The Press., 1920-08-26
STAFFORD SPRINGS

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 STAFFORD SPRINGS
 Donald Rice of New York spent the
 weekend at Miss Mary Sullivan's. George Siswick and family are il
 camp for two weeks at Leach's Island
 Mashapaug.
 The republican caucus for the state
 congressional, senatorial and probate conventions will be held in the fire
 The fiscal year of the town will
 close next Tuesday. Persons having
 bills against the town should present
 them on or before 3 p. m. of that day ] Walter Scott was home the first oi | the week for a few days from Oak
 Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard, where he and his family are spending several weeks.
 l Miss Elsie Broadbent of Pennington and Miss Margaret Draier of Water bury are guests of MT. and Mrs. B. c. DeBorde at the Gary cottage at Crys- tai Lake for a week.
 1 Mrs. R. L.. Quinley has returned after spending a week with Mrs. Imo- gene L. Holt at Gloucester, Mass. Miss | Helen MacPherson of Canton, Mass, 1 has teen a guest of Miss Nellie Quin- l ley.
 Rev. Oscar Aldrich and family will return from their vacation this week, and MT. Aldrich will preach in the l Methodist church on Sunday morning 1 on "The Secrets of the Christian s Joy"
 At the business meeting of the stockholders of the Willimantic Camp ! Meeting Association held on Friday, | Jason l.. Randall of Groton was elected president. Rev. J. R. Miller of East Thompson, vice-president; i; secretary and treasurer, J. R. Park hurst of Stafford Springs.
 About 30 of Marvin Boleau's friends gave him a farewell party last We'd nesday evening at his home, and pre- scented him with wrist watch. On Thursday evening Percy Bolieau was surprised when 40 of his friends call ed and presented him with a wrist watch. They both left town on Mon day for Jean, Nevada.
 1 George J. Bailey, 67, formorly of this borough, where he carried on the 1 grocerery business for several years, l died very suddenly on August 5th. at | his home in Worcester, Mass. The funeral was held on August Sth. The burial was at Cherry Valley, l Mass. He was a. member of Ionic l lodge of Masons. He was born in Westford, son of Joseph and Mary (Baker) Bailey, and is survived by his wife, Harriet M. (Prest) Bailey, and two daughters, Miss Ethel B. Bailey and Mrs. Alice R. Proctor, of Worcester. Miss Zanita Nevelle, we'll known be- cause of her daredevil driving when participating in speed contests, will be one of the drivers that will appear in the automobile races to be held at fair grounds, Rockville next Saturday afternoon. under the auspices of the New England Racing association. Miss Neville halls from California. She is the only woman who was ever matched against Barney Oldfield and
 
 been for tire trouble. The manager of the Sheepshead Bay track tried to | bring these two together for race last year. but Barney Oldfield refused to return to the racing game again. Although Miss Neville is but twenty two years of age she has taken part in two hundred and one important | race events in this country and has hoy off optc fo irtf olx tests.
 Though they certainly tried hard Stafford's baseball players were un- | able to win over the Wickwire team of Palmer. Three times they attempted it and three times they were defeated. As far as scoring goes last Sundays s game was the worst defeat; six to 1 | was the the score. In the other two | tilts with the Palmer team Stafford managed to make two runs. Up till the eighth inning Sundays game was fine one At the end of the seventh the score was two to one against the local nine, Murphy having crossed the plate in the third inning. Bisson- cite brought in a run in for the Pal mer team in the fourth and Massee scored in the seventh. The Wickwire men made two counters in the eighth frame. Bissonette got to first on an error by Huden, Rourke flied out to Dickey, LaFortune reached first on a play which forced BisSOnette at sec ond. The next man up, Massee, walk ed. Each one of the men on base managed to advance a sack so that one was on third and the other on second when M. Paquette connected for a single which enabled them to score. In the final chapter, T. Pa 1 quette reached first on an error, Bis sonette hit safely sending Paquette to l third Bissonette stole second and both of them came in when ROurke | made a twe-base hit. Score: n-1, s111 ok ], N