The Press., 1919-10-02
STAFFORD SPRINGS

STAFFORD SPRINGS
 At the meeting of the Odd Fellows next Tuesday evening the first degree will be worked.
 At the meeting of Onneco tribe, I. O. R. M., this evening arrangements will be made for the welcome home of the soldiers and sailors of the tribe. All members are requested to be present.
 Carl Slater, 26 years old, son of MT. and Mrs. George Slater, whose home is on Stafford Street, died at the John son hospital Friday afternoon of heart failure. He had been ill for some time. He had been taken to the hos pital last July, but recovered suffic- iently to return home. Last week he again become very i'll and returned to the hospital. Besides his parents he leaves four brothers, Ernest, of Nor wich, Arthur, of Providence and Will liam and George of this place and one sister, Mrs. Joseph Gilmartin, of Ston- ington. The funeral services were held in St. Edwards church Monday morning and burial was in St. Ed wards cemetery.
 The annual meeting of the Methodist Woman's Foreign Missionary society was held at the home of Mrs. A. c. Eaton, Friday. The following officers were elected for the following year: President, Mrs. J. R. Parkhurst; vice. presidents, Mrs. B. K. Taft, Mrs. Geo. Eaton, Mrs. c. P. Hodgson; recording secretary, Mrs. F. F. Patten; treas urer, Mrs. o. J. Aldrich; solicitor for membership, Mrs. Walter Parkhurst; :; superintendent of Standard Bearers, Miss Bertha Parsons. During the so- cial hour a very attractive boQuet of choice red rose buds was presented to the following members for their efic- tent service during their long member ship of the auxiliary for over forty years: Mrs. Frank Orcutt, Mrs. A. c. Eaton and Mrs. Chas. G. Ellis.
 The boys of the Stafford second when they defeated team of supposed South Willington players Saturday afternoon at Hyde park. Supposed is appropriate here because three of the members of Stafford's first team ! played with the visitors. That, how ever, made no difference to the Dare devils," as the second team is called and they applied the whitewash rather l thickly with their to brush. Their l victorious work this year makes the "Daredevils'' feel entitled to challenge the first team to a game, and they have already done so. Whether the firs team will recognize it or not has ye1 to be learned. The batteries in Satur days game were Daigle and Clark fol the locals and Royce, Huden an( BOusquet for the visitors.
 High School Notes.
 That the fair is going to be such {: big event this year means whole To to everyone who attends school, bu most of all to the senior class of thu high school. They will run an eating before them did so they have started on their plans already and immediat ly they turn to the people of the tow1 hoping to get the support which thu preceding classes received. The, know that the people were not asked to contribute to fair last year, bu that does not make them expect an, more this year than if there was a fai last year for they know that thing have undergone change whicl change has a great effect on donations | P11f eli rtv,i buttons and want to break the new that sooner or later, very probabl. sooner, they will start visiting tn, people in order to obtain promises O food stuffs to make their booth sue cess.
 The game between the Freshmen Junior and Sophomor-Senior classe: which was played in Hyde park Thurs day afternoon drew good sizet crowd of townspeople who were yer, we'll pleased with the game the stu dents put up. It took fourteen inning. for the Freshmen and Juniors to win but the fact that they won means To for it gives them the series of three games for they won another victory the previous Thursday. In the mor' recent game the boys showed quite { bit of ability so the high school is sur' to have a good ball team for nex spring. The game was a give ant take one all the way from the start The Seniors and Sophomores had al edge up till the eighth inning, bu from then on the winners were able tt match them. Score by innings:
 Freshmen-Juniors, 02O03020O000 Sophomore-Seniors O0O3O3O10000
 From the way things have alread. started in the high school it seem that the schools athletics are sure t, attract whole lot of attention thi year. Sub-Master William Allen hal awakened the students to a zest fo everything athletic, and an athleti Association has been formed which ii sure to keep up an interest in tha line. The officers of the association are as follows: President, Richar, Whitaker; first vice-president, Fran cis Pagan; second vice-president, liar old TOwne; secretary, Violet Hayes faculty treasurer, William Allen. Tn association has already elected man agers for the teams. As usual, how ever, they cannot go far without tn help of the toWnspeOple, but basin, their belief upon past years they fee safe when it comes to this most neces sary support.