The Press., 1904-06-08
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

 cents hundred extra.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Miss Eugenia. Lee is home from Vassar fer.ths summer vacation.
 Miss Hazel Butterfield is in New York city for visit with Miss Ida Mcguire.
 Mrs. M. J. Hassett and daughter are at Lsominster, the guests of Mrs. Hassett's parents.
 Mir and Mrs. Henry A. Coe of New York, with party of friends, stopped at the Springs House Friday night. The party are enjoying 8 coaching trip in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
 s. F. Peass was elected grand worthy usher at the forty fifth annual session of the Grand Temple of Honor at Hartford last week. Harmony Temple of this town, with IF mem- bers, has the largest membership in the state.
 Miss Mary Mullens, who has resign ed her position at Robertson's, will go to Millbury, Mass, with her mother, where they will make their home after June goth. Mir. and Mrs. Cornelius Donovan will also make their home at Millbury.
 Henry Cini, who has been travel ing salesman for the Acunio company of Providence, has resigned his posi- in Naxxy London, where he will also act as agent for the various transatlantic steamship companies. Mrs. Cini of this town will go with her husband to New London, where they will com- mence housekeeping.
 The local team will play ball Sat urday with the Somersvilles. The visitors will bring a strong team with ed. The teams that have been here thus far have proved easy for the local aggregation, and the Somersvilles are expected to prove more difficult. The Indian Orchards will be with us the 25th and, and a warm game may be expected on that date. Battery for Staffords, Sullivan and Quinley, for Somersville, Ferguson and White.
 High School Notes. May 3Oth, the high school ball team play ed the Invincible athletic club of this town. The high schools playing was very poor, they making many errors. Houseman, the opposing pitcher, was hit hard throughout the game, while Converse had the I. A. C's at his mercy, excepting the first and last innings. Score by innings:-
 s. H. S., ? O 1 O 1-12 l. A. O., 800 OOOO DO A. 8 Last Saturday the high school ball team played Rockville high school on the campus, and were defeated in slow game full of s. H. s. s errors. Converse, the local pitcher, struck out ten men; Leonard, the Rockville pitcher, struck out five. The score by innings
 R. H. S., OOO 4 4 6 1 ? O-17I s. H. S., 4 21O2 % O-1O Next Saturday the ball team will go to Rockville, accompanied by bus load of rooters, and they expect to make a better showing.-The high school are planning to hold their picnic on Saturday, June 18th.
 Mrs. Fanny woodbury Dawes. sS. widow of the late Daniel Fairman, died last Saturday afternoon at the home of her daughter. Mrs. J. M. Leach. The cause of her death was a stroke of apoplexy sustained last week Monday. Mrs. Fairman was born in Cummington, but came to this town in 1S4S with her husband. Previous to making her home with her daughter on Edgewood she resided at the Hollow, where she was active in church work and the social life of daughter, Mrs. Leach, & daughter in Hartford, Mrs. M. R. West. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from her late home. Rev. E. A. Burnham of the Congregational church, Rev. J. P. Marvin of the Universalist church at Stafford, of which church Mrs. Fairman was the oldest member. and Rev. O. H. Puffer of Salem, Mass, a friend of the fami- ly, participated in the services. In- clnded in MT. Puffer's prayer were tributes to the Christian character of the deceased and to the memory of her husband. which proved a very effective feature of the service. There were many beautiful floral tributes. The bearers were Cyril Johnson, Miner Fairman, Adin Alden and E. l.. Burr. The committal prayer at the Stafford Springs cemetery was by Rev. O. H. Puffer. Among the out-of- town friends present were MT. and Mrs. Adin Alden. Mrs. NJ. J. Leach and Mrs. Erastus Loud of Springfield, Mrs. Fl. M. Bancroft of Warehouse Point. Mrs. Talmadge of Boston and Rev. Charles Puffer of Salem, Mass.
 June 14th is the 127th birthday of the United States flag. Allan O. Bakewell, chief aide to the command er-in-chief of the G. A. R., says: "There is perhaps no inanimate ob- ject on the face of the globe, with more impressive life, than the flag of our country. It seems to be eloquent in an universal language all may un- derstand. When it spreads its folds of red, white and blue, rippling in sunlight, it betokens victory, dig nifty. joy, power and command; when it droops it symbols compassion and sorrow. After ten years of earnest endeayor the several states have en- acted laws providing for the display of the flag over the school-houses where patriotism reigns. Under it millions of children, who will gov