The Press., 1921-07-21
STAFFORD SPRINGS

AlllDranQl, FlCClu & CO.S nave PuA chased new horse.
 George Simonds of Baltic was { visitor in town over Sunday.
 Miss Marion Jones of Springfield visited in town over the weekend.
 A. w. Tuthin of The Press office is in Brooklyn, N. Y, for a vacation.
 Richard Whitaker is spending z weeks vacation in New London.
 Herman Rawister, IT,, of New York has been visiting friends in town. l MT. and Mrs. John D. Lee and son John, are spending the week in Mystic
 William Rafferty of Philadelphia visited friends in town over the week end.
 Frank Cardinal of New Haven spent the latter part of, the week visiting in town.
 Mrs. John Sullivan of Cambridge, Mass, was a visitor in the borough over Sunday.
 Daniel Phair of Boston spent Sat urday and Sunday renewing old ac- quaintances here.
 Walter Gildersleeve of Hartford is spending his vacation at N. O. Wards place in Buff Cap.
 Miss Doris Parkhurst is spending two weeks vacation at Pleasant View, New London. =. y, ; Arthur Taylor of Springfield spent the weekend visiting with his parents on West Main street.
 Walter Hanley of Hartford was in town on Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives and friends.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert Siswick of Springfield were weekend visitors at the Stevent home on High street.
 Bartholomew Mullins, IT,, left last week to receive treatment in govern ment hospital in Perryville, Maryland.
 Alfred Palshaw has returned to his home on High street after spending a six months period in the United States army.
 Joseph Brooks and Frank Briganti were here from New York to spend the weekend at the home of MT. and Mrs. Peter FigOne.,
 MT. and Mrs. c. G. Gilligan with their daughters, Josephine and Cor rine,, left on Sunday for an extended visit to Block Island.
 George Gary has laid the foundation stakes for two new cottages on the east side of the Hollow road next to the residence recently erected by A. B. Handy.
 The Misses Molly Kuslansky and Nettie Snyder of Hartford and Miss Mary Rourke of Pennington were weekend visitors at the Kuslansky cottage at Crystal Lake.
 r operated upon for appendicitis last is recovering and is expected to re- turn. home in about week.
 The vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Edward Shea in the local American Express office is being filled by John Dupre. The vacancy caused by the resignation of William La brache in the same office is being Oc- cupied by T. R. Gillingham. During the winter sum of money was set aside by the Stafford Fair as sociation to be used this summer for improvements on the fair grounds. Plans are now under way and the contract for the construction of a new horse barn of steel frame has been let to the Berlin Iron Works. Another addition under consideration is the installation of bleachers direct ly in front of the grand stand. For the past few years this space has been used for standing room. Plans are in the works for the adding of 500 seats.
 Mrs. John T. Siswick died last week Wednesday at her home in Hope Val ley, following an illness of several months Mrs. Siswick- was born in Greeneville in March 1874, the daugh- ter of Elizabeth and William Boyce.
 She has been a resident of Hope Val I ley for the past 12 years. She leaves her husband, one son, one daughter, an aged mother and one brother. Blu rial was in the family lot in Norwich on Saturday. MT. and Mrs. Siswick lived in Stafford Springs for several years.
 A party. composed largely of young men, but sprinkled here and there with men of more mature age, en- | joyed a pleasant outing at Ocean Beach on Sunday. The trip was made in a large truck holding thirty per- sons, and because of the fine roads between Stafford and New London the going was easy. After spending the day at the beach the party re- turned home tired but all expressive of the joys of the trip. The one time popular excursions that were annual popular holidays in the town, are fast being replaced by motor trips to the beaches. A surprisingly large number of local young men are planning to attend 1 the training camp at Devens Massach- usetts during the month of August The training that they will receive will be without further obligation to the government and many valuable lessons can be learned that will be assets in civilian life as we'll as a valuable addition to the army of the | country. Allowances are made for 1 the physical condition of entering young men. The younger boys are not expected to undergo as rigid a training as the older ones The camp is really three camps classified under the Red camp for absolute rockies who have had no experience in lnili- tary procedure and whose age is un- der the requirements for the other camps. The White camp is for men who have had some experience while the Blue camp is an officers. reserve training school. Application may be rendered for entering the camp until the first of August.
 Reports from the Hartford hospital as to the condition of Tony Constantin, who was injured by an explosion of cannon on the Fourth of July, indi- cate to the delight of his local friends that the amputation of his leg, as at