The Press., 1914-07-08
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Mir. and Mrs. Harry ". Blake ot Passaic, N. J., are guests of her sister Mrs. L. B. Baker.
 Francis Mullins and Edward DilloI of Boston were in town over the Fourth aud Sunday.
 William Dascoli from Yonkers, N. Y. is spending two weeks at the home of Mir. and Mrs. John Sena.
 William Grover and Joseph Lynch of Norwich spent the Fourth with Mir and Mrs. John Lynch at Keefe Plains.
 There will be a meeting of the directors of the Stafforl Springs Agricultural society at the Springs house next Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 The boiler room at the electric light station has been made over and will be used as a sub-station for the new high power current that is to be con- nected with the local system. Repairs on the water wheels are to be made in the nsar future.
 Miss Ivy Eaton opened camp at Crystal lake yesterday fur three weeks and has with her Misses Glover Con- verse, Dorothy Pinney, Charlotte Beckwith, Frances Newton. Helen Mowry of Sterling and Miss Jennie Royce of MonsOn. The camp program will be about the same as last year, Miss Eaton director and MT. s Royce camp matron.
 Miss Susie Grimm and August Dehullu of Old Town, Me, were married last Wednesday afternoon at 9 30 at the Congregational parsonage by Rev. L. Rees. They were attended by Miss Mary Grimm, a sister of the bride, and Lawrence Martin of Will limantic. They are away on their wedding trip and after about two months expect to make their home here.
 It has been decided to build the new section of state highway with gravel instead of bituminous mac- adam, and work was commenced on it this week. The new section will be- gin at the Keefe house on West Main street and extend toward West Staff ford The price of building gravel road is lower and it is thought that a little over a mile can be constructed. A. D. Bridges & Son of Hazardville have the contract.
 W. O. T. U. Notes: About twenty five attended the field day last We'd nssday at Ellithorpe farm. Following lunch on the veranda the regular meeting was held, literary salad' furnishing quotations for the rOll-oall. Mir. and Mrs. Paul T. Walcott of the Y. N. 0. A. of Elizabeth, N. J. who are stopping at the farm, assisted in entertaining the guests. The town l second prize for temperance essay was won by Dewey Murray at the Pinney grammar school, who chose for his suEjeet, 'sWby business men demand abstainauee in their employees.
 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Foster, con- tinuing a hospitable custom of years, entertained 3. large party of neigh bors and friends the afternoon and evening of July 4th. Dinner was served out of doors, in the shade of the balsam trees that have witnessed SO many other happy events. Flags huttered upon the lawn before the house, the columns of the homestead | had been twined with bunting and | large flag foated above the driveway. | The pleasant weather, the neighborly | good will and the hearty cheer that always characterizes Foster reception made, the occasion thoroughly enjoy able. None could have been present without wishing for MT. and Mrs. Foster every blessing of health and happiness. The guests from out of town were: William A. Foster, wife and daughter of Hartford; Leonard H. Daveidow and Herbert Shonfeld | of New York, Rev. and Mrs. Puffer | and daughter of Reading, Pa, who will remain with MT. and Mrs. Foster | until settled in the parsonage at the | Hollow.