The Press., 1912-07-24
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LOCAL NOTICES


 Get your straw hat now while they l st of the Modern Clothing Co.
 My store will not be open Friday evenings during July and August. E. L.. Burr
 Eyes examined free at Buskirk's. = Especial low prices on Muslins and Foulards for Saturday at E. l.. Burr's.
 Special orders taken for Dress Goods, Silks, Linens and Cotton Washable Fab rics from large assortment of samples at very low prices at John Anthony's.
 Prompt and reliable watch repairing at Buskirk's, the jeweler.
 Big lot of the best quality of brooms will be sold Friday and Saturday at 2Sc each. J. Wasserman.
 Straw hats now at one-half of regular price. Modern Clothing Go. -
 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Anders Jacobsen and family are in camp at Crystal Lake. Mrs. James Mclaughlin is visiting Mrs. Mary Brown at Palmer.
 Mrs. Carl Helm of Leominster, Mass, is visiting friends in town.
 Wm. Russell and Henry Guilman are visiting the provinces in Quebec.
 Miss Victoria Panciera has returned from visit of week at Providence and Woonsocket.
 Mrs. T. F. Mullen and daughter, Ruth, have gone to Bridgeton, Me, for the summer.
 MT. and Mrs. O. G. Ellis have joined B. T. Eaton and family at Pleasure beach.
 Arthur J. Taylor, with Charles Hall of Springfield, is spending his vacation in town.
 Farley Patten and Arthur Taylor visited friends in Springfield and Hartford last week.
 Mrs. Chauncey Orcutt, Miss Mabel Meyers and Miss Ethel Moore are in camp at Crystal Lake.
 Mrs. Louis Stevens and daughters, Dorothy and Marjorie, are spending the week at Willimantic.
 Miss Mary Desmond left last We'd nesday to join her brother, Timothy Desmond, in Lincoln, Neb.
 MT. and Mrs. O. R. Newton and MT. and Mrs. Charles H. Meyers are at Fishers Island for a vacation.
 Miss Beatrice Crowley of Hartford and Miss Florence O'Brien of Mystic are visiting Miss Margaret Rafftery.
 MT. and Mrs. John T. Wood, who have been residents of Stafford Springs for the past twenty three years, have removed to Lowell, Mass.
 Miss Elsie Palshaw, aged 8 years,a daughter of MT. and Mrs. Louis Pal shaw, died at the home of her parents on Village Hill Sunday. The funeral was yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, with burial in St. Edwards cemetery.
 Carl Siegel, 76, died at the John son hospital of cancer last Friday. MT. Siegel was 8 weaver and had been employed in town for a number of years. He leaves no near relatives. The funeral was held Saturday after noon and the burial was in the Staf- ford Springs cemetery.
 The local employees of Heimann & Lichten of Monson, of which there are number, have received notice that the firm will be ready for them as usual the coming straw season. By hiring plant for their felt season and buying plant for their straw, the firm will do about the usual volume of business this year.
 The executive committee of the Holmes -Oady association have sent out the call for the annual reunion, which will be held at Crystal Lake Thurs day, August 15. The committee in- cludes' A. W. Kingsbury, M. A. Cady, Erskine Holmes, Miss Agnes Holmes, Mrs. Myron Leonard Mrs Reuben Converse, Mrs. Laura Holmes, Mrs. Emily sBurdick and Mrs. Hattie Pom eroy.
 The town school committee has se- cured Miss Gertrude Stone of Spring field, Vt, to teach the modern lan- guages in the local high school. She is "a graduate of Boston University and has had three years experience. The high school faculty is now com plete and includes James R. Tucker, principal; assistants, Miss Sara A. ! Sweet, Miss Margaret w. Ballantine. Miss Mary O'Bryan and Miss Gertrude Stone.
 As soon as the new bridge is built ! on Spring street the present structure will be taken to Staffordville and used in place of the old wooden bridge just south of the Garland mill. The Staffordville bridge has been in bad condition for some time, but the select men have delayed making a change, as they have anticipated the building of a new bridge on Spring street, which would permit the removal of the old bridge to StaffordvilIe It has been examined by an expert, who claims that it is still good for many years.
 The Quaboag Country club golf team of Monson defeated the local team last Saturday in an interesting match. StThe score :- ~ ts|
 SSuaboag; Stafford Springs. II. OF1tnt; Q HE. Gilmartin, I T. E Npper, D R. M. Fiske, 8I F. s. Chapman, 0 A. J. Smith, OI Gs A. Andrews, J. H. Valentine, 0 R.H. Cushman, Frank Page, Il A. M. Walker, 0 H. Lee, 3I H. E. Kendall, 3 Farley Patten. o s. F. Cushman, a R. H. Fiske, Ol B. R. Cook, 0 A. I. Mitchell, Ol R. E. Shaw, 0 H. P. Lowell. 2l D. W. Ellis, 3 James Stretch. OI