The Press., 1920-08-26

l Whiting, Vt.
 Miss Helen Todd of Birmingham is visiting her grandparents, MT. and Mrs. Michael Riley.
 Miss Kathryn Murnighan of Amster- | dam, N. Y, is here on a two weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. William Hanley.
 Mrs. E. K. Keefe will sell her house. hold goods at her boarding house on Main street on Saturday September 4th at 10 a. m.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph Wasserman took an auto trip to Boston last week, stopping at several interesting places along the way.
 Irwin Hewlett spent last week on a vacation in Holland, Mass He was there in time to enjoy the old home l week celebration.
 A. D. Johnson, who is employed in | the Ellis grocery store, wills take a weeks vacation beginning next Sat urday. He expects to spend part of the week in Somers.
 Miss Minnie O'Halloran has return ed from two weeks vacation spent at Lake Waramaug, New Preston. W l friends from New Haven.
 G. Henry Burdick is taking a weeks vacation from his work in the Ellis ! grocery store. Accompanied by his family he is spending the week visit ing friends in Rhode Island
 John Sena expects to leave Stafford for Newark, N. J., next Monday, By that time the rest of the family will have left also. Most of the furniture has been shipped away already.
 The democratic caucus, for the pur- pose of electing delegates to the state, congressional, senatorial, and probate conventions, will be held Friday even- ing at o'clock in the Firemen's hall.
 The opposition in the ball game for next Saturday will be furnished by the Moore Drop Forge Go. of Indian Orchard. On Sunday Stafford will be in action against the Back Bay Post A. l.. of Boston.
 James Bolieau and family left here Monday, for Jean, Nevada, where they will spend a few weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. Theo Coraig, and son, Roland Bolieau. They expect to make their home in Los Angeles, Cal, where MT. Bolieau is going to work for the Goodyear Rubber Co.,
 AS yet no change has been made in fare, but, according to an agreement the fares on the interurban trolley between'the Connecticut company and the Public Utilities Commission of Hartford, change will be made October first whereby the total fare to Hartford from Stafford will be 79 cents. At present it is 91 cents
 John Sena has sold two of his blocks on Main street. The one known as the Garvais block has been pur- chased by Angelo DiCicco of South Wilmington. The block containing the bowling alley and theater has been sold to Joseph Wood who runs the Paramount theater. MT. Sena still owns the wooden block which is loca- ted between the other two. The pool room in this building has been rented to party in Hartford.
 At the expiration of the lease which Edmund Lessard now holds on the Comique, (the lease has little over two months to rum Joseph Wood, who has purchased the block in which the theater is located, will move the Paramount theater into it. He will make some temporary repairs in the large hall before moving into it, but sometime during the next spring he will remodel the entire block. He plans to use the ground floor of the building, the part which now contains the bowling alley, for the theater. The second floor will be removed so that there will be room for a large balcony. When finished he expects to have a theater fully as up to date as any in this section.
 A crowd of more than 2OOO people | it is estimated, was at Crystal Lake | last Saturday afternoon when the an nual canoe carnival was held at Rau' s and the Farmers picnic at Koelsch's S. | The day was excellent. A strong breeze blowing across the lake kept things cool although the sun shOne warmly. The attendance at the canoe | carnival was somewhat larger than al | the farmers picnic. In the canoe parade, the prize for the best decorat
 ed canoe went to Miss Helen Smith
 daughter of MT. and Mrs. Rober
 Smith and the most original entr.
 prize was won by William Ellis ant
 Miss Smiths canoe was filled witl
 cat tails which were so arranged tha
 they really looked like patch take1
 from marsh land. Miss Smith was il
 the stern. She was dressed as frog
 and she was seated under a large ar
 tificial mushroom. There was n'
 doubt but what she deserved her prize
 The Ellis-Gordon canoe was filled
 with hay and a corn stalk was attach
 ed to the bow and to the stern so tha
 it hung out over the water. GOrdOl
 padded in the bow. He was dresse'
 as a farmers wife. Ellis in the sterl
 was disguised as farmer To tn
 end of GOrdOn's paddle a hay rak
 was tied and to Ellis a pitch fork This outfit attracted attention from it
 first appearance on the water. Tn racing events followed the parade
 The first race, for 15 to IF foo
 canoes, was taken by John Rafferty o Hartford and Thomas Began of Rock vile. The second race, one for IS foo
 canoes, went to Edwin Schreier an
 Thomas Cummiskey. A long distanc
 race, from the south shore to Rau's four men in the canoes, was won b the canoe containing William Sweeney, Dr. J. R. Morin, John Raj
 ferty and George Gsell. The cano
 tilting event, exciting because ther
 were several canoes tipped, wa
 awarded to Thomas Began and Be1
 nard Ertel. Russell Goodacre of Hart
 ford, captured the hand padding race
 The stiff breeze tossed the canoe
 about making the paddling so muc
 harder and adding to the interest i
 the race. MT. Goodacre also took tn
 obstacle race, which was the final on'
 Two races for women were to be rul
 but they had to, be dropped out be ! cause there was only one entry. Tn judges were Arno Wilber, Victor ' BiSSOnnette and John Haywood