The Press., 1920-10-28
STAFFORD SPRINGS

Walter Day of Springfield was her' for the weekend.
 Regular meeting of F. of A., thi. evening. Deputy Murphy will attend
 Miss Alice Colburn of Enfield ha. been guest of Miss Mary B. Smith
 Samuel Kuslansky leaves the latter part of this week on business triI to New York.
 Miss Mabel Meyers is spending two weeks at the home of her brother Fred Meyers, in Fabyan.
 MT. and Mrs. c. H. Meyers were witt MT. and Mrs. Jerome Orcutts il Bridgeport for the weekend.
 Miss Margaret O'Connor of Norfolk who is now teaching in Stonington visited here over the weekend. T For the national and state election next Tuesday the polls will open al 5.30 a. m., and close at p. m. MT. and Mrs. R. w. Ellis and Ken. meth Smith were guests of William Ellis at Worcester academy on Sun. day.
 MT. Dudley, who has been at the Johnson hospital two months, has re- turned to his home with his daughter Mrs. F.. G. Sanford.
 Mrs John T. Melbourne. who has Teen with Mrs. William Wood and other friends for the past two weeks has returned to her home in Medway | Mass.
 l For the convenience of customers the Stafford Savings bank will keep open on Friday evenings from to S.3O, beginning November 5th. l All tax lists must be in on or before 1 November 1st. The board of asses sors will be at their office in Warren block to receive lists on Saturday from 9 a. m., to g D. m., and on Mon day from a. m., to 9 pm.
 l On Friday evening November 5th there will be a fine concert given by Master Jesus Maria Sanroma, the worlds greatest boy pianist, assisted by Erie Renwick, baritone, at the | Congregational church.
 Erie Renwick, our assistant princi- pal at the high school has had a broad experience on the concert stage. His coming here should be a great help to Stafford musically.- MT. Rem wick has pleasant baritone voice of fine quality and many will be glad of chance to hear him in a concert.
 Master Sanroma, a young Porto Rican boy, who is a wonderful prodigy began his career when but seven years of age. And today, at the age of six teen, he is startling the world with his masterful playing. At the age of seven, one-half hour after he had touched a piano for the first time he was found playing in exquisite har- mony and with both hands all the music he had ever heard. Immediate ly his parents sought teacher for him. Such ability did the boy possess that he accomplished a years study perfectly in the short time of thirteen weeks. When ten years old he was conductor of an orchestra in one of the leading theaters of San Juan, Porto Rico. From that time on, until twelve years of age, he played in every part of Porto Rico. Then the government took notice of him and sent him to the New England Con- servatory of Music at Boston. His
 
 that immediately they gave him a rank of A for four years work in this course, not requiring him to take the study, for they had nothing to teach him on this subject In all history of music it is doubtful if so young a child ever had so exact an apprecia- tiOn for absolute pitch as Jesus San | roma. Master Sanroma has just grad l uated from the New England Conser- vatory of Music. During the com mencement exercises he won a $500 Mason & Hamlin piano as prize for excellence in playing in competitive contest. The boy is now devoting | his time to concerts and special work | at the conservatory. Critics believe 1 that in him the world will see the new l Paderewsk and marvel of the age The new movement for the elimi- nation of mosquitoes in Connecticut, started in August last with the forma- tion of the Connecticut Anti-Mosquito association, received added impetus by the strong endorsement of the Holland County Medical association at it's meeting in Stafford Springs on Tuesday, October 19. In the program of the association, holding it's semi annual meeting at the Johnson Memo rial hospital, was included presenta- tion by Everett G. Hill of Hartford secretary of the Connecticut Anti Mosquito association, of the associa- tion's purpose and plans. These in volved, he said, nothing less than the securing from the legislature of laws and an appropriation adequate for the drainage of all the mosquito- producing territory in the state within the next two years, and provision fo1 the maintafnance in effective shape O1 the work done. He condemned the mosquito as not alone the destroyer of comfort and summer enjoyment but the menace of the states health and the depreciator of a great pro- portion of it's property values. It is ridiculous, he said, for Connecticut t( go on indefinitely enduring this pest i,when behind us is the record of wha has been achieved in eliminating mos quitoes from such age-long haunts O. mosquito- produced disease as Pana ma and Cuba. Following Mr. Hills talk, the association passed and or dered on it's records the following resolution: Resolved, that the Tol land County Medical association, re cogniZing the menace to Connecticut health and public welfare caused b. the pest of mosquitoes, and in view O the proved possibility of mitigating such pest by modern methods, en dorses the purpose of the Connection AntiMosquito Association to move for state wide campaign agains mosquitoes, and urges the genera assembly at it's coming session to pas! appropriate legislation and make al adequate appropriation for freeing thu state from this evil.
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