The Press., 1910-06-08


 Ralph Collins of Hartford was iI town over Sunday.
 Walter Scott of Woonsooket, R was in town over Sunday. =
 A regular meeting of the Temple oi Honor Will be held this evening
 Mrs. Frederic Faulkner has Fe. turned from her visit Go England
 The W. R O have placed ma, keIl on Ehs graves of deceased members.
 Next Tuesday. the Ash. is flag day and many Wiil display the national ooloEs
 Mra Wm. Morrall of Norwich Is . guest of her daughter. Mrs. B P. . OOOlsy.
 There will bs a meeting of thC Ladies' Auxiliary of She A o. H Go. morrow evening.
 Mrs. Leon B. Chase of Springfield has been the guess of her mother, Mrs. N. N. Rockwell
 George Crawford and Eddie Ristal have returned from a visit with friends in WillimAntie.
 Mrs John HAnion and son. How. ard, of Providence have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Henderson.
 W. A. Hills and son. Ralph. and W. L.. Tuthill of Hartford were guests of friends in the borough over Sun. day.
 Fred Sanford, Andsrs JAoobssn and Harry POwnAlI have each added q new row boat to their equipment at Crystal Lake.
 Mrs. A. J. Bowers and daughters. Helen and Mildred, of Mansfield Depot were the guests of Mrs. M. l.. DuFkee at w. P. BidwelI's last week
 Mr. and Mrs R. ". Smith and son, William, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyers, Jr returned Monday from an automobile trip through the Berk- shirea.
 Harvey Chapman a former resi-. dent, who has been in Q hospital al Springfield, has recovered sufficiently to be around again and visited friends here yesterday.
 Jack Clancy, an employe of FAulk. ner's mill, fell at his boarding place last Friday evening and fractured both his wrists. He was attended by Dr. J. P. Hanley.
 W. P. BidWelll. whose SIst birth day occurred on Monday, received . postal card shower. Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Brooks of Springfield were guests of MT. Bidwell over Sunday.
 Wm. Powers, who has been em. ployed by the Rhode Island company since they started the plant here. is working his notice. Mir. Powers has bought an interest in hotel in Whate- ley, Mass.
 Next Sunday will be observed as ohildren's day at she Congregational church. The pastor will preach to she children at the morning service. A concert will be given by the Sunday school in the evening.
 Miss Florence Brainard, teacher of the 9th and 7th grades in the borough school, has been called to South Had ley Falls, Mass, by the illness of her mother. Miss Marjorie Eaton is sub stituting in the school.
 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hall of PhiIa- delphia, 40. Brooks and Miss Carrie Comins will join party at New York July 13 for European trip. sailing on the Mauretania. They will visit Germany. France and possibly Rome.
 "A strawberry party" Is to be held at the M. E. church next Tuesday evening at q. 80, under the auspices of the Young Peoples Auxiliary. Straw berries and cream, homemade candy, sAlted peanuts and popcorn will bs on sale.
 The tailor who occupied the old electric light offioe has moved in with the New York Bargain store, next door, and L.. F. Rene, the barber, has moved into his place. J. J. Plotkin of Springfield has opened a shoe re- pairing shop in the room vacated by Mr. Rene.
 The state commissioner has furnish ed the borough with some broken stone, which will be used In covering the highway on the upper Stafford road. Commissioner MoDonald has promised to put in Q strip of macadam road from the coFner by Judge Heald T to Walkers grove. distance of about 2OOO feet, and 1t is expected that work on it will soon be commenced.
 No denfiite policy has been adopted As yet relative to lighting the borough streets, but at present arcs are being used. Two more lights are to be added, one near the Foster block and another at She corner of Gold and Grown streets The highway com. mittee of the borough has been author. izsd to investigate the efficiency oI using oil on the streets to lay the dust and hold the macadam together, and will report at later meeting:
 CCommunicated.l
 We read in your issue of May 26th that the charter of the Stafford Springs electric railway expires in November, 1910, but VIC find In look. ing over the records that the charter expired in July, 1909, and In plAce of being renewed by She legislature oi 1909. as most of the charters Go build electric railways are, we find that c new charter was granted to the Tol. land County Street Railway company to build to she Massachusetts state line, the inOorpoFators Of which ara Thomas Noone of Rockville, H. S. Abel And E. E. Pattan of StAflorf