The Press., 1920-01-01

Miss Mabel Colburn, teacher in the Rockwell Hill school, has resigned her position. She intends to give up | school teaching and enter some other | line of work.
 Modern Woodmen meeting next Wednesday night to install officers
 for the coming year. There will be a | smoke and refreshments will be
 served. All members are requested ! to te present.
 Mite Baldi, Il months old, son of Mir and Mrs. Alex Baldi, of Gold street died on Thursday evening. The burial was in the Springs cemetery Saturday morning.
 Tomorrow F. H. Plumb and Richard Murray will begin taking census. MT.
 Murray will take in the borough and Mir. Plumb will cover the outlying districts. The work will continue for two weeks.
 The annual business meeting of the Stafford High School Alumni assOcia-
 tion. will te held at the library build
 ing on Tuesday evening at 7.30. The
 election of officers will take place and
 full attendance is desired.
 The Missionary society of the Con-
 gregational church will meet with Mrs
 L. Rees at the parsonage, Tuesday
 afternoon at three o'clock. Miss Ruby
 Gold will read a paper on China and
 exhibit curios sent from that country
 by her brother. Ralph Gold, who is
 engaged in Missionary work there.
 Quite 9 lot of ice has been cut in
 Stafford during the past week. On
 Saturday P. l.. Roberts cut ice
 for the Fox ice house, on the Rhode
 Island pond and this week he has I cen cutting on the pond in Hyde
 Park. for the Johnson Memorial hos pital ice house E. J. Parizeau and George Wood also began cutting ice on the Glynville mill pond. Average thickness of 10 inches is reported.
 The strike which took place in the Rhode Island mill last Wednesday has been satisfactorily settled and work in the dressing department has been resumed. Last Wednesday morning the eight employees of the dressing department walked out to await decision with regard to increasing their pay. They felt that they should have as much pay as the loom fiXers After a few days of lOafing they were offered terms, which they accepted. This was the first walkOut that had occurred in this mill for some time.
 D,.ring the past month two teachers, Miss Nal el Colburn at the Rockwell Hill school and Miss Mary Keefe at the Orcuttville school, have resigned. At present there are no candidates for the positions, even the teachers agencies having no one to suggest. Miss Dorothy Roberts has been trans ferred from the Crystal Lake school to orcuttville. Unless some suitable teacher is found it will be necessary to close the Crystal Lake and Rock we'll Hill schools and transport the pupils to other schools. There is real shortage of teachers and some thing must be done to encourage young people to enter this profession. The welfare of the schools is seriously threatened.
 January 14th and 18th are the dates set for the high school play, the first night in St. Edwards hall and the second in Memorial hall. This does not give much time for rehearsals Eut they are quite certain that every thing will be ready on these dates. The play chosen is entitled 'The New CO-ed.' It deals with phases of school life as the title suggests. The cast of characters is as follows: Letitia, Vera Siswick; Madge, Gertrude Bruce; Estelle, Ruby Gold; Miss Rice. Doris Amidon; May, Lottie Grace, Violet Hayes; Jim Young. Richard Whitaker; George Watts. Melvin Cummings; " Punch DoOlittle, William Ellis; Richard Bradley, Joseph Cunningham.