The Press., 1916-01-12
HOME NEWS.

Local Notices.
Matter under this head 10 cents q line.)
Ell. Burr's store will be closed Friday
evenings until further notice.
One pair OF Gold Sealed Rubbers will
90 the work Of three ordinary pairs. Mod
ern Cloth z Co.
-walk-Over shoes at The Modern
Clothing Co, opposite post office.
The well-kpown Scott's laundry Of
Springfield ~ to have an agsney here
They will collect laun ry on Mondays
and deliver saturdays, starting next Mon
day, II. w. Blackburn will act as agent.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.
Elmer Dimock has taken employ
ment in the Hudson garage.
Frank Chaffee spent Sunday with
his parents in Enfield. Mass.
The Hospital Aid society will hold
its annual meeting next Tuesday at
2sO D. m Reports from officers and
committees for 1915 and election of
officers for 1916 will be the order of
the day. A full attendance is desired.
DR.. ]. W. Dawson of Wallingford,
surgeon and physician, has leased
the office formerly occupied by DIR.
Hanley, who has taken the office
vacated by DIR. Stretch. DR.. Dawson
had practised for IS years in Walling-
ford, coming there from Bridgeport,
where he had followed his profession
for ~ years AS soon as he can
find a suitable tenement he will have
his wife come here, His telephone
number is l51.
Growing wholly out of the embargo,
placed on freight by the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad, is
the fact that certain manufacturing
companies here are encountering diff
Guilty in forwarding shipments with
anything like former dispatch to GER
tain points As regards shipments
ro New York city, no trouble enters,
but where il is necessary to use the
New Haven road, there is a decided
lack of speed Smith s. Cooley and
the Fabyan Wooden Co. are the con-
Germs that feel the pressure, resulting
from the great congestion of freight
on the road in question.
Reviewing the activities in the
building particular that have added
greatly to the appearance of Main
street and changed the contour of
several side streets and the outskirts,
sounds the truth that il looks suspic-
iously as though the prosperity that
has been at home here throughout
1915 had instigated building boom.
At the head of the principal thorough
fare, coming from the west, is the
Hudson garage, commenced in 1914
and completed last year; next the
Ridorini block, one of the best build
ings put up here, which fills a gap
that conveyed an impression of a
lost tooth in the south side of the
street for an indefinite span; then,
the new Foster block, that covers an
unsightly ledge, makes up the total
i'm the street under discussion East
street is now enhanced by the recently
finished present of William Park to
his daughter, Mrs. Lincoln Luce;
DIR. and Mrs. G. P. Bard have just
settled in their thoroughly remodeled
on East Main street; John
Quinn's imposing home on Maine
Heights was erected within the past
year; George Gary erected a tenement
house on Wilmington avenue; Pietro
DaDalt built q house on the avenue;
Fred Moore has built a two-story
house on westford avenue to replace
the one burned there more than
year and a half ago; two bungalows
have been put up by B. Campo and l..
Tonidandel on Park street; Mrs.
Carrie Needham has had a house
erected on Gold street; the Rhode
Island worsted Co. built three con-
crete cottages on Keefe's Plains. Re-
modelled houses include: Fenton place
on East Main street, owned by b. X.
Arnold; that owned and occupied
by George Wood on the same street,
aud the Tuthill house owned by o
p. Hodgson, also located on East
Main street. Smith and Cooley had
a small addition fixed up for a modern
stock drier; Louis Helms business
demanded an addition to his build
ings; the Fabyan Wooden Co. found
il necessary to make an addition to
the New City mill in Staffordville,
while the Hope mill has undergone a
comprehensive renovation to accom-
rnndata naarl hinton manufacture.