The Press., 1913-02-26
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


 a guest at the Mclaughlin home.
 There will be meeting of the di rectors of the Stafford Business Mem association at Attorney R. H. Fisk office Friday evening at T.3n, to talk, action in regard to the annual banque of the association.
 A pleasant surprise was given the pastor of the Methodist church last Sunday in the Sunday school, when the little folks of the beginners and primary department sang a birthday song in honor of his birthday, which occurred on Friday, and presented a vase of beautiful pinks.
 The committee on evangelism and community extehsion of the council of churches has reorganized for the year with the following membership i: Chairman, J. R. Parkhurst of the Methodist church; secretary, J. T. Melbourne, Episcopal; J. W. Rollin- son, Congregational; H. O. Thresher, Baptist F. J. Glover and Rev. ". E. Gaskin, Universalist; La Vergne Dimoek,s West Stafford Congregation al.
 Horace Patten died suddenly Sun. day at his home at Cheyenne, Wyo. aged 84 years. His death was caused by heart failure. MT. Patten was a native of Stafford, but when a young man he removed to Enfield. He mar ried there Miss Mary J. Allen and lived in Enfield until her death. He then went west and lived with his son, Henry B. Patten, a civil engineer in Cheyenne. His body will be taken to Enfield on Thursday for burial in the Enfield Street cemetery.
 A large number attended the Wash ington tea party at the Congregational chapel last Wednesday evening. The room was festive with national colors and at the tables small silk flags were used as favors. George and Martha Washington greeted the guests, Frank, H. Baker and Miss Ethel Moore we'll impersonating that illustrious couple. The young ladies served 8 delicious supper, which was to have been followed by stereopticon lecture on the Revolution. The fuse burned out in the tower just as the lecture was started, and it was thought best to postpone that part of the enter tainment.
 At the borough meeting last Fri day evening it was voted almost un- animously to continue the lights on the Allen bridge and entrance to Hyde Park each evening until 12 o'clock, at a cost of $11O a year. The light includes four 40 watt (32 candle power) Mazda lamps on the bridge and ten 5 watt five in each cluster at the entrance to Hyde Park It was also voted to install two addi- tional incandescent lights, one on High street between Rowland avenue and Prospect street, and the other on Green street near the residence of G. W. Eaton. Edward Mann asked for information in regard to the borough accepting Converse avenue, and James Warren made a suggestion that now would be a good time to straighten the building line on Main street, where the stone Foster block has been demolished to prepare for a new building. Warden Leach stated that the court of burgesses had both under consideration and hoped to have the Converse street matter fixed up this year. The building line on Main street has been established from the front of the Converse building to the corner of the curbing of the Congrega- tional church. This will make the sidewalk in front of the new Foster block little wider than it was in front of the old stone block.