The Press., 1905-09-06
sohools resumed sessions yesterday.

Alvan Smith was nome IrOm
Springfield over Labor day.
st. Edwards school re-opened to-
day with two new teachers.
Miss Ella Harris sang last week at
concert in Sugar Hill, N. Ell.
Stephen Pease has gone to Sher-
brook, Canada, for vacation.
Mrs. Joshua Wood, who has been
quite i'll, is now more comfortable.
Peter Shahan Of Norwich, q form
er resident, was in town yesterday.
Regular meetings of Ionic lodge
will be resumed next Tuesday even
ing.
Miss Emma Kuehne has taken a
position as teacher at Englewood,
N. J.
Mrs. Henry Girard of Clinton,
Mass, is spending a few weeks in
town.
Mrs. Harlan Allen of Rhinebeuk,
N. Y, is a guest at the Springs
House.
The state temperance rally at Lake
Compounce is to be held this week
Friday.
W. H. Heald will be located in his
new office in the Page block the last
of the week.
Mrs. A. s. Wilton of New London
was the guest of the Misses Wilton
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gilmartin of
Stonington are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Slater.
Mrs. ]. P. Wagner, daughter and
son return this week from visit in
Clayville, N. Y.
Mrs. H. G.. McLaws and son of
Augusta, Ga, are visiting her broth
er, Fred Wildey.
There have been seven cases of ty-
phoid fever reported to the town and
borough health officers.
Campo Bros, the local fruit deal
ers, have bought the peach crop on
the Wolcott farm in Westford.
Miss Hattie Brown, employed at
the Robertson store, is spending a va
cation at her old home in Ware.
George Kay entertained surprise
party at his home Tuesday evening
and received a number of presents.
Samuel Kuslansky has opened his
store in the Tilden block, and Miss
CLARA Guyette has entered his employ.
Mrs. Horatio Needham fell at her
home in Orcuttville last Saturday and
was quite badly injured, although no
bones we're broken.
Miss May Smith left Monday for
Orange, Mass, where she has posi- =
tion as commercial teacher in the
Orange high school.
John Ensminger of Ellithorpes has
partial paralysis as the result of an
injury to his back, caused by falling
out of a wagon recently.
James Sullivan's fast trotter,
Decline, broke a leg at Putnam
yesterday. just how the accident
happened is not known.
The premium lists will be ready
for delivery this week. and may be
secured at Gary Bros. office, the store
of H. s. Abel and The Press office.
By an act of the recent legislature
all towns in Connecticut must elect a
tree warden, whose duties shall be to
guard the interests of the trees and
shrubs.
The consolidation of the two local
savings banks will go into effect to-
day. The business will be carried on
in the National bank building for the
present.
The disappearance of Arthur Dorsey
and Olive Phelps this week has every
Indication of an elopment. Circum-
stances connected with the case make
such q conclusion logical.
The Connecticut collegians played
game of ball with the Young
Dewey's last Saturday, and defeated
them by q score of IL to 8. The two
teams will play another game Satur-
day afternoon. Admission will be
free.
Milo Eaton, employed at Rays
market, drove against a guy wire on
the highway that crosses just below
the Mineral Springs dam last week,
with unfortunate results. He was
going at fair rate of speed and the
sudden stop mixed things up some.
\ Both shafts of the wagon were broken
and the horse slightly injured. Mr..
Eaton was hit in some way and has a
very lame side since the accident.
Workmen engaged on the dam were
changing the position of a derrick,
which had allowed the guy wire to
slacken and drop sufficiently to cause
the accident.
At council called yesterday after
noon for the purpose of Diminishing
Rev. E. A. Burnham, who recently
resigned as pastor of the Congrega-
tional church, there were II dele
gates present out of possible IS, and
seven churches were represented.
Rev. D. e. Jones of Ellington pre-
sided, and Rev. 81. T. Barnard of
Tolland acted as scribe. The action
of the council is embodied in the fol-
lowing minutes:-
Having duly examined the records
relating to the resignation of the
Rev. E. A. Burnham from the pastor
ate of this church and society, and
having heard statement from the
pastor thereupon, we feel constrained
to approve the action thus far taken,
and we recommend that the pastoral
relation subsisting between the Rev.
E. A. Burnham and the Congrega-
tional church and society of Stafford
Springs be dissolved, as per their de-
sire, on Sept. 16, next. In coming to
this result, we rejoice in the cordial
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