The Press., 1911-01-18
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

/. Miss Bessie Hampton of Blackstone
 has been the guest of the Misses Leach.
 D. J. Stephens is wiring the Baker
 home on Edgewood for electric lights. MT. and Mrs. Christopher Allen have been spending few days in
 Boston.
 Mrs. ". H. Bush of Niantio has
 been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Rogers.
 0. P. Buskirk of Hartford has his jewelry store in the Converse block open and ready for business.
 Miss Eva Adams of Newburyport, Mass has been the guest of her brother Rev. R. M. D. Adams.
 The supper at Grace church guild room at 6 tonight will be followed by games and social evening.
 H. M. swartflguer, the opsioian of Rockville, will be at Burwell's jewel. ry store Friday afternoon and evening. Miss Shepard, who has been a guest of her brother, Arthur Shepard. has returned to her home in Paris, Oan- ada.
 Miss Matilda Carey has gone to Greenfield, Mass where she will be employed in the office of W. E. Demond.
 The Knights of Columbus will hold social dance in Society hall next Tuesday evening. Music will be by Lynch's orchestra. and tickets are 50 cents.
 At the meeting of the A. o. H., held last Sunday, degree team from Rockville worked the four degrees on ten candidates. Six candidates were from Rockville and four were local
 New telephones have been installed In residences as follows: F. H. Plumb, 33-3; J. H. Shepherd, 35- G.; Joseph Mullen, Forestville, 33- 12; Rev. Marian H. Jones, Stafford. vile, 1-23.
 Those interested in the Teutonia masquerade, which comes next week Friday evening, are planning cos tunes. and the indications are that the event will. as usual, be a pro. nounoed success.
 Frederic Faulkner, the woolen manufacturer, has started out to give Stafford some desira ble advertising as good point for industries to locate He is raising money on subscription paper for the purpose, and it will be expended as seems best when plans are fully perfected.
 There will be an important meet ing of the pa1k committee at Borough ! hall next Saturday afternoon at 3 l o'clock. The meeting is an import ant one and is open to the citizens The matter of location will be con- sidered. and any person having sug- gestion will oblige the committee by | having spec; fio estimate on the cost | of the real estate involved.
 Notice has been received from the clerk of the United States circuit court of appeals in New York city that the tribunal had affirmed the de. cision of the United States district court of Connections in it's judgment for $31, 866 22 in the case of Robbins & Pattison of Norwich against the Central Vermont Railroad Go. The case was tried in New Haven the past summer and attracted notice on account of the stubborn way it was fought and the large amount of the verdict. About five years ago the large ice houses at Orouttville owned by the plaintiffs were burned, and it was alleged they were set on fire by sparks from an engine. Robbins 6 Pattison coll. cted their insurance, but the railroad company would not pay damages nor compromise. The court zave judgment for the full amount of ihe claim and it is reported it will oe paid.
 The Rockville Gas and Electric company will have Mrs. N. A. Carr :. If the General Electric Company of Boston demonstrate an electric range ], ID Thursday, Friday and Saturday Afternoons of this week, from 2 to 5, md every one in Stafford is invited o visit the company's office and see :, bis wonderful piece of apparatus in lse. It is really surprising to see . he work this range does, and one : nust see it to really appreciate the , york it can do, how oheaply and clean z y and satisfactorily it does all that , oal range will do, without flame, : Iirt, soot or inconvenience, and with ut heating up the surroundings. !, drs. Carr will show this range in D ctual use, baking and cooking on it, md it will be worth while for anyone o make call at the company's office md note the many advantages elec- ; rioity has over other fuels. Un- . oubtedly the company will have : many interested callers