The Press., 1908-01-01
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 MT. and Mrs. H. E. BurwelI are in
 New York.
 Miss Sophia Brown returned to her
 studies in Philadelphia to-day.
 Miss Hill of Watertown, Mass, has
 been a guest of Miss Mabel Foster.
 Thomas Demond of Denver, Col, 1,
 who is student at Poughkeepsie. has
 been a guest of his uncle, w. B. | Demond.
 At the last meeting of the W. R. O.
 the following officers were elected:
 President, Mrs. Mary Butterfeld; sen-
 for vice, Mrs. Emily Burdick; junior
 vice, Miss Mary Kellogg; treasurer,
 Mrs. Edna M. Bolieau; chaplain,
 Mrs. Mary A. Symonds; conductor,
 Mrs. Minnie E. McIntire; guard. Mrs.
 Eva Wagner; delegate to convention,
 Mrs. Jennie s. Walker; alternate,
 Mrs. Mary Marble; patriotic instruc-
 tor, Mrs Carrie N. Clark; musician,
 Mrs. Clara Carpenter.
 The year just closed has been one
 of considerable importance in so far al the building operations in the town of Stafford are concerned It is a re-
 marka6le fact that for several years prior to 1905 not building had been erected in the mineral springs town. Two houses were built in 1905, which were more than were erected alto Rether in the six preceding years The coming of the Rhode Island
 Worsted company in 1906 started a real live boom in the building line. This company, which bought the old Foxville mill in June, 1906, i'm. medIately began the erection of sever al new buildings and the entire over hauling of the old ones. Owing to the magnitude of the work it was not completed until early in the summer Iof 1907. The cost of new buildings, with the improvements at this mill, will approximate $2OO, 900, and when the plant is in full operation it will employ 500 hands. Two of the Faulkner cottages on Keefe plain were in process of erection during the closing days of last year and were completed early in the spring of 1907, and have been occupied for several m months. MT Faulkner built an other cottage on the plain in the early sum- commenced the erection of two large tenement houses, one of six tenements at the junction of Center and Con- verse streets, and the, other, 8 Ave- tenement house, is located on West l Main, street. The five Faulkner l houses wher all completed will pro- vide room for 14 families. Tonidan- del Bros. have built a two tenement | house on Park street, and Romanio | Sera1ine has had large double house, with store basement. erected at the junction of Park and West streets. At the intersection of West Main and West streets is 8 cottage erected by Ernest D. Royce. Mrs. Wolcott is having 8 cottage built on the Newton and Meyers lot on West Main street Joseph Gilman is the owner of two new tenement houses in Foxville, one of which was completed last spring. Prospect street furnished work for a gang of carpenters all summer on the big double house owned by Mrs. D N. Brown. Anthony Adams has had erected a two-story building on East Main street. The lower floor he oc- cupies as store. and there is tene- ment in the second story. A two.s story and a half structure now nearing com. pletion on Furnace avenue is the of John s. Arnold, and Fred Quay has single tenement house al most ready for occupancy on the road to the Hollow. A O. Garvais has built a two story house and a large barn on Stafford Street. and Antonio ronon two more houses on Gold street. Lawrence Larton has the frame up for a new 14room house on Gold street. A new house has been put up on the Girard place. Will liam Park has 8 residence almost con- pleted in Stafford Hollow, and J H. Valentine can soon move into his new house on East Main street. h ad- lition to the new houses erected there have been a number of additions and alterations. The total number of houses erected in 1907 in the town of Stafford is 21. 1.-Springfield Republi-