The Press., 1920-04-08
STAFFORD SPRINGS

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 part of this week here.
 Miss Maud Weeks of Providence R l.. is spending this week at the w. E
 Whitaker home on Crown street.
 The Womans Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church will hold a food sale at the Towards store Friday afternoon at four o'clock.
 Lovers of good drama may have six evenings of 1t ne~t week at St Edwards hall. The Lorne Elwin Stock company. notably good troupe will le the entertainers. Special scenery is carried and d different play is furnished every night. The company plays all this week g return engagement in Danielson. The Nor wich Bulletin correspondent this week refers to the troupe as the company which played to capacity business here a few weeks ago. Tickets. "o@;s, Reserved, 40 cts.
 Fire was discovered, in the rear part of the second floor of the Rock we'll block, Sunday evening and le- fore it could be extinguished. after two hours fighting. caused an esti- mated loss of nearly $7000. Sponta- neous combustion in d coal lin. built against the wall in the rear of the Day Photo studio is thought to have been the cause of the fire. Shortly after 9 o'clock. smoke was seen isSu- ing from one of the windows of the photo studio and the alarm was rung. The flames crept rapidly up the side of the building and also broke through the floor into the rear room of the Zelz confectionery store, in which damage amounting to $500 was done. Smoke and water caused loss in the Wasserman store estimated at more than $6OOO. MT. Wasserman removed as much as possiI le of his goods du ring the fire and stored some of them in the Brunelle barber shop. He in tends to have a fire sale and sell out the greater part of his stock, after which he will remodel his store. He will put in stair way to the front rooms over his store which he will also use for store purposes. The fur nishings in the Day studio were dam aged to the amount of SI5. The loss | to the Zelz and Wasserman stores | are covered by insurance. but no in | surance is carried by the photo studio. | The Stafford Springs Mineral Water | company have begun work on the | erection of new story and half structure 21 by 2S feet to be built in the rear of the library building, in the basement of which the company is now located. The small building on the site will be partly used for the new building. The lower floor of the new building will contain the washing and bottling machinery and the upper floor will be used for a laboratory and store room. The finished product will be stored in the basement of the libra " building while awaiting shipment. This will make possible a big increase in the output and will enable the company to supply the growing de- mand for the beverages turned out by it. This industry, started thirty one years ago by Julius Converse, has been growing rapidly during the past seven years through the efforts of James Campo. the present proprietor. The strict cleanliness of the place and the good method of steriliZing and washing the bottles coupled with the fact that the Lest quality of the ma terialS are used also explain the rapid growth of this industry. Various out of town companies have given lII. Campo offers for his entire output but he has not accepted any, prefer ing to supply his home town trade first. Much of the drinks manufactur- ed here however have been sent to many parts of the country and the new addition will make possible an even larger output.
 Before a we'll filled hall. Tuesday evening. Strazza post gave the first performance of From Reveille to Retreat" and it went off well. As the title implies, it started with the early morning bugle call blown, in the opinion of many doughboy, even before morning, sometimes. From then till the call for retreat was blown almost every phase of army life was depicted. There was "chOw" and drilling" pay call' and drilling" bunk fatigue" and drilling" and more drilling" Much humor was woven into the satire and there was an occasional Lit of seriousness. Good laughs were sprinkled all through it. The last scene, retreat, was a fine one, with the lights turned off and spotlight playing on the service flag of our country, the boys stood at at tention on the stage while the band played the national anthem. Some of the features that will be remembered are the various songs throughout the performance. the several knocks SCOT ed on local parties and the acting of some of the funniest characters es- pecially, Thomas Mullins, Alwyn Rees, A. J. Needham, Fred Bolieau, Donald Chapman and R. H. Valentine. The exceptionally good drilling of one of the squads stands out prominently There was two first class specialtieS between the acts. The first "A serious moment in army life" in which A. J. Needham and Thomas Mullins took Eart ended in a really touching poem. The other, song and dance by Car diner Hall, contained some clever clog dancing and several songs. It was repeated Wednesday evening be- fore fully as large an attendance as on the first night. Dancing to music by Woods orchestra followed the per forma1ce on both evenings. The en- tertaiament will e given tonorrow evening in Memorial hall. Stafford.
 The dance conducted in St. Ed waru'5 hall Monday evening ly Straz- za Lost hal good sized attendance. Icing the first one after the close of lent no doubt had something to do with the size of the crowd. The Fen way Novelty orchestra furnished the music.