The Press., 1921-03-10
HOME NEWS
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Nelo Tisiani is in the Palmer hos pital recovering from an operation for tonsilitis.
 Jeremiah Shea and sister, Miss Mary, of Providence visited friends and relatives in town during last week.
 Anthony Ostrowski and family. at one time residents in the borough have returned from Medway. Mass. and are now living on West Main street.
 The River street bridge is Icing reinforced ty the Rockville & Willi- mantle Lighting company in prepara- tion for the moving of three genera tors to be installed at the local power station. The generators weigh 10000 pounds apiece and when installed will enable the local power station to carry an electrical current of 66,000 volts. The officials of the company after figuring the carrying capacity of the bridge structure arrived in town on Tuesday with a loat and piles and mmI CT. The fridge now resembles a pier and is the only dock on the Willimantic river north of Norwich.
 Resting under the assertion that Stafford and Holland will not miss what they never had, the house of representatives rejected the bill in troduced by representive Fuller of Holland proposing a trunk line high way from Holland to end in West Stafford. The estimated cost of the road was between $325,000 and $715,- 0O9. The cause of the failure of the bill is laid to the present financial condition of the state treasury. To begin its course the proposition met with the disfavor of the committee on road, bridges and rivers because of the large cost. Opinion in Stafford, Rockville and Holland was heartily in favor of the road The highway would nr2bably have touched at Crystal Lake Md greatly increased the popularity H the resort. ~
 Anticipation runs high among the senior class members as the day of departure comes nearer. The actual l start of the Washington trip is now two weeks distant All talk | among the members centers on the coming tour. Several of the senior boys actually admit that they have not spent a cent for two months and | further that they will not invest a sin gle copper until the actual start is made. Among the girls, ' clothes for | the trip that will be appropriate in | our capitol city and in New York and | Philadelphia and at the same time meet the exacting requirements of the various tastes of the wearers is the paramount topic. The trip is to begin on the boat train with relatives and friends and the under classes watching the start and all wishing they were going, particularly the un- der clasSmen. The class will arrive in New York the following morning where breakfast and lunch will prob ably be secured and then across the harbor to the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road terminal and then to Philadel- phia where the interesting and in structiVe part of that city will be viewed and after that back to the Broad street station and on to Wash ington. The Metropolitan hotel will be the host of the class while in the city. Arlington cemetery is on the itinerary with the capitol building, the white house, the various museums and libraries and a boat trip on the Potomac to Mount Vernon the home of Washington. The trip also includes a short stay in New York on the re- turning end of the journey, with an evening at the Hippodrome and prob ably visit to the aquarium and to Grants tomb. In New York the class will be joined by Miss FrancesNewton who will make the remainder of the trip to Washington. The class will be chaperoned by Miss Elva Gilman and AnsOn B. Handy.