The Press., 1908-03-18
MANsFIELD.

Inc pFoGenb indications for the
trolley road. from Willimantic to
South Coventry being built this sum
mer look good. At the request of the
trolley company the selectmen of the
town of Mansfield have called special
meeting for next Saturday. 20 meet
with q representative of the company
In view Of the ac6eptanoe- of the plans
as submitted. AlAoeat the request of
the company, Mayor Dunn of Will.
mantle has called a meeting of the
board Of aldermen for next Monday
| night at 100 O'Clock to meet with
Assistant. Engineer Charles Rufus
Harte of the trolley company, for the
purpose of discussing and ultimately
accepting the plans that have been
presented. No opposition is expected
to the acceptance of the plans. One
OF the indications that appears the
most favorable is the fact that repre-
sentatiVes of the Connecticut Railway
company haye been visiting abutting
property owners along the proposed
line in view of obtaining six.
months option on the land and rights
of way through which the trolley
road will be laid. 1t is said that
each property owner was seen and the
matter of damages4was taken up. To
encourage the building of the road,
land and rights of way were offered
at exceptionally low prices if it
should be taken up in the six months
asked. A. Tracy offered them a
right away across three acres of his
property for the sum of 81, and where
the company wants ten feet directly
in front of Edgar Colburn's house at
probable damage of $500, Mr.. Col
burn asked but $40 All along the
line it was just the same the land
being almost given away, and in
number of instances it was actually
offered for nothing If the company
waits and does nothing. it is said the
price Of land will not remain open at
the figure it is offered now
Mansfield Depot.
Eddie Gurgler, who has been very
i'll, continues to improve.
G. H. Baker made business trip
Monday to Norwich and Willimantio.
Herbert Williams and Miss Inez
Williams spent Friday in Whitman
tic.
Louis Reynolds and sister of North
Ia ~ TDNn 1fE Monc SrSk I'd n
Botham's last week. ....
Miss Florence Dean and Homer E.
Wood of South Coventry were guests
at Irving Botham's Sunday.
Lester Remsen, formerly of this
place, but now of Georgetown, was
calling on local friends Thursday!
Martin Hansen has leased the store
formerly occupied by Charles Pierce,
and is busy getting moved into his
new location. Mr.. Hansen has recent.
ly been appointed postmaster for Mans
field Depot. -. 3.
(From another correspondent)
George Platt of Norwich has been
{" AOOO " NA6AcOt Al eOWu.
Joseph Barrett, who has been under
the DOCTORS care, is very much i'm
proved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Carr are
entertaining there daughter from
Montpelier, Vt.
Calvin G. Wilcox, our veteran
grain dealer, is seriously i'll with
typhoid pneumonia.
Mrs Olive F. Parker is spending
few weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Parker, of South Manchester.
TIE young people have organized a
religious society and all are cordially
invited to attend the meetings.
Rev. Frank Chamberlain has been
unanimously invited to spend another
year with the Gurleyville church. i
Orrin Pierce and wife, after. stay
of four weeks here, have returned to
their home in New Bedford, Mass
The social which was to have been
given at Mr.. Spaulding's last Friday
evening was postponed for two weeks
Leroy Waldo is contemplating tax
ing western trip in the near future,
taking in Kansas, Colorado and Da--
kota. H.
Bert Marcy at Morrow. who has
been i'll a number of weeks, is failing
every day and there is little hope of
his recovery
Claude Campbell. after working two
years on the Crystal Spring Farm
Geo. Morrow is to vacate the first
of April and move on the Samuel
Nichols farm. in WELLINGTON.