The Press., 1908-09-02
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

 Miss Lulu Weeks is visiting friends in Providence.
 ! George l.. Dennis has received his new automobile.
 Mrs. Frank Kennedy is quite i'll at her home in Worcester.
 The farmers have adVancedthe price of butter to 35 cents per pound. Miss Rose Hanley has entered the normal school at New Britain.
 Miss Angie Rand is spending va cation at Savin. Rock and vicinity. A. D. Johnson of the Ellis grocery is spending his vacation at Whiten. | Vt
 Miss Ethel Whitaker is spending two weeks with her sister in Provi- dence.
 Mrs. F. J. Cardinal is in New York attending the fall millinery openings.
 Miss Fannie Rice of Dorchester, Mass. is the guest of MT. and Mrs A. s. Kellogg.
 Miss Lottie Shepherd gave party Monday, the occasion being her eighth birthday.
 Harold Small has returned to his home in New London, after spending few days here.
 Mrs. E. T. Russell and Mrs. Carl Helm are in New York attending the fall millinery openings.
 Miss Margaret Rafftery has returned to her home in Mystic, after visit here with Mrs. T. H. Rafftery.
 Mineral Springs lodge. No. 73. Knights of Phythias, will meet this evening and work the first degree.
 A. s. Patten has had very good luck raising melons this year, one of his specimens measuring 24 by 29 inches. Miss Grace Harwood returns this week to Rockville, to continue her work in charge of the commercial de- partment of the schools there.
 Miss Elizabeth Whitaker, who has been spending the summer at her home here, has returned to her posi- tion in the Boston store at Providence.
 Misses Jane and Teresa Clark, wIo have been spending a part of their vacation at their home here, have returned to their duties in Collins vile.
 Rev. H. A. Blake, who is spending 8 vacation at Bartlett, N. H., will be at home tomorrow evening. and will take charge of the prayer meeting at the Congregational church. Services will be resumed at this church Sum- day, as usual. MT. Blake writes that he has had very enjoyable vacation.
 The schools will reopen next Tues day. State Chemist Newlands has examined the water used in the schools, aid reports a general satis- factory condition. At the schools where the water is secured from neighboring dwelling houses con- ditions could be improved in some instances. Eventually all schools will have wells of their own, in all prob ability. The list of teachers is now complete, and is as follows: High school, principal, F. F. Duntield {; assistants, Mrs. F. F. Dunfield, Miss Alice M. Fitton and Miss Emily R. Willard. Borough schools, kinder garten. Miss Edith G Oushman; as- sistant. Miss Ethel Moore; grade 1. Miss Maud c. Booth; grade ?, Miss Genevieve M. Hewett; grades and 4, Miss Sadie l.. Comins; grades 4 and 5, Miss Mary F. Leach; grades 6 and. z, Miss Jennie M. Lawlor grades 8 and 9, Miss Mabel l.. Kingsbury i; Hollow schools, primary. Miss Blanche l.. Shippey; intermediate, Miss Mil dred MacOallum grades 6 and z, Miss Gertrude O. Wightman; grammar school, Miss Mary E. Smith; Stafford Street school, Miss Isadore Durham i; Staffordville, Miss Gladys G. Preston; i; primary and intermediate, Miss Hattie l.. Ellithorpe; grammar. Orcuttville, Miss Myrtle J. Warrington; Rock we'll Hill, Mrs. Mae Clayton; Stafford Village, Miss Lottie W. Hatch; Orys- tai Lake. Miss Helen M. Leonard; West Stafford. primary and intermedi- ate, Mrs. Florence Fay; upper grades. Miss Jennie Towne; Grow Hill, Miss Edith Bruoker; Lull district, Miss Bertha Waterman; supervisor of music In all schools, Miss Harriet G. Werner.