The Press., 1915-10-27

at the parsonage Tuesday afternoon a
 8 o'clock. -
 The next meeting of the W. O. U
 will be held at the Baptist church
 Stafford, next Wednesday at p. m.
 with Mrs. Marc Hatch in charge. At the regular meeting of Bake
 chapter, Eastern Star this evening
 there will be work followed by re
 treatments. The chapter will also entertain Hope chapter of Rockville l There will be a Halloween social and dance at Society hall Friday evening of this week given by Ions Council, Degree of Pocahontas Woods orchestra will furnish music, and tickets will be 25 cents.
 There will be a meeting at the Current Events club rooms Thursday at ?. 30 p. m., to continue work on the surgical dressings. All who are interested, whether club members or not, are invited to help in the work. Old materials are needed as before.
 Alfred Bernardo, Jr., who has been in the Johnson hospital for the past two months, is convalescing from the effects of an operation one week ago Sunday. This is the second operation necessary since the little fellow went to the hospital, and it is now thought that he will make a recovery.
 The public is invited to the dedica- tion service of the new window in memory of Mrs. Catherine Ives Hicks in Grace church, Sunday afternoon at B o'clock. There will be special music and an address by Rev. w. JS Brewster, Archdeacon of Hartford The annual meetings of the Women's Guild and Women's Auxiliary will be held Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Cham berlin at 3 o'clock. The Girls Friendly society will hold a Halloween party in the guild room on Thursday evening.
 A mock trial, breach of promise case, in which a prominent citizen is charged with trifiing with a widow s affections will be held in Comique hall on Tuesday evening, Nov. 9, under the aupsices of Myriad Rebekah lodge, for whose benefit the proceeds will be devoted. It promises to be one of the most enjoyable affairs of many years. as large number of our leading people will participate in the proceedings. The committee having the trial in charge have engaged Col. A. V. Newton, the we'll known lawyer lecturer of Worcester to attend to the details and personally conduct tl,e entertainment Col. Newton has had remark able success in conducting similar entertainments.
 The Italian benefit society and the Italian club have united and the officers of the organizations have also anlalgamated. Sunday there was hig dinner and social at the Italian hall in honor of the amalgamation and the general progress of the local Italians. Stafford has welcomed these citizens from across the water and has had no reason to regret it. They are thrifty and law abiding and show Il dispos ition to work along the best line of American endeavor. As the years roll by and the artistic genius of the race has 8 chance to express itself the Italian element in this town will be an important factor in the development of the town along artistic lines. Already they have very oreditable band organization. This band gave a free concert at the recent fair and their program was very we'll received. For the time they have put in remarkable progress has been made and eventually we shall have a local band to be proud of The banquet last Sunday was arranged by committee including Miss Mary Maggie, Miss Rena Serafin, Miss Flora Pallanck, Miss Canestrari and Mrs. Aruelio Pradell This committee also had charge of the decorations which exoelled all previous efforts The band played from n to 12 and from 1 to 3. Over 160 sat down to dinner. President Galoto acted as toastmaster and was at the center table with the committee, two invited guests and A fired Bernardo, prominent in the organization. The dinner re- oeived many compliments. It was under the direction of Mrs. Fabiano Pallanck, who has had important ex- perience in this line in the old country as we'll us here. Taken altogether the event was a very decided success.