The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-03-15
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Miss Elsie Grundy has taken a
position with Miss Beokwith, the
Amilliner.
The Hospital Aid society will hold
it's regular monthly meeting next
Tuesday afternoon at 2. 80.
There will be meeting for work
on Surgical Dressings at Current
Events club rooms Thursday at 2.3O.
Adrian Rock of Boston, who at one
time conducted a moving picture
theatre here, was a visitor here last
week.
Daniel Sullivan returned Thursday
from the Hartford hospital where he
had been under treatment for several
weeks.
Rev. @. H. Puffer will be the
preacher at the Lenten service at the
Congregational church on Thursday
evening Il.
At the regular meeting of Onneoo
Tribe. I. O r M, tomorrow even
ing in Red Mems hall adoption de-
gree will be worked. =.
Miss Mayme Girard underwent an
operation for appendicitis in the
johnson hospital Wednesday. She is
making good recovery.
Miss Emma Pasqualani and Aldo
Peloni were married at II O'Clock
Saturday morning by Justice of the
Peace Robert Fl. Fisk.
The annual meeting of the Stafford
Golf company will be held at the
rooms of the Stafford Business Mems
association next Tuesday evening at
8 O'Clock.
Baker Chapter will entertain the
officers of the Grand Chapter next
week Wednesday evening. Supper
will be served at the Congregational
chapel at 80 p. m. Tickets may
be obtained of Miss W. s. A dams.
The preacher at the Thursday even.
ing service at Grace church this week
will be g. Irvine Hitler of the Berkeley
divinity school, who will tell of his
experiences in mission work among
the mountain people of eastern Ten
nessee. Mr.. Hitler will also address
the Woman's Auxiliary in the after
noon at the home of Mrs Chamberlin.
Sport followers in Monson seem to
think that they can sit back and
throw ont REPUTABLE statements about
the prowess of their athletics with
out stirring an opposition wave from
Stafford sporting fraternity. They
are wrong In the coming basketball
clash here on March Oath Monson
accepts as certainty and boldly de-
clares that it will jitney back possessed
of the "win" branded bacon. Well,
there's many a miss 'twixt the floor
and the net draped hoop, as will be
most forcefully conveyed to the minds
of the Monsonites when they stack
up against the local quintet. But
we do not stress on this brag. Not
at all. What causes us to take ground
and wage wordy battle is embraced
in their assertions concerning their
accomplishments on the diamond and
gridiron. 1t is admitted that they
did chuck one over in the pigskin
game, but get this, the result was by
a lone touchdown margin with Staf-
ford mill boys facing a team COM
posed to the extent of being lop.sided
of Monson academy players, who,
needless to set down, enjoyed pro.
fessional coach training, while the
local eleven had picked up the game
all by their lonesomes. But to get at
baseball, objection must be lodged
against the assertion that Monson
holds supremacy over Stafford on the
diamond. 1t certainly must. A series
of games was arranged last summer
between the local nine and Monson
nine. Stafford took the series accord.
ing to Hoyle, but dispute was showed
to the front by Monson over techni-
oalites Of the last game Once again
was Stafford's ne'er unsullied sports
nanship thrown into harvest moon
prominence by the according to Mon
son of zone more chance which,
to say, it turned into
win. Stafford had cleaned up by right
though. Monson wants to make it
q cleanup for the year in sports. !"
Why didn't its hockey team show
here for this scheduled game with che
athletic association septet? Honest,
we are tempted to statistically re-
hearse games Of the old Bi.State
league, when Stafford wiped
Blue penciled by the editor. Why
heap salt on raw places ~