The Press., 1918-02-28
HOME NEWS.
LOCAL NOTICES. Matter under this head 10 cents per line.l A few bargains left at E. l.. Burr's.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

were home over Sunday.
 Harry Ward of Philadelphia, Pa spent the week end with his parents MT. and Mrs. N. o. Ward.
 The Red Men will hold dance al their hall, Saturday evening at o'clock. Woods orchestra will furnisl the music.
 Miss Mary Hassett of Lee, Mass. has been during the past week thu guest of her aunt, Mrs Miohae iO'Halloran.
 The rummage sale, held last Satur day by the senior class of the higf school, was big success and the clasl treasury was imbursed with $1OO.
 There will be regular meeting o1 the Knights of Columbus Tuesday Ievening. Important business is on hand and a full attendance is desired.
 Private Frederick Bougquet o1 Camp Gordon, Gs., has passed the blacksmith test with an honorable average of 93 per cent. He is now blacksmith sergeant.
 Sergt. LeRoy H. Bates was home from Camp Devens from Friday until Sunday afternoon. Hiram A. Bates from East Nassau, N. Y., came home to see his brother. The family number was complete with the exception of one daughter, Mrs. j.. Benson Fuller, of Conway, Mass. |, mak ing nine children that were at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Fred W. Batter.
 Rev. E. W. Bishop, D.D former pastor of the local Congregational church has resigned his pastorate of the Porter Congregational churoh of BrocktoD, Mass and has accepted a csltto the Plymouth church, Lansing. MioII Dr. Bishop went to Brcekton from Grand Rapids, Mioh He will go to Lansing in about three weeks, but will leave his family at Broekton until they go to their summer home at South Duxbury, Mass.
 N. Roberts Enc, formerly of Stafford and New Haven, now of Go. O., 5th Battalion, goth Regt U s. Engineers, recently arrived In France. His task work before embarking was as acting corporal of a squad of about 20 men, loading automobile truck bodies. Sueh are to be put on light Eramway trucks ; the engineers are to build tramways of heavy blanks for them, for trans porting supplies of the American troops in France, we understand; as they run by their own power and can go almost anywhere without the trouble of overhead or underground wires, which are required by trolley express.
 The Stafford high school scored a close victory over the Atlas five of Hartford. B to go, Friday night at s. Y. M. 0. hall. The game started right off speedily with six points to the credit of the visitors while Stafford was at zero. The local boys were not discouraged and soon started to hit the hoop and occasionally one would drop in, and the first half ended IS to 15 with Atlas on the long end. Stafford started the second half with "pep" and after playing for three minutes with 24, all the local boys started to advance and with the cooperation of the guards, who were strong, attacked several times, the advance was not stopped until the final whistle blew. GuteTsloh and .McKasker played fine game for the visitors. The lineup:
 Stafford High. Atlas Five. ". Sullivan, If Cunningham Comins, If Gutersloh TonoD, McKaskeI Pagan, Cunningham,
 lb Higgins J. Sullivan, rb Peterson
 Score: Stafford 33, Atlas 29i goals from floor, W. Sullivan 3, Comins 3. Cunningham, TOnon 10, Gutersloh 8, McKaSker 6; goals from fouls, MoKasker, Tonon; referee. Yare; scorers, Gorham and Lazzerin timer, Fraser; time, 2O.minut' halves.
 Red Cross Headquarters: >InqniEieI have lately been made about thu necessity of continuing the knitting. The following is quoted from tht March issue of The Red Crosl Magazine One of the recent appro priations of the War Council aims tC provide our soldies in this country with sweaters, heavy woolen socks helmets and woolen gloves. Int amount of the appropriation, one ant a half millions, and the hundreds O. thousands of each article which i will buy, is good criterion of thu value of the articles already made by the women of the country to ou soldies abroad and at home Ina thece may be no interruption in tht future of this necessary work 6 knitting, a further appropriation O nearly a million has also been mad, for the purchase of woolen yarn fo sale to the various chapters. Int Red Cross benefit supper and enter tainment, given by the Ladies' Ait society of the Methodist ohurch netted $35. Until further notic surgical dressings will bs made every afternoon except Friday, when hospita garments will be cut as usual Annual members of the Americal Red Cross may become maga2in members and receive the Red Cros Magazine for one year by paying al additional dollar to their local chapte or branch within three months 7afte the original dollar was paid.