The Press., 1919-05-29
James Wood of Hackensack, N. J. is in town for a few days.

James Wood of Hackensack, N. J.
 is in town for few days.
 The annual meeting of the Current
 Events club will beheld Monday even. ing at 7.30 o'clock. z-. | A benefit dance for the Stafford
 Baseball club will be held at the Red
 Mems hall next week Friday evening Admission, 30 cents.
 If those donating food for the w. R
 C.. lunch to veterans Memorial day
 will notify Mrs. w. B. Whitaker before
 g a. m. tomorrow morning their con-
 tributions will be called for.
 An auto party consisting of MT. and
 Mrs. s. H. Mattesen, MT. and Mrs Bochard Mattesen, Arthur Mattesen
 and Miss Mary Mattesen from East
 Hartford spent Sunday with MT. and
 Mrs. T. F. Mattesen.
 Raymond Tschummi, for many years
 valued employe at Smith & Cooley's
 office, has resigned his position to take another with the Ajax Rubber
 co. of New Haven. He left for that
 city Friday night.
 Saturday night about fifty friends of
 Miss Rose Freeman gave her a sur
 prise party at her home on Main street She was the recipient of a number of gifts, including a gold pendant. A general social time fol- lowed.
 Rev. L. Rees, MT. and Mrs. c. E. Butterfield, Rev. J. w. Ballantine and Miss Mary Ballantine attended the an nual meeting of the Holland county association of Congregational church es and ministers at North Coventry yesterday.
 The baseball game between the high school and Rockville high, which was postponed from last week Wednesday on account of the stormy weather, was played at Hyde park yesterday after noon The local boys redeemed them selves from the effect of Monson's game by winning. The score was to The Stafford high school alumni association will present the three-act comedy, My Friend from India," at the Connecticut agricultural college at Storrs Friday evening, June 6, under the auspices of the c. A. C.dra- matic club. The entertainment was played here three times by the high school alumni but will appear this time with some of the seniors taking part.
 Edward Hubert returned home from France Tuesday night discharged from the service. He shows the effects of an ugly wound in his jaw from ma chine gun bullet. It entered under his chin, tearing out practically the whole lower jaw, which is replaced by gold plate. MT. Hubert was dec orated with the French Croix de Guerre Other arrivals are Alfred Bosquet and Fred Hansen. Memorial services were held for the G. A. R. veterans at the Congregational church Sunday morning. The veter- ans, Sons of Veterans and Woman's Relief Corps marched in body from the G. A. R. hall to the church. The subject of Rev. Levi Rees' address was "Supernationalism, the Christian Ideal" That the ranks of the G. A. R. are rapidly thinning could be seen by the fact that only three veterans at tended the services. They were M. P. J. Walker, Charles Warren and J. w. Witt
 In the borough court yesterday morning, James Defoe, IA years old was committed to the Connecticut School for Boys until he is 21. Al though he had recently been skipping school' and would have been brought to court on that charge, a more seri ous complaint was preferred against him by Mrs. Carrie E. Royce. He was arrested for breaking and entering her house and found to have stolen gold bracelet, a gold ring, gold necklace and a flashlight. He was committed to the institution by order of Deputy Judge Ernest K. Taft. The boys father is a cobbler and lives in Mon son, Mass.
 Yesterday afternoon James Kama, the son of Andrew Kama of Village Hill, ran into the automobile of Wm. Ladr of South Wilmington on a bicycle, injuring his hand severely. The boy was coming down Furnace avenue from his work at Warren's mill when he met the automobile driven by MT. Ladrs son. The driver had started to up EuS6WOOu CAIeuSlOu Wucu u0 saw the boy coming, but stopped the machine and sounded his horn. Young Kama evidently lost his head, for he crashed into the front of the car, bend ing a lamp bracket and damaging the radiator badly. The front wheel of the bicycle was demolished. The boy is at his home.
 Stafford
 Paramount and Aircraft Pictures, Town Hall: Saturday, Mary Pickford in ''The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and a Paramount Flagg comedy, Perfectly Fiendish Flanagan" or the heart of the dread full west. Wednesday, Pauline Fred erick in "The Hungry Heart" by Da- vid Graham Phillips, and a Burton Holmes travelogue.
 Rev. F. A. Manderson will supply at the Baptist church next Sunday. Mrs. E. c. Pinney is convalescing | from an illness which has confined her to the house the past two weeks. Linus Putney of Meridith, N. H., called on old friends last week, being the guest of MT. and Mrs. H. M. Jen- kinS