The Press., 1916-11-30
HOME NEWS.
sTAFFoRp SPRINGS.

jewellery business.
 pr. and Mrs. G. P Bard returned
 from their vacation Sunday afternoon.
 MT. and Mrs. Frederic Faulkner
 are taking trip to New York, Wash.
 ington aud West Virginia.
 Miss Caroline Brown of Naugatuck
 has been visiting her mother. Mrs. E. R Brown, at her home on East Main street.
 Grace Church Notes: There will be a meeting of the vestrymen in the
 basement of the church at 2. 30 Satur- day evening.
 | The monthly business meeting Of the Stafford Business Men s association will be held at the club rooms next
 Monday evening.
 | Otto Dunpebier leaves for Boston Thanksgiving to stay until Monday l with his brother who is former resi- dent of this town.
 | Cyrus Ramsdell, who lives on the road to Stafford Street, will sell his household goods at auction on Satur- day. Dec. 9th, at 10 a. m. The household goods and antiques belonging to the Henry Avery estate, near West Stafford. will be sold at auc- tion on Saturday at p. m.
 At the Congregational church a lecture on the Tamil Country, India, illustrated by 66 slides. will be given on Sunday evening at 6. .45. The members of Grace church par ish will give their annual fair and play Dec 12. The three-act comedy, entitled ''The Teaser,' will be put on. Meeting of the A. o H. Sunday at ILLS a. m. All members are re. quested to attend, as very important business is to be brought up at this nee ing.
 A. J. Rose, who has been in the blacksmith business at West Stafford, has leased the shop on Furnace avenue which has been occupied by Antonio Bacciochi
 MT and Mrs. T. F. Mullen and MT. and Mrs. Chas. Newton attantled the Yale Harvard football game Saturday and visited friends in Hartford until Sunday night.
 The uinon Thanksgiving service is held in the Congregational church this week Wednesday evening at z. 80 with sermon by the Rev. F. M. Mand. erson of the Baptist church.
 MT. and Mrs B. P. Cooley and T. W. Morrall of this town and Mrs. Wm Morrall of Norwich were in New York attending the Army Navy football game Saturday, returning Sunday night.
 At the meeting of the school board Monday night the proposition of changing the hours of the school day was brought up and voted on and not accepted. All the other business voted on was routine work.
 The. following were in New Haven on Saturday attending the Yale Harvard football game: R. M. Fisk. pr. O. B. Tscbummi, R H. Fisk, F. S. Gorham, O. B. Pinney and Kingsley Converse. i
 The Cyril Johnson Woolen Go. have bought ten new Crompton & Knowles looms which are equipped with ihdi- vidual motors. They will put these in the upper story of the weave shed in place of some Crompton looms they have there now.
 Chief of Police Guilty. who was bringing his daughter from Spring field Sunday evening, met with an accident near West Stafford. One of the front wheels of the automobile came off, but the car was stopped without doing injury to anyone.
 Efforts are being made to have 6 state road built from West Stafford to Leonard's corner on the Holland turnpike. This road will open up a direct and shorter line of travel by way of state highway to Rockville from this town and also give auto mobilists who go frequently from either town to the lake in the summer to their cottages much easier ride, and it would probably be used more than it is now if the condition of the road was good.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will extend reception to the teachers of the town next Tuesday evening from 7.3O to 10 in the Meth odist church. An illustrated lecture, "New Light on an Old Problem, '' will be present and the music prom ises to be excellent. All mebmers of the union, also of the peoples branch are privileged to invite one guest. The young men of the Y. P. B. will act as ushers, and the young women will assist in serving.
 The fire in the boiler room of the new mill, which was built to dry some new cement which had just been laid and to prevent it's freezing, fooled 8 few people Saturday night. The reflection of the flames into other, parts of the mill gave it the appear anoe of large fire and a we'll mean ing citizen started the alarm of the Methodist church early in the even ing and another person started to ring the alarm at 2 a. m., but both were stopped before a general alarm was given. At 8 a. m. the alarm on thel Congregational church was started by someone who was also deceived by the reflections. As it was several nm ntes before the last one was stopped