The Press., 1911-05-03
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Miss Minnie O'Halloran has rR sumed her duties as bock-k5eper at th c. H. Bsksr 6 Go. store after an en forced absence of several wes ks. 0wini to the serious Illness of her mt CT Mrs. O'Halloran-
 Joseph w. Walsh wa3 before th' borough cont Monday, charged witt drunkenness There were extsnuatiDl circumstances and Mir. WslIh wa: fined one dollar. On a similr charge Charles Fisher paid fiue of one dol lar. Deputy Judge C'Jonn,ll pre- sided at the session of court
 The Stafford high school base b Il team was defeated last Saturday by Connecticut Agricultural coll ge sec ond team in a very olcss game, tho score being tied until the ninth, bnt the college boys managed to get 6 ran In the ninth. The features o1 the game were the pitching of Sikwicl and the base running of Gilman.
 Next Sunday morning at the Methodist Episcopal church the regu lar bi-monthly communion service will be observed. The pastor, Dr l.. G. Horton, will make an address and new members will be received. h the evening Dr. Horton will begin g series of sermons to young people, tc continue through the month. The topic cf the first sermon will be "Life's May-time. !"
 The annual May festival at the Methodist church will bs held next week Wednesday. A chickan-pie dinner will be served from 5 to 73O o'clock. There will be the usual sales of fancy articles, homemade candy, flowers and ice oream From 6 80 to 7.30 an opportunity will b9 given to greet the new pastor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs Lyman G. Hor. ton. The entertainment, at 2 45. will be given by the Treble quartet of Hartford-Miss Helen Lester, first soprano; Miss Mabel Lester, second soprano; Mrs. Grace Knox Chapman, first alto; Mrs Winnie Merrill Davis, second alto; Miss Alice Knox, accom- panist. The quartet will be assisted by Miss Mary O. Wilcox, reader. Prices: Dinner, including entertain ment, 35c; entertainment alone, 25c
 Edward P Weloh, 6S, died sudden ly at the soldiers home at Noroton last Friday of heart disease. He is sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. Nettie I Campbell of Crystal Lsks and a son, Wilbur H Welch of Berlin Mir. Welch was a we'll known local char aoter and had resided here for years. He was a Grand Army man, @ mem ber of the 18th regiment, Conn. Vol unteers. He saw three years of ser. vice and had an honorable record He was in the battle of Fredericksburg and participated in the aotivitieE around NeWburne. In the battle oi Kenston in 1865 he was captured and was sent to Libby prison for 8 short time The funeral was held from the Congregational church Tuesday after noon ats2 o'clock. and the burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 Miss Grace Jeal, 26, who will be remembered locally as an employe oi George l.. Dennis and at the Springs House. died in New Haven Sunday under very sad circumstances. Miss Jeal left here and studied to ba 8 nurse. Her training took all her money, and she was in debt when she graduated. While waiting for em- ployment she ran into debt farther, and in despair took 6 case of scarlet fever at the poorer quarter of the eity. Poorly nourished, she con- traesed the disease and died. Without relatives or means. her body wal about 60 be turned over to the Yale medical society for dissection, when the nurses of New Haven. who knew her story, contributed from theiI slender means for her int>rment iu Evergreen cemetery st New Haven.
 The WArrens defeated the Rhode Is. lands last evening by 69 pins, and also raised their total 10 pins, rolling 1347, which is the alley record fol a local match. Wilcox's total of 28E and DaDalt's single of 1O6 were higf marks for the night. The two teami now stand tied, each team having twC games to their credit.
 Warran