The Press., 1908-02-05
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

VIII h. haAl ot tNOrtnampeOns maSs.I visited friends in town last week.
 A telephone has been placed in the residence of J. R. Parkhurst, 49-3.
 Tue lumber is beginning to arrive for the repairs of she Gary coal ele- vator.
 John A. Foster. who has been very i'll with pneumonia. is much inn proved.
 A special meeting of the Foresters will be held at their hall on Thurs day evening.
 George Felton has moved into the house on Gold street owned by Mrs. Carrie Needham.
 Miss Mabel Foster. employed at the Howard dry goods store. is taking a vacation of two weeks
 The River mill has been thoroughly renovated and rel aired during the present quiet business interval.
 Jones Bros are harvesting ice at Stafford Street. and P. l.. Roberts is cutting on the Dennis reservoir.
 The only new case of scarlet fever to be reported to the health officer this week is one in Festi family, near the fair grounds.
 Albert Buzt and Antone Parlotz, who have been engaged in the meat business in the Siswick block, have closed out their stock and left town.
 2. O. Bearuegard, who has been in business in the Oity Hotel block. has sold his stock of furniture and stoves to Providence firm. Mir. Bearuegard has left town.
 Miss Lucy Panciera lost an eye one evening last week She was milking. when the COW turned suddenly and one of the animals horns penetrated Miss Panciera's eye.
 Bert NeedhsIn. who is at school iD Poughkeepsie, is seriously ill with pneumonis, and Mrs. Needham has gone to that city to be with him Adelbert Needham is recovering from an attack of the grip.
 The Christian Endeavor society has engaged Miss Margaret A Cow of Attlaboro, Mass, uontralto soloist, and Miss Aida Donnell as reader, for concert in the Congregational church on Wednesday. March 4th.
 Mrs Abbie R. Sears, 63, house keeper for John Rockwell, died last Wednesday from the effects of an attack of the grip Mrs Sears had acted as housekeeper for Mir Rockwell since the death of his sister several years ago The funeral was held Thursday. Rev. Thomas lyric ofioi- atiug, and the body was taken to Greenwich, Mass. for burial. Ebert Hubbard. publisher of the Phillistine, is to lecture at Stafford | Thursday evening. Gary Bros. will | run bus for the accommodation of | tLose who wish to attend from the | borough. Those who heard Mir. Hubbard when he was here before | were much pleased with his lecture. and it is probable that the hall will be filled to its capacity for the present engagement.
 In its account of the annual meeting of St Patrick 8 church of Collinsville, the Pennington Valley Herald pays a tribute to Rev. John Clarke, the rector, former resident of this town, saying: "'The report made to the church is only part of the good work done by Father Clarke. There are now under the sandbank in the town of Burlington only four saloons, where until November of the past year there were eight, and the work of elimina- ting them can be credited largely to Father Clarke. Again, the saloons now close their doors at II o'clock instead of 12 o'clock, and this good work can again be credited in 8 large measure to Father Clarke. The story of how this was done would make good reading, but it is not to be told. Not only are the Catholic population of Collinsville to be congratulated on having & priest who is thoroughly alive, but the protestants as we'll can be glad that he is in charge of St. Patrick's parish" '"
 Mrs P. H. M. Brooks, 75, woman widely known as a conductor of vaca tion parties, died last week Wednesday afternoon at her home in Springfield. She had been ill some 10 weeks, her death having been due to an aocoident two years ago, when she was conduct ing 6 party in the White mountains. At that time a car, in which Mrs. Brooks and her party were, was run into by another car, and she was hurled from her feet so that the back of her head struck on the hard car floor. Although she apparently re. covered from the effects of the shock, it eventually caused her fatal illness Born on January 2S, 1888, in Chico pee Falls, Mrs. Brooks was the daugh- ter of William and Nancy (Davis) Goodwin. She married Mir Brooks on September 80. 1858. and for time they lived in Chicopee Falls. After while they moved to Lowell, then to Binghampton, N. T., and in 1864 went to Springfield, where they have since lived. MT. Brooks went to work in the armory. It was in 1884 that the idea of conducting vacation parties came to her. At that time MT. Brooks and she were about to go away for their summer vacation, when she suggested that they invite some of their friends to go with them. He acquiesced. and she made up party of 23, whom she took to Old Orchard. Some years she had con- ducted as many as TOO people in the course of a summer, and only last snmmar she conducted three large