The Press., 1920-11-25

The schools were closed Tuesday
 morning on account of the heavy
 rain.
 entertaining a family party for the national feast day.
 MT and Mrs. F. G. Sanford are with
 his brother, w. O. Sanford, at Vernon, for Thanksgiving.
 The senior department of the Con- gregational Girls Guild, will meet
 with Minna Nothnick on Friday at 7.3O.
 The mills and stores in the borough will close Thanksgiving day. No mail will te delivered on the R. F. D. routes on the holiday.
 The regular meeting of Myriad Re bekah lodge will be held Wednesday evening, December 1, at which the in | itiation of class of 12 will take place. Supper will be served at o'clock. George Siswick was given a gen. uine surprise party Thursday evening, sary of his birth. Cards, music and the evening.
 Miss Priscilla Burwell, formerly of this town, is now in Boston taking the district nursing course at Simmons college Miss Burwell hopes to visit her old friends in Stafford during her Christman vacation.
 Mrs. G. Raymond Towne is at the Johnson hospital where she is recover ing from an operation on her tOnsils. Miss Mary E. Smith has been substi- tuting for her in the third grade of the borough school.
 Red Cross Notes.-The renewal of annual membership in the Red Cross is a big success here, through the efforts of the many people who gave their time for this purpose during the past week, the latest report showing total of S96 members Miss Jessie Macleod, who may become StaffOrd's distrist nurse, visited here Tuesday afternoon and is now thinking over the prospect of coming to this town.
 The Philaphea class of the Congre- gational Sunday school are planning to give three act play, "The Deacon's Second Wife" next Tuesday at 8 D. m. Characters: Malvina Fitz, Clover Con- verse; Deacon Barachias Fitz, Carl Lasbury; Milton George Washington Fitz, Louie c. Chapin; Nancy Melissa Fitz, Alma Reister; Mrs. Brown, Elva Gilman; John D. Bullock, Edmond Towne; Mrs. Bullock, Dorothy Shep- herd; Dorothy Bullock, Lottie Shep- herd; Hartley Bullock, Francis Adams; Ernest Ruich, Earl Jacobson; Philip Yamf oge, William Smith; Kate Rollins, (The Deacon's Second Wife), Ruth Tuthill.
 place, who has been wanted in North Brookfield since March 21 for forgery, is now in the Worcester jail, awaiting trial by the superior court at Worces- ter. He was traced to Osawatomie, Kansas by Chief Stephen Quill of North Brookfeld and brought back for trial. He pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery when arraigned in District court in North Brookfield. He was unable to secure bail which was placed at 5000. It is possible that he will nave HIS CTldl DoIOr6 the Sup0rlOr court at an early date instead of wait ing till it meets January 3, 1921, thus being saved from a long wait in jail Stamm lays his forging to hard luck He suffered broken ankle, was Oper- ated upon for hernia and then his wife died. He spent the money for funeral expenses, he said. Had he been per mitted to remain out in the Kansas town a few days longer Stamm be- lieves he would have cleared up $500 dollars. He had deal all arranged to dispose of 750 acres of land, he said, and his commission would have been two dollars an acre.
 West Stafford
 Randolph Abner Dimock, son of Abner Dimock, has passed into the great unknown. As the clock struck one Sunday life of IS years left the body of clay and like a vapor has flown. He was born in West Stafford on the hillside near what was called Square Pond, now Crystal Lake, in June 1S42. At the age of 20 he moved into his late home in West Stafford, where with his only brother, l.. E. Dimock, he engaged in cultivating the