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 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Guido and Angelo Fontanella ar spending a week in town.
 A band stand is to be erected a Hyde park near the grove.
 Patrick Garvey of Springfield hs been visiting friends in town.
 Noel Pease is at Camp Norwich nea Huntington, Mass for four weeks. Francis Allard of LaSalle oolleg, in Hartford is home for the vacation
 John McLagan is having a garag, built near his home on West MaiI street.
 Mrs. 0. Nj. Sheldon of Sheffield Mass is guest of Mrs. Mary j. Leach.
 Mrs. F. G. Sanford and Miss Ells Foster are at Camp Wabbaquasseti Crystal Lake .,
 John Tonoly has taken the position in J. F. Warren's store formerly filled by John Sullivan. x
 MT. and Mrs. J. A. Jubb are spend. ing week or ten days in Massaohu. setts and Vermont.
 Charles Roberts, Alex Pradel and Robert Lazzerin were here Sunday from Camp Devens z
 Miss Mabel Kingsbury of Hartford has been a guest of Miss Celia Holt for a few days. returning home Tuesday
 Frederic Faulkner has sold the house on Keefe Plains occupied by MT. Dugan and MT. Pelon to Peter Panoiars. ::
 Jim Quinn returned last Monday where he is employed in a naval ex- .perimental station, after spending Sunday in town.
 Howard Penny visited here on Sum- day He is TOW lieutenant in the quartermaster oolp, and reported at Cambridge. Mass, on Monday.
 Three delegates from here attended the Democratic state convention at Hartford last week Wednesday. They were F. J. Fitzpatrick, M. D.. O'Connell and D. Avery.
 The Kuslansky agency has sold for F. H. Baker the house on the corner of PIopeot and Church streets to Fred Young and three building lots on Keefe's Plains to Paul Possardt
 Walter c. Bruce recently applied for enlistment in the veteran corps and was ordered to report to Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. Before leaving he was notified that he was not needed. Defective eyesight again was the cause. This is the fourth time MT. Bruce has been rejected.
 Rev. J. W. Ballantine has been preaching nearly every Sunday for several months. For few weeks he supplied at Chatam, Mass, and the past two Sundays at Worthington, Mass. MT. Ballantine was a guest of nephew for the Harvard commence ment. The young mans parents are in India, so were unable to see their son graduate.
 The members of the Junior Red Cross will meet in the Red Cross rooms next Tuesday evening at o'clock. The society has taken over the next assignment of 50 comfort bags to be sent over seas which must be made and filled. Every member therefore is urged to attend this. meeting. Membership pins for the society will be given out at this time
 B. P. Cooley, Rev. l. P. Booth. R. s. Converse and Lewis Mclaughlin attended the republican congressional convention at Willimantic on Saturday when Congressman Freeman of New London was re-nominated hy ac- clamation B.P. Cooley was appointed a member of the comm ittee to notify the candidate of his nomination and was also elected a member of the congressional committee.
 Edmund B. Riester of Benton street left here Tuesday morning for Boston where he will go aboard a U. S. shipping board training ship as an apprentice to be trained for duty as a cook in the new Merchant Marine. He was enrolled for this. service by D. H. Mccormick, the Main street druggist, who is a special enrolling agent of the shipping board. Men accepted for the training service of the Merchant Marine are by special regulation exempted from the draft. X
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Wildey enter. tained Saturday evening in honor ot Mrs. Wildey's birthday anniversary. A few friends were invited to dinner at Hotel Bond at z. 80 o'clock and the company went to Hartford by auto mobile The table was laid in the east balcony with covers for fourteen. Ophelia roses and maiden hair fern decorated the table and pink was the color scheme carried out in the place cards, oorsage bouquets and favors. Those attending were MT. and Mrs. Fred Wildey, MT. and Mrs. 0. H. Meyers, MT; and Mrs O. R. Newton, MT. and Mrs. R. M. Fisk, MT. and Mrs. T. F. Mullen, MT. and Mrs. Lincoln Luce and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis