The Press., 1916-07-20

Mrs. Julia Pease of New Bedford
 Mass. has been visiting at Lev Gary's.
 Miss Butler of Norwich has been
 guest at the Lawrence Hampston hom
 on High street.
 Carl Lindner has resigned his posi-
 tion in the Rockville -Willimanti
 lighting station.
 MT. and Mrs. R. A. Nothnick ant
 family are camping at Jacobsen's cot tage. Crystal Lake.
 Miss Catherine Gilmartin and Jo
 seph Gilmartin of Stonington are wis
 iting at George slater's.
 Raven Patrol, Troop No. 1, vii
 have special meeting at z o'olocl Monday evening in the Methods churoh.
 E Thomas Fitzpatrick, familiarl, known as 's Sseeple Tom' of Willi Imantic, visited here Saturday ant LSnnday.
 4 party Of twelve young peopl, went to Riverside. Springfield, Sunday by automobile and enjoyed the da, at the resort
 k Charles and George Gary have opened the Needham farm on the roat
 to the Hollow as their home and vii
 be glad to receive friends after the 2Oth of this month.
 E Mrs. James Sheppard, Jr., ani daughter, Meredith, left yesterday or Ia two.weeks' trip. They went tc Boston and from there will go to St. Johns N. B., and then to Digby, N s.
 The standing of the leaders in the popular school girl voting contest fol this month for the second week is as follows: Mary Sullivan, 1916 Doris Sullivan, $40; Irene Murray, 40; Margaret Foley, 217; Violet Hayes, 1aO. The standing is posted in one of the windows of Ellis grocery.
 . At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, funeral services for Robert u. Furne ess, who was drowned in Long Island Sound July 4th while canoeing, and whose body was found on the Conneo. ticut shore near Tunxis Island Sun. day, were conducted in Grace church by Rev. MT. Mathewson of St John $ Episcopal church, Rockville. The body was brought here on the 7.23 train Monday evening and burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery. Mr. Furness was 40 years old. He is survived by wife and son, Lawton. residing in Hartford, where MT. Fur. ness was employed as chaffeur, his mother, Mrs. Albert Anderson of Village Hill, two sisters, Mrs. Frank Welch of Monson, Mass, and Miss Eva Furness of Boston, and three brothers. Lees of this place, Frank o1 Westerly. R. T, and Samuel of Cali. fornia.
 In contrast with other storms that swept over this region this season, the eleortic storm of last Thursday afternoon was unusually severe. A transformer in the local station of the Rockville W illimantic lighting station was burned out by the lightning and trouble encountered in the Williman- tic station jointly contributed in leav. ing this place lacking power to oper- 0$o 1oh iv, fn1J nd rk of the Smith & Cooley River street plant, and in house and store lights for few hours. Trollies did not run between here and Rockville from o'clock in the afternoon until II o'clock that night. although it was later said that they could have done so after the cessation of the storm. Many. including clerks who were talk ing advantage of the first Thursday afternoon of, were left in disoom fiture at Crystal Lake because of lack of facilities to get home, chief among them being the non operation of troll lies. It proved hard day at Crystal Lake. One cottage there was struck. A number of trees, including some on Enos Penny's property on Prospect street, were blown down by the strong wind that rode the storm and others were struck by lightning. So far as known no houses or barns were struck here.
 Local fans, it is somewhat current rumor, may lose the baseball team as an attraction on Hyde park Saturday afternoons. and talks with Manager Ed. Clark and the members of the baseball committee show pretty con- clusively that the rumor is not padded with anything like kidding stuff. According to Manager Clark and the members noted. under present condi- tions, they have but two alternatives to keep them from going into the hole'' as regards the expenses of the team. They can book out of town games. which it is likely will be the case, or they can have the team dis band, which they are set against doing. The trouble, plainly speaking, which has brought about the present state of affairs, is the fact that Stafford's fans, if fans they can te called, are mostly browsing now in the realm of the tin horns. .'' They are more dis. posed to serving up all kinds of hot air than they are to digging down for a decent bit of the ohink to support the nine. And the peculiar part of it all is that the team is putting up g neat brand of ball, which, to all logi- cal guessers, should elicit the solid backing of the fans. It is as clear as that talked about crystal that there has got to be change in the attitude of the fans within short time if the