The Press., 1909-07-14
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Is visiting relatives in the borough.
 Misses Alice and Mildred Hanley are the guests of relatives in Collins ville.
 Miss Martha Desmond is in the St. Francis hospital at Hartford for treat ment.
 A. I. Mitchell is building quite an addition to his house on Prospect street.
 Wm. J Hanley. IT.. is in Boston this week attending the worlds shoe and leather fair.
 Mrs. W. E. Demond and sons, Miles and Daniel. are visiting relatives at North Adams. Mass.
 Mrs. J. W. Melbourne and daug h. ter of Derby are guests of MT. and Mrs. J. T. Melbourne.
 Mrs Michael McGilliouddy of Philadelphia is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Cote.
 Miss Helen Lyon of Springfield is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Nellie Oooney, at the Stafford House
 MT. and Mrs. Christopher Allen and Miss Beatrice Congdon are spend ing three weeks in Providence
 Mrs. L. B. Roberts and grandson, Austin, of Springfield have been visiting Mrs. R.'s sister, Mrs. E Gale.
 Mrs. Chauncey Orcutt and daugh ter, Mrs 0. H. Meyers, Jr., with Miss Maybelle Meyers. are at Crescent Beach.
 Wm. Herring has resigned with Bidwell 6 Co., and has taken posi- tion at the Bradley lumber yard, Rockville.
 Mrs. George Flanagan, bookkeeper at the Rhode Island worsted mill, is taking a two-weeks' vacation in Providence and vicinity. l V. D. Johns of New York and J. G. Van Arsdale of Brooklyn, N. Y., are camping at Leach's camp at Lake | HAhSHnIhuS 4OA bWO WoOAS'
 Miss Grace Barlow has been obliged to resign her position as bookkeeper for Brown 6 Lowell, and Miss Helen Simpson of Palmer has taken her place.
 Lawyer Albert Walker, wife and four children of Akron, Ohio, are the guests of his parents, MT. and Mrs. M. P. J. Walker. They made the trip from Ohio in their touring car
 At the meeting of Stafford council, Knights of Columbus, at St. Edward s hall Sunday afternoon, ten candidates were initiated. The work was ex- emplified by the Rockville council degree team.
 Samuel Rockwell has applied to the court of burgesses for permission to erect one story brick building at the corner of East Main street and Willington avenue. The building is planned for one store.
 George W. Ellery, 8 grandson of William Ellery, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, will celebrate his Seth birthday to-mor- row. MT. Ellery at present is resid- ing on the Nelson ToWne farm, just over the Wilmington line.
 Attorney R. H. Fisk appeared for the state on Monday at Columbia at the preliminary examination of Will liam Roberts, charged with having killed his wife on June Eth by throw ing stone at her. The hearing was held before Justice of the Peace Joseph Clark. Roberts pleaded not guilty. Probable cause was found, and he was bound over to the Septem Der term of the superior court. Attorney W. A. King appeared for the accused.
 Prosecuting Agent O'Connell and Officer Helm made raid at the home of Oscar Eyer on Wilmington avenue Monday afternoon, and found in the sink twenty five pint and half pint bottles of gin, which he had evidently just filled from a jug which he had received by trolly freight. He was taken before Judge Heald the same afternoon, and was charged with keeping with intent to sell and repu- tation. He pleaded guilty and was fined $35 and costs. total of $50, which he paid. When the officers found Eyer on Che street he had three bottles of gin with him, which he said he had intended to deliver at a board ing house.
 At the open meeting of the school board. held at the library building last Saturday afternoon for the pur- pose of getting an expression of opinion of those interested as to whether supervisor of music should be retained or not, quite number ap- peared before the board. All were teaching of music in the public schools, and the committee voted not to make any change. It was also decided to make a change in the grammar usou III bH0 sCuOOl6. In0 one adopted is 'Steps in English. ' All the vacancies in the public schools in the town. have been filled The new teachers are as follows: Miss Josephine Newell at Grow Hill, Miss Hazel Comins at Crystal Lake, Miss Helen M. Leonard at Patton district, Miss Mary E. Saunders of Southbridge assistant in the kindergarten depart ment in the borough.