The Press., 1908-02-12
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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 Hannibal Alden was in Hartford over Sunday.
 Dr. L F Eaton was in Providence over Sunday.
 Miss Mabel Kingsbury is visiting relatives in Chester. Vt
 E. R. Fisk of Springfield is the guest of MT. and Mrs F. M Barrett.
 Attorney M. D. O'Connell has re. turned from visit of a week to Bos. ton.
 Decorators are at work on the first floor of the Springs House. tinting the walls a bright green.
 Bert Needham, who is sick al Poughkeepsie. N. Y, is better and, with his mother, will return to his home here this week.
 John A. Foster, who has been quite III with pneumonia, continues to gain. and it is expected that he will soon be able to be out again.
 According to custom, the A. O. H.. will present a play March 17th. St Pasrick's day. The play this year is "A Woven Web" and rehearsals will begin this week.
 At the annual meeting of the Medli- colt company of Windsor Locks last Thursday, J V. Squier, formerly of this borough, was reelected one of the five directors and also vice-presi- dent and secretary of the company.
 The annual banquet of the Stafford Business Mems association will be held at the Springs House Wednesday evening. Feb. 26. The committee of arrangements include David Robert son, G. s. Baker aud Richard Ellis. Some good speakers are to be secured for the event.
 An alarm was sounded for fire in the office of Gary Bros last Friday forenoon The hose company re- sponded promptly, but found the fire had been extinguished ny members of the firm and others The fire caught in a wooden partition around the stove pipe. The damage was slight.
 The first meeting of the creditors of the bankrupt firm of Fontanella Bros was held before Referee George A. Kellogg at Hartford last Friday, and Louis Helm was appointed trus- tee. The appraisers are Lott O'Hal- loran. H. O. Holt and Joseph Campo. It is thought that the creditors will receive from 50 to 65 per cent.
 The ladies of the Methodist church will hold social next Wednesday, serving a hash supper at $ o'clock i; price, SC. There will be an enter tainment. called "An evening with the Blackburn family,'' and consist ing of musical and literary numbers by members of the family of David Blackburn. At the close of the en- tertainment a collection will be taken for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid so- ciety.
 The following clipping from some paper which was sent to The Press yesterday through the mail will be of interest to some of the older readers "Almira F.. widow of Jotham Graves Smith. died suddenly yesterday at the Aome of her son-in-law, Prof. John Bates Clark of Columbia University, in her ninetieth year. Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Dr. Josiah Con- verse and Martha Alden of Stafford. The funeral will be in Minneapolis, Minn
 The house of Philauder Holmes, West Brookfeld. Mass. was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. The fire started from an overloaded stovepipe in the kitchen. The furniture and clothing on first floor were mostly saved. Mir and Mrs. JosephH. Lombard, who lived up stairs saved only the clothing they were wearing. MT. and Mrs. Holmes are with MT and Mrs Geo. A. Johnson for the present. Mir. Holmes was born in town and lived for years on the Holmes place in Cooper lane.
 The following program will be given by the choir of Broadway church of Norwich in the Congregational church Saturday afternoon. Feb. 22. at 3. 80 o'clock Marche Religieuse, (Guilmant), F. W. Lester; "Save me. O God" (Randegger), Mrs. Charles Tyler Bard; Honor and Arms" (HandeD, W. F. Lester; cantata, "The Soul Triumphant, (Shellsy). choir; offsrtoire in F minor, Batiste). F. W. Lester The leader and organ. ist is F. W. Lester, with Mrs. Charles Tyler Bard, soprano, Mrs. Frederick s. Young, alto, Louis A. Wheeler, tenor, and Walter F. Lester, bass. Tickets. 25 cents.
 There were several in the wreck above Orcuttville whose injuries were worse than at first supposed. Mir. Whipple, who travels for Moody Bros. of Springfield. bond house. thought he was not much hurt, but when he tried to arise the next morning was unable to do SO, and has just recover ed sufficiently to be out. Miss Eliza both Tobin, who was on her way home to Holyoke after visit at W E Hanley's, went to work the next morn ing, but had to give up and has not fully recovered as yet. She was thrown completely over the seat in front of her. Mrs. Laura Riffenberg Stedman, former resident, was also on her way home to Holyoke. She was also more hurt than at first SUD- posed, and a counsel of doctors was held on her case few days ago.
 PhiIo H. Presbrey. 7S, died at his home in Thompson last week Wednes- day. after an illness of about three weeks of pneumonia. MT. Presbrey
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