The Press., 1908-08-19

MT. and Mrs. R. W. Ellis are at Ocean beach for a vacation.
 MT. and Mrs. O. G. Ellis are at Pleasure beach for an outing.
 Charles R Newton is at James town. R. l., for 8 couple of weeks.
 There will be no services at the Congregational church next Sunday.
 Miss Mary Howard returned last Saturday from short stay at North : field.
 Herman Rawitser and family are expected here Friday fol a stay of two weeks.
 2 ; g5Miss Florence Wagner, employed at the Robertson store, is in Lowell, Mass, on a visit.
 Charles Demond is at Plymouth for { Avaoation with his parents, who are spending the summer there.
 MT. and. Mrs. Lewis Johnson will . leave Monday for a three-weeks' va- cation in New York and vicinity.
 NIT. and Mrs. Pierre Sergeant and son and Mrs. Saunders of Brooklyn are guests of MT. and Mrs. John Shea. Eddie Collins. the local pitcher, has gone to Brattleboro, Vt. to play with the team representing that city
 The twenty second annual reunion of the Chaffee family will be held at Evergreen park next week Wednes. day.
 Hafa~a kfnr. nF DnoH9s1Ia R. O. came here yesterday on a trolley ride. and took dinner at the Springs House.
 William Simonds. while playing ball last Wednesday near Faulkner'sl mill, fell in running a base and dis. located his hip. aH
 Mrs. Anthony Hill of River View, Ill. and Mrs. A. Hill of Wales are the guests of Mir. and Mrs Charles Rock of Glynville.
 MT. and Mrs. Patrick Lyons and two children of Springfield have been spending a few days with Mir. and eMrs,~ George Flanaghan.
 MT. and Mrs. Anthony Adams go to Norwich to-day, where MT. Adams will attend the annual reunion of his regiment. the 10th Conn. Volunteers.
 The Annnal reunion of the 25th Conn. Volunteers will be held at | Windnor Locks next Wednesday. | Several of the local veterans are mem- bers of this regiment and will attend | the reunion.
 EI Charles G. Becker of westfield, Mass. and George H. Plumb of Elizabeth, | NJ, have been the guests of Mir and Mrs. F. H. Plumb at Ellithorpe farm | the past week Sss>.~.<
 The Woman's Home and Foreign | Missionary societies of the M R. | s church will meet with Mrs, Coleman | on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A | picnic lunch will be served. All are cordially urged to be present. . The Central Vermont railroad will run an excursion to Newport Thurs day. the 27th. Fare for the round trip will be $1 90 from Stafford, ,i', West Willington, South willington and Marrow. Children will go for half fare. The train will leave Staf- ford at sos in the morning, connect ing at New London with the steamer 'City of Lowell. /" Returning. the train will leave New London at z p. ID.
 At meeting of the school board Il Monday afternoon it was decided to open schools Tuesday. Sept. 8. The matter of vacancies was taken up, and Mrs. Clayton was asked to take the Rockwell hill school. Miss Isa- dore Dunham has been asked to take the Stafford Street; Miss Lottie Hatch ! has been asked to take Village Hill, Miss Helen Leonard. Crystal Lake, and Miss Josie Newell the Patten dis trics. The vacancies at Crow Hill and the Lull, districts have not been filled. and an assistant in the kinder gArten has not yet been appointed. There will be no school in the Hall district next year and the Lull dis trict will be reopened. ~
 The Ellis grocery was entered last week Friday night, and a quantity of tobacco and some other small articles were taken. Entrance was made ., through A skyliRht. The same night two men made an attempt to enter the Eaton drug store by window in the rear. Mrs. Michael Mccarthy saw them and gave an alarm. The men then ran away. The attempt to enter was made at about Ills. Earlier in the evening Mrs. Mccarthy noticed two men acting suspiciously in the back yard. She called her husbands attention, and Mr. McCarthy went out to investigate. He found two men in the shed, one of whom he recognized. The officers have since been looking for this man. but be has not been apPrehended- It seems that the Eaton store and the Ellis store have both been broken into on previ- ous occasions. The amount of mer- chAndise taken has been so small each time that 10 very determined effort has been made to stop the thieving E As Che breaka have been made when the man recognized by Mr. McCarthy has been seen around town, circum- HtAntial evidence is against him.