The Press., 1914-09-02
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Mrs. D. W. Foskett of Springfield and Mrs. Jack Park of Monson have been guests of Mrs. John Foster.
 Mrs. Benjamin Bicknell and daugh- ters, Helen and Natalie, of Needham, Mass. have been spending two weeks with their cousins, Misses Mary and Helen Leach.
 Samuel Jackson, who has been spending few days with MT. and Mrs. T. Grady, left last Wednesday to join his family at Nantasket. Miss Kathryn O'Brien of Monson has been the guest of MT. and Mrs. Grady.
 Tomorrow afternoon is the last half holiday for the clerks and mer- chants in all probability. A petition is in circulation asking that the custom be continued through the year, but it is not meeting with general favor among the business men.
 The civil suit of John Gorsky against Michael Kometz has been settled. Gorsky hired store of the defendant and got written agreement for lease to be given June 1st. Ko- metz leased the store to another tenant supposing Grosky was not going to take it.
 The amusement committee for the great Stafford fair has booked Poth s auto polo for the coming event. This is a thousand dollar attraction and the Stafford fair is only one in New England to book it. It will show at Toronto, Canada, Rochester, N. Y., and Allentown, Pa., before coming here. Four machines and eight players engage in this act and it will be played on the track. It costs lot of money to get attractions of this magnitude, but the committee believe that the public will back them up in it.
 Zebulin R. Robbins of Norwich has brought suit for ST., 300 against the c. V. railroad and Wm. Spellman of Orcuttville. It is alleged that MT. Spellman cut aquantity of ice at Orcuttville the past season and sold it to the railroad company. Zehulin won a case from the railroad awhile ago in which he took $33, 900 away from, and if he succeeds with the present suit the railroad will begin to class him in with their more ex- pensive luxuries. MT. Robbins bases his claims to the ice on a quit claim deed given by Chauncey Orcutt in 1894. The road will fight the suit to the last ditch. .-
 The following delegates to the various conventions were elected at the republican caucus Monday even- ing: State John A. Foster, o. E. Brown, J. G. Wightman, B. P. Cooley; congressional, F. F. Patten, H. A. Glazier, T. M. Lyon, George Siswick; county, l.. H. Stevens, J, M. Sibley, G. W. Eaton, Louis Helm senatorial, Lewis Mclaughlin, o. H.. Moore, G. M. Barlow, F. l.. Upham ; probate, R. M. Fisk, Anders Jacobsen, J. O. Converse, B. B. Penny The following town committee was chosen J. G. Wightmau, B. F. Cooley, T. M. Lyon, H. A. Glazier, George Siswick Lewis Mclaughlin acted ss chairman of the caucus and H. R. Wightman us clerk.
 Mrs. Harriett Merrifield Ramsdell, 70, wife of Silas Ramsdell died Snn- day afternoon of heart failure. Mrs. Ramsdell had not been in good health for some time previous to her death. She went riding Sunday afternoon in an automobile and was taken i'll on the river road. They stopped at one of the Fabyan houses and a chair was brought out for her to sit down in, with the hope that it was temporary ailment and she would recover. She died almost immediately. Mrs. Rams dell was York state woman and with her husband has resided here for the past eight years. Previous to coming here they lived 33 years in Brattle- -boro. Her husband survives her, but she had no other near relatives. The funeral will be held from her late home on the road to Stafford Street at ?. 80 this afternoon, Rev. c. H. Puffer officiating, and the burial will be in the Stafford Springs cemetery.