The Press., 1919-10-09
STAFFORD SPRINGS

Robert R. KnOWltOn Of Mystic IS stopping at the Springs House.
 Mrs. Charles H. Wombwell, formerly Miss Gertrude Knowlton, will spend a few days at the Springs House.
 Lieut. R. R. Clark of the U. s. N. construction corps of Washington, D. C.. with his wife, made his uncle, $. F. Clark, and cousin, John A. Andrews, a visit on Sunday.
 The Red Men gave a smoker for the ex-service men in their hall Friday evening. A smoker in other words is simply getting together as good friends, and in Friday evenings case it was a fine example of this. Many told of their experiences. That and the various other things which make up smoker enabled the boys to have a very pleasant evening. This was the first thing of it's kind done for the boys in the Springs and they keenly appreciated it.
 Maine Robert McNeill, son of MT. and Mrs. Robert s. McNeill, of Rock vile, formerly of this borough, was recently discharged from the service. He was married last Thursday to Miss Inez M. Ring, daughter of MT. and Mrs. G. w. Ring of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The ceremony was performed at the parsonage by Rev. Percy B. Thomas. They were attended by Miss Mildred McNeill, a sister of the groom, as bridesmaid and the best man was F. R. Chapin of Hartford. A wedding luncheon was served to the bridal party at the Allyn House, Hartford, after which Mr. and Mrs. McNeill left on trip to New York city.
 Saturday afternoons game between the towns second team and the one time Glynville Stars was record breaker for it's length. Though the game started quite early in the after noon the shades of night were falling fast before the winning tally was brought in in the last of the seven- teenth inning making the result of a 5 to victory for the second team. Something seemed to be a decidedly wrong with the second team up till their half of the ninth. The score was to 0 against them. In that inning they made four runs, this averting de- feat. The game continued with that score for eight more innings when, perceiving, perhaps, that darkness was about to fall, they decided to end the affair. The young lads have been defeating some good teams during the season so the fact that the Glynville players were able to give them such a battle shows that the old boys are not bygones yet. The batteries were Daigle and Clark for the second team and Connors and Bousquet for the l Glynville nine.
 | The town election on Monday drew out only a small number of the voters This was probably due to the omis- sion of the vote on the license ques- l tion and to the fact that the selectmen l town clerk and treasurer and tax col lector were practically elected at the time of the caucuses. The only officers contested for were assessors anC board of relief and seven constables The republican ticket received the largest vote by a small margin. The following is the vote in detail: l lst ist. 2d Dist. Tota l Assessor for three years.
 John M. Larned, r, 50 132 18i Frank M. Barrett, d, 27 147 174
 Board of Relief for three years.
 F. L. Upham, r, 51 128 IF! H. O. Butterfield, d, 2S 149 IF
 Selectmen.
 w. R. Preble, r, d, 78 283 36- E. B. Penny, r, 51 13O 18- David Bissett, q, 28 152 1S(
 Town Clerk for two years.
 J. Carl Converse, I'd, 7S 283 36: l Town Treasurer for two years.
 J Carl Converse,r, d, 7S 2S2 36' l Agent of Town Deposit Fund. J. Carl Converse, Id, 78 281 35 Auditor.
 H. R. Wightman, r, 52 139 19 A. J. Melbourne, d, 25 142 16 Collector of Taxes.
 P. J. Murray, dr., " 2S5 36 Constables.
 s. H. Bradway, r, AS 138 1S I. V. Reynolds, r, 51 40 19 Thomas J. Hayes, r, 52 138 19 H. A. Bosworth, r, 52 133 IS A. H. Adams, 30 142 F Henry Grundy, d, 25 143 16 Philias Taylor, d, 25 146 IF M. P. Corcoran, d, 25 149 IF
 Registrars, 1st Dist.
 J. G. Wightman, r, 50 136 IS A. H. Adams, d, 27 142 16
 Registrars, 2d Dist.
 George Siswick, r, 50 133 IS P. J. Murray, d, 27 152 IF
 School Committee for three years.
 R. w. Ellis, r, 50 132 IS c. B. Pinney, d, 28 149 IF
 During the year the town debt wa reduced $2,OOO, from $61,OOO00 t. |. $59,O00. The receipts for the yea were as follows:
 Cash on hand Sept. 1, 1918, 5 3,1sO.6 Property taxes, 59,7437 Personal taxes, 2,156.0 Estate penalty taxes, 1,592.4 School fund, 2,738.2 State taxes on stocks, 5,9S7.7 State, supervision of schools, 5000 Liquor licenses, 4,OO2.6 Court fines, 404.8 Wilmington school tuition, 1900 Ashford school tuition, 90.5 Holland school tuition, 31.5
 Bank loan, 36,OOO.O | Miscellaneous, 1,343. g $11s,232.4
 The expenses were as follows:
 Town expenses, 5 34,337.2
 School expenses, 32,6788
 Bank loans, 36,000.O
 Bonds, 10000 State taxes, 5,410.6 Holland county tax, 3,747. l
 Boro. of Stafford Springs,
 II state tax on stocks, 1,33O.6 BOrO. court orders, 209.3 Cash on hand Aug. 31, 1919, 2,518.6 $118,232.4 The principal town expenses for th Iyear were as follows: Highwa, } $9083; highways in borough, $280C |. bridges, $2263; aims house, $2787 ! outside aims, $1143; insane and in } beetle poor. $117O; assessing and co