The Press., 1907-03-06
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STAFFORD SPRINGS

GV0T06G 0E0y HAS Vhk0u pOSAoAOn
in Monson.
Mrs. E. l.. Burr and Mrs. Lewis
Mclaughlin were in Holyoke over
Sunday.
Allen Beeman Go. of Norwich have
secured a Judgment in the borough
court against M. f. Brown for $84
and costs.
D. j. Mccarthy, who recently
opened an Office in Rockville, has been
appointed assistant prosecuting attor-
ney in the city court.
There will be an important meet
ing of the United Workmen at Tenn
pie of Honor hall this evening.
Grand Master Workman W. G. Hart
of Naugatuck and other grand officers
will be present.
The Rockwell building on West.
ford avenue. occupied by the German
club and the Young American Ath-
letic association, has been sold to Ed
ward Mann, Jr., and Fred Mann.
The clubs will continue to occupy the
building and no changes will be made
as present.
The attendance at the public Ii
brary Sunday afternoon was good,
eighteen taking advantage of the op-
portunity This was the first Sunday
that the new plan was tried, and if
the attendance continues as large on
coming Sundays the practice will
probably be made a permanent one.
At the hearing before Judge Reed,
Saturday, on the case of appointing
appraisers on the property of the Mid
die River Mfg. 90. and the New Eng
land Realty Co., the judge took the
matter under advisement and has since
appointed the following appraisers !:
Lyman Twining Tingier of Rockville,
Llewellyn Storrs of Mansfield, and
John A. Foster of Stafford Springs.
The Tolland county representatives
on the line of the O. v. railroad have
petitioned the railroad commissioners
for relief from the intolerable condi-
tions existing in the freight and pas
senger service of the road, and the
comm issioners have granted a hearing
on the matter to-day at l. 1 a. m. The
representatives will appear before the
commissioners and some of the local
shippers. The order recently made
to refuse freight from other roads is
causing some hardship and will be
brought up at the hearing. Protest
is being made all along the line ow-
ing to inefficient service
Mrs. Lila e. Field, wife of BEN
jamin D. Field, former resident of
this borough, died Sunday Feb. "A,
at her home in East Hartford. Mrs
Field had been i'll with nervous pros.
tration about two years. She was Al
years old. Besides her husband, she
is survived by her mother, Mrs. s.
N. Page, and one sister, Mrs. Walter
Doane. of Worcester. The funeral
was attended from her late home at 2
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, the ser.
vices being conducted by Rev. FL H.
Kelsey of the Fourth church, Hart
ford. The Arion club of Hartford
sang. Colored porters bore the cas-
ket. Burial will take place in Stat
ford Springs in May.
The Stafford high school basketball
team was defeated by the Windham
high school team of Willimantic in
borough hall Saturday afternoon, 20
to 21. Cunningham played the best
game for Windham, while Wobbecke
excelled for Stafford. The lineup =
Windham. Stafford.
Cunningham, If rg, Barrows, West
Leonard, rf lg, West, Barrows
Fienk, C, Remmert
Powell, lg rf, Burr
Donohue, rg If, Wobbecke
Score: Windham high 30, Stafford
high 21. Goals from floor, Leonard,
Cunningham 10, Donohue, Powell,
Burr, Wobbecke 3, Remmert 8, West
2, Barrows Goals on free tries, Gun
ningham, Wobbecke. Referee, Fits.
Timer, Dunfield. Time, Commute
halves.
A large steam shovel to be used in
excavating on the electric road ar
rived in Rockville last week. 1t is
to be moved nearly to Crystal Lake
by it's own power on temporary tracks
laid in the highway. A short Sec
tion of track is to be laid at time,
and taken up after the shovel has
passed over it. A number of the
bridges will have to be strengthened
before the shovel is taken over them.
According to the Rockville correspond
ent in the Springfield Republican,
prominent official of the Consolidated
company stated last week that the
Consolidated railway company had no
idea of stopping the new road at
Stafford Springs, but that as soon as
this link is finished work will be
pushed from Stafford toward Worces-
ter, where the road will eventually
end. giving through trolley express
line from Hartford to Worcester and
Boston.
WALES.
DIR. Rowe lost his horse last week.
Mrs. Joseph Royce celebrated her
94th birthday Thurs11av.