The Press., 1919-03-06

00ENATu E1dHloy IS III WlLn the Flu. Miss Mildred Hanley of Hartford vas in town over Saturday and Sum day.
 Nothing has been heard as yet of tie tires stolen from the Hudson gar age last week.
 Mrs. Eugenia c. Mathews has re- turned from Boston where she has scent several weeks.
 The dance at St. Edwards hall Mon day night, with music by Pickett's or caestra, drew a large crowd
 George Clark, captain of the East Hartford high school basketball team, spent the weekend in town
 The ice cut by Meadose Labonte last week was insufficient for storage, there being just enough to allow the continuance of his route. Unless a cold snap comes very soon Stafford faces the prospect of an ice famine next summer.
 The parents of Harold F. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. William Pierce, of the t orough, received cablegram from him Friday from Issoudun, France, to the effect that he had recently been Commissioned major. MT. Pierce enlisted in the army in June, 1917, while at the Harvard medical school. and was sent to the base hospital at AifnQ0I1 T. In TO of ho tn France as a member of the Medical Research Board. Headquarters were established at Issoudun, although he was there hut small part of the time as the work took him to various parts of the country. Some time after ar irving in France he received his cap tain's commission. MT. Pierce gradu- ated from the local high school in 1907 and from Clark college of Wor- cester in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The following year he accepted the position of chemist wish the Pittsfield General Electric Go. and one year later became in strs.ctor of chemistry at Dartmouth college, where he also remained a year. From then until the time of his enlistment, MT. Pierce studied at the Harvard medical school where he would have been given his doctors degree had he remained. Major Pierce has applied for his discharge from the army and expects soon to go t0 England where he will be an in structor of physiology at Oxford col lege. He we'll deserves the congratu- iations of his friends for his early suc- sess, as he has worked hard for the
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 gard to suitable memorial
 9Eha have served thIr coun- . ElIlg Efe4t = u IS sIg- gesl that something of use as we'll as of ornament be built. One thing that Stafford needs is a first-class high school building, which can be used not only for school purposes, but as real community center, thereby developing higher sense of responsi- bility for the community's welfare in the pupils and a keener interest in the schools by the public This country can be made safer for democracy by making the schools stronger and bringing into them the spirit of ser vice as exemplifled by the deeds of the soldiers, not only of this war, but of the civil war and of the revolution. The school should contain a fine as- sembly hall to be used not only for school purposes but for all community activities. There should be gym nasiura4 so that the physical side of not only the high sohol boys and girls but of others could be developed. The war has shown that the schools must pay greater attention to the physical well-being of it's children. There should be rooms for sewing and cook ing, and possibly manual training and a strong science department, besides the usual rooms for class work. The present building is not suitable for high school work and the third floor is poorly lighted, heated and venti- lated. Not only is it inadequate, but the suitable rooms are needed by the grades as will be shown by the follow ing figures: There are B pupils in grade 8, 34 in grade 2, 50 in grade 6, AS in grade 5, 36 in grade 4 B, 35 in grade A, 45 in grade 8, 45 in grade 2, 5 in grade and 58 in the kinder garten, making over 400 in the grades. No teacher ought to have over 35 pu- pills, and 30 would be better Consid- ering the inadequacy of the present building for high school work and the need of more room for the grades, why not make our memorial building useful as we'll as one in which the citizens may justly feel proud There could be placed in the assemb- ly hall tablets with the names of all
 those who have fought for their country at any time. Let their spirit
 be an incentive to all the future gen, erations
 l WELLINGTON
 l Daniel Blakeley, in new and hand some automobile, called on friends
 Saturday.
 The portable saw-mill of B. De
 Wolf has been moved to the woodlo
 of J. Durian on the north road.
 Next Sunday Rev. MT. Bachelor vii
 commence series of sermons, ont to be given each month, on 'The basi, |principles of the Christian faith" Or
 Sunday the subject will be, "Wha does it mean to be Christian" I On Sunday morning Rev. MT. Bach