The Press., 1917-05-10
sTAFFoRD SPRINGS.

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 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 F. W. Bates of Stafford Street has given up his milk business.
 Miss Dorothy Ashe is in the Hart. for hospital for an operation for tonsils and adenoids.
 Mrs. Charles Fox is again at her home, having spent the winter at the Highland Court hotel, Hartford.
 Myriad Rebekah lodge, L o. O F., will hold a social and dance on Friday evening, the 25th. Admission, 25 cents.
 After selling meat on route for twenty three years. John W. SChofield has discontinued this business and is devoting his time to working his farm on Westford avenue.
 The second team of the bowling alleys will bowl against the second team of the Willimantic alleys next Tuesday evening. This is the deciding game, each team having won one game.
 Fred Wildey went to Willsboro, N. Y, Friday and accompanied Mrs. WiIdey home the first of the week. The latter has been a guest of their daughter, Mrs. Phillip Barton, for two weeks. --. -
 Robert Roy Desloge, age l 2 months, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Deslogs, died Saturday of tuberoular meningitis after a sickness of a month. The burial was Monday at 9 a. m. in St. Edwards cemetery.
 Two members by transfer and six by confession of faith united with the Congregational church last Sunday. "The new commandment of love" was the subject of Rev. l.. Rees's able ser mon and communion followed.
 The canal to the former Faulkner mill, with a Hume 19 feet in width, supplied liberal amount of water to run a Bradway wheel delivering 12Of horse power with ample tail race. Now find less than half the power, under present conditions. What ia the reason? Frederic Faulkner.
 The l.. A. and A. 0. H. held a whist and social at their hall Saturday evening. First prizes for the whist went to Miss Mary Gilbert and Ed ward Mullins, while the consolation prizes were given to Miss Alma Riester and Daniel Sullivan. An invitation WAS extended to members of company K, several of whom attended. Re- treatments were served and all reported an enjoyable evening.
 There are 8 number of small boys who are shooting birds with air rifles. They do not conflne themselves to English sparrows, but kill all kinds of song birds whenever the opportunity offers itself. Many complaints have been made against this and the boys have been warned many times by people of the town. This killing of song birds is not only serious thing in itself, as far as the law goes, but it is wasteful destruction to natural beauty, and the boy who does it ought to be punished. Their motive is evidently nothing but that old desire to use a plaything which has been put in their hands and they are selfish enough to use it to the disadvantage of everybody and the law. If an example were made of some of them it might have the effect of stopping them frOm this outrage.
 The third annual concert of the Stafford Choral Union was given Thursday evening at the Comique theatre before large audience. There were sixty seven in the splendidly drilled chorus which A. E. Waite conducted and for which Miss Alberta L. Eatonskillfully played. The general opinion seems-to be that this is the best program the union has produced. At any rate the miscellaneous selections, rather than an entire work, proved very popular. During the singing of the first number, The Star Spangled Banner" flag appropriate | ly waved with the aid of an electric fan. The Serenade from Goddard < Jocelyn with tenor obligato by Luther A. White of Rockville was very pleasing, and Wilson's Carmena, used for finale, was a ,favorite. Mre. Ruth Thayer Burnham of Syracuse, N. Y., was the soloist and Stafford friends were gratified to hear hel unusual mezzo- -contralto voice again. Mrs. Burnham, while living in Staf. ford, was very generous with hel great talent and her ability to sing. her desire to please and her attractive stage presence seemed little changed Her groups of songs gave wide variety and several "Darky songs'' were immensely enjoyed. By request '' Love is Bubble, 7 and "The Year at the Spring" were substituted fOr two ou the program, and Happy Little Sal'' and "The Black Birds made delightful enoores Her singing ot Annie Laurie with accompaniment hy the chorus was an attractive number. Mrs. Edward B. Bryant of Hartford has played for Mrs. Burnham here before, and her ability was much appreciated. The following Rockville singers assisted in the chorus: Luther A White, tenor; Percy l.. Cooley, |