The Press., 1919-09-25
David Mitchell has entered the Textile school at Philadelphia

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 Miss Fitzpatrick will have her mil linery opening on Friday and Satur
 day.
 There will be special meeting to- night of the A. T. w. of A. at the Ital- ian hall.
 MT. and Mrs. A. c. Kendall of South Royalston, Mass, were guests of MT
 and Mrs. Frederic Faulkner last week
 The Stafford Springs Chapter of the
 Delphian society will meet at tht
 Springs House parlors next Monday evening.
 | On account of Monday, October 6tt being election day the regular meeting of the selectmen will be held on We'd nesday, the Sth.
 | Thirty-Seven voters were made in Stafford on Saturday, three in the first district and thirty-four in the second district, three of them being
 women.
 The handicap golf match for the Val entine silver cup has reached the tina stage and stands between Fred Wildey and Lincoln Luce.
 1 The second baseball team won . victory over the Village Hill team at Village Hill Sunday by score of tC 1. They will play the South Willing ton team here Saturday.
 Harold Pierce is spending several weeks in town. He recently returned from trip to Denmark. He expects to take a position in Oxford Univers- ity, England, later in the fall. The metals to be given the ex-ser- vice boys as token of the towns ap- preciation of their work in the world | war have been received. The time for their presentation will be announced later.
 The new club house of the Stafford Golf club will be opened Saturday afternoon. Golf ball sweepstakes will be held in the afternoon and there will be dancing and refreshments from to '. All members are urged to be present.
 Miss Anna Christensen was given a surprise last Tuesday evening. When she was ushered into the living room of Mrs. Eva Jenkins on Center street she was greeted by twenty-five of her neighbors with a shower. The room was beautifully decorated with autumn leaves and crepe paper to harmonize which extended from the corners to the center of the room where a large bell was hung, in which was inserted a tongue of confetti which showered upon Miss Christensen as she sat in the center of the room viewing the useful gifts presented to her by Mas ter Wm. Weber and the Misses Eva and Marion Mullins. The company was entertained by songs by Gladys Houle, Christine Christensen and Eva Jenk- ins with Clara Jenkins as pianist and Edna Newbury of Manchester as vio- linist A buffet lunch was served with Mrs. Louis Mullins, Mrs. Wm. Weber and Mrs. Mary Anderson acting as hostesses. Toward the latter part of the evening Miss Christensen was pre- scented with an electric lamp from her neighbors by Mary Sullivan with the best wishes for happiness and good luck
 Mrs. T. Fred Mullen entertained a party of friends Wednesday afternoon at her pleasant new home on Crown street. Fall flowers were used in profusion in the living and dining rooms, making masses of rich color. Four tables of 800 resulted in high and low scores, being made by Mrs. c. B. Pinney and Mrs. c. H. Mey CTS. Miss Ella Foster had charge of the card tables and Mrs. c. B. Tschummi and Misses Ruth Mullen and Bettie Pin ney assisted Mrs. Mullen in serving in the dining room.
 Mrs. Emily T. Hansen, aged 72 years, wife of Lauritz Hansen, died at the John son hospital, Wednesday morning of apoplexy. She had been i'll for the past three months. Besides her husband she is survived by five children, Mrs. M. l.. of Detroit, Mich Mrs. H. w. Sweet of Lebanon, Mrs. Nels Nelson, Henry Hansen and Peter Hansen, all of Hartford. The funeral services will be held in the home Saturday afternoon at o'clock, Rev H.W. Heermans offici- ating and burial will be in the Stafford Springs cemetery. Mrs. Hansen was we'll known here and leaves many friends. She came here from Denmark more than forty years ago.
 West Stafford
 Mrs Spencer Bradway is having a very uncomfortable time with shingles but is not confined to her bed.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Harshaw to Ralph G.. Gold, both of Foochow. Miss liar shaw is at the head of the Y. w. c. A. The wedding will take place in Octo- Der at Foochow.
 Announcement has been made of the marriage sometime, in August of Miss Jennie Towne, teacher in the gram mar school for ten years, to E. M. Shirley of Cincinnati, Ohio, where they are now at home at 705 Laurel street.
 The Stafford Garden club was rep resented at the Rockville fair by three high school boys, Linwood l.. Smith, Ellis NJ. Bradway and Emerson B.. Davis, spokesman. Their efforts were successful so they go to Berlin this week to give their demonstration.
 The Somers Purebred Pig club of which Emerson B. Davis was spokes- man, won silver medals for their dem onstration work at Camp Vail, East ern States exposition last week. There were contesting teams from ten states. Emerson was among the winning eX-