The Press., 1912-08-21
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 David Robertson returned Monday from his trip to Scotland.
 Rev. R. G. Clapp supplied the pulpit at the Groton, Mass, Congre- gational church last Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. O. E. Butterfield have returned, having spent six weeks at their Crystal Lake camp, Sunset :"
 The cups for the golf and tennis contests of the Stafford Country club g are on exhibition in Burwell's win dow.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson and children are visiting Mrs. Johnson s parents at Whiting, Vt, for two weeks.
 Mrs. Michael McGillicuddy returns to her home in Philadelphia to-day after visit with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Cote.
 Mrs. Lydia Peon has accepted a position at the Massach usetts state hospital at MonsOn.
 , Miss Katherine Smith of Monson has been spending a few days with relatives in the borough.
 Mrs. W. A. Bugbee and children of Cromwell have been the guests of MT. and Mrs. J. S. Smiledge.
 MT. and Mrs. George Cardinal of Springfield have returned home after a visit with relatives in town.
 ' Mrs. F. A. Bowling and son, Rich ard, of Springfield spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs Joseph Garden.
 Esther Darby of Northfeld, Mass. has returned to her home after visit ing with her cousin, Alice Garden
 Regular meeting of the Foresters on Thursday evening. Important business will come before the meeting.
 The republican caucus for electing delegates to the various conventions will be held at the town hall Friday evening, the 30th, at 8 o'clock
 John B. Bolieau returned last week from visit to his father, Charles Bolieau, at Salem, Mass. who is 103 | years old and is in fair health for one so old.
 Embert Curtis, William Sullivan, Clarence Boyer, Claude Dimock and Leon Parker took an automobile trip to Blandford, Mass, last Saturday and came home Sunday.
 Jeremiah Fitzgerald was operated upon at the Johnson hospital last Friday for appendicitis by Dr. Daniel Sullivan of New London. Miss Annie Brunelle, who was operated upon at the hospital July 2, has returned to her home.
 Stanley Zimmerman, who has been employed at the Warren Woolen Co.'S office for the past three months, left yesterday for Steeltown, Penn, where he has accepted position as private secretary in the office of the Pennsyl- vania Steel Go.
 Last Thursday Fred Handel, em- plOyed by Gary Brothers, was assist ing in unloading a large piece of ma chinery, when it slipped and fell on his ankle, making compound fracture about three inches above the ankle. He was taken to the Johnson hospital and the fracture was set by Dr. c. B. Newton.
 The annual drummers' and fifers' convention will be held at Crystal Lake Saturday. The annual farmers picnic will be held at the same place on Saturday, the S1st, and a Labor day picnic on Monday, September 2. Lavine's orchestra will furnish music for dancing and shore dinner will be served.
 Mrs. Mary Durkee, for several years housekeeper in the W. P. Bid we'll home, and Miss Elizabeth Dun- ham of Mansfield have taken the Ellis | cottage, just of Church street, and will occupy it soon. Thomas Young, who lived in the Ellis cottage, has re- turned to the Main street stone house which he formerly occupied.
 Patrick J. Moylan of San Francisco has written to the chief of police of Springfield, according to the Republi- can, in his efforts to find a brother, John and two sisters, Catherine and Bessie. He states that his sisters were adopted by MT. and Mrs. John Rock, who, he remembers visiting in Stafford about 1904.
 The wedding of Miss Emma Kuehne to William Vinal will take place at the home of the groom's parents in West ROckport, Me, to-day. Miss Knehne has many friends fn town and still claims Stafford as her home, though she has been teaching in East Orange ". J., for several years. Mrs. Carf Kuehne of Hartford is in Maine for the welding, to which only rela- tives are invited. MT. vinal is in the automobiie business in Boston, where they will make thair hOme