The Press., 1920-01-15

Louis Campo has purchased the house on West Main street formerly
 owned by Joseph Connor.
 Miss Mary O'Connor of Norfolk, spent the weekend in Stafford with her sister Miss Margaret O'Connor. There will be a special convocation
 of Orient chapter R. A. M., on Friday evening. Work, P. M.
 Patrick J. Murray spent Tuesday night and part of Wednesday in Willi-
 mantle, where he attended business
 meeting of the Metropolitan Insurance | Co.
 The w. c. T. II. medal contest next | Tuesday at the Methodist church will
 commence at 7.30. The speakers will be: Margaret Theising, Rose Geddish, Alice Denniston, Gertrude Turschmann, Agnes Denniston Florence Towne There will also te an address by State President, Mrs. Wilson.
 New Years night one of Gary's trucks with Baker and Grundy on card was held up while crossing the East Hartford bridge. The truck was searched to see if it carried any liquor Of course none was found so they were permitted to go on to New Hartford where they took on load of furniture.
 While shaking a rug from the veran- da of the Riley home on Church street last Saturday morning, Mrs. Mar tin j. Corish lost her balance and tumbled over the railing into the snow Luckily she did not suffer any serious effect from the fall, being scratched about the face and bruising her hands. She is now able to be al out, however.
 Library Association held their annual meeting Monday afternoon at which the following officers were elected: President, Joel H. Reed; vice-presi- dent.F. H. Baker; secretary and treas urer. w. H. Heald; auditors, B. P. Cooley and R. w. Smith, board of directors, Christopher Allen, F. H. Ba- ker. Charles Warren, F. F. Patten, Joel H. Reed, W. H. Heald, Miss Celia Holt, Mrs. c. E. Butterfield and Mrs. c. B. Pinney; book committee, Misses Anna Heald, Margaret Ballantine, Ma bel Meyer. Mrs. c. B. Tschummi and Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin; Celia Holt's children's fund department committee, Miss Edith G. Cushman and A. B. Handy. The total number of volumes in the lif rary now is 709S. During the year BIO books were added through gifts and purchases. The report of the librarian, Miss Mabel Meyers, shows that the circulation for the past year was as follows: fiction 10,S96; non fiction, 2222; juvenile nOnfiction, 2,444. Total circulation. 20, 9S2. The lihrary reading room now has ? monthly, 12 weekly and ? daily publications. There were 3710 adult and 3771 juvenile patrons of the reading room during the year.
 Although the cold western wind was in q raging mool, the senior play, 'The New Co., ed," drew a good .many to St. Edwards hall last evening, and they all were pleased with the evenings en- tertainment. As the title inIpart>, the play wa, built around the addition of a poor girl to the student body of certain co-educational school. This girls part was taken by Miss Vera SisWick. Rich ard Whitaker took the leading part among the boys. Both of these charac- ters did well. Miss Gertrude Bruce had a rather heavy part and carried it in a fine manner. Her acting and delivery was regarded as the best of all the girls in the play. William Ellis took the pat of work hater who has the ability to talk himself out of work. On the sur face he seemed to be almost good for nothing, hut, as he later proved. deep down in him he had more courage and manllness than those who scotied at him. William was able to put a lot of ''pep" into his work. and as he came into nearly every act he did lot to keep things moving. Miss Ruby Gold had a prominent part which she did with cred 1t. She had the power to move the aud-
 fence to a dislike for her, which speaks we'll for her ability. The play will be given in Memoria! hall this evening, in ed by them last week Dancing will fol- low the play. Pleasing musical selec- tions by Charlotte Beck with were given. Miss Ruth TuthiIl, accompanied by Miss Beck with, and Bernard Mullins accom- panied by Miss Julia Svmonds, were heartily encored for their finely rendered solo numbers