The Press., 1919-08-07
Miss Lottie Schofield has returned

Miss Lottie Schofield has returne,
 from weeks vacation.
 Miss Ida Campo is taking a week.
 vacation from her duties in the Campo store.
 Miss Lillian Dillingham; of New
 York is spending few days witt
 friends in town.
 A daughter was born to MT. and Mrs
 William J. Hanley at the Johnson hos
 pital last Thursday.
 Harry Mccarthy and family of Paw tucket R. l., are visiting at the Flana
 gan home on Benton street.
 Mrs. c. G. Gilligan and two children
 Josephine and Corinne have returned
 from a two-weeks' visit at Blocl | Island
 The w. R. c. are invited to picnic
 to be held at the home of Mrs. Bessie
 Slater next Thursday afternoon. Ii
 stormy, the next day.
 l Nearly 25 laborers arrived in town
 yesterday afternoon and they were put
 10 work this morning on the building
 of the new addition to the Cyril John
 son Woolen Go.
 Two crack pickup teams, the Has
 beens of Stafford and the Willbes of
 WillingtOn, will provide amusement at
 Hyde park next Thursday afternoon i Among the mainstays of the former
 are Joseph Brunell and Eli Parizeau The local post of the American Legion has applied for it's charter. It will te named after Augustine | yt ,h, lr;l ,,, fho | vice. The boys have not been signing up in this organization as fast as | would be expected. However, sixty have already applied
 The workers in the spinning and drawing departments of the Stafford | worsted mill struck for a 15 per cent. raise yesterday, but were not given it so they went out. This caused a shortage of material in the spooling and twisting departments, so these parts were forced to close. It is ex- pected that they will be closed more | than three weeks.
 John w. Schofield, aged 57, died at his home on Westford avenue early Wednesday morning after an illness of a few months. MT. Schofield has lived here a good many years and sold meat till a few months ago when he was taken ill. He went to Boston for treatment and later went to the Hartford hospital. He leaves his wife and three children. He also leaves a brother, Seth, of this place, and one sister, Mrs. John D. Sibley, of Gilbert vile. Mass. The funeral will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at o'clock with Rev. O. J. Aldrich offici- ating. Burial will be in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 Mrs. Mary Spearing resigned her po- sltion as night nurse at the local hos pital last Friday after having been | nursing here for few months. Pre- viOuS to that she had seen service in many army hospitals, having been a nurse in the Walter Reed, the greatest | reconstruction hospital in the country which is situated in Washington, D. c She was presented with service med al at the Fourth of July Celebration in Monson, her home town, and was the | only woman to receive one. She was married only recently and intends to leave on a honeymoon trip through the west shortly. Mrs. .Spearing was a resident of this town for some years and has a number of relatives here Well, the old jinx hit us pretty hard whack Saturday afternoon and he did his whacking in the very last chapter of the story. The Calhoun's s were regarded as a very dangerous team up till the fifth inning when the locals made the score to 1 in their favor. In the eighth the Calhouns made one run, but it did not seem to make them appear much more danger ous. In the ninth, though, they found their opening in an error which start ed things going and there was no stopping them till they had made four big runs, enough to put them ahead by one tally. The locals tried hard to even up in their half, but there was nothing stirring. Thus it was that StaGord's nine were given taste of something they had almost forgotten taste of defeat. That Cerago worked hard for the locals couldn't be shown better than by the fact that he struck fxua hn