The Press., 1907-06-12
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

MrS. Ob6O baaO or Spr1ngnelu IS bn6 guest of Miss Jessie Subway.
 Mrs. l.. F. Eaton returned Sunday from Palmer. where she had been visiting for the past few weeks.
 R W. Smith and Morris Demond are in Worcester attending the gradu- ation exercises of Worcester academy.
 Faulkner's mill shut down for an indefinite period last week. owing to the dull market in the class of goods manufactured at the plant.
 Mrs. George B. Ferguson, formerly of Stafford Springs, daughter of Mrs. M O. Thrall, arrives in Springfield this week from Piedmont, Gal.
 Miss Eva U. Roberts. assistant in the kindergarten department of the borough schools last year. graduates from the Springfield normal kinder garten training school this spring.
 Ohildren's Sunday will be observed at the Congregational church next Sunday. In the morning the whole service will be adapted to the day. There will be Sunday school concert in the evening.
 Tickets for the exercises class night at St. Edwards hall may be obtained from the seniors and from the prinoi- pal of high school As the seating capacity of the hall is 400, it is nec- essary to limit the number of tickets.
 Contractor s. c. Adams of Willi. mantle is to raise the Marcy house at Stafford Street so that a new ground floor story can be constructed. A. E. Converse has the contract for the woodwork. The house is owned by Mir Smith of Boston, a wholesale furniture dealer.
 Mrs. Josephine Canton, 80, wife of Carl Canton, died Sunday at her home on Vest Main street of consumption, after an extended illness Besides her husband she leaves three ehil- dren The funeral was held from St. Edwards church yesterday morning and the burial was in St Edwards cemetery.
 Chief Justice Baldwin of the su- perior court finds no error in the suit of the Stafford Springs Street Rail- way company against the Middle Riv- CT Mfg. Company and the Connecticut Realty company. The suit arose from an application heard by Judge Reed in the superior court for the ap pointment of appraisers in the con- demnation proceedings. There is now nothing to prevent the appraisers from taking action.
 The s. H. s. defeated team rep resenting the Connecticut Agrioultu- ral college on the fair grounds last Saturday by the score of 9 to ?. The O. A. O. started of with hit and run the first inning, and things look ed as if the s. H. s. boys were up against it. Converse, the s. H. s. pitcher, struck out the next two men up. and it finished the scoring by the O. A. O. Not until the ninth did they manage to get around again, when by hit and 8 few errors by s. H. s. they scored their second and last run. The feature of the game was the all around work of Converse
 The school committee held a meet ing st the library Monday afternoon. and voted to retain all the teachers in the Springs, Hollow, Staffordville and West Stafford schools, also those in districts 6, 9, 10, 12, IA and 15. It was also voted to have the school year consist of 37 instead of 36 weeks. This will give an opportunity to close on all legal holidays. and still have the required 1s0 days. Next year scholars will be required to attend school in the district where they re- side when there is a school in session in the district. A number of stu dents from other districts are at pres ent registered in the Springs schools, and owing to the oongested condition the practice will be discontinued.
 An alarm of fire was rung in be- tween 12 and 1 Tuesday morning for a fire in D. H. Curtis wood yard. The fremen responded and extin- guished the blaze. but the building and quantity of wood were burned. Two or three freight cars caught fire. but were not much damaged, as there was an engine in the yard at the time and the cars were moved to place of safety. The loss is estimated at 5000 and there is no insurance. Power was furnished by the big trac- .tion engine which Keefe Bros. bought in connection with their numbering operations. It is thought that the boiler and engine can be repaired, but most of the other machinery is ruined. MT. Curtis thinks that the fire was started by an engine that had been switching in the yard. MT. Curtis plans to continue business.
 Rev. J. E. Clark of Collinsville, a former resident, was injured Saturday by falling from his saddle horse or in some other manner. He was rem dered unconscious by the fall, and it was at first reported that he had been murdered. A large crowd gathered near the scene of the accident, which was outside of Collinsville on the road to Canton. Two Italians were arrested on suspicion, but were later released. Father Clark regained con- sciousness after some hours, but was unable to remember just how the acci- dent occurred. He thinks the horse either shied or stumbled. W. E. Hanley saw him at his home yester- day. He found him resting comfort ably, and there seems no doubt that he!will be out about his duties in a day or two. His only injury is a