The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-08-01
STAFFORD SPRINGS,

Miss Bertha Witt has been present.
ed with q new piano.
Charles Frazier and family were al
Somerville over Sunday.
Miss Mary Bolieau is spending a va
cation of two weeks at Providence.
Mrs. J. f. Carey and son, William,
are visiting relatives in Blackstone,
Mass.
Mrs. Michael McGillicuddy of
Philadelphia has been visiting friends
in town.
Miss Marguerite staley of Balti-
more is the guest of Miss Marguerite
Morrall.
Mrs. J. NJ. Leach and Miss Celia
Holt have gone to Lake Sunapee for
q vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brennan of
Providence have been visiting rela-
tives in town.
Mrs. Fred Russell and two children
of Orcuttville are visiting friends in
Wakefield. r. L.
Miss Mabel West of Hartford has
Joined the Misses Leach at Laurel
camp. Mashapaug.
A social dance will be held at Me-
mortal hall, Stafford, Friday evening
by the young people.
Mrs. W. A. Bugbee and two chill
dren of Cromwell are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. J. S. Smiledge.
Judge and Mrs. Joel II. Reed leave
to-day for a visit of a week with their
daughters in Boston.
Mrs. John Speed and children are
the guests of relatives in Lawrence,
Mass, for q few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Fits and chill
dren of Hampden, Mass, are spending
a vacation with relatives here.
John Argenta, Walter Parkhurst
and Harold Prebbles are spending a
vacation of one week at Watch Hill.
Waldo Lathrop. Miss Dorothy La
throp, Mrs. f. b. Newton and daugh-
ter, Frances, are in camp at Crystal
Lake.
Frank Cahill has had a fiattering
offer from the Fulton. N. Y, ball
team, and &c is possible that he will
accept.
Misses Annie, Helen, Gertrude and
May Dempsey of Millbury, Mass,
are guests of their aunt, Mrs. NJ. H
Mccarthy.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Pearce and chill
dren of East Main street have return
ed from a several weeks visit in Nor
witch, Boston, etc.
James Kennedy, former resident,
is now employed as boss dyer for the
Patton Mfg. Co., Mr.. Dawson having
resigned the position.
The A. B. Patton Mfg. company is
advertising for help in the various de-
partments, and the mill will soon be
running at its full capacity.
The local base ball team will play a
double header with Chicopee Falls
Saturday on the home grounds. The
first game will be called at 2.45.
Sheriff ]. E. Ladd and E. F. Douty
of Sturbridge have been in town this
week looking for the 1S-year-old son
of the latter, who has run away from
home.
Earl Jacobsen entertained a party
of his young friends last Wednesday,
it being his sixth birthday. Refresh
ments and games were features of a
very enjoyable occasion.
Saturday. Aug. 18th, is an open
date in the Bi-State league. and q
game has been arranged with Monson.
to be played ON the local grounds. An
exciting contest may be expected.
The executive committee of the
Holiness ady association held a meet
ing last Thursday evening to make ar
rangements for the annual reunion,
which will be held at Evergreen park
Thursday, August 18th.
F. W. Siebsrt of Har tford has pur-
chased the tract of land owned by NJ
f. Brown, near the Teutonia club,
and will have an auction sale of
building lots Friday and Saturday,
August II and Is. A band will be
in attendance and premiums will be
given away.
A representative of Fred 7. Ley s.
Co, the well-known Springfield con-
tractors, was in town to-day looking
the field over. Ley s. %. make q
speciality of building electric roads.
and his visit here may have some
significance, although 1t is said that
no contract for construction has act
ually been signed as yet.
The regular monthly meeting of the
town school committee was held Mon
day afternoon. The following ap-
pointments were made TO I'LL vacancies
in the teaching force: r. A. Booth.
West Stafford; Miss Mildred Harries,
primary at Staffordvillei Miss Isadore
Durham, district No. 10; Miss Alice
Graves, Crow Hill; Miss Amelia
Wheeler, n graduate of Bates college,
will teach grades 8 and z in the
borough school, and Miss Florence
Barrows will be the new assistant in
the kindergarten department.. No
appointment has yet been made for
the Lull district. The visiting COM
mittee, Mr.. Fisk and Mr.. O'Connell,
in conjunction with Principal Dun
field, will secure an assistant to fill
the vacancy in the high school. It
was voted 70 have all of the schools
open September 10.