The Press., 1913-01-01
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

l AFFOND SHNINGS.
 Regular meeting of Myriad Rebekal
 lodge this evening.
 Woods orchestra will furnish music for dance at Wales Saturday night.
 The following have been connected with the telephone exchange: Fred Rand, a7-13; O. P. Buskirk, 23- 12; Walter Graves, S9-13; T. Fred Mullen, 55-5.
 The Burwell jewelry store is being changed in the rear so as to provide an optical room for H. M. Swart- figuer of Rockville, who is at the store every Friday.
 J. Wasserman has returned from New Rochelle, N. Y. MT. Wasser- man has sold his branch business in New Rochelle and will now give his full attention to his local store.
 The regular meeting of the Wom- ans Christian Temperance Union will be held Friday at the Congregational yestry at 3 o'clock. Reports will be- given from the various departments and it is hoped the printed programs will be ready for distribution.
 At recent meeting of the l.. A. A. O. H. the following officers were elected: President, Dorothy Des- mond; vice-president, Mary E. Han- ley; recording secretary, Tillie R. Carey; financial secretary, Mary Brown; treasurer, Mrs. Catherine Bissonette; mistress t-arms, Mrs. Mary Young; sentinel, Mrs. Jennie Lynch. Installation of officers will take place January 10th.
 The following officers of Court Oronoco, Foresters of America, were elected last Thursday: Chief ranger, Hugh Ward; sub-chief ranger, Henry Grundy; recording secretary, Carl Woods; financial secretary, Edward Clark; treasurer, John T. Melbourne; senior woodward, Wm. Schmidt; junior woodward, Thomas Jenson senior beadle, Frank Palmer; junior beadle, Frank Angley; lecturer, A. Clark; trustee, Eugene Charter.
 Attorney General John H. Light of the state of Connecticut has given the opinion that towns have no legal rights to pay salaries to the school committee. If this opinion holds it will not make much difference locally, although it will put some of the larger towns to considerable incon- venience. With the exception of very small sum to the secretary of the board and payment of $2 per day for school visiting, the local board has not received compensation. As it does not stand to reason that capable | men will give the time necessary to act as secretary of school boards with out compensation, it may be necessary to hire some person outside of the board to do the clerical work and pos sibly to do the visiting, or have school superintendent.
 Trains on the O. V. were delayed by a wreck about half way between A@AA6 anu NAO1SOh A heavy freight train was struggling up the hill, south bound, when a lighter train ran into it from the rear. A couple of cars were derailed' and the buggy smashed, but the most serious feature was the death of one man and the injury of three others. John | Moriarty, who was en route for New | London, had both legs taken off and died later at a Springfield hospital. | Conductor Montgomery had one leg taken of below the knee and was also | taken to Springfield hospital Frank | Reynolds of the train crew escaped | with a sprained shoulder and bad bruises. Fred Nobert, who was also a guest on the way to New London, had a sprained ankle and bad bruises. All these men were in the buggy at the time of the collision. The crew on the other train were not injured. | The trains were supposed to be run ming 5 minutes apart, but the heavy train in the lead had lost time and the lighter train in the rear had OakharAd aDeed kO carrv ovnr tha hin