The Press., 1910-01-12
HOME NEWS.
sTAFFoRD SPRINGS.

been the guest of Dr. A. O. Oomins.
 Mrs. Fred Hall of Philadelphia has
 been visiting her parents, MT. and
 Mrs. Frank OrCutt.
 Frank Brooks, proprietor of the
 Furnace avenue lunch cart which wal
 damaged by fire last Wednesday, re.
 stunned business yesterday. The losl
 was about $6O and the repairs were
 made by Contractor Graves.
 There will be an old fashioned social next Tuesday evening in the guild room of Grace church, begin.
 ming at 30. As many as possible oi
 the guests are requested to wear old style clothes and bring with them
 personal photographs of by-gone days.
 The officers of the Woman's Guild
 will be in charge. and refreshments
 will be served during the evening.
 Admission, 10 cents.
 The following is the Current
 Events program for next Monday
 Turkey; roll-call, quotations from
 the Koran; condition of life; edu. cation in the east; music, vocal solo,
 Miss Annie Mason; Oonstsntinople and Mosque of St. Sophia; reading, Prince of India. Committee, Miss
 Mabel Kingsbury, MrR. M Leach, Mrs. Hannibal Alden. Miss E. 8. Brown. Hostessas. Miss c A. Beck with, Mrs. Charles Meyers.
 There has been an unusually small loss from fires the past year. 40. cording to the records of the fire de- partment there were eight responses to alarms. With the exception of the fire at Staffordville. when Lyon 's block was burned, and the 4th of July fires, there was little damage The record is as follows: May 4, Page block, Benton's restaurant, no damage reported; June II, Ed. Mann block. Main street. loss $45O; July 4, Phillip Champagne, house and barn, $500; Samuel KusIansky. store house, 5000; July 16. Lyon's store, Stafordville, $1O,OOO; R M. Cham. berlin, house, $12OO; Aug. 1, Mrs. Eli Parizeau, house, no damage; i; Aug. 15, Peter Reynolds house, no loss; Nov. 24. Anna Hotkowski, i, house. no loss; Nov. 24, chimney Are, Foxville, no loss,
 The case of Herbert GoodeIl. chsFged with cruelty to animals, was tried before Judge Heald Monday. A Attorney Samuel B Harvey prose cuted on behalf of the state humane society, and the defense was conducted by Attorney M. D. O'Oonnell. The evidence showed that Goodell exeri 'ciged considerable care under the circumstances The defendant hired the team of Browning the night of Nov 18th and came to the borough. In company with Harry Stebbins he started for Westford. The horse had already made trip to Wales, and in his tired condition was not it for the trip. The horse stumbled and fell going down a grade. The men got out, unhitohed and turned the horse loose in nearby lot. They stayed with him about two hours and then went to barn. where they remained until 4 a. m. They then hired man named Dorsey to take them to Brown ing's house and notified him of con. ditions. The oourt found the defend ant not guilty.
 The annual meeting of the corpor ators of the Stafford Library asgoci ation was held Monday afternoon. The following directors were elected Christopher Allen, Charles Warren, J. H. Reed, Miss Celia Holt, Mrs o. E. ButterHeld, F. H. Baker, F F. Patten, Cyril Johnson, w. H. Heald The directors elected the following officers: President, Cyril Johnson vice president, J. H. Reed; secretary and treasurer. w. H. Heald; auditors, w. H. Reed. B. P. Cooley; book pur. chasing committee, Miss Carolyn Brown, Mrs Estelle W. Smith, Miss Margaret E. Cooley, Mrs. Lewis Mo Laughlin; ohildren's table committee, Miss Anna Heald, Mrs. R. w. Ellis. Miss Edith c. Cushman; care of building committee. Christopher Allen. Charles Warren. w. H. Heald A resolution was passed thanking Miss Celia Holt for her gift of $500 to the library, the income to be used in furnishing supplies for the ohil- dren's table in the reading room The report of the librarian, in part, is as follows: The circulation of books during the past year has been as follows: History, 487; fiction, 2, OO3; literature, 295; poetry, 194 science, 25s; travel. 4O2; juvenile, 5. 2O9; magazines, 663; total, IA. 511, an increase of 1161 books over last year; number of books catalogued, 4, 33O; reference books, 314; number of new cards issued, 142-cbildren' 's 65, adults IT; number of books out Jan. l, 1910, $50; number of books added by purchase-flction ST. non- fiction 63, juvenile 63. gifts 53, re. ference 5; total, 271; number of books sent to Stafford branch, 445; number of books sent to West Stafford, 72. Owing to the ease with which people from West Stafford can reach the library, the books were discon- tinued early in the year. Number of books and magazines loaned for school use, 96. Reading room: Number of magazines and periodicals, 35- monthly %, weekly 8. daily 3; aver age number of readers daily, 12; ohil- dren's table, II. The Current Events club gave $22 for magazines. As a special committee has been appointed in regard to the bill in eanity filed