The Press., 1920-12-23
John Fontanella is ill with

John Fontanella is ill with thu
 asthma at St. Francis hospital il Hartford.
 :! MT. and Mrs. George Cardinal O Springfield are with A. c. Garvais fol the Christmas weekend.
 MT. and Mrs. John Yare of Worces ter are with MT. and Mrs. John T Yare for the Christmas days. William Ellis of Worcester academy is with his parents on Church stree1 for the Christmas holidays. 1 Mrs. Frank Haight of Plymouth Mass, has returned home after spend ing two weeks with her husband, al Mrs. A. Hancock's.
 Frank Harris of Syracuse, N. Y, is spending the Christmas season with his mother, Mrs. Mary Harris, at he1 home on Highland Terrace.
 Miss Frances Newton of East Orange, New Jersey is spending the holiday season at the home of he1 grandfather, Dr. c. B. Newton,
 A. J. Muste, general secretary of the Amalgated Textile Workers of Amer ica will speak at the Italian hall next week Thursday evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
 Mrs. Josephine Gilligan, a former resident of Stafford, is visiting with the family of c. G. Gilligan during the holidays. She will be joined by her daughter, Mary, on Friday.
 Harold F. Pierce, who holds the position of demonstrator in pathology in the University of Oxford, England, has received the additional appoint ment of demonstrator in physiology in the same institution. MT. Pierce is a graduate of. Stafford high school class of 1907.
 AS has been the custom for the past few years, the Stafford Business Mems association and the Stafford Golf com pany will hold their annual assembly in Business Mems rooms next week Friday evening. The MacKey orches- tra of Hartford has been engaged for music. Tables will be provided for persons wishing to play cards.
 It seems that on Church street there dwells a cat with an educated taste for pumpkin pie. It is indeed wise cat, for without fail, the pies are found by the cat when left to cool out of doors. Housewives when mak- ing pumpkin pies will do we'll to cool them on an inaccessible place or a serious deficiency in that de1ectable desert will result.
 The Italian society recently an nounced that they intend to run a regular Saturday night dance. How ever the intention was not to oppose all other dances on that evening. Other societies or persons desiring to conduct a dance on Saturday night In any hall will confer a favor on the Italian club by notifying them and allowing them to withdraw their date.
 The Paramount theater opened on Tuesday evening for it's first public performance in the remodeled Com ique theater. A Special performance aided by Woods orchestra, marked the event The hall is very tastefully decorated. The new seats are not yet ready, but there is ample room to provide for the audience and benches have been. installed until the arrival of the seats. Two machines eliminate waiting while reels are changed.
 At the present time the borough is without a public dumping ground. Some stretch of meadow land or un- slightly hole might be utilized for this purpose. The piece of filled land be- hind the Smith & Cooley mill is an example of what can be done with swamp land. This piece was known as the Bad Lands" and is 1ow used by George Gary for. a stable and The dnaa I~yehind the Stafford
 Hill has been closed. An other piece of land must be found that can be filled advantageously to the owner.
 Stafford Independents defeated the Springfield Independents on the local basketball court last evening. The visitors were not in the scoring for any real counts. The local team while missing a great many shots at the goals played together very we'll The final score was 58 to IA with Stafford at the long end of the count The results are as follows:
 Argenta If Lynch Pallanck If O'Donnell Bernardo c Hartley Calchera lg Mack, Mooney Dupre rg Barney Score: Stafford Independents 58; Springfield Independents IA; goals from floor, Argenta 4, Pallanck 5 Bernardo 13, Calchera 3, O'Donnell 8 Lynch 3; goals from fouls, Pallanck Calchera, O'Donnell 3, Lynch; referee Eraonp. CcOrpr MurraV