The Press., 1920-02-12

Mrs. A. R. Jones of Cushman, Mass. IS guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. B Handy.
 Miss Mary Balantine has accepte' the position of organist at Grace tpisco pal church,
 w R. Morse has a flock of 14 pull lets that laid PTS eggs during the month of January.
 Misses Ruth and Grace Bentley have taken positions as waitresses at the Springs house.
 | The date of the Rockville fair has Eeen changed to October 5, andy, the week preceding the Stafford fair. 1 There will be rehearsal at the I Q. o. F., hall Sunday afternoon at 2 D. m., also a regular meeting on Tues day, with degree work.
 Miss Mary P. Langley, superintend ent of the local hospital, was called to Laignst urg, Michigan early this week on account of the death of her brother-in-law.
 Miss Hazel Comins, who has been ill at her home on High street the past week. expects to return to her | duties aS teacher in the East Hartford | high school next week
 At the Congregational church on Sunday evening the service will be mostly musical. with Dr. G. P. Bard at the organ. and Mrs. Ella Harris Mullen as solOist, Rev. L. Rees will give an address on The Mysticism of Al raham Lincolm."
 Dr, Howard Driggs, who is making a special study of English for schools nn1Gr 1jrnntinn of lege. gave a very interesting and in structive talk to the teachers at the high school Wednesday noon A representative of the tax com missiOners office at Hartford, will be at the First National Bank. Stafford Springs, to assist people in this local ity i'll filing Income Tax returns at a date to Ee announced later
 It has cen decided to change the order O. service at the Methodist church next Sunday evening. The pageant, Soul of the City, given by the Queen Esther Circle, efore the Missionary societies of the church. Y Ill e repeated. instead of the preach ng service announced on the first mage.
 At recent meeting of the Stafford council, Knights of Columbus it was voted to present the local public lii rary with a set of Catholic Ency- clopedia, and a subscription to the Catholic Weekly, America. The En- cTclopedia, consisting of fifteen vol umes and analytic index, is now in the library and the weekly, America, will soon appear there.
 Mrs Elizabeth Gilthrop Schindler. wife of Leo Schindler, formerly of this place. died in Bridgeport early csterGay afternoon. She had been Fl with the influenza, which was fol- lowed by pneumonia. Mrs. Schindler was Torn in StaTordville and lived here most of her life. Her husband was employed in the weaving depart ment of the mill till few months ago. when he moved to Bridgeport He re- turned to Stafford recently and is now employed here. Besides her husband Mrs. Schindler is survived by a daugh- ter, Catherine, and two sisters. Mrs Helen O'Brien and Mrs. WilLer AL
 
 brother, William Gilthrop, of Hunt ington, Mass. The funeral services will be held in Bridgeport and the Ody will be brought here Saturday for burial in St. Edwards cemetery
 After the splendid performance of Girl of My Dreams" the cast and chorus felt that the only way to give voice to their exuberance of enthus- iasm was to have a anquet. This they did last night at the Springs House. Eat drink and Le Merry, with the trials and tribulatiOns of rehear- sals lost in oblivion" was the spirit of the evening. The table decorations were in accordance with Saint Valen- tine Day. The guest of honor was Rev. Felix J. O'Neil. The place of tOastmaster was taken by Carl Null lins, whose clever, witty remarks were | good sauce for a SumptuOuS feast | TOasts were responded to by several members of the cast. Throughout the banquet gay hits from Girl of My Dreams" mingled with other popular airs, were sung. Dancing was enjoy | ed for the rest of the evening. With the grand finale, fitting ending for weeks of good times, each one left with the spirit "All's well, that ends we'll"
 West Stafford
 Miss Doris Amidon was the guest of Miss Ruby Gold on Sunday.
 Miss Winifred Berckman, who has l cen quite ill with the prevailing mal- ady, is recovering.
 The Center school has again been ol liged to change teachers, owing tC the illness of Miss Davis Miss Edith Eddy has taken the grammar grades and Miss Dorothy Shepard the pri- mary. A numLer of children are also i'll.
 Massachusetts bullets, 20 in number cared for hy Philander Holmes, West Brookfeld, began laying before Thanksgiving and the January record is AT eggs. If three had not gO roody about the middle of the month the record would have been better The first half of the month they lai( from 15 to IS eggs a day. They were fed first in the morning with oats,