The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-08-28

Extensive improvements have been
made on the Moose Meadow school for
it's reopening after a considerable
length of time. The increase in the
number of children of school age
warrants its reopening, and it is I'M
derstood upon good authority that Mis-
Fenton is to be teacher for the CONS
ing year.
TOLLAND.
Miss Margaret Richardson is q guest
of Miss Lila Agard.
Mrs. Charles H. Sterry is the guest
of relatives in Meriden.
Frank Vinton of Bridgeport is q
guest at the Holland House.
Frederick P. Ladd Of New York is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. O. e.
Meacham.
Leonard Powell of Hyde Park, Bos.
ton, is the guest of his uncle, Ohaun-
cey Vinton.
Mrs. Edwin S. Agard and daughter,
Elizabeth, are the guests of relatives
at Fronts Neck.
Miss Edna s. Edgerton has returned
from Bristol, where she has been
spending several weeks.
John Langel of Newark, N. j., has
been spending some time with his
sister, Miss Lena Langel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Woods of New
Haven were the guests last week of
Mr. and Mrs. Silas P. Ryder.
i Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Merriok Of Bris-
tol have recently been the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Edgerton.
There was no service in the M. E..
church Sunday, owing to the attend
ance of the pastor at camp meeting.
There will be dance at the town
hall Saturday, Aug. 31st. Music will
be furnished by STEMS orchestra Of
Rockville.
Mrs. Henry Birdseye and SONS, Per-
cival and Lucian, and Miss Miriam
Underwood are spending sometime at
the Underwoods' island at Lake Wan
gumbaug.
The following attended the Wilt
mantle camp meeting: Rev. J. A.
Wood, the Misses Muriel, Ruth and
Althea Wood, Orville Wood, Miss
Susie Crandall. Miss Marion Ander-
son, Miss Nellie Hewett.
The annual thanks offering meeting
of the Ladies' Missionary society will
be held Friday afternoon, at the home
of Miss Miriam Underwood. Mrs.
Williams of Hartford will be present
and tell of some of her recent visits
to mission fields.
The prisoners at the Tolland jail
16 in all, have done considerable
work on the new prison farm. They
have stocked down seven acres of lant
and are now putting in 20 acres o
rye. They are kept at work abou
the farm all Of the time in goot
weather. =
The Holland peach growers will no
have any peaches at all this year, ant
will not even harvest the small mum
Der of baskets expected few week
ago. g. P. Babcock, the larges
grower, with 5000 trees, will no
have 10 baskets of good fruit. If tn
trees had not been injured by coll
weather he. would have had at leas
| 20, 900 baskets.
The drama, ''Above the Clouds,
will be given in the town hall Wed
nesday evening. Aug. %, by loca
talent, under the auspices of the Ep
worth League of the M. E. church
The following is the cast Of oharac
tiers: Miss Marion Anderson, Heste
Thorne; Miss Susie OrandaM, Grac
Ingalls,; Miss Ethel Usher, Lucreti
Gerrish; Miss Lillian Brooks, Susi
Gaylord; Abial Metcalf, Amos Gay
lord; Fred Metcalf, Howard Gaylord
Ferd Goeben, Alfred Thorp; Fran
Brooks, Philip Ringold; Fran
Brooks, Nat Taylor; Raymond Steele
Titus Turtle; Elmer Metcalf, Ourti
Chapman.
Mrs. Isabelle stillman Hubbell Q
Bridgeport died at the home of he
daughter, Mrs. Emile Tilton of Tol
land, Tuesday night, Aug. 20. TIL
body was taken to Bridgeport TO
burial. Death was due to heart fail
ure. She was IS years old. Mrs
Hubbell had been spending a fey
weeks with her daughter, and wa
expecting to return to Bridgeport tn
next day. Mrs. Hubbell was faith
full Christian worker, and in forme
| years she had been much interested
in the Christian work of our town
but failing health made her unable t
attend to the active service which sh
delighted in.
Just beyond the brook at the san
hill on the road from the street t
| Wilmington, through, Skungamaug o
/ what is called Chapman hill, in day
gone by there used to be a school
house, where pupils used to come fror
surrounding towns to school, horse
back, and there were sheds for tn
horses. The old cellar hole can b
seen, at the present day. There
also near by an old stage road, whic
was called the Bates road, and Their
| were several houses ON this road. o
another road near there iron ore wa
obtained and carried to Furnace Hol
low in Stafford. At mineral sprin
near this road there was at one tim
q house where people used to com
from surrounding towns aa far off 8
New York. The ore was picked frol
the surface Of the ground. Anothe
road used to be travelled leading frol
the stroaf mast this anrin0 NH