The Press., 1912-08-07
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Louis Tonidandel of Meriden has been the guest of friends in town this week.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Stretch of Meriden is the guest of her son, Dr. James Stretch.
 Fred G. Lynch and family are en- toying a vacation at Providence and vicinity.
 J. NJ. Leach and Rev. O. H. Puffer of Salem, Mass, are in camp at Mashapaug.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph Van Arsdale of Hartford are spending a week at Mashapaug.
 Mrs. Margaret Rafftery is visiting her sister, Mrs. Alice Dempsey, in Melrose, Mass.
 Ralph Lee has returned to New Haven after spending a vacation of two weeks here.
 Arthur Collette and Wilfred Dickey are spending a vacation of a week in Brimfield, Mass.
 David Dickey of Mapleville, R. I. has been the guest of his brother dur ing the past week.
 Rev. H. D. Martin of Kentucky will be the guest of MT. and Mrs. Noel M. Pease the last of the week.
 E. R. Marsdale has moved with his family from Park street to house on Central street owned by John White.
 MT. and Mrs. George Siswick, who are spending the summer at Pleasure beach, have been in town for a few days.
 Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Clapp and son, Allan, are at Pennington, N. H. Mrs. c. L. Harris is spending some time at Colonial Inn, West Haven.
 Mrs. L. D. Gary went to Hartford Sunday to take Mrs. Susan Gary to the hospital for treatment, as the latter is having much trouble with her eyes.
 Alice, the six-years-old daughter of | MT. and Mrs. Philias Taylor, died last Friday afternoon of cholera infan- tum. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock and burial was in St. Edwards cemetery. Mrs. Wm. Cooley, Miss Margaret Cooley, Mrs. Charles Butterfield and Miss Celia Holt are on an auto trip through the Berkshires. They will be guests part of the outing of Mrs. W. E. Demond at North Adams, Mass.
 James Sullivan's "Kopal" took third money at Waterville, Me, in the 2.19 trOt. The horse will be started at Augusta this week. The little mare is going good and in a field of 16 starters got second the second heat in little over 2.16.
 There was no ball game on Hyde I Park Saturday, the Laurels of Hart ford failing to make an appearance. When it was too late to make other | arrangements a telegram was received from the Hartford manager saying his l team could not play. The telegram was sent collect.
 The O. V. has put on a morning | train, due here for the north at :. 38 | a. m., and a train for the south which | is due here at l. 50 p. m., arriving at Willimantic at 2.4O. The train crew is then engaged in the Willimantic | yard doing switching until 6.1O, when the train leaves for New Lon- don, arriving there at 7.2O. These trains replace the two taken of when the summer schedule was arranged.
 The public utilities commission has decided that it is advisable to use T rails in Norwalk and New Haven for trolley tracks. If Hartford should finally get into the procession and al- low the T rails, instead of insisting on the grooved kind, it would save little time in getting to the heart of the city, as the interurban cars could be run direct, instead of obliging the to change at East Hartford as at present.
 The annual field meeting of the Woman's s Christian Temperance Union ! of New London, Holland and Wind ham counties will be held on the Will limantic camp ground Wednesday, August 14th. Mrs. Deborah Knox president of the Rhode Island ". 0. T. U., will be the speaker of the afternoon. Mrs. Liv- ingstOne is an exceptionally fine speaker. Other features of interest will be duets by Mrs. Alice Kimball and Mrs May Kimball Taylor, whistling solos and bird imi- tatiOns by Nelson Brink and good chorus singing by a large choir. Everybody is welcome. Those de- string to go can arrange for mileage with Mrs. F. L. Smith or Miss G. A. Washburn.