The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1916-03-08

Ernest Royce of Somersworth, N
H., was home Sunday.
Miss Edith Cushman spent Sunday
at her home in Wellington.
Raymond Tsohummi passed Sunday
at his home in Broad Brook.
Ash Wednesday services are held
to day at ST. Edwards church.
Miss Maude Rees of Monson was {
recent guest of Miss Gertrude Pease
Miss Anna Wenzke of Rockville
was the guest last week of Miss Nellie
Yare.
Mrs. John Smiledge has returned
to her home from the johnson hos
pital. SD.
Miss Mary Hanley is visiting heI
sister, Mrs John Harrigan, in Terry
Vile.
Thomas Burke of Yale art school
was the guest Sunday of Richard
Valentine.
Supper will he served by the Ladies'
Aid society of the Congregational
church this evening.
Miss Katherine Cushman of Wilt
mantle was the week end guest OF
Miss Cecilia Fitzpatrick.
The annual meeting of the Stafford
Golf Co. will be held at the rooms of
the Stafford Business Mems assooia-
tion Tuesday, the 2lst.
Subject for the Current Events club
Monday evening will be Current
Events. A ladies' quartet will sing.
Committee: Miss NJ T. Russell, Mrs.
E. @. Matthews and Mrs. H. Alden.
Hostesses: Mrs. G. Peroival Bard and
Mrs. ]. Carl Converse.
Friends of Miss Virginia, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. Fl. Valentine
will be pleased to learn that she was
highest girl in the baby show which
has just been held in Miami, Fla
She was accredited 9s4 points out of
a possible 1000. The nearest approach
was 972.
Judge William FL. Heald will sail
from New York Saturday noon ON
the steamship 'Tenadores of the
Great White Fleet for a 24-days'
cruise. He will visit Havana,
Santiago, Jamioa, Panama aud Porto
Rico. Mr.. Heald will be accompanied
by Arthur E. Bowers of Manchester
A basketball team composed of
Monson athletics under the manage
ment of Edward Hanley of that place
will meet the S Y. NJ @ first team
here on the evening of March "a.
A recent Monson assertion was that
they had trimmed Stafford at baseball
and football and believed they could
do likewise in basketball. Stafford
sport followers say they can't. The
coming clash will decide.
1t is but re-stating an oft heard
remark to say that this place is sorely
in need of tenements, a situation,
incidentally, that will be further
aggravated when the new worsted
mill is completed and job-seekers pour
into town in search of homes 1t is
within the power of lot owners with
money to BULL and of others possessed
OF. the wherewithal to alleviate the
situation. Admitting that the cost
Of building materials is high, it is
fact that the returns to
the landlords would be Immediate
Looking at the matter in a broader
tense, it probably should be taken for
granted that there are people in town
enough interested in the growth of
the place to take a chance when the
of loss seems to be 50
remote.
On account of delay in receiving his
stock of goods, Edward O. DeBorde's
opening of his new jewelry
and optical store in the Converse
block, announced for Friday was
delayed until the evening. There
were many visitors in the evening
and each woman was presented with
u pink and each man with a cigar
The store, which has been much
changed, was decorated with cut
flowers and palms. Mr.. DeBorde now
couples the whole store, one half of
which is devoted to his optical bust
ness and the other half to the jewelry
and repair department.. The show
windows have been changed over so
as to give a better display of his
goods, and new electrical and other
fixtures have been added, making
very neat store and especially we'll