The Press., 1920-06-24

Emil Turshman is spending this | week with his son in Somersworth N. | H.
 MT. and Mrs. George Edwards of Springfield spent the weekend here
 with MT. and Mrs. George Davis.
 Henry Bolieau and family accom- | panied by MT. and Mrs. William Irons are taking a weeks auto trip to New York and Saratoga Springs.
 Mrs. G. Percival Bard, Misses Mary and Margaret Ballantine are attending | the Summer School of Religious Study
 at the New London college, this week. Louis, 5 days old son of MT. and Mrs. Morris Serroor, died Thursday at the home of his parents off Main street The burial took place in St.
 Edwards cemetery Friday afternoon. EarlW., one year old son of MT. and Mrs. Clifford Blodgett, died Sunday at the home of his parents in Harwood block in Main street. The burial took place in St. Edwards cemetery Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.
 Among those who are camping at Crystal Lake at present are: MT. and Mrs. Charles Newton, MT. and Mrs. F. F. Patten and son, Ralph, MT and
 Mrs. R. w Smith and family, Mrs. T. c. Chapin and family in the Jacob sen cottage and MT. and Mrs. F. G.. Sanford and Miss Ella Foster at the Sanford cottage.
 St. Francis hospital of Hartford serves so many Stafford patients that the institution feels justified in asking Stafford to aid it by contributing, with other towns adjacent to Hart ford. towards increasing the hospital facilities in the care of sufferers from near by towns. Necessity obliged the Hartford City hospital to canvas re- gently for half a million dollars. Now necessity obliges St. Francis hospital to do likewise to avoid turning from 20 to 60 patients day from its doors.
 Though under Catholic control St.
 Francis hospital knows no creed nor color. It has treated seventy-two thousand patients in it's short history. Of that vast number forty-five thou sand were non-Catholic. This makes about out of , sufferers non-Catho- lie. Such truly public service should get truly public assistance. Hence local committee will request charita
 ble offerings this week in Stafford
 
 Although the evening was anything but pleasant large crowd was at tracted to Memorial hall Thursday evening when the graduation exercises of all the public grammar schools combined were given. The pageant America in the Making" was given we'll and showed much work on the part of the children and the teachers x1yhn hn were presented by Supt. A. B. Handy. The following were the graduates: Margaret Thiesing. Eva Martin, Avis Bennett, Lena Chinatti, Nellie Campo, Mary Carocari, Elizabeth Pinney, Violet Theising. Ruth Mullen, Ruth Burwell, Josephine Gilligan, Edith Winnings, Mildred Siswick, Robert Pinney. France Denniston, Kenneth Sullivan, Paul Schmidt, Claude Bar low, Edward Gillies,' Benjamin Arnold, Frances Hansen, Roger Pownall, Rose
 Gagne, Fred Bates, Amelia LucasI Hazel Be1cher, Helen Meyer, Angelo Fain, Warren Boyer, Willard Robin son, Grace Brennan, Irene Vinton, Cecelia Allard, George Bassett, Emilio DeCarli, Ellsworth Ryder, Jennie Ce- lentino, Lawton FurneSs, Clarence Comstock, Susie Wargo, Peter Wargo
 As a rule the high school class day exercises attract a hall full of people and this years exercises were no ex- ceptfon for on Friday night, when they were given, St. Edwards hall was certainly packed. This time the exer- cises took the form of trial scene, the class of 1920 being on trial for alleged wrong doings in which an ouija board figured. The welcome ad- dress. a short and we'll delivered one, was given by William Ellis, president of the class. When the curtain was raised the entire class was seen sit ting in a court room with Melvin Cummings presiding. Miss Gertrude Bruce acted as clerk, Joseph Cunning ham and Alphonso Sena, attorneys and the rest of the class making up the witnesses and onlOOkerS. The roll call was read by Miss Gertrude Bruce and contained many appropriate and witty lines. The class history, statistics and prophecy by Misses Gladys Houle, Agnes Schreier and Dorothy Shepherd, followed, each one drawing rounds of laughter from the large audience. The prophecy on the prophet was given by Miss Margaret Polster. Next came the conferring of degrees .by Melvin Cummings. Many of his awards spoke we'll for his ability in this line. The class will was read by Emerson Davis. He added much humor to his part by finishing up entirely tangled in the meshes of law phrasings. The class giver was Miss Vera Siswick. With each there went fitting verse. Miss Mary Burrill presented the giver with a gift and
 she also gave present to Miss Mar
 jorie Morse. Richard Bissonnette
 handed out some advice to the under graduates and received an answer from Thomas Fletcher, president of the junior class. Before the raising of the curtain the three classes, freshmen, sophomores and juniors
 came onto the stage to give their
 class songs and cheers. Dancing till one following the exercises, the music being furnished by Woods orchestra