The Press., 1919-07-03


 Photo Studio, and in the meantim bring in your amateur work. F. S Holmes, Mgr.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS "
 Arthur Shepherd and family are il camp at Crystal Lake.
 Frank Webber of Montville spen the weekend in town. K
 Miss Blanid Squires of Willimanti, spent the weekend in town. 1 Thomas Flaherty of South Coventry spent Sunday with relatives in town
 Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Handy and chil dren have been visiting in Boston anl vicinity.
 Mrs. c. M. Bumhower is in Lebanon N. H., on a three-weeks' vacation from her duties as nurse in the loca hospital.
 Ralph Munroe and Miss Martha Burdette of Springfield, Mass, spent Sunday at the Fitzpatrick home on West Main street.
 Probably many people of the town do not know that there is a tax on all autos and boats that make money for their owners by carrying passengers. On all autos that carry from two to seven passengers there is an annual tax of $10. Autos with seating ca pacity of more than seven are taxed $20 per year.
 Saturday afternoon was wonderful one for ball game and the towns people turned out in fine manner long before the game was scheduled to start. The scheduled time came, but the White Sox of Manchester did not Still the crowd waited till long after 4 o'clock before they left the grounds disappointed, many individu- als expressing their opinion of team that fails to keep a promise and does not even send an explanation of it's failure. E. A. Clark had arranged a game with the White Sox in good faith. Breaking their promise was greatly added to by the fact that they sent no explanation.
 In a recent letter from the chairman of the executive committee of the Con- necticut branch of the American Le- zion Commander Needham of the local Service Club received copy of the constitutions of the legion and an ap- plication blank to be used in case the club decided to join the American Le- zion. A meeting of the Service Club will very probably be called sometime during the latter part of this month to decide whether of not the club will join the legion The election of per manent officers will also take place at this meeting.
 The Stafford baseball team, with a good number of rooters, travelled to Goodyear Sunday where they met a team of that place in what might be termed some game. The first inning passed quickly with Goodyear making one run. By the end of the fourth, however, Stafford seemed to have the game cinched with the score to 3 in their favor. By this time it was very noticeable that the umpire was not we'll balanced when it came to close decisions and seemed to have a pro- nounced leaning toward the Goodyear side. Some decisions made in the sixth inning against Stafford were termed rank, even by the Goodyear players. However, Stafford's boys hung on till the eighth inning, when two costly errors proved to be their undoing, for these slips enabled three Goodyear men to tally, making the score to with Stafford on the short end. They tried hard to even up il their half of the ninth, but failed. The Stafford lads found it easy to hit Page the Goodyear pitcher, and were sure of the game, but for two errors in the eighth coupled with the umpire's lacl of ability to decide rightly. They hope to have return game with ar umpire who knows the rules doing thu