The Press., 1920-01-08
STAFFORD SPRINGS


 Joseph Bousquet has purchased the Sidaway house on High street
 Myriad Rebekah lodge will have dance and social on January 6th Regular Communication of Ionic Lodge next Tuesday evening at 7.30. l E. A. degree.
 Miss Mary Knowlton and Miss Ethel Rupert of Philadelphia have been guests of Mrs. G. Percival Bard The annual meeting of the incorpo- rators of the Stafford Library a3so- citation will be held at 8 o'clock Mon- day afternoon in the library tuilding. The Stafford Springs Agricultural society will hold it's annual meeting Tuesday afternoon at o'clock in the rooms of the Stafford Business Mems l as OciatiOn.
 The w. c. T. Union will meet We'd nesday at 2.30 o'clock, at the Congre- gatiOnal church. Mrs. Carter of El- lingtOn, will give an address. large attendance is desired.
 Mrs. J. H. Valentine and daughter, Miss Elnor, will leave New York to- day for Miama, Florida. They expect to return about April first. Mr. Val entine hopes to join them later.
 At the annual meeting of the Staf- ford Business Mems association held at the club rooms on Monday evening, the following officers were elected: President, T. F. Mullins; vice presi- dents, Walter Scott, Dr. J. P. Hanley; secretary and treasurer, Bernard Mullins.
 Last Friday evening District Dep uty Grand Chancellor w. R. Dowding and suite of Rockville installed the following officers of Mineral Springs lodge, K of F., for the ensuing term: Il C. C., w. G. Quinley; " C., Henry Roy; Prelate, F. E. Warren; M. of w., Fred i Hine; K of R. and S., J. F. Wagner; | M. of F., A. w. Kingsbury; M. of E., II Henry ROehm; M. at A., A. B. Shep- II herd; l. G., Geo. RumbeloW; o. G., E. | A. Clark. Members of Mineral Springs l Odge will visit Damon Lodge of Rock n vile next Wednesday evening and will go on the o'clock car.
 II Tn compliance with the age limit law, Judge Joel H. Reed will be retired as a superior court judge on Saturday, Jan. 10. Judge Reed has held this office for the past fifteen II years eing appointed by Governor ii Chamberlain on Nov 26, 1904. He
 vas reappointed by Governor Baldwin in 1912. He now holds the office of state referee Cases are brought to him and it is his duty to look up the facts concerning them and give his report to the superior court. Before eing appointed in 1904 Judge Reed had held the position of States attOr- ney for II years.
 As usual the Alumni play drew
 good attendance both in St. Edwards s
 hall and at the Hollow. The play
 as, if not more than, last year. It
 certainly was filled with laughs. Per haps synopsis of it will show why
 this was so. Mcfarland, rich New
 Yorker makes a bet with two friends
 that he can commit crime and evade 3 arrest for one year. His picture and a
 description of him is advertised broad
 cast Dolly Kamman, a sheriff s
 cabin away out in the hills of Color
 ado and he is brought to her fathers 3 jail. The New York officers who
 seek him are told of his arrest and
 they order that he be given all the 1 ''luxuries of life'' while awaiting their
 arrival to take him l ack to New
 York Through McFarlands helI
 while in the hunting cabin. Dolly also Slim Ca11Nuvov oil
 around bad man of the west In
 appreciation of this work her father
 makes her a deputy sheriff. While - Mcfarland is in the jail word i5 re- v ceived of the death of the men with 1 whom he made the bet. Then he tells l Dolly the whole story and she tries 1 to save him by sending him to Ari- 1 zona. The New York officers, Mo Farlands two friends, arrive at the jail The report of their death, ii turned out, was a joke to scare the , fugitive. With Mcfarland supposedly
 on his way to Arizona things look bad for the two friends Just ther li Martha, DOlly's aunt, tOWs Mcfarland
 into the sheriff's office with lariat XII She had found him on her picket fence. A clock striking nine, reminds the two friends that the year, during ilNhich Mcfarland was to escape arrest H is up. Everything looks fine for them H They are al out to collect their money
 when Dolly makes it known to then M that she was not an officer of the law II when she caught the fugitive anC II that they are the ones who lose. The
 money is paid over and the friends III clear out. Having been thrown to II gether for the past months McFar
 land and Dolly have tecome attached
 to one another consequently the usua
 ending is in order and takes place
 The circumstances attending the mak
 'ng of the bet McFarland's arres
 in the cabin, his treatment in the jai
 and the paying of the bets, are sucl
 that the whole thing is one round o \ laughter after another. Kingsley Con
 verse al ly took the part of Mcfarland - It was his acting that caused tn - biggest roars. The part of Dolly wa '. taken ly Miss Ruth Chapin. Tn word splendid, is not too strong a on in describing her work. These wer . the two leading parts. Of the other the part of the sheriff, taken by Char les Newton. ranks the highest. Tn : acting of Maud Cummisky who too : :t!!io part cf Violet, ""2np" saem2 tc "''a@" t,.c ....,.,.io..se q sood dea . It must not be thought that the othe . characters did no do well. They wer . all very good. They did a whole lc . in making the play turn out as it dit . Miss Ruth Chapin and Charles Newto . were 10th presented with bouquet . No doubt the people are looking fol . | ward. with zest, to the next alum1 . play and they have reason to.