The Press., 1920-03-11
STAFFORD SPRINGS

| it's regular meeting Monday evening g The lecture promised for Monday | evening will be given the following | Monday.
 Owing to unavoidable circumstances
 the A. O. H., has decided to postpone 1 the play, which was to be given Marcf IT, till some time after lent This play has been an annual event fol l! ears past and has usually been looked upon as the big entertainment during the lenten season. The delay in put ting it on will most likely add to the pleasure to be derived from seeing it part time in which to better rehearse their parts.
 One of the worst blizzards since 1888" is what Saturdays storm has teen called. The storm started on Friday night with a hard rain, soon turning into snow, accompanied with a terrible wind, which continued for nearly twenty-four hours after the snow ceased to fall. The trains and trollies did not recover from the shock of it till Tuesday morning. The trollies quit running at noon Saturday and did not resume their schedule till Tuesday morning. Ice along the tracks, in many cases six inches thick, prevented the trains from run ming. Some tried to get through but could not. The condition was added to when a freight left the irons near State line Sunday morning. Trains reached Stafford from New London Monday morning and continued to State line where an exchange of pas and baggage was made Du- ring the afternoon the freight was put back on the rails so that the trains were able to run on time Tues day morning. A number of the milk men of the town did not venture out Saturday-a good proof of the sever lty of the weather since the milkmen are looked upon as about the hardest of outdoor men. Fred Sanger, the mailman however had little fear of the elements and made three trips be- tween the Springs and the Hollow on Saturday. For the first two he had
 
 sometime chopping yards of snow and ice. On the third trip his machine stalled and had to be lowed in by Jeremiah Armstrong. Mr. Sanger was undaunted, however, and deliver ed much of his mail on foot during the afternoon. His machine bore some of the marks of the battle as late as yesterday afternoon. Such men as MT. Sanger are not often found. Certainly he deserves a word of praise.
 Votes for $125,OOO School Building.
 At Monday evenings town meeting held in Comique theater it was voted to build a new grammar school to relieve the present overcrowded and, in some cases dangerous conditions in the Springs grammar and high schools. The plan, proposed by the committee and accepted at the meet ing, locates the new building in the rear of the present building. The present building will be remodeled to suit the needs of high school. The estimated cost of the improvements and the erection of the new building is $125, ,000. The committee also recommended that a special meeting be held before the 22nd of this month and bonds be issued to the amount of $125, ,000 to be taken up in 25 years, $5,000 a year The report of the committee appointed to look into the matter of present school de Ixy Vo1~ chairman of the committed He also read an abstract from letter written to the committee by E. c. Gardner, an architect of Springfield Mr. Gardner believed that a new grammar school would be the proper means of solving the present conditions. The lot to the west of the Rafferty house on Center street had been mentioned as a prob able site, but the architect favored build ing on the land in the rear of the present high school building. He thought that the grading on the center street site would be costly aud if building was erected there it would be so exposed that a large amount of fuel would be needed to heat it. MT. Valentine said that the committee had looked over the present building and found things to be in the condition described by the former committed He said that they went to Springfield and were shown through the different schools there and thought Stafford's children should have a building as good as those in Springfield so they secured facts and figures from an ar chltect who was regarded as one of the Lest in that city. MT. Valentine said the committee believed that the present cost of building material would change very little within the next two years or more and that Staff ford could not afford to wait that long tecause it would be dangerous for Stafford's children. The committee hadottained figures and believed that $125,OOO would cover the cost of build ing a new grammar school, with nine rooms, including an assembly hall and remodeling the present building. Following the reading of the report a motion was made by Hannibal Alden that the report of the committee be accepted and a new grammar school be tuilt on property adjacent to the present high school building, the cost of said grammar school not to exceed $125,0O0. This was voted upon and passed and onother motion was made by B. P. Cooley that a town meeting be called before March 22, 1920 to have the town appropriate $125,OO for school needs and issue a bond. This motion also was voted upon and pass ed in short order Contrary to most expectations there was very little dis cussion at this meeting. No one spoke against the passage of any of the m0t1OnS