis of Monson. The
funeral was held to-day and burial
was in st. Edwards cemetery.
Walter Scott has not yet decided on
any definite plan for the Springs
House. There is a possibility that
it may be sold and used for a santa
rum for consumptives. Another plan
that Mr.. Scott is considering is to let
the catering privilege and conduct the
balance of the house himself In
case he follows this plan he will fit
up the basement of the house for a
temperance pool room and
gymnasium, making a place where
young men can get in off the street
and find amusement. He will ask the
citizens to cooperate with him in
this plan to the extent of furnishing
and reading matter for the
rooms.
Mrs. Charles W. Beckwith, 70,
died very suddenly at her home on
Grown street Sunday morning of
heart failure. Owing to her extreme
age her strength had failed some
what, but her health had been as
good as usual, and her sudden death
is shock to her relatives and friends.
She had been a resident of this town
for a period of about 35 years. Her
husband, @. W. Beckwith, died Sun
day morning, Dec. 18, 1898. She
leaves one son, Charles F., and FIVE
daughters-Mrs. Fred J. Chandler,
Mrs. J. B. Burbank of Longmeadow,
Mass, Miss G. S. Beckwith, Mrs. T.
@ Tiffany of Brooklyn, N. Y, and
Mrs. J. H. Tracy of Jewett City.
The funeral was held from her late
home Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Fl. R.
Harlow officiating. The burial was
in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
Just thirty years ago was organized
the little reading club, from which
has since developed by a slow but
steady growth the Stafford public Ii
brary. Starting with 800 books, the
library now contains over 5000. !
Since 1894 the public has had the
free use of these. In 1896 the library
was moved from the cramped quar-
ters in a room in Warren's block to |
the beautiful building on library
Spring street. A chance is now given
to everyone to help the cause without
any sacrictie to himself. The book
committee, believing that
no more useful material can be found |
for the reference work that school
teachers and many others |
are from time to time called upon to |
do, than complete files of the best |
used in conjunction with |
POOLS "Index of Periodical Litera- |
ture, has been busy for the past few |
months in the attempt to obtain COM
plete sets of these magazines. An
appeal made in these columns a short |
time ago has met with a very ready |
and one file, that of the |
Outlook, is already complete, while |
several others are nearly full. In |
the hope of finishing the work and |
having the system ready for use by
the beginning of winter, the commit |
lee has prepared statement of what |
is still wanting. Readers are re-
luested to look over the files of maga-
zines that they may have in their
attics, where they are of no use to
their owners or anyone else, and see
If they have not some of the numbers |
which are still missing. If they
have, and will bring them to the IL
brary. the committee will greatly ap-
preciate their gift. In case it is not |
to bring the magazines.