The Press., 1908-01-01

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 F Miss Dora Shepard is i'll with ap pendieitis.
 q Special meeting of the Foresters ol Thursday evening.
 } The First National bank has de clared four per cent. dividend. l John Fletcher, who has been il with the grip. Is more comfortable. , John Girard, employed at the Han b ley shoe store, is confined to his home by illness. @ Contractor Jones of Willimantic ia in town setting boiler for the Rhode Island Worsted company. The feast of the circumcision was celebrated at St. Edwards to-day with masses at and ' 30 8. ID. The Stafford worsted plant is shut down to-day, and will begin the new year with a 5S hours 8 week schedule.
 Mrs. Michael Hannlfan, who fell and broke her leg last week, has been taken to the hospital at Norwich for treatment.
 At Gary Bros' auction at their barn on Wilmington avenue Saturday, at 10 a. m., there will be several horses, sold, besides harness, robes, wagons. etc.
 Arrangements are completed for the annual assembly of the Country club in Eaton's hall this evening, and the indications are that there will be 8 large attendance.
 . Work has been commenced on the new kitchen for the Congregational chapel. It will be 10 by 24. and Contractor Washington Graves has the job of building.
 The Masonic social dance last Christmas evening added another to the long list of very enjoyable social times held in Ionic hall Thfro was a large attendance and the room was handsomely decorated for the oc- casion.
 Father Donohue, ordained to the priesthood at the cathedral at Hart ford, has been appointed assistant to Rev. J. O'Neill in St. Edwards s parish, and will begin his duties next Sunday The new assistant has spent two years in Paris and speaks French fuently. He completed his studies at the Grand Seminary in Montreal.
 A chimney fire at the home of Mrs. Joseph Lebreche on Wilmington avenue looked dangerous about 6 o'clock Tuesday morning, and an alarm was rung in. The department responded. but the fire was so nearly out when the men arrived on the scene that the apparatus was not used. The fire was confined to the chimney and there was no loss. A high wind was blowing at the time of the alarm. and some uueasiness was felt until the nature of the fire was learned.
 The Hartford Courant of a recent date has the following: Hon. Charles L. Dean of Maiden, Mass. formerly of this state, was reelected to the Massa. chusetts senate at the last election. He was a member of Governor An drew's staff in 1879-8O, and of the Connecticut general assembly from Ashford in 1881 and 1889 For six years he was elected mayor of Maiden. He represented Maiden in the Massa- chusetts house in 1897 and 1898, and now he receives his fourth election to the senate. Each of his senatorial nominations was by exclamation and at the recent election he had no op- ponent. moving the sand bank near the plant of the Rhode Island Worsted company for the large fill for the electric road. is nearly in position. The shovel was brought here from the Rockville end of the road by it's own power over the road, and arrived at the fair grounds here Sunday night. A special track is being laid in sections through Vest street for it's transportation to the bank The two stringers have been placed in position on the west end of the bridge. The two cement piers on the east side are not yet completed. The two riers on the west side give some idea of the appearance of the bridge, which, when completed, will be one of the finest trolley bridges in New England The cement work CTS at present are working on the large sluiceway under the big fill.
 (Communicated.)
 West Stafford, Dec. 28, 1907. To the Board of School Visitors of
 the Town of Stafford:-
 hereby resign my position as teacher of the district school in dis trict No. 4 for the following reasons, viz. No suitable fuel was provided by the school committee of said dis. trict until Oct. 7th, and not then until after having been strongly urged to do so, after which said committee used abusive and ungentlemanly lang uage, using profane language to me personally. Thanking the board for all past favors, am, respectfully,
 Eva N. Roberts.
 Stafford.
 Harold Pinney is home during his Christmas vacation.
 .. Miss Jennie Lilley of Willimantic is the guest of Mrs. F. J. Glover.
 Stafford grange will hold a public installation at their hall this evening.
 Miss Carrie E. Wiggin of Spring field has been the guest of Mrs. Inez Lasbury.
 Miss Helen M. Leonard is spending the holidays in Hartford as the guest of her cousin, Miss Grace M Lom- bard.
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