The Press., 1917-07-26
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


 vacation at Indian Neck, on Long Island Sound. !.
 Miss Gladys Hume of Worcester is the guest of the Smiths at their cottage at Crystal lake.
 E. D. Robbins has taken position in the experimental department of the Royal Typewriter Go. at Hartford.
 The members of the Teutonia association held their annual picnic at Evergreen park last Sunday. Everyone there reported fine time.
 Rev. E. W. Bishop, D. D., will preach Sunday morning Aug. 5th, in the Congregational church. His sub ject will be "The Coming of Inter. nationalism.
 Forbes 6 Wallace of Springfield are now conducting a large furniture sale in their store. Several thousand feet ot floor space has also been added to their furniture department.
 Enos scarfe, aged 61 years, died in the Johnson hospital Saturday morning of acute nephritis. MT. Scarfe was born in Yorkshire, Eng land. He has lived several years in this country and was we'll known in this vicinity. The burial and funeral services were held Saturday afternoon. He was buried in the Stafford Street cemetery. .-s ..,...-...-e
 The Italian band gave a concert in Hyde park Sunday evening from to. 10 o'clock. A large crowd of people gathered to hear them. Their leader, s. Sbraccia of New York, was there to lead them. The playing was very. good, and in spite of the many set backs the band has had since they started they proved to the public that they are working hard to give the people good music. The boys feel proud to belong to the organization, and the townspeople are more than glad to have a musical treat given to them which savors of European tFain- ing. Sbraooia is a leader of tue Italian type and drills the boys ID the Venetian way.
 Thomas Fitzpatrick, who is4=ani exponent of ''high life, ;" was in town this week. Fitzpatrick is 8 local lad and has gone right up in life. InI fact his work outside of an aviator ip the highest of all. Tom is a steeples jack of the highest quality. He has done work from Boston to San Francisco, and all of his work is good. He perches on the highest steeple or chimney as calm as if he was working on the ground. His latest work was done in Waterbury, putting lightning rods on the pinnacle of St. Anne's church. He worked there at a mere height of 2O5 feet. Of course most of us would look down on the rest of the world if we attained any such height as this, but Tom is democratic and speaks to us all.
 About II. 30 Friday night a heavily loaded southbound freight was passing through the town when the tender of the engine and four loaded cars in back of the tender were derailed opposite the Stafford worsted mill. The cars piled up in a zigzag fashion near the track, breaking the bodies off of the trucks. Two of these cars were box cars, one coal car and the other was flat car loaded with heavy logs. The coal car was pushed off the track and came close to the wire cage in which the transformers on the high tension line which gives power to the mill are located. If this car had been thrown a few feet further it would have broken the wires and trans formers and probably caused a lot of damage by the identification of the railroad. A Wreoking engine and crew was called to town and put at work on the wreck. The track was cleared after O. clock Saturday night. Up until that time the passenger trains had to transfer passengers and freight traffic was entirely blocked. No one was injured in the wreck.
 Ludlow defeated the local team Saturday 4 to 2. The Ludlow team held Stafford down without a run until the eighth inning when Stafford pulled in two. Wise did some of the finest fielding of the season in this game. Trask of Ludlow was the champion hitter of the day, and Gokey and Lagasse featured in the fielding. The score: