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


Block Island excursion from this sta
tion Saturday.
Ernest Pallanck has returned here
from Merider, and will occupy the
Tonidandel house on Park street.
Gary Bros. will not make any at
tempt to rebuild their coal elevator
until they have reduced their stock
sufficiently to work handily.
Samuel Podrat of Southbridge will
open his clothing and furnishing store
Friday in the store to be vacated
by Anthony Adams on Furnace ave-
nue..
Mrs. Thomas Ruby and son, Frank,
and Mrs. Thomas Hayes and daugh-
ter have returned from a visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Espeg at Ston-
ington.
Miss Ella f. Gale and Sidney N.
Tuthill were quietly united in mar
riage Saturday evening at the Metho-
dist parsonage by Rev. Thomas Tyrie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tuthill have rooms with
Mrs. Theodore Needham, where they
will make their home for the present
The lawn party given by the Young
Peoples Auxiliary of the Methodist
church last week was fine success.
An enjoyable musical and literary
program introduced the evenings en-
Itertainment, after which large COM
pany of people made way with Is
gallons of ice cream and other good
things in short order. The lawn was
brilliantly illuminated with lanterns.
The members of the Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary societies of
the Methodist church will hold bas-
ket picnic next Friday afternoon with
Mrs. Coleman and Miss Annette Wash
burn. After an interesting program,
which will begin at 3 O'Clock, a So
cial will be held on the lawn if pleas
ant; if not, in the house. The men,
bers are requested to come prepared
for the regular collection.
Everything is now ready for the
opening of the fall term of school
Sept g. The schedule of terms and
vacations is as follows: Fall term,
September to December 2O,. with a
Thanksgiving recess from November
81 to December 2; Christmas vaca-
tion, December 20 to January s.; win
ter term, January 6 to March 81 !;
spring vacation, March 27 to April 6 !;
summer term, April 6 to June 10.
This schedule will give an opportuni-
ty to close the schools on all legal
holidays, and one day of the Stafford
fair, and still get in the required $50
days. A matter which has given the
committee concern is the overcrowded
condition of the schools in the bor-
ough, but it is hoped that this will
be, in a measure, overcome by the
transportation of the pupils in the
Rockwell hill and works districts to
Stafford Street. There have been
three pupils from the town of Elling-
ton and two from Wilmington attend
ing the schools in the borough during
the past year, and the parents have
been notified that their children must
attend school in the towns where they
reside. Stafford has at present enough
school children of it's own for which
to provide, and it is only fair that
pupils should attend school in the
towns which are receiving the state
appropriation for them. This, of
course, does not include the high
school, which takes out of town pu-
pills upon the payment of small tut
tion fee. The list of teachers is now
completed and is as follows: High
school, principal, F. F, Dunfield; ;
assistants, Miss Ruth N. Walker, Miss
Emily R. Willard, Miss Alice NJ. Fit
ton; kindergarten, Miss Edith G..
Oushman; assistant, Miss Rose Han
ley; grade 1, Miss Maud G.. Booth !;
grade 2, Miss Genevieve NJ. Hewitt;
grades 3 and 4, Miss Sadie l.. Com
ins; grades q and 5, Miss Alice R.
Flagg; grades 6 and Z, Miss Jennie
M. Lawlor; grades and 9, Miss Ma
bel L. Kingsbury; Hollow schools
Primary, Miss Mary F. Leach; inter-
mediate, Miss Mildred MacCallum !;
grades 6 and z, Miss Gertrude @.
Wightman; grammar school, Miss
Mary E. Smith; Stafford Stroet
school, Miss Eva N. Roberts; Stat
fordville, primary and intermediate,
Miss Gladys Preston; grammar, Miss
Hattie L. Ellithorpe; Hall district,
Mrs. Mae Clayton; district No. 10,
Miss Isadore Durham; Orcuttville
district, Miss Myrtle J. Worthington; j;
Crystal Lake, Miss Hattie L.. Smith /;
West Stafford, primary and intermedi-
ate. Miss Josephine E. Newell; upper
grades, Arthur B. Gushing Grow
Hill, Miss Eunice Bradway; district
No. Is, Miss Blanche l.. Shippey !;
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