The Press., 1919-01-16
Owen J. Silk has taken a position

Owen J. Silk has taken a position
 at the Ellis grocery.
 Mrs. N. O. Ward is confined to hel
 home with the grip.
 The meat firm of Greaves & Greaves
 will hereafter be conducted by Walter
 Greaves, who has purchased his broth
 CTS interest.
 There will be meeting of the in
 corporators of the Johnson Memorial
 hospital Monday afternoon at o'clock
 at the hospital.
 Adolph Roberts has bought the ho- tel property recently held by him and
 Dominica Tonon, having purchased
 Mr. Tonon's interest.
 | There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Stafford Springs | Agricultural society, on January IS,
 at ? p. m., at the Stafford Business Mems association rooms.
 Edward Tobin and E. K. Taft are 10th ill with the grip. Augustus Gar vais is substituting in the Whiton STOC6Ty III tuSlT dUSGHCe.
 The Hyman Amusement company will give an entertainment in St. Ed wards hall Saturday evening at s o'clock. followed Icy dancing with Stein's six-piece orchestra furnishing the music. The admission. including war tax. will l e 35 cents.
 The annual stockholders meeting of the First National Lank of Stafford Springs was hold at their bankin, 7 rooms Tuesday at lD o'clock. The following named directors were chos- ell: Christopher Allen. C. l.. Dennis, F. w. Smith. w. Fl. Reed. W. H. Hall, F, r. Patten, A. l. Mitchell. William Park. F G. Sanford. .N the directors meeting which followed Christopher Allen was elected president. F. F. Pat ten vice-president, F. G. Sanford cash fer, H. R. Wightman assistant cashier. The usual , per cent. semi-annual dividend was paid January 1, 1919.
 .,r,iiur r'. Schofield, aged 59. died at the Johnson hospital early Sunday morning of pneumonia. Several vented a never-slip horse shoe on which he obtained patent. During his career as mechanic in the mills of this place he had invented an ap pliance for stopping looms. MT. Scho- field was greatly liked bymany towns people who will miss his familiar fig ure on the street He is survived by his wife and ten children. Arthur F., Jr, Howard and Richard of this place. Benjamin. in the Y. s. military forces overseas. Mrs. Susan Kibbe of Filing ton. Mrs. John P. Horrigan, Misses Lena, Eva and Hazel Schofield who live here and Mrs. Esther Scheiffer of Rockville. The funeral services were held in the home on High street at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Rev. l.. Rees officiating. The burial was in the Stafford Springs cemetery.
 The annual meeting of the Grace church parish was held Monday even ing and the following officers were elected: Senior warden, R. H. Fisk junior warden, A. J. Smith; clerk, Arthur C. Whitaker; treasurer, A. J. auditors. R. M. Fisk and Arthur C. Whitaker; vestrymen, Philo West, Louis Melbourne, finders Jacob sen, R. M. Fisk, J. A. Jubb, Charles Jacobsen, A. J. Melbourne and Dr. F. L. Smith; delegates to the diocesan J. A. Jubb and A. Smith Philo West and Louis 
 At the session of the Sunday school of the Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday the annual reports of the officers were read, and also the report of the annual Sunday school board held on the previous Tuesday evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. Freeman F. Patten. The officers of the school for the year 1919 are as fol- lows: Superintendent, Freeman F. Patten: assistant superintendent, .Anson B. Handy; superintendents of home department, Miss Florence Washburn and Miss Doris Parkhurst; of cradle roll, Miss Ethel Whitaker and Miss Ethel Smith; of primary depart ment, Mrs. Anson B. Handy; secre- tary and treasurer, Louis H. Stevens; librarian Percy Parkhurst: chOriSter, Miss Alberta l.. Eaton; pianist Miss Hildreth Whitaker.