The Press., 1907-05-08
sTAFFORD sPRINGs.

Andrew Whiton, who has been i'll, is improving. -
 Mrs. M. s. Mulvey has returned to her home in Worcester.
 Miss Carrie Comins was home from Springfield over Sunday.
 Mrs. Harry Roehm is spending a few weeks in Enfield, Mass.
 Miss Jessie Sidaway is visiting Mrs. P. Wilkins in Pitts6eld, Mass.
 Edwin Farnell of Woonsocket has been spending a part of the week here.
 Mrs. Vaughan Brown of Monson wis ited relatives here the first of the week.
 Mrs. W. H. Reed and Mrs. Abbie Kinney are spending the week in Westford.
 Henry Gilmartin has taken up his duties as greenskeeeper for the Staf- ford Country club.
 Thomas Murray, who recently sold his farm in the east part of the town, has removed to Pomfret.
 Miss Helen Butterfield has taken a position as stenographer in the office of the Warren Woolen company.
 Samuel Kuslansky has enlarged and made alterations on the building which he uses for storage of junk and woolens.
 Joseph Reed, who has been em- ployed at Chicopee Falls, Mass, has returned to town and taken position with the Warren Woolen company.
 James Hampston and Edward Clark are attending the state convention of the Foresters at New Haven. Regu- lar meeting of the Foresters Thursday evening of this week.
 W. E. Demond, who is building two-tenement house for Louis and Guisepe Tonidandsl on Park street, next to F. E. Fitzpatrick lot, has let the contract to w. D. Graves.
 Deputy Grand Worthy Templar Buckley of Hartford will be present at the meeting of Harmony Temple of Honor this evening, and take charge of the installation of the newly elected officers.
 Louis Carey was before the court at AthoI, Mass, last Thursday on complaint of young woman of this town. The court found probable cause and he was held for the next term of superior court.
 The German club will hold a social dance at their hall on Westford ave- nue Friday evening. the 17th. The floor managers are A. Jacobsen, E. N. Mann and Edward Weber. B. J. Mullins will act as prompter.
 A. J. Tilden, who is soon to remove his residence to Waterbury, adver- tises in another column a private sale of furniture for Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Tilden has returned to Water bury, after spending several days here.
 Miss Mary B. Hanley advertises to do hair dressing. facial massage and ab AA6A nb OhAAOh street, or will go out. Miss Hanley has just returned from Worcester, where she took a course in these lines
 The new freight office of the Gen. tral Vermont is a very neat and at tractive room. It is 30 by 16 in di- mensions, and we'll lighted. It is wainsooted throughout Several new desks and other office furniture are to be added.
 The Current Events club will hold it's last meeting Monday night at ' 80. The executive committee will act as hostesses and will serve refreshments. A social time will be enjoyed by all. The subject of study for the coming year will be chosen.
 Carl Martin of Boston was the guest of his father, J. G. Martin, over Sunday. MT. Martin has re- signd his position as cashier of the H. E. StearAs Lumber company in Boston, and will take more lucrative position with the lumber firm of Gain. Robinson & Co.,, Springfield.
 No arrangement has been made as yet whereby the electric road can make settlement with the Middle River Mfg. Go. and the Connecticut Realty company. An appeal was taken on a teohnioality in the sp- pointment of appraisers, and this will be heard before the May term of the supreme court now in session at Hart ford.
 The scarcity of tenements in town is very pronounced, and bids fair to be even more serious as the Rhode Island Worsted company gets under way. The Stafford Worsted company has difficulty in getting full com plement of employees owing to the difficulty of getting place for them to live. While the price of building material is high, it would seem possi- ble for capital to get better than sav- ings bank rates on medium priced rents.
 It is thought that a strip of state gravel road will be built this year from near the school-house at Stafford north toward Staffordville. Bids were recently asked for, and G. w.. Tryon of Meriden is willing to do the work for 94 cents a square yard. This bid is five cents under the one received last year, and under present conditions ia mi unreasonable An other contractor came here Monday to look over the ground with the inten- tion of putting in bid. but he was too late to get in his figures in time.
 w. E. Demond is building an addi- tion to his office on Westford avenue, 5 by 9, to make more desk room.