The Press., 1908-04-15
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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Ed. Bosquet caught string of 16
fine trout Saturday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Meyers enter
tained q party of friends at their
home Saturday evening.
Henry Allore, baker at the Fregeau
bakery, is i'll with the grip, and
Charles Wochomarka is taking his
place.,
Miss Jennie Towne of Spencer,
Mass, has been employed to take
charge of the West Stafford grammar
school.
Ed. Collins, the fast local pitcher,
has signed with Newport. R. l.. in
the Atlantic league. He leaves to-
morrow to report for duty.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
church are making preparations for
their annual May supper. which comes
on the evening of May first. An en-
tertainment will follow the supper.
The funeral of Miss Mabel Dodds
was held at Agawam, Mass, yester-
day. Miss Dodds formerly resided on
Brown avenue in this town. She was
the daughter of John Dodds, who was
employed here as a wool sorter.
The J. f. whist club met with Mr..
and : Mrs. Wallace Morse Saturday
evening. Mrs. H. o. Butterfleld and
George Siswick took first prizes, and
the consolation trophies went to Fl.
O. Holt and Mrs. Stephen Pease.
There will be an Easter ball at
Eaton's hall next Monday night
Woods full orchestra will furnish
music, with Prof. Jenkins as prompter.
G. Russell and F. Day will act as
floor directors. Dancing will be
from 8 until 2, with tickets at rs
cents.
A new trolley social will be held
at st. Edwards hall Easter Monday
night, in celebration of Stafford g
coming out. The limited capacity of
the hall will restrict admittance to
parishioners only. 1t will be gentle
mems night this tine. Nothing will
be charged for anything. Professor
Lynch's orchestra will furnish the
music.
The horse attached to the Bidorini
meat cart ran away Tuesday forenoon.
It was standing in front of the market,
when an automobile came along and
frightened the animal. At the corner
of Gold and Main streets the wagon
was overturned. The horse freed
himself and ran some distance. The
wagon was damaged and the harness
broken, but the horse was but slightly
injured.
Dog Warden Butterfield gathered in
. canine owned by Mr.. Fontaneila
the first of the week. The dog had
no tag, a condition that his owner
deplored, but was powerless to pre-
vent. 1t seems that Mr.. Fontanella
has bought three tags inside of year,
and all have been stolen. Other
owners complain that tags are stolen.
The penalty for this sort of amuse-
ment may be a fine of $25 or six
months' imprisonment.
The union services by the Oongre.
gational and Methodist churches were
began last evening at the Methodist
church, the address being given by
Rev. Mr.. Blake. The service this
evening will be at the same place,
and the address will be given by Rev.
Mr.. Ballantine of West Stafford. On
Thursday and Friday evenings the
services will be at the Congregational
church. Rev. Mr.. Adams, leo:or of
the Episcopal church, will give the
address on Thursday evening.
George E. FELTON, has sold his fish
business to his brother, Hiram A.
FELTON,, of Orange. Mass. and his
SON. in law Mr.. Wilson, of this town.
The Arm name will be FELTON, & Will
son, and the business will be carried
along on the lines adopted by the
former proprietor. George FELTON,,
Jr., will continue to work for the
firm. For the present the salesroom
will be in the Foster stone block, and
the cleaning and preparing for sale
will be done at the old location.
At the Methodist church next Sun
day the services will all be appro-
pirate to the festival of Easter. Spec
ial music will be sung by the choir