The Press., 1920-05-13
STAFFORD SPRINGS

STAFFORD SPRINGS
 The Boyer plumbing shop has in stalled new telephone. Number 52-5.
 The monthly meeting of hospital Aid i society will be held next Tuesday at 2 p. m.
 Miss Alice Brosnahan of Springfield spent the weekend with Miss May Gilligan.
 J. J. Mccarthy of Brattleboro, Vt., has taken a position in the Sanitary barber shop.
 | Commencing May 2Oth, the Public 1 Lii rary will be closed Thursday until further notice.
 l MT. and Mrs. Harold B. Mowry of Sterling were weekend guests of Dr. G. P. Bard and Mrs Bard
 Miss Alice Moran of Springfield vis- 1 ited at the home of Mrs. Thomas Fletcher over the weekend ] Mrs. Eva R. Greaves, Mrs. Martha Brigham and Mrs. Jessie F. Quinley are in Waterl ury attending the w. R. 1 c. convention.
 The Misses Fraser entertained their cousins Miss May and Ernest Fraser | OI I1dIIlOIu at IIGlI uOIlo OH CuuECll street over the weekend.
 l The Woman's Foreign Missionary l society of the Methodist church will meet with Mrs. George w. Eaton on i Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 The Delphian chapter will meet 1 Monday night. The topics will be the same as assigned for this week. Roll call: Latin Writers; subject: ''The Principate."
 Miss Wilhelmena Adams and Miss | Dorothy Frazier of this borough and | Mr. and Mrs. John Bartlett of Hart ford, returned Sunday night from a | few days visit in New York. | Mrs. T. Fred Mullen met with a painful accident Thursday afternoon | While getting onto the trolly car at East Hartford, she stumbled and bad ly sprained her right ankle.
 In the item in last weeks Press | concerning the death of Joseph Du- | charme, it was said that the burial | was in the Springs cemetery. The bu- | rial was in St. Edwards cemetery. The sale of government securities at the local post office for the month of April was as follows: treasury | savings certificates, $249, savlngs stamps, $41.50, thrift stamps, $12.75.
 The service on Sunday morning in the Methodist church will be a service l in commemoration of the hundreth anniversary of the birth of Florence l Nightingale. The pastor will make an address on 'The Lady with the Lamp
 Ford truck, driven by G. H. Bur dick, clerk in the Ellis grocery store ran away on Highland Terrace Mon- day morning and tumbled down the embankment near the Grace church MT. Burdick had set the brakes on the truck and left it standing with one ot the front wheels braced against the curbing in front of the Faulkner home While he was in the house the brakes slipped and the car started to glide down the hill When part way dowr it sWerved to the left, crossed the sidewalk and started down the em bankment. It broke through railing on flight of steps which lead to tn, rear of the church and tipped Ove onto it's side before it came to a stol at the bottom of the incline. A tree which it grazed while falling appar ently prevented the truck from strik ing one of the church windows. Tn top of the truck was broken off ant the stearing gear was somewhat dam aged, but it was driven out under it own power and needed but little re pairing to enable it to Le used th following day.
 The annual meeting and reception of the Current Events club took plac Monday evening. The usual report showed the club to have had a sue cessful season and a much widen plal of work than ever before. Two nev members were voted in making total membership of seventy three Arts and Sciences are the subjects t. be studied the coming year. The fol lowing officers were elected: presi dent, Mrs. c. B. Pinney; vice presi dents, Misses Margaret w. Ballantin and Edith G. Cushman; recording sec retary, Mrs. T. F. Mullen; treasurer Mrs. G. R. Towne; corresponding sec retary, Mrs. w. H. Reed; auditor, Mrs c. B. Butterfield. Mrs. A. B. Handy Mrs. c. B. Brown and Mrs. R. H. Val entine will prepare the program Miss B. Sophia Brown, violinist, ac companied by Miss Charlotte Beck with, pianist, gave "Andante Cantabile, by P. Tshaikowsky; Humoreske il { D." by Tor Aulin and Sunday Morn ing Song of the Mountain Shepherd ess," by Ole Bull. Misses Nancy Fis1 and Ruth Mullen played two plan duets, Minuet (Schnecker) an Bright as a Button" (Cloy). Re treatments were served by the retir ing officers assisted by their youn daughters. An arm bouquet of Day | break pinks were presented to the re tiring president, Miss Isabel Russell by the executive board.
 N Communicated
 To The Selectmen of the Town 0 Stafford Gentlemen:-
 With no malice and only the be- torment of Stafford at heart, we he l lieve and we trust that you will agre when we say the Honor Roll" whic \ now stands facing Main street, on tn easterly side of Haymarket Square, i a detriment to the appearance an character of Stafford.
 . Therefore: We the members C Strazza Post, a majority of who's names are inscribed on the roll, hay ing explicit confidence in the good judgment you have shown in so al l conducting the affairs of the town, d respectfully request and petition yo to cause the roll to be removed an destroyed.
 Yours Unanimously for the Bes Stafford possible.
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