The Press., 1917-07-12
sTAFFoRD SPRINGS.

Mir. and Mrs. A. B. Shephard are at the Jacobsen cottage at Crystal lake.
 Miss Susan Cheney of New Haven is guest of her sister, Mrs. J. A. Mix. .-
 Mrs. James Mclaughlin is visiting MT. and Mrs. J. V. Squires in Windsor Looks. ...
 D. Westcutt of Rockville has accepted position in Joseph Brunell's barber shop.
 MT. and Mrs. B. F. Cooley are at their cottage on Syndicate Point at Crystal lake. ..- -..
 MT. and Mrs. R. V. Congdon of Norwich visited his parents in town over Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs R. W. Smith and family are at their cottage on Syndicate Point at Crystal lake. ea
 MT. and Mrs. Christopher Allen and Miss Beatrice Congdon are stay ing at their cottage at Crystal lake.
 MT. and Mrs. O. B. Pinney and family are at their cottage on Syndicate Point at Crystal lake.
 Mrs. E. w. Smith, Mrs. W. H. Cooley and Miss Margaret Cooley are spending two weeks in Jamestown, R. I.
 Rev. Oscar J Aldrich and family have not returned home yet, but are expected before Sunday. Mir. Aldrioh will preach at both services on Sun day. .... ....
 The Orcutt's team defeated the Fiskdale team Saturday 8 to 5. The battery for Fiskdale, Hollen and Roberson; for Oroutt's, MCQnaid Bros.
 A water pipe burst last Sunday night over the store of R A. Notl1- nick. The water ran down in the store and damaged quite number of shoes.
 Fred Wildey and daughter, Harriet Louise, went to Willsboro, N. Y., last Friday to visit his daughter, Mrs. P. D. Barton. Mr. Wildey1 returned Tuesday and his daughter is making an extended visit
 The Holland County Exemption Board. which consists of Major Thos. F. Rockwell of Rockville, Judge Will liam H. Heald of Stafford, and States Attorney Thomas F. Noone of Rock vile completed their work Saturday evening. The board worked Friday evening until a late hour, checking back the exemption lists and were aided by a dozen voluntary workers all day Saturday. The work of sorting and numbering the registration cards entailed considerable work. Many hours were spent in comparing the original and duplicate registration cards and giving them draft number. Each of the cards had to be checked several times and then they had to be listed in numerical order. There are 3, O33 names on the list with their reg istration number and street and town address.
 Joseph Gilbert, IT,, the son of Joseph Gilbert, ST., who is teamster for c. H. Baker & Oo., had narrow escape Monday. He was working for O. B. Gary & Son, feeding the hopper from the coal car. When he walked over the coal to the center of the car someone opened the bottom doors of the car and the coal fell out taking Gilbert with it. He had presence of mind enough to catch hold of the hopper and hang on. The coal buried him up to his neck, and the more the men tried to dig him out the more the coal slid down. Seeing this was useless, his father, who had arrived on the scene,. procured a box and placed it over the young mans head and gradually worked it down until he was clear of coal. It took nearly an hour to extricate him from the coal. and during all of that time he did not cry out or show any signs of fear, and when he was taken out he was uninjured. ...,..
 Last Saturday morning B. O. AL terty discovered the body of a man in the woods about twenty five feet from the main road to West Stafford, just beyond the Central Vermont crossing and short distance down the old powder road. He telephoned to Michael O'Halloran at G. H. Baker & Co.'S store and MT. O'Halloran notifiedD Deputy OoronerM. D. O 'Connell Mir. O'Oonnell notified Coroner Noone. Dr. Bard, M. D. O'Oonnell and Michael O'Halloran went over and found the body with the help of Al berty. The body had evidently laid there for four or five months and was badly decomposed. From the position of the same it looked as though the man had prepared for sleep and had died of exposure. He had a heavy overcoat folded and placed under his head. His clothes were heavyweight winter clothes and he had heavy shoes on. Beside him laid 8. walking stick, straw hat and a small bundle in which there was one blue shirt. They thoroughly searched the premises and the mans clothes for some identifca- tion mark, but could find none. The man was judged to be between 55 and 60 years of age. It was thought from his appearance that he was transient The body was turned over. to the town authorities for burial.