The Press., 1921-01-13
STAFFORD SPRINGS

al J. WaSSefman6
 STAFFORD SPRINGS
 Miss Helen Gilligan is temporarily i employed at the first National bank.
 Clifford D. Wells is confined to his home on West Main street with 8 severe attack of the grip.
 Ronald Mitchell returned to Ando. yer academy on Saturday, after spend ing an extra week at home gained through being an honor pupil at that institution.
 On Saturday afternoon the Overland machine owned by John McLagan hit the curb near the post office and damaged the front wheel. A tow to the Hudson garage was necessary and new wheel wll have to be placed on the machine, otherwise no damages were inflicted.
 At the present period of the year it is interesting to consider the vital statistic records of the town. During the year 1920 there were IF births recorded for the town of Stafford. Covering the same period the records
  twelve months. Marriages during the past year tOtaled 55, or little better than one for each week of the year.
 In the rear of the Victor Bissonette property on Center street formerly known as the Rafferty house, there is a big hole between the trolly tracks, and the fence MT. Bissonette is de- sirous of filling this depression and has offered the public the present 4nse of the ground as place for dumping rubbish. Access to the dump may be had through the drive along the side of the house or over the curb. All persons using the premises for dump. ing purposes are requested not to leave their refuse within sight of Center street.
 Stafford High school basketball. team defeated Manchester Trade school in the Y. M. O.. hall on last Friday evening In what was easily the fastest and liveliest game yet played this season in staRord The visitors were husky and fast team and kept the local boys, who had. allowed themselves to grow little sta1e, through lack Of practice, going all the forty minutes 0f the play. Baldwin and Fletcher proved to be- Stafford,s steady goal shooters, while Glover, whose home is in the Hollow, gained the largest number of points for the trade school. The score was 8. H. s. 27, Trade School 20. Summa cized as follows:
 s. H M Baldwin Barrett Fletcher If Robinson Schreier Ritchie Pagan rg Glover E. E TowDs Towns E E Robinson Goals from floor, Baldwin 3. Fletcher 6, Schreier, Pagan, Glover 4, Robin son: goals from fouls, Baldwin 5, Schreier, Ritchie 2, Barrett 6 time of halves, 20 minutes; referee Mullins; timers Handy; scorer, Cummings:
 Greaves' meat market, Nothnick's shoe store, Wicks' Drug store and the American Legion rooms were the sub iects of two robberies and two attempt ed entrances on last Saturday morning. was heard or known of the breaks until the stores were opened for business on Saturday morning. It Is believed that entrance. was made between three and five o'clock in the morning. At about the time Smith and Cooley's early morning shift go to work, it has been customary for Officer Hayes to go to the firemens room and replenish the fire there, to going home for the day. On Saturday morning there was a slight fall of snow and while stand ing near the Congregational church at about four o'clock officer Hayes did not see any tracks going behind the Stengle building. Tracks would have been easily noticeable because of the new snow. After the robbery tracks of two men were found leading from the rear window to the street and across the church lawn. Greaves market seemed to be the first object of the robbers. A door window was broken in the rear of the store and an attempt was made, to force an en- trance by breaking lock on the door. This apparently proved unsuccessful and a window near the church was broken in half, forming hole large enough for a small man to crawl The actual cash taken from the market was less than fourteen dollars. Papers were streWn about the floor. The cash register which was locked was pried open, causing the greatest damage in the market. after ransacking the meat store the next object was the Amerf- can Legion rooms. It has been cus- tomary to keep a small bank of the type used at the savings bank chained to the wall inside the StraZza club for small donations to pay for the upkeep of the pool table. This was the only valuable article in the rooms. The heavy door was smashed in and on the next morning the bank was found hid under some wood in a closet. The bank was broken open by using meat cutting tool taken from the meat mar ket.. The fact that the heavy door was broken shows that the robbery was not the work of children but that strong men were implicated, for the lock and door at the Strazza rooms WOuIU UaAAA0 IA6 SAOAbS OA c@n OHNAAdAy man who tried to force an entrance After ransacking the club rooms the criminals next went to the Nothnick store and to Wicks' Drug store. These two stores have been the object of att tempted entrance so often that the tenants have placed strong iron bars across the inside of the windows and doors and it would be no easy matter to enter the stores from the outside. The meat cutting tool was found in- side the Nothnick store where the robbers had dropped it while trying to force the rear door open The work was no doubt the job of some