The Press., 1916-05-17

Juan Brown, Jr., broke jail {
 Holland yesterday morning.
 A benefit dance will be given Satul
 day evening in the Italian -Tiroles
 sooiety's hall.
 The formal opening of the Oountr
 club will take place on Saturday
 May 27. There will be golf match
 MT. and Mrs. George Smith an
 family of Springfield spent Sunda
 here with MT. and Mrs. Miohae Mullins.
 Bernard Hanley has taken a posi- tion with the Travellers Insurano company in Hartford. He went t work Monday. ,@
 MT. and Mrs. O. F. Beckwith am daughter, Charlotte, and Miss G. s Beckwith are attending the Burbank Clark wedding at Longmeadow to-day
 Leo vanesse and Eddie Dickmal came from Jefferson. Mass. on thei motorcycles Sunday to see their uncle Napoleon Vezie and family, an' returned home Monday. .+--.
 There will be a meeting of tli' Ladies' Aid society at the Congre gational chapel at 3.3O o'clock Fri day afternoon. Important bushes requires large attendance. n7 e
 A number of motor looms are t be installed shortly in the Johnson mill. They have been ordered, bu with regard to the ship ment of freight makes it question as to just when they will arrive. -,s.
 The Italian band fair in St. Ed. wards hall Friday and Saturda } evenings takes its place as one of the most successful ever conducted il this town. The Italians scored { double success their fair was sooia. and financial triumph. In all $692 was taken in. The hall was crowded both evenings, especially Saturday evening, when it was found necessary to refuse admittance to many on account of lack of room. The enter tainment and diversion provided was of high order. The concert each even. ing, embracing light selections, drew out much applause while the tableaHz and the song American Patrol" by the girls added greatly to the inn pression created by the fine work of the band. The parade each evening from Haymarket Square to the hall by the uniformed members of the band made hit. Oini's orchestra furnished excellent music both eyen- ings for the dancing which was in by many. The booths, presided over by attractive girls, did great business.
 Albert H. Simonds, 72 years old. lied at II o'clock Thursday forenoon in the soldiers home in Noroton where he had been but a short time. Mr. Sinonds was born May 22, 1S44 in Oollinsville. For many years he was a resident of this borough and of Stafford Hollow. In 1875 he came lere and purchased the job printing department of The Press which he ,onduoted for 8 number of years, elling out to H. O. Mclaughlin. Later he moved to Stafford Hollow where he was employed for time IS carriage trimmer in the Wight. nan shop. At one time he had osition as messenger in the patent flee at Washington. His brother. ormer Congressman Edgar Simonds, 7as then the commissioner of patents. While residing at the Hollow from S95 to 1907 he was employed as in The Press office. His 7ife, who died in 1905, conducted
 millinery store here for number f years and later at Stafford Hollow. About 1907 Mir Simond went to Hartford, where he was employed in Iifferent printing offices up to nearly he time he entered the soldiers nome. MT. Simonds was at one time of Winter Post, G. A. R. if this place, and was active in it's york. His funeral took place at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Baker undertaking rooms, Rev. L. aees officiating. Burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery. Members if Winter Post were the bearers. He eft no near relatives. MT. Simonds vas a veteran of the Civil war. He unlisted as a private in Go. B, 1st Regiment of Conn. Heavy Artillery. day 22, 1861, at Hartford. He left he state with his regiment on June 9th to join the command under Gen. Patterson at Chambersburg, Pa. He vas in number of lively skirmishes nd in several important battles He vas in the campaign of Gen. Mcclellan rom Gold Harbor to Harrison Land ng on the James River, was in the 'attles of Malbern Hill where he was wounded, Fredericksburg, Chanoellors- lille, the siege of Petersburg and was n the artillery reserve of the Army if the Potomac. He was mustered ut June 10, 1864 at Bermuda Hun- lred, his enlistment term of three 'ears having expired.