The Press., 1911-08-09
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

| Regular m066ln& OL 6u0 A' Az 9' o H. Thursday evening.
 There will be meeting of the W. R. O. Wednesday afternoon.
 Medora Gaueget of Hartford has bsen the guest of Mrs Carl Kuehne. MT. and Mrs. Artemus Kellogg are in Brockton. Mass, for vacation.
 Miss Emma F. Kuehne has returned from 8 trip to Deep River and West brook.
 Erwin How lett. employed at the GArvais grocery store, has been visit ing in Brin fitll
 Mrs Hannibal Alden and daugh- ter, Lucy. are spending 8 week at Marblehead, Mts1 .-.+...".E
 | Grace Chur.h Notes: Morning prayer and Inlcn at 10. 45. The other servit will be omitted next Sunday. .-...... ...-. .rI l Preparations are about completed for the Holmes -Cady reunion at Orys- l tai L-k- to morrow There will be a basket lunch abt ut noon and the usual program of SD rts and literary exer- oisea.
 l The annual drummers' and fifers oonver tion is to be held at Crystal Lake grove Saturday, Aug. 18th. A shore dinner will be served on this cc3asion and will be gratis to drum mers and fifers. Those wishing to at- tend should notify MT. Bowler.
 Oellie Jacobs has brought suit against the Fabyan Woolen company for $5, 900 for iDj1ries and burns re- oeived during fire at the shoddy mill last November The case is return able before the IL Hand county su. perior court on the first Tuesday in i Sektolnb bor. .a...
 Ablert K. Morse, 84, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. P. Benner, in Willimantic last Thursday morning of uraemia after an illness of two months. Two daughters and two sons survive him Wesley D. Mors3, Emerson A. Morse, Mrs. A. P. Benner and Mrs T. H Cole, all of Willimantic. The deceased was formerly 8 resident of this town, and Amasa Morse Is brother. The body was brought here for burial Saturday.
 The excursion to Ocean Beach last Saturday did not prove so popular as formerly. The boat ride to Watch Hill and Block Island, which was formerly feature, was not available this year, and is no doubt one of the reasons of the small attendance. With the electric road in operation the people have more chances for outings at various places when they can spare the time and the excursion no longer appeals so strongly. A fer years ago the excursions from Stafford included 800 to 1000 people. It was an event of much interest In those days the merchants closed the stores and ran the excursion. A committee would go down and test the water for salt, and report on the coolness of the breeze. Reliable committees were ap. pointed, and the favorable reports al. ways brought back carried weight. The town would be 8 lonesome place on excursion day The day chosen WAS inconvenient for manufacturers, as it was in the middle of the week k, and they took hand in the excursion business, running 1t on Saturday. The merchants dropped out, as satur day was a bad day for them to be absent. Excursions have since been falling off and but POP tickets were sold last Saturday. -.- @
 Cyril Johnson, the veteran woolen manufacturer, is to retire from the woolen business in the near future, and will transfer his mill property and all interests therein of the prop. erty known as tho Cyril Johnson Woolen Go. to A. Mitchell, former ly general manager of the Warren Woolen Oo. There will be no inter: ruption in the operation of the mill \ tiring MT. Johnson will provide fol all orders that have been taken by his selling agents, Lindsley, Hanf & Go MT. Johnson has been engaged in the woolen business for over SC years, the greater part of the time al 8 manufacturer. He is essentially g self made man, working up to hii present position by untiFing effort and good business judgment. He. started In subordinate position with E. A. Converse at Staffordville when 1e years of age. As a manufacturer he ran his mills steadily through good times and bad, and in this way hal always had an exceptionally good or. ganization. Plain and democratic ir his ways, he Is highly regarded by his employees, and no serious labor troubles have disturbed his long period of successful manufacture. MT. Mitch ell, the new owner, has been here several years and during that time has made many friends. His skill ai manufacturer is on par with hi quality as a citizen, and all who know him wish him large measure of sue cess in his new enterprise. He will continue the manufacture of the we'll known Tivoli and Rockdale overcoat ings and will also make a line oi suitings.