The Press., 1912-07-24
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Adrian T. Rock is spending tn, week at Onset Bay.
 R. W. Smith has been in Boston { couple of days on business trip.
 Miss Mary Brown has returned from a vacation spent at Ocean beach.
 Miss Mary Converse is at Crystal Lake, the guest of MT. and Mrs. F. G. Sanford.
 MT. and Mrs. Louis Helm and Mrs Carl Helm were at Crescent beacl over Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. R. M. Fisk and Robert H. Fisk and family are il camp at Crystal Lake.
 Mrs. Hannibal Alden and daugh- ters, Lucy and Ruth, have gone tc Lake George for a vacation.
 An addition has been built to the W. R. O. home at Cromwell, where soldiers and their wives can go fo1 care. It is to be dedicated July 3lst. Several ladies of the local corps ex- pect to attend the exercises. Veterans and sons of veterans are cordially in vited.
 The program for the races fair time and the purses are as follows: Thurs day, Oct. 1O-2. 25 pace, open, $2OO; 2.25 trot, open, $2OO. Friday, Oct 11-2.IS pace, closed, 5000; 2.19 trot, 2.22 pace, open, $500; 9 22 trot, open, $500. Saturday, Oct. 12 -2.I9, closed, $500; 2.15 pace, open, $500.
 Several from here will attend the old home week celebration in Wales August B and 4. Rev. Charles Rick etts of Norwich will be the speaker for Saturday, and Rev. H. P. Smith of Cincinnati will have charge of the religious services in the old church Sunday. There will be band concerts, a ball game and a reception at the Lakeside pavilion.
 Mary, six years old, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. Allen Fitts of Roch- dale, Mass, died at the Memorial hospital, Worcester, last Wednesday after an illness of five weeks of peri tonitis following an operation for ap- pendicitis. The funeral was held at Rochdale Friday morning and the budy was brought here for burial in St. Edwards cemetery.
 Those who have been watching for the change in schedule of passenger trains on the Central Vermont, ordered by the public utilities committee of the state of Connecticut, have failed to notice any change. It transpires that the railroad officials Have ap- pealed from the order of the utilities committee to the superior court. As the case in the natural course of events does not come up until Sep tember, it is probable that by that time the trains may be running, as there is usually a change in the time table to meet fall and winter condi- tiOns. In their appeal from the de- cision of the public utilities commits sion in ordering the road to operate a north bound train starting from New London between 4. 45 and 5.45 a. m. and a south bound train from Palmer about 1. .15 p. m., the Central Yer mont railroad alleges that the ruling in regard to the latter train is illegal because it orders the train to start from Palmer, Mass, a point which is outside the jurisdiction of the com- mission and outside the state of Con- necticut. Regarding that and the nOrth-bound early train, which is the one in which the people along the line are particularly interested, the appeal alleges that the service re- quired by the order of the commission would be excessive and that the pres ent service is all that the business served reasonably requires. The claim is also made that compliance with the order will require the com- pany to run the trains at great pecu- niary loss to the company, deriving no adequate compensation, and that the order, if carried into effect, will be a eonfscation of the company's property. It is possible that the last word has not yet been said on the controversy. Section R, chapter 12s, of the Public Acts of 1911 is as follows:-
 When Appeal will Suspend Oper- ation of Order Every such appeal shall be supersedeas of the order, authorization, or decision appealed from, except as otherwise provided by statute; provided, that the court to which any such appeal is brought, or, if such court is not in session, any judge of the superior court, may at any time order that such appeal shall not so operate if, in the opinion of such court or judge, the appeal is brought for purposes of delay, or if justice, or equity, or public safety, or expediency shall so require; or such court or judge may order that such appeal shall so operate only upon com- pliance by the parties, or any of them, with such terms or conditions as such court or judge may determine.
 As there is some reason to believe that the delay may have been a factor in the appeal brought by the road, it is possible that those interested may bring it before a judge at once and 1et A ruling.