The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-08-22
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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M. F. Brown is attending the races
at Branford.
Adelbert Needham has gone west
to purchase horses.
The Congregational church will be
closed next Sunday.
F. E. Cady is at Pigeon Cove,
Mass, for q vacation.
Miss Greta McIntire is spending the
week at the camp ground.
Mrs. E. r. Brown and Miss K. g.
Bliss are at Warinoco, Mass.
Misses Caroline and Sophie Brown
are visiting at Byfield, Mass.
Mrs. Harlan Allen of Rhinebeck,
N. Y, is at the Springs House.
Frank Bidwen of New York is a
guest of his uncle, W. p. Bidwell.
Mrs. NJ. R. West of Hartford is q
guest of her sister. Mrs. J. M. Leach.
Mrs. Bowler of Woonsocket, r. l.,
is q guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest D.
Royce.
Mrs. Frank Bolieau of Worcester
visited relatives in the borough the
first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Watkinson of
Wethersfeld are guests of Judge and
Mrs. G. O. Psrkess.
Mrs. J. H. Valentine and daughter,
Miss Elinor, have returned from q
week at Northfield, Mass.
The Stafford Street baseball nine
beat the West Stafford team the first
of the week by score of 4 to B.
Misses Annie and Julia Mccarthy
and Miss Elizabeth Corcoran have
been to Block Island for a vacation.
Leon Sanger has resigned his posi-.
tion as baggage master at the railroad
station. VIM. Murray has taken the
position.
Miss Ella Fynes of Brooklyn, N.
Y, and Miss Ethel Hanrahan of
Patchogue, N. Y, are guests at F. E.
Fitzpatriok's.
The members of Winter W. R. o.
enjoyed basket picnic at the home
of Mrs. H. o. Butterfield last Satur-
day afternoon.
The Stafford ball team plays at
Chicopee Falls Saturday. Efforts
were made to have the game trans
ferred here, but they were not success
full.
The Fabyan Wooden company re-
ceived 16 looms last week. They
are to be added to the local plants
equipment as soon as room can be
made for them.
r. M. Fisk caught black bass at
Crystal Lake last week weighing
four pounds and four ounces. He
caught one a short time before weigh
ing four pounds.
Miss G.. A. washburn expects to sail
the last of next week for Berlin, Ger
many, to remain q year. She is to
accompany her niece, Miss Camille
Washburn, of Atlantic City, N. j.,
who goes to study music.
DIR. Bard has been in Brooklyn for
the past ten days on account of the
illness of his grandmother, Mrs.
George ]. Bard, who died this week
Monday. The doctor will be at his
post of duty the last of this week.
Jiacomo Copola fell in the FAbyan
mill yesterday and broke his left leg
above the ankle. Daniel, son of
David Collins, fell from a wall on
Saturday and broke his left arm at
ths elbow. DIR. Stretch set both
frnctufes.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lacasse were
called to Springfield on Monday by
Azarias Bazinet. who was killed by
q fall of go feet down an elevator
shaft last Saturday afternoon, in
which he was working. He was also
q brother of Mrs. Charles Bissette of
Stafford.
P. B. Moore & 90. of Springfield
are to sell the City Hotel and the
household furniture at auction on
Saturday at noon. This il. a valuable
piece of property on Main street, and
the electric road will run in front
of t. Carlos Tilden, the proprietor,
has no definite plans, but wishes to
get out of the hotel business.
Work ON Trolley Started.
O. W. Blackslee s. Son of New
Haven, who have the contract for the
constructing of the electric road from
here TO Rockville. started on the work
Monday morning. Grading was be-
gan on the Charter property, west of
the fair grounds, and on the Converse
lot near the pond. Two hundred men
are to be put at work as soon as they
can be obtained. About fifteen men
and five teams were placed at work
on Monday, and more workmen are ex-
pscted on every train. The grading
at present is mainly being done by
scraping. It is intended to put the
force at work at different places be-
tween the borough and West Stafford
until this section is graded, and then
work towards Rockville. The COM
pany also will build the high trestle
over the Faulkner pond near the rail-
road bridge. The structure will
probably be of steel, but it has not
bean decided yet whether the Abut-
ments will be of stone or cement.