The Press., 1916-07-27
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Miss Mildred King is visiting il Indian Orchard.
 Mrs l. D. Gary has purchased { new 1916 Overland car.
 Miss Louise Beck W ith has returned from a stay in northern New York.
 Mrs. Henry Clark of North Brook field was a guest over Sunday of he niece. Mrs. Eugene Charter.
 Anna Bodner of South Wilmington is ting a vacation from her duties at Pero's store.
 Mark Jackson of Springfield spent the week end with Mir. and Mrs. T. Grady.
 Miss Mary Reynolds is taking | weeks vacation from her work at thu National Bank. .."
 Hiss Ida Pearson of Providence. R. I, spent the last week with hel cousin, Mrs. Thomas Simans.
 Miss Alice Car len has returned from 8 visit to Indian Orchard and has AaAoh PosAeAou Ah 1T okO seOAo-
 Misses Sucritia and Antonette Williams of Hampstead, l.. L, arc guests of their uncle, John Sena.
 Mrs. O. R. Andre ys and family of New London are in camp at Urysta Lake. Mrs. Andrews is we'll knowu heae.
 The construction car of the Con- nectiout company has been out here this week. The trolley wire supporters have been given attention.
 Miss Mae H. B. Simons and George, her brother, are spending vacation with their grandparents, Mir. and Mrs. Herman Ladish, at Stafford Village.
 David Bissstt has just finished keep ing up the attractiveness of Allen bridge. Cervices between the to post nes in need of cement have been treated.
 MT. and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin and Mir. and Mrs William L. Bishop, Mrs. MoLaughlin's parents of Beloher- town, are in camp at Pleasant Point, Lake Mashapaug.
 Miss Johanna Fursta and Miss Clara Indorf of Brooklyn and Mrs. William Kreiger and Miss Pauline MoPhail of Providence are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Edward Mann.
 The union services of the Methodist and Congregational churches will be held at the Methodist church Sunday morning. The mid-week union ser vices will take place this evening at the Congregational church.
 Monthly dues on shares of the Stafford Building and Loan association will be payable the first Wednesday of August, and the first Wednesday of each month thereafter until further notice, to Anders Jacobsen, secretary at his store between 1 and p. m.
 The third week standing of the popular school girl voting contest for the month of July is as follows; Mary | Sullivan, 2326; Doris Sullivan, TAO; Irene Murray, 699; Margaret Parizeau, 22O; Margaret Foley, 217, Violet Hayes, lSO; Helen Gilligan, 5. The standing is posted on one of the Ellis grocery windows.
 We have been advised that the per son who informed us last week that Charles B. Gary had walked from his home on the Hollow road to his office down here was wrong. The truth is that Mir Gary was given a ride from his home down as far as Maple street and he walked the rest of the way, a distance of about 50 yards.
 Funeral services for Miss Nettie Nj. Whiton, who died week ago Tues- day, were held at the Whiton home on Maple street at 10. 80 o'clock Fri. day morning, Rev. Oscar J. Aldrioh. pastor of the Methodist church, officiated. Burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery. The bearers were William H. Heald, F. G. Sanford, Charles Butterfield and J. Carl Con- verse. During the services the stores were closed.
 The young ladies' Sunday school class of the Methodist Episcopal | church had & picnic at the Lake Satur- day and were entertained by their | teacher, Mrs. Freeman Patten. Games and bathing and one "big joke" was enjoyed by all. Lunch was served in front of the cottage under the trees. This class have organized and are called the 'Help a Bit" club.
 Edward Colfan, employed by O. B. Gary as teamster, suffered a broken leg near the hip late Monday night | when he fell from the secoul story | opening of one of Gary's LaIns. | Colefan fell 12 feet. He was taA n within a short time to the Johnson hospital. He was attended by Dr. F. l.. Smith. Colefan slept in the barn in a room that he had fitted up. It was while he was going to his room. uecessitating that he pass re IT the opening that he shipped and f, H. The openng is used for the purpose of admitting hay from teams.
 A near tragedy occurred ut Orys al Lake Saturday atLelnoon. John Reed, a Rockville youth, had gone out in boat from Sandy beach to dive of. When he came to the surface after the dive, he found that greater distance existed between him and the boat than he had expected. This was due to three factors, the fact that 8 wind was blowing. the backward push he had given the boat on diving and the truth that he had taken a slanting dive which brought him up farther away than would otherwise have been the case. Reed tried to get to AL. A-.A IA hela...D nxhaunkod Ha