The Press., 1920-06-17
STAFFORD SPRINGS

Frank Smith has purchased a five passenger Buick of the Hudson Gar.
 age Go.
 Mrs. T. P. Needham is spending this
 week in Hartford at the home of w 1 D. Tuthill.
 | Angelo Panceira sails Saturday fol
 Italy where he intends to spend three
 months with relatives and friends
 John Sena is snending this week ir l Newark, N. J., with relatives. He in- i tends to have his mother, who recent
 ly arrived from Italy, return to Staf- 1 ford with him.
 1 Mrs. Herman Ladish is spending a
 month in De Kalb, H., visiting Mrs John Sohne. On her return she will l stop at Philadelphia to visit relatives and friends there.
 The pupils of the upper grades in St. Edwards school spent Tuesday picnicing in Evergreen Park, State line. The day was just the sort for an outing and none of the children fail ed to take advantage of it. A charge of assault was brought
 against George Kurek and Joseph klimo in the Borough court Tuesday morning. The former was fined $25 and costs, total of $29.61. Klimo was fined total of $1461.
 George Gary intends to have a new and up to date weighing scale put in place of his present one on lower East Main street. On the new scale loads such as can be put upon his largest truck can be weighed without danger. The order has already been placed so the scale is expected in the near future.
 United States Revenue Officers Mc- Carthy and Brown, came here Monday morning and visited the various sa- looms in town. They also visited the house near Jewett's crossing, below Stateline. No seizures were made, but the Bernardo saloon was ordered to stop selling a beverage which sa- looms had been permitted to sell un- till the recent ruling by the supreme court.
 Dennis Pratt, aged 87 years, died Saturday morning at the Walker home in Prospect street where he had been living for nearly the past two years. He came to Stafford from New York 15 years ago. He lived in West Staff ford for eleven years. He leaves one sister, Mrs. Sarah Bassett in New Haven. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Levi Rees Monday afternoon in the Baker undertaking rooms. The burial was in the Springs cemetery.
 Saturday afternoons game between the Boy Scouts and the Night Hawks wrangle in the 18th inning. It was a give and take affair all the way through-most of the giving and talk ing being done by the umpire. Both sides had good moundsmen, fine field ing and hit we'll, but the umpiring was little. hay. In the last half of the 18th, with the Night Hawks at bat, there was a man at each station and only one out when the batsman was handed pass. This forced in the winning run, making the score to ', whereupon the Boy Scouts protested the game, charging poor umpiring. Just when these teams will play an other game has not been decided.
 Stafford's nine won it's third victory in it's third game at home this season by marching away from the Corin- thians of Hartford to the tune of to 3, Saturday afternoon. Cerago, in the box for the locals, served a good brand of ball even though he was handicap ed by sore arm. He retired five and allowed but six hits in spite of the fact that the Corinthians are known to be mighty with the stick. From near ly every quarter lle received the best kind of support. Although the wis itors tried three different men they could not produce a moundsman with enough in his sleeve to stop Stafford's clouting. Three two-base hits were made-one off of each of the three selections. Wise and Dicky both showed some neat playing in the field. The score: