The Press., 1906-12-26
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

The borough tax lists must be in bI Jan. 1st.
 Miss Elsie MoIntire is home for th, Christmas holidays.
 Miss J, NJ. Hopkinson has returned from a visit in New Haven.
 Miss Jennie Hewitt is spending 6 part of the holiday vacation at Wor cester.
 Miss Celia Holt entertained hei Sunday school class at her home last Friday evening.
 Lawyer Nj. D. O'Connell left Mon. day for his home in Colchester tc spend Christmas.
 Mrs. Margaret Jackson has gone tc Springfield Go spend the winter with her son. Samuel Jackson.
 Dr. John P Hanley. senior house surgeon in & hospital at PassAic, N. J., is home for few days.
 MT. and Mrs Henry Holtham and daughter of Stafford Street are spend ing the holidays at Hyde Park.
 Judge and Mrs. Joel H. Reed are st Medford. Mass. for a few days, the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Clarence D. Walker.
 W. R. O. meeting next Wednesday afternoon. A full attendance is re- Quested, as there is initiation and in- stAllAtion of officers.
 The annual assembly of the Country club will be held at the Springs House the evening of January 1st. Fay's orchestra of Rockville will furnish music.
 F. G. Sanford has bought the East Main street block and the Furnace avenue block of the Johnson estate. The appraised value of the blocks is SIT. 500.
 The body of Miss Addie Hyde, 6S, who died at her home in South Coven- try the 17th, was brought here for burial in the Stafford Springs ceme- tery last Wednesday.
 The Stafford Savings bank has add ed an electric gong to its equipment. In case of hold.Gp the gong can be runE from any of the banking rooms and assistance drawn.
 Preparations are completed for the New Years ball to be given by the Woodmen and Foresters next Monday evening at Society hall. Music will be by Lynch's orchestra, with Prof. Fields prompter. The grand march will be at 9 o'clock.
 The first of the Country clubs whist parties will be held at the Springs House Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The ladies' committee Mrs. c. Percival Bard, Mrs W H. Reed, Mrs R. W. Ellis and Mrs. T. F. Mullens-will act as hostesses. On the afternoon of Jan. 5th the ladies of the Country club will meet for whist at the Springs House.
 On January 1st the First National bank will declare a semi-annual divi- dsnd of per cent, placing tbe bank oR an 8 per cent basis. This bank opened for business August 4, 1888, and for the first few years paid per cent. on the stock. Later it paid ' per cent, and now has climbed to an 8 per cent. basis. The bank has been prosperous from the start, but the past six months have been a very profitable season. Besides paying good interest on the investment a sur plus of undivided profits of $53, 900 will be shown on Jan. 1st.
 Amos Keefe, of Keefe Bros, the lumbermen. was in the wreck at Law ysrs, Va, on the Southern railway Thanksgiving day, at which time President Sherman of the road and six others were killed. He is in a hos pital at Hillsboro, N. O., suffering from an injury to his back. His wife has been with him and, returned to- their home at Indian Orchard, Mass last Friday. She says it will prob ably be some time before her husband will be out, and that there is a pos sibility of permanent disability. It is thought that some of the fragments of the back are torn.
 Charles W. Eaton, 55, who lived at 33 Wellesley street, Springfield, died suddenly of heart failure Tuesday afternoon while visiting at the home of his brother, J. Winslow Eaton, at 34 Hawthorn street. MT. Eaton had been ailing during the fall. but Tues day morning seemed to be in good spirits and to be feeling as we'll as usual. He went to his brothers home about p. m., and after eating a hearty dinner. oonversed with the members of the family until 43O, when he went into a room of the house alone. As he did not return for some time. an investigation as to she reason resulted in his brother finding him dead. The doctor pro- nounced the cause of death as heart failure. MT. Eaton was born in New London September 12, 1851, the son of Rev. James NJ. and Mrs. Lois Ann Eaton. When he was about three years old his parents removed to Staf- ford, where he grew to manhood. After the completion of his studies in school he was employed until about 1872 as a clerk in the general mer- ohandise store of Lyman W. Crane. About 1872 he removed to Williams burg, where he was employed in a store until the early sos, when he removed to Brattleboro, Vt and went into business with his brother in law, Charles W. Newell. He remained in partnership with his brother in law until about 1892, when he started in the grocery business in Westfield. The firm name was Eaton, Loomis 6 na Mr Eaknr xuau v,arr;ad ;p Ga,,