The Press., 1920-06-10

battle with the Boy Scouts nine Sat urday afternoon at the fair grounds
 George A. Burwell of Seffner, Fla, former resident of this town, has been visiting his nephew H. B. Bur we'll.
 Miss Josephine Beig and Louis Pet terle were united in marriage last week. They are now on a short wedding trip.
 Misses Frances and Emily Franek of Waterbury motered to Stafford to spend the weekend at the home of J. M. Ronalter, off East Main Street. John G. Wightman will be at his home in Stafford Hollow every Friday until D. m for the examination of applicants for an automobile drivers license.
 G. H. Burdick, who is employed in the Ellis Grocery store, has purchased of G. R. Towne the two tenement house near Grant avenue that has | been made over from a barn.
 Miss Esther Marion Converse, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Merrill Con- verse of Torrington, formerly of this borough, graduates from the Wesson | Nurses Training school, Springfield, next Tuesday.
 The partnership of William Slater and Dominica DaDalt, partners, has | been dissolved. MT. Slater has formed a partnership with John Lavigne. MT. DaDalt will continue the painting | business alone.
 Anthony Netto took part in a con- cert given Sunday in New London by members of a hand conducted by Prof. | Sbraccio, who conducted the Italian hand when it was first started here. | number of Stafford people attended | the concert.
 Miss Clover Converse graduated from Miss Wheeler's Kindergarten Training School in Boston Monday as one of the honor pupils. MT. and Mrs. J. Carl Converse, J. Kingsley Converse and F. H. Baker attended the com mencement exercises.
 The following books of nonfction have been added to the library: Man to Man, by J. Leitch; What Wilson Did at Paris, by R. s. Baker; Econ omic Consequences of the Peace, by J. M. Keynes; Poems, 190S-1919, by J. Drinkwater; Atlantic Prose and Poetry; Letters of Susan Hale, ed. by c. P. Atkinson; Lenin; the Man and His Work, by A R. Williams; The Vital Message, by A. c. Doyle; Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, by N. V. de G. Sanchez; Endicott and I, by F. L. Warner; Plutarch's Lives, 6 vols.), Rev. by A. H. Clough; Child Welfare Handbook; An Index to Poetry and Recitations, ed. by Gran gen; Webster's New International Die tionary; Health by Stunts, by Pearl & Brown; Now It Can Be Told, by P. Gibbs; Rudyard Kipling's verse, 1885 1918.
 West Stafford.
 Mrs. Mildred Walkley Sharpe of Hart ford is guest of her mother, Mrs. w. A. Bennett.
 Chldren's day will be observed in the Congregational church next Sunday morning, by an object sermon by the pastor.
 Stafford.
 Regular meeting of Wolcott chapter, No. 91, Eastern Star tonight.
 Special meeting of Wolcott lodge A. F. and A. M. next Thursday even ing. Work M. M. degree. The Stafford Delphian chapter will | meet next Monday night at Assembly | hall. Subject: Early Rome"
 The regular supper of the Baptist | church will be held next Thursday. | Hostesses: Mrs. Hatch, Mrs. Green | and Mrs. Chism
 Miss Mildred Webster, who spends | her Week-ends at her home here was | unable to return to her duties in | Hartford last Monday on account of l illness.
 There will be a ball game Sunday | afternoon at Hyde Park, Hydeville The local club will play an out of | town team. The game that was scheduled for last Sunday had to be postponed on account of wet grounds.
 Chicken thieves visited the roosts of G. H. Rhodes and Joseph Connors last Monday night and gathered in some thirty fowls in all. They left | one or two good clues that it is hoped 1 may lead to their capture and con- viction.
 A Farmers minstrel show will be | given by local talent from South Will l lingtOn in Memorial hall at Stafford | Hollow on Friday evening at o'clock | sharp. There will be dancing after | the minstrel. Music will be furnish ed by Woods orchestra of pieces. | Admission to entertainment and dan | cling 60 cents; admission to enter | tainment adults 35 cents; children 15 | cents.
 StaffOrdville Mrs. Emma Whitake CT has left town to | visit friends in New Bedford for two l months. Mrs. c. L. Turner is visiting relatives in Newton Highlands, Mass, for num- Der of days. George Moore and William Ferry were | with friends and relatives in Springfield | over Sunday. Mrs. Lester Brewer and family of Mys. tic, were the guests of MT. and Mrs. AL l bert Lock the first of last week. Mrs. Joseph Schwander, who has been in New York for her health for two months, returned to her home here on | Monday. MT. and Mrs. W. V. Odell of Black stone, Mass, were the guests of William Hammer and Grant Hammer the first of | last week. The Epworth League topic for Sunday l evening in the Congregational church | will be Common Mistakes in Daily l Living," Prov. 24: 27-34. Leader, Mrs | Lyon. The Ladies' Aid society will hold a | June box social and sale of ice cream in | the Congregational vestry Thursday | evening. There will be an entertainment | free to all.
 ASHFORD
 WestfOrd.
 Mrs. Clarence Barlow has bought |