The Press., 1916-02-16

with grocery and meat market
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Crane OF
Springfield were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Morse over Sunday.
Mrs Charles Fox has gone to St
Augustine, Fla, for the remainder OF
the winter. She left here Monday.
= John Garten, formerly of Oreutt.
Vile, has gone to the town home in
West Stafford for the rest of the
winter.
Something like 16 young friends of
Miss Alice Ward gave her surprise
party at her home in Tolland Friday
evening.
The town relay team will compete
against the Rock willie relay four, Mon
day, in Hartford at the Naval athletic
meet to be held there.
A chioken.pie supper will be served
by the Ladies' Aid society of the
Congregational church on Tuesday
from 5. 80 to z O'Clock. Price, 30
CENTS
According to the mathematician,
yesterdays temperature averaged Is
to % below Zero This morning the
mercury journeyed down to an average
of 4 below.
The town board of relief will be
in session at borough hall next Mon
day from 8 a. m. to 4 p. M, for the
last hearing of appeals from the work
of the assessors
The s. Y. M. o.. juniors will be
the attraction at Stafford Hollow
Saturday afternoon when they meet
the Pinney grammar school five for
the second game of the series.
The s. Y. M. o. quintet meets tile
Independents for the second game of
the series this evening. At half-time
intermission there will be a three
round boxing go between Peter
Reynolds and David Shepherd.
Mrs. Elvira G. Lamb of Rockwell
Hill was given postal shower in
honor of her seventy second birth
day, yesterday, she receiving 121
cards, also large bouquet of flowers
and a number of other presents.
Lumber has been hauled and snow
was cleared away this morning near
the site of the shortly to be erected
new worsted mill for the purpose of
building a general work shop that
will be used in putting the mill
construction material in shape.
The Stafford Athletic association
hockey team went to New Haven
Monday and held the fast Yale fresh
men septet to FIVE points The locals
were unable to negotiate the Yale |
cage Stafford will try and trim the
Travellers Insurance seven in Hartford |
afternoon.
The rural mail route No. 3 was
changed to-day. The extension leaves
the old route at Lincoln's Corner,
going from there to Westford Hill and |
Sand Hill back TO Westford village,
an added distance of two and two
tentbs miles The present route by
this change covers twenty seven and
'wo-tenths miles.
Pinney grammar schools hest bet
Is basketball representative couldn t
AXE the measure of the 8. Y. M. @.
uniors Saturday afternoon at the
ocal club, losing out 5 to 2. Line up:
s. Y NJ. O. Pinuey G.
.. Pallanck, re- If, Cunningham
J. Irons, lg IF, Webster
R. Whitaker, G, Dobson
". Taylor, IF lg, Pagan
R. Fitzpatrick, If re, Glover
Score s. Y. M. @. 5. Pinney
grammar 2; baskets from floor,
Whitaker 2, Cunningham ! baskets
IN free tries, Whitaker /; time, TO-
minute halves; referee, w. Kuslansky.
The s. Y. M. @. took the first game
Of the series from the Independents
last Wednesday evening on the Young
Mems club surface 10 to 13. Eddy
Green starred. Lineup:
sly. M. O. Independents.
Leturey, rg Ii, T. Mullins
IF liz, B Mullins
8. Wise, G c, F. Wormsted
W. Eaton, lg IF, E. Green
If re-. Turschman
Scores. Y.M.C. IS, Independents
ID; baskets from floor, E. Green 5,
B. Mullins Wormsted 2, Lougheed
3, Wise 2, Eaton baskets on free
;ries. Wormsted 2, Leturey 2, Loug.
need L; time, Commute halves.
New York and Hartford papers are
giving quite a little space lately to
developments in the case of DR. j.
Grant Lyman, otherwise known as
John II. Putnam, who is the central
igure in a mail swindle that totals
Up around $500, 600. 1t is of local
interest in that his assistant, Louis
rhornet is probably the same Thornet
who formerly lived here, who worked
n the shipping department of the
Rhode Island mill before going to
New York to become affiliated with
Dr.. Lyman in brokerage firm that
vas raided last Thursday by post
'ffice inspectors. Mr.. Thornet "came
through" with enough information
o satisfy the officers. He was taken
o the police station and is held in
40, 900 bail. DR.. Lyman was not
n his office at the time of the raid
ind is at present q fugitive from
ustice.
CUMMY'S COLYUM.
The handspring is back in the
ocal athletic associations working
Huh?
SENIORS SAY: |,
Beyond the hills in silhouette, Wash
ington lies, |,
n a month oh 7 will feast INV oyos 6