The Press., 1913-09-17

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Frank Parizeau has taken a position in the Modern clothing store.
 Farley Patten has returned to Will liston seminary for a post-graduat course.
 There will be a regular meeting O the Rebekahs at Odd Fellows hall thi evening.
 The fair at Rockville is now on ant many from here are among the at tendants.
 Miss Beckwith will hold her milli nery opening next week Friday ant Saturday.
 The Hudson Garage Go has sold { Koehler commercial truck to Fret Glover at the Hollow.
 The stores are now on the winter schedule and are now open as usua on Thursday afternoons.
 Francis Fitzpatrick has taken { position with the Underwood Type writer company at Hartford.
 Joseph Piccin of the borough sails from New York Saturday for Italy fol a two-months' visit in Italy.
 Miss Lillian Benton, who has been in Springfield hospital, has recovered sufficiently to return to her home here.
 Miss Ethel Whitaker is absent on a visit, including friends in Enfield and Springfield. Mrs. Wm. Whitaker has returned from visit in these places.
 Baker chapter, order of the Eastern Star, will hold their first baseball whist of the season at the lodge rooms Friday evening" These gatherings were very much enjoyed last year.
 The local Foresters will celebrate their 10th anniversary with a min- strel show aud dence at St. Edward s hall Friday evening, Sept 26. The end men will be B. Mullins, D. Green, T. Yare and Wm. Benton. There will be solos by Messrs. Benton, Goady, Yare and Green. W. J. Al berty will act as interlocutor. There will, be singing by a quartet, inolud- ing Messrs. Goady, Jones, Parizeau and Alberty. Woods orchestra will furnish music.
 Miss Margaret Cutler Simpson, 5, son of Orange, Mass, died Monday. She was to have entered the high school this fall. The young lady was popular and there is general sorrow for her early death among her friends and acquaintances. She was born in this town, but had spent the greater part of her life in Orange. Besides her parents she leaves one brother, Fenton Simpson. Her mother was Miss Myra Fenton.
 The warden and court of burgesses have petitioned the public utilities commission for relief from conditions imposed by the Central Vermont rail road. The petition asks first, that a flagman be located at Spring street to guard the daDgeroTs crossing at this point. Secondly, the petitioners de- sire that the road be enjoine1 from using tracks for switching that cross River and Spring streets. On the latter clause the bororgh will prob ably get action, as it is against the cross streets. In times gone by the trainmen have shown disregard for the public in letting trains stand in such a way that these two streets were blocked until it was convenient to move. This practice has been discon- tinued to a certain extent. One of the reasons for this is the action of At torney W. H. Reed Twice MT. Reed has made the road settle for blocking the street more than the five minutes allowed by law. The spring street crossing is a very dangerous one owing to the fact that Warren's block SO effectively hides the track, and it is wonderful at there has been no serious accident at this point.
 At an executive meeting of the Tol- land county W. O. T. U., held with Miss G. A. Washburn last Wednesday, plans were made for effective work in the county. At the local meeting delegates, Mrs. Plumb and Mrs. Fair field, with the president, were elected to the state convention at Bridgeport, Oct. 14-16. A committee was chosen for fair work. It was voted to hold the next meeting Oct. Sd at the Methodist church, Staffordville. The department of work among foreign speaking people is being superintended by Miss Washburn and her helpers. Mrs. Mary B. Wilson of Philadelphia, national superintendent of this de- partment, has been engaged to lecture in Stafford Springs on Friday, Oct 10th. Statistics regarding foreignesz were not compiled for places having less than 10, 900 inhabitants and are, therefore, not shown for the town of Stafford, which had in 1910 a popu- lation of 5,253. It is hoped the de- sired information may be forthcoming in some local way, that these people may be spoken to personally or through valuable papers: Swedish, Norwegian Danish, Japanese, Italian, Bohemian, Luthenian, Hungarian, Syrian or Arabic. A guide for immi- grants, in Italian, Polish or Yeddish, is equally valuable for foreigners en- tering the United States or Canada.